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Old-Timor Weather Iff 88 years since Ephralm'nenness first iuw the North Santlam river. Be still Htm In the bordering hills. Bead his interesting story on the Statesman Sunday feature pare, - k Showers today and San day. Little change la - tem perature.: Max. temp., Frt 3, mln. 53. South wind. .Bain, .21 Inch. River, -JJ feet. Cloudy. , ' pouNDno 1051 iizistt-fcst yeah Salem,. Oregon Saturday Morning. September 13. 1941 Pric 3a UnmUxadM Sc" 1 No. 143 r- Tii it . . - a l . i i hi 1 ii ... ii it i i : i i i i i v &v.v , til 1 1 ii x . I i -1 1 1 1 1 1 ii ii.ii - - - i : t jReds Tell jSf Nazi : Thrust US Mission Set Raps Winnie Germans -' . i . - . - Nazi Raider Comes Close id Canal Zone Seas -Closed seven Hit FI To Axis WarshipSj : US Officials ill STATU L'.: nr' & Ocean n-ii HAWAIIAN IS. ... V V - LP 1 ? I 1 y r . ; On Moscow Trip "- JL JL UII11BC9 A1U ; MOSCOW, Sept 13-(Satur- day )The Russians today acknowledged a dangerous Ger man thrust across the Dnieper river above the Ukrainian capi tal of Kiev in announcing the i i evacuation of Chernigov, 18 ) : i miles to the northeast. I 1 By reaching Chernigov which ? ! is between - the Dnieper and Desna rivers and on the edge of i the transitional forest-steppe zone, r the German threatened to out i flank- a hitherto successful and fierce red defense of Kiev. I t The ; area : between Kiev and Chernigov is' all marsh land, but t should the Germans swing south L eastward they i would reach the y vital -Kievgabryansk road. Jr i: . Cherniffov to a river port Vr-mlllmg and manufacturing 'Wty : . of more than 34,000 population, f - It is south of the Gotnel-Helnya ' ' area on the central front where ) ' the Russians have reported they i z were hurlinr ' the German ar 1 - mles back toward Smolensk.: I The early morning communique ? reported bitter fighting all along f the front with evacuation of Cher I nigov the only announced change I Far to the north in the besieged s Leningrad ' sector Russian Baltic fleet units were reported shelling German troop ' and tank concen ' trations ashore and at the same 1 . r time keeping the German navy at I " distance. WASHINGTON, Sept VHJP) -Amerleaa.aid to Russia will be (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Will Welcome Hawaii Gridw Team Today - Welcome for University of .Hawaii gridders who are to go through Salem early this after noon was urged Friday by the chamber of commerce. Mayor W. W. Chadwjck and Spec Keene, coach of the Willamette squad which plays in Honolulu Decem ber e. - The train bearing the squad of 30, coached by Luke Gill, grad uate of Salem high school and Oregon State college, is to arrive at the Southern Pacific depot at 1:11 v. m. and stop for a few minutes. Logging Truck Crash Fatal SCIO, Sept 12 One man was dead " and another lay seriously injured at the Albany hospital Friday night after their car had crashed at dusk into the rear of a logging truck a half mile east of Scio. - Carl Burton died at 9 o'clock, an hour and a: half after his : bead and chest had been - crushed by the impact of the heavier vehicle's load. ' Vernon "Red" Fitzgerald was declared in a critical condition at Albany hospital, where both had : been rushed by ambulance. Both men were loggers for the Lulay sawmill, operating near Scio. '- 1 Deat Death Rumor Hit v BERLIN, Saturday, Sept 13-tf3) A proclamation issued by Mar cel Deat French editor wounded : bv the same assassin who shot Pierre Laval, to the anti-Russian French, legion departing for the eastern front was read over the : Berlin radio Friday night Deat is believed to be on the ! way toward recovery, and no re ' sponsible source could throw any light on .a broadcast heard in New York to the effect that he was dead. ': - " i. ' " - Authoritative sources here de nied that any such broadcast orig inated in Berlin. , On the Air For Defense . E. J. Church, president of the . Salem Ilunters and Anglers club, is to Te guest speaker on the Zlarion county civil defense council's program at 9:15 to- nizht ever KSLSL Be will tell of the part the club is taking In civil defense. , , i y i v 1 William Gallacher (above), only eommnnist member of parlia ment called Prime Minister Churchill a "blackguard" to his face and accused him of "dirty, cowardly, rotten action" In ' an angry outburst in the house of commons. The incident occurred daring- a discussion of British aid to Russia. Later he apolo gised. Board Tables Closing Plan Saturday Afternoon Off Plan Discussed For Water Of f ice Suggested Saturday afternoon closure pf city water offices was tabled for action two weeks hence after the question had highlighted discussion at Friday night's meet ing of the Salem water commis sion. In keeping with shorter , hours recently adopted by other utilities offices in the city, C. E. Guenther, manager, suggested that the com mission's offices might be closed for Saturday afternoons without inconveniencing patrons. -. - V More efficientiservioe at less. cost could be provided, he. suf gested. by shutting the joffiee"- one afternoon each week; No shorter hours would be offered employes, he said, but current "staggering" of days of work would cease. Dropping of outside collections and depending wholly upon the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) McKay Autos Will Build Warehouse Construction of a new ware house by Douglas McKay Chevro let company, to begin Monday, was announced Friday by the architect, Lyle Bartholomew. The building, to be at 566 North Com mercial street and to cost about $7500, is planned to house the paint shop, storage space and ov erflow service. The warehouse, 82 V4 feet wide by 100 feet deep, is to adjoin the north-south alley in the block, leaving about 65 feet be tween the building front and Commercial street Building is expected to take about 0 days. Walls will be of curtain con struction, reinforced concrete piers between hollow tile. Trusses forming the roof will be held by split ring connectors, a new de vice. Split sheet roofing, of the newest type, will top the struc ture. Outside wall surface will be stucco.";v; ' i Lighting is to be from large sky lights and a few windows, supple mented probably -by fluorescent (Turn to Pag 2, CoL 8) Auto Victim; Resting Sidney B. Elliott, Salem invest ment banker injured when struck by a car Thursday; night was re ported resting comfortably at Sa lenv Deaconess hospital Friday night - Civic Groups to Hear Chest Speakers Outline Services Community services performed by eight agencies financed by the Salem Community Chest will be outlined by speakers . appearing before every civic organization in the city if plans outlined by the speakers committee at Fri day night's general campaign committee gathering m e e t with the expected response. ; ' Chairman Frank B. Bennett of the speakers' committee said three different plans for bring-' ing the Chest message before organized groups, were to he suggested to organization lead-, ers. Emphasis is being placed this year more than ever upon the so- Say f oentions Are ki; Italos Sav War Asked ay BERLIN, Sept. 12-P-Adolf Hitler's military headquarters, offering with radio trumpet fanfare what ' some quarters called an answer to President Roosevelt reported Friday one of the heaviest submarine at- tacks on British shipping in the history of sea warfare, and an authorized German spokesman - XI J S i i XI suDsequenuy aismissea me president's speech: "All Roosevelt's contentions are lies. - "The president of the United- States is a hypocrite.' In a great sea action still under way, the high command asserted, 22 ships aggregating 134,000 . tons had been sunk from a. strongly protected British convoy of ' 40 somewhere in the north Atlantic, -while two other vessels totaling 11,000 tons had been torpedoed and almost certainly destroyed.' The surviving ships, it was stated, were being hunted down. The convoy, said a new dis patch, was en route from North America to England. (The British officially ad mitted that a small British mer chant ship had been damaged in an attack in the North-sea on Thursday night but acknowl edged no other German attack at sea.) The foreign office organ, Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz, followed the same line of attack as the authorized spokesman. Korrespondenz disclaimed that Germany "is seeking a quarrel in any manner" with the United States. : ; "On the basis of his newest falsifications, . t h e American president' Is "attempting to" lay' claim to mastery ever all the seas and to 'eliminate' those who do not suit him there," it said. The commentary described Mr. Roosevelt as "the great mad im perialist" Dienst Aus Deutschland, anoth er commentary which is close to the Wilhemstrasse, said that be yond Friday's authorized com ment and newspaper reaction there would be no further Ger man answer to t n e presiaenvs speech. The German spokesman broke an official silence of hours which had been reflected In the fact that the evening Berlin press did not so much as men (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Mercy Wagon Busy on Cuts Cuts, ranging from minor to se rious, drew " attention or Salem city first aid officers for the 24- hour period ending Friday night Mrs. Beulah Talmadge, 633 Fer ry, cut one of her little fingers se verely Friday night as she wielded a butcher knife with which she was trimming wrappings she had placed on her wrist Jimmy Wheeler, 8, of 945 Nor way, fell early Friday' afternoon as he attempted to climb onto a trailer. Inside of his left elbow was seriously lacerated. Herbert Kelly, 8, of 2815 Brooks, cut the side and bottom of his left foot on glass. , Don Jackson, 28, of Camp Mur ray, walked into the East Salem fire station Thursday night to re ceive care for a cut in the palm of his right hand. . ..Miss Donna Fowler, 550 South loth, sustained head cuts from a broken windshield Thursday night when the car in which she was riding stopped suddenly at the Saginaw-Mission intersection. cial service and character building function of the affiliated agencies, it was announced by Edwin Tho mas, chairman of the publicity committee. Excellent progress in the ad vance gifts solicitation was re ported by Carl Hogg, chairman of the committee in charge, who said the response and the nam her of pledges Increased over those of last year, gave promise of success for the general earn paign, . Team captains have been sign' ed by virtually all of the division leaders, said Irl S. McShcrry, gen eral chairman : of the . campaign committee." - - - f timrfl ' A German raider operating in the 7322-ton Dutch motorship Kota a r- sr fjjAUSTg Ai.lAi; shipping sources said. Map Indicates the normal sea route from Batavia to the Panama canal. Revolt Rises XH ilOrWfl.V Gigantic Conflict Seen As Nazis Resort to Mass Arrests to Halt Move STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept 12 (P)-The Germans are re sorting to mass arrests In an at tempt to halt the spirit of revolt racing across Norway and fore stall a threatened gigantic con flict within the next few days, border advices said Friday night Angered by repressive measures to block a general strike and the execution of two labor leaders Wednesday, norway's 350,000 trade union members were said to be! fanning opposition to the Quist- ling puppet regime. Although official accounts said strikes had been halted and "there were no episodes of any kind, a dispatch received in Stockholm said the situation was grave. "Everyone seems decided not to submit to the Qulstling mas tery and everything indicates a gigantic conflict in the next few days between the opposition and the QuisUIng rule," said a mes sage from a Norwegian Journal istic source. . Ludvig Uuland, vice-president of the labor' federation, was sen tenced to death and then par- (Tumf to Page 2, Cot 2) Defense Bonds Publicity Unit Is Appointed A 12 -man" committee to handle press and radio publicity for Mar ion county's part in the national defense savings program was an nounced Friday by County Chair man Frederick S. Lamport . The committee's first activity will be to assist in mforming the public concerning the new defense sav ings stamps, to be sold through retailers beginning next week. Members of the new commit tee are Stephen C. Mergler, managing editor of The States man, chairman; Earl W. Head rick, radio station KSLM; Don H. Upjohn, Capital Journal; A. M. Church, Capital Press; Floyd H. Emmons, Salem Cre dit bureau; Sam Wells, Mt An gel, state Industrial accident commission; L V. McAdoo, Ger vais Star; Lester L. Shields, Jefferson Review; Edward B. Stolle, ML Angel News; John T. Hoblltt SOverton Appeal-Tribune; Rodney W. Alden, Wood burn Independent and L. E. Spraker, Stayton MaiL New Baptist Pastor Named Selected as new pastor of thef Calvary Baptist church, replacing Rev. Amo-Q. Wemger .who re signed July 1, is Rev. Edward L. Allen, now pastor of the Memo rial Baptist church, Fresno, Calif., officials of the Salem institution announced FriHaVifnlpht. , Well received when he preached here August St Rev. ADea was Issued his call Wed- nesoay mgni ana accepted: im mediately. He la expected to be here within three weeks. V , The new. minister Is at present pastor of "one of the outstanding Baptist churches of the San Joa quin valley." JHe is married and has two children.' - Rev.: Weniger is now at the J Hamilton Square Baptist church. San Francisco. McNary Cancels Plan To Resume Vacation - .WASHINGTON, Sept 12HA Senator Charles L." McNary (It- Ore.), senate minority leader, has cancelled plans' to resume his va cation in Oregon? be announced Friday, He was called back to Wash I ington because of the revenue bill - 1 and decided to remain-because of I the increasing tension in foreign situation. ' ';. ' : " DUTCH FREIGHTER REPORTED VtCTtM 0F SEA RAIDER r V Pacific ocean about 1000 miles west Nopan, on a voyage to New York from Batavia, East Indies, New York Hop Men Ask Groups To Pick Over Weekend Schools to Open on Schedule Monday But Pupils May Be Excused Until ' Harvest Oyer, Asserts Bennett Hop growers, their cropr called through the Salem office Friday afternoon for family and the harvest today and Sunday, Manager W. H. Baillie said '. , ' Army Demands Clean River Willamette Towns Must Build Sewage Systems Before Camp Starts PORTLAND, Sept 12--Up- per Willamette river communities will be required to install sewage disposal systems before a proposed army cantonment is built in the Corvallis area, the Oregon state sanitary authority said Friday. ; The army camp plans to draw its water from the Willamette river, and pollution' must be ; eliminated authority members said. .,;2."' ,.- '; Jftrma .Kjthrli, secretary.of.the League of Oregon Cities, proposed that communities' now without sewage disposal systems, establish sinking funds to finance sewage treatment He said Central Point Lebanon, Pendleton and Springfield have started preliminary surveys' on sewage disposal plants, Hillsboro is studying disposal of industrial waste and Forest Grove is consid ering expanding its system. The army requirement for cleaning up the Willamette river merely follows up on a move ment under way la the state for some years and given impetus a few years ago by creation of the state sanitary authority. It has generally been considered likely that completion of a sewage dis posal system for Salem would hasten similar action by com munities upriver. Construction and alteration : of I sewers is under way here in prep aration for construction of a dis posal plant north of the city for which bonds were voted at a spe cial election last May. Quints to Go With Parents CALLANDER, Ont, Sept 12.-()-Mama FJzire Dionne beamed broadly and happily Friday night at the prospect of having her famed quintuplet daughters un der the asme roof with her other seven children. ; . "It's good news," she said upon ) learning that the Ontario govern ment had accepted in principle suggestion by her. husband, Oliva Dionne, that the quints be reunl ted with the rest of the family. ickaitl U HjeS tm PrOCltlCtlOll Flail LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12-43?)-R. Wickard called Friday , night Secretary of Agriculture Claude for "a program of production, a program that can mean the great est ersfof security and prosperity the world has, ever seen. . "But to do this the United States, must think hi world terms and .act in world terms," he de clared in an address before a con ference of democratic.- women, of the western states. " In aH probability he said, "the United States will emerge from the war; the world's strong est, nation from every standpoint; from the standpoint both of mili tary and economic strength.' At the conference table t well , hold the best hand, If we don't play it right it's or own' fault" J .: C : I of the Panama canal has sunk the pressing severely to be picked, of the state employment service neighborhood groups to help in his office would remain open oyer . the weekend and welcome tele- phone calls for assignments of groups large or small to hop yards. "Until the last two days' heavy rams came, more people were going out to the yards from Salem Salem public schools will open , Monday - as ' scheduled, Supt Frank B. Bennett said Friday, but as in past years, pupils engaged in harvest work win be excused until the crops are in, then assisted in making up in studies missed. Bennett urged, however, that all students be at their respective schools Monday to register for the fall term. than were leaving," Baillie said, but . now it s the other way around and pickers are .badly heeded." Suggestion .that schools not de ferring- their opening dates permit use of school buses in transport ing children to harvest fields, ac companied by teachers as super visors, and give them attendance credits for "field trips," was made by Rex Putnam, state superintend ent of public instruction. "The same or a different group of pupils may be taken to the field each day until the harvest labor (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Nazis to See Moscow Only On Postcard WASHINGTON, Sept 1Z.-4P) -Senator Connally (D-Tex) gave reporters this version of a conversation he had Friday with members of the Russian 'mili tary mission visiting Washing ton: "I asked them. How soon are the Germans going to reach Moscow? They said: The only way the Germans will 'ever see Moscow Is on a postcard. " US Air Battleship Tested WW The nose of the mammoth new built at the Glenn L. Martin extended out ef a maze of scaffolding which hides the 280-foot wing- spread of the sl ip daring Initial static tests. This picture was made available for publication by the - .had been deleted.' HullJelhR By Action Would Determine Zones; Panama SliipSunk WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (AP) High officiate indi cated Friday that axis warships United States navy in any quarter of the seven seas to which they may extend their depredations. Indirectly but unmistakably, they made it plain that no exact line will be drawn on any chart to help Adolph Hitler decide where his submarines may operate with impunity and where their mere presence may invite the retribution prom ised in President Roosevelt's In that speech, the chief executive said he had instructed Japan Miffed At Roosevelt Nipponese Expected Some Mention When President Spoke TOKYO, Saturday, Sept -Japanese newspapers said today that President Roosevelt's order to shoot at axis ships in American defense waters was 'initiation of undeclared war in effectively blockaded zones" and large head lines called it an attack on Ger many. Disappointment was general over the president's failure to mention the J orient or include some phrase disclosing whether there was progress in talks be tween Secretary Hull and Jap anese Ambassador Kicbisaburo Nomura. . The Japan Times and Adver tiser, English-language organ of the foreign office, said the speech strikes the far east as a verbal anUdimax.! . .. , '. The organ complained that The world win have' to wait either for his statement of pol icy toward Japan er practical evidence - of . such a policy ap plied without a preliminary speech." ; The speech contained nothing new, the newspaper said. It con tinued: . "' "The president desired to regu larize actions aready taken by a clear definition of policy to war rant further operations on an ex- I tensive scale, and therein dis closes the initiation of an unde clared war in effectively block aded zones. ; "Consequently he reaffirms a decision already made known by word and deed that the ' United States no longer sub scribes to law and precedent (Turn to Page 2. CoL 3) Alarm System Okehed The Salem' Retail Trade bureau voted its approval of the city council proposal to install a fire alarm system, on which bids are to" be received Monday, at the bureau's regular meeting .Friday. experimental "air battleship" being plant at Baltimore, Bid, for the navy navy only after a part of the nose - - ,- , are in peril of attack by the address of Thursday night, we navy 10 sins: on signt any axis U-boats, or surface raiders encountered in .waters considered important to the defense of the United States-He did not say where the zones began or ended. , He did say that attack had fol lowed attack and that the inci dents were not isolated "but part of a general plan." He had new evidence Friday. The state department informed him that another ship had been torpedoed near I c e 1 a n d, the freighter Montana, owned by an American firm, but registered in Panama. The latest reported sink ing, it appeared, occurred about 12 hours before Mr. Roosevelt enunciated his policy of sinking on sight any axis raiders. Raiders are sinking ships in "widely separated areas," he as serted and by this phrase let it be known that "defensive water" zones could not be narrowly de fined. Friday, reporters plied Sec retary of State Hull with ques tions on that point' He replied that Germany, by her actions, would -herself determine the (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Marines Bar Husky Who Bites Nails CHARLOTTE, NC, Sept 12. JPA strapping volunteer for the marines, with shoulders about as wide as a door and a voice that boomed, went through his medical examina tion here In almost record time.' He looked; every Inch the leatherneck.- j , " '.. But he was rejected in Ra leigh ait headquarters because he ait his. finger nails, an indi cation of nervousness. Now if he wants to be a dev il dog he must grow fresh nails and stop bitin' 'cm. Lost Bomber Still Mystery TACOMA, Wash., Sept 12-UFV- A fourth day of searching by ground and -by air failed- Friday to give any definite clue to the whereabouts of the army bomber that vanished from the Spokane Seattle radio beam before dawn Tuesday with six men aboard. More than a dozen airplanes from four; Pacific northwest air bases Joined in the search Fri day, but low hanging clouds and rain enveloped the timbered Cas cade mountain area in which Mc Chord , Field officers think the twin-motored B-18 bomber prob ably landed. They said they expected to find the ship or the wreckage on a ridge northeast of Enumclaw, and about 25 miles north of towering Mount Rainier. They mink it was in that vicinity that the bomber last reported that it was veering off the radio beam to head for its McChord base. SALT LAKE CITY, Sepf : 12-' (A-A navk plane reported over due4 on - flight from Cheyenne, Wyo . to Salt Lake City, landed safely at the Salt Lake airport at 6:40 p. m. Lata Sport: LOS ANGELES, Sept 12-JP-Displaying too much power and reserve strength,1 the Washington Redskins of the National Prof es? sional Football league defeated the western All-Stars 30 to 0 before 17,000 spectators at Gilmore sta- dium Friday night HOLLYWOOD, Sept Verne ; Bybee of San Francisco" swung so hard at Toby Visit Los Angeles Mexican, in Friday night's headliner at Hollywood stadium that he dislocated his shoulder and lost by a technical knockout In. the fourth round. I . . -