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Four The Capita! Journal, Salem, Oregon Wednesday, October 21, 1942 Capitalijournal Hiien fill 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, Editor and publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BT CARRIER; Weekly, $.18; Monthly. $.75; One Year, $9.00. BT MAIL IN OREGON; Monthly, $ 60; Six Months, $3.00; One Year, $6.00. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON; Monthly, $.30; Six Months, $3.60; Year, $7.20. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use lor publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. . "With or without offen$ to friends or foe I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Ppnnlmna Service Men Everyone remembers the indignation expressed by the returned veterans of the first world war irom overseas wnen they realized that advantage had been taken of their absence in infhVl the nrnhibition amendment on the country and that over the veto of President Wilson. Now the dry poli ticians in congress are attempting to ban even beer from army and navy camps through an amendment to the 'teen draft bill passed by the house ana oeiore me senate, laineruu iv Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma. . ' This amendment would in effect re-impose complete prohibition on most of the nation and make all cities near military establishments dry. It certainly would cause re sentment in the army and injure morale, for it would deprive men in the service of rights that others enjoy and please only an intolerant minority. It would restore the tragic hypocrisy of the so-called dry era, the sordid reign of the boot-legger, moonshiner and racketeer, under the old de lusion that human nature and human ppetites can be changed by passing a law. ' The amendment bans the possession, sale, gift or use of any alcoholic beverage, including: the specially made canteen 3.2 per cent beer in and around army and navy posts, and is designed as a preliminary for a return to national prohibition. The dry zones around camps would be delineated by the secretary of war ana include cities. "" ' There are abuses in the sale of liquor to service men, but they can easily be controlled by existing authorities. The army and navy can at any time place these violators out-ol-bounds and close them to service men. The state liquor conv missions can also cancel licenses. All necessary machinery to suppress nuisances exist. The mere offering of such a ban should be a warning to the liquor traffic to police itself and live within the law and enforce decency lest it be destroyed again. But the defense forces should not be made the goat. Adding More Red Tape Motorists accused of violating" the federal 35-mile-an- hour speed regulation promulgated to save tires are assured in an official QPA announcement that they will not be de prived of the precious rationing cards, Without which they cannot get gasoline after November 22, until they have been given a fair hearing. ' The "fair hearing" is to be ensured by constituting each local rationing board as a trial court to hear such accusations. The proposal is cumbersome and senseless, and will bury the local boards under an avalanche of intricate legal pro cedure for which they are neither qualified nor equipped Added to the already too numerous duties of the boards, this scheme of trying to make police courts of them will in a short time slow their work down to a standstill and leave the board members, who serve without pay. with no time for their own business. A more practicable system would be to have the regular courts handling speeding cases conduct the trials with the understanding that the presiding magistrate is to report his finding and recommendations to the rationing board. The rationing board could then act upon the recommendation of the trial court, with or without review of the facts and evi dence. It just doesn t make sense to have these cases tried twice to develop the same evidence. Under the announced plan the accused would be priv ileged to be represented by counsel before the board, and bo permitted to offer evidence on his own behalf and to'cross examine witnesses against him. But no provision is made for a prosecutor to aid the board, which would be compelled to prosecute and judge the case. Inasmuch as the right of appeal to state, regional and national administrators is afforded the motorist deprived oi nis gas earn, tne original procedure should be simplified in me mieresis oi emciency. More Convict Coddlina In line with the tendency of the times to coddle convicts and miticate the nnnisrimenf. fni rviminnl nffoncna tVin io,n legislature allowed itself to' be talked into proposing an 'amendment 10 erase irom me state constitution the pro Vision that "thn nrivilpcrn nf an nlnfrm- lia fnvfattnA 1, . conviction of any crime which is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary." The resolution submitting the amendment, like most other measures submitting legislation to the vote of the people, was given little attention on the floor of either house because there was no organized opposition and those who were at an auoious over tne wisaom ot tne proposal salved tneir consciences witn tne assurance that the people would have to settle the issue anvwav. The loss of the right to vote is properly the basic penalty iui u iuiunics, nowever else tne punishment may be grad uated to fit the seriousness of the crime. It is the price all criminals must pay for violating the privileges of organized society. To invest the legislature with the power to restore the franchise to criminals by law is as falacious as the argument Voiced in SUnnort nf Rlirh n rhgniro fhot ,,, .. victed of felonies actually do vote after being released from yiioun uctuuac election ooaru oniciais do not challenge them. If they are voting it is because registrars are not fulfilling their duty in registering them as voters. The interests of persons wrongfully convicted of crimes are amply protected by the governors authority to grant full i"1""1"' v-mijuig nun mem restoration ot citizenship Vote 307 X No. Salem Boys Among FFA Delegates Portland, Oct. 21 UP Oregon delegates will leave here Thurs day night for the Future Far mers of America convention at rtansas uuy. They arc Alvin Pitney, Junc tion City, state president; James Thompson, Salem, and Lawrence Johnson, Scappoose. K 1 r by crumiieiri. sairm .... , ...... ujjioiaiii 3U ervisor of vocational asrini,ii,,r. will accompany them. Wives By Beck ps tor Supper By Don Uptohn Fred Williams, ally., ex-All American football player and champion loudspeaker sports fan, has a fedora hat which he wears in an intriguing fashion, said hat having the rim turned down same in front as in back and without looking at Fred's feet you can't tell whether he's going or coming when he's mov- Liquor Output To Be Curtailed Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 21 tU.R) A government order trimming the liquor industry's manpower will be issued Friday, official sourc es disclosed today, and will have the effect of curtailing produc tion. The munitions and supply de partment already has ordered all Canadian distilleries to switch to exclusive production of industrial alcohol for manu facture of explosives and syn thetic rubber. The now order will affect production of beer and wine and release manpower for war industries and the arm ed forces. It was understood that the government will avoid anything resembling prohibition In deal ing with Canada's liquor ques tion. Prime Minister W. L. Mac kenzie King will discuss the li quor situation in a radio address next week, it was understood. The manpower orders will for bid sale and delivery of liquor outside areas where the sourc es are located, so that large breweries and wineries will not be able to. sell their products across the Dominion, officials intimated. Lumber Board's Seal in Portland Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 UP) Headquarters for the Pacific coast lumber commission, the federal agency controlling wages and working, conditions for 150, 000 woods and sawmill workers in five western states, is now in Portland. Thomas F. Ncblett opened of fices yesterday and said hear ings on wage-hour cases started recently in Seattle would be re sumed Monday. The first four cases scheduled for completion involved 70,000 workers in the Douglas fir in dustry, Ncblett said. Thomas Tongue, formerly of Hillsboro, Ore., and recently with the wage-hour division of the department of labor in Seattle, is Neblctt's assistant. ing along the street. "O that, commented Fred when attention was called to his two way hat. "You know," he explained, crab always walks backwards and if there's anything I like to do it is to crab. Hence the hat Reasonable and understandable explanation. We note where a man named Goebbles has been returned to the state hospital from which he took a little run out. There's another of similar name a place might be found for out there. Kelly Says Enemy Subs Active On Pacific Coast ."It has gotten so the children don't pay any more attention to their parents than their parents pay to them," comments a Kan sas paper. Turn about is fair play. Navy's Censorship Cause of Criticism Problem Increases for Northwest Employers By John W. Kelly Washington, Oct. 21 Enemy submarines, unquestionably Jap anese, are becoming increasingly bold off the coast of Oregon and Washington. Censorship has sup pressed many details of the ac tivities of the under-sea boats, but of late the bars have been lowered a little and more infor mation has been made available to the public through the press Since a few days after Pearl Harbor the Japanese have been operating off the northwest states, British Columbia and Alaska with their submarines. They know that coastal area like a book; in the days when the Maru boats were a large part of west coast commerce the skip pers rarely had recourse to pil ots they sailed in their ships themselves. The submarines have traveled at will, despite the dawn patrol of shore-based interceptor planes or the sharp eyes of volunteer watchers on the beach. As yet the navy has not seen fit to in form the public whether any submarines have been destroyed (if any were sunk) south of Kiska. Communiques have de clared various Japanese subs have been sent to Davy Jones' locker in the Aleutian area. That the armed forces are aware of the presence of enemy U-boats is intimated by the tightening up of the dimout regulations and more recently by directives to eliminate sky-glare. The first enemy shells drop ped on continental United States was the banging away at Fort Stevens by a large Jap sub- marine. That made' headlines but failed to scare the people. Came next the dropping of in cendiary bombs in Siskiyou na tional forest near Brookings, by a small hydroplane which was part of the equipment of a Jap underwater craft. Before the at tempt to fire the forest, enemy submarines , had sunk a cargo vessel off the strait of Juan dc Fuca and damaged a merchant ship that managed to make a British Columbia port. Next came a couple of tankers de stroyed off the coast of southern Oregon within four days of each other one torpedoed some 50 miles from Coos bay. The war has been brought home with a menace in the lanes of com merce. Navy Information Tardy There is dissatisfaction with the navy censorship. The Bremerton-built heavy cruiser As toria was sent to the bottom on August 9 with two other heavy American cruisers, but the navy suppressed news of the loss for more than two months. In the same engagement the Australian cruiser Canberra was sunk but the Australian government lost no time in making the announce ment. More than a quarter of a year lapsed before the people were told that the carrier York town had been wiped out by the Japanese. No admission has yet been made that cargo boats in convoy to Murmansk were de stroyed, although German radio claimed almost complete de struction; navy merely said the Germans were exaggerating. Navy, it will be recalled, de clared there were no Japanese in the Aleutians when the Tokyo radio had already asserted that the little brown men were at Kiska. The policy of censorship needs working over, revamping and placing some confidence in The 1Q40 census listed 125,000 the good judgment of the Japanese in the United States. ' American people. California had more than 90,-1 -Drafting of the 'teen age 00- I youths will present another Marvin tOHn of the Salem Vintage store has technocratic leanings, if he knows what we mean. Awhile back he installed a sawdust burner with a hand operated thermostat, but as the mornings became a little nippier Marvin didn't relish getting up, pushing up the thingamajig that makes it tick, and then hopping back under the covers. So he fixed a doohicky with which he could reach out of bed and ad vance the doodad. But that got to be a little monotonous, so he got himself an alarm clock, at tached a gadget, and with the clock set 20 minutes ahead of. getting up time he was all fixed. He worked two days on this phe nomenon of man's handiwork and just got it going good when somebody came along, knocked the clock off its perch and busted it. But what's two days more to man's comfort, and it's all going again now. problem for employers in the northwest. It will mean that em ployers of seasonal labor will have to reach down to hire boys 15 and 16 years old practically high school youngsters. This past summer the 18 and 19 year old boys were employed, but em ployers declare that few of them took their job seriously and "they would skylark around, with ap parently no sense of responsi bility, or appreciation that there is a war in progress and that everyone has a part in the con flict. If the 18-19 group could not buckle down" to work, em ployers say that the 18-17 year olds will be even more irres ponsible. Wage Adjustment Needed There should be some read justment of wages, say the em ployers. In the work the past summer the youths were paid the same wage as the older, ex perienced men. The older men, those above draft age, perform ed twice the amount of work done by the boys and the know ledge that they were paid the same rate as the youngsters caused dissatisfaction. The em ployers explain that they were paying the boys too much; that they should not be given the same pay as the older men, for they did not or would not do the same amount of work. The wage- hour law governs the pay in seasonal occupations, however, and therefore all engaged in a particular industry receive iden tical wage. Paying 18-year old lads $6.50 a day is, contend the bosses, foolish, as too much money is not good for them. Un. less there is some sort of ad. justment the 15 and 16 year olds will be drawing the same high wage next year, and doing even less work for the money than did the 18-19 group of the cur rent year. Suggestion is made that boys be paid 10 or 20 cents less per hour in 1943, but if they work the full season a bonus be given that will equal the regular rate. This suggestion is prompted by the habit of the boys quitting after a few days and they have accumulated a few dollars, West Salem Ration Board Grants Tires West Salem, Oct. 21 Rationing board 27-3 issued during the week .of October 19, grade II tires andor tubes to John Todd, Salem, farmer; passenger tire andor tubes to Chester Fisher, Salem, U.S. guard; passenger, tubes to Frank Terrault, Salem, Going a Bit Too Far :t (Bend Bulletin) War production board, mailing daily communications to this newspaper, persists in addressing us as "Bent Bulletin." Of course we expect to be by the end of this -current international com plication, but is it necessary to rub it in? . - Mrs". Myra Shanks, who was city, juvenile officer for many year's, here, was up today from herrAlbany home to get a hair dorlfrom her favorite hair-dooer who. always dood it while Mrs. Shanks lived here. She also re ports she gets our favorite paper delivered to' her door every day at Albany by a carrier boy of efficiency showing double bar reled loyalty to the old home town. In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets. there arc no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif ferent act different. Purely testable a combination of 10 vegetable inured tents formulated over 50 years ago. C'ncoatcd or candy coated, their action is de pendable, thorough, yet gentle, as mil lionsof NR'thavc proved. Get a 10d Con vinccr Box, Larger economy sizes, too. I CANDY I matin erMCUlMt j DEAF? OR ONLY HARD OF HEARING Do Not Neglect This Condition Even If You Are Only Sllrhtlr HARD OF HEARING An Amazing Development! THE NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AURAL EXERCISER No Batteries! Nothing to Wear! fcfc See and Hear with the New . VACTUPHONE 'VACTUPHONE" The First Vacuum Tube Hearing Aid Ever to Be Sold Commer cially was a "VACTUPHONE"! This was in October, 1921 At Last Today! The New Tiny . The Instrument of Quality Many Adjectives Can Be Ued to Describe This Instrument, "BUT HEARING IS BELIEVING." Vu Must Try : - - This Aid to Be Convinced Unconditional Guarantee! "A Service That Is Unique" . VVe Pledge Ourselves to Satisfy You Completely ' " Free Demonstration. 2 Days Only -Friday and Saturday, October M and 24: Factory Rrpre ' - tentative Will Be at the Marlon Hotel Ask for Mr. Allan Phone 41!3 Crash of Bomber Causes Casualties Shreveport, La., Oct. 21 W- A twin-motored army bomber burned after a crash landing at Barksdale field yesterday kill ing two enlisted men and seri ously burning two officers. Staff Sergeant Arden R. Fox, 23, Youngstown, Ohio and Ser geant Alvin M. Dunn, 19, Pasa dena, calif., apparently were killed outright, officers of the field said. Ruling Asked on Prison Harvest Aid Boise, Oct. 21 WlGov. Chase A. Clark asked Attorney Gen eral Bert H. Miller last night for an opinion on releasing pris oners in the state penitentiary to work under guard in harvest fields. . , "The situation is so critical we must take every possible step that will help the farmers get their crops in. That's why I'm trying to see if the prisoners might be used," Chase said. farm laborer: truck recaps and or tubes to Allen Brothers, Rick reall, farmers; passenger recaps andor tubes to Chester Fisher, Salem, U.S. guard; Henery Wil liams, loge scaler, West Salem; W. Fitzgerald, Salem, farmer, and Charles Glaze, Salem, farmer. Traffic Violators Nabbed Arrests made by city police in clude Ace D. Munro, Dallas, vio lation of the basic rule, cited; Harold Brandt, Salem, violation of the basic rule, $5 bail posted; O. L. Guthrow, Salem, violation of the basic rule, $7.50 bail post ed and forfeited; Rodney F. Smith, Corvallis, violation of the basic rule, $5 bail posted. Forget-Me-Nols On Sale Soon Sale of forget-me-nots by the Salem chapter of the' Disabled American Veterans of the World war will take place here October 23 and 24. During the last year the local chapter gave $125 to the psycho pathic hospital in Roseburg andi $25 to the associated veterans for the Christmas cheer fund, and this year will be called upon to assist the auxiliary in the civil defense program. The DAV has as state service officer, Lile Dailey of Portland, who last year handled claims of 310 men. In this commun ity there are about 200 disabled men receiving compensation for disabilities traceable to military service. The average compensa tion check amounts to $46 with 43 per cent of the men receiving less than $30 per month. Officers of the Salem chapter are Jay Harnsberger, command er; Luther Cook, adjutant; Dr. George Lewis, treasurer. Katie Johns is commander of the aux iliary and in charge of the sales crew for the forget-me-not cam paign. Headquarters are in the v..,., ' amoeri Une tanker brought 35 survivors. providing lunch for the workers and the kitchen and dining room are being donated by Dr. J. C. Harrison, pastor of "the First Methodist church. Councilman uonaia nunn, ciiy attorney Elmer. Cook and Char-W les Peterson returned this week after spending several days hun ting near Klamath Falls. All of them brought back deer. El mer Cook, D. Gibson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson made up a party for a few additional days of hunting. Mrs. Arthur Brown, Mrs. Rt dell Kelsey and Mrs. G. E. Vos burgh spent several days this week In Eugene as delegates to the WSCS conference convening in that city. Miss Constance Rose of San Francisco spent her vacation as house guest of Mrs. John Bowne. Mrs, Charles Unruh has tor' lurnoH frt hop hnmo aftr enonH ing some time at Ft. Stevens with Capt. Unruh. - ' Total Ships Sunk Listed at 499 Today (By the United Presi) The number of united and neu tral nations cargo ships sunk by submarines in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor was within one of the 500 mark today in the Associated Press tabula tion. The total rose to 499 yester day when officials announced the destruction of three more American merchant vessels in those waters. , Sinking of the two-months-oldr Liberty ship John Carter Rosaw uu.uuu tons; was announced m Recife, Brazil, where an Argen- Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Campbell entrained at. Port land Tuesday for North Piatt, Neb., where they will be guests of her mother, Mrs. McLarty, and sister, Mrs. Cunningham. They plan to spend the winter with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nichols, at Princeton, Mo. The Campbells recently traded farm property for a residence in Mon mouth which has been rented to Lieut, and Mrs. Donald Sher wood during their absence. Two torpedoes sank the sec ond off South America this month, taking six lives. The third was destroyed in the North Atlantic in Septem ber with no loss of life. WHY THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS ORDERED THIS FOR CHUVRENS BAD COUGHS (CAUSED BY COLDS) Pertussin a famous herbal cough remedy scientifically prepared not only promptly helps relieve coughing spells but also looaensF owtcy puicKin aua muu it easier wjm raise. Pleasant tasting. Safe for both old and young even small children. Inexpensive! vni-nTIICCIII. Any drugs tor e.rtn I UOdltlC Queen Victoria's 68-year reign was the longest in British history. 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