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Tbm OZLGQIl STATESMAN. Satan. Oregon. Saturday Morning. July 21. 1M3 "Wo Favor Strays ls; No Fear Shall Xwi" ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 ; - : ! ..: - - : .THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - J CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 1 1 Member of the Associated Press - i The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all; news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.' I -I ? manors icaui Kussfa and the Chinese Communists The Medord Mail -Tribune offers, as an ex planation of why the Chungking government nd the Chinese communists of Kennan do not get together,' the assertion that the communists "take their orders from Moscow and riot from Chungking.! I J. We know of no foundation for such a claim. The apologists for the communists, Edgar Snow and Agnes Smedley, make no such represents-, tion. Nor has there been any indication that Russia was slipping favor or supplies , to the Chinese "reds." . . While it is difficult to get at the exact truth, the impression we have from our reading on both sides of the communist-Chungking imbro glio is that the Chinese communists are quite independent politically and self-sufficient eco nomically. They are not bolsheviks after the "old bolshevik" manner in Russia. Private property rights are still respected; The journal ists who defend them claim they are more demo cratic than Chungking, 'j " Russia itself has done very little to provide supplies for the Chinese in their war against Japan. They did furnish some stuff before their own involvement in Europe, but riot much since. Whether Russia is now going to fall on one side or the other is another of the ;secrets of the Kremlin. The answer may be made at Potsdam now; perhaps Premier T. V. Soong heard it on his recent visit in Moscow. Or ft may be that an answer may be: found in China itself, for a communist emissary has returned to the capital for further discussions with the ruling party there. , , Our own government has put its backing be hind Chiang Kai-shek. We question whether Stalin will want to offend this country by taking an opposing attitude.- The enigma, however, is one whose unfolding may affect vitally the whole future of East Asia. ' Threat of Lumber Strike J The AFL lumber and sawmill workers' union nrnrvMoe trt nclr thm WI.PR nn Tulv 9ft fnr a ctril vote to back up its demand for wage increases running! from 20 ce,nt to 37 Vi cents per hour. If the request is granted, the labor board will conduct the vote among union members 30 days afterward. I This strike threat is giving concern to the lum ber industry which is now up to its neck turning out lumber for war, and should give concern to the war production .board and the army and navy because of the urgent need for lumber for military purposes. It-is put down now a perhaps the most critical material. We do not see how-the workers could stage strike now in the face of the known need for lumber. They are patriotic citizens with sons and relatives in the service and are as anxious to have the war with Japan pressed through to victory as any group. We simply refuse to be lieve they will put the country; in jeopardy by actually calling a strike, even though they make all the steps preliminary thereto. Likewise we do not see how the government can permit a strike in the lumber industry now. The war situation is too critical, j We are mount ing the final assault on Japan,! and lumber is essential to support that assault lumber for barracks, for warehouses. I for docks, fnr rrf nd boxes. H , . ' , Some way must be found to head off a walk- , out. The workers in woods and mills who have made such a good record hitherto must not spoil that record and endanger early victory by laying down axe and saw at this juncture in the war. Editorial Comment JAPANESE RESISTANCE j Sydney newspapers looking' in a crystal ball pre dict "big news" pretty soon. Possibly they are not quite sure what they saw, for they offer a choice of two eventualities. One is Japan begging for peace; the ether is Russia jumping into the war. The suggestion., that Japan will cave down the -bank immediately is one to be viewed with caution. All w know about the Japanese and what they are likely to do is based on what they have done before. They have never been quick to surrender; in fact. In their three previous historic wars they did not quit. Even in the face of Kublai Khan, the most powerful monarch f his time, they had nothing but defiance. In the present war, no matter how badly beaten, they have not surrendered enough to notice. ' There is another feature, hrnhahl imnnHnt tv. Japanese have a supreme confidence that they can mash the enemy. Tbey have been telling us about it all through this war. They were going to- anni hilate us at Guadalcanal; In the Philippines they would drive us into the sea; on Saipan they would tear ua to nlm: m nkinm tK. j " j .vviuu US to powder. . ! This is possibly not so funny as the recital would indicate. It sounds like whistling in the graveyard to keep up the national spirits. It can be that the Japanese bebeve that sooner or later they will deal ii Amvaiatin ttlnur ...ill j: - - .- - . win malum age us ana make us quit. If this has failed to come each time they have predicted it so far, that only means to them that the right moment has not arrived. . Tokyo is now saying the Americans will be crushed either in the surf or after they have landed. i nui mm w vm iw uio mai uiey do not think so. When Kublai Khan demanded their surrender, they chopped off the heads of his envoys and met him In the surf and on the beaches. They bad no great army then; nothing to compare with the TChan'a in nrranfTattstn rui atriTI It is also not safe to think an invasion of Japan -will be easy. The landing and the subjection of the Islands may be a tougher operation than Normany and Germany. This time the Japanese have an estimated 9,000,000 troops on the home islands, with plenty of arms. With a firm belief that they can defeat invasion, they are most likely to .fight to the bitter end," Okinawa aain. on a vastly greater scaledSan Francisco Chronicle. . . "In the Groove? The Baker Democrat-Herald thinks that be cause of Franklin Roosevelt's breaking the two term precedent "it .needj not be surprising if future White House occupants strive for as many terms as they can win." Not surprising, no; but surprising if they can succeed. For the Roose velt fourth-term precedent will jserve to blight many a hope of continuation ini office. , Roose velt's death at the beginning of his fourth term will be cited to show the physical strain of the presidency; and the j record - to date made by Harry Truman pretty well explodes the 'findis pensable man' theory. Moreover, we. hope that we will have no more wars in ! election jyears, so the plea of "don' swap horses'f may not be dragged out to perpetuate a man, in office. All this is speculative. .;The two-term prece dent has been broken. We must admit it is quite conceivable that men may be elected three or even more times tojj the presidency. - However, the country has survived the FDR reign, though with constitutional precedents warped and debt multiplied ; so we should not assume that a fu ture ' multiple-term president would spell the country's doom. " if . .. I ; j.: The pertinent political -question for republi cans' and new dealers is ihis man Truman. So far he has been clicking with the people, with congress, with politicians and businessmen. New dealers are left with their jaws hanging (Henry Wallace in particular) ;' and republicans no longer are laying bets on 1948. Truman is doing a good job of carrying out the Dewey platform (Perkins, Morgenlhu, Biddle, vith Ickes up). Herbert Brownell, republican national chair man, predicts a republican congress after tha 1946 election and a republican president irr 1948. We doubt if he is laying a"nyi bets on j either score, however. ' :' f- j j Anyhow politics is "bai?k in the' groove." The. age of Roosevelt mysticism is passed. PiatrBVvtai Vf Eias 9Wni 9rmHmt I . .' OWI Report on Northwest ? OWI got in bad jwith Kansas and , Nebraska because it deprecated their industrial develop ment in the pamphlet it prepared for distribu tion In Russia. It puts emphasis on power de velopment out here which is correct; and then it refers to the mineral resources of the; north west which it reports have: been "scarcely touched." ; ' I! !-. H ' ' i That is pretty much bunk. . We have pretty well extracted the supplies of rich virgin metals. The Butte copper mines are high-cost operations now. The lead-silver mines in .north Idaho are still producing, but- no new districts arf being discovered. . j - I j f ' We are always hearing people talk about "un tapped mineral resource when actually there never were many such resources in the area to Ot course there are still stores of minerals to come out of the earth out here; but the place for their discovery is more probably in the labora tory than in the field: discovery of new processes to use crude minerals. K " t I M ' Interpreting The War! News .By KIRKE L. SIMPSON AatodaUd Pra-War Analyst ft ; " ' Two developments in China throw into high re lief a prediction by Premier T. V. Soong that the Japanese war would end this year or early in 1946. They are:. . - jj f. ; j r: The first American air strike from the Pacific at Japanese airfields in the Shanghai area; and a sig nificant suggestion from Chungking that a potential sea supply line for .'Chinese troops now exists in southern Kwangtung. S i Is Although fresh from conferences in Moscow with Generalissimo Stalin. Soong gave no intimation to the Chungking audience he addressed that any defi nite decisions affecing Russo-Chinese relations had been reached to account , for his optimism. It is certain, nevertheless; that nothing was said at Mos cow to decrease his expectation of a far earlier end of the war in Asia than 1 as yet contemplated in Anglo-American high command circles. Chinese seizure of a 50-mfle-wlde stretch of the coast of South China between Tinpak and Yeung kong, southwest of Canton, caused; the Chungking command to note that the way was now open in Kwangtung for a seaborne invasion. To form an effective junction With main Chinese armies west of the failing Japanese. Hankow-Canton corridor, however. South , China ports farther west In the Gulf of Tonkin would seem necessary. In that con nection the reported Chinese capture of Mon Cay in the extreme northeastern tip of French tndo China could lead to greater results than the clear ing of the Kwangtung coast east of Tinpak.; Mon Cay is linked by highway with a stretch of the Hanoi-Nanning tiuchbw railway all in Chines hands. It and paralleling roads could serve as a feeder for arms and equipment fox the whole south ern wing of Chinese armies itorming persistently at Japanese 'corridor defenses holding open the Hankow-Canton cotfhectiohs. j i j j Japanese loss of (Changsha Would cut all enemy forces in South China off completely by land as :they-are now. cut' off by aea. L, I ' ; jh j . There is much to Indicate that Chinese strategy in the south is aimed at iiltimate clearance of the whole Kwangtung and Tonkin gulf coasts of enemy' forces as the. most promising means of direct sea communications for an inflow of battle equipment and supplies on a scale adequate! to Chines needs. Mon Cay is the only southern port in Chinese hands as yet with direct ! road or rail connections with Chungking main armies. : :.'-5 I ' ! r The port still is completely masked by Hianan island and the Japanese-held extremity of the Liu chow penninsula. They are in easy range f Ameri can air power based in the Philippines, however, to supplement American 14th air force operations from China."" V I, , ;' -?V' Far to the north : in Shantung air strikes in the Shanghai area by American Okinawa-based bomb ers must serve to intensify Japanese expectation of ah allied amphibious advance on that hub ot enemv occupation ia northern tSina. : Tho Litorary GuidopoGt j By W. Q. Rogers t SPEAK OF THBS DBVO, adttcd y Stariinf Narth aad C. B. BoataU Daklaar, Draa; S3). A couple of 'newspaper boys havej raised the devil from his numerous literary lairs. North i and Boutell, book editors of the Newj York Post, have collected 34 Items of fiction, poetry and drama having to do with Satan, whom- they find, after consid erable diabolical research, "in league with creative mankind even, anthologists." John Collier alone - makes three contributions, one of them thatj creepy masterpiece "Thus I Refute Beelzy.'; Baudelaire, ' Goethe, Marlowe, ! Milton and Dante, as you might expect, arc represented, but some of ' the : other names are surprises. The editors are impartial, showing Satan both winning and wors ted. They have preceded each , - section Foreign Devils, Faust, Satan in America, what they smartly call the "Djinn Bottle" and ; so on with helpful and entertaining comments. And as you I might have guessed, the jacket design is by Salvador Da- u; I - It's all a good job of giving the devil his due. 1 !;: IT SHOULDN'T HAPPKN , fcy Dae Fraeinaa (Hareenrt, Braee, ft). And it woudn't have, without Freeman's smart pencil. Pvt. Al bert! C. Bedlington, Jr., goes -to Army camp and starts through the ropes. It's a dog's life, he dis covers, and logically enough he turns into a dog. But being a; dog in a man's world has its problems, too, as he finds out in various adventures on furlough. .Freeman, who evi dently reads the newspapers, lets Al joccupy a ' berth and that brings a senate investigation. In the end, it all makes a man of Al and he's off to the wars. Freeman tells his story in few words and many pictures; he's good at writing, grand at draw ing. Tha doghouse for you if you don't read it. I i CH'' :' P00 ClvHian . 'SV.'C'.-CS&SCU ! VdJd. ln MiUlatr j V -er - ; Kenneth Dixon By Kenneth L. Dixon OCCUPIED GERMANY-()-Trying to operate a civilian type vehicle in i the army zone is ; getting as F compli c a t d these days as fi running an in terstate truck line back home. Down in the seventh army territory such vehicle are re gistered by a special number which must be displayed pro minently usually painted on me radiator or hood. Before the ninth army was dissolved, that system was abandoned and li cense plates were issued with white numbers on a red back ground.' - ' : Operating n the Bremen area, it also Is necessary to get a windshield i sticker or the MP's will be Ion your tail re gardless of whether you have one of the other two types of registration. J , ;- There are several other meth ods of identification and regis tration and for most all of them you must apply through the pro vost marshal's office or the mili tary government deoartment. Then after a i brief delay (also reminiscent of i civilian days) your license comes through and is issued to you. . , - The only difference is that you don't have to pay for it V. der to reach the roof where the pole was located. Now they are operating from a standard flag pole on the ground and all is well. j ' With the war over they usu ally have the division band playing when they raise the flag in the morning and bring it down at night or at least a bugler. ' r j "The trick," said Coleman, "is to begin bringing the flag down when the band plays the first note and have it completely down on the last note." THINK IT OVKK. MATS, T , etTTla. 1TSMCJI (Mill; SIJU). Advice to the sailor on how to keep out of the brig. and off a diet; of peas and punk, and what the j penalties ar If he. ignores th advice. At least our Navy Is more humane than some navies used to be; it doesn't make th punishment fit th crim go Sgt Frank. S. Coleman of Bartlesville, Okla., and PFC. Otto W. Winklman of Pine Bluff, Arte, are the 84th divi sion's official flag raisers whose Job it is to see that th Stars and Stripe, float each day over the command post " Sometimes they practically have to be acrobats to do the job. Back at Bad Pyrmont, Germany, they had to climb four flights of stairs and a lad- dosely that, if you kill a aboard ship, you ar tied to the body and thrown into the sea, as you would hav been once. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty .; i . i - . - - k?' " ."rvvwk ..... . - - mm! Jk i f .V. jSB I ;1 f ill - "ii . Meat Scarcity Not Felt Much In Honolulu . HONOLULU, July 20-(i!p)-Nine-ty thousand customers went home with smiles on their faces and an estimated 300,000 pounds of fresh meat under their arms. The x90,000 smiles and 300,000 pounds of meat marked the inau guration yesterday of a new dis tribution plan under which all markets sell their limited stock on the same day. Previously, explained; Charles Patty, territorial director of meat control, the markets . staggered their meat days and 1 customers would jump from one to another. Under the new management,' he said, every customer gets two to three pounds, depending on the six of his family. Despite the scarcity, Patty said, Honolulu Is much better off than the mainland. f There is no point system of ra tioning food in Hawaii.; And fee ear wedding and honeymoon I've planned en Aagnst 15, cloudless, with fcrUliaat sunshine, eoatlautnr without change foe - - 1 days. ' Peter Stef f in Dies Thursday After Illness SILVERTON Peter Steffen, 84, prominent farmer in this dis trict for th past tt years, died at bis home here Thursday follow ing an extended Illness. ; ' Staff en. was bom in Bern, Ind4 and cam to Sihrertoq at the age of 12. He married Rose Leichty, daughter of a pioneer Howell Prairie family, nearly 60 years ago, and sine then - th couple has mad their home at th farm on- rout two.;; '.. ': r Regarded by many in this area as an excellent farmer, he was active in his work until shortly before his death. He was one of th founders of th Pratum Men nonit church and ' had been ' ac tive in church affairs. Surviving are the .widow, four children, Lena E. Clark, Dan A Steffen and Ellen F. Steffen, all of Silverton, and Oliver E. Stef fen of Roseburg; nine grandchil dren, and also several nieces and nephews who reside at Howell Prairie. ... - : ' r- Funeral services will - be held, at the; Pratum Mennonite church Monday at 2 p.m. with , Rev. WI1-' beA Regler officiating. Conclud ing services will be at the Pratum cemetery under the direction of th W.-T. Rigdon company. - Brin Of Arrest Attendants WASHINGTON, July 20-()- A coroners jury today t oraerea three attendants : held for grand iury : action in connection with the death of a sailor mental pa tient at the - government-operated St Elizabeth's hospital. - The sailor. Seaman 2c Clark J. Leeper 22, formerly of Phoe nix. : Arir., died Wednesday or, a ruptured illver, ; Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy; said, ijee- per's parents now , live at Kicn mond, Calif. , I ; It had been disclosed previous. ly by. hospital authorities that an investigation was . under way to ascertain the circumstances un der -which Howard J. Crandall, 21. of San Diego, Califs a . dis charged sailor, had died at the hospital. ' i V : i " The, three attendants held for the grand jury, with! individual bonds set rat $1500, were: Fred a Brown, 40; Lloyd L. Lacey, 50 and Samuel H. SelgeL 38. . 4.. r.-.: - ' Witnesses at th coroner's hearing said Seaman Leeper had become 'iipset'. after i being de nied the privilege of walking about the hospital grounds be cause he i made a "nuisance" of himself, f " i "( : Four attendants were . required to plac him in seclusion, James Carter, a hospital supervisor said, and furniture in : Leeper's room was ordered removed, ! along with his clothing.' j The sailor subsequently Lwas found unconscious.- 1 Cecil C Morris, a hospital at tendant, testified at the coroner's hearing that he saw Brown and Lacey strike Leeper, and that he saw; Seigel kick the seaman once in the side. . ' j . '!.'. Morris i testified that in his opinion 1 the j sailor I was only "stubborn" and that the blows were "unprovoked.' ; Dr. Winfred Overholser, super intendent of the hospital, said he wanted a complete investigation of the entire situation, because "we won't tolerate mistreatment of patients ! - Overholser disclosed that Cran dall died ; about two ' weeks ago from peritonitis which developed from a stomach injury. H said the ! death was attributed to in juries received in a struggle June 30 when "he escaped temporarily from the; hospital grounds. , Sick Soldier's Hanging Bull Attacks Doctor MEDFORD, f July v 20-Cff)-Dr. Kenneth C ' FarleyV government veterinarian, v was recovering to day from injuries inflicted By a bull he was 'testing. The enraged animal attacked Farley, breaking four of his ribs and causing head and chest lacerations. - By a Thread FORTj WORTH, July 2H) Corp. Jim Newman's life hunff bv a thread; today, his father, O. F. Newman; said, although the for mer prisoner of the Japs was able to eat a breakfast of eea and ba con, and appeared to be resting somewhat better than yesterday. The 25-year-old ' soldier who was-; brought i home from Bruns General hospiUl, SanU Fe NM, at his request slept all last night after a group of ministers of his faith Assembly of God prayed at his bedside. j At noon today young Newman refused all food except a glass -of The father and other members of th family, all of whom ar home-for the first time in years, asked; that th Associated Press express for them their "humble thanks for the thousands of let ters, telegrams and gift that hav flowed into the little white home from all over th nation, Canada ana tiawau. ..! - Newman is' sufferina from tu berculosis and the effects of beri beri, j V ir-1"-.. I-- Haycox Story May B Filmed in Oregon MEDFORD. July 20-fJrV-Can- yon Passage," Ernest Haycox's tal of -pioneer mining days in Jacksonvill and th RosTue River valley,-may be filmed at original sites of the i story, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerc learned today. ;" Henry Spitz of Walter Want er Pictures,! Int, Universal City, Calif., which owns screenplay rights to the Saturday Evening Post story, will survey the pioneer mining community next week." Governor Snell has assured th company ot cooperation.. Testing Clinic Will Operate At Willamette Willamette university's depart ment of education, under the di rection of Dr. Lawrence A. Riggs, Is offering a special service this summer for the benefit of the de partment of public welfare, the county health department and oth- m mihlie agencies interested in children. Between now and th close of the summer semester, the university Class- in Individual in telligence ' testing will operate a testing clinic The-program in cludes the testing of more than 175 children. Following the tesU, written reports are-prepared on each child and are placed in the hands of the appropriate welfare workers to be used in their con ferences with the child concerned. In addition to the services to the children and" to the- welfare ie partment, this testing program al io provides r an opportunity to demonstrate Binet testing proced ure for the benefit of teachers and counsellors of young people ; who seeks experience in testing and de sire a greater understanding1 of the use of tests in counselling. i nr. Rices, head of the education department at Willamette, came to the Willamette faculty from Jonm Hopkins university where he wai also clinical advisor for the child welfare department in Baltimore Commenting upon this Service of the education department, Dr G. Herbert Smith, president of th university, pointed out that then were few place on the entire Pa. cific coast where such a. servica for children was available. KOAC Slates Safety 4H Program . In observance of National Farm Safety week July 22-28, radio station KOAC will broadcast a program, Monday night from to 8 o'clock, James Bishop, coun ty club agent announced Friday, Participation of club members in a special 4H farm safety con test to prevent farm and home accidents-gives- many opportuni ties fori service and fine awards are offered winners, states Bish op. Club members interested may obtain contest details from the county club office in Salem. ; Others regular Monday night 4H radio programs over KOAC are as follows: July 30, Polk county, Russell j T. Daulton, j assistant county agent, in charge;' August 6, 4H livestock and ' crops tour program, N. John Hansen, Linn county "dub agent andv-S. Kirt Skinner, Yamhill county club agent, in charge; August 13, H. C. Seymour, state club leader, speaks on "What Is Doing in! 4H Club Work for August, September, and October;' August! 20, Linn county, John Hansen in charge; August ; 27, Benton county, J. A. Sullivan, dub agent, in charge. Oabrielson Chef deGare Of M et 8l i Carl Oabrielson was elected chef d gar of Marion county voitur 153, Forty and Eight, at that organization's annual atcotion meeting Wednesday night at th Uons .Den. Charles H. Huggins was named chef de train: Jake Fuhrer; commissar in Undent: Louis' Griffith, correspondent i lo cale; Al Feilen, conducteur; Char les V. Johnson, garde la port; Luther J. Jensen, conmii n. geur; Carl Schneider, lampiste Dr. 4.1 Q.' Van Winkle, median locale; Walter Kirk, Dick Meyer ana Marry Humphreys, cheml nots local. . Th newly elected effieer will be instelled at th next meeting, which Is to be held SatMw te in Mt AngeL .J ; : .; . ... j . Th voitur went on record id. proving. th. appointment of Voy ageur Hugh Rosaon asstat di- recior of veterans' affairs. Ap proximately 25 members signi fied their intention nt ,Mm the Corvallis barbecue July 28. Fare! Reductions! Due PORTLAND, July 20-)-Unit-ed Air Lines has filed proposed fare reductions between Portland and major cities In Washington, irmc manager J. H. Standish said today. . :-:-.v Th changes, if - w - a-ar - wwwsva b effective Aug. 20. . arm adio i 4H 7:30 UATCIES d STEVEI V. 13 im&i irtly styled ,in ffZWi best ot taste, i --3 - V 1 1 Smartly iin Beat nf tmm , s " I Th PractiVat r.Hi- . . . a Watch. j Stardy, Accurate, -dable ' Tiny, Beantifally - - - ; : ! TERMS . GLADLY ' ARRANGED TMM 23 COURT STREET :!: i : A; !
