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Up! Up! WlEdmeBenm ration New Lease . - .- , .. r i . ... t .... . ThesdMen Conclude Soviet Aid Pact ill SwaD t50.000. &$40.ooa B-$3Q000. E-20.00a &Qooa Watch Che Community Chest ther- ' " mometer depict the daily climb . la receipts. Shaded line shows funds pledged previous day. Drive Aheatl of Last Year Pace; Increase ' in Giving Revealed The halfway mark is expected to be passedJUxfcy in the Salem YA ZZll C 2a when the solicitors ; held their second campaign luncheon Wed sesday. - Additions to the fund since the Tuesday luncheon amounted to $4524.75, bringing the total up to $22,280.73. ' The campaign was ahead of the pace set a year ago and Chairman Irl 8. McSherry re ported that a considerable num ber of Individuals were In creasing their subscriptions over those made in 1940. DM slon reports included: Automotive, $268, total $2425. Contractors, $724, total $782. General gifts, $508. total $4334. Government and education, $375, total $2956. Industrial, $380, total $2789. Mercantile, $392, total $4746. Professional, $1025, total $3095. Utilities, $696. I Women's division. $155, total 1456. s.: The 'luncheon was served by members of Si Anne's Guild, Ernest Smith led ; group singing with Mrs. Smith at the piano. Twelve Salem firms and In stitutions Wednesday reported in 166 per cent to Chest officials the. management and : every employe or member had sub (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Ranch By Duchess PEKISKO, Alta., Oct MP)- The Duchess of Windsor, consid ered one of the ,' world's best dressed women, told a press con ference Wednesday she hasn't even thought about clothes for more than two years because "1 don't think we've had much, time for fashion and that sort of thing since the war." ;; The Duchess, who received re porters with the Duke, was en thusiastic about the EP sanch where they axe staying for the next week Dr sov She described the 3,000-acre ranch as 'abso lutely lovely" and said, aher had been "trying to get acquainted with all the cattle. 7oman Pilot Starts Three Flag Flight SEATTLE, Oct ! A dip of her overloaded wings was Evelyn Burleson's signal to Seat tle late Wednesday that all was well on the first lap to her non stop Canada-torMexico flight Jn her lhmt -plane. The Tacoma Miss took off from Vancouver at 2:30 p. m. and flew over Seattle at 4 o'clock. She pre dicted she would reach Tiajuana, Mexico, at about 10 a. m. Thurs day.. :-- " Gliest Wearing Halfway Mark . - A ent Approved oj County Budget Unit Committee Okehs Expenses and Adds Office Rent; all Salary Requests Set for Friday services 01 a nome demonstration agent lor Marion county, m subject for argument between women's groups and county bud- I geteers in past years, were given ions Duagei-maners. The conimittee of county court and appointed members ap- proved not only the $780 budgeted penses and lor purchase 01 equip ment but added $43 as rental of office space to be shared with county agent's staff. Activities of the committee Wednesday were limited largely to trimming, but an item of $300 to be expended as rent by the county school superintendent's of fice was added to the 60-page budget document as first step in relieving what county officials declare is a deplorably crowded condition in the 70-year-old courthouse. Should the item remain after the taxpayers' budget session late this month, funds would be available to provide Mrs. Antes Booth, county superintendent, with space in the old Salem high school building, leaving the rooms now occupied by her headquarters to the tax-eollee tion department. That the one room now used by the tax-collection division of the sheriffs office is the "smallest bottleneck in the world" through which more than a million dollars annually flows is the contention of the department d instructed to prepare tor the committee, called- to re- convene Friday morning, a list of all current salaries paid and of requests for increases. With minor exceptions all salary de cisions were left for the Friday session, which is to be given over entirely to that question, com mittee members declared. An requests of the county school superintendent's office, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Service Clubs Agree 011 Need For Youth Aid Need of a spare-time organiza Ition for boys from 13 to 17 years of age was agreed Wednesday by child welfare chairmen of service clubs called together by the Sa lem Youth council and NYA ad- visory council, They considered uses for the Youth center, nearly abandoned because youths of 18 to 25, for whom it was designed, have been called by defense, accord ing to Mrs. Bertha Say, presi dent. The representatives were in structed to explain the idea to their groups and to return to an other meeting October 15. Because "WPA. leadership is al together inadequate,"" as School Supt. Frank B. . Bennett stated, an experienced supervisor, "paid enough to be worthwhile, was felt to be essential. Favor was expressed for placing a supervisor on the city budget, which now furnishes utility expenses for the center. Chet Nelson, NYA area direc tor, said about 20 boys are finding recreation at the center each night now, in spite of the lack of equip ment.;. ; '. -' -'- f To assure themselves of Sa lem's need for such a setup, Mrs. Kay appointed a committee to Investigate before the next meeting, comprising Doughton, V (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Pecos Flood Is Subsiding PECOS. TeaU. Oct ' Floodwater slowly .receded here Wednesday, but" the east enq 01 town was gtiu -inundated.. ' High . water was expected to remain several days, and another flood was expected from the New Mexico watershed in about week. . Farmers estimated . that . more than 12,000 acres of crops were ruined by floods in Reeves, Ward and Lovina counties. Tr"r number of homeless was estimated at 8C0. - . mm . I approval Wednesday by war- as six-months' operating ex- ts For Capital Declares Intention of Voting for all Defense Measures By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Congressman James W. Mott, who doesn't think he was "done right by" when 18 Oregon repub-I licans last week censured his MottDenar JL votes on defense legislation, will istrator, made his comment at a leave Salem by train today for press conference at which he an Washington with the intention of nounced additional advances on voting for additional lease-lend amroDriations and. if the nresi- dent asks it, the arming of Amer ican merchant ships. But these prospective votes, Mott declared Wednesday after noon, would not represent a change In course for him. Still smarting from the 18-man pro nouncement against him, a pro nouncement which the Oregon Republican clubs did not adopt as such, he maintained that he had supported "every piece "of defense legislation, whether it was an administration bill or not." Mott said he had engaged in controversy over defense meas ures principally on occasions when he thought the republican eadership was offering better bills than those proposed by the administration. Price control, modification of the neutrality act and augmenting of the lease-lend appropriations were seen by Mott as the big pro- posals which congress will face wnen regular sessions are re- sumed by the house next Monday. Noting- that the president had not yet disclosed his proposals for modifying the neutrality act, Mott said the house naval af fairs committee, of which he is a member, had been at work for some time on a program for arming merchant ships and would be ready to back the aee- (Turn to Page 2. CoL 4) Defense Unit Of Gunty in Plan Conclave Plans for coordinating without vvcxiayptug main v " ious divisions occupied heads of ious divisions occupied Marion County Civil Defense council departments Wednesday night as they met in the county courtroom. Relationships were drawn be tween services of the demolition and clearance branch, of which ffS. FJi?XFJT Red Cross setup under chairman- ship of Dr. Ralph Purvine; pro-- tection of utilities, with Chandler Brown as chairman; communica- SSUY'SS; rr:r chairman; and planning, headed by Tom HilL A t Uamm Cm fh 4 chairman of air raid precautions was presented in Smith's ab sence. .J Willard Marshall, . Pur- vine's assistant, attended the ses sion. Names' of SO volunteers - for service were assigned to the util ities divisions for training in emergency work; Need for spe - rial trues of workers in specific localities may require calls some- time this month for still further cnaritanie runctions,' deputy coi volunteers, ."Ed ColbyJcounty lectors of internal revenue at the registrar, said, ' r " Salem postoffice building were ' '.. Monterey Fire Rages : MONTEREY. Calif, Oct. l-tff) -Fire : was, raging uncontrolled Wednesday night through forest and brush land in the Santa Lucia mountain country SO miles from Monterey. .... . ' - - v rund uets Approval House Sub-Unit! Okehs Huge Bill; Russ Aid Seen WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-4PV- - r $5 058.OOO.OOO second lend . ' lease fund was appr0ved by a houSg appropriations subcom- mitt Wnpar anH nrt time later Jesse Joneg . would favor Russia "getting the benefits" of the bill. . V In submitting his request for the new appropriation iwo weeks ago, Mr. Roosevelt sug gested that the legislation per mit him to authorize contracts to supply foreign governments with defense articles, information or services. This would apply to any country whose defense the pres ident deemed advisable to the de fense of this nation. Chairman Cannon - (D-Mo) said the appropriations committee had approved the president's request without major change. Jones, the federal loan admin- previously-arranged loans to Rus sia and Great Britain, WASHINGTON, Oct. As another step to reinforce de fense of the western hemi sphere, the United States Wed nesday signed a lend-lease agreement with Brazil, the larg est and most geographically (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) ' V II ,1.! , ,. f Army Lands In Iceland Field Force Arrives With Vast Supplies in Huge Transports REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 17 fDplavd ilPl A 1fA fnrrA -if United States army infantry, amery, and engineer, signal, ordnance and medical units-has arrived here with vast supplies OI eauimnent ad material to make this one of the most for midable fortresses of the north. The Americans brought what their commander. Major Gen eral Charles H. Bonsteel, called "some Interesting equipment" skies, snowshoes and Garand automatic rifles for every man io take over camps built by United State marines and Brit ish forces. " - , .-r Major General H. O. Curtis, commander-in-chief of the Brit ish forces and general officer com manding the British troops on the islands, continues in command of all soldiers, including the Ameri can contingent General Bonesteel, a lean and P?. JTJ!, Itvirte rL. - l - - - i" ' . v c ,wxv ocn tor juira ami serious business, I want to im press that on everyone. There is no time for fooling." v The American disembarkation was carried out with precision. Nazi Boats Blasted l7U irA 8quaa" f BriWs new four-cannon tack formation ol eight German motor torpedo-boats off the French art Wednesday night, ministry announced. New USTaxes Prove By K MORROW. While Salem -tire dealers took inventory of their floor stocks, I women" remarked about the in- 1 creased price of, cosmetics 'and I civic leaders ."argued over .the J waiving of .the 4 exemption ; on J busy weanesaay answering vw I questions 01 puzzled maividuais. aii this woe and worry, this de- I bate and comment was the direct I result of the; $3,500,000,000 fed- I era! tax bill effective October 1 which not only raises the cost of automobiles and luxuries but reaches, persons who pay admis- ii:r Here' are . members of the British wnn Russia today. Lea to right foreground) a Lord' BeaverbrMk, British supply minister; W. Averill Harriman, head of the US mission; C. A. Oumansky, Russian ambassador to the US; A. Y. Tyshinsky, deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs. This photo was sent by radio from Moscow to New York, wired to Chicago, and airmailed to The Statesman. . United Submits Airport Deal Lease for Building Scanned by Mayor ; Plans Revealed United Airlines' proposed lease for facilities in a city airport ad ministration building and use of the municipal field for landing purposes, brought "to Salem Wed nesday, by airline officials, may not reach the city council, before October 20, Mayor W, W. Chad wick said Wednesday night The lease proposal, contain-' lng a variety of scales and schedules,' begins at s $160 Per. month iliith: minimum iof two ; schedules north and two sched-; vies south each day, Chadwick; said. Handed over to Lawrence Brown, elty attorney, the-con-, tract may be sent baek to. Unite d's offices for change be fore presentation to the council If It does not meet ordinance or other legal requirements, Chad wick said. , However, with Tdm Armstrong, chairman of the city council's air port committee, and Harvey Han cock of San Francisco, assistant to United T -AirlhW president, the mayor plans to go to Seattle on Tuesday, October 7, there to con fer .with. CAA and WPA officials in an effort to have completion of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) ects in liTi ;i rorlilmvJDids F o u r mid - Willamette valley projects are included in a list of 18 road jobs on which the state highway commission will take bids in Portland October 16 and 17, it was announced at the commis sion offices here Wednesday. .The 18 projects are estimated to cost $850,000? u The local projects: Construction of two frame cabins for employes at Santiam Junction patrol station in Linn county. Grading and paving of 2.22 miles of the Illahee-Steiwer hill section of the Pacific highway east in Manon- county: : : ' "'-? ' Construction of 76-foot rein forced concrete viaduct , near Grande Ronde in Polk county. Furnishing . 15,000 cubic yards of crushed rock in stock piles on the Wren rock production project on 1-the i Corvallis-Newport " and Kings valley secondary highways in Benton county, " ' sion to benefit shows, , to school functions and. similar events. - How the tax is to be computed on tires and tubes la floor stock, was one of the most- frequently asked - questions" of the day, ac cording to Paul Lynch, local depu ty collector for the internal rev enue department ; . , -Under the new- floor regula tion each dealer win have to pay two and one half cents a pound on his tire stock and four and one half cents a pound on his inner- tube stock as of , Wednesday, Lynch said. It Is Estimated thatfeenon eachllo, centsor jfraction by the end of October tire dealers will be paying the government S(M cents rncre for 'each passenger car tire and IS centi or more on and American and Russian delegations who . concluded an aid pact World SeriesiKazis Execute WEDNESDAY'S GAME Dodgers Yankee M SIS l2-- II 191 x 3-S-l Davis, Casey (6), Allen (7) and Owen, Franks (7); Ruffing and Dickey.' 'J , ' TODAY'S GAME At Yankee stadium, 11:30 Salem time, Mutual broadcast. Probable batteries, Whitlow Wyatt and Mickey Owen for Dodgers; Mario Russo or Spur geon Chandler: and Bill Dickey for Yankees. :" For details, pictures, tun to Statesman sports section, be ginning page It. ' Fireman Dies ABlilitity Assistant Fire Chief " Electrocuted by Wire While Fighting Blaze Special to The Statesman MILL CITYr Oct 1 John Dawes, 36-year-old Mill City butcher, was electrocuted late Wednesday afternoon by charged aerial lead-in wire at a residence fire here. 'Dawes, a volunteer fireman and assistant chief, was first to reach the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Duffy when fire there had been report- ed;- With Stanley Chance, another fireman,, he approached the build ing. He. stumbled and fell on the wire. Firemen arriving a minute later 'broke the wire with : a' wooden rake, and Tom Morris tried artificial respiration en Dawes. He was later removed to the local; hospital, where at- - tempts were made for an hour to resuscitate him with an oxy gen tank. The Salem first aid - ear arrived at 5t and assisted . in the futile efforts to revive Dawes.' ' . - : The fire -was extinguished by the volunteers, after water had (Turn to Page 2, Col, 6) Blasted Ship Calls for Aid CAPE ELIZABETH, Me, Oct l.-(ffl)-Maritime circles . reported an SOS late Wednesday from an unidentified j freighter, which ra dioed lit had been "torpedoed by submarine on surface" off Ireland, - A rebroadcast . of the call from a Canadian 1 station at Camper- down, Nova Scotia, led to first re ports that the call came from a point off the Canadian coast, -Puzzle to each inner tube. Even the purchaser of a 20 cubic inch " box of matches will feel the effect of the tax, Lynch pointed out," for there are ap proximately; 500 matches in' such a container and as a result one cent will be added to the pur chase: price; ,"" -In the past, religious, education al and charitable events have been exempt- from- federal -admission charges, but from how on all ad missions beginning ; at ; one . cent Will be taxed ch the basis of ?one thereof"; off the established price. -.This will affect persons i who atten&lCt and 5 cent theatres and high school students admitted to Czech Premier Two Generals, Many Others Face Firing Squads in "Revolt' BERLIN, Thursday, Oct 2-JP) -Premier-General Alois Elias, two retired generals, and an unstated number of other Czechs fell be fore firing squads Wednesday in the German protectorate of Bo- hemia-Moriva, making a total of nearly 100 executions in four days. .. 1 The German gestapo grilled 265 other Czechs suspected of trea sonable activities includinc Indus trial sabotage and an attempt io overthrow, the protectorate, it was' announced. ; The German news agency DNB said: that General Elias "acknowledged his guilt" in Frag-ue before being led to the execution wait. Since the deputy gestapo leader. 37-year-old Reinhardt Heydrich arrived in Prague to take charge and the arrests, trials and ex ecu tions began, only five Czechs have been acquitted. Adolf Hitler has raised Heyd rich to the rank of a general of (Turn to Page 2, , CoL 5) Board Orders Multnomah to Quit System Reiterating an earlier order for the abandonment of Multnomah county's system of assessing prop erty on a variable ratio basis, the state tax commission Wednesday directed the Multnomah board of equalization to rescind a recent or der; for a return to the old sys tem.' . : The commission order citing 'statutory authority for its action, decreed that in event the Mult nomah board failed to comply by Friday,; the state body's in structions should be carried out : and the local board's ruling dis regarded. - The Multnomah assessor was di rected to readjust his March 1 1941, assessed valuations as fol lows: .' ' Reduce assessments on buildings and "structural Improvements that would have been assessed in 1940 at 30 per cent of appraised or esti mated true cash value by 25 per cent from 1941 assessed valuations. Cut . assessed valuations on buildings that would have been (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Some Sale performances v at half price. Child ren under 12 will pay a tax only if their established price of ad mission Is 10 tents or over, Lynch explained. Purchasers of playing - cards, users of safe deposit, boxes and dealers in I distilled spirits - and wines are not -forgot In, the , law and proprietor .of .cabarets -land roof gardens will also" find- it well to look iar the new regulations Pub; officials will find" that their dues,.membership; and ; initiation fees over a certain' figure are "hit and- while automobile: and-.truc dealers have long been consider ing how the new tax will affect their business, merchants hand ling such articles as musical in Munitions Forioods Conclave Ooses y . ' . ., ....... Quickly; Allies v to Speed Help - IOSCOW, Thursday; Oct. 2 (APyr-The United States and Great Britain agreed io fill virtually every . soviet jiieed for war supplies in ex change for mountains of Rus sian raw materials at the concluding session Wednes day night of the three-power conference. The conference closed two days ahead of schedule after only three days of sessions pro bably .the shortest international council of such dimensions ever held. A communique issued by the British and American delegations and one by Russia announced its . results. For the United States and Great Britain, W. Averill Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook promised: To place at the disposal of the soviet government practically ev ery requirement for which the so viet military and civil authorities have asked." In return, said the communique issued by Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook, "the soviet govern ment has supplied Great Britain and the United States with large quantities of raw materials urg ently required in those countries." Arrangements were said to have been made to "increase the vol ume of traffic in all directions." T h e ; United States-British communique declared that Pre mier - Stalin!; "expresses J 1 s -thanks to the United States and Great Britain for their bounti ful ; supplies of raw materials, machine tools and munitions of war" and acknowledged "the ample supply of Russian raw materials from the soviet gov ernment" The communique ended with this statement: "In concluding Its session the conference adheres to the resolu tion of the three governments that after , the final annihilation of nazi tyranny, a peace will be es tablished which will enable the whole world to live in security in its own territory in conditions free i from fear or need." The soviet communique stress ed the "atmosphere of perfect mutual understanding, confi dence and good will" and said the delegates were "Inspired by the eminence of the cause of delivering nations from the nail threat of enslavement" t Stalin, it said, ftook an active part" ' in the conference which (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 3) Island Base May Employ City Workers Probably from 1$ to 20 Salem' workmen will be recruited for work in the Pearl Harbor naval base at Honolulu, W. H. Baillie, Salem office manager of the state employment office, said Wednes day ; after nearly 100 men were interviewed by examiners of the civil service commission. Baillie said 40 men were wait ing to apply tor positions as skill ed workers or laborers for the naval department. ' Among examiners here was Cornelius Bateson of Seattle, a graduate of Willamette university. struments and. mechanical refrig erators will not escape. -. Nor -will: sporting goods, lug gage, 'photographic equip ment, business and store ' machines and optical equipment be exempt ' If miladyT answers her husband's questions about the increased tost of her Jewelry, furs and toilet ar ticles by pointing to the. retailers' excise tax he may in -turn4 point out i that he is . not : doing : rnore bowling or playing5 of coin-)pera- ted amusement and gaming de vices than before but thats instead he is feeling 4he,ef feet of the $13 tax' levied on every person- wl.? operates a bowling alleys billiard or pool room-except in a" private home. . - l ! ( -' -3-, People