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. Statesman Leads AH the sports news,' when It's fresh. Is carried In year . morning Oregon Statesman. J Ne ether; paper read in Sa-' lem fives you as timely news as yeall find In these pajes. I- - vcv : Partly cloudy, today and E Saturday with little chanre f in temperature. BXax.' temp. 6- f j Xhnrsday 0, Min. 30. Nerth. ', Mrest'wlnd. River -J6 feet. I Clear. 4 i ! NINETIETH TEAB em. Oregon. Friday Morning. Febraary 21. 1941 Prlc la Newsstands 5c NouIC3 mm a urn-mi um isanafe'fi hri t . ': -'X.:. pounddd 1651 ' '." " " tend 'Bill! In Surprise By Demo Reynolds of North Carolina Sr0 IVIeasiire Is f or "Preservation of British Empire, not USwt WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 countered unexpected opposition Senator Reynolds (p-NC) who asserted that it might lead to war and denounced it as a bill "for the preservation of the Brit-) ish empire, without any consideration for the preservation of the United States." f 4 f A little earlier, the senate military committee, in secret ses sion, heard General George C. Marshall the army chief of staff, mress his views on the measure. V He was reported to have said that it would expedite assistance to Great Britain and In crease the capacity of American . Industry to produce war materials, Nye Asserts Roosevelt Will Create War Incidents I Senator Nye (R-ND) carried on his fight against the lease-lend measure by telling reporters that Jf it Is passed "the president will Create Incidents which will lead us into war within 30 days after -the legislation is signed. The announcement of Reynolds' position came as a surprise be cause a few days ago he voted VVASIUNCTON. Feb. !H) -A special senate committee of three, headed by Senator Ty dings (D-Md), was created Thursday to stndy the federal 'government's fiscal set-up with !a view to formulating a plan j for an "automatically balanced ! budget in times of peace." Oth er members are Thomas (D Utan) and Holman (R-Ore-gon). to report the bill out of the for' eian relations committee. More over, his stand was. directly. con trary to that of his North Carolina colleague. Senator Bailey. -Delivering a lengthy address, Reyonlds was the senate's first speaker of a day given over to opponents of the bUL Galleries were crowded, bat only a small number of senators wa4resen and mm of these were more in- . c lined to conversation among j themselves thai to listening. j The North Carolinian devoted the early pages of his prepared ad dress to analysis of events since the World war and then asked that before the senate "decides to give pur . defense articles, which we so badly need. here at home, to Great Britain" 'it consider the situation here. Lists Failure of Nation In Debts and Employment We'. have voted to Increase jtho national Indebtedness to C5 billions, by far the highest that this country has ever known, and perhaps exceeding the na tional indebtedness of any other eeantry. of the world during peace-time. ."We haven't! yet paid our debts incurred as a result of this (Turn to Page 3, Col. 4) US Income Shows Gain WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--jesse H. Jones, secretary of com merce, estimated Thursday that the national income last year was $73,800,000,000, an increase of $4,400,000,000 over 1939. j He added, however, that income payments received by individuals in the form of wages, dividends and other forms were larger than the national income. They totalled $74,300,000,000. The difference was due to the fact that some of the income payments were made on borrowed money in connection with new projects for the defense program. I The national income was the highest since 1929 and 94 per cent over the depression low in 1932. 1 TT 1 'Hi "L Quip. -Angles- I rtrrW nflnnnnnPT and Pentosan ties 4JWa www at the Capitol j "Dear Franklin: There's no use arguing with a duck. So you might as well revoke that order one of your predecessors made, creatingjp an Upper Klamath .Wild Lire He serve back in 1928. The ducks won't use it. They know better than a president what's good for them. Respectfuly, Oregon Legis lature." That's the burden, though not the exact text, of a memorial in troduced in - the house Thursday by Rep. Harry. Boivin (Dr Klam ath). f . Roy Ri trier, president of the senate in ' 1921' and acting gov ernor for a considerable period late in 1922, was here this week presenting .the needs of Pendleton in the way of additional water supply because of the army ' air base development there. The city wants all the unappropriated rights on the ' north fork of the Umatilla and its tributaries. f Members of the ' ways and -, means committee who endorsed. Flayed Talk Senator (AP) The lease-lend bill en in the senate Thursday, from Aid Supporters. And Roosevelt Booed, Hissed i NEW YORK, Feb. 2o-)-; The names of supporters of the British aid bill, including Presi dent Roosevelt, were booed and hissed Thursday night at a mass meeting at which US Senator Barton K. Wheeler (D-Mon-tana) and Senator Gerald P. Nye (R-Ncrth Dakota) asserted passage of the bill would mean almost Immediate involvement of this country in war. Wheeler declared that the British aid bill would empower the president "to intervene In the present bloody European conflict and that power of in tervention is the power to wage war." Agreeing with this premise, Nye asserted that if the bill be comes law "we shall find our selves almost overnight in the war, the very kind of war which 85 per cent of the people of this country have vowed again and again they would have nothing to do with." McoliMCohtrol Hears Debates Pro, Con Arguments on Wines Sales Wax at Joint Hearing 'The house and senate alcoholic control committees heard argu ments Thursday night on bills to prohibit sale of wine containing mare than 14 per cent of alcohol by volume, and to limit sale of such wines to liquor stores. The measures were opposed by wine distributors and manufactur ers, while temperance organiza tions and other speakers support ed them. Judge Opposes Sale . Of All Types of Wine Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan of Salem opposed sale of sweet, or high alcoholic content wines, even in the liquor stores." Many of ' the crimes which have come before him, he said, can be traced directly to fortified wine. Mrs. Necia Buck, state president of the Women's Christian Temper ance union, - said sweet wines should be restricted to liquor stores in order to "protect our boys" in military service. Retention of the present law as a middle of the road path" was urged by Leonard H. Ballif, Port land distributor, while C. R. Crenshaw, manager of the Hood River distilleries, opposed both bills on the grounds that they would rob a quarter million dol lar industry of a developing out-of-state market by discouraging the cooperation of other wine producing states. ' Sen. W. E. Burke (R-Yamhill) (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) plans of University " of Oregon students for financing a Student , Union building, are not feeling flattered If they have read , a recent Issue of the Oregon Em- ,eraJd which editorially express ed concern lest the bin, due tm haste necessary In its prepara tion, might prove faulty. Brief ceremonies in observance of George Washington's birthday will be held in the senate at 10 ajn. Saturday with Bishop Bruce Baxter the principal speaker. The Willamette . university glee club will sing several numbers. i Willis West, who was. once dis trict attorney of Clatsop county and later an attorney for the util ities department, was, around the lobby on Thursday. He was born in Salem not too many years ago. 1 . "A former precinct commit tec man : in Multnomah county was the title under which John n. Hall was Introduced by Rep. (Turn to Pago 2. CoL ti IBr litis Newly-elected officers of the Oregon Farmers Union,' above, receive Farmers Union President James Thursday afternoon. From left Jefferson, re-elected president; elected secretary; Patton, and L. Benton County Hurdle Faces 4th District House Voles College City in; Payless Days Arrive By STEPHEN C. MERGLER The Oregon legislature moved half the way Thursday toward designating the counties to share the services of the state's anticipated fourth congressman but faced a Benton county hurdle in the senate before redis ricting could be declared settled. Its action tantamount to final, the house of representatives vot- LEGISLATTVE CALENDAR 3rd Readings Today House: HB 30, 82, 118, 174, 181, 198, 236, 336, 375, 393, 398, 427, 434, 462, 463, 486, 487; HJR 7; SB 82, 163, 175, 208; special or der, reports on HB 484, substitute financial responsibility act, at 10:30 a.m. Senate: SB 210, 241, 253, 167, 239, 256, 216; SJM 5; HB 85, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 292, 306, 309, 331, 422, 469, 470, 471, 38, 210, 301. Public Hearings Today House: Agriculture, on HB 162, 8:30 a.m., room 328. Senate: Industries, afternoon adjournment, room 401. ed 42 to 13 to accept the report of its reapportionment commit tee recommending that the new congressional district consist of Benton, Coos, Curry, Douglas, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Radio-Phonograph Fund Is Started For 249th Men A campaign to obtain funds for purchase of a radio-phonograph for the barracks day room of the 249th Coast Artillery at Fort Ste vens was announced Thursday by George Alexander, Rev. Robert Hutchinson and C. S. McElhinny, officers of the 249th's local auxiliary.- The regiment, the men of which are recruited from Salem and other Willamette valley towns, has recently been moved into per manent barracks at Fort Stevens, they have reported. There books and magazines are available to the men, but no mu sical entertainment has yet been provided. Contributions of funds or of phonograph records will be received' by any member of the auxiliary. ". ' f Patriotic Orders Banquet Tonight . Annual banquet and election of officers of the Salem Federation of Patriotic Orders wil be tonight at 6:30 at the Argo hotel; Senator Thomas Mahoney will be ..the principal speaker.- t r ; i- . Distinguished guests include Governor Charles A. Sprague and Lt CoL Elmer V, Wooton. ' : . Herman Lafky .is retiring presi dent. - - .- . . i ' - . Y x- r t - J. Patton, second from right, to right, they are -Peter Zimmerman, John Plass, Hills boro, director; H. McBee, Folk county, director. Photo State Farm Conclave Ends; Milk Law Hit All Officers Reelected at Final Session; National Chief Flays AAA forBurejauci Reelection of all officers amend the present; milk control farmers could retail milk from closing session of the 31st annual state Farmers Union conven tion at the VFW hall Thursday. Officers renamed were Harley E. Libby, Jefferson, president; Hee (Q)ee Ha?.. Paul Hauser Column One of our ever present scouts (That's one behind you, bud) comes to us with a true tale con nected with thesT" late lamented de-r m Ion f k n Webfoot liquor i ary society. It seems, so says our scout, that a few days! after state liquor control agents put the f i n a 1 1 clamp on the Club Webfoot bus boy in a res taurant above the Quarters oc Paul H. Haaser, Jr. cupied by the club until its cent unpleasantness saw some characters making their way down the stairs leading to the former hard drink parlor. To the bus boy's youthful eye the characters appeared not of the gentlest type. He feared evil doings. The proprietor of the restau rant Is In charge of the Web foot's onetime quarters and the bus' boy, dutifully making his employer's best interests his own, bestirred himself. . The restaurant owner was out of town, so the bus boy quickly dashed upstairs to the office of an attorney. -Hey," he shouted, "I just saw some plug-uglies go down in the Webfoot I don't think they're up to any good. We'd better go down." So the attorney and the boy hopped bravely into an elevator (Turn to Page 2, 'CoL" 4) Late Sports SPOKANE, Feri. 2CKff-Judge J. Stanley Webster, president of the Western International Base ball, league, said Thursday night the league directors expected to reach a decision on the 1941 sche dule at a meeting set for Satur day afternoon in Yakima. SPOKANE, Feb. 20-(iP)-Rneo MarteL left winger released ; this week by the 'Portland Buckaroos of the Pacific Coast Hockey league, has been signed by the Spokane Bombers, Manager -Den ny Edge said Thursday - nighL ' SPOKANE, Feb. ZOFA clos ing 'rally by ; Gonzaga! "after.; the Whitman college basketball-team had knotted the count at 29-all with 8 minute to go, netted the Zags a 48 to 36 victory Thursday S 4 r - - v I night.-; - - . r . J : 't move .? - congratulations from National shortly after votes were tabulated Yamhill, director: Harley Libby, Pauline Johnson, Central Howell, re by Frank Herbert, staff photographer. and adoption of a resolution to law to the extent that small their own farms, highlighted State. Senator Ronald E. Jones, Brooks, vice-president; Pauline L. Johnson, Central Hpwell, secre tary-treasurer. Retiring members of the state executive board were also re elected. They are Peter Zimmer man, Yamhill; Frank Emerson, The Dalles, John Plass, Hillsboro. Members with unexpired terms are L. H. McBee of Polk county and Henry Thompson of Colum bia county. Libby was elected delegate to the national conven tion, Ronald E. Jones, alternate. Milk Control Discussion Consumes Much Time Milk control, the perennial bug aboo of Oregon farmer conven tions, consumed much time be fore the resolution for an amend ment of milk control law was passed by the marketing commit tee of L. H. Zielke, Albert Bosch ler, H. E. Woods and John Dasch was adopted. ? . - . . Other dairy products resolu tions endorsed: by the conven tion. included resolutions as pre sented by Frank Hettwer, chair man of the . dairy committee and manager of the ML Angel Cooperative creamery relative to house bill 259, which pro , vides for . sales, promotion and research on dairy products, and an endorsement of the Oregon cream grading law . and con tinuance of an appropriation to keep the law In force. Mt Angel local, Stanley Duda. l : J . j 1 IT (MCSiUeUl, Wtt9 IWiUUCU (ICIUUI nent possession of the Farmers Union block and gavel as a third time winner in having the larg est local membership, 258, in good standing. Another block and gav (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1) - v 1 Nation Bigger Than Party, Asserts McLeod at Meet ' The democratic parry must con tinue to be, or must again become if it is not now, a national party. Dean George McLeod of the Wil lamette university law school warned Young Democrats attend ing their legislative day luncheon here Thursday noon. Mentioning n recent charge that the demo cratic party had become a "class parry," the speaker declared 1 if this, were true and continued to be' true, the' party would destroy itself or the 'nation. ; ' ; " y The jtionia, always ubigger than any , barty and fortunately there Is just now a resurgence ."of recognition, that .this ,'is true Mc Leod ndded.:-;l:;,v-i"vt--:-?-- -.r. : Other speakers ' included Charles H. Leach, state democrat ic central . committee : chairman, who emphasized, party , solidarity, low. US Plans To Speed Fleet-Aid Situation Serious .---'c Asserts Marshall at Secret Meet-r'.. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AP)-Swift steps will be'takr en to strengthen . American air power in the Pacific, it was re ported here Thursday, ' while Shanghai accounts told of new Japanese military - movements southward.' . Both, army and navy fight ing planes of the latest type are to be dispatched to the Pacific. fleet. General George Marshall, chief of staff, was said to have disclosed to the senate military affairs committee at a secret ses sion. .Some committee members said he described the Far Eastern situation as "serious" and assert ed army and navy chiefs had no intention of stripping American defenses to speed up war equip ment deliveries to the British. One committeeman said Mar shall left the impression that the administration believed Germany was urging Japan to enter the war and to come to grips . with the United States in the Far East in order to divert American atten tion from the British aid program. This was one reason, lt was reported, that reinforcement of the-air strength of the Pacific fleet was in prospect Immedi ately. Discussing England's needs, the army chief of staff was said to have told the committee that what the British wanted most was the long-range American bombers now coming off the production lines. He was' reported to have ob served that they were consider ably better planes than were being produced six months or even three months ago. Reinforcement of air fighting units in the Pacific and legisla tion just passed by the house for building up defense outposts at far away Guam and Samoa were regarded in some circles as paral lel to recent British moves to strengthen defenses at the Singa (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Former Salem Attorney Dies Samuel M. Endicott Succumbs at Home in Turner Samuel M. Endicott, about 83, early Turner banker and Salem attorney, died at his residence in Turner Thursday night He had been ill for the past month. Mr. Endicott was born in Tama county, Iowa. He was admitted to the practice of law there and served several terms in the Iowa legislature before coming to Ore gon. After engaging in the banking business in Turner for several years, fjidicott moved to baiem and in 1913 opened a law office in the Salem Bank of Commerce building, now the Guardian (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Noted Doctor Dead PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20-P) Dr. Frances Edward Stewart, 87, honorary president of the Amer ican Pharmaceutical association and one of the organizers of the American Medical association's council on pharmacy and chem istry, died Thursday. and : Ed Howell of The Dalles, chairman in charge of plans for the Young Democrats" state con vention in that city in ApriL Paul Plank,' state president of the ? Young i Democrats, -presided after being introduced by Lee Crawford of Sale m. Greetings from Vic Meyers, lieutenant gov ernor . of ,. Washington who . had been scheduled to speak, from Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr. Homer Adams, national, president of the organization, an d Congressman Walter M.Pierce, were; read. ' .The ,150 persons attending- the luncheon and late r ; activities V arouna, me legisiauve a halls, .in cluded sizeable delegations. . from 16 Oregon counties. A number of democratic - legislators attended the luncheon. . .. :' :.-. r Sprague Urges Strong Stand In Far East yy- -yyy-y- : I i ' Adherence to m strong posi tion with respect to Japan's ag gression In the orient was urged by Governor Charles A. Sprague In a telegram sent to President Roosevelt Thursday. February 20, 1941 1 President! Franklin D. Roose velt . - ' ' : ' ' - The White House 'Washington, D. C. I URGE ADHERENCE TO !A STRONG POSITION WITH RE-I SPECT TO JAPAN'S AGG SION IN THE ORIENT, PACIFIC COAST STATES VITALLY CONCERNED BE CAUSE OF THEIR CLOS COMMERCIAL AND CULTUR AL RELATIONS WITH : T FAR EAST. WEi DESIRE FRIENDLY RELATIONS Wltll JAPAN RTTT STRfTMfiT.V iSXL POSE. JAPAN'S POLICIES WHICH THREATEN THE SE CURITY OF THE ORIENT AND ENDANGER THE NATIONAL INTEREST "OF THE UNITED STATES. I BELIEVE TH;E PEOPLE OF THE PACIF)C COAST WILL APPROVE llA. SOLEMN WARNING FROl YOU THAT THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT TOLERATE lA SOUTHWARD THRUST BY JAPAN. I GOVERNOR CHARLES, A. SPRAGUE. . Rumania Call MillionMen Official Turkish Pips Confirms Opposition , to Naii Moves B E L G R A D IV Yugoslavia, Feb. 20 (AP) Rumania I has called nearly a million armjf re servists to active service effec tive March 15, diplomats jxth hero and in Bulgaria were; in formed Thursday. Two possible explanations Were offered here. The first was that the nazis, while fearing no soviet thrust are assigning the Rumanians to qui etly occupy that flank whiles the Germans hit to the south at Greece to reach the Meditejrra nean. 1 The second, and more general ly accepted, was that the Ger mans are getting ready to give away still more of Rumania's ter ritory to the soviet and figure Jthat it would be easier to do that with Rumanian soldiers on the fron tier than in the presence along that frontier of nazi troops jwho have been formally pledged to defend it. x ! That the call-up held a certain urgency was illustrated by the fact that most of those summoned are peasants who ordinarily ohght to be in their fields. 3 ' The lone discussion of jthe new Turkish-Bulgarian non-aggression agreement continued during the day, the officially controlled Turkish press takjtng the line tha It would impede (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) War News Briefs TOKYO, Feb. 1-;P-Frtgn MlnUter Yosuke Mat sue? ka called a special press conference late Thursday night to deny that the had made a reputed special' offer to Britain to mediate Ithe war in Europe. As foreign minister, I neverU have offered mediation to kny; nation In the world for restora tion of world peace,' MatsoOka said. 1 JANOL French . Indo-Cblna, Feb. 20-(ff-ReIiable sourcesl re ported Thursday night thai a serious dispute had arisen be tween the Japanese and French authorities over Japanese f de mands for $1S,0M0 wortf of American and Chinese-owned goods stored in Haiphong ware houses. ROME, Feb. 21-(Frlday)-P) -Former King Alfonso XTIt of Spain was reported s If g hjt I y .worse early today and arrsbge-. ments were made, for a pHysi 'eJan to be to. a t t o nd a jic e ' throughout: the night. -The; exr .monarch has a, Itcart ailment. : . LONDON, peb. ZL-VllFrl-'day) Germanj planes returned to London early today , forj the : second time since mldnighti and the third . attack of the night.' ' Anti-aircraft guns immediitely went Into action while the alarm sirens wailed, but early reports Indicated the main effect ef the . .(Turn to Page I, CoL 3) , mm pane Eden lin .; .O.: 1.1: ;-: - Mission Big Decisions in luoying iropps Are Expected By - The Associated Jresjj The sudden arrival of! Brit n s foreign secretary and the chief of Britain's imperial gen eral staff in Egypt for reported "big decisionsjf and , t uncon-, firmed reports pt hurried Japa nese troop movements Thurs the speculative! spotlight ; the day night brought sharply into struggle for empire in the mid dle and fari'eastjj . : J.' Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Lieut.-Gen. Sir John G. TTar Roundup At a Glance By The Associated Pre Britain's j Foreign Secretary Eden and Imperial General Staff Chief - Sir John; Dill arrived in Egypt on mission believed con nected with Uncertain riiiddlo east situation; British Cross1 Juba river in Italian! Somaliland. !.!! j. I Shanghai hoars Japanese troop transports en route from Formosa and Japan bases pre sumably for Hainan island or French Irido-China; United States reported planning to re inforce Pacific fleet immediately ' with new planes. " f " 'J v Rumania calls nearly 1,000, 000 reservists f I to army; f move presumed to relieve largo ger man force standing on Russian border. J ' ' Germans! raid south Wales coast for p second consecutive night; London jhas twj brief air alarms. ' : . Dill reached 'Cairo. I and , this brought home 'again to ' Bretons that they have f'a victorious army in Egypt and the ability to send it speedily to defend Britisn pos sessions in any part of jthe globe. Informed 'jneitral diploniats in London pointed to the uncertain attitude of both Turkey and Greece toward jthe threat of nazi invasion, and t was considered , likely that .Eden's third Visit to the middle oast: since tie war be gan was designed to bolster these British alies with promi ses or even plans for n)ilitary su?por from the African j-tro()p reseivbiij Eden last.visUed Egypt in Oc tober as war rninister). That trip was followed by! General Sir Arch ibald P. Waveili's crushing drive against Libya.: . : .1. - Three Main Courses Open For Victorious Libya Army" Britain apparently has three main courses open for her victor ious troops n Libya. She could: " L Continue her Libyan j; drive, toward the western border and Tripoli, principal Italian city Is Libya. 2. Rush Ih - force to Greece and Albania i to strengthen the Greek resistance to German pressure and Italian soldiers. S.- Ship a good part of the ferce to the far east to meet any Japanese threat. Reports that Japan was rushing troop transports from Formosa and the homeland itself Were heard in Shanghai but could hofSbe confirmed. However, they were accepted in ,;soihe quarters! as in- cheating the' Japanese were! losing (Turn , to Page 3,. Col I 3) Donnell Wins In Missoiifi JEFFERSON' ' CITY, MoL, J Feb. 20-(iT1-Republican' Forrest C Donnell "won f ja five-week fight for M i s s o uJ r i's governorship .Thursday, from a democrat con trolled general j assembly that cer tified his election in gluml silenct and set his inauguration for "Wed nesday. :r-.-r'- j "j'. )'..';' ' - Minutes later f cheers 'greeled the announcement that Lawrenci McDanieL'Stj; Louis democrat would challenge his fjrm4r Eun day .school , teacher's ' right- XO the office. Donnell defeated McDanici by S,fflS votei ilia the! official re turns from' last November's dec i