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Damage
Is Slight
Trees, Utility
Poles Cracked;
Schools Closed
Trees and utility lines con
: tinned to fall on each other
' and on the ground in and near
Salem Thursday, but power
was on again for most of the
city. Little damage was be
lieved to have been incurred
by the majority of orchards.
Park areas were jungles "of
toppled trees and broken
branches. Even the more pliable
birches and willows were cracked
off near their tops.
Lights were back to normal in
Salem public schools will not
convene today, but will resume
Monday, according to Supt
Frank B. Bennett. They were
closed Thursday. Willamette
university, where no classes
Were held Thursday because of
lack of heat, will be open to
day unless a similar emergency
occurs. :
Salem except for a number of
small "spots," according to David
Wright, division superintendent of
Portland General Electric com
pany, who said he thought most
of the trouble would be "licked"
today. Both main power lines
from Portland were back in serv
ice. A large section just north of
the city !contmyeri to. be . In the
dark.' : - ' . -
. As fast as bad spots were
cleared, another branch would
tangle with wires, Wright de
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Suit to Fight
Ggarette Tax
West Predicts Case
Will Be in Courts
Here This Weekend
Predicting that a suit in opposi
tion to Oregon's new cigarette tax
law would be filed here Saturday
or Monday, Oswald West, Port
land attorney, inspected records in
the case Thursday in Salem.
With West in the capital city
to view Secretary of State Earl
Snell's order declining to cer
tlfy a referendum against the
law to the" county clerks for a
place on the official ballot was
Anthony Kennedy, Sacramento,
Calif., attorney for cigarette
manufacturers.
' A copy of Attorney General I. H,
Van Winkle's opinion holding the
completed, referendum petitions
invalid because of alleged failure
of. the contributors' and expendi
tures' statements the Oregon Re
, tail Grocers' association to comply
with' statutory requirements was
obtained by West
First-day enforcement of the
new law in Salem found a boos
of three cents and not the prey.
r iously-announced two-cent in
crease in the price of each stand
ard 15-cent pacakage of cigarettes.
Wholesale tobacco dealers in late
session preceding the ' application
of the new tax, decided, they an
nounced Thursday, that the fed
eral tax previously absorbed by
dealers misht as well be tacked
on to the purchaser's price.
Don Douris, a scoutmaster for
nine years, was awarded Thurs
day night the Silver Beaver for
distinguished service to boyhood
In the. Cascade! Area council, at
the annual 1 Boy Scout meeting
tiere. Charles S. McFJhinny, Sa
lem insurance man, was elected
president, succeeding Harry Scott
Pres.' Carl S. Knopf -of Willam
ette university gave the principal
talki challenging the scouters and
parents to teach: boys and girls to
keep botii eyes open.' He said
youths taught wrong values grow
up with them and acquire adult
abilityMo apply them to the detri
ment of themselves and others. "A
democracy," he declared, "cannot
thrive if the people are ignorant
. Douris, bow troop eight scout
r master, Is religious education
director at First Presbyterian
church. He was chosen Junior
Salem
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Certificates
Not Received
Ration Boards Lack
Documents; More
Inspectors Picked
All material necessary for com
mencing actual rationing of tires
except the certificates which,
properly filled out and signed
permit their purchase, have been
received by Marion county ra
tion boards, John Heltzel, local
administrator, said Thursday..
Naming three Inspection
points in addltton to those pre-
viously list&I, Chandler Crown,'
defense council ration chair
man, urged' would-be buyers to
take the tires they wish to re
place to any inspector they
may select.
"Just because each brand is
represented in the Salem district
by one distributor or dealer does
not mean that the wornout tires
must be inspected by the. man
who represents its brand," he
said. MI would suggest that the
person preparing to buy a tire
go to the dealer he plans to pat
romze, wno may tnen suggest to
him where his tire 6hould be in
spected. He may, of course, take
it to the inspector closest to him
and then buy his new tire where-
ever he , pleases, if his right to
buy has been certified by the
ration board in his own district,'
Brown added.
Added to the list of inspectors
in the Salem district since the
first announcement have been
Goodrich-Silvertown store, 198
South Commercial street; Fire
Stone Auto Supply Service store,
375 North Liberty street, and
Carl Hultenberg, 395 North Hii
street.
Ickes Talks
Speed Limit
WASHINGTON, Jan.
Secretaxy "of Interior: ..I ekes
Thursday , eased public fears" of
gasolinfe rationing, but h pro
posed a 40-mile-an-hour speed
limit on the nation's highways,
as a war measure.
There is "no Immediate pros
pect" of motor fuel rationing,
he saldi though, "no one knows
what the future holds."
Turning to the rubber short
age, Ickes, who is petroleum and
solid fuels coordinator, I told his
press conference that a 40-mile
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Scoutmaster Is
first citizen for 1939. Now en
his honeymoon, he was unable
to attend the banquet to re
ceive the award. -i ;
Other' officers elected were W,
L. Phillips of "Salem, first vice
president; J. Deo McClain of Al
bany, second vice president; T. A.
Windishar of. Salem, treasurer;
Carl H. Connet of Albany', com
missioner; A. C. Haag of Salem,
national council , representative.
Newly named to the Executive
board 'are Frank Neer of Sa4
;lem and G. W Schachtsick of
Stayton, term to expire in 1942;
H. CI Johnson of Albany and
Harold C Pavis of SHverton
194S; William A. McAfee, Henry,
Kropp and Dr. Franklin Thomp
aon of Salem and Dr. G. B.
Smith' of W000"1 9iL, ..
A Scoutmaster's key, award for
completion ef the five-year train-
- bound American convoy in Pacific
deck of a merchant vessel In the
taken by Bob Bryant for International Illustrated News. UN Phone
Defense Work Contracts
For City To
OPM Official and Staff Will Confer With
Chamber Industrial Committee and -Plant ..
Owners on Plans, Financing Production
More nearly complete steps
tain defense contracts to enable
production were promised Thursday by President Carl Hoggjpf
. t m . m x m 3 X : t
tne aiem cnamper oi commerce
committee and plant proprietors
at the Quelle cafe at noon today.
f. . Hogg, announcing persons!
of the new industrial commit
tee at the tame time, said all
local manufacturers were In
vited to be present. An effort
was made Thursday to com
municate with as many pro
prietors as possible.
Defense work and how it is ob
tained will be discussed at the
luncheon by L. D. Baraett, acting
manager of the Office of Produc
tion Management for Oregon, who
is bringing his entire staff along
to answer questions At a round
table discussion to be conducted
at 1 o'clock.
Other speakers will include
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Eccles Called
To Bonneville
Meet Today
j David Eccles, stale budget di
rector, said Thursday he had
been called to confer in Poniand
today with Ivan Bloch, chief of
the Bonneville administration's
market development staff, and
Pat Hetherton, executive secreta
ry of the Washington state plan
ning council.
The conference will be one of
a series contemplated to project
a course for developing both
wartime and postwar industries
in the northwest as a result of a
pledge of . cooperation made by
Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Ore
gon, Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington and Dr. Paul J. Rav
er, Bonneville a(Jministrator.
Red Cross Fund Rises
Cash in the bank and in hand
for the Marion county Red Cross
emergency war relief fund drive
mounted beyond the $15,000
Thursday, it was announced at
chapter offiees.
onored
JDQN DOURIS
in Pacific
waters. Photo shows a troopship
convoy. Note life preservers worn
Be Talked
than have 'yet been taken to ob
Salem manufacturers to keep in
ior a meeting ui nis iiiuumxku
Lee U Eyeriy, (above) who will
head the Salem chamber of
commerce industrial committee
this year. He has been working
as chairman of the Salem pro
ductive facilities committee to
secure defense contracts for lo
cal Industries. Jesten - Miller
photo.
Bomber Falls,
Crew Saved
HANNA, Wyo., Jan. &-(P-An
army bomber crashed seven
miles south of Hanna Thursday
night, and seven of its crew of
eight were know to have para
chuted to safety.
The other crew member, who
also parachuted from the falling
plane, apparently was carried
some distance from the crash
scene. Sheriff Glenn C. Penland
of Rawlins, his deputies and 50
miners of the Union Pacific coal
company were searching for him.
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At Annual Banbiiet
ing course, was given Robert Day,
council office assistant ' : j
Walter R. Whidden of Portland,
deputy' regional executive,' pre
sented the Parsons awards to
troops which recently demonstrat
ed their preparedness in special
work. Winners were troops 1, 2, 4,
ft, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 42 and Cub
pack 1. . ; - : ' " '
. At the annoal Eagle' seont
court . of honor, LaVerne . Hopp
of troop nine and Wade Egelston.
of. troop 14 were given badges,
of scoutlng's highest rank. Oth- .
ers recognized for attaining the
rank'during 1941 we're Bob Me-.
NeUl, , Bob Johnson, . Roland '
; Brown, Dean . Chandler, , Elmer .
Haydeh, Marion Kumler, Robert '
. Dayr . Clarence ' Conrad, . Homer.
Hadley and . Charles WhelcheL
Entertainment included a scout
play, Mac Decide3," directed by
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General Erwin Rommel's Af
rican corps was making a get
away Thursday night from
the Agedabia area of Libya,
favored by an unusual com
bination ofmud that ham
pered flank attacks and a
swirling sandstorm that half-
blinded his pursuers.
Further complicating the .run
ning battle which British imper
ials fought with Rommel's rear
guard were mines: which Rom
mel's sappers laid - in roads and
other inviting terrain.
Nevertheless, according to
Thursday's communique from
British general headquarters, the
Coldstream guards and the Scots
guards, battle-honored regiments
of the British, established contact
with the enemy's rearguard about
seven miles southwest of Age
dabia. - i
Farther south, a flanking oper
ation was attempted simultane
ously by ' the "King's. Dragoon
guards and a South African ar
mored force, but while this car-
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Fire Damages
Stored Goods
Wool Warehouse scene
Of Blaze; Blamed ;
On Broken Wire
Fire, which appareiUlAhad its
origin in a napped powerline
lapped a path across the fronKof
the main storage room oi th
Clifford W. Brown warehouse a
171 North Front atreet early
Thursday night, causing damages
yet unestimated according t&Carl
EL Nelson, manager. I
When city firemen arrived on
the scene at aproxlmately-; 8:45
they found a telephone pole
near the north end of the build
ing in flames, a loose 'wire
swinging in the breese above
the burning wooden steps which
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Chinese Still
Killing Japs
CHUNGKING, Friday, Jan. ft-(J)-China's
central news agency
reported today that the Chinese
had killed or wounded 2,000 more
Japanese Thursday in their me
thodical campaign of annihilation
against the 30,000 invaders trap
ped between the Loatao and Milo
rivers in northern; Hunan : prov
ince. " ; "
Chinese spokesmen- previously
had reported the Japanese suf
fered more than 33,000 casualties
since the smashing of their as
sault on Changsha last Sunday.
As the Japanese, who originally
numbered 100,000 to 150,000 by
Chinese estimates, sought to 'fall
back to their Yochow base 100
miles to the north, strong Chinese
land forces aided by planes trap
ped 30,000 of them in the area
between the two rain-swollen
rivers. , !
Bob Johnson, andcolored slides
of the summer outing area. Camp
Pioneer.
Executive Ronald R. Ruddiman
announced Arthur' W. Lamka
former troop 13 scoutmaster,
to conduct a ; training course
fundamentals for troop leaders.
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Jap Newspaper Sayg ;
US Invasion Easy,
TOKYO, JaV lHCPriday)r(Of-
fidal, broadcast recorded by WPVf
The Japan Times and Advertiser,
government organ, declared .today
that; once a Japanese' landing is
made on the American continent
"it will be a simple matter for a
well-trained and courageous army
to sweep everything before it'
Traiiarisp Qavmd Ships
Bunk; 1 M-(m Wait
Invaders Reported To Be Organizing for
Great Effort; Wake Defenders Gted by
FDR for Bravery and Losses Inflicted
Soviet Drive
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Rolls Along
Fresh Troops Pound
At Retreating Nazis
On Central Front
LONDON, Jan. M)-Vast col
umns of newly-trained troops
from Russia's almost limitless re
serves Thursday night were re
ported moving up to the central
front where the Soviet offensive
was rolling on toward a great col
lision with German forces at
tempting to dig in on the Vyazma-
Bryansk line 130 miles westward
beyond Moscow and halfway back
to Smolensk.
Information from reliable .
quarters here that the com
mand of the red army's center
had Just begun to draw upon
Its manpower reserve, : after
more than a month of unend
ing offensive action against the
invader, was coupled with word
that these fresh troops were to
some degree equipped with cap
tared nazi arms.
"The Russians," said these in
formants, "still have untouched
reserves of manpower which are
now being tapped as fast as they
can be armed. The red army (of
the center) is now largely power
ed by troops trained in the . six
months since the start of th war,
and this training is going on at a
rate that more than makes, up It
battle losses.
Specific information was scarce
Thursday as to the progress of the
drive beyond Moscow. It already
had progressed to within 40 miles
of the Germans' Vyaza-Bryansk
line with the recapture of the
town of Meshchovsk, 130 miles
southwest of Moscow.
But there was news of fresh
Russian successes above the
capital. On the Kalinin front
about 95 miles northwest of
Moscow, the official organ of
the red army announced that
Soviet troop in a day's action
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Production-Steps Up
MANKATO, Minn., Jan. 8-)
-Speaking of stepped up war
production: Three Holstein cows
on the Leo Kruse'farm near
here each gave birth to twin
calves within six days.
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reported massing to storm It and Catan peninsula (2). In Washington It was believed the navy haf
- shifted from Cavite to Olongapo (J) Tokyo reported intensive air bombing of troop. withdrawing
northward from Manila. . . - . . i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8
of United States submarine successes against Japanese
shipping came from the far east Thursday night to relieve,-
at least temporarily anxiety over signs that Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur's forces
would face the full power
there!
In its first communique
A Japanese transport
about 10,000 tons each, had
in the Asiatic fleet.
The warship toll exacted in the memorable fight
etins
TOKYO, Jan. P-(Frlday)-(Official
broadcast recorded by
AP)-Balf of the Japanese for
eign office was burned down
today in a 2-hour fire which
Domel, the Japanese news agen
cy,, said was caused by an over
heated stove. The fire started
in; the first section ef the re
'aeareh bureau in the northeast
' wlnr and swept .through t h e
second and third sections of the
bureau of commercial affairs
. a n d burned other sections as
. welL Including the accounts sec
tion, 'the agency said.
SINGAPORE, Jan. -(Friday)
C3) Singapore had its first night
alert in three days shortly be
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Jiniior CC
Plans Fete
January 22 .
Harry P. Cain, mayor of Ta
coma," Wash., is to be speaker at
the third annual Founders' day
banquet of the junior chamber of
commerce Thursday night, Jan
uary 22, at the First Methodist
church.
Name of the speaker and change
of the date from January 19 were
announced by the board of direc
tors after their' meeting Thurs
day night at the chamber of com
merce hall.
Announcement of the junior
first citizen of Salem will climax
the banquet program,- according
to Milan .Boniface, chairman of
arrangements. .. ,
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(AP)--Heartening word
in the Philippines soon
of growing enemy forces
for days the.navy said :
and three cargo vessels,
been sunk by a submarine
marines put upon Wake island was
increased to seven. A report, writ
ten December. 20 two days be- r
fore the Japanese overwhelmed
the defenders added; a detroyer
and a gunboat to the cruiser, sub
marine and three destroyers re
ported earlier.
The navy also disclosed that
President Roosevelt, with words
of pride, formally cited the gar
rison of less than 400 marines.
Their "courageous conduct," he
said, "will not be forgotten so
long as gallantry and heroism
; are ' respected and honored. VJ
A day-by-day report of the
fury of the attacks and the te
nacity of the defense on the
sun-blistered Isle between Ha
waii and the Philippines was
released by the navy.
With the situation In the Phil
ippines obviously growing more
ominous by the hour the war de
partment passed its usual night
communique.
The morning gave every indi
cation that the Japanese were or
ganizing their growing forces for
a great effort to wipe out Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's American
Filipino army.
Enemy reinforcements, Mac
Arthur reported to the war de
partment, were being brought up
to the front lines,, still some
where north and west of Manila
bay, and there were other indi
cations of preparations for' a
large scale general attack.
One such indication was an
absence of aerial activity save
for search ing observation
planes keeping close watch on
the battle-weary defenders.
Bomber and fiahUna planes
presumably were being readied 1
for the assault.
Confronted with this prospec
tive .supreme test, the American
and Philippine forces were re
ported braced and ready. '
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