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page roua Tha- OHIGOII STATESMAN, Solas. Oregon. Thursday Morniag, Apr! I ISIS 8 &x$M$m. ; UMfllMt r ' -ITo FatwSwaM 17; Wo Fear Shall Aw I J I ll J'-U-Pv A 7 V ftfAl ' -No Favor Swayt V$; No Fear Shall A toe" From Tint Statesman, March 28, 1831 p THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press , The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Is Borneo Next? The 41st division seems to be right after the "wild man of Borneo." , Having occupied Pala wan, southwestern island of the Philippines, and captured Zamboanga at the tip of Mindanao is land, troops of the 41st have made another jump to Tawi Tawi at the tip of the Sulu islands which are the southern extension of the Philip pines group. And Tawi Tawi is only 30 miles " from Borneo. Borneo, whose north portion is British-owned and whose south part is part of the Netherland East Indies, is rich in oil and rubber. The Bor neo oil fields are the closest of any consequence to Japan. The island was seized early in the Japanese war, and Japan has been drawing on it for supplies. 1- , Will the 41st make thenext jump to Borneo? This might occur. It is doubtful whether the Japs occupy the island in great force. Through natives it should be possible to get the lay of 'I the land and the disposition of enemy strength and again MacArthur might hit them where they aren't. A reason for driving on south is to regain some natural rubber resources. Our own supplies are now very low, and natural rubber is needed to work with synthetic for tires. We are not so much in need of the oil in Borneo, though if wells and refineries are working we could use the production at great saving of transportation. With all the strength we have in the Pacific, and ours seems to be mounting, we are able to move southward into Jap-held territory as well ' as to strike at the. Japs in the home islands. The 41st, which has made a great record as a combat outfit, with more landings on enemy territory than any other outfit, may soon get the call to move into Borneo. Work-Jail Bill Beaten ; . Time and the progress, at arms defeated the manpower bill in the senate, which rejected by a vote of 48 to 29 the measure reported by a conference committee. fWith General Eisen hower declaring the Men4 of the war is not' far of f" and with unemployment actually showing up in spots overUhe country it was impossible to justify the legislation proposed. Actuallythe support it received was njbt given out of convic tion but out of desire to "give the army and navy what Uiey want," or out of a desire io go along with the administration. , While national service legislation had been proposed several times previously it was; not Sntil the setback in Belgium last December that te administration, spurred by the military 'au thorities, became insistent that such legislation be enacted. With the change in military for tunes and the swift collapse of Germany it .be came more and more dif ficult to convince the congress that the legislation really was needed. Senator Johnson of Colorado, who had helped frame the compromise, repudiated it over (the weekend when he learned from remarks of Di rector Byrnes that the legislation would "be used to hold employes at jobs during the period of reconversion. This was loo much for him land -many others, and the announced retirement of Byrnes gave the bill the coup de grace. ; It is well. The production job has been and la being performed. To accomplish the task 6n a' democratic basis without' resort to rigid regi mentation is in itself a great victory for our Sys tem, a victory in which management and labor share the elorv. fe? ' - F I , . :! I - - . I ' " ' Yank AMG OiZcot " , . Mart b Tox-Rato f-'-Jack of All Trades t Running Low! Civilian Defense We had supposed the federal civilian defense office was all washed up. . Certainly the need for it no longer exists. We hear no more now about the danger of token bombing, even. How ever the office still seems to be operating. It has detailed here a lieutenant colonel who will serve as "field protection officer." Quite a title, but what is there for him to do? The state has wisely put its office of civilian defense' on a "standby basis." The federal gov ernment's CD organization would do well to fold. The Japs are not coming. The Tokyo radio reports that a large British fleet is massing in the Indian ocean preliminary to an invasion of the Malay peninsula and Su matra. This has obviously been ripe for action whenever the British were ready. A few sharp blows there and the whole southern extension of Japan's empire will collapse and give us more natural rubber and oil. Revolt of the Slaves . k r n The Germans long have! feared the vengeance of the hundreds of thousands of slave laborers, and now that vengeance Is taking form. The ad vancing allies are setting: free the Poles, Rus sians, French and Dutch who have made upthe forced labor battalions wfnch have kept the nazi production, machine going. As they are set free they Instinctively start the long trek back to their homes or to allied jterritory. But they do not hesitate to rob and pillage on the way. J This is not the .first revolt of the slaves in his tory. Spartacus, a Thraclan brought to Rome as a gladiator, led a revolt of the Roman slaves in 73 B.C. and hs army for; a time threatened the city itself. Finally he was defeated and killed and his army of 6000 slaves put to death. The Germans have no hope of recovering con trol of their slave laborers, and well may they tremble as they roam the countryside, stealing food, clothing or bedding; stealing horses, burn ing houses. The nakis re just reaping what they have sown. Personal revenge now finds outlet in the disorganization of collapsing Ger many. ; ' 't ' By Sid Feder . - ' ' ' (SuteUtutinC toe Knnth U pUon) WITH THE S4THblVISIOIf ' IN ITALY -(ff)-MaJ. H. Carl i Kait is an -AMG officer who never procured a bell for Adano, but t, - . . He's helped deliver babies to Italian women, . He's taken ! a hand,', baking bread for Italian Civilians. ; " He's fixed up sewers in Italian " Vis: ;v "-' I'Z " 'T.'-l . He's buried or burned the bod- ; ies of civilian war victims to pre- ' vent disease. . M He's; evacuated " hundreds of civilians under gunfire. ..-. He's set up I working govern ments, . police forces and. water works in communities from Sa Iernoto Bologna. ' " v- He's had to listen to the tragic, hard luck stories of civilians ev- " err place. ' K-r;:;, 1 .""." ; " ' ,u. That's the grimmest part of it." says the AMG officer with the 34th division. Once a school teacher (Georgian Court coHege) he was more recently a lawyer in Red Bank, N. J, not far from his home in Chapel Hill, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. " . "It's depressing to see those broken homes; and bodies. But the -worst part of the Job is to listen to the stories of suffer ing. Thank God it isn't happen ing to tha folks at home." ; . The "folks home" are Caro line and a. chubby boy.to whom Carl found time to.; write 1401 letters since coming oversea In May 194S. . 5," . As, he explains bis job in the war-whipped towns, "the infan try breaks; them . up. We start, putting them ) together again.w He's set up civil affairs in 80 communities. He's been thanked personally by Prince Umberto had a government workingeven before aU the Germans pulled out, thanks to some excellent advance work by Italian Parti sans. The doughboys took over the night of July 19., At dawn,. Carl was there to check up. By three pm, Kait was on the way to the next town. . The whole thing Kait ex plains, "Is just as if Paterson, NJ, say, should be shot up. We walk in, look for public officials, start restoring utilities light, water, sanitation bury the dead, begin law and order, get police working, - survey the needs, ' help the wounded, pre vent disease, get food and cloth ing if possible, redistribute refu gees.w .' " Kait always speaks of his set up as "we" although, since the . beachhead he's been working alone ; except for PFC Russel Haggerty, owner of the Valley dairy, Fremont, Ohio, and fa ther of five children. Haggerty was a line Infantryman for some 15 months until he injured his leg in combat How he's Kait's jeep driver and general aide. L Evacuation of civilians from battle areas has been one of his roughest jobs. On the Anzio bridgehead Kait evacuated 5000 of the 20,000 the army ant to Naples. At Roslgnano, south of Leghorn, he moved 1200 in one afternoon under fire. Some 150 civilians were killed there, and ; Kait had to xet the consent of , the local priest to burn the bod ' les." The priest was one of the partisans and wore civilian clothes with his crucifix stuck in ! his belt. , " Kait crossed the Volturno with the infantry. At San Pletro, he Oil 0S3EQO0 X5 News Behind the News . ' By PAUl, MALLON .(Distribution by King Features Syndicate), Inc. Reproduction is whole for his work in San Vittore, be- j had to aid 600 civilians living or in part strictly prohibited.) Leo McCarey won two Academy awards for his work as writer and director of the motion picture "Going My Way" which also won for Bing Crosby the year's Oscar. A few days ago McCarey was arrested in Hollywood for driving a car while drunk and going the wrong way on a one-way etreet. Organizations over the state are having Ire turned legislators give highlights of the last ses sion of the legislature. The lowlights are still being concealed but will be seen when the law books are printed. I;: I Joe Rosenthal, AP photographer who took the picture of raising the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi, has been awarded the Graflex dia mond award as the year's outstanding press photographer. Oddly, Life magazine, which specializes in photography, hasn't published the famous Rosenthal picture. Hitler is said to be organizing the Werewolves .to continue the fight for the nazi cause. iTht name fits all right. Their, were wolves. Interpreting I The WarlNews ! By KIRKE fj SIMPSON 1- The FBI has been holding schools over the state for instruction of local peace officers in what the Bend Bulletin reports as "up-to-the-minute law enforcement practices." Well, the Oregon boot was good in its day, and shouldn't be overlooked in these times; even if it is not "up-to-the-minute." (Continued from page 1). s A job to keep the ball inthe ait for nine months until some one else takes over the Job. He'certain ly doesn't want it to hit the ground during his term. So an important thing Is to get a nom inating committee who can find a" new president when the time ' comes. v. 1 However. I hear this new JP-T A at the high school is to be Bomewhat different. It Is not -going to have stated monthly meetings, and what a relief ithat will be to the teachers. One may be. sure that the few meet ings they do have under Dr.' Smith as president win be very much worth while. : The truth is that parents ought to take a more active interest in . the high school. These year! are , for their children critical years of adolescence when habits are being formed and characters def initely molded. Parents ought to know more about the high school environment - of their youngsters; ought to know the ' teachers personally. This has not , been wholly neglected at the high school by any means. Different - groups ; have brought the par- ems in on special occasions.;, Tne fine The their P. WASHINGTON, April 4 The diplomatic news Is warming up -to the pitch of pressure politics before the war. -v fore Cassino, where, incidentally ! liejhad his toughest job helping a young fellow dig seven mem bers of his family out of the ruins of his house." ' 1 . And officers with divisions travel right along with the doughboys. They're "infantry- - men without rifles.-As often as not, they work under fire. faal Maiioa at which the honor guests are sending regrets. - What Russia is up to at g: time is always a censored guess. Complete bafflement is an essen tial I aualitr of her diDlomacr. Behind her uncooperative play fcflffft nnAft nee may be her de- "wwHww in caves, three babies were born right mere in those holes." At Loiano far up in the Gothic line, he rounded up clothing for a new-born infant. He distributed the first flour in Italy - - at Col li a Volturno, where the Mary kept saying it's a miracle - -that's the first white flour we've seen in 11 years ' The British press started a few days back to murmur that the British, For eign Minister Anthony ; Eden might not come to San Francis co either. At the same '. time the Russian dis patches told of the reception given - Mrs. Churchill by them in Moscow. These two public events were read with more significance than the public may have attached to them, by those who have heard inside the senate for some weeks that the British were inclining balance of power policy, playing more and more to the Russian . one side against another and viewpoint. back again. In fact, this is al- The trio of Bernard Baruch to tdo. as firmly established as a Tho Literary in this instance may mand for $4,000,000,000 of post war credit which the' administra tion has not yet accepted, if not many other things. But essen tially behind it is the strength of her position. . Possession is nine-tenths of any; law anywhere and a glance, at any war map shows the world what she has in Europe. Hers are blue chips. I v The British ostensibly are in a weak position, but they are al ways winning from weak posi tions. They are accustomed from long experience to follow a If you were short of eggs for Easter Sunday you may be interested in the report that WFA has sold for animal feed 750,000 lbs. of stored eggs too aged for human consumption.- Food shortage sometimes indicates a brain shortage somewhere. When the full story of Nazi Germany is written historians will record the: great web of autobahns as a prime factor leading f first to initial Nazi g vie-' tones and finally to defeat, . ' . J y r Autobahn is the German name for the six-lane super military highway conceived and built to! im plement plans for continental mastery and world., domination. Supplementing a German road land rail web unmatched in Europe for war use, they xney maae possioi. ta respond under the leadership swift and sudden concentrations of the once mighty 0f"Dr Smith j wenrmaeni easx, wesi or sputn against m-preparea band for Instance has had help from its parents' group.; Future Farmers have had parents in at least once a year; and the Honor society gets 'the parents acquainted with thai or ganization. Principal Harry John son hopes to extend this phase of the school's ' activity. (The P-T A has a broad field to work in, 'and the parents ought -In Massachusetts absent-minded betting fans have forgotten to cash their winning tickets at pari mutuel booths in an amount totalling $329, 457 in the past ten years. Evidently the shock of winning proved too great for them. In this state who gets such a kitty? . Klamath Falls is suggested as one of the two 0 sites for a national cemetery in Oregon. Keep ing it green will enable Klamath to use more of .the surplus water that California wants to "steal." Portugal is thinking about declaring war on Japan. Over four years ago Japan moved in on Timor, a Portuguese, possession north of Aus tralia; ; But. Portugal then did nothing but pro test, perhaps because of timor (fear). Editorial Comment STEEL STOPS USED SAILS Launched in 1894, the Dirigo was the first all steel sailing ship. She war designed by the Wad dingtons of Liverpool and the frames and plates were fabricated in "Scotland, shipped to Bath, Maine, where construction of the hull was super vised by the designer. She was launched In 1894 by her owners, the Sewalls of Bath, Maine oper ators of famous wooden sailing craft i i i neignoors. sjj&j; '-""''' With the tide now turned it is those conquest cor ridors that are leading ineyitably to utter German defeat They have played fa vital role in the Rus sian steam-roller surge to the Oder. They are play ing an all important part in; the Allied surge beyond the Rhine.' ' f; , Once German frontiers were passed, Russia and Allied maneuvers were largely grooved ' to that great autobahn network. The logistical miracles wrought by the armies invading Germany could not have been possible without it J Tracing the pattern of tie American Third army eastward dash beyond the Rhine, the main central autobahn east-west lateral is its dpminant factor It leads from the Coblenz area on the Rhine clear te besieged Breslau on the upper Oder, now far behind the eastern fighting front, I . "g As this was written it was along that master high way General Patton's advance columns stood closest on the west to Berlin and a junction with Russian forces.' :;:::--; :;;;;;;-. . j Third army and Seventh army spearheads are ' threatening a rupture of the main central north south autobahn that links Berlin and Munich, i It is the main stem of the whole military super highway web. . : "II - - J r" Southeast of captured Gotha, Patton's armor is within 35 miles or less of that vital north-south road. To the south, where Seventh army forward elements are closing in on Neuernberg, the high way is in equal jeopardy. Once cut at either point. Nazi hopes of rallying powerful die-hard forces for a last stand in the south would be dimmed. " ; ' The importance of the Coblenz-Leipzig autobahn in solving Patton's supply problems cannot be over rated. . It is along that road,: roaring truck columns are supplying his Third army from railheads West of the Rhine. Laid out to by-Dass everv town. 'ritv. hd village, it seems the key to the whole Allied op- So I want to give the new or ganization a boost and to express the hope that Mehitable's fears will not. -prove well-founded that the parents who need most to know what their high school is doing will attend. 'And if Dr. Smith has a good year we j can send him as delegate to the next state P-T A convention. i London, as a special presidential emissary on some undisclosed mission, has inspired new talk that Mr. Roosevelt is trying to draw the British back into line. This seething inner steam has prompted Mrs.; Roosevelt (who has been everywhere buf Mos cow) to announce the San Fran cisco conference should go for ward anyway, and there is no cause for "alarm." She said what all. official Washington is trying with considerable difficulty to reflect without saying. But the plain fact behind 'the matter is that the whole preten tious concept of our idealism 'for postwar continue to break up, knick by knick, upon the rocks of solid earth. These recent .international de velopments are leading us into the same old pressure game, and we look rather weak at it Yet we thought we held all the big chipsfood and money, f . We financed the war and are practically proposing to finance the peace. . Everyone should be coming , to us, yet we do .not seem to be getting our way in ' anything. We are holding a party She had two full decks -and was 312 feet long. 45 feet beam and 25 feet draft Her gross tonnage eratibn that has so swiftly left the Rhine far hMnA. was 3004. Designed to carry 13,000 square yards ; German North sea porta toward which Field Mar- of canvai without ballast, tne Congo proyea io oe a - snai Montgomery'sTiortheril army group is driving most useful craft - . - - . - . , ,. The ship attained considerable-fame when Jack London and wife shipped on her, London serving as third mate, his wife as stewardess, to get local color for his story "The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The world's first allteel ship was the victim of a German sub in 1917-Ship. t . would solve Allied left flank, supply problems. There is no sign yet of fan Allied pause due to over-extended supply lines, but it must come to give the enemy breathing space imless even greater mir ades of transport are achieved. Continuing Ger j man resistance in the west, spotty as it Is, may be , keyed to that hope. v - right course in the British mind, as our own Monroe doctrine. She hasj no chips but she plays what she! has with great skill. What they both knew was that -Mr Roosevelt wanted a certain kind of world peace and they als knew they could make him. paj to get it They have both played him for some years against his peace hopes and late ly Jthey have done it with in creasing Audacity. : A war propaganda was built up fin this country (but not in thejrs) from which they knew he cduld - not easily withdraw, the . type of world cooperation he fos tered and favored through the international organizations. They trapped him in his own propa ganda. I i $ Neither the British nor Rus sians built up any four freedoms .hopes at. home,. both fighting the", : war basically on the proposition of saving themselves. I report this without any criti-4 cal .intent as it I now too late for I criticism, although if criti cism had been allowed to run a little more freely in the past Mr Roosevelt would . not be in the "THE YOUNG IDEA" . By Mossier, tSfcStt&STJ : Officialdom may well be right in saying there is no particular new cause for "alarm."" Ther' Is no more cause than there was a month, a. year or : two years ago; except among those who de-. luded themselves about the facta of life from the beginning. (Read , this! column of October 5, 1943, for la sight of the game then al ready in progress and now com ing (jnto full open public view.)' If the game is going this way, it is time for us to get some new chips or to play them with great er strength; If I were Mr. Roose velt, I would no longer let them play . me against an -established position, which is weak for doing business, no matter what it may be fdealistically. 1 1 f would drop the. . policy of keeping lend-lease, .credits, Bret ton: Woods agreement and what not separate from the peace. Un der that arrangement they can hold back on the- peace and take the imoney. - . . - If they want io play that way I would postpone San Francisco and; not only face the 'facts my self, but make the people' face them, and quit pretense. And I would make them come to me for every nickel they get r , ; ! I'll n . . 9 : . .. 1 ,.-.,,. MOfSUTiU. By W. CL Rogers DBCLASiATIOW Of TMDK- rctnNCB: mm itoldtion or THE TEXT- y JmUu P. By (rrtacetM; 9M). A hundred f and" sixty - nine years ago next July the Contin ental Congress adopted the De claration of Independence writ ten by Thomas Jefferson, young est member of the Committee of Five appointed for that task. - The Declaration, which was addressed to the world at large, was the explanation for the rev olution which had already been launched. Announcing both gen eral principles j and specific caus es for discontent. It is one of the most ' important ' documents in English, perhaps the most im portant in pur- history.. We should ask ourselves -why we have been content to wait so long for an exhaustive, scholar ly textual criticism of this mo mentous paper, "Which . merited examination equally on patriotic and literary grounds. . r This edition! is a new printing of the brochure made for the Library of Congress in 1943, of which Archibald MacLeish said that the publication jfenay prove to be one of the most important single events In the history of the Library." ! . The book does not contain, except in a partially illegible 1 facsimile, the. ultimate version of the Declaration. But you win find other invaluable facsimiles, including that of Jefferson's rough draft ... in Boyd's opin ion not the. first; an investiga tion into origins and influences; and a fascinating comparison of various texts, i .The Declaration- embodied ideas discussed constantly by Americans in the last half of the 18th century; the very words . were in the air, Jefferson's rough draft with some Irregularities In spelling and capitalization and corrections by John Adams and Franklin, totaled 1800 words. Congress amended it to the final 1537 words.. , , The editor says: "If this anal ysis of the evolution of the text suggests anything it is that the character - of American liberty, far from being brought full blown into the world, was the result not merely of a single author's lonely struggle for the right phrase land the telling . point, but also of the focussing of many minds among them a - few qf the best that America ever produced," Toa mast have as atterly beaatlf ul seat Mr. Glotx, the way yea - Jam that licorice stickr : v , Council For New Hospital Is Organize "We have cleared the site and laid the foundation you build!" With thia bit of advice left to future generations by a Canadian soldier killed 'in World War II. Irl S. McSherry keynoted the or ganization of a memorial council at Salem Deacones ahospital Tues day night Gathered around the dinner ta bles in the hospital's dining room were Sidney McNeil, Cherrians; Glenn L. Adams, Sons of Union Veterans; Paul Parker, Central Labor council; Irwin F. Wedel, Junior Chamber of Commerce; Virgil Bolton and Lawrence Wink enwerder, post 661, VFW; L N. Bacon, American Legion; William Croghan, Disabled American Vet erans; Luther Cook, Federated Pa triotic Orders; Marvin Clatter buck. Hollywood Lions; Joe Land, Salem Lions; John P. Neufeldt president of the hospital's board of governors; the Rev Dudley Strain, First Christian church, Sam NuefeldV hospital chaplaain; Frank Wedel, hospital manager; Glenn Wade, hospital - public re lations man, and members of the press. : v , Organization spokesmen, after hearing the hospital board's pres ident, manager and public rela- -tions representative discuss the history and plans of the Institu tion and following McSherry's ad dress, voted unanimously to ask their organizations to name rep resentatives to cosnprise the me morial council The . new council win work in an advisory capacity with the board, hospital adminis tration, medical staff and the ad visory council of church repre sentatives, in making plans for the new Memorial 'hospital to be erected directly across South Win- -ter st- from the now-operative Deaconess institution v! . Slides showing, exterior design and floor plans for the six story hospital were presented as a fea tuA of the meeting. - Women Make $27 From Easier Cooked Food TURNER The Sisterhood of tha Christian church realized $27 at its cooked food sale Saturday. 3 r. Three -perfectly matched' rings,' including' groom's wedding band; The engage ment . ring is auve with .the sparkle of a lovely diamond. ve s . t if.. , v fcy ' DIVTDID t 1 t't i 1 i l I