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Having
"V To the good-natured shout o "Turn opt your
lights", from hoarse throats of youthful volunteers, the
city of Salem vent dark Friday night at 9:30 and flick
ered back tov near-normal brightness five minutes later
when the scream of an ambulance siren sounded anun-
intentional all-clear signal
Although repeated warnings that "the .planes m 'J?q
returning turn out your
to the listening city, the remaining fen minutes of the
experiment saw. motorists
parked vehicles, here and there an entire street of neon
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iguu auiaMK cuiu Qiuueruua resi
dential lights burning,
v Civilian defense officials la
the capital city declared them
selves well-pleased with the
first blackout test, maintained
that ' they had - discovered a
number of problems never be
fore considered and that the
lack, of serious accident during
. the period of darkness . mlg ht
fret credited to the ear of in
; terested and prepared clvUlans.
V: Clouds that rode, only 500 fee
Overhead and obscured a swell
lag -moon made Friday night's
blackout over Marion county al
most absolute while they defeated
a part of the experiment's pur-
pose.
t At sunset had come announce
ment from Seattle headquarters,
of the interceptor command that
flights of bombers had been can
celled because the low ceiling
made "attacks" from proper
heights Impossible and night fly
ing unusually dangerous. !
However, all over jvestern Ore
gon plans for a lights-out test
elaborate or simpler were carried
out with assistance of "faked" air
raid warnings from Portland
headquarters.
When warning for the flight
. over DaUas failed to material
ise via the special light-wire
from Portland, defense head-;
' quarters ' asked Salem police to
take" a notification for the:
Folk county city's blackout
which followed Salem's by 17
mtnates. ". : ' ; " ,
"The flights were to have been
'the' major test of morethanr 4oo6
aircraft spotters who participated
in previous" daytime maneuvers
over the Pacific northwest Army
officers said they would have af
forded the first test of effective
ness of civilian spotters at night
In Salem, the 260 army officer!
and men stationed here for ma
neuvers weise freed from "alert"
orders and rested at their fair
grounds quarters after the strent
uous week of operations or Joined
crowds that, thronged downtown
streets to see the bright, lights go
out . ;
; Boys and girls turned tables
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Private Plane
tearance
Still Mystery
-PORTLAITO, Ore., Oct SL-P)r
The mysterious , disappearance of
two fliers en route from Eugene,
Ore, to Seattle last Saturday
deepened Friday nighty despite
widening search. , ' $
' L. D. Pudney, civil aeronautics
authority' Inspector, said the men,
Frank McKenna, Glendale, Calif 4
anaws pilot, a man namea jei-
fries, were last seen while taking
off from the Eugene airport last
Saturday morning in McKennals
Stinson voyagerK : ; ; ; ,
On the night before the Eu
gene departure, Wallace Camp
bell, Seattle - hardware : maau
f said McKenna, president of tbeij
Iinii-yi eompany. of . Detroit!
and Glendale, telephoned hlaaj
, asking that he reserve Seattle
hotel rooms for the fliers Sat
nrday night -
Twodays later, William Dwyer,
Estacada, Qse, farmer, reported
seeing a . light plane in trouble,
signalling with a flashlight and
traveling toward the Cascade
; : (Turn to Page 2, Colf)
Footballs
Footballs
Footballs
' The 'army ' may be short . on
weapons here and there but it
isnt : on f ootbalht , Bead . In
r ports' Editor Eon GemmeC's
tattrUlstef 8day column
sout the varsrlcs of purchase
j-r officers who supplied 43S
footballs for 123 enlisted men
t7or king out for basetiaU
-i ia cf aoruwest en
r menu '. ' .,' '
-i n tbe CUtesrsan Sun-
f:i:rs rsrs, IscS let
t crt ron's marlls czpitol
j cf t:.e rsen who rrowl
- r;!-.t C:e J-.r.Iisri; Ethan
. - .. . -j cl t!.s fair stx
-.: -j : " ;:a's advice en
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jjisapp
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by radio announcement
lights again l" were radioeJ
edging their tars between
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German's
Bi
Push
On Wane
Weary Troops in
Moscow Battle
Slow Attacks
1
By .The Associated Press
Hitler's major offensive upon
Moscow came to the end of its
kst month Friday night with
an
apparent sharp decline in
powers but there was much to
indicate that in the far south
the German drives still were
generally unhalted.
At the center, w h e r e cthe
weary nazi armies stiu stood
well short br e" capita vaoviet
dispatches declared that CSerman
action had fallen to mere local at
tacks in all sectors save for the
Volokolamsk area some 65 miles
to the northwest where fighting
still was reported heavy. Of that
whole theatre the German high
command significantly continued
its utter silence,:
But in the south, where this
time the soviet! command was si-
ent, the Germans claimed that
the Russians were in retreat on
two major fronts southward into
the Crimean peninsula and east
ward in the Donets basin in the
area about and above Rostov on
the river dam. !
Just where the invaders stood
was not stated In either Instance;
as to Rostov it seemed most like
ly that they were near its very
suburbs and thus close to the
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Photographer
Londonetquq Picture
Revealed From Tpp
Of State Capitol
Tut out those lightsJJo you
want to get bombed?" was the
cry heard from; all directions Fri
day night as the sirens screamed
for Salem to blackout' And while
no bombers appeared over the city,
the low, murky clouds lent
jndonesque , atmosphere to the
occasion ' ', j -:
- "Bring back a record tne
lightlesstperiod in words and
pictures the Statesman pho
tographer was told on being sent
to the top of the capitol build
ing. .ivVft,:-;:r-;:::,;
The noise of people talking and
shouting on every side stood out
above all else as the light began
flicking out Now a confused hub
bub, then the bursting forth of
single or few, voices as some car
attempted to continue driving with
its lamps burning. '- '
The city was . not completely
dark, but an estimate of S5-8I
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FRESNO,- Calif,' Oct J 81-(ff)-Two
army pursuit pilots who sub
sisted, forta week on ilih and
emergency rations while lost in
the autumn cold of the high Si
erra, were brought out of t h e
mountains Friday niht and put
to bed at the Fresno air bawrhos-
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Ths r.::rs, liects. lick C
West of CentervClOt Iowa and:
Leonard C Lydon of Des
2oiaes, made tiie last 70-mtte
lap cf VLtir trb to tsittj ia a
LU&way patrol ear' which met ,
them near do base cf lO.iSO-
Of
Darkly
BLACKOUT Downtown Salera
wacKout was almost pitcn
tion of the paper mill (not
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streak of. light which leaked
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Budget Committee
Suggests Vote On
New Courthouse
Citizen Group Approves Financial
Schedule for County With Minor
Changes; Wage Increases Denied
One move toward construction of a new courthouse rnd an
essentially unchanged budget came out of the final county laud
get session Friday. - '!
To provide a $5 a month increase for the deputy county clerk
who handles photostatic work,
into the budget, while $500 was
FDR to Meet
Canada Chief
"HYDE PARK, NY, Oct 31-GPV-
President 1 Roosevelt arrived 'Tri-
day night at his country estate,
where Canadian Prime Minister
W. jL. MacKenzie King will join
him' Saturday for a short visit -
The president came from Wash
ington by special train. A tele
phone was connected with his pri
vate car as the train paused at
dusk atClaremont NJ, to enable
him to. talk. With- Washington of
ficials and determine whether
any new reports had been re
ceived on. the sinking of the de
stroyer Reuben James. - '
Salem Chest I
Total Passes
$45,000 Mark
Funds raised In the Salem Com
munity Chest campaign passed the
$45j000 mark on Friday when the
campaign' committee met with
some of the re-solicitation work
ers jwho are attempting to elim
inate the remaining deficit The
goal is $50,000. -
T. M. Hicks reported on the
"victory banquet" of the Port
land chest which, with its budget
increased, nevertheless was filled
in the allotted time with every
division "over ' the top" and the
total several; thousand dollars
above the original goal. Word was
also received that the newly-or-ganied
Baker chest had exceeded
its budget by abcit $1300. . .
Airmen Say Thanks to Salem f
' Preparing to leave shortly after maneuvers cease at noon to
day, officers of the "Salem aub-airbase" Friday night expressed
their thanks to the capital city, for hospitality extended to them
and their men during a 12-day stay here. ; 1 - v
; "The city as a whole, its organisations and individual residents V
- have made our vblt here so pleasant that we are honestly sorry to ;
be leaving even when our departure means we are going heme,1
ddared Lt T. TV. Jackson, officer in command here. "W do want ;
to express our apprecUUon for what has been an almost over
whelming welcome, and we can only hope that Salem likes s
almost as well as we like it '
Said Lt George W. White, who was In command at the fair-
grounds encampment and the airport until the arrival of 14. Jack '
. son, Tve soldiered to a good many states and the Islands and
never have I seen a welcome like Salem's; it's something to re
member, and rd Eke to conw back here.
Army; Ptirsuil
; foot Barton peak, on which they.''
: had been stranded. - j- -"
The hospital said the condition
of the two aviators was good,' con
sidering their ; experience since
they parachuted, from their sep
arate planes, into : th'e wilderness
last. Friday-;::: r rrJl"--W
; Keither -was, to, be permitted
to see intervieweri until Saturday
morning, but Major Carrol S.' Mil
ler, leader of the. ground . rescue
party ,which reached the two men
Friday, had till" to tay cf. what
had occurred: ; '.
Lydon and VTeit jurped out cf
viewed from' the top ot th
DiacJc. At the left are seen tne
requested to go dark for ths
out through
a transom above
an addition of $30 was written
lifted out of the emergency fund
and placed in the county court's
fund for miscellaneous expenses
with the understanding that the
money is to be used in preparing
for a "new courthouse" election.
Citizen members of the bud
get committee prepared and de-
livered to the county wftpLfJ
resolution declaring k that "We
are In favor of the construction
of a new court house and that
plans be forthwith made for
the raising of necessary' funds,
construction to begin as soon
as the defense emergency Is
over and the money available."
That the construction would
provide work for mfh otherwise
unemployed at such "a time was
emphasized in the resolution.
Drawing on previous grand
jury reports, the trio of citizen
signers, William McGilchrist, jr,
Ray J. Glatt and M. G. Gunder
son, maintain that as early as 1911
a crowded condition was apparent
at the court house. Again in 1930
and in 1936 grand juries remon
strated over conditions in the
court house.
That "some of the things men
tioned in the grand jury reports
have been corrected," is pointed
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Salem May Make Bid
For US Army Bombs
PORTLAND, Oct. 3Hff)-Port
land chamber of commerce offic
ials said Friday that Salem and
Portland companies might manu
facture incendiary bombs for the
US army.
Xee U. JSyerly of Salem, chair
man of a group that studies bomb
specifications, said discussk next
week would deternuneTwhether
Salem metal plant operators
would submit a bid for possible
jobs. :
.Destroyer
Filot,; .-Lbst'-Week .OnrMo.uiitairi,
sight of one another, n either
aware at the time that the other
had left his plane.
West found a shack, in Sugar
Loaf valley, and stayed there two
days. ' ' ' ...
.".After. dark ca the. second r.!;M
he heard a knock at the door,
- "Who's therein he called,
'Tra i lost, tviator," cans t
voice in reply!Cah you show me
the way out of here?
:"r;:i,fMy,.Ged: so:; era I!" West
'tsJiroteiifCcai ii tar '
. During the ensuing days the two
took lcr.3 Likes, searches for a
eapiiol duriaff Friday night's
few ugnis required for Optra
occasion) and at the right a
the heavily-curtained front
Salem. Orec Soiurday Morning.
US Board,
Lewis In
Wrangle
Parley Asked on
Coal Strike Row;
Pressure Flayed
WASHINGTON. Oct 31-WPl-
Tbe aefense-. mediation board Fri
day asked 'John L. Lewis and
16 steel company executives to
meet with it Monday for a dis
cussion of the Captive coal mine
dispute . .
Chairman William H. Davis
indicated that the board would,
within a lew days after . that
meeting, recommend for or
against a union shop in the coal
mines owned by major steel
companies. But . ho declared the
1a,,wouolMitirric
to a eision i by ; "pressure."
This was a reference to Lewis'
action in setting November 15
as the deadline -for a new
strike unless the board ! acted
before then.
Lewis retorted that Davis
'point is not well, taken." ;
- The request to Lewis and the
steel executives was dispatched
after 31 mediation board members
and alternates had held a prelim
inary discussion of the union shop
issue and matters of procedure,
then recessed for the weekend to
study a transcript f of previous
proceedings in the case. ;
. The Davis-Lewis exchange was
by correspondence.
Davis made public a letter to
Lewis which noted the UMW
chiefs statement that the truce in
the strike of 53,000 miners would
be extended to November IS and
added:
"1 have at this time no rea
son to doubt thai the board can
easily complete Its consideration
of the dispute and make Its .ft- :
nal recommendations some time
next week, but however that
may be, the board will proceed
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Salem Quiet
Well, Almost
Hallows Eve
Whether in spite of, 05, be
cause of, the blackout elty; po
lice said Friday night was one
of the quietest Halloween they
remembered A light rain
through the early portion ef the
. might was thought to hare set
tled, the dust of some Ideas. '
. Seme street lights were brok
en, but thej usual ' All Hallow
Eve uuirks were net evidenced,
except or t generous window
soaping and the "trick or treat"
, or the younger generation.
- One of the more modern
downtown show, windows bore
, the ' inscription "fire - sale."
Clerks at another store were
busy before midnight removing
soap marks- front windows.
way out of the mountains They
found fishing tackle In the cabin
and caught 12 fish, although neith
er had ever tried the sport before.
At one time In their wanderings
I they approached within a quarter-
r.Ua ol a ranccri cabin, when I
telephone and food were available.
Finally ; .they : clhmbed about
C3 feet up Eartcn pctk fxoa tht
SC03-foot valley floor, so that they
might better be seen- They built
a fire and gathered rocks to spell
out their names. '
i That was Ticrslay, when
- erlal searchers tpottcl tie two
ALL. CLEAR From the same obsenraon point,' thia is
streets ablaze with neon and., electric lights, the courthouse clock centering the scene,,
Sprinkled on the hills across the river are the lights of West Salem residences, while
industries on both banks cast a glow upon the surface of the Willamette- States-
man pnoios.
November 1, 1941
Friendly Jean
Almost Jailed
On Halloween
Hundreds of telephone calls
were directed at radio- station
KSLM and the city police sta
tion Friday afternoon after the
VT;St" of Jean Sevillier, ra
dio announcer who had already
avoided Jail with the promise
oi two apple pies to be deliv
ered this morning, his "fine''
in a Halloween prank,
i Sevillier, who was conduct
ing his daily street interview
program when picked up on a
warrant charging "mooching
and begging on the street,' saidH
Friday night Mrs. Sevillier was
busily baking the pies to keep
her husband from perhaps hav
ing to eat jail fare.
j The warrant was broadcast
Stating the ball as $500, when
plive Scott, police radioman,
irrested him as Sevillier was
interviewing Ed Jory. Malcolm
Mitchell of the KSLM staff
completed the program.. The
telephone callers, protested . the
arrest and offered help.
-! Sevillier has often, it was
slated, kid, persons he inter
viewed "I like apple pies,'
"chickens," and. or mocha cake,'
leading to a number of gifts.
Church Women
Rap Pinballs
Salem Council Goes
On Record Opposing
Machine Licenses
1 ?
The Salem Council of Church
Women Friday Joined local or
ganizations in condemning the
ordinance before the city council
which would attempt to legalize
licensing of pinball games "for
amusement" purposes.
The council expressed a be- '
lief the ordinance was "net rep
resentative of the will of a ma
jority of Salem residents who
desire to maintain, a clean stan
dard of public morals."
The women's; organization is
sued the following statement:
"We, the members of the Sa
lem' Council of Church Wom
en, wish to go on record as op
- posing the pinball ordinance
and submit the following reso
lutions: C - .
"As Christian women and
mothers we petition our city
eouncil to reject the ordinance
due to come before the alder-
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Two Trucks
Axe Stolen t
Two trucks wer reported stolen
here Friday night One was owned
by C A. Panister, Corvallis route
five; and taken from 1880 North
Winter; street." residence of the
driver. , '
The other, taken from State and
Front streets, belongs to Floyd
Douglas, 1790 North Front street
and directed a ground, party to
their rescued , ; '
.The national park service ' re
ported that night temperatures in
Sugar Loaf valley during the past
week have ranged from S to 13 de
grees above, zero. Thert wertt few
inches of snow on tho ground. '
J dent knew h they.sur-
viTca.' Kajsr urns ma-mej:
had only their light fly lag suits,.
Major Miller . said .that when
Lydon and West first sighted his
partyv theyran; forward shoutlcj
and flung their arms around the
rescuers. ' ', T - v , ,
Crew
Prica 3cj j Newsstands 5c
.Resciiiec
Fm
sit
Navy Mp uak'
In Atl
Seven Officer si 70 Enlisted
Men of Ruben James Missing;
Hope Held; Congress Rages
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TfflS SHIPi(AfeOVE) SAME
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (AP)The navy terse
ly announced the rescue of 44 members of the crew of
the American destroyer Ruben Jpmes Friday night,
leaving the fate of some 70 more enlisted men, and sev
en officers still the subject of 'anxious waiting and in
qniry. j ' "
But, beyond this and the fact that the ship had
been torpedoed and sank west of Iceland the first
American naval vessel to be sent to the bottom since the
war started the department was still without infor
Senate Rows
Over Sinking
President Is Charged
With Deaths; Holman
Raps Neutral Shift
WASHINGTON, Oct Zl-Ph
The- torpedoing of the destroyer
Reuben James produced a bitter
jow Friday in the senate, where
Majority Leader Barkley (Ky.)
angrily disputed a statement that
President Roosevelt was "person
ally responsible" for any lives
lost . r C
The charge of presidential
responsibmty was made by
Senator Aiken (R-Ct.) drlng
debate on the question of im-'
ing the neutrality act's restric
tions on shipping, and Barkley
Immediately cried that the ac
cusation was "unfair."
. Reading in a loud voke from a
prepared statement Aiken
charged that President; Roosevelt
"without the. knowledge or con
sent of congress," had given or
ders Tto the navy to-"hunt down
and sink ships of another hation
with which , we are not legally
at war." " " " . :
This was done, Aiken said, de-
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Heavily bearded and somewhat
emaciated, they were-loaded onto
horses and carried to an army
truck, which : brought them to a
rendezvous with tho patrol car at
thi bead pt the fciiwiy,'
: A thlrd, faer.t ' lieutenant
Diehard'. N. Long of Connells-
yuit ra sta is tzhLizz inn
a formation of 19 pursuit planes
which scattered over the Sierra
after running into storm and fog
ca a fUsht f rem Zlafch field ta
Sacramento .last Friday.; .The
search for him continues.
Mescued
the Icity normally at night,.
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TYPE AS RtJBEN JAMES
mation. 14 -
Presumably, several ships may
have taken part in the rescue
work, for the Reuben James was
on convoy duty, and most com
monly advanced theory for the -
lack of news was that rescue ships
were making no radio reports for
fear of disclosing their' positions to
nazi submarines.
The first word of the incident "
which stirred and excited Wash
ington, already embroiled in a
bitter row over foreign policy and
revising the neutrality act, wag
received this morning in a short
matter-of-fact statement from the
navy.
Frida.. night, ' almost Hjioars i
lair, it had this to add; .Tf- fv-r
T.- navy department has re
eeiw 1 a rerort that 44 members
of tn Tew of the USS Reuben
I James ikeen rescved. Tbo
survi who have been ac
counted for are all enlisted men.' .
' The navy department has no'; -farther
information at this time. -But
addluonal ' details win be -released
when reeeived.w L .
" Then, soon afterward, it an
nounced the names of the ship's .
Seven officers. They were:
'I
Lieutenant Commander Hey
wood L. Edwards, 35, command
ing officer, of San Saba, Texas.
I Lieutenant Benjamin- Ghetz-
Jer, 34, Aiuapolis, Md. " V -
v Lieutenant: (J. G.) Dewey G. Johnston,
31, Elcajon, Calif. s
Lieutenant (J.- G.) John J, ;
J. Daub, Saltsburg, Pa. : 5
Lieutenant (J. G.) James M.1 v
Beldon, 30, naval reserve, Syra
cuse, NY. c 4-vv f ??' f x
Ensign Craig S, Powers,' 24;
East Orangev NJ, '--SrfHc.
f Ensign Howard V. Wade, naval
reserve, S3, Glen Ridge,' NJ.
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