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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1941)
m aaonsi; owh 99. per, cent - ox the - total Valley Food dealers association. theyear, , i "We are allowing interested persons a week or 10 days to present their., petitions,", Mapes . explained. "Afjer that we shall review the " transcript of., evl- : dence and plan to take action about January 1. . Questioning the witnesses, who of . other industries in this area, strong competition from the fac tory market and the general short age .of labor were the . common pleas ;put -forth for the raise. However, keen argument ' was voiced, as to just -how, much the climb should be. : :irl. In September, following a con tributors, asked that the pound butterf at price he raised from 17 cento to U cents, which. would result In a 13 cent retail and a 11- cent wholesale charr on" 4 per .cent .milk. - "That's all the consumer would stand for,"' Spranger said, "althonga conditions later. on "will preb- ifiold mUk on the Salem market. at the weekly luncheon. - Disbelieve rumors and refrain from spreading thern and buy de fense ; bonds tljeke: are the two most practical ways to help win the war as civilians, Pangborn ad vised his listeners. Floyd Miller of the chamber was la cnunxe, who contended that the margin on. both winy and . cream is too close considertog the expense of refrigeration, hstyflipg , and .breakage. He asked - that the present cream spread be wii-' ened as follows: Pint, from I to i cents: hall-Dints. I to 1 centa. zeeis mat ine m creased cost of production warrants it," Klaus said in presenting a schedule showing the climb in feed prices for the past year as pertains to the Salem markets . . - ? A . :: ".v. Hans Bofstetter, manager of Cmrij's dairy, declared: It b CARL W. HOGG and quarts, 5 to 9 cents - r; PAGE TWO The- OSEGOU STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. December 16, 1941 '.:: i US Challenges Japs to Fight Knox Says Navy Not Alert! at Hawaii but Set for All Events i (Continued from page 1) weer put by the war department at 168 killed, 223 wounded, 28 i missing. Knox conceded that "the United States services were not on the alert against the surprise air at tack," and announced that Presi dent Roosevelt would make i formal investigation. Once the attack began, how ever, the defense was conducted "skillfully and bravely," he said. Proudly he cited many instances of heroism including that a dying captain of a battleship whose stomach was laid completely open by shrapnel fire but who refused to be carried to safety and con tinued to direct his men from a bridge which had become a blaz ing inferno. He mentioned, too, an officer who leaped from a hospital bed to take fails post of action and a bluejacket who single-handedly kept a five-Inch . anti-aircraft gun firing after his ten battery mates were shot down In a straffing attack. Then there was the case of the sailor who acted as a human mount for a heavy machine-gun. Carrying the gun, for which no mount was immediately available, he "shot j the weapon from his arms, staggering , under the con cussion of! the rapid fire." Knox "declared that the Jap anese used a fifth-column and submarines in the attack on Pearl Harbor as well as from 150 to tOO airplanes. Some of the un dersea boats were tiny, two-man craft. He gave no details of the fifth-column activity, but said: "I think the most effective fifth-column work of the entire war was i done In Hawaii, with the possible exception of Nor - way." In addition to the Arizona, Knox listed as lost the target ship Utah, the destroyers Cassin, Downes and Shaw, and the mine layer Ogfala. The old battleship Oklahoma; capsized, he said, but can be repaired. A number of other vessels were damaged. Some of these have al ready been repaired, he said, but a few will, take from a week to several months to put in shape, Against this, Knox made only the claim that the Japanese lost three submarines and that 41 of their .aircraft were destroyed. US army losses, he stated, "were severe in aircraft and some hangars; but replacements have arrived or! aire on their way. Admittedly, the Japanese stab made while its envoys were waving olive branches and talking peace in Washington was a se vers one, but Knox hurled de fiance at the Japanese navy. "The entire balance of the (American) Pacific fleet with Its aircraft carriers. Its heavy cruisers, its light cruisers, its destroyers and submarines are nlnjored and are all at sea seeking eon tact with the enemy," he said. Army casualties reported were 11 officers killed in action or died from wounds, 10 officers wounded and one officer missing; 157 en listed men killed in action or died from wounds, 213 enlisted men wounded, and 25 enlisted men missing. Knox report, made after a flying trip i to Hawaii, brought a sense of relief to members of con gress steeled for much worse news and buckling down to the task of enacting far-reaching war legis lation. News from the Pacific fighting was, on the whole, cheerful. Their first invasion forces shattered and driven off except at three widely-scattered points, the Japanese appeared to be carrying out only desultory operations i against the Philip pines, for the tune being. And the garrisons at Wake and Midway islands still were holding ont This wasj revealed .late Monday by a navy communique which also said cryptically that a Norwegian motorship was sunk while ap proaching the Hawaiian islands. What the motorship's purpose was or how she I was sunk was not dis closed. The communique said; A Norwegian motorship was sunk while! approaching the Hawaiian isles. The crew was rescued , by naval vessels. The Hawaiian area otherwise has been without incident Recent enemy bombing in the Philinnine thea tre has resulted in no damage to naval installation or ships. Heavy weather in the north Atlantic hampers naval operations there. "Midwayj and Wake islands con tinue to resist The above is based on reports up until noon today." An early afternoon war partment communique said enemy air operations in the ' ronippCes area were continu Rectal Soreness Oct lUQtf New Easy Way tit In Comfort fMwn Jtttuy WW WOMsl pow NinuQ. Fir ptm m 00 Uabto to A awe SPndbt tUr af Ma ta Pt Ur nrm Bwtal Brian t - mi eoaafort apoa eaataeV ng aim vtr mm um, help t l flvnoa. akte Nator hod : , I in . Ho oa ao st -t. Sold mom back roar. io4iniriU today ... foe , DTI RECTAL p; - Section ' " - ing as were ground operations In the north and northwest sec tions of Luzon and In the vi cinity of Legaspl In southeast ern Luzon. As for other areas, the de partment said "there Is nothing to report," But major campaigns were un derway against the British strong holds in the China sea Hongkong and Singapore. Mechanized Nip ponese forces were pushing south ward from Thailand toward Singa pore, and were acknowledged by the British to have gained ground in fierce fighting. Tokyo declared Hongkong's de lenses were crumbling under siege gun shelling and incessant bombing, but London indicated confidence that the strongly-fortified island off the China coast could hold out indefinitely.. One hope for relief of Hongkong was a Chinese offensive against the Japanese flank some 20 miles north of the island. The American-British-Dutch allies were exacting a heavy price for every gain Japan was making. The United States forces claimed four Japanese troop transports sunk and five damaged, and the Dutch said they had sunk six enemy ships transports or auxiliaries. Still another source of satis faction to the allies was the officially-expressed apprehension in Tokyo that blows might be struck at any time at the main Japanese islands. The imperial army and navy jointly warned the Japanese people that they must be on guard against "the lurking dang er oi enemy submarines" and aircraft bombing will play a role." Twelve hostile planes ap peared Saturday off Formosa, Japanese island off the south east China coast, bat dropped no bombs and presumably were on reconnaissance. Washington kept an alert eye on Atlantic developments. The Spanish government's order can celling all sailings of merchant men "for the Americas raised a question whether some change of policy was In the offing. A Ger man inrust through Spain to Gibraltar and North Africa long nas reen considered a possible eventual development Knox disclosed that casualties at Pearl Harbor were much high' er than was first believed. Presi dent Roosevelt in his fireside chat last week spoke of 3000, about half or them killed. The navy secretary said 636 men and 20 officers of the navy were wounded in addition to the 2638 men and 91 officers killed. There have been unofficial re ports that 49 civilians killed. were ine nigh percentage of dead among the navy's casualties was attributable, Knox told his press conierence, to the fact that some snips rolled over. it r . iviany must nave burned to death, as he said the surface of the water became a "rasrinn- in ferno from blazing oil." iNavy ory clocks. oU storage depots and other important base lacilities were said to have es caped damage. jn me question of how the American forces were surprised, ivnox saia mat no army or navy planes were in the air over Pearl Harbor when the attack came. although planes of the navy's usual dawn patrol were already over the horizon. No patrols had been made at night, he said, because the navy ueuevea iney would be ineffec tive. He expressed belief 300 catml planes would have to be operat ing to safeguard the islands en tirely from surprise attack. Axis Chief s Hold Parley BERLIN, Dec. 15-f Official radio received by AP)-Axis lead ers met here Monday in a special session described by DNB as "a fitting answer to proposals made in the Anglo-Saxon camp to form an allied war council." A communique said merely that German, Japanese and Ital lan representatives were "sum moned for the purpose of dis cussing new and important tasks resulting- from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Those present included German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. iciu maxaoai uen. wilhelm Kei tel. Chief of German hieh com mand; Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Italian Ambas sador Dino Alfieri and Japanese moassaaor Gen. Hiroshi Oshima Obituary Springer Mrs. Minnie Springer died at cottage Home, Monday, Decern Dermis. Born October 25, 1871. Member of Bethany Reformed cnurcn. Survived by widower, John, Salem: children. Mrs. Min nie Sykes, Seattle, and Mr. A. C. Springer, route 6, Salem. Funeral services wffl be held" Thursday December 18, at 1:30 p. m. from me cnapel of W. T. Riedon funer. al home with Rev. G. Haener of ficiating. Interment in City View cemetery. , u?COiLID). - ;uenl' TmbtatS aalv r Koa Draps " Ooaxh Peeps Try "JtaVaty-Tt!i,,--a Wradartol Congress Fills Big War Chest Registration Measure Received by House; Omnibus Bill Talked (Continued from page 1) Ky) said the committee be lieved that an army of more than 6,000,000 could be ob tained from men in 'the 21 to 45 age brackets. The house rules committee opened the way for floor debate, probably Tuesday, on an omnibus bill which would re-enact the world war "trading with the en emy" act, give the chief execu tive authority to redistribute the work of government agencies and provide short cuts in letting war contracts. Attorney General Biddle was reported to have told a senate committee behind closed doors that a comparable bill would es tablish a censorship over outgoing but not incoming foreign com munications. He said that no do mestic censorship was contem plated under that legislation. The house naval committee sent to the floor a bill authoris ing a 150,000-ton expansion In . the fleet The navy last week asked for a 900,000-ton Increase but Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the committee said officials had decided that facilities were available only for construction of the smaller tonnage. President' Roosevelt would have full discretion to use the tonnage as he saw fit for battleships, cruisers, destroyers, airplane car riers or auxiliary ships. The house passed and sent to the senate a bill which would provide a discretionary death penalty in sabotage cases which result in death or serious injury during the war. Under existing law, the maximum penalty is 80 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Recreation HaU Said Prospect That Salem is in line for con struction shortly by the federal government of a recreation build ing for service men seems indi cated by the announcement of definite measurements for such a clubhouse, J. H. Davis, city en gineer, said Monday night Don T. Orput, Federal Securities agent in this area, has spoken assur edly of such measurements as if specifications for a Salem struc ture already had been drawn and approved, Davis said. In Salem on Monday, Orput said the federally-owned prop erty Just east of the postoffice would meet the FSA require ments but that other sites sug gested by committeemen were not close enough to the civic center. The city must provide property before the government builds the recreation halls, Orput had pre viously declared. Whether grounds Orput approved Monday could be acquired has not been investi gated, Davis, chairman of the committee, said. White Temple Pastor Church Meet Speaker Plans for the national ChriS' tian mission, to be held here Feb ruary 15 to 20, are rapidly taking shape, according to C. A. Kells, general chairman who announced aaonaay tnat Dr. Ralph Walker, T 4.1 9 1 i ruruano, naa Deen secured as nightly speaker. Dr. Walker, who is now pas tor of the White Temple church, came from Cleveland about a month ago. Youth leader for the conference will be Hayden Stewart, Vancouver, BC, who took a prominent part in the Portland conference last year. The mission, which will be in in session at the same time as the state pastor's conference, will draw persons from all over the state since it is the only one to be held in Oregon. Fifty such parleys will be held .throughout the United States during 1942 un der the auspices of the. federal council of churches, . department of evangelism, of which Dr. Jesse Bader, is national chairman. With practically all the Protest ant churches in Salem cooperat ing a large number of laymen as well as clergymen , are assisting with the plans. Other committee chairmen are Dr. J. Edgar Purely, publicity; Wallace E. Winslow, program; Roy Harlan, : youth; ioya Miner, civic; Tinkham Gil bert, finance, and Mrs. Esther lame, women's activities. Auto License Rush Starts ; The rush for 1942 automobile li cense plates got under way in the state motor vehicle ' department here Monday and . approxima 1500 sets of plates were Issued during the day. , . Use of the 1942 license plates was permitted Monday under an order by' Secretary of State Earl SnelL Persons who operate cars without new license plates on' and after January 1 wm be subject to arrest, Jifft. said. . Salem Citizens Buy Out Banks And PO on Defense Securities Supplies of US defense bonds for sale in Salem were almost depleted last week, this country's first in the war, officials of the postoffice and the two banks revealed Monday. The rush to provide defense funds started on December 8, Speed Is Need Says Chadwick Blackout Program ; Urged on Merchants; Relief Meet Today (Continued from page 1) arrangements be made for a more thorough blacking out of sky lights in anticipation of future blackouts. He advised that sacks of sand be kept at hand as well as emergency water supplies for use in event incendiary bombs are dropped. Meanwhile, Marlon County Civilian Defense council settled down into the third set of of fices it has occupied within the week. Headquarters newly established at Veterans' hall were supplemented Monday night by a" temporary dormi tory set np at the armory for special patrols and by the list ening post manned quietly at an nnannooneed site. state guard requirements at the armory were responsible for the change of civilian defense of fices, it was said, but the tele pnone numoer remained un changed, 3349. Two companies of the new state guard mustered last week met at the armory Monday nizht for physical examinations which offi cers declared "washed out a very few" of the volunteer recruits. Names of others had been added throughout the day Monday, but ranks are still open to others, particularly World war I veterans and men above the age for fed- oral military service. Scheduled for today are meet ings of the Red Cross war re lief committee, called to con vene for final $17,000 campaign plans at Red Cross offices in Salem at 10:30 tills morning, and a training class for Marion county police reserve members at 8 o'clock In the Legion audi torium. "Ironing out the kinks revealed in recent blackouts and chemical warfare education are on the pro gram for the class," according to L. L. Pittenger, county police re serve chairman and Instructor. ARP wardens from rural areas meet Wednesday night at' Vet erans' hall for instruction. War SuDDlies JL JL Flow to Allies Will Continue (Continued from page 1) 000,000 for the single month of November. Emphasizing that the "effec tiveness of the entire lend-lease program may well depend upon the ability of American ship builders to expedite and expand their construction," the report noted that the greatest ship construction program in history is rapidly taking shape." With lend-lease funds, 292 ves sels are being built, in addition to 707 under contract as part, of the Maritime Commission's emergency program. "We are now launching two snips every week," the report said. "By the middle of 1942 we will be launching two every day." Call Board FT . Bronze . Ty Bpb Hope, Paulette Goddard s bui ine Truth." Also Thursday Wendy HiBer in "Major B?rbar" William Gargan. Jvine Clyde to "Sealed Lips." S1tulS?-Slson, dy. Rise Stevens "V . vjiocoiaie soieuer. GRAND Todav TTarnl T.an4t. - . m 3 , r leppera in "Cadet pV, ..J,UAT "ever- George "rr Arable. Victor Ma Screaming." Jane Withers, Bruce 2rd4lwlne DarwcU to "Small mail muwurav in i lvair CAPrrm. T,yd ' 21 Kids. Bela Lugosi 111 "Snnnlr Vim urns M.SiM Wynard "Voice Wednesdav p1.mii. t Ul- , ' ' ' " Alien y'TZr, .V1 sneers for the -1 Saturday Albert Dekker, Susan Hay ia I . -ward In "Amonf th. nT" t LffiEKTVnSte1 Sf? "J nnn Olivia DeKavU - land in "Santa Fe Trail- xZmwX. 5!inri.. t- "'dT V iTau- Penny Wednesday Br net Cabot. Rochelle - twin MUUUUaTUie, TAIJ.WnAn T. . v.ir" raareu. Aian Mar shal in 'Tom rvLi, -rVi-Zir Leon Errol m "Hurry. Charlie. ThwT-B Corm In -The Pitts Zf&J&lZL RT i0" to "Sheriff Today and Tins Defense Tax Wed. And 7SL: -. , ; . Leon Errol in "ITUEKY. CIIAELIE, HUHKY" the day the United States declared war. Sales that day were reported as large as in a normal week pre viously. Since then business has been about double the usual. Although heavy purchases of both, bonds- and stamps have been made, a large supply of stamps is on hand, said Post master Henry R. Crawford. Demand has taken every bond of smaller denominations at the postoffice and Ladd & Bush-Sa-lem branch of the US National bank of Portland. In numerous cases orders are being taken and receipts given until bonds can be ordered. The branch of the First National bank of Portland is more plentifully stocked, having or dered just over a week ago. Ladd & Bush reported their or ders can not be completely filled at the Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco, and that an order which arrived Saturday morning was sold out by Saturday noon. It was believed many of the bonds and stamps were being bought as Christmas presents. People Told Of Menace :,Say8 US Will Not Give Up Under Threats or Danger Bill of Rights (Continued From Page One) of rights defense rally and lunch eon at the Hotel Commodore, New York, the president said: ' There never was a tune when the real Inner meaning of the bill of rlfhts was more man ifestly clear to all Americans and to all human beinfs than now. It Is precisely for the preservation of the rights guar anteed by the first ten amend ments of the constitution that we are now compelled to fight. No clearer or more eloquent statement of our cause was ever written than Is embodied In the American bill of rirhts." In Plttsburch, the national anthem was played on the Trin ity Cathedral chimes at noon. In Chicago, a 150,000 monu ment of George Washington and Robert Morris and Haym Solo mon, who helped finance the revolutionary war was unveiled as a symbol of United States' tgiity, and la Philadelphia a wreath was placed on Solomon's grave. president Roosevelt told his countrymen Monday night on tha 150th anniversary of the bill of rights, that they were faced now with an attempt to cancel out a "great upsurge of human liberty" embodied In that document and to impose again "absolute authority ana aespouc rule. But he declared that "we wffl not, under any threat, or in the face of any dani-er, surrender the guarantees of liberty our forefathers framed for us In our bill of rights." The chief executive spoke by rauio aunng a program commem orating the appending to the eon stitution 150 years ago of the first xen amendments which guaran teed, among other things, freedom oi press, speech and worship. Americans are solemnlv de termined, the president said, that no power or combination of pow ers of this earth" shall shake their hold upon their fundamental guarantees of liberty. -The Issue of our time," he said, "the issue of the war in which we are engaged, is the issue of the war in which we are en gaged, is the issue forced upon the decent, self-res Dec tin no- ples of the earth by the aggres sive dogmas oi this attemnted re vival of barbarism; this proposed return to tryanny: this effort to impose again upon the peoples of wie wona doctrines of absolute obedience, and of dictatorial rule, and of the suppression of truth, and of the oppression of con science, which the free nations of the earth have lon nan jecieo. 1 A . - "What we face is nothing more nor less than an attempt to overthrow and to cancel out the great upsurge of human liberty of which the American bill of rights b the fundamental document. Truths self-evident to Thomas jeuerson and six succeeding gen erations of Americans were hate ful to these men; Mr. Roosevelt saia. in their place. Hitler and his fellows proposed a doctrine that the individual human has no rignt ny virtue of his humanity, no right to a souL a mind tongue, or a trade of his own, or to live where he pleases, or marry the woman he loves; that his duty is one of obedience only to Adolf timer. fPLUS DEFENSE TAX TODAY Don Ameche Mary Martin Rochester "kiss the boys .' ' and ' -' : ' ; ; : John Barrymoro "WORLD PREMIER i Yanks Holding In Luzon Fight Axis in Desperate Position in Libya And Russ Sectors (Continued from page 1) their wounded were abandoned along with their dead. An authoritative London in formant predicted that Hitler's entire armies would try to fall back to a winter line running from the Valdai hills, in an area nearly 300 miles, northwest of Moscow, down to Kharkov in the Ukraine. But whether they would be able to stop even there, he added, was another matter. In Africa, the Imperial Brit ish armies of Libya had caufht up with the fleeing rear guard of the German General Erwin Rommel, it was reported from the front, and he had at last been forced to make a stand with the greater part of his surviving tank and Infantry strength in a delaying action that mifht mean for him the beginning of the end. This action, perhaps an action to a great decision, was being fought in an area extending from the coastal points of Gazala and Thimi south to the desert section of Trigh El Abd. As to the Pacific front, this was the situation Monday: The Midway and Wake island American outposts continued their already storied resistance. A Norwegian motorship whether or not her mission was considered friendly was sunk while approaching the Hawaiian islands. The US navy did not say whether her mission was con sidered friendly, nor did it detail the nature of her destruction. A communique by the US command in Manila announced that the day had been one principally of beatinjr back Jap anese bombers, activity having been confined to the air. A mid-day communique from the war department in Washing ton, however, told of ground oper ations continuing In the north and northwest sections of Luzon these presumably beina? respec tively in the vicinities of Aparri and Vlgan and about Legaspi in the southeastern section of the island. Manila reported that US army bombers had heavily damaged two additional Japanese trans ports Sunday off Legaspl. aside from four transports previously sunk and three damaged. The British defending the distant approaches to 81nffapore conceded that Japanese mech anised forces had beaten for ward late southern Kedah, the northwestern Malayan state, in what would amount to an ag credate penetration of 5e miles In five days, but stated that the Invaders had been bled heavily In this advance. The Japanese spearhead in this area still stood a long- 400 miles above Singa pore. A small British sarrison also was acknowledged to have with drawn from Victoria Point, on the southernmost tip of British Bur ma, in an area still further north of Singapore by about S50 miles From Lowloon, the mainland section of Hongkong, the British forces were being withdrawn, presumably to strengthen the is land section of the colony against an expected attack across its narrow water barrier. Tokyo alleged that Japanese guns were shelling Hongkong Island itself, progressively smashing Its defenses, but Its claim that the fall of the colony was a matter of days was not supported. A Chinese army was seported by Chungking to be assaulting the Japanese in heavy forces within 28 miles of Hongkong's mainland frontier. High Court To Hear Willkie WASHINGTON, Dec. lS-tf5)-Wendell L Willkie, 1040 republic an nominee for president, was ad mitted to practice Monday before the supreme court. Willkie will argue, probably early next month, the case of Wil liam Schneider-man, secretary of LljLSJi ooogd 20c Plus Tax Matinees Nights CONTINUOUS FROM 1 PJrL A WOUX8 MERRY-60 IQOXD 6F uusic, rux, I0MARCE! carole laiidis george f.:o:itgo:.:ery 1 1 OHM SHIPPE20 XT WTf If All tkaM ' 4 hit sCirtsr turn lMIlastIate.CilM TassM.CBctCisBfisr BziuEiittrf.ffiritari V J 2nd mt "MAN AT LARGE With Marjorie Weaver and George Reeves the communist party of California, who challenges two federal court decisions revoking his cit&enship. Schneidennan, a native of Russia, was naturalized In 1827. Willkie wiU defend his client without fee. The case is expected to decide whether a foreign-born person is eligible for citizenship when he is an admitted member of the communist party. The case may also decide the important ques tion whether the communist party advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence. Jap Treachery Is Disclosed Documented Story Of 'Peace Talks' Sent to Congress (Continued from page 1) feet that the emperor's "cher ished desire" was establishment of peace in the Paoifle and that "his majesty trusts that the president Is fully aware of this fact." The president summarized the history of Japanese-American re lations from the time Commodore Perry "knocked on Japan's doors" in 1853. For many years after 1853,' the president recalled, during a period when Japan was weak and need ed friends, the United States "used every influence it could exert to protect Japan in her transition stage." . As the Island empire became stronger, the United States fol lowed a far eastern policy of con ciliation and good will, advocat ing consistently the safeguarding of China's Integrity, fair play for Japan and the open door of equal opportunity for traders of all na tions throughout the far east. The nine-power pact, signed in 1921 by Japan, China, the United States and other nations, embod ied these principles. But 10 years later Japan em barked on a career of conquest, flouting the nine-power pact with her 1931 Invasion of Man ehnrla, which was part ef China. "This barbaric aggression of Japan In Manchuria," said the president's message, "set the ex ample and the pattern for the course soon to be pursued by Italy and Germany In Africa and In Europe. In 1933 Hitler assumed power in Germany. It was evi dent that, once rearmed, Germany would embark upon a policy of conquest in Europe. Italy then stm under the domination of Mussolini also had resolved upon a policy of conquest in Africa and the Mediterranean." TOYKO, Tuesday, Dec 18 (Of ficial radio received by AP) Premier Tojo, addressing an ex traordinary session of the Jap anese Diet, today reiterated his assertions that Tin,, v.j . ..u iiau ueciar- i ed war on the United States onlyJ . Ji an means of peaceful settlement He declared, "our fighting J" have speedily broken through the enemy key positions within less than ten days. The bulk of the American fleet which had been at Hawaii b destroyed; the main body ef the British far eastern fleet b crushed; the encircling front against Japan, the strength ef which the enemy has exagger ated and given wide publicity In an attempted to Intimidate Ja Pa. I shattered M various places. fr?, "-Japanese encircling Waiready b on a fair w JapaUrS war0remam,e waiting to be fought Nan Honeyman Named Customs Collector WASHINGTON, Dec 15-v-Wood Honeyman. Portia g" mmber of congress frS by PresMont - " wocveii lO De col. fcctor of customs for cUstrict 29 With he- , - " w.Hlw a i Portland. ALWA1S 2 BIG HITS! LasI Tines Today! Witt ERROL FLTfNN OLIVIA dHAYILLAN Flu 2nd mi . Ulsriie G::i Latin' 1 .WITH Penny Singleton v , Arthur -Lake Larry Simms Bntk Terry-- TUe Guixar ... And Novelty , 10 c 5?; 15c Matinees Council Holds T Snappy Parley Recesses After Mores Affecting Park and Zoning Problems . . (Continued from page 1) had refused approval ef Che badges. However, there was no adjourn ment. A recess marked the dose of the meeting so that aldermen could be called back Into session on short notice for any further ac tivity deemed wise, Mayor W. W. Chadwick said. Purchase of a nlckim truck at a total cost of $695 from tha Douglas McKay company was given council approval following a special mid-session meeting of the -street committee. Bids on a new first aid car. ranging from $3245.20 to $8700, with allowances offered but not included in quoted prices, were turned over to the fire committee. By resolution the council created a revolving fund avail able to the park board for ex penditure with approval ef the council. Into it b to go the moneys remaining from (he park board's 1M1 bedget at the end of thb year. Speaking for the board. Miss Elizabeth Lord ex plained that heavy rains have hindered seme ef the park work planned for thb year, (hat the 1942 six-months' budget re cently drawn b $6M leas than half that previously expended on parks in Salem annually. Denying that chief purpose of a nine-page zoning ordinance amendment was to rectify a trans position of ordinance numbers in the recently-changed zoning reg ulations, Lawrence N. Brown, city attorney, explained to coun cil members that the new bill had been written to strengthen por tions of the regulations which had come Into question. Under the new amendment, passed Monday night, property owned by the city draws no "vote" in any petitioned zoning change; tenants in common and tenants by entirety divide their authority, each signature bearing weight according to the number of owners of the specified piece of. property; and provision b made for filing of a plat of all affected areas in local option dis tricts. A reenest from residents of Church between Marion and D streeb for ettr action to obtain Oregon Motor stages fens serv ice in that area was referred to committee. Stop signs on both sides of High street at the intersection of RuraL,: and on the west side of 17th at the ferry street intersec tion were approved, the latter in ordinance form. A two-hour limitation for park ing on both sides of South Com mercial street between Mission and Miller streets, recommended by the police committee, was given approval, as was the plac ing of a light at "Fifth and Nor way streets. Liquor license applications for renewal given recommendation of committee, and voted upon by the council without listing. War Prisoner Trade Asked LONDON, Dec 15-(P)-The German radio said Monday the Russians had been approached through the Turkish government at Ankara with a proposal for ex change of German-Soviet war Prisoners but that no reply has been forthcoming from Moscow. It said further that Russia had denied permission for German Red Cross representatives to visit prison camps in the Soviet Union. New Lew rriees 27 c Any Time Tonite and Wed. - 2 Hits ComniLM- , Iff Gay! All in Color! "FIESTA" With An AD-Star Cast! Una "BILL OP EIGHTS" In Color TXMEI Toxrr Bela Lures! J E4 Kids ta 8POOHS. EUN WILD" TLCM "A Thousand Thrfflsl "VOICE ha Use iarjHTT Serial "Jangle GtrV TAETB WED. 1 HITS ira a Riot from Start - ' to Jlnixhl . "THEEE CHEEES FOE the rxisir K.US Meaqnlteera ta OAUcnos or ELDOEADO" I hope fiilp ' Evenings 4
