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' -T -J PAGE TWO Special Committee to Outline State Lumber Control Problem Hoover Flays AEF Program Asserts Propaganda Started to Send US - Troops to Africa (Continued from Page 1) forces all at once. For ns to do that we would need to prepare 5.000,000 to 8.000,000 American boys in addition to the British. ... It would take us more than five years to build the shipping to transport them. No military expert believes we could land such an army In Europe even If we got overseas. . . . "The British today have a blockade of Germany as effective I the program will result in the re- A concrete suggestion, as to the necessity for softening the priorities control regulations which are playing havoc with the Oregon lumber industry, probably will be outlined by Gov. Charles A. Sprague's special committee which is scheduled to meet in Portland next Monday. The committee, appointed fol lowing a meeting of lumbermen here 10 days ago, is represent tive of the entire state and eludes three mill and logging camp operators. Two federal representatives from San Fran cisco win attend. Th) OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Orecjon, Thursday Morning. November 20. 1941 Quiz Program Strike Peace Conducted by Civic Club US, Japanese Concord Chills Lumbermen charge that under the priorities regulations the build ing industry has suffered ma terially and that a continuance of as it can be made. The addition of the American navy does not over come Hitler by seapower. The in crease of our supply of airplanes to the British helps defend Eng land. But the bombing of Indus- lease of approximately 20,000 workers prior to March 1 of next year. The priorities regulations are confined mostly to Hardware and other materials essential in building construction. Lumber, it- trial Germany is not likely to be self, is not involved in the priori- a decisive factor in this war. . From the land, the sea and the air there is every indication that the war in Europe is in a military stalemate. And every practical reason of this situation points to the futile waste of American life by sending armies overseas. . "And what becomes of Ameri can freedom while we are fight Ing a long war overseas? Even to day our country is justly alarmed that freedom is slipping in Ame rica. Truly under intolerance we are slipping in the freedom of expression. Certainly we are slip ping in the freedom from fear. Unquestionably with dislocations of employment and rising costs of living we are slipping from free dom from want. The American system is built not on four free doms but five. "And absolutely we are slip ping from the fifth freedom, that is, the freedom of men to choose their own Jobs, the free. dom to save for one's children and old age, the freedom of en terprise." He said that the "preliminary demand" for overseas forces "is likely to be for an expeditionary force to Persia or Egypt," and added: "Already the propaganda agen cies are blurting It out. Already press dispatches from abroad in dicate it. Already officials are making the same sort of state ments that anteceded our going into naval action." ties program. Reports to be presented to the committee will show that a num ber of Oregon mills already are operating on curtailed basis while others are preparing to close down entirely unless there is a revival in the lumber market. It was brought out at the Salem meeting that Willamette valley American Officials Take Umbrage Over Tokyo Statements (Continued from page 1) ed by recent bellicose statements of Japanese leaders in Tokyo. An outspoken American re action to these' statements was a comment by Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) that Japan's emissary should know that "il war in the Pacific is the price of re sisting the Japanese rampage, then war will have to come." The Florida senator, a member of the foreign relations commit' tee, said it should be clear to Kurusu by this time that "this country has gone as far as we are going." British Start ! TV LiDyav LONDON, Nov. 19-(ff)-In a blunt, brief warning to Japan. lumber sales dropped to a point Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden 30 per cent below production in one week. Airline Plans Unique Stunt (Continued from Page 1) pageant of the union of the old with the new.; The experience would not be new to Crawford, who in his youth carried the mail behind horses, it was declared. A number of novel "first-shipments" are expected to arrive on the plane from the north, it was said. A delegation of civic leaders and city officials from Portland will arrive In Salem at approxi mately 11 o'clock that day by plane for the ceremony dedicat ing the new service which places Salem directly on United Air Lines north-south run. Harvey Hancock assistant to the UAL president, and S. V. Hall, vice president in charge of west ern operations, plan to be here, W. R. Thigpen, of Portland, Ore gon traffic manager, said in Sa lem on Wednesday. Here with Thigpen making arrangements for the day's celebration was Jim Nutter, UAL Pacific northwest press representative, former Statesman reporter. Salem "Ring" Pleads Guilt McMahan Levies Fines, Suspends' Sentences, Grants Probation (Continued from page 1) clear case of mistaken identity. On the second indictment, Wrath was fined $100 and sentenced to six months, the sentence suspend ed on payment of the fine, and a year's probationary period de clared. Charles McLin, confectioner, was fined $50, given a six months' suspended sentence and placed on probation for a year, Ninety-day sentences, each sus pended on a six-months' pro bationary arrangement, were meted out to Mrs. Patsy Rog ers. Bertha Russell, hotel pro prietor, and Leon "Shorty' Webb, hotel janitor. Each of the group was required to promise that the football pools and the placing of horse race bets would be dropped from their lists of activities, according to McMa han. Cost of prosecution of the group the "nuisance" indictments on would have cost close to $2000, the Judge declared. nve Push Axis Troops on Great African Line As Nazis Rap Reds (Continued from page 1) and from the Baltic down to the Black sea the red millions were breasting his new general offensive. Ended, on the Russian front, was a weeks-long period ef se lective German attack which had been concentrated now in one sector and now in another. It seemed clear that the nasi com mand, hearing in fancy the dis tant thunders rising In Africa, was easting the dice for great decisions all along the line. Auchinleck sprang in Africa as his predecessor in high command, General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, had sprung in December of 1940, putting his great machine well un der way before the world outside knew another great decision was in the making across the face of Libya. Wavell drove the Italians be fore him across nearly the whole ef Libya before the exigencies of Greece had gravely weakened his African army and forced him to retire sadly back along the road of his conquest. Auchinleck's position in this new supreme imperial effort is twice different: He has German troops, as well as the Italians, to meet but he moves at a time when the British position Is generally much improved, when his armies are powerfully weaponed with British and American material that has been pouring Into the middle east for months, when Hitler is en gaged for his life in Russia, and when the Mediterranean is far nearer a British sea than a year ago. At dawn Tuesday Cunningham threw out his great force on a line extending 140 miles south ward from a point on the Mediterranean coast east of Salum,- the Egyptian border town, and while his armored formations were smashing at the axis positions along the coastal stretches around Sidi Omar, his New Zealand, South African and Indian troops broke over the frontier and headed northwest - ward toward besieged Tobruk, which some jubilant British ob servers expected him to reach and relieve by the end of the week. His left flank was the impass able desert; his right was on the sea. As to the Russian front, the heaviest of all the fighting ap parently was in the far south and there the soviet forces seemed on the available information to be having the better of it TIATim ffllil.ill.HTn .t . .-I v-. w luui VJi rutl1 oajlvno, iMovemDena tv-i-i Maai vi vin -Chaplain John J. Reedy 249th veteran divisions of perhaps 60; 000 men had been destroyed Plan Rejected Business men keep themselves more fully iniormea on current events than do college students, it was indicated when members of the Hollywood Lions club un-1 Formula to Postpone Coal Walkout Gets Lewis Turndown (Continued from page 1) derWwLa "r2" 8t SVT?; kmption of coal production, eon Wednesday noon, uui oi " .n eon Wednesday current events questions the ma jority came up with no more than five to seven errors, al though a visiting newspaperman had the best score with only four errors. Prof. Robert Lantz of Willam ette university said a group of his students had made distinct ly lower scores on another test in the same series. The Hollywood Lions club now holds its luncheon meetings in its own home. The 'Trench Fryer" at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road, Cottage and Norway streets. They purchased it recently but the restaurant is still being ope rated commercially under lease bv Mrs. Lottie Smith. The club plans to enlarge the dining room Early, contending that because the later, President A. J. Crose said union has a 95 per cent member Wednesday. The club's auxiliary is plan ning a Christmas party lor tne night of December 17. told the house of commons Wed' nesday that any Japanese attack on the Burma road would "create a grave situation." The road runs from British Burma through Yunnan province to Chungking and is the route of British-American supplies to China. An authoritative source had stated earlier that Japanese na val activity also "suggests in creased pressure on Thailand." Eden's public recognition of the potential danger to the Burma road came on a day that saw no appreciable change in the far eastern crisis generally. Developments in Tokyo reflect ed anxiety over relations with the United States in general and with the Washington conversations of the special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, in particular. The press" gave great promi nence to long talks he and Jap anese Ambassador Nomura had with US Secretary of State Cor dell Hull Tuesday. The possi bility arose that Premier Tojo or Foreign Minister Togo might make further statements to the diet before the scheduled end of its present session Thursday if Washington developments justified such a step. Fort Stevens Chaplain Hurt McNary Hits SPAB Ruling Coast Artillery, former chaplain of state institutions at Salem, received a slight concussion and lacerations Monday afternoon when the Some 50,000 troops were in readiness to move into the coal fields. At the same time, the ef feet of the strike upon the pro duction of steel for defense was growing more acute. Three blast furnaces in Birmingham were shut down for lack of fuel, and the Carnegie-Illionis Steel corporation announced a probability that it would have to shut down six fur- naces by tomorrow. Sympathy strikes were spreading in the commercial coal fields; a rough surrey showed at least 90,000 miners out in more than 137 commer cial mines. From the White House there came onlv a statement by tne president's secretary, Stephen Rostov, the northern entrance to the Caucasus, in a trap which first opened for them and then Nzi Hostage Terror Spreads More Than 100,000 In Nine European Nations Executed (Continued from page 1) Poland "No less" than 82,000 Poles executed in two years by the Germans and "death sentences are pronounced daily in great numbers." Hostages executed from every village unable to meet German grain levies. Three hun dred ammunition workers were chosen from 2000 and shot to break a strike. Yugoslavia More than 5000 executed by the Germans aside from the "real warfare" now con ducted against the Serbian guer rillas. Axis-allied Croat officials are exacting "100-for-l" retribu tion for slain Croat soldiers, the hostages "including innocent wo men and children." Belgium A 1 1 h o u g h many thousands have been arrested and sent to concentration camps on trumped up or trivial charges, no murders of hostages have been reported so far. Luxembourg Heavy fines im posed on towns of Luxembourg and Ettelbruck because of dem onstrations in which the names of the exiled royal family were written on walls, but no deaths yet reported. The Netherlands Hundreds of former government leaders, pro. fessors and Jews have been sent to ship in the captive mines it al ready has a "union shop." - For that reason, he said, continuing the status quo on that point would not be an "open shop" agreement at all, as Lewis argues. "There's no use to confuse the issue," Early told reporters. "He's (Lewis) already got a union shop. Ninety-five per cent of the men have selected the United Mine Workers as I their bargaining agency. That's a union shop, not an open ship." Mr. Roosevelt's formula for end ing the strike was advanced In a letter to Lewis, to other officials of the union and to officials of the steel companies.' He proposed his alternatives and said that "for the common good, for the maintenance of defense production, it is imperative that one of them "be chosen and faith fully performed." The president's second move was a proposal that the operators of the captive mines inform each of their employes individually that they were not opopsed to the men voluntarily Joining the union. Simultaneously with his ef forts to end the captive eoal strike, Mr. Roosevelt was pur suing steps designed to avert a strike which would paralyse the nation's railroad system. He talked during the day with rep resentatives of the railway brotherhoods and railroad man agement, and obtained a prom ise that they would confer here again Friday. Pact Settles US, Mexican Differences WASHINGTON, Nov. lMV The United States ana Mexico Wednesday signed a aeries or. noT-wmpnti for a friendly settle ment of all major questions which have been at Issue between the tam npiffhhorinff countries for many years. The agreements signed weanes day call for a settlement of tne long-pending dispute over expro priation of American oil proper ties in Mexico; payment ny Mexi co of $40,000,000 in full settlement of general and agrarian claims by American citizens against Mex ico; announcement of intention to negotiate a reciprocal trade agree ment; agreement for providing n nandal assistance to Mexico to stabilize the peso; agreement to purchase newly mined Mexican silver; and a $30,000,000 loan to assist in the financing of Mexi co's highway construction pro gram. Secretary of State Hull, in announcing signing ef the agree ments, declared: They mark a new milestone ef great Importance In the cause of increasingly closer collabora tion and solidarity between the countries of the new world." There has been a long contro versy over the oil properties which were taken over by the Mexican government in March, 1933, Thanksgiving Services Set (Continued from page 1) At the Court street Christian church, a concert of sacred music will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Merbeke's Communion will be sung by the choir of St. Paul's episcopal church at 10 a.m. a sermon on Thanksgiving will be preached at 11 am at the First Church of Christ Scientists. Dr. Frank S. Beistel will speak on "Gratitude, a Homely but Impor tant Virtue" at 10:30 ajn. at the American Lutheran church. Masses will be at 9 a.m. both at St Joseph's Catholic church and at St Vincent de Paul church, 2228 Mrytle avenue. . . n 3 1 i i l uc was iiumjj tiuu on icy pave ment near the Camp Wolf Creek WPA camp. Second Lieutenant WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-()-A Wayne L. Schick, driver of the recession in home and zarm building in the west was attrib- uted Wednesday by Senator Charles L. McNary (R-Ore) to scarcity of building materials such as nails and hinges. He placed the responsibility on. the supply priorities advisory I board, referring in a statement to effects of SPAB orders on the western logging, lumber and ply wood industries. immmuuLDji Join the Crowds at The Grand! Make Your Thanksgiving fp 1 .1 A four star musical with your four f avorlto startl P & V . J IIM3 .T.trTi it - 'W" "";' n - - urn wm m mm w m r m mm r - a h mm mm - I 2nd Hit . The. Stork'; - - Pais OtPr Kosenbioom ana r in tMeUe Hudson t ccrvn;jr. GE03GE DAKBIER s:uxo:i uoiiakd DULY GILBERT X-- : ..vv ; . JUL. 7 c Plus 't m w Tax ttaraaa Ttm: 'IdW-SS-T.-0-l:2 - car, sustained a fractured wrist and bruises. . The officers were enroute to the east .where Chaplain Reedy was to conduct business in De troit and Lieut Schick was to attend anti-aircraft classes In the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va. Chaplain Reedy's condition was reported by physicians Monday night as "not ; critical," and he will return to the post hospital soon. The automobile was demolished. Noted Oregon Composer Dies more than half of the invaders' tanks and left thousands of them dead upon the field of disaster. Moreover, said soviet sources, important heights in the Crimea probably around the Black sea naval base of Sevasopol were recaptured in a Russian counter offensive that forced by the en tire German line. Berlin was less detailed, the most specific report asserting that somewhere in the valley of the Donets river and thus ap parently in the Rostov sector the Russians had stormed for ward "over masses of their own dead" in a strong and subse quently checked assault. Of the eastern front in general, however, where the German com mand spoke of "new and success- nil operations" everywhere, a German military spokesman is sued one of the most confident summaries to come from Berlin in some weeks, saying in effect mat tne uermans were everv- concentration camps where many of them died. Among those arrested was the former prime minister, Hendrikus Colijn. Norway Hundreds of fathers held as hostages because their sons fled to Britain. Several trade unionists executed to break work stoppages. Czechoslovakia Hundreds of hostages executed, including for mer army generals and prominent Czechs jailed ever since the nazi occupation, because of sabotage and underground activities of others. France At least 250 French men were shot by the Germans because of assassinated German officers. One Paris "pool of host ages" is composed of those caught on tne streets during curfew hours. "These stories are endless," the report said. PORTLAND, Nov. lt-(Jf)-E. Bruce Knowlton, 68, music com poser and founder of the Ameri can Grand Opera company of where on the move again because Portland, died here Wednesday only a few hours after his latest work was presented. The work, an oratorio, "The Master," was played at a Portland music hall. Knowlton had been hospitalized since Sunday. Leslie Band Makes Trip I eather. of a favorable turn in weather. "The whole of the soviet front is definitely threatened." he said, . . . The soviet front at no place is able to withstand a determined German drive, and the only rea son tnere nas not been such a drive in the last weeks Is the traveled to Bush school Wednes day and played before Bush stu dents. Other- schools which -the band plans to visit include Rich mond, McKinley, West Salem and Salem Heights. approximately correct to say that in Russia we are be ing opposed by 100 divisions re organized and remaining after the destruction of 300 of about 400 divisions with which Russia start ed the war" Call Board STATE Today Mickey Rooney, Judy Car- lana. lewls stone to "Life Begins for Andy Hardy.- Ralph- Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay to "EUery Queen's Penthouse Mrsterr " CAPITOL . Today Judith Andaraon TWnni u-iteeze in -Lady scarface." Roy Rogers. Gabby "Hayes to "Jesse James at Bar." Saturday "The Kid From Kansas" with ukuc roraiwLeo CarriUo and Andy DeTine. Plus "The Devil Pays QZT with J. Edward Bromberg. ' r HOLLYWOOD Today Gene Autry, Smiley Bur nette in "Under fiesta Stars." Ona Munson, John Wayne to "Lady ITom LIBERTY - Today Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall to Th Letter." ;Pnny Singleton. Arthur Lake to "Btondie PUys Cupid." ' ' ; Friday ttange Busters in "Wrangler's Roost." Pat O'Brien. Constance Ben nett to -Escape to Glory." w EUINQU - -'" - Today Fredrie Marn. Martha Scott la -"One Foot to -Heaven.' James Glea son, Etrse Knox In "Tanks a Million." GRAND - . - - - TodayAlice Faye John Ptyne. Car men Miranda in "Weekend in Ha 'anna" Victor Jorr. RocheOe Hud . son. Maxie RoeenWpom .to; "lb Stork Pays Oil." . , Brown Funeral Held SILVERTON Funeral serv .ices for Ethel Brown, who died Thanksgiving mm November 21 , Biclx ; Wey gand Quits African Post, VICHY, Unoccupied France, Nov. 19-WVGen. Maxime Wey gand, the military enigma of France, was reported Wednesday night to have come to the parting of the ways with Vichy govern' ment ana to nave resigned as Marshal Petain's representative and army commander In North Africa. ty of eempamy next year wnea (he -entire eeutry wm discard the dval holiday and ret era te the eeigiaal last Thursday In Nerember. These states celebrate today, following President Roosevelt'i proclaxnatioti: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, II. linois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisi ana, Maine, Maryland, Massa. chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jer sey, new Mexico, wew rort, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wis consin and Wyoming. Next week: Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp. shire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont Soviet Envoy Left Stranded TEHERAN, Iran, Nov. 1MV A British overseas airway plane roared away from Teheran Wed nesday morning, leaving Maxim Litvinov, his wife and secretary stranded on the airport, and blushing British diplomacy with a faux pas of the first order to smooth over. Litvinov, enroute te Washing ton as soviet ambassador, was told curtly there were ne seats on the plane te Cairo when he arrived 15 minutes before the takeoff. DETROIT, Nov. lM-PresI- dent Philip Murray told the CIO's annual convention Wednesday that "nothing must stop the work of organizing the unorganized in America not even the great na tional emergency." He made the assertion after the delegates had approved the prin ciple of mediation but at the same time had endorsed the resignation of CIO members from the national defense mediation board in the captive mines controversy. Murray declared the slogan for the coming year must be "organ ize'the south," and opined that the task should be accomplished In the next 12 months. By The Associated Press Thanksgiving day, with its turkey and trimmin's, will be celebrated in 32 states and the District of Columbia today one week before the traditional Thanksgiving date. Next Thursday, residents of the 16 others will have their day, secure in the knowledge that while they had U wait a week longer, they'll have plen- WU Speakers Win Debates Six members of the Willamette university forensics squad placed in the forensics tournament of the Western Association of Speech Teachers at Ogden, Utah, Wednes- day, according to a telegram re ceived late Wednesday night from Dr. Herbert E. Rahe. Willamette speech professor who accompanied tne debaters on the Utah trek. Charles Roberts, Salem, and Wade Bettis of Boring were first In debate; Emogene Russell and Darlene Dickson, both of Salem, second In debate; Russell, third impromptu and third extempore: and Clarence Wicks, Albany and Harold Adams of Silverton, four out of six debates. - Pins Defense Tax Tuesday at her home in Silver ion, wui De neia r riaay at 2 p, m. in the Memorial chapel of the Ekman funeral home, with Rev. Russell Myers officiating. Inter ment will be in , Valleyview cemetery. Last I Day I 2 Hits, G m tai i u a Oontlnnons from 1 1. IL Today-Friday Saturday Continuous Today - 1 U 11 P. IL Join the Grand Parade of iSongs and Thrills!! Gene and smiley are back to Thrfll Tea And Second F " -foNAMUNSOH Continuous Teday from 1:00 jj nrm h l J I I l I I Today and Friday -'2 Hits SUH-HOtl OF JTJPJ. 7 SiAt'COUS.IUMK, COMPANION FEATTJUE JESSE JAMES ic. AT BAT , IW A mJL a PU B FJtt. E9YK9GI23 Continuous Teday from 1:00 Today-Fri.-SaL - 2 Hits Thrillingly teamed in the story of the man who had one- loot in heaven and the other in hot waterl IBStlM'"'" MARCH SCOTT TtoyV ImI bi 'om flee A WARNER BROS MTT, i BtUlAH BONOt GENE LOCKHART ELISABETH FRASER HARRY OAVENP0R1 LAURA HOPE CREWS GRANT WrTCHEU Oirsctsd by IRVING RAPPER - Companion Feature The antics of a million draftees furnished the gags! Hollywood's top comedy producer made it! It's the laugh picture the whole country is raving and roaring about NOW! 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