Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1941)
Notre Damo 16, Carnegie Tech 0 Minnesota 39, Pittsburgh 0 ' ' ' ? Washington 14, Ucla 7 SMU 20. Auburn 7 Fordham.26, West Virginia. 0 Michigan 1, Northwestern 7 t. . - . - .-: i ' , .... ; -- '. J:'-vy " i Oregon. 19,. California 7 -Wisconsin 23, Iowa 0 - Santa Clara 7 Mich,:Stato;a Tulano 52, North Carplihcit6c " ft r f.- Ohio State ,1G, Purdu6 14 i ' . , " .;-.' . ?' ' Texas 48, Arkansas 14 Haryard.7-Dartmouth 0 Texas R&M 14,:TCU (h Dulse 27 Colgate 14 Navy 14, Cornell 0 ; Indiana 21,. Nebraska 13 Perm 23, Princeton 0 iStanf ord 42, USF 26 ' Army 20, Yale 7, T - - - ' .v. . , . iff Weather 3 Sections 22 Pages " Partly clndj with chow-. cn today; fair Monday, lit tle .chance la temperature Max. temperature Saturday M, Jtfla. 45. Rainfall, .44 In. River -U ft. Sooth vind.. Cleady. , "..". . , J pcuNDnn? 1651 JNINETY-nRST TEAB Solem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 19, 1941 . Price Sex Newtstanda 5c No. 177 Army .. . . : , ; , .. : . : , - We're Out As Average Citizen Ehrns, Spends More (Editor's note: The war and National Defense are doing strange things to the American way of life some of them good, some of them not; so good. The AP Feature Service and the Ore gon Statesman take you behind the defense front, telling you what war and defense mean to articles this week, Watch for them each day.) By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer i - WASHINGTON This short-of-shooting war is supercharg ing the tempo of American life! ' -We're living more intensely, and our bad ones. We're spending faster, for instance, and drink ing more. And we're smoking like chimneys. But we're saving - more, too. We're going to church more regularly, more often. And we're yearning more fervently for a quiet place in the country to get away from it all. . That's what all the facts and figures and charts and graphs tell you when you take the pulse of America these days. Some things are cancelling each other out. The birth rate's up by nearly 25,000 babies in the first half of 1941; but the automobile death rate is up, too. One, summer holiday, weekend alone accounted for 174 deaths in 155 cities reporting to the census bureau. The ; automobile death rate in those cities this year is up 15 per cent. .Defense spending, of course, is the cause of all soaring activity. The United States has taken its first big bite into the biggest Job of work any nation ever took on. Authorized defense spending totals 40 billions to far. The army Is spending nearly 25 of these, the navy 17, other cov (Turn to Page 2, CoL2) Board Offers To Arbitrate Wage Dispute CHICAGO, Oct 18-Py-Presi-d e n t Roosevelt's fact-finding board offered Saturday to arbi trate the wage dispute between the nation's railroads and 1,260, 000 organized employes provided ' both parties requested and agreed to accept the board's recommen dations as Ma full and complete settlement" . The board also offered to act as middle man In mediation ef forts, passing proposals and counter proposals from one par ty to the other, bat said it could not recommend or pass judg ment open snch proposals. Chairman Wayne Lyman Morse emphasized in a prepared state ment the five-man body did Sot recommend either arbitration- or mediation, but offered its good of fices in response to President Roosevelt's instructions to "make every effort to settle this dispute." J. Carter Fort, chief counsellor the carriers, and Charles M. Hay, counsel for the operating brother hoods, said the proposal- was un expected, and they were not pre pared to comment : Where JJS ;.l yfCV WORTH j , - ATLANTIC " - SVV QJj- x ocean ;. xjsJt fhls map Indicates (A) where the L'SS Kearny, a destroyer, was torpedoed while on patrol duty about 259 miles south and west of Iceland. The US navy department said no casualties were Indicated In Its . dlrpakhcs and that 4he ship FlaF Craslie On Spree the average citizen in a series of stepping up our good habits Nippon Plans Use of Force Singapore Sees Japan Moving Into Siberia And New China Push SINGAPORE, Oct 18-(The consensus of informed quarters here Saturday was that the suc cess of Japan's military leaders in forming a cabinet signifies a conviction the nation had reached an impasse which the new gov eminent now is likely to try to break by force. This impression was height ened by the first statement of Gen. Eikl Tojo as premier promising; firm and speedy measures along Japan's im (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Oregon Man Reelected EUREKA, Calif. Oct lH)- Members of the Redwood Empire association in convention here re elected C. H. Demaray of Grants Pass, Ore., president Also elected to office were Frank P. Doyle, Santa Rosa, treasurer; and Paul E. Mudgett Fortuna, junior ' past president Clyde Edmondson was retained as general manager. The general assembly urged the elimination of baggage inspection on buses at state borders and re affirmed support of a proposed two-cent boost in the gasoline atx. Destroyer Was was able te proceed under her ewn Snow Aids Soviet In D.efe uses Hitler Declares Great Victory; Reds Confident By Tbe Anociated Press Adolf Hitler claimed Satur day night a spectacular vic tory in the 17-day-old battle for Moscow "annihilation" of eight fall Russian armies, perhaps 1,?50,000 men and the Moscow radio admitted that the situation' "remains serious." A Russian broadcast heard in London said the Germans were throwing "enormous forces" into the battle for the cap ital but Russia was playing heav ily upon winter to defeat the German push. "The winter will come and Moscow must remain and will remain Soviet Moscow," the radio said. Both sides lost heavily in Sat urday's fighting in' the Vyazma LONDON, Sunday, Oct 19.-. (AVKed army forces havejaon ebed a massive counter-offensive against the Germans in the Kalinin sector, 59 miles north west of Moscow,-the soviet of ficial radio announced early to day. sector, 125 miles west of Mos cow and "hour by hour the battle grows in intensity," the broadcast said. Earlier, London reports had said the German drive seemed defi nitely slowed. The reports said that counter attacking soviet troops had even recaptured two vital points north and south- of the capital, halting (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Berlin Claims No Knowledge Of Kearny BERLIN, Oct ItHfiy-The pos sibility that the US destroyer Kearny when torpedoed was in waters df the Atlantic where the high command announced de struction of 10 Britain-bound merchantmen and two destroyers in a days-long attack by U-boats was a subject "of speculation in Berlin Saturday night Authoritative sources said they had bo reports from any German craft of an attack upon aa American vessel, however, and had no facts to verify or amplify the United States na vy's announcement - that the Kearny had been torpedoed. . Naval authorities refused to go beyond a high i command com munique which said a strongly protected convoy en route to Eng land from North America was at tacked by German submarines af ter entering the blockade zone. Torpedoed power 9 .ft Wreckage of .Observation Plane in Clover Field r x 5 AD. that remains ef an army L$erv fine, pictured here, a mass : of twisted matalr lies in. a clover field fmr miles west of Stayton, where it crashed early Saturday: afternoon. Three young air corps officers, who were traveling from the Salinas, Calif., base to Pert land to participate in Pacific northwest maneuvers, escaped un seratched, landing with parachutes, two nearby and one a mile and a half away. A similar type and model plane, missing several days Glass Wants Full Repeal Says Neutrality Act Craven; Wheeler and Pepper Back Solon WASHINGTON, Oct l8-(ff)-The prospect of a senate battle over major revision of the neu trality law developed Saturday as Senator Glass (D-Va) called the existing act "a craven piece of poltroonery" and announced that he would work for its complete repeat Glass, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, told reporters that the house-approved amendment permitting the arming of ships should be discarded and that "we should repeal the whole damn thing." Another foreign relations com mitteeman; Senator Pepper (D Fla), expressed virtually the same views in an interview. He said he would urge repeal of all neu trality law provisions except that providing government control of munitions exports. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont), a leading opponent of administration foreign policy, said that be hoped an effort would be made to repeal the law completely. That would bring the issue of peace or war out in the open where It should be," he said, adding: The men surrounding the president apparently . want a . declaration of war, but they have been afraid to come out in the open and ask for It In stead, they have been deceitful and dishonest Fire Destroys Prahim Grain Warehouse PBATUSI The Pratom ware house, reportedly heavily stocked with grain from the re cent harvest burned to the ground late Saturday night in a spectacular blaze that drew spectators from miles around. . - Well-started when discovered at 19:23 p. bl, the fire could not have been extinguished had fire - fighung equipment been available, observers declared. Fred Hersch, owner of the building, could not be reached at an early hour this morning, for a statement as to value or: insurance. 1 .nnna N :"'7---- l ..' .'"'"'''v'v . f " ' ?',-v 'I' M -t , i r '''' 4 ' . j, t Council -May Consider New Pinball Measure Businessmen Said Behind Plan to Keep Prospective Camp Trade; Selection Of Airport Architect Scheduled A pinball ordinance that was still in the making Saturday night, a recommendation as to the administration building at the termed "routine resolutions" are Action Urged Agj ainst Axis By Willkie NEW YORK, Oct lMflV-The United States must abandon the hope of peace, Wendell L. Will kie said Saturday night, in de claring that the axis powers "are winning now and unless we act soon, it win be too late." Willkie's remarks were prepar ed for a nationwide (NBC Blue) broadcast sponsored by Fight for Freedom. Because, of a cold he was unable to appear and. the speech ' was , read by Dorothy Thompson,' newspaper columnist . "Let ' us stop deluding our selves," Willkie said, "Berlin, Tokyo, .and Some are irrevoca bly linked , by .; the dangerous ' dream of world conquest Vic tory far one is a victory for an, Their aim is world ' domination the destruction ef liberty, the end of democracy,. :."Our ships will continue to be torpedoed, and sunk unless we (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Salem Flier Visits Bruce Williams, former Wil lamette university, publicity di rector, now with the 'naval air corps at Sand Point air; station, near Seattle, is now. home on leave for a brief visit He soloed recently and will report for ad vanced training' at Corpus Chris tie, Tex, in the near future . - Late Sports X FOSEST G20VE, Ore. Oct. U.-iVPaciflc university out fought Iinfkld college in a , m a d d y northwest conference football game here Saturday night 7 tore. The win earned Pacific a tie for second place with College of Idaho, front O Paso, was, Saturday night front the; Texas city, bodies of Us three eecupanta charred beyond recognition. -Thia picture, was taken by' a Stayton "resident before the. filers could reach the .site of officers refused to allow pictures unaware of this photo. . , . the city's choice of architect for airport and what city off icials scheduled to make their ap pearance at Monday night's meet- ing of the Salem city council. Substantial Salem business men, not merely those who pur vey entertainment and bever ages, believe Salem merchants would face "unfair competition" from smaller towns In the val ley in attracting trade games such as l Independence, Albany i and other towns permit Alder man L. F. LeGarie said Satur day night Announcing he would sponsor a measure to repeal tne remne ordinance which prohibits use of such machines in Salem, LeGarie declared Saturday he had not been influenced by any of the persons he believed could be considered di rect beneficiaries and that his measure would strictly limit the devices to those, used "for amuse ment only." That licensing of such ma chines as have been declared le gal by state supreme court de- i ckdons would bring considerable revenue to the city to an import ant though secondary considera tion, LeGarie said. - The council's airport committee will recommend selection of Lyle P. Bartholomew, Salem architect, to design an administration build ing for the municipal airport. Chairman Tom Armstrong said Saturday night Until such a building is ready for use,' a pre-fabricated structure has been' made" available to the v (Turn to Page 2, CoL' 3) High School CirlgV . , Dean Given Post,- Mabel P. -Robertson, dean .of girls at Salem high school, was elected . vice-president of the de partment of deans-of the Oregon State Teachers association at the Second annual deans' conference, held at the capitol and the liar ion hotel Saturday, - -.Other new officers are Mrs. Ella Wilson, Franklin high, Port land, . president, and - Mrs. Cath erine B. Piper, Muwaukie, secre tary-treasurer. :: V ' reported found burned,- 35 milts ihe wreckage,' after landing. The to be taken .by newsmen, bat were Sea Smashes Delake Span Coast Boats Damaged; ' Oeean Disturbance ' Blamed for Swells PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 18-- The Pacific ocean battered the Oregon coast from Coos bay to the Columbia river Saturday, washing out bridges and trestles and swamping lowland roads. The Tillamook coast guard warned that high tides Sunday might be even more destructive. Heavy swells, apparently Jresn a disturbance far at sear since there were no unusual winds along the coast tossed logs (Turn to Page 2, CoL ) Ickes Bans Billboards On US Lands WASHINGTON, Oei Z.-m- Secretary of Interior Ickes Satur day ordered "unsightly billboards' or, those constituting traffic haz ards' banished from public lands. i At the same time, he directed that a fee of 20 cents a square foot a year, with a minimum of $5, be charged for commercial signs con sidered not unsightly and permit ted to be erected on public lands. There are about 200,000.000 acres of public lands, principally in the west T- Methodist Student Parley - v At WU Elects New Off icers Methodist students in conference at Willamette university Saturday night selected Washington State college for iheir 1942 northwest conference , and Ken WestfalL"-University "of Idaho sophomore, as president. - " - -.. -' " " , , Willamette's representative on the new executive council is Bill Hobbs, sophomore from Albany, vice president Hobbs was gen eral chairman here for the -conference. ' . Communion -services and, wor ship - was in charge . of ; Harvey Seiiert, executive secretary of the National 1 Methodist Youth fel lowship, from Nashville,- Term. The programs are -in the campus library. . . Other officers elected Saturday are Genevieve Working of Uni versity of Oregon, secretary; Vir ginia Snow of Washington State 3 Fliers Saved By 'Chutes Pnot Tells of Spin; Enroute J To Maneuvers . Three, young: army pilots headed for maneuvers opening; -in the Pacific northwest this week "bailed out of a spuv ning 9-47-A observation plant and reached the ground in safety early Saturday after noon four miles west of Stay- ton on the West Stayton road. Their ship crashed in flames ' in a 4 cornfield on the. Elmer Fery farm and slithered for more than 400 feet through the mud to end up a ball of twisted metal in a clover field scarcely a hundred yards from the road. Second Lieut R. E. Douglas, 25, Portland, was treated by a Stayton physician for minor face" and hand cuts. The pilot Second Lieut W. II. Lonigan, 23. Med- ford, and Second Lieut W. B; Hynd, 34, Portland, were not in jured. . ' Lieut Lonigan 1 said ' his , shin unexplalnabry: went -Into a spin at 12,000 feet- The trio began "bailing" at 3000 feet Douglas reached the earth about lVi miles from the ' crash, the other two near their - plane. "I dent know what hap- pened." Lonigan was heard to comment to his fellow officers. Tve purposely thrown my ship Into a spin time and again so rd know how to pull out but this time I couldnt get It to come out of It" ' The plane was a new three- seated North American model. Its single engine was thrown into a nearby filbert orchard by the im pact of the crash, while the three bladed propeller and bits of twist ed surface and fuselage metal (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) - City Prepares Entertainment For Airmen Preparation for entertainment of 230 officers and men of the United States army air corps, due to arrive Monday from Portland, was still underway Saturdav night Tentatively scheduled for en listed men is a danee Saturday night with United Hospitality association as host. Thai night officers and their wives have been invited te be guests at the Subscription club danee. - Elks club facilities have been thrown open to officers; the YMCA pool and gymnasium are to be available without charge to the entire force stationed here. Motion picture" theatre managers said r that tickets to specified shows would be provided the uniformed visitors. ' ; Businessmen of the city are ar ranging a banquet for Thursday (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) college, publicity chairman, and Rev. Frank Goodnough of. Uni versity - of -Washington, adviser. Margarita Irle of College of Puget : Sound is retiring president Other schools represented were Oregon State college, and Oregon -College of Education. ' '.7-- - Willamette representatives "were Jean Boyce, Grace Cramer, -Winston Taylor, Ruth Cramer, Dick French and Maye Oye of Salem; Hilma Breuser of Rainier, Harriet Monroe of Parkdale, Ray Short cf Enunett Iua, dill : Fanger cif Medford. u . " -