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Mar. temp. Tnes. 64, min.
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In Transfer of
US Steamships
Roosevelt Discloses He
- Asked Commission to
Delay Action
President Indicates He
Desires to Study
Change Effects
WASHINGTON. Nor. 7.-UP)-
President ; Roosevelt Intervened
and postponed a showdown today
In the conflict boiling within his
official . family and in congress
over the United States Lines pro
posal to place eight of its ships un
der the flag of Panama so they
could fly European waters closed
to American vessels by the neu
trality act.
Although contending that there
could be no International episode
lnvolring Americans If the ships
were sunk while sailing under the
Panamanian flag. Mr. Roosevelt
disclosed at Hyde Park. N. Y.. that
lie had telephoned the maritime
commission and asked that action
on the proposal be delayed.
He told reporters that the com'
mission had approved the plan
yesterday but that it had later
called the shipping company own
ers and requested them to hold ev-
erythlng for a while.
Indicates He Wants
To Stady Plan'
Mr. Roosevelt Indicated be
wanted time to study any effects
the company's plan might have on
national defense, as" well as the
Influence of ship transfers on mar
itime competition.- ,
The president argued, that neu
trality did not enter the case. Ear
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Paul flauser's Column
We ate an apple today and It set
qs to wondering about one thing
and another, especially about It
feeing apple week
and how a) De
licious apple is
the most delic
ious apple and
about carload
mgs and whether
spray really
helps.
We were won
dering If there
was any trnth In
m SAW
about an apple B
a day keeping the doctor , away,
but six doctors came right up to
ns while we were eating that
apple. Three of them were eating
apples themselves and we had to
stick our tongue out at them to
make them o away. So our con
clusion was that that is just anoth
er old saw without any teeth.
Then fwe were Jnst aboat
Inwn tn the rore) we cot to
thinking about the First Apple
and bow for tbe apple has tome
since those early days ia Eden.
1 Nowadays even tbe American
Medical association has aa occa
sional good word to say for It.
That Original Apple hung on a
bough in Eden and nobody paid
any attention to it, not even to no
tice whether it was a Gravensteln
or Stark's Delicious, until that Ole
DeTil Serpent came along and
plucked ,lt.
That Ole DeTil Serpent gave Ere
the apple and she took It and ate
It. And that, gentlemen. Is where
the trouble started.
Before she ate that apple Ere
was getting along fine. She was a
food. Innocent girl, although
slightly nude. But as soon a she
ate that apple she became con
scious of her nakedness and be
gan stripping the fig trees, an ac
tion which greatly hampered fig
production for that year.
Well, history has been passing
by and water has been flowing un
der that little old bridge and, ac
cording to the latest statistics, the
demand for fig leaves has been
falling off At an alarming rate.
Maybe It's time for that Old
DeTil Serpent to pass the apples
round again.
HIGHKR EDUCATION NOTE
The Willamette university drum
majorettes, whose skirts hare not
suffered any short-sighted 'policy
of encirclement,- are considering
rallying to the cause of their col
leagues at the UniTersity of Ne
vada. They will, as a matter of
fact, take steps.
1 SO LONG, 8U
Portland. Not. : 7-tf)-Actlnaj
Chinese Consul 8. C Su said to- .
day Silwing P. C Aa had beesi
named consul for Portland! and
would arrive some time next
week.5' ..
Adieu ! Adieu-! Oh. Mr. Su. y
We're sorry you are through.
But If you're really got to go.
We'll aay "hello! lo Mr. An,
But if at this he lifts -a brow "
Then we'll say "how to Mr. An.
"Wlth the Internment of 17
German seamen from the City of
Flint prise crew by the Norwe
fcians the strategy of tbe Nazis
becomes apparent. They bare
now established a "repressed
minority la Norway.
7
Even f Test Tut
Diet of Nice Fresh Raw Carrot
i
Here Is the first "test tabe rabbit,
of the oram la a test tabe, resting
her debut at the New York Academy of Medicine. The rabbit, a doe.
Is the first mammalian creature
result of a fatherless birth. The
only as the living Incubator for
cies of rabbit.
US Policy Hit by
Japanese Papers
Three Newspapers Knoek
Program Toward
Nippon
TOKYO. Nor. 8-(Wednesday )-
(JP)-Three of Japan's biggest news
papers hammered American policy
toward Japan today in a Journalis
tic "coincidence" which led ob
serrers to-belters they were offi
cially Inspired.
Indications were that projected
conrersatlons between Ambassa
dor Joseph Grew and Foreign Mln-later-KlchUaburo
Nomura to clear
op Japanese-American relations
might begin in an exploslre atmos
phere. .
Asahl declared the Unite States
was preparing both economic and
naral pressure against Japan,
Nlchl Nichl poked fun at the Unit.
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Gunfire Is Heard
Over Amsterdam
i
AMSTERDAM, Nor. 8-(Wednes-
day)-A3)-HeaYy gunfire was
heard early today in Amsterdam
and at sereral other points as
Netherlands anti-aircraft batteries
attempted to bring down unidenti
fied planes.
Firing first was reported at
Schipo airport, south of Amster
dam, then on the western outskirts
of the city and later northward tn
the direction of Haarlem.
. This Indicated the. planes were
flying In a northerly direction. The
gunfire brought numerous resi
dents to the streets In their night
clothes, but no planes could be
seen. j
Nazi Crew Is on
Way to Fortress
BERGEN. Not. liJPPthm' U
Germans who made up the prise
crew aboard the American freight
er City of Flint left here tonight
for Oslo, en route to internment
la the fortress at Kongsrlnger.
near Sweden's border.
The foreign office at Oslo said
Germany had been-informed again
that Norway's decision to free the
City of Flint and hold the prize
crew was IrreTocable.
The freighter was glren back to
the American sailors last Saturday
after she had wandered for 2
days from, Tromsoe, Norway, to
Murmansk. Russia, and back to
southern Norway. She was seized
Oct. 9 in the North Atlantic by a
German raider on the ground that
her British-bound cargo Included
contraband. :
Final Budget Meeting Booked
For Courthouse November 29
ti nroBAMd Marion countv
budget forilS40, as rerlsed last
weekend by the county budget
committee,! if nnaiiy approTea,
will call for a total county tax
burden of f 1719.147.10, only
f 187S.70 orer last year according
to figures rerealed yesterday by
County court ciera nenry .Mail-
son, i-i , " v r.v ' -v k'
lfsmbera ef the bndret commit
tee, when Informed of the slight
Increase orer last year. Indicated
that good possibility existed uii
It might be eliminated entirely at
the final budget meeting, to be
held In the courthouse on Norem-
hr is. such additional craning
would leare the tax figure at) the
same lerel as last year, despite
an increase of $15,000 in county
welfare expenditures.
Total estimated -expenditures
for 1040 according to the tem
porary budget amount to $1,071,-
9 at ID tn wil1t mnst ba added
$108,290 to account for estimated
delinquencies, learing a. total of
bbit Likes 'i
produced by artificial actiTaUoa
easily and undisturbed following
to be brought Into the world as a
rabbit who gave her birth serred
aa oram taken from another spe
English and Polish
Fight Nazi Planes
'Number of Air Actions
Reported Over North
Sea Area
LONDON, Nor. 7.-V-Brltlsh
warships, aided by two Polish de
stroyers, were reported to hare
fought off an attack by German
aircraft today, while the British
planes engaged nazls In a "num
ber of air actions" orer the North
Sea. t i -'
The admiralty, describing the
air-naral battle, also In the North
Sea, said the warships all escaped
damage, and the air ministry said
all British planes returned safely
from the encounter. ' It was not
known, whether, there were any an
emy casualties. ;..
An air ministry communique
telling, of the air battles said an
enemy plane approaching the
Shetland Islands, north of Scot
land, was driren off by anti-aircraft
fire and chased away by
British aircraft.
"Sereral other enemy aircraft
were sighted and two were en
gaged by royal air force patrols
many miles out orer the North
Sea. The enemy aircraft escaped
into clouds and It Is not known
whether they were able to retain
home."
Naval circles said they bellered
tbe sea-air battle was the first
time Polish ships bad been in ac
tion against the Germans.
Berchtold Elected
Mt. Angel Mayor
MT. ANGEL. Nor. 7 Jaenh
Berchtold was elected mayor of
ML Angel today when 277 roters
turned out to east their ballots.
one of the largest votes erer east
here, .
Berehtolff iinuf an . 931 nfe.
against 41 for his opponent. Math
wagner. ajois Keder was elected
treasurer with 214 votes and
W. D. Harris was elected ltv re
corder with 157. Harris's oppon
ent, n. m. Lauby recelred 118.
Councilmen elected were C. J.
Butsch. 205: T. N. Smith. 14 r
and John Blgler, 179.
Boy Injured When
Struck by Truck
.
Donald Botts, 15, route six, was
hit by a truck late last night as
he was walking along State street
east of the city limits. He was
taken to the Salem General hos
pital suffering from a fractured
skull and head laceration. The
truck was driren by Thomas Pow
ers of Stayton.
$1,181,637.10 for the completed
budget. Subtraction of miscellane
ous rerenues from state and other
sources, and an expendable sur
plus of $97,500, leares the figure
of $710.47.10 for total tax levy.
' Breakdown for particular f dnds,
all of which participate" in the
general totals giTen, shows ' that
the general fund, the county's
largest. Is estimated at-$251,501
for total requirements. Including
$55,000 for estimated delinquen
ices. Deducting rerenues and sur
plus, '$158,251 - remains .to be
raised by tax lery. - - .
Tax lery for roads and highways
fund will equal $36,300 according
to the revised budget, with the
bulk of the $260,000 total re
quirement ' coming from state
taxes. The market road improve
ment fund adds another $97,500
to the lery. - County school fund
to be raised by school tax amounts
to 81SS.C10.10, and an additional
$1986.10 for library tax. Old age
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Wilhelmiiand
Leopold Offer
Mediation Plan
Proffer Offices of SmaU
Neutral Countries
for Conference
Germany, Britain, France
Are Sent Telegrams
by Sovereigns
THE HAGUE. Not. 1-VPr-
King Leopold of the Belgians and
Queen Wilhelmina of the Neth
erlands offered tonight to help
find a war to peace for three
great warring empires before the
conflict "begjns with its full
power."
The sudden proffer or ine
good offices of the tall, unsmil
ing king and devout queen, sore-
reigns of two small, perilously
placed neutrals, was made in
telegrams to the heads of Ger-
manr. Britain and France alter
hurried and secret conferences at
Noordelnde palace.
Informed sources hinted
strongly that King Leopold's
nixht time dash by automobile to
Noordelnde was prompted by in
formation that Germany was
about to gamble on an attack
against France's Maglnot line,
which military experts have
agreed would cost thousands of
llres.
Queen Told of Conference
Just Before Arrival
These sources said Queen wil
helmina was told of the impend
ing consultations only three hours
before Leopold reached The
Hague last night.
The mediation offer was the
second by the king and queen..
Three days before Germany in
vaded Poland on Sept. 1 the
sovereigns offered their offices to
mediate the growing crisis in
Europe. The offer was accepted
by Poland. Britain, Franco and
Germany but there were no fur
ther development alter the na-
(Tnrn to Page 2, Col. I)
US Gets Another
Blast From Soviet
Dimitroff Hits American
Neutrality Policy
in Magazine
MOSCOW, Not. 7-aV-The
United States came In for another
soviet blast today as Russia cele
brated the 22nd anniversary of
the communist revolution with a
mighty display of military power
in flag-bedecked Red Square.
George Dimitroff, secretary-
general of the communist Inter
national, writing in the official
magazine of the organization at
tacked American neutrality as
completely hypocritical."
He .accused the United States
of becoming the "arms factory
for England and France" and
added:
"The American bourgeois ac
tually Is the main supplier of war
materials to Japanese Imperial
Ism, thus kindling the war in the
far" east in order to weaken both
Japan and China- then consoli
date her own position In China."
ROME, Nor. 7-(Pr-The au
thoritative fascist editor, Ylrginlo
Gayda, tonight charged soviet
Russia with partial responsibility
for the European war.
Writing in II Giornale dltalia.
the . editor who usually bespeaks
government views, accused Rus
sia of imperialism and of apply
ing dangerous pressure in the
Balkans. His editorial was an
outspoken retort to the manifes
to issued yesterday in Moscow by
the communist International on
the 22 nd-anniversary of the com
munist revolution.
Portland Youth Named
PORTLAND, Nov.7H(P-Thom-
as J. White, Portland, University
of Oregon graduate, has been
named state chairman of the Jun
ior bar conference of the American
Bar. Paul F. Hannah. , national
conference chairman,' announced
today.'-, :' .. ,: . I
BROKEN IN
Graphic photo above shows sinking of the British freighter llagdapnr, broken' in two after being
' smashed by a nasi U-boat torpedo somewhere off the English coast. Photo was taken by a seaman in
at fleeing lifeboat from the sinking ship. Mote rescue veasell approaebiag tat the bacagrowad. Mean
time, a nmzt pocket battleship was reported off tbe Caribbean ia tbe western Atlantic soeking allied
shipping from the Panama canal. ., . '
SAWS WHINE
. - . - - '
I
1
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Independence has a sawmill, after many years without one. This photo was taken yesterday as the first
nnit of the new Cooper mill there was placed in foil operation yesterday.
Repeal of Act Weakens
Bulwarks
Representative Mott States That Sentiment
Congress, However, Should Overcome
'Any War-Provoking Incidents'
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
The United States bulwarks against involvement in the
war in Europe were weakened by repeal of the embargo act
but sentiment in congress and
come "any war-provoking; incidents," Representative James
W. Mott said last night on his return home from Washington
and the recent special session.
Britain, France to
Coordinate Buying
English Embassy Tells of
Plan to Eliminate
Competition
WASHINGTON, Nov. -()-
Great Britain and France will co
ordinate their war purchases in
the United States, eliminating
competition between them, the
British embassy announced . to
night.
It is estimated unofficially that
the two allies are ready to place
$1,000,000,000 in war orders here
In the near future.
The embassy also disclosed that
the United Kingdom government
had "decided to set up a central
organization to be known as the
British supply board in Canada
and the United States, "for the
purpose of coordinating purchases
in the two countries."
The embassy . said with regard
to coordination with France: - MA
laterannouncement will be made
regarding the necessary arrange
ments to secure close co-ordination
of British and French pur
chases in the United States."
The embassy thus disclosed a
policy in direct contrast with the
course followed by the two auics
at the beginning of the World
war. At that time they bid against
each other for American war sup
plies and raw materials and con
sequently ran up prices.
Committee Given
Morey Mud Plaint
Any motorist who's been stuck
In the mud will sympathize with
the plaint voiced to the city coun
cil Monday night by E. L. Morey,
247 South Church street.
Morey drove out to the city
dump recently and his car sank to
the axles in a mud bole.
When he asked city Incinerator.
employes what to do to get out,
they stood and laughed at him, he
said. And they continued to laugh,
he complained, whUe he put in
"three, hours of hard wor k,"
burned out the transmission bands
on his ear and used np two gallons
of gasoline in extricating his auto
from the city's mire.
The council referred the com
plaint to the Incinerator commit
tee. . "
TWO, FREIGHTER
AT NEW INDEPENDENCE MILL
Against War
of
out against war should over
O An opponent of arms embargo
repeal, Mott predicted congress
action would bring "incidents."
He asserted the new cash and car
ry legislation and the repeal meas
ure had put this country in tbe
position of taking sides.
Should England and France be
come nara pressea wnen war ac
tivities intensify next - spring, a
movement for repeal of the cash
and carry law may be started in
congress, Mott predicted, adding
that the allies may not be able to
pay cash for long.
But domestic problems farm
relief and labor relations, in par
ticularwill occupy Increasing at
tention when congress meets in
regular session in January, In
Mott's opinion.
The republican bouse minority
already is moving toward drafting
"an affirmative agricultural pro
gram," the congressman reported.
He is a member of a committee ap
pointed to that task and of sub
committees on reciprocal' trade
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New York Voters
Oust Book-Makers
Tiger of Tammany Hall
Is Apparently on -Comeback
Trail
NEW YORK, Nor. 7-p)-New
York state voters today ousted the
book-makers from Its five race
tracks in favor of parl-mutuel bet
ting while in New York city the
tiger of Tammany hall, after se
vere reverses In recent elections,
apparently was on the comeback
trail.
The rote on the parl-mutuel
amendment to the state constitu
tion, which was opposed by Mayor
La Guardia among others, was
approximately four to one in fa
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Pocketbook Loss
By Campfire Girl
Upsets Her Plans
Thirteen - year - old Le6na Bell
Wallace, 210 South 23rd street,
went forth to do a Campfire girl's
good tarn last night hut ill for
tune upset her plans. She lost her
pocketbook.
The worst of It was, she said.
that In tbe pocketbook was f 4
which she bad collected la connec
tion . with : the Campfire girls'
doughnut sale. In the light yellow
handbag also were her school pen
cils and pen.
GOES DOWN.
Plant Will Have
Large Capacity
50,000 Board Feet to Be
Cat Daily by 15 or
20 Workers
t
INDEPENDENCE, Nov. 7
This city's first sawmill in many
years got fully under way today
after test cutting done Monday.
. Bunt on a 10-acre site at the
west city limits by Frank Coo
per, recently of Alrlle, the plant
will have a daily sawing capacity
of 10,000 board feet of lumber
and will give employment at
present to 15 or 20 men. Later
the crew will be increased. Coo
per has already brought in 400,-
eoo reet of logs from which to
supply the mill.
Construction of a planing mill
will be started at once, Cooper
said.-. A hog fnel cutter also la
being Installed. - -
mm is located on a spur
or tne valley & Silets railway
and. a bridge has been built
across the new log pond to per
mit operation of lumber carriers
direct to the Southern Pacific
line.
The Cooper mill, operated at
Alrlle for 15 years, Is being dis
mantled and sold.
Bigelow's Pension
Rejected by Ohio
Defeat Worst of Kind in
Buckeye State's
History
(By Associated1 Press)
CLEVELAND, Nov. 1-J?f-emphatlcally
rejected today the
Bigelow plan to extend old-age
pension, rolls to citizens between
60 and 65 and to liberalise pay
ments.
For every voter who favored
the program there were three
who opposed it.
The j result, - the secretary of
state said, was the worst defeat
of Its kind in the Buckeye state's
history. -
Herbert S. Bigelow, white
haired author of the proposal to
tax land 'and Incomes to guaran
tee S40 or $S0 a month to every
retired citizen over 80, conceded
defeat when returns from only
a 'Sixth of the state's 8S89 pre
cincts had been counted.
"It looks as if we are snowed
nnder," he said, sitting in his
loft office in an old Cincinnati
lodge building..
Then be made it clear "the
fight is going to go on," with
efforts to submit an even more
drastic amendment to the voters
in 1949.
Returns from 888 precincts
gave:
For tbe pension plan 318,875.
Against 1.149.290.
.Opponents had fought the plan
as "the most ruinous proposal",
ever . submitted to Ohio voters.
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Forest; Grove
Bonneville
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 7-Upy-
The first Bonneville power con
tract providing filed retail rates
was signed today by Forest Grove,
Ore., a . farming" community -25
miles west -of here. :
The contract, a 20-year agree
ment calling for tbe p&rcbase of
760 kilowatts, includes a max
mum farm-home rate schedule
startlnr at 2 cents a kilowatt hour
and ranging downward to cent.
Power win be delivered about
the -end of the month..'
Store and factory rates range
from 3 cents a kilowatt nour to
approximately f a cent for
large - scale . Industries. Officials
said commercial power bills would
be cut about half, the average
store's bill dropping from I18.2&
a month to 9. v
The farm-home schedule: first
SO kwh a month, 3 cents a kilo
watt hour; next SO kwh a month.
cents; next zov, l cent; next
Lags
Control of Oil Production
Measure Also Badly
-1 Behind I
Chiropractic Law Change
Is Swamped by
Voters
(By Associated Press) ;
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 The
"Htm and Eggs" pension plan ap
peared decisively defeated tonjgbt
on a count of about one third of
the ballots in the special Califor
nia election and one of its leaders,
Will H. Klndig, conceded it beat
en. ' .
In 9048 out of 11,165 precincts
the vote was 604,288 for and 1,
008.282 against. '
It lagged in every county report
ing. Heavily , populated Los Ange
les county was turning In a ratio
of about 1.8 to 1 against it.
Governor Olson Comments
on Defeat of Plan I .
Governor Culbert L. Olson, op
ponent of the plan, said its failure
"does not mean that California la
against the further development
of sound social security and reem
ployment measures that will pro
vide adequately tor decent old ago
retirement."
Also lagging badly was a propo
sal for state control of oil produc
tion, backed by President Roose
velt, former President Herbert
Hoover, Secretary Ickes and the
navy department.
Two measures to curb ..usury
were given heavy majorities in the
early count. Another designed to
liberalise tbe .law governing chiro
practors apparently was being
swamped.
Toting Marks Interest
la Pension Plan .
.Voting of near record-breaking
proportions marked "the Interest
aroused by the pension plan. ' Pro
ponents reported spending nearly
8600,000 to boost the plan as po
tential economic salvation for
thousands of eldely persons.
It would hare paid pension war
rants of 830 face value every week
to all unemployed over 50. It pro
vided for sweeping economic
changes and revision of the state
taxation system. Opponents de
nounced it as a threat of financial
chaos and state bankruptcy and a
potential avenue to economic dic
tatorship. The oil control measure, which
would have set np a commissionio
govern production, received 298.
283 votes for and 471,737 against
in 72 S precincts.
The chiropractic measure, which
stirred up a ' controversy among
the followers of that profession,
registered 204,602 yes and 453,
448 no votes in 6321 precincts.
San Francisco reelected Angelo
J. Rossi as mayor for a third four
year term over a field of seven, in
cluding Representative Franck R.
Havenner.
Few Attend Soviet
, Embassy's Party
.WASHINGTON.' Nor. 7WJPV-
Top - flight government official
and. all but two of the congress
men and senators Invited were ab
sent tonight as the soviet embassy
gave Its annual party celebrating
the 1917 Russian revolution.
No cabinet members, few am
bassadors, and no senators Joined
the throng' of 800 guests who
moved up the red carpeted embas
sy staircase past a painting of the
revolution just transferred here
from the New York world's fair.
Rep. John W. Boehne, Jr., (D-
In1) arrived early with A. Koch,
a friend from his home town of
Evansvllle, telling questioners
only that he "was Invited accept
ed and came." Another represen
tative present was Frank Buck
(D-Cal), with Mrs. Buck. Most
congressmen had gone home after
adjournment, - bat Boehne and
Buck had stayed for a tax com
mittee meeting.
Signs First
Power Contract
900. M a "cent; excess, of t
cent; minimum monthly bill, 78
cents, .
The commercial schedule: first
ISO kwh a, month, 3 cents per
kwh; 280 kwh a month, 2 cents;
1S00 kwh, 1 cent; 11,500 kwh,
0T8 of a cent; 25,000 kwh, 0.6;
60,000 kwh, 0.4; excess above
100,000 a month, 0.3.
A charge of 95. cents per kilo
watt hour will be levied for tbe
excess demand over 10 kilowatts.
Forest Grove will buy the pow
er at the sew wholesale rates ap
proved in September by the fed
eral power commission. It will
pay a flat M of a cent per kilowatt
hour, plus 75 cents per month
per kilowatt of contract demand.
Power demands can be In
creased by agreement with the
Bonneville administrator.
Transmission lines of the Port
Ian A General Electric company
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Pension