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Tht OREGON STATESMAN, Saltm, Oregon, Wtiday Mdrnlng. January It, 1948
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"No Favor Sway$ 17 j; No Fear Shall Awe"
From Flnt Statesman, March 28, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher '
Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tht use for publication of all
newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
A Great Photographer
J o Rosenthal is that kind of a photographer
who would break into a house to steal a picture
off the piano, if he needed one that bad, or
cry like a baby when shooting a particularly
poignant tragedy. At all events, he'd get what
he was told to. and Joe had been somewhat
tough competition for the boys around San
Francisco for several years
Some time ago Joe was western representa
tive of the New York Times' Wide World photo
service, but The Associated Press absorbed
Wide World shortly before the war. So Joe
became an AP man. Joe wanted in the war
tut the army wasn't interested in persons who
wore inch-thick glasses, more or less, even
if -aaid person could take a picture. For some
months he did other things to help. Things like
using his entire day off to drive a good many
miles to the home of a war correspondent and
take pictures of the correspondent's family, pets
and familiar surroundings so that the wife
could send the treasured memos out in the
Pacific.
Finally Joe got Ibe merchant marine to take
him. He spent months at aea but saw little ac
tion and confessed, during a brief leave at home,
to being "bored."' So he doffed hit warrant of
ficers uniform and donned civvies again as an
AP photographer. But not for long. The AP
at last gave him his chance as ca war photog
rapher, in .uniform. There came landings at
Holiandia, Guam. Pelleliu, Angaur, and finally
to quote Joe the "toughest invasion in the
Pacific," Iwo Jimai It was there Joe "finally
took the kind of a picture I wanted to take. It
meant something the spirit behind tjie men on
Iwo Jima that took them through that battle."
Joe's Iwo Jnma flag-raising picture probably
is the bet-known of the war. It won for him
the Pulitzer 1 Prize and a host of other honors.
But it wam't his only shot. The AP put out
special booklet of Joe's pictures. It constitutes
one of the outstanding pictorial account of the
war. which for .Joe now is finis.
The Sari Francisco Chronicle has announced
that het eh Iter; Joe Rosenthal will be a member
of its photr" staff. We are sorry Joe left The
Associated Press, of which Tht Oregon States
man is a member, but the Chronicle, too, is
an Associated Press newspaper and we may
look forward to receiving more of those pic
- lures which show "the spirit behind the men."
Few photographers can show that in a life
time, i ' ji i-
He Kef m Mum or Talk Sense
" General Eisenhower puts into plain English
the crux of the army's trouble with GI demon
strators it is the home front. "This clamor
. "to bring the boys home," he says, makes it
"extremely difficult - - - to convince the men
of the real importance of their assignment."
The general isn't in the habit of sounding
off or of criticizing anyone. He must think the
problem is at vital importance or he wouldn't
be' talking on it at all. Self-elected spokesmen
and so-called radio commentators could per
form a service by keeping his well-considered
statement in mind, and so could the rest of
u in our letters abroad.
No one blames (II Joe for wanting to j-ome
borne, but it id-n't do him or anyone else any
good to goad him Into precipitate action. It
also makes td reading in the foreign press.
And rnoie titan anything else it still doesn't
get hiro home until transportation or replace
ments are available.
f ,4.3
Seel Up' Action
President Truman is entitled to this consid
eration by congress, that it speed up attention
to the. measures-he has recommended. If they
do not appear to be sound legislation the con
gress, should kill them. Then congress should
give consideration to alternate measures which
may give better promise of curing existing ills.
This is no plea for legislating just for action.
Doing nothing is better than doing something
wrng. But enough time has elapsed for the
congress fand the country .to study such ques
tions as full employment, fact-finding, and
minimum wager. Iet us get these matters dis
posed of. so ongrens can go on to wrestle with
other qjeHiot'S-
' The state i.ijrhway department is making a
study of a new bridge for the Willamette cross
ing at Salem. Wonder what a tunnel under the
river would ivioM?
Editorial Comment
NOT TOO HASTY .
Njws dispache have it that the Veterans of
Feis;n Wars i about to make its pitch for a
bonus biil' whjifh will involve from 40 to 50 bil
Ii.hj of oilir in payments to veterans of the
late war. Purely", aside from the equity considera
tions involved lin the issue, to add 40 or. 50 billions
6f doll art to the current debt of 230 billions would
be another heavy contribution toward the infla
ti'o that migit prove disastrous to. all citizens,
veterans included. j
The VTW: Mem to be eager to beat any other
veteran orgamxation
bonus. Rivalry between
which cant do the
tu the sponsorship of a
veterans organizations to
most for ex-service j men
ttould riot enter into coru.i'lerstion of the merits
of adjusted rnrnpensation ind such organizations
must remember that ttieii first obligation is to
the welfare of their country. Precipitate action in
the critical days of reconversion may do more
barm thsn good. j
Maybe,! however, the VTW has in mind that, with
millions if people striking for increases in pay for
; tl'e whjb remained in civilian life, the man who
-1 fought tlie war and many of whom are victim of
. the postifar turmoil shawld take advantage of the
j psychology cf Uie time and get while trie getting
Disgusted Motorists
State motor vehicle departments and auto
mobile associations, as; well as the traffic de
partments of all political subdivisions have gone
their own merry way'long enough. In fact, it
appears they have taken Just about enough o
the proverbial rope with which to hang them
selves.
For years, drivers of one state or of ona
city haven't been certain what to doin tha
face of unfamiliar signs and' regulations outsidf
their own bailiwick. Rules; are conflicting, con
tradictory and accident-provoking. Drivers ii
strange climes are likely to get honked at,
whistled at, cussed and ticketed in such rapic
succession as to make them prefer jail to free
dom. But the shoe is getting on the other foot now ,
Officers, particularly state, art charged wit!
administrating to a certain degree the varioui
license reciprocities. But J how cancan officer
know what to do when; fof instance, West Vir
ginia's licenses expire June 30, Alabama's ir
October, others in March,! September and De
cember? 1.
The situation is encouraging from one stand
point such "bringing i of chaos out of con-i
fusion." to quote the American Automobih
Association, may hasten the day when statei
and their officers will be as disgusted and con
fused as the nation's motorists, and thereby!
also hasten a consistent, nation-wide system o:
traffic regulation. 1
i -4 - S 4 fcSsS GOING TO Z 'I
s - i m i rft i-b i i ssi iii. it- r i
A Cowl Trick if He Can Do It
Grain Market
Trading Ups
Rye Price li
CHICAGO. Jan. 15.-(P)-Rye
bounced around in today's grain
futures trading, opening about 4
cent above the previous close,
then dipping almost a cent only to
tally and close 14 cent over yes
terday's finish.
Traders could find nothing in
today's news that a direct bear
ing on grains, with the exception
of a report that government ex
port permits have been issued on
recently purchased rye.
When pit traders head that re
port they took to the selling side
and the decline was not stopped
until short covering lifted the
market to yesterday's finish.
At the bell wheat was 4 high
er to t4 lower than yesterday's
close. May $1.80l-j. Corn was un
changed at ceiling, $1,184. Oats
were k higher to Vi lower. May
77. Rye was lower to l t
higher. May S1.87H-H. Barley j
was unchanged to L4 higher. May i
$1,22 4.
Tho Literary
Guidcpost
The Safety Valve
LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS
Bf JOE WINQ
Titcomb house in Brunswick, Maine, where;
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote ''Uncle Tom's)
Cabin" has been sold and will be converted!
into an inh. "Southern fried chicken at Uncle,
Tohn's Cabin" should make a good slogan irt
Brunswick. j
With a cold wave rolling down on the mid
west ' and east from the polar regions, smal
wonder congress doesn't rush through legisla-f
tion for a 30-day "cooling! off period.
Portland Mourns
Death of Boom
By Ana Reed Boras
Associated Press Staff Writer
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. jl5. The' man In the
street he used to be the man in the Shipyards
is mourning the death of a boom here, j
This region's fat shipyards; which employed 128,'
000 at the wartime peak, are shrinking to skeletons.
It's a long way from depression. Business ia
brisk; housing Jammed; office space j so scarce
returning doctors and lawyers can't set up prac
tice. But the man in the. street is in sackcloth
and ashes: 38,000 of them, j
That's the number of jobless the U. S. employ
ment service estimates In the Portland:VancouverJ
Wash. area. A lot more hive lower-paying Jobs11
they don't like. ; ' j I
Oregon's unemployment claims have doubled;
every month since July, and the state unemploy
merit compensation commission is so swamped It
had to hire 200 New Yorkers and open another
office. The commission, figuring weekly benefits
of $320,000 to an average of 18,750 persons each;
week, estimated payments of $1,280,000 in Decern-!
ber more than the all time j depression high.
A year ago unemployment here was virtually;
xero. Everything from styles to the patrolman on
the beat has felt the impact of the change j
Robberies, thefts, drunk-rolling are on the up
beat. All those1 signs "be kind to our clerks; we
can always get customers" are gone. Moat of the
tinhatters are bareheaded now; tbe beslacked gals
are back in the kitchen, in skirts. "Help wanted"
dropped from eight columns to three; "situation
wanted" Jumped from two to three and a half.
Even the vocabulary is changing. Job bumping
U an obsolete term. Absenteeism, that bane of war
time industries, has vanished so completely they're
not even computing it any more.
A cooperage: head with 450 employes used to
have a hundred absences a month. Last month he
had five. "Whatts more." he added, "we're getting
as much work done on 40 hours a week as we got
on 48, during the War. Two reasons: better work
men available, and the same workman doing a
better Job." j! - !' ' I
James H. Bagan, manager of the U. S. employ
ment ser vice, says that's typical. "A man who has
a job is hanging on to it. There are too many
others who want to take his place."
A year ago the employment service had 20,000
vacant Jobs. Now it averages about 1200 two
thirds of them for skilled persons still hard to
find. Thousands of unskilled or slightly skilled;
workers, heavily In demand last year, are jamming
into the employment-service to compete for about!
400 jobs ranging down to 55 cent an hour.
What do the men from the shipyards, whose
average full-time wage was $3004, do about peace
time pay? ' '".1 I
"They cry their eyes out," reported a U. S. em
ployment service official. "Sometimes they turn the
Job down at first. Then they find' $18 a week :
top unemployment benefit doesn't mean anything,!
so they start accepting lower paying jobs. If there
are any left, by that time.
Veterans, although the employment service gives
them heavy preference, are coming home to trou
ble, too. Eleven thousand of an estimated 75.000
of them have applied for Jobless benefits in Oregon.
Employers who'd forgotten what a job hunter
looked like actually are pestered again. Department
stores which let wartime clerks wear purple sweat
ers and chartreuse bobby box now insist on cor
rect black. The AFL waitresses and cafeteria work
ers union had more girls than Jobs one week re
cenUy for the first time in years.
Even the scarcity of domestics Is easing. A year
ago a woman advertised for a maid and got one
applicant, who was interested "if there's no laun
dry, cooking, heavy cleaning or serving." This
winter she published the same ad and got 25 calls,
beginning "I used to work In the shipyard, but"
"There's one little-noticed factor which makes
the situation harder," said Cordon Manser, county
welfare commission administrator. "During the de
pression, food and housing, was very cheap. This
is the first time we ve
NIGHT WORK, by FWtch.r' Pratt
(Holt; 3.
Id the few short months since
the dropping of the atomic bomb,
the accounts of World War II
fleet operations (as well as land
campaigns) have taken on a
sense of nostalgia.
For all their horror, their
slaughter, their heartbreaking an
xieties and grueling hardship,
these operations and these cam
paigns may one day seem almost
like the "good old days" of war
fare even, as Marlborough's
wars and Nelson's battles ' have
seemed to later generations of
armchair strategists.
It Is through such a gathering
aura that one turns to an ac
count like Fletcher Pratt's "Night
Work' the stlry of Task Force
39. This cruiser and destroyer
task force an untried group of
four new cruisers with green
crew, plus the destroyers step
ped into the naval vacuum of
the Solomons after the Tassa
faronga battle and for more than
a year held the storied waters of
the Slot against all that the Japs
could throw against it.
Often they worked against su
perior forces, sometimes at the
extremity of their own and their
ships' endurance, and they hung
up an unbroken list of successes,
from Kula Gulf to Empress Au
gusta Bay, in the face of occas
ional losses that must have made
Admiral Tip Merrill wince.5
Fletcher Pratt, who was there
fof part of the time, writes about
it as if he might be writing for
others who were there. Through
hiS account he sprinkles off hand
references to other battles, other
commanders and circumstances
that are hard for a general read
er to catch on to easily. He fills
hi book with detail that doubt
less makes it invaluable to other
naval historians like himself, and
rather difficult for non-historians.
A striking feature of. the nar
rative is the roll played in the
Slot fighting by radar. Important
as everyone now knows this to
be, it shows up here as the Great
Indispensable without which the
task force could hardly have pre-
vailed.
DOl'BI.ING ON JOBS
To the editor:
With so many returned veter
ans of this last war who reside
in this county anxiously seeking
work, do you think rt fair and
just that the state liquor com
mission should countenance the
employment of state employes
getting in extra time on Satur
days and other days at the liquor
store in Salem? JDon't you think
any number of these returned
service men could fill any of the
position or extra work that is
now being given to state em
ployes who are already obtain
ing good salaries? Why this dou
bling up on jobs and especially
since the governor and other
state officers are claiming that
the service men in quest of Jobs
must be taken care of? It is
claimed that the liquor commis
sion for' a long time has been
hiring this extra help from state
house. Investigate and you will
find this situation as I am tell
ing it.
WILLIAM HENNINGSEN ,
t Editor's note Inquiry reveals
that state employes have worked
extra at the liquor store, a prac
lice that has been going on for
several years. Lack of other la
bor started the practice; pre
sumably it will be dropped if
extra labor becomes available.
JArS IN HAWAII
To the Editor: t
There is much news now in
relation to the admission of Ha
waii to statehood. I understand
a very large percentage of the
population there are Jap. Will
they be allowed to enter the
northwest and the United States
at will? From what I read I un
derstand the Japs had a -good
spy' system on the islands.
The question is: Do we want a
lot of Jap spies on the loose in
tins country? There are a lot of
people here who would like to
know the score, i
Some editoiial comment on
this phase would be appreciated
by your readers.
H. G. DAMON
,-G-f'VE BCEN AROUND (Hammond:
c: Sl.
e Here's a book about the war
with blank pages where G l Joe
can write in his own record, and
many other pages of maps, photo
graphs, chronology and so on
to tie them together. For 4ft cents
Editor's note Hawaiian-born
Americans of Japanewa ancestry
are eligible to enter the United
States now. Statehood would not
alter their rights in that respect.
The majority of Japanese in Ha
waii remained loyal; little or no
more, Hammond will print the
soldier's name on the cover.
GMN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Jasga aiaU aiwriag .period of recooosnic inflatioau".
had unemployment on a. "Maybe yea get a geo4 Uau i bat it's a peer UniUtiea ml Natarc
,... wbert JJSMslLwn.Hak,Amw at ys-aT
Strikes Fail
To Halt Stock
Mart Upswing
NEW YORK. Jan. 15 -P-The
stock market scored another 15
year average high today in fast
dealings although profit cashing
on the recent sharp upswing re
duced early gains running to a
point or more and jolted many
leaders for slight lesaes.
Thin "blue chips" such as East
man Kodak and Allied Chemical
added 4 and 5 points although
fractional advances ruled at the
close. Transfers of 2.700.000
shares compared with 2,740,000
shares Monday.
Buying again, was predicted on
inflation ideas' stemming from the
apparent price-wage spiral and
the belief that, when strikes and
threatened strikes are adjusted,
the country will undergo a period
of boo m-t i m e prosperity. The
walk-out of 200,000 electrical
workers and the imminent pack
ing strike failed to touch off any
real liquidation.
The Asociated Press 60-stock
composite was up .4 of a point at
79.4, a top since March 28, 1931.
It was another board market, 1,
032 issues registering against 1.
040 the day before. Of these. 483
advanced. 393 declined and 178
were unchanged.
Hawaii Statehood
Hearings Ended
: HONOLULU, Jan. 15. A
congressional subcommittee con
cluded hearings today on state
hood for Hawaii, One member.
Rep. Homer Angel I (R-Ore) said
he saw no "dangerous precedent"
in admitting the territory to the
union.
Robert L. Shivers, former spec
ial agent in charge of the FBI
in Hawaii, told the committee
there was no sabotage by Japanese
in Hawaii before or after tbe Dec.
1, Hit altagfc. rr-tr-A
Over Oregon
Br the Associated Pre
i-
COOS BAY. Ore- Jan. 15.
An advertising program with a
$11,800 budget will be launched
to attract tourists to Oregon beach
es, directors of the Oregon coast
association stated here. Plans in
clude a three-color coast travel
guide; a magazine for association
members; a sports fishing guide
and a leaflet of coast legends and
hi.tory.
PORTLAND. Jan. IS The farm
machinery shortage will be worse
SIGMA DELTA CHI ELECTS
CHICAGO. Jan. 15.-(;p -Barry
Far is. New York, editor-in-chief
of International News Service, to
day was elected president of Sig
ma Delta Chi, national . journal
ism fraternity.
in ikh uian uunng ine war, (.Dun-
ty Agent S. B. Hall predicted to
day. Veterans will have fifst
choice on the few tractors avail
able, he said.
THE DALLES. Jan. 15 Mayor
George Stadelman suggested today
that a half finished Lewis & Clark
monument, hotly debated since it
was started in WPA days, should
be completed as part of the city
planning program. .The shaft,
marking the spot where the ex
plorers camped in 1805. would cost
$12,500 to complete. Total of $60..
000 already has been spent, Stad
elman estimated.
sabotage was reported on the
Islands.
NO "MARCH ON GARRISON"
To the Editod:
I have just received a clip
ping from the Statesman anent
the meeting of GI's at the 21st
Replacement Depot in Manila.
s I am sorfy to hear that your
source of information or your
treatment of the subject was so
far from the facts. Those who
were present and those who fol
lowed the incident in this area
know that there was no "March
on Garrison." The assembly was
orderly, not riotous. Elected rep-
t rehentatives presented their case
to the depot commander. There
was a. free exchange of opinion,
questions being aaked and an
swered in a gentlemanly manner
and in best keeping with both
civilian open forum manner and
military courtesy. A solution
was arrived at as best it could
be done at that time. The men
; were given an assurance of ship
ping in keeping with the facts
at that time. There was no dis
order. Proof of the results of the
meeting is the fact that no ar
rests were necessary and the
21st Replacement Depot was
cleared of men and abandoned
within a very few days. The
same thing has happened to most
of the depots in the Manila area.
In this "March on' Garrison,"
as you dubbed it, there was
merely a requej.1 for a statement
on the status of the men in the
pool. The statement, was made.
The men were satisfied. Those
who know prefer to label the
meeting, "Democracy at Work."
Let's get the news straight at
home and not create false im
pressions. Very truly yours,
PFC J PAUL BURCH
39343991
San Francisco
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PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. 15.
Better quality lumber comes from
trees planted about four feet apart,
a 20-year Douglas fir planting test
has shown, Thornton T. Munger,
chief of the forest management
research office here, said today.
Although tiers spaced 12 feet
apart grew faster, the lumber is
coarser and has more knots, he
added.
PORTLAND. Jan. Identifi
cation of a woman found drowned
in the Columbia river as Mrs.
Vera Ada Lenhart, 36, Portland,
the last over the preceding fiscal mother of three children, was re
year being only $3,676. This is 001 ted tody y the coroner's of
because building has been virtu- 1 fu"' Authorities quoted Mrs. Paul
ally froien. so few new accounts ette cu' k 8i,?r- ying the
have been added. woman's husband was in Call-
Because o the slow growth fornia 'k,n
in revenues and the heavy debt
the commission has not been able PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. IS
to reduce the basic rates for H"d,M bam win r'P,r tn
water, although there has been , """ of mi,e of wir carrying
one reduction for use during the i Hwams between major cities in
irrigating season. tew year' k. J. Miller, Western
I have wondered sometimes if j Unlon superintendent, said today,
the commission might not lie '
more aggressive in encouraging MEDFORD, Jan. 15 Veterans
consumption of water, especially j oi wor,d war 1 nd 11 P1"
for irrigating lawn and water. a new American Legion post head
This would bring added reve- ! JUrtr. Alfred Hagerty said to
nues to the commission and da Instead of forming a second
added dividends in beauty to Sa- American Legion post, world war
lem homes. This calls for intelli-j 11 -servicemen will combine
gent promotion, such as electric I w,th T01 N ,5; h Reported,
and gas utilities use.
The audit report shows that ! PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 15.
the financial condition of the ! Ted R Gamble, who has resigned
water system i excellent. The a" irury war finance director
bonded debt has been reduced to marie h theatres here, was
from a total of $2,200,000 to $1.- i chairman of Portland's mo
923.000. In addition the system j tion Pi(ure censoring board to
has built up investments of day- succeed mg J. O Freck.
$410,214, chiefly in government
bonds. These it serve funds will, COLD HILI- J 15 Resig
be used in making improvements j nat,on ot Nbe B. Martin, ath
and extensions to the system. ! ''uc and manual training instruc
The added investment should in- ! tor ,n th hih ,choo, h"- to
crease earning power and pro- t arc"Pt portion in Eugene with
vide better service to consum- i the v,1 an bu""" w announc
ers e ! d today.
Finances do not tell the whole '
PORTLAND. Jan .15 Death of
John H. Bernau. ,20. Sherwood,
today marked Portland's first 1946
traffic fatality. He was injured
when his car collided with a bus
yesterday.
MEDFORII. Jan 15 E. T. Al-
story, however. During the ten
year perkd the commission de
veloped a new source of supply
which gives the city an abund
ance of fine Water, has installed
a much larger reservoir and a
standpipe which gives better
pressure in the mains. The im
provement in quality of the wa- pJl tl'- announced today he
ter u a definite gain which is hi,d 1,0,(1 tn downtown Allen
greatly appreciated by those who ' building, one of southern Oregon's
remember the heavily 1 chlorin- ! oldest hotels Purchaser was not
ated water served when tiie j lder,,if,ed
Willamette was the source of I "
The report of Ute auditors TOrCSt KegearOll
offers not a single criticism of j
the accounting practice
department. Rarely does a gov
ernment office come through an
audit with so clear a record.
To summarize: Salem's water
system has proven a finanrial
success, on modest terms, but
the results should improve as
time goes on. Consumers now en-
of the Foundation Elects
Cox as President
PORTLAND. Jan. 15.-(VThe
board of directors for the forest
research foundation has reelected
j H. J. Cox Eugene lumber associa
' tion exicutive, president, Paul
Joy an abundant supply of water Dunn. Oregon State college for
of excellent quality. The city j entry dean, was chosen secretary
has had in the management of i treasurer.
the water system a competent, ! The non profit corporation was
non-salaried commission who j formed a, year ago to promote
have devoted much time to the j forest research and utilization. It
solution of the city's water prob- has cooperated with the Oregon
lems; and a conscientious staff I forest products laboratory, Corval
who have managed: the opera-j lis. in projects to develop more
Uons of the water system very ! lumber products and utilize wood
capably. 1 waste.
Famous names.' favorite mod
ern designs, precision move
ments and special features.
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