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'1 Weather Fair' teday. Increasing cloudiness Sunday, eoeler , Sunday. Max. temperature Friday 9, mla. 4S. North--west wind. River -IX li. Fartly cloudy. . Churchc s : Churchroers each week await the Saturday States man to read about the com lng Sunday's services and the various congregations' special observances. PCUNDDD 1THZSTX-TI3S1 YEAB Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning. September 27. 1941 Prlca 3c; Newsstandfl 5c No. 183 11 : A - E BfMsIi Oil 1 o . Mm : Oh 'Axis Pact Day ;.: Says Tri-Power ; Deal for Peace , On Anniversary , TOKYO, Saturday, Sept. 27.-'Py-The t 1 r s 1 anniversary of JaDanese adherence to the axis alliance was observed today in , subdued manner, withonly official functions scheduled and certain pro-fascist leaders si lenced by order of the govern ment."1: ; In a speech to the empire on the eve of the anniversary, No- bubumi I to, director of the cab inet information board, declared that' the primary purpose of the alliance was , world peace and that Japan to this lend .would re tain her ties.' - : -.The tri power pact," he added, "is not like the military alliance of the past which was made for accruing advantages for the pros ecution of war." . j The" newspaper Chugai Shogyo, ; organ - of big business, likewise observed: "The fundamental pur 'pose of the tripartite pact is to re store peace. Then, referring to current Japanese-American talks in Washington, it added: -rIt It shrnif leant that the an niversary of the; pact comes at a time when Japan and the United States are trying to do their best..' -',',,v,-The English-language publica tlon y of i Japan News Week, re torting to earlier criticism of its position, prepared an editorial de claring that r- American attempts . to destroy nazlism were just while German attempts to destroy de mocracy were unjust, because de mocracy, sought only to allow each nation to choose, its form of gov eminent "whereas naziism would impose its will on other nations. ' In the year that has gone I sine the signing of the pact Japan's economic, military and ; naval positions have outwardly worsened, although some com petent observers believe her : Inherent - strength is still un- ) touched despite food shortages and lack of oil, gasoline and raw materials. JaDan has clung to ner ODjec tlve, the" so-called East Asia co- Brosberity sphere and has inten sified her action against China. Crashed Pilot ears SACRAMENTO, Calif, Sept 26 (fly-An army training plane from Mather field here crashed In the foothills ten miles northeast of Chico Friday and an air search Ing party which 1 o c a t e d the wreckage failed to sight any trace of a flying cadet who was aboard the ship. ' Officers identified the missing cadet as John I Driscoll, jr, 23,' of Boise, Idaho. Music Director To Appear on Radio Program ' Edouard Hurlimann, director of the Salem Philharmonic orches tra, is to be featured today on a program to be broadcast , over KSLM ag 8:30 p. m. The program Is sponsored by the Philharmonic Orchestra association In conjunc tion with the drive for member ships and subscriptions. Disapp Republican Club's Parley Opens at Roseburg Today ROSEBURG, Ore., SepU 2S.flJ-CVbgressrnan James W. Mott flew to the Oregon Republican club convention Friday to defend bis voting record on United States' foreign policy. He came from Astoria to appear before the club delegates Saturday morning. V A committee of 18 Oregon re publicans criticised the votes of Mott, Representative Angell and . Senator II 6 1 mja n, who ; were against the lend-lease bill," neu i trality act modification and draft extension. i'' ' " ' ; 'An open forum Friday disagreed on a proposed resolution in sup , port of President Roosevelt's for ' c'n policy. -v.-, ' The resolutions committee met Triday night, but was not expect ed to report until Saturday morn tZt when other business sessions t.c IJ besin. - FAQS TWO Mott Escapes Injury When Plane Bitches - 7 r ROSEBURG, Sept 26 -W)-Bep. James W. Mott (R-Ore) of Salem and Lieut Bowers of; the navy escaped Injury today In a rough landing of a naval amphibian, airplane on the Rose burg airport The plane landed on a tem porary runway the main field: is being reconstructed and dropped Into a ditch when the .runway proved too short The plane was not seriously damag ed. I . . Mott who inspected Tongue Point naval base today, said he would speak at the Oregon Re publican clubs' convention here tomorrow on a resolution 18 delegates said would be sub mitted asking for censure of his vote on lease-lend legislation.' WPA Proposes Raise in Pay Winter Rolls Will Be Increased as Defense Priorities Halt Jobs WASHINGTON, Sept 28.-UP- Pay raises were projected today for over 1,000,000 WPA workers, and at the same time Howard O. Hunter, .Works Progress commis sioner, said rolls of that agency would be increased in the winter to care for thousands of persons made jobless by operation of de fense priorities. Hunter did not announce how much the pay increases would be,-f but told reporters 10 per cent would be "a good guess." He pre dicted some wage action within 30 days. ; The Idea," Hunter said, -1 to bring earnings nearer .Into Tine ' with the increased cost ' of f (Turn to Page 2, CoL'2) Heavy Levy In Non-ffigh School Fund In an effort to place the county non-high school ; educational board on a cash basis for the net fiscal year, directors and citi zen committee members in budget session Friday voted ' to recom mend a budget calling for the heaviest tax levy allowed within the 6 per cent limitation. That levy, $119,155.59, ex ceeds estimated expenditures of $117,217.59, directors said, but may take the board's finances out of red Ink for the first time since its organization. During : the past year it has risen from operations on a 35 per cent cash basis to a pout where It Is paying 54 per cent of its ob ligations in cash. The budget which ' tops by more than $5000 last year's for $112,410.94, has its largest item in $114,955.59 for tuition. Interest on warrants requires expenditure of $1500. The deficit of $61,465.78 shown on this year's books is de clared largely due to delinquency of tax payments. A taxpayers meeting opening at 10 a. m. October 24 is slated for final approval of the budget Rails Present Case CHICAGO, Sept 26 (JPh Of ficials of five railroad operating brotherhoods began presenGtion of their case Friday before resi dent Roosevelt's emergency fact find board studying the wage dis pute between 1,260,000 organized employes and the nation's major carriers. . i Highlight of the convention will be the speech by Joseph W. Maii. tin jr Chairman of .the national republican committee, , Saturday night J- t ;; Elections also will be held Sat urday night, and Vigorous cam paigning was under way Friday. Mentioned for president were Fred Lamport, Salem, and Harry P i n n 1 g e r, Roseburg; ' advisory board members; Robert Fisher jr Eugene, and C. C. Chapman, Port land noritv .or Plan Is Revealed Preference Rate Outlined as Aid To Industries WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.- (iP)-A forthcoming major revi sion of the priorities system, under which defense industries will get specific allocations of materials instead of so- called preference ratings, was outlined to the house banking committee Friday by Donald M. Nelson. i - The executive , director of the newly-created supply priorities and allocations board, testifying in behalf of speedy enactment of the administration's price control bill, said the new system still was under study but asserted be thought its adoption unavoidable. Nelson told newsmen he was not quite sure exactly how the plan could be carried , out but said he Intended to use the ag ricultural implements Industry as "a guinea pig? on which to test his idea. Under the eisting priorities sys- tern, he explained to the commit tee, firms are given" certain rat ings, such as 1-A, in the order of their importance to the ' defense program and the civilian popula tion. "But. a manufacturer can't operate unless he knows how much material he's going to get and when hell be able to get It" the former vice-president of Sears-Roebuck, Ine' said. "He : ean't get that Information from a mere preference mamcrf because many other firms In the same business ' may have the same rating," Where manufacturers find they can't get materials under their priority ratings, he went on, they come in and ask for a higher rating. "When you get them all up to A-A ratings," he added, "you're right back where you started." At the opening of his remarks, Nelson said that as a business man he was fundamentally op posed to price-fixing but declared that in the current emergency,, he believed the administration's price-control bill should be en acted at once to "prevent "an in flationary period that 'will com pletely destroy us." Suspect in Slaying Is Captured KENNEWICK, T Sept 24-ifl3)-Police Chief M. H. Kershaw an nounced shortly before midnight the arrest here of a' man, who identified himself as John Soto, for questioning in connection with the killing of three persons at Hermiston, Ore. i ; Sheriff A. M. Rlchter of Ben ton county arrested him in a hotel room without resistance after he had returned from a motion picture show. - Kershaw said ha had a pistol in a should er holster but. offered no resist ance. He Is about 25 years old. The chief said Soto denied em phatically any connection with the killings, Kershaw said Soto was vague and; evasive in answering ques tions and "throws a fit occasion ally" when being questioned. He said the prisoner admitted hav ing been at Hermiston, but was evasive as to the time. He said the man just sat and stared dur ing much of the questioning. Military Lauds "Fleet Day" - WASHINGTON, Sept 25-a-Spokesmen for the army, the navy and the maritime commission hailed in speeches Friday night this country's progress in provid ing merchant ships for the strug gle against the axis. On the eve of "Lf -rty Fleet day," when 14 merchwit vessels will slide down ways in the great est mass launching since the first world; war, they told of what had been done toward providing tonnage and what still bad to be done . - ' Tha Latest War Developments I RUSSIANS CLAIM COtJNTR'OFfENSIYE 2 Germans reported the suburbs of V Ml 7-- 1 Igorki es-I 7 -MOSCOW n , .7 SJ VepMEL I GERMANS I NkAZAM r A CLAIM , irirv RUSSIANS I 0 . K,EVV I TRACED v , riv rtfrL REPORT A ?lDEfV J GERMAN t. k ATTACK 0 wJ-O POSSL ROUTE Wmmm jf moe British aid SYRIAaqV, irAN m . to-hand fighting. In the Gomel sector, Russians claimed a counter offensive In a drive to ease pressure on soviet forces tn the Ukraine. East of Kiev, Germans said Russiatt break-through attempts out of encirclement were repulsed. London pointed out thai a German at tack on the Crimea had started would be sent through Iran into Army Camp Organization Is Started - . ;4 Consider Problem Proper Horn ; Sanitation, 'Education, Policing Officials of the four would be most affected by construction of the Polk-Benton coun ty army cantonment undertook meet'the problems of housing, that construction of such a military establishment entails. The group, called to the : : Six Counties Mull Raises Commissioners Concur Increases Necessary to Meet Rising Costs That there must be some gen eral salary adjustment for county employes to meet rising living costs was apparently the concen sus of opinion among county com missioners from Lane, Linn, Ben ton, Lincoln, Polk and Marion counties meeting iij Newport on Friday, Commissioner Ralph Gl- ivu guu c nuajr zugui. No scale was recommended, he said, although . indications were that requests for from IS to 13 per cent increases: made. - by ' various Marion county de partments are not out of line among those being received by budget . committees elsewhere. . The- six-months budget may work a hardship on some coun ties not prepared to do as Mar ion county has done in the past in planning expenditure of funds derived . from . the state highway commission, according to Girod. Those monies are ordinarily divided 'out to the counties in July and December, , both allot (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) . . ' - City budget eers slashed so ma terially in their final session this week to make possible " 10 per cent salary increases that the bud get which was totaled in city of fices Friday, if ; accepted, ; will mean a cut of 1.62 mills in the levy . over that for a comparable period of the past year." . General fund estimated . ex- 1 penditureaw were sliced " from $182,ieSJtl to $160,626.03, re check in the city recorder's of fice Friday revealed. No changes were made fat the ' street tax fond, while deletion of a new 600-gaIIon pamper, priced at $9000, and of a fund of more than $7000 set aside toward ln ; stallation of a fire alarm sys tem, would remove necessity for levy of any fire tax. OSLGON STATESMAN. Solera, Saleni 400 MILES HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING REPORTED Leningrad to be the 'scene of hand- and speculated that British troops the soviet Caucasus to aid Russia. ram 0 frosL mid-Willamette valley counties that formal organization Friday to sanitation, education and policing capitol by the Oregon Economic council, authorized Mayor H. W, Hand, Corvallis, to appoint a com mittee to formulate a plan of or ganization to represent Marion, Polk, Benton and linn counties and their interested cities. The committee was called by Mayor Hand to meet at Mon mouth next Thursday night It will consist of Mayors Maurice -J. Butler, Independence; F. R. Bowersex, Monmouth, and Hand, and County Judges Her man Van Welle, Folk, and Clay ton Herron, Benton. ' While the committee represents only the two counties in which the cantonment will lie, if built it may recommend members for the permanent trouble shooting organization to represent Marion and Linn counties, Mayor Hand indicated. The officials were adjured by John W,- Cunningham,' consulting engineer on the army project against, becoming hysterical over the plight of construction work ers who may live in the open, without I what is ordinarily con sidered adequate housing, as they (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) . SF 'Emporium Picketed SAN FRANCISCO, Septv 28- (JP)- San Francisco's largest de partment store, the Emporium, was picketed Friday by the AFL retail - clerks union in a ' strike scheduled to spread to 21 other downtown stores. - Budget Totals Show Heavy Slash Estimated receipts and. avail able cash balances , reduce . the general fund balance to be raised by taxation to $85,028.03, to which must be added $18,664.25, the sum of taxes it is estimated will be delinquent next year, bringing the necessitated levy to $103, 6908. , . A street tax of $69152 and a general bond sinking fund of $42, 3426 bring the total - estimated levies to $152,947.78 for the first six months of 1942, or $25,017.07 less - than, half of the last levy, which' was to "cover ! expenditures for the 12 months of 1941f . , Since taxes levied for bond repayment do not come within the 8 per cent limitation, that share of Salem's taxes which . da come under that regulation Oregon, Saturday Morning. September 27. 1341 "G-E-T b-E-T-A-I-L-S!" Coming, Sunday Get details! ' Those were the orders flashed across the ocean. A secret radio station, com plicated codes, - micro - photo graphs which enlarged Into long list of Instructions these are - the paraphernalia of the modern spy, the government declares as It tries 18 persons en charges of espionage and failure to register as agents of a foreign power. John Ferris tolls of this In ternational drama, i now un folding in the Brooklyn federal court h a story for The Ore gon Statesman special news service, to appear Sunday. French Chop : Three Heads Vichy Acts to Stall German Reprisals in 1 Paris Opposition VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept 26.-iP)-Three Frenchmen died by the guillotine Friday in the courtyard .of Sante prison in Paris, condemned by a new tn bunal of state which was set up to show the Germans that the French themselves can crush pro longed unrest from a hidden op position. . ' The three, all formerly Iden tified with French communism, were Adolphe Guyot once the communist leader of the Seine (Paris) ; department; Jacques Woog and ex -Deputy Jean Cathelas. . The tribunal is expected to is sue new condemnations shortly, among , them the former . com-nwmitrt- e"rotyUibi ilPori, whose case is - believed already decided. Another under death sentence, Fresco Foscardi, re mains at large. All those sentenced so far by the tribunal of state were con victed in secret sessions for fo menting or organizing disorders. Those guillotined today were the first it had sentenced to death. Through the operations of this court, which Is separate (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Duke Leaves US Capital For Ranch WASHINGTON, Sept 26-(fl3)-The vacation-bound Duke and Duchess of Windsor waved fare well to the capital Friday after noon from the rear platform of a private railroad car which will carry them on the next .lap of their, trip to the Duke's ranch at Calgary, Alberta. . Their departure ended day and a half of visits, sight-seeing and social engagements in the course of which thousands of Washingtonians. gave them a tu multuous reception. . At the station to see them off, besides several thousand of the public,' were the Duchess" aunt Mrs. Buchanan Merryman; ajew Meads, official, of the British enmassy and of the state depart ment '- "' j :i::S---:, .The Duke, who is governor of the Bahamas, made his last calls al the war department where he conferred with; Secretary of War Stimson and at the navy depart ment where he talked with Act ing Secretary James V. Forrestal. Government Clerks lined curbs ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) : total $110,605JO, or $18,918 J7. less than the limit . The. council has authority to lower any . portion of the . budget presented to it by the committee, comprised of councilmen and pri vate citizens, but can raise no single item more than 10 per cent . Principal . problem f a c ed In drawing : the budget which was approvea uy ine committee Wed nesday night lay In segregation of expenses ordinarily figured over a ' 12-months period into a six months schedule, heads of de partments declare.. - . - Fuel problems are heavier ( the last six months of the. eal-; . endar year; ' they 5 point out; sometimes a. late. rainy season ' delays work Statreet repair and Nazis, Mowed Down lii Crimean Attack; Gen. Wavell Called i-'-V ",,'. ' ' ....... , : Nazis Admit Failure in Russ Summer Campaign; Norway Stripped of All Blankets ". . . ' ;By The Associated 'Press v. . Soviet: war dispatches said Saturday morning that Ger man troops tackling the approaches to Crimea in the drive toward the Caucasus wefe being mowed "down by the thou sands, and London reported British and Russian leaden were harrying plans for joint 'defense of . the .Caucasus oil fields. -.- - Leningrad and Odessa still said, and red airmen aided ground troops in smashing the Germans in the -Dnieper river But the Caucasus was a BULLETINS SHANGHAI, Sept 27-(Satur-day)-(P)-The Japanese military announced I today - that their troops had entered the outskirts of Chancsha, . bitterly-defended capital of Hunan province, and that hand-to-hand fighting was rasing. BUENOS AIRES, Sept 2S-( -Lieut-CoL Aristobulo Keyea was appointed temporary com mander of the Arrentine air force Friday to sueeeed Gen eral Angel M. Zuloara who was removed Thursday' night after 20 aviation officers had been ar rested or placed under surveil lance u conspirators against the state." : ; , - TEHERAN. Iran. Sent 1-4JP Thoosanda of Kurdish liflesnesi led by : rebellions mountam chieftains were reported Friday to have established a "free state" In the Iranian border province of Kurdistan between the British and Russian tones of occupation. HONGKONG, Sept 2-6P) Japanese bluejackets recently landed on the southwest coast of Kwanftun- were said In a dispatch from that area Friday to have seized large Quantities of wolfram, wood, oil, tea and bristles destined for the United States. HAVANA, Sept 26-(P) Presi dent Fulgencie Batista asked congress for broad new powers Friday night to enable him to enforce , extraordinary defense measures against dangers aris ing from the conflict in Europe. neU Elected Vehicle Chief At Conclave NEW ORLEANS, 'Sept 2.-P) -The American Association of Motor Vehicles Administrators, in convention here, elected Earl Snell, Oregon's secretary of state, its president; Friday. -Snell, by his election, became an ex-officio member of the high way advisory committee to the war department and said he would attend a meeting at Detroit Tuesday. 'v-1 v ' , V- -: : - The session was called by Thom as R. McDonald, chief public roads aclministrator, to survey highway traffic, inventory equip ment, discuss evacuation of cities and other elements of defense work.." " - construction, while an early spring .would make undertaking of such work Immediately ad visable. :c- m ' The six-months budget which the council is to consider ' and present to city residents at -public hearing November 8, Is transition documentr Under "a law passed by the last session of the state legislature, taxing units of Oregon were placed on a uniform fiscal year Tunning from June SO to June 30. Returning to the city .Friday night after a business trip, Mayor 7' W. Chadwick said the budget committee's recommendation for appointment of an : interim com' mittee to study and recommend salary adjustments would be .pre sented to the council for its action. ;'. ' . t' were holding out, the Soviets valley, it was declared. source of worry to the British and dispatches indicated Britain intended to do something there. It was learned that General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, the British' commander in India, was en route to Iran (Persia) to confer with CoL T. Novikov, the Russian com mander there, on What was flatly termed joint British-Russian de fense of the Caucasus. Moreover, Capt Oliver Lyt tleton, British middle eastern political and economic coordin ator, arrived in London to see Prime Minister Churchill, and there were unofficial reports from India that Wavell was al ready orranixinr an expedition ary force in Iran for service in southern Russia. British and Russian columns al ready stand In Iran; Whence they could ' move reasonably: quickly into southern Russia, having en tered for the avowed purpose of putting an' end to nazi intrigues. Moreover, there have been many indications that - British occupa tion of nearby Afghanistan was, likely. ' ; ' ; ' ' . ' . London for days has shown great concern at the progress of the German drive in the south for beyond the Caucasus lie the routes to India. Germany in effect admitted Friday night the failure of the (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) Bomber Crew Rites Slated Victims of Mountain CraskWiU Be Sent To Homes for Burial '- ' TACOMA, Sept 26 -OPh- The- bodies of the six men who died in the wreck of their twin-motor-ed army bomber 17 days ago win be shipped to their homes for last rites and burial Saturday; - ; naay nirfil they rested In a Tacoma mortuary . where they (were broucht some hears earlier by members of the army pack Party thaT scaled 7700-foot Mount Constance In the Olym pics to reach the scene of the - crash. v : ' McChord field officials said Fri day night no instructions had been issued there to hold me morial services for the victims. m view of the fact that each man would receive : Individual services in his home town, such orders were not likely to be is sued, McChord officers added. . -? Names of the bomber crew: 1 ; Second Lieut Edward T. Val- era,, the pilot Chicago; Second Lieut John W. TVinshlp, ee : pflot Elyerslde, Calif.; Staff Stf Kobert D. Dexter," - San Bernardino. Calif.; Set James W. Pare, Dallas, Tex.; Jack J. Hupert Milwaukee, Wuu, and ' MSford Knight St Louis, Mo. la '.1 ' m. "1 Saving Over WASHINGTON, Sept :26.-Wr-That part Of America on daylight saving lime about ,52,000,000 people can turn back toe clock Sunday with full government sanction. .-'. V- '- . '' '. The federal power, commission" said Friday that a survey of the power situation had uncovered "no emergency justifying - the contiiiV uation of-daylight saving- time as a measure to conserve electricity." Consequently, it, said, .no"area would be asked to keep its clocks an hour ahead of-standard, time. V If a power shortage should !de-: velop to threatendefense? produc- tlon, ' the commission said,', steps would be taken to bring that area under daylight saving time. ;
