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Newspaper Page Text" --.. .-- ";- 1 - 1 ; ' v . .- ,r . -.i - ... . ...... ................... ... No Substitute! 55?! . fl XX "V V25K C f 7 JL J Li ' ' ' W esthfV General! fair todays Wednesday becoming rlou fyt ' U"bt rala oa roat little fluiaje la trmprra tare. Slav. Temp. Monday 7, Mia 40. IUver l.a tU Kortheast wind. Wmmri JEAB : r -; ; , :t . ' ; ; Salnu Oryiu Tu dor Momlag. Mcry 21 1943 : t ; 'r Plc 8c BtwMtaad - 2ro 7 i : . : i5 J . . . ; : ., . ... : . ; -j. , q in line las: CO 'Paul Mauser n Column Oar j faTorlt of the country correspondents la M. Petersen, who keeps the readers of i the Sheridan Sun in formed on ' the hannan t i v . In ine urana ixonae i Talley, Enrope.v Africa and the Petersen men-, age. . M. Petersen's r I'UIUIUU giTCS U1C new of comings and goings, t!s-! its, births.1 deaths, accidents Paul a Bsar. ir and flavors it all with a homely touch of reminiscing and casual philosophy. ' "The month of May gave us one nice day," M. Petersen starts out on hi weekly roundup. "We need more like that, otherwise it will leave us flat." He tells about the editor of the Sheridan Sun calling on M. Peter sen (M. Petersen always refers to himself in the third person) and tells about Ches Mailer -of Charleston wanting to rent a truck farm. "C. A. Temple of Portland sent os religious literature, 'Is Man Immortal,' n he chronicle. "The caterpillars are with us also. A serious pest. I remem ber one year, 1901, when paint ing Tom Davis barn in North Plains, my paint was half cater pillars." And M. Petersen doesn't mind putting in a personal plug once In a while. He writes: "M. Peter sen has 1360 acres tor sale at 12 dollars per acre on highway. Also some tracts at 10 per acre." Later on he writes, "M. Petersen is also a notary public." Then M. Petersen advises his readers to laugh and grow fat. "Let all of us laugh more,' he advises. "Let the gladness of. your heart bubble up once in a while." "Petersen baked his first loaves of bread last Sunday, 8 S . years old. Bud r Johnson of - Sheridan took one loaf home.". A week later M. Petersen is more ambi tious with his baking and writes, "Friday May 10t M. Petersen bak ed seven smaU'Ioaves of bread and seven 'round " coffee cakes, using Maca yeast .said recipe." Recipes are news to M. Pe tersen and he tells that "a bucket of water, 1 pint of course salt and 1 pint of un packed lime will keep eggs fresh for a long time In a cool place." M. Petersen i chronicles that his granddaughter, Barbara, will graduate from Baker high school, that Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ebner of Mt. Angel called at Petersen's for a honey locust tree, that Mrs. M Petersen had a fairly good day Sunday, and that M. Petersen be lieves peeling onions is good . for the eyes. " M. Petersen reports an accident and reports it well and then re lates that "George Jones, our jo vial shoemaker, 'is making many friends. He has - two gas pumps. He buy 8 fern tips. He is a brick layer and carpenter. Busy from morning till late at night. Mr.- Petersen is happy, .to see the Salmon River- cutoff b u lit. "Mr. , Petersen T had- a r surprise trip down' Salmon River road," be writes. ?'Wbat a bustle -of ; work and traffic. Governor Olcott will remember 'when I presented peti tion of 489 at the courthouse In Portland. He aaid, Petersen we can not give yoa that - road. I asked the chamber of commerce In Tillamook ritv to airn mv netl- tion tor the Salmon : River road. Not. a single man w o n 1 d sign. Tillamook county was fighting me. They were afraid they would lose their business - If that road was bolit." ' And so M. Petersen, with a few words of the horror la Eu rope, winds up his weekly ob servations of an octogenarian. on Today On Picketing Act Constitutionality 'of Oregon's anti-picketing law will ' be argued this afternoon befofe the state su preme court here. ' The court announced yesterday the hearing would be limited to two hours. Only five of the seven judges will be onfthe bench. Jns tice Henry J. Bean is ill at his home here and Justice J. O. Bailey Is in the east.' .'';.-" Attacked by American Federa tion, of Labor and CIO unions, the picketing act waa upheld in the Multnomah county elreult court by three Judges sitting en banc. The unions appealed. ''. Joseph Padway, national attor ney for the AFL, will appear be fore the supreme court today, it was announced yesterday in Port land.' - . .. TTUliams I Procurement Ofjicer for This Region LINCOLN, Neb., Mty 20-iTV Courtney Williams, for five years head of the United States treas ury procurement office here, was notified today he had been appointed-regional procurement of ficer for Idaho, Oregon and Washington. His headquarters will be in Seattle, Hearing Credit Of f e Industries ioi A DefenseTasks RFC Volunteers Aid but ! Aircraft Makers Say They're "All Set" New Taxes to Pay Costs ; Hinted When Martin Raises Question WASHINGTON, May 20-JP) The' RFC offered its credit fa cilities to industries which, lack capital for expansion necessitated by the national defense program today, while from a conference of aircraft manufacturers came of ficial. word that for the present at least they needed no help. Jesse Jones, the . RFC chair man, issued a statement saying his agency was ready to cooperate with the banks in making secured loans for national defense pur poses, by. taking 75 per cent of such , loans . or underwriting 75 per cent, leaving the bank car rying 25 per cent of the advance. After ; conferring ; with the na tion's principal aircraft builders in a hurriedly- summoned session Secretary Morgenthau told re- porters the industry had '-suffi cient capital, and enough skilled workers to meet the present den mands of the defense situation without' sacrificing' labor stanf dards. The development came as a surprise to some officials - who had been' discussing the possi- hlllty of RFC loans for the pur pose of building additional plant capacity, or of having the gov ernment build new plants direct ly, retain ownership, and lease them to private builders. This possibility apparently remained in the lflng-range picture. Raj burn Says People ... . Are Willing to Pay . -' Meanwhile, a congress nufnlnr the .defense anpronrlat yti thrnurh tern tWoaA Viarf frnml Rep. Martin of Massachusetts. the repubuean house leader, an inquiry as to "now the adminis tration intends,, to finance these new demands." In reply, Rep. Rayburn of Tex as, the. democratic leader, said tnat serious consideration was being devoted . to that problem and that a recommendation would be made by the -executive departments. He added a belief that the American people were "willing to pay", the bUL The plane makers "met while appropriations to cover the pre sidents defense program were pushed along . in congress with a speed born of a widespread feel ing of emergency. With scarcely two hours discussion, the senate appropriations committee approv ; (Turn to page 2, column 1 ) Service Station Permit Obtained Permit for erection of a service station on the Dr. ,M. C. Flndley property at Cottage and State streets was issued tothe Shell Oil company yesterday by the city building department. ' r' ' Estimated cost of the service station Is $5000.' The corner, for merly occupied by Standard Sta tions, Inc., -which, was notified to vacate i severer months ago,' was one of the first in Salem to be devoted to a service station. " "Other permits: H. Klender to repair building at 97 North Cap itol' street, $50; John Hendrlck son to erect shed at 1540 South Cottage street, $40 L. A. Vlbbert to repair root of dwelling at 1120 South - Commercial street, $50; A. L. Dark to repair store build ing at 1978 North Capitol. 1 350; Charles Miller to repair roof of dwelling at 2010 Market street, $20; Rohn Sampson to erect ga rage snd shed at 1095 Shipping street, $70; Otto Dickmeier to erect 14 story dwelling and ga rage at 1485 Baker street, $2700. and J. H. Bowman to repair roof of dwelling at 660 Market street, $15. Three Shot in Strike Riot; , Union Plans Milk Delivery CHICAGO, May $0.-3VThree men were shot and 18 others were arrested along Chicago's milk strike front today while union of ficials and dairy farmers drafted plans to supply homes with milk. . Leslie Q. Gou die, head of the teamsters joint council, said the unionists would buy milk ;zrom Farmers, transport it to indepen dent dairies for pasteurization and distribute it to their regular cus tomers. ; - "' The major dealers.- arrayed against the Milk .Wagon Drivers union, an affiliate of the Team start's council, would be ignored. Goudie said the plan would go into; operation Wednesday If ar rangements could be completed.-. It was estimated that at' least two-thirds of the normal volume of milk consumed in the Metropol ian area had been cut off since tibel Charge Offered but Is not Filed Rebuffed efforts to file a libel charge against A. M. Church. Sa lem weekly newspaper publisher. roiiowed yesterday on the heels of Friday's primary election. A complaint form accusing cnurcn or. having libeled him was presented by Robin D. Day, Sa lent attorney, in Salem justice court, rejected there for lack of approval by District Attorney iyie j. rage, and presented a few hour later, in Silverton jus tice court. -Judge Alf O. Nelson of the Silverton court said last night he had received the complaint but had. not docketed it and would not do ao until it was approved by-Page. i . - . The district attorney declared he would "have nothing to do with it.? Judge Miller B. Hayden of the Salem court said: he had refused to file the complaint because "it has been the policy of this court that I will not file any complaint unless it has the approval of the district attorney and comes from his office, where individuals are concerned." The only excep tion to this rule,1 Hayden added, "is that of an authorized officer filing a complaint, under an un derstanding i have with the dis trict attorney that an officer mir file certain kinds of complaints." tay, asserted in his complaint that an article ' published bv Church was false when it stated that on May 10 "John Carson Lyle J. (Barney) Page; Brazier Small and Robin . Day went out to - Gervais, the home , town - of Ralph Glrod, who is a candidate for county commissioner" and "told Girod's friends that Girod suited them all right, and that they would concentrate on him and 'put him over, if Gervais peo ple would go down the line lor Page for district attorney and Heater for county judge." Goal Pric-Fixing Acf Upheld, Court Ruling Admits Same Acts by Private Agencies , Would Be Illegal WASHINGTON, May 20-FV The supreme court, in a decision upholding the -bituminous coal act, ruled 8 to 1 today-that congress can constitutionally pre scribe price fixing, marketing controls and other regulatory remedies to cure "chaotic condi tions" In interstate industry. The act was passed In 19 $7 after an earlier regulatory law. called the Guffey coal act of 1935, was ruled Invalid. The aim of the legislation was to curb the "over - production and savage, competitive warfare" which,' Jus tice Douglas said In today's ma jority opinion, had "wasted" the bituminous coal Industry. . "Labor and capital alike were the Tictims,",' the opinion obr served. "Financial distress among operators , and acute ; poverty among minera prevailed even dur ing periods ot general prosperity. This history of I the ; bituminous coal industry is written in blood as well as in ink. - - If the - operators themselves "had endeavored to stabilise the markets through price - fixing agreements," Douglas" comment ed, they "would have run af our of the Sherman anti-trust act. '" But he added that "what con gress has forbidden by the Sher man act it can modify. It may do so by placing the machinery' of price-fixing in the hands ot pub lic agencies. It may single out for separate treatment, as It haa done on various occasions, a particular industry and thereby remove the (Turn to page 2, column 1 " Astoria Census Shows Gain to Over 10,000 ASTORIA, May lOrVTenta- Uve census figures announced to day showed a 24 ( increase In As toria's population 1 since 1930. R. A. McCalL district supervisor, said the preliminary total was 10,103. the controversy began Sunday morning. ; . ; ; Differences over pay formed the crux of the dispute. ; ? v The 18 men seised were listed as pickets and members ot eonvoy crews. They were held on open charges. '-:-- ? '','! '- .:.t Three men were shot near Volo. in Lake county, In the first major outbreak of the strike. .' CUte Policeman Paul Earns said about 100 pickets halted two dairy trucks, dumped the - milk, shot holes In the windows of the cabs and smashed. the carburetor. He related that several carloads of "Chicago hoodlum s., convoying the trucks and armed with pistols, sawed-off shotguns and machine guns joined in the melee. Sams stated that he and another patrol man exchanged shots with them. Italian Moves Hint at Early Step Into War Practice Blackouts and Air Raid Drills Are Ordered in Rome Demonstrations Around Allies9 Embassies More Violent ROME, May 11. -(Tuesday )-() -ipy-Solid ranks of troops and earabinieri were kept on duty until early today around the Trench and British embassies and the British consulate after pre venting anti-allied demonstrators last night, from reaching the buildings. ROME, May. lO.-iflV-Italy swung her war preparations into a new high speed tonight as the feeling grew stronger in many Italian minds that her entry into the conflict merely was a matter of time and new. demonstrations against Great Britain and France broke out. ' The - war department ordered three days of air raid drill and blackouts - in Rome province as welLas at Terni, 45 miles north east, where great arms and mu nitions factories are running full blast. Nothing developed to indicate whether general mobilisation was Imminent but military experts said the closing of schools May SI, would make- buildings available two weeks ahead of schedule, for temporary barracks If needed. Premier Mussolini received a report from Marshal Pletro Ba doglio on troops posted on the frontier. It followed a report last week on the LIttorio line of for tifications in the north which II Duee ordered further strength ened.' - Vv. i -- AIf ralddrmiand-lkdiit wer -ordered to start tonight fn Terni, Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa, to continue for three days. Demonstrations a g a i a s t the British and French' broke out afresh in Rome tonight. A shouting group of .youthful Italians waa held off .from the British consulate br helmeted soldiers who appeared, suddenly to block their advance. . " : Guards around the French and British embassies were redoubled. One Gunman Slain By Seattle Police Second Captured, Climax to Rapid : Series of Fire Holdups SEATTLE, , May 20.HPV-One gunman waa siued and a com panion was captured here tonight by patrolmen who . were . on'4 the alert after three north end serr ice station und s motorist hid been robbed within half aa'houf. A - man Identified as Virsril Chamberlain, 36, recently of La- eey. Wash., was killed with a bul let through his head from the pistol of Patrolman A. If. Calder. Patrolman George Snyder cap tured the second man. who was booked as Carl Renny, $1. The patrolmen said, the two men were in the act of holding up a fourth service station when the officers came upon them. Calder said he killed Chamber lain when the gunman disre garded his order to surrender and attempted to fire at him. The pa trolman said Chamberlain pulled the trigger; but the pistol mis fired or the hammer fell on an empty chamber. - - Snyder said he covered the sec ond man in the driver's seat of their stolen automobile while Cal der was telling Chamberlain. The officers said the trail of robberies followed the - comman deering of the automobile of M. Harry McLellan, who said the pair entered -' his ear w h e n he was forced to i stop by a streetcar crossing In front of him. McLellan aaid : the men took his ear after forcing him to drive a consider able distance at gunpoint. He said he was robbed of $5. Lato Sports PORTLAND, On! May 10-OV Three knockouts, two draws. and two decisions were the results of Portland's weekly fight card of seven four-ground bouts tonight. Results: Kid Tliornley, 15C. of Silverton, drew with Kenny Aus tin, . Omaha. 160 .pounds: Firpo Hill, EL Johns, 111, knocked oat Red Gray, Mehama 183, la the thlrdl John Woods. 133. Dal, Ore., knocked -out Martin ' Kivi, Portland, 131, lit tlie second; .John Sullivan, 167. ForUani. outpoir t ed Pat O'Bay, 1 15. Reno: Allen Woods, 125, Yakima, . Ie-l3iontd Young, Nationalista, 12SV Port- Bndr John O'Comiell, 13 3', Port- and, knocked out Eiine Eailey. Aberdeen, ISO,' in tiro rounds; Jerry Grant, 158, Vancouver. (Turn to page 2, column z) DAMAGE THREE MILLION IN - .. " i " 1 ; 1 11 ' i - i ....... J - t m ) ' , y - , - - i I - I " ! - V . t '-' - '""' ' ' r-'r, 'i S-i ,.. I : Samples of the terrific havoc resulting from the earthquake which alt aright. Top photo chovi wreckage from building had fallen o DeamofWater M Qiiake Aftermath Crops to Suffer ; Toll of Death C; Worst Damage Noted In Brawley EL CENTRO, Calif May 30- (A7-Kstlmates of property damage by Saturday night's earthquake in the Imperial valley, which: took eight lives and threatens a, serious water shortage, mounted today. In Brawley, City Engineer Wal ter Hopkins said a survey of .bus iness -r buildings .and . residences there valued at $8,000,000 indi cated the damage -would run '25 to SS per cent, or more than $2- 000,000..x-ii' Si1- r-.w-:-- Loss in other cities. El Centro. Calexlco, Imperial, Holtville. and In Mexican, Lower California, will add at least another $1,000,090.' B. A. Harrlgan, Imperial county agricultural commissioner, said water shortage da to wide breaks in the canal from the Colorado river, would bring ' considerable loss to farmers, especially on late (Turn to page 2, column 7) Double Parkers Receive Warning 7T0 cere contie pirkiag, was the ordir CMft of Police Frank A. Ulsto fave his force yesterday as s instructed rolkeraea to te gla arresting double pariera. Mlnto sail the order was neces sary to relieve gTowing conges tion due to double parking down-; town. 'We haTe been -lenient for year,"' Minto said, "but it doesn't work. Drivers abuse the privilege and we are going to hare i to arrest them." . '4 TV i: v of a drsur store i lower them. Both are ecene In Brawleyrf Stern Measures In Paris; "Weir Effects Seen ? PARIS, May., 20 France felt the Iron hand of itslaew lead ers today when the cabinet meet ing attended by! General Maximo Weygand and Marshal Philippe Petala ordered swift, sard pun ishment of military .offenders and created a sugar ration, j . . Under the new regime, desert ers and pillagers can be stood up against a wall almost as soon as they are caught; The new decree permits no appeal to any higher court. - - ,f j; . j. . ' The army courts will Ideal with both soldiers and elvlllana sam- ma-rflv. "... '- I - , - ' ' I . i Factory , workers who leave their posts . without permission were classified the same as army deserters,:, v ''' I t-i-w. ? ,"AW0L, it no Joke la France tonight.. In the grim iwerds of the law governing the power of Is '' the military courts r "No appeal wm be permitted to the sentences pronounced and they (the offenders) will be im mediately, executed.' .1- for rationing. . coal cards already have been distributed, bread cards 'wr.i be in use June 1, and now It i sugar. The effect cE - the is - plainly evident ia Paris. No Freach fam l!y lj without 'someone at the front. ' . " - t . i - , Ton see It la the eyes! of elderly- taxi drivers, ,ttie bowed shoulders cf trudging wfcmen, re ferees with thtlr bundltsi -- These axe the d&ys of taat cel ebrated springtime in Paris, but the luxury shops and cafe ter races are glum and the gaiety Is missing. - ' . Paris newspapers were ordered to reduce from tour to two pages EARTHQUKAE thm Imperial valley oa Saturday photo ebewa two MtomobUee artea eoraiees UN photos. Are Invoked starting tomorrow as an economy 9 measure. .- '... .Germans are attempting-- to cause abandonment of French In dustrial centers by spreading false news on the advance of the German army, a communique said. It added: ."The civil and military auth orities are alone qualified to or der the evacuation of . localities that military activity could make dangerous for the population." Club Proprietor Arrested, Charge ; Of Illegal Sales Ray Maynard, 42. manager of the Webtoot club, located In the basement of the Oregon building. was arrested by state liquor con tra! commission agents last night on a Calem Justice court warrant charting unlawful sale of i:iuor without s license. Maynarl was taken to the sher iffs office, alocg with more tbsa a dozen bottles of whisky, ram, gin and brandy which be said be longed 'to members of . the club, lie. was not able immediately to raise f ISO ball set by Judge Miller B. Hayden, Arresting agents were C. A. Glen, L. J. Brice and 1L IL, Unger. IIeilita line Started Water department workmen be gan digging ditch yesterday for the pipe line to the new high level system reservoir to be built on Candalaria Heights.' The 'pipeline will be 2700 feet long. Gounter-Drivc At Rethel Is and Plan c r . ' n.-i..M n i Weve sewing up i oikri oaiu to Be Strategy; Nazi J Objective Shifted ' Laon Capture Denied hf 1 French; Germans Say British in Flight PARIS. Mar ll-fTuMdT-fl,- Military commentators asert4 today that Laon is In French bands, despite the German ' cUltn to have captured the cltr. Thv said other points still held by the irene n wnere the Germans are thrusting 'Into Northern Franre Included Cam bra I, reronne and La Fere. ': ' BERLIN. Mar ll-(Tuesdav)-. (Authorized Germans asserted confidently today there would be no ''wonder On the Marne" to turn the tide ot battle as In the World war, so superior Is the German military machine raclnc on one front for Beialan-Prenrh channel ports and on another hammering toward aris. , .These -sources contended the British have "beolutelr faded out of the picture" In the firbOug la Belgium and are la "headlong night." LONDON, May tl-(Tuesday )- LD-Brltlsh general headquarters early today said "repeated attacks Monday by German armored and motorUed" formations had been repulsed by allied forces In Bel glum. . The communique said: "Repeated attacks by German armored ', and .motorited forma tions in the area south of the river Scarpe and against the 8chduldt position were successfully beatte off by the allied forces. "The .Belgian army bus contrib uted largely toward the success of the defensive bsttle nor being rough t." ! I. PARIS, May $l-(Tuesde-frfi -Allied warplanes and tanks were reported today to have Inflicted costly losses among German mo torcyclists darting lato northern France at the head of an attempt ed drive for the channel roast. French said the motorcyclists were using a new technique ot swift daylight thrusts forward and then nightly withdrawals to, tem porary bases. Immediately on discovery of the technique, they said, the allies pat their ' warplanes to strafing and bombing the enemy's lines before they could regain their bases, at the same time cutting at them oi the ground with tanks. 1 ' BASEL, Svitterland. May 20- (JFy-Allied forces under the direc tion of their new stnersllnilmcr. Gen. Maxima Weygand, were pre paring a counter-offensive to pinch off the German pocket from the Valenciennes region to Ilethel. It was reported here today. Valenciennes Is Just across the Belgian border In France along the northern flank ot the allied west front, Retbsl is on the south side of the nasi thrust. Weygand. close friend and dis ciple of the late Marshal Foch, Is said to aim at tewing do the German poeket. which has reached a point lv miles from Paris. Bearing out the reports heard here were the massing of BrltUa and Belgian forces supported by French 1 motorited units in the Valenciennes region and a still more powerful French force at Rethel and nearby Rhelms, behind the Alsne river. Ths French concentration south of Rethel Is said to include Urge tank and armored car division and is ready to move despite nail bombing raids. Tbeplncer move. If successful. would help reestablish the French line alone the Ardennes through Mone to Ghent. (The naxls have rtcounlzr-d the peril of thrusting a deep and nar row salient into Franco, but ap parently are confident of the abil ity of their air and armored forces to protect flanks. , (By the Associated Prets) The capture of Laon. for cen turies a strtteirie position 76 miles northeast et Paris, was claimed Monday night by the German bleb command. Even thero, the German an nouncement said, natt storm troopers dli not stop, but con tinued ca tlx miles beyond Laon la a southwi'eterly direction to the Oiffe-Alrnii cars!. " At tte tzl cf II days cf the German ItUskrieg tbrousi the low countries and iito Fr&- the high command salt, the r&tl war flag was wsvlr.r crtr the r 11 a.! 1 of tbe city 1 ' 'i Von I'.luck's array took li Acjuit, 1914, and which remaned in Gerr.ian hauij until October, lilt. At the same time ic t,. r Ger man thrct veerM t? t ! r nrUi, heading toward the l.n-- t !.n nel with the object tf tir; . Belglm an.1! British ur.'.u i ,i?z n star. 1 In I :..-.t ar. i. "The C(ru.an hUh command ti (Tcra to page S, cclai.-.n C)