SUverton Man President of. Livestock Unit "tfo Faror Sway Us; No Fear Shall Aire From first Statesman, March 28, 1831 fcr umiiMil wit TIm Wasbtefftw Star . - 1 : tj - i ; - I 1 II .!,(..... THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ! r CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and PubUahcr 1 - Member of tht Associated Press Tha Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th use for publication of ak ! ' newi dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. : H Censorship! - War Sample for Conference jk I Once mora censorship has failed to use the Prime Minister Churchill talked like a stern common sense it would take to ran a fifth-rate uncle to General deGaulle in advising him to dog kennel, but at least it has brought the pull his French troops uT Syria back into their American public up to date on the Japanese barracks and then come tp London to talk things balloons. over. His Gallic pride was doubtless inflamed j Several weeks ago a person-to-person cam- but the French commander was ordered to stop paign was begun to acquaint the populace with his troops from firing fan"; the Syrians. .The the fact that such balloons existed. But it was, French, it seems, have feen trying to bolster hush-hush in writing, and leaders in the mouth-! their position in the middle east which becama to-mouth campaign were ordered to destroy all , literature regarding them. ; (Then, hardly a week later, Washington an nounced : their presence right out loud, and even let the newspapers and radio in on what ' hadn't been a secret for months. The announce ment then said no property damage had been caused. - j ' ( Now we're told what thousands already knew that six persons had been killed by a Japanese bomb at Lakeview. So there's the whole story. j j There may be a reason why it had to come out piece-meal, why the first Washington an nouncement had to intimate there had been no serious incidents, why it's all right to talk now when it wasn't two weeks ago. But our mag nifying glass can't see the reason from here, i All newspapers were eager cooperate in ' keeping the news of balloon! landings from the Nippon military. But we cani't feel very kindly about a censorship that one day leads the pub lic to believe the balloons had been completely futile, and then hardly before the ink is dry releases another story of si x, deaths, which oc curred weeks ago. Continued From Page 1) Soong Is Premier j I T. V. Soong, who for some time seemed less In;, favor with his brother-in-law, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than brother-in-law. Dr. H. H. Kung, has now become premier of China, the highest post in the country under the general issimo who remains president and head of the state and head of the armies. In the political shake-up last winter Soong became acting pre mier, now his appointment iaj made permanent. j T. V. Soong has been in ! San Francisco as leader of China's delegation to the conference. He left theri for Washington and it was re ported he may stop in Moscow to hold conver sations with Marshal Stalin. Soong is well and favorably known in this country, and his eleva tion to the premiership is welcomed. He may very precarious during fthe mid-years of j the war when. France was fown and (nearly out. The local populations do hot like it; they assert their independence whicji has been recognized. Great Britain wants no sideshow wars in that portion of the globe. It is too close' to its own route through the ; Suez; And Churchill was ready to throw British; Tommies in1 to stop tht trouble around Damascus, j .; The Syrian affair threw cold chills up the spines of the delegaesaB San Franijiscol Called together to frame a phnfor peace jand, to pro vide for peace enforcement machinery, the con ferees saw trouble between one big! nation and two little ones develop, and then lead to inter ference by another big nation. Here then was a sample before their eys of how Wars might get started. And the dellgates could not help Sonilliino-Nw Wo. R A14l asking themselves, How fcould the hew league aomcUlng Mew Mas Been Added of nation settle a disputellike that and prevent j t warfare? Since Trance 4 9n '"of the bi fiva n0 LltQI'at'V would have a vetd powr, or Britain would, j s jl the security council .couldn't consider the fracas VlUIClCpOSV if either one interposed d veto. With the league By W. G. Kofets- unable to stamp out the early sparks it would be quite impotent to preient their Spread into a world conflagration. ! I ! I f I t It seems to add up to this: peace in the world i A combination .of history and wiU be kept if thai big Ihree or four or. five fi?!nred V this Ibng TBI WTN1 Or SAN LOKENZO y "mn innui (rmrrmr m kart; S3). j..l:-ljr,- JJ Memorial Day In Holland Farewell and Thank Yoa MARGAIrEN HoUand -JPh And then those broken bodies Ten thousand American dough- once strong and alert assets to- boys today fwer given the digni- ward eventual victory lost even lied farewell that! didn't come that value and becam onl mvm t 1rn k. UIt k . novel about a pair of loven la unlunbered. Thus the Syrian-French dispute i the Alamo massacre to become 1 never n-with death in less liabilities. ujr u regiraeo m i microcosm or now world 1 the ward of Mexico's dictator wars of the future; mayj begin. The incident ! Santa Anna. In the course of the snouia strengthen those small nations who are struggle he Is pitted against his attacking the right bf unrestricted veto by one or the big powers. own brother, on Gen. Zacharay Taylor's staff. He falls in love with the beautiful Dona Maria Catalina. !i Thou eh there js a considerable amount of excitement, it is at times heavily laden with history. Gorman works in some sharp comments on the nature of U. S. whole party was given larj official reception j A -i. Mexicauleves i - a i: -tr r. rr j t i iexican eyes. c"er wjnncj noagesj, corn This orolific author ha. nm- Return of the Heroes' Gen. Mark Clark and 5 members pt his staff and enlisted men arrive Chicago Wednesdajr after a one-stop flight from Paris. The general was greeted by members bf his family and the be better able to cope with the political ques-' mander of the famous firjst! army, returned! to commendable books to bis credit tons of his country than Chiang who is dis- Atlanta and was given a jmblic welcome. V Though he can turn a phrase tinctly a military man China's internal administration needs re - organization,! and the division between the koumintang and the communists remains un healed. If Soong can guide his country through these difficult times into peace and a strong and orderly government he will do great things both for'his (country and for the world which needs a strong, peaceful, well-governed China. More Chaplains Needed The army Js seeking 700 additional chaplains. They are needed, says the war department, for religious duties aboard troop and hospital ships irf the process of -redeploying troops, also to relieve battle-fatigued chaplains returning from . overseas and those at home who have been I overworked. The role of the chaplain IS not an easv oni as me spiritual counselor for the men in the service he must listen to the confessions and the prayers and the personal problems of . all who seek him out. Aboard a landing ship before an Invasion men press on the chaplain for support, and durincr a kittlo tUa. u nn1 n : . n m H . . viiajMiii uiuafc m weu up 7ront to give comfort to the wounded and despairing. The task wears men down, so close is the chaplain to the human tragedies of the war. He needs periods of rest and recuperation the same as the men who have been in front lines. Hence it is easily understandable why additional chaplains are being recruited for the closing period of the war. j : - I ' . I f j?a m ; GOOD INSURANCE When the Bonneville dam was built the first engineering plans called for a barge canal with but nine feet of water. That seemed like poor plan mng in view of the great depth of water above the dam and the East Oregonian complained. Upon learning about what was going on others joined in a chorus of protest that brought about the con struction of a ship canal, rather than a barge canal. Our thought was that it would be beneficial to the inland country to have ocean shipping come as fan inland as possible and also; that it would be ' advantageous to have parking room whee merch ant ships or small ships could be moored. Anyhow it did not seem logical to have 70 feet of water above the dam and a bottleneck canal that would : prevent a boat from reaching the upper river if it Now it develops that the maritime commission Is looking for places to keep idle ships when the . war ends. Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery in ' vestigated the subject while out here recently. The Columbia river pilots association claims there is enough room on the river for, the entire war time ' fleet There are various mooring sites on the lower river and the river above Cascade Locks, on the Oregon side, is listed as an upstream site. ; The ships, including fighting ships as well as car go ships, should certainly be preserved for future use if needed. After the first world war we scrapped so much of our fleet that the Japs took advantage " of our generosity but we had 100 world war de stroyers tied up and they proved highly usefuL Early in this war SO of those destroyers were traded to the British in exchange for air bases and John Bull made good use of the destroyers. ' Use of the Columbia for moorage purposes seems ideal because it is a fresh water stream and barn aclas do not thrive in-such water. It is estimated that it will cost $4000 a year to keep a liberty ship in readiness for possible future use but such raretakpr YriPT!i wiU ba Cood. insurance. The ship canal at Bonneville may prove well worth Ta-hile. Pend!eton East Oregonian. - . . Others will be coming: 'Generals Eisenhower and Bradley and Patton. They too will be given ovations on their return! It is stated ihat; Eisen hower may be greeted in New York and We can well imagine the reception which ! Gotham would give this returning hero. Patton's horn is in California which U already looking for ward to his homecoming, j j ; f i 1 j : These men have done well. They have earned a nation's plaudits; they and their officers and men. Of course our celebrations are' tempered by the knowledge that th war business; is not fully completed, that ali these men havi other errands which limltttheit furloughs. But the country should lose no opportunity to demon strate its profound gratitude for jthe heroic achievements of its men in the armed services nicely, on this occasion he didnt take the time for much of that business. His wine: is a heady drink, but you enjoy it less the nearer you get to the bottom of the barrel f President Truman doesn't stand on punctillio. He geta out; makes calls, visits the capitoll Mon day he had ex-President Hoover at the White House for a conference on the provisioning bf Europe. As the one; who directed this work during and after the first; war there! is no one with a better background of knowledge. Tru man wisely calls hini in to jobtain his counsel to meet the acute problems of! today. The invita tion is a gesture of recognition, too, which wilt be appreciated by the former president's friends. "PASTIMES FOR THE PATIKNT, fcy Marguerite lekia (Barnes; S3). - The many suggestions in this book, the publisher says, may also be interesting to the "im patient," or to anyone looking for a hobby. Horses you might wish, to ride include gardening, photography, music, weaving, leather wcjrk, carving, finger painting. Brig. Gen. Ralph G. DeVoe of the Halloran General hospital wijites that some of these ideas f'have been tried and found effective" with world war II wounded? Bnterproting j The War Ngivs By lURKE 14 SIMPSON Associated f ress; Warj Analyst r ! f i t i 4 (Salem Public Library has or dered this ook, Hugh Morrow, librarian, reports). ! t i.l5 ! i Tnav coaciro age I or kockkt i POWEB," y 6. CSwara Ptatri ; Harper; S3J). Rockets are nothing new, says the author, vho also believes We haven't seen anything yet. He : traces the historr of the theorr from the ancjent Chinese through Goddard to late world war II de velopments. It makes interesting reading. : "FKANCKSCA CABBINI: WITHOUT STAFF oa SCaiP." hr Lartll. Pa. pia mora (MacMtUUa: St.IS). Here is another biography of the missionary Mother Cabrint Prompt and firm British action with full support of Washington appears to have abated if it has not wholly averted danger of an armed "collision", between French and British troops in the Levant.? was beatified in 1934. inat posuDUity prune Minister Churchill bluntly xuresaw m mi noie io uenerai: deGaulle announc- ; hig Britain's decision to intervene in the Franco-5 rXTTSJ I A Wn DP in IT Syrian clash. It does not; remove the conclusion. vIVIll iilllU DEAn 11 However, that the pace qt f British redeployment against Japan may have been Seriously slowed by' events in the eastern Mediterranean theater. I i f London made a major point of the fact that tran- quility in the middle east was essential "it the vital, line of communication to the tax east was hot to be disturbed." The same thought was implicit inf American reaction to French Pressure ; tartim in - Syria although omitted from! the note to General' i deGaulle urging that France preview" her policy uuuv cuwugn, was upon tne same point. French spokesmen in Pari la real Hat - - . - U1CU UST4 fense of deGauUe regime methods in Syria. French communications with the i orient were j involved,! mey said. 4 i ' j j t Obviously, and restricted to purely militarv fae.1 tors, availability of aii; orr other, staging bases in the middle east must be a prime element in British Dlans for etmcemtratina omniM amLa i t t j.- f. - - i .liiyMT HUUC3 i ui :xiiuia, I Burma or elsewhere in the southeastern Asia com; -mand for impending campaigns! to reconquer Ma-i xaya and Singapore. They would be no less essen. tial to any French participation in the war against' Japan in the southeastern theater, as recovery of French IndoChina stands high on the deGaullist1 government's announced purposes. Availability of food resources in all the Levan tine and adjacent states is another military logis tics item of importance; That undoubtedly figures 7 & joint allied plans for pressing the war on Japan simultaneously both in the Pacific and central and northern China theaters and, by the southeastern I Asia command. - - ij ij , j : i 'i: , Quite aside from the political or economic aspects 3 of the FrancoSyrian crisis, pr j even itt reaction on the effort at San Francisco to create world: security enachinery, Its, effect on allied and par' , ticularly British redeployment against Japan via ' the Mediterranean and Indian ocean could be ser- -ious if an amicable solution, j not soon found vi, battle. It was a short, sincere Memor ial Day tribute from 21 guns and from 16 generals Most of us who' attended didnt warn xo come, fftiryw nartiallT fit. cause it meant a 400-mile trip back to the U. S. Ninth army's main, cemetery, but mostly .be cause such cer- i emonies invari ably present a f 'VV' false picturel no LiSLAf g iiwuer now iin- KeBeth Dixon cere the intent behind them may be. M . . . Forty acres of dead in neat individual graves. Row after row of clean; shining, white crosses. Flowers ! bought by grateful, hardworking, .volunteer Hollanders decorate every grave. Green sod j,and a hedge and thousands upon thousands of sol diers and civilians line the ceme tery's edge. J j And down at the end, gleam ing in the intermittent sunlight, the America! flag floats at half mast. " J i And the clean white helmets of the army bandsmen sparkle and the bugler stands erect, a lone in the frozen silhouette and the clear, sharp sobbing notes of "Taps" cut through the thick si lence of thousands who stand rigidly, swallowing in spite of themselves. - gj All that ybu see on Memorial Day. You think of it as repre sentative of fall those who died in, battle you associate its de cency, its dignity, its clean, quick surge of patriotic fervor with all death in combat And such cer emonies inevitably leave you with a false itnental picture. For , death in combat has no dignity. It has no decency. It has not flag,! no bugle, no surge of patriotism. It has no sure ness of purpose, no concrete con victions, not e ven any cleanliness. ' We know how those men died. We saw some of them die, and mostly it was only a dull pain ful process of life departing a body that once was whole. By Lichty I-J?!!?1:1 r? drive year ear, Jnitr! hi t vm as pauens as i was teaching ye te'wa&T SUcked like a cord row they sometimes were, because the liv ing were still fighting and the dead would have to wait Then finally they were trucked back from the battle line, back from the enemy land to be laid on friendly oiL I That's the way it was, and knowing that few men wanted to come today. But they did anyway, and most of them were glad. ; i muam uim ceremony was aimpie, nonest and sincere. It was devoid of bunk, it had no fancy speeches. It was more a neighbor's goodbye and! a thank you than a soldier's salute. "In happier days they Were our neighbors our friends,"iLt. Gen, wiuiam Simpson, the Ninth ar my s commander, said slowly in a short tribute which he con cluded simple with "Let us car ry on. They would have it so." Then he took a wreath and i placed it on the grave of an un known soldier. For a moment he stood at the grave's head, hesi tant, then he straightened his tail, lanky frame and i held sharp salute for a long, silent second. Then, with his face drawn down in bitter grimness, ; ne stroae Back to his place. One by one other generals fol lowed, each putting a wreath on the grave of some known sol dier of his .individual outfit- Then Taps broke the stillness and ! the bandsmen played the Star Spangled Banner as the flag slowly rose to the top of the pole. Then it was over and somehow it seemed that the dignity and decency, which was denied the soldiers during their j violent deaths finally had been laid with the laurels on their graves. The last backward looking wave came from thousands of doughboys who filtered down the rows between the crosses and sought out their sidekicks' graves, and .then before leav ing to go home or the Pacific warfront stood there a moment saying a silent goodbye. County Fair Funds Given Out by Slate Apportionment of the 'special one-twentieth of a mill tax for the maintenance of county fairs was announced by Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr, here Fri day. The apportionment involves $52,436.50 and covers the year 1845. Largest apportionment of $18,553.51 was received by Mult nomah county. r i Other apportionments: I Baker $981.14 Benton $838.61,' Clacka mas $2443.83. Clatsop $831.72. Co lumbia $776.83, Coos i $1256.26, Crook $344.45, Curry $255.56, De schutes $73244, Douglas $1540.17, Gilliam $442J4, Grant $43184, Harney $400.7 L Hood Rivet $518. 11, Jackson $1630.84, ! Jefferson $281.12, Josephine $532.66, Kla math $217L40. if, Lake $51544. Lane i $2818.97. Lincoln $477.18, Linn I $1880.45, Malheur $832.76, Marion $2846.56, Morrow $468.06, Polk $81745, Sherman $447.38. Tillamook $621.- 89, Umatilla $2174J2.p Union $83844, Wallowa $53048. Wasco $81343, Wa s h i n g t o n $154148, Wheeler $236.39, and Yamhill $1 304.4S. ! The fisheries of the world, in normal - times, annually yield about $762,000,000 worth of food and mJmti'lal'rrgjra."'- r - the west coast to New York fin nine hours. With! that speed little demand for sleeper plane service is anticipated. j As far as airports . are con cerned Patterson -expressed the opinion that only in a few places like San Francisco and New York would there be need for runways two miles long, able to a c c o m m o d a t e lbo-passenger planes. For most of the traffic runways a mile long are ample and planes will be built to utilize those runways. He punctured the idea of lOO-passenger ships becoming common, saying that people would prefer more fre quent service with smaller-sized planes than less frequent in the large planes. j This highly informing talk made it clear that much of the talk about the future of avia tion Is too optimistic; Advance ment will come and it will be rapid, but not at all; revolution ary. We can build our local plans accordingly, " j County School! i ' - ' i Heads to Meet Here Tuesday j County school superintendents from all sections of .Oregon will gather here next Tuesday for their annual four-day conference, call ed by Rex Putnam, state superin tendent of public instruction. i Clerks of the school districts will meet Monday, preceding , the conference. . f . t Work of the conference will in volve discussion and evaluation of practices in school administration and supervision and 1 plans for continued improvement of in struction In the Oregon schools. R. H. McAtee, Crook I county, is association president . i The last day's program will be featured by an address, by Dr. Lsier A. jurkendaH, senior spe cialist in health education front the federal office of education at Washington, D.C. He will diaraa neaitn problems. stated that one Liberty ship can haul 6000 tons of freight to Aus tralia in 30 days, at a cost of $210,000. To transport that vol ume by air in 30 days to the same - destination would require 144 airplanes. It would require three tankers to tarry gasoline to Australia for '7 the return flights, and would cost $21 'mil lions " In the case of transportation of perishables, their own exper ience had not : been very satis factory. Unless the plane can go clear through to- its destina tion the cargo might spoil ; at some intermediate point ; Jet propulsion uses up twice as-much gasoline as, the present type of gas engine,- and flies at heights of 30,000 ft which are impractical for ordinary com mercial travel. , 'j I What Patterson foresees is continuation of past development with greatly increased volume of travel on established routes. The possibilities of; feeder, lines are limited by; the amount jof business offered. The new planes (DC-6) will carryj 54 passen gers; can make file run from Portland to San Francisco j in two hours and a half and fromJiag 0n the lamb market would be ltr Um L. Hadsen - Farm and Garden Editor Elmer Lorence of Silverton was elected chairman of the Marion County Livestock association at its organization meeting at the Salem chamber of commerce rooms Thursday night Comyn Tracy - of Turner was chosen - vice! chairman and Ben Newell,' assistant county agent secretary-treasurer. Board of direc tors includes Henry- Ahrens of Turner, I Adam Hersch of Salem and Floyd Fox of Silverton. I The Board will meet June 12 to form ulate a constitution and by-laws. Sheepmen predominated at the meeting with a few cattlemen also present No hog men were cut although the sponsors were in hopes ; the meeting would draw some of these. Thirty-five were out K. L. Potter, ' associate agricul ture economist at the state college,! spoke on market conditions, par' ticularly . on the lamb , market which, ha said, gave . a lot of trouble last year and apparently would give more this season. Lambs which have just started to flow' to the local market are all ready weakening; Potter said. R. C Burkhart Lebanon, presi dent of the Western Livestock as sociation, said that an OPA hear- held in the near future at Seattle. As! this is. the only meeting of its kind in the United States, Burk- hard said, it was taken for granted that last year's work of the West ern association had had an effect Burkhardt intends to attend the meeting, he said.! Improvement in market condi tion and quality of Marion county livestock will be stressed by the association. Oregon Ends Best Spring Fire Season Snell Sends Challengeto ft OUST en Gov. Earl Snell. in the nam Oregon state employes, Friday is-i sued a challenge to Gov. Moo cJ Wallgren, WaaWmrtonJ far em ployes of that state to make more c Dona purchases during the Sv. enthWar Loan drive per capita than Oregon. . -.- In event Governor WaUrren ae. cepU the challenge and the Wash ington employes are victorious Governor Snell oersonalW m serve as host to the Washington governor on a tour of one of Ore gon's outstanding shipyards and at a 5 night banquet featuring a menu of this state's unsurpassed products, he promised. 1 . The Washington employes' ex ecutive committee also would be mvlted. ' - Do you accept the challenge. and what's your inducement?" Snell queried Wallgrenf by tele gram....... 2 1 Giving full credit to Oregon citizens for .splendid cooperation in preventing forest fires and an assist to Jupiter Pluvius for pro viding rain at the right moment State Forester N. S. Rogers said Tuesday the state had Just fin ished its best: spring fire season in years., Only 772 acres were de stroyed in spring fern fires this year to May 15, Rogers reported, as against 1804 last: spring and 25,000 in 1943 for the same period. "Much of the credit for this remarkably low -finriQss belongs to the hundreds of Oregon citi zens who actively sponsor Keep Oregon " Green fire prevention work in every county in the state." Forester Rogers acknowledged. "Keep Oregon Green officials have, by a well-conceived educa tional program, sold the citizens of Oregon on preventing fires, and thuf save our great timber re source from wasteful destruction." Douglas and Lincoln counties re ported no spring fires this year, ac cording to the Rogers report West ern Oregon counties reported 476 acres burned and east of the moun tains 796 acres went up in fire. There were but 34 man-caused fires this spring and 17 of these were classed as incendiary, one started from railroads, three from loggers, seven from slash and de bris j blazes, one from campfiras, and ; smokers were responsible for four ! -' i . j: ' Absentee Vote Possible in - : . I .... June Election T:k'-'-krW,: Oregon voters who will be away from home and thus unable to vote in their voting precincts at tike special state-wide election June 22 may vote br absentee bal lot any time up to June 17, five days- prior to the election, Secre tary j or State Robert S. Farrell jr, announced here Friday. x arreu said ne was advised that number I of j conventions ar scheduled in Oregon during June with jthe result that voters will be absent from their homes on elec tion day. j; ' -' There are only two measures on the ballot One provides a two- cent tax on each package of ciga rettes sold in Oregon to raise $2, 000,000 annually for the public schools. The other is a five-mill PWrtr tax for a $10,000,000 r building construction program at state institutions and higher edu cational centers. The five-mill V property tax would be offset br surplus state income tax revenues. IPS Terms Gladly -Arranged Av-k . DisUnctiva BmrioiiDS ! ; Enduringly Beautiful i ' ' - Diamond rings cleaned re Cardleaa of where purchased without charge. . , i . k Another Stevens Service ''kSto v: Dears 49 - s.-et