The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, May 21, 1940, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextH" PAGE TVTO Credit Offered For Industries RFC Volunteers Aid but Aircraft Makers Say They're "all Set" (Continued from Page 1.) A bill nrovldinr 21. 820.941.- ' 000 for the army, including IS4S.770.3C4 of the extraordin ary J1.182.000.00O pro.trara re quested by the chief executive. The measure contained a to tal of 1265,886,41$ In cash for the air corps, pins authority to enter Into $103,300,000 of con tracts for tbe,eorps. The bill amp utates tbit niit less than $123. 741.994 saallibe used to acquire new planes and equipment for them. Meanare May It up . For Debate Today . Administration leaders arrang ed to call up tltie measure for de bat la tee senate tomorrow, with the expectation that It would go speedily to the bouse and prob ably be ready Tor Mr. Roosevelt's signature by the end of the week The house military committee and an appropriations subcom mittee worked on the program abu. Before tbe former. MaJ. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, announced plans for establishing four new pilot training centers, with a ca- icUy for 1290 students .each annually. And, speaking of air craft types, he said "The power of the bomber Is what we need mot." i Elsewhere, the town wan abuzz with developments related to the defense program: ; 1)A White House secretary Mid he had .no. knowledge con cerning reports that President Roosevelt would form a "coali tion cabinet" Including several republicans, because of national concern over the war and the de fease situation. (2) Some republicans in con gress supported the statement of Obi. Charles A. Lindbergh de ploring ."hysteria" In connection with the defense program, while Mrs. Roosevelt called Lindbergh's reference to "powerful elements' desiring to push America into the war "unfortunate." i (2) Senator Vandenberg .of Michigan, republican presiden tial candidate, suggested in the senate the establishment of a "civilian munitions administra tion" to organize the mass pro duction industrial activities in volved in the defense plans.O Gillespie to Get ;; Parole on June 1 Ray Gillespie, 31, serving a three-year-penitentiary term in connection with a riot .at the Crown Willamette camp near Sea side In March,- 1936, will be re leased June 1, when he completes a 'third of his sentence, state pa role board officials announced Monday. ' -, . : ;i Gillespie,, one of "10 lett in volved in tm fight between two unions, was sentenced April 27. 1938, but received a bench pa role. He afterward was arrested for an altercation la a restaurant with the result that the parole was revoked. . "rr. ft s. Bare the time of your life n Treas are Island and ea route by luxurious, smooth-Tiding Greyheuad Super Cpach. frequent schedules are timed to yov convenience. Have more FUN t the FAIR with the money yea save eft Greyhound low area, a - . -. WAV tCUNDTCP ioSAEJ FRAN CISCO Depot: Hotel Senator Phone: 4151 en" ; For Good Clean COTTON RAGS '- To Be Used -for- Press , Wipers' ,' ' 1 . ' " r No SMALL ": Pieces Accepted 215 Sa. CcnncrcialiSl. German Bombets Hit French Railroad Junction Taken from one of the attacking a railroad. Jaacttos la France. Tbe jereat rlonds or amoko euad dot three rail Hoes Join prove that the mlr bombs femod their target. Cake May Follow . In Willianis Post 1936 and 1940 Delegates Will Vote Thursday on Successor PORTLAND, May 10.-JP)-JL move to name Ralph Cake of Portland, republican n a 1 1 o n al committeeman-elect, successor to Ralph Williams, will be made Thursday at a meeting of 193 convention delegates and delegates-elect. Williams, veteran committee man from Oregon, died last week at Philadelphia. The meeting was called by Chairman Walter L. Tooze, who said 1938 and 1940 delegates will vote on Williams' successor. Kern Crandall, republican state chair man, will take a mail vote on the state central committee.. Tooze predicted that Cake would be elected, and said: "It la absolutely Imperative that we have a national committeeman at Philadelphia within the next week." Late Sports (Continued from Page 1.) Wash., and Boxcar Keine. 155, Chehalis, drew. SPOKANE, May 2.-?-The Spokane Indians handed the Wen atchee Chiefs a 10 to 5 pasting In the opening game of their West ern International league series here tonight. The Indiana scored their runs on offerings of Edson Bahr. whose wildnesa not only gave up 13 passes but resulted in a number of extra bases on balls too eratlc for Catcher Frank Yolpl to handle. He waa relieved by Ken Jacobsen in the eighth, after the 10 runs had been scored. The Chiefs collected five of their six hila and all five of their runs in the fifth inning in a batting spree that sent Pete Jonas to the showers. Wenatcheo . SSI Spokane 10 7 3 Bahr, Jacobsen 8) and Volpi; Jonas, Andrews (S) and McNa mee. SALT LAKE CITY. May 20-W5) -Tiger Jack Fox. 182. Spokane negro fighter, outpointed Al De laney. 187, of Detroit, in the head line 10-roend bout of a boxing card here tonight Fox put De laney to the floor four times. Twice Delaaey got to his feet after nine counts and twice the Bell saved him. In & six-round preliminary Tru man' Kennedy, 136, of Portland, outpointed Johnny Nulley, 138, of Salt Lake City. use H o GOOD IinSTEIl DUEilD aa IrA, Lb.! Popular. fx i -J Eecs) TIi Grmaa planes, this radlophoto from President Asks ior Billion 4 In n iiiomeatoai message before joint session of congress. President Roosevelt asks for more than a billion la cash aad contract author, fccatfons for military ImplemeBta "to meet suay lightning offeimive against oar American haterest. Vice President John Nance Garaer alts in background. IIX photo. Coal Price-Fixing Act Upheld, Court (Continued from Page 1.) penalties of the Sherman; act as respects It." Justice McReynolds dissented on the ground "that the act un der review is beyond any power granted to congress but did not write a separate opinion. In another major decision, the court warned against any "cen sorship of religion' and ruled unconstitutional a Connecticut statute requiring anyone desir ing to solicit money or other valuables for a religious or phil anthropic cause to take out a permit, "" Jesse Cantwell, New Haven re sident, had been convicted of it breach of the peace after he was alleged to have played. before Catholics on the public street, a phonograph record attacking the Catholic religion. Today's unani mous opinion, written by Justice Roberts, said that there had been no assault or other disturbance. "but only an effort to persuade a willing listener to boy a book or to contribute money in the in terest of what Cantwell, however misguided others may think him. conceived to be true religion." t Putnam Speaks at r Postmasters' Meet EUGENE, May 20-,?fy-rifty delegates registered today at the opening of the two-day session of Oregon's third and fourth claas postmasters. ; ;t ., t ; .-. j ' t Rex Putnam, state aaperinten- aent or public : Instruction, : was the opening day's featured speak er. He outlined the . development of the US postal system while the country was still ruled by Great Britain.. - -. ; .MS. ajr Canlon Itixvom Under Former Management ' THE JUNG SINGS ' Specializing In : Chines Food S4D XL Gsinsierdsl Phone 4413 OSGOII STATESMAN, Solera. Bertha show a bosnbia raid te the tester of tbe TJBf Bodlopboto. $761 Reported in Red Cross Funds The Marion county chapter of Red Cross stated lastnight that the total amount reported In from the campaign to raise money for the sufferers of Europe was $761.47, of which $42LS9 came from the rural districts. Red Cross officials had hoped that most of the money, would be in today. The figures show Salem behind as compared with the rural districts. "We are trying to avoid person al soliciting," said Milton L. Mey ers, member of the executive com mittee, yesterday. Volunteer sub scriptions can re banded into the banks. Rural districts that, have filled their quotas are: HayesviUe, Woodburn, Marlon, Frultland and Liberty. Woodburn went over its QUOta SS2. and f 20 earn from 111 children of Woodburn and will go to the direct aid of European chil dren. Highway Traffic To Resume Soon Traffic on The Dalles-California highway, now Interrupted be cause of Klamath lake breaking through a dike near Algoma point, will be resumed within the next five days. R. H, Badlock. stato highway engineer, reported v p o a bis return here Monday from Klamath county. ' Baldock said ha had arranged for. construction of - a ' detour around the flooded two-mile sec tion of the highway. 10 miles north .of Klamath V&tia ri. sections of the highway the wa ter reacnea a depth of two feet. - Body T Recovered - ALB ANT. May t9 (ff) Ths body of Cart E. Corbla, 85. Brownsville contractor, was re covered from the Willamette riv er near here Sunday. He drown ed after a fall from a Corrallii bridge a week ago. Gca Autrf "Golden Hoy" "South ol wtth Barbara Stanwyck ' do Border' wniiam iioi-li Oregon. TuMday Morning, May Counter-Drive WeygandPlan Reiving! up Pocket" Said to Be Strategy j ; Nazi ObjectiTe Shifted (Continued front Page 1.). the shifting thrust to the west away from the road to Paris gained between 20 and 39 miles on a line north from St. Qnentin. which was In German hands.' If successful, the new drive; to the channel would Imperil 300. 000 British soldiers on the allies north- Uwltr It would "also" gain stew cases tor a lethal attack on England. Just S9 miles across the channel from Callas. France. : Sixty thousand German mech anised troops, comprising fire full divisions, were engaged in the battering march across the plains of northern France. The main - objective. It ap peared, was to drive a wedge be tween the French forces defend ing Paris and the allied armies (British, Belgian and French) in Belgium. Allied troops in the north Im mediately dropped back to meet the new threat. on tbe channel, ready for a baek-to-the-sea stand against the menace of a nasi in vasion of England. (Prime Minis ter Winston Churehlll has already warned that England's "own day of defending her soli Is Immi nent) The lightning shift in German tactics, reportedly dictated by Relchfuehrer Hitler himself in his headquarters "somewhere on the western front, followed re ports that Gen.Maxlme Weygand, 72-year-old new commander in chief of the allies, was massing a huge army to "pinch off the S0 mlle deep nasi salient into France on the Meuse river front. Victory of Candidate 1 For Judge Nine Votes MADRAS. Ore.. May 20-AV- John L. Campbell, democrat, will oppose Thomas A. Power, republi can, for Jefferson county Judge In the general election. Campbell eked out a nine-vote victory for the nomination over three others. Call Board EXSINOKE Today Merle Oberon and George Brent in "Till We Meet Again." Plus Laurel and Hardy in "Saps at Sea. Wednesday Eddie Cantor and Rita Johnson in "40 Little Mothers." Plus Ed- mund Lowe and Irene Herrey In "The Crooked Road. Saturday Jack Benny and Rochester In "Buck Benny Rides Again. Plus Isa Miranda and George Brent la "Adventure In Dia- monds." CAPITOL Today Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore In "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case. Plus "Bombs Over Lon- don." Wednesday Zane Grey's "The Light of Western Stars" with Victor Jory and Jo Ann Sayers. Plus ' Richard Cromwell and Helen Vinson In "Enemy Agent. Saturday George Raft and Joaa Bennett in "House Across the Bay." Plus Weaver Brothers and El- Tiry In "In Old Missouri." STATE! Today "The Great Victor Herbert" with Mary Mar- tin, Alan Jones and Wal- ter Connolly. Plus "20,000 Men a Tear" with Rand- olph Scott. Thursday "Hurricane, co-starring Dorothy La- mour and John Hall. Plus "Kid Nightingale" with John Payne and Jane Wy- man. Saturday midnight show "Four Wires" starring Lane sisters and Jeffrey - Lynn. - : HOLLTWOOn Today Golden Boy" with Barbara Stanwyck, Adolph ' Menjou and William Hold- en. Plus Gene Autry lu "South Of tbe Border." Wednesday "Tower of London" with Basil Rath- . bone. ' Boris Karloff and ' Barbara O'NeilL Plus "Two' Thoroughbreds" with Jfmmv I.vrirn anil Joan BrodeL. Friday i Johnny Mack Brown In "Desperate Trails" with Bob Baker and Fussy Knight. Plus ' Robert Taylor and Greer G arson la "Remember. GRAND Today Loretta Toung and Ray Milland in "The Doc- tor Takes a Wife." ... Saturday Boris .Karloff in "The Man With Nine Uvea.' Plus Roehello Hud- ; son, Jule Lang, Lola Lane In "Convicted Woman." m ' ' LIBERTY , Today - "Slim" with Pst O'Brien. Plus "Little ' Tough Guys In Society"- with Mary Boland. Wednesday "Letter of In- traduction" with Charlie ' ' McCarthy and Edgar - Ben- gea Plus "Bullets or Bal- lots" with Edward O. Rob- - lnson.- ' Ffidsy "la Old Monte- rey with Gene Autry. Plus "East Side Kid" with Dennis Moore. " vr.i9wm0 r lu i.J t 4f r::!innD ' r laartta J 1 I t $ 21. 1340 Squalus1 -i The Ill-fated TJS submarlae SoaaliM, which sank off Portsmouth, NH, last year wm lose or we lives. Is pic tared aa It was aecosamlssloaed May 16 at tbe Portsmouth navy yard smd f heisew name of Bail fish. CocaniasMler John B. Jjoaastaff. aide of tbe conuaamdaat at tba yard. Is pictured arter ecrc. aUcims; the sabnuirtoe la ChristenDesroyers Bremer otn ' ' -I ,? 1 j. ., !. .-. . - ' - , i . - : " f 1 -' ' Plctared Immediately after thry sive chiistealas; ceremonies at Bremertow, Waan navy yam nay 10 are Uncle Sam's newest fighting ships, tbe destroyers Charles F. Hughes (No. 4211) aad Monssew (No. 430). Mrs. Sadie L. Moassen, widow of the late naval hero. Lieutenant M. Moaaeea, christened tbe ship named after her hajsbandu Admiral K. B. Fenaer presided. UN pboto Salem Schools Nearly Done for Year; Activity Schedule for Week Includes Style Show, Play.Day, Installation With the close of school Hearing-, this week's activity schedule indicates a busy) week for Salem students. Style show and tea at senior high school, play day at Grant and Garfield, installation and award assemblies and Memorial day programs are included in tha activities scheduled with Superintendent Frank B. Bennett. Today at 12:50 Girls' leagueO . officers will .be Installed at! u assembly at the senior high. Pa trida Higgins will be Installed president; Evelyn Collins, vice president; Mary Bennett, secre tary; Margaret Forsythe, treasur er, and Lorraine Guthrie, song leader. The remainder bf the schedule follows: I Tuesday. 1 p. m., TMCA pic tures at Richmond; parents vis iting day in second grade at Gar field. ! Wednesday, t:io s. m.. pro gram at Grant with Helen Wil son's room In charge; 1 p. m., pri mary . assembly at Blush; 1:10, school plsy day at Grunt; 1:10, program for parents of Mrs. Mar tha Foxs room at Englewood; 1:0. P. m., program for parents of Mrs. Caroline Blake's room at Englewood; 2:20 p. m., style show and mothers' tea at senior high; 4 p. tru. dad-son ball game at Englewood Thursday, t a, m.. program with Mrs. Annie Wolcott's room in cnarge at urant; a. m., cen tennial program at Englewood; 12:10 to 1:10, athletic award as sembly at senior high; 1:20, an nual play day. "SkUlscamper,"! at Garfield. . . mor, stemonai a a y pro grams: Leslie Junior high at 2:15, Englewood. Highland and Grant at t. Garfield at 1:20, Washing ton at 1 and Parrlsh junior high at 1:20; centennial program and Installation of student body of ft cers at 2 p. m. at Parrlsh; play day at Bush at 1:10. -j Raver to Attend Power Conference PORTLAND, Ore.. May 20-tP) -Bonneville Administrator Paul J. Raver left today for Washing ton, DC, to attend a conference of the , national , power policy Doara. ...... i .. . it waa oeuerea be would con fer with Secretary Iekes on the defeat by Portland roters Friday of a public utility district. . Columbia Tug Raised PORTLAND, Ore.. May 20-(AV-The i 20.000 tug Robert j Gray which sank In swift Columbia riv er -waters below Bonneville dam April 20 was raised and brought to a local shipyard for recondi tioning today. - - i A" 51 ALLCI ft MARY joins MAimi? , WALTER CONNOLLT -- Ths Groat I Victor Herbert" SECOND HIT "23X03 KsnaYecx- Haadolph llarearet Scott Lindsay With new Name, Recommissioned coxnmfaalom. Wab'a crew 11 s me slid late Paget Soaad after fanpree- Dearth of Water Quake Aftermath I (Continued from Page 1.) melons and tomatoes in the south ern area. He declined to estimate the probable damage. Brawley Superintendent of Ele mentary Schools G. K. Anderson announced schools would be closed for the rest of the term. Water In Brawley and Imperial was limited to two hours a day for domestic use and residents of oth er cities were cautioned to con serve the supply. Arrangements were made to haul water into the valley In tank cars for drinking purposes. Sentence Time Is Cut, Three Men Two men serving life terms In the state penitentiary hero under the habitual criminal law Monday received conditional commuta tions of sentence from Governor Charles A. Sprsgue. The commu tations were recommended by the state parole board. One commutation Involved Harvey Rice, received at the pris on from Lane county July 11'. 1121, for burglary not in a dwell ing. The other commutation In volved John Tuel, received from Malheur county July 25. 1120. for a similar offense. Sentence In both cases were commuted to 10 years and nine months which means they will be released this: month. I a . ; : . . n ww-xir naiuin iniDOfAa on Joseph A.-Roth, received from Multnomah county December f , 1922, for forgery of Indorsement, wss commuted to the time he haa served, v Die From Injuries LA GRANDE. Mav 2fl-i Gerald Pyle, 9. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pyle of La Onnii. died yesterday. He was Injured when he walked Into thm mii of a truck Saturdar. Lost Day. OTIrica , - ' and Kcmyaret Iindsay "LKI" AND TJTTLE TOUGIX GUYS ET COdZTY With Blary Roland and 1 Z1 w. H. Hortoi C ' . m a Tcasera raiia. Calls for Freedom Of Enterprisers Rlanufacturers Head Says Reasonable Umpiring ( 1 rf-vt Dj bOTrmmcDi ukcii PORTLAND, Msy 10-)-rri-vate Industry wants "a reasonable amount of umpiring by the gov ernment" but It does not want tbe government to send private en terprises ' to the sidelines, II. W. Prentls said today. The president of tbe National' Association of Manufacturers told an Interviewer "the time has come for a great mobilisation of private enterprise In America." He explained that "by private enterprise we do not meaa unre stricted activity." America's freedom, he said, rests oh a tripod representative democracy, civil and religious lib erty and free private enterprise. "Undermine either of these and our freedom la Imperiled.. The mo ment government begins to plan the economic affairs of a nation, the government must mold public opinion through the newspapers, the radio, motion . pictures, tbe schools and churches. ;. "Whenever the rights of these agencies are 1 endangered, there rises a strong sgency In Its de fense. Free private enterprise is being threatened today, and it is our organisation, the Nations! Association o t Manufacturers, which has undertaken the de fense.", i Albany Teacher Plans Homecoming A homecoming picnic of bis former pupils and friends at ths many schools where he taught It planned by Albert H. GIMett of Albany for Sunday, July 21, In Bryant park at Albany. He has especially requested that Hex Putnam and Frsnk Bennett, both of Salem aad former superintend ents of Albany schools, be pres ent. Gillett, who observed a similar get-together last summer la Owosso, Mich., asks that schools each prepare two an utters for the program. p The schools where he taught, between 1910 and 1940, are Sa lem Indian school, Dayton, Prine ville, Albany. Sweet Home. Shedd, Creswell and Triangle Lake. Hanna far Ahead In South Oregon ORjLNTfl PAftfl lis. A a The; combined official total of county ana tbe unoffi cial total f Josephine county WaS aS fallAWa ni1a. - - .1 i. Judge of the Judicial district com- iiug oe two counties: ...i, n "ewhury 1522, Miller 12T1 and Newmaa 1029. LA8T TIM KM TOIUV " Til We Meet A gala' Was "Sape at Sea" (STARTS WED. -- TWO IlfTH &3 J rloa Compaalon Feature Tbe Crooked Road Kdmaad Lowe Irene Hervey LAHT -TIMKS TONIGHT "DIL E3LDATJT3 STHAltGE CASE Ilus Toms OVCI IQHDOrr STARTS Wtl) . 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