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Yours -, :i. " The community served by The. Oregon Statesman is your community, this paper your newspaper., Look to It for jour news It's aceu ratev Interesting, on time. er Chiefs e, 4s - Mil ISlfewtelM ' V l X I LIU l' V I ' nrday. Max. tem,.f Jim. j - t ,, ' v i . sassY , Y... 3 4 - , .. , .. w '...; - - -. - . .wind. Rain jOe tacit, River i . ... X I : Sw sarsP' at awawe g It -4 ' rausnw - - A - - - . - " . . 111 11 T 31 W T II III! "Tit. I - 311 me! 'Threats" at' Of US Leader - Henderson Says President .Might 4Draft" Supplies ... v; and Fix Prices er Men Claim Costs .: to, Government Lower: - Blames Buy Plan WASHINGTON. Jari. ' :InI blunt language. Defense-Com ' i missioner i Leon Henderson told .: j lumber industry representatives I ; Thursday that unless rrlces were . lowered, he' would ask President Roosevelt "to fix prices and exer cUe.his power under the select ive serrlce act to "draft lumber, f 5 A 'spirited defense was 'entered ; .S bv' renresentative of the lndnn . ' t ttyi who blamed government pur- ?t chasing methods, among other factors, and said prices were on v t ; the down-grade. . . - ; ! , Speaking at ameetlng of the '..lumber and timber products de- : fene committee Henderson said: ? If the whole price level had -X: aed. like that of the- lumber , Imauxtrj, thl country woold be i ?! iA State of paralysis.' The government wants from . the lumber Industry, he said, a full supply, deliveries on time and .' fair, prices. VX'm going to recommend to the president," he continued. "that we do what it takes to get , , n ... , "We can get lumber. The gov ernment can get all it wants by "M1LVKRTON W. L. Mc Utuls, superintendent of tb Kfrver Falls Timber company ndll here, announced Thursday that the plant would resume full operation Monday morning, after a shutdown since Decern ber 1. The planer has been op erating since Christmas. The mill will run a capacity schedule, employing about 80O men. Including the planer force. MciJinnis said large quantities of orders are on hand. fixing a price and having the commander-in-chief of - the army afid navy forbid any payment of higher prices. , He can then use the selective service act to draft lumber the same as we are draft ing men. , "As far as I'm concerned I'm going to make that recommenda tion unless the situation im proves." Henderson's speech, sprinkled (Turn .to Page 3, Col. 3) Paul Hauser's Column We opened our ?le to the "W" compartment yesterday and found out what , there is to worry about In these times. What we . f otfnd was spinach. Under subsec- tlon "A" en-t 1 1 1 1 ed spinach, we found an Item telling how a New Jersey t slant" breeding I authority is pre- dieting mere, , will be a spinach shortage in 1942. From a selfish . and p e r a o n a 1 rata h. Hamz. jr. standpoint "this doesn't worry us ' because we can take our spinach r4eave It alone and much prefer the latter. We are not even wor ' ried about growing boys and girls not getting their iron. What we are worried about is the plight of the American humor ist. Shall one of his standard jokes perish from the earth for lack of a few spinach seeds. We - say. No! . . ' The spinach joke is divided into two well defined genrei. -Ihey are: - - - - i' - - A. The Joke about bow kids dont like spinach and what ; horrible ends they will go to, (We are informed that except for a few unreconstructed pro . digie who don't read the fanny ' papers kids DO like 4 spinach but that has nothing to do with the case.) -: $ i B. The joke about how spin- - ach has plenty of sand. This is t the best division because there I la a lot of sand in the world and whenever a gag writer runs - into a sandy -situation he can always throw in some spinach. - As 'yon can see there are more variations than there are cap tured Italians. We may ask the legislature for a spinach seed appropriation Just to save a grand old wheese from the fate of the iceman Joke, which got caught In an electric refrlgera. tor and never-recovered. Fashions for agricultural and community festival queens seem to call tor less and less clothing of hops, grapes, onions or ruta hatrai. The irl who Is picked' as queen for t h e Klamath region f O won't have "to wear any. She can go around clothed only la syll ables as she packs on .her slim shoulders the title, "Miss Shasta Cascade 4941 Alice in Wonder land." ... . r Visitors 'to the legislature are" warned to bang on to their bats. Somebody dropped o e eter&ay and nine representa tives and three senators started ',. gnaking cpecches. " Tells Lumberers : To Cut Prices t , X' LEON HENDERSON Rumania Rebel Forces Beaten Hostilities in Bucharest End With Over 2000 Dead, 6000 Hurt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The last of the Rumanian rebel iron guardsmen holding the police barracks and city hall in Buchar est were reported dislodged early Friday but it was not clear wheth er that signalled the end of a bloody civil war against tne -re gime of premier Ion Antonescu. Estimates of the" dead-: were 2000 and up wiU'tota43iuaUUi pufat 6000 since" the outbreaks were 'set off by the slaying of a German major in the capital Sun day morning. An air traveler arriving in So fia, Bulgaria, from 'Bucharest said the surrender of the police bar racks was brought about when the army artillery fired on the barracks from a distance of 300 yards. Border reports to Sofia said fighting was continuing outside Bucharest, especially in Ruman ian Transylvania where peasants were reported joining the rebels In the balkan war, the Greeks resumed their drive on the Al banian port of Valona as the weather turned more favorable. In some of the fiercest fighting of their war with" Italy, the Greeks claimed they took positions north of captured sura, in central Albania. new Kli Bill Substituted For British Aid Taft of Ohio Declares Measure Would not Help President WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-(J!P)-A substitute ald-to-Britain bill, pro viding for loans of $1,000,000,000 to the United Kingdom, J 500,0 00,- 000 to Canada and $50,000,000 to Greece, was introduced Thursday by Senator Taft (F-Ohio), This substitute,' Taft ex plained, "is designed to give aid to England Instead of aid to the president of the United States. It will give it quicker with much lees dissension and discord In this country." Senator j Johnson (D-Colo) In troduced a bill permitting the gov ernment to lend $2,000,000,000 worth of war materials to Britain. The only payment required would be reports on how the material functioned la battle. 5 WASHINGTON, Jan. M.-- Secreury Jiorgenthau said that subscription books: oa the 'trea sury's offer of $100,000,0001 na tional defense notes would close at midnight Thursday night. ' The, books were opened this morning, and closing the same night Is customary. i : :. ? The notes will bear of one per cent Interest and will mature la three years, sevea and one-half months, i WPA Executives i Of jWest tor BIeet WASHINGTON, DC. Jan. 23- (ff)-West states WPA executives will meet Howard O. Hunter, act ing WPA commissioner, here Fri day. -i-.-y-:. ,-.::'--' ,i .-. ' 1 ' - " National! preparedness projects probably will be discussed, said Uez Nicholson, director of region 7. Executives from Oregon, Arixo- na, Nevada, California, Washing ton, Wyoming, . Montana, v uua, New' Mexico, : Colorado and Idaho have been suasztoned to the con ference, t ij-'hi -. 't ! warnouna-uD; InM ireas British fcy Westward ruk Fall; mbjlaids. I ! 15 Aft ' Few Rumania Revolt Quelled ; ' Petairi Accepts j Japan Dicker' With $iam (By the Associated Press) : r - Advance units of Britain's ai-mv of the Nile moved westward be yond captured Tobruk Friday to ward the final phase of operations In north Libya. ! I j In Europe the Rumanian gov ernment announced It had crushed a rebellion led1 by Iron guard hot heads and communists.: T : - Motorized patrols of the British already were reported operating 110 miles to the west of Tobruk In tlia Tllnltv nf Rnmh nA TSa--- na, : the next apparent objectives in the drive of General Sir Archl- BERLIN, Jan. 23-(p)-Adolf Hitler's newspaper, the VoeN kissher Beobachter, denonnced Tuesday night es "the dirtiest horror lie of the war reports published abroad that Germany planed to establish a bomb prac tice range In a French areav where American war graves are situated, i (In Washington the state de partment said on Jan.! 21 that It had been unable to obtain confirmation of such reports.) bald Wa veil's army of hardy Aus tralians, Britons and "free Frenchmen." ' j ; Meanwhile in completing the oc cupation of Tobruk, the British counted at least 14,000 Italian prisoners, including four generals (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Fire Brtiifcs out In Dublin Castle r : Eire Ceiworship Olfice, Commerce Ministry j Are Destroyed j DUBLIN, Jan. 24-(Friday)-S(P) A fierce fire broke out early Fri day In Dublin castle, where the Eire censorship offices are located. A Dublin newspaper messenger gave the; alarm upon discovering the blaze while taking copy to jthe censor for approval. j ; Fire-fighting brigades worked feverishly to prevent the flames from spreading to a congested res idential area nearby. The offices of. tire ministry of commerce in the castle were 'de stroyed before the fire was con trolled two hours after it was dis covered. H Dublin castle Is the n u c 1 e n s from whieh the city of Dublin Is said to have developed. Although part of the castle was built in the first two deeades of the 13 th cen tury, the building Is mostly 18th century or later. The castle was built on a ridge overlooking the River LI f f ey which divides Dublin, and the ex pansion of the two from this point has been of great interest to stu dents of municipal planning. Lindbergh ! t C?i' ! Geis Noted Flier Ovation Telling Peace Stand I WASHINGTON, Jan. H.-iSy- coi. cnartes A. Land berg a, emphat ically denounced the British aid bill Wednesday as a "major step toward involvement ta ' a war which America could not hope; to win and asserted that it the Unit ed States minds Its ewa business. and arms; ltselt reasonably, lti Is not la danger. ... . f Repeatedly, la answer to ques tions put by members ef the house foreign affairs committee, he said that the combined forces of both Great Britain ' aad the United States could not successfully ta- LONDON, Jan. 24-(Friday ) -if)-News el OoL Charles ' A.I Lindbergh's denunciation el the British aid biU aad bis de-r sire for strict US newtrality in the war was printed wader big headlines in the British press today but there was ao taune dlate editorial comment. - i : The News Chronicle featured the testimony of the newspaper columnist Hugh 8. i Johnson with a headline; US may be In war In 90 days," giving s secondary place to XJndbergh'S testimony. . j - : . The London Times headline aid Colonel Lindbergh wants drawv,J;.!. Y vade the continent of Europe, un less there should be an lnternkl German collapse. Success, he said, Rev I ' . ' ....... . ft . It f - i - - . i I I " He Dahces so We Those Who t .... . ... . e '' ' ' , ' ' i .. . ' " i ','' i f ; . i - ' '; "V- J ' : - f ; ; A . ' - ' 1111 III . t . Dancing for Dimes, the nimble feet , af Bill Bo Jangles Robinson (above) twinkled en llroadway (NY) the other day to help lannch publicity for tho President's Birthday Balls to be held soon throach ont the nation. The colored stage and screen star is doing his part to raise funds for infantile paralysis victims. Salens Is staging a "Dance for Dimes" program. ; Federal, TWA Officials Probe Airliner Wreck Miracle Seen in L o s s "of O n 1 y Two in Crash at St. Louis ; Serious ly f JE p. x t Co - Pilot -v. - Qucsti ouecl Jjqii iCcilias31amed - ST. LOUIS, 'Jan.1 23-(AP) TJie twisted and torn wreckage of a 12-ton Transcontinental & Western Air sky sleeper made it apparent that only a miracle prevented more than two deaths among the 14 occupants of the plane in a crash Thursday morning. Captain P. T. W. cott, pilot who . had flown more than 1.500,000 miles, and J. F. Mott of Kansas City, a TWA employe rid ing as a passenger, were killed. The 12 others on the plane were hurt, half of tbem seriously and six suffering only minor In juries. Federal and TWA officials be gan an investigation of the crash. Several of them went to DePaul hospital and questioned O rest is J. Dio Guardi, 28, of -Jackson Heights, NS, the co-pilot, who suffered Internal Injuries, frac tured right ankle and Injured jaw. His condition was serious. The $135,000 ship, banking steeply for a landing at Lambert St. Louis municipal airport just before dawn, struck a tall maple and hurtled to the ground, plow ing through a row of trees and smashing two telephone poles. Bright Arc of Flame Lights Scene of Crash About 40 telephone wires and a 30,000-volt electric transmis sion line were severed.. A bright arc of flame from the cut cables momentarily illuminated the fall (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - -WARMS COL. CHARLES LINDBERGH would be dependent apoa "a eobv cldence of miracles.' - -v The famous flier, appearing at the request of opponents ot the bill,' urged an immediate ne gotiated peace. Even though It would not be .a just one. ac cording to American standards, he said. It was preferable to the continuance of a war which . would bring disaster to Europe. " He wanted neither side to win, he said, for a victory for either would be "disastrous" to alL ' -Hugh 8. Johnson. -the newspa per columnist, followed him to Won'iForkei Would Like to Walk 36, of Little Neck, NY, veteran Bomber Search Will Continue Col. Peek Pushes Hunt in , Several Areas; Snow Hampers McCHORD FIELD. Wash.. Jan. 23-A3-With'the start of the sec ond week of searching for a miss ing army bomber with seven men aboard. HeChord field officers ex pressed the fear late Thursday that snow on the ground and winter haze in the air would, hide the wreckage and bodies until spring. But, said Col. Walter Peek, the field's operations officer, the search will be pressed relentless ly from the air, augmented by ground crews when their work (Turn to Page 2. Col. f ) OF WAR ' GEN. HUGH 8. JOHNSON the witness stand, sad said that the bill amounted to Ma defensive and offensive alliance with Great Britain." in which any war alms the United SUtes might .h a e would be entirely la the control ot the British government. America was safe j behind ' Its oceans, be said., and he didn't see how "anyone, could turn ,up his nose at 3000 miles," when Mr. Hitler Is having so much trouble with 2S or. 30 miles.N - . . . "If ws'rs not careful, we're go ing to be In this war la 10 to 10 days- possibly oa the north coast I . !1 - " ! 1 FDRWiUSehd Special Envoy In GHinal Aid Assistant to President : Will Harry Hopkins' in Far East .... i . Economic Surrey to Give . US Information on - Defense Needs WASHINGTON, Jan.; 23-UP-In a parallel move to Harry Hop kins' special mission to: England, It was announced Thursday that Langhlla Currie, administrative assistant to President. Roosevelt, would visit Chin t soon ; to make an economic survey. Apparently he is to help determine what aid that country should receive If the pending lease-lend bill Is passed. &nphaslxing the- admlaistra- -' tioa's interest alike la ; Chinese - British resistance to Ger- 7, Italy aad Japaa, Cnrrte wlU go to Chungking at the In vitation of the Chinese1 govern ment and will bear a. special mews age of greeting to General Iseimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Knowa as President Roosevelt's personal economic adviser. Car- lie, 38 years old but with sn ex tensive background in economics, will be accompanied by Em lie Destres, senior economist of the federal reserve board. Currie. who was educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics, also held a position with the reserve board before be became admini strative assistant to the president In July, 1139. He Is expected to make an In tensive study of Chlaa a whole economic structure to determine the most effective means of help ing that country in an economic and financial way. As a. cloae advises J, to the president, however, --be 1 ex pected slso to stady China's war needs generally , and the strength - of Chinese resistance to Japan, much the same thing that Hopkins is believed to be doing in Great Britain. The United States has been supplying material assistance to China. A few weeks ago.lt grant ed a $50,000,000 export-Import bank credit and a $50,000,000 currency stabilisation loan. Chinese authorities, contending that China's need for war ma terials is as urgent as Britain's, hsve encountered difficulties la purchasing .planes and other equipment because of the priori ties of BriUsh and American or ders. There bave been indications, however, that the government ex pects to be able to increase the flow of arms to Chlnai in the spring. Portland to Get - Air Combat I Unit PORTLAND, Jan. 23-V-A!r corpsmen to ne stationed here will make up a combat unit, manning from 100 to 130 fast interceptor- pursuit planes, the army disclosed Thursday. Lieut. Col. Truman M, Martin. 9th corps area public relations of ficer, said that about 2400 officers and enlisted men would be sta Uoned at the Portland-Columbia airport contonment. - -Johnson General Sees: US Fighting Next 30-90 Days 1 of Africa er the west coast.- said Johnson, retired brigadisr general and former NRA administrator. While Lindbergh wasi on the stand. Rep. Luther Jobnsoa CD- Texas) Inquired: "Have you ever expressed say opposition to Mr. Hltlera policies, sis alms or bis war objectives?- -Tea, I have. the if Iter presnptly replied. -I believe that publicly we should nmain taha at poattioat ef neutrality Privately. I eWt like saany things that are going on In Ger neany, bat over a period ef yearn I think; one side is Just about as ' much at fault ae the ether.. As for dlff sreaees la -"ideals" betwsea Germany and England, he went ea to say. that la the light of history yoa woa't find so much difference aa has bean asserted to exist. - ! . Rep. Johnson then aoted that several witnesses had said they were "praying for a British vic tory, bat opposed sending aid to England, aad added that appar ently Lindbergh was not; praying tor either side and was opposed to assistance, too. . ; . ' I . believe la complete- neu trality, sir. was .the aviator's crisp response. . j A crowd which Jammed every available Inch ef the big commit-; tee room heard the testimony. There was applause when Lind bergh entered the room, mors1 ' (Tvra to Page S, Cel. 1) Cutting irst Author Neuberger Declares J Scliemo Is Combination of Ideas aiid K , i i . "Would Balance Population i - - - -. - - j : Both r Houses Are Expected to Adjourn at Noon Today, Meetings Will Continue Redistricting of Oregon for congressional electioq pur poses by forming a new, fourth district from! parts of the first, or western Oregon, and the third, or Multnomah coun ty districts, and leaving the second, or eastern Oregon, dis trict unchanged will be proposed to the state legislature to day in a bill to be introduced by Rep. Richard L. Neuberger Avers Freeways Needed, Defense SEN. WIPPERktAN Freeways Bill Irks Senators Whipperman Claims Super Highways Necessity; Others Differ By STEPHEN C MERGLER "Freeways, superhighways with few intersections or service road connections, are an abso lute necessity for national de fense." "preposterous." "fine to drive over, ""senseless." These diverging opinions were elicited by explanations before the senate roads and highways com mlttee Thursday afternoon of the state hixhway department's free ware bill, presented by J. M. De- rers, attorney for the state high way commission. Outspoken opponents of the bill In the committee's membership. refused to concede validity of a plea by Sen. L. W. Wlpperman (R-Josephine) that it is "an ab solute necessity." If necessary, make this biU apply at least to the. -Pacific hixhway, Wtppernuus pleaded. They're talking of a road from the Panama canal to Fairbanks (Alaska) and a road like this will be isoratisl for the naove snent ef troops. As opposed to the measure as Wlpperman Is favorable. Sen. W. JC Burke (R-Yam hill) said the army could Just aa well use well develooed rerular highways by giving the public advance notice of troop movements and advising It to "keep oil. WlBnerman drew from Devers the information that the highway commission has received from the federal bureau of public reads a map detailing roads required "for strategic purposes.- Its exact na ture, whether er not It speeined (Turn to Page 3. COL sj Navy to Pmiisli Swastika Cutters BAN r RAN CISCO. Jan. 2S-4PY- Civll authorities passed ever to the aavy Thursday the responsi bility ef punishing two US sailors who ripped a naxi swastika flag dowa from ever the German con sulate windows last Saturday be fore a cheering crowd. : Municipal Judge Peter IfulUns sentenced the two, Harold J: Sturtevaat, It. of Haverhill, if axsl and Ervla Gleaa Lackey. 20, ef Charlotte, NC. to 90 days la Jail tor malicious mischief, and then suspended the sentence. He said he did this because navy officials had Informed him the defendants would he . "ade quately dealt with,' and because under oar theory of law ao one should suffer punishment twice for the same offense. Both young men nave only i about a month left to serve In their enlistment period. . mmmmmmimmm. a,ansannsaasnanasnaul L. W. Off Parts and II hifd but Committee! i. - -!' i f u-MBitnomaa). . i? iMesuerger outlined the coi Neuberger outlined the position of his suggested districts as follows: ; !! First Marlon. Polk. Tin ihlll. Linn. Benton, Josephine. iJacksoa and ths portions of Lane and Dauglaf counties east if the coastal divide. jt. Second Baker; Crook j De inckutes. Gilliam. I Grant. Hood 'Oliver. Harney. Jefferson. Lake. hKlamatb. Malheur. Morrow. ! Sherman. Umatilla. Unioa,;Wal- Iowa, Wheeler and Wasco conn- -. I I Third City of? Portland. 1 Fourth Multnomah outside Of Portland mil ;tlia fnlln.i. icouatles now in ths first dis- : jtrict, Clackamas Washinrton. ColumbU. CUtsop, Tillamook, Lincoln. Coos. Carry snd ths portions of Laae and Douglas counties west of he coastal di vide, t i t This scheme for rJliiHiHv euberger said. Is a eombtnatfca x plans drawn a p by John J. Beckman, formerhairmas tt ths Multnomah county democratic tentral committee, and Rep; J. D. Ferry (D-Colambla)i Ftoar Districts Would 1 ITalanee la Popelatloa j ;It has four districts which sire qsiU closely la balance." Neu berger explained. The first dis trict would have m population of approximately 292,000. the see Osd district would.; hsve a popu lation of 210,991. the third die-. ; Sen. Rex EUia, Prndlctoa re- pabJican. la Irked and be wants -; (no state highway deftartaaent to know it. be told the sewate j roads aad highways conunlUee jTfaanday afternoon. ; i While he was campaigning tor eongreas last nuaaier at " jleoat one state highway rrew tore dowa hia caxopalga signs aad left Rooaevels plarords sx- vtZ jtooebed, be eoasplained. Both were oa private property and iNy there legally, he i tk-fct weald have al population of 308,394, and the fourth district would have a population of ap proximately 232,271. ! Both bouses of the legislature are expected to adjourn today noon for the weekend, holding over a day later than the: first week of the session to hear rou tine first, second and third read ings of bills. Committee meetings, however, .will continue throsxh the. afternoon, with Chairman Henry F. Cabell fof the state highway commission tentatively scheduled to consult with the senate roads snd highways group ooacerning commission bills. ; S 3 Got. Charles AJ Spragne as- an Inquiry front the reads committee Thurs day afternoon by 'declaring he opposed to state ta of motor vehicles. Tad decided to wait 4 few ears before deciding wbe taer to report oat reconrsendf ;iag that the veto ;be sustained :o to spaa or a nsedlfled meae ; - 4 ! ; The cenunlttee consented i to a hixhway commission request, that it iatrsduce a ail to give ths highway department authority r poUca ocean beaches owned I f the stats. The measure would Is aimed in particular, at carta illat autDaobUe speeding ea beaea where life might be eadaxs rsd. - . ; i ' , -- i , ' Caafleld Beatgna few - '. New Postmaster Joe : - . The house learied Thursday that. It would lose a member j . January 31. Rep. J. R. Caafkll A CD;TiIlamook) annouaeed i u ' woald reairn on that date to be i ceres Tillamook's postmaster. Tii T TUTamoelc county court will aaattv his I successor. Jf. l -. 1 CanXleld's sppolntasat arrivt J ' - Thursday from the- postmaatr " general. He win jraeceed L. JU Hammer, who resigsed. . Caaileld s successor must he a democrat 'of five years regUtXa Won.- , t i Chairman et tae gatry ana looa ptodscts committee! tn thm ' ses sion, Csufleld served previously la ths 193. regular and special sessions and la thstl9S9 seasick I Ini section ef cold storage loc- ers Tented by eitlxeas for storai (Tara to rags i.f. woi. if i