pagz roua Thm' OSEGON STATESMAN!, Sodcm. Orjcm. Tuesday Morning, Xlovwibs 23. 18i5 afc reactors fear March Wo Favor Svay$ Us; No. From First Statesman, Statesman Shall A toe" 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY I CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated. Prese The Associated Praas Is exclusively entitled to tha use for publication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Conviction of Belsen Sadists Thirty of the 44 defendants charged with cruelty in managing . tha concentration camp at Belsen have been convicted. Eleven of the 30 were sentenced to death, including Joseph Kramer, tha "beast of Belsen," and Irma Grese. Ona man was sentenced to life imprisonment and 18 were given prison terms of varying : length, from one to 15 years. The evidence introduced was so overwhelm ing as to tha extent and nature of the atrocities at Belsen that the sentences seem entirely in order. Here the nazi philosophy of the master raoe was put into practical application, in man . -y,ner so revolting as to be utterly inhuman. Cap ital punishment surely Is justified in treatment of the responsible heads of this charnel house. ; There can be no compunction either as to law or procedure in this trial. The defendants were represented by Counsel and were permitted to hear evidence against them and to introduce evidence in their behalf. Tha accusation was not the general one of conspiracy but of actual, . personal guilt in the crimes of Belsen. The fact that 14 defendants were acquitted by the Brit ish military court shows regard for Anglo Saxon standards of justice. In the Nurenberg trials scheduled to start this week, the charges are general: conspiracy to start aggressive war. While the offense against humanity is greater even than the crimes at Belsen, still whatever punishment is applied is done on an ex post facto basis. There may be justification because of the enormity ; of the offense; but there is danger lest the punishment be regarded as vengeance or as a 'r penalty for military defeat. This indeed would make the vocation of statesmen and generals 'a truly hazardous profession. If new law can be improvised on this occasion it may also be Improvised on some other occasion. The court at Nuernberg will need to weigh its procedure carefully lest it set a dangerous precedent in jurisprudence for the future. Government Hoarding In anticipation of need of huge bases both in Japan and on island approaches to Japan the . army and navy accumulated huge stores of building materials: lurnber, plumbing sup plies, pipe, copper wire, etc. Some of it was moved out to advance supply' depots like Guam. Great stocks still remain on this coast, prin cipally in California? lhese materials no longer will be needed wr he purpose for which they were bought, nor' in such quantities for any military purpose. But they are needed, desperately needed, for construction of houses. Something ought to be t done to expediate the sale of these surplus' stocks of lumber and other items needed for building. - According to the San Francisco Chronicle, millions of feet of lurnber are stored in army and navy depots in the bay region. At the Lath ,rop engineers' depot at Stockton. 6000 water closets were found and $20,000,000 worth of praetors, all still in shipping crates, f . In Oregon, there is not this abundance of "riew building materials. But if vacated military ' facilities were promptly put up for sale there would be a' great deal salvaged in the way of lumber, plumbing and electrical supplies. ; The government could help greatly in the provision of housing for veterans if it would release quantities of materials from its huge stores and . expedite the sale of buildings at installations now lifted as surplus; Sauce for the Gander ft - , When EerdMotor company rejected the de- mand forthe UAW for a 30 per cent wag in crease it also made a demand for "company I security. It previously had conceded "union j security," which is another term for a Closed shop, to the union. But it stated that there had been 771 work stoppages during the term of jits union contract; and it wanted some assis tance that it would be protected against quickie strikes and shutdowns of production lines on jalight excuse. It will be interesting to See how the UAW replies to this demand. This representation of tha Ford company Editorial Comment OLD SILVERTIP ! ; ron, these November evenings sharpening his claws . on the mountaintops that he may feed 'well in the i months 'ahead. Or perhaps only marking those 'mountains as his own, bear-wise. Ask the Indians. They can tell you; or once they could, j The Indians knew the Great Bear intimately, rwt trt fVi trlViMi nt ihm 'W&oi K mtiet Ksva Kaon a grizzly. Certainly he was, and still is, a Silver tip, as anyone who can see the stars must know. A gigantic Silvertip making the. nightly rounds' of hte domain, circling the Pole-Star, V', But he was no "random prowler, norwas he-un attended. Three hunters followed him wherever he went Those who know the constellation as the Big Dippeii think of the Bear as the Dipper's bowl ' and the three hunters a$.the Dipper's handle. Why ' three? Well, it takes three to do justice to a Silver- tip. ' - .. The first hunter, the one nearest the Bear, is ( obviously the oldest and most skillful; he carries the bow and the arrows. The second, at tha crook of the Dipper's handle, is the hungry one. He car-. ries a cooking pot, indicated byAlcor, the small star on his shoulder. . And the third hunter is the novice. Ha carries spare bow strings and dry wood to start tha cooking fire. i It has been a long hunt, to be sure; but tha I; hunters have never given up, nor hive they lost the -': trail. There they are today, tracking Old Silvertip tas they ha done for ages. And Old Silvertip hi ro il self has never lost the way. But these November - evenings he always comes down close to the moun tains. Some say in the deeper canyons there are scratches6 he- made long ago. New York Timer.: - ties in with one of that matters on tha agenda of tha labor-management conference; manage ment's right to manage!. This if one of tha most annoying things in labor relations today. Man agement complains that it is constantly being interfered with on trivial grounds in tha opera tion of ita business. Grievance committees r bogged down with mjnor complaints or un justified claims. As a result; production is re tarded, and production is the; source of income both for labor and management. Part of the trouble is' due .icjj tha atmosphere of unfriendliness in which many plants oper ate. Tensions have grown so great and sus picions are so easily fanned into flame that ,minor matters are magnified J into mountains. Fault there is on both sides. Biit if labor wants protection in its right from its employer, the latter must be given some assurance of pro tection in his operation. lil I - i "iv 4 "Roosevelt College" j A group is promoting the establishment -of a Franklin Roosevelt college in human relations at Washington, DC. The announced purpose j is to carry instruction in jthe humanitarian prin ciples of the late president. Some "liberal" fi nanciers are expected to aid in its finance. It is natural for any group to seek, to perpetu ate its ideas, and what better way than by set ting up a school? But education is much broader than any single packet of ideas'. What Franklm Roosevelt might have thought, in 1934 or 1944 on specific questions is too narrow a base for education a half-century sence Roosevelt him self changed his mind talk. or engaged in double 1 The truly liberal Institution; of learning ii one which is not tied down to a ready-made set of principles written out by one individual, but driven by a consuming desirej for ' truth. The great universities are in this category now. It is all right for admirers to name, a college after FDR, but if it becomes just a forum for his "principles," it may quickly become just an alley for crackpots to roaril in. i f 1 j .- t Emperor Hirohito has formally reported o his ancestors that Japan took an awful beating in the war it precipitated. So far he has made no gesture to join his ancestors, however. I ' ; i I. Interpreting j The Day's News; By James D. White Associated Press Staff Writer g SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. lMP)-An American correspondent in Chungking has cabled back the dread with which jeep-jittery westerners await the dawn of Jan. 1, 1946, in China's capital. I On that day Chinese traffic is scheduled to switch from the left side of the road, where it theoretically has been flowing, to the right side. ? If you reversed the direction of American traffic, it would be bad, hut the change-over may not be so drastic to many Chinese who may have entertained some doubt if they aver thought about it- as to just which side of tha road they were supposed to walk, ride or drive on. -; ' f The Chinese have their rules of the road, but they have! also proverb which says i that is good for ten years and ten thousand. There Are Roles, Bat A road in China, often a road bad for in bad ,T (v.-: sr I J. D. Whit repair, is like life itself some thing to be traveled as best one can. Observing rules is all very swell, but one has to get . there. i j ' - China hasn't been able to afford many good roads, so that driving becomes A matter of avoid ing murderous chuckholes,! puddles and ruts, rather than staying on your side! So much so that soma Chinese chauffeurs, who j are prone-to succumb to accelerator-ankle and jthe intoxication which comes with herding a hurtling ton of metal down tha fairway, often forget which side they are sup posed to be on. The ideal, of course, is to drive in the middle. I have seen head-on collisions in the middle of a wide street, where both drivers waited too long to turn aside. ' f Traffic is a seething mass in which the automobile is buj a minor part, The giddy ricksha puller darts from side to side looking for passengers. He is by profession a free-thinker, and in big cities (where the rules are enforced to (make him stay on one side) he wears a depressed, regimented look. Bicycle Sinister Thing p ' The bicycle becomes a sinister thing .when rid den by the young apprentice, who; pedals with his heels, rides swiftly in a weaving motion, and lose! himself in snatches of opera where! the propef falsetto tone is achieved only by closing the eyes; To this scene now add the slow-moving ox or pony cart, the wheelbarrow laden withj an unspeak able cargo of night-soil, the scampering child, thi old lady with bound feet staggering across the street with her eyes glued o a bowl of! hot noodles. Jn north China long camel-caravans stalk their haughty way through alii this with an enviable immunity , oecause camei-anvers . ra ve alia in ed a skill in profanity which no ordinary mortal caj hope to outclass in an argument' Forrete About Brakes The Chinese chauffeur, bent on pinching his car or bus through' such fan4 indifferent world, is hv dined to forget he has brakes (which! never work" too well anyway) and rely increasingly on his horn. On one 8-mile bus-ride I once counted more than 400 horn-footings, , each .made up of one of more blasts.' si - j; - j v - . m- 4 Pedestrians usually ; ignore this Icompletely, an there are many near accidents. t Afteri grazing a potential damage suit, the chauffeur sometimes sticks his head out the window and inquires insult ingly: "Do you want to die?" f ,; 1 ' The pedestrian has a standard- answer: lf t die," he glares back, "who will keep your mother?! Such banter livens up !a dull May. and after January 1 will. take place on the right side of the ' street instead of the left. t ..I'-' -':-' 7 i DbtiAwtod kj Ximt IWteM Smdhmte r twmwi with n WvUitta atav I : ! Battle Royal Thp Literary Guidcpost By W. G. Kogers ' P ' j MY TWtNTY-FIVE TKAJtS IN CHI NA, by Joha B. PvweU (Maemll- Editor and Publisher of China Weekly? Rev(ew, managing direc tor of China Press and corres pondent for taany western news papers, Powell went to Shanghai in 1917' andj for a quarter cen tury his ben an astute observ er, favored With unusual oppor tunities) His book, is his own story, plus enoughjl background to unify it. It's ouf, story, too, for it's the dramatic preface to Pearl Har bor. No; matter how many books you've read in this field, which has been plowed back and forth many times Powell has fresh, startling and dependable in for mation. Babb, Lehrb4s, Hill, Mo rin andiothej AP names occur. The book was written in hos pital beds where, since repatri ation three years ago, Powell has been undergoing treatment following the loss of his gan grenous feet' infected in Japan ese prisons, j 4S mii.Lion; tons to Eisen hower, bjr I.t. Col. Randolph Leigh (Infantry Journal; 2). Illustrated' with charts and photos, Hhis beek turns logistics into drama and shows how the supply job that couldn't be done was done. ; Some ' of the figures are stag gering: The millions that give the book itsC title were for one year; Signal Corps, men strung 250,000 wire miles in six months; there were 60! different types of Engi neer units; 350,000 different items of supply were handled; 1000 pints of blood were flown daily from America to France; by D Day the 8th and 8th Air Forces had 129 fields. HUNTING AND FISHING, prints by Honor Danmier (Pantheon; SS.M). For sportsman as well as art lover, these 3 4 reproductions by photogravure; on loose sheets within boards, form a worth while collection. Taken mostly from tha magazines Caricature and Charivari, the lithographs are dated in tha late 1830's, 1840's and 1850's. Daumier, city bred and a city resident for ill but the last few years of; his life, looks at hunter and fisherman, out in the cold and rain, with the sardonic eye News Behind the News I By PAUL MALLON , (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole I or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON. Nov. lMV Mr. Attlee did not gei his way about giving the; atom bomb to Russia or to a United Nations commission. ; Twenty-four hours before tha decision was announced, how ever, some of; the best in formed ; cor r e s -spondents were Writing that the commission solu tion had been agreed. There were, at that time,; some grounds for be Lief that the Brit- ish had induced President T r u - Halloa man to change Pan his mind. The mere publication of such a suggestion brought his best advisers into action, and he stood his ground firmly. The British prime ; minister, who apparently ihad a major hand in writing the announce ment, succeeded nevertheless in composing an exceptionally in teresting, if elusive text. This document which jstands in the nature of a momentous world proclamation on the most impor tant subject confronting mankind requires analytical understand ing, j Policy Theateneo! j Indeed it may lead" to break ing up the Truman policy in months or years to come unless S the president remains insistent and alert. Tha first point; the premise, asserts "there can be no adequate military , defense'? against tha bomb and therefore no nation should monopolize it. This assertion hot only con tradicts much scientific evidence, and the entire history of science which has always; to date found defenses adequate! for its inven- . . of the man sunkjin a comfor table armchair. j Unless you have trial proofs themselves, these j are ihe most adequate samples of Daumier's genius in subjects of this kind; original pages from the maga zines, not so carefully printed as in the early 1830's, do him less than justice. I GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty i l -Si SI. ! i i i r , i . ! 1 I i - jC-L tions, it also contradicts other assertions of the Attlee text. Point six maintains the spread ing of information about the bomb should wait until science has, found the answer. Caution Is By-word The precise words are: "We are not convinced that the spreading of specialized in formation regarding the practical application of atomic energy, be fore it is possible to devise ef fective reciprocal, and enforcea ble safeguards acceptable to na tions, would contribute to a con structive solution of the problem of the atomic bomb." In shorj, point six must be persistently .maintained against the premise of point one, if the Truman policy is to prevail. Mr. Truman can maintain it only if he continues to get popular sup port for his Just and reasonable position. Furthermore, uie indications that he was ready to weaken somewhat, 24 hours in advance of the announcement, indicates a constant general alertness will be necessary to see that the decision is not undermined by anyone here or abroad. Revealing Phases In these confused days when the pressures of great powers and events cause many men to doubt and alter their positions, this phase is essential. There are i other revealing phases of the momentous text. It says: "We believe the fruits of sci entific research should "fee made available to all nations." Then it proposed a United Na tions commission for the inspec tion of armaments (a recommen dation which originated in this column at the time of the San Francisco conference, and has been repeated many times since then.) t Now if trtjs pledge of interna tional inspection of armaments is kept, and thoroughly applied, the giving away "of military secrets will not be necessary. Coald Be Suicidal To put it another way on tha same thumbnail, our official and public insistence must be main tained for inspection, or the giv ing away of the fruits of our sci entific developments will become dangerous, foolish, even suicidal. Consider Russia in this respect. She has isolated herself. If .we give her all our scientific fruits . and she maintains her isolation against inspection by us and an international body, the very fact that she does such a thing casts -a reasonable suspicion upon free fruit-giving as to make it worth less as a world peace move. Now do not conclude hastily that Mr. Truman and our gov ernment know all about these things and will take care of it self, or that the possibilities opened in this momentous text represents my imagination 'of a remote possibility. The wrong philosophy is already in the text, balanced by the right philosophy. Thus the text has left us with an obligation to maintain the right part of it against misinterpretation. "The psWk theald -appreciate really make mistakes only far futare generations U' profit by Pi -"' L J i congressmen snore after ; all. we "Governor Delayed By Wintry Roads " Because of snow and Icy condl tion of the highways. Gov. Earl Snell, scheduled to reach Salem from Cheyenne, Wyo., Thursday, 'probably will not arrive here un til Friday night, he advised tha executive department I Monday, Snell went to Wyoming to at tend the annual conference of western governors. I IPtinlbflD nUecaon'oils CIRCUIT COURT Phyllis M a x 1 n a Slusher vs George O. Slusher: Divorce decree awarded to plaintiff. Charles M. Kinney vi Precious A. Kinney: Divorce decree awards custody of one minor child to plaintiff. Crystal E. Woodruff vs Glenn Woodruff: Divorce decree restores maiden name of Crystal Z. Standly to plaintiff. Geocce Waterman vs Holland Rasmussen, Ed Handle, doing bus! ness as Randle Distributing Co. Defendant files answer admitting and denying. Lawrence H. Brown vs Mayro M. Kinney, Ladd and Bush branch, The United States National Bank of Portland, and Flavius Meyer: Suit dismissed with prejudice to both parties without costs to either party. Tha State of Oregon, ex rel, OtP 0330006 n (Continued from page 1) Atlantic and of the house naval affairs committee whose list for the Pacific is even longer. Col onel Remington, long retired from the army, has recently re turned from a tour of the Pa cific. He says: "It is 'impor tant that the American people should think twice in this mat ter, and more specifically that the president and congress should take no action looking to the re tention and development of any Pacific bases beyond the Mar shall and Caroline islands and Guam" without considering care fully such matters as the de fense of such bases against atomic attacks; the relation: 'of such commitments to the whole problem of our military secur ity; the relation to our foreign policy, particularly with respect to Russia and China; and our re sponsibilities under the United Nations organization. Colonel Remington is of the opinion that the great distance of these bases and their depend ence on ocean transportation for supplies make it necessary to concentrate on fewer bases. Re tention of Okinawa in particular he feels would be interpreted as a base not of defense against Japan but of possible aggression against China or Soviet Asia. He would maintain our great base at Pearl Harbor, and guard our northern flank with bases in the Aleutians and make Guam our advance base in the central Pa cific, with secondary bases of anchorages and airfields. He adds: "Truk, which is not on the navy list and which Great Brit fin is said to want, might well be Internationalized." - It is easy to grow eloquent over insistence on retention of Okinawa and Iwo Jima because of the heavy price in American life paid for these bits of terri tory. But they are both too much exposed to be developed as major bases. As Colonel Rem ington says, it would take only two atom bombs to destroy most everything on Iwo Jima; and not many more for Okinawa. Another danger in the navy plan is that the wide dispersal of strength over many bases will constitute weakness in defense. That was our trouble at Wake. It is easy to foresee in some pe riod of stringency in peace times, . a reduction of appropriations which would leave these isolated outposts with only skeleton de fenses. Then if an enemy cuts across our line of communica tions tha outlying bases are left helpless as were Truk and Ra baul for the Japs after our cap ture of Guam and of Leyte. The whole subject is one for comprehensive study by a com bined committee which should include civilian as well as pro fessional military men. Military policy should be closely geared with our foreign policy; and in the present instance should be designed to provide ample do mestic defense plus proper sup port for the United Nations, but with no cloak for aggressive war. It would be foolish to aban don old methods and old weap ons. - At the same time, attention should be given to the impact of the new weapons on planning for a next war in terms of the last And we ought to give seri ous effort to planning to avert wars in the future. Bernice Frieda Setness vs Jergen Olaf Setness: Defendant moves court for order modifying previous decree; in amount of support money: awarded plaintiff. . Dorothy Vap vs Theodore Vap: Defendant moves court for order granting further time within which! to plead case. I, WnUam H. Rosa vs Kathryn Barrett Ross: Suit tor divorce charging cruel and inhuman treat- . ment. Married Sept 6, 1926, at Chicago, m Harriet H. Andrews -vs Fred L. Andrews: Suit for divorce charg ing cruel and inhuman treatment, asks custody of one minor child and $30 per month support money. Zolai Flood vs H. C, Flood: Suit for divorce charging cruel and in human treatment. Married Sept 3, 1938, at Caldwell, IdahoJ Wanda Albrecht vs August Al brechtf Decree of divorce to -plaintiff. ( Francis-Langley vs Pearl Lang-' ley: Divorce decree to plaintiff awards custody of one minor child and restores defendant's maiden name of Pearl McGee. Lorraine Genevieve Bowman vs Wilberj Leroy Bowman: Decree of divorce to plaintiff restores maid en name of Lorraine Genevieve Gates. Maxjne Rasmussen vs Albeit Rasmussen: Decree of divorce re stores ! maiden name of Maxine Orth to; plaintiff. Bessie Hill vs Clarence Hill: De cree of divorce restores maiden name of Bessie Boone to plaintiff. Property settlement between par ties approved. ' Juanita L. Keidatz vs Daniel G. Keidatz: Decree of divorce awards custody of one. minor child 'and $25 perf month "Support. money. Matilda Adelaide Gaylord vs Shirley Monroe Gaylord: Decree of divorce awards custody of four minor children and $30 per month support' money for each child. George W. King vs Ettura King: Decree of divorce to plaintiff- Cecil IE. Parkhurst vs. Eulalie S. Parkhurst: Decree of divorce awards custody of one minor child. jProperty settlement be tween parties approved. PROBATE COURT Genevieve H. Nelson, estate: Or der authorizing Carl E. Nelson, administrator, to make redemp tion on certain bonds and to sell certain stocks. Final account ap proved. I Elizabeth Paulus, estate: Sidney D. j Jones. Clarence M. Byrd and Elmore -E. Hill appointed as ap praisersi and Fred H. Paulus ap pointed as administrator. , John SV. Cannon, estate: Final accountf approved and settled. jL-nzaDem Alien chapman, es tate: Ruth Parker Chapman ap pointed as administratrix and Ralph H, Campbell, Paul T. Burns and Edith Shaffer appointed as appraisers. William and Walter Jensen and Carol Oail Jensen, guardianship estate: Report of guardian Judith Cox approved. Ronald James Morris, estate: Order authorizing Joseph C. Mor ris, administrator, to pay sum of $2085.15 1 to heirs in equal shares -from claim of estate on account of alleged wrongful death of Ron ald James Morris. MUNICIPAL COURT Pvt ijdward A. Eckland. SCU 1911 Hqs., Camp Adair, driving while under influence of intoxi cating liquor. Gilbert C. Maas, 240 Morgan st, violation; of basic speed rule. I MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Allan fw. Mitchell, 23. textile manufacturer. Newton Highlands, Mass., and Constance U Luehrs, 30, professional Red Cross worker. Portland.; Joseph: E. LaRocheU. 23, U3. navy, 92$ N. 18th st, Salem and Evangeline L, Millard, 28, sten ographer, 730 N. Liberty St., Sa lem, '- Hubert H. Gatts, 54. mechanic. Salem and Mildred L. Fetsch, 34, laundry worker. Salem. Albert f M. Rowel 39. farmer, route 2,Roseburg.iand Blanche M. Boyer, 48, maid. Roseburg. Lester M. PureeH 19, VS. army, route , Salem, and Mandaline En gle, 17, key punch operator, route 2, Salem.?-' ' f . If functional as well as replace ment fangs are removed from a venomous snake, it will be per manently; incapacitated so far as Its yenom-injeciinf abilities are concerned. Such techniques , are commonly used by tha so-called "snake charmers" rr .-. Ainca. f 'ttXyf&y ft J DtsUaeUe f nudftl raymtiiU -:' : ; . . ' '; ' .. . "f Oart Stmt ";:;" I L TT- '-It 1 ,