AGZ FOUR
A OSEGOn STATESMAN. Sedan. Oragon. Tntdot7 Momla. NoTmbr 27, 194S
tcfiOttitateBmati
"No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awe"
! rrom First Statesman, March 28, 1S31 j
. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COIWPANY i
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor aod Publisher
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Member of the Associated Press - j
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor., publication of all
newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Richardson's Testimony ;
The defect in American policy prior to Pearl
Harbor was not the concentration of the fleet
.At Pearl Harbor, which was protested by Ad-
miral Richardson, but in failure to provide
ample protective screening against surprise.
The admiral in his testimony in reply to a ques
tion by Representative Gearhart of California
said the Japanese fleet which had crossed most
'of the Pacific to make the attack at Pearl Har
bor "quite likely would have been able to de
liver the same attack on Puget Sound.' His
principal complaint was over the lack of pre
paredness of the fleet; but he disagreed with
the state department's policy of having... the
fleet concentrated at Pearl Harbor. '
Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles in their
testimony both upheld this - policy, which the ;
president followed; and expressed the opinion
ft did serve to restrain' Japanese aggression for
a time. It is quite regular for the fleet to be
moved to support a country's policy. In this
case the presence of the fleet in Pearl Harbor
I may have held the Japs back for a good many
months. This gave us time to press our navy
j Construction program, so we had new battle
i ships and carriers sliding down the ways which
I soon, filled the gap caused at Pearl Harbor.
' The disaster lay in the factor of surprise.
For this it seems clear thatboth Washington
land Pearl Harbor were tpi blame. Washington
. 'failed to "give Pearl the urgent alerts and Pearl
I failed to adopt the precautions which the times
warranted. Both seats of authority guessed
! wrong as to the point of Japanese attack. And
jour army and navy intelligence failed to keep
; track of the Jap carrier fleet.
1 - That the presence of our fleet at Pearl did
have a restraining effect on Japan seems to be
corroborated by the fact that the first move
othe Japs was to eliminate this fleet.
Admiral Richardson told of a proposal by
Roosevelt to establish a patrol to prevent Japa
nese commerce from crossing to this hemis
phere. Richardson said he opposed this idea.
Admiral Stark agreed with Richardson so the
idea was dropped. .'
' The Richardson testimony fails to prove the
rumors that Roosevelt was an arbitrary dictator
of navy strategy. The state department backed
"him up on keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor,
land he followed the advice of navy! men and
dropped his idea of a patrol. The-admiral's
testimony does show him as an honest, alert and
forthright officer, whose personal initiative
' might have suficed to save the fleet on De
cember 7. He evidently was full of fears of
what the Japs might do and had he been in
command, he might have insisted on wider
petroling of the Pacific,. dispersal of the big
ships, and alertness of observers. His removal
may have been Roosevelt's big mistake.
First Things First 1 ' f j j j
This touchy subject of conscientious objectors
is bring brought to a head by the self-imposed
fast of 12 men at Waldport, but it is doubtful
they are doing either themselves; or their cause
any good. , ; ' -!
The men have been fasting. in protest of
their continued confinement, declaring the rate
of discharge for COs is far less; than lj for Gla,
and contending they are entitled to more eon
siderttion than has been accorded them ! for
service up to four years without payor pro
vision for dependents. i f
Without going into the merits or- demerits
of conscientious objection, it may be; pointed
out that drafted GIs and COs Were tailed to
serve for the "duration" and six months. The
"duration" has not yet been declared.!? Conced
ing that everything can't be taken care of at
once, we can find no fault with the policy of
putting .first the problem of jreleasingj service
men who served, or were in readiness to serve,
in the no-quarter battles of World War II.
The COs are conceded the right to their
scruples, of course, but realism compels j the
conclusion that were it not for the servicemen
the COs wouldn't have much left of the kind
of a country to which they now wish to return.
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Former president Herbert Hoover has deed
ed his home on the Stanford university campus
to the university, as a memorial to,- his late
wife. It will be known as the Lou Henry Hoover
home. Mr. Hoover has resided injthe hbme yery
little hi recent years, making his home in an
apartment in 3 the Waldorf-Astor tower. The
west regrets his change of residence, but feels
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sure ine iormer president wiu conunun
lively interest "in the Pacific coast,
his
China has ratified the Bretton Woods financial '
agreement, the - second to do so, the United
States having been first. Whether Britain will
sign has become a question since the succession
of the labor party , to power, jrhe agreement,
points the way to an orderly ! restoration of
international commerce based on national fi
nancial stability. It should be ratified; andj put .
into effect lest -the world lapse into economic
isolation. v I g - . :
Premier Attlee said that f what the world
needed was the application of the principles of
Christianity. With over 200 sects of the Chris
tian church it doesn't appear ithat Christians
Can agree among themselves any better, than
the "big three" world powers. ,
The war must be over a Salem woman saw
a flatiron for sale and actually asked the price
before buying it. '" ! ,
Riots Ih Palestine
? If the Palestinian Jews who are bombing
police stations and rioting at Tel Aviv are .,
typical of the Zionists we can't blame the Arabs
for wanting no mone of them to enter that
country The disorders which resulted . in six
deaths two weeks ago and injuries to ten. police
constables Sunday will thill the ardor even
ef American politicians, who have taken up
tjie Zionist cause
! The rioters have been making trouble for .the
British, yet the Jewes were restored to Pales
tine only under the British mandate and the
Balfour agreement. Britain has been their pro
tector. Now they turn against Britain because
under pressure from the Arabs the "white
paper" was issued which restricts Jewish immi
gration. Hardly a very good way to get Britain
to withdraw this paper or to win approval
of Americans.
; After all the title of modern Jews to Pales
tine is sentimental only. The writer, of Scotch -Irish-English
aricestry, doesn't feel he has
any claim to the British Isles because his ances
tors lived there. No more have the Jews to the
Holy Land. The afflicted Jews, of Europe have
claim to worjd '-mercy, but sot necessarily to
land in Palestine any more than.' in Poland, Ger
many, Spain where their people long have re
sided. Maybe they think they can break down
British resistance if they persist, like the "Irish," '
in "black-and-tan" disturbance. ' '
Editcrial Comment
FIRE-FIGHTING IN STATE HANDS
The state through its forestry department, has
taken over fire control duties in the 281,000 acres
of forest land formerly patrolled by the Polk County
Fire Patrol association. " : -
This follows the state's action in taking over
the similar duties that had been performed in Clat
sop, Columbia, Washington and Tillamook county-,
areas by the Northwest Oregon Fire Patrol as
sociation. "''". -.
i Thus the state is extending its assumption of anti
forest fire control duties and establishing a prece
dent which may lead ultimately to its assumption
Of direction of forest .fire prevention throughout
the state's forested areas. . '
This i an important new function for the state
to assume, , and one that it perhaps should hare
assumed long ago. The public interest in prevention
of forest fires is far too great to leave the job
In private hands. The state can direct fire preven
tion with more authority and probably more effic
iently. - -: , ; , -V--'" '
Now that the state is directly in the fire fighting
business, the state forestry department will prob
ably lend its Influence to the establishment of a
new policy for construction of fire breaks and fire
trails throughout the woods to facilitate fighting
' fires.' : ! ':'--'-'.. -. - f, . ; :
Particularly in the coastal area, where bad forest
fires can be swept by an east wind down to the
i through farms and cities, are we interested In
t -i adequate policy of fire fighting and forest pres-
: ervstion. We are pleased te see the state asssjming
t i new function. AstprUn Budget , . - - ,
Now that we know what a new car may cost,
there's nothing left to worry about except how
to get the money and the xrari I 1 j
Interpreting
The Day's New
s
By James D. White :
Associated Press Staff WrtUr
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.-(P)-'Hints of Ill
will are beginning to appear between Dutch and
British officials who are involved in the compli
cated East Indies revolt. ; t : '
These hints come as negotiations between Dutch
officials and the revolutionary Indonesian "govern-:
ment" break down and the British use rocket
firing planes to quell new outbreaks of violence
by native extremists. f I 1 5 j
The hints are such as these:! The British charge
that Dutch and Ambonese ' r n i
loyal to the Dutch shot down ' 60
Indonesian police "in cold blood" I
at a police station in the capital!
city of Batavia. I !
Shortly afterward, the Dutch
news agency, Aneta, reported that'
the British' ordered some native
villages burned. This was in f re
prisal for the murder by Indones
ians of a plane-load of British and
Indian troops which had been
forced down outside Batavia.
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Guidcpost
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News Behind" the News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole
or in part strictly prohibited.)
HIGH BONNET, j Uwal jToeM
(Prcntlct-HaU; SZ.SO). ;
This is a novel in form, rough
ly, but the form is only an ex
cuse for writing about good food
. . .sand it's a better excuse than
many novelists think up. The n,
author makes a library out of
kitchen, pantry; and ! cellar; he
makes a chef d'oeuvre out of a
chef.
The -story had to be laid, of
course, in France. Jean-Marie
Gallois gives up the sea for
sauces and soups, becomes a
sculptor in cake icings; though
he is disappointed in an affair
of the heart, What matters to
him most is' stomach!
- Though there is a fairly dra
matic climax, even to bombs, the
body of the book tells you how
to make Zabaglione sauce for
Peches Giulia; you have the
pleasure of dining with the Coun
cil of Brillat; and kidneys are
described so eloquently that read
ing is as good as a meal.
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To make Espagnol stock you
throw into the pot "lumps of
beef,) ham and veal, fried brown
! with the hammered bones; roast
fowl carcasses, tomatoes, turnips,
onions,, carrots, bay leaves, pep-per-
and ell-spice, celery, thyme,
marjoram and Savory, chervil . . .
and a pinch of the Savoy cori
ander . .j. and keep it at a sim
mer for a day. After an integra
tion! with sherry, it is passed
through a hair sieve."
The book is full of smells,
tastes, sounds. Chefs, you learn,
eat-out; it isn't the most famous
places that always serve the best
food; clean kitchen is no more
proof of delectable dishes than a
clean studio of great paintings; a
meat vault is a morgue; an ama
teur chef is as dependable as an
amateur surgeon.
There j are such cheeses as
Ventadour, Thome de S a v o i e,
Cantal, -Parmesan; coffee with
the flavor of orange peel, ptarmi
gans roasted with a vine-leaf
shield, Minorca cockscombs brin
ed : for Eliogabale sauce. And
you'll enjoy your soup all the
more if the diner at the next
table is eating a tangerine.
This is a book for men as well
as women, and it's a point in its
favor that food supplies are be
coming more plentiful.
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W NV of
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 The
Inquiring congressmen have pro
duced the complete Jap story of
Pearl Harbor but not ouirs. j-
What the Japs did and how
they planned it can be frather
fully understood
from the files
and statements
I uncovered
I by General Mac--
Arthur in Tokyo,
but the American
causes for our
greatest disaster
all war his
tory are not so
plain.
rai suuea me japs de
cided upon - the attack two
months ahead, (October 5), when
Mr. Roosevelt decided to impose
the embargo upon supplies from
us. Premier YammamotO told
the government the loss of eco
nomic sustenance from us: would
defeat Japan in her war in Chi
na, so she might as rell go to
war with us on the chance of
winning all or nothing. 1
The date was picked then, or
ders issued November 5, fleet as
sembled November 23 (the date
our navy obviously feared! some
thing big, decided to risk no
more shipping m the northern
Pacific and ordered all to the
southern route).
Most Planes Escaped
The fleet refueled at sea 200
miles north of Pearl Harbor oh
December 6, and attacked the
next day from that neglected
expanse of ocean; lost only 27 of
the 381 planes in the attack; the
remainder getting back to the
carriers striking westward, and
all escaped northwestward to
the home KurileS. j
The Japanese peace mission to
the White House was a complete
fake to cover this operation. The
government had been reorgan
ized November 2 to bring in a
war crowd better schooled in
Nazi technique (although; Hitler
was not advised). Nor were the
Jap peace emissaries informed of
what was afoot. 1
The plan for the attack had
been in the Jap war book for
years, and every detail had been
worked out by observation of
our naval habits of bringing in
ships and giving the mei) shore
leave over weekends, opening
faith
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
The Dutch, may have intended
no slur on the British in reporting this reprisal
the bodies' of four British aviators and '20 Indian
soldiers had : been found hacked to pieces,' and
such reprisals as burning villages are fairly stan
dard practice in such cases. The usual s procedure
is to warn people to leave first, so no one is
hurt and the bamboo huts go up with ( an impres
sive show of smoke and flame.; They cafc be rebuilt
quickly. ! . ',
There appears to be some dispute between the
British and the Dutch over a couple of thousand
Ambonese soldiers which the! Dutch have had in
Batavia. . : 1 i i
The British reported they had been ordered
withdrawn a few days ago, presumably because
most of them are Christians and traditional enemies
of the predominantly Moslem Javanese who are
defying the return of Dutch rule, - ;
British Order Withdrawal t
But a spokesman for Admiral HeFerich, the Dutch
commander-in-chief, told American correspondents
that the admiral had -informed the British that
tho Ambonese . would stay; Soon afterward the
British announced that the withdrawal order stood.
Meanwhile there was a curious development
regarding the use of Japanese troops who still
have not been disarmed. A British officer let it
be known that some had done "an excellent Job"
in helping to. clear native settlements east of
Semarang, where some of the latest native upria
inga have taken place. i
The following day Admiral: Lord Louis Mount
batten, whose military sphere1 includes the Indies
since General MacArthur relinquished ; that area
te him shortly before V Japan - surrendered, was
quoted as saying that "Japanese prisoner of war
troops" had never bean used in any offensive
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the sub nets for garbage 'disposal
at dawn, as well as our limited
plane observation radius of 200
miles (just outside of which the
Japs refueled).
It was cunning, long-planned
treachery perfectly executed un
der the most favorable auspices.
On our side of it, Mr, Roosevelt
and his admirals knew an at
tack was to be made and the
approximate time of it. But they
expected it in Malaya against the
British and Dutch, and against us
in the Philippines. They did not
expect it to fall upon Pearl Har
bor, and were totally surprised
when it did.
This is the only justifiable
conclusion from the accumulated
public evidence that they knew
war was coining through inter
cepted messages yet did nothing
about Pearl Harbor. They did
little more about the Philippines,
anticipating no doubt, a long
range war on that front in which
we would attack Jap shipping
northward and seek out the Jap
fleet. x
Responsibility in Question
Beyond all the new and old
facts about Washington's failure
to warn and the navy's failures
to detect and defend, is the basic
question of who was responsi
ble,, for setting up our fleet like
ducks on an enclosed pond for
the Japs to destroy.
This is the inexcusable, colos
sal, overall blunder. A few hours
warning from here would have
dispersed the fleet to sea where
the bulk of it would have been
saved (the Jap planes had no
gas for searching out maneuver
able ships).
Admiral Richardson says Roos
evelt, 15 months' earlier, told
him the Japs would make a
"mistake" and enter the war; but
also declined to accept Richard
son's policy of retiring the fleet
to the safety of our Pacific coast
and replaced him with a man
who would do presidential bid
ding. FDR Concept Wreng
It was Mr. Roosevelt, then,
who is responsible for the policy
.of keeping the fleet based on
Pearl Harbor as a general policy.
His concept Of Jap attack strat
egy was therefore wholly wrong.
. As to the specific event of
why the fleet was bottled there
that day, it is unbelievably true
that Mr. Roosevelt and his ad
mirals who were required to fol
low his bidding, permitted those
ships to remain closeted in their
narrow base when they knew
atti -. was coming without a
warning to disperse.
Some evidence suggests Mr.
Roosevelt was playing a come-on
game with the Japs, wanted to
draw them into the "mistake of
war and thus dispose of them.
This may be true, but neverthe
less the man or men responsible
for the disaster are the ones who
left the fleet set up there that
day. They - could only be the
ruling navy clique of which Mr.
Roosevelt was the intimate, ship
loving top man.
The answer which these, facts
demand is complete cleansing out
of the top navy and Mr. Tru
man has already started it with
the replacement of Mr. Roose
velt's Admiral King, (who came
in after Pearl Harbor) and si
multaneous approval by the
. president of the legislation to put
the navy with the army and air
corps into a combined armed
service force.
Proper Utilization of State s
Resources Urged by Hunter
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T.:n nvrciAn th first steo in winning the peace.
Chancellor Fhederick M. Hunter of the state system of higher edu-
woi Caim chamber of Commerce inemoers na iu
mrmwi to utilize the .state's unmatched resources to "keep
with the 200,000 who did not come (
County Court
AffixesNew
Street Names
The Marion county court at a
hearing Monday affixed names to
nine roads and i avenues in the
immediate vicinity - of Salem at
the request Of the postmaster ana
certain residents adjacent to
these roads, i ,
The road running easterly and
westerly between SalemrWheat-
land road and the Willamette riv
er and between f and parallel to
Sunset avenue i and Cummings
lane is named Manbirn road.
A portion of road known as
Morgan avenue running parallel
to East Center street is renamed
Auburn avenue.
The portion bf Monroe avenue
runninc south irom ruiuana
road or East Center street and
parallel to the eastern boundary
of the city Is renamed Hawthorne
avenue. .
Cannon street is the name giv
en to a block-length street one-
fifth of a mile south of . Hoyt
street, and on the east side of
12th street.
Certain roads or avenues run
ning east ana wesi ana . com
mencing on Cherry avenue ana
immediately north of the alumina
plant were named. The first road
north of the plant is named Can
dle lane, the second road is now
Shady lane, the third road Is
named Clearview avenue and the
fourth road is named Alder ave
nue. These four roads are parallel
to each other and at right angles
to Cherry avenue.
Filbert avenue is the name
given the road commencing at
Alder avenue running northerly
and being parallel to Cherry ave
nue.
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The people of the United States
as a whole, he maintained, should
lead the world in perfecting an
international; organization with au
thority and jpower to stamp out
wars in their! very beginnings, keep
the nation's defenses high and
should maintain a research pro
gram adequate to cover the farth
est frontiers! of Scientific investi
gation in all fields, using for this
purpose government and private
financing. ' ' j ,
Forest Crop Taps
Oregon has the greatest unhar
vested forest crop in the United
States, agricultural fertility sur
passed by no other state, water
power, resources per capita great
er than those of. any other area
of America of similar extent and
population, one of the finest cli
mates in the world (here his audi
ence laughed, for Hunter traveled
through one of the worst storms
in recent years to address the Sa
lem chamber), a great tourist won
derland and the beginnings of a
manufacturing industry of great
promise, he declared.
Intelligence High!
The state's levid of intelligence
rates high and so does her living
standard, the speaker said. By
raising levels of j intelligence and
with them living standards of
peoples on the Cither side of the
Pacific basin, Oregon may not only
help to keep the peace but build
for herself a still more prosperous
future, Hunter predicted.
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What the compromise will be has
not been announced, but within
a few months the states will take
over the service. Such being the
case the states should plan now
to pick up the pieces and put
them together again.
Here are the (difficulties: The
state wage; scale Is lower than
the federal. Employes .will na
rurally "look S around" before
taking a wage cut
Second, few lof the employes
have any civil service rating
with the staie because there
have been! so jnany changes in
personnel, j I
In Oregon the employment
service will go back under the
unemployment compeni ation
commission. Just as soon as the
return is definitely decided the
commission should designate the
director of the; service and in
form all employes they will be
blanketed in as far as may be
done consistent with the merit
rating plan of employment.
The commission should not
stop there, however. It should
sees: 10 ouuq. s up tne service
where it wiu tnake a real at
tack th the employment prob
lem, seeking aggressively to firid
jobs for workers. During the war
its task became one of finding
workers for jobs. Right now, it
is sort of between hay -and
grass" and devoting most of its
time to registering applicants for
unemployment compensation. It
should not lapse into just a regis
tration onice for the unem
ployed. : 1 - I -
The CED report referred to
makes definite suggestions for
Improvement of the unemploy
ment service, such as:
Improvement: of employment
contacts with local employers
and local labor groups.
A greatly strengthened system
of state and local advisory com
mittees. . . . :f- - "..
Comprehensive . Job informs
Hon and occupational counsel
ling service. '' ,
Unity of action and adapta
bihty to the rapidly changing
conditions of tHis period, effect
ive guidance of i interstate migra
tion; a properly supervised pro
gram of transportation grants to
move workers from surplus to
deficiency labor areas.
Oregon had an excellent em
ployment service before the war,
It should hot .fail in the postwar
period. But thorough planning
and prompt action are needed if
the service is to meet the burdens
that may be seen just ahead.
The army has developed a new
shirt cloth utilizing a finer yarn,
permitting Its manufacture by a
larger number of mills.
The first Greek letter sorority.
Kappa Alpha Theta was founded
at De Pauw. university in - Janu
ary 1870,--" j: - '
Snyder Speaks
On Elenientarv
School System
Salem persons, j including a
number of teachers, who attend
ed the fourth in a weekly series
M , . ,
oi j.? icciures on community re
sources for youth education-held
in Collins hall Monday nigit
heard Walter Snyder, curriculum
director for Salem public schools,
speak on elementary education
systems. , -
The lecture series which is fea
turing outstanding, speakers from
specific fields of youth education
is being sponsored by the Wil
lamette university department of
education under the guidance of
Dr. Lawrence Riggs. Marlon
county teachers who are attend
ing each meeting of the series
will receive in training credit, for
their attendance; ,
The December 3 meeting will
feature a panel discussion group
including C. A. Kells, general sec
retary of the YMCA: Lvle Lei eh -
ton, executive. Cascade area coun
cil Boy Scouts; Mrs. Esther Little,
general secretary Salem YWCA.
and Mrs. Emma! MaxwelL execu
tive aaiem, camp Fire girls.
Catholic Group
Electyifficers
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Edward Hammer, Mt f Angei,
was elected president for 1946 of
the Willamette valley league of
the Holy Name; society at. the
league's regular bi-monthly meet-
inff mt KiiHlim; o . . .
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November 25. '
The vice president post went
to Anton Traeger, Mt Angel, and
Joseph L. Prange was named
secretary-treasurer. Patrick Gor
man, Stayton, was re-elected
marshal. -
Presided over by Retiring Pres
ident Ross Coleman, St Paul,
more than o i delegates from
many parishes in the Willamette
valley, heard an; address by Rev
Damian Jentges,! OSB, Mt Angel
; A.K v-auiouc Mental
ity." Other members of the clereV
present were j the Rev. Frs. Jos
eph Scherbring, Sublimity, and
M. Jonas, Stayton. ' -
An invitation from Father Jonas
to the league to hold its next
meeting in January -at Stayton
was accepted. '
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