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No. 167
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Watch the pledges "mercury
climb In the Community Chest
: thermometer. Shaded and black
line depicts amounts sub
cribed each day since the
campaign started last week.
Chest Drive
Wearing Goal
Total Neare $38,000
Mark at End of First
Week in Campaign
' Conimunity Chest solicitors were
within $12,000 of their goal as
they terminated the first week of
the annual campaign on, Tuesday
noon. The day's report of $2288
In new ' pledges brought the of
ficial total- up to $37,993.41
which would leave a few dollars
over $12,000 to go. One division
did not report an4 .another made
only a ; partial report so it was
evident that subscriptions in hand
exceeded $38,000, which is 76 per
cent of the $50,000 goal.
- A n . announcement whieh
earned appreciative applause
was to the. effect that girls of
milcrest school had made a sub
scription of $3.50 out of their
harvest earnings.
The parable of the Good Sa
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Nipe Die in
Gulf Storm
" ATLANTA, Oct 7-)-A tropi
cal storm howled inland from the
Gulf of Mexico early Tuesday, cut
a destructive path across a corner
of Florida and on into Georgia
leaving at least nine deaths on the
long -trail from its birthplace deep
In the west Indies.
Five men were reported to have
drowned at a gulf coast fishing
village at Panacea, south of Talla
basse, 'when storm-whipped tides
trapped them in a seine-yard.
' A 16-year-old school girl was
killed as the small, but intense,
blow moved through Georgia
Belated reports from outlying is
lands of the Bahamas indicated at
least three persons were killed and
several injured in the hurricane
that lashed that area for two hours
Sunday night
Windsors on
n
(.Tim tin dors,
at the date's SOOO-acre TP
The Windsors are spenmng a i
, as by way of the United States.
US Emergey Is
First Importance
Says President
SEATTLE, Oct. 7-P)-The
president of the United States
and the secretary of labor Tues-
day urged an end to labor dis
putes because of the national
emergency.
JtTesiaent Kooseveits mes
sage stated the time has come
when the federal machinery
for adjusting labor disputes
"must be used" by labor and
management "before any recourse
is taken to a strike or lockout."
Labor Secretary Perkins told
the 600 delegates and a large
throng of visitors that . "strikes
which, hamper the national effort
have inevitably brought an ava
lanche of unfavorable comment to
the labor movement
"It is of extreme importance
that the trade unions develop in
the near future a pattern of self
imposed discipline, a pattern of
public policy which the members
really assent to
"I feel sure that the trade on
ions of this country will partici
pate in the thinking and In the
actions, necessary to keep our
economy on an even keel . .
President Roosevelt's . message
and Secretary Perkins' appeal
were balanced by the reconstruc
tion recommendations of Gover
nor Harold E. Stassen of Minne
sota and by a veteran AFL con
vention figure, James Wilson, lia
ison officer to the-International
Labor Organiation and former
AFL executive council member.
Stassen drew cheers with his
statement that AFL President
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CAA Comletes
City Airport
Salem municipal airport was
officially turned over to the city
again Tuesday by the civil aero
nautics authority, whose part of
the development was declared
completed in a letter to Mayor
W. W. Chadwick from the Seattle
CAA office. .
The CAA work included a
4000-foot runway, taxi strips
and apron and boundary lights
and grading of the field. The
field was to have been com
missioned to the city in Septem
ber, but the lights were not
completed.
Three runways are to be con
structed by WPA, but Mayor
Chadwick said no further word
has been received on starting of
the project
Driver Dies
After Mishap
CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct 7-vP-
William C. Ingram, Toledo, Ore.,
died Tuesday of injuries suffered
In an automobile accident Sunday.
Edward Bonis, Siletz, Ore., a
passenger in Ingram's machine, is
hospitalized, but his injuries were
not believed serious.
Their car collided head-on with
another north of here on the Paci
fic highway. Occupants of the
other auto escaped serious hurts.
Holiday at Canadian Ranch
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
ranch at Pekisko, Alta deep In the
- uay nuuj au iwt
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German sources Identified these
taken in battle and huddled In
a concentration camp.
New State Librarian
Selected by
Eleanor Sharpless Stephens Will
Report November 1; Was Chief of
Los Angeles Branches Library
Eleanor Sharpless Stephens,
of the Los Angeles county public library since 1939, was elected
Oregon state librarian to succeed the late Harriet C. Long by
the trustees of the library here Tuesday. The position pays $4000
a year. I
"The new librarian win report i
for duty on November 1. 1 i
The selection was made by a"
special committee of trustees
consisting of Nell A. Unger, li
brarian of the Portland public
library association; Dr. Fred
erick M. Hunter, chancellor,
Oregon state system of hither
education, and Anne Mulheron,
Portland.
Miss Stephens was born at
Churdan, la., January 23, 1892.
Her professional training, begun
in 1910 at the University of Wash
ington, consists of a bachelor of
arts degree and a librarian cer
tificate from that institution, a
diploma from the library school
of the New York public library,
New York City, received in 1922,
special work in county library or
ganization and book selection at
the Riverside (Calif.) library
school, and graduate study at the
University of Chicago In 1936.
Positions Miss Stephens has
held Include the first assistant -ship
at s Spokane public li
brary branch; circulation assist
ant Seattle public library;
branch assistant New York
City; general assistant, Los An
geles county public library, and
assistant juvenile department
Sacramento, Calif, public li
brary; chief librarian, Yakima,
Wash, and Washington state li
brarian, Olympia, 1924-25.
Recommendations of Miss Ste
ophens, received by the selection
committee, emphasized her in
itiative, executive ability, aptitude
for dealing with people and her
knowledge of books.
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strolled In front of the ranch house
foothills of the Canadian rockies.
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men as Russians, prisoners of war,
a sand pit before they are moved to
Trustees
chief of the branches division
r.
ELEANOR S. STEPHENS
Duce Decrees
Death Penalty
For Plotters
I ROME, October l-iPy-Tremlet
Mussolini Tuesday night decreed
the death penalty for plotting
against the state in all Italian'
annexed territories ,-
) As commander of Italian troops
On all fronts, Mussolini issued the
decree dated October 3, fixing the
death penalty for; the following
crimes in annexed territories:
Acts aiming at "disturbing the
unity, independence and integrity
f the state;
i Destruction, plunder and mas
sacre aimed against the security
of the state;
Promoting, leading or partici
pating ur armed insurrections
against the state; ;
i Organizing or leading associa
tions aimed at overthrow of the
political, economic or social order
or dismemberment of the; state
1 Terrorism or political i crimes
tending to create public danger;
and ' -v y
Serious damage to communica
tions or public services. ; .
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US to Borrow
Over Billion
WASHINGTON, Oct- 7-(VIn
the biggest single borrowing op
eration since the World war, the
treasury arranged Tuesday ; to
borrow $1,300,000,000 in cash on
Thursday. "r. -1 - f r. - ;
i Secretary Morgenthau an
nounced that. $100,000,000 ; of
long-term bonds would be sold to
banks, .insurance companies and
other - large investors. Government
trust funds ' will buy the remain
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ing $100,000,000.
Change IMethod
In'Neutral Law
Now Under Fire
WASHINGTON, Oct. l-JPh
President ' Roosevelt told j re
porters Tuesday that new or
ders of the government of Pan
ama forbidding the arming of
ships flying that nation's flag
made rapid revision of the
American neutrality act more
than ever urgent.
He made this statement at a
press conference. Earlier in the
day he was reported to have in-
formed congressional leaders,
mostly from the senate, that the
act should be revised to let armed
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mi. i rr
iviuitiiomaii lax
Raw to Courts
Sprague Says Problem
Should Be Ironed out
To Avert Rolls Delay
Multnomah county's controversy
with the state tax commission over
its methods of assessing various
kinds of property will be referred
to the Courts as soon as possible
in an effort to clarify the situation
and avert serious delay in handl
ing of.' the new tax rolls, Gov.
Charles A. Sprague said here
Tuesday in a prepared statement
The tax commission, whose
order for assessing- of Mult
nomah property on a uniform
rather than a variable ratio basis
was rejected Monday by the
Maltnomah assessor, conferred
during the day with Attorney
fZfittal I. H. Van Winkle.
-f L. Iftave observed with deep con
cern" the" controversy over the as
sessment rolls for Multnomah
county," the governor's statement
read. "The dispute hinges upon the
interpretation of the law govern
ing the assessment of real and per
sonal property. There appears to
be an honest difference of opinion
among competent authorities as to
the intent of the law.
"The welfare of some 90,900
homeowners in Multnomah
county is affected and conse
quently they have an obvious
right to demand that authori
ties not act finally until there
is a clear understanding of legal
Intent
"It seems to me that the general
principle of equality of taxation is
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Latourette Is
First to File
In Vote Race
Howard Latourette, Oregon's
national democratic party com
mitteeman, was not the first to an
nounce his candidacy for gover
nor, but Tuesday he became the
first man officially to enter his
name as a May, 1942, primary
election candidate.
Latourette filed by petition in
the state department Tuesday aft
ernoon.
Nomination petitions for the
governorship must be by signa
ture of 1000 qualified voters rep
resentative of at least seven coun
ties. Completed petitions must be
submitted by next March 30. .
Latourette gave as his slogan:
,Tor democracy, for Roosevelt
for Oregon, her people, their wel
fare and prosperity.
Cardinal Dies at Rome
t VATICAN CITY, Wednesday,
Oct. brVFy-l orenzo. Cardinal
Lauri died today. He was 76 years
old, having been born October 15,
1864, In Rome. : - r V
Death came in a Home hospital
where the cardinal recently -un
derwent an operation. , - rv
Dr. J. -A.: Wonderlick was ac
quitted of - the , charge of - man
slaughter Tuesday afternoon1 by "a
jury less, than 32 hours after his
trial had opened in Marion County
circuit court. The jury was in re
tirement approximately 90 minutes
before teaching a verdict K Ac ?
The, case, revolving about the
alleged performance of an ille
? gal 'operation upon the person
of a Woodburn young woman,.
drew crowds of curious persons'
Salem Boitbr Acqin
SOtcK' avAsai
Authoritative sources in London
the eastern front was tinder way, and there were reports th i Mos
. cow was the goal, with the attacks developing especially ft to the
Roslavl area. Sectors: (1) the Leningrad area, from which Gtrmans
might possibly thrust at Moscow; (2) the Roslavl region; ( J) the
German drive at Kharkov; (4) the German (shaded arrow) and
Russian (black arrow) drives In
Mass Armed
Yugo Led by Serb Girl
Rebels Storm Town Near Belgrade;
Germans Use Stern Measures as
Unrest Grows Through Europe
By The Associated Press
Mass armed revolt in the heart of old Yugoslavia, led by a
Serbian girl, was acknowledged by Berlin, Tuesday night, along
With announcements of new troubles and-repressive measures
in other countries east and west
. Rebel bands of guerrilla soldiers
and armed farmers in the Serbian
region of former Yugoslavia
stormed the town of Sabac, only
35 miles west of Belgrade, and
according to Berlin's own account
serioiisly threatened it until Ger
man regular army troops aided by
the unffoaned guard of the pro
axis Croat leader Pavelic were
rushed into battle.
. .The rebels, said to have been
led by the daughter of a Serbian
attorney, were reported by the
Germans to' have been smashed
under attack by all branches of
the reich nny.
In Paris, scene of frequent at
tacks upon . German occupation
troops, the body of a woman anti
bolshevist leader was found in
the Seine. She had been strangled,
weighted and trussed in a crime
which Paris authorities said was
liable to "create a great sensa
tion." The German authorities in Paris
announced that the total number
of persons executed in occupied
France in reprisal for attacks on
nazi troops now had risen to 73.
- A German dispatch from
Prague reported the execution
of six more persons in the pro
tectorate of Bohemia-Moravia,
heart of former Czechoslovakia,
charged with preparation of
high treason, economic sabotage
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Legion Sets
New Flagpole
: A" new flagpole .was set in a
concrete base Tuesday at the home
of Capital post No. 9, American
Legion, and Win probably be dedi
cated Armistice day, stated Com
mander Fred Gahlsdorf. .
The steel pole,' 50 feet high; is
next to the sidewalk at the south
east corner of the building, situ
ated on the northwest , corner of
Chemeketa and . Cottage streets.
A' plaque is to be placed at, its
base. ..--- . ! - .. .
.to the courtroom- Monday and
'Tuesday. ' ,,. ' . ;
. Declaring the jury's faith in the
innocence of Wonderlick, George
H. Riches, foreman, signed the
verdict., ', . j ,
.-" An alleged discrepancy , In the
date quoted in the Indictment and
lack of corroborative . evidence
were principal contentions' -s on
which the attorney, for the de
fense based his. argument as .to
the innocence of the doctor. -
said a new German offensive on
the Crimean area.
Revolt In
of the reich
Nazis, Turks
To Sign Pact
Trade Agreement Gives
Germany Chromium for
Supplies of War
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct
-A German-Turkish trade agree
ment due to be signed Wednes
day will give Germany at least
half of Turkey's important
chromium production after 1942,
diplomatic informants reported
Tuesday night
For the remainder of this
year and all of 1942 Germany
will get no chromium, all of
which now goes to British and
American interests.
During 1943 and 1944, however,
the Germans were said to have
demanded at least 100,000 tons
annually, three-fourths to one
half of all Turkey's output of this
element essential to high grade
steels. -
In return, the Turks are
promised about $15,000,000
worth of war equipment start
ing' Immediately, but will not
get the. airplanes which they
principally wanted a competent
I authority said. A number of
motor vehicles, without tires,
are among the goods promised
to Turkey. -
The agreement negotiated dur
ing the past ' several days by a
German delegation headed by Dr.
Karl Clodius, economic expert, Is
under stood to provide for ex
changes totalling about $75,
000,000. Jury Indicts Slayer
PENDLETON, Oct 7--John
A' Sota, California youth who
confessed -wiping out a Hermiston
farm family of three from am
bush, faced a Umatilla ' county
grand jury indictment on i first
degree murder, charge Tuesday.
, - Claim of the defense was that
. the young woman, whose testi-:
. many was used along with that
of other members of her family,'
would have been an accomplice
.had the facts been such as :to
-convict Wonderlick. -::-'t v. y-,r-Not
as an accomplice but as a
victim" was; she , brought before
the jury, the district attorney, in
return, declared. , . - '- ;
.That . testimony of four Port
land doctors, three nurses from a
Portland hospital and of , seven
Drive on Moscow
And in Ukraine
Spreads Slowly
Bjd The Associated Press
The Germans appeared to
be beating slowly forward
Tuesday night along the far
approaches to Moscow in per
haps the most decisive battle
of the eastern campaign, and
they claimed as well that the
Donets river basin in the
Ukraine had been outflanked
by a long advance which also
menaced the equally important
Industrial arsenal of the Don
valley.
While Moscow was speaking of
the nazi thrust at the center as
Hitler's supreme offensive, Ber
lin implied that it was but one
and not the greater one of two
coordinated grand smashes.
German accounts, in fact
stressed this second all-out thrust
that of the far south.
There it was claimed that the
southern nazi armies, having won
a major battle about the sea of
Azov with the capture of the staff
of the ninth soviet army, had
raced on to the east to occupy the
ports of Ossipenko (formerly
Berdyansk) and Mariupol, the i
laHer two-thirds of the way
across the northern shore of the
Azov toward the vital Don i4ver
port of Rostov and 125 miles east
of the Dnieper river.
All this, the Germans assert
ed, left the Donets basin. 'Vir
tually indefensible" and Rostov
itself and the valley of the Don
generally open to imminent at-
tack. (See map.)
The general picture drawn by
military dispatches from the cen
tral front was of a red line pierced
here and there over an immense
area by small nazi salients against
which soviet troops were smash
ing in violent attacks spread over
many miles.,
. In its communique, early Wed
nesday morning the soviet com
mand for the first time stated the
exact areas of this, heavy Ger
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Bomber Crash
Fatal to Two
Oregon Men
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct 7-UPl
-The bodies of four officers and
two enl'ided men of the US army
air corps were brought here lata
Tuesday from the snowy Agassis
peak, 10 miles away, where their
B-18 bomber crashed during a
storm Thursday night
Army ambulances from Al
buquerque, NM, where the ill'-,
fated plane was bound from
McClelland field, Sacramento,
Calif, drove up the mountain
on a scenic highway to within
two miles of the wreckage. The
bodies were carried to the road'
on stretchers, through snow
and heavy timber,
The bodies, maimed and broken
from the terrific Impact of piano
on mountainside, were those of
Lt A. T. King, Laramie, Wyon
the pilot; Lt R. H. Conway, Wil
bur, W.Va, co-pilot; Lt W. W.
dim and Lt D. Gladney Boyd,
both of Pendleton, Ore.; Corp. L.
E. Gillen, jr., Spokane, Wash., and
Pvt L. T. Morfeld, Springerville,
Ariz.
Town Fights
Oil Flood
, MARTINEZ, Calif., Oct
An oil flood from a leaking pump i
swept down on the town of Port i
Costa and kept nearly half' the
population of 1,000 awake Mon
day night and early Tuesday
building emergency dams.
Crews of Associated Oil com
pany workers from the Avon plant
were still busy late today clean
ing up the sticky mess on Main
street and Hoskins street
other witnesses .'called by the t
state corroborated her. 'statements ':
If such evidence could be consid-.
ered necessary, was maintained by
the prosecuting attorney.;' . " ; :
":. Dr. .Wonderlick, ; lndicte se'
creily by the Marlon county ' '
grand -jury after 'the father, of
' the Woodburn girl had testified
'before that . body,'was arrested v
'August 18. - and later' released ,
when he had posted $582 balL .
He has practiced medicine la". "
Salem for more th la' sears.