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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1939)
Tfce 02EG0N STATESMAN, Galea, Orejcn, Friday llornlnff, April 23, 1939 PAGE TURC2 tetter Battle Progress Made ! Railway Workers, Indian Mounted .Scouts Join Warm Springs War PORTLAND, April 27.-(ffy-Pony-mounted Indian iconti, speeder crews and metal fences were called Into the Warm Springs Indian reservation fight against hordes of destructive Mormon crickets today. Frank B. LenzleJ Spokane, re gional forester for the Indian aer Tlce, said here that white and In dian CCC fighters were making progress against the devastators of every green thing. The Oregon Trunk railroad Is aiding by reporting places where crickets cross the tracks and four Indiana, riding a speeder,- follow up with poison dusting equipment. Cricket Concentrations H anted Indian boys, mounted on ponies, acoured the hills for heavy con centrations of the crickets.. Near Mecca Bridge, huge hordes of the insects were being turned ialo pita by metal fence. Lenxle said he was not hopeful of complete eradication but said present control efforts, coupled with a cold winter, should turn the tide. The battle is being carried on by the Indian serrice, soil conserva tion serrice, federal bureau of en tomology and plant quarantine and the Wasco county agent. V Robertson, Turner Reported in Final (Continued from page 1) V Bremerton, Wash., were high and will contest in the finals. For sec ond rice-president, Winston Bun nell of Portland Henry Frantg of Neilsville, Wis., were the sur TlTors out of three. - The three officers actually elected, according to reliable re ports, were Verna Vosper of Port land, secretary; Fred Bernau of Sherwood, editor of The Colle gian; Dan Moses of Portland, edi tor of The Wallulah. In the race for song queen, the run-oft will be between Mary Hensley of Salkum, Wash., and Carol Read of Portland. Marshall Chief Of US Forces Recent Vancouver Barracks Official Is Appointed p p Army Staff Chief; ' WASHINGTON, April IT-f) -President Roosevelt' upset mili tary: precedent today by select ing 1 brigadier general tall, energetic George C. Marshall to . be professional head ot the expanding army daring the next four years. - The choice of the 1 8 -year-old Pennsylvania ; as chief of staff was , Immediately tied up with administration plans for solidari ty of defense In the western hemisphere. Before he assumed his new post August 31, authori ties disclosed. Marshall probably will go to Brasil on a special military mission. This mo-e would be In line with the administration policy ot continuity ot contact with Latin American armes. Elevation Is Unusual . The first man to be raised from the - comparatively lo V sltlon of brigadier general to the army's 'highest active post, Marshall likewise Is one of the few officers, not graduates of the military academy to ' become chief ot staff. He entered' the army In Hoi after graduating from Virginia Military Institute. - la - selecting him, , the chief executive passed over several eligible senior officers. Just as ho did last month In approving the choice of Rear Admiral Har old R.' Stark to become chief of naval operations this summer. Now deputy chief of staff. Marshall was formerly in charge of war plans. Fellow officers call him brilliant. He will suc ceed the veteran General Ilalln Craig upon Craig's retirement on reaching the statutory age limit of 14. and will have the tempo rary, rank of full general. - . , Greeted Pole Fliers Hera PORTLAND. Ore.. April 17 (jp) General George C. Marshall, the president's choice for the army's highest post, got a fore taste of public attention two years ago when a Russian trans port-polar airplane adventure ended on the rain-soaked runway at Pearson Field, Vancouver Barracks. 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Other tatmt seorlBs; S009 or mora wero Navberr, Enfane, Amity, Corral 11s and Scappoose. -Amity team officers won first place la the state parliamentary contest. - : . - AmonrIi - boysr tranteff--ttsjci, stata " farmer' degree were Cant -Thompson and Wesley Yoss. Cor- f vallis; James Thompson and Lee Hanson, Salem; Wilbur Hobart and Jesse, Oure, Woodbnrn; Ras sell Newhouse, Dayton. 1 1 LY WSJ rLAY.X; MARS ENJOYS A JOKE ehantinff his asually trim expression". This Is CoL-Gen. Walther von Branchltsch. chief of Staff ef the German army, shown In an excellent closenp at a re view la Berlin. Recent months have seen sis work Increased. clearing house for information aoont tne tnree Sonet airmen who struggled against the Ice and fog on top ot the world to push their big red and black piane tram Moscow to the United States. The general, now chief of staff, was host to the filers, So viet Ambassador Alexander Tro yanovsky and other Moscow rep resentatives for 36 hoars. 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