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'.. : t; i u. v .'1 X , 1 r CICTICN-l PAGE TWELVE Jar Prisoners' iAid Included - Part of United 7ar 't Chest Fund Goes , . j To Committee , An" important agency Included ty the Salem United, War Chest . for the campaign October 13 la the War Prisoners' Aid committee, ac cording to Jesse J. Card, cam " , yalgn chairman. ... . The Marion county chairman of the aid committee is Dr. Frank E. Brown, who states that the pur pose of the committee is to pro- Vide a program of recreational. Intellectual and religious activi ties within the camps of war prisoners. - There are now over 8,000,000 men in prison camps for whom the committee is striving to preserve . physical, spiritual and mental morale . during the months and years of detention behind the barbed wire. ' , : The. governments of the United States, Great Britain, the Domin S jons, Germany, Franc, Japan, and The Netherlands have: grant ed permission to the world's com mittee of the YMCA, incorporated under tfie laws of Switzerland, to establish service, of the War Pit toners Aid of the YMCA in camps for prisoners of war and interned enemy aliens. 't Representatives of the com . xnittee visit the camps and find the needs of the prisoners. Li braries and books are provided lor special study, trades are taught, recreational facilities are provided. Of the more than 6,000,000 pri toners of war and interned citi , sens neia, tsu per cent are men . f the United Nations, including . . 20,000 Americans. Remember this when you contribute to Salem's , ' own War Chest drive. War. Pri sonera' Aid committee reaches over 800 camps in 28 countries on live continents. Negro Captain To Take Ship WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-UP1 The Liberty ship Booker T. Wash ington, named for the late negro i jducator will be placed in charge of a negro captain, the maritime commission announced Wednesday. The Booker " T. Washington, a freighter of 10,000 tons dead weight, will be launched soon by the California Shipbuilding com pany, Wilmington, .Calif, and is expected to be completed by mid- October. , .The commission said -Hugh s Tdulzae of Brooklyn, the only : Degro to hold a master's certif i rate, had been assigned to com mand the vessel. Mulzae has held bis master's certificate for 20 years." ' Service to Man 1 Test of Religion Rev. Dudley Strain, pastor of the I First Christian churcJvdefined the ! lest of a man's religion as "not so much what he thinks of God, but what he will do for his fellow f man,", during an address Thurs- day before the Salem Lions club! Me added that his conviction had teenemphasized after .a visit he made to thesluros of New York, where he associated :with the in habitants of the flop houses who were identified by number rather than by. name. ' : "As long as Christ confined his remarks to matters concerning God he had 'no opposition, but when he .began to make assertions regarding the regulation of men he stirred, up controversy." Rev. Strain stated. Victory Fleet' Prayers Urged Gov. Charles A- Sprague Thurs day released a letter urging Ore? gon. churches to observe "Vic- : tory Fleet day,- this Sunday. f ; SundayJs the first anniversary of the launching of the Liberty ship Patrick Henry, a part of the nation's commercial fleet ; ."As this date falls on Sunday, : it would be most appropriate for ? churches in their services to in clude prayers for the gallant men cf the merchant marine and for the workers in shipyards now busily engaged in fabricating these vessels," Governor Sprague said. -. i Conchies to Work SinslaW Forest I WASHINGTON. r Sent. 24 J-IS Conscientious objectors will be used in Siuslaw national forest lire prevention work, "the federal register reported Wednesday. ; A camp will be established at waldport, under direction of the national service board for relig Jous objectors The men will engage in pre- suppression, fire hazard reduc tion,' fire suppression, construe Hon of telephone . lines." truck trails, minor roads, field planting snd forest stand improvement Locale ia Pcrllaricl.. . : SILVEIITON Friends have !rr,rned that I.Irs. Frank Fierst i daughter, Bernice, plan to lo i ;'.e in Portland for the duration. J' jcr Fierst is stationed at Den i r r -'.hs farr.Iy visited him Qttei?ppi3ttDng By KIRKE L. SIMPSON V Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman V A military; miracle hardly aun ana uurucerque nas been wrougnt by the Russians at Stalingrad,'-Even its ultimate fall cannot detract 'from the fact that it has endured more than 30 days men, armor and planes Hitler could bring to bear against it ? : Russian . valor has never been questionable; but Stalingrad has written a new epic of heroism into history. Supreme devotion . by soldiers and citizens alone could account for the fact that the ruins of a once great modern Industrial city still are blazing defiance at the lot from every rubble: pile, every shattered doorway or win dow, every gutter or sewer man hole, weeks after Hitler decreed the capture! ' . v ' Yet the story that historians ultimately will tell of that fight probably will give 'chief credit" ; for that miracle' to something other than ' Russian valor. It ' will go to mother Volga, the great river that flows on to the sea below the cliffs on which the blood-bathed city .stands. It Is the shelter of her mighty arm, thrown about Stalingrad from north to south, that has balked nasi striking power , so long, forced nasi revision to the bloody business of frontal at tack. , Elsewhere in this war except when' it reached the North sea and English channel, that made-in-Germany juggernaut has relied on p a n z e r break-through to spread confusion, and, cripple com munications far in the rear of the main objective, be It fort or city. Perhaps the most astonishing element of the Stalingrad battle as its 30th day waxed and waned, however, was a rising chorus of confidence In the Russian press that it could and would hold out. That is a new note. On just what it , is based is far from clear as there still seems no sound rea son at this distance to hope for ultimate nazi defeat in the effort to capture the shattered city. It may turii on Russian counter attacks northwest of the city which" even Berlin accounts con firm, but say have been repelled. Indications are, however, that Russian reserves are coming into action there probably 1 from the north and the east and are inching forward in the Don-Volga corri dor to threaten the . outflanking of Germany supply and communi cation lines well in -rear of the main point of attack that ' has reached the streets and buildings farther south. Highway-Gty hmt Started Arguments of attorneys in the suit of the state highway commis sion against the City of Cottage Grove, involving the scope of the commission s control over r city streets, were heard by the state supreme- court here Thursday. Thefcity prevailed in the Lane county circuit court and the high way' commission appealed. Officials said the litigation fol lowed, construction of barricades at the entrance of two side streets in Cottage Grove by the highway department. : s v -i. The highway commission : con tends -that the state has para mount control over city streets used for highway purposes, f Successor Naming Delayed, Clatsop v j The Clatsop county court, ad-' vised Secretary of State Earl Snell i Thursday .that it had deferred j indefinitely, the selection of a sue- i cessor to State Senator Frank M. i Franciscovitch, "who died recent- y. .- .. . Snell had directed, the court to meet Wednesday of this Week to consider i ranciscovitch's succes sor. '; ;-.:.;--'.: In case the selection had been made the new senator would have served until early next January. Parrish School Has 1st Assembly Parrish junior high school's move to the senior high auditor ium zor assemblies was acclaimed a success by public school heads following an "introductory?, as sembly Thursday. Alan Bellinger, Parrish student body president, conducted the meeting .' Carl Aschenhrenner, principal, was introduced to the students as were Clifford Bul lock, assistant principal, and new teachers. Initial rules and regu lations for the school year were issued by Principal Aschenhren ner, vr':. . - 'x - ;-. Valley Birth Rpm Troll ineer A sonwis orn in Mr. and Mrs. P. Trollinger, Molt aua, aeptemoer 18, t Silver ton hospital. ; n ' v. . u r Roy ce-A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. . Byron Rovce. Sil verton, at Silvertoh hospital, Sep tember 15. " ' t- - ' Slocum A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kelser Slocum Sentem. ber 21. Mrs. Slocum is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Eastman of SilverUn.' This is their second child. : Ti less startling than those of Vef-J under all the massed power in Rail Magnate To Scrap 41 Mile Road NEW YORK, Sept 24-(hTo the furnaces of freedom, a former Russian immigrant boy offered Wednesday the small railroad which was the realization of his earliest ambition. : ' 'Samuel R. Rosoff, 60, now a wealthy, subway contractor, will scrap his. upstate 41 - mile rail road, the Delaware and Northern, for metal- to be converted into guns and armament for his adopt ed nation. '; '-r-"Every thing I have; I owe to this great nation which gave me my start," Rosoff said. "I came here as a poor immigrant boy from Russia and today I have everything I need in life." Rosoff bought the railroad Dec ember 15, 1928, for $70,000 at a receiver's sale and spent , more than $600,000 improving it The line was appraised at $10,000,000 in December, 1937, he said. The road could have been sold at a profit on several occasions. Rosoff said, but he held on to it because his boyhood ambition was to operate his own railroad. An office of war information of ficial estimated the 7000 tons of scrap .metal in the road would supply sufficient scrap , for 400 medium tanks. Nazi Wounded Work Cheaply . NEW YORK, Sept 24-(dP)-CBS reported hearing a secret German radio which addresses itself to German workers broadcast Wed' nesday night that more than 000,000 .wounded German veter ans "rebuilt of flesh and artifi rial matter" and "reducated" in nazi labor camps, are now work ing ten hours a: day in German industries at pay which is less than unskilled negroes get in Africa. :;-.'y-j . . . The nazis, the radio said, do not regard the war wounded as "war victims whom the state has to take care of. "Men with one arm, blind men, men whose legs have been ampu tatedthey are onjy objects to be exploited for the industrialists, worth anything only as long as they slave for them," the broad cast said. ';; v Minnesota Woman Admonishes Board The state highway commission Thursday received a letter from Mrs. H. C. Kerr, Minnesota, ad monishing ' the commission for omitting any mention of St Paul, capital of the' state, in one of its late tourist booklets. r .". Both ' Minneanolis and Duluth were included in the map which was a part of the booklet. - " ."What a pity you have such ig norant people running your state," Mrs. Kerr's letter read. Evident ly you have poor schools and poor teachers." : ; V Highway department officials said the' letter had been referred to the commission tourist bureau. Air Travel Climbs" In August, UAL . A 16 per cent -gain in revenue passenger miles., flown by United Air Lines during August as com pared to . July was reported Thursday by' Station Manager Ol iver Judd. United flew an estimated 28, 788,000 passenger miles in August compared with 24,876,652 in July and 32,859,813 in August, 1941. Revenue airplane miles flown in August totaled 1,755,730 as against 2,487,498 in-August, 1941. Reduced mileage flown was 'due to the turning over of part of United'! plane fleet to the govern ment for military purposes. Assault Charged In $5000 Claim , l- Charging that ' defendants as saulted and beat him August 26,' 1942, W. a Winslow, Salem at torney, Thursday filed a com plaint for $5000 asainst Pacific Greyhound lines and Charles Dal ton.. Details of the alleged as sault are not related in the com plaint filed in circuit court here. Salvage Studied " ; - WASHINGTON, Sept 23-F) The war. production board's con servation . d i v i t i on-; announced Wednesday it had begun con ferences with a group of well known business and professional women to " discuss means of achieving increased participation in the national salvage campaign by women. CZZGOU STATES2IAN. Solan Harrington Rites Friday TToodliurn Slan Diet at Portland .VetersuMi j - Hospital Wednesday i 1 -. - ' - WOODBURN, Sept 24 John Harrington, 83," died: Wednesday at Jthe .veterans hospital in Port land. Funeral services will be. held Friday at 2.30 from Ringo chapeL Rev. Lester Fields of the Metho diih church will officiate.' Burial will b in Belle Passi cemetery. Survivors include his niece, Mrs. Erma St' Thomas, who made her home with him. Others rela tives live in the' east ' ' Enmu Henrietta Olson . . SILVERTON Mrs. Emma Henrietta Olson, C7, died Wednes day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lester Geer. She was born in Whitewater, Wis,' August 26, ' Survivors include her -widower, Ole Olson; eigh children, Les ter Olson; ! Saiemt SSat''.! Olson, Portland; Mrs. Norma Erickson, Marshal, Minn.; Mrs. " Frances Tinker, Helena, Mont; Mrs. Pearl Stinger, Mrs. Essie f Reynolds; Berkeley; Calif.; Russell Olson, New" York; 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren , ? Funeral arrangenjents are. In charge of : Larson and - Son. No arrangements have yet been made. Cassie Mae Oberson INDEPENDENCE Mrs. Cas sie Mae Oberson, 53, died 'here Monday. Funeral services were held Thursday from Smith-Battn : I T , Soaorh .SW M r I i . U Orecjon. Friday 1 -JorrJag. September 23. 1SU mbrtuaryC Revi David Beck offi ciatedTBurial was "inade "" In" the Harmony cemetery, "Buell dist rict Mrs. Obersen was born January 4, . 1889, ; in Wisconsui. In early girlhood she moved from Wiscon sin Buell, Ore, where she liv ed unta 1907 when she was mar ried to Oscar McCollum, who died March 17 1921; Ten years later she married George Oberson of Independence. She lived in this community for the Jast 20 years.-. Previously sne uvea in Portland, and has many friends there as well as in Independence and Monmouth, ' , Survivors are - her - husband, George ' Oberson, Independence; a son, John McCollum of Port land; one granddaughter; and four brothers, Theodore Bennett, Monmouth; Stanley Bennett; Port land; Charles' Bennett, McMinn- ville, and Frank Bennett, Albany, and many other relatives. Minnie Hogan . SUVER Mrs. Minnie Hogan, died last week in Salem fol lowing a stroke a few days before, Funeral services, were held at the Smith Baun mortuary at Indepen dence .Tuesday; with Rev. Ballan tyne of Monmouth officiating. Burial was at the Fir Crest cem etery south of Monmouth.; Survivors include her husband, Ralph' Hogan, two sons, Jack and Ralph, three daughters, Menam, Dorothy and Alberta.. There are two brothers and three sisters liv mg and 11 grandchildren. . Mrs. Hogan was born July 21, 1880 in Iowa. She was- married to Ralph Hogan' at Roundup, Mon tana Nov. 6, 1915. . Mr. and Mrs. Hogan have lived Fail md WinHr, School or Dress II1TS 0 w WWtr eoota HmJ mmll f stytoTcoett. ! mm4 rwiU(tyW.CarKiRy pjcfcu sUc fUc JUf- - IfMi t mml md Wm. SitM 7 14. A ' Umatilla Has Biggest (in 1941 Payrolls Umatilla . county,' with payrolls nearly quadrupled.i in 1941 be cause of defense activities, topped Oregon's 38 counties in percent' age gam over 1940, state unem ployment compensation officials announced here Thursday. J.n advancing from 16th place in 1940 to 6th place in 1941, Umatil la county reported v payrolls of $10,1314)39 against $2,67298. Despite that Multnomah county registered a little over half of Oregon's $100,000)00 payroll in crease, Its gain over 1940 was only 40 per cent as against 39 per cent for the state as a whole. The PortH land area reported $190,121,156 hi 1841, comparing with $136,101, 679 the previous year. ' With the exception of agricul tural, governmental and certain special activities, the payroll fig ures of $355,499,618 for 1941 cov er all employers of four or more workers in the state. Based on re ports for the first two quarters, .1942 covered payrolls are expect ed to exceed the half billion mark or double those of 1940, officials said. ' Largest percentage gains over 1940 were shown by Linn county, with 87; Morrow 66, Douglas 58, Lincoln 57, Lane 47, Josphine 46, Wheeler 43, Jefferson 42 and Til lamook 42. . Lane county replaced Klamath at Suver for over a year and he is employed by W. J. Kerr. . 'fAoro f or : i y 1 ropviAi, stASON Ant SEASON COAT CLASSICS IN NIWJ43 STYLE VERSIONS l(lh; j VcmkWuJ Valvt Ckh'2-pc Cfassmofs . - rWuriitg rV A wfrptm yckojl WcW", slnrt m4 bUwM Hmmii "wooW is voretoN tl CMC? C4Kg filt4 socVH Slurt k mfii wVJte royoa rraocl) erapit ikirt Imm lf frmA vff4 !, trlM kuL) ft&J SlAM AiAAA SlMiJ y tor ST0?.r: HOURS: 9:J3 A.IL to :C3 PJI. Dailj. In . second place for.1941 payrolls with $17,558,612 against $16,327,- 787 for the southern county. Mar lon held fourth place with' $11, 109,483, while Coos. county was fifth with $11,314,387. ; . The 1941 covered payroll, by months: " v ! ' - -. - ' January $22,309,928, , February $21,918,553, March $24,645,012, April $25,937,706, May $27,855, 754,' June $28,675,163, July $30, 767,278, August' $34,424,349, Sep tember $33,402,874, October . $35,- 337,612, November 132,641,523 and December $37,583,866. 1 Finish Hop Picking . DAYTON Hop picking in the Ross Woods yard near, Dayton is finished, The pickers were trans ferred to his Newberg yard. Pick ing was started August 20. w mpr PofoSo - (D. Modern Housing Conditions - SO Days' Work KLAIIATII & TULLE LAKE POTATO GDOUEDS ASSOCIATIOII See Your U. S. Employment Office r. Trv- txtStttig, swjurtwfl, wtriiawn i eatvh .. C .prlci ttyU cketc lef mmm of lir. toy-styt. Solmacoow, Singt n4 DowU arosi IWtn, 'm TronA style cools mi loy coots U , :.. won fabric for MMina cold woothcr.. ' FWkm, IweWs, sJoMs, s4oi4-bock, " If rriwaheM Wec mmi Horrls typo " toinJi. Ayably prlciJ to mofc yo mar tftey'r He bioaott woiwo yeo've ever . AH aow solora. J Sm 12 to 20, M to 44.' , .... : SADLB djed COffGY mwm if (mMom ycdt to rnik to Wo yoo lr m1 be j Wwrnim fHe.l- " W ' w mL A Wry" ft ' . :"' ' iw-oricW for Itsrs SSvBBlSa PsPPW Hop Picking Near Close w tt Ramie, manaeer" of the ' Salem office of vthe US employ- . ment service, announcea Axiiuuii -that the hop picking season was r virtually at an end with the clos ure of the Wigrich ranch. He es timated that approximately a mil lion dollars in wages had ' been ; distributed to the pickers, 4 yard i z. men and other employes. - . ' Witti excellent weather speeding up fte harvesttog of prunes, ft is : expected that nearly all will be eff -The trees by the middle "of neyt week except at higher elevations. . ; Other than cherries, which were : badly cracked by rains, nearly all (.. of the orchard and field crops have been harvested without much loss. Balllie statea.. , .' FEshesrs' Per Sack cur xc3s STAU?S v L, t, i ftebBSSlSSlBSSi I SSBSSsl BBBl BBlMSVtf VlSllSi " p spssspssw PtT SsSa assSW waiB' rl r 8:30 AJ.L to 9:C3 PJI. Saturday. if jV'- a .-. 1 V