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House Approves
Single Chief
Measure
By PAUL, W. HARVEY, JR.
Oregon s . tax : commission
would be abolished and its du
plies would be transferred' to a
". single tax commissioner, under
: terms of a bill ' passed by the
: house .Friday and sent to the
: senate. .
The large vote for the bill
44 to 12 surprised many ob-
servers. The dui was miro-
tfuced by Rep. J. JX Perry (D-Co-
lumbia).
I 3 The commissioner would be ap-
pointed by the board of control,
"which now appoints each member
' of the .tax commission. He would
;jreceive $4800 a yearthe same sal-
iary now paid each commissioner.
' I Ferry said there is no more rea-
son for a three-man tax commis
sion than there is for a three-man
"utility commission." Utilities are
'regulated by a single commission
:er. '.;
Rep.' Stanhope Pier (R-Mult.)
added that "it is better for busi
nessmen to have a single man at
"the head of the tax department.''
. One Democrat Opposes
Passage of Measure
"p- Rep. Henry Semon of Klamath
county was the only democrat op
posing the bill, while republicans
who voted against it were Chase
of Lane. Engdahl - of Umatilla,
; French . L Sherman, Heisler of
Wasco, ixmergan or Muitnoman,
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
Srd ; Readings :
Senate: t a. m. today, SB
tSO, t7, 1: SCR ; HB 1S,
457, 171, 268, 449.
House: 10:15 a. m. Monday.
HB 174, 333. 365, 393. 42, 453,
488, 489, 49; SB 51, 79, 89, 90,
119, 421, 143, 19$, 244; SJM 3;
special order, 1S:3 a. bl. HB
Harsh of YamhUl, McAllister of
LJackson, Miller of Morrow, Nrw
jbry of Jackson, Rennie of Ben
ton, and Rodman of Lane.
The legislature ended six
weeks of its session Friday,
which also was the first day they
began to serve without pay. The
senate scheduled a Saturday ses
sion for the third straight time,
while the house, which has not
yet net oa Saturday, adjourned
until Monday. !
The so-called compulsory insur
ance bill was passed 51 to 8 by
tho house and sent to the senate.
The bill provides that persons in
volved in traffic accidents shall
lose their drivers licenses and li-
' icense plates until they prove their
future financial responsiDimy
The bill affects '; both the owners
and drivers of such cars.
Opponents Contend Bill
Would Handicap Some Owners
Crononents contended the hill
would handicap Indigent car own
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.iv'T-rrrf
Group Plans
Sub Measure
The senate industries commit
tee will Introduce a substitute
i bill for one already before it re
vising experience rating penalties
and credits under the workmen's
romnensation ' law. Sen. Ronald
E. Jones' (R-Mjarion) announced
Friday afternoon.
The bill Would cive emoioy-
ers credits up to a maximum otj
50 Per cent of the base rate of
assessment, for jcompensation and
provide "penalties of up to 30 per
cent above the base. The penalty
rate would be I the same as the
cresent law but the base rate
would grant anl additional 10 per
kent in credits to employers earn-
in thom b-r accident-free rec
ords. I
The measure- fori which , the
committee bill Iwill be a substi
tute would have allowed 25 per
cent credits and 15 per cent pen
alties. !
The committee also will pro
pose a specific rule be enacted to
guide the industrial aceiaenx com
mission in determining basic
rates, Jones said. '
Senators Eat Salmon .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-3J-Chinook
salmon from Astoria,
Ore., fed senators and their wives
in the senate : restaurant Friday.
The salmon was supplied by. Sen
ator Holman (R-Ore.) xrom ja
pounds - he received.'
Gels Lumber Contract
7ASII1NGT0N, t Feb, 12-(ff)-The
war; department announced
that th J. F.'Sharp Lum
ber company, Redmond, Ore.; had
been awarded! a $3607 contract
for lumber., The delivery date was
not disclosed.
Se
niator
Three Cond
O
Power Given
In Measure
Brooks of Illinois Is
Bluer in Denouncing
War Involvement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21
( AP) T hree middle western
senators denounced the lease
lend bijl Friday as likely - to
lead to war and one of them,
Senator Bulow (D-SD), as
serted that the measure's op
ponents might be justified in
conducting a filibuster until the
war abroad is over.
As the bill stands, he said, "its
passage will, lead this, country to
war and disaster," and postponing
its enactment by prolonging the
debate might have the result of
keeping the nation at peace. The
tall, gaunt South Dakotan was
the third speaker of a day of sen
ate oratory given over to the op
position. -
"This is a war bill, with war
powers, with the deliberate inten
tion to become involved in not
one,' but several foreign wars,"
Senator Brooks (R-Illinois) had
said earlier.
Gillette Refuses Support
Xeavinr US Defenseless"
Senator Gillette (D-Iowa) said:
"I will not support any proposal
to dissipate United States defense
resources now and leave America
defenseless or greatly weakened
by the participation in a foreign
conflict which means war.involve-
ment now and is war now. regard
less of our .attempts to disguioe th
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tacis oy seu-aecepuon.
Bulow contended that the mea
sure would give the president ex
cessive power. He was "alarmed,
he said, at "placing the destiny of
my country in the hands of one
man to determine when and where
an emergency arises and let that
one man, handle that emergency
for 130 million human beings in
any manner that he desires."
"No one man ought to want
that Job," he continued, "and
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Pan-America
Blocks Plan
British May Be Balked
, in Blockade Program
in West Indies
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l-(JP)-
The ! apparent intention of the
American republics to preserve the
Pan-American' "neutrality zone'
was reported Friday night to be a
major obstacle to the establish
ment of a British blockade base in
the West Indies.
British authorities, believing
that supplies from South America
are escaping the blockade by ship
ment' through the' far east and
Russia to Germany, have been
considering setting up a contro-
band control station at Trinidad or
some British possession in the
Caribbean area.
Ship cargoes passing through
the Panama canal from South
America into the Pacific would
thereby become subject to inspec
tion and seizure in the absence of
satisfactory' proof they were not
destined for Germany.
Mama-to-Be-Gorilla Scares
Prospective
SARASOTA, Fhu Feb. 21
Ringling circus officials hope
the Great, met ner prospective
scare the daylights out of him.
The introduction was staged in
old-time circus fashion with press
agents,- newspapermen and pho
tographers and official galore,
but the general public was bar
red, The. gorillas paid little at
tention to the audience.
Toto had a black-and-white cat
her constant companion in her
cage along ' with j. KeeperJ Jose
Tomas and, bolstered, by this com
pany, paid no attention at first to
600-pound Gargy when their cages
were rolled to within 18 inches of
each other. - " :
Gargantua Takes Peek
At Prospective Bride -
Gargantua, alone, ambled over,
grabbed the bars of his air-conditioned,
plate-glass, steel-barred
home and peered at the nine-year-old
438-pound Toto who had Just
Brideg
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JUL iLJA.
Father of His Country
Today is the 20th anniversary of
first president of the United States and mot revered of all. Con
sidered the "Father of His Country," perhaps the best known de
scription of this mighty man is: "First in War, First in Peace and
First in the Hearts of His Countrymen."
WiimersNamed
In Debates
Willamette Teams
in Linfield Forensic
Tournament
McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 21-(JPy-Winners
were crowned Fri
day night in two divisions of Lin
field college's annual Pi Beta
Kappa intercollegiate forensic
tournament here.
Mae Vanberg of Linfield topped
the list in women's after dinner
speaking, followed by- Barbara
Wood, also of Unfield, and Made
leine Du Puis of Pacific univer
sity, Forest Grove, Ore.
First place in senior women's
impromptu speaking went to Mar
garet Stimonn of College of Pa
cific, Stockton, Calif. June Vin
cent of Linfield finished second
and Pearl Steiner of College of
Pacific, third.
Teams entering the final round
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Hold Sought
On Fuel Tax
The senate roads and highways
committee Friday introduced a
proposed constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the diversion of
motor vehicle fuels taxes for any
purpose other than highway con
struction and maintenance and re
lated projects.
The resolution was said to have
received approval of the state
highway commission which now
receives most of the gasoline tax
revenues for road construction.
room
(AP) Miss Toto, the gorilla
will soon become Mrs. Gargantua
mate naay ana proceeded to
arrived in her own luxurious cage
from Havana. . .- .
He appeared puzxled for it
was the first time be had seen
another gorilla since he was Just
- a youngster. Then his highly
touted ugly disposition disap
peared and ' he immediately
backed off in a cringing attitude.
"Toto paid him no heed and con
tinued nonchallantly toward the
retreating Gargy. who should have
been the master, of the situation,
because he In one year Toto's
senior. , : ' . .
Gargy, masculine ' feelings hurt.
tossed a' bridal bouquet of celery
tops into Toto's cage.- Then she
gave notice she would be the head
of any family circle which the clr-
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'Filibuster -Over
the birth of George Washington,
Names Chiefs
Patriotic Federation
Holds Annual Meet;
Lafky Retires
B. E. "Kelly Owens was elected
president and Mrs. Edna Water
man vice-president of the Salem
Federation of Patriotic societies
Friday night at the federation's
annual "banquet held at the Argo
hotel. Herman Lafky, president of
the organization during 1840, acted
as toastmaster for the occasion.
Chief speaker was Senator
Thomas R. Mahoney of Portland,
who appealed for an equal divi
sion of social benefits as the broad
est means of putting democracy
into action.
Major Sol Rickenback, member
of the staff of Colonel Elmer
Woo ton, state director of selective
service, also spoke briefly.
"We should stop talking about
phrases, about justice, tolerance,
freedom, and democracy, and
really put them into action,"
Senator Mahoney told the fed
eration. -
Major Rickenback told the mem
bers of the federation that, the se
cret of the success of the federal
selective service act is the classi
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Court Accepts
Title to Road
The Marion county court
Thursday accepted title to a
stretch of what was formerly the
Pacific highway . south of town
which now meets the new high
way several hundred yards north
of the Cold Spring auto camp.
The strip of highway was offer
ed - by the state highway com
mission, which indicated that un
less the county wished to take
over the street, it would be re
turned to its original owners.
Court members indicated that
the road would be maintained,
since several persons have - con
tinued to reside on iL
Named Infantry Chief , v r
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-W-Briga'dier
General Courtney -H,
Hodges, who failed to graduate
grom West Point, was named Fri
day to be chief of intmtry of the
American army with the tempor
ary rank of major general.
Sport!
- PALO ALTO, Calif, Feb. 21
(jTVStanford'a basketball team
maintained its lead in the - south
ern division of the coast confer
ence here " Friday night, when, it
defeated University - of California
at Los Angeles 49-44. - ' ;
SalemGrbmp
Saigon Is Seen
As Japan Base
In War Move
Nippon Pushes Forces
Into Indo-China;
Premier Flayed
SHANGHAI, Feb. 22 (Satur
day) (AP) Reliable travel
ers arriving from Saigon, French
Indo-China, asserted today that
Japan's military and political
grip on French Indo-China is
being strengthened daily and
that foreign residents of Saigon
are convinced Japan is prearing
to strike at the East Indies with
Saigon as a sea and air base.
These sources said the Japanese
who entered Saigon on the pre
text of mediating the border con
flict between Indo-China " and
Thailand already had completely
undermined French authorities
and now are dictating the colony's
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 -P-The
Domei (Japanese) radio
said today the British Eastern
and Australian Steamship Co.
had suspended its Hongkong to.
Japan run.
internal and external affairs, du
plicating conditions in northern
Indo-China.
With Japanese warships tied
up at Saigon and others patrol
ling the coast, and with Japanese
bombers at the Saigon airport,
the French have been reduced to
the roles of puppets, the travelers
said. y-' " ,
rinstad,of acting. like peace?,
"makers," the Japanese have
-adopted a conqueror's role,'
said one traveler, reporting
trail "laddtnti" betwecm
Japanese soldiers and FTesteh
drills ns. He said be saw a
Japanese soldier slap a French
woman who refused to buy a
Japanese-made hot woter hot-,
tie In a French pharmacy.
Trouble between the . French
authorities and - the natives also
was said to have increased since
the Japanese arrival, with dis
orders almost daily.
On leaving Indo-China, the
travelers said they saw four Japa
nese cruisers, apparently 10,000
tonners, patrolling off Cape St.
Jacques. Since then the Japanese
naval forces are said to have
been increased.
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fe Me lair-
Paul Hauser Column
Well, here George Washington
Is having another birthday (it's
his 209th) and it will be properly
observed by the -banks and the
hmili nf twin. '
sentatives, which J
will be closed all!
day. The senate f
is going to mixiv
its patriotism!
with work and i
will "stay in ses-
sion. Jr I
The senate is) -
''A
funsy that way.
It has not be-1
come thorough-1
ly convinced,!
like the house.
of the value of
tho five-day week and persists in
believing that a little work on
Saturday never hurt anybody, not
even a senator.
We have eoaao a long way
since George Washlagtosi's day.
If wo chop down any cherry
trees, or maple trees even, wo
keep quiet about how we did .
It and get the WTA to dig a
hole and plant another tree La
it so nobody would know the
difference
There are two new trees up
behind the state capitoL They
weren't there last week and they
a rent cherry trees..
They arent maple trees, either!
We don't know what kind of trees
they are.- '
They had quite a. time at Val
ley Forge. We dont know if that
was where those Spirit of 78 boys
with the - fifes and,' drums . and
bandages paraded or not. It was
along about then and they walked
even if they did limp. They didn't
have a drum majorette in front
of them, either. J -We
saw a parade the other
day. It r was a funny parade.'
There - were five drum major
ettes, a band and a truck. The
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Aid Bill 1
Death Calls
EDWIN LINCOLN WIEDER
Noted Mason
Dies at Home
E. L. Wieder, Known
in Salem Affairs, Was
Revered in State
Edwin Lincoln Wieder. laun
dry proprietor in Salem since
1918, prominent in civic affairs
and In Mssonte circles of Ore
gon, died at his home. 85 North
Summer street, shortly after 8
o'clock Friday night. Be had
been ill for a number of wecka.
"""Born w'Han&tiorCOhiot October
28, 1860, Mr. Wieder ' early Jjfe
was spent in Paris, 111., where
the family- moved in 1861. There
he established a laundry in 1889,
and in addition . to its successful
operation was active in civic af
fairs and in politics, holding sev
eral local offices.
In 1912 he moved to Albany,
Ore., and was associated with his
brother, C. H. Wieder, in operat
ing the Albany laundry with
which they later merged the Mag
nolia laundry. E. L. Wieder
bought the Capital City laundry
in Salem, selling it in 1925, three
years after he and his brother
had purchased the Salem Laundry,
an establishment which CoL C J.
Olmsted had started in 1897.
The brothers were s etaled
In tho Albany and Salem busi
neses until 1925. the year thai
tho present building oa South
High street waa completed. In
thai samo year the brothers'
ended their busines association.
C H. Wieder continuing in busi
ness In Albany and E. L. Wied
er fas Salenv where his son. Tan
Wieder, has been associated with
in the ownership and saaa-
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Report on Case
Boys Unfounded, v
Says Sheriff
Marion county sheriffs officers
said Friday night' there appeared
to be no foundation for a report
that . Kenneth and Robert' Case,
Salem youths- believed to : have
drowned in the Willamette river
last week, had been seen Thurs
day near Albany. City and state
police said they knew nothing of
the report or its origin.
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Stalin Purges Former Envoy,
Wife of His Successor
MOSCOW. Feb. 21 (AP) A new touse-cJeaning by the
communist party Friday night swept Maxim Litvinoff, the fonrier
f oregn cornrnissar, off the party's central committee and removjed
Paulina K. Zhernchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslaff Molotoff, present
premier and foreign commissar.
candidate for the
group.
Litvinoff and three others were
accused of "failing ia their du
ties." No explanation accompanied
the - dropping of Zhenchuihina,
as she ia known in the USRR.
Sapplanted by Jiotelioff
As Foreign Commissar -.
Litvinoff, ardent supporter of
the league of nations and the idea
of collective security, was remov
ed as foreign commissar on May
J, 1939, and supplanted by Molo
toff, who In that year negotiated
the non-aggression pact with Ger
many which - preceded , the pres
ent war. ? - j -
litvinoff dropped almost com
pletely out of the public eye, al
though in December of 1929 he
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Major Battle Eors&en
A s Nazis Fd
Nile Army Prep
Hitler's Push to Mediterranean
Will Be Met by British Arniy
From Egypt to Aid Greece
' - By the Associated Press
Strong and seemingly
ureat. Britain are massing men
r ii r.ti . .
ia me oauxans wimm tne very-,
ing from Balkan and middle eastern capitals.
. ' A reliable diplomat in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, declared the
Germans had put considerably numbers of pontoons across the
ice-free Danube river and that a movement of a German expedi
tionary force into Bulgaria toward Greece and, the Mediterranean
would come shortly. - . ? j j f -
His information was followed in a few hours Iry a Turkish of
Roosevelt Ire j
Is Aroused t
j
Suggests Publicity on
National Defense 1
Is "Hurtful' 1
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21-44tt
-President R-aevelt suggested
Friday that, in the interest of ;
national safety, members of j
congress, the press and radio, i
shoald refrain from siring pub
licity to official defease testi
mony girea at closed
of congressional committees.
, At a press conference devoted
almost exclusively to the subjectl
he said that disclosure of what
General George C. Marshall, army
rfn-e rMr
UmCItrJA m.mi
mittee Thursday about the Pacli
fie situatiort was hurtful to the
national defense. m
He described the stories he had
read about Marshall's testimony
as completely different from the
contents of a memorandum e
received from the general as to
what actually was said. j
The whole matter, he added,
raised a question of ethics, mort
als, and patriotism. j
- Declaring he was not proposing
a remedy, was not criticizing any
body, and was not thinking about
censorship, the chief executive
suggested the best solution would
be for senators not to disclose
testimony given . to them in sec
recy. If the senators reveal it, he
added, it should not be made pub-'
lie -
Coast Floods j
Continue
LOS ANGELES, Feb-.21-irt"f-Heavy
rains and hail pelted Los
Angeles county Friday night and
swelled flood waters to danger
levels in Canoga park and Reseda,
forcing many residents . of those
areas to flee their homes. J
Firemen and emergency crews
rescued several families in boats
and prepared for all-night duty J
Canoga park and Reseda, in the
San Fernando valley, were vir
tually isolated by flood waters all
day. . ' I
Two deaths were attributed di
rectly to the storm today, with
four - additional traffic fatalities
being
rain.
charged indirectly to the
MAXIM. LITVTNOFF
rdMiiverz
ares
well-founded hints that Germany and
and weapons -for a majors contest
. - .
near xuiure came early this morn
ficial radio broadcast to tfie effect
the British are holding - their vic
torious army 'of the Nile ready in
Egypt for a ; quick i dash to help
Greece. "j j
That something big is jbrewing
in the middle-east has been indi
cated by the arrival there? of For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
General Sir j John DilLl thief of
the British imperial i (general
staff. They are there for 'big de
cisions with General Siij Archi
bald P. WavelL designer and exe
cutor of the brilliant campaign
! lt iiJ?
; Holds Emersencr SessieaJ
The cabinet of Yugoslavia the
latest nation- to feel the HiUerian
pressure held an emergency ses
sion. It failed, however, to answer
a demand by the Bulgarian parli
ament on what would be Yugo-
slavias attitude toward a nazt
movement through Bulgaria to
ward Greece., i
While the army of the Nile
stood behind a curtain of secrecy.
lorcoa m. on saps
up -The Cght against Italy's coJo-
nial empire.
A dispatch
Italian S Hlsad. fc XSritfefc
hsails siaoe last f t"
detachment eg the King's Af
rica Rifles captured thetln-a
ocean Islaada of Defefrpeati
Mohangayspap ia kefi
bay. at the moot of the Jaba
river, jmst soath of Chislmale.
The British said theirl forces
invading Italian Somaliland
breached the Juba ri-erat two
points, and fare operating satis
factorily from both these bridge
heads, j
Italian sources- said al avaH
sble native and Italian manpower
in Eritrea, : Ethiopia and! Italian
Somalfland is being called to de
fend the east African empire
against the British. j
With a stalemate existing on
the ground in Albania, the. Greek
Italian war ' went into Hie air.
British, and Greek air forces said
12 Italian planes were downed in
fights but the Italians said that
12 British and Greek planes were
shot down in the same actions. .
Ominous allusions were made
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British Send
Planes West
i
WASHINGTON, Feb.
Seeking to!, discourage
i-av-
j Japan'
from undertaking a drive' to tho
south while i Britain is . preoccu
pied with Germany, the 1 British
government . announced f Friday
that planes are being flown from
this country to its forces! in the
Far East. t j
The statement made by offi
cials at the! British embassy did
not mention i the purpose J of the.
plane movements nor disclose the
numbers, types or routes t of the
aircraft. . J
Post to HoL
tration
Leaders of Capital Post No. t,
American Legion, Friday Indi
cated that Legion headquarters at
Chemeketa and Cottage i streets
would be open from 9 gy to t
pjn. today to accept registrations
for defense activities of all vet
erans residicg in the Salem area.
The post is sponsoring the reg
istration, in- which veterans are
asked to specify their former ser
vice , and 4heir availability- for
work of a national defense na
ture at the present time, as a part
of its cooperation, with the na
tional defense-effort. I
Demand Dayligbt Time
PORTLAND, Feb. 21-CSV-The
items
Portland Retail Trade bureau do
. manded today that a natica-wiit
daylight saving time systcxa t ;
adopted this summer.
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