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I It it if PAGE TOUR TV oszoorf 8TATESMAH Oregon. Friday Morning. July IS. 194S ; i : : " 1 .'I. 1 '4 "No Favor Sway Us; No Ttar Shall Aw" From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 I 1 hi n 1, ! THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' '''' Member of the Associated Press 1 . - - !53 ; .. . "The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this-newspaper. No Side Call for Truman i President Truman used good common sense in deciding tp make no special call on Prime Minister Churchill preliminary to the meeting of the Big Tljiree. The decision was smart. At once he makes it clear that though he is new at the conference he i is seeking no advance coaching from an old stagehand like Churchill; and secondly, he makes it clear to Russia and the world that the United States is not playing "me too" on Britain's harp. The meeting is of the heads of jthe three states. It would be a mistake to have Truman enter the conference with Churchill holding him by the iand. In the past we have had the feeling that the United States; was a bit inclined to turn the spit at Britain's broiler. ' Roosevelt seemed ready to acquiesce in policies that really were laid out in Whitehall. The consequence was that we seemed tp be in alliance with Britain as against Russia. That is a wrong policy for us. Acting Secretiary Grew in a statement thk week tried to drivi home the point that the United States acts an its own judgment and is not satellite either to Britain or Russia which is quite as it should be. It is only natural to expect that on many points we will find ourselves in agreement with the Britksh. After all, our political system i is similar to pheirs and our history and tradi tions closely intertwined. So we do incline, to think alike, on many questions. However, we have always held an independent attitude to ward British imperialism, and should be on guard now lejst the settlements of the war en hance the sealmy side of British power politics. We are all! a bit hazy now as to what the agenda at Potsdam will be. The Polish question is tabu. There will be numerous questions re garding methods of handling Germany, but most of these: appear to be subjects for decision at lower levels of statecraft. Perhaps the Pa cific situation will be discussed, and Truman may learn what Russia's intentions are in the far east whether she will fight -Japan or stay neutral, and 5f she fights what the conditions will be. Unless this is the . principal topic the journey would seem superfluous save as giving Truman the opportunity to meet his confreres in power. j , ,.' Somehow he people are not alarmed over the prospect of Truman, a new hand, going into 1 this international poker game. They appear to have the feeling he will not .lose his (or the country's) shirt in the negotiations of the conference.- --:-'' . - -.'',-! A Keeper of the Of all the so-called "silent services" we sug- ; gest that the lighthouse service is the most t silent. Were it not for the foghorns it uses f to supplement lights it would make no noise ' at all least of all regarding; the loyal devotion; to duty of the men in tine service. ! jj j One of these menj Clifford B. Hermann,1: j keeper of the light at Heceta head on the Ore-'; j gon coast, has just been honored with a letter;, f of commendation from the secretary of the j navy for his 44 years of duty in the lighthouse service. Hermann wasfbornjin Salem, entered ; the lighthouse service is a young man served ; on Destruction island; and Tatoosh on the 'Washington coast, an took over the Heceta f light in 1925. ; f it Heceta light, as travelers lot the coast high- way remember, is a rfgularj. picture torn from a child's book, standing as it does on the rocky ; j promontory, with its fpuref white tower an4 red roof against the green of the hillside.!: j Beauty spot that it; ii, no 'doubt the tenders, j of the light have moments; of loneliness. Yet j they keep the light burning, every night, for keeper. Salem sendsfcordial greetings -to a j 1110 1. IXC 13 TV native son who in this "iilent service has h-jLjx J ( ' THERMS MO TELUNGV? ' 1 " : r, -J V. IS G0:S ID GT HIT S V, 5? a J ! " - . ? Well Trained Ncnda Erea Ordered to Lough : la Cadtocc i ! H OCCUPIED GERMANY-TVl Beck and Vallet still are wow Inc ; third division GIs even thouxh It Is r--tr! the firsU time f, f in - more than two years that they have per- fnr m A nfU larlv without I f- -V background, of mo rtin and irom xeaaia, g North Africa ia, to S a 1 x b urg, Khintb nizoa Germany; Corp. r j' Charles Vallet, master of cere monies, : and PFC. Ralph Beck; magician, have chattered theif patter and done their tricks for combat-line GIs, wounded doughfaces in hospitals and dozens of generals. They have averaged more than a ; show a day for more, than year, and have put on as many , as a dox en performances In a single . day. 4 - - Vallet hails from ' Maspeth, Long Island, and made the Fe dala landing with: B company of the 15th regiment strictly oldier desoite his stage expert - - ence. Simultaneously Beck, the 'erstwhile cian" Of Stormy Weather DTP TTffl 1TCV, (Continued from pajfe 1) i shown his faithfulness, ! 1 v ';; : I jr- :!'! The arrest of the clam-holders was a minor midsummer madness for Oregon, and " every one concerned : seems to be ducking the re sponsibility save the state f police whose job is to enforce, not write, the laws. Newspapers have used up considerable space discussing the incident, but no one has put the bee on the real culprit, the chap whd put through the clammy legislation in thef 1937 session... rfe should be caught and fed fhot clam chowder all summer. I i ! By W. G. Rorers Crown Willamette reaper to., is planning ejf- j pansion of its plant at West Linn and will go ! into manufacture off coated magazine paper! I Previously the mill there has confined itself to newsprint. Part ofithis rew production willf go to printing of Time magazine. Crown isn't! sitting back grousing Over politics, but stepping! out and staking its own money in large amounts' on the future. I ! If No Cars for Race Horses Weeks ago The Statesman . pointed out the unfairness of allowing racetracks to operate, requiring use of transportation for horses or dogs, to say nothing of transportation of patrons, while continuing a ban on state fairs. At last the ODT hs put a ban on use of railroads or ., common and contract motor carriers for hauling of race horses or show animals over . the country. With the railroad situation what it is, it is absurd to permit diversion of cars and locomotives for " transporting racehorses from track to track. ! The country faces its most difficult period, as far ai the railroads are concerned, during the remainder of this year. Passenger service must absorb the-heavy movement of men from Eur ope and -gtven furloughs at home, and the redeployment of the army on this coast pre liminary to: going out across the Pacific. Freight cars are urgently needed, not only for' direct military use but also for shipment of grain and coal. A tight squeeze seems inevitable on rail roads next -fall when they struggle under a t war load on top of its seasonal : peak of ordinary freight. EHmination of shipping, of non-essential-freight is imperative to Avert serious loss or distress. . '!... Union leaders aref threatening a strike of lumber and sawmill worker unless their wages are upped 20 cents an hour.; Logger pay now calls for a Paul Biinyan purse to hold the greenbacks for a month's work. If the. workers strike it will be forr a rest as much as any-f thing. With lumber still a Critical material for the war in the Pacific, it hardly seems possible that the workers wovild stop production now. Interpreting The War News By K1RKE L. SIMPSON Associated tfrtm War Analyst I f Success With E Bonds The great struggle -of the Marion county war finance committee to reach its quota of E bonds in the seventh war loan proved successful. When to the subscriptions sent in from this county were added thV county' proportionate share of army-navy subscriptions the total sales ran to $2,280,O76Mor $10,076 over the allotment. It is a wonderful achievement. Now that the seventh war loan has been suc cessfully concluded these observations seem in . place: First the amount of the E bond quota was too large; second, the campaign was too , long. Better to have - shorter campaigns - ait 5 lower quotas than one like the last which stretched from May into July. Since most of : the work is done by volunteers the task becomes unfairly burdensome on. a few people. These criticisms should be noted in planning for the eighth war Joan, now scheduled, ; we under stand, . f of November. . : . Editorial Contmotit -one wae '''H-..-!:..'V-:. j -,...rv, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's son is reported missing la action in Burma where his plane failed to return from an operational flight. Here i one of several , million tragedies of a" vast war, but reveals that this is one war for the rich and poor, the great and the humble. Eden is -not only the second man in the British cabinet" and the probable next premier if the Conservatives win the current national election. His family has been an aristocratic one for ; generations, as has Churchill's. " Yet young Eden was not a commissioned officer, but a sergeant, and he was serving, in perhaps the most dangerous branch of the service in one of the most disagreeable sectors of the whole war, climatically and otherwise. None of the favorism 1 old, aristocratic countries are supposed to reek -with was in evidence here. Baker Democrat-Herald. . Hardly had Navy Undersecretary Gates released hi final report as air -secretary announcing "com plete, domination of the air" over all the seas that -surround Japan than there came convincing proof. Navy patrol and search planes combing the Yel low sea intercepted and turned back troop laden convoys bound from China to Japan. They were -driven to refuge in pthe shallow waters of the port of Tsing-Tao farfup the; Chinese coast There is good prospect that most of the ships will end . their sailing day there under naval air attacks. None-escaped eastward to Korean r Japanese waters. That means that the air and submarine isolation of Japan from powerful Japanese armies of- occupation northern China is complete. But the mere fact mat jTokyo was endeavoring! at whatever risk to recall fighting forces from China for home -defense use; is perhaps the .most signifi cant aspect of that action in : the Yellow. seaJ It reemphasiies the fact that the American-advance across the Pacific to Japan's own doorstep Md into the Philippines has probably moved so swiftly that she has been caught with relatively few first line troops) available to man home de- lenses.-Her seasoned veterans are mostly in China PROUST AND PAINTING, fcy Mm- ' rice B. Chernwtrttx (IteraUonal University Prass; S3.7SK The Marcel Proust bibliography is probably longer than that about any other writer dead so short a; time. But there's always room to add one more, and Cher nowitz'i should be inserted near the topi He develops an important facet of the f great novelist's genius. The critic's prose is pretty pro saic and he won't appeal to a wide circle of readers. Proust fans, however, can't get along without him. There used to be a tendency, especially among reviewers who class-angle i their stories,: to dis miss Proust as a dilettante, play boy of jthe Faubourg St. Germain and pel of a decadent social class. Partly from that attitude grew the tendency to regard Proust's knowledge of music and painting as superficial. j The Inusic question has been setled, Jin Proust's favor. Cher nowitz jsettles it in painting, too. Hef admits the Frenchman's knowledge of contemporaries was somewhat restricted by his social connections, and also by the fact that for 2 years illness prevented visits to exhibitions. ; Nevertheless,- the man I who could be devoted so intensely to Vermeer that only a few months before death he could leave his sick bed at great cost in suffer ing to see a Vermeer show can't be accused of a merely polite interest in painting. i Anybody- who has read I with care A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," translated as "In Mem ory of i Things Past," could not possibly disagree with this crit ic's claim! that Prouts's "use of painting as literary material ... can be said to have been a -deeply creative - and sincere exper ience"! It might almost be as serted fi that, without Botticelli, Swann couldn't have loved Odet te, and thai, without Botticelli, Proust; couldn't have created his Swanru f . v j r Proust's- painter Etstirj is a composite of the Impressionists, . in particular ; Monet j Prouts . views , the- world of which he writes -with the same fresh inno cence that characterizes, the Im- pressionisU. He was "as sensi tive to light effects as an artist." Weather was no topic of idle News Behind the News -A By PAUL MALLON j , .' j (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whore or in part strictly prohibited.) mi mm1 WASHINGTON, July 12. The stories about what" happened to Hitler and Eva, are getting big ger, but worse. The Russians first suppressed, then announced, then denied the finding of remains of the two whom they said, had been mar ried, before the spirit left them American reporters have fol lowed about the same experi ence, the first; arrivals at the "i chancellory an nouncing the bodies were not a u t h entically identified, and later ones find ing various In s i g n 1 f i cant proofs that Ad- p-,ni tt.-ition olf and Eva died in their of ficially dug luxurious holes. Frankly, I want to see the ' corpus delecti before I believe anything. , The most eminent authorities here frequently have said they believed Hitler dead, but they have never said !why or how. An explanatory version, general ly accepted among military men, is that German army leaders (the high' command) killed Hit ler and his girl friend, just as they once are supposed, slyly, to have slain socialist president Ebert, when he Tefused to leave government, upon their, demand, to make way for' Marshal Von Hhrdenburg. Ebert was subject to indiges tion attacks, and was a heavy eater. Following an official din ner and an attack; conspirators rushed him to a hospital where a conspiring surgeon immediate ly "operated," and Ebert died on the table. ii Himmler's story that Hitler died of cerebral hemorrhage is not believed because -a nasi doc tor, bow our prisoner, examined him in mid April and found his blood .pressure lew. But Him mler's concocted story suggests conversation; it meant as much to him as to Monet. He may have owed this - sensitivity, however, to the tragic allergy which oblig ed him to enjoy; Monet's hay stacks only on canvas, to; flee from, nature to his airless room. he was a conspirator in Hitler's death in some manner, probably oni April 24 or possibly May 1. In less authoritative quarters here, a belief prevails that Hitler is: alive under circumstances no , more fantastic than numerous other nazi exploits, to wit: I The whole Hitler end was stag ed with long-planned, typical at tention tp details. Hitler called in his Eva, married for no press ing reason except ex-post facto .publicity; jabo summoned his generals, announced he had re versed his plan of fighting to the end, and intended to die in or about his well-kept hole. They pleaded with him for days on bended knees to save himself but he stood firm, and sent them all away so they could not wit ness, further developments, j Drop the curtain for a minute. then find the bodies, well arty-1 or annihilated or trapped to isolated portions of GRIN AND BEAR IT her once vast conquest tone. There is no official information available on thecompMtien of her homeguard armies; but the effort to recruit them from China under such dubious circumstances as the event in the Yellow- sea demonstrated smacks of desperation. There may be no more than sprinkling of Japanese regular army units to stiffen the reserve levies upon which the invasion attack will fall when it comes. j : . By Lichty - Ji - ' .""-V- " i An even grayer situation for Japanese garrisons in Indo China, Thailand, Malaya and on Sumatra as well as Borneo is taking, shape. . British land Japanese reports telllof prehminary operations by powerful British naval task forces in the Bay f Bengal that can have only one meaning. They are paving the way for seizure of operating ad vance bases in the Nicobar islands and upon the western tip of Sumatra at the entrance to Malacca trait that leads direct to Singapore and the south. . China sea. f-r. British advices say task forces of the East Indies fleet have been recently clearing enemy mines off Nicobar. j-.- 4 - Of no less significance is a Tokyo radio report that carrier based British planes in force were blasting at Sabang on the northwestern end of Sumatra. That would be the logical kite for aa advance air base for' Admiral Lord Mountbatten'S forces when the campaign to regain Malaya and Singapore is launched from India. . - There has been - some speculation but not of ficial Intimation that eventually command of Aus--tralian ground and air forces on Borneo may pass from General MacArthur to Admiral Uountbattea in preparation for the final campaigns to destroy Japanese garrisons isolated around the lower; end of the south China sea. Tha conception Is based an th aasumDtlon 'that tlis . invannn Tana,. when the hour for that strikes, will require full CtvCUn life seem str&nre el' Cut what with bazaars, rafflee, American attention leaving the mopping up Job tad binge game well have te help ear eenrre rations stage, to raise n the south to Mounlbatten's forces. i ' j . aeaey for' alarirs."1 v' " :- - - : : -1 .-S'-i'--.f:.::- ; - I i.: -' - - f;: v -v - 'v.: . - way, some reasonably resemb-i ling bodies. To me this always has been the best' , story since another little Eva! crossed the ice, instead of the beyond, with another wolfhound of about, equal weight. 1 i j What! a story to leave the credulous, romantically inclined world! It would be a particular . nice blanket to cover a decision Of the nazt leaders to go separate ways, and meet months hence to. renew their political activity for world conquest, which was their basic, inescapable ideal.: j Furthermore, this story holds Hitler not only planned his es cape but his future life in ob scurity, j " j ' He had a double, bearing con siderable physical resemblance to what he would1 be when he disguised himself, sans mustache, drooping hair lock, etc., living a life he intended to take over when he escaped, j This selfless patriot he would j kill ) and as tsume that identity i when he de j fcired to take over toat life. Sub- merging his own identity in that one, he -would be beyond easy ,; detection. . ' J - ' J j All plans for this were made , after Stalingrad with money, ar- rangements for physical disguise, .locale carefully chosen and known only to Hitler, j j Little Eva may have been dis posed of, as her presence would -decrease, by double, jhis chances of avoiding detection -although he may have planned! with suffi cient security to warrant taking ' jher along. : J -j -' : ! The other nasi leaders knew nothing of this detailed arrange ment but were under orders to scatter into their variously chos en disguises, to assemble six. ' months from date; at a certain place, with the money j they had hidden, to start in saving the world again. There was to be no political activity in the interven- ' ing time. : ' .. ' j j ! Those who believe this doubt I the current yams that Hitler chose his better role in Spain or : La tin America. He was not look ling for sympathy; or sympaihiz- - ers, but for- oblivion. -1 He- could prepare and lead the life of. a double better, in his native sur roundings, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia or even in the ' I southern Germany hills, they 'say.- : . .-- Interesting yarns both of 'ithem, Take your pick; " i L : f f - :' ' "- 1 1 . McCALL, Idaho-iTF-Thls ce. tral Idaho resort town, which an nually has reports reports of a sea serpent In adjacent Fayette lake to spice. Its summer gossip, now ha, an outside "peepicj , torn" story. Ua Charles Tinslej was terrified by m face at the j window. Staff SgL Carl Seiber. j I home from the war front, fired ! a volley of shots at the Intruder. His aim was good and he now 1 has ' a six-foot ;bear pelt ' to prOVC it. u-: v. ' r Wi ss i 1 . . . . , . ' ... ! i " . - i - - - - - d : ' -'" - I (Continued from page 1) from 4454 to 5351 the total mint- ber of acres increased only 3893. Where does the great -expan-, si on of acreage come ; from in ' -eastern Oregon? Probably chiefly from leasing or purchase of state or county-owned lands for graz ing purposes. There is probably also an extension of dry land farming for wheat during these war years. Whatever the course of the land it is. being handled in fewer units and by fewer hands.- " j What is happening in western Oregon is the breaking lip . pf farms in the vicinity of larger cities. Washington county, for example, which adjoins Multno mah, has an increase of 323 farms while the total acreage is decreasing 4567. There , are 474 more farms in Marion county but the total acreage has in creased only 8618 acres. - j This clearly means more part time farming, purchases of small acreages by war workers to et a place .where they can eam jat least, part of their living when Jobs are less abundant and less remunerative. ' ; - This trnd hw Wnju pro gress for some years, and prob ably will continue: increase j in , size of wheat, stock and general purpose farms, made possible! by power machinery; and increase in the number of acreage tracts for specialty crops or part-time farming. , I recall attending a meeting of the land-use committee of Wash ington county a number of years ago. The committee had made careful studies Of the local situa tion and concluded that the prop er farm unit was 80 acres,' of which 40 acres should ,be in cultivation, the remainder pas ture or woodland. However, the farm size then was smaller than 80 acres. I expressed -my view that it was impossible to reverse the trend, and that Washington county would see more rather than fewer farms under 80 acres in size. That prediction Was ! accurate- as the census figures Show. . - For . those specially interested I give the figures by counties divided between western and eastern Oregon. The "-" sign; in dicates decrease. "Manipo the Magi- Chicaco. was bitting the beaches with the third re connaissance troops and figuring that it would be quite a trick just to keep alive. He didn't know the half pf it. Ahead lay French Morocco, Tu nisia, Sicily, southern Italy, Cassino, Anzio, Rome, France, Germany and Austria the trail of the third division has taken the two fighting entertainers a long way since Fedala. They joined forces and be came a team at Anew, Algeria, . and have ' been ' split up only once since. That was when Beck spent two weeks as part of Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army'' troupe after Rome felL But - Iron Mike OTaniet, tut third division's command ing general, heard about his magl cian'st vanishing act and allowed aS how j nobody was going to grab the third division's top hocus-pocus gent' ' It's no! trick at all for a gen eral to make a j PFC magician reappear! , , r ' - . ' ; With much as one exception, uie is it used to be back at Calif, for Sgt. Rl M. Maple of the 334th infantry re giment That exception, howev er, is very important from the sergeant's point of view. The sergeant is a life guard, just as he used to be, and now he keeps a practiced eye on the amiatiii ravm-tin tit dausrhbow' "Except for that missing ele ment this is the best job I have ever had, he said. "What j is the missing ele ment?" asked a stooge. "Women," said the sergeant succinctly. "Women . to save. women lu iuuk at, wuukm . w talk to. I Briefly, California women. Specifically, women from Pomona college and the Scrtpps Schools for Girls." Nevertheless he conceded that it was certainly better here than in the Ardennes during the Ger man breakthrough. , . "Remember all that snow?" he said, an old familiar climate gleam came into his' eyes, "now in California"' The most embarrassing mo ment in the career of another lifeguard came from the very missing element of which Maple complained women. ' " This particular guard spotted several girls in swimming; with considerable profanity be yelled for them to get tut, that it was verbotte for frauleins. j He stopped suddenly ' in the middle of an expletive when one feminine swimmer sang out coyly, "my, my, such language, tsk, ts4 tsk," and ' then he turned a deep purple when a , second one called: "Relax, soldier, we're nurses . from the 10th field hospital . across the river." WK8TXXK OIUEOON 2P -?: County Oaekamae Clatsop Columbia Coo Curry pqestss - JoccphJna Lincoln Linn Marion . Multnomah -. Polk. Tillamook WasMnctoa YamhUl is m SIS" JSl 4r . -iss -sa 46S IS . sz 474 131 -IS -It 323 It -im -43.704 -14.751 . ; XASTTRN ORXOON C ! Baker . -ICS . S.04 - Crook .. -ZJ T793. Dsachut4M -S , TT.4S4 GiUiam - -4 . S1.07S Grant , -50 -X33.41S Harney -41 . SS4.163 Hood RivtT -84 "' -42t Jrffrtson 48 . -13S.34S , Klamath -111 . SM.tll take - -5J . S40.gS. Malheur -.10 199,327 Morrow t : -34 , 13 071 7 aharman -61 , Muo , Uanatula ; -ISS , -H eat , Union -47 34.91 Wallowa -17t 100.2ST Wjac , -154 B4S7 WfcaoJer . j - 1 -ia,4SS While the war has created: ab normal condrtions in agriculture, still. It. seems merely, to : have speeded np the changes along lines previously defined. This growth' of Dower farcntn With 'reduced manpower, and of sub sistence, and specialty farming in particular localities, will have distinct effects on the social and economic and political situation In Oregon. I do not know that we can alter the trend; but we snouia be aware of it and be prepared to make such aria nf inn a of our living schemes-as may - vecome necessary. - v -i " This belongs .in the "now we've heard everything" class. Questioning German soldiers in his capacity ' as a military government officer, Lt Albert H. Kahlenberg, of Oak Park, m.. was; told b u t what he termed the extreme in militar ism . th fiarmanl milltarv .laugh.":' I -; I' According te wehrmacht wmawibers, when a speaker (ContiiMied so page 11) Bnby : Mr Krtitsteo . . ! vs - j g v vVv ' WW41t,s1 V Vlt-KOeld v VJ ' Rings - - . ' ' Hi Court St'
