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No. 143
Senate Expected To
Pass IHTiiffA
Today; House OkJ
' Millions of Citizens to J
Impact of New Levies; Large
Additional Clerk Force Seen
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 - yr) - The house approved a
$3,553,400,000 compromise version of the new, record-breaking
1 defense tax bin Tuesday and sent it tothesenate where final
passage Wednesday appeared certain. ,
By approving without a roll-call Ivote the recommenda
tions of a joint senate-house conference committee which
worked out an agreement on changes made by the senate, the
house members avoided going on record regarding the senate's
to $1,500 for married persons and
persons. -
The reductions will require
4,930,000 additional persona to
file income tax returns but only
about . 2,275,000 will be taxable.
They' will contribute about $47,
000,000, the . treasury estimated,
but the lowering of the exemp
.tions will boost the bills of pres
ent taxpayers by about , $256,
000,000.; . 8 harp criticism of this and
. other senate chances developed
In the house but no effort was
. made to block final approval of
the bill. ;
When members protested the
lowered exemptions, Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) of the ways
and means committee said that
while he did not like to say "I
told you so," he had warned the
house that when it refused to re
quire all married persons to file
Joint income tax returns, approxi
mately $330,000,000 was lost
thereby and would have to be
made Aip from other sources.
That's exactly what happen
ed," pat In Rep. Knutson, (R
Mlnn). '
' During discussion of the new
returns which would be filed as
a result of ' the lowered' exemp
tions, : Doughton disclosed that
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TrafficToll
1,
In Five Days
Totals Five
Traffic total of fatalities in the
Salem area within five days
mounted to five Tuesday night
when Roy Lee Pratt, 43, Hubbard,
died at a Salem hospital.
Internal Injuries and brain
concussion sustained when he
crashed his liht pickup into the
rear ef a lumber track which
was slewing to a hilt on the
Dallas highway -six miles west
ef Salem had sent Pratt to the
hospital Monday night
- The truck was driven by Don
ald Benjamin Hill of Taft, who
told investigating officers he had
been having trouble with ' his
lights and was drawing to the
edge of the road to try to better
manipulate them before traveling
on. -
Still unidentified save as that
ef a man known as "Tex" who
had worked leeently at the
Cooper bopyard, . the body of a
, middle-axed transient lay in a
Salem mortuary Tuesday night,
fourth victim of highway acci
dents In the week's calendar.
Pratt Is survived by bis widow,
Edith Louise Pratt of Hubbard;
daughters, Mrs. John Mitch of
Portland and Connie Pratt of
Hubbard;" sons, Hurley, X Leroy,
Carl and Keith Pratt, all of Hub
bard, and one sister, Connie M.
Bogle of Woodward, Okla. Funer
al services 'are to be held at 1:30
Thursday from the Rigdon chapel
Russo
Bulg
ar
Tension
High
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept 18-(JP)-Russian
sources Tuesday de
clined comment on predictions of
an imminent soviet declaration of
war against Bulgaria, but .said
that all - women and children jpf
the families of soviet staff mem
bers at Sofia had left Bulgaria.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept lt-P)-The
Bulgarian government Tues
day rejected Russian accusations
that Bulgaria was offering Increas
ing military cooperation to Ger
many and thus endangering rela
tions with Moscow. .;-:
The Bulgarian note denied that
Bulgaria had acted in any way
contrary to Russian-Bulgarian
friendship i
On the Air
For Defense
In keeping with Constitution
Day, an address by Raymond
ritealrn, originally given in In
dependence Halt Philadelphia,
v,i;i te a feature ef the civil
defense program to be broad
cast ever KSL&I tonight at 9:15
Tqy MiV
from $800 to $750 for single
M-Day Parade
Units Ready
County Gvil Defense
Chiefs Work out Plan
For Massed Turnout
Number of units participating in
the parade feature of Thursday
night's practice civil defense mo
bilization in Salem had risen by
Tuesday night to approximately
35.
Belief that their call .would re
sult in bringing together a large
percentage of the city's population
was expressed by Marion county
Civil Defense council workers as
they went over arrangements to
determine timing for the massing
of Salem residents, the march to
Sweetland field and the brief pa
triotic and educational program
planned there.
Out-of-town units coming to
the capital city to take1 part in
the mobilization are to gather
on Union east of Commercial
street : ' . f , ' ;
At the sounding , of sirens at
7:30, Salem folk are scheduled to
set-out for Marion square, throw
ing into performance immediately
emergency traffic control systems.
Directed by Burroughs and Ray
Moore Good Housekeeping sound
truck street, broadcasts, they are
to be segregated into service units
on and around Marion square.
Thence, with the general public,
the various civil defense units and
organizations already prepared to
take some part in defending the
area should emergency arrive are
to march to Sweetland field on
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Cairo Bombed
By Germans;
Rome Awaits
CAIRO, Sept 18-(P)-Axis war-
planes (in defiance of a British
threat of retaliation against
Rome) bombed Cairo for the first
time Tuesday in an attack which
killed 39 persons and wounded 93
(Britain,- in a warning direct
from the prime minister's resi
dence in London, had on April
18 informed the axis that if either
Athens or Cairo were bombed,
reprisals would be carried out
against Rome.
(Further, it was stated that once
the bombing of the Italian capital
started it would "continue as con
venient to the end ol the war."
(The axis never did bomb Atb
ens proper in the course; of the at
tack on Greece, and until Tuesday
had respected the Egyptian capi
tal, a city holy to the Moslem
world much as Rome is to Catho
lics.) - . ; .
The raiding planes dropped both
high explosive and Incendiary
bombs on Cairo. Despite the num
ber of casualties, property dam
age was described by the Egypt
ian ministry ol tne - Interior as
slight r'H--:-
t Anti-aircraft guns blazed at the
attackers, and raid alarms were
sounded in several provinces.
Salem Area Milk Producers
Seek New Price Hearing
Disappointed that, the .recent
decision of the milk control, board
raised butterfat prices only to 67
cents instead of 80 cents, inde
pendent producers and members
of the Dairy Cooperative associa
tion are circulating a statement
asking that the board grant an
other hearing.
The petition, being signed by
Folk and Marlon county produ
cers serving the Salem market,
asks a chance to present facts
showing that the present price
Is not adequate considering the
increased labor and feed costs
and the strictness ef the Salem
mCk ordinance.
When Reds Sank Nazi Transport in Baltic
0
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Above Radio- Sonndphoto from Moscow and New York gives a graphic picture ef the destruction by Rus
sian naval units of a German supply transport in Baltic seas. This series of photos,' taken, by News ef
the Day Newsreel, requires almost no explanatory caption because It tells Its own story from the firing
ef the torpedo to the sinking of the ship.
FDR Evades Convoy
Sea 'Lane
WASHINGTON, Sept 1MP)
-Possibility that a corridor of
steel ships, planes and navy
guns has been laid out in the
north Atlantic to protect lend-
lease deliveries to Great Brit
ain was considered in the cap
ital Tuesday night
The speculation was raised
by President Roosevelt's warn
ing, at his press conference, that
amateur strategists should not
think that naval convoys were
the only means of guaranteeing
deliveries of cargoes to friendly
powers. -
Under Secretary Knox's declar
ation Monday that beginning to
day, naval vessels would give
every protection within . their
power and would "capture or de
stroy" raiders encountered be
tween North America and Ice
land, the view had been accepted
widely here that the navy had
undertaken actual convoy duty.
While the president did not
make specific denial of such a
long-expected development U
was considered possible that his
deprecatory comment might
mean, instead, the establishment
ef a "safety lane" to Iceland. The
royal navy, fat such s case, could
take ever guardianship of the
cargoes from Iceland on te the
British Isles.
Under such an arrangement,
cruisers, destroyers, submarine
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Farm Camp Set
For New Site
WEST STAYTON Govern
ment officials here said Tuesday
that the migratory workers camp
stationed in this area for the
bean harvest will be moved to
Klamath Falls for the potato har
vest ' -; : : '...j -
Dismantling work, begun Mon
day, is expected to take ten days.
. "No action is being taken by
our group at the present in re
gard to another hearing," A C
Spranger, president of the pro
ducers -distributors organization.
declared Tuesday night However,
at the time the board's decision
was announced, spranger ex
pressed his surprise that the milk
prices had been raised only one
cent
" Effective. Tuesday, the board
increased four per cent milk,
formerly 9 cents wholesale and
11 cents retail, to 10 and 12 cents,
and five per cent milk formerly
10 and 12 cents, to 11 and 13
cents. ' r
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of Steele
a.
Solon Cracks
Public Won't
Need Razors
WASHINGTON, Sept 16-(ff)
-As the house considered the
tax bill Tuesday, Rep. Duncan
(D-Mo.) inquired whether the
ten per cent retail sales tax on
Jewelry would apply te safety
razors which hare "two cents
worth of gold plating on them
to keep them from rusting." .
"As a result ef this and pre
vious tax bills," said Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) of the ways
and means committee, "the tax
payers will be shaved so clean
ly, they wont need safety ra
sors." Miners Balk
On Return to
Jobs Request
By The Associated Press
The CIO United Mine Workers
union Tuesday turned down a re
quest of the defense mediation
board that workers in more than
30 closed captive mines return to
their jobs immediately, the union
sayjng Instead that it would de
fer consideration of - the request
until Wednesday. i
John I Lewis, UMW president
delivered the union's answer In
person to Wiliam H. Davis, chair
man of the board, at the latter!
office in Washington. .
' The mines, owned by. some
of the large steel companies;
are located In Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Kentucky.
The miners Lewis told report
ers 43,001 were Involved ere
demanding a union shop. The
board asked Tuesday that the
mines be re-opened at once and
called officials ef the steel com
panies and the union to a hear
ing to be held in Washington
today, t-: '.i
,"With respect to your request
that the mines be reopened," the
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Mott Says US ;
In War Unwise j
i HIIXSBORO, Ore, Sept 16
(AImmediate entry of the Unit
ed States into the war would be
unwise, because It would reduce
the . volume of military supplies
sent to Britain and Russia, Con
gressman James W, Mott of Ore
gon said Tuesday night f
The representative ; told the
HiHsboro chamber of commerce
, that the present policy of aid to
anti-axis powers does not damage
US defense, -.
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Questions
Is Hinted
U WASHINGTON. Sept 1C-UP)
-President Roosevelt gave Ed
ward R. Stettinius, jr, power to
approve applications for lend-
lease held from Great Britain
and China Tuesday as one
method Of speeding final action
on them.
Making this announcement
at a press conference, the chief
executive also was plied with
questions as to whether the navy's
protection to merchant ships be
tween the United States and Ice
land included convoying, but he
declined to make a direct answer.
In that connection, however, he
said that amateur strategists
should bear In mind that there is
more than one way of protecting
ships against submarines and sur
face raiders.
He described the Stettinius ap
pointment as a minor matter, yet
one that was typical1 of things
that had been done to cut red
tape and ' expedite assistance to
Great Britain and China.
At one time, he said. It took
25 to 20 days for lease-lend ap
plications te pass through all
the governmental channels re
quired by the law. .This period,
he added, had been cut te If
days.
The chief executive went on to
say that a 24r-hour delay had been
discovered in the White House
tself. Late each day, he added, a
sheaf of such applications reach
es his desk, requiring 50 or more
signatures. These he said, did not
reach officials responsible for the
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Hoover Tells
Views on US
- - . i ... .
War Actions
CHICAGO. Sept 18-WVHer-
bert. Hoover asserted Tuesday
night that the i United States
should build an impregnable de
fense, give material aid to demo
cracies,' bulwark freedom at home
and reserve its strength to help in
reconstruction and stabilising
peace "when Hitler collapses of
his own overreaching." :
He mentioned these points in
outlining a "constructive policy
for America and contended that
neither isolation nor Intervention
was .wise : or possible, tre-
Hoover stated also that Presi
dent Roosevelt was right in pro
testing against the firing, on US
warships and the sinking of mer
chant ships. - 5 -
"But the president's policy o.
edging our war ships into danger
zones, , of sending American mer
chant : ships-; with" contraband,
raises the most critical of all
questions, he added in a prepar
ed address over the CBS network.
City Park,
No Water
In Strike
Kansas Gty Hit
By "Blackout"
Without Warning
KANSAS CITY, Sept 17
(Wednesday)-(VKansaj City
was without lights and power
and virtually i without water
early today as employes of the
Kansas City Power Light Co.
struck suddenly at midnight
Only one small water pump
ing station was , operating at
12:30 ajn. with its own supply
of power and station employes
said it could not remain in action
long.
The walkout followed a ruling
by the national defense mediation
board in Washington Tuesday
night that a dispute between two
rival unions came within- the ju
risdiction of the national abor re
lations board and the .United
States courts of appeals.
The entire city was in darkness,
street cars stalled on the tracks.
The blackout prevented two
planes . landing at Municipal
airport but sources there said
they probably would make use
of Fairfax field, a military port,
across the Missouri river In
Kansas City, Kan.'
Kansas City, Kan., is supplied
by a - municipally-owned system
and was not affected.
Suburban communities in John
son county, Kan., however, re
ceive their current from, the Kan
sas City Power and Light com
pany and were blacked out along
with Kansas City, Mo.
The strike came virtually with
out warning as the master
switches controlling light and
power were pulled at midnight
Telephone service was not affect
ed. - St Luke's hospital, one of the
city's largest was entirely with
out lights. Other hospitals- re
ported they had emergency sys
tems for operating rooms only.
The controversy grew out of
jurisdictional dispute in which the
International Brother hood of
Electrical Workers, an AFL af
filiate, sought the right to bar
gain for employes who were
members of the Independent Un
ion of Utility Employes.
The company recently appealed
from a regional labor board de
cision saying the Independent un
ion was company dominated. That
appeal will be heard October II
in the US circuit court of ap
peals. '
The mediation board. In wir
ing Its ruling from Washington,
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IiP Flower
leading in
May oi Race
NEW YORK,! Sept 17-(Wednes-
day)-(-Mayor F. H. LaGuardia
appeared certain of republican
nomination early today in his
quest for a third term as returns
from 3400 of the city's 4050 elec
tion districts gave him a total
of 51,129 votes to 36,419 for his
opponent John R. Davies.
On the basis of the nearlycom-
pleted returns, it appeared the
mayor had won sizable pluralities
in the boroughs of Manhattan,
Richmond and Brooklyn, while
Davies seemed certain ox ma
jorities in the boroughs of Queens
and the Bronx;
Black Sea
hut r; & di & ?rTJ? iiisia
GREEC
i-DARDANLtEl TURKEY
Ankara. Turkey, sources reported that the Black sea seems to have been chosen as the setting for a-decisive
battle between the axis and allies for control of th Ukraine. Arrows show how axis naval units, -operating
from Clack sea bases In Rumania and Bulgaria, could hit at Russian land forces behind tit
. v i - v. n.iiM 4i. attwlr flia CrlmM nA ctriSco al Raatum. western term "
inns ef the oU line from the
. . ncer axis coimaaagn. ? ;v - y.;
What Power -:
' . . ... - - "
Strike Does'
To Big City
KANSAS CTTx (Wednesday)
-Sept 17HT)-Tbe strike at the
Kansas City Power and light
company, affects these - public
services and electrically-Powered
devleesr
. Water supply believed avail
able until noon today.
Street cars and trolley Cusses:
Operations discontinued for dur
ation of strike. Gasoline busses
operating.
Telephone system: Not af
fected.1 Radio receivers and broad
casting stations: Silent
fire alarm: Not affected.
PoUce radio communication:
Not affected.
Elevators, ! refrigerators and
storage plants and all electrically-powered
hospital and home
devices unusable during strike.
Electrically-operated filling
station pumps. .
AlKes Occupy
- . a. ar .
Iran Capital
Axis-Favoring Shah
Abdicates for Son
When Stalling Fails
LONDON, f Sept lO-VR
Shah Pahlavl abdicated the
throne of Iran Tuesday w h 1 1 e
British and Russian armies
marched on his capital to enforce
their demands for expulsion or
delivery to the allies of axis na
tionals in' that strategically-located
kingdom of the middle east
The 83-year-old shah was
succeeded by his 21-year-old
son. the Shahpur (Crown
Prince) Mohammed Reza Pah
lavl, but an authoritative source
here stated that the allied forces
nevertheless planned immedl- ,
ate occupation of Teheran. Hea
ters, British news agency, said
these forces were only a few
miles from Teheran Tuesday
night - ,; .
They are expected te enter
the capital Wednesday.
Orders f 0 r t h e- occupation,
which - the British and Russians
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Web of Nazi
Spies Told
Trial Reveals Germany's
, Interests in US Plane
Production, Convoys
NEW YORK, Sept. lOHThe
web of German military intelli
gence, spun in New York, extend
ed from Alaska and Iceland to
Brazil, China and Africa, and
covered cities and whistle stops in
the United States, according to
evidence presented Tuesday at
the trial of 18 men charged with
espionage conspiracy.
US Attorney Harold M..Ken
nedy read into the trial record a
series of messages - received at a
secret "spy radio station on Long
Island built and operated by
American counter - espionage
agents which indicated Ger
many's insatiable thirst for mili-
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Finns to Fight on
NEW YORK, Sept 16--The
Finnish radio in a broad
east, heard Tuesday night by
NBC said a lasting peace with
Russia could be obtained only
by the complete defeat or change
of the present Russian govern
ment "therefore Finland wtU
continue to fight on Germany's
side until such a victory Is ours."
Seen Key in Ukraine Battle
a ANKARA
Eaku eiUlelds Dotted area representa territory occupied by axis force
- ; :.v:i:ur -K't pv?;
Russ Sea
CbhtroMs
Asserted
Baltic, Arctic v
Fleets Victors;
Nazis Push East
By The Associated Press
The German southern armlet
claimed late Tuesday night to
be sweeping eastward from the
Lower Dnieper river over broad.
and hard-won bridgeheads to
ward the Nogaisk steppe and by
these accounts it appeared that
a grand offensive to isolate the
Crimean peninsula from the
Russian mainland was well ,
under way.
Of that southern theater Rus
sian military informants saia utue
Tuesday. They reported, how
ever, a strongly successful con
tinued defense of Leningrad In
the northwest and pictured the
Red baltic and arctic fleets as in
almost undisputed control of the
northern waters.
This morning's communique of
the Soviet command announced
that a second nazi attempt to
land on the Soviet island base of
Oesel near the mouth of the Gulf
of Finland had been smashed with
most of the invading troops an-
nihilated and ; the remainder
driven into the sea.
Specifically claimed by Mos
cow were: A punishing defeat
of German mechanised columns
before Leningrad In' a battle
that cost the naxls 48 heavy
tanks and armored cars and 27
field guns; a spectacular charge
by Red troops and civilian vol
unteers some of them girls
which threw the . Germans out
of a series of fortress Islands In
a river that presumably was the
Neva; the defeat of a German
tank division further ; to the
' north, apparently somewhere on
the Murmansk front sad thel
substantial destruction of a nasi :
Infantry regiment In that fame
SMft 1 . . . . ' - -. f , " - t -
. . f -?--. .- - i
" The running actions of northern
Soviet naval and aerial forces
were declared to have smashed a
total .of 30 German vessels, eight
of them 'laden troop transports.
and it was said, too, that the big
guns of the Kronstadt naval base
near Leningrad were in action
against the Germans.
Heavy autumn rains were gen
eral over the Leningrad front and
official Soviet spokesmen wel
comed the approach of winter
with declarations that it would
bring disaster to Hitler's millions.
Berlin laid claim to general
successes .all the way from
Leningradwhere It was said
that Soviet bunkers and block
houses were being slowly and
bloodily reduced clear down
te the Black sea, -The
offensive in the Lower
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Mrs. Sprague
Ship Sponsor "
PORTLAND, Sept 1M)-The
Star of Oregon, first ship to slide:
down the ways of the Oregon
Shipbuilding corporation - plant
here on September 27, will be
sponsored by Mrs. Charles A, '
Sprague. , ' '
Governor Sprague will be one
of the speakers at the afternoon
ceremonies; in which- the Port
land-built emergency-type freight
er will enter the water at the same
time as 12 others throughout the
United States.
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