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- 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
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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..'
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.' ' -
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