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S -s - Statesman Leads I - ' . All the sports news, wheat ! it's fresh. Is carried in yeurj morning Oregon Statesman. j No other paper read In 8a- j lem fives yon as timely j news as yeuU find In these j paxes. Weather Partly cloudy today; light rain? Thursday. Max. temp. 54, llin. 30. Southwest wind. , Elver .4 foot.1 Clear. POUNDOD 1651 iniiimrrH yeah' Salem, Orooru Wodnoaday Morning. February 19. 1941 Prlco 3 a Nowsslcmda 5c Nc;231 i r . n fllf V,rfti rfti i - ..aw m - ; a a m s" mm a a rr iii il Ti i it i in 1 iii ii ii ii i piVW..'- I I I I I I I I I I 1 I . u I iV Bfl GOP Bloc Charges War Bill' Aid Measure Hit by Opposition in Senate WASHINGTON,. Feb. ltHflV Senater Yandenberg of Michigan ad Senator Clark of Missouri, the no a republican and the other a democrat, Tuesday appealed to a trimly earnest senate to reject the lease-lend bill because, they said. It weald place the United States upon the brink of full Involvement in the European war. j- Senator Nye (R-ND) followed them with a demand that Presi dent Roosevelt disclose whether he is "entertaining the notion of a permanent alliance with Great Britain." "- Nye, too, charged that the meas tire was a "war bill" and one which would put the United States "fully Into the bloody business of licking Adolf Hitler." To their entreaties Senator Johnson (R-Calif.), submitting a minority report from the commit tee on foreign relations, added a call for the measure's defeat He asserted that it makes the presi dent "a dictator or worse, a dic tator .with power to take us Into war." Roosevelt Discloses Plan For Home Defense System While the debate progressed. President Roosevelt disclosed to his press conference that he was sending W. Averell Harriman, fi nancier and defense official, to England to act as what Mr. Roose velt termed as a defense ex pediter. ; Mr. Roosevelt also said he hoped to have ready in a week or two a home defense system un der which women and men outside the draft age could assist in the defense program. m He emphasized, however, that there was no inten tion of diverting large numbers of people from their normal occupa tions. Clark, bulky and red-faced, usually one of the senate's most rapid speakers, slowly delivered a prepared address. Departing from his text at one point, he said: This Is not a defense bill. This is a war bill. It is a bill to Implement and put In motion processes which almost certain ly will result in war. And if it res alts In war, we know that we are likely to emerge with a totalitarian form of government ourselves." Vandenberg, holding his manu script with his left hand and gesticulating energetically with hi right, asserted the bill was "a potential and needless threat to peace and security of the United States." The measure would make President Roosevelt "power poli tician number one of the world," he said, and "the White House would become the GHQ (general headquarters) for the second world war." ; Clark Heads off Debate I . For Opposition to Measure ! Clark had been delegated to lead off the opposition. He quick ly got to the point of his address with an assertion that "far-reach ing and calamitous effects", were to be expected from the measure. The title claims," he said, that it is a measure to "pro- " mote the defense of the United States. It has no such purpose and no such effect. It is in fact a bill to authorize the de nuding -of American defenses; to authorize the suspension of any American law inconsistent with the dictatorial powers con ferred in the act; to authorize the arming and feeding; and plying of any country in the world at the expense of Amer- . "lean taxpayers in the sole dis (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) PGE Leads County Marion county's Jargest single tax payer in 1941 v wiU be the Portland General Electric com pany, which will contribute $76, 642.20 as tax on property ap praised at ,$1,823,810, County As sessor R. "Tad" Shelton revealed Tuesday. j Close behind the electric com- pany will be the Southern Pacific railway company, he indicated, jwhich will pay a tax of $73,277,89 In spite of the , fact that the as sessed value of its "property within j the county is greater than that of I the electric company, being $1, 1968,431. j- ; . '' j - In sharp contrast . the assessor ! reported that the smallest tax paid ; by any utility in the county is 23 !ents, paid by line number 18 of : the Marquam telephone company. Its assessed valuation is four dol- lars worth of line and transmitter. Telephone Firm to Pay Third Largest Levy I The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company, the utility which serves Salem and much of the surrounding county, will pay a tax of. $15,0773. Tha telephone. Image A East African Cgn . ' CMEREN Tis'tr S L 3QO KASSAlA HTI Vfe 1 MILES aSUDAN r ttmSAUDI ARABIA -Xy I MAKA.LE -yvl T-.y.-.y ( TAAAi-J TABOR (JXmmM J ABABAy-MARAr ceis ETHIOPIA J V, ITALIAN obbia fr SOMALILAND 4 1 pBARDERA J S KENYA IZ0mm an A J $ ocean CLViCTOHIA ISXMMOmm CHEREN YiiSs' RAF bombings preceded the massing of British forces for an assault on Cheren (1), on the route to Asmara and Massaua. The British Claimed tkey cleaned out an Italian outpost at Kurmuk (2), paving the way for a new British thrust toward Gondar. The Italian high command said their forces had beaten back British on the Kenya border (3). The British reported they had pushed beyond the Giuba river toward Mogadiscio (4). German War Materials Poured Into Diplomatic Orcles Report Hitler" Prepares to Crack DoAvii on Greece to Make Peace on II Iuce Terms By The Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 18 (Wednesday) German war material has begun passing into Bulgaria over Yugoslav rail ways, it was reported reliably today as diplomatic circles heard accounts of redoubled German efforts to make Greece come to terms with Italy. Long lines of sealed railway cars were said to have rolled Speed Measure Marked 'Pass' Judiciary Anticipates UCC Report; CIO Yields on Demands Bills amending the state speed law, consolidating state depart ments and revising labor and workmen's compensation laws were reported out by legislative committees Tuesday afternoon, but the awaited decision of the house judiciary committee on the knotty unemployment insur ance questions again was delayed. The unemployment compensa tion issues, debated by labor and employer representatives again Tuesday afternoon and discussed by the committee in executive session for three hours Tuesday night, will be reported out by (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) company s total property is as sessed at $910,968 in Marion coun ty. ' The Portland Gas and Coke company, the only gas utility operating' in the county, will pay $16,299.50 on $315,588 worth of taxable property, Shelton re ported, and the Oregon Electric company wiU pay $95929 on property valued at $27 9 J 60. t The Mountain States Power company, only other major utility in addition to the PGE company, will pay $6043.99 on $143,142. The Butte Light and Power company, which operates locally, will pay $383.08, the Mill City Light and Water company, $194. 48, to bring the total of taxes paid by electrical' utilities to $33,345.84. Tax augmented of $2,813.31 is levied against railroad tank car companies and other utilities which operate rolling stock on railroad lines through Marion county. i Of these the Pacific Fruit Ex press company is the largest, pay ing $1123.64 on property assessed at $32,153, and the Pullman com ma Bute ana over the German-Yugoslav fron tier en route to "Bulgaria as a part of the agreement reached in the interview at Berchtesgaden, Germany, last week between Adolph Hitler and Yugoslav Pre mier Dragisa Cvetkovic. This passage of materials was one of the terms mentioned by Ziga Sol, a member of the Croat peasant party. That Yugoslavia would main tain a strict hands-off policy re garding German action in Bul garia was evidenced by reports from Sofia, that Premier Cvetko vick or some other high Yugo slav official was expected in Sofia soon to draft a reaffirma tion of the Yugoslav-Bulgarian pact of eternal friendship. Acting under the new Turkish-Bulgarian nonagression pact which diplomatic circles in terpreted as Immobilising Tor key should the Germans move against Greece the ; German minister to Athens was under stood to nave told the Greeks that the Germans wanted the Albanian war to end. The implication was I that the peace would have to be on Mus solinis terms and that if it did not (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Taxpayers pany next, paying $1023.32 on sleeping cars worth $29,154 which it has pulled back and forth along mam line railroad tracks of the Southern Pacific company. Twenty other car companies pay amounts lers than $100, with the exception of the Union Tank Car company, which will pay $109.08. In telegraph utilities the Western Union company will pay $1758.91 on $49313 worth of property, and the Festal Tele graph company, will contribute $424.68 on a proportional amount or assessable 'property. , largely wires and electrical in stallations. . ; . Among the book telephone com panies, the only large contributor at the Pacific Telephone! and Tele graph COmoanV is the tntmrtun Telephone company ofj Silverton, wmcn wuj pay 31732.Z9 on prop erty assessed at $28,304. , Of the 103 other small telephone companies in the county, none win pay over $193.07 assessed against the ML Angel Telephone company, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Congressional District Plan Splits at Linn Benton, too, Goes to Southern Oregon in Committee Report By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. Bitter fights are on the sched ule for the Oregon legislature today, when the house engages in a scrap over how to form a fourth congressional district and the senate battles over an administration-supported bill to per mit bigger trucks to operate on the state highways. The house reapportionment committee voted 7 to 3 Tuesday LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR 3rd Readings Today House: HB 89, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 252, 253,' 315, 331, 365, 442, 460, 466, 469, 470, 471; SB 40, 57, 65, 66, 71, 107, 114, 116, 140, 187, 260. Senate: SB 119, 121, 210, 229, 242, 243, 244, 272, 89, 90, 118, 122, 123; SJR 9; HB 101, 135, 145, 250, 270, 329, 363, 435, 8, 27, 31, 91, 159, 163, 231, 369. Special Order Senate: SB 7, divided report on big truck bill, 10:30 a.m. Public Hearings Senate: Assessment and taxa tion on HB 107 on tax exemptions, 1 p.m. today, room 302. to create a fourth district includ ing Benton, Coos, Curry, Doug las, Jackson, Josephine, Lane and Linn counties, all of which now are in the first (Western Oregon) district. The plan would leave Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Lincoln, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington and Yamhill counties i In the first district. - Xha aprovd plan, is -the -same as that proposed by the Lane county delegation, except that Lincoln county is placed in the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Aged Persons Attend Meeting More Than 200 Pack Room at Hearing on Pension Bill The social security sub-committee saw 200 or more persons, mostly aged, pack their hearing room last night and heard some of them produce arguments in favor of a bill to provide pensions up to $40 a month. Theodore S. Nelson, secretary of the Oregon Pension federaation, urged the legislature to "do something right now. "Ninety per cent of Oregon citizens would be willing to pay a tax of one per cent on their gross incomes to pay these pen sions. Oregon now provides pensions for fewer persons than 34 other states," he said. Nelson criticized the adminis tration plan to provide a retire ment system for public employes, arguing that his bil would effect the same result, and also would include every one over 60 years of age if they are in need. He estimated the one per cent tax would raise $574,000 a month. Rep. Warren Erwin (D-Mult) said, "I don't like the Idea of pil ing up any more taxes, because the government's defense pro (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) See fee la?.. Paul Hauser'g Column Bet you .don't know what day this is! Bet you don't care either unless it also happens to be pay X WelL anyway, for those .who haven't left the room, this is the 62d anniversary jSSO 'of the day that - ;T homasAlva -Edison (The In- ventor as played f !h CnmMT TV. cy, not tne xoung man as played by Mickey Rooney) patented .the Faal H. Bssser, Jr. phonograph. ' There are some that say it was a f fatal mistake. This includes some patrons of restaurants which pay the rent with Juke boxes. Sir Oliver Beecham, the noted Eng lish conductor, and our next door neighbor who says we play ' the darn thing too loud. Edison, who used to take cat saps an day long - so no could (Turn to Page 2. CoL 2) 1 1 1 1 Masse Nazis Request Radio Program Raps, Praise NEW YORK, Feb. 18-jp)-The nasi wireless, which last week asked for and got sug gestions as to what Americans would like to hear on German radio programs, Tuesday night asked for more. CBS reported that the wire less, not content with a flood of "special requests" Including some for descriptions of Hitler's funeral or the bombing of the Berlin chancellery, repeated its appeal for Americans to cable their wishes with charges col lect. "Don't spare any criticism that you may have, the an nouncer was reported as say ing, "and of course If you have any praise, we. are only too glad to receive it." Farmers Hear Chiefs Talk State President Tells of Difficulties in Annual Message Farmers who are dispossessed of their property by tax fore closure drop into a lower scale of labor and create further social and . economic confusion, Harley E. Libby. state president, told 500 delegates to the state Farmers un ion convention Tuesday. Libby, giving his annual mes sage, said farmers faced serious and increasing difficulties in com peting with imported products. Delegates were welcomed by Mayor W. W. Chadwick of Salem and Ernest Werner, Central How ell, president of the Marion coun ty Farmers union, convention host. National President James Pat ton and Jack. Sutherland, vice president of the United Farmers of Canada, were present at the opening session. Farmer Leader, Governor Will Be Chief Speakers Patton and Governor Charles A. Sprague will be principal speak ers at the convention banquet Wednesday night. Winners of the Junior Farmers (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Lobby Hobnobber Ex-Governor Charles H. Martin was a visitor at the capitol on Tuesday, looking in on the ses sion and calling upon Governor Charles A. Sprague and other of ficials. Tom Carlon, fire chief at Bend for aproximately 20 years, and John Bernlng, fire chief at Redmond, were here on Tues day in the interests of the fire men's measure. Rand Meservey of Wedderburn and Larry Lucas of Agnes, both communities near the mouth of Rogue river, were on hand to op pose the measure which would rer open that stream to commercial fishing. That region attracts large numbers of sport fishermen from afar, they pointed out. The bill which would require applicants for barbers licenses to be high school graduates, passed Tuesday by the house. Fascist soldiers march through snow - truce becomes effective these men i Ji - - s Japan Blames US-Britain For Tension jOr- . ... Nippon Ads to Allay - Fears of Owii Peopled They're Near War - ' '- " r - ; " . (Editor's note: Glenn Babb, who sums up the Japanese position and its repercussions oyer the world in the - following dispatch, spent, a dozen years in the orient as a far eastern correspondent of The As sociated press and as chief "of bu reau for the AP in Tokyo. Pres ently he is day cable editor in New York.) By GLENN BABB Associated Press Cable Staff Japan attempted Tuesday to al lay the fears of her own people that they are near war with the United States or Britain and to lessen the distrust with which her actions are regarded In many for eign capitals. In the latter purpose she appar ently failed as far as Washington and London were concerned. A declaration by the Tokyo gov ernment insisting on its Pacific in tentions and readiness to mediate in any trouble "anywhere in the world" met with comment in those two capitals that they were inter ested in deeds, not words. From Tokyo came word today (Wednesday) that the declaration was considered there an attempt to place responsibility for future developments in the Pacific on the United States and Britain, to show them lacking in the "wise and gen erous statesmanship which is wil ling to listen to others' claims and contentions" for which the decla ration called. . There was no indication from Tokyo that Japan was ready to (Tunfe towPage 2 Cct; J) ,fc Freight Train Leaves Tracks MADRAS, Ore. Feb. lS-i-A southbound freight train, thrown off the tracks by a faulty rail, piled up near here Tuesday, but no one was injured. Officials said the rail threw 14 empty cars into a ditch, but the locomotive remained upright. A passenger train had passed over the spot 35 minutes earlier. Quips, "Angles' Personalities the Capitol had the support of Rep. J. F. Hosch (D-Deschutes). "It might Improve the lingo we have to listen to," Hosch said. At present, newly - licensed barbers must be eighth grade graduates. Harry Wiley, Linn county rep resentative in the 1939 session who objected to all salary increase bills, was in town on Tuesday, but whether he was in the house in time to see his successor per form was not ascertained. At any rate Rep. "- Warren Erwin - CD Mult.) qualified for) that role by orating for five minutes -in pro test of the bill increasing the Lin coln county treasurer's salary from $800; to $1200 a year. Erwin said he would oppose such bills so long as the legisla ture "refuses to see the green light on pensions. "My colleague has overlooked (Turn to Page 9, Col. 1) Italian Troops on March f ' - 4 and Ice to the front righting line In Albania. If the Hitler proposed will be sent to Africa, it Is reported. sit SMg&ipWtB A siatic Navall Base Reinforce 1 v Japan Makes Of ienswmin&reases bends JNew iNavy pmtsfto Slant Gulf; Greece Faces Decision SINGAPOkE, Feb. 18-j-(AP)-j-An Australian imperial force many thousands strong reached Singapore fate Tuesday. Thus was brought to this eastern bastion of the Briti: h em pire the largest and most powerfd reinforcement! of men, guns and machines ever to arriverin a single convoy. A few hours after disembarking at the Singapore nav; il base from great liners which had transported thfem 3000 miles under Australian and British naval escort, the Australian troo js en trained for already-prepared defense stations of j- the M ilayan peninsula. ! i i News of War At a Glance By the Associated Press Australian troops, thousands strong, reach Singapore as that vital British base prepares for eventualities. Japan sends up trial balloon on willingness to mediate any conflict; axis partner Germany says offer is ! without- signifi cance; Washington suggests "deeds, not words"; Japanese warships off Slam reported strengthened. Greece reported facing alter natives of suing Italy for peace or combining with British to meet expected German attack. Greece claims new advances in Albania which Italians deny 'although acknowledging heavy casualties on both sides. Italians say pro-fascist Ethi opians are aiding them; British report Ethiopian patriots forc ing Italians out of Gojjam prov ince. ' British admiralty says naval planes sink German supply ship in Mediterranean; Germans re port successful bombing of Malta. London reports fourth Ameri can member of RAF lost in action against Germany. Arrest Clears Salem Holdup Two juveniles were arrested Tuesday by city police and held in jail, clearing the robbery last Friday morning of W. II. Hender son, Salem publisher, at his home, 1134 Madison street. The name of another 16-year-old boy, admit tedly involved in the case but not held, was not disclosed by police. Earl Junior Bonney, 16, Fair- haven avenue, and La Verne Du Mond, 18, 910 Wilbur street, were arrested on justice court warrants charging assault and battery. Bon ney was in the county jail and DuMond in the city jail. Young Burbons to Meet THE DALLES, Feb. 18.-VP)- State officials of the Young Demo crats of Oregon j have set the' an nual convention for The Dalles on April 25, 26 and 27. n W7 as air ffcr to Mediate liut The ordered calm of thife great naval base as broken by a great uproar as gray j vessels! came alongside the docks. Bronzod Aus tralians, jamming the rails and portholes, shouted; down a band off a famous British regiment un til it struck: up Roll Out tie Bar rel. The troops landed amid fears that Britaia might have tot face a Japanese thrust in the fir east tinned to coincide with a derman push in Europe. Japanese . Nival - Units Rushed to Gulf ofj Slam Reports from Saigon, French Inldo-Chinaf- said Japanes naval units had been heavily rei if orced in the Gulf!of Siam, and i Dutch authority forecast land a id sea blows at tx?th Singapore and the rich Netherlands East InHies in the "very near future."" an Tokyo, Japanese officials J represented themselves as willing to; mediate in any conflicts in the world while attributing far east- et. tension to Brfiaiav ?ind the United States. ji . Washington suggested deeds, nojt words, on Japan's par 'might al&viate the Pacific situati n, and Japan's axis partner, G rmany, dismissed the mediation offer as without significance. t Little ilireece appa rently ficed the tragic alternatives last night of making peace with Italy on Premier Mussolini's terms or combining her j small army with British land forces to meet an irnminent German at tack. I :! j With German planes reported flying daily over Greece, axis di plomacy wa directed at pointing out these facjtors to Greece: Nazi mechanized troops t re less than 200 miles from her b orders; Bulgaria and Yugoslavia iill not oppose passage of those troops or th establishment! of tie zi air bajes; Turkey will rema n im mobile, j British efforts to hold Greece firm against the axis rested on these factors Jritish Cah Rush lanes to Greece British troops and planes can be rusfhed from Africa to Greece now that Italy's threat there hs ben removed; that there still Was no definite assurance I that tTurVev (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) War News Br efs- jSAIGON.t French Ihdo-fchina, F. 19 - yp - Reports from sources considered reliable, but which the Associated Pre! s was unable to confirm, said today tWo Japanese fleets were n tht Gulf of Slam, between the Ma-J f Peninsula and i southern inao-Chlna' IvasiiingtonJ Feb. 1S-jPW Jesse Jones told congressional committee Tuesday that fwe'ro nearly In the war," but Imme diately had the remark stricken from the record. President Roosevelt commented lated that it did not mean anything! - ISTANBUL, Fet iMjpLxur klsh newspapers! lauded . the Turkish - Bolrarian declaration of i non-agrression t Tuesday as . anf assurance oTi peace in th Balkans. They emphasise that thi declaration; in: no wis! con fli;t with- agreements j with otaor eonn tries meaning Tur : key's alUance with Britain. . ONDPn! . ' FelMffLlw Hikhts fronv the American eagle snuadron have Joined thd RAP "la action against Germany, 1 : was reported officially Tuesday and Eagle Pilot Officer Venroa Charles -Shorty" Keoglh of . Brooklyn was lost on patrol, 1 ' ' ' - " :t- ' - j -. : . 1-.-. ' pOME,: Feb. t--l jaliant J . declared Tvesdayi that pTo-fst cist Ethiopians were orgnl3;!2i tot help them, fight the CritLi : and claimed to be holding their lines generally both ia ybarli (Turn ta Page 2, Col. m 4) v I i f