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o odd ooo ooo OOOO ODE3 CD 23 DO. O ODD OOO ODDO OCD O 00 , o o o Salem First Aid Crew Boasts Shiny New Car i . it? - : - U ' ; WUNDID 1651 o -: SI : 1 Ho. 247 NINETY-SEVENTH YEAB 10 PAGES The Oregon Statesman Salem, Oregon. Saturday. January 10, 1941 Price fte yoo Rfflay Senndl Rfflairiifnies to PaDestomie to ooairdO, Ceimsyiato; Elavy (Sives Few Saabs to Ymhey g'in, Itr" - 4 II A-'jj. J7Tt Salem's new first mid car will be la regelar service today. Its crew ready for all emergencies. The gleaming red Cadillac shown at the right is the result ef contributions from Salem labor nion groups and donaUons by business concerns and private individuals, and cost Slf.toO. At left Is the old first aid ear. and the two crews which will operate the new ear. Left to right, they are Capt. Arthur Bloom. Drivers Clinton Hart and Don Hill, and Capt. Charles Chariton, who drove the new ambulance to Salem from the factory In Ohio. (Photo by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer.) SQDDjQB UJUB mo The way the driftwood is float ing shows the way the current of a river flows. But sometimes floating debris appears to be mov ing upstream. It has struck an eddy or a whirlpool and had its direction reversed. A few days ago General Electric announced reductions of from 3 to 10 per cent on a long list of - its products, chiefly those appli ances going into home consump tion. And painters at Everett, Wash, not only backed up on a demand for a wage increase of 14c an hour, but also voluntarily cut their pay 2k cents jn hour. In neither case was the action prompted by sheer philanthropy. GE said it felt the time had come to do something about inflation; and the painters said that while cost-of-living would warrant a pay raise, they felt that higher wages ,would force higher prices and cause a falling off in work. The question is whether these Items of news are merely eddies off the main current or whether they may be advance indicators of a turn in the tide. The economy has reached a stage where price resistance is being felt. It is showing up in food lines where retailers note un der pressures of competition shrinking margins. That Is the most sensitive spot, but the Wall Street Journal, reporting on the annual furniture market (Continued on editorial page) Phone Rate Ruling Today Order in the application of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company for an anual rate in crease of $2,249,000, based on its Oregon operations, will be re leased today. Public Utilities Com missioner George H. Flagg an nounced. Hearings before the public util ities commissioner covered several weeks during the past summer and writing the order has since been in progress. The city of Portland intervened in opposition to the rate increase. Witnesses included many high officials of the telephone com pany along with telephone rate experts for the utilities commis sion and the city of Portland. Nearly 200 exhibits were intro duced during the hearing. 10 Film Writer Plead Innocent WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -JP)-Ten Hollywood movie writers and producers who tangled with house members in an investigation of al leged communism in the movies, pleaded innocent today. to charg es of contempt of congress and were ordered to stand trial. Each will be given a separate trial, starting February 9, ruled Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech. The ten men had been indict ed by a federal grand jury on charges of contempt in that they refused to tell the house commit tee on .un-American activities whether they were communists. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Hare you been feeding them pigs pop corn?" TZX23 Unions to Present New First Aid Car To Salem Today Following presentation cere monies at 3:30 this -afternoon on the city hall steps. Salem's new first aid car will be in service, replacing a 10-year-old emergency vehicle. Both have been financed principally by local organized la bor. Today's program will include the prese nation of the new Cad illac by Herbert E. Barker, secre tary of the Salem Trades and La bor council, to Mayor R. L. Elf strom. Other members of the la bor group are to participate, and Paul Gurske, labor repesentative on the state industrial accident commission, will speak on safety. Until the ceremonv. the car will be on display at Valley Motor company. Lumker Bridge Sections to Go To Roseburg Four sections of the Bailey type bridge completed over the Little North Fork of the Santiam river above Mehama last Tuesday will be removed and shipped to Rose burg to help replace a steel span damaged by flood waters Wednes day, Marion county bridge fore man Ted Kuenzi said Friday. The Bailed bridge was borrowed from the state highway commis sion and installed over the Little North Fork when the Lumker bridge collapsed; under a heavy logging truck, leaving several fa milies stranded, including three pregnant women. Kuenzi said county crews will start operations today to remove about 40 feet pf the structure. Wooden ramps leading onto both sides of the structure will be in stalled to replace the four sec tions, Kuenzi said, and the entire operations will be completed by Monday night. The four sections will be brought to the Salem state high way shops where they will - be loaded with sections of another Bailey bridge now enroute from Fort Lewis, Wash. Five large trucks will be used to move the spans to the Umpqua river, 11 miles south of Roseburg. The steel bridge was undermined by high waters Wednesday and the struc ture sank two feet at the upper end. Sen. Tobey to Support Ike WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -(JP) Senator Tobey(R-NH) announc ed tonight he is supporting Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP - presidential nomination as the man "best qualified to lead this nation in this time of great crises in national and interna tional affairs. Tobey's announcement came on a day which brought these other political developments: 1. A declaration in the senate by Senator Chavez (D-NM) that he is supporting Secretary of State Marshall for the democratic vice presidential nomination. 2. A declaration by Governor Eart Warren of California that while he is "available" he has "no burning i desire to become the GOP presidential nominee. Plan Would Force New Firms To Provide Own Parking Space Any new enterprise coming to Salem must; provide off-street parking for its own share of the increase in parking. This is the plan which will shortly be sub mitted to Salem city council for enactment through appropriate ordinances, said Carl Hogg, park ing chairman of the Salem long range planning commission, at the Salem Credit association's Friday noon luncheon at the Golden Pheasant restaurant Hogg, who previously" served three consecutive terms as presi dent of Salem Chamber of Com merce, told of the interest shown by larger eastern city officials in Salem plans for future growth at the national traffic meeting in Washington, D.C, which be at Floodwaters Recede; Crest Due at Portland i The four-day flood which has taken six lives and cost millions of dollars in property damage in the Willamette valley is moving slowly away from Salem today. The boiling Willamette river reached a 27.5-foot crest here ear ly Friday morning one-half foot short of the forecast crest of 28 feet, but had dropped to 24 feet at midnight Friday. Although still four feet above flood stage of 20 feet, the U. S. corps of engineers had predicted the river would not drop to the 24-foot mark until 8 a.m. today. While the rampaging stream moved northward toward Port land and Oregon City Friday night, West Salem merchants and house holders who were flooded out of their stores and homes Thursday and Friday were preparing to move back to their quarters. At midnight the river had receded at least 20 feet from the- highway at the foot of the West Salem bridge. Bridge Reopened The bridge was closed at 8 p.m. Thursday, but was reopened to traffic at 9 am. Friday morning. The Southern Pacific Railroad company ran four shuttle trains between 6:30 and 9 a.m. Friday morning to carry approximately 1 .000 persons between Salem and West Salem to their work and school. In Salem proper nearly all streams, ditches and roads were normal Friday morning. Several sections of highway on the North and South River roads were still under water, but open to traffic. Salem Golf and Country club on the South River road was still un der, but little damage was report- I ed. I County school authorities re ! ported that all Marion county I schools would reopen Monday. The river passed the 18-foot flood stage at Portland Friday aft ernoon and was expected to crest this morning at 19 feet Then it will empty into the wider Colum bia. Dimut Not Too Great South of Salem residents moved over water-soaked land to survey the river's havoc. At Eugene, where 1,400 inhabitants fled the flood, the river had fallen to six feet below flood stage, and offi cials said damage did not appear to be too great. Seven routes were still closed by flood: The two Albany-Cor-vallis highways, Woodburn-Esta-cada. Cascade, North Santiam, Bellevue-Hopewell, . and Wilson ville ferry roads. The district army engineer has said that the Willamette valley loss probably will reach $7,000, 000 to $13,000,000. Pictures at bottom of page 1 Dinner to Fete Ma Flier rme Lt. Col. Marion Carl, marine flying ace from Hubbard, will be in Salem next Wednesday in con nection with marine reserve week, local reservists announced Friday. Lt. Col. Carl recently set a new official world's speed re cord in a jet plane. Carl will be honored at a 6 p.m. dinner at the Marion hotel with the reserve's civilian committee, headed by Clarence Shrock, and reserve officers, headed by Maj. Leonard Hicks. He will then at tend the local reserve unit's meet ing at the airport and depart that night. tended for the long range planning commission last year. As an example of what might happen. Hogg said if some firm wanted to build a new 10-story building in Salem some arrange ment wouid have to be made for the increased parking which would result Hogg said the city must have power to enforce regulations which it adopts along these lines and so far the council has never refused to cooperate with the planning commission. Hogg was introduced by Mayor R L. Elfstrom who told of the good words he had heard for the Salem plan when he attended the national city officials meeting in New Orleans, La. 33 Former U.S. Vessels in Turkish Fleet WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -(Jpy-The United States today bolstered the defenses of the Dardanelles by the transfer of four powerful long range submarines to the Tur kish navy, plus 11 other warcraft especially suitable for operations in that strategic middle eastern area. - This brings to 33 the number of former U. S. war vessels as signed this week for .service with the Turkish and Greek fleets and serve as a potent reminder to So viet Russia that this country does not intend to permit the Black Sea waterway to fall under com munist control. Today's announcement by the navy climaxes a series of mili tary and diplomatic moves to put Russia and her Balkan satellites on notice that any action to change the balance of power in that tra ditional "tinder box" area will result in serious consequences. And it pointed up a recent statement by Rear Admiral Felix Johnson, navy public relations di rector, that the United States fleet is the "big stick" of American di plomacy. The navy said that the four fleet type submarines, the Brill, Blueback, Boarfish and Chub, will be delivered to a Turkish port by American crews. The other ves sels eight motor sweepers, one net laying vessel, one gasoline tanker and one repair vessel will be handed over to Turkish sailors specially trained in this country. Sheep Flocks Decline Noted PORTLAND, Jan. fcHAVOre gon's sheep flocks have declined 63 per cent the heaviest drop of any state, C. M. Jones, secretary of the National Wool Growers as sociation, said today. Jones told the Oregon Wool Growers association convention that research in new wool pro cesses may stem the downward trend of the industry. Wool is the key to the sheep industry's success, said Ira D Staggs, state president. Without wool, sale of sheep as meat ani mals would not be profitable, he said. He called upon the expanding Willamette Valley sheep industry to help form a united front In the national demands of sheepmen. His recommendation of a fee of 75 cents per carload shipment to finance a national publicity cam paign about lamb as meat was accepted. Sen. Wayne L. Morse was one of today's speakers. Effect of Initiative To Divert Excise Taxes Questioned Whether a proposed Oregon in itiative measure would actually put corporate excise tax revenues into the state general lund. If passed by voters, was questioned in statehouse circles Friday. Petitions have been filed by state farm and labor leaders to set in motion the measure which would divert into the general fund corporate excise tax revenues now earmarked by law for offsetting property taxes. Measure sponsors estimate the change would add $12,000,000 each year to the gen eral fund. Those questioning effectiveness of such a move maintained Friday that such a tax diversion is pro hibited by the state constitution, whether it is a legislative act or a measure passed by popular vote. They indicated it would require passage of an entirely new cor porate excise tax law to legally divert revenues into the general fund. Lumber Industry Wage Talks End PORTLAND, Jan. 9 -VP)- Two days of negotiation ended here today for western Oregon and Washington AFL lumber unions, seeking a 30-cent hourly wage in crease. The conference between the unions and three employer asso ciations in the Douglas fir belt ended in what a union spokesman said was "no progress." ' No date was set for future dis cus ions. Weather Max. Mln. Predp. ... M ZS M 30 JB0 57 43 JOO .37 M Jl t 30 trace Sale . Portland San Francisco Chicago New York WUlamctta river 34 fwt at midnight. FORECAST (from US. weather bu reau. McNary field, latent): A few scattered shewers today but otherwise fair weather tonight and Sunday. Fee Threatens to Dismiss Charges In Bank Robberies PORTLAND, Jan. 9-A-A fed eral judge ruled today that three men charged with Oregon bank robberies must be brought to tri al by Jan. 27 or not be tried at all. Federal Judge James A. Fee said that if the three men Henry Clay Tollett, Sam Scribner and Henry Green are not in court on that date, he would dismiss the rob bery charges against them. Fee announced his decision af ter Joe Berry Bishop, 28, pleaded guilty to possessing money stolen in the bank holdups. Fee declared he could not sentence Bishop un til the facts of the robberies at the Oakland and Sweet Home banks were brought out in trials. The difficulty is that the three men are resisting removal to Ore gon for trial. Tollett and Scribner are under sentence in another robbery at Bakersfield, Calif., and Green is held in Oklahoma. Stassen Avoids Names in Grain Traders Probe WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -JP)-Harold E. Stassen told senators today that government "insiders' have made about $4,000,000 pro fits in post-war commodity trad ing. He declined to name any trad ers who have not been identified already. Appearing before a senate ap propriations subcommittee inves tigating the effects of speculation on prices, the republican presiden tial aspirant also declared that Edwin W. Pauley and Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham have not told the whole truth about their trad ing transactions. Stassen contended that Pauley, a special assistant to the secre tary of the army, made a profit of about $1,000,000 in the mar ket since the war, "moving in and out with never a loss." The witness, a former Minneso ta governor, said that he and his staff have uncovered the names of about 11 "insiders" who he asserted have made personal profits through the use of of ficial information. He added he does not consider it in the public interest to disclose their names although Senator Green (D-R.I.) demanded heatedly: "Give us the names. Don't deal in generalities." Aerial View Shows Extent of r i :' 1. .''---tip:- '- Cempletely aarrevadei fey water, the hep ranch pictured In top phete to In Martesi eesmty eppeelU la depesdenee whkJi was Inundated fey the swollen Willamette. The belldlngs stranded la tbe water between tbe tew aad the ranch feaHdings Is gravel werks which la nermally an the edge ef the rirer. David Telle, ef the Statesman advertising department, took this aerial phete whlls fir la his plane ever flooded area Thsvsday. The flood looked like this CleWer phete) from Falrmeent hill Friday. Ia tbe bacfcgresuid is West Salem, while la the feregroend are legs anchored la WUlaaaeUe slows k ep posite Minte statiea ea the Oregoa Electric railroad line. (Lower phete by Don Dill, statessnaa staff photographer.) British Repel Syrian Force With Planes JERUSALEM, Jan. 9-P)-Six hundred Arab guerrillas in the first major Invasion across the Palestine border from Syria at tacked two Jewish settlements In upper Galilee today and were beaten off by British troops and planes, the Palestine government said. The British-administered gov ernment disclosed that it had asked its minister in Syria to make representations to the Syrian gov ernment concerning the attacks. For three and a half hours the battle swirled around the settle ments of Kfar Szold and Dan be fore reinforced British troops mpported by artillery and RAF Spitfires brought the situation un der control. Reports from the area said sporadic firing was continu ing tonight. Three Jews were killed and eight others were wounded in the Arab attacks which centered on a finger of Palestine extending northward between Syria and Lebanon. Fair Weather Due But Cold Fair weather with evening and early morning temperatures skid ding near the freezing mark were forecast for the Salem area today, tonight and Sunday by the U. S. weather bureau at McNary field Friday night. Brisk southwest winds brought the mercury down to 28 degrees early Friday morning and the bu reau said the thermometer is like ly to skid below the freezing point again this morning. With excep tion of a few scattered showers today, weather will b clear and cool over the week end, the bu reau said. Counterfeit System Uses Paste, Scissors HERM1STON. Jan. 9-fJP)- The cut-and-paste counterfeiting sys tem was in action here today. Several merchants received what appeared to be $10 bills. They proved to be a half of a 110 and a half of a $1 bill, pasted to gether. 0 fr4 i 7 . Warns ' ' ! .. '' ' ' ." t- WASHINGTON, Jan. f lea. Artber IL Vaadenberg (K Mleh.) who warned his fellow senators Friday that Earopeaa aid saeot be pt a bstsiaoae llke basis. Vandenberg Asks Aid Made Businesslike WASHINGTON. Jan. -AJPY-Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) warned the state department to day that it must make its plan for handling the European recovery program businesslike "or you are sunk without a trace." If It is to succeed, the plan must gain the confidence of the American people, said the Mich igan republican, chairman of the senate foreign r fictions commit tee. A "new element of business op eration" must be Infused Into the multi-billion program, he told Lewis W. Douglas, ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State Marshall's chief deputy on foreign aid. He said that element Is "lacking in the bill you submitted." Marshall himself, meanwhile, said speculation that he might re sign if congress failed to adopt the full program was wholly incor rect. Flood Damage ' " ? J f ' i I . " t t . ' ' ' i i i e-rl aCT III, Hlh i m m turn mmt "tii' mwi 'p ' oMsssajs Arabs Envision 'Challenge' in American Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. United States Is considering Mm, possibility of sending marines to Siard the recently bombed consu te at Jerusalem, the "state de partment revealed tonight It add. ed that no decisions had been reached during "informal" discus sions with the Palestine govern ment. Simultaneously the Arab office In London issued a statement that "the arrival of American military personnel In Palestine, no matter in what guise or how few, will not initimidate the Arabs. On the contrary they will see in It a reck less, provocative challenge to which they will react with In creased anger and determination.'' First Uinta from Leadea First hints that the United Statee was considering ordering marines to Palestine came from London to day. Informants In Whitehall (where British government offices are located) told newsmen the United States has asked and re reived approval from the Pales tine government for dispatch of the Devil Dogs to embattled Jeru salem. The state department then Is sued this formal statement: This government has never asked permission front either the Palestine government or the Brit ish government to send marine to Palestine. Dlsr ad UfersaaUy i 2 "Reports from London probably arise from the fact that the con sul general in Jerusalem has dia cuaaed Informally with the Pales tine government the necessity ft taking measures to incrase the se curity of the consulate ' general personnel and property, ! "During the Informal discussion with the Palestine government the question of tbe necessity for send ing American guards arose. No de rision were reached and have twt been reached, - " - "It will be recalled In (his con nection ,that the consulate gen eral In Jerusalem recently bombed." The bombing Incident occurred October IS and two women em ployes, one an American cltiren. were nun. ; Men Held iii ' S130,000!Thcft NEW ORLEANS. Janj ' -OTV-Police arrested three suspec t aaie recovered bagsful of ' money to day a few hours after five ban dit pulled the biggest bank rob bery in yean by taking abr-ut 9130,000 from the; Midi- City Branch of the Hibernia Nationh! bank. Police Superintendent A. A. Watters estimated that a suitcase L4seized by police when two rnen I were arrested contained $.15,000. The detective chief Joseph S hea ring said that 130,000 was found in a paper bag in the room of an other suspect. Scheuring identified the men In custody as George W. i Ricketts, 23, of Chalmette, La, his 21-year-old nephew, Tommie Ricketts f New Orleans, and John llossen- back, 23, of New Orleans. German Workers Strike for Food BERLIN, Van? t Strike by German workers for more food spread from the Industrial Ruhr Into the American occupa tion tone today and a U. S. mili tary government official advised German authorities "to get out and dig harder to get in your own potatoes." A strike halted 111 street cars in Munich, paralyzing pedestrian traffic. Cleaning Shop Proves Graveyard for Necktie PENDLETON, Jan. t-(-Ro Lee, who runs a dry cleaning es tablishment, said ' glumly today that he knows what men do with the Christmas lies they don't like. They bring them to be cleaned. "And then." added Lee. (tar ing at a wide ortment ft gaudy neckpieces, "they never come back to get them." EEP, VAN DYKE TO El'N XI EDrORD, Jan, MA-frank Van Dyke, one of the state rep- y resen la lives who has been men tioned as a possible candidate for speaker of the house, said today he would run for his fourth terra as representative this year. Van Dyke Is a Jackson county attor ney. - j I ' BITTTEK rilCEfl TUMBLE NEW YORK, Jan. -UP)' A snoketman for a larfs grocery chain predicted today that tumb ling butter price would reach C9 cent a pound retail by the first ef next week, j j ; f 11 t !