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Posit Homer Column Saturday Evening Reverie: Stepped oat of the warm print ery into the . foggy channel of Route SIE ,aad - started flying blind by the mnm f a m a 1 1 alone up steamy S Beerma ; Read.l With,- tear and? dismay we noted f t h e-t- -someone stole toe trumpet from the arms of; th; pasteboard herald on - our corner lamp rost and that there'll be no silent pip ing of Tnletlde in this corner. Took steps R " v and went past the late democratic headquarters, now for rent "with or without backroom." (See If the boys a backroom will have 7). -On Into, the fog and the fames and marveled at the hazy, mystic illusion fog brings. On Instruments and the neat of our pants alone banked and turned across Commercial on the beam, the green one, and did It again to go past a cigar store which; at least has half a wooden Indian. - Into the busy mart of trade and started to do our Christmas window shopping. Did this for a space but didn't spy a . thing. Sauntered past the; wrecked building that used to be Fanner hardware and noted that ceiling is still aero there. Get oat of the board fence area and paced past the Pittsburgh Plate Glass store where once a while back they were all out of plate glass. Like the tog with little cat feet stepped softly, softly past the bowling alley so we could hear a pin drop, r ; Reversed our field and tried the other side of the street where for the first time since we , can rememoer nonoay was closing out of business at great sacrifice. Across Commercial again (third crossing) and I through the corridors of firwood,., to Court street and found nothing new at Court ... . '. , Dotfa. and ho , the ramps of higtx-enrbed Court onto Liberty, where chain stores tolerate no weak links. ('.'Liberty, brightest in chains : thou art' to tear George Gordon, Lord Byron apart). Here where in the mad ding throng a man could almost walk .across their- close-jammed noggins and make them much madder we stuck to the ground. The fog swirled around our ears and we eased Into & mail order store to warm, them and look at electric trains (we - Just 1 wuv t wains)'- and for Santa Clans. Claus, coming under the 40 hour week, wasn't there. So back to window shopping around the block and 1b the lone lighted ' window In the First Na tional bank building we saw sU houetted . a late-working dentist, drill In, hand. Pretty late grind. Lower Rogue now. Plane Quest Area PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. The search for Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Walbert, Med ford, missing more than a week on a flight from Med f ord to Portland, swung toward the lower Rogue rtrer area today. Charles H. Pettlnger, llring near Illahe on the lower Rogue, renorted - that he liA&rd a i1aha flying through heavy fog a week ago Friday, the day the W alberta disappeared. . Two army , planes, returning from the unsuccessful search for the lost Medford fliers; Mr. and Mrs. C. E, Walbert, stopped briefly at the Salem airport yes terday.' a S A. .11 i. M m " - Am. j Airpon aueuaanis saia me army fliers were returning to their base at Pearson field, VancouTer, Wash., after giving up the search. Colliding Elected Episcopal Bishop CHICAGO, Dee ., 7.-(P)-The Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling of Germantown, Pa., tonight ac cepted this election as bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago. The new bishop elect, who at 44 is one of the youngest men oyer to be chosen as head of an Episcopal diocese as Important as Chicago, was selected on the second , ballot at a special . con tention Norember 18.' He will succeed : Bishop Oaorf Craig Stewart, who died last May. . v (tit. Ccmpatont tml tur mn4 itt ere . Sm fM iMtaM la mm Rllintt 'Oiiictv A. "fx New Chair, By Young i jP Drive to Enlist Youtli Support for IMinority ; Program Pledged '4 " , ... Principles Outlined in i Campaign Must Live, . Governor Insists Young republicans of Oregon pledged themselres to an aggres sive drive to enlist youth Into the .ranks of the nation' 11, 000,000 1 minority, of ; the last election, at their state federa tion's I .first- annual conTention here yesterday, and .delegated to their new, executive committee the. task Of formulating a definite pro gram for the next two years. - The contention elected Douglas Elliott, member of the Multno mah county republican executive committee, as , chairman , to suc ceed Paul E. Keny, who de clined to accept rnominat!on. -t The delegates at the afternoon mxnloi heard Gorernor Charles A. Bpragnev adjure them to keep their, organisation alert to ; the need of su porting the principles for which WendeU WUlkie and Senator Charles L. McNary fought at last month's national election : because "those are the principles which we bellare are fundamental The goTernof commended the" young republicans for their active part in the recent election and nrged them to maintain their en ergy and enthusiasm for the re publican cause. ... Two sharp parliamentary bat tles during the day ended with de feat of a proposal that the execu tive committee select the young republican national committee man and woman and adoption of s new. apportionment plan nnder which each eonntr will be entile? tqflen' convention delegates - plua an T additional one , for each, ten members. '"-' The convention rejected a res olution endorsing candidacy ' of Joe Singer of Portland for ser-geant-at-arms of the 1941 house of representatives' after it was ar gued that; the federation should take no part in such matters. Eagene was chosen as the I Ml convention city. Other officers elected were: - Assistant chairman. Ed Luckey, Eugene; vice-chairmen, first con gressional district, Talbot Ben nett, Hillsboro; second district, William Roblln, Hood River; third district, Alice Paine, Port land; vice - chairman at large, John N. Schofleld, Portland; sec retary, Carl H. Francis, Yamhill county; treasurer, A. F. Lefor, Eugene; national committeeman, Al Sulmonettl, Portland; national commltteewoman, Genevieve Rustvold, Marshfleld; executive committee, first district, Alice Lo gan, Salem, and Freeman Holmer, Eugene; second district, Del Hale, Deschutes county, and Ronald Rue, Hood River; third district. Marge Leonard and Denton Bur dick, Portland. ' v , Delegates to the young republi can national convention at Des Moines, la., next month will be Andrew i Newhouse, Marshfleld, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Travis, Hood River, and Ardis Richardson, Portland. i The convention closed last night with a dinner dance at the chamber of commerce. ' Honor guests Included State. Treasurer elect Leslie M. Scott, Attorney General I. H. Van Winkler and National Committeeman Ralph U. Cake and Mrs. Cake. . No Bretik in Sawmill Tieup; Lumber Scarce, Camp Murray PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. liPy Nearly 11,000 Pacific northwest lumber workers were Idle . today as Washington's lumber strike spread to one Oregon sawmill and threatened others. The Clark-Wilson plant, em ploying fiOO men, dosed here after CIO pickets, appeared early today and CIO longshoremen refused to past picket lines to ' load Cls.rk Wilson lumber for Baltimore aboard the freighter De Soto. j Thirty, seven western Washing ton sawmills and fire logging operations i were down , and AFL and CIO onion spokesmen said four anore mills, : two at Seattle and two near Renton, would be closed Monday, completing the tie up in the Seattle area. r Ten Seattle mills, which recent ly agreed to S-ent an hour wage increases, were closed without em ployes striking. .They refused to cross picket lines set up by Ever ett and Tacoma union ' members who protested against acceptance of less than the 7 H-cent an honr wage increase and one week's paid vacation demanded. ', - Portland - operators offered 8 eent increases, and vacations -and nnlon officials predicted the rank and file membership would accept the : terms at the B. F. Johnson Lumber company. This mill also offered vacations. . The Taxation .;'. . &.4ng Salem Gives &mvation,Armystatesman r una A very, young Miss Salem contributes .to-the Chrtstatas Cheer .Yuad which Is being raised by The Salvation Army with the cooperation of The Oregon Statesman. Mrs. Anna Lea, veteran Salvation Army worker. Is the bell-ringing guardian of the kettle. ; Contributions are also coming in to The Stateenuus offl6e Major ATJear of the Sal vatkm Army reports that receipts are about equal to those of last year. Contribution of food are also acceptable at the BalvaUoa Army headquarters, 241 State street Statesman photo. Juvenile Of fieers Rule City Monday Loren Hicks to Be Mayor, Steinbock Recorder! Council to Meet Without benefit of election the incorporated city of Salem Is go ing to have, a whole new slate of municipal officers Monday from mayor on down to dog catcher and none of them will, be old enough to tote.;;. . , , . Proclaimed by. Mayor Wi W. Chad wick as "DeMolay d ay," Monday, will see members of Che meketa chapter, DeMolay for boys, take over the city jobs, hold -a council meeting and wind up cele brations with a danee and crown ing of Pat Lamb, pretty high school lassie, as DeMolay sweets heart. - . v The destinies of the city -for one day will be in the hands of DeMolay Mayor Loren Hicks while Mayor W. W. Chad wick stands in the background. (Turn to Page 8, Cot. I) ' agreement was described by Leo Johnson, i company president, as experimental and equivalent to a lH-cent wage increase at his plant. .: ; ., ?, . . - . j v A lumber shortage already was felt at Camp Murray,1 Wash,, where contractors .said comple tion of the big northwest army base barracks might be delayed. EUGENE. Dec, T-(ff-The ex ecutive committee of the Willam ette valley district couricil of Lum ber and Sawmill .Workers (AFL), passed a resolution .today recom mending that local unions In the council start negotiations with em ployers for a wage increase of 7 tt cents an hour and a week's vacation each year with pay. The council, which met at Go shen, a small community south of Eugene, claims Jurisdiction in mills at Lebanon. Sweet . Home, Albany, Monroe, Eugene and Cot tage Grove in the valley and at several mills near Toledo and Val sets on the coast. - , v Eighteen -locals ' covering H mills and representing a member ship of approximately 1 2 0 0 men belong to the district council, W, O. Kelsay, president, said, - ' k Whether i action will be taken upon the recommendation of the executive committee is up to each local to decide, Kelsay declared. to Christmas Keist President Older Boys' Meet Jim Smith, Jim Jentxen Other Oiflcers; Dean Dnhach Speaker Calvin Keist of McMlnnville was elected president et the Old er Boys conference at Its list annual two-day- meeting, which closed hut night in the - senior high school. Over 100 boys at tended from about 10 high schools in the Willamette valley. Jim Smith of Salem was ehosen vice-president and Jim - Jentxen of Silrertony.: secretary... Dean U. G. Dubaeh of Oregon State college conducted- the morn ing session, at which time he gave an address and 'led a dis cussion ' about what youth . could do about the ' Dangers to our Democracy. Saturday afternoon was spent at a clinle at the Fair- view , home and in visiting the state penitentiary. The latter part of the afternoon was spent at the YMCA, where basketball, ping pong and " swimming were en- Joyed.- The Yamhill team won the basketball tournament. .The, highlight of last night's banquet was the address by Rev. W. Irvin Williams on "AtWr the '-(Turn to Page t, CoL 4) Cardinal Opposes War IiWolYement BOSTON. DJ. T.-CfVWllUam Cardinal O'Connell. declaring this nation should keep out 'of war and work for a permanent , peace, today - denounced 'propagandists for war" at home and "certain expatriates he . said were seek ing to have America "become a sort of tail-end of a foreign em pire!'.. ytsr!HH'i !-! f t. . "Not only .should we. keep out of war as the best thing 'or America' and Americans," said the dean of the nation's Roman Catholic hierarchy in an Inter view on the ere of his list birth day, "but we might well be turn ing our thoughts toward a speedy and permanent peace among the nationeT,.."' : t -.-v c; "Notwithstanding the t o - prevalent propaganda from , all aides, the hope - and prayer of the American people today is that we aaaU . be spared the horrors of war, .They : have taken for granted that the authorities ' at Washington v meant what they said and said what - they meant when they promised to keep us out . of war. ! mall Nations Urged; .;;Bispnte Arises " . Group of Women Donhts ri8dom,! Says V7onIcl r; f Ease Nazi Borden Uoover, Pershing Among Leaders in Movement -to Provide Food NEW YORK. Dec 7-iAVA "Na tional committee on food for the five small democracies" with For mer President Herbert Hoover as honorary chairman was formed today in order to "save millions from the "inevitable famine and pestilence which confront them." ' Coincldentally, opposition to the Hoover plan for feeding con quered populations 4n Europe," came from "21 outstanding wom en'Vwho said in a statement that America's- own national security would be endangered by any ac tion' making easier "Hitler's task In holding the small conquered na tions In subjection." - Among those listed as signers were Helen Hayes, actress; Mar garet Cnlkln Banning, author; Marion Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr college; Mrs. Sher wood Anderson, wife of the auth or; Alice Duer Miller, author; and C. Mildred Thompson, dean of Vas- sar college. Listed as members of the na tional food committee were .For mer Vice-President Charles G. Dawes and several cabinet mem bers In the Hoover administra tion; General John J. Pershing, CoL Theodore Roosevelt, former governor general of the Phllip (Turn to Page t. Col. t) I' j..,- m i i t i. Seek Expenditure Better Aerial Protection of Navy Is Purpose of New Proposal j WASHINGTON, Dec 7-a-)J-The navy, as a result of lessons learned from the European war, wants to spend approximately $300,000,000 for major Improve ments in the anti-aircraft j de fenses of its fighting ships. I - Announcing this today. Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, emphasised thai the present aircraft defenses of the fleet were good but said that; con templated alerationa would im prove them ; "The whole ' program Is! de signed to have our ships not! only abreast of requirements but ahead of them." Stark added. j The navy .department estimated that from five to six years would be required to complete the; pro posed alterations en ships already with : the fleet. Presumably, the Improvements would be Included in ships under' construction, i Secretary Knox recommended legislation to authorise the proj ect In a letter to the house naval (Turn to Page f, CoL I) Credits to Spain! -Being Considered WASHINGTON, Dec IMJSY- Dipiomauo negotiations involving possible' extension of credits to feed and rehabilitate Impoverish ed Spain are under way with the Franco- government. Secretary Hull disclosed today. .. The negotiations were viewed in tome quarters as an effort to aid Great Britain by weaning; Ma drid from the Rome-Berlin axis, or at least assuring that Spain would remain neutral fa the Eur opean war. t A report from Lisbon said that Alexander . Weddell, American ambassador to Spain, had offered credits on condition that Spain stay eat of the war and that while he had been unable to ob tain a public declaration of a neutral poUey' a compromise had bees reached by which Spain would ' advise this' country end Great Britain by. notes -that; It was not foreseen that Spain would enter the war.; i v - The ' credits, reportedly Slt$- ooff.ooo; to; 2jo,oo.tao, would be used to purchase foods and raw materials here em. the under standing , that none weald be transshipped to axis conntxiesu; t oris Felt ct Distance PASADZNA.. Calif.. Dec i-LT -An earthquake strong enough to do damage and with an epicenter about SI0 miles from here I was recorded at 2:15 p. m. today at the California Institute of Tech nology seismological laboratory. The epicenter may have been In the Gulf of California or some where In Baja California, Mexico, and probably was the one i San Diego reported was felt there at the same time, the laboratory said. Feeding S " !l II Gran Carnarvon Castle Puts ' ' : . .... ' - ...... . . . - -. ' k Into Port jbr Repairs Casualty list PossiBry 7 Dead and 22 Wounded; ; "Will Require 72 Hours to Restore Vessel to Duty; Battle Description Meagre MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 7 (AP) Hit by near ly a dozen shells from a German raider, the British auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon Castta pot Into Montevideo harbor later to day and her captain, H. 1L Hardy, declared his opponent 'ran away so badly damaged that she will undoubtedly be caught and destroyed.' Plan of Financial Aid now Discussed British to Use Resource While They Last, With ! Promise of Loans WASHINGTON. Dee. 7.V A two-point plan for financial aid to Great Britain Is being dis cussed, it was learned today, by highly p 1 a e e d administration aides, some of whom predicted that It would be adopted. The plan; 1. The British would use their own investments in this country to buy war supplies, as long as the investments lasted. S. The United States . would make a fiat promise to grant loans whev those British re sources were exhausted. (Some officials suggested that sueh loans might perhaps be backed by cer tain British collateral.) - As seen ' by . persons In i Influ ential ' positions, the situation is that -the British have enoagh money -to pay for ' their multi- billion dollar war purchases here for a year or more, but want to know where the money is going to come from after that. The British were said to have raised the Question of immediate loans in order to pin down future com mitments. The British view was said to .(Turn to Page 8. CoL I) Heaviest Bay Fog In 2 Years Lif ts After Three Days SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. t-iJPi-San Francisco saw the sun again today after groping for IX hours through Its heaviest for in two years. . Lifting of the thick, white mist brought happiness to ship, skip pers and plane pilots and enabled motorists once mere to see the end of their engine hoeds and find the toll plasas of San Francisco's two great bridges. It was a release also for police and highway patrolmen, nervous ever the threat on the highways, and for the coast guard, charged with the ssfety of traffic on the bay. Airlines and ships first felt the Inconvenience three dsys sgo when a cottony cloud poured In through the Golden Gate and spread over San Francisco and the entire bay region. Planes were grounded at San Francisco and Oakland airport at intervals thereafter, and used the Iivermore airport. ' Ships movements were almost paralysed. Immediate American Aid Is . Promised to Greece by FDR WASHINGTON, Dec 7-iP-Em-battled Greece has been promised Immediate American assistance, in an exchange of messages between President Roosevelt and King George H. and high Quarters in dicated tonight that the aid would include warplanes. . Mr. Roosevelt's message, made public by the state department, did net specify the form in which help would be given, simply pledg ing King George that "steps are being taken" to provide assistance in line with "the settled policy et the United States to extend aid to those governments and peoples who defend themselves against agrression. ' From the Greek legation and high Americas sources, however, came indications that' warplanes. urgently needed because of the overwhelming Italian odds in the sir. were first on the list. ! Ctmon Diamantopoulos. ti Greek minister, requested assist ance in securing warplanes and other war weapons and materials three weeks ago in discussions with Eamaer T.rellcst, undersecre tary f state..-..' After Mr. Roosevelt's xaessaru was made public, as official atU.e Creek, legitioa said that Creeca e - 7 an "'I Huur '. Gap Mm- He declined, however, to disclose-how many of his own sailors had been killed by the German shells. Other details of the hour and a half battle Thursdsy like wise remained hidden behind "ad miralty silence." However, unofficial estimates of casualties ranged as high as seven dead and IS injured. It was learned authoritatively that a Uruguayan naval commis sion reported after a survey that the ship would require at least TS hours to repair damages. She was said to have two hits at the waterline. four near the waterllne and another directly on the ex haust line, which was out of com mission. Graf Spee Drama's Anntvciss.iT Near The bulky merchant cruiser put Into Montevideo harbor a week less than a year after the Ger man raider Admiral Graf Spee arrived. The Graf Spee was blown up by her own commander in . the har bor rather than engage British warships waiting for her to leave this refuge. . -...v . - t - "The right side of the Carnarvon Castle showed a dosea. hits Some Of these were en her broadside. One struck the starboard part of (Turn to Page S, CoL 7) Barton, Cromwell Campaigns Costly WASHINGTON. Dec 7-VA total of I47S.9ST was spent on their campaigns by SS candidates for St senate seats at stake in the recent election. A surrey of reports filed with Edwin 8. Halsey, secretary of the senate, shows the largest expen diture was that of Rep. . Brace Barton, New Tork republican, whose unsuccessful campaign against Democratic Senator James 1C Mead cost SC.7. Mead re ported he spent SS4t4. James H. R. Cromwell, demo crat, listed, expenditures of S24, 134 in his unsuccessful contest tor the) senate seat of Senator Barbour (R-NJ). Cromwell list ed contributions of MS, ISO while Barbour- reported contributions of I47.4SS to his campaign, highest reported up to now.- . Bonneville Powers Second Industry PORTLAND. Ore., Dec 7-s)-The second industry drawn to the northwest by Bonneville power went into production yesterday. The 10-acre factory of the Pa cific Carbide and Alloys company poured the first load of molten carbide from an electric furnace. The plant win take TOO kilowatts of Bonneville power tor two years, and then will Increase to 2900 kUowstts, bees promised sny kind of help It wants. .Warplanes were the major Item, he added, but em phasised that lis country had bees gives wide latitude is selecting whatever the United States had available in the category el war weapons or supplies. The United States presumably Is In s position to provide Greece with some warplanes and a limited amount ct surplus army weapons without seriously iaterf eriag with American defense reaairements and the Cow of war weapons of ail kinds to Great Britain. Americas military officials, however took the view that the primary responsibility et deciding whether planes and guns could be spared rested with Greece's ally. Great Britain. - , At the capitoL there were gen eral expressions of approval of Mr. Roosevelfs message i "Greece haa been wantonly and wickedly attacked, Senator King (D-Utah) said. asd any aid we can give her will help democracy." The t real dent's promise to. aid was eoatjiaed la a mess-ars la which he acknowledged the appre ciation of King George for help already received from the Amer ican Red Cross. Avers SsizsBelvino, . Qosa in Upon . Argirocastro Drooping Italian Morals Further Indicated by Production Prod Second High. Army Chief "Resigns" While Rubs Rnmhlings Heard (By The Associated Press) ATHENS. Dec. S.-(Sunday)- -Greek soldiers, shouting the new battle cry, Tirana by Christ mas, have taken Delvino, about It miles northeast et the sewry captnred town of Porto Ed da and are dosing on the abandoned Italian base of Argirocastro, it was reported early today. The Greek high command re ported the capture of the town and said Its soldiers had fought "successful local engagements' tnlnit fhm Italians at Tarlaua points along the front from the sea to the Tagoslav frontier. TJwIaAWM .. mmm 4s Van l" V "" en, iovui s us v aa All Italian bases in southern Albania now are behind the Greeks except Argirocastro. and the Greeks are dosing In on that Italian forces ' were said to have abandoned the inland base, leaving part of It in flame, and converging Greek vanguards were reported already .t. bare estab lished contact, ready to push in. (Although each day's advances ebb in Italy's reversed Invasion, Greek soldiers apparently" have eat out e big order for them selves with ambitions to be in Albania's capital in less than three weeks. (Tirana Is SO miles straight north of Arigroeastro but they are separated by wild mountains in an almost roadless country. (If the Greek hope is fulfilled. It seems more likely that It will be done by mountaineer troops on the northern, front. A Greek spokesman said today that they, were advancing toward Elbasini. 25 miles from Tirana, along the Pogradets-Klbasanl road and up the Devo river valley. , This further Greek victory claim in the drive north after the retreating Italians came after official word from Washington that the United states would give material aid to little Greece. - Italy dropped another et her high-ranking generals amid other steps designed to. improve her war machine, dented by the Greeks. ' Brigadier General Cesare Maria de Yecehi Count Di Val Cixaon. commander et the Aegean forces and governor of the Dodecanese islands, was replaced by General Ettore Bastico, commander of the army of the Po, trained in blitzkrieg warfare. At home the fascist regime or dered heavy penalties for Italian farmers who withhold production from compulsory storsge and for mine owners who fall to speed up operations. : Food Shortage May Help Explain Unrest ' The ' resignation of De Teechl came a day after Marshal Pletro Badoglio resigned as chief of staff in favor of General Ugo Cavallero. . What led to these sudden changes was . sot said is Rome, but in the United States s week ago a department of agriculture study noted a growing food short age in Italy for one thing, and ob servers here had remarked alae that Britain's position is the Ma-, dlterraneean had been consider ably strengthened within the last five weeks by the Greeks. Th Dodecanese-islands lie be tween Crete, now held ly the British, and the Turkish - coast and there have bees reports occa sionally front the tsUns thx restlessness prevails. 'The cabinet's decision to pen allxe recalcitrant farmers was made Dec S, but was naij pb lie only today. For aay firaer withholding his prodactloa from storage, it provided teprtsoataent for s year and the eonfsk&tlsn cf his crop. ..' Only last Thursday aa t -r?e-meat by which, Italy underlet tj help feed Germany was asrs-sc-ed here. Italy was to increase ter exports of fresh and dried rt ro tables, fruits, cheeses and wines to meet the neds cf a Ceraazy deficient la these products. Germany alio was to get ver tables, seed, forage -and i!veiccS for treed'sg. . Promised ty tM Germans were efforts for a st&l li'-l rtsrfcet and the improver. ? r t of lu:.o.a sfrkaltart geseraJ.:?. .A ' British : broadcast, c,3CJrr neutral sources, said today Ce era! Cavallero was to confer (Turn ts Pare-", C:L I) J
