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5n? -;v Vl 1ir While You Sleep The Statesman gathers the - World's news while yon sleep, has It on your door step, when too : wiM ap la the morning. .It's late press time scores many "beats. VTv - j TvVather;; Unsettled today aad Bi day; - ruia r Sunday.7 Jl a x. tempJ Friday Z9, Min.ni. A. Aeribwest wind. Bala 0)1 Inch. River 1.4 feet. Cloudy. - . ' ! ': : is ' POUNDED. NINETIETH YEAH Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning. February 8. 1941 Price) So Newnaianda 5c UN i -.- - r k h r 1 i i ii.ws.'is e a a a w'liaiss w is ; v "wssv w uu- w . - mm - i , i i - a i ci li s - m - a is i . is 1651 - ; -. : . .. ; , . - -? 1 "I" i - " ' -". i - " ' " : J -Piui n outer t Column Cobwebs From a Musty Notebook: COOLERS The Jail situation around the state Is Interesting this week. The jr ': sheHK at Eugene t has grown tired f. OI s covering up city's crime ware? by I bunking clty prltoners In thef'A county bastille, t , The Eugene cltyf ' fathers just don't T h- e PrlneTllle city : council Is also in the for a second handJail - in good condition. Has to fee a good one for the couhty seat of " Crook county. And in Sheridan the- city' government has decided to make the) old jail do and has Just fin ished redecorating. Did a nl!e Job, tooj Every cell has Venetian blinds. i':'':"i TbeAR STORY The best tale about the army that has come over the wires is the one from Camp Shelby, Miss., about Pri vate Clyde Ross who took for the woods when a motor convoy sped up to his company and the commander shouted: "Bear to the right. "I'm scared of bear," Ross explained when tbey found him. , NOTE ON A MATCH COVER A smart hostess is one who puts Ix I guest towels on the rack along with one she knows the guests won't be afraid to use. . Talmaxic IXTEIXIGEXCE Ifj It makes any difference to you, today is the holiday of Mnharram in India and there ' will, be harness races every Sat urday this month at Lyndon ville, Vermont. It is also, time to harvest ice. DOUBLE LIFE The strain pf having been for the last two days both President of the Senate and Governor of the State has not shown appreciably on Dean Walk er. ; As P. of the S. he must sign kills which eo to the G., presum ably for his signature. Since the attorney general has ruled that Walker should not discbarge any of the duties of the governor, he has had to keep his right hand from knotflnVehat, hls riht hand Is signing. HOUSE J)ICKS If it weren't for the watchful eyes of Lew Wallace and Coe MeKenna, the senate sleuths, and Frank Lon ergan, the house detective, there would be more misspelled words and faulty references in the Oregon laws than there are." The gentlemen can spot a miss placed comma at SO feet with out use of fingerprint powder. FERRYBOAT SERENADE Gloating this week was the commander of the Wheatland Ferry, no lover of bridges he, over reports that 225 Oregon bridges aren't up to the army and that Portland's Burnside bridge lowered the boom on a freighter. "That should show the army," Quoth the commander of the Mar lon! county fleet, . "that bridges will cross you before you get to them." i Willkie Leaves i ! Port in Africa BOLAMA, Portugese Guinea, Feb. 7-(P)-The Pan American clipper Dixie, bearing Wendell L. Willkie back to the United States sped westward Friday night across a 3,000-mile stretch of the south Atlantic in the longest non-stop commercial flight ever attempted. The clipper with Willkie and his Party. Including John Cowles. publisher of the Minneapolis Star- Journal, and Land on K. Thorne, banker, was due in Port of Spain, British Trinidad Saturday morn lng. The plane left at 4:18 p.m., (SJ18 a. m. p. S. T.) From Trinidad on the new route-proving flight, adopted to avoid swells and other unfavor able landing conditions frequent ly prevalent at Horta, the Azores, the clipper will go to Puerto Rico, thence to New York where it is due Sunday. : Lumber Companies Report Huge Gain WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 - -The National Lumber ' Manufac turers association reported Fri day that lumber production for the week; ended February 1 stood at 148 per cent of the average of the corresponding week 1935- 89 and shipments 134 per cent. . .Production totaled 220,011,000 feet, which was 4 per cent less than the previous week, and 22-f per cent . greater than the corre sponding week a year ago. Shipments aggregated 245,695, 00 feet,, which was 3 per cent less than the previous week, and 18 per cent greater than last year's corresponding week. Orders booked were 271,032, 0 6 0 feet, which was S per cent greater than the previous week, and 33 per cent greater than the corresponding week last year. i Logging Injury Fatal ! McMINNVILLE, Ore.,. Feb. 7 (Hscar E. Nyseth,1 31, McMinn - viller . injured in logging opera tions near Sheridan Wednesday, died Friday. He suffered a sknll fracture. " - Petain Orders Tunisian Base Stand Radioed Refusal of Weygand to Deal With Nazis Seen as Political Move Laval Reported to Accept Less Tha. French Premiership VICHY, France, Feb. 7 (AP) -A pledge by General Maxime Weygand that Ger many will sret no Tunisian base from France was pub lished widely Friday through the unoccupied zone on or ders from the government. . This statement, made in a ra dio broadcast from Algiers by the Vichy government's African gen eralissimo, was injected Into the French-German political crisis at a time when Admiral Jean Dar lan, the navy minister, was on his way back from Paris with the lat est word on the position of Pierre Laval, ousted vice-premier. It was reported here that La val, on whose return to the gov ernment French-German collabor ation depends, might be willing to accept something less than the status of premier. Only a short resume of Wey gand's broadcast was released here. It said that there were no negotiations with the Germans for the cession of Bizerte, Tu nisia, and that the French had no Intention of giving them this naval-military base for action against the British in Libya. The government ordered all the newspapers to give this dis patch the most prominent dis play. Informed persons here always have contended that the D a r 1 a n - Laval conversations went no further than attempt ing to find a way to bring Laval back to the government. Persons returning from Paris said it appeared likely that after Lava was back in the fold his project to move most of the gov ernment to Versailles and Paris would be pressed. These sources also said that while Laval's maximum demands were for presidency of the coun- equivalent to the premiership, anT-ve rignt to c noose bis own ministerV-e also had submitted minimum demands for the estab- (Turn to Fge 2, CoL 8) Roosevelt Plqps Of Jobs "When War Over WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-()- Plans for a "reservoir" of public works projects, to be held In readiness to absorb defense work ers once the present emergency ends, were initiated Friday by President Roosevelt. Workers by the thousands have been given jobs turning out weap ons of war, and he told a press conference the administration was trying to guard against what might happen to them when the fighting ends and their jobs are finished. Congress will be asked, the president said, to authorize all types of works projects hos pitals, housing, airports, roads with emphasis on those that will give the government a chance to get back some o.f Its capital investment. These projects, Mr. Roosevelt said, will be put on a shelf and pulled out when they are needed to take up the slack in defense emplpyment. I TWISTED, BURNED WRECKAGE .L .... 4 . AH that remains of a US four-motored plane and months of ; study on J one of Uncle Sam's most proficient filers (Insert) was hilled with r flying data in the Arctic, is scattered, as shown above, on a brush J seven members of his crew. The resulting explosion destroyed pex r revered hillside near lovelock, Nerv CapCJUchard 8. Freeman, imental apparatus. - '-'.-.... Hon Adop se Prop osal to Fix Limit On Military Disposals Jowik by Adiiiinistratioii Chiefs Ot ct .j.'iomes as Stunning Surprise After 6-v Long Day of Acrid Argument Transfer Top About $1,300,000,000 or 'One-Tenth Total Republican. Leaders Assent ! 1 WASHINGTON Feb. 7 leadership Friday night suggested and the house quickly adopted a sharp limitation on the extent to which, under the lease-lend bill, President Roosevelt may transfer to other na tions American military and naval equipment already on hand or appropriated for. The limit fixed was one tenth of total appropriations for defense for the fiscal year 1941. The exact figure was left subject to some dispute but all agreed that the appropri ation total lay between $12,000,000,000 and $13,000,000,000. Court Refuses Compensation Benefits Denied Those Refusing to Pass Picket Lines SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. The s t a t e supreme court ruled Friday that employes out of work because of voluntary refusal to pass strike picket lines are not entitled to unemployment com pensation. The decision, far-reaching In its application and long awaited, was embodied in an opinion writ ten by Chief Justice Phil Gibson, Governor Olson's appointee. Three cases were considered simultaneously by the court, including-the bitterly contested one of 4000 CIO longshorement here, idle 55 days in . a waterfront tieup, but technically not on strike. They refused to pass picket lines of the CIO Ship Clerks' un lon.. -ijs- t ;. - . The estate unemployment .com pensation commission finally awarded benefits to the men, but employers appealed from the rnl (Turn to page 2, col. 2) "Reservoir" Immediately after his press conference, he talked over the part highway construction would take in the program with Thomas MacDonald, federal roads commis sioner. He discussed 'the program also with William Green, president of the American Federation) of La bor, who called at thS White House to urge that the national resources planning board consid er immediately the matter of sup ply work, when the emergency is over, for men engaged now on defense efforts. j It was an adaptation of an old proposal which Mr.) Roose velt advocated. Numerous offi cials have urged for years that a reservoir of works projects be developed in periods of prosperity to supply work la depression days. Mr. Roosevelt said he wanted to talk with MacDonald about a network of national roads. One (Turn to page 2. col. 1) ! X f 1 i is Demo Appropriations; (AP) The administration nence tne transfer limitation is from $1,200,000,000 to fl.300. 000,000, to be determined exact ly later. Thus, as the bill stood at the cldse of the day, the value of any present naval or military equip ment or equipment provided for in the vast appropriations hereto fore made will be computed be fore It can be sent to England. And no more than about $1,300, 000,000 worth of It may be so transferred. The amendment pro posed by the leadership did not stipulate how the valuation was to be arrived at. - Proposal Declared Device To Limit Military Material Discussion of the proposal made clear that it was intended as a device to limit the amount of existing or prospective military and naval equipment for which appropriations have been or win be made up to June 30. Accord ingly legislators assumed that It imposed no limit on the total amount of material which may be transferred to the British, since President Roosevelt had said he would ask funds to finance con struction for British aid once the present bill is disposed of. Its proposal came, neverthe less, as a stunning surprise to , all factions la the- rhamher. Throughout a long dar of hxg-'T luiK over amendments, minor and major, the leaders had ob durately opposed any further concessions to critics of the bill. In fact, before the day's session began, they announced that no more concessions would "be made. They had successfully beaten off republican propoto that the president b forhidatVCUn tpM. fer any part of the navy to other countries without congressional consent, that no new deal labor laws were to be suspended under the measure and that soviet Rus sia be specifically excluded from the nations which might be help ed. Then, just at the close of the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Driver Injured In Auto Crash Harry Roges, 36, of Portland, was In the Salem General hos pital Friday night with "bad con tusions" ofter his car failed to negotiate the turn at Four Cor ners one mile east of Chemawa. He was treated by first aid offi cers. Charles Bradson, 16th and Mill streets, was booked by local po lice on a drunkenness charge af ter treatment by First Aid Offi cer Charles M. Charlton for a cut over the right eye, officers said. OF BOMBER ON Entire Sprague Program Is now IriLeslature Last , Item Introduced Is School Tax . Reform ; T ' Throughout State : None of Governor's Major Recommendations yet out of Committee By PAUL W. HARVET, JR. Introduction of Governor Charles A. Sprague's entire legislative program was com plete Friday as the legislature prepared to end its fourth week. The last item on the gov ernor's list to be -introduced was a measure to equalize school taxes on a statewide basis. This measure, drafted by the state de partment of public Instruction, was submitted to the house, late Friday. Another equalization measure was defeated last session, but it would have equalised school taxes only within counties. The pro- LEGISLATIYE CALENDAR Senate i Meets today at 9 a.m. Third readings: SB 76, 99. 100, 117, 164, 165, 166, 188; HB 121. 143. 146, 149. 155. House: Adjourned until 11 a.m. Monday. Third readings Monday: HB 91, 105. 107. 145, 182, 185, 186, 212. 225. 234, 250, 270, 332, 335; SB 35, 58, 78, 84, 179. posed measure would be referred to the people at the November, 1942, election. None of the governor's major recommendations has yet even been reported out of committee. This includes measures to permit bigger trucks on state highways, to construct a $1,000,000 state of fice building In Salem, to equalize school taxes, to provide for a six (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 ) Knox Forecasts Results of War Says Control of Seas to Determine Next Century History ANNAPOLIS. Md., Feb. 7-(JP) -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told naval academy gradu ates Friday thai "control of the hirH seas wia determine--the next j century 8 history" and forecast f "a slave world subject to the im- perial will of ruthless dictators if this control should pass "to those who support the totalitarian theory of government." In the "shadow of another ir reconcilable world conflict, he said the 396 graduates must ac cept the responsibility of "con tributing your all. If need be, to the defense of your liberties." Knox asserted the wars In Europe and Asia lie "between those who would make every human being the chattel of the state, with no rights which the state Is bound to respect, and those who would maintain the principle of individual liberty, (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Five Burned to Death DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 7(ff)-Five unidentified men were burned to death, several others were miss ing and at least 20 others were se verely injured in a fire at a Sal vation army hotel Friday night. NEVADA HILL Cunha Comes Back Confers With New. but not strange In Salem, is the face of Alfred F. Cunha (right K who attended hi first session of the 1941 legislature here Krtday. Umatilla county representative in 1039-40. be returned this week as appointee of the county court to succeed the late O. L. Babcock. He is shown here conferring with Rep. John F. Hteelhammer of Salem ; both are lawyers, but Cunha also runs ml 53,000-acre sheep and rattle ranch near Pendleton with his father, Joseph Cunha. Statesman photo. Italo Troops Guard Embassy Rome Students Parade Again and Protest Love for Nazis ROME. Feb. 7-;P)-Italian troops protected the United States embassy Friday during more stu dent street demonstrations, marked, this time, by open dem onstrations of brotherly love be tween German and Italian men of arms. Italians displayed absorbing in terest in the congressional course of the British aid bill and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh editorially was patted on the back for his opposition to It. Uniformed fascist students, with some Germans, paraded through Rome's streets in pro test against what they railed " "enemy lies' about disorders between Germans and Italians in Italy. Apparently they did not attempt to march on the American embassy; in a simi lar demonstration yesterday, . they likewise turned off on an other street before reaching the building, on the Piaxaa San Bernardo. Although actual anti-American demonstrations among the well disciplined fascist students thus far have failed to develop, ob servers recalled that similar pick ets of -troops were ported around the SoTet T British ahd French embassies in fhn past when the policies of those coun tries displeased Italians. The last show of military pro tection, for the British and (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Western States Unite at Parley DENVER, Feb. 8-(Saturday)-(JPy Thirteen western states were united today behind a drive against administration-approved water legislation which they con tend would endanger the security of "hundreds of thousands of farm homes." Representatives of the states adopted last night a resolution attacking the proposed Arkansas Valley Authority as wrong "in iiorm ana in principle ana lgnor- linr "fhm MTViwIrntT nt ititM In participating, in the development of their natural, resources." The conference they attended was called by Gov. Ralph L. Carr. who charged that formation of an AVA would be the beginning of a "bloodless revolution" of western states where "water Is gold." Got. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon then remarked, that he " hoped we are not going to fight a battle of civil war. Chile, Peru Sign Pact for Defense LIMA, Peru, Feb. 7-(S)-ChUe and Peru signed three agreements Friday designed to' foster better relations ahd calling for joint de fense of their strip of the South American Pacific coast under' the principles embodied in Pan American agreements at the Ha vana conference. ."J The ' Pan-American document declared that ' both countries "recognize the Importance at the present time of the problem of continental defense, and, upon re iterating their adhesion, to agree ments approved at Havana, state their decision to coordinate their action with regard to defense of the South American Pacific - New Flat Rate Markup ; 'Scheduled for liquor PORTLAND. Feb. new flat-rate- mark-up schedule - for whiskies sold In state liquor stores was announced , today by the Ore gon liquor-control commission.' Lloyd Wentworth, " chairman, said whiskey would be cold at a straight St per cent Increase over cost price. The past policy was to mark up sales 40 per cent and $1.20 per case. , - , to Capitol; Colleague of Salem War News Briefs TOKYO, Feb. 8, (Saturday) P)-A d mira 1 Mineo Osumi, Japanese supreme war council lor, has been killed In the crash of a naval plane in Kwangtung province, China, the navy min istry announced today. Six other naval officers, la eluding Rear Admiral Hikojiro Suga, died in i the crash. The officers were inspecting the Chinese war front and were en route from Canton to Hainan when the crash occurred, the ministry said. HANOI. French Indo-China, Feb. 7.-P)-Xew armistice vi olations by Thailand were re ported Friday night when Thai troops occupied Moulapantok and Hongsa. vUlages which the French said they were to have held under the present armis tice terms. Bomber on Fire, ; Asserts Rancher Saw Flaming ; Plane Fly 8 Bliles in Valley Before; Crashing LOVELOCK, Nev., Feb. 7-VP)- wnue army investigators made a daylight inspection of the scene where an army bomber crashed and killed eight men Thursday, Alex Ransom. 68-year-old miner, told his family in Reno that he saw the plane: in flames before it crashed. w .Ransom, who owns a mine on a mountain directly across from where the plane was found, said: "The pjane, pouring smoke and shootlsgj flames, passed low over the nfn Thursday morning. We! watched.. It for eight miles across Blue iCing valley until it struck the hinJO Australian troopsj who led the as on the Other side. TuTiLDn Bardia. Tohruk and! Dor. "The plane was too low for the men to use parachutes and it passed directly over the dry lake In the valley floor. Ransom telephoned the infor mation to his son. Glen, at Reno, and said he would testify to that effect if the investigating board called him. The plane, one of the army's newest four-motored bombers, was on a flight from Sacramento to Denver with Capt. R. . S. Free man, commandant of Ladd Field, Alaska, at the controls. The plane and crew which had arrived in Sacramento last; month from Alas ka planned to proceed to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, before re turning to the territory. Egyptian King 111 CAIRO, Egypt. Feb. 8-(Satur- dayl-tffVKtaS Farouk is 111 With a mild attack of jaundice, an of ficial , announcement said Friday night.' . j - : HobnobbGr &?t& - WAA Wsf W at te Capitol a I - Rep. Kenneth 8. Msrtls, Grants Pass, asked unanimous consent of the house Friday afternoon "to! save my county JJM.OOO. He had discovered -that a dtetrict attorney's sal ary bill about to be passed was made effective; from January-1, 1929, as to Josephine ' county. The house readily consented, , and. the erroneous date . was , stricken from the bill. . ---.; k -. :..." T'V' :-' - Prevalence - of - 'Influenza led Speaker Farrell to urge that. pub lic hearings not be held unless necessary, as a' measure to avoid crowds and contagion. Which prompted Rep. jj. F. Hosch in an nouncing a medicine and pharma cy hearing on j his health insur ance bill for Monday night to sug gest that "there will be enough doctors : there to look after the flu." . The house adjourned until Monday "due to the fact that a number of members .--are 'under the weather land have had hard week, ini the words of Rep. Harvey Wells, the speaker's ever dependable and prompt maker of motions to adjourn. . Presumably no more embar rassing questions will be asked RAF Laun Heavy Attack In Nazi! Area VT V Invasion Bases Smashed IbyrHighV.Calibrei British Bombs- 25,000 Italians ! Flee at Pritish Enter j Libya . j. Port of Bengasi j " - &OXDOX, Fii TP)-Prfie Minister Winston Churchill wilt broadcast over . the British Broadcasting corporation home and oversea mi yk.es on Ft. 9 at p-m. (ia noon PST) it fraa announced Friday night, J :"-' (The address will be carried In i the United State by the NBC Columbia and Mntual net works.) i By The Associated Press) Flying; in the worst mist of the year over the Strait of rt., T3-m4.:-.' v. . i - msj hi , uiiusii- ugmuers m waves smashed at; Boulogne and?: other invasion bases of n a z i Germany in occupied France Friday ;night. J The two-hour assault,! the heaviest in that sector in sev eral weeks, was! launched from the home front as the RAF'i brothers-ln-arms In Africa swept westward from I newly-captured Bengasi in pursuit of perhaps 25. 000 Italians, the remnant of an army once five times: as large. Observers of tfee channel raid, peering from the cliffs on the southeast coast of England;! said the Sky over France glowed I with the flight of exploding bombs whose flashes sometimes were re flected in , shop windows of one British coastal town.; Bombs of heaviest caliber were unloaded on Boulogne. British Attack Called! j "Brilliant. Officially; ; The British in announcing the captnre of Bengasi on Thufsday used" for the first time the term "brilliant' In describing one of the African operations. ; Defenders of the town, the Brit ish paid, were cut off from re- the British command hl Lib yaj1 unfolding t aTspectacuIar story of the capture of Bengasi, disclosed early Hatnrday that an Italian attempt to escape a trap set! by British motorized forcea faiied at the cost of 60 fascist tanks and that 'prisoners were surrendering in "large anna-' bem." (Estimate 25,000). 3 The British armored forma tion made a forced march of 156 miles in SO hours, a special communique said, entting off the Italians last line of retreat along the sea roast toward Trip oil. . j' f - Among the prisoners taken were an army j commander, a corps commander, .and "many other' senior officers. 3 treat by a motorized thrust across the Corenaican htimp to the south inf th tnwn At itfis umj tlm sali&tf-CB Bardia, Tobruk and Der- ha in therward Libyan sweep, attacked Bengasrrom Derna, so demoralizing t b ertlsts $1 that they. were unable to organise their defense. - i i T h.e British 'North Afric drive now pointed toward Tri- ITurn to Page z. Col. 1) Ixfoks Likb Quads Will Stay Awhile FARGO, ND, Feb. 7-iiffVFour tiny bits of Humanity three eons and; a daughter born to Mrs. Nick Brown of Leonard.' ND. slept in their incubators in St. John's hos pital here Friday! night as their parents puzzled over; selection of names. j: $ '1' : j Born Thursday afternoon, the quads were given their first (bot tles of water at S:30 a.m., Friday.- Alternate feedings of znlig began; at 1:30 p.m., with each meal a mere ten ounces or so. ; in j the legislature bout those law books missing from the iris cult court : at Klamath FAUftb The bill authorizing their Ire placement was passed by 'the senate on Friday and sent to the governor. Sen. ; Thomas R Mahoney want74pow what became of the : bKX before) voting on the measure Z W "YouTl have to ask the stanp police," was all that Sen. Mar shall E. Cornet t i would say about the matter. I. -, - What, no Junket? : The Oregon- Washington legislative conferenef on commercial fishing regulation for" the Columbia river wUl be held-next Wednesday, 'probably in tne board of control room. Usually it affords the conference committee a trip; at least as far as Portland. . . ! . ' This session so far lackf the pratory of old ' : that Interested many- gallery fans, in the tplv (on of H-.S. Polsal, Salem clitlm er and, former saperintendent Cf the- municipal auto park which la po more. V !; - Rep. IL T. Hesse will be out of' the hospital today and back at; his desk Monday, according (Turn to page 2, coL i 'A.