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Thm OBEGOM STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Thundery Mornlnay Saptwnber 18. 1941
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House Debate
Rans Roosevelt
Navy Chief Says Other
Methods Also Used in
Protecting US Ships
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ing 53 British, Dutch and Nor
wegian vessels having arrived
within 36 hours. This led report
ers to ask Secretary Knox if the
concentration of vessels was for.
the purpose of forming convoys.
..He did not reply specifically,
but the inquiry did lead to his
statement that among other roeth
ods, the convoy system was in use.
To assume that convoying was the
only method, he said, would be to
put a narrow construction on
President Roosevelt's shoot-on-
sight speech of last week.
The secretary would not dis
close how far' to sea the Amer
ican navy was escort Inr the
conveys, and said It weald be
"unwise and indiscreet" to ro In
to details, when asked 4f the
vessels were being turned over
to the protection ef the British
nary In the vicinity of Iceland.
He said there had been no
brushes between American and
axis warships since the "capture
or destroy" orders were given ear
lier this week, and when asked
- whether the navy wouia miorm
the public If It "catches a raider,'
he replied:
"Well tell the world about
If I
' He disclosed that the. navy
i "thinks" an axis raider is at large
in the Pacific in the area of the I
Galapagos islands. (There were
reports that a Dutch vessel bound
for the United States was sunk
In that region last week but so
far there .has been no verifica
tion.) The secretary indicated the
navy was hunting for the raider,
but said it had never been able
to find out definitely whether it
was there.
Knot's ' statement that the
navy would announce sea incl-
- dents to the public did not en
tirely conform with an asser
tion by President Roosevelt
Tuesday that whether such an
nouncements would be made
would I depend upon the naval
situation at the moment.
During his press conference,
Knox disclosed arrangements for
laying nets at the mouths of im
portant United States harbors arfd
said plans had been completed for
the use of mines to protect naval
shore installtalons.
Chinese Qiief
Reveals Aims
PHtTNrirTwM c.t i7a
Beconquestof Manchuria Is a vi-
r X . tr
Japan, Generalissimo Chiang Kal
Shek said in a broadcast to the
nation Wednesday night on the
eve of the tenth anniversary of
the Mukden incident
A clash at Mukden September
18, 1931, touched off Japan's in
vasion of Manchuria and started
her on the program of expansion
still under way.
"There can be no separating
any portion of Chinese territory
from the whole," the generalis
simo said. "Surviving, we shall
survive as a whole, or if we per
nu, we suau perua.n one.
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Chiang predicted that the "fi-
nal collapse of Japan as aggres
es -
sor was about to begin.
Forest Fire
Hits Maine
SOUTH BERWICK, Me., Sept
17-(iTVSouthern Maine's worst
forest 'fire spread unchecked
through tinder-dry pine woods
Wednesday night .and fire offi
cials believed only a 12-hour rain
could quench the blaze.
- A camp and a farmliouse were
destroyed and several other build
ings were threatened as 13 fire
departments and 300 CCC boys
fought to confine the wind-fanned
flames to a sparsely-settled wood
ed area. : . : : v :. '
Noted Alienist Dies
v MELTON, Mass., Sept
Dr. Edward B. Lane, 81, noted
alienist and former instructor in
mental diseases at Harvard uni
versity medical school, died today.
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Sew Admiral F. Shafrotfc
No, this is not Britain's Winston
Churchill but one of the new rear
admirals of the U. S. navy, J. F.
Shafroth. He was one of 13 offi
cers so elevated by President
Roosevelt.
M-Day Program
Slated Tonight
Reserves Will Combat
Mock Attack; Otizens
To See Units Parade
(Continued from Page 1)
store at Liberty have been des-
ignated as registration points.
At communities throughout
the county registration head
quarters have never officially
been closed and there, too, per
sons may register for civil de
fense volunteer service, Con
ley said.
Announcing the eight major
units for tonight's mobilization,
the committee in charge has
asked that participants gather
as follows:
Ex-service men Legion, Vi'YV',
USWV and DAV, civil' reserves
police over 4Q years of age, VFW
and American Legion auxiliaries,
motor corps and marine reserves
on Commercial between Center
and Marion.
Police reserve, citv and civil
reserves, Marion east of Commer-
ciaL I
Sheriff and posse, sheriffs civil 1
reserves, Hunters' and Anglers' I
KlXie corps, Marion West Of Com- I
mercial.
Fire city reserves, forestry, for-1
estry civil reserves, Marion east
of Commercial behind police re-
serves. -
Air, wardens, Red Cross first!
aid, health department Dr. Doug-1
138 t a fi. nurses, sanitation,
economics groups, Commercial be-
tween Marion and Union.
utility units gas, water, lights
and phone employes, Union west
of Commercial.
Clubs Cherrians, Rotary,
downtown Lions, Hollywood
Lions, 20-30, Active, 50-50, Busi-1
I ness and Professional Women.
Bonta, Ad club, Kiwanis, junior
chamber. Realty board, Junior
Woman's club, Sea and Boy
Scouts.
Emergency groups and those
not listed on Union east of Com
mercial.
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New US Gun
LAPORTE, Ind., Sept 17-(P)-
The Allis-Chalmers Manufactur
ing company turned over to the
army Wednesday the first 90
millimeter anti-aircraft gun
mount built by private industry
in the United States.
The LaPorte plant which man
ufactures farm machinery, holds
a 36,500,000 contract for the nine-
ton mount, which has '3800 sep-
arate Darts. Comnanv officials
said completion of the first mount
marked the beginning of large
scale production by Allis-Chal
mers and subcontractors.
Philippines Typhoon
Sweeps Isle; 24 Die
MANILA,- Sept. n-Jft-A ty
phoon, bringing torrential rains
and floods, swept over northern
Luzon island leaving 24 persons
dead in its wake Wednesday.
Red Cross disaster relief work
ers reported from Pampanga and
Pangasinan provinces late tonight
that flood waters were receding
and most of the breaks in the
Pampanga river had been repaired.
State Bar Elects Head
PORTLAND, Sept 17.-(P)-Ar-thur
K. McMahan of Albany was
e- rted president of the Oregon
state bar here Wednesday. He
succeeds George M. Roberts, Med-
ford, and will take office Thurs
day at the opening of the state
bars annual meeting. .
Liquor License Given
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept
-The ? state I liquor commission
granted a salesman's license
Wednesday to W. E. Keyes, Salem.
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General Beaten
Red Northern Thrusts
Relieve Pressure
f On Leningrad
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prisoners, 500 tanks, 70 armored
cars. 1325 trucks. 193 planes, 83
heavy machineguns, 51 trench
mortars and several thousand
rifles and large quantities of am
munition.
(The German General Guder
lan Is rated as great techni
cian and Berlin said recently that
he was using successfully a new
tactic of mounting artillery
pieces on tanks on the central
front. .
Gnderian was attached to the
general staff In the World war,
was the first man to step across
the Austrian border when the
Anschluss was ordered and was
toasted for his exploits in Po
land, Holland and France.
There is still some mystery
as to Just how Gnderian got his
heavy German tanks across the
Maas river In less than 12 hours'
In his drive Into the low coun
tries in May, 1M0.
The Germans say he enters
the thick of the battles himself
and directs the eharres of his
panzer units by radio.) 1
Th flan-nan flnim nt havinff rfo.
stroyed three soviet armies in the
Lake Ilmen district south of Len
ingrad brought a quick answer
from Moscow. The Russian com
munique said the red army lost
30,000 killed and wounded there
in a month of fighting but added
that the Germans lost from 35,
000 to 50,0000.
The Germans were said to have
lost 10,000 killed and wounded,
100 field guns and 100 mine
throwers to Russian fighters under
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko at
Yartsevo on the northern end of
the central front.
Even before the new gala was
reported Russians told of a con
tinuing counter-offensive along
the center In which the Germans
were thrown back In two sec
tors after having suffered an
earlier and major defeat before
Smolensk,
The Germans, making no men
tion of this theatre on the Mos
cow approaches, dwelt principally
upon the fighting about Leningrad
and reported also that the thrust
of their southern armies eastward
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ward the Donets valley, the Crt
mea and ultimately the industrial
basin or tne JKiver uoa was pro
ceeding with strong aerial sup
port.
The German high command it
self was extraordinarily brief in
I its communique, saying only that
tveloping into an operation of the
greatest extent," and Berlin dis
patches said plainly that the nazis
were traveling a most bitter and
bloody road in their efforts to con
Iquer Leningrad.
While the German public was
asked again to have -patience
pending more news. It was In
effect admitted that the Lenin
grad Inner defenses were still
effective, although gradual
German gains forced at great
cost were reported. It was
acknowledged, too, that soviet
artillery was effective, the ex
planation being offered that the
Russians had had time to
curately measure their ranges.
For the first time, Berlin re
ported that German big guns were
firing freely into Leningrad, not
merely searching out military ob
jectives as had been previously
claimed. The order to bombard
the city generally was occasioned,
nazi informants stated, - by the
final Russian decision to hold it
to the end. '
Aside from general reports of
further gains of unstated extent
in the far south, one of the most
positive German claims made was
that in recent aerial operations
soviet losses had run 12 to 1 ahead
of German 288 soviet planes
lost in four days against 22 Ger
man craft downed,
TEHERAN, Iran, Sept 11 -UP)-
Hundreds of Russian parachute
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troops and strong mechanized
forces occupied the strategic out
skirts of Teheran Wednesday and
both 1 Russian and : British - staff
officers entered the capital to
forestall any friction .with the
Iranians. - - -
The 400 red parachute troops
which - were dropped on the
edge of the capital took control
of the xoads so quickly they
even barred the ..way to ap
proaching British troops for
short time. One bespectacled
soviet liaison officer halted a -British
brigadier 12 miles from
Teheran, produced a map, and
vaguely waved at the entire
Teheran area as filled with the
red army. .
The astonished British officer
sent his 12 armored cars through
the Russian lines with instruc
tions to stop at a bridgehead five
miles further on. A
A German motorcade of diplo
mats, women and children en
route to Turkey after the abdica
tion Tuesday of Reza Shah Pah-
lavi was halted by the Russians
at Kara, 25 miles .northwest of
here.
The former shah himself, oust
ed because of suspicion of pro-
nazi sentiments, arrived at Isfa
ban, 210 miles south of the cap
ital. He plans to go abroad as
soon as the trouble blows over.
The British and Russians occu
pying Teheran found fault with
his dilatory tactics In getting rid
of German agents.
Russian troops under MaJ.
Gen. Novikov moved into the
Teheran area some 20,000
strong, fifty-three soviet tanks
lumbered onto the airfield and
red troops took over Iranian
army and alrforee barracks. A
brigade of British troops was
approaching from the south
west While the troops moved in, Mo
hammed Shah Pahlavi, 21 -ear
old successor to the throne, swore
before parliament to uphold the
constitution.
On British initiative, the gov
eminent sent a note to the Japa
nese legation demanding surren
der of the exiled grand mufti of
Jerusalem, the pre-war leader of
Arab revolts in Palestine. He was
reported to have taken refuge
with the Japanese.
Blasts Sink
Swede Ships
Three Modern Warships
Explode Mysteriously;
Other Vessels Damaged
(Continued from Page 1)
prevented a thorough check.
Swedish naval authorities said
they were at loss to account for
the disaster.
(The Swedish-American news
exchange in New York received
a Stockholm dispatch saying a
boiler aboard the Ooteborg ex
p 1 o d e d. Indicating that this
touched off the other blasts.
(DNB, which also carried this
report said another account
blamed a torpedo explosion on the
Goteborg. The German agency
said the explosions shook Maers
garns island so severely that sold
iers there took refuge in air raid
sheltert.)
All available coastal vessels
sped to the scene to helprwith res
cue work and fire fighting. Every
ambulance in Stockholm was sent
out
(This heavy blew to the effi
cient little navy of neutral Swe
den ' occurred as the Finnish
. press was charging some Swed
ish papers through blind an
tagonism to nasi Germany were
playinr Into the hands of Rus
sia. Tldkun Quisling, head of
the Norwegian nasi government
on Sept 4 demanded that the
Swedish press cease what he
called "lie propaganda against
new Norway and Its leaders."
(There was no intimation from
Stockholm, however, that these
criticisms were in any way con
nected with the naval disaster.)
Sweden has for some time been
engaged in a big naval building
program, mostly secret
She is known, however, to have
had at least 16 modern destroy
era, including four bought from
Italy before the war, and eight
torpedo boats big enough to rate
as "junior destroyers."
By Quinn Hall
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TaxBiU
Goes to FDR
Record Measure Gets
Congress Approval ; '
Few Blake Protest
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fellows' under the income levy
the measure will simplify their
ob of making out returns by pro
viding a special optional form for
gross incomes up to $3,000. Under
this form, a man need merely
compute his Income and then con
sult a table which shows the
amount of tax due. x
The legislation ' sharply - increas
es individual and corporation tax
es in all brackets, increasing ex
isting "nuisance" taxes and . im
poses new levies on many arti
cles, Individual Income taxes,
which new start at 4.4 per cent,
will begin at 10 per cent 4 per
cent normal tax and t per cent
surtax. The 6 per cent surtax
applies en net. income up to
$2,000 and. Increases to "6f per
cent on net Income between
$2,000 and $4,000 and to ft per
cent on net income between
$4,000 and $0,000. It reaches 11
per cent en net Income over
$5,000,000 compared with the
present 75 per cent
As an example of how the new I
rates would work out, a single
man with a $1,600 net Income
would pay $78.60 under the new
measure compared with only
$28.16 under present law. A mar-
tied man with the same income
would pay $6, compared with
nothing at present
The measure substantially in
creases corporation taxes, lifting
the levy on excess profits 10 per
centage points in each bracket and
nuuuii uie i"-nc
per cent on sucn proms up xo
$20,000 to 60 per cent on excess
profits over $500,000. The pres-
ent range is from 25 to 50, per cent
1 m- a a
Also provided are new cor
poration surtaxes of i per cent
on net Income up to $25006 and
7 per cent on net income over
that figure. The capital stock
tax is increased from (1.10 per
11000 of adjusted declared value
to SL25.
The individual and corporation
taxes would be effective on income
received during the current cal-
endar year. Increased estate taxes,
designed to raise an additional
$141,600,000 annually, would be
effective immediately upon Presi
dent Roosevelt's signature of the
legislation. Higher gift taxes, esti
mated to yield an extra $116,000,-
000, would affect gifts made after
January 1.
The S per cent tax on trans
portation tickets would ; go lnte
effect October 10 and the $5 an
nual use tax . oa autemobiles
would be applicable beginning
February L Because the year
for "annual use" starts July
1, however, the treasury fs ex
pected to prescribe regulations
under which the motorists first
tax payment would be only
about $2.10, or five-twelfths of
the annual tax. The levy would
cover the months from February
to June, Inclusive. When the
tax is payable will depend upon
treasury regulations. .
These "nuisance" taxes would
be effective October 1: ;
Ten per cent on photographic
apparatus, optical equipment,
luggage, sporting goods, toilet
preparations, rubber1 articles,
commercial washing machines,
electric, gas and oil appliances,
jewelry, furs, electric signs, busi
ness machines, musical instru
ments, phonographs and phono
graph records, refrigerators, the
atre and other admissions cost
ing 10 cents and more and club
dues over $10 annually.
Increase from $3 to $4 a gallon
on liquor and increases in levies
on other distilled soirits and
wines. '.
Increases from S to 7 per
cent on automobiles, from 2 to
5 cents a pound on tires and from
4 to 9 cents a pound on inner
tubes.
Six per cent on local tele
phone bills, 10 per cent on long
distance calls costing 25 cents
and more and. 10 per cent on
telegraph, cable or radio mes
sages. Five per cent on electric light
bulbs and night club bills.
Increase from 11 to 13 cents a
pack on playing cards.
Increase from 11 to 20 per cent
on rental of safe-deposit boxes.
Ten dollars a year on opera
tion of non-gambling coin-operated
amusement machines and
$50 annually on coin operated
gambling machines.
Ten dollars a year on bowling
alleys, billiard tables and pool
tables. ,
Two cents per 1000 on matches.
Price Bill Delay Seen
WASHINGTON, Sept 17-pH
Opposition to Leon Henderson as
the prospective price control ad
ministrator appeared likely Wed
nesday to delay the administra
tion's price, control bOl still fur
ther, despite Henderson's' testi
mony that the nation already is In
the midst of "mild inflation."
Moscow to Meet Alission
MOSCOW-(Thursday )-Sept 18
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Usual Wave $L8
Perm OU
A Pashr Wave 1 JK
Complete.
V f bv Annointment
Phone 3683 ,
305 First National Bank Bldg.
CASTLE PERM. WAVERS
i ish ippw expected her soon
will be met by a soviet delegation
! composed of Vyacheslav Molotov,
foreign minister; Marshal Klemen
U Voroshilov of the red army; A.
L Mikoyan, foreign trade com
missar, and commissars for the red
fleet and - aircraft production, it
was announced today. ; - ;
Parisians Get
Nazi Warning
All Classes Will Be
Shot Unless I Attacks
On Soldiers Cease
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would be executed and that they
fno longer will be taken exclus
ively from among the Communists
but from all classes of the Paris
population" -In the event thaat-
tacu go on. -. . , ;i . -
" 1 Fachea charged that Comma
niiU had created this "delicate"
situation and spoke of "natural
measures taken by the ; Ger-
In Paris Wednesday night Ger
I man and French police worked
overtime. . One of their jobs was
to ; track down by house-to-house
search a so-called terrorist sec
ret . headquarters somewhere- in
the eleventh arrondissement
working-class ward which has
been the scene of previous dis-
orders and mass arrests. The
arrondissement lies) between the
Place de la Republique and "the
Place de la Bastille.
Denver W(
Shoots Self
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AjmA ljaa Boettcher, wife of the
Denver capitalist, Charles Boett-
cner IL who was abducted In a
major kidnaping case In x 1933,
shot and killed herself at her
home Wednesday, Deputy Coroner
Gus Economy reported.
Economy said Mrs. Boettcher,
despondent over ill health, fired
a .38 calibre revolver bullet
through her temple.
Boettcher was released by his
1 abductors, March 1, ' 1033. He had
I been abducted Feb. 12 and was
held captive until $60,000 in ran
I som money was tnrown into a
culvert near Brighton.
Verne Sankey, one of the kid
napers, hanged himself in jail.
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Legion Backs
FDR's Actions
Repeal of Neutrality
: Act Urged at Parley;
To Name Chief Today
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hearted and unswerving sup
port of our government's foreign
policy: . To the end that the
American way of life may sur
vive In a world af free men." i
.Mingled shouts for and against
were heard throughout the spa
cious auditorium. . '- '
The foreign relations committee
report was adopted by a voice,
vote after the minority's resolu
tion was laid on the table.
On national defense, the con
vention voted a 20-poin t program.
. "Our present national objective
is the defeat of Hitler and what
ha stands for, and all diverting
controversies should be subordin
ated to the main objective,' the
defense committee asserted.' ' :
;, "We appeal for unity on this
national objective."
The basic elements of national
d e f e n s e, the convention said,
were: '- -J
"(A) The ability to apply
any fraction or all of eur man
power and war Industrial re
sources promptly and efficient
ly by universal military train
Inr and federal regulation of
war supply agencies,
" "(B) The ability to carry war, .
when unavoidable, to ear en
emy, and thus prevent him from
bringing war to us. This ability
wfll require removal of an ge
ographical limitation on move
ment of forces and adequate
provision for corresponding
plans and materiaL
"(C) Our great potential bul
warks are the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans. These oceans will
be our greatest assets or worst
liabilities, according to our
strength or . weakness therein.
They represent the base of our
world strategy."
This declaration was followed
immediately by one to the effect
that the legion wants America
strong enough to meet any possl
ble attack before it arrives and
to turn an enemy back "so that
our homes remain intact and our
families secure."
The rapid disposal of these vi
tal questions left the choice of a
new national commander as the
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principal business for Thursday's
final session, - : - .:' '
Twa candidates appeared to bt
leading the field Lynn U. Stam-
baugh of North Dakota, the legion
kingmakers choice, and Edward
Scheiberling of New York, one of
the rank and file choices. The bal
lot will be by roll call.
Reports were heard that other
candidates would withdraw In fa
vor of one or another of the lead-
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ing contenders. j
Kansas Gty
Gets Lights
; ; Non-Strikers Restore
i Power After Four Hour
j Blackout Tuesday,
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strike on Sept 7 pending consid
eration of the case, involving a
question of jurisdiction, by the
defense mediation board in
Washington. j
- The! AFL union; which repre
sents 350 production employes In
collective bargaining, had de
manded that it also represent 200
other workers. The company con
tended that the latter were mem
bers of the Independent Union of
Utility Employes with which it
had entered into a contract
Before the day was over state
. and i federal authorities had
. Joined la a demand that the
strikers go back to work, six
men had been arrested, and
Gov. Forrest C DonneU had or
dered a battalion of home
guards to stand by for possible
can. I
Meanwhile, strikes continued to
curtail the digging of soft coal In
the captive mines of Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Kentucky and in a
number of hard coal collieries of
eastern Pennsylvania.
I A conference in Washington,
looking toward resumption of
operations in, the captive pits,
broke up without reaching a de
cision. William H. Davis, chairman
of the defense mediation board,
told reporters that John L. Lewis,
president of the ! United Mine
Workers which called the strike,
had submitted a proposal for re
opening the mines, but that all
who attended the meeting had
agreed not to discuss it until It
could be considered at another
session tomorrow.
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