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' Going Away ? : ' Going ob vacation this month? Let The Statesman follow j on to bring tewi ' from home, along wl t h - word and up-to-the-minute photo ' picture of ertati from abroad. ", - 1 j Veather1 , Fair today and Thursday normal temperature and ho' ; mJdity; moderate to fresh . west and northwest wind off the coast. Max. temp. Tues- V day 79, min. 44; north wind. rcuwocD 15! NINETIETH YEAR Calem, Oren. Wednesday Meaning, August 14, 1343 Prlco 3ct Mewrsrtcmds Sc rl I 11 I II 1 I 1 I f r I I J E I ' I I ; I I . 1 i Serious Fires Being Battled In Northwest Neez Perce Blaze May Be '. Held Soon; Spreads Over 8000 Acres Portland, Mt. Hood and Baker Fires Under Control, Report . MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 13-(P) Foresters directing an 1100 man army In a battle against an 8000- acre fire raging on the Nez Perce national forest In northern Idaho aid tonight they expected to bring the blaze nnder control by Thurs day. At 10 p.m. the Missoula region al forest service office was ad vised by radio that high winds, which spread the fire from 200 acres to more than 8000 in less than an hoar yesterday, had died down and fire fighters had pre vented the fire from Invading new territory. ' - Rangers reported that six 'miles of the 22 miles of fire lines need ed to corral the lightning-caused blaze had been completed by nightfall. Supplies are being ferried to the fire zone. In the picturesque upper Salmon river country, by airplane, truck and pack train. The country where the fire la burning, adjoining the Selway Bitter Root primitive area, is one of the most rugged sections of the northwest. Three other new fires were re- ported tonight, two Of them mov- lng In from Canada. w One of the fires from Canada had blackened some 200 acres of the Kootenai forest In extreme northwestern Montana. Another! was reported burning on a small section or tne .auiuu loresi oi l northern Idaho, at the head of the Kootenai river. The third blaze was on state forest land in the Warner Peak area-near KallepelL f SPOKANE, Aug. 13W)-Thlrsty grasslands of eastern Washington, notably In the Grand Coulee area, were blackened today by fires which, in at least two cases, men aced towns and farms before they j were controlled. Grass, brush and scrub timber (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Flash Flood Adds To Toll in South Deaths Reported as water Reaches SO Foot Depth at Elizabethton ELIZABETHTON. Tenn.. Aug. Wednesday WffV-An undo-1 termined number of persons were j believed to have drowned in flood waters In the Rives ta section, near Elizabeth ton's rayon plants. Ser geant Claude Buekles of the state highway patrol said early today. -Buckles said water was at least 10 feet deep and still rising, and authorities had been unable to get In with boats. About 250 to 300 persons live in the section which Is near the Wautauga river. AH available authorities t nearby Johnson City, Tenn- were called into help fight the xiooa damage, Borne people In the RIvesta see-1 uon were reportea eunging - to i trees to avoid being swept away I in the twirling waters. The wa- ters at Elizabethton proper had J said no action bad been taken be fallen about three feet from the ) cause three ' of the committee's crest. - The flash flood on the . small I -Wautauga river followed 2ft noursiKe held in the near future. of torrential rains over mountain- ous east Tennessee. Several towns and communities I were Isolated and scores w e r elutratlve committee, said the elee- homelss from flooded rivers and I smaller streams. I waters swept into tne powerirondred.M piants oi two large rayon plants here, causing a uspenslon of opera. n a m m I s2xSLttttWNo Third Term" Club to Be town Elizabethton. CROWLEY, Iju, Attgv 1 Flood waters slowly receded over southwestern Louisiana -tonight leaving amid a sea of . mud the carcasses of an, estimated ' 78.000 cattle, Innumerable other stock, untold millions In crop and prop erty damage and about 21,000 persona temporarily homeless. Disposal of the dead, eat tie through burning, and saving of thousand J of remaining - cattle which found high ground but are I starring,'- remained the greatest task of rescue workers before re habilitation of residents could be undertaken. '' ' Y-: :" Three deaths of babies through (Turft to Page I, CoL I) Our" p Senators . Lc:i, C-5 L . .7 Home Guard fort Oregon Planned ...,.M..,, . ,.,..,,., ; ' ' 1. t .., , f . , : ' r- " ... .I?-' i . Is -s.- , m t -; . w : - y , . ., 1' i " . vl ':'- V . v .'nt"""'"f aJWi'- , . i ' 1 ' i I " RAYMOND J. KELLY AP Telemat Legion's National Chief Visits Gty Governor to Reveal Plan for Organizing Force in Address Today State preparations for a home guard organization to take effect if the national guard is mobilized will be revealed by Governor Charles A. Sprague in an address at Tillamook Wednesday, he In dicated after a conference in the rovpmnr ' Africa vpsterrtaT with RaTmon1 j. Ke)lv. Detroit, na. tional commander of the American rrlon Kelly, here on an official visit, Nlel R. Allen, Grants Pass, state Legion commander, and Governor fionrna disrnssed the home s-nard plans lit their meeting here. The Legion commander was of ficially welcomed to Oregon , by Governor- Sprague In a briefs . to4 formal radio broadcast from 4h executive suite. . v- Legion's Defense progwun Is Cited Kelly spoke of the American program for Legion's 20-year adequate national defense, ellm Ination of subversive activities and promotion of Americanism. He said the legion has ben foremost in advocating a program to obtain supplies and material for arming 1,000,000 men, to make the Pana ma canal and its approaches im pregnable and to create new naval bases In the Pacific. State Commander Allen, Dr. B. R. Pound, grand chef de gare of the 40 et 8 soclete, and Ray Stumbo, commander of Capital post. No: , also spoke briefly. Allen told Commander Kelly that i within the next few months Ore gon would have a new high legion membership. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 13- National Legion Commander Ray- mond J. Kelly of Detroit declined to express an opinion today on (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Keezer Selection Is Delayed Again NEW YORK. Aug. lS.-CflVThe administrative committee of the College of the City of New York deferred action today, for the sec- ond time In two weeks, on the expected election of Dr. Dexter M. Keeser. of Portland, Or., president of the college . Chairman Charles H. Tattle felrht members were absent. He added that another meetlna would j Ordway Tead, chairman of the Ihleher board of education and ex - of fleio member of the admin tlon of Dr. Keeser. president of Raed eollea-e. still was. being Organ ized, Meeting Ton ight Armed with commendatory, let ters from Wendell I Wlllkle's secretary, the Associated Wlllklc Clubs of America and US Senator Edward R. Burke, sponsor of "No Third Term clubs," W. VL Gar ner, Salem barber who ; recently announced plans to zorm a wui- kie-f or-President Democratic clabr yesterday s meeting to organlx a after the Burke pattern would r be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight on the second floor of the building at 444 State street. - "Any one who Is against a third term i for the presidency will be welcome," ; Garner added. "We are going to form a No Third i Term club and campaign actively for Wendell jWUIkle." , Garner's Initial announcement shortly- after the democratic na tional convention' gained more than ordinary mention because he eays -he Is a third cousin of Vice President John jance uarner oi Texas. . i "We are planning on you ana Third Term Is ,Demo Vote Adkins Leads Bailey Ly : Good Margin; Idaho V v Incumbents Ahead Bottolfsen, Sen. Thomas Easy Winners ; Donart Pressed by Taylor LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Aug. It GTV- Homer M. Adkins, former US internal revenue collector for Arkansas, established a lead over Gov. Carl E. Bailey in tabula tions from the- democratic guber natorial primary " early tonight. - in. 857 precincts from all sec tions of the state, out of a. tofeaj of 2002, the unofficial returns gave Adkins 39,310; Bailey 20,. 529: J. Rosser . Venable, Little Rock World war veteran, 225; Frank Witte, Magnolia merchant. 256. in the lieutenant governor s race, the incumbent. Bob Bailey, led his field by a comfortable margin. Chief Interest centered in Gov. Bailey's effort to win a third term a feat accomplished by only one chief executive In the state's history. Adkins received the active backing of the state's two US senators, Battle W. Car away and John E. Miller. BOISE. Aug. lS--Favorites were emerging In all bu one of tne contested positions in latno i 1940 primary election tonight. with only the contest for the democratic United 8tates senate nomination developing Into a struggle between a youthful sound-truck campaigner and a party , stalwart. Glen Taylor ox Focateuo, wno traveled the state with bis wife and ballad-elnging small son. . (Turn to page 2, col 8) rtheniw Army Gets Early Jump Ceorge White's Men Seize liridsehead ; t our-JJay - I Battle Launched SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH WEST WASHINGTON, Aug. 13- (V Advance detachments of the northern "red" army, composed of 15,000 troops, moved simul taneously across the Nisqually river into the war zone at 8:10 o clock tonight to launch opera tions for the blggestunlted States army maneuvers in west coast peacetime history. Thousands of soldiers were seen marching on tne racine highway for a distance of about 12 miles in what appeared to be the berinnlnjr of a mass cross- river movement. The "red" army, commanded by Ma. Gen. George A. White, was expecting an attaca oy an overwhelming army of 36,000 men composing the southern blue" army under the command of MaJ. Gen. Walter P. Story. The northern army, composed mostly of troops from Washing ton, Oregon and other Pacific northwest points, got the jump on the southern "blues" by mak ing deep forays Into the war zone. One northern mecnanuea unit of the 11th cavalry reached a bridge-head south of Rainier and set up its guns to try to noia i the river crossing. Meanwhile the regular northern cavalry deploy-1 (Turn to page 3, col bj Ladder Fall Serious Herbert Jackson. 43 S North 18th street, was reported to be in "critical condition" t the Dea- coness hospital last night from In- Juries received when he fell from scaffolding on w wen ne was i -painting at ItSS Hazel avenue yesterday. other good democratic friends ta Oregon to see that tne tuira term tradition la not broken." Senator Burke wrote to the Salem Garner. "Oar motto Is 'Let's stop the tint third term now. - The Associated . Wlllkie dubs of America' asked for a list of officers of Garner's proposed club as soon as Possible. - Elsewherson the political front,! . - ; . i Oregon were preparing to come to Salem Thursday night to formu late plans for the formal notifica tion to Senator Charles L. - Mc- Nary here August I of his noml vn . I for Tlce : president. Answers to questions as to what Ealera may do toward honoring, its native son on his day of honor probably will come out of this meeting. ' - War -veterans being enlisted on the WniWe-McNary aide of the national ticket also will meet In Salem oa August 2 to complete (Turn to page 3, CoL ) ) Spnrned Arkansas DOES THIS - i i--eje' e- .sat' ' " 07 Paul Hau$er9t Column Have you ever mVt anyone who nas oeen pouea oy ur. uauupx We haven't, but that's probably because we have n't been going around asking peopU, "Have you been polled ' Dr. Gallup T We h a v thought serious T7 ftS VrJ , tut a. bmm. i. ly a number of times of- going around asking people ': a b e n t their relations with Dr. Gallap, but we have nev er been able to screw an sutfl- elent courage to get down to brass afraid ther micht feel about it H WW HJIUI i- " Uke we do. The way we reel is slighted. We haven't anything against Dr. Gallon personally. In fact, we hardly know the man except that in hie picture he doesn't look like the kind of man who would go around asking six-year olds wheth er they preferred their spinacn boiled or creamed. (The poll showed most children, except m the remoter areas of New Eng land, preferred it"boiled. One ov ersize seven-year old in Pawtnck- et said "I sy It's spinach and i say to hell with It" and threw the interviewer oat the door.) That for our relations with Dr. Gallup. The reason we feel alighted Is that we consider ourselves a fair ly average citizen, riding the norm day in and day out. We're right on the mean. Some say we're the meanest man. So there we are. Just as common as an old shoe, and does Dr. Gallup poll us 7 Does anybody else poll us? The answer Is no. It's getting so we can't hold up our head. Even when the census enumerator, came around we weren't home. The only time any- (Turn to page 2, coL 7) -p-v wf 1 1 nr PMH I lam PI 5111 T T T f J EUGENE. Aug. 18PV-The United States army engineers mapped plans and specifications today for the Dorena dam, third unit of the Willamette river basin project. Jne Fern Ridge dam Is 40 per cent complete and the Cottage Grove dam nnder construction. The Dorena project will block Row river six miles east of Cot tage Grove. Lieutenant, E.- G. Herb, who directed field work on the Dorena data, said the report bad been ap proved by the chief of army cngi neers at Washington, DC Funrue Arrested Upon Charges of TeattliAxe ttimTrtv i. 11. nvrt W M. An Mi.. WW m WW W wm w enverton far- mar. arrested Here lata tooay by Constable JL. Amo on a charge of threatening to commit a felony. The eharse was brought against hbn Is a eomplalnt tiled bv his brother. Alec Funrue, who threatened to kill him with an axe. Arralcned . In Alt O, Nelson's Justice court, Severt Funrue post ed ball of 11000; Hearing of the case will be set as soon, as ar rangements can be made . with the district attorney. Judge Nel son said, " ' .. PICTURE SHOW According to the British eextsor-aporoved taction this trfcture shows a : German raider plane caaait bursting eheUs. Bat what's that baHooa-ehaped object in the low er left-hand cornerT The caption merely emphasize that it Isn't a balloon, leaving Its actual nature a puzzle. The picture was sent from London by cable as swarms of German raiders continued to batter the British coast AP Telemat. Conscription Delayed Seriously, Cannot, Hare 900,000 In Uniform Until January SaW Shedd; Wheeler Continues Attack Upon WASHINGTON. Axis. 1Z Mont) warned the senate today that passage of the pending: win-n.1 xj uwu uui nuuiu mxAit sun livuifir toaay" wnue army cnleis, chafing at congressional delays, said they had been forced to postpone plans for having 900,000 troops in uniform by earlv- fall. Deliverinjjr the day's principal address of opposition to Australia Mourns Four of Officials Army Chief, Three Cabinet Members Are Killed in Airplane Accident SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 14- ( Wednesday) - (JPI - The Austra lian parliament is to meet brief ly today and adjourn in mourn ing for three commonwealth cabi net ministers and the Australian army chief of staff, who were among 16 persons killed in two unexplained airplane disasters yesterday. Premier Robert G. Uensies said temporary ministers would, be sworn m to take the places of the victims. The high officials killed were Brigadier Geoffrey A. Street, de fense minister; J. V. Falrbairn, air minister; Sir Henry Gallett, vice president of the executive council; and Lieut. Gen. Sir Cyril B. B. White, chief of the army staff. They were an route by bomber plane from Melbourne to Canber ra to attend a cabinet meeting when the plane made a forced landing and burst - into flames near the Canberra airport. - Six persons were lost In the other plane, a Royal Australian Air force machine, which 'left Brisbane If onday and, disappear ed. It presumably planged into the sea. - School Admission Ruling Announced Children who will hare attained their sixth birthday on November 1 will be admitted to the first grade when school opens Septem ber If, Superintendent of Schools Frank B. Bennett announced yesterday.- :' - - - :i t ' - While the school administration does not urge that younger chil dren start school, Bennett said, the usual p re-school tests will be given children who will be six years eld on or before March 1 and -who ' are considered - strong and mentally - mature . enough to eater school. Satisfactory work ta the tests will 'permit school en trance. :---;- Injuries Prore Fatal ROSEBURO, Aug. 13-jP)-Guy Hickman, S4r- of Azalea, crashed by an overturned truck Saturday, died today. Hickman, a salesman, was driving a new ear for, delivery to a customer .and was crowded off .the t highway, near Myrtle Creek.- , BRITISH MYSTERY'WEAPON . amidst &a anti-aircraft barrae-e of Army View (AP) Senator Wheeler fD- uio UH WAW JJL UUt UCXUUVXCtCJr the draft bill, the Montana sen- ator argued there was no foresee able danger of an attack upon the United States, that the army was taking advantage of a crisis psychology to "saddle" the coun try with conscription, and that the army's legitimate manpower needs could be filled by voluntary enlistments. . Demanding to know whether Secretary of War Stlmson and other "men of the stamp of Stlm son" planned to send the con script army, he asked: 'Are these administration men fl "n?n ."'i? lnTad,n ymiM vi -euuui America Mexico perhaps-c-all in the name of defending our country?" Earlier. Senator Burke (D- cieo), finishing a speech- begun yesterday, contended that volun tary enlistments were too slow to meet the necessities of the times and asserted that "this country does not want to wait until war comes, if unhappily it should ever' come, before we start training our citizens." "Let no one here deceive hlm (Turn to Page t, CoL S) Flag Salute Obligatory Roieburg School Board Rules; Penalties Luted ROSEBURG, Aug. 13-6PV-The Roseburg school board approved patriotic exercises In the class room today and warned parents of non-participating students what to expect. .- The first refusal to aalote the flag will result In a three-day sus pension. The second omission will mean expulsion. Near Appointed . Frank E. Near was appointed by the Salem school board last night to fill the newly' created po sition ef dean of men 'at Salem high schooL - - - : - The positron, which will be In addition to regular teaching du ties, carries ar differential ef 1300 over basic salary. , E. A. Carlton was chosen again to be assistant principal at the high school. -.-.- v-n. ." The board adopted a resolution revising basic salaries . from one to 11 cents upward yearly to make them dlvlzible by 12 and simplify bookkeeping and revis ing differentials. - , f -. - The revised differentials are: -: Director of senior high : chor uses.' 376; assistant high school librarian, flfffj high school band director, 3120;. Junior high band director, ICO; director of senior and Junior high athletics, 3180; high school football coach, 340; Basic PavSched .. j-5!iv. 11 .-i.."""t hn ; I ' " tt 1 ,V Shanghai Rule Will Be Issue Admiral Hart Travels hy Sub to Attend Meet; ; Faces Opposition ! SHANGHAI, Aug. 14-(Wednes-day)-(iip)-Using a submarine as a flagship. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, commander of the United States .Asiatic .fleet, arrived .today from Tsingtao amid-Japanese de mands for control of the British defense sector of the internation al settlement. Britain's decision to withdraw her troops from China will leave Rear Admiral Morijl Takeda, com mander of the Shanghai Japanese naval garrison, as senior foreign officer, but Admiral Hart out ranks him and as such It was ex pected he would preside over . a meeting Thursday at which for eign defense chiefs will consider reassignment of the British zone. Those here who oppose the idea of Japan controlling the British sector, containing some of Shang hai's largest business Interests and best residential districts. hoped the American admiral would block the Japanese. Tang Leang-LI, official spokes man for the Japanese-controlled Chinese administration at Nan king, echoed the Japanese mili tary when he expressed the hope that the United States would fol low Britain's example by with (Turn to Page 3, CoL C) Switzerland Has Air Raid Alarms BERN. Switzerland, Aug. 14- (Wednesday)-,)-Two air. raid alarms . were sounded late last night and early today, warning residents of western Switzerland of the presence of unidentified foreign planes. . The alarms, starting shortly be fore midnight, lasted for about an hour. They were heard In Bern, Geneva and Lausanne. , No firing or explosions were heard and observers said the planes apparently lets t their way and crossed over Swiss territory In the. vicinity of the Jura moun tains. . The first group of planes appar ently flew south over western Switzerland. Later planes which might have been the same Dew back over France. . Men?s Deari; ule Adopted high school basketball coach, 1180; ' high school baseball . and track coaches, 3130; minor sports, high school major iports assist ants and Junior high major sports, to.'-;-v-r - i . r , ' The revision set up . a differ ential of 3I0 for assistant high school principal, and anticipates increases next year for curriculum director and senior, high, school principal , , Tuition schedule for students from outside, the district was set at 370 in advance or 1 8 monthly for elementary, 337 or 319 month ly for Junior high and $9S or 311 monthly for senior high. : v - Bids were called for rerooflng of the old high scnool building. - X delegation " from local sta tionery stores requested the board that they be given a 10 .per cent differential on bidding on books for school libraries. . ijarer 4 V, V Gennan May Represent First Try . i at; Transporting Men v Across Channel - t British Count (IS Enemy . O v Planes Down, Nazis 1 -Claim 96 Ditto ; f . i: - : 1 J- i .-'i . (By. The f Associated Press) German warplanes Sgave Great Britain no rest today from eon- -stant air raids, subjecting Eng land's !i vital i industrial midlands sector y to it heaviest aerial at tack of the war and bombing otber-rareas in England, Scotland and. Wales, r- . : ,, 4. . -. I .- ; :nemy ' planes circled 'over a town in the : midlands and drop ped an undisclosed -number of bombs.' Censorship hid the local-' ity of the raids but the chief cities of the' midlands are Birm ingham, Leeds ' knd - Manchester. Berlin also got a taste of an air raid alarm for the third time . since the war - began, f The signal sounded In the German i capital at 1:35 a. m. (6:35 p. m., EST, Tuesday). The "aU clear" was , sounded at 2:22 a. m., without any bomb explosions or anti-aircraft fire being- heard - In the downtown section. i Fighting 'between British mo- ' tor torpedo boats and larger Ger man surface craft in what might have been Germany's first at tempts to transport! troops to England's shores was reported last night for the third straight -day and night. - . Southampton Port $ Undergoes Attacks i The port of Southampton, great terminal of transatlantic ship ping, was the latest identified center to undergo bomb attacks.-; The British admiralty announ ced ar series of actions between the little torpedo boats and the nasi ships Just before dawn. There was no official word that ' the German ; craft were carrying -troops,; but Adolf Hitler has been reported concentrating such Tea sels along the channel and North Sea coasts la preparation' for his ' expected attempt to Invade Eng land. i Jlm on previous days of mass . air attacks, a wide gulf separat ed the claimed results - ahnounc- -ed by the belligerents, f With 00' German planes re ported involved yesterday, the British1 aaid they shot down 7S nasi raiders and lost 13 of their own planes, f The British" report edl loss of 16 more in day and night bombing attacks against targets in Germany and nazl-held , Denmark. Holland and France. Jubilant Germans, pointing to- ward early realization of their i (Turn to Page 2, Col. .) ' ROME, Aug. lw-OPr-n Po poio dl Roma hinted today that the Greek island of Corf a and the entire Adriatic coast night be claimed by Italy as a'seqael to the hatchet murder of Dent Uoggla, Albanian "patrlot"al legedly slain by two Greeks. BKKLASf , Aug. 14-(iP-BH-tish planes reached a point 20 miles west f Berlin early today but were turned back by sharp aaU-aircraft fire before; tbey could approach nearer the capi tal, iaformed eomcee said. 1 SHANGHAI. Ang.' ' Chang Hsiao-Fing, 63, counsel- . or to the; French mnIcipl ? eowncn and well-known Chin ese financier, wae shot and kill ed today by one of his own bodyguards, who - in tarn was seriously wounded by another gwd. ' i Chang was reported recently to be : ategotlarhig vita pro- . Japanese densest. I NEW TORK, Aaf. lf-V An English language announce -ment by the Berlin radio to night said British boeaber at tacked a Red Crees boepital at - Amsterdam, daring- the night. . fHOKGKOXG, Aug. 14-Wed-t$Aj)-yjhiacae airmen have downed or destroyed eat the groend a total ef aUS jap- ; aneee planes, .cost the lives of 1148 , enemy airmen and 'eonk 40 Japanese war vessels ta three years, the Chinese - air command said today. Its statement was iasned est the third anniversary of the outbreak of Chlneee-J a paneee hostilities in Shanghai. ?; . BEL-GRADE, Yugoslavia, Ang. !S(P)-Polic; tonight raided beadqnarters of Zbor, Tuiiroslav taeclst organization, . arresting aU members present -and con fiscating the files. ' . - 'AInCIRAS. Spain, Aug. 18 Cr-To better their defense t np, ' Brltona are ptaging the gate in the bid wall skirting the Algecira side or Gibraltar and ware-nouses- and .other bailJ ingi in ' the conuBercial ' dock area are beisg torn down.. i i f i. ! j