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Dependable
That 1 The Oregon
Statesman, a paper you can
depend upon to give you tb
Hews of the day, complete,
n" time, " Interesting! dia
played and illustrated.
TTeather
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Monday; cooler with higher .
humidity today. SI ax. temp.
Saturday 82, mln. 02. River i
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Record Exhibit
waiting
Gaze of Public
Labor Day Attendance to
Be .One of Greatest;
Governor to Speak;
"All-White Color Scheme
Adopted; Judging to
- Start First Day .
OPENING DAY'S PROGRAM
- AT OREGON STATE PAIR
; 8:00 a, m. Gates opened to
public '
O:0O a. m. Judging starta ia
livestock circles.
10:00 a. m. Wonderland The
atre in agricultural pavilion
opens.
10:OO a. m. Judging begins,
4H exhibit.
-, 12:15 p. m.' Official opening
ceremonies, Got. Charles A.
Sprague, speaker, broadcast
over KOAC .
llOO p. m. Address by Rex
Putnam, state superintendent
of public instruction, on. Iia
bor and the 'Union Label,"
grandstand.
1:80 p. m. Post time, pari
mutuel races.
1:80 p. m. 4H bog Judging
contest.'
1:30 p. m. Musical concert,
art building, sponsored by Ore
gon Federation of Music Club.
8:00 p: m. Musical concert,
art building.
8:45 p. m. Radio address of
I. N. Ornbnrn, secretary-treasurer
Union Label Trade depart-
memt. AFL., carried to grounds
on loud speaker.
. ; StOO p m. Mnsje concert, art
building. " ."": i
- -:0O,p. jmOTlgt Jhorse aJirow,
stadium. :? - . 1-
8:00 p. m. AU-Amerlcan re
Tue, grandstand.
0:SO p. m. Ran Wilde's or
chestra, dance pavilion.
The last apple polished and
placed, the last "bieeest pump
kin" in position and the last daub
of paint smacked on the last "hot
dog" sign, the 79th Oregon state
fair will swing its gates open at
' t o'clock tomorrow morning for
what Fair Director J. D. Micklo
and Fair Manager Leo Spltzbatt
hope Is a record breaking Labor
day crowd.
A record number of exhibits in
every 'competitive class, parimn
tuel races, a night horse show, a
second edition of the All-American
revue, hit of last year's fair,
the teeming midway and other
entertainment Is what will greet
the crowds.
Governor Charles A. Spragne
will ! declare the fair officially
open in ceremonies before the
fair administration building at
12: IS p. m. Monday. The cere
monies will be broadcast over the
state radio station, KOAC.
The fair will present an all
white appearance this year as
every building has been painted
uniformly. Fair goers will fln4
among other improvement, a
pared midway, Improved parking
facilities and absence of "grease
Joint restaurants.
- The livestock barns and the ag
ricultural pavilion will bej jammed
with exhibits. Open class entries
in the livestock are a. record in
the dairy cattle, swine and draft
horse divisions and superintend
ents will do some puzzling "to
crowd all ""the animals into the
big 5000-head capacity barn.
There -will be little time lost
in getting started on the- live
stock judging. Judging in all open
class divisions will start at 9
o'clock Monday, an hour after
the gates open.
Monday's program will give
recognition to labor with Rex
Putnam, state superintendent of
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Eldriedge (Hub Is
First in judging
The Eldriedge Pig club . won
the Marlon county 4H livestock
judging contest at the state fair
grounds yesterday and thereby
the right to choose whether it
should represent the county at
this, week's state fair or at the
Pacific International 'Livestock
exposition In Portland next
month. The team scored 117S
points out of a possible 1500.
It consists of Charles Ronge, who
also took high individual honors
with 485 points out of 600 pos
sible, Ray- Zielinskl and Loren
ijjosten. " m v
! The Bethel Dairy club's team,
placing second with 1155 points,
- will represent Marion county at
the other of the two fall shows.
Its members are Dorothea and
Werna Froelich and Emma Pfen-
Earning 1125 points apiece,
, fln-rrriala Calf - Club and
B-aer.a Crest Pig dub teams tied
for third place, uetnei rig ciuu
placed fourth and West Btayton
Jbairy club fifth.
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COLORFUL
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Hb Ee Ear. .;
Paul Hauser's Column
Just the ! other day Mr. Zizzle
was looking at the Sylph Six,
which is more his own than It
was six months
ago, and saying
to himself in ad
miring awe that
it was Just about
the last . word In
automobiles.
Mr. Zizzle, pat
ting himself on
the back for hav
ing the amazing
p e r s plcacity to
buy an automo
bile at the exact
point when it
became a perfect
mechanism, rm B. Caster. jr.
mouthed such phrases as "What
lines" and "What superb per
formance," and "They Just can't
build them any better
Lost in this reverie, Mr. Zizzle
was contemplating how much ef
fort could now be saved, since the
automobile; factories, having at
tained the perfection they so long
sought, could ; now ' relax and
settle down to turning out just
one model of the Sylph Six which
Mr. Zizzle found so satisfactory.
There will be no further need.
he thought, - to make over all
those tools" and dies every year.
What, he thought, would be the
use?
"Ah, it's the dream car of
the century, he thought to
himself as he worshiped in si
lent adoration at his own per
sonal altar, the 1940 Sylph six.
'Maybe in 2040 the' can find
an improvement or two, he
thought, "but it won't amount
to mada. .. . o
That was the other day.v, . V.,
Yesterday Mr. Zizzle war'stand
lng on a curbing, contemplating
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Maintain Labor Standards,
Deft
ense Commission's View
WASHINGTON. Aug. tiMiP
The defense commission, la a pre-
Labor day statement, enaorsea to
day the 40-hour work week in. de
fense industries and urged strict
compliance with all labor siana-
ards laws.
The statement also recommend
ed adherence to local custom with
regard to the payment or over
time wages for work in excess., of
40 hours, and work done on Sat
urdays, Sundays and holidays. The
wage-hour law permits work up to
42 hours a week without payment
of overtime. , - ,
The pronouncement was ' the
first from a government agency
in recognition of next week's an
nual Labor day holiday. Presi
dent Roosevelt will deliver his
Labor day message in an address
at Chlckamauga, Tenn., Monday.
Secretary Perkins will broadcast
a message to the nation (CBS
hour not yet determined.)
Organized labor's own attitude
toward the defense program and
work standards Is expected to be
discussed in addresses Monday by
&iM7 M '.at -
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STATE FAIR ALL
Seemea'are almost ready backstage for Oregon's TcIgJafcW of the year
'state fair. As exhibitors hurried about- their tasks of dolling up
Stew animal. -and rushing Of splays to completion yesterday,-the
l Stateeman photographer found these scenes at the grounds yester-
day:- Upper left,' farm machinery for biggest equipment show in
rears being set up; upper right, George Spaur, Bert .Deos and
Homer Lyon of state forestry department constructing miniature
forested mountain with fire trails and lookout on top, stream and
power plant below; lower left, Claire Johnson, Salem route three,
trimming ears of Dolly's Silver King, Jersey bull entered in open
class; lower right, Joanie Coker. Salem, helping feed doe and two
fawns in Ben Oaggett's wild life display for state game department.
"Dictatorship to Fight
Dictator" Hit, Willkie
Earlier War Resources Board Favored Voluntary
Industrial Cooperation, Sayi Candidate;
Again Hits Overton-Russell Plan
RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 81 (AP) Declaring that
"we must not set up a dictatorship to fight dictators Wen
dell L. Willkie told newspaper men today a confidential re
port of the now disbanded war resources board had opposed
granting emergency wartime powers to existing executive
and quasi-judicial agencies.
The republican presidential 1
nominee recited what he said were
quotations from the report in re
newing his demand that President
Roosevelt give his views on the
Overton-RusseU amendment to
the senate conscription bilL
That amendment would permit
the government to seize plants
and other facilities needed for de
fense if the secretaries .of. war and
navy could not reach agreements
with the owners. '
Willkie read to a front porch
press conference a formal state
ment which included the following
quoted, he said,, from the report:
"It is our considered judgment
that co-ordination offers the only
effective means . of converting
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John L. Lewis and WUliam Green,
heads of the CIO and AFL. Green
will speak at a labor meeting in
Denver and Lewis will broadcast
(NBC 1 p.m., PST) from Wash
ington. The defense ' commission also
also laid down these points of la
bor policy:
"Adequate provision should be
made for the health and safety of
employes.
As far as possible, local em
ployment or other agencies desig
nated by the United States em
ployment service should be uti
lised. "Workers . should ' not be dis
criminated against because of age,
sex, race or color.
"Adequate housing facilities
should be made available for em
ployes." -
The i commission : reaffirmed,
too," the labor policy laid down
by the army chief -of ordnance in
1917 after, the United Stases en
tered the World war.
v The 1917 policy called for the
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Fair' - out
SET TO OPEN Olf MONDAY
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Conscription Bill
Passage Forecast
But Factory Seizure Will
Be Deleted, One View
of House Attitude -
WASHINGTON, Aug. Il.-(ff)-Members
of the military commit
tee said today that informal sur
veys showed the house would pass
the Burke-Wads worth conscrip
tion bill next week, but that there
was considerable opposition to
proposals to permit the govern
ment to condemn and take over
private industrial plants for de
tense. Some legislators went so far as
to predict privately that the in
dustry provision would be omitted
from the house bill on the final
vote. ' They said,' however, that a
modification permitting . govern
ment operation of these facilities
would stand at least an even
chance of being accepted."
Coming quickly to the fore
front of the capltol discussion on
the legislation, this issue tempor
arily relegated to the background
arguments - over the fundamental
provisions for registering men
from 21 to 44, inclusive, and mak
ing them liable for a year's mili
tary training.
A battle is expected over the
age provisions, - however,- as the
senate voted for registration only
of men 21 to 20, inclusive.
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Senators
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From US Ship
Rolls of War Film Also
Taken From American
at Bermuda Port
JSRSET CITT, Aug. 21.-flV
Pu tiled officers and passengers
of the American export liner Ex
ocherda told tonight how British
authorities at Bermuda, disre
garding the captain's protests, re
moved three German subjects
from the ship without explanation
and seised rolls of war film from
an American photographer after
a scuffle.
The vessel, which arrived today
from Lisbon,-with If passengers,
also lost 425 pouches of mail to
British censors at the Bermuda
stop.
Capt. Wenzell Habel said he be
lieved the incident was the first
since the start of the war in which
passengers had been taken off a
vessel flying the American flag.
He said British authorities
asked by name for Dr. Herbert
Block, 17, Adolf Sandhaus, 41,
and Hans Schiffmann, 81. ,
The British made no comment.
Capt. Habel said, and refused
either to entertain his protest of
their action or to explain why
they wanted the three passengers.
He said that they questioned a
fourth passenger, Sigmund Egel-
hardt, 59, a jeweler and uncle of
Sandhaus, but did not take him
off.
Sandhaus, passengers related,
told the British he -was an Aus
trian who never had' been in Ger
many but, who had spent months
in German concentration camps
in Belgium and France before he
was - released after the capitula
tion of France.
Dr. Block had told passengers
that he was en route to Boston
to teach political economy in a
college. They did not recall the
name of the college.
Schiffmann had Informed ship
board acquaintances that he was
en route to Richmond, Va., to vi
sit relatives -whom he did not
name. . ... ,.
More exciting to passengers
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VI os Bulletins
-BERLIN, Sept. lty-BriU
I&h bombers ranged over Berlin
for the second time within fe4
hours- today, giving the- axl
capital an air raid alarm which :
lasted an hour and So minutes.
The planes, attacking the city'
from two directions, were met
by thunderous aati aircraft
fire.--
LONDON, "Sept." lHP)
Eihty five - German planes
were shot down-in air battles ,
over England yesterday, the air
ministry announced this morn
ing.':..". " : ;:-. -r-: -- v..-
The BriUih were said to have ;
lost 87 planes, but the commu
nique declared the pilots of 3
of these were safe. 4
War Goes.Into
2ndYearWith
Heavy Dombin
g
Northwest British City
Admitted Hard Hit;
Maybe Liverpool
Decisive Blow. Promised
. Again by Germany but
' English" Are' Calm
(By The Associated Press)
A hurtling hurricane of liter
ally thousands of incendiary
bombs spread flames over a city
in northwest England last night
and early today as great masses
of German planes roared over for
more than six. hours in what may
well have been the greatest single
raid of the war.
British - censorship earefulliy
guarded -Identity of the city,
which may have been Liverpool,
England's most important north
west port and possibly the most
important ia the entire seagirt
kingdom now that London is un
der such constant aerial harass
ment. -
The British acknowledged an
air raid shelter was hit, that
there were a number of casualties
and much . damage to private
property. An entire block of of
fices was reported set on fire.
No military damage was acknowl
edged.
' The massive assault came as
the Germans, having settled terri
torial disputes in their "back
yard" and taken hapless Rumania
under their wing, flung renewed
attacks on all of , England with
mounting ferocity. -
London was hammered almost
eeaselessly throughout Saturday
by uess numerous raiders. X.
Apparently the foe was giving
London a breather while he con
centrated on the northwest ob
jective. . Simultaneously, the Nazis rained
bomb-blows on nearly every part
ox sBrium, . with airports as
ehlef objective. But the British
said no vrserions damage - was
done to the airdromes.
- The Germans seemed determin
ed to smash the royal air force
if at all possible.
For the RAF is a stern barrier
to Germany's long-threatened but
unattempted , Invasion, and con
tinues to shower bombs of its own
on BerUn, throughout Germany
and on Germany's ally, Italy, as
well as on naxi-conquered coun
tries, i
German radio stations went off
the air late last night, indicating
that the British were raiding
again.
Indicative of the scope of the
fighting over England was the
Saturday toll of planes destroyed.
The Germans said 124 British and
28 nasi planes were lost; the
British tallied 63 naxis and 22
Britons.
Military commentators in Ber
lin said the nazl raids, growing
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August Building in
Salem Is $134,190
Building permits for August
showed an increase over the same
month a year ago, but fell be
hind July's total. Building Inspec
tor E. C. Bushnell's monthly sum
mary yesterday showed.
There were 157 permits for a
valuation of 9124,190. Valuation
for August a year ago was 262,
123 with 117 permits, The total
for July was 123 permits for
1148.334. 1
New dwellings valued at SSf,
270 took 25 pt the permits. Thir
teen permits were issued for new
non-residential structures to cost
$45,519. Repair permits were 77
to cost 122,401.
Lundeen Veteran
War; Is Praised by
Death of Senator Ernest Lun
deen of Minnesota in an airplane
crash near Washington. DC, yes
terday was termed "a great loss"
by Senator Charles L. MeNary.
senate minority leader and repub
lican nominee for vice-president.
v. "I regret it exceedingly," the
senator said, last night when a
Statesman . reporter telephoned
first word of Lnndeen'e death to
the MeNary farm home. Fircone.
"He was a very able and trusted
member of congress," Senator
MeNary added. "He had great
capacity.
: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-dV
Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minne
sota, reported killed today in a
Pennsylvania Airlines crash, was
an opponent of what he termed
United States "Intervention" ia
European affairs.
Sixty two years old, Lundeen
was a veteran of the Spanish
American war; First elected to the
house in 1818, he attracted na-
tlnnal attention ' the following
year when he voted against this
country entry inio ui woria
war : -Z ' -;-' -
,.The Minnesota i farmer-laborUe
was elected to the senate in 1931.
As a senator, he supported most
They. Figure in :
National News
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Senator Ernest Lundeen of Min
nesota, killed in the crash of an
airliner along with 24 others
late Saturday.
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Frank C. Walker, appointed posC
master -i geaferal -succeeding
Jsbms Av Faricy. He formerly
was chief of the national emer
gency-council. " !
Walter Is Named '
Head Postmaster
Announcement Is Made at
Reception ; Record -of
Farley Is Lauded
HYDE PARK, NT, Aug. 31-(ff
-President Roosevelt announced
today that Frank C. Walker, NewJ
York lawyer and formerly trea
surer of the -democratic national
committee, would be the new past
master general, succeeding James
A. Farley, who gave up his cabinet
portfolio today.
The setting for the announce
ment was an annual reception for
the president by. members of the
Roosevelt Home club, an organ
isation of his friends and neigh
bors, several hundred of whom as
sembled on . the lawn of Moses
Smith, a Roosevelt -estate tenant.
. With a broad grin, the president
said as he neared the end of his
informal remarks that he had a
"perfectly tremendous secret" to
disclose. He said he would send
to the senate next week the name
of "another old friend of ours.
"He came - from Montana and
lived in New York," Mr. Roosevelt
said, "and then because of bus
iness interests, became a citizen of
Pennsylvania, which is a pretty
good record." .
Walker; seated behind the chief
executive on the flag-draped plat
form; arose and bowed.
The president praised the re
tiring Farley, adding that "Jim."
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to
legislation favored by. organized
labor and war veterans, but op
posed many of the social and farm
measures advocated by President
Roosevelt. - i
He declared, however, . that his
opposition to the farm and social
legislation' was because it did not
go far enough. " " s
Born at Beresford, SD, Lundeen
graduated from Carleton college,
Northfleld, Minn., and studied
law at the University of Minne
sota, being - admitted to the bar
la 110 1, He served several terms
in the state legislature before his
election to congress.- -f - "
After his service ; In the mili
tary forces during the Spanish
American war he held a commis
sion in the Minnesota , national
guard, and was a member . of the
national ' championship rifle team
of 1909.:- -r, v
Lundeen visited Russia In 1922,
returning to this country to urge
recognition of the Soviet ' Union.
Advocate, of a strong united la
bor movement, he once declared
that "if the AFL and CIO would
get together they would hold the
1940 election in the palm of their
hand. The farm tote would swing
in,' and -they - could march right
into the White House.",
Opposed
McNary
Toll Greatest I
In Passenger
Fliffb
t
First! Fatal Accident on
Airlines in 17 Months .1.
not Fully Explained : ! :
Thunderstorm SuggeteiJ
, Cause ; Hit : Ridge, Is -
Another Version '"
, WASHINGTON, i Aug. 3
Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minne-
sota- died today ia an air crash
about 40 miles from the nation's -
capital s to register the heaviest
death toll of American commer
cial aviation.;' I !
Twenty one passengers and four.
of the. Pennsylvania air liner 'a
crew were killed when the plane
splintered to fragments on the
ground; while flying during a.
heavy rainstorm. I '
Conflicting I reports came from
the scene. Some said the plane.-
enroute from Washington to Pitts
burgh, fell In an open field after,
flying at a low altitude during a
thunderstorm that flooded that
section of Virginia and mad e
roads impassable. Others said the
ship "collided with a ridge." i
First Fatal Crash I
Since March, 1839
) Whatever the cause, it was the
first fatal accident for commercial
airlines since March 2 6. 1 9 3 9 ,
near Oklahoma City, Okla., when
eight were killed. It was the first'
fatal - accident for the Penasyl
vanla Central air : lines in more
than . 13 years of operation. ,
Once before a ; United States
senator had died In an air disss-:
ter. Bronson Cutting of New Mex
ico was killed when an air trans
port crashed near KirksvUle, Ho,
on May C. 1935. ! , .
Johni Rhodes, 24-year-old re
porter of the Winchester, Va.,5
Evening Star, who went te the
scene for theAssodated Press, said
the air Ufa Held where the nlane
crashed presented 'an eerie seen
UP parts of the plane, dismem
bered: bodies.-' and' ciothmr-acat-'-
tered over a two-acre plot. . - !
1 One report In the neighborhood
had It that a note, telling the find
er that the plane was going
down,; had been dropped by the
stewardess, ; Margaret Carson ef
Pittsburgh, ; about . three miles
from the spot where the plane
crashed. A partially-burned paper
was picxed up by Fred Graham
of Lovettsville, Va., according te:
Frank Caldwell, inspector for the
civil aeronautics board. Graham
could not be located immediately.'
but Caldwell said the paper, a'
sheet apparently torn from a me
morandum pad. contained no writ- -
lng when he saw it except a print-;
ed letterhead of the airline.
Civil aeronautics board insnect-l
orsj headed by Hart lee Branch.!
chairman, f went ! immediately tef
the scene of the crash to invest-.
gate. 4 ' i
Time of Crash Is
Before Soon Here
Officials of the Pennsylvania
Airlines said the huge, two-mo-1
tored ahip left Washington 19 1
minutes late at 2:11 p.m.. (EST) !
enroute v to Pittsburgh where itf
was due at 3 p.m. PCA offlcialaj
fixed, the time of the mishap at!
Capt. ; Lowell Scroggins. ollot f
of the plane, reported by radio :
on a routine check at 2:31 p.m. '
that, the ship was over Hernden. ;
Va., and that the weather was
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Land Board Views
Reclamation Task
Kittredge Blethod May Be
Copied on State Tract
Governor Reports
The three members o'f the state -,
land - board, ! Gov, Charles " A. I
Sprague, Secretary of State Earl
Snell and State Treasurer Walter :;
Pearson returned last night from '
a trip by air to Lakevlew. Arrtv- -ing
at Lakevlew yesterday mom-j
lng after a two-hour flight from :
Salem the board members, who!
were accompanied by Lewis Grlf- i
fith, clerk, went by automobile to s
south Warner . Valley in Lake !
county f where they inspected
reclamation r project under which
William Kittredge, extensive land- f
owner and stockman, has drained ;
swampy, lands and now has about .'
4000 acres under cultivation for 1
gtain-raislng. 1 The! land . board y
members were interested because ;
the board owns over 10,000 acres
of swamp land which lies north ;
of the Kittredge holdings. which, '
it is believed,' may be : reclaimed .
by aimilar method s.
I have never seen such a stand I
of grain in one. body as is growing-
on these reclaimed lands," .
said Got. Sprague on his return. - -"There
was ; one field of a thou
sand acres Of oats, thick as hair
on a dog's i back and standing
breast Ixiglu Barley, and rye are s
also, grown; . Harvesting opera- :
tions are In' progress, with three-'
combined harvester outfits work- ,,
ing.-One -Is a-self-propelled rig, -the
only oatnt of its kind la the
state. .. i I. ' -' vi l . s 'a' i
. Mr. Kittredge made a proposi-;
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