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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January 30, 1946
Adm. Smith Denies Zacharias
Predicted Pearl Harbor in Talk
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-P)-Vice Adm. William 1W. Smith
today described Capt. Ellis M. Zacharias' story of predicting
ih Pearl Harbor attack as mere "clairvoyance operating in re
.verso." Smith told the senate-house committee investigating the
Dec. 7, 1941, attack that he remembered very well a talk
Zacharias had had with Rear Adm.
Huxband E. Kimmel, then Pacific
fleet Mimmander, early in 1941.
And he was "absolutely posi
tive. Smith declared, that nothing
was '.said alxmt a possible attack
on Pearl Harbor, about its coming
on a Sunday, or about seaplane.
In fact, Smith said, the talk last
ed '"more likely about 15 minutes"'
rather than the hour and a half
Zacharias had testified to and
Kimmel did practically all the talk
ing.
After that blast at Zacharias'
story, Smith turned to the Wash
ington naval command.
"Too Much Secrecy"
He said there was "entirely too
much secrecy' in the navy and
in all branches of national defense
before Pearl Harbor, with the re
sult that progress of American
arms was hampered in the early
days of the war.
Declaring Washington should
have sent "Kimmel copies of inter
cepted and decoded Japanese mes
sages, he commented: -
"I can see no use in breaking
a cipher unless you use it."
As another example of "too
much secrecy," Smith said Ameri
can magnetic torpedoes proved
faulty when tried in the war. They
ran too deep, passed under ships,
and "broke, the hearts of subma
rine captains," he said. They
would have been perfected, he de
clared, had the navy not placed
no much secrecy about them.
Ex-Chief of SUff
Smith, then a captain, was chief
of staff for Kimmel at the time
of the Japanese attack.
The committee was advised that
no record could be found in Tokyo,
London or Canberra of the re
ported "winds' broadcast signify
ing a break between the Japanese
and the United States.
. The Tokyo advice came from
General Douglas A. MacArthur.
The British and Australian govern
ments gave similar reports through
the state department.
JayCce Teams
To Aid Packin g
Of Old Clothes
Five teams of Junfor Chamber
of Commerce members wire chos
en yesterday to assist the local
clothing drive in the packing of
old clothes for shipment. Team
chairmen, named at yesterday's
luncheon meeting of the organiza
tion are Paul Irwin, Wayne Ad
ams, Richard DeCamp, Herbert
Carter and Leslie Adams.
Roy Cray. March of Dimes chair
man, called at the meeting for
volunteers to Join Saturday In
collection of milk bottles which
:h junior chamber had placed
n business establishments for
jxaralysis fund donations.
The Junior chamber-sponsored
imateur boxing show will be post
poned from February 7 to Febru-
Unity In Flax
Activity Asked
To Aid State
(Story also on page 1)
The immediate future of the
flax industry in Oregon "is not too
bright for our fibre" and "this
means we must all work together
and quit quibbling about petty
grievances," the state board of con
trol was told Tuesday in a letter
signed by managers of Spring
field, Canby and Mt. Angel flax
plants.
The representatives who appear
ed before the board explained that
the reference regarding the im
mediate future pertained particul
arly to impending foreign competition.-
All favored continued
activity of the state in the flax
Industry.
Schwab Spokesman
Acting as spokesman for the
group Tuesday was Fred J.
Schwab, Mt. Angel. The others,
some of whom also spoke in be
half of the state flax industry,
included Senate President Howard
Belton of Canby; Gus de Vos and
Elmer Jensen of Springfield; Ru
fus Kraxberger, E. C. Bradtl, A.
F. Eymen and V. C. Doppleb, of
Canby; Joe Atchison, Charles
Bradtl and Will Henry of Molalla.
The letter made one suggestion
that the state divide its pay
ments for flax, rather than pay
growers cash, because the coopera
tives were not able to pay cash
immediately.
Senator Belton said "the time
may come when the state should
step out of the flax business," but
that right now continued activity
was needed to help interest other
spinning and weaving mills in
locating in Oregon
To Lease Buildlnr Space
The board of parole Tuesday,
in addition to taking the flax co
operatives' presentation under ad
visement? authorized the state pa
role board to lease space in the
Terminal Sales building, Portland;
received a report from the Colony
farm in Polk county showing net
produce receipts last year at $55,
538, a new high; and authorized
claims against the state restora
tion fund for $150, sought by the
state highway commission to re
pair a portable trailer damaged
by fire, and $248 which the state
engineer said would be necessary
to replace a gauge-house shelter
and automatic recorder washed
away by flood on the North Ump
qua river.
ary 14, it was decided at the
meeting.
Speaker at the luncheon was
Walter Snyder, curriculum direc
tor of the local public school sys
tem, who spoke on "Understand
ing Races."
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British American Radio
Work to Be Compared
Mark Bowman, lecturer, who
recently returned to radio station
KOIN from England, will speak on
the comparison between British
and American systems of broad
casting at the class on radio speech
and production Thursday night In
the basement room of the city
library.
Class work in speech analysis
has been completed with the bal
ance of the meetings to be devoted
to discussion of popular aspects
ALBANY BOT IN CUSTODY
ELLENSBURG, Jan. 2MP)-
in the general radio field, and i sheriff Gus Lindeman said a 15
there i room in the class for a
few more members. Dr. Richard
Benson, field representative for
the O.S.C. general extension di-
year-old Albany, Oregon boy Rave
himself up here yesterday, telling
vision, has announced. .
police he had stolen a car In Al
bany last week. The youth said he
abandoned the car west of Ritz
ville and then hitchhiked to Spo
kane. He came back there yester
day, found the car gone and de
cided to tell police.
Southern Pacific is happy to announce that plans are under vay for the
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Two brand new custom-built streamlined trains for
i daily daylight service; CASCADE will be streamlined!
THIS IS IT I This is the announcement we had to postpone
through four long years of war.
We are happy to tell our friends in Oregon that plans are
under way for the first streamliners in Southern Pacific's post
war program the Shasta Daylights. We promise you that
we will spare no expense to make these the finest and most
luxurious streamlined coach trains ever constructed
Oregon's Own Trains I
Leaving; Portland and San Francisco in the morning and
arriving in the late evening, the Shasta Daylights will speed
daily in each direction over Southern Pacific's famous Shasta
Route-r-certainly one of the most magnificent scenic trips in
all the world.
Each seat on the Shasta Daylights will have its own indi
vidual window, and these windows will be of unique design
much taller than the windows on any other train. Through
these enormous windows you will see the lovely Willamette
Valley, the rugged Cascade Mountains, Odell Lake and Dia
mond Peak, Mt Shasta and the vast lake behind Shasta Dam,
California -s Sacramento Valley.
Aboard the Shasta Daylights, travelers from all over the
world will enjoy a close-up grandstand view of the wonders of
Oregon. The trains will, we think, be a fine advertisement for
the state.
With our companion Daylights between San Francisco and
Lbs Angeles, the Shasta Day Lights will enable tourists to see
almost the entire Pacific Coast in the traditional comfort and
luxury of these famous streamliners created by Southern Pacific.
Fast, powerful diesel-electric locomotives will smoothly
pull the Shasta Daylights. The exteriors will be brilliantly
streamlined in red, orange and black. The interior color
schemes will be inspired by the soft blues, greens and browns
of Oregon's lakes, rivers and forests. The Shasta Daylights
will have every modern refinement in comfort and service
that we and the builders can conceive. Above all, they will be
safe, solidly built and dependable.
1 We have given our ideas to the designers of the car building
companies, who are now working out the details and techni
cal specifications. As soon as bids are received, we will place
orders for actual construction of the Shasta Daylights for de
livery, we expect, before the end of the year.
A faster streamlined CASCADE
Our plans include streamlining the Cascade, making, it a
de luxe overnight sleeping car train between Portland and San
Francisco. Based on designs now being worked out, orders will
be placed for triple unit articulated cars for the Cascade each
unit consisting of a lounge car, a dining car and a kitchen car.
(If you have ridden our famous Lark between San Francisco
and Los Angeles you know how stunningly beautiful these
three-car units are. The dining car and lounge are one contin
uous room 131 feet Jong, witb no partition between the cars.
They are the only cars of this kind in America.)
As fast as the manufacturer can deliver new streamlined
sleeping cars they will be placed in service on the Cascade.
This, we hope, will be early in 1947. The Cascade, as well as other
trains, will be speeded up as soon as the present heavy traffic
load eases, and before we receive the new equipment.
LST Tfce friendly Southern Pacific
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Karl Hyherg Cr Son
Accountant
Tax Counsellors
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