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No Substitute! Yoa'll find bo newspaper east give mora real satlsfae tion than yonr local mora las paper, with Its world ten AND homo community stews, la Salem that paper la The Oregon Statesman. Weather Fair today and Wednes day; : morning frosts, prob ably freezing. Max. Temp. Monday, 31, Mia. SI. North east wind. River O. oouMono 1651 NINETIETH YEAH Solexxu Orgon. Tuesday Morning. "Norembar 19. 1940 Price 3cs Newsstand 5c No. 202 Captare eecDFted. .aVV MjW Bill II II 11.11 II of JCoritea Iby Greeks is i : First Soldiers For Selective Army Inducted Boston Youth Is Listed a& Initial "Draftee" but Is Volunteer Five From Salem Are to Depart on Wednesday; Ceremony Planned WASHINGTON. Not. l8-(Jf-In scattered communities from New England to the Pacific coast, little groups of men raised their right bands today, swore to bear "true faith and allegiance" to the United States, and became soldiers under the nation's first peacetime conscription program. , The historic ceremony, to be re peated day after day in hundreds of draft centers until 800,000 men have entered service by next June 30, was believed to hare taken place first In Boston. There, John Edward Lawton, 21-year-old unemployed plumb er's helper, and single, was cred ited with being the first to qual ify for service of the nearly 17, 000,000 men from 21 to 35 years of age Inclusive, who registered under the draft law last October 16. "You are the first man in the United States to be inducted un der thia program," Capt. Harold E. Llnderson told him. "You've lot a whole lot to live up to ind we're expecting a whole lot from you." "The first inductions were limit ed to three army corps areas the first, embracing the six New England states, which had a first quota of 984; the 6th, where 100 men were called In Chicago, and the 9th, which called 1630 men from a group of far western states. Number Summoned Now Reduced to 19,700 It was expected to be the end of the week before all these men would be in uniform and, mean time, the army will begin receiv ing draftees for a year's training from most, other corps areas. Because of a sharp rise in reg ular three-year enlistments for the army, officials said, the num ber of draftees to be called by December 1 was reduced from 30.000 to 19,700. Draft officials said most of these would be vol unteers who asked to have their names moved up to the top of their draft board's list of pros pective trainees. About 71.00 0 of those registered made this re quest. At the Induction centers today, the .procedure was for each man to receive a physical examination, be fingerprinted and be given an army serial number. Then they were administered the military oath which Includes a promise to obey orders of the president and appointed officers, and to serve the United States "honestly and faithfully against all enemies." From induction centers, the men were sent to army reception centers to receive uniforms. They (Turn to Page 12, Col. 3) Airport Program Backed by Legion Capital Post No. 9, American Legion, meeting last night, adopted resolutions supporting further development of the Sa lem municipal airport and In ap preciation of the Armistice day observance of Salem businessmen. The former resolution stated that the post was one of the orig inal aponsors of the airport and, since It "would be of great bene fit to Salem and It would un doubtedly mean the permauent establishment of Important units of our army air force In Salem," it urged the mayor and council to "take all steps necessary to se cure this development, and to assure them of our undivided support toward that end." Patriotic cooperation . in the voluntary closing of Salem stores for Armistice day was commend ed In the second resolution. Loren Hicks Will Be Mayor, Junior City Government Master Councilor Mark Hat field of Chemeketa chapter Da Molay, announced last night member of the chapter who will govern galem for a day, December f. Loren Hicks will be mayor; Mark Hatfield, treasurer; Leon ard Steinbock, recorder; Cory- don Blodgett, city attorney; Cliff I Tucker, police chief; Richard Boehrlnger, fir chief; Bob Lem on, first aid captain; Ralph Schlesinger dog catcher, . and Councllmen Jack Gibson, Bob Mundt, Jim Hatfield, Coe Roberts, Thomas Fisher, William Haber nlcht and Jay Johnson. Th day will be climaxed by a council meeting and a dance. The unhHe is InTited to the dance, at which the DeMolay awetheart -will be announced. BIRCH TREE C , TRAVELING ON STREETS - . VVs: M&2S$a 4 1' 5W( Intent on making two trees grow where bat one grew before, this crew of WPA workers yesterday be Kan the mail's pace tak of moving a mature birch tree from the rear of the state library building to the frout of the structure, where it will flank the main entraaee sidewalk, balancing a tree al ready growing en the other aide. Not men kneeiing, tewding rollers under the tree, and power shov el, at left, used to pull It along the street. Statesman photo. Two Trees Saved by Moving One; Transporting Birch I (Eke lax.. Paul Ilaiuer'a Column Sine, bom, sing m a roundelay Of Bmok or fir or n bay 81 nf something. Mast your tain Or this column won't get in. Ton nd I hr a deadlln to moot And 1U too lata to walk taa atraet Or poka yonr aosa down Baerma road la saarcb of an insouciant oda. Sing, DitiM, and ainf It quick. Fling those words fast and thick. I don't cars if the meter's bare Oct this column ont of my hair; I don't care If it doesn't rhyme. Ton can't fool 'em all all th time. Wall, don't sit there like a stupe; Get net, gal, and shoot me the soap. Ton dii it for Bhakespears and Defoe For Milton, Wordsworth and S. A. Fee Ton were plenty sice to all those C7 So come on, win mm a PnUUer prlxe. Oh, so you're stubborn, gonna balk. Getting tough and you won't talk. Okay! Go hack to Greece, yon darned old Mum, And X hope those bombs haTe a darned short fuse. Another "perfect" Hollywood marriage has come to grief. We understand that there is a move afoot In the film caritol to give movie stars a 45 year handicap along with their marriage licenses so that tbey too can enjoy golden weddings. While on the subject of wed dinRs we aiight point out that Chief of Police Frank Minto and Mrs. Minto celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary yes terday. The news is that he re mrmbrred. Three score and seventeen years ago this day a tall, gaunt man stood on a platform before a mul titude that hardly heard him and said a few words, beginning "Four score and seven years ago . . ." The words he said "the world will (Turn to Page 12. Col. 4) Incinerator Issue Does Not Come-up at Council Session Heralded pretest of proposed elimination of the city incinerator as an airport obstruction failed to develop as the city council sped through a routine session in near record time last night. Fred A. Williams, former coun cilman and city attorney who said Saturday be would speak against any move to abolish the inciner ator, was present at the meeting but found no opportunity to talk as the incinerator-airport Question did not come up. The First Con gregatlonal church, which is building a new church at Marlcn and Cottage streets, was g 1 t e n authority to erect its building within seven feet, six lnchea of the property line In an ordinance changing the lots involved from tire sone two to fire sone three. Problems arising from old liens for graveling streets still on the books after many years should be placed before a committee of the city treasurer, city recorder and city attorney t determine legal ity of the individual liens. City Attorney -Lawrence N. -Brown re ported. Some of the liens have tit I s ' ' tvr IJM ill i ,;rs Mature Tree Takes Along 70 Tom of Earth for Its New Home ; Task of Preparing It for Travel.. Takes Weeks; Hai Good Chance to Live WPA workers Monday were busy on what Is expected to be the next to the last day in the task of moving the ma-, tured birch tree, formerly west of the stata library building, to the east front of the structure, George Otten, landscape architect for the state highway department, said yesterday. Close to two months were needed to move the tree which, barring "unexpected accidents," will be in its new resting place Wednesday night, Otten said. Over 200 yards of dirt were mov ed In the two excavations needed and nearly 70 tons of earth was left around the base of the tree. The 10 men on the moving crew, none of whom has ever done this type of work before, must be exceedingly careful, Otten said, as a slight Jar might spell doom for the-tree. "As It is, the birch has about a 90 per cent chance of living," he added. "So far, 1 don't believe it knows it has been moved." Moving of the tree, Otten re marked, "really saves two trees the one we are placing in front of the building will match anoth er birch already there. The only alternative would have been to destroy the tree already stand ing." Proof of the difficulty con fronted in the task, Otten said, can be seen when one realizes that the weight of the tree and boxed In dirt sometimes crushes the eight-inch diameter rollers used to transport the birch. Grand Jury Reume$ Probe of Pamphlet PORTLAND, Not. 18 JP)-A grand jury resumed Investigation today of a pre-election pamphlet which opposed R. K. Riley, suc cessful candidate for mayor of Portland. been protested but there is no ba sis for finding them Invalid. Brown reported further. Another report informed the council that two disinterested real estate men have been asked to es timate; damage, if any, to prop erty of Mrs. D. J. Fry from the city's Shelton ditch project. Mrs. Fry has filed a claim against the city. Magaxina subscription firms could license their . agents on a yearly basis by payment of a $11 license fea by terms, of an ordi nance introduced by the police committee. The ordinance limits working days of such agents to 27S days yearly and provides that they must ' report to police days worked. . , A resolution was passed author izing transfer of $S0 from the emergency fund to the 'civil ser vice fund to cover expenses of forthcoming civil service exami nations. ' Bruce Spaulding advised the council In a letter that It waa the desire of Mrs. Joseph: H. Albert, whose late husband donated the (Turn to Page 12, CoL H Ticklish Job American Patrol Causes Scuttling Mexican Commander Says Vessels Near Germans Were Destroyers MEXICO CITY. Not. 1B-JP)-It was learned officially tonight that neutrality patrol Teasels of the United States and not British warships were off Tampico Fri- ) day night when one German and three others fled back to port. Lieut. Cuahtemoc Perez Zavala, commander of the Mexican gun boat Queretaro, was quofed as re porting that he placed his vessel between the US destroyer 233 and the German ship Rhein. He acted to prevent Tlolatlon of Mexican waters, the reports said. He iden tified another of the four US de stroyers as No. 210. (Jane's Fighting Ships, authori tative manual of the the world's navies, lists the 233 as the Gil mer, completed In 1920, and the 210 as the Broome, completed in 1919, both being Hush-deck four stackers.) The German captains said they (Turn to Page 12, Col. 7) Blackout Called Off Due to Fog BREMERTON, Wash.. Not. 18 (JP)-. A total blackout was called oft tonight on account of fog. The wartime maneuver had been scheduled to determine how completely the light of this US nary yard city could be smoth ered from the view of aerial ob server, bat authorities canceled it becausa the fog was so thick an air observer would have been do ing wall to sea the city with the lights all on. The blackout was re-echedalea for 10:80 p. m. tomorrow weath er permitting. Bonneville Power Turned on, Co-op CORVALLIS,' Not. 18-ip)-Bon-neville power flowed for the first time to an Oregon rural electrifi cation project today. The electricity want Into the lines of the Benton-Lincoln elec tric cooperative between -CorTallls and the coast. The line" has car ried electricity preTiously, but in stallation of a transformer at the Albany substation allowed Bonne ville power to be turned oai Pre Tiously a diesel engine provided energy. Gestapo Agent Seized by Dies Tribunal Aides Nazi, Fascist Quarters in Chicago Raided, Records Taken Governments Agents in US Are Involved Is Chairman's Word CHICAGO, Not. 18. -UPY- Chairman Martin Dies of the house committee investigating un- American activities announced to night that his agents had raided the quarters or "Italian and Ger man organizations" in Chicago, New York and other cities and had seized a man who was in the nazl secret service. Ho reported that the raiders here had been given ten subpoe nas duces tecum and had brought in letters, card files, pamphlets, documents and ledgers. Transla tors were assigned to the task of studying them. The man taken into custody Identified himself as Helnrich Peter Fassbender, 23, alias Harry Smith, of Dusseldorf, Germany. He told newsmen that he had been working for the gestapo since 1935, first in Spain and Belgium and finally In the United States. One of Dies' aides said Fass bender had been picked up on the west coast while "operating out of Los Angeles" and that he was flown here today from Washing ton. After Fassbender had testified before the committee here. Dies stated: "Fassbender'a testimony checks up with evidence we have received from the files of German organi sations. He was in the secret serv ice. His specialty was espionage." Dies declined to answer a re porter's query concerning wheth er Fassbender had asked the com mittee's "protection," but said: " "It's a pretty hot situation. "What he's told us links up cer- tain representatives of certain governments with his activities. Fassbender has been operating in all parts of the United States for over a year. "If the committee authorizes the publication of the 'white pa per' that would be authority to make public this man's testimony. Until that authority Is given, I can't tell you any more." Dies said the other members of the comimttee were being polled on the question of making pub lic the "white paper," which, he explained, was based on the activ ities of German agents, chiefly In New York. He defined the objective of the raiders as the seizure of records, membership lists, press releases and any communications with foreign governments. He said records had been seized in Chi cago and New York but that be could not divulge developments in other cities until he had re ceived reports from his agents. Ha had received one, he added, from New Orleans, but did not disclose its contents. Dies did not make public the names of the organizations visit ed by the committee's agents. Employers' Offer Not yet Accepted SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. lt-JP) -Harry Lbndeberg, secretary treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, announced tonight that union members In four west coast cities had refused to ac cept as it stood, a contract offer of the steam schooner operators. The union locals In Seattle, Portland, San Diego and San Francisco, after communicating with one another, all voted to send the union committee back to the operators "for further ne gotiations," Lundeberg said. "They did not reject the offer outright." he added, "but they were not satisfied with some of the working rules. They want con cessions on these. Wages is Just a side issue." Eichelberger now West Point Chief WEST POINT, NY, Not. 18 (fl5) One of the youngest briga dier generals in the army, 44-year-old Robert L; Eichelberger, today became tha 88th superin tendent of tha US military acad emy. Veteran of war service at such opposite points as tha hot Mexi can border and the frozen Si berian wastes, ha succeeed Major General Jay L. Benedict, whose four-year term here ended with his transfer to tha command of tha new fourth army corps at Camp Bland in g, Fla. General Eichelberger came here from San Francisco. .. Jury Being Picked MEDFORD. Not 18. --Selection of a Jury for trial of Ro land Hicks, 34, Indian, accused of killing Gay lord Miller, 14. at Chlloquln October 2. began In 4 federal court today.' - President Seeks Labor Peace; John Lewis out But Effect Green Skeptical ; Urges Consolidation Move; Stimson Is Heard NEW ORLEANS, Not. lS-(jp) President Roosevelt's desire for a labor peace move, to begin In the White House, was communicated today to the American Federation of Labor convention which also was informed by Secretary of War Stimson that workers will have to make sacrifices under the de fense program. AFL President William Green, deeply skeptical that a labor set tlement was brought any closer by John L. Lewis' announced inten tion of resigning the CIO presi dency, told the applauding con vention of the president's desire for unity in labor ranks. Green said: "The president of the United States is willing to help us and assist us and he has asked If com mittees (AFL and CIO) can be assembled and put to work, that they meet with him first of all and explore with him the situa tion at the White House, there to receive his assurances of good will and cooperation." At the same time Green out lined a settlement plan which he admitted was not new and which he charged without using his name that Lewis had already blocked by refusing to let com mittees from the Congress of In dustrial Organizations treat with AFL representatives. Urging industrial peace as an absolute need for rearming Am erica, Secretary Stimson, who flew here to address the convention, stressed the effort needed for the defense program and said: "Today our production, hope ful as it has been thus far, is as yet very far from adequate. Sacri fices will undoubtedly be called for from labor, as they will be called for from the other citi zens of the republic but such sac rifices I believe will be willingly contributed and not compelled." A resolution urging the conven tion to vote its officials the power to drive racketeers and labor ex ploiters out of AFL unions was Introduced by delegates of the In ternational Ladies Garment Work ers union. Another resolution suggested that AFL members provide infor mation, in cooperation with the federal bureau of investigation, against fifth column efforts in America. Green, informed that Lewis at (Turn to Page 12, Col. 7) Tokyo Denies any Peace Overtures Chinese not Thinking of Halt; Thailand Force Reported Active TOKYO, Nov. 19(Tueeday (A) - A n t i - A meri can posters sign ed by "the National Patriotic Party" appeared near the Unit ed States embassy today. They said: "The crisis approaches; Lis ten to the alarm bell on the ere of the World war. Prepare against the United States." TOKYO, Nov. 19-(!P)-Usually informed sources said today they had no confirmation of reports In Shanghai and Honkong, described as originating in Tokyo, that Ja pan decided at the Nov. 13 Im perial conference to make peace overtures to China. HONGKONG, Nov. 18-(P)-Af-ter 40 months of war in China, Japan 'was reported today to be seeking direct peace negotiations (Turn to Page 12, Col. 2) Town of Gates Cut in Two; Bridge Closure Is Deplored Serious consideration of the problem created by recent clos ing of the Gates bridge across the North Santiam river was urged yesterday upon tha Marion coun ty court by a delegation headed by J. H. Irvin, Gatea high school principal. "The loss of the bridge cut our town in two," Irvln told the court, with tha result that virtually all connection between tha north and the south sidea of tha town la via Mill City, where a bridge across tha river is located. Irvin placed most of hi empha sis en inconvenience- caused to school authorities, school children and parents in tha Gatea school district. , ." ----- These, ha aaid, are penalised becausw tha school bus, which col lects 42 pupils for- tha- Gatea school on tha north, or Marion county, side of the North San tiam, is forced to reach Gates via Mill City Instead of crossing directly across the bridge. - -- ..Tha result la that pupils are forced "to meet the' bus earlier. Inconveniencing both' them and Not Certain Tears Mark Appearance of CIO Founder as He Declines Job ATLANTIC CITY. NJ, Nov. 18 (jiP) With the mist of tears in his eyes, John L. Lewis solemnly, told his CIO legions today that he was stepping down as their leader and fervently bid them to carry on with unified leadership the mili tant organization he founded five years ago. In a hall packed with 600 dele gates to CIO's third national con vention, Lewis gave notice he was fulfilling his pre-election promise to retire as CIO president If Presi dent Roosevelt was reelected. Shouting, marching delegates who gave Lewis a 40-minute dem onstration of acclaim for his lead ership, sat hushed as he said "I won't be with you long. I have done my work. In just a few days, I will be out of this office which at the moment I occupy. "I shall hope that whomever you elect as my successor, that you will give him your support without stint and go back to your membership and ask them to give him a break also, because he will need it. I ought to know. "Yesterday is gone and tomor row is another day. I am con cerned with tomorrow and I eare nothing what happened yesterday except insofar as the events of yesterday may bring wisdom with (Turn to Page 12, Col. 6) High Court Rules Twice for Labor Injunction Barred Though Sherman Act Violated ; Review Is Denied WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-(A)-The supreme court today ruled that a Chicago labor union was free to carry on picketing activi ties even though the activities were alleged to Interfere with interstate commerce. A unanimous decision by Jus tice Black held in effect that the Norris - LaGuardia act H. barring courts from issuing injunctions in labor disputes excy?t in certain circumstances) took precedence over the Sherman act (barring ac tions which restrain interstate commerce.) The court also refused to re view two cases challenging con troversial orders of the labor board, thereby leaving the orders in force. One order held that the Elk land Leather company of Elkland, Pa., had committed an unfair la bor practice by distributing te employes, with their pay checks, this written statement: "You are under no obligation to join any union and cannot be forced to do bo as this tannery will always operate as an'open shop. This company will deal in dividually with any employe that wishes to do so at any time." The issue of freedom of speech was raised but a federal circuit court upheld the board's con demnation of the expression as unfair. The supreme court de clined to review this decision even though Solicitor General Biddle, for the government, did not op pose a review. Biddle explained that another circuit court had made a rontrary ruling in a sim ilar case involving the Ford Mo tor company and that settlement of the conflict by the high tri bunal would be welcome. The other board order .in volved certification of a union as collectire bargaining agent at the New York Handkerchief Manu facturing company of Chicago on the strength of an election in which only B of the 225 eligible employes had voted. their parents, and the bus itself la forced to travel 20 miles daily out of its way in order to bring the pupils to school and return them homo via Mill City. The cost to tha school district of the additional travel he put at $40 monthly. - Members of the court suggest ed that pupila might be brought to Gates on the north side of the river and allowed to walk across tha . bridge, which, though con demned for heavy travel, still stands. Irvln objected that such crossing would require supervi sion, and would be generally bad policy in any event. Tha meeting concluded with a promise of tha court to take the matter under, serious advisement. Tha ; bridg was originally : con demned severaL weeks ago by the Marion and Linn county courts In Joint action. Court members in dicated yesterday that no decision has been reached -between the two county bodies whether to rebuild tha structure entirely or to seek to increase its supports. . Visit of Boris To Berlin Has Significance Douhle Drive to Greece and Gibraltar May Be Latest Axis Plot Base in' Albania Seized Shortly After Duce Beats His Chest (By The Associated Press) Greek troops fighting to trap more than 30,000 Italians ten miles Inside Albania were report ed unofficially to have captured the important Italian base of Kor- itza early today. A Reuters (British news agen cy) dispatch from neighboring Yu goslavia said the city fell to tha Greeks after bitter fighting. Adolf Hitler's conversations in Berchtesgaden, Germany, with tha foreign ministers of Italy and Spain gained new slgniflance ear ly today when it was announced King Boris of Bulgaria also had talked with the fuehrer. Many European observers have speculated on thev possibility of a double axis drfve to aid Italy through Bulgaria to attack easu ern Greece and across Spain to be siege British Gibraltar. The Italians were completely on the defensive and gave up their attempts to storm Greek positions, the spokesmen said. Fascist air planes bombed Greek troops in an effort to cover the withdrawal of Italian ground forces and their equipment along a single road of escape, the Greeks said. Mussolini Insists Greece) Will Fall The Greek high command said nine fascist planes were shot down to two Greek losses in yesterday's fighting along a 100-mile battle front. The reports of new reverses tor the Italians whoinvaded Greece three weeks ago yesterday came -f'BhortlT after Premier Mussolini in Rome told the world that 1 would "break Greece's back" whether it takes two months or a year. It was Mussolini's first publio utterance since June 10, when he a of n o u n c e d Italy was at war against England and France. Ha spoke on the fifth anniversary ,of the imposition of sanctions on It aly's war against Ethiopia. The Greeks 'said their troops hurled back wave after wave of Italian Infantry. Reports that fascist reinforcements were befng rushed to Koritza were said io in dicate the Italians were putting everything they had into that struggle. Also, the Greeks said their men stood up under heavy dive bomb ing attacks and their own planes retaliated by bombing Italian po sitions behind the lines. Mussolini, speaking directly to an audience of, fascist party lead ers, declared he would make no peace until "t h e modern Car thage England" is annihilated; said the British lied when t h e y reported the crippling of three Italian battleships and four other war vessels in Taranto harbor a week ago, and scoffed at Greek claims of Italian reverses. The premier said the true ver sion of the Taranto raid by Brit ish planes was that only one war ship was damaged enough to re quire extensive repairs and th-at two others were hit. Mussolini's axis partner, Adolf Hitler, received the Italian and Spanish foreign ministers at his Berghof mountain home but there were no guesses from the German press or official sources as to the ground covered. Swiss reports, however, said tha three were believed to have talked of axis drives from Rumania through Bulgaria to Greece and through Spain to Britain's Gibral tar. Tha British-German aerial ex change continued despite a gale on the English channel. British bombers raided German ' long-range batteries on the French coast as big guns on both sides of tha channel fought a duel. British bombers Sunday sight and Monday morning carried out the night hawk attacks on Gei many, reporting bomb attacks on German industries in the Ruhr valley. In East Africa, tha admiralty said, British light naval forcea bombarded and reported hits on oil tanks, coastal batteries and ' port facilities in Dante, Italian Somaliland. That attack ' followed Sunday's admiralty report that -naval units had shelled Mogadis cio, principal port of Somaliland well down the Indian ocean coast ' ' from Dante. .- ' Banks and Troutdale H "JPpttoffice- Burglaries 'Admitted by De Buse LOS ANGELES,. Not. 18-(P)-Detectlva Lieut, J. R. Stevens said today Charles D. Da Buse, 33, had v surrendered and confessed three postofflce burglaries, ex plaining: . . "'',' ' "I was jbold, hungry and broke, and decided to give myself up. The burglaries, said Stevens, were at " Placerville. Calif., and Troutdale and Banks, Ore. "