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page roua i V Th 02SG02I STATECMAIT Calenu Orjon, Candor Morning, Apr3 ; L 1S4S. tefioti Wo Toror Su?av Us; Wo Fear Shall Atae. . '. V From Fint SUtesmtn. March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher i : Member of the Associated Press j j , 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. ! f i : 1 ' Sammons to U. S. National Any change in the presidency of a banking Institution like the United States National bank of Portland is an event of importance. As the largest bank in the state, maintaining .26 branches over the state and owning one bank in Vancouver, Wash,, the choice of a new exec utive becomes a matter of concern to many thousands of customers and to the several com munities in which the bank operates. That the choice should fall to Edward C. Sammons, al ready prominent in Oregon affairs, makes the event doubly significant. The changes among the bank's officers as announced Friday include the retirement of Paul S. Dick as president to become chairman of the board of directors, the retirement of A. M. Wright as first vice president, the election of Mr. Sammons as president and promotion of A. L. Mills from vice president to first vice president. These changes assure a continuation of competence in the direction of the bank's af fairs. Mr. Dick has made an excellent record in guiding the destinies of the bank, particu larly through the troubled banking conditions of the 20's and 30's. Reasons of health are un derstood to have prompted his retirement. Sammons does not come to the bank as a stranger. He was yice president when he left in 1928 to become associated with T. H. Banfield in the Iron Fireman Manufacturing co. and has re mained a director. His great capacity for lead ership has been employed in many undertak ings, both industrial and civic. He will bring to his new position first the full confidence of the business community, and second a rare combi nation of vision, of energy, of practicality and vism. Munster was the city in which the Peac of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' war, was signed in 1648, 1 Hitler regarded that peac as responsible for the fragmentation of bid Ger many and wanteds to make the new peace of Munster one of complete reversal, one that would not only solidify the reich, but hying all of western Europe kindet his "new order". i The old townhalf in which the Peace of West phalia was signed, stiU( ivas standing up to the time of the present war. How much damage it has suffered from aerial bombings has hot been reported. The meeting of the ambassadors and princes who wrote the peace in 1848 took place -in the Friedens Saalof the townhall. j On its walls have hung through the centuries: paiflj ings of the men who took part in the proceed ings which made the hall famous. if , V- Now the British haye Munster in their clutch es and der Fuehrer Hitler is a badly frightened and speechless rabbit He knows he will dic tate no peace in Munster or anywhere else. He knows that he is bringing on Germany the thou sand years of doom as alternative to the thou sand years of victory which he promised- Hare indeed have been the instances of such complete reversal of fortune. When Hitler made his pro nouncement about a peace in Munster. he was ruler of all western Europe; now he - is very nearly a fugitive with the hot breathj of ven geance blowing on his neck. ) 1. The peace of Munster ... yes, Adolf, history can be remorselessly ironical. v. J 5 ! j? Pullmans of the Skies is v -Tj iliri mill, yf fit M , ' -&&'&ag''4if&'it:'3t ' w&mfA IM 31 f : 1945 Harvest Hand A few days ago j the big new Consolidated "Constellation" flew from Los Angeles to Miami of winning personality that will be felt in the in eight hours. This huge aircraft with capacity bank and. through the state. Mr. Mills is a trained bank executive, with a broad understanding of problems of finance, whose judgment has been relied on in deter mining bank policies with relation to current trends in banking and finance. He should prove a very valuable junior officer to President Sam mons as he was to Mr. Dick. The change in financial conditions is readily seen in the growth of bank deposits. The Unit ed States National on its last call showed de posits of $472,674,000. Five years previous, in the spring of 1940, its deposits were only $138, 015,000. Part of the increase is due to increase in the number of branches (Ladd & Bush was acquired' later), but chiefly the increase is due to business expansion and to price and wage Inflation. The responsibility for managing de posits of this magnitude from thousands of de positors is one not to be lightly considered. We understand that Mr. Sammons was reluctant to leave his former fine connection with Iron Fire man but yielded to the persuasion of fellow di- rectors in part because of a sense of community obligation and because of the challenge of op portunity for constructive service which always has characterized his endeavors. The whole state will view his succession with a feeling of pride and satisfaction. . : Bid to San Francisco Even Russophiles must admit that the USSR is a bit difficult. To the. big powwow in San Francisco which will be attended by President Roosevelt (et ux). Secretary Stettinius and by - Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and Prime Min ister W. L. MacKenzie King, Russia is sending, not Marshal Stalin or Foreign Minister Molotof, .but Ambassador Grymko. And now Moscow in sists that the Poland provisional government, which is still its old Lublin committee, receive n invitation to the conference! 4 , At Yalta it was agreed that the provisional government should be reorganized to include all elements in Poland, but the British and Ameri can ambassadors working in Moscow find that Russia disagrees with their interpretation of the agreement, so no reorganization of the Polish government has taken place. It is embarrassing to Washington to invite to the party a govern ment it has never recognized, so the request has been turned down. So long accustomed to single harness the USSR finds it hard to team up with other na tions, even when they are trying to be friends. of 204 passengers is designed for postwar civil ian travel. Already Pan-American Airways has ordered 15 of these! ships. If The dimensions of the plane are startling- Its wingspan of 230 ft. is more than twice; that of a Liberator bomber. The plane weighs 320,000 lbs. and is 12 times the size of the standard twin-motored planes now in use on commercial routes. Its cruising speed is 342 miles 'an hour, and is expected to make; the flight between New York and London in nine hours. The new planes will have six engines, mounted on the trailing edge of the wing,! which will use pusher-type propellers.- j ! r :' , j ":i It may be that the cost of airplane equipment will work to eliminate some of the concerns now clamoring for franchise rights on new air routes over the world. ' No longer is it possible to start an air route with a second-hand army relic of a plane. Investment to provide a working fleet of modern aircraft Will run into so muc money that a lot of competition will be scared but This fact in. itself may help to solve the vexing ques tion now being considered by congress' and the civil aeronautics board on how many Operators should be permitted to fly in world commerce. Necessarily the number will be very j 3few be cause of the amount of capital required. , It is evident that airplane j companies are thinking in large terms of their postwar World. And why shouldn't they? If they can get flying rights over the world, they can; with their mar vellous speed and comfort, attract patronage on a steadily expanding scale, j t News Behind the News j V By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole ! or In part strictly prohibited.) Tho Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers WASHINGTON, March 31 The best guess here is that the early part of May ' should do for the Germans. When General Eisenhower said the Nazi armies had been whip ped, j he did not mean exter minated. Two days! after his statement, they were; still put ting up a block ade of success ful resistance in three sectors particularly, in cluding even in R e to. a g e n area. i Paul Malloa The Dalles Chronicle refers to the premature peace celebration; in 1913 Jon! November 10. Wrong date. The; false armistice was -on No vember 7. i f ; I; h; Interpreting British at Munster So the British are at the gates of Munster, or perhaps they have captured the city by this time That indeed must be humiliating to Adolf Hitler. For Munster was Hitler's choice as the city in which the peace, his peace, would be written. Munster was chosen out of his moody ata- Editorial Comment MAT ALSO BE USEFUL AFTES THE WAR If you could wander into a number of valley bomea in the evening, you would not have to be surprised if you heard heads of the homes haltingly exchanging some of the more simple Spanish V phrases, and in not a few instances, the more sim ple the phrases the better the exchange. This new feature is one direct result of the war, which not only drained away many orchard workers, but re- - suited in- the importation of many Mexicans to do part of the work which our fighting men had no recourse but to abandon. , j '' Only a few of those who art now taking Span: fsh lessons will keep up "the conversation" when' the war is over and our own people are back in the: valley and may it be soon. But even the few phrases they will learn will prove of use to them when they have. Mexican help- on their 'orchards. There is another thought, which might Justify further study of the Spanish language, which is largely spoken and not so largely read in South ; America. When the war la ever, and travel is again something to be planned instead of dreamed about, some of us may decide to visit Mexico and even far ther south, and when that day comes, Spanish learn- , ed now asd remembered will prove of great value ' '; and entertainment. '" If we could have a world in which all people could speak the same language and thus under stand one another, it would be the easier to over- . come the many problems of misunderstanding, which make global wars possible, and hinder the reedir of intolerance to foster these wars, now a simple matter for propagandists.--Hood River' The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON f f ASSOCIATED ; PRESS WAS ANALYST : The fury of the Allied attack east of the Rhine has mounted steadily for a week. I I If the enemy hsd hoped the gigantic offensive might begin to show signs of slowing because of ex tended supply lines) and a swiftly expanding battle front area, he was 8isillUBioned yesterday.! . It was disclosed; that the new fifteenth army, commanded by Lt.; Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, under wraps for weeks, had come into action. , ' The balance of manpower, already heavily against the Germans, thereby increased. During the last week the wehrmacht has been losing men by capture alone, hot including tens of thousands killed and still more wounded, at the rate of about two divisions a day on the western front! I The exact position of the Fifteenth in the battle line was not disclosed immediately, but it is part of the Twelfth army group which contains the First and Third American armies, now deep in Germany. It is possible that the Fifteenth or elements there of are needed to handle the security situation be hind the stabbing spearheads of the other two ar mies. . These latter groups have advanced in such swift strides that pockets of German forces, some of ' them probably of j uncomfortable size, have been left to the rear. One of the initial assignments of Gerow's men mayj be to clean up these; areas and secure the communication and transport lines to the advancing elements.' ' , I !i The spectacular j eastward march of the Allies who have six armies east of the Rhiae arid at least one 'spearhead within 165 miles of Berlin indirect ly turns interest to the Russian front. I - ! An attack on mat front at the point closest to Ber lin has been expected for some time, i That time may be near. This Soviet army now may b able to divert a substantial number of divisions from the south as well bs from the north to concentrate them for a frontal assault on the outer defenses' el the reich capital. j . ! ; j , As the week grew to a close there were interest- ' Ing stirrings on the- long quiet front in Italy, Nazi ' artillery threw a quantity of shells into Allied positions.- In this was seen an indication that the Ger man defenders had spotted activities behind or in the Allied positions which alarmed the Nazi com mand. It is possible they seek to upset what they believe is a mustering for a major off ensive.! i The advance Russian forces across the Aus trian border brings the eastern ally tha$ much clos er to Italy, thereby further Increasing the general threat to the German garrison holding Jthe base of the peninsula. Meanwhile; the Nazis can have no assurance that the French forces maintaining a watch along the Franco-Italian border ; might not venture a stab through the' mountain Ibarrier at ' the west " " K - - Their army is as a whole hope lessly whipped, but military. Judges here who have not been wrong often in this war con sider it four or five weeks away from unit destruction. Eisenhower also said he ex pected the enemy finally to re treat to a line covering the northern sea and land boundar ies jof Germany with a front running down to an east-west line I on a parallel of Hanover, or a retreat into the southeast ern mountain strongholds. This would cover Bremen, Hanover, Emden and many German cit--ies, even if not Berlin. But the ' Germans : since have concentrated the bulk of their remaining force north of the Ruhr river. We got across eas ily here, but both j the British and j our Ninth armies ran into trouble, and the going was slow for several days, j In view of this heaviest con centration on the northern ex tremity, it appeared the German generals were heading back to ward the northern j alternative. The line in the south was thinly held; and when our armored col umns had cut through and easily flanked the German divisions there and in front of Harum and Hanover, making their west bank positions' untenable,; Eisenhower was! able to make his statement. But the thinness ! of the line plus; the grand scale demolition of the Nazi railroad system and the heavy Russian j drive upon Viehna made it unlikely that many Nazis except those on the Italian front will be found in the mountains In the end, although that ;is the locale most widely heralded for the last stand. It was apparent also that un less a miracle could repair the railroads and furnish troops from! nowhere (or the Russian front) they could only make the fighting bitter in spots. The Russian drive toward Vi enna' was in good force and prom ises I success from the outset. They have a policy of not an nouncing their drives until af ter they have been assured of success. Anortnern attack was put under way several days ago,7 but its size was not known here at this writing. What was needed, of course, was a large scale Rus sian 'push into Germany, partic ularly in the Berlin sector. It might prove dangerous both to our 'expectations and the Rus sians if this drive fell short of sufficient power. Common speculation now ac cepts the theory that the island seizing we are doing around Ja pan means an early full scale of fensive upon the Tokyo home land rather than upon the China coast. But it is known the ar my ;air force considers it en tirely feasible for us to seize and maintain air and sea bases on the China coast without a full scale invasion of China. i The next blow therefore po sibly may be toward establish ment of these bases. All we need; for that is sea-and-land air power, and a portion of the fleet! plus relatively small land ing force units. Invasion of Japan would be a major, all-out operation. Any news of China ; landings might well be scrutinized with thU reservation in mind. The cleanup in the Philippines Is now nearly complete and Mac Arthur's troops soon may be available for further action, if a large number are not already. We have,, seized 14 : Philippines islands- Jap resistance contin ues ion only three Cebu, Panay and Luzon .(three different fronts on Luzon, north, east and south of Manila.) "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier 1 n f m a. m m - ar ... m. w w I I I Frankly, Deverly, that tlase routine' ii a flascer i "SLEEP IN THE SUN " ty Alaa ' Moody (Honchtom MtfrUa; SZ). , ! This gentle novel is about Mexicans who .have settled in San Marque canyon, in Califor nia. It's a place out of this ; world, in the slang expression, and certainly out of these Unit ed States. The people love, but 'short of ecstacy; they hate, but stop at name-calling; they are j ambitious, but only for the slight est things; they work, but no more than they absolutely have ito. I They drink, too. But they don't get drunk. They get intoxicated ; in the nobler sense, and the sym pathetic author makes you share j their intoxication. Though they, live in the 1940s, they are pretty ! much eternal. j It is perhaps a series of short j stories-rather than a novel. The incidents are bound together by the single scene and by the prin cipal characters, Jose Mercado, .his wife Mama Chula and her aged mother. With them should be grouped Lupe Mendoza, the sheep woman; Mrs. Biatriz. Gar- cia, who sells the wood red wine; and the sun which warms them all. It's surprising how. little hap pens yet how much that little matters. The Mercados go to jtown to sell their produce; Mama j Chula cleans house; they buy a "radio speaking machine;" they slander a neighbor and then re pent; they fall in love with a j foundling ;they go to a barbecue j and turn it hilariously into a ; fiesta. Moody doesn't observe these ! foreigners with scientific detach jment; he doesn't write about them condescendingly, either, i though that is a common offense of the novelist who goes slum ming. His people are as real, as I worth befriending, as the high . and mighty ot this land, at least ; in his naive eyes; he builds them up to their full stature as hu mans. We may not approve of ! them, but we can't help liking ! them. j This is, I believe, Moody's first t book. Be has, however, written several plays produced in his ', adopted state. He himself now ; sleeps in the sun; he died last Fyear. -.-..i- ., .;v.V-.; Tho Safety Valvo LETTEXS FKOM READFJtS STATESMAN PRAISES TMCA Calvary Baptist Church 1230 S. liberty St Salem, Oregon To the Editon . I The YMCA kindly provided headquarters for the recent city wide church survey. That made: lt "necessary for me to spend a good deal ot time at the Y dur ing the past month. -.. , Naturally, having been con ducting similar campaigns Jn many cities for some years; I have become quite familiar, with YMCA'sj the country over. I have never found the YMCA so fully ja hub of the tity as In Salem. I ' have been surprised and delighted at the- important place occupied in city life by Mr. Kells and his Institution. I feel that the least 1 can do as a, newcomer is to pass along - a word of well-merited praise. - .- ; -Sincerely. -.-' V , AT tl'E raOHTI A Batflewise Mules Help U. S. Rcdnbow Division Fight War j - By Lewis Hawkins ; I (Substituting for Kenneth I j Dixon) j WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH ARMY. After weeks of i fighting in the rugged, wooded ' Hardt mountains, the 42nd tank division nickname should i be changed from "Rainbow Divis ion" to Rainbow Mountain Di vision" or perhaps "Rainbow Mule Division." f i About 150 battlewise mules helped fight the war up and down the roller Aroaster slopes and these four-footed veterans of Italian campaigns sold them selves to their new chauffeurs, j Pvt. Charlie Avers from Rus sellville, Ark., where mules are ; mules, said, "Jucko is a fine mule gentlest animal I ever ran across."- . . - - ;-v ").' Pfc. Raymond Luhman hand led horses and mules back; on . his farm home near Natoma, Kans but he never had to ma neuver the critters on the per pendicular before; and lamented, fit's just about impossible to keep their packs on going up some of these straight-up slopes. If I don't figure out a way right quick this mule's going to lose confidence in me. . . I Pvt. Richard Ramler of iiud low, Ky, reported, "I find this Joe as easy to handle as a jeep except for one thing he don't mind mortars, he don't mind artillery, and he likes rifle fire but he's got a terrible complex about bridges. Otherwise this mountain work is his dish." ! j Staff Sgt Robert Leathers of Cisne, I1L, is going to be very unpopular with army humorists. The 45th division non rom had been acting as platoon guide, platoon sergeant, and platoon leader for several days with Pfc. Allan Conoway of Califor nia, as his only helper. One night Conoway didn't wake Leathers for the night shift, letting him sleep through. So the next morning the ser-" geant prepared breakfast for the private and served it to him in bed. -. - '' ' ?t Dtp 0MBO0 TPmrrnra (Continued from page 1) the Covenanters had to hold their services in the fields and often at night because they were disenters from the established church. In order to make sure that only those eligible to par take of the holy communion were admitted to these nightly meet ings tokens were passed lout which had to be handed to the elder for admission to the com munion service. Time passed; the Covenanters were no longer per secuted, but the use of tokens persisted. Many came to Amer icaand brought the tokens with them." ' ' " ' i " On one occasion, in free Amer ica when one of the churches of the Scottish descent had a communion scheduled, some one forgot to bring the tokens.: It created quite a little concern what should they do? The com munion table was spread, but the tokens were missing. What did they do? They went ahead without the tokens, and never used them again. They woke up to the fact that use of tokens jwas only slavish custom, j j Mary Antin, in her book "The 'Promised Land," tells of how in her orthodox Jewish home ! the old custom had- been observed of keeping the light always burn ing. One night it went out or was put out and nothing hap pened, a fact which had a great, emancipating effect on her, I The older generation is for ever scolding at the younger for abandoning sacred altars. But what is happening may be mere ly the adaption of the younger generation to new conditions. It is very easy for the human mind jto conclude that its own ideas, its own customs and beliefs in the field of religion are in if act the eternal verities.' Yet some times, as with Mary on the original Easter, what they are clinging to is merely a dead body j or an empty grave. They j are blind to the fact that the Christ whom they love "is risen, as he j said" and that his religion should (always be a living reality. ! Practical Religion by. Rtr. John L. Knight. Jr, Counselor oa Scilgiaa Life, Willamette iiUxrtity. All of us search for keys which, will open the doors to abundant living. Some- try the key of influence, others try the key of hard work. Some try the key or industry, others try a Phi Beta Kappa key. ' But the ages teach that there is only- one way to open the. doors to abundant living. The only key to open these doors, to Seven Surplus Planes Arrive at Troutdale TROUTDALE, Ore., March 31-W-Seven primary training planes landed at the airport here yesterday as the reconstruc tion finance corporation' began the all-time greatest sale of used airplanes. j A consider able number of planes will be ! brought to the RFC sales center by Western Skyways. Three thousand pri mary trainers are to be sold but the number alloted locally is not known. The seven came from Thunderbird field, Ariz., as army , surplus. Six of ; the pilots were formerly WASPS and included Virginia Hill -of j Seattle. Test, Immunization Clinic Set forJWoodburn f " 1 ' . " - i - .- - 4 l A Schick test and immuniza tion clinic is to be held in Wood burn by the Marion county Pub- He Health association on Tuesday from 10 to li and 1:30 to 3 pjn. 4 Immunization against diphtheria and smallpox will be given to all children, and Infants nine months or over. A "booster" dose is rec ommended every three yean for"-' children up to 1? years who have'' been protected against diphtheria previously. i .use the same figure of speech, is the Master key the way of ChrUt, the way of service, of love, of self-sacrifice, and of un- shakable faith.!1 : - G" - and "H" companies of the Third division's Seventh reg iment wanted to have a party with plenty of girls so th;t each man could have a dancing part ner. But it's difficult In small French towns to get that many girls out at night So company commanders Lt. , Eugene Bacon of Memphis, Term. and LL Clarence Grant of Min neapolis, Minn., had the town , crier announce the big event in. the courthouse and invite every-" one. Sgts. Leonard Scardinia of ' Springfield, Ohio, and Henry Himmerick of Rogers, N. D., rustled up plenty of chow and' Sgts. Mike Kusiak of Upper Mid- ' dletown. Pa., and Clell Clark of Litchfield, Ky, baked 2000 doughnuts. Word of 'these pre parations spread around. 1 On the big night the infantry men found plenty of girls there plus most of the town's mamas -and papas, grandmothers and grandfathers, baby sisters and -brothers, and a few dogs and cats. ' . It wasn't just the way the boys had figured it but a good time was had by alL - County War Chests Raise $2,617,952.65 The sum of $2,617,952.65 was raised by the 36 county war chests in their campaigns last fall, ac cording to a report made by Ixl S. : McSherry, executive director of the Oregon War Chest at a meeting of the board of directors held in Salem recently. Of this amount, $1,335,024.51 has been allocated to the Oregon War Chest and will be used in supporting eight state agencies and the 22 agencies of the Na tional War Fund,toclucling the USO, United" Seamen's Service and the War Prisoners Aid socie ty. The balance of. the money . , raised, McSherry said, will be ap plied -largely to local agencies in the various- counties. -; I McSherry reported that 34 counties exceeded their total bud gets during the campaign and only two failed to make it, namely, Douglas and Jackson. Those were short only small amounts. 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