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The OSEGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Saturday looming, April 21, 1345 PAGE FOUH resott THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY t CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . ' (j Member of the Associated Press 5 rae Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of at news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. IA One-Way Ride If anyone in Japan is looking for employment and wants only one job he can get it by volun teering to pilot a Jap suicide plane. The Japs are building special plane for this purpose, for which they issue, to be sure, only a one-way ticket. They are building them upin Manchuria, out of present sight of American bombers, and the planes are built to a special design. The charge a long ton of high explosive is built right into the snout of the ship. The charge ex plodes when the nose or a wing hits a solid object.-. . To get back to the pilot: he sits in the center of the plane, which is of pusher type, propeller in the rear. He is locked into the cockpit from the outside and given no parachute it really Is intended as a one-way trip. When the plane takes off the pilot circles the field three times while the men on the ground stand at attention and salute. Then he sails off to join his ances tors, hoping to take an American battleship or carrier along with him. That these suicide pilots do attain some suc cess in their missions is indicated in the casual ty reports from Okinawa which show that thei navy has suffered more heavily there than the army and marines who made the landings. Naval losses, chiefly from aerial attacks, were 689 dead, 2220 wounded and 1491 missing; army and nWine casualties 493 dead, 2530 wounded and 265 missing. While the ships point heavy cones of fire at suicide planes, when they come in waves it is possible for some to get through and sink or' damage some of our ships. Our ship sinkings from this source have been few, but the dam age must have been extensive, judging from the casualties to personnel that have been reported. In the Bag What an assortment of German big-wigs are falling into the allied 'bag now. Among them are Field Marshal vort Mackenson, one of Ger many's great field commanders in the first world war, and Count Felix von, Luckner, rov ing sea devil of that war, also two sons of the late kaiser, Franz von Papen, the grey fox of German diplomacy, Fritz Kuhn's wife, the di rector of I-G Farben Industries, great chemical combine, and in the Ruhr pocket, 24 German generals. Also in the bag are important documents, in cluding the entire card index system of records for all the prisoners of war captured by the Germans. Announced Friday was the capture of 30 trainloads of government document in the Hart z mts., presumably papers shipped out of Berlin. This material is of great importance be cause with it historians can reconstruct the pat tern of the nazi government. I Of course the big game for which the trap is yawning is Adolf Hitler himself, with his prin cipal associates, Himmler, Goebbels and Goer-lng. Salvaging Wastes , For years pulp and paper mills have sluiced their sulphite liquor as wastes into streams, throwing away, valuable materials and pollut-; ' Ing the streams. But they could find no practical way of rescuing by-products profitably. V Chemists at the University of Washington an nounce the discovery of a practical process for obtaining butyl alcohol from these waste liq uors. It will be. a great thing if some economic use is found for these wastes. Here in Oregon we are interested because we have pulp mills along the Willamette valley from Lebanon to St. Helens. , . Aid for Education ' The Delta (Miss.) Democrat-Times opposes federal aid to education, saying: We in the south, especially, should fight fed eral aid for education, because we should know -3-by now that federal money is not ear-marked according to. race or color. It would present a . problem that is not very savory to contemplate at this time. The editor let the cat out of the bag in those comments. Because federal aid isn't earmarked mostly "white" he doesn't wantany of it. Gold Beach, the only county seat in the state that was not incorporated, has finally voted to form a city government. The need for sewage disposal and other services finally forced action. When comrnunities become thickly settled they require joint- action to provide certain com munity essentials: fire protection, sewage dis posal water supply, policing, library. When a s section becomes thickly settled it should form its own corporation or, if adjacent to a city, come into the city government, because it is xio longer rural. Editorial Comment ED COMMENT NOT A PEACE CONFERENCE .. Contrary to popular description, the United Na tions meeting opening in San Francisco next Wed nesday will not be a peace conference. It will not deal with boundaries, or reparations, or questions concerning the disarms mrit and control of the axis countries, or with the trial and punishment of war criminals. This, the U. S. state department empha sized in a special statement received this week by The Argus and other newspapers. The conference will have a single purpose, "to prepare the charter of aa international organization . for presentation to the proposed member nations for adoption , , the foundation stone for the structure of international cooperation," says the official state- merit. -w. In some respects, the conference of San Francisco . may prove even more important than the later peace table sessions. Its discussions will foreshad ow the degree of agreement that may be antici pated among the United Nations on questions of , peace settlements. It is looked upon by the state , department as the birthplace of whatever sort of formal international organization we shall be able to achieve to effectuate and protect the much-hoped-' for lasting peace to come. ML Vernon, Wash. Argus. Wo Fnvor Swayt Us; No Fear Shall A From first Statesman, March 23, 1851 Gty Flag ) 1 - ; Oregon City is in somewhat of a dilemma over a city flag. It seems that a cruiser is soon to be launched in an Atlantic port that will be named after the city that was Oregon's first capital, and a city flag is needed along with a state flag. The town venerables are scratching their heads over a flag design,, the city in its long past never having had that problem to face before. One man suggests that the design include the Dr. John McLoughlin house and the original power house from which the first long distance (15 miles J to Portland) transmission line for electric current was built. The cham ber of commerce suggests i flag with the city seal and a covered 5 wagon. The Rotary club i taking the matter up; so the city commission, which presumably has the final say, will not lack for ideas. f ' Where so many and such fertile brains are active there is no need for outside suggestion. Of Course there was a time; when upstate com munities on highway 99 would have recom mended a bottle-neck as an appropriate design for Oregon City's flag; but fortunately that is now quite outdated. Therf are others who at this season of the year might suggest a "sal mon rampant" (especially if it shows a fishline hooked in hir mouth). The Statesman, which first broke water in Oregon City 94 years ago, makes no recommendation! Anything the En terprise and the f Banner-Courier agree on should satisfy the rest of the staie, which has no concern in the matter anyway. We do wonder, though, who will be PCs Betsy Ross. Unionizing Farm Labor Back -east the teamsters union is reported planning to unionize operators of milking ma chines. Could be. And what about tractor driv ers and combine operators?, Already in the west the sheep-shearers are pretty v?ell organized. Farmers have been learning fast about labor costs and labor standards. The government lays down stiff requirements on those who employ Mexican labor, because of ; agreement with the Mexican government. Standard conditions as to wages and working conditions are imposed; and the labor can't be just turned out to grass on the rainy daiys. f The end of the War should see a change in number of workers available, but farmers must expect stiff er terms from the men they hire, as compared with! times before the war. And a machine is a machine, whether working in a field, or in a building. 4 Franklin; Roosevelt As I Knew Him BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON AP War Analyst and Long-time Friend (Associated Presi staff writer Who knew Mr. RooseTelt for SO rear.) WASHINGTON, April 20-;P)-I have come now in my memories of Franklifi Roosevelt to the sad last chapter. All the nation, the civilized world, grieves at his untimely loss; but to none other than his own kin can that grief be more personal than to the small company his brave and buoyant spirit had bound so closely to him the cuff-links club. There seems no point in recalling all those Roose velt birthday dinners, of Which the cuff-linkers were an invariable part. I i The last session Came just a day or two before the president set off on that fateful trip to Yalta to to i .meet Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin for the last time. f ft " '- My last personal contact with Franklin Roosevelt came that night I saw himilast (put at a distance) at the White House correspondents dinner after his return from Yalta. ! He looked weary and was sad dened by the death of genial Brig. Gen. Edwin M. "Pa" Watson, his military aide and secretary. But entered into all the fun and banter and gal-' lantly sought to throw off his obvious fatigue. I like better to recall the Franklin. Roosevelt of earlier White House days and I am moved to tell of what actually happened at the -White House the night Al Smith took his "walk away from Roose velt party leadership, in February 1935. j That afternoon I was summoned for a stag din ner with the president. The group included Secre tary Morgenthau, jHarry Hopkins, "Pa Watson, Vice Adm, Ross T. Mclntlre, the president's friend and physician, Steve 'Early, "Mac" Mclntyre and my self. As we started downstairs Mr. Roosevelt sent me back to the study to pick up a scratch pad and pencil. He said he had 'a "game in mind. At the table he decreed that each of us should write his guess as to just how and on what grounds Al Smith would' take his coming walkout on the administration. Each would put in a blue chip and after we had listened to Smith's speech on the radio decide who won. 1 We did that, and I remember Harry Hopkins rhymed his effort I wittily. J I filed a claim on the president's penciled guess, and, he scrawled his initials on it. I have it before me now. : As Smith's voice filled the room the . president showed no emotion except for a dancing light in his eyes, but when the speech ! ended he clutched my knee with his big fist. I had black-and-blue marks to show for it next day. ! "Do " you know what that means, Kirke?" he asked. ""It means 500,000 votes for our side." ; . We then divided up the blue chip poL The presi dent won. Thij was what he .hi scribbled as his guess:- ; ' "Because the president and his administration have failed to live up to the 1932 platform and have instituted unconstitutional ? and gunAmerican poli cies, he and his administration no longer represent' the democratic party.' . - : There are many Other happy incidents I could call back to life. Among them was a trip down the Po tomac on the yacht Sequoia that had a lot to do with Senator Tom Connally's reelection that year in Texas. r 1 - - j Connelly had stiff opposition : for renominatiooi, which with democrats means reelection in Texas. Word had gotten out that Mr. Roosevelt favored his : opponent. . The Roosevelt answer was to invite the senator on an overnight trip down river and make public the fact that he had been invited. . It is possible Mr. Roosevelt hoped I would take note of the senator's presence and comment upon it and its political significance in my AP "Bystand er column. No one suggested that, but I did it I heard later it was something of: a campaign docu ment In Texas. S , ' ''--'" " '"' . - a ; .-. .. - i XXrtr&ati by B3bc Trntmrn SrmeVat Vr MrmiH wife TU Wahncto Btae Thumbs Up 1 pews Behind the News f By P.AUL MALLON ! r (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn whole or in part strictly prohibited.) I WASHINGTON, April 20-The world WPA idea and the post war world spending notion have evaporated in the light of some tine words Mr. Truman express- ed in signing the lend-lease bill. I Just a few days before Mr. Roosevelt's death there had been a big ar gument in con gress, which had delayed this extension Of 1 e n d - lease authority - until raal Malloa I year from next June 30 (not the end of the war). Frankly, a majority in both houses was sus picious that the administration spenders intended to use this blanket lend-lease authorization for relief and rehabilitation in Europe. , I They had heard the French, for instance, were already re habilitating their railroads and putting machinery into factories from our lend-lease kitty. Sup posedly this government felt the rehabilitation of French rail roads was essential to hauling 'pur war supplies to the front, and looked at the installation of pur machinery in French facto ries the same way. I But this war has cost us $238, 00,000,000 already (Morgen thau's last figure) and lend-lease already had amounted to $35, 400,000,000 last December 31. Our financial position is not im proving, i Lend-lease should be about -fover as far aa big figures are concerned, because no new con tract could now be made in time ito do any good in Europe and the Far Eastern "war is largely . our own effort except for lend lease to China, whose ports are still closed. Furthermore, we face the prospects of putting out above !$25,000,000,000 more abroad for post-war without any lend-lease, f An official British statement estimated she would need $5, 500,000,000 the year beginning next July 1, mostly for civilian relief. The French want $2,500, 1 000,000 now and more after Ger :mao resistance ceases. No one. knows Russia's needs, but she f has asked $8,000,000,000 of cred its. '"J. I British contracts already made wiU run to $7,500,000,000 for this year. Our UNRRA is aupopsedly 1 planning an increase; in its $1, 1 200,000,000. The Export-Import bank is said to want 11,300,000, f 000 more. These unspecified J prospects could run up to $50, I 000,000,000 outside of lend- fTHE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier Tbaak goednen, the baseball . , ene radie prerrxm - , r lease. No one in this government has yet said anything about cutting down, so the house tacked a mild amendment on the lend-lease extension expressing the ' idea (no more) that lend-lease should not be used for post-war. For eign economic administrator Leo . Crowley promised it would not be so used, but in view of the reputation of the administra tion, this was not enough for the senate. The Taft direct restriction against such use failed there by a tight tie vote, with Mr. Tru man himself voting against it This bare - if not invisible margin of success for the! gov ernment gave full warning that international post-war spending policies probably can not get through congress, at least that no such loose policy would be allowed. ? Yet the administration prob ably can do as it pleases, be cause its authority now has more than a year to run and it could . pretend practically any expense was actually in the war effort or made necessary "to close up old contracts. That is the cloud in which the matter was wreathed, when Mr. Truman got it at the White House. He signed the bill, with great praise of the Roosevelt policy, using several hundred words to do it, but he wound up with this promise: "Lend-lease will be carried on until unconditional surrender or complete defeat of Germany and Japan." , . ! Somehow congressmen believe Mr. Truman has more regard for money than Mr. Roosevelt had. They look on him as less of a spender. .His promise was there fore interpreted as being : what congress wanted. However,' it is all up to him. The law will let him do practi cally anyting (the extension bill being merely a continuance of authority, without- mention of any sum of money). But to the very day this was written, no one had beffi able to get from the government any estimate of post-war costs, eith er as to lend-lease, Britain, Rus sia, China, UNRRA, Export-Import bank, or any other phase. Senate committees have, .re peatedly called upon the budget bureau for estimates of what' will be needed, but the bureau always replied it did not know. In the truest sense, then, the post-war spending policy is still running open-ended, although congress is rearing warningly .al ready against, looseness, and Mr. Truman has promised lend-lease at least will stop at the war end. S7? season's started again. Thai' the those twa agree enf - mum TKiinmrs ' (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) If any, on the quotas that may be set for future campaigns? Would it be possible to consol idate the various campaigns for prevention of specific diseases into a single health program? If not where will the , limit be? Will we have new organizations to combat arthritis, cardiac dis eases, venereal disease, etc? Frankly I do not know any control that can be imposed. This is a free country still, so far as soliciting money for charities is concerned. But the public be comes weary of so many impor tunities. The community chests can hardly take in all the men dicants who come along, no mat ter how worthy their cause may be. A unification . of appeal seems needed. More than that some scrutiny of the program ought to be made so that there may be some balance in the ex penditure of funds. ; Otherwise by dint of peculiar appeal or en terprise of the promoters more money may be raised for one cause than for another where the need is greater. The question is one which needs to be studied by friends of public health and by those na tional, state and local leaders in efforts to raise money for hu manitarian causes. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS THE FOLDED LEAF." fcy William MaxweU (Harper; sz.M). Tennyson's line about the "folded leaf woo'd from out the bud" furnishes the title for this unusual novel. Two boys, Lymie Peters and Spud Latham, get acquainted as the book opens and grow into a fast friendship through high school and college,' where the story leaves them. Lymie is the intelligent one, introspective and sensitive, and Spud in many re spects his opposite. What Spud feels toward Lymie is summed up in this: "The near est to an enemy that; he could find was Lymie, who; was also his only friend. Lymie was the enemy to the extent that Spud, who feU in love with Sally, was Jealous of him. ' . The reader's interest mounts steadily to a climax which has been subtly prepared. I Little in cidents, mainly of a! domestic cast,' really form the body of the story, and are treated reflective ly, I might almost say casually, in a sort of , take-it-or-leave-it manner. Maxwell seems to be leading his story along; he sort of walks beside it, now coaxing. now giving it a- tug, now wonder- - ing why it chooses to; turn in this : direction or that. i The scene is in and near Chi- cago, Lymie's first visit to the Latham . home, his trip to the cemetery with his,' father and events in classrooms are perhaps the best realized passages. The time is back at the end of World war I, so that; a middle aged reader has the feeling that he's looking back on ; his own youth. Time is important to Maxwell, as if he were a true Bergsonian, like Marcel Proust ' and Joyce and Stehv He keeps extending the implications of his story into the past fend the fu " ture. Lymie's father remains a youth in a derby, i Lymie -too, - while he grows older, will be un , able to grow out of some of the things which happen to him, such as the high-school fraternity inl . tiation. Prof. Severance as a boy ' of five was separated once in a store from his mother, and the saleswoman "tried ftp comfort him, but a child tost goes on cry ing, right down to the end of ' time."' - : ! - This is a novel to mull over. ; I ; . " . '- ' 3 r .& v.y - - ' ... i mimmmm : c UJS. 3rd Infantry ; N , Recjarda Itself as f .:rt- , Ona of Toucjbcat 1;. : AT f HE FRONT! . . . . By Lewis Hawkins (Subbing for Kenneth I. Dixon) WITH UJ5. SEVENTH ARMY -V-The Third infantry division with Its proud record of 22 con gressional medals of honor re gards itself las' one of the tough - est outfits in any army and its commander, Maj. Gen. -John W. OTJanieV who came up through the ranks, fits right into the pic tare, 4 In a recent battle, "Iron Mike" O'Daniel watched from a Cub plane while a company took one position but hesitated to move forward without reconnaissance. The general's plane swooped low and he dropped a note saying "No Boche for two kilometers. Get moving., ; The company moved, i Cpl. Donovan Bailey of Par kersburg, W. Va a medic with ; the 4th division, was going down a road looking for a wounded man when he came upon a Ger man soldier loading a rifle. Bailey, unarmed, glared at the soldier and demanded that he surrender. : The German just grinned j 'and patted his rifle. Things were tense until Bailey had an inspiration and in faulty, but adequate German demand ed "you want to eat?" - The German dropped his gun and came along.- ment Funds Could Diminish Fast "Although! a reserve of $65, 000,000 has been piled up from payments under the state's unem ployment! compensation commis sion assessments, 150.000 men suddenly . thrown out of work could take $36,000,000 out of the fund," David H. Cameron, super visor of the 'commission, told members of the Salem Board of Realtors at their noonday meeting Friday in Hotel Marion. It was explained to the realtors by the speaker that the amend ment to the law by the last leg islature did not make it manda tory for real estate brokers and salesmen ' to forego the present law. Instead, he nointed out broken after having taken advan tage of a year's operation are eligible for ! exemption from the payments but that this exemption must be asked for at that time. Also the only exemption that .can De asked are for those workers who receive' only commissions, no salaries. Cameron also said the return of veterans would have no effect on the state's unemployment fund, pointing out that a returned vet eran, out of employment, could apply for compensation and it would be paid by the state but that the; federal government in turn would jreimburse the state. Migratory; workers, in the state for the probable duration of the war, he said, would be eligible for payments fron the commission. On the other hand, he pointed out, some Oregon citizens, now work ing in other; states, likewise would be entitled) to payments from other states, creating a balanced offset i i 3 17-Year-Olds Admit Series Of Robberies Three 17-year-old bors who started out on stirring career of lawless, with Salem the city in which they "stepped off the deep end, are in custody in Santa Bar bara, calif,; charged with a series of crimes, to which, according to a letter received Friday by Chief of Police Frank A. Minto, the youths have confessed. The boys are Maurice Edward Jones and . Richard Lee Bishop, both of Portland, and Dick Jerome Schimpf, of Vancouver. Wash. Each of the boys, the letter said. nave served tune In the Woodburn training school. ; The boys told the California po lice they, left Portland April 5 by bus. stole a 1941 Ford sedan in Sa lem; abandoned it at Roseburg wnen it -tnrew a rod"; hitch-hiked to Yreka, Calif., stealing a 1040 Chevrolet there April 6; abandon- Though it is not uniformly suc cessful, it gets hold of you and worn jet go. S7EVEIIS See Or Seteetie ef ' KX3TS ;WESDXNO KINGS . A Trtrld- ra Unemploy All hurryun babies aren't born In taxi cabs. " CpLf Robert F. Danielowicz of Providence, R. L, had just retired to his billet in a French home when his excited landlady woke him with the in formation her sister; was about to have baby, f 1 Danielowicz called . for help and CpL William Long, Waggon er, Okla came up with a jeep, the expectant mother was bun dled into a blanket and carried to the back seat. Then, they set off at 50 miles an hour over a rough road to the nearest town.' Reaching . the hospital a scant jump ahead of the stork, the 45th division infantryman! jumped out and banged on the door, but it was closed tight ' for the night Turning back to the jeep he had just started to tell long , to take off for the battalion surgeon when a faint wail ; came from the back seat Mother and child both did well, j j Sgt Chris Rhodes of pallas, Texas, led a 44th division unit which liberated .150 French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and German political prisoners in Mannheim. Before he could dodge the grateful 1 Frenchmen covered him with kisses, but his buddy, - PTC George Martinex, Los Angeles, saw them coming -and "I stuck out my hand real quick and they had; to shake it but it was a close calL ! ed that car at Maxwell and hitch hiked into San Francisco, where on April 8 they stole a 1934 Ford and abandoned it April 9 at Gon zales; broke into a store in San Jose on April 9; hitched to Santa Maria, broke into a store and later stole a Plymouth sedan; the sedan was bad luck when it hit an army truck in Los Angeles, ft. was aban doned. -- V - f . j . ... ' A store was burglarized In Santa Barbara and the youths arrested. They admitted everything, the let ter, to Chief Minto said. Plans Proceed For Willamette eekend Plans are well 'under way for the May weekend activities at Willamette university scheduled for May 4 and 3. ; Chairman Bill Stortz, junior from Salem, has ap pointed Bill Bauman, V-12 mem ber from Medf ord; Thyra Jean Cur rey and Val Sloper, both of Salem, to assist him: j n j The traditional weekend will be highlighted by the presentation of the spring term play, -"You Can't Take It With You" on Friday ev ening, crowning of the queen Sat urday afternoon, and the May dance honoring the queen and her court Saturday night in the gym nasium. ! j Friday noon a' campus picnic will be held followed by the inter sorqrity sing constituted as a part of the weekend last year. Later in the afternoon the tug-of-war and greased pole cljlmb will be staged on the athletic field. Coronation day will be ushered in with the usual YWCA May morning breakfast held on the campus lawn. The crowning of the queen will be in the early af ternoon on Saturday. Queen Betty Hanauska and Princesses Emma Lou East and Wilma Froman have chosen Janet Blake, Sally Mc Clelland and Yvonne Kauffman respectively for their attendants. A formal dance that night will end the weekend of festivity. :.- : 1 !' "-.;: -'., . : i Myer Stands Up for Nisei PORTLAND, April XO-tfVThe national director of the war re location board said, here today he doubted America wants to see the, little i people beaten around merely because someone wants to be a little Hitler." f The statement was made by Dillon S. Myer, Washington, D. C, in reference to anti-Japanese ac tion in northwest coastal areas. He said he found most Americans wanted ! Japanese - Americans judged on a basis of individual character rather than racial char acteristics. ; s Myer said the WRA would be "out of business" soon after Jan uary I, 1948, when all relocation centers except the one at Tula Lake will dose. ' . 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