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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
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f-'-Jack of All Trades
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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
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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
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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.
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Three -perfectly matched'
rings,' including' groom's
wedding band; The engage
ment . ring is auve
with .the sparkle of
a lovely diamond.
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