Power Survey Is Completed PGE Reveals Farther Break-Down '! Figure Is Planned; Data of Interest of Co-op Request Opposed ; : New Street Lighting j Rate Forthcoming ' : ' ' The survey of the Portland General Electric company's sys tem in Salem promised the city council nearly! a year ago has been completed, high officials of the PGE company told Mayor W. W, Chadwick and a group of council members yesterday, but the company desires further to break down its figures before final presentation. The survey was asked as pos sible forerunner to putting a people's utility district or muni cipal ownership proposal before the people. The PGE officials, headed by James II. Polhemus; president of the company, said the survey has revealed many things about Sa lem and Marlon county services the company has not known it self. Among these things, they said, was the great extent of rural territory being served : from a Salem distribution point on Sa lem rates. -. ' . , ! Polhemus said that the corn-; pany engineers are now j engaged in breaking down the survey; In order to determine what would be equitable rates on a one basis for communities now served from Salem on ' the same rates as tn the city. He said the company had for years maintained a "pos tage tamp"' rate by which charges were not varied by con sideration of the distance from the source of . power. This ays- l .(Turn, to page, 2,; column 1) Submarine Halts ' Liner Washington Threat of Torpedo. Caufes ' Urder to; Man Boats; I no Panic Occurs M By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY ABOARD SS "WASHINGTON AT SEA, Jane ll.-(!p)r-Calm un der the supervision or 'Officers of - thts United States liner, men, "" women and children climbed into lifeboats in the grey dawn today while Capt. , Harry Manning held at bay one unidentified submarine which had threatened to torpedo her In "ten minutes" and outman euvered another. ,We are an American ship," "We are an American ship," Cap tain Manning repeated over and over in answering ' the signalled threats of .the first undersea boat. This finally satisfied the sub marine commander who gave the Washington a "go on" signal. There were few, if any instan ces of terror among the 1,020 pas sengers and 570 crew members. All donned lifebelts for the emergency.- - - : I Excitement from the meeting with; this first submarine had scarcely died down when a second undersea craft was sighted on the horizon. r - i - This time, Capt. Manning did Hot wait to receive threats of a torpedo. He adopted tiie tactics of an' old-time, experienced naviga- Hei , swiftly swung the ! prow of the Washington la the direction of the rising sun. : i This maneuver put the Wash ington between the sun t and, the second submarine. Its blinding rays prevented the submarine commander from s e e l n g . the American ship. . - Capt. . Manning i then ' ordered full , steam . ahead 1 and left the submersible far behind. ! j The undersea "raiders came upon the Washington, which was plainly marked with great Ameri can flags on her sides, about 180 xnCes off tie Spanish coast," as she was speeding toward, Galway, Ireland, to pick up more Ameri cans fleeing war sones. j Ark of Satko Is ! V HigH on Mudbank J At Prince Rupert - PRINCE RUPERT, ' BC, June ll-CP)-The Ark of : Juneau, Alaska' bound with, her 'skipper Paul Satkb and his iamlly of eighty was ' sitting i high and dry on a mudbank outside the harbor here late today.::.- Fishermen familiar with the northern jwaters, however, - hast ened to explain there was nothing dangerousi nor particularly un nsnal About th a Ark's predicament, which was caused by the tide leav ing her stranded on Metlakatla bar as tha attempted to cross into Cfciathata'tpand. - .; f . j ; ' The nnwieldy home-made craft will probably float across at high tide, they isdded. r.n j -; . The Ark, powered by a 13-y ear eld '-automobile engine, I arrived liere Sunday after a 15-day trip frci Acacortes, JVash, : temp erature Hits 98. t 7 Yea 9 r s Promised Forest Fire on South Top Some Damage to Logs and Equipment; Hot Spot in. Northwest Rogehurg, 102 Yesterday at 98 decrees was the hottest June 11 in R. lerrTs history, so far as the Dureau, continuous since ivzs, disclose. Continued warmth is predicted for today. The nearest approach to the torrid temperature was the 100 degree mark set June 24, 1926. Tuesday's maximum was ... Oreached at about 4:30 p.: m. The In One ar . . Paul Tl miser Column Things hare been pretty quiet around the statehouse since the case ef the missing elephant was settled, If not y solved. The of fice of the state police and N s t ate policeman CharMA Prav on the w h r 1 p ' glad it's settled. Thpv vurn vv- en a pretty bad : time until It was. The elephant belonged to Cor poration C o m missioner . i Lloyd Smith. It was, he Ful H. Banter, Jr. maintained stoutly through all of the tempest the case stirred up, a solid gold elephant. The state po lice had doubts. One day the elephant disap peared from its appointed place on the de&k of the corporation commissioner. Its disappearance was noted almost immediately and the best slenths of the state police called in. They, as is cnstomary with policemen the world around. promised an arrest d within 48 honrs. '! " " Forty -eight hours' came and went. Nothing happened. It was then that Corporation Commis sioner Smith became incensed. He charged the state police with hor rible Inefficiency. They could not, he charged, police the statehouse. Not even an elephant was safe. So the police bent to their task. It was hard work and a crime for the annals, bnt by diligence and perseverance they t racked it down, throwing civeg right and left as they 'nosed arong the cool in jr trail. j They were eniffmf somewhere around the agricultural building when the big tscovery was made. The elephant was discovered, un damaged and untarnished, quietly gathering dust on the desk in the executive department of a certain high official, an official who had absolutely no interest in elephants except as the symbol of the Grand Old Party. He expressed surprise when the elephant was discovered. . The elephant was returned, Lloyd Smith and, Charlie Pray presumably shook hands and all was peacefol again. Bat they still don't know who took that ele phant. It's a question that will go down in the annals of crime along with "Who kidnaped Charlie Ross? as unsolved. Captain Percy Clark, the fire department wit, says that the first aid erew isn't worried about the fifth column! What worries them is when they have to get out of bed when the sicks call'em. i It was so hot yesterday that Harvey Shaffer's walk slowed down to a walk. . Ration's Largest 4H School Opens wniAiaas, wane li-Vr) A two-weel summer session of 4H boys and girls opened at Oregon State college today with approxi mately 2000 attending. The session is the largest of its kind in the United States. Several regular faculty members remained to direct studies. 1 Budget Voted; Send Pupils to Since H3 citizens appeared at the 194041 school budget hear ing last night, the Salem school board made final passage of the $676,001.50 budget and passed on toother matters, chief of which was a request by West Salem to admit seventh and eighth grade students to Salem schools. : The new budget provides for a tax levy ef 1361,586.50, or about two mills. an increase of J14.982.32 oyer lasti Tear. -1 Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett read a; letter from the West saiem scnooi coara in wnica u was! stated ithat overcrowding In West Salem schools necessitated a change by the 1 opening or school. It Inquired concerning the possibility of seventh, and eighth grade students being taken at one of the Salem Junior high schools and tusked for an estimate on tui tion costs. By adding two' teachers, the additional 5 students involved probably could be accommodated At Leslie Junior, high school next o. i v 6 ' S t 1 .4 ' 1 1 LI Is lursday 6 Fot. Siletz Cause of records at. the airport weather minimum was 51 degrees. Though today's weather is ex pected to be no different from that of the last four days, Thurs day will be cloudy and cooler with I showers. Thunderstorms over the mountains are xorecast. (By The Associated Press) Pacific northwest maximum temperatures were exceeded only oy tne torna southwest as new highs for the season were reached in many areas Tnesday. . ine aay s record was 102 re ported at Roseburg, Ore., the only hotter spot listed by the US wea ther bureau summary at Seattle was 109 at Phoenix, Ariz. The hottest California points were Redding with 101 and Sacramen to with 99. t The mercury reached 100 de grees in Grants Pass, marking the second day the southern Oregon city has sweltered. Temperature there yesterday reached 99.5. Portland recorded 9 7 and Ash land a maximum of 96 degrees, season records for both. Albany had a top of 94. An ocean breeze afforded some relief at coastal Tillamook, where the thermometer soared to 84 de grees, 16 above the summer ave- lrage. Construction crews on Wil son river highway tolled id 95 de grees near the coast range sum mit. , Eugene reported tt nevf-eeostnr-record of 91.9 degrees. The highest .reported temper (Turn to page 2, column 2) Centennial State Air Tour Planned Big Transport Plane Ma tie Available; Governor and Mayor to Go . Jerrold Owen, publicity chair man ror tne Salem Centennial to be held in Salem on July 31. August 1-4 today announced that plans have been completed for an air tour of the state to ad vertise the celebration. . The United Air Lines, through oeeiy v. Hau, vice-president, are loaning the Centennial commis sion a large Boeing transport plane for use in the tour. The plane will leave Salem at 7:23 a.m., Tuesday, June 25 and will visit Eugene, Medford, Klamath Falls, Bend, Pendleton and Port land. Members of the tour party are Governor Charles A. Sprague, Mayor w. W. Chadwick; Secre tary of state Earl Snell; E. H. Bingenheimer, president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce; Irl S. McSherry, general manager of the Salem Centennial; Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, of Willamette univer sity and Jerrold Owen, publicity chairman. The balance of the party will be made up of Salem newspaper representatives. It is expected that the plane bearing the officials will be wel comed in each city by the cham ber of commerce and members of the various civic organisations. The itinerary worked out bv Traffie Manager S. R. Newman of the Portland office of United Air Lines provides for ston-orers of from 20 to 30 minutes in each city with the exception of Bend. In Bend the party will have lunch and will leave at 1:15 p.m. for Pendleton. W Salem May Junior High year, .Superintendent Bennett said. The board voted that further in vestigation he made as to capacity of tslia and authorized the clerk to inform the West Salem board that tuition would be on the basis of per pupil cost used in setting tuition for ninth graders from non-high school districts. ' f ; Penalty for non-payment of tui tion was changed after the clerk reported that the penalty former ly used, that of holding up report cards until payment was made, was not adequate and that In four eases tuition totaling about 13501 has jbecome delinquent. The new poller adopted provides that pay ment be required in advance for each: month, and that if it becomes two months overdue the student be dropped from school.'" f Use of the high school shop was granted for a training course for aircraft metal workers: to be supervised hj , the state board of vocational education. The course will train 60 Salem residents be- jTura to page 2t cglmaa 32, - h Ffef Farmers Must Work out Owri ,Vie W Subsidies Cannot Go ' on Forever Avers Goes, Grange Jjessioi? loganierry JPurcnase py FSCC Is f Reported at State Convention "Sound ahd permanent recovery in America Is impossible" until the problem of agriculture at the mercy or a speculative marketing system" Is solved, Albert S. Goes, former land bank commissianer. told m embers of the Oregon State Grange In their 67th annual ses sion at the senior high school here yesterday. j Goss asserted that "crop con trol and other AAA programs have proven a failure" and said that the i only solution is cooperative marketing, and not relying on the party in power." j; Goss opposed changes in the iarm creait associations and ' a proposed bill to transfer the farm credit administration to the de partment of agriculture. Budget Balancing Necessary Some Day "Bjon't he fooled," he said, fby arguments that the government should put up the money or guar antee the bonds as a permanent policy. Some day it is going toi be necessary to balance the budket agalDl." "That day will be painful. The public will not tolerate pouring out shbBidles for agriculture with out ehd. Then is the time we 111 wish jwe hadpreserved our coop erative credit system, for we -vfill have to begin all over again to build; what we now have." I A telegram from Senator Charles L. McNary to Ray,. Gill, master of the Ojregon Statevdrange, revealed that purchase of ! 1200 tons j of fresh jloganberries has been agreed to by! the federal surplus commod ities corporation. I McNary also telegraphed that wheat acreage should not be ex panded for fear of 'depression! in wheat prices because1 of the carry over in this country ahd Canada. "Yesterday Senator Barkley ajnd requested and the president agreed to a $50,000,000 appropri ation for the Red Cross to provide surplus agricultural commjodltes for export," the telegram adde. Resolutions, of wnich 87 areito be considered, will begin to come before the group at today's ses sion, j "j Tuesday's meetings were cen trum to page 2, column 8) Uar Bulletins GENEVA, June. lZff-L Swiss army communique today said one soldier was killed and 12 civilians wounded seriously by five bombs dropped thijs morning io the Champel-Ca-ronge suburban district by k warplane of unnamed naUona "jr. NEW YORK, June 11-FL British radio report heard by CBS ! tonight said reports had been ' received in London of ' revolt in Italian-occupied Ethi opia and "the raising of the. im perial Abyssinian standard by an Abyssinian." ' - j "Abyssinian tribesmen are getting ready to take their re venge," the broadcast said. OTTAWA, June 12-(Wednes-day)-P)-A police drive against Italians in Canada resulted in the arrest of "several hundred? persons, it was learned early t4 day. Exact number arrested was not available Immediately. . I Police swung into action all over Canada against Italian ele ments immediately following It aly's declaration of war against the allies Monday1. At midnight the press censors for Canada lifted; the prohibition against mention; of the drive. j TOKYO, June j12-t?WPan and Thailand Siam) today concluded a treaty of friend-' ship which Yakichiro Sum, the foreign office spokesman, described . as funmistakablie ' evidence of Japan's peaceable intents in the South Pacific.? ST.! THOMAS, Ontario. June ' ll-C?VPxmier Mitchell neb bum of Ontario declared to night that the Ontario' provin cial police had received info?--mation ithat nazl and fascist sympathizers in 1 1 the United States are organised and wait-' ing only for ' orders "from ; cross the Atlantic' to attack Ontario. - j He i charged that the nazl ! and fascist sympathizers In tbe . Catted States were well trained ' and equipped ith arms for quick ! action. 1-' "I hope that the able-bodied men of Ontario Will become as apprehensive of this danger sis I ami and that they will act quickly. I ' appeal to them to J act for the protection of their . homes and their factories, . Of their iwiTes and children."; Vo M uge Sold Guns Believed Included; Deal Is Non-Profit Senate Votes for Broad Resale Power; Navy Fund Bill Signed Aviation Expansion Bill Goes to White House; Taxation Studied NEW YORK. June unoer a aeai eirec-ted oy tne war department and the US Steel Ex port Co., the allies will get S37,- 600,009 worth of surplus muni tions, equipment and ordnance, it was announced tonight by the United States Steel Corp. Local steel sources said the transaction signalized an impor tant step in line with President Roosevelt's pledge to the allies of the nation's full material aid. In acting as the medium for transfer of the war material, the steel corporation said its export subsidiary would derive no profit. '. Detailed information as to the types of ordnance and munitions involved in the deal was not available ' here. Sources close to the steel corporation : said, how ever, that! some large field gans and shells probably were in cluded. j . y WASHIJvOTON, June 1 1 .-JJP)- warmiy endorsing an organized "atop Hitler now" movement, President Roosevelt worked to (Turn to page 2, column 6) $2,385,000 Due in Federal Road Aid Million and Quarter More From Forest Road Fund to Be Spent Here The Oregon state highway de partment will receive $2,385,000 under the 1940 federal aid high way bill pased by the house of representatives In Washington, DC. Chief Engineer R. H. Bal dock estimated here yesterday. An additional $1,250,000 is ex pected to be spent from this ap propriation by the federal govern ment on forest roads within the state. ; While the new anticipated au thorization is below the appro priation for the 1941 fiscal year, which was $2,587,000. it is $214,859 greater than that for the 1940 fiscal year which ends June 30. Mach money expected to come to the state highway department from congresV $178,500,000 ap propriation Includes: Regular federal aid, $1,535,000; secon dary federal aid. $310,000; grade crossings, $420,000, and public land roads, $120,000. The new appropriation will be come available for expenditure on July 1, 1941. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., June 11-iflV1 Louis Jennings' golf proficiency soared with the temperature today and the Portland public links star, won medal honors in the 16th an nual Oregon amateur tournament with a 36-hole total of 144 strokes, Jennings followed . his 71 of Monday with a 73 today. ' Vine Dolp, Portland, tied with Jen nings Monday, fell apart under the biasing sun today and took 81. Johnny Robbins, Portland, card ed a 70 for a 148 and second place. Other, low scorers: Glenn Splvey, The Dalles, 147; Joe Ahern, Portland, 147; Jay Bloch, Portland, 148;" George Harrtng ton, Medford, 148; John Hogan, Portland, 148; Roy Wiggins, Os wego, 150; Dave Hamley, Pendle ton, 1B1. j . , .?!.. . ': y It took 1SS to qualify but three of four players whocf inished with 1ST got In the match play after a; piayorx. Match play win. start Wednesday.! - , . All favorites won first round matches In the womea's tourna ment today. Marian' McDougail, defending champion from Port land, defeated Mrs. tL R. Bailey. Portland, 7 and 5. Sissy Green, 1 5-year-old Portland girl who was medalist ousted Mrs. Fay Wood, OswegO, 3 and Z. " Babe Freese, another 15 -year-old star, downed Mrs. Kenneth Burton, - Portland, 4 and 3. r Among other scores In the men's Qualifying: Ray Weston Corval Us, 156; Bud Haskell, Olympia. 155 (qualified) r Cliff Folen. Cor vallla. 157;: Robert Utter, Salem, 112; waiter Cline, Salem, 112 tTony Palntr, Salem, 199" " lume to Allies By Contrasts: Death - Saiety for Returning Americans I J I r - is v - i ' f i .t 'J If;. T I v f j If - M M r s. Li j i " : j x - ' : . t -- , : . .-it - r ".V Above, stark action in a deserted c. a wo menioers ot uermaa aavanee mop-up squad are snoc oy French snipers concealed in the ruins. German in the foreground drops to hiakneeS at the first burst of fire; his companion on the right is already hit, begins to crumble. Below, some of the hundreds of United States citizens, including many children, who arrived In New York on Sunday from Gal way, Ireland, aboard US liner Pres ident Roosevelt. Others aboard the liner Washington had a sub marine scare Tuesday hut were not molested. IIN" photos. Artillery Units : Arrive, Clatsop . ASTORIA, Ore., June ll-(ff)-The 249th coast artillery regi ment arrived at Camp Clatsop today for two weeks of intensive anti-aircraft firing exercises. ' One battalion Will fire the Fort Canby and Fort Stevens coast de fense guns. Two other batallions wilf direct anti-aircraft fire under Colonel Clifton M. Irwin of Sa lem, Ore. . : ; Several coastguard and army planes will be used in the maneuvers. Hop Growers Eye! Provisions Of Proposed New Agreement Hop growers of the Salem area met last night at the chamber of commerce, auditorium to hear, an explanation of the 1940 federal hop marketing agreement and to discuss its provisions before vot ing on its adoption today and tomorrow..--- ',: -rf 4',.s. if -'1-ts-' -'-C: The major part of the1 meeting, attended by 3 0 .growers,! was de voted to an explanation of differ ences between the 1139 marketing agreement and the 1940 agree ment approved by the secretary of agriculture on June 4. . - - v , The changes, as explained by W H. ' Anderson, director of the hop stabilization corporation,' in clude a provision for determina tion of hop - production for pur poses of hop price stabilization after harvest instead of by esti mate after July 1 as in 'previous agreements. . The new, agreement- also ; pro vides for crop inspection- by agents appointed by the managing agent of the control board instead of members of the growers', allo cation committee.: Administrative expense' for the plan is i also cut of , US Muniti on West Front, French village evacuated by the al- Willett Winner, Grange Oratory Thomas Willett of the Baker region won the state grange ora torical contest on the state lec turer's program last night, a fea ture ojf the Oregon convention. Winners in six regions com peted here, placing as follows: Lois Young. Marion, second; -Joe Walton, Douglas, third; Mrs. Lo raine Irby,- Wasco, fourth; -Florence Elliott, Forest Grove, fifth, and Ray Ham by. Bend, sixth. Other numbers on the program were musical selections and read ings. . . ..." from four-tenths to three-tenths of a cent per pound per member. Reorganization of committees to handle crops will also provide for a new control ' board of if, members,; a- growers' allocation committed of 10 members, and a growers advisory committee for each of the three coast states par tlclpatingiof 12 members each. ,The plan will go into effect. It was stated, if handlers of 60 per cent of tho year's volume of hops agree to it, or if two-thirds of the growers, by number or volume of hops produced, approve the step. 4 Anderson pointed out that the proposed marketing agreement would only be Invoked if the vol ume of hops "produced and the prices generally offered warrants ed such action. ' l : , a - Should the market remain sta ble and the price above a 30 or 31 cent minimum, the - agreement would not be used, he said.' ' ; Problems arising from the Eu ropean war, he affirmed, male the hop market future precaricr?. A sudden cessation of hosti.I .(Torn to.page 2, column 4 1 - i ons Firm Nazis Declare French Forces Are Shattered Nearly Half --Million Is Loss Estimate; Paris Almost Deserted Italy Loses Limelight and Also Ships; Action' - Limited to Air (By The Associated Press) The German invaders thmst ta close to Paris early, today that persons in the northern residen tial . districts heard the mutter ef the big guns and watched the flashes of battle like white light ning on the horizon. In the center of the nartlv-d- serted city, there was the quiet such as precedes a storm. The ; French command an nounced last night that the enemy apparently was seeking to force a decision west of the Olse. which would be almost directly north of fans, and said that the dog-tired but still fighting French armies to the northeast of the city had wunarawn to the south bank of the historic Marne. On the west flank, the French were struggling to prevent the Germans from - throwing, bridges across th Seine, -. . ,. Italy's ensry, into- the war as Germany's partner i produced a wide-Hung bustle of aerial bom bardments in the - Mediterranean. Red sea and even in the Africa interior. ; ' i Rome itself had an air raid alarm. but no attack on the city was disclosed and ft ' was an nounced that the first Italian war communique, already delayed, would be issued at' 1,0 a. ei. Wednesday (1 a. m. PST). The South African air- force , (Turn to page 2, Column 4) Rome Blacks out, Raid Alarm Heard ; f . : . ' King Goes to Front After Giving Duce Supreme Rule of Forces ROME. June 12-( Wednesday L -")-Thia ancient capital experl-. encea lis llrst air raid alarm ear ly today and : was blacked out, completely. . W hether enemy planes actual ly visited the city was not de termined. Italy, so newly j joined as Ger many's active partner in the war against Britain and France, mov ed secretly in her belligerency. (British reports told of , seven Italian air raids on Malta: a Geneva dispatch, said Crown Prince ' TJmberto ' planned ' to throw , his; Italian shock troops against the French in the south- . ern half of the maritime Alps; and meagre ad rices f rora ' the Swiss telegraphic agency resort- . ed attacks on French Tuslaia aad Corsica. ; i x (British planes raided Italian Libya and Eritrea, in East Afri ca, bombing air bases; and South African - planes raided Italian Moyale. near Britain's African Kenya colony.) . II Duce assumed supreme com mand of Italy's armed forces en every front" in the war proclaim ed to drive the. British and French from their long-held posi tion in the Mediterranean. He took over with the consent of the, 70-year-old King V Uteri Emanuel who went J to the field with the troops and announced his intention of remaining at the front as he did t In the World war.., ' I ';. ; . Italian troops moved quickly into valleys atfd mined bridges en their side of the French frontier last night Action of Turkey on Russ ANKARA. Turkey, June 11.- (JP-Tut key summoned probably 200,000 men and officers to mili tary barracks to Join 250,009 al ready n&der arms tonight as she waited a hint from Russia before castingthe die on war. : r Informed soldiers said if Soviet Russia keeps out of the conflict- Turkey will eater the war on the side of the allies to , whom she has pledged assistance ia a Medi terranean war. : But if -Josef rt&Ila is ready ta help Italy ajnd Germany there is no a'iirnatlve but for thl3 country to keep tuiet, it 'was &ied ' Depends