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m ---i,:- ! ! ;- - - .r i : r ... . -.j.-.., - f - - ,, Undecided NINETY-nrTH YEAB I! 24 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. October 23. 1943 Prlc 5c No. ICS 1 1 - ; L ; L. : - t , ,:. - . ! ! H i 1 1 In all the literature, of defeat one will need to search long to find a testament like that left by Dr. Robert Ley, one of the top nazis indicted for war crimes, who anticipated the h a n g m a n by strangling himself with a self made noose. In many .ways the most contemptible of the nazi hig shots, this stew-bum, I this, besot ted, 'disheveled, unshorn Ley had at least a modicum of loyalty to his erstwhile' fuehrer. When ar rested he did not welsh on his chief as did most of the others in the nazi hierarchy. He admitted his part in the nazi organization and reaffirmed bis devotion to Hitler. j . ;; . I , This testament of his, written In the hours before his deathdoes not read like the product of a drink-numbed brain. It is lucid and coherent, as though- at the end the fogs that clouded his thinking had rolled away. . j He appeals as a German j nazi to the German people; and! his appeal is a confession. The great cm or naznsm, admits Dr.. Ley was anti-Semitism: ; j i "We have forsaken; God, and therefore we were forsaken by God. . j "We put our human volition In the place of his godly grace. In anti-Semitism we violated a basic commandment of his creation, It is not unusual for a man to "get religion" when he knows that death shortly awaits him. Peni tence is a frequent reaction to de feat. But it is rare that even in -defeat a man will admit that his basic credo . i (Continued on Editorial Page) Poll Suggests Congress May rt Draft WASHINGTON, Oct, 27.-(V Supporters outnumbered oppon ents but a decisive segment of the senate has not made! up its mind about compulsory military train ing In peacetime, an Associated Press poll showed today. Eighty-four senators were asked the question: I : 1 "Do you favor compelling physically-able young men to take mili tary, or other war, training? j . Twenty-five, including 18 demo crats and seven republicans, said they are for some form of compuls ory training. Their ideas of form differ widely.; j Nineteen, including eight demo crats, 10 . republicans and a pro gressive, are against compelling young men to take training. Many of them suggested alternatives. Forty senators, Including 24 democrats and 16 republicans, said they, haven't ! yet made; up their minds. Twelve senators: were out of Washington and could not be ,i 'reached. ; j : Only a small segment of the senate expressed approval of Pres ident Truman's recommendation for a year of training for all ex cept totally disabled young men, to be taken somewhere between the ages of 17 and 20. Experiments on A-Bomb Slated KANSAS CITY, Oct 27 -VP) The navy is working on plans for two experiments to answer the question of the atomic bomb's effect on fleet units, Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King disclosed today. An estimated 80 to 100 ships of aU types, possibly including some from the Japanese and German navies, would be used in the ex periments which necessarily would be conducted in an isolat ed area, the chief of naval ope rations said at a press conference. V Admiral King, here f $r a Navy day celebration, said the plans were subject to approval of any body congress' may establish to control atomic research. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH gtfS &s:m sJwt tLj -rt Sic? it, Hop it, lull you- iri ttntf lo 50 to tietpi Suppo: , v - I i ' -A i. ' I fc, ' , ' 'J- - " - . " 1 S i . - i .-7 Charles P. Pray, superintendent of Oregon's state police, who Is rumored ready to retire at the . end of his present term, j ' . Retirement of Head Rumored WilLjCharles P. Pray; superin tendent of Oregon's state police since the department's i organiza tion In 1931, retire at the close of his current term in 1947? If he does, who will succeed him? These questions were asked Sat urday in statehouse circles. I Pray was frank in declaring he had not made ,up his mind, i Gov. Earl Snell was sure that should Pray resign during his (Snell's) administration the place would be filled by a World War II veteran. i j' j Malson Sugfested. : f j That declaration would' mean that Col. H. G. (Fod) Maison, assistant superintendent prior; to entering the service, might well be first in line. However, the name of Lee Bown, who came from captaincy of the Medford district to the state headquarters of the organization to fill Maison's post here, has also been projmi- nently mentioned for the super in tendency. ' ' - j j State officials, said Saturday that Pray had expressed a desire to retire from the office of state police early In the war but was urged to remain in office until the close of the conflict, j ! Organized Department ! He was first appointed by Gov. Julius Meier, and .was credited with organizing the department, which succeeded the old highway patrol. He came to the depart ment from the federal bureau! of investigation. Subsequently !he was reappointed by Governors Charles H, Martin, Charles !A. Sprague and Earl SneU. i 1 Maison, ' overseas 37 months with the army, having entered active service when the guard was caued out in 1940, is now at .Barnes hospital, Vancouver. Wash- awaiting his discharge. He Is expected to resume his duties here next month. Science Wins ! Freedom Figlit InAtom Control WASHINGTON, Oct 27 -m Science has chalked up an Ini tial victory in the house military committee in its fight for maxi mum, freedom from government regulation in atomic energy re search and experimentation. Revised copies of atomic energy control legislation showed today that the committee has, during private sessions this week, sharp ly relaxed the rigid controls orig- tuuiiy proposea m a diii DacKea by the war department and writ ten by a committee of scientists and government officials, i Final committee approval sen ing the bill to the house floor for a vote is likely next week Only a few details remain to. b)e worked out :- ! ' ' I ALBANY TO TRY METERS ALBANY. Oct 27 -V The State city council has authorised inj-j pay rates, now; demand pay or stallation of 327 parking meters t time lost during the strike,' Har here by Jan. 1. The meters wip old Oathes, AFL business agent, be accepted on a six months trial said. The strike had tied up buses basis. Near $3 Millioii Marion County A $2,960,000 quota has been set for Marion county Victory1 bond buyers in the Eighth or Victor loan which opens Monday.- Tail total Is approximately half that asked and sold by Marion coun-j ty bond salesmen during the Sevl enth War Loan; it Is approximate ly cne-thirteenth of tho total M vestment in the bonds already: made la, the county. , ; 1 i . People of the county will buy the nearly, $3,000,000 worth of bonds - earmarked for purchase here: they wm buy the $l,150,OCq worth of E bonds required of tbemf and5 they'll do it- wrU as anaei enthusiasm as that exhibited dur ing the war Oiairman Douglajj Yeater predicted Saturday, j . La Polk county the total quota is Tax Gut Near Si- I i - - i:; ' ..; "-a '! i $6 Billipii juse Senate-Ho Combine - is, .li - oosts Proposed (Slasll WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-(H-A $5,920,000,0QJ tax reduction bill giving corporations "greater relief than individuals but sweeping 12, 000,000 income tax payers off the rolls was approved today byl a senate-house I conference . commit tee.-., fil ., -.. I!':- tl Subject to formal, final approval probably hext week by the house, senate and president, the legislation orders the following re ductions: fw -. ' - , '"- f- Corporations I..... . . $3,136,000,000 Individuals JLLl4 2,644.000,000 Repeal of use lax on - - cars and boats 140,000,000 Senate Formula Accepted - il The senate s formula for cutting individuals taxes was accepted, without great effect except in the topmost brackets where the house measure would have given more relief. .." - !?! I ; ' ' ! Paradoxically, the ?compromisw calls tor larger cuts than either the house or senate bill. The house had voted reductions totaling $5, 350,000,000, the senate $5,788,000,- 000. , : . . I Excise Taxes Eemaini 1 At that the final version of the bill sets no definite cutoff date on the heavy wartime excise taxes on such articles as furs, jewelry, whisky and; light bulbs and on such services las long distance phone calls, railroad, fares and movie admissions. The house had voted to cut them back to the 1942 rates next .July. , ' "j. .1 The bill goes back to the bouse Monday. Under that chamber's rules, conference committee rer ports must III over a day, so it will not be called up before Tues day unless the rules are suspended. Nips Harbor Date On Nov. 5, '41 .'. NEW YORK; Oct 27 -(JP)- Sec4 retary of the Navy Forrestal dis- closed tonight that! documents taken from a sunken Japanese! cruiser ' showed that i the enemy had set the date of the Pearl Harbor attack more than a month before the blow was j struck. . i ; Forrestal made his disclosure in -a speech prepared jfor a Navy league dinner; . ; - ; Regarding the papers, which he said were taken from! the cruiser Nachi in Manila bay, Forrestal declared: - y'si , . j ;;! "The .operatipn plan providing for the 'outbreak of war ac tually providing for the 'outbreak: of war at a time to be fixed by imperial headquarters and pro viding for the; attack on Pearl Harbor was published; on Nov. 5, 1941, as combined fleet top secret operation order No. l.f s ;i Overland Bus Strike Negotiations Resumed PORTLAND, Oct 27-W-Over-land Greyhound drivers resumed negotiations tof- wage Increases today, with employes' demands enlarged. . i j The drivers, ! who walked out In protest of reduction; of mileage Hin four states. I Quota Set for Bond Drive $575,000 worth of bonds; m Linn, $1,185,000, and In YamhllL t983,. 000. ! . -A " One of the outstanding features of the upcomtng campaign, Yeater said, will be an alrshow to be staged above Salem on November 7, when the dty will bo subjected to aa?rborno attack, a type of showp :z was Impossible during the war-jears.-;l v i - -: ' All of the -paraphernalia, ox a real attack, mechanized and mod' ern, will be dropped and -para troopers wifl. stage a mock battle a a feature of the show, Yeater said. . -v' i : Bond headquarters have again been set up la i the Lee Ohmart offices la the 400 block of Court street. , J '; ' . : ' ; TramraaDi oo-SDodikss soq I cT73n n . n 1 n n n ' nr no I ... ' " ' . - ' . - . Tl T w I.J!. Il A i The name ef Franklin D. Roosevelt returned te the aatlon's active service list yesterday en the newest ship ef the Amerlcaa fleet the 45,f0e ta saperearrler pletwed above. fCommfasionlng ceremonies were attended by President Truman, Mrs.' Roosevelt aad Lt Comdr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. ; T Air Force Veteran Opening 'Parking Lot9 for Airplanes By Ltllie I Madsen Something new under the Will amette valley sun is actually be . ing built on Highway 89E Just north of Brooks. Sky Haven Is the name, and it is a tourist camp for aviators, with plenty of room to park the airplanes. The owners of the new setup are Richard E. Poet and Miles O. Marion, the former of Salem and the latter of Portland. The project has Just begun but both Poet and Marion admit scores of curious people are stopping to ask about the airplanes seeming ly hitched to a tent and a trailor house in an open fieMi7JV rmles,'. north of Salem's city linritsjT.;' Marion reports that he arid Poet have leased 80 acres of the Bundles of Paper Should Be Ready After Noon Today The final paper salvage drive ef the war emergency 'will be held in 8alem today. Tracks, drivers and Boy Sconfo will meet at the Marlon county courthouse at 12:30 pjn. and curb-side pickup wfU l start Immediately after that hour. Officials are broadcasting an earnest appeal for the complete cooperation of householders- In making; bundles ef paper available. U. S. Building Jobs Plentiful WASHINGTON, Oct 27 -UP) The interior department added up its backlog of peacetime construc tion: and! conservation prospects today and estimated it has. work enough to keep 1,500,000 men busy for a year. All the work cannot be done in a year, however. Some of the pro jects, including the vast reclama tion jobs which make up the bulk of the program, will require up to 10 years to complete. ' i MuclTof the work still aWaits authorization from congress, and only a small part of the many millions of dollars needed is now available. The j requested funds would complete projects costing $910, 000,000, including Boulder, Grand Coulee and Shasta ! dams, and partly complete jobs calling , for further expenditure of some $1,500,000,000. ''I . ; Alderman Named To License Group ! Alderman Ed W. Acklin Of the first ward was named chairman of the new city council commit tee on licenses Saturday. Howard Maple of the seventh ward and David OUara of the fifth are other members of tho cozninitteo whose - aimointment was n nounced Saturday by Mayor L M. Doughton." - .' ' ' ' 'J . The work of investigating li cense applications - formerly - fell on. a committee which ' also ban died police- and traffic regulations assignments. That ' committee, which : gave up tho license . Job without opposition, is headed by Alderman Kenneth C Perry, with Alderme Albert H. Gille and G. F. Chamber as members. Joe DeWitt farm. They have a five-year lease with a purchasing option. Included in the lease is ; arrangement for tiling the very flat land for landing strips. $ Their plans call for a small clubhouse which will include a restaurant and tourist cabins with both hangars and garage ar rangements. , The project is expected to cost about $75,000 and, the owners hope, will be ready for operation early next spring. j I A Taylor Craft and a Stear man PT 17 are on the parking lot now. A Waco 220 has been ordered rom os Angeles, and r Is" expected soon. i Poet has just receeived his dis i charge from the army air forces. US Opinion on Defeat Worried Wainibright ! KANSAS CITY, Oct 27 -JPr Ceaseless worry about how the American people regarded the surrender at Corregidor haunted Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright the four years he was confined In a Japanese prison camp, one of, his rescuers said today. i Maj. Robert F. Lamar, home in Kansas City on a brief leave from OSS in Washington, told of para chuting into Manchuria with the group sent to rescue General Wainright! ii Lamar met the hero of Correal' ctor at Hsian prison. 1 fWainwright bowed low and we ajtt introduced ourselves, Lamar said. "I-aaid, General Wainwright, the war is -over. We are here to take you out.' But he didn't smile; it, was clear to me that he had given up hope long before that. He only asked a question: How did the American i people feel about Corregidor?' Major Lamar said he learned later that the general's captors haf constantly hazed him about the surrender and he said he be lieved the general had been wor rying about the answer to that question for four years. London Papers Favor Speech I- By the Associated Press President Truman's foreign pol icy address brought generally fa vorable reaction abroad. London Sunday newspapers featured the speech and hailed it editorially as assurance that the United States was not withdrawing from partici pation in .world affairs. Some misgivings, however, were fexpressed-over the - president's statements regarding the atomic bomb, the Sunday Dispatch as serting h had "made it clear that even-Britain and Canada are re garded as minor participants". In the creation of the new weapon. Weather Saa rrandsce Euffene Wm.nrvt Titter mi S ft. ' FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Morning fnr follow d "bv nartlY cloody. oeca- rional Uht rain. Hthot temperature M decree. . ' u ; - iras.-lBa.ala . M - Battl SS - . " S JOS Football Scores FA WE ST Denver 1, UUh State . UUk SS, Colorado A f . Washlactoa 13, Souther Caltf. T. r&liirmU It, Nevada . W ashing toa Stat tl, Idaho S. r&rraf at Kavat Center tl, Mon tana U. ; i I EAST Navy 14, Pen T. - Army S, Xake 13. Princeton li. Rotter f. Vale IS. CorneU 1. Harvard U, Coaitcnard Academy a. Holy Cross tl. Coif ato . Kintt Point 33, Boston CoOeco IS. Columbia 27, Brown . Temple , PitUkarch . Bsc knell . Lafayette S. John Hopkins Delaware S. -4 Sqnantnm Kaval Base SI, Boston University 3. DarUaonth S, Syracase t. Mew York University 13, Brook lyn . Metro Dame SC. Iowa I SOUTH Coortia Tech , Anbnm 1. ( Tennessee 33. Vulanova X. ' dacksonvUlo MAS 35, Fort Pieree Navy . - Florida A M XS, Knoxvfflo . ' LJttle Creek Army Base II, Camn Alahama ZS, GeorrU If. I SOUTHWEST Texas A at M IS, Baylor 13. Oklahoma A A M ii, Toxaa Chrls ttaaU. . Tnlano IS. Southern Methodist; T. Rice T, Texas a. Dutch Eager 3 To Negotiate j With Indonese ' i ! I " " " THE HAGUE, Oct 27 The Dutch government today ordered Hubertus Van Mook, acting gov ernor general of the Netherlands East Indies, to begin negotiations Immediately with the Indonesian nationalists seeking independence. The announcement, made through the Dutch ministry, said reports .from the rich Paoific co Ionian possession .were still too confused to permit additional comment j Earlier in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, Van Mook said suggestions for a meeting with; the nationalists "have not yet assumed a definite form." j The cabinet of President Soe karno, who heads the unrecog nized "Indonesian republic," held ai lengthy session .this morning, bat issued no announcement oth er than to say the meeting would bp resumed tomorrow. T Businessmen Say Wartime -0 nans i : iiO ver By John F. Chester IVstociated Press BusineM Editor Ibuffalo, n. y, Oct n.vpy The combined opinion of more than 50 of this country's highest paid business men is that the re version of industry from a war a peacetime basis has been lick- as a physical problem, but that! ca now is suffering from a Wait was the central theme that came out of a survey of industries tour sponsored by the na tional association of manufactur ers. Starting from Washington on c4t 1 and winding up there on Nov. 1, ilC newspapermen have been able to inspect planta in the sooth, west and mid-west and then talk to the top executive of each eoocern. ( ; '.".-- These' conclusions can be drawn as the maiority opinion of a con IriderabU number of industrialists: . 1. That -most business men ca skier themselre la tbo middle of a saueeze between wages and OPA prices, and that a mart del- inH national policy' should be established. President Truman is By James Ht NEW YORK, Oct. 27 the world today the highest was the perfection of world atomic methods of destruction tively outlawed forever." i ! ! Making his first overall statement of foreign policy ia a Navy day speech before a million persons in Central park, the thief executive declared: j "We seek to use our military strength solely to preserve the peace of the world. For we now know that that is the only sure way to .make our free dom secure. That is 'the basis of the foreign policy of the people of the United States.! The president, outlining a 12 point policy, asserted that the na tion regards possession of the atomic bomb "a "sacred trust" He declared the United States would refuse to recognize any government "imposed upon any NEW YORK, Oct 27 -(P) GoV. , Thomas E. Dewey con gratulated President Truman on his foreign policy speech In Central Park during the Navy day ; ceremonies. "It was a wonderful, wonder ful speech," the governor said to the chief executive at a luncheon aboard, the battleship Missouri. ' nation by the force of any foreign power," ana aaaea: "We shall approve ! no territor ial changes in any friendly part of th world unless ithey accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned.' " Mr, Truman said the United States soon would begin discus sions, of the atomic bomb with Great 'Britain -and Canada and later with other nations, but he iterated that those talks would notbe concerned with' the "pro cesses of manufacturing the atom ic bomb or any other instruments of war." ' - !;( : The speech was the highlight of the president's 11-hour Navy day visit to New York. He commis sioned the super aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, rode through a paper storm! on Broad way and Fifth avenue, lunched aboard the mighty USS Missouri, and reviewed the greatest con centration of naval power ever massed in New York harbor. Adm. Halscy Predicts Continuation of Ware INDIANAPOLIS Oct 27--Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr, today predicted that atomic bombs will not end wars. : In a press, conference before a scheduled speech here n a Navy day program the commander of the Third fleet said that each new development in warfare is consid ered by some to be the final phase but "we still have wars.' scheduled to talk about this next Tuesday. 2. .That too many workers are taking an "autumn holiday" and that unemployment compensation should be limited to those who want a Job but cant find one. S. That the efficiency; of those still at work, as measured In pro duction out of .the shipping room door, has dropped considerably. ,4. That most industries are fig uring on a very considerable ex pansion, by as much as 25 per cent ia a mimber of instances, despite labor and other uncertainties. - In only one city, Detroit did the visiting reporters fail to bear a complaint that more workers were needed but could not be found. In almost all plants which , were not shut down because of troubles of their 'own, manufacturers com plained that labor difScultie were cutting ; off - theirc-icpply of -com ponent parts. One-plant -WiHys-Overland in Toledo, had been closed for nearly four weeks be cause of failure to get ! transmis sion gears from a struck plant in another city, : ' i , nanmg inausiry ' . m . mmy. Porterfield (AP) President Truman told hope of the American people cooperation to a point where can be definitely and effec GM Asks Union Aid in Plan for 45-Hour Week By the Auiociated Press General Motors corporation. whose workers last week voted more than 5 to 1 in favor of strike, today suggested that the CIO automobile ; workers union J6in the corporation in asking thet congress make the postwar, stan dard work week 45 hours instead : of 40. v C. E. Wilson, General Motors president wrote ' union officiate that with such a change in the work week the company would grant an approximate six per cent wage increase to all workers "so that men working 45 hours at the new straight' time rates. will make as much money as they do now for 45 hours work." : The proposal, Wilson said .would increase the . earnings of persona working less than 43 hours and would also increase overtime com pensation, since overtime would t paid for at time And a half based on the new rates. ' ! 1 Construction Of Building to . Start Monday Pouring of concrete for the new $38,700 two-story building at 450 Center street which is to house) the R. D. Woodrow tire and bat tery business is scheduled to start Monday. A building permit was issued Saturday for the structure which R. Z Elfstrom and TLnk ham Gilbert are building, with E. E. Batterman as contractor and Lyle C Bartholomew as art hi- ' tect v 1 : Once planned as a single-story. establishment plans have been changed to include a second story with 15 to 20 offices, tenants for some of which have already been secured. ; Woodrow thinks: work may be completed in time for him to open his business in the new building; by the first of the year. The pres ent location of his store at 325 , Center st will be occupied by; the new Johnson Appliance company, operated by Ralph Johnson, for merly with Portland; General Electric company here. ; Permits were Issued Saturday also foor a one-story dwelling which Ellis BusweU will build at a cost of $4500 at; 1690 Grant; one-story residence to be built at 2260 North High by Clyde Keene and H. E. Pade for $4000, and for a $4000 dwelling at 1360 Norway, to be built by Joe F. Schmidtr- i Russia Balks At Food Group QUEBEC. ..Oct -WHtass!) unexpectedly served notice today -on the United Nations food. and I agriculture organization that she would not become a member now; asserting that Moscow wants tiaae to study . F AO's "organizational forms." V'Vf ! r" The soviet action came i tht . sarne ccerence -session at hich Sir John Orr, Ccottish authority on nutrition, was elected to direct FAO's efforts toward driving bun ger from the world and, raistoS the economic standards- of faiaa ' era. :'!.. . o : n ii