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The OSEGOII STATESMAN. Bclem, Oregon. WsInesdaT Morning. October 22, 1811-
Love and
A merica 's
For World
(This is the third of Ave articles explaining the effect of war
and defense spending on the average American.)
By MORGAN M. BEATTY
APJFeature Service Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-Love and laugh!
That's part of America' antidote for the war wave part
of the answer of Joe and Mary Doakes of Crossroads, USA, to
the uncertainties of world cataclysm.
Take laughing. It's the main
scape. You can prove it at the
movie box office.
Early this year Hollywood's
heart sank. People simply
weren't going to the movies. In
many parts of the eountry, the
slump was 20 per cent.
Part of the answer was the
shift in block booking arrange
ments. Hollywood had to build
up a backlog of better pictures to
meet the government's demand
exhibitors be given more choice
in picking the pictures they want
ed. But tbct wasn't all the answer.
Early in the spring; a couple of
comedians, Abbott And Costello
were released in a cheap, slap
stick picture called "Buck Pri
vates." Nobody dreamed It was
anythint but a pretty bad "B"
picture.
Then something happened.
. Box of flee checkers reported
Abbott and Costello were a hit.
The first ran nooses clamored
for two boys they never want
ed before. j
"A-ha," said Hollywood.
They wanna laugh, ehf
Bob Hope was soon in front of
the cameras, working night and
day. Daryl Zanuck surrounded
Jack Benny with a diamond stud
ded caste, produced that old com
edy every high school has played,
"Charlie's Aunt" The pictures
were quick money-makers.
. By that time Hollywood
agents were scouring night
clubs and vaudeville houses.
They rediscovered ' doughnut
dunking Xed Skelton. The
lanky comic was snatched to
Hollywood, got himself a Klieg
light tan In, a funny piece. When
It was released he went "Whist
ling m the Dark" to movie star-
The other day Red salted a Way
his doughnut-dunking act of his
In Jesse Jones' Patent Office. ,
"I may need pin money. again
when people Quit laughing on a
nation-wide scale," says Red. -But
how about love?
The love-fever charts ever at
the census bureau began to rise
last year. Americans married
at the rate of 11J per thousand.
Preliminary figures from many
cities this year show the mar
riage boom's en in earnest.
Census experts figure the
youngsters are now marrying at
the rate of 12 per thousand
equal to the all-time record of
1920, the year after the boys came
back from France.
Here's a cross-country look at
romance: . , '
Cleveland The county clerk,
aided and abetted by love-smitten
young Americans, set a record
for marriage licenses in June,
with 1605.
Dallas, Tex. Marriage license
applicants are younger, on ; the
average.
Chicago Cook county went on
a marriage spree this year. li
censes for the first five months
are up 20 per cent.
Kansas City The marriage li
cense boom lor the first five
months of 1941 Jacked the . total
to 2279, an 18 per cent increase
(Tomorrow: Pay rates reach s
record.)
Chest Groups
Plan Drive
On Deficit
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in the absence ef Chairman Irl
8. MeSherry. explained that a
major factor to failure to reach
the goal to date was the redac
tion la sabseriptiona on the part
of a' considerable uniir of
givers, ore than offsetting the
Increases la then, pledges.-
Following ... discussion of the
problem by President T. M. Hicks
of the Chest organization, Paul
B. Wallace, William McGilchrist,
Jr., and w. m. Hamilton, a pro
gram of re-solicitation was worked
out At the same time some di
vision leaders in the regular cam
paign reported their teams were
still , at work " and that division
quotas would in some cases be
reached.: - - . .
Iinfield Sororities ;
Pled Salem Girls ;
UcMINNVILLE, Ore, Oct 21-
fJFV-More than 70 LJnfield col
less freshmen have been pledged
by Esrcritles in the annual two-
week rushing period. Pledges to'
elude: Kappa Alpha Phi Mabel
Fox. Salem: Phi Beta Mu Banna
lean Belike, Salem,- .
Laughter:
A ntidote
Unrest
US Air Army
Arrives Here
Planes, Trucks, Men
And Equipment Ready
For Defense Games
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(otherwise Pursuit 43s) made
observation flights throughout
the afternoon Tuesday over Sa
lem and nearby territory locat
ing landmarks and preparing to
meet "enemy" bombers next
week.
In addition to the eight pursuit
planes based already at the Sa
lem city airport, a silver AT6
(advanced trainer) is here to be
used by recent transfers or
trainees before they are charged
with handling pursuit ships.
First arrival Monday, after a
low celling had discouraged the
originally planned early flight
from Portland, was Lt. I P.
Dusard, commanding officer of
the 38th pursuit squadron. Du
sard returned shortly to Port
land, but part of his squadron la
to be stationed here for the
maneuvers.
Represented among the eight
pursuit planes which arrived dur
ing the noon hour after a 20
minute non-eventful flight from
Portland are the 34th, the 37th and
the 38th squadrons.
Civilians who clustered at the
edge of the field were interested
In the planes cusunguisnmg mark
ings, the yellow "nose-ring" for
the 54th squadron, the white for
the 37th and red for the 38th. The
trainer plane flown in by Dusard
carried the tricolor cardinal, gold
and white of headquarters.
The yellow-tiger, Insignia of
the 54th is only one of a group
of such "mascots' favored by
the air corps, men explained,
but the pursuit ships brought
here havo only recently re
ceived their camouflage coats of
olive drab and there has net
been time to mark each squad
ron's equipment thoroughly.
Two stripes, it was explained,
are carried by the plane of Lt
Jackson, squadron commander;
one stripe represents the ship of
the flight commander.
Ready and waiting when the
planes arrived were quarters in
the 4H club- dormintory and the
first aid cottage on the state fair
grounds; tents and communica
tion equipment at the airport
Less eolerfal to the general
public but probably more im
portant tat the maneuvers to be
undertaken here than the planes
themselves b the radio equip
ment, officers declared, ex
plaining that a ship without
ground direction might be con
sidered almost valueless.
Ready also upon arrival were
outside tank trucks which im
mediately were moved into place
for refueling.
While equipment from distribu
tion points was put in place under
direction of Lt George W. White
and problems of electric and radio
service were handled by a staff
of workmen headed by Master Sgt
T. W. Dansby, Salem residents
prepared a welcome to the khaki
dad visitors.'
Invitations to dinner in Salem
homes drew messages of apprecia
tion and acceptance as they were
telephoned In over headquarters
phone 8464. - .
All of the group. whether
officers or enlisted snea have
been bidden to attend a dance
Thursday night at the armory
when the United Hospitality as
sociation plays host. -
; Preceding the dance, officers
are to be dinner guests at the
Marion hotel of capital city busi
ness men.- - .
Saturday night the Subscription
club has Invited the officers and
their wives' to participate in its
dancing; party, v -; ,:
" Salem Y1ICA shower and swim
ming privileges, extended to, the
entire group, and Elks club hos
pitality made available to all of
ficers, were accepted with alacrity
by the military viators.
Saturday the army, ha turn. is
to be host having invited the
errfliaa popalaee to a field day
at the airport When at least one
el the pursuit ships is to be en
display at close range. : -
Whether bombers, probably to
be seen overhead often during
October . 28-November. 1 maneu
Just Too Much
Because their seven children made "too much noise," Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Siddons were evicted from their attic flat in a Chicago
suburb and their furniture placed on the street Mrs. Siddons her
attempts to comfort Sandra, the youngest child.
Defense Work
Sought, Salem
Metal Firms Organize ;
Eyerly Heads Group
To Angle for Contracts
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combined or in group units to the
OPM.
"It Is our thought that one
ef ear men may have an oppor
tunity to get a defense contract
too big for his own plant but not
toe big if others of us caa help
him out" Eyerly explained.
"That Is the way the commit
tee Is Intended to work."
The committee expressed im
mediate interest in a report by
Turner that the chemical warfare
service was preparing to negoti
ate contracts for the manufactur
ers of 20,000,000 incendiary bombs.
These require no precise machin
ing and may be produced complete
or part by part, according to a
shop's available facilities. Turner
said.
The OPM representative ad
vised against trips to Washing
ton, DC, by local industrial rep
resentatives "Before taking a trip to Wash
ington, come to Portland and
let me talk you out of If he
advised. "If you eaa produce a
defense article, take it up with
us. Well place it before the
nearest procurement office and
if they are interested, they'll see
that you get to the right parties
IT it Is necessary for you to go
to Washington at alt"
OPM is shifting away from
competitive bidding and to a sys
tem of contracts negotiated on
such bases as availability of idle
labor and machines at a fair price.
Turner reported.
That procedure has been set
up with federal officials to
make representations for de
fense business where showings
of labor being displaced by im
position ef priorities on normal
civilian operations was reported
to the industrial group by W.
H. Bail lie, representing the
state employment service.
Forty seven men representing
a variety of local machine snops
and manufacturing plants attend
ed the meeting, held at the cham
ber of commerce.
Nazis Execute
50 Frenchmen
Assassination Revenge
Slates 100 Hostages
For Firing Squads
(Continued from Page 1)
die at dawn tomorrow. (A Havas
dispatch from Paris to Bern said
they already had been executed.)
A reward of 15,eM,Mf Francs
(nominally more than $300,
M) also was offered for infor
mation leading to the arrest of
these who shot down tho Ger
naaa officer on a boulevara in
the center ef Nantes. ? ":: -
The Germans earlier had ; an
nounced the arrest of lour French
gendarmerie officers at Nantes,
colonel and three captains, but
said they were not held as hos
tages. . . .,,.
' They also temporarily' held the
French prefect of the Loire infer
ieure department . Silibert - Du-
pard, for questioning" in the case.
. Dupard and the mayor of Nan
tes tonight published an appeal
asking the French: people to help
vers, wSl land at the city airport
was unknown Tuesday night' :.
? Welcome of the city, extended
by Tom Armstrong, council air
port committee chairman,-. and
Tom .Hi!!,- UHA and Civilian De
fense Council representative, as
sured the airmen that relations
should be unusually pleasant of
ficers declared.. V
Noises - Evicted
N
if"..
t m
Teihblor Hits
Los Angeles;
None Injured
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meetly in the Long Beach area,
Tuesday night's shake was felt
sharply at Long Beach and
Comptoa but not Santa Ana or
Santa Barbara.
No damage was reported at
either Long Beach or Compion.
The quake seemed to center
in southwest Los Angeles, Long
Beach and San Pedro and to
be confined to the coastal re
gion. Severe shocks were re
ported from Bell, Belvedere,
Culver City, Huntington Park,
and Maywood. Lighter temblors
were reported from Beverly
Hills, Redondo Beach and Pasa
dena. Surprisingly, Ingle wood did
not feel the shocks, although lt
is near cities which did.
British And
Mexico Again
Are Friends
MEXICO CITY, Oct 21-(V
Great Britain and Mexico resumed
diplomatic relations Tuesday
night after a lapse since 1933 re
sulting from the Cardenas admin
istration's expropriation of oil
properties in Mexico.
The announcement was made by
Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla
as the climax of long and friend
ly negotiations undertaken by the
incumbent president Avila Ca
macho. It was made public just as Avila
Camacho was leaving the capital
to spend several days at the bed
side of Lazaro Cardenas, his
predecessor, who is seriously ill
at his home.
Former Film
Tycoon Jailed
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 21-P)-
William Fox, onetime immigrant
who made millions as a motion
picture producer in the early days
of Hollywood and then lost it all,
Tuesday was sentenced to a year
and a day in federal prison and
fined $3000 on conspiracy chargess.
Now 62, in poor health and no
longer connected with the vast en
terprises he once headed, Fox
pleaded guilty last May to an in
dictment accusing him of conspir
ing to obstruct justice and de
fraud the United States through
attempts to buy Judicial favors in
connection with his bankruptcy
proceedings.
Masons Name Local Men
WASHINGTON, Oct 21-iJPy-Masonic
lodge officials announced
Tuesday election of Olin Kisnell
De Witt and Walter Lansing, both
Salem, as knights aeommasder.
Bette's Husband 111
- BURBANK, Calit, Oct 21-(P)-Bette
Davis was flying Tuesday
night to Minneapolis to be at the
bedside of her husband. Arthur
Farnsworth, who is ill with pneu
monia.
in tracking down the. killers.
f-; 'Reports of terrorism sweep
ing the occupied sane continued
to reach here when authorities
announced thai a freight train
. had been derailed by saboteurs
, between Reuea and Inavre.
?. section of rail, had been re
moved from the track near Pavfl-
ly atation.'iW,':'., T;i rUl
The Germans already, had an
nounced ' today the execution of
four Frenchmen in various 'parts
of the occupied zone. With the SO
preliminary- hostages ordered shot
now for the Holtz slaying' the
total executions will reach 134.
Nazis Torpedo
Two US Ships
FDR Tells of Attack
Off Dakar; Germans
Shift to Caucasus
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US ships, for which Secretary of
State Hull had argued during the
day with the senate foreign rela
tions committee, The secretary
also recommended that restric
tions on the movements of Ameri
can vessels should be repealed or
modified.
As to the destroyer Kearney,
members ef the senate foreign
relations committee stated that '
they had been informed by Ad-$
mlral Harold Stark that she wasp
on convoy duty whea attacked.!
Those who heard the admiral's
testimony disagreed as to whether-
he had said the Kearney
was escorting American or Brit
ish vessels.
All this overshadowed for the
time being the progress of. the
greatstruggle on the western
front This was the situation
there:
The soviet command declared
early today that German ad
vances which apparently had
taken the invaders to within
about 50 miles of Moscow both
on the west and southwest had
been generally checked, but it ap
peared that the Germans were
striking with great power in the
Ukraine toward the approaches
to the Russian Caucasus.
The progress of this far sou
thern drive was by all signs con
siderable and it became increas
ingly clear that there were now
two fronts of great decision: Mos
cow itself and before Rostov on
the river Don.
Berlin claimed that the major
manufacturing and armaments
city ef Stalino, 100 miles north
west of Rostov, had fallen to
the nasi advance and the Rus
sians, while not acknowledging
the loss of the city, admitted
that they were in hard straits
there against a superior Ger
man striking force.
Whether the German plan was
to turn down from Stalino direct
ly upon Rostov, the Caucasus
gateway and a most vital Russian
communications center, or to
strike on due east and thus by
pass the city was not clear; either
alternative was for the defenders
a most threatening one.
Soviet broadcasts acknowledged
that the Russians had fallen back
near Taganrog, Just 30 miles to the
west of Rostov and lying on the
northern coast of the sea of Azov,
and spoke in such terms as to im
ply what the nazis had previously
claimed:. That Taganrogitself had
been captured.
Nazi ; military spokesmen
stressed the southern offensive
ever that on Moscow, in effect
corroborating previous specula
tion that the last struggle for the
capital Itself might be a long
way off.
Moscow, they said, would fall
"when the German military lead
ership decides to take it" but they
were at pains to add that its seiz
ure would not be a decisive stroke!
comparable to occupation of the
Donets basin in the Ukraine
which now is nearing comple
tion." The fall of the Donets ba
sin's producing centers and hinter
land, they added, "is the same as
the loss of the war."
There was for the first time an
oblique suggestion that Russian
airpower was in some sectors no
longer equal to the job of hold
ing the German squadrons oft In
the north, in the Kalinin sector.
the soviet wireless itself described
German dive bombing raids as
"uninterrupted"; it was plain that
there the Russians were suffer
ing heavily from the air.
The Leningrad sector, long
relatively inactive, appeared
again in the day's military news,
with the Germans' claim that
with the capture of the sTnortsa
island Dago, west oi Leningrad, ;
the last red island bases la the
Baltic had been knocked out!
Yugoslavs escaping their occu
pied homeland and arriving in
Turkey reported that hundreds of
Serbs were being shot in Belgrade
for every German soldier killed
and that whole village populations
had fled to the hills in some cases
to avoid nazi reprisals.
Yugoslav sources in London
asserted that 1000 Italians had
been' killed la recent fighting
with rebels in the Montenegro
section of Yugoslavia, and that
the Italian fleet had bombarded
the Adriatic coast la reprisal,
killing women aad children In
I several village. ;
The Germans . themselves have
admitted the ' necessity of dis
patching punitive expeditions to
put down bands of rebels , and
guerillas In Yugoslavia.
All the available information
has indicated that revolt mere is
more widespread and bitter than
in any other occupied area.
Parolee Gets
Prison Term
' Frank LeBoy Paisley, sentenced
to 18 months in the state peniten
tiary last June on a larceny charge
and paroled to his sister, was re
turned to the state prison Tues
day, his parole revoked following
alleged misuse of the name'of his
brother-in-law in the purchase of
diamonds he later attempted to
sell in Portland. .
Sheriff A. C Burk brought the
man back from Portland on Tues-
:day. . ; - ,
Slays Over Holiday Obseprance
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Dramatic scene m a Brooklyn hospital as Giuseppe Petitto. eo&tlesa,
tares into space while authorities question Salvatore Alesst dying
from bullet wounds inflicted by Petitto when the latter ran amuck
m a clothing factory; because of resentment over the fact that fellow
workers did not observe Columbus Day. Police claim Petitto shot
Alessi and slashed another worker. Alessi died ahortly after the
photo was taken.
Court Mulls
Tax Dispute
High Bench Considers
Maltnomah Demurrer
Following Hearing
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court should be before the legis
lature instead.
The mandamus proceeding was
instituted by the tax commission
in an effort to compel Watson to
comply with its order directing
him as to the method of making
property assessments.
The commission originally or
dered him to abandon the old
Multnomah county practice of
varying the ratio of assessed val
uations to real values among dif
ferent types of property.
After the Maltnomah board
ef equalisation had sought to di
rect Watson to Ignore this order,
- the commission issued a modi
fied order, which the Multno
mah board and Watson again
defied.
An eleventh hour brief was filed
Tuesday by Frank Hilton, Port
land attorney, as friend of the
court He said neither of the tax
commission's orders had been sat
isfactory to the people of Mult
nomah county.
Attorneys for Watson announced
at the close of the argument that
they would file an answer to the
mandamus petition in event of an
adverse decision by the court on
their demurrer. Tax commission
attorneys said they were content
to rest their case on Tuesday's
arguments. '
Berlin Reports Raids
BERLIN, Oct -Wednesday)
(jf"-Several places hi northwest
ern Germany were bombed by the
RAF overnight, it was announced
today, but neither military nor
other vital damage was caused. It
was declared, and two bombers
were shot down.
mas
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Any car can have a blowout in a tire. :
But you wouldn't junk the car. You'd
just fix th tire or replace it. .,
That's very much like a situation that
, esdsts in the rctailmg c beer. Beer ret
ing has Its flat tires,' too retailers
who disobey the law or who permit un
savory ronrTitiorif.
, Ta protect your right to drink good
beery w of the beer industry want to
eEmmatej the few 'flat tare" retailers. ,
Here's another reason:. Right here in
- Oregon, beer has provided exkrjnoac&t
BEER.a
Wallace Files
For Governor
In Demo Race
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reforms, liberal eld age pen-
He gave as his campaign state
ment: -Support President Roosevelt
and his policies; aim to provide
against any post-war depression,
widespread unemployment or bus
iness and industrial distress. Take
advantage of opportunities pre
sented for development of our wa
ter power resources. Encourage
and stimulate Industrial growth.
"frrge levfsioa of the tax
stractare la order to fairly dis
tribute such burdens and re
lieve borne owners aad farmers.
Seek a sympathetic and ade
quate eolation ef the eld age
pension problem. Promote gen
uine cooperation between state
and federal government."
Wallace, prior to being elected
state senator, served as state rep
resentative', from Multnomah
county. , h
Zone Request
Turned Down
Declaring remonstrances were
too many and petitioners for the
zoning change too few, with only
48 per cent instead of the re
quired 50 from residents of the
immediate area signing the re
quest, the Salem city raning com
mission decided Tuesday night to
drop any action toward rexoning
la the Nebraska-Capitol intersec
tion area. ':
The request which had been con
sidered was for a change from the
strict residential zone to allow
construction and operation of a
service station,
Facts That ConurnYou
THERE GOES A TIRE!
but why junk the car?
bsverage of moderation
FDR Sees Red
Chances Good
- Expresses Optimism
After Parley With
US BIoscow Envoy;
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have been taken by the Ameri
ca government la seeing that
ing shipped." he told reporters,
"They are gelar forward fa
large quantities."
Harriman said he and other
members oi the mission had been
able to promise delivery of all the
materials Joseph Stalin asked for
and "you can Judge for yourselves
that Stalin's satisfaction was un
concealed.' The Russian premier, Harriman
found to be "a human tort of a
fellow to deal with, with a keen
sense of humor which he allows
to play even in; serious conversation.-
, ;
Stalin also was described as a
tireless worker who makes quick
decisions and has a detailed
knowledge of technical questions
relating to war materials. .
Navy Day Speech Set
PORTLAND, ' Oct. 1 Jl-(JP)-aov-
ernor Sprarue will speak at a
Navy day rally in Portland Oc
tober 27, Lieut. Glenn F. Degrave,
navy recruiting officer, said Tues
day. I
MATURE HELPED
things easily qaiddy.
We, at the Hotel McAlpU la
New York, have taken the tip and
baili oar hotel eoaveaJeat to
everything and everywhere,
' Oiuylbkwk from Pennsylvania
Station. Aboat 5 ausmtes troai'
Grand Control Station and taTauos
Square. largest departmonrstoros
across the street Xzpress smb
ways dowasUirs. B. 0l O. Motor
Coaches stop at our door. Truly,
the McAlpia Is WA Great RoteL"
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Vbow KNOTT
JOHN JL WOELFLE, M
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fU. JJeaSorlse
for 13 ,233 persons, supports an tmiM
payroll of $11,541,550 and paid $617r
020.86 in state taxes last year.
The state, too, has an important stake
in the beer, industry's purchases for
material, equipment and serrices from
more than 100 other industries, v
, Those benefits are worth preserving.
You can help us preserve themby patnnv;
iang only the reputable and Wal plytt
where beer is sold and by reporting any
law violations, you snay cAaerv to the
duly constituted authorities. ;
'It r o'