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NINETY-FIRST YEAR
Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Morning, December 17 1941
Price 8a Htwtttandj 8e
No. 227
War Fimrl Drive, F
$17,000 Under V jty:
By County Red Cross
I Marion County to Put Quota
j 'Over the Top by Saturday9
With 180 Women in Field
War Victim
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"Over the top by Saturday!" is the slogan adopted by
Red Cross emergency war relief fund campaign solicitors
who today set out to gather $17,000 from residents of Marion
county.
One hundreyeighty women have volunteered as work
ere, Floyd Miller, chairman, told members of the committee CI V V
-. in charge at their Tuesday plan-I OcllCIll X UUL11
ning session.
Tags designating them as Red
Cross volunteer workers are to be
worn by all solicitors, who will be
equipped with receipts imprinted
for the Red Cross Emergency War
Relief Fund. Contributions may
App
Defense Heads
Laud Workers
Thousands Volunteer;
Changes Set in Plans
For Area Protection
VERDI SEDERSTROM
ilem Youth
Meets Death
In Air Fight
Death ol Ensign Verdi Seder-
also be made through Salem strom during the Japanese raid
The cooperation and .ability of
thousands of Marion county resi
dents serving and ready to serve
at civilian defense posts drew
praise Tuesday night from county
defense council leaders as they
mapped changes in various parts
of the defense system designed to
strengthen what they termed
'"weak links discovered during 10
days of intense activity."
No count was available at an
early hour this moraine of the
applications for civil reserves
membership received during the
past week tn Salem which
crowded files of county civilian
defense headquarters at Veter
ans' hall. Church and Hood
streets. However, work of sort
ing and segregating was under
way, It was declared.
At Woodburn, total of registra
tions has jumped to approximate
ly 1000 adults from a city where
last census figures listed 1982
men, women and children, Win
ton J. Hunt, defense chairman
there, reported Tuesday. An ad
ditional 150 Hubbard residents are
registered as part of the Wood
burn organization, Hunt said.
Women of thJrea have band
ed together ybjvide food for
patrols work;Jat night and the
' willingness of the entire com
munity has been responsible for
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banks.
In charge of the downtown
business section are Lowell Kern
and E. O. Stadter, jr.; schools and
governmental buildings, Carl Ga
brielson; residential section, Mrs.
Thome Hammond.
Heading the drive in South
Salem is Mrs. Douglas McKay,
in north Salem, Mrs. Earl Cooley.
Members of teams working
under direction of Mrs. McKay,
Mrs. Cooley and Mrs. J. Deane
Patterson are Mrs. Jerrold
Owen, Mrs. Richard Slater,
Mrs. E. O. Stadter, Jr., Mrs. R.
Franklin Thompson and Mrs.
Arnold Kroger, south; Mrs.
George Weller, Mrs. Harold
Busick, Mrs. Harry V. Collins,
Mrs. Oscar Paulsen, Mrs. Rob
ert Shinn, Mrs. Wilmer Page,
Mrs. H. K. Barlow, Mrs. Ralph
Eggstaff, Mrs. Cecil Hobbs,
Mrs. Russell Pratt, Mrs. Charles
Fleke and Mrs. Delbert
Schwabbauer, north.
on Pearl Harbor was learned here
Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. OsAr F. Sederstrom,- 845 D
street, in a telegram from the war
department.
A graduate of Salem high school
and University of Oregon, Ensign
Sederstrom received his naval
training on the Atlantic coast and
was here in August for a brief
visit with his parents before re
porting for duty.
Identity of the ship on which
he was serving when killed was
not revealed in the message. He
was the third Marion county man
reported killed in the attack.
Other survivors are a brother,
Robert, Salem senior high school
pupil and sister, Eleanor, Univer
sity of Oregon student,
City's Senior
Citizen Dies,
102 Years Old
;; Mrs. Mary Littler, who was a
year old when the city of Salem
was founded 101 years ago, died
early this morning at her resi
dence at 885 South 12th street.
She had been bedfast only a short
time.
Among her cherished posses
sions was the silver cup awarded
her at the time of the capital city's
centennial in recognition of her
position as Salem's oldest citizen.
Funeral services for the aged
! woman have been scheduled for
; 1:30 p. m. Saturday from Rig
j don's chapel, with interment at
i. City view cemetery. Dr. J. C.
j. Harrison, pastor of the First
Methodist church of which she
! had long- been a member, and
i Dr. Fred Taylor" of Vancouver,
j former minister to the church
here, are to officiate.
Survivors include a half broth
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Speakers for any communities
planning Red Cross meetings are
nrnmiseri K ftonriJo TWT jmA
chairman' of- the Marion county
chapter "speakers' bureau.
Before the drive began, unso
licited contributions had hovered
around the $200 mark. First to
give was Mrs. Russell Catlin; a
check for $100 was received Tues
day from P. A. Brown of Sublim
ity; previously presented had been
$50 from David Caplan and $25
from United Airlines, together
with several smaller contribu
tions. Emphasis was placed on the
fact that the emergency drive
is for a purpose separate from
those financed by the recent
roll call by Floyd Miller, speak
ing Tuesday to campaign work
ers. Roll call funds, It was ex
plained, are used for mainten
ance of the organization In
preparedness for any of its as
signed undertakings and for
disaster relief.
The $50,000,000 fund cur
rently asked from the nation Is
for care of the US armed forces
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Sewer Charge
Plans Talked
Consulting Engineer
Outlines Systems to
Council Committee
Congress
roves
Censors
Roosevelt Given
Vast Powers to
Prosecute War
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16
(AP) Vast new powers for
President Roosevelt to prose
cute the war were voted unan
imously by congress Tuesday
and the chief executive an
nounced he would promptly
set up a censorship to pre
vent all information of value
rom reaching the enemy.
At the same time Postmaster
General Walker disclosed that
censorship of foreign mail, both
outgoing and incoming, already
was under way. He added that
no details of its operations would
be made public for the present
The president told a press con
ference that he has selected Byron
Price, executive editor of the As
sociated Press, as director of cen
sorship and that Price, on leave
of absence from the news organ
ization, would take over his duties
here as soon as congress com
pletes action.
Both senate and house pass
ed separate bills almost simul
taneously. They authorize the
president not only to establish
censorship but to redistribute
government functions, revise
defense contracts, and exercise
complete control over alien fi
nancial transactions and an es
timated $7,000,000,000 of alien
property in the United States.
Chairman Van Nuys (D-Ind) of
the senate judiciary committee,
in charge of the senate bill, told
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
that only censorship of outgoing
foreign communications was in
volved but the president said the
machinery to be created would
cover domestic publication of cer
Decorated
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iv Still
V- iftal
Japs Bomb Two i Hawaii
Wake and Midway
Countering Blows
KT. GEORGE S. WELCH
HONOLULU, Dec. lMVThe
wal1 department announced
Tuesday that the distinguished
service cross had been awarded
to Second Lieut. George S.
Welch, of Wilmington. Del., and
to Lieut Kenneth M. Taylor, of
Hominy, Okla., for outstanding
heroism during the Japanese at
tack.: on Oahu island. Lieut
Welch shot down four Japanese
planes and Lieut Taylor downed
two.
Johnston and Maui Shelled;
Philippines Expect Second
A Hack; HongKong May Fall
German, Finn
Units Smashed
On Russ Front
Hoover Urges
Powers to FR
Control of Industry,
Prices, Commodities
Asked for President
Raver Orders
Speed in Work
On Power Jobs
Two systems of service charges
are to be outlined by the firm of
John W. Cunningham, consulting
engineer on the Salem sewage dis
posal project, and returned to the
city council's sewerage committee
early next week, members of the
committee and representatives of
the firm meeting Tuesday night
decided.
Planning construction of the
plant, for which a $200,000 bond
Issue was voted earlier this
year, as a post-war building
project, the committee prob
ably will propose to the coun
cil at its next session a recom
mended system of collecting a
small sewer or connection ser
vice charge to pay interest on
that portion of the fund not in
vested and to enlarge it to
"building size."
Originally, the plant was to have
been built as a federal works
project at less cash outlay from
the city than probably will be
required without government as
sistance, members of the commit
tee have said. However, they
point out, the bonds sold for more
than any other bonds had ever
brought the city and the saving
in interest alone because they
were floated in 1941 may be con
siderable in a few years.
tain information
The censorship, he said, would
be partly voluntary and party
mandatory and would apply to
the press, radio, cables, mail and
other mediums.
He added that the administra
tive set-up would not be worked
out until Price took over.
"While all Americans abhor
censorship, just as they abhor
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Hawaii Buries
Its Hero Dead
Temporarily
Knox Reveals More
Tales of Bravery
In Isle Attack
jWelders Want
! Workers Fired
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec.
-Accelerated construction of Bon
neville transmission lines and
sub-stations was ordered Tuesday
by Administrator Paul J. Raver
to meet increasing demands of
war industries.
At the same time he reveal
ed that lines will be strength
ened, one with a view to sup
plying power to California In
the event of damage to gene
rating plants there.
Strengthening of the Willam
ette valley line in Oregon and
the building 'of a second line to
Tampico Blacks Out
TAMPJCO, Mexico, Dec. 16-(J)
-An unheralded blackout and the
noise of planes overhead tested
the civilian defense of this im
portant oil port Tuesday night
and the military commander an
nounced it was a complete suc
cess while the citizens thought
it was real.
Coast Guard
Nabs Spanish
Cargo Ship
NEW YORK1, Dec. 16-(iP)-Fed
eral agents Tuesday night seized
the Spanish freighter Isla De
Tenerife, whose master and radio
operator were arrested less than
24 hours earlier on cnarges 01
conspiring to violate a provision of
the neutrality act against ship
ment of certain merchandise
abroad without an export license.
Coastguardsmen and customs
officers, acting under authority of
the secretary of the treasury,
boarded the ship off Staten island
shortly before 6 p. m. (EST). The
treasury department said the seiz
ure was accomplished under pro
visions of the "trading with the
enemy act," invoked for the first
time since the war began.
The ship had been moored at a
federal anchorage pending investi
Mtinn of its carco which au
thorities Monday asserted con
tained quantities of radio parts,
airplane silk and lubricating ou
WASHINGTON, Dec
Gravely testifying that the United
States must "fight a desperate and
long war," former President Her
bert Hoover Tuesday urged con
gress to grant broad and flexible
powers over commodities, indus
try and prices to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the man who defeated
him for Jhet presidency m 1932.
t'-Air ouf pkopTe are 'united 'to
prosecute the war," the 67-year-
old former president told the sen
ate banking committee in one of
his rare returns to the capital.
The only living former presi
dent, who served as food ad
ministrator during the last
World war, testified that price
controls were not enough be
cause there must also be con
trols over supplies, production
and rationing during a war.
Without mentioning President
Roosevelt's name, he said these
powers and duties must be en
trusted to the president because
"no one can see what form of or
ganization is going to be required
HONOLULU, Dee. 16
(AP) Day after day, just
before sunset, with simple
dignity befitting the gallant
ry with which they died for
their country, America's fin
est have been buried at Hono
lulu.
They have been laid to rest
lM3)- on green hills overlooking the
sea there to remain until a
peaceful time when the bodies
might be returned to their native
soil.
This has been going on since
the day after Japanese bombings
brought death to 91 officers and
2638 enlisted men of the navy
and. 168 of the army.
A tight-lipped group of six-foot
marines in oliv
raise their rifles
volleys over the fresh earth as
nightfall approaches fast. A bugle
sounds taps.
A black-robed priest blesses the
ground with holy water and a
Protestant chaplain recites the
committal ceremony then the
living move back to their war
jobs amid the blackout.
"Don't say we buried with
sorrow," said the graying chap
lain of the fleet. Captain Wil
liam A. Maguire. "Say we
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FDR Appoints
Probe Board
On US Navy
WASHINGTON. Dee. lHPh
President Roosevelt appointed
tonight a five - man board,
headed by Associate Justice
Owen J. Roberts of the supreme
court, to Investigate Japan's
surprise attack on Hawaii De
cember 7.
The White House said the
members would meet Tuesday
to organize and would proceed
to Hawaii at an early date.
In addition to Roberts, who
was granted a leave of absence
from the supreme court by
Chief Justice Stone, the mem
bers are:
Major Gen. Frank R. McCoy,
retired;
Brigadier Gen. Joseph P. Mc-
Narney of the air corps, now
on active duty at Washington;
Rear Admiral Will Urn H.
Standley, retired, former chief
of naval operations;
Rear Admiral Joseph M.
Reeves, retired, former com
mander in chief of the United
States fleet
TS??SZ New Conscript
Plan Wanted
one year or other years hence as A a" M
the war moves on. The president VI iidlilllcl JLL
iriest latitiifip C
Alert Against
Fifth Column
should have the widest latitude
m organization."
In two respects, Hoover dif
fered with administration requests
for price controls. First, he sug
gested that a single board control
should operate over production,
supply and priorities as well as
prices. Second, he questioned the
wisdom of trying to obtain en
forcement through license of all
business, a power he tried as food
administrator.
Otherwise, he agreed with much
of the testimony given before sen
ate and house committees by Leon
Henderson, defense pr.ee adminis
trator. "Price controls," Hoover said,
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Roosevelt Endorses
War Office Bill to
Draft Men 19 to 45
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -P-
President Roosevelt told congress
Tuesday that he fully endorsed
the war department request that
men aged 19 through 44 be made
subject to compulsory military
service but the house proceeded
with plans to consider draft leg
islation retaining the present 21
year minimum age for active service.
The senate military committee.
however, approved without a dis
senting vote the 19-year age
minimum and consideration of
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18-- bill probably will start in the
The Argentine cabinet Tuesday senate Wednesday. The house
Bulletins
j TACOMA, Dec. 16-(P) -How
10 on Seattle - Tacoma shipyard
welders begin the "work stop
jpage" described in a wired ap
ma1 in President Roosevlt' de-
Denda on how soon one or more Eugene will make it possible to
welders are removed irom ineir move iwww swm uwutu' uhh
siobs for non-payment of AFL- connections to the California
Boilermakers' union dues, Charles Oregon Power company and to
tarfnwrhftff. swretarv of the Ta- other systems. Bonneville would
coma Welders and Burners local,
bald Tuesday night
"It'i their move, not ours," he
eclared. I don't think well have
ong to wait"
take over their loads and permit
them to serve areas farther south
in the event of damage there.
Camacho Asks
US Aid BiU
MEXICO CITY, Dec. lMV
I President Manuel A Vila Camacho
Tuesday night asked congression
al approval of measures permitting
the passage - ot - foreign .troops
through Mexican territory f. d the
stationing of , foreign ship and
naval planes Jn Mexican waters
and ports.- --.;t-
The bill also provides that such
ships and planes be permitted to
take on 'supplies, fuel and repair
I parts in Mexican porta.
Salem Philharmonic Given
Much Praise for Concert
By MAXINE BUREN
Rarely does one find a composition that is a best seller in
both the original classics and the swing versions, but such is the
case with the Tchaikowsky Concerto in B-flat minor and Sally
Reed chose to play it in the former style with the Salem Philhar
monic orchestra on Tuesday night
Miss Reed, a former Salem
girl, is an excellent pianist as
proved by her handling of the
difficult number. . The piano
and orchestra Bomber took up
the entire last half of the pro
gram and was played with
strength of fingers and fine
technique. -
Edouard Hurlimann, conductor
of the 'Salem orchestra, chose as
the opening number of the con
cert, the Semiramide Overture by
G Rossini. He followed with the
popula r" Silhouettes ? (three of
them) , by Henry Hadley.
. Tales from .the Vienna ? Woods
completed jthe' final number in the
first group. JThis . ever popular
Strauss waltz was done with un
usual artistry. The addition ol a
harp to the orchestra, added in
terest.
Because the concert was set half
an hour ahead of the usual time,
the orchestra repeated the Amer
ican group of silhouettes at the
request of late-comers.
Ever since Edouard iiaru
mann took the eonductorship of
the orchestra the string section
has shown unusual excellency,
but Tuesday night the brasses
and woodwinds showed fine
Improvement and brought the
orchestra up among the finished
musical organizations of .the
state.' . 7?'.
A humorous incident happened
when the audience, ? enthusiastic
over the number played by Miss
Reed, applauded during a pause
in the concerto. Graciously she
b o w e d until ' the - applause was
over, then continued ' with, her
number.
MANILA, (Wednesday) -Dec.
17.-11:25 a. m.-(P)-A d m 1 r a 1
Thomas C. Hart, commander of
the US Asiatic fleet said today
that American submarines had
made "two successful attacks'
but gave no further details.
Admiral Hart said the sub
marines had made three separ
ate attacks, one of which failed
while "the other two were suc
cessful." He explained that submarines
were not required to report un
til they returned to port, but
said he had learned of these
three attacks.
also will consider tomorrow the
bill of its military committee.
In other details the senate
and house measures were alike
and no opposition was apparent
to their other provisions. They
would raise the maximum age
for compulsory military service
frdkn 35 to 44 yean, inclusive,
and require all men from 18
through (4 to register with the
government
Officials estimated that the
Minister of the Interior Cula- measure, together with the exist-
Iciati was directed to instruct the ing draft act, would bring about
police on means of carrying . out 40,000,000 persons under govern
the decree which was specifically ment registration.
nimed at "seditious DroDaaanda" Senator Chandler (D-Ky) of
and subversive public meetings. I (Turn t Page 2, Col. 3)
declared a state ot siege "of a
preventive character" for the
purpose of carrying out "interna'
tional promises contracted by the
republic in recent Pan-American
conferences,
In the face of newspaper op
position which urged milder
measures to solve the problem,
the ministers unanimously de
creed the suspension of certain
guarantees to avoid any public
disorder,
British Losing Fight
In Malaya But Break
Axis Lines in Libya
By Th Associated Pren
Japanese warships have
bombarded two islands in the
Hawaiian area, Johnston and
Maui, and in a renewal of
warfare in that theatre Aider-
ican naval operations are in
progress against the invader,
(he navy department an
nounced Tuesday night.
The damage to both Johns
ton and Maui the one about
800 miles southwest of the
main American base at Pearl
Harbor on Oahu and the oth
er 100 mileattsxthwest of
Oahu was believed slight.
The bombardment of Johnston
brought its people into action for
the first time; the shipping center
of Kahului on Maui was shelled
by a submarine almost simultane
ously. Embattled Wake and Midway
still are holding "countering the
blows of the enemy" although
Wake has suffered two more
bombing attacks, one of them
heavy, the navy said.
In the Philippines, meanwhile
the American forces of Luzon,
which had beaten down the first
phase of the Japanese invasion,
appeared to be calmly preparing
for expected new assaults in force.
Lt Gen. Douglas MacArthur re
ported a sharp lessening of enemy
activity, with only local ground
operations.
The allied position was serious
ly threatened only in the British
Pacific theatres of Hongkong and
Singapore.
In general It was far from a
good day for the axis, for tbo
German senior partner and his
Finnish associates were under
the enormous shock of a grand
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Late Sports
LOS ANGELES, Dee. lf.-C?)
-Jackie Wilson of Pittsburgh
retained his NBA featherweight
championship Tuesday Bight,
soundly thumped Richard Le
mos of Los Angeles, the lad be
beat for the title a month ago, ta
a rousing 12-round bout at the
Olympic auditorium before 7,
500 fans. Each fighter weighed
126 pounds.
TOKYO, Dec. 17. -(Wednesday)
-(Official radio received
by AP)-Domei reported today
that 354 persons were killed or
Injured in an earthquake In
southern Formosa.
It said the earthquake dam
aged more than 2,000 homes and
disrupted railway communica
tion between the cities of Tai
nan and! Kamlo. Water mains
were , reported broken .In many
places, and late , dispatches said
telephone communication was
cut off at three points. '
MANILA, (Wednesday ) -Dec
I7w-(U:4 a, nv-0P)-lJS army
headquarters issued this com
munique todayr There Is
change in the situation on the
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US Air Staff Studies Tactics in Pacific
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Surrounded by his general ttaff, MaJ. Gen. TJehry H. Arnold, chief of the VS army air corps, studies
maps of combat areas to plan fighting tactics for tha war la the Pacific Left to right: Edgar P. Soren
- son, material and supply? IX CoL Harold L. George,- air plans; Brig; Gen. Carl Spaata, chief of staff;
MaJ. Gen. Arnold; MaJ. Edward 8. HanselL Jr., air war plans; Brig. Gen. Martha P. Scanloa, air Intelli
gence, and Lt. CoL Arthur W. Yanaman, secretary of the air staff.