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PAG2 TWO thm OHTGOII STATgHIAiy. Sslam Oregon, WadaMday-Modsy Jouumy T. 1342 ) Industry Aid 7 Is Promised President's Mammoth Production Program Supported by Nation (Continued from Page 1) president rerun his adminis trative organization and declared flatly that the goals could net he realised nnder the present 5 setup. .-: v "It ;is a magnificent program, -said' the-1940 -republican prest-4 .i dential nominee in New York. "It ' -la to be hoped that Jie immediate. -t, ly - reorganizes his government ; and policies to the end that these :v accomplishments may be made V possible. They cannot be brought I", about by his present organization & and administrative methods. !' "We canio it we will do it," t; was the pledge of William S i Knudsen and Sidney tiiuman T directors of the OPM, in a joint ;f statement ? Abroad, the president's refer ences to sending American armed V the globe also attracted attention. 4 British observers in London who ' have been predicting a direct of fensive against Germany, saw it as "cinched now. On the Imdnstrtal front. spokesmen for the National As soeiatlan of Manaacturers pledged fall cooperation. The j National Council of American 'Shipbuilders said that industry could and would meet the g-oal for ships, given a "constant flow of materials, equipment and uninterrupted service of labor." And Henry Ford, the old mae stra of mass production, asserted that the production goals for this year could be achieved and that . the stepping up to greater pro duction in 1943 would , be ' "simple." "If we can make one tank or one plane, we can make thou sands of them,' he said at De troit "All that is necessary in mass production is to get the first unit right The rest follow very easily and quickly. We can put up as many production lines as the volume requires." Defense Head Battle May Slow Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 6--A fight centering! around Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York threatened Tuesday to de lay congressional action on civilian defense appropriations. By a vote of 11 to 10, the house military affairs commit tee approved a second time a ' bill to authorise the war de partment to procure and dis tribute op to 1100,000,000 worth of supplies to protest the ci vilian population from bomblnf attacks. A minority of the 21 commit tee members who attended the meeting were reported to have fa vored placing Jurisdiction over the civilian defense program in the hands of LaGuardia, director of civilian defense activities, and his assistant Mrs. Roosevelt Salem Bonds Report Made Bonds oustanding at the end of 1041 for the city of Salem totaled $3,210,807.30, City Treasurer Paul XL Hauser disclosed Tuesday. During the year $250,000 in new bonds were issued, $109,500 re tired and $109,662.97 paid in in terest Only new Issues were of $200, 99 for aewag-e treatment and $$0,909 for airport improvement both genera obligation. In that class $57,599 worth were retired, $23,59&59 interest paid ' and $783,501 left atstandnlg. water nana lnaeoteaness on December 31 was $2,145,000, while $28,000 had - been retired. Last water bond issue was in 1937. In terest totaled $78,137.50. ' Remaining outstanding at the end of 1941 weTe $288,107-30 in atret improvement bonds, last of which were issued in 1940. Inter est totaling $8022.97 was paid and retirement made of $24,000 worth. McMahan Upheld In Policy Suit The state supreme court Tues day affirmed Circuit Judge G. F. SHpworth, Lane county, in the $15,000 damage suit of Lucille E. Wflloughby against "' her aunt Myrtle L Driscoll and Gordon Harris. The lower court held fpr the plaintiff. 4-. - ;? : The ' opinion was written by Justice Harry Belt. .The high court ' also ; upheld Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan, Marion county, who gave Claud E. Bird a judgment for $859 in his apif aganist the Central Man ufacturers Mutual Insurance cosany.'.The suit Involved in surance on an automobile. -; The court disbarred THliam R. Clcjletiry, Portland attorney, for UT-prcfcssional conduct . - r , Yen neellomc- Jaci Theisfen, l?;;and Eugene Zhczxi, It, escaped late Tuesday t Rsffiooa from the state Falrvlew home 'here, police reported. . 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(The United States' concern ov-l er nazi designs on French West Africa was expressed by Presi dent Roosevelt in his fireside chat last May 27 when he said Ger man occupation of Dakar, African base opposite the bulge of Brazil would "directly endanger the freedom on the Atlantic and our own physical safety.") This was the second anti Vichy outburst in as many days. Marcel Deat another prominent French collaborationist ' Mon day accused the Petain govern ment of stalling off the Ger mans while hoping- for an allied victory. He also hinted that the French might lose their African empire.-: Both men accused Admiral Wil liam D. Leahy, US ambassador to Vichy, of intrigues which they said were weaning France from Germany. The attacks also followed a ser ies of anti-German bombing in cidents in Paris, and the finding of the battered body of Yves 'Par ingaux, ministry of interior chief of staff, on the Paris-Troyes rail road tracks southeast of Paris. Solons Split On Farm Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 6P)-The touchy question of who should apply wartime curbs to farm prices split the senate Tuesday as it prepared to open debate Wed nesday on the broad price control measure. ' The senate farm bloc, under the leadership of Senator Bankhead (D-Ala), claimed 42 votes for a proposal to give the secretary of agriculture the equivalent of a veto power over any maximum price orders by the. price adminis trator. Senator Brown (D-Mich), floor manager for the control measure approved by the! senate banking committee, conceded that admin istration forces faced a stiff con test on the issue. ' Dealers Made Inspectors j (Continued from page 1) t Heltzel's law office. I j Each ef the ether three dis tricts of the county is to es tablish Its ewa mspeeUon points, with the decision as to the num ber and the method ef inspec tion resting with, the: defense committee la that area. -' Named Tuesday In Salem as authorized places of inspection were the Standard station at Court and Church streets; Day & Ccv, High and Church streets; I Mont gomery Ward, 155 North Liberty street; Salem, Tire Service, 425 Chemeketa street, and Doolittle Service station. Center and Com mercial streets. - Sprdgue Walks To and From , Got. Charles A. Sprague, net to be eatdeae by Dare Eecles, his executive secretary, Tuesday braved inclement weather and .walked to and from his heme. - ' Ecdes purchased a bicycle llanday In an effort to belt the tire rationing regulations. f .--," ,-f-t - r oacpIt iiory otr .fct 4 - agreement signed by 26 nations, in US Forces to Fight on All Foreign Fronts, Says FDR (Continued from Page 1) of the United States but ef all the nations with which it is al lied; and he repeatedly empha sized that the United States Is fighting on the "same side" with the British, the Russians, the Dutch, the Chinese and the ex iled governments of the Invaded countries. To "hit" the enemy and "hit him again wherever and whenever we can reach him," to "keep him from our shores, for we intend to bring this battle to him, on his own ground," it was necessary not only that these arms.be produced, but; mat American expeditionary forces join in the battle wherever they can help. Thus, he foresaw American forces soon in action at "many points in the far east," on "all the oceans," taking "stations in the British isles" and protecting this hemisphere and bases outside the hemisphere "which could be used for an attack on the Americas." Congress took it all at one en thusiastic gulp. Again and again it interrupted ' his remarks with loud and prolonged outbursts of hand clapping' and cheering. At one point a page boy, seated on a rostrum step, vociferously started an ovation. The president was grave and noticeably subdued and re strained In his delivery. There were no smiles. Toward the end It was perhaps the longest speech he has made before con gress he lowered his voice and by Contrast with his usual pre oration, reduced his tone to one virtually of ordinary conversa tion. r His hearers were grave, too, and neither for them was it an occa sion for laughter. -They sat tight lipped and intent as Mr. Roosevelt spoke. For most of them it was an old scene. The president has ad dressed such sessions repeatedly. But it was a new setting. The' president entered th cham ber on the arm of Major General Edwin S. Watson, his secretary. Captain .John Beardall, his naval aide recently promoted to the commission of rear admiral but still wearing the four stripes of a captain followed, carrying the president's text typed in an ordi nary schoolboy's note book. He placed it before the president opened to the firsj page, Speaker Rayburn introduced the chief ex ecutive briefly, and the latter began. Public morale could not be bet ter, he said. He recalled that a year ago he predicted that when the dictators were raedy to maBe war on the United, States, they would not wait for an American act of war but would choose their own time and place a prophecy borne out he added, by the at tack on Pearl Harbor. - : jHe traced Japan's "scheme' ef conquest" ever half a century, said a similar "policy of crimr 4 iaal conquest was adopted later v by Italy - bat that neither:' matched the "gargantuun aspira- .. tlons ef Hitler and his suuds." AU three had been merged, he' "added. Into ene single plan. ; - Under this scheme, Japan's role was to divert to the Pacific American-made weapons which other wise would go to the British. . The act of Japan at Pearl Har bor was intended to stun us," he continued,' to terrify us to such an extent that we would divert our industrial and military strength to the Pacific area or even to our own continental defense, - The plan bis failed la its pur pose. We have not been stunned. We have never been terrified or cefcifused. ' , '. '-; But, nevertheless, hard choices had to be made. 26 Nations Pledge ;' ?t tar minion 4 1 J i" ;v ' 4 tax " , ,s 4, At V, Ill of Great Britain at sea last August 14. The document was so phrased that Knssla, while agreeing to all stlmplations in the straggle against Germany and Italy, does not pledge to enter the war against Japan. Signatures visible on the facsimile at right include those of President Roosevelt, Churchill, Maxim Lttvinoff. the Russian ambassador. T. V. Soong, China's minister for foreign affairs. Richard G. Casey, Austral ian minister to the US, and R. V. D. Straten, for the Belgium kingdom. "It was bitter, for example, not to be able to relieve the heroic and historic defenders of Wake island. It was bitter for us not to be able to land a million men and a thousand ships in the Philippine islands. "But this adds only to our de termination to see to it that the Stars and Stripes will fly again over Wake and Guam; yes, to see to it that the brave people of the Philippines will be rid of Japanese imperialism; and will live in freedom, security and independ ence." He spoke of recent confer ences with Winston Churchill and representatives of other allied nations and asserted that for the "first time since the Japanese and the fascists an the nazis started along their blood-stained course of conquest they now face the fact that su perior forces are assembling against them." Their purpose was to beat Britain, China, Russia and the Netherlands and then "achieve their ultimate goal, the conquest of the United States." The only laughter of the en tire occasion, a short-lived titter, followed a reference to Hitler's "Italian and Japanese chessmen." Victory for us, he continued, means victory for freedom and religion and the nazis , could not tolerate that for "the world is too small to provide adequate living room for both Hitler and God." "Our own objectives are clear," he said. "The objective is smash ing the militarism imposed by war lords upon their enslaved people the objective of liberating the subjugated nations the objective of establishing and securing free dom of speech, freedom nf re ligion, freedom from want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world." "We .shall not stop short ef these objectives," he added, "we are determined not only to win the war, but also to "--tfiin the security of the peace that wlH follow." And at another point he ruled out any "return to the kind of world we had aft er the last World war." He went on to discuss the need for arms "modern methods of warfare make it a task not only of shooting, but an even more urgent one of working and pro ducing. "Production for war is based on men and women the human hands and brains which collec tively we call labor" as well as upon metals and raw. materials. A sum equal to more than half the national income $58,000,000.- vw ior me nscai year 1943 alone must go Into the effort "That means taxes and bonds and taxes," he said, j"it means cutting luxuries 'and therhon essentials. In a word. It means an "all-out' war by Individual ef fort and family effort In a united country." 4, Speed was ef the utmost ne cessity for "lost ground can al ways be regained lei t time "never," he said. ""Speed wEB save lives; speed will save this nation which b io peril; speed wffl a a ve-ew freedom and ' dTOixaUoD and slowness, well, it has never been aa' American ' 1 eaaaneseslstieJ'-'- -' He warned against comnlaeencr. against under-rating fan enemy WW : IS -DOWerrul and f-mmfnv and cruel and ruthless," who "will stop at nothing which gives him a chance to kill and to destroy." America has already "tasted de feat", and may suffer further set backs. ; - - "We 'must face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a bloody war, a costly war." T The nation must also be "on Finish Fight a? zn, -4 i A - - V guard, he continued, against "de featism," a chief weapon of Hit ler propaganda, and against "di visions among ourselves." One by ene, he enumerated the nations which are fighting on the American aide, and each one received prolonged and hearty applause, Russia ne less than any ether, with Martin Dies, the house's chief Investi gator and denunciator of com munist methods, joining. "We are fighting today," the president said, "for security, for progress and for peace, not only for ourselves, but for all men, not only for one generation but for all generations. We are fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills. "Our enemies are guided by brutal cynicism, by unholy con tempt for the human race. We are inspired by a faith which goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the book of Gene sis God created man, in his own image.' "We on our side are striving to be true to that dlgine herit age. We are fighting, as ear fathers have fought to upheld the doctrine that all men are, equal in the sight ef God. Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own Image a world ef tryanny and cruelty and serfdom. "That is the conflict that day and night now pervades our lives. No compromise can end that con flict There never has been there never can be successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can re ward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith." Naval Chief Now f Gmincli9 Defense Head WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(yp)-Admiral Ernest J. King no longer is "cincus" In navy parlance. He is "cominch." j The. historic abbreviation "emeus" (proneunced "sink us") stood for t commander-in-chief , United States fleet The new title stands for simply commander-in-chief. ' Naval sources acknowledged that the change in official desig nation had been made, but did not confirm a rumor that Admiral King himself had requested it Qiurch Club Plans Dinner S ' The men's dyb of the First Pres byterian church is holding Its an nual, ladies' night dinner, January 13 at 6:30 in the church social hall. Tickets for the dinner, served by the . Columbia Empire Indus tries, Inc, Portland, are being sold by a committee of club mem bers and through the ladies auxO-H iary. Senator Douglas McKay will talk on his recent Hawaiian ex perience, and Dr. Gertrude Boyd Crane, Pacific university, win be the out-of-town guest speaker. Special music will be provided. according to SL T. Patton, club president r r3 Junior Clhaniber r Plans Banquet; i 'Annual banquet of the Salem junior chamber of commerce, at which It Is planned to announce the city's Junior first citizen for 1841, will be January 19, MOas Boniface,' ; chairman, announced Tuesdays o : j-iu V :ri,i.v y ; . Plans are nearly complete for the. event, which will be in the dining room of the First Metho dist church. - London Feels Double Front Now Certain , 'Britain Is no Longer Alqne-the Yanks Are Coming,' Papers Say (Continued from Page 1) under construction in northern Ireland and strong United States forces In Iceland . to support the contention that a British-Ameri can expeditionary force eventual ly, would menace Germany from the-west.;'---.- ' "With the Kussians battering, the German war machine in the ' east" tt was said, "Hitler at last would be confronted with a gi gaatie allied squeeselplay." Official reaction to Mr. 'Roose velt's broad message ' to congress was 'lacking but there was no doubt that it evoked tremendous satisfaction. Mr. Roosevelt's AEF announce ment was emphasized in London newspapers with big headlines. typical of which was this one: "US will send army to Britain." The Daily Mail described the Roosevelt program as "staggering in size and boldness and assert ed "it will certainly stagger the axis. "To us," the newspaper said in its lead editorial, "it gives pledge of mighty help and as surance of final victory. One promise alone brings special re joicing. Itjls the promise that American land, sea and air forces will be stationed in the British Isles ... "At last we can feel we are, no longer alone. The Tanks are coming!" Senate Wants Mitchell's Rank Restored WASHINGTON, Jan. -)-The senate military committee speedily approved a resolution Tuesday directing that the war department restore the rank of brigadier general to the late CoL William L. "Billy" Mitchell, stormy petrel of army aviation. The resolution, sponsored by Senator Wiley (R-Wis) and re ported to the senate with little discussion, declared that "the march of events has proven the wisdom ef many recommenda tions made to congress" by Mitchell. Mitchell, army air chief during the: World war, was court-mar tialed for his outspoken "criticism of army policy. He was a leading advocate of increased air strength hd contended early that the de velopment of air power was a menace to naval power. Braun Heads Civic Club Guiding the activities of the Salem Kiwanis club for the com ing year will be William J. Braun, local insurance man, who took over the duties of president of the organization from V. E. Kuhn at installation ceremonies Tuesday. Braun was handed his gavel by Lieut Gov. William Ham mond, Oregon City, who intro duced other officers as follows: A. A. Krueger, first vice presi dent; Jens Svinth, second vice president; Linn Smith, treasurer and T. M. Harold Tomlinson, secretary-treasurer. Rules on Chromite The state emergency board has authority to appropriate its funds for the study and development of certain chromite deposits in sou thern Oregoneounties, Attorney General L H. Van Winkle ruled here Tuesday. Always 2 Smash Hits! TODAY & THURSDAY! IIIuuj zzi Cczc3y Hp rife ( I ; jfafrr faba's -f PLUS v 15c SS. 10c Matinees " Evenings Mettodist Old Rep drts : Successful Year Entirely out of debt and with a substantial amount of money In the endowment ftmd The Methodist Old People's home, lo- caied at Onter and Statesman streets, started 1942 -with high hopes .of another year as successful , as the last; according to the reports read during the. annual i meeting of the operations board held Monday at the home ox Mrs. M. c.r Findley. , r 4-- . .' -: vAt the meeting Mrs. C A. Gles was re-elected ; president and Mrs." M. CU ndleV, vice president Other'offlcers-elected-wereiMrt. Orin Stratton, corresponding sec retary; MrsFred JL Zimmerman, recording secretary and . Mrs. Granville Terkins, treasurer. The heme 'Is new operating on Tighten Hold . US Philippine Army : Retains ; Position ; . British Driving (Continued from Page 1) at first beHeredi Aside from three direct hits on a Japanese battleship and the sinking of a Japanese destroyer, said the war department's night communique, it was probable that more than one destroyer actually was sunk and that there was ex tensive damage to other Ships. The Japanese fleet assaulted consisted of a battleship,' five cruisers, six destroyers, IS sub marines and 12 transports. In Malaya . the Japanese had seized Kuantan airport on the eastern side of the peninsula about 190 miles above Singapore and thus had placed themselves with in less than an hoar's flicht from that great base. J ' The Chinese said the Japan ese had suffered 7.00S mere casualties ta the Invaders' third attempt to. capture Changsha, rich' rice and silk center and capital of Hunan province. These new losses were in ad dition to the 30.000 dead and wounded the Japanese were re ported officially to have already suffered in the Changsha area. The Chinese said they also took many prisoners. Some of the more than 4R nno Japanese troops trapped between tne Laotao and Liuyang rivers northwest of Changsha managed to escape, the Chinese said, but their number was not disclosed. Thus, It was added, 70 per cent of .the Initial Japanese assault force of 100,000 was destroyed or In great peril. . The day brought a disclosure that the headquarters of the su preme commander of the united nations in the southwest Pacific, me urinsn General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, would be established In the Dutch East Indies. By reporting that an Ameri can fighter plane had been shot down in attacking a Jananese position. Tokyo obllaueW acknowledged that American craft still were in the air In the Philip pine theatre. stahts Toincrrr 1 t :a-i-t rjJ; ':il?k,?nit m. V, sijiiiOOTonTCi-TCnsil People's Hone tat capacity; with 12 jgnests. ; Seven J deaths occurred , daring j 1941 and nine persons were ad- mlttedrte. the heme. Beaching : 92 next month, John Webber is the oldest gaest He came te " the home tBrll2Lr""r-?"-: Appreciation for : the many kindnesses and gifts to the home,' especially during the holiday sea son, was expressed by the board during the meeting. AT least S00 persons : visited the home as eni tertainers during the Christmas season,' Mrs. B. Blatchford, ma tron, estimated. An outdoor fireplace, dedicated to the memory of Mrs. E. J. Crawford, , for many years a member of the board, and fin anced by Mrs. Anna D. Cox, a guest of the home, was construct ed during 194L Improvements daring the year included the redecoratlon of walls n) the halls and pri vate rooms, extensive work on the heating plant and the pur chase ef a. restaurant-sized electric range for the kitchen. Social affalrj c the year was the Harvest .Home tea on Novem ber 29, conducted by Mrs. Henry y-aix, uuuiuwi, assisiea Dy wom en from the three Methodist churches of the city. Because of a decreasing inter est rate, additions to the endow ment fund are needed, although the finances of the home have been kept In good condition. It was reported at the meeting. Members of the board provide xneir services without sation. . compen- r j i i i TODAY & THTJE. - 2 HITS A GREAT ACTRESS At Her Greatest! 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