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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1941)
I- 1C cThordugli Scrrjco -Local -news aad picture T .: . ' i -! I Torn 9 The Oregoa States-; num. World aewsT The " Stateemaa. tells it all Is ac '.' curate, speedily delivered Associated Press dispatches. 4 ' CWathiMd eold; rtlr ! j jrlth local valley fogs ? toiUty !ad Friday. lsx. tMsO Wednesday, nta. 32. Keetlwast wind. Clody. -.14 tnrrETETn yeah Scdeau Oregon, Thursday -Morning. January 2. 1941 Price . 3c Newistarids 5c Ua. 2(3 11-V idte an mm : i-1 -r- r -m m .se x J. 1 - . ...... .. . ,. -j- i ....... , . ' I. ... X ' I J.. .Envelops I1(D)WII CS Tl m o 6 - :-- -5 v. Reserve Board Would Remove FRGoldPowe Proposes Repeal of Laws . orr "Greenbacks' to Avert Inflation;' Heactipn . of-Congressmen Generally Favorable; i FDR Silent ' By IRVING PERIMETER , WASHINGTON, Jan. s.n- unprecedented move; to fore stall any possible inflation of the nation's money, ;tne . -federaj re. serre system today , proposed re moral of the president's power io deralue the dollar, repeal of i'reenback" lesislation, an. even tual ."balanced budget, and restric tions on bank lendins;. " . ' ' Sysfem officials said it was not presented, as .an administration crososal. and neither; the White House nor other official quarters would express an opinion oa the plan,, which .wp'uld require con gressional action to make it ef fective. - First reaction among the few members of congress In town was generally favorable. For example. Senator Kins (D-TJtah) said the plan was "by and large very wise" and that the t president's mone tary .powers constituted a "sword of Damocles hanging over the fi nancial system." Board Says Plan Precautionary . : . At .the federal reserve board, spokesmen - said that : while the program . was only . precautionary and did not Imply that there was any Immediate- threat of inflation, .the rapidly increasing pace ; i business under the defense pro gram had changed- conditions so that so-called Inflationary legis lation of. the past i was no longer iiesirRIe, wJiateier TOerits it had t The plan waf prpfiaied; in fire joints. 1 srJoiat yeportr first jjf Iti' ktndb: the federal re serre board f the presidents of the 12 :reserre. bankSf and the federal (Tmrn toPaga 2, CoL 1) BO Paul Haiuer9 Column It Is now, according to our calendar, 1941 and 1940 la dead and done with, but w suppose we'll go on hon oring It on our chek stnba Into the middle of March. ' f The year 1940f lert us ana we experienced n o sadness except the usual slight hangover. All In all it was a good year, as the years come and go, and may rest In peace. V : "V Wt didn't rtnlEEunt.tr. make any resolutions, having re alized at an early age that our strength of character was noth ing, to brag about. We adopted a "whatthehellf attitude before we could talk. We noted that the honor of the west was ably upheld by the Indians of Stanford and the west team in San Francisco and then lost count of the bowls. We predict that at the present rate of increase by 1031 . there win be a bowl for every foot ban team, including that of the Girl's Athletic club of Hackea ' sack. Now that everybody has fin ished celebrating the coming of 1941 we can move on to the next anniversarr. Today is the time to celebrate it. We refer to the 92d anniver sary of the introduction of the bloomer by Ana Bloomer on January 2, 1849. i - ...... With the aid of Stephen Collins Foster, who died penniless be cause he couldn't protect the copyright of, his songs, the radio ' Industry is serenading ASCAP with the ditty (restricted) "I Get Along Without Ton Very Well." TRUTHFUL ADVERTISING "All knlda wt Job piloting art akin. fally srodsc4 ia o ska." . New Jersey Sler.. The Associated Press nominates the following-Incidents for .the 1940 screwy news haH of -fame: Absent-minded professor of the year: The Seattle solon who gave a lecture on "memory and dis covered that he was -speaking on -the wrong date and to the wrong audience! -. . ....- Sleeper of the year: The .Phil ' llpsburg, Pa man "who .doted peacefully as the ear he was drlv . lng hlt:(l) a bridge, (2). a tree, (?) a sidewalk, and (4) a house. " Theft of the year; At El Cen . tro, . Calif., four railroad ears, three miles of track and a 10-ton locomotivs i.::,''Jj. -a ' Animal of the year: Th4 math- .ematlcal mouse or Ahoskle, NC, who built his nest ouV of punch board slip inside an adding tat- 1 " i I Tense Vichy, Reply Relation Break Hinted i Unconfirmed Dispatch From Lisbon Says Parleys Between France, Germany Broken off; No Indication Shown at Vichy " - ' . i VICHY, France, Jan. L-'(AP) Tension noticeably increased in official circles tonight as the government await ed, amid rumors of ruptured negotiations, Adolf Hitler's re ply to tiie proposals of , Chief of State Petain for limited French-German collaboration. A Reuters, British news agency, dispateh from Lisbon to London said negotiations between the two countries had been broken off .but this -dispatch was not confirmed from her sources. The government met all reports with silence, and at Marshal Pe tatn's New Year's ireceptinn -of foreign, diplomats there wu no indication" of friction in the ne gotiations. But Petain did tell those assembled: ! , f "I am, certain my . country will resume its place among nations;" Negotiations between Petain's government and. Germany hate been at a standstill since Naval Minister Jean Dar lan took the old marshal's latest proposals to Hit ler somewhere in occupied France on Christmas day. A reply was not expected before January 3r and , the subsequent dead silence from the northeast haa caused a flood of rumors in VIohy. ' In informed quarters, however, a German move to occupy unoccu pied France suddenly, is not expected.-Instead these sources fore see a. possible closing of the line of demarcation to cut communica tion between the two tones and thereby cut off food to occupied France except through. Germany. RAF Raids Widely Halt Uorerr-: Vital - Jf oinls m Italian ' Machine Are Strafed CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. . l-V-In a series of raids over a vast area extending from lower Italy to the southernmost gate of the Red sea, British pilots have bombed a half dosen vital points in the fascist war machine, the royal air fece announced today. This aerial offensive one of the biggest in scope yet carried out in the Mediterranean war theatre got under way Monday night, went on into yesterday morning and throughout the day, the British said. They added that alt during yesterday "no contact with the enemy was made.". . The pattern of violence result ing wax thus described la an RAF communique: At Taranto The Italian naval base where the British claimed toi have crippled half of the na tion's six battleships as well as four other warships on Armistice day 11 bombs seen to burst around the units of -the Italian fleet anchored there, Palermo harbor, in Sicily, at tacked: the southern Albanian port of Valona chief : port of T (Turnr to Page 2, CoL 8) Shock MTacbma Is not TACOMA, Jaiu lff-StUl un explained tonight was a distinct jar, as. if from an earthquake or an explosion, felt in many parts of Ticoma shortly after 3 p. m. to day. I ' Police headquarters, the Pierce county sheriff's office and the Ta coma office of the state patrol re ported receiving numerous inquir ies as to the origin of the disturb ance. A careful check revealed, no explosion in the area. No damage was reported. - . Survivors of Ra Reveal Crews Still Captive CANBERRA, Australia. Jan. 1. -y!p Survivors from seven mer chant vessels sunk by German warships in the Pacific disclosed today that passengers and -, crew men from three other craft were still held captive by the raiders. - Ytvid stories of the week that they ' also were prisoner came from 496 survivors including 70 women and seven child r n ; brought to Australia after they were marooned Dec 21' on the lonely island of Emiran. ? " They reported "their treatment was good, but rations were abort. The thwrider: of guns in fresh .en gagements, they caid, .came to them several times Sbetwwa deCkaVT '": li ' -2j: vf.v ; 1 ' The former Vsptivea, apparent ly put ashore eeause the Ger mans could not continue feeding them, were rescued four days later ba.- ' - toTrrbJ an Australian jsW. v ' t Those -yerorted still beld cap tive were he erewa ; and . passen gers Df the f,l-toa unusn snip v ffiitirig as ,& i' N. Ci Smith Named To Follow Tazwell Sprague Construes Bench Post; in Multnomah j to Be Vacant Governor Charles A. Sprague stated last night that he woald construej that a vacancy would exist on ; January t in the office of circuit Judge, probate depart ment of i the fourth Judicial dis trict, Multnomah county, because of the death of John A. Meairs, elected in November. Th governor's appointee will be Newton C. Smith of Portland, member of the firm of Reynolds, Smith and Flegel. Smith, a grad uate of the University of Oregon lair school, has been active ! in the practice of law in Portland for many years. . In . connection .with the an nouncement the goVernor issued the following statement:-. i "The death of John .A. Mears after he was elected circuit Judge dr the fourth Judicial district and before' the date for him. to take office raises a legal question as to whether there, will existron Junnirv C trext a vacaney ln"the term of this of nee or waetner well, shall Continue until a ej Vror is elected. I nnd - there r Is difference of opinion among lawyers on this question. "The office of judge in the probate department of Multno mah county is of such importance that the question' should be set tled as promptly as possible. Tfre competent authority to pass ton the question Is the state supreme court. It will simplify and ex pedite the determination of the issue If I as governor appoint! a person to fill the office, based on the conclusion that a vacancy in the term exists which it is my constitutional duty to fill. "I therefore announce the ap pointment of Newton C. Smith of Portland as circuit judge, probate department, fourth judicial dis trict of Oregon, effective January 0, 1941." China May Obtain US Pursuit Plants WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 -(JPj -The possibility that China might be allowed to obtain several hun dred fighter planes from the Cur tlsa Wright corporation next spring was discussed in govern ment circles today. These conversations followed; a press conference statement by Secretary Morgenthan that Presi dent Roosevelt's lease-lend plan of supplying aid to Great 'Britain "mighti apply" to Greece and Chi na or ''anybody." Officials said that production of several hundred P-40 pursuit ships for the embattled Chinese might be sandwiched in next spring between completion of an existing British order and the change-over to an Improved mod el ordered by the United States army air corps. This government has been in formed that China's few present (Turn to Page J, Col. 5) ided Ships lan ship Rlngwood, and the 2, 4 8 9-ton No ton, a French vessel.: From the German guards, the other survivors brought to Aus tralia said they learned the Tnf akina, armed only with a defen sive gun aft, fought for twf and a half hours before, it surrendered to a faster nasi warship armed with several guns and a trained fighting erew.. m .? . , . - Unconfirmed-reports were that only 23 of the Turakina's crew of 58 were; alive when the battle ended.' ? " ' ' J " :t . :" T The seven sunken ships from which the' survivors here were taken were theT.712-ton Rang itane, the 8,378-ton Triadle, . the f ,f 3 2-toti TriaBter, the 4,4 1 2-ton Trlona, the 2,9 0 0-ton Eomata and the 7f3tott: Holmwood, a four masted schooner, .all British, and the Norwegian merchantman Vin ci of J13J tpns: r 'r -irSr ' The crew of one shin became aware ef danger, the -survrveii said they were told, only when a searchlight suddenly bathed Uicir 77th Congress Opening Friday Gets War Talk President's British Aid Program to Provide Conflicts FDR Expected to Outline Ideas in Message on Monday By RICHARD L. TURNER -WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-P-Wlth President Roosevelt's plan for lending war equipment to England and the whole question of American policy toward the European conflict providing a seething controversy, the 77th congress will convene formally on Friday. Although technically a new ses sion, it actually Jrill -be a contin uation of the. one wnlch began a year ago, approved the begin nings of the nation's huge de fense program, enacted the con scription law, quarreled endlessly over the Roosevelt foreign policy, and at the insistence of house re publicans, and a few democrats, refused to adjourn. Friday's program will be brief and formal. As usual on the open ing' day, it will consist of the ad ministration of the oath of office to new members, the election of congressional officers, and the al together unnecessary formality of notifying the president that the session has begun. L Roosevelt Speech Comes Monday On Monday, Mr. Roosevelt will address the congress in person from the rostrum of the bouse. His "fireside chat" of last Sunday outlined his views on aid to Eng land, In. general terms, and many expect the speech to the national legislature to go into the details on which he did not touch at that time especially where the "lease lend plan for helping Britain is cdncerned. i ' ' " . - , - Wbtfa, tuat ofcvion sir will izafci -; . - r-,y Holiday Accidents Claim Four Lives Tillamook Youth Is Dead After Collision on Icy Pavement PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1-JP) Trafflc accidents claimed four lives in Oregon over the New Year's holiday. Two automobiles went out of control on Tillamook's icy pave ments last night, collided and killed Merle Hutton, 22, son of a Tillamook county dairyman. Hutton was thrown from the car of Harry Groshong and his body was impaled on a bumper guard. No one else in either ve hicle was Injured. Mrs. Edna Thomas, 32, Marsh field, was Jellied by an overturn ing automobile there last night. Later a wrecker taking the dam aged car to a garage was in' col lision with another automobile. injuring the driver. Lester Thompson, '21. Mrs. Louella Cox, 70, Portland, died In a Portland hospital today. A pedestrian, Mrs. Cox was in jured by an automobile December 12. Her death was added to the 1940 traffic toll, boosting the city fatality list to 88 for the year, compared with 84 for 1939. A train-car collision lataiiy in jured James D. Williams, 40, Merrill, Ore., last night. His auto mobile collided with a Great Northern freiicht train one mile east of Merrill. Five Babies Have New Year Nativity Five New Year's babies made their appearance in Salem yester day, the first amidst the noisy sa lute that marks the celebration traditionally staged in his honor baby 1941, now just two days old . ' Born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis C Floyd, Idanha, was a baby 'girl and to Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Se bern, 100 Childs avenue, Salem, a boy, both at the Deaconess hos pital. The Sajem General hospital also reported Just two births on the year's first day, botn Doys 10 Mr. 'and Mrs: Clyde Smith, Wood burn, and Mr.-and Mrs. Mark E. Powell, 1896 North Church street, Salem. . . - . . Mexicans Throng MEXICO CITY, f Jan v l.-UP)--WhUe 14 uniformed police and aa ondiscloBed m b e r cf plaln elothesmea stood guard inside and outside the theater tonight, thou sands of Mexicans crowded into the premier ct Charlie Chapliu'a picture, -The Great Dictator.". ;Tbe foreign office -l?t week rejected -a protest from the Ger man, minister here -..erring that Mexican authorities not permit the THEY'RE . . vi''r 4 r - ' - i - 1 I I. r.f f.L., X.. ..... .-tSv-...:...-V'.. .i: J i 'A I:.aw.:v5 - t These will be among 8a kin's new faces In-1041 9X40,S4. worth of acw tmlldlngs which win Be eaa pleted this year. At top is nearly-finished new Sacred Heart academy, bailrtlwg. cost $27,680; acxt, Pearce Sisters bnsiacsa corner reconatmctioa for aaaaaowaeed tesaata. Court and Commercial streets, cost 8327,000; below it, new Stewsloff Brotben (30,000 building, to be eecapied by Sally's, lac, and Adams Flower shop, at Court aad liberty; at lower right, reOectiaae eav oao of heaviest seetioas of pUte glass in Salem, oa face of $30,000 addition to Ladd . Bash-Saleas braacfa. United States Na tional bank of PorUaad; aad, lower left, f 15,993 Safeway community market acacias; completion at -14th aad State. Other stractares mow coins; wp are the $108,000 Willamette university science hall, the $88,918 state highway department's laboratory wait vat Airport aad Penitentiary roads, still ia the staking-oat stage; f 15,134 Safeway store. at Broadway and Market street, aad a 814,700 ad dltloa to the Rcid Murdoch caanf rj ji matfaiiiaa Photos.) . . ' ' ' WillMe Speaks up For British Aiding .MIAMI, fW Jan. 1-P)-Wen-dell L. Willkie, former GOP pres idential candidate, spoke out again here today for aid to Brit- Wlllkie told the massed thou sands . attending the Orange bowl gamo that -"preservation of 'the free, way of life la. Britain Is . es sential to its preservation la our own land,:"' tiT'"Jf,:t Hb added that be believed ' it was America's resolve "to J give those things necessary to aid the fighting men of ; Britain t so the tree way ;of living -may continue la other .portions of . the world. ::rl &ktxZm Qoale4 j o'Et CENTRO, If Jan 1 Ofy-An earthquake of sllght4a tensity lasting about three seconds was felt here teday.;;Tbere was NOT PRETTY NOW, BUT-r- . IV , .11 i -LLLLL I J kt-j i .wkj-.v-..; war I' ' t"l l , -1 . . Gus AndersWn Dies; Survivor , Of Sinking Ship Atheriia Gus Anderson, about '80, Salem man Who went to Europe to rest up from a law course found a career as travel agent and tour conductor, and gained wide atten tion in September,. 1939, as one of the survivors of the" Athenia's sinking, died yesterday morning ia Chicago. ' -.VV'"-"'-!'.- News Of. his passing, received here by his -sister. Mrs. Olive M. Beardsley,, 12S9 South 'Liberty street, did' not: indicate Whether he died in 'the Chicago jhospltal where he had stayed a large part of the! time since last January, dr at the Iresidence of his sister. Mrs. J Hr Parka, in thaVcity,- ; - a Veteran of at least four round-the-world journeys and ef 'many visits to the Orient, the . European and many; other countries, Ander eoa became best known in Salem for tlfl travel lecture and mo-1 .-" I V , -i tlon pictures,, preseated to ; dubs and ether audiences' on hia occa sional visits home..' ', - -1 Anderson was 'bona ia Salem, attended the city schools, and. Wil lamette university. He was gradu ated from the'NoTtnwestem "uni versity law school.' Chicago, and practiced to a small extant, but hia- first foreign tour-led him. to become - a -glebe -trotter-with i peculiar "sixth sense :f or import ant events which ,be : frequently witnessed, were they in Shang htiCB&rlJa orMpecewr Be spent more . than II yeart conducting foreign - tours aad - representing travel -geaclea. J-.j-. .- ir. JUidersoarwsairetarnlng -'with several members of big last Enro peanrtour 'part y ea the Bner Athenian when . she wae eunk by aa. axplosioh, attributed- - by , the .- (Turn to Page ..':coj a drlcers Seels i Ebiir Believed BeneaulSrimv 1 1- - ir -" CCC Boys Use OW, :. Shoytjs in lliggmg -"2. Kenne t 'of Salt take Only .One Known ? SALT'LAKE CITY, Jan.. l-C'P) A snowslide roared down a steep slope 'in the Wasatch mountains near here today and watchers said fonrt skiers .were in'! its path, i The.' enow and debris piled up to a i depth of 2 0 - to : 5 0 . feet at the base ef Rustler's peak', only a short, distance. from mountain slopes of the Alta .'skiing- area; where. aa estimated 1500 persona -weroV enjoying. New i Year's holt day.i !-. - i if. . i- "V Civilian1 conservation corps and volunteer workers 'dug" Into the deep snow with" shovels and a tractor-driven-snowplow was tak en td the region. Floodlights were set up. : " ' i 1 Pieceo- ef skis were ? found ' in the debris. They were Identified by companions as : belonging te Xenaeth C. Wright 6t Salt Lake City.f The latter had -hot returned to bis-home, -r.;.; ff; : Wright was the only person re ported definitely to be missing, i; Deputy Arch Hoffman said dozen officers from the Salt Lake eoTmty sheriffs office iwere . s slsttegia. the .a'unti!i'i-J'-VVf . - f So. far all we have found are the pieces of broken! skis, Hoff man said. "A number ef. persons . v. a t rFlin A D... t! I-S.1 ! 1 4 Snatched 3iild Js - ' . Ti-: . ! - -i W Sti '! ;,v ' ' Found not Hif rfaed I Seattle 1 Police Searcliicg foriiidnaper Vno Had ' ' i i - SEATTLE, Jaa. -l-f-Seattl police today sought a kidnaper who , snatched - two-and-one-half year i eld Jndith Rote Olmstead from -her "bed between 3 and 4 aja. today and left her unharmed in a thicket 110 feet from her home. -.: f " Judith is the daughter of Ar thur Olmstead, a garage mechanic.--- Mr; and Mrs. Olmstead told po lice the child was, snatched front her bed while the parents were at a neighbor's celebrating the New Year holiday. They retained home at 3 !a.aw to be sure she was sleeping safely, they said: bat whea they returned at 4 a.m she was missing. Olmstead said an in-1 fant son sleeping a the samel room, waa not molested and added: that-nothing was pissing frona. 1 : thbouse,' .-4 j- -4 Judith was found "a little more than an hour after j her ; parents noticed her disappearance. Though, she bad. been left lying . on the ground in . only," her . sleeping cjothea, she suffered ao injury ex eept ehilllng, Mrs. Olmstead de dared: , . . V : ; - U -tr . T . q - Officers were given a descrip-c tlon of a man seen peeping la a window of another home ia the' neighborhood earlier ia : the eve-- i e ; ; i - i 3 zuu uie Yioie As Year Is "rBy , The Associated Press) j lent deaths-as the i nation -eele-j brated the beginning of - a : new: year. ' . ; i.- . j Traifie accidents took a toll of at least. 127 lives. 6 layings, suU . . Atm2 t irea" and a v.r1tv ef acrt.. den ta accounted for; the rest." - 1 a train wreck; fires claimed three victims m- New . Tprnv two in Massachusetts and ! one in the ' state of Washington A falliag tree killed a resident Of . Wiscon sin, a fall of rock another in Kan- . saa. Aj drowning was reported ia : . Pennsylvania, while in New York a victim was gored jby a hull. h A late Associated' Press survey of traffic deaths by states showed; -. California 17 f lllihoia and Ohio 11 each: New York 11: Michigan, and New Jersey 10 each! Pennsyi vania bins i Connecticut and Texaa -six each; Virginia. West VlrginU and Wisconsin five each; Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Missouri four each; Washington and Ore- x. gon three; Louisiana; . Maryland it Vahh riaraitna two each: Ia- dfana, IRansas, Maine, Minnesota Montana. SOUttt varoiiaa-a&a ea aessee, one eacn . i Yakima Jlia JqJ VSl ' YAKIMA, Jan, ' il-T-r.obert Simonsosw- 43, was i found shot tbroagb,iae head ia.'Ua baser -t of hia home here tcEl-t. r?; .tr Sheriff Jack Buny&a iii,J t s t : 3 told by the man's brother j -f :'t fiffnhmtan-'-nad -I'J3- tince Christmas, -Y nuv Begun: f.-;-.-. . . ....
