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Pictures Vcaihor A. Two syndicated new ple tore services, and a -staff V v photographer serve ,- States-' man readers. For first news . la word and - picture, read r The1 Statesman. . . t - Fair today cloudy Wed nesday with .possible occas ional light rain.. Max. tem perature Monday 72, Ilia. 41 Southwest wind, Elver 12. Partly cloudy. . - . . - rrciETY-FnisT yeah Price So !7e7sstands 5c Uo, 1C3 24 Watch Rise Russians C(ivtmed Aher Kiev JB SI ; " - PouNDor? 1651 . J ' jf v Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 30. 1941 ( ammmmmm nannnannnnasnanwomn--s-a-s Czech I - J- . -v". -- - -- - ---.- I , f.i (. juiiot w. ..v , i.i i iMn-n,. .,1"" '.!"".'.-) ,', i ,ii.i.iimi.m.j vi.v,nm:.-:.- :.: y.ijimi. ..;...iuii,ii . .,. . I i. inu. ui.jll,.. " ' " .'" mm i I m . . ' 11 . s ( i Executed Nazia : ; Three Generals "Shot, Accused Of Revolt Plan Msaooa00 re For Med:: Alffi;M In Plants : v By The Associated Press German firing squads in Bohemia-Moravia have executed at least 24 Czechs, Including three former high-ranldng gen erals, accused of plotting to overthrow their nazi conquer ors; Berlin . announced - early Tuesday morning. . The generals who died at dawn, Josef Bily, ! Hugo Votja and Franz Horacek, were de scribed as leaders of an "op position group which had as its coal the re-establishment of an independent Czech state." " The executions followed soon after proclamation of. a state of civil emergency- in that country, which fell to the Germans blood- lessly after the Munich confer ence. Czecho-slovakia thus was added to the long list of territories giving the German army trouble while it is engaged in the gigantic task of beating Russia. - Berlin already had announc ed the execution of six Czechs, 'and It was not clear whether this "24 Included them. The fate of the Czech pre mier, Gen. Alois Ellas, who .was arrested on a , charge of , premeditated treason, still was undisclosed today. He faces a 'trial by a German court. . From France, Belgium, The Netherlands, 'Norway and" dis membered Yugoslavia even from within Germany came asteadily lengthening- list of ..other restless moves against the reich. ; The .. official German Gazette announced : confiscation of the property of the Catholic founda tion, St. Valentinua Haus, in the Rhlneland, because it was "hos tile to the state." 1 : Execution of two " more men In Paris last Saturday was disclos- ved by German authorities, brine- rfcvg to 37 thonumberT-bot by firihg squads here; - - Aneta, free duty news agen cy, reported Netherlands citl aens were providing beacons to . guide British bombers on raids , Into the continent despite strict -police measures. " Twenty " persons were put to death only - last week at Lille where dynamite, which the Ger mans said was stolen by sabo- . teurs in - northern France and Belgium, was used to wreck Ger man troop and French , supply trains. ; - " With more than 1000 newly ar (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Police Seek :;' Mail Robbers At Hermiston - HERMISTON, Ore, Sept 29-tP)-Police continued their search Monday for the thief who took seven mall sacks from the railway depot here Sunday, but if they had any definite clues they concealed that fact ; Sam McCracken, night wateh ." man, discovered the theft when be found that a mail room lock , ' had been taken from the hinges, 'he reported to police. 7 It was believed that the federal bureau -of investigation had en tered the case and was working with local and state police and postoffice inspectors. ; The seven sacks of first class mail stolen contained nearly 300 - money orders and several thou sands of dollars in currency. A number of pay, checks for .work ers at the army ordnance depot here' were believed in letters ad dressed by the" workers to mem bers of their families. Italy Halts Textile Sales '- ROME, (Tuesday) Sept 30-P) The Italian government sus pended, effective today, all trade in textiles and clothing of every kind Including furs, shoes, and boots, preliminary to i nation wide stock-taking and rationing of these goods. The halt in sales began just a day ahead , of bread rationing which begins Wednesday because of an inadequate grain crop. . Slayer Is Divorced REDWOOD CTY, Calif, Eepi 29 -()- A final divorce decree was awarded Monday to ; Mrs. Pricilla P. Holmes, former Hills borough .society woman, from John M. Holmes, who is in Ban Queritia prison for slaying Wil son D. McNary, Jr, Portland, bre shipping executive. . 00 E-2Q00Q $10,000. YonH recognize this as the Com munity .Chest thermometer, which tn past campaigns has hang on outside the ' First National bank. The publicity committee hung it here Instead. The mercury stands at 111,800 bat It will climb rapidly after the kickoff breakfast this morn ing at the Marlon hotel.? The goal Is $50,100. US Inflation Menace Told Henderson Declares Defense Program Is Hurt; Support Asked NEW YORK, Sept 29 --As-serting the inflation Was threat ening to wreck the arms program, make an "empty farce" of prior ities control and ruin the great middle" class, . Leon i Henderson asked the support of businessmen Monday night for the pending price control legislation.. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2-(JP) -Chairman Marriner . S Eeclea of the federal reserve board told the house banking commit tee Monday that Inflation could not be prevented If wages and salaries were allowed to rise indiscriminately. Testifying in behalf of the ad ministration's price control bill, Eccles suggested that the wage problem might be solved through creation of a centralized labor or ganization with which the gov ernment could cooperate in es tablishing a nationwide schedule of "prevailing wages" for the duration of the emergency. Such a schedule would serve as a base, he said, until there was Justifi cation for a change. "Whether or not yon fnelade within the . terms of this bill m declaration of policy or discre tion or deal with labor and farm prices," he said, "the fact is that you cannot leave wages and salaries which are the main factor in prices to rise Indis criminately and be realistic abont pre ven tint" Inflation. "You cannot, in my judgment, realistically put a high-level floor under farm prices and no ceil tag." United Plans Leasing of Air Office Due in Salem Wednesday to complete arrangements with the city of Salem for use of the mu nicipal airport and to , contract for lease of . offices in the con templated new administration building at the port are H. Han cock of San Francisco, assistant to the president of United Air lines, and E, S. Maroney, district operations manager for the com pany. . Tom Armstrong, chairman of the city council's airport commit tee, said Monday night he expect ed to be able to report to the council October 6 employment of an architect to design the admin istration structure. FDR Plans Conferences HYDE PARK, NY, Sept 29- -President Roosevelt left by spe cial train Monday night . lor Washington, where he wd con fer Tuesday with Secretary Hull and Wednesday with congression al leaders on revision or repeal of the neutrality law to permit the arming of American merchant sMps. - Defense Orders , Held up;NWIs Threatened , The -Associated tress Labor difficulties flared up at four. defense plants Monday, affecting; production, of mine sweepers, ; machinery for. naval craft, "blitz" buggies and chem icals for explosives. A dispute, over union recog nition and reinstatement of sev eral workers recently dismissed led to a walkout by 105 CIO employes of the Greenport Basin and Construction Co, Inc, Greenport, NY, employing 360 workers, the firm has con tracts for, 12 minesweepers. 4 At Philadelphia, a n o t her CIO strike halted production by the American Engineering company on parts for two cruisers. The company has contracts for winch es, anchor machinery, cranes and other auxiliary - machinery. The union said the walkout, affecting 570 workers, was called because the management had employed men at wages below the minimum called for in a contract, but did not disclose details. A ware dispute resulted in a walkout at the Midland Steel Prodncts Co, Cleveland, affect mg 1,409 workers enrared in "making frames for the small ears the army calls "blitz bug gies' and for Buck, Hudson and' Studebaker automobiles and Ford tracks. A CIO spokes man said the company had re jected a demand that wages be raised to the level paid In Its Detroit plant. - AFL pickets turned back more than 200 workers at the Monsanto Chemical Co.; East St Louis, 111- because they were unable to pro duce paid-up dues cards of the AFL Chemical Workers union. The plant, employing 900, turns out various defense chemicals, in cluding sulphuric -acid for , the newly-opened mr plant ax vvei- don Springs, Mo. ; - - -' SEATTLE, Sept 19-WA ' spokesman for American Fed eration of Labor-affiliated weld ers' said Monday a walkout capable of crippling many of the' major defense Industries In Seattle and Tacoma had been authorized for next Monday as a protest against treatment by the AFL. The protest Is by the welders and - burner councils of the two cities because of the long-stand ing refusal of the AFL to grant welders and metal burners a sep arate craft union. They now are (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Plan Shelved WASHINGTON. Sept 29 H? : Subjected to sharp criticism from businessmen and congress members, . Secretary Morgen- - thaa'i proposal far a ( per cent - limit on corporation profits was . put on the shelf Monday. : . The treasury head annonne T ed that the plan would not be formally proposed to congress , next year, and would not tn any event apply to 1911 busi ness. "Drafting the plan ' Is not f complete," ho told a press eon - ferenee, "and from talks with my staff I can tell yon It will take several months so It will be after the first of. January before we can get ready and then it win apply cn 1312 busi ness, if enacted." ' ' ' ' ' ' Y'fi:'j;p::ftv':j;;;g.;;:; -; , s -r ' ' .-;:- - v - .y ! r .:-:..-: . Iff ' : " .. -;: ,v' ' .- - .u- - II I lllVHt ll lit I I II It I III I III .l...l.lllll I llllll.ll.lllll.llimMlllllilil fMaMlllMM.I.lMM lllllllll A line of Russian prisoners captured In the encirclement of Kiev, according to Berlin sources, passed the wreckage of Soviet tracks. This picture was seat by radio from Berlin to New York, wired to Chi cago ana airmailed to The Statesman. , Solon Favors Arming Ships Declares Neutrality Act Repeal Would Not Be Warlike WASHINGTON, Sept 2 May Declaring that the United States now should "reassert and reordain our adherence to the doctrine of freedom of the seas," Senator Connally (D-Tex.) asserted Mon day night that if American aid to Great Britain was to be effective this nation should deliver arms and munitions to points "where they can be effectively employed." Connally, chairman . of the powerful senate foreign rela tions committee told a radio audience ever NBC that Adolf Hitler "sinks our ships where ever they may be. He sends his larking submarines Into oar de fensive waters. He defies us. Ho murders' our eltlsens. He . assassinates oar ships." . Speaking on the ' Forum pro gram of the Washington Evening Star, the Texan added that "the repeal, of the .so-called neutrality act would not be un-neutrakHe added: , r "After its repeal, the United States should be a neutral under international law. That (neu trality) act prohibits the arming of our merchant ships. I favor the repeal of that provision. It la my view that merchant ships that are now being ruthlessly attacked (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Request for Auto Papers Boomerang When Mrs. Louis Kruger wrote from Ceres, Calif, to request a Salem used car dealer to turn over to her title to the car her husband had bought here she evidently didnt know the quality of the check allegedly given in payment for the car, county officers said Monday night '. Preparing to send extradition papers into California, where Kroger b held at request of Oregon police, the sheriffs of fice revealed that the man and car axe held In Modesto. - Kruger is charged in a circuit court warrant with forgery by material alteration. He la said to have raised a check for bean pick ing by an even $100 and to have turned it over to Ciarence Shrock along with his old car for a newer model vehicle. Shrock told state police he gave the man approxi; mately $40 In change. Officers, while they had noti fied police in other states, did not know where Kruger had gone un til Mrs. Kruger's letter to Shrock asking the title papers had been received in Salem. - Salem Church Sends Call To Pastor Officials of the American Luth eran church of; Salem Monday night extended a call to Rev: Dr. M. A. Getzendaner, pastor of St Mark's Lutheran church at Dav enport, Ia4 to replace Rev. P, W. Ericksen who is leaving this week for El Psu;Tex-:":;:-vr.:--Dr Getzendaner has net yet answered the Invitation, bat a reply la expected within a short time. In the past he has shewn much interest In the west and has expressed a desire to move into this section. -, Rev. Ericksen on October 1 is to become minister of St Paul's Lutheran church in El Paso. He preached his farewell sermon to his congregation Sunday and is leaving Salem within a day or so. - - , , County Before Over Half Million Requested for ; y " Six Month Period; Hearing Will Be Scheduled Late in October Budget requests totaling $591,617.08 are to go before the Marion county budget committee when it opens its annual ses sion this morning at the courthouse. Of this sum, $188,679.18 rep resents expenditures for self-supporting activities of the county, Spy Suspect Admits Acts Native Russian Asserts : His Purpose to Hamper British, not Hurt US NEW YORK, Sept 29-(-Axel Wheeler-Hill, 41, who fought the Bolsheviks in his native Russia in 19 17,. acknowledged, the govern ment cbnteni5edxodayt that hie broadcast irtimSffyn to Germany on, the raov.l' ,f lease-lend A stats BSr;' purportedly signed by Wheeler-Hill after a roundup of spy suspects . last Jane was read by Assistant US Attorney T. Vincent Qnlnn -at the trial of 16 men charged with espionage conspiracy. No move was made to disown the state? ment In it, the defendant admitted that he had been schooled in radio and codes in Germany, that he operated an outlaw radio In the Bronx and that he mailed and broadcast Information to Ger many, t Wheeler-Hill, who has a brother In the employ of the German foreign office and an other who Is secretary of the German American bond, con tended two months a-, when be chanced his pies of gouty to ' innocent that he had no Inten tion of harming America and that he was only hoping to hamper Britain. He declined to say who in Ger many had employed him for work In America "for reasons of my se curity and my family's security." His statement said a German army corporal instructed him in radio work and, on his departure for America, he was given a copy of a popular novel, "Half Way To Horror, whose pages formed the basis for his coded reports. Talk Slated By WU Chief At Chapel First public appearance of Dr, Carl Sumner Knopf, president of Willamette university,' is ached' uled at 11:30 o'clock this morning at university chapeL The exer cises wul be broadcast' over KSLM. Knopf, who spent most of Mon day in i his office in Eaton hall. Speaks again Thursday at chapeL Dr. R. Ivan Lovell, professor of history, is to speak Wednesday, .Registration at the beginning of the second week of. the fall semes ter was only 41 behind that of the same time in 1940, according to Registrar Walter Enckson. The figure Monday was 674, compared to 713 a year ago. It In cluded 236 freshmen; a drop of only three, and 438 upper class men - instead of the 476 of 1940. The upper class group takes in 30 from the law school, which en rolled 47 last year. British 7arsiup Sunk BERLIN, (Tuesday) Sept 30-P)-DNB reported today that German planes sank a British de stroyer Monday night off the Eng lish cast coast . Budget Goes Committee leaving $402,937.90 to be raised by taxation. The six-months total," while more than half the amount ap proved for the whole of 1941, fol lows closely the percentages of this -year's budget document in most respects, various department heads believe.- Increases in salaries for em ployes asked range around 10 per cent - The transition from calendar year accounts to operation un der . Jane S0-Jane ; St ; fiscal .year will mean additional ex nenditareg In office of assessor and in the tax collection depart ment with separate sets of tax statements and separate tax rolls required for the sixr months period. - - An item of $780 for-home dem onstration agent is included in the budget which ; goes to committee today. ' ' '! - . Asked for the general fund, out of which come all salaries except those for the engineer's offices. Is $123,702.90; market roads, $56,250; roads $19,275: county school, $102,000; school library, $1020; old age pension, $53,690, and el ementary schools, $47,000. The requests, prepared from estimates submitted by heads of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Power Bills Disapproved At Conclave - ONTARIO, Ore, Sept 29.-(ff)- Speakers from Idaho Oregon and Washington disapproved Monday of both the Hill and Bone bills for a Columbia valley power author ity. - . - Tom Martin,' Boise; A. A. Smith, Portland, and F. A. Le snr of Washington told mem- bers of the Oregon reclamation congress that the bills would create a super - governmental agency, not limited In power by congress. : Martin charged the authority would destroy "the greatest asset of the region individual initia tive." , " President Frank T. Morgan complained of disparity in reda ma tion appropriations among the western states. He said Idaho this year has obtained twice as large a sum, Washington 12 times as much, and California 21 times as much as Oregon. Woman Pilot Set for Flag To Flag Trip VANCOUVER, Sept 29.-(CP)-Miss ' Evelyn Burleson, Tacoma flying instructress, win take off from the Vancouver civic airport here at 2 p. m, Tuesday, weather permitting, for a non-stop good will flight to Tiajuana, Mexico. The Tacoma aviatrix, who ar rived here late Monday with her small sports plane, said she was making the flight "entirely on my own." She expects to reach Tiajuana at 19 a. m, Wednes day. From Tiajuana she plans to fly to Mexico City where she will de liver goodwill letters to President Avfla Camacbd from Mayor J. W. Cornett of Vancouver and Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon. iicases Nazis Claim New Victories hi Ukraine Battle; First Srww Reported in Moscow .'j.-s.K---' -1 - By Th AMoeUtc Fren , .. '. K The' German-soviet .battle line swayed inconclusively Mon- t day night while signs increased were preparing to spring upon if Russian forces defending the This was indicated by official General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, eral Sir Claude J, E. Auchinleck full details of cooperation between India and the middle east regarding the anti-axis front now Iraq and Iran to the left flank While the implication was supported, by news that Alfred Jurist Rules es out Deportation of Labor Leader Recommended After Long Hearing WASHINGTON, Sept 29 The deportation of Harry Bridges was recommended Monday by a special justice department Inspec tor in a report which may be come . an Important precedent in future proceedings under the new alien laws. The report made the flat find ing that : the ' communist party, from its organization in this county. ' in 1919 to . the present time, advocated the overthrow of the government by violence and that consequently any alien who ever had been, affiliated with it waS' Sublec t to deportation. Bridges, it said, had been t& ih filiated;.. ; tV-i , It also held that affiliation with the ' Marine Workers In (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Duke Arrives i At EP-Ranch PEKISKO, Alberta, Sept 29- (ff)--The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived Monday at the duke's 3000-acre MEP" ranch, deep in the foothills of the Ca nadian Rockies, to spend a ten day holiday. They had crossed the border Sunday at North Portal, ' Saskat-j chewan, where the duke received a personal letter of welcome from Prime Minister MacKenzie King. Latest East Bride 4J -LENINGRAD - , , totma : '''""N t j , , ', '''''''' r3 yseo Tjp. ' VlC; As Berlin claimed the taming point of the Naxl-Eed war was at hand, this was the situation: (1) Hitler's armies, and Jinna ham mered at Leningrad. (2) Nasi column was reported at Eeliger lake, headwaters of tho Volga river.. (3) Elilert headiiiwrtera, claimed five ned armies wiped ont east of Kiev and Kharkov threatened. (4) Naxls thrust at Crimea. The Reds claimed LesisrrtJ siariL-y firm, reported successes before Cxsalczdc. sxJ sxtl Crimea drive by Germans waa blocked. ' , . , . that. Britain's imperial armies - the nazis' through the middle east Caucasus fall into major disaster. announcement in London that commander of India, and Gen of the middle'east had arranged established from Syria through of the Russian armies." . ' plain--nd - it - was incidentally ' . Duff Cooper, British war coor dinator in the far easx, was flying ' to India to talk to the viceroy the British not unnaturally declined to say flatly that British troops were going into southern Russia. ' The Germans broadcast . roundabout reports that a Brit iih motor transport train had left Baghdad In Iraq, for a point. -near the Iranian frontier, add-; tng: "It Is rumored that the British troops are en route to" the Caacasos to reinforce' de fenses there." 1 -Tv;-:" .' Jn Moscow, where : British, American and Russian conferees labored urgently to. find a: means of , giving quick and effective material support to the , Soviet armies, the season's first, snow fell to signal the approach of the winter weather so eagerly antici pated by the Russians. The Germans subordinated all . their claims of Monday to action in the Ukraine, where the south ern nazi. forces were said to have -destroyed three Red divisions to taling about 45,000 men .northeast -of Dneiperopetrovsk.and to be ad vancing dose to the Donets river, basin, and the Indusbrial ty-H&f Kharkov. Strong Russian count-er-attacks somewhere in the south were acknowledged. German 'bombers meanwhile ' ' were said to be beating heavily at the whole Donets area In an effort to knock oat the Import ant surviving war plants there. Russian accounts Monday re- ported successful counter-attacks extending from Odessa in the far south to and above Leningrad in the north, and claimed particular success for a Soviet counter-offensive about Bryansk on the central front - ' a Before. Odessa,. it was declared that two' Rumanian infantry bri gades had been routed with losses of more than 2,500 dead in a single action. Abont Leninsrad It was said merely that the - Germans were (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Claim Fronts r 1
