0s ;. Weather j ; " Fair today and llon&ay Little change in tempera-. tore. Max. temp. Sat. 72 mln. 49. Northwest wind. River. -L7 feet Partly cloudy. , 22 Pages 3 Sections rv- ircnrrY-FEisr yeas Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 7, 1341 Fries Get Hewsslandj 5c XTO.U1 SRI --' ' ' '." . -; -. ; pcukdqo 1651 . : - i. j ? :': : - ; v) surfec 1 4 ' ' -' IS Fair Sets; ; Saturday Kecorol ; i T .fltfTOct QfltltTrlfl17 Crowd in Histoiy racks Grounds Lights banted in the state fair midway until 2 o'clock '( this morning as remnants of 'a crowd unofficially declared largest Saturday attendance in i the big show's, history milled among concessions. ' A total of . 22,398 persons paid admissions throughout the day, with a large share remaining for the night at? S tractions. Thousands of chil- I dren,- admitted free, swelled the crowd. Saturday's gate, larger by iOCO II... 4k. V 1nr.t C4i.. ,n'. tT. sidered large, brought attendance for the week to within 1200 of the record set for the first six days of the 1940 fair. ? ' Announcement of a 25-cent ad mission charge and a full pro gram of entertainment for today .are expected to bring the Sunday attendance above the 10,450 re corded last year. . '- . Crowds turned away frets the night show Tonxapoppln' Saturday night after even I standing room had been taken will have an opportunity to l view' the highly-rated comedy ' performance tonight, ' for the J entire show has been held over. Heavy rains, which cut attend ance early in the week, were cre dited by exhibitors with holding up quality of perishable exhibits, and flowers and vegetables, al though . not garden fresh, remain 'attractive. I Although there will be no pari mutuel wagering, exhibition har ness races are slated for this aft- ernoon on Lone Oak track. : Pari mntnel ticket sellers tialltd t13SK?a ilttHii 1i. week of racing, compared with I $116,664 last year. Saturday's toUl of 135,998, larger by 19684 than that of Saturday of the 194i fair, set a new daily high for the track and completed a. . new seasonal high. " Fraternal organizations gather ing at the fairgrounds today: will find the usual free circus-Hype shows and complete exhibits. In addition, they will provide con siderable of their own' entertain ment, with a fraternal picnic scheduled, a drill team competi tion and a program at which Sec retary of State Earl Snell is billed as principal speaker. Editors, honored Saturday, were taken on a tour of the grounds ar ranged by George Angell, editor . of the Oregon Farmer, and Lee U. Eyerly. As guests of Governor Charles A. S prague they were enter , (Turn to Page 2. C6L 7) 4- Farm Leaders Will Convene At Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 6.-(JP) -Farm leaders and government experts from 10 western states will gather here , Sept; 15 and 16 ,tO discuss war-time price increas es and the prevention of harmful after-effects resultiog from nec essary reductions after the cur rent emergency. ' i 1 Secretary of Agricoltnre Claade R. Wlckard and mem bers of his staff from Washing ton, DC, will be speakers. : The : conference Is one of ;f our spen v sored throughout the nation In September by thd J department x of agrientare. Attending WiU be representa tives of departmental agencies. state defense board imembers and t arm organization effffials from Utah, Idaho, MontanaWycaning, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California New Mexico and Arizona. Gur 4, . -i Mf OutstaudiT 4M v , :::?:,?:i - llaracillrf hromfi: Sees Final: Morse roiir uregon V. D- 1 l uuug rcupic Take Awards Salem Girl Sets Mark In Complete Projects; Others Equally Good Outstanding 4H club boys and girls at the 80th Oregon state fair. closing today, named Saturday, are Coral ee , Nichols of Salem, Virginia Bark and Robert Marsh, jr.; t Burkhart Al bany and ' Bert Denham of Eu- gene. belecuon was based on size of projects and volume of 4H L1! activities at fairs, leadership and all-round 4H activities, according to H. C. Seymour, state leader. ' Miss Nichols, 16 years old, has Program;! j Sunday, September 6 FRATERNAL DAY : : M aoa. Gate open. 1 1 J ajn Fraternal picnic. 11 :M a.m Frc circus, itaAtam laxa. -14 Fraternal parade. -13 p.m Fraternal protrram and , drUI team competition; Earl Bnell, mala speaker. " 1:M p Exhtb itlan. h a r n e"s i. races and circvi acu, race . track, .. v ' . . i . - 1M t m-rree 1 r , atadiant : plasn. 4 l:M pjn "Faniapoppln,1 grands - - stand. - had eight year's of club work, hav- ins; this vear carried and comDle- ted projects in clothing, cooking, canning, room improvement and . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) fiTlll Tafll 1 OX47" Vail,lUl XCJvT Harvest Help , Portland Rushes Aid; Situation Improved ; Though Unsteady With sorely needed help al ready arriving from Portland and with clear skies expected today, Salem people were urged Satur day to again "come through' and work in bean, fruit and hop har vests of the Willamette valley, by William H. Baillie, manager of the Salem employment office. . ane crops situauon u mucn Improved,1 Baillie sUted, hot cuu venous, asope - w a ; ex- pressed this weekend might re lieve the pressure caused by the shortage of pickers. ' . Salem Cherrians are to be out in . uniform . today, Baillie an nounced, to act as escorts and guides for persons wishing to go I out and pick. The employment office, at Cottage and Ferry streets, with telephone number 9287, is to be open all day to furnish names and locations of growers needing help, r ' A big response has been giv en to calls for aid in picking . hops, Baillie ' said. Pickers of pears and prunes are also urg ently needed. - . . PORTLAND, Sept. 6-ff)-The state employment service report ed Saturday that Oregon's critical harvesters' shortage .was ."some what eased" but large portions of some crops still would be lost ' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) ; NYA to Aid 2060 Oregon Students WASHINGTON, Sept. G.Jiy- Approximately i 450,000l students in all sections of the United States will be helped to continue their educational careers in the acade- mic year just beginning, the Na tional Youth Administration an nounced Saturday. In Oregon, the NYA will aid 2060 students. I Ten RAF Ships Downed! BERLIN, Sunday, Sept. 7-(P) Ten British planes were shot down Saturday; night during the; course of RAF raids on western Germany, authorized sources said , today, . '.v- vw - -TFiithers at : ' t v. v. ( J ; I " L Above are boys and tirls adjadred -1, - ' t - r f ing left to right, they are Coralee Nichols, IS, Salem; Virginia Borknart, 17, Albany; Bert Dennam, 17, Lane county, and Robert Marsh, jr IS, Albany. Below a typical race and a typical; crowd! at Lone Oak track daring the week $100 Sought By USO for i tt- -sr v Jt QYl LiCWIS "One hundred dollars given be fore Thursday will mean com fortable and much-needed club room furniture for our boys at Fort Lewis before next Sunday," declared Dr. Henry C. Morris, chairman of the United Hospital ity association, Saturday night. Heavy army trucks slated to go through Salem on either Thursday or Friday will pick up whatever Salem folk have ready to send in the way of furniture, Dr. Morris said he had been noti- fied. - ' ' ' "i More than $100 was raised by a benefit ball game ' to provide similar accommodations for Sa lem men at Fort Stevens, Morris pointed out, emphasizing that Fort Lewis men' have been prom ised "something from borne." Contributions can be in a d e through him or other members of the association, Morris declared. Wallace Seeks 5. Demo" Gijberiiafbrial Noiriatibn By STEPHEN C MERGLER Multnomah county . produced two developments in . the 1942- election talk that has alternately murmured and chattered ever since the recent legislative ses sion. 1 First was announcement by : State Sen. Lew Wallace, ex game commissioner, that as ru mored, he would be a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor next year. Second wag a decision by Bojq and Girls Selected Oregon's Greatest Fair ' I 'tH' Bf '11 zt . -. ... R ?! l''vx . : K "outatandlnr 4H clnb members at at the state fairgrounds. LoggingBooms On Willamette Willamette river log rafting set a new record last month. Salem firm doubles Its log out put this month. Read an ex pert's summary of valley log-' Log on today's Statesman feat ure page, section 2, page 8. Coast Blonde Wins, Annual Beauty Prize . ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, Sept. 6 -WVThe crown of Miss Ameri ca of 1941 was placed Saturday night on the pretty blonde locks of Miss California, Rosemary La Planche, 19, hazel-eyed Los An geles resident and -a runnerup in last year's Atlantic City .beauty pageant. r . She broke Into tears as the award, goal of attractive girls from coast to coast for. many months, was made In Conven tion hall as the climax ef a (Turn to Pago z, CoL 8) Multnomah county 'a equalixa - tlon board against following the state tax commission's ml Ing for assessments on a uniform ratio basis and In favor of re turning immediately to that county's old variable ratio me thod. Wallace in a formal statement said he was making his announce ment early because , h believed the voters ought to -have ample time to get acquainted With their candidates. He doesn't plan to -campaign actively until after the fi : . si ! 1 I L V the 80th Oregon state fair." Read .... I j WilUde Asks 1 Use of Force On Sea Lanes NEW YORK, Sept -(ff)-Wen- dell L. Willkie Saturday called, on the; United States to use "deter mination and force" to meet Geiv many's challenge to its policy of freedom of the seas. rf Speaking on a CBS radio pro gram celebrating the 18th birth- day of the exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia, the 1940 republican presidential, nominee declared "once-- again, savage and bestial might has challenged the right of America to freedom of the seas.1 "I know I apeak the over- . whelming sentiment of my fel low Americans In urging the president to meet the challenge with determination and for." Wmkie said. "I , hope, and I know yea hope, that the presi dent of the United States serves " notice en nazi Germany that the United States expects Its ships to go unmolested in their pass age across the North Atlantic, . and those interfering with them (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) first of the year, he added, i "Rumors have, arisen and seem to persist suggesting that I may be a candidate for some office other than the governor ship in the 1942 primary elec tions despite the fact that I have never had the slightest inten tions of following any ' such course of ; action," Wallace's statement said, m part "How ever, I have seriously consid ered becoming a candidate ' for governor and I now announce that I will offer my juma to Rivalry Keen For Numerous Stake Prizes : Governor's Guard Has Applause; Many Good 1 Equines Are Shown By MAXTNE BUREN The popular Governort I Guard, Salem riding posse, ap peared again in the final night's horse show Saturday at the Oregon' state fairgrounds, be fore the biggest audience Of the week. Their, drill dreWunstint ed applauses " I , Prizes were awarded in sev eral classes where stakes were given on accumulated winnings for the week. In the first event, "touch and go," horses are eliminated on touching the Jump. IHebe, owned by Mrs. Harry Kerr on and ridden by Don Dryer took blue ribbon, while Ne Touche owned by the Portland riding academy, and rid den ; by Helen Bacon jumped to second place. Marijane Churchill, owned by Eyta Esh and ridden by Erroll Ostrum took third. Lady Vagabond, Roy Sim- . nions' mare, ridden by Bert Cor- -hy, and Geertia Dale's gelding, Shamrock' ridden by Raymond narrison -were Judged - best' of the three gaited pairs. Bey Tan- cendor, owned and ridden by VL 9 DvaUray, and Ti r a a b , owned, and ridden by Xlale (Turn to Page 3, CoL 6) : Russ Mission Chiefs Confer Visit Air General at Spokane; Party Will Fly in US Bombers ! . i - " j I SPOKANE, Wash., Sept 1-iJPy- Leaving as unexpectedly as they arrived, five members of a Rus- sion aviation mission I returned late Saturday afternoon to Seat tle aboard a commercial plane af ter an all-day : conference with Brig. Gen. John B. Brooks,, acting commander of the Second air force. " I The men were i leaders of a group ef 47 who flew to Seattle from Nome, Alaska, .earlier In the week. The entire party was not expected to reach Spokane until Monday, flying In char tered commercial planes. TThe United Air lanes office here reported Saturday the charters had been cancelled ana ine party would fly in army ships. Whether the scheduled Monday stop here been cancelled or the mission t would fly directly to the national capital could not be learned. j Heading the advance party was Brig. Gen. Michael M. Gromov, I famous for his flight over the J north pole 1 from Russia to Call J fomia. 1 J j I IWith him were Anton N. Fede- tov. attache of the Russian em- bassy m wasmngton, wno jomea the mission at Nome, Alaska; (Turn to Page 2. CoL V) On the Air For Defense' ! W. J. nant, Woodbum area chairman of civil defense. Is to !be guest speaker on the Marion I county civil ' defense ' council's iprograai Monday night at 9:15 o'clock over KSLM. lie ts i scheduled to tell ef activities for 1 civil defense ta bis area. . - j - . the democratic party for nomi nation as Its candidate for gov ernor "... .": i vv e S'y-,;: Thus Wallace beat to the draw National Committeeman Howard Latourette of Portland, for whom a "draft committee appears to be about ready to produce a carefully-prepared statewide , demand for Latourette to permit himself to be proclaimed a gubernatorial candidate on the same democratic ticket. :' '. :4 ' v . Sen. Wallace stems from one of Nebraska' famed sod houses, Germans 42aim Attacked; Answer in Japan Hedges on Mutual Aid Axis Pact: Russians Assert Leningrad Drive Repulsed - By The Associated Press - The United States navy, Saturday night bluntly disput ed a German claim that the American destroyer Greer was the aggressor in a clash with and reiterated that the U-boat the Green 1 i With German-American more critical stage as a result navy department issued this Notwithstanding German day's press that the Greer was House to Okeh Income Change Amendment Lowering Personal Exemptions Expected to Pass WASHINGTON, , Sept -P)-Belief tliat the house would ac cept the senate's most important change; In the revenue bill an amendment lowering personal In come tax exemptions was ex pressed Saturday by Chairman George (D-Ga) , of the senate finance, committee. - ' George "said his information was that many. members of the, house ways an means committee had regarded the amendment favor ably when the . revenue .bill was before them.' "At thai, time, he added, "the treasury was not so strong f or It j :- . 9 Later, President : Roosevelt recommended a broader income tax base and the senate ao- proved an amendment 'cutting personal exemptions from $2900 to $1509 , for married persons and from $809 to $750 for single persons. The treasury estimated the change would pour an extra $303,600,000 Into the federal till and require an additional 4,911,000 persons to file Income tax returns. r xne x3,083,guo,ooo revenue measure, passed after three days of debate by the senate Friday, win be considered by a joint sen ate-house conference committee next Wednesday. George predict' ed that an agreement would be reached in two or three days. T George said the senate changes likely to cause the most controversy were those knocking out a special 10 per cent tax on corporation profits and increasing surtaxes on corporation incomes. WASHINGTON, i Sept. l-VPt- Uniiied command of the nation s military forces land, sea and air in remote areas to simplify ad ministration and eliminate "fric tion' was suggested by Senator Brewster (R-Me). j ! : As a member of the special senate- committee investigating the defense program, Brewster wrote a formal report to Chair (Turn to Pago 2, CoL S) Nazis Reveal Europe Plan BERLIN, Sept S-(fl-Dr. Hans Keller, president of the Academy for the Rights of Peoples, in an article distributed by the German high command Saturday blasted away any hopes that "Germany after defeating her opponents' win "resurrect all those states which the storm of war has swept away." ' The new order in Europe can only be a German order, he said. where he was born 52 years ago. After receiving his education, in iVtwSI. law, he - moved ; to Portland and entered the life insurance bus! ness in 1914. He served in the Oregon house of ! representatives in the 1935 sessions, after having been appointed to the state game commission in 1934 by . Governor Charles H.i Martin. His advance to the Senate came by appoint- ment in 1933, and he was elected to his present term last year. ' There were no new develop- (Turn to Page 2 CoL 5) Sub i'EDR WiU Air Talk a nazi submarine! off Iceland made the initial attack on ' X:. relations deteriorating to a of . the seagoing incident, the statement in Washington: contentions appearing in to the aggressor in its action with! the submarine, the facts are the same as. originally stated by the inavy department namely, that the initial attack In this en gagement' was made by the sub marine on the Greer. It was then, and not until then, that the Greer counter-attacked.'' : In phrases of interest to Japan under the axis pact, official Ber lin earlier Saturday in its version of the affair, declared that the submarine aimed two torpedoes at the Greer only after the Greer i had depth-bombed the submersi ble. ' , - There was a possibility that President Roosevelt would reply directly by radio at 6 pjn. Pa cific Standard Time Monday night from the White House. William D. Hassett, acting presidential secretary,- announc ed at Hyde Park that the presi dent would deliver a 15-mlnnte speech of major significance': at that time and thai the speech:. would be translated for :jt' broadcast by shortwave thronghout the world. Asked whether the speech was connected with the Greer's en counter with the German subma rine, Hassett, answered: T cant say." v - 1 . : - DNB, official German news agency, distributed a nazi com munique that a German U-boat "was- attacked by the Greer about 200 miles southwest of Ice land. The U-boat loosed two tor pedoes in reply two hours and nine minutes late r, the agency said, and then moved off under depth bomb pursuit '"Mr. Roosevelt, m this way," DNB said, "is trying by all means at his disposal to provoke incidents In order to incite the American people 1 a t o war against Germany." Denunciation of President Roo sevelt and American policy occa sioned little surprise in Wash ington. Chairman Connally (D- Tex) of the senate foreign rela tions committee said "the fact that the nazis admit a German submarine was Involved amounts to an admission that it was act? ing under orders of the nazi gov ernment In firing on our destroy er. The German , communique de clared President Roosevelt had, contrary to his published! state ments, issued "general orders to American destroyers not only to report positions of German ships and U-boats but, beyond that to attack them." ' Japan b pledged nnder the German-Italian-Japanese trea- . ty of Berlin signed Sept 27, 1949, to help the axis "with all political, economic and mili tary means when one of the three contracting powers Is at tacked by a power at present not involved in the European ' war or in the Chinese-Japanese ' Conflict : , vr-: ' The Greer incident was dls- , missed, however, by the Tokyo newspaper Hochl as "nothing but that a belligerent destroyer was attacked by a submarine in 1 belligerent waters." The news, paper declared the United States gave vp nentrallty In the occn-. pation ef Iceland. SSSSSH jectives of three German drives, Leningrad, Odessa and Kiev, and T "V T f -a. I been hurled from vital approach- (Turn to Pase 2, CoL 1) HosUirrca Executed ."VICHY, Unoccupied F r a n ce. Sept C.Three French .hostages, I reported : selected from among 1 communist prisoners , ct a- con- j centration camp, , were, ; executed by a German firing squad at Paris Saturday in reprisal for an attack in which a G reman sergeant was slightly wounded. - c- r- yr ' - - j i -7;