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riuIITY-FEST YEAB Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 2 1941 Prlc 9cj newsstands 5 No, 153 Star of LaMnclied : ' WijfJJj Liberty Portland Built 0 24; Governor Tells of Defense Effort; FDR Talks PORTLAND, Sept. 27 (Ag) The liberty ship "Star jof Oregon' slid down ways of the Oregon Shipbuilding cor poration's plant Saturday, one of 14 vessels launched throughout the nation in observance of liberty fleet day." The Star of Oregon, its keel laid May 1! just 100 years after the first ship of that name was built here, was christ ened by Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, wife of Oregon's governor. President Roosevelt's brief message was rebroadcast, Strike Closes Steel Mais Giant Alabama Plants -: With 19,000 Workers Guarded by Troops BIRMINGHAM, Ala4 Sept 27 i (VP)The giant steel mills of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company were closed" Saturday night by a strike of members of I the steel workers organizing com i mittee (CIO). Approximately 19,000 men are employed in manufacturing units at Fairfield, Bessemer and Ensley, i all in this district. , - The walkout followed an un i successful last minute effort to : -postpone the general strike un- tn Sunday night. The SWOC , ; voted the immediate walkout by i . seclamatlon a few minutes after r Governor . Frank M. Dixon - re ' fused a union demand that state : ' guard units Ms withdrawn. ;' ' ' .TCI, with eight blast , furnaces - and .open, hearths, was produc ing more, , than 200,000 tons , of : steel ingots pre . month, most of Vhich was going into defense! in- Tdustries. . ',"'1. ' '. '- Tonight's walkout followed (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Yacht Blast Kills Three, Hurts Seven - GEORGETOWN, Md, Sept 27. i f-(PrThree persons were killed. iand seven injured early Saturday night when an explosion ripped the 80-foot cruiser -Koonyung as i it lay docked : in the. 'Sassafras i river.-- :.!.. '. j, ;! '. Paul E. Helms, Chester, Pa : Identified the dead as: ! j Miss, Mary Paneoast 49, sis- : ter ef Dr. Charles Paneoast, : - Philadelphia, who wned the yacht v;, :- '.K-rj-. ... -'j '.v- Dr. Dorothy Childs, SO, Fhila i delphla. , . j Mrs. Dorothy Berk Ilolms, 40, Helms wife. . Mrs. Ilelms died of internal. Injuries at the Chestertown hos r pltal, where all the injured E were taken. Miss 'Paneoast and i Dr. Childs were drowned. j i Beginners9 Luck! For Boy Hunters - First bunting . trip ever made by Richard and Russell , Satter, Salem youths, was ended Satur - day when they returned with ' s .mule deer each.. The animals,1 shot near Pendleton, weighed approxi .tnately.17,5 pounds apiece, dress : ed. One : was two-point and the other four-point. " .. f .v;-.- .. . The boys are sons of Ed Satter, linotype operator at. The States . man. ' J ; ;i rfe.;7-WU Willamette university's campus w&s new to many students arriv ing in Salem the past few days, but new to nearly all are the resi Czzxts of University house, Presi Ciint and Mrs. Carl Sumner Knopf. Co unauspiciously did the. genial couple arrive that few knew of their presence. - ; -v . These friends of long-stand-; l-g of Dishop and Sirs. Eruce tL Baxter, their predecessors . here, were encouraged la their choice of coming to Willamette by the appearance Salem : had given them as a town of homes and community spirit as well as by the desire to help adminis trate a small university, with lbs Meals of religion and de rzocracy, - ; -To start from the bottom ii Ore sr. V go Vessel One , Governor Sprague spoke of the nation's defense efforts and the ship gracefulliy took to the water, "victory" and "pleasant voyage" flags fluttering from temporary masts. The spanking new - vessel began her career auspiciously, . slipping- Into the gritty, waters of the Willamette river without mishap. Shipyard men called it a perfect launching. Twenty seconds after restrain ing steel plates were cut by torch, the Star touched water for the first time and in 38 seconds she floated free. Fears that she might gather too much speed and hit docks on the opposite of the re latively narrow river proved groundless. Big concrete drags and a "barn door" abeam the pro peller braked the 441-foot craft after she had coasted a scant two lengths into the river. Factory whistles through the surrounding industrial district shrieked, automobile horns blasted, an estimated 30,000 spectators cheered as the first .large 'vessel launched in Oregon since the first world war took to her element. Twe tors qnickly marched up and nosed her into a special slip whef e T6he t WttT be complex She rode hih, drawing- a scant 7 feet. When her reciprocating engine Is installed, her super structure completed . and , her holds foil of cargo she will draw 27. Her cargo tonnage will be 14. The Star's keel was laid last May 19, her building requiring a little more than four months. She is a single-screw freighter with five holds and two decks. Oregon shipbuilding officials estimated a second ship would be launched in considerably less than a month. America has "chosen sides" in the . current world struggle, Gov. Charles A. Sprague told the thousands of people assembled to day at Swan Island to witness the launching of the "Star of Oregon.1 Recalling that the first "Star of Oregon," an Oregon white oak, red fir and cedar vessel 53 feet long, was launched 199 (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Vitt Resigns From Beavers OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 27-(-Peppery Oscar Titt, whe dropped from major to-minor league baseball after managing Cleveland te within s same of the pennant: last year, has re timed bis Job as skipper of the Portland elab; , . Vitt said he had severed eon sections with the Coast league team, which finished In s last place tie with, Los Angeles, be cause it ; seemed like a hope less proposition. We straggled through the last season with 17 useful players and the e 1 b owner, E. J. Schefter, did not 'Seem willing te Invest la new players te the extent I thought necessary to produce s winner. We parted en amicable' terms." President necessary, Dr, Knopf feels, in the attempt to solve school problems. "I'm another freshman,, he told some "rooks" who looked in on him last week. S5-?V Work which waits in his new office and getting acquainted with the campus and its students will come .first for the -man whose latest post was director of relig ious education at ' University , of Southern California.' . - When time for relaxation comes, It's work with bis bands and not handshaking that will octupy this time, for woodwork- ! Ins tools and equipment were evident in goods moved Into the house. - The problems of moving house hold goods, which came from Lea Your Dollars?: See Answer on Feature Page Where do your Salem Community Chest r dollars QO? : The answer to mat ques tion to be asked this week as the city's 1941 Chest cam 'paign : opens. Is given In a special story on The States man Feature page, section two. page six. ; ;;. - Also, look on that page for other j interesting iz lectures: Wlse or Otherwise." Ethan Grant's entertaining column; Lillie L. Madsen's expert ad vice on gardening; odd Items from an old newspaper, re ported from Sdo. and the de tails of New York's sensa tional nazl spy trial. Salem Chest Drive Is Set Annual Campaign to Open Tuesday; Gov. Sprague at Kickoff With a nest egg of $11,800 to lend encouragement the Salem Community Chest campaign will open on Tuesday at a 7:45 a. m. breakfast at the Marion hotel. The pre-campaign committee's solicitation of larger, gifts has been so- successful that workers are hopeful of reaching the $50, 000 goal this year and winding up the campaign within a shorter time that usual. At the kickoff breakfast Gov. Charles A. Sprague will be the principal speaker. Musical por tion of the program is being arranged by Kay Stnmbo. Irl S. McSherry, campaign chair man, will preside. Pledges in excess of $100 re ported since the last 'previous meeting of the pre-campaign committee included; ? $1200 Ladd & Bush branch of United - States National bank. $500 . Portland General Elec trie Co.; Oregon pulp & Pape Co. - $100 spaulding Logging Uo Price Shoe Co Johnson's Ladies Ready to Wear, Gevurtz Furniture Co., General Finance Co., Keith Powell, R. K. Page and family, Mrs. W. W. v Moore,- Dr. W W. Baum, Mrs. Donna Aldrich. Italian Ship Losses Mount ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept 2? -fly-September was Italy's black est month at sea since the battle of Cape Matapan last March, with 29 troop and supply ships sunk, 30 others damaged badly, and the flow of axis reinforcements across the Mediterranean to North Africa.) curtailed sharply, a compilation of British war - bulletins . showed Saturday night , British and Netherlands sub marines sometimes raiding into gunfire range of Italian harbors and bombers of the Mediterranean fleet arm were credited with sink' Ing one and damaging two of every five Italian ships which tried the Mediterranean crossing during the month. , . '1 , 'r'.- Chevrolet Price Hiked -FLINT, Mich," Sept 27-(flV Chevrolet division of Genera Motors announced Saturday night a flat price advance of $87 on the 1942 models of its master and special series which were shown Saturday. The increase is ap proximately 10 per cent ON THE AIR FOR DEFENSE Marion county's preparation for civilian defense in ease ef emergency, are te be discussed at s:is Monday t night ever KSLM- en the -Marion County Civil Defense council's program by County Coordinator Bryan XL Cenley. Prepares : for Classes Angeles, were ' almost new to Knopfs, for they last changed resi dence in 1923. ; Though the California city has been their home for most of the past 32 years, Dr. and Mrs. Knopf both said past visits bad Impressed them with Salem as a hornet - Plenty of -opportunity- for - the new president to use bis : bands was Jafforded as two vanloads of furnishings' were moved into the houseJTrying .. to get goods into place proved tedious, but through it all the Knopfs kept alive a ready t sense of bumor. " , " ' . . Varsatnity Is characteristic of both Mrs, Knopf Is known for her ability as a- planisti Dr. Knopf Is a Methodist minister and wa prclcsssr cf EliUcal Officials Na GOP Club Salem Woman Is Secretary; Mott : Lauded, Martin ROSEBURG, Sept. .27 -- The Oregon Republican club Saturday elected ,' Robert F. 'ischer, Eugene topographer, president, the first" union fnan to be named bead of the or ganization. -jL Barbara Benson,' Salem, was elected secretary; Dr. C. K. Chapman, Oregon City, treas urer; Howard Waddell, Roseburg, sergeant-at-arms. Vice-president, selected by con gressional districts, were Robert Mulvey, Oregon City, district 1; John Scofield, Portland, district 3; Harry Pinniger, Roseburg, dis trict 4. District 2 had insufficient representation for an election. The executive committee will select a site for next year's con vention. . The resolutions committee proposed that the republican party "resume Its rightful posi tion and positive, vigorous lead ership so that by all constitu tional means all the resources ef ear nation be employed prompt ly and effectively: (1) To re establish freedom of the seas; (2) te protect and defend our country and to support all con stitutional ' national effort to overcome military aggression that now menaces the funda mental rlrhts of free people." Re-election of Mott and Rep resentative Homer D. Angell was urged by Joseph W. Majtin, na tional republican chairman, who said, "they have done splendid work for the state of Oregon and they should have the full support of republicans." ' "No man has done more for na tional defense than Jim .Mott,' Martin added. - (Tura to Page VCbL'' Duke Greets Old Friends In Midwest ST. PAUL, Sept 27-UPV-The Duke of Windsor, enroute to his ranch near Calgary, Alberta,' greeted an old friend, Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg of St Paul, widow of the former secretary of state and ambassador to England, on his arrival here Saturday night The Duke and Dttckess of Windsor , had three hours between trains here ; when they came from Chicago. They were met at the depot by Lieut Gov ernor and .Mrs. C Elmer Ander aon of Minnesota and Mayor and Mrs. John . McDonough of St Paul, and taken by automobile along a mile and a half route through erowd-Uned streets te the state eapitoL At the capitol, the duke and duchess changed automobiles. Learning that Mrs. Kellogg was In nearby car, the duke walked over to greet her. He chatted for several minutes before rejoining ms party and leaving for an in formal dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daniels near St Paut Sunday the duke's train will take him through the North Da kota wheat country. Russ Chief Captured BERLIN, Sept 27-(flVDNB News agency reported ' Saturday the commander-in-chief of. the Russian fifth army had been cap tured by German troops in mop ping up operations east of Kiev and. said another high-ranking Russian oCcer, identified as Col onel General Kirponk had fallen in battle in the same area. literature at liSC. Bis work there also was In the field of archeology Tint I don't I do laboratory, translating tla discoveries of ethers." He la a linguist and also plays the piane "Willamette Is fortunate to se cure a scholar with the high char' acter of Dr. Knopf," Paul B. Wal lace, president of the board of trustees, declared.; Since the se lection of Knopf in August ac quaintances have looked forward to his arrival, 1 In the centennial year of the university, students and faculty alike are eager for the first of ficial appearance of Dr. Knopf, in his office Monday and as chape. speaker ; Tuesday morning. . He likewise is eager, to get acquaint ed with "new friends." . , medBy ""' in "r"g . : - . - HOWARD LATOURETTE - I POBTLAND, Sept 27-P)-Heward I Latourette, democratic national committeeman, announced Saturday night he would seek his party's nomination for gov ernor In next May's primary election. Former speaker ef the Oregon house or representatives. the Portland' lawyer announced his Intent aft a gathering adver Used as a draft-Latourette meet ing. He will be nominated by petition, and 1 Latourette-for governor committees organized in each county. Radio Tuners Meted Death Gennaaience Two for Listening; Executions Reported BERLIN, Sept 27-(ff-Two residents of Germany were sen tenced to death Saturday for lis tening to foreign broadcasts and 22 more persons in German-con-1 trolled territory: were reported J succeeded in uprooting the Dnie executed for other offenses. per defense, destroying five soviet "Definite all warnings." said DNB. official news acency. of the two death sentences. ' "various eountrvmeft still allow themselves to be misled intd listening to un true foreten renorti and snreading - "They thereby permK them selves to be misused as the cheap tool ef enemy agitation, cripple their own powers resist ance and stab the national com-'' munity In the back by treason able support of the enemy." At the same time execution of 20 persons of unnamed national ity was announced in Belgian newspapers. (Dispatches from Paris also said German authorities there an - nounced the firing squad deaths of two more Frenchmen, bringing to 37 the hostages and others who have been shot br Germans . in France. , YTh. wHiiiMt tnKnmmimiif 14 residents of Avignon to prison n ABawsatflV v i atvu v bawm i m , , . M Ti MM slain on the approaches to be terms ranging up to 15 years and . , T life on charge .of furthern com munist party propaganda. In some cases fines were added.) The twe death sentences an nounced in Berlin fvere the first known Instances of the extreme penalty being applied tor tuning In on foreign stations. NeW Bids Seen For Oreg ons Camp Lands WASHINGTON, Sept 27-P)- Rep. Pierce (D-Ore) learned Sat urday that, the . war department planned to readvertise for bids for abstracting title to lands it wants in Polk and Benton coun ties, Ore; for .future army , ex pansion. " .- - Pierce reported . dissatisfaction with the abstracting work and up on investigation found that the bids had not been" properly ad vertised. He called it to the at tention of the war department and the decision to readvertise was announced. The date was not set Lato Sports SACRAMENTO, Calif- Sept 27! -WVSacramento . clinched t b e first elimination series' In the president cup playoffs Saturday night with t t to 3 victory over San Diego. : rvf y : . ' i San Diego ' 3 .7, 3 Sacramento -Z ' " r. t 11 3 Terry. DUbeck (5). Rich (7) and Salkeld; Munger, Schmidt (5) and Kluttz. V . . SEATTLE, Sept 27-P)-Seattle booted away a shaughnessy play off game Saturday night, making three errors to allow Hollywood to win, 9 to 3. " - ' ' Hollywood 5 4 "1 Seattle : w.-' ' ; tt,. 3 11 3 Tost Ei thorn (9) and Dapper; Barrett and Collins. Nazis Claim Bi AreasMed Tell of Annihilating Five Russ Divisions; Leningrad 1 Fights on, Soviet Asserts v- By The Associated Press : ne Iurst anniversary of the partite pact was marked Saturday j by German announcement that five soviet armies had been "unparallelled" victory; Japanese claims to capture of Chang sha, stubborn; capital of the Chinese province of Hunan; and Italian decision to ration bread, raise taxes and weed out luke- warm fascists The gigantic German claims cial nazis heralding this as the turning point of the entire continent-wide conflict which has been in progress for 14 weeks.' -; The red army told of successes on a more modest scale on me central front and before Lenin grad, which a Russian spokesman said never would be taken no matter how many tens of thou sands of Germans fell there. London saw increasing indica tions that British forces . were moving to help defend the Cau casus in the south. Official Berlin sources, how ever, contenaea uruisn ana American help for Russia al ready was too late because the soviet union had-been all but knocked ot basins their as sertions en this special com munique from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters: "The big battle near Kiev Is finished. In a two-sided encircle- ment of a tremendous region we armies without permitting even small units to escape the enclrcie- I ment f "In the course of operations carried out with the closest col-: lahnratinn nf th ftrmv Bnd ah forcfir.) io&X jot 6flm prison ers were - taken, 8S4 ,tans, 37 is pieces of artillery, and unsurvey- able quantities of other war ma terial were captured or destroyed. "The opponents bloody - loss- es again were very high. "Thus a ivietory was won which Is unparalleled tn his tory. The exploitation, ef these successes b in full swmg." The German radio blared forth the communique with a flourish of trumpets, and the press rolled lout its blackest headlines. The I German public listened and read with stolid faces. 1 Informed Germans said the in I vasion had reached to the source lof the Volga river, 200 miles I southeast of Leningrad. ed more than 4000 enemy soldiers planes and 34 tanks captured or destroyed, as well as local suc cesses on the central front scene of repeated Russian counter-at tacks, f Authoritative military uar- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) I Plane Afire Reported I n Monmouth District MONMOUTH, Sept 2S State police were searching the area between here,, and Lewis barf Saturday night for an air plane which was reported to have crashed and burst Into Early Sunday morning the report was still unverified. RussiAmb(issador Accepts British Tank Ivan XL Malsky, Russian ambassador lo Upland, addressed the workers at a ErUsh tank nrst Eritlsh-made Unk far Russia (background) rolled off the assembly line. This photo Lonioa to New York via r4ia, wired ta Chicago and airmailed to The Statesman. .Kiev in uerman-japanese-itaiian tn- annihilated east of Kiev In an overshadowed all others, offi Italy Lowers u: Bread Ration Series of Measures Announced to Aid Conflict Effort 1 ' . . : ROME, Sept 27.-JPhThe Ital ian government Saturday an nounced a far-reaching series of measures designed to streamline the country's war effort Including bread rationing, increases in taxes. curbs on Inflation, decentraliza tion of industry arid the weeding out of luke-warm fascists from public office. The cabinet meeting under Premier Mussolini, approved the group ' of laws. These measures . revised and reinforced ; previous decrees In tended to. discourase Italians from K Investing - their , cash in property er industrial securities rather- than- In the government bonds with which Italy is pay ing for the war. Their aim is partly also to prevent an infla tionary flif ht from the lira. The cabinet after hearing n Duce himself report that the 1941 grain harvest "does not cover the needs of ! the 1 population," an- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Ceiling Near On Payments Two days and $160,500 to go was the score Saturday night in the race of Oregon employers to reach the "ceiling" in state unem ployment .compensation funds. Payments ' received , ta the compensation commission's of fice during the past week to taled approximately 3250,000 te bring the; fund to 314,212,500, according to Ellis TL Jones, m formatlonal . representative ': ef the commission. If the fund has mounted through employer payments to $14,373,000 when books are closed September 30, . the tax structure will be fro zen at 2.7 per cent v The tax structure .. would - be frozen purely so far as penalty payments i might be concerned employers : could still, under the merit-rating system, cut the I r payments as low as 1 per cent, Jones said Saturday night v: sDeey By Employers EIx:c::et On. -Battle Over Act Opponents of US Foreign Policy To Resist Change, WASHINGTON, Sept. 27(M -Opponents of administration foreign policy were organiz ing Saturday for a fight against revision of the neutrality act, and Senator La Follette (Prog- Wis) made if clear that opposi tion senators . Would resist any changes.' . - - ' , President Roosevelt is ex-.t pected to confer with his con- gressional i lieutenants 'Monday and to decide then what recom mendations to make in a formal message to congress later in the week. , . , "I am Opposed to either repeal or modification of the neutrality act" La Follette told reporteds. Either proposal would be an other step toward actual partici pation ' in the war. Therefore, either would be violative of the pledges President Roosevelt made in the 1940 campaign." Saying that the administration had not yet given a clear-cut out line of what changes were want ed in the neutrality act La Fol lette added that "apparently they are trying to decide whether to bury it completely, or to leave a skeleton hanging up." Another administration oppo- nent Senator Johnson (R Calif), will return here early, next week and, ether senators said, fa expected te call a meet ing ef the "non-lnterventlonist bloc" immediately after Mr. -Roosevelt announces his recom mendations. Johnson is ranking minority member of the senate foreign re lations I committee and has been in the forefront of the congres sional battles against Mr. Rooee velt's international policies " The present neutrality. Jawf tn. acted in 1939, forbids the arming of American 'merchant ships and prevents them from entering bel ligerent ports or combat, areas fixed by the president In" addi tion, it prohibits Americans from traveling on the vessels of bellig erent nations. , WASHINGTON. Sept 27-ff)" Taking Issue with Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman ' George (D-Ga) ef the senate finance committee said Saturday a f per cent limitation en corporate profits "would crush and kill small business." By The Associated Press The so-called "nuisance" taxes, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Riots May Halt Portland 'Mass' Football Games PORTLAND, 8 e p t 27-tfV School officials said Saturday that future mass openings of the Portland Interscholastkr football league might be can- -celed because ef near-riots Fri day night School Superintendent Ralph Dug dale said high school prin cipals weald consider the mat ' ter next week. -'. Police said 18 prowl ears re sponded to series of riot calls that followed the contests as students milled about down town Portland. factory as the was sent f.'oni