Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1944)
4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dee. 21, 1944 Capital jkJournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED 1X88 ' An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St. Phones Business Office 3571; News Room 3573; Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher FUiZTeASED WIRElifiSvlCE OF THE ASSOCIATEdTrESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of , all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited in this paper, and also local news published herein, .' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BY CARRIER: Weeklv, S.1R; Monthly, 1.75: One Year. SO.Ofl. BY MAIL IN OREC.ON: Monthlv, M; 6 Months, S3.00: One Year, SS.OO. United States Outside Oregon: Monthly, S.tiO; 8 months, M.M; Year, 87.20 A Record of Progress Carl Hogg, retiring after three years as president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, can lay down the reins with which he has guided the affairs of that organization with a sense of satisfaction in a task well and thoroughly done. The revamped and revitalized chamber speaks ils own tribute to the talent and effort he has given to it and stands as a reward for the time and thought he has sacrificed for it. Measuring the success he has achieved in material things, ' the three years of his administration have seen the member ship grow from 375 to a healthy 1000, and the annual budget from S8000 to $25,000 a growth induced and attracted by ;. the spirit of accomplishment with which he has imbued the reborn chamber. Today it is a living, breathing business j conducted along business lines and actively engaged in the 'job of bettering the community and selling it to the world i in the same manner the chamber has sold itself. "' From an almost wholly social organization which con- Tcerned itself chiefly with weekly luncheon gatherings and ! ;the distribution of pretty stereotyped literature proclaiming the virtues and resources of Salem and its environs, the; 'chamber under Hogg's direction has been transformed into a vital force assuming and exercising leadership in the in Jdustrial development of the city, the Willamette valley, Ore gon and the northwest. It has actively identified itself iwith movements and groups dedicated to the betterment of '..the west, abandoning the smothering cloak of provincialism and adopting the wider regional perspective, f' To attain these ends it has set up the office of industrial extension manager, filled the job with a capable executive .Vand given him an able assistant and adequate office help, iyl'irst fruits of this program are seen in the selection of -Salem as the site of the pilot plant (now building) for the processing of alumina from clay and in inducing smaller .industrial plants to locate here. With such an ambassador ' at-large to represent Salem further benefits are bound to I';. accrue to the community. Looking into broader fields of the future, President Hogg '.:,.has but recently set up within the chamber a post-war plan ning committee designed to function in a cooperative and : coordinating capacity with public agencies and private in ;' dustry in developing a long-range economic program. ICT . HyS ti I 'Ti I HieWar Today By DeWitt Mackenzie An Interpretative analysis of war developments by a fam ous Associated Press war correspondent Sn p I OB' supper By Don Upjohn In ihe current issue of a na tional magazine the brag is made for San Francisco that it has Ihe first outside lighted Christmas tree and that the whole idea had its nativity in the Bay City. It seems this happened IS years ago. How ever, balem can still firmly maintain its claim to such honor with the giant tree on our court house lawn on which the lights were first strung in 1913, a mat ter of 31 years ago or 13 years before the San Francisco tree was even a gleam in ils spon sor's eye. Belgians Learn a Lesson !;' Instead of cooperating with the Allies in the establishment 7,' of law and order after their liberation from the German 'yoke, preliminary to a popular election to choose a perma--nent government, Belgians, like the Greek communists and L'Jeft wingers, started a revolt in an attempt to stage bloody 'coup d'etats and seize power, some even going so far as to proclaim "dictatorships of the proletariat." During these years of Nazi occupation the "resistance party" never re covered a mile of territory or liberated one section of the j enslaved population, which was freed only by Allied troops l;.ond materiel. v" Now that the Germans have staged their major counter f fittack, and reoccupicd a irtion of Belgium the alarmed f.!'nationnl independence front" leaders have offered to cease fighting the Allies and help fight the Germans, provided of 'course they are furnished arms and munitions, an offer lUhat will probably be refused for as soon as the Germans rvere again expelled, the arms would be used against the Allies, as before. If the Allies can't handle the situation, J; the Belgians certainly cannot. .v The same situation would exist in Greece, provided the 'Germans were enabled to again invade that country. Those !. Greeks shooting down their liberators would be the first ,'to volunteer to fight the common enemy. '' Probably the same situation will exist in other liberated "countries, except where Kussians, with their strong arm I' tactics, uninfluenced by sentimentalists at home, maintain the peace. All of which shows what a thankless task the ' Americans are up against in demoralized anil war wrecked ' Europe. :''' All of this discord plays into Hitler's hands and is prob ably secretly instigated by the Nazis to divide the United .Nations both in the war and peace. ; Depleting Oregon's Greatest Resource J' Mercantile timber demanded by war production covered '.-700,000 acres and represented over twelve million board feet 'during the two years ending last June, Nels lingers, Oregon ' stale forester, slates in his biennial report just completed. ' Lit tie if any reduction is foreseen in the demand for the .post-war construction years. While Oregon forest lands, which have the largest stand ;,of timber of any of the -IS states, are being denuded at a high rate, he feels that they will not be seriously depleted '.if all such lands are kept productive. Moreover as the tim- ber is cut, the tax-rolls shrink. Intensified efforts to have general forestry become a .required subject in Oregon schools is recommended as one .measure ol production in the 1 lit lire. Ihe stale torester also down Ihe cliimnrv in a helicon ;asks that he be empowered to restrict cutting of immature j lor and spreading television sets, .timber. jet cetera, nil over the place. But " Among the evil effects of such indiscriminate cutting is j we bet the tin-keys will still thai the young growth produces low grades and low volumes j row tlu' sn,m' necks. and it deprives the land ol lull value as it cuts the heart out of stands which .should lie left to protect the industry after the old growth stands are gone. Protection on a state-wide basis is also proposed by Un report, which advocates a zoning act of three zones, two to include all non-urban territory, placed under the protection of the forestry department and the state fire marshal, and .the other to be made mandatory for all lands between forests ,and cities, with state-wide protection. Bill Hamilton of the Portland General Electric tells us that the first year our tree was selected to give birth to the elec trified tree idea it was so small 50 lights with the necessary cords covered it like a blanket. But the tree grew, as trees will do in our salubrious and well treed area, and each year more bulbs and more extension cords were needed until the last time the tree was lighted hundreds of bulbs were needed, just how many hundred he doesn't re member. The lighting was dis continued after Pearl Harbor due to war department orders and remains unlighted, but after the war will burst forth again in all its glory. And probably will need some extra bulbs as, regardless of war department orders, the tree has kept right on growing. So, San Francisco had better take back its rash claim or take the consequences. As to after the war, we've heard so many promises over the radio and otherwise of what great things are in store for folks who survive ttie present conflict, it's going to seem pretty prosaic getting the cus tomary gifts on the coming Christmas day. We expect by the time the first postwar Christmas rolls around there'll even lie a stream lined Santa Claus of some kind, dropping our midst this p.m. at 4:15, this being the shortest day of the year, with daylight lasting only eight hours 38 minutes day light savings time, of course. Ice crusting the walks today and the thermometer hovering around freezing makes the set ting about right for singing "jingle bells" and for feeling pretty happy that we don't have to spend the day in a foxhole. A guy or gal living right here in the USA is pretty lucky even with an empty stocking and no Christmas tree. Novelties hi the News Albany Firm to Settle for $5000 Washington, Dec. 21 UP) Compensation to be paid M. Senders & Co., of Albany, Ore., for warehouse property taken over by the government has been agreed to by both houses of congress and a bill authorizing settlement for S5000 has been sent to the president. The warehouses were on pro perty at Wells, Ore., which the Albany company had leased from the Southern Pacific rail road. The government took them over in connection with expansion of Camu Adair. dog they had fed for a month. Yesterday footsore Whiskers showed up at the Flemings home. They know, he had never been in Denver before. They ri-i-'t V"ow how he learned their address. The great German counter-offensive appears as still viewed uncertainly through the partial dim-out of the news censor ship to have slackened slight ly in violence today, with im mediate prospects much be clouded. That's not to say, of course, that the ultimate outcome isn't clear. The vastly superior al lied strength insures victory in the long run, but it must be admitted that meantime many things can happen in fighting which once more has become fluid and is swirling over a battlefield that covers literally hundreds of square miles. This giant engagement may be the last clash of such mag nitude on the western front. It might even be decisive as regards the whole Hitlerian war. The Germans are com mitting their entire available strength in the west to this ef fort. They're going all out with manpower and materiel, as wit ness the fact that every road behind the 50-mile nazi offen sive line is jammed hub to hub with transport of all descrip tions. Gamble Is Colossal Nazi Field Marshal von Rundstedt is shoving his whole stack of chips into the pot for a colossal gamble in which he risks being cleaned out. It's a play of desperation that rath er reminds one of the Japa nese banzai charges. The dif ference is that whereas the Nipponese attacks are suicide affairs self-immolation for honor of the emperor the hard headed German has no thought of selling his life for honor alonp. He has a practical ob jective. The Germans of course are gambling on upsetting Eisen hower's offensive plans and so on prolonging the war with the vague hope of securing a compromise peace. They are too good soldiers to have any expectation of winning the war. The way things look, von Rundstedt already may have achieved the object of upset ting the allied time-table badly. There won't be any white Christmas on the fighting front. So far as concerns a compro mise peace, we know that there's no possibility of such a j thing. Advance Could Flare Back Rundstedt may indeed achieve the delay which his masters are eagerly seeking. However, we shouldn't overlook a point which he most certainly has uncomfortably in mind: His offensive might boomerang on him and knock him out com pletely. As remarked, the Germans are flinging everything they can lay their hands on into this great effort. An avalanche of any forecast of the trend of the battle at this stage. How ever, it's quite evident that the Germans have created a dan gerous position for themselves by driving through the allied line and spreading thcmsljes all over the landscape. WiHre entitled to believed that Gen eral Eisenhower has a large res ervoir of reserves. If he also has the necessary supplies there is always the possibility that he may turn the German ad vance into a terrific debacle, men and supplies is disappear- j Legion Plans Dance ing into the maw of this great battle. True, the cost is ter ribly heavy for both sides, but the difference is that the al lies can far better stand the losses than can the nazis. Von Rundstedt can't have his cake and eat it too. It would be absurd to make Woodburn Woodburn Post No. 46 of the American Legion will give a Christmas dance at the Woodburn armory on the evening of December 25. Music will be by the "Top Hatters," a seven-piece dance band with singer. Stevens Pi Only 2 Shopping Days Until Christmas We have an exceptional collection of loose diamonds. Make your selection and we I place it in a mounting of your choice right here in our store ! There is still time to have your gifts purchased here engraved by Christmas. (By Assoclntrd Press) Wooed Warrior Manhattan. Kans. Lt. Wal ter Ehlers, congressional medal of honor winner, had for his first date on his 30-day fur lough all the members of a Kansas State College sororily. After being serenaded with Christmas carols by the sor ority, Ehlers stammered, "Would you like to attend a dance I'm going to tonight?" The answer was a chorus of affirmatives. The war hero end ed up with a bevy of girls. Can This be Kansas? Topcka. Kans. A weekly crop report from traditionally dry (atmospherically and pro hibitionally) Kansas: "A small acreage of shocked fpeds in eastern Kansas was de stroyed by floods while other feeds, exposed to the weather, have been damaged by wet con ditions." Probably in Directory Denver The Tracy Flemings moved 30 miles from Conifer, Colo., last October, leaving be hind them Whiskers, a stray I'OKCKI) TO MOVK lH ll, DING SOLD Temporarily located at 1470 N. Capitol about 5 blocks south of ! Hollywood Theatre in Hollywood j dlstiict. We rio rennirinB- on nil makes of lerk who told her hp I Radios, nil kinds of clocks and ; electrical appliances. Jver in 5 spcctoi Joseph Cacciatiore step- nf satisfied customers in and ped forward to explain the i near Salem, shortage and discovered she al- j "w Alm ,0 pl,a" "ntl I,n" ready had 1 12 packages in i j RADIO l.OUIE shnnnins hue I rsorin t apuoi r,i. Stocked l'p for the Double Holiday Soinerville, Mass. U.R' When a woman loudly berated a tobac co store had no cigarcts. Stale Tax In Winter arrives officially In ' Hollywood DUtrirt UF.n ROOF A Hungry Christmas Snleniiles and transients who rely upon restaurants and other public eating places for their meals are doomed to eat their Christmas dinners out of tin cans or go hungry on Grandma Switches Millions of Mothers that least day this year, unless they call pmrnv an invita- T u km i c TJ P r-L m. n u ;tion to dinner out of friends. For members of the Salem "er Mutton OUef Idea Jfor Lhest Lolas Kestaurant Operators' association, comprising all of the Pioneer grandma liked to "rut) '..principal eating places in town, have decided to keep their !rollls" lM' n "!mT b" f0.nt,lin- -doors closed throughout Christmas dav !" l"r IT' ' r " i"? ,,,, , ,1 her "old reliable for relieving chest ., liateei the reasons behind it may be. the decision is a muscle tightness, soothing hron Serious one in that it constitutes a violation of an implied ichial irritation, loosening phlegm, obligation of those engaged in the business of supplying checking coughing, easing sting of necessary public service, ' icliappeit lips anil nostrils. Today isrionee has modernized this princi ple with l'enetro, the salve with a base containing this same old fash ioned mutton suet, plus 5 active in Igreilients so now Grandma's old Jidea is switching millions to this ; newer relief that Is being hailed all over America.' You'll like Penetro the first time you fel tt spread smoothly on if ., . .ftf ,i, .... . ., , , cnesr, inroai, oacK its minion suet It, as some ol the operators report, their cooks nnd wallers ,nL. it ,.u ;..,,i,. ,.;. h refuse to work on Christmas, the blame for breaking faith i quickly. It eets to work s wnys at ."-with those they aerve rest chiefly upon the employes, lonc6 m,llc9 yu nd 'our children A restaurant is m a sense, a public utility, which in its proper functioning is bound to render reasonable service to 'its customers and to deprive, them of food for an entire day is certainly not reasonable service in a city the size of Saleni. ;'The obligation to serve meals to those who have lace to secure them npplies equally to employes of eatinj? ;'places, who are dependent for their jobs upon those whom they would compel to no hungry by refusing to work on any -iioiinay. more comfortable ( 1 ) l'enetro re lieves colds pain as its mutton suet helps cany medication to nerve ends in the skin, (i! ) Relieves muscular tightness and congestion through counter-irritation (in creased blood flow). ',) Loosens phlegm, eases coughing through pleasant inhalation of instantly re leased vapors. You'll feel relief no quickly hp painful misery eases, coughing is lessened, phlegm loosened, chest rawness soothed. You'll rest more comfortably, give nature a chance to restore vitality through sound sleep. That's why so many mothers thank Grandma for her idea praise science for perfecting it and buy Penetro at druggists everywhere. Relieve your chest cold miseries as millions are doing today get your Jar of white, Msy-to-ust Penetro. .1 1 H k'ra Credit If Credit Ii k3 Desired iijlri Dcsil"ecl Bfl MM YOU'RE SURE WHEN you serve H I B I BIPP lii I . $eagratri$ :Bsi ifeL When only the finest is fine enough . , . you can express lffli feffil lljffllfe J fflSHSra Pill traditional hospitality in no finer way than by serving a SrSmCnlvn lhiillWoUm I WllwMKira Mill Seagram's Whiskey. Since 1857, the name "Seagram's" IjflflliH mM ffllaffi has been a symbol of good taste, and today, when truly TlifiBlHl ShBF i M m StJl ! fine whiskies are rare indeed, your guests will regard its r W WVfy S?gij!" SEAGRAM'S 5 CROWN: ("Jf R"3 fsfl fpp Blended Whikey.72KGrain Us Sg pi iiip , Neutral Spirit. 86.8 Proof. 5 jSpI f'-jr Mended Whiskey. 65 Grain mMlL Oi Jfjafnlak 4 7 ' Neutral Spirit.. H6.8 Proof. ttiipflin', k .. 'Jfillli m&F z llllJ IS S jjjj Sragmm-Diatillers Corporation, Chrysler BuildinR, New York City. !2C .U ."Jill ill Seqfltattt's wg A . . . &L-cm ii
