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today and Friday; scattered
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, if una 13, 1943
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Grangers; Will
Outline Policy
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90 Resolutions Due for
Action; Election of
Gill Confirmed
Taher Message j on Unity
for Defense Is Read;
Drill Event Today
With. SO resolutions to be con
sidered, delegates to the S7th an
nual convention of the Oregon
grange to session here are today
starting- to outline the year's poli
cies for the order. Difring Wed
nesday's session election of Ray
W. Gill as state master for an
other two-year term was con
firmed and Newport was selected
as the meeting site for 1941.
Other officers chosen are Mor
ton Tompkins. Dayton, overseer;
Mrs. G. W. Thlessen, Milwaukie,
lecturer; Bertha Beck, Portland,
secretary; Peter ! Zimmerman,
Yamhill, and Fredii Goff. Rose-
burg, executive committee mem
bers; Roscoe Roberta, Medfora,
' steward; Glenn Adams, West Sa
lem, treasurer; Max Kligel, Bor
ing, gatekeeper.
Support of Defense r
Program Taber Plea !
Support ! of ."adequate national
defense and complete prepared
ness" was u r ge d in a message
from Louis J. Taber of Columbus,
Ohio, - master of the national
grange, read at yesterday's ses
sion. The telegram said:
'In this hour ot world tragedy,
the grange faces Its greatest op
'pertunity for "constructive service.
We must support adequate na
tional defense and complete pre
paredness. The grange should
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Relief From Heat
Enjoyed
in
Salem
Top Is 80, With Breezes;
Inland Empire; Is Hot;
v 107 at. Lewiston'
' From t 1940 high on Tuesday
of 98 degrees, the j mercury at
the airport weather bureau was
down to a top of 80 degrees yes
terday, with a breeze affording ad
ditional relief. It will be even
lower today, according to the fore
east, which includes showers
near the coast and scattered
thunderstorms in the interior.
Yesterday's minimum tempera
ture was 55 degrees, as compared
with the minimum
Tuesday of 51
degrees.
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Temperatures reached new highs
for the season In the Pacific north
west's Inland empire Wednesday,
topped by 107 degrees at Lewis
ton, Idaho, while cooling offshore
breezes brought relief to the
coastal regions.
The second highest reading in
the three northwest j states also
was In Idaho. Boise, in south
Idaho, reported 102.
t Walla Walla, topped eastern
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WPA Frees 800
Pickers
i ' All WPA Jobs In the Salem area
were closed dowi I Wednesday
night until June 9 to (release
800 workers for cherry and berry
picking. The action was taken af
ter a conference between D. L.
McBaln. manager of! the Salem
office of the state! employment
service, and Orvllle Balcom, WPA
supervisor of employment.
Hundreds of calls for workers
. In" orchard and berry fields have
been received, McBain Said. Re
leased workers hate i been noti
fied to report to the nearest farm
job or to the Salem employment
office. Pickers will j be taken to
Jobs by trucks. ! f ,
a Tlrsday delireriis of the rap
Idly ripening fruit crop brought
In 1200 crates of loganberries and
500 boxes of cherries la the Wood
hunt area, it was reported. -5
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'Adams Tells Plan,
1 Industry Training
; PORTLAND. June ! 12-(p)-Ait
agreement between j federal and
state vocational education and
employment agencies offers es
sential war. industries training
for 10,060 persons in Oregon. O.
23. Adams revealed today.
Adams, state director of Voca
tional education, said training
eaters would be In Portland,
Jt'endleton, Eugene and' Salem.
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Summer really arrived yesterday as 1699 Balem youngsters ducked, dived and splashed! to their heart s
content In the O linger playground pool, the first of the city's two outdoor swimminir tanks to open.
The Leslie pool, which underwent extensive repairs during the winter season, will open within a
few days. (Statesman staff photo). i 1
Banking Quarters
Expansion Slated
Extensive enlargement ot bank
ing quarters and facilities of the
Ladd ft Bush-Salem Branch of the
United States National bank will
be undertaken within the near fu
ture, Paul S. Dick, president, an
nounced yesterday. - -
"We are not ready to announce
details of the improvements that
will be made," said Dick, "but
we can assure our customers and
the public at large that the en
largement of the banking area and
extension o facilities will be more
than sufficient not only to take
care of present requirements, but,
anticipated future: growth, far In
advance. .;
"A careful study has been ander
way by our officials and architects
to provide the much needed ex
pansion of quarters ever since the
two banks were consolidated. Sev
eral plans for adding to facilities
are under consideration and ev
erything should be in readiness to
proceed within a short time," he
said.
"Growth In new business since
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Music Teachers9 Association
CorwwtionUnden
By MAXIKES BUREN W
Delegates to the 25th annual
Oreron Music Teachers' associ
ation convention, meeting In , Sa
lem yesterday and today, num
bered over i 60 during- the first
day and additional delegates are
expected for. today's sessions.
to th public, is the IOjSO o'clock
session this morula, when the
music teachers aid th Parent
Teachers' ! association Cioln la an
open forum meeting under the
direction of Mrs. J. R. iioiuster.
Speakers are: Ella Connell Jesse,
n&t nresldent of the state associ
ation, who Will talk on the organ
lxation'a educational contribution
to the state; Gretchen Kreamer,
supervisor of music Ta the Salem
schools, onf parent and' teacher
cooperation: , Juanlta Blilborne
DAY AND THE WATER'S FINE!
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Paul HametM Column
We used, to say that pretty soon
they'd be making automobiles
that will do everything but talk.
We don't say
that anymore.
Tester day we
saw an automo
bile that talked.
- It was stand
ing th e r.e, . all
spick and shiny,
on the corner ot
State and High
streets and talk
ing away quite
immodestly to a
e o n s 1 d erable
crowd. They
were all stran
gers, but; that rul H. Eiiwi, Jr.
didn't seem to bother it.
This sedan with the free
wheeling ; vocabulary was plainly
showing off. "I'm going to open
my front door now and show you
my roomy front, seat," It would
say and right away the front door
would open, untouched by human
hand.
Without so much as a blush ft
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Clan ss, mo sic chairman of the
Portland PTA, on home, school
And private teaching coordination;
Mrs. Lee Bostwick, of the Port;
land PTA. council, on value of
music : teaching from parents'
standpoint: - Lena Belle . Tartar,
director of music in Salem high
schctl, discussing music for the
adolescent student. Talks are to
be IS minutes la length "
A luncheon will be served at
noon, in the Marion hotel, when
Mabel fi." Powers, president of tie
Salem association, will Introduce
Kate Dell Marden, president of
the Oregon Federation of Music
clubs. as speaker. . :
. The Portland Phllharmonie or
chestra, with Leslie Hodge eon
dnctlnfi will giTe a program this
Afternoon at 2 o'clock In Waller
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Mqre Time Asked j
For Hop Election!
Extension of time- for nop
growers to mail ballots in the ref
erendum on the new hop i mar
keting agreement Is being sotEght'
by the growers sponsoring com
mittee and the hop stabilization
corporation, growers' were inform
ed in letters sent last night; by
the sponsoring groups. H
Ballots : were delayed and j are
not being received by growers un
til tjday. i Since the deadline for
Vetnming the ballots was previ
ously set by the secretary of Agri
culture as midnight June 13 (to
night), growers are left but: tine
day to mail their votes. (
Th;e letter mailed grower? by
the sponsoring groups stated (hat,
"It is fully expected that ani ex
tension will be granted and
are therefore urged to vote .
mail your ballot even though
mailed ballot is postmarked a
or two later than June 13."
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Sprague Studies.
Grazing Control
getup, Golorauo
DENVER, June 12-yP)-GctT,
Charles A. Sprague of O regtoJn
conferred today with the Colorado
state j land board relative !toi Its
system of administering st site
owned grazing lands.- 1 j
. Later, at a meeting with Oov.
Ralph I Carr, the Oregon execu
tive, who Is also publisher of i the
Salern. Ore Statesman, saidt he
had obtained "some very helpful
Information. " ! !
Sprague left by train j tonight
for Salt Lake City. He is en route
home from Duluth, Minn., where
he attended the conference I; of
governors, -j
! riavi Frmeral Torlar
LAKEVIEW, Ore-" 12U
CP) Burial services wIIf e held
at Portland tomorrow- fr Henry
Cv Davis, ' 0, Lakeview - lumber
man.! He died Tuesday of f. Juries
suffered In a traffic accident Fri
day en the Klamath Falls h
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last j of Major
Defense Bills
Past Congress
CCC Military Training
Refused; Navy Orders
Start on Warships
WBeele Heads Protests
of Wiar Involvement
Trend in Capital
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WASHINGTON, June 12-aV
By the vote on 401 to l, the house
stamped quick) approval today on
an extraordinary 81,708,053,908
bill providing funds for 3000 new
planes; 68 warships, 95,000 ad
ditional men for the army, a far
flung system of naval air bases
and other! defense measures.
Last of la series of big defense
appropriations to start through
congress, the measure passed the
house and went to the senate with
only Rep.; Marcantonio (Al-NY)
dissenting. It raises the session's
total defense 'program to $5,021,
619,622. !
Among other items are funds
for training 87,000 , civilian air
pilots under the civil aeronautics
authority, I and to include prim
ary, secondary and "refresher'
training, the - last for old pilots
who may! need brushing up on
combat fifing. The bill also pro
vides funds for an unspecified
number of tanks and other me-
cnamzea equipment.
Limited Training
Approved ifor. CCC
The senate approved the train
Ing of CCC bqffs in non-combatant
amy" actirltijs, such as cookery,
phbtography and mechanics. The
chamber rejected, 47 to 35. a pro
posal by Senator George (D-Qa)
to give military training to those
enrollees who volunteer for it.
The ariny-navy chieftains. In
cluding Secretary of War Wood
ring, Lewis Compten, acting sec
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Time Bomb Harms
British Freighter
Sabotage in Buenos Aires
Harbor Fatal to One
, Native Stevedore
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BUENO$ AIRES, June 12-(JP)
A powerful time bomb apparent
ly intended to sink the British
royal mail freighter Gascony at
sea, blasted the center hold of
the vesseU-while at dock tonight,
killing an Argentine stevedore
and injuring five others.
' The first explosion was follow
ed by a second In another hold
after the ship already was in
such condi tion that she probably
will have to be taken Into dry
dock.
j . Officials said the explosion
was the result of the first major
sabotage In Buenos Aires harbor
since the start of the European
irar. ; .
1 First reports said four Blrtlsh
sailors were injured' It develop
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Would Purchase
Old Destroyers
WASHINGTON, June 12-flV
Negotlatioiks by Great Britain and
France for acquiring ! several de
cdmmlsBioned United States de
stroyers to combat Italy's vaunted
submarine 'fleet were reported ad
vancing tojlay. j
; How many of the 36 destroyers
laid up sevjeral years ago were In
volved in the projected purchase
was not djtsclosed but a consid
erable number was indicated.
L .Doubt existed, however, that
the gorernjment had authority to
trade in naval vessels to manu
facturers for ; re-sale to the allies
tn the same manner-already ap
plied to o t h e t war i equipment
such as airplanes. '
Pendlngj legislation permitting
trade-ins of gans and other sup-
pues was peueved by some con
gressional leaders not to cover de
stroyers.
! Logging Accident Fatal
t McMrNNivrLLE. June lJ-rs-.
Vernon Twidt, 27, died here to
day, a few hours af tr being
fjrushed by a falling tree at the
Werner .Timber comjany's Siletx
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Claim British
Occupy
Protection Requested
Denial Made by) Embassies in Tokyo; Rumor Says
Japanese Fishing Boat Attacked; Chungking
Bombed, Two-Thirds Demolished, 1500 Dead
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TOKYO, June 13. (Thursday) (AP) The newspa
per Nichi Nichi reported from Surabaya, Dutch East In
dies, toHay that 2,000 British troops had landed in the East
Indies as a result of a request for protection by the islands.
Both The Netherlands legation and the British embassy
here denied the report. 1
In connection with sthe far east-O "
ern situation an admiralty spokes
man asserted that unless the
United States "opens Its eyes to
new realities in the tar east and
cooperates with Japan in estab
lishment of a new order, Japan
would not be "in a responsive
mood" toward reported American
gestures, of friendship.
At the same time the Japanese
foreign office received a report
that a Netherlands naval plane
had machine-gunned j' a Japanese
fishing boat off . Caspar Island,
near the Marshall Islands in the
South Pacific.
The foreign office was said to
be plannlug a proteit If the" re
port should be confirmed.
The foreign office said It was
regarding both reports "with ex
treme gravity" while awaiting
further word. j . V
The Nichi Nichi report said that
a British officer had disclosed ac
cidentally that he was a member
of a force dispatched from Singa
pore to East Java. Surabaya Is on
Java.
It was recalled that The Neth
erlands government had assured
Japan after the German invasion
of Holland that foreign protection
for the East Indies (was neither
needed nor sought. !
Japan has stated formally that
she would insist upon mainten
ance of the status j quo of the
Dutch East Indies. The govern
ments of Britain and the United
States have taken a similar stand.
LONDON, June 13-(Thursday)
JP)A. war office) spokesman
said today he was unable to con
firm or deny the report of Nichi
Nichi,, Tokyo newspaper, that
British troops had been landed in
the Dutch East Indies. London
sources said, however, : that they
considered such action unlikely.
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CHUNGKING, June 12-5JV-In
a brief 23-minute raid this after
noon, 124 Japanese planes de
stroyed two-thirds of old Chung
king city, provisional capital of
China, and caused casualties
probably numbering! 1B00.I
American missionaries said the
havoc was the ' worst single de
vastation caused by Japanese
bombers sfnee the start of hos
tilities nearly three years ' ago.
and probably was
one of the
city is his-
smoke pour-
worst ravages ot a
tory. '
Columns of black
ed from the stricken district af-
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Spring field 'Shouts Gain;
Likewise Junction City
EUGENE, June j 12-Up)-Lane
county cities revealed sharp pop
ulation gains today.! Springfield's
1840 census reached 3240 com
pared with 2364 a year ago while
Junction City grow from 922 to
1117. ...... !
Mexico, Uruguay Take Steps
Against Fifth Column Peril
MEXICO CITY, Jiane ll-tSV-A
responsible government - source
reported tonight that the Mexican
government had requested Arthur
Dietrich, chief of the press bu
reau of the German1 legation and
director of nasi propaganda in
Mexico, to leave the country as
soon as possible - l-rVv
The order was presented to the
German minister, Rudt Von Co l-
lemberg, by the foreign ministry,
this source' said.. "V-r. f
No official could Its reached in
the f oreigns ministry or the Ger
man legation immediately to con
firm the expulsion order ot Diet
rich, brother of the press chief in
Berlin ; of ' the German govern
ment, f --f - !',-:! , . - .
The .action followed recent In
dication that President Cardenas'
administration, disturbed by wide
spread, reports of ',fifth column"
States
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Troop
Islands After
UaE Buileftins
LONDON, June 13-(p)-The
The British .war office an
nounced early this morning that
part of m British division had
been surrounded by Germans on
the French coast and that
number had been captured.
BERLIN, June 13--The
fate of Paris will probably be
decided within the next few
hours, according to an authori
tative . Germaii; source i here.,.
PARIS. June 13ip)-l
-The
French high command com
munique issued today at Tours
said that "action continues on
the entire front between the
sea and the Argonne with un
diminished intensity,
i It said German pressure was
increasing "in particular on
both sides of the capital, on-the
lower Seine and on the Mrne."
; On the whole, however, the
communique said "the situation
varied little since the commun
ique of last night."
BASEL, Switzerland, June 13 j
(Thursday) (JPyT h e French
shelled German forts on the
Rhine north of Basel through
the early morning at half-hour
intervals today, using flares
and machine-gun tracer bullets
to light up their objectives
across the river.
The reduction in manpower
on both sides of the Rhine dur
ing the last 24 hours indicated
to military observers that neith
er planned to launch an offen
sive across the Rhine.
Thirty Arc IGUed
In Raid on Malta
Mediterranean Is Mined;
1 Other ItalianJtloves
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MALTA, June 1 3-(Thursday )-
(-Thirty civilians' were kUled
and 20 Injured in the eighth
Italian, air raid on Malta Tues
day nighty it was disclosed today.
Seven soldiers slso were wound
ed. 1
: Two gunboats and coastal de
fense batteries fired at the raiders.''--
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The air attacks were the only
ones made on the British base.
ROME, June lZ--Italy mov
ed to cut the Mediterranean in
halt tonight with a wide new
mine belt intended to box in com
pletely the British fortified Island
of Maita Italy's first announced
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activity la Mexico, had decided to
take measures to restrict the
movements of all known foreign
representatives her of any activ
ity of that character.
. It was understood the govern
ment had notified the German
legation Dietrich was no longer
"persona grata" and his depart
ure troyy Mexico was regarded as
desirable.; , , ;
Because Dietrich is an employe
of the legation and therefore has
a diplomatic status, his expulsion
was handled by the foreign min
istry inftead of through the nor
mal, channels ot the department
of the Interior. : -
MONTEVIDEO, June 1-(V
The chamber of deputies early to
day approved by a heavy majority
a government bill regulating the
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BritiMi, Polish
Troops Rushed
To Aid France
Nazis 20 They Say 12
Miles From Capital;
J Augment Forces
Cost of Progress Huge;
East Drive Reaches
Chateau Thierry
BERLIN. June 13-(Thursdivt
-German sources, claiming Paris
is cut off to the east, north and
northwest, today reported, even
the stream of fugitives moving
out of the French capital to the
south and southwest is slowing
up because of ; operations of nail
war planes swooping down- over
these last avenues of escape.
(By The Associated Press)
"With nazl army units standing
20 miles from the center of ben
sieged Paris, Britain rushed new
aid today to her battered- ally,
i British troops, guns and tanks
were streaming once more across
the channel to relieve the defend
ers who were . hammered back
ward even though they fought with
all the fury Frenchmen can must
er when fighting for their own
SOil.," ' i 1
Reinforcements speeding J to
France were thousands of Brit
ish and ; Polish trooos broueht
back from . Narvik, Norway. -r
The war spread to other areas
and apparently was on the verge
of engulfing Egypt which hand
ed Italian diplomats their pass
ports after severing relations, v
Egyptian Bases, j !
Used by British J ; .
Under the 'provisions of a mill- '
tary alliance with Egypt, British
bombers apparently were using
Egyptian bases ifor raids on'
Italy's Eritrea on the Red sea and
Libya on the Mediterranean. '
Spain, where anti-British dem
onstrators have shouted for Gib
raltar, officially reiterated a pol
icy of non-belligerency.
New air raid warnings shrill
ed in Malta this morning and It
was disclosed that 30 civilians
were killed and 20 injured and
seven soldiers were wounded
Tuesday night in, - the eighth
Italian air raid on that British
naval base in the Mediterranean.
In. the bitter fighting for,
Paris, the French high command
reported, . av crushing mass ef
German troops pushed some of
the number across the historic
Marne river to the south side la
the area of Chateau Thierry.
Others smashed-against French '
defenders sear Persan-Beanmont
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Held up; Mystery
TACOMA,1 Wash.. June 12-VT)'
-Her winches quiet and her hatch
covers in place, the new Swedish
freighter Ecuador stood idle at (.
Tacoma dock tonight while 132
carloads of potential war cargo
destined for Russia remained on a
railroad siding. -
The cargotruck bodies, large
metal presses and dies and preci
sion, Instruments was. scheduled
to start being swung, aboard the
Ecuador yesterday. It was ordered
in the east by Amtorg, Russian
trading agency, for delivery at
Vladvostok. 1 -
Ken Kennell, Tacoma agent for
the Johnson line, said he bad not
been given any Information by the
Ecuador's owners. He added that
Am t org's representative in t h e
Pacific northwest, "doesn't seem '
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Kennell said the Ecuador's can-
tain -Is just as much in the dark
as we are."
Blaze Is Fought
west of Ttlonroc
CORVALLI3. June
Foresters called upon 75 CCC
enrollees today to reinforce 0
men combatting a 00 to, 7 co
acre 'fire on cutover lorring land
west ! of Monroe. '
The blaze, one of the first of
the forest fire season, menaced
green . timber. Inroads into the
Glenbrook - and MdBrlde lording
eompanies holding destroyed' air
undetermined amount cf equip
ment. ... "
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