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" - Pictures .... , Two syndicated news pie tare - services and a staff photographer, serve States man readers. For first news In word and. . picture, : read The Statesman. . . AVcathcr;: J: ; : Fair today and Saturday but cloudy Friday.' Max. temperature Thursday, C9, nibx, 43.. North wind. No rain. River -IJt feet Cloudy II" I ' . I' I FOUNDS or 1651 ircjETY-FIRST YEAH Scdem Oregon, Friday Morning.' October 3. 1341 sMc 3c; "Newsstands 5c No. 163 V 1 " 1 I r iv l i i, we . - - - - - V - - ' v. r Willamette 'Cats Claw e ria I Attack Bogs Dpwn But Play Brings Victory Score Twice in First, Final Periods : On Drives and Pass Interceptions; : Portland Sallies Stamped Down -By RON GEMMELL (Statesman Sports Editor) ; MULTNOMAH STADIUM, Portland, Oct. 2-Barcat tracks were far from scarce here Thursday night as no doubt will testify the Portland university huntsmen who werMraffing them afl night-even if this plot of soil was aupposedly freed of such wild animal life years V years ago. r our umes were mev maentea in roniana pay mn, as 4. Tfin a a . TT' 1.. uiv Hiwuucue u luucia ui avenged last season's shellacking by pulverizing the Pilots 26 to 0. V T-!1- A 1 h .nniie ne pui nis cieais m once, Waltzin' Al Walden, the was nunseii iracxea uown ai Up! Up! Upl Pu E-.MQOOQ00'- &$3Q00a n &$2Q00Q &Qooa Ghest Teams Speed Drive . Campaign Still Ahead - 01 Last Year's Mark -Spflonday Final Day ,i jr. : :' "With the aid of two of Amer lea's most persuasive speakers, franklin D. Roosevelt and Wen dell Willkie, workers in the Sa lent Community Chest campaign are starting out today on a high gear effort to complete their so licitation by Monday noon and to make the luncheon on that occa sion the final one of the series. Today's luncheon will be the last lor this week. V ; Roosevelt and Willkie are scheduled ; to speak on 'behalf of Community Chests through out the nationsome 500 of them Dotting ont to eolleet a hundred million dollars io liight between -1:30 f and $ 'clock over three major radio .. networks. : el '- The local workers, 'whose ob jective is only one-twentieth o; vn ter cent of that totaLM other words $50,00O-hal' by Thursday noon covered slightly (Turn to Fage z, col sj - Loses Hand In Cannery .- Zogene StlUman. 47, of Konto II Salem, was serieosly injured In an accident Thursday night at a West Salem cannery He was taken to .- the Deaconess hossital about 10:45, Ilospital authorities reported that tie accidentally caught his rlxht hand In a crusher and U ' was Immediately amputated. Early Friday morniog his con dition was reported as fair. Powerfuly&ciitei& 11. 1 1 I luciu in a great measure A 1 T ll '; t. 4 I ine roriiana cna zone dui stumpy little fullback who nis ia joua, kaui nome not. so long ago ana was returaeo w I . me HllUmeiie campus Dy Howard "Bung-em-BaciC-Allve" I mapie, was me lop uaw uiaer i W A A 1 1 I with an individual : total of 157 yards in 15 carries. The Waldeh-spesrheaded drive rolled 54 yards to a touchdown the first time the. Salem Colle gians took hold of the ball, with Waltzin' AI roinr the final five yards standing op after a 51 yard romp to put the ball In position. The initial score was hung up with but three and a half minutes WUl&meUt ; ' -r Z Portland S4S 4 : Yard gained scrim. JSJ25 55 ' Yard lost, aerim . . 37 1 11 Passes attempted . . Z0 1 Passes - completed 8 1 59 . . Yards sained, passes ..,,- 78 304 Yards, passes, scrim 201 ,.7r. 1st downs, scrim i 1st downs, passing , . 1st downs, penalties Pass ess intercepted - i 176 Gain, intercepted passes 31 S Punting average 49 Yards lost, penalties 6 3S.S . 20 played, and from there the Bear cats, who sow have recorded 97 points while maintaining a virgin goal, were almost completely in control. This despite the fact their heralded passing attack failed to ciicx in me manner prescnoea lor it in pre-game dope But the 'Cats took better ad vantage of the Portland aerial game than did the Pilots, them selves, converting two of the Cliff dwellers' tosses into touch downs. "" (Senlal Gene Stewart convert ed the first snaring Frits Han sen's howttser on the Willamette 30 and sprinting 70 yards down the sidelines to score untouched. Jim Fitxgerald, freshman guard, plaeekicked the extra point, as fie did following Walden's open ing touchdown, and the Bear cats had a 14-0 lead with but 3:55 of the ball game played. No scoring on either the second or third periods, although Wflla- land didnt penetrate any deeper than the Bearcat 41. .Midway of the .final period, wjth Willamette's overhead artil- lery clicking for the first time, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Is Honored 9p i"?itr vi- vn-t-i, a. Ll)WUh DETROIT, Oct. HVThe Amer ican Association of State High' V way Officials Thursday elected rJenry F, Cabell, Portland, a . member of Its executive ton. mltte Cabell Is "Chairman of . Oregon's highway commission. G. Donald EennedyHlchlgan, was elected president. " Rol t er s By Nazis Germans Crack Down Hard in Six Counties By Tbo Associated Press Hangman and firing squad held sway In the writhing new Europe Thursday night, as Ger many stamped at an acknowl- eternal front" of reVolt stretched from Prague to p9 - e t r,wvoi.,t,; m M reant of,Yuffo. slavia, in Greece, In France, even m Bulgaria and Hun g&TS tte gtory was the same, differing only as to scope and de- tail. AHmittino emnlnvmprf Af th sternest onssible measurea. Gr man gources asserted "With Germany herself deep in tilt General Alois Ellaa a fight for life it is understandable that WA rannni tnlAMta' fin Inter- nal front against us." - But Cseeh sources In London suggested the blood bath in old Cxecho-Slovakia had a far more sinister meaning ' than mere suppression of revolt. They said it was a deliberate process of extermination of all Intellectual Csech elements liable to offer opposition, preparatory to mass transfer of heavy German In- dustrles - to comparatively bomb-free sectors behind the Sudeten mountains. BERLIN, "Oct. 2-()-German execution squads shot more Czechs in both Prague and Brno, south ern Czechoslovakia, T h u r s d a y (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) I Wcif ltCslTlsai 'V U1 V Tfl 1 T C! a. Xrafle IS uGZ A BRITISH PORT, Oct 2-P- This port on the southeast coast of England and its counterpart somewhere on the French coast of the English channel will get glimpse of peace : this " weekend when Britain and Germany call off their war temporarily in a re stricted zone and exchange 11500 prisoners each. - - : It will be the -first British- German exchange of the war. . The 3000 prisoners who had not expected . to see their homelands until the 'end of " hostilities will cross the channel in two British hospital ships under a safe pass age agreement providing for with drawal of war planes and war ships from the zone. I Gas Station Is Held up A man with a pistol robbed the service station at Cottage and 'Center streets shortly be . fere nine o'clock Thursday night of between $49 and $50, Carlton LRamsden, station attendant, told city police. Bamsden was forced to lie on the floor, he said, and was un able to tell Whether or not the hold-up drove away In a car. i: Pilots County Budget Group Fi Consider Salary l Hike R eqtiests Today , :- " County Court Clerk Submits Figures On Raises and Additional Help in Handling New Legal Requirements Returning to their duties this Marion county budget committee sider today salary schedules' of Requested increases for' established ' positions and the ex penditures which would be neces- - it a ted by proposed additional help would cost the county a total of $5600 during the first six months of 1942, budget figures tallied Thursday by Henry Matt son, county court clerk, reveal. Of this sum, 12860 represents pay raises, SZ9Z0 the sum of pay for additional help county officers declare will be required by extra work created by new legal demands. Affected "by the salary changes to be considered today are 48 employes. A six-months' transition period between the current calendar- year and the new June 30-June 30 fiscal year, requiring the adoption this fall of a short-period budget, also requires preparation of com plete extra assment rolls and of an extra set of tax statements. In creases because of the extra work aire listed as $750 for additional work of three field deputies and $570 for an extra clerk in the as sessor's office; extra clerk biro in the tax collector's office at $850 and services of an additional bookkeeper there at $750. New Problems To Be Talked At AP Parley PORTLAND, Oct 2Hfp)-News problems will be discussed here Friday by Associated Press mem bers from Oregon, Washington and north Idaho at the annual Northwest Associated Press mem bers' meeting. I Gov. Charles A. Sprague, president of the Salem States man Publishing company, will be one of the speakers as will MaJ.-Gen. George A. White, commanding officer of the 41st division. Donald J. Sterling, managing editor of the Oregon Journal, will discuss foreign hews coverage by the Associated Press." The "13th naval district intel- (Tum to Page 2, CoL 6) Bankers Back US Program CHICAGO, Oct 2 -CflP) -The American Bankers association pledged support , of the defense program, : endorsed price! control and recommended reduction of non-essential government spend ing Thursday after Treasury Sec retary . Morgfcnthau asserted an 'all-out" tax bill would be needed next year. . . 1 The organization's convention commended the policy of seeking to meet a large proportion of re armament costs through taxation, but maintained that "the burden should be distributed equitably over the whole population' and held that the "power of taxation must not be used to 'destroy en terprise." ", ; - r Cantonment1 Problem Group 6rgaim : MONMOUTH,: Oct. :3.--A" coordinating committee of IX men was named here -Thursday night as a primary itepf in organiza tion of Polk, Benton, linn and Marion counties to meet problems arising from anticipated construction of a rnilitary "cantonment in this area. V v Members of the committee, ap pointed by a nominating commit tee headed by Mayor EL W,Hand of Corvallis, are Mayors W.1 W. Chadwick of Salem, Guy , New- gent Of West Salem, A: G. Send ers ot Albany, Lef Finseth of Dallas, F.-R. Bowersox . of Mon mouth, Dr. M. G. Butler of Inde pendence, -Hand, County , Judges Herman: Van Telle p Polk, H. C. Herron of Benton, J, J, Barrett of Linn and Grant Murphy of .Mar ion. ".They, have .been. called to meet next Thursday night at In dependence' city hall..". , T: Discussion of ,the nominating 24 ..is-. : - -' . ..... morning after a day's interim, members are scheduled to con county ' employes. Planes, Ships, Army Ordnance Depot Jobs Heldtip by Walkouts By The Associated Prew ' Work. on airplane armor." shins and a new army ordnance plant was delayed Thursday by strikes. Protesting that negotiations on a new contract had been unduly prolonged, members of the CIO United Automobile Workers walked out at the Waverly Term inal plant of Breeze Corporations, Inc., Elizabeth, NJ. The firm has contracts for $18,000,000 worth of airplane armor.. 1 After 600 men of the might shift, suit a union spokesman, said they were asking a mini' mum of 75 cents an hour with Increases of 10 to 9 cents. In higher classifications, - but did not- disclose e u r r n t wage i ... The defense mediation board announced in Washington that It would' hold no hearings on the case until the strikers went back to work. The board took jurisdic tion over the union's dispute with the management after a two-day strike in September. , Three gulf coast shipyards were affected by labor disputes. Members of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuild ing Workers walked out at two yards of the Alabama Dry dock and Shipbuilding company, Mo bile, Ala, contending that the management had violated its con tract with the union, but. gave no details. , While union spokesmen said 250 1 of 450S employes had walked out, a management rep resentative said the number away from work was far less. The AFL said it would not re spect any picket line estab lished. At Pascagoula, Miss- several hundred AFL, welders, for the second day, remained away from their' jobs at the Ingalls-, Ship bunding plant The dispute in volved wage scales, but neither the union nor. the management would, disclose details.: r ,V " Construction work on the gov ernm ont 'fx $32,000,000 Plum Brook, Obics ordnance plant "was slowed when welders, steamfit- " (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) ..; . lbor Chief Hits QO SEATTLE, .Oct. 2. -(JtV- Daniel J. Tobin, president, of the Inter national Brotherhood 1 of Team sters, Thursday charged the con gress of industrial organizations with disruptive activities in AFL organized Industries, and called upon the government to take ; a hand. committee's session revolved about need for eWpenttoa of all cities and the four counties . eoneerned In working out prob-! Memo of education, health, sn-. ; itaUoa, Ja sing (tocludingt . trailers),'. law" enforcement .and social and recreational features. ; .Serving on the nominating com mittee with Hand were Bowersox: Butleri ; Van & Welle; and Herron,' They-had i been selected "by-of fi.-: rials jof . tho .four counties ".at a meeting Pridayi-called at thejrtajte capitol building by the - Oregon I Economic council - Strikes Delay Defense Work Short-Cut Pred; On Ship Act;; 1 Solon Proposes FDR Revoke 1939 Neutrality Law WASHINGTON, Oct 2.-P-Senator Pepper (D-Fla) sug- gested Thursday that President Roosevelt short-cut the con gressional controversy over re vising the neutrality act- by executive action which " would permit American1' ships to carry cargoes to England! The Florida senator, long one of the more aggressive expon ents of assistants to the Brit ish, proposed in a senate speech that Mr. Rooseevlt simply revoke his proclamation of 1933 making the restrictions of the law effect ive and delineating "combat zones"f which American merch antmen may not enter. The day's' discussion of foreign affairs- also produced a proposal by Senator Gillette (D-Ida) and Senator Johnson (D-Colo) that a senate committee investigate re ports of espionage and subver sive, activities by diplomatic rep resentatives of Japan, Italy, and Germany, - , If the reports prove correct, Gillette told the senate, Japa nese consular agents should re ' eelve the" same treatment as (Turno Page 2, CoL 8) ted Jail Escape Foiled I Youth Held as Suspect In Smuggling Saws in . County Lockup Here Because he had allegedly pushed two . hacksaw blades and a file through the heavy mesh of a Mar? ion county jau window screen, Dale Scott Spencer i was arrested Thursday by Pendleton officers 24 hours after the tools had been removed from a local jail ceU. ' Spencer, 23, was released from the Marion county lockup Wed nesday after serving- a term. for reckless driving.. He reportedly returned shortly to the most un protected window1 in the JaU portion of the courthouse base ment and shoved through a hole In the screen the Iron-filing equipment, asking- the youth to whom he handed It that the package be given to Cecil Ware. Ware, wno recently entered a plea of guilty to charges of forg ery, has not yet been sentenced, byt the law requires a term of from two to, 20 years for the crime. Section 23-61S of the Ore gon code), under which Spencer is charged, fixes punishment for providing tools to aid in the es cape as the same as that -given the prisoner, to whom the assist ance has been proffered. ' Young Speneer, sentenced to IS years in the Washington state penitentiary on a grand larceny charge six years ago, was later transferred to the state reformat tory, paroled, returned to the penitentiary, i after- allegedly stealing-ear and paroled again. : -j He went from Salem, this .week to eastern Oregon, .where he" said he planned to seek work on the new ordnance depot at Hermistoh or a related project Fishmg Crew Is Missing : SAN TFBANCISCO, Oct: 2.-JP) -The Nordic: Pride, derelict fish ing .boat! from Tacoma, disap peared .under: pounding'- Pacific waves .Thursday jiight the. puz zle of what happened to her crew of 11 men stul unanswered. . The coast guard cutter Ariadne, which-"had been standing by since shortly after, noon-' Thursday, awaited tho abatement ' of , high seas so she could send a boarding party, " radioed shortly i before Nordic Pride" gone under,"ap- narently ' foundered, still standing 'fthere ."are ho sighs.' of life about" the cutter radioed to-coast guard headquarters " h e re after reacTiing the 'Ti'omi sardine craft 25 miles "offshore - and S ciiles northwest of Point Arena. , J Attemp World Series , THURSDAY'S GAME Ddeer L. ose ti ms i tt I Vaakeea 011 M Ml t-O-l Wyatt and Owen1. Chudler. M urohv (I) and Dkkey. . ' Yankees ; " 1- 1 Dodgers --" ' , ;", , ,-, k TODAY'S GAMB- At EbbeU field, Brooklyn, la; Salem time. . ;T; w Probable batteries-t'or Yan kees, Marias Rosso or Atley "Don ald andc BUI Dicker for Dodgers, Fred ntzslmmohs or Kirby Higbe and Mickey Owen. ', - '' For details, pictures tarn to Statesman sports pages. n On Soviet Aid Says East Indies Help Would Be Considered As "Unfriendly" Act TOKYO, Oct 3-(Friday)-(ff)- A Japanese spokesman warned to day that any large shipment of supplies from The Netherlands' East Indies to soviet Russia would considered a manifestation of an WWehdly attitude ' The spokesman, was Koh Ishii, director of the government's board of information. He declared thai , trade be-" tween Japan and The Nether lands East Indies now was Tir tuaBy at standstill and added that If the East Indies sent large quantities of oil, tin and rubber to Kussia. Japan would ednsider the act mnfrlendly. An announcement Issued in Ba- tavia tonight said The Netherlands East Indies began supplying vital commodities to soviet-Russia sev era! weeks ago under- promise by Netherlands : Premier; Pieter S. Gerbrantiy that J"the 'products of ThsK.Netherlands- aroat;thidijH (The Batavia announcement said that 1 Eusslan , ships . had called recently at Sourabaya, one of The Netherlands East indies principal ports, to load cargoes or rubber, oil and coffee for Vladivostok). Ishii dismissed lightly a ques tion on Japan's attitude toward reports in the Far East that United States warships were convoying merchant. vessels as far as Singa pore. He asked against whom the merchant 'ships would be protect ed. ' - Fete Slated' For WU Head Reception of Dr. and Mrs. Carl Sumner Knopf, Willamette uni versity's new . first - family, is scheduled today for students and Salem persons in tho campus li brary.: -: 'Students are Invited to greet the new : president from S to 5 pjn. and townspeople from 8 to 10 P-m. Mrs. Roy Keene is chairman of the committee in charge of the reception. . Reaches 78 POSTLAND, Oct 2 -fl- Former 1 Governor Charles ; H. Martin - retired : army maior-general, j celebrated his liih birthday i hero Thursday. Among eongTat- ulatory messages were those I from General' John J. Pershing I - and General. George . C. Zlar- sha'L ji . Nippo Reds Push Back Axis s Leningrad Holds - Naacfis Forced Give up Towns ; By The Associated Press The Russians launched a major counter-o iiensivt about Leningrad Thursday night, reporting that red ma- r rines landed on the Finnish gulf coast to the northwest had entrenched themselves in violent and continuing fight ing and that the Germans were being driven from their trenches on the city's nearer approaches. , It was claimed, too, that Russian guns had silenced the German artillery which had been shelling one district of the me tropolis. . All this was accompanied by other official accounts of a Rus sian crossing of a river in tho Leningrad area; the recapture by soviet forces of four settlements and a hill top' Well to the south,' of the city, as well as 61 another ' strategic point not located; and of German efforts to rush up re inforcements w hold these new and farspread thrusts. Moreover, the British wireless reported that Russian troops had retaken Strelna, 20 miles west ot Leningrad, and that 2t miles to the east of the city the naxis had been thrown back to a depth of nearly 28 miles from Kolptno eastward to Lake La doga. , . :'Vv, , - The. Russians also appeared to be' standing generally firm in de- fenser bf the Donets river basin in the Ukraine. , - " Berlin itsef made only the most general and Implied claims to advances in that theatre, off er- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) State Funds For Defense Unit Mulled Members of the state emerg ency, board , will meet bere today to consider a proposal to divert funds of the state military de partment for use by the state de fense council These funds can be used only by consent f the emergency board. Officials - estimated that $1200 a month would be required to meet the council's demands. Letters were sent out by Jer- rold Owen, state civilian defense ' coordinator, Thursday, asking all county defense councils to sub mit reports v to the regional - de fense offices,, San Francisco, oa the air defense maneuvers to be held in western Oregon October 28 to November. 1, inclusive. i Owen said he had been advised that hundreds of , airplanes would participate in the maneuvers, many of which will come from the San Francisco baav: Flower Sale Days Started Sale of "forget-me-nots by the Disabled -American Veterans in Salem is set for today and Sat urday, according to Adj. Lfie Dafley, m charge of the drives for the state. . - ,.i - -- . " Proceeds from the sale are used in rehabilitation work for dis abled veterans, said Adj. Dailey, Oil Front Finns Bar Red Peace ; : STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct y. -Wh- Finnish Trade Minister Vaino Tanner said Thursday that Finland would never sign a sepa- rate peace fwith the present ml- 3 era of Russia. The statement was made in an interview while Tan- -her was on his way home after -k visit of more than a week In' Berlin. - , , Nazis Blast England v : LONDON, Oct 2. -('(Friday) -German bombers made sharp at tacks on the southeast coast and a northern England town in the, brilliant light of a harvest moon last night and early today, and first. reports indicated many cas ualties resulted.,-. '.n' - -. ,.:t.i.. j . r " : : ; i. ;3 . n