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: With 1 T-'Aiioaiird . -A o .vpf , e vt" Ckru Tims fTKTva JiOUl v JL1UT :; VOJAGMJUL Bulletin Report on Column Siz Statesman Leads - All the Prt news, when It's f reshrs tarried In your morning Oregon Statesman. No ether paper read In- Sa lem - fires yen aa timely news as yoH find In these pages. TTcatlier ft" Occasiemal rsin today aaA rrtday with little ehaare tempcratmre. Max. Wednesday 4; snbm, IL Kfv er-J ft. Kaln as In, Kerth- west wta4. inNETIETH YEAR VV JL vtVi . . , -( ............. . .... . 1 1 . 1 . ; . f ' . : .... . i ... ...... . . - ; . t ' s ........ '.-..;,,., . - - : I . . - ' ,. !' : . . ' 1 V ........ ' ... r i j j ... " ' .it . ;.. ... ' ' i , . - ,. . ; - ' , : . . i Sz- ;jr V'-y : "I M V y x v-' ! V ' & v . . t : : " . " ' ' V v S Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning. February 27. 1941 - . Prlc So Newwkmde U - . i Ka. IS3 v J ' Wine Wins Bill In House . Measure by Jones ; Given Approval in Close Vote By RALPH C CURTIS : Belief in the desirability of $ome form of control over the -saje of fortified wine tipped a , fine balance in favor of Rep. H. R. "Farmer'' Jones' wine bill in the , Oregon liouse of repre sentatives on Wednesday and led to its aprpoval by the nar row margin of 33 to 26, a result Which Rep. Harry Boivin (D Klamath), its principal opponent In the alcoholic control commit tee, will seek to upset by moving for reconsideration. Several members said they had been "on "the fence" when debate began but were persuaded to vote favorably because -the bill did provide some control of fortified wine by forbidding its sale in beer parlors and card rooms, and lim iting its purchase to holders of liquor permits. - Jones Stresses Benefits To Valley Berry Growers Rep. Jones (R-Marionf stressed benefits expected by Willamette valley berry growers through a provision forbidding the bottling in Oregon of wines imported in bulk. He said a 2 -million-gallon wine industry with a 750,Q00 payroll had been created in Wash ineton state with the aid 1 of a similar enactment. - would not help the berry grow ers and that' the fortified wine - provisions offered .no effective control and were "mere window dressing. He aid that.type -ef 'wine could still be sold In'gre eery and drag stores which are (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Si ae Eas Paul . Hauser Column f We j just can't help clipping things from 'newspapers and to day we clipped three things from news papers. They're all about riazls. f One tells 'how the Germans have banned de-i tective stories, A because ... it isn't f .. conceivable that a nazi cop could ! be outwitted by the smart ama teur who grows tuberous bego nias as a sideline Paoi b. Haater, Jr. when he isn't -.v. ' solving about .three murders-V ' ,; One tells bow dogs in Alsace have been rationed 20 pounds of dog biscuit - a -month provided the owners can prove the dog's parentage was German. The last one tells how the Germans have reo.oisiikned third of all the French freight cars and that a lot of them are being used to hanl German sol diers Into Rumania. It is the freight cars, the French freight cars, that intrigue us. j The French freight car, so we are told, is a very peculiar sort of vehicle. Its comforts, theoret ically capable jof lodging 40 men r iVht horses, so impressed American soldiers of the last war that they organized a society to ' nrwtfrv the memory of those immortal, rough and ready wag ona de lit., We are wondering if the Ger man soldiers are now feeling the same untender sentiments for the French 40 et 8's that their, foes of another war felt.:". They probably are, but we v hardly suppose that the Amer ican veterans would be disposed to open a Berlin volture of the Eociete des Qoarante Hommea et Holt Cheveaux. La TriTlata Sig Unander, soon to leave the governor's office for a tent at Camp Murray, received a fine testimonial and. gift from the Lane county Young Republi cans . t i te one engraved alarm clock . , . Former Governor Os West,j1an early diner, delightedly punches nickels into one of the town's classier juke boxes, picking a swing version of Tales From the Vienna Woods The house of representatives -worked late last night and wished they'd been good little boys and thought of the starv Ing Armenians - w b p. they wouldn't finish their Saturdays. in- 4 rA Where VS Will 7. WAKE. -P " ' PHILIPPINE & 15. AUSTRALIA 7 "J:-:: SHANGHAI ' 1 JM An emergency fund of many millions to increase naval facilities and strengthen fortification en Pacific islands Is being considered in congress and Wednesday caused acrid debate en "unnecessary costs and delays." The map (above) shows where the money, when voted. will be spent 1: Guam, 2: Samoa; S: Philllplnea. The "stars" Indi cate other strategic points the navy will continue to strengthen. Funds for Isle Bases Bring GOP Charges ''Unreasonable Costs and Delays" in Defense Program Causes Acrid Debate in US House WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (AP) The house took up a $1, 533,439,702 emergency. appropriation bill for the army and navy Wednesday and almost immediately heard a republican charge that "unreasonable costs and unreasonable delays" had occurred in the defense program. . Most of the money, : $838,32 1, 702 in cash and-contract authori zations, would go to the navy for development of its far-flung bases including establishment of naval aviation lookout- posts at Guam and Samoa tostart cstruction of 400 suomar.7w cnasers ana other small craft and to speed up the-delivery of 55 destroyers. Direct appropriation of $695,- 418,000 was included for the army, chiefly for cantonment construction and other housing. Of that amount, $338,880,000 was requested for the completion of 186 projects already underway and for which the original esti mates were too low. Special Fund Asked For Engineering Studies To prevent a repetition of the delays and increased costs ex perienced in the army construc tion program in the event that the land forces are expanded further, the house appropriations commit tee recommended a $15,000,000 special fund to enable the war de partment to make advance en gineering studies. Soon after the bill reached the house floor, Rep. Taber (R-NY) said: "There have been all sorts of things that resulted in unrea sonable costs and unreasonable delays In the defense program that could have been avoided if (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) River Expenses For State Told PORTLAND, Feb. 26-- Dredging, drydock and towing services in the Willamette and Co lumbia river cost Oregon approxi mately $58,000 during 1939 and 1940, the Port of Portland com mission said Wednesday fn its bi ennial report . Dredges earned $60,000, but to tal costs exceeded the amount about $4000. Drydocks Had a defi cit of $22,583," and towboats deficit of $24,871.' Marion County On Road Improvement Program Marion county's summer road improvement program, ached - tiled to begin with the arrival of ably concentrate on 40 to 50 miles of county road already built which require repairs and missioner, indicated Wednesday. The stretches of road in ques tion are a part of the county's 170.2 : miles of oiled roads which in one degree or another are in need of repair or maintenance work, i . r The road oiling budget, in con sequence, will be spent largely on these items of repair and replace ment of roads too lightly laid, ra ther j than on extension ' of the county's system of oiled roads which now ' comprises 1 a broad network in almost every corner of the area under the jurisdiction of the court. New Oiling' Contemplated In Improvement Program Some new oiling will be done, however, Girod indicated, though the court intends to decide closely on its repair and improvement ? -vjte- i - ' . i ... ; i j ... - ... . . d ...... i. i. : ; J TIM imIWSenate MIDWAY i HAWAII PACIFIk Samoa" Oregon House In Night Meet Cleans Calendar and Adopts Number of Senate Bills The house of representatives begrudgingly went into its first night session Wednesday night to clean up its day s calendar, did so and adjourned in short order. A series of senate bills, dealing principally wtih forestry, and a resolution for an investigation of ventilating - improvements in the legislative chambers were adopted. No measures were defeated. Meanwhile, the senate indus tries committee weighed amend ments to the industrial accident law but deferred final action until kthis morning. A provision for aiding persons suffering partial loss of use of eyes was inserted, allowances for un- dertakers' transportation charges eliminated, pensions for married men who become permanently totally disabled cut from $60 to $50 and a top of $88 put on pen- sions to men with families. Th accident rammlniui'i perts revised downward from $700,000 to $500,000 their esti mates of the cost to the insur ance fond of the committee's program for liberalizing bene fits. An occupational disease law will be taken up by the committee today, Sen. Ronald E. Jones, chairman, said. Earlier Wednesday the senate voted to establish a new exper- lence rating classification that would allow employers covered by the accident fund to reduce their rates by aa much as 50 per cent, as against 40 per cent under tne present law. The industries committee. Jones l iurn to rage z, Cot. ej to Concentrate drier spring weather, will prob- re-oiling, Ralph Girod, county com program before it accepts requests to extend : present oiling opera tions. Where new oiling ia done. In addition. It will be done with heavier and mere lasting ma terials than has previously been the case. This baa been enun ciated as a policy by the pres ent county court slriee It took office last January, r In time, the. court anticipates, present oiled roads . may be brought up to an adequate stan dard of permanency and additions may be planned where necessary throughout the county : to the present system of surfaced roads. For 1941, however, the most Intensive work will be done " on v (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Gets Hot p. On Aid Opponents Said Undermining Confidence WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (AP) In tumult of snapping tempers, the senate Wednesday heard Senator Chandler (D Ky) accuse opponents of the lease-lend bill of endeavoring to undermine public confidence in President Roosevelt. In turn. Senator "Wheeler CD- Mont) angrily replied that Mr. Roosevelt was trying to "flim flam" the public. He repeatedly described as "shocking" the pres ident's statement of Tuesday that task of winning the war must take precedence over any talk of peace aims. He called it indicative of an at titude that the United States was already in the wai. First Real Debate With Signs of Impatience It was the first real debate, and the first sign of ebbing patience, of the nine days the senate has de voted to the bill. A session which began in quiet fashion with Sen ator Nye (R-ND) continuing a speech begun last week, was sud denly transformed into a scene of excitement. First of all, Wheeler interrupted WASHINGTON, Feb. Z&-iJP- A White House aide asserted Wednesday that the govern ment is contemplating no press or radio censorship aside from the customary military censor ship An 'event of war. Lowell Mellett. gray-haired 1 1 director or the office of govern ment reports, made the state ment in urging the house ex penditures committee to estsb-. lish his bureau on a permanent basis. Nye to say that Mr. Roosevelt's words indicated a position which this country should- not take un less it is ready to enter the war. "I submit we are not in the war unless the president of the United States has already com mitted us to war," he shouted. 'If we are in the war, I repeat that we are in violation of the constitution of the United States." 'How can Britain win, unless we come into the war?" Nye asked, and to this. Senator Clark (D-Mo) added the observation that the president had "practical- ly said, yes we are in the war.' Claims Wheeler Making People Lack Confidence I don't think any senator is serving his country by making the people lack confidence in their j president," he said, facing Whee ler from a few feet away. "We (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Court to Join Highway Meet 1The Marion county court Wed nesdav mnsmtMl tn attend the metin in Portland n-rt Uondar o the state highway commission at which time the commission is expected to announce the results o itl gurvey of the possibilities hHr Bm. th w;i- htte at Independence and to t.t. rH.thr it will .pmt an offer of Marion and Polk coun- ties to contribute half of its cost over the next 25 years. The court's presence at the meeting was asked by IL A. Mil ler, representing the Sal em-Inde pendence-Kings Valley Highway association, active sponsors of road imDrovement and. bridse 1 construction between Salem and King's Valley. Late Sports MONMOUTH, Ore Feb. 25-(ff) -Oregon' College . of t Education swamped a ML Angel college quintet here Wednesday night, 73 to SI. Kuppenbender of Mt. Angel was the game's high scorer with 18 points. High School Bv Th .Awoetatcd Presa Springfield 23, Junction City 12. . Columbia Prep (Portland) 36, Camas. Wash. 24. McMinnville 38, New berg 23. ; Willamina 28, Independence 17. Molalla 29, Corbett 25. Forest Grove 23, Sherwood 17. Beaverton 32, Tigard 12. I College Basketball Gonzaga university 37, Portland university 33. - v , Six Killed.: Ma . : . - -, ' Dutch Riot Against-Nazi Police Autos Smashed By Strikers At Buffalo Two-Mile Picket Line Halts Work in Big Steel Plant BUFFALO, NY. Feb. 27 (Thursday) ( AP) Violence flared early this morning along the two-mile picket line at the Bethlehem Steel company's plant in suburban Lackawanna as strikers sought to keep workers from entering gates leading to plant property. Hottest spot on the line was the strip mill gate where in a 30 minute period five automobiles were battered with sticks and windows smashed. Ten cars were chased away. CIO workers walked out of the plant, occupied on defense orders. Wednesday night as last-minute efforts to avert the strike failed. Fifteen minutes before the 9 p. m. (EST) strike deadline, repre sentatives of the steel workers organizing committee, the defense commission and federal conciliat ors ended a three-hour conference with the announcement the con troversy could not be settled then. Picket Lines Formed Along Two-Mile Area Picket lines formed at seven gates of the Lackawanna plant which covers a "two-mile area as Lorne H. Nelles, union intema- 1 uonai representative, predicted j th plant, would be shut down in two hours. Nelles estimated 3000 pickets were available for strike duty and have been instructed to "harm no one." "They wUI try and persuade non-union members net to re (Turn to Page 2. Col. 5) 3 : House Passes Board Merger Consolidation of Three Commissions Approved; Senate Acts Next With surprisingly slight oppo sition the house passed Wednes day a measure to combine the state industrial accident commis sion, unemployment compensation commission and state labor com mission in a single department of labor and industry. The bill now goes to the senate. There were only nine dissent ing votes against the bill which originally came oat of the boose labor and Industries committee with a "do pass" report, bet was sent back to committee for more complete study. . After making minor amend ments the labor and industries committee again reported out the measure, authored by Rep. J. D. Perry (D-Columbia). this time recommending its passage. The department would be ad ministered by a three man board with directors in charge of the unemployment compensation, ac cident insurance and labor divi sions. The house rereferred to the res olutions committee a memorial by Rep, Warren Erwin (D-Multno- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Mother Suspected In Child Burning SPOKANE, Wash- Feb. 2-XS -A three-year-old boy was re ceiving treatment in a Spokane hospital Wednesday night for crit ical burns and Prosecutor Carl Quackenbush said he waa pushing investigation of a report the child's mother put the boy on a hot stove to dry his clothing. Declaring the "case is barbar ous," ' Quackenbush said . be cooperating with Stevens county omciais Decause tne boy was brought into Spokane county from the family home in Fruitland, north of here for treatment. The child a body also bore "stripes' all over, apparently from beatings," the prosecutor added. Salem Girl Pledged MONMOUTH, Feb. 2-(iP-Pledges to Sigma Epsilon Pi, Wom en's s scholastic honorary, an nounced . Wednesday at Oregon College of Education, included Ju lie Engdahl, Salem. US Newsmen Expelled by Italians ROME. Feb. ItMAV-Tbe de partare of John T. Whlttaker, correspondent of the Chicago Dairy News, from Italy waa re toes ted - Wednesday - by the ministry of pepmlar eo.lt sre. Be Is the second American news--papenaan to leave Italy by government action. Whltaker declared be waa advised throngh the US embas sy that the ministry wanted him to leave "beeaese of the num ber and importance of his con tacts and the mnfrlendly attltade of his newspaper" aa well aa Italian displeasure ever the tone of his-dispatches. It waa understood that as a courtesy to Whltaker the Ital ians made their request known through the embassy instead of serving a formal expulsion or der. BULLETIN Eastern Air Sleeper Down Eddie Rickefibacker of "War Fame Said Plane Passenger- NEW YORK, Feb. 27P) Eastern Airlines v publietty; de partment' said 'early Thursday that Captain Eddie Rickea back er, president of the airline waa aboard the New York-Atlanta transport reported to have crashed early this morning tn Georgia. ATLANTA, Feb. H.-iy-Axx Eastern airlines sleeper plane carrying 14 passengers and a crew of three was long over due here from New York early this Thursday morning. Airport of ficials said the plane had reported in from the vicinity of Jonesboro, Gl, 20 miles south of here, shortly be fore it was due at 9:55 pm. (PST), but that nothing furth er had been heard from the ship. At Jonesboro, Chief of Po lice O. L. Roberts, reported a big plane had been seen flying low over that town about 10 p. m, and had disappeared to ward a sparsely settled section where the terrain was rough. A member of the Clayton county police force said the plane had one motor in trouble and that six ambulances were standing by. Airline officials (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) Portland Seeks Grizzly Trade PORTLAND, Feb. 2HP)-Gri22- ly bears cause too much trouble. City Commissioner Kenneth L Cooper said Wednesday aa he moved to exchange the bruina for animals of less bulk. The city council reached no agreement in attempting . to pro vide larger quarters for the now cramped pair of bears in the city park, so Cooper said he would try to make a trade with the San Francisco zoo. . Lobby Hobnobberr -We're not going to fight it," said D. EL -Nick" Nkkerson, ex ecutive secretary of the Oregon state federation of labor. Wednes day of the house judiciary com mittee's recommendation on un employment compensation. "While it's not all we wanted. It's a step in the right direction. Fra glad to see them leave experience rating the way it was originally prom ised, rather than cut the rates." HB 431, the bill placing justices of the peace on a salary basis and also fixing constables' pay - ac cording to population, ' interests Earl Adams, constable of the Sa lem justice of the peace district, who visited the senate ' Wednes day. He said the provision author izing county courts to allow con stables to have paid deputies ap pealed to him even more than the pay provision, which in his case Wounded -A s ' ; - ----- -1 t I Hollanders Heavy Penalties Will Be Meted i i British Victory in Somaliland Heads War Developments; Eden Talks With Turkish Chiefs : i AMSTERDAM (Via Berlin), Feb, 26 '(AP) Six civilians were killed and a number wounded Wednesday in clashes be tween the police and "disturbers of the peace," it was an nounced officially Wednesday night. j A brief German announcement stated that these deaths had occurred in police actions during which "the ringleaders of nightly attacks against th police patrol, and a secret Jewish organization were uncovered." ' j "During the act of restoring order six disturbers of the peace were killed and a number more or less! severely injured. "A great number of persons responsible for the disturb ances or having participated therein were arrested." Strikes and riots brought the imposition of a German military administration upon all the province of North Hol land and the people were warned that violation of orders might result in 15-year sentences and even the death penalty. Strikers were ordered back to work by Thursday, and all parades, demonstrations and assemblies on the streets were for bidden, j i The order, issued by the German military commander. Gen. Friedrich Christiansen; applied to Amsterdam, chief city of the Netherlands, but left out Rotterdam.-and The Hague, outside North Holland province. Military courts will handle violators. '-.! The province was quiet later Wednesday night, and Dutch newspaper men expressed the opinion that the strikers would return to work in accordance with General Christiansen'a proclamation. War News Briefs SHANGHAI. Feb. 27-(ThrW-day)-(P-Demei. Japaaee news agency, reported freaa T kye today H had leaned m UMrttatlrely Japan had erdered Japanese residents te leave French Imde-Chiaa immediate ly te allew Japaa fell freedem ef actiea ia event ef Jail are it the Thallaa-lnde-Chiaa peace conference. j NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 2- -Vice Admiral Leihar Yea a naald de La Perlere ef the Get au navy, repected by the Bet lia radio Wednesday te have beea "mortally weanded7 fig ured in the celebrated "greea aajamaa" incident with the late Haey T. Long here la March. 193S. Thea commander of the craiser F-. the vice admiral had breaght his ship to New Or leans ai Mardi Graa. j KUNMING. China. Feb. 2e-i -Twenty serea Japaaese bomb ers attacked Kanmiag late Wed aeadar. Inflicting the heaTtest damage yet wreaght ea this of ten-bombed city. BXKUX. Feb. UHJPA Uagr raage German bomber still over the Atlantic radioed Wednesday alght that It had sank a ls.eS tea Britaia-beead steamer and severely dasaaged a CIM-Unaer. the Gersaaa aewa ageacy DKB snnrri Wednesday alghC i . BEXLTN. Feb. I7-Thrday -KJPWBrUiaa aerial bombs drop, pod freaa the hUbest altltade killed and tajared a n amber of drills m a western Gersaaa tadastrial regiea Wednesday mlrat. Informed aoarcca stated today. Qalpa, "Angles' 1 rorsesmUtlee tho Cspttot would raise his salary from $150 a month to approximately I1S0. j Rep. Klmberilag -pat ap sac a logical airament. be jast eon vtaced aa we eaght to report his resaertleaaeeat bill oot.1 riaaisttl Ken. John Steelhaim saer, chairman of the boaso spe rial reappeetloasacat ceeam!iiee The aUmberlmg plan, sir tag each eoaaty at least one stale; representative, weald reaaire a vote by the people before U weat Late effect. Rep. Allan G. Carson became -Mr. Speaker" for half an' hour Wednesday afternoon, as the ses sion ran on toward S p jn. ,? Rep. Warren Erwin, despite his vow to the contrary, goes down in the record as having voted for (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Warned By Tb Associated Pnn The femish aasnmered lenuessjy at Italy empire YYed acoaay, anefflcially claiming cenirel of Italian SemaJiiaAd waa the capture of its H'sL Mocadiscio, and aaaouaciac the' occupation of a small Itaiiaa lslaad seaplane base la the Med iterranean, f Simultaneously,. Germany : fd Italy announced German soldiers met the British in their first Afri can battle 100 miles south of vBen gasi, Libya and asserted British tanks and trucks were destroyed without loss to Germany. . ' - ! British Scad Waves of B ambers Over Coast On the home front, the British took further precautions " against invasion by sending waves of J bombers over the docks of Calais, trance, and northern France. Ob servers on Ihe English coast said there were so many planes they were sure the RAF had its busiest day of this year. The Germans returned fiercely to the assault on Britain Wednes day night, causing two night alarms in London, bombing many districts in the southeast English coast sector, i The coon try north of Moga discio wao described by the Brit ish aa of sack small IssnerUaee that tt meant the eaUre -. mare mile colony waa oat of fascist hands.' . The Italians, reported chased from all British possession Is Africa except British land, stm are resisting ba rem. Eritrea, aad ia Ethiopia. Bulgaria, expected to be invad ed at any time by German troope (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - t Pinbnll Machine Suit Indicated Indication that a suit mar be filed ia circuit court here, peexf bly to restrain local officials from enforcing ordinances against pla ba3 machines opera tin g for amusement i crjy, was expressed Tuesday night In response to questioning byt Guy O. Smith, lo cal attorney, f Smith, who 'declined to reveal principals m Jthe matter, stated that it was, nvt yet fuHy certaia whether such a suit would. ba filed, or exactly what Its terrrj would be. J ' He indicated, however, that ac tion .one way or the ether would be taken irj the near Lilure. lias 103 rd Birthday r" OAKLAND. Ore, Feb. 26-W-Mrs. Margaret Story Cain, bcra at Jamestown. Pa la "1&23, cb served her ! 103rd birthday her Wednesday. She crossed the t''t to Nebraska, ia a covered waxa, living there; until 1SC9, when ila came to Oakland.