Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - October 7, 1945, Walla Walla, Washington The National Whirligig Behind the Washington Tucker New lork Albert N By John Fisher Marshal Georgl Zhukov prove as effective an ambassador of good will for his county as eral Eisenhower has been for the United States in several European capitals including Moscow His visit may ease the tension which developed between Washing ton and Moscow in the sharp clashes of personalities and ciples at the council of foreign in London Cooperation of the Soviet union and the United States in specific cases of international policy is not easy as recent disputes over Big Three exclusiveness Balkan tions and Italian colonies have Yet nearly everyone realizes that until the two tries learn to get along well gether hope for a stable world will be dim Authorities on diplomatic affairs point out that these two chief nations alone had the power to decide the outcome of World war II Lack of their guidance pre- had permitted Europe and Asia to explode Now they ara Yet neither is experienced in the complicated task of tional leadership Both are feeling their way in a new field and each is somewhat suspicious of the motives of the other Molotov's Tactics The experts warn that it will be tragic should the pair not borate successfully If the United States they say treats the Soviet union as a potential enemy then we must ensure a long period of burdens political vals and other disturbances as the world lines up in two hostile blocs Lately however even those who most strongly favor close ties with Russia have been concerned over the obduracy of Molotov at the council of foreign ministers Re- marks made by the leaders of other nations reveal that they too have been alienated by his seeming If history proves anything it is that one nation cannot antagonize the majority of other states and get away with it Stalin himself has always shown that he is too wise a statesman to insist on ing his own way at the cost of a rift in the grand alliance What then it behind Molotov's Impartial statesmen believe that Moscow is than ever pre- Our Year No 147 Walla Walla Wash Sunday October 7 1945 NEA Int Sunday lOc Copy Sixteen Pages Liberals Appointed by New Premier United War Fund Drive Opening Set f Luncheon day to Launch Campaign To Raise for Final Fund Effort The United War Fund campaign for Walla Walla city and county will open Wednesday and continue exactly three weeks until its close on October 31 with the largest ta in local for the drive The all-out effort will be Continued oa Editorial Nippon China Units Give Up TIENTSIN China Gen Keller E Hockey U S marine corps Saturday accepted the render of in Tientsin for Generalissimo Chiang The Chinese populace cheered the marine hand played ican and Chinese anthems during the ceremony in which Hockey commander of the Third marine corps received the swords of Lt Gen Uchida and MaJ Gen Shiro It was the first formal tion of Japanese troops in the area where they totalled men The Japanese never defeated on the battlefield were obviously re- at being compelled to walk half a block to the surrender table In front of the French municipal building where they laid their swords on the green cloth Before the ceremony the ponese naval attache at Tientsin Captain committed hara kiri in his quarters There was no further word of any trouble from where a few random shots were fired in launched with a kickoff luncheon Wednesday noon at the Grand tel at which the Kiwanis club will be host to the Rotary and Lions United War Fund campaign workers Dr Bruce R Baxter of Portland the Methodist church for the Portland area and erly president of Willamette uni- versity will be the principal er for the occasion Campaign headquarters have been established for the duration of the campaign period in the Power and Light company of- fice Second and Main streets J A McKee executive secretary of the United War Fund is in charge of the drive office As in the past several years much of the solicitation work is be- ing done by means of letters to previous Roland Miller county chairman Several thousand letters were mailed out on October 1 giving details as to the quota for the and reasons why the money is needed A heavy response was noted by the end of the past week it was reported Saturday by McKee who said that the total of contributions had already passed all previous marks Last year's drive started slowly but ended up with more than well over the 1944 of The company concluded its employe solicitation Saturday and turned in all money to become the first firm to qualify Lewis Turns Down Request To End Strike WASHINGTON L Lewis turned down a request of coal operators Saturday to end the soft coal strikes but the did not press the issue The operators made their plea at a conference with secretary of labor Lewis B Schwellenbach who told reporters he did not himself ask the United Mine Workers president to end the strike About are idle in more than 600 mines in a controversy which sprang up over recognition of Lewis supervisory union Schwellenbach indicated he was withholding his own plea to end the strikes until next week in case the conferences which he called with the operators and miners fail to produce a solution Lewis disclaimed responsibility clubs as well as to a number of for the stoppages saying they were begun by the local unions of United Clerical Technical and Super- employes in a battle for recognition by the operators The producers insisted that Lewis had inspired the strikes and could end them The conference will at 10 a m Warner Bros Strike Calm HOLLYWOOD Peaceful eting in force was conducted Ui T by striking film craftsman to club McKee reported Last For Fond current campaign will be the last for the United War Fund which collects funds for both the National War Fund and the Walla Walla Community Chest National officials have already announced that no further drives will be held by the National War Fund The Walla Walla Community Continued on Page 8 Col X Shintoism To Be Abolished WASHINGTON UP The United States has decided to abolish as a state religion in Japan it was officially disclosed Saturday night This measure one of the most yet determined upon in re- area October Japan into a peaceful There was no report of any marine tion not shintoism in being bat so jar as it religion of in- dividual the ment said However the cult is to lose its government support its special taxes its place in the schools of Japan and its official enforcement of the people De Gaulle Bids For Rhineland PARIS OP Gen De Gaulle re- turned from a tour of Alsace day enunciated the new French policy of friendship and cooperation The policy was announced by John Carter Vincent chief of far eastern affairs at the state ment who said all those special privileges which shintoism had as religion as to be done state religion has been regarded as one of the ful controls which Japan's leaders exercised over their people tion picture studio after both sides in the dispute had obtained court injunctions to prevent violence on the part of each other Herbert Sorrell head of the AFL conference of studio unions which called the strike against major film studios last March 12 said there would be no picketing day but that the lines would form again Monday at 5 Some 400 or 500 pickets ranged eight abreast Saturday in front of the main gates of the rambling film plant in nearby Burbank while perhaps half that number of studio workers and spectators faced them across the studio Warners said production was at a standstill Reds Argue in Treaty Conflict LONDON editorial broadcast by Moscow radio day argued that if France were brought into Balkan similar privileges should be corded Yugoslavia Poland a n d Czechoslovakia What grounds art there to re- move Yugoslavia from tion in drawing up peace treaties with Italy and Germany's Balkan since it is known that Yugoslavia has done more than most other countries to defeat lerite Germany and Fascist the asked While agreeing to extend number of countries invited to take part in drawing up peace treaties how can one eliminate Poland and Czechoslovakia whose in the struggle against Hitler's are universally Obviously there are no grounds for doing Pravda asserted The Soviet Union during the council o foreign ministers con- ference held out against the of France and China in the discussions of Balkan treaties was one cf three policy forming officials who appeared on fS a state department broadcast over the NBC network tonight Others Hitler's Brother Finally Released After Questions HAMBURG Germany Hitler's half-brother Alois has been released by British ties who arrested him nearly two the Germans in almost every ment he made The policy contrasting with the hard peace pronouncements of the United States Britain and sia brought evident surprise and satisfaction to German civil ad- Official members of the De Gaulle party said it an Maj Gen John H attempt by France to win the war department civil affairs Alois a Berlin beer 009.000 Rhineland Germans rector and Capt R L Dennison tavern proprietor before and from the rest of Germany and to I navy department member on the war said Hitler hated him bring this area as a unit into government's policy making and never had visited him in the a political and economic union for Japan JQ T France Formal annexation is a part ff the French program was said The French hope to create a political economic and cultural entity out of the area which em- braces the Saarland Bade the Palatinate and Hesse THE WEATHER Partly cloudy above norrod today maximum likely between 72 76 SporAr From Cnt Will Set Off HM Expiation Do you know that a spark as tiny as that made by baic a is all thai is needed set off an of T the of fluids It such occur in homes sneaks in CVsn The Walla Walla is the of the lia of Work October 7 to Potato Syrup Is Envisioned Product of U S Liquor Stills WASHINGTON Hugh Butler is with the Saturday after beating the nation's alcohol stills into factories plugging for finance committee approval During the war the government built at Omaha Neb Strike Vote Notice To Be Posted Workers Uneasy Because Telephone Firm Taking Stubborn Attitude in Current Wage Crisis NEW YORK UP Henry Mayer counsel for the Federation of Long Line Telephone Workers said a strike vote notice would be filed for telephone workers throughout the country within 15 days Mayer also counsel for many of the 44 other unions which took some workers off their jobs in Friday's four-hour token out said the strike vote notice would be filed with the national labor relations board the war bor board and the department of labor Under the act strike balloting cannot begin un- til 30 days after notice is filed The workers are er asserted over the fact that the American Telephone and Tele- graph company has adopted a born attitude in labor disputes Called in Protest Authorization for the strike vote notice Mayer said as given by workers during Friday's walkout called by the National Federation of Telephone Workers IND in protest against an NLRB er's ruling that the Western tric Employes association Inc at Kearny N was and therefore should be dis- solved Mayer said the decision for a strike vote was overwhelming and that there was not even a slight minority anywhere among the 45 organizations Mayer in his announcement said demands for a wage in- crease averaging 30 per cent would be incorporated in the strike vote notice Best Man Gets Much Attention BERRYVILLE Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri and Actress Violet Heming were married Saturday but the best man got more attention than the bride and bridegroom The best man was President ry Truman who came from the white house to stand up for his old friend and former fellow tor This little northern Virginia town of was agog over the mony Throughout the short ceremony the president stood with bent head except once when loud knocking from a heating radiator caused him to look around When Clark held out his hand for the ring the dent had it For the bride who took her first starring part as Wendy in Peter Pan 35 years ago it was her first marriage Clark 55 was married before His first wife is dead Charged in Slaying Mrs Annie Mansfeldt wife of a San Francisco doctor second from left dropped her head and cried as Municipal Judge Edward right charged her with murder in connection with the death of Vada Martin a nurse on October 5 Ai her left is James her attorney She was brought to court by Mrs Edna Sweeney police matron extreme other man Is fied Too late Mrs Mansfeldt told police she is convinced her victim was innocent of her suspicion that she was having an affair with her husband AFL Accuses CIO of Try PORTLAND AFL ber and Sawmill workers Union more of its pickets forced off by injunctions Saturday accused the rival CIO and lumber operators of trying to break up its five-state strike In a formal statement AFL strike policy committee heads injunctions to reopen CIO mills and warned we have just begun to fight and the lumber in- dustry is going to remain down tight The threat was backed up the lumber union said with a pledge from the Sailors union of the that no seamen are going to sail any ships into any dock to pick up any lumber Previously the Sailors union had applied its boycott already slowing down lumber shipments only to eted mills A Tacoma operation closed when CIO workers refusing to pass AFL pickets was expected to reopen Monday after the CIO won an injunction A show cause order returnable men picketing a CIO Seattle plant The AFL statement issued by John Christenson and Frank man branded continued conciliation meetings as an effort to set a precedent and break our strike U.S Ships in Port SAN FRANCISCO ed States cruisers under command of Vice Adm Daniel E Barbey steamed into Chefoo harbor the only port in China NBC Correspondent Robert Shaplen reported from aboard the flagship Saturday night He said Barbey was there to vey what he described as lish situation Chefoo is southeast across the gulf of Chili from Tientsin where U S marines landed It is 65 miles due south of Port Arthur The cruisers in the harbor are the Minneapolis San Francisco Tuscaloosa New Orleans and ville Chinese Communist forces ed Chefoo Shaplen said August 23 after Japanese soldiers and civilians had departed for Japan and set up their own tion It has not yet been taken over- by allied forces or Chinese forces of Generalissimo Chiang Nimitz Lauded By Philippines WASHINGTON Admiral Chester W Nimitz given the est homecoming welcome ever corded a naval hero by the nation's capital since Dewey returned from Manila bay received fresh honors Saturday President Sergio of the Philippines conferred on the Pacific fleet commander the highest medal for valor for his distinguished leadership and courage during the war of liberation Nimitz was the second man in war veterans needs will cost Philippines history to get the least this year Vets to Cost -i ation The other General las MacArthur Recent Parolee Picked Up at Albany Ore That's almost four times as much as it cost to run the entire federal government in 1916 And the boys have just started to come homs t Each year the cost will go up Unpredictable Tigers Blast Chicago Cubs on Own Ball Lot CHICAGO IP Detroit's Tigers came roaring again Saturday behind the brilliant pitching of Paul Dizzy Trout to wallop the Chicago Cubs 4 to 1 before fans at ley field and square the world ries at two victories apiece In one big inning the fourth the Bengals broke their appalling ting famine to drive southpaw Ray Prim from the mound and score all their runs on four hits and a pair of walks With that to work on Trout was never threatened and the only run scored off his ing fast ball and curves was un- earned Up to the time of their dramatic outbreak the Tigers had remained hitless through 10 innings and had not scored a run in 15 frames of series play three Saturday's gloomy weather it had even looked like Prim might equal Claude classic of Friday and all but crush out Detroit's last hope of the championship Tigers Come Alive One was out when the Tigers suddenly burst their bounds and jumped back into the fight Eddie Mayo opened it with a walk the first Bengal to reach first Roger Cramer and Hank Greenberg lowed with clean singles Mayo scoring on tne blow as mer advanced to second When Soy Cullenbine came through with his first hit of the ries a rousing double down the left field line that scored Cramer and sent Greenberg to third Prim was yanked and was replaced by Paul Derringer New Tap Chief Met MacArthur While Youth TOKYO new pre- mier Baron related to newsmen Saturday how he had at- tended a social function in the United States many years ago and was told by his I want you to meet a ing young officer in the U S army who is very popular here He enjoyed meeting the ing popular young officer hara added The officer was Douglas MacArthur Aviation Meet Here Tuesday Walla Walla will be the scene Tuesday afternoon of a wide aviation conference in the Marcus Whitman hotel sponsored by the aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which Lewis Felch is general conference chairman The conference actually gets un- der way at the Tuesday luncheon of the chamber where the speaker will be Harvey Stowers of L o s Angeles who is assistant to president of the Aircraft York was purposely passed ing the bases Outlaw forced Rudy Continued on Page 5 Col 3 Indictments the In- Association of America Inc known as the Chamber of Commerce of America He will speak on The New Air Frontier for The chamber luncheon will be at the Grand hotel Registrations Asked Advance registrations are asked of those planning to attend tbe luncheon Stowers will participate in the afternoon discussions on IS But ft aviation subjects which are to be not constitute a v A held in the ballroom at the Marcus ish commission was on hand tice Robert H Jackson and other members of the American group were forced to remain in baden by the weather but are ex- Sunday The trial prosecutors A session of fee judges will be held Monday The formal ing of the is expected at a court assembly Tuesday New Chief Given Free Hand in Land Resignation of Former Cabinet Blamed on De- lay in Following Out Orders Issued TOKYO Baron Kujuro long-time foe of Japan's imperialism became premier of a new government and forthwith disbanded the dread secret police Given a free hand by Emperor Hirohito and the approval of eral MacArthur's headquarters former ambassador to the United States dug into his task with a vigor that belied his years Domei agency said his first act was to reappoint as foreign ter Shigeru Yoshida a like-minded man whose criticism of the war against the United States once landed him in jail His second act said the paper Asahi was to appoint an parliamentarian jima to the crucial post of home minister under whose authority the thought police ran their reign of terror Causes Downfall It was the failure to obey ly MacArthur's order to dismiss home Minister Iwao who sought to save the secret police helped bring down Premier Friday Domei announced that the ministry besides suspending secret police freed 25 political including 16 Communists It likewise dissolved the special higher police censor department which pried into the lives of dis- senters news agency said Under orders pre- police chiefs and others connected with the secret police plan of a thought control over Japan will be re- moved when the new cabinet is formed this account added Domei took advantage of Arthur's new freedom of speech decree to attack the secret police asserting its bloody trail of less activities kept the Japanese people in utter dread of the name itself for many years emergency from obscurity into which the ists thrust him coincided with a revolutionary proposal by the ance ministry to permit the ese people to buy into vast stati holdings as a means of the enormous war debts Coming First BERLIN of the in- war crimes tribunal be- gan gathering in Berlin Saturday for an important prelude to November proclamation of indictments All French and Soviet members be Lane Wilcox supervisor of had arrived and part of the Brit- George South Hitler Still May Be Alive LONDON Gen Eisenhower was reported by the Dutch radio Saturday to have told Dutch there was reason to be- lieve that Hitler was still alive The broadcast recorded by BBC said that one of the correspondents accompanying Eisenhower on a it to The Hague asked the general if he thought Hitler was dead I thought so at first er was said to have replied but there is reason to believe that he Whitman Also in attendance a t these sessions will be four CAA officials headed by Paul Morris Seattle regional administrator for the CAA Others in his party will be Lane Wilcox supervisor of The broadcast said Eisenhower was received by Queen and had lunch with her at the and E B Williamson member of the CAA tor's flying advisory committee Hourly sessions at 2 3 and 4 Kramer Admits Gas Episodes LUENEBERG VP Joseph mer the beast of Belsen con- f that he gassed prisoners at afternoon conference concentration camp in The 2 p.m will on community aviation and 3 signed statement presented f Continued on Pace 8 Col 2 Kew benefits will be added more gj to How high 5s if to Clyde Sapp four days ou of ae Washington state prison here was arrested Saturday at on warrant charging attempted larceny issued is alleged be made an effort to an aulo Ernest CoweH farm in she Eureka district Sheriff Archie an- its economists in trying to Little Soil Building Mineral Returned in Pea Operations Editor's This is She of a brief series of articles deal-! astronomical j as the prosecution concluded I its case against 45 SS men and i women guards accused of cy to commit mass murder J Kramer who saw duty at five i concentration camps also admitted j that he was fully aware of the gas chamber and crematorium at tae Oswiecim camp he commanded Kramer's confession contradicted an earlier statement which mass that totals by Prosecutor T ML re not house four days At thai time the surly Nazi existence of gas chamber at and categorically denied allegations of in particular The articles are a given mass only 9 per cent former prisoners that there were based on interviews wish practical of the whole of nitrogen in mass executions whippings and Bounced Saturday night Sapp had taken employment postwar taxes guessed by the fiscal year the farm ard after dark drove will cost the CoweH car into a field where it stalled officials of veterans farmers and specialists in such matters The second of the series win be published next Sunday 87 A W Nelson farmers and a pea plant contained in the other demonstrations ol cruelty roots 43.2 per cent is contained in statement closed the the vines the pods contain 17.2 prosecution case per cent the peas 34 5 per cent j the peas cannot iTha GRANGE TO MEET t u t j v k v Ol p v t v TO vi t3 The Nebraska Republican OtT to set the machine as the American title peas put certain basic lies But what about the pods and will have a public booster night of the soft earth he departed veterans of wan and chemicals into the soil the vines program at the haS of the soil know that go to the The iie wants syrup out of potatoes it's Spuds TJf flc such as corn alcohol The alky wss used to synthetic Sixty million surplus bushels i Y i of them j rubber and high octane motor and the trail was picked up the disabled American on which he are grown in following When peace broke out the de- The sheriff at Albany said he record make a prediction on or off toother that deplete If Same Hold these were returned to the p m at 8 i v v would ascertain whether Sapp e atom Nebraska extradition to be re- nf rere the gap turned here for tonal If he refuses Breaking of Japanese hm TTt hall in said o papers will be asked of Code Aided in the peak of governor Shick said SONG WETTER DIES WASHINGTON United officers were credited While Oak Tenn was the philosophers wi between the potato bai and the bucket i The revenue have wartime production a made out of of They just don't out of Omaha every day for N T by Rep Sabath Saturday it wade if a also turning out Seattle it wss loaded into i who achieved twice the Japanese have ti watch shins national fame as a wj-ier the war for tax purposes and Now il will jurt change i the era of Sabath told that the pet law can the j died Saturday at the of 39 Dr was broken prior to the J nw up the wrote and battle of Midway ard thai later a s a filid tram of potato i music the revival tesro wsr Ira D H of tbe cMe first of for food A to the American tressing of tola pea the soil of these same soil produced them 653 per sable cent of the nitrogen in the peas What these same either be returned to the in- in ler irv change the and m quarter of the do not know or purposely of the minute fraction of 4 9 is the asserted far only cent which soes the soil minor fraction of basic through the roots left in the ground in a pea plant are contained r the when are harvested roots The vastly greater The same relative ratios prevail tion is in the vines in regard to phosphates and other basic In the lace of these facts pep cals which with nitrogen ex- be in the soil to the ires by the total of soil fertility convenient methods or above figures are broken s in a tuble and victory at i vases produced in tie Blue an Cat S L of Used Parti to GUS ANDERSON See Pase 14