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: "- :. .7 7 ' I !. . .!-. . - ' - H " J ' j ! - 7 71 I ". ' : ' ' pagz roua The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oreaon, Tuesday Mornma,fulY X4. 1S4S . - i - r - ; ; : "No Favtor Swayt Vt; No Fear Shall Awt , From ririt Statesman, March 28, 1851 i, . -mmmmmmmm . , i i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COSIPANY - CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher 1 : Member of the Associated Press : 4 v - I .. ! - '' r i , i -1 The Associated Press it; exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol a. newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. 3 f Straight Talk to Japs An official spokesman for tha United States government has . spoken to the Japanese in their own language. It is a plain appeal for unconditional surrender now. The speaker, Capt. E. C. Zacharias, USN, warned Japan that if such action is not taken opportunity for its salvation will be "lost forever." He also stated that if such surrender were promptly made, it may be assumed that it will be the United States! which ! will enforce the formula and ensure the peace." ; ! . There are some passages in the speech of I Zacharias that are somewhat mystifying. For i example, does the passage just Quoted mean to imply that if surrender is not made Russia may . enter the war and visit upon Japan a m6re terrible fate? j-j - " Again, he told the Japs "Our patience, too, has its limits and it is -rapidly running out." Does that mean that surrender now will bring easier terms for Japan? And if deferred how much worse would the terms be than already announced at Cairo? j In his warning Captain Zacharias , reminded Japan "that the cemetery of history is crowded with graves of nations nations that were doomed to extinction because they made their decision too late." This would imply that unless Japan capitulates promptly we jwill proceed to extinguish it as a nations. Is this true? And if so, how can it be squared with President Truman's assurance that we have no purpose to extinguish, the Japanese people' This paper does not see very j much merit : in the Zacharias address, unless its purpose is i to frighten the" Japs into surrendering. They i have not done this in the field except in very small parcels; and have shown no signs of doing so as a nation. Its oblique reference to Russia is hardly calculated to be pleasing to that country, because it carries the inference that Russia is a grim monster smore terrible than the : United States. And if our formula is un conditional surrender now or a year from now the insinuation of easier terms now is hardly correct. - " .' j x " 5 Would not the better approach be to say that' the terms are the same; unconditional sur render; that Japan is defeated nowj that further resistance is futile and will result only in the destruction of Japan's cities and great loss of life. That would be truthful and' would offer no reflection on a potential ally. It is clear from the attention paid the Zach arias address that it carried the full weight of government authority. There is a report that it was cleared by President Truman in Pots dam, so its language may have been submitted to Britain and Russia in advance. We shall await news of its reception in Japan with deep interest, admitting always the possibility that the: Japanese may acknowledge the inevitable and make an offer of surrender. I Coal to Europe ' , j ; Wa will b shipping coal, not to Newcastle, but to other parts of Europe this fall and win ter. Secretary Ickes, fuel administrator, says this country must furnish Europe with six mil lion tons of coal to avrt disorder! there. As this country is already behind schedule in coal production, the allotment means a paring down of domestic supplies. Just how the paring is to be done is not made fclearj perhaps by the method of dealer rationing instead of coupons. Europe itself is rich in coal supplies but they are poorly distributed. England, Germany, Bel- ; gium and Russia have most of 'the mines. France and Italy must import large quantities of coal. The problem, facing Europe is first to get the coal dug and second w get H hauled. This country will face the same problem, 1 though in less (serious Jdegree. Our mines ara short of workers Ickes waits 30,000 miners released from military! duty for work in the -mines. And our railroads have a back-breaking job to handle war and homefront traffic next fall and winter. I f f Cold gives perhaps Iquicker "social action" ' , than hunger. People can starve by slow stages, but sharp cold can scarcely be endured. It is to avert possible mass disturbances in European cities, with inevitable political repercussions, that this country draws on, its own reduced coal bin to supplement Europe's- store. Thert may be soma grumbling here rthera will bsi if our people really suffer from cold "but most people will realize an obligation to help Europe over its first grim, postwar fwmter. Camouflage Village Hidi BoeingPlarit at witt WMfelattM mat Cart Gtefore the Horse - SEATTLE, July, zS-CPfr-Boeing I It is time to begin to think Aircraft company i off icials today about mauing uinun fmru. revealed the existence of a z&- to men ana women in w " acre "wonderland" of chicken services if they are overseas, Al feather trees; canvas buUdings, bert C. Gragg, acting Salem poet canvas roads' and' burlap dirt master, announced Monday. which have been an. unseen (ex- The allotted time for mailing cept from a.blrdseye view) part j packages when the service will of Seattle's skylln for nearly best be ; able ; to handle them," three years. - J r - Gragg said, "is between Septem- ; It comprise a village of camou- ber IS and October 15. in matting flage atop Boeing plant No 2 main tu . China, -I Burma, . India, the assemhl area andtwas erected by Middle East and Islands in the U. S. engineers to protect this Fly- .Pacific, parcels should be mailed ing Fortress and Superfortress l as early as possible, prererawy factory from the threat of Japa- not later than October 1. nese air raids. While three-dimen-J -During these prescribed mail si onal, it was hot intended to more jlng dates it will not be necessary uuw cuiiiu luueii mi uku OP friends or Ine men ana wom- only above 5000 feet. . ' n in the service to present re- The camouflages village, if real, Luesta from overseas. Each gift would shelter; some 200 population ould be marked 'Christmas in its 53 houses, 1 carrying them f parcel. Christmas cards may be ana tneir gopas in inree xruats mailed at any time, provided and a trailer and in numerous inone art gent later than Novem passenger cars on its three main ber is. streets. It has 24 garages and a titnd Cards First Clasa service station, hedges and fences, -rht war department has re- gardens, three greenhouses and auested that Christmas cards be neighborhood store. f enclosed in an envelope and The buildings and cars, etc., are sent first class. The navy depart- or tne approximate lengin ana ment requests! that Chrtstmas width of reil ones but average CBrds be mailed not later than only four feet high. Only interior October 15. furnishings are real fire! protec- Christmas packages must be tjojn sprinklers. j limited to a maximum of. five. But so; complete is the total pounds, not more than 15 inches effect that pilots returning to Se- in length or 36 inches in length a ttle after some months absence and girth combined.! One may be reported difficulty in getting heir mailed each week during the bearings after the erection of the (Christmas mailing period. Christ- camouflage village. Tho I Literary Guidcpost Br W. O. Keren i 4 t I i II , i f - i : - ' I I Sale - of the George jE. Waters field and jof the Salem franchise in Western International league to the Portland Beavers baseball club is an event of real Importance. It assures Sa lem of a resumption of organized 1 baseball as the purpose of the late George E. Waters when he! bought the . franchise and constructed the field. ' i ; - j J . ' ! ;. Mrs. Waters wisely, retained the franchise and disposed of it and the! field together. It" was not her wish to continue as a baseball club owner; but the community is grateful to her for keeping the franchise3 alive and holding the. field for joint disposal. t H ,.1 Salem will welcome the Portland Beavers as owner of the Salem club. Bill Klepper, its. manager, is well known here. The connection with Portland will be stimulating both ways. Major leagues have: found it necessary to encourage minor leagues and "sandlot" . base ball as a source of recruits for themselves. Many operate minor league clubs as "farms' where young prospects are trained and ob-. served. This arrangement has enable' organized baseball to operate in 'smaller cities. Salem is fortunate in being the beneficiaryf of such an arrangement. j J i si War Marches Westward ' ' " 1 ' The halting of the Japanese hospital ship, carrying hundreds of disease-ridden men from Wake island, provides an interesting study in contrasts as compared with three years ago. In the. final stages of the Battle of Midway, on June 8, 1942, the ali-too-fewj units of the U. S. fleet were hard on the chase of Nippon surface remnants which had managed to sur vive that surprising rout. American planes were keeping up a constant shuttle attack on the fleeing forces. But the pursuit was taking the fleet within bomber range of Japanese-occupied Wake island, and with ships' fuel supplies al- ready low, correspondents were informed un officially that continued westward progress didn't seem the better part. of valor. After all, one American ship then was as essential as a score or more now. . : That was the end of the Battle of Midway. ' Now, three years later, a lone U. S. ship plows unmolested through the waters west of Wake, and finds not bombers, but a starving garrison homeward bound. I Humanity or no humanity marines are going to be mighty disappointed if some day they don't find on Wake at least a portion of the enemy-which overwhelmed their comrades in the staggering weeks right after Pearl Harbor. Editorial Comment HITLER BOMB PLOT '' : . '4 Just a year' after the bomb attempt on Hitler's Ufa United States army intelligence officers who have been studying the German records of the subsequent interrogations offer the conclusion that the purpose of the plot was to end! the war with the German general staff left intact j This is a -reasonable judgment, though it will probably take much more time, it may, be many years, to clear up all the ins and outs of this plot It is certain enough that this wis a conspiracy with purely German motives; it was not designed to benefit the allies. It seems a natural hope of the general staff that with Hitler out of the way some sort of peace could be arrived at that would leave Germany and its power of mischief still intact According to our intelligence officers, the plotters sought to stop the war before the Rus- ' sians got into Germany. The plot described as apparently foolproof, failed because of those unforeseeable trivialities that, up set so many of the best-laid schemes of mica and men. Our intelligence officers conclude,' probably with justice, that it was well for the allies that the plot failed. The' subsequent purge broke up the leadership of the army, wiped out perhaps 2000 good officers and threw the army into the hands of Himmler, who held It to its- suicidal course. The war was prolonged at cost of lives to us but ' to end with the total destruction of the Wehrmacht San Francisco Chronicle. ' ' "1 ARTIK OREENGtOIN FFC, ay Barry Brown (Knopf; ZJ). Brown's first published work was verse; later he did "A Walk in the Sun," a tense battlefront novel which ' won the praise it richly deserved; now a third phase of jhis uncommon talent is revealed j in these side-splitting tales about Artie. , My favorite fictional creation out of World war II, Artie used to drive ja "hoise" in "Berklyn." In the army; he drives a truck when he Isn't repairing K, or do ing time; in the guardhouse, or working off a penaltyby peeling potatoes,ior going AWOL One count against Brown is an occasionally inconsistent use of dialect, .jnother is the fact that there is jalmost more talk than action in these 50 stories, most of which appeared in Yank. Despite these handicaps, Artie is a real literary find. But he's no military find. He is the un buttoned unpolished, unsaluting, unteachable, Undisciplined, com pletely unsoldierly, soldier , . . and unbelievably laughable. To an: important degree the comic depends on Brown's inge nious spelling. The stories seem funnier, consequently, when you read them than when th y are read to you. PROCEED WITHOUT DEL AT. fc; Set. Ttaimu R. St. Grc (Crw S. ! t ' I "Ozzief St. George, whd wrote and illustrated the popular "co Postmaster," this time writes and illustrates the story of the south west Pacific war, from gay times in Sydney to the landing on Leyte last fall. Breezy is the word lor his prose style, his adventures and his personality. He smartly makes the best of army life, whether In rear areas or at the front Sol "MMmmm 1 Carrier Pigeon. ! 3i004$ : Hawk. Playl Bigi i1Milf-: Part la 'Ak War' j f "I hate rain and I hate bombs and I hate nights and I hate fear. Somewhere : alone the line I learned Ito hate Japs," is ex- claima. He praises the infantry wiUHHit ptint, and the Air Force, and the; Red Cross, and finally the WACs . and sine he is marrying one, he no doubt means it f A His sketches, I find, are evea more entertaining man his writ ing, i ' By HENRY B. JAMESON (Substituting for Keancth L. Dtxon) LONDON--Despite all new inventions arid V-weapons, car rier pigeons and 'dive bombing hawks played a tremendous part in the allied victory over Ger many. - Many important German mes sages were taken off nazi pigeons "shot ! down" ,. by a specially . trained flock of falcons attached to the . RAF, which also main tained a large pigeon "air forced of its own throughout the war. Every British hight bomber carried one or two pigeons; '. trained to race - home with an SOS in case the plane was forced down in enemy territory. They t were extremely helpful in air sea rescue work and were cred-k ited officially with saving a" large number ofi lives, both American and "British; Tho Safety Valvo LETTERS FROM STATESMAN J READERS The falcon is a natural born killer-hawk with unusual intelli gence providing it can be ' trained to use its brains the right way. ;Thls the RAF did to counter the, large and efficient carrier pigeon flock the nazis had at the beginning of the war. The Ger mans not only dispatched them from . land but also launched them on secret missions from airplanes and submarines. I Hundreds of pigeons borrowed from the -British were Used by the American air forces, army and navy. They proved of great value as a means of rapid com munications where normal chan nels had broken down and where radio silence was imperative. :A veteran air force I pigeon, named "White Vision" j because of his color, was instrumental in saving 10 lives last October when a jCatalina flying boat was forced down, off the Shetland! islands, A hastily scribbled message was attached to "White Vision's" leg and it flew 60 miles through a . rain storm to bring news of where the flying boat went down. The crew was rescued the , nex morning. BOWLING BOWLES To the editor: j That junior senator from Ore- gon, the , honorable horseman and jurist Wayne L. i (Lamb) Morse, is surely riding Chester Bowles to a fall, land Morse-is not a bit lamb-like in his de nunciation of thelOPA director and the latter is I being "bowled over by our own Oregon dean. Perhaps us Latin scholars and diers aren't i angels, he admits, that of course includes ye editor but he declares they are heroes, might appropriately apply the. Latin word loquax for the initial L. in the senator's name and . "Dub" him Senator Wayne Loquacious due 4e the letter's consumption of S 12 or more pages : in a receni isaiie of the Congressional Record in attack ing QPA. Nevertheless Wayne Loquax or Lamb with a plethora of verbosity is making good in the national capitoL Ij ' ; i Very truly I ' . .- T. HENRY CHARLES GRIN AND BEAR IT Roseburg is waking out of a sound sleep. Its council is amending a city ordinance to' permit SP trains (a few still run bn the Med ford line) to travel at 25 miles an hour through the city. The 1891 ordinance limited speeds to six miles an hour; but in 1914 this Was upped': to 15 miles. Now Roseburg thinks it Can permit a 25-mile speed. I J I K i ' ' ' Interpreting 1 r The War Newo By KIRKE L. SIMPSON? ' U A oeUUd Pr j War Analyst S . I i. The sustained triple bombardment of Japan by radio as well as by sea and air represents a definite intensifying of the allied attack closely linked with expected developments in the big three con ference at Potsdam. fV,,-i : 'j It seems calculated to pave the way for news ' from Germany that wen influential Japanese news papers are now warning their readers will be "considerably unfavorable to Japan.'t i That is perhaps the .most significant statement to come from radio . Tokyo of recent date. Just why the admission that an American-BriUsh-Rus-sian coalition against Japan is possible as a result of the Potsdam .meeting should be permitted on the air it is difficult to understand. Tokyo however, may be so convinced that it lis imminent that it is resorting to advance warniiigs in order to soften the blow when it falls. That Would indicate grow ing official uneasiness over Japanese public re action, at least a hopeful sign. ; Reaction of American press representatives ac companying President Truman to Germany to the "official spokesman," OWI broadcast by Capt. E. M. Zacharias, USN, urging Japan ;to surrender now -or take the consequences is also significant Their reports disclose that the text of the broad cast beamed to Japan was "cleared in Potsdam" : before Its delivery. I ! II . "Victory over Japan is the president's prime ob : jective in this (Potsdam) conference,? the Potsdam ' reports added. 1 - ; ; j : Moscow dispatches have mad , no mention at any time of the Russo-Jap aspect of the big three meeting which has figured so prominently in Amer ican press and radio reports. It: was stressed sharply, however, the apparent 'cordiality of Russian-Chinese conversations during Premier Soong's Moscow visit - for meetings with Generalissimo Stalin on the eve of the Potsdam sessions. 5 The latest word on those Chinese-Russian con versations to come front Moscow is to the effect that they merely were interrupted by the Potsdam ' conference and . are to be resumed at its 'con - elusion. That raises a Question as to whether if Russia and the allies do ; reach agreements at Pots dam for mutual action against Japan, 'a four power military get-together in Moscow including China ; might not come y-ithout delay to planJstmultaneousTeei . won't gala any tfciar wearing "that shirt wl.h Prisoner af X7zt conteriea operauona m i;au Asiauc war tneaters. .. em it Yeull eat the same food as lae rest if usT "- . 3 - i :; . s I . ..-: I . 1 ". . .. ... i ........ (Continued from page 1) Nil If- i i the combined reports are re viewed by top cabinet officers in Washington. But the collabora tion shown Saturday was ob viously creaky, in spite of the polite deference of one agency to another. It is yet to be whether the collaboration, is more than skin-deep. - jit seems to me there should be a! much closer unification than the present machinery offers, for a 1 planned development of th river as a whole, I very much Ts T 1 fear that a reviewing board of y ljlCIliy " cabinet' officers in Washington wuuju nui bc uuita iiiwi uwu a 'ratification board. There needs to be a aingle agency closer to the area which can plan? the bal anced development of the river. I This does not require a new oyerall executive authority so much as a 'regional planning authority which could j conduct the studies, recommend a pro gram toj the congress and then congress; could assign to! existing agencies like the army engineers, the reclamation bureau,,' the soil conservation service the execu tion of the program adopted. The handicaps now are in the plan ning stake, as was-clearly evi dent Saturday in the revelation of procedures of communication among the several federal agen cies; and yet the planning stage is vital., r : i Similar deficiencies; have been noted in planning the Wulam I Rules ForMailihg Gift Parcels mas parcels for the army enroute overseas, shortly before or sub sequent to October 15, will be ac cepted after October 15 and up to and including December 15. "Strong boxes -made of metal, wood, solid fiberboard or strong J. .Kl v 4 iwmmti fihar- Bad Weather Keeps Tuna Deliveries Small .i . -ASTORIA, July 21 -(P)-Bad tinued to keep tuna deliveries small, with , small boats: in for cover Fridayi night. be used as containers. The boxes must be wrapped In heavy paper with two strings lengthwise and ??5fuhl!!::h.'re,Cr: two crosswise' before and after ing in well, however. The 92-foot Liberator, skippered by j Hubert Ursich,. holds the record this sea son with a 37,000-pound catch. i. L MEATLESS FRIDAY SUCCESS wrapping in the paper. No intoxl cants, Inflammables or poisons may be mailed. The names of the person to whom packages are addressed should be typewritten or printed in ink and should state the rank, serial number, branch A CUT AUTT-t T..1 f 4 WTHX 'IhJh TiJwr M rvice. organization, APO and ess Friday tried for the first time th.tolfic throush which the was successful, ported today proprietors re- PubliC iRocords SrmTAVhlan 5ch JiJr ltJl l!T Prcel Is to be routed. The navy in addition requires the name of the ship and , fleet postoff ice. Mast Be Prepaid "Postage must be prepaid,, no insured or COD mail being ac- CIRCUrT COURT j I cepted. The packages may conum Lucille McEwen va: Vernon Me- I greeting such as Merry Christ- Ewen; order of default; separation m. pl do. not o p e n until agreement filed gives-wife use of nrmmas, nappy new iear or house untU youngest of two chil- Degl wisnes. Money peing sent dren reaches 21 years of age, when overseas anouia.oe uj v. a. the property, becomes the property "i Wy fder only. f of the children; gives wife $500 Vese rules ' may seem strin- cash and $33 monthly for support f t but they nave been made by of children. I f ! the department not to confuse, or C. M. Bishop, trustee under the 1friut tt P1" ch"" will of C. P. Bishop, vs. D. A. Fish; dr" sweethearts f rvke answer of defendant asks $5500 men nd but because the damages, alleges the plaintiff vio- !f : brfSteSfd In lated a renUl agreement for prem- liv,rinf txpl!t ises at 477 Court st, which the de- PPcation to the rule, by the fendant washing as a residence ffnderi Pbl and business' office. j Every person wishing te mail a Athrf Sivimt1.Ji1i S.v.. I"1 overaeaa mwiu application for place on trial docket . I . ,. - . Dorothy M Bremer vs. Ivan M. Bremer; ' divorce j complaint; al leges cruel land' inhuman treat ment; asks $120 monthly for sup- save these instructions or come to the postoff ice for Information before the big rush starts." Ration Office Hours port of plaintiff and three children or . 4 UC8dy tiianged ette valley project It as a flood control project and so fell within the scope the army engineers. was begun jof work of t has been for. the duration of the war and not lees than $50 monthly after the war and after defendant is discharged, f Mildred Herberger vs. Joseph Herberger; testimony heard, taken under advisement O. R. Hamilton vs. Charles C. Ha worth, and Alma O. Hamilton vs. Charles C- Haworth; suit filed for $1515 arid $5000, respectively, alleging damages in an automobile accident at' Lincoln and South Commercial streets. , .. - i 1 . j-., - : PROBATE 0OU1T ' . Clyde Kelty estate; order au thorizing sale of real, property. Lizzie M.) Evans, guardianship; report of sale of real property to Adolf Krehbid and .Elizabeth Krehbiel for $325. ; " Ole Lohnbakken estate; estate appraised at $168186. j JUSTICE COURT " J . State vs. WUUam Foster Valen tine; charge1; no motor Vehicle li cense; fined $1 and costs. . State vs. Carl Vera Zimmerman; charge violation of stop sign; fined $1 and costs, '..j-'"'.., y.,;.f v State vs. ! Etta' Bennett; charge permitting, an unlicensed person to drive . a motor vehicle; j fined $1 and costs, fine suspended State vs. Leonard Hart Foster; charge violation of basic rule; fined $13 and costs. OPA officials have announced that the Tuesday hours of the Salem war price and rationing board offices have been changed again. The hours will be from 1 to S pjn. and to pjn., with offices closed Tuesday morning. The hours for Monday, Wednes day and Thursday are still 10 mm. ww suns auv eHIIV MVUI are 10 a m. to 12 noon. ' expanded to include reclamation studies, end these are now being, pursued by the reclamation bu-' reau. At no time was any weight given, to importance of recrea-: tion on such rivers as ,; the Mc Kenzie or of commercial and sports fishing, until the state fish and game commission hammered MUNICIPAL COURT - Lewis Thompson, 2395 South 22nd st; charge drunk and break ing glass In street; fined $25. . . MARRIAGE LICENSE I - Richard. R. Brown, 19, U. S. navy, Flint, Mich and Mildred Deloris. Elderkin, 20, housewife, 688 North Cottage st., Salem. ' - - i -' ' 1 - i - . ! -- : . has been piecemeal, not inte r, grated. --4 5 -'.v -v I am friendly to all this devel ' opment; . irrigation, navigation, flood control, conservation of wildlife, hydroelectric j power. What I would like to see Is the .orderly, balanced development. at the door, with as yet nd visible "The present method is disorderly ' results. In short, the planning and may not be balanced. ' I & " . i - If J r y I- ip.frMm.,r., ..n -, ,;;;. ' ;, ;,.,.,., M INSIGNIA For Any Brandt . ol I the Service T , Tennk Gladly' Arranged S:3 Court