," - TTeaiiier
Rate today j, local showers
mi : cooler Monday; heavy -wow
. in . mountains. . -Early
report 'nave wind Telocity as
fuwty, S m.nJi. and as high .
70 rn.sv.lu River 8.4 feet.
Clear and windy.
.V "IV. Complete
; Watch your Oregon States
bu. See bow It coven the
new completely," present
It Interestingly a e b day,
with doe attention to local
happening.
ninetieth yeab
Salem, Oroyon, Sunday Mortdng. December 22. 1940
Pricei 3a Nowntasds 5c
No. 231
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Portland Finn
Has Contracts,
2 Mine Layers
12 Million Dollars May
- Be Cost of Each; to
' - Expand Shipyard
Half Million per Month
in Wages Prospect; '
r Frontage Leased
PORTLAND. Dec. 21.-fc!p)-Con-tracts
to build two mine layers
for the nary, to cost 112,000,000
apiece, with an allocation of fl,
000,000 to expand facilities, was
awarded today to the Willamette
Iron ft Steel - corporation of Port
land. , This announcement, the first
official word that the local con
cern win set the large nary or
der, was 'made in Washington,
DC, by Secretary of Navy Frank
Knox, who awarded contracts to
private shipyards for 31 addi
tional mine layers, tenders and
other, naval vessels estimated to
cost f2C5.765.600.
The-amount allocated for con
structing each mine layer was
not announced from Washington
but it Is believed here on good
authority that each ship will cost
$12,000,000. Of this amount 60
per cent will be paid in wages
to Portland laborers working di
rectly on the mine layers or in
shops constructing equipment for
the ; Job, largest shipbuilding or
der to be awarded Portland since
World war day i.
It Is estimated that a bout
$500,000 In wages will be paid
monthly to workmen and that
between 1800 and 2200 men will
be employed, working at least
two and possibly three shifts
daily. - ;
An official of the -Willamette
Iron k, Steel said that the com
pany baa not yet been notified by
the navy of the contract award.
The mine- layers, he. said, will be
built on, ways to be constructed
on ' property adjoining the com
pany's plant at 2860 NW Front
avenue. This property is under
lease to Willamette. It borders
the river and extends northward
to the Oceanic terminal. Addition
of this 20-acre site will give the
firm a total of 1745 feet of river
frontage.
Details on the mine layers were
not made public but it Is be
lieved here that each will be ap
proximately 460 feet long, that
the contract calls for completion
within 22 to 36 months and that
(Turn to page 2, col. 8)
North California
Sees Flood Peril
Clearing Weather Outlook
Lends Some Comfort;
Rivers Are High
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-JP)
-Drenching rains over all north
ern California raised stream and
river waters to dangerously high
levels In some sections today, in
terrupted train service, flooded
highways and washed away much
snow in the mountains.
The forecast was for clearing
and cooler weather tonight, bow
ever, with rain reaching the
southern: part of the state prob
ably tomorrow. It rained as far
south as Fresno today.
Dunsmuir and Kennett, north
of Redding, were about the wet
test spots in the state today. At
Kennett, 5.82 Inches of rain fell
In the 24-hour period ending at
7 a. m and it was still falling
this afternoon.
(Turn to page 2, col. 4)
Compressed Air
And City Water
Yield Charged9
PORTLAND, Ore.. Dee. 2 1- ( AP-West-side
apartment dwellers
agreed today that Portland cer
tainly was the place to spend the
holidays.
They turned on their kitchen
faucets and out came charged
water. ,
Alarmed water department ln
lnvestigators found a service sta
tion attendant bad "mistakenly"
connected a' compressed air tank
to a eity water pipe.
i ifcrawa mnwmd
. SafelM. faraait e
SfM caa salute
StU soar eseiatf mJj
Mayor Chadw OyBuysf'tAdmission
To Monday's Janned Food Matinee
Mor U. W. Ctiadwick sets an example for younger "kids" or any
one else who wants to participate by paying for several admis
sions to the Warner Brothers-Statesman canned food matinee,
scheduled for Monday forenoon at the Elslnore theatre. Manager
Carl Poster is "taking tickets." One ran of food, variety unlimited,
will admit to the show and tlie food will go into the baskets being
prepared by The Salvation Army in its Christmas Cheer program.
Statesman photo.
Food Matinee Monday;
To A id Cheer Program
Doors of Elsinore to Open at 10:30 a. m., films
Start at 11; Salvation Army Winding up
Preparations to Fill Many Baskets
Arrangements for the Warner Brothers - Statesman
"canned food matinee" to be .held Monday forenoon at the
Elsinore theatrewefeCromnlgtfrd .Saturday as The Salvation
Armytavhich is to utilize the loodstuffs obtained in connec
tion with its Christmas Cheer baskets for needy familes, also
rushed toward completon its plans for their distribution.
-Paul Bauser'- Column
We don't recall where we first
met him, but we now wish that
meeting bad never occurred. We
were e e 1 1 i n g r;
ilonr fine. mind-M f
-X T. SA
Ing out own busi
aiti (after a
fashion) and
having a good
time until he
came Into- our
life.
We suppose it
was unavoidable
that we should
meet. We had
heard of him
from many
sources and, up
VA
to the time that rsal H. Hmmi, Jr.
we came under his baneful influ
ence, we had' been surprised that
anyone could have such a wide ac
quaintance and still be so thor
oughly unpopular.
It seemed that nearly every
body knew him, but nobody lik
ed him. It may have been that
be was in search of a friend,
for he overlooked no means to
widen his circle of acquaintance.
There was, however, a- certain
power about him. It was only a
few hours after we met him that
he had us sold into the Kleenex
league without' our consent.
From that moment we hated
his presence. His touch on our
skin seemed clammy and cold
and daring his entire visit our
joints felt as if they had been
recently taken apart and reas
sembled by an apprentice pipe
fitter. That, in brief, is the history of
our acquaintance with Old Debbil
Flu, who is standing by our bed
side as we write this and closely
inspecting the copy for libel.
Wouldn't it be a tragic thins;
If Santa Instead of coming down
the flae this year came down
with it.
Waiving Lockout and Strike
Right Advocated by Hoover
NEW YORK, Dee. U-F)-Fqt-mer
President Herbert Hoover
declared tonight that employers
and employes in essential war in
dustries should waive-their re
spective rights of lockout and
strike "in favor ofarbltraUon."
In a nationally broadcast
speech (NBC bine) accepting the
1940 gold medal of the Pennsyl
vania society of New York. Hoo
ver decried "intolerance" in the
United States and , said be . be
lieved the best way to cope with
defense and allied problems was
"to definitely organise increase of
bur industrial efficiency and pro
ductivity.'! , -;
The former president prefaced
his discussion of defense and pre
paredness with the remark that
"now that I ; havev divorced my-
- V.
Indications were that the
canned food matinee, to which
admittance may be gained by pre
senting one can of food, no mat
ter what the variety, in lieu of
a ticket, will be more extensively
patronized than the one a year
ago.
Doors of the Elsinore will open
at 10:30 a. m.. Manager Carl
Porter has announced, and the
show will start at 11 o'clock.
From the short subjects to the
Laurel and Hardy comedy fea
ture, the show is designed to
please young people and be in
keeping with the Tuletlde spirit,
but anyone is privileged to pat
ronize it.
Draft Law Upheld
By Federal Judge
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. il.-yp)-Congress
has the power to "com
pel military service of a citizen,"
whether in "peaee time or war
time," Federal Judge C. C. Cava
nah ruled today.
In an opinion denying two
brothers' motions to quash an in
dictment charging failure to reg
ister under the selective service
act, Judge Cavanah said: -
"Our national history and court
decisions uniformly have recog
nized the existence of the power
of congress under the constitution
to compel military service of a
citizen in case of need, when it
so declares, whether in peace
time or war time, and to make
preparation, if congress declares
that it is imperative or neces
sary, or that an emergency exists
requiring the raising and support
of an army."
The brothers, Boyd B. Cornell,
24, and Clark Cornell, 20, of
nearby Middleton, a farming
commnnity, ' challenged constitu
tionality of the conscription aet,
contending congress lacked au
thority to recruit civilians during
peace time.
self from politics, for the balance
of my life, I can devote myself
to such discussion without parti
san impulses.". ,
"Among the parallel phenom
ena with It 16-17,". he said, "is
the ferocity of the discussion go
ing on among our own people."
' Developing that theme. Hoover
continued:-
"Certainly it Is a sign of a dan
gerously irresponsible mind In a
nation when patriotic men are
fiercely denounced as being the
tools of Great Britain or pro
nazL And by way of pointed illus
tration, I refer to --two men
single-minded men - in .their : de
votion to our.eountry They, are
William Allen White and. Col.
Lindbergh- both of whom have
f v (Tff am to page 7rcoIumn2)
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Germany Irked
At US Policy;
Warning Given
British Request Shipping
Be Turned Over Draws
Spirited Rejoinder
Removal of Three From
Diplomatic Corps at
Paris Requested
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
BERLIN, Dec. 21-(;P)-An offi
cial spokesman of the German for
eign office charged today that
Britain's minister of shipping
was "inciting America to commit
a warlike act" against the axis
and, in carefully chosen words,
added that the United States' re
action "is being awaited by Ger
many with extraordinary inter
est." The occasion for this solemn
and emotional statement was a
press conference weighted with
gravity;, the reason, an interview
given the American press in Lon
don yesterday by Ronald Cross,
the British shipping minister,
who suggested assignment to the
British of the German and Italian
ships which are tied up in neutral
United States harbors.
The German spokesman, in an
aside, added: "The reichsgovern
ment is therefore centering its en
tire attention upon this (United
States) reaction."
Rome Is Confident
It Won't Happen
(Informed but unofficial poli
tical sources in Rome said deli
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Longview Vicinity
Suffers in Storm
Hangar Collapses, People
at Dance Injured as5 - ?
Tree Crashes in
LONGVIEW, Wash., Dec. 21-(P)-H,Sb
winds striking Longview
and Kelso at 10: SO p.m. tonight
collapsed a hangar housing at
least three airplanes; drove a fall
ing tree through a crowded dance
hall and started 10 fires.
Anlte Olsen, 19-year-old Puget
island girl, received a fractured
back when struck by the tree at
the dance hall. She was in a crit
ical condition at a Longview hos
pital. Her cousin, Doris Olsen, 17,
also of Puget Island, received cuts
and bruises from the toppling
trunk.
The collapsed hsngar was at the
Kelso municipal airport. The
planes, left to face the wind with
out protection, skewed crazily
across the field, crashing into
fences and ditches. Extent of the
damage was not estimated.
A shorted power line near Ka
lama started a small forest fire
which was raging uncontrolled at
midnight.
At the Pleasant Hill dance hall,
north of Kelso, a large crowd was
dancing In the light of coal oil
lamps called into service as pow
er lines failed when a tree 24
Inches in diameter crashed
through the roof directly In front
of the orchestra members and
crushing the two women.
The building material building,
a lumber yard structure in Long
view, collapsed in the wind. The
frame structure had been used for
storage.
T
Prayer for Peace
Proposed by FDR
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-fl5)-Presldent
Roosevelt, in a letter
read today at special services in
the Plymouth church of the Pil
grims, called for prayers "that
the day may be hastened when
the kingdoms of this world shall
become the kingdom of God, and
the reign of moral force shall
supplant brute strength In the
government of men." 1
The services marked the trans
fer from r the former Plymouth
church to the Plymouth Church
of the PUgrims of a piece of the
original Plymouth rock, tradi
tional landing spot of the Pil
grims at Plymouth, Mass. The
two churches, both la Brooklyn,
were consolidated several years
ago.
The president's letter, read by
the Rev. J. Stanley Durkee, pas
tor of the church, said "We who
hold, to the old Ideals of freedom
must keep faith, even in the face
of the challenge . of those ideals
over large areas of the earth,"
ffit-Run Autoist , .1
j Kills Cyclist, 11
PORTLAND, Dec; 21-(AP)-A
hit-run motorist killed 11-year-old
Elinor Marian Falk outright on
the super-highway - a half mile
from her Milwaukee home tonight
' ; Witnesses . said the child was
riding, her bicycle at the time the
car- struck her and- roared away
without stopping.'. V 1 :.';-, I . i .;;. .
Princess
Fails to Report
STEPHANIE HOHENLOHE
Princess Believed
To Have Departed
Stephanie Fails to Report
but May Have Left
Without Notice
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 21-(P)
Captain Frits Weidemann, nasi
consul general in San Francisco,
hinted tonight that Princess Ste
phanie Hohenlohe of Hungary had
left the United States secretly,
complying with a government
ouster order.
"I think she has gone," Cap
tain Weidemann said.
The princess, friend of high
nazis hei-e and in Europe, bad
been, refused an extension of a
visitor's permit, and the deadline
for her depasture-was set for this
mfdnight, - .
Captain Weidemann declined to
say whether he knew definitely
where the princess was, and
laughed when asked which route
out of the country be thought she
probably would have taken.
Defense Speedup
Coals Described
Navy Orders Are Placed;
Gravity of Crisis Is
Cited by Knudsen
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-V
The new defense high command
today set as its goal maximum
production "in every field which
can contribute to victory" and
asked for cooperation of "every
element in the American com
munity." The expression of purpose was
made by William S. Knudsen, di
rector of the office for production
management of the defense com
mission, in s statement at. the
close of s day which saw these
concrete steps in the rearmament
program:
Extension of the export control
system to 16 additional Items, in
cluding chemicals useful - in pro
duction of war gases and aviation
gasoline.
Placing of navy orders totaling
1284,218,700 for submarine chas
ers and auxiliary vessels. Includ
ed were four ships designed for
placing anti-submarine nets at
entrances to strategic harbors.
Knudsen asked the American
people to. recognize "the full gra
vity of the crisis" in the world
and "figuratively to pull off their
coats and roll up their sleeves
and give their concentrated,- un
divided attention to one thing
the swiftest possible production of
means of defense.
He said "the contest which pro
duced the crisis is irreconcilable
in character, and cannot -be term
inated by any methods of appease
ment." "Both the future security of the
United States and the total de
fense for our democratic princl
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Lata Sports
PEORIA III-, Dec 2 1-(A-The
University of Oregon salvaged a
87 to 48 victory over Bradley
tonight to give. the barnstorming
westerners a record of three tri
umphs In - seven games of their
transcontinental trip.
Phenomenal shooting gave the
invaders a 17 to 7 lead midway of
the opening period at which point
reserves took over and protected
the .margin, Oregon bad a 28 to
20 lead at intermission and , was
always seven . or more points
ahead thereafter. '
" , Paul McCall, 'Bradley guard,
paced the scorers with. 20 points
and Hank: Anderson led the win
ners with 11," ,
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 21-0?)
-In nip-end-tuck battle . from
start to finish, the barnstorming
University of .Indiana basketball
teanf edged out Stanford tonight,
t to ft, breaking a . tie in- an
overtime period: Stanford led at
the half. 2 2 . to 21. - ,
Ousted
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Bombs Shatter
ide Party
s, London
Bodies and Tinsel "Mixed
. in Tenement Rubble;
Fear Many Dead
150 in Building Fail to
Heed Raid Warnings;
Air War Fiercer
LONDON, Dec. 22-(Sunday)-(JPyA
German bomb smashed
Christmas parties in a London
tenement .house last night and
killed-an undetermined number of
Londoners .who were singing car
ols andexehanging"YuIeUde gifts.
... The-raiders scored their hit on
the tenement house before mid
night and thereafter the raid en
the year's longest night tapered
off Into a lull and the all clear
sounded before dawn.
' In the streets outside lay bits of
tinsel and a star from atop a
Christmas tree. Amidst the rubble
of furniture, bricks, children's
toys and Christmas decorations lay
bodies in their respectable "Sun
day best."
Hen and women who a little
while before had been singing car
ols and exchanging Christmas pud
dings and candy stood dumbly
about the ruins.
"It came like a hammer blow,"
one man said. "My wife and I
were out in the kitchen preparing
some food. Inside they were sing
tag 'God Rest Ye, Merrie Gentle
men" and laughing and shouting.
Suddenly we heard that awful
woosh of a falling bomb. Thank
God my kids are with their grand
mother in the country.
"There's what is left of the
party," he said with a gesture at
the broken homes.
There bad been parUea all
around the district, some in air
raid shelters and others in homes.
When the sirens sounded most of
the people stayed In their bouses,
believing it would be just another
"light night,- " - -
Then they were dead on the
pavements or peering sadly into
wrecked homes. The wounded had
been taken to hospitals. Children
still clutched eheap toys in the
cold. -
Firemen worked In the tene
ment wreckage. There seemed lit
tle hope that anyone below was
alive the bomb had been a big
one. As they worked, pathetic
mementoea of the party were
shoveled out into the street a
bag of Christmas candies and a
red and white figure of Santa
Claus.
There probably were 160 peo
ple In the tenement at the time
the bomb fell. The number of
dead cannot now be released,
German fliers had bombed a
London apartment house earlier
today, causing an undetermined
number of casualties there. As
they renewed the assault on the
city tonight on this, the longest
night of winter, raiders were re
ported crossing the southeast
coast at great height in at least
two waves.
Liverpool and other Merseyside
towns were assaulted for the sec
ond successive nights. The nasi
air attacks which followed by
24 hours heavy British raids upon
Berlin extended from the Eng
lish channel to the Irish sea.
During the day three nazi craft
were officially reported shot
down.
Poor man, Secor Called '
To Year Army Duty
PORTLAND. Dec. 21-fl3)-Or-ders
calling five additional Ore
gon reserve officers to a year's
duty with the srmy were issued
today by Col. J. J. Fulmer. -
. Included were first Lieuts. John
Melchor Poorman and Ralph Scha
der Secor, Salem, to Fort Sill,
Okla. v
Group
Crash Victihiknbw Identified
As Mrs. C Wold of Newport
That one of the four victims of
the fatal automobile collision on
the - Hazel , Green-SUverton road
11 muea northeast of Salem Fri
day night was erroneously identi
fied as Mrs. -mile Vallet, of
Scotts Mills, was discovered yes
terday afternoon by Deputy Cor
oner Virgil T. Golden.
The woman instead waa Mrs.
Charlotte Wold, 40, of Newport,
Golden announced. She is surxiv-
ed by her husband, Bert, of Port
land, a daughter, Margie M. HeW
vey, of Glenwood, and her par
ents, - Mr. - and Mrs. Gosaer, of
Oregon City.
William Winn, of Salem, one of
the. two survivors of the crash,
remained unconscious and In -critical,
condition at Silverton Gen
eral, hospital, suffering from -a
basal skull fracture.
The : other survivor, ' Darline
Crltes,' 2, of Scotts ; Mills, . was
suffering . severely . at : the same
hospital - from shock . and a , frac
tured thigh. bone, but was improve
lnr Saturday night - v
. Mrs.' Champ CV Shepherd, who
was burned seriously by naming
gasoline : when an automobile' in
Salem VicimMMas
Several Blackouts;
Power Poles Down
Yuletide Decorations Are Blown Down
and Shopping Impeded; Silverton '
, Dark Linger Time, Has Fires
j ,
Damage More Serious in Other Areas
of Northwest; Building Topples ,
in Portland; Gusts Strong
Whipped by a 'gusty wind which reached gale propor
tions for short periods last night, high tension power lines
in the Central Howell district between Silverton and Salem
crashed to the ground at 8 o'clock carrying ten poles down
and plunging Salem, into a ten minute "blackout" before
power from west side lines along the Wallace road and from
the Bonneville substation just out of West Salem could be
switched in. Every available lineman in the area was called
into duty to remedy the damage which spread over the west
portion of Marion county and east section of Polk county in
Inflation Guards
Being Developed
Doesn't Mean Government
Expects Itv Asserted;
Trends Analyzed
By IRVING PERLMETER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-;P)-Like
firemen who purchase equip
ment for fighting a catastrophic
blaze which may never develop,
administration economists are de
vising methods of combatting in
flation from, the multi-billion dol
lar. defeh:prograja; although
saying they do not expect It.
Admittedly,'-the current situa
tion, with ht. government putting
unprecedented sums of money in
circulation In the acquisition of
weapon, contains elements tend
ing to increase prices. ' After pro
longed study, however, the pro
fessional economists In the gov
ernment are of the opinion that
there la no real threat of infla
tion. In general, here are their ten
tative conclusions:
1. There will be slightly high
er prices and greater mass spend
ing power in terms of dollars (al
though those dollars may not buy
as much as at present).
2. After a decade of depres
sion, the country can stand such
a mild inflation, if it can be
called that; perhaps ought to
have it.
2. If real inflation threatens-)
it can be checked.
Over-simplified, what causes an
Inflation la this: When money is
plentiful, a large number of
would-be buyers bid against each
other for a desired article and
boost the price. The seller, natur
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Prominent Eugene
Lumberman Dies
EUGENE, Dec. 2 l.-i5)-Death
today ended the career of J. S.
"Jack" Magladry, 76, prominent
northwest lumberman.
Manager of the Bohemia Lum
ber company near Cottage Grove,
he was also a member of the board
of directors of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association a past
nresident of the Willamette Val
ley Lumbermen's association, and
a former republican state senator
from Lane county.
A daughter, Mrs. John Trott
Murray, Portland, survives.
which she was riding waa struck
by a Salem Taxi ambulance bring
ing in two victims of the first
accident, waa described last night
by her physician aa in "fairly ser
ious condition." aa waa her hus
band, - who suffered a head in
jury whose nature had not - yet
been determined. Both are in Sa
lent general hospital. -,
- The other three persona fatally
injured aa a result of the acci
dents were: Arch Clayton Winn,
87, Salem; Ted Crites, 34, and
Mrs. Ted Crites, S3, both of Scotts
Mills. - - ;- -
8tate police yesterday ' turned
reports of. their Investigations of
th two accidents over to, the dis
trict attorney's officei Deputy
Coroner Golden said It .would -be
decided Monday whether- or not
an Inquest would be held. .
I SILVERTON, Dec. 21 Fun
eral services for Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Crites, victims of automobile ac
cident Injuries Friday, will be
held -Monday afternoon at ' 2
o'clock from the Ekman funeral
home here with interment In the
Odd' Fellows .cemetery at Scotts
Mills. '.-- : - . f.- -.
sporadic interruptions. Second
major interruption came at 10:18,
lasting four minutes.
Most severely bit large area
was East Salem where lights were
off for more than an hour and a
half following the S o'clock in
terruption. An 11.000 volt line
was burned out requiring exten
sive repairs, W. M. Hamilton, di
vision manager of the PGE com
pany in this area, said at midnight.-
, ,
Local damage extended to falling-
limbs and trees cutting street
lines and some rural service wire.
Silverton electricity was cut off
at 1 o'clock this morning to re
pair damage from a -burnlnr ia-
hsulator believed fired by light
ning, The Brooks area was black-'
ed out until mldn!gb"w'
Officers of the Pacific tTele
phd and Telegraph company in
this area reported numerous lines
down at midnight. The Statesman
wa unable to reach the airport
weather station for the midnight
forecast last night.
Included in damage credited to
the wind was the blowing down
of several of Salem's overhead
Christmas decorations.
Salem firemen were called out
during the . darkened period to
extinguish three of the 12 chim
ney fires reported last night. The
three were at H I g h 1 a n d,and
Myrtle avenues, 1198 North 17th
street-and S88 North Commercial
street. The other nine of the 12
blazes, sll reported between 7:S
and 8:45 p. m., were at 1425
North 18 th street, 411 North
Front street. 24th and Chemeketa
streets, 1665 Olive street, Broad
way and Shipping streets, 1284
Court street. 625 South 25th
street, the California Packing
plant, and at 260 South 16th
street.
SILVERTON. Dec. 21. Silver
ton was "blacked out" for an
hour and a half tonight due to
power failure resulting from high
gusty winds, amidst great Incon
venience to merchants and Christ
mas shoppers. Power was off from
7:57 to 9:25 p. m.
And while the lights were out,
two fires occurred one in the
office of the Portland General
Electric company which was al
ready having Its troubles. The
fire, resulting from a short cir
cuit, damaged a desk and burned
some papers in a pigeon-hole be
fore its existence was discovered
by Helmer Jorgenson.
The other fire was at the Joha
Kloster home north of Silverton.
The house was saved despite a
delay in calling firemen by tele
phone, necessitated because the
powr failure kept the siren silent.
SEATTLE, Dec. 21-A)-A wind
reaching- hurricane proportions ia
places ripped across western
Washington and Oregon tonight,
blacking out cities, toppling tele
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Soldiers Return
Fir-Yule Period
Salem took on some ef the as
pects of an army camp as local
boys returned In numbers from
the-camps on Saturday and many
others passed through beaded for
their homes farther south in Ore
gon. - PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 21-$P-Thousaads
of 41st division sol
diers national guardsmen sta
tioned at Camp 'Murray. Wash.
poured through : Portland today
en route home for Christmas. -
S Every : conceivable mode - -of
transportation was represented by.
soldiers . reaching bere en route
to Oregon. Idaho, . Montana, and
Wyoming homea, ,
Two special troop train palled
out of the Union- station and
crowded basses took; others- on
their way... . . .
The eager -soldiers, " many , tl
them on their first trips home
since' mobilization in September
were part of the division's 12,00
men granted 11-day holiday
leaves,.:, . .;: ; -v-.; "'.- .. -" .:.
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