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Newspaper Page Textrfo Substitute! ; ; r: You'll find bo newspaper " Cu in more real satisfac tion than your local mora-' tag paper, with Ita . world aewi AND home community aewi. la Salem that paper la The Oregon Statesman. TTeatHcr CtoeJy today a ad Sua nayj probably rale. Max. Trap. Friday M, Mia. eO. floath wlad. Rala .OS lacb. RJrer 4.3 feet. POUNI 1651 KDIETIETH YEAH Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning November 30. 1940 Price 3cx tlrwvskznds 5c No. 112 nmaimia jives -.w It. . Strife (LlVM . . State Welf are Board Workers To Take Exams To Be Non - Competitive for Those Employed Before Next Year Other Regulations Gain Attention; Budget Is - up Three Million PORTLAND, Not. 2 -Noncompetitive examinations for old employes of the state public wel fare commission were ordered to day by the commission to meet federal social' security board re quirements. ; The examinations will be given to persons on the staff before January 1, 1940, and. employes will be retained if they make pass ing grades. The commission, seeking to keep Its own merit system in ef fect, had asked that examinations be required only Of employes as of July 1, 1940. Under the decision, new employes will have to take competitive examinations after January 1, 1941. Early state-wide adoption of the federal surplus commodities corporation's stamp plan, already in operation in all but nine Ore gon counties and soon to be adopt ed by six more, was forecast by the commission. Only Malheur, Linn and Benton counties have opposed the system of distributing food to welfare clients. Commissioners discussed with the executive committee of the Association of Oregon counties, proposed legislative change, in the state 'a welfare program. Some of the proposed changes Included: ' Establishment of a food order tamp revolving fund to elimin ate froien capital under the voucher system. Amendment . or redrafting of the "patchwork" laws relating to children's programs. . , ; . The state budget department will propose to the legislature a $3,041,014 increase in Oregon's expenditures for public welfare during the two-year period, July 1, 1141, to July 1, 1943, Budget Director David Eccles announced yesterday. Aggregate expenditures on the several welfare programs and on administration are set up in the new budget at 121.890,452, as compared with expenditures of $18,849,438 during the 1939-40 biennium and $14,847,390 during the 1937-38 biennium. The state's share of the total will be $9,250,000, compared with $8,458,555 daring 1939 and 1940. Federal contributions will be in creased from $6,226,500 to $7, 742,973, while the counties' share (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Logger Cleared Of Arson Charge H1LLSBORO, Nov. 29.-;P)-A directed verdict exonerating Ellis Miller, 37, Jewell logger, of an arson charge was ordered today by Circuit Judge R. Frank Peters. - The dismissal ended a tVo-day old trial of an indictment accus ing Miller of setting the July 3 fire which destroyed 11 homes and a sawmill at West Timber. The judge declared' the indict ment was faulty because the saw mill mentioned in It actually was the vacated building of the dis mantled Eagles Lumber company mill and could not be considered lumber plant. Corrupt Practice Draws Jury Fire PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. as.-CS1) A grand Jury Investigating a pre-election pamphlet attack . on Earl Riley, , Portland's mayor- elect, returned no Indictment hut criticised Oregon's corrupt prac tice act today. The jury declared the statute wag "inadequate" and reeom mended changes. Of the charge-) against Riley, the Jury, comment ed that "many statements made in these pamphlets, while truth ful - Insofar as the actual state ment la concerned, are as harm ful as a false statement for the reason that they do not tell the enijre story." l m a .ffeay mm Bom M5j a ef ma s . ; iVfQe (JsueyyVsp1 one ssss4Affu)use'. J - P 'wfcka fcUU atar aa. .. Si S&t-l Numerous, Mild f 0Us Cause New Pre dion At Murray Troop Base 1400 Slightly Ailing; Theatres and Classes Are v Closed, Long Marches Discontinued ; Every Sneeze Gets Attention Says General CAMP MURRAY, Wash,, Nov. 29 (AP)- Theatres and military schools of the 41st division were ordered closed tonight and training was placed on a restricted basis after medical records showed approximately 1400 of the division's 12,000 soldiers are suffering colds. Major General George A. White, division commander, lfaiiori a conference at which a 1st sue Sag.. 'Paul Hauser Column Even before the newspapers would begin carrying boxes at the foot of the page announcing how many more shop-p ping days there" were until Christmas Gabble ly had m r. t hlsi shop- Christmas ping done. It wasn't that ' Mr. Gabble was one of those an- noying foresight- . ed persons who are always so cool and collect ed in the face of Christmas and pnj H aiiHi. it always remember to get their trick or treat candy on Halloween. Mr. Gabble wasn't He was always forgetting his wife's anniversary until the last moment when he d have to have a messenger bring out a box of candy on the sly. He forgot birthdays too. Mr. Gabble was In fart, of toe temperament that would have enjoyed the pleasing hurly-burly of last minute shop ping. He loved crowd and ex-clU-mnt. Mr. Gabble , loved the whole Hpirit of Ch.rfe.tmas ex cept for one thing. Mr. Gabble hated Santa Claus es. He also reared tnem. Ever since Mr. Gabble had smoked his first cigarette and thereby arrived at man's estate he had hated and feared Santa Clauses. It was department store Santa Clauses he feared most, but by association he had come to have a distaste for all Santa Clauses, even the skinny ones of the Sal vation Army. His d.Jtaste for Santa Clauses was noi reciprocated. Santa Claus es, one i:na an, jovea uus iraooie. His attraction for department store Santa Clauses seemed to be lrresistable. That wan why Mr. Gabble, who learned early that he and (St. Kicks were nix, always took V vacation In December and went off to the woods until the department . store Kant a Clauses had turned la their auita. Not that he was an unsociable chap. It was just that he thought were pretty silly to ask a 4 0-y ear old man of the world. He might have stood that. It wa the thought of those old white bearded faker taking him ob their knees and a king And what do yon want Santa to bring yon, little boy 7" that made Gu Gabble, the mighty midget, quit how business ev ery December to take to the woods. 20-30 Gathering Will Open Today Approximately 50 representa tives of 20-30 clubs in Oregon and-Washington are expected here this afternoon for the district con vention. Principal speaker and guest will be V. G. 'Skip" Wolfe, national president, who was char acterised by Salem members who met him Thursday night as "a real worker." A dinner and dance will be held at the Marion hotel tonight. Business sessions will begin Sun day morning. In charge of Rob ert Lange, president of the Sa lem club. Tours and bowling and ping-pong tournaments will occu py the' afternoon. X? r ' I bL. Fourth Congress District's Boundaries Are Suggested ' PORTLAND, Nov. 29-ff-An Interim commitee of the state leg islature agreed today to suggest to the legislature the creation of a fourth congressional district com posed of eight southern, and cen tral Oregon counties. It also proposed division of Multnomah county, into six dis tricts or wards, from each of which one senator and two repre sentatives to the state legislature wonld he elected. Upper and low er honse members now are elect ed from the county at large. The i fourth district Iwould he composed of Douglas, Coos, Carry, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Lake and Deschutes counties, with a total population of 180, 218.' s . This wonld leave the first dis trict with a population of 406,- 1st 1 . five point program was laid down to prevent spread of the outbreak. "We're doing this as a precau tion," General White said. "Medi cal officers tell us it is a mild type of cold that hangs on from two to five days. We've ordered even the mildest sneezing cases to quarters." The five point anti-cold order: 1. Division theatres and mili tary schools at which officers are receiving specialized training will be closed. 2. Strict cleanliness will be en forced. 3. Long marches are being dis continued. 4. All night marches and biv ouacs are postponed. 5. Soldiers will remain in their quarters during heavy rains. The 41st division, composed of national guardsmen from Oregon. Washington. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, is in its third month of a year's active duty. Pending completion of a cantonment, the men rare living in ten cities at Camp Murray. Pacific Lutheran Defeats Conzaga Little Aerial " Circus Gets Victory on Field Goal In Final Secontfs . TACOMA, Not. 2 9. -&)-Pacific Lutheran's "little aerial circus" set the favored Gonzaga univer sity Bulldogs back on their haun ches tonight, but It was a field goal with only 16 seconds to play that gave the Lutes the winning points In a spectacular 16 to 13 football victory. Marv Harshman coolly booted the winning field goal from a bad angle, with the line of scrimmage ton the 19. It was a stirring comeback for the Lutherans who had seen their hopes wither under Gonsaga's 13 point deluge in the first 1$ min utes of the game. Bat the rest of the way it was a Lutheran night as the famed flying circus took to the air and reached Its peak with five straight completions In a 75 yard flight for a touchdown In the fourth period. Gonsaga's first touchdown came (Torn to page 3, col. 2) Blackout Is not Quite Complete BREMERTON, Wash., Not. 29 -7P-The Pacific northwest's first national defense blackout closed over this navy yard city for 20 minutes tonight while naval air planes were believed overhead In a simulated bombing raid. A wailing warning siren from a tower in the Puget Sound naval yard, around which Bremerton Is built, warned the 15,000 city resi dents of the "raid" at 10:20 p. m. Ten minutes later, virtually every light In the city was doused, all traffic stopped and augmented po lice forces forced onlookers to stamp out cigarettes. Boy Scouts, firemen and special marine and navy patrolmen aided state and city officers In attempt ing to make the blackout com plete. Afterward, navy officers who wonld not be quoted declared they believed approximately 90 per cent of the city's lights were off during the 20-minute period. Only a few forgotten beacons, such as night lights In locked stores, defied efforts of officers to make the blackness complete. 864, the second district with 118. 000 and the third district (Mult nomah county) unchanged with 355.000. It would take three counties, Klamath, Lake and Deschutes, from the second (eastern Oregon) district, and the other five from the first (western Oregon) dis trict. The eommlttee said the division was based upon geographical, agricultural and industrial unity and that no attempt was made to apportion the population evenly. The proposal for the additional congressional district anticipates the granting to Oregon of another United States representative in reapportionment to be considered by congress in January, after the president reports the J940 census. No Higher Tax On '40 Income Now Indicated Levy of Ten Billion Is Proposed but Vetoed, Conferees Assert Will Be Above Current Year's Receipts Due to Business Rise WASHINGTON. Nov. 29-(P)-Senator Harrison (D-Miss) an nounced tonight after a White House conference that President Roosevelt and congressional tax leaders bad agreed there would be no further retroactive taxes on 1940 incomes. This, he said, ap plies both to corporations and individuals. Harrison, chairman of the sen ate finance committee, said that consideration of new tax legisla tion affecting 1941 income would begin in January. Representative Cooper (D Tenn), another of the conferees, added that it was "a good guess" that nothing definite would be done on taxes until after a re capitulation of receipts on March 15, the date when individual in come tax returns are filed and first installments come due. In some quarters there had been talk of an effort to raise revenue of $10,000,000,000 in the next fiscal year. That would be the largest ever collected in peacetime. Overlapping Ievie Will Be Studied Harrison asserted that one of the questions to be studied early next year is the overlapping of levies imposed by the federal gov ernment and those imposed by the states. Unofficial estimates are that the current year's spending will run about $13,000,000,000 to $l8r500,0ee,e0ev Revenues -are expected to approximate $7,000, 000,000. In the next fiscal year, -beginning next July 1, officials expect a substantial increase in revenues even without new legislation be cause of better business and the fact that some of the taxes le vied recently will not be fully ef fective until thenf Mr. Roosevelt called Secretary Morgenthau, congressional fiscal leaders and others into conference tonight to consider additional taxes in view of the defense pro gram. A treasury official said in advance of tbe conference that Morgenthau was taking many tax proposals to the White House "everything but the kitchen sink" as he phrased It. He declined, however, to say which plans, if any, bore the treasury's approval. Roosevelt Rules out Levy on Sales Mr. Roosevelt himself ruled out before the meeting began what many experts consider the most lucrative form of possible new taxation a general sales tax. The president, at a press con ference, said flatly he would not approve of a sales tax. Heretofore, the president and Morgenthau have criticised all forms of taxation which levy di rectly on 'consumers, although a number of excise levies on gaso line, automobiles, theatre tickets, and many other items have been enacted. Before the conference, the president said he did not expect it to produce any final conclu sions. He explained that the group was called merely to explore both the revenue and spending sides of the budget. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1-VP) -W a 1 1 e high school of Toledo. Ohio, scored twice in the fourth period tonight to defeat the Grant high school team of Port land. 20 to 13, before 10,000 per sons. The Toledo city champions, trailing 7 to 12 at the end of the third period, marched 63 yards to their second score and inter cepted a pass to aet up the third touchdown. Fallback Louis Sharkoff waa the sparkplug of the Toledo at tack, scoring the last two touch downs on line plunges and In tercepting the pass that paved the way for one of them. Grant, co-champion of Portland, scored first when Halfback Bob Morrison galloped 42 yards oft tackle in the second quarter. EUGENE, Ore.; Nov. ll-tfP)-University of Oregon opened its 1940-41 basketball season tonight by bowing to Signal Oil of Port land, aa independent team of for mer college stars, 41 to 41. Chuck Patterson, former Ore gon player, sparked the Tietorlous oilers, scoring 21 - points. , Vie Townsend, with 11 points,-'was high scorer tor the collegians. The oilers, most et them ex-Oregon State players, led 33 to 31 at halftime. CHICAGO, Not. 3$-JP-Before the greatest crowd ever to see a (Tarn to page X, column 1) . BODY TAKEN K ' T .. j i . ' A t -V The body of one of the seven victims la removed from tbe rulaa of Thursday' dlaaatrowe eiplosiow at Tnppenish. Wh., aa fire fighters battle the flames, A two-etory, hlork-loag reaest building waa blown to blta and rhaaka of cement throw ISO feet by the hlaat, caused by cm-apt ag gaa. AP Teletnat. Fireman Is Killed In Theatre Blaze Second Man Falls in With Roof but Found Unhurt Five Hours Later MADERA, Calif., Nov. 2-p-One fireman was killed and an other escaped serious Injury miraculously tonight battling a raging fire which destroyed the Madera theatre and five business houses located In the brick build ing. Fire Chief Jobs Brammer esti mated the damage at $160,000. The fireman killed was Clyde Haymond, 21, who fell into the in ferno with another fire fighter. Owen Barr, 28, when the roof caved In. ' After tbe blase was quenched nearly five hours later, Barr, sup posedly burned to death, was found practically unhurt beneath a pile of bricks la the center of the theatre. Firemen said one wall of tbe building had fallen on Barr and the bricks had protected him from the fire. They were at a loaa to explain how Barr had received only cats and bruises or how he managed to breathe. Haymoad's body was burned beyond recognition. He was tbe son of William Haymond, chief counsel for the Security Title and Guarantee company at Los Ange les. He waa a volunteer member of the department. Fear Is Felt for 25 Trapped, Mine CADIZ. O.. Nov. 29-AVBlMt-made rock falls tonight slowed down rescue crews as fears mount ed for the Uvea of 25 to 37 coal miners trapped far underground in Ohio's deepest shaft mine. Officials of the Ohio and Penn sylvania Coal company, operators of the mine eigbt mile northeast of here, said a recheck showed be tween 25 and 27 men In the blast area. .They esUmated reseuers would not reach the miners before 7 or 9 a.m. tomorrow. Caught without warning by a devastating explosion 444 feet jin derground and twa miles from aa exit shaft, wrekers la sac t ion "12 aorta" were cut oft from escape by deadly gas aad tons of reck, coal aad earth. Milwaukie Woman Heads Demo Unit PORTLAND. Nov. 3 --Mrs. Amaada Hart. Milwaukie. waa elected presideat of the Oregon Jackson dub, democratic society, last Bight. CoL C A. Robertson, West Sa lem, was elected vtee-presldeat la the first district aad Miss Era Nel son,. Pendleton, vice-president la the second district. WalUr McPherton Again Seekg Doorkeeper Pott Walter T. MePhersoa of Sa lem, senate, doorkeeper during the 1939 legislative session, an nounced yesterday that he would again seek the position. MacPhersoB said he had enough support to assure his election. FROM FLAMING BLAST DEBRIS A. X - i Blade of Grader May Have Caused Toppenish Blast TOPPENISH. Nov. 39-iAVl Teetlgators today, searching for the cause of the terrific explosion yesterday in the RichVy Gilbert warehouse building which killed seven and injured 14 persons, found a five-inch break in the gas main Just inside the rear wall of the structure. Mayor E. L. Bennett said the Investigators believed the gap was caused when a roadgrader work ing In the alley booked tbe main with tbe blade. The plpe.Vhe said, after being dug ap showed a two foot V-shaped bend. Prosecutor Lloyd Wiekl, who placed a police guard la the alley, said he believed the explosion had no effect on the pipe and that tbe bend was caused by the grad er as marks which could have been made by the blade showed clearly on the pipe. Roosevelt Talks Of Mystery Trip WASHINGTON. Nov. 39--President Roosevelt excited both surprise snd speculation today by telling reporters that he was plaa niag a trip next week to an a nan no a need destination aad that be might employ a plane to bring him back If an emergency devel oped and he could not reach Washington within 13 hours by train. Mr. Roosevelt has never ridden In a plana since he became presi dent and It has been generally be lieved that the secret service, which guards his movements, would not permit him to fly. Although he steadfastly de clined to reveal where he was go lag, it was thuogat he might voy age Into the Caribbean te look over defease establishments. There also was seme tslk of a continental defense tour. Japanese. Puppet Chinese Government Sign for Peace SHANGHA'L Not. 3t.-tfV General Nobsyukl Abe, Japaaeae ambassador, aad Waag Chlsg Wet, head of the Japanese-sponsored Chlaese government at Nanking, today aigaed a treaty et peace, Japanese reports reaching here said. The Wang government was set up March 33, 1944. under Japan ese auspices la epposltloa to the Chinese government la Chung king et Generalissimo C a I a ag Kal-hek. whose guerrilla forces apparently were responsible for the dynamiting of a Japanese-operated train bound for, Nanking yesterday. Between 100 aad 40t passengers were , reported allied or lajsred. Chiang Kai-Shek Ignored a "last exhortation sent aim by the Wiag go vera meat asking him to declare aa ax si la lie with Jap an. The Chaagklag spokesmen have declared a fight to the ead with Japan. Five coaches et the train were blasted from the tracks at Eoo- T a K Communists Slay Mexican Officer I Ineiilemt ktfnw.lm Hint nf I m a-e a a a a a o a a a aa u wav Further- Trouble for Camaeho Regime MEXICO CITY. Not. 20-;p-Major Gulllermo Garcia Gal legos was slain late last night aa " he tried to enter the offices of the communist party, where, police said, a "subversive meeting was being held." Police held 75 persons tor qaea tionlng and seised three rifles. 15 pistols, a bomb and a quantity of cartridges. The com m an is t headquarters la near the national palace and the incident, on tbe eve of the inauguration vC President-Elect Manuel Avlla Camacho, created a sensation. The successor to Presi dent Laxaro Cardenas recently de clared commoDlsts woald have no part la his administration. Police were reported Investi gating whether there was any link be twees this Incident aad others recently In the fiesta-minded city. taeiuomg one Tnursoay in rront of the United States embassy, aad whether they were part of aa or ganised movement to Incite anti United States feeling. Police also reported they had dispersed a small crowd which stoned a statue et George Wash ington In the downtown part of the capital. Therewere no arrests. (Turn to Page 3. Cel. 5) Senator McNary In Hospital but Condition 'Good' Senator Charles L. McNary, con fined at his home at Fircone since Sunday with aa attack of influenza, la now being cared for at Salem General hospital, his secretary announced last night. "His condition Is Improving, but his return to Washington has bean delayed. the secretary said. It was ease haalaed that there is bo occasion for alarm ever the sesator's illness. chew. about 54 miles west ot Shanghai, a third et the way to Naakiag. The traia wrecked at Soochew was followed two hours later by the Nanking express, which Jap anese military quarters said car ried all the Chinese aad Japaaese officials going front Shanghai te Nanking aad also a few foreign newspapermen. Whether those -en the second traia had reached Naakiag was not known here. There waa ae response 'to effort to clarify this at Nanking. -Details , et the acci dent were hidden by heavy cen sorship. While Japanese expressed be lief that peace would come from today's treaty-making their mil itary dispatches reported increas ingly heavy fighting against Chi ang Kai-shek's forces northwest ef Hankow, la Hupch. Chinese reports declared that 3444 Japaaese hsd tailed ln re (Tsm to page 3. col. I) King Reported Fleeing While Guardists Riot Pro-Nazis Flout Regime of Antonescu; Over 200 Said Purged Germans Bomb -London to See if Defense There Has Been Weakened By the Associated Pre German planes renewed heavy assaults on London and fierce civil strife costing maay lives continued in Romania Friday night. The heaviest attacks on Lon don in 10 nights left numerous casualties, wrecked homes aad buildings before the clear signal early today announced the end of the rain of heavy explosives and Incendiaries from planes srriring over one district at the -rate of two a minute. The raid apparently was de signed to ascertain whether Lon don's defenses had been sapped to strengthen such severely bombed provincial cities as Cov entry. Bristol and Liverpool. Meanwhile, reports filtering through a rigid censorship in Ru mania told of heavy lose ot life and there were varying accounts that lS-year-ofd King Mibal had fled as the Iron guard con tinned Ita revolt against the regime ef Premier Ion Antoaeseu. Antonescu. striving to quell the disorders with Rsmsnlaa and German troops, was reported to have opened fire with heavy gnns on the guardsmen whose support helped to elevate him to the pre miership following the abdication of 'King Carol. The pro-naxl iron guardists be gan their revolt with the aas- laatlon of 44 former Carollsts la Bucharest's JIUva prisoa esrly Wednesday. Since then their Ut of executions Is said te have passed 294 in the cspital and the provinces, Agirocaatro Prtre la A I baa La Battle In the Balkan war. an Indeci sive hand-to-hand straggle be tween Italians and Greeks for the key fascist base of Agirocastro, Albania, was reported by Greek sonrees. who said their troops had fought their way Into the city. Fierce-fighting Greek "Amn ions' were said, to have helped in the defeat of 3044 Italian t roots is mountains of Albania, but fas cist quarters la Rome aaaerted the Greeks advance had been halted and that Premier Museo Hnl's fascist armies were massing for a counter-offensive. An Associated Press correspon dent, writing his dispatch en a typewriter abandoned by a - flee ing Italian officer, sent est the first on-the-spot report of the capture ot Pogradetx, key fascist baae SSNpllea Inside Albania. In London. Informed quarters said Britain's gathering offensive In Mediterranean waters nota bly the claimed victory in Wed nesday's sea battle off Sard! a la had apparently smashed an Ital ian attempt to establish new lines of eomnsuaieaUoa with the Ital ian expeditionary forces la Africa. Brit tab OeaeBnasMl ef Kea Tightened The outcome ef tbe clash, in which the London admiralty de clared six fascist wsrsklps were damaged, was said te have strengthened British command of the Mediterranean, styled by Ital ians "mare nostrum" our sea. British sources said the Italian rieet was trying to create as al ternate sea route to reach I talis a Libya wbea It bamped unexpect edly into the vigilant patrol ot British men o war eft. Sardinia. The Italians w e t e presumably seeking to reinforce aad stimulate anew Marshal Rodolfo Gratiani s long-stalled offensive la Egypt. Aside from the Balk a a conflict and a devastating naxt aerial smash at Liverpool. England's thief westers port, the day's ac tion was chiefly navsL Beth Fleets Claim Victory bm Chaavael Paramount were: 1. A battle la the English chan nel between German aad British destroyers, la which both, sides claimed victory. 1. Italian naval bombard meat ot the British-defended Grecian (Turn to page 3. coL 1) Gritton Escapes Serious Harm as Oil Drain Bursts .. Boh Grittca. 34. 321 South 33d street,- aarrowly escaped de capltatioB yesterday wbea sa oil ffrcra he waa cutting with an electrie torch blew up and was tossed high la the sir. ; Gritton snJTered a torehesd est aa the heavy drum wca n?tg past his head. He was taken by first aid mea to a doctor for treat menu First Aid Captain Char lee Charltoa said Grittoa's clothes were almost completely blown eft by the explosion. The accident occurred at service station at Hlnee aad South 12th streets.