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Tw.day Is Covermors, ay ;a-; the ; State "-Fair Follow tho Fair Oregon's finest state fair la In pro tress. Look to The Statesman for' each day's promm, for lists of blue riibon winners and for rae big Overnights'' and results. yoathor ; ! Partly' dondy today and Thursday with llxht showers Thursday. Continaed .eooL Max. tenp.. Toes. - 71, min. 55. Soatheast . wind. ' . Bain .10 Inch. Kirer, -1.1 feet. Cloudy.- .. tnrTT-nnsr teas Sclera, pregoo. Wednesday Morning, September 3 1941 Price 3c; Newislcndj 5c No. 137' County wwd- Ci ty -B - - ' . , - 1 J - - - . 1 , . ... i i ' - - 1 Behind r 1 '-- . . V I ' " ' " --r v- v. - ;v , A.-- f ' I - m m mi nun imni i nun, iiiwutn 11 1 Tl " III itf - If-rl "" -T" -f ' "-T ,.TiiSit.Mi J "x 1 fcn m , m ,,tt m t ; , ,-,, , , , , , , , u, ), , -.,-. i, , -, i ,-. ,-; ,- -r . . 1t n t ,i if in - anw'ma AswMwssMMswwMMisMWMw Practical part of the state department of agriculture's first exhibit at the state fair it conducts is the little . laboratory set np inthe-grandstand and exhibits bnilding, where.' upper lefV J. Patterson, .the de- partment's chief chemist, is seen at work; npper center. Miss Ruth Ward, bacteriologist, works on the t . racetrack saliva test, run off by the laboratory with a 24-hour saving .over time taken in previous years; npper right, A. n. Dewey, associate chemist who Is in charge of the fair laboratory, which not :, only conducts the saliva testings but also runs tests on foods sold on the grounds to determine whether k or not they meet standards of purity demanded. Center, right, John Boeckll, dean of state fair cattle ' exhibitors, plays with Leo, blonde son of Sunny Hills Lady Oregon, last year's state fair prise two- year-old Brown Swiss cow; Leo, first blessed event on the grounds daring this year's fair, arrived St i nrday night and was named for Fair Manager Leo fipftsbart. Mid-center, two-year-old Harold "Batch" Legard, smiles at his mother, Mrs. Alvin Legard of Silverton, as he scurries across a narrow v ! plank which served Tuesday morning as a temporary bridge over a wide puddle near the cattle judg o trig ring. Right, center. Earl Cooley, agricultural supervisor for state vocational education, looks on while U. II. Gibson, head of the OSC vocational education department and W. H. Horning, assltant professor of industrial arts in charge of metal work at OSC (kneeling) Inspect a fertilizer spreader . bnllt alless than half its reputed market cost by Alvin Haecker of Gresham. Lower left, Judge Harry , M. King looks over Golden Blonde Viscount, fir-st among 2-year-old Jersey bulls, held by Oliver Constable, herdsman for the Charles IL Wlvell Dairies of Sheltdh, Wash. Statesman photos. Young R iders Compete In Fair Horse Show . j ' . 5 By MAXINE BUREN j Riders under 16 years of age entered the first event at the -rhorseshow in the stadium on the Oregon state fairgrounds Tues day night. The young riders took their horses over three-foot jumps, and judging was on performance of the mount. The Port land Riding academy entry rid- 11 '. , " gen by Grace Karns was judged best in the class, while Gallant Duke, Columbia Riding academy, Albert Dockill up took second and Eky Rocket, ridden by Dave Raf fety for tho highlands Riding tcademy took third; An Interesting event In each year's horse show is the com bination three-galted horse class, first to be driven to an! appro prlate vehicle and later being saddled and ridden In their three gaits, first place la this class went to Sunrise Serenade, owned, and shown 'by J. F. Brown, jr., second .to Happy Star owned and shown by Ger ald Frank and third to Lady Mary Vagabond, owned by Boy I (Turn to Page 2,5 Col. 6) Our. Senators r the Scenes and 1- Russ Fliers . At Kodiak ' SEATTLE, Sept 2-(ZP-Thir- teenth district navy headquarters received a terse message from the new navy air base at Kodiak, Alaska,: Tuesday night that the two Russian flying boats that took off from Nome earlier Tuesday had landed there at 725 pjn. (Pa cific standard time). -The elapsed ime for the flight was nearly seven and a half hours. Information at the ..time of the Nome takeoff set Anchorage as the destination, but the members of the 47-man technical military mis sion apparently chose Kodiak be cause of the better seaplane facil ities there and possibly because of the water route around the coast line. -' The Nonte-Kodiak .distance is about 600" miles direct and about 800 around the coast. Kodiak is the site of one of the large US Turn to Pass 2, CoL 7) What Yo See at Oregon's Biggest Fair Qty to Study, Salary Hikes Of $30,000 Faced with requests for salary increases exceeding $30,000 on' a full-year ' basis, the . Salem city council budget committee Tuesday night ordered a special salary sub group appointed to study the mat ter and heard a suggestion that a flat 10 per cent 'raise" be granted all employes and appointive offi cers. - - - - ,7- The city , will enter the new year with a 25,080 surplus In tho general fund, tho first time there has been a large carryover in many , years. Alderman David OUara, whom the city elected as its chairman, pointed eat. Pat Courtney was named secretary, ' OUara warned the commit tee to plan Its budget, which is for only the first half of 1942, so that drastle curtailment of acti vities may. not be found neces sary when the 1312-43 fiscal year budget is drawn next spring . without benefit of such a sur- plus,. : The committee instructed OUara to appoint sub-committees on the (Turn to Page 2, CoU 5) Pocket Picked at Fair John McKeag, 1130 Morgan avenue, told city police .Tuesday night his billfold was "picked" from his hip pocket at the state fairgrounds. It contained no money,' ';- Program Wednesday, September S J .... ... . 1 . . . GOVERNORS', SALEM AND ; MARION COUNTS' DAY :M ajn. Gates pa. :M a.m. Jndginf in aU livestock departments continue. -1:M a.m. -Industrial and lavea- tioa movies, upstairs in agri cultural pavilion, continuous ; - show uutU.lt yjm. 11:00 ajnw Treo . circus, groonds near stadium. 1:3 p.m Post time, part-mutuel 1 races. Salem Cherrtans drill - after second race. 1:36 p.nvr-rrA twins showman " ship contest. -1:30 p.m. Masic concert, Oregon Federation, of. Music clubs, agrtcultural pavilion theatre. Program until 2:45, Salem talent, . 2:00 pjn. H beef cattle ' show manship contest.: J:0t p.m. Lecture on nower ar rangement, Mrs. William . Campbell, federation of Gar den clubs booth. Agricultural ' pavilion. Nj . . 1:00 p.m. Free .circus, stadium plaza. i S:00 p.m. Funzapoppin, grand stand. i S.M pjn. Oregon Purebred 'Live stock Breeders assoclaUoa banquet, Golden Pheasant ' cafe (on grounds). t S.-OS Horse Show, stadium. :3 p.m. Dance, sUte fair , dance Salem Mercy Car Is Busy ' Salem's first aid car. was called four times Tuesday to treat per sons, two of whom were sick and two injured. ; . " Mrs. M. Henderson, North Riv er road, became sick at the fair grounds and ' was taken home, Thomas . Marsland, 758 North Commercial street, also took sick. Ardelle Reedi, 12, of Woodbum, sustained a nail wound In her leg at the fairgrounds. Joan Ramage, 4, 475 North 24th street, cut her.Ygrist on a .fruit jar at her home. . - , . , . , Rails Cut Oil Rates ; PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.-P)-Amid increased chafing by deal ers over gasoline rationing along the eastern seaboard, it was dis closed today , that -' eastern and western railroads have joined in a voluntary 50 per cent crude oil freight rate - reduction to speed up shipments from the Texas and Oklahoma oil fields. r ' . J V ai2 Record 'Crowd Expected at Fair Today Salem and County to Celebrate Day; Stock Shows Declared Best By ISABEL CHILDS See you at the fair!" was the greeting; on Salem's streets Tues day as capital city residents pre pared to lock1 doors of business houses and -offices during; after noon hours .today and trek to the fairgrovnds. There they plan to view and participate in event of , Gover nor's, Salem, and Marlon county day," swelling "rate .receipts fair officials hope, to exceed even -the 28,142 paid - admissions, recorded for the fair! opening, the Labor day holiday. ' J ' . L Traditionally the. "poorest day of the week, Tuesday drew 10,113 paid admissions to the state's 80th fair, 1841 more than the second day of last , years show. i The smaller crowd in the grandstand for the races "was one that- con stantly milled to' the pari mutuel windows - wagering $574 more than the Tuesday, 1940, group in spite of the fact that yesterday s "program was shortened to seven races from the scheduled nine. Harness races, cancelled Tues day. because of the muddy track, will be held today for the first time this year if weather is clement, bringing the day's, pro gram, to 10 events. Largest purse of the week, $400 offered in the governor's handi cap, makes today's the outstand ing race program of the wees, track followers declare. , Governor Charles A. Sprague (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1!) Four Cars in Salem Mishap Four cars were damaged, not seriously, : Tuesday afternoon in an accident on State street, just south of the courthouse William Frederick Miles, 110 'Evergreen avenue, drove from the courthouse square ' drive way Into State street and start ed across, when struck by P. D. Qoisenberry's car, driven by Robert Stanley Baker, 825 . North Cottage street, who was coins; east on State, according to tho city, officer. j The Baker car missed the next vehicle in a line headed west on State and struck the second, driv en by C L. Seikard, 2495 North Front street The fenders of this and another car driven by La veda Jean Millering, 805 Oak street . .Late' - Monday accidents In volved autos tiven . by Vivian Armel Cochran of Mosier, Ore, and Estalera Iola Myers, 20 Elma avenue, at Chemeketa and Win ter streets, and John W. Biitner, Gervais route one, and. Dorothy J. Henry, 2030 North Fifth street at Fifth and Norway streets. - Four Injured At Rickreall Four persons were injured Tuesday night when the car driv en by Robert Poindexter, Salem resident collided - near Rickreall with that of Mrs. Hazel Meyers of Portland, state police reported The injured were Mrs. Meyers, her daughters Ruth and Helen, and son, Leo. They were taken tc Dallas for hospitalization.. 1 Priority Board; To Use-hip Controls System Planned to Push Defense Action WASHINGTON, Sept. 2- The nev supply priorities and allocations board made it clear Tuesday that a shortage of raw materials .needed ifor defense would necessitate the closing of some less essential industries. . . -f The board, appointed as . the masteraency of -j the defense production effort, i took up its duties,' as President Roosevelt announced a new drive to. in crease' production by spending more money and putting extra shifts to work. The president's Statement was made at a press conference at which he said the 'increased ex penditures would corne through a rise in i general amroDriations. rather than through' augmentation of . the lease-lend fund. However, a new lease-lend program, esti mated to total $5,000,000,000, is ex pected J. to be ready for congress within a Veek. ; - As ithe ' president spoke, the board,! under the chairmanship of Vice-President Wallace, was hold ing its; first meeting and drawing up a declaration of general policy to guide its activities. Essentially, it called for: ' I 1. ii Employment of every available man and machine "on direct defense requirements or at work! essential to the 'civilian economy." : i" " 2.. Curtailment of production of less essential articles so that there may beff an - abandaMee of the essentiai," and' strippinr ' the civilian - economy of non essentials. To this end, a sys tem of controls wfll be devised with a view of assuring the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) New Tax Bill Termed Worst In History WASHINGTON, Sept 2-(ff)- An unprecedented $3,672,400,000 revenue bill was given formal ap proval by the senate finance com mittee Tuesday and promptly was' termed the worst tax bill in his tory" by i Senator Bailey (D-NC). ' Bailey, chairman of the sen- ' ate commerce - committee, told reporters he would support tho legislation as a matter of ne cessity In meeting mounting de fense costs, but added that It "cats exemptions, to the bene, and then cuts Into the bone. The Norm Carolinian said the bill would reach directly more than 50,000,000 persons and that one levy alone tthe projected $5 annual use tax on automobiles would touch 35,000,000 car own-. ers. . :'" . '. i , The finance committee approved the bill without a record vote, and Chairman George j (D-Ga) ar ranged to open senate debate Wednesday. George - and other leaders, cognizant that the treas ury is losing more than $2,000,000 in excise taxes for each day the measure is delayed, hoped for sen ate passage by Saturday. George said that the treasury's ' estimated revenue yield of . $3,672,400,000 was i "necessarily conservative,'' and predicted that the measure would raise about $4400,000,1100 annually. WASHINGTON, Sept Legislation placing all construction and maintenance work of the army under jurisdiction Wo the army engineering !- corps was recommended Tuesday by the war department The measure would eliminate the quartermaster gen eral from control of the huge can tonment program. The army cur rently is engaged hi a $3,000,000, 000 construct on the maintenance Drosram. . i - Representatives tlay (D-Xy), chairman of the house military committee, announced that be was heartily in favor of the measure and would introduce it in the house. " . , - j. Mexico, Briiuli A MEXICO CITY,'. Sept 2H?) Diplomatic relations between Mexico and Great Britain, sus pendecTIn the 1S33 oil expropria tion crisis, will be renewed short ly, Foreign,. Minister Ezequiel PadUIa said Tuesday night Stores Close At Nodn for "Salem Day" , Salem stores are to close -at noon today in observance of Sa lem day : at the state ' fair, Drl Henry E. Morris, president of the Salem Retail Trade .bureau, said, Tuesday night ate -predict- . ed the closing would be general ly eberved'tby aU offices and business houses. ' , FDR and Hull Discuss Basis Of Jap Reply - Talks Willi Nipponese Envoy on Situation' In East Continue WASHINGTON, Sept 2-tf-Presideht Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull reviewed the critical far eastern situation Tuesday in discussions which may provide the basis for a reply to the recent message to Mr. Roosevelt from. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the Japanese premier. The Japanese premier's mes sage has not been made public, but if is understood to have re quested a sympathetic re-survey of problems faced by both nations in tho hope of discover ing seme formula by which the , growing gap between divergent : (Turn to Pago 2,Col. 4) . Salem Ready On Airfield Council Rushes Final Passage of Bons for Expansion, Building yf T- t ' ' " " - Anticipated '.word from " US army engineers as to their rec ommendations, for A further expan sion! of the Salem municipal air port; will find the city ready to act quickly, Alderman Tom Arm strong, airport committee chair man, said .Tuesday night after the city council had rushed to final passage an ordinance for sale of . the $75,000 bond issue ap proved by the people last month. . Armstrong . said he . expected to hear from the engineers "within the next two or three days" as to Immediate expan sion recommendations and pos sibly as to the likelihood of use of the port for some sort of air base... .ry - -;' - - - , .. Meanwhile,' plans are i being; sketched for the administration building to be needed at the. airport when , United .Aid lines places' Salem pa its coast schedule. t ' , . ! Only" other . major business, be fore the council was a new ordi nance for a franchise for Ralph A. Raven,- who proposes to ope rate a city passenger bus service with new equipment The new franchise ' is not exclusive, fixes existing bus routes as those to be : followed, fixes a maximum - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Nazis Blast England BJOSIIN. Sept 2-PV-Author- ized German commentators de clared Tuesday night with obvi ous satisfaction that for two con secutive nights, the luftwaff e has launched major attacks against Britain after a rather long pause. Soldiers Asked to Aid State In Harvesting Great Crops ' tn recognition of an extreme labor shortage in Oregon's har vest fields, Gov. Charles Sprague and Maj. Gen: George A. White ". Tuesday joined the state employmerit service in appealing to , 800a furloughed soldiers of the 41st division to helpJsalvage Ore- gon's maturing crops. , -Producers of beans,' prunes, pears, hops and other farm pro-. ducts need 30,000 workers at once in the Willamette valley, accord ing to William XL Baillie, man ager .of the' Salem office of the state employment service, "who has been keeping in close touch with the. situation.. ' . "Weather conditions and tho demands $f the defense program have ccnblaed t. tring aLaat . the emergency, declared Call He. "Thousands are going Into the tlil' every day to gather J t!:ese crops, bet thousands more msst to If we are ta save the crops.. ; ' "I.Iillions in ; agricultural re turns will be lost to Oref if we do not have every possible help during the next few weeks. . "It 13 an opportunity for sol diers to fick up many extra dol Nazis .Say;' Red Cities Within 20 Miles r .Of Leningrad; ; Russ Confident By The Associated Press ' The Germans asserted" Tuesday night that their ad-' vanced forces in the north stood within 20 miles of Len ingrad and 'that their Rn manian ' allies were about to strangle Odessa in the far south' by catting off the water-supply of that besieged Black sea port. : j Moscow in its communique early Wednesday morning of ficially acknowledged the fall of Tallinn, the old Estonian capital west of Leningrad on the Gulf of Finland which the -nazis had claimed last Friday, and said of the front only that heavy fighting was in progress. . " Counter attacks were contin uing on a large scale, however; t and most' important of all, the soviet, co'mmand claimed that tho invading . nazis were falling so thickly that HiUer had been forced to -rush up reinforcements from occupied Europe for his . gravely weakened eastern armies, in some cases leaving wounded convalescents to hold the west ' - Nazi garrisons in France, in Belgium, in Holland,' had been stripped of even the reservists who went in there originally to replace the regulars : who helped make up the initial invading, forces of the east this was the official Russian account '. ii SL . . AT' lozovsky, ' the - official soviet , spokesman,' asserted, more- f over, that an appeal by Hitler to Mussolini to fill the gaps in tho nazi line was the principal reason for their meeting on the front last week. -In support of this version which was offered -' subsequent -' to Russian ' estimates jthat al- - readr 200,000 nazia bad faHen,' 1,000,009 of them kUled the so- (Turn' to Page 2, CoL 7) , Petition Asks Curb on "Hot : Cargo" Acts An initiative petition intended to put up to Oregon's voters the question of curbing the brandinf of trade goods as "hot cargo" and the imposition of secondary boy cotts was filed with the state de partment here Tuesday by Dan Hay, executive manager of Asso ciated Employers of Oregon, Inc. "Hot cargo" is defined In tho petition as any combination or agreement resulting In a refus al bf employes to handle goods r to perform any service for their employer beease of a dis pute between some ether em ployer - and his employes or a labor organization or any com bination or agreement ; result ing in a refusal by employers : to handle goods or to perform i any service for another employ er because of an agreement be (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) lars during their furloughs . ahel at, the same time help their com munity and nation in meeting the demands of national defense." -. ' Although most -of the soldiers had left' Camp Lewis before to-day, Gen. White issued a state ment . calling attention to the emergency and urging the men to take advantage of the oppor tunity. , " -- ' " - J I knew many of the men. of "( the 41st division will welcome the chance to make some extra cash daring their time off," said Gen. White. "They realise the conditions . facing their com munities and will be glad to help in any possible way." " ' Governor Sprague made it clear that "the soldiers were en titled to a well-earned rest dur ing t their furloughs, but added . (Turn to Paje 2, CcL 6)4 . Near Fall 11 ' -4 1 t t i 1 i. i A il
