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The OnrGOri STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. ToMdor Mondag. ptcembw It 1943
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Elects
Board
"No Faror Sways Us; No Fear Shalt AvhP
i rrora First Statesman, March 28, 1891
TIIE STATESXIAN PUBUSHING COMPANY I
Of Directors
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CUAAIJCS A. SPRAGUZ. Editor and Publisher I 1
Uembtr of the Associated Press j
The Associated Press U exclusively entitled to tha use for publication of ail f
Dews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. I
Professional Delinquency
In its comments on the mysterious deaths of
women during their association with A. L.
Cline, now charged with murder, the Oregon
Ian notes the seeming laxity of our laws cov
ering the disposition of bodies. Cline apparently
complied with our Oregon law to obtain a jper
mit for cremation, and the mortician complied
with his request for no publicity. The law does
not require any publication of a death notice.
The chief deficiency, howeverlies not in the
laws dealing with disposal of bodies but with
the medical profession for its demonstrated
( laxity in signing death certificates. In the long
fU of Cline's presumed victims 'there, was only
one case where an autopsy was ordered, and
there it was on order of the police. That time,
at Reno, Cline purportedly removed the body
to California and escaped the Reno police. Ap
parently in all other cases physicians obligingly
signed the death certificates without requiring
an autopsy to determine cause of death.
These disclosures put the medical prbfession
under a cloud. It is not presumed that the
attending physicians were conspiring in any
way with Cline; but their own laxity enabled
him to carry out his reportedly evil purpose.
The superficial knowledge the doctor gained
during his call on the patient while ill was
not enough for him to certify the cause of
death, yet all the doctors seem to have filled
out the necessary certificates and let it go
at that. One would suppose that the physician
would make a more thorough study of the body
before setting down a definite cause of death.
The profession ought to take notice of these
numerous cases of professional failure and in
sist on higher standards of performance on the
tracking the Code j
The army and navy were very apprehensive
lest the Japanese learn that our Intelligence,
had cracked their code. The emphasis on sec
recy was so marked that General Marshall
made a personal appeal to Governor Dewey
as late as the 1944 campaign to hive him re
frain from delving deeply J into the Pearl Har
bor business lest the Japs realize that our ex
perts were reading their most secret messages.
If the Japs did not know longf: before the.
1944 campaign that we had cracked their codes
they are even dumber than we had thought.
For the battle of Midway in particular was
one that would exTite any alert intelligence,
division, as to how our big flattopi the York
town and Enterprise, came thundering up from
deep down in the Pacific. If they hadn't become
suspicious themselves the story was pretty well
spilled by Stanley Johnson! in the Chicago Trib
une the one that provoked Roosevelt into or
dering sin investigation by the department of
justice. I . !
Later on came the split-second timing! by
which Admiral Yamamotol was killed when his
plane was intercepted and shot down over
Bougainville. Even Jap intelligence should have
figured that the presence; of American planes
there was not just an acbident.
The PH investigation has of course adver
tised to the world what; the secret, "magic"
was, and probably has set code experts at
work rigging up new codes. The publicity also
serves to inform the American public of the
work done by our own "silent service" the
intelligence section, which; fought a war within
a war, the battle of espionage and counter-es
pionage. For the few exploits that have been
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(Continued from page-1) ' Salem Chamber f
I mmhon named to their ' diree-
nominatibo as illegal and a re- torate Monday in-the annual or
version to boss control, even go- ganization election:
Ing so far as to name the boss-' r. s. (Spec) -Keene, Hapless
es. But I when the assembly Sporting Goods, recently resigned
which was expected to nonrin- Willamette university head coach;
ate him failed to materialise his Ed Majek. representative of the
criticisms backfired, for he was Equitable life Insurance corn
left, at least temporarily, with- pany; . Lester Barr, accountant;
out status either as democrat or jjnn c. Smith, assistant vice
independent nominee. I V"; president of the U. S. National
As far as the legality I of a bank; Grover Hillman, manager
committee nomination is I eon- ef the Cherry City Baking corn
cerned, the republicans are not pany; Guy Hickok, manager of
relying solely on the ruling of First National bank; Reynolds
the secretary of state. They plan Allen, Allen Hardware company;
to hold a nominating assembly Dorathea Steusloff, Valley! Pack
in storia on December 28 when mg company director; . EL Burr
the committee nominauon wiu Miller, Valley Motor company
be reaffirmed. ! saies manager; Frank Doerfler,
As far as the bossism charge nurseryman; Floyd Shepard, vice
Is concerned, that is quite a joke, president - and manager of Sicks
There was no "secret caucus" of Qrewing company; Ralph Camp
the persons Spaulding mentions: attorney; W. L. Phillips,
Niel Allen, Farrell, Hoy t, v,ney Motor company, and
Schenk. Farrell, as secretary of Douglas McKay of the McKay
state, communicated with Niel Chevrolet company.
Allen, republican- state chair-1 ru-tin, ef ballot occupied all
man, and with Lew Wallace, - MondaT afternoon for the elec
tion i commUtee. Newv directors
democratic national committee
man, on the same d, advising meet next 10 days
Tho Literary
Guidepost
By W. G.1 Rogers
part of its members. In the reported cases they publicised there were hundreds of others which
probably will remain forever secret; and or
course some failures the story off which like
wise will remain in the secret filef of the gov
ernment. . ' : )
alone stood between the criminal and the law.
Their failure shielded the suspected criminal,
even when thev were innocent of evil intent.
Vocational Education
During the war approximately. 300,000 men
and women were trained under the auspices of
the state division of vocational education for
work in war industries and to increase food
production. It was by virtue of this instruction
that green workers were taken and made ready
for jobs in aircraft factories,, shipyards and -thert
plants. The program began long before
Peart Harbor, and continued until May 31, 1945
when the training task was completed. . '
While the federal government furnished the
money and a great deal of the equipment re
quired, the organization which directed the
work In this state was the . vocational division
of the state department of education, O. I. Paul
son, director, and local school districts over
the state handled the local arrangements.
This training was necessarily hurry-up in
struction, very limited in scope, teaching single
skills as a rule and giving no general training
In trades or . crafts. Peacetime vocational in
struction has to be much broader to be of real
value. Such instruction is being provided
through the continuing program of the schools.'.
Again reliance is had on the federal government
. for the money.
Oregon ought to ' do muph more for the
financing of vocational education, and not be
dependent on the generosity Of the federal gov
ernment. Strangely in all the talk about in
creased money for schools 'little consideration
seems to be given to the special needs of vocai
tional education. In any comprehensive plan for
financing of education in the state the claims
of vocational education merit early attention.
More Train Wrecks
Over the weekend occurred a bad wreck on
the Seaboard Airline and another train smash
on the Northwestern in the environs of Chi
cago. The Seaboard just a few years ago had
another and worse wreck on its line, which
Is a favorite for the winter travel to and from
t the south. This last accident when a flyer
southbound crashed into the rear cars of the
northbound train before it had cleared the
main line onto a siding could not have occurred
if the proper signal system was in place and
working. An automatic train stop would have
brought the southbound train to a halt: and
surely on routes as important as the Seaboard
such a signal system should be required.
The war is over now, and excuses for de
ferring safety installations are no longer valid.
What is the interstate comsnerce commission
doing to enforce signal systems which the mod
ern science of electronics makes practical and
the long history of train wrecks makes neces
sary? -
Interpreting f
The Day's News
! By Kay Cronin
Former Associated Press Bureau Chief in the Philippine
(Substituting for James D. White)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ,17. --Strutting, arro
gant Japanese general Masaharu Homma has fin
ally, landed irf a Manila jail, headed for military
trial on wir crimes charges.
t One of the things he must answef for was the
brutal, horrifying Bataan I death march during
which hundreds of helpless! American" soldiers died
under circumstances that were in-,
humane to the Nth degree.'
That major black mart of atroc
ity is the main link in a chain
of inhumanities for which Homma
can be held responsible. He al
ready, has 'acknowledged, ij"I am
-v.--
J. D. Whit
ready to take responsibility for
any act of my subordinates.
Homma led his invasion forces
into the Philippines soon after
Pearl Harbor. He was in com
mand when Bataan fell. At that
time I was held prisoner by the
Japanese in Santo Tomai camp
at Manila. . . -.-...
J Two Filipino boys who worked fo the Associat
ed Press braved the Japanese guards at Santo
Tomas to bring me eye witness accounts of the
! infamous death march. They told of wounded and
sick Americans pinned to the ground with Japa
nese bayonets because they couldn't walk of oth
ers left to die of thirst in the burning tropical
heat of promiscuous killings of helpless men who
had surrendered in honor, j
FOW Aid Brings Death j i
At first the civilians of Santo Tomas . appealed
to the Japanese general staff headed by Homnn
to allow us to send medicine and food to the'
military prisoners. The reply to this 'was an order
decreeing death to any person aiding a military
prisoner in any way. i - I
It was then that I appealed to Homma and his
staff, through the American chairman- of our
camp, to permit me to raise a volunteer corps
of able-bodied American civilians from the Santo
Tomas population a corps that would, surrender
IHI tOIXOPES THE CHBON-
ICLE or WRITING FAMILY, ky
Luty Poata Stebbint and Rlehar4
Poatt Stebblns (Columbia! S4).
It was 100 years ago, in 1845,
that) Anthony Trollope, most
distinguished member of this
family, turned his first novel,
"The Macdermots of Ballyclor
an,' over to a publisher. He was
living in Ireland), and 30; he
would be 41 before "Barchester
Towers" won him the "reputa
tion and following that will
survive him for a long time.
His! mother, Frances, had set
the pace. The Domestic Man
ners of the Americans," lauded
by Tories but condemned by
Americans and Whigs, was one
of her three dozen published
books: I
Viewed abstractly, she failed
as wife and mother, for she was
a spendthrift, and she over-indulged
some of I her children
while neglecting others. She
wrote to make money. .Her ex
travagances ate Up the family
fortunes, and then . madly, like
a gambler, she threw good mon
ey after bad in! the effort to
recoup her losses. She tried to
spend her way to prosperity, as
otherl authors haye tried to do,
and took the family on jaunts
through England and to Amer
ica, Australia and, repeatedly, to
the continent She lived in the
style, to which book sales would
have ' entitled her if they had
been . somewhere f near as large
as she thought they ought to be.
The oldest son, Tom, her
mainstay as she was his, took
her as model Jand combined
globe trotting and writing. An
thony, so often left behind, was
the ugly duckling. He worked
for years in the- postal service,
which benefitted by his abili
ties though he was hard to get
along with.
Book -after book came from
his pen,, though he was prouder
of quantity than quality, the
quality was there. He knew
Dickens, MiUaisj! the Thacker
ays, Wilkie Collins; he helped
found Fortnightly Review and
Pall Mall Gazette.
Mrs. Stebbins and her son de
serve thanks for treating this
subject, and treating It so well.
Their book should have a wide
reading, though it does not cater
to the man in the street, who,
News Behind the News
1 V I By PAUL MALLON i
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction Is whole
or in part strictly prohibited.) M :
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 The
written promises of f the peace
are unfulfilled. :
The yearnings of the : people
for a world unified in a demo
cratic, freedom-loving organiza
tion toj keep the peace in our
time, have been put into treaties,
-
ed with mach- t
inery. We have
the Atlantic
charter Casa
blanca, I Que
bec, Yalta,
Potsdam agree
ments j and a
United ( Nations
organization.
But I we do
not have peace.
The words are not -being, acti
vated. , The machinery is not
working. Revolutions arc con
tinuing; the killing around the
world. jThere la free talk of . a -third
world war for: the future.
It takes two to make peace;
only one to make war. The pri
vate Word of friends of State
Secretary Byrnes is that he went
to Moscow, for a final effort to
get Russia to cooperate with the -United
-Nations ideal. :
Crisis Seen As Near '
Unless -Molotov appears at the
first UNOi assembly meeting in
London; January j7 and works
cooperatively there the world
will 'krbw;;. Moscow has rejected
our way for the post-war world.
A crisis which will bring in
evitable future events of grave
world; consequence has reached
its underlying apex behind this
trip. (A gossip-rumor among the
congressmen is that Mr. Byrnes
will be replaced if his mission
proves j - .unsatisfactory, " which
may oi may not be true.)
Now! nw we 8
way: if we are w caixicaie our- mained out of m war, person.
selves ana tne woria irom s ; alI T hlipv thi Rwvrit to
dUlnn we must clear our eyes p tic5 have! delayed our en
OM1U VLJCV w CAJ au imua- try
of the matter
tically at the facts, not as we
would like to have them, but
as they are. ? )
Mismanagement Claimed
You can start With the pas
sionate desire of this nation for
an end of the killings. Mothers
are outraged that their sons are'
not home from the foreign war
for this Christmai.
Sons abroad are inclined to
think army mismanagement la
somehow to blame for tlieir pre
dicament. They f Uvought all we
had to do was to! win this war,
stamp out fascist aggression and
there would be peace. Our 'war
propaganda was exclusively
framed that way; It was good
war propaganda, but it was not
realistic. L
We really knew what these
other nations represented, their
ideals and ambitions; but we
pretended we did! not; we pre
tended victory in the field would
bring victory for our earnest
hopes for the peace.
Our people ! have not yet
reached the realization of -this
condition among our allies; they
want to blame someone because
their hopes have j not been ful
filled. Popular public pressure
is thus working against the te
dious task of harmonizing what
we all recognized jbef ore the war
as hopeless conflicts, but we still
yearn to achieve.
Basis Unrealistic
. We got this way, furthermore.
because of the manner in which
we came into the war. It was a
rather unrealistic basis. Mr.
Roosevelt's working theory quite
plainly clung to the belief that
the 'people had jto be led up,
drawn reluctantly to what was
their war duty; i
them of the substance of bis rul
ing respecting nominations. The
republican committee when it
met proceeded to make its own
nomination; and In its decision
It! certainly was not influenced
by any of the "bosses.' j
The i general assumption was
that because of personal friend
ship Farrell and Hoyt and
Schenk were interested in the
candidacy of Eugene Marsh; but
he was defeated.
Spaulding may be correct ifl
his interpretation of the ; law
to select
chamber:
new officers
for
r
the
Council Grants
Fraternities
Added Quota
The Interfraternity council of
Willamette university at its re
Mnt vnMitin ripriritd that the
only the court can give the final I fhne frmities on the campus
answer on this. The fact that
there Is confusion shows the ne-
wiH be allowed to pledge five
more men in addition to the quo-
5 At
cessny oi amending; me taw w . - 15 t -t th. inning nfih.
i n s u r e some satisfactory ma- sernester Open rushing is ached
chinery f or making nominations uled to contmue all .ennster, with
by political parties In the case
of congressional vacancies. It is I
i i a . i . . i i i I services.
aosurq to uiuix inai unaer our
party system of government
candidates for congress should
not be designated by a political
party and wear the party labeL
no definite plans set for pledging
Student members of the coun
cil are ' Jack Hedgecock, Kappa
Gamma Rho; Bill Stortz and Vail
Sloper, Sigma Tau; Gib J Kister
and Marv Humphreys, Alpha PsI
Delta: with Dr. Robert Mi Gatke
men ted by him at home (India, I as faculty member. ! .
Burma, Egypt, etc.) Fraternity officers are (Kappa
Tor her part, Russia . clearly Gamma Rho, president, Jack
never i thought of Finland, the Hedgecock, pledge captain, Clar
Baltic nations, Poland, the Bal- enc Edwards; Sigro Tau, presl
kans in the light of the Atlantic dent. Bill Stortz, vice president,
charter. Val Sloper, secretary,. Bud Fair
Britain Imperialistic ham, manager, Wes McWain; Al
, Britain . was imperialistic in pha Psi Delta, president, Gib Kis
her way; Russia even more im- ter, secretary; Paul Ben age, man
perialistic in hers. The conquest ager, Marv Humphreys, social
of Berlin was delayed from the chairman, Irving Miller, rush
East until the Balkans were oc- chairman, Bob Marr. '
cupied, by Russia, and since Each of the three fraternities
then, our people can hardly get has ; planned a pledge party for
into those countries and cannot Friday, December 14. An inter
get a word out when they do. fraternity formal dance Is sched
Now as to Russia's part in the uld for February 2.
war. Our people are still under 1
the spell of our propaganda on I
this also. Russia never excused Canadian Pacific Rail
the war to her own people on IT,i tvsii O 1
any other ground than that she nole, V lll-Ke-opeil
invaded by the fascist
was
SEATTLE
however, as Anthony Trollope's ;
subject, - should become his
readerJ The , Trollopes supply as
much rich material as the Pre
Raphaelites;. and personally ;' I
would gladly swap some of the
recent jHenry James: reprints for
a few of Anthony's novels.
fC f f X I .
horde, ud thh was the time to aZTUiT " 'V
kit. tadjjj Tej won. b. ' 'J ST.
of no superior military arrange- -, t n Y '
ment, but for two reasons only: tt 1
(A); Hitlef, colossal blunder JSoSLti
of casting his limited manpower SS? ' "f fUne;,5f?a?d
into a vast area, the space of -tim high In twrlat
which had. riwayi been it. safe- ' 1 hwe by
guard from conquest through- t'd'
ot hitr h rni ..,... ..J gent for the Pacific northwest
TK fmfn uoai fkara woe ' ma limi fjH VnsatirwtVse- BrttAn
way we could possibly have re- were j killed, ten took their iuany fupils Absent
Wl Ht w ai SWEGLE Pupil, absent from
Would Have We. Ale school this past week because of
.Russian planes, weapon, or illness with flu were SammyDib-
pobtics were mm, way superior, bon, Nola Jean Zobunett
or even equal. They, cared noth- RoKir,
and Japan in- ing for us, or our charters; they Smyers. Chris Van IanW rl
Robins and
arises in this
!!.!lto.?'"n..fi,cb,"M' GRIN AND BEAR IT
Irw nut Ma nvuiiuu ai iva osvaa
Frank Lonergan, appointed circuit judge 'for
Multnomah county, has two of the qualifica
tion! for judge: a fine mind well stored with
knowledge of the law. and high integrity. He
is well known in Oregon for his long record
of service in the legislature and in the organi
sations m which he has been active: and has
a host of friends who wish for him the success
which he i capable of achieving.
Bend, which derives much of its sustenance
from the lumber industry, joins its neighbor
Klamath Falls In the list of those with skimpy
fuel rations. Relying largely on wood for fuel
the supplies are InadequateJ There's plenty of
wood back in the hills but! not enough hands
to cut and haul It to town. The weather is too
cold to cut wood In, so long; as there are some
war bonds that may be cashed.
Several hnudred volunteered inf no time. The
U. S. navy nurses, captured at Cavite, wanted to
go along. : - I I :
The Japanese command kicked the idea around
for six weeks. First they sent me wprd the volun
teers were crazy to-want to leave I a civilian in
ternment camp for life in a military prison camp
an admission that Cabanatuan was hell hole, as
its skeleton-like inmates later conhnned.
The Japanese quickly rejected the suggestion that
female nurses might be allowed to go. Japanese
insistence that the volunteers were out of their
minds in wanting to undertake such a mission
caused me to send the high command word that .
we were ready to sign papers relieving the Nip
ponese of any responsibility for our well-being as
civilians. . !; -
Propoul Rejected .
After a month and a half came! the final de
cision the volunteers would not be permitted to
go on an errand of mercy to Cabanatuan where,
because of lack of attention, scores of American
soldiers were dropping off daily.
Our answer to this refusal was; the- setting up
of a ring through which we smuggled medicines
and other necessities from Santo Tomas to Caba
natuan. At the head of this ring was Tony Escoda,
Filipino newspaper man; graduate -of Columbia,
prewar city editor- of the Manila - Dairy Bulletin.
He was the outside man who smuggled directly
Into' Cabanatuan camp the contraband we were
able to move out of Santo Tomas
This work cost Tony his life." as well as that
of his wife, Jose fa," also -a graduate of Columbia.
They wersi executed by the Japanese. !
Of the eleven original i smugglers in our setup,
. six are dead. Four died i under Japanese swords.
One was a victim of . starvation. The other, suffer-
By) Lichty
i . -
,2;,t dw.oorT-1
h Clothiers report that men will be about three Ing from malnutrition, failed to survive a surgical
w f osm aU ArukratiAM -i .. -1 !,----
thirts behind lor anotner u monuu.
operation.
WV niMi Innir a standard af llvtasf that will Bravldc a, ear foe
every na Hits ri'-n cannot endare-half driver hall dodgerr thartei1" was noT greatly Imple-'bers, 25
The basic fact
was that Hitler
tended to conquer the world. We
were in the world. We could not
..'escape war. J
When I a force
world -with- the announced and
apparent purpose! of conquering
it, the only alternatives for the
others is to fight or surrender.
Propaganda Utilised
Instead of teaching our people
these basic " fundamentals, we
went into a propaganda about
world freedoms, (individual lib
erty for all people, fair trade,
free skies things which N never
existed before,! and about which
our allies had their own ideas.
' It was Mr. Churchill who first
stopped this freelrunning line of
.war propaganda j by announcing
he had not become prime minis
ter to preside over dismember
ment of the British Empire.
The 'Russians! later resisted
our propaganda tendency in con
ferences (They walked out on
the Free Air . jeonference, ex
tracted unique concessions at
. Bretton Woods, j and contested
'. our basic propositions at San
'Francisco, as; regards freedom
for the smaller nations, etc, all
along the line; later at London,
they quit)
Now let us look at this thing
plainly and honestly. There has
been no evidence in events . that
Britain and Russia truly -wanted
the same thing out of this war
that we did. 4 i
. CencessJoBS Made
Always Mr.? Roosevelt had to
go to them, make .concessions.
. then come out with agreed
words which bore the nature of
something not j entirely whole
hearted, if voluntary. .
Churchill wished to get us in
to the war. but the Atlantic
: a a
Z - wo on Marilyn Kefner,
tucir own, wiwoui our assist
ance, : although at the cost of
; more millions of meni
; This Is how we got this way.
Stripped of , pretense, these are
the elements of our predicament,
and the world's. From these con-
siderations must future events
spring.
25 Years in
Meat Industry
ed
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Silver buttons , representing 25
years In the meat packing indus
try were presented last week to
11 employes of the Valley Packing J
Co. Three of the men receiving
the awards- from the national
Meat Institute have been with the
Valley; Packing company 25 years
or more. Meat packing employ
ment years of the others run from
25 to 42 "years. :
The 11 silver buttons are part
of the 1900 given over the nation
by the Meat Institute. Forty-two
gold buttons, representing SO
years in the industry were award
ed this year by the institute.
' Recipients, of the recognition at
Valley Packing Co. and their
years in the Industry are: W. L.
Krejfc. 42; C L. Hampshire. 25
Robert L. Pede, 27; G. L. Erick
son, 16; C Van Williams. .27; Asa
Lee, 28; A. J. Mazae, 31; C. E.
neaoiey. m; K. M. McKee, 25
A. R. Tartar, 28, and G. F. Cham-
PUT THEIR NAMES
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