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?os jTb.BXOQ'R. STATESMAN. Edtrx Owgwu Friday Morris teytsabtr XL 1S43 "No Tavor' Sways Vs; No Fear Shall Atce" From Tint Statesman, Marcsfls, 1851.. a- : TOE STATESMAN PUBUSXnNG COMPANY. I CHARLES A. SPRAGUV, Editor and Publisher ! .. . V Member of the Associated Press k Tha Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches Tsdited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. jMaster of Understatement t Admiral Nomura, the over-size Japanese who ; was ambassador to the-United States when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor, can now classifly as master of understatement. . He says' Nippon's policy, particularly in regard to China, "wasn't i decent." He also' says his nation's military ! movements were ''"full of .blunders." The rest; of his statement might well have come off the jsame press as the statements of other leading' Japanese who how voice remorse rather than i repentance.. y''' ' ' ' - Nomura .has more cause than: some; however, to espouse friendship for -the United States. Whether there is sincerity behind his words remains to be seen But he was treated right well in this country,' both . before and after Pearl Harbor. So was Kurusu, the "ambassador of peace' who landed at Treasure island to portray Nippon's desire for continued good will at just about the identical time the treacherous carrier force left the Japan mainland for Ha waii. Both Nomura and. Kurusu, in the war's early years, were quartered at no mean hotel in a southeastern city until their repatriation to their homeland. What 135,000,000 people in this country would have liked to do to them In those days had ' nothing to do with what actually happened. They .went back home in comfort, all in one piece, and Nomura's huge waistline probably hadn't lost an inch. If our state department has any decided opinion on Nomura's part in the war, it has been kept quiet. And also in regard to Kurusu. The truth of. what these men knew, or did not know, on December 7, 1941 would go a long way toward unearthing the background of war criminality in Japan. ' Our Oregon The battleship. Oregon no longer is "an im pressive sight," Secretary of the Navy Forrestal tells us, and "has been worn out by her honor able service in three wars. He says so in letters to Senator Cordon and Representative Arigell who "wsfnt the old ship returned to anchorage in Portland. But. he'd better write more fully than that if he Is to keep in the good graces of this state. The Oregon is in Guam, taken there to be used for ammunition storage after being strip ped to her bare hulk, and Forrestal! says "the expense of duplicating all the upper works ( which were removed would be extremely large." But at least he says she is in such condition that she could be towed home. An there the matter rests, r ; ' ' . j y ' But it can't rest there,! Mr. Forrestal. We want to know what you propose doing with the Oregon? If as you indicate it should have funeral, we want to know all about that, too. The Oregon is Oregon's. W aren't yet satisfied that she has outlived her usefulness. We don't want any mercy killing of that ship yet. And If there is to be one, we want a say in it. We can't stomach the idea, if there is such a one, of the Oregon being left just any old place in the Pacific. Our Unsung Ships : I . The smaller ships) of the navy usually are dwarfed in the news of the battlewagons and carriers but the history of World War II will" never be complete; without them. A; few have become bywords, such as the Boise and ' the San Francisco, but many then havt had little) share In the plaudits for a job well done. One . of this latter class is the heavy cruiser. Pensa ' cola, which the navy how discloses underwent heavy loss in the battle of Iwo Jirna. T I The navy's oldest heavy cruiser,, the Pensar cola figured heavily ill the early days oCwar With its nine 8-inch guns, the vessel and the cruiser Salt Lake city carried more -firepower than any other ships in the Pacifier-there were no battleships: in action the" first six months. The Pensacpla, at Suva when war struck, once also served as a cargo- ship "for desperately-needed supplies. It was reported sunk Jhree times in May and June of 1942 by the Japanese radio. It was an escort ship for the ill-fated Yorktown at Midway. It was badly hammered in the last great I battle ot the Solomons Nov. 30Dej 1, . 1942. And now it takes it again. But it; didn't stop at Iwo Jima 'it lost nearly 200 men; but emergency repairs were effected and It waded in at Okinawa. Now it's getting a respite at Mare Island and if any unsung ship has earned it, that ship lis the Pensacola. j . 1 f I :' ' '' ' The ships that crash Into the headlines aren't the only ones for which this nation' need be grateful. : i- J - I' j ' ' : . j . i 5 1 - If MacArthur- Is In the doghouse fwith the state department, there are a lot of homesick GIs in Japan who would be more than glad to put him in the guest room all the way from ' Oshkosh to Grundy j Center if he gets them WASHINGTON.- SVL WLS?- menwr, H fmlrl c Is about where Roosevelt .had '&tZ;ZrJ& Ending Nowth. "V:-'ifc---rlent. winkersre saying: r. iru tJirZ V left" or Oman's trip out to was Bvt .Ki " " . "right," but Is -only concerned about being "wrong! or right Hannegan had been ratner si- nificantly- quiet since made a display of keeping Mr. Iekes m'the cabinet. Ickes is a sort of un official chair man of si,, sort of political narty oh his , Truman own. neris a fire - builder. He builds them front or back. If something to his- dislike - ' - 5 These Pot-War Tires Cause si It of Grief I:' ! Tho Litorary Guldopqot j By Charles Hoaee A Welcome Release Several hundred new homes may be under construction in Salem by the end of this year, with the restrictions being lifted on October 15, and the city certainly need's them. Renting has been almost out of the question for a long time, unless one "knew somebody," and for many months there was but little choice of desirable residences even for sale. Until VJ day, what few of the latter were available were generally snappd up fast. Of late weeks, purchasers have appeared more choosy and In less hurry. But the need for new homes. particularly in the moderately priced class, is immediate. There will be plenty of obstacles in building, despite removal of limitations. In some instances, priorities only amounted to hunting licenses, anyway. And the game oft times wasn't there. But at least no licen4e now will be necessary and the race will go to the swiftest. Reasonably priced labor and materials are essential for an orderly meeting of housing needs. It doesn't appear that current home owners will ; face any great devaluation -of their own property.: although competitive building probably will lessen the call for older homes, because the de mand is too great to be satisfied to saturation In the immediate future. j Editorial Comment - TO BE , MODEST, MANLY. TRUE The German financial situation is now better than any timesince 1933, reports guess who the j American officer in charge of German ' financial ! matters. . It is. probably true enough, but it is a rather startling " suggestion of a new - style In eulogies. Such as: "A sad and flabby 'play, but I pulled it through.' Adelbert Mauve, matinee idol. J3ut for superb leadership we would have finished seventh." Francis J. O'Doul. - - ' ' " ACotne to think of It, why not? One of the most engaging persons we have ever known we remem ber him clearly after all these years was a rural . youth who came to town and became a high school ' basketball star. He used tocry: "Good shot!" after sinking a long basket. He .was laughed out of school and never .quite understood why. It is an ancient and seemingly immutable fact that the author of any accomplishment must wait for others-to praise it, then. must scuff his toe in the turf and say that anyone could have done it. His eulogists then insist otherwise, but he had better not live in and" agree unless he wants to turn hermit If he belongs-to a groups the rule; can be broken; that is known j- as "organization morale" and is acceptable. But a lone performer appears to outrage the rest of us enough by merely being superior; let him hint that he knows it and- he's an alumnus of society.-San Francisco Chron- ticle. " - " back there. i Interpreting j The War News By JAMES D. WHITE AMocltd Ptm. strtf Writer , incident which excuse to grab Man-1 j SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.-,$))-Cries of Ameri can : anguish are audible as the Japanese make General Kenji Doihara the commander of the "first Japanese general army." : ,. One newspaper today wonders editorially whether Doihara's army may be Used to help police Japan along with the reduced ; American forces which General MacArthur has announced he anticipates. The paper says it has been under the impression that the Japanese army was to be iliminated, Doihara's career doesn't suggest him Us tmich of a threat today. 1 I I I I He was mayor of the Japanese section of Mukden In 1931, and helped plan and stage u 1 " ' tha faked incident which tavern' N.1 Japan her churia. His later career, however, failed; to justify the trmendous build-up which foreign newspapermen had given him as "the Lawrence of Asia." and it is doubtful if the I Japanese themselves ever thought he was such a hot number, even when he kidnaped Henry Pu-yi and took him to "Manchukuo" and set him up as "emperor.f After the Manchurian grab, Doihara concentrated on north China. Provincial Chinese governors list ened because they could, net help themselves? to his talk of an autonomous regime for north China. Doihara was his . ow 1 enthusiastic press agent and let it be known that north China would split off from the. central 1 Chinese government! At the right moment, the nor hern. Chinese gover nors declared their loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking, and the thud with which Doihara was let down resounded throughout Asia. : " f Doihara gave his last interview to foreign news- papermen in Peiping in J 938. Stooped, his face lined, dressed in baggy civilian clothes, he looked; anything but the tiger of Japanese intrigue he had been painted. ' . 1 1! DMided m Military Conquest When their plot to get north China cheap fizzled i srYi 1 1 mi 1 TttK WmONO MAN. j M. C. B0y (DmkMt, DrsB; St). j. f ! Back about 1924, H. cl Bailey, ' English novelist,: gave oyer the writing of romantic fictions anr started ' turning out , detective stories concerning a roly-poly little sleuth named Reggie For tune. : : j , " ! J- 7 His character "took" both in England - and in the United States, and Bailey forgot about historical romances! and steadily applied himself to Fortune's career. After1-a flock of short stories he launched an occasion al 1 novel about the same indi . vidual. ' Next, he conceived another detective figure Joshua Cluni, a shady London lawyer, who con t i n u ally- nibbled sweets, sang hymns, and, in spite of his ' public reputation, did good 'for his fellowman by solving mur der cases and righting horrific wrongs. j . Today Clunk appears in a new novel, "The Wrong Man," which brings the total of the Fortune and Clunk books, to 28 with no end in sight. The current item has to . do with black market operations in wartime England, with a few assorted murders and ' assaults thrown in. An American j army colonel joins the flatfoot ranks HONOLULU -flV It seems impossible to believe, but now it can be told. Somehow, Amer ica won the war out here with out the help of an dectroenceph alographic : specialist : - ... The detaus of this accomp lishment, are not immediately available, but the stark fact re mainsone again our boys in the armed! services did the im possible and managed to muddle along ; to ; victory without one single eleetroencephalographician to do whatever a guy like that . does. : ;. - It must be important, because for a long time this " electro whatehamaycallit' expert had been listed as one of the six most critically needed specialists in the army. j " Reporter Tells Secret According to the official lists' Bent around to' the GIs he's so important he couldn't get out of . the army for at least six months, even if he had a. thousand points. That's what got Sgt. Joe Fish er interested. To the sergeant, a reporter for the Stars . and Stripes, goes the "credit for re vealing this hitherto top-secret situation. as a sort of assistant to Clunk. ; - Naturally Joewouldn't have ijauey is the type 01 aeteenve writer who continually reviews the evidence from everybody's viewpoint, and his plots some times are pretty complex.! This reader, who always has been a Bailey fan, would 'prefer a lit tle more narrative, and is frank to say that he likes the author's short stores better' than his no vels. ' I J. D. Wblt TBS rOKTABLK MUKDER BOOK, selected mas iatr4te4 by Joseph Heary Jackso (Viking; 2. "It has been observed ! with some truth that everyone loves a good murder." ' ;'i t That quotation from F. Ten nyson Jesse, who has turned out many a .good murder tale herself, heads Mr. Jackson's in troduction to this latest antholo gy of real life murder cases. The authors represented are among the modern classic prac titioners of . their trade j j Ed mund J Pearson, Alexander, Woollcott, William Roughead, William Bolitho, John Rhode, Dorothy S a y e r s , Christopher Morley, H. B. Irving, et aLj TAiiAhc1 nA ttttfw with e vkvyisk j kvuv ( a. va evs . c umi (and a half foot pole before the Iwar ended. 1 (We cut half a foot off the pole to -keep our copy free of cliche.) . It makes him shudder yet to think what! might f have hap pened' if (the Japanese ' ever found out we didn't have one of those (you know what I mean.) "1 1 Lately Joe has been interview ing lots- of people going home, liberated prisoners J high-pointers, conquering generals , and such-like, and. all the tune he s about this poor gb home. Let 'Em Have If y ' . So he decided to go Interview him, give him a pat on the beck and say: "Nice work old boy. Don't know how we? wouida, won r the war' if jit hadn't been' for t guys like you." . f- ,1 . He went over to an army gen eral hospital: and let'em have it. "What's an electroencephalo t graphic speirfalistTl he asked ; the pretty ., j receptionist. She blinked, gulped and called a been worrying a skunk who can't . .ST ,x 1,cu-f grin ;and bear it Doihara turned up with a division which helped capture the rail junction of Hsuchow in 1938 and turned westward toward Kaifeng. . - j The Chinese waited until his neck was well but,! then cut the Yellow river dykes behind him. Asia! snickered discreetly as the great Doihara; waded j back through 30 miles of , flod water, leaving a mechanized brigade in the mud. I flew to Kaifeng to interview him. He was hot available. f , I He didnt get into the news again until I shortly j before Pearl Harbor, when he was made inspector- general of military aviation In Tokyo, a job which f tied him safely to routine desk work. f " t Made a Commander-in-chief ' ; In 1943 be was made commander-in-chief of the northeastern army zone in Japan. Now he is ap pointed commander-in-chief bf Japan's general army which General 1 MacArthur j announces Is already three-fourths demobilized and being mustered out at the rate of 50,000 soldiers daily. j- He succeeds chief of staff Marshal Gen Sugi- yama. Who committed suicide. ..? L j , While it may be desirable that General Mac- Arthur clarify whether Japan is going to be left . an army, the purely Japanese- choice of Doihara i to supervise the mustering out of Japanese troops now probably Is a reflection of 'the way the I Japanese themselves regard him. ' i I 1 i To them, he is a military extremist and a not too successful one.' J ";' : - i I, - ShlfUag Blame te Arsoy h f-liN: ! Selecting him for a symbol, of the liquidation of Japanese armed might tits in neatly with the j great tendency in Tokyo Which this column has ; noted before -this the tendency to shift all of Japan's , war guilt to the army's hotheads of the past'. . -.;. r. :..,r- y .y. But it takes more than a military clique i to-: wage war on. the scale Japan has waged i it for fWe sness face the eaeaapleymeiit sitsaU haU a .century. He shouldn't forget that, LI . . lieutenant Joe repeated the question. ' j "Huh!" snorted the lieutenant, Then he recovered, you come with me," he said gently. . However, a few minutes later he .decided Joe was all right so he .waved whitecoated attend ants away and called the cap tain. ! . "Captain, can you answer this man's "question?" he said.; 1 "Never heard of it' thV cap- tain said certainly after Joe had , repeated it "I'm in the medical, administration myself. Are you sure it's in the medical depart ment, sergeant?" Cites Kap Van Winkle - Losing the imitative that way momentarily befuddled Joe but he recovered and said he wasn't sure but it sounded something1 like encephalitis, which was sleeping sickness. Then, gather Ing. confidence, he cited Rip Van! Winkle and Sleeping Beauty as a couple of examples of what he' meant j Attendants with straight jack- ets raised their eyebrows and; moved in again but the captain was not one to take such an easy way out He waved them back with the nonchalant ges ture of a company commander telling hik men to take cover while he cleans out a machine gun nest ahead. "Follow me," he told Joe bravely. "We will ask the major."! i Joe followed, meantime count ing on his fingers how many more stops they'd make before they got to the general. He knew that once they got to a general his mission would be finished one way or another. Strikes Paydirt .But they struck paydirt in a major. He smiled confidently and said, "Why certainly. An electroence an electroenceph .well, it's one of those con traptions that." He paused and pointed at his head with both hands. "It goes up here end measures psychoses or some ; thing. I think it makes marks 5 on a graph. Shows your mind is - working." - ' Then concluded lamely, "Any . way, it runs by electricity." Boldened by success, Joe im- rnediately requested permission r to interview the hospital's elec '" troeneephalographie specialist Once again everybody looked stymied. Suddenly . an admini i stration officer grabbed the-tele-;- phone and called the supply de 'l pot "Say, "Corporal," he said, "do we have a machine called an electroencephalo something or other down there? We don't? Good." .He hung up triumphantly, ; turned to Joe and assured him they would be glad to let . him interview their whatehamaycallit . specialist only they didnt have ' one. In fact .there wasn't on anywhere around here. nvbe is This Gey ; - ' Sadly Joe walked out It ' would have been such a- good ; story. Behind officers paused then asked, "Who is that guy? What's his background?" "Well," they were told, "he comes from Indianapolis at least his wife lives, there. He f used to work for the state de--; partment himself." . j v . 1 Medical officers loked at one another. In the background two attendants gave each other that "we told you so" nod and re . gretfully put away their straight Jacket '; - - . DAMAGED SHD? JtEADT : - PORTLAND, Sept 10 One of the ships damaged in - the $3,000,000 Oregon - Shipbufldina. corporation fire, the Sellingham. sqoarely wfce kMws how- Victory, will be delivered to the snaay ef tb memrloyel tzitx tttlit . ta rsa Izt QstztvzZ naritlrns corsnlssicsj jEituriay., SiHw . is being attempted, be has been - known to run out and. set nre to the CIO, New Dealers. left wingers -and pressure groups in order to smoke the president in- , to doing what ,he - wants." What Ickes would ! consider an Ideal: government is one in which he, Hillman and the leftwing col-, umnists wouldTun Truman. He Is no i democrat or repubuean. BaUdlnf Up Party Hanaegan had something dif ferent in mind for the Truman administration. He wanted to build . up the democratic party as the dominant political force of the country, rather than CIO. ' The coming of peace was a sig- , . nal for launching a swerving series of events from the White House, thwarting that purpose. ' ! After ickes retention, the. ; whole CIO economic program i was I presented to congress by I the president along with a $81, t 000)00,000 budget spending pro ! gram as a starter for the next i, two years, and the CIO-PAC ! payrol worker .McKeough was j nominated to the maritime com l mission where he could I-favor i the radical unions against AFL. The lone republican was shoved out in the state department re organization. j I Knowing people here winked then and said the government was "going political.? Another r thing they said was: ."Truman- is running for re-election be i f ore he gets the chair warm." j When the- economic stabilizer J Davis practically invited CIO to j demand an economically disrup I tive 30 or more per cent i wagej j Increase, several thinking! peo ; i pie here threw up their hands,' I ; figuring frankly . the ' inflation I snowball was being invited to froll over the country, -j ! " ' s ' I New Tack Indicated J ! These are the factors behind an entirely new series of events presented from the White House j last Tuesday. A new tack was : indicated. I I The supreme court choice for i retired, discouraged republican 'Justice' Roberts was a fair and ! clearminded republican. Sena tor Burton, who is not yet dis couraged. Legally, this preserved .the court as was torn in the same pieces. Politically (Tru man swiped a republican senate -seat thereby, because Ohio's democratic governor was ex pected to supplant Burton with his own man. ! War Secretary Stimson went 1 out for age, nothing else. Par ticularly not for Pearl Harbor. : His successor, Patterson, is a re publican but not a party man, Patterson has been running tha department No change there fore is implied there. The sig nificance behind the Truman action lies chief! in what he might have done. Some demo crats wanted him to seize! the War department politically by putting Sherman Mlnton in there. But -the president eon tented himself with taking ieon- trol 01 the great surplus prop-" I trty treasure, by putting1 his I man Symington in, replacing the i three man board. his home- folks did him some good; he had a chance to talk with some, resl people."-Strangely no one ob- Although 1 Wallace is Just as left ih as the Interior secretary. Wallace, "however, does not carry - CIO matches, only : the torch. . The' administration no doubt will continue to be "political." Mr. Truman has a distinct polit ical bent But the question is -whether the backfire builders are in to stay, .or , whether now be will go the Hannegan way, disavowing . both, "right" and "left" and being guided by what Is rrightpr .rong." - . y- SGKKDQS nffi nmrs (Continued from pige !) relation between the duties of a mayor of New York City and the Jews of .Palestine.' But as New York is the largest Jewish city In the world, O'Dwyer made this speech in an appeal for Jewish votes. " ' It remains now only for Gold stein to make an impassioned plea ifor unity of Ireland beg pardon, of Eire, doing away with the union of Northern Ireland and. Great Britain!. All this is correct but I won der what the gossip will be at lower political levels. . Morris is regarded as well qualified and experienced in city affairs, but ha lacks the support of the city political machines. I spent some time today at the offices of the National War Fund. The national campaign is already set up and reports from cocn- ' muni ties which have , begun their campaigns is encouraging. Large . corporations are main taining ' and in some cases in creasing their gifts. As Howard Strand, who heads up the work for western United States, said: "The people realize that though the fighting is over the work of serving our soldiers and of ex tending emergency help to for eign countries is not over." Leaving N.WJV headquarters, I dropped down two blocks U4 Wall street. It was just at tha noon hour. A patriotic program was in progress in front of the 'old sub-treasury building, with of sailors and marines. I quickly realized it was Constitution Day. The exercises drew only a small crowd. Lower New York, in fact, Was. nearly deserted it was Yom ; Kippur, Jewish holiday, and a rainy day. When the music of Star Spangled Banner, was heard, v however, most traffia stopped and people stood at attention. r I fill X'--:i,- '::-y-A ':'lJ, . '! ''JiTMt: -.' .:.-" I I --:. I Xa?l I i d " -t .- Ml vr-V: . ..--j; .rrx: r: x- - wJa'v 1 - i- : .:'- w iSJV i 1 v XrzL AcUom Was Mild 1.1 . ' I wu uur, ui acuon was mild, yet not ClOish. Mr. Truman knocked down all - the walls around the Davis, office, and by implication, invited him to notice all the free air outside his ad ministration. Soon . after. Mr. Davis resigned. The war labor j board, which has been inwardly fighting ClOishly against labor secretary oenweuenoaen, was blanketed in under its adversary, Going, uptown I visited the Associated Press building in Rockefeller Center. This is the news center of the world. Into its great news' room pours news from foreign countries, local, state and national news, polic ial, market sports, science news to be swiftly appraised and : dispatched to member pa pers The Oregon Statesman is one of the oldest all over the United States, and to client newspapers.- I .While run like a great "city room" on a newspaper, there was; little noise and no scurry ing about The system is so well organized that it operates with- r out freruy. - Again like a city room it is "shirt-sleeve : opera tion I few around who are not ' working busily. The little special' business I had In New York was soon at tended to, but the nasty weath er prevented sightseeing or shop ping, though I did see the stag ing on the Empire State build ing where the wall is being re paired where the' army bomber - crashed through several weeks :g0-i:V. , y. I--v-rx Gold was discovered near Los who. was given inestimable pow- Anceles in 1842 a sheen herder ler to act In labor disputes-or who was trying to dig up a few iwh u e cnooses. ine Davis wUd onions for his lunch. SliS COSTUME JEWELRY Wide sad fascinstia varle. i ty. Broeches. pins, eaninrs, T matched pia and earring 1 sets; rings, bracelets, neck- : saces. - OPEN' AN ACCOUNT
