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11 Four The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Monday, September 21, 1942 i CapitalfflJournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED. MARCH 1, 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St. Telephones Business Office 3571; News Room 3572; Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BV CARRIER: Weekly. $18; Monthly, $.75; One Year, $9.00. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, $60; Six Months, $3.00; One Year. $6.00. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON) Monthly, $.60; Six Months, $3.60; Year, $7.20. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes 1 sketch your world exactly as it goes." Something to Shoot At Oregon first in' the nation, and Salem and Marion county first in Oregon! . That has been the sloganized expression of the spirit that has in the past carried this community over the top at the head of the pack in every patriotic drive or endeavor. It is the spirit in which our boys responded to defense mobilization orders two years ago this month, and the spirit which has kept them in the fore ranks of those volunteering for war service since. It is the spirit which has promptly met our Red Cross allotments and filled and repeatedly exceeded our war bond quotas, that carried the rubber salvage campaign to a suc cessful conclusion and which has met.every other war demand cheerfully, fully and promptly. Now it is challenged again, doubly challenged. First to fill expanded community war chest with $65,000 and, second to create a Marion county stockpile of 6,700,000 pounds of scrap metal with which to help feed the war-hungry blast furnaces and keep them turning out steel and other materials for the tanks, guns, planes and other instruments with which to do battle for victory. The $65,000 goal should be easy of attainment, involv ing as it does little sacrifice except for luxuries we are learning to dq without. The scrap collection effort requires time alone, which any one can spare time to make a systematic search of your cellar, attic, garage, toolshed or barn, factory or warehouse, store or shop, back yard or barnyard, closet and cupboard any cranny or nook which might yield a piece of unnecded metal. Anything from a discarded key to an obsolete automobile or a broken down steam roller. , Anything at all that is metal, The state of Nebraska set the pace for the nation in its recently completed scrap drive with an average collection of 103 pounds for each man, woman and child in the state. To equal that mark Salem must gather 3,605,000 B,BU5,0uU pounds. It s something All you have to do is provide the metal. Trucks will collect it in every part of the city starting with the business district this Wednesday and Thursday and extending into tne residential sections next week on schedules already an nounced and which will be repeated in the ncwsDaDers. Your cooperation means not only bullets for our boys on the firing lines but funds for the community war chest, into which go an proceeds from tne sale ot ursis on me war score ooaro. Our School Deficiencies The Eugene Register Guard quotes a University of Oregon professor who has returned from several weeks with one of the navy's large officer training schools as having been told by the commanding officer: "We have been getting fine young men with the best spirit in the world, but most o them 'are woefully unprepared for the exacting demands which we must make upon them. They are deficient in mathematics; in many ot basic sciences; they have not been properly grounded in his tory; they have not been taught the fundamentals and one of our biggest problems here is to recover this lost ground in a hurry. When we see a bright lad whose calculations make water run up hill it makes us wonder what he has been doing. In war there is no tolerance for such sloppy performance." This is the inevitable result of our modern system of education that neglects fundamentals for frills and foibles designed only to. avoid the drudgery of hard work. Many of our students go to college merely to have a good time instead of fitting themselves for a career. The neglect of such homely subjects as the 3 Rs begins in the primary schools and continues through the university. The graduates of each are deficient because they haven't been disciplined to hard work and concentration or taught to think. It is amazing how poorly grounded in the funda mentals many nign school graduates are. There are already signs that the war will have a salu tory effect on our schools and more attention paid to basic subjects and less to the social complex, to professional ath letics and to foreign ideologies. The essential will super cede the unessential and hard work and self discipline be in- -un.iii.uu in uiu siuueni as necessities lor national survival. Our Side-Stepping Policy Raymond Holey was Franklin Roosevelt's ace "brain truster" and in his first campaign and in the first years of his presidency wrote many of the executive's speeches and was consulted on every important topic of statecraft or poli tics. Ho was appointed assistant secretary of state in 1933. So highly was ho regarded that ho was sent as the president's personal envoy to the, London Economic Conference. In a speech before the San Francisco Commonwealth club Saturday on "The New Deal and the War Effort," Moley criticized the president and congress for side-stepping wage controls, price controls, rationing and an adequate taxation program, and for persistently ignoring the approach of in flation. He also termed "the most cowardly thing" in the current crisis, the refusal of congress to act on the sales tax. Coming from this source the criticism is significant though it merely restates what the press and people think. Aroused by the threat of the president to act under his wartime powers to curb inflation, congress has agreed to bestow inflationary controls asked by the executive, "sub ject to certain amendments" to protect certain groups still playing politics. At the best the program offered is a half-way measure and will require revision later.. Let us hope it will not be another case of "too little and too late." Rose Serves on Service Committee Silverlon S. Parzy Rose was elected representative to the executive committee of the North Marlon County Service club at a meeting held Thurs Editor and Publisher except tin cans. pounds of metal, Marion county to shoot at and surpass. scrap. .Let s chalk up two more cases they are utterly ignorant day night, presided over by H. W. Adams. The purpose of the Service club is to arrange fare wells for the boys who leave for the service. Arrangements will be completed for this at a Tues day night meeting to be held at the offices of H. W. Adnm at the Eugene Field building. Life's Little Dramas r...i iiy Beck Signs f oif, Bv Don Candidates for the most dan gerous downtown driver is the chap who overruns the red light, drives his car just past the edge of the pedestrian lane, stops, and then as the crowd is surging across the street, backs up, with out looking to see whether the lane is clear or whether he's go ing to run over half a dozen in Novelties In the News (By the Assoclntflc! Pre.is) What About Overtime? New York The loneliest man in town over the week-end was not a soldier or a sailor he was Warren Snyder, a watchman. Snyder was marooned alone in a stalled elevator 15 floors up in a skyscraper overlooking 42nd street from 7 p.m. Satur day until 7:30 a.m. Sunday. When his relief came on, Sny der was still yelling for help. A policeman pried open the ele vator door. "I am very happy to see you," said Snyder. Dangerous Traveling Chardon, O. Add seamen's shore leave perils: Norman Kalar, who went through the battle of Midway, was motorcycling from the Pac ific coast to visit his mother here. Enroutc his vehicle hit a por cupine and three quills punctur ed a tire, but a patch enabled him to complete the trip. Slickered Denver, Colo. A man phon ed Mrs. Louis L. Relallack at the hospital (she's just given birth to a daughter) that ho had been hired by Mr. Itetallack to wax the floors. She told the maid to let him in. Her first impression, upon re turning home, was that the floors hadn't received much of a go ing over. But the house had. About $500 worth of silver, furs, watches and jewelry were miss ing. Mr. Relallack said he hadn't hired any man to wax the flonr Forty-Three, Forty-Four Kansas City "Looks like you hit the jackpot, soldier," William Egcrcr, navy aide at the U. S. employment office, said to a private, busy scooping up nick els which gushed from a pay phone. . 'No such luck," sighed the army lad. "I'm calling my folks, long distance, sec, and the op erator toll mo to deposit $2.50. All the change I can get here is nickels. I put in 50 and now the operator says I put 'cm in so fast she couldn't count. "See (clang-clang-clang), I gotta do it (clang-clang) all over again!" Uiiiiiiiii Am I Covered Under My Auto Policy While Touring in Canada? In Mexico? ASK CHUCK M 'INSURANCE i OREGON'S LARGEST UPSTATE AGENCY SALEM AND MARSI1F1ELD 129 N. Commercial St. T jupper Upiohn . nocenl bywalkers. In a case like this the pedestrian has about the same chance as an allied merch ant vessel with & nazi submarine. Newspaper stories have been written about Dublin utilities. courthouse, slatchouse and nthpr groups who have gone to work on swing slults m the canneries but up to this instance have over looked the three elevator operat ing Pillcttes who formed a can nery group of their own. . The three' sisters, Kay, Evelyn and Anne, run the slatchouse, hourt- housc and Penney store eleva tors, respectively, and while their evenines awav at n Tan nery belts, and one of the sis ters can t see why this close little cannery working corpora lion doesn't rate a few lines in the papers when the rest of the boys and eirls are eettinc a share of printer's ink. Anrl doggone it, neither do we, so Here s to the elevator oDerator cannery belt working trio. Another metamorphosis took place in the local downtown scenery over the week-end when no less a personage than our old friend Dan Jarman had his mus tache shaved off. Dan has pet ted this along for quite a spell of years now. He moved back here recently from California, and whether the climate here is too mild in comparison to keep on the extra foliage, or whether he wants to raise a new one under the favorable climatic and grow ing conditions here, Dan hasn't revealed. But, anyway, he's got a right nice port upper lip, no boy needs be ashamed of. Being "Psychic" on a Big Scale litem of Our Favorite Paper) I'm sufficiently Dhvsie tn bo able to suggest that Britain's new middle east commander, General Alexander a fighting Irishman of great capabilities and hard- boiled characteristics is ma neuvering in preparation for a house-cleaning. Doggone if we're going to take any chances these nights going through a dark alley with a pound of hops in our pocket. Starting in the alley at one end of the block with the hops worth a buck or so, nobody'd know what they'd be worth when you came out at the other end of the block. Good old Willamette started out on its 101st year today look ing younger than ever and full of pep and vitality, regardless of handicaps. And the new presi dent, Dr. G. Herbert Smith, looks, acts and talks like a man who can get the second century off to a flying start. Evergreen Mr. and Mrs. Harold Roop, who recently bought the Frank Rahn property on Mill street, plan to move there the first of next week. Mrs. Nell Wray of Portland has been a guest of Miss Min nie Maschcr the past week. TiTTTg TiTi niium Vi iTi ITTf CHIT IP at Salem. Dial 41(10 111 r"l'1f TIT Kelly Says Curry County Attack Causes No Surpribj Size of Enemy Fleet Military Secret Spruce Enterprise Back by Government . By John W. Kelly- Washington, Sept. 21 No sur prise to army and navy officers was the dropping of an incen diary bomb by a Japanese air man in the forest of Curry coun ty, Ore. Since Pearl Harbor, high rhilitary officials have re pcatcdly declared that the Pa cific coast is in danger of such an attack. They do not anticipate an invasion, but they have held the belief that eventually the enemy would attack the forests. and later military objectives such as war industries. It is their opinion that the fire bomb un loaded near the sawmill town of Brookings is only the first of a scries of appearances which the Japanese will make. One result of the visit of the enemy airplane has been to in crease the alertness of the volun teer observers along the coast of the Pacific northwest from Crcs cent City to British Columbia and to add to the vigilance of watchers in the lookout stations in the forested area. Reports here arc that the network of observ ers is so numerous that no plane, enemy or otherwise, can come in from the sea without its pres ence being reported regardless of the weather. There arc needed however, additional volunteers to watch the sea and sky. Japanese Design Boat It is assumed that the submar ine which mothered the flying boat is one of the latest of the Japanese fleet. There has been an understanding that the Jap anese had evolved a submarine carrying a small hydroplane that could cither be catapulted from the deck or launched from the side on a smooth sea. This is the type of sub that was the target of an army plane off the Oregon coast. How many Japanese submar ines have been browsing off the west coast, to the knowledge of the army or navy, is a military secret, but the general public has been advised of four (one off California, two off Oregon and one off Vancouver island) and the public has also been told of submarines which have sunk at least two ships off the strait of Juan de Fuca and of a British flag merchantman which limped into Vancouver, B.C., after an encounter with an enemy under water craft. In Alaskan and Al eutian waters the enemy has op erated these boats but with what success if any-r- is also a mili tary secret. So far as known, on ly one submarine has been shot at in the northwest and that was the hydroplane carrying craft that was bombed near Brookings with no known results. The sub marine that shot at a radio sta tion at Estcvan point and the one that attempted to shell Fort Stevens disappeared without ev en a .22 bullet being fired at them. . ; Repetition Expected The Japanese aviator over the Siskiyou national forest has set tled once for all the contention of senators' and representatives of the northwest that the enemy will seek to destroy the forests with incendiary bombs. It has happened once and will, it Is be lieved, be repeated. Eastern con gressmen regarded the forests of the Pacific northwest as some thing as remote as China and were loath to appropriate a few million dollars for fire protec Meals Taste Better Now! Atmosphere plays a big part in the enjoy ment of a meal . . . you give variety to the meals themselves . . . why not vary the sur roundings by having your dining room re papered. Your family will love itl i 375 CHEMEKETA tion. This attitude may now change. With $3,000,000 advanced by a government agency a midwest citizen has left for Alaska to get out spruce. To loggers and tim bermen he has met he admitted that he came from a flat coun try where there are no trees and that he knows nothing of the business, but expects to build up an organization when he arrives in Alaska. Among other items of equipment which he says he has is a 62-ton yarder, which would be about the right size for Paul Bunyan. Owing to the rainy season, this midwesterner may not be able to snake out the trees before late next spring. Although the Pacific northwest is satur ated with experienced loggers, they have been passed over and the job has been placed in the hands of a tyro. The $3,000,000 would more than solve the spruce situation for several dozen camps in Washington and Oregon by making possible the construction of roads into the woods. Going After Barnacles Sumbitted to the federal mart time commission, the bureau of ships and other agencies, is an invention to rid the hulls of ves sels of barnacles, - the proposal coming from a northwest attor ney representing a client. The invention consists of a composi lion which is spread on the hulls like paintand it will, it is assert ed, last for several years. Exper imental costs of the preparation have been used on vessels out ot Puget sound, Columbia river and Coos bay and the shipmasters assert that the paint does the work. Maritime commission and the shipping bureau show imme diate interest and have instruct ed representatives to contact shipmasters familiar with the paint. No device has heretofore been discovered that would erad icate barnacles. Purchase Certificates Certificates of purchase issued by the Marlon county rallonlim board In the aaiem aisinci lor tne week enainc Sep tember IB were as follows, addresses be ins Salrm unless otherwise indicated: New truck tires andor tubes L. E. Corneck, Salem; airport trucker; William w, Wilson, 12th and Court, trucker; Rei minn Truck Service. 393 South Cottage, common carrier; Salem Navigation com pany. tBIO North Commercial, common carrier; Sanitary Service company. 175 South Hieh, garbage disposal; R. W. Maker, DO Beach, fuel dealer; H. Wamp stro, 1316 Hoyt, fuel dealer; Percy J. Kleeman, 1215 North lfltli, wood dealer! Jory Packing company, route 3. Cannery: Salem Supply company, box 41, sand and uravei; isnri Stewart, 174 Beach, truck operator; Ralph R. Dent, route 3, farmer; Olln Wlnney. 1190 North Winter, Ion hauler; William Wlederkehr, route 1, Jefferson, farmer. New passenger trlres and or tubes- Wallace N. Bonesteele, Inc., 3060 Portland roaa. truck dealer; Dr. Sidney P. Lavene. 3380 Portland road, veterinarian; Lyman McDonald, 670 North Summer, rural mall carrier; it. r: AiciauEiiiin, lays court, bakery; Luther D. Cook, 740 Shipping, rural mall carrier; Edward Tooker, r,oute 3, rural mall carrier; Dcs V. Dane, 1434 Ferry, warehouse foreman. Class B, 'grade II and obsolete llres J. H, Miles, 275 Morgan, truck driver; Al fred H, Klecn, route 3, carpenter; Mike Karner, route 3, farmer. Passcnacr and truck recaps J. A. Jel- acrKS, isbi (jciuer, larmer; 2. c. BrocK, 1402 Stale, fuel dealer; Rclmann Tuck rler; Alfred H. Klecn. route 3. carper ten Pearl Berry, route 2, farmer: Salem Navigation company, 1610 North Com mcrclal, common carrier: Leo Howard, Mission street, logging; Oregon state tilth way commission; W. B. Spence. route 2, larmer; w. w. uraaioro, ao norm ltm, field superintendent; Salem Supply com pany, box 41, sand and iravel; Andrew J. Musgrave, Camp Adair, soldier; Jory facKinit company, route 3, cannery; w. A, Nairn, route 3, farmer; Ralph Dent, route 3, farmer; J times Laurence 3290 Port land road, crave) hauler; Ted Gordon, 354 Ferry, defense worker; Olln Winney. 1100 North Winter, truck operator; Karl M surer, enre of A, C, Hans company, service man; William N. Backc. S1C Man- roe, farmer; Joe Schwelcert, 195 South 2isi: wciaer: Joe u Htmmei, mn and o, engineer; O, H. Hack reader, route 6, farmer and dairyman: Alleen M. West phal. 190 South Liberty, visiting: nurse: Jacob OcrlK. route 6, farmer; Earl Stew art, 147 Beach, . trues operator; Oregon state department of agriculture; Percy J. Kleehan 1215 North 19th. wood dealer; Oregon state department of agriculture. Medford. Oreiton state department of agriculture. Salem. New automobiles Hodcen srewsier Centrnnlal Flour Mills company, route 4, sales and' service. Bicycles Martini M. Stewart, route S, grocery clerk; Frieda M. Oelcr, route 2. laundry, Nazi Germany Axes women's pay at from 20 to 25 per cent less than men's. vom PHONE 9221 Co. 1 fSHEL aiem hetcltei By Will Dancti "Now listen, Mister, just because my good friend, en gineer Ira L. Stewart happens to be a couple of minutes late at Silverlon, I'm not going lo embarrass him by letting you cross ahead of him!" West Salem Women Plan Club Year West Salem, Sept. 21 In preparation for the resuming of j fall meetings of the Woman's club, the chairman of the standing 1 committees have been- appointed by the president, Mrs. Oliver Chest Kick-Oil On Wednesday The Salem Unit War Chest pre-campaign gifts committee will hold a kick-off brcafast at the Hotel Marion at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, it was announced to day by Lowell Kern, pre-gifls campaign chairman. Fifty war chest executives and members of the pre-gifts campaign commit tee are expected to be in at tendance, according to Kern. A round-table discussion of the campaign and short talks by committee members will bo fea tures' of the breakfast. Much enthusiasm has been dis played concerning the coming War Chest campaign, October 6 15, according to Mr. Kern and Jesse J. Gard, campaign chair man, and all indications are that the goal of $65,000 will be reach ed. Funds from the campaign will go to the organizations formerly served by the Salem Community Chest and in addition will con tribute to the U.S.O., local en tertainment fund, Navy Relief society and War Prisoners' aid, United China, Polish, Russian, British and Netherlands war re lief. The two billion pounds of grease and fats wasted annually in the United Slates would make glycerine for about 613,800 tons of dynamite to grease skids for the axis. r ILIKiWEM "vSife ( JUST AS MUCH T4AA?5 I I AS MY YOUNGSTERS Prints W A "good morning" breakfast enriched with Vitamin B, Next time, try golden-brown Albers Corn Flakes. They're crisp, fresh, finer flavored ! Made right in the West, they reach you days fresher, stay crisp longer in milk or cream. Mighty thrifty to serve. Extra healthful, too, because pep-up Vitamin Bi has been added. Enjoy Albers Corn Flakes often! ixm-VAiui coupon in mtr wpit-siAiio fackagi FREE when vou buv vva, oiamps i ruin orieii Official U. S. Army Air Corps Squadron Insignia In color on cloth, these insignia are gteat for sewing on youngsters' sweaters, shirts or jackets. Start a collection. White they last, you get one of these regulation Air Corps Squadron Insignia the kind actually on fighters and bomb ers FREE every time you buy a War Stamp from your Shell Dealer or Shell Service Station. A new insigne out each week This HELL Sargent and the club has select ed "Victory Is Our Goal" as a slogan for the club project for fj the year. ' The regular elected i nrp:nnP -n ivff,.c nii..n c It's,: president; Mrs. Glen Davenport, -: vice-president; Mrs. E. S. Engle- horn, secretary; Mrs. Joly Bownc, treasurer; Mrs. J. IV Fisher, parliamentarian; and Mrs. Fred Cutter, historian. ' ' Mrs. Guy Newgent will serve as official hostess for the year and Mrs. Waldo Mercer as pi anist, while heading the stand ing committees will be Mrs. J, M. Fisher, membership; Mrs. Fred Cutter, finance; Mrs. Rose Phiefauf, flowers; Mrs. Wm. Stolk, child welfare; Mrs. M. P. Leek, community service, Mrs. R. J. Jager, defense; Mrs. L. Wallace, publicity; and Mrs.' E. F. Underwood, booklet. H. F. Eastridgo has been granted a building permit to" remodel a residence at 320 Mag nolia street with the construc tion cost estimated at $50. Arrests for traffic violations ' include Raymond Warren, Rose ' Lodge, driving without an oi(f erator's license, posted $5 bail;' and Claude Clement, Salem, vio- lation of the basic rule, also posted $5. Charles Dalton was the arresting officer. Robert Newgent, son of May or and Mrs. Guy Newgent en trained at Dallas - .Saturday morning for Ft. Lewis where he will be assigned to military training. 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