- -. : - - Ita Complete - "Watch your Oregon State. aaaa. See bow it cover the j . news completely, presents It interestingly each day ' with due attention to local happenings. 7eatner Fair with valley foe to day; partly, cloudy, unset tied Wednesday, Max. temp. Monday. 47, mln. S2. North east 'wind. RJver Z.4 feet. Partly cloudy. i ! NTNITIETn YEAB Salens, OngoxuTumtdaf .Morning,. December 10, 1919 Price) Sc IZimstandm 5c XTo. 213 - .O- V ..' ' 0 V Psundso. 1651 N - TITIY lnn Pickets Close Two Sawmills At Warrenton Strangers S e t up Line, Workers Won't Pass; j $o Agreement yet . Seattle Mills Reopened After Fog and Court 1 Remove Pickets ASTORIA, Ore., Doc -JP)- striking Pacific northwest lum br and sawmill workers carried their picketing banners into Ore gon's coastal area today, closing two AFL union mills at Warren ton. , ' The Tonne's ' Bay and Prouty . Lumber 'company mills ceased operations after their workers, to taling about 350, refused to pass through picket lines. Three other mills In the area, at Wauna, Bradwood and Westport, continued operations. Theodore Deichter, manager of the-Prouty. mill, said the union's demands were- the same as at other points in the northwest a 7 -cent an hour pay boost and a week's raeation with pay. He added that the union's ne gotiating; committee had rejected a compromise offer of a 5-cent an hoar wage Increase and -a week's vacation. Loading of Lumber Likewise Halted Loading . of ; lumber on the freighter Oremar at the Prouty mill also was halted, as longshore men refused . to pass the picket line. Observers stated the pickets were strangers in the area and refused to disclose their identity. The Warrenton strikes came as AFL lumber and sawmill workers' in the Portland district prepared to ballot on . an employers' com promise" offer which was approved by a negotiating committee.- The employers? proposed agree (Tnrn to page 2, coL jL),. . , r T Reid-JVIurdoch to Remodel Cannery Relieving Crowding Said Purpose of $14,700 BuilJJg Plans Expansion or the Reid-Murdock cannery at, 1175 North Front street to relieve a "cramped" con dition which has existed for sev eral years was announced yester day my Ray A. Yocom, manager of the Salem cannery. - f The company was issued a $14, 700 building permit for the pro ject by the city building depart ment. Yocom said the expansion Indi cated no increase in the cannery's capacity but would permit instal lation of straight line production methods. In peach and pear can ning operations. It will also pro vide needed additional basement storage space. The addition will be made at the rear of the present plant, Other building permits Issued yesterday were to Flagg Colo to alter card room at lit State street, $100; Ada Ross to repair apartment house at 499 North Liberty street $45. Seven Bound for Hospitals Arrive -'At Different One - JBeven people, all bound- for -hospitals to visit ailing friends, ' found themselves in a hospital Sunday after' the automobiles they were riding in collided at Mitchell four ? corners on the Turner cut-off 8unday afternoon. The colliding ears were driven by James W. Wylie : Hlllsborb, and; Julius C. Moen, route one, Silverton , v,, t- " Wylle received a broken rib and facial lacerations while his daughter, WInnifred IT, suf fered j head injuries and broken teeth. :- "- Urs. Moea received hip bruises, cuts on the left hand and Ralph Moen t, . one of her three chil dren, i received' head injuries- and shock. Others' in the car had minor injuries. All' were taken to the. Salem General hospital. ' wa Ut a7toM jb- 'i Seven You r ChristhiX 0 Depends; on Generosity Father's a Good Provider Illness, and Unemployment Prevent; Fund for Salvation Army There are seven youngs' children in the family, and Christmas is coming Children always look forward to Christ mas with pleasant anticipation. What about Father' and Mother, who wouldn't like that anticipation to turn to dis appointment? :i: .l--f ': - w Father is a good worker when there is work. Last Bprinp; -Paul : Tlauser'g Column Funny thing- can happen and funny things do happen. Most accidents are tragic, but mingled with the tragic is always the comic. If you fall out a fifth story window, the re sults aire' liable to be v anything but funny, but once every ten y e ars o r so somebody . rails out of a fifth! story w i n d owl and gets np with I a painfully1- sprained big too n.nf..i and nothing else. That'a funny So the National Safety coun cil. wheh collects that sort of thing, ha made Its annual 11 t inir of wacky accidents. Take Ralph . Lyman, a .plumber of Clarlnda, Iowa, for instance. The phone rang one night and be hurried to answer it. Ho slipped and fell, but doggedly crawled to the phone to hear a voice say, iThis i Dr. Burnett. Can you- eemo-""51ght over ,Tsnd look at toy furnaceTltyen. ."Toa'd belter Vmo-ight over and look at my leej first, replied Lyman. 'It's broke, too." Then there was Bob Forde of Marysville, Calif., who discovered that things aren't always What they seem.. Mr. Forde, walking down the street, wondered why two men approaching him were walking so far apart. Was hardly neighborly, he thought. So he walked between them and learned too late the reason they were walking so far apart was a sheet of plate glass. "Paneful experi ence," puns the National Safety council painfully. It was tragic for Mr. ixis Durdy of Pans, 111., wben he smeUed smoke, dashed into m hotel room wear his and pulled aleeplng- man from a burning mattress, then aided firemen in tossing: the flaming mattress oat the window. It landed on parked car and the ear burned ap. So did Mr. Durdy. It was Euzene Ramsey of Burgaw, NC, was having a heck of a time catching a mouse: tnat was set ting into tho fruit cupboard. He bought a high-powered trap and set it, but it; was too halr-trlg-rered. It snapped on Mr. Ram sey's finger. With a howl of rage, be hurled the trap into a corner hit the mouse and killed it dead. " And an old man in Chicago was waiting for a streetcar on a safety island when a cruising taxi cab sped toward him. 'The old man was just stepping' back when a door of tho cab flew open, cooped him up bodily and de posited him unhurt on ' the cab floor, all ready for a ride. : But the strangest ride of all was that taken by Jay J. Mar tin, a steel company executive Of Pueblo, Colo., who rodo out of his private) office on the cowcatcher of a locomotive,. i Mr. Martin was minding his business at his desk when there was a ripping noise and the first thing- he knew he - was going through partitions into the next room. Mr. Martin, somewhat trav el stained, learned that the loco motive had jumped the track out side his office and had come right in without stopping to chin with his secretary. , He didn't take the train back. Scalise in Prison i For Funds Theft OSSININO, NT, Dec. .-ff- George Scallse, former $25,000- a-year labor leader, entered Sing Sing prison today penniless to begin a 10 to 20-year term for; stealing union funds. 1 The former head of the Build ing Service - Employes Interna tional union had neither money nor property ; to - declare- to the property clerk. He became pris oner No. 9t,91C Scallse was convicted In New Tork City last September on five grand larceny counts - for stealing $9112.2? from the union; He will be eligible for parole in six years and eight months a y eo S V Jheer Hope When There's .Work, Jut Should Be Filled ft.. no naa wtA employment;, unoer the- rotation plan it ran out In April. In the summer he had some seasonal work. When that ended he appMed again for WPA certification. He was scheduled to go to work November 12, but be fore that date -arrived he was taken ill. Before he. was able to work, the first period of employ ment ended.- Two more weeks of waiting; yesterday he went to work. His WPA check will come in just, about Christmas time, but when rent and necessary bills are paid, there won't be much of anything left. And right now the family is out of food; when Fa ther was certified for WPA in November, the family automatic ally became 4nellxll)le for relleL What are that family's chances for a "Merry Christmas?" Not very good unless contri butions to Xe Salvation Army's Christmas Cheer fund, in the rais ing of which Che Statesman is co- Ijoperating, ace generous and ex pensive. : coins dropped into the 1 Army's kettles on-, the downtown streets, checks brought or mailed to The Statesman, made out to The Salvation Army with a nota tion "for Christmas Cheer fund" will help such families as this one. Of course a Christmas tree helps to- make Christmas cheery. The Salvation Army is well sup piled with Christmas treeaNo, it didn't spend any of this Christ mas Cheer money to obtain them.'! They were, turned ever by the state oretry dwpartmentihere may be a tree to go with each Christmas basket. But there has to be something to fill the bas kets. The Christmas Cheer program extends to rural areas out from Salem and that goes both ways. Some rural families will receive baskets;. and some rural residents will want to contribute. Contribu tions of food can sometimes- be made more readily than contribu tion! of money. Food articles should be left at the Salvation Army hall, 141 State street. Party Outlook Is Good, Mott Avers Independent Congress and 1944 Victory Seen at Local Reception Defeat in the recent presiden tial election notwithstanding, re publicans have cause for hope in the coming two years in congress in the light of recent develop ments .at . the national capitol, Representative James W. Mott told members and guests of the Marion county chapter of Pro America at a reception in bis honor at the Marlon hotel last night. The house of representatives attitude tc rard adjournment pro posals, ending in a gentlemen's agreement to remain in session but to transact no major business until next month, and senate passage of the Walter-Logan bill for court review of administra tive, agencies rulings were cited (Turn to page 2, coL 2) Arrested in Dallas For South Dakota DALLAS, Ore., Dee. 9-jPV-Sheriff T. B. Hooker today- ar rested John William Hlles. The sheriff said Hlles was want ed, in Rapid City; 8Dr on war rants charging ear theft, assault with intent to kill and jail break. He said -Hlles -bad agreed te waive extradition. Die I. Fortiliciation Funii i Members of the ' Salem city council whose -resemblance to members ot Chemeketa chapter, DeMolay for boys, was a - purely coincidental! feature of -DeMolay day voted last night a Paul H. Hauser. JrT fortification fund to aid the Wheatland ferry, in' pro tecting the shores of the city from "submerslve activities." provided recreation facilities for poor, tired firemen and adjourned tor 294 days and went to a dance. The dance.": at which Patricia Lamb, pretty Salem . Jiigh girl. was - crowned - "DeMolay sweet heart." was.: the. closing feature of DeMolay day. The day saw Mayor Lores Hicks and his com plete staff of youthful city offi cers take over the reins of gov ernment a 1 1 h e ash with . the efense Notes Going on Morgenthau Tells Plans for New Precedent ; : "Draft" Theory " ; Exempt Bonds Described as 'Slacker Money" liy ; i Head cif Treasury . WASHINGTON. Dee. Calling tax-exempt bonds "slacker money,'. Secretary Morgenthau announced today that a 9100, 000.000 issue of "national defense notes" going on sale Wednesday would be fully taxable. The notes will be the first whol ly taxable federal issue In history, and the treasury head made clear that they were intended, to set a precedent to be followed hereaf ter.' It is his intention, he said, to ask congress for authority to make all future federal -securities issues taxable. At a press conference, Morgen thau also indicated that he felt the" treasury was facing the same sort of financing problems that It did during the World war and in tended to utilize some methods employed then, including large- scale publicity campaigns to -sell small bonds. He even endorsed the World war idea of pretty girls giving away kisses to bond buy ers. -- - In talking about tax-exempt (Turn to page 2, col. t) No-Strike Accord Is Gmprehensive Plane Firm Signst Curb Talked in Congress as- Big Jobs Held np i 1 UOn ana an isepev.aeni union claiming . representation - of the great majority of 18,909 employed here, announced tonight signing or a labor contract barring any inter ference wlth'defense production. ' The contract, described la a joint statement by Myron D. Gor don. Wright vice-president ana general manager, and William H. Showers, president of the execu tive committee of the Wright Aer onautical Employes association, as "the most comprehensive agree ment ever negotiated in the avia tion Industry," stated: "All strikes, slt-downs, slow downs, stay-ins, or curtailment or interference with production are outlawed. All major grievances must be submitted to impartial arbitration." The contract, effective Decem ber IB, provides for. a basic seven per cent wage Increase with an ad ditional 10 per cent Increase for employes on two night shifts, sen iority provisions, vacation with pay, time and a halt for overtime and double time for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. WASHINGTON, Dec Whlle a house committee today studied the question of enacting (Turn to page S, eoL 4)- School Is Closed At Independence INDEPENDENCE - Dee. 9.' The Independence high school was closed Monday until Thursday be cause 71 students and three teach ers have lnfluensa. There are 192 students enrolled la the school. The grade school will remain open. All activities kaVa ' been can celed, and the. basketball game to have been played Tuesday with Philomath was postponed. - The board of the Auburn school district decided last night te dose the school until Tuesday, Decem ber IT. because of Ucreaalng. aase ber of absenteea. Forty per cent of the pupils were absent Monday, and twe ef the four teachers were net due to eetds and inflw guiding aid ot the elected offic ials. . ,." .', , 1 Acting- In Jest, as councilman often act in all seriousness, the DeMolay members 2 ran ' through a council meeting in, 4 1 minutes net. - ... - , ' First order ef business for the council was a motion by Alder man Bob Lemon that " the dty build-; a new incinerator te make room for. airport expansion on the -site of the present-. Incinera tor. z,''-- ' ; : i - -j The plight of the tired firemen took the" attention of Alderman Dick Castile, who . brought forth a motion for. purchase of a new top for the fire department pool table, "which ; he vsald. musta been made about 1909. ; The motion - brought- forth n Fully Taxable STAYTON LANDMARK GOES .1 I The blase: urttttB esniy Monday morning destroyed the Gehlesi bufldinsi. ini Startom's' business "district. 4 4 wiping; tmt tosnr bsaineas fcat a M wb directing s Dunne Appointed For 4-Year Term Accident Board Position Retained; Also Place on Job Insurance . T. Morris Dunne, employers representative On the state lndu trial accident commission, was re- aooolnted for. a four-year term yesterday by Governor Charles a Ssraa-ue. His current term, his second, expires en January 2. The appointment automatically continues Dunne as a member el the unemployment compensation commission.. -Other members or the two bodies are C. .M.. Ryner- sonr Portland, representing labor. and I O. Arena, Klamath- Fails, representing the public Dunne -was first appointed to the accident -commission by Gov ernor Julius L. Meier, on April 12. 1932. He - was reappointed by. Governor Charles H. Martin. Prior to 1922 he-was engaged in the paint manufacturing business in Portland.- McNary Recovery ' Complefe, Report Senator Caarlea L. McNary has reeevsrsd from an attack ef grippe .but:, will rest in a- Salem hospital for several days, his phy sician, ' announced, yesterday.' r Th physician would met say when Senator McNary- would re- tnmt te his nesae but Jndlcated It would be late in the weehv. The senator, has. been, in the- hospital for nearly two weeks. . The McNarys srehably win net tseve for.Waanlna-tOB. until after Christmas ; or. FerirvIs ' ' - , . . storm ef oratory, but finally passed after Fire. Chief Richard Boehringer said. My boys spend all ' their' time - reading comic magazines when, they might Just as -well be playing pool." A motion to spend f2999 for a new - first, aid - car; - caused a debate between. Alderman Lemon, sponsor of: the 'motion, .and City Treasurer Mark Hatfield, who ob jected concisely, ;!No money." Further: argument brought only his emphatic No! No , money. We're against- spending money." and 'the motion was referred to committee. ? r ' ; Aaother hotly debated proposal was one - to . nrorlda a ten foot spaee at the end of every block! tor bicycle parking. When the de-1 bate - got hot Mayor Hleks- de - 4 7 ys lab agents and .damaging others, is stream of .water upon the blase, . -. Destroys Gehlen Building In Stayton's Business District Fire Discovered at 3 o'CIock Snnday Morning Is Costly; Grocery, Market, Billiard Parlor and Carpenter Sbop Are Wiped out : STAYTON, Dec 0-Fire destroyed the Gehlen buHd insr. housing- four firms in the heart of the Stayton business district, early today and damaged buildings adjoining and across the street, The blaze was discovered was asleep in quarters in the the fire apparently originated in the N. K, Lee billiard parlor. The structure waa a. mass of smoul dering ruins within 29 minutes. Heaviest of tho fire, the Gehlen Grocery company's loss, was es timated at $4469. Other lost Included; Santiam Hardware and Implement - company, - $40S; -De- Jardin Chevrolet company 9125; Jordan Farm service. 9199; Stan dard Oil station, 2140. and Frey's grocery, 999. No estimate - was made of the loss to the Joe Fisher carpenter . shop, a butcher shop and the billiard parlor, all In the burned building. Minor damage was done to the Koiinek Remedy company. Windows - of several nearby buildings were broken and paint scorched. . - Charles. Gehlen -owned, the structure destroyed by ..the blase. It was reported Insured to the extent of 91909. while the Gehlen grocery- stock was fully covered. It waa Staytoa a - worst Ore since 1914 when several business houses were wiped out.. All were later replaced with fireproof buildings. Timber Feller Killed :, : GASTON. I Ore. Dee.. 9. (JP rimer W. Nelson. IS. ef Sher woooV timber taller, was killed by e.fallln tree today at the SXlnusost Lumber eompaayV Ne. n. Covonax Fred ported.. horned the dilemma by' saying. "Before we get Involved here we'd . better ; go on." and ahooed the council en to the next order of business.' The bicycle resolu tion passed later. Alderman .Jay Johnson's mo tion to speed up t raffle by chang ing the. speed of traffic signals lost heavily. rV , - : : The . resolution setting up a Paul Hauser. -Jr. fund - to defend the city's "shores passed after one of' the ' aldermen suggested " It would ' servo as a' fitting "me morial 'for 'the -columnist and City Recorder Leonard Stein bock said "lt would give vhlm some thing to write about.' r. During the day the young city of flclals ; conducted their duties , (Turn, to Page 2, CoL 4.) Favoreidl UP HI SLIOKE shewn at it brtgbt. Staytoa volun- prohibited th flreta spread te stenrby at 3 a-m. by Tom Biggs, who rear of the building. He said Pony; Killed Two Small Boys Hurt " Fog and 'the fates killed nine-year-old Delmer Boje's Shetland pony - yesterday and sent Delmer to the Deaconess hospital with in juries reported not . serious by hospital officials last night. Del mer, who lives, at route four,' box 279. Salem, wasn't, even riding his pony. ; The animal was Jogging along on South 11th street at' 5:30 yesterday- evening with ' Eddie Brunelle.,9, of 1521 Cross street, in the saddle when a .car driven by David-Martin, route four, box 132, suddenly loomed oat . of the mist and threw ' the pony against Delmer wbe was walking in the gravel. The.- pony's rider was treated for minor, braises It was reported. . Morin said he was traveling at 49 miles per hour, police revealed. Merin. reporting to Salem . po lice ' shortly afterward, claimed he . was too close to the young stars to step whsn he saw them through.: the . fog. effleera eaia.- , 47Year Official 'i. "Dfes at Astoria - ATOBXAw Dee. - g.-CPHL" C Clinton. X2. a public efficlal here for 4T years, died at hia room in the Klkeclak today.-. - Clinton took his first official position here in IS 94 as a deputy aheriXf. Since 1912 he haa been county clerk. , He. was. honored as the. dean of Oregon public officials .at a recent, meeting of the County- Clerks' association in Portland. . . The ceuaty ' court today ap pointed . Verne ' 8tratton,. deputy under Clinton, to serve as clerk antll thelf 42 general election. Y Tnief js Executed - " . BERLIN. Dec ty-Htrliert Gellert, -27, was executed' today for robbing -99 Madgeburg bomb cellars of soap, ' first ' aid ' kits, clothing and "story books in the last nine weeks - , ?- GapturelCOO ac!i .- i : Fight Continues ; Greeks -: Seize Argirocastro,- -; : : Resume Advance ;r Hitler Speaks : Today tas eavy Bomb Attack Is : followed by Lull , . j- : . : .-r -. . i (By The Associated Press) . Britain's desert forces in a dawn strike at Italian Invaders ot Egypt had captured 1909 prisoners by dnsk Monday' night, killed the Italian commanding officer and seised his assistant, the British command announced. . i Fighting continued late last night, possibly heralding a full- scale offensive by Britain la Crypt against Marshal Graslaal's legions camped for three months 79 .miles Inside Egypt; from Libya at 'the coastal base of SIdl Barren!. . The British attack coincided with military command .shakeups in Italy, and newly announced Greek victories over the fascists In Albania.. A Greek - government spokesman declared the - entire Italian right wine north of Porto Edda had crumpled end .that Greek troops also had secured new successes in northern-Albania with the capture ot strategic mountain peaks.: ' - . . : Hitler to Speak te German Workers -. ---. Adolf Hitler, it was disclosed. will broadcast at noon (1 ua. PST) today to German ' workers throughout the releh, exactly one month after-his speech in which he said Germany was streng enough to meet 'any possible com bination of' powers in the world. ' . Against the German halt ef the axis, RAF pilots in Britain report ed they rained explosives on - or near- naxt submarines moored in the Bordeaux dock . basins in southern' France Sunday night. - - L The 'Egyptian, -eyerstiexis earns while London s bomb-weaned mil lions rallied from an all-night de luge of 700 tons of German ex plosives 'and 109. tons ot fire bombs an assault which the Ger mans desvTibed aa the heaviest yet -in the air siege of Britain. Good weather favored the desert attack against the Italians. London military Quarters said the -clash was "of some impor tance" and made It dear the Brit ish and not the Italians took the offensive in a surprise attack. . Greater Offensrre Likely to Follow Dispatches ' from desert ' forces involved said 509 prisoners were taken in an attack on one Italian outpost south of SIdl Barranl aad 500 others were captured in the continuing battle. The British there described the action as af "great raid" rather than, a gener al offensive but it waa believed Jn Informed Quarters that more ex tensive offensive operations might ' result. The Italian drive along; the Mediterranean coastal . region, in Egypt haa been stalled since mid September, the same time that the RAF was reported to hsvs shat tered ; Adolf Hitler's "invasion' armada massed along the eon tin- -ent opposite England. Egypt has long been heralded as a probable major theatre ot the war this winter, and while the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5.) Adolph Spreckels And Spouse Trade : ; Pro-Nazi Charges SANTA BARBARA. Calif., Dec 9Hp-Adolph B. Spreckels, heir to a sugar fortune, charged today la aa answer to hia wife's divorce suit that she accused him of pro naxiism to conceal her own. friend liness to the nasi cause. Spreckels denied flatly efferiag support to any enemy ot the Unit ed States. He claimed that the former Baroness .von Romberg, now Emily Hall Spreckels. had contracts with officials high. in German, councils. -- The sugar heir declared .that his wife had kept a statue-ef Hitler- In her home prior te their marriage and had erected a swa stika outside their new home which he caased te be remo-red. - He added that ah was wealthy in her own' right and does not need the 12100 monthly alimony she demands. - Auto Titii Zero License Hauled in " : PORTLAND. - Dee. 9.-(,?VIn the -words of a Poxtlaad detec tive. "there ain't no , sucli num ber,' so an automobile with 13 41 Oregon license- plats numbered 90-009 was hauled to the statica. - It turned out today the $Uts was a aample mailed misuses.:? by the stats suto license derail ment In Salem to Fred L. Xla.: Eacheros. ' Oregon licenses rUMfaHy te gtn at No. 1. so the sam;! plats was sent back; and MaeEaelf rci was to put his 1940 numbers on his ear. ' ' - ' v - Sudden Att