Weather
; Generally fair 'today ad,
Sunday, becoming clendy
Little changs In tempera
tare. Max. temp. Fri. 5d,
mln. 85. Klver -2.0 ft. South
wind.
Comics
' Four fall page of comics
are Included la the big Bos
day Statesman, besides the
regular dally strips of lauiii
starters. "
KIG11TY.NINTH YEAH
mi feifca Saturday llcmlr?, Novenber 4,
Price 2c; Nenrsstan&i C
No. 191
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GtVHaUDesk
First Witnesses Testify .in
Case Before County -Grand
Jury ' ,
$200 Salary Warrant for
October Will Be
Withheld
City Recorder A. Warren Jones
will re tarn to daty at his desk In
the city hall at 8 : 3 0 -o'clock this
morning, ready to assume full re
sponsibilities of the office, he an
nounced last night.
. This announcement earns at the
close of the day that brought first
witnesses before the Marlon coun
ty grand Jury to testify, "concern
ing the $4031. a sum for which a
special audit last Monday asserted
the recorder's books failed to ac
count. -It also came on the ere of the
day marking the passage of two
weeks - from the time Recorder
Jones left Salem to attend a Eu
gene football game and lodge
meeting and failed to return, tir
ing rise to reports a few days later
that he could not be located and to
decision by the city council ways
and means committee a week ago
today to order the audit.
Returned Home From
California By Plane
Jones returned home from San
Francisco by airplane Wednesday
with the declaration "there is
nothing wrong with my -affairs as
city recorder.' and the explana
tion bo had gono to- the bay elty
to rest sad recoren from a serere
cold. He hsrrled'liom-when ?
learned -In a telephone conversa
tion with bis secretary. Caroyl
Braden. that the audit had been
made and condition - of his ac
counts Questioned. ' i
"I'm city recorder in this city
and tomorrow morning I'm going
to assume my position,.? : Jones
said In his brief announcement to
. (Turn to page 2, coj. 1)
Paul I! outer' Column
The Intelligence from Reno is
devastating to all men .who hare
red blood flowing In their slowly
hardening arter
ies. The dean of
women at .the
TJnlreraity of Ne
vada has issued a
. decree forbid
dlng the major
ette of the unl
Terslty band to
show her dim
pled knees. That
Is nbt good news.
That decree
jam rink with
fMl EL EUMr. T-
the revocation of the edict of Nan
tes as a blow to civilization. It Is
a stab in the back for all of as
(and we are by no means a mlnor-
Ity) who- believe firmly in the
majorette -. as something that Is
good and great in our civilization.
Wo have been stabbed In the back,
but we will net take It sitting
down. Let the dean of women of
the University of Nevada watch
her step and everybody else will
wateh the majorettes step. .
What does the dean want?
Why" she wants the majorettes
to wear underpants of b 1 a e
down to two laches above too
knee; positively no shorts; blue
skirt covering knee; no - more
splits, nipups, fancy strutting;
feet oa ground always.
"ft on rronnd alwaTS. Te
gods, whoever heard of a major
ette who could keep ner ieei on
the ground. . ,
We' hereby align ourselTes
against the perfidity of all those
rioana nf vnmrn who Would take
frnm nnr elTillxatlon that. God-
given right, the freedom of the
knees. - .:
TTT irp A 11 KT VKSS NOTE
: The Marion county budget esti
mate is Xl.l3.-&J.lo. we new
wrttfc alarm the fact that none Of
It. not even the dime on the end,
is allotted " for increasing arma
ment of the Wheatland terry.,
t IRATE READER DEPT.;
t State of Oregon .
Executive Department
.-. . i ' . Salem , .
Desk Memo
To Mr. Hauser.
CnMt nnvArnor's ScTSDDOOk
. The rarious stenographers' (not
secretaries) in the execuuve u
hmnt MMnt the false, mis-
leading. Infamous. Ubelous. scur
rilous and otherwise offenslve-rer-
.mkmi in tha condition Of the
.u.. .nhut w well know the
aavwvv bumvv! ' -
desire of the management of The
Oregon Statesman, to hare the nt
Inost accuracy In the columns of
tHat periodical ana can your j-
tsntlon to tne facts, i wr.
(Tarn to page t. coL41
Here's Connie Tali
Fourth and 7
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Star of tie silent screen, Constance TaJmadge Is shown witb. ner
fourth ,and most recent husband, Walter Glblin, broker, as tney de
parted from their borne in New York. The two were married Octo
ber 20. i Miss Talmadge divorced her wealthy third husband. Town
send X etcher, last January. . -
iSudset nody As
! e U.
Nineteen Estimate Items
Marion 1 County Committee
to Continue and Probably Complete Task; '
: Estimate Totals $1,193,653.10 ' '
The 'Marion county citizen's budget committee, after a
morning spent in listening to
items in the proposed 1940 budget, bit into the major issue
of deciding on departmental estimates during the afternoon
and had agreed on 19 items
after 5 p. m. r : K
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Charges of Russia
foreign ; Minister States
Finland Did Not "
Makes Gestures
i '.'.
HELSINKI. Not. S-JF-Flnn-
lsh Foreign Minister Eljsa Erkko
tonight described as "untrue" a
charge by the Russfaa newspaper
Pravda that .Finland had made
warlike gestures and added that
if this and other soviet attacks
on Finland were "of a tactical
nature" : they "have failed our.
attitude unchanged. . "
"There is a limit to everything,"
Erkko said Jtt a press conference,
referring to the statement of the
Moscow organ of the communist
party and Soriet Premier-Foreign
Commissar Molotoffs disclosure
Tuesday of secret Finnish-Russian
negotiations. '
"We have shown our goodwill.
the foreign minister continued.
"We are not at war and we want
to live In peace. In such condi
tions proposals were pat to ns
which in normal times would be
offensive.
Finland's answer to the Rus
sian demands are In the hands
of soviet officials and now It Is
up to them to determine whether
further negotiations are wortn
while, he said.
Investigation Is
Untrae Says Jinns
Union Activities in Panama
WASHINGTON" Not. IMJP-
The house committee oa unAmer-
Ican activities ordered a detauea
lnTestixstlon of union activities in
the Panama Canal Zone today al
ter receiving testimony that the
mri'S organisation director there
is a communist.
- Thv testimony came iron rrea
.tv r Phimiw. former official
of the CIO National Maritime an
ion, who told, the committee that
the man in qnestioa was IL A.
Stoudt and that he had heen given
his Job through the Influence of
John Ij. Lewis, CIO president, and
niton recommendation of Joseph
Currsn. head of the NMU.
Moreorer Phillips said, there
has been great organizational ac
tivity In recent months ,a mo ng
aon-seamen, and Curraa has em
phasized the need "to lsy the basis
for work among the 11,00 9 ciTil
employes.',. . '' "'j4.
e and Her 1
Recent Husband
rees on
Will Meet Again Today
delegations favoring particular
before adjournment was voted
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The committee will meet again
today at 9 a. m. to continue, and
probably to complete the task of
making tentative decision on the
dosens of particular . Items which
add up to ah estimated total for
the budget of $1,1U.53.10. ,
Of this sum $508,513.10 will
be made op -from direct property
taxation. $368,940 from revenues
other than taxation, $121,000
from a t a t e taxes, and a final
$108,290 credited to provide for
delinquent taxes during the next
fiscal year. As the budget stands,
It is some $18,500 ever last year.
Among the largest Items ap
proved yesterday was $S900 for
maintenance ' of the court house,
a' figure down $290 from ' last
year. Also passed was an estimate
of $5190 for the county court and
commissioners, $180 less than last
year's total, and $4798 for the
county Jail,- The committee cut
$ 12 5 from the original " Jail re
quest of $4920. ' .4
The coroner's estimate .was
pared down $123 asked to take
care of indigent burials to a fig-
are of $885. The county agent was
allowed $2200 as requested, and
the ' county hortlculturallst was
also allowed $1850 for which he
had originally asked. : 1
The committee approved with
little discussion an item of $5700
for county audits. Including $4600
for special treasurer's office audit
and $1000 for general andit of
records.
" Items of $167 for the district
fire warden, $2800 for the county
herd v inspector, $650 for the
slaughter of diseased cattle," and
. (Turn to page 2, col. 1)
Ordered dfl
Mention of the Canal Zone, stra
tegically Tital area in American
defense plans, aroused the quick
Interest of the committee. .
Rep. Thomas (R-NJ) demanded
to know why a maritime anion
should manifest Interest "at this
critical time" In organizing for
eign employes of -the, Canal Zone
who never go to sea. . - : t -
-"There Is great significance to
this," he said, "Snd X want, te go
Into the matter in great detail' and
hate a thorough investigation."
However, Phillips said he was un
able to give any details because
he bad recently been out of touch
with the anion, although he said
he knew Stoudt was in the Canal
Zone and that the subject previ
ously had been under discussion
sereral times at anion headquar
ters early this year. , v?
Rhea Whitley, committee conn-
. : (Turn to pago.2, coL t).:
eturm. io
Bearcats
artan
To 15-0 Score
3500 See San Jose State
Win Ninth Straight
Contest
Local Lads Are Worn to
Frazzle hy Three ' t
Full Elevens k
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Straight Warner stuffnothing
naw lint thn helmets. rave Saa
Jose State's nation-pacing Spartan
scorers a is to a zootoaii -victory
orer onr Willamette Bearcats be
fn skoa on Sweetland laatnlcht.
but not before the local lads were
worn to a frazzle by the greater
. m a .
share or tnree xuu eierens.
: rrainv fif wlnrbacka aa threats
and pouring power to the middle
wttfc tfcav fnllbaeV tan-rins n fake
reverses, the Calif ornlans grabbed
tneir nintn straignt . wm ,
current 13 -game season by Tirtae
of a thlrd-auarter field coal and
two final-period touchdowns. :
Cats Held Thrice
In First Half '
Although the Warner oDeGroot
machine rolled to 99 yards from
scrimmage and 12 from passes In
the first nan, to a lonesome i
frnm urlmmtn for the Cats. and
hung ap six first downs to one,
theT were thrice held for downs
and couldn't score with a first
down on the Willamette IX. They
wound ap the first period, la fact,
by relinquishing the baU en the
Bearcat three-yard line, to which
ma 1iiaa xrrisa tiv TTa.lfbaelr
Manoogjaa tned, them rronvthi
; it wasn't antil midway of the
fhrA that Oaard Ken Cook, sent
la for the specific purpose, drop
ped back to the Willamette is ana
booted home three points from a
difficult angle to break the dead
lock. The Spartans were put in
position for the boot whea Hansen
MakVuI TOalitam'a itnnt and It was
recovered by Allen on the Willam
ette 10.
Vlnter at the line rained bnt
two, a pass from Zimmerman to
(Turn to page z, eoi. j
Grew and Japan's
ister Confer
Reports Say Two Discuss
American-Nipon
Relations
TOKYO. Not. 4.-(Saturday)-
JFV-nnlted EUtes Ambassador
Joseph C. Grew and Foreign Min
ister Klchlsaburo Nomura aeia
today a 90-mlnute conference at
which both were reported to have
spoken with "entire frankness" in
exploring the entire field of
American-Japanese relations.
A high official source said they
exchanged views on positions of
their resnectlTe rovernments re
garding three major Issues some
600 Instances of American prop
erty damaged by Japanese bomb
ings In China, alleged Japanese
restrictions of American' trade to
China ant general interference of
American business transactions.
, "Diplomatic Jockeying notably
was absent, both diplomats tak
In r hold of the nroblems In a
businesslike manner," he added.
Resumption of ,the talks was
not fixed Immediately. .
Hold
Sp
Team
CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR U-BOAT CREW
.1
Kaxland too has Its concentration camps in wartime,' and radlopboto above from London shows the cap
tain and three members of a German submarine rew being escorted by av cordon t Britlub sailors to
Just such confinement. The German prisoners are shown disembarking from a naval tug. The name
Cf tae ttttisame as wen as max
THESE BOMBERS AWAIT FR'S
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PJsmaBtlcd nltra sfiainHerd bombing planes, made in Los Angeles,
, tared being loaded oa bargee at
- for immediate shipment whea
embargo umA snbetltntimg m system ef "eaab. and Carry sales. The
be transported en foreign snipe.
Silver Falls IEU
Reaffirms Stand
Local Union Determined to
Keep Organization as
Bargaining Agent . .
EILVERTON, Nov. 9-VPh-ln
special session. Bllrer Falls IKU
Friday night eTerwhelmlngly re
affirmed their determination to be
represented by the Industrial Em
ployees Union in collective bar
gaining with the Silver Falls Tim
ber company.. The -day shift
erowded one hall. while the Bight
shift met at another hall.
A number of improvements In
existing contracts were Toted and
negotiations for these will be
started at once The nature of
these improrements was not re
vealed to non-members, .and local
officials said they would probably
not be made public" for another
month.
Speakers at the meetings were
A. D.-Chisholm, IEU president.
and Nicholas Jaureguy, IEU at
torney, both of Portland.
Chlsholm compared the IEU
tactics with other unions where
loss to groups of workers resulted
from the rarious strikes, while the
IEU continued Its '-steady work
and negotiations at the same
time. : -;.:'
Jareguy outlined the legal end
of the labor hearing held sometime
ago at Toledo In which the labor
board involved the whole IEU or
ganization but finally had to drop
the charges against the IEU and
that organization was completely
cleared.
Salem Woman Is
Welfare Chairman
INDIANAPOLIS. Not. t.-(JP-Selection
of Mrs. J. H. Turnball,
Salem, as child welfare chairman
for the area was announced today
by the national American Legion
auxiliary headquarters. She will
direct auxiliary activities for
needy children of world war ret
erans in the western states. :
Mrs. Tarnbull Is a past presi
dent of the Oregon department of
the auxiliary.
cz tae unasa bcx saown were tucicu ij - r. . . ; -'
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Manhattan's noycl Bennett airport
President Moosereu aftlxee bis signature to the bin repealine the an
President Passes
Off Suggestion
As 'Poor Manners'
WASHINGTON, JTot. V(ffV
Presidemt Roosevelt ascribed
poor manners to Russia today,
answering press conference'
invitation to comment on tne
- recent snggestlo ef Represent
ative ICcCornaK (D-Mass) tE2t"
the Uatted States withdraw her '
ambassador to Bassla, be said
he never bad believed poor
manners shonld beget poor
McCormack was indignant
orer Premier MolotofTs criti
cism of President RooseTClt for
"intervening" in behalf of Fin
land in the latter conntry'a-di-.
pate with Russia.
Roosevelt Due to;
Sign Bill Today
Congress Adjourns Special
Session After Approval
Of New Act
WASHINGTON, Not. 8-(ff) The
special session of the 7th ' con
gress adjourned at : 2 S . o'clock
toalght after finally approving the
Roosevelt administration bill to
repeal the arms embargo and sub
stitute' a system of "cash and car
ry" sales to the belligerents of
Europe.- - r - - ' , ."
The legislation, product of six
weeks' fighting as to the best way
to keep America free of war, went
to President Rooserelt for his sig
nature, scheduled to be affixed at
noon tomorrow. Ceremonies, will
accompany the signing of the measure,-with
members of house and
senate who were prominent in the
long fight attending; -'
From the White House,-meanwhile,'
came word that soon after
approving the bill, the chief exec
utive would Issue proclamations
making It effective as applied to
the war in Europe.
-Final congressional action came
with the approval by both
(Turn to page 2, col.' 2) '
SIGNATURE
CaL, for sale to England are pic-
In order that they win be ready
plaavee and aU war materlabs wOl
Highway Body to
Spend $lCa,CC3
Amount i to Be Used for
Adyertising State
ToTourisU
PORTLAND, Ore- Not. l.-PV-
The state highway commission de
cided today te, spend 1100,000 to
advertise Oregon's tourist attrac
tions. Tne aecision wss reached
orer objections by an Oregon State
Motor association representative.
Ray Conway, who asked the adver
tising program be altered.
. Most of the money will be spent
In the east and Conway argued
that more of it should be diverted
to western states. Harold B. Say.
director of the travel and infor
mation department of the commis
sion, said that of 1130,000 spent
for magazine, newspaper, radio
and motion picture advertising in
1939, approximately 47 per cent
will be west of the Mississippi.
The commission recommended
that the state board of control
accept Richfield Oil's low bid again
to supply the state's gasoline In
1940 The bid was about 115,000
lower than the nearest competitor
on the annual business of about
1335.000. It included prices of 13
and a fraction cents on bulk gaso
line and 19 cents on service sta
tion gasoline, taxes included.
Yamhill and Benton county of
ficials asked paring of the Day
ton-Amity- road because . of in
creased traffic around the Yam
hill farm labor camp. - -
Benton Farmer
; TKpayer Head
Corvallis. Ore.. Not. tOPV
Claude Buchanan, Benton county
farmer and former state legislat
or, was elected temporary chair
man of a newly-formed state tax
payers' federation today, and Mrs.
Anna - Krnrer. : Bearerton, was
aamed secretary. - . -
Taxpayers from 11 western Ore
gon counties participated In the
organization meeting, Benton, Co
lumbia, Coos, Clackamas, Lane,
Linn, Polk,- Marion. " Multnomah,
Josephine and Washington. ,
Salem was awarded . the next
meeting -when a committee con
sisting of O. K. Dewitt and Carl
Pope, Salem; and A. L. Thomas;
Independence, will submit a con
stitution and by-laws. -
American Factory Wheels
5
' NEW ; YORK. Nor. t-V-
Amerlca's ' factorr wheels are
whirring at the fastest rate since
the boom days of 1929, the na
tion's leading statistical authori
ties estimated today.".
- i Tha federal reserve board placed
Its monthly Index of industrial pro
duction lor. octooer.at zuper
cent of the 1923-25 average, two
Mints orer the previous recovery
peak reached In 193.7. v I.-
Economists in . waantngton ana
trail afreet asked.ls this recov
ery the real thing T" -
; At the pace estimated for Oc
tober, goods were rolling out ef
industrial 'plants at a rate less
tnan 4 r cent under tbe boom-
time level of decade ago.
.Unemployment, or course, u
much greater .than 10 year ago,
and national' income, partly , re
flecting a lower jprice level, much
less.:.'.; ' '-
Kerertlitlcss, &a iwecping' ao-
ShinR
etnrned
At OsloTPort
Admiralty Says Vessel. IV
1 in - Harbor. Without I
; 'Valid Reason ' ;
Steamship ts now Free to?
Sail Wherever She ,
' 'Desires
. HATJGESUND, Norway, Not. '
4-(Satnrday)-()-The ' Ameri- :
can freighter . City ot Flint, '
freed from her German captors' '
by the Norwegian government, -
left this port early today and '
turaed - northward toward
Bergen.! -
BERGEN, Nor. 4.-(Saturday).
(p) Norway today released the
American freighter City of Flint
from a. German prize crew and
a. -
To Americans
interred her captors after they
had failed to' obey re;la.UonalA
Norwegian territorial waters, h.
. The release came at about i N
a. m. (5 P. m. PST Friday) and
the reason ascribed by Norwegian
naval officials was that the City
of Flint. had made an illegal en
try of the port of Haugesund. .
Previously, also, they said, she
had tailed to respond to a warn
ing . to . slow down, given by a
Norwegian destroyer. The war
ship put a warning shot across
the freighter's bow. .
The City of Flint, which had
been held by the Germans since!
a prize crsw from the pocket
battleship Dentschland boarded
her in the north Atlantic October
9, now is free to sail at will under
her own crew and under the
American flag; t
-' She had not yet put to sefir.
ever, up to 7:30 a. mnTiO:30
p. m. PST).
: ; OSIyO.VNofwjty,"' Nov, L- Sat- -
nrday)-(a?t-rie wanderings of
the American freighter City of
Flint under a German prize crew
ended early today when Nor
wegian officials Interned the nasi
crew at Haugesund, on the west
ern Norwegian coast, and released
the ahlp to her American crew.
The Norwegian admiralty an
nounced the ship, en route from
Murmansk, Russia, to Hamburg,
Germany, anchored at the Nor
wegian pdrt without "valid rea
son" and that it was decided to
Interne the German crew and that -the
vessel should be "given free.
This meant, - one usually well
informed Norwegian source said,
that the City of Flint, a prisoner
of the Germans and an object of
diplomatic action since she was
seised by the .German pocket
battleship Dentschland on Octo
ber 9, was free to sail away whenvv
ever she wished.
This source added that the
freighter may already have sailed
away -once more In charge of her
American crew. '
The freighter, first carried to
Murmansk by the nazi prise crew
after her capture In the Atlantic
with what the Germans said was
a - contraband cargo, . reached
Haugesund .at 5 p. m. (8 a. m.
PST) yesterday. ..
No m Seaman v.
Taken From Ship '
" There were reports that the
ahlp put into the Norwegian har
bor to land an American seamea
who was 111 but as the hours wore
on there . was no indication that
(he seaman. woald be put ashore.
. - Then came - the admiralty's
statement which said:
"The American City ' of Flint
with a German prize crew, was
allowed to use the Norwegianter
rltorial waters from Tromsoe
southward. The ship, accompan
ied by a Norwegian ship Olar
TrygSjason and - one torpedo
boat, arrived at Haugesund FrK
day evening and anchored off
Haugesund without permission.
' "As there was no valid reason
for calling at the Norwegian port
authorities decided, the' ship
Should be given free and the Ger
(Turn to page 2, col. 7)
celeratloa - of - business activity
since last spring and more than
a third of it, as shown by reserve
ooard statistics,- occurred before
the outbreak of .war has hoisted
hopes high that at last the Aerarl
caa economy may- be beginning to
dick. . t
Yet recalling the false recovery
starts of 1933 and 1927, and try
lag to analyze the extraordinary
influences of European war, man?
economists said' they frankly had
their fingers crossed. ;" -'
; Tia reserve board warned "ua
lc.s tere is considerable Increarj
la tLa consumption goods, the ac
cumulation of Inventories which is
now under; way is likely to reach
ssbstantial pronoftlons. J" That
meant that bus'.aesa mlj:M. as two
years ago, find" Itself ttajrerin
under a big load of unsold good.
; The reserve board and a number
of Wall stree . tclrcles estimated ,
' (Tern to page 2, cel. 2)