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-' 1 Accurate Nexrt In The Statesman yenU find fall Associated Preae reports from trained re- f porters all over the globe and local news .stories by The Statesman's own staff. Clondy today with show -ore; Monday cloudy with ram; bo change la tempera ture. Max temp. Saturday . SO, mln. 87. Hirer -8.7 tU Sooth wind. t r - P5UND3D: : 1&5I EIGHTY-NINTH YEAH Salem, Oregon, Scnday- Morning November 23, 1939 Price Sci Ntwsstsads &t No. 210 .B)81FCL mm Social Smirvey Is. v 7 o w In tee Eair.. Paul Hauser Column Win Jenks, who Is bemoaning that now be has to go back to work after nigh onto a year as aa employe of the Oregon exhibit at the San Fran-r Cisco fair, was called upon one day to escort a tall and hand some t 1 s 1 1 o r through the ex hibit. Win led the affable stranger to the wild life section of the Oregon show and found that the Tisitor h. hww, jr. bad a great' interest In hunting and fishing. They Inspected all the flora and fauna on display and then, chatted for about 20 minutes about angling and hunt lag and such. The stranger, whose face seemed? somewhat familiar to Win, bad been on a fishing trip to Odell lake and was greatly en thralled with the country. ' Finally the handsome Tisitor left to join a party of friends and Win went back to the Oregon booth. Sayt ho asked of Barbara Johnson, the official 'Miss Ore gon" for the fair, "who was that fellow? I'm sure I've seen him before somewhere. MMaybe yon hare," replied the girt. "That was Gary Grant. New Mortuary Invites Public Hdlia ! Capital Journal. Wall wait a while, thanks. The supreme court baa ruled that distribution of handbills Is not Illegal. This baa heartened England's war office no end. ' - - The police department has started a drive on motorists who tall to observe stop signs. The other day one of the gendarmerie, conveniently parked near a atop sign on Commercial street, yeaw a car come falteiingly up to the atop sign, plunge Into traffic without hesitating, barely missing two pedestrians and a truck. See ing his duty and doing: It the policeman pulled away -from ' the curb, overtook the offending car and sounded his siren. The car topped. flushed young lady leaned over the car door and listened momentarily to the guardian of the law's lecture on safe' driving. Then she said:. listen, Mr. Policeman, I don's se why yon have to be so cross. This Is the first time I ever drove a car and I Just cant watch all these signs and Ushte.and steer too. -The cop still has apoplexy. As far as football teams are ' concerned two's company and three's Southern California. Rossi Is Asked To Union Meet Ship Clerks Want Severe Critic to Sit in V;-' On Sessions SAN FRANCISCO. Nor. JS-m -The striking CIO Ship Clerks' as sociation today Invited Mayor An gelo J. Rossi to sit aa an observer at meetings of the union and em ployer contract negotiating com mittees. Charles F. Huston, union pres ident, asked as an.alternaUve that the mayor, who charged "com munist' labor leaders were trying to "wipe out private business." to request both sides to continue peace efforts la the 11-day strike by Inviting both sides to meet at Rossl'a, office. , , The Clerks' strike in San Fran cisco and the CIO Warehouse men's walkout at Oakland munic ipal piers have nearly paralysed waterfront activity In the bay area. Condemnation of the tieup and labor leaders' by the Associated Farmers and other agricultural groups brought denials of radical activities from union officials and a charge by CIO Chieftain Harry Bridges of a "campaign to spread the open shop over the entire state." A group of San Francisco pastors,- headed by the Rev. Herrick Lane of the 0 1 rv e t Presbyterian church, asked ''Mayor Rossi, the employers and the union to call a public meeting for discussion of the tleup. . , Leaders of several statewide ag grlcultural groups were scheduled to meet In Ban Francisco Monday, summoned by - Holmes . Bishop, president of the Associated Farm ers, to eonslrter future" plans for moving their produce. - A resolution commending- "May or Rons! of San Francisco In his determination to end this blight on our state, once and for all." was adopted at VIsalia today at an Associated Farmers fifth dis trict meeting of agriculturists from Kings, Tulare, Kern, Madera and Fresno counties ... - ) cz 'Break Through' Is Allies Expect To Depend on Sea Blockade No Thrust Expected by France, Britain on Western Front Strength of Fortified Lines Forestalls : - - Open Attacks - ,. . ' ; By KIRKE L. SIMPSON , (Associated Press Staff Writer) French and British troops by the million, guarding French frontiers from the North Sea to the Swiss border amid a sea of mud, are on official note that their present mission is one of de fense not of attack. Allied straterr ashore was tersely restated to parliament by the British war minister, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Germany, to win the war, must "break through" not only the French M a g 1 n o t line, but the massed and Increasing- strength of the Franco-British armies, he said, adding: "On our aide, we can afford to choose our opportunity." ' From the hour of French with. drawal from nositions on German soil to which they nibbled their way at the outset of the war it haa been Quite clear that Franco British war plans contemplated no attack on the German line .fhls year, nor oven la 'sarin- niw conditions warranted so perilous an adventure. It la noon the wearing- effect of the allied block ade at sea! that the allies eonnt for victory. Effect of Strain Is Uncertain Factor The uncertain actor Is what desperate mere the nazi leadershin may take If the strain of that Diocaaae Begins Dreakinc ths (Turn to Page 1, Col. 1.) Wallace to Ask Farm Bill Help Personal i Promotion Also Hintea in Mid-West Speaking Tour ' By OVID MARTIN WASHINGTON. Nov. Secretary . Wallace will go Into the midwest next week for a se ries of speeches bidding for farm oelt support of the administra tion's agricultural : program and. some politicians predict, support for himself for the 1940 demo cratic presidential nomination: The new deal's agriculture chief will address a meeting- of eotton and - wheat farmers at Oklahoma City Friday and before returning- to Washington will speak also at Chicago, $?, Paul and Des Moines. . Associates declared that Wal lace's principal objectives were to counter republican bids for farm support and to seek support for legislative improvements la the present farm programs. It was said he would renew pleas - for some form of .processing tax to (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7.) Congressmen Advocate new : ;j Tax for Defense Expenses By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WARM SPRINGS, Ga Not. 2S -ir)-Pre8ldent Roosevelt received from members of Georgia's dele gation In congress today an initial report and a favorable one on the advisability . of imposing a special tax to pay mounting costs of arming the nation for defense. Although Mr. Roosevelt had said he expected to talk Georgia problems with the legislators, he did not pass up the first oppor tunity to get some Index of con gressional - opinion on ' a defense lsrr." :..v V ? He asserted at a press confer ence yesterday that conditions In Kurope undoubtedly woulf meaa that $500,000,000 must be added to this country's expenditures for defense In the. year beginning July 1. 1940. i - - Both Representatives Carl Vin son and E..E. Cox told newsmen they were favorably , Impressed with the Idea of a defense tax. Vinson, chairman of, the influen tial house naval committee,, said he ' believed the' entire Georgia delegation felt the same way. .. All 10 house members and one senator Richard i B. Russell Service Ended ; , ' By Resignation J. W. FERGUSON ! State Forester Gives Up Post Ferguson Gives Expected Resignation to State -Board Saturday 1-1 J. W. Ferguson, appointee ef the Governor Charles H. Martin administration -four years -ago as state forester, submitted his resig nation to the state board of for. estry here yesterday afternoon. He had been reported tor several months as likely to leave the of fice. The board immediately accepted the resignation as of January 1, 1940. A committee consisting- of E. B. Tanner, Portland; Junior Daggett. Plneville, and Alfred Powers, CoQullle, was appointed to consider selection of a succes sor. -, - r - The resignation cams after Governor Charles A. Bprague, ez offlclo chairman of the board, an nounced that Ferguson had - a Statement he wished to make with newspaper men absent. The tor- ester did not disclose the contents at the statement and board mem bers said they were not siren a copy. i : Neither Ferguson for Governor Sorarue offered comment on the resignation. As a Martin appointee to me lltoo a vear office. Ferguson suc ceeded Lynn F. Cronemiller, who had belt the office of state for ester for several years and re mained on with the department la a lesser position t The office Is one held at the pleasure of the board of forestry which consists of the governor, George .W. Peavy aa dean of the school of forestry, Corvallls, and seven other 1 mem bers represvatfhc timber and live stock Interests. ; - ? i ' Preceding- the elosed .. session, the board talked but took no ac tion about establishing more defi nite policies by which the fores try department should be guided in making expenditures, particu larly as to capital outlays. The board authorised Governor Sprague to consult with officers of the Association of Oregon i (Turn to Page S, CoL 1.) . trooped into the white frame cot tage where the president Is vaca tioning. Senator Walter F. George tailed to show up. : : George, whom the president tried unsuccessfully: to "purge" from the democratic party last year, said at his home at Vienna, Ga that Mr. Roosevelt had not Invited him to the meeting today and that he had not been consult ed about the Bate. : , . . The conference was arranged, however, not by the president but by the legislators. ' Cox also has opposed a number of administration .bills in con gress. But of a tax to finance in creased expenditures for defense, he said: "It Impresses me most favorably. ; . v ' - Vinson said he had been think ing about that - type of tax for some time and had talked It over with a number of congressmen, v "It seems to me," he said, "this generation ought to bear the bur den ot the cost of protection by an adequate defense. "By a proper adjustment of the Income tax in the lower brackets and of the inheritance and- gift (Tare to Page 2. CoL 1.) Wmkv (nforiiTnroA h JL 1 HlrW US fi UHlU USHS Sheets I Expected Ease Budget Making Forecast of. .Expenditures to Be Required J Quarters Under new System Instituted . This Year by Director Eccles J By STEPHEN C. MERGLER The weekend mails may convince many Oregon state of ficials that Santa Clans considers they have been bad boys: He's sending them the state budget department's annual de mand for forecasts of the next year's expenditures, -i But'Budget Director David Eccles believes their frowns will turn to smiles when they see how his department has No Clues Found To Solve Enigma Of Eugene Fire EUGENE, Jfor. 25-ff-AB-thorlties said today they might never know whether Thorvald Peterson, whose burned body was found tn ruins of his chicken-ranch home, died accidental ly, was slain or committed mi ' dde. R. Joseph Boeman, of the University of Oregon medical school's crime detection labora tory, said he had been unable to find any. evidence in studies f the charred body of the 48-year-old rancher. Fire other buildings, widely separated on the half-acre ranch plot, were destroyed In - the Thanksgiving blaze. District. Attorney's Deputy John Pen- nington said further mystery was added to the case by the fact that a pistol was xoond underneath body. the dead i'S Strike Averted In Movie Colony Acquiescence of Producers Forestalls Walkout By Technicians HOLLYWOOD. Not. 2 S.-flVA strike of 35,000 motion picture technicians which threatened to plunge the nation's theaters. Into darkness along with the studios, was averted today when producers agreed to a 10 per cent wage in crease. '-'. - A stipulation that the Increase would remain effective only until next Feb. 18, when the wage ques tion would be reopened for con sideration, was accepted by offi cers of 24 AFTt unions of -studio craftsmen, ? ' "On or about Feb. IS. 1940, yon will give us an opprtunlty to show you that the condition of this Industry makes a continu ance of wags Increases Impossible, and further to show you that we have taken every possible step within our power to readjust eur business so as to make it possible to continue without recalling these-wage increases, the produ cers stipulated. Should the operators be able to demonstrate their inability to pay the higher scale, they specified the unions would surrender the 10 per cent wage Increase, which la to be effective as of last Oct. 10 and affect 23,000 studio employ es, together with increases grant ed 12,000 other craft union mem bers since last Aug. 15. Clearing o line Right-of-WayOK'd PORTJLAND, Nov. 25HT)-Pres- ldentlal approval of a 1571,999 WfA' non-federal project for clearing Bonneville . transmission line rights-of-way waa received to day . by - Congressman Homer D. Angell (R-Ore). Bonneville officials said tne fund was a reapportionment ef a previous project to meet require ments of expenditure between la bor and non-labor items. Sprague to Make Dedicatory Talk CORVALUS, Nor. J5.-(flVA full program of sclentifle meetings will mark the formal opening of the new 2425.900 Oregon State eallre Chemistry- bunding De- Dedicatory, addresses ? will bej given by Governor Sprague and rr Joel H. Hildebrand, .profes sor of chemistry at the University of California. to in simplified Its requirements, he in dicated yesterday.' In contrast with demands ot the last admin istration that department esti mates be itemised down to min ute details, and those by months for the year in advance, the new director of the budget Is asking for forecasts of expenditures by quarters only and those in only three lump sum classifications. The budget control system Ec cles Is discarding as of Jnauary 1, 1940, required department es timates by months under more than 100 headings; the one he is adopting requires three by quar ters , salaries and wages, gen eral ' operations and- maintenance, and capital outlays. - Since salary and wage estimates are taken care of in detail under other controls and capital out lays are restricted to expendi tures approved in advance, de partment heads principal worries will be . restricted to predicting their - quarterly , expenditures In lump mum. jfor operations and maintenance. The old system re quired approximately 80 separate Item estimates under this heading alone. ' The new system also includes the virtue, Eccles said, of supply ing in a new, simplified form of montmy expenauure report ex act statements ot unexpended bal ances. These statements will be kept in such form that the next legislature will have before it when it meets a full report ot balances left over from the last blennium's appropriations, a help the 1939 session sadly lacked, he declared. The new budget director said establishment of his system had been delayed so long because he wanted to set up the best system possible and to do ao first ob tained data on systems in use bv more than 25 states, made personal inspections of control op erations at the Washington and California state capitals and mulled over a large volume of textual matter on the subject. Almost half a million dollars will be saved the state in the current blennlnm through agree ment by department and institu tion heads to shave their budgets, Eccles also reported yesterday. . State Institutions have agreed to spend 1358,779 less than their appropriations and all other et r (Turn to Page t, CoL '4.) Strike Called at : Mam Dodge Plant Chrysler Company . Denies Forced Bacfeto-Work - Movement' Aided DETROIT.' Nor. 25 (flV-R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers' union (CIO), today ordered a strike at the main Dodge plant of the Chrysler corporation, which haa been shut down for 51 days be cause of a dispute over terms of a working contract, with the un ion ' . , ",,-r ' ' The Dodge plant, a key unit of the Chrysler corporation, was one of the first to close In the contro versy, but the corporation and the union hare differed- over whether a strike"or: a, "lockout", pre vailed. - - ; K . "'ZU?? In calling the strike, "effective st once,' Thomas charged the Chrysler corporation with having fostered a "forced back-to-work movement.?. He asserted the at tempt Friday of a group of foun dry workers to enter the Dodge plant ' had -been Inspired by the corporation,'' contrary to promises that any settlement of the dispute "would be reached over the con ference table." I Chrysler officials said 57 gained admittance to the Dodge .plant Friday, but denied the corporation had organized - any , back-to-work wovement. Eight persons suffered minor injutles. and 22 others were arrested but: later released, with orders to return for further ques tioning on Monday. volition Economy9 Given as Reason Far StudyijA Intense Fight Predicted for Next Congress Defense, Tariff Likely to Provoke Heated . Arguments Democrats Want Short, Snappy Session for Party's Good- By "RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Not. 25.-ff)- Developments Indicate that there will be some intense battling in the next session of congress. But, looking the Issues orer, adminis tration supporters see reason to expect that the warfare will not find democrat fighting democrat to any great extent. They earnestly 'hope that this may be the case. They frankly want a session notable for its shortness and its sweetness, so far as the members of the party are c on corned. That, they think, would help produce a .united de mocracy to meet the republican foe In the campaign of 1940. So obviously brittle la the pres ent calm surface ot the party that the chance of this hope being real ized is widely questioned. But, if and when the break between dem ocratic anti-new dealers and the Roosevelt forces comes. It "seems that It will be caused by other things than the controversies now foreseen for congress. r -y Disputes likely On Defense and Tariff "As they shape up now, these disputes are principally two na tional defense and the question of continuing the Roosevelt recipro cal tariff program beyond its pres ent expiration date, next -June 12. Each of these issues is of a character which on its past record seems more likely to pull the dis cordant factions of the party to gether than to divide them. That Is, they are" Issues on which, in the past, the anti-new deal demo crats hare generally seen fit to" support the president s position. Beyond them lies the issues of providing special taxes to cover the Increased cost " of national defense, and of confirming whom ever the president appoints to the supreme court vacancy ere-! a ted by the recent death of As sociate Justice Butler. President Asks Thought - On Problems v Either ef these questions could cause trouble. The first, however. Is In a highly tentative stage. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned it Frt-. day as something to think about. Its trouble-making - possibilities might develop If Mr. Roosevelt proposed and insisted upon a tax of a controversial nature. His present disposition, however. Is obviously to leave such things to the determination, of congress. - The appointment of an extreme new. dealer to the court - could open : wide the party wounds. There are no indications of who will get the job, beyond a gen ; (Turn- to Page 2, CoL 8.). Court Is Silent Concerning Charges of Auditor's Report By WALLACE A. SPRAGUE Whatever . county court mem bers had to say and it was as sumed that they had. a good deal about the " grand Jury report issued Friday which scolded them for laxity In connection with audit of ' county books, waa purposely wasted on the desert air yester day. - No ' official . reports were available as to the court's reaction to the jury investigation. J . It was understood, however,. in courthouse circles that the Investi gation waa sot entirely completed and that Special Prosecutor Mark V. Weatherford of Albany; would return to direct the grand Jury into further investigations of the fiscal, policy of the district attor ney's office, with "especial refer ence to fee collections. ; Lacking more speclfle evidence as to the subject ot a continued investigation,' speculation contin ued as to the payment of Special Prosecutor Weatherford for serv ices rendered since his appoint ment last .August by Circuit Judge L H. McMahan. In the absence of a bill presented by Weatherford doubt appeared as to whether one would ever be filed, though It waa of Group 'Red Tape-Removal I sufl h ief O bjectiv e Of Bureau inquiry Task to v Be Completed Before Next Congress Convenes; Increased Pension Demands Likely WASHINGTON, Nov. 25v(AP) Paul V. McNutt has ordered a survey of the administrative costs and efficiency of his federal security agency with a view to its possible reor ganization. . T Now one of the major enterprises, the agency has 21,000 employes and an annual budget of about $800,000,000. .r i . p. ' Fowler Harper, FSA general Nazi Raiders ' Attack Twice British Deny German Claim Of Damage to Four f Naval Vessels By ROBERT E. BUNNELLE V , LONDON, Nor. 25-(fl3)-GermaB air raiders twice attacked British warships In the North sea' and feinted at Important. naval points In the Orkney and the Shetland Islands today In a dramatic cli max to the war's worst week for shipping. The British admiralty an nouncement, issued after the Ger mans published their claim that nasi bombers scored direct hits on four ships In the North sea at tacks, said that "although many bombs were dropped no hits were made and there were no casual ties." .; The British gave no details of the action .. -'"- ' : Residents of the Orkneys, site of Britain's great Scapa Flow na val base where a "large concen tration" of planes was heard dur ing the day, expressed belief the nasi airmen were on a mine-laying, expedition. Charges have been made, in Britain that some of the mines, which have virtually disrupted all (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Cliiiia Miiiiinizes Loss of Naniim 'fiONGKONO. Nor. 2SAV- atwangsi army headquarters to night in minimizing the loss to the Japanese, ot the strategic city of Nannlng asserted the Japanese al ready -are dependent upon air-, planes' for their pplles because every human beingranlmal or sus tenance of use to the invaders had been withdrawn. ; The statement reiterated the basic Chinese war policy ot not at tempting to hold fixed positions and of using time and space to ad vantage. , . I stated that if payment of such a bill ever came before the county court it might be contested. . The question also arose on con clusion of the report as to the propriety ot the county continuing payments to the district attorney for stenographer hire and office rent. The , grand r jury 'a report singled these out for censure, and strongly Implied that the justifi cation - for ,; them in previous opinions by . the attorney general was not necessarily sufficient. - -v It was noted, however, that the report, failed to mention circuit court decision handed down by Judge Arlle Walker several years ago which upheld the opinion of the attorney general in allowing necessary payments by. the county court to the district attorney in addition to the statutory amount. The county budget committee has already Included an appropria tion" for payment ; of rent and stenographic expenses for the dis trict attorney in its preliminary budget which will" come up for final approval next Wednesday. , The item waa ' passed at the original budget meeting with little (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4.) Hinted; I counsel, said the object of the study was to bring about "effi ciency, economy and consolida tions," and to eliminate ."exces sive red- tape." One of the questions Involved Is whether the present three-member social security board should be. replaced by a single director. Abolition of the board, Harpet' said, is within "the realm of pos sibility." He emphasized, however, that the survey was being made "with out any preconceptions of wbat should be done." ' . , "It might turn out,? hn.ald.. Vthat.A board Is or Is not the bent way to administer the social se curity act." Best Administrative Practices Bought- The study was begun, he said, to determine whether the opera tions of the five agencies Presi dent Roosevelt grouped under the FSA In his first reorganization or der, conformed to the best admin istrative practices. The agencies are the social se curity board. National Youth Ad ministration,' Civilian Conserva tion Corps, Public Health and the Office of Education. The social security setup is the only one of the five administered by a board. The chairman of this board is Arthur J. Altmeyer and other members are George E. Bigge and Ellen S. Woodward. Each receives 110,000 a year. Economy was one of the objec tives of the president's reorgani zation order, but budget experts at the federal security sgency said they were uncertain whether much could be lopped from the present cost of the agency. Out of the 1800,000,000 aggre gate budget, only about $50,000,- 000 goes for strictly administra tive expenses. The remainder is -distributed in grants to states for unemployment compensation, ed ucation and public health; - . The surrey, directed by J. Alton Burdlne, a public administration specialist, Frank Qee, an econo mist, and Cla. ence Heer,' a tax expert, Is expected to be. com pleted before congress convenes. The findings thus will be avail able when congress considers ex pected proposals for changes in the social security law. '-: There have been indications that a senate group will press for enactment of an amendment pro viding for increased federal con tributions toward old sge -assistance; payments in low-income states. 'Chairman Harrison (D-Mlss) ef the senate finance committee said he thought such -a change would have strong support. ' It was pro posed last session by Senator Con nally . (D-Tex) and approved by the senate, but was rejected by a joint senate-house committee. The government now contrib utes one dollar for each state dol lar, expended for old . age - as sistance up to a total payment of S30 a month. On Jauary 1, this total will be increased to $40. ,Connally's amendment would have required the federal govern ment to contribute two dollars for each dollar put up by the state ia paying the first $15 a month to Indigent needy. . ' . " . Llasked Klansmen I SU)nn . Nesppper ATLANTA, Ga Novj ti.-(jpy-About 800 men masked IS regalia of the Ku Klni Klan -paraded once around the Atlanta Consti tution - building tonight bearing signs expressing criticism of edi torial . policy. - Ralph T. Jones, associate edi tor,, was, named in two ot the signs.' Informed at his home of the demonstration, he said be could recall nothing specific that would have caused it. V