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Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Morning, September 10. 1S41
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No. 143
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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-. 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
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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
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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
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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