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From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. ;
CHAPT " A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher i hi'
Member of the Associated Press , - j.
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
They Once Were Chums . jj
If there wasn't such a tragic ovemota In
the deaths of millions, this tuna of the pot
calling the kettle black would be amusing, In
regard to the Germans in Japan.
. Now comes the Nazis' little fuehrer j Fran?
Spahn who says from his home near Tokyo
that "we never got any cooperation from the
Japanese government and it even failed to
give recognition to nazf- party activities." And
refuges reply that the nazis in Japan hoarded
food and lived well and, in fact, were very
unsavory characters.
There is no doubt that if the German brag
garts and the leaders of the "yellow Arayans"
were. shaken up in a bag, so that the color of
their skiff and the slant of their eyes were'
merged, you'd hardly be able to tell one from
the other when the contents were dumped out.
- Spahn complains because the Japs, "were
even not so averse to Jews." Ha bemoans the
fact that nazis in Japan were kept under police
surveillance after Germany fell, and that even
during the height of the axis glory "the Japa
nese did not admit us to their confidence or
seek ojur help."
There may; be honor among thieves, if there's
any truth to the old saw, but there's none
among murderers. We'll have a tough time
squeezing out a tear either for the nazis who
claim jthey got the cold shoulder or the Nips
who claim the nazis got their cold cuts.
The tights Should Go On
Thefe's increasing comment these days that
the lights have gone on all over the world
exceptj in Salem. And the point is well taken.
Not fojr many months has there been necessity
for either a blackout or a dimout, and while
admittedly considerable work will be necessary
to re-light the lower bulbs on the city street
standards it should begin at once.
Salem's downtown streets constitute a men
ace to pedestrians and an encouragement to'
petty crime. The same-holds true for the capi
tol area where the darkness of night cannot
hide a beauty if proper illumination is in vogue.'
The lights should go on. -
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The state is going to sell $1,000,000 in bonds
for the new. war veterans loan fund. With over
a million already levied in taxes to secure the
bond issue, it ought to be good. Even the bank
ers who a dozen years ago started turning down
Oregon warrants will admit they are.
Now we can lay away in mothballs that
term which has been overworked by orators
and editors: "war-torn world." As for the world
it needs to be laid away in bandages in a
hospital for a time.
England's new house of commons is to have a
periscope, like a submarine. There better not be
any water-tight doors or someone out of step
with the government might get some bright
ideas. '
Editorial Comment
SPEED IT UP ,
It is hoped that better-than-usual speed is pos
sible in the move to transfer prefabricated housing
from defense plants to college campi at Oregon
and Oregon State. The idea is to move the housing
from the big federal atomic bomb project at Rich
land. Wasti, to the schools of higher education,
where there is a serious shortage of living facilities
for married veterans.
As the situation now stands, the university and
college may lose attendance of many family-vets
who obviously cannot go to either of the two schools
unless they can find a place to live. Effect on the
total attendance 14 not important What Is im
portant is that the veterans, seeking to apply
their GI bill of rights educational benefits, are
stopped for lack of housing. .
Haste is necessary so as to permit the Vets oc
cupancy of the housing within a reasonable time
after opening of the fall term at the schools. The
sooner these young men '(and in some cases their
wives) get into school, the better. Astorian Budget.
The Air May Clear ?
! Admiral Kimmel, whose name has been sul
lied for years with the blame for Pearl Har
bor, is on solid ground when he .opposes a court
martial at the present time; The tragic episode,
which since 1941 has been laid almost solely
to KimmeJ and General Short, now Is in the
open with the myriad of "you dids" and "I
didn't," and until theV air clears with tha con
gressional investigation now underway there is
little chance of pinning "down the facts. :
. It is probable thaf even Admiral Kimmel
would not claim to be entirely blameless, but
any admission he might,: make now would
merely be fuel to the fires vol those who would
shout down their own part in the holocaust.
Kimmel and Short have been denied a hearing
for years. They were j sent to the military dis
grace of oblivion and left there. And with in
creasing evidence that there are plenty of
others who merit some share of the blame,
the two major scapegoats can be accorded at
least some consideration. ; Their punishment,
warranted or not, has been and is continuous.
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Not Apt to he Fired for Asking
The; Roundup A ; -r
"Ride er, cowboy' days are on at Pendleton
and the west once more attracts its own. Come
another year, and iti will attract a lot more
than rits own, too, as their 34-year-old event
rides out its history. 1 ff ) '
There can be but slight competition for at
tendance between the roundup and our own.
state fair. The former's scope is limited. And
this year there's no competition at all. Regard
less, the roundup is an institution, a i western
Institution, an Oregon institution. It's a worthy
counterpart to the legends of pioneer days and
as such provides this state 1 with invaluable
promotion in competition with the resorts of
the east. It is just one more attraction which
makes it mandatory that Oregon don its 4ejJ
clothes for the coming year j which will find
the tourist influx far more than a trickle.
Interpreting
The War News
By JAMES D. WHITE
Associated Press Staff Writer
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WAINWRIGUT WELCOME
We are glad San ' Francisco is the city first to
welcome General Jonathan M. Wainwright home
to American, from a Japanese prison camp. j
. Wainwright stands not merely a solitary heroic,
figure but as a symbol of the men who suffered
for a temporarily lost cause.- And San Francisco,
greeting him, speaks, not for itself only but with
the voice of all America.
Among the shining figures of this war the men
of Corregidor and Bataan have a unique place.
They, made the full sacrifice, holding the fort with
no hope of their own rescue from it Their mission
was to help give an awakened America time to
organize its defenses, j
A parade, however spectacular, seems inadequate
to express a nation's gratitude. But It is the im
mediate, visible means of expression. It is fitting
that the people of the whole bay region come to,
San Francisco to be on Sunday's line of march.'
They will be welcoming Wainwright in the name
of all America, and also will be paying tribute
to the memory of the heroes who gave their lives
in the first fearful days of war, t J ,
These dead are the silent legion marching in
spirit with Wainwright on this memorable occa
sion. San Francisco. Chronicle.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 13.-P)-Prince Fumi
maro Konoye is a blue-blood . who obviously would
much rather play golf j than! politics. i !
But twice he has served as premier at critical
times first when Japan began war in China and
r next trying to soften American indignation at what
Japan was doing there.! - j j
His blood is so blue that he has actually refused
the premiership at other times. - Empresses are
traditionally chosen from among five families, of
which his is one. He (is tall and dresses well.
Japanese used to say insomnia made him wake
up at least ten times every night and that each
time he would take a 'different kind of sleeping
vpill. When politics got too hoti
for him he would jump into bed,!
pleading a cold. ii ) f
Konoye was up and around to-
day, however, telling Associated!
Press correspondent Russell Brines
that he thought he could have .
avoided war with America in 1941
if the Japanese military hap . let
him. He indicated that in a way
he was glad Japan surrendered
last month because this would!
mean the end of the: military,
which he said didn't always keep
the government informed of what.
was cooking and often got the empire in hot water.
Here are some of the things Konoye has , said
and done in the past m l ". :j
In 1937 he formed the coalition government
which in July found itself immersed in an un
declared war in Chinai Konoye says Ae tried to
stop it On August 29, 1937. fcej said: . H !
"Japan's one course is to beat China to her
knees, so that she may! no longer have the spirit
to fight" I ;' f
And in September, Konoyas cabinet announced
a program designed to organize Japan as a totali
tarian state. Japan joined the axis, but 1938 found
Konoye resisting militarist efforts to pass a law
authorizing Japan's total mobilization for war. '
It was Konoye who gave the empire its famous
slogan, "a new order foe greater east Asia." : !.
Konoye's cabinet felly. andJ was followed by a
. series of military groups. By 1940 he was back,
' and he said: . K f ..
"Should the United States continuously refuse
to realize . the true intentions of Japan, Germany
and Italy, and come to challenge them by regarding
the alliance as a hostile action, it becomes natural
that they will engage in a battle."
In 1940 he abolished political parties in Japan.
Konoye now claims" that when his 1941 cabinet
felljn October he "knew that was was inevitable
but I did not know how or when it would" come."
He had wanted to talk to President Roosevelt
personally, he said, and war minister General Tojo
had approved. But he said Tojo hid been gathering
power since the army had put I him in as war
minister the year before. By the time Tojo got
to be premier in October, Konoye told Brines,
his attitude had changed, p j - H r -
Konoye added that Japanese industrialists and
Tho Literary
Guidcpost
By W. O. ROGERS
MOT IN OUR STARS, ky Joclah eT
Greene (MacmUUa; $)).
The milkman is the hero of
this novel, ; which secured the
$2,500 Macmillan Centenary
award for Sgt Greene, native of
.Duluth, graduate of Brown and
formerly on; the Providence
Journal. .
Taking as locale a growing
metropolitan dairy farm, Greene
marshals all the people in the
community, shows what they eat
and drink j .. mostly not milk
. . . where they live, whom they
love and how, whom they hate,
,how they earn their living, how
- they carry ; on the labor-management
conflict
It makes agreeable reading.
There are pages and pages of
conversation, and numerous dra
matic incidents such as strike
threats, fire, theft love, sex and
murder. , . .
It's more agreeable than con
vincing, however. For instance,
the conversations differentiate
people as to their ideas but not
as to their characters,! so -that-while
you learn what they think
you don't learn what they really
' are. Freda Ellis is incredibly in
nocent for' j a) girl of i 16, Ida -Heim
incredibly malicious,
Charlie bann incredibly evil.
This noyel is all things to all
men. Do you J believe, in labor?
Then here it is and here is the
dirty deal it gets but also the
way in which; it balks manage
ment's noble intentions. Do you
believe in management? Then
here t is, tod,' and here Is the
dirty, deal it gets from employes
but also the way it deceives and
strives unscrupulously for dom
ination in its field. ,
Fundamentally the whole
story is built j on a false basis, k
for the owner of . the dairy,
. which represents an investment
of, several thousand dollars, does
. not get a cent of profit.
- It's a two-edged" sword, but
instead of cutting both ways, it
cuts neither, way. Greene swings
it staunchly but doesn't even
raise a welt I ' ' ,
Probably the world is as he
pictures it good and evil mixed. ,
That means in substance lack
of conflict; it reduces life to an
unrelieved neutral tone. If in the
night all cats are gray, Greene
gives us a recognizable gray cat
But the novel; should put color
into cats. Greene is right ' in
" theory, wrong! in effect"
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HONOLULU-flPHThe, trouble,
with, being a newspaper man is
it's like having dandruff you
can't get rid of it and you al
ways wear it on your sleeve.
When Morley Warren walked
into the office, officially he look
ed like Specialist 2c Thomas M.
'Warren, which is the moniker he
holds under coast guard aus
pices. !'
But his old. friends at Albu
querque, N&L,' where he used to
beat a typewriter to death for
the Associated Press, would rec
ognize the gleam in his eyes. He
was Morley of the old by-line
days because he had a story.
And when a newsman's in that .
shape, all you cad do is aim him
at a typewriter . and turn him
loose. So what follows is strict
ly Morley Warren's story and
the management assumes no responsibility.
.The "Fubar . Maru" is back
from the wars.
Less picturesquely known as
the LST (landing ship, tanks) 71,
she is a battered, war-scarred
veteran of six Pacific invasions
and more than two years at sea.
She is t manned by. . a coast .
guard crew that looks like the
military edition of the '"Dead
End Kids" and skippered by a
two-fisted, poker-playing Tam
many Hall Irishman named nam
ed homas Ai Ruddy. .
The greatest present ambition
of Ruddy, also-a veteran of the -first
World war, is "to get back
into a derby and checkered suit."
The LST 71 acquired the name'
"Fubar (key letter of the ex
pression "fouled up feeyond rec
ognition") ; and Maru-' (Japanese
for ship) at Okinawa.:
That label was hung onto her
by Lieutenant Ruddy's favorite
passenger, a marine major who
let Ruddy ride his tank during
the Okinawa invasion.1 .
' "And what an invasion," says "
Ruddy. "I thought Fd surprise ;
the major and put a case of cold
beer in the tank.
"What does; he dp but, come '
out for battle Wearing kid gloves,
and orders the confederate flag
flown from the tank's radio an
tenna, r ;" '' -"Then,
'off we go against the
j enemy me working the beer
lover with a dry-ice fire ex
(tinguisher and the major proud
as hell with that flag, which
Isure enough gets shot off Just
as soon as we hit the beach,
j "What an invasion!"
j It was also at Okinawa that
the unorthodox "Fubar Maru"
jwas fondly nicknamed "Task
Force 71" after she had to drop
j behind the invasion convoy the
j first day out of Ulithi. She
! steamed on, alone and unescort
ed, to Okinawa.
j Hah," snorted Ruddy on that
occasion, "we don't need an es
Icort anyway. This ship's got the
.best crew afloat bar node and
II said bar none." He brought
'hU ham like fist down on his
desk with a crash. i
j "Take Taylor," . he shouts re
ferring to his youthful executive
officer, Lt (jt) Eugene E. Tay
,lor of Wyandotte, Mich. "He's
rated as one of the top ten anti
submarine men in the navy and
coast guard and I. said top ten,
not top ten. per cent"
! Ruddy also boasts that not a
man on his shiphas been court
jnartialed since he's been aboard
and that they all have unusual
ly high ralingsj
"If they freeze one rating," he
declares, ,"we dig out another.
That kid in the ship's office had
been striking for yeoman for
almost two years when I came
aboard. ' So they freeze yeo
man's rating. So I make the
kid a carpenter's mate."' He
grins .1'
; Although that system strictly
adapted from Tammany's meth
. ods of rewarding the faithful one
way or another pleases the men
of the "Fubar Maru," it doesn't
always bring huzzahs from head
quarters, j
j "Most of the correspondence I
get from Washington," comments
Roddy, begins: Ypu cant do
this, however .
j Ruddy's crew
set a record for
speedy unloading of LSTs dur
ing its six Invasions. His gun
ners knocked down two Japa
nese suicide, planes during un
, load' .g at Okinawa.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
iBy Lichty
the conservative navy had opposed
United SUtec. .. i r ,U j!
He did not explain how the navy
to make the strike at Pearl Harbor
war with the
Was persuaded
except to sug
gest that lt had its share of fanatic young officers.
Safety Valve
, LETTERS FROM STATESMAN
. READERS
Rent Prablem Serious
- To the Editor: -.
We wonder If some of our or
ganizations can not do something
to relieve the rent problem. Ev
ery day people are visiting the
real estate offices telling us the
house has been sold and they
have to move and what are we
going to do. Some coming in
from other parts of the -country
would like to locate here but say
they can not find a place to live
so will have to try some other
eity or town. '
We hear Corvallis and other
towns are buying some war con
structed houses that were built
in Portland and Vancouver by
the government Why can we
not do the same? We under
stand they are built so they can
be moved, We are so In need
of workers, to save the crops but
no housing for people. 'I :
The city owns plenty, of lots
to put these houses on If they
can be purchased from the gov
ernment U:''
We i suggest j the chamber of
commerce or some other organ
ization do something about this.,
i R . C J. Jackson ii .
S4I State St, Salem.
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"Siace obt win-the-war lnncheon t months age ' had such sensational
aceesa, I soggest s win-the-peaee laneheoa immedlaUIyr. . T
9 JExhibitors
Eiter Display s
Nine . exhibitors entered their
tuberous begonias fn the display
at the YMCA. Thursday night,
showing from oner to twelve differ
ent, arrangements of the flowers.
- The display was a feature of
the. regular meeting of the Salem
Men's Garden club and will be on
exhibit at the Y until Saturday.
C, L. McDonald presided at the
business meeting in the absence
of president H. L. Staver and
introduced W. L. Menke of Port
land who showed slides of many
specimens of tuberous begonias. .
Jim McGilchrist, member of the
club, outlined the steps necessary
to take care of chrysanthemums
during September ,aind told .how
to produce outstanding blooms.
Exhibitors at the meeting were
RJ G. Warren, D. A. Schulze, S.
Raynor Smith, C. A. Kells, W.
Frank Crawford, Harold Elbert,
Iufer Nursery, Jim McGilchrist
and John Mitsch of Lebanon.'
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clerks, waitresses, elevator girls,
milkmen and laundry drivers?;
These are generally of the class
whose wages rates were ' slow
est to rise. In a real sense they,
broke the news of war to the;
great American public; and in
the majority of cases' they renr
dered assistance to the shopping
public Many a time a clerk
warned ' his customer that the,
merchandise offered was ersatz.'
Often he went to great lengths
to meet customer requirements,
in the face of dwindling stocks.!
He and the merchandise buyers
have fought battles for con
sumers, with manufacturers, job
bers, government agencies. J
' Confess, you who are quick to
criticize store clerks how many
times did the clerk lay aside a
white shirt for you, hide it back
in the office, until you called?
Or phone you that some scarce
merchandise had just, arrived?
And what about the butcher who
when you asked for bacon, said
No bacon today," but you
found a half pound of it mys
teriously In your market basket
when you left the store, with the
red points neatly abstracted from
your ration book? How many
times did you wink to a clerk
and have him come up with a
pacx OZ asueneK
: True there have been snippy
gmartalecks, Ignorant of common
courtesy, who were "drafted" to
wait on customers. But there
has also been an army of faith
ful servitors who have been loy
al to their store and to the great
American public, trying to serve
both with fidelity under the try-
ing conditions of wartime.
How- many times have these
people whose wrath rose over
some petty slight by an imma
ture girl behind a counter, ever
said a double thank-you to the
clerks who have worked to main
tain store standards of service to
customers? We need to be more
discriminating in our blame, and
more prompt with our - praise
when we talk of the great army
of folk in the service trades who
have dealt with the great Amer
ican public in wartime, kept
them fed and clothed and shod,
old them war bonds, and out of
wages rarely swollen by wartime
prosperity bought bonds, con
tributed to war chests and Red
Cross, and helped keep the home
institutions functioning. .
Silvcrton "Woman
Dies Thursday '
SILVERTON-Mrs. Millie Bueli,
52, a resident of Silverton for the
past 42 years, died at her home
Thursday;
Mrs. Buell was born in North
Dakota, December 5, 1892, and
married . Arthur Buell ? here in
1910.
Surviving art the widower, a
daughter, Mrs. Lester Olson of
Salem; a ' granddaughter; her
mother, Mrs. J. Harris and a
brother, . Jens Fokald, both of
Ridgefield, Wash. -
Funeral announcements will be
made later from the Ekman mor
tuary. . ' r
Dick Hendrie
Hi-Y President
Officers and advisers of Salem's
three Hi-Y chapters this week
elected Dick Hendrie their coun
cil president for the coining year,
named Charlies Robins vice .presi
dent and Dick Close as secretary.
Three major projects planned
for the fall are the "Hello Day"
gag sale at the high school, a tra
ditional first-day get-acquainted
activity, an assembly for all .boys
the second week of school to ac
quaint them with the Hi-Y organ
ization and offer them member
ship; applications and the sale of
the programs at all home football
games.
Hi-Y officers from 1 different
schools of this area will meet in
Salem on October 14 for a special
training session of leaders- and
officers. Everett Harding, assist
ant area executive, will be here
from Portland to assist with the
class. Dr. Lawrence! Riggs of Will
amette university will be layman
in charge of it .
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CONSTRUCTION STARTED
EUGENE, Sept 13 -V?- First
building of several costing $400,
000 was begun today at the Paci
fic Co-operative Poultry Produ
cers' plant here. A feed mill, stor
age building and plant will" be
built' this fall, and an egg stor
age unit next spring, Manager C.
G: Keeney said. -4 i.k-yri..U
Toastmistress
Group Dines
It was triple-A night at the first
fall 'meeting of the Salem Toast
mistress club Thursday ' at the
dinner hour at the Quelle.
"Africa the Continent and Its
Question" was discussed by Mri.
Irving T. Fox.
"Alaska," and the vacation trip
which took her there this summer
provided inspiration for Grace L.
Bottler. ' '
Atomic bombs, their influence
on the future weal or woe of the
world, interspersed table topics,
overwhich Mrs. Walter L. Sapuld
ing presided as table topic chair
man. - -' .
Loretta Friedrick spoke on
"Dreams," as a means to an end:
MrsJ Jess Daugherty was toaatmia'
tressMrs. Lewis Arens, president
conducted the meeting. Mrs. Mar.
tin Elle was general critic. Mrs.
James Hartman was timekeeper.
Individual critics were Olga Wik
bergl Ada Ross and Marion De
MVtmm
stner uuuey was received as
a new member. '
CAL. POLICE ACCUSED 7:
SACRAMENTO, Calif, Sept 13
(-Investigation of two Sacra
mento police was underway yes
terday "'after James E. Spears. 29,
Portland, accused them of taking
money from him. The men, both
temporary patrolmen, were sus
pended while the investigation
continues. . t '
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MORSE CHANGE SUGGESTED
WASHINGTON, Sept 13-(P)-The
senate republican committee
today recommended transfer of
Senator Morse (R-Ore) from the
interstate commerce committee to
the 'committee on naval affairs.
The proposal will be voted on at
the party conference Saturday.
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CAIJFORNIAN KILLED
FLORENCE, Septus -ff)- Ar
thur; Hart Spencer, Los Angeles,
was killed near, here by a falling
tree while inspecting timber ope
rations. It was reported yesterday.
Woodsmen said they thought he
had left the area before they be
gan falling timber, ;
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Limit to Ease
Bus Schedules
Lifting of the 35-mile speed
limit will have virtually the same
effect as a substantial Increase in
the number of highway busses
serving the west's transportation
This was the. assertion this week
of F. W. Ackerman, vice presi
dent of Pacific Greyhound lines,
the bus system that provides lo
cal and long-distance service: in
seven western states over a net
work of highways. The! bus ex
ecutive stated that Greyhound is
revising schedules on the time-
the Office of Defense Transpor
tation. . J
"When the wartime speed lim
it was reduced to 35 miles per
hour in September, 1942," Mr.
Ackerrnan explained, "it meant a
marked decrease . in the numbes
of trips a bus could make, and a
corresponding decrease ,in the
number of passengers each bus
could carry in a given period. Tha
effect on intercity transportation
was much the same as though a
part of our, total number of busses
was withdrawn' from service.
'."Schedules are . rapidly ' being
readjusted to normal pre-war op
erating time, . and this will in
crease the service to all the points
where Greyhound operates."
PASSPORTS ISSUED
PORTLAND, Sept 13-ff)-Pass-ports
for pleasure and business
trips abroad again, are being is
sued by the department; of im
migration and naturalization here.'
Several have been issued: for Eu
rope, Asia and Central and South
America, an official said.
SCALING PRICES RAISED
. PORTLAND, Sept 13 -(P- An
increase of two cents per 1000 feet
over the present maximum price
of 13 cents a 1000 feet for scaling
and grading logs in the Padfia
northwest was approved yesterday
b7 OPA, effective Sept 17.
TUNA HAULS SCARCE i
ASTORIA, Sept 13 -JP)- Tuna
hauls were scarce here yesterday,
but gillnetters open ina the fall sea
son reported takes equal! to last
year. Fishermen averaged 1700
pounds from the lower Columbia
rival. J. 11
toona delivered 4100 pounds..
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