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Weather V. They're Yours "" The conununlty served by The Oregon Statesman to TOUR community? this pa-' per YOUR paper. Look to It for newt that U accurate, Interesting and timely. ; Fair today ul Wednes day with continued warmer temperatures. Max. tempi. Monday. SI. lQa. 42. North west wind. River -J foot. Rain trace, rartly cloudy. POUNDDD 1651 iraiETY-rntsT yiaii Scdexo. Ore-gon, Tuesday Morning. Jan 24, 1941 : Pries) 3a Newsstands 5c No. 73 fx? 07 o Aliens Bond Sale Measure Is Passed uncil Orders Sewage Plant Bids July 21 r Overriding expressed qualms over threats of litigation, the Salem city council unanimous ly passed an ordinance at a social meeting Monday after noon for sale of the $200,000 sewage disposal plant bond is sue authorized by the people on May 20. . The issue, on which Alderman Glenn Gregg, sewerage committee chairman, said bids probably would be received at the July 21 meeting, must under terms of the ordinance be sold for not less than parvalue and bear interest at not more than 4V4 per cent. The bonds will be Issued in un its of .11000. to mature serially between August 1, 1941, and Aug ust 1, 1961. They will be callable at par value after five years. Construction of the sewage disposal plant, on a aite now owned by the city, will take at least six months and probably longer, Carl Zeldlack, of Cun ningham and Associates, the city's consulting engineers, es timated. He predicted that laying of an Interceptor sewer from Church and Union street! to the plant site and changing and improving oth er sewer lines would require an even longer working period. Alderman E. B. Perrine raised the litigation - question with the report of a rumor that an Injunc tion would be sought by unnamed persons If the city auempiea wi . t 1 proceed with the project online m -- 1 grounds the bond issue was illegal I WfltiM onlr 8 ter cent of the city's citizens voted for It at tne . - - . . . ,1. recent special election. An Informal opinion holding the Issue to be legal and salable has been given by Portland bond attorneys. City Attorney Lawrence N. Brown said. - The bond ordinance was allow- mA 4t on in third readlnff when none of the ten aldermen present objected to suspension of the! rules, and all ten approved it on final passage. The council also acted on minor phases of the other two big pro jects before It, the airport ex pansion and the South River road widening. A $1000 payment to the du Pont Powder Interests was vot ed as remuneration for the company's expense In moving Its storage houses from land bought as an addition to the Alroart. aia Armstrong n. arort rommit- tee. said in answering queries put Vw IM.rman T . IT. TTIarie. trial I annth'r S5000 would have to be raised to pay the Brown estate ior otner buuomgs. No objections were raised to Si committee report recommends WASHINGTON, June 23.-iP-lng payment of $403 to R. C The Justice department Instructed Gamble for another piece of right of way needed for the River road Job. Safe-way Gets Permit For New Salem Store Safeway Stores. Inc, obtained si permit from the city building Inspector Monday for construc tion of the firm's new store, cost ing $18,000, at 243 Court street, near Front An old house on the property Is now being razed to make way for the new market. Soviet Aid Questioned CHICAGO, June 23.-A)-Gen. Robert . Wood, chairman of the America First commute, Monday questioned whether America should continue aiding Britain without some assurance that ev erything we send will not be re layed to Stalin in accordance with Churchill's pledge of aid." Our Senators LS M MOW flea 7-5 Xt&l Portland Scheduled at V Playgrounds I Harold Hauk, director fS lem's public recreational tram, Monday announced ries of special "days" to be In effect at both Lleslie and OI I n g e r playgrounds. Bicycle races, however, he said would be held only at Ollnger. July 7-1S inclusive has been designated the annual "learn to swim campaign period. Others listed by Hauk In cluded: . - ) June 27, dress up day; July 11, pet day; July 18, pool swim meet at Leslie and Olinfer; July 28, city championship swim meet; July 3, bicycle races at Olinfer; August 1, doll show; August 15, said boat races, and August 29, play ground picnics. Navy to Place Workers in SF Will Supply Keymcn, Shipyard Strike of Union Machinists B Th Associated Press Rebuffed in an effort to get striking AFL. and CIO machin ists .back to work in San Fran cisco shipyards, the navy took steps yesterday (Monday) to sup ply these key men to strike-bound yards from government civil serv ice lists. . Meantime, however, the Be thlehem Shipbuilding company, one of 11 shipyards and dry docks affected by the strike, agreed to sign a coast wide contract negotiated by the AFL metal trades, and there was peculation that this might brlnr an end to the strike. fro.- xiie uuicr lj. i.cuuliiiu taiua 1 . . had accented the acree- veWehem' failure to sign rnHmT r-WT n ionaTTS m ihi 1111 p in sivn . . ... . .trikers as " i...s " " one iwun kw raiuiui vj iciiuu 1 refusing to work. A it. machinists have nrt rati- fied the agreement which calls for SI. 12 an hour with time and one- half for overtime whereas they struck May 10 for $1.15 with dou ble time for overtime. They had; (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) f-l onrl QfklrC A Ulctlltl Soviet Peace LONDON, June 23-(P-General Vladvslaw Sikorski. nremier of the Polish government In exile, blnted before the Polish national council Monday that his govern' ment might make its peace with Russia. ; The Polish-Russian question which might have shadowed the outlook of many a friend of ours In the west I believe may disap- Par from InternaUonal politics." (Hall of Poland was occupied soviet troops during the 1939 US Raises Barrier I On Italians in Country J its immigration and border pa- trol officers Monday to "take all necessary steps' to prevent Ital ian nationals from leaving the United States. The treasury department gave similar instructions to its customs officers in a move to prevent the I c-:n . withdrawal of axis assets from 1 week respect to German nationals. M ethodists Shift One Salem pastor, Dean Poin-1 dexter, Leslie church, was trans ferred, two, S. Raynor Smith, Jason Lee, and J. C Harrison, First, were reappointed and Dr. J. Edgar Purdy was again named superintendent of this district, by Bishop Bruce R. Baxter at the closing session of the state Me thodist conference in Eugene Sunday. " ' Dean Poindexter, who has been here for six years, plans to leave Thursday to take over - The Dalles pastorate and Rev. Ross Knotts, Medford. wttl succeed him here. Rev. Silas E. Fairham, G re sham, wQl succeed Dr. Sidney W. HaU, Salem, for six years super- intendent of the Cascade district.; Dr. Hall will move to Gresham. ur, jviuion a. xaarcy, lormcri Salem superintendent, will con-1 "A" U OMicuallv Sides; With Soviet FDR Says Red Doctrine Bad, Nazis Worse Declares Hitler Army Chief Menace and Aid Is Help to US WASHINGTON, June -The United States cast its sympathies officially on the side o Soviet Russia in the new conflict with Germany Mon day and opened the definite prospect of lease-lend or other material aid to the red forces. A government declaration is sued on behalf of President Roos evelt by Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, asserted that the principles and doctrines of "communistic dictatorship" were M "intolerable and. as alien' to the American people as were those of "nazi dictatorship." But It branded Adolf Hitler's armies as "the chief dangers of the Americas" and said that 'any defense against Hitler- Ism" and "any rallying- of for ces opposing; Hitlerism from whatever source" would hasten the downfall of German leaders and "rebound to the benefit of our Own defense and security." Russia has not yet asked for lease-lend aid from the United States, Welles explained, and un til such i request Is received the Anvrtttn ravtmiBHit is with m - holding any decision on the ques- tion. mvu 1 He pointed out, however, that PrMidmt Pwsvit had full u- . . . I iinonry unaer ine act to exiena lease-lend aid to all countries de fending themselves against ag- gression. Diplomatic quarters expected that Russia would not immediate ly request lease-lend aid but in stead would seek release of fro zen" Russian assets in this coun try and permission to buy and ex- port vital defense materials. The government's statement began by asserting that Hit ler's treacherous attack upon soviet Russia furnished further p r e e f of the "real purposes and projects ef the present leaders of Germany for world domination.' Declaring the word "honor" js unknown to the present German (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Sailor Slaying Suspect Nabbed SPOKANE, June 23 -VPf State patrol headquarters here Monday nleht rerorted that John Harvey Thomas, 22-year-old sailor who has been sought for a week on a charge - of forging to gasoline credit slips the name of Douglas Smith. missing Seattle meter reader, had been apprehended at Mason City. Night Clerk R. L. Kelly said he had been informed of the nleV- up by sergt m. r. wardaii of Mason tciiT. i "He gave no further informa- tion." Kelly said, "other than that Sheriff Casev Walker of Colfax I had been called and would arrive I In. the morning to take charge optional committee to consider the the prisoner and question him.1 DEAN POINDEXTEH ii ii I "A" Here's Chief - ' - ' rs 4 : ' ' ' A ' , "' - x.. , - -; v. " - - v : ! . SEMYON K. When war broke out between Russia and Germany Sunday Semyon K. Tlmeshenke, above was la command of the soviet army. He was the leader. It was reported. In opposinr Stall and appeasement to the nazis. In the picture above he is shown during- maneuvers near Moscow. Stimson Aide Proposes Property Seizure Su b Patterson Narrows Items in Measure but Asks Speedy Passage; Senate Told New Plan "Fills Our Needs" WASHINGTON, June 23. - ure" bill, specifying the items which the president could requi- wa nmnosprf lUTondav bv Robert P. Patterson, undersec- - " r-r retary of war. The substitute would empower the president to take over School Chief s Start Parley County Superintendents Open Two-Day Meet; Governor Speaks County school superintendents from all sections of Oregon gath ered here Monday for their an nual two-day convention. Principal speakers at Monday's session included Governor Charles A. Sprague and Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruc tion. Governor Sprague stressed the part the schools of Oregon are taking In the state defense pro- gram. I Putnam reviewed tne progress made bv the schools during tne past year and explained briefly some of the educational laws en- acted by the 1941 legislature. The annual, banquet was held Monday nirht. I Officers of the association will be elected at the closing session. US Keds uul rarley NEW YORK, June Z3.-vT-in communist party of the unitea States Monday called a meeting I for Saturday of the party's na war. tinue to be head of the Portland district. Special appointments in cluded R. M. Gatke, D. H. Schulze and R. Franklin Thompson, Wil lamette university professors, members of First church, Salem, quarterly conference, ' and Ells worth M. Tilton, secretary of the Salem district. . Other appointments for the Salem district were: '- z f Albany, Thomas D. Tames: Aimty (T. H.- Tempke): Banks-C o r n 1 1 u ! (Charles scnreiDer1; dwm Salem Olds); Bay CJtyaribi-KocMwsy , (John Jordan); Brownsville -Harrto-burg (Al Vosper). Canby, (C. C. Rr Jck); Coburf (to be supplied); Corval lis. rirst. Daniel W. Sltveni; CoryaUw. -Msdlson, O. Leonard Jones; EtottM. Ellsworth M. Tilton; Psyton (TL C Al-. lord); Donald (Kay Short); Dundee-. . Ebenezer (H. O. Herrman): Eugene. B. I Earl Parker: Fall Oty (S 4 m p o n T Hamrick); rorest Grow, Jesse W. , Bunch: Htlsey, A, J. Neufeld; HU1-! boro, H. r. Pemberton: wdependence-1 Buena VlstS (Mturm rtmHi. I Iferaon (M. D. Medlin): Junction City I Eivcrview. William TenruuiU Paul Ack- "On of Red Army TIMOSHENKO ' f (5) - A narrower property seiz- 1 - I I military or naval equipment, ma chine tools, manufacturing equip ment, patents and plans "to pro mote the national defense and to overcome shortages.' Patterson told the senate mil itary committee that the substi tute "ought to fill our needs' but both he and Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission emphasized the need for speedy passage. The original measure, opposed by some congressmen as broad, placed no restriction en the president's . commandeering power so long as the property involved was needed for defense. Patterson, said , the substitute (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Small HI Girl Still Missing Betty McCullough, 10 years old and unable to speak well enough to make herself understood by strangers, was still missing at a late hour Monday night from the tauvw uia area . aimougn men from the nearby veterans' camp, state pcOice, her parents and their irt v. uw ir OT,5 said to be berry pickers living temporarily across from the Ma- theny store wandered away short - ly after 8 o'clock Sunday morn - ing, police said. She is subject to sudden attacks of illness, and final decision on the signing of a her parents believe may have two-year ; wage agreement cov taken a ride with passing motor- ering the southern Appalachian 1st. Pastor; Two ' l Ullllll Hill I I IIIJIDMI I . t I 4 DR. J. EDGAR PURDY "A" British Keep Hammering on French Coast Leningrad Seen Big Objectiye of Northern Thrust by Germany By The Associated Press Russia declared today that the broad German offensive from the Baltic to the Black sea was a failure but acknowledged that the German legions had captured the fortress city of 1 Brest-Litovsk, where Germany I once forced the bolsheviks to t yield a big chunk of land. The Moscow communique said the red 'army had captured 5,000 German officers and troops to two day and had destroyed W laiXU. I The red army high command also said 127 German planes had been shot down in the two-day war, 76 Sunday and SI Monday. The Germans strove to develop their offensives along the whole front from the Baltic to the Black sea, the command said, but 'met with no success." In the Shavlal and Ravarusska directions the Germans were driven out of Rus sia,' it added. The Russians also admitted that the Germans had occupied Kolno and Lomzha. :-, . Shaulal is about 100 mile in-1 side the old Lithuanian frntw along East Prussia and about 75 rniles from Kaunas, former capital of Lithuania. ...... . ... Action In that area indicates one branch of the German thrust was headed toward Len- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) US Hits Tire Firms9 Prices WASHINGTON, June 23 -tfV I The federal trade commission an nounced today that it had order ed three major tire producers and two larve retail concern a tn -cease and desist from price mis- representations in connection -with the sale of automobile tires and tubes." Named in the order were the Firestone Tire & Rubber com pany, the Goodyear Tire & Rub ber company and its sales subsid iary, the Goodyear Tire &c Rub ber Company, Inc., and the B. F. Goodrich company, all of Akron, Ohio; Sears, Roebuck & Com pany, Chicago, and Western Auto Supply company, Kansas City. The commission said that it had found that the respondents advertised certain savings ana eTiscounta over "list nriees" when not computed on the remuar cur priccs but uponWfih nt mnnM th n.r- er prices. tkal Accord IN ears WASHINGTON, June 23-(V 1 The southern soft coal operators 1 and the United Mine Workers I union will meet Tuesday for a I ' field. Will ermann. associate; Lebanon. D. Lester Fields; McCabe (C U Dark); McFar- land-rranJUin (to De suppueai; mc MinnvUle, L. O. Grimth; Marmiam (Pierre Smith): Monroe-Alpine (R. T. Cookinrham ) : Nehalem-Wheeler, rred O. Runt; Newberg. John O. McCor- mick: New bent. Geiman (J. C. Muel ler!: Pratura (W. J. Hamilton): Oak Grove chapel (Everett Lisle); West Sa lem dob Hucaaoeei; toeaa io o turrolied): Sheridan. Malcolm B. Bat- linger; snerwooa. umui xncsr; suets. W. J. Douglas); Suvertoa. Edward Term Sntngfieid. Harry Grouse; Staytoo-Lyons (Junes wusoni; Tan-i gent-AJset, Bruce uroseciose; iium- Toledo. R R. nnRBelner; ntrner. (John Mitchell); Wendllng-Marcola I (A. J. Koork): Willamina-BuUer. H. H. MUes; Grand Bono (John X. Wil liams); Woodburn, Ralph X. Smith; Yamhill (S, A. ChappeU).- , Canada's Bacon Cut OTTAWA, June 23.-Vln the first formal plea to Canadians to change their eating habits, the Dominion, bacon, board Monday requested that Canadians eat less bacon and pork this summer. Renins fit Portland .PORTLAND, June 23 -00-Charles A. Lindbergh told Dell more Lessard, chairman of the America. First committee, by, telephone from McCloud, Calif Monday that his Portland ap pearance would be , delayed. - After a talk at San Francis co he would return east, Lind bergh said, and could not be In Portland in less than SO days. MEDFOBD, June 23 HPh Charles A. Lindbergh, arriving here by airliner late yesterday with . Mrs. Lindbergh, declined to comment on events. m Eu rope or elsewhere. They, left at once for the William Randolph Hearst ranch near McCloud, Calif. Japan's Policy Expected Soon Course in Nazi-Russ War to Be Announce) War to Be Announced I After Cabinet Meet TOKYO, June 23.-(P)-Japan kept the Pacific Monday on her course m Rus. area guessing .UnJWon ur K,s w ' "Following the cabinet meet ing Tuesday, said a report by the semi-official Domel ' News agency, "A statement manifest ing. Japan's firm attitude will be Issued.' A joint meeting of the cabinet and high command was scheduled for today, but postponed indef- initely. Premier Prince Funimaro Koooj . conferred with Emperor iHirobito, and talked for six hours foreign minister Yosuke Mat-1 I suoka, who had been In confer- 1 ence with German Ambassador imk . . Major General Eugen Ott. Far eastern sources at Shang-1 MA I v.i t "IUU"k uiisui. w seize eastern Siberia. Others be- lieved she might drive for the oil u u vi iw Aicuicriiuius msi V - A Japanese announcement at Shanghai said the steamer Asama Maru would make an emergency visit to Batavia to take Japanese women and children and German subjects from The Netherlands' East Indies. ANKARA, Turkey, June 24 (Tuesday) - (jP) - British military speoausis irom me miaaie east cwnmand were reported here to- day assigned to the soviet army in accord with Prime Minister Winston Churchill's promise aid Russia. t .The first 'croup of artillery and air force officers was ex pected to cross the Turko-Rus-slan frontier within a week If tentative arrangements are completed. Others are expected to follow as conditions warrant. Churchill's speech was enthusi- astically welcomed by many Turks who took the view that as- Hv?. Britain and the I . nopea Ior. uccessrui.proiongea defense of Russian soil by the red jrmy. . . Bulletins NEW YORK, Tuesday, June 2-(V-neavT German air at tacks on Ucht units of the Rus sian Black sea fleet and lively activity by both sides in the Bal tic sea were reported today by the British radio. The broadcast was heard by CBS. STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, June tli-Vtj-Klng Gustaf presided' Monday at a two-hour meeting of the foreixn affairs eonm-dt-tee. No eonununlque was Issued. MADRID, Spain, June 13. VPjrTbe Spanish cabinet held an urrent cabinet meeting- on Monday night without announc ing decision on whether a vol untary Spanish ' expeditionary force would aid Germany against the OSLO, Oeenpied Norway, June zXHVAB citizens of Russia, Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia now residing In Nor way were ordered Monday to register wlih police within Z 4 ItOimw - -. w' MEXICO CTTY, June lJ.-P) -Foreign Minister Ezeqnlel Pa dnia Monday night called the German Invasion f Russia "one of the most tragic viola tions of International ethics fat history." - r I Airfield Program Approved Fund for Project Started by Civic Organizations By RALPH CURTIS Approval of the program for further extending and improv ing the Salem airport in order to meet present military and commercial aviation standards at a maximum cost to the city of $75,000, was expressed con cretely in the sense that "money talks" by Salem citizens who heard the project explained at a luncheon Monday noon at the chamber of commerce. From among those p resent, $695 was pledged tpward the fi nancing of a bond election and members of the committee said later in the day they Were confi dent that the remainder of thm !!ired sum- between tsoo and iuuu, wouia oe raised before the end of the week and possibly to day. Contributions covering the election cost were requested in order that the city council would not be subjected to crit icism for calling second spe cial election this year,. It was explained by Postmaster Hen. it rawioro, who added that the desirabfllty of farther ex panding the airport had not developed la time to Include this project among; the Issues In the previous election. There was scant mention at the luncheon of the brii-ht nrostwt: for establishment here' of an srm-v A I air base, for the reason" that no definite commitment from m sources has yet been obtained Emnhaxi was nlarf In.too upon the desirability of enlarelns! I - - - - ' ' the airport in any case so that runwavs 5000 feet in lMith anfi . ... . - I a giiae angle not exceeding 30 to one nujrht be nrovided- nri obtaining the needed property soon so that Salem might not tce the difficulty which has forced some other cities to aban- don existing airport and obtain new locations, These points were brought out bv E. a. Humn mt r-Bu ai- lines, fwhe added that planes with 210 foot wing-spread and weighing 24 tons are bow being built and that St-ton commer cial transport planes ar being -planned; and by R. T. Packey of the Civil Aeronautics Au thority. . In outlining the alroort situs tion at the opening of the meet ing. Chairman Ray Yocom of the chamber of commerce industrial committee said the city had here tofore spent $65,000 on the air port, including the original $50, 000 voted by the public, and that the $75,000 now sought would in crease this to $135,000. The fed- eral eovermnent through the CAA and other agencies is spending 1600.000 and the. alroort will re- dty receiving any revenue re- suiung irom its mcreasea use. He read portions of lett letter-, from war department source , j stating-; Every elvll airport t should be so constructed thai ' It will accomodate army air craft' The letter further point ed out that in case of attack upon the Pacifle coast asrporta to the wniametto valley would have to be used. , . - ' -W. I Phillips read a rseolution , In support of the plan to financ the bond election by private sub scription and immediately many of those present began writing in their subscriptions toward that fund, ranging from $5 to $23. Senator Douglas McKay re minded the group that citizens had underwritten two American Legion conventions, a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention and the Centennial, but never had beea called upon for -"one cent" of de Justice Stone Okehcd : WASHINGTON, June 23.-(JPr The nomination of Harlan F. Stone to be chief Justice of the United States supreme court wis approved unanimously, by the senate judiciary committee Mon day. . t Dies Sce Nazi Win ORANGE. Texi June 23HVr- U. S. Representative Martin Dies predicted Monday Adolph Killer would be in control of Russia within 30 days and said America must prepare for an emergency unprecedented in her history. , - -,