?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..
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: 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 '
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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
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5 These Pot-War Tires Cause si It of Grief
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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Gold was discovered near Los
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