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No Substitute! You'll find mo newspaper can give more real eatJsfae tioo than your LOCAL MOUSING PAPER, with It WORLD NEWS and HOHQ COMML.MTX NEWS. Weather Local rain, snow over mountains today; partly cloudy Monday. Max. temp. Saturday 50, niln. 43. River 12.6 ft. South wind. POUNOBO 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 11, 1940 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 278 T W J 2 L U L I L L 4 In ine Ear . . Paul Mauser's Column Ernie Fatland became tempor ary governor the other day and the first thing he did, we see by the public prints, was to take care of the p a nts situation at Oregon Stae college. He sign e d an official bine denim jean the official trou ser for iopho mores Instead of the traditional moleskins. poJ hi... tr Mr. Fatland is from Condon over In eastern Oregon and we suppose it did his heart good to see that the sophomores at Cor vallls are getting back to earth. Nothing like a good old pair of levis to make a man feel wild and woolly and ready for any thing. The moleskins, by the by, were victims of the war. Seems the jtuff they're made of is manufac tured only In Holland, which can't find the boats to ship the cloth over this way. It's a sad thing when war hits a sophomore in the pants. The Italian government has attacked the practice of soap boarding. The problem here is of radio contests which encour age the hoarding of soap wrap pers or reasonably accurate facsimile. FIRST WITH THE LATEST A certain reporter on a certain local morning newspaper recent ly reported a certain safe robbery. Much to the surprise of the cer tain reporter, who appears above in all humility, the certain rob bery took place on a certain No vember 18. Nevertheless the event has yet to be reported by the afternoon opposition and the certain morning newspaper re mains the first with the latest, even If two months latest. t, r 1 1 a 1 intelligence John Dick, the University of Oregon battkethaU player, was recently quoted on a Portland sports page as saying he didn't give a "whoop in hell about the individual scor ing record, a fact that was sad dening to his brother. Rill Dick, of the supreme court library, who baa bet several pettetaa that Bro ther John would break the indi vidual scoring record. Governor Sprague, who Is off In Seattle making speeches,' came through with a quickie at a meet ing of the centennial commission the other night. Someone had mentioned that Irl McSherry, deputy state parole director, who has been doing much of the cen tennial groundwork, would be a good man for the executive di rector Job. "Xo," quipped McSherry. "I don't think the state would pa role me. The governor smiled. "In that ease, Irl," he said, "we might ar range a pardon." Arbor day olipned by so quiet ly Friday that. Old Appleseed Johnny that we are, we didn't plant a tree. If we want to plant a tree this year we'll have to go to eastern Oregon, where Arbor day doean't come until April 12 and where they need the trees more anyway. Walker Urged to Seek State Post Senator Dean Walker, here from Independence Saturday, said that while he had not given seri ous consideration to entering the republican primary for state treasurer, he had received a lot of encouragement. Walker indicated that he had received letters from many parts of the state urging him to enter the treasurer's race. In the 1939 legislative session he was chairman of the senate ways and means committee. In ease Walker does not enter the contest for state treasurer he probably will be a candidate for president of the senate at the 1941 legislative session. He repre sents Polk and Benton counties. Walker conferred with acting Governor E. R. Fatland here Saturday. Bonneville Power Delivery Delayed Bonneville power, originally scheduled to reach Salem over the Portland-E u g e n e transmission lines early this month, will not be put Into use from the tem porary substation on the Hogg ranch near Eola before late this month or. early March, W. M. Hamilton, division manager of the Portland General Electric company, said here yesterday. His company Is receiving Bonneville power at present from the St. Johns substation. Aa tar as has been ascertained from Bonneville administration sources, the Portland-Salem-Eu-gene 110,000-volt lines are not now energised. Man Walking Betide Hit Daughter Bike Killed PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10-) -Joseph W. Macey, 15, Portland, died tonight a few minutes after aa automobile struck him and a blcycl on .which his 16-year-old daughter was riding. - Macey was walking alongside the bicycle. . The girl sustained a eat lip and bruises. Macey's was Portland's lJta traffla deatVjOf tie' Tear; . t Jim Farley Is Presidential Massive Russ Attack Fut; After 10 L A -5 3 Finns Claim all Thrusts Repulsed; Shells Used Instead of Bombs French Chamber Accords Daladier Unanimous Confidence Vote HELSINKI, Feb. 10.-(A rash and massive soviet offensive in which scores of red army tanks have been blown to pieces or cap tured, uncounted soldiers left to die in the trampled snows before the Mannerbeim line and even ar tillery shells frantically unloaded from the Russian bombing ples in lieu of bombs was described to night in graphic military reports from Finland's hard-pressed de fense lines. The Finnish story is that all this continuing onslaught has been to no avail. The unvarying phrase, "all attacks were re pulsed," was uttered again tonight by the Finnish high command in a communique issued on the tenth day of continuous Russian attack on the Karelian isthmus. The fighting on the isthmus and on other battlefronts tonight had added 72 Russian tanks in two days to the scrap heap of modern weapons launched against Finland's independence. Unoffic ial reports say more than 650 red army tanks have been smashed cr captured since the war began on November 30 and more than 330 planes downed. Foreign Pursuit Planes Arriving Equally Important, foreign mil itary observers said, is the fact that foreign pursuit planes actual ly are beginning Xo arrive for the defense of Finland. Finnish (lying men have esti mated that with 300 modern fighting pianos they can demoral ize the Russian bombing squad rons with the same effectiveness with which their phantom ski bat (Turn to page 2, col. 1) 'Good Government' Personnel Listed Public Is Invited to Next Sessipn Thursday Eve, Chairman Asserts Public relations-conscious mem bers of the self-dubbed "good government" group of farmers and businessmen who have been busying themselves recently with a search for men of the kind they want to run for county and legis lative offices in Marion county won a point yesterday and re leased a list of the informal or ganization's membership. At the same time William Mc Gllchrist, jr., chairman, reiterat ed the announcement made fol lowing the group's meeting last Thursday night, that "all people Interested In good government In Marion county" are Invited to at tend the next session, set for 7:30 p.m. next Thursday night at the Salem chamber of commerce. Women are included in the invita tion, the chairman said. The list of members released yesterday showed representation from 15 towns and many rural districts of the county. It includ ed the following: Joseph Burnt, Mt. Angel; W. H. Stevens, Brooks; J. O. Farr, Sa lem route three; W. A. Heater, Sublimity; T. M. Hicks, William McGilchrist, Jr., E. A. Miller, Floyd Bates. R. R. Dent, W. F. Pohle. D. W. Pugh, Walter Spaul dlng and F. E. Mangls, all of Sa lem; H. E. King, M. F. Conrad, Dr. P. A. Loar, Elmer Lorence and George W. Hubbs, Silverton; George Tate, Sublimity; F. B. Simpson, Jefferson route one; Er nest Werner, Silverton route two; (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) Grand Jury Presentment Is Held "Absurdity" by Judge Judge L. H. McMahan yester day dubbed "an absurdity" the presentment handed him in De cember by the county grand jury asking Instruction as to possible law violation to he concluded from discovery of certain facts as to al leged shortages In the office of Sa lem City Recorder A., Warren Jones. In a reply to the grand Jury the circuit Judge declared that the publication of copies of the. pre sentment In the dally press was in violation of law. and that thus "it is necessary for mo to publicly state that in legal contemplation no presentment has been made to me." The presentment was not re leased to the press by the grand Jury, by the clerk of the court, or by himself, the Judge asserted, and so its publication constituted contempt of court. - Moreover, "In the ease referred to there can be raised no question. FIREWORKS Exptoeion so violent that persons 20 miles away thought they felt an earthquake, shattered a Redondo Beach, Calif., fireworks factory early February 9, whea 22 tons of explosives went up in flames, dam aging dozen nearby homes. Three were hospitalized from falling debris. Police said It was "incred ible" no one was killed In the three major and ten lesser explosions which leveled the plant. Photo shows fireworks-spattered sky behind flames from the gutted factory. I IX photo. Lincoln Is Cited, Sprague Address "By the People" Remark Is Stressed in Talk at Seattle Meeting SEATTLE, Feb. 10 "I credit the Roosevelt administration with a sincere desire to do something for the people. But I would re mind you of Lincoln's undying statement, that we must not only have government for the people, but government of the people and by the people,"' declared Gover nor Charles A. Sprague of Ore gon tonight before members of the King County Young Men's Republican club in a biting Lin coln day address. "What Is the new deal? We thought we knew In 1933, but who of late has heard of the NRA, General Johnson's blue eagle. Rex Tugwell's 'more abund ant life'? "But we do have a new deal. We have a vast network of gov ernment bureaus and agencies which threaten the existence of local government. I repeat to you Thomas Jefferson's phrase, When Washington tells us when we shall sow and when shall we reap, then shall we want for bread.' " Using the title of "Lincoln in Politics," Oregon's governor traced the participation of the Civil War president in party poli tics before his election as chief executive. "It was in this school of prac tical politics that Lincoln gained the experience in handling men which later he used to consum (Tdrn to Page 2, Col. 1) Transfusion Given To Bullet Victim LEBANON, Feb.. 10.-(P)-Blood transfusions were given Ernest Weiser, 28. today. He was shot In the abdomen Friday night. District Attorney Harlow Weln rick held Balte Clinton Bode, 54, WPA worker, on a charge of ac sault with a dangerous weapon. Bode reported be accidentally dis charged a .22-calibre rifle in his house, the bullet shattering a door window and striking Weiser, who was working In his garden. Ball was set at $2000 by the justice of the peace. Weinrlck said he found the gun hidden under the porch of a neigh bor's house after the shooting. of law upon which the district at torney is not competent to fully advise you and It is his duty to do this. This so-called present ment is an absurdity. I can, there fore, offer you no advice in rela tion thereto. The Judge further stated, "1 fully realize that this so-called presentment was not drawn by the grand Jury and that it is not re sponsible therefor." The effect of the court's ruling, it was understood, was to return the Jones case to the grand Jury in exactly the state in which It was referred to the court a month and a half ago. Reason for the delay, the Judge Indicated yester day, was his unwillingness to call a special session of the grand Jury merely to inform them that their presentment was in reality no pre sentment. District Attorney Lyle J. Page, under whose direction the grand iTwra to Pag 2, CoL XlJwt&Ba BLAST ROCKS 40 it r - - , Lewis Is Invited To Present Plan For Labor Peace MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 1 0-P)-Wtt-liam Green, American Federation of Labor president, suggested to day that John L. Lewis' "new and practical plan" for labor peace be submitted by the CIO chieftain to the Joint committee already au thorized to negotiate a settle ment," said Green. The AFL president Intimated that Lewis' "one roll-call plan, advanced in a speech before the American Youth Congress, was an effort to cover up what Green called Lewis' blocking of peace negotiations. In the past green has Bald that differences needed to be ironed out before an amalgamation of the two factions could be effected. He had pointed out, as an ex ample, that if the CIO Electri cians' union was brought into the AFL and a settlement of differ ences between the two then was sought, It would bring the labor war Inside the AFL instead of outside as at present. Pelley Arrested After Testifying WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-P)-Willlam Dudley Pelley, leader of the silver shirt legion, walked from the witness chair of the Dies committee into custody of a waiting detective today after pro longed questioning on his fi nancial and political operations. When Representative Starnes (D-Ala), acting committee chair man, told the diminutive, goateed witness that the committee was through with him, Detective Sgt. Guy Roane of the Washington police force stepped forward and took Pelley in tow under a war rant from North Carolina. A few minutes before, Pelley, confident and constantly smoking cigars, had testified that his con viction and fine for violation of North Carolina "blue sky" secur ity laws in 1935 was a "silly and technical mistake." He is wanted In North Carolina for alleged violations of probation imposed after this conviction. Youthful Burglar Is Shot to Death PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10-UP)- A young safecracker, identified by police as an ex-informer against gambling houses, was shot to death early today as he tried to escape from the offices of an auto finance company. The victim was Marvin I. Co- veil, 26, of Portland, Patrolmen J. K. Springer and H. K. Krohn said. Observed by a watchman as he ripped the door off a heavy safe, Covell refused to surrender and was mortally wounded by the officers as he ran through the Lyons Auto Finance company of fice. The youth died three hours lat er at a hospital. Charles L. Terry, 24, a boxer known as Kid Terry, was arrested in an automobile near the scene. Keys from Covell's pocket fitted the ignition. Springer and Krohn said, so Terry was booked for Investigation. Ralph Coke Is Candidate PORTLAND, Feb. 10.-iJP-Ralph H. Cake, son of the late Judge W. M. Cake, announced to day his candidacy as republican national committeeman for Ore gon. Jtalph .E. Williams, the in- cam bent, recently said he would '-.a' V. ' ? ' 's" MILE AREA , i . VT Wv -,V.S ill,,, . 0 Georgia Tornado Death Toll High 18 Known Dead but Total May Be 50; Albany Damage Heavy WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-JP)-President Roosevelt was advised tonight that deaths in the Al bany, Ga., tornado might reach 50, with 500 injured. The report came by telephone from Francis Shurling, Georgia director of gov ernment reports. Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed Gov ernor Rivers that he was "deep ly concerned for the welfare of the sufferers" and had " direct ed the federal government's agen cies to cooperate with Btate and local authorities to the fullest possible extent in relief meas ures." ALBANY, Ga., Feb. 10 - (JP) -Striking through soft, pre-dawn warmth, a tornado careened sav agely across Albany today, killing 18 or more, injuring nearly 500 and smashing property worth 15, 000,000 to $9,000,000. Rumbling in just after 4 o'clock "like a thousand freight trains," the vicious, corkscrew wind start ed its mile-long furrow among old homes four blocks southwest of the downtown area, smashing dozens of these residences, killing a young white woman and hurt ing scores. Then the storm lifted the cen ter of its fury a little and boomed on into the business section cen tered around the 37-year-old Dougherty county courthouse. Here it ripped roofs from build ing after building, battered in windows and doors by the hun dreds and slicked away almost the entire top floor of the St. Nicholas hotel. Finally, it dropped heavily into a negro residential section along (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Polhemus Chosen, Succeed Griffith PORTLAND, F e b '. 10.-(Jp)-Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland General Electric company since 1913, resigned to day and the board of directors named James H. Polhemus to succeed him. Griffith, who tendered his res ignation one day after his 70th birthday, was ected chairman of the board of directors, a post re established after a lapse of 10 years. Polhemus, executive vice-president of the holding company since 1936, is a former Coos Bay ship builder and Port of Portland man ager. Late Sports CALDWELL, Idaho, Feb. 10. (,ip) College of Idaho's Coyotes took their second northwest con ference basketball victory In as many nights by slipping past the Linfield college Wildcats tonight 37-36. . The hometowners led most of the way, but always by - a slim margin. No more than five points separated the two clubs at any time in the second period. High scorers were Curt Jarrls of C of I and Hansen of Linfield, both with 11 points. LA GRANDE, Ore., Feb. 10.-("y-Eastern . Oregon College of Education grabbed a 10 -point lead In the first half tonight and stayed ahead, defeating Boise Junior college basketball team, 5v n. Youth Session Cheers Lewis; FDR Hits Reds Labor Leader Gets More Applause; Criticizes Roosevelt Again Denunciation of Russia by President Almost Unprecedented WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-(JPy-President Roosevelt, calling the Russian regime an absolute "dic tatorship," today chided elements In the American Youth Congress opposing loans to Finland, and drew from John L. Lewis a bristl ing new attack on his adminis tration. Speaking to the coil gr ess a few hours after Mr. Roosevelt had addressed it, Lewis observed that the president had advised that they not adopt resolutions con cerning matters on which they were not expert. If the same rule were applied to the democratic party, Lewis declared, the president would "lose the next election" and the president's own "efficiency" would be Impaired. The CIO chieftain's sally was greeted by a cheering, whistling ovation that was made the more marked by Its contrast with the reception accorded the president. Greater Applause Reserved for Lewis Mr. Roosevelt had addressed the delegates to the congress from the south portico of the White House while his audience stood in a cold rain on the lawn. His remarks were frequently ap plauded, but there was no ap proach to the tumultous greeting given Lewis, and one or two in dividuals booed the chief execu tive. Lewis, who spoke in the labor department auditorium, derided, too, the president's discussion of economic problems, telling the members of the congress that they had asked for assurances regarding jobs, peace and civil liberties. "What did you get?" he de manded thunderously. "The president said substan tlally that under certain condi tions and under certain forms of government you wouldn't have the privilege of standing on the lawn in the rain asking for jobs.'.' The congress delegates heard the president speak of Russia in denunciatory phrases almost un precedented as a statement by the chief executive about the government of a nominally friendly nation. Denunciation Is Almost Unprecedented Facing the 4066 by "police count young men and women who huddled in a cold rain on the south lawn at the White House, Mr. Roosevelt declared that in the early days of com munism he had hoped Russia would "work out its own prob lems and that their government (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Burk to File for Sheriff Tuesday Sheriff A. C. Burk will Hie at the courthouse Tuesday for the democratic nomination for reelec tion, he announced last night at the annual banquet he gives his employes and their wives, held at the Chinese Tea Garden. A number of friends of the sheriff outside his staff also were guests. Keynoting the Impending an nouncement, Kenneth Randall, chief deputy sheriff, declared his superior had "given the people what they want service," said Sheriff Burk was keeping Marion county free of gambling and co operating with the state liquor commission in enforcing proper conduct of beer parlors. Other members of the sheriff's staff spoke in appreciation of him. The banquet Is an annual affair. Third Term Issue Debated At State CIO Convention EUGENE, Feb. 10-(i53)-Llvely discussion of the third term for Roosevelt issue brightened to night's session of the second an nual convention of state CIO un ions, but decision was postponed until tomorrow. . . A speech by David Eccles, of ficial representative of Governor Sprague, lengthy debate on rules and passage of the first batch at resolutions were also included, in late business. The controversial third term issue was brought on the conven tion floor when Louis J. McGhee, Astoria, chairman of the consti tution and law committee, intro duced a - resolution condemning the draft Roosevelt campaign as a premature move. Spirited de bate was stopped shortly after Richard Francis, Washington CIO director, advised the delegates 40 vvkv a ava - wwwv nw CaumdlMalte Take Limelight For Presidency 1- Above, J Junes A. Farley, who cre ated a sensation Saturday by permitting his name to be filed as a presidential candidate In Massachusetts. Below; Thomas E. Dewey, whose visit to Ore gon for a Lincoln day address in Portland Monday night has created an unexpectedly great stir In the northwest. 26 Billion Error Charged to FDR Dewey on Trip West Says President That far Off, Total Debt HELENA, Mont., Feb. 10-A)-Thomas E. Dewey, republican presidential aspirant, asserted to night that President Roosevelt in a statement of government debt "made an error of twenty-six and a half billion dollars . . . The greatest financial error In his tory." The New York district attor ney said in a Lincoln day address that Mr. Roosevelt made "the fol lowing astonishing statement" at his press conference Monday: " 'The total owed by govern ment is no greater than it was in 1932. In other words, local debt, state debt, county debt snd city debt had gone down the full ex tent that federal debt had gone up.' " Dewey, who is en route to Port land, Ore., cited treasury and oth er figures to show that while state and local debts were almost un changed in 1939 compared with J 93 2, the United States govern ment debt "increased 121,000, 000,000 and the debt of govern ment agencies by another $5,500, 000,000.00 "Just to measure the size of the blunder," he continued, "that err or was about equal in dollars to all the money spent by the United States government in its whole history from the day George Washington took office until the outbreak of the great war in 1917." . Earlier in an interview Dewey said "Jcbs for nine million people (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) tended the United Mine Workers convention at Columbus, O., and heard John L. Lewis condemn Roosevelt for deserting the new deal, will speak tomorrow. "We are not concerned with the democratic party or Its can didates," he declared. "The rote of the CIO doesn't belong to any party. We are keeping ourselves in a position where we can exact the utmost tor ourselves." motion to table the resolu tion,' narrowly defeated by a 4 to it Tote, was followed with a move to postpone it until Fran cis speaks tomorrow. Dennis Hooper, Portland, said "Roosevelt has abandoned the new deal for a war deal." McGhee, introducer' of the measure for the resolutions com mittee, explained - to Questioners that it; did, not constitute a co - - - . , f ? " ' '' I 4 fr . - t ?-' If IVl Ivx Permits Name To Be Entered In Mass. Race State Chairman Assumes Step Is Taken With Consent of FDR Lincoln Day Opportunity Seized by Republicans to Blast New Deal (By The Associated Press) James A. Farley entered the presidential campaign Saturday night by consenting to the entry of delegates pledged to him in the April 30 Massachusetts demo cratic primary. William H. Burke, jr., Massa chusetts democratic chairman, made public a letter from Farley giving him "authority, or power of attorney, to file delegates pledged to my candidacy." In a statement. Burke said be had no direct knowledge of Mr. Roosevelt's intentions, but he added his belief that "Mr. Far ley's procedure in agreeing to en gage In a contest for the Massa chusetts delegates has the approv al of the president." Republican leaders in a prelude to the 1940 campaigning, de nounced President Roosevelt's new deal in nation-wide speech making last night. Their addresses were in con nection with the anniversary on Monday of the birth of Abra ham Lincoln, first republican president. There were celebrations in scores of cities. Others are to be held Monday and on succeed ing days next week. Flying Trapeze Is Wearying, Asserts Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.), mentioned as a candidate for the republican presidential nomina tion, told a St. Paul audience that Americans were "tired of life on a flying trapeze" and added: "They are tired of experiments that never end and patent medi cines that never cure. They aro tired of bureaucrats, boondog gle, barnacles, brain trusts, bal lyhoo and bankruptcy. An elo quent and decisive majority composed of republicans and Jef fersonian democrats alike will repudiate the repudiators of the American system." Vandenberg suggested as part of his program "quarantine the third termites." In Louisville, Senator Austin (R-Vt. ), assistant minority lead er, declared that supreme court decisions had applied brakes on the new deal. But he added: "They do not stop the building up by the new deal of new instru ments of public power which the president has said might, in the hands of others, place shackles upon the liberties of the people. What? Is It inevitable that we have a third term or a dynasty? Or must we choose the shackles?" New Hampshire to Vote on FDR Slate Among political developments on the democratic side was a de cision by New Hampshire demo cratic officials to enter an "offi cial slate" of delegates pledged to Mr. Roosevelt in the March 12 state primary the first of 1940. Friends of Vice-President Gar ner reiterated that he was seek ing to "smoke out" President Roosevelt on the third term issue by his entry into the April 9 Illinois primary. Mr. Roosevelt's name has been entered in the primary by Chicago's Kelly-Nash organization, but he has given no Indication of approval or dis approval. At Buffalo, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson praised the new deal, saying it "has been merely a shaking off of old tra ditions, a defiance of old lethar gies, and a setting about with new energy to reshape our eco nomic and social system to stand the shock of financial collapse, social confusion and international brutality." "You can no more rip the philosophy of the new deal out of future American life than you can rip out the philosophy of the Emancipation Proclamation or the strong doctrine of the Dec laration of Independence," Jack son asserted. J, J. Tallman Is Called by Death J. J. Tallman. for several Tears associated In ownership of thr Tallman piano store, died at the residence. 2320 State street, last night. Survivors are the widow, Maude, of Salem, and a son, J. W. Tail man of Eugene. Announcement ot funeral arrangements will be made later by the W. T. Rlgdon company. Sunnytide and illihee Vote District Merger SUNNYSIDE, Feb. 10Voter of the Sunnyslde and . Illlheo school districts today ballottedl I to 5 for merger of the dis tricts.' The' vote in Snnnyside - whs av a u iMw - - .1 , -