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o ::A wlzmer-W.fedt&gemz- Page - rJ OJ "irt' "1 W . Statesman Leads r - All the sports news, when I It's fresh. Is carried la your morning Orcffon Statesman. Na other paper read In Sa lem lives yon . as . timely ; news as you'll fled la these ' Paces. , . 'T ":"rf Weallier ; f ecasr.-l raLi'te-ay an! Saturday wUh Utile cv:r.;a fa lemperature. Ma . ts Thursday 2, m!n. IJ-.tr O ft. HaLa a: La. Kartli wind. ! f nil -v. 'I'M i - rrsnrnmi yeah Calem. Oregon Saturday Horsing, March 1 1S41 Pries 3cj Ilcwssiandj 5c o ""'.'n' ; ' 71 -' :-; sure 0 j' ) mm ' III iil Jf I i X J lift ? "i 'vJy.:.v.vA',jv-.yy. .w:wr..y' -7;- - ' r ; j -- - '" - . , - pcUNDqo I65 . V i I kxT! TlTl rrT?crriT .Be! r"',"te -'A c Oregon Mouse S tag's Dramatic Compensation- Issu, Decisions Tentative but Believed XhH Fass on Unchanged Items . - j :"axid Raising of Benefits . ' '-' By RALPH C. CURTIS ' Momentous decisions affecting unemployment compensation, the oustandinfc controversial -issue of - Oregon's- 41st legislative session, were reached by the house of representatives in a dram atic session Friday afternoon, Chief among these decisions were: ' : '1. Experience rating remains unchanged, except 'for amendments making it conform to the federal law. . 1 t ' 2. Seasonality remains unchanged except that hearings on ; seasonality questions are required, j f - . 3. Minimum benefits are' increased from $7 to $10 a Week. 4. The waiting, period is reduced from three weeks to . xwo weess. . The t decisions were ' tentative In that they f amounted merely to acceptance of the judiciary com mittee's recommendations and the bills ate yet to come up on final reading, probably ". Monday. ;. Fur thermore there was a 'close vote 31 t6 23 against a motion to make j.7 per, cent the top limit en experience rauna- when - tne fund is in good condition. How ever there is little doubt that this bill will be approved,v as it con tains 'provisions essential to con - tinuing experience rating. : - " The outcome is a victory, neith er for labor nor for employers but - essentially for the house ju diciary committee ' which, was sustained on every point, , and a personal victory for Rep. Frank Lonergan, chairman ; of , that com imttee. ; - :l-;VM'-t. ' IDmsIoyers, Paor. ; Better zZ-kJ Than Labor In Comparison - what they asked with what they received,- employers fared , . some ; what better than labor,. Rep. Phil Brady i of the AFL and Rep. Man ley Wilson of the CIO praised the committee, ana uuunoaa tu"" gan inj particular, for fairness of viewpoint and thoroumess in (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Nev Citizens Here Today : ; Five hundred new citizens and citizen students will be greeted this morning at 11 o'clock 4 by Governor Charles A. Sprague in the rotunda of the statehouse building following their $ march from 12th and Court streets where the new citizens' pflrimage train from Portland will arrive at 10:45. Patriotic orders of Salem headed by the Cherrians and Salem high school band will escort the entour age to the capitoL - I- Veterans are advised by B. E. Kelly Owens, chairman . of the Federation of Patriotic Orders in Salem, to wear their caps for the occasion which win see newsreel cameramen grinding out recoxus of th4 pres1101 of facsimilie of the Oregon state seal to each "pilgrim" by Secretary of State Earl SnelL f Luncheon for the honored guests is planned at the statehouse, with Senator Douglas McKay as toast-master.- Myer C. Rubin, former resident of the Portland Ameri canization Council, is chairman of the pilgrimage committee. Accepts Lieutenantship WASHINGTON, Feb. 2B-&)-The war department announced Friday that Del Keyworth Neid erhiser, Salem, had accepted ap pointment as a second lieutenant in the field artillery reserve. ffiprHway- Board .Mefuses.ImderasBdfeo Spa'R. '.0Mbe The Oregon state highway com mission at its meeting Friday in PorGand' indicated that it "could noinoW;; accept "an offer olltiie Marion and Polk county courts to build, a new bridge across the VTillajmette river at Independence, and that it. could not forthe pres ent make a counter-proposal to the counties original offer to ac cept half the cost of -the span over a 25-year period.1 :-'V-:-'!:v:"; The cemmission; stated Its posi tion to members of the I.Iarion and Polk county courts and to officers and member of the Sa-lcna-Independence-Kinss - Vclley r:-hway association, active rpen sors cf the bridge and road in- . Katww n Salem and S. i J V t llin,t3 Valley. ... j . The ccmriss'c jlIso tail V.-t Sesson'On Governor Rap 3 Ickes Alcoa Refusal - No Brief for Company Says; US Power Body Scolds Utilities - PORTLAND Ore., Feb. 28-ff) -Gov. Charles A. -Sprague of Ore gon crossed verbal, broadswords with Secretary - of the - Interior Icies today over the sale of fed eral electricity to the Mellon alu miij'um jntki'ests-. -.- 4 ; - Ickes .Thursday refused the Aluminum Company of America (Me lion company) ' additional luice from the US power dam at Bonneville on the Columbia river to energize a third . unit at its big Vancouver, Washu, factory. He said' the dam had already lover sold; to private companies despite a law which reserves half its out put for public power agencies. The Oregon governor, insisting that the promised rush oft metal industries might pass up the Pa cific 'northwest as result, an swered: j : . "Ickes action represents the daacer ef concentration ef au thority .V. When yea. feed eat ef the hand ef WashtaStek y have te take what , they! feed Sprague disclaimed : champion ing . the cause of Alcoa. What he disliked about 1 he said, was ?the fact that any individual has the : power to determine the des tinies of communities in this fash ion." - Less of "One Big ' v ! Fndostry Alleged " , , :,- Bonneville's cheap" power al ready has attracted many j indus tries to the Columbia basiiu Oth er spokesmen declared that Ickes recently had caused another big metallic corporation to turn - its back on the : river and - bunt a factory site hv California. f Fear of an ultimate id gen erators have been Installed' at . Bonneville with, a capacity of 200,t00 kUowatts and already (Turn t Page 2, Col. 3) i . - . t : Alleged Draft Evader . Held in County Jail Fred 2L Hienz is being held in the county jail pending a hearing March 6 before the US commis sioner on a charge of willful fail ure to submit his' name for draft registration. Hienz was arrested in Marion county court that it had ' net made . a final -decision on the court's offer to give It title te'Sl miles of ; the North Santlam I highway ; above De- troit " r - i ' - Marion and. Linn counties re cently L asked the ; state to take ove?- the San tiara route, because of the counties difficulties-; in maintaining and repairing it far from their highway shopsj in Sa lem': and Albany. -,.. ' R s: yy i: WiUi reference to 'the Indepen dence bridge, the commission told the highway association and court delegates that its f initial Isurveys had' shown : that' cost of the new span would amount to ; atcut tf ' ' ' I a ,: . f.JtI,VUV , I. ' . ',- This sum is $40,003 more ths.n the $250,C03 originally estimated ty the county courts in ; confer o w Hitler &TZ,ZtlfTIQ oawe ; g;vV:v tL!" From reliable sources and from recent utterances by Adolf Hitler, the the nasi fuehrer plans to bring England by severinr vital snipping lanes with a ring ef hahdreds ef - tensive sea attacK iiiuer weaia Date Selected ; On City Sewer Election Set May 20 -Should Legislature - Add $75,Col - - - The ': sewer committee of the Salem city council decided Friday to recommend May 20 as the date for a special election on a $200, 000 sewage disposal - plant bond issue. .. ; . J - 5 " - I The election will be called pro vided -the state ; legislature ap proves its ways and means com mittee recommendation that $73, 000 be appropriated to care for the state's part, in i the project.-o A considerable portion of the $75,000 would be expended on sewer lines connecting : state institutions. Alderman Glenn . H. Gregg, chairman bf the sewer committee, said an ordinance would be drawn by City Attorney ' Lawrence N, Brown for . Introductiori at the March 10 council meeting to start election-calling procedure; on its way. .'" The city's share in the $458,765 project is not expected to exceed $190,000. jThe WPA .has already approved a, $233,842 grant.. ... King Alfonso Dies inRome ROME,' Feb7'28-(3'),ormer King Alfonso XIIl of Spain died Friday after 15 days of the agony of angina pectoris. His body lay in the, hotel bedroom which for a decade bad been his place of exile, t His weakened .heart stopped 'at 11:50, a. m. (1:50 a., m. PST). Fifteen minutes before the end all that remains of his family had gathered about him. , . r , : I Alfonso was lucid but spent and weary- and could only ' look "at them-i-at the ' estranged former Queen Victoria; . at his son . and designated heir to ' the throne of Spain, Don Juan; at his son Jaime and his daughter Beatrice. The final expression of his life, made with the last of bis strength, was to thank with grave courtesy the ? three physicians who :haa worked, over him so long. - v 1L ence with the ; state highway en gineer as the bridge's . probably cost The two counties had offer ed to accept half the cost as stat ed in the original estimate, and to pay a; total of $125,000 between them ."over a period of ; 25 years. ;; The commission u indicated further , that improvement . cf the Salem-Independence road on the . Marlon eoanty side would probably cost approxi mately $399,fifi&, v which' In ;the'; titi cf ; national defense de mands already" made on -the' ' state, read system winld be a hsavy" bmnlen, at last for the tlaie being. ! p i; ' : ::-:' At the request 'of the highway :;cchticn cfiicers, the cc:nrris s;ca csrt'od to outline terrr' un der whicl the bricks ., miht yet La constructed wiii the coopera Plans To Strangle Britain 1 : - ' . - ;- - . . : : . . : , ' the British te the ir 4:nees inihe iouow wiui long- range aruuery ana HasrYour. Dog : His License? Time's Up! Is Rover, ier- Old Beg Tray wearing that new 1941 license plate en his eoUar yet? ' ' - I . , IT ha Un t, he'd better be by -Monday, r : .... ; , County Clerk t..C- Beyer said Friday that reduced rates for buying city, and county dog ficenses for 1941woold be pass- , ed when his office closes at 1 p. a. today, and that thereafter 11- 1 censes will be n sale only at s penalty rate, as provided by law. The eeunty clerk said alse that license b ashless up to new has -been good, and that: nearly $70$ was paid bv en Friday -alone ''for the shiny brass tags -which.- identify degs as well as1 ' their owners; - There are sUH plenty te had, however, he Indicated. be Power Chiefs DisciissJBill -it Public andj private .-power sy7 tern s'- representatives discussed the Jones-Gibson ; 12 per cent tax on electric energy bill at a hear ing before the" house taxation and revenue committee of the legis lature Friday night" Officials of the Mountain States Power: company charged the bill would raise their tax rate by 50 per cent. The1 measure would sub stitute the 12 per cent tax: on retail-sales of electric energy, to be paid by, the seller, for ad-valorem taxes now levied on power utility property". Other, witnesses told the com mittee the Portland General and Northwestern1 Electric companies would beable to reduce , their rates to be In a better position to' compete; with public owner ship advocates' . claims of cheap power y i ..... . Several school district and oth er municipal group representa tives said their units would lose? tax revenues, by the shift in the utility tax. ' j tion of the two counties. - ., ' " ' This new proposal will be pre pared - when i surveys now being conducted byj the commission are complete: and f when other work on the state highway system Is clearly outlined,' members indi cated.- ; V . , ; ; - ; In-, the ' meantime;' efforts to "obtain.- improvement bf the r South River road from Salem, to Kob-r erts will continue unabated, C A. Miller, highway"' association c fa cial, indicated Friday rJht after returning from the commission' meeting. :f ;; ,.- : :-.mWm Intend to costlasie work-"; lag as Lard as we can for. Ln ri'overasst c! the a!sra-li;- r:.: v:.;:h tLa cliy tf Cilera ani IZzloa county can & toward t-.;roveracEt cf Cat above was drawn te Indicate how near future. The plan Is te strangle undersea craft. Following the in- air attacas. Skill Devices .,-. ..... -,; " Suit Drawn Injunction Request Is ; .DucToday. Againsiu t ;Iiiwy Enforcerrent 'Ji complaint asking- injunction against the enforcement 'of laws againsV, "amusement " appliarxces' used for exercises of skill alone, and not for . profit or reward, will be filed, probably - today, - in the circuit court here, it was authori tatively reported Friday night The complaint will be filed by Guy O. Smith, local attorney, and will name a plaintiff whose iden tity- has not yet been disclosed, it was indicated. ' v " 'Persons "acouainted with the matter stated '.that the sheriff, district : attorney, chief of police, constables and ' city attorney. would be named as defendants In air effort to restrain them from enforcing laws or ordinances pro hibiting the use of amusement de vices not played for gam. "If- the complaint is filed today, Circuit Judge L. Lewelllng wfll .be asked to sign a xempor arr" injunction" pending ifinal de termination of the case at a later date, : - - Curb on Night Clubs Sought : Amendments designed to tight en the night club licensing bill introduced Thursday were being drafted by: legislators Friday night . - A- proposed' house amendment would require night clubs to close on Sundays ; and between 1 a. m. and'? a m. daily. Talk of. anoth er. amendment, to bar ;all gamb ling in : clubsy was heard. . . . t Senators -' were discussing;' an amendment closing clubs at mid night ,! : -.;M i-yttr- : The club bill prepared by Rep. Harry ;D.- Boivin (D-Klamath), would give the Oregon liquor con trol ; cctnrnission to : license, all night dubs. . . 'ii. route will," X am sure,' hare an ' excellent effect on the highway . commission when it again con- ' "siders the ' brixe prcsrara. ; - Those attending, the commission meeting from ". Salem, Independ ence 'and Dallas were as follows: LEarion County " Commissioners Ralph'; Girod 3 ,E.- Smith; County Engineer N. C. Hubbs, O. D. -Trosty" Olson, chairman of the Salem chamber of commerce highway committee; Guy' Roberts, Lee tJ. Ey erly, J chn Roberts, E. L. .Gray and E. A. Miller of the highway ;" association; i. Polk Coun ty Judge- Herman Van Well and Commissioners Harrison IL Rrant end Fred Gibson; -.Mayer Eutlcr VJU ALVi w jp- W-UUVOVV) 4Ur A 444 preciJcnt cf t!".3 I.:;crdcnc3 chamber ef ccrraerce, end M, L. V.'alker and D. P. McCarthy. Nazi MimrdiiffiSiM Break IsM ' -' i . .. ." . ' -'..'V- Charges Hiirled CIFiliLiister' In -Aid Debate Furious Argumehts In Senate Brings Ickes in Picture Aain . WASHINGTON, Teb: Z&rr (AP) An. angry; charge that the opposition to the 4ease-end bill was resorting to a filibuster was flung into the senate debate Friday by Senator George - (D Georgia), chairman of the for eign . relations - committee, - and was quickly denied by Senator Wheeler (D-Montana). - The two had fallen Into a furi ous argument as to whether Presi dent Roosevelt could- arbitrarily undervalue existing m I I i t a r y equipment to - keep transfers to England, within a $1,300,000,000 limitation prescribed ' by the bill. Standing a few feet apart' both talking at once, Wheeler main tained that the president could; George that he could not Struggle Over. Measure . " Reaches Another Climax " The struggle over the bill - had reached- another - climax." a: short time before when: Wheeler told the senate $hatthe -'measurer covers an- insensate' program, to stripthe United States of its defenses for the benefit bt foreign nations" and then plunge It into war "at .the whim of the chief, executive. ' "This bill; is not tat the de fense ef the United States." the Moatanan shouted: "That ls ap parent en its face. It was' net . drafted by anyone whe Is afraid that UlUer wffl attack. : the United SUtes In 39 days er at any ether time. It was drafted- oy persons wne, regaraiess mi eest In lives, liberty er dollars. 1 want desperately te hern; Great Britain and ,: unspecified ether natlons.M- ' Wheeler began his formal - ad dress after Senator Maloney (D Cormecticut), '. supporting - the measure, caned zoar "action not debate" and said that rejection of the bill might have- a disastrous psychological effect . Describing the bill as a lank check, Wheeler declared: Having failed in ? a domestic purge he can inaugurate a purge on an international scale, to rid the world of rulers with whom he disagrees1 or who may challenge his, claims to benevolent dicta tor ship. - The "catchword of the bill was defense," he said, a word which was contradicted by the measure's contents. Actually, he said. It should be called the "American Enabling Act of 1941." He ex plained that the i tide "enabling act" was given to the enactment of the German reichstag which made Adolf Hitler a dictator.' - - Quotes . Secretary Ickea - ' '"' -' Ois Being ..at ;War.a.: i'st The senator departed from his (Turn to Page.2, C6L 2) : . ; -rPmtt tOauseri Column To ' the uninitiated the ' capitol building s (nee statehouse) is it labyrinth in which It is no trouble at all to get lostr-"-----' " : Th I s bothers f those" casual f lobbyists , " unfa-1 i miliar with the: ground - who V in 1 their "search fort committee room" may Cndf themselves shak-f Ing hands with the gilded pion-1 eer atop the k dome. . '" TaTQl 12. Euser, jiv It does not bother the school children, who do not care. where they are ' as long as they are on the move and, brother, they move; The eih'Ji grade from the Pop corn school ran be in. the. build ing three hours and at the end of that time have personally explored nooks and cranies that the build- 1 super intend cut never dre rrr.ed c:i.::ca ana tie arcmzccis r.cvcr crylboy t find. To tie credit ef esa ca (Tum to rase 2, Cob 2) .... . X " , .:: --. - .- Gommeeicatlioiis- Cut Iii:-Indto- British Legation 3 When Decision to Sign. Is Told; Turkey Rep C- i .," i "--'-v.':'". By The AapocUtcd Press ' '..'. "'. ; ' , Bulgaria officially; informed Yugoslavia today Saturday that she was joining the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis lineup within afew hours a step which Belgrade diplomatic quarters saw as' result ing, in immediate entry of German troops-from Rumania and a prompt break with Great Britain. '-. ; ' ; - 3 I In another troubled zone the Far East France had; thus far N met with silence beyond.the deadline a Japanese ultimatum that she; vje upa heavy slice of her Indo-Chinese territory to Thai land.', v-', v'- i J--" 1;, . A . -r-.,V,. :A Tlie Bulgarian charge d'affaires in Belgrade notified Yugo-r slavia that his country would sign the axis tripartite pact today. Diplomatic sources said Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Philoff and ' Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff would fly to Vienna to meet Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and. the Japanese ambassador to Ber lin forthe formal ceremony. : - - - - - 1 , Ht - !Ti",:' - iyazirorutsii :y blwiv-itoicnym Mcegi my teSsNete: Klrke Li SIjbp .son, writer ef the follewtng ar ticle on the tense war situation In the Balkans, has "called the tarn ntany times duing the . past month en the future moves ef the belligerents. - By KIRKX L.' SIMPSON Associated Press War Commentator A Nazi-British show-down in the Balkans seemed at hand as this was written.' Rumor ran riot through southeastern Eu rope. War-storm warnings flut tered from every post of obser vation. v :'..';! .'..'-, i " ': . Every fresh report of German military activity pointed toward a nazi march, perhaps already in progress; Into Bulgaria.1 There ". 'seems ; small I 'doubt that the British, due to Foreign V (Turn to Page 2, Cot 4) Wine Tax Bfll Filed; With House Committee . Rep. Warren Erwin '(D-Mult) filed a Wine tax bill In a house committee late ; Friday.-for. intro duction, which he estimated would yield $1,000,000 a year in revenue to the state. - - The ; biR would -tax sales . of wine exceeding 17 per cent cf al cohol by volume at the rate olt ten cents a ga32xm.&ii:-0- Trdiible Sjiot K -. Lis coap shows t. 3 trov' rcne 1 1 . : teiven Frcrth 1::1C: ,.r.a rrJ -:- ! ' -i ct: I r:i c.lj V ? raw tz: : r ' -: z -: c.-:-t ::. ' 1 tar t:rr , 1 it.. :ri i.l t 5 . ' :-r i C:r-.zr... ... ted, i S&Hm Jay' SStem t- TV Prepares to Flee -; Sofia s Tegular communications w1" on .mtr Drier, service 1 yesterday and it.was impossible to ascertain whether the nazi army already . had crossed the Danube in force, ii possibly for -'thrust against Greece the little ally of Great Britain, v - ; : What Turkey would do now was the next big question in the Balk ans; j The Turks,; who have just reached "complete agreement with theiri British;allies during a visit 1- c The British Broadcasting com pany carried a report, picked up by NBC, that the Vichy govern ment had decided to give in to the Japanese mediation demands. This was hot confirmed at Vichy, where no announcement of the na ture of the decision bad been mad late j Friday, night,' according to The Associated Press. :S-- by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the British imperial staff cbiefj General Sir John Dill, were reported -reinforcing troops ; sta tioned on the Bulgarian frontier. Most diplomatic circles in Yugo slavia express belief Turkey would fight . however,- only if Germany entered Turkish' territory,-; British Legation Staff Packed, Ready te Flee . J Anticipating Bulgaria's swing to the axis, the British legation staff in Sofia was packed and ready to flee " hours before the announce ment of the Vienna meeting was made. Britain previously had ac cused Bulgaria of permitting thou sands of German scoldiers In ci vilian dress 'to -filter across her frontiers and had given warning that Bulgarian territory might be- (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) in Far East t r - gTMt'iii - m Tsr East t: t - l;'l:r 1 ..3 1 ' ... V. . , .. . .