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NINETIETH TZAR Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 16, 1941 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c Nci 279 zwmm to tm 7 N ippovi Watch W men V . - W . - - fir Chairmen Plan To Speed Bills In Legislature Justice of Peace Fees System Elimination Seen New Issue Reapportionment Measure Debate Depends on Special Meeting By RALPH C. CURTIS ji - Elimination of the fee sys tem of compensating justices of the peace, (often branded iniquitous because the justice has a stake in the guilt or in-! uocence of the defendant in criminal cases and sometimes by connivance in the outcome of clTll cases,) developed u s sew issue In the legislature on Saturday as members, catching their breath over the weekend, scanned progress and Indicated that the matter of early adjourn ment hung ' largely upon whether two of the more involved and somewhat controversial its , t s LKGISTuATIVK C A LEXDaR ; 8nl Readings Monday; House: HB 8, 112. 184, 204, 302, SOS, 325, 326, 416. 436, 437. 444, 452, 454, 4rf 60, 131. IS. Senate: SB 208, 211. 246, 252, 266, 257, 260, 41, 42, 92, 148; HB 173. 369. Headings Monday House: Education, on HB 420, 7:30 p. m.f. room 321; highways and highway .'revenues, on HBi 348 and 387, 7:30 p. m., rooms . 7. o Senate: Insurance, 8 p. m.. room 401; medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, on HBs 103 and 105, 7:30 p. m., room 400. could be brought out for final ac tion and disposed of in one house In the coming week. The bulkier bills on unemploy ment compensation are in the house, Chairman Frank Loner gan of the Judiciary committee was hoping to get them onto the floor before the end of the week. 'Unemployment Compensation Measures May Be Rewritten Contrariwise, the major bills on workmen's compensation are in the senate, where Chairman Ron ald Jones of the industries com mittee had similar ambitions even though there was a possibility that some of the measures would have to be rewritten because of factors brought out at a long se ries of public hearings. Whether congressional reap portion rarnt also will come out '- this week depends npon the ; outcome of tonight's meeting of t- the house reapportionment cona ; mlttee, scheduled for T:SO o'clock at the eapitol. Though it Is not a public hearing, a 1 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) . ."' . - , ' Ghemcketans Hold W Annual Banquet ' Salem Chemeketans held their 13th annual banq.uet.at the Marion hotel Saturday night, with over a hundred guests In attendance. Representatives from many other outdoor organizations were present.- '.' ' .; - 'The affair waa planned around the Mardl Gras motif, with deco rations and favors in keeping. Walter Mlnier officiated as "King Rex" and Miss FlavU Downs as aueen of the festivities. Dr. F. L. Utter served as toastmaster f or the program. - Dancing concluded the evening s entertainment. Old Man Winter Just Can't Roll Old Man, Winter is playing see saw with dainty Miss Spring these days, according to weather bureau " tabulations. Temperatures as high as 61 degrees have been registered during recent cloudless, days with the mercury plummeting to as low 'as '81 during the night. Prediction for early this morn ing was a possible 29 degrees on comparing Friday's midnight tem perature of 38 with Saturday's 34. Daytl-r olnnil ttulnv and Xlnn- 'day was the weather man's of ficial forecast. Got "Cold Feet" or Else - VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 15. vihtnrtnn residents who srot marriage licenses In the past few years at this Gretna Greed never reached tne aitar. Aooiwr w. rmrriin thinks that most of then got cold feet or were turned dowa by their lady lores. - f'-'': " - W. TAYLOR RIGDON ' Celebrates 91 Years in State Retired Funeral Director in Good, -Health; Has ' Published History In fine health and up and' around his home every day is W. Taylor Rlgdon, who today is 92 years of age. No special observance of the an niversary is planned at his resi dence, 20 North Winter street. Mr; Rlgdon was born in Iowa and came to Oregon at the age of one yearHe taught rural school some years, then came to Salem In 1889, attending Willamette uni versity lor a time. He married in 1-878.--; ' - In 1891 the W. T. Rlgdon com pany,; funeral directors, was formed. It remained under his management until about 10 years ago, and since then has been di rected by a daughter, Mrs. Wini fred R. Herrick. Mr. Rlgdon, at home with Mrs. Rlgdon and another daughter, Miss Leila Rigdon, is an omniver ous reader and an author of con siderable repute. A few years ago he had published a book of 'poems and a history of Oregon. Members of hia family are a half-brother, living near Portland; a son, Lloyd T. Rigdon, and three daughters, the other being Mrs. Ralph Mercer. All reside in Salem. Draftees Swarm To Fort Lewis Great Influx of Youth Will Swell Ranks to Record Monday FORT LEWIS. Feb. 15.-(iP)-The greatest influx of young American manhood since mobili zation days of the last war will take place at Fort Lewis and Camp Murray beginning Monday when the selectees included in the Feb ruary draft call start arriving at the reception center. Many new men from Salem and vicinity will get Into uniform. According to a statement made today by Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, commanding general of the ninth army corps, more than 16,000 new men will arrive through various Induction centers of. the west and middlewest to swell the ranks of the third and the 41st divisions. This figure tops any previous estimate byfully 6000 and will cause the population of the Fort Lewis area to swell in three weeks to 45,609. Both the 41st and the third divisions will have reached war time strength in the number of men by March 8. State Farmers Union Opens Between 800 and 700 delegates and ' members of the state Far mers Union will attend the 31st annual stats convention scheduled (or Salem February 18-20. In cluded in that number will be Farmers Union National President James J. Patton of Denver, Colo., Luverne Fets, Washington-Idaho president; Harley Llbby, state president, and Ernest Werner, Ma rion county president. Convention sessions will be held In the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, Hood and North Church streets. The program will be high lighted by addresses from Gover nor Charles A. Sprague, Mayor W. W. Chadwlck and President James J. Patton. A. banquet is set Wedr nesday night St 0:30 o'clock at the First Methodist church. The Junior banquet . will be held Tuesday night at the VFW hall. . Marion county committees for the i convention include: general chairman, E. A. Rhoten, Salem; batished on Help Measure Declared Anxious Bill Pass as Approved by Senate Committee Opposition Wants British to State Peace Terms Before Giving Ad WASHINGTON, Fel. 15. ( AP) President Roose velt was reported Saturday to be "well satisfied with the aid - to - Britain bill ap proved by the senate foreign relations committee, and to be anxious that it be finally en acted in substantially its bresent form. ... The senate committee made two major changes in the: house-approved bill, including one to re quire the president to obtain spe cific authority from congress before- making contracts for the manufacture or war equipment for foreign countries. This limitation wis said to be agreeable to the president along with another committee amend- ment directing that any funds paid by foreign countries for Am erican.made military equipment and on band June 30, 1946, must be placed In the treasury's gener al fuad on that date. Until that date, such funds could be used to pay for manufacture of addition al war materials. ' Roosevelt Would Give Consideration to Changes . Administration lieutenant .-reported that. Roosevelt-wosid-glve "reasonable consideration"! to any (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Ford Advocates "War to Death" Hopes Both Sides Lose and Collapse; Says Greed War Reason WAYS STATION, GaJ Feb. ln-iJPy-Hrnrj Ford said Satur day the United States should give England and the axis pow er "the tools to keep on fight ing until they both collapse." i The 77-year-old . automobile manufacturer, making his an nual visit to his plantation and experimental farm here, said in an exclusive, copyrighted i inter view with Staff Writer Harold Martin of the Atlanta Constitu tion he "sincerely hopes! that neither England nor the axis powers will win the struggle. "There is not righteousness in either cause," he said. "Both are motivated by the same evil impulse, which is greed.' "It is not the little people who are doing the fighting and the suffering who are the greedy ones. They are innocent of that. Their only guilt Is idle ness. Idleness hss made them stupid and stupidity has made it easy for the big ones, the greedy ones, to lead them into war. "If we can keep both sides fighting long enough an til (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Hoover to Broadcast NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-,)-For-mer President Hoover's address on ''the march of hunger In Europe" before a mass meeting In Chicago will be broadcast at 7:30 (PST) Sunday night by the CBS and MBS chains. j Union President JAMES P. PATTON . Pardon Us, Folks, While 7e Change! Yep, it's come. The Statesman this weekend steps behind a screen to change, for the first time In many years, its particular kind of type dress And when it emerges next Tuesday morning, you'll see it printed with brand new, fresh-from-the-factory type guaran teed to make it easier than ever to read. It's a specially-cnt type, de signed by experts for greater legibility. Not only that, but In The Statesman it'll be used with extra white apace between the lines to make reading a plea sure. With a new style of head- L lines, then, your Statesman will be newer more legible more We hope you'll like it. THE OREGON STATESMAN. Hee (Ota Eaff B -Paul Hauter$ Column The conversation In Gns Paul us shoe shine parlor, which hard ly ever drifts away from the war except in base. ball season, - was going good yes-r - terday. i When GreekH meets GreekH these dars Its air natural thing tnr tha talk tn hat something that wvuiu ui m m. v Due e's burn, but you throw couple of lans and the con versation is Still PamlB. HaaMt.ii bad, for. Mussolini's ears you know, you're in tfae United :tStatesaiia that the one-time Greeks and It alians are all Americans. Someone recalled that some prankster Frenchman erected sign at the French-Italian bor der, reading, ''Greeks pleaae stop here." The Greeks laughed and so did the Italians. Then the talk swung momeou tarily to the eternal topie of the weather as someone remarked it was a fine day and It was. "Another month we go fish," someone said. "Yes," one said, "another month some go fish, some go to war." Hcpi MT, rK 13 lut Ol gonlaa Happmr nars Barms) Bala aa4 fog partially black at this commnnlty srarldlBg nt f tk dullest lay aacaaa. torad this wiatar. Etsb tha aa tlaalata arc xpraislna" 4abt aa la tha r atari at tha aaa far aprlag craps.' Pendleton East Oregonian. The lights are going out all over Europe and in Heppner, too. The government's error in over paying a Duxbury, Mass., farmer one million dollars on a soil con servation bounty is partially bal anced 'by the Youngstown, Ohio, citizen who absent mindedly add ed in his social security number on his income tax blank. Seattle to See Mass Air Attack SEATTLE, Feb. 1 S.-fpy-T h a t won't be an earthquake that wakes Puget Sound residents tomorrow morning. It'll be airplanes. Col. Ralph Royce, commanding the US army's seventh bombard ment group, said Saturday night 18 army bombers would simulata a mass attack on Seattle between 9:30 and 10 a. m. Sunday, flying at altitudes of 3000 feet or more. Following the mass flight, the planes, including 12 Douglas bombers and six Boeing bombers, are to be exhibited to families of Boeing employes at Boeing field. housing committee, Ralph Wilson, Homer Smith; badge committee, George Potts, Jr., Receptlon-B. C. HalL chair man; Mrs. E. A. Rhoten, Mrs John Crabtree, Mrs. Agnes Booth, Mrs. Frank Way, Mrs. Earl De Sart, George Potts, Jr., Pete Gores, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wilson, Mrs. L. Koenlg. D. L. St, Johns, Mrs. F. A. Masses, Mrs. A. C. Sp anger. : Program -M r s . Homer Smith, Mrs. Jessie Williams, T. C. Moun tain. -7 ' ; ' ;i ' Banquet Mrs. E. A. Rhoten, Mrs. Agnes Booth, Mrs. Sigloh, Mrs. Robert Harper, Mrs. Jim Wilson, Miss Rowena Jones, Mrs. Otto Lucht, Mrs. W. M. Tate. . Registration Mrs. John Crab tree, Mrs. W. E. Barn ett. . .. .v - : Marlon county officers are . Er nest Werner, Silverton, president. Homer M. Smith, Jefferson, vice president; Mrs. John : Crabtree, routs ; three, Salem, secretary treasurer: George Potts, Jr.,- Jefferson-, B. C iiail, Gervals; Ralph ! "? i I whenp J in a Ital- i RAF Unleashes Terrific Raid On Nazi Ports Flashes of Bombs, Great Fires Light Skies on "Invasion" Coast Southern Italy Singled out as Potential New Center of Conflict (By the Associated Press) Relays of British bombers shuttled across the English channel Saturday night and early today to pound the nazi held coast from Ostend to Boulogne in the longest and fiercest raid the RAF has made thus far on that area. Some sources in London con sidered it possible that unusual German activity along the "inva sion coast brought on the fury of the RAF. The British once be- m . n. w. . . lore claimed kai oomoa Drone up a gathering lnrasion armada. The late raids began soon aft er a large formation of fighters retarned from over France at dusk and continued after mid. night. Flares, Bombs, Great Fires Stab Sky Across Channel Flashes of bursting bombs, the glare of great fires and the rays of searchlights stabbed .the a k y acrosa the strait of Dover and great clouds of smoke rolled over the sea. . Dunqerque, Gravelines, Calais and Bologne were hard hit and the German bigj gun em place-' ' ment 5 ai" Cap Grts . :.wa pounded violently. Intermittent eexploslons augegsted that mu nitions and gasoline damps had been hit squarely. The French coast has been the (Turn tovpage 2. col. ) Treasury Plans "Defense" Bonds Campaign Ready to Tap Savings for Billions Needed in Program WASHINGTON. Feb. 15-flV The treasury, officials said Satur day, Is ready to start immediate ly on a campaign to tap the sav ings "of children, housewives and small-salaried workers for a sise able part of the $9,000,000,000 It must borrow in the next 12 months to finance the defense program. All that is holding it up is final congressional approval of the bill to increase the federal debt limit to $65, 000, 000, 000. Both house and senate have approved the measure, but the house must act on minor senate amendments. If. the house accepts these changes next week as expected, officials said, Secretary Morgen- thau will announce a money-rais ing plan calling for sale of: 1. Postal savings stamps in de nominations of 10, 25 and 50 cents and $1.. These will be a "national defense" series of the regular postal stamps now on sale (Turn to Page 2. Col. 6) Motors Strike Ends WASHINGTON, Feb. lB-fflV The office of production manage ment announced Saturday night that an agreement had been reached for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike which has tied up. $45,000,000 worth of de fense orders. Details of the agree ment were not disclosed. 31st Conyention Etere Feb. 18 State President : HARLEY LIBBY Wilson, route six Salem, executive committee. . . . ' r Program for the "entire three days follows: :' r V 'h: - Tuesday: t:9S a. tn. Call to erdar. Prealdent Llbby'. Opening axerclse flag salute. Boy Scouts sponsored by """"""' " " " 1 1 B ritain Envoy Cautioiis fapian On A hy tMenacin g ManeiiveFS siam r earrui 01 Angio invasion Terms Learned By Yugoslavia Ministers Tell Prince What Hitler Wants; Nation to Accept (By the Associated Press) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 15. (iP-R e g e n t Prince Paal learned from his ministers Saturday the details of Adolf Hitler's immediate plans for Yugoslavia and the naals array In Rumania made ostensibly fin al preparations for a move in the Balkans, v ' The prince conferred through out the afternoon with his pre mier, Draglsa Cvetkovic, and for eign minister, Alksander Cincar- Markovlc, who were Just back from a talk with Hitler at Berch tesgaden. What Cvetkovic and Cincar Markovie told the regent was an official secret, but authoritative quarters privately admitted that the German terms were expected to be disclosed as nothing short of full economic and political "collaboration", with the axis. It already had been stated by a qualified informant that Yugo slavia was prepared to accept assignment as anamttlve partici pant In Hitler's Balkan plans. Reports from Greece whose government Friday called up many classes of army reservists indi cated that the Greeks were step ping up their offensive against the Italians In Albania, possibly hop- lag to rush through a military de cision before their country was called upon to fight another force on another front. Germans of military age and dressed in civilian clothes con tinued to appear in Bulgaria in small numbers. The official re sponse to inquiries about these quiet visitors was that they were "just traveling salesmen." The press of Turkey, Britain's . non-belligerent ally, declared in commenting upon the trip of Yugoslavia's statesmen to see Hitler that It "more resembled a transfer of prisoners under guard than a visit of free men." The authoritative newspaper Yeni Sabah, which is controlled by the Turkish government, ob served: "The Balkans have lost Yugoslavia now the real Balkans are no more." Cliisimaio Falls In Africa Drive CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. lB.-P)- The British announced . Saturday that their South African fighters, aided by a British fleet andalr force, have captured the impor tant Italian Somaililand port and military center of Chisimaio. Much ' equipment and many prisoners were said to have been taken, bat the chief gain was sei- sure of a strategic point for Brit ain's apparent effort to seal the Somaliland coast, shutting the fascists off from supplies and re inforcements, as she did in Libya. The British disclosed they stUl are counting men ana weapons captured recently In the desperate Italian attempt to break the Brit ish cordon south of Bengasi when it was captured. The general headquarters com munique said guns captured "in the battle south, of Bengasi nam. ber 103 field, two heavy anti-air craft and 20 light anti-aircraft, Gervala Farmers. Union; Invocation, remarks. Father A km in, aft, Ansel : address of welcome. Mayor W. W. Chadwlck ; response, . Henry Johnson, Washington county president; report of credential . commit tee a ; committee appointments. President Llbby ; re port, state officers ; report of fraternal delegatea, - Noon, recess ; 1 :S0 p. m Junior ses sion assemblies; direction state junior leader, Mrs. Jessie Williams ; educa tional contests and tklts; business ses sion ; election- of officers ; :36 bl, Oregon State Janior banquet. . Wednesday I- a, bl, - session call ; opening exercises ; Invocation ; report of state executive board, John Plaas; report of legislative delegate, L, II. McBee; talk. Luverne Fets, Washington-Idaho president: talk. California state delegate: reports of county. pres idents ; address, James J. Patton. na tional president. - - .' Noon, recess: 1:30 p. assembly call ; Oregon Farmers Union Coop as sociation, Eben Ray, chairman : :30 p. nu, banquet. First Methodist church : speakers. James J. Patton. national president; Governor, Charles A. Sprague. Thursday a. : m assembly can ; opening' exercises; invocation ; report of committees: talk, director of agri culture ; talk, James J. Patton, nation al president ; 1 :3, assembly call ; com mittee reports; S p. m, order of bus iness; .election of officers; completion of committee reports; adjournment. US Concern Seen Conference Withf Australia. Britain, Dutch Chiefs h; Halifax Asserts Increased Forces to Colonies; East Indies Ready to Fight TOKYO, Feb. 16. (Sunday) (AP)-British Ambas sador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie was reported today tp hav wuuuueu .rvxcigii am.juioi.ci 1 T menacing maneuvers vy wapan lowara criusn possessions in the far east. 1 ! I f Sir Robert saw the Japanese foreign minister laie Sat urday, presumably on instructions ifrom London.! !Th exact details of their meeting were not disclosed. Simultaneously, Japanese newspapers Bangkok, Thailand, datelines rumors of an War News Briefs SAN JUAX, Puerto Rico, Feb. 15V-(iirVHarry I Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative who is returning from - aa observation , tour of England, boarded the Yankee Clipper Saturday night for a 1,600-niile flight to New York. Hopkins indicated he would take a plane for Washington Immediately on arrival in New Jforlt early Sunday, and said he espeeted tosee " Mr. 'Ttooerel-V aa soon as he -reached Washing, ton. NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-A)-An apology by the Athens radio for claiming Friday night the (Turn to Page 2. ol. Si US Will Remodel Oregon Highway Bottlenecks Removed and Road Straightened, Asserts Mott WASHINGTON, Feb. li.-(JPy- O r e g o n'a Pacific highway US highway No. 89 will be "straight, ened and bottlenecks will be re moved with part of the $100,000.- 000 allocated by the public roads administration. Rep. Mott (It Oregon ) said Saturday. The fund was set up to improve strategic highways throughout the nation. The Pacific highway runs from Seattle to Los Angeles, passing through many important cities of western Oregon, including Port land. Mott said the states might.'have to match a small part of the funds but that the amount had not yet been determined. A formula for allocating the funds to the states according to need on strategic highways also remains to be worked out. "The Pacific highway in Ore gon has some bottlenecks in it that will have to be removed," Mott said. "Part of the highway Is not strong enough, to permit the movement of military -equipment and those sections will hare to be strengthened. Trades Council " Convenes PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 15.- (fl5) A four-day meeting of state and national representatives of the Oregon State Building Trades council opened here Saturday., County President ERNEST WERNER Hull Cal Nation Is Sending a usuive itiuwsUUKa avauiBi any A T -J?:, . . reported j under mminent Anglo- Japanese clash Doaiei, Japanese news agency. said that "feari of a possible Brit ish invasion of Thailand wera mounting" because of the pres ence jot British troops nf ar the Thai border and the reported sighting of a British warehlp In the gulf of Slam. f Sir? Robert's interview! w i t h Matsif oka came at the end of a week which saw a suddefi spurt of war fears in the far east, top ped by the Warning fj acting Prim Minister! A. W.) . Faden of A u a t r a 1 t a i! to hi, cauati-vmon Thursdays - that s"The' "Wir has' moved into s new stageinvoIvf ng me almost arawitr. " i i Auitralia has been 'gravely -concerned with Japan's i steady pro. gressgsouthward. 1 . Siam Asserts Home May Suppose British to Invade Thailand on Friday reaffirmed her friendly relations wifh Bri tain but asserted that the Ration ing of British land, naval and air forces at Thailand's Malayan fron tier "may lead some peoptewrong ly to I suppose j that Britain will eventually violate Thai territory." WASHINGTON. Feb. 15-P-Tbe concern of, the UniteJ States over the tense situation in Iths far east waa emphasized Saturday by conference of SecreUry H1I with the British, AustralUh an DuUh envoys.' - - - V&connt Halifax, the British ambissador, and Richard B. Ca- 7 wey, the-' Anstraliaq minister, held an hour's Joint; disctawloa , with! Hull after which Dr. A. Lotufon The Netherlands Inlnia cv. Jconferredl with I the fserre tarypof state for thirty mfnutea. : Afier his I conference with Huiii Viscount Halifax! told newspapermen, there are ele- . menls in the i Pacific In fwhich we lire all interested and aU Conprned I . j":; i -" Seeretary Hull made ad state mention the talks, but it Vas un derstood that they were Sthe re sumption of what is to be) a coa tinuifag series of discussions on queeons involving the muiaarjn- ,AWA4I . . t. . L At ! iti con vi iue mree nation in IBS Pacific.: The Australian minister frequently joined the) lat0 Lord Lothian, British ambassador, - in similar talks with Secretaijy Hull, Forces Being Increased j Steadily In Far Kaet j I In I talking with newspapermen, Halifax declined any observations on reported naval and military movements In the far: east other than to say that the British had been "increasing their forces la thatlarea substantially and stead ily fr some time." i jT j Df. Loudon iaid his talk with Secrfetary HuO had been Ion the "general situation," i anfl had touched on The Netherlands, East Indfs. , . ji-....j iJ: Aked what the E a s t j Indies would do in an emergency, ths Dutih minister answered: ft', -fhe Dutch East Indies! would flgtft anyone wo atUckedithem. ? - N:-.---- Ii -"j kJ:. Salem Hop Buyer Sign Contract in ClaeUamag OREGON CITY. Feb. 15-MW The county clerk recorded t eoa tra&s between growers of Clack a mas! county and TWT hope pureh aslns firms fori 1141 opi Satur day -!..:.:-,: - : . -J . - Purchasers Were S. S. fctelner, Ineof Salem and New: York, and " Wilgams A Hart, Portlnd Price ranged from 2Sto 3Z cejnts per ; pouad, and the contracts fcovered more than 1 5 Q, 00 pounds. , To! Finance ImprovebienU f ONTARIO, j Feb. H llU)-A $271,250 WPA klrport project arc- thorlied In WaihingtoB, DC, fl'.i weet will finance lmproveuent c t ths Ontario airport. ! Plaus call for construction of two r snwc jz When Hull Calls I-