NewsPix? For pictures that will en tertain yen, picture . that will help yea keep Informed n latest news of your home community and the world torn to The Statesman. Weather - Clondy today and Thurs day with showers. Llttlo change In temperature. Max. temp. Toes. 75, mln, S3. Soathwest wind. liver, -SJ feet Cloudy. iiyv iieztty-fest teas Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Morning, September 10. 1S41 Price 3cy Hewsstand Sc No. 143 -1 ... ' . II A J II '! - - i Fund Set For Books By:: Board : Salem Schools ' Approve Plans for Parochials Expenditure of approximately $460 for purchase of textbooks to be used by pubils from Salem school district attending St. Vincent de Paul's, and St. Joseph's Parochial schools in the capital city was approved by the Salem school board Tuesday night. 4 First" provision of books for the church schools by the public school district under a measure passed by the late state legisla ture ana now m uugauon in ar ipn county circuit court, Tuesday night's action by city school di rectors followed the recommen dation of Frank B. Bennett, super intendent. i The sum expended Is the minimnm legally approved, Bennett explained. An opinion 'from the attorney general, he said, Indicates that the new measure may be considered as going Into effect gradually hist as the free textbook measure for publie schools was inaugu rated several years ago, with M per year per pupil as minimnm expenditure until the '. required number of texts have ; . been purchased. Estimates from St Joseph's lists 201 names nd addresses of pupils from the Salem district expected to attend that school this fall, ! those from SL Vincent dePaul's total 107. I " Books to be purchased will- be I those of state selection, to which i the Salem district is turning as rapidly as its own choices become obsolete, Bennett said, and will i be those most recently' listed so I that ; they may have the longest I possible number of years of usage. . (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) ' Unrest Seen Reason for es I The "usual unrest attending a change of administration" appar ently has been responsible for the large number of escapes at the state training school for boys near Woodburn during the past few months, Gov. Charles A. Sprague declared here .Tuesday. ' Police records show that 51 boys have escaped from the school since January 1. " M. D. Woolley, superintend- ent of the school, declared that the escapes during his admin ' btration were no larger than previously. There have been 41 . escapes since Woolley took over the institution on April 1. j Gov. Sprague said that, as far as he knew, the board of control is not contemplating an official Investigation. The governor is i chairman of the board. j Woolley denied reports that i Wwi i vrf ineri in rclla fir that ! they have been subjected to phys- 1 leal nunishment J The only punishment meted -out to unruly boys Is to de- i- prlve 'them of school privi leges," Woolley said. State police said Woolley ap- parently had reported all of his escapes while not all escapes were reported by some previous . ad , ministrations. "We have picked up a lot of boys from the school in previous . years who were not reported as escapes," one police officer av erred. - v First Draft Men Released SAN DIEGO, Calif Sept 9-(ff) -Fifty Camp Callan selectees were transferred Tuesday to the army reserve in ; What officers termed the first releases in the nation under the recently amended draft legislation. The measure permits release of men over 28 years of age and of men .whose continued service in the army - would result in hard ship. . - v ; "". '"-; . l:'. The first group of 25 will be paid off at 2 p. m. Wednesday, and the second group of 23 at the same time Thursday, and oth ers will depart .from Callan at the rate of 25 a day until the camp's quota of 930 is reached. Portland Bars Wheeler PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. The city council voted Tuesday night against renting the public auditorium to Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for an Ameri tan First Committee speech. " Boy Escap Salem Chest I- 4. W v. - v l This is the conuaittee on which Salem Community Chest leaders depend $50,000 goal set for this year a ehest campaign, pictured as It held Its hotel Tuesday noon. Members of the committee, appointed to solicit more, reported $3209 In pledges for Its first half day's work. In the handing a solicitation card to Sen. Douglas McKay. Chest Group" Gets Pledges Pre-Drive Committee at Luncheon Announces $3200 Fund Obtained Pledges to the Salem Commun ity Chest in the amount of $3200 were obtained in the first half- day of canvassing on the part of the pre-campaign gifts committee following that group's kickoff luncheon Tuesday noon, it was announced by Chest headquarters. Carl W. Hogg is committee chair man. , j ' .. The Chest campaign proper will not open until September 30 but as In the past the advance gifts committee is starting work early. The campaign goal is $50,000. ; 1 Pledges of $1Q0 or more pb- . tained the first toy include! 4 $400 Montgoptery, Ward and company. . $350 Miller Mercantile com pany. $300 Bishop's Clothing store; C P. Bishop individually; Val ley Motor company. ; $250-fWillamette Grocery company; Dr. L., O. Clement; Dr. M. C. Firidley. $200 Douglas McKay Chev rolet company; Hogg Brothers. $100 Reiman Truck Service; i Donald A. Young; Ira W. Jorgenson. 1 Members of the committee who attended the luncheon included Chairman Hogg, Keith Powell, T. A. Windishar, Chandler Brown, E. E. Thomas, Reynolds Allen, Paul Wallace.' A. A. Gueffroy, Brey man Boise, W. M. Hamilton, Asel Eoff, C. A. Kells, B. E. Sisson, M. L. Meyers, Douglas McKay Roy Simmons, Dr. M. C Findley, Floyd White, H. L. Braden, W. S. Wal ton,' and T. M. Hicks. General Raps 9tli Clorps in T7ri wfla mpfi iVF111 FORT LEWIS, Wash, Sept. 9-tiP-In a stern critique issued Tuesday discussing the activities of the Ninth army corps during the Pacific northwest war games, Mai. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce said there were many glaring faults in the battle technique of his troops and officers. ; : The paper, which was pre pared by the general from his o b s e r v a 1 1 o n s in the field, praised the morale of the troops in the recently completed ma neuvers and added Hhe corps demonstrated better! fitness for combat than In previous ma neuvers, but there were many errors." - In the critique, General Joyce discussed the actions of the Ninth corps, which includes 50,000 troops of the 41st and -Third di visions, p 1 u s several ' thousand special corps' troops. The critique did not wCover activities of the Third army corps from Califor nia. . . Among the faults shown in the southwest Washington - b a 1 1 1 fields Were ; delays In advancing the . attack. c. k v:;, - i r- v': In several . eases,- advancing coin m a stopped by -hostile (Tutu to Page 2, CoL 5) On the Air - -For Defense Dr. E. E. Purvine, chairman Red Cross division, Marlon county civilian defense, fa to be guest speaker tonight on the de fense council s program over KSLM at 9:15 o'clock, telling f the relationship of Red Cross to civil defense Car $& ign Front Runners i. I:- or o r m ' 7. V V4 Work Agents Selected for V Ex-Soldiers Agents of the state employ ment service throughout Ore gon were designated as special representatives of the selective service office Tuesday to assist in obtaining employment for soldiers about to be released from active army duty. These named for the mid Willamette valley included D. D. Dotson, veteran Salem em ployment officer, for Marion country; Thomas O. Palmer, Linn county, and Dean F. Beistel, Benton country. (These agents will serve as liaison officers between the employment service and local selective service boards to help returning service . men obtain their old Jobs or new ones, In accordance ' with the . state's completed program, , which was. outlined in the August SI Issue of The Statesman.) . Plan Contract For Corvallis Camp Award WASHINGTON, Sept Plans for a triangular division training camp at Corvallis, Ore. will be drawn under' a contract awarded Tuesday by the war de partment. The site replaces one prev iously selected at Eugene. The wa' department decided the Corvallis location was superior. It is one of 23 selected by the department in a long-range plan ning program and the camp will be built only if congress author izes further expansion of the army. There is now no money available for purchase of land or construction of the camp. In the event of construction, the camp would cost about $22,800,000 and accommodate 30,000 troops. Tuesday's award for archi tectural and engineering services went to John W. Cunningham and associates- and Lawrence and Allyn of Portland. A, contract held by the same firms for de velopment of plans for the Eugene (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Police Recover Stolen Autos Two of the half-dozen cars stol en from Salem in recent weeks were recovered early this week. Salem police reported Tuesday. Chris Madson's car was found parked on State street, while an automobile stolen from Willie Staats on August 30 was recovered by Portland police Monday. S , f 4 FBI Controlled Spy NEW YORK, Sept 9(ff)-A lanky, limping veteran of Ger many's World war, army, who professed to hate his native coun try, disclosed ; Tuesday that the federal bureau cf investigation, in a " counter-espionage - move, had virtually supervised r for the last 18 , months transmission to Ger many of defense' information by alleged spies. ' ' -"1 WlUlam G. Sebold, 42, a naturalized citizen and a gov ernment witness, advised a wide-eyed Brooklyn courtroom, where IS men are being tried on charges of participating la a gigantie espionace conspiracy, that ever since April, 1940, an FBI-controlled radio station on t " for a substantial portion of the klckoff luncheon ft the Marion pre-campalgn rifts of $100 or photo. Chairman Carl Hoes is County Clerk Job Upheld Jndd May File Bond to Hold Position While in Army, Is Ruling Harlan A. Judd, Marion county Clerk-elect who was called into full-time army service before he had completed his qualification for the county off ice, can legally file his official bond, thus meet ing the last requirement for the position, Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle declared in an ad visory opinion issued Tuesday. The opinion sent to Miller B. Hayden, Marion county district attorney, points to the fact that Judd, if declared county clerk and relieved of his office during lils term of military service would not be receiving pay for both publie positions and could not thus be considered to '.: be holding two i" lucrative 4 public posts, an act forbidden by law. ' Issuing the opinion, Van Winkle points out that the county court at the same meeting it accepts Judd's bond and declares him county clerk on leave should ap point an acting county clerk so that the post would never be va cant Judd, a first lieutenant in the quartermaster corps, endorsed his oath of office on his certificate of election before he went into the army service but had not filed his bond or actually taken office. In his absence the post has been filled by U. G. Boyer, veteran county clerk who did not run for reelection last fall. Resignation Of OSC Head Is Accepted PORTLAND, Sept MflVThe resignation, of Frank L. Ballard as president of Oregon State col lege was accepted Tuesday by the state board of higher aducation. F. A. Gjlfillan, dean of science, was named acting president but he asked for a few days to con sider the offer of the $7500 posi tion. . - .. ; - Ballard became 111 last Octo ber, three months after suc ceeding George W. Peavy, who retired. He was granted a sab batical leave last April and on .- September 1 returned to office. He told the board, however, that while he was able to handle desk work, he could not perform the necessary public contact work and asked that he be reassigned to the division of agriculture. The board restored ' his professional rank in that division, where he was vice director of extension at (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Long Island had bees clearing messages to the German spy center In Hamburg. He, meanwhile, hid been hand ing over to the FBI the cash and information that came ,to him from Hamburg and had received $50 a week from the FBI, he said. Sebold told how in -1945 he came to this country after inten sive training . at. a Hamburg es pionage school. He' said he .had been assigned through' force , to transmit : America's defense - se crets via couriers, who carried documents boiled down to post age stamp size through micropho tography.': ' - --'- "-r US Attorney Harold M. Ken nedy asked the witness if a se Worldl On Axis Details Told Two Freighters Mate on Red Sea Ship Relates Vivid Story; Sessa Is Torpedoed SUEZ, Egypt, S e p t. 9 (AP)-The first mate of the American freighter Steel Sea farer declared Tuesday the ship was sunk in the Red sea by a swooping German plane whose crew refrained from machine-gunning the surviv ore as they clambered into lifeboats. He was among the two doz en of the'ship's personnel who landed here Tuesday after noon with a vividly detailed story of the attack last Fri day and with a variety of opin ion as to whether the fatal blow was struck by an angling bomb or an aerial torpedo. ;The crew generally agreed that the 'ship was struck below: the waterline by the closest thing to a "near miss" and that it sank quickly. They told of spending nearly 12 hours in rowboats and then 24 more hours on a rocky Red sea island before a British war ship rescued them. The other 12 of the crew were picked up by another British ship. Tall, ruddy Robert Cartwright, Nantucket Island, Mass., the helmsman said: -It was 11:30 o'clock Friday night when It happened. The (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) -1 ishings Sought for j Camp Lounge Wanted: Davenports, chairs, amps, phonograph records, racks or shelves lor magazines ; ana books, musical Instruments, : pic tures suitable for lounge walls, throw rugs, books and magazines and indoor gamesv.,. Payment for roch contrihn- ttens will an be in aatisfactton. according to Dr. Henry C Morris, head of the United Hos pitality association of Salem which is gathering furnishings for the 40 by 2S foot Salem men's lounse at Fort Lewis. ', - Trucks are scheduled to be in Salem today to pick up the goods at the armory either tonight or tomorrow, Morris said, urging that persons having contributions to make send them to the armory this morning or early in the after noon. : I An attempt to raise money purely by contribution had up to last night proved unsuccessful, he said, but added that some was expected to come in today to be used in purchase of furnishings not given by homes or business houses. ! Canby Youth Pleads; ti Innocent of Murder I ; THE DALLES, Sept HVA plea' of innocent to the charge of murder was entered Tuesday by Irvin Russell Jones before Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson. .' Jones, 29, of Canby, was indict ed In connection with the death of John Karlen, 87, Tygh valley i rancher, last July 18. i In Bombing of Data to Nazis, Glai: cret radio transmitting set was bunt - ' t The witness said It was.' "By whom?" : -By the FBL" : 1 "And who operated ftf? . : -. "Two FBI agents.' .... ! . . He said they followed faithfully instructions Hamburg dispatched to Sebold and he said the station bad operated until now. ' , Sebold said agents in Germany had boasted that they possessed the treasured Norden bomb sight, which is believed to be accurate from a 30;000-foot elevation. ? In a slow, heavy-accented voice, Sebold told of his travels after the war, the end '- of ' which left him for three months in a Ger man hospital." .... ' . r i Awaits; .Reaction' of U inkin M Day Scheduled by Civil Defense Unit On September 18 Strength of Reserves, Speed of Service in Emergency to Be Demonstrated at Night Strength of its civil reserves, speed of .service that may be anticipated in emergency and some of the plans for protec tion of the city will, be demonstrated to Salem and visitors from the surrounding countryside in a practice mobilization, September 18, County Defense Coordinator Bryan H. Conley announced Tuesday night. Under direction of the Marion County Civilian Defense council and the observation and criticism of military author 1 1 . ' ities, whose cooperation State De- FDR's Mother Laid to Rest Simple Ceremony ut Country Church Is 'Attended by Family HYDE PARK, NY, Sept. Sara Delano Roosevelt was buried Tuesday behind a: little country church while her ; only son, the president of the United States, blinked away his tears. Slanting rays of a late after noon sun picked out the simple mahogany casket The coffin head was laid to the west in keeping with an old tradition that on res urrection ; day the arising dead should face the rising sun. X : While the Rev. Frank R. Wil son conducted simple Episcopal rites at the family burial plot in St, James Churchyard . . . "O Lord, support us all the day Ions, until the shadows length en and the evening comes" .... the president, tense, face Immo bile, looked downward. He never looked toward the grave as the casket, brightened with a single spray of assorted flowers, was lowered, nor did he return an anxious glance cast his way by his wife. ; . The president and 11 other members of the Roosevelt family stood in a silent seini-circle at the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) , j AnnyBpmber Crew of Six Are Missing TACOMA, Wast'Sept, 9-JP) The army air corps, sent search ers on foot and by track Into the rain-swept Cascade moan tains bite Monday to look for an army twin-motored bomber and Its crew of six which disappeared daring an early morning tratn Inr flifht. ! CoL William H. Crom, com mander of the army's MeChord field' air base, from which the bomber operated, said he be lieved the plane was down en a peak between the Snoaualmle pass highway and the Chinook pass highway, northeast of En- vmclaw. Wash, j ' 'Colonel Crom said he believed the bomber turned off toe early from the bearo--nly a f e w miles from Seattle and may not have calculated a head wind which blew up at that time, and descended on the north side of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) -. Defense Counsel George Hen asked him whether he was reluc tant to discuss his family, which is still In Germany, because he feared reprisal by the German se cret police. ; , "They . can't take reprisals,1 said Sebold. T mm an Amerl- -' can citizen. "And hew about reprisals against your family? . s "I wont answer that," Sebold snapped. - . j Federal Ju d ge Mortimer W. Byers advised counsel that un less they could prove their ex amination vital to their clients' cases, Sebold - would not be re quired to answer imiestions about his -family. ; - i of rwo fense Coordinator Jerrold Owen declared Tuesday has been assur ed, the mobilization is scheduled for 7:30 pjn. " A series of alarms are to call citizens from ' homes, industry and places of amusement to meet in Marion square and adjacent street, Conley said. There various units comprising the civil defense setup, numbering- several thousand persons, are to assemble for a parade down Commercial to State and down State to Sweetland field. Services of t several bands. promised for the occasion, will Temove part of the grimness and emphasize the , patriotic aspects of the mobilization, Ed, Colby, chairman of the committee in charge, declared. " - ' . Brief addresses, community singing Jed -by Deanu Melvin H. Geist of the Willamette university music department, ; and "numbers by. a vocal trio nave been ar ranged to brighten the program which is slated to include a simu lated bombing from the air, first aid and crowd policing demon strations and probably, two other defense features to be announced ater, it was said. The mobilisation, planned as first in the county and as a test for the new organisations to which eivll reserves units and the reneral publie from other sections of the county are in vited as special guests, will demonstrate successes and fail ures of the defense setup to that date, Conley said. Expected to draw a large per centage; of the city's residents along with persons from outlying communities, the mobilization should provide occasion for edu cation of crowds as to mob haz ards and similar problems faced (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) U-Boat Reported Captured riiimmi mm i ii i ii in i n : Carley float (risht) with British naval officers aboard approaches ihe side of what British authorities described as a German U-boat, The U-boat, British sources said, was damaged by a Hudson bomber and forced to the surface bx a heavy sea. This photo wamade frcra a Catallna flying boat which guarded the craft, until the arrival of British surface units which towed the U-boat into a British port. This photo was sent from London to New York via radio, wired to Chicago and airmailed to The Statesman. - ; . Slips Decision Seen In War Course Qiurcbill Hints in War Report of More US Naval Assistance By The Associated 'Press The march of events and circumstances in the far quar ters of the world suggested Tuesday night that the hour of a great decision affecting the. immediate course of the United States in the war, and specifically upon the seas, might be fast approaching. Thus cast into relative ob scurity was the struggle in the east, where the Germains claimed to be throwing into Leningrad a terrible fire of bombs and shells in the last phase of their siege and the Russians claimed to be consolidating a major victory against the fleeing nazis in a con tinuing counter-offensive on the perhaps mdre important central front , Four indications that steps more vital than any of these might be in preparation were strong, how ever indirect: 1. The state department in Washington announced the sink ing; by torpedo of another American -owned vessel. - the Sessa, at a point about 300 miles soathwest of the British American base of Iceland, less than 24 hours after word that the American , freighter Steel Seafarer had rone down in the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Seed Program For Valley Outlined An enlarged seed crop program for the Willamette valley met , with approval of about 120 Mar-.' ion county farmers meeting here. Tuesday night, and agreements to be signed for, acreages are to be . sent to all seed growers, accord-1 ing to W. G. Nibler, assistant county agent ' The agreements, which are to tell the -acreage each grower will plant next year, must raise the valley acreage total to a mini mum of 425,000 acres before the government will pay certain prices which are included in the agreements. They must be in Washington, DC, by September 20. ; him i m. ' ' a"! . . By President