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- .it: V ' tup cniTPCii i m niTnt icmxTn rmmi w :' r" -i CHARLES nbuihed every buuu. Bwtnrti office. 315 S. CommereUl. Salem. Catered at the yestotaee at Salens, Oregea, aa eeeand claas matter under The Military Case As this page indicated earlier this week, the president's official repudiation of th preventive war policy urged by his own military leaders has not stopped the extensive agitation on be half such "aggression for peace." Popular radio commentators, among them Ga briel Heatter, night after night hammer on the theme that the United States ought to "choose k K9t1afaMsM inetoafl nt . rxlammf Healer choice with Russia the dealer. Again and again they hint that a few atom bombs dropped on Russia now would quickly end the misery in Korea.' ' : .With Infinite cleverness, these birds twang the heartstrings and stir up the emotions of their confused listeners. They base their appeal on the military expediency of an early war with the .USSR. i No less a military analyst than Hanson Bald win of the New York. Times puts them in their place with a coldly realistic , appraisal of the military case for a preventive war. It is based, he says, on the assumption that we, can deliver atomic bombs accurately by the hundreds upon targets thousands of miles deep in Russia. .The proponents of this idea tend to -disregard the fact that those targets (for which we do not even have accurate maps) would be defended by hundreds of Russian fighter planes and heavy anti-aircraft concentrations that would force U. S. bombers to very high altitudes from which precise bombing is difficult. . Baldwin also points out that the dispatching of strategic bombers to Russia would mean at once the loss of Western Europe and of other large areas of the world to Russia. The Red army,-with its satellite armies in Eastern Eu rope, would march forthwith, and we haven't anything there to stop them. Baldwin concludes: . . "The military case for preventive war is founded upon the hopes of a quick and easy victory, that glittering and unrealistic goal that would be impossible if the Soviet Union domi- preventive war would really mean a long, hard and vicious struggle, with no holds barred." A preventive war, started now when the VS. Ii cat even sufficiently strong to be sure of win ning in Korea, would be a war we could easily lose. Let Heatter, in his best sepulchral tones, tell that to his listeners. Oregon Going to the Beavers? t People ought not to treat wild animals the way they treat people. It's cruel. Take the case of that beaver up in Stayton. Our Statesman correspondent from the little country town reports that a large beaver walk ed ua Main street the other day and stooped in at the Mountain States power company office. Some guy named Norman Peck promptly kicked the beaver out into the street. Now maybe Mr. Beaver came on legitimate m. . TT 1 Ll 1 1 .r.!. ter about ML States operations interfering with Tired Colonel Watches Battalion Smashed f By All-Out Offensive of North Korean Reds By Joseph Afate WITH U. S. FORCES IN KO REA. Sept. 6 The tank stood on a high bluff, overlooking a C2t creen val-f lay with eroded, ' - scrub - covered hills beyond. !t Hear 'tha .tank J la a foxhole for i mere was tha usual inef- ' factual sniper fire' sat the lieutenant ; colonel. A spare man in hard J I a.2 m. drawn and weary, which was understandable, since he had just lost most of his battalion. -. The battalion bad been utter ly overrun In the assault on tha rnd division position which be gan the current crisis in the Ko rean fighting. By tha most lavish , use of man power to breach the tenuous American line, the ene my had torn a seven - mile hole In our front. But because of ex - treme shortages of transport, ar tillery and even ammunition, the North Koreans had been unable -to exploit this : great success, being halted where we. were by the regimental engineers, cooks: and bakers, with 200 divisional derks in reserve. .These ill - assorted infantry Bwh held our bluff and the neighboring high ground. Between bouts of serving as assistant target spotter for the tank, the weary lieutenant colo nel almost volubly tried to ex plain what had happened to his outfit, which had been so ter ribly chopped to pieces in its first experience of hard combat . Occasionally the deafening roar and flash of the tank's big gun laterupted him, but always he ' continued again, in the same Cat, ' unemotional voice. - - -. , . ... . ; What had happened was real ly very simple. Shortly after its arrival in Korea, the 2nd divi sion; had been hurried into the line-, bn the Naktong river; to ' peraut the exhausted, thrice -decimated 24th division to go at last , la to Reserve. The line to be held was appallingly long. "We had to space the foxholes every sixty yards along the riv er." the lieutenant colonel ex plained. "But even then we were all - separated on four little knolls, with no one holding the draws In between then; in a louder voice to the tank crew, "Why dont you try that clump f trees on the big hill?" ffhe tank gun roared three times. A smoke cloud covered yaejfewBr1- .-,t,-y.-.y(.- "No Favor Sway Us, Wo Fear Shall Aire First 8tatBU, Much t. 151 A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher his construction plans. Or poor service. Perhaps he just stopped in to pass the time of day. Is that the way Mt., States responds to its custom-' ers? No wonder there's agitation for PUDs! That isn't all that happened to the beaver. He took his wounded dignity off down the street, slapping his flat tail on the pavement, and then he paused at the office of the local Chewie dealer. Again he was rudely rebuffed. Do you suppose he Vanted to sign up for post war delivery, or ask for a free trial ride, like the ads suggest? The dealer probably didn't even bother to ascertain the purpose of the visit; he just turned the, beaver away as though Mr. B. was any old Tom, Dick or Harry. Well, we humans are used to that sort of treatment at times. But beavers are rugged in dividualists who don't take kindly to being kick ed around. Not by a damsite. 1 Can't blame them, either. Oregon, after all, is the Beaver State and sometimes when we re flect on how the people are running it we think it ought to be turned back to the beavers. Telling it to the Marines President Truman exhibited another of his 'occasion fits of petulance when he wrote that the marine corps has a propaganda machine "almost equal to Stalin's." That was "telling it to the marines," all right; but they didn't like it. Nor did the rest of the country. Considering the eagerness with which the defense depart ment reached out for the parcel of marines it had (by congressional reprieve) left off the liquidation list, it was hardly "cricket" for the president and commander-in-chief to take this crack at the corps. ! You do have to give it to the marines for having a lively sense, of public relations. It had the sweetest publicity outfit during World War II that you could imagine. Activities and per sonnel of the corps, story with pictures, were meat for the marine corps press section. In the late embroilment over unification the corps had many staunch advocates who doubtless irritated , Secretary Johnson in his program of unification via meat-axe. But that doesn't justify linking the marine corps promotion department with the vile pro paganda organization of hated Stalin. The coun try owes too much to the marines to ignore the slam, and the president acted properly in re tracting his words. The Billy Graham evangelistic campaign clos ed Monday in Portland at the Multnomah stadi um; and just preceding his meeting the state's Crusade for Freedom 'was launched.' Looks as though the latter wa! getting the. ride. ' The evangelist Roosevelt failed Eugene. the little tree clump, then fea- thered slowly away. A file of en gineers moved out, very visible against the green ridge, to try to attack tha hill. To cover the assault, shells sang overhead and thudded Into the enemy positions from artillery in the rear. Still scanning the hill through his field glasses, the lieutenant colo nel continued. At first it had been very quiet for his battalion in the line, for " the North Koreans, these days, need a good deal of time to build up even the man power for a serious attack. Two nights before there had been a curious sort of torchlight parade, with much singing and shouting on tha ene- . my bank of the river. ("I guess they were getting sakied up," re marked the lieutenant coloneL) Artillery immediately fired on the panders but this did not halt the fording of the shallow Nak tong, the enemy infantry half walking, half swimming, their " equipment in boats, with a screen of women and children refugees driven forward in the lead. At least 4,000 North Koreans were involved in the attack on the lieutenant colonel's single bat talion. ' "We killed an awful lot of them he said. "But they just flowed over and around our po sitions. We held the command post until 11 yesterday morning, when regiment ordered us to re tire. Able company was cut off,' but was still directing artillery fire at 3 yesterday afternoon, when , their radio transmission stopped. Almost all the men in the three rifle companies were cut off the same way." Down in the rice paddies, the I few score engineers had been ' halted by machine gun fire. As they turned back, a man in the rear of the file fell forward hea vily. A thin, boyish sergeant, his face caked with dust, ran up to. report that 17 men of Able company had Just filtered back through the enemy lines. "That's good, that's fine, Da- vis," the lieutenant colonel said, ' showing emotion at last. This is Sgt. Wilbur Davis of Baker company. He ought to tell you his story." The tank firing re sumed as Davis began, speak ing very simply. Before they really knew what was happen ing, the platoon was surrounded by shouting enemy troops. They formed on the crest of the rise with two 40 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns and a half track mounting four 50 calibers protecting the flanks with graz : ing fire. - , , The North Koreans shortly Oregon. TekpMM B-344L act at cengTeas March X. 1X7 "Graham Packs Court," runs our headline. succeeded where Franklin D. only it was McArthur .court, k9 made first one, then another yelling charge up the rise in heavy force. Both charges were turned back only two or three yards from the foxholes. At the end of the second charge, the ma chine gun ammunition was gone. In the lull Sgt William H. Van Over volunteered to drive the halftrack to the rear, and return ed with two new halftracks with loaded guns. Two further charg es followed before dawn, to re veal the sloped ground about hideously littered with North Korean dead, and the little group on the rise cut off from all con tact with the rest of the bat talion. They decided to retreat. As they made their way through the unfriendly hills, Davis and a companion became separated from the others, and they alone got back. "It's been like that with most of them," the lieutenant colonel said, explaining that he hoped at least half his battalion would eventually reach our lines. One gathered, however, from what was spoken, that it had not been "like that" with all of them. Our great superiority In fire power might have overcome vthe Im mense Korean advantage in numbers, if a small percentage of the green, softly trained troops had not been paralyzed by the confusion of the fighting and the multitude of the ene my, and thus prevented the bat talion from acting as a thorough ly well-knit team --' The lieutenant told how an other little party led by Medical Sgt. William Crawford had de stroyed a machine gun nest with grenades and killed an enemy tank with their three - point -five ' bazooka on their trek to freedom. The tank nearby sud denly began to back off down our "bluff, rumbling angrily. There was a lull in the fighting. The lieutenant colonel took one last look through his glasses at the enemy shells across the way. "I don't see anything over there," he said. "You just never see them until they're on you. I . guess IH go back." Under trees, in the command post at the rear, Sgt. Crawford's little band were sleeping on the ' ground. Pfc William Durand and Pfc Jack Click, 19 and 18 re-,, spectively, roused themselves al most enthusiastically to tell how they had stalked the North Ko rean tank. "We crept way up," Durand said. "But the best thing was, we got her with the first round. We only had two. You should have seen those gooks run. It was grand." Copyright. 1950, Ktw York Hearld Tribune In 'r iT ' ;-?rv!VJriji n.Vw inters w enry jumdwiv w w wkjvvj Best portion of state fair water follies comes in act of waex clown Eddie R6se. Hose is demonstrating various type of swim ming techniques like, for instance, the "Egyptian crawl." Then u I i : if y - . , ed up a lot of signs, big and small, informing the public of the need for a fighting liberal democrat. Well, other exhi bitors in the same barns objected to political decorations and complained to the fair office. Others tore down FlegeVs signs. Now Austin doesn't know who objected to his cam paign literature the republicans or the hogs. Rube Curtis, state fair clown who works downtown streets and midway, says the art of clowning is going, more or less, to pot. Rube waddles around on a huge pair of oversized shoes which weigh five pounds each and cost $35 a pair. He had clowned for 45 years and lives in Salem. He's a house painter when not in costume. "The clotons best field is the circuses," says Rube. "And even they are going downhill. Clowns used to make pretty good money. But not anymore, unless they go Hollywood." Rube says he first hit Salem with the Sells-Floto circus in 1907. And while he makes the fair crowds laugh Rube can't help but think of his young son who just this week landed in Korea u?tth the air force. Wayne (Junior Senator) Morse told a Silverton audience Wed nesday that the senate "watchdog" committee, which has been investigating frauds in government contracts, inadequate de fense preparations, etc will bring out a report next week about war surplus property disposal. The senator hinted that this re port would probably bring on checks and controls of surplus sales. Morse said , that congress postponed the issues of an ex cess profit tax act and a universal military training program until after the November elections for political reasons only. Got a big hand from his listeners when he said that "not from my lips" would ever, come a word of discredit to the heroic and glorious marine corps. . GRIN AND BEAR IT "As usual, war strikes hardest at has Joined the t . . . 1 it: JIM - - AJi he comes to the "Willamette river breast stroke." This original stroke is performed by slapping the water ahead of the swimmer with one hand (in the manner of a man sweeping debris out of the way) while holding the nose with the other hand. Austin Fleoel, democratic for governor, ran into no end of trouble at the stater fair when he attempted to further his cam paign. Flegel is exhibiting hogs at the fair. Around his pens in the lair barns he tack- by Lichty us mothers ... Junior's sitter WACs asfev Your Health e a By Dr. Herman N. Bundensen ONE CAUSE OF BACK PAIN IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS When a. child complains of .pain in the back, the possibility of what is known as a protruded intervertebral disk should al ways be considered. These disks are the cartilage cushions be tween the bones of the spine. Protrusion of one of these disks is a common and well-recognized cause of backache in adults. -The same sort of condition may also develop in children or young people in their teens, though it is not so often recognized be cause the symptoms seem to be less noticeable in children than , In adults. The chief complaint Is pain, limping, tiredness, sleeplessness, or trouble In bending over. The pain may be on one side and ex tend into the buttock, thigh, or leg in severe cases. The pain is not made worse by coughing or sneezing. It Is usually worse in the evenings and is also aggra vated by activity, such as stoop ing, lifting, or standing. On the othey hand, It is relieved by rest in bed. . This condition occurs more Often in boys than in girls, and often develops following some injury. i As a rule. It Is not difficult to make a diagnosis of the disorder. There is pain on pressure over the lower part of the spine. The J'oungster is unable to raise his egs straight upward while lying on his back. There is also pain or some limiting of the movement of the lower part of the back. It is fortunate that in this con , dition surgery is not often neces sary. Treatment consists of rest and the avoidance of competitive games or any other activities which cause back strain. A belt Is worn which extends from the lower three ribs down over the hips. The patient Is instructed to sleep on a firm mattress which. In turn, may be supported by a board. As he improves, he Is given exercises to strengthen the muscles of the abdomen and the back. Medicines are not employed, except perhaps aspirin, to relieve the pain.? In about one out of ten cases the symptoms may be so severe and so disabling that removal of the disk is necessary. Pain in the back of a youngster should be Investigated by an or thopedic specialist. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MAit: What causes lumps to appear on the back of the neck and on the scalp. I am seventy years of age. Answer: It Is Impossible to tell the cause of such swellings with out an examination. It might be due to enlarged lymph glands; to cysts or, possibly, to some type of tumor. . Immediate examination by your doctor Is advisable. (Copyright 1950, King Features) Better English 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "What business have they to Interfere with our plans?" 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of "studious"? . 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? CoUosal, colonize, col lusion, collaborate. 4. What does the word "Omi nous? mean? r 5. What is a word begining with pa that means "to appease"? ; ANSWERS 1. Say, rwhat right have they to interfere?" 2. Pronounce the first u as in use, not atoe. 3. Colossal 4. Foreboding evil. fThe dark clouds on the horizon look omi nous.1' 9. Pacify. - , By Henry ICcLemore PARIS, Sept. 6 1 was a bit leery about paying a' visit to cafe Les Deux Magots, having heard that it had become the Intellectual heart of . Paris' Left Bank, and that to get ver mouth one must all but ait in the lap of Jean Paul -' Satre, ' the high priest Nothing makes " me more uncom ..... x fortable than . an intellectual center. To sit among or even be near those thinking profound thoughts causes me to break out in spots, much like those which appear on people who are aller gic to tomatoes or bran muffins but who keep on eating toma toes and bran muffins, never' the less. But. under the prodding of my wife, who considers me the very smartest man she is mar ried to, I made my way across the Seine and along the Boule vard St. Germain until the let tering of the canopy of a side walk cafe Informed me that I was at Les Deux Magots. - If it hadnt been for the let tering on the canopy I would have sworn that I was at the entrance to a freak show, where the admission was half a buck at least.. Now, I am hot one to criticize the appearance of my fellow creatures, having had mirrors around my house ever since I can remember. I know I look odd but I try not to look any odder than I can help. Cafe Les Deux Magots habitues, however, give the ap pearance of making a career of ' looking crazy. There must have been a hundred or more men and women ' seated inside and outside the cafe, and a good 99 per cent of them could - have taken right off for a masquer ade party without even parting their, hair. The two men at the table which crowded our own little knock-kneed table may have been two of the world's most original thinkers, whose opin Ions on art. the theatre, litera ture, sculpture and politics cause repercussions all the way to the Himalayas and back, but surely they didn't look the part One of them had on an out fit that required imagination of the very highest order. His trousers were rolled up above his knees, exposing sockless legs and a pair of cowboy boots. To complete this harmonious en semble he wore a voluminous, t plaid lumberjacket, fastened across his chest with an enor mous safety pin. This outfit didn't stand " out particularly. The sockless Tex an's companion wore an aloha shirt, skin-tight blue jeans, white buckskin thong slippers, all topped off by a -red beret, on which was pinned all the medals and buttons he could lay his hands on. A bit more con servative than his friend, he . had only one trouser leg rolled above his knee. These are only two examples of many. And dont get the idea that the patrons of Les Deux Magots are poor, hungry souls. Because they : aren't Most of them were having wine,; beer, or coffee, and doing all right f by themselves. They all have one economy, however. That Is saving by not visiting barber shops. ' Nine tenths of these young intellect-' uals were Americans and nine tenths of them hadn't shaved since they waved farewell to American shores days, months, or years before. It was easy to spot the new arrivals. Their beards were only an inch or so ' long, and a few of them asham edly wore shoes with a bit of shine still on the tips. . As most of the patrons were speaking English I was fortu nate In being able to do a little eavesdropping and thus learn what the young American in tellectual in Paris talks about Quite a few of them talked about a fellow named Ralph Kiner who, I guess. Is a new and sensational young poet And they all seemed interested In when they'd be able to get the latest edition of those two smart Parisian magazines, Time and Newsweek. And not a few of them spoke with nostalgia of a cold bottle of those world fam ous French vintages, Schlitz and Budweiser. After Les . Deux Magots we visited other -intellectual cen ters, including Rotonde and the Dome, and, found that they all are very much alike, meaning that one must keep a tight hold on one's senses when visiting them, lest one become convinc ed that the world has gone zany. Come to think of it, maybe it has. ! (Distributed by ' McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) A single dust storm such as blew In the UJS. southwest in the 30's may blow away as many as 300, 000,000 tons of topsoil in a day. Your Savings Are Safe an ISAltM MDtKAl IS! State Street Saleni PORTLAND, Sept e-iaVThe circuit court refused today to per mit Safeway stores to sell Portland-processed ny In Salem stores. The grocery company had asked for a license to distribute the milk processed in its Portland plant but originating from producers already holding a quota on the Salem mar ket Thomas L. Ohlsen, milk mar keting administrator, denied the application, and Safeway carried its fight to the courts. ' Judge Charles W. Redding ruled that an extension, of Safeway'a processor-distributor license would be necessary for such sale, but that to grant such an extension would be a tendency toward monopoly. This would not be in the public interest, he held. ' Safeway declined comment other than to say that it was surprised at the ruling. In his original decision, Admin istrator Ohlsen said the Safeway proposal was not in the Interest of a stabilized market, and could force other distributors out of business. Safeway replied that Ohlsen was improperly attempting to deter mine state economic policies. Boy Wins 'Scholarship For Lightest Biscuits STATE FAIRGROUNDS Bruca Meland of Silverton was awarded ' a scholarship to 4-H -summer school at Oregon State college next year for baking the lightest bis cuits in the 4-H camp cookery con test Wednesday. , Young Meland contested against 43 clubbers for championship hon ors. Other winners included: Blee awards David Doerfler, Silverton; Rojer Woodruff, Cor bett Red awards Richard Nelson, Philomath, and Donald Kaiser, Aumsville. - White awards Tommy Hood, Col ton; June Sadilek, Woodburn, and Betty Stonekng, Woodburn. Fairgrounds Parking , Area Fire Extinguished Salem firemen stationed at the state fairgrounds extinguished a grass fire shortly after 1 pan. Wed nesday in the 18th street parking lot . Firemen said the blaze, appar ently caused by a carelessly thrown cigarette,-burned under two trucks but did no damage to the vehicles. 1 rs In . . .... Washington . . -' By Ju EaSa - WASHINGTON On the 175th anniversary of the Army Chap lain Corps, Major Gen. Roy H. Parker, Chief of Chaplains, voic ed a credo for the "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition men who face enemv fire unarm. . ed and die tool . "We must .win the minds and f hearts of men to the love of God and the welfare, of our fellow men; for until men's hearts are changed, the uplift which comes from improving the social order can only be temporary. Liberty ' cannot continue unless there is personal Integrity and patriotic honesty in the heart of the in-;.-dividuaL" X From Berlin to bloody Korea, chaplains of the major faiths are providing spiritual guidance and opportunities for their continued , spiritual growth. Chaplains are , . men of all faiths, ministers, t priests and rabbis. . J During the Revolutionary War local clergymen accompanied their village boys when they went off to join the militia. In the years - since then the phrase "bravery under fire' has become part of the history of U.S. chap lains. CoL Ivan L. Bennett, Raleigh, N.C- chief of chaplains In tha Far East, has reported two chap- . lains killed or missing in action in the Korean war. Gen. Parker says that chaplains stationed on duty in Japan one by one are leaving with American soldiers for the front . . . and one by one . stories of their personal bravery are filtering back to Japan. MWhen a man Is wounded, if a chaplain Is near he makes every effort to reach his side and give -him all the spiritual comfort pos sible,' Gen. Parker says. "In ad dition to these front-line chap- i . i i KMkf mum, uub vex j w wet, iiwuwu to each outfit's service company, chaplains work with medical units and administer to the wounded. Other chaplains are based at evacuation hospitals, where they help the wounded - contact their families, assist them . with personal problems and ease their anxieties in every way pos sible." - At the peak of World War II . some 8,141 chaplains were on , active duty with the army. The navy had approximately 3,000 reserve and regular chaplains. 'World War H chaplains , were , awarded a total of 2,395 decora tions; 78 were killed in action, four died In Japanese prison i camps and 264 were wounded in -action. '.' : CD o SAVINGS Oregea Telephone 3-4153 Way I