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First la Pictures - Two world-wide plctaro - ser rices ud The Statesman's w staff photographer " makes this newspaper leader in the field of illus trated' news. WeatBcr . - ... Cloudy with local rain today a a d Friday, llttlo change la temperature. Has. temp. Wednesday, 86; mtn.j 48. Southeast wind, River, S.0 ft. : lUTtLTULTU YEAB Salom. QraqoBu Thursday Morning. D6nbr .5. 1940 Fries) Zct Iwsstands 5c 17a. 2X3 r . PSUNDDO lOdl i .-, ' ..." -. .. -- . . ! .Die Ih tee Ear.. 'Paul Hauter9 Column If you can Judge by the signs and portents of th times, and those cedar wreaths across the streets are pret ty good signs and portents, the post : office de- if partment's an-H nual headache Is f about to start. H We don't know I W U V iU v Christmas cards, but whoever did 1 v wasn't making ' life any easier I for the postman, I 'who: has enough I r trouDie getting bit by dogs all raol B Bnmt. iz year around. It isn't only the poor postman who suffers, packing around a bunch of cards which will just be torn open and tossed on the li brary table, it's the- people who buy Christmas cards. Tbeip are bigger battles fought around the Christmas card counters at the stationers than ever got into the military textbooks. Tou are in selecting a few cards for those people you simply MUST remember and you see one with an appropriate little Terse like; 'Merry Christmas, Merry Christ. Panama Canal's on an isthmus." You reach out to get it and Just as you do, somebody slaps your wrist and grabs it away in one fell swoop. Tou hare to be content with one which only says: 'Wishing you Christmas cheer, W ish I had a bottle of beer' But the chief torments of the Christmas card are reserved for the recipients. Not only do they have to read the literary gems which the cheer giving cards customarily carry, but they have also to figure out who the deuce the card is from. Ton open your mailbox and you take out an envelope, glee fully tearing it open with the never-dying hope it may contain a check for 12500 or news that your rich uncle has bequeathed you a somewhat more substantial amount with no strings. Sure,, it's a Christmas card. Well, you're bappy to be remembered by your friends and you read through the verse urging you to be of good cheer and finally come to what was obviously intended as a sig nature. Tou look at It for a moment and It still looks like the death mark of the Choctaw tribe. Tou turn it upside down and it looks like even less. You view it from all sides and even hold the paper up to the light and inspect it in reverse. It may mean something to somebody, but somebody's not you. No yon pat It away with the other Christmas cards, but every once in a while yonr little mind returns to the problem and yon keep trying to figure out who sent the darned thing and won. deting If yon sent one to him. Or It may be a nicely printed or engraved card, all fancy with an artistic snowy etching and costing no less than five bucks a dosen. Very pretty, and down at the bottom is engraved "Seasons Greetings from Hortense and Horace." You rack your brain trying to remember any couple who have brushed by your life named Hor (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Axis and French . Parley Foreseen BERN, SwlUerland, Dec. 4-(j!P) A conference between foreign ministers of the Rome-Berlin axis and France to seek a "post-armistice bnt pre-peace" settlement was reported imminent in diplo matic quarters here tonight, Pierre Laval, vice premier and foreign minister of France, was expected to meet both Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop of Germany and Foreign : Minis ter Count Galeasso Ciano of Italy this week or early next week, possibly in Munich, to smooth out points of friction. Italian reverses in the war with Greece were reported to be one of the main reasons for the con ference at this time. Italian de mands on the French empire have been one of the main barriers to closer cooperation . between the Vichy government and the axis, while ; German attempts to per. suade Italy to lower : those . de mands were unsuccessful until the Greek war began, editors In Berlin and Rome were informed. Ikmm f rv9 Chrit Jlt will ! prUt Vaf 8u V ft Tfcniliilihg jij&lf Premet TakeiT As Greeks Hit Italians Hard South Central Albanian City Falls in Heavy Fightin; Capture of Porto Edda, Argirocastro Is Expected (By the Associated Press) Capture of Premet, in south central Albania, in fighting which cost the Italians heavily was an nounced today by the Greek mili tary command, a new triumph following fast on a Greek spokes man s report that the fascist forces already are fleeing north ward from the southern base cities of Porto Edda and Arglro- castro. The. spokesman indicated that Italy apparently has given up hope of holding the two latter cities, The Greeks plunged on deeper into Albania and in Athens the capture of Porto Edda and Arglro- castro was expected momentarily, The Greeks said their soldiers were in the outskirts of Porto Edda, the southern fascist exit to the sea and named after Musso lini's daughter. Twenty miles north, the Greeks said, the Ital ian supply center of Arglrocaetro was In peril of capture, Rumania Signs New Nazi Pact While the Greeks thrust Mus solini's men back along the front, Mussolini's axis partner, Adolf Hitler, fashioned new ties with Europe; and the axis opponent, Britain, was laying a firmer foun dation by a trade and financial agreement with Turkey The agreements were reported simultaneously wttn an unofficial nnrMtlnn In tha Ri-itlah hmn. I of commons that Britain appeal to the United States for war- f3hips to guard British convoy (Turn to page eoL 4) Salvation Army's Ts 11 nn 1 i Dens a-iinKiing Christmas Kettles Start to Boil as Lists Are Made of Needy The tinkle of the Salvation Army's Christmas bells and the tinkle of coins dropped into the Army's Christmas kettles will be a permanent part of the pre-Christ- mas atmosphere in Salem's shop ping district for the remainder of the season. The kettles were on the streets Wednesday for the first time in mid-week and will be on hand every week day until Christmas. Previously the kettles had been out only on the last two Satur days so that any comparison of cated to relief, exclusive of appor- coordinate Christmas Cheer ao receipta with those of last year is tionments to cities and counties, uyjue, 0f tne many organisations premature, but the indications, in- The latter allocations amounted i---..-. --v .Vtiritfa wr decisive though they are, point to greater generosity on the part of the public this season. Meanwhile the preparation of the Army's list of families destined to receive Christmas baskets of food Is proceeding. It is already apparent that there will be no lack of deserving families. One trend that is noticeable, is that this year thA n11?ht tvf these families la not so much the result of mere unem- ployment, as of illness which pre- vents the family breadwinner from working. In an unusually large iunnliM tt tha lftra tha A rm has received, sickness is men- o- -" tioned. The Oregon Statesman's fund which will be turned over to the Salvation Army to assist in the I purchase of food articles to go Into (Turn to rage z, col. z.j "Only a Miracle Can Keep Us Out" Says Senator Johnson SAN FRANCISCO, Dec t-GPV- Ameiica is headed straight - for participation in Europe's war, and only a miracle can keep ns out," Senator Hiram W Johnson warned Interviewers today. "There la no doubt that the United States will go to war," the-veteran isolationist declared. Those in command are perfectly mad to be In the game.' " Senator Johnson, elected last November to his fifth consecutive terra by the largest vote eer east for. a single California candidate. came home for the Christmas holidays and to visit his grandson, seriously ill In a hospital here. He predicted congress would soon see a drive for repeal -Of the Johnson set, his t own . measure which prohibits loans to nations in default on previous debts. , Without predicting outcome of the drive. Senator Johnson assured that "I hope to make a few of these mad hatters realize .they have to fight." . O '.Those In command" who want to get Into the war "will take us In when the time la-perfectly pro pitious from their . standpoint,' l.?'?., r ? t,V"-7--i Lord Wool ton (above), Britain's food minister, warned Britons in London that more shipping would be diverted from food importation to military purposes in order "to carry oar forces oversea." Income From Rum Tops $10,000,000 Annual Take Higher Than Previous Income of the state liauor con I ,i mJ.aJ .,- ,n J u n e aggregatea 110.235, 543. 3Z, as against 19,-1 545,944.12 for the p r e v 1 ous 12 months, the nnual report of the commission released here Wed nesday disclosed. Operating revenue for the last fiscal year totaled 13,383,368.05 compared to 32,864,861.03 the previous year. Of the net revenue for the fis cal year ended June 30, 1940, the commission contributed 13,370,- 273.55 for public assistance. The store divieion contributed $2 717,052.85, the license division $208,630.87 and the privilege tax division $444,589.83. Cities and town received addi tional funds of $122,970.90 from the privilege tax division. The aggregate turnover of $3,- 493,244.45 for the fiscal year ex ceeded allocations of the previous 12 months by $766,405.18. During the 6 hi year period the commission has been in operation, from January, 1934, to June 30, 1940, net revenues aggregated $13,930,884.60 have been alio- to $665,374.70. There are 26 state liquor stores and 150 liquor agencies under the Jurisdiction of the commission. McNary to Return To His Home Soon senator cnaries Mcwary ex- pects to be able to return to his home later this week from Salem General hospital w h e r e he has i j ueeu uutlBr!SWB treatment for the grippe. The senator's condition is much Improved but it is considered ad- visable for him to remain at the I hospital for a day or two longer, nis pnysician saia. said the veteran senator. "We will probably lend money to England after this country gets into the war, regardless of the little act bearing my name," John son said. "The sad part of it is that re quests for money are not coming so much from England as from the American foreign legion that group of Americana living In this country who do anything and everything foreign countries want. "It the United States . really wants to get into the war, there is a mode prescribed by the con stitution that permits it. ? What I object to Is as being eased In by groups who are deliberately hid ing their designs. : T "If they want war and have the people behind, them, let them de clare tt and stop this hypocrisy. : - "No. man can lend another the amount' of money necessary to save him from financial ruin but what he becomes, pretty black in the other fellow's book. We fought one war, paid the cost of it, and afterward, the world called" us 'Uncle Shylock. X don't want any more of It." . -, l:-: - X X I . -A T - ' II " l I 1 ill , .British Loans Viewed Nearer In Speculation Jones Declares England Is "a Good Risk" -for Money British Treasury Official to Confer Here With Morgenthau WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-(JP) Speculation on the possibility of loans to Great Britain reached new heights in Washington to night, following two striking de velopments: (1) Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce and federal loan, ad ministrator, tersely remarked that England is "a good risk" for loans. He added that ordinarily he favored lending money "to good risks when they need it for a proper purpose." (2) Secretary Morgenthau an nounced only a few minutes later that Sir Frederick Philips, the undersecretary of the British treasury, was arriving in the Unit ed States today to "place the lat e s t available information (on British finances) before the treas ury." Later, Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the federal reserve hoard said that in a speech No vember 28 in New York, he had asserted : "I believe that congress, in considering all the interrelat ed elements of the monetary pic ture, should consider whether or make as a means of aiding tne tirmsn, taking as collateral their gold, as well as their security holdings here, in Canada or elsewhere. Eccles released what he termed a "full and correct text of nis speech before the national Indus- trial conference board. He said he was doinr this because "in correct and misleading accounts had- appeared. ' - Senator Advisee 'War-time Pace Another major development bearing on aid to Britain occurred when Senator George (D-Ga.), new chairman of the senate for eign relations committee, told re porters that United States war materials factories should be placed on a 24-h6ur day and the whole arms production program (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Christmas Cheer Activity Planned Council Will Coordinate Work of Agencies to Hit Duplication Arrangements for a more com- am etwn iwaeMn r Ii S II fifties ??JZZ?J:X Z Z worked out at a meeting of the Salem communltv Chest council of BOeui agencies with represent atives of s number of these organ izations on Wednesday night at the chamber . of commerce. Early next week, probably on MnndnT tho nnncll of social 'Fenc1!1 Kwlu ,opn an f". office, every organization engaged In a Christmas Cheer program is (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Oregon GAR Chief All Set for More PORTLAND, Dec. 4-jPV-Com- mander Theodore A. Penland, 95, of Oregon's Grand Army of the Republic was all set today to live 30 years more. He pointed with pride to his blood pressure and quoted physi cians of a mldwestern sanitarium on the 30-year question. "But yon never know, he said, modestly. "I might go tomorrow. The GAR leader visited a son in Illinois and attended the an nual reunion of Civil war vet erans at Springfield where a newspaper took his picture' snr ronnded by a bevy of Boston beauties. With him on his return were some full-length x-ray prints and a letter Informing him that "the physical examination was very good. Blood pressure Is 11076, which la, we would say. excellent. Ton may be congratulated.. Colds Increasing School Absences Number of absences due to ill ness increased somewhat In Salem schools yesterday; although no of ficial check was made. Colds re mained the most- prevalent trou ble, and tt was advised that pupils having colds remain at home. f : The senior high school reported approximately 350 students out ye8terdayr and-at Highland about 100 of an enrollment of about 350 were not In school. - - rAf ft V 1 , i IV w iMaTl'iVfisI ' - 1 - . - -t k"in ii n 1011 ii . v ' 7-rnv - -v - kiZZu; " -: -:- In a Jovial mood. President Roosevelt waved to Miami crowds as -he aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa. and Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, formerly of Salem, all of operatives President's Ship Along Cuba Coast Destination Is Secret; Patrol Planes Dip Over Cruiser ABOARD USS MAYRANT AT SEA. Dec. 4 - (AP by Radio) -President Roosevelt cruised along the Cuban coast today on the first stage of a trip -into the Caribbean sea, where he was expected to inspect some of the naval and air bases recently acquired by the United States from Great Britain. The sea was smooth, the weath er was sunny and the temperature was in the 80's. The only ships sighted were several American freighters, one Honduran and one British. Two of the US neutrality pa trol seaplanes from the Guanta n&mo naval base dipped over the cruiser Tuscaloosa on which the president was enjoying the sun shine and salt air after a good sleep. The Tuscaloosa, escorted by the destroyer May rant and Trippe, averaged about 30 knots during the night. The president's destination i mained s secret. When he left Miami, rla., yesterday he a nounced he would sail Into the Caribbean and that there would not be much fishing. Soldier Swallows His Wrist Watch EL. PASO, Texas, Dec. 4-UPh- A United States army private was recovering from an operation to night after swallowing his large wrist watch. The Fort Bliss soldier was nicked up by authorities at Juarez, across the Rio Grande. He got the idea they might try to take his watch away from him so he put it in his mouth. Officers took the soldier to jail and one of them began lecturing him in Spanish. Not being able to understand,' the American de duced that they wanted him to open his mouth and give up the watch. Instead he swallowed It. The Juarez officer Immediate ly sensed that something serious had happened. He started the sol dier on the Journey to the hospital here and an operation was per formed as quickly as possible. Britain Will Get Reminder, of Debt Still on Ledgers WASHINGTON, Dee. 4-Af-A reminder will go to Great Britain In a day or two that an Item of about a billion and a half dollars of unpaid World war debt compli cate the current problem of fi nancial assistance from the Unit ed States.. 'j' With, no hope of collecting any thing, the state department is preparing the semi-annual notice to Britain and other war, debtors of the amounts duo this govern ment on December II. Tha "regrets' that has come back from- Britain In the -past several years stand' as. a barrier now to any private loans in the United StateCV - The reason! Is the Johnson act, a measure sponsored in congress in 1934 by the veteran republican Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali fornia, who declared today he was resting up tot a fight at he next session against expected moves to repeal it ..: . FDR STARTS CARIBBEAN CRUISE At his right stood Brig. Gem. K. Four Meals a Day All for Free and He's in Army now SHREVKPORT, La,, Dee. (iP)WlnfieId Farmer, a draf tee, had the spirit, and. Harry A. Booras, draft board member and cafe owner, had the way. Farmer, a OS-pound fellow, 23 years old, was among the first to volunteer for military duty in his draft board area, bnt two weeks ago the doctors ' rejected htm mm being nnder weight."V . So Booras, seeing tears in Farmer's eyes, ordered the boy to 'report to his restaurant for for meals dally free. Today Farmer, weighing 107 and with a new sparkle in his - eyes, was mustered in among' the first SO to go from Caddo perish and will report for a year's service at Camp Beaure gard tomorrow. Insurance Fraud Arragnment Set Agent Who Insured Span, Failed to Report, Free on Bail SEATTLE, Dec 4-(fl)-Hallett K. Frencha arraignment m su perior court on a grand larceny charge involving a huge insur ance policy on the wrecked Nar rows bridge was set today for Friday. The 44-year-old northwest gen eral agent for the Merchants Fire Assurance company of New York was free under 11500 bond, posted by a friend after his arrest yes terday at his home in the exclu sive Broadmoor district. -- French Is charged with keeping the 11217 premium on a $160,000 policy on the Narrows bridge, and never reporting the policy to his company. Deputy Prosecutor Charles- C. Ralls said French ad mitted also the same procedure on an additional $(50,000 Nar rows policy and on $800,000 of insurance on the Lake Washing ton floating bridge. In an ironic development in the case, an official In New Tork dis closed that tha company had taken $10,900 reinsurance on the Nar rows Bridge zrom a company which issued another policy on the bridge. Walter F. Brady, vice-president of the company, revised downward to $200,000 the estimate of what the firm might be set back under the policlea written by French. Wailwoad" Waif's Mother Is Found, Mystery Is Closed PORTLAND. Ore., Dee. 4-JV- Five-year-old , "Johnny, . Port- laad's wallwoad yards' waif, waa reunited with his mother today, thereby clearing up several de tails. . . . : - Johnny's name, police , learned, ia - John Uelvla : Kiaer and,,., not John NygardV,"' ' " He is five and not six the str waa Johnny's estimate. I Bnt his home Is Tacoinaw ' - John, " who told officers his home waa the waiwoad yards, was found there by a transient at a.nw. Tuesday, huddled under blankets besides two suitcase. He said his mother had gono "uptown.- -.."V .:. - - , :t-y The ' transient fed the ' young ster, then called officers who turned him over to police matrons. The. matrons; and Johnny found the relationship mutually accept started a cmlte of the Caribbean M. Watson, presidential secretary, tbent snrronnded by secret service Army Pilots Join Search for Fliers Walbert. Pair Are Still Missing as Fog Hides Mountain Areas PORTLAND, Dec. 4-JP)-The army tonight authorized pilots to join the search for Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Walbert. Oregon fliers miss ing since Friday on a flicbt from Med ford to Portland. Ninth corps; area headquarters at San Francisco announced that the commanding officer of the air corns detachment at Vancouver barracks had been glen the necessary authority. Pearson field at Vancouver barracks has only two planes available for 'the task, and the air officer could not bereached to night to learn whether they would join other planes In the search. The search centered on the air route north of Tiller, near Med ford, today as reports from trap pers and woodcutters in the rug ged, isolated area indicated that the plane had passed over there late Friday. C E. Puekett. a Rock Creek resident of the same district, said the light plant was flying low in a northeasterly direction. Although fliers under the direc tion of Capt. Leo G. Davaney, state aeronautics director, searched from bases at Medford, Roseburg and Eugene, fog over most sec tions of western Oregon obscured. the ground. Mail Qrder Firm Picketed by AFL OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 4-JPh- The main western offices or the Montgomery Ward company were picketed by two AFL unions to day in what union leaders de scribed as the first major move to organize and obtain working agreements with the mail order and retail store concern s 11-state western division. The walkout by AFL retail clerks and warehousemen was against both the western division mail order center and the Oak land retail store. The store shut down in the morning, but was re opened after noon. It was the sixth Montgomery Ward store in the far west to be picketed. Five stores in northern California have been struck, and pickets were placed before the company's Boise, Idaho, store al though no strike was called there. able they rejected all offers of adoption, bnt accepted gifts . of clothing and food that poured in after- newspapers printed his pic ture.. ' V .. His mother, Mrs. Leo Davis, ex plained that .her husband was. in Taeoma but . that she- left there Mondsy on .bus tickets provided, by Tacoma police officers to Yisit her family at Union. Ore. - . Arriving here, she left the hoy in the railroad . yard . while " she sought . transportation " to. Union. Shortly - before , she . reported . at the police station, an uncle, CXair Nelson, telephoned from . Union that he-would be is to-take charge of tha lad. ; - " " ' Meantime,' Johnny and his mother, were guests of the city while police ' sought further aid tor the needy pair. - Drops in Lot Only 2 Blocks From Airp ort Mainlincr, Had . Circled Over Chicago Field ' .28 Minutes ' ': L" ;: " ' - Ship Grazed House, Hit Power Line, Garage v in Its Fall CHICAGO. Dec. 4-(S3)-Six per sons were killed and ten injured when an inbound United Airlines plane crashed and burned within two blocks of the Chicago air port tonight. Two of the injured were re ported In a critical condition. : The mainliner. arriving from Cleveland and the east with IS passengers and a crew of three, was reported by witnesses to have grazed a buildlng.tbrushed against; a power line, hit a . garage and landed in a vacant lot. Flames immediately enveloped the plane.' - A light snow waa falling' and weather reports told of one mile visibility and a ceiling of 1200 feet as the pilot circled the field preparatory to a routine landing. Early reports-- from Investiga tors left the definite cause of the accident undetermined. The company reported that the dead were: Captain Philip Scott. Chicago, the pilot, a veteran of eight years of service. First Officer George 8. Toung, Chicago, the co-pilot. Lee F. Hanleleine, Chicago, di vision superintendent of reserva tions for UAL. Wilbert J. Austin. Cleveland, president of the Austin company, engineers and builders. S. W. Moore, US ordnance en gineers, Cleveland. ' Miss Jane Selby, Chicago. Ten-Injured Are Listed The list of injured waa given ' as follows: . Charles WV Manville. Cleveland, general sales manager. National Refiners company. F raetared skulL Condition critical. Stewardess Florence Little, 22. Chicago. Condition critical, basal skull fracture, internal injuries. Owen M. Frederick, Olmstead, Ohio, civilian engineer, US army engineers, fractured shoulder, broken nose, jaw, face lacera tions. George Haig, SO, Cleveland. Sherwin-Williams company. Frac tured arm and singed hair. Paul Ryan. 40, Cleveland, president. National Refiners company, leg, arm and head In juries . T. F. Paulsen, Wilmetiee, III., fractured skull, leg and nose. Rolllston G. Woodbury, New Tork banker, . fractured leg, deep scalp wound, lacerations on both hands. Leo Wolins, S 7, Chicago. Brok en clavicle, lacerations. Richard R. Petti te. . Bos ton la, CaliL. attorney. Fractured, spine, ribs, right. clavicle, concession of brain. . - Keller F; Melton, Chicago. WPA safety engineer. .Fractured collarbone and pelvis, possible skull fracture. The mainliner, with 12 passen gers and a crew of three aboard. dropped about a block and a half from the airport about 4 p. m. (PST) while snow was falling. Witnesses reported that the plane, in-bound from Cleveland and the east, ticked a three-story apartment building with its wing, brushed against power lines sup ported by a steel pole, smashed against - a small garage - and plumped to the earth a few feet from a row of houses. Flames Spread From Gaa Tanks - The nose was pushed back into the fuselage, they added, and flames spread from the gasoline tanks. A UAL spokesman stated that the ship had circled .the airport for 28 minutes waiting 'for the - traffic control department to give, it clearance to the airport. George Anthony, who lives In the apartment building, said the structure was jarred. He rushed out, he added, and saw the air liner burning. The flames, fed by gasoline, were extinguished by firemen. . . t- - ,-' Mrs. Forest Reader, who lived v (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7.) Lato Sports SEATTLE; Dee, 4-CVThe Van couver Lions stepped Into the lead in the Paelfie coast hockey league race tonight by defeating the Seat tle Olympics 5-2. SPOKANE, WuL, Dee. 4-LTV- The : Spokane Bombers pushed their Pacific coast hockey league, winning streak to four straight to night by defeating the Portias d Buckaroos, 2 to 2, in one of - the roughest games ever seen on the Spokane Ice.. . f - SAN JOSE, Dec. 4-CTV-Saa Jose State ."officially' wound up Its 1940 football campaign today by naming an all-c;ionent team tor the season jzst completed. .- Tee au-opyoaent team selected included' Tony Fralola, -guard, Willamette university. n n n v r r i i i '. " ''" -- -"-'.5- '
