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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 13, 1944 move. However, the allied rep resentative! themselves express ed approval of the action. Amer ica's Robert Murphy declared it "augurs well ton future" and said he thought it would lead to a more democratic and stable government. Britain' Attitude Uncertain While Britain apparently favors Emanuel's retirement, it's hard to believe she would welcome the abolishment of the monarchy. Her policy has been to support European thrones as calculated to lend strength to the monarchial form of govern ment to which she herself sub scribes. However, she is of course wedded to democracy. As things stand, the present Italian government will con Capital Journal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED HAHCH t. IMS An Indeptniftnt Nwpirr Pnbl!hd T.n Afternoon fX'tpt R'ind it 414 Chfmeket St. Phonei Bu1nM Offlet 1S71i Stmt Room 1SU; Sae.tr? Editor 1ST! AND I'LL "TAKE A CUT CM tinue until the war is over. Then there will be a plebiscite to determine the form of Gov ernment desired. If the nSpjnn returns to normal quickly after peace comes, it may be one of I UHAr THE. CASi.S KLTPT, TOO .' the first to register self-determination. ftEORr.R PUTNAM. Mitot and Publlihtr TOLL LEASED fFIKE S Fit VICE OF TRF 4OCIATtD PRESS AND THE UNITED PBESS nrPscBirriON satev HT CARRtFRt Wfcff. Ill: Monthlf 7; One T'ir. 19 00. BT MAIL IN ORFGOVi Mont HIT I AO: Su Mrmrh. IS (hi: On T'ar. 16 r Another Reason for Voting The city council, in amending and submitting to the pro- pie the proposed charter amendment to provide Salem with a council-manager form of government, has added another reason why every eligible voter should register and thereby qualify to vote at the May 1!) election. Two other measures, one providing lor a .i-mill special tax to finance post-war public works projects and the other authorizing a retirement pension system for firemen, will also appear on the city bal lot along with the names of candidates for an almost complete roster ot city ollicials. But these are only a few of the reasons why all good citi zens should exercise their right of franchise at the coming i election. Delegates to the national nominating conventions of both major parties are to be chosen, and through the write-in method voters will have the opportunity of ex i pressing their preference for presidential candidates. Kour candidates for two seats in the United States senate and two nominees for congressman, all of whom will have a potential voice in shaping the nation's war and post-war policies are to be selected. The importance of these choices alone make it imperative that every elector participate in their selection. On the state, ballot there is less competition for the major offices to be filled, there being no contests for most of the positions. But in the selection of four state representatives from Marion county a different situation exists. Here the republicans present a field of 14 candidates and nomination will be tantamount to election for the democrats offer no ; opposition. In view of the importance of the next legisla i tive session, it is imperative that these four nominees be .' chosen with particular care that they may be representative ; of all interests. Good citizenship, even more in time of war than in peace, ' demands active participation of every man and woman in government. That means voting and to vote one must be registered. So if you are not registered, have not voted at ' at least one election during the past two years, or wish to J change your party affiliation you must register at the county clerk's office if you are to vote on May 19. The registration ! books close April 18. De Gaulle Ousts Giraud General Henri-Honore Giraud has been removed as com ; mander-in-chief of the French army, a position he has held since shortly after the Allied landing in North Africa in : November 1942, by Gen. de Gaulle, head of the French , Committee of National Liberation and rather than add to the discord in the ranks of the French will retire to London to write his memoirs. Gen. de Gaulle, with his prima donna temperament wants to be the whole show and his jealousy of others has marked them for the ash can or, in some cases, the firing squad. He seems to have the complex of a dictator and has not hesitated to quarrel with the Allies who are interested only in liberating France and giving the French people an opportunity to estab lish their own government. The French army has been as sembled, armed and equipped by the Allies and not by de Gaulle. It will be remembered that Giraud, hero of two wars, after escaping from a German prison, came to North Africa , with the Allies and commanded French forces in the Tunisian campaign. It was with him that the United Slates made the agreement to equip and rearm the French forces and his influence facilitated the Allied landing and occupation of French territory. He left his family in France with the result that his wife and grandchildren are in Germany as prisoners, and a daughter recently died there. The argument against him is that he is too old at R5. Gen. de Gaulle has sought from the oulset to undermine Giraud, who is a soldier and not a politician and has man euvered him out of the joint presidency of the committee and finally out of the. committee itself and now out of the army. He wants to rule France and say who will command its armies. But the United Slates holds that Gen. Kiseu hower, as commander of the forces of liberation, has the say as to his subordinates, and the French committee is not yet the government of France and Americans don't care who rules it but does care as to how many American lives are lost in the invasion. r w mm S. J V Sips for Supper By Don Upjohn The heavy fall of moisture which marked last night and part of today at least must have been rather annoying to the city's distinguished guest of to day, the Honorable Mr. Brickcr, governor of Ohio and presiden tial aspirant. It must have made it seem pretty Dewey to him in these parts. Destroying An Industry Government scientists report that, the nation faces a seri ous shortage of vitamin A. as the catch of soupfin sharks, the main source of supply, is dwindling rapidly and the con sumption exceeding production. Vitamin A stocks on hand totaled 51 trillion units February 29, compared with 88 trillion a year before. ; This is caused by the greed of commercial fishermen whose intensified exploitation of the soupfin shark has depleted and ,is exterminating the species, just as ocean trolling, combined ;with destruction of natural spawning beds by dams and 'stream pollution is destroying the salmon industry. Warning was given two years ago by the fish'and wild life service to Pacific coast fisher men that they were fig uratively "killing the goose that laid the golden eggs" in ;the ir reckless slaughter of soupfin sharks, but the fishermen as usual, arc only interested in the dollars of the day and take no thought of the morrow. ; A few years ago the annual value to fishermen of all sharks caught was about $.)(KI,()00. In 1943 it was more than .58,500,000. This season's production is but a fraction of last year's. In February at Seattle they landed 83,9fi() pounds of shark liver, compared with 280,781 in February, 191:1 and it is the same story all along the coast. ; While other shark livers contain the vitamin, the soupfin liver is the highest known concentration of any American species. It is evident that federal regulation and conserva tion arc necessary if the industry is to survive. Clear As Mud In holding unconstitutional a Florida law making it crimi nal for a person to obtain money by a fraudulent promise to perform labor the United States supreme court this week sa'd it hail several times overruled laws similar to the Florida statute, but had always established the slate's right to pun ish fraud. The opinion went, on to stale: , "Deceit is not put beyond the power of the slate lin ause the cheat is a laborer nor because the device for swindling is an agreement to labor. But when the state undertakes to deal with this specialized form of fraud, it must respect the constitutional and statutory command that it may not make failure to labor in "discharge of a debt any part of a crime. It may not directly or indirectly command involuntary servitude, even if it was volun tarily contracted for." Now all we need is another opinion to interpret the court's latest opinion, which to the understanding of the layman is as clear as mud. First the court says that the stale is free to punish fraud perpetrated through a promise to do cer tain work and then it denies the state's right to penalize the perpetrator for his failure to deliver. The Rossians apparently in tend to rosh into Romania with a big posh, according to the lat est spelling prescribed by the press associations. Uh, tosh, tosh! We had a disappointment to day hunting around town to see Novelties In the News I'&j the Associated Press) Long Count Philadelphia II took four emergency aid girls two hours and 47 minutes to count the money left at ' Freedom House"' in city hall plaza in exchange for a war bond. The counting star ted after a newsdealer walked in and dumped 7500 pennies on the desk and asked for a $100 bond. Thirteen minutes short of three hours later he walked out pock eting his bond. Wichita Vails, Tex. Cpl. Kd gnr Foster's daily roll call for the 14th mess squadron takes I him over this list ot tongue twisting names: Acierne, Kspiridion, Blaszy- c.V7.k, Bellerjeau, Bjellauist, j Dlugosch, Kschrieh, Gorczyski, Griljez, Kanzmarski, Klopscliin ski, Kretowicz, Krochinaluy, I Jurszwski, Lauferswilre, Mak- symowski, Jejia. Oleszkowkv.m, Sklowdowsky, Tsosie, Tvarctos. Tvenge, Viahopoulus, Waskie wcz and Yovakimoglau. Five Alarm Theft Chicago Battalion Chief Jos eph Wrifs' shiny red car, com plete with red and green lights, spotlights, a gong and siren, and Chief Wirfs' helmet and boots, was stolen in front of his fire station. Police, trying to chase down the thief, repeatedly stopped one red automobile that was speed ing to Chief Wirfs station to replace the stolen machine. They stopped two conspicuous scarlet machines but both were driven by division fire mar snails. Wirfs' red car could not be found. it we could find a tube of ear glue. We wanted to use it so we could get our ear glued to the radio this evening when How ard Maple makes his debut as the local Waller Winchell of sports but doggoned if we could find a tube of car glue in town. Guess we'll just have to lay our ear up to the radio and trust it doesn't flop off. It was just SO years ago to morrow in a little store at 1155 Broadway, New York, that a chap named Tom Edison made his first public showing of a new gadget which displayed pic tures of moving objects as ani mated as if they'd hopped to life. True, he used a kinetoscope peephole machine for showing off his device but he showed 10 moving pictures to a lotla folk who wondered what that there Tom Edison would do next. About that time flesh and blood folk were putting on real dra ma at old Reed's Opera house here or maybe in McCornack hall above what is now Miller's store. Where the Elsinore and Capitol now stand was the old Salem hotel and Pete D'Arcy and Tom Bligh hadn't yet dreamed of the fact that this little gadget of Tom Edison's was to make them theatrical moguls in these parts. Tom Edi son, Tom Bligh and Pete D' Arcy have all pasesd on; but we think it safe to assert that the motion picture has come to stay. Repair Shop Opened Dallas Victor Brandt open ed a repair shop in the rear of Elmo Bennett's wrecking house at 219 Main street this week, Brandt had recently been em ployed in Albert Burelbach's repair shop on Jefferson street. The Subscriher Gels Mad (Letter in New York Sun) So Mr. Skobbeko wants to do what he wants to do, and that is the trouble with him! Well, that is the trouble with me, too, and wih some 130,000.000 other Am ericans. If the Alphabet Admin istration thinks that is a trouble it had bette.' remove its offices to Unter Den Linden, if any. Or Tokyo, or some place else where its attitude will be appreciated by the leaders of the country at least. I would like to add one more freedom, the Fifth, or in Roman numerals which we use to inscribe things for perma nence, the V freedom, Freedom of Action. And then there's the sixth freedom, the right to drink a 5 cent cup of coffee. Our reporlorial colleague Steve Stone came rushing into the office all out of breath this a.m. after meeting Mr. Gover nor Bricker of Ohio. "Gosh." he said "he smokes a straight stem med briar pipe and I'm for him." On such things hang the destinies of nations i he War Today By DeWitt Mackenzie An interpretative analysis of war developments by a fam ous Associated Press war correspondent. If the seers of ancient Rome were with us to read the flight of the birds of omen, I think we should be told that old King Vittorio Emanuele's promise of retirement may presage the end of monarchy for Italy. Of course that's not what the aged sovereign has in mind when he says he will turn the rule over to Crown Prince Umberto as soon as allied troops enter Rome. Emanuele hopes to con tinue the dynasty through his son, but whatever may be the outcome there's no doubt that the Italian throne is rocking dangerously. Officially the question of whether the monarchy should continue hasn't arisen, except ing in that it's been agreed the Italian people shall choose their own form of government after the war providing it's demo cratic. That doesn't bar a mon archy. However, there's a trend towards the left in Italy and one of the strong elements is communism an interesting circumstance, inasmuch as Mus solini established his dictator ship on the strength ot his claim that the country was in dire danger from communism. The communists have been ag gressive in the campaign, but have adopted conciliatory tac tics. Palmiro Togliatti, com munist leader, has campaigned for a united war cabinet, but has coupled this with the dec laration that his party is will ing to take subordinate posts in the government. Italian Premier Badoglio's at titude towards the communists has been friendly, especially since Moscow's recognition of his interim government. 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