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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1940)
7 CILD2CII - STATESMAN, t&crlaai Oregon. Vflastsdor Kerning. Juiji 1343 FAG-HZl Train In Engineer Raid i Germans inCanada-Prisoners ' Is Killed, but Three Passengers Are Unhurt v - (Continued from Page 1) The only passengers on the bombed train were two women and two children. Women Crouch ori Floor . . ' "It' was a miracle that we es-1 caped and I put It down to cur presence ot mind In crouching near the floor," Bald one of the women, Mrs. P. Steward. i The toe of her right shoe was blown off. The train was filled with fragments of flying glass, ' Mrs. Steward said she heard two" explosions, then saw a plane swoop down;v A number of bombs were dropped alotig the tracks. The sixth nazl planer to fall was shot down - In the evening by a British fighter orer south east England, the air xiinlstry : announced. ' , I- 'J' ' The raiders ranged a!l over England, from Scotland - to t h e outhern coast in an acelefated prelude to the expected- invasion. : The engineer; of - the 3 ombed ..u tMTPiinr between . t w o rr I " f j. ... . r.i Lr v yy i. d !" ; i -. J ,-V . : - t - - " - Speed Sought; Oh Canal lob After German Raid on England t.ii. tlia an r taMenccr, iwu women and two- children.! escaped by crouching low on the i floor of their. car when a plane iswooped down and two explosions fol lowed. - . . Ten persons were reported in jured In a southeast coast town when a raider, caught in the glare of searchlights, Jettisoned IS bombs oTer working class houses. v ' '-. 1 " ! British Bombers -MaJte Reprisals "British reprisals were report ed officially in Germany. In the late afternoon, it was declared, 1 persons 12 of them children at play were killed in a suburb of Hamburg by bombers and 20 were Injured.) The British dead today were In southeastern Tillages. They in cluded a grandmother and a baby, and seTeral workmen. Six were injured there. ' Sixteen persons were wounded In northeast industrial areas. Censorship does not permit the towns to be identified. r Four i of the dead, however, were known to bare been killed in one southeastern town.' The air ministry announced fire raiders were shot down and four others damaged. ! ; A doxen bombs dropped on one of . the towns in the southeast; nine, in or near another. !. i In -still another,' 14 bom"bs fell, but there only one man was In jured slightly. . Officials described the ! raids as "hit and run." -Some of. the bombs dropped were of the: ". whis tling" Yarietyv calculated to in cpire terror. ' ! '" - Britain used American '! made bombers to strike back last might at the "XiaxI island air base of Texel, ' the Netherlands' and at Ij maiden, In northern Holland. ' Other RAF planes ranged; tie . German' Ruhr, Westphalia,; flew as far north as Denmark and strafed "the ' German-held Belgian to prison eampe. Prlaoners ere show elter whtm irom . I - Italian Planes oti to' Attack French fsland . ! .iMmuM im .1 1 " ' ' , 1 t ,( , 4,,. y t i - " . ' - ' ' I . i U-- - - 4 - , : J - y X -" - - -J I -OJr , -v , x . s - ' v.- 1 - 5 ' i - ' x 1 1 i'ir r 1 r -; i Army Considering Plans to Hasten Building of New Locks' t WASHINGTON. July S -UPy- iThe United SUtes army Is con- siderinsr a plan to speed np work on a new . S 2 7 f .0 0 0,0 0 ft , set of locks which congTess has author-, lxed for,' the parpose of reducing the Panama canal'a Tulnerability I to bombine and sabotage. i ; This was disclosed today, by I Brie. Gen. Clarence s. ,Kldiey, gorernor of the canal, who Is now In Weshinicton to - hasten the f re cruiting ' of engineers, designers and skilled workers for the huge Engineers in tne eanai xone. striTinK to reduce the six years estimated " to j be necessary i tor completion of the locks, are stu dying - the ' possibility of starting "dry excavation work next Janu ary Instead of next May, as origin ally planned. .-.-i --. i"'-'-A'l.r Dredging of approach channels has already been started with Hhe canal's own equipment; . but ; the "dTy'f exeavatfon cannot! get un der way. until contracts are work ed oat ;with. private contractor soldiers, airmen, parachutist and two new town's are built to - Governor Ridley . disclosed that U the army's own forces in the ca-iJ nal rone would start work imme diately on the new towns, one on the east aide of the Isthmus and another cn the' west. Temporary i wooden buildings are to be erect- I i ' ed, r oads ' built and - waUr 'aad sewer systems instauea. , . The new locks will constitute a third set for the". canal. , The Panama eanal ' office here Is recruiting civilian engineers, designers, carpenters,'; plumbers and other skilled workers. Sunny Day Viewed For Fourth Rites 1 " - ' , J ' - ' ' - iiju.aj.imi iiif'f WTTTi Gdld Sneaked From Nonvav Children Pulled Preeiou Bletal on Sleds "Waitins Boat to A A pile of rains once a house la CmdgeshUt-BnglLcing r ... . n k. ilt f rrnin bombs in cent riUd. Naxis Wve Lnce Instituted dayUght raid. One xOght raid caused at least 120 easualtlesw ' ' - -"- ' " in One Ear . JXy (Continued from page 1J" j : But It was a trip we wotaldn't have - missed and when we re turned again to civilization we were evincing Interest right and left. In fact we were agog. " Buildine of Stage ; Will Begin Friday rnnitmrtlntt of the mammoth audience will Join In on the latter 1 -OTr-mi- ataae on which the Sa- anthem. t llem Centennial pageant Is to be Time trials ror .tne eignt -ellted wm -tart Friday mora- torcycles on the ; afternoon pro- in itb eight carpenters on the gram will start at 1 o'clock this . D for preliminary work. afternoon. The Portland police stage which wUl be 140 Kwnahiahs Parachute (Con tinned from page 1) by Dr. Charles A. Howara, presi dent of Oregon college oi x-auca-tion, Monmouth. . . Chairman Newman will speak briefly and then .. the - exercises will close with singing of ."Faith Of Our Fathers", and "God Bless America" bv the Gleemen. The h4WMMiMWMWCA'Mnw i ... i J J m , a W ..1. lei wftt At . -.ni ftJ,iu nlanes roerbuc across the Mediterranean to muck ie xr-v- - XZZZ. r-ZZtnu oerman approved caption. Note Fascist symbols o wings. d d It I oo ...In the New Democrats Ready To Open Sessions (Costtnaed from Page 1.) i Fires ftoar Oyer motorcycle drill team will per form between races.- - ' - Tonlrht a Monte Brooks van- devllle show will be presented In front of the grandstand and a bathing beauty contest held to se lect the young woman to represent I Capital post at the Legion ceparv ft wide and 200 feet long, will ho comnleted July 25. The front stage; where the main pageant rttnn will take Place, will be eomeleted by July 15 in order tt it miT be used for rehearsals. Ray Stnmbo Is in charge ox erection witn eurj ATLANTA, July lVPrTnnj- wallowinr is a f airly comieou intfBii . misadventure out . two Forests in (Contkaed from Page 1) ?r r rr.rv; " t the : aUse erect! mem cootbduuu t otwuw' . ... .tfira will sUrt at 0:15 o'clock. BALTIMORE. July 3-VX story' of how $9,000,000 In gold was slipped past nazl sentries by Norwegian children who . pulled it on sleds' to a small freighter hidden in a secret fjord was told by the News-Post today". " The gold ;' shipment the paper reported, arrived, here ' Monday oh the ' Norwegian - ship" Bomraa for-delivery to New -York; and was unloaded under police guard. ' 'r From a source' whose Idntity - was ; not : reveaiea , ior odvious reasons," the News-Post- Iearad . the. god was '; part I of large amounts hidden In . secret cachs -by - the 'Norwegian governmfnt ; after the? German invasion. . . - Tramp Moves la , y When j the of tensive on tit western front' broke, the paper's informant -said, the smalls tramp ; steamer Amoved .into th e. fjord where it was ouickly covered with tree -branches to escape detection from tSerman .planes.. " ' " ' -.For-days ' afterwards - children -' pulling, sleds a common sight in : Norwaytrudged inconsplo uously toward '( the ' vicinity, -t OS each sled was a small box of geld, taken from a hiding place in. the rugged countryside 35 miles from, the fjord.- .... . Now and then a woman passed x by the nasi; guards,- pulling a larger sled, with children sitting . on- the box ot gold.- -Six- weeks were required to transfer the gold to the ship. T . V - Then, on a moonless night, the freighter slipped oat to1 sea. An hour later a submarine loomed alongside, and a tense crew waited fearfully. But t h e , submarine, ' IdenUfying .herself as English, N slipped from view.. ; The Bomma anchored off Bal timore harbor, June 28, and wait ed two days, apparently while ar rangements were completed for BUCHAREST. . July. 4-(Thurs- nnioadInr and transporting the day)-flVP08ters put up in RQ-Jgold. .1 s mania today called upon the pub-l capt. John Carey of the Baltl- lic to report all toreign pianea i more police department, saia a seen and" to hold by force any I request f or a police guard came parachutists who might land. through the Railway Express The posters saia nouiuus company, ana tnat ne was mm ther about parachutists; but mill- nly that $9,000,000 in gold bul- N tary observers said Russian troops Hon was to be moved L from pier were not m ' vim "" i io tituyu, prepared to use parachute ; metn New regulations require au i Suntlav tlOSine Measure cltlxens to. depose rire mr r. i. " - nlrtf the police and xornia . loreiguera nut w to travel from one commualty to ' . . -.i: another. r PORTLAND, July 3-VThere Anyone knowing ef violations will be no Sunday closing pro of these regulations and failing posal on the November general to report them is subject to the election ballot, the Food Trades same penalties as the violators InsUtute announced today. ' five to aix years in - a eoncentra- George - Lightower,-, - Institute tion camp at hard labor and fines secretary, paid the InsUtute, made ranging from . 1500 to $1000. ; up of grocery concerns, failed to -Although internal disorders get enough qualified voters slg- continued to cause aerloua con- natures on initiative petitions. .. tlriU it was evident that the new The proposition. r. . "f"' tli-tinn. are intended mainly said, may be presented to the aa safeguard against Invasion t t state legislature next January. Troop of mw . . V . ' ... coldish Y.ATZ; riA f0reit. irom Cranbrook, BC, a vice presidential canaiaaw year-old Miry ana oe"": """" r: -irif nrk bum in Ore- nA iletaila of the plat rorm. the ante. .. . Yir .IT TlTlllVIa I - . Jk m in isew xora; ne """r' Mary Ann was eauns . ..t.i-. f..f HII IDA I - . .iv.. I.tk.. unfl. I (VUUIUIlvu . i -i- I . " . .. i ..m tna I . .-..i ti I WliniBIIOB 1 car en .a- port w eru6Sp. tne repnoiican nomiucc, tbe farm n0me oi ner vaer, ,r. worBt fire near Camp ' A"iaI trl-eiP- iue Of the presidential n e'a r Calhoun. Ut. mana.. nuuuu-iui.uu . campaign wouia w w p..,-,. when tne pennies si stt TorAt Fire Assn.' saia. tne ers, newly purchased in the Unit- of the new deal. An inquiry re- tQe found their w7 rttiJtton Apparently was worse, ed States, attacked in" the ; Neth- gardlng atatement by John L. , t her moufb. with the "blaze eating toward erlands last night. One brought Lewis, of the 0 that Senator b&Te fone J "6 mhor company hold down a German Messershmltt (rMont was the only ff. ,5weeu but two tog,5' The iassociation Refused to fighter with his rear gun, near democrat who could win the elec- "lk f. . 8mall throat Sfimate the acreage covered. - Amsterdam. The British too lost tlon elicited this response. - ii tn h-r esoDhagus. She rr eon fire -fighters labored Let's put it this way. John vag broBlht to an AUanU hos- grimly to halt a 1500-acre con Lewis agrees with me that Mr. Ual today and egophagoscope re- fiagratlon jln old burns and slash osevelt can't beat me. It doesn t rieved the coins. " i : 1 ing .along Ithe Wolf Creek high way part or me won virc uU one plane. " ? ; --'-. Since last evening, the German planes, alone or in waves, have stabbed repeatedly at the 'people of England and their .defenses, testing their nerves for the inva sion they are awaiting ' f Willkie's Brother Say 46 g "Let's put it this way L. Roosevelt matter who the democrats nom inate. We are going 10 Meanwhile, Senator Byrnes (D SC said In a, radio speech that the- republican platform "plays into the hands of those who would follow a -policy. of defeatist ap- j peasement toward Germany PORTLAND. July 3-6PHSVen- dell L. WUlkle will be the next president of the United States v r the word of his brothel for! it. srfttarr of the Interior Ickes ! took a pot shot at Willkle, assert-- .v. h and his associates had wnm a i"holding. company for the republican party. The Prty. wa "liauldated at the x.ii.AinhtA convention, bought in for whatever may he left of its CHICAGO, July &-VP)-Po-licemen to be assigned i-to the demeereUc natleaal conveatie Anohiir here Juhr' 15 are go- w - . ,vi i teo a lire m iu.bhi!""" tog to have to polish their lJanr. foldings bnt no re TO tm ireV Ports werejavailable on their pro- Tillamook burns of previous years hn' iOO.000 acres oi i umoer was ravaged. ; Tw -hntidred loKKers Combat- ted a fire in the Sunset Lumber Over $46,000,000 of our deposits aro ot work in Oregon an all-timo rocord for any Orcaon bank, yo aro proud loan record. Wo want to put rnoro money to york. Dollars at YJorh Moan Won at Vorlti . of our The 43-year-old "kid brother" I rood wm j assets." Old line re of "th e republican Presidential j blleana ad been "done in the j nominee,-250 pounds,: 6 loot 1 .'; he added. inch E. E. Wlllkie, vice-president I lceg a8erted going!" type win be taboo. Mm stead, only those with a plead ing manner of .addrese d. good physical and personal isp-: peanuice will be chosen, accord ing to aa order issued today i by Capt. John PrendergastL!; The convention detail will consist of S32 men. : that Willkle CHICAGO, July 3-(P-Marion - Ai threat to the Astoria, Ore., watershed was at least temporar ily averted - by emergency crews, pumpers . and .: bulldozers I which stemmed another blase, s s- Flames struck at Portland, too, destroying a 1600-foot , Southern Pacific railroad lumber loading wharf and ;j 11 allroad cars plied with lumber. ' . -.- - Tw fireboats and 10 other pie- i of Aotiinment battled the stub born blaie ;f or several hours WhUeJ of Libby. McNeill k Libby, climb-1 f0 id to the allies nd Taylor Hutton, married at 14, 'was ed out of a plane here today to prlTately-owned power, while Sen- diTOrced today at 17 from a Wan fof gpectators blocked air nis views: ;! i ator McNary ot ureguu, Z7 years ner kmw . bridges and streets nearny. that he (Wendell) will be tne next president. I think the people decided that at the convention. "Yes, McNary's an excellent choice, too, both from the geo rranhle standpoint ' and, from' many others." , . - I i - ' E. E. Willkle paused here briefly enroute by air to Alaska where he will check up on salmon packing. ., .- ';v T X';.:" MACK MUST Mack Maisori Is - Naval Appointee .iienti9i nominee, stands "non-lntervenUon" and public power. He suggested that "you add Willkle and McNary and di vide by two and see what you get, 4"i?By arithmejliV that jneans sero In November,kr " . , . s. Bedding Str One-Year-Uld Uirl iiimnnr because It migni uis- courage "young men ; from con I ing "around." - w :V ' ; H: : -H " "I ) could use the money," old Jndre Rudolph Desort aa she ask him to cancel an oraerf ior $6 a , week temporary alimony,? but' I don't want to be nandicap- fannriTvtndfnt E. L. King es timated damage from the fire at 165.000. Its cause has not been she I determlnedj - vtra .ml Ttnll Burned INDEPENDENCE, July The h.rn! nn the H. N. Madison farm. Illl L A aval w waa w w a 1- Z.-a" t,nr onartahins. " I don't Most west of here, was completely nntnHnrm out as an detreved tonight by fire that alimony golddigger . a x. s!flLAVD julyi:S-pyNancy - 1 Carroll Owens, one year old, was WASHINGTON. July ; S r - Wrangled . 'Wf Te na vy department TnoUf led after falling between the bed ana Senator. McNary (R. Ore.) today walL- ' 1 X. 'tjT- the fw. r xfoi,n o Rulem. 1 The bedding,- pinned , to ne Ore ; bypassed hislhyskal ex- mattress. H twisted ; : around tne immauonndbeen- the naval academy. Maison was ter. Bonnie; Lee, the naval academy. nominated by "MeNary. I jjil L i ii 1 tasson t t omo uen. was au'' -- .t. . . A-rr : - v pv. TiUA" - n&rents. Mr. and Mrs. David L., Owens, had gone across the street to 'Visit a rela tive. - -s '- ' V" - PTJTXA3I, Conn., July S-Vfy-. Trooper Joseph Mitchell hadn't ; ! reckoned on t h e customers , I W h e he arrested Chinese? was h laundsymaja, -rt'.T;-; j V Tbey ueiugea tae - w . F"" lice barracke with angry calls r J for their shirts and linen, ? 60- Mitchell had to get.be- hind the laundry counter for I bundles. ; '. 5 i -W He says he gt alonff ttno ; with the "no ticker, no wnshee rule. Thk question: How to get .head financially? The answer: 8v under a tted, profitable plan with a few dollars from incom. W. bav. such a plan ask about it. . Savings & Loan Ass'n Salem Federal 130 S. Liberty FU. CSOl i CIS- i Britain Plans no ! Ford Retaliation ! LONDON, July 3-i5VLleuL r.rti. Jniir. Jestvn Llewellin, par liamentary secretary to the min ister 'of aircraft proaucuon, au mrA hrmt 1 1 - O'clock.: UUd valuable thoroughbred Jersey bull, Lilaa Sir Dustin, belonging to Robert .niffrwaa badly burned be- 4 Some hay wasv also destroyed iri . fire, en ' which the Inde pendence ; Ore: department threw irtanuxa was not estimated, but the Joes was covered by , in surance, , . Amnesia Victim Remembers Name X , ' t ; - V ' ' BALTIMORE. July 3-m-Po-iice and physicians believed tor day they had learned the name of . imniutta Ttetim who remem- .r. only that her name had nWtion' with a flower and an s.nimaL ' ' The word "lily" .brought quick snriilei. -, "That'l my Iirsi. naiuc, Condamod Statomont of Head Offico and 41 Cranchot ' ; June 29,1940 - 't resources; Cash on Hand and Due from Banks $46,743,168.31 United States Bonds as at par r um 24,419,183.49 Municipal Bonds 'and Warrants . . n. . Other Bonds i. r- lxsr.s end Disccunts -Mcney atVcrk la.Oressn . . jStock in Federal Reserve Bank. . . . Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures . . vr - 'grjie!5S8ftw ' Other Real Estate . Real Estate Sold Under Contract Customers Liability on Acceptances Interest Earned ' A-. " - ' : u trier Jtvcsourtcs . '$71462,351.80 ; 3.720,945.17 4,290,399.87 180,000.00 ' 2j603,555.12 1.00 , 1.00' . - 21,947.55 401,066.34 .- 48,730.82 Tbta Jesources."rr.TT 128.794,081.16 LI AD I LIT! E 5 ;t . $3,000,000.00 ..: -;. - ; :3,ooo,ooo.oo ..4 2,178,176.85 1.756,779.15 Capital Surplus V.r Undivided Profits Trrrn Reserves for Contingencies Reserves Allocated for Taxes; Interest, etc..: Acceptances Interest Collected in Advance. . Other Liabilities V ' : Total LidViti6s:rr:r:. 123,794,C31.16 $ 9,934,956.01 ."43018.'88 23,193.55 453,729.43 42,716.65 117j903,761.63 ister f aircrait nroattcuuu, - -- , - m u m9 M today ; that, no steps were being d. My eecona n , taken in England or Canada "to anlma i. reclted ensure that works in which Hen- A J . . a h..rst 41 DnAKCHES 2PaVlflO"caECO:i . - . r T ii s ;o - V f '' ' H vlrre tenenre that ry Ford is interested s.were ren dered independent ot his Influ ence. ... It was fclsreply to a Question i in the house of commons. ; -. (Ford recently said he couia produce 1000 airplanes dally in the United States, under certain conditions, but that lie wouia oo so only for defense purposes. vnrA automobile rl&nts are u- At the word ' "camel" sue Burst Into tears. :j ' ' "That's my last name. I m laiy Camel. ' " ! : ' " .: .;' . PoUce and physicians were at tempting to leant if a Lily Camel, or Campbell, were missing. The woman, about 26, appeared to he familiar with Cleveland. Ohio, bat police ealdlj her familiarity with Baltimore county Indicated . her n in n as i m a i U .-a J PCS ! A L O ' f o Li Li J l L J L J I T N IH A N C I c o U P o ATI cated In Englacd an. I Canada.) 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