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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1941)
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(AP) France's Naval Minister Jean Darlan was expected tonight to shuttle back to Paris in a few " days with Chief of State Philippe Petain's reply to the terms under which Pierre Laval, former vice premier, would re- - turn to the French cabinet. Darlan returned late Tuesday in retain s private tram from the occupied capital where he had held a 27-hour con ference with Laval, Otto Abetz, ' and Feraaod De Brlnon, Vichy's " earoy to the ocrnpatloa autbor ltle. la a meeting lasting aa hoar 'and a half. Darlaa was ander stood to have laid before retain,- Foreign Minister Plerre Ktleaae Flandla and War Min ister General Charles Hantziger an agreement for German col laboration which needed only tbe marshal's approTal. Political sources said reports from Parts Indicated that La val's demands, which would bare been approved by the Ger man officials at the Paris meet lag. Included a complete cabin et change with Laval becoming minister of Interior In charge of German negotiations. He also would have complete charge of Information Berrlces and possibly tbe police. Flandin, who succeeded La val as foreign minister when Petala onsted him Dee. 13, woald have to leave the cabinet, it was understood. Darlan "won Id" becotne" the nWforelin minister, with Hnntziger re taining his war portfolio. ' Blareel Peyrouton, whom La val would succeed as minister of interior, would be shifted to the new post of empire minis ter while the future status of Bene Bella, minister of labor and industrial production, and Yves ISonthilller. minister of fi nance, was uncertain. Informed circles considered . the mala question of taking La val back into the cabinet and acceding to German demands for a more sympathetic atmos phere bad been decided gener ally. - Only the exact makeup of tbe new cabinet and Laval's terms needed arranging, It was said- Merchant Fleet Asked by McNary .WASHINGTON, Feb. Provision for an United States merchant marine fleet at the close of the European war was asked Tuesday by Sen. McNary (R-Ore) in an amendment to the lease-lend bill.' : "I don't want us to find our selves without a merchant marine to transport our export wheat and timber after the present European mess Is finished." the senate mi nority leader said. . McNary Reveals Funds ' WASHINGTON, Teh. 4-JP)-Oregon WPA allocations of $349, S71 for aa airport at North Bend and JJM7S for schools at Marsh field were announced by Sen, Mc Nary (R-Ore) Tuesday. ' Mowiher Hits Near Mi MORTON,' Wash., Feb. A pack horse train formed a tragic cortege down a tortuous mountain trail Tuesday to bring from the forest, wilderness the chattered remains of seven army fliers - who crashed three week ago about six miles northwest of this little lumbering community. ..An air corps-directed party reached the wreck scene Tos-v .day noon and found the twin motored bomber crashed a comoaraUvelv few ' feet irons the top of the only ridge bar ring ita safe return to its Me . Chord field base It was at a elevation of about 4300 feet. Major Charles Overacker said j the gasoline .. cargo exploded " The pack: train arrived here at about : 30 p. m. after the sev- 'ral.tinnn trin down one Of the most difficult mountain trails In the region. , : : - - ; . t Plane Believed Turned . To Return to Field r Col. Walter Peck, McChord field operations officer, said "the plane obviously was trying to re turn to , the field when It crashed. ' . ". 'The field was only aboat 30 miles northward by airline. The army officers, reconstructing the reement mans ir: T- ' . ? 1 German ambassador to Paris, ."fa t :' V 'uaa tm - - w -.;a) ADMIRAL JEAN DARLAN State Budget Work Reported Amounts Passed on Items Exceed Approved Sum of Appropriations Amounts recommended in the state budget for items thus far passed upon by the legislature's Joint ways and means committee are exceeded In the amount of $33,418 by the sum of appropri ations tentatively approved, a special committee reported Tues day. The committee reported at the same time that revenues in sight exceeded appropriations In the amount of $202,780. Members of the special com mittee are C. C. Chapman, pub lisher of the Oregon Voter; S. W. Starr, head of the state auditing division, and Carle Abrams, chief clerk of the ways and means com mittee. The main committee voted to report out favorably a bill that would release approximately $800,000 for old age assistance. This appropriation was autho rized at the 1939 legislature but provision was made that it could not be ured until tbe estimated (Turn to Page 2, Col. S) Pack Train Takes Out Bodies Of Seven McChord Air Victims i 1 flight course, expressed the be lief Pilot Robert Krnmmes, of Boise, Idaho, had turned about after encountering adverse . fly ing conditions. They ship was ! LANGLKT FIELD, Va Feb.-4JP)-An army bomber, carry ing ii men of the air corps from Fort Douglas, TJtab, crash ed and burned on the takeoff, this afternoon. Officers said none of the crew was injured. ; - The big ship drove down the 'runway, went Into - a ground loop, and. crashed .. . headed north when it struck the ridge."-.!- .t-v.'-j; - - Wreckage of tbe bomber was burled over a wide area. A rock ' : slide was caused on, the sheer ; bluff against which the ship ! crashed, only a few paces be- low a forest - lookout station that had been closed since the end of the summer fire season. ) Officers said the bomber would British Enter Cirene in big Push to West . ' - 4 .. I Little Italian Resistance Greets Empire Legions on Other Fronts Bad Weather Slows War in Albania; Convoy Ships Torpedoed British legions racing through Italian desert pos sessions in Africa pushed nearer to their goal of Libyan conquest late Tuesday night with the occupation of Cirene, 130 miles from Bengasi. Cirene, center of fertile ta ble Unds watered by fresh springs, was abandoned by Mar shal Rodolfo GraxianJ, command er of Italy's North African array, 11 days ago, soon after the fall of Derna 60 miles to tbe east. The British announcement said their advance units entered Cir ene on Monday, while further to the west RAP planes blasted re treating Italian troop trucks with bombs and returned to strafe the disorganized forces. Twenty to 30 (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Real Winter for '87 Legislature The Good Old Days Were not so Warm, at Least, Ejxroutervto Meet Offering a comparison to present day weather conditions is the following report on local weather recorded 54 years ago in the Salem Weekly States man: Salem, Oregon, January 29, 1SS7: Legislative party of about forty leave for Yaquina Bay. Salem. Oregon, January 31, 1887: Legislative party snow bound at Yaquina and house of representatives left without a quorum. February 1, 1887: Heavy snow fell. The legislative party reached Corvallis by walking part way through snow from Yaquina Bay. February 2, 1887: House of representatives has a quorum again. February 8, 1887: The ther mometer stood at 14 degrees above at 7 a. m. and went down to 10 degrees above at 6 p.m. Two feet of snow reported at Rosebnrg. February 4, 1887: Minto Slough frozen over and ther mometer standing at 6 degrees abonve zero. Jury Convicts Slayer of Two PORTLAND, Feb. 4-;p)-A cir cuit court jury convicted George C. Woolever, 40, Portland, Tues day on a charge of slaying Claude and Dussell Shaver, Vancouver, Wash., brothers. The conviction was for second degree murder, which carries a possible sentence of life imprison ment. Previously Woolever Iwas convicted of first degree murder, but a new trial was ordered. , have cleared the barrier safely if it had been slightly higher or 100 yards to either side of ita coarse Major Overacker said all j the men died almost , Instantly, j Six bodies were found In the crumpled cabin, with the remains of the seventh about 100 feet away. ; Officers estimated there ) had been between 800 and 1000' gal lons of gasoline tn the tanks. Throttle Was Wide Open - In Attempt for Altitude ' MaJ. Overacker said the. ship's throttle apparently ' was - wide open' at the time of the crash as the pilot' attempted to gain altitude. , i . t v The major -said the. ship was equipped with a bomb sight; ex plaining that "all bombers have bomb sights, but it was not one of the 'secret sights." The con dition of the wreckage put an end to previous air corps plans for dynamiting the big ship's re mains. The crash had done .a complete Job. . Auto Tycoon Would Fill US Air With Similar Planes, Bombers " "iji - ' -. vj - : I : r.. ...-.v .... . I. '. - r ...:.;:.f ;:- -.. ..a v . .. .v,-::.. V '.v"' '- : -V-. ' s: .. ; . I , - :S '-: f--' .V : :--.-- . j - , . r "'"'W . :..;:v:-.;:-,v-;K-..:.-v, ; , .- ' :.: . -; - ' ' K ' ' ' ' -Jr . i.m i ii iih xiraimn n i ti ii n mil mm m iiiriiiiiiiiiinait Jr. a.i.iw,i..ft,,v,,iiiM.nW.iiajilriiaii Ford Proposes Bomber Plant Asserts Desire to Build Entire Plane on Long Assembly Lines DETROIT. Feb. 4-yF)-Henry Ford. It was learned Tuesday, has Informed the war department he Is ready not only to build parts and sub-assemblies for bomber planes. bat that he would like to eon- gtcucilh .complete- plane on moving assembly line. Ford's proposal was made fol lowing announcement of the ten tative agreement- under which the Ford company would make parts and sub-assemblies for Douglas and Consolidated bombers. The manufacturer already has drafted plans for a special factory with a mile-long assembly line to . be erected on property Ford already owns and of sufficient area to provide a large airport adjacent to the plant. There was no intimation as to the rate of output Ford would ex pect to attain in assembling the complete bomber. It was ex plained, however, that the sched ule of production on the Pratt & Whitney radial, air-cooled 18-cyl- Inder engines which Ford expects to start turning out late this sum mer, calls for one engine an hour. It was emphasized by sources close to Ford that the plan he has in mind is related wholly to the production of the bomber planes for which Ford along with Chrys ler and General Motors has been asked to produce parts and sub assemblies. Whether he might subsequently hope to use the plant for the construction of planes powered with his own new 12-cyllnder, V-type engine now un dergoing experimental tests In the Ford factory, was not Indicated. Ford associates, in discussing bis desire to build the entire plane, were emphatic in pointing Out that Ford , had not declined to make the parts and sub-assemblies as proposed a few weeks ago. He long has cherished the desire to build tbe entire plane, they ex plained, and offered his plan as possibly a time-saver, in which materials, machinery and assembly lines could be coordinated to full advantage. Top ! A party of 14 soldiers, led by Capt Theodore Bolen, led tbe final lea; of the grueling j climb to the crash scene, where I men had to be raised and low j errd by ropes on some parts of ; the crash cliff. The soldiers : removed the fliers remains be fore others were allowed near the wreckage. They carried thm ia blankets down to about, the 3000-foot level, where the pack train was waiting. One of the shin's motors was imbedded In the rocky wall. Riv ets . from the . ship were sheared off and thrown as far as 500 feet. 1 Two woodsmen, Harry . Studhal ter, 28, and Tom Harper, 89, first reported sighting the wreckage Monday. Studhalter said he saw the big ship fly low over his Bear canyon ranch - January 18, and found it by following the line of flight, . ' -j.- ' y - f Tuesday Studhalter led the search party of 70 army officers, air corps enlisted men, state pa trolmen and. CCC youths from the base camp. Harper, too weary from Monday's exertion, did. not accompany the party. The two probably will share the f 1009 reward offered last week for dis covery of the plane. age . '- ' ' . -I i X A 4V HENRY FORD Huge Locomotive Blast Hurts 25 Mogul Engine Explodes in Railroad Yards of South Denver DENVER. Feb. 4.-;P-A huge mogul type passenger locomotive exploded in southwest Industrial Denver Tuesday, catapulting its boiler and cab 80 feet through the air ana injuring z persons, none seriously. - Weighing -hundreds of tons the boiler and cab arched back ward over a switch engine and crushed an American Railway Ex press ear behind the switch en- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Isa (Ota !3i?d -PczxJ Hauser'g Column We have been thinking about salads. Not the kind for which we are Justly famed (where Is that raucousrr laughter comlngj from?) but res-r taurant salads, t- Onca noon a time you could I ' walk into a res-? taurant, tuckf your napain j. a r o n n a your neck, order the .f i and be reason-1 ably certain whatl you were - going! to get in the fsalH.Hsassr.lt. war of a salad. It would be some chopped up cabbage with a dash of mayon naise. On Fridays they would put a couple of shrimp through the finest screen of the meat grinder and throw that in. - That was the salad aa it was known. It was staple and relia ble. Once In a while you might get a button or the string ft a Bull Durham sack tn your salad; but you knew that was purely an accident and could raise heck with the management. ; T : Nowadays If you got a bat- ton or a Bull Durham sack ot even at hairpin in your salad ' t yew don't know but' what It is supposed to be there and is. ' part " of the artistic ensemble. ' If you beef to the management the chef will probably' come oat nil tears, rage and a cleaver and shake under your nose the medal he won at the 19X8 Paris exhibi tion of surrealistic salads. ; The rise of surrealism in res (Turn to page 2, eoL 8) 1 A .'-1 - n . y 1 1 Democrats Seek Utility Tax to Aid Pensioners Levy of 8 per Cent Use of Services Is on Answer" to GOP Would Be Effective All but Water and Bills Under $3 on By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. Eight of the 27 democratic members of the Oregon legis lature introduced a measure Tuesday to levy an 8 per cent tax on utility services to raise between $1,750,000 and $2, 500,000 a year for old age pensions. The democrats said the bill was their answer "to the attempt by republicans to raise the maximum for old age pensions (from $30 to 840 a month) without making any attempt to provide funds for an increase." The tax, which would be levied against consumers and collected from utilities, would affect elec tric, gas, central heating, and tel ephone utilities, but not water. BiUs under $3 a month would not be taxed. Tbe members who signed the measure were Sens, Dickson, Ma honey, Pearson and Wallace, and Reps. Adams, Alien. Bull, Calla way, Erwin, Gleason, Jenkins, Larkln, Neuberger, Perry, Smith, (Tura to Page 2, Col. 4) Parley JFavors - River Bridge Speakers at Association Meet in Independence Express Reasons INDEPENDENCE, Feb. 4. Building a bridge across the Wil lamette river to replace the pres ent ferry at Independence was favored by most of the speakers at a meeting Tuesday night of the Independence-Kings Valley High way association held here. AH officers were reelected ex cept C. C. Powell of Monmouth and Frank Needham of Salem, added to the board of directors. Nearly 100 were at the meet. President E. L. Gray made a report of activities of the associ ation since Its organisation In February, 1940. Speakers Included Charles A. Bauman of Monmouth; R. M. Walker, Ross Nelson, Philip Schweitser, A. L. Thomas and Dr. George C. Knott of Inde pendence; William Walton, Ray Rhoten and A. C. Hang of Salem; Jess Johnson and Ches ter Dotson of Elkins. Some mentioned the military value of the bridge. - The structure received the fa vor of Nelson whose theatre would probably make way for the bridge, and Thomas, whose hardware store would probably go out. Schweitzer saif the. bridge would aid greatly in his 82-mile mall route, and Dr. Knott said it would save valuable time in making calls to the east side of tbe river dur ing hop season. ' - A survey is now being made by the state highway engineers, who; will report to the highway com- - (Turn to page 2, col. 2) i Batista Emerges Stronger After "Political Blowup HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 4-UPY- Two officers accused of a sedi tious slot against President Ful- genclo Batista Col. Jose Pedrasa and LL Col. Bernardo Garcia were escorted to a Miami-bound plane late Tuesday, and . It ap peared that a brief Cuban political storm had blown Itself out. ; Their alleged associate, CoL Angela. Gonzales, the depeeed bead ot the Cuban navy, re mained in custody, and Batista went ahead energetically with the program which apparently had led to the trouble av broad reorganization of the nation's armed forces Pedrasa,. who waa head of the Cuban army until Batista onsted hlnx Monday night, appeared un expectedly at ihe .nirport Tues day afternoon tiding In the auto mobile of his successor, col. Man uel Lopes Migoya, and with a mili tary escort. -yyA :-": T Leave on Chartered . Plane With Military Aide - r He entered a chartered airplane with Garcia, who was removed last week as chief of the Cuban (Turn to page I, coL t) - US Capital Shaken AsFeudFleioh Hew j Sprmtntv Snva lrfilfltif- Fltitiflinrv JNation of Aerial Defenses - And Quotes Statistics f : - f if' FDR Raps Back With Virtual Clu Wheeler Gives Pro-Con Battle Continues , WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. of the bitterest feuds in the capital's history,. Senator Whee ler (D-Mont)' Tuesday accused the Rooevelt 1 administration of denuding the nation's aerial defenses to aid Britiin, and President Roosevelt rapped back !with $, virtual change that Wheeler was -giving comfort to Adolf jHitler i , On hearing of the president's rerharksj jfthe Montana senator then issued a statement saying! j j "I'm perfectly willing to compare my pltriotisni with. - l ' -1 A. J: T 1 " i a. Itr; L ? II . - otherwise, in Germany or England." j . j t j The exchange came in the course of a day ;that saw Rep Willlde Visits King, DeValera 9-Day Investigation Ends; Lauds British Courage and Leadership XttNlJCfN.: Feb.'l.-WeVlnes- dayjr(iirV!Wende11 tVillkie left London early today on the first stage of his journey home, after a. day in which he visited both the prime minister of Ireland and the king and queen of England. It was an unprecedented conclusion to an unprecedented visit to these Islands. Xow WIU kle will fly home, via Lisbon. The 1940 republican presiden tial contender who came here on a personal investigation of Brit ain's war effort still was wearing a dinner jacket when he left the capital. His last goodbye was to some Americans serving in the home guard. Hefhook hands all around and said: "Keep smiling, boys " Willkie looked tired after his strenuous week and two days In Britain. His outstanding impression of the whole visit, he said, is ' the morale and unity of the British people of all classes ... If any one says the people of this island are not united they are laboring (Turn to Page 2. Col. 3) Road Obstacles In State Listed PORTLAND. Feb. 4--(;p-Main obstacles to conversion of Oregon roads to military highways are the numerous bridges, mountain passes and routes through cities, the State Motor association de cided Tuesday. ; State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said a survey showed that old bridges should be modernized and .weak ones replaced; moun tain roads should be widened and provided with frequent turnouts; and city routes should be widened or shifted. 99 FULGENCIO BATISTA r ,.,iv-.-j..'ii.Hi.s,S..i.ii.. . f - i A i - " i ' - ritain Comfort to 'Nazis;' (AP) Jn a renewai of one resentative Wadsworth !(B-IVY) swing his influential support behind the president's j lend lease British-aid bill "or some thing Blue it." i j j Meanwhile, General Robert Ej Wood chairman of tbe board of Seari Roebuck, appearing before the senate foreign! rela tions committee, . opposed the legislation as "si war! bill Which wbuld place at Mr. Roos evelt's disposal '.f the blood and resource of ourentire liatiou. Tlw presldenr and Wheeler have' engaged ftf several Weeks in a bristling exchange of state ments. In the last of them, the president quoted the late Wil liam K. sOodd, former ambassa dor to dermany, as having said Wheeler' once!' declared, that nhzi domination of Europe was' inevitable. , " The j Montanan re plied that this warn "slander ous" effort to discredit j his op- IMMllinnltn th I ImimUikI i Kill - JTodajl Wheeler said be had "absolnoely reliable Informa tion that as of Jn. 1 the army had onllr 630 panes, none of them capable of ,'flghting under iu o dern conditions, because they lacked self - sealing! gas oline tasks, firing power or ar mor. Off 2,84 planes produced here last year, the asserted, 2, SOS went to Kn gland or other countries. f . I Reporters raised the'qaestlou -of ! Wheeler's statistics j at the president's press conference a, few hours later.; the chief execu tive replied briefjy and! without elaboration that lone could use figiires, official ad otherwise, to work outf all sortii of things knd that such use ot figures j mutt be very satisfying to the rekbschan cellor. j - j' W&daWorth's support for the lease-lend bill attracted intention because among the house repub licans bef holds the position' of an (Turi to Pape 2, Coi.jl) " Llxte Sports CHICAGO. fb. 4r(p)-Joo Chamacoiof Mexico City shattered Otto Reiselt's eight-gamei winning streak Tuesday; night J in ' the world's ehampionship three cush ion billiards tournament; defeat ing the Chiladelphian, BOjto 3t In 49 innings. A j j ' The loss was Reiselt's! first in nine matches, leaving only, de fending champion; Willie Hoppe of New Yotk and Jy Bore man ot Vallejo, Calif.. unBefeated jln the round-robin meet.; j - Hoppe! registered his eighth straight fvictory tonight, ,outscor Ing PauliLewin of Chicago! 60 tm 31, In 41 innings. ; j j i Ui - FOREST GROVE, Ore. Feb. 14 (Pacific university evened a two-gams - basketball series with the College of Idaho tonight by turning lack the Coyotes, :4 4 to 34, With Reed settinst the Dace. Pa cific grabbed aa early lead which it never S-ellnquished. The! Badgers led 24-13 at halftlme. Dltrlch o! College of Idaho! was the game's high scorer with 111 points. Reed led Pacific point getters j with 10.. S r . - 7 ! - - ' ! . -' ! High School Basketball Central Valley i, DeerPark 27, Pullman 28, Colfax C Omaki 42, Riverside s)-l Park rose 42, Corbett -40. Gresham 82, Ellverton. 2; Woodburn 29,-"oIalla 2 8.- Chemawa 4, Canby 42.'; " Estacada 32, Sandy 23.1 . f Central 27, Hill Military Acad emy. 2 6 both Portland i.-.. ' KoosQveit s, waBDingpon,. (both Portland).-; T i t J s Benson " 83, .Lincoln ' tt , '(botH I Portland). - ' "' ' ' A ' Franklin 43, Commerce IT (both Portland).; v i Grant 31, Sablo 25 (both Port land j. m