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r r Tf- Wcolidaily Weather r - i Considerable cload I e with, showers today, and Friday. Cooler Friday. Max. temp. Wed. C7, Kin. SI. Northwest wind. Rain, trace. Krrer, -2.1 feet. Clody Housewives turn to The t ; 1 Statesman women's page - every weekday f or recipes , : and ' homekeeplng bints , by Maxine Buren, as well as ' -l - - social news. .' - t - POUNDDD 1651 HIHETY-rraST TEAR Scdem, Oregon, Thursday Morning; September" 18. 1941 Price 8ci Kewssiccods So No. 159 . i- fill II Vi 1 i I i 1 I V n. " J.C. I v- Tax Bill I -Ready Fof.'FDR Record Measure Despatched to White House . WASHINGTON; Sept. 17-(P) The record-breaking revenue bill designed to raise $3,553, 400,000 to help finance the huge defense ' program received the , iinal approval of congress Wed nesday and was dispatched to President Roosevelt. , J The. history-making measure is expected to lift federal rev enues above the $13,000,000,000 mark next year but, because of mounting defense expenditures, it .will not be enough to carry out Secretary Morgenthau's suggestion that two-thirds of gov ernmental costs be paid from tax ation and only one-third from borrowing. Only a 'scattering of no s was heard when the measure a com promise between separate bills passed' by the senate and house- was voted upon finally in the .. senate. , There was some protest front Senators McCarrsn (D - Nev) , and Thomas (D-Utah) because , strategic metals Industries were .not exempted from. excess prof its taxes. A provision for this , purpose bad been voted by the .senate bat was knocked out by conference committee which adjusted senate-house differen ees. i- r . After the senate action, John T. Jones, director of labor's non-par' tisan league and CIO legislative representative, . declared the bill would place ."an extremely heavy burden on . low ' income groups ' least able to pay, while failing to tax adequately big corporations and wealthy individuals." . ; V The legislation will aff ecfc di rectly or indirectly, practically ev ery citizen and wilt bring an. esti mated 430,000 additional persons under the income tax structure by lowering exemptions from $2, 000 to $1,500 for married persons and from $800 to $750 for single individuals. . The lowering of exemptions ' is estimated to raise S303.000, Of of additional revenue, bnt only $47,000,000 of this is ex pected to be paid by new tax payers. The remainder will come from persons already pay ing income taxes. Although bringing many "little (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Nazis Pounce On Convoys BERLIN, (Thursday) Sept '18 -CAVGerman speedboats in , the English Channel pounced on British convoy Tuesday night and aank four ships ot 25,000 tons, German military reports said early today. The report said that a fully loaded tanker of about 8,000 tons was among the ships sunk. All German boats were said to have returned to their bases undam aged Might Be t. i?Mir ir t " i'.":Vi before their addresses i -il Axzcricaa Lesion convention ia JUlwaukee, Wis. 'Head&'MttiUmtTJS Legion -.-: ;x-;:vv-v ' '" ,:: .'v': .- ' " - i Gavel in. hand. National Commander presided over the 23rd national at Milwaukee, Wis which Wednesday went on record for an eat American opposition to Hitler. Warner said that "as a united na tion it is pur duty to back up the president and conrress to the utmost on the rovernment's policy of protection of commerce and shipping. Legion Endorses US Action Against Hitler National Parley Urges Repeal of Neutrality Act, Permitting, Yank Troops to Be Sent Any Place I MILWAUKEE, Sept. n-i.JPy-The convention by voice vote Wednesday endorsed the foreign policy of the president and congress and urged immediate repeal of the neutrality act and removal of all geographical limitations City (Jets Lights Non-Strikers Restore Power After Four Hour Blackout Tuesday By The Associated Press Electrical energy flowed nor mally through the distribution fa cilities of the Kansas City . Power and Light company Wednesday night after a strike of AFL work ers had darkened the city, dis rupted trolley and electric bus ser vice and threatened the water supply during four early morning hours. The city went black at the stroke of midnight when, with out warning. AFL electrical workers threw the power com pany's master switches. How ever, a sufficient force of non striking employes returned to .work to restore service before the majority of the sleeping populace was aware of the shut down. The strike caught the city off guard inasmuch as the AFL union had dropped an original plan to (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) mm w an the at the first session of the 22rd na- Talking Convoys MOo J. Warner of Toledo, Ohio, convention of the American Ltlon American Legion national on movements of United States troops. f;---: .v f xne ablegates swept aside a minority report which sought to forbid the national administration from giving lend-lease aid to Soviet Russia. A roll call vote first of the convention showed a count of 874 to 604 in favor of tabling the report The defeated minority report ; of the foreign relations com mitteee resolved: "That the American Legion reiterate Its eft stated position on comma nism and definitely go on record as opposing aid to Russia under the lease-lend act," xne aezeat oz Adoiz. iuuer is 'our present national objective" the convention decided, and then voted a demand that "if fighting is necessary to defend the United States, we insist upon being pre pared to do the fighting outside of the United States." Near the close of the conven tion's most important business session the delegates accepted New Orleans invitation to entertain the 1942 meeting Sept 21 to 25, after Atlantic City, the other principal contender, withdrew. First fireworks of the day came when the foreign relations com mittee brought forward a three- point program stating: "We approve and endorse the foreign policy of the president and the congress; "We urge the immediate re peal of the so-called neutrality act; ; "We urge all Americans to join v& In an united, whole : (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) x - Britain Hits Food Racket LONDON, Sept 17-(f)-Britain is on the verge of stern prosecu tion of persons involved in a war' time food racket of great magni tude, informed persons disclosed Wednesday night The first cases may be brought into court Thursday. Those in the know say they will deal with black market operations involving hundreds of tons of the most valuable foodstuffs, even those stocks which had been built up as a reserve against German inva sion. , , . RAF Blasts Rhineland LONDON, Sept 18-(Thursday) -T-Royal air force bombers at tacked targets in the Rhineland for , the second . successive night Wednesday night authoritative sources said today. South Germany Raided BERLIN, Thursday, Sept IS.- planes last night bombed south- western Germany but damage was ' USP " was announcea waay. Parisians Get Nazi arnmg All Classes Will Be Shot Unless Attacks Cease VICHY, Unoccupied - France, Thursday, Sept 18 -(A3) -The German conquerors Wednesday night warned all Parisians that they were liable to be shot as hostages unless attacks on nazi soldiers cease, and police in the occupied zone early today press ed house-to-house searches for hidden arsenals. Up until midnight no. further violence had been reported in either zone, but the stern warning followed the death of a nazi non commissioned officer who was shot in the back on a Paris boule vard Monday night (A British radio! report heard in New York spoke of two Ger man soldiers being killed and one wounded, but this appeared to be recapitulation of ! attacks prev iously reported), j Hitherto German 1 firing squads have inflicted their multiple re prisals on those ; described as Communists and Jews. Now every German-controlled Paris billboard and newspaper carries the grave news that any Parisian, regardless of. class, creed or occupation, may be; shot Pierre Pucheu, the French minister of the Interior, sum moned American correspondents of the Associated Press and United Press for an hour-long interview in which he said he was doing his utmost to prevent serious German reprisals in Paris. But he expressed fear that if the attacks continued the Germans would take more and more into their own hands the police administration of the occupied capital, perhaps Im posing a dusk curfew and shoot ing many more hostages. On the latter point the new Ger man warning, from both the nazi military ' administration in Paris itself and the German field com mand in occupied France, was ex plicit It threatened that "an in creasing number of hostages' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Pre-Campaign Chest Pledges Reach $8200 With pledges amounting to $8200 already in the hands of the Salem Community Chest pre-campaign committee, another phase of ad' vance preparation is to be taken up today by the general campaign committee at a noon meeting at the Marion hotel which all employers in the city have been asked to at tend. At this meeting there will be no solicitation, but employers' relation to the solicitation within their organization will be dis cussed, it was explained by Irl S McSherry, general chairpoan. ; At a meeting of the pre campaign group on Wednesday additional pledges In the amount of $2500 were turned in. Gifts of $100 or more received since the last previous list was. pub lished in The Statesman Include: $450 Cherry City Baking Co. ; $400 Sears, Roebuck Co. $350 Dr. F. E. Brown. $250 Safeway Stores, Kay Woolen Mills. $200- -First National . Bank. $150 Breyman Boise. . $100 Rahn-McWhorter Paper Co- Man's Shop, Frederick Lam port Mrs. Russell Catlin, J. J. Roberts, Keith PowelL Governor Charles A. Sprague. -Salem Soldier wMakes Good' Money as Army Army service has helped abilities as a cartoonist and marketing his talent. He is Private H. T. Amend, at the state printing office, who is 1 in Salem on a ten-day furlough from his station with the public relations department 248th Coast artillery, Fort Worden, Wash. i A comie - panel - character Amend had been drawing while working as a sign painter for four years before he entered the army last January is his prin cipal one, and, enlarged - to comie strip size, is soon to be published regularly In the Army Times, a service men's paper of wide circulation. The character. . Beansy O'Brien, whom Amend drew in Salem as a small boy, has grown up and entered the army, ' where he typifV - the soldier. .Rin ssian Admits House Debate Hits FDR on Fight Order Navy Chief Says Other Methods Also Used in Protecting US Ships WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-0P) -Secretary Knox revealed Wed nesday that the American navy was convoying British-bound cargoes on the North Atlantic and, in ' addition, . had been searching for a German surface raider believed to be operating on the Pacific. But,; he- added, escorting groups of merchant ships was only one of many methods that were in use. Since the world war, he said, many ways of pro tecting shipping on the high seas had been perfected and the navy was employing them all. As the cabinet officer made it I clear that the administration had capped the long smouldering con gressional debate for and against convoys simply by ordering them into service, other developments of the international and defense fronts attracted Washington's in terest: Secretary Jones, the federal loan administrator, announced that $100,000,000 was being pro vided to help Russia buy j war materials in -this country. 'The transaction . involves an - advance paymtst of 'minerals , which Rus- sia is w siup w uus cuunu7) It was announced in the house that President Roosevelt would send a new request for lend-lease funds to congress tomorrow. Bouse debate f ovud Rep. Woodruff (R-Mlch) asserting that President Roosevelt's or der to attack German U-boats and raiders was "nothing less than a declaration of war" and that neither the army nor navy was ready for war bow. Rep. Rich (R-Pa) said the president should be "taken out of office" because he was "de liberately violating" a pledge to keep American ships out of certain areas." With Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) he Joined in repudiating . Wen- -dell L. Willkle as a party lead er. Willkte, last year's republi can presidential nominee, is a supporter of the Roosevelt for eign policy. New York" harbor was jammed with shipping, 104 vessels, includ- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Dad, Infant Take Flight A West-Salem father and his seven-weeks-old daughter made their first airplane flights at the same time Wednesday night at the Salem airport Operators of aa airliner stop ping at the airport here c route to BetheL Alaska, and carrying sightseeing' passengers while here, reported the unus ual flight - - The father was H. D. Harms, 1007 Third avenue, and , the daughter, Patricia Jeaa Harms, who was born last July 25. Cartoonist one Salem draftee develop his i put him on the way toward 26, son of T. C Amend, employe Amend has had time also to draw sports cartoons for north west newspapers and to make a considerable vamount of "side money" drawing sketches and writing humorous lines for greet ing cards with an . army . life motif. In addition he writes an anecdote column, and a news col umn in The Salvo, Fort Worden newspaper. , . - Asked if he is enjoying army life, Amend grinned: iSure, and rve,' gained 27' pounds., Howard ' was graduated from Salem high school 2a 1331. : , 1 US Ndw Famzer j M-Day Program Set For Tonigh Combat Practice Mobilization Slated as Test For Possible Emergency; Registration Continues; Units Will Parade "If Salem were London and tonight's bells and sirens were warnings of an air attack what This is the question members of the Marion County Civil Defense council are asking themselves this morning as they . r - - - V-- perfect arrangements for Salem's Declaring that in time of .... . Blasts Sink Swede Ships Three Modern Warships Explode Mysteriously; Other Vessels Damaged STOCKHOLM, Sept 17.-ff)- Three of Sweden's best modern destroyers exploded and sank Wednesday in a series of myster ious blasts in Harsfjaerden, a fjord south . of Stockholm long used as a naval proving ground and anchorage. i (DNB, official German news agency, said a troop transport also burned and sank, A mine layer, the Klas Fleming, was damaged severely! when her cargo of mines blew up. Fire spread to nearby Maersgarns island,- where a mm un 1 1 1 o n dumps ire located it said.) The. destroyers lost were the Goteborg, a sleek, 1,040-ton ves sel built in 1935; and the Klas Horn and Klas Uggla, sister ships Of 1,020 tons each, built in 193.'!. Normal complements of .the three would number 380 men. Verified casualties were 31 killed and 11 injured, but the toll was believed to be higher. Flam ing oil which spread over the sea (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Enrollment At Schools Near 5000 Complete count of enrollment in Salem schools was not made Wednesday, but estimates indicate the figure is rapidly nearing the 5000 mark. Many children report others are staying out to pick hops and planning to return Monday. Parrish junior high school, with 783 registered Monday, in creased 18 .Tuesday and another nine Wednesday. I The system gain Tuesday was 215 pupils. If the entire Increase Wednesday were comparative with Parrish, the total number would now be 4965. At the senior high school, Reg istrar J. C Nelson said number of pupils transferring from out of hte district was 110 by Wednesday, as compared with 125 at the same time in 1940. ! , Allies Take TURKEY W$ liiliO wiiifi ' fx IRAN- mjiQ'''m' ft ' :- slBaIuchi$tan m .jt Eusslans, using parachute troops were the first in Tehran, capital of Iran, Wednesday (see mt? above) but the Soviet's allies, the British, were consolidating their positions in the country prcaretery to pro tecting the great oil fields and being in po&Uion to combat the axis thrust through t.. Llrsias this - Army Smashes usioess Jl: Usie t; Reserves To -l Attacks would we do?" - first large-scale mobilization. emergency no plan can be too- - - well formulated, that no amount of figuring can be accurate until certain tests have been made and that directions for action when danger threatens are best pre sented first hand, the council has called the public of the capital city to a mass meeting tonight Starting with a 7:20 mobilis ation of civil reserves volun teers on . and around Marion square, the program includes a march d w n Commercial to State street down State to Win ter, down South Winter to the Sweetland field entrance on the Willamette university campus and thence onto the field. Plan ners believe the crowd will have reached the athletic field by 8:30. - There a brief program of music and addresses, demonstrations by reserves and a simulated bomb ing from planes flying overhead has been arranged- to inform the public of steps taken for defense of the city should need arise. 1 To observe for critical' purposes the organization and precision of the mobilization, a high-ranking army officer Is to be on hand to night military offices have noti fied civil defense leaders. Plans for the mobilisation have called attention to the fact that registration for civil re serves this summer came at a time when many persons who would have been interested In proffering' their, services were on vacation, County Coordinator Bryan H. Conley said Wednes day night With the mobilization as a start ing point a second Salem regis tration day has been called for tomorrow, Friday, September 19, he said. More reserves are need ed, he declared, as he announced location of. the registration cen ters, open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. The city hall police station and the three outlying fire stations in the city proper, Walter T. Robin son's Keizer store; Mrs. C. W. Pugh's Clear Lake store, Mrs. Reeves' Labish Center store, the Kroger grocery at the four cor ners east of the state hospital, Millett's ' grocery at penitentiary four corners, J. H. McDonald's at Sunnyside and Charles Krauger's (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Navy Gets New Blimp LAKEHURST, NJ, Sept 17-(ff) -The K-3, first of five large blimbs ordered by the navy for basing at Lakehurst naval air station, was turned over to the navy Wed nesday, night after a flight from Akron, O. Iran Capital; Set for Winter m m f ynox g Coiiyoys Top BHtzkrieg or Red Northern Thrust Relieve Pressure On Leningrad By The Associated Press The red 'army reported Thursday morning- It had smashed the crack panzer troops of Germany's blitzkrieg- leader, CoJ.-Gen. Hefna Guderian, the phantom gen eral of the French campaign. Germany's iron general the man who matched mech anization against the Maginot line and won was said to have been bested in a roaring battle of tank, his own fav orite weapon, near Bryansk, 230 miles from Moscow. The soviet communique told of great red operations on a curv ing central front extending from Yartsevo, 30 miles northeart of Smolensk, down" past Yelnya to the Bryansk sector. Guderian was said to have lost "two-thirds of his effectives'- hi v . . ... .i ... J an explosive collision with massed soviet tanks. j The Russian communique said these were Guderian'g losses) 20,000 men dead, wounded and (Turn to Page- 2, CoL 3) on woman Pilot Plans t SEATTLE, Sept 17.--A comely feminine pilot Evelyn N. Burleson, disclosed Wednesday plans .for a nonstop three-flag flight next week from Vancou ver, BC, to Mexico, in a tiny two seater plane. She said it would be an inter national good-will I flight which also would emphasize the role of women in the defense program. - Miss Burleson is a free lance pilot at Tacoma. Until a few weeks", ago, she was associated with the civilian training program at Al bany, Ore. She : said her plane's gasoline tank capacity of 12 gallons would be expanded to 80 gallons,' and the takeoff with ; a 300-pound overload would be the most diffi cult phase' of the trip. Russ Refuse Bulgar Reply MOSCOW, Septil7-(flVSovIet Foreign Commissar V. 'Molotoff Wednesday night termed unsatis factoyr the Bulgarian reply to the soviet note of September 10, which accused Bulgaria of becoming a base, for future German operations against the USSR, i The Bulgarian reply denied the charge. 1 Mai Defeat "reg Long Flieh