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Newspaper Page Text: v. f I ! - . .' . .. - S r I . II U II 1 1 II I I 1 1 I I am POUNDS D 1551 7 1 1 1 Vk I'll I I IJ iisrsTY-nrnx teab IS PAGES Scdem. Oregon. Trld ay. Morning; Spimbr 21, 1943 Prlc 5c .-.V no. 153 m mi mm m A irauu mm Dow WdDinniDinia'aDomi ODTt if earn) Aclhes - WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-(ff)-In a hot senate debate two senators tonight delayed action on Dean Acheson's nomination to be undersecretary ot state, on the ground that he had "insulted" ueneral Douglas MacArthur. - Senators Wherry (R-Neb) and Chandler JD-Ky) acted "s the result of disagreement between MacArthur and the state department over occupation policies in Japan. inai ui4 occupauon iorces couia be cut down to 200,000 men in six months., Acheson shot back with a statement that occupation policy was being made in Wash ington, hot in the field. ; . Wherry told the senate that Acheson, at present acting secre tary of j state, had "blighted the name" bl MacArthur. Chandler said the general had been "in suited.' i In a j follow-up to Acheson's statement, it was learned, toda that MacArthur is being ordered to' purge Japan of its ultra-na tionalist leaders in both public and private positions of power. GUP S3MEQS TKD iM NEW YOSK, N. Y-New York City will elect a' new mayor in November. La Guardia (Little , Flower J declined to run again. Tammany hall has. picked District Attorney William ODwyer of Brooklyn as the democratic candi date, who Is "also endorsed by the American Labor party. The re-j publicans have nominated -Judge; Jonah Goldstein. There is a third ndidate, Newbold Morris, presi- nt of the city council, running a the "No Deal" candidate. The campaign Is just , getting under Way. In this American city, which is still largely foreign 4n its immedi ate relationship, politics . consists id -large measure of . appeals to racial, religious or other groups. In these days of tension the cam paign here may develop into one filled with bitterness. O'Dwyer is an Irish-Cathpl3 namej and Gold stein Jewish;' and Boston has shown the explosive character of such a juxtaposition. . , . .. , - Evidently" to allay that and to' attract, some of the large Jewish vote here, O'Dwyer . had a long speech dealing with the claims of the Jews to Palestine. He con demned the British white paper limiting migration to Palestine and urged admission -of displaced Jews there. Plainly there is H Arab rote in New York' City.;,, . There ' is, of course? not the slightest (Continued on editorial page) Senate Passes gfield Fear Violence AtSprin Plywood Plant ; Springfield, Ore.; Sept. 20-(Pi-Fear of violence by AFL pickets toddy was reported by CIO union men as the reason Springfield Plywood corporation has not re opened its plant, In a prepared statement, S. J. Severson, on behalf of local 9-233, CIO International j Wood workers of America said the com pany told the. union - It - was "afraid of violence.'' Severson said the CIO local "had no inten tion of using violence." . - CIO officials yesterday bad as serted enougk men were on hand to operate the plant without AFL workers,- out in . a jurisdictional dispute. Henry Peck of the district plywood council said the company promised a statement today. - n:nid Gcdhcrs By WARREN GOODRICH f-t "issif tomorrow find a toftsrtpot cndhrgoodntf gzht tit dsvxiF 5 Girls? Aid Rumored In Escape Program for Jobless Pay WASHINGTON, Sept. -O.-VP)- The senate late today gave final approval 10 a "program oi emer gency jobless pay under which the government would extent the duration of state payments to 26 weeks, i ' . This would be done whether or not tbe.istates cooperated. Far different from the program asked by President Truman, who recommended a guaranteed top pay of $23 everywhere, the meas ure now goes to the house. In 1 its present form the - bill would: 1 - 1. Assure payment at state rates in every state for a maximum of 26 weeks. (Only Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Wash ington now pay that long; the others range downward to 14.) 2. Grant jobless benefits to 2,- 900,000 federal civil employes and 400,000 maritime workers: These payments would be at levels of the-t-jstates .where the employes workad. : "J 3. Allow up to $200 to send a displaced war worker back home, or to a new job, from the place to which he migrated; Senator Mc- Clellah (D-Ark) tried to knock out this Provision but was beaten 65 to 14. CampJ Adair War Prisoners Said f Fraternizing T i u - : -The escape; of a German. pris oner of war! from Camp Adah- last Monday i night left rumors and reports On feminine collab- orauon today, but there was neither official confirmation nor denial. - The only formal word came from the federal bureau of in vestigation Which announced, through Spefial . Agent J. Thornton of Portland, that! a prisoner named Paul Barth was missed from a routine check i at 11 p.m. Monday and reappeared voluntarily at; 3:30 ajn. Tuesday Thornton ' said no arrests were made and that there was no in' dication of other suspects orfof a conspiracy to aid the escape. Investiration Continnms "I However, Thornton told The Statesman last night that "the in vestigati on is continuing." lie said there had been no charges filed and that no one was under arrest. The 'same information came from peace officers in Ben ton county, but there was no de nial of more I pertinent reports. And from unofficial sources which appeared ' to be reliable these reports came: - That Barthiwas not the only prisoner of war who left Camp Adair without permission and re turned Later. ' i That a group of girls from the Albany area ; had danced with prisoners outside the camp rat more or less public dancehallsjf T&kea Int. Custody. -.; - , - .J That one or more prisoners and two Albapy area girls -had been 'taken info custody by mili tary police at CoTvallis, whin routine questioning in regard to suspected misdemeanor had brought out the identity of the men. I 'That those taken into custody had provided the names of at least a dozen other girls who had been fraternizing with prisoners outside their Stockade. - t Maj." Harold Hamilton who heads the security and intelli gence division at Camp Adair re ferred all queries to the FBI and others in authority either pro fessed ignorance of the details or referred questions to other de partments. ' ': ' ----I"'". Amnmomirace Speecfl-dJ p Dbd Amy Bsdiiairges? 0?6imfcs System "fio WASHINGTON, Sept. 20-() By October 1 seventy points will get a soldier ; out of the nny -h-''' I-'- y By November I sixty points will do! it. ; ' - Late in the winter the point discharge system will be drop ped entirely and two year's ser- Joe will need for civilian vice is all G. I. to be 1 eligible clothes. - General of the C. .Marshall, chief of staff, pre sented that speed-up demobil ization program gress, restive uider insistent prodding from constituents who want their men back, The lawmakers fly. to an hour's the difficulties oil anf 8,000,000-manj shall didn't seem anything, better,, than polite at tention, i j..' Ei Army George listened wear- explanation of boiling down army. Mar- to be getting - Then he announced the speedr :. up. That was something differ- ent. It got rousing applause. - . , Maj., Gem S. G. Henry, "chief ; : of army personnel, got in on the hand, clapping when r; he ' an- ; nounced that by October .1 i officers will need Sonly 75 points, enlisted Wacs 36 and Wac Offi cers 39. The score for enlisted . Wacs drops to 34 on Nov. 1. The presently required scores are 80 for enlisted soldiers, 80 to 100 for male officers accord ing to grade, 41 for enlisted Wacs and 44 for j Wac officers. Medical department officers, as at present, will be released I under a separate i schedule. : The . conference l was held in ; the auditorium of the library ; of . congress. Marshall asked for it to still growing criticism of : the speed or lack of speed ; In discharges. j urone Of! iri Range LtestBoiiiber PreSidebottom Dies on Honshu BUOOKS-PFC Arthur Roy Sidebottom, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Sidebottom of Brooks, died February 10, 1943 on Honshu -island, a war department telegram informed the parents this week. The telegram stated Sidebottom died of acute colitis. The army man enlisted In Sep tember, 1940 and went overseas In October, 1941. He was taken prisoner in May,' 1942 at Bataan, first being placed in Japanese prison camp No. 1 in the Philip pine islands, and later, moved to Honshu island, not far from To kyo.: . Born July-23, 1913 at Oppor tunity, Wash., he came to Oregon with his parents 'in 126 and to Brooks in 1931,' where he lived until he entered the 'army. He a to tended Fairfield and Evergreen schools. 4'. ' 1 T " Survivors include-his parents; three sisters, Mrs. Peggy Pringle el Salem; Mrs. Edith Beeleque of Fairfield and. Mrs. Ruth Hinkle of Salem.1-. . - ;'r -r Ricliard S Crenshaw ! Liberated in Japan : The war department has an nounced that Richard S. Cren shaw, husband of Mildred Cren shaw, route V box 28, Salem; and Van Ray Shott, whose emer gency, address is listed as James Shott, Rlckreall, have been liber ated from Japanese custody. V Both men are civilians. Place of their internment is not given In" the first announcement - Cordon; jAngell Ask Battleship Oregon He Returned Home WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-)- The-battleship Oregon has been "worn out by her honorable serv ice," Secretary of the Navy Fbr- restal told Senator Cordon (R-Ore) todays; '."v U-; .: - l. ' Cordon, who with Representa tive Angell (R-Ore) is asking for return of the vessel to her former permanent anchorage, vwas re minded . that restoration of the supertructuretcrapped by the navy would be extremely costly. The Oregon : was stripped to her bare hull during the war, towed to Guam, and used for ammuni tion storage.' f ; OSS Functions l ! - 'I Transf eitred to UiS .State Dent. WASHINGTON Sept. 20.-0iP)-Three air forcegenerals who flew non-stop from Japan to Chicago said today that the suc cessor to the B-29-S a plane being built but not yet officially announced could bomb Europe from the United States .and return to base. Even; the "already obsolescent" B-29 could fly to Europe and back, said Brig; Gen. Emmett OTtonnell, commanding one -of the three superforts which landed short . of ; their Washington goal yesterday. ' , However, Lt Gen. Barney M. Giles,' deputy commander of Am erican airforces in the Pacific, said that the tuperfort would not be a practical bomber for use at that range. , . 1 ; . I- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, chief of staff, of strategic airfor ces In the Pacific, said that using the B29s maximum takeoff gross weight ot 140,000 pounds, each ot the three planes could have car ried 3,000 pounds ! of bombs on the 6,100-mile flight. The planes took off from Itxutani airport near the capital of Hokkaido, with a gross weight oi 137,000 pounds, which .included 60,000 pounds of fuel. . - I ' ; Asked what badj been" learned from the long hop, Gen. Gilles said, "We learned that the wea therman is quite often wrong." Head winds caused the 'planes to sit down in Chicago. .A . mh dob Conciliator v V . r V; V 1U Edgar L. Warren (above), ef Chicago, arrives at the depart- snent ef labor te ge to work in his newly appointed position as chief ef the . VS. conciliation ' service in Wasbincten. Warren has been delegated to study the Detroit strike sltuaUon. (AP WIKEPHOTO) " Head of War Labor Board Resigns Post WASHINGTON. Sept 20-WV Presldent Truman j took the first step i today toward setting up a comprehensive aid integrated" peacetime ! foreignj ' Intelligence service for this country. ' He did this by transferring to the state department the major war-time functions of the office of strategic services. Other activities of OSS were transferred to the war depart-H ment and the remaining sections abolished, j thus terminating one of the most secret agencies of the government in World War II. ' In a letter to Mat Gen. William J. Donovan, director of OSS, the president said he was liquidating the (activities of the : office not needed in time jof peace. He added that the resources and skills developed Within tie organization should be conserved and hence he was transferring to the state department the research and an alysis branch and some other ac tivities of :OSS, effective Oct 1. fhone Call Reaches i Right State, Wrong Gty 1 DALLAS. Sept j20 L(ff). Ray I Williams, who livs near Dal? ;! las, rushed to tte ; telephone 1 when notified bis brether "was frAm England. i It tuned oat I The Dalles-Dallas '1 v li m buii foond himself stranger. A differebt Jerry Wll i hams wu eallinrt a' different 3 Ray Williams at The Dalles. to AM talkla be that eld onble, again. don, .Ray g to a WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.--Chairman George -W. Taylor of the war labor board turned in his resignation today and labor secretary: Schwellenbach acted swiftly to head off further depar tures by granting the WLB com plete autonomy. Taylor submitted the resignation to President Truman, and they agreed -to make it effective Oc tober 15, it was learned reliably. This would give . the board and Schwellenbach an opportunity to get started under the new adminis trative arrangement resulting from WLB . transfer to the labor de partment . . . Schwellenbach, depending on the board and a rejuvenated U. S conciliation, service ' to help him meet the threat of widespread la bor troubles in the conversion to peacetime production, set forth a declaration of policy which gives the board the same degree of independence of action it had as a war agency.' The president had given Schwel lenbach authority to formulate policies for the board, a feature which some members frankly did not care for. i i (Sua ire W5llfl: : Mvel IWA Approves Strike Policy r PORTLAND, Sept 20 -(VP)- Un official tabulation of 30,000 bal lots cast by " Gld' International Woodworkers of America mem bers in Oregon, Washington and California sho ioverwhelmingT approval of giving the union pow er to. call a strike the IWA said today. - -'I- i- :- . IWA President Claude Ballard announced a meeting of the ne gotiating committee will be held here Wednesday. This group now has power to call a strike" if it feels demands for a $1.15 an hour minimum wage! cannot be' obtain ed through negotiation, h. j WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-P)-The "United States today was ur ged by Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-Conn) to: prepare to live un derground as protection from sur prise atomic, bomb attacks. I Thia- idea was voiced in con gress as President Truman con ferred with three senators; on what to do in peacetime with ato mic energy. . I Rep. Luce asserted In the house: If we believe, as many of our military leaders claim to believe, in a surprise atomic bomb attack, we. must .begin now . to lake th sought for providing under ground shelters for our people, for decentralizing our vital war po tential factories, and putting many of them underground. Terhaps this logical conclusion says .yoiidlemiroiLaiiDdl - r to the threat of atomic bombard ment strikes you as kther too fan tastic, or too troublesome. If it doesthen, if anothjer world war comes, this nation will be licked before it begins to Ifight'V, -j" t 4 Two military leaders meanwhile debated the effectiveness of the atomic bomb In bringing an early end to the war against Japan. v i fThe atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war, at all contended Major Gen. Cur tis E. Lemay, who directed the B29 superfortress bombing cam paign against Nippon. ; i j He said at new conference that the war "would :have been oxer In . two weeks without the Russians coming in and without the atomic bomb." -s However, Major Gen. Leslie R. Groves, who directed the atomic I Y, i bomb project throughout! when asked at another news confer ence: ':- i I "Do you think the atomic bomb shortened the war?" replied: ."Why, yet of course. You have only to look at the calendar to find that out He referred to the Japanese sur render following closely upon the atomic bombing of Hirshinu and Nagasaki-, ';. 5 f Three members '! the nenate' foreign relations committee called at the White House to discuss with Mr. Truman - the question of .con trol, development and future, use of atomic energy, t The president f la reported to have favored the development of a joint house-senate committee to go into the Questions. , ; Big 5 Council Air Views, on Romania Pact LONDON, Sept 21.-rVThe big five council of foreign minis ters -announced tonight that views had been exchanged on "the gen eral principles" of peace treaties with Romania - - the first of the Balkan countries to be discussed - and with Finland. - . A communique at the end of to day's second session said the Brit ish and soviet delegations had submitted proposals for both trea ties. The United States, never at war with Finland, submitted only considerations for writing the peace with Romania. -. Soviet proposals were taken as a basis for discussion' of both trea ties. . v Martin Asks 20TaxSlasli WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-tyP)-The House Republican Leader Martin of . Massachusetts proposed today a slash in 1948 federal tax es "of at least 20 per cent all along the board," including indi viduals and corporations. "Tax revision legislation should be written Immediately," he told newspapermen. . "This Is neces sary to stimulate business,", - Martin's position' put power be hind the previous proposal by Rep. Knutson of Minnesota, senior republican on the house ways and means committee,': that ,1946 in dividual Income taxes be reduced by one-fifthv . " .--:''. iV." , PETROITV Sept. 20-r(AP) A reinforced United State, conciliation service sought today to break the deadlock in Detroit's troubled labor situation .that has kept scores oi? thousands idle in this Vital spot of the nation's antomotij indostry. ' .: ' : r - ' '. " . ' .. lAs the conciliation service assigned three-man panels te each of a series of disputes, Walter P. Reuther, vice presi dent of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) disclosed there had been an exchange of letters with General Motors corporation over the union's demand for a 30 per cent wage) increase. " 1 ... . 1 The UAW-CIO has announced it intends to seek the increase throughout the industry or call strikes, "one at a time," In -each of the , "big three"-car makers Ford,! Chrysler and General Mo tors.: I . Reuther said a letter received yesterday from H. B. Coen, Gen eral Motors labor relations direct or, ; offering to arrange meeting with' the union, was "the first in dication of management's willing ness to discuss the 30 per cent demand." . Reuther added, however, that he had informed Coen the union wanted a written counter proposal to its ; demand before arranging a meeting. Chrysler corporation, acknowl edging the 30 per cent increase demand last week, offered to meet with the UAW-CIO. . So far as has been disclosed by union j or management the Ford Motor Co. has not offered to meet with r i UAW-CIO representatives on a similar demand forwarded a fortnight ago.. HOTEL OPERATOR NAMED Carl A. Porter, manager for Warner Bros, theatres here, will operate. Eotd Salem, which was purchased recently by the State Finance company from the John Hughes ; estate. Porter filed his certificate of Intention to use' the name at the 281 S. IXigh'st. loca tion Thursday with the- Marion county clerk at th same" time that Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Bayly, former operators, filed certificate of re tirement from the business. ' ArmyTakes Over Reins of J ap Economy The United States army took contrtl of Japan's economic des tiny today, determined to see that the fallen nation feeds itself and develops an appetite for democ racy, i i ;.' The; announced Immediate ob jectives of General MacArthur's economists were to check Infla tion and oversee a fair food dis- Life to Charge FDR Knew of NipAttackPlan NEW YORK, Sept 20-ff)-Joha Chamberlain, " an editor of Life magazine, will say in the forth coming issue of the publication that the late President Roosevelt "knew in advance that the Japa nese were going to attack, us" and that "the republican high com mand Dewey and Brownell V" knew the full -story of Pearl Har bor in the autumn of 1944 when the democrats were arguing the indLspensability of their comman der in chief j I Regarding Gov. Dewey, the ar ticle will say:". v ! "Long ; before the nation went to the polls (in 1944) it had come to Thomas E,. Dewey attention V that we had cracked the Japanese ultra' code some time prior to Pearl Harbor and that Roosevelt and his advisers knew what the Japanese were going to do Well hi advance of the overt rupture of relations. ' . - I I ""More than 15 hours before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and the mem bers of the' Washington high com mand knew that the Japanese en voys' were i going to break with TOKYO, rrjday, Sept. ziMPr-Jthe U. 5. the next, Uay The only The', long, arduous days of solitary confinement ac corded the DOOUTTLB. FLYERS are described by Capt. Nielsen as he contin ues his story on Page 10 of today's Oregon Statesman. thing they did not know was the' precise point of the; military K trek, -which they, assumed would be toward the East Indies andor at the Philippines or Guam, v ! "Dewey, realizing this, was in a position to charge that the presi dent had 'betrayed' the interests of the U. S. in failing either to forestall or mitigate an attack for which we were, on the certifica tion of General Marshall, not yet ready. . - ' " "The political impact of such a charge if supported by the. evH dence of the code-cracking, would have been terrific, and might well have landed Dewey in the White fHouse.7 i tribution to head off hunger riots and revolt against UJ5. rule in the tough winter ahead. (A Washington report said a new policy directive recently had been ! sent MacArthur. It called for eliminating nearly all heavy industry, rigid control of the Bank of ' Japan, enactment ' "of legislation, for free speech and assembly and removal of all ultra-nationalists from positions of power-publie or- private. ; Reeiilistment Bill Aids Army WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-(iPr- The miUUry reenlistsnent bill which .the bouse, unanimously passed j this week to encourage volunteering- for. the armed for ces would place the army on the same footing as the navy with re spect to retirement with pay after 20 years service. ' , :The army now requires SO years service for, such retirement The bill, sent to the senate. would authorize retirement of army enlisted men pon comple tion of not jes&than 20 years of acuve service. . The annual retirement pay for mula calls, for a sum "equal to two and a half per cent ot the average annual pay, including longevity pay, which was received for six months Immediately pro ceeding retirement multiplied by the sum or the number of years of active federal military service performed, not In excess of 29." PUBLICATION BAN OFT WASHINGTON, Sept 20.1- Another wartime control passed out of existence today when Presi dent Trcsian revoked an executive order providing control ever pub lication and use. of federal statis tical information which might give ."aid and comfort to the enemy.1 Employment Bill Wins Vote WASHINGTON, Sept " 20-W- A "f uH employment bill' praised as a depression preventer and criticized as a breeder of jobless ness won a 13 to 7 vote of ap proval in i the senate banking committee today. i Chairman Wagner (D-NY) one of the eight senate sponsors of the measure, told reporters after the vote: I . " . .;- ' - ."Our view is that this bfil is to prevent depressions." v i Senator Taft (R-Oblo). who fought vainly to modify the gov ernment spending doctrine which is the core of the bOL said: Se believe this would do more to produce unemployment than ' to cure it", . v.'-' Maj. Evans Among Returning Doctors Ma). John W. Evans, son of Dr. and Mrs. John C Evans of .Sa lem, is one of a group of IS army doctors who arrived in New York aboard an ; air transport plane Thursday from Europe, Among the first of more than 1600 medi cal officers being returned from the European theatre for dis charge under the point system, they have gone to Camp Kilmer for processing. - ' - Major Evans, whose wife re sides at 415 Vk Alberta st, Port land; has been In the service three years, overseas two. In the European theatre he served with the 4Sth General hospital, staffed by University of Oregon medical school.' ' - Smv Vrandaeo lul S-n Portland .,, , Stt..i S4 & s . ai . 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