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We made one of onr rare ex cursions Into the terra incognita of the society pages the other afternoon, r xa -pri,w7" chete in band in ' order to cut our way through the dangerous dm-' gling participles, f .. Our- expedi-1 1 tion was made at -the behest of the American Socle-1 " ty for the Pre Tention ot Abase ., of i A d J e c tires which had re ports about ten tlMtfvfwi w a r A ' being held eap- M-.lL tire in the deep interior of the society pages and were dead and dying from mlstreatnient by the natlTe tribes. . . A aecoadary aim was to de termtae what la the normal . life expectancy of a debutante (Deb or Debbie In the patois v of the natives), a, peculiar per ! eanlal of the region. .It bad -been fairly well established by a prerlona expedition that, do butantes nerer die, but go on forever, some of them still be fug referred to as debutantes, or debs r debbies or pre-, debs, pre-debbles, and pre-pre-debs) although - their . first so cial appearance was at a ball la honor of the fall of Manila, , With our satire gun Nearer, Al Fresco, carefully beating around the bush; we came first upon a "stellar : ceremony. ; We were not certain of its i origin until our, research, expert, Mr. Webster, came, through. 'with ithe Information that a ceremony .la a ceremony and that stellar la -resembling a star in shape, bril liancy or the like." . : On consideration . we thought "stellar ceremony" a little vague since it did not refer to any par ticular star. There are stars and stars and there can. be no ade quate comparison unless it is made specific Of course, the un to to red natives of the region could not,: know that, but how much better, our experts decided, St would hare been to hare .said. The wedding was a stellar cere mony, alike in brilliancy to the star Alpha Orionis (Betelgeux), a star ot the first magnitude ISO light years from earth as the crow flies. Some critics said the ceremony was more comparable to Alpha Eerpentis, a star of 2.8 magnitude, but this Ms open to dOUbt." " r ....,.V. Our expedi Lion was not oth erwise a complete success tar when we battled our way into - the Inner fastnesses, tripping oyer a bridesmaid, we found . all the adjectives dead except a little 17-jearold gala without . a mamma or a poppa or even an occasion. So, bearing back bugs sample of the native food, mixed metaphor, we turned otir' backs on the wild country. fTum to Page 3, Col. 6.) ; (ItAm " j '-V-jw j -- - .fe. . rka.t' . . - SujiqyiDay is Forecast F or Independence Rites Thousands Expected to Attend Legion's Annual . Celebration at Fairgrounds; Races, i Vaudeville on Program . 1 i A warm, sunny Indejendence day "Is forecast uby, the United States weather bureau for those thousands of Villam ette VaDey; citizens who will trek to the state fairgrounds here tdday.to enjoy the annual July 4 celebration put on by Capital Post No.. 9, 'American Legion. - " ; f - Everything; is ready for the day's program, from sched ules for the children's sports tmsy morning to 1 preparation f of s the I floor, for: the closing": dance to be presided oyer : by- Monte ' Brooks tonight, according to Barkley A. Newman; chairman of ,the 1940 celebration commission. : Forty four Salem business firms have donated prises " tor c-the children's- sports program, -which will . start at. 9:39 o'clock , this morning with Oliver Huston ' in charge.;-. . Jfkz . -r - More than ordinary ' patriotic fervor is ant cipated at the for mal : exerclsesi which will open at 11. o'clock . with the splaying- of The' Star SpfcBgled Banner" and the raising of! t'Old Glory" by Sa lem Boy Scouts.' Arthur Johnson as commander, of -Capital pout will deliver the i address ot welcome and. Mayor W. W Chadwick?wUl respond. Reading of the Declara tion of Independence by :ida Mae Smith will follow. After singing ot "America" by! the audience,-led by William McQilchrist, sr.. the Cen tennial Gleemen will sing "Salem Wonderland" 'and "Dear Land of Home.' i :jJ, r't'--:-';-: Address of ihe day will be made " (Turn to l page SV coU -5)- Hungary Prepares A irports, r Railroads Qwic Mqcfc By ROBERT B. PARKER, Jr. BUDAPEST. July 5 ; 4- ( Thurs day) Hungary ordered all military airports cleared ; f planes today in order to prevent thelf destruction in event of sur prise attack. : I ' ; ' " - ' m The government-con trolled news . agency i in dispatches from Transylvania i contended, ra e a n whlle, the German minority In this Rumanian province which Hungary claims is endangered by threatened 'disorder. - The . agency, which previously bad" reported 'alleged mistreat ment of the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, eald the com mander ot tha national guard in the German areas had demanded reinforcements. The dispatch add ed the Eason aod Ssrafclaa resi dents were ttlug kept ender close A stream of Hungarian mili tary reservists poured into con centration poliita along the Ru manian frontier. . Air raid ri'ocautlors went lor ward. Antl-aUcrttt gvins -were feetjno export tt ,UiL CXit m m4tf 4mm gftm t4fbnj 7" lSNt . .,1. - . tt : 1 r . - - .. - .i . t ; v r(fi t: oliipping ptnke i ; '.iliireatils.iided SAN FRANCISCO, Jul y 4-(Thursday)HlP)-A strike of ma rina cooks1 and stewards, which threatened to - disrupt i r major portion" -ot Pacific coast shipping, was called off early today when negotiators for the union and shipowners - reached a tentative agreement. "; J; - Announcement . of . the " agree ment came - only- a-, few -minutes past last midnight, the time set by , the 'cooks and stewards , to start the walkout. " ! . .' ' : " ,It followed 'receipt by the un ion .'of a telegram - from Labor Senetary Frances Perkins strong ly urging adjustment of issues, and Intervention fori settlement by Harry Bridges, maritime - la bor ' leader and - California direct or, of the CIO, with which the cooks and stewards are affiliated. np in the railway yards ot Budapest,- vital key to the country's communications. t, . Passenger traffic on the Dan ube In Hungary will be trought almost to a standstill today, it was announced. 'Cancellation of pu bile events scheduled for July and August was . ordsred. ; The , mobilization of thousands upon thousands of mensome CO years old jammed every high way and railway line In the east ern section of the country. . Hundreds of the capital's taxi cab drivers,; many-with no army service, were called up to drive commandeered trucks for the military."-; '--:" ---J,s -' ( From Belgrade, . Yugoslav ecoa omists reported that harvesta in southeastern European , s a 1 0 a probably would -to 25 to SO per cent less- thta r ormaL -- In 'consequence,"' it-t waa ' said, there would ba 100,000; fewer railway cars:. erf .wheat, for' export to Germany. From Yugoslavia it self, it vas fed ;!?!, thers wS:i le riyj,r,V.- ''i-f . .ini'mmf i'iwii'iij f!in n'Kittj' m.-v mm i . - AsK3 5 Billion: Defense Fmids FDR Approves New Plan to Get Planes, Guns and Tanks WASHINGTON. July, t - (JP - Another j$(,00,000,000 . defense program 4 to .finance the' first great..' at ride 7 toward a ? 6 0,0 0 0 plane airi force and to buy tanks and f una in man production Quantities--Is to .be laid before eongreatf Inext 'week.f , .., ..- ;The" plan ' "was i approved today by President' Roosevelt and lis Immediate .lieutenants of the' dV fense: organirationv If : approved by. congress, it. will run the ses sion's total defense authorizations and i appropriations, above - 10r 000,000.000; i 5-; . Mr Roosevelt . talked 1 the pro gram over with his advisors, while the - senate naval ' committee was voting 9 to S to Approve the nom ination of : CoU Frank .Knox aa his secretary ot the navy, the sec ond ? of.. two republican ". cabinet appointeef to .receive; committee endorsemtnrjttjas manyldayi. On behalf of the "committee majority r a statement was Issued that the, group; .would have -withheld Its approval if .it. had found Knox to be an "interventionist." Questioning, had; revealed him to be in ' favor ; of "moral and eco nomic'.' laid to. the allies by Amer ican citizens and cot by the Amer ican! government, the - statement said. It added that : he was op posed to any action which would involve j this country In the war. , After approving the Knox nom ination, the committee considered and approved a house bill au thorising the expenditure, even tually, of ; 14.000.000,000 -Wit h which 301 fighting ships would be added to the navy. The legis lation, also would remove, the pres ent limit on the inumber of planes the navy could acquire. Earlier -the defense commission announced that the Packard Mo tor e o m p a n y had tentatively agreed to undertake the construc tion of 9000 airplane engines 6000 for -England, and 3000. for the United States.- This was the Order irhlch llenry Ford refused last week, asserting . he would make motors for - the - United States cmly. '" Ruinanian Station Is Saddeiily Quiet , kew! vTOR'k.!' Julyj ' J-rVThe British j -jiroad casting .i corporation in a French language announce ment picltid np ' here : bjr t5a .Ka-' tlonal Broadcasting company said the entirft -Rumania; radio1 net work wet t off the air shortly be fore midnight No explanation was given. . i , 1 -The reijbrt beard here said one of the ets.tions was irtvis a news bulletin In ' Rnmasian bat sud denly went off Ue air ia tba nivN idle ef H.;tra5a:icsl02. , Srain Bombed In Nazi Raid OverEnfflarid Engineer Is Killed, but T Three Passengers ; " Are Unhurt " f - . ' . . T . . . V , 0 - . ... . - - : I v t , w -: Bombers Keep up Flight 24 Hours, Preluding ; ' ' Invasion .-'. . (By the" Associated! Press) ' i : LONDON. July.. 4-(Thursday)r iu9 ursc uerman oomoing ox. a movjng train , In rGreat." Britain' killed the enrineer - with-' bomb fragments In the climax ot pro- longea raids unieasned by. the nazi air force yesterday and last night arainst the British Isles, t 'Seven persons were reported killed and 77 wounded In the day's aerial attacks, putting the z-nour total or air. raid casual ties at 20 dead and 197 wounded. -As the country-was addlnr nu its air raid casualties, the minis try of - Information announced that steps had been taken to place all French warships in British porta under British con trol. . .- . - British anti-aircraft sruns and fighter planes brought down six and damaged four of the Ger man bombers that - roared solo and In waves In the day-long raids yesterday and last night (Turn, to page S, eoL 1) FreucH, British Vessels in Fight Move to Take Over Ships . North Africa LONDON, July 4-(Thursday)- (A7 irencn and British warships are fighting -each other oft the north coast of Africa, the British ministry of Information, reported today, as a result of Great Brit ain's renewed efforts to keep the navy of her. conauered ally, by force or agreement, front falling into the hands of Germany and ltaiy. "'- ,.: ---v- ' The British reported that a sud den move to place all French war ships in British ports under, con trol of the royal navy- was com pleted successfully with "only two casualties.'? However, action had' to be. taken in the locality of Oran, Algeria, because the. French admiral in command would not accept . British . conditions.- The minister ot Information said the operation off Oran Is continuing. . 1 . The ministry said steps were begun yesterday to put the French warships under British control "to ensure' that the French fleet should not be need against them by the-common, enemy." . The ministry said actios had to be taken against French ships in : the , vicinity of Oran, on the Mediterranean -coast of Algeria, because the ; French T admirals in command there would not accept the British ..conditions, i". J" . The operations of bringing the scattered sections of the-French war , fleet under . British . control till are proceeding, the ministry said. i f- - j-' -' - ' Best Calf Rcier 3 Mayor's Class ST. PACLy Cen J"r SKjFV- Mayor George .Grltnps of llnb- bard fras crowned the cham : pion calf -tying mayor of Ore ; gon tonight, but only after . Mayor Joseph i K. Carson of : Portland.' who finfcfced sixth, ; smilingly declared, "1 was rob- bed." - r-' ' . : -:' -. V --.r : I ; The HnbbaJoJL chief executive 1 won the event, a' feature of the : ; St. Paul; rodeo, la' one zninute i and a half. Bis $10 prize mon ey was turned over to-the Hod 5 Cross. - . . .- "' -Six mayors participated. Crcnm Jcyels Are I Moved to Canada NEW YORK, July J-CSVTbe German radio . knight Quoted, a Stockholm . newspaper as saying the British-crown jewels and ar chives of the British foreign and other ministries have bees quiet ly transferred to-Canada. - The report was heard here ty the National Broadcasting ecra par.y. s. -- .' . Anti-Nails Arre:Jcjl BUENOS AIHE3, July Twesty tlve persosj -were -arrested last right when aitl-nazi drn enstrators trlI to prevent ftU bitlon cf a German filia, i friei Line," at tie Central cis- eyia. ruiiio ttispers;u ijcr groups i .. T-l -, J?, , 1 1 whicTi' attempted afreet -ikcj- Utrat:on3 later.: Fifes', &n& And Destroying Toivri Jasper Blaze Takes Livi Houses Burned at .West Timber ; ' Portland ' r '.; Has Big Waterfront Blaze . , . : . . , i . PORTLAND; Ore.; JuIylSCAP) Forest and: farm fires roaring uncontrolled over thePacific northwest from British Columbia to mid-Qregon killed three children and de- stroyea a tiny uregon lumoer town. ; ..-, u - . . Tw-o boys and a girl, children of Mr. and" Mrs, Everett Lnase, died in a farmhouse Thrce.Initiative Meaes-on Time doses With Others J not Able . to Rustle V Enough Names : ,. Only three' Initiative measures -legalizing ptnball games, .per-' mlttlng private sale of liquor, and repeating the state milk control law wui appear on Oregon's No vember ballot, sponsors of 15 other Initiatives having failed to obtain the -required 13,531 aig natures.: ';; .-. : Wednesday wag the last day for filing completed Initiative peti tions. ! ' ' ; " ' The November general election will be the first in six years with out a pension measure on the bal lot - The state also will vote on four proposed constitutional amend ments referred by the legislature to the people. They would remove the double liability of bank stock holders,, increase legislators pay from 11 a day te 40 days !to as day xor 50 days, remove re- strictions under which the secre tary of state and state treasurer can t serve more than eight of any IS years, and provide a tax base for newly-created taxing. districts. Two 1939 laws, referred br ref erendum of the people, also will be on the : ballot. They . would change the primary election from May to September, 'and regulate sale of liquor In night clubs and hotels. . ,. Initiatives which failed because of insufficient signatures included Several pension proposals, one of which would have increased pay ments to s 0 a month. Others would have levied sales and gross Income taxes,' established a state bank, set up a civil service system for state employes, and banned Sunday sale of food and merchan dize.. .' r . .- - - -, ; ... . : Giamberlain Gets : Support at Meet LONDON.' July J-ff-Support era of former. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain turned . out In large 'numbers tonight at an all-party 'meeting of members ot parliament in commons called by Clement Davies,' member ot par liament from Montgomeryshire. The turnout was prompted In part by a feeling that there might be demands that Chamberlain re sign from the cabinet The Chamber lam - group was outspoken in' his defense -in .re ply to some criticisms. The -meet ing was adjourned to next week. ' 1 1 "' '.; Asks Compulsory Training WASHINGTON. July. t-JPH James B. Conant, president of Harvard university . and Gen. John J. Pershing urged . enact ment of ' a compulsory ; military' training law, today, contending it would tend to keep the nation out of war and 1 would: build up the j naUonal spirit ; -. ' SprtigueflDen ies Story He Made Senate Deal Governor Charles A. Sprarue denied emjp hatlcally last night a Washington, DC. columnist s re port that he had "made a deal for his own appointment as.Unlt ed States senator when and if Senator Charles L. McNary is elected vice president ' 1 m The exectttiva referred to Wed nesday's edition Of the daily col umn from Washington written by John" W. Kelly, former Oregon newspaperman. .- "If any vacancy occurs in the office cf United States senator while I am' governor I shall ap- oiat sosieaca else. to fill that va- cancy, -tua governor .oeciarea xa rrcparei statement. ' I was lected gavaracr for a four-year tern. I expect -"to serve oat my terra and discharge the duties of dy cfiici to thei best cf my .abil- y, end tiat is the extent ot my present amtitlcn." Colcranlst Kc.iy "wrote itaf'ta !( uiJUrrsiuiiai;;s has been reached v. c j 1 i t l.i ill 1 ::; t-s-t R. i at- i. -1, i .-.kur cl ls Oregon house adfrihF orests of Three Chiidren 12 blaze at Jasper, 10 miles south S?east of Ensene. Ore. .-. a.. . ,. r , Auen, -11 succumbed . today to burns. and' injuries suffered in. a ieap-from a second story bedroom; The bodies of 'Pauline, ill,' and DarreU.: 7. were recovered from ashes of the . same room; where they were trapped whlla their par ents were away. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Fire starting in the dock ot the abandoned Eagle Lumber Co. to day, burned 12 of the 15 houses In West Timber, leaving ' ten-' famil ies of loggers homeless. The tiny community, a single-street town In the high fire hazard area of the ' Coast' range mountains west or Forest" Grove, was destroyed while many of its residents fought a lorest lire' on the Sunset Lum ber company's holdlnraj Walter Gillner, 45, president of the Timber Light Power com pany. Was seriously Injured by a toppling power pole he had scaled to repair a line. He was taken to a sorest Grove hospital. ' Predictions of warmer weather tomorrow, worried the men bat tling dozens of fires In drought- urn tor age , Col. 4.) DeiiKateR Tp Open Sessiorii Uncertainly of " Whether FDIt Will Run Again v Is Big Guess WASHINGTON, July S-JP- nrui oM principal uncertainty to keen thm cnMilnr mMnti, leaders prepared, today, to con verge on Chicago at the end of this week," to get a tentative plat- xorm on paper before the national convenUon meets Jnly 15 and to make - all - arrangements for the big party meeting. - ' .. ' ' Charles Miehelson, publicity di rector for; the party, said the na tional committee's . headquarters would more on from Washington to Chicago Sunday, and Senator wagner (D-NT), In charge of the platform, Announced he would fol low them a day or so later for pre-conventlon conferences with other platform drafters. " ; . The one chief uncertainty was: of course, the euestlon whether President Roosevelt would accept the nomination which, !' for lack of any deterring word from' him. tne convention is obviously ready to bestow ua him. Other un- certainUes deal with the selection (Turn to page S, col.cl) ; , Increase in Flax Acreage Foreseen . WASHINGTON, July S-UPV-'Re- quirementa. for national defense may cause an expansion of Ore gon flax acreage next year, N. E. Dodd, western AAA director, ad vised Senator McNary today, v Dodd said tests showed the Ore gon' flax equal to any in manu facture of linen for parachutes and other military fabrics. A total of 6000 acres of flax was planted In Oregon- this year, but it may be increased to 9000 and perhaps 19,000 In 1941. The 1940 production is estimated at about 14,000 tons. f Cblurknist's ot representatives, who-wouli be come governor in event of a va cancy la ' that office this year) and Sprague and all that is neces sary to complete the deal is for McNary to become rice ; presi dent" - ' - '. .. The fovemo" declared the re port "falat ia every respect" - I resent -not only for inyself but also far the rpeaker 'cf the house, - Mr."- Ernest Fatlaad. the imputation that we "had entered into a 'deal whereby I wcull re s!gn and he as my successor would eppcint me as seaator," the gov ernor ' added." ;-PttbU'. - if atlceut frowns cm politics of - t:at ort I da not iudulga "la that kind cl political trading, for myself and know that llr. Fatluad would not for Lis part - - - -"Let me repeat: The 3oma tion ca which !!r. Kelly based his story- was without any foun dation of fact I have no Inten tion to resi.ra as governor and bate no present aspiration? for any ether pablie cinau" , ArariddraSta Sinks Sviftl V : ck 1500 German jind Italian Prisoners, -500 Guards -. . . v Were Aboard - . i ; ,;;..-;'" - Survivors Are Picked up . V by Canadian Vessel ; ? - 1000 Saved. - V L O N D O N; : July " I.)-Oi thousand persons,- most of them Italian and German prisoners of -war,- were reported . tonight to have drowned when - a German . submarine torpedo sank the Brit ish., liner. Arandora Star off Ire land as it was - taking 1,500 en emy aliens and ethers to Canada for internment -i : "' - -The luxury liner, stripped ef her finery for. prison-ship service, carried about 1,500 Internees and . 600 guards. This presumably was the second consignment of prison ers f Or " Canada, Where the first contingent arrived last week. . ; . It was attacked just after day light (presumably y e s t e r day ) without any warning, and some of the 1.000 survivors who reached Scotland . tonight said many prisoners were killed la a mad fight for places in the life boats. One estimate put the num ber of prisoners killed at 9 8 . The water was filled with bod ies and debris, the witnesses re lated. Hundreds were asleep whem the. torpedo struck and were -unable to cope with the stamped for lifeboats. Oermm Anmmaee , User's Sinking . - -f ) A German comunique had an nounced the sinking of the 16. 5 01-ton liner a-few hours before the bedraggled survivors- reached a safe harbor in a Canadian res cue vessel, r.-. - -. j.---.. i Witnesses said the submarino struck" without warning but that the heavy loss of life was dae to a great degre to tbe "hysterical scramble" afterward. 1 The Canadian vessel, first to answer the SOS, reached the scene Quickly. : v ; "She loaded herself to the, hilt with men plucked from the wa ter by whaler boats she sent oat. a survivor said. Some of the survivors were , clad only in pajamas or trousers. Few had shoes. ? ; - "It's a wonder, any one was saved," said one man. . "At n time 30 men were fighting vitt each other to bo the first to llde down a rope Into a lifeboat Approximately -1,000 survivors After Atta reached the Scottish coast Aa-. other ' 1,0 00 were missing . but . some survivors may bave beeu taken to other ports. " Lighting? System ; " Failed at Once : - , r Although the sinking occurred at a. m.. ia daylight there was little light below decks because the lighting system failed at once. The torpedo must have risned the ship open as "she began to - settle rapidly," a survivor said. - "As the ship went down the captain and several of the ship's officers were standing on th deck. Several ot them went dowa with the vessel, we . fear." - One British snaxd said th wrk of th Canadian rescuers was "magnificent" v (The 11-year-old Arandora Star was sed by the Cunard-Whit Star lln early In the war to take : Americans home from Europe last " fall.- On her first trip with 441 passengers the ship's officers said they had eluded nine German tub marines in crossing.) Blariners Advised To Get New Chnr SAN rRANCISCO. July 3W.K Masters of ships bound for Tb Netherlands Indies were t&dzr advlswl by the.US hydrograhi office to apply to the consul gen eral of The Netherlands here for important jnf ormatlon. The by- orograpnie otnee saia - warn? was given by "the consul genrtl of The Netherlands In Manila tLct without the information, navif v- tlon In the Indies may result U serious ' damage. .; Strato Hop3 Y7ill Start on Monday JL03 ANGEIX3, July l.-irH nirh-altitnde r-;er.,7.--r i :r s will be isauguratp between L-cs Angeles and New -Ycrk text Uc' day wLen TWA'i S'-tst "Btrat- iiaer" departs ca t.s first ch.l cld 13 hours.- 40 -cxiziii". flltt fact-- . -"-.'.- i ' ,-Cno rousd-tri r.lzht :!!y.wri be csada br TUA'1 K3t tt fl such 33,Cv 3 rlaaes. . Our I-- I I
