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7lio Vpn? First la sport sews, Th -''Oregon Statesman not only tells who wins bat. how, filing details essential to -i followers of the seasons contests. Follow tbo games tbo Statesman sports A. Weather - Cloody today and Sunday with some rain. Max. temp. Friday ftd, mln. 46, River 14 It south wind.. ftsuNDoo : 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH TEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, March 2, 1840 Price) Set nwsstandji So No. 233 I y . - r - - : : . . - tf TftFhirri w m war Paul 11 outer $ x Column I .This, if th calendars can b trusted,- Is .March. Ia fact, it is hi socona oi March, which lsr " a holiday la Tax- ' as bat not asrs.j : March Is a very B o o loitctl ; month, com I n la 1 i k a a lion Ilka it does, go las out Ilk a lamb and bains fall of. mad Utreh. hares. This 1 s mostly . nm m. a boat ham,' v Tbero is some difference be tween a bare and a rabbit, bat we won't split bares here. What .we want to know is why March bares are any more mentally unbalanced than, say, a mid Jaaaary clearance sale bare? As far back as we can remem ber we .hare not known any mad March hares, not ven any mild ly eccentric ones. Wo Just don't seem to hare common interests. Bo we're handicapped from the start. There Is, of course, the work of Prof. Simon Simmons Si moon, "Some Aspects of Lepos Tlmldns and Other Stories (No Poems). Writing of the only time he was able tto observe a mad March bare In its native state, be says: "We were op at the crack of dawn and eager for the stalking. Our native runners bad come breathlessly Into camp the night before and In their childish dia lect shouted that a mad bare was near the Tillage. From their ex cited talk I fathered that the beast was Indeed a rare speci men. Enrsged by something, pos sibly a mink coat worn by one of the natlrs girls, he (for I am convinced It was a bull hare) was roaring and tearing up the plant ed fields of lettuce. Some of it he ate, I learned later, but with out mayonnaise. "Our gun bearers traveling at our sides, we started out on the double. Our nostrils were dilated as w raced forward, eager to catch sight of the strange crea ture we had ao long sought. How ever, I had time to observe as we passed through the heavy under growth that there were mouse tracks here and there. Later I shuddered at the .thought of It, but we were then young and knew not th mesnlng of the word fear. "Our guide, good old Rhabbat Slngh. heXdup a cautioning finger. "Ghee Xchlung Wauhna Veak Roldameriean." b said' in his na tive tongue, "meaning 'For Gosh sake can't yon -dope -walk along without waking the-dead. "Stealthily, on hands and knees, we advanced. . Bit by bit It grew lighter and then through th thick and verdant foliage I could see we were approaching a clearing. We began to hear the roars of the mad March hare. "Cautiously, my advance cov ered by men armed with elephant gens. I went forward alone. At the edge of the clearing I stuck my hesd through some Bwaha bashes, which grow protusery in this country, and saw before my vary eyes th light I had waited ysars to see. "There stood th , mad "March hare. "Boy! Was he craiyl' Mat Bout Referee Dies After Tussle SEATTLE, March 1-JP)-A few minutes after h was thrown against th ropes at th end of a professional wrestling exhibition. Referee Jack Stevens of Seattle died la his dressing room her tonight- - ' Stevens had been refereeing a . match between Lavern Baxter ot f ah w a a TIT . Vi m w A Tait1 V .fan PIVfllWl VI VIA., .UlA WWMM Montreal. In a scuffle after he awarded th decision to Katan, Stevens -was thrown against the ropes. He fell to th floor out Ida anOted Ore mtntttea . later. : Friends said be had been ad; vised' by- physicians ' only two ttiM ot a weak heart. Liuiiber Industry Here. Himdicapped I . TImr .T oVlr : Af Sli. : 1 J' v fc'"Jrtr- 1 McMINNVILLlV Or., March 1- CPV-8awmilI operators in this area said . today the shortag of ships for lumber movements to the "At- lan tic coast .might cause numer : ous shutdowns. , "'""'" - ; -' Th small MotheraJl plant. Carl ' ton, a 'sabsldiary of" the-Uak--' Haynes Lumber company, recent' : 1 suspended operations. .-. . ' -Th Carnation company, Forest Grove, announced plans to close by the end ot th week to allow dock clearance. .. , .. Th Eagle Worth Lumber company ot McMlnnville predicted It could not operate beyond March II without moving Its stock; , Gloria DicUsbii Is , Not Lost, Asserts ncntLS: Utah. March 1-FV-A report that Gloria Dickson waaJ "lost was j a it ser nuDanas "silly idea" th young motion pic Tar actress told reporters her -today. - "X am not. lost. I bar never been lost. Th whole thing la ab solutely ridiculous," said th vinflrt Mix a Dickson, poking her head from attateroom on a west- j v,flnfld streamliner here. .' " m i " - T V 'ast In Sacramer V VaUey'sF Death Toll 5; Meridian Is Latest Town to Suffer Ton-exit Coast Storm, Rain Come to Oregon Again but "Willamette Drops SAN FRANCISCO, March 1-yf) -Although water still poured through broken dikes tonight, and hundreds of thousands of acres of krlch farm lands remained sub merged, the crisis appeared to have passed in northern Califor nia's devastating flood. The damage will be reckoned In millions of dollars, but the loss of life among the 6,000 or more vic tims of the flood was no more than five tonight. "It looks like the crisis has passed," tne weather bureau an nounced, "although the water may rise in the lowest part of the Sacramento valley for the next 24 hours." Cool, dry weather in the mountains was most favorable. Today the town of Meridian, about 40 miles north of Sacramen to became the crisis center when levees breached, unloosing a "tor rent on 70,000 acres of crops, and forcing hundreds of families to vacate their homes. The town was isolated. Woman Is Drowned, Four Persons Saved One woman was drowned when an automobile was trapped and overturned in the flood as she and her lamlly fled to higher ground. She wss Mrs. Frank Fleharty, 52 Four others in the party were res cued after clinging to the branches of a tree for six hours (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Divorcee's Right To Secrecy Gted Battle of Census Takes new Angle; Tobey to Ajjpeal to Public WASHINGTON. March -iJP) -Arguing that a divorcee has in alienable right to keep her past marital difficulties a secret. Sen ator Tobey (R-NH) today launch ed a new assault on "personal' queries to be included in the 1940 census. "Suppose it means the ldss of a job to a woman to tell that she was , divorced?" the senator de manded at a hearing before a senate subcommittee. ' His attack on questions about divorces was a new development, since, he bad previously concen trated - his fire on questions about Individual Income. The subcommittee is considering a resolution by him to delete the questions about income. Dr.' Leon T. Truesdeil, census bureau statistician, defended the quesUon ' about divorces, saying it had been asked in every cen sus since 1850. He said the pur pose was to "classify population according to marital status." Another witness. - Edward J. Noble, undersecretary of com merce, spok In defense of the Income questions, poinUng out (Turn to psge 2, column 4) Cook Making Mind Up Today on Race -Floyd Cook, former chairman of the Oregon republican central committee, said while he was In Salem on business yesterday that he would decide definitely today whether or not he would be a candidate1 for th republican no mination "for state treasurer. " -Cek fa engaged in ' the insur anc business- In' Portland. . V Earl Hill; Lan , county store keeper 'and republican state rep resentative, already, has tiled - tor the . treasury, position. UTSlSlSf Welfare Commission Drafts -"Different" Personnel Plan PORTLAND. : March l.-OPr-Tbe state nubile welfare commission studied It version of a federal-! ly proposed . personnel selection system, today one following th outline "a far as possible with out losing all semblance of con trol." ' - , Standards of personnel admin istration set no bv . th federal social , security . board - previously wer ' adopted under protest oy th commission. : However; its new plan differs from th federal key system on " several major points. Th - federal plan j would re move personnel selection and In ternal management " from stat and count? commissions, putting them under an independent mer it . council. Administrator Elmer Goudy said. ' i"Hv -jV, Th state's plan would giv em ploys selection to the uncil, bat FLOODS SUBSIDING 4FTER HEAVY DAMAGE ww Saaa..ak, r i "a a aa" jr A A a Though water was still rising In drove 5000 persons from their was reported as having passed scene in the rich farming area International Illustrated News, " r-C"t r - tr-sr--: ..a" : , , - - a j .J Serenades Will Herald At Annual WU Frosh Glee Sing Betsey Roosevelt Requests Divorce LOS ANGELES, March 1-P- Betsey Cashing Roosevelt, with out opposition from her film-pro ducer husband, James, went to court today to seek a divorce un der which she may receive $65,000 Immediately and $50,000, if th wants it, ilve years hence. She testified that relations had been strained between her and the president's eldest son since he first asked for his freedom in Msy, 1938. After hearing her, the judge set the case over until Monday so her brother, Henry K. Cashing, stricken suddenly ill, could' appear. Terms of a property settlement made but of court give Mrs. Roo sevelt sole custody ot their two children'. Sara ' Delano,' 7, . and Kate, 4, although he will be al lowed to confer with their mother on, such matters as education.. It grants her $167.60 a month for each until they are 12, then $250 a month.' ' would make the council answer able to the commissions and leave It without authority over Internal management. ; Present staff members would automatically be qualified with out additional examinations. The 'commission and four -county welfare chairmen, A. L. Green wait of Multnomah county: WW lam J. Jrlaberlack of Clackamas; George H. McMoran of Lane and Lyle B. Kiddle of Union, will draw a final draft for submission to the social security board. ... Extension of th food stamp plan in use her will be consid ered by Goudy in meetings with welfare commissioners ot Marlon, Lane, Linn, and "Clackamas eoun Ues. Multnomah county sales for February . w r $14 6,168 I 1 n orang stamps and $73,084 in bin. " ' r , ,- i"t enns - . - --:.....:.:?:, . - . . 1 7 1 r"-ro: WAX- AC a A A. - ' , A -V the lower portions of the Sacramento river Friday the- flood which homes and did damage tn the millions though it took only five lives, its crisis. Upper picture, by Associated Press, is aerial view of typical north of Sacramen to, 'near the town of Princeton. Lower picture, by shows an Inundated farm near Pescadera, near the coast. Seniors Seeking Fourth in Row but Juniors Arc Defiant as Propaganda Peddled; Gym Scene of Colorful Exercises; Monday Pay Day By PAUL H. HAUSER, jr. Willamette university is ready for it's annual song bat tle tonight Members of the four classes will put on their sing ing clothes and hurl serenades at each other until one class is a winner of the coveted Freshman Glee banner and the loser earns a quick swim in the icy Mill stream. The 32nd running of this melody handicap sees the sen ior elass. three times a winner. O c favored on past performances, but facing stiff competition all the way down the starting line, " Backers of the Juniors, a three year old which has finished out of the money in - previous perform ances, are confident. On the cam pus yesterday : they dragged a brass civif war: cannon; borrowed tor th moment from ; th state house grounds. Tied to. Us muscle in perilous position was an -effigy labeled th. seniors. - The Juniors alaor"AtayeTont yes terday with a shower 'of printed slipr which read:" " . f'Seniors wakened - from their ' dream,' " " Sophomores cooling In the stream. Freshmen raise their 'voice to . scream,' ' :t . . -"Juniors have the winning theme.'V RaUbirds are withholding Judg ment on the freshmen, in their maiden race, and wondering how they'll do on a wet track. The freshmen are also confident and scattered their sentiments yester day asWin the Glee with '43." Th Freshman Glee handicap, based this i year on a serenade theme, will start at 8 o'clock aft er the seniors make their appear ance in, caps and gowns, tradition ally worn first at Freshman Glee. : - Each ' class ; presents its song, composed by class members, from a terraced platform on which the members, of . the class execute inr tricate formations before singing. The '.show is managed by the freshman class,- which - starts the proceedings .each year by issuing a challenge to the other classes to meet in a song tournament. . Payment of Fresman Glee bets, which make so concessions to hu man dignity.' la mad th Monday following the glee, when the male members of th losing class swim i in th mill race and ; parodies of - (Tom to pagaz col 1) ; 4h y 4 -A a -t-v A .: A 4. i ' I sskSSaaxS, t- 1 a-x-S- Spring Iiairance - Seth B. Thompson of PorUand yesterday, 'assumed his duties as state insurance, commissioner as successor to Hugh Earl e. He was appointed recently ' by Governor Charles-. Spraghe. .' . ' . : .ThV.new-'.mmIMimer's' first official ;aet was the 'appointment St William F. Leary as his chief, eputy . to succeed James Sehon. Both" men have been employed in the Insurance department for sev eral . years... . ; -v? -f- .'! Thompson Indicated, there would, b ho1 other changeb made in his operating staff at. present- Late Sports 5 LOS- ANGELES, March: IHJPf Mlddleweight' Champion -Ceferino Garcia" and -Welterweight K ing Henry "Armstrong foughf a ' draw tonight in one of- the most savag bouts ever seen in a California ring , an.d n Tthttrirrecked the little brown bomber's -dream ot capturing- a fourth C Utle. In his spectacular career.1 ' " Th. bolo "I punching flllpino, making the second defense of the UUS he blasted away from T'ed die ApostpU - last October, and Armstrong, o nit w g h d II pounds,: kept th erod f 15,000 In an uproar as they'batl from pillar to post and wound up th ten round . in a toe ,to too ex change in Garcufs eonier,--r -V-t Garcia suffered a'cnt overiiaJ rlcht ex t : early Ja. the flafct d "ft. St. Paul Bank ISuhmriri nt A tfnvke r rzsr"! '.1 - - i ' 1" msms .m m mrv m nr - J. mav -a svar ltoDDer namea mMh $.thnrt. '"';:,;.. In Indictment OT , v, ; ; . f (Herman Shin Burns In Indictment AUeeed Bandit. Wife to Face Federal Counts First, Says Page Local True BillReturned Against Jones to Be "Held in Reserve William Jones, 32, foiled Mon day in an attempt to rob the St. Paul bank ot 1231, will be turned over to federal authorities in PorUand for arraignment under two Indictments charging robbery of banks Insured by the federal deposit insurance incorporation. according to announcements made yesterday by District Attorney Lyle J. Page. The district attorney's state ment came shortly after the Mar lon county grand jury had re- turned an Indictment against Jones yesterday charging him with assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon on Raymond Smith, assistant cashier of the St Paul bank. Jones to Plead Guilty, District Attorney Reports Page said that he had learned fsom Jones that the latter would plead guilty to indictments charg ing him with the St. Paul holdup and a previous one at Canby on November 9 when he obtained $1065, should he be turned over to federal authorities. Jones also said. Page reported, that his wife. Myrtle, would also plead guilty if arraigned in fed eral court on an Indictment charg ing her with participation in the Canby robbery. Mrs. Jones was taken to Ore gon City by Clackamas county authorities Wednesday. Page said (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) - ' Santiam Highway JDdy Is Debated Fisfi Commission Declares It Was not Consulted, Reply to Chamber While threatened delay in re locating the North Santiam river highway to skirt the Niagara dam site, part of the Willamette valley project, continued, the state fish commission through M. T. Hoy, its master warden, yesterday noti fied the Salem chamber of com merce that the commission's con sent for construction of the dam had never been requested. In a tart reply to a plea by the Salem chamber that the commis sion give its consent to the pro ject to clear the way for recon struction of the highway, Hoy wrote,' In part: "Your letter ... conveyed to this department the first intima tion that the improvement or re location of the North Santiam highway was being held up or was In any other manner affected by the failure of the fish commission to grant or not to grant permis sion for the construction of th proposed dam ... MAs a matter of fact. It is not within - the province of the fish commission of the state of Ore gon either to grant or refuse per mission for construction of thisj or any otner dams in tne Willam ette basin .project'. . V- r ''The fish commission . Is not engaged ' in tho., building ot this, dam, or has its' consent as to tho building of . such - dam over been requested. ' -T'--"-'.. ! ' '. "s The Salem chamber board ot directors had been advised by its highway, committee that the Unit ed States army engineers and th federal ..forestry service had re fused to proceed - with relocation of the North SanUam highway un til,, the state fish commission had approved, construction of the dam. BditlilOveEai THeMMiJmGilleio By BDWIN : B.'-HAAKIl?aON , WASHINGTON;-March l-HJPr 81x ,democratie senators. ? Joined today In Jan' open revolt against efforts by 1 Secretary.- Wallace to revamp' th government's multl blUlon ' dollar farm credit facul ties. :r ,'- 'xC I--r, - . Senator Gllltt (D-Xowa) aald he and fir demoeratie colleagues, acting for a n n m b r of major farm organisations which wer "thoroughly aroused', would offer legislation early next week to re tarn th farm .credit administra tion to its former status as an Independent agency." .W;- The FCA, j which has - loaned mpre. than .0 00,0 00,0 00 to far mers and baa about -half of -this ontsUndlng. was ' placed : under Secretary Wallace and th agri cultur department last July by executive order of President Roo sevelt. , . -' k; CHlett said other' ponaorsr of tho bill to reverse th presiden tial order would inefud Senators American Navy Hustles to Aid; Troja Apparently Fired by Crew; Later Word of Their Fate Lacking Russia Claims Its Troops Are Inside Viipuri but Taipale Withstands Attack; Welles now in Berlin (By the Associated Press) Two almost-simultaneous belligerent acts, a reported submarine attack on a British steamer off Puerto Rico and the burning of a German freighter off The Netherlands West Indies, violated the American "safety zone'' Friday night and brought the European war close to the western hemisphere; A frantic distress call at 6:09 p. m. (Eastern Standard time) from the British steamer Southgate, 4,862 tons, told that she was being attacked by a submarine about 130 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The United States swung into action immediately, dis patching the Coast Guard Cutter Unalga and three destroy ers to the scene, and ordering all naval vessels in the Puerto Rico district to give such help as possible. - While the naval vessels sped to the aid of the South- Loss in Aberdeen Fire Is $800,000 Plywood Operation May Be 3Ioved to Willamina, Officials Hint ABERDEEN, March l--Cme man was burned to death and the rain-soaked ashes were searched for another, as officials of the Aberdeen Plywood company whose plant was destroyed by fire early' today,' Considered" whether to rebuild. They estimated the loss at $800,000, partly insured, While' firemen still patrolled the fire, temporary office and store room structures had started rising alongside the debris where more than 100 men fled in panic when theHfire broke out suddenly short ly before S a.m. Putting out the lights. The plant, one of the largest on Grays Harbor, had been working at full capacity, employing 450 in . three shifts, and producing 300,000 feet. of plywood a day. Officials of the parent compa ny, the Olympia Veneer company, said they , were unable to expand their Olympia plant to care for the unfilled orders . here, but might be able to take care of it at a new plant at Willamina. Ore. - The body recovered today was burned beyond recognition. It was found on the tldeflat beneath the (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) Hoke Appointed Education Board Mac Hoke, Pendleton wool grower and' grain' man, was ap pointed to the state board of high er education , by Governor Charles A. Spragne yesterday to succeed E. C. Pease, The Dalles. Pease's - The appointment ot Hoke, sub-4 Ject to senate confirmation, is for a hta-yar term, v V s ? : " ' Ti Hoke, waa born In, Cherokee, fcas.; Mtt' iT, im', and gradua ted from, the Oklahoma ' A ft :M college In IS 12. He was married two years later, and has a daugh ter. . - . :. - - Ha has held various offices in the Eastern Oregon wheat league, stat board of agriculture. North west . Livestock Production - Cre dit aassoclation, - Oregon .-Wool-growers association 'and.' regional agricultural " creaic - association. - .-r s r ". m mi' . . '-. i' T '' 'f . owa Mln ton- (D-Ind); the democratic whip, ; Mead (D-NY), Truman (D-Mo), Hatch (D-NM); and Miller (D-Afk). s:y:-:-? It !known that this group and several other V senators , including Republican . .Leader McNary ( Or ) and. Capper (R-Kan) have, been meeting with - spokesmen - for the American Farm. Bnrean. Federa tion, the grange, the National As sociation of Livestock Producers, th. National Cooperativ . Coun cil, and th National Wool Grow? en in drafting legislation.-'; Since shift of the, FCA - from independent, status to control by Wallace there has been a series of - resignations ; by Ttop; ranking FCA officials in protest against hid policies. JV F. Hill resigned as governor and was succeeded by A. TJ. Black, former Iowa Agricnl tural college Instructor who has been closely associated with Wal lace. x-wr-: b ' &.&i3t';?i. ii an Independent , agency, the (Turn to Pag 2, CoL 1.x - . ; - - , - -Ogate silent after the distress sig nal the German freighter Tro- Ja, 2,390 totas, was intercepted by a British cruiser Off Aruba, Dutch West Indies and apparently - set afire by her nazl crew. The Troja and the German freighter Heidelberg sailed from Aruba yesterday in an attempt to run the British blockade. Nothing has been reported from tb Heid elberg. Both are Violations of Neutrality Zone Both incidents occurred with in the 300-mile neutralitv son set up by the 21-American repub- . lies last October to keep the Am ericas out of Europe's war. The red army reported today that Its troops were advancing Into the outskirts of Viipuri, Fin? nlsh city which has been the ob ject of a month-long Russian of fensive on the Karelian isthmus. ' and that the Finns were burning . the deserted port. The latest report from Finland " had disclosed that Russian and Finnish troops were fighting bit terly almost on the outskirts of Viipuri. The red army was begin ning the second month of its cost-' ly offensive with no indication of easing the pressure on the. Finns. - Meanwhile belligerents in Eu rope's t "big" war , kept ears at tuned to the meeting arranged to day between Adolf Hitler "and Sumner Welles, the United State . undersecretary of state. Welles meeting with Hitler is the first : scheduled with the leader - of a warring state in his fact-flndiqf tour of. Europe.-':. . The action in the Finnish-Run -v.-sian war, now in its fourth, month; ' . centered mainly on the Karelian isthmus. Besides - keeping'. of Jtst prolonged atUckr on Viipuri,- th v v red army command thrust at the eastern end of ..the Finnish Man-i nerheim line with an assault on ; Taipale but the, Finns said lt. wai .' repulsed with heavy losses to the "'. red army. ' Thus the battle line.' as dls- - closed by the Finn, generally foK lowed the east-west railway con- ' necting uimatta on the mail raiK . road southeast' of Viipuri wit - Ayrapaa on Vuoksl Lake. . The United States diplomat - called on Joachim , von Rlbben- r trop, German foreign minister,' f,'. -shortly after arriving . In ..Berlin, ' from Swltserland. It waa under-" ' stood the, nati .ministerinformed 'I , Welles that, Germany Was deter - .. mined'. to continue f 1 g h 1 1 n c f against the British And Trench' ih - . llance until she breaks up, Brit- -aln's "stranglehold on .th econ-. . - omie llfo.'of the world-,T . :. . , Germany and the. United States have, not ' exchanged ambassadors in mahy months and It was under- - stood w Von ' Rlbben troo " Indicated . " clearly.- tyntl German-American re- -lations are; In h' deplorable state ' He : expressed.- Nregret -,that ':.th . United States does not have : an ambassador t Berlin: at-this crtt-" - ' German bombers; s t r n e k at British'1 and neutral 'shipping off v the British Isles again yesterday -' A' German' report aald a British,' convoy was dispersed, by the naif - warp lanes nut British source aald . no ' ships under convoy ; wer - hit and that the action took place too far out' : for --British flghUng planes, to aid the ships.- - -- f Several unescorted vessels wer. . victims of nazl attacks. -One was the 7,41 $-ton British liner Pyr- ; rhus, sunk with the loss of eight -men off , the west coast of Eng-: . -land, presumably by a submar- Ine. ; ' 'j.'.'i.1-;' .a'..-:; m. U V. . ': ' "" '. British pilots were reported to have -penetrated- Germany again Thursday-night tor the sixth time In seven days to map communlca. -tlons, bridges and factories. George Rice, Once Dallai Resident, Die in AlcUka' JUNEAU, 'Alaskal March 1.-0TV -George B. Rice,' 6TP former plumbing shop , proprietor, who came north from Dallas.' Ore., In r . 1914. died here today after sever al years' til health. His widow and a son survive. , . ' ; . . V..