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Eight' The Capital Journal, Salem; Oregon Monday) October 21, 1940 Campaign Hits Oratorical High During Week (By ths Associated Press) The history-making 1940 cam' paign hit the "big push" stage to day, with both major parties ready for a concentrated drive that will carry through the last two pre-elec tlon weeks and up to the even of voting today. On the democratic side, President Roosevelt prepared to deliver Wed' nesday, the first of five addresses intended, so his own announcement said, to "correct deliberate falsifica tion of fact" by campaign foes and to "give the true facts to the public. On the republican side, Wendell L. Willkle embarked on another closely filled itinerary of many speeches and much mileage. The re publican presidential nominee': schedule will take him from Wis consin, where he makes a major address tonight at Milwaukee, east ward through Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania to New York. To back up the personal campaign ing of its standard bearer, each par ty marshaled a supporting array of notables. Former President Hoover Is sche duled to urge Willkle's cause in Thursday night speech at Colum bus, Ohio. Prank Lowden, former governor of Illinois, is on the pro gram for a broadcast address (NBC) on Friday night. Numerous other party prominents also are down for talks. In the democratic camp, Henry A. Wallace, vice-presidential nominee, has the most active week with schedule which will take -htm Into Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and adjacent territory. William C. Bullitt, ambassador to France, speaks in Chicago tonight, and Attorney General Jackson Is listed for a radio address (NBC) Wednesday. Band Parents Elect Johnson A meeting was held by the Salem Junior band parents association Frl day evening and the following of fleers were elected: Arthur John son, commander of the American Legion for 1940, president, replacing C. L. Jones; William Wilson, vice president, advanced from treasurer: Mrs. Nina Baggett, secretary, replac lng Mrs. Lottie Apple who has held the office for three years; Carl All port, treasurer to replace William Wilson. The executive board will consist of Art Johnson, Mrs. Nina Baggett, Elmer Klein, William Wilson and Fennlmore Baggett, The auditing committee was held over for the coming year. The uniform committee will be Arthur Peters, chairman, Thomas Faught and Harry Esch. C. L. Jones was appointed as publicity manager and a transportation and business manager "will be announced later by the president. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Turner will be chairmen of the November business meeting, assisted by Mr, and Mrs. Joe Johnston and Mr. and Mrs, Bradshaw. The place of the next meeting will be announced later by the president. It was voted to purchase a large horn to be rented to a student and the rental to be put Into a sinking fund to purchase other horns as needed. Both the first and second bands will play for the American Legion on Armistice day. Mrs. Kunze of Kclzer won the prize given to the captain bringing the most parents to the meeting. French Catalonia Has Serious Floods Vichy, France, Oct. ill (IPh-More than 100 )ersons were reported dead or missing today and officials estl mated damage of a billion francs as a result of torrential rains and floods which forced thousands to flee their homes In French Catalonia. (The franc no longer Is quoted but before the German occupation of Paris it ranged from 1.13 cents to 2.26 cents this year.) Details of the week-end disaster beenme known in Vichy only today as telephonic communication with Perplgnan, capital of the stricken region, was restored. Perplgnan it self had been evacuated when the swollen river Tet Inundated the lower parts of the city. Prcfcctural authorities there esti mated a hundred dead or missing in Pvrenecs-Orlentales 8 e p a r t ment alone. (In Spanish Catalonia, UJ per sons have been officially reported missing or dead as a result of floods. Heavy rains continued to hamper the rescue work there. KM Why Suffer Any Longer? ........ wtiiQiu intu wbb uui Chinese remedies. Amazing suc cess for 6000 years In CHINA. No niniier witti what aliment vou arc Ar r biUTED, disorders, sin usltls, heart, lungs, liver, kId nPVR Ktatnnrh on ,miaHriaHnn Hirers, dlnbetes. ' rheumatism! gull and blndiler, fever, skin fe male complaints. Charlie Chan C'hllin llrrh Co. It. II. long A VFnra' nrn..tln In China, office linurs o (o e p.m. nil Wrdnrtdsy Q in 1ft n. m N. rnm'i, at, Hairm. nr. ETO rr-x r 1 tj pU. I Iv "Bomb Berlin" Says London Poster A London building, its own bomb scars covered by paulins, gravely flaunts a poster urging a "Bomb Berlin" reprisal policy. British censor-approved caption says this sign, which is In the Strand, is one of the many privately erected In a gesture of defiance against nazi air raids on the Brit ish capital. Associated Press Photo. How Uncle Sam Will Train His Army (Editor's Not: The Capital Journal presents th first of a series of six ron. secutlve dally articles on how the new army of the United States will be trained ana on oilier important pnases or the defense of this country. The stories are written by W. n. Rnssdale, a reporter of many years experience In Washington, for the Associated Press Special News Service. Tomorrow's article tells how billions are oeina spent on tools ana plants to make arms for the two million men.) By W. B. Rafsdale Washinffton. Oct. 21. (fP) Nothincr has hannenerl in Europe yet to change the conviction of the war department that "hard, well trained, efficient marching infantry sup- pui teu ay ati otner arms, cuncn me- decision of the modern battlefield." That, boiled down to Its essence, would necessarily mean that the war department still regards the tough, long-winded, hard - fighting Infantry as the good right arm of its fighting forces. It doesn't matter how the Infan try goes from here to there. It may cross a county, state or country by train, airplane or truck. But after it gets to the scene of action. It stands up on Its own two feet and fights with rifle and bayonet. As General George c. Marshall the chief of staff, described It, the infantry is a "hard bitten service where the men have to slough through the mud and do not get much publicity; they do not photo gaph well." But they are the men upon whom rest the winning or losing of battles. Consequently, the training pro gram Is working toward the devel opment of 45 infantry-artillery di visions. This will provide almost four Infantrymen for every one motorized or In the cavalry. There win be ten armored and two caval ry divisions. And, of course, there will be the air force, Most Go to Infantry But It is to the- Infantry that most of the men Inducted into the service through the selective draft will go at the outset. Borne of those especially adapted by aptitude or special training will filter through into other branches of the service. But by and large, the Infantry will claim most of the recruits, The tank corps, cavalry, air corps and most of the more modern mill tary creations that have evolved from the war in Europe are agen cies that must be operated by the professional soldier. It takes years of training to perform the tasks any of these divisions are called upon to do. The man going Into the army un der compulsion for one year of ser vice can hardly be assigned to train ing In the handling of anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. He cannot be trained for the newly created para chute units. He cannot learn to pilot an airplane, handle naviga tion instruments or use a bomb sight. It cost $500 to give a man his primary training as a pilot, plus another $1,075 for secondary train ing. After that he Is Just ready to enter an army flying school. And the men used as navigators and bombardiers are, chiefly, those who started out to be filers. These are what the army figures are the post-graduate courses, need ed for the professional soldier but too valuable to be lavished on the man who will spend Just one year in active service because of the need of the moment. Nor would the raw recruit be anv rhore ready for such training than a kindergarten child is ready to study medicine. There are certain fundamentals to be learned In grade school, high school and college. Rudiments First Consequently, the first 13 weeks the new soldier spends in camp will be spent in learning the rudiments of soldiering, passing through the grade school phase. He will be toughened physically y a gradual but steadily stiffen ing set of exercises designed to develop an ability to endure pro longed and arduous exertion. He will be taught to march, to use his weapons and take care of himself in the field. He learns individual drills, the manual of arms, the slm pie orders of the platoon and com pany. At the end of this period the army figures he will have learned ttie fundamentals of the soldier, know something of discipline and be in prime physical condition. He will be ready for the high school of the soldier. He now moves Into battalion training to begin to learn how to use the different weapons and equipment of the battalion. He learns more about the use of cover. concealment, camouflage,' scouting, patrolling, target and combat prac tice with various weapons, map reading and the use of the compass. He learns, too, about combat fir ing, reconnaissance, the Issuance and execution of orders, marching ana march discipline, communica tion, defensive measures against various types of attack Including $360,670 Jump In County's Tax Valuation Marlon county's assessed valuation exclusive of public utilities which are assessed by the state tax com mission, aggregates $35,092,770, an Increase of $360,670, .according to announcement by County Assessor Shelton. The statement shows land taxes down slightly while improve ments on lands showed a substantial gain. Land acreage classification Is $14, 928,330 or a decrease of $61350 and town and city lots assessed at $4, 737,460, or a decrease of $2270. Im provements on deeded or patended lands are placed at $110,430 or an Increase of $110,430 and on town lots at $8,182,050 or an Increase of $234,430. Engines, manufacturing machln ery and equipment are assessed at $1,002,515, a decrease of $46,470; log ging roads and equipment from $6500 to $3060, and lands not deeded or patented dropped from $13,250 to $12,500. However, merchandise and stock in trade are valued at $1,332 800, an Increase of $86380. Farming Implements increased from $278,000 to $328,915, due large ly to tractor farming, while valua tion of horses and mules shows decease from $129,040 to $110,780 Hotel and office furniture showed an increase from $309,045 to $322,145 Veterans exemptions are listed at $208,590 as compared to $201,370 for the previous year. Classifications of livestock show ing first, number of animals, second, valuation and third, the change from last year, are listed as follows: Horses and mules 2809, $110,780, down $18,260, $39.44; cattle 13,004, $333,375, down $5125, $25.64; sheep and goats 19,790, $45,605, up $1765, $2.30; swine 3926, $25330, down $5040, $6.45; poultry 38,903, $13,075, up $1015. 34 cents; dogs, foxes and mink 1783, $11,600. up $1590, $6.55. Accident Fatal To Lloyd McKay Woodburn, Ore., Oct. 31 Lloyd (Buck) McKay, 38, of Woodburn was instantly killed Saturday In a saw mill at Wren where he was employ er. He was struck by a large timber with such force as to throw him to the floor, breaking his neck and fracturing his skull. He is survived by hia widow, Blanche McKay; four sisters, Mrs. Mabel Taylor of Salem, Mrs. Stella O'Conner of Portland, Mrs. Rose Larson of Grand Ronde, and Mrs Marie Kilcup of Beaver Greek, Ore. Funeral services will be held Tues day, October 22, at 1:30 o'clock at the Keith OUair mortuary with Ar thur Keeney of Corvallis in charge of arrangements. Interment will be in the St. Louis cemetery. Pallbear ers will be Albert Otterstrom, Char les Johnson, James Lelth, Cherles Vincent, Felix Chouquette and Hen ry Johnson. those, of aviation and mechanized units concealment from air ob servation, and night operations. Then the Polishing By this time, he is fairly well versed in the work of the soldier. He Is ready for a brief polishing course which will show him how the knowledge he has gained may be put into effective use in the field, He passes into regimental exercises and maneuvers involving the coor dinated use of the combined arms of the service. He has learned to fit himself Into a combat team that must move swiftly into action at a time when speed means the differ ence between life and death. Out of the men being trained however, the army will choose the most promising officer material. These men will be sent to special candidate schools for a sharper course of training during the last three or four months of their year In the army. The same opportuni ties will be offered to regular en listed men. The urgency of the moment help ed to fix the year as the training period of the army. It Is the short est used by any of the nations that have resorted to compulsory train ing. Germany uses two years; do France and Japan. Italy has 18 months. ASK ABOUT A CAPITAL JOURNAL ACCIDENT POLICY Only One Dollar For An Entire Trar" Protection I M Tonight 7:45 AOTH-CIKIEIIST WHO IS HE? Ik Hitler Digging the road over which he will ride? Ir Mussolini the fore-runner? Will he he Jew or Gentile? How will he affect America? in the by Claude Cooper SOUTH AFRICA'S YOUTH REVIVALIST YOU ARE ADVISED TO COME EARLY AS ARMORY WAS CROWDED EARLY LAST NIGHT Censorship Makes War Coverage Hard By John Evani Associated Press Chief of Foreign Bervlea Paris, once the news cross-roads of Europe, is today the most isolated spot on the continent. News comes from German-occupied France as it does from every spot in the world, hut usiiflllv tr. tnltpft five rlnva fnr n learns 01 uiem uuuusi, us suuii tu uu dispatch -to come to the United States from the old French capital as compared with live minutes be- fore the war. Couriers must carry news from Parts to Berlin by train, plane or auto. Knowledge of what happens in various countries comes to Associated Press newspapers almost as freely as ever, but war brought changes in gathering news and especially in transmitting it. Censorship of some sort exists In nearly all European countries. In England it Is thorough and often se vere. In France it is light. In Ger many and Italy there Is a censor ship of responsibility which means that a correspondent is free to send anything he wishes, telephoning It out of the country, but he Is answer able to the government for any breach of Impartiality or violation of military secrecy. News from Italy is limited in quantity because of ficials refrain from discussion ot many things. Correspondents in Ger many may discuss almost anything with anyone Some newspapermen whose dispatches were considered hostile by Germany have been asked to leave the country. All Facts Not Given Much interesting news comes by trans-Atlantic air mall from all countries except England. This cor respondence usually deals with liv ing conditions, reconstruction of devastated areas and such matters which require considerable research and frequently some travel. There is more of that serious kind of re porting than for many years. Censorship blacks out some facts, but not enough to prevent newspa per readers from knowing the essen tial truth. Military movements sre obscured, but the public generally opposing armies. The work of Associated Press re- porters in gathering news in the war zones is difficult and often ex tremely hazardous. AP reporters in London wear "tin hats" much of the time. Tho AP London office was damaged recently by a bomb that fell just outside. There were casualties. Dislocation of normal facilities and the natrue of events more than ever require reporters to get their news by going to the scene. That is be cause there is so much less of rou tine reporting of political, industrial and personal news. War is the theme today. Much of the war news is re porters' descriptions of what they see. A constant problem of every for eign correspondent is how to send his dispatches quickly. In peace time, the Job has to reduce trans mission time by minutes. Sometimes, now, the task is to get out the news in hours or even days. News Speed Tested Alternate routes were tested with duplicate dispatches to determine comparative speeds. From some points, telephone, wireless or cable route proved faster than another. Duplicate messages were sent di rectly to New York and through some other bureau. Amsterdam, Bern and Copenhagen in neutral Holland, Switzerland and Denmark quickly proved to be good centralizing and relay points. Staffs at those points were reinforced. When the Germans took Holland and Denmark they caused Amster dam and Copenhagen to be aband oned as delays because free commun ication with other countries no long er was allowed. For six months Bern has been a forwarding office for much of. the Associated Press news from the Bal kan area, Berlin and Rome. In the early days of the Vichy French go vernment, most of the news from there was telephoned to Bern or sent there by courier. Now the Vichy wireless sends dispatches direct to New York. Stockholm In nervous Sweden re mains a center for Scandinavian and Baltic news. To it go the scanty re ports from Latvia, Estonia and Lith uania now absorbed by Soviet Rus sia. Foreign news gathering organiza tions such as Reuters In the British Empire, Havas In unoccupied France, DNB (Deutches Nachrlchtenburo) in Germany, Stefanl in Italy and others function, but their news na turally deals largely with war from the national point of view. There is missing much of the detailed report of industry, political friction and human activity that formerly pic tured nations. Honest as many of the foreign or ganizations' reports may be they show a patriotic self restraint that makes some of their accounts of other than war conditions rather thin. These foreign organizations still are useful as they always have been in distributing government an nouncements, texts of Important do cuments and speeches and such mat ter. The Associated Press and other j United States organizations and1 correspondents, however, get their own news more than ever before. Particularly must they be vigilant to go promptly to the scene of war events so they may describe Impar tially and with Interesting, colorful details the occurences which offlo ial communiques relate later and drably, if at all. Rally at Hubbard Will Be Friday A republican rally will be held In Hubbard Friday at the city hall nitv riiA nrprlnnt committeemen nnH rnmmltteewomen of West and East Hubbard as sponsors. Talks will be made by various canaiaaira and all will be presented to the anthorinc Music will be furnished by the de Lesplnasse orchestra. PIC3P50S EXTERNALLY CAUSED u Help relieve ex temiUy caused pimptea, black Bur at druggists. 25 each. For FREE sampl, write Cuticura, Dept. St. Maiden, Mast. " - riaTT n-flfiaw Your Dwelling Insurance Expires Soon? Save 20 on the renewal with the old line, stock company, The General Insurance Company of America, through Huggtns' office, THE COST IS SO LITTLE $6.00 to $7.00 per $1000 for 3 Years with 20 Dividend Besides Phone 4S6S We WIU CaU at Your Home CHUCK t. A CHfTT INSURANCE 129 North Commercial St. SDcceasoni to Bnrgbardl Ins. Ajrenry AGENCY Phone 4663 Know the ffiUTtt about PUB Rates SEE HOW MUCH LESS PGE CHARGES FOR BONNEVILLE POWER THAN PUDs CHARGE The PUD promoters talk glibly about "lower electric rates" in an attempt to put over their scheme. What are the facts? We show in the table below the rates of two PUDs now distributing Bonneville power at Bonneville rates the only PUDs hooked up to Bonneville Dam and offering rates approved by the Bonneville Administrator. Alongside these PUD rates, we show the amounts PGE residential customers pay for electricity. See how much MORE PUDs charge for Bonneville power than PGE. AND these PUDs are richly subsidized by the taxpayers . . . while PGE brings you Bonneville power at low rates, WITHOUT A SINGLE PENNY OF TAX SUBSIDY, asm wm mm ' i I ntM at at aa an ma Mae ai ana nta at al Im emr, at nfcja fiianlr Dwanto. III0WITT l" ' a,rt,hiaa. rtl llff r MM , nn Mimr Mtirie piii .i minimi, nt h i PGE Rates "- 11.00 11.00 I.I! 0 K-k 1.00 1.00 .IS 10 M, US 1.15 1.01 40K.ll 1.10 1.10 1.40 lOK.k IIS III .7 0Kwd 1.50 1.41 1.00 HI 161 III OK.k 1.00 III .50 0K. Ill 1.01 ., 100 Mi ISO Ml loo lOWEH MTES-TO WORE MOnC-QVEl I !DE ONNIVHll.RAtl SU01 (TA tutn eillD) HIV1 THI1 AHA Ml IIINQI IONNIVULI Wll AT THHl tOV IATII (WtHOUT tAX tVMlftr) tO AN ANA THIl tHI m- Don't Be Put Behind the PUP 8 -Ball 1 Creation ot a New Tax Levying Body. . 2 $79,380 Now TaxoM Evory Year tor Flvo Yoars. 3 Unlimited Amounts ot "Revenue" Bonds. 4 $3,969,041 of General Ob ligation Bonds; Liens or Your Homo SPUD Bondholders Could Force Up Your Bates. 6 Loss ot $123,163 Taxes Now Paid by Power Companies. 7 Mismanagement by PUD Promoters. 8 The Biggest Bisk ot alii Higher Electric Bates. Sea table at left VoteZWU tia Against hU AaWtbeaiaat ; Wilt..,. V.H.J IKthtea, ranhal Cactri! B.tiri, Ce. J.ka. Or..
