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! OSECON STATESMAN. Salem Onqoxu Wednesday Morning. November lSIStt
USO to Aid
Invitations
To Soldiers
; Salem residents have an oppor
tunity to add to the city's repu
tation for pleasant hospitality
throughout the nation at the same
time that they are building ser
viceman morale during the com
ing holiday season, Capt. Alex F.
Ruth, Camp Adair special service
officer, told Salem USO Hicials
: .Tuesday. ' . . j ; ."'
'At a called meeting to lay plans
for Thanksgiving and Christmas
soldier entertainment, the USO
center with its already-organized
and working hospitality hostess
committee was declared official
clearing house for residents of Sa
lem and surrounding areas inter
ested in having soldiers as guests
in their homes.
Availability of the service is to
be made known at Adair througn
the camp newspaper.
Men whose arrival at the camp
is so late that friends and relatives
cannot reach them with gifts by
Christmas day will be remem
bered through the USO, It was
said.
At the meeting were Capt. Ruth,
rant Willis Roth and CaDt George
De Dakis, division special service
officers; USO Director R. R.
Boardman and the USO program
chairman and assistant director,
Roy Kunz; Mrs. O. K. DeWitt,
Boardman's secretary; Mrs.. Low
ell Kern of the hostess league;
Mrs. W. L. Phillips, hospitality
committee chairman; Tom Arm
strong, city defense recreation
committee chairman; K Scel
lars, representing the USO coun
cil, and Mrs. Walter Spaulding,
. USO icanteen director.
County Seeks
Bridge Parts
Critical materials needed by the
county, particularly repair parts
for machinery, lumber and other
material for bridges, were to be
discussed in Portland on Tuesday
night by County Judge Grant
Murphy and County Engineer N.
C. Hubbs with A. B. Randall, re
search adviser for the bureau of
governmental requirements.
Two bridge on the Fairview
Buena Vista road, which provides
access and egress to Camp Adair;
one bridge On the Gervais-Par-kersville
oiled road, and another
on the Turnerr Marion road, con
sidered a logical military bypass,
are among those for which ma
terial is wanted.
Later this week in Portland
Commissioners Jim E. Smith and
Ralph Girod and Judge Murphy
plan to attend the annual meet
ing of the state association of
county judges and commissioners.
Raver Avers
BPA Profits
The Bonneville administration,
due to war demands, is now oper
ating at a substantial profit or
average; income . of around $15,
000,000 a year, Louis Lachmund,
Salem hop dealer, said he was in
formed by Paul J. Raver, project
administrator, while he was in
Washington, DC, recently.
. The thing Tthat is worrying Rar
- ver and other officials of the Bon
neville; setup is what Bonneville
is going to do with energy gener
ated by Coulee dam after the war
is over and many of the current
war industries curtail their opre
ations, Lachmund declared.
. Lachmund quoted Raver as say
ing that 97 per cent of the Bon
neville power is now consumed by
" war industries. With the end of
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ine war certain to comesome aay
Bonneville officials already are
seeking new permanent-industries
for the northwest area, Lachmund
onciuded. , i
Crawford Named
Stale Offices'
Mile-Controller
Appointment of W. H7 Craw
ford, secretary of the Oregon Eco
nomic council," as state - govern
ment .- mileage ; director, was an
, nounced by : Gov. -. Charles A.
Sprague , here Tuesday. - The ' ap
TVkinfmnt tun rnuct h Tnn
Henderson, office of price admin
istration, Washington, 'DC.
.The purpose of the administra
tor is in line with the nation-wide
program to ; conserve 'gasoline,'
tires' and motor vehicle equipment
7 Duties of the 'administrator are:
' -To - conduct -r study of the use
f " mo t?r vehicles i in the service
of- ;,the a t a t e , government .. and
achieve a reduction of 40 Per cent
ec more' of the mileage travel for
C state in l4177t ' ' ' '
.Direct the. preparation of appli
tations for gasoline and tire ra
tions, , and enlist the . cooperation
ef-aU officials who direct the use
f motor vehicles and who author
fee drsiipervisetrayeLiwK':
Emphasize the need for the ob
servance of the SS mil an hour
cpeed limit by all those who eper
atevehicles in the public service.
Stimulate ? and V coordinate, the
Cctivities of local fn2e8ge aJmir
istrators in the state and direct
information to :. them ' concerning
the prcrarx - V :- 77v -7
Cfcedt continuously on progress
ind'-1 reports to the state
eafectcr.cf the office of price ad
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iTTfae War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Wid World War Analyst far Ttxm SUt i msn
The full fruits of the great American naval victory In the
far Pacific are yet to be revealed in Japanese military reaction
to the blow, but navy opinion that the foe must strike .again at
Guadalcanal, if only to save face, seems well justified. -
Neither Japan, recoiling from
a new defeat at American hands,
nor Hitler, menaced by active
second-front positions in North
Africa, dare surrender the initia
tive. To do so would be to ack
nowledge failure of the axis
dream of world conquest.
The Achilles heel of a philos
ophy of power politics, of rule by
force of arms, is that its practi
tioners cannot stop.
Thus the next move is obvi
ously vp te Germany and Jap
an. Even so, there are certain
unchallengeable new war fac
tors resulting from the stagger
ing rebaff dealt Japanese sea
power in the Solomons. They
have a bearing en the war in
Africa as well as the war in the
Pacific.
Waiving the psychological by
product, the factual and practical
results achieved are highly en
couraging. They lend a color of
realism to allied hopes that the
tide has definitely turned against
the axis everywhere.
Of supreme importance even
before the full score of the Solo
mons battle comes in is the cum
ulative attrition of Japanese sea
power. On navy books a ratio of
better than 4-to-l has been es
tablished against Japan in ship
losses since and including Pearl
Harbor.
Sea power hangs no less on
cargo than on combat tonnage.
The unfavorable odds at sea for
this country in the Pacific produ
ced by two-front war are being
whittled down relentlessly.
That must influence sea odds
in other oceans. The Solomons
victory was decisive enough to
make it virtually certain that no
American warcraft need be re
called from other seas to the Pa
cific. It is the Japanese not the
American fleet that must grope
desperately for replacements.
The absence of Japanese plane
carriers from navy reports of en
emy ships sunk . or damaged is
highly significant and unexplain
ed.. It seems obvious that Japan
ese air power losses must be even
greater in proportion and more
telling in effect than ship losses
to date. Lack of scouting and at
tack planes may have been the
key to the Japanese defeat.
- The other aspect of the Sol
omons sea victory that strong
, ly impresses . : this observer is
the evidence it fives of coor
dinated (and effective army
navy staff work. MacArthur's
planes from Australia had
. mnch to do with the victory
Halsey's ships won off Guadal
canal. American forces in the far Pa
cific may have learned coopera
tion in a hard school; . but the
proof is clear in that shattered
Japanese armada that it has been
learned.
History probably will trace the
sea victory off Guadalcanal more
to good scouting and combined
staff work than to its individu
al genius shown by any officer in
the fight, daring as Halsey's plan
of battle was. That daring must
have been founded on assembled
and digested advance information
of enemy dispositions to warrant
the risk.
DAV to Convene
Thursday Night
- Disabled American Veterans
are to . hold their social meeting
Thursday night at the VFW hall,
opening the session with a 6:30
no-host dinner. .
Members and friends are invit
ed and, following dinner, cards
and other entertainment are
planned. 1 Mrs. William Richards
is" 1 chairman of - entertainment,
Mrs. William Noyes, of refresh
ments. . :" .
" At 7:30 the Camp Adair com
mittee is to hold a brief meeting.
Chapter and auxiliary are furnish
ing a day. room at Camp Adair.
Tillamook Rainfall
5. 14 Inches in Day
.TILLAMOOK, : Nov. 'n.-JPy-Thia
: section-was . drenched.' by
5.14 . inches , of -; rainfall . between
Friday noon' and Saturday morn
ing in a coastal storm, Meterolo-
gist H.. Newman said, Tuesday,
Cargoes of several fishing boats
caught , outside Rockaway . harbor
had , to b -dumped overboard "to
prevent 'capsizing. 7- -1
Piano Crashes
TUCSON, Ariz Nov. 7.-ff-Charles
Joseph Branham of Phoe
nix, civilian instructor at the Pa-"
cific flying school, and. . Theodore
John Woods,' Redlahd,! Calif., an
advanced student, crashed . to
their deaths in a trtinini plane
Monday, six miles couth of the
municipal airport. , - -
sMcCHORD -FIELD, Nor. VI.-(-An
army fighter plane
crashed approximately one ' half
mile off shore in the vicinity of
Port Angeles about 120 p. , m.
Tuesday. The pilot, Second Lt
Stewart L' Bennett,' of Arlington,
Mass.,' parachuted ''safely and was
rescued by the coast guard.
Mrs. Chaffee
Rites Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie
May Chaffee, resident of Oregon
since 1913 who died Monday at
a Portland hospital, are to be held
Friday at 2 p. m. from the Clough
Barrick chapel, Rev. Riddel Kel
sey: officiating, with! concluding
services In City View cemetery by
Salem lodge of Rebekahs.
Mrs. Chaffee was born October
10, 1868, in Portage; Wis., the
daughter of Nelson and Bertha
Van Skiver. In Cayley, Alta Can
ada, where she resided, for-a num
ber of years, she was charter
member Of Pine Leaf Rebekah
lodge No. 38. In Salem she was
member of Salem Rebekah lodge
No. 1 and of the Sweetbriar club
of Wallace road.
Survivors include the widower,
Charles C. Chaffee, Salem; two
sons, Clifford Chaffee, Salem, and
Ralph Chaffee, Cayley; three
grandchildren, Mrs. William Han
sen, Mrs. Leta Arnold and Har
vey Chaffee, all of Cayley; three
great-grandchildren and several
nephews and nieces, including
Mrs. Vina R. Plane, Salem.
First Aiders
Treat Many
First aid men were called Tues
day to treat the following persons:
Ray Moore, route seven, to take
him to the Deaconess hospital af
ter he was injured in an automo
bile accident at Capitol and Cen
ted streets; Mrs. Katherine Breck
heimer, 67, treated for a severe
burn sustained when the electric
iron cord exploded at her home,
2205 Norm Fifth street; Marvin
Rundhaug, 12, injured when he
ran into a parked car as he was
bicycling on South 13th street, and
taken to him home,! 434 South
16th street; Gus Bogenheimer was
taken to his home at 130 Lansing
street.
Monday night the crew" treated
Jean Leabold, 1365 Trade street,
for two cut fingers on the . right
hand sustained while butchering
"a hog.-
Court Upholds
Suit Verdict
The state supreme court Tues
day affirmed a decree of Circuit
Judge Charles W. Redding, Mult
nomah county, granting Mrs. Ce
celia M. Carruthers $5244 damages
against Dr. Ben I. Phillips, Port
land physician anH surgeon.;
The court held that Dr. Phillips
was negligent in failing to remove
sponges following an operation.
The opinion was written by Jus
tice James T. Brand, ; K ;
Other court action Tuesday:
E. C. Ahlstron vs. ' J. L. Lyon,
defendant, and Pete Ebar, appel
lant. Appeal from Lake m county.
Opinion by Justice Belt. Circuit
Judge Arthur D. Hay affirmed.
Petitions for rehearing: denied
in First National Bank vs. Marion
county and in Skulason vs. Sheriff
Martin Pratt of Multnomah coun
ty.
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Bend, Marshfield
Lead in Traffic !
Safety Contest; j
Bend, Marshfield, Ontario and
Enterprise were in first place in
their respective divisions of the
1942 Oregon Cities Traffic Safety
contest In October, Earl SnelL sec
retary of stateand sponsor pt the
contest, announced. , (
Cities: are graded according to
their ratio of improvement over
the accident experience far the
previous three-year - period. Each
city, competes' against ; its own
three-year average. ,JV - r j j -
Following are the cities in each
division' listed in thei? order for
October':- fJ-T? nfT' ' "
t Division 1: Bend, Astoria, Eu
gene, ': Medfd, Klamath ' Fans,
Salem,'-Portland. ' " ; - ;
' Division ; S:; Marshfield,'; La
Grande, Clrants Pass, Oregon City,
Pendleton, Albany," Baker, The
Danes; orvilUs.? -? '
Division S: . Ontario, Burnt,
Springfield,. Prineville, Lakevlew,
Lebanon, McMinnville, Silverton,
NewpcCociuiIle, North Bend,
Roaeburg." Tillamook,: Cottage
Grove, Hood River, : St.? Helens,
Ashland, Newberg, Forest Grove,
Seaside, West linn, Toledo, Hills
boro, Dallas. ; '
. Division" .4;;' Enterprise, ; Red
mond, Union, Junction City Os
wego, Rainier, ' Milton, : Bandon,
West- Salemr Vale, I Woodburn,
Heppneri Warrenton, Sheridan,
Myrtle Point, Reedsport,' Xnde
pendence. Milwaukie. Beaverton,
Vtxwsidisf. StaytoiC; Mt.' ' Angel,
Gladstone:' Gresham, Sweet Home,
Nyssa. -'4 !' . I
Prison Terms
Meted Here
To 4 Men
Penitentiary sentences totaling
80 months were handd down in
18-month stretches -by f Judge L.
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M. McMahan on. Tueid ay to a
quartet of men who ex tered pleas
of guilty in Marion county circuit
court. yV :. - 1
Charles E. Owens, convict from
Gilliam county, who had only 21
days to serve on his term for lar
ceny -when he and Roy Helms
Randall escaped from sthe state
penitentiary annex recently, was
sentenced to serve
additional
18 months in the p:
here for
larceny of a car.
On the same . charge, Randall
was given an additional 18 months
in the penitentiary. The two ad
mitted having stolen m pickup
truck belonging to Lee Barber,
Turner. r
Ralph Guest, pleading guilty to
larceny of a car, was sentenced to
18 months, while Lloyd B. Logan
was given two sentences of 18
months each, to run concurrently.
Logan entered pleas of guilty to
two check forgery changes. Port
land law enforcement! officials,
meantime, had notified officers,
here that they held Warrant for
the same man on a Twnay charge.
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Racial Cooperation Stressed
Bv Forum of World iLeaders
NEW YORK, Nov. 17-;P)-Queen Wilhelmlna of The Neth
erlands said Tuesday night that the United Nations thrust for
revenge after the war would be "great and understandable" but
that revenge should hot "be our guidmfij motive." .'
"Let justice be our aim justice and firmness tempered by
wisdom," she said In an address
for dellveryat the closing session
of the New York Herald Tribune's
two-day forum on current prob
lems. ' . u . 1--V-f':.V?'''
Her address was read hy Dr.
H. J. Van Mock, Netherlands min
ister of overseas territory. .
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
of - China said that , in order to
achieve political, social and econ
amic justice for all peoples the
united nations must start at once
to organize an international or
der embracing all peoples to en
force peace and Justice among
them." i :;
Chiang said that China had no
desire to replace western imper
ialism in Asia with an oriental
imperialism or isolationism of its
own or of any one else. - . ' -
Adm. William H. Standley,
United States ambassador to Rus
sia, said : a firm beliefthat per
manently profitable, normal peace
ful relations between the. nations
of the world can be the new or
der, must prevail if our civiliza
tion is to endure. '
The policy of national isolation
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tiquated! formulae, he declared in
a prepared; speech
Appealing for racial cooperation
at home and abroad, Clare Booth
Luce, congress woman-elect' Tfrom
Connecticut, told the forum: "Ra
cial cooperation is the keystone of
our resistance,- as it must be the
arch of bujr victory.1 - i
- She declared that brown, black
and yellow! men were the first to
resist axis j aggression, and asked:
- TWhat !are those colored mil
lions of sotdiers, who fight by our
side, fighting for? Well, it is very
easy - tofsay what they are not
fighting :for.They are not fighting
for the j white man's supremacy
anywhere,.. ; -:;:; ,-rV'v-:-' '!-''-
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The UCLA Bruins went through
such a bruising workout Tuesday
that End Herb Wiener, Guard
Mike Marienthal and Fullback Ken
Snelling were injured. ,
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State Pension
Body
Ready
For Election
Distribution of ballots for elec
tion of a statewide committee to
outline the Oregon pension fed
eration prpgram for the 1943 leg
islative session will be completed
not later than December 10, Theo
dore Nelson, ' executive secretary,
announced here Tuesday,
The 35 members of the com
mittee will meet in Salem January
12 and 13. , '
'The job assigned to the commit
tee is' two-fold. One task ; is to co
ordinate " all major state pension
proposals ' into one "definite, pro
gram and to liberalize the old age
assistance law so that Oregon will
receive full benefits now available
under the social security law.
The other is' that of . exploring
the possibility of promoting an
old age insurance system that will
prove a protection for aged per
sons excluded from benefits un
der, the social security act and
from all other publicly adminis
tered retirement income systems
providing less than $40 per month
retirement income '- i .
Among those who' come within
the latter category are the wives
of most federal civil service em
ployes together with many other
public employes, domestics,, farm
workers, ministers and self em
Plan no7 ! to have The
Statesmaii mail copies
your men
service!
Each
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ror- Uda mcdllng cervice, writo - names', and. addresses . on convenient
krt;? found cni .Pac; 53 ;cl th Camp Adair "gecfioa ' (Sunday,
KoTtaber t&J ener I2iitr mtfl "ot bring thtrn to Cii Ckxiesia'aa vrilh1
ployed business and professional
men and women.
Dr. Frank S. Shutz is supervis
or of the'pension federation elec-'
tion committee.
Officials Praise
La Grande Drill
The " frrrfriomf Ar-m lntA . .
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Grande on November 4 was the
best initial effort nt f vir, Wi
in Oregon up to this time, stato
defense council off icials declared
here Tuesday. -
a neavv snow uut fan?i-
a
freezing conditions prevailed at
ic tune, uinciais said the Various
services responded, quickly and
particular credit was due to a
madical unit. The casualty clear
ing station was the best Observed
in any city of comparable size,
the officials reported.
Employer Asked to
Guarantee Jobs
PORTLAND, Nov. ll.-JP-Oregon
employers , were asked
Tuesday to guarantee that jobs
would be available after the war
to Workers who quit to go into
war industries. ' v
The request came from Emory
R. Worth, Oregon directs pi the
US employment service, who
said the guarantees were neces
sary to speed-the transfer !of men
and women A4 rom non-essential
to war work. ;
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