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fo)0M Believed i - Mistake' . .. - -1 "- - - - i ifct -1 t - I: r I to -Ar IV- V, J?' III .II I I IV 1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 ---4&V3S. sss-'ir i II- - T Several writers have made not of the fact that the inven tion - of the atomic bomb has served only to confirm persons in their prejudices. The n-ind-set remains the same, and the atom bomb is appropriated as fresh proof of their wisdom. Thus Gen eral Marshall continues to be lieve in universal military train ing, arguing we must be ready to launch out and seize sites which might be used for launching of new ' ferocious weapons. ' General Eisenhower testifies that : the atom bomb makes even more urffMit the consolidation of the war and navy departments into single department of national He lena. Admiral Nimitz comes to the opposite conclusion, that the navy must 'be independent lest there be loss of control of the sea. Admiral King discounts the assertion that the atom bomb has made surface fleets obsolete and proposes that we maintain a navy powerful enough to meet all comers. All of these men are sincere; but it is apparent that their thinking is pretty much control i led by their preconceptions. That was true after the last war, when I Genl Billy Mitchell was expelled from the army because of his impudent insistence on the mili t tary importance of the airplane. ! Competent civilian judgment is : needed to correct the prejudices of even the ablest military lead ers or at least to reconcile their differences of opinion, j ' This is preliminary to refer ence to an article in the Novem ber Harper's magarine by Coy. Frederick Palmer, recognized as an able military critic and war correspondent.. He calls in ques tion the recommendations of the navy department for retention of some 15 key bases in the Pacific and (Continued on editorial page) NINETY-FIFTH YEAH 14 PAGES Scdem, Orecjon, Tuesday Morning. November 20. 1945 Price 5c No. 204 1 General Sales Tax Urged by Taxpayers Unit A general sales tax, several times rejected by Oregon voters, was recommended by the Oregon Taxpayers' federation at a- meet ing of the state's special tax study commission here Monday. Claude Buchanan, Corvallis, 1 president of the federation, admit ting the sales tax's unpopularity, spoke of It as , "reasonable and Just." Every effort, he declared, ihould be made to reduce' prop erty taxes, declaring his federa tion opposed demands of groups or levying bodies for additional appropriations or increased taxing rights unless such requests are ac companied by provisions for rev enue other than a property tax. Suggestions other than for a sales tax submitted by the federa tions. . ' ' '- 1. The legislature should be urged to carefully survey lists of tax exempt properties now being prepared by county assessors, r with, the view to return many of these to the assessment rolls. 2. The legislature should be Urged hot to enact further legis-r- lation requiring additional man- datory taxes by counties cities, school districts, or any other sub . division of the state, i (Additional details page 14) U.S. Heroj Decries j Ignorance Wainwriglit Hits j Apathy; Halsey Portland Guest ! I TACOMA, Nov. 19-P)-General Jonathan M. Wainwright tonight described a public lack of knowl edge of the extent of Japanese ag gression during the war, shown in a public opinion poll, as "the, most disturbing information" he has re ceived since his release from Jap anese imprisonment. j ' The general, speaking at a ban quet for the Victory Loan drives, pointed to a poll taken by the of fice of public opinion research of Princeton university in January 1944. This poll, he said, showed that 40 million Americans or 30 per rent of the population did not know that the Japanese had occu pied the Philippines, and only 44 per cent knew the Japanese had occupied Wake island. I "I wondered what if any, re-j lationship there was between this apparent lack of information on matters which I think are of great national concern and the apathy and Indifference regarding national defense which seems to have " followed every war our country has fought," he continued.; Copmpylsory Health insurance Part oi New Truman 'Program By William R. Spear WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 19.-(H President Truman proposed to con gress today a compulsory "health insurance' system for "all persons who work for a living."! He suggested that the premiums be calculated on the first $3600 of a person's yearly earnings. An amount equal to 4 per cent; of these earnings Would be needed to carry out the program, he said. How ever, he left up to congress the question how much, of this sum snuuia iuuic truia premiuns ana now much - from the treasury's general revenues. I This Is .'one of five , points in health program the president Mercury at pFreezinjg Point; Snow Closes Roads, Others Likely to Be Tied Up Soon NAVY SHOULD BE ITS i OWN LANGUAGE HALSEY PORTLAND, Nov. 19-P)-The navy should be kept large enough so that "everyone who sits down with us at a peace table under stands the way in which - we speak," Adm. William F. Halsey told a press conference here to day. He told a Victory program au dience tonight "we ended the war with the best navy in the world and we would be breaking faith with our honored dead if we re linquished it." Asked what effect will! the atomic bomb have on navies of the world, he said: "Your guess is as good as mine. It never has been dropped any where near a naval vessel or mer chant ship and no one knows.' Halsey said he had: no plans for retirement Fuel Available To Run Dallas School System Sailors Win hi Ship Protest ; , PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1M) -A protest by sailors against be ing loaded "like sardines" into a cargo vessel for transfer to San ; Francisco resulted tonight in withdrawing of some 300 navy veterans from the ship passenger . ' list of 800. . Animal Crackers : By WARREN GOODRICH DALLAS, Nov. W (Special) No fuel shortage b immiment in the Dalles school' system, S. E. Whitworth, city school superin tendent, stated tonight, defying a previously published wire service story. The Junior high school sup ply of sawdust is sufficient Jto las1 through Wednesday afternoon when classes close for the Thanks aiving holiday. Whitworth said. So far as is known, sufficient saw dust is available for when school reonens Monday. November 28, the school official said. The elementary and high schools are heated by wood and the dis trict has a sufficient supply on hand for the rest of the school year. Whitworth stated.' " Closure of the high school and elementary schools even if the junior high school was closed was considered unl'rlyi' - outlined in a message urging "care-1 ful consideration - - - now. Tne others:! ' ; ... 1. Federal financial aid to states and localities for enlarging, mod ernizing and building new hos pitals and other health facilities. i. "More generous grants to the states" for public health services and maternal and child care. The sum of ; $20,000,000 yearly is now authorized for such purposes. 3. Federal grants to public and to f non-profit private institutions to promote medical education and research. 4. Payment of benefits "to re place at least part of the earnings that are lost during the period of sickness Bnd long-Urm disability." Mr. Truman suggested that the sick benefits could be provided through expansion, of the present social security system. He said he would detail this plan in a separ ate message ion social security. Senator Wagne (D-NY), with the co-sponsorship of Senator Mur ray (D-Mont), immediately intro duced a senate bill designed to carry out the program. The meas ure does not provide any particu lar method j for financing -the health insurance jplan, however. Wagner said! that f'if the congress thinks that it is sound," a method could be worked out jointly by senate and house committees. Nazis McKcmzie Pass Hisrh way Unlikely to Be leni fcisenliqwer Reopened This f inter WJould Let Wives I V'- Of GIs in Europe i The temperature recorded by the U.S. weather bureau at Mc Nary field shortly afteif mid night was 34 degrees,. with; every prospect - of a below-freexinr mark before dawn. The forecast today was! "partly cloudy tl . i North and South Santiam high ways, the it McKenzie pass, Mt. Hood loop highway and Timber- line lodge road remain closed to traffic because of snowi while other roads are menaced by weather conditions, State Highway Engineer KH. Baldock said Mon day night-!; The McKenzie pass probably will not b re-opened this Winter, Baldock said. More than tiro feet of snow fell in the mountains over the weekend- I Other road conditions: 1 . Government Camp, on Wapinl- tia cutoff-temperature 21 de grees; snowing Monday; two Inch es of new ; snow; total snow 56 inches; road packed hard; .chains necessary.! Santiam Junction Temperature 30 degrees: fog; 24 inches new snow; total .snow 76 inches, Odell Lake, on Willamette high way .Temperature 27 decrees; snowing lightly: 23 inches new BOONE, la., Nov. 19.-tR-Gen- era Dwight D. Eisenhower de clared tnight "I certainly am" In favpr ofj taking the wives of oc cupation,' troops to Europe "after we have gotten down to occupa tion forces." General Eisenhower made the assertion; at a press conference immediately prior to his depar ture from this small city where he left this Wife hospitalized but re covering; rapidly from pneumonia. He added his policy "wlll glve-f thefwifet of the lowliest GI the same right as any officers wile, or my wife, for instance." Chicago Cut Off 'Phone Circuits Iri Ilabor Strife I By the Associated Press A icfriUa nf St7AA fln-virin nnp. . . i i t I "j -v "- snow; wxai snow mcnes "jr nU)H vIrtually ofX lonI dis irees iaum o nooe. Lrvso c tance service in Chicago yester- roao; roaa pacKea nara, cnains aa- d fandtat manual switchboards Vised. . 1 I In 115 rnirinU iimmiinitip nA ... mm Jl tn ; f" " - w weacnam. on uia jregou two!Indiina counties. Temperature 20 aegrees;snow Mapl Would I Place Limit on LoadiiiglZones "Be careful in; giving away those loading zones or there will be none left; to give away," City Councilman toward Maple warn ed fellow council members at the meeting Monday Right. Maple made the statement in requesting ..a; report on a recent survey of the prbblem, - ordered by the couniiL Aj C. Perry re ported the survey was delayed by the, status of the marking meter problem and! contemplate changes in city bus schedules. The parking meters, if adopt ed, may eliminate the loading zone entirely, Perfy said, since those having such zones might be given free parking: for a limited period of time ip-tead. The city bosornpany is now making a survey of th;e city bus routes with the idea of ( rerouting all schedules and; arranging for stag gered departures when the new buses are put into Use, the coun cil man said.1 j Maple's mention bf the loading zones followed requests by Jus tice of the Peace Felton and a taxi company thati two parking spaces be set asid for the use of each. Felton was granted one space and the taxi company's re quest was cut to one and final action postponed until it had met all requirements for operation. (Story also on page 11.) ing lightly:Highway packed with snow on 30 mile stretch; four men- es new snow; "chains advised. , Siskiyou Summit Snowing hard and chains advised. Lower Columbia River Highway One way traffic (J miles fast of Clatskanie because of rock Slide. Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway- One way traffic in several sections because of mud slides. Burns Trace of Snovjr, but snow packed on roads at higher elevations. The operators began walking off their; iobs at midnight in an attempt to enforce their demands for a pay increase of $8 a week andthetop minimum scale of S32 after: five years. The national telephone com mission of the- war labor board had Awarded the operators an in crease of; $4?a week with the $32 wage after eight years, instead of nine. jThe Illinois Bell Tele phone . company accepted the awajed, retroactive to "May. - , The walkout brought the num- ber Of idle workers "in almost 150 labor disputes to more than 270,000. ! Trials of Set! To Start : . - ) Two Defendants 111; Chances for 1 Delay Disappear NUERNBERG,' Germany, Nov. 19 -(iP)- The international war. crimes tribunal failed to rule to day on last minute motions which threatened to delay .the trial of the nazi hierarchy, . and an American spokesman said to night the tribunal's silence indi cated the trial would open to morrow morning as scheduled. 1 In this final flurry preceding the opening of a trial - without parallel in world history, one of the chief defendants, the hulking six foot five inch Ernst Kal ten fa runner, former right hand man of Adolf Hitler,' collapsed with a cranial hemorrhage. j The man who had terrorized thousands as chief of Germany's security department and criminal police, could not stand the strain pf waiting for he triaL Doctors said he will not be able to quit his sick bed for the prisoners dock for a considerable time. f A psychiatric commission also held Rudolf Hess too ill to par ticipate. ! I One of the issues before the court was removed when the Russians named Col. Yuri Pokrov sky, deputy soviet prosecutor, to t as chief prosecutor in the Two Too 111 Assured ! ' .1 I ' I u,,,..r,v..,mTjn .,., i ....... ......... ,m t . ' , 5: 'y-.-i , j " ' - v ' , S f . - j I I 1'' . I II I I llll fll III l l II l ! RUDOLF HESS i f ' -v X-' ' jgr Aii y - 1 L K i , m torn II I C-rv-nW: L ! iJace of Gen. R. A. Rudenko; whose illness had led to -a Rus sian request for a delay. The tribunal strongly indicated it would open the trial without Alfried Krupp," whom the Unit ed States, Russian and French prosecutors wanted to substitute for his ailing munitions king father Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. . A j 5 Legion to Seek : S - 500 Gift Parcels For Christinas Capitol Post 9, American Le gion, was committed today to a program of doubling its 1944 Christmas quota of f Gifts for the Yanks Who Gave." I The post last night named Don Madison chairman to work with the legion auxiliary in obtaining and arranging gifts; for veterans hospitalized within Oregon. Hos pitalized cases: a year ago totaled 4600 but now are doubled, the post was told. The legionnaires set a goal of 500 packages for 1945, and also voted $50 of their own funds to further the 'campaign. Marsh Weighs glans to Run, Bt,own First td gWe In tor congress Li U.. , t Tr ,t- Dunu Liampaigu; ramus hcai 7 "-Acmtti bear in tht woods over thert prayiri for a (ate Spring" iDeiinis Case Up Today for Second Time The question of whether a pro per death warrant, or any death warrant at all, exists for the exe cution of Andrew w. -Dennis, twice sentenced to die for the slaying of his mother-in-law and twice granted a stay, is before the state supreme court .today. On petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the case comes before the supreme court for the second time. Earlier, on appeal from Multnomah county circuit court, the decree of the lower court was affirmed. Dennis, scheduled to die last Friday morning in the lethal gas chamber at the state peniten tiary. was given a reprieve by last-minute action of the su preme court when the "writ was sought and the condemned man's attorney maintained that a deatn r-"'Ki by Oregon law-had never. been Issued. Eugene Marsh, McMinnviile tornev. here; Monday to attend meeting of the Oregon tax study commission. Indicated he might be interested In the proposal o be come a candidate to succeed the late Rep. James W. Mott, but de clined any definite commitment as to whether he would enter 4 en' test Marsh ! has served several terms in the state house of repre sentatives and is now speaker of that body, i , I . . . - a; At a conierence nere oaiuruuj , if ihm hemA ririv afternoon, Marsh was urged to . s 1 -jtt-. leadershin Keith Brown Building Supply company f employes Monday be came, the; first industrial organ ization in Marion county to go "ove the top in the Victory loan drive. The Keith Brown group underwrote Its Victory loan quota with an aggregate total of $75001 in bonds. The firm has been the first in dustrial concern to make its quota make the race by several promin ent repuDUcans zrom we iu-foun- ty district. under the committee leadership of Frank Haynes, George Hardy, F. D.;VaniSwearingen, James-'Oli- - : t.h National Grange Will Have Meet in Portland i - i - I PORTLAKp, Nov. lfl-(HThe NaUonal Grange will hold its 1948 convention here, Oregon Grange headquarters was informed today. i -! Victory! bend purchases In Marion eouty to date: Total, aH Issues, $942,62, eat f a qoeta ef $2,690,090. Series E $357454, with a quoU f$L150.000. GERMANS EXECUTED i LANDSBERG, Germany. Nov. lS-C'Pr-Three Germans confided j ers Packing Co., Mrs. Ethel Lau ver, Robert Hawkins, Lester Cov er. Ervin ScheideL and Steams Cushihg. jr. Second firm to complete its quotas $2500, is the Paulus Broth- bf killing captured American fliers were hanged .today in sight Of the prison cell where Hitler Wrote Mein KampL" serving as, the cnairman lor tne bond drive there. Several jpther firms are report ing good jprogxess, states Dent B. Reed, chairman of the industrial division for the county war fi nance committee, adding tha these soon will! reach their quotas. Included in the group are Kay Woolen, mills, now a 71 per cent Portland General Electric, at 60 per cent; California Packing Com.: Oregon! TPuln and Paper company (one of their office staff members, Fay Larkins, being candidate in the Victory queen contest): Salem brewery; Rein- holdt and Lewis; Reid Murdock and Company Valley Packing company; Western .'Paper Con verting: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company; Hunt Broth' ers Packing, j j The reports coming in indi cate the industrial division will more than meet lid quota of $250,000 In E bcteds," Reed com mented, i ' On the committee; for the fa- dustrial division and payroll sav ings activity, beside Reed as the chairman, are: Barney Van On- senoord, co-chairman; Henry Kropv. Edwar4 Majek, William Dolf, Fred Starrett, Marion Cur ry, A. C Shaw, Stearns Cushing. ERNLT KALTENBRUNNEB NUERNBERG, Tuesday, Nov. 20, -A hith allied source said early today that a board of Am erlcan psychiatrists had decided Rulodf Hess Is incapable of eondacilBS or assisting- with bis defense. Hess was scheduled td go on trial before the ' tribunal today. Also too ill to appear was Ernst Kaltenbrunner of the German security police. ' De Gaulle Will n it l gain oe neaa Of Government PARIS, Nov. ()- France's constituent assembly, in an at mosphere bristling with guns and taut excitement, asked Gen. De Gaulle today to continue as in terim president, but under condi tions which seemed to have left the government crisis no nearer solution. With armored cars standing guard outside the chamber and pro -De Gaulle demonstrators surging through the streets, tne assembly rejected the general's resignation by a vote of 400 to 163 and asked him to continue his efforts to form a coalition cabinet .. De Gaulle, who was not pres ent in thetpacked chamber dur ing the proceedings, accepted the new mandate when a delegation, headed- by Assembly President Felix Gouin. informed him offi cially of the action. Ronald D. Birch isted as Killed Over North Sea First Lt. Ronald Dale Birch, pilot of a B-17 bomber previously ; reported missing in action, has been officially declared killed in action over the North Sea on March 24, 1945, by the war de partment, in a telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Birch; 1085 Highland avenue, Salem. Lieutenant Birch was u member of the 1940 , graduating class of Salem high school and won nis wings at Stockton field May 23, 944. Besides his parents he leaves a sister, Mrs. R. A. Bohannon who is temporarily residing in Tampa, Florida. WfflametteWill Have Vacation Of Four Days Students of Willamette univer sity will enjoy their first f our- d a y Thanksgiving vacation in three years as a result of the re vision of the school's calendar by university officials this week. An nouncing the extended holiday, the president's office gave notice that all offices Will be closed from 5 a m. Wednesday until Sp.ni Monday. In cooperation with the office of defense transportation's policy of discouraging unnecessary tra vel, Willamette university had been granting only a one-day hol iday at Thanksgiving time since 1942. . I It Wasn't a" Taxi But Everything's All Right PORTLAND. Nov. 19-(flV-Wal lace Morgan hailed what he thought was a taxi when his au tomobfle ran out of gas. It turned out to be a police car, but officers put the trip on the cuff.- They got Mrs. Morgan to the maternity hos pital in time. , ; Admiral Testifies He Wanted Fleet Brought to Coast By William T. Peacock . WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-ifV The late President Roosevelt w quoted today as saying 14 month before Pearl Harbor that the Japa nese sooner or later would make a "mistake" and the United States wbuld enter the war. Admiral James O. Richardson, . special assistant to the secretary of the navy, told a senate-house com mittee the president made that remark to him over the luncheon table at the White House on "Oct. 8, 1 1940. At the time, Richardson was commander-in-chief of ihm fleet - . . Wanted Fleet Moved the admiral also Informed tha committee that he had strongly advised the late president to re move the fleet from Pearl Harbor and bring it to the west coast cf the United States but that the pres ident took' the position the pres ence of he fleet at the, Hawaiian base served as a curb on the Japa nese. ' Richardson was on fhe stand less than an hour and had not gotten well into his story when the committee recessed until tomorrow. He is reported to have had a disagreement with the president also over proposed transfer of some warships from the Pacifio to the Atlantic to aid in getting shipments to Britain. Such a trans fer was made after Richardson was relieved Feb. 1, 1941, as fleet commander. He was succeeded by Admiral Husband E. Kimmell who held the; Pacific command when the Japanese attacked. Want to See File In other principal developments in the investigation: li Senators Ferguson (RMich) and Brewster (R-Maine) made a demand for the state department! filef on the case of Tyler Kentt; employe of the American embassy 1U UIUUUU UU Wd9 ITJirV U. ICU UK violating the British official sec rets act. The senators indicated they were interested, in whether the file disclosed any pre - war agreements Between rresiaeni Roosevelt and Pttme Minister Churchill. 21 Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif), a coircnittee member, refused to give democratic members the name of naval officer he said had ad vised him that the U. S. cruiser Boise sighted a Japanese naval force at sea in the week before- Pearl Harbor. 3.1 Ferguson told the committea he will prove later that the navy knew the ' day before Pearl Har bor'that a spy had arranged for visupl signals from Hawaii to Jap anese vessels lurking off the coast. James Ekmaii Injured in Air Crash at Sea SILVERTON, Nov. 19 Flight Officer James Ekman crashed at sea out of Palawaun Thursday morning, his father, E. R. Ek man, was notified. Lieutenant Ekman w?s flying a P-38 and was picked up by navy craft and taken toLeyte where he Will be hospitalized for approx imately six weeks befoce being flown back to the states for surgery. " The young fliers Jaw was broken In two places and he in curred other injuries. He has been stationed at Pala waun for the i past five months. His father plans to go to San Francisco as soon as he is re turned to this country. Mrs. James Ekman is making her home in San Francisco. Totals Mount In Contest, for Bond 'Queen' i Faye Larkins, Salem Lions club contestant, continued to lead tht field Monday in E bond sales for Marion county victory queen, with $26,450 worth credited to her campaign. Jean Wolcott, Miller's store candidate, with $18,050 worth of E bond -votes was sec ond and Kiwanis club's Betty LoU Kayser was third with 114,125. - Statehouse candidate Beth Greenlee had votes from $11,250 worth, of E bonds; Beolah Lett, Junior Chamber of Commerce royalty, had $9250 worth and Leona Tingelstan, candidate of the Hollywood Lions .olub, had $6100 when the war finance office shut its doors Monday night Army Paper Attacks Big-Name Discharges i HONOLULU, Nov. 19-CrtP)-The army newspaper Stars and Stripes asserted editorially today that de mobilization of big-name athletes with low point scores is under mining morale of service men in the Pacific. TRANSPORT DELATED j. SAN: FRANCISCO, Nov.. 19 TVlToop transports from the Pacific are being delayed by storms at sea and port authorities are setting only tentative times for-their arrival.' ir r .', Tyrone lower On Way Home to Resume Career SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19r(P) Marine 1st Lt. Tyrone rower, 31-year-old movie star,, will ar rive home Wednesday irom ja pan where he has been serving as a transport pilot witn tne sec ond marine air wing, marine headquarters here announced to day. v Power Is returning aboarU the USS Marvin Mclntyre, which will rdock at Portland, Ore. He is scheduled for discharge and Plans) to return to the movies, it was announced. Weather . San Francisco Eutxne ..... Salraa Portland - Seattl Max. -61 -52 51 5 ..47 Mhi. 4S 39 Rain tree W4l1-.-4 -4 -M V 1. j I FORECAST (from US. w-thr b- tonight,-11 1 ii imam .-.- f v '-.T.-...I - - r 1 It-