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Wickard Reveals
Proirrmn to Slow
Farm Inflation
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31
(AP) The senate farm. bloc
heard from Secretary of Agri
culture ; Wickard Saturday
that the administration could
and would apply powerful
curbs to farm prices should
wartime T forces start them
soaring, j
Senators attending the sen
ate agriculture committee's
four-hour questioning of the
cabinet member said they learned
that the administration proposed
to use its power to buy and sell
commodities to hold farm prices
down. , 1
They admitted that this power,
conferred in the price control
bill, was; such that farm prices
probably coiild be held to parity
and their victory in the legisla
tive fight over the price control
act nullified.
The farm bloc succeeded in
writing into the price control bill
a prohibition against price ceil
lngs on farm commodities lower
than 110 per cent of parity. Parity
is uic vine w f- w
uct has the same purchasing pow-
that it had in a base period, usual
ly 1909-14.
President Roosevelt, in sign
lng the price control bill, said
, that "most farmer realize that
when prices go mnchr above
parity danger is ''aKeaa?.:
' Some senators obviously were
angered ty what they learned
from Wickard.
Senator Smith (D-SC) asserted
that the ? "new deal" is taking it
out on the farmer while permit
iting other prices "to soar to the
moon."
Senator Thomas (D-Okla) said
it was clear from Wickard's re
ort that the administration in
tended to place government-own
ed surplus commodities on the
market or dispose of them in such
other rftanner that the prices
could never rise to the ceiling
position.!
They are circumventing the
price central law," said the Ok
lahomaiu They are not pro
posing j to let farm products
even reach parity."
At the agriculture department
aides said Wickard explained
price policies as follows:
Cottoii, wheat and tobacco, the
major surplus crops, will be sta
bilized at parity.
Com and other feed crops, in-
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Doiighton to
Seek Salem
Mayor Job
-I. Mi Doughton, Salem water
commissioner and hardware mer
chant, Announced definitely Sat
urday that he would be a candi
date for mayor at the city elec
tion in May.
Be aid not outline a cam
paign Statement of policy other
than to say that he had always
believed In the businesslike
enduct of city business and in
strict law enforcement.
" Born in North Carolina
Doughton became a resident
of
Oregon, at Albany, in 1884. He
entered a partnership hardware
business in Salem in 1920 after
having served as manager of
large hardware firm at Astoria
and has since bought out his part
ner to become sole proprietor of
- bis business. . .
illamette Starts
One 'hundred years ago today
Willamette university was found
ed by Oregon pioneers, and today
the school begins lr-series of pro
grams ; observing the centennial.
The Methodist-sponsored institu
tion is the oldest for higher edu
cation in the west, .
(Additional feature's of its
history are on today's Statesman
feature pageu)
In addition to the church'serv
Ices ; this morning, Dr. Carl S.
Knopf I will be inaugurated as
president Monday at 10 a. m. in
Waller hall on the campua. .
J
EARL SNELL
Sncll to Run
For Governor
Outlines Program in
Seeking Nomination
On GOP Ballot
Earl Snell, Oregon's two-term
secretary of state, announced late
Saturday that he was a candi
date for governor, a probability
reported in The Statesman and
other newspapers late last sum
mer.
He said in a formal statement
that his campaign for the re
publican nomination for the
position now held by Charles A.
Spragne would be "simple, in
expensive and informal."
A state constitutional provision
precludes Snell's seeking a third
term in his present position.
Pledging his "continued faith
ful service to the people of Ore
gon," Snell's announcement out
lined a three-point objective: Win
the war, cushion , jwist-war read
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Whoa, Thar!
Brand Tires
Like Horses?
PORTLAND, Jan. 31-;P-De-tectlve
Captain J. J. Keegan
suggested Saturday that motor
ists adopt an old western cattle
country custom and brand their
automobile tires.
Branding of tires with the
same numbers of license plates
might be feasible, Keegan said,
pointing out there was a possi
bility that this year's plates
might be used next year.
Keegan's branding suggestion
was made after conferring with
B. H. German of the National
Auto Theft association on ways
to curb the expected Increase
of stolen tires.
Smokers Lose As Court
Mulls Fag
Ruling Either Way by State Tribunal on
Referendum Adds to Gain of Sellers and
Commission; Decision Expected Soon
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
Payment of an estimated
tax funds hinges today on the probabilities of a decision by the
state supreme court on the validity of petitions for a referendum
vote oh the new revenue act.
I Cigarette dealers, wholesale and
retail, are awaiting the court's
ruling, at issue under mandamus
proceedings, able under an
amended tax commission regula
tion to delay payments of levies
due today until February 10 -
The court has! not Indicated
whether r not an opinion In
the ease may be banded down
Tuesday of this week or Toes
day of next, regular days for is
suance of Its findings.
Should the court give its opin
Dr. Knopf and Bishop Bruce XL
Baxter, former president, ,w ill
speak oyer station KEX on a
Founders' day broadcast originat
ing from Waller hall, A double
quartet from the student a capeBa
choir will sing. "
Knopf and Baxter will share
the pulpit of Salem first Meth
odist church 'at 10:50 this morn
ing, speaking n "Willamette
a Glorious Past" and "Willam
etteTomorrow.' Dr. J. C Har
rison, pastor,-will preside and
district superintendents of the
Dispute Within
Ranks of Labor
Held as Cause
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TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 31
(AP)i A walkout of welders
disputing with AFL unions
took 1654 men off their jobs
in Puget Sound shipyards Sat
urday in the face of a flat
refusal by the war produc
tion board to recognize their
independent organization.
The walkout left 1180 weld
ers idle in the Tacoma yard
of the Seattle-Tacoma Ship
building corporation, 454 at the
Seattle yard of the came com
pany, and 20 at the Associated
Shipbuilders at Seattle.
Several other yards in Seattle
and the huge Boeing aircraft plant
reported that all their welders
were working, although welders'
independent union officials there
had presided 1300 would be off
-the job by Saturday night.
The welders said all their
members at the Tacoma plant,
which employs 6500 persons and
holds $100,000,000 in defense con
tracts, had walked off the job.
The war production board ulti
matum was in the form a tele
gram from Paul R. Porter, chair
man of .the shipbuilding stabiliza
tion committee, - to Dave Basor,
Seattle welders' official.
The wire declared that the
board "expects all shipyard
welders to serve their ( country
by remaining at their jobs. A
strike in the shipyard-whil 1-
our nation Is at war and Amer
ican lives are at stake Is In
tolerable." It added that the national la
bor relations board had dismissed
Friday a welders' p 1 e a for an
election to determine whether the
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Norway, Nazi
War is Over
NEW YORK. Jan. ll--The
British radio said that the state
of war between Germany and
Norway will be declared offic
ially ended when Vldkun Quis
ling is elevated to ."prime min
ister of state" Saturday at Oslo.
The broadcast, heard by CBS,
also said that "aU leaves for
German soldiers have been can
celled." Tax Petition
$100,000 into Oregon's cigarette
ion on or before February 10, and
declare the referendum petitions
valid, the tax commission would
postpone enforcement of the act
until after the November election.
and the cigarette dealers could
keep the tax money they today
have to hold ready for' payment
next week. -: .
If the" court should decide
against the referendum by that
date, the dealers would still have
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Centennial Celebration Today
Oregon conference will partici
pate. Arrangements are being
made to seat many additional
persons, f
The convocation Monday, to
which the public is invited, in
cludes the processional, by Maur
ice W Brennen at the organ; in
vocation by Bishop Baxter; "Para
phrase on Tschaikowski's Flower
Waltz by Grainger, played by
Clara Eness at the piano. .
. Students who will speak in the
ceremony are Wade Bettis on
The Cloak of Jason Lee," Glenn
Batan Troops '
Capture Japs
Reports Chief
Invaders Make Ready
For New Assaults on
MacArthur's Lines
WASHINGTON, Jan, 31-
General MacArthur reported
Saturday that in addition to
holding off the Japanese, his
forces have been taking some
prisoners.
1 After a 48 hours lull, dur
ing which the enemy made
ready for another large scale
assault, there has been "spo
radic fighting," he advised
the war department.
Determined efforts to in
filtrate the Batan peninsula
defense line were rebuffed,
and in the course of these ac
tions the prisoners were ta
ken. As for a number of days
past, there was virtually no
enemy activity in the air, he
said.
-f- It was MacArthur's first
report of prisoners captured,
and some though the effect
might be to restrain the Jap
anese from such brutal treat
ment of American prisoners
as the general complained off
a week ago.
i On January 23, he informed
the war department of y"ev-H
iral instances" of Japanese
violation of the international
convention relating to cap
tured prisoners of war. Japan
had announced her intention;
to abide by that agreement.
; MacArthur said that on
January 12, the body of a ;
Filipino scout, Fernando Tan, j
had been found face down in j
a stream. His hands had been
bound behind his back and he
had been bayoneted several;
times, and he had obviously
been "thrown into the stream
to die."
In reporting the mistreat
ment of Private Tan, the de
partment said: "However
foully the enemy may act,:
the general states that he will
abide by decent concepts of
humanity and civilization."
Centennial
Gift Asked
City Council May Join
In Publicizing Old
School's Anniversary
A resolution authorizing pay
ment of $500 into the centennial
fund as the city's part in helping
publicize the Willamette univer
sity observance of its 100th anni
versary is slated to come before
the Salem city council at Mon
day night's session. 1
f The resolution, coming est
of the ways and means eom
mittee, la said to ' provide fof
payment from the emergency
fund and is the outgrowth of
a presentation of tho univer
sity's plan for financing before
the entirt council by IL Frank
lin Thompson, vice-president. 1
Funds to pay for installation of
steam and compressed air whistles
to be used in conjunction with the
already-approyed sirens as air
raid warnings! are to be asked of
the council Monday night it
understood. Their cost is said to be
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Olds on The Key . of Character,"
William Thomas on The Torch
of Truth", and Ralph May on The
Hand of Fellowship. .' f . .
: . Dr. Helen Fearee is to repre
sent the faculty and alumni la '
speaking on The Fledge of
Loyalty," Gov. Charles A.
Spragne on "Education and the
State." Justice James T. Brand
on "Education and the Justice,
Tinkham Gilbert secretary of
the board of trustees, w ill give
the charge to the president, who
Will
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Making the perilous voyage to northern Ireland with the AEF were
Seventeen 4f them, all second lieutenants, are shown here Just before
Mary Armstrong, Beverly, O; Katherine Wellman, Defiance, O; Margaret Broderlck, Nashua, NH; Vera
Eberly, Toledo, O; Janet Harrington, Lyndhnrst, O; Agnes R. Casserly, Columbus, O; Dorothy Dibble,
Youncstown, O; Maureen Martin, Belief ontaine, O; Lois Frey, New Richmond, Ind.; Florence McBride,
Youngstown, O; Agnes Wheatley, Shepherdsville, Ky4 El ma Rinehart, Richmond, Ind.; Elizabeth Akin,
Louisville, Ky.; Letha Giant, Richmond, Ind?, Frances Crone, Ashland, O, and Stella Dabrowski, East
Chicago, Ind. Seated is Antonette D'Orio, Canton, O.
US Navy Plans Great
Air Training Program
Four Large Universities Will Be Leased
To Turn Out 30,000 Pilots Yearly; Knox
Reveals Rigorous Toughening Process
iWASHGTON; Jan. 3M-The nayy depajrtment an
nounced plans Saturday night to
what it called "the greatest aviation, trauung program in naval
history."
Facilities of four large universi
ties will be leased, each university
to become an "Annapolis of the
air." The names of the four uni
versities were not announced. One
is located in the east, one in the
west, onther in the south and the
fourth in the midwest
The facilities of these univer
sities will be rented by the navy
for the duration of the war.
The announcement said that
the new expanded naval avia
tion training program will be in
operation by May 1 or sooner,
and applications for training al
ready are being accepted.'
The plan involves the induction
of more than 2500 aviation cadets
a month.
Each candidate will undergo "an
extremely rigorous toughening
process deliberately aimed at mak
ing our sea hawks the strongest,
most daring and most determined
type of airmen in the world," the
announcement said.
Secretary Knox said that the
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Polio Victim
Walks After
Seeing FDR
NEW YORK, Jan. Sl-)
Flinging aside his tiny crutches,
four-year-old Gerry King took
a few faltering steps Saturday
in the kitchen of his home fol
lowing his return front a lunch
eon date with President Roose
velt Friday at the White
Bouse. - ':
Yietins of infantile paralysis,
the tow-headed youngster had
spent two and a half years on
a hospital bed. In the excite-!
ment of meeting. the president,
his mother said, he walked a
few - steps then Mmethinf he
had never done before, .
HIl performance Saturday
was a duplication ef his White
House feat. .
Other musical numbers . will be
"Romance," Wieniawski, by Mary
Schultz Duncan, violin, and Clara
Eness, piano, and "Clorinda,"
Morgan, by Keith Sherman, bari
tone, and Margaret Rood, piano.
Dr. Harrison will pronounce the
benediction. . i ,
Other centennial events will
follow during the spring semes
ter; in charge of Dean Daniel IL
Schulze, faculty committee chair
man and Bob Hamilton, student
committer head. " - ;
turn out 30,00ff pilots a year in
Navy Supply
BillOkehed
Solon Croup Restricta
Leasing Large Ships
To Allied Nations
WASHINGTON, Jan. ?1-(P-A
record $26,495,265,474 naval sup
ply bill won approval of. the sen
ate appropriations committee
Saturday, but not before members
had acted to prevent the transfer
of any of the navy's big fighting
ships to other nations.
Because, members said, of re
ports that the administration
planned to lease some war ves
sels to Latin-American countries,
the committee voted to limit
presidential authority over the
transfer of ships to smaller types
built under a $1,000,000,000 allo
cation for emergency construc
tion. The 1789 vessels in this cate
gory mignt include destroyers,
mosquito boats, convoy vessels and
others of this type.
The mammoth appropriations
bill, including $23,738,865,474 in
proposed cash outlays and $2,756,-
440,000 in contract authority, is
scheduled for. senate consideration
Monday.",
Senator Overton (D-La), floor
manager for the measure, predict
ed its speedy passage, after which
the measure will have to go back
to the house for action on senate
committee additions of $6,016,300,-
000 in cash ami $500,000,000
contractual authority.
in
Navy Repeats
Warnings of
Coast Attack
SEATTLE, Jan. SlH-The 13th
naval district staff headquarters
reiterated its warning of a week
ago" that a Japanese attack In
some force on west coast shipping
was an early possibility. !
f- "In the past 10 days, there has
been no information which would
indicate a lessening of that possi
bility," the report stated. "Indeed,
the information-brought in by air
and surface patrols would height
en it"
Attention was called to the sight
ing of an enemy v submarine by
United States forces off the south
ern California coast v .- fr '
r The report announced a num
ber" of Russian;. cargo .vessels
reached northwest ports during the
past week." It did not indicate
the nature of their loadings.' -
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24 nurses from Fort Knox, Ky.
leaving Fort Knox. ' Left to fight
Russ Threaten
Nazi Anchor
Take Important Key
Qtyin Ukraine Area;
Southern Flank Hit
.MOSCOW. Sunday. Feb. 1-Ufi
The Russian 'tony- has captured
Berestovoya, 115 miles west of
German-held Taganrog and 30
miles north of the Sea of Azov,
in a smashing blow threatening
the southern Ukraine anchor of
the nazi, defense lines, the red
army newspaper Red Star report
ed today , in a warfront dispatch;
Bed Star said a f nil-scale of- :
fensive had been In progress on ;
this southern flank of the tre
mendous front for several days. '
with the Germans subjected to
day . and night pressure.
BeresUivoya is 30 miles north
of Ossipenko (Berdyansk), port
on the Sea of Azov, and halfway
between Melitipol and MariupoL
Apparently the Russian forces
employed in this new thrust by
passed Tanganrog itself in an ef
fort to outflank and trap the Ger
man garrison there. It was to Ta
ganrog that the German forces
retired after the soviet counter-
offensive had blasted them out of
Rostov, the gateway to the Cau
casus, f
Earlier reports said Russian
troops had broken through the
German lines in the Ukraine and
are racing forward after cap
turing 20 villages while in the
northwest ski-mounted artillery
Is enabling the red army to
wade deep into enemy-defended
territory, Russian war reports
said today.
The Kuibyshev radio said more
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Blimp Patrol
Started on
West Coast -
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31-)
A blimp patrol was established
over the central California coast'
line Saturday, augmenting the
alert witch of attack and bomb
ing planes and surface craft.
In making the announcement
the navy's 12th district com
mandant observed it has been
demonstrated that the blimp
can net only spot for and direct
ether fighting craft, but has a
definite fighting power ef its
own with both bombs and gunfire.-
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Especially effective against un
dersea boats, the. non-rigid ? air
craft are referred to by navy men
as the dread of submarine com
manders. They can hover, drift
anovppot the enemy, and in spite
of severe weather they can main
tain: flight for long hours. . . ?
, Those based here are Sis-footers,
driven by two engines. De
pending on the task assigned, they
carry a crew of from seven to nine
men, the navy said, and they beat
depth bombs as well as other wea
pons. ; f:i J- i ' : ;..' -
By the end of this year, the
navy said, it is expected that the
entire' Pacific coast will be under
blimp Control as an aid to bomb
ing planes and destroyers. 1
Front
Defenders
Confident
Of Succor
Dutch Navy Base
Raided; Burma
City Evacuated f
By BILL BONI
Associated Press War Editor
Singapore ig under siege.
Japan's invasion armies,"
sweeping almost without
check through 350 miles
of st e a ming jungle,
swamps and mountains,
have driven to the very tip
of the Malay peninsula.
And lale Saturday night,
from Britain's commander
in Malaya, came the an
nouncement that:
Today we stand be
leaguered in our island
fortress . . . Our task is to
hold this fortress until
help can come, as assured'
ly it will come."
Thus the battle ' of Ufa "
laya became the battle of
Singapore and the battered Im
perial troops, outnumbered from
the start in men and machines,
abandoned hope of stemming the
Japanese advance on the main-
and and withdrew to man the, de
fenses of Singapore island itself.
Still weary, still looking for re
inforcement, from somewhere
they now must marshal fresh
strength to withstand a concen
trated assault by forces which
from the very beginning have
held superiority in nlanes. in
tanks and in ships.
How Singapore will stand up
against siege no one can predict.
The heaviest weapons of this
$400,000,000 British empire de
fense base were designed to guard
the sea approaches to south, east,
and west, rather than for defense
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Axis Libya
Drive Slows
Say British
CAIRO, Jan. 31-(ff-Tempotv
arily at least, Field Marshal Gen.
Erwia Rommel's sudden Libyan
counter offensive seemed Satur
day, night to have lost impetus
after fanning out into' a 70-mfle
front from the Msus region to re
capture Bengasi.
Reports ; reaching here ' indi
cated that there had been no ax
is advance much beyond the
twice-won and twice-lost port.
and the British high command
said axis patrols withdrew after
contact with British mobile
forces near Msus
Military observers said the
British t probably did not lose
any large quantity of guns and
equipment to the withdrawal
front Bengasi. 1
Some sources estimated that
the two columns of the seventh
Indian brigade which won free
: from ! the port represented!
about two-thirds of the bri
gade's full strength. Normally
that would be about 1000 men
.The RAF kept strafing Rom
rsel's lengthened supply lines all
the way back to Tripoli in addi
tion to continuing what a com
munique termed- a "protective
patrol over our forward forces."
The night before, British bom
bers smashed at axis motorized
concentrations around Agedabia,
south., of Bengasi, touching off
fires which, returning fliers said
were visible 100 miles away. -
Friday,srWeaUiCPi '
Weather forecasts '.withheld
5 and temperature:, data -delayed
by , army, request. Rivet &tar-,
daV, 5.1- feet. Max." temperature
Friday. 43. mbu S4. r:l. :