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PAGE F0U3 Th QgEGOII STATSMAK. Solea. Orea. esdarllondag. January 10. IMS Hurtgen Forest Was Hellish inghtmar -For Yank Soldiers "No favor Sways V$; No Fear Shall Awe" From Pint Statesman, March 23 18S1 ,U AT THE FRONT II I I , ... , . : ' . . II - Tilt CT1TTC1I1N DimT icmvr SVViro ikrv ! CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher - " Member of the Associated Press; The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. Divided Court , In the days of the "nine old men' when the federal supreme court was accused of being the tool of reaction, a 5-4 decision in which some measure passed by congress might be declared unconstitutional wSS the target of sharpshooting from the whole left-wing. "One man, so the leftists charged, was determining unconstitu tional an act passed by the whole congress. This, they said," was a real atrocity. In government. On such a buildup of antagonism to the court, the president eight years ago based his proposal to pack the court. Though the president's bill was defeated, he succeeded in packing the court, seven of its nine members having been appointed by Mr. Roose velt. In spite of this loading of the bench with men of the president's own political coloration, the decisions of the court are more sharply di vided than ever. Rare indeed lis there a decision in an important case where the court is unani mous.:. ; ' j-,' ' In the decisions handed down this week, two were by 5-4 votes, and one by a 4-4 vote, which meant that the decision of the lower court stands. . . , ' In one case, the court by a 5-4 vote held un constitutional a Texas statute requiring union organizers to register with khe secretary of state before beginning work. 'The court reasoned that this was a violation of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. In a Western Union case the 5-4 ruling was to the effect that the telegraph company was not prohibited from hiring 16-year-old messengers. In a case in volving construction of the selective service act Dr. Simms on Undulant Fever Stopping at his formr borne in Cory allis, Dr. B.T. Simms, director of the regional animal dis ease laboratory at Auburn, Ala, and president elect of the American Veterinary association, made the ! statement jthat j undulant ; fever is caused both by the bovine and swine brucellosis organism; and that tests in some leading dairy states ; indicate that a large proportion of the cases were caused by tHe swine type. Dr. Simms expressed the pinion jthat : it would be unfor tunate of Oregon people were led to believe that requiring universal pasteurization would automatically rid the jptate, of undulant fever. He said that pasteurisation is important and that there should be strict sanitation in dairies, but he had no direct recommendation as to swine brucellosis. jj j ! 'I This : is competent authority, and makes the fact clear that pasteurization is not the final answer to undulant fever, jit may prove to be true that some of the cases recently reported in Oregon were not from milk-borne organisms. Pasteurization should be used certainly; lor mass oisinounon oi nuiK. put as iar as cows are concerned there must tie removal froi i herds of all reactors to Bangs disease. In ot ler words there must be rational (attacks on all fronts to combat brucellosis diseases.! i 1 the court divided four to four, one justice not . , f the barbf rs , -lt held 4 Barber Act Unconstitutional The state supreme court administered lethal sleep to the 1943 barbjer act under which the state barbers' board was empowered to fix prices for barber service oh vote of 7D Per cent the act participating. If, within a group supposedly of similar po litical leanings, there is such a sharp division of opinion what excuse was there for condemn ing the courts of the past for division where. the composition was purposely varied to get differ ences of political viewpoint? The cleavage in the court now is sharp and rigid, with Black, Douglas, Murphy usually standing together; while Frankfurter is opposed. Rutledge goes generally with the former group, while Reed, Jackson and Stone are more independent in their affliations. Roberts is often a lone dis senter, afid has been extremely critical of the court's uset of past decisions. What we have for a supreme court now; therefore, is just another group of nine men no more able to think alike than justices of for mer courts. The nine young men are as can tankerous as'the nine old men of the 1930's. And laws are still being invalidated by 5-4 de cisions, though rarely is a cheep now heard from the left. 7 - '. ; : 1 1N GERMANY. Jan. 7.HSV (Delayed)-Thlj is an account of combat, straight from the com bat soldier. It's . th sort of i i i . i if i vung jvu. ucbx v "scores of times U ' as boys come out of this or that bloody ; fight. Her Dander Iaj Up Meivs Behind the News I By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King features Syndicate Inc. Reproduction in whole . i orian pan smcuy prohibited.) was an unlawful delegation of powers! by thi legislature. This decision will be welcomed bv the majority of the peojple! whoi objected to this form of price-fixing but whose interests were disregarded by the legislature (under the drive of the organized barbers Sof the-ttate. Governor Snell signed jthe bill aid it has been in effect for nearly a year and ajhalf. I Many barkers in the jsUte objected to the legislation because j they ! wanted to be free to fix their own prices. One of them broueht the suit which has just been decided. ' Under the" court s ruhngj the act is declared unconstitu tional and barbers will again be indej endent in their price filing, althoughall iinionlshops are required to adhere to union scale ofj prices if nitrjr wam iu eep xne union cara mueir shops. For once, free enterprise" has hac ;a break, There is something really heartenirJg in this lact. Soldiers From France " The French say they can put a million men in the field within six months. Here then is a reservoir of manpower which should not be ov erlooked. In the anticipation of an earlv. final i! I One Hundred Hoti sea fnere douMless will be a race for permits to build the 10C(, houses apprbyed for Salim by the muonai Housing adntmistration. There are enough people who want! to buDd-their own houses and enough to rent to take up matter of hours. who would like U build or this; quota of 100 within a Salem folk should n6t: become ala fmed and decision over Germany the allied high command think they are going to get a plagui of "war concluded soon after the invasion to undertake the job alone, without enlisting support of French and Belgian armies, save the French troops which had been serving in Africa. One reason was the lack of equipment and the thought that they could .not be whipped in shape in time to do much good. It was a case of making best use of the material available at the time, nousmg' wifih rows onj rqws of identical ply- Doara aupiees. These are to be separate three- Dearoom nouses, with a $7000 valud anrl is rental. Even jat today's building costs ohe should ue ;Die 10 get quite an attractive home for amount to anjfthihg has several years. The pres- been extremfely ! tight anaged to "gdt along.' along for No home building to been done in Salem for sure on housing has interp eting By KTRKE L ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Jan. Try ing to dispel some International fog yesterday, I reported thaft inasmuch as ; Russia delayed the Dumbarton Oaks j agree ment,! and is now; sealing of central jEurope with her ar mies, j she pro bably would be glad to join the I club - like Dumbarton i p"i ; world order in t3ie ; coming promised negotiations which ts to complete the club; charter by April (we hope.) The Hub naturally ". would tuoiauux er gams xorevi with; arms and perpetuate postwar I Europe whch direct!; or indirectly is now dividia spheres j of Influence betwi -the Russians and British, wi the Russians in possession of the lion's share. These considerations natural! have; raised the questions In th' public mind as to Whether this nation, the senate cir even thfe administration, will be so strong armies, and ; I do not know how far the charter will take our' armies into Asia. , j ' Very definitely; I think tiie adrninlstration will want this arrangemeni Mri , Roosevelt "ia! a little on the j Russian side any way.; Announcements have sug gested this fe about all we c$n expect to get, jand whatever we can get will no, doubt be ac cepted with' considerable outer enthusiasm knd official justifi cations. j ! j.:.: ' , j WDl the senate and the people go for it? They might The avail able ; alternatives! may not be pleasant The arrangement might be presented, upon a "take It br get something worse" ba sis. Quite k powerful nation could be maintained within the sights of ouij new vision, if It Is effectively organized. But I thinic our acceptance all depends upon how fully arid " convincingly) pur! hopeful ideal of democracy is held out to the rest of the world,! particularly in' Europe, by this charter. " i j Unless there are genuine pros- . pects of Atlantic Charter ideal ism not mere words and ; real LfCF 0333DS nnrrra , Lt Jack Mel- . ton of. Dallas, Tex, was in the Hurtgen forest fight His face was bear- Dix ded and hag- gard. This is what that tall, gan gling, company I' Texan had to say after the battle was won -when he was asked what it was like: j"It was tougher than the Nor many hedgerow fighting. The whole damned place was alive with mines. Kraut artillery and mortar fire were the heaviest I'd ever ducked. To top it off,, the weather was just what Adolf ordered two weeks of sloppy rain and snow. ; ! j"We were full of vinegar that first morning, back to the wars i after a month's "rest" of Luxem bourg defense. We'd relieved badly tired outfit the night be fore and were all set to jump at dawn. " "1 . .'; ! .-v- j 1 fWe did jump more crackin and poppin than you'd see at a western movie. Then after a few hundred yards there were explo sions all around. All of us knew then" that some of our boys had hit mines. Snipers let go from IGUIDEPOST .1 j' i uer am ) for the coming charter to prei- freedom for beonies. in nlar r.r serve forever what i somethinjj the fake freedom preserved by WUh the end of the war postponed by at least though people have rri six months it would seem, at this distance, as They probably could cbntinueto get mougn the rrench and Belgians should be en- another year, but the 100-bouse rerinit from j mur w iorm meir armies. Surely their own W1JJ give a welcome if limited Relief. iaciories couia resume some production. Not only would these troops prove valuable if the war Jasts into tje latter part of this" year, but th turn rnim,iu U' 1 it... ' uuivi jcei mey were con- enas hk ' ! tributing to their own liberation and the de- IfnA I Iflf a If Strudtion of the Orman direct, the energies and efforts of the peoples toward the remaining task of finishing the Ger man armies on their home soil, instead of oc- cupying their thoughts on domestic contention. , The Germans captured thousands of Belgian and French soldiers in 1940; but since then sev eral age classes have nurtured and should be ready for military duty.' Unless the British and Americans can use this manpower to better ad vantage in production it ought' tp be employed In fighting. Six months is not long to wait for an army of a million men. New SIMPSON WAR ANALYST sa nvon oi ine di island of Luzon on ih m,- ican road back in the Facific was the nVxt essen uai step in the Nimiti-MacArthur campaign to j me igni m ine ioe reienuessly. tnateyer is carried beyond that Doindl rj,4, i. xne wnoie western Padfle-CMni fc tegic picture. - i ' i! ; ,l. . iT r 1 rr.nrrr '".vr..r" 01 uppmes is perhins hot too ow m cii Our fleets, will command the Editorial Comment PARTY FRINGES . The House committee urging congressionU con trol over political organizations the Political Ac- ' tion Committee of the CIO being particularly in , mi nd seems to be on pretty fhin ice. We believe in the two-party system in America. We have two major parties with fringes.- A ma jor party gets that way by attracting a majority from the fringes. A vigorous fringe may grow up and absorb the party. It has happened several times in our history. . Wejdisagree with PAC doctrine.: But we recog nize mat PACgained power in the last election by organizing, working and "educating- more force fully than the republicans or the discontented dem ocrats, : . i - jr.". -;; . . v . There has been; criticism that this and other fringe! organizations evade the laws" on campaign funds'and expenditures by calling themselvei "ed ucaUooal" and exempt from corrupt practices acts. Congress can require financial statements from political-educational fringes, or from stamp collect ors societies or astronomers' clubs, if it wishes. But cfentrol, with the object of legal suppression of any political aspect Is dangerous. " If fringe organizations we do not like are sup pressed to freeze the two inaior parties into their privileged roles, the next step is for the major party " "in" to suppress the major party that is "out Then there is One Party. That's how Mussolini did it This- is one case where the cure seems worse than the disease-rif it is a . disease. We are not quite sure because this country has been built by ' political factions that have striven te have their principles adopted" by the whole people. A man or a group has had political freedom to do this in the. past We believe that if this freedom is curtailed,, serious evils may ensue. San Francisco Chronicle. short ' of- our announced f ideals,. jWhat do we get outof it? 1 I Well,4 we get the mandated Islands of Japan in the Pacific No question of that We also get our own hemisphere influence, or recognition of it,!? as we al ready had it in fact! The com! ing Mexico City meeting is sun posed to bring Argentina around and establish a frorit of. dipld- mauc solidarity on four ; longi! tuaes. Thus the coming worl cnarter will direct our visi westward and south. We are) defeating Japan with out tne lassistance o the Ru siansl The help we lare getting "v"i uouusn wiu, raise some question f of .'postwar British tiuence in the orient KHonek etc.) jwMch must be settled, an;d there! is a communist army In China.. : !; I ,; j T Yet the) results of the War and the proposed charter (give us the top position westward i a n jd southward,: which wef clearly do not havef in Europe, lAfrica and most; of Asia (India.) Oujf future, under jthe! current conceptions f of things! here, would seem: therefore to lie in ' armed might! and; directing pow ers which absorb; the very souls of, men, as Well .as feeding out economic substance to them I do not think the charter will be very popular or can be made very populaf in this country, j And even if put through the senate by sheer force of admin istration povjer, It could not en diire. Only solutions which an swer j the yearnings for real freedom in jthe hearts of men ean permanently hold their sup Port ; i r : I , x ; iYou can feed JSurope, as some of our people wish to do, to fan prove our prestige and power mere. True), enough, much food will have to be sent as a mat ter of relief! but the use of food for political effect generally has only a temporary result " -j i v The Chinese have a phrase for such tacticsj Churchmen carry ing Outianity to the Orient, found it sold faster with a bowl of rice. But they also found that not infrequently as soon as the rice ran oa their converts lost xeat They were caUed Rice Christians. ' I - - j . Nothing will take the place itt (Continued ! From ' Page 1) and the congressional front "In 1946 there will be a ! governor and secretary of state to elect, : also four congressmen. If the democrats could capture either of the two state offices they would command a fine basket of patronage,, and Mon C. Wallgren over in Washington is showing them just what the payoff is on a deal like that ; The five democrats in the sen ate are William A. Moser, Tom Mahoney, Walter J. Pearson, W. H. Strayer and Lew- Wallace. Wallace is national committee man, and that office can be com bined with jthe senatorship to good advantage for party promo . tion and discipline. Walter J. Pearson shows signs of political activity. Not so conservative as his father, the late state treasur er and senator, he may prove to be. one, of the younger ! hopes of the Oregon democrats, s ! The house list of democrats in cludes E. C. AUen, Jack Bain, Phil Bradv. Vornnn n R.tll XT I H. Callaway, Warren Erwin, M. "niice'M w unites the James Gleason. Dr, Wiina t m m u n 1 1 y and who indeed Johnsi, Henry Semon, ! Manley JtjWilson. Of these, Brady (AF of), Bull (Railroad! Brother hood) and Wilson (ClO) give good tie-ins with organized lab or. Warren Erwin is a staunch party worker. S ; On ordinary business before -the legislature there will be no party division, but on labor questions or issues with a po litical complexion we can antic ipate that the democrats may be somewhat cohesive. I The 1945 session will be one. of jockeying for position in?the grand political derby of 1946., The democrats will not be alone in this. Republican officeholders will! attempt a few turns them selves. .,.;. . ff ; S Aid overshadowing; all is the figure; of the returning war vet eran who will be a political fac-; tor from now on untfl . . . J well, until the third world war. shall I say? ; the edge of the woods. Then it came kitchen sink and alL Jer ry! threw in 120 mortars and ISO artillery pieces on our sector alone.- Everyone reserved him self a crater after the first few minutes of shelling. : fit was the damndest feeling of helplessness. -We could n't ' move ahead a few feet without - mines popping or Jerry throwing more heavy stuff. .We had to stay there for days. Even when hot food came up, only two or three men would risk the artillery to grab. j "The engineers made several attempts to get through the minefields, but they were unsuc cessful. .Finally a patrol pulled . the company through. . It was Stan and Hatcher and Minik and Trusty and Stevens who did it. , j (He means Lts. Stanley Schwarz of Baltimore, JUd, and Hudson Hatcher of Harlan, Ky.; SSgt John Minik of Michanics- btirg, Pa.; and Pvt Harold Trus ty of Cascilla, Miss., and Pvt Jessie Stevens of Cumilton, Ala.) j "It was one hell of a series of firefights after that Jerry was always -hidden in pillboxes or j j (Continued on Page 8) The, . Safety Valvo LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS LUMBER FOR NTTE CLUB To the Editor: . About the middle of the sum mer of 4i I filed an application with the County Board for enough lumber to construct a small barn on my south farm. This place consists of 265 acres with a good house but no out buildings whatsoever, they hav ing! deteriorated to such a state that it was impracticable to re build them. r . TCrokJZTCi Bwm- - I was told to keep my appli- cauon aown so mat the total - t : The Steinbeck of "Tortilla Flats," not of "The Grapes of Wrath," comes back to us in this odd, absorbing book. "Cannery Row" is neither flesh, fish nor f?wl, neither novel nor short story, but perhaps principally a painting. In the author's words, the Row itUlf, in Monterey, Calit, is both "4 1 stink- and "a dream" . . . these are' not the only monosyl lables spoken by! Steinbeck's colorful characters. The book centers on Doc, who runs West ern Biological Laboratory; the parsonages who surround hm ate! as peculiar and unaccounti alle as the frogs, octopi and rat tlesnakes kept as specimens in jars and cages. It f is Doc, for whom everybody wants to do unit of the Doc finally the point of Pacific, indeed all the waters of the world, b u t political ! power these days seems to march with genuineness human ! or lations, and and soundness In ! international rela- the measure of these qualities' in the coming , agreement will determine the results.. I ' I -1 '. I a culminating step the effort to bridge thl p. uiic ana come to Close grins With Janan! i That the campaign !to Reclaim Luzon his reached' its final phases many months earlier j than was uuiro posaoie in Washington only a year or less aeo seems bevnnil Hlntil ii tk: . . K'ffi&fp "THE' fYOONG IDEA" . By Mossier the type of Japanese resistanca wjiweu in me aavance up New Guinea, mere can be no swift and decisive results even! after the uuuuik ' lorce on ine oig island. M I! ' "7 " " wnMWi a classed as a war of niuun. nowever jOitierry and skillfully Nazi troops fight, driven to My they ultimately surren. der as the-Japanese thS tar encountered ashore have not : The war in the Pacific has been a war "t?nrnation r,rr of attrition sd far. Of ficiar American estinte on Japanes caWl ties on Leyte or in the attempts U reinforce it run. SLthe.nelhborhoo1 f li0,D0Q as against lless than .PJnS!1?r? iNo!? w disclosed whether that handful of living enemies taken consisted of wounded or unwounded. I fi !-! ' .; . - i I That distinction betweeh bounded and imwjund ed prisoners has more orj less been dropped hi this war. Now and then ; German. Russian and Allied battle accounts from Europe have noted'it if the proration of unwounded ; capUves appeared I sug gestive of waning morale; On the other side, i Sub sequent events have so definitely scotched: any idea of an impending collapse Inj the wiU to continue the fw " ? e,LWh,Hy fa tovolved,; however. that the distinction; lost any significancei it has never been one of 'consequence! in the war with Japan. : ,y t T. , , luf, ' n " Ule to attempt to estimate in advance how long it might taken to effect the conquest Of Luzon. Japanese fugitives still lurk in the wild; recesses of Guam, or Guadalcanal even, as well as1 in some' omer islands wholly m American hands. Bypassed garrisons on still enemy held islands left hhi t the American advance hve given no sign ot sur- render utterly hopeless as. is; their situation. mi. I.U.. ""rvirr : t,,----.'' - Aa2f I thought if aalgU snake the children feel more at homer Your Federal Income Tax . ' Ne. t 8ortax Exemptions Aeeoant of Dependents i f In computing your income tax, you are allowed the benefit of an exemption from the! surtax. In addition to the 1944 surtax exemption for yourself and S500 for your Wife or husband as ex plained in article No. 7 of this series, you may be entitled to the benefit of a surtax exemption of $500 for each dependent as ex . plained below. r f If you use your Withholdine Receipt as a-return and? let the collector compute your tax for you by using the tax table, or if ; you use the tax table in a short form return on Form 1040, the benefit of tb surtax exemption to which you may be entitled for dependents is allowed automat ically through, the use of a tax table provided by law,' because an allowance for., the; I credits which you claim (on the back of J the Withholding Receipt or, in item 1 on page 1 of Form! 1040) has been worked into the table - itself. If you make a long-form return on Form 1040, you should subtract! the surtax exemption for dependents (on line 4, page 4) from your net income before applying the surtax rates. I What is a "dependent for in t come tax purposes? ,i , - The law ; concerning j depend- - ents has been -changed!; f Under the law for 1944 there are four tests; to be met before you will . . . (Continued on Page 8) serves to make a book. Rbere are some very enjoyable passages: The way wbrks himself up to bilying a beer milk shakepthe mfechanicwho went of f to hunt jfofc a spare part for a broken down auto and was gone Just 180 dfts; the way to get even with your bank if it doesn't keep your accounts straight hrhere are some absorbing pas sages, too, particularly the inci dent of he watchman William who bumped himself off with an Ici pick because, of the look in the Greek cook's eyes though if a juicide can be something less thin grisly, this one is. You will bd interested to learn what must bdj regarded as the true account ofthe disposal of Josh Bilbngs' remains : and it will h 'w. before you forget the little whose father was dead and whose many "uncles' kept corn- to see his mother and giving a nickel to clear out ? ' is really as a pain tin, seen at once, that "Cannery -Row" cost would not .exceed : $1000. This I did, the approximate fig ures being about 500 for mate- , rial and $500 for labor. However, my application was turned down and I was not granted any part of it j : ' I feel that this application was legitimate inasmuch as we had nq place to keep cows, chickens and equipment out of the wea ther. In fact, it was impossible to keep hired help on the place ' without shelter for these aninyiiq and equipment ' I, was of course, disappointed atli toy Inability to secure this material but felt that if the lumber were needed for the war effort jthat It should come first About this time I noticed a new . structure going up on the north Pacific; highway just beyond the railroad viaduct, and upon in quiry learned that a niht club was under construction, and I am ; wondering just what the score Is. . Perhaps the Board feels these night clubs and road houses are more essential to the war effort than the mere operation of a farm, but I and several hundred farmers in the same position do not! harbor this opinion, and I aih wondering 1 If .you fellows have any opinion to offer. LEE U. EYERLY iThe Statesman is imable to explain why Mr. Eyerly was un able to- get a permit for his ham from . PB while Mike Stein bock was able to do so for his supper club building north on Portlaijid road. Mike showed the Statesman representative his permit,! but said he had used principally either non-essential material (asbestos board, plas ter board, firtex) or low grade lumber, which was available, in cluding some lureoer salvaged frbm a mm f ire at Idanha, with a tomimum of finish lumber and "i or Inferior best be described. It all be- Statesman's investigation con- s in Lee Chona mvar t xirmed his statement na restaurant license from the Jquor cornmbiion; hopes to obtain one and to operate a restaurant t sandwich bar and floor show.; Under restaurant lie e Wod be permitted to R beer and wine by the glass and nuxers for patrons who Drought their own !!.,,. it- by the ige you are read- 7 f1 umuc" . ""iy to get a license to op- wiuun ine city limits. ends at the party staged for Doc, thl party which ndeht have been 'the end of Doc, too. But It is as ' Mttern that you think of it after w not as a progression; the patty isn't a climax, but a focus f!interest.You don't much care ' what will haDnen m ih . - w uui . because you are too ab- mmmmm DIAMONDS "I WAH !; JEWELRY Stevens : ft Son has an j yuawnaing selection of i !?050111 Jewelry . . . ' . " many, many pieces to add a sparkling touch to your costume for daytime and evening wear. I Brseeleta Earrings King " CUpe Plna Credit If Desired' XUmonds' Ke-set Yhil9 Ye Walt i Store ' Honrs: 9:31. A. L U t r . M. Not Open Saturday Nishta ;