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It's Coming - ' ; The big 90th anniversary ' 'edition of The Statesman Will be ' off the press en March 28. Yea will want to read Its story of the Will amette valley and Its pros pects for progress. Weather. , Cloudy , with occasional light rate today and Friday; valley fogs. Max. - temp. Wednesday, 87, Mln. 44. Southwest wind. Bain .24 - inch. River 1.4 foot. Partly cloudy. TfflDHITlt' PCUNDCD 1651 1- 2HLTILT11 YEAH Salem Oregon, Thursday Morning March 6. 1S11 Pric 3c: I?wsslandi 5c Benton Is Still Issue 7TI7"o man S IfflMl 5 77 '. ettie (0 JF(b'lJ0 1L House! in Battle Over Amendment by Senate By RALPH C. CURTIS ' iJust "When it appeared headed tafn's rrnh'aht deadlock ber tween the two branches of the fourth congressional district was resuscitated ai an open issue in the house of representatives late Wednesday afternoon oy rtep. a. Rennie of Benton county. The issue of house acceptance : of the t senate , amendment which leaves Benton county in the first district was made a special order of busi ness in the houW for Friday forenoon- at 10:30 o'clock. Earlier in the day the senate had passed the house bill with this one amendment. Creation of a) hew dir-rict j composed of Coos, qurryV Douglas, Jackson, Joseph ine, Lane and Linn counties drew there no serious opposition al though Sen. Rex Ellis (R-Uma-tilla), asked the senate to defeat LEGISLATTVb CALENDAR 1 3rd Beading Tdy jHoase: HB 106.215, 222, 23, 245, 247. 258. 295. 339. 365. 373. 374. 376. 37 427. 600, 904.-52h-.5OU 523. 533; SB 112 210, 253,. 255, 2T7. 278.1 301. 309, 312. 323. 331. 'Senate: SB 3T5j 373, 374. 328. 333, 222. 300, 318: SCB 9; HB 3. 192, 296, 324, 421, 917. 518. 519, 52J, ,27. 94, 82. Special Order -Hue: 10:30 a.m.. committee report. Jo pass as amended. on SB 53. "teelhead" bill: auw p.m., masonry. Ion HB 150, osteopath minority reports the bill and provide for a con-gressman-at-large. The bill has been amended by the senate com mittee on county affairs to ex clude Benton jj county from the new district, ajt the request of the Benton county delegation backed by general sentiment in that county. , Steelhammer Requests House. - . j.Whes'.Uyfe report on' the senate's action was rad in the house Rep, John ' Steelhammer '- (R-RLarion), chairman i of the house reappor tionment corrunittee, moved that the . house refuse to concur-in the piendment ;; The. motion carried With little opposition on a. viva voce vote Slid Speaker Robert H. Farrell apjxinted Steelhammer and Rep. .Frank Lonergan on the conference . committee. ; Later Sep. Rennie, moved for reconsideration and over Steel hammer's . protest this motion .' carried 34 to 25. Steelhammer had insisted j that the confer ence 'committee would give fall consideration to Benton coun ty's desires. ; I Rep. : Vernon Bull suggested that Rep. Rennie should be a member of the conference com I i (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Clip League Schedule on Sports Page : J hrm. ciming.j ; folks." says the- tittle Senator, Statesman weather vane of the Senators I baseball elulC " So, to help you prepare for . his : tr rival, The Statesman prints today- the "full playing schedalo of the Western i Interna t i o n a 1 league, for the 1941 season, on Its complete j as - usual , sports page. Turn to page 1 lo this morning and clip the schedule for ' future reference. Paste It : on a piece of cardboard or put It' in your billfold. Million Dollar BuililinaGets Approval of Ways qiicj Means ! : Construction of a state office building at a cost of. $1,000,000 was approved by the way and means committee of the legislature oh Wednesday when it voted to -report out - favorably the bill authorizing such construction,- The bill however will contain a provision that the state emergen cy "board shall decide when con struction shall i begin. , Ways and means committee members said it might be wise ) to defer construc tion .until defense activities, have ceased. t lit was further suggested , that construction in the.near iuture is not warranted by. present build ing prices. . - - ; r ; Funds of Land Board Borrowed For , Finances Funds of the state land board would, be borrowed to finance construction, the fund to. be re paid out of rentals. State depart ments now renting downtown quarters in Salem would occupy the building, to be erected on property already' owxsd by the Ickes Accuses Governor on Power Stand - v : : . X Sprague Stays Firm on Statement Made K Against Monopoly -. WASHINGTON,; March 5-!-( AP)-f-Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon was accused by Interv ior Secretary Ickes Wednesday of speaking oh behalf of private utility companies and" attacking; public power. ..- . J Sprague criticized Ickes last week for refusing to sell any more Bonneville power to the Alumj inum Company of America t "The governor," Ickes r said, "with an utter disregard ' for the facts involved, has sought ' to use the incident to make an oblique but perfectly apparent attack on public ownership of power. ) "He claims he is not speaking for Aluminum Company of America. We know that he is not speaking for the people of the northwest. - Private-owned utility interests, intent ; on mamtaining their vast holding company emf pires, are the, only other interl- ested parties. "I don't like political mono poly any better than I like eco nomic monopoly," Gov. Sprague commented Wednesday In an informal reply to Secretary Ickes- blast at him. "Secretary Ickes' personal at tack upon me is no answer to my statement of last weekj upon which I stand. j "Secretary Ickes' action rep-j resents the danger of concentra-l tion of authority that I have been preaching against all along. I am not. speaking ..for the aluminum company,' but Jf dislike-. th fact that ar;mdii vidoal has the iMwer todfttr mine the destinies t'coinmunU ties in this fashion. When youl eat out of the hand or, Wash-i, intrton you Tive to take wha they feed you." ! In an aside the governor sug-j gested that he had not been! aware that he was important; enough to Ickes to 'merit half column of comment, -'' V "It is apparent to me that he is speaking for privately-owned util-, ity companies or for eastern iiir terests which control these util ity companies through their hold ing companies." Alcoa, now constructing an. en larged aluminum factory at Van couver, Wash., already is receiv ing 68,000 of Bonneville's 122,000 Kilowatts, and, Ickes said, if its recent request for more had bee'n met, it would have controlled f 5 per cent of the dam's' final capa city. " I The Bonneville law, he .said, prohibited any one concern f roin monopolizing. Columbia :rivir electrical energy. - .' : Ickes - also suggested that Sprague 'was taking undue inter est in : the Spokane!" Wash- elec- tion 'to ' determine whether the city should purchase federal 'pow er or continue ,to take electricity from private utilities. . ' -A VLe referred to Sprague - as a champion of state's rights and said that the Oregon governor ' "might well adopt the principle he pro fesses and leave the people of Spokane to decide their own m- terest" Walker Still Married" KEY WEST, Ha, March 5.-P) -Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez Wednesday denied "divorce ito Mrs. James J." Walker from the former mayor of New York.- --.-, state, east of the . plaza north J of the capitoL." 'v .-- . ' v " The ways and means committee also reported out. favorably Sen. W. IL Strayer's bill creating an Old Oregon Trail Centennial com mission , and appropriating $15, 000 for promotion of .the centen nial observance. The original re quest, was for $20,000.", w 1 4 The commission would be com posed of live persons appointed by Gov.-Charles A. Sprague, rep resenting various' sections of the state and 'serving without pay I in an advisory Capacity to the state highway commission, - which through its tourist and travel bu reau will publicize the centennial. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) I . Carol $f gda Safe in Portugal 1 I - l . . - I V ' ( I AC 1 i ' 1 I " Former King Carol of Rumania years add nnmerous escapndch, Mmr. Maeda Lupescu, are safe in Portugal after; a speedy dash from Spain, AP reports indicated late Wednesday hignt. ! I FornwrR uman ia King, Liipe&w Notorious; European Dashj in American Auto to IJsbon Froni Frlnco's Semi-Arrest. ; JLISBbN, fortugal March 5 (AP.) Former King Carol and his comp4nionn exie from Rumania, Mme. Magda Lupescu, ar rived safcjly in Portugal Wednesday afternoon after a dash from their hotel in Seville,! Spain. Consul Claimed a I f Agent Suit o Woman .Says- ,iedmann Heas Ring! in US SAN FHANCtSCO, March 5(JF) -Consul General iFritaj Wiedeman was represented Wednesday as heading aj Gentian espionage ring throughout the America's, and as having ordered" his agents to ob tain secret informationj "beneficial to Germany m' its conquest of the western Jierais'pWe.lJ . r:The alkgations were in a complaint-filed i irilj federal court for Mrs. Alic Crockett, former wife of a US airmyljpfficerJ who asked $8000 she! said Wiedemann owed her for a jtrip to Germany in his behalf in X939.' . - . '. The complaint set forth that Wiedemann I received jmore 1 than $5,000,000 j f om the German gov ernment for -fspionage activity," that he employed many persons for such pjurpofes, and that it was the duty of thef Princess Stephenie Hohenlohe, wl?om the United States is seeking to deiort, to pay these employes! ; l . ? ' The remainder of the complaint was made I up of statements which Mrs. Crocket said . Wiedemann made to her. j - " :;'- -t lie was ialleged to have told her (Turn) to Page 2, Col.; 6) 'Paul ttttuser9t Column We've been! looking over the draft news and have been seeing some, startling, thingsj For instance, there's' the fellow 1 New J ersyj '-'' When thfy y' drafted him they I f didn't kndw w h e t h e r to' ' credit! hm against the quo-; , ta as one man" or f- ' a whole 'squad. I 1 " He weighed ?88 pounds. ' :.; f jThehV'thee's Jackie C o o gahi going Into the PM?I tt Het. Jr. ine army.i a aoi : - - . i - . . v of - people,' . despite" the . fact : that he's made a few night' clubs , live ly, still v. thinlf of him .as The Kid"and i wohder what-he'S: do ing out , bf that I ragged - sweater.' He's getting bald, . tooJ : Bat when t wo read that the -army has called Harvey ..Shaf fer away from theyfizxwater pumps at the Spa we. realise (Turn to Page 2,CoL "J);. ' Gardiner 35, Henley 33. j--- - Chiloquin 3f, Gilchrist 25." . ';. .Powers 50, Sutherlin 22.'- Dayton 27, fElkton 23. ' Gold Hill 4y, SL' Mary's 41. ' - Above scores all Ashland invi tational tourney. ' - - Nazi (left) and his g!rl friend of many Couple Make iWild I j rney were met ai me oriu guese border byj Carol's personal chamberlain, Ernest Urdareanu, who had escaped Spain last De cember. It was said the former king's situation in Portugal was perfectly legal since the long-announced in tention of Portuguese authorities to permit him to reside in Portugal until the end of the war was be lieved unchanged. 4 .Where the . couple established their residence an .Portugal - was not disclosed. j - " SEVILLE, Spain, March 5-JPy- The, royal foot bf Carol, former King of Kumania, stepped on the gas' of his big American Car dur ing a "quiet spiii in the country" Monday, and, it was revealed Wednesday night, propelled him self and Magda j Lupescu all the way out of suspicious Spain. Thus Carol and the woman he long ago chose for his constant companion escaped to Portugal from the virtual imprisonment Spam has imposed upon them since, last autumn, they fled from the iron guard terror in their homeland. I Mysterious Diplomat Supplied Needed Papers A mysterious "foreign diplomat" who slipped into the well-watched rooms of Carol's Seville hotel a (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Monmouth - PORTLAND, Ore, March ; &-(JP) -Oregon College of 'Education of Monmouth swamped . Southern Oregon ; college Wednesday, night, 56 tq 37, in the finals of the annual Oregon Intercollegiate basketball association" tournament. - - il 1 "The Victory carried the right to represent the state at a national intercollegiate tournament at Kan sas City, Mo. ' Dead Pilot Identified LOS ANGELES. March 5-JF) North American Aviation company officials said Wednesday night , they had identified the body , of a pflot buried in the wreckage: of a plane on the sjdelof Mount Tipton.. I House Passes Appropriations For Prisons, Hospitals i r The Y house passed and' sent ; to the senate ' Wednesday , the $4,700,169 appropriation bill for expenses of state penal institu tions "and hospitals aiftera" debate in which state hospital con ditions were held deplorable' and ah attempt to "send the" meas ure, back to, the .ways, and, means committee was narrowly , defeated. Rep. J.D. PenryUD-Cplumbia), moving for ferral, said. the ways and means committee "should be instructed 6 provide more money for state hospitals. ' 1 . Rep.5,Henry" Senion (R-Klam-athi: diairman of the' ways and earVfeututions ; subcommittee, j said ..-that more anoney could he givitherastituts? only "at the cost of increasing the: state deficit Conditions J at Hospital " Charged "Deplorable" Charges that conditions at Pen dleton and Salem state-hospitals are "Mdisgracefulf were made by pep. Phil JJradyl "(D-Mult.). Bra dy, said the measure did not pro Hull Opposes Ainiiidment To Aid Bill .r - . . . i -. -r ; - r - - - V . -. ( r-."v, f ' Real Senate Battle Flares on. Troops out of America WASHINGTON, March 5 (AP) The first real senate bat tle on the lease-lend bill flared up Wednesday, with adminis tration leaders backed by Sec retary Hull strenuously oppos ing an amendment to ' stipulate that the measure grants ho new authority ' for sending -American troops outside the western hemis phere. . . v The secretary of state was quoted as having said that such a provision might encourageJapan to . become- more aggressive l in" pushing her expansion policy in the Far East. Leading proponents of the bill, who hitherto had spok en favorably of adopting some compromise amendment of this sort, suddenly closed ranks tin opposition. r T k v - . ; Specifically at . issue V on the senate floor was an amendment by Senator Ellender (D-La) saying that: . . - ' , "Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to confer any additional powers to authorize' the employment or use of per-: sons In the land or naval forces of the United States at any. Place beyond the limits of Che western hemisphere, except in the territories and possessions of the United States, inclnding the Philippine islanas." j 1 With his characteristically en ergetic oratory, the tiny Ellender paced Dack and forth behind his desk urging the adoption of his proposal as a means of uniting the American people behind the lease lend bill. His amendment, he said, SvtfuId"aHeviatehr fears of mil llSis. of ' Americaniriothers'' and 'make certain that this will b$ material aid bill and nothing else." Vote Expected Thursday : On Ellender Amendment Both- Senator Ellender and Democratic leader Barkley (Ky) agreed when Wednesday's session ended that, a vote would be reach- . (Turn to Page5 2. CoL 1) French Chief Flies Home Gen. Weygarid Arrives i Secretly at Vichy From Africa Base VICHY, France, March 5-7P- General Maxime Weygand, com mander, of the French armies of Africa,! arrived in Vichy Wednes day night ahead of schedule. His airplane landed in the early evening. The French information office had said , previously that he. gen eral . would not : arrive" ' until to morrow, .'and there were; indica tions .that not even the French gjbvemment ' had ; expected him i so soon. ' ' .' " ! Attempts were made to keep his trip secret, .In pursuit ot a ; policy adopted ever since a plane carry ing Jean. Chiappe was shot down en route to Tunisia late in No vember. :r : r'' Weygand, it was stated, saw Marshal Philippe Petauv chief 1 of the French state, almost immedi ately upon i his arrival, but was not seen to enter by the usual loungers at the marshal's hoteh There were various rumors jas to the purpose of Weygand's trip. These included:' . !" I 1. That he had come to discuss (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) : vide . money enough to " give em ployes, of. the .institutions ade quate wages or shorter; hours., "Rep.' Vernon Bull ' (D-Union) said that Pendleton state hospital patients are clothed in" rags. He said patients at Salem are fed at a of 1, vday pec paUenifand ! foe; even." less ; than that at Pendleton, s - Rep. J." P. Hosch (D-Deschutes) said medical and nursing facili ties of both hospitals are far be low standards set by the United States public . Italth service. ' , : . Rep." C. T. Hockett .R-Wallo-- (Turn to Page 6,' CoL 7 Joint -. " - . New Forceful LsS.kMMOM CORDELL HULL Secretary of State CordeU HuiL Wednesday strenuously opposed an amendment to the British aid bill which would stipulate It did not grant new authority for sending American troops outside the western hemisphere. - - ' Seattle Plans "Blackout5''1 ; First Test in Major US City Scheduled Friday Night ' SEATTLE, March SHVThe first' blackout test in a major American city will darken this community of nearly 400,000 for 15 minutes Friday night. Defense committee leaders who have spent weeks in per fecting plans, predicted confi dently Wednesday that hardly a , light vill be visible when army and navy planes soar over, the approximately 104 square miles of the city's limits. Frank R. Cadman, blackout chairman, has assembled more -than ' 4000 volunteer air raid wardens for duty, in addition to 3500 civilians who will assist police and fire "departments. . Not a detail has been over looked, Cadman said. When the warning signal is sounded by factory whistles and sirens "oyer: every 1" radio broadcasting sta tion In the city, 10 minutes be " fore the - blackout time, wardens ; will order motorists to the curb. house Owners , will" pull down. ; r (Turn to Page . 2K Col. 81 WarNewa Briefs ' SOME, March - (Thursday) H,ff)-A . clash of British and German expeditionary armies for Salonika, key to the. back door of, Europe, was envisaged by Roman observers today aft er Virginie Gay da, the authori-. tative Italian commentator, de clared nearly a whole ' division . of Canadian troops already had . reached that ancient Greek city, , i SOfTA, Bolgaria, March -(Thursday) (jfP) Germany's field army in Bolgaria was con centrated today at Black sea porta and on the Greek frontier'' as the nazia. deployed for the great Balkan war so long ex . pectedand seemingly aU but "began.,.-, ,V.-' . . ' ; ATHENS, March S.-Greeee : rejected '. mounting G e r m a n pressure for a separate peace with Italy Wednesday night and announced she was stand-.;, ing firmly r beside Britain, hav ing "agreed . on . all aspects . of the sitaation in southeast Ea- ' rope with British; Foreign. Sec retary Anthony. Eden. Eden left : Athens -Wednesday night after , three days of conferences. - - i LONDON. March " .-(Thnrs-1 da'y)-(iP)-The air and home se- -eurity ministries announced, toi day that , a t e? .bombs were" dropped, at a. south coast town Wednesday night but that" oth erwise there was . very little German air activity ever Brit- ain. ' Great Bhlkari Battle Seen asNtitions Line up, Troops ! Germans Mass on Bulgaria, Greek Boundary; Russia Demands Navy, Bases; Turks Stick to British TOKYO, March 6WThursday)-iT,)--French and Thai agreement "on the' principal points' of 4he Japanese, mediation plan for settling their -border dispute was; announced officially today." Remaining points, it was said, "likely will be settled within a few days.-'- . - ' : ' . - (' - ; The announcement, in; the form of a Joint eemnraniqae by Japan, France and Thailand, said: - "The mediation plan presented by the Japa nese government has been agreed to by both the French and 'Thailand rnv.rnm.nl. ... t. -i , - iuc yiuiu ; pal points and -the remaining points and details llk-l , . J . . ... - iune setuea wiuua a rew eayj." . - The announcement followed an boor's con ference , amour ' French Ambassador " Charles Arsene Henry and Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Foreirn Minuter TmdIt. r-,inb. xiHiiua uia trench Indo-China engaged in bitter border fight ing for more than three months before an armistice was signed Janu ary 31 under Japanese mediation. The armistice has been extended twice. The present extension wiU expire -Friday but it was reported it would be extended again for the working out of technical details of the peace plan. By, the Associated Press ; ; . ' V ' ' ' '. Southeastern Europes's number was up Wednesday night. ' Months of. fearful diplomatic. pressure on the volatile races Of the Balkan peninsula had reached the point that fighting among massed thousands' of men seemed inevitable. The-grand lines of ' the opposing ramps 'were: " . . . -za - i " SiZf-- f v ' i . , '.' '.-, - . . MJL h Germany has massed, said reports from Sofia, Bulgaria, 130. fl men on the Bulgarian-Greek border, ready for an attack aimed for Greece's Aegean seaport of Salonika. Other German units whoso strengtk remained secret were dispatched to Black Ses ports. Nal planes were said to nave jphetomphed Turkish and Greek frontier fortifications. ; : : -.; ,.m;v , 2. Greece defied Germany by rejecting strong peace hints horn . ; the nasis and sent troops ; toward her menaced eastern front. f : 3. Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria be eanse of Germany's ocenpatioa of that coontry and declaration of war seemed a matter of hours. Bat whether Britain had any sub-- staatlal body of troops ia Greece, perhaps some of the victorious! army of the Nile, remained a British and Greek secret! 4. Russia was reported to have sounded a jarring note by de-" , manding that German-dominated Rumania cede forthwith some . naval bases on the Black Sea. ..- aTurkey was sUnding by her guns with the British. - The reported Russian demands O VA cant Dva mier General Ion Antonescu to Vienna for a hurried talk with Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelra Goering. ' : The Greeks were believed to Slav border as well as the Bulgarian frontier. Yugoslavia was believed ready to fall into the axis lineup during a trip this week by Regent Prince Paul tp Germany to see German Foreign Min ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop. While the British keDt their most secrecy in southeastern Europe, they reported a daylight raid in force on the nazi-held port of Boulogne.' Frances said that revolt was "spreading like triots of Ethiopia, and heard a raertifor5 the developing 'battle - tirst Mird.of the Adnuralty commons r that the ; navy needed numbers.' of meni" : 1 "i 1.;- l.i':.J'.r-.; .r. "With th ' 'TSritiH'".lilT winhino in Africa flonnml Hir,!. - Weygand commander of; French, troops, ,in Africa,- flew back to Vichy ahead of schedule and was said to. have been closeted im- v mediately with chief Of state Marshal Philippe Petain.' ' ;i Yards, Strike Settled SAN DIEGO, Calif V March 5- tPh-Settlemient of a strike of sev en AFL unions at two SanDiego boat - yards, which halted "work February ' 18 on $500,000 : in de fense and ' private contracts, was announced Wednesday night by Harry Malcolm,, federal concilia- tor.... ' ' 1 US Makes Defense Base Deal With Panama RepubKc v ; - "WASHINGTON, March ing, measures to defend the Panama-canal, acquired rights from the republic of Panama Wednesday for new air bases, anti-air craft and warning stations. - . The agreenient announced in Panama by .President-Arias,- was hailed here as a further symbol of cooperation among the; American republics in hemisphere defense. It followed an announcement that, the United States, and -Mexico were engaged in military "conversations on mutual assistance measures. Panama granted permission, f the establishment of the new de fense works in the republic, in cluding airbases, searchlight and detector sights, after negotiations under a 1S2S treaty cf fri?r anJ)operatioiu7.A.v'..--:!.'".' Officials withheld details of the proposed works but they appar ently were intended chiefly to ex- Airs Accord. Y ' CANICJ have sent troons tn ihniv Viia. movements mntvnlfvl in the ut wildfire" among the native- nai : plea for more "and more shirjs and ' of the Atlantic." 4 X , V A. V. Alexander told the British - "many, more shiDS and trreat HONGKONG, Ma rch 5.JP Japanese authorities said Wed nesday night their forces had landed at various points- along a 250-mile stretch of the south Chi na coast in a surprise move which foreign quarters here' believe is somehow -linked with ' Japan's new southward ambitions. The landings on the shores of Kwantung province from Kwong (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) 5-(AP) The United States, speed tend the warning system and en able' interception and engagement of hostile planes farther from the cauuuV:H:. --r; .;-;- " T . ' Military authorities have con tended that at least 20 or S3 min utes of advance warrJcs on the approach of enemy planes Ws needed to get sufficient forces ir. to tlie air to fight them off be'ere they reached the canr.l. v j The army has rr!v ' '-"j- for a hirh!y secixt clw.. i- riU designed to give v. r:.L,j cf the presence of aircraft 1C3 cr more miles distant but supplemen tal - signal stations - in strategic areas were said to be desirable.