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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1941)
John; t. fewi: Challe lament -in: live Coal Strike . . . - See Story Column 7, Pago 1 Weather Eaio JL Newsl. Bringing yon "the news," the latest reports of events In your homo community, your state, the nation and the world at large g the tint coal of TOUR Oregon Statesman. found no 1651 LLiht rain and eentlnned cold today. Wednesday part ly elemdy with little ehang e la temperature. Max. temp erature. Monday, 41. ICn. JL River 14 J feet. South east wind. Partly cloudy. Ne ram, NTNETY-HBST YEAH Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, November 18. 1941 Price 3cs Newsstands Se No. 202 SLID SIB IMi War W Mi U .mevitalble Piriball Bill Is Dropped Council Accepts Property Offer; Board Formed Without argument or dis cussion, Salem's city council Monday night voted to drop the so-called "pinball" ordi nance, subject of church ser mons, club sessions and col umns of news and editorial type during the past month. It moved rapidly through a variety of business to ac cept the sale offer from William Brown for the parcel of his prop erty needed in expanding the air port, to approve expenditure of general funds for construction of a stone wall along Shelton ditch If and when the WPA is ready to work the project, to pass with a minor amendment for third and final reading the municipal prop erty control board ordinance un der consideration for two months and to approve a zoning change at Division and Howard, where a power company substation is to be erected. Acting as agent for William Brown, Chandler Brown of Sa lem offered the properties re quired for airport expansion to the city for $20,000 or $112 an acre, $31 as.' acre' less' than the valine placed upon them by the Salem Realty board's apprais ers and $1S less than that paid ' for other properties in the area, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Airline Fete Plans Slated Salem Businessmen Will Discuss Program on First Day of Service Plans for "driving the golden stake" at inauguration of the air service which promises to bring airmail directly to Salem are to 'be discussed when a group of businessmen meets around the luncheon table at the Marion hotel at noon today, Mayor W. W. Chadwick said Monday night. Type of celebration to be considered was still general, the mayor declared, although all persons contacted agreed as to importance of the event and that there should be especially arranged festivities. Opening of United Air Lines service at the Salem airport is scheduled for December 5. E. S. Maroney, Portland, agent, and Oliver Judd, recently-named Salem agent, were in the capital city Monday viewing walls of the prefabricated house erected at the airoort to serve as a tem porary administration building. Mrs. Roosevelt Plans Jaunt to England NEW YORK, Nov. 17-VMrs. rranklin D. Roosevelt will head a enmmitteo to name a group of American women to go to Eng land within the next few weeks M guests of the British govern went !; r Caroline Haslett,. woman en gineer and advisor to the British ministry of labor ..on women's training, made the announcement Monday night at the annual friend ship dinner of New York Business and Professional women's cjuos. Italo Torpedo On the Way o Released by the British admiralty, this picture shows a torpedo (arrow) striking the water "after being dropped from an Italian plane during an attack on a British supply convoy somewhere In the Mediterranean. C. P. Bishop in Hospital As Result of Burns Slips, Falls Under Hot Water Faucet In Tub, Believed; Little Change In Condition Reported Monday Kerch Is Taken By Germans Causasus Route Open; Reds Hold Other Sectors By The Associated Press Hitler's long gray columns appeared Monday night to have surmounted the last ob stacle save one before the western Caucasus, but it was equally apparent that his ar mies of the north and center were hard put to hold their own upon harsh and frozen battlefields where the worst is yet to come. While the Germans were an nouncing the capture of Kerch, the extreme eastern Crimean port separated from Caucasia by a strait at one point only two miles wide, the Russians were proclaiming that the weary in vader was in retreat in three sec tors about Moscow and before Leningrad had been driven out of positions which he had held for two months. In one of the three Moscow theatres that of Tula, about 100 miles south of the capital the re treat was described in soviet ac- tfhat Rampaging Willamette Did to Eugene . - . -v ,V - r tt - v'f Residential districts went under water Sunday when the wont flood In fourteen years sent the Willam ette river ever Its banks. Above is a view of Nineteenth avenue, east side thoroughfare. The water was receding Monday International Dlustrated News, special service to The Statesman. Salem Flood Crest Spent Rise of Willamette Wanes ; Temperature Drops to Freezing Fighting Told To of Saboteurs City Groups Little change was reported Monday night in the condition counts as a ludricrous flight of of C. P. Bishon. 87. dean of Salem's businessmen and civic j eight miles. leaders, who was taken to Salem General hospital late Saturday night for treatment of severe scalds he received when he slipped into a tub of water he was draw- Salem Firemen, Police and Women's Ambulance Corps Hear Expert on Activity of Subversive Agents Salem firefighters, policemen and uniformed members of big for a bath at his residence, 765 Court street. He was taken to the hospital at the direction of a physician, who later called in Portland special ists in the treament of burns. Because of his age, concern was felt for him when he slipped into semi-consciousness Sunday night. The burns were described as covering "25 or 30 per cent of . the bodily surfaces," particularly his back and thighs. A member of the family said it was not definitely known how the accident occurred, but assumed that he slipped on the edge of the Log Companv Official Hurt Mrs. H. F. Walker at Oregon City Hospital With Fractured Skull Mrs. H. F. Walker, 46, secretary of the Charles K. Spaulding Log ging company, remained in a highly critical condition at the Oregon City hospital Monday nisht where she was taken Sun- tub and fell under the running hot (jay for treatment of injuries re- continuing advance ,and at the lat- water laucet ana was unaDie w ceiVed in an automobile accident Set up. Her injuries included a mul- His calls brought help and he tiple fracture of the skull. was able to don his bathrobe and naroital attendants renarted . There, the offklalsoviet news agelacy declared; the1 naiis were' thrown "Into a panic-stricken rout," in some eases leaving be hind their uneaten lentil per ridge and In the southern out- ' skirts of Tula "running down the frosty streets in their un derwear." Extraordinary quantities of war materials were declared to have J5' SKLEt oalem Asked miles to the west, less precipitate German retirements were re ported. In the former sector the Russians were said to have re captured three settlements on the west bank of the Volga river in a Lapping the 15-foot mark on the Salem .gauge at midnight, the j 2? ;nvT if T Marion county women' ambulance corps, Monday night re crest of a spent flood swept down lveu range uuuniiauwi u vo we meuroas ana pracuces from the upper valley. From a 14.7 foot morning read ing to 14.8 at noon, the river had mounted to approximately 14.9 at midnight, and weather observers declared that chill and clearing weather in the - mountains pro- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Teriris for Peace Set By Peers Military Budget Okehetl; Kurusu Talks With FDR By The Associated Press In an atmosphere of gloom that perhaps, was more sug gestive than what actually was said, the Japanese parlia ment gave the impression Monday night that the em pire had fatalistically re solved to go to war with the United States unless Wash ington made what would amount to utter capitulation in the Pacific. Japan's house of representa tives heard, without questions save from a single speaker who was more a friendly interlocutor than a critic, those "minimum" peace requirements which the house of peers already had ap proved. These are that the United States quit helping China and drop its alleged participation with Britain, China and the Dutch East Indies in what Tokyo claims is an "economic blockade" and "military encirclement The bonae .sickly approved the govemmeat's IS74.ttt.oM extraordinary atilitary budget, with passage tomorrow. Ty the booae of peers a certainty. The action came as the Japan of saboteurs and fifth-columnists when Jack Lowe, instructor at Times and Advertiser, controlled the fire college in Portland discussed and demonstrated means by the Japanese foreign office, de- which have been used by subversive agents against the nation's I claJf: .. X IK 111 ki um UUIUU To Entertain Ohio Boys" walk down stairs, laughing about bis mishap. Early Monday Mr. Bishop's con dition was reported as showing improvement He had not regained, full consciousness Monday night Art Exhibit Draws Crowd Opening Day po Improvement In her condi tion Monday night. Early In the afternoon It was described to E. A. Linden of the Spauld ing millwork plant here as net encouraging. Mrs. Walker was injured at about 6 p. m. Sunday when her automobile crashed into the rear of a wood truck, which had stopped for a traffic light at an Oregon City intersection. Her son, Jerry, of Seattle, and her mother, who had been staying with her here, went to the hos pital Monday. (Turn to Page 2, Col. .In response to a request by of- V 7 Y v : ' ficials' at Fort Stevens .that 150 ter they claimed to have forced I " Before Leningrad, Russian counter-attacks were pictured as approaching the strength of a major eounter-offenslve, involv ing artillery, bombers, fighter (Turn to Page; 2, CoL 1) industrial plants. Speaking at the Salem armory at the behest of the Salem police re serves, Lowe emphasized that the task of preventing sabotage is made exceedingly difficult by the fact that the materials used in the practice are generally those which can be purchased at any drug store or chemical house without restric tion. Spontaneous combustion, ac complished with vegetable oils placed on rags and deposited near Inflammable materials Is a prominent fifth column trick, Lowe said. Since the last World war, de- Henry I vices used by German foreign Salem 1 agents at that time have been un- Schools Close Wednesday for Thanksgiving fort, who have not been home for 18 months be entertained over the Thanksgiving holiday, Dr. Morris, president of the United Hospitaity a s s o c i a tion, covered, Lowe told the group. The Monday issued an appeal to Sa- Portland firemen then proceeded lem residents to invite the soldiers to demonstrate various chemical into their, homes and entertain reactions which were constructed them during their stay here. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Persons who win entertain one or more of the men during their stay are asked to telephone Dr. Morris or Tom Hill as early as possible. FDR Is Mum On Walkout CIO Leader Defies US Army to Shoot Miners Or Operate Coal Mines WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-CP-An effective strike of United Mine Workers (CIO) slowed the flow of fuel to steel mills U a trickle Monday, and John L. Lewis, belligerently defying the government to use troops, de clared ."the army Is not going to shoot our people and the sol diers are not going to mine 7) Visitors from over the valley thronged the Salem Art Center in the old high school building Mon day for the opening of the annual art fair. Indian women basket weavers from the Siletz reservation, who are scheduled to continue their demonstration work today and I Fog Sunday- caused postpone Wednesday, metal workers and I ment of resumption of a search makers of ceramics drew the in-1 in the Mt Hebo district for two terested attention of many who I missing fliers by Constable Earl had never before seen the work- A dance is planned at the Ar mory Thursday night in honor of Both Thursday and Friday will the visitors who are expected to be celebrated as "Thanksgiving arrive in Salem late Wednesday days" by Salem school kids as the or early Thursday. Fbg Delays Plane Hunt double holiday puts the school week at only three days. Programs eelebrattng the lhanksgivlng festival are being planned for Wednesday by sev eral schools. Rev. H. W. Ly man, pastor of the Court street Christian church will speak to Parrlsh junior high students Wednesday afternoon at 2:3. Service men and young women will be admitted to the dance free. Civilians will be charged an ad mission price. Sleeping accommo dations will be provided for some of the men In the boys' dormitory at the state fairgrounds. Island Reserves Called MANILA, Nov. 18-(Tuesday )- Ships Arming Bill Signed WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-tfV rresldent Roosevelt signed the ship arming bDl late Monday. It became law upon signature. Mr. Roosevelt acted soon after the measure reached him from congress, where It had en countered stiff epposlHon. Even before the legislation cleared congress, the navy was ready to begin mounting guns on merchantmen. situation as regards Japanese ' and American relations has gone from bad to worse. It is now felt in Japan as never before that the war Japan has waged the paft four years has in truth and reality been not with Chungking but with America and Britain." Nothing said in the house sug gested that the government was going to be checked In any way, and barring the single possibili ty that It was a grandiose and terribly hasardous bluff It ap peared that the United States eeuld not make friends with (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) To President Roosevelt, who had aaked for a personal report on weekend negotiations con cerning UMWi demand for a union shop in "captive" coal mines, Lewis sent Instead a let ter which he also made public. This communication recited mine workers' contention that an open 'shop agreement with steel companies which own the cap tive mines would be violative of union shop agreements with commercial coal mines. Then It tersely summed up the three days of conferences with steel "We offered the Appalachian agreement (providing for a union shop) ... the steel eveeu tives refused acceptance. They (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) War Weapon Invented by Salem Man Zero Polalre, Salem inventor whose father fought under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Civfl war, believes he has devised a weapon that should end war, or at least stop the German blitz kriegs. It is a torpedo device, its size subject to variation which is in tended to be strewn in large num bers ahead of a mechanized army. Polaire says his torpedoes would blow up the tires of army vehicles, decommission tanks and put the drivers out of commission. The Inventor has applied for patent rights and asked the fed era! government to investigate the 1 merits of his device. shops and studios of the Art Cen ter. Variety of articles on sale and the wide price range were de clared attractive features of the fair. Acting as saleswomen and attendants Monday were. Mrs. Clifton Mudd, Mrs. George Ai ling, Miss Eula McCully, Mrs. Deane Patterson and Mrs. J. D. y (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) A turkev dinner ia the ton. fea- Adams and a sroun of airmen 1 tur for Wednesdav at Richmond W-An undisclosed numoer oil headed bv Lm IT. Everlv of Sa-Urhnni at 11 an am. nther nro- Philippine army reservists lem. Adams said the aerial search, crams include a Thanksgiving as- tnrougnout ine lsianas were or- continuing his efforts of last week semblv at Richmond at 1 pjn.: oerea naonaay xo reporx xo camps on the ground, would be under- McKinley school assembly at 9 November 24 for mustering mtd taken as soon as the weather per-1 ajn.: ' Grant primary assembly, the united states' far east army mita. Ifl:05 ajn.. with unoer grades as-1 under command of Lieut. Gen. The missing ' fliers are Fredjsembly at 1 pm; Miss Banys Douglas MacArthur. McKenna and ' Elmer Jeffries, room will present the 'Highland n al an.n? wno took on xrom juugene oouna lassemoiy ai i:uo,, IT a 4? for Portland on October 25 but Portland public schools also will 1010 OporiS 1 never reached their destination, 'have a three-day school weea. They Talked but Coal Strike Started iptaide 3MLiLuilj6; Cpeiis For Tenth Season .) "Mulligan's en!" ' v -1 Chief of Police Frank A. Minto chanted figuratively, .Monday night to celebrate the tenth anni versary 3 of the opening of his Hotel de Minto, transients' winter haven on the top floor of the city hall. V.-V. '. Sixteen men' stepped In To dine Monday night but, said the chief, nhere will be more when the word gets around." s .; Mild fall weather and difficulty in obtaining needed cots made this year's opening, the latest in the in stitution's history. Back at the chiefs "hotel'? to serve for a fourth year as chef, desk; clerk and bouncer was C H. "Heavy Carrier, who's been at the city hall. since hop picking season making ready,, for . his guests. - - . : The "hotel" was still without cot beds, "but I guess a, warm , floor Is a better place to sleep than a cold boxcar," Chief Minto commented. He had to order 3S new cots when the army called far the eld ones It had loaned ' the chief ten years ago, and they 1 haven't yet arrived. " No .changes in Hotel de Minto policies are planned. Primary pur pose of the institution will con tinue to be to keep transient men off the streets, to curtail paja handUng," Minto said. V"-..- '. So, the rule is that his guests may not leave after registering at Carrier's desk, if they hope to return. - :.. The may partake of dinner and breakfast; stays are limited to one night per month. Work for meals and lodging is : not required but a bulletin board at Carrier's counter: sugrests . activity such as on the Hotel de ' Minto woodpile would & be ap nreclaied. '' . Chief Minto started his ?hoter,i in 1821 on a "shoestring, of do nations from hn) own officers and; j a few friends outside; recognition of its service is attested to today by its acceptance as 'one of ' the j agencies benefiting from the Com-, munity Chest - . CLEVELAND, Nov. 17--Melio Bettina, the Beacon, NT, heavyweight, whittled down Cleveland's Jimmy Bivins, one , of the leading contenders In the . .light heavy ranks, ta a ten round match tonight. Bettina weighed 1S1 and Bivins 173.: - . v NEW YORK, Nov 17-(ff-t . will cost from XI to S3f to . see Joe Louis defend his heavy -weight crown against Buddy. - Baer at Madison ' Square Gar den for the benefit of the Navy Relief society January.. Promoter Mike Jacobs an nounced all of the profits as - well as Louis' share of the purse wCl geto the relief oitnlsa tlon. " . Benjamin Klnlrksa - President Boseeyett JaL. Lewis , , Despite si last mmule conference with President Roosevelt, Benjamin V. ItbiiU. (right) representtag tte major steel oompsutes and John L. Lewis, president of the CIO United Mtne .Wotkers, Vary XaCed to come to an agreement and Monday nornmg none of the nation's captive coal names opened. Many ether coal mine ar being shot down when the miners hare called trnraUry strikes. 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