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and hemekeeplng hints by
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social sews.
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Linnie Gammon, danchter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gammon, 899
- North Commercial street, (she likes school) and Charles (Sonny)
. fltzrerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Fltxxerald, (he'd rather
' s-o fishin') top left, pans on their way homo from Garfield trade
hMii nTnnAiY mfternoon. to examine their schedules for the year.
At the top rixht, stndents of Sacred Heart parochial school play on
the merry-f o-ronnd after first day activities. Students of Wash-
tr4r.n mnAm aohnnl. center, climb aboard their school bus. J. Bur-
1 ton "Pop" Crary pours coffee dorinf the lunch period at the senior
blrh school for faculty members, from left "to ' right," Visa Jon
Fhil9ott,'Mlss Vivian Chandler and Miss Leila Johnson. Snapped
between imrar activities at Salem hlh school Monday
afternoon, bottom from left to rlfht, are Carolyn Hastinr, Larene
llastinss, Ilinlyn woorasaa ana
Gaudies Oust Nazis
. BENOS AIRES, Sept 15. The
Argentine congress voted with but
cue dissenting' voice Monday for
the expulsion within three days
tf the ringleaders of Nazi under-
(over organizations, among whom
its so-called "Dies committee'
rsraed German Ambassador Ed-L-ur.d
Vca Thermann.
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Spy Pleads Innocent .
NEW YORK, Sept 15-WVKurt
Frederick Ludwig, named by the
government as jthe master spy of
a ? widespread espionage ring,
pleaded innocent in federal court
Monday to an indictment cnarg
ing him and four others with vio
lation of the federal espionage
act
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Peru Planes
Bomb Ecuador
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Sept
W.-flVPeruvian planes bombed
the Tenguel banana plantations of
the United Fruit company on the
Gulf of Guayaquil ' Monday, an
Ecuadorean announcement said,
in a new flareup of the border
war between Ecuador and Peru.
Offices of the company's Ecua
dorean subsidiary here said build
ings occupied by the manager
were damaged and a laborer
killed. ;
oil Sees
The second' $11,000,000 appro
priation for .the Willamette Val
ley Project probably will be ap
proved by . the present congress.
Congressman James W. Mott told
members of the Salem chamber
of commerce Monday noon at
their weekly luncheon following
the summer recess. He also pre
dicted that , the revised highway
defense bill would be passed and
probably, if necessary, passed over
a presidential .veto. ,
, Devoting principal attention
to defense matters, the first dis
trict congressman said there was
no real lack of unity in congress.
-Both "isolationists" and "inter,
ventkmfcts" If the latter are de
fined as those favoring immedi
ate entry into the war, are few
and , discredited, . though noisy:
the. president and 8$ per cent
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Salem Schools
Show Drop in
Registrations
Later Enrollments to
Equal 1940 Total, Is
Belief; Some Working
Back to school this morning
for classes go most of the 4630
children who registered in Sa
lem public schools Monday. The
enrollment was 337 less than
last year's first day total of 4,-
967.
The senior high school is to
run through short sessions this
morning and have the after
plies. The other schools had
similar arrangement Mon day
and settle down to work in ear
nest today.
The decrease in enrollment was
general, throughout the system
but the next few days is expected
to see the figure climb to approx
imate the 1940 total of over 5000.
Supt .Frank H. Bennett said he
believed the many families still
in hop fields would swell the
numbers.
Parochial schools reported a
first day enrollment however,
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Death Claims
Four Victims
Of Crashes
Death by automobile claimed
its fourth victim in as many days
in the Salem area when an un-
identified man succumbed at a
Salem hospital early Monday
night
Meantime, Boy Lee Pratt,
41, of Hubbard by In what was
declared to be critical condi
tion at Salem General hospital
as result of a highway accident
six miles west of Salem on the
road to Dallas.
Pratt driving a light pickup,
ran into the rear end of a lumber
truck as the heavier vehicle
slowed when its driver discov
ered its lights were not behaving
properly, state police said. Early
this morning he was semi-conscious,
hospital attendants i re
ported, and full extent of his in
juries was still unknown.
Less than 24 hours after he had
been struck by a car as he walked
on the river road east of Indepen
dence Sunday, a picker who had
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Valley Project Funds
of the congress. agree upon a,
policy of arming the .nation
adequately and in the mean
time giving all arms that can be
spared to Great Britain and
anyone else who will fight Hit
ler. .
The United States will not for
mally enter the war, be predicted,
for the reason mat Hitler is "on
his way out" and soon will be
"out entirely." But if Hitler does
win in-Europe," he win never in
vade America,, for byythat time
the United States army and navy
will be so strong as to make it
impossible. - - :
Relative to the draft extension
bill, Mott pointed out that Gen
eral Marshall's - request was for
unlimited extension of service and
an unlimited increase in the army
personnel, to which practically no
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Council Tables Bus
Franchise; Ponders
Gity
Control
Will Aicait Returns of Test
Runs; One Alarm System
Bid Seen; Salaries Avoided
Tabling until early November the proposed Raven street bus
franchise and taking first step? toward creation of a municipal
property control board, Salem city council also moved through
a multiplicity of routine business Monday night .
Budget cuts totaling $6110 were recommended by various
divisions of the budget committee in a pre-council session where
salary schedules for . the six-months' finance plan under consid
eration were not discussed. Because of the absence of Mayor
W. W. Chadwick, who heads the special committee on salaries,
all salary questions were avoided. A special budget meeting is to
be called next week, members were told. -
Proposed reductions were from the $152,769.67 portion of
Auto Output
Cut Ordered
Deeper Slashes Seen as
Need for Steel, Other
Metals Increases
WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-(ff)-"
sweeping 48.4 per cent reduc-
duction for December was ordered
by the office of production man
agement Monday and some gov
ernment sources predicted that an
even deeper slash might be ex
pected for January and succeed
ing months of 1942. .
The curtailment after the first
of the year probably will take
the form of a levelliag-off pro
cess, pinning production ap
proximately to the figure spe
cified by OPM for December
204,848 passenger ears, as com
pared with 396,823 in Decem
ber, 1940. j
Thus, the over-all production
for the 1942 model year August
1, 1941, to July 31, 1942 would
be brought to around 2,450,000
passenger cars, approximately
half the 1941 model year output
The OPM said in August that
the halving of production would
be necessary to conserve steel and
other strategic metals for defense
requirements.
Double "Fish
Storf9 Told
By Printer j
' PORTLAND, t Ore, Sept IS
-ijr The combined arms of
two fishermen stretched out
Monday as they told of the big
one that got away.
B. Porter Conger, Salem
printing house head, said he
hooked the chinook salmon tn
the Colombia river near Celile
; falls. It veered off and ' was
hooked In the tail by Henry
Zuger, Waltsburg, Wash. '
' Neither line slowed down the
fish, which the pair said must
; have weighed more than SO
pounds. It yanked Conger's pole
out . of Us hands, and ran out
Zabers reel, snapping the line.
one in congress would agree. Be
added that most congressmen
agreed to some extension far prac
tical ' reasons. Fortunately ' for
army' : morale, though an 18
months extension was approved,
most selectees' service will be
closer to 18 months than 30.
Defense production is. being'
speeded up, and the army would
'bo equipped adequately except
for the fact that 75 per cent of
the arms and 85 per cent of the
aircraft are going to Britain,
Mott observed. . i t
The United States navy, he add
ed, is now the biggest and best
single navy in the world and is
able to man each new unit as it
is launched, with a fully experi-i
enced crew.
' He was introduced by William
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Board
the tentative budget to be raised
by taxation.
One bid for installation of a
fire alarm system at a cost of
$38400 to be paid In five in
stallments over a period of five
years was opened and referred
to the fire committee. That the
city should have little difficulty
in securing priority certificates
for materials needed was sug
gested by the bidding concern
in a letter which accompanied'
the bid, pointing out necessity
for such priority rating and re-
te the federal,, govern
ment's attitude : toward ; alarm
systems as part of national de
fense. In rapid succession, the council
acted to;
Approve installation of a semi
traffic actuating signal at Center
and Capitol streets at a cost of
$1093.32. 1
Order installation of streets
lights at intersections of Winter
and Rural, Brooks and Highland.
Table until next year the pro
posed repair of Waite Memorial
fountain in Willson park.
Approve construction by the
Oregon Electric railway of an
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French Hate
Told to Vets
Legionnaires Approve
US Cantonment Najne;
National JParley on
The French people hate the Ger
mans and are doing everything
they can even at the risk of their
lives, to hamper the nazi program,
members of Capital Post No. 9,
American Legion, were told by
Lloyd Cornwall, member of a pi
oneer Oregon family who was un
til recently commander of the le
gion post in Paris. -T
r He said there was a vast dif
ference between the clean-appearing
German army of eon
quest and the "earpetbacger"
army of occupation. Food was
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These Volunteers Defending Leningrad
Members of a detachment of the
cording to Moscow sources. This
and airmailed to The Statesman.
Fay.'- 'Mr
Japan Chief
General Ototo Tamada (above)
was named ..commander-in-
chief of national defense head
quarters, which was establish
ed for Japan; Korea, Formosa
and Sakhalin. In his new post
General Tamada, who will eon
tinue as Inspector General of
Military education, is answer
able directly to Emperor Hi'
. rohito. ,
FDR Discusses
Neutrality Act
Amount of Aid Sent
British; Seeks More
WASHINGTON, Sept 1S-(JP)-President
Roosevelt discussed re
vision of the neutrality act wtih
congressional leaders Monday
while Secretary Knox, announced
that the navy henceforth' would
guard all lend-lease cargoes as far
as Iceland.' :
Against this background, fore
shadowing further moves by the
United States against German
U-boats and raiders, the president
sent his second report on lend
lease operations to congress show
ing that $171491,946 worth of
supplies bad been transferred to
Great Britain and other, nations
within the last three months.
Prior to that period, $75,202,426
worth had been transferred.
r Knox's declaration, apparently
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On the Air
For Defense
. Tom 1101, chairman of plan
: nlng and recreation for the
Marion County Civil Defense
council, is . scheduled to give
complete Instructions to civil
defense units and to the public
for Mobilisation day activities
when ho speaks at 9:15 tonlrht
on the defense council's pro
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popular volunteer force studied an anti-tank gun In Leningrad, ae '
phcta was sent by raia from JIoscow to Kew lork, wired to Chicago
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South Is
itted
US Mission now
In London; Axis
Movfes in Africa
By The Associated Press
The Russians appeared Mon
day night to be adding thous
ands to' a ghastly German cas
ualty roll before Leningrad in
a still effective defense of that
city, but far to the south seemed
clearly in bad case from above
Kiev, the Ukrainian capital,
down to the Black sea.
In the south there were indi
cations that major German of
fensives were being developed,
aside from the continuing opera
tion to isolate Kiev itself, toward
the Russian Crimea and eastward
toward the great red industrial
basin on the River Don.
- German bombers in great force
the noisy and invariable her
alds of major action a f i e 1 de
claimed the destruction of more
than 500 Russian motor vehicles
in a wide sweep east of the Dnie
per river toward the region of tho
Don.-- .J ; H .-
'Moreover, authoritative per
sons In London spoke plainly of
the peril to the Kuasian position
created by the! Soviet's forced
evacuation of the railway Junc
tion of Kremenchug 175 miles
below 'Kiev, and a nasi thrust
not mentioned t In any other
' quarter Into the Perekop area
about S4 miles- to the southeast
of the lower Dnieper on the
neck .that connects the Crimea
. with the Russian mainland.
All this, they said, apparently
had laid the Don! basin open to a
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County Bar
To Support
Court Plan
The Marion County Bar asso
ciation voted at a special meet
ing here Monday night to support
a state bar committee report ad
vocating; creation of a, district
court in every j county seat in
Oregon.
The state report, outlined by
Justice of the Peace Joseph B.
Felton of Salem, would leave
the present outlying , Justice
courts In existence but . grant
the newly-created district courts
countywido Jurisdiction. Tho
proposal w01. be submitted to
the next legislature if the state
bar, which ' holds its annual
convention tn Portland Thurs
day and Friday, adopts the re-
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