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Maybe it Is too much to ex
pect brilliant military command
er to be successful political ad
ministrators. They study , the arts
of .war, not of politics. Here is
General Georf e Patton, recog-
.riized m& one of the most brilliant
generals in th ervice, particular
ly skillful in the use of new weap
ons, shooting off his mouth so
wretchedly on the subject of Ger
man politics so he is called on
the carpent by his chief. General
Eisenhower. And General Mac
Arthur, has had to ' back up on
some of the Quotes reported by
his press -interviewers. Tin both
Instances the commanders ap
peared to regard the political de
horning of the subject peoples
witha degree of indifference. -
, f Patton lot in bad when he
' ft m am
compared, uc nazi j ana tne non
nazis with n the . republicans and
democrats in America, as though
It -didn't make' much difference
which breed of politicians was
running things. Even before newt
came out of his being summoned
to Eisenhower's headquarters,
Patton "pulled leather" by issuing
a written statement pledging full
denazification of German territory
tinder his control. Wednesday an
nouneement wastnade that Patton
had been called to Frankfurt from
his post in Bavaria to make a
personal report on what he has
been -doing.
Complaints were rolling in that
Bavaria remained largely in nazi
hands. The foolish interview riv
en out by Patton last week con
firmed those report by revealing
a mental blankness on his part of
the political issues involved in the
war. To him the complaints of
the non-nazis were merely the
means. used,. to. .getijobs. Pattern
seemed td nave no comprehension
of the viaousness of the nazi
(Continued on editorial page)
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In West Coast
Ports Oct. 27
PEARL HARBOR, Sept 2Sm
The navy announced tonight that
54 ships of Admiral Halsey's
;' Third fleet would be present at
west coast ports for Navy day
celebrations Oct 27.
The, navy earlier this week list
ed 48 warships which will go to
Atlantic coast ports for Navy day
'' celebrations. .'. ,
' xiaisey nunseii wm arrive at
San Francisco harbor aboard the
I battleship . South Dakota, which
: has been his flag ship since Sep-
. tember 3. '" . -J
Twenty one of the ships are
now en route to Pearl Harbor
from Okinawa.
The other 33 will go direct to
west coast ports from their ope
rating areas in the western Pa
. cific. All are laden with veterans
homeward bound for discharge.
Household Fats to
Rate Four Points Oct. 1
WASHINGTON, Sept 1&-JP
OFA and the agriculture depart
ment formally announced . today
that four Instead of two red ra
, tlon points a pound will be paid
; for waste household fats begin-
ning Monday, Oct 1.
, The cash price paid for such
; fats remains unchanged at four
- cents a pound. -
The agencies said the point
t boost is being; authorized "be
, .cause the nation still , is facing a
t shortage of Industrial fats and
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Anin.cl Crc:!:cra
By WARREN GOODRICH
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- BXJENOS AIRES,' Sept. 2f.SVArgentinas nfflitary regime
clamped an iron state of siege upon the nation today, suspending
constitutional guarantees xf freedom of speech, press and Assem
bly and placing scores of prominent Argentines under arrest .
The administration based its decree on the need to stem
"a growing campaign aimed at alteration of the order" and con
ducted by "the oligarthy
axene
ear enas.
Th
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ral election before the
cer
tain sections of the press and pro
fessional men. .
The decree was signed by Presi
dent - General Edelmiro Ferrell,
Col. Juan Peron, vice president
and "strong man of Argentina,"
and nine cabinet ministers.
President Ferrell told the nation
tonight that the state of siege
"should pe regarded as a transitory
measure not altering his promise
of
r
e Ferrell-Peron government
struck Just two days alter tne
Cordoba army garrison crushed a
short-lived revolt led by Generals
Arturo Rawson and Osvaldo Mar
tin, avowed opponents of the ad
ministration.' "The real evolution in this coun
try begins as of now because your
newspapers have wanted it that
way," Col. Filomeno J. Velazco,
chief of police In Buenos Aires,
told reporters today.
? Pleat Waldo, don't fe a
Crowley Quits
Economic Post,
8 Other Jobs
WAS HINGTON, Sept 2t -()
Nine government Jobs will be
come vacant come October 15.
Foreign Economic Administrator
Leo Crowley is quitting.
The white'haired one-time util
ity, company board chairman, who
as FEA head spent between $45,-
000,000,000 and $50,000,000,000,
has been in government service
11 years. Now, he told a. reporter,
he wants, to become a "plain du
ren. .
Earlier, at his news conference,
President Truman had said he
hoped Crowley would remain on
his job. Crowley said it was "ex
tremely nice" of Mr. Truman to
say that, but . "this time I have
made up my mind."
Truman Hopes
To Revive BUI
WASHINGTON, Sept
President s Truman -took his se
verest rebuff from congress with
a smile today,' and let reporters
know he considers the jobless pay
liberalization bill not dead, but
sleeping.';' . . v.
Unwilling to concede defeat,
he invited the democratic mem
bers of the house ways and means
committee to the office at 10 ajn.
tomorrow. -
The committee cast aside by a
14 to 10 vote ''yesterday all the
administration sponsored legisla
tion proposing' expansion of the
unemployment benefits programs
now administered by the states.
OpenRebellion
In Indo-China
StillUnchecked
SAIGON, Indo-China, Sept 26.
Rebellious Ann ami te natives
fought with fire and guns in Sai
gon today as the open revolt
against the return of French colon
ial rule went into its third day.
Nine Frenchmen and one Eng
lish officer, of 41 Europeans kid
naped Tuesday, were' still missing
at nightfall. British military auth
orities expressed fear they had
been killed. -
The Annamites, waging an ap
parently leaderless, disorganized
campaign, burned the Saigon mar
ket place last night and seized con
trol of the Saigon slaughterhouse.
This. left .the city meatless -and
it was believed that much of the
estimated four-day supply of fresh
foodstuffs- was destroyed in the
market place fire.:; ."- ;
Letter From
FDR Opposes
Gen. Franco
WASHINGTON, Sept 2S.-JPf-The
still voice of Franklin D. Roos
evelt delivered a stinging indict
ment of Generalissimo Franco to
day and expressed fervent hope
that Spain would get rid of its
fascist regime.
The late president's denuncia
tion was contained in a letter
he wrote last March 10 to Norman
Armour, United States ambassador
to Spain, which was made public
by the state department -
He asserted bluntly that Franco
had been "helped to power by
fascist Italy and nazi Germany;"
that Franco's government was
"totalitarian" and that it had tried
"to spread its fascist party ideas
in the western hemisphere."
Eleyator Strike Halts
N.Y, Express Delivery -
Deliveries of all express, except
air express and perishables, to
New York city proper have been
halted, because of the elevator
strike there, which has made It
impossible to' deliver In more than
1000 buildings, it was declared in
Salem Wednesday by H. E. Brown,
Railway xpren agent here.
Brooklyn; Stated Island, New Jer
sey points and other communities
In the New York area are not affected.
uUoire Crimnies YofldI
LUENEBURG, Germany, Sept
2-i!p-A Polish youth who said
his brother was beaten .to: death
at Oswiecim and a Polish Jewess
who described atrocities at Os
wiecim and Belsen added their
evidence today to the case against
43 nazis on trial here for crimes
at the two concentration camps.
' Lanky Abraham GUnowiecki, 24,
who identified five of the accused,
testified that his brother wiai bent
over a chair and given 75 lashes
after being caught in the woman's
compound trying to trade cigar
ettes for food. Asked If his brother
died, he buried his face in his
hands and said: "';;'":;J rK-;'
"Yes, he died in the hospital nd
I never got to see MmJ
Earlier, the Polish Jewess, Lena
Stein, 21, pointed out Josef Kra
mer, - Belsen commandant, and
eight other in the dock, and testi
fied that .they helped select vie
times for the Oswiecim gas cham
ber and savagely beat other pris
oners. '.' ' s "-
Today's session also brought the
presentation of the first defense
witness MaJ. Geoffrey ; A, J.
SmaUwood, former officer of the
judge advocate general's depart
ment, now demobilized.
..- SmaUwood, who - directed the
taking of depositions from inmates
of the Belsen camp after the Brit
ish . liberated them in April, told
the court his interpreters were
former inmates. He said the names
of SS (elite guard) and other
c a m p administrative personnel
were of ten Inserted when depon
ents recognized photographs, but
did not know names.
M
isMoDH0
CHICAGO, Sept 28.-,)-The CIO oil workers international union
exploded an ' announcement ' today , that ' Its executive council had
authorized a nationwide strike if the government conciliation con
ference , now in progress fails a conference which Secretary of
Labor JSchwellenbach said "must not be permitted to fail.!
A union spokesman. said a national strike would affect 250,000
workers, the men who run the refineries, principally, which produce
the. -gasoline tw available to motorists without ration cards but
already curtailed by It seven-state stoppage of 35,000 men."" ' "
"Nothing has beelr-ccomplished at the conference; the position
of both sides is unchanged,', said an industry spokesman, Daniel T.
Pierce of Sinclair Refining cornpany, during one recess.
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Chrysler-UAW inference
Unexpectedly Postponed
DETROIT, Sept 2fc-JP)-The eenferenee between Chrysler
eorporailom and the Uidiel Avtomoblle Werkera (CIO) ' the
union's demand for a H per cent wage increase for the corpora
tion's S0,a00 workers recessed today vntil October 4.
' Neither eorprattea tner mnion effered any statement a
the prorreM ( the necoUations or any exptaaatloa ef why the '
meetings were being recessed until next week. Following yester
day's initial session, Robert W. Conder, Chrysler labor relations
director, told news writers the onipany Ka4 Bet agreed to the
SI per' cent demand and had made no counter proposals. .
Approximately 2100 striking. Murray eorperatioa ef America
employes went back to work; today In the first sizeable -break
In the troubled labor situation ef the tuition's aatomotive capital.
Meeting to Consider Spread
Of JElevator Strite:
Delayed
-, NEW -YORK, Sept 26Vff)-Union leaden: of New "York City's
striking elevator operators and building service workers suddenly
called off a meeting tonight at which f they had intended to consider
extending- the stoppage to city-wide scope.
. David Sullivan, president of local. 32-B of the building service
employes international union (AFL) in announcing the cancellation
said it was due to "unavoidable circumstances." He did not amplify.
In some quarters, however, it was believed the action was taken
in view of a regional - war labor board order 'directing both the
union and the realty advisory board on labor relations, ln&, and
the midtown realty owners associates, inc., to show cause tomorrow
afternoon why the strike should not end immediately.
Sullivan said the question of spreading the strike to three other
boroughs of the five comprising greater; New York City would be
considered at a meeting at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. , '
Australia Asks
Small Nations
Be Given Voice
LONDON, Sept 26 (flV-Aus-tralia's
foreign minister, Herbert
Were Evatt, demanded tonight
that all nations which, fought
against the Axis and not merely
the big five be given a voice in
making, the final peace settle
ments. '-
Evatt spoke at a news confer
ence as foreign ministers of the
big five powers neared the end
of their discussions on peace treat
ies : for Italy and the Balkan
countries, as well as other ques
tions referred, to them by the big
three at Potsdam or introduced
since the talks began three weeks
ago. . ': . '
Document Tells
Of Executions
SHANGHAI, Sept 28. -iJPf- A
captured Japanese document .dis
closed details of the farcical 30
minute court martial entirely in
Japanese -which sent three of
Jimmie Doolittle's fliers to their
execution by : shooting Oct ' 15,
W42. . ; r
' All eight airmen standing trial
received the death sentence but
the unpredictable Japanese chose
to execute-the two pilots and a
machinegunner. One machlnegun
ner on another plane pleaded suc
cessfully that his gun was not
functioning. ;
One of the reprieved .airmen
was M. Sgt Jacob De Shazer of
Salem, who winds up his account
of the Doolittle flyers' imprison
ment on page 12 of today's States-
RIOTING JS INDIA
. BOMBAY Thursday, Sept 27
(iT)- Three persons were stabbed
to death and 30 Injured in rioting
between Hindus and ; Moslems
which, broke out last last night in
some- sections of the city. Scat
tered disturbances were reported
today. -
Bar to Parking
Meters Sought;
Hearing Tonight
Petitions seeking signatures in
opposition to the installation of
parking meters in Salem were be
ing circulated today by members
of the city's retail trade bureau.
Sponsors said the petitions pro
posed a charter amendment to the
city constitution barring such met
ers; that 1500 or more signatures
would compel a popular vote on
the matter at an election still to be
specified, and that approval : of
such an amendment would bar
parking meters and also force the
ousting of whatever such devices
were installed in the meantime.
The action was taken on the eve
of a public hearing which will be
held at 70 tonight in the council
chambers at the city hall. '
Final Salem School
Eurollment Totals 5378
- Final figures on registration in
Salem schools show that 5378 pu
pils are enrolled for the eoming
term, school superintendent Frank
B. Bennett said Wednesday. '
High school enrollment is ltOO
to date, and Is considerably higher
than the tentative figures released
last week. .
N
5 Stffl Missing
From Portland Break
" PORTLAND, Sept 25.-(ff)-P
lice and deputy sheriffs continued
the search tonight for six of 17
prisoners who took part in lion
day nighfs jaCbreak.
Those still missing art Albert
Ray Sehmitt 1T Robert P. Mor
gan, 25; James T. Mitchell, 30;
Scott Thomas, 43; Christopher J.
San Disevan, 29, and Peter A.
Uilakovkh, 28.
V7eatlier,
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peratures at f7 degrees. .
CIO Continues
Policy-S
etting
Conferences
PORTLAND, Spet 26 iJPf A
CIO Lumber Workers negotiation
committee spokesman said tonight
his union had not issued a strike
call to 40,000 workers in the north
west but would continue policy
meetings tomorrow.
But in a formal statement the
CIO International Woodworkers of
America .policy comittee warned
60,000 striking AFL lumber and
sawmill - workers in four states
"any picket lines established by
the, AFL on CIO operations are
illegal" The committee said it in
tends its membership to allow pro
duction atany mill meeting IWA
contracts.
Meanwhile an AFL mass meet
ing was held tonight at a labor
temple where union officials gath
ering for policy sessions tomor
row outlined strike policy to the
strikers. ,
The AFL called the strike in
volving 400 plants, in Washington,
Oregon, Montana and Idaho after
conciliation efforts . of the labor
department's special commission
failed. ' " ' -
State Board of
Control to Ask
Building Bids
Bids for three buildings,, to be
constructed at mental institutions
in Salem, will" be called for in a
few weeks, the state board of con
trol said Wednesday. Cost of the
buildings is estimated to be
around $1,243,000. They are the
most urgently needed in the
state's $10,000,000 building pro
gram. , The call for bids will give the
board an idea on building costs.
If they are too high, construction
will probably be delayed and the
bids rejected. The buildings are a
ward building at the state hos
pital's cottage farm, 300-bed
treatment hospital at the state
hospital and an $118,000 cottage
for patients at the state Fairview
home. A v ' V-
The state board of control, In
calling- for bids, acted under in
structions from the state emerg
ency board. ;
West Salem-Salem
OPA Boards Merge
' The West Salem war price and
rationing board has been consoli
dated with the Salem board, which
maintains offices at 341 Chemeketa
st, Salem, George W. King, board
supervisor, announced Wednesday.
Consolidation of other boards in
this area with the Salem office Is
to be completed this week, OPA
authorities in Portland have indi
cated. -
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TOKYO, Thursday, Sept, 27(AP)-mpror Hinn
hito met 38 minutes with General Mai Arthur this morning'
in a historic meeting marking the first Tisit ever made by g
mikado to the foreign ruler of his own nation. ', . ; .
; The emperor arrived and departed in his long, low car,
one of a convoy in which he made the journey with the grandi M
chamberlain, the minister of the Imperial household, and ait '
interpreter. . , , . . ' '
The call obviouslj was a 6ocial one. A headquarter .
spokesman said Hirohito a few days ago "expressed a desire)
to call on MacArthur." Today's I ...... , ; .
meeting resulted.
The emperor definitely was not
Issued .Summons,' the spokes
man emphasized. .- ,
The emperor's five car convoy.
preceded by motorcycles, arrived
at the U. S. embassy about ' 10
ajn. (6 pan. Wednesday pacific
war time). :-
'MacArthur's aide, Brig. Gen.
Bonner. Fellers, met the mikado
at the embassy Hoor and escorted
him and his party' into MacAr
thur's presence.
'The emperor's visit to MacAr
thur followed a demand of a Jap
anese peer' that the mikado get
out of politics, but there was no
hint that there was any connec
tion. The meeting had been sched
uled a few days ago.
God Bows- to Scribes
TOKYO, Thursday, Sept. 27-(ff
Emperor' Hirohito, who shattered
all precedent by paying General
MacArthur a visit today, noted a
group of Americans as his long,
low car neared the entrance of
the U.. S. embassy grounds on its
outward trip. . '
The emperor tipped his hat and
bowed. ' The group consisted of
news and radio correspondents.
way
Bids
ToBe Awarded
At Oct. 29 Meet
- Contracts, in amount of $2,000,
000, will be awarded at a meeting
in Portland October 29, the state
highway commission said Wednes
day in announcing .the tentative
plans. These contracts will start
the state's postwar highway pro
gram that will cost 112,000,000 a
year for three years. .
r State' Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock said that he expects con
gress to pass a resolution by next
week to authorize states to start
the program. If this resolution is
passed before' October 15, the Oc
tober 29 meeting can be held as
scheduled. . ,
: Baldock . said the commission
hopes to award most of the first
year's contracts by this winter so
that construction may be in full
swing by next spring and a pos
sible unemployment slump next
summer be avoided.
Support Given
To Kaiser Gars
CLEVELAND, Sept 26--The
American public's willingness to
give Henry J. Kaiser almost un
limited funds to finance his entry
into the automotive industry "is
the most dramatic thing that has
ever happened in American fi
nance," a Cleveland financier de
clared today. ,- '
--''.As the registration statement for
the $20,000,000 . Kaiser-Frazier
Corp. stock cleared the securities
and exchange commission in Phil
adelphia today, Cyrus Eaton of
Otis & Co-underwriters for the
stock Issue, predicted it would be
five times over-subscribed.
Wavy
Piropeolioir
EPIaime
By James J. Strebig ,
Associated Press Aviation Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept 21 -)
The world's first war plane using
both jet and conventional engines
was unveiled by the navy today
along with announcement that an
Improved design is . being . built
and new types are under develop
ment.::x.;.:. ; '.
The new plane, is the r yan
FR-1 Fireball, - e. small, : sleak
fighter with a propeller in its cose
and a Jet nozzle a built-in tail
wind ; In the etern. It Hies on
either or both engines. - ;
Using only the Wright Cyclone
1350 horsepower engine driving a
curtiss broad-bladed propeller, it
can hit a top speed of 320 miles
an hour. Using only the General
Electric 1-16 thermal , Jet It can
reach 300 miles an hour. The top
speed with both engines is a se
cret, but probably Is less than the
total of the two independent fig
ures.. - " . -
' Cruising at an economical speed
of 207 miles an hour the Fireball
has a maximum range of 1300
miles. '- :
- Its climb performance' of more
than g000 feet per minute was
described ;by -the navy as greater
than that of any. conventional
lighter . since it- can maintain a
high rate of climb all the way
to 23,000 feet
The navy said also that it has
the shortest ? turning ' radius at
comparable speeds of any mod
ern fighter. .
Patton
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nswer.
To Charg3
FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN.
Sept 26-(P-Gen. Eisenhower or
dered Gen. George S. Patton, jr..
today ,to report to him personally .
early next week on the rooting out
of nazis in Bavaria. ; -'
Eisenhower's action followed a
statement by the Third army com
mander that he believed it wa?
necessary to keep some nazi party
members, in responsible, positions
for a while to "insure ourselves)
that women, children and old men
will not perish 'from' hunger or
coW thia winter." " v. j :
Lt Gen. Walter Bedell Smith;
Eisenhower's chief of staff said
tho VJS. occupation chief would
permit po modification of his or
der thai hazis be removed "ruth
lessly from public office, regard
less of general efficiency." .
"Anyone who thinks there csn
be any modification -of this, re
gardless ipf rank,; is jvOd," SmiU
told a news conf erence
Strike Ends at
Klamath Falls
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. Sr.i.
2e.-WFV-Work will resume at thai
Weyerhaeuser Timber "comDany
mill here tomorrow, ending a sev-4
wwcw sinxe ac one oi tne na
tion's largest pine mills.
The management and union !..
sued. a joint statement today an
nouncing a settlement of the dis
pute, and revealing that the com-,
pany'a contract with CIO interna
tional woodworkers of American "
and WLB directives had been re
instated "with the exception of
a substitute clause concerning vis
ion maintenance."
Because of an agreement con
tents of the Clause was not dis
closed. ' ; .... - ,
Two
Of History . .
The last dramatic chapter of
The Saga of the Living Dead,"
by Salem's Doolittle flyer Sgt
Jacob De Shazer appears to
day on page 12 of The Oregon
Statesman the only valley
newspaper to carry this epic
story. And there , are new
treats in store.
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- ADOLF BtTLEE'-KVA
BEAUN-i- the most talked-of
duo In Naziicm dlaa nrmi ra
together on the eve of Ger
many's surrender. The descrip
tion of their private bomb
shelter in Berlin in which they
may or may not have died, and
the devastating appearance of
the city itself, will be detailed
soon in a graphic story In The
Statesman written by navy of
ficer and former member of
this newspaper's staff who re
cently visited the German capi
tal on official duty.
FSXTZ WIEDEMANN the
most widely-known Nazi in
pre-war America now is back
in Allied custody. And coming
soon in The Statesman is a
story written exclusively for
this newspaper by the Associa
ted Press reporter who "cov
ered" his San Francisco con
sulate and had a last private,
luncheon with Wiedemann the
day before he-was tossed out
of the United States In 1941.
The story w ill detail heretofore
unpublished statements of the
man who rose to power with
Hitler and was sent -to the
United States by der fuhrer
personally.. "
The Statesman