The OEBGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. March 13, 1941
PAGE TWO
Men More Dominant Than Ever
Li fcermany, Asserts Noted
European Correspondent
Relates Inability to Get Train Berth
for Wife "as Men Must Get Rest;"
Bowl of Pea Soup Costs 40 Cents
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I By LOUIS P. LOCHNER !
Noted War Correspondent ,
BERLIN, March 12-(P)-It's a man's world more than ever in
Germany now.
This was made plain on our return to Germany from a four
week vacation in the Swiss alps. -
German sleepers now are reservea
"During these war ; times men
traveling through the night must
arrive at their destination fully
rested," was the explanation of
i fered us.
j We produced two paid sleeper
tickets. j
"Sorry," said the agent, "but
you bought tickets on February
7. New regulations have superse
ded them."
So we took a tedious day train
leaving Basel at 5:50 a. m. and
arriving in Berlin at 10 p. m.
Asks "How's Food"
On the train, we noticed the
look of surprise on fellow passen-
gers when tney saw our huuicu
faces. Other travelers were for
the most part pale and it seemed
to us that they, as belligerents,
were far more nervous than the
neutral Swiss.
One stock question asked by
virtually everybody who learned
we came from Switzerland was:
"How's the food ever there?"
One who asked this question
immediately added:
"I really need not ask, for I
see how well and healthy you
look."
We reentered Germany on one
of those monthly one-dish . Sun
days when . all Germany eats
only a one-course (dinner and
turns the money thus saved over
to the reich's winter relief fund.
Forty Cent Pea Soup
We had one palatable course
of thick pea soup with about 2
ounces of beef in it. Some travel
ers, especially soldiers, asked for
a second helping. They were told
they could have only, one dish for
the fixed price of one mark j
(about 40 cents); if they wished:
another they must pay for it. :
Many did.
We couldn't help but notice that !
military uniforms dominated the!
scene at every station through
Which we passed, and in the !
coaches of our abnormally long i
train.
Not that Switzerland had
made us forget uniforms. On
the contrary, In the winter re
sort hiffh above the Rhone val- t.
ley where we hoped to forget
about the war, Swiss soldiers
doggedly were training on skis
so heavy we often wondered
how they could skim over the
surface of snow three feet deep.
But in "Switzerland the train-
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as in Germany the spirit of the
spring offensive forecast by Adolf
Hitler was in the air.
Harrying Soldiers
Furloughed men appeared to
be hastening back to their regi
ments. Long freight trains carried
every conceivable kind of equip
ment. One of the most interesting
sights along the route was a big
flotilla of barrage balloons, like
those Britain uses, -hovering over
one huge industrial plant.
In train compartments, the
conversation was restrained for
everywhere signs warned: "Be
careful when talking the en
emy Is listening."
Yet, in our compartment, where
there usually were one or two
German officers, nobody took of
fense at our speaking English or
reading American magazines.
Hiiig-4-yiiie lays!
IT STARTS TODAY!
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Leaders Plan
Quick Action
Congress Will Speed
Action of Defense
Tools Funds
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$629,000,000 for vessels, ships,
boats and other water craft.
$362,000,000 for tanks, ar
mored cars, automobiles and
trucks.
$752,000,000 for buying or
building or acquiring factories
and equipment for producing
war supplies.
$260,000,000 for miscellane
ous military equipment and
supplies.
$200,000,000 for testing, re
pairing, reconditioning or out
fitting defense articles owned
by the countries to be assisted.
$40,000,000 for necessary
services and expenses involved f
in carrying out the program.
$10,000,000 for administra
tive expenses.
In addition Smith asked that!
the president be given authority!
to transfer amounts between thef
various categories, provided 'that!
LONDON, March 1Z-(JP)-Prime
Minister Churchill, voic
ing the "deep and respectful
appreciation" of Britain, told the
United States Wednesday the
British aid bill constituted a
"new Magna Carta ... a monu
ment of generous and far-seeing
statesmanship."
The house of commons was
Churchill's sounding board and
repeated bursts of cheering in
terrupted his statement.
"The most powerful democ
racy has, in effect," the prime
minister said, "declared in sol
emn statute that they will de-
Hi--. vote their overwhelming indus
trial and financial strength to
ensuring the defeat of naxflsm
in order that nations, great and
small, may live in security,' tol- j
erance ana rreeaom.
"By so doing the government I
and the people of the United j
States have, In fact, written a!
new Magna Carta which not j
only has regard to the rights and j
laws upon which a healthy and!
advancing civilization can alone!
be erected but also proclaims,;
by precept and example, the du
ty of free men and free nations,
wherever they may be, to share
the responsibility and burden of
enforcing them."
no one of them shall be increased
by more than 30 per cent and
none decreased by more than 2j
per cent. Also included was 4
proposal that up to $1,300,000,00(
could be used to reimburse th
army and navy for equipment al
ready on hand or previously apf
propriated for which is transfer!
red to other nations, j
"This nation has felt that it wa
imperative to the security of Am
erica," Mr. Roosevelt said in hifc
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Upon whether or not these two prominent legislator, aad their con
ference committee colleagues, can agree today on a compromise un
employment compensation program will depend the outcome of
amendatory legislation on the Jobless' insurance law at this ses
sion. Rep. Frank J. Lonergan (R-Mnlt.) (at left) guided the house
Judiciary committee In formulating Its program toward a compro
mise between labor and employer demands, while Sen. Konaid E.
Jones (R -Marion) (at right) presided over the senate Industries
committee when the Lonergan bills were drastically revised in the
upper house. Servtng with them are Kep. Orval N. Thompson (D
Lbu) and Sen. W. H. Stelwer R -Wheeler) with Sen. William E.
Walsh (K-Coos) as a senate alternate.
Salem Girls Named Managers
For Willamette Class Play
Patricia Niemeyer and Loren Hicks, both of Salem, were
announced Wednesday as manager 'and publicity manager for
the junior class play for Willamette university May weekend,
May 2 and 3. The appointments were made by Oscar Swenson
letter, "that we encourage the de
mocracies' heroic resistance to ag
gressions, by not only maintain
ing but also increasing' the flow
of material assistance from this
country. Therefore, the congress
has enacted and I have signed
HR 1776. (The lease-lend bill).
"Through this legislation, our
country has determined to do
Its full part in creating an ade
quate arsenal of democracy.
This great arsenal will be here
in this country. It will be a bul
wark of pur own defense. It
will be the source of the tools of
defense for all democracies who
are fighting to preserve them
selves against aggression.
"While the defense equipment
procured under HR 1776 remains
under the control of the United
States until it is ready for dispo
sition, it is the fixed policy of this
government to make for democ
racies every gun, plane and mu
nition of war that we possibly
can.
"To accomplish these object
ives, I am transmitting an esti
mate in the amount of $7,000,
000,000, the details of which are
set forth in the accompanying let
ter from the director of the bu
reau of the budget. I strongly
urge the immediate enactment of
this appropriation."
McNary Answers
Camps Question
WASHINGTON, March 12-(JP-Senator
McNary (R-Ore) inform
ed William M. Tugman editor of
the Eugene Register-Guard, in a
telegram Tuesday he had con
ferred with army officials about
expansion of the war department
cantonments and advised the Ore
gon communities put their claims
before the corps area commander
at San Francisco.
The senator said the corps area
commanders had been instructed
to make a survey of various sites
in Oregon suitable for canton
ments in anticipation of any ex
pansion in the army. He said the
officials pointed out there could
be no expansion until authorized
by congress and funds provided.
He said army officials believed it
advisable for interested communi
ties to communicate with the corps
area commander at San Francisco
to get their proposals before him
Author Austin Dies
LONDON, March 12-JF)-F.
Britten Austin, 55, a u t h o r and
playwright, much of whose work
was published in the Saturday
Evening Post in the United States,
died Wednesday.
In One Ear . .
Paul Hatuer't Column
(Continued from page 1)
ished shaving back there in Au
gust. Now he doesn't know whether
to thaw out or start a skating
rink. .
Gene Tnnney thinks the na
t lo n's preparedness program
will produce the man who can
lick Joe Louis. After that hit
ler oof to be easy.
.
. The legislature has been here
so long that even some of the
southern Oregon members are
beginning to r get acclimated - to
the Willamette valley. One caught
himself saying the other day that
It was a swell day. "For the val
ley," he quickly qualified. .
'One of: the boys out at 2605
State street wants to keep the
record straight. A Seattle draft
board received -this- letter from
himi ' ! t !
'"This Is to notify you of a
change of address.' My farmer
' address was the county JaQ. Sa
lem, Ore.: present address the
'.state penitentiary. Salens, Ore.
-I will get In touch with yon :
when I get out If yon are still
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to UCC Program
i - RONALD E. JONES
of Spokane, weekend publicity
manager. v
Oher committee assignments,
made by David Reinhard of Port
land, weekend manager, included
Barbara Hollingworth Of Port
land, Maypole dance; Frances
Pickard and Margaret Wright cj
Portland, dance directors; Helen
Dean of Hillsboro, Laura Lee
Tate of Stayton, Jessie May Ruhn
dorf and Frances Pickard of Port
land, selection Of Maypole dan
cers; June Woldt of Portland, Es
ther Mae Devore, Margaret Sieg
mund, Renee Caplan and Lewis
Judson, all of Salem, Arnold
Hardman of Olympia and Ed
Cone of Cottage Grove, flower
committee.
Swenson also appointed on a
play reading committee Nadine
Orcutt, Corydon Blodgett and
Mary Barker of Salem and Cliff
Stewart of Great Falls, Mont.
Thrills Near
Upset Marh
Hoop Start
(Continued From Page 1)
the .front court, to the hearty
disapproval of fans.
The Axemen Went into an early
lead that reached 10-5 propor
tions by the end of the first quart
er and 16-10 at halftime. Corvallis
kept within from four to six points
of them up to the third quarter,
which ended 18-14, and almost
caught them, at 20-18, midway of
the final period.
Only 20 shots were taken at the
baskets in the whole final half,
1 1 by Corvallis and nine by Eu
gene, as the Axemen refused to
attempt to score against the Spar
tan zone. Wally Mold, Eugene
center, topped the scoring with 10
points.
Baker Shows Well Coached
Form Jlnt.ltows Finally
; Baker, displaying well-coached
form as usual, led The Dalles until
midway of the third quarter, and
held a momentary lead midway
of the final period before bowing
tp the Columbia river Indians, the
Bulldogs had twice beaten during
the year. With Baker leading 27
25 and but four minutes left,
Eddie Dick caged a free throw,
Harold Thorn e another and then a
fast-break cripple, Cramer barged
in off the stall The Dalles strung
up to hoist in another two-pointer,
and Thome caged a free toss to
put the game safely away.
; Al Cramer The Dalles forward,
led the way with 11, points, fol
lowed by Baker's Tommy Holman
with seven.
Final first-round game saw
SUverton spurt out to a 13-4
; first-quarter lead, paced by little
Bob Morgan's phenemal firing --"from
the court's corners, and
barge on to a 23-15 halftime ad
vantage despite loss of Center
, Day, bat with both Anderson
! aad Burr eat of the lineup, and
with Oregon City's Gettel find
i ing the range to hoist In a total
of IS points, the Surer Foxes
; fell oft the second half pace.
; Championship flight favorites
for today, strictly in the opinion
of your correspondent,-are Salem,
Klamath Falls, Astoria and The
Dalles, Best longshots include
tNorth Bend and Eugene, but it
would seem that Klamath Falls has
too much height for the North
Bend boys and that Astoria has too
much speed for the Axemen.
(See sports section for other
games, box scores of all tourna
ment games.) -
Composer Dies
NEW YORK, March l2HVlsi
dore Lucks tone, g0t pianisV sing
ing teacher and composerr died
Wednesday. As an accompanist he
appeared with ; Enrico i Caruso,
Fritz Kreisler, Lillian Nordica,
Nellie Melba and others,-
Misses First Day v .:
SANDY, March.KHtfVW. E.
Randolph, vice-president of Sandy
high school, was back Wednesday
after, being absent for the first
time in 1 years h"- of ill
ness. . 'M i i;-H' b''S :;-vt!
Jobless Pay
BillsStyimed
Conference Body Gels
Job of Ironing out
i Many Amendments
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to purchasers and is designed to
correct abuses. The senate has vet
to consider Rep. H4 R. "Farmer
Jones on-premises consumption
natural wine bill.
The sales tax bill, up for house
disposition, was' re-referred to
committee for reinstatement of the
clause referring it to a vote of the
people. It will be out on the house
floor again today.
Jones Steers UCC Bills
With Little Opposition
Sen. Jones, chairman of the in
dustries committee, steered the un
employment compensation . bills
through the senate with a mini
mum of opposition despite that
lobbies were thronged with in
terested parties and pressure
against some of the senate amend
ments must have been heavy. The
only serious objection voiced on
the floor came from Sen. W. E!
Burke in connection with the sea
sonality changes which he feared
would penalize fruit canners. ,
This was denied by Sen. Jones
who defended the seasonality
formula as harmonious with the
Intent -at the law. The principal
senate amendment would deny
recognition of an industry as
seasonal unless it reduces its
payroll 40 per cent for 12 con
secutive weeks each year for a
period of several years. The
committee chairman said this
wonld rale eat industries which
shut down for economic, rather
than actually seasonal, ' condi
tions. Sen. Jones explained that the
benefit schedule approved by his
committee was devised to spread
benefits over a longer period of
unemployment, and it was for this
reason that the minimum weekly
benefit was lowered from the
house bill's $10 to the $7 provid
ed in the present law. while the
total benefits in proportion to
earnings were increased.
Analysis of Comparative
Effects of Program Shown
An analysis of the comparative
effects of the house and senate
programs was released Wednes
day by the unemployment com
pensation commission's, statistical
department It indicates that jn
a year, based upon 1940 experi
ence, the senate seasonality form
ula would cost $300,000 more, and
its benefit duration schedule $427,
000 more. On the other hand the
house weekly benefit schedule
would cost $57,000 more than the
present law, and its , minimum
weekly benefit increase would
cost $14,000 more.
4, Under either plan Car experi
ence rating, based upon 1939 ex
perience, the fund would receive
$88,000 less. Reducing the wait
ing period would cost $250,000.
Thus the entire house program
would cost the fund $409,000
and the senate program would
cost $1,065,000.
Senate seasonality amendments
would make non-seasonal 83 ner
cent of the logging and lumber
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a. whale of a car (he Poociac Torpodo" ,
is.Tb new Pontiac speaks for itself and
k tells you ciearlr that a smarter, roomier,
sweeter-acting car will be hard to and.
The oolr tune this Pontiac needs our
help is when somebodr says, "It's too
high-priced for me. That's when w go
to work, and here's what we tell thene
With ail of its size, its beaurr, its "expen- -sire"
look, Pootiacs prices are so doss to ;
the loweM-priced three that the di&r- '
cno is oolr a few dollars per month. ,
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COMFORT. Yon wih neer guess from a
' ride in a Psorisc that it's a low-priced car.
Pontiac's perfected ripte-Ouhiooed '
Ride is conceded to be without equal in
any car at any price. Yon can go on and on
in a Pontiac . . and step out relaxed and -
rested at the end of the trip.
operations, 30 per cent of the can
ning industry and 43 per cent of
brick and tile., manufacture. It
would seriously affect warehous
ing, summer resorts, miningcloth
ing manufacture and miscellane
ous manufacture, and make all
cheese manufacture non-seasonal,
but the number of establishments
affected is smalL Altogether, the
number of seasonal firms would be
reduced from 794 to 282.-
Under the house benefit;
schedule a- claimant nay draw
total benefits of one-sixth of
wages earned in bis base year
16 times the weekly amount.
The senate schedule changes the,'
one-sixth to one-fifth.
In either case the maximum
benefit during any years is $240,
but the senate bill makes it pos
sible for a man earning $1200 in
his base year to collect $240; un
der the present law, or under the
house bill, the maximum cannot
be collected unless the ' claimant
earned $1440 : This issue affects
thousands of claimants, whereas
the issue of the weekly minimum
affects only about 1200.
Hitler Brags
Of Conquest
Arrives Unexpectedly
in Austria for Fete ;
Tells World Plans
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the war) we will work harder
and more and more to give the
greater reich the character of a
nation of endeavor, the character
of a strong social community life.
. . . We are not obligated to any
class or to any t group; we bow
to no human being, before us is
the recognition of the German
people . . . before us is the great
er Germany.
"A little over a year ago Chur
chill was not quite clear about
the firmness of the people of my
home (Austria). I' assured him
then that I hoped the time soon
would come when he . could in
form himself better. This time
arrived.
"England got the. lesson, and
I do not have the impression that
the firmness of the British bri
gades was greater than that of
the Ostmark (former Austria)
battalions in Norway and
France."
Hood and Clatsop
Forests Flare
PORTLAND, Ore., March 12-(fl-Two
forest fires in Oregon
spread Wednesday, one of them
endangering six homes before be
ing " brought under control. . - ; v
A crew of CCC boys saved the
homes, which were near Cherry
ville on the Mount Hood loop
highway. The blaze swept over
40 acres before the arrival of the
troopers.
A fern fire near Saddle moun
tain state park in Clatsop county
spread from 300 to more than 800
acres. One hundred and forty men
were fighting the blaze.
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SIZE AND LUXURY. Nor will yon get
any impression of low cose from the
roomiaesi and luxury yon and inside its
handsomabody by Fisher. Pontile is
tailored aad acted to compare favorably
with the nnest cars on the road.
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however, yon realize
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Greeks Smash
Duce Drive
Sixllitaiian Attacks
Ordered by Benito
Suffer Big Loss
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ciple" to sign on the axis line, but
she was understood to have pro
posed to Germany:
1. Ilrst a declaration of
friendship, then a transition per-,
led to try to modify pro-British
sentiment In Yugoslavia and
avoid Internal trouble.".' ': '7 "
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man demands for demobilization
of Yugoslavia's army, which the
Yugoslav high command strong
ly opposes,' and more considera
tion of German demands for the
right to tend troops through
southeastern Yugoslavia from
Bulgaria into Greece. ..
Spain made haste to follow her
reported refusal to allow German
planes passage over Spain to
Africa with an expression of un
shakeable". friendship with Ger
many, delivered by Foreign Min
ister Ramon Serrano Suner at the
opening of a German press ex
position in Madrid. Serrano Suner
said the two countries were work
ing toward the common goat of a
"more just Europe."
The British said a column 'in
vading eastern Ehtiopia after the
conquest of Italian Somaliland
had rushed 120 miles in the last
two days and last, night was 90
miles south of Jjjiga. with no real
Italian troops between it and Ji-
British Announce Bombing
Of Nasi Naval Bases
In London, the' British air min
istry reported another "successful"
bombing of shipyards and- docks
at the German naval base at Kiel
and nearby Bremerhaven.
Last night, London again was
raided, and an anti-aircraft bar
rage which sounded like heavy
artillery made it . apparent that
kind of new defensive tactic was
being tried.'
Turkey's investigation of the
suitcase bomb assassination . at
tempt on George W. Rendel, Brit
ish minister to Bulgaria, contin
ued, with announcement that
British legation employes saw the
bomb but thought it a "radio bat
tery." With a Japanese-sponsored
peace treaty safely signed by
Thailand and French Indo-China,
Japan's Foreign Minister- Yosuke
Matsuoka, left last night for Ber
lin and Rome to "tighten axis co
operation and explain the real
significance of Japan's foreign pol
icy." LONDON, March .13 - (Thuta-day)P)-N
ine f German . bombers
were of f iciallyf r e p o r t ed shot
down Wednesday night . as the
Luftwaffe battered the Liverpool
area in an assault which the gov
ernment described today as "the
first large, scale raid" on England
"in some months. y ?
London, and towns in the mid
lands, east Anglia and southwest
and southeast England also were
attacked as the Germans took ad
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full moon. -
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raid with the .heavy assaults di
rected against England last fall,
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nowhere comparable. . -
LONDON, Mrch 13-Thursday)
(-German ; bombers, flying so
high they, could scarcely behearL
subjected Liverpool to its longest
raid of the year overnight and
struck simultaneously at London,
the - midlands," . East Anglia and
southwest and southeast England.
. London had three alarms, greet
ing the first with a thundering ar
tillery barrage different from any
thing previously heard and indi
cating., some new development in
anti-aircraft defense. The second
alarm I after midnight, passed
without the sounds of battle, but
was quickly followed by. a third
alert. ' -;Vr' -'- '
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Firm to Move
' Take New Quarters
n'Pioneer Trust
f jNextyVIbnth
" " The Salem Abstract company,
oldest firm of its type In Salem,
will make its -first change, of lo
cation since 11912 early next
month! when it moves into quar-
J..M ti..v. !.u. a m zi
tcisi imjwj utfuig joikcreu , lur n on
the ground "floor of the Pioneer
Trust building, northwest corner
of State and Commercial streets,
T. M. Hicks president, announced
Wednesday, j , 1
. 1The Pioneer . Trust building is
Kai n i 1 f nnl 4m iMAitiylA a C
street entrance for vthe abstract
firm and two units of floor space,
one 26 by 52 and the other 30 by
30 feet. In size.. This will repre
sent ... a 50 . per, cent increase In
space over " the company's pres
ent quarters on the second floor
of the Guardian building.
;-. The Salem Abstract company
was organized in 1880 at a Che
meketa and Commercial street
location." It recently extended its
service to cover Polk county
lands, one reason for the move
and acquisition of more working
space.-Walter B. Minier is vice
president and Frank Lynch sec-
Spain Asserts
(Continued from page I)
"justly proud" of the triumphs of
national socialism .and the arms
of the third reldh, He added that
the -Spanish'. and" German press
work '.in the : common spirit of
"military and revolutionary com
araderie. :
The ' German " ambassador, Bar
on Eberhard von Stohrer, ad
dressed the gathering, declaring
that the totalitarian countries had
taken their press out of "irres
ponsible hands and placed if at
the service of the nation. "'
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