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Jap Reply
Fails To
Convince
. Tokyo Proposes
Commission to
Save Deadlock
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5
(AP) Japan responded Fri
day to President Roosevelt's
request for an explanation of
the massing of troops in-
French Indo-China and its re
ply .in no way relieved the
gravity of the acute far east
ern crisis.
In a terse 150-word note,
the Tokyo government said
its forces were in the French
colony as a precautionary meas
ure, induced by Chinese troop
movements across the border. It
said their presence there has the
approval of the government at
Vichy, France.
Washington officials, however,
frankly suspect that the Japanese
troop concentration is in prepara
tion for an invasion of Thailand,
formerly Siam, and it was obvious
that the government here would
find the Tokyo explanation far
from satisfactory.
In some quarters, it was point
ed out that to accept Japan's state
ment as justification for the troop
movements in Indo-China would
be indirectly condoning the Japa
nese war in China, since that con
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Quakes JJjf
Panama and
Costa Rica
FDR Cheers
Boy Facing
Operation
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec.
5-(;p)-Shlni Malone, 10, only
son of Attorney and Mrs. Dud
ley Field Malone, 111 for more
than two years with a leg in
fection and now facing a major
operation received a telegram
from Washington, D. C Friday,
which said:
"I Just want you to know that
I am thinking of you and wish
ing you best of luck. Keep
your chin up. Faith and cour
age will do the rest."
The message was signed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
mem
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Air Executive
Keeps Promise
Seely V. Hall, UAL
Chief Predicts New
Business for Salem
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Dec. 5
-W)-An earthquake violently
shook the Central Plateau region
of Costa Rica and the southern
area bordering Panama Friday,
causing considerable property
damage and some injuries.
The tremor, felt throughout
virtually all of Costa Rica, sent
panic-stricken residents fleeing
Into the streets in the most
sharply affected areas.
Ten houses were destroyed at
Santo Domingo Heredia, in the
coffee country 10 miles north of
San Jose.' Early reports tdld of
property damage also in Guada
lupe, Corralillo Cartago and Puerto
Jiminez.
Friday's quake followed a series
of slight tremors that past several
days.
Seely V. Hall, the man who
promised Salem an air service
13 years ago and came back Fri
day as vice-president of United
Air Lines to make his word good,
predicted that what the city now
has in its airport "is just a drop
in the bucket to what you'll have
when it's completed."
Hall declared it his experience
that initiation of a major air
service in a city had with seldqm
an exception led to an influx of
business and an expansion of gov
ernment services.
"The army or the navy fre
quently follows close on our
heels," Hall said, a few minutes
after Brazier C. Small, member
of the American Legion .com
mittee that campaigned for Che
Original airport -bondfesue hi
1928 had . declared . there was
good prospect of Salem's ob
taining an army air base.
Hall's forecast, made at a civic
banquet at the Marion hotel Fri
day night concluding the observ
ance of "Salem Air Transportation
Day," also included the predic
tion that just as soon as needed
additional flying aids are installed
at the municipal airport it would
become an alternate stop for Port
land, frequently used, as well as
a regular stop for his company's
Pacific coast service.
Foresight of the committees
that selected and laid out the Sa
lem airport site was commended
by Hall.
"There are very few places in
the United States that purchased
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Air
raws
Big Crowd
Definite Daily
Service Starts
At Celebration
Fifth day of the month and
sixth day of the week, Friday
became the "first" in a new
epoch of Salem transportation
and communications history
when United Air Lines inau
gurated its regular passen
ger, air and express service
here with thousands of resi
dents of the area joining in
the celebration. What fliers
declared was close to excel
lent flying weather greeted the
new transportation system follow
ing a week of storm.
By air and highway, traffic
streamed to the Salem municipal
airport throughout the day, filling
automobile parking spaces and
shoulders of nearby roads with
constantly changing groups of cars
until police and other observers
ceased all attempts to tally the
crowd.
Several thousand persons were
known to be on the airport grounds
at the time of principal dedicatory
ceremonies early in the afternoon,
when Mrs. Charles A. Sprague,
first lady, of the state, broke a
beribboned champagne bottle
across the hub of the 12-ton, first
Mainliner on regularly scheduled
flight to arrive in the capital city
and announced in a dor, voice
Against the suver ana blue'
When City Welcomes New Air Line Service
PANAMA, Dec. 5-(P)- Two
strong earth shocks toppled the
municipal building and a school
Friday at Santiago, midway be
tween Panama City and David,
and panic spread temporarily
among the population.
There were four strong shocks
at David, Panama's third city, 60
miles from the border at Costa
Rica where damage also was re
ported.
British Ship
Losses Lower
LONDON, Dec. , 5-P)-Naval
circles expressed belief Friday
night that November shipping
losses in the Atlantic were pro
bably the lowest since the fall of
France, perhaps less than 100,000
tons compared to the 180,000 tons
a month, officially declared lost
from July through October.
New British shipbuilding has
been averaging approximately
80,000 tons a month, they said.
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Both Sides Claiming Gains
Sprague ISames
WU Graduate
New Judge
Charles W. Redding, 37, who
was graduated from Willamette
university college of law here in
1928, was appointed Friday by
Gov. Charles A. Sprague as a
Multnomah county circuit, judge.
He succeeds James P. Stapleton,
who died in Portland Monday:
Now active in Portland civic
affairs. Redding was also pro
minent throughout his years on
the Willamette campus. He was
president of his freshman class,
president of the student body in
his senior year, participated in
debate for four years and win
ner of the cup' awarded annual
ly for the student selected as
outstanding in forensics.
He was a member of Alpha Psi
Delta social fraternity and of four
honoraries Theta Alpha Phi,
dramatics; Blue Key, service"; Del
ta Theta Phi, legal, and Tau Kap
pa Alpha, forensics.
In 1935 and 1936 Redding served
as president of the Portland junior
chamber of commerce and as a
director of . the national junior
chamber in 1938 and 1939. He was
an unsuccessful candidate for a
Multnomah circuit judgeship in
1932.
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XOack arrows show how Germans arc continuing pressure toward
Moscow In the Volokolamsk area, where Russians admit "serious
' tn-tionw exists, and how. according to London reports, German
1" tnr fmmU wen mavbiff into tho Mariuool area to stem the
Russian southern drive. White arrows show where Russians claim
, to have maae gams near Moscow, ana we uircuon i yrcyvcwu
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Forriial Notes
Action Taken to Put
Combatants On Axis
Side At Peace Table
Russ Offensive in Southern
Russia Jolts New Nazi Line;
Action Light on Libya Front
LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 6 (AP) Britain an
nounced Friday she was declaring war against Finland,
Hungary and Rumania in an action without immediate
practical effect but aimed at seating those three axis
satelites definitely on the nazi side of the peace table
after the war.
The announcement by the foreign office followed
expiration of a Friday-midnight deadline which Britain
set for those three countries to accede to a British de
mand that they cease fighting Russia.
Technically, the British announcement meant that
a state of war would not exist until the three govern
ments were notified formally.
These notifications will specify the exact time when
Britain deems herself at war with them, but the time is
not expected to be made-public until the three gov efr
"mrotst are' informed. ' r?r '
The British conceded that actual declarations of
war would not materially change the relations between
Britain and Finland, Rumania and Hungary, since diplo
matic relations had been broken off long ago and Finnish
shipping subjected to seizure.
One source explained:
The primary difference will come at the peace
conference, when these countries will be sitting on the
other side of the table."
Formal notices will be directed by Britain through
the United States diplomatic channels which handled
the earlier notes.
Paris Defiant,
Nazis Attacked
Invaders Demand Gty
Produce Guilty Ones
By December 10th
Salem air enthusiasts who Friday witnessed the ceremonies at Salem airport marking the inauguration .
of air service from the capital city saw (top) Grover Tyler, veteran 2.000,006 miles United Air Lines j j-ut.cvi r
transport pilot wave farewell as he readied the 21-passenger United Mainliner, City of Salem, for the j Dec- 5-;P)-Pansans defied stern
first flight mail, express and passenger trip to San Francisco. Middle photo finds Postmaster Henry German warnings and ultimatums
R. Crawford (far rirht) aldinr with the loadinr of first bundles of mail to leave Salem by air. Pictured
from the left are Art Willoughby, assistant superintendent of air mall, US post ff ice; Harmon Garrett,
president of state letter carriers association, and William Weiss, airline mechanic. A United sleeper
plane (lower photo) was open for inspection by the public all afternoon. (Statesman photos).
Monmouth Cuts
Power Rates
PORTLAND, Dec. 5-UP)-A sec
ond electric power rate reduction
by Monmouth, first city in Oregon
to build its own line to distribute
Columbia river power, was an
nounced Friday: by the Bonneville
Power ' Administration.
The administration estimated
that the new reduction would save
residential and 'commercial cus-
omers $1000 a year. . t
Adoption of the complete Bon
neville standard resale rate sched
ule was announced last week by
McMinnville. Milton H. McGuire,
manager of the municipal system,
Chicago Paper Flayed
For Revealing Plans
Secretary of War Stimsdn Accuses
Publishers of "Wanting in Loyalty,
Patriotism"; Says Just Studies
- WASHINGTON, Dec. HVThose responsible for the publi
cation of a secret army-navy war plans study were accused by
Secretary of War Stimson Friday of "wanting in loyalty and
patriotism.
Acknowledging that the gener
al staff had plans for every con
ceivable type of emergency, the
war secretary asserted that docu-
said it would save consumers sev
eral thousand dollars a year.
Commerce Club
Elects Chief
PORTLAND, Dec. 5-jFV-E. Don
Ross was succeeded. Friday by K.
C, Conyers, shipping executive,
as president of the Portland cham
ber of commerce."" i" ' : v
. Conyers, .. district" manager of
the " McCormick Steamship; company,-
was born at Clatskanie In
1895. He attended Oregon State
college from 1915 to 1918.
US Bond Sale
Far Over Top
WASHINGTON, Dec JHfl3)-
The treasury announced Friday
night that preliminary reports
showed a heavy over-subscription
of the record-breaking $1,500,000,-
000 bond sale offered Thursday.
Investors over-subscribed r the
$1,000,000,000 in 2tt per cent
bonds with' 1967-71 maturity by
6 times! a spokesman said, and
the $500,000,000 in J per. cent
bonds five by times The latter
mature from 1951 to 1955. !; ,
Ho added that since there , was
already $1,600,000,000 outstanding
In the 2 per cent bonds, Thurs
day's sale would: close ;the Issue.
-.It was the largest tingle offer
ing of treasury securities' for cash
since the World war. i . . "
ments disclosed Thursday by the
Chicago Tribune, were "unfinished
studies of our production require
ments for national defense" and
"never consitituted an authorized
program of the. government''
"Their publication will doubt
less be of gratification to our
potential enemies and a possible
source of Impairment and em
barrassment to our national de-v
fense," Stimson told reporters at
a press conference..
.The Tribune's copyrighted story
said the study envisaged an Amer
ican expeditionary force of 5,000,-
000,000 to be dispatched to Europe
and Africa to deliver a final' blow
to Germany : and its allies some
time after mid-1943. . ,
It was indicated that Stimson1
statement -would be the only ad
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NEW YORK. Dec. S-iJPf-Tbt
official Berlin radio in a broad
cast directed at South America
said Friday night that Finland,
Iluncary and Rumania "accept
the British declaration of war
with dignity and confidence in
their final vie lory."
"They know bow to fUkt
their new enemy with the
mighty help of the German
armed forces," Berlin said.
Army Bomber
Pilot Dies
In Crash
CAMAS, Wash., Dec. 5-(JPy-A
light bomber on its way to the
wars and already painted up for
fighting, crashed into the sofy
soil of Prune hill three miles nr h
of here Friday, killing its pPot,
Second Lt. Harry O'Neill, mem' r
of the army's ferry command.
It was one of lt A29 Doug
las machines consigned to the
RAF, en route from Portland
possibly to Boise, Idaho, which
had been turned back by thick
weather la the Columbia river
rorge.
Lt. O'Neill, the only man aboard.
apparently lost his bearings in the
low clouds that enveloped the hills
on either side of the canyon. The
ship struck with motors roaring.
75 feet from the farm house of
George Blan chard. It exploded
and caught fire. Only fragments
of the pilot's body were recovered.
Lt O'Neill, a . graduate of the
advance army ; flying school at
Barksdale. La., was to have re
ported to a bombardment squad
ron . at Boise. . The. planes were
manufactured at the Seattle Boo
ing factory .under Douglas patents.
Film Mogul Grandpa!
' HOLLYWOOD, Dec 5 A
daughter -was born ' Friday T to
Betty Warner, daughter of Film
Executive Harry Warner, and her
movie producer-husband, . Hilton
Sperling,- . . V. .
Friday to make at least two new
attacks on Nazi officers in the
occupied capital,
Coincident with the presence in
Paris of the Vichy vice-premier.
Admiral Darlan, for continued ne
gotiations with the conquerors,
these outbreaks were reported:
1. A German major was shot
and seriously wounded in the
hip by a cyclist on the Roe de
Seine, In the St Germain dis
trict The cyclist escaped.
2. Another officer was fired
upon by a band of men at
suburban Issy- les- Moulineaux.
near the Versailles gate. He
was unhurt'
Rear Admiral Rene Bard, the ,
Paris prefect of police, issued a
new appeal tto the people of the
city to help capture the authors
of the recent series of assaults.
At the time of Friday's attacks,
Paris was under an ultimatum
from Lieut Gen. .Ernst von
Schaumburgy the . German mili
tary commander in Paris, to find
the perpetrators of previous at
tacks by Dec" 10 or suffer dire
consequences." to the population
as a whole.
By The AMoclaUd Press
The most substantial defensive
line yet formed by the rear guard
of the retreating German armies
of southern Russia along the
Mius river in the vicinity of Ta
ganrog trembled Friday night
under the tremendous shock of a
red offensive spread over a 73
mile front
Whether the line actually was
breaking generally was in dispute.
The Russians reported as much,
saying that nazi troops desperate
ly trying to cross the Mius to the'
west on pontoon bridges were un
der violent bombing attack, but
Berlin insisted that Marshal Tim
oshenko had at last been "fought
to a standstill."
Timoshenko was throwing out
his forces in several columns.
His right wtng, operating (
mles above the coast of the
A sot tea, was declared to have
swept over the mining town of
Katveyev Kurgan, just east of
Stalino, and appeared to be
threatening the German bold on
that captured steel city.
His left was proceeding in a
mixed but essentially orderly nat-
tern froo tally along the coast
and obliquely from an area above
the coast, the latter thrust being
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Battleship of
Air Damaged
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BALTIMORE)- Dec. HSVFire
2nd the flying fragments bf a bro
ken propellor seriously -damaged
the us navy's 70-ton aerial bat
tleship, 'Mars, at the very outset
of its scheduled water tests on
Middle river Friday. ,..
Friday night the big ship was
aground in the 'shallow water,
plans for its test flight left in
definite, by the necessity of ' re
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