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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1941)
For Women - Torn to The Statesman's ,r women's pace dally IT you're Interested In social and dab . news. .There are tested -recipes and food hints also. Veathor Cloudy with Intermittent light rain today and Friday, Max. .temperature Wednes day II, Mm. . XalnfalL .17 Inch. South wind. River ; -2.4. Cloudy. ! . v w w vv trOUNDDD 1651 inKETY-FmST YEAH Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, October 8, 1941 Price 3ci Newssloaxds Se No. 163 A Up! Up! Up! imstoVcs at 87 New Fund si Mages. OnlyG Nazi Men Derailment Wrecks Passenger Depot re - . - e - E-5Qooa B-mooo.00 v ,J n B $30,000. E-$2QO0Q BSIQOOO.00 Watch the pledges "mercury climb In the Community : Chest thermometer. Shaded and black line deplete amounts sub scribed each day since ! the campaign started last week. Salem's Chest On Final Lap ; Drive Tops $40,000 - Mark; Two Days Left ! In .1941 Campaign '..'- The remaining' deficiency in the Ealem Community Chest fund was reduced to four figures at the Wednesday report luncheon when pledges amounting to $2308 Were turned in bringing the total to $40,440 which is about 82 per cent and. $9360 short of the $50,000 goal.7 - I Report luncheons today and Friday will be the last daily gath erings of campaign solicitors. In case the goal is not reached by Friday, canvassing will continue and . there will be later meetings of workers.-" George Alexander's govern ment and education division topped the list en Wednesday with $888 reported bringing its total up to $8846. The automo tive division headed by A. C. Ilaag Is nearest to its team goal (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Gale Causes Ten Deaths, Much Damage CHARLESTON, SC, Oct 8-)-Greatly weakened by a three-day whirl over land, a small-center tropical storm blew out to sea Wednesday off the South Caro lina coast, leaving at least 10 dead In its wake. u -. s Born in the West Indies, the 'hurricane cut across the Bahamas and lower Florida veered north ward in the Gulf of Mexico and then lashed -across northwest Florida and south Georgia Tues- day. . . t - - ' The Bahamas ' reported three (Turn tq Page 2, Col. 3) , Terrific Windstorm Slices 'A tornadie wind sliced away all eastern edge ef Kansas City as , dozen persons and causing Heavy For Hi3S Sought FDR Expected to Limit Requests; Opponents Set WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -(ff)-. Opponents of the administra tion's foreign policy laid plans Wednesday night to oppose the arming of American merchant men, a step which President Roosevelt is expected to pro pose in a message to congress Thursday. "The main decision was to oppose in every way amendments to the neutrality act as being, in fact, an authorization to carry on war, announced Senator Taft (R-Ohio) following a conference of senators and representatives. He said that approximately 60 members of congress, both demo crats and republicans, attended the meeting. It followed a report of legislative leaders that Mr. Roosevelt would present his re quest Thursday. Taft added that the conferees were "very determined that the house committee on foreign af fairs hold hearings on the whole subject of arming cargo ships and that all felt at least a week should be set aside to hear representatives of the army, navy and others. "In the World war arming of merchantmen was considered to be a complete failure," Taft asserted. The president hopes, it was re ported,, that later congress will also rescind" provisions of the same law which forbid American ships to enter ports of belligerent nations. A decision to confine the legis Iatlon to the armed ship issue was (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Death Takes Noted Writer Of Film Songs BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct 8-()-Gus Kahn, who wrote the words to some of the most catchy American popular songs, died un expectedly Wednesday of a heart attack. Kahn. usually wrote lyrics to the music of Walter Donaldson, but occasionally Donaldson help ed out with the words and often Kahn provided much of the melo dy. The hit song, "Pretty Baby,' made them topnotchers of Tin Pan Alley before the World war. ; "Ain't We Got Fun" was Im mensely popular after the war. So was "Carolina in the Morn ing.' Flappers of the twenties were made over "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," "It Had to Be You," "I Never Knew," and "My Isle of Golden Dreams.' - They had been writing film musicals for eight years. "You (Turn to Page 2, Cot 3) Key Witness Convicted SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 8-)- James CNeil, 41, a key witness in the deportation hearing of Harry Bridges, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to prison for three years and fined $100 Wednesday. bat the front section ef the New Arlington Methodist church on the It followed an erratic coarse, kXUsg woman and chUd, Injuring a property oamaxo. rsr flu ROBERT A. MILLER FOREST GROVE, Ore., Oct MA3) Robert A. Miller, 87, one-time member of the state legislature and former government land of fice registrar, died at the Ma sonic home here Wednesday. Known as Colonel Miller, from a title conferred on him by Gov. Sylvester Fennoyer in the 1890's, he was long active in the state's political life. A graduate of Wil lamette university he was for a time connected with the Salem Statesman and then entered law and politics. In 1938 he was an unsuccessful candidate for two-month term in the United States senate. Miller was born near Eugene, Ore, a nephew at Jacksonville, Ore, is the only surviving relative. Court to Get Tax Dispute State Board Will Ask High Bench to Assume Jurisidiction in Row The state tax commission soon probably today will ask the state supreme court to assume original Jurisdiction over a man- damas proceeding aimed aimed at compelling Tom Watson, Mult nomah county assessor, to comply with a commission ruling as to the method by which he shall make up his" 1941 assessment roll. Chairman Charles V. Gallo way of the commission said -Wednesday he expected to see the petition filed by tonight. The commission will ask the court to enforce its order, which overruled a decision of the Mult nomah county equalization board and directed the assessor to assess property of all types on a uniform basis. i- The Multnomah board had or dered the assessor to return to the old practice In that county of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Statesman's Ad Manager Heads Meet EUGENE, Oct 8 HJPh Harry Schenk, ' manager oi the Oregon Newspaper Publishers associa tion, announced Wednesday that Robert Sprague, advertising man ager of The Oregon statesman. Salem, would be program chair man for the October 11 associa tion meeting at Portland. Speakers will include Herbert Grey of the Medford Mail Tri bune, Robert Holliday, San Fran cisco, and Major General George A. White, commander of the 41st division, Fort Lewis. City Church :- ; - Approved In House , 0 Second Measure . Asking Billions Set for Debate WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 J(JP President Roosevelt's request for a $5,985,000,00 lend-lease fund was approved overwhelm ingly by the house appropria tions committee Wednes day and its backers started it through congress with a cry that "clouds of airplanes" and "acres of tanks" are needed to beat Hitler. Within a few minutes after the committee approved a $5,159,416, 229 omnibus bill carrying the aid fund, Chairman Cannon (D-MO) took it to the house floor for three days of debate with this state ment: "Our allies abroad are fighting with their backs to the wall and cannot survive without our as sistance. And if they succumb we must at some portion of our con tinent be faced by an aggressor who in two short years has de stroyed every nation in Europe. . "We must supply them with clouds of airplanes, acres of tanks and munitions to equal and surpass the vast streams of machinery flowing front aggres sor countries.". But republicans promptly re torted that since very little . of the first $7,000,000,000 lend- lease appropriation of last March had been spent, the current fund was not needed immediately. - Rep. Taber of New York, sen ior republican i commitWman, I tola tne House tnat there was -piace aixer piace- wnere tne (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Sheriff Just Wants Taxes, That's All! PORTLAND, Oct. Sheriff Martin Pratt threatened Wednesday to foreclose on two lets formrar the entrance to the city's auto testing station un less Portland pungled up $367.48 in back taxes. City officials replied that the property once was owned by the water bureau, which sold It to a private owner and then bought it back for the testing station. The taxes piled up while It was privately owned. ' The sheriff said the city hall could explain all day be still wanted the money. Fire at Baker Injures Five BAKER, Ore., Oct. MSVFire in the two-story Montgomery Ward store here Wednesday was estimated to have caused $125,000 damage to the building and stock, partly covered by Insurance. . The flames were controlled at S p. m., six hours after the fire, of undetermined origin, broke out Five firemen, overcome by smoke. were revived with oxygen. Tacoma Span "In Air'' TACOMA, Oct. e.-MV-Presi- dent J. J. Paufman and Secretary Thad A. Stevenson of the Tacoma chamber of commerce reported to members Wednesday, shortly af ter returning from Washington, DC, that all . federal agencies ap proached had refused to advance funds toward the rebuilding of the narrows span. Industries By KAY MORROW - .. Salem Industries, like those in other; cities throughout the na tion are " feeling the effects of federal priorities in ': getting : ma terial needed In their, businesses. While some Cnns have had little trouble,! representatives of others say that they .will have to go out of business if something isn't done soon to change the , picture and speed tip the Cow of goods vital to their particular enterprise. , ' Greater forethought in taking contracts and in many eases a curtailment of bids have been the means employed by some - firms In getting' around the f LlUL A 13-year-old boy was killed and derailed and ripped up the tracks, smashing Into one end of the Lansinr, Mich passenger .depot. The dead youth was James Smith of Lansing. He and those Injured were in the depot or on the station platform when the freight ears Meets With County tvtt i n weir Miss Marion Bowen, Administrator, Approves Additions to Staff; New Office Accommodations Discussed 1 x Meeting for the first time with Miss Marion Bowen, recent ly-appointed administrator, the committee: Wednesday approved and voted to add them to the staff of the welfare department. Question of housing welfare of fices; which arose with expira tion in August of the lease on its current quarters and the recom-mend-ltioQ. of a Marion county and Jury that "different accom-4 modations be secured, was dis cussed without decision. Addition of the caseworkers j will brine the staff more nearly to required size, Mrs. LaMolne R. dark, chairman of the com mittee, said. Still unannounced is selection of a caseworker supervisor, made necessary by resignation of the previous su pervisor who , resigned to con tinue her graduate studies la an eastern school. Need for additional personnel was among the items emphasized in the grand jury's special sum mer report on the welfare situa tion in Marion county. Properly certified social workers in the fields where they are particular ly needed here are not easily available, and the committee was anxious to have all its fall choices made after Miss Bowen's arrival, Mrs. Clark said. US Indicts Nazi Writer As eMenace" NEW YORK, Oct MflV-George Sylvester . , Viereck, 56-year-old Journalist described by the : gov ernment as chief German propa gandist in this country, was re leased in $13,000 bail Wednesday on an Indictment ' charging him with failure to set forth material facts hi his state department reg istrauon as a representative of a foreign government. - He said he ' would plead In Washington, DC, Friday, where the five-counted ( sealed Indict-' meat, returned by a grand Jury ; there, was opened as soon as Viereck was taken Into custody Wednesday morning at his Riv erside drive apartment by .fed-: : era! agents,'..:.:,--. ;:;vo:nv. -"He is one of the most serious menaces in this country," William Power Maloney, special assistant to the attorney general, told US (Turn to. Page 2, Col 6) in problem. Others have found substitute materials which make It possible to continue their, work on a smaller scale. So far no serious cases of un employment have been reported from the slowing down of opera tions with its'! resultant decrease in size of crews, but the possibil ity that such a condition? may arise: was 'forcibly put by one local company official ' when 1 he said "If something Isn't done soon well all be applying, for: unem ployment compensation." -fciij; . Salem men In ever mcreasing numbers ' have been - leaving to take '. jobs 1 in shipyards, - aircraft Salem -1 'A 12 other persons Injured when a struck It. Thirty cars were derailed. Group are New Chief Marion county public welfare credentials of three caseworkers Oregon Wins Stock Awards- . .j - - . ' Breeders in Salem Area Win Most of Prizes at Portland Exposition PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct Judging n eared completion Wed nesday at the Pacific Internation al Livestock show following sale of 4H club livestock. The grand champion pen of hogs, owned by Eugene Heine mann, Sitzville, Wash., brought 13 cents a, pound from the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Singer Dies : ' HELEN MORGAN - CHICAGO, i Oct. S-ayJIele 1 Morgan, , the nationally noted I torch singer who rose to fame during the Ztegfeld era, died Wednesday night In Henroila hospital after an Illness of three Are Feeling Priorities Pinch factories and other defense Indus tries. Such a situation has ma terially cut down. on the supply of 'skilled labor jwith .the result that several employers K report mey are forced to go to consid erable extra expense-to pay their workmen, overtime r when . they would much ; prefer using an addi tional shift instead. - ,' : ' - Very, much concerned about, bis inability to get materials is 4 LeeU.' EyeHyl of the? Eyerly Aircraft company, who reported thV situation is raising heck. .with us and well ? close up within a - few r weeks If eondl- . tions continue as they are. fast Chicago-New York train was AFL President Demands Work Appeals to Members To Keep Production Going Full Blast Br Th Associated Press William Green, president of the AFL, appealed to its members Wednesday night to "stay on the job and keep defense production going at full blast until the ene mies of America are soundly de feated - : - Green expressed confidence that the government mediation agen cies were;ready -' and willing to ghr labor a square deal." ; ' Meanwhile the AFL teamsters union called a strike at the M00,0O San Jacinto (Texas) army ordnance depot because the contractors refused to recog nise the local as bargaining agent for truck drivers there. Company officials said that a poll showed only five per cent of the men belong to the union. The union also threatened a strike of AFL truoc drivers and construction workers in Detroit if a contract for a $1,000,000 de fense, housing, project, there, is awarded to the Currier Lumber company, maker of pre-fabricated housing, which employs CIO labor. The company, was low bidder by $400,000 but officials have held uphe contract as a result of the labor situation. A dispute whkh tied up It vessels last month moved a step nearer settlement when the AFL sailors union accepted -a reeem-- mendation mt the defense media . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) .. Windsors Set For Return CAIJGARY, Alta Oct 8-(CP)-An enthusiastic crowd - of 3,000 packed the railway station here Wednesday : night to bid farewell to the duke and duchess of Wind sor. The ducal couple left at 7:17 pjn. for' Moose Jaw, Sasfc, en route to the Bahama Islands of which the- duke Is governor. They had spent the last 10 days at the duke's 4,000-acre EP ranch near here. . Chute Fails US Pilot ' MVERDALE, Calif, Oct -JPh The pilot of a twin-motored army bomber, believed to be Lieut K. E. .Elliott of McCord Field, Wash-, was killed late Wednesday in an apparent effort, to parachute to safety from his ship, which crash ed - and burned .In a corn field near here. , ; With no promise.' that needed materials would be speeded up, Eyerly said that production' had been slowed to a point where 2 Q men instead of 60 are now em ployed at his" plant ".Work : at Bremerton, Portland and the Boe ing aircraft . plant in Seattle' has taken a large 'share of the crew, v - "We would Tike to" get de fense work but so far ha vent been suceessftil,7 Eyerly point- -,ed 'out-' ; '"4''4::'V;Vv -I At-: the Valley Machine ; shop, Winford K Richardson sad that as yet' conditions there had not changed materially but that mar chine tools can't be gotten unless aces M oscow HitlerVTroops : Within 125 Miles Of Russ Capital " ' i-; 7.. : ...1 - By The AssocUted Press '!.,".- . : ". '-. i The grand scale German ; offensive at the center Btfll was unhalted late Wednesday night. .- . j - Slowly and ponderously it' moyed forward, within 125: miles or less west of Moscow on :one front, and less than 220 miles south of the capital on the other, over fields of destiny shaken with the ter rible clamor of the greatest mechanized battle1 the world has ever known. , The Russians, flinging them selves desperately at apparently superior forces which Hitler's command was still strengthening -constantly with imperative calls . to the rear, were fighting a great delaying action which clearly was ' bleeding the invaders heavily. More than 500 nazi tanks, Mos cow reported Wednesday, already had been destroyed or blown up by the torches of red infantrymen charging into the very snouts of Hitler's steel .machines. But still the great nazi arc pressed on, Soviet dispatches of Wednesday; did not go much be yond the claim that the German salients were being heavily as saulted in an effort to straighten, and hold the red line. The Germans, their most 1m- . minently threatening whig standing somewhere about " Yyasma to the west, eUlmrd " that a major break-through had - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) ' Pilot Crashes, Only Scratched LA VETA, Colo., Oct 8.-(ffV- Lloyd Laflin, 38-year-old aviator, suffered only a small cut on his face Wednesday when he said, "the father of all downdrafta'' hurled his seaplane at 80 miles an hour into a scrub oak patch high In southern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains. Parts of the: craft in which the; Fox Lake, HI, pilot was, charting a .seaplane ferry route between Portland, . Me, and San Diego, Calif, were scattered for 250 feet through the oak patch near the summit of 9382-foot La Veta pass.. Grand Coulee ' "Blacked Out',' GRAND COULEE, Wash, Oct 8.-vf')-Pirework more spectac ular than any Fourth of July cele bration danced on Grand Coulee dam for five minutes Wednesday . night when a short circuit blew, up a 110,000-volt transformer and left the region in darkness. All work was halted on the' dam. The blackout put 200 men on the night shift out of work temporarily.: Only Mason City, the 1 government i town . which gets Its power direct from the generators at the dam, still had light and power. No Smoke Chief Dies ' NEW YORK, Oct 8H)-Dr. Charles Giffln Pease, 86, founder : and president of the Non Smokers' Protective ; league , d America, and a lifelong crusader against tobacco, coffee, tea, choc olate, meat liquor, condiments : and medicaments, died Wednes day.: : -X; i 'i t i,' v. 1 a firm has a government contract and steel Is more difficult to se cure all the time. - . , --"Use of substitute products has helped, the. situation but the result is more expense ' and more work," Richardson. Things seem to be "getting steadily worse, especially in the last two months.? Because priorities are making It almost i tapossal ' to get steef and' labor Is llnz lata ; defense Industries, the 'Salem Iron Works has" had to cdt down on Its contracts; C. G. Albeit, ' 'manager, declared, and, he add ed, Jif a change is not forth "(Turn to Fage 2. CoL 4) ' ' 1