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PAGE TWO Aiming of US Ships Okehed House Committees in ..Quick Endorsement Of Repeal Measure (Continued from Page 1) sion makes such repeal a mat ter of extreme urgency." Late in the day. however, six of the 10 republican members of the committee issued a minority report calling for recommittal of the legislation for more adequate : public hearings and warning that Its passage would be followed "as surely as night follows day" by - proposals "striking down the re mainder i of ' our neutrality or peace .laws," . The ; itobp KepresentatlTes Tlnkham ef Massachusetts, Chlperfleld of Illinois, Verys and Bolton of Ohio, Mundt of ' 8onth Dakota and Jonkman of MIchiran proposed as an al ternative that the president transfer? available. American ships to Britain as "forthright and legal step" which they said - would not .be "merely a .head line help proposal.? While the legislative machinery was thus ! operating at top speed on this attempt to change the 1939 neutrality! act, Secretary Knox told his press conference that the navy was ready to pat guns and gun crews on the merchant ships "as fast as the ships come to us," once congress authorizes such ac tion. . vr'.-. --.,'-.,..- "We're satisfied bow we can get enough guns to arm the ships,' ho said. Rep. Boland of Pennsylvania, democratic whip, said, house pas sage of the repeal solution was so certain that it was "absolutely unnecessary" for him to make an advance poll of the membership. "It will pass by at least a 100 1 vote margin," he said, "and I wouldn't be surprised to much larger majority." When the house had a similar bUI before It In 1917, it passed It by a vote of 403 to 14. That measure : was filibustered to death In, the senate, however, and in March, 1117 28 days before the United States de clared war on Germany Presi dent Wilson ordered the arm ing of American merchantmen en his own constitutional au thority. under tno procedure recom mended by the rules committee, the debate on the measure will run throughout Thursday and for an additional hour on Friday, with a final vote scheduled for later the same day, Noted Artist Dies SOCORRO, NM, Oct l5-(P)-Walt Lauderback. illustrator for Cosmopolitan magazine and other Hearst periodicals, died today at the new Mexico tubercular sana torium. He was 54. tea. J. - i - i t m n jj TONITE FRX - 2 HITS nojtst sstrt l ffBsenn U.M3 ipfWI STARTS FRIDAY ! DOORS OPEN AT 12:45 P. M. ; -V . CONTINUOUS DAILY FROM 19 F. M. t :; KOIlTimEST PDnnERE! SALEM IS FIRST TO SEE IT AND WILL Join the Nation in Cheering THE HIT EVERYONE SHOULD SEET See the Sol dler Who Couldnt Bo Stopped In the Picture That Can't B 0 Topped! ISiSP MaUneesr Except Sunday: All" .... ..-.('-. . - ," '. "-: Evenings & Sunday: All Seats Children .17c k LAST-TUXES TODAY c:..iE-TL...ai - It' Uf f VMI i j Red Grange Weds 'A Harold (Red) Grange, famed "GaUoping Ghost" of the gridiron at the University of Illinois ana lator a proreaslOBal iodu star, m snow In Chleac with Us bride, tho former Miss Marraret Haselberr. air line stewardess, after their marriaxe at Crown Feint. Ind. Grange, executive of a Chicago bottling company, met his future wife, whose I ham In -gsxela. Miek while ear aco- Qrnns starrod at Illlnsis In 19ZS. 1924 and 1925. I ects Union Chief As Official SEATTLE, Oct.l4-()-The American Federation of' Labor overwhelmingly .rejected George E. Browne, indicted head of the International Alliance of Theatri cal and Stage Employes, as an AFL vice-president Wednesday after taking a stand earlier in tho day against racketeering or law breaking in any form within the labor movement Tho vote against the reelection of Browne as 11th vice-president was. $7,144 to 421. Browne was among absentees from the con vention. Be is on trial hi New York en a charge of extorting $559,999 from motion picture firms. The only votes for Browne were tho 420 allotted to the three dele gates of his stage employes' un ion and the one vote of tho Colo rado State Federation of Labor. The latter was cast by George W. Brarfield. also a member of Browne's union. The successful candidate for 11th vice-president was Edward Flore of Buffalo, president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes' union and : the incumbent 12th vice- president SEATTLE, Oct 15-P)-The Post-Intelligencer said Wednesday night Dave Beck of Seattle, in ternational vice-president and in ternational representative of the teamsters union for 11 western states, rejected an offer to become executive vice-president under President Dan J. Tobin with head; quarters in Washington, DC. ' Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the social security board told the American Federation of Labor convention Wednesday that social security services should be ex panded during the national emerg ency, not curtailed. SALEM'S LEADING THEATRE -BMXing fa taat Cor win wia Ut Acaatny a water Kd SulUvaa "WU1 adS soajicuuag to sTl aJstoryr Dtmoa Runyon "Oao of the greatest everf : . N. P. DaUy News "GoatsotccS - to five yoa itikit year momeys worth! - N. Y. Post U&JU CJ? DOOM OPIH lAtlTJ HOLLYWOOD Seats 40e : - - - -55c STEP&OUr - fRKIMMS oVMotJOoMB caaiooM m coioo ' Anytime kSm-ioM ml BIG FEATURES "MONLIGHT IN nAWAir , loa Xrrol ' Mischa Auer Jane Xraze - Merry Macs PLUS - PICTURES OREGON STATE-STANFORD CAMS Rej 023 Airline Hostess 5 Is x1 N i' "III "" ' ; ' Y flymr to Dos laotnes la- about a I Judge Paroles Youths After Guilty Pleas (Continued from Page 1) removal of scrap Iron and equip ment from grounds and building of a prune drier belonging to tho state land board. They entered no plea, tneir attorney maintaining that tno acts coma not oe con-1 struea as gran a larceny, i Involved in the recent esca pade, when, according to their confession, they took oats and veatch seed and an electric fence unit from Elmo Brown, route three, was Paul Dean Bethel, 18, who was Wednesday continued for sentence and released on his own recognizance. Death Takes Albany Woman Mrs. Hester S Douglas died, at Vancouver, wash., Monday, fol lowing five years' of failing health. -She was born January 6, 1870, in Albany and lived there most of her life. She was a member of the Pythian Sisters, Albany, past grand chief of the Pythian Sis ters of Oregon, a member of the Minnehaha grange, Vancouver, and of the Pomona grange, Clark county, and of the Ladies social club, Minnehaha, and of the First Methodist church, Vancouver. Surviving her are her widow, Jesse O. Douglas, Vancouver; one granddaughter, two brothers, R. W. Conn, Salon, and Elmer Conn, Brooks. Funeral services will be held at the Vancouver funeral chapel Thursday at 11 a.m. Rev. Fred C Taylor officiating. 1 Interment In Citv View cemeterv. Albanv. Silver Cliff Boy Receives Award SILVER CLIFF Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fox and family and Mrs. at the home of relatives in Port- iana ana anenaea me racinc in - ternational Livestock show, where they exhibited a number of fine sheep. In the 4-H show, Floyd Fox, Jr, won undefeated champion on his Suffolk yearling ewe which was champion of the 1940 show as ewe lamb; second on Shropshire ewe lamb and second on Shrop shire whether lamb. Goering Kin Killed BERLIN, Thursday, Oct 18-CfP) Peter Goering, 19, nephew of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, was killed Monday when his pur - suit Squadron fought With British airmen: it wa nnnnn trwfav airmen, n was announced today. i H 4 H I II II f--K-KJKJ 20c Matinee Nighto Continuous ifrom 1 P. 51. 2nd Hit Thm OUSGON STATESMAN, Calexn, Germans Mass Tanks Attack Russians Admit Nazis Break Center Lines In Powerful Drive (Continued from Page 1) said the Russians, "only across the heaps of their own, dead." It appeared that while the of fensive from the west based or iginally about Vyazma but now ! apparently operating about Moz haisk, 60 miles short of Moscow still was the more powerful, that striking down from Kalinin and imperiling the whole of the red line upon the upper Volga river was moving at a greater rate. . Perhaps worse than all this from the Kasslaa viewpoint, if official German accounts be es tablished, was Berlin's declara tion thai immense new bodies of troops were moving up to add their power to the ad vanced nasi lines. These forces, by the account of the German high command, sub- ! stantially completed during the day a long series of encirclement battles against Russian armies claimed to hare been entrapped Vyazma 125 miles to the west of Moscow and Bryansk, 210 miles southwest of the capital and were thus treed to drop their as signment of concentric maneuver and beat on xorwara to join ine advanced forces. - Moscow's aeooumto of nesday said Uttte of the tlon south of the capital In the Bryansk area exeept to Imply that fighting there had slack ened. It was the official organ of the soviet army. Red Star, which made the plainest state ment of the soviet position. Urging red troops to guard their arms ; above their lives a reference to the supreme neces- ,ity of holding on grimly to the relatively inadequate Russian .quipment at a time "when Brit- iah-American aid is only begin ninir to develorj ' the rjarjer said: "Moscow is in danger!' A neutral observer of high po sition In London thus summed up: "Hitler for the first time fat years of war has throw every available gun and tank into one attack. If he falls to take Moscow or destroy the Russian armies in tho present drive and he well may fan Germany Is finished an til spring and might well have lost tho war. The one material success cred ited to the Russians during Wed nesday was reported by British sources who stated that in the far f0"0 here gnd. nd m 7 .1 man uomc uixcuaiY Mariupol along the coast of the AZOV BCtt eXlU ilCttUtTU WWsUU Don river basin had been bloodily halted. British sources stated that the RAF's continuing aerial offensive on the western front had com pelled Hitler to keep more than half his fighting planes there, thus relieving the soviet armies considerably. - British pilots for the third con-! secutive night going over the Eng lish channel in strong force to attack the German-held French coast from Boulogne to Dunker quo last night continued the at tacks. j Yoil Tl 0 PftOTlIft 1 MT form iy roups WOODBURN The Catholic youths met Monday with Rev. John McGrenva, moderator of this ctoud. leadina the discussion. S5 were present - - - - This year the organization will groups; first, up to the third year 1 m nign scnooi; second, . iourtn I year high and older. Meetings I will be held bi-weekly. I A special works committee, for I the reorganization of the young J people, is made up of Tom Gor- man, Oliver McClure, Frank Sur almeyer, Leo Quesnel and Tom I Donnelly. Bundy Back, USC cuiuuum, uv. - vrr - Blockina Back Bill Bundv. one of tho most valuable men on the Southern California Trojan team I last season, probably will be 1 ready for 60 ' minutes of play aeainst Washineton State her- c.t,,a " J Saturday. Undergoes Operation HAYESVUXE Mrs. A.., A. wuwim, u vyuus4 iui ay pendicitis, at the Salem General hospital, Friday, ." Always. Two Aee Hits I- ENDS TODAY -HOUSE OF MYSTERY" I With an All Star Cast . ! PLUS Cs atvest thnHorl Hi Continuous Daily . a ' at on mm Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 18. 1S41 Marion County Win $612 at Livestock Show v Proceeds of the Pacific International livestock exposition for Marion county 4H club boys was 'announced Wednesday in house, Of this' sum, t46?.47 was First place -among 13 compet ing teams from various states was won by Marion; county home economics judging: repre sentative, Coralee . Nichols. Kose Franke. Salem, r o u t e - two, received 827.5ft for top' rating in the pig feeding con test; 29 for reserve champion; $18 for a first' and two. sec onds; $112.50 frem sales. ? Johnny.; Brown, . Gervais, route one, w awarded $22.80 for sec ond in pig feeding; $S for a second-place exhibit; $94.68 from sales. - Junior MiUer, Gervais, route one, took $4 for a first in show manship; $8 for first and reserve champion; $13.10 In other awards; $244.39- from sales. ' : Alice Roberts, Turner,- route .7 Floyd T. Tax, jr, Sflverton, route three, received $13 for a J "? -f Auto Plants Get New Jolt For January WASHINGTON, Oct 15-- Defens officials gave the auto motive industry a double-barreled jolt Wednesday, ordering a 51 per cent cut in passenger car produc tion in January, and warning simultaneously that materials shortage would probably force a much greater curtailment Leon Henderson, civilian supply director of tho office of production management de clared he had made no effort to fix a quota for January but instead, was setting a mlTimnm limit to which the manufac turer can produce If they are successful in obtaining suffi cient materials." He said several companies al ready had reported difficulties in obtaining strip steel and asserted this situation would be further complicated by rapidly Increasing i'taM terials. The January, 1942, maximum was set at 294,941 passenger cars, compared with 419459 produced fat January, 1941. Considering previous prodoe- Hah Ml(t ' nrit.r.il i. TT.n son, the industry therefore faces Production slash ef 38.3 per cent during tho first six months U model year which began August L if material. VnM t,,,. tion can reach 1,228,065 cars dur- ing the six months, compared nHth 109ft KIT In . wnmtanM. " 4VW,V A I u m VV1UUU1B4I1C period of the last model year. Salem Metal Bosses Meet (Continued from Page 1) Local manufacturers and ma chine shop operators attending! the meeting included Lee U. Ey- eriy, Eyerly Aircraft comnanv: W. W. Roeebraugh, Rosebraughl foundry: . D. Lindbers. Karrr- Kold Manufacturing company; E. W. Kay. Thomas K. Woolen Mill company;; Ernest Friesen, Salem Box company; Walter A. Lottis, I Valley Welding company; W. E. Kichardson, Valley Machine shop. J and . W. Hilborn, Keith Brown Building Supply, secretary of the Economic coun - I piuueu. Call Board iXSINOHX Today Clark Oable ana rraxaa, Laoo n uonsy TtMtK. 1 tJZl nfr Tarred Atair... Blft Harwprth. Hooert xsenenvej in -xouu Mavor Lane 1 m "Mystery snip. I Saix - Today Walter Pidceob. Joan Ben - nett la "Man Hunt." Jane Withers, ! n,iu jv aaa wsu;sb uwvis I Saturday! midnixht Bob Hope. Doro-1 toy UDMur in -caucus in toe Draft." I CAPITOL Today-Jamei Carney. Pat QT3rlea ta I "Dwu Dogs lot the Air Prtociiia Lane, Jeffrey tynna in "Minioa loi- lar Baby.' ?- Saturday Robert $taUt Ann Ruthr - fon, Riraara Dtx in "Badlands oil DakoU." wuiians Lundiean. Shirley Ross in "Sattors on Leave." . : I tno Lone star. Keanom Kent. Juay &ut m nom in mthctj. Friday Range Busters to "The Kids I Last Ride- Dick pureoL Manton ldoreland ta. "Klna ot tha Zona - bies- - HOIXTWOOD 1 Today-Ginger Borers. James Stewart ; tn "Vivacious Lady.- Dennis o Keel - j i-n i . - ...... " "C7', , Tim Bolt ta "Alone tho Bio Grande.1 PLLS ULtlLNdS TAX WALTER PIDGEOM . JOAN BENNETT "imii rmiir TUne: 2:40-5:50-9)0 :.- ''-i . 2nd Hit - Jane . 1 . - Charles WITHERS . . ROGERS Time: l:lM25-7:35-10:45 CARTOON 4H Girls, Boys and girls totaled $612.67, it county 4H offices at the court from sales and $145.20 from Nippon Holds SecretMeets Highest Chiefs :Busy; In Series of Parleys; US Break Talked (Continued from Page 1) ; . tial newspaper Asahl dealt pes slmistieally with the trend of O-day-old conversations began tn Washington with, delivery of a message from Premier Prinee Konoy to President Roosevelt. Dome! said the "hostile attitude" of the United States was killing the negotiations; Asahi said there could be no end to, the Pacific crisis so long as there was unin terrupted military and economic pressure in the Orient from the United States. ' I The privy council, which is the most important advisory body on foreign matters, met in the pres f1 fp?x' JttT tr,I 1 7t r? V,, v, t. Kldo, and Ueut Gen. Teiichi Su-1 rSri,' V4iiTl who. also saw Emperor Hirohito. Konoye and Us foreign minis- ter. Admiral TelRro Toyoda. al- Konoye and his foreign minis- so saw leaders of the fascist -like Tohokai party from whom they heard undisclosed demands concerning American relations. Published army orders disclosed, however, that Col. Hayao Ma buchl, imperial headquarters press chief who spoke out against US- Japan shortly after the Japanese-1 British-Dutch "encirclement" of American talks began, had been sent off to the war in China. The first of three Japanese ships which are7 to carry Americans to anese back home left Yokohama L.C to wUlfv rutnmi AJthe site of the former night club, ta m a k t Nazis Shoot Six Balkans, Fight Revolt ( Continued from Page 1) until German bombers and land reiworwrnHiH Diasiea mem out, these sources said. . A, , ine town oi uzice, oi, 12,000 or more population, has been cap- tured and recaptured so many times that it has been virtually I destroyed, it was said, while hea- f5 ? ""j! e at "- i 4o"J uem oy gUemiiaS. 1 w rrZx, r7 . , r. e were uescnoea as weu armeu wua nues. maenme euns and . . . . ugnt cannon, witn suDstantial am- munition stocks. Church Robes I i Ul UIAIUJ. VUUJJ. A projefct of robing the Junior choir of tho church will be com- Pleted this week by the Women's associauon of the- First Presby- I terian church. Made of a colorful I victory blue material, with white collars, the forty robes will be 1 worn ior ine nrst time at the J ounaay youm nigtit services. 1 lierlin Ukehs Lonffer Women Nightgowns BERLIN, Oct 15-Pr-The drive to conserve textiles has led to skimpy wartime cuts in clothing. i uui unc muusor ox econntnm km I .1 1 I J . . 1 decreed that women's niehteowna I must not be shortened too much. Instructions to manufaeturera fJ.Jt '- J normal figure," I "u,cuu vnvcr aue ior WC I 1 T ! 1J a I Mutiwu uiUUulCC9 ' - -v.... Fraternity Pledges! TT' 4,1 Vcl-i.-Vn" i r i svi n,n rr-r r m . m. - mm I wniieia eouege fraternities Bounced meh im. an nounced meir tried Itete w.w I. ... 4 mciuaing: i Phi EDsilan T3arnNi ur-irh I . . . r zzJ I 1 s"verion; ioia vmega MU Har- I " vcuyi, u u ou- i Tcruin. 1 T,-I f. Vr?. Tk I cjnutwav nni lyemea rnil fimllnn K Y d' xjf'ZfZi aZT" 7 McUahan denying an alternative I m m ... Wi. M A A. 1 wi o manuamus rto Jfiovd n Secretary of State Earl Snell In his refusal to accept for fnig p. titions calling .for a referendum passed by the last legialature of the amendment to the. free text. 1 1 hook law were filed Wednesday. -Last Times Today Pius l1rie in r GIger Rogers 0) James Stewart nVACIOUS LADY ' Plus ::-v Dennls O'Keefe Italian Kadio Answers Wiost Heckling on Air Jams Propaganda Newcaats From War Nations (Continued From Page 1) AppeUos was ready with a dif- A -ffhost voice officially Identi fied as having come from a Lon don station interrupted Appelius descriDtion of axis successes in the east Jy demanding: "What is happening -in Rome7 It Js raining in Rome," Ap peUos answered. "The rain Is rood for the eosmiry. In Rome many babies are being bora each day and many streets are being bmilt for futare The ghost voice broke in with a declaration that stones oi a Russian defeat were lies. who are the 1.999.999 prisoners tho Germans captured In : Russia?" , Appelius ' asked. "Sorely they arent British, be- eaoao the British forces are al ways absent on battlefields where serlevs fighting to taking place.' This snrf nf innimpnt went nn unml mlnntM nHlnir whan ak.,, wr h hnf Italy wts fighting I fij -,v,i t.t I monfc-Italy la flghtinsj for scorn m6n victory along with Germany, tma w ? Croatia and other allied nations." r? 1 J UWUCr OeCKS Reopening of Club Modification of an earlier cir cult court decree to make possi- "- we of the r". 1 Hrr w by the much-pubUdzed Webfoot "u "Z011 r " . Carleson in his motion declares he iMSssii m we sjoi j. m.aAoj h aoaA a um premises and would like to serve meals, without beer, there and that the decree closing the base ment for a year or until the own' er shall provide a $5000 bond guaranteeing that the place shall bo operated without any sale or serving of liquor would work hardship on him. SeaSOlial W6rk Finns Reduced Sys iBoanl ! The seasonality amendment ap- nrrrari th iat tri.ih.M duced materially the; number of firms and workers affected, the I t iffMi.nlnnnn.t I wnw mvllvj iVlA VWUtWVtUU UVil commission announced Wednesday Night m oeroiaifouowing determination of new I nf f-uauvi fnr iui mnA laiv 1 w . rrt u v hist vear 825 roncpm wm nated as seasonal but 194 of these iOMTf Of nsu3s.SAum.Mcm 1 - T V V f Now more than 12 million telephone rrt J.KK number of telephone calls we handle oa the Pa cific Coast has mounted to over twelve million a day! ' Each telephone call most be made to order on a moment's notice... manu &ctured and delivered in a matter of seconds. . . That's a big job but it's" : only part of the Job we're . doing today as theTest hits its stride i on Nauonal Defense '' r ' - , rM -v-, ;, w excess oi wu.lXX) of which ex penditures for new construction alone wl be over 52,000,0001 . To say nothing Of the everyday Job of inain&kins hundreds of - . thousands of telephones and milUons of miles of wire! - -, Ve are maJacg an all-out drive of man power, materials and Fpv of hone scrrice that wahelp the PaoSc Coast speed its part of America's bifest Job. THH PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COlfPANTt ' have closed -or were exempted under other amendments. Only US Qualified under the new defini tion, of.' an off-season as not less than 12 consecutiye weeks an nually, of payroll j less than 45 per cent of the three highest four week periods. i : Of the 00,018 employes of. sea sonal firms last year, ,5783 worked or closed or exempted concerns. Only 38,640 are employed by the newly determined seasonal firms. Because they earn; more than tS per cent of. their ; annual wages In non-seasonal work, many of these will not be classified as "seasonal workers,!, officials said. Only 100 lumbering outfits are now classified as seasonal, com pared with 459 last year. . Seasonality determinations un der the new law were made after careful analysis of weekly pay rolls for four years past Four Indicted By Grand jury 2 Women Gain Freedom On Perjni i Charges 1 2 ' Not-True Bills Entered ' '. . '" ..;'! t- '" ' ' -(Continued From , Pago 1) volved far the same ' eoeapn at tempt :. : -i " " t' -Mario Young of Vancouver, Wash, who allegedly cashed worthless checks at Salem hotel during state fair week, was in dicted on charges j of ' knowingly uttering and publishing a forged bank check. She la free In Wash ington under $1000: bafl. ' Innocence of Albert Weigel of a non-support charge and Wesley Keppinger, who had been bound over on charges of Indecent ex posure, was proclaimed by not true bills entered by the grand jury.- . - " - v Legion Group Plans Holiday Reports on plans for an ArmUk, tice day program, presented by1. CoL Carle Abrams chairman of special Armistice program com- - mittees for both Capitol post of. the American Legion and the ,49 et 8, highlighted the business ses sion of Wednesday night's 40 et t meeting at the Quelle. Sephus Starry newly-elected Chef de Gare, presided over the gathering , which was attended by-. 40-g members officers .reported. Dich Day SALEU AQII0D7 Every Friday Iligll t5e Before Nine O'clock calls a day! work, Add to this a program of if'..,- m mnW. "Mystery Ship" s v jr irora i r. ai. (II-s Tax) Louise Campbell 711 State , I,r . , " ' Telephone Iisr Starring Paul Kelly and Lola Lane "EOWERY EOY-