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PAGE THSXZ
British Losses
Claimed Heavy
DNB Mentions 14 Ships,
Admiralty Makes no
Specific Comment
(Continued from Page 1)
a week on the Island kingdom's
food supply lines coincided with
a fighting talk by War Minister
Oliver Stanley, his first since
Joining the cabinet last month.
Stanley called upon Britons to
fight "until Germany's threat as
a military power is laid forever."
His speech was followed by au
thoritative predictions that 24-year-olds
would be registered In
April and called up for military
service In May.
This would add approximately
250.000 more men to Britain's
armed forces which Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain said Wednesday
had reached more than 1,250.000
troops under arms.
Classes 20 to 22 years of age
already have been conscripted Into
service and 23-year-olds are due
to register February 17.
With an elated disnlay of the
royal air force showing against
the Germans today, the press also
gave prominent space to the story
told by survivors of the torpedoed
Swedish steamer Pajala In Oslo
that a British trawler had sunk
the submarine which attacked
their ship.
Two Patrol Plane
Win Aerial Battle
The fourth German plane re
ported hit was engaged by two
British patrolling fighter planes
north of the Fame islands.
In their account of the air duel
the fighter pilots said:
"We saw our tracer bullets hit
the enemy. His undercarriage
dropped, clouds of black and jtray
smoke poured from the machine.
"Then the raider flew with one
wing tilted down and its speed
slackening."
Concerning today's air raids,
the only authorized comment was
a statement distributed around
midnight which said: "Compara
tive little damage was done la
proportion to the size of the
raids."
One raider, riddled with bul
lets from British pursuit planes,
camo down on a Yorkshire moor
four miles southwest of Whitby.
One of the crew of four was dead,
another' died in a hospital and
the remaining two were injured.
Activity Reported
At Firth of Forth
A second was shot down off
the mouth of the River Tyne, an
Important shipbuilding and ship
Ting center. A ship went out to
rescue the crew.
A third was reported without
official confirmation to have
fallen Into the sea off the coast
of Northumberland after being
"very seriously damaged."
Further north, considerable air
activity was reported over the
Firth of Forth and one report
said German planes attacked an
unnamed vessel about 10 miles
off the Scottish coast.
The only word of any damage
inflicted by the raiders came
from the Yorkshire coast where
spectators said an attacked trawl
er could be seen ablaze.
BERLIN. Feb. 2-(JP)-The Ger
man official news agency report
ed tonight that far-reaching nazl
air raiders today sank 14 ships
In a biasing climax to a week of
mass attacks on British and neu
tral shipping. Three nazl planes
were destroyed.
The day's reported toll made a
total of 32 ships 23 merchant
men, eight British patrol boats
and one minesweeper which the
Germans said have been sunk in
the aerial forays which began last
Monday and have ranged the en
tire length and breadth of the
North sea.
The Germans said all the sunk
en merchantmen were either
armed or convoyed. (They have
contended that all such ships
were subject to attack.)
In addition to the ships sunk
today, the Germans reported nine
ships were sunk last Monday and
a like number on Tuesday.
Thl3 week's air raids on British
shipping signify a tremendous in
tensification of Germany's "coun
ter blockade."
Counter Blockade
Claimed Successful
Stressing this accelerated strat
egy, the Frankfurter Zettung will
say tomorrow that "our counter
blockade through sea and air
forces is striking at England's
most Tulnerable spot" because
England must depend on the sea
lanes for provisions.
The nazls also regard this
week's reported sinking of 23 con
voyed commercial ships as a "tel
ling answer" to British claims that
the convoy system means safety
for allied and neutral vessels
alike.
Government authorities pointed
out that this week's attacks dem
onstrated that England Is open to
air attack at any point along the
coastline from the Shetland is
lands to the Thames.
Eastern College
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TURNER Miss Josephine Gil
strap, a senior of Phillips uni
versity of Enid. Okla., has been
honored with having her name
placed on the year's honor roll,
and Is of tire girls taking
part In the senior play.
Miss Gllstrap Is the oldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Gllstrap.
She was graduated from Tur
ner, high school after which she
did work. at Northwestern Bible
college at Eugene and also at
Willamette university at Salem.
She is finishing her college work
majoring la Journalism at Phil
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Mary Carolyn Davies Says
She Can "Beat This;"
Aid Is Offered
NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-;p)-A
dozen years ago Mary Carolyn
Davies wrote poems that heaped
gold upon her. and she drank
the wine of public praise. Today
she was too ill to write. Her
purse was empty, and she had
not food.
The poet-novellst was found
sick and emaciated" In a bleak
little hall bedrooom, packed with
manuscripts and little else.
Almost hysterical because her
plight had become public know
ledge, she said she still had
poems in her heart but had not
quite the strength Just now
to make them come out.
"I thought I'd say nothing,"
she said. "I wanted toTcep go
ing to fight it out by myself.
I've licked other things. I can
beat this."'
Blame Lack of Food
Doctors said the poet is suf
fering from anemia. Her neigh
bors say she has too little food.
Illness of her mother several
years aso followed by her own
illness chewed her resources
away and slowed her facile pen
she once turned out enough
verse to keep six stenographers
busy until now she depends on
home relief for $3.65 & week
rent and $2.50 weekly for food
and medicine.
She said Ehe would fight back,
and those who thumbed through
her poems today believed her,
because they found this:
"I am alive and I am young,
There is gladness on my tongue.
And my lips are red."
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 5.-P)-Mary
Carolyn Davies, poet-novelist
found sick and emaciated In
a tiny bedroom In New York to
day, has long been recognized
as one of the ablest writers of
the Pacific Northwest.
When her plight became known
Portland newspapers received in
numerable calls from friends agd
admirers who wished to send
money to her.
She was one of the few Port
land women to rate a listing In
"Who's Who" In 19 28-29 and
was first president of the north
west poetry society and once
president of the Women's Press
club.
Friends recalled that she was
habitually Indifferent to money
and believe that the cause of
her present plight. Dean Collins.
Portland writer, said he sat with
her in a Portland park years ago
while she opened her mail. In
one letter was a royalty check
for $200. She laid it on the
bench beside her and showed al
most no concern when a strong
wind carried It away and she
was unable to find it.
Balkan Pact Vain
Diplomats Agree
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each nation might adopt If it
wished.
Both Gafencu and Cincar-Mar-kovic
paid tribute to "Italy's ef
forts to maintain peace in south
eastern Europe." Neither speak
er mentioned any of the belliger
ent powers.
While the Balkan pact will con
tinue. In theory at least, for an
other six years, it was admitted
openly that the four powers al
ready are heading in the follow
ing directions for shelter frqm
war:
(1) Yugoslavia Toward close
cooperation with Hungary and
Bnlgary under Italy's leadership.
( 2 ) Greece T r a d i 1 1 o n al
friend of Great Britain, toward
even closer cooperation with Tur
key, the ally of Britain and
France.
(3) Rumania Toward close
cooperation with Germany in the
expectation of a nazl guarantee to
curb Hungarian and Russian ter
ritorial demands.
Rnmania, only one of the four
entente powers seriously threat
ened at the moment, was report
ed moving closer towards fulfill
ment of the relch's demand for
her oil, wheat, and other raw ma
terials. Germany is supremely interest
ed In keeping Rumanian supplies
flowing to her armies.
It was reported that German
Minister Johann Fabritius had
assured Rumanian politicians that
Germany would not change her
friendly attitude toward Rumania
if her "reasonable" requests were
met.
Wanl io Bay
Entire or one-half tntereet
in tnsnrance or other profit
able business in Salem. WlH
invest p to 97500. Am 1 lire
ont of the state must hare
fall details which will be
held strictly confidential.
Box 912 Care Statesman.
Aid to Aberdeen
Fund Is Refused
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3.-;p)
Auxiliaries of the Columbia riv
er district council, International
Woodworkers of America (CIO),
announced today they had re
fused to contribute to the "so
called civil rights committee of
Aberdeen."
The committee was formed by
CIO and Finnish workers' feder
ation officials after the slaying of
Laura Law, wife of an IWA exec
utive board member, last Janu
ary 5.
Bigelow Predicts
Victory for Nazi
Reiterates Forecast That
German Flag Will Fly
at Paris in Year
NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-(P)-Poultney
Bigelow, 84-year-old
American biographer and close
friend of the former Kaiser Wil
helm, repeated today a predic
tion of last year that "If England
and France are foolish enough
to go to war against Germany,
the German flag will fly over
Paris within a year."
"Germany Is twice as strong
as she was in 1914 and Is turn
ing out arms and ammunition
to beat the band," he declared
as he sailed for Europe on the
Italian liner Conte Di Savola.
"All the English are doing Is
spitting over the fence at the
Germans. ' His prediction stood,
he said, despite the fact the war
already was five months old.
Bigelow, who bears a close re
semblance to the former kaiser,
said he hoped to see Wilhelm II
while abroad on his annual
Journey, although he did not yet
have a visa for travel in Hol
land, where the ex-emperor Is in
exile.
Publication Unauthorized
"Maybe the kaiser will be
waiting for me with a shotgun,"
he said in commenting on a let
ter from Wilhelm, part of which
he made public Thursday.
He said he had not been au
thorized by the ex-kaiser to re
veal the latter's suggestion that
France. Britain and Germany end
their war and side with Finland
against Soviet Russia.
"I chanced it because it was
important," he said. "Russia
has never done anything in the
world except to crush little coun
tries. Germany and Japan have
rolled her up any time they
wanted. The only way to find a
Russian fleet Is to go to the
bottom of the sea."
No Balcony Seats
For Seattle GOP
SEATTLE, Feb. I.-;P)-Puget
Sound republicans may have to
take a back seat to the democrats
here, but as for second balcony
seats from brother republicans In
Portland nothing doing.
Cries of protest arose through
out the ranks today when they re
ceived tickets for the Thomas E.
Dewey meeting at Portland Feb
ruary 12.
Numerous tickets were Imme
diately turned in and reservations
on the special train were cancel
led, a spokesman said.
"We won't lt up where the pig
eons roost," he said.
The Portland auditorium seats
about 5,000.
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Great Advance
For NW Ahead
Power Will Do It, Claim
Raver and Ickes; See
Growing Demand
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representatives or sponsors of
public utilities districts. Power Is
already being delivered to dis
tricts at Cascade Locks, Forest
Grove and Canby, all In Oregon.
Raver said It would be the ad
ministration's policy to spread
low-cost power "over the widest
possible area, limited only by the
economics of transmission line
construction and operation."
"Every consideration should be
given to making federal power
available for the expansion of
existing industry and the induce
ment of new Industrial processes,
giving particular attention to
those industries which make the
maximum use of local resources
and facilities," he continued.
He stated that the administra
tion would maintain an interest in
resale rates to encourage wide
spread use of low-cost power con
sistent with home-rule and local
responsibility.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - (JP) -Secretary
Ickes reported to con
gress today that the Bonneville
power administration had sold all
the electricity It is capable of
producing now and was negotiat
ing contracts for the sale of addi
tional power which it hoped to
develop in the next two years.
Production of this additional
power, he said, was contingent
upon congress appropriation of
1800,000 to install four more gen
erators. Two units are in opera
tion now. Ickes said also that fu
ture sales depended to a large
extent on the attraction of new
industries by the availability of
large blocks of low-cost power in
the Washington - Oregon area
served by Bonneville.
"If this work is delayed," the
report said, "the marketing
studies that have been made indi
cate a serious power shortage may
threaten the region and retard its
development."
The report added that installa
tion of additional generating units
would require new transmission
lines and sub-station facilities
costing congress an Initial outlay
of approximately 130,000,000 to
market the power.
"Existing transmission lines of
private u 1 1 11 1 y companies and
those of public agencies in the
area are hopelessly Inadequate for
this purpose," Ickes said.
Congress has appropriated $27,
000,000 for a transmission system
and (60,000,000 for construction
of Bonneville dam and power
plants.
Ickes' report to congress trans
mitted the fiscal 1939 report of
Paul J. Raver, Bonneville admin
istrator. Portland Crowd
Hears Dick Law
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3.
Dick Law, Aberdeen CIO offi
cial, told a Portland audience of
about 600 tonight that his wife,
found slain the night of Jan
uary 5, was killed "by people
representing the forces that wish
to destroy labor."
He described Aberdeen as a
community ruled by "condoned
vigilanteism." He asked that a
federal grand Jury investigate
the city's "reign of terror."
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Flash Mystifies
At Grants Pass
GRANTS PASS, Feb. S.-(JP)-Mystified
Grants Pass residents
were trying tonight to determine
the cause of a tremendous flash of
light and thunder-like roar that
occurred west of the city about 6
p. m.
Some observers said they be
lieved a meteor had fallen in the
vicinity.
Butchers Resent
Farmers' Action
PORTLAND, Feb. S.-fThe
Butcher Workmen's union seeks
conditions granted by other meat
packers in its dispute with Swift
& company, a union spokesman
said today.
Commenting on a resolution
adopted by officials of 14 farm
organizations opposing a boycott
on Swift products, J. D. McDon
ald, union secretary, said "Had
the labor representatives been al
lowed to address the farm repre
sentatives, we would have in
formed (them) that we are ask
ing of Swift & company only what
other packers have granted."
"This is Just another move by
exploiting employers to have farm
ers pull the employer chestnuts
out of the fire," McDonald added.
I? o n '
FR Name Is in
Illinois Race
14,000 Names Are Filed
in Surprise Action ;
President Silent
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April primary. The committee
thus avoided any expression re
garding the renomiaatlon effort
of Senator Guffey (D-Pa).
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) contin
ued his campaign for the republi
can presidential nomination with
a declaration at Miami that new
deal policies are leading toward
absorption of all industry "into a
collective state."
Farley Discusses
'38 Pennsylvania Loss
Democratic Chairman James A.
Farley told a Harrisburg, Pa.,
audience that the democratic de
feat in Pennsylvania two years
ago could not be attributed to re
publican wisdom but was "a bat
tle thrown away by our own pas
sions." A split In Pennsylvania's
democratic ranks preceded the
1938 election of a republican gov
ernor and senator.
- Informed reports said that the
democratic national committee,
meeting here Monday, would
choose a convention site, but ar
Thc Ford Motor Company was founded by a working-man for.
frrorking-men. Its present officers .began as employees of the Company. It
nras the first company to pay a minimum wage, beginning in 1914, at the
(then astounding figure of $5 a day. That was double the prevailing wage of
the time. The Ford minimum is now $6 a day for all employees engaged in
production work. And from that, the wages rise to $10.80 a day, with the
average wage $725, exclusive of salaried employees.
&"he Ford Motor Company was the first large company to establish
the 8-hour day also in 1914. And the 40-hour week was inaugurated by tho
Ford Motor Company in 1926, years before any such laws existed.
?he Ford Motor Company employs men without regard to race,
treed or color. It is common knowledge that working conditions in the Ford
shops are the best that science and constant care can make them. A square
deal, a just wage and stabilized employment for a large proportion of our
employees and as fully stabilized for all as conditions will permit enable
Our men to retain their personal -independence.
En consequence of these policies the Ford Motor Company has one
of the finest bodies of employees in the world. The larger proportion are
mature men of long service with the Company sober, decent family men.
Hundreds of them have been with the Company for more than 25 years
thousands for more than 15 years. Their health record, home ownership and
citizenship records are gratifyingly high.
still this is reflected in Ford products, whether cars, trucks or tractors.
(The work is honestly done. The materials are the best that can be made or
procured. Less profit to the Company and more value to the customer is
known throughout the world as "Ford's way of doing business.'
Sord Motor Company was the first to make a motor car within the
means of the average family quitting the manufacture of what was then
the largest selling model in the world to do so. Its chosen field in all the 30
years since that time has been the average American family, for which it has
Consistently provided car facilities which formerly only the wealthy could buy.
Et is the policy of the Ford Motor Company to share the benefits of
advanced methods and management with workers and public alike. Increased
wages and employment over a period of many years have resulted in a 300
'per cent increase in the built-in value of the Ford car and a 75 per cent
reduction in its price.
Henry Fori end Eisel Ford keep daily personal touch with mil
phases of Ford manufacture. In a conference with his staff, Henry
Ford often says: "Go ahead Til sit here and represent the public.9
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By Hal Allen
ranged to delay selection of a date
until after the republican com
mittee has fixed one. The GOP
group will meet February 16. Far
ley arranged to address a national
radio audience (NBC blue net
work) at 1230 p. m. tomerrow.
He was expected to announce the
results of the national committee
meeting.
HYDE PARK, NY, Feb. 3.-P)-A
terse "no comment" was the
only reaction at the temporary
White House today to word from
Springfield, 111., that petitions bad
been filed to place the name of
President Roosevelt on the Illinois
democratic advisory primary bal
lot. At his Hudson valley home for
the weekend, Mr. Roosevelt today
inspected the library which will
be opened this summer for the
preservation of his documents and
historical collections. During the
day, too, he talked with Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau, but
White House attaches said there
was little significance in this since
the secretary usually comes to
Hyde Park when the president fa
here and has a home not far
away.
Jaywalking Banned
EUGENE, Feb. 3-;p)-It may
cost pedestrians money Monday
it they walk across a street at the
wrong time. Chief of Police Carl
Bergman said today that jay walk
ing, long tolerated by officers,
would be definitely prohibited.
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Take Leadership,
Gannett Advises
(Continued from Page 1)
ignore the limits on appropria
tions set by congress."
He outlined the republican
party's "first problems" as strict
neutrality, unemployment and
restoration of agriculture "to eco
nomic equality with Industry and
labor."
He did not specifically men
tion the third term Issue but de
clared that "no emergency has
arisen since last April and none
can arise, not even a war emer
gency, that would justify con
tinuance of an administration
that has been such a failure."
Holds Constitution
Id Still In Danger
"We must face the hard, cold
fact that our constitution has
been threatened with destruction
and still is in danger; that liber
ty, everywhere, is in danger; that
the rights and privileges guaran
teed to us by our constitution
have been undermined while we
have slept . . .
"We must show the people . . .
that they cannot be fed forever
out of the public treasury or
amused forever on the new deal
merry-go-round."
'Gannett, publisher of 19 news
papers, urged more profit-sharing
with workers, "the right to or
ganize, or not to be organized,
with assured freedom to bargain
collectively," the right to work,
or not to work, and the rewriting
of labor laws "in the public in
terest and In the spirit of even-"
handed justice."
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