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Dimout Complete Tool) find no newspape can rive more real aUarae tloo than row local morn ; tut paper, with Its WORLD NEWS pins DOBX8 COil UUNXTY NEWS. Wednesday susset 8:13 p. in Thursday itemise till a. m. Weather: Hon. max. temp. 27, min. It. Wed. liv er IJt ft. Weather data re stricted by army request. P8UNDQB imTY-CICOIID YEAR Sclera, Oreyoxu Wednesday Morring, January 23, 1813 Price, 5c No. 219 Mo Jo. Heiidlricks Wtsm mi Ml TSv -Cj' -T- ife (Iff! s ' . . , . ? . ... l 47 . Ai TED tor sag 30' to 63 V7 rs o R. J. HENDRICKS - Veteran Editor Served Widely Work for University, YMCA, Church, City : Recognized Word of the death Tuesday af ternoon of R. J. Hendricks came as a surprise to men over the state who had ; worked for and with the veteran newspaperman and civic leader. To The States man on Tuesday night came these ' expressions: - . - for the past 50 years R. J. Hendricks had given unsparingly of his time and talent in tne sup . port of every, movement for civic betterment. He was, - a- charter member of the Salem YMCA and served coTitmuotrely on rthe board of directors from the beginning of the work in Salem. He was a val ued and untiring worker on the board of 'trustees . of Willamette university.' In-his death Salem has - lost an ardent advocate and a loy al friend." Paul B. Wallace, Pres ident YMCA ' board of directors and former president Willamette university trustees. "Forty nine years ago Mr. Hen dricks joined the First Congrega- , tional church. During the past half century he contributed freely of his time and his ability toward leadership and Christian work. The members of the church, young and old, knew him. and loved him. His death will be mourned by all who have felt the warmth of his friendly guidance." Dr. Egbert S, Oliver, State moderator, Con ffrerational church. , "Long a member of the Salem Rotary club, Mr . Hendricks was ' faithful "in attendance. All of us. the younger men as well as those older ones with whom he was most closely associated have missed him 'in his favorite place at the front of ; the room." Tinkham Gilbert, former president. Salem Rotary club. ' '. Mr. Hendricks . will . be . long . remembered for the constructive work he did for the state of Ore gon and the city of Salem, and by the legion v of those who were privilege ? to serve with liim in . those efforts. Robert C. Notson, manaslng editor of The Oregon lan, whose early reporting exper ience was on The Statesman. "I was associated with "Bob' Hendricks for 10 years and have ' was an entertaining conversation alist, rad widely, and:, thought due. X think, to two things, an un flagging industry and his never- failing interest in young people . Stephen A. Stone, former States man manasing editor ; and new city editor of The Capital Jour suvl. " - . "No one ever had a better boss or a finer man to work , for. He was generous , to a fault, v You mitrht ksv he was his own worst enemy: He did so much for the community to his own detriment,' Ralph Glover, for 25 year In . The Statesman business office. now H. L.; Stiff company credit tnanarcr. . - . Mr. Hendricks unfailing cheer : - fulness and k courtesy, ,his : un- ' equaled diligence and his sincere devotion to the 'best Interests of the community and humanity in ' general, were an inspiring exam pie to all who were associated "with him in newspaper work." Ralph C Curtiss, state editor, The Statesman. . .. Accident Fatal PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 19 Mrs. Edith F. Patterson, 75, was fatally injured Tuesday night by ; an automobile, the third traffic v I imp''"-! .. - - "i 1 f - - . fatality of the year in Portland. f A ft n Mill Polk Native Dies: Rites Than R. J. Hendricks, editor emeri tus of The Statesman, with which newspaper he had been associated ; for 58 years, died Tuesday afternoon at the home of his son, Paul R. Hendricks, Salem attorney. ; Five weeks earlier he . had sent his last "Bits for Breakfast" column to the printers, i admitted feeling unwell and had gone home and to bed with pneumonia, which next day sent him to the hospital. Two weeks ago he was able to return to his son's home, but the anticipated convalescence did not follow, i . -.v! - . Funeral services are to be held at 10:30 man. Thursday from the ' Cloash-Barrick chapel, with In terment in the Od d Fellow cemetery.- - -' Seventy nine years old at the time of his death, Mr. Hendricks had not limited his working years to the newspaper profession, al though he had always swung back to his desk in The Statesman of- (Turn to Page 2 B) Retirement Bill Back State Bar Reiterates Plea for Judge Act, With Amendments ; Meobers ol the legislative com mittee of the Oregon State Bar association reiterated in a confer ence with lawyer members Of the state legislature here Tuesday night that they would press for enactment of the judges retire ment act. ) ' Accepted by the legislature at its last session but later vetoed by Gov. Sprague, the' bill ; to be presented this session contains some amendments, but remains a measure providing? for voluntary retirement of circuit and supreme court judges upon reaching the age of 70 years following speci fied number of years of service, they said. The conference, presided over by H. Arthur McMahan, chair man of the committee, was called to explain and discuss the pro posals adopted recently by the as sociation for presentation to the legislature, and included in its personnel Gunther F. Krause and F. M. Sercombe, both of Portland, president and secretary, - respect ively, of the bar association. The meeting was a dinner session at the Marion hotel. Eugene Women Hurt Mrs. Matilda Knight of Eugene was taken to the Albany hospital early Tuesday night to receive care for facial injuries' received when the Knight car, driven by Harrison M. Knight, collided head-on with a Cascade Lumber company truck on Illahee hill south of Salem, state police said. nil i ti HUM!! Lobby Hobnobber HlhsiSr Some members of the: ways and means committee are ' ! still con cerned over the defacement of the bronze state seal in the floor of the capitol rotunda, caused by pe destrians careless feet. The bill instructing custodians to build a fence around it, passed at the. 1941 session but vetoed by Gov. Charles A. Sprague, was recalled from the house table Tuesday by the ways and means Committee for recon sideration. . - Reminiscent of enactments in other legislative' sessions"" which have lent themselves to feature story treatment, such as solemnly proclaiming the frog a game fish, was the senate's action Tuesday in approving -a bill which declares the Montana grayling to be a game fish.--; - Latest unofficial report on the house employes' efforts to ob tain pay increases m line with those granted In the senate. Is that members'; were polled quietly and It was found that SI were ; opposed; whereupon the resolution for the purpose was not introdnced. Members arent anxious to have It come to an open - vote--they have to vet along with their secretaries. Chilean Senate Votes lo Break With-Axis f 1i j if j , 1 'i . i . . Teachers ' '" " i 1 ,' To Enter easure Committee Approves ; Parole Change Asked; - Guard Bill Amended j By RALPH C. CURTIS : Though the race with time for enactment of a bill extend ing the life of the Oregon state guard neared tonight's deadline with success still slightly in doubt, interest in the legisla ture's doings was still focused Tuesday upon . the preparation and introduction of f measures which will constitute the session's heavier tasks.''. Jj r f Following a conference with the Oregon State Teachers' association legislative commitee, the house education committee voted to in troduce the association's proposed amendments to clarify the voter approved act distributing sur plus income tax funds to school districts. Under the key amend ment which would define as "sur plus" all funds remaining after present state levies including spe cial millages were offset, school districts would receive this year $4,500,000, according to the esti mate of state department of edu cation officials. This however would be contingent upon the leg islature's acceptance of an amend ment specifying , that j "surplus" heretofore collected would be so. distributed, f ! V ! The OSTA . committee also asked In trod action of bills to simplify certification of teach (Turn to Page 2 A) City Defense Chiefs Asked To Remain No personnel changes in admin istration of civilian defense duties for Salem are contemplated by his organization. Alderman 'Tom Armstrong, chairman of the newly-appointed city civilian defense council, declared Tuesday ; night. "We need those men and wo men who have been ; doing the work," declared Armstrong, point ing out that his council is to serve in an advisory as well as a ruling capacity and that his I aim is to strengthen the present organiza tion. : "Public interest slumped when the setup neared completion and we'd like to help re-awaken it," he said. "Volunteer firement for instance, need support and great er numbers. One of our first duties when we meet ! late : tWs. week or early next will be to draw a budget and figure where the support for the needed de fense preparation here is to be se cured", 'Armstrong stated. ? -.t-ii i it. -i, ' fwuuij u uwk awes auv are their wives. Some members, and presumably all members, have received a let ter from the WCTU recording that organization's opposition to the use of any funds derived from the sale of liquor for support of edu cation. I t -- - r J . Around the - legislative halls "where she's often been before,' Louise i Palmer Weber was ob served ; on - Tuesday j When - the public t hearings start, shell ' be heard or else this session will be different , . Sen. H. R.' Kauffman of Lincoln and Tillamook counties was absent from the senate Tuesday due to a cold. , , ; . Mrs. John Y. Richardson, vice- chairman of the Multnomah . re publican central committee, at tended the sessions Tuesday. - Joseph N. Scott of Athena, for mer house member, has been ap pointed chief clerk of the senate roads and highways committee by Chairman Cornett (R-Klamath). . Additional legislative ' news : to M day on page 9. "x Has Goebbels' Star Gazing Gone Awry? HOLLYWOOD. Jan.' lSPV Tbe Berlin radio is gone five r six thousaBd miles eff, which' perhaps Is close enough for nazi propaganda purposes. - While the Berlin radle bread east, recorded by. the Associated Press Tuesday night, was an nouncing that - American . film star Robert Taylor had - been , interned by Spanish aothoritles after a US bomber ' had been forced down in ' Spanish Mor occo, the actor had Just finished his day's work on his latest me-. tion picture. W : A studio spokesman said he had seen Taylor not half an hour before, and that to . his knowledge the actor hadn't been out of the state for weeks, much leas abroad. - c Miners Told To End Strike 48-Hour Deadline Set By President ; Five Locals Defy Him WELKES-BARRE, Pa Jan. 19-)-Workers at five strike bound anthracite collieries voted Tuesday to continue their 20 day old unauthorised walkout, three of them balloting hours after President Roosevelt de manded the strike be ended.. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -(- As commander-in-chief , of . the armed forces, President Roose velt served notice on striking an thracite miners Tuesday that they must return to work within 48 hours or he would take the "nec essary steps' to protect the na tion against "serious Injury to the war effort." The chief executive's warning, possibly implying that troops would be dispatched to the mines, was telegraphed to local and na tional officers of the united mine workers. The war labor board had advised him that the strikers had not complied with two requests from it for a return to work. Although 6000 of the strikers returned to the Jobs ; Tuesday, UMW locals at the lwo large col lieries voted to continue the three-; weeks old walkout, and the meet ing of a third broke up in con fusion before balloting was com pleted. Altogether more than- 12, 000 still are idle. A general belief prevailed among the miners throughout the strike area that the president's order meant that the government would take over management of the closed mines without the use of troops. Many of the strikers favor such action. i John I Lewis, president of the UMW, had no formal comment on Mr. Roosevelt's action. Officials of (Turn to Page 2-') . Algeria Gels . Anti-Vichy Governor A LL I E D - "HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 19 -Wh The appointment of Marcel Pey routon as governor general of Al geria was announced Tuesday and his elevation was taken by obser vers here as a sign that there would be a thorough houseclean Ing of pro-Vichy ites by the deadly political enemy of Pierre Laval. -. 'Among the pro-Vichyites in Al geria most likely to go at the in sistence ' of Peyrouton, who v is known as a ruthless administrator, is Charles Temple, Laval-appointed prefect of Algiers, a post sec ond In importance only to the gov ernor generalship. Temple, also is director general of the French posal and telegraph system.. - -'. . . ;,...- ... .. Peyrouton, a former. French ambassador to Argentina who once signed an order for Pierre Laval's arrest but who at the same time played hand-in-glove with Vichy. apparently had the full approval of the allied governments. It is understood that any new appointees in North i Africa have the approval of the British and American governments, and Pey routon had a long talk with US LL Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower two days ago. -'iff f- vv statement ected Goyernment's Decree ; Required Before : Break Complete --i-i H '- jv - r'-: - SANTIAGO, ChUe, Jan. 19 WP)-Th Chpeaii senate voted 30 to 10, Tuesday night to break relations with the axis, political sources; ptidj and a government announcement later said that President Juan Antonio. Rios would broadcast to the country Wednesday night on the "inter nationa) situation. Two; Abstentions were reported In the 'vote. I . . The move would leave Argen tina asvthe single American re public still maintaining relations with Germany, Italy, and Japan. After weeks j of wrangling over the ,. issue Foreign Minister Joa quin Fernandez presented the mo tion to f the senate, then went to President Rio's residence to in form him' of that body's vote." A public : statemenjt Is expected soon. j Am : the report of the senate vote spread a crowd gathered outside the congress balldinx bersn cheering and organised a triumphant parade through the central' streets. A few shouts of opposition were heard. If Political sources said a govern ment decree announcing the break and formal notification of axis diplomats remained before the Chilean, ; action was complete. . . uuie,,wmcn alone with Argen tina of all American nations bad been maintaining relations with the axi powers, has been debat ing the step for many weeks. The senate was ready to vote in De cember, but at the request of President Juan Antonio Rios post poned, action awaiting a report of Interior Minister Raul Morales on a trip he had made to the United States. Allies Pressing Pocketed Japs Cleanup j .Operations . j Pushed in Sanananda I Sector New Guinea i I l - l ! " - - . 1 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, .Wednesday. Jan. 20 - W-American " and Australian jungle fighters tightened their lines around i four . pockets of doomed, Japanese in the Sanan anda sector bf New Guinea Tues day after taking the village and point Monday. . ! Japanese were pocketed on the coast on both sides of Sanananda point and in two places along the swampy Sanananda road which leads to the beach. Enemy casual ties were described as heavy, but no figures were given. Twenty sev en were captured. Some Japanese escaped from dugouts and were wandering at large. ii The number captured was un usually large. " o Eighteen Jap bombers raided ; (Turn to Page 2 C) . Jap Landmarks Those at Home Exp Today .--?! . ! T - "-I . I 1 .J4::;r- it SEATTLE, Jan. 19.-iff5)-EnsIgn Gilson : Rohrback added another chapter Tuesday to the epic of the navy's undersea raiders as he told of patrolling so close to the Jap anese j shores that "We've - gotten to know their landmarks better than those at home. .. ; The young Seattle officer, just a year out ol the University, of Washington, s e r v e d under Li. Commander Thomas B. Klakrirxg of Annapolis, who recently was awarded the navy, cross for raid ing exploits which, the command er reported, Included the sinking Of eight enemy ships totaling 70,- 000 tons. 1 Rohrback said the submarine twice sank two ships within 60 seconds , of s each other, which he described as an amazing perf orm 9 nee' of coordination because of the complex calculations neces sary." ; , - "1 feel as though I've learned Flynn Post Before Senate Edward J. Flynn (left) President Roosevelt's choice as minister to Australia, as he conferred In Washington with: Postmaster General Frank & Walker, his probable successor as national democratic ' Chairman, before the senate offered the appointee an opportunity to testify today before Its foreign relations committee. Sen. Brldses (R-NH), who denounced Flyna's Bommatlon, also will present testimony before the committee ' ' - "::-:- :i".-":-:lr ; Coastal Gale Predicted; Cold Kills 8 PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 19 ff -The ; Portland weather bureau Tuesday night ( vorderect, small craft i warnings Von Mthe coalf changed to storm warnings fron Newport to the Oregon-California line. Gales are expected, th4 weather bureau announced. ; f By The AsaocUted Press Bitter below zero weather con gealed a large part of the mid! west Tuesday resulting in at least eight deaths directly; attrihl u table to the low temperatures. Minnesota bit a frlsid Jackpot with a low of 51 below sere, Minneapolis recorded 29 below. Crelghton, Neb, had SI below. At Garner. Ia and Mismarck.1 ND, U was ZS below. Kansas City, Mo, had 12 below. . I New Mexico had some j of th lowefit temperatures in its history The otlieial Chicago mercury sank to 8 below. At St. Louil Ma, it was -5. j . : I Twk fatalities were reported in Iowa, and many rural schools closed. :- " ; '..-"v:' ; . t . '. j j" 'j. Bernard DeueL 63, Norfolk Neb farmer, froze to death after he was gored bya bulL . j r f Three deaths were attributed to the cold in Chicago and a young boy and girl were found frozen to death"; in an automobile ; near Quincy, HI. "- i " I PORTLAND, Jan. 19 Oregon's most severe cold wave of the .winter plunged - tempera-, tures to sub-zero or sub-freezing marks throughout the state Mon day, the weather bureau revealed Tuesday. . ,. . - i v. The most frigid " spot I was Meacham, Blue Moun tain ' town, with 47 degrees below zerow La Grande reported 20 below, the ' (Turn to Page 2 D) ; More Familiar j Than to US Sub's Grew Quite a bit about Japan," he said in aa Interview. "We saw big Japanese cities ; and j Jap trains, bases and ships." : He also told, as did Commander Klakring previously af ter re- turning to Peart : Euurbor;; . watching a crowd at a Japan4 ese race traek.' . . V" "But Tve 'got to talk about Commander Klakring, Ensign Rohrback insisted.; "He's' jtheJot of fellow who's going to -win the war, L Nothing seemed td bothr him. He used to go inso close for torpedo shots that the concussion would be worse in the submarice than a lot of depth charges seern. "We attacked -convoys twice. Once we got four out of five ships. The other time we got two and injured one and then i surfaced to try for some Others. The skip per liked to. get. up on the sur face ; and travel. When we were - . . .. . s .. ; t i" . or ''--. s f British Smash NearTripoK Left Wing Dashes; '. Allied. Airmen Bomb ; ; trench Corps Gains j CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 19-P)-The left wing of the British eighth army had swept across the Tripol itanian hump Tuesday - night . to within 50 miles or less of Tripoli in an inland dash apparently In tended to cut in ahead of Marshal Rommel's fleeing axis forces along the coast. The advance had car ried more than 40 miles within 24 hours. ' ' (The Carlo radio, in a broad cast heard in London by Reuters, reported the. British had swept to within : SO miles of Tripoli.) The British right, driving along the coastal road, had reached a point beyond the - settlement of Zliten in- an area 80-odd miles short of Tripoli and it appeared more and more likely that that great port,' once the key to Italy's (Turn to Page 2 E) . Gas Station Hours Limited Washington; Jan. 19, Service stations throughout, the country may stay open not more than 72 hours a week, and for not more than 12 hours a day, the of fice 7 of petroleum administrator ordered Tuesday. The only excep tion is stations - staying open 24 hours a day, seven days , a week. The order is effective ' Satur day, c.t : Ralph K. Davies, deputy petrol eum administrator, said the 24-hour-a-day alternative would per mit so-called truck stations to serve common carrier trucks and other T card holders. t. attacking the second convoy, the lookout said: ; , " , - "Captain! .Captain! There's an auxiliary , cruiser out there shoot ing at us. .:-; , : "The skipper said, Are they hitting us? j The lookout replied, No, and the skipper said, 'Well, all right! . - f & . - -. ; . "As a matter of fact, the mer chantmen were shoetbig - at us, toe, with five-Inch- deck' guns,; but it didnt seem to bother the skipper. He stayed on the sur ' face for an hour and a half try- tng to get another shot. : Then Jap planes' came, out and we pulled the cork and went ' down." - J ' ; ';.;"""."." - But life wasn't always so tense aboard " the marauder. The men could relax and ' dine lavishly from an undersea storehouse, Throughout j the long cruise, ' the men had an abundance of steaks, chicken, turkey, pies and cakes. Nazi Base Taken At en s Is. Germans Pushed Back ; Point, Claimed ; V' " By The Associated Prsi MOSCOW, Jan.- 19 The red army has reached a point only 79 miles from Kharkov, bin Ukraine industrial city in a con-' turning westward sweep that has resulted in the capture of 52,000 axis prisoners i n one week, it was announced official ly Tuesday night in a special com munique circulated by . the soviet news agency Tass. , Kamensk, 85 miles north of Rostov, strategic nazi base at the northwestern corner of the Cau casus, aiso zeu to uie advancing Russians, the special communique said. - ; Valuekl and Urasove fell to ; the Hessians driving- en Khar kov, and the red army now has hurled back the Germans to their 1941 Invasion mark Valuiki, an important railwaj Junction for three lines, is 81 miles east of Kharkov, and Urazov is 79 mUes from the steel city. Of the 52,000 prisoners, taken since r last Wednesday the Rus sians said 27,500 were Hungarians, 22,000 Italians, and 2500 Germans. In the fighting from January 13 to January 18 the Russians said their troops on the Voronezh front had captured 170 tanks,- 1700 guns, 2800 machine guns, 4000 mortars, 6000 trucks, 1500 horses, 55,000? rifles, about 10,000,000 cartridges, approximately 600,000 shells, and more than 150 various suppjy diunps. I ':-"-J .,' zovo apparently was made by the red army that two days ago took Aleksyeevka, 40 miles to the northeast on the railway leading back to Voronezh. Aleksyeevka was reported captured Sunday. This Valuiki spearhead is the northern arm of the Russian at tempt to envelop Kharkov. The southern arm is operating in the area of ' Novo-Pskov, 112 miles southeast of Kharkov. In between these two forces "enemy troops west of Kamen-ka-Rossosh railway line are .1..l. .Mlll..laJ - J be ins wiped eut by oar troops." the communique said. m- " i t . t . -i i j w uie irri ii I is reHcnpn vm iiiik l i . - the fall of 1941. They were pushed . back slightly toward Kharkov by the Russians, but It was from the same general area that the nazis began last sum mer's drive that carried to Stal ingrad, and deep into the Cau casus to the soutn. . By seizing Valuiki the Rus sians denied the Germans the use of the north-south railway which the nazis had been using to sup ply their forces on the middle Don front - . - ' .; , i In this middle Don area the Russians also were pushing west ward . into the ' Ukraine while other columns drove straight southward toward Rostov whoso capture would trap huge German armies in the Caucasus. House Votes FFC Inquiry WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-)-By an almost unanimous voice vote, the house Tuesday ordered a special committee to investigate A1 . fl . I A uie jaeru -conunumcanons com mission after hearing Rep. Cox (D-Ga) assail the agency as "the nastiest nest of rats to be found In this entire ' country." ' - , Cox, who sponsored the Investi gation resolution, was named by Speaker Rayburn to head the in quiry. On the ' committee with him are Representatives Hart' of New-' Jersey and Magnuson of Washington, democrats, and Wig glesworth of Massachusetts and Miller of Missouri, republicans. . . ' Cox indicated that later he may agree to a broadening of the com mittee's authority' to permit it U inquire into the entire radio in dustry, as suggested in a separ ate resolution introduced by Rep resentative Sparkman (D-Ala). REA Lauded by Fit ST. LOUIS, Jan.' 13 (Pres ident - Roosevelt said Tuesday night he looks upon the electrifi cation of the country's farms un der the rural electrification ad ministration as "one of the last ing achievements of my administration." Mm