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Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning December IS. 1940
No. 227
7!Tt . ry - .-as
Public Schools
And WU Close
For This Year
1456 . Absent and Teacher
Staff Depleted; Open
v Early, Jan. 2, Plan
West Salem, Dallas and
Corvallis Systems All
Shut Down
Public schools of Salem, Wil
lamette university and one local
kindergarten were closed yester
day ; until after Christmas ts ca
tion, because . of the Increased
number of absentees, due prlncl
pally to influenza and s e t e r e
colds.
The Salem General, Deaconess
and state tuberculosis hospitals re
quested that no visitors call. The
ban will be maintained until the
danger from the epidemic Is past.
to protect patients from Infection.
The city school board took ae
tlon yesterday noon following re
port of 145 students absent In
the system, over' one-fourth of the
total enrollment Twenty two In
structors end three principals, ex
ceeding the supply of substitutes,
were not in classes. School will be
resumed Thursday, January 2, In
stead ef January C, as originally
planned.
Willamette classes, which will
resume on January , were sus
pended by order of administration
officials upon advice of Dr. Ralph
Purrine, school physician. A
sharp rise In. the number of cases
of influenza since Sunday prompt
ed the aetion,'. DrvPurvina, said.
lastightLtHerennited about 75
cases last week- and 'about the
same number already this week.
He expressed the hope that break
ing up of group would prevent an
epidemic
Three Kindergartens
Continue to Friday
An order last Thursday closed
down ail social activities and all
meetings other than classes at the
university.
While Mrs. Prank Lllburn's kin
dergarten was closed yesterday,
t b, p s e operated by Mrs. C R.
Monk, Alma Fanning and Mrs.
Harold Zosel will remain open un
til Friday, when they elose for va
cation, according to present plans, j
The three schools conducted by
churches will continue until Fri
day, unless plans are altered. All
reported they had few absentees.
. Sacred Heart academy will have
the annual Christmas tree at 1
p.m. Friday, and the St. Vincent
de Paul parochial school will hoi
a Christmas party at 1 p.m. Fri
day. The other school Is that of
the Seventh Day Adventlst church.
Programs principally affected
by the closures, in addition to sev
eral assemblies, are the Leslie Jun
ior high school Christmas pageant
tonight, and the senior high school
homecoming set for Friday by the
Sigma Lambda chapter of the Na
tional Honor society. .
The Willamette Collegian, week
ly student publication will go to
press as usual. Editor Marion San
ders said last night. It will be out
today, v ' i - r .. ;
The Salem TMCA last night re
vised its vacation schedule, which
Includes all local boys and girls,
to conform to the change In dates.
The program will begin today.
. Absences In the schools yester
day, as the senior high school
went back up from 177 Monday to
250, numbered 121 at Parrlsh,
Leslie 124, Bush lit, Englewood
.12, Garfield S2, Grant 71, High
land 104, McKinley C7, Richmond
78 an! Washington 17.
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WEST SALEM West Salem
schools were closed yesterday un
til January Y Principal Lelfhton
Dashlell said last night. T ; '
With first announcements Mon
day, when the pupils were sent
home, 11 were absent and It was
thought that classes might be re
sumed Wednesday morning. Since
that tlm. Illness has increased to
the extent that it seemed advisable
to shut down until after the holi
days, Dashlell said. .
DALLAS. rJeeC 17 D alias
schools, which " closed Thursday
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-iPflu! 0aiu:re Column
When the stale of Oregon's
democratic presidential electors
met In solemn conclave the other
day to certify to
me woria ana
the rest of the
electoral college
that Franklin D.
Roosevelt is the
winn,v&,and still
champeen, a
Statesman pho
tographer -was
there to record
the " event for
posterity.
The pbotogra-
pher, pushing
and shoTlnx thra
dignitaries aboijt - a -
as a press photographer will do,
had everything; arranged for his
shot and was vjady to click tne
dingus when
n slihand was raised
s'atDed between the
and a man
lens and the electors.
It was J. F. Ulrich. chairman
of the Marion county democratic
central committee. Pointing to
E. F. Groblebe, one of the elec
tors, he spoke:
M!robleb,,, he said, "push
back your hair! Want people
to think you're Willkie?"
The last Christmas shopping
story Jto come to us is the one
about the nice old lady who was
inspecting coffee making appa
ratus In the line of duty as a
Christmas shopper. The -salesman
was showing her one of the mod
ern, all-glass kind In which the
coffee runs up a tube, brews
itself mysteriously and then runs
down the tube again, ready to be
served, with or without cream.
The sales man pointed out the
advantages of this feature, but
the old lady, not to be rushed,
inquired:
"What makes the coffee ma
p?"
"It's the vacuum," the clerk
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Alford i$ Pretident
Of Salem Y Gleemen
Max Alford, headquarters eap
taln of the Oregon state police,
was elected president of the Sa
lem T Gleemen last night to suc
ceed H. B. Glalsyer, resigned.
' Glalsyer, president of the or
ganisation since its formation,
explained that his duties as secre
tary of the state highway com-t
mission, Interfered with his lead
ership of the Gleemen.
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Flu's Prevalence Increases
Christmas Cheer Need Cases
'- Uore "eases "of need which
Christmas f Cheer baskets mlsht
rernedy, less means for providing
such baskets; such Is the effect
of the recent cold wave, and the
nrevalenee of Inflnense upon The
Salvation Army's Christmas Cheer
prosram, in which The Oreron
Statesman is cooperating, ,
The worries Incident to mud
Illness In their own families are
causing some persons who other
wise would eonirioun
the Army ketues, to
eastom and as a rl
celsts are falling below those of
fril Wftsnwhila a number
by" In fair snaps are "v-..
circumstances- becaue the rf
winner Is temporarily anaUe . to
work. - vt..
There is one
managed to scrape slong .lnde-
any source. In this family, there
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Scenes at the Spaoldlng Logging company log damp on the west basJk
of the Willamette river opposite Salem, bosy spot a logs are
transferred from land to water transportation. They are consigned
to Portland mills and many of them will find atillsatiosi in the de
fense program. Statesman photos.
50 Carloads of Timber
Per Day Unloaded Here
300,000 Board Feet Mostly From Black Rock and
Valsetz Daily Rafted From Salem to Portland
Mills; Largely for Defense Lumber Use
Destined to become barracks and cantonments to house
America's first peace-time drafted defense army and national
guardsmen under training; an average of 50 carloads of fir
timber are being dumped into the Willamette river at the
Spaulding log dump, just west of Salem, every day there
to be rafted and towed to Portland mills.
Long strings of log bed flat
cars are switched out Onto a
trestle bordering the river and
about 25 feet above the water. As
each carload Is stopped opposite
a steam driven derrick and cable
winch, its ponderous load Is rolled
off and tumbled with a rearing
splash into the river.
Figuring an estimated 000
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are four girls and two boys. Ill
ness had mads it necessary that
they receive some aid; and in
addition to the Christmas basket
which .will be forthcoming. The
Salvation Army makes it known
that the head .of the family. is
anxious to get work with his buss
saw. Anyone who has wood .that
needs -sawing: should telephone
The Salvation Army.. $417..,
V The j 1 closing of school may
also .- hamper the .. collection of
foodstuffs for til Christmas bas
kets, and that makes doubly im
portant the "canned food mati
nee' which win be held through
the "cooperation of Manager Carl
Porter of Werner Brothers theatres',-at
the Elsinore next- Mon
day forenoon .r." --i "
Meanwhile v Christmas Cheer
programs, are being carried for
ward $ throughout,- the . city t by
numerous organizations, nJ - re
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Cold Is Followed
By Rain and Snow
Rain dampened Salem' spirits
and streets yesterday chalking
up .22 Inch on the airport weath
er bureau gauge. Predictions for
today and tomorrow were rain
and more rain.
The airport mercury stood at
28 at midnight last night and
weathermen . forecast - warmer
temperature today..
PORTLAND. Dee. 17-AVB1bs-terlng
winds drove storsa clouds
over Oregon' today, lifting tem
peratures but - bringing lee and
snow. v.
A snow 'storm in the Columbia
river gorge, turned Into a silver
thaw, puttings lee on the Colum
bia liver highway and interrupt
ing electric service at .a- few
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A continued rise ef tempera
ture was predicted with a south
east wind tdecreasing and turning
to south. ' J ' , . .";
'-. Bend reported tie lowest read
ing In the state With 11' degrees
above ' sero. Others were: Pen
dleton. 12, Baker airport It,
Burns, and .Hood Elver 23, Ea
gene 2t, Lakevlsw 20, Roseburg
31, Portland airport 23, Newport
40; Medford and North Bend 43,
and Brookings 43. - ' ..
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Twenty Killed
In Two Blasts
AreMysteries
Seven Die in W. Virginia
Gal Disaster; Five
Gravely Injured
Cincinnati Tenement Is
Blown np With Toll
of 13 Victims
BECKLET. W. Vs., Dec. 1-JP
An explosion in a mine directly
beneath the streets of this sou
thern West Virginia coal "capi
tal" today killed seven men and
Injured five others in the nation's
sixth major mine blast of the
year.
The explosion, apparently lo
cal In nature, occurred two miles
back In the No. 4 mine of the
Raleigh Coal and Coke Corpora
tion, which has three operations
on the outskirts of the city.
Ellsworth Shriver, superinten
dent, said an investigation would
be started Thursdsy.
As is customary in this coal
country after a disaster, all mines
of the company will be closed to
morrow. Shriver said he-had "no Idea"
of the cause of the blast, whether
It was gas or coal dust. He added
the mine was not gaseous and
safety lamps were used.
Shriver asserted he could find
no damage to the mine, but some
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Ickes Emphasizes
geiiangcrs
Panama . Canal and Plants
Held Targets; Lindy
Draws Criticism
NEW YORK, Dec. 17-Py-See-
retary of the inferior Ickes chsrg
ed tonight that the axis plans to
cripple the United States by sabo
tage, to sap It by propaganda and
to drive a wedge of suspicion be
tween this country and . Latin
America.
In a speech prepared for the
Columbia university institute of
arts and sciences, Ickes also de
nounced Americans whom he de
scribed as appealers. Among them
he named Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, whom he called a "peri
patetic appeaser who would ab
jectly surrender his sword even
before It Is demanded.
Last September, Ickes said,
Mthe nails in Los Angeles, at
their meeting In the Deutsche
haus. offered their nomination
for the presidency et the United
States to CoL Charles A. Lind
bergh!"
In another part of his speech.
In which he discussed what he
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Bridge Insurance
Freminm Larceny
Denied by French
SEATTLE. De. 17-Wr-Halett
R. f'reneh pleaded Innocent today
to a charge of grand larceny for
allegedly withholding the prem
ium on a $110,000 Insurance pol
icy en the wrecked Narrows
bridge.
Attorney Charles Carroll re
leased a statement asserting the
erstwhile prominent insurance ex
ecutive had made restitution ef
approximately flS.000 to the
company for which he was gen
eral agent.
The bridge would have fallen
regardless et whether the Insur
ance policy was In .the company's
offlee or In French's," Carroll
Id. "The mistake French made
is In not reporting the prem
iums promptly I am net Inclined
to .think any Jury wCI convict
when all the facta are submitted.
Deputy . Prosecutor C. C Ralls
said French had admitted failure
te report the premium on another
IIIS.OOO policy n the bridge
also. The formal charge against
him Involved; only the $1117
premium ens the smaller policy.:
You Want a Cow?
Waal the Call of
City Dogcatchcr
1 Poundmaster Russell "Slim
Haw, who once punched dogiee ea
the Argentine pampas and else
where get a chance to use his
lasso on a docile bossy yesterday.
May lassoed the eow at Myrtle
and. Spruce . street, where It was ,
wondering loose, tied It to the
rear et hia ear and proceeded.
shouting, "Anybody lose 4 cow?
He continued his yodellng and
motorized . cow-punching to . the
end of Hazel avenue where James
R. Donovan claimed the cow, r
plies to BirfeoiMi
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lvltovieg Mto Italy
.Nazis' Aicl in Albania
And Libya Is
Invasion Before Spring
Is Warning in England
Beaverbrook Tells People
Asserts Germans Feverishly Active Preparing
to Strike; Greeks Take Key Fortification
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (AP) The Columbia Broad
easting company's correspondent in Belgrade declared in a
broadcast tonight from that Balkan capital that more than
50,000 German troops have moved quietly into Italy presum
ably to embark for Libya and Albania to aid Italian forces,
according to information reaching highly reliable sources in
Lumberman Dies;
Was WU Trustee
E. S. COLLINS
Noted Lumberman
Dies in Portland
E S. Collins Trustee of
Willamette; Gift of
$100,000 Made
PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 17-fls)-E.
8. Collins, 74. Portland lumber
man and philanthropist In the
fields of religion and education.
died tonight.
He was a member of the boards
of trustees ef Willamette univer
sity and the College of Puget
Sound. In 1120 he made an en
dowment gift of $100,000 to Wil
lamette. .
A native of New York, he came
te the Pacific northwest In 18 tt,
settling In Ostrander, Wash. He
served in the 1903 session ef the
Washington state legislature. He
moved to Oregon In IS 18.
Collins was president ef the Os
trander Railway and Timber com
pany, the Curtis, Collins and Hol
brook company of San Francisco,
the Grande Ronde Pine company
and was a director of the Ochoco
Timber company, and the St. Hel
ens Pulp and Paper company.
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MAXWELL. Calif., Dec. 17HS3)
-Charles L. Smith. 2, of Sacra
mento and Ivan Walk, 81. Port
land. Ore., carpenter, were killed
today , when their autos collided
head on three muea nortn or nere.
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Rumor; Vichy Fa te
v BERN,. Switzerland Dec. 17
(sawAntherlUtrve seureee report
ed tonight that Pierre Laval was
with German Ambassador Otto
Abets when : the latter ... left tor
Parte tonight after a day el mys
terious conferences with both La
val and Chief ef State Petaia.
'These persons said the deposed
vice-premier was in one of the
automobiles - belos ting to the
Abets suite when the German en
voy, his aide and guards, whirl
ed out of Vichy. Laval's frieads
said he would accompany Abets
to Paris.
ITICHT. .France, Dee, 17-3-Karshal
Philippe Petals t h a
chief of state of France, summon
ed his deposed vice premier, Pi
erre. Laval, back -from the. mys
teries fof his expulsion today tor
long conferences with himself and
Otto Abets Adolf Hitler's high
envoy. - . ''..-
An .official eemmunlQue, fol
lowing . a beetle - and secretively
They're Too Confident,
TugoslaTla.
Winston Harden, tne corre
spondent, said the major part of
the nasi forces were reported at
Barl and Naples, southern Italian
ports, but some also were report
ed to be in Genoa and Milan.
Some were expected to perform
"police duties' In Italy in ex
change for Italian, labor In Ger
man factories, he said.
.The German" movement south
ward, according to Burdette's
sources, began immediately after
the resignation on December of
Marshal PJetro Badoglio, Italian
chief of staff.', . ;
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Britain must expect a German
attempt at Invasion' of England
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Can't Be Held Back, Says
Leader; News Writers
. . Take Prisoner
By EDWARD KENNEDY
WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
IN LIBYA. Dec 17 - VP) - Fresh
Australian troops, chafing to get
into battle with the Italians,
pressed en toward the Libyan
base of Baxdi today at such a pace
that one of their -commanders
complained: We can's hold them
back."
The Australians form a unit
with the British command which
followed up the occupation of Sa-
lam, Egypt, by hurrying up re
inforcements for the advance on
Bardla. II miles inside the border
of Italian Libya.
"They want to show they can
do what their fathers did In the
last war. said the Australians'
chief. .
Comsletelr mechanized, - the
men from "down under" moved
directly from camp to the battle-
front.
The Australian vanguard oTer
night tackled one Italian column,
casturinr transports and guns.
Three ; frontier forts, Musald,
Sldl Omar and Sheffersen were
taken te add to the ever-tighten
ing squeeze around Bardla. where
large Italian forces, including
thousands of men withdrawn
from Egypt, apparently were pre
paring for m determined stand.
Occupation ef Salum. last spot
which' the 'Italians had held on
Egyptian soil, was solidified when
a British armored brigade charg
ed Uu- -
Most ef the Italians already had
left in the direction of Bardla so
swiftly that they could not be In
tercepted. The mop-up squads at
Salum found IS Italian planes on
the ground so badly damaged by
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day, said Petaln and Laval dis
cussed "the general situation."
At least, however It was clear
that Laval's own situation since
his ouster from the government
tour nights ago was a part et the
discussion." " 7 -
Abets saw Laval this morning
at a conference at Petaln'a kerne,
and still later In a visit te Laval's
chateau at Chateldon, 19 miles
from Vichy. ' -- " --
Tben-Abets conferred at din
ner with Petain before leaving
night tor Paris.' Darter the eve
ning. Laval was at the hotel Us-'
Jestie. where Abets has' ben stay
lng since last night; The former
premier, was, -with members, of
Abets: suite, but there was no
confirmation ef a rumor tbaj La
val, too, had gone to Paris.
The strict-; censorship made It
difficult to report the results of
the Abets conferences, but late
tonight French circles appeared
confident that the . poller of
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AAdlA YiU lliUl
aether
Impends
Forecast
To Keep Title,
After War Be
Repaid in Kind
Return if Undamaged Is
Contemplated; Detail
to Be Worked Out
Proposal Is Defended as
One Best Calculated
to SaTe America
By J. C. STARK
WASHINGTON, Dec 17-ffr
President Roosevelt announced a
sweeping new plan for helping
Great Britain tonight under which
the United States? government
would take over future British
war orders and release- the ma
terials for use abroad on a lease
or mortgage basis to be repaid in
kind after the war.
Under the -plan, . planes and
guns, for example, would be leas
ed to the British, After the war.
if they were still in good condi
tion, the British would be expect
ed to give them bartc-Tr-rfcey Tiad
been, destroyed, the British would
bebUgaiedter furwisb: 4hleea
try with, equivalent weapons. The
president likened It to a man
lending a neighbor a hose to put
out a fire in his house.
In a long discussion of the pro
posal at his first press conference
since he returned from a Carib
bean cruise, he said It was still In
the exploratory stage and would
require time to work out both
here and in London.
Nation Is Able to
Finance It, State
He did not go Into details about
the cost of the plan to the United
States, except to say that this
country had sufficient money to
do It.
Stressing that the best defense
of the United States is to aid
Great Britain, he declared empha
tically that his proposal would
not take this country nearer to ac
tual participation in the war.
The plan, er something like it,
he said, would be presented to the
new congress. But he said It in
volved no changes in the neutral
ity act or the Johnson law which
forbids loans to debt defaulting
nations.
Refusing to be drawn into a
discussion on where the title to
the goods would be, he asserted
that that was something for the
lawyers to work out. The United
SUtes, ke said, was not likely to
get Into war for legalistic rea
sons.
Meanwhile, as the Intensive
new drive for greater armament
efforts got Into full swing. Secre
tary ef the Navy Knox announced
the award et contracts for 4
additional destroyers costing ap
proximately r2ii.isc.S7S and for
an expansion; ef shipbuilding facilities-
t an estimated cost ot
SS.300,0tO. . . , :
As to whether it was possible to
speed up present war production.
President. Roosevelt said It de
pended entirely on the particular
Item Involved and that the task
was one of keeping everlastingly
at It.
Earlier. Secretary ot State Hun
disclosed he was counseling de
fense commissioners and ether
efficlala to greater effort la speed
ins; np production and It was
learned that hia advice was based
on predictions of. high American
and British officials that a cru
cial phase ot the war would come
in the next three or four months.
President Roosevelt. In onenina
his explanation' of what he de
scribed as a brand new plan, eaid
mat in tne present world situation
there was absolutely no doubt la
the- minds of , an overwhelming '
number ' of Americans that the
best defense et the United States
ran to sels Sritaia defend Itself.
Aside from the natural Interest
In survival et democracy, he said.
wis was aavisasio xcr .genua rea
sons, i v. -v ":
Asserting he lad read and
heard a let of aensenxe about '
finances, ae -declared that no na
Jor .war - ever was won r lost
through Jack of finances. . -
He recalled that In ltli. on the '
sve of the outbreak, et the T.'orU
war, he heard iesdirg lttr ,
say that there was not t-crr i
money for Europe to earrr ti a'
war for more than three xaoii.a.
A primary nrerestlsits far
American defense, tie Tres!3tst
saia. was acamonai productive
facilities; and the more thee f-
duties were Increased factories.
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