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Repeal Of
House Ban Is Found
In PinbaW9 Bill
Obscure Section Throws out
17-Year-Old Restriction;
Removes Bar on Darts
v.v - . .. By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
. -, Tempestuous Salem city council sessions of 1934 and
1935 at which attempts to license pinball games (marble
boards) for proclaimed purposes of revenue and control re
sulted in painful experiences for the sponsors, echoed Mon
day in the minds of veteran aldermen and observers when
copies of the 1941 version of the old scheme were dis
tributed.
.These aldermen and observers
s were quick to discern a pair of
potential "Jokers" in the new bill,
which bears the names of Mayor
-W. W. Chadwick and Councilmen
L' F. LeGarie and Tom Arm
strong. The "jokers" are buried
''down near the end ot the pro
! posed measure, in section 11:
I This section would repeal
. a 17-year-old ordinance section
that outlaws rambling houses.
2. The same section would
also discard a six-year-old see
- tloa, from the Perrine ordinance
of 1935, that terminated a battle
, over operation of dart fames In
, Salem, a battle that arose when
, proprietors' of .one of these
tames defied city law enforce
ment authorities and the city's
court' . '
1 Alderman David OUara, dean
of the council and. announced foe
of the new, pinball licensing bill,
expressed surprise at the "repeal
: ers found in the 1941 measure
" when they i were pointed out to
' him Monday, before he had had
time to study a copy Just received.
Salem church pastors who
had unanimously voted their
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Church Group
Votes to Ask
Bill Quashed
Members of the Salem Minis
terial ' association voted unanim
ously Monday to petition the city
council to reject the ordinance
due to come before the aldermen
next Monday night for the licens
. ing of amusement devices such as
-: pinball games.
This bill, the pastors and
TMCA and YWCA leaders pres
: ent declared, "Is not rcpresenta-
live of the will of the majority
of Salem, who de&iro to main
' tain a clean standard of public
' . morals." . : ,J,"
The ministerial association's pe
tition urged the lollowuig six
points upon the council:
"1. That while ; such devices
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Record Leap
Arthur; Starnes floats earthward
near Chicago after leaping from
an airplane at SOJS09 feet, nil
freO faUT of 29,000 . feet lie
opened his parachutes 1501 feet
" above the groundexceeded all
known records. Starnes fell five
asd a half miles before pulling
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Solera,
Preioarc For Future Battles
Gambling
Two Die, Many
Hurt in Cars
Rain Over Weekend
Blamed for Numerous
Road, Street Mishaps
Automobile accidents Sunday
took the lives of two Salem
residents and injured numerous
others. . The dead are James
Garland Broach,) 32, ,4391
Broadway, street, and Mrs. Mart
ion Bowden," 26, 364 Hood street.
Broach. was the driver of a
car which struck a GVeyhound
bus just north of the Pacific
highway bridge at Aurora about
6. m. Sunday.
In a rain which cut visability,
he reportedly swung into the
path of the northbound bus from
behind two cars which slowed
down to let the bus cross the
bridge. The bus driver, William
R. Pfau of Portland, attempted
futilely to avoid the impact. His
vehicle left the road but did not
turn completely over. Twenty-six
passengers were injured, none
seriously.
Broach and Mrs. Bowden, his
passenger, were taken into Aurora
by ambulance, but died en route.
The bodies were taken to the Ran
som-Miller mortuary.
The bus driver suffered a cut
finger, and most of the Injuries
were bruises, light cuts or
scratches. Passengers hurt In
cluded Corinne Gill, Woodburn,
correspondent for The States
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Funeral Home
Wedding Spot,
"Nice Place"
TACOMA, Wash., Oct
-Weekend social notes:
" Elisabeth Ann Fowler and
Theodora D. Bennett both San
Francisco, were married In a
local funeral establishment
The Rev. Paul I .Crooks per
formed the ceremony.
"It seems like a nice place
to , have It" the young couple
suggested to attendants at the
mortuary, .beforehand..: They
agreed. .
Top Tobacco
Firms Rapped
LEXINGTON, Xy, Oct 21-m
-The billion -dollar tobacco in
dustry's three largest companies,
one subsidiary concern and 13
executives were convicted Mon
day on charges of monopoly and
price fixing in criminal violation
of the Sherman anti-trust act
The corporations convicted In
US district court on all four
counts of the accusation were the
R. J. Reynolds, Liggett and My
era and American Tobacco com
panies and American Suppliers,
Inc. a subsidiary of American
Tobacco. - .
Weather
Partly cloudy today with' tight
showers, rain Wednesday. little
change ta temperature. IXax. tem
perature Monday . 83, sin. 43,
Rainfall, .33 la. River -24. North-
wist wind. ClfiUily.
POUNDS
Oregon. Tuesday Morning. October 23, 1941
Nazis Hit
Harder on
2 Fronts
Jap, Red Border
Clash Revealed;
Moscow Holds
By The Associated Press
Russian .reverses just be
low Moscow on the central
front and in the far south
before Rostov were plain late
Monday night.
By all accounts the peril
in the Ukraine was both
greater and more imminent
and in Kuibyshev, the alter
nate soviet capital the red
leadership acknowledged as
much by its preoccupation
with the organization of a new
war plant to the east of the Ural
mountains.
The position briefly was this:
The German armies appeared to
be inching forward generally. But
while Stalin's government appar-
TOKYO, Tuesday, Oct 28.
JP)A Japanese ' government
spokesman today denied reports
abroad of clashes with the Rus
sians on the . Manchukuoan
border. - .
errtly accepted the growing' -possi
bility of disaster in western "RaS'
le&i "far tiViJittr- and
Don industrial areas of the
U k r a i n e all 'indications from
soviet sources supported the be
lief that the Russians were as con
cerned with the resistance of the
distant future as they were with
today and tomorrow.
The soviet command In its com
munique for Tuesday morning ad
dressed itself to the future more
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FDR Appeals
Third Time
Asks Lewis to Keep All
Coal Alines Open as US
Defense Essential
WASHINGTON, Oct 27-fly-
Appealing to John L. Lewis for
the third time to keep the Captive
coal mines running in the interest
of national defense. President
Roosevelt wrote the leader of the
United Mine Workers Monday
night that "it is essention that the
mining of coal should go on with'
out interruption."
Mr. Koosevelt replied a short
time after Lewis had rejected a
second such request and had
contended m a letter to the
chief executive that the strike
Involving 53,000 workers was
not impairing defense output
In his letter, Lewis told the
president that the fight was only
between a labor union and , the
United States Steel corporation.
which, he said was dominated by
a "rich man named Morgan."
The president had asked on
Friday that Lewis recall his order
for a strike Saturday midnight
and the UMW chieftain had re
fused.' :'
In Monday night's appeal, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
- Tor the third time your gov
ernment through me asks you
and the officers of the United
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Gen. White Takes Temporary
Leave From 41st, Illness
Ma. Gen. - George : A. White,
60-year-old commander of the
Oregon national guard In' peace
time and of the. northwest's 41st
army division, has - temporarily
relinquished iis command because
of an Illness contracted during
last summer's maneuvers in Cali
fornia,, it became known Monday
night " . .
-There Is no intention of re
lieving Gen. White as common- '
der," Lt Gen. John L. DeWitt
ninth corps area" commander,
'told The Associated Press In re
sponse to hnclxies. E has a
Cm lvisiea and he is a very
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German-British Clash Expected Soon
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ROSTOVI.a
Germany reported nasi troops close
continued progress in her thrusts at Rostov and tne Donets basin in ine souin. meantime an iniormea
London source implied that if Germany should break through to Rostov and threaten the Caucasian oil
fields between the Black and Caspian seas as well as India and the Sues (dotted arrows), Britain
would send her million troops in the middle: east to support the Russian flank (black arrows). Britain
and Russia, between them now dominate Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Syria,-Iraq and Afghanistan.
Northwest races Week
Of 'War"
Three Daily Air "Raids" Scheduled
With Civil Def ense Units Set
To Coordinate in Maneuvers
Without shrapnel or bombs or poison gas, while children con
tinue to go to school and business goes on as usual, the Pacific
northwest today enters a state of "war." Drone of swift army
planes, which has become familiar to dwellers in the Willamette
valley the past week, is to be more constant with three "raids"
scheduled daily in the serious game the army is to play overhead.
Thousands of civilians go
on
duty at 10 o'clock this morning
as observers assigned to notify
army authorities of the location of
"enemy" bombers in the north
coast maneuvers. Approximately
800 such observers have been ap
pointed in' Marion county alone.
Telephone operators over the
affected area are facing flag
decked switchboards, each red
banner indicating an outlet to
an observation post from which
at any moment may come the
simple statement "Army flash!"
Such a signal from an author
ized source draws a rapid con
nection with the nearest filter
center (Portland, Eugene or
Roseburg) where the report of
a sighted plane means a changed
pin on a huge map.
Data thus gathered is to be used
In dispatching the more than 100
pursuit planes based in Portland,
Salem and Tacoma. It is also to
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Routine Business Only
Because of the absence of
Mrs. David Wright chairman, and
Dr. I E. Barrick, the Salem
school noard Is . expected to con
sider only routine business at its
session tonight at 730 in the
school administration building,
according to Clerk Connell C.
VWard.
efficient division ..commander,
one of the best wo haveXtell
keep his command as lona as
any other divisional commander
can keep Us. -
v Gen. DeWitt added that ; Gen
White fad been "sick for a, few
days He talked with: him 'by
telerjhone at Gen. White's Port
land residence Saturday, he said.
, Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea of
Salem, commander ox the 4 1st s
82d brigade, is acting as divisional
commander at Fort Lewis, Wash-
in Gen. White's absence.
Gen. White's ailment was de
scribed as dysentery, picked up
in California.
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MOSCOW
KUBISHEV
to Moscow in the four-pronged
Conditions
Col. Robertson
Asked to Head
America First9
PORTLAND, Oct 27-(ff-Dell-
more Lessard, Oregon chairman
of the American First committee,
resigned Monday but said it was
owing to press of private business
and that he remained in sympathy
with the isolationist movement
It was reported that commit
tee members had asked Col.
Charles A. Robertson, West Salem,
to accept the chairmanship, but
that he had not given an answer.
Vets' Pension
Boost Urged
WASHINGTON, Oct 27-JP)-
Representative Smith (D-Wash)
has asked congress to Increase
pensions of war veterans and their
dependents 10 per cent to offset
the rapidly rising cost of living.
Smith who ' Introduced a bill
(HR 4875) to carry out his pro
posal said It would affect 613,000
living veterans and 310,000 help
less dependents' of veterans. .
"If an increase for WPA work
ers is desirable' and necessary to
offset the rising cost of living.
isn't it reasonable to assume that
similar consideration " should be
given' the 825,000 veterans and
dependents of deceased ; veterans
whose average monthly income
from the government is approxi
mately $37.50 per person." .;
Cobina to Wed Soon
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.-?V
Cobina -Wright jr,: society girl
film player,- and army Corporal
Palmer Beaudette, member of
wealthy Detroit automotive fam
ily, will be married next Monday
afternoon at the Riverside church,
New York City, she Informed 20th
Century-Fox studio from the
east Monday. "
M .- First Obj
No. 184
drive on the Red capital and claimed
"Rumor Navy
Might Act
geattle-Tacoma Yards
Hit by Walkouts of
Welders; US Denies
TACOMA, Oct 27-(ffV-Rumors
circulated Monday night that the
navy might take over the Seattle
Tacoma shipyards some sources
said as early as Wednesday if
welders were not back at work by
that time. ' '
An announcement by Charles
Brinkerhoff, secretary of the Ta
coma Burners and Welders' local,
that two naval officers had re
quested permission to attend a
meeting of the strikers here Mon
day night but had failed to turn
up, added fuel to such speculation.
(At 13th district navy head
quarters in Seattle, the rumor
was declared to be without
foundation. A navy spokesman
said he did not know of any na
val officers' intentions to at
tend the Tacoma meeting).
Brinkerhoff said he sent the fol
lowing wire to OPM's Sidney Hill
man, In Washington, DC, Monday,
but so far had received no reply:
"We are trying to learn what
can be done and what is being
done toward settlement of,
welders' dispute. Have talked
today to Graham, of NLKB,
Hauk of labor conciliation serv
ice and General Windsor of
OPM. -j
'Windsor anrgested I wire
you. Didn't want to stop work
but lid blew off. Wo want ta
build ships. Who can help as
straighten this thing oatr
VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct 27.
-yp)-AFL employes at the Alum
inum Company of America Van
couver plant rejected Monday an
office of. production management
mediation plan.
By a 288-to-189 -margin the
Aluminum Trades council voted
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Mine Victims9
Bodies Found
DANIEL BOONE, -Xy- Oct 27
iJPf The badly burned bodiefoT
15 miners, trapped by an explo
sion in the Stirling Coal, company
mine Monday, have been reached
by rescue squads. " "
Thirty-eight others in the mine
at the time of the. blast were res
cued " unharmed earlier. ,." , : --
Paul Gannon, general superin
tendent of the mine said, the bo
dies, were found but none had
been brought to the surface.
Gannon . said, the . men appar
ently were seared by the explo
sion and survivors, if any, were
finished off by lethal gas.
O . 500
MILES
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top
.Rooseyt't-Says
Navy Day
Reveals Nazi Plot
On South America
Advocates Freedom of Seas
To All Ports; Hits Labor
Rows; World Hears Speech
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AP) President Rooae
velt asserted Monday night that "the shooting has
started," that "America has been attacked," and that
the nation stood ready to face its newest and greatest
challenge.
He said in an address at a Navy league dinner that
"we Americana have cleared our decks and taken our
battle stations."
In it, the chief executive advocated broadening of
the program for revising the neutrality act to permit
not only- the arming of American merchant ships, but
to let them also "be free to carry our American goods
FDR Address
. .
Highlights
WASHINGTON, Oct 21-fP)
Some salient quotations from
President Roosevelt's address:
We have wished to avoid
shooting. But the shooting has
started. And history has re-
corded who fired the first
shot
- - - - .
America has been attacked.
The USS Kearney is not just a
navy ship. She belongs to every
man, woman and .child in' this
nation.
.
I have in my possession a sec
ret map made in Germany by
Hitler's government b y the
planners of the new world order.
It is i armap of South America
and a part f Central America
as Hitler proposes to reorganize
it
Your government has in Its
possession another document
made in Germany by Hitler's
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British Hear,
Berlin Mum;
Solons Talk
BERLIN, Tuesday, Oct 23-(JP)-Atmospheric
interference made it
virtually Impossible to hear Presi
dent Roosevelt's radio address
here. Authorities who could be
reached in the early morning.
hours declined comment appar
ently waiting for word from
higher-ups.
!NEW YORK, Oct.
The BBC, fat a broadcast picked
up by CBS Monday night said
President Koosevelt's speech
was heard perfectly In Brit
pin.
WASHINGTON, Oct" 27-(flV-
Senator Pepper (D-Fla) Monday
night expressed belief that Presi
dent Roosevelt's Navy day speech
would hasten revision of the neu
trality act v
- "The president's was an elo
uent address w hie It dearly"
demonstrated to the American
people the necessity of arminc
our merchant ships and letting
them sail to the porta of
friends," he said.
Rep. Martin . (R-Mass), house
minority leader declined to- com
ment saying he had not heard the
speech.
Senator Van Nays (D-Ind) 7
don't know anything about any
secret maps, but all the military
experts agree that it Is silly to be
lieve Hitler could mvad4ht con
tinent There might'' possibly be
some sporadie6ombings along the
coast oKSouth America, , but fear
thaV'Hitler will invade America,
is foolish, despite the Inflamatory
staU-Tnents of some persons who
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Lease Bill Gets Okeh J;
WASHINGTON, Oct ll-iFf-Cesgress
gave. final- approval
lata Monday ta the new $3S5,
CSMQS lend-lease appropriation
and arranged to hurry It to the
r.Ute House far fraiZzat
?M sjgnatar4;47j,:''
ective
ffitleir-
Addresti
into the harbors of our friends."
Merchant ships must be protected ;
by the navy, he declared - -
The senate foreign relations
committee has recommended these
revisions and Mr. Roosevelt said
elimination of hamstringing pro
visions of the neutrality law was
"the course of honesty and of
realism."
Mr. Roosevelt's speech, at an
observance of Navy day, ! was
broadcast throughout the world.
He insisted that America's
defense output must be multi
plied and must not be hamp
ered by the "selfish obstruc
tion,' of a small but dangerous
minority fit industrial managers
r of labor leaders. '' ..
-Navy day this year had been set
aside as a day of recognition- for .
total national defense. And the
first objective of that defense, he
declared, "ij to stop Hitler."
wne can be stopped and be
compelled to dir in," Mr. Roose
velt said, -and that will be the ?
berinnlnf of his downf aU. be
cause dictatorship of the Hitler
type can live only through eon
tinning victories increasing
.conquest". ,
Mr. Roosevelt made two dis-
Lflosures of secret documents
which, he said originated with Hit
ler's government one for divid
ing South America Into five vassal
states and the other for abolishing
aU existing religions.
He declared that these grim
truths of present and future plans
of Hitlerism would be hotly denied
by the controller axis presY.and
radio. But . he declared that ""bat ,
had a secret map of South Ameri
ca and part of Central America,
on which Berlin experts have
"ruthlessly obliterated all exist
ing boundary lines" and have di
vided South America into five
vassal states, bringing the whole
continent under their domina
tion."
In one of these new puppet
states would be the Republic of
Panama and the Panama CanaL
"This map makes clear," the
Chief executive said, "the nasi
design not only against South
America but against the United
States itself."
The plan to abolish all religions
Protestant' Catholic, Moham
medan, Hindu, Buddhist and.
Jewish alike would be imposed
on a nazi -dominated world if Hit
ler won, Mr. Roosevelt asserted.
An international nazi church
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Tornado Toll c
Rises to 20 :
LITTLE ROCK, Ark,: Oct 27.
-(fiy-The death list from Sunday's
devastating tornadoes rose to 20
Monday as a half dozen Arkansas
and one Louisiana community dug
out of the debris in threeiWidely
separated areas.-- . - . v.
..More "than 200 persons were
treated - for injuries. -t Property
damage 'was estimated at several
hundred thousand dollars. . :
Thirteen fatalities were count
ed in southeast Arkansas. Strik
Ing near midnight the twister
demolished frame dwellings and
business houses and . plunged
Hamburg, a town of 1500,' Into
rain-swept darkness for, the,, re
mainder o the night. ...
Mayor R E.- Batson of Darda
nelle estimated the damage. there
alone at more than, $100,000. A'
Sunday night storm, struck the
Holly community near .CansIlel3,
La, kilLx? crTe- and injuring 11
others. r'---Z :