-I " - TrHw'rri Yomn ; r TTeaihor ' " I ' The community eerred b y i The Oregon SUtesmaa; is -your community, this paper v. yonr newspaper. Look to 1 for 7 oar newt It's accu rate, interesting, on time. - Occasional showers today and , pjSTednesday. Snow tar, mountains. Max. temp. Uon Ur. 4S. inia. SO. Northwest wind.! tUia trace. River 1 reet, Goudy. ; Salem. Orogoa, Tuesday Morning. January .14. 1941 Price) 3cs nwaslanaa 5e Ho. 150 nrnoF . 1 It TigMeii Be vf0 1 rair . . i. ! TTK AO Gove ii i ii Urges : NjbJNew Taxes' aye: A irport Council Gives Go-Ahead Sign For First Development of $140,000 Project Awaits Only : Official Okeh CAA Will Call for Bids When Agreement Made for 63 More Acres An airport development that open Salem' municipal field to uae by. commercial transport plaBea upon completion of an ini tial $140,000 unit received the "go ahead" signal at an informal city council session called by May or W. W. Chadwick Monday af ternoon. The civil aeronautics authority, the council was advised, will call for bids as soon as the aldermen five the project their official sanc tion and agree to buy 63 acres of additional land. This the 12 mem bers present and the mayor pledged themselves to do at next Monday night's regular meeting. The first unit of the project, eventually to comprise at least four hard-surfaced runways, new lighting and possibly a radio beam Station, will consist of a 4000 foot paved runway 150 feet wide, replacement or extension of the present field illumination and marker system. Improving drain . age and placing interfering tele phone and power lines under ground, J. H. Keeffe, CAA air ways engineer, Portland, and CAA inspector Morris of Seattle, told the council. Alternate Landing Spot tor Colombia Field ' " Taei:riii-- vrere .toU .Ikal, after this first new runway la completed, the field will be suit able for use by commercial air lines. The Salem airport ultimate ly may be utilized as an alternate landing spot to Portland's new Columbia field, CAA officials in dicated when they first called on the council early In Novefber. Negotiations for the project were carried put with CAA offi cials by the council airport com mittee consisting of Lloyd T. Rig don, chairman, George Belt and Bert T. Ford. The committee ob- ' tained authority more than a month ago to dicker for the addi tional land required to permit con struction of runways of a length suitable for large planes. Waikie Obtains Visa for England NEW YORK, Jan. l3.-P)-The New York Herald Tribune said today Wendell L. Winkle's pass pert for his trip to England was delivered yesterday by a state department representative. The newspaper said passports also had been approved by John Cowles, president of the Minne apolis Star-Journal; Langdon K. Thome, a director of the First National bank of New York, and . Rassell Davenport, former man- - aging editor of Fortune raaga- .siney who will accompany Willkle abroad. (In Des Moines. Cowles said he hoped to accompany the 1940 re publican presidential : candidate. If passage by Pan American clip per could be arranged.) .Willkle plans to fly to Lisbon next week In a clipper plane, en route to Great Britain to sur rey the war situation first-hand. Before hla departure, he is ex pected to go to Washington to confer with Rep. Joseph W. Mar tin, Jr., of Massachusetts, nation al republican chairman. Portland Truck Firm Exempted In "Hours" Law WASHINGTON. Jan. 13-Pt-The labor department's wage and hoar division announced today the - City Motor Trucking company, Portland, Ore., tentatively had been included in the seasonal ex- emption from hour provisions of the fair labor standards act pre Tiously granted the "northern : Branch of the crushed stone in dustry. - ? .Unless objection is filed within XI days the company will be per mitted to work employes np to 11 hours a day and 66 hours a - week for 14 weeks without paying time and one-half for overtime. - ; Traffic Victim .. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. ll-UPf genry Jans, 77. Gull Lake. Bask., wad a, died In a. hospital today ct . automobile accident injuries suffered Saturday. He was Port land's second traffie ; fatality of the year. : . - Unit Blans A Oregon Editor Dies Sudd r? ..t... ft. LARS E. BLADINE Publisher Dies At McMinnville Heart Attack Fatal to Prominent Republican and Former Iowan McMINNVILLE, Ore., Jan. 1S (A Lars E. Bladine. 65, publish er of the McMinnville Telephone Register and former publisher of several Iowa newspapers, died unexpectedly tonight of a heart attack. He was a prominent member of the republican party and served as collector of internal revenue for Iowa from 1921 until April, 1932, when he moved to Oregon and took over the Telephone-Register. He also was a former president of the Oregon Newspaper Publish er' association. , : native-- fwft,' BteMlne came to the United States as a Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) 200 Are Rescued From Big Liner Passengers Taken From Luxury Ship Without Mishap off Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.. Jan. 13. JP Coast euardsmen. working in a moderately high sea aicKea up by a brisk breeze, re moved the last of 200 passengers from the grounded luxury liner Manhattan tonight and brought them safely ashore. The nearest thing to a mishap ended haODilT when rnnlmn grabbed a woman who lost her oaiance wnue being lowered to a small surf boat and nearly fell overboard. No one was injured and there was nothing resembling hysteria among the passengers. Plans were made to have the tug Wlllet, using kedge anchors to take advantage of swells lift ing the ship, attempt early to morrow to pull the Manhattan free. The 24,000-ton cruiser ship went aground last night, nine miles north of here. The worst storm of the winter battered Atlantic shipping today, leaving two American freighters In distress and delaying scheduled arrTal ' nre passenger liners. While other ships hove to, un able to make headway until the storm moved north, the 4896-ton freighter Coelleda radioed that (Turn to Page 2, Col. S) Justice Bean Better Justice Henry J. Bean was re ported "stronger" by Deaconess hospital attendants last night. The 87-year-old Justice of the Ore gon supreme court was hospital ized for treatment of an Intestinal ailment IS days ago. Unsalaried Deputy Sheriff Ep isdde Ends; Saunders out By RALPH C. CURTIS The curious episode of the un salaried Marion county deputy sheriff was on Monday a closed Incident. H. o. Saunders, recently of Los Angeles, no longer possessed, on 'Monday, the authority under which he had conducted an In vestigation of pinball activities and ordered operators to remove some or all of their machines fronl., public places. j No announcement to this . ef fect was made by Sheriff A. C. Burk. What the - sheriff did say was this: . :.'...'-- VI have never said he was ap pointed, io . I can't t gar ithat .1 have dismissed him.; v Early In the evening of Decem ber Z0, . 1940, . sitting in The Statesman office In the presence of, two .representatives': of vthis newspaper. Sheriff Burk. was asked whether H. 0. Sapnderg WiUlde Ideas On President j Powers Heard ' . ii Suggestions Considered by House to Restrict British Aid Bill Democratic Leaders Say They Are not Opposed to "Time Limit" H j; WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-(flV Amendments to the British aid bill reflecting, in part at least, the ideas of Wendell L. Willkle, were Introduced in the house to day after administration leaders had expressed a willingness to ac cept some restrictions on the pow ers the measure would give Pres ident Roosevelt. j After talking with the defeated republican presidential nominee by telephone, representative Simp son (R of New York) proposed that the bill's grant of authority be limited to two years and that the legislation specifically name the nations which this country Is to assist with loans of war equip ment. Simpson, a new member of the house but long prominent in na tional republican affairs, said he had talked with Willkle before presenting his proposals, but did not wish to commit 'the titular party leader to them. However, in announcing his general approv al of the British aid pill yester day, Willkle asked that a time limit be included. British Negotiating for Sale of Securities Meanwhile Secretary Morgen- thau. disclosed that the British, government. In order to get dol lars, to finance the war, was ne gotiating with American invest ment trusts for he sale of an un disclosed amount of British in vestments in the United States, j While the bill, as Introduced by administration leaders would per mit the president to lend or oth erwise furnish military supplies to any nation whose defense he con siders essential to the defense of the United States, Simpson's amendment would authorize help only to England, Ireland and mem bers of the British commonwelath of nations. Before assisting any other nation, he explained, Roose velt would have to come back to (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Stone Is Denied Time Extension Draft Board at Dallas Rejects Request of War Objector DALLAS, Jan. 13 A request filed today by Harry William Stone of Monmouth with the Polk county selective service draft board for an extension of time for the completion of registration pending the outcome of court action in the New York courts concerning the constitutionality of the law was rejected. Stone had previously brought suit in the federal district court at Portland and upon having his suit thrown out had been given until January 16 to register. Accompanying Stone's petition for an extension was the request for the type of questionnaire, available for conscientious objec tors of the selective service draft. Several weeks ago when Stone reported that he would comply with the law by registering, as a decision by the federal courts of Idaho had declared the law con stitutional, he prefaced his com pliance by a signed statement In dicating his position as a con scientious objector. ' was or was not a deputy sherift He replied that he was. An answer to a subsequent . question brought the statement that Saun ders was not on the payroll, j i Convinced that the assignment of an officer with no -risible means of support" to the business of policing a business recognized as peculiarly susceptible to racket eering, was contrary . to sound public poller. The Statesman pub lished, several news ' stories ahd editorials concerning the matter and Sheriff Burk made sereral statements directly and t Indirect ly, all ; of : which were i reported. At no time did - he suggest, until Monday,, that Saanders, was Dot a.deputy sheriff. .; j j ; Removal . of Deput Saunders from all. connection with the sher iff's -office leaves the way clear for an orderly policing of pinball activities If . the sheriff -believes i .(Turn .to Pag j; CoL I) j I Nazi Raiders Stage Fierce Coast Attack Thousands of Volunteers flight Flames; Welsh i Towns Also Bombed , British, Creek s Claim New Victories .When . Italians Fold up (By The Associated Press) German warplanes dealt ma jor assault last night and early today against a southwest. Engr lish coastal town and casualties were believed heavy. r The raiders followed - . their usual practice of dropping thou sands of incendiary bombs to light the way for bombers to un load heavy explosives. Thousands of volunteers fought the flames. Two surface raid shelters were struck, as were a church and two hospitals. Two Welsh towns also were bombed, and a third was machine gunned by the Germans. For the first time since Adolf Hitler's sky armadas began the siege of Britain, London military quarters claimed a "slight edge" in the aerial conflict which may spell victory or defeat for a nazl invasion attempt. As an example the British cited four successive daylight raids into the lair of the Ger man luftwaffe topped by the RAF's machine-gunning . attack yesterday on nasi troops In trenches along the channel coast. Greeks Assert Italo Lines Are Crumbling In the Balkan war, Greece's armies plunged ahead from cap tured Klisura, key mountain stronghold in central Albania, and declared that Italian defense lines- were crumbling before the GreeWjnj bt Oregon and its legislature, as the lst biennial session opened at tbe''cItdl yesterday, f Up advance on Valona, Italy'a last n-pJfu Rfcrt 8. Fnrrell Jr Portland repnblieaa, aged 4, as Jib. wielded gavel-Jo first time as major port In southern Albanidgj tlu lower bOutfe. ' Ttaper right. GoveriMw Cnnrie A. Sprngwe reads-his biennial message A Greek column pushing north (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) Salem Cherrians Crown New King Frank Doerfler Succeeds to Throne at Annual Banquet Conclave Frank Doerfler, local landscape designer, succeeded to the throne of the Salem Cherrians last night as the booster organization's 28th King Bing and third King Frank, . at the annual banquet, initiation and installation meet ing at the Marion hotel. Doerfler succeeded Kenneth Perry, whose year of rule was loudly lauded by the "vassals." Seventeen men braved the Cher rian initiation "cellar." They were Carl Collins, Charles Hugglns, Wallace Doerfler, James Burrell, Fred Carstensen, Charles Barclay, Clayborne W. Dyer, Dr. E. V. Fortmiller, W. C. Bell, Frank Ro berts, William Martin, Rex Kim mel, W. J. "Pat" Farrell, Ken neth Oolliet, Harold Pierce, D. W. "Tex" Burroughs and G. K. Mather. The 1941 council of nobles will consist of King Bing Doerfler, Sid ney McNeil, Lord Governor Wood; Fred D. Thlelsen, chancellor of the rolls; Chester Zumwalt, keeper of the orchards; A. C. Burk, king's Jester; William C. Dyer, Jr., Duke of Lambert; Orville Lama, Queen Anne s consort; Mayor W. W. Chadwick, Archbishop of Rlck reall; Henry M. Boesch, Marquis of Maraschino, and Fred S. Fins- ley, Earl of Idaho. Late Sports DENVER. Jan. 13-GTWames H. Moorehead, 69, former profes sional baseball player, died here today. Moorehead played with the Butte, Mont., Ogden, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, clubs la the old Union association and formerly managed semi-pro teams la Colo rado. BANT FRANniSCO. Jan. Out in front most of the wa. Tommy Martin, IS 6-pound boxer from London, took a 10-round main event decision over Pat Val entino, 178, San Francisco, at Col iseum bowl tonight. - TACOMA. JaiC ISHtfVA. one- man basketball, gang. Center Nor man Walker, scored 24 points here tonight to lead College of Puget Sound to a S 7-4 5 Tietory over Whitman In the first CPS defense, of its 194 Northwest conference title. :v j CPS led all the way and the regulars took to the bench for most of the second half. Walker scored , 1 of his points in the first half and played only about half of the final period.' CPS led at the -half, z-it: SPOKANE. JaiCrlJ-aVMonty Montgomery, business manager of the Spokane Indiana of the Wes tern .International baseball league announced today the acquisition of ,a - pitcher and "an- lnf ielder. - " (Tnra-td Pare 2; Col. ) THEY LEAD DELIBERATIONS OF LAWMAKERS f - ' ' ' s to the two hoaes. ' llelaw. Senator Deas Walker, Independence, a tion to the senate presidency by the post this year in Walker's Senate and Posts M Eie EaE Paul Hauser9 Column The state legislature arrived yesterday in a heavy fog and by terms of the state constitution Is entitled to re main therein for 40 davs. Alter me it days, by terms M of said eonstltu-t-i tion, the pajff stops and the leaislature comes out of the to g with the clarion r cry "Out of t h e ther getf d ac- won-1 mnrk. let's to work" and complishes won- ilri. The accom plishments of the rni H. emw, jr. legislature in these frantic periods amazes most-everybody, including the public printer who has to set them down, in good Ink and on paper of good stock. There is no objection to this as long as Ore gon still has trees and Canada sells us pulpwood. The nanniflcJent pay of the legislature is 93 per day or per diem if yon talk the kind of Latin legislators know. The other Latin they will admit to Is 'pro bono pnbllco" and if yov ask them why they work for S a day. they; will respond from the depth of their togas MPro . Bono Publico and of course I remember yon. The legislature was In session three, hours yesterday . and f 3 for three hourtr Is a buck an hour,. as any Certified Public Accountant nlalnrv see. This but make some people say, "Well, what are they 'kicking anoav espeoauy the good people of Marion coun ty who said it so vehemently that the legislators are seriously con sidering moving .the eapttol back to Oregon JCity, , - . - 1st fact, some of these days both bowses might- get so vsteamedl np with oratory that they could Hoat it back on the . lighter-thsn-elr principle. . The price of eggs In England has been reduced to 12 cents a itA.an The hlaeVAnt liaa nnariit. ly slowed production in the more modern nennousea. La Trirlata . GoTeraor, Spragne read hla message. t the legisiatnre with one eye n hie speech and the other Just idling. He bent the nose piece . on. v bis ; spectacle , . yesterday morning .and sent - them . to aa optician. The optician. In - at teraptfng to straighten the o-' ' piece, cracked a - lens. Since, time was a-wastin the broken lens was patched" tip with m 4 - (Turn. to Page 2r CcL 7 - - - - WW . VM ..... it Senator Dowgias McKay, Salem, laror. statesman photos. House Officers Take Without formal Contests Pre-Session Caucuses Iron out Path for Offices; Dean H. Walker Named Head of Senate; Farrell, House Speaker The 41st session of the state legislature followed a smooth path ironed out for it in pre-session caucuses as it or ganized yesterday and house and senate elected officers with out contests. Dean H. Walker, white-haired Independence hop grower, was the choice of the 25 republican and five democratic sen ators for i president of the senate. Robert S. Farrell. jr., 35-year- old Portland attorney, was unani mously elected speaker of the house after defeating William M. MeAliatex of Medford 37 to 23 in a Sunday! night caucus. State Senator Walter E. Pear son of Portland, who completed his term as state treasurer a week ago, will be chairman of the Important senate ways and means committee, President of the Sen ate Walker announced shortly af ter his election. Angus Gibson of Lane county won the coveted ways and means chairmanship in the house. Speak Farrell's committee appointments revealed. I The (0 members of the bouse, 24 of whom are "freshmen, and the seven newcomers and the re elected members of the senate were sworn in by Chief Justice Percy Kelly of the state supreme conrt, i Senator W. H. Strayer, senior member of the .senate, and Rep. Frank Lonergan served as tem porary chairman of their respec tive bodies during organization proceedings. - Senator H. C Wheeler of Lane (Turn to page 3, col. 1) New Speed Laiv Bill Offered ojryConside Day Aside from the bouse bill ap propriating the legislature's, expenses,-the only bill introduced on the first day was a measure to adopt fixed highway speed limits of - II miles nn hour in school sonesv 20 mile- in business dis trict, 28 miles" In residence dis tricts, and 45 miles on open highways.-" f.:. ' -. v The measure which would re peal the basic speed law and shift the burden of p roof from tneof flcer to the driver, was Introduced br Senators Lee of : Multnomah, McKay of Marion . and - Clark ; of Donglas. . .r---S'r"--: Under present law. it a motor ist is arrestedwhlle exceeding the speed limit, the nicer must prove the motorist' is operating .the car in aa unreasonable and imprudent manner. vvA i- s.' . Under the rronosed law..lf a motorist' is arrested for violating 7 A right, le.consnatnlated on his elera- who gave np his own aperatKns u All Consul General Of East Indies Dares Japanese NEW YORK, Jan. IZ-iJP- 3. A. Schurman, Netherlands consul general, declared tonight the Dutch East Indies "would be de lighted to hare Japan try Inva sion, for I am sure the Japanese would get the licking of their lives by our fleet, air force and land army of over 200,000 sol diers. He asserted Germany had made preparations for "springing, a coup in the Dutch overseaa terri tories just as they did In Holland, but our people were too smart for them." "I believe that the Dutch East and West Indies are the only countries where the German plans to create disturbances have utter ly failed, he said. "We even cap tured some 20 German ships fully loaded with cargo for which, the Germans had already paid. the speed limit, be must prove be was driving safely. . . A system of speed sones would be provided, in which bodies eon troling those sones may set either higher or lower limits. : . The highway commission would bare this authority on all high ways outside of city limits, and eounty courts would have - Juris diction over all roads in their counties which are not designated state highways.:; -v-:"--, v For highways through cities, there would be - Joint jurisdiction between the city authorities- and the state i speed control 'board. Members of this board would be the secretary of state, snperiateii dent of .state police and the chair man of the state highway commis sion. - -, - - -. v - Speed "sones 'on all other city streets would be regulated solely by the municipal authorities. -, . pisagtj Says Land Board Investment a i r n Office -Building is ync rropqsai , 8 ' :i ' . Compensation, iReforms Suggested;, Trucks Discussed t - jlr STEPHEN C. MERGLER With all eyes on tb interna tional scene and DnrlrAthnnka about to open wider to oav for the! ' United States' - sdarlng re armament program, Oregon's big task Is to keep its house In order, its industrial wheels turning' and its: state government functioning eujeienuy ana economically, Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague told the 41st state legislates; assembly here yesterday afternodn. , The state should therefore adapt no new forms of taxation an4 should not splurge on ap propriations - and thereby upset its closelr balanced 191-43 bud get, the governor advised in his biennial message. j I - But without dtsturbijik the bud ge and with profit tofthe sUU land board, the sUfje should build a new office building with in the capitol group j to provide adequate, centrally-located -housing for such major, self-supporting sgencies as the public u till t lea department and the i unemploy ment COmnensation Mmmiaslnn I which now rent euarterli in down- I tnton C.l. .v- Ll.i t 1 .vnu oucui, vu ezeppurs pro posed, j Funds for Building 1 I t From Land Board Bonds Buch a building, costing 000,000 and to be jeirected on block 85, across thje capitol plaxa from the new state library, conld be satisfactorily! financed, he said, with fowdkMefived from sale of land board bonds. The board " might . well profit from pifesent favorable market prices on Its securities and cojuld obtain a freturn of 3 per eent on ita investment In the building, to be paiid for out of office rentals ovjer a long period i ojt ! years,! he suggested. i : jThe governor also OUUinedUhs board of control's proposed six year building program, costing 3?00,000 a year, to bring the 12 stfte institutions up to date, and mde, among other major recom mendations, the following: a. Increase weight 'akd length limits for trucks operating t on state highways, and make trucks bear part vf the cost of general gdyernment. j j P. Equalize school taes within counties so that richir Hi.tr-ii. WOUld. helO ta fiunnnrt poorer dls- txicts . . . " - I c 3. Creats the office; of sdmia istrator. subordinate jtp " the iln dOatrlal accident commission J to administer th. wn.v... Jl . w. .mcu com pensation law; find ajway toin- luuijjcuMuua awaras fin the fixed categories isted . a inethod of appeal frdm commis sion awaras that "wduld Insure a greater degree . of i justice to claimants and eontHKirin. tke present method of tlury triaL" Extension of Forestry j l -Program Is Suggested ' j j 1.4. Extend the adminkstratlon'a forestry program by T enacting laws to provide for itrlinr ffM prevention and suppression meth ods, by acquiring burned-over and cutover lands for growth of sew forests, and by enforcing mini mum forest standards to permit nitural reforestation. f if. Enaet no labor legislation at thfs session, since the power of the state, in the light jef recent national enactments and court decisions, "does not appear to go much beyond efforts at mediation arid local policing." j t 4ff. Let "the much-debated ques tion of 'experience rating new a (part of the unemployment com pensation law) ... .taud . . . the test of experience." j J i ,lLAmend peopiei utility district law to permit sale by; ne gotiation of district ; bonds to the federal government, j j j j Governor Sprague devoted fer eral divisions of bis zaessage to tle federal and international sit- uuons. . i i i NoUng that the president's poll H (Turn to Page 2, CoL l onndiof 1 1 islature Is Offered on Radio n - - i - i "! First of a series of breadeasU designed to present background material on the Oregon legiala . inre fa sehednledl for ; tonight at ' : 71 o'clock over radio station KSLM. The series is! being hr Ranged by tembersr of -the . siate; department of I education. Staff with cooperation of Tbe ' Oregon - Bta teaman and m nam-:, per of other persons and orgaa :j tlations. " ' ,";" i Jii -f l Tonight's broadcast . wH f'LesteUtores, Past !a4 Pres nt- and win be presented. ;by Italph C. CnrOai assistant web-. lisher of The statesman, slstedt by Mrs. Cartia, ? 1, " 'I 1 1 ! k