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" Election Party The Statesman and Radio Station KSL.M will cooperate on election nigbt in provid ing up-to-the-minute elec tion returns for all the peo ple of the Willamette val ley. - VTYCV T7eatner taetUfd writhe showers today, partly clendy Sarnr day.. Max. Temp. Ttmraday sain. 43. tkmUi wind. River -1.4 - feet. Rala .SO toea. POUNI 1651 - NINETIETH YEAR Sol em, Oregon. Friday Morning. Novsmber 1, 1940 Price 3d N lands 5c No. 187 TTv 71 IttaL CS 4U 1 1 ii V - . . i .- O - : ! ; - .LDiwe Lm Progress Seen In Drafting of County Budget Health Department Gets Small Boost, ' Item of Recorder Reduced Tustice Courts Will Be Held to 1940 Amount Is Policy Stated Marlon county's budget com mittee, meeting yesterday in Its second round with the county's 1941 budget estimates, granted a small Increase in expenditures td the county health department, pared the recorder's office budget by $489 and held 13 other budgets to their, 1940 level. The committee, which did not meet during the morning, made appreciable progress through the 72-page binder which represents the totality of proposed county expenditures during the next fis cal year. In approving a budget of $10,906 for the county health de partment, the committee granted an increase of 1610 over the 1940 limit of $10,296. Dental Service Item SliKhtly Increased The sum of $150 was added to an $800 dental service item, the medical supplies budget was brought up to $525 from $455, an additional $50 was budgeted for office supplies, and the medical services budget was upped from $700 to $S00. A capital outlay of $240 for office equipment was also allowed. The committee didnof grant, however, a,reyisted $750 for salary.fCwtnltary inspector and an--additional $240 for mileage "expenditures. A portion of the increase in the health officer's budget was offset by a reduction in the coun ty recorder's requested budget of $8830 to $8360. The salary of. a clerk, Hated at $960, wa eliminated, though the office- supplies budget was ex panded from 500 to $800, and the office equipment Item from $20 to $100. The changes were made on the recommendation of Mrs. Ethel M. Niles, republican nominee for county recorder and at present a deputy of County Recorder Mildred R. Brooks. , Other budget estimates were approved at the 1940 figure. Diseased Cattle Indemnity Item in Expenditures of 11850 were approved for the assistant county agent and horticultural inspector, $650 was allowed for indeminity for slaughter. of diseased cattle, and $550 was granted for exam ination and care of the Insane, The Jail budget was approved In the same form as in 1940 at a total of $4795, of which $4000 was ear-marked for prisoners' board. Other items of repair and supply were also included. A budget of $3845 for the Sa lem constable was allowed by. the committee, which refused to ac cede to a request for 1400 salary for a clerk, and an additional $250 travel expense on, criminal cases. , The Salem justice court budget, submitted at last year's level by Justice of the Peace Miller B. Harden, was passed without change at $4945. of which $3600 is for salary of justice and of clerk. Add Vault Space In Discussed Again A similar policy of holding all justice court budgets to the '1940 level was followed with respect to outside justice courts at Jeffer son, Mehama, Mt. Angel, Silver ton, Stay ton and Woodburn, which asked, all told, $410 additional on a total allowed budget of $2050. The Committee 4 discussed r fur ther thai question of providing ad ditional vault and office space for the county clerk's office, a matter which came up at the group's first meeting" Wednesday. No decision was reached, but several members of the commit tee expressed favor for a project of building a new vault for safe keeping of records under the. west steps to the courthouse. The prob lem was not finally settled, bow ever, : and will probably come to the attention ot the committee at its meeting this morning at 10 o'clock. ' ".-.. , Members of the budget commit tee are A. A. Ulvln. Silverton, E. L. Welder, Salem, and Ray, Glatf, Woodburn, In addition to County Judge J. C. Siegmund and Com missioners J. E. Smith and R. 8. Melson. . . . : .. Know Your Order Number?;, Just ' Ask Statesman ;u ; ;:: rf.-. "'v;:rv - ' .; i -j ; For three , days following the selective service lottery, lists of serial numbers in the order drawn have ; b:en published by The Statesman to expedite dissemina tion of this Information to regis trants. The last of these lists ap pears today on page . . - Any registrant who his been unable it determine his order number because of the necessarily piecemeal nature, of these lists., will be able to obtain the desired Information . by calling Tke Statesman office, 9101. ' ' Curbing Pres Willlrf- 1 if. Wendell Wtllkle Hares to a Wilmingtoa, DeL, crowd as his automo bile stops In front of the speakers platform in the city hall square. The republican presidential nominee's appearance was a bid for Delaware's three electoral votes. AP Teletnat. Constitution Violated Is Willkie Accusation a Scrap .o Paperf Titment ChargeI i Roosevelt Favors Granting British Request for 12,000 t Planes; Martin, Wallace, Jackson Talk CAMDEN, N. J.f Oct. 31 (AP) Wendell L. Willkie asserted tonight that the United States "is sick of the type of government that treats our constituion like a scrap of paper." The supreme court is regarded as an "obstruction," he said in a prepared speech. "Our unwritten law against granting a third term to any president is not even mentioned by the third term candidate. He doesn't even attempt to justify his violation of it." The republican presidential nominee, near the end of his nation-wide campaign tour, con tinued: "We are sick of the kind of politics that refuses our craving for clean, hard, open 'debate, the kind of politics that seeks to win a third term by hiding behind the bushes of two terms. We are sick of the kind of one' man govern ment that calls an ambassador of the United States 'my ambassa dor. . It used to be my friends.' Now it is 'my ambassador.' Pretty J soon it will be 'my generals.'. Thet it Wril be 'my people.' But there is one thing that will be perfectly clear after November 5. ."It isn't hir White House. It's the people's White House." (By the Associated Press) Wendell L. Willkie campaigned against President Roosevelt yes terday In: the factory towns of New Jersey and' Delaware with the assertion that "when a man becomes too absolute In power, he always takes the people to the shambles of war." ' Mr. Roosevelt, meanwhile, was preparing f for another campaign tour back to Brooklyn, where he recently toured,-and to Cleveland, farthest west of any political swings he is expected to make. During the day, he made a brief trip to nearby Betbesda, Md.f to dedicate a health center. The president returned yester day from; a speechmaking excur sion to Boston, where, among oth (Turn to page lot col. 6) 'In (lis pensable9 : Attacked Sp PORTLAND, Oct. gl-(Special)J Governor Charles A. Sprague re jected tonight arguments of Am bassador Joseph Kennedy that re election of President Roosevelt is necessary: 6n the ground -that he la indispensable to the nation's defense in a time of world war. v .i 4I attack lbs- Kennedy argu ment on the ground that his time table is wrong," the - governor said In radio address. Denying the Imminence of attack to this country he asserted that, "If, aft er four months the Germans hare not been ; able to cross 22 miles of open water and conquer Eng land, by l what rule ot military mathematics may .it " be said we are in' immediate danger - from Germany across $000. miles of water? I:. , :''''r:T'':''':y'-'''''''r: "I believe ou r real war threat is ,'more apt Ac, arise a year or two , years from,, now. There i ample time for a hew leader to pick up ' the " reins, particularly whtnUhe 1 leader n sight : is' as ial Power Is eme, Delaware Talks 11E1 ILHiie Ji-clR" . . Paul IIau$ers Column Ordinarily the United States Post" Office department can ; go blithely from month to month without realizing or caring that we exist. This would not bother! ier 1 i eal-l atH us a great deal were It not th on the first of every month. thet Post Office De- vt pan men i, unnap- t - nt, unhap-t, "f - for ai,- is with a ' o the fact f being, and I f ' , s certain I , w J but it nap-I - ,..?, p i 1 y for awakens start to of our deposit i small predated tokens paai a hidhi, jr in our mail box. In between those periods in normal times the gaunt grey cour iers are stayed not in their ap pointed rounds by snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor Paul H. Hauser. jr. Their ap pointed rounds don't point our way and our mailbox is a place the 1 swallows return to every spring. There's even a song about It. "When the swallows return to the mailbox of Paul H. Hauser, jr." Hum-diddy dun diddy-hum, like that. This, however, is not m norm al period. Thin is an election year and the lid of our mail box has been going up and (Turn to page 7, col, B) A rgument lis : rague Address swift in action and as clear J in Judgment as Wendell Willkie." ? After saying that all nations soon will be in a "race for power in a mad gamble with fate-," the governor asked: - . t . "Shall we enter, that race with a spent horse? 'The presidency of the United States Is said to be the most gruelling -job on earth. Oar president has . occupied that job, for eight exceedingly diffi cult years. Even if he is physical ly fit today. Is It fair te the.coun tryto return him . to a post ot rack arduous labors for another four years? Is not this rather the time to summon a new leader,. y . and thus be ready with a, com petent" executive who can - serve with-full vigor of mind and body for: the next four years or per haps the next lrht years?" "; . ' The governor charged that the new deal- had no right-to-claim credit for, most-of Its social re forms, asserting that many tt " ; (Turn, to 'pagelOt 'cpl.'H" . "Sticking Pins In ligers Is Hoover Charge World Statesmanship of Roosevelt Criticized Upon Many Counts One More Talk" Urged, Then Silence While Armament Built LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. Sl--Former President Herbert Hoover, in a radio address tonight, charged President Roosevelt with "stick ing pins In tigers all over the world" and told the nation "you are far. more likely to get Into war with Franklin Roosevelt than with Wendell Willkie." Hoover opened his speech on "our foreign relations" with charges President Roosevelt had broken up the 1938 world econom ic conference at London, had failed to press for advantages that might have come from the 132 land disarmament conference at Geneva, and had meddled In Euro pean power politics. Ignores Lack of , Reserve Firearms "Beginning with the speech on our quarantining dictators three years ago, Mr. Roosevelt has been continuously sticking pins In tigers all over the world and that without seeming to realize that this requires a reserve of fire arms," Hoover charged. Terming any invasion of the United States a job far beyond the abilities of the dictators, the former president continued: "Our ultimate problem of de fense is larger than this. Our problem is to protect the western hemisphere. To do that we must have such defensive strength that no one will even entertain the dangerous thought of coming to any part of it. And we must be able to rely upon our own right arm alone.,! r To meet the day's -danger Je laid . down a proposed nathmaT poHcy of: "1. Furnish all the support to England we can within the law. And I emphasize within the law, for liberty Uvea by law. Congress makes the law. "2. Stop cultivating hysteria at home and sticking pins In tigers abroad. "3. Make just one more talk and then stop talking. "4 That one talk should em phasize that this nation wants peace with the world. . It should inform the world that we are arm ing this country to the teeth; that we are organizing its eco nomic strength In every corner, from the cellar to the garret; that after a year or two years, or what ever time that job takes, we are going to talk again. Then we are going to say exactly what we ex pect the relations of other nations to be to us and our Interests. Then we will be talking the one langu age which they will understand. Stroke Is Blamed In Brovn's Death Foul Play Possibility Is Eliminated; Autopsy Conducted Here F. R. Brown, who died at the Deaconess hospital Wednesday night after having been Jailed by city police Tuesday morning, died as the result of a cerebral hem morhage, an autopsy conducted by Dr. Joseph Beeman of the Uni versity of Oregon medical school revealed yesterday. " Coroner L. E. Barrick said the finding that Brown's death was the result of a stroke precluded any possibility of crime. . Brown, 38. years old, was taken to the police station - Tuesday morning after he was found un conscious in, a car belonging to Jess Holland parked In front of (45 South lth Street, where Hol land lives. o First aid men who were called believed -.Brown "was drunk and - (Turn to page 10, col.. 4) ' Second Muininum it Plant Is Possible : PORTLAND, Ore., Oct, Sl-UP) Paul . " J. Raver, .," Bonneville Grand Coulee power administrat or, said today. that the Reynolds Metal Corporation of Virginia had reopened negotiations, for .- an aluminum -reduction plant In Ore gon. ' .;- - . ? -i ;Ths firm, a subsidiary of the Reynolds jTohacco company, is considering establishment of a plant. either at. Bonneville dam en the Columbia fiver or near Port land. Raver Indicated. " Twentystwo plants already are in production-for the corporation," and a contract for .Tennessee val ley 'authority power recently -was signed. - , - j- The Oregon i plant would cost approximately $2,000,000 and woald manufacture foil and other products, the Portland Oregonian Pepper to Speak At Demos? Rally A i i ' 1 V x - " ' "' s. s :P v ' 4 7 t -? ! : S If, (f: CLAUDE PEPPER Florida Senator To Talk, Armory Will Address Final Rally of Democrats Here; Starts 8 p.m. Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, main speaker for the last major rally of local democrats be fore the nstional election next Tuesday, will arrive In Salem at fi p.m. today, County Chairman J. F. Ulrich announced last night. The senator will be the guest of the local democratic central committee for dinner before go- lag to the armory for his address, Ulrich also reported. Senator Pepper, who has been among the staunchest supporters of the present administration during his tenure in the senate. will speak in favor of reelection of President Roosevelt at the na tional election next.. Tuesday. The program at the armory wHJ start at 8 p.m. with music furn ished by the municipal band, Ul rich said, and will continue at 8:30 with introduction ot local (Turn to page 10, col. S) Halloween Quiet Here, Police Find - - Trick or Treat" General Activity; One Auto's Wheel Falls off Salem slumbered though a "surprisingly" quiet Halloween last night, "Trick or Treat" being on the long side of prankster ac tivities, although one person did have the lugs on a wheel ot. his car removed so that the wheel fell off when he drove around a corner, several street corner sign boards were pulled up, a few street lights broken and a pile of wood barricaded the street for a short while on South High street. Firemen were called out to quell a blaze at 20S North 21st street . caused when, a lighted pumpkin lantern was placed too near a curtain. "Little damage was done," firemen said. Police reported it one of the most peaceful Halloweens they had ever experienced but took no chances, enforcing, the seldom used curfew law. to take young sters under 18 off the streets by 9 p. ni. Most of the roving gangs of mischief makers were driven in by 10:30, officers said. Building Permits Gain for October Salem's ut lay for building kept up to its high average last month as the city building : de partment issued 102 permits for a total valuation of $124,470 and brought the year's bnilding . valua tion to date to $1.4.291. ' Although behind in the total number of permits October build ing .was well ahead in valuation of the same month last year when 122 permits ' were '. issued . for a total of 8105.C92. Building of . dwelling slacked off from the same period a year ago, h6wsver, the building depart ment monthly report, shows with 18 dwellings for a valuation ot $4f,183 a acorn pared with C9for $79. 11 in October ot 1939. One permit for a $2000 duplex dwell ing was also Issued last month '. Repairs to old buildings ae i . (Turn to page 10, col. 4) ; Halloween Date . -j i Thought; Changed r PORTLAND, Ore.,' Oct. Il-iiv A pre-vHalloween pranksters had a .quick answer last night after ringing the doorbell and demand ing "trick or treaty t r f "Go away, you, little scamp," said Mrs. William Murphy, Vyou know very well this isn't Hal loween." ; f . r- -' "Didn't Roosevelt", change It?" the wide-eyed kid asked. ,... Industry Tol Aid Aerial Defense Task 17,000 Bombers Planned and More Funds Asked to Finance Plants British Ship Program Is Discussed; Portland One Site Proposed WASHINGTON. Oct. 31-Jp)-The aid of the automobile indus try, officials stated today, has been enlisted In a program In tended to supply the army with a striking force of 17,000 bombers. Informed quarters said the plans, which have been expanded largely inrecent days, call for a request to congress for a $2, 000,000,000 appropriation for the purchase of additional planes, and to finance an Increase in production facilities. Exact delivery dates were not disclosed, but It was stated that all the revised plans look to 1942 snd beyond. The additional plane factories. It was asserted will make pos sible, besides production for the United States, the manufacture of the 12,000 warplanes which Great Britain has ssked to be allowed to order in this country. Work waa ordered started on 83 government housing projects to provide 13,315 dwelling units in defense areas. They are to cost $45,782,500, and the announce ment said they are to be com pleted within a year. Families of enlisted men and civilian workers In defense Industries will be per mitted to rent them. Army Standard for Recruits Altered The army modified Its physical standards for recruits, bringing them into fine with those for men who will be given training under, the selective service "act. Under Mhe'-new regulations, inen""Jlve feet tilt will be accepted for the regular army. . Heretofore, the minimum height has been five feet four inches. The revised air defense plans, it Is understood. Involve the manu facture of 12,000 two-motored and four-motored bombers of stand ardised designs with the aid of the automobile industry. The navy placed a $108,125,398 contract with the Glenn L. Martin company. Baltimore, today. Air men understood 2000 or more airplanes were Involved, although the navy withheld the quantity and prospective delivery dates. The navy also awarded a $41. 000.000 contract for an undis closed number of Pratt and Whit ney aircraft engines. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-;P-Re-ports thst Great Britain had op ened -negotiations for the con struction in this country of a giant ship assembly plant received con firmation, but little elaboration, In official quarters today. Secretary Morgenthau told re porters representatives of the Brit ish ministry ef shipping had come to him in quest of a large number of cargo vessels to repTace tonnage lost In the war. Morgenthau referred the Brit ish officials to Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of Jthe Maritime commission and an old hand at shipbuilding. It was learned def initely that they had talked with Land. The proposal for the con struction of id assembly plant pre sumably resulted from the confer ence. Since the Maritime commission would not act officially In the mat ter. It was stressed than Land merely had provided advice. Com mission officials declined formal comment. The proposal now under discus sion calls for the construction .of an assembly plant designed to put shipbuilding on a mass production basis. Baltimore, New Orleans and Portland, Ore., have been men tioned as possible sites for It. . US Arming to Fight Japan Is Tokyo Newspaper Charge , TOKYO. Nov. l-(Fr!day)-m- The Independent newspaper NichI Nichl. in a Shanghai dispatcn. charged today the United SUtea 'is rapidly developing a. mum- sided war program ."against ja pan. w ' " . : , In auBDort of its enarge, me newspaper said. American marines In Shanghai are undergoing war time training, that huge - war stores are being collected .at Ma nila and that assembly plants for war materials are being installed there" to be' operated, by highly trained a r m y, personnel from. Michigan and California. . s The supplies assembled at ia- nlLa NIchi Nichl asserted, Include more than 100 bombers snd pur suit planes. 100 heavy tanks, 1100 armored trucks, artillery and an ti-aircraft-guns, f . I- An array of submariner cruis ers and other warships-hare been quietly and gradually , assembled at Manjla,,lt went on, plus big Italiqhs JCiie Mud 4 s Alibi for Slaw . : ' . ' . ' '-tT- Advance of Troops . - . ; - Greek Navy and Tiny Air Force Take Part in Defense; Ioannina Feels Brunt of Extensive Fighting Turkey Told Aid not Needed; Britain Protected hy Fog but Its RAF Bombs Invasion Centers ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 1 (Friday )(AP) The Greek general staff reported today that "enemy activities by infantry and tanks were repulsed everywhere yesterday in the Epirus district of northwestern Greece while Greece's small air force bombed and machine-gunned the foe "over enemy territory." The Greek navy joined the army and air force in the battle against the Italians, the general staff reported, naval units shelling- a coastal district on the Italian right wing for more than an hour. In the Epirus district fighting it said "the enemy gu tained losses. Prisoners were taken. Irregulars are col- Wife of Browder To Be Deported RAISSA B. BROWDER Browder's Spouse Ordered Deported Jackson Denies Leniency; Entered Illegally in 1933, Testimony WASHINGTON. Oct. 31-A-Mrs. Raissa Berk man Browder, 43, wife of the communist party leader, Earl Browder, today was ordered deported to her naUve Russia on the charge that she en tered the country illegally. Attorney General Jackson held In a formal opinion that Mrs. Browder must be sent back home at government expense- and - was not eligible for leniency despite her plea that she was the wife of a native-born American and the mother of three boys who are citi zens. . Jackson - said that Mrs. Brow der's own testimony "describing her surreptitious entry in 1938'.' (Turn to page 7, coL 4) fleet of Boeing bombers believed capable of -easily making round trip flights to Tokyo. t Two-thirds of the United States fleet Is considered ready to enter the western Pacific at a moment's notice Nichl. Nichl said. It also declared the ad vice, to Americans to leave the orient and continued loans to' China all were' a part ot t,oe American "war program. ; Furthermore, it charged .the United States rforced", Britain to reopen the -Burma road. Chinese supply route, in order to bolster the Chinese and to keep 'Japan busy for the time being.. - , ; la. an 'editorial, -the newspsper warned the Japanese public against optimism oyer, current Jspanese-Russian negotiations on the grounds that the soviet union Is . "having clandestine, relations with the United States and Brit ain and ia following a. policy ot expedience between the democra cies and tae totalitarian states. y-V w v . .. t V7 1 laborating with the enemy." One plane was reported shot down by Greek fliers In the air war. In their first major counter-attack ef the new war with Italy Greek soldiers were declared Thursday to have stormed the gloomy heights north of Ioannina (Janlna) and pushed back the invading fascist troops. The town strategically import ant because of its supply depots and its location, . some .30 miles from the Albanian frontier and an equal distance from the 'coaat was thus relieved temporarily at least from what had been before a slow but continuous Italian ad vance hy two columns. " Specifically claimed ; tn Greek reports t were the 'recapture et a 1 hUl which had been the -scene of i heavy . action and the seizure of large quantities ot abandoned Italian arms and equipment. (Advices from the Greek-Yugoslavian boundary, relayed through Bitolj. Yugoslavia, said the Ital ians had gained slight ground la four days toward Ioannina, but had been unable to crack strong Greek offenses farther northeast.) Albania Frontier Long Battle Line. The Ioannina sector was the hottest of the day, but all along the lofty ( battle line the western frontier of Albania there . was intermittent fighting. Behind the front. Italian and Greek bombers -attacked communications. Up until afternoon nq bombing action in this country, other than that along the battlefront, had -been reported. From the cities and towns la- ; land from the fighting area troops ' moved up to the front during ths day in every sort of vehlele ea- pable of carrying them. Materials help wss understood " to have srrived from Britain. It waa reported authoritatively that British troops, under the protec tion ot the mighty British. Mediterranean fleet, had been landed on certain strategic Greek islands, which for military rea sons were not designated. What Greece had to depend on for the moment, however, wan the -Metaxaa line, a fortified area sup- -, plemented by the natural fort- : resses provided by the rugged and mountainous terrain which fol- . lows the Albanian-Greek frontier from the Ionian coast to Lake-- Ventrok and carries on along the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to the Turkish frontier. Strong Defeases ' Aronnd. Ioannina The chief strength of this line Is understood to consist of con crete fortifications, earthworks, , pill boxes and barbed-wire tank N traps. Ioannina which commands two ot the four main routes from Al bania is believed to be particu larly protected. . To defend that line hundreds of peasants stood in queues today at mobilization stations, handing In their rough clothing for uniforms and then riding away for the the front, crying out the national an- . them of Greece, , Continued Italian air rtldi against the port of Patrss were re ported officially. There were two ' (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Chief-Broadcasts On Campaign Are Listed 1 "(By the Associated Pres ' Major -broadcasts on campaign Issues scheduled, for todsy: . " - t 3:45-4 p. m. Kathleen Norrts for Willkie, KCTN... - , , . 5-5:30 , p. ra. Senator Charles L. MeNary, KEX. ' . i - : 4 5 j-Franklin D, Reese- elt, KGW. . - - ; - - f:45'7 Cordell Ilall lor Roosevelt, KGW. KEX. : 1 7:15-3 Herbert Hoover to r- Willkle, KALE. g-i Renublicsn rally from Porvaa-d public auditorium, KXX. Willkie, KEX (time trntative).- i