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Keep Posted Balera's fit the spotlight, with Its new entry la pro fessional baseball. ; Follow the Senators as a team and as Individual players In The Statesman sports columns. , Weather Rain and cooler today j Friday partly cloudy with scattered ' showers. Max. temp. Wednesday 1 70, inlaw 48. Rain .55 In. River J l. feet. Booth wind.' ' POUNOSO . 1651 -I l i ! NINETIETH YEAR Sea Battle Waged Oil Swedish Coast - Over Norway Route One Nazi .Ship Is Reported Sunk, - Secbn(lAfire Norse Oaim ank Unit of in Retreat (By The Associated Press) A Urge scale naval engage meut off the coast 4 of Sweden was reported today" "to hare re sulted from the drive of the Brit ish nary to knife. through Germany's-transport line of troops and supplies for her- array of as sault and occupation in Norway. This two-hour attack hy Brit ish warships and planes 10 miles orr Goteborg, important Swedish naval base, observers said, was marked -by the sinking of one German ship while another was set afire. Details of the sea fight were meager. Convoys Return British Fire - : German warships convoyhig transports and supply ships fired bur on the British. As to sction on the land Nor wegian authorities backed up previously unconfirmed reports by declaring that a well equipped German tank unit of some 1 13 men retreated south from Roros. key point in the Osterdalen (east ern valley), and withdrew from Tynset, 25 miles further south. Norwegians said that" Norse troops, with "foreign volunteers," which could have Included Swedes again took possession of the area around Roros but did" not re occupy the town In I the face of German threats to : bombard It from the air If they did. Before the Norwegian an nouncement, it was- reported that Storen below Trondhelm, had. (Turn to Page 8, CoL 1) He Else Paul II a user $ Column It's a heavy month ahead, friends. You may have thought, in your mistaken way, that it was just, another month called May, put mat s wcerp, you're wrong. Things start off today, which is May 2, as you can readily see by looking at the figures under that shspery fig ure over your desk. It's the be ginning of Golf week. Today's Thursday and rialH.Haasai.lt. you've hardly got your old putter out of the closet than Friday comes along. That's the first day of National Music week and there you are with a putter in one hand and a steel guitar in the other. You think maybe that's enough for the time being, but comes Saturday and National Posts re week starts. So yon not only have to maintain your cor rect stance and keep jour fin re rs relaxed over the keys but also you have to keep your spine like a ramrod, your toes turned the right way, yonr chest ' out and yonr stomach inside of bounds. used tr" that and then sock you again.' Mother's day comes on May 11. which happens to be the same d.iy that Bottled Carbonated Beverage week starts. The only solution for the person who wants to do things right is to load his mother up with seltzer water or a few stiff shots of White Rock and feel his duty done.. This is also a good week to throw pop bottles at umpires. May IS is straw hat day, a day we blissfully disregard. The less staunch citizens will be glad when on May 10 they collapse Into First Aid week, a . week which we will probably need greatly. The hardier sur vivor will trek on to National . Tennis week, which starts May 25, and bows out the merry month of May In a veritable swarm of rackets, nets, ball boys and green eye hades. Xrt Friday tha Black Keck school ofB lack Back, Ora.. "' cams for a visit t Salem. Thsrs r irr six Is tha party, taclading tha tchr, Mr. Parks . . . Mr. Tarks took than for s tour of tko city. I hey Tisrtosl tk aaost Important places Ilka tha ni- asatlary aaa tha faabU-aUB4a4 ; i tasUtata. . - . - -Capital JoormaU .. That's plug gin ' the old home town! , . '' ). . '. - BAGDAD BCGT-K -Shereef Hassan - El Andy see Burk, Grand Waslr and Tax Col lector of Marion county, carried the colors for the Cherrtans In the baseball -parade and kept In step every other step. ;A California lady barber mas queraded as a man for IS years because she said wives object ed to their husbands being " shaved by a woman. The way things stand around this tows a lot of wives wouldn't object to - their husbands belnjr, shaved by anybo1yt not even Jfae West. 1.1 zdi? TaT e ww IMazi buns r a V AP Man's Writer Escape. " mg by Machine From Air By J. NORMAN LODGE NAMSOS, Norway, May l.-WH Their appetites whetted by the destruction of the 1190-ton Brit ish escort vessel Bittern, German warplanes returned with machine guns spouting today to strafe this Norwegian . country-side with clock-like regularity at 30-min- ute intervals. With the first crackof dawn, the nazis took up where they left off yesterday and ranged from this British landing place, where the Bittern was blasted to pieces by a power-diving bomber with heavy loss of life, all the way to the Swedish frontier on the east. Virtually everything moving on the roads from Namsos to Grong, 25 miles on the east, and in the mountain pass between Formo- foss and Gaddede, on the Swedish border, came in for bursts of machine-gun fire from the canny nazi airmen. They zoomed, they dived and slipped up from behind with mo tors cut off to catch their prey unawares and were off again to repeat the performance further down the road. I was rolling along serenely from Namsos to Grong when all cf a sudden a single-motored pur suit Job swept down silently from the rear, sped over my car at 50 or 100 feet then turned and came back vrith guns blazing, j. j My chauffeur and I got to a ditch in nothing flat and escaped! with only a bad scare. But oar car was not so lucky. Its radiate)! was punctured and its top. Just above where - we'd been sitting was fined iwita bullet holes.1 1 i Twice the German pilot dived and raked the road wiLhmaehinej gun fire while we held our breathy There la no air defense in -the! Inland regions hereabouts aad the) civilian population was kept busyj all day dashing in and out of the! woods. " The persistence of the nazi pl4 lots resulted In a warning fromj British and Norwegian military; authorities- that henceforth cor respondents are "on their own.' It took the Germans six hours yesterday to hit the Bittern and, (Turn to Page 8, CoL 8) j ; . . 1 Cream Prices up; Milk Left at lOd i Cream prices went up S cents a quart but milk prices were un changed yesterday, first day after; milk price and pooling orders were reestablished here by the state milk control board. Price tables were posted in grocery stores and other milk distributing depots showing 4 per' cent milk at 10 cents a quart; table cream at 45 cents a quart,! 28 cents a pint and 15 cents a half pint; whipping cream CO cents a quart, 35 cents a pint and IS cents a half pint. Although, the unchanged milk price is In defiance of the order of the milk control board, which would reestablish the 11-cent price for ,4 per cent milk in effect here last September, dealers said yesterday they expected the lower price to prevail until the Rearing promised by the board is held here. Fighting" Editor Irvine 6 Dies; Many PORTLAND, Ore.. May 1-VPf n i KlInA "H rYi fin w' B F Irvine. 77. blind "Ugnung editor of the Oregon Journal, died here today r from a Jong ' ill ness and i the shock of a fire in his home. Firemen j car ried the conva lescent editor, who recently un derwent a major operation, ;from the burning sec ond story of his home ten days ago. The ( inci dent contributed to 1 a relapse. S. r. Irvtas " ! physicians said. . , .., Irvine, a native of pioneer Ore gon and editor for nearly 80 years,- covered a variety of occu pations - In his long career. He bad been a miner, teacher, farm er, editor, publisher, politician and educator. - " ' Falling eyesight 1 complicated his early life, causing him to shift from one occupation to another. Eventually ; blindness came, the result of an Injury in a youthful boring match, but Irvine went on to reach the. Eenlth of his ca reer as a newspaper man. - In 1892, ; Irvine purchased the Corvallis. Ore , Times, publishing the paper for 16 years. For the last two years.' he wrote editorials for the Oregon Journal. Sam i Turn to Page 8, Cel. 4), French Luxury ; Liner Sails From New York, Destination Unknown A i : I- fi 1 r sMsssiaaa Her desination a mystery, the lie de France, French luxury liner and once the "floating art gallery," steamed from her New York dock last night, daubed a camouflage gray, stripped of furnishings and crammed with 12,000 tons of the tools of war. Only two passengers . were aboard, one described as a French general and the other the . lo-j ear-old daughter of a French i FDR not to Run Unless People Call, Says Son Family Hoping President Term, Elliott Indicates; Believes Word of Father's Decision Awaits Convention , i -i i - . t FORT WORTH, Tex., May 1.: ( AP) Elliott Roose velt predicted tonight his father would not be a candidate for a third term unless there is a definite demand front the peo ple.. ' ! $ r : In a Tadio address, ti2 president' ton said: ha believed Mr. Roosevelt would withhold Gibraltar Goal, Says Nazi Consul Stuzaests Britain s Ouster w as Oppressor, in NY Labor Day' Talk NEW YORK. May 1-WV-Dr Hana Borchers. German consui- eeneral. suggested broadly tonight that the attempted ouster of the British from Gibraltar was a Ger man war aim. Any such campaign presumably would presuppose material sup port from the Italians. Dr. Borchers denunciation of the English as "unwanted oppres sors" in Gibraltar and la other areas was lnciudea in a : speecn prepared for delivery on this, Germany's "national labor day." at the Schwabenhalle in Brook lyn. (The term Schwabenhalle re fers to the German province of Swabia.) "Are we to believe," ha asked rhetorically, "that the Lord him self gave England authority : to lock both ends of the Mediterra nean with fortresses, in order' to subject to her will all nations living within these confines? Or is her rule based on force naked and brutal force? (Turn to Page 8, Col. 7). Express Regret PORTLAND. May l-fScores of messages of sympathy on the death of B. F. Irvine, editor emeritus, reached the Oregon Journal today. ; u "The state has lost one of Its outstanding' leaders in service,? said Governor Sprague, publisher of the Salem Statesman and a colleague of the noted blind edit or for many years. "I noted his consistent sympathy for the peo ple and his efforts toward their welfare." . ,j f Other comments Included: Mayor Joseph K.' Carson, Port land "His good work shall al ways adorn the history of the northwest.. '-";-. 1 Former Governor Charles Mar tin "He had a marked Influence In the fine standing our state holds today in the nation." v: Ronald O. Callvert, associate editor, Portland Oregonlan "He was a most delightful ' man to meet and -to talk to and had a fund of Information that, seemed almost Impossible to eg with oar sight, . , . ... WlUard Marks, Albany, presi dent, state board of higher edu cation "His service i to higher education was outstanding. . Dr. William J. Kerr, chancellor emeritus, board of higher educa tion "An ardent and enthusias tic supporter of education. State Supreme Court Justice Hall Lusk "His pen immensely Influenced , the. political and eco nomic history of Oregon.1 Salem. Oregon Thursday Morning, May 2, 1940 - . 1 - - v- i y army officer. i Will Retire at End of v t 'J-r'- -rr-; announcements of his inten- Otlons until Just before, or pos sibly during tie national demo- er .tic convention in Chicago: He reasoned that the president would - delay any. announcement so that he coull prove a more po tent force In selection of the par ty's nominee' and keep the anti- third termers from consolidating their forces. "The decision as to whether the president shall run for a third term does not rest i with aim at all," Elliott asserted, "tnt must be made by the people of the country as a whole." i Roosevelt said members of the family had ei pressed hope the president could retire at the end of his term. j He added that,, unless the Inter national situation were to be clar ified they "felt" that he undoubt edly would hare to follow the mandate which would be ex pressed by the people of the United States snd agree to make any' personal sacrifice if they should decide that he must be a candidate." Little Snow Left On McKenzie Pass - ' ' : "t .. : . - ..':-! BEND, May l-tV-Higbway d. partment officials said today the McKenzie pass route between Eu gene and central Oregon probably will be opened next week.- : Rotary' snow plows! working to ward the summit from Sisters to day found only scattered drifts. The big cut at the east approach to the summit, lava beds,' usually packed with snow, has only a few small drifts. 3 j. . ; Padlocked barriers at each end of the route will prevent use untU the roadbed dries. 1000 WOMEN ATTEND COOKING SCHOOL A stageftd of kitchen gadgets that more than tOOO women who attenaea ine iirsi session 01 xno uregon than IOOO women wno ancnaea io muuH vi xus urrguB cmirsuns iwuu Capitol theatre yesterdiiy afternoon. The school wiU continue to&af and tomorrow, starting each oa at 2 o'clock. Doors will open at 1. ; , , I ,M . ji, . . at the afternoon Weddle Charge Thiwvn out b JudgeM'Mahan f . . ' '-.. - . . ; Neither : Party Materially Injured, Court Says in Formal Order . District Attorney Isn't t A i '-a k . ' -S - i - .avisea 7 motion , ior ; new Trial Fails 7 The ease of William sv XVAAJ Jerrerson ' farmer charged " with, shooting Albert f." Coatelow, a TmfrfiVirt T"..a w i a thrown ' out of court yesterday When - Cirenlr Jndra- T. W lf-J Mahan signed an order dismiss "S " enureiy ixom nis tribunal The .Judge's decision was "an nounced only a few hours after a Jury,-which had heard evidence; during an eight-klay trial of the case." reported to the Judge that it couia reach no verdict. - The order was based on the apparent belief of the court that the facts In the case did not warrant a retrial, with conse quent expense to the public. "Alter eight days of trial, and at a cost of over $500 to the taxpayers, the Jury was unable to agree upon the Question of the guilt or innocence of the de fendant," Judge McMahan wrote In the order. , - "Neither party " has been ma terially injured, the taxpayers having been the real victims. This court is not going to spend any more of the taxpayers money on this case. The case is dismissed." In a brief review of the facts npon which the charge was brought, the court stated that "it conclusively appeared' in the trial of this case that the prose cuting witness in violation of law went to the defendant's house, cursed defendant violently in the presence of defendant's " wife. Jerked him out of his house and knocked him 'down." "It further appeared that at the time defendant was 80 years of ' age, Just recovering: from a major surgical operation, and the prosecuting witness' was - only , 3 8 years of -age, in good health, and far-large than the defendant. - "It further appeared' that' sub sequently the parties had other (Tarn to page. 8, Col.' f) - 78 Men Rescued, .... Freighter Wreck Seas Break Over Disabled Vessel Carrying Beef -to British Isles NEW YORK, May lPHBey-enty-elght men were rescued to day by the United States Panama lines flagship Panama from the wrecked British beef-laden steam er Matakana which ran aground on Mayaguana island, about ISO miles north of Haiti in the West Indies. A brief wireless message from the Panama's master, Capt. Erie J. Erlckson, to the line's port captain, Frank Foster, told of the rescue at about 9 a. m., today, after the British vessel earlier had flashed a call for aid. ' The message said the captain, chief officer and- chief engineer of the stricken vessel had remain ed on the island with a week's supply of food provided them ' by Capt, Erlckson. Two of the crew had suffered broken legs. The Matakana, an 8,048-ton vessel, reported she had gone ashore, presumably in heavy seas. abont 8:40 a. m. (EST) today. Captain Foster said he expect ed the Panama to arrive iff New York - with the survivors ; S&tur- (Turn to Page 8, Col. 8 ) Dutch Vessel Sails . PORTLAND, May 16P-The Dutch motorshlp . Boschf ontein sailed for -Vancouver, BC, at noon today after waiting nearly fonr days for' instructions from" own ers. The snip is in tne transpa cific trade for the Java-Pacific line. " make housekeeping; a pleasnre and I - ' - 1 . ... I ..,...-.. . P T " ? " Our Senators ll'i Grcal Ao Via f BY f PAUL H. HOpSER, JR . U Ik was a day late, utHt didn't make 4 any- difference j in -thftway Balem opened Its- new , George- E vtr a 1 . i 1 a. . 1 JLs a Waters- baseball park last night.: . The Senators did their . bit . by whipping Yakima 11 1 to 10 in a thrilling; ninth inning finish In which the v scored fiv runs. - i Salem did " its bit by turning out 4865 strong to dedicate Wa ters' field and celebrate the en try, of . profes sional, baseball into Salem. . : Ev e r y b o d y went home hap py . except the few hundred who , left after Yakima" scored four runs on Bill Bliss" home run over the fence injthe ninth. . Hitrh-steDDlne eirlsJ a national muni rnlor euard. the! Salem Mu nicipal band and Amerjican Legion officials started things 011 as uw Glory was sent fluttering to the top of the flagpole Commander Arthur I Johnson of Capitol post No. 9 officiated over the color raising ceremony, riovernor Charles A. Sprague, who is Wetting to be sin old hand ori the tnound, did the first pitch ing with Dr. R. E. Le stemeg m the batter's box, wating a bat George (Waters bought 50 years ago, and Secretary 01 1 state Mri Snell catching. The governor had rjlentv Of swift and a good curve bat his control was a imie erra- tiCi His Ifirst pitch wasi ten I eel to the rixht. his second fen feet to the left.! and his third kit the dust ten feet in front of the piate. au thU disappointed Dr. Steiner,-who looked like a niuer. Georxa K. Waters, venerable owner ef the baseball 4 club and ball park" and present hero of Ba lem. aot the plaudits Of the fans when he wag presented with two" souvenirs. One. presented by Gov ernor Sprague, was a huge floral horseshoe from, the OldlTlme Fans of Oreaon and the other was srold tronhr presented I by the Ye Old Timers Baseball cittb. tnrougn Secretary of State Earl sneu. Our Charley Bier, a refugee from show business into the news paper frame, did an admirable Jod as. master of ceremonies for the Ad dub, which arranged the pre liminary show. Sidelights Goldy Halt, the Ya kima skipper, has a better mem ory: for names than Bunny Grif fiths, Salem's pilot. Goldy didn't miss a name when he Introduced the Pippins. Bunny stuttered over one! and finally had to call for heir) . . . The band finally man aged to play, "Take Me out to the the . Ball Park," a tune Noticeably mlsslnr during the parade In the afternoon ... The scorecard seu- ingr -Skids fyelled "You can't enjoy the i game without a scorecard" but moved so fast no (one could burl a card . . A. N. Bush, who used to flay a little baseball for Amherstl college himself a few years ago, came a little late and had' trouble finding his box. J Governor Sprague -waa fcahered to bis box by Biddy Bishop. Ha te to say Itf but the governor was one of the early leavers . UCl l tr..k Johnson. f KSLM,. whose beard was! prominent, nearly got trip- ped up In the PA system's wires v.'ii Unusual for. a para opening, the lights didn't go out . . Rain c a in e in the eighth, cared In lithe 1 a i t of when it fell the hardest and Sa lem had bases loaded. t a program of new Ideas welcomed Biatesman spring couunj auwi Price 3ci Newsstandx 5c in 1st- to 10; ;480B See George Ea Waters' ins for Eight Innings, Then Upset Apple Four Senator Pitchers" Called Before Tide Turned; Till Seventh; By RON GEMMELL ' r One hundred arid one years ago Abner Doubleday laid . out the first baseball diamond in Cooperstown,; NY, but it is rather doubtful that he ever designed it with the belief t so much could happen on it as did last nifght on the $60,000 one erected in southwest Salem by George Ei", Waters. v Before 4865 paid customers he largest ever to wit ness a sports contest . in Salem the Senators made their home inaugural with a Jl to 10 victory over the Yakima Pip pins that had just about everything in the modern baseball book.. " . - i - . ' . '.. They came from' behind a the ninth inning to do it, with Secdrid Baseman Bobby Baer singling home Skipper Bunny Griffiths for the winning run with but one away and the satchels all tenanted. Hatch Amendment Is Pigeon-Holed Measure's Friends Refuse to Give up, Charging "Bad Faith" T WASHINGTON, May lHyp)-Tbe house Judiciary committee con signed the new Hatch. "anti-politics",-bill to tin peaceful slumber in a committee, pigeon-hole to day while friends of the measure bluntly charged Vbad faith." . and redoubled .their efforts to' push it to passa ge. . .. iX - By a ballot reported as 1 to 19. he committee voted to "U ble' the . bill, meaning" that only unusual procedure could revive it before the end of the session. Rep. Dempsey (D-NM), the meas ure s principal house exponent. Immediately announced he would Initiate . whatever parliamentary moves may be necessary .to get action on the legislation. T ' The bill, already approved by the senate, would prohibit polit ical activity to state employes whose salaries-are paid in whole or part with federal funds. It sup plements the original Hatch act. passed a year ago. which applied a similar restriction - to all but a few top-rank. in r federal employes. The new measure, supported (Turn to Page tt CoL ) 3 Oregon Towns Gain by Census (By The Associated Press) Population gains for three Oregon towns and losses fop a fourth were announced today in preliminary eensus returns. The eount Indicated Pendle ton's population at 8819, an In crease of 33.2 or 219 persons over the 1930 total. Barns figures were 2423, a de cline of 176, while suburban Hines gained 459 for a total of 676.-. '. .; i ' '."' -'- - - Grants Pass population may have gained 25 per cent to 6,879 compared with 4,666 ten years ago, the eany count snowea. : - - ,m ; . Consolidation Loses LYONS, May 1 Move to con solidate Weasel Flat and Lyons school districts was defeated this afternoon in a 13 to 2 tote at Weasel Flat. The election sched uled for tonight at L y o n s was canceled after the adverse vote at Weasel Flat. t-.'"' Mayfs Advent: Like March JLion in Midivest Weather approaching summer time conditions t welcomed the coming of May, month of flowers. in Salem yesterday. The tempera ture reached a coat-shedding 79 degrees in mid-afterndon. ; PORTLAND,. Ore.; May After nearly a week of spring rains, a hot sun sent the ; ther mometer .soaring to 82 degrees here .today. The forecast, how ever was for more rain tomorrow. (By the Associated Press) , May ? came in like - a lion :. In much of the midwest .yesterday. : Snow pelted several states while chllllnt: winds kept , May day ; ; celebrators j nnder heavy wraps in a number of others. It was the fourth 'time In 3 years that Chicago had a meas urable snow fall in May. It was only a half inch deep hut tha storm was brisk enough to plague thousands of folk . who changed homes on the traditional moving day. - : Snow, light but -nnusnal, 'was reported in northern Illinois, east ern ..Wisconsin, upper, Michigan, No. 31 Ho me V v Contest Players Tag Beliind Cart in Ninth Helser Holds out Brewer Wins j f ; .. JT- . ? four-run deficit; in the last of O Behind from the first Inning until the eighth, when a two-run rally jderrlcked Carl McConnelt, the Pippins' starting pitcher. , and knotted up the count at 6-C. the Senators saw their chance jt glimmering in the first of the ninth when Centerflelder Ernie Springer, .pinch-hltting, smacked a towering home run with the bases loaded to give Yakima a four-run -lead. , I " But! our Senators weren't through. Charley Petersen opened the last of the ninth with a btn gle - to i left, j Bucky Harris's ground ball' was thrown wide to second base by Pitcher Howard -Johnson and Coscarart and Light- I ner walked to fore home Peter sen. That was all for Mr. John son, Kettle relieving him. Short stop Nanny Fernandas then bob bled Bunny Griffiths' . bounder, Harris going home and nil hands pulling. up safe. , Catcher Teddy Kerf, who had relieved Dick Bishop in the eighth; singled sharply to center to score Coscarart and Lightner, tying the score at 10-10. That left Kerr on first . and Griffiths on second,' and Pitcher Bud Brewer, advanced "them with a sacrifice bunt. Randall drew a political walk and Baer, after first attempt ing to squeeze home the winning tally, batted Jt across with a right rieid bingie. Bud Brewer, the fourth Sena tor chucker to take over the hill, received credit for the victory his third for the season. He has has won all three of the, games won by the Senators. ' , Roy Helser retired after Innings, giving way in the seventh after a walk and Fernanda' triple scored the Pippins' fifth earned run off him. Ole Solnila relieved. doing a nice Job until retiring la the eighth for a pinch-hitter. Orrin Davis, the rookie from Hillsboro, started the ninth, walk ing one and allowing John Stam per a two-base Wow that was a J triple1 that scored the wslkee. Reese, until Umpire Bert Cole in-' voked a ground rule. The ball had -lodged under a flaw in the right centerfleld fence, thereby holding the hit to two bases. , Davis was pulled for Brewer, ' who got the next two hitters eas ily, issued the third a political walk, and then was met by Springs er's four-ply, four-run swat. McConnell held .the Senators hitless and scoreless, for four In nings and only three of the six runs scored off him were earned. He-was victimized by a combina tion of this own wlldness, bobbles behind him and Senator artillerv. Johnson, his relief, was charged with the loss. , Only Lightner and Peterson 6tm (Turn to Page 8 Col. 6 1 , Mild in Salem; and : Iowa. Flurries were sighted in Minnesota and -west central Missouri.-.- 1 ' ' 'Temperatures ranged down to- ward the f reeling level but fair and Warmer weather was in pros pecti :;. j; r , -.. .- '" Heavy '; overnight . 'rains doused scattered sections. The downpour measured more than two inches in Meridan. Miss., and Montgom ery,'! Ala;,, and exceeded an inch in Nashville, Tenn. w Orleans. St. Louis, Terre Haute. Ind., Se attle;; Wash.,' and " Portlands Ore. : Meanwhile, sit least 14 deaths and thousands of dollars in dam- , age were recorded in the wake of ' Tuesday night's tornadic wids in southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri. : Arkansas, Kentuckri and Texas, and a cloudburst ia eastern , Texas. , , r v The mercury climbed to S3 de grees at Phoenix, Ari2.,i making it the hottest May 1 la the 45 years the US weather bureau has been keepm records there. Ynma was the warnipt fpet reported in . ArJjor.a, with 3 02 degrees. ' ' ' 'if. 1