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Wednesday, August 13, 1941 The Capital Journal Salem, Oregon Four CapitaljtUournal HiTes ftT SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH I. 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St. Telepnones Business Office 3971 News Room 8573; GEORGE PUTNAM. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES BI CARRIER! Weekly, $.15; Monthly, .60; One Yoar, 7J0. BI MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, .60; Six Months, $2.60; One Sear $5.W. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON: Monthly $.60; Six Montns, $3.00; Year, $6.00 The Associated Press Is exclusively all news dispatches credited to It or and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes 1 sketch your world exactly as it goes. ' French Freedom Dies One must conclude from 85-year-old Marshall Petain's address announcing to the world the full collaboration of the Vichy government with Hitler's aims and objectives, that either a German gun was pointed at nis neati, or tnat ne is a fascist at heart, or that he is in his dotage. Probably all three account for the "hero of Verdun' becoming tne De frayer of France. Petain, in announcing the intention of France to share with her conqueror in a European reorganization in which France will become a vassal state, admitted that his own program for the regeneration of France had failed and that democracy In France was dead in fact, had never lived in the American pattern. He disclosed that centuries ot quarrel. ing with France's eastern neighbors had given way to a larger perspective by which our activity can open up a reo onciled continent." But it will be at cost of French indepen dence and liberty, the future peacefully accept. What course the collaboration will take has not been defined, but the appointment of Admiral Darlan, British baiter, as chief of national defense indicates that it will call for a joint German-French French possessions, the turning Germany and a general military, as well as economic and political cooperation with Hitler. Petain aligned France squarely beside Germany in her attack upon Russia and called it a "gigantic" task in the de velopment to the east in netense of a civilization and which can change the map of the world. Yet Russia has for decades been the closest ally France has of whom fought gallantly only preserve French freedom from whom Petain seeks to destroy ancient enemy and slavery to Europe. Japan's Encirclement Secretary Hull says that gerously encircled, she has accomplished that encirclement herself, and has it in her own power to escape encirclement, As a matter of fact, Japanese aggression and threats of ag gression caused Japan's present situation. Not content with seizing conducting a four-years' war for the balance of China, Japan has massed a huge force on the Siberian border for fen attack on Russia, despite the recent peace pact, has with the conniv ance of the Vichy government, militarily seized French Indo- China, is serving ultimatums the Dutch East Indies. Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia menaces British Malaya, Burma and India as well as the Philippines and Aus tralia and the Dutch East Indies. Naturally the British, the Dutch, the Australians and Americans have mobilized forces in the danger zone to resist Japanese agression. To the north she faces the Russian Siberian army and in China itself the rejuvenated Chinese army. Aside from our Asiatic fleet based in the Philippines, the threatened nations have assembled naval forces consist ing of approximately four battleshipe, 12 cruisers and an unknown number of destroyers, submarines and torpedo boats and at least 1350 modern warplanes against Japan's 3600 old model planes. Our main fleet at Hawaii can engage in a major encounter for a finishing As both the United States and Britain have warned Ja pan, peace or war rests with Japan and future bluffs will be called. Young's Milk Solution Owen D. Young, former head of the Generel Electric, of the Kadlo Company of America, author of the Young plan lor uerman reparations, with a as industrialist and financier, who is now a farmer, has offered a new solution for the milk price controversy perpet ually raging in JNew York. btaes buy up surplus milk the way it docs cotton and other farm products. Mr. Young urges improvement of the price scale but as serts "no ceiling should be put returns to the farmer are reflected to a point of fair equili brium it not indeed equalization with industrial and other wages. He continues: "If the Rovornment would undertake to purchase all the manufactured milk products produced In the mllkshed at a price which would yield the farmer In the blend not less than a stated minimum for his milk for a period of not less than eight months or more than a year, then the farmer would know for the first time If the price were adequate that he could keep or enlarge his herds and borrow money If necessary to feed Mr. Young also asks that milk and its products be given government protection as a defense industry, by making what is the equivalent of a guaranteed price or a guaranteed minimum. All of this entails increased government supervision and control of production and prices and would be another incur sion into a bureaucratic paternalism that is disguised state suciaiiHin, Civil Defense in West Stressed San Francisco, Aug. 13 (T) A campaign to Impress upon western ers the need for an adrnuato civil defense program has bren started by Charles R. PaRe, civilian defense director for the 8th corps area. Page plans to visit the governors of Oregon, Washngton and Callfor nla in the near future and outline to them the work of the office of civilian defense. "We are prepared to coordinate the civil defense activities of the Society Editor 8573 Editor and Publisher entitled to the use for publication of not otherwise credited In tms paper, , only a decadent- nation can defense of Dakar and other over of the French navy to had along with Britain, both a quarter of a century ago to German attack, yet both of to bring victory to France's if Japan imagines she is dan Manchuria, part of China and on Thailand, and threatening blow if necessary. long and distinguished career He proposes that the United on milk prices until the labor states and the nolltlrAl mihHivinn. Page said. "The federal government has no Intention to lnterfpr with the rlRhts and responsibilities of uie states, it is their duty to protect their people. Wo only want to help them." Page said the federal government might provide additional flrn ftohi. lug equipment for cities but that mey wiu oo expected to employ their own auxiliary fire fighters and policemen. "A paid force would be necessary,'" he said, "because volunteers do not work efficiently enough." Pace was annnlntri ho mnt.Aua t - Ouardla, national director of the omce oi civilian defense. lusbands By By Don The old Romans probably would have taken it as an omen yesterday morning, a dead Jackrabblt lying on the state pavement in front of Hull's smoke emporium, where It has been killed by an automobile during the night and ground to un pleasant bits by passing cars. Yea, such might have forecast the ad vent of further invasions of wild life Into our highly civilized down town quarters later in the day, but nobody volunteered to do last hon ors to tile Jackrabblt and he disin tegrated under traftlc, But yester- Novelties In the News (Br tho Aiioclated Press) Draft Trouble Indianapolis Two letters enliven ed tho work of Indiana selective service headquarters. One was from a Marlon county grandmother who offered to go to camp Instead of her grandson, who still had a yenr before finishing col lege. "I can cook I can sew. I could help with the washing. Please let me go," she said. "I'm not doing anything at home here." The other was from a wife on the Ohio river who said she wished her draftee-husband had been sent to Alaska or some other far off place instead of Fort Knox, Ky., right across the river. The woman complained he "In sists on coming home each week end." Looted Philadelphia Thieves who looted Robert Jones' store weren't over looking a tiling. Apparently backing a truck to the door, they carted 'off 277 suits of clothes worth $4126, even stripping the wax models in the display win dows. We Give Up Santa Monica, Calif. Disappear ance of $5700 from the police de partment safe la still a mystery, after two weeks of sleuthing. So red-faced officers have dug In their own pockets to offer a $500 reward. If at First Seattle Housewives find it hard to resist this peddler's technique. He calls first, offering "no ped dlers or agents'" signs. Falling to make a sale, he re turns a few minutes later with some handy household gadgets. N1S HE TRIES TO DISCOURAGE Me FROM LLU I ASKIN6 HIM TO HELP DO THE DISHES sgSGffiSa 1 V BY THROWING OUT SILVERWARE WHEN frSm ftl I i -2i HE CLEANS OFF THE PLATES. SO ZI.JF. &Hi -. NOW, MORNINGS, "l MAKE HIM flfccjK'lfc LOOK THROUGH THE RUBBISH W WSlti ' WW' . ON HIS WAY TO WORK. THAT V VvVli 1 & I? .100 J-i KIEV MILES 3 "V THITOMIR.r S. U NL BEL TSERKOV V P VS. OCHAKOV j? ( Mk5jSr CRIMEA BRASOV, OAiATlk -;-sg;5? VHpgS SEVASTOPOL X? RUMANIA) lpISMP CEAN A-VODa. fkS&jMW L A CKS-m, Nails Claim Closing on Odessa German sources claimed they were drawing a ring around Odessa with thrusts down the Bug river 1 and ft drive from Bessarabia and that they had sunk nix Russian troop transports in the Black sea. The Russians said their air force hnd wrecked a railway bridge at Cerna-Voda. Rumania, on the oil line that flows from Constanta toward Germany, and bombed shipping at Constanta. Associated Press Photo. Beck Upjohn day afternoon came the real story when a small hawk, labeled by the expert Ornithologist Bod Claggett as a falcon, or sharp-shinned hawk, to chase a pigeon over the downtown rooftops. Finally the pigeon spied the open doors of Cooke's station ery and headed into the store, the falcon after him. They made a number of evolutions about the store to the consernatlon of custom ers and employes. The pigeon fin ally sought refuse behind some packing cases in the back room and the hawk took to cover behind a filing case. He was captured with a fish landing net and put in a cage at Parker's next door. The pigeon was freed to engage in whatever fun a pigeon has outdoors. The sharp-shinned hawk Is one of the most murderous little feathered creatures either awing or afoot and he'd think nothing of tweaking off a man's finger or nose If same was made available. If this sort of wild life Invasion keeps on the city council will have to pass an ordi nance or something. So What7 (Frank Jenkins, Roseburg Review) Enroute to Portland, by the Wil lamette highway. The sun Is shin ingrather warmly. A few murky clouds hanging around, as usual this rather unusual summer, but they are small lacking, seemingly. in striking power. Suddenly, like go ing through ft door, one passes from dry highway to exceedingly wet highway. All the little depressions in the pavement are full of water, and passing cars throw a spray like winter. The wet spot lasts for 40 or 50 miles, although the sun con tinues to shine brightly. The cloud that did it got in its work in a hur ry. Doctor Dick Ross, the eminent physician, offered a free diagnosis yesterday as he passed by a bald spot on Van Wieder's head in a local restaurant yesterday and no ticed ft large lump on the bald spot. "Fall from a horse?" he asked. "No, I guess it was a spider bite," said Van. Don't let him kid you, inter jected a bystander. "He isn't kidding me,' said Doc, T know Just where bald men light when they fall from a horse." So take your choice as to what caused the pump. Quartet Will Appear woodburn The gospel quartet from St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn., will give a sacred concert at the Lutheran church in Woodburn Thursday evening. England's balloon barrages have proved readly to migrating birds as well as to airplanes. Kelly Says: Valley Cantonment May Be Enlarged Extensive Use of Electricity Proposed Senate Committee Ignores Tax Measure By Paul Dunham Washington, Aug. 13 (IP) If pre sent plans are carried out, Instead of 60,000-odd acres the military cantonment in the Corvallls area will require 100,000 acres all to be removed from tax rolls. The present proposal is for a territory 12 miles long and 10 miles wide, with ac commodations for a triangular di vision and other unspecified troops, in ' all 35,000 men and officers. Blueprints are almost completed, showing a detailed contour map of everything within the area, rail road, highway, roads, rivers, firing range and location of the scores of barracks, mess halls, chapels, util ities, etc. This will be an expensive plant. It is proposed, for example, that the meals for the men be cooked with electricity. For illumination and cooking 20,000 kilowatts will be re quired, which will cost the govern. ment more than $2,000,000 for the Juice, transmission and distribution alone. Electric cooks toves will be a novelty in a cantonment. This pow er will come from Bonneville, where there is a shortage of power for war defense purposes, but as now pro- posed the electricity will be diverted from war orders to frying hambur gers and from the making of alum inum or other essentials to cook ing bread and pancakes. May Shift Roads Oregon highway commission has been requested to abandon the west side Pacific highway (U. S. 99) for many miles and build a new high way. There is prospect that the railroad now In that section may be shifted for there must be no firing across highways or railroads. Un less another source of water is found, water must be taken from Willamette river and chemically treated. It Is not improbable that one of the three sites proposed by Eugene will be taken later. At the moment, the officer in charge of the 120 members of his civilian personnel is renting vacant college buildings on the old campus of Albany col lege. Should there be a likelihood of a Eugene site also being lnclud' ed the college administration build ing would make an ideal headquar ters from which could be directed both the Eugene and Corvallls ac tivities. In this connection it has been suggested that the government include the college structure in its cantonment program. The building, which cost $300,000, could be pur chased for much less, and when the government Is spending billions of dollars for defense and millions of dollars for a cantonment, a couple of hundred thousand would mean nothing. The National Youth Ad ministration also wants the college to conduct a vocational training school, teaching welding, mechanics and similar trades now in much de mand in the shipbuilding and air craft industries. NYA, however, is not Interested in the purchase of property, only in renting. Presum ably the owners of the former school are willing to sell to the war de partment. Farmers Protbst Continued protests have been coming to the Oregon delegation from farmers. They' object to being yanked off their farms, root and branch, and compelled to start life anew elsewhere. Their objections, however, will be overruled, for in a national emergency the individual is swept aside for the general wel fare. Similar complaints have been lodged with the war department In every instance where ft canton ment was located even in the swamp country. Some kicks have come from the Medford area, which also is in the cantonment picture and is a "natural" for military pur poses. Senate finance committee is Ig noring the new tax measure passed by the house under the gag rule (take it or leave it; no amend ments) and will prepare a tax but of Its own devising. Head of this committee Is Senator George, who relinquished chairmanship of the foreign relations committee to Sena tor Connally. There may be some features of the house bill which will be retained, but in the main the senate committee will have ft new bill. As taxes on Income will not become operative until next March 15, it is contended that there Is no great rush to enact a tax mea sure and that the senate commit tee can proceed leisurely. It may be i October before the senate has whip ped its bill Into shape and is ready to present it on the floor for de bate, and the people will then get a better understanding of the mea sure than they had of the bill shov ed through the house. Reaction Awaited This strategy is also Intended to permit the committee and the sena tors to obtain the reaction from the general public on the items taxed by the house bill. There is an im pression tbt the senate proposal., in some respects, will be ' stlffer than the house wants with regard to lowering exemptions and deduc-, tlons, The president, himself pre fers lowering the base a trifle, ar guing that the little fellow wants to, contribute toward national defense. The government issued figures re cently showing that one-third of the American families have less than 1700 a year In cash Income. 1 Methods And planes developed In the United States are used to train military pilots In Honduras, the de partment of commerce reports. Horses Also Have Good Time At Convention Almond, N. Y., Aug. 13 W Even the horses, if you believe President George Kane, are having a wonder ful time at the 14th annual world's horse traders' convention. '"It's a cinch for a horse," explains the lanky, tobacco-chewing master of ceremonies at what is developing into the "wappinest" barnyard car nival of a long line of successful "swap fests." "The horses have it easy," says Kane. "They have lots of free hay and pasture and no work." Kane, a trader of note in horse- swapping circles of western New York, should know whereof ne speaks. He is the originator of the "world's horse traders convention," its first and only president and the power behind the throne. The convention Is beautifully or ganized. On one side of a highway just outside the village of Almond Is President Kane's horse barn, hous ing up to a dozen horses of various ages, colors, sizes and value. A partly-wooded field on the other side of the highway, split by rippl ing Canadia creek, is filled with automobiles, motor trucks, spectat ors, a traveling carnival, horse trad ers and their stock in trade. President Kane Is everywhere. He greets visitors at the entrance with "HI, you old horse thief, make your self at home." He sizes up each new ly arriving equine with a practiced eye. Occasionally his eyes light with that covetous gleam. "Go down there by the creek and be robbed," he chants with a smile, "or come up to God's country (the Kane barn) and be treated right." Down by the creek everyone Is enjoying the affair immensely. Two traders tangle in an attempt to make a deal and the crowd moves in close. Most of the traders are loud spoken, Jovial men until the sordid subject of money is intro duced. They cringe at the words. then look scornful. Even an amateur can tell they are traders, not buyers. Ten dollars is big "boot, when money is Involved In a transaction, Body of Codings Washed Ashore London, Aug. 13 (IP) A body washed up on the Scottish coast was identified by means of a gold watch Tuesday as that of Kenneth Brown Collin gs, American war cor respondent and aviator whose death in the sinking of a Canadian troop transport was announced May 6. Collings and 11 other American fliers en route to England to serve as bomber ferry pilots were among 122 persons listed as missing in the loss of the unidentified troop trans port due to enemy action." Vitamin Pills at Drinking Fountains St. Helens, Ore., Aug. 13 (fP) Any St. Helens Pulp & Paper company employe who feels the need of a little toning up will find vitamin pills at every drinking fountain. He is Invited to take as many as he likes but is advised to limit con sumption to one a day. The com pany is setting them up. Recently the hospital committee of two unions learned that a worker who is full of vitamins is apt also to be full of vie, vigor and vitality and less apt to lose time through Illness. They suggested vitamin pills to the company. The company liked the idea and acted on It. The pills contain 10,000 units of vitamin A, 1000 of O, 100 of B-l and 50 of G. For NORMAL Pleasure RED LABEL BLENDED WHISKEY Next time you call for a bottle, make it Red Label. It's got what it takes when it comes to taste. PINT FULL QUART $1.75 n (Mm ! sum t C., in., PMria, llllMk Jm. Barclay Salem ShetclieS By Wilt Danci wiCu AO-mum j0 r "w .-.i ii .-i i m letiinK uiem peci .iura iv all those things before they can be a soldier like "Jlaroms Er.os of Woodburn I" ovum Contributions to this column must be confined to 300 words and signed by writer. To the Editor: Some weeks ago there appeared In the Capital jour nal an editorial which contained many inaccuracies as to the num bers represented by the various Christian denominations. The figures concerning the Bap tists were not correct. The attached article ent'tled "Christianity in America," gives the true status of the Baptist denomination. It would be appreciated if the former article could receive this cor rection. Thank you. "Statistical records of Christian ity in America reveal that approx imately 60 per cent of the total populations In this country. The fol lowing facts are gleaned from the 1041 edition o' the Yearbook of American Churches: There is listed a total of 64 ,60 1 ,594 church mem bers. The largest denominational group is the Roman Catholic which h 31,284,455 members and 18, 733 churches, approximately 4,000 priests. Baptist bodies are next with 10,898,937 members worshipping in 61.119 churches. Baptists are the strongest numerically throughout the rural areas and in small cities and towns. In large cities it requires a constant struggle to hold our own. this might well engage our best means of research. There must be understandable reasons why we can not make progress in many urban areas. The non-Roman Catholic church membership in this coun try is 43,217,139. The number of churches devited to protestant. and free-chMrcb worship is 221,858. Up on these churches devolves the task of winning by the gospel the 70, 000,000 of our fellow countrymen who appear to mak no confession of faith." Watchman -Examiner, N.Y. Baptist National Paper. (Signed) REV. A. IRVING FOX (Editor's Note: Thi stuff stirs nt church membership printed by the Capital Journal were those given in tne iyi xearDooK of American PAINTS FLOOR COVERINGS ROOFINGS WALLPAPER AMERICA'S FINEST ... at a price to suit any budget J12.00 to 5c per roll OUR BUDGET PLAN Covers BOTH Materials and Labor . . We Will Gladly Furnish the Names of Reliable Faperhangers. R. L. ELF3TR0M Co.P 375 Chemeketa Headquarters for Sherwin-Williams Paints ATTENTION! ! PACKERS AND OTHERS OLD PAPERS LARGE BUNDLE Available now at the CAPITAL JOURNAL OFFICE Buy Now for Your Future Needs TViau'll hairn in Itnrv hniD tn fin on Eugene-Drain Line Roseburg, Aug. 12. (m Bids on construction of a 43-mile poweV transmission line to carry Bonne ville power from Eugene to Drain to supply the North Douglas and West Douglas Electrio Co-Opera-tives. were opened here today. Ellsworth J. Johnson of the Fort land REA office, said the bids would be referred to Washington, D. C, for award. Offers on the 33,000-voIt line were as follows, the first figure for com plete construction and the second without conductors: Tri-State Construction company, Portland, $91,965 and $55,689; Max Kuney, Spokane. $96,879 and $62, 939; J. E Chandler, Arcadia, CalnV $96,904 and $61,027; Hagen & Ma Clintic. Myrtle Point (alternate only) $61,732. CCC Enrollees to Give Farm Labor Washington, Aug. 13 (U.ffl Civil ian conservation corps director Jam es J. McNetee Tuesday authorized the furloughing of CCC enrollees to enable them to accept temporary jobs helping farmers and orchard operators in harvesting crops in states where labor shortages exist or are threatened. McEntee said the enrollees would be given temporary leave without pay while they work as - harvest hands. He emphasized that the harvesting work is "voluntary' on the part of the enrollees and assured the war department that there would be "no exploitation'' or attempt to use tnei O to lower wage standards. 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