Everyone has. his favorite: story
'on how he has been insulted by
'some of these wartime storeclerks
'prv waitresses. A bridge same is
' hardly complete without a tale of
-how some snippy counter' girl
told off one of the store's good
customers with a "Donchakno
theresa waron?" And now 'what a
green light glitters in the eyes of
these selfsame customers as they
mentally roll up their . sleeves in
anticipation of -telling off these
smart young things "Donchakno
the warsover?" Even the staid
Oregonian let down its hair to
vent its spleen on the "nitwits
and nincompoops' behind the
counter. ' ' ;
. All of which prompts me to say
' that X think there is a mate to this
shoe and that it should be worn
by a lot. of customers themselves.
Haven't you seen somewell-fed
individual demanding an extra
pat of butter from the waitress.
or putting on a scene because he
couldn't get an extra portion of
. sugar for his coffee; And what
about the hordes ot shoppers who
swarmed the stores, pawed over
the tnrlr. and ttwo4m1 rlrk in
drawn down pre-war nylons or
Vandyke cigars out of thin air? 'I
have an Idea that if the clerks
could get their side of the case be
fore a jury they could match yarn
. for yarn every tale of insult and
1 A - t 1 1 .
uwumpcience oj service neip wiui
one on the abuses they have suf
fered from irritable, inconsiderate
customers. I " '
I wonder if the shopping public
realizes the faithfulness of
Radio Strike
Terminated;
Talks Resumed
NEW YORK, Sept 13Pr-The
28-hour wage strike of. approxi
mately, 500 union engineers em
ployed by the National and Amer
ed tonight, with the first group of
strikers returning to their taha in
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ning programs. ... !
! The strike ended, U.S. Labor
Conciliator -J. .-R.'rvJMandelbaum
said,' after officials of the radio
' organizations and the union, the
National Association of Broadcast
Engineers and Technicians (ind.),
agreed to resume negotiations for
a new wage contract tomorrow.
It was the breakdown of these
negotiations, A. T. Powley, pres
ident of NABET said, that pre-
ftfnftotAft 4Ka vtci1 Vsi j 4aio a4
o'clock (EWT). v
While all. the engineers were
i riot immediately available to re
turn to their jobs, NABET said
they were being informed of.de
' velopments and told to return to
work promptly, j
Gunboat to be
Pleasure Craft
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-Ph
A 245 foot gunboat, the Williams
burg, will become the presidential
yacht Ite in October or early No
vember.
I The White House disclosed to
day that the old presidential ves
sel, the Potomac, had been con
demned as unseaworthy.
Now undergoing general over
haul at the Norfolk navy yard, the
vviiuamsDurg, onginauy a yacox,
was built in 1931 for U. J. Chis-
hplm of New York City. The
navy purchased it and converted
it Into a gunboat in 1941.
The Potomac was condemned
.ior duty in open water, the navy
said, because new construction
' made her top heavy.
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valley. A telephone call to .
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Prlc 5e
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Cops (Sell: 2E)ay
Speed-Slated
Nip
Up
In
Trials
Japanese Cases
To Follow Same
Course as Nazis
WASHINGTON, Sept U-J?h
Big shot Japanese war criminals
probably will be tried by a four
power Allied military tribunal set
up with headquarters at Tokyo
early next year. -
The revolutionary new princi
ple of international law that the
officials of a government may be
tried for starting a war of aggres
sion will be applied to Japanese
criminals Just as it is being ap
plied to tneir uerman counter
parts. x
It is not yet certain, but the
probability is that an entirely new
tribunal and prosecution staff will
have to be set up at Tokyo rather
than transferring the tribunal and
staff created by the Allies for; the
Nuernberg trials of nazi leaders
starting in October.
These facts were developed to
day after a top flight ' American
authority said this government ex
pects that the principles and meth
ods used with respect to Japanese
war criminals will be consistent
with those applied to the Ger
mans. - ,
CIO Invited to
Attend British
Union Meeting
BLACKPOOL, Eng . Sept - 13
()- The 77th British Trades un
ion congress moved toiday to i in
vite the CIO, sharply assailed by
an AFL delegate yesterday,- to be
represented at future TUC meet
ings..' "
A resolution tho that end was
introduced by Bryan Roberts, em
ployes delegate, who said the
CIO "did not refuse to meet the
Russian trade unions nor malign
them.- .
This was apparently in , reply
to George Meany, AFL secretary
treasurer, who threw the congress
into an uproar yesterday with his
charge that the CIO sabotaged
America's war effort up to the
time Germany attacked Russia,
and his description of Russian
trade unions as a means of "vir
tual enslavement" .
MUNITIONS DUMP BLOWS
ROME, Sept n.-i-fA muni
tions dump near Genoa blew up
today, killing at least two. persons
and wounding more than a hun
dred, the area news agency re
ported. The cause has not been
determined.
&n!nis! Craclccrs
I By WARREN GOODRICH-
had a good close look cf
a itt-propeUed plant today,"
Dorotliy Pullman's
Condition Critical
Mrs. Dorothy Pullman, 19, who
was shot: in the head her home
last Sunday, is still in a critical
condition, ttendants at the Dea
coness hospital said early today.
Mrs. Pullman was shot during
an alleged altercation with her
husband, Robert Theodore Pull
man. Pullman, who has been held
in, the county jail, is to have a
preliminary hearing In Justice
court next Thursday on a charge
of assault while armed with -a
dangerous weapon.
MacArthur Bans
Sending Morse
Code by Nippon
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 13-(ffJ-Tightening
the grip on Ja
pan's dissemination of news and
propaganda,; , General MacAr
thur has ordered: suspension by
Friday afternoon; (Tokyo time)
of shortwave Morse transmis
sions by Japan's Domei agency.;
Domei broadcast the new rule
in I a FCC-recorded dispatch. .
MacArthur previously had
suspended all J apanese over
seas Voice broadcasts and had
placed Japanese newspapers
under American occupational
army censorship.' ;
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o LaDinet
Minister Listed
TOKYO, Friday, Sept 14-flV
Eighth army headquarters an
nounced today It had been inform
ed that Chikahikoj Koizumi, min
ister of welfare- in Hideki Tojo's
cabinet at the war's outset, .has
committed suicidei " I
There were no further details.
- Koizumi was on the list of the
Japanese whom General MacAr
thur ordered 'arrested.
He was the second former cab
inet member to take his own life
this week and the, first since Jap
anese officials, were granted their
request to make theiown round
up of the "wanted." 5 j
Field Marshal pen. Sugiyama,
not on the list but several times
a former war minister, killed him
self, with' a pistol Wednesday as
the imperial headquarters was be
ing dissolved an MacArthur's or
ders. ' . " : VK"' r- ' " i?l : '
Koizumi, 01, had a lengthy med
ical career Since graduating; from
Tokyo Imperial university in 1909.
He had been an army surgeon
with the rank of lieutenant gen
eral, had directed the medical af
fairs bureau of the Japanese ar
my department j and previously
headed the ; medical surgeons
school. ' i; ' S '
Oregon (Fire i
Loss Tabulated
WASHINGTON, Sept. VS.-yPf-Oregon
lost about $300,000 worth
of timber in 1648 forest fires in
1944, the forest service . revealed
today. 1: ' "U I - I
Fires covered 27,640 acres.: Main
ly, they were caused by lightning,
which started 933. Other causes
were railroads, . 38; campers, 100;
smokers, 1227; burning debris, 111;
incendiary, 49; lumbering, 66, and
miscellaneous, ,124. j 1
The damage amounts do not In
clude a fVast amount" of lntang
ible or indirect losses, the! forest
service said, f- , ,
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NATION'S STRIKERS UP
The nation's total of strike idled
workers was raised to 132,700 last
(Thursday) night boosted up
ward primarily by a strike of 1Q,
000 New' York;; City painters and
a spreading production shutdown
of Westinghouse Electric corpora
tion plants in six states, j ;
Future of Turkey Business
Probed at Breeders' Meeting
By Xlllle I. Madsen
Farm Editor, The Statesman
, What, is going to happen to the
turkey business in the rapidly ap
proaching postwar era was para
mount in conversation of some 200
turkey breeders as well as speak
ers ! gathered Thursday for the
fifth annual meeting of the Oregon
Turkey Improvement association.
The meeting opened, at 10 am. at
the Salem chamber ! of commerce
rooms and closed with the 6:30
banquet at Marion hotel.
.Oregon's present turkey produc
tion is 65 per cent over the 1937
1941 average, . L. Peterson, state
director of . agriculture, told his
listeners at the -banquet How
ever, he referred to the turkey in
dustry as "Oregon' golden, op
portunity if correctly managed.1' '.
W. L. Teutsch, assistant direc
tor of extension, Oregon State col
lege, also speaker at the banquet
thought there might "have to be a
little slackening-off in - produc
tion." --. ....-.;-..,;:.,:..;--'.,
Noel L. Bennion, chairman, stat
ed that an Increase in breeders
kept over this year "hoay mean a
shorter season or many more sur
plus eggs," adding that "turkey
industry Won't do justice to itself
if the growers take a panicky at
titude. There are 'enough buyers
to market all we produce if we
maintain our marketing in an or
derly manner, ft ;fj ' j.
Top among suggestions made
was that there be one large Ore
gon turkey show annually at Sa
lem. The association passed a
recommendation to this effect to
be sent to the state department
of agriculture. . !
Walter C. Leth, Polk county a
gent was toastoaster for the! ban
quet George Angel, Portland, di
rected a losing accompanied by
Alice Crary Brown. ij i
Directors elected were K.R.
Borovicka, SdoJ C. H. Coyle, St
Paul; and Albert R. Potts, Col ton.
Holdovers are C R. Dear. Inde
pendence; Stephen Adelman, Yam
hill; Free wlese, Corvallis, and W.
H. McDanlel, Jr, Dallas. Later the
directors met and re-elected Dear
as. president and Adelman, secre
tary. .. - ; . .j- ' f- i
(Additional story, page 2.)
Komoye CouiBdl IHIave
By Russell Brines . :
TOKYO, Sept ;13 -(ff)- Japa
nese militarists cWe war in
the Pacific as early as October
1941, turning down a Tokyo
government proposal ; to meet
President Roosevelt to forestall
the conflict, . Prince Fumimaro
Konoye, Nipponese vice minis
ter, said, today.
Konoye, in an interview, said
he. was helpless as premier in
1941 to checkrein the jingoists,
and that eventually his war
minister. Gen. Hideki To Jo, be
came premier of the government
which started the war.
To jo at first approved Kon
oye's plan to meet . President
Roosevelt in ; the summer of
1941, the prince said. '
But the war lords' changed
their minds and oh Oct 16 Kon
oye's cabinet fell land Tojo took
over. Less than two months lat
er Pearl Harbor was attacked.
"I feel xxmfident that if I had
been able to see Mr. Roosevelt
I could have established a basis .
for intervention of the imperial
.house in the rising war tide
within Japan af that time,"
Konyoe said. !
The prince, who also was
premier of Japan when the -Nipponese
attacked China in '
1937, said that "as had happen
ed several times before, the
militarists in the field started
the Peking Incident without
knowledge of my government .
and the' government had to
chase after them.w
- ; The Japanese government
long has , had! a reputation
abroad as liars, he said. "Be
cause they were unable to con
trol the Japanese militarists in
the field , or rften didn't know
what the militarists were do-,
ing. ' HI VO ;.-: ;
"It was that way when I' was
K
PRINCE KONOYE
trying to see .Roosevelt The
government was considered a
liar, because no matter what we
promised regarding China, final
decision on the removal of our
troops from ? China depended
upon the, military. That was one
reason jbvhy the meeting was
never held. . .
Congress Gives Big Boost to
Full Employment Meapure,
Longer Jobless Pa!y period
T , . . I (By IX)UGLAS''Bl'.0)lLvi Z v '
WASHINGTON, SepC l3jJCongressgaVe;a big; push
y to two main points in President Truman's program for
peacetime' prosperity: jobs for everybody, and j longer jobless
pay for the people out of work. ? h 7 ; II I .
' Both measures face a - long, tough fight before they get
clear ; through' congress. Today's moves were the1 first steps in
shocking them onto the senate , , ; ..
floor for debate. , .
The senate finance committee
wrote okay on the unemployment
pay measure. A banking subcom
mittee the full committee now
has to act approved a "full em
ployment" bill.; j
Until they voted, the day was
long on talk, short on action.
Congressmen also:
1. Made headway on a highway
building measure, A house com
mittee approved land started on
its way a resolution to start a
$1,000,000,800 federal-state pro
gram going. ; 1
2. Dipped deeper into financial
deals of Elliott. Roosevelt son of
the late president But the house
ways and means committee took
no action.. I!
3. Learned that the house com
mittee investigating un-American
activities suspects Japan's Black
dragon society of .operating In this
country. The committee will see
about Jthat J
Modern 'Mayflower' -
Sets Sail for States
LONDON, Sept 13-(i!P)-Sixteen
Estonian refugees, including five
women and four children, set out
today from the west coast of Scot
land in a 37-foot sailing yacht on
a modern-day Mayflower" voy
age to America, i ! i :
It is the fourth time the tiny
craft - - which' has no auxiliary
motor - started out on the long
trip.; Three times it turned back
before Atlantic storms.
Restrictions
On News Print
May Go Dec. 31
WASHINGTON,' Sept. 13.-()-All
government controls on news
print will be abolished December
31, it appeared likely today, and
paper allocations to U. S. publish
ers will be increased for the fourth
quarter. i f ' ,
Relaxation ; of newsprint usage
restrictions one full degree in the
sliding scale; formula of deduc
tions beginning October 1 and re
vocation of limitation order 240
at the end of the year were rec
ommended by the;.newspaper In
dustry advisory committee at a
two-day session With WPB Offi
cials, the agency announced.
The ; industry committee also
recommended that the newspaper
industry plan voluntary coopers
tion in - self-imposed buying re
strictions, within the limitations
of anti-trust ; laws, after govern
ment restrictions are removed.
MORE MILK' REFUSED i '
WTRTXIsr .Can 5 11 Ti
SVMtM MI1 ftJ J W V"
allied kommandantur for Berlin
declined today a city adrninistra
tion request to Increase milk al
lowances so children could have
a half pint daily. The city's total
allotment is about; 140,000 quarts
a day.-" v 1 -j -
The Dead Come Back!
The tortured minds and bodies of , the recently liberated Doo
little flyers still bear the marks of their terrible months In Japanese
prison camps. Together they make a saga of living death, a powerful
indictment of the average Japanese soldier as well as his superiors
to Nippon's so-called military caste.: . ' ,- i . f . - ;
Now, for the first time, the full story of those months of
punishment torture and degradation Is told 'by the three flyers
themselves Capt C. Jay Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah; Capt Robert
L. Hite, Earth, Tex; and Set Jacob Deshaxer, Salem. . j ..'.
Only the indomitable will of the flyers kept' them alive.'
Beaten so badly that they could not talk, they still grinned
weakly at each other-and turned their thumbs up to prove they
were unbroken, " . , ' i-. ''; I -
' This first-person, true story of what some Japanese axe like
when they have the upper hand, makes drama-packed series that
every Americad should read and remember. r . j, ; y'T ? -r
Be sure to start this copyrighted 'Saga A living Death by
the three DoolitOe flyers beginning next Sunday, Sept If in f
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"The World at Your Door Each Morning
Discharge
Centers
Planned
100,000 Men
To Be Separated
Byv Christmas ?
WASHINGTON, Sept 1M-
The army is setting up .145 tem
porary separation centers to clear
out a backlog of 258,000 men in
this country who are eligible for
discharge, senators were told -to-day.
, J '.
These men, "Maj. Gen. S. G.
Henry told the senate military
committee, were returned from
Europe for deployment to the Pa
cific. The sudden, surrender of
Japan, he explained, left them
without an assignment
The air forces are establishing
32 temporary discharge bases to
release 135,000 men and the serv
ice forces are creating 113 centers
to process 123,000 men.
All of the centers will be in op
eration by Sept 24, with the AAF
scheduled to finish up its backlog
within 42 days and the service
forces In 35 days. After Jan. 1,
discharges will be handled by the
26 regular centers.
Between now and Christmas,
Henry told the committee, the ar
my 1 expects to release approxi
mately 1,300,000 men with dis
charges hitting a peak of 672,000
in January.
GIO Returns to
Lumber Mills
At Klamath
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Sept
13. HAV Striking CIO unionists
agreed to end their strike in south
ern Oregon lumber operations to
day, leaving to a concilation agency
settlement of grievances.
The strike was called by the
International Woodworkers . of
America more than five weeks
ago. About 2250 men left their
jobs, demanding a union shop and
improvecent of "intolerable condi
tions.'? i
After, AFL machinists refused
to recognize the picket line yester
day and today, the strikers voted
willingness to end the strike, as
requested by the west coast lum
ber commission. They would re
sume wprk under conditions exist
ing when they walked out leaving
to conciliation or "other means
exclusive of economic force" set
tlement of grievances.
Radio-Active
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Land to be Held
WASHINGTON Sept 13-CffV
President Truman tightened gov
ernment control today over pos
sible sources of radio-active min
eral substances which might be
used in the production ot atomic
energy. -
' He signed an executive order
withdrawing from sale or other
disposal all .public lands In the
United States or Alaska which
contain deposits of radio-active
mineral substances.
There ; are known deposits of
uranium, primary source of ato
mic energy. In Colorado and
Utah, according to the bureau of
mines, as well as In the Belgian
Congo and Canada. ; M. -v
Peorod to CKlaoud
G-DIMOuSife"
veir
TO Japanese gov
ernment today asked and was given the job of arrestinir its)
own suspected war criminals but was expected to get results
within two days. i. ,:- , .; 1 ' i- ;
Otherwise, US. eighth army- headquarters Intimated,
the Americans again will step in and corral the War-makers;
Black Dragon jingos and prison camp tyrants who face court
martial as war criminals. ;
- The Japanese asked permission to act after Hideko
Tojo,: the fallen war-time dictator, shot and seriously"
wounded himself Tuesday when
American troops came to arrest
him at his home in a Tokyo su
burb. . j ,;. !i - 1
I The request of the government
obviously was made to 1 save
"face," not only for those on the
list ranging from highest ranking
officials to prison camp guards
but for the government itself.
i There was also the possibility
that the Japanese thought they -might
be able to' head off a hara
kiri epidemic among the accused.
i The arrests will include chief
cabinet Secretary Taketora Oga
ta, accused of being a member
of the Black Dragon society of
superpatriots.
The Japanese cabinet in spe
rial session was wrestling with
the problem of what to do with
elements' within the government
that may be unsavory to Mac
Arthur. . - -
Noise Parade
To Herald WU
Homecoming
Willamette university's 1945
homecoming celebration will be
touched off tonight with the for
mal completion of all platoon
signs' and a noise parade through
downtown Salem. The noise pa
rade is a renewal of traditional
homecoming activity discontinued
for the: duration of the war.
Judging of the signs will offi
cially start the celebration, and
will take place tonight .at 8
o'clock. The celebration will con
tinue all day Saturday with the
weekly navy review at 11:30 ajn.
on Winter st. in front of Lausanne
halt This will be followed by a
serpentine parade at 12:43 and an
all-navy football game at 2
o'clock 1 on Sweetland field. ; The
alumni reunion will take place in
Chresto cottage oh the campus at
f oCTp-followin g the football game.
The festivities .will close-i the
end of the costume ball to be held
in the gymnasium at 9 o'clock
Saturday night Masks and cos
tume apparel will be made avail
able to all alumni wishing to at
tend the dance.
All .buildings on the campus
will be open. all day Saturday
with exhibits arranged In various
departments.
The football game this year
will be a regular game between
two squads of navy men from
the V-12 unit since inter-collegiate
fqptball was not provided
for this year at Willamette. Ad
mission to the game will be free
of charge, and all those interested
In seeing a good football, game
are enthusiastically invited.
Canneries Ask i
For Help
Duiiiway New
WestOPAHead
WASHINGTON, Sept 1S-(AV
Price j Administrator Chester
Bowles today announced appoint
ment of Ben Duniway as ad
ministrator of OPA'a San lYan-
dsco regional office.
The OPA's San Francisco re
gion covers California, Washing
ton, Nevada, Arizona and north
ern Idaho.
Duniway, who for the past six
months has served as an assist
ant to ! Bowles, succeeds Charles
R. Baird, who resigned to return
to private industry. Before com
ing to ! Washington he was re
gional OPA attorney at San Fran
cisco. He joined OPA in 1942.
McMINNYILLE STOP ADDED
McMINNVILIJE, Sept. 13
Transairways, a new airmail and
express! company, has petitioned
Washington, D. C, to add a stop
here to its proposed Oregon ser
vice, officials said today. '
Wake Commander Denws
'Send Us More Japs Request
I By'Al Dopklng
TOKYO, Sept 13.-vf)-Lt CoL
James P. Devereux, commander
of the heroic defense of Wake is
land before It fell to an over
whelming force of Japanese, re
ported that American casualties
in the fight were not great -
.Members of an air evacuation
group who visited him in a prison
camp on Hokkaido island Tues
day said Devereux told them:. ;
, Of several groups of marines,
we lost five officers and 41 men.
Of five navy officers and 53 men,
we lost three men, and as well as
I recall, ot -approximately 1,200
civilian workers, we lost about
37" ; ;...;...--
The rescue party said Dever
eux denied that a radio message
- "send us more Japs' - - was
sent from the island before it was
overrun by. the enemy. There
were recorts at the time that such
a 'message had heen received at
Pearl Harbor from the Wake gar
rison: . . :
' .we did not send out such a
message," he" wu quoted. " "We
had all : and more Japs than we
could handle right then. There
were just too. many, ot them tor
us to hold off any longer.1
One cf the rescue party, Sgt
Al Martin , of Roanoke, Va, and
Topeka, Kans, said Devereux told
them, however, that he had to
give the r cease fire" order three
Ripens Crops
Salem canneries issued i a clea
for. more workers Thursdajafter
two plants had turned dowg pro'
duce earlier in the day 'due to
lack of help to process it V, ;-
Dr. Egbert S. Oliver, labor co
ordinator for the Salem Canner's
committee, said that the hot weath
er has caused the fruit to ripen
more rapidly and that both grow
ers and canners will stand a loss
unless more workers respond to
the call for help. j j
Women, especially housewives
are vitally needed to process the
boxes of prunes and peaches that
are stacked on the loading docks
of all the plants. No previous ex
perience is necessary, Oliver said.
Superintendent of schools Frank
B. Bennett has stated that I high
school students who wish .to help
with the crops may work and will
receive credit for that. time. He
urged, however, that they register
at the school if they anticipate
working. : . 1
Carrier Docks
With Vet Cargo
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 13-(ff)
The United States navy's largest
aircraft carrier, the veteran Sara
toga, passed through the Golden
Gate this, afternoon and docked
at Alameda navy base -with the
largest group of service men to
arrive' on the west coast since the
war ended. ' - '.!'
It was the "Golden Gate to
celebrate for 3710 navy, marine
and army officers and men who
have served many months in the
Pacific. ' v - . h ' '
The men began cheering when
they were still four miles out as
the long Golden Gate bridge came
into 'view through the' fog. j .
'Flip9 Cochran
At AAF Station
SANTA MONICA, Calif, Sept
13.-P)-CoL Philip G. Cochran,
veteran of 80 combat missions; in
North Africa and the Pacific and
leader of the first air commando
task force in Burma, is at the
AAP .redistribution station here.'
The army said there was no
indication as to his next assign
ment f '!.'..".! : : . '
Cot Cochran,' whose home Is tzt
Erie, Pa, returned to the United
States, in June after serving oa
the plan staff of the first allied
airborne army in Europe. - '
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