Friday; July 21, 1939
Twelve
lite Capital Journal, Salem; Oregon
Situation in
Foreign Cities
Worries FDR
Hyde Park, N. Y, July 31 m
President Roosevelt In discussing
neutrality legislation today
that from every capital In Europe
without exception there waa evi
dence of preparations for an even
tuality that waa believed to be
fairly close.
At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt
said It should be emphasised that
there were no allegations of prob
abilities of trouble abroad, only as
a statement of possibilities. -He
contended at a press confer
ence that a decision to defer ac
tion on neutrality legislation until
the next session of congress would
hurt business.
A prominent businessman, Mr.
Roosevelt said, told him recently
that failure of congress to act on
neutrality was killing; the nicest
little business boom you ever saw.
Businessmen, the president assert
ed, do not want to make commit
ments because they do not know
what form neutrality legislation may
take when congress convenes next
year. They do not want to place or
ders or take them, he said.
For instance, he said, a newspaper
owner, not knowing how a war might
affect his business, would hesitate
to place an order for a new press.
At the same time, the president said,
It would take more than a mere
crttls to Impel him to call congress
Into a special session to come to
grips with the neutrality problem.
For several years, he added, there
have been recurring threats which
did not eventuate In war abroad,
and there might be another which
might not lead to actual conflict.
But the United States Is not In a
position to help In a situation of
that kind, he said, under the pres
ent neutrality law with Its arms
embargo provision. Members of
the senate who conferred with him
and Secretary Hull Tuesday night
were fully appraised of that fact,
he said.
It was at that conference that a
decision was reached to abandon
efforts to obtain immediate pass
age of a neutrality bill without an
arms embargo section.
Members of the senate who want
ed to postpone action, Mr. Room
volt declared, have been gambling
with the possibility that war will
not eventuate.
The chief executive Indicated
that the neutrality controversy was
closed until congress reassembles
next January, so far as he was
concerned. Then he went on to
discuss it at length with newsmen
clustered around his desk In the
study of his home here.
He was told that senate Isola
tionists were predicting he would
carry the neutrality Issue to the
country on a prospective trip to the
west coast.
Mr. Roosevelt wanted to know
what neutrality Issue existed. A
reporter remarked the arms em
bargo was the Issue and the presi
dent then asked whether It was not
closed until next January by ac
tion of the senate.
There Is and can be no Immedi
ate Issue before the country, he am
plified, because certain groups In
the senate preclude any action un
til January.
Lyons Miss JoAnne Crabtree
went to McMlnnvllle Thursday
where she will spend a week at the
home of her aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. M. J. Crabtree.
Union Contract Ends Harlan's Strife Representatives of Harlan county, Ky., coal mine operators
and the United Mine Workers of America are shown as they signed an agreement at Harlan for the
ending of the bitter labor dispute that had been punctuated with shootings. Left to right (seated)
George Ward, secretary of operators; R. E. Lawson, operators' vice president; Earl Houck, union at
torney; o. E. Oassoway, of union; 0. 1. Dawson, operators' attorney, and William Turnblazer, union
district president. Standing: O. Tltler, union district secretary; E. C, Townsend, union counsel, and
W. H. Slenknecht, mine operator. Associated Press Photo,
Command Post
Exercise Set
For August 5
Officers of thirteen major units of
the United States Fourth Army, ex
tending from the Mississippi River
to the Golden Gate, will take part
In the Command Post Exercise
which begins at the Presidio of San
Francisco on August B,
The middle west, eastern outpost
of the "Army of the West," will be
represented by selected officers of
two outstanding National Guard
Divisions, and of three Divisions of
Organised Reserves. They are the
34th, from Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota and South Dakota; the 35th,
from Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska
and Kansas; the 98th, Organised
Reserves from North Dakota, Min
nesota and Iowa; the 69th from
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kan
sas, and the 103nd, from Missouri
and Arkansas.
Far western units represented by
officers will be the 3rd Division, a
Regular Army unit with headquar
ters at Fort Lewis, Washington; the
40th Division of California, Neva
da and Utah National Guards; 41st
Division, Washington, Oregon, Mon
tana, Idaho and Wyoming National
Guards; gist Division, Organized
Reserves from California; 86th Di
vision, reserves from Washington
and Oregon; and the 104th Division
from Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Utah, and Nevada.
Officers representing the 1st Wing
of the GHQ Air Force stationed at
March Field, California, and the
mechanized 7th Cavalry Brigade
also will take part
A Command Post Exercise, known
as a "CPX," provides efficient train'
lng of commanders and staff offi
cers without the use of actual troops
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Major General Percy P. Blabop
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Masai j a, WhHaeyi la Swap Adrlenne Allen (upper left), British
actress, whose former husband, Raymond Massey (upper right),
U. 8. stee and screen star, recently married Mrs. Dorothy Whit
ney (lower left), was married tn London to William Dwlght Whit
ney (lower right), thus completing the exchange of mates. Mas
sey and his new wife) were reported at an Idaho resort. Asso
ciated Frees not,.
or the undertaking of field maneu
vers. Situations, simulating war op
erations, are outlined to each unit
commander, and the commanders
and their staffs must work out solu
Hons to those situations. More than
one hundred and sixty officer-um
pires will check every decision, plan,
and order of the commanding officers.
Under the present Army peace
time training plan, In operation
since 1032, each of the nation's four
Armies holds a "CPX or field
maneuver every two years. The
Fourth Army held a "CPX" at Fort
Lewis In 1039; and maneuver at Fort
Lewis, San Louis Obispo, California,
and Camp Ripley, Minnesota, In
1037.
For the "CPX," Major General
Percy P. Bishop, Commanding Gen-
neral of the Seventh Corps Area,
with headquarters at Omaha, will
command the Fourth Army,
Major General Albert J. Bowley,
normally the Fourth Army Com
mander, will direct the entire ex
ercise from a neutral position.
Like General Bowley, General Bi
shop Is an artilleryman He was
commissioned a Second Lieutenant
In 1808, immediately upon his gra
duatlon from the University of
Tennessee.
Entering the World war as a Ma
jor of Coast Artillery, General Bi
shop rose to the temporary rank of
Brigadier General.
He has seen service In the Philip
pines and Hawaii, and on the War
Department General Staff. He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for especially meritorious and
consplclous service on the War De
partment General Staff.
Prom February, 1024, to June,
1025, Oeneral Bishop was Com
mander of Harbor Defenses at Fort
Scott, San Francisco.
Local Youths Win
Promotions at CMTC
The following promotions for
CMTC trainees from Salem and
nearby communities were announc
ed Wednesday, July 10, by Colonel
Carle Abrama of Balem, command'
lng officer of the 382nd Infantry,
now engaged in training CMTC,
To be cadet sergeant, John F.
Short of Oervals; to be cadet cor
porals. Charles J. Zerzan, William
B. Crary. James 8. Gemmell and
Latimer R. Chambers of Salem.
Site of the CMTC activities was
moved to the rifle range at Camp
Bonneville on July 30 for firing.
Roosevelt Declines
Bid to Vancouver
Vancouver, July 21 MV-President
Roosevelt has been obliged to refuse
Mayor Telford's Invitation to visit
Vancouver, the mayor's office was
Informed Thursday by Paul R. Joe-
selyn, consul general for the United
States here.
Mr. Josaelyn received a letter from
the White House expressing the re
grets of both the president and Mrs.
Roosevelt and extending thanks to
the mayor and Mrs. Telford tor their
Invitation to the president to In
clude Vancouver In the Itinerary of
his projected visit to the northwest.
It was explained the president finds
It Impossible to make any further
engagements on his tour.
Highway Case
To Engineers
The county court has received
telegram from Senator Charles L.
McNary In answer to the court's let
ter relative to rebuilding the North
Santiam highway between Niagara
and Detroit in which he says that
Immediately on receipt of the court's
letter he submitted the matter to the
board of army engineers and will
give It early attention. He says re
cently the situation has been
broached to the army engineers by
the secretary of agriculture.
"I find myself much In accord
with your views," the senator tele
graphed. The court recently wrote Senator
McNary advising of a report that
had reached the ears of court mem
bers to the effect that under the
existing law It was considered ne
cessary to reconstruct the new
highway caused by the proposed
dam, on the same lines as the old
highway.
Unions Advised
On Picket Bill
Portland, Ore, July 21 (IIP)
AFL unions throughout the state
were urged Thursday to continue
"ordinary and reasonable activities"
In their dealings with employers
and not to'become discouraged over
the recent decision holding the state
antl-plcketing bill valid.
Dell E. Nickerson. executive sec
retary of the State Federation of
Labor, wrote various locals:
"Perhaps the feature of the opin
ion that Is most vital and alarming
Is that Its sweeping drastic effect
would fall upon Craft unions.
"Should the decision of the lower
court be sustained by the higher
courts, unions would be rendered
Impotent to defend the Inherent
rights of their members."
He said the federation Is prepar
ing an appeal.
Guests Shepard Home
Zena Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bas
sett. Resale and Maurice of
Brownsville. Mrs. Robert Kh-norri
of Chltlma, Alaska, Veneta Dehne,
Vivian Llvlce, Ruth Shepard, Bud
Boise, and Leland Roth, all of Cor
valhs. were recent lUMti at ih
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Shep
ard. i
Horsemen to
Share $4235
In Show Events
Oregon horsemen will share In
14,335 In stakes and prizes at the
Oregon state fair horse show which
opens Labor day, according to the
classification and prize list. The
sum Is almost two tunes as great as
two years ago, and Indicates the
mounting enthusiasm horsemen
and the public alike have evidenced
since the horse show was revived a
few years ago, declares A. W. Metx
ger, manager.
Several new classes have been
added this year. Including a breed
ing class for American saddle
horses. This class, prize money for
which totals 8360, will be judged
for conformation during the day,
with winners to be paraded at the
horse show, which Is a nightly
event the first six nights of the
fair.
Other new classes Include Junior
fine harness, ladies' hunters, park
hacks, novice flve-galted saddle
horses and ladles' flve-galted sad
dle horses.
Heaviest stake of the show will
be the $600 for the roadsters to bike
class, with 1100 to be divided tach
night to the winners. Second high
stake Is the 8500 for the exhibition
six horse teams.
The powerful six horse teams may
also compete for the D. F. Burge
perpetual trophy, given by Mrs.
Burge to the state fair horse show
following the death of Mr. Burge, a
veteran exhibitor, last fall. D. F.
Burge won the trophy, originally
given by Zell Bros, jewelers of
Portland, three years In a row, this
giving him permanent ownership
In 1038.
Copies of the horse show classifi
cation and prize list may be obtain
ed by writing the state fair, Salem.
icer Makes
Easy Arrest
While Sergeant Farley Mogan of
the state police was driving on North
River road near St. Paul yesterday
he was thumbed for a ride by a
hitch-hiker.
Mogan stopped and the hiker's
face dropped when he saw the police
uniform. "Well, you got me, didn't
you?" he said.
Mogan said he bad, while he won
dered what It was all about.
Conversation with the man and
later with the police at Newberg re
vealed that the hiker, Paul Cum-
mines, had escaped from a hospital
at Newberg where he was confined
In a strait jacket.
Cummlngs had previously been
held at the state hospital in Salem
as an alcoholic, but had been re
leased. He had lost his driver's li
cense to the state. He was taken in
to custody at Newberg, officers said,
when he drove a car recklessly and
ran Into another car.
He had violently resisted the New
berg officers, but gave Mogan no
trouble. Mogan took him to Wood-
burn where he was held and later
he was returned to the state hos
pltaL Manager Election
Unlikely Tonight
The city water commission, at Its
regular meeting tonight, probably
will take no action towards the elec
tion of a manager to succeed the
late Cuyler Van Patten, although
one sealed letter addressed to the
commission and In the hands of
Chairman L M. Dough ton may be
opened. It Is believed to contain an
application to be added to the 13
already on file. E. B. Gabriel, one
of the members of the commission,
is out of the city and the election of
a manager probably will not come
up until all members are present.
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Hospital In Par Appendix Ont Patty Berg, nation's No. 1 wom
an golfer, tried to smile and say "I feel pretty good," after under
: going an emergency operation In Minneapolis for appendicitis.
Patty's physician said she was doing "as well as can be expected."
Patty's parents, however, said she would soon be back In golf
competition. Associated Press Photo.
Stamp Issue
Expected to
JS Rule to Follow
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90 proof.
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Washington, July 21 (U.B The
postoffice department figured
Thursday it would net several mil'
lions of dollars from the Issuance
of its proposed series of stamps
honoring 35 famous Americans. But
It appeared that It also-would net
several million headaches.
Not all of America agrees with
the government's selection of the 35
inventors, authors, educators, poets,
artists, composers and scientists
whose likenesses appear on the new
stamps.
Less than 24 hours after the de
partment announced its plans for
the series, complaints began ar
riving. Lots of people wanted to know
why Thomas A. Edison wasn't In
the department's list of inventors.
which Included Alexander Graham
Bell, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cyrus
H. McCormlck, Eli Whitney, and
Ellas Howe. The department ex
plained that a stamp already had
been issued honoring Edison for his
Invention of the electric light
But the department dldnt ex
plain why it omitted Edgar Allen
Poe from its authors Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Mark Twain, Washington
Irving, Louisa May Alcott and James
Fenlmore Cooper. Others said what
about Nathaniel . Hawthorne and
Horatio Alger?
Music lovers were stirred over the
omission of George Gershwin from
the composers Stephen Foster, Vic
tor Herbert, Edward MacDowell,
Ethelbert Nevln and John Philip
sousa. Kurt Hetzel, conductor of
the Washington civic symphony,
said Gershwin "doubtless will go
down In history as one of our lead
ing composers." -
Among the painters and sculptors.
some complained that Mary Cas
sett deserved a place along with the
five selected J. A. McNeill Whist
ler, Gilbert Stuart, Frederick Rem
ington, Augustus St. Oaudens and
Daniel Chester French.
Woman Defies
Enemiesof
CalltAr niuiriA
I UlllVl isiiiiiv
Newport, R. I., July 21 (U.B Tar-and-feather
threat failed today to
halt Mrs. Angela O. Kaufman'
preparations for the barbecue and
fish fry with which she will welcome
Father Divine and 2,000 dusky an
gels to their Newport heaven about
August 1.
She said police had been asked to
Investigate an anonymous letter
threatening her with violence, but
that she was going ahead with her
plan to give her home In the heart
of this swank society summer col
only to the negro cult leader.
The 43-year-old former wife of
turn la,- Injanh Kaufman, "safety
razor Diaoe sing, oiierea ner noma
to Father Divine after ner million
aire neighbors, seeking to preserve
their privacy, prevented her obtain
ing a liquor license to operate the
mansion as a hotel.
"There are more than 1,000 of us,"
the anonymous letter said. "We
stand ready to march on your horn
and you and apply the tar bucket
and feathers If you continue to of
fer Father Divine your home." It
was mailed hen and was signed
"from one who means business."
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We Invite you to visit our can
dy department. We have
large display of ensemble
packs 450 to' $2.25.
Golden Pheasant
H N. Liberty
Bishop's Great
Florsheim Shoe Sale
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Floraheim Shoe... and when we do It's
not for !ongl...Better come in today while
stocks are unbroken and get one or two
pairs... They may never be so lowagainl
Values to 11.50
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