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Keep Posted , fUlera's la the spotlight, &Htb Its new entry 1 pro Jessional baaebalL Follow the Senator as tram and as Individual player In The Statesman aborts rolamns. . 7eather :, Partly cloudy today with r probable rain tonight and 8a t.; no change In temp. Max. temp. Thurs. 60, min. 4. River 2.4 ft. Rain .2 In. South wind. POUNDOO NINETIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 3 1940 Price) 3cj lUwsiandj 5c ItM: to TT - TI o . - . . . 7 : . fa Wage lira SneEar 'Paul i Hauser Column We were walking up State street yesterday when we saw C. Parker, the fishing tackle tycoon, rolling a huge ball Into one of his windows. It was, too big to be a basketball or a med I c 1 n e ball and not quite big enough for a rnshball. so we had to wait until he put a sign out in front of It be fore we knew it was a giant puff fa a 1 1. It wasn't made by Spaul- raal a Hbi. Jr. ding or Wilson. It Just ' grew. It grew, so the sign said, on the Mrs. Lester Pearmine farm in Polk county and it grew until It weighed 17 pounds and 12 ounces. The sign also said, to stifle any inquiries that might de velop, "Yes, it's edible." We are not known as an old puffbaJl eater, bat we are al ways Interested in new and tasty recipes, so we looked In to this thing. After all, we fig ured, 17 pounds of puff ball ought to nourish a growing boy like us for some time. Mr. Parker told us that puff balls taste Just like candy, but wouldn't cut us off a slice so we could let our old scientific Judg ment run rampant. We ran down all the literature we could on the puffball and found out that the one in the sportery window ought to be a lulu, because all the experts say the bigger they are the better they taste. We also found that if I you want to be technical you 1 call them Calvatla gigant en, which is Latin for giant pnffball, as far as we know, and that they are one of the more influential members of the Lycoperdaceae ... family (elas Basldiomycetes.) When they get old they ipuff, en as you and I, and "their p do res go flying out oret the countryside to start baby giant puffballs. If you happen to have aa old giant puffball around the house you can shred it (being careful to keep it out of the Shredded Wheat box) and use it for tinder with your flint and steel when you can't find a match. You can also nse the powder to stop the flow of blood from wounds, all of which Information should be in valuable to campers, surveying crews, alr-cotoidltlonlng engineers and Boy Scoffs. Governor Sprague denies that his control was lacking in open ing ceremonies at Waters field and states that he issued ; Dr. Lee Btriner an intentional walk. This should effectively settle rumors that the governor will be one of the first en rollees at the Carl Mays base ball school. . DILEMMA If ma. your fee yea frw mm iT Tear wtfs, sas'U tara tta tn way; Bat If ;n sm ynr maota-facae kaaaty Tava fail, la an roa etvla y. . FRATERNAL NOTE Excavation has started for the new Murnhv building and the Sidewalk Excavation Inspection and Advice club. Commercial street chapter, will hold dally ses- sions at the club's diggings. MARITIME NOTE The Wheatland Ferry report ed yesterday that three enemy submarines have been hovering off Wllsoaville. The command er reported be is considering calling la Congressman Dies to . lid Marlon county waters of submerslve elements. Lato Sports : "PORTLAND, Ore- May 2-(flV Portland defeated Seattle. 8-7. to nlt ht In A IB-inntng Pacific Coast league game that lasted until rdid- nlght. .- a single by Prank Relber. pinch hitter for Pitcher Glen Gao ler, seorea ixarry tioKnocrf irum third base with the winning run. . Portland trailed C-7 going Into the ninth but managed to push across one runner to tie the count and force the game Into extra in- slags. . -The last seven Innings were a pitchers' del between Turpln and Gabler. who relieved Ad Liska in this eighth. - The Portland wla evened the series at 1-1. Seattle 7 II Portland .. . 12 .Tnroln sfnd Campbell, Kearse (11); Liska. Gabler (8) and Fer- nandes, Adams (10). " SACRAMENTO, May 2-VSan Diego won a 12-lnning- fame from . , $ c Sacramento here tonignt ft to (Turn to Page 12, CeL 2) :ny Exemptions - and - Fi Processing 01 Farm Produce To Be Exempt Guaranteed Salaries of $1500 May Be Free of Hour Regulation Two Million Affected by Amendments; Norton Gives up Fight WASHINGTON, May 2-(JP)-Al-ter a hectic struggle, in which the bouse tentatively approved exemp tion after exemption from the wage-hour act, Rep. Mary Norton (D-NJ), a leader of administra tion forces, abandoned hope to night of stopping sweeping amendments in that chamber. Mrs. Norton, chairman of the house labor committee, announced that administration men would count on the senate labor com mittee to block the changes ap proved today changes which she bitterly estimated would exempt from the minimum wages and maximum hours standards 2,000, 000 workers engaged in the pro cessing of farm products or in farm cooperatives. These exemptions were tacked onto the Norton committee's bill, which provides that 1C processes Immediately connected with the preparation of certain farm crops or market shall be wholly exempt from the 42-hour week for 14 weeks a year and that for the rest of the year the maximum work week shall be SO hours. Mrs. Norton Gives op la Disgust ' s ' If any, self-respecting member of the house can vote for the bill now,, it's all right with the com mittee.' Mrs. Norton said angrily "I wish to take no further part In the debate." One amendment, offered by Rep. Bland (D-Ya) and approved 52 to 40 would exempt "any em Dloye employed in the cleaning. packing, grading or preparing fresh fruits and vegetables in their raw or natural state or any employe employed in the canning, processing, freeting or preserving of any product consisting wholly or in chief volume of perishable, seasonable fruits or vegetables. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Milk Hearing Set For May 14 Here Date of the Salem district milk hearing was set yesterday for May 14. The Oregon milk control hoard In notifying local producers of the date did not specify where the hearing would be held. Previous hearings, however, have been convicted in the state library ffiiftang. ?this hearing, which will be cot$cted by the control board heaifed by C. E. Grelle of Port land, local dairymen will be heard concerning possible price schedule adjustments. The hearing was granted as re sult of a request from represen tatives of four Salem dairies who oppose the reestabllsbment of milk prices at the 11-cent-a-quart level at which they were main tained before the milk control board suspended control here last fall. The board's price and pool ing orders were rt instated May 1. Census Shortage Rumor Is Unfounded, The district census burean took Issue here yesterday with press re ports that its preliminary counts indicated Salem's showing was far under expectations gleaned from surreys based on utility service, sehool census and residential con struction data. A published assertion that the city's population was being re ported at 25.226. exclusive of an esUmated 2S0O Inmates of state Institutions here, was not a final report and was understood not to represent a complete picture ot the progress of the census at the time it was prepared, which was several days ago. . ; - "These are not complete figures and they do not In any way indi cate complete totals as they will be reported,?: A. R. McCall dis trict enumerator, declared McCall declined to comment on the possible source from . which premature and asserted ly mislead ing reports on progress of his staff waa obtained United States cen sus hcreau regulations forbid ro le are of census Information- until the hftuso-to-hou&e enumerators- jutImw Vice-Presidency Sought for Him Louis A. Johnson, assistant secre tary of war, whose write-in can didacy for the Tlce-presldency la being advocated In Oregon. Salem's Debaters Last Five Rounds Meet Defeat With Only 3 More to Go; Return Due Next Week Salem high school's debate team was eliminated Wednesday night after winning tire of the eight rounds in the national de bate tournament in, Terre Haute, Ind.. Coach Norborne Berkeley was Informed by telegram yester day. An airmail letter from the de baters, arriving with the tele gram, described the opposition teams as superb debaters, especi ally In the art of cross-questioning. Using a symposium type of debate, in which the Salem, deba ters were untrained, the tourna ment proved rough golngfor the four who twice defeated Till Ore gon opposition In state contests. However, Coach Berkeley con siders the showing of the team in going five rounds extremely good, considering that participating In the tournament were 156 teams chosen as tops In the country. The four, Emogene Russell, Zeral Brown, Don Burton and Jack Hayes, with their chaperon, Mrs. H. A. Russell, left Terre Haute yesterday and will make the return trip through Califor nia, arriving In Salem the middle of next week. Final debate in the tournament will be broadcast over a national hookup Saturday. Air Force Scores Hits on Airdrome LONDON, May Friday) -The British air force scored di rect hits with high explosive bombs In a raid on Stavanger air drome early Thursday, the Brit ish announced today, and on Wed nesday shot down a German mine laying plane apparently on its way home. The bomber command said the explosives played "new havoc" with the landing surface of the airfield. The captain of one British bomber re ated that he attacked the mine layer at close range and that it fell Into the sea. Director Avers detail reports have been audited. Although asserted to represent 8B per cent" of the present Sa lem population, the figure In the confidential office report was un derstood rather to show that ft per cent of the 1220 population, 2s,2C, had been enumerated and reported, without referring to the number of persons recorded on census takers work sheets bat not yet reported to the central office. Allegations that Astoria popu lation has been only 40 per cent enumerated and amounts to only about 4200 persons were also be lieved to be based on ignorance of the true nature ot census bureau records. ' The. same observation was believed applicable to reports or the Dallas population at 2504; Hillsboro, - 2222; McKlanvllle, 2244: Newberg, 2238: Oregon J r5 t City. ,E 57 4: St. Helens J2I4 and Tillamook 2584. M J : It was learned recently, howev er, that although enumeration kits ot Salem; city enumerators hare been turned la with the exception ot a handful of the, 22 originally - , .(Turn to Page 2. CoL i) , Louis Jolinson Backers Open Drive Locally J. F. Ulrich to Be Salem Chairman; Write - in Campaign Looms Candidate Made Address at State Legion Meet in 1939, Recalled By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Oregon democrats" campaign to Write In the name of Louis John son, assistant secretary of war, as their choice for rice - president, reached Salem yesterday with the coming of Jack Wahl, executive secretary of Portland Mayor Joe Carson's Johnson committee. Wahl declared party leaders were determined to make Johnson Oregon's candidate for the rice presidential nomination and would form sub-committees in all 26 of the state's counties. J. F. Ulrich of S?lem has accepted the Marion county chairmanship. Johnson more than any other democratic rice-presidential can didate has the advantage of fa miliarity, especially In Marlon county. In that he came here last August to address the American Legion department convention at the canitol. Before returning to "Washington. DC, he was taken on a weekend fishing trip In Lane county. LaFoUette More Is Deplored Here The Johnson movement was snurred on by last Sunday's en dorsement of Senator Robert La FoUette, not a democrat, by the Oregon Commonwealth federa tion. In fact, the federation's choice has given non-federatton demo crats a cause to rally around. Some party leaders go as far as to hope Commonwealth's choice of an out-of-party man for rlce- nresident may prore an issue on which they may bring face-mak ing factions of the party, In Ore gon together. f y 'ti'. "v The keynote for a "Democrats, unite!" movement Is sounded in a letter sent out by Mayor Carson's committee, which declares that "the coming national campaign makes It necessary that all true democrats stand united." Johnson at any rate will doubt less receive the unanimous rote of democrat members of the American Legion because he Is an active legionnaire and a popular past national commander. Bombing Hospital Ships Is Charged STOCKHOLM, May 2-flV-The Norwegian legation announced to night jthe Norwegian gorernment had lodged a strong protest with the International Red Cross at Geneva charging German planes bombed Norwegian hospital ships en route to the northern ports, causing "serious loss of life. In cluding doctors and nurses." In asking the Red Cross to for ward the representations to Ber lln, the Norwegians asserted the ships, which they said were at tacked yesterday in Norwegian territorial waters, were plainly designated with Red Cross mark ers. The ships presumably carried soldiers wounded in the southern campaign to northern ports held by the British and Norwegians, Summer Preview Followed by Rain PORTLAND. May 2.-V-Rain spattered on most sections of Ore gon again today after a brief pre view of summer. , May began in Portland with an ft2-derree maximum temperature yesterday, but rain- squalls drenched the citT today. Medford was the hottest city In the state Wednesday with a max imum readln of S5. - Roseburg was closa behind with 84. Light showers and cool temper atures will continue tomorrow, the weather bureau said Our "Senators Baincd czl Hrpia Too much wetness, mo the Pip pins ot Yakima' headed north w a r d , the Spokane Indians tn . eluding two tor- i 1 1 'mer .Willamette k7v unlrerslty stars UWM headed for Salem e2r"3 . and. Jape permit- ! X?ii ; 1 tine, the ; Indians rV5s--F7. O will make their , bow here tonight. A - - But the Sena- tors taored closer 5 to first . place even while idle, for the leading Wenatchee club lost a ten-inning rune to Vancouver, 2 to 1, only Western International league gajne of the day. TRONDHEIM SECURELY HELD . - www,.y..'.w. - v. I Italian Intention' ! Not Told Frankly US Ambassador Given Only Limited Assurance of Peaceful Attitude f , ROME. May 2.-VUnlted States Ambassador William Phil lips has received only limited as surances of .Italy's peaceful inten tions from Foreign Minister Count Ciano, reliable- political circles reported tonight, as offi cial Italians expressed indiffer ence it allied precautionary measures In the Mediterranean, including the dispatch ot a battle fleet' to Egypt. ' i Phillips was reassured today by Clano only -that Italy contem plates no war-like moves witnin the next iten-ic days. It was re ported. ' 4 i 1 British Prime, Minister unam berlain's announcement that the British and French battle fleets now in the eastern Mediterranean were reinforced by extraordinary defense measures in Egypt and the calling of ten classes of re serve oincers to tne colors oy Greece. Dinlomatle circles Interpreted these developments as an emphat ic warning that Britain and her allies are prepared to combat any ItaHan attempt to profit from the allied setback In Scandinavia. Foreign circles already had been made anxious by Britain s diverting her shipping from the Mediterranean as a precautionary step. i Ambassador Phillips, it was learned, called on Count Ciano at the request of the state depart ment in Washington, and not, as had previously been reported, at the request of Ciano. i It was assumed the ambassa dor's second call arose from his conference with Premier Musso lini yesterday. In yesterday's conference Mus solini Indicated he had no war in tentions for the present, and to- (Turn to Page 2, Col. ) i Governor, Editor j Stage Fist Fight JACKSON. Miss., May 2P& Gor. Paul Johnson and Major Frederick Sullens, editor of the anti-administration Jackson Dally News, tonight engaged in a fight in the lobby of a downtown ho tel, with both coming out of the scrap bloodied. Sullens was hurried to a doc tor's office by his wife and daughter for an x-ray examina tion of a head wound. . CoL Tom Brady, of the state highway patrol, greeted newsmen at the executive mansion w 1 1 n the report that the gorernor was resting in bed and would hare no statement to make at present. Brady said the . gorernor, years old, did not appear to haro any serious : Injuries. - Sullens, (2. charged the gorer nor had attacked him with a cane and called it "a cowardly attempt to assassinate me from thf rear. ' . Man With Weapon Is Arrested Near Route of Royalty LONDON, May S-(Friday) -m -It waa disclosed early today thai a man waa arrested last night at Enaton railway i station: and charred with possessing an. "of f enslre weapon" shortly i before King George VI and Queen Eliza beth arrived from Lancashire. : The identity . of the prisoner was not disclosed but he was scheduled to appear at Clerken well police court today. v v5 The return ot the king and (jueea from a tour of arms fac- tories : In : Lancashire was other wise uneventful. The customary crowd , had , assembled to greet them at the station. " j ' : - r. - '.WPWW -': Si ' i - Above, new photo f the harbor German control since the allies tack it from the south. Picture formation office. Below, the British submarine Sterlet, which with th larzer Tanxm la renorted loetw -IIN photos. Isolation Decried In Chamber Talk Lewis Douglas Says Peace Negotiations to Need ' Guidance of US . WASHINGTON,! May l.-VP)-Business leaders j from cities throughout the i country heard Lewis W. Douglas! decry a policy Of "Isolation" for the United States tonight a short, time after they had called upon the gorern ment to expedite: further arma ment on a "pay-as-we-go ' basis. S Douglas, the Rooscrelt admin istration's first budget director and now president of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, declared America's national Interests were deeply lnrolred In the outcome of the European war and that It would be Impossible to reconstruct a peaceful world if England and France were de feated. .. ! - - r In a broadcast address pre (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) - Bonneville Fun f Million by I WASHINGTON, May senate boosted tho 1240-41 inter ior department appropriation bill to 13,2?,834 today, an amount $2,225,229 aboTe President Rooserelt's budget! estimates ; and $17,284,647 greafer than was roted by the houses a. j The measure now goes to a joint committee for settlement of dlffrences between house and sen ate.;.: -.f ;-1ii- Senate consideration of the bill required little more than an hour, and there was scant debate. : ' The senate appropriations com mittee had increased the house to tal by $15,232,747,1 and all Its rec ommendations were approTed. j Amendments from the floor ac counted for Increases totaling 12,- 222.000 Including a boost ot 21.- 400.000 in the committee's recom mendation of 32.COO.000 for small dams and reservoirs in the drought areas. This Increase F made at tho request of Senator O'Mahonev tD-Wyo). r ; In addition the I senate tacked on a total of 210,220,000 In con tract authorizations for which ap cronrlatlons must he made in the BY GERMANS : 5 of Trondbeiun, now In undisputed hare abandoned all efforts to at ororlded by Norwegian Travel in. "Ions overdue" and assumea to ne Germans Jubilant At Britain s Expect Allies to Abandon Norway Entirely; Sea Coup Is Claimed . By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, May 2-VGerman troops hoisted the nail war flag today at Andalsnes, on Norway's rugged lower west coast, and the reich hailed .with undiluted Joy what it called the "wild flight" of the British from lower Nor way. : f'..::k'. A 'high command' communique tonight said the German flag was hoisted at -2 p.m.. In the landing port abandoned by the British after German troops had tirelessly pursued their , enemies to the sea, ; - : ! ':; :" Government - spokesmen said they were not surprised at this action, foreshadowed by the an nouncement of British withdraw- ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) - d Increased Senate Action future If they are.ntllized. At fa nassed the senate, the bill waa ZlZ.S97.7Sa lesa UU1' U amount appropriated for the cur- rent year. n... ill. V (V. jttiamhA gave its approval to a compromise siO7.i5O.v0O appropriauou ior activities of the. state, commerce and justice departments and the judiciary. The total was $2,514 000 under President Roosevelt s budret estimates and 3.71,00O below the appropriation lor tne current year. The amount was agreed upon by a joint committee after house and senate had passed the bill with different totals. Among the senate Increases in the Interior bill were these: 213, 225.000 for the bureau of recla mation. 21.200.000 for the bituminous coal commission. : ': h $250,000 to finance the south note ezoedltlon under Admiral Richard E. Eyrd. for another year 21.000,000 to construct power transmission facilities from Bon- nrvV.I dam. ' .. ' - ' ' - : 21.155. 9S0 for the bureau of Indian affairs.; Move Hints at War Activities On new Fronts Nazi " Troops From Oslo HustlingNortliward ; Namsos Watched Hold on. All of Southern Norway Clinched When British Withdraw GENOA. ; Italy. . May 2.- (JP Britlsh merchant ships- In Itaiaa ports were ordered tonight to sail- with all . possible speed for Eng land by way of .the Sues canal,' avoiding Gibraltar. - It was- be lieved that the urgent instructions were transmitted - to all British merchantmen in the Mediterran ean.- :i J Ships anchored at the crowded port of Genoa were the first to receive the order. Four British , vessels were here at the time. One sailed at once and the oth er; prepared to weigh anchor by morning. ;! r The order, coming on the heels of an order, one day earlier that all British lifeline shipping avoid the Medlterrean by rounding the tip of Africa, reflected increasing international tension. Concurrently British and French, naral forces were concen- i trating in the eastern Mediter ranean. There ; was no Immediate ex planation for routing the ships i homeward by the much longer way of Suez Instead of through the straits of British-fortified Gi- , braltar. , Nor wasi there any anparent change in Italy's professed attl-. tude of . Indifference toward tne British precautions. r t , , STOCKHOLM. May ' 2 - ( Friday ) -P)-WIth allied- resistance in southern Norway completely with drawn. German troops from the Oslo district today began flood ing northward towards Troiid heim and a possible battle with allied forces north of that b:g port. , , " , . - . ; The generals were reportea al ready adrandng quickly to re capture such points as Itoros and Tynset In the Glomma rirer rsl ley, which they abandoned "Tues- day. ; - - ' . . .. , .... How mucn resistance wel tered NorweKlan units were offer ing could not be ascertained, but it was believed that formal resist? ance south ; of Trondhelm was practically finished. Full attention now is iocuu on the Britisn-neia narasos uuui, 100 miles above Trondhelm. , The imnression prevails tnat the allies will make a determined effort to hold this area for the time being at least, with the possi bility of large scale battles in the near future unless the Germane content themselves with holding their present line across Norway from Trondhelm to Sweden. Activity Reported On Namsos Front , ,J Considerable activity along -TP. e Namsos front was reported to night by a Swedish correspondent in a telephone call from Gropg, 25 miles east of Namsos. but he said he was unable to determine whether the allies were planning to retreat or an offensive there. Subsequent efforts to contact Grone failed, the Stockholm ex change explaining that cans couia not be nut through "for unei- nlatned reasons." -. .' A Norwegian legation spoaes- man here aeciarea Norwegian troons in southern ' and central NnrwiT are determined never te retreat" regardless of the allied withdrawal. The Norwegians were said to be entrenched soutb of Roros. be tween Tynset and fToJga, and holding back German, patrols at tempting: to advance northward. "The morale of our troops i hlxh." said the spokesman. Sweden heard the news of the allied withdrawal with natural sympathy for their neighboring Nordic nation but with the feeling: that the threat of the war spread ing to this country had. cased somewhat. The confusing military situa tion of the past few days in Nor way Is clarified now. f . I Germanwlthdrawals from Hor- 1 os. some 70 miles southeast ei ironaneim, ana lruiu ijubci. d .. (Turn to Page 2, CoL, 1) j ValllG of Aviation In .War Is Proven Inventor Asserts NEW .YORK, May i-(Zy-Grx2-rer Loenlng, aviation larentc? and manufacturer, said tQ2fS that the war in Norway had dem onstrated the rvalue of tlsa a.r plane as a transport raeiluci t:: I aie fact that "a nary must te a. air force." . Tha basic Im55ortanc ct t" I airplane in tne coni.,a, was . wufc k w . - . c . - strafer but ts & t.n - crt cz zi ! armaments ead su: ;Mvs.' Loenlng epos e et c:-er whicli he receive t.e 13 4 5 I gleston'-medal c t-3 Col.'.:! unlTwrs'ty , scaoci cr t ; for distiaguli!:ci serrica t t ei:iEeerl3 pre