t -i page roua Th OREGON STATESMAN. Satan. Oregon, Sundofy Morning, May 23. 1 945 -i . 1- ' i The Associated Press news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Now It Can Be Told We are getting , some of the "now-it-can-be-; told" material. . 1 : Some week ago The Statesman offered the I opinion that there was aome validity to Jap I reports of damage to Arnerieart warships. Now we are told that the great earner 1 raniuin was badly damaged- by Jap armor-piercing bombs. While the ship was saved through the gallantry of its crew, it suffered heavy losses in personnel and was put out of commission for months. The Franklin was hit on March 19. . On January 6 the battleship New Mexico i had its navigating bridge knocked out witiv an aerial bomb which killed the captain and j 27 other officers and men. This was the time I when Lt. Gen. Herbert Lumsden, British ob i server, and William! Chickering, Time corres j pondent, were killed. Their deaths were re- ported but little mention was made of the, damage which forced the ship back to Pearl 7i Harbor for repairs. I 1 Publication is delayed allegedly because of ' military security, but the Japs keep score on j their hits the same as we do; and our navy S men know when a j ship is put out of action. : The truth is that . our repair yards are busy all the time patching holes in armor plate and repairing battle! damage. We do not know that the public has een deprived of much es sential information when reports are withheld for a few months; but the people ought to know that waging the navy's war in the Pacific is costly in men and in ships. Off Okinawa our fleet has taken a hard beating from the swarms of Jap planes. And it will continue to suffer punishment as it ploughs a path in the sea for the American advance on Tokyo. Hitting Jap Oil Plants Bombers over Japan are aiming at the same objectives as over Germany. Chief among these targets are the synthetic oil plants. Now that Japan is steadily j being cut off from the oil fields of Burma and Java and Borneo, it is forced to depend "more and more on synthetic fuel. In raids last week American planes wrecked-or damaged oil storage depots and fuel sta tions. The effect is to impair Japan's ability to wage war with weapons requiring petroleum for fuel. Among them are airplanes and naval vessels. Japan's estimated requirements for petroleum in the early stages of the war were 33,000,000 barrels tf year. Of this, 10,000,000 was produced In eight synthetic' plants. While the reduction of the . Jap fleet diminishes the demand for petroleum, the enemy still would need to import oil' from" the south' If it were available. Burma is lost; the Aussies are taking the Tarakan fields near Borneo;: and sea lanes are insecure. With American planes knocking out large syn thetic oil plants at home Japan faces the same fate as the Germans: grounding of planes and stalling of tanks for lack of fuel. Dogs as Killers The killing of a woman in Florida by a pack of bull pit terriers is a reversal of the usual role of dogs. Rated as man's; best friend, dogs very rarely attack and kill a human being, without provocation. Recently a dog romped too playfully over a baby and caused the baby's death, but that was not a case of vicious attack. Against this record is the long one of faithful ness where many a dog has risked his life for his master.' - There are breeds; to be sure, which are -Inclined to vicious traits. Their control is a matter of discipline or of restraint. Some, like police dogs, are trained for special guard duty, but very seldom is a dog like this permitted to .run at large. .- .;:!," The Florida pack of 26 were all put to death, as they deserved; and the sad experience should warn dog-breeders of the necessity of keeping those with savage inclinations confined or under leash. But the incident in Florida should noj be used as an excuse for setting out dog" poison. Editorial Commont OUR F1IST WOMAN CITIZEN In the honor that has come to Marian Lowry Fischer from her friends in the Zonta dub, all of her associates In The Register-Guard take pride. Since she came to this town as a University student, - Marian has worked for this newspaper, but it would be more adequate to &y that she has worked constantly for Lane county and Eugene. - With all her vigor, Marian denies that there is any such thing as a "first citizen, bue we cannot let her deny that for many years she has been one of our foremost citizens in influence. It would be difficult to mention any activity pr project for the improvement of this community which has not come to Marian for aid and got it. "If we can get Marian Lowry to help us with some Ytories: and pictures ..." . It is a familiar formula. However, this is not v the time or place to try to recount the history of Marian Lowry Fischer. In a few weeks, she will leave m, to Join her husband whose business (radio KSLM) has taken him to $alem. A great many people are going to miss Marian her keen interest in everything and everybody in this community, . her amazing energy and enthusiasm, her "lightness" which cut through every kind of fraud or sham and though Salem may be her home henceforth, she has made her place forever as "a first citizen . of Eugene.".- ,"--: ' 1 ; ! . , , . .-.!-. When Zonta ' announced its selection of "first woman citizen," we could not resist running that old picture of her and. wailing about how for the first-time in her long career here she. had "fallen down" on a news story on her own "beat.". That was just one way of trying to tell the kind of loyalty Marian Lowry Fischer has put into her work as a reporter,' Her work has had a quality which money and honors can only partly repay.: Implicit in every allied move against Japan is the same concept that dominated major strategy against Germany the fastest possible utter defeat for the enemy while holding allied losses to the Irreducible minimum. - By present indications application of air power on a more devastating scale even than the fallen nazf regime experienced ts a major element of that program. It may even bring a fuller test of the fclaim of air enthusiasts than they can do the whole "No Favor Sways Vs; Ho Fear Shall Aue From Tirst Statesman, March 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher I Member of the Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use administration down on a reporter. Interprotin The War! Neivo By job except for The allied build up enough knockout. wiu come, , . ..I - '-v- for publication of at in this newspaper. Reporter Keeps Pledgi , With Edward Kennedy's filing of a dispatch on the German surrender timers was general protest among newspaper workers against his violation -of an implied ; pledge of confidence. Now there will be universal .support extended to Albert Deutsche Washington correspondent for PM, who refuses to violate a confidence even in the face of contempt proceedings by a congressional committee; Deutsch liad written a series of articles, content! of which were sharply critical of the veterans' administration. Called up before a house investigating commit tee Deutsch was asked whip his informants were. He refused to name them, asserting he had obtained his information with the assurance that he would not divulge names. Among his informants were five employes of the VA. Deutsch said he was fcoundj by his personal integrity and professional ethics not to divulge names of those who supplied him with informa tion. The committee then instituted contempt proceedings against hint j It is standard practice and conventional ethics among newspaper men to protect sources of information. This operates 'definitely In the public interest. If every ireporter were required to tell the names of those furnishing him in formation he would get little of the kind which most needs publicizing! Stories of graft and crime and political misdeals are often published which are factually accurate; but the reporter does not disclose who tipped him off or gave him the story. Those giving him the facts realize this and realize further that the reporter if he is any man at alii; will not welch under pressure. f; The house committee may proceed; it may put Deutsch in jail; but it vfill never get him " to break the confidence reposed in him. Instead of jumping on the reporter that committee should move more directly to get at facts for itself and to apply remedies that appear to be needed. The VA is certainly coming in for sharp criticism on the way t is administering the law tb assist returning veterans. Improving is more important than cracking Refresher for Lawyers The Oregon state bar is! making definite plans to assist members of the legal profession who have been absent on j military duty to brush up before reentering j legal practice Jon their return from wari The! har plans to set up a School of Review in the law. It will last for oner month and will offer five hours of lectures per day; The refresher courses will cover all the important law school subjects. The school will not compete with existing law schools as it is only temporary, giving service men a chance to review their law before hang ing out 1 their shingles againj. ! A tuition of $80 will be charged for the Course and the school will be one to qualify the vet erans attending it for financial assistance under the GI bill. t j The state bar is to be commended for thus moving to help lawyer-veterans to effect a successful readjustment' to civil life. . Eastern Oregon farmers are pushing out their vests these days and talking about the "million -dollar rain" which came last week. It assures a good crop of winter wheat and will improve prospects for other crops and make more grass grow on the ranges. Farmers in this valley have no time to stick their thumbs in the arm holes of their vests. The rain has piled up gobs of work and brought! on a fine growth of weeds, so there is no time to lose in rejoicing over the extra-generous downfall. or KIRKE L. SIMPSON the clean-up. policy against the Germans was to strength of all sorts for a fast That controllins motive was aooarent in Pre paration for the D-day .invasion of France. That operation was held back' until every possible pre caution against failure had been taken. Face to face with the full weight of j the wehrmacht the allies had to be sure they had the power in' the air and on the ground to drive through to a rela tively quick victory. Otherwise they might be bled white by losses,' short of triumph. ! I The only alternative proposed was reliance upon air power alone to bring Germany to her knees. Prime Minister Churchill at pne early stage told congress in Washington:! thatj idea was at least worth a trial but not at .the expense of preparations to do the job the hard way. j In the aftermath of the European victory no doubt there will arise debate as to whether, in the light of what is now known about the bombing damage on Germany, further idelay in crossing the channel in force might; not have been justified. In the inner sanctum of the allied high command application of what was learned in Germany of battle technique in air and on the ground to the circumstances of the war with) Japan is in progress. It probably will be months before events beyond the Pacific tend to reveal the decisions already taken or to come; but even j now it seems clear, that air power is due to' get another chance. t There are air minded veterans who believe Japan could be knocked out of the war by air, or at least so greatly softened that the final occupation of the Japanese islands ! by ground troops would be at relatively small casualty cost They contend that even the! overwhelming allied air superiority ratio against Germany will be sur passed once the fun weight of Anglo-American air power is deployed in the east f, action. They argue, also, that Japan both in dispersion of her war plants., and the meagerness of her internal trans portation and communication systems is more vul nerable than wa : Germany. . The test of what the Japanese Can take from the air is certainly; coming at ino very distant date. Redeployment of allied l,air power against Japan .on a scale of destructive power far beyond any thing Germany suffered at its; worst is in too close prospect to doubt it The results could go far to .foreshadow how and when japan's total collapse u ,. DiatribaUi by King Tmtmrm Sym4J ; kr mmfmmt wfth TW WuUiftn Staff j Invitation From Moscow Tho Literary Guidepost By W. G. SOGERS IHI AESTHETIC ADVENTttBE," by WillUm Gint (Harcmrt, Braca; SJ. j j The story of "art for art's sake," in both painting and! lit erature, from Gautier and Bau delaire to Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, is told in this wholly delightful book. ; W. While it begins and ends with Frenchmen . . . though Roger Fry is the culminating figure j. . . it is really the story as if Un folded, pathetic, dramatic and brilliant across the channel in England. Strangely enough, as it shows the British public clinging with a stodgy obstinacy to Victorian idealism and bitterly hostile to a historically significant section of art and letters, it gives thejef-t feet of reducing Britain cultur ally to an insular and provincial Status. Strangsly enough, too, quite a few Americans, or itnen of American blood, appear jim portantly in these pages; begin ning with Poe, they include Whistler, Clyde Fitch, Frank Harris, Joseph Pennell, John Singer Sargent j The leading figures, besides Whistler and Fry, are -'Swinburne, Pater, Ruskin, Qscar Wilde, George Moore, Beards ley; these and others are brought to life vividly, sometimes with no more than a single illuminat ing, or devastating, phrase. iThe two most exciting single inci dents are court scenes: Whist ler's libel suit against , Ruskin l and Wilde's action against! the Marques of Queensberry, which Tended in Wilde's conviction on the grounds of pederasty, 4 that England had outlawed onlyjj ten iyears before. I ; Gaunt deserves a sound clap on the back, which as an Eng lishman is perhaps what he'd ex pect by way of praise from a boor of an American. But he de serves it on the counts: for see ing the overall, general move ment which reached into j this centucy, and for reducing it from an unimaginably -vast wealth of material, to assimilable proportions. jj It's a work of real scholar ship, but written with such en gaging wit that the man who never heard of Wilson Steer or John Lane or Theodore Duret twill love every word. With; his "Bandits in a Landscape, Gaunt -became my favorite writer on art With this book, he remains just that ! ' GRIN AND BEAR is : - 1 : i . . i s ' av r r-ww jr' - ; ' a.m. x t r . ii "I'm not talking for publication, beys, bat I don't want, ye leaving empty handed If .yee raise year 'eyebrows Inaairinfly, Til nee. my head! v . -r 1 Me' TT fcrH K fJovo (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, May 19 Here is the story no! one could get at San Francisco tha inside story of why Sidney .Hillman, Russian ists of British trade union! happened to asj aemble their new world labor order on Oak land, across the bay, just at the very day of the opening of the world peace . coiuerence, na , ppsi Millim what they were up to. ji All inquiries; were -pushed a side out mere with the explana tion that this hew world labor power, called the World Trade Union Congress, ; was merely looking for reflected publicity from its proximity to tha i con ference, or something similarly inconsequential. j ; It is no wonder; the story: was hidden securely beneath a rub ble of confusing explanations be cause it would; have disclosed a coup de conference planned by Mr. Hillman and his Russian as sociates a coup which ' was squelched completely in a se cret meeting of the conference steering committee. : Despite in- tervention by no less a power than Molotov himself. These are the facts: ' 1 j 1 j The Oakland labor assembly was completely under control of Hillman and the Russians, with the British riding quietly behind them. The head of the Russian labor delegation at Oakland .was also an official delegate for: Rus sia in the San Francisco peace meeting , and the pipeline be tween. : - j : ;j Through him the Hillman crowd worked up -a program whereby they would all get in to the conference and into the permanent peace setup by being established as the: group to han dle world labor problems. !j They succeeded in getting the economic committee of the! con- ference to approve their entry as consultants. The economic ! com mittee includes strong represen tation of smaller nations, partic ularly Latin America. J A resolution; carrying out this purpose was handed by the eco nomic committee to ' the steer ing committee which is composed of all nations. (After some warm IT ByjLichty r Behind the News By PAUL MALLON discussion, that guiding commit tee of the conference decided -t would not even go into the mat ter thoroughly and defeated the resolution. When Hillman saw this com ing he got Molotov to champion his cause, and it was the! Rus sian foreign minister who press ed the matter as far as it went in the steering committee, i By his adroitness, Hillman thus outslicked himself and dis closed his hand. That Molotov would .champion his cause was all-too-obvious evidence to ev eryone on the inside that their fears and suspicions about Hill man's trade union congress had solid ground that it was more Russian than worldly. . A few days later the Oakland meeting quietly adjourned with out taking any noticeable ac tion and Mer. Hillman went off to southern California for a rest The frustration of the coup- represented a .victory for Bill 1 Green, the AFL president, who has been vigorously fighting ; Hillman's attempt since the last election to establish with the communist a world labor front Green demanded in resolu tions passed by his executive . council (May 8) that world la bor be represented in the future world order by the international ; labor office, a successful creature of the old League of Nations. Shrewdly he did not seek the ;i place for his own AFL world group which is represented by an ;i organization known as the International-Federation of Trades Unions. He did not seek to steal for himself the world authority and power which he would deny to :' the CIO crowd, but would leave it to an established League of Nations organization. His posi tion was impregnable. I hear that even the British ' have become suspicious of Hill- ' man's effort to align with the communists in a front which ;; ; would in some ways be as pow- ; erful as the peace setup of the ( i nations and if Hillman's coup ! had gone through able to influ- ; ' ence the judgment of nations. The Russian unions are not free trade unions but subdivisions of the government ! I understand that even Sir f ' Walter Citrine, the British ultra liberal leader, is looking for open ! doors behind him to escape po- ;j litely the agreement Hillman and : ' the Russians effected in London some months ago establishing this '. new organization. The British trade unions which were unanimously represented ' in that London gathering have now split, and I do not expect they will go very much further with Hillman and the Russian . effort to capture world labor con- LtroL Hillman, by this effort coming atop his domestic electoral ac tivities, has lost much ground in Washington, particularly in con gress. i No doubt he will try to come back aad continue to build world labor ' power against the AFL's international unions, but the chances that he could become a great world control influence (as he : tried domestically) seem to i have been stopped definitely by r i.the San Francisco action. , Also in his coming world com- bat with AFL, I would bet a- ; gainst him. Totalitarian trade . : unions are hardly what Amer ' ican workmen want His league i with the Russians (especially as 1 it loses' British 'support) may hurt the CIO in domestic labor , dealings, , f- , Furthermore, the AFL is rath er powerful internationally and able to take care of itself in most countries, although the hegemony i acquired . by Russia in eastern -Europe, the Balkans, Greece, , etc, and perhaps even in the trade union movements in France- rand Italy will promote a dan- -.------ f-: :; : w Isn't Ended : 7isf " :: 's For DoughboTi ol - : fr-r-'''-: ; ; Tomahawk corp. j. 1 .AitiisFnoirn K: v tJs.- ! IN OCCUPIED CERMANY- rm-V-Aa-r didn't mean a thing mm tar m U1T cessation Of ho- tilities was con cerned for 21 doughboy spe cia lists who work out of the nineteenth (To- : mahawk) corps here in f Ger many. It meant peace for thousands of others but 1 these 21 men Kenneth Otxon are fighting : .-- Germans just as hard as they did ten days ago and risking their Uvea just as. often in. an effort to neutralize nazi terror. ' They are soldiers of the 110th, 115th and 122nd bomb disposal squads and for weeks ' to come they will continue to dig up and defuse unexploded German shells, neutralize booby traps and : mines and disconnect enemy de molition charges and time bombs i in ammunition dumps. ! Two things stand in their fa- ; vor; the top training that the : army can give and plenty of ex perience. That they know their job is obvious for they have yet to suffer a single casualty despite handling more than 100 different types of German fuses since they : hit Normandy. Once you talk to them you understand why they have such an unheard of record. First their job is strictly vol untary and they eat sleep and ; live their work. : j They realize that their lives depend on getting along together and on the quick exchange of ; every bit of new information. They never cease talking shop. Commanded by Lt Allen E. Snyder of Maple wood, Mo, the 110th squad has been awarded the silver star, but they are not cocky about it nor are the ether squads jealous. Everybody un derstands that it was merely the llOth's turn that day when the emergency call came In and (Continued from page 1) ; of gravels and clays from jthe ; surrounding highlands and the ; deposit of volcanic material forc 1 ed or attended the withdrawal 3 of the sea from what is now in i terior Oregon. The resulting stratum is given the name: of Clarno formation. It became folded and eroded with the pa sage of time. Upon it later fell great showers of ashes, probably wind-borne from the vents of volcanoes along the line of : the ' present Cascades. These great showers of ashes caught the di versified flora and fauna of : the time and imprisoned them. This j layer is called the John Day for mation. On it was laid down : what is commonly called the Co : lumbia river basalt - flow rthe 1 dark-colored rock characteristic of great areas of the northwest, j particularly east of the Cascade : range. This was formed; by a ; succession of lava hows, and : makes what is one of the most extensive deposits of lava known on the- earth's surface. Dr Hodge estimated that 100,000 cubic miles of this lava flowed j from the bowels of the earth. Spreading over an area of near i ly 200,000 sq. mi. (twice jthe ; area of Oregon) to an average ; depth of 3000 ft, it has laid j cover on the. older strata of jthe J earth. Because of the thickness : of this lava cover we have not : been able to discover what min ; eral or . petroleum wealth may : lie in the older formations like : the Clarno. Through faulting of the earth i and erosion, this thick layer of Practical Religion w by Rev. John L. Knight jr " Counselor oa Reurlois Ufa, i i Willmett iniersity. i" Ancestor worship is generally looked upon as an undesirable element in the ancient religions of the Chinese and other orien tal peoples. Enlightened Chris- tians consider it not only a su :. perstition but also a factor which retards progress. Yet we have a form of ancestor j worship even in modern Chris i tian America. It expresses it : self in such statements as these: It has always been done ' this way, therefore it must be con tinued this way." Or, "It has never been done, and therefore , can't be done," This is definitely a backward view rather than a forward vision. '' Certainly we should respect the . great leaders and : achievements : of the past We are indebted to our ancestors for much of that "Which we now enjoy. . But the past should Inspire us to a bet ter future rather than retard our advancement As one - contem porary puts it: "Hats off to the past . Coats off to the future!" gerous new opposition growth. Mr.. Green's cry that his AFL represents American trade' union concepts, however, (is apt to be popular where it counts most, in the United States - including Washington, the center of nation' al power. J s ' ' tn i ii i mm i i OCT TFmnmrs somebody had to do something ' about the burning ammunition truck blocking the main supply route. So the 110th did it i Doing the job meant that Sny der and six enlisted men had to pull ammunition from the burn ing vehicle and neutralize it It meant pulling grenades from the fire and taping down bared fir ing pins. It meant working while ' 'ammunition was still exploding., . And it meant exploring the area 7 and neutralizing anti-tank mines I and howitzer shells scattered by the explosions. ? ! Neither the 113th not the? 122nd squads begrudge . the 110th its silver star, nor do they doubt they could have done the same job if it had been their .. turn.' , That's the way they work. Each;; squad takes its turn on emergency jobs. Lt. Lawrence P. Fritz of Baltimore, Md, com mander of the 115th squad, fig ' urea his toughest job was neu tralizing seven bombs under a crashed airplane. He took out the fuses by hand, one of them under water. He and Snyder collaborated one day to recover a bomb under enemy observa tion and fire. i Lt Robert W. Zinn of St Al bans, W.Va, and his 122nd squad remember especially the day . when they and a naval officer pulled a 155 mm dud from a basin at Le Havre.' j Crossing the Roer river the so-called "suicide specialists" a name which - their record be lies got one of their hardest workout. The Tomahawk corps gave them the job of getting the ammunition over. In four days the three squads moved more than 500 tons of ammunition across the river. The squads' luck held, but of the men at-i tached to them for the job, two drivers were killed and six oth ers were injured by artillery fire. Not all of 'their jobs 'have (Continued on. page 6) .lava in places has been peeled away leaving exposed the loose formation of the John Day per iod or the earlier Clarno hills. That is what has occurred in the John ; Day Valley and in some other places in eastern Oregon like Antelope creek and Crooked river valleys! Hence it is possi ble to find now exposed on the slopes and hillctests of that re gion evidences of the animal and vegetable life which flourished in Oregon millions of .years ago. The Clarno formation , contains fossils of avocado, fig, persim mon and palm trees, of Alder and ?elm and willow! In the John Day formation .are found live 'oaks, birch, sequoia, and among the fauna, titanotheres, marsu pials, primitive horses, giant pigs, rhinoceroses. ; While the John Day country is richest in fossils, other parts of Oregon have claims to the in terest of students of geology the lava flows around Bend, Crater lake and the lost Mt. Mazama, 'Abert rim and the Steens moun tains. They are fascinating for study and can be utilized far more than they have been as tourist attractions. . Certain things should be done, however. The richer portions of the John Day region should be incorporated into state park or national monument. Newberry crater should be kept free from entry for mineral exploitation. 'And the highway department when tourist travel is resumed, ought to issue a special illustrat ed bulletin covering the import ant geologic features of the state. i Even with a very limited knowledge of physiography one can derive a great deal of per sonal satisfaction in reading the book of nature: the uplifts of the mountains, the troughs of the valleys, the chiseling of fall ing water, the color and the pat terns of the rocks. The book is old, but ever new to one who knows how to read its open Pages or gently to turn back its leaves. . - Gradoatiee Gills Leather Cased, Fitted Military Kits i nannieme a 'A mJt . 2 V Mil racUcaL X3 Ceert Street 1 from . ) .Stevens L a? "V - J . 1'