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fAGE TWO Nazis Execute Rioters . Germans Crack Down On "Internal Front" With Shots, Rope (Continued from Page 1) night on conviction by court mar- Hals of high treason, economic sabotage and iljegal posesskm of weanons. and ; the. courts . them selves ground out 39 new sen tences of death. ... . The news agency DNB said, those executed Included Jews (and. the Prague radio, ' quoted by CBS, said "U Czechs hare been shot, three Jews hanged and 111 Ciechs handed over to the gestapo.") Three accused persons were said to hare been acquitted at Prague. No names wero announced and there was no explanation as to whether those executed Thursday were condemned Thursday or whether they had been sentenced earlier this week, Total death sentences in the proctectorate since an 'emergency was declared last Sunday now have reached about 130, accord big to unofficial compilations $On the basis of separate announce ments through the official German news agency and other sources. Some of '.the Czechs faced fir- ing squads; others were hanged, the Dienst Aus Deutschland com mentary said. Whether all the condeiuied have been Jjcecuted was not stated. "r- Premier Alois DiasTe, Csech general who had headed the . protectorate gorernment since April, 139, apparently was the leader of what auth orised Germans said was an abortive revolt which was de- " I . scribed as "now in hand." General Elias is under deaSil sentence, but German sources said he had not yet been executed because he had appealed for clemency direct to Fuehrer Adolf .Hitler, who t alone can stay the decision of the German people's court that condemned' him at Prague Wednesday., Elias is said to have confessed that he con spired with the enemies of Ger many. Dienst Aus Deutschland dis closed another 228 arrests in Bo hemia and Moravia in the gestapo investigation of charges that they plotted high treason and sabotage. It was reported 256 were arrested Wednesday. Some have been released or acquitted, German sources said. Two retired generals were among the latest persons executed. The new relchs protector, Retnhard Heydrich of the ges tapo, meanwhile extended the state of civil emergency to three more districts, mating nine In all. '1- 4 -A He also established economic supervision bureaus "to strin gently control the just distribu tion of foodstuffs." ' This 'step has removed "exist ing disturbances," said Informed - German sources, by guaranteeing delivery of food to the 'popula tion." Previously, others had partly succeeded in "seriously endanger ing the meat supplies of the main Industrial areas", said Dienst. It said there had been innumer able complaints that the meat supply did not cover the rationing tickets because of an elaborate campaign against food stocks. Burning harvests and crippling transports were said to be prin cipal items in the rebel plans, combined with a whispering cam paign to blame Germany. Keizer School Holds Election ' KEIZER The election of class officers was held at Keizer school recently.. The following students were elected, Gray Robinson, president, Vance Young, vice president, Ruth Pearcy, secret tary, Barbara Baldwin, treasurer, and Ray Miller, sergeant-at-arms. Many Yacht Blast Takes Three Lives s' - r the a-foot:yacht Koonyung; owned" by e PhhaV j ftkes the lives of three persons and sends five 'i ' - 0 J. V1th serious injuries. The yacht blew up at its -" ji i--r.ctawn. Mi. The wreckage is pictured above, RedDefense Line This map shows flvo defense lines on the eastern war front to which the Russians could fan back on If hard pressed. The last bulwark is in th Ural mountains. State Training School Runaway Problems Told The problem of runaways from the state training school for boys, at Woodburn, is a reflection linquency, M. D. Woolley, new Lions club, in effect, Thursday The boys committed to the school have in most instances "run from every problem they can imagine 'has existed," Wooley said. " They have not had the at tention and advice at home that could help them face and over come their problems. And when they have run away they have usually run Into serious diffi culties, difficulties that have eventually resulted in their be 1 ng sent to the state school. "The automobile age, with the ease of flight offered by bitch hiking, has facilitated the fleeing of boys from unsatisfactory en vironments or their running away to see what is "on the other side of the hill Woolley declared. ' "The school staff seeks to help each Inmate "get his feet on the ground," by familiarity with his surroundings get over, his ani mosity toward them and then to learn good work habits, obtain an understanding of the problems he will face in life and an idea of the vocational possibilities before him, the superintendent said. "Pa role officers follow up to servo as confidants and advisers when the boy is released." Strikes Delay Defense Work (Continued From Page 1) ten and iron workers declined to pass through a picket line of striking AFL clerks. The clerks material checkers, time checkers and ' tool checkers struck Wed nesday protesting a ruling by the quartermaster general's office that they were not entitled to overtime for work in excess of 40 hours a week. Their salaries range from $33 to $69 a week. Mrs. Agnes Booth, county school superintendent and Mrs. Lucille Kennedy spent the day at school. s rr T, ' . On War Front at Gvic Club of the problem of juvenile de- superintendent, told the Salem noon. Chest Teams Speed Drive Campaign Still Ahead Of Last Year's Mark; Monday Final Daf (Continued from Page 1) more than 52 per cent of their route. Subscriptions in hand amounted to $26,152 as the day's gleaning brought in $3687. More than one-fourth of this sum was accounted for by George "Alex ander's -government and educa tion division which reported $1045 to attain a total of $4001. The campaign was stiU ahead of the 194 schedule3 but only by about $200, whereas on the previous day it was $4000 ahead. One encouraging report is that a higher poreentage of subscriptions this year are. being- paid at the time of solicita tion. Aside from the government and education division, the day's re ports included: Automotive $540, total $2965. Contractors $115, total $899. General gifts $286, total $4820. Industrial $320, total $3109. Mercantile $481, total $5227. Professional $565, total $3660. Women's division $334, total $790. V To the "100 per cent list" of firms and institutions which to gether with ail their employes had contributed, were added during the day: Elliott Printing house, John Bertelsou Son. Boy Scouts of America, Scellars Foley, Bal lon Wright, governor's office, budget division employes, HHl erest school employes, Willam ette Talley Transfer company. Pioneer Trust company, Og den's Beauty shop, the Beauty Studio. Individuals j subscribing $10 or more, added to the list during the pay, included: $51 F. S. Anunsen, U. S. Page. $50 T. J. Bernards, Ronald Glover, Gene Vandeneynde. - $40 Elizabeth Lord. $30 Dr. Gussie A. Niles. $27 Robinson Spencer, ' $25 Dorothea S t e u s 1 off, Dr. Marian Follia, Dr. David Bennett Hill, Dr. F. L. Utter, W. E. Han son; G. F. Chambers. $20 Albert Siewert, -Charles E. Wagner, W. E. Keyes, Dr. W, H. Darby, Dr. A. D. Woodmansee, Chester Luther. 1 - $15 Frank Bennett, Dr. Ray m. waitz, Irene D. weller, Arthur W. Smithers, Dr. K. K. Adams. Df. win j. Thompson, Henry C Koh- iert K. w. Heinlein, Carl Well- man. ; ' . ... $120 Dr. Fred Ellis, Roy Sim mons, David Eccles. $12 Charles Sherman. $11 Mary IX. Eyre,-Jerrold Owen, L. A. Wilcox, Earl Brown. $10 W alter Snyder. Connell Ward, William Porter, Mable p,l Robertson, Wesley Roeder, Caro- lyn G. Wilson A. L. Mason, R. D. Slater, J. D. Berwick, Mrs. Henry meyers, xars. a. j. jloii, airs. riU M. Slaby, Jyfrs. F. A. Elliott, Dr. John Ramage, John Heltxel, : Dr. Chas. Wood, Dr. R. D. Blatchf ord, Dr. H. H. Olinger, Dr. H. M. Olin- ger, Kirby Brumfield, Herman N. Miller, J.C. Carle, J. C. Lindley, C. A. Larson, Helen Beeler, C JH, Kane, X. M. McKee, Sephus Starr, Russell Morgan, Dr. Wilmer C Smith, A. R Hunter, a P. Wil- soi,: Henry's iPhoto Shop,. Benton f.lOSCOW lUtld iiepUlsed : MOSCOW. Friday. Oct $-HV two uerman -planes were- shot aown -Thursday night when a mcxi anecpted to attack the So flhm OZLGOn STATESMAN. Salem, Russ Launch Great Attack ' Push Germans Back Two Fronts, Reliere .Leningrad Pressure (Continued from Page 1) i Ing no detail, and in fact acknowl i edged strong Red counter-at- i tacks in one sector, although say ing that the Germans' Hungarian i allies had broken these sufficient' ly to prevent the establishment of a Russian bridgehead to the west of the Dnieper river. It was thus conceded that in some sections of the Ukraine the Russians still stood close to the Dnieper's east banks. ' Italian , action In the south was again praised by the Ger man high command: This time It was stated that Red captives taken by the fascists in a not precisely defined encircled area somewhere east of the Dnieper bad now reached SMf, exclus ive of a great but unstated number of ether casualties. As to Leningrad, Berlin merely claimed a continuation of Ger man artillery and bombing action, which had encompassed shell hits on the great Kirov armament work and on the Soviet battleship I October Revolution a vessel often reported hit before. Before Leningrad, too, Soviet counter-attacks strongly support' ed by tanks were acknowledged. Along the central front, - in i continuation of the Russian count er-offensive, Moscow claimed that two more German battalions had been routed by Red tanks and in fantry. Neither Moscow nor Berlin said anything of consequence Thursdayabout the German of fensive against the Crimean peninsula. London understood, however, that the Germans were finding It slow and heavy going in the Perekop Isthmus, which- connects the Crimea and the Russian mainland. The day brought Indications that . the British government would form no more all-British divisions on home soil and that there was no immediate prospects of any British attempts to invade the continent, despite the wide spread revolt now plaguing the Germans in the occupied lands. -The house of commons will de bateprobably In secret wheth er Britain can continue to con script her own manpower for an eventual continental offensive and still turn out the armaments which both the British and their allies need, Prime Minister Win ston Churchill disclosed Thurs day. There are unconfirmed reports that the government will form no more all-British divisions on home soil; some persons who are well-informed contend the limit already has been reached in pull ing men from the vital fields of war industry, mining and agricul ture to serve in the armed forces. Party Given On Birthday PIONEER Mrs. Roy Black honored her son, CarL with a birthday party Saturday night Those present were Violet and Mildred Larson and Fern Knight, Bert Teats, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schoder, Mrs. Black and Elano, The Rev. Clyde 'and Mrs. Rhea and family, Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. L J.- McBee, Mrs. Dorothy Gilson and son, Larry, of the Liberty dis trict, called at the Roy Black home Monday. - ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dornbecker were dinner guests at the Homer Dashflle home at Salt Creek William Dashille. a Sunday. brother of Homer, is visiting at the Dashille home from Wash tngton. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coy and Jimmy and Carol , were dinner guests of Mr. ' and Mrs. Lee Hughes and family at Oakdale. Vernon Lowen, Jack Boydston, Dallas, Curtlss and Fred Dorn becker, Falls City, called at the Frank Dornbecker home Sunday. ,. - -f- Anzac Premier Falls CANBERRA, Oct S-(Friday)- CflVThe government of Prime Arthur W. Fadden was Minister defeated by a margin of three 1 votes Thursday on a resolution before the lower house which h previously had said he would re- gard as a question of 'confidence. Sil verton Pastor Hurt SILVERTON, Oct 2 -UFh- A tumble from a walnut tree on the parsonage grounds seriously injured : the Rev. O.C Olson, pastor of SHverton's Calvary Lutheran church, - Thursday. I Ratlin I Executive Dies PORTLAND, OrevOct 1 -V A stroke auxxered in: the night was fatal Thursday to Thomas W. Symons, Jr, 52, Portland. Sdo- Ikahe and Butte radio executive. at his liewberg, Ore farm home Steel Plant Planned : PORTLAND, Ofct HflVCon trtirtinn flf a 11 AAA nfln nlmt In Portlandini bo'startedby 'the Oregon electric steel rolling mills as snon as hetrotlationa fm. a afta I completed, Morris Schnitzer 1 said Thursday, I viet capital it was announced today. Oregon. Friday Morning. October The Old Style W . Engaged In the army's great soutaera uuneuvert, a troop of the 9th Cavalry moves along a dusty Louisi ana road under the protection of a tank of the 67th Armored Regiment; 2nd Armored Division, providing t - a sharp contrast between the eld and the new niedlnnwef offensive action. ; . . , Bearcats Win Over Portland Aerial Attack Bogs But Powerful Play 4 Brings Victory (Continued from Page 1) Little Buddy Reynolds rifled- shot from 10 yards out that Bill Reder leaped high to take over the goal lino for touchdown num ber three. It was a beautiful catch. The touchdown was set up when Reynolds - intercepted Hansen's pass on the SO. and ran it to the Portland 13. Jim Burgess, reserve blocking back, dashed 75 yards aided by beautiful block on the part of Glenn Nordquist with an inter cepted pass to score Willamette's fourth touchdown with but five minutes left in the ball game Fitzgerald's placement attempt for the extra point went awry, as it did following Reder's touchdown. Every Portland Sally, none of which moved any nearer the Willamette goal Una than the 34-yard line, was halted either by interceptions or failure ef Portland fourth-down passes to hit their mark. Headed ' by big Neil Owen, sophomore fullback who ripped off 43 yards in three carries, the Bearcats were again banging at the Portland goal when the game ended. The 'Cats got as far as the Portland three yard line be fore they were thrown back on a man-in-motion -play Just before the gun. Owen came back to the seven as it sounded. The BeareaU totaled 245 yards from scrimmage to Port land's 125, although outdowned il l. The 'Cats collected S yards on three completed passes while the Pilots made 71 yards en 17 completions. Wil lamette nude more yards off Portland aerials than the Pilots running back Interceptions a total of 17$ yards. Willamette's whole forward wall played bang-up ball, al though little Tony Fraiola, Bill Reder and Martin Bars tad were its standouts. Willamette POS Portland Reder Harrington Haberman Barstad Fraiola White Loprinzi Carr Fitzgerald Parrish Stewart Blount .roka Moriey . Goodman Jacobsen Stewart Huntsinger Ogdahl Walden Hansen Durham Willamette 14 ,00 1128 Willamette - scoring: Touch downs Walden, Stewart, Reder, Burgess (for Jacobsen). . Points after touchdown Fitzgerald (placement), Reder (placement) Couple Move To Camas MIDDLE GROVE Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Edwards, who have been residents of this commun ity for nearly 15 years, left Sun day to live with a daughter, Mr. and Mrs, F. McDonald, at Camas, Wash. Ronald Warneke, who came home from a convalescent home the middle of September, has taken a turn for the worse and may have to re-enter a hospital. Mrs. Daphne RandalL who has been, a, patient for several weeks at a Portland sanitarium, return ed Sunday to the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Herndon. Mrs. Ollie Brodie, because of m health, left recently to spend some weeks with a brother in BakersCeld, Calit , Fred Scharf, with a depleted crew of five men, finished ' the season's straw baling Tuesday. A number of farmers wul of neces sity fill their barns with loose straw this, season. Vacation Successful - V FAIRVIIW W. J. Marley brought hack a large buck Wed nesday after a' five-day. hunting vacation spent at Kamela. Harry AHison. Mr. and Mrs. John Alli son and Hazel Allison , returned Thursday with three bucks shot near Izee. Henry Knoche returned Wednesday - with a buck kffled noar prinevilla. LK , LT LG i.RG RT RE QB LLH :-.. .RH : Z.FB 3. 1941 and TMNew Joinln US Defense ; . 1 This, People Is 1 ay" m gesgNi 1 Screen Players Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey went into a kiss for a scene In a new picture. Three minutes and five seconds later they broke it up. "Not bad," murmured IQss Wyman. "Not bad at all." we say, for the kiss set a new endurance record. The old mark was 5&2 seconds, set a year ago by Ann Sheridan and George Brent, New Problems To Be Talked - At AP Parley (Continued From Page 1) ligence division, will be represent ed by Lieut (J.G.) C. L. BushelL Portland, and Ensign' Wallace Sprague, Seattle. Other speakers wul include Frank Turner, western superin tendent of Canadian Press, Van couver, B.C., and Robert Vavag naro. Associated Press executive representative, San Francisco. - Presiding wffl be Edwin B. AMrleh, publisher of the Pen dleton East Oreronlan, and Charles B. Welch, managing editor of the Tacoma News Tribune. Among those attending will be Stephen C. Mergler, manag ing editor of The, Oregon States- An exhibit of news pictures taken in the past year win be one of the features. Seventeen news papers have entered 114 photo graphs. The winners will be dis played at the Associated ' Press managing editors' meeting in Chi cago and entered hi the national Pulitzer prize contest. At noon the Portland Oregonian and the Oregon Journal will be hosts at a luncheon. An evening dinner will conclude the meeting Multnomah Board to Consider Tax Move PORTLAND, Oct. 2-f-The . Multnomah county equalization board will meet Friday to de termine its action on the order of the state tax commission to re vise the .1941 tax rolL Neither Judge George Tazwell nor 'County Clerk A. A. Bailey would comment on their future course. Assessor Tom C. Watson is in a hospital and is not ex pected to attend the meeting. Guests at Pioneer PIONEER Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Dornbecker of Falls City and Mrs. George Curtiss of Dallas u One Record Kiss ...... Hunter Return Minus Stolen Deer i Other Bring Home Buck TURNER Among the first Turner ' hunters ' retursLine from the mountains in eastern Ore gon were Mervin Pearson, Gene Shilling. Archie Rankin, Fay and Hugh Webb. Each of them bagged a fine back, but Rankin had the mis- fort use to have the one ho shot stolen from where it had been len nangiug m a tree near camp encased in a ' fly-proof bag. The hunters had been past the cache only a few hours before but en returning the venison was missing. Bossy Needs A Vacation COLUMBUS, 0. (ff) Dairy cows are in the money again and Oh in Stat nnlvanlf iu.ta1t.4. recommend that they be given six wi"te House issued a state or eight weeks -vacation with ment. Thursday saying it was nar- annually tn kn tham i hopeful that an "enterins! wedfe condition for the production cam- ?r Pctice of complete free paign. Just now speeded up for t0? of reUekn Russi "is de the national defense program. finy P" lt way." The dairy husbandry experts . This statement followed an out- exnlain tho nf fm Knvin. tions br saying dairy cows are President Roosevelt's recent state artificial animals created by man ment ha the Russian constitu from early models which gave Uwa lnnitted freedom of relig only a few hundred pounds of j?11; Ther were several replies milk each year. Now dairymen consUtutional provision want cows that leverage 10,000 nminHi nf mfllr .nmi.ll - I Milk contains a high percentage erals and other food constituents that are manufactured within the cow's body. If this manufacture proceeds continuously from one uvmuwu vj uie next, me ceaseless drain on physique 'reduces vigor - . yiuuuvuuu uver, a perjoa or years will be less thanj if the cow had rest periods each The -vacation with nav-in tie form of extra feed permits Z " . -- c 4ir ..j-ui, persons were la the beginning of the next lacta- Jd, six ot . them critically "" ' . . , Thursday in a terrific explosion , .. Shortrtut OB Snip Act Seen Senator Urges FDR to Revoke .'39 Neutrality Act Proclamation (Continued from Page 1) 1 was recently siren to similar German and Italian officials. The consulates were closed anal the consular officials sent home. th neutrality act directed that when the president should, find a state of war to exist between iww ; other nations, he should Issue proclamation bringing the act in to effect and defining the areas of aea combat, with American ships forbidden to enter them, m "The provisions of the neutral ity act were discretionary rather than mandatory," ne aaio. .u old neutrality act of 1937 (super seded by the present statute) com pelled the president to Issue proclamation whenever a state of war existed. Upon tne issuance this mandatory proclamation the prohibition of the old- statuta against the movement of Ameri can vessels and. against the arm ing of American vessels came im mediately into operation. Bat the meutralUy , act of 1839 is vitally - dinereau. xno president need not Issae a proc lamation, even u he xmos snas at state of war exists sinle ho finds in addition that the im position of (hose restrictions is necessary . to promote the secur ity and preserve the peace of the United States or to protect the jives of cltisens -the unite Statos." WASHINGTON. Oct 1 -S- Secretary of State Hull " had a word to those who -wished him well on his 70th birthday Thurs day, and the word was liberty." It was a stern word -as spoken by, the secretary, a challenge con trasting sharply with the gay candles and pink frosting of a birthday cake brought into' his press conference by newspaper men assigned to the state depart ment. . . . . , ; For he spoke not of the rights and privileges and lush preroga tives of liberty, but of its "terri fic responsibility." Against a background , of 49 years of government service, fed eral and state, Hull said: "One of the most Important lessons that has occurred to ma out of this long contact and ex perience has been that stales men and peoples everywhere must recognise the strong re sponsibility; which liberty im poses On these who enjoy ttJ Hull has been secretary of state now for .nine years, the longest period any man hasfierved in that exalted post WASHINGTON, Oct t -VPY- A senate committee, told that the railroads could begin hauling 200,000 barrels of petroleum daily i to the eastern , seaboard within two weeks, unofficially reaffirm ed - today its finding that a threatened gasoline shortage could be avoided if proper steps were taken. . Chairman Maloney (D-Conn) summed up members' views with the terse comment that he saw little change in the situation since the committee reported three weeks ago that there-was no ac tual shortage either in gasoline or transportation facilities. WASHINGTON, Oct 1 -HV iu - rrt w . " ' ouzt OI CTlUcism elicited h 1 or- nothing" m prac- Japanese Sub Foundem f TOKYO, Oct -(Friday)-?)-. The Japanese navy office today announced the sinking of the sub- 1 in a collision during maneuvers last night in the north. I . . VA v usuu. Iran Of " ww was -rescued.; City Blast Ininra 2?l CUMBERLAND, McL, Oct t-m curruna orv. WW