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Fifty fire thousand fans roared tribute to the two teams, just aa they had howled a few mo ments before when the Trojail machine, facing superior reserves for the first time In many a day, came within four yards of knock ing o t r the highly - favored Orange eleven. Coach Howard Jones of Troy sent out a team of second and third stringers In the waning mo ments of the struggle. But Sopho more Ray Woods suddenly blos somed forth as a pass throwing successor to Doyle Nate of the 1939 Rose Bowl team and reju Tenated USC swept into deep Ore gon State territory. The stubborn Beavers, boasting telr beet team In years, fought very yard, and with leven Sec onds to play, USC tried a field coaL. It missed. Pass Interception Ruins Orange Hope Earlier in the quarter the Ore- Jon Staters marched into tbe Tro an back yard behind the great fork of big Jim Ktsselburgb, Bob Olson and Gene Gray, but a Tro- an pass interception one of five be Beavers suffered daring the Uternooh- broke up the drive. The elevens, both candidates lor the coveted Rose Bowl assign ment, each achieved 16 first downs. Each team rolled up great yardage but "neither could score. Bobby Peoples, Bobby Robertson and Jack Banta carried the load for Troy, but they couldn't con sistently bowl over the Orange line or tho defensive strength of Klsselburgh behind. Oregon State could et no fur (Turn to page 1, tPL 8) 1 m 'Paul II a user's Column We've Just got newspaper week Oat of the vay (and, bellere us, it was a struggle being on our best behavior and not ff committing libel t . more than once I all week) whenn along comes thls' week, which is a l keck of a lot worse. It's not only V business worn n's week, letter . writing wees, fire prevention week and parent-teacher week but it 'i also anti- noise week. ran! E4 Enter. Jr. It's going to be Quite a problem for us, as we look at It now, to observe all those weeks in seven days, but our old friend Joe Tweek Bays it's a cinch. Of course he's In a Mttle different situation than we are. He shoved us a little tiistle. which he says takes care of the whole thing In SO words, no more,- no less. We copied it lurreptltlously and here It ij. Miss- Eugenia Fidltch Accounting? Department Casanova XXJjch School '. Dear Miss FiditcU, Please disregard the foolish things I said to you while we were sitting; on the steps after the Caaairova Parent-Teachers ( 1) meeting of Tuesday Laftt. As a teacher and business woman (2) ; yon will appre ciate my stand in this. Please born (3) this and previous letters 4). With, my v. wife back In town it would be ter rible :. to bare this thing noised (5) about. Teademst personal regaids, ' - ' - ,.; t Joe Tweek. (1) This takes care of Parent- Teacben "week, or f it least ;one parent and one teachers week. ' t)B. W. -week. , s ; (S) Things burned with care will: nerer tlare. - ; - (4) Be more eareful than Tweek during letter writing week It's usually much better not to put It In a letter. - (5) Anti-noise week:.' You make much less nolce when you tay with the boys. - - We don't know when Franklin found time for it. what with the war and Willkle, bat Monday is Thanksgiving Cay, In .the Wind- Ward islands. That Trojan horsa stuff may ftave gona fine In Korwiy and Kolland bat all it meant to our Oregon State Xootball - club was fcothln. J"""! s t ' 1 .it Salem Double of GOP Can' Confident That Willki ill Win .7 'J - V - r ANTHONY H. Paper Industry's Outlook Is Good Production Above Normal Capacity now, Leader of Union Remarks - Outlook is bright for continued steady employment In the paper making Industry, Arthur Huggins, of Albany, NY, president of the In ternational Brotherhood of Paper makers, said here yesteday. Huggins Jeft laat High for Cal ifornia, after tlslting local union officials and addressing a meeting of the Salem local of the interna tional Friday night. He was shown about the city by Charles F. Davis, local president. Producing at only 68 per cent of capacity a year ago last sum mer, the American paper industry Is now running above 90 per cent and some mills, operating seven days a week, are operating at more than 100 per cent of their normal output. Onset of the war a year ago re sulted first in an abnormal domes tie demand that sent paper pro duction soaring, but shutting off (Turn to page 2, col. 1) German Novelist Helped in Escape NEW YORK, Oct. 6-VP)-Fel- low passengers of Lion Fetich- twanger, famous German novelist, told today how he made a dar ing escape from a French inter ment camp In women's clothing smuggled to htm by a young American ambulance driver. Feuchtwanger, gelf-described as the "No. 1 man on the nasi list of men to be killed, arrived aa a refugee on the American ex port liner Excalibur. Passengers said Feuchtwanger made his way to safety with the help of an "underground ' group of young Americans enagged in aiding German-born refugee writ ers and artists escape French in ternment camps. They said that at least rli Ger man or German-Jewish writers and artists had been rescued, in cluding Gold Mtno, a son of Writ er Thomas Mann, now In the United . States. RegistratioTi Record Broken Here, County A few minutes before his office closed last tight for registration of voters. County Clerk U. O. Boy er expressed the opinion that reg istration' in Marion county will reach a new high In the Novem ber general elections. "In my opinion the registration of eligible voters for the coming election is the greatest ever seen In , this county," he said. The clerV'i office ; remained open tin- til 8 p. nt. ; to accommodate per sons desiring " to register. Boyer made his statement on the basis of .observation ot large crowds which hare besieged dep uties la the clerk's office for two weeks with: requests to register. . He emphasized that actual tab ulation ot tegi&tratlon cards has not yet been, begun, and. that al though the work will be started next . Monday, final figures on county registration will probably not be available ; for at least : a week. ';-:. i : In addition : to registration cards to H checked and filed In the clerk's office. hundreds of ad ditional eer-ds" are expected to be received" within the next few days from SO registrars located la ev- 'ery portion of the county. ' if o.e PEPPERCORN Salem Man Looks Like W. Willkie He'g Democrat but Backs Republicans Choice for Presidency- Being a man who looks like a presidential candidate at least makei a subject for conversation. So finds Anthony H. Pepper corn, who patrons of the Safeway lT6r aVtSS Soum" Commercial, which Peppercorn manages, be lieve is the veritable Image of Wendell L. willkle, the republi can candidate. Peppercorn doesn't mind look ing like Willkie. He looked that way, he says, before he ever heard of the Indiana candidate. Like many others, "Tony," as his reg ular customers call him, never knew Willkle existed until the time of the republican conven tion. Peppercorn, though registered as a democrat, says he believes he will vote for Willkle in November. He's eren sure the man who looks like Peppercorn will win hands down. "I think Willkle will take It by a landslide, he says. Peppercorn and his wife live at 220 East Myers street. He has been manager ot the South Com- merclal street Safeway store since March. 1939. and has worked for the chain organization for four years. He was born in western Kansas, but hat never been in Coffeyvllle, Kan., where Wendell Willkie taught school. Neither has he been In Winkle's home town of El wood, Indiana. With one exception store cus tomers have found the manager's resemblance to the republican (Tirt-n to page 2, eolumn S) 307 Aliens Registered Hera; 7243 in Oregon WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-)-Jostlce department said today that 7248 Oregon aliens have regis tered under the new alien regis tration law. Portland stations registered 46.3S. Other totals Include Sa lem, 307; Eugene, 191; Medford, 170; Klamath Falls, 144; As toria, 282. Clerics Belief. Silrerton and Woodburn reg istrars, for instance, are expected to turn In several hundred cards each. Registration was completed in all districts last night. Boyer reported that two re corders of registration cards has been necessary from the printer since the first large crowds began to appear around the registration counter in his office. Additional supplies were requested by outly ing registrars, as well as by depu ties working in the Salem office. Registration deputies and the county clerk were unwilling to make observations on the parti san registration of voters but in dicated that democratic voters seemed to appear in greater sum bors on the last day or two of the registration . period tbta on pre vious days. :...,. ' One voter, they, reported, ex pressed surprise when he was told that he weald have to Indicate his party affiliation In order to, vote T VDo I lUT to tell that?" lie asked. He was told that he did. and then answered, - "Then yon can tear that card ap. fost reg istrants, however, did not exhibit inch Bcniplea. ' ? Willlde Swats At Imp ugners Of Patriotism Whispering Campaign la Answered; Prejudice Harmful, Assorts Candidate Pledges Ciyil Liberty Defense, Say.' Tolerance Needed -" NEW TORK, Oct. tfTr-Wtn-dell L. Willkle told a cheering Brooklyn audience tonight that "any man. no matter bow nigh his position, who impugns the completeness of my patriotism Is a coward and a cur." "I understand there has been a whispering campaign against me because one of my parents was born abroad," the republican pres idential nominee declared, add ing: "I tell all of von tkit T 4a- nounce such base, such cowardly Insinuation.. I want yon to rote for me on the basis of what I rep resent and advocate and not on the basis of a whispering cam paign and not on the public state ments of any official, no matter how high, that he would do more than Wendell Willkie would to defend American democracy." Intolerance Works Both Ways, Warns Speaking In a Brooklyn high school auditorium, the republican presidential nominee appealed tor the protection of civil liberties and said they should be guarded "without prejudice from any source." He asserted that in setting p any governmental mashlnery which deprives "those you hate of their rights, you are setting up machinery which tomorrow will deprive those you love of their rights." . Saying he wanted to keep the country "completely tolerant of Jhg various groups wtlhla. lt.Uno candidate added that unless this was done democracy would pass away. "In the changing cycle of pub lic opinion those who are popular today are unpopular tomorrow," he said. "If we cannot keep this coun try completely' tolerant in Its viewpoint of the different groupa within it, then this precious way of life will pass." The crowd inside Edward B.v Shallow high school, the first of five stops by Willkle In a whirl wind speaking tour of Brooklyn, democratic stronghold, gave the candidate a loud oration with noise-makers and horns. Willkle began by saying that lf in this campaign he had been seeking only applause, he would not have asked to visit strong dimocratlc tecton. "This campaign Is a struggle of (Turn to page S, eoL. I ) Viilnerable Spot Target of Nazis BERLIN, Oct, 5-P-Germany and Italy are making ready to strike new blow at Britain in some especially "vulnerable spot," nasi Informants indicated today amid a great deal ot talk that the eastern Mediterranean may cow become a decisive battle ground. Emphasised was the notion that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus solini had reached momentous war decisions in the- Brenner pass yesterday and that aoon they would act. It was a meeting said one au thorized person, whose subject was not peace but Tlctory a "war and diplomatic eonnclL" "England." he observed, "is vulnerable In many places. And cortainly will be struck some where. Naturally, we cannot tell you where.' s LONDON, Oct. (Sanday) fPV-The air ministry sssosa ced today that British aircraft last night attacked "oil plants itukd railway yards aisd other ln- - Jaslrtel srf(eta tm tin mir, a wcniti attorn - ef . haigta . aad shipping la Holland , and air- flromci In Holland. XrOXDOW. Oct. (Sanday) () German night raiders on their 20th iucceeaiTe foray orer Britain's capital abandoned early today their efforts to reach central Losdoa in force after meeting the heaviest anti aircraft barrage yet thrown BP from the city. For more than four honrs, runs of many calibers filled the sky with shrapnel. One obser ' ver said the barrage reeembled a "grcat . cartaJa ef leapfaig flame. ; , There wai a long lull dnrinj; the early morning hour.;' but tb emelrcliajE gaat'oscBcd wp Bgttia for m brief seloa shortly before the nasi raider finally were driren ofi for the night. Invasion of England Appeaics I m: on London Raided Heavily, Nazis f Suffer Losses AA Fire Most .Intense; 23 German Planet Said Downed Italian Island Bate Is Shelled; Gateways to Egypt Bombed ALEXANDRIA, Oct. (Sun day ) Uf A British naval unit to day was credited with shelling an Italian Dodecanese Island natal base, hurling big shells into the hilly Island of Stampalia. Air bases on the island also were shelled, a British naval com munique reported. The British reported that a force ot cruisers and destroyers swept close to the island, taking the enemy by surprise. The attack was said to hare taken place shortly after mid night, October 1. CAIRO. Oct. sPy-The royal air force middle east command an nounced tonight simultaneous heavy bomb blows on Italy's three main gateways to the Egyptian arena Benghasl, Tobruk and Bardia. These western Libyan ports, into which Italy has been pouring additional men and supplies for the expected big push toward the Kile and Sues, all suffered heary damage to shipping and ware- tMrtfaesv-UMi British aaid.i. . widespread raias aiso were car ried out against Italian east Af rica. LONTM3N. Oct. .-( Sunday )- Nasi bombs smashed down into (Turn to page 2, eol. 1) Heart on Outside Of Infant's Body "Incredible" That Child Lived; Operation May Save Her, Belief PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. f. CP) A three-day-old girl, born with her heart outside her body, was under observation at Doernbech- er children's hospital today. Physicians said the child ap peared to be perfectly healthy and was taking nourishment. The heart, on the chest Just to the right of the breast bone, la covered with a membrane thin enough so that pulsations may be easily observed. The baby, born to an unnamed eastern Oregon woman, was brought here in an automobile by its father and an aunt. The child, the first born to the couple, weighed fire pounds, eight ounces at birth. A physician said it was "most Incredible" that the child had sur (Turn to page 2. column 8) Feeding Captive Nations Opposed . NEW YORK. Oct- E.-V-A statement expressing opposition to any proposal through which American aid would be enlisted to feed civilian populationa in eono-uered countries was Issued today over the names of a group of widely known citizens. The statement was distributed by Clrlc Bell, Washington corre spondent for the Louts vllle Courier-Journal, and Francis .. P. Miller, formerly field secretary ot the Foreign Policy association and now vice-chairman of the national policy committee, and organisation director -of the com mittees - on foreign relations of the council on foreign relations. Eel nil the; en tctinx for eltlsena: . who operated aa "an in formal group. The statement caned attention to America's "deeply rympa- thetlc" attitude toward "the ci vilian' populations of Europe in their sufferings, and .threatened sufferings'? under a "pitiless con queror." t- Church Leader Dies V " B RONXVILLK. NTT. Oct. . JP) rTks- Bev. Dr. - Maleolm James MacLeod, 75, author ot several booh on religious mMccU i:i formerly president of the general syaod of . tbe Reformed church la America, died at his borne to day. ' " ' '" lieent; Suez Is Italian A irmen Massed In France to Aid Nazis At Same Time German Engineers and Some Troops Head for Libya; Rumor Says Spain May Join Axis Suddenly and Attack Gibraltar BERLIN, Oct, 6-( Sunday )-(-The German shortwave ra- Olo orosMleaat early today that "maybe" waves of German m ers mum flying toward England woald be followed soon by dreda of thousands of troop now standing ready. BERN, Switzerland, Oct 5. (AP) Signs of an im- xninent axis offensive against both England and the British empire, dismissed at first as a smoke screen, -were regarded by neutral and belligerent military observers alike here to day as probably correct. British sources have begun to credit what they first "Cotoairfis Slogan for Today World Communion Sunday Observed and Special Programs Planned Today is "go to church Sun day." and although Salem's church attendance is considerably higher than the national average, the Salem Ministerial association feels that many members do not attend services regularly. Today is also designated as World Communion Sunday and churches throughout the city have arranged special music and the pasters have prepared to make the day a homecoming out ot the or dinary. At the Ktrst "Baptist church the movement ' sponsored by the Northern Baptist churches In America for Increased attendance will be launched. The goal of the local church is a 10 per cent In crease in enrollment. Rev. Irving A. Fox extends to all persons an invitation to visit the First Bap tist church Sunday. Christ Lutheran's program In cludes a Sunday school Parent Teachers Institute of the Ame rican Lutheran conference from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. Delegates from the various Lutheran churches of the Willamette valley will be In attendance and the furtherance of religious training through the me dium of the Sunday school will be stressed. An extensive program hss been arranged to which the public la Invited. Kali rally day is the occasion observed at the First Evangelical church. Services are planned for 11 a-m. and 2: SO and 7:30 p.m. Four former assistant pastors will (Turn to page 2, column ) Five Killed When 2 Planes Collide FREE PORT, Tex., Oct. 5.-0?- Five persons crashed to death to day as planes piloted by a barn storming father and son collided in the HJr near Velasco. The father was among those hilled, the son escaped Injury. Jack Turner, Freeport under taker, said that Tag Ears told him his small craft struck a larger ship In which his father, Claude Eur, tis taking- tour persons on a pleasure flight. The collision foaled . the controls ot the elder Euro's plane. The son f llded doirn in a "dead stick" landlnr. the pro peller of his ship- broken. - County Clerks Are to Hear Service Registration Facts Machinery ot the islecthe serv ice program will begin to function more- visibly in Oregon on If on day when county clerks from all parts ot Oregon will gather In Sa lem to recelre final instructions aa to' the part they will play in the registration of Oregon men be tween the ages ot XX and. S C on October II. Governor Chirlei A. Sprigm will give the opening address, af ter which Colonel Elmer V. Woot ea will explain the selective eerv- lce law. , . Election machinery of the slate will be . used In Xbe registration operations. . . . Approximately-one million printed forma necessary in the registration were being packaged and distributed In tbe malls Sat urday to the clerks ot the S coun ties. --, The n amber of men to be regle- -tsred-was estimated at 1S3.1S7 or IB per cent ot tbe state's popula te 3 . Tief in to'fca rc.Istered October lg In their various home precincts. The registration boards in most Instances will be compose! ct M took as axis-Inspired reports, that German forces on the North sea and English channel now hare e o m p 1 e ted preparations for a smash at England and are only waiting the word "go." Similar reports from the Med iterranean indicate the Italians also are set for a land drive across Egypt toward Alexandria and the Sues canal and down the valley of the Nile from Ethiopia. Spain, which the axis has pic tured as sticking to her non-belligerent role, is believed in these quarters to be ready to try to seise Gibraltar with air and sea aid from Italy and land aid from Germany. (Dispatches from Algeclras, Spain, said 2000 "British troops landed todsy to strengthen the garrison of the "rock" sentinel of the western Mediterranean.) Here are some ef the reports many veteran foreign observers hue added up to mean an tils of feuslTe perhaps In Jhe coming week; . " Trim Italy, accounts of - travel ers that German army engineers and specialists, eren some nari (Turn to page 2, column S) Issues Analyzed, Farm Union Meet PUD Discussion, Reports) on Program; Expansion of Flax Is Sought MT. ANGEL, Oct. 5. About S00 members attending the quar terly convention of the Marlon county Farmers Union at an all day seaslon Sa turd my heard argu ments for PUD, had measures on the NoTemher ballot explained and heard gratifying reports on the general progress of the or ganisation. Ronald Jones' explanation of the measures to be voted on was followed by considerable discus sion. State President Harley Ubby likewise stressed the importance of the election and urged Intelli gent voting. He also recommend ed membership drives to secure members Interested In the Farm ers Union program. Herman Lafky. secretary of the Washington PUD association, ex plained the setup there in detail. outlining his belief in advantages the PUD would provide and answering arguments against the plan. Other speakers were Jess Adami, chairman of Mid-Willamette Marketing association, who gave a review ot the marketing setup and stated substantial sav- iay;i had been secured fanners la marketing seeds, and Karl (Turn to page 2, eolumn 7) those usually forming the'rerularj ejection boards. The personnel wlllsxceed. lCe. Forma used In tbe registration Include registration cards, regis tration certificates, instruction placards aad Information . book lets. - Names and addresses, age. date ot birth, place ot birth, employer ' name, jlai of employment, dti- senahip and. description will be listed en the registration cards. These later win be placed la the hands cf the local classiflcation and selection boards. - . The' registration- certificate merely certifies that the person named thereon has . been regis tered. This certificate can be car ried in a pocketbook. Instruction -placards are en larged registration cards which give detailed Information aa to how the registration card is to be tilled, oat. . v The Information booklets are final ringlets itlci in distrlt- uted to the registrants and con tain lnatmetloa s concerning re turn selective senlce activltlea which will affect them emacedl Called to Man New Warships, Reason listed. 27,591 Are Included in Order; All Have Had Previous Training ; "We Shall Be Ready" if " Fight Is Forced Upon Nation Sajs Knox - By EDWARD E. BOUAR WASHINGTON'. Oct. S (JF) See- . retary Knox ordered 27,8J1 navy and marine reservists into uni form today after pointedly warn ing the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo am that "lf a fight is forced open us we shall be ready." The order applied to the satire organized and fleet reserves of the navy and marine corps. It wil' swen to 2J,28l the number or officers and men on active duty, giving the seagoing forces a strength la personnel they have not possessed since the post-World war period. A navy spokesman sail the call for the reserves was necessary be cause the fleet construction pro gram was five weeks to six months ahead ot schedule and the train ing schools were unable temper- -arily to run out enough trained recruits to man the new ships. The reservists called to dot) hare all reelTed trainlnr which enables thera to take their place aboard . the" ships , lzaTQjdJatel . Members of tbe volunteer reserve. consisting ot specialists and men capable of being trained but "who have not been required to drill, were- not called out because the need was only for trained men. The reservists will be notified individually, by mall In mon cases, when and where, to report. Says Sew Alliance Directed at TS Shortly before he Lwued his or ders, .the naval secretary said un equivocally in an address to gra duates of the national police aca demy that the Japanese-Germaa-Italian alliance is directed at as." and that the United States would not be intimldated His remarks were widely Interpreted as an- ad ministration reply to yesterday's assertion by Prince Konoye. tbe Japanese premier, that any chal- lenge of the Rome-Berllu-Tokvo axis would tamble tie Unltd' States into a "fight to a finish. "We are tbe -largest obit arte in the path of the totalitarian powers,- Knox said. "Should Great Britain fall to stem the tide of. ever - advancing tyranny i shall find ourselves surrounded , ' by these International brigands, whose greatest victory would be the destitution of the United States, "Never understanding us, they suppose our people can be broaght to their iron rule. Both as an American aad as an official at the nary I know differently. If a fight is forced upon us we shall be ready for them. We have never lost a war yet." . i Sen, Perce Is Most Just back from an Inspection et tbe fleet, HaTailanaU Test ccit defenses. Knox asserted that the American sea force was the "most powerful, most efficient fleet an the world today, fully capable ef upholding the American tradition of victory at sea. which baa done so much to establish and contia ue ns as a free people. Asserting that "our mode t life has never been so chsllesed as It now la." Knox said that un der the circumstances an ade quate navy "demands that we be able to meet enemies far from ear own shores and defeat thea is both oceans simultaneously if necessary.- r . The eoaquest and possibly suc cessful invasion of England are problems we must face cow, real istically, with swift action. be "In stressing, the Important Mle played by federal and other peace officers la iife'sardh. lilpjuds and munitions plants. Knox as serted - that " know there are hundreds, evea thousands of sab oteurs within our fates." If tfce nary and army are called on to meet a challenge on the bigb seas and on the battlefield, he added. . "it ts your task to see thst no cue BUbs them In the back tUd tier are thus engaged.'. . - . .jau-s.,.-. . ti.r -w-.;- -. . - , ' Officers Assigned WASHINGTON. Oct. S. t Army orders today included i.r.- tiler Gc:trj! Jets c, H. I ; Portland. Ore., to Tort lias , Calif-, and Captain Tavld 3. Ilr. rt. San Francisco, to dory- at Corrallis, Ore.