The OBEGON STATESMAN. Satan, Oregon. Friday Morning. rTorembex 21. 1941
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Head list of Patrons for Why
Dance of Young Republicans
Members of the state board of control and their wives head
the list of patrons and patronesses for the "Why" dance to be
held at the Marion hotel from 9 to 12 o'clock tonight under the
auspices of the Marion county chapter of the Young Republican
eaerauon oi uregon, the dance
committee announced Thursday.
The complete list: '
Got. and Mrs. Charles A.
Spracue, Secretary of State and
Mrs. Earl Snell, State Treasurer
and Mrs. Leslie M. Scott, Com
mander Fred Gshlsdorf of Capi
tal Post No. 9. American Let ion,
and Mrs. Gshlsdorf, Sen. and
Mrs. Done las McKay, Mayor and
Mrs. W. W. Chadwick, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray J. Stumbo, Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick S. Lamport, and
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Price.
Douglas Elliott, state young re
publican president, from Eugene,
has promised to be present to pre
sent awards to higher contestants
In the Marion county chapter's
sik-week membership drive, in
which the paidup membership
roster was raised from 80 to' 225.
Several "dates" were still
available to Salem young women
Thursday with Portland air base
soldiers, 50 of whom have been
Invited to be guests of as many
local girls at the dance. Ticket
reservations may be made today
at the Marion hotel, according
to Ardis Richardson, chapter
secretary.
The 50 young air corpsmen are
scheduled to arrive in Salem at
6:30 p.m. and go immediately to
the American Legion hall where
they will be guests of the post
and auxiliary at a stag dinner.
They are to meet their young
women partners at the Marion
at 8:30.
The dance program will include
a floor show presented by Russ
Broms, leader of the musicians
who will play throughout the eve
ning.
The dance is open to the pub
lie.
Salem Y News
Dedicated to
C. P- Bishop
This week's issue of Salem "Y"
News, publication of the Salem
YMCA, is dedicated to the late
C. P. Bishop, who was closely as
sociated with the institution from
its inception. Copies of the issue
were in the mails Thursday.
Funeral services for Mr.' Bi
shop will be held from the First
Presbyterian church at 2 'o'clock
this afternoon with Rev. W. Irvin
Williams, pastor, and Bishop
Bruce R. Baxter officiating. In
terment will follow at the family
plot in City View cemetery. Ar
rangements are in charge of the
Clough-Barrick company.
Set to Dance With Airmen
Broken Wheel
Derails Train
BRONCHO, NM, Nov. 20-(JF)-A
broken wheel was tentatively
blamed by officials Thursday night
for the derailment of a fast east
bound Santa Fe fruit express on
the main line southeast of Albu
querque.
None was hurt in the accident,
in which 34 cars of the 68-unit
train left the tracks in a cut just
east of here.
Thanksgiving
November 21
Dick
Day,
Salem Armory
Two Fishermen
Lost at Sea
CHARLESTON, Ore., Nov. 20-
(iP)-Coast guardsmen sought the
bodies of two fishermen today af
ter the shattered hull of the 32
foot fishing craft Ohio had been
found a mile and a half off shore.
The bottom of the boat was
gone, the stern crushed and the
deck house swept away. Guards
men said it was possible that
Charles Jacobs, 58, owner, and .
Slim" Christensen, 56, both Coos
Bay, had been carried overboard
as the boat struck a jetty, the
wreckage later washing free.
The men had left Tuesday
morning on a shark fishing trip.
Fishermen said the Ohio has
used concrete as ballast and" it
was possible that the hull, which
appeared firm on the outside, had
softened under the concrete.
Christensen's wife and four
daughters were reported vacation
ing in South Dakota.
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French Military Collaboration
With Hitler in Africa Seen
When Weygand Gets Dismissal
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
British Empire armies again are on the march in north
Africa, smashing with tremendous increased power at German
iaiian ioes on a wide desert front.
For the first time in this war they are on an even footing
wiin uie enemy in manpower and
modern battle equipment on land
and In the air. With the British
navy dominating the Mediter
ranean, the odds are heavily with
the attackers. This fact fore
shadows a British victory that
could crack the axis front ir
reparably unless 'colonial France
enlists in the struggle anew, this
time as an axis ally.
French armies in Africa,
which went down to defeat with
the collapse of France without
havinr fired a shot, and French
warships, idle but ominous in
French African ports, could
heavily alter the odds against
Britain In Lybia and the Medi
terranean if thrown again into
the conflict by order of nazl
dominated Vichy.
completely outlining staff duties
was read.
Editor Marlon Btn announced
the following chosen as editors:
Associate editor, Vet Smith,
Jack Gibson; feature editor, Mary
Duncan; sports editors, David
Berger, Travis Cross; file editor,
Violet Gisler; art editor, Ed Fitz
simmons; exchange editor, Jan
ice Patterson; head typist, Eileen
TeeL
"We have our tickets where are our air corps boys?" ask these
three Salem young women, who are among 50 scheduled to be host
esses to as many soldiers from the Portland air base at the Marion
county Young Republican chapter's "Why" dance at the Marion ho
tel tonight. From left to right, they are: Olive SanteUl, Mary Shrede
and Betty Travis.
Y Open House
Schedule Set
Open house for all junior mem
bers will be held at the Salem
VMCA Friday afternoon, with the
pool open for the boys, and
games scheduled. On Saturday,
with the regular schedule of ac
tivities, gym and swimming
classes in the forenoon and open
house in the gym in the afternoon
is scheduled.
Y vacation schedule: Friday
Gym open to all boys 1 to 5 p.m.;
pool open to all boys 2 to 5 p.m.;
hobby shop 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Saturday Cadets 8:30 to 9:15
a.m. in gym and swim from 9:15
to 10 a.m.; Preps 9:25 to 10:15
a m. in gym and swim from 10:15
till 11 a.m.; junior high, 10:25 till
11:15 in gym and swim from
11:15 till 12; hobby shop 10 a.m.
till noon; gym open to all boys
who are members 1 till 5 p.m.
pool open to all boys who are
members 4 till 5 p.m.
Engineer Disputes Gravitation
Law, Predicts Coming Quakes
VANCOUVER, Nov. 20-)-Edgar C. Thrupp, retired Van
couver civil engineer who claims discovery of a "new law of
gravitation" which' "disposes of Newton's law of gravitation" and
enables him to predict earthquakes, came out Thursday with a
new set of predictions for 1942
Thrupp claims he is able to
make his predictions through a
system of measuring the gravi
tational pull of the planets, but
he does not claim to be able
to predict the locality of the
quakes only the time they will
occur.
Claiming to have successfully
predicted the worst quakes dur
ing the past five years, today he
listed the period between Decem
ber 15, 1941, to January 10, 1942,
and between February 22 and
March 10, 1942, as times when
"very severe quakes" can be ex
pected. The February 22 to March
10 period he said will provide
probably the worst quakes; there
will be destructive after-shocks
from March 10 to April J5.
In a statement attached to his
predictions, the retired civil en
gineer said that hitherto it has
been considered impossible to pre
dict quakes, and added: ,
"It has also been considered
that no material ether could ex
ist because It conflicts with
Newton's law of gravitation.
"The proof of the existence of
the material dynamic ether dis
poses of Newton's law of gravita
tion and a new one has been
formulated which solves many of
the great problems in astronomy
that cannot be solved by New
ton's law.
"All the fundamental troubles
in modern physical science are
due to the facts that Newton made
several inconsistent statements
and the astronomers and physicists
accepted the wrong ones."
Clarification of the now con
firmed retirement of General
Maxime Weygand as French com
mander in Africa is essential to
accurate assessment of possibili
ties of the British North African
offensive. Reports to the state
department at Washington say
that Hitler expressly demanded
the ouster of Weygand. This may
mean French military "collabora
tion" with the axis in Africa and
the Mediterranean.
France is again at a crossroads
of fateful import. With his armies
fully occupied in Russia and no
important segment of his over
strained air power available to
bolster his already tottering Ital
ian ally in Libya, Hitler has no
reserves to throw into action on
that front unless Colonial France
can be dragooned to his aid. That
is the only logical explanation of
the Weygand ouster.
Prime Minister Churchill's
warning to parliament that it is
too early for chortling over in
itial British successes in Libya
is well founded. It will continue
to be too early until the role of
what remains of the once mighty
French Mediterranean fleet and
of the unpredictable French
army in Africa is disclosed.
xet mere was an even more
significant statement in the
cnurcniu announcement, it was
his assertion that the Libyan drive
had been long planned and well
prepared and was aimed not at
territorial gains to relieve the
hreat to Egypt, but at annihila
tion of axis armies in Africa.
Unquestionably the Libyan bor
der with French Tunisia, perilous
ly close to Sicily, is the ultimate
British objective this time. Mea
gre British forces under General
Wavell swept Italy's army back
half way to that goal last time but
were unable to go all the way.
Their halt paved the way for
subsequent British disaster in
Libya.
First impressions of the new
British offensive on a 140 mile
front with Its cutting edge far
Inshore tend to bear out the
Churchill hints of its concep
tion. It Is more than a diver
sion In force to aid hard-fight-'
Ing Russian allies.
Britain's war 'leaders must be
convinced of Russian ability to
hold the Caucasus door. Otherwise
it seems utterly improbable they
would have risked major action
in North Africa. .
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Defense Work
High Reached
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20
Defense construction completed,
in progress and scheduled
amounted to $7,958,203,000 on Oc
tober 1, 1941, it was reported
Tnursday by tne bureau oi re
search and statistics, OPM.
Construction valued at $3,647,-
426,000, including completed and
semi-completed projects, was in
place on October 1. This repre
sents 46 per cent of the defense
construction program to date.
The military program involved
construction valued at $4,649,793,
000, of which $2,065,421,000, or 44
per cent, was in place on Octo
ber 1.
Non-military defense construc
tion came to $3,308,410,000 of
which $1,582,005,000, or 48 per
cent, was in place.
Dinner Flies
Into His Arms
WHEELER, Nov. Z0 -(&)-Dave
Wilson's Thanksgiving
dinner problem was solved for
him by a bird that flew right
into bis arms.
The bird, a wild goose, wing
ed out of the foggy atmosphere
and popped Into an awning
Wilson was carrying to his ga
rage. He used it as a trap to
hold the goose, a healthy spe
cimen which apparently had
been frightened by hunters or
was exhausted.
Yanks Train
New Russian
Air Forces
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Nov. 20
-vP)-Col. Boris Smirnov, com
mander of the first Russian air
force unit to use American-built
warplanes, said in an article in
Red Star Thursday that two
young United States army offi
cers helped train the pilots who
now have taken the planes Into
action.
"Meanwhile from America
new fighting machines are ar
riving," Colonel Smirnov as
serted. "With them we are arm
ing a reserve force a powerful
air army which now Is being
formed at the rear o that to
morrow It can be taken U the
front."
ine American oriicers were
Identified, as Captain John R.
Alison, 29, of Daytona Beach,
Fla., and Lieut Hubert Zemke,
27, of Missoula, Mont.
Partly through their work.
Colonel Smirnov related, several
air units already have taken
over American planes without
single accident
Farm Leader :
Denies Food
Prices High
DES MOINES, la-, Nov. 20iF)
-Denying that food prices are too
high, AAA Administrator R. M.
Evans declared here Thursday
that the farmer "is entitled to
parity in his pocket as well as
on paper."
In an address before the Iowa
farm bureau convention, Evans
said in a message directed to city
consumers:
We will produce all you need
but you must give us a chance.
If we are going to produce, we
must have fair prices.
"Perhaps you have forgotten
that you've been buying your
city food at the bargain counter
for a good msny years. Farm
prices are better now, but they
are not unreasonably high. Even
today we are still selling you
food at a discount For example,
the average factory worker In
the first ten months of 1941
when you consumers have been
worried about high prices
could buy 27 per cent more food
for his dollar than In 1929."
He warned the convention, how
ever, that "the surest wsy to lose
the ground we've gained is to try
to run farm prices sky high." He
said the farmers of the United
States "have in their hands now
the power to decide the course of
history. Without American food.
Great Britain cannot possibly
win.
Clarion Runs
Roto Section
Appearing for the first time
Wednesday was a rotogravure
section with the Clarion, senior
high school newspaper. The extra
section contained shots from high
schools throughout the country. It
was assembled for high school pa
pers by an eastern firm.
Clarion editorial positions be
came permanent at a staff meet
ing Monday when a constitution
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Woodburn Civil
Defense Group
Holds Conclave
WOODBURN Thirty two
members of the newly organized
civil defense police' reserve held
their first meeting in the Legion
rooms of the city hall here Tues
day night. L. L. Pittinger, Marion
county deputy sheriff, spoke.
Announcement was made of the
appointment of H. F. Butterfield
as head of the group. Men were
present from Aurora, Hubbard
and Brooks as well as Woodburn:
Future meetings will be attended
by men, from iHubbard and St
Paul also. "
Meetings will be held on the
first and third Tuesdays, of every
month. All members of the group
will be fingerprinted at the next!
meeting. -
Guests From Arizona
AUMSVTLLE Mrs. Cresa Mc-
Cully and son, Max, are here'
from Arizona for & visit with her
brother, Harvey Carlson. ,
Dr. Samuel l(. Hughes
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SUIT or TOPCOAT
Walk Up the Short Stairway
To Joe's Upstairs Clothes Shop
Where rent and overhead lTlow. Where there
are no elaborate fixtures, no modern expensive
fronts and no large sales force to pay for in
the price of the clothes, you buy at Joe's. Here
every dollar goes into better fabrics, tailoring
and style. Make any comparison, then you will
be agreeably surprised at the great money sav
ing prices you will find in men's good clothes
at Joe's.
Men's and Young Men's
SUITS and TOPCOATS
Regular Prices
'20 $25 '30 '35 J40 '45
Joe's-Upstairs Prices
$2250 $2500 $2750 $
Many 2-pants suits included lOoVvool fabrics. Single and double breasted models-ift-all-the
new authentic styles, patterns, weaves end most wanted colors. Shorts, longs,
stouts and regular sizes. Expertly- tailored and perfect fit "guaranteed. Regular $8.50
Fingertip Raincoats $6.50. Regular $7.50 to $12.50 Dress Pants, $5.95 to $7.50. Compare
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