T7eather
Cloudy and unsettled to
day and Saturday with oc
casional rains; snows over
mountains; . no change In
temperature. Max. temp
Thursday 51, mln. 88. Riv.
er .4 ft. North wind.
Basketball v
Score appear first la The
' Oregon Statesman. . While
you sleep, Statesman report
era cover the games. Read
bout them oyer your break
fast. ,
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KIUHTY-NINTH YEAB
Salem. Oregon Friday Morning, December 29, 1939
Price 3c; Newsstands Be
No. 238
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Paul Ilauser's Column
Purely Personal:
Got op In' the cold. -grey noon
and after baring branch whisked
away to the of
f I e e, whire,
much to our
amusement, w e
fonnd a note di
recting us .to
call Mr. M." Mit
ch e 1 1 : between
" 9:30 and 10 a.
m. Guess we'll
just hare to
learn to talk In
our sleep.
. The nrintery raw ..
was a dismal place so we got oat
of there and went a-wandering
to our Inner sanctum, where we
set about composing a ditty to
greet the New Year and met with
mall anccesa after an hour of
travail. -
Got out of there and wan
dered to the Bluebird, where
we partook of a little beef and
bread and read more of the
amazing doings of the Finns,,
who are still slipping the Kus
sians a Mickey Finn. The Rus
sian Reds, It seems, are sorry
they had a white Christmas.
There Jimmy Nicholson, the
late gridder. was sitting discuss
ing the state of the nation and
what all with Virginia Cross, who
In home from school, too. Which
reminds us that there are a lot
of children home from the edu
cation mills and borrowing the
"family car.
Strolled back to the printery,
It being 2 p. m. and time to be
gin what we fondly call work.
Didn't begin work.
Sometime later we woke up
to realize we were on High
street and there was Walter
Kestly, the cop, and his wife,
heading home from shopping.
And Walter, who rides around
all night la a prowler car look
inaj for burglars and . such,
wished be was m reporter, who
walks around all day and all
night, looking for an honest
man, but not looking like one.
Dropped Into that well known
BUta atreet resort and found Bud
Johns, who la old enough to know
better, practicing with a yo-yo,
, which, bA-aajs ha got his Efrl for
CLrlatmas bat hasn't been able to
giTe up yet. He's getting pretty
good with it, too. Rex Putnam's
boy Rex dropped by, affecting a
beard but everybody knows Its
crepe hair. And Judge Lewelling's
boy Blevins was in there, too. So
was Virlan Noth of the Southern
Pacific Noth's whose boy friend,
Leonard Younce, Is in Honolulu
with the Oregon State football
team and she is worried about
hula-girls and such, but not much.
-Hied away to the sheriff's of
fice where we found that genial
person, Mr. Andrew C. Burk, ex
plaining the merits of some new
fishhooks, guaranteed to catch
any fish that as much as smells
the bait. They weren't baited, so
we escaped. Went on up to the
county clerk's office and; decided
Christmas must be over, for It's
the first day they haven't had
candy.
Down all the flights of stairs
again and over to the AAA of
fice where Miss Barbara Ben
son baa been compiling some
sort of a record by applying for
more automobile licenses than
anyone in Salem. It's a service
of the AAA and she trips mer
' lily to the atatehonse twice
daily to get license for the
members too tired to go them
elves.
Jerry Parker was there and she
almost scared us with a koala
bear, which is a kind of bear that
lives In Australia and climbs
trees. This one was only a doll,
though life site, and was made
into a parse, with the tipper down
the back. Jerry's mother, Mrs.
Harvey Parker, sent it to her
from Honolulu, where she is
pending a vacation. The koala
excited quite a bit of Interest
when Jerry wore It with her far
coat In Portland recently. Strang
ers stopped her on the street and
asked her it the bear was a cub
of the coat. .
Girl Identified
As Entertainer
LOS ANGELES, Dec. S8-(A-The
nude, slashed body at an at
tractive blonde girl waa Identified
today as that of Jerry Burns, but
so definite cine as to her slayer
was disclosed.
A friend, Beverly Ann Green
wood, said at the county morgue
that Miss Burns was an entertain
er employed at a Fifth street sa
loon and lived In an east side
semi-slum neighborhood.
Visa Greenwood said ahe last
saw the victim at 1:10 yon. lastJ
night. . The body was found today
en a recant lot.
"I work In the sains place she
did," If las Greenwood asserted,
"but X doat know who killed her.
I didnt know she bad any ene
mies." Police Inclined to the belief
that Miss Barns had been slain by
a spurned suitor.
.Luton Reelected
PORTLAND, Dec 28-iD-Re-electlon
of M. B. Luton. Portland,
as president of the Oregon build
ing congress for 1940 was an
nounced Wednesday.
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Saturday Set
For Tieup of
Salem Stap
Co
Proposed Strike
Halt Gty Scrr,
! Eugene
Employees Ask Increase
in Wages by 1 A. M.
on Saturday
A couple of thousand Salem
residents in the habit of hopping
one of the Oregon Motor Stage
buses when they start down town
will find themselves afoot tomor
row morning, unless settlement
of a ware dispute between driv
ers, mechanics and helpers union
and company officials Is consum
mated. The employes have set 1
o'clock Saturday morning as the
deadline i for the walkout.
The proposed walkout would
Include all lines of the company,
and would practically stop north
western Oregon bus transporta
tion, except for the main lines on
the coast and through the Wil
lamette valley. Eugene city bus
system as well as Salem also is
under control of Oregon Motor
Stages.
Several recent conferences be
tween employers and representa
tives of the union have failed to
reach a settlement of the dispute,
union ' members here said last
night, but they were, at the same
time, of the opinion that the com
pany would accede to the em
ploye demands rather than stop
the service of the stages.
Tieup Would End 10
Years Continuous Service
Officials estimated that IS 00
fares, roughly, use the six lines
of the Salem city service each
day. A tieup in the system would
be the first break in service since
the Oregon Motor Stages took
over here about 10 years ago.
Besides the city lines, the Sa
lem office handles the Salem-
Dallas-Falls Clty-Blackrock line.
All "feeder" routes in this part
of the state belong to the same
company. Lines here are State
street, Chemeketa- street. High
land avenue. Twelfth street and
17 th stret.
Union : members voted last
month to authorize the negotiat
ing committee to call a strike un
less the ' company agreed to an
increase of 1 mills per highway
mile for "outside" drivers and
12 cents an hour for employes
working inside cities.
No basis for arbitration of the
issue had been reached late last
night, i
PGE Head Urges
Bonneville Load
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 2S-UP)
Every electric utility corporation
in the northwest should cooper
ate in building a load for Bon
neville dam, Franklin T. Grif
fith, president of. the Portland
General Electric company, said to
day, i
He told the City club that his
company's recent rate reductions
for residential consumers was a
part of the company's program of
cooperation with the federal gov
ernment ! In building a load on
Bonneville.
The private utility executive
praised President Roosevelt for
developing the Columbia river.
Fair Dates Set
BAN FRANCISCO. Dec S7.-4PV-
The executive committee of the
Golden Gate International exposi
tion Tuesday set May 25 to Sept,
29 Inclusive as definite dates for
the 1940 event, which was assured
last week after the major portion
of the 19S9 creditors agreed to
plans for re-opening.
Sub -Zero Cold,
To Damage
ANKARA. Turkey. Dec. H.-UPl
-Three additional tremors, sub-
sero weather and bllxsard winds
which spread ravaging fires added
to the damage and panic of the
Anatolian earthquake today as of
ficials gave at least 60,000 as
their preliminary estimate of cas
ualties, i '
Of the casualties perhaps 20,
090 were counted as dead. .
Temperatures 22 degrees below
sero and fierce winds whipped
from the Black Sea claimed many
victims among the hundreds of
thousands of homeless driven Into
the fields and mountain fast
nesses. i v.:. - '
Whole villages were burled un
der the steep cliffs of the Janik
mountains which skirt the Black
Sea ahore on the Turkish-Armenian
border. v.
In the .Erzinan region, high la
the mountains of Armenia, alone
there were 42,000 killed and In
jured, i -
Every I building In the district
of Erzinan . was In ruins, and
fires were raging. JL message
from the . governor-general said
many were frozen to death. -.
. The water supply was frozen
Native of Salem :
Called by Death
li
BERT WARREN MACY
Prominent Salem
Lawyer Succumbs
Bert "Warren Macy Was
Active in Civic
Affairs Here
Bert Warren Macy, 83, native
of Salem, former city alderman
and city attorney and prominent
In republican activities for many
years, died late Thursday at his
home, 444 North 18th street.
Funeral services will be held
from the Rigdon chapel at 2:30
p.m. on Saturday, December SO.
Born March 26, 1876, Mr. Macy
attended the old East Salem
school now known as the Wash
ington school and later attended
Willamette university where he
was prominent as an athlete. De
spite his lack of weight he was
considered an outstanding tackle
on the Willamette eleven In the
90s when the Willamette team
played on even terms with the
leading Paclfie coast elevens. He
retained a keen interest in sports
throughout his ii j.
At a later period he returned to
Willamette for a law cource and
received his LLB degree In 1912.
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New Year's Eve
Dances Lawf ul
City, County Laws Do Not
Ban Sunday Dancing;
12 Is Deadline
Neither Salem nor Marlon coun
ty officials may Interfere with
New Tear's eve dances Sunday
night, examination of local dance
hall regulations Indicated yester
day.
The city dance hall license or
dinance does not prohibit Sunday
dances. Its only time restriction
is a provision tht dances shall
not run past midnight unless a
special permit is granted by the
chief of police.
The state law nnder which the
county regulates dances outside
of Incorporated towns and cities
also has no Sunday restriction.
H. C. Mattson, deputy county
clerk, said. . .
No county-regulated dance hall
has yet taken eut a 1940 license,
Mattson added. Unless new li
censes are obtained today or Sat
urday, holding of dances in these
halls after midnight Sunday will
be illegal:
Many inquiries directed to city
police concerning dances New
Tear's eve this year have been
answered erroneously, with the
advice that Sunday dancing is il
legal, It was learned yesterday.
That the city code does not con
tain such a prohibition was veri
fied by City Attorney Paul R.
Hendricks.
Fires Add
in Turkish City
and prevented effective fire fight
ing. ' ' : . .
Reports from other districts In
dicated .the death toll elsewhere
was far above previous estimates,
but the chaos In communications
was so great It was Impossible to
obtain many details of the catas
trophe. , " .: - -" f -
Such .details, as ; officials .were
able to obtain, however, painted
a terrifying picture. . . -
Water and gas mains were rip
ped asunder as -the earth bulged
in some places and burst open la
gaping crevices In others. -
The measure of the disaster. In
Anatolia, a region often visited' by
earthquakes along with the
fear of epidemics as a result of
the difficulties of getting relief
to the stricken thousands grew
as the day advanced."
- Fragmentary reports from Er
rincan province said virtually ev
ery one of the 16,000 . Inhabitants
of the ancient town of that name
was killed or injured
They were trapped in their beds
by. the first shocks. - - -
The walls of Just one bunding
the great barrackswas left
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Germ anDrive Expected
By March, Former Czech
Tells Marion Attorneys
William P. Ellis Elected President of Bar
Association at Annual Meeting Here;
Roy Harland Is Vice-President
After unanimously electing William P. Ellis president,
Roy Harland to the vice-presidency and reelecting J. Ray
Rhoten as secretary-treasurer, the Marion County Bar asso
ciation last night heard Dr. Frank Munk, until April of this
year a professor at Prague university in Czechoslovakia but
now teaching at Reed college in Portland, predict there would
pbo a "new German putsch by the
Attorney Change
Still Uncertain
Alderman Brown Strongest
Candidate for Post
of Hendricks
Whether or not the city council
will change legal advisers at Its
annual election meeting Tuesday
night remained a mild uncer
tainty yesterday but Inquiry in
dicated the Incumbent city attor
ney, Paul R. Hendricks, had his
shy opposition guessing.
Alderman Lawrence N. Brown,
one of the council's "Juniors,"
remained strongest contender for
Hendricks' position although he
has made no open declaration
as a candidate. Rather than risk
the chance of resigning his coun
cil seat immediately and more
openly seeking the paid attorney's
post, he is pursuing the usual pol
icy of waiting until the last min
ute to see if he Is certain of
winning the election, which Is
decided by rote of the aldermen
and the mayor.
Friends of Hendricks expressed
confidence his position continued
strong; - . .
Three former city attorneys are
understood to be "willing" to
accept reappointment. They are
Chris J. Kowlti. one-time alder
man as well; William H. Trindle
and Fred A. Williams, who was
defeated In a race for reelection
as sixth ward alderman in 1938.
As far as may be ascertained,
City Engineer J. H. Davis, Build
ing Inspector E. C. Bnshnell and
Sanitary Inspector Batty Cooper
have no opposition. Positions of
chief of police and fire chief,
formerly up for council action
each January, are now under
civil service.
Capt. Devaney to
Head Air Board
New Director Experienced
in Military, Civil
Aviation Work
PORTLAND, Dec. 28-(ff)-Cap-
taln Leo G. Devaney, identified
with military and civil aviation
since 1917, was appointed state
aeronautics director today, suc
ceeding Allan D. Greenwood.
The state board of aeronautics
said Devaney's appointment would
become effective January 1.
The new director la 45 and a
republican. He was born in Ore
gon and received his early educa
tion at Roseburg. He attended
Stanford university.
During the World war Devaney
served as flying Instructor and
aeronautical engineering officer at
Kelly field. Tex. He was com
manding officer of squadron D at
Kelly field.
He was superintendent and
chief pUot of West Coast Air
Transport company before It be
came Varney Air lines In 1931.
He was operations manager of
United Air Lines at Medford from
1934 to March, 1937, when he re
signed because of Illness, from
which he has recovered.
Midwest Winter
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Weather Lingers
(By the Associated Press)
The .wintry . blasts which
brought a welcome heavy fall of
snow. to the Rocky mountain and
great plains region lingered
Thursday night to . annoy livestock-owners.
The storm turned off In the
direction of the Texas Panhandle
and gulf coast laying' more snow
on the fire to 18 Inches which
fell earlier in the week.
Ranchmen in the region feared
for their livestock as weather
observers forecast a 20-mile
northwest wind. ,
The storm had moved as far
south as San Angelo, Tex. Snow
and sleet were, expected at Dallas
and Fort Worth. Amarillo - re
ported a minimum of 14 degrees.
Sub-sero temperatures gripped
western Kansas. Light snow fell
at' Kansas City. -
Forecasts in the Rocky moun
tains; Indicated the cold wave
was moving eastward. Tempera
tares there were expected to rise.
end of February or first of
March."
Holding its year-end meeting
at the Marion hotel, the associa
tion lost little time in elevating
its 1939 vice-president, a Salem
attorney, to the presidency in ac
cordance with the association's
precedent.
Munk, in predicting the new
German putsch, said he nor no
one else could say for a certain
ty where It would strike, but in
dicated It probably would be di
rected at Norway or Sweden, or
possibly Holland or the Balkans
"The news reaching you
tnrougn your dally newspapers
and by way, of your radios Is es
sentlally correct, and I think your
press correspondents and radio
men in Europe are doing a splen
did Job," said Munk, who through
his affiliation with the Czecho-
slovakian government until its
fall was closely connected with
the German situation.
"Never waa a people so well In
formed about what la going on.
Ton are better Informed upon
European affairs than the the peo
ple in Europe."
Munk said the Russ-German al
liance has been In effect a long
time and predicted it would con
tinue until the dictators of both
countries gave up hope of a world
revolution that would install com
munism, naiiism or Hitlerism, all
of which he said are synonomous.
"Germany and Russia are col-
laboratmg in a common plan," he
said. "Russia is to have a free
hand in Asia and to get Finland
and British India. Germany is to
have Norway and 'Sweden and a
protectorate of all of Europe."
"Naziism is more communistic
than communism," he said. "Nazi
ism Is a social revolution, as much
so if not more so than com
munism. Every totalitarian rov-
ernment inevitably leads to com
munism. Once you start regiment
ing any Dart of vour economic
equipment you have to regiment
everything until you finally ar
rive at communism, naziism, or
whatever you wish to call it."
The onetime member of the
Czechoslovakian planning commis
sion said economic blockades will
not stop Germany, that Germany
is much better situated econom
ically than most people believe
and that there will not be a Ger
man revolution unless the allies
should score a major military vic
tory and thus turn the people
against Hitler.
"At least 95 per cent of the
Germans are behind Hitler to
day," be said. "German workers,
many of whom were formerly
communists, are solidly behind
him."
"The German food situation it
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'39 Record Up to
New Year Drivers
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-A)-New
Tear weekend drivers will write
either "success" or "setback" at
the bottom of the nation's 1939
traffic safety record.
The national safety council said
today the number of fatalities
recorded In motor vehicle acci
dents in the last tew days of the
current year would determine
whether the loss of life in 1939
would be greater than the 1938
total of 32.400.
The council reported 28.C90
persona were killed during the
first 11 months of 1939. This was
one per cent fewer than during
the corresponding period of
1938, but an upsurge In deaths
in December, especially during
the' Christmas weekend, was in
dicated. :
In urging caution upon pedes
trians and motorists during the
New Tear eve celebrations, the
agency suggested: -
1. Don't drink If you drive. '
2. Ask. your children not to
ride with drinking drivers.. ,
S. Keep alert. Be prepared tor
what the other fellow may do.
20,000 Qaims to
Be Filed by First
Nearly 20.000 claims for 1940
jobless benefits will be before the
state unemployment compensation
commission on January 1, pro
vided the present paee : at the
state's 11 employment offices
continues, officials said.
Last 'Week 6290. filed unem
ployment claims. Under the new
law the three waiting weeks, .If
served in 1939 for 1940 bene
fits, , must be consecutive.
GOP Congressman
Has Hopes for US
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REP. JAMES MOTT
Outlook for US
System Brighter
End of Subserviency in
Congress Good Sign,
Mott Declares
Free institutions have survived
Jn the United States because the
founders established the separa
tion of powers among executive.
legislative and Judicial branches
of government and because the
people have become alert to main
tain this separation so that no
dictator might arise. Now that
congress after six years of sub
serviency to the executive branch
has reasserted Its independence,
the outlook for survival of the
American system is improved.
Such were the observations of
Congressman James W. Mott in
his address at the Mott mass meet
ing arranged by Pro America and
the Marlon County Republican
club which drew a crowd of sev
eral hundred to the old high
school auditorium Thursday night.
As for the people of Europe,
there must be doubt whether life
is worth much to them In the ab
sence of liberty, Mott observed.
It is the business of Americans to
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Japanese Speed
Thrust in China
Sweeping Offensive Marks
2600th Anniversary of
Nipponese Empire
SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.-(ff)-A
sharp Japanese drive in south
China and widespread air raids
today laid groundwork for a more
sweeping offensive which Japan
ese hope will prove a fitting mili
tary celebration of the 2400th
anniversary of Japan's legendary
founding.
The southern campaign spread
ing out above Canton was led - by
the imperial bodyguards division
in an advance which Japanese
said had progressed SO miles in
five days.
Japanese reported that the bulk
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek's Kwangtung p r o v 1 n ce
forces, about 100,000 men, had
sustained a defeat but Chinese
declared the Japanese were being
checked In a battle still In pro
gress.
Three days of air raids on
Lanchow, capital of Kansu prov
ince in northwest China, were
described by a Japanese spokes
man as the largest of the war.
Lanchow la on the supply route
from soviet Russia. Other raids
were carried out in southwest
China designed to sever Chinese
supply routes from French Indo
china. The same spokesman called
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Teachers Told Sales Tax is
Only Solution to Problem
PORTLAND, Dec 28-iPV-A
sales tax is Oregon's only way out
of the school's financial problem,
William J. IfeKensle,. Portland
school director, told 2000 teachers
at the Oregon state teachers con
vention today, ' .
new tax revenue mast be
found before Oregon can increase
Its contribution to schools, ' Me
Kensle said, and a sales tax Is the
best method." Be asserted Oregon
contributed less than any other
state except Kansas to schools.'
Governor Sprague waa "disap
pointed" - over ' "failure - of the
school forces to come -"forward
and champion a move to consoli
date. A reorganisation bill unit
ing school districts would help
equalise the tax load, he said. '
"The unwillingness of districts
to reorganize Is based upon a mis
understanding which can be cor
rected by the proper approach,
he said. "Schools and public
roads have been accused of hog
ging the tax dollar but they have
a new rival now in public welfare
and old age pensions, groups
which are quite vocaL
1 believe that the reorganiza
Bombs Halt A ttack
On Viipuri; Finns
Over in 3 Places
Defenders Hold- Ground on Frozen
Karelian Isthmus, Make 3
Efforts to Cut Rail
Annihilation of 2 Soviet Companies la
Claimed by Finnish Troops
Along Mannerheim Line
By LYNN HEINZERLING
HELSINKI, Dec. 29 (AP) (Friday) Finnish avia
tors were reported today to have silenced with bombs the
long-range Russian cannon which has been shelling Viipuri,
while the Finnish army held its ground in desperate battles
on the ice of the Karelian isthmus and carried the fight to
Russian soil In three other sectors.
The Finn fliers thus were reported to have relieved the
pressure on Viipuri, Finland's second city, which has been
bombed by day and shelled by night for a week.
Helsinki had an air raid alarm for 40 minutes, at 12:10
a. m. (2:10 p. m., PST, Thursday), but no planes were heard
or seen.
(Determined Russian actlvItyO
above the Arctic circle was
re
ported in Stockholm dispatches
which said the red army bad
launched a new assault on Fin
land's "waistline" with hundreds
of new quick-firing field pieces
brought up for support)
But yesterday's Finnish army
communique declared the Finns
were steadfastly breaking every
Russian assault In the Karelian
sector, and indicated fast-moving
ski troops bad crossed the fron
tier in three places on the eastern
front.
Two Ross Com panic
Claimed Annihilated
The Finns declared today they
had annihilated: two more com
panies of Russians in a savage
hand-to-hand battle on the war-
scarred ice' of Lake Suvanto, east
ern key of the Karelian Isthmus
Mannerheim line. .
'The battle was fierce," said
the terse Finnish army commun
ique which told of renewal of Rus
sian attempts to break the Man
nerheim line. The Red army was
reported to have left 700 dead on
the frozen surface of Lake Suvan
to before this line, last Tuesday. .
This time, the Finns said, the
Russians actually succeeded in
crossing the lake to reach Finnish
defenses on the rugged north
shore, but they were driven back
in man-to-man fighting in which
our troops wiped out two com
panies."
The enemy again left numer
ous dead on the Ice," said the
army's story.
Finns In Rossi
la Three Places
Summarizing the fighting of
Dec. 27 in the fourth week of the
war, the communique said nine
Soviet Russian planes had been
shot down, and Indicated that Fin
nish troops are fighting in three
places on Russian soil.
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Death of Ontario
Woman Mystery
ONTARIO, Ore,, Dec. 1-UP)-
Mrs. Clara Thomas, BS, was found
dead beside her husband John C.
Thomas on the kitchen floor of
their ranch home six miles north
of here early today.
Sheriff C. W. Glenn said the
husband was in a liquor-induced
stupor and waa oblivious to his
wife's death.
Although furniture in the room
was smashed, the sheriff said
there were no marks upon the
woman's body to Indicate external
Injuries.
tion plan will grre us better
schools at the same or less cost
District consolidation will re
duce the unit cost per pupil with
a consequent decrease In taxes, he
added.
Dr. Dexter If. Keeser, president
of Reed college, declared stream
line d machinery was needed to
help truth catch up with ."large
scale lies.' He suggested special
tribunals for persons plausibly
charged" with circulating "social
and political falsehood.
Rex Putnam, state superintend
ent ef public instruction, said the
goal of Oregon teachers should
be a program embodying econo
mic stability after retirement,
reasonable tenure and higher sal
aries. . -
Although three teacher retire
in e at measures have been de
feated by the legislature, Putnam
said ''we must keep at it." Ade
quate salaries he pegged tenta
tively at $2000 a year. .
. Robert G. Clostermann, Ger
man consul, urged an opportun
ity for every child to learn Ger
man or some other cultural lan
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Britain Takes
.F '
Notch in Belt
Sugar, Meat on List ef
Rations as Empire
Pinches Money
LONDON, Dec. 2 8. -i?VT '
island kingdom of hearty-eating
shop-keepers at war was told of
ficially today to take another
notch in its belt because of the
pinch In money and shipping
space for food. ,
With 45,000.000 mouths to
feed, mainly with produce from
overseas for which Britain must
pay In dollars and other foreig
exchange, the government added
sugar and all kinds of meat to
the ration list. Already down for
rationing were butter, bacon and
ham.
Furthermore, it announced a
government .monopoly ion pur
chase of all Imported meat, and
all domestic livestock sold for
slaughter, and decreed, govern
ment control of meat distribution
throughout the United Kingdom.
Beginning on January 8, the
sugar allowance will be 12 ounce
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 6.)
Reorganization of
Brewery Doubtful
San Francisco Interests
Withdraw From Salem
; Beer Enterprise -
: V - , i
Plans for reorganization of the
Salem Brewery association by 8aa
Francisco Interests which have
been . operating the properties
since August, 19 S 8, have failed,
it was learned yesterday as stock
holders received letters from W.
O. Stackman. brewery manager,
announcing that the San Fran
ciscans have withdrawn and
turned control back to the stock
holders.
The brewery wss taken over by
the San Francisco financiers,
large creditors of the brewery,
under a plan by . which stockhold
ers assigned their stocks for a
period of three years and credi
tors agreed to wait until reorgan
ization was made.
Under the agreement, accord iar
to Lewis Lachmund, a principal
stockholder, the brewery has con
tinued to operate at a large lose.
Withdrawal of the San Fran
cisco operators Indicates, he said.
that unless new - capital arrive
or greatly increased consumption,
of the product comes about the
brewery must shut down.
Lachmund said that the brew
ery's product In new container
has met good response, but that
outside competition has made the
volume of the Salem brewery in
sufficient to meet operating ex
penses and fixed charges.
The capacity of the brewery la
20,000 barrels a year. It has be
supplying only about 10 per cent
of the consumption In the Wil
lamette valley area, according? te
Lachmund, who stated that a. ie
per eent eoasamptlon would en
able the brewery to operate a
capacity and 'make a profit.
38 Civil Cases
; On Court Docket
: Nearly a record, tt civil cases
will be set on the trial docket la
Judge Li IL McMahan'a court
Saturday.
Three crimlnaleases, including
the trials of County Treasurer V.
G. Drager and W. T. Richardson
on charges of larceny of publla ., .
funds, have already been sej.