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G3mss ompeiMoini Dp Ddmhu L OTTOS 3 fnr 9MTDS Ti03 1103 , "The Statesman has several times ..- expressed high praise for ."the Quality of General Eisenhow er's thinking, but I fear he was a bit too. rosy in his statement aoade trie 'other day to support universal military training, when he said: ' "No other country fears a . strong America and node-' cent preparations of our own will be regarded, suspiciously i - -by . others because we : are trusted." I" " " Is there-not some danger that this is an assumption contrary to . fact? Argentina for example nourishes its own fears about the "colossus of the north." It keeps our diplomats working overtime - convincing Latin America of our good neighborliness, and we lard our efforts with good American 'dollars. I ; " If the Russians read our own r ''. Hearst papers and the Chicago Tribune and Cissie Patterson's 'Washington Times-Herald .(and , they do) they can hardly be ex ' pected to repose bland confidence in the purity of our motives. Other countries, need only to look back0 over our brief history as a nation to note how expan sionist has been our policy. Louis iana was purchased from Napoleon who had jobbed Spain out of it, but there was no little sabre' rattling in the Kentucky-Ohio re gion In the agitation for the opening - of the Mississippi clear to the gulf. Florida was a Span , ish possession until Andrew Jack son with some firearms and bluff absorbed it Into the union. The Mexican war of a century ago was frankly recognized as a war of aggression even at the tune; and true enough it did result in our conquest of New Mexico, Arizona (Continued on editorial page) Mac Orders High Tax Rate Set in Nippon TOKYO, Sunday, Nov. 25-P)-j General MacArthur in a stern, "war does not pay" directive to day ordered the Japanese govern ment to tax away the war profits of all Nipponese firms and indi viduals' and make a capital levy ranging up to 70 per cent jon cor porate and private fortunes in cluding the imperial household's. In the most strongly worded or der of the occupation to date, the supreme commander prohibited all government credit or subsidy ac tivities pending sweeping reorgani zation of government finances, and directed the Japanese tov submit a complete war-profits tax program to the first session of the diet in 1946. MacArthur also ordered the gov ernment to terminate by February 1 the payment of any discharge al lowances or service pensions to Japanese veterans "except com pensation for physical disability limiting the recipient's ability to work." . New Outbreak Of India Riots CALCUTTA, India, Nov. 24- Twenty-six persons were injured at Bombay today; in a new out break of rioting which already has. produced scores of casualties in India. Including one American , soldier killed and 28 injured In Calcutta." - The death toll for three days of demonstrations against the trial of members of the Indian na tional army as war criminals mounted to 37 when American authorities announced that ' the charred body of a missing soldier had been found near the wreck age of a burned" ambulance, in Calcutta. . Aninisl Cracltcrs . By WARREN GOODRICH j.., f;,rn. Aiar. don't iast I ,MW - - tland there pointing at me 4 can txplam tvtrythmz- : . r By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW, Nov. 24-W-Rus-sia's new five-year plan for. the automotive industry, details of which were made public today, will see the soviet union manu facturing . cars and , trucks in such volume that it say com pete seriously with, the United States and Britain for the world - Already a large industry, , the nation's automotive plants w&l be increased from threeHo four times their present size by the en'l . of this five-year plan, ac cording to S. R. Akopov, com missar of th medium machine building, industry. , I ; Welles Sees Fleet as WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 Sumner Welles, former undersec retary of state, expressed convic tion today that keeping the Amer ican fleet in Hawaii during 1940 41 acted as a brake on Japanese aggression. "If the fleet had been with drawn from Hawaii the Japanese war lords would unquestionably have interpreted it as acquiesence in their policy of aggression!" be testified to the congressional com mittee investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor. In clipped tones, the tall, bald ing former diplomat also gave un qualified endorsement to the state ment presented to the committee by former secretary of state Hull. "I agree completely," he said. In that statement, Hull had said that he and President Roosevelt did everything they could short of surrendering principles, to avert or delay a conflict with Japan. The committee also learned that Prime Minister Churchill of Brit ain twice took the initiative In suggesting moves by this country. The first was at the Atlantic charter meeting, held in August, 1941, aboard the .U. S. Cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast. There, Churchill proposed that the United States and Britain each issue a warning to Japan against further aggression. President Roosevelt gave the warning to the Japanese ambassador on Aug. 17. Boys Charged With Trying to Wreck Trains CULLMAN, Ala., Nov. Three boys, the oldest 13, are in jail here charged with three sepa rate attempts to wreck passen ger trains "just to see them pile up." Sheriff J. D. Mitchell, report ing the case today, said the young sters the others are 9 and 10 freely confessed they tried twice to wreck the Louisville and Nash ville's Southwind, Chicago-Miami streamliner and also tried to wreck the Pan-American. . The sheriff said that one one occasion heavy six-inch timbers were piled on the tracks beyond a curve. The other times, two heavy steel plates and two by four inch boards were used. Railroad men spotted the block ades in time, the sheriff said. , First U. S.-London Commercial Flight Grounded by Fog LONDON, Nov. 24-(?VFog pre vented, an American airlines flag ship, on an initial Washington- London commercial run, from landing at the British capital to day.. The plane- was held at Shan non, Ireland, and is expected to land at London Sunday around noot ' The plane by-passed the landing field at Shannon this morning, and flew on to London where it was scheduled to land at 3:15 p.m. (7:15 ajn. PST) but was obliged to return to Shannon because Lon don airports were fogged in. General Wamwrijlit Spends Unheralded Night in Salem The hero of Bataan and Cor regidor, LL General Jonathan M. Wainwright, left for southern Or egon Saturday after spending the night in Salem as the guest of Sec retary of State Robert S. Farrell and Mrs. Farrell. In accordance with, the gener al's request, no publicity was giv en to his arrival in the capital Friday. He had spent the past few days in the northwest in the interest of the Victory Bond drive and had hoped to travel secretly into California. He was- accom panied by his son, Commander Jonathan Wainwright V, and the latter son. During his stay in Salem Gen eral Wainwright inspected the State capitol and expressed par .Expansion of the motor indus try,' in which Generalissimo Sta lin has taken a personal inter est,' will involve the - enlarge ment of all . plants- in Moscow, Gorki 'and the Urals and. com pletion of reconstruction of the huge Yaroslav works, , ill ' IThe j Russians say .the Gorki plant, .which made great num bers of ' tanks during the war, will be stepped up to an output of more than 1000 cars daily;1 Great engine plants in the : Urals, which also - turned - out tanks by. the thousand .during the.; war, will be expanded more than two and a half ' times, Akopov declared. -l- i" . j. i . S ....... .- Hawaii I Nip Brake t , . ... , . , . ... X ? ; - . L ,.- W I ! Sumner Welles Mr, Roosevelt elected, however, to use somewhat milder language than his British friend had orig inally proposed.; Is Again, on Nov. SO, 1941, Church ill suggested in a message that the president tell the Japanese "that 'any further ; Japanese aggression would compel you to place 'the gravest issues before congress' or words to that effect." ; No action in; line with that sug gestion was taken, so far as the record shows, ! Welles said. Gby. Shell to Tell? Special Election Decision Monday i ' !!' Gov. Earl Snell indicated here Saturday that on Monday he might announce whether or not j he proposed to call a spe cial; election to choose a suc cessor to the late Rep. James w. iMott. . . i; Fpllowing a conference with Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr., Attorney General George Neuner and David O'Hara, head of the state elec tions bureau, Snell said the discussion h a d centered par ticularly around methods. ?of nomination. Should the governor not call a ( special election, Mott's suc cessor would be named at the 1946 regular elections. Nationalists Take Red Port CHUNGKING, Sunday, Nov. 25 -UP) - Chinese nationalist troops have wrested the Manchurian port of Hulutab from the Chinese communists, the nationalist press reported today. I In Shanghai, Lt Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. force in China, told a press con ference that China has asked the United States for the use of ships tJC transport nationalists into Man churia, presumably at Hulutao. PAFENFUS PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Joe Papenfus, route three, box 924, Salem, be came the parents of a son, weigh ing 6 pounds 6 ounces, at the Deaconess hospital Saturday morning. Dismissals from the hos pital Saturday included Mrs. Myer Rogow, 532 N. High st, and her infant son. it ticular interest in the paintings, of pioneer days. His father, also an army officer, was once stationed at Fort Harney in Eastern Oregon. Escorted by state police, the general was riding in a 1946 auto mobile presented to him in Seat tle The .car f carried a special Washington license with the fig ures fV J 8-14-45 JMW," meaning the date of V day and the general's Initials. S ?' , -v ASHLAND, Ore, Nov. 24-Ph General; Jonathan M. Wainwright and party were greeted by an im promptu publio welcome in the junior high school auditorium here j tonight as the. general and his party stayed here as guests of Stater Senator Earl Newbry. 15 ' NEirrY-nrrn Nazis Ask i, ... Attempts May Be Blocked by Law Restrictions I ! :: NUERNBERG, Germany, Nov. 24 (jP)-pefense attorneys said to day they would call titled mem bers of the "Cliveden set" ajfd oth er prominent Britons as witnesses in the historic war crimes trial, but it appeared they would be blocked! by legal restrictions. The lawyers for the accused nazi leaders disclosed their plans at a press conference. Itj was learned! authoritatively later; that restrictions on bringing in! tor eignerslas defense witnesses' be for.thd international tribunal We so multifold that "big names" a almost excluded at the-outset The defendants who planned to call British witnesses were; for mer Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelni Keitel and former pep uty Fuehrer Rudolf Hess. Von Ribbentrop's attorney said the one-time German ambassador to London would call Lady Astor and others who used to meet in the 1830's at the Cliveden estate of Lord and Lady Astor, lnclud ing Lords Beaverbrook, London derry and Derby. i Keitel's attorney announced that his client would call Giles Rom- mily, a nephew of Winston Churchill, who was captured by the Germans at Narvik, Norway, in 1940, and Capt Michael Alex ander, a cousin of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexader, also a pris oner oil war. u XAB ; j ; PAGES kX'd mm BfeMiaie Witnesses U . q " I cretary m state Konert s. rar- ; i attorney indicateoT 'htlf-ankouncea here Saturday. Hess' would cau uie uuae oi namuton, on whose estate the former No. 3 nazi landed when he parachuted upon Scotland in 1941, and the British physician who first exam ined Hess after he landed. ) Brisk Yuletide Business In Salem Stores ! Pre-hbliday business has been brisk in Salem stores but the vol ume so far has not been other than would indicate there will be the usull last-minute crush, lead ing merchants said Saturday; There! has been a great demand for the) better merchandise, par ticularly that on the practical side, and it was a question; how long available stocks would lasH and how much more might be forthcoming before Christmas. Most 'stores were offering; the best choice of goods in some time. Legion to Propose Short Training Bill ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24 John Stelle, national commander of the American Legion, said today; in a radio address (NBC) that the Le gion plans to present a bill to congress providing for universal military, training which would re quire only four months active service. j Under the Legion's bill, Stelle said, every physically qualified man of 18 would take a four month course of intensive basic fundamentals under regular mili tary or naval officers. Theatres Open as Parley Postponed The Elsinore and Capitol thea tres continued to operate today after both the management! and officials of the building service employes union announced .' that actual settlement of the four-day old dispute would be postponed until December 12. '. . At that time, they said, a rep resentative of the Warner Bros, company from Los Angeles would be in Salem to negotiate final settlement of the issue. There will be no picketing of the' theatres until after that time, the union stated. J ' - Weather i Max. - 7 S3 - SS i 44, Min. 81 4S 44 Bain 20 San Francisco Eugene Salem .' ,;, . Portland Seattle 4S Willamette river 3J ft. FORECAST (from UJS. weather bu beao, McNary field. Salem:. Cloudy with occasional light rain today. High est 54 degrees. c PAGES mm ''' y . - ' f .. .. , p i 1 !:.'.r y-,i " J v, Officers and men salute Admiral William F. Halsey si he goes over the side ti the battleship Sooth Dakota In Long Beach, Calif, . after relinquishing command. of the Third fleet. He will retire from the aervico alter the end of a month's temporary duty in Washington; (AT Wlrephoto) OctoberiTraffic Deaths Double Over Last Year I ' Traffic fatalities In Oregon during October totaled 12, an in crease of 100 per cent over the toll for the same month in 1944, The October. I 19451 increase was one of the; highest in the State's history, f ! During the. first 15 days of No vember there were 23 fatalities, which is little! more than 100 per cent increase over the toll for the corresponding period a year ago. For the 10 'months of 1945 there were 254 persons killed in Oregon traffic, compared to 194- for the same peribd in; 1944. Fifteen per cent of the motor vehicles involved in fatal acci dents during September were re ported to have 'mechanical de fects compared with 5 per cent in September of last year. Chinese (Reds Hold U$ Fliers SHANGHAI, Nv. 24-P)-U. S. Third amphibioul corps officers are engaged in negotiations with Chinese communists for the re lease of six American marine fliers held prisoner by the com munists at a remote village 80 miles west of Tientsin'.! The fliers werej forced down 14 days ago during! a flight from Peiping to Tientsin. Efforts to obtain the names. of the prisoners were unavailing, at marine headquarters, i . 1 Rains Help Clear Mountain j Snows Rains in the mountains Satur day began clearing snow from the pavement in the high passes, R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, announced. 1 Light snow was; falling at Odcll lake on the Willamette highway, but it was expected to turn to rain later. f, j At government' Camp on the Wapinitia cutoff, the rain was fall ing so hard that the packed snow was beginning 'tot break up.". Anti-Inflation Week Set by Governor Governor Snell Saturday' call ed jgpecial attention to ".Victory Over Inflation week," November 28 to December 1. j. ' "Approving, the poUcy of price control, for the present, which is neccesary to prevent a spiralling cost of living isf not sufficient' Governor, Snell said. fWe must accept our responsibility in maintaining a stable economy by observing the principles of price controL" r 1 KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT SAN FRANClSgO, Nov. J4-(ff) At least one person was killed and 26 injured . when': an automobile collided on rainswept Bayshore highway with a Lob Angeles bound Greyhound bus which rolled down an embankment and 'overturned, ' SiUm, :Ore7on Sunday Morning, November 25. 1945 UuLlli Admiral Halsey Quits Football Scores By the Associated Press FAR WEST Southern Cal. 34. Oregon Stat T Texas Tech. . New Mexico (tie) Colorado AScM 7, Colorado College t (tie) California . UCLA 0 Washington State 7, Washington 0 CAST Harvard 60. Boston University Yale 20. Princeton 14 Pittsburgh 7, Perm State 0 Columbia 21. Dartmouth 0 " Pennsylvania 99, Cornell 8 SOUTH Tennessee 14, Kentucky 0 Maryland 19. Virginia 13 Duke 14, North Carolina 7 Little Creek Navy 12. Florida Presbyterian vs Georgia cancelled Clemson 21, Georgia Tech 7 Alabama 55. Pensacola Navy 6 ; Auburn 29, Louisiana Tech 0 Mississippi U. 7, Mississippi State S Notre Dame 32. Tulane 6 Third Air Force 15, Air Transport Command "Florida AStM 46, Morehouse Col. MIDWEST Northwestern 13. Illinois 7 Indiana 28, Purdue 0 Michigan 7, Ohio State 3 Wisconsin 26, Minnesota 12 Oklahoma AStM 47, Oklahoma 0' SOUTHWEST Teyas Christian 14, Rice 13 Atlantic City NAS 33. Swartmore 6 Lafayette 7, Lehigh 0 Aberdeen Proving Ground 31, Camp De trick 25 Southern Methodist 34, Baylor 0. Lane, Tillamook Counties Top War Chest 'Drive Goals yLane and Tillamook counties fave filled their portions of the Oregon War Chest to overflow fag, Charles A. Sprague, presi dent of the statewide chest or ganization, announced Saturday. Of the $131,599.13 which Lane county has raised for all chest purposes, $64,413 has gone into the Stale chest. Tillamook j raised $10,981 for the state chest, out of $16,810 for all chest uses. They are the sixth and seventh coun ties to top their quotas. Although the Salem War Chest quota has been reached, Marion county has put only $43,485.80 into the state chest Its quota is approximately the same as that of Lane county. ... AUSTRIAN'S TO VOTE VIENNA, Nov. 24-fly-Austrian voters will vote tomorrow in their first elections in 15 years and decide control of 165 seats in the national assembly and 408 seats in provisional assemblies. Jean Wolcott Moves Into Lead In V-Bond Queen Contest Race Jean Wolcott, Miller's store candidate in the Marion county victory queen contest of the Vic tory Loan, stepped up to first place in standings audited at the Marion county Victory Loan bend purchases to date: TotaL all Issues. $1,269533 at of a nU ef $2,690,009. ' Series E, $567,958 of a vota dose i of bond headquarters Sat urday night," with $38,125 of E bonds sold to her credit. Miss Wolcott, a near-red-headed brunette and rated as an ex pert, at baking chocolate cakes, edged past Faye Larkins with a margin of $1125 in E bonds toTiwani4 club, fa In fifth with $22, take first place. Miss Larkins, Salem Lions club candidate, had . held first lace throughout the contest until the 1 - B Hie Sea Union to Halt Ship Loading To Speed Vets t SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 24-UP) The Interna 1 1 o n a 1 Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union. effective-Dec. -1, will cease com mercial cargo loading - on ships which :it believes should be as signed to carrying troops home, President Harry Bridges an nounced today. nui action will, include all ships fhich have been taken off troop jruns . and converted to commercial purposes," Bridges said in telegrams dispatched to Navy Secretary Forrestal, Secre tary l of War Patterson and Em ory S. I Land, maritime commis sion chairman. The ultimatum will apply to intercoastal ships operating be tween j American ports which carry (;argo formerly carried by truck and rail. Nimitz Gives Up Command PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 24 -(F) Aboard; the submarine Menhaden in these confined waters where the Japanese struck four years ago, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz transferred command of the U. S. Pacific ifleet today to Adm. Ray mond A. Spruance. Nimitz, the gray, grave Texan who took over the battered, crip pled fleet not quite four years ago and saw it grow under his control i into the world's most powerful sea force, will become chief of naval operations. It was a quietly dramatic 10 minute 'ceremony. Nimitz read his orders, -j spoke briefly in high praise of the men who had fought under Him to victory, and handed over the fleet to Spruance, who began the war as commander of cruiser division 5 and rose to command of all allied naval forces in Japanese waters.' Saturday counting, and holds sec ond place at : the present . with $37,000! worth of E bonds credited to her.) , In third place in the Saturday evening totals was Leona Tingel stad, Hollywood Lions club can didate, $34,375 in bonds being listed pack of her name. Miss Tingelsiad moved up to second place in Saturday morning's check but was back in third place when Miss .Wolcott crowded into first place. , Featuring the Saturday tabula tions were the gains made by the first candidates. Beth Greenlee, statehouse choice, is up to $25,675 in E bonds for fourth place in the contest;) Betty Lou Kayser, Salem 675 in bonds, while Beulah Lott, Junior i Chamber of Commerce candidate, has $10,425 for sixth place id the contest No. 203 4 mm Stale ontmues j 8700 Telephone Workers Back oh I Jobs in Midwest I By the Associated Pre;s Threat of a nationwide walkout of 250,000 telephone operators was dismissed last night with the ending of a sis-day strike of 8700 tele phone workers In Illinois and Indiana. ' - ' But .a stalemate marked the strike of 175,000 General Motors j corp. employes, which brougrt i the total of the nation's workers i made fdle by labor disputes near j the half -million mark. In addition, union sources indi cated yesterday that cooperation of; tool j and die workers' may be sought , by the United Automo bile Workers in the strike against GM. The strike, which Jas af fected workers in 51 cities, will result in early lay-off of 100,000 parts industry employes and ev entually halt all automobile pro duction, a spokesman for automo tive parts makers asserted. Settlement of the two-state phone strike came at 8:10 (CST) last night at a conciliation meet ing. The Illinois Bell Telephone company and the Illinois Tele phone Traffic union (Ind), agreed tentatively to a $4 weekly wag boost, retroactive to May 9, as recommended by- the war labor board. The company" also agreed to grant an additional non-retroactive $2 weekly raise, effectiva "hot later , than Feb. 1, 19467 and to open negotiations as soon as the union desires for new wage scales, j ''":' In . the General Motors dispute, called by the United Automobile Workers (CIO) to enforce a de mand for a 30 per cent wag rate increase, the government, with President Truman's approv al, called on its top conciliators; to move toward settlements. TTie corporation rejected a un ion offer of arbitration of the wage increase as a "demand for abdication" of its rights to 'man age its business. R. jj Thomas, union president, termed the rejection as no sur prise, and said that if General Motors, were willing to "accept the principle of arbitration they would -have made a counter of fer." i Woodburii Garage Fire Injures Mail WOODBURN A flash of fire, caused when .solvent on the floor of. the A. & B. Machine works were ignited, caused damages amounting to $500 and injuries to C. M. Robinson, an employe of the company Saturday. ' Robinson told firemen that he was cleaning the floor with the solvent! when the blaze started. He told "them he was forced to break out a window to get out. of the building and that he suffered face and hand bums. The loss was not covered by in surance, C. W. Traver, owner ol the firm, said. i A, A. SCHRAMM ELECTED I PORTLAND, Nov. 24-CflVNeW president of the Oregon Associa tion ot Small Loan Companies is At A. Schamm, Salem. He also was named a director at the an nual meeting here, along with Frank iE. Calkins, Eugene, and Fred Forster, Albany. - WHAT LUCK!OUTOF6AS INTH MIDDU 0TTH' DESERT AN'OMLY SHOPPING DAYS UKTlLCHBlSTMASn rpric s GM-CIO male 9M