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"No Favor Sway$ U$; No Fear Shall Ato"
From First SUtesman, March 28, 1851 j
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IFANV;
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Member ; of the Associated Press
The Associated Press li exclusively entitled to the use for publication, of all
news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise' credited In this newspaper. '
Full-time USO !
' News that the USO is to be reopened on a
full-time basis with Bob Boardman again in
charge is welcomed by all who are concerned
with soldier welfare. Camp Adair is again fill
Ing up with troops. The hospital there is taking
care of .many navy men who are sick or wound
ed. The Corvallis navy air base has manjy men
who like to get 40 miles off base to see the
sights. This means that there is ample "traffic"
to keep the USO functioning.
As a replacement depot Camp Adair will re
ceive and hold army ground forces for a time
and then ship them out when the call j comes
for men to go overseas. The turnover there is
expected to be rapid. Men may be there for
just a few weeks or for a longer period, but
not for the intense training session which was
true when divisions were formed and trained
there.
1 These men are expected to have more liberty
time, which means more of them will be free
to come to Salem. The experience last week
when the men in khaki and GI boots swarmed
Into town and swamped all facilities shos
we must do a better job of preparation,
j Open full time, the USO will be a clubhouse
for visiting service men. It will be a Renter
where those willing to help provide entertain
ment for soldiers may report. Salem citizens
should, respond as they did before and five
these boys a cordial "reception. After allj they
are going out ort -a long voyage, in our behalf.
They deserve the best of everything beforjj they
shove off.
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End to Subsidies?
The AP had a story early in the week about
how the department of agriculture hopes to
ease, the government out of the subsidy busi
ness on foods. The plan is to let the government
slide out of paying! subsidies j to producers of
meat, butter, milk,! flour, soybean products,
etc., etc. and let the consumer paj, the bill.
Ceiling prices would be permitted to increase
and wages" might go up to permit workers to
absorb the increase" in cost of living. :
The theory is that; with; the war tapering off
by 1946 the fear, of inflation will not be so
great and prospect of overproduction will serve
as a deflationary 1 influence. At I any rate Sec
retary Anderson is F said to favor getting;, the
government out of f granting subsidies, , which
now cost a billion and a Half, j r j '
A year ago many' farm organizations fought .
for just this: no subsidies and a freer markets .
Now that they have enjoyed subsidies they
may not like being puffed awayj from the crib,
especially when they; may foresee sagging prices
from shrinking of wartime demands. , '
The story may have been a trial balloon to
get public and fanner reaction. We hope the
plan is carried out, though I With reasonable
by inniniiit with Tm Waakiaa-toa Staff
It Fizzled Out
t uwibu xTUl
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protection to the farmers against too
deflation. i I M
sharp
Tho Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. Rosen
Army of Wives
English girls are not without a degree of
charm, for thousands of them have succeeded
'In capturing American GIs for husbands. It is
reported that 10.000 English and Welsh wives
of American soldiers are now registered and
waiting for travel accomodations to the United
States; another 20,000 brides have made appli
cation; and the Red Cross estimates there are
20,000 more who haven't made application yet.
That would total to 50.000 persons, no small
army in itself. j
To this number should be added the Aus
tralian wives, and later probably some French
wives and maybe some German wives as the
non-fraternization -rule is relaxed. The total
may easily run jnto six figures. j
j To. American girls who are sitting the war
' out ' this is tough competition. Absence may ;
make the heart grow fonder, but many times
it makes the heart wander.
There's nothing we can do about it, though,
J so we will just have to greet these numerous
"in-laws" and welcome them as new Ameri
cans. One can understand their eagerness to
come to this country in view of its fame as
a land, of plenty and of freedom.
Go to Halifax is an old expletive which has
j kept the name of the Nova Scotia port alive,
j Its other claim to attention seems to arise over
i its explosions. A tremendous explosion occurred
j there in the other war when a munitions ship
in the harbor blew up. Now a jetty fire has
j set off other explosions of munitions. As .a
j great shipping depot for Canada, Halifax has
! handled enormous quantities of high explosives,
j so it sits literally on a powder keg. Fortunately
! the present blasts caused few casualties.
Inquisitive Ickes If!
Secretary Ickes, jso we are informed, will
seek to have his status clarified by President
Truman. Unless there is a clear invitation for
him to remain as head 6f the 'department of
the interior, he will ask! that, the resignation
previously filed be accepted. Ickes may leairn
the old truth that "curiosity killed a cat.f
The general impression is that Ickes will
get about the same! response that Morgenthau
did when he got irked Qyer i rumors and put
his case up to the chief.In other words Ickes
will be next to leave the cabinet (
When this happens it will take the last of
the 1932 Roosevelt cabinet appointees, the great
hatchet-men of the ; new deal. With Ickes out
the Washington scene will , have something
missing, though in many! quarters not missed!"
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Tuna are again running northern waters and
the fishing season off the coast Is resuming for
the season. Tuna has displaced : salmon as the
big fish crop down fat Astoria. ;Once regarded
s 8t,ray mjgratioh, tuna are how considered
a permanent resource of the ; ocean of the
mouth of the Columbia. 4 i ' . . ! -
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week-
CTU " came irom reactivated Camp Adair, came; and the paths they fol-
Judgmg by the number of strolling couples lowed to reach hostility to Hit
we would say that Salem girls are certainly
fast; workers. j j
Sjlem filled up wth soldiers over the
SIX OF THEM, by Alfred' NenmxiuC
translated by Anatol Murad (Mae
aiUa; SM5.
The expatriate German
writer, now in this country, has
taken for the j subject of his
latest; novel six j persons in Mu
nich who are foes of Hitler and
nazism. . . ,
As the story opens, four uni
versity students and a profes
sor and his wife, have been ar
rested. 'They are Sophia, her
brother Hans, Christopher
whom she loves, Alexander and
Karl land Dora von Hennings.
They j are grilled by secret po
lice and taken before the dread
ed people's court for trial. ;
The action lasts only a day or
so. But in the course of the
state's Inquisition, their lives
unfold against the 'tragic back
ground of the Germany which
they love so passionately and
which has been betrayed so vile
ly. We see first the circumstan
ces of the police roundup .
the six were involved in writ
ing and distributing a manifesto
actually issued y Munich Stu
dent two years ago. Next we see
the homes from which they
&.7AT THE FRONTP
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Roads in Europe
Now Cluttered With
Allied Sign Boards
Interpreting
The War News
By KIRKE U SIMPSON
AMocltcf Press War Analyst
At least OPA's failure cannot be attributed to
lack of advice.
Editorial Comment
ARGENTINA j
Something is rotten in Argentina and it smells
. powerfully like the Farrell-Peron government. De
spite all the . mouthing of this reg-im in behalf
of democratic methods,: Fascist practices remain.
That government not only signed the Act of Chap
ultepec but is pledging an -early signature to the
United Nations charter, and sUll American news
paper men are being hounded m Buenos Aires
like common criminals.
One week Vice President'juan Peron announce
that censorship has been lifted. The next week'
It is back again, unannounced, with a squeeze
tighter than ever. Individual liberties are so far
curtailed that the once great dailies of. La Prensa
and La Nacion are completely hamstrung and in
effectual .
The people in control Farrell, Peron or the
army behind them have discovered that they can
not forever hold American correspondents incom
municado. The?e reporters have succeeded in telling
the world outside exactly what is going on in
Argentina. Sometimes their stories have circum
vented censorship. At other times they have been
passed by the censors only to have the government
attempt reprisals for something that was written.
The old method of threatening correspondents
holding them responsible when they wrote some
thing detrimental to the government has given
way to a reign of terrorism against them.
Arnaldo Cortesi of the New York Tim
Joe Newman of , the New York Herald Tribune
ler's third reich. And finally,
depicted with great dramatic ef
fectiveness, the; verdict is pro
nounced. - -
These are six out of six mil
' lion, Karl boasts, As the story
develops, it is plain that there
are more' at least than six. They
carry on the old Germany which
won the respect' and admiration
of other peoples. ; That there
survived even" under Hitler per
sons of their intense devotion to
liberty and freedom has been
proved in the ' last decade by
nazi newspaper reports of trials
and convictions. But if there had
been ! six million, with the In
vincible determination of this
band, it seems likely that they
might have stopped der fuehrer
by their own efforts.
Thi extent of opposition to
Hitler in fact does not of course
ping 'climax. But the story of
such bold rebellion is not new,
and In the specific ease of Chris
topher, I get a faint whiff of the
melodramatic. Id rate it all a B highway casualties in this sec-
, i : m nunpi ma;iasi wees.
The glee with which naval airmen spotted and
pounced on holed up Japanese warships hiding out
at the Yokosuka base just -inside iTokyo Bay can
be imagined. It gave them their first opportunity
to repay Pearl Harbor debts in kind.
It seems wholly unlikely, however, that any
major element of what is left of : Japan's surface
fleet was moored under camouflage at Yokosuka.
The whereabouts of such enemy battleships, plane
carriers and heavy cruisers as are still afloat is
yet to be revealed. By every rule ! of loeie and
military axiom they must.be elsewhere, probably Sft3 L .wTf Si r u
in ts titi . tk. .k- the value of the novel It
tinn. .t tH-" 7- ; L rhich abound, in exciting
inland haT An ZZZTl ituOM to a grip-
-m vwa. Nl AAVUVUft V
B-29 bombers sufficiently ; indicates the view of
the American high command as to; where Japanese
big surface craft are sweating It j out,
Tokyo Bay under jprjesent circumstances Is no
more than a trap for any part of Japanese surface
naval power holed im there. I i i
Such Japanese ships as are lurking under cover n-r . .
t lr1 GRIN AND; BEAR IT
- ciwci; vt u wo postages jeaaing
Into the Pacific when! the moment for that comes.
Assuming that the )niUat phase! of invasion of
Japan should come on bomb-blasted Kyushu, the
southernmost island where there ' is indication
Japans military rulers expect it, any enemy fleet
remnants in the inland sea will continue to rep
resent a real threat! to successful landings until
they -are disposed ofj. ; - - '.
Closer up advance air bases than have yet been
acquired would seem" to be an urgent allied neces
sity in preparation for a full scale invasion. ;The
closer those bases 'can -be established for tactical
air support purposes to the selected main invasion
sites the lower will be ground force casualties.
Aside from the Amani islands, half way between
Okinawa and KyushO, there are no island stepping
stones In the south that could materially advance
the site of tactical air force takeoff s and refueling
imers. ooumeastern, Kyushu, however, does con
tain a considerable Stretch of low-lying shoreline
By Kenneth L. Dixon
PARIS (delayed) iJP)- The
Allied armies, which always go
in for countless signs wherever
they travel, now are taking ad
vantage of the lack of combat
activities really to turn their
sign-painters loose.
Driving from Biamen, Ger
many, xo fans fna'iT'i
we found high-j f-
ways through, sr
Germany, Hol-,f L -s I
land, Belgium' -vV'- ,
dotted with 'rC B
signs in a man-J I ,,5?T-r
ner reminiscent I
of the billboard,. ' x'
business back! 'fK " T'i 1 j
home.
. , They concern i Kenneth Dlxon -occupation
regulationsy" conduct
for soldier traffic, instructions
. and other . subjects.. Since ter
ritories involved often are joint
ly operated, th signs are some
times American and sometimes
British and quite often give the
translation into! whatever is the
local language. , .
' The British go.in for plenty of
traffic signals i-often obscure to
Yanks even yet and when they
think a road is dangerous they
. make no attempt 'to keep it a
secret. . ' j ..:
"Warning: bad road surface,"
will read the j first sign of a
series. : Following it will be sev
eral more merely repeating that
warning, then the wording will
change to, "Warning: surface
slippery when fwet. And then
that may be repeated a few
times.
Apparently ihere remains a
doubt in their minds that you
are properly impressed, so next
comes a huge billboard saying'
flatly, "Warning: death trap road
surface." And a few hundred
yards farther, ; they wash their
hands, of you With: "You have
been warned." -
'. .Lulled by an absence of signs
for the next few miles youjnay
shift .into high gear again, when
suddenly you j are confronted
with signs listing the number of
BrotvnellSays GOP Will Win
: Control ot Congress in
: . i '46, Nation in '48, Election
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l : 1 . . j f , ! . i n mm tlnvkaU TSrAurfiftTf
SNVxv, Jul la.-vri auonai v,iuu uuu w "
Jr, told approximately 400 Colorado republican leaders and members
taAmT the nartv would -win control of congress in 148 and , "we
gnau nave two years in woiui w auun v.i M -
, , j for a national triumph In 1948.
The New Yorker attacxea wnai
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More Poultry
Sought for
Armed Forces
a. j ii a ihImCa
naarri niNi ; asm iiies? jiiiiiiiiiisli m
tion'i method of political pub
licity through the hiring of many
publicists at "the people's ex
pense." ; ' ;' i , ..
The republican national com
- . I UkK a-a- i aamavA am ay- wiy ff) avt
WASHINGTON Julv 19-(JPi- the 1946 elections through estab-
k i ii t ni.t.i. i lishment of Dress and radio' in-
A;rauiuuu ucnuun - j '
conferred today with members of formation i departments and re-
tne nauonal poultry advisory com-1 w
. . , a I in MnffrM fnfarmwl lt nur Aa
miiiee on government ptana w -
i I velonments in foreign and domes.
uuieuiuui s KicaKi ijuauuun w i j
poultry meat tot. the armed serv- affairs.1 ?, t
ices ' I I For example, he explained, the
I The proposal considered, but not committee has engaged Hugh Wil
acted upon, would require pro- son, former ambassador to Ger-
ducers and processors in the mid
west to set aside about SO ner
cent of the production for the mil
itary services. ; 1
Under a similar plan now in
many, to direct its foreign affairs
office. ,';.('! .
Need More Publicity i
"Our senators and congressmen
have no facilities for research
effect in ! major producing areas and publicity, said Brownell. "We
ox ins easi ana souuieasi, iu peri" uuuuiui cu-ivuuu uigam
cent of the Doultrv marketina ration of competent people to do
goes to the armed forces. - that work. I
Recommendations of the poul-f W the next off-year campaign,
try officials will be laid before I the speaker said, "we have only to
c a. . . . . . . . I l aha ia . .
o-rery j oi . Aricuiiure vvnaer-l.cicvi, uiore rrpreseniauves ana
son, probably Saturday or Mon- I we shall have control of the house.
day.
By Lichty
have been threatened wTth lV i S SfaSS"" not vered by island
.rut i,v. vi- , JTr? ilT"7' i7' outposts as are the! Kyushu shore on t.
sea.
and others like Emie Hill of th. r.-TC r1!. mr Kyushu shores on the west
iw. .A Vlr-rm?., tv-... Tv. T"T - ' MCin China
i mcago sun,
by the local
reporters nave air bases In m.th vmBT. r, ' "
t . . wvirny au 9ippwh
News and . Virginia Prewett of the Chicaffo s..n
have been foUowed and hounded by the local llTtT- t
-gestapo" Needleae to say these rririer, hTv. llVLTL
Those eastern beaches are of at least sufficient
secure advance
not, and will not be Intimidated.
Of course, Peron and his henchmen 'deny any
' part in the campaign against these newspaper men.
But whether they are directly responsible or not
they certainly know what is going on. If any harm
befalls these American citizens they should be held
responsible, .'..
There are many places In this hemisphere and
around the world where American reporters' are
cot permitted to function. But Argentina is the
only spot where .Our correspondents are getting
kicked around in this manner. It is time lour
for main landing forces aiming at Japan's Industrial
and military and political nerve centers on Honshu
would be- posible from southern Kyushu, '
That probably is just what Tokyo war leaders
expect, a two-phase Invasion beginning on Kyushu
and expanding later to Honshu. If so it Is obvious
that the shattered fleet strength they have been
reserving so carefuOy for many months? for sea
as well as air attacks against Invasion I convoys
must be in the inland sea. . i ; f
Immediate invasion moves against Honshu are
bjN Y
hfzhlr imnrrKM Asim ti ..j j ,
StE o ""And wiih fexness cearage we masfreet out fl sabverslve
lisher. aSkStK el'meata -wh 'k Ermine .ur JobaOh-Ahe or CoU-
v. m uV Ma j seueaal term f geTernmentT
They give that a moment to
sink in before unleashing a
printed lecture series on speed
ing, which usually begins gently
wiui someuung like this: "Speed
ing is dangerous" or "No over
taking" (British for passing).
Then they warm 'up to their
work. "Drive slowlysave lives,
save equipment," is the next re
minder. If there is road work
ahead or a dangerous . intersec
tion they slap a bold black,
"Danger: dead slow" which is
limey language for: "Better this
one in low, bud."
After a few of these they get
terse on the subject A first
sign says, "Speeding," a second
continues, "is a court martial
offense." sA third sign then de
livers the lunt order: "Watch
your speed. i
Those are only a very few of
the literally hundreds of traffic
signals alone, , not to mention the
even greater number of varied
directional signs. But most of
this stuff is standard operating
procedure in any army. It is on
ly when they begin to discuss
soldiers' garb and conduct that
a new crop of signs begins to
sliow.
One roadside series tells pass-;
ing doughboys: "You wear the
uniform of a liberator." Farther
along: "Wear it proudly."; And
then more suggestively: "Wear it
properly."
Then, in case he did not get
what they are driving at, the
last sign threatens: "Improper
uniform is a court martial of-;
fense." Signs at city limits re
mind entering soldiers that
"Summary court martial is now
in session," and details a list f
offenses for which they might be
punished. T
"Curfew starts . ." says aft
other sign, giving the hour, ad
another warns grimly: "Get oit
of town before it, is too lat4"
More' personal are the sighs .
v referring to Venereal disease.
Even in Allied towns, signs sy,
"There is venereal disease here,
too." Just in case the Gmight
have thought that was strictly an
Axis ailment . :
; -Taxpayers . will be glad to
know that one sign which recurs
throughout Allied areas says:
."Warning: Drivers must not car
ry civilians in war department
vehicles" indicating the army
has no;, intention- of having all
that equipment and gas frittered
away in fanciful pursuits.
The main difference between
British and American wording in
signs comes in such as these,
which . endeavor to keep traffic
moving: . ; - : . -
The British sign says,1 "If you
must stop please ' get off the
rod." "': -.
The American, "Keep moving
or get off the road." H
Silverion4'H
Winner Given
Gold Wotcli
control of every committee. Then
we shall have two years in which
to audit the new deal and open
the way for a return of the re
publican party nationally" to di
rection of the country's affairs.
The democratic party is made
up of three groups, Brownell said.
He described them as the "south
ern "hlrw which malnliitit, iio.lf -
Richard Krenz. Silverton. win- I in nnwr ntr ilnlnif 4k.
. , I J wv4u UIC iiau-
ner of the 1944 4-H club regional chise to a very -large segment of
awara ana now a member of the the population, black and white;
armed forces, was presented with the big city machines, which be
a gold watch Thursday noon -at lieve in politics for the benefit of
the Salem Lions club, a gift from private property, and the extreme
Mrs. Wahlgreen, Chicago head of left-win eroun. which ha hni
a chain drug store system. The the legislative program for the
award was made by; Gov. Earl new deal" f
Snell at the request of H. C. Sey- Luncheon Guest ,
mour, state director of 4-H clubs. . Brownell will be guest atr a
Specifically the award was luncheon tomorrow in Pueblo, '
made for; Krenz leadership In a Cola, after which he will go to
home' beautifies tion nroiect In Salt Tir r-iHr . .s.w
whlch'youth from the entire na- republican chairman and vice
uon participated. Krenz.Sevmodr' chairman 1 1
pointed out has been in 4-H work tHn .n 4.1 v. T
for eight years and taken part in Angele San Francisco, Portland.
' w nni a ure, oeaiiia ana 2noJun. Wash
....iU.ui yivjev-i ana was one, oi. i Boise, Ida., and Cheyenne. Wyo,
two bova in th natinn in urin 'a I
SZOO scholarship award. In' 1944
he was . the regional winner In a
food production project securms?
a S100 war bond., . L
Unable ! to attend the -national
meetins of the winners In Chiracm
ui urJim i liic service iie I ... .
was awarded war bonds to the ex- WASHINGTON, July 10 -t!p)
tent of the cost of the trip.: rosioeni lruman nas vetoed a
uiu proposing o pay Fhilip Klein
man, Salem, 5 Ore., $450 to cover
medical and hospital treatment.
Kleinman, who served eight en
listments in the army, claimed
damages for injuries suffered in
a service baseball game. The pres
ident j was advised by the war
department and me veterans ad
ministration that the injury did
not appear to have been Incurred
hi, or aggravated by, military ac
tivities, i
Dresent iiuua arnsj 1 T If
better to look at national de- formed that the legislation, if ap
fense from more of a fresh view- proved, would give a special bene
point studying our needs for fit -to one" veteran not granted
adequate preparedness in the others , and would establish a
light of probable conditions? precedent for "thousands of simi
One fact will sUnd out that claims" for non-service-con-
unui we world commotion tub-1 neciea disabilities.
sides we will need i to keep a
tions stirred by war do not easily '46 AAA Proittam St
cool: and w will hH I wajaaaaa crci
strength until the coolmg off CORVALLIS, 'July 19--Ore-
perioa is over. We will have the.10"" "A I4B program will be
Salem Soldier
CRT
fprormrs
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Portland Eyes Elevated
Roadways to Bridges Jf
j PORTLAND, July 19 A
preliminary study of plans for two
elevated roadways connecting
Hawthorne and Morrison street
bridges with southeast Portland
was authorized today by the city
council. . i
Mayor Riley said the" project, if
concluded, would realize "the
prayers of 80 per cent of the pop
ulation of Portland for the past
40 years." Commissioner W, A.
Bowes was instructed to apply for
a $40,000 FWA loan to help finance
the-plans. -
Youth Rescues Man v
GRANTS PASS, July 19 -UPt
Robert W. Taylor, , 15, of Murphy.
was the town's hero today after
he pulled 3?-year-old Leland Wil
son from the Apple Jat river. - "
strongest navy and the strong
est air force in the world, and
we should plan to keep "them on
the same comparative level.
Likewise we do not want to let
our army., dwindle down , to a
- paltry. 130,000 men. j Instead we
should keep a trained rerular
army of from 500,000 to 1,000,
000 men for some little time
after V-Jday.
I do not put much faith in
single year of military training
so iar as defense is concerned.
It may have discinlinarv viIum
but I think we would find that
the year's training of youth
would be quickly lost, end soon
we demand would be for two or
three years of surh training
i Moreover the tendency will be
to train in terms of old wars.
rather than new. ' MOitary drill
ana manual ot arms have receiv
ed scant attention when men
" were being trained for the real
Dusiness of fisfctinav Th m
phasis.was put on physical and
. mental Conditioning, and aneciai-
Ized training which would have
xo De repeated from scratch In
event of war.
1 1 believe we would do a bet-
. ter job) if we put more money
Into research and: testing of
weapons, if we built up our re
serve lorce with annual training
periods and our national guard.
it was not so much lack of
trained manpower as ships and
equipment which delayed us in
"us .war, A strong enough ar
my, to serve as a holding force
supplemented, with: a powerful
airforce and nary to control th.
sea and air would l seem to be
me better defense plan.. .
? We do not want to t imnM
pared, rbut I believe there are
Detter ways to provide for our
defense than bv nmnin w
through a smgle year of army. .
similar to this year's, rhirm..
R. B. Taylor, back from Wash-
inartnn maA
have- the same goal ell-out pro
duction, he said.
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