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, It's Coming- ... The tig 80lli anniversary;.; . eiuuon of The Statesman will be off the press - a ' ' March 28. Ton will want read Its story of the Will- ; amette valley and its proa-., T pects for progress. t . 7 Leal rains today . and Saturday; ..little chanjre in tenperatsrc. IX ax. temp. Tharsday C3, Mln. S7. North wind. Elver J foot. Partly cloudy. rmimmi yeab Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, March 7. .1941 Flic 3c Nowsstands 5c No. 2:3 ' - i - rr i II I II II .:' mH2S-J S f7 II 11 lit i .:...:. V,- i- iHn-Vv.r. :7.!Bil V f ....... .7 .. - ! --Paul Hatiser Column I One of our more reliable scouts Jias been eavesdropping again and comes to us; with a tale straight ; from a local hoe store, istraight from ithe tongue, we imight say. (Are n't you glad we .didn't?) I Our scout, . who wears shoes : rand ought to .know, says that ithis particular jbootery cra- ploys " a clerk who is as glib of 1omh1 n Raaup. v speech and as , smooth of manner as a shoe clerk cnight to be? He is breezy, person able and a good 'salesman and makes his customers' troubles his own. . ' Tae other day a sedate lady , - vralked into the store and our ' ejerk' went i forward to wait on her. lie rather liked sedate la . dies 'and he had never, known one he couldn't make break down into a chuckle, and without tickling her soles either. ". The woman demanded to see a pair of black slippers. She said she . wanted a pair that would be easy to put on. iWeVe got just the ticket," said the clerk, all confidence, and hurried away to the shelves. - Back he came, holdlnt in his hnd a plr of dixnifled black slippers. They- looked comfort able and he held them ent for " the customer's inspection as he dropped to his footstool. "Lady, he said, "you could run and jump into these." , The lady'ididn't chuckle. She bridled and her mouth stiffened. Then in measured, clipped tones she said: j "The shoes are not for me. They're for a corpse." , ' - I ; - And we'thought all New Deal ers were breathless. ! (Turn to Page 3, Col. 6) British Aid eiiate g my Sharps Caught Pair Under Indictment Here Held in LA on Several Charges LOS ANGELES, March 6-(P) -Deputy Sheriffs Thursday said Cecil F. Sharp, 48, told them he rented horses to Governor Charles A. Sprague and the warden of the Oregon state penitentiary while police sought him. Sharp, on forgery charges. The fleers said Sharp related he and his wife, Rath, 37, bad leased a ' dnde ranch near Sa lem early in; 1939 and that the warden's family were his best customers. Sharp had a 75-eent check from Gov. j Sprague, for horse rent, deputies said. The Sharps -were taken into custody In San Diego, brought here and booked on suspicion of grand theft and forgery. Warrants charging them with either forgery1 or grand theft from officers in Yakima and Seattle, Washv and Alhambra, Giendale, San Bernardino, San Francisco, I Sacramento and Stockton, Califs were held here and they are wanted in at least (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1 Youth Held I , ..v OOtlllg MILTON-FREEWATER. Ore March 6-P)-Howard Emerson, high school sophomore, charged with assault i with a dangerous weapon, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury Thursday. He was one of. three boys who told police tliey were target shoot ing Sunday at the time Jake Ul bright, Milton was wounded in the head while driving on a near- by road.. ' . T . ; r George Sanderson, justice of : the peace, said Emerson claimed he shot at a rabbit, and did not know of Ulbright's wound until the next day. Hospital attendants asid Ulbright was in a serious condition, although he had made Improvement, i Salem to Get Part : ; 01 WPA Personnel PORTLAND, March 6WVThe state WPA office disclosed Thurs day that it would close its ad ministrative offices t Eugene ef fective Friday night, transferrins part of the personnel to Medford and part to Salem. To InSh Boundaries for American bs SI - J l tjv- Administration 'supporters Sof the British aid bilijbacked down Thursday in the US senate when they found Insufficient support on the question of sending American troops outside of the x western hemis phere as outlined in the jmap above. New concessions were made ington below. ! Backers Opp onents to Comproniise On 7 roops Is M I Senator George Proposes Elimination of Authorization to President on j Transfer of War jSupplies WASHINGTON, Match 6 (AP) Administration spokes men offered a new concession to senate opponents of the British aid bill Thursday, after at "compromise" amendment of the ques tion of sending troops outside the western hemisphere had failed to attract the support they" expected of it. Chairman George off the foreign relations committee, in the Chase Ends In Arrest Alt. Angel Youth Htftl at Fossil; 5-Year jj Parole Revoked I Gerald Wills, charged Tuesday in Mt. Angel with assault with intent to kill, was arrested late Thursday in Fossil, Sheriff! A. C Burk stated last night. f The sheriff also revealed that a five-year bench parole on a morals charge had been revoked by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan, and that an order for Willsf com mitment to the state penitentiary to serve out his term haji been signed by the court. ; Wills was charged with assault following a chase through ML Angel in which he participated in with Mt. Angel Police, Chief Frey at 2 a. m. Tuesday. The police officer, driv,ing a new police car, sought to j over take Wills, who was driving a borrowed car, on city streets. Wills drove his machine into that of the sheriff, and then sped for the open country. Frey gave chase, and ! again (Turn to Page 3, Col. 2) Defense Areas Bill Planned j A measure designed to supple ment federal law protecting de fense industries and military1, es tablishments a gainst sabotage will be introduced today or Sat urday by Sen Thomas R. Ma honey. (D-Mult),i he said Thurs day, i ,. . ' ft I The bill would authorize the governor to designate national de fense ". districts for the protection of miiltary establishments ind plants manufacturing defense materials. Persons in these tdis tricts would be under strict regu lation; , CDslsivia Debates mi ; a: Offer Concessions Measure 6 middle ol a: vigorous appeal for quick passage of the bill, offered to eliminate; an authorization to the president to I'transfer" war supplies to Great! Britain. Some had feared this language might be construed as powelr to deliver the articles in question or to convoy merchant ships transporting them across the ocean, jj George; made clear that he had in mind only a prohibition against physical delivery 6f war supplies in England, land hot a restriction on the bill's grant , of power to the president to make defense articles available to the British on whatever terms he deemed proper. Ironic Charge Hurled On "Filibuster" by Opponents This development 'came toward the close of an unusual senate day which saw Supporters of the bill holding the iloor almost continu ously, and its opponents ironically charging then with "filibustering." .jusi oeiore ine day s session (Turn to Page 2, TJol. 2) -t- Rollins: out the BarieMtb the Tune o Here are the big: barrels of Uncle Sam 155 jmm; coast artillery cannon 1 rolled )ut across a Pacific coast field almost as far as the eye can see the answer to any attack that might be made on these shores. Hundreds, Troops? as reported in the story from Wash Speed fBksgg Formal Airport Bids Received Mayor Chadwick Gets Official CAA Papers From Seattle ' Formal invitation for bids "for furnishing all labor and materials and performing; all work for im proving" the! Salem municipal airport was received Thursday by Mayor W. W. Chadwick from the civil aeronautics administration office in Seattle. Bids will be opened in Seattle at 2 p.m., March 25. The contract for which the bids are called will approximate the $140,000 designated for improve ment of the Salem airport as an emergency field on the federal airways system. The approximate quantities of work and 'materials as set forth in the invitation Include: Relocation and cleaning out open ditches, 35,009 cubic yards; general grading 1 and (Turn io Page 3, Col. 5) Young BoyjHitTfoy Car Floyd Bacon, i 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff e Bacon, i route four, Salem,, was taken to the Deaconess hospital) late Thursday for treatment of injuries suf fered when he was hit by a car. He was later released after doc tors ascertained his hurts were only superficial.' j JMedics , ictors Iii House d .. .: ,- s . !"'- , " "' Wildlife Group V Wins in Tiff y With Fisnermen v. : -' - - " , By RALPH C. CURTIS Health and recreation "day was observed in the, Oregon bouse of representatives son Thursday as : that tribunal granted the medical profession a. victory 'over the osteopaths arid gave the Oregon Wildlife federation the. nod in its tussle with the commercial fishermen. . The house postponed indefinite ly by a 33-27 vote the bill which would have granted the osteopaths "separate examining board, and rejected 38 to 23 commercial fishermen's compromise amend ments to the coast steelhead bill, which will be up for apparently assured final approval today, fish day, in the form in which it was passed by the senate. . History of Healing Arts . Reviewed In Arguments History of the healing arts over the past century and even, back to biblical times was reviewed as the legislative: calendar 9 - 3r Readings Today Ba: HB 1S3. 26S, 339. 347. 429, 481. 483. 902. 509. 534; HB 560 (1939 cession, vetoed); SB 53. 99, 100. 122, 147, 229. 236. 253. 275. 309. 325: SJR li! Senate: SB 207. 294. 240. 259. 374. 319. 337; HB 459. 522. 524, 625. 530. 531. 322. 214 484. 311. 82. 1 House: 10:30 am. senate message on nn toe. congressional reaismctwK bill: 2 3 p.m.. HB 535. osteopaths' bill was argued. Dr. J. F. Hosch (D-Deschutes) itemized the rnedicalprofession'sl gifts to humaaity including anaesthesia;! control infection. Immunization. victory over epidemics, conquest of tuberculosis, anemia, diabetes and other once-deadly diseases and the discovery of vitamins and their properties; and he challenged the osteopaths to cite' any comparable contributions. ; On the other side t the pie tore. Rep. Allen Carson (R Sfarion) described as short sighted the medical profession's refusal to permit osteopathic students to serve interneships in accredited hospitals, and said the selfish attitude of the "reg ular physicians would lead to the' imposition of socialized medicine. Carson and Rep. JVernon Bull (D-Union) said the sole issue (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Salem Men See Formation at Fort Stevens Four Salem men who drove learn at first hand how Salem's and fed, arrived on the scene barracks in time to observe the and harbor defense guns" that has been issued since the guard was inducted into federal service last fall. Leaving unexplained the rea son for the sudden call, a few minutes after the noon mess hour, Lieut. CoL C. B. Wash burne, acting as regimental commander for the day, reported the forts on both sides of the , Columbia river, were manned and ready to fire within ' 2t minutes after the unexpected call was sounded. No guns were fired, however, and the men re- j hnfr barrel ine irm inai Balkan To Make Famed Artist, G. Borglunv Succumbs Rushinore Memorial ' Faces Finished;; Honors Planned CHICAGO, March 6 (AP) Gutzon Borglum, famed sculpt or, died Thursday leaving his son, Lincoln, the task of com pleting the most colossal of his creations the Mount Rushmore memorial. The. international known artist, whose works in many parts of the r m V f GUTZON BORGLUM nation have been viewed by mil lions, : succumbed to coronary sclerosis 19 days short of the: 7 1st anniversary of his birth. His masterpiece was the Mount Rushmore memorial the gigantic faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt carved in the granite side of a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. ; His son, Lincoln, 28 reported that his father had finished work on the heads before he left the site about February ill and that. In keeping with a previous understanding, he (Lincoln) planned to smooth the (Turn to Page S, CoL 3) First f Test" to Fort Stevens Thursday! to national guardsmen are quartered of the new 249th coast artillery first test call to "man the coast turned to then other duties or barracks at mid-afternoon. The visitors found the Salem guardsmen comfortably housed in recently-constructed one and two story frame barracks equipped with automatic furnaces, running hot and cold water and individual barber shops, -hut almost entirely lacking Tn day room recreational facilities. . Day Room Needs Listed The day rooms of Headquarters first and second battalions, with (Turn to Page 3, CoL 7) f Yankee Doodle cr . . , -. . ...... - - ' -i perhaps thousands of American youths are in th ritrht and whn nMMnr ifirfi Tfo ';:v.r wui eveniuanv oe nsea sl r on. Nation Exmecied decision Turks StraddleFence But Biiild Defense: Greeks! to Russia Told Permitting Germans Near Black Sea and Dardanelles Like Committing "Suicide" . ;- By The Associated Press Yugoslav chieftains debated for hours Thursday and Friday morning on whether to throw their pressure-ridden country into the London-Athens-Ankara camp orwith the axis lineup which almost entirely surrounds them. Even while the Yugoslavconference was going on in deepest secrecy the official Turkish radio declared "Germany's campaign to control the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea would be difficult to apply "especially if Yugoslavia starts: to fight," , But little has come from Yugoslavia to change earlier pre dictions that she might sign with Berlin in a few days. Seattle Set On Blackout Notices of War Test Posted in First of Experiments SEATTLE; 'March 6 - (ff) - On nearly every doorstep, into of fices and on signboards and tele phone poles Thursday went this circular notice:. i PROCLAMATION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR TEST BLACKOUT NIGHT, MARCH 7, 10:40 P. M." "By virtue ; of the authority vested ha me - . . an emergency is hereby declared to exist dur ing the period of a trial black (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) General Talks With Petain '1 Arrival Is Reported Falsely Wednesday ; Conclave Secret - - i j VICHY, France, March MP- Back home after almost half year of mysterious isolation in North Africa, General Maxime r Weygand spent two hours and a half Thursday in consultation with Chief of State Philippe Pe tain. - Weygand arrived from Afri ca' by plane . Thursday after noon, although the government. In order to bide his movements, Wednesday night issued an of ficial announcement falsely re porting that he. had arrived.. . After the Petain-Weygand con ference a government spokesman said they discussed "administra tive measures' for both north' and west Africa, Some competent observers de duced that the visit of Weygand, commander of an unbeaten and untested French colonial army, foreshadowed establishment of a (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) being: trained to train these V"r ;-. meven. it la rmnriPfi . - m Soon Fight The Yugoslavs are almost en tirely surrounded by the axis, from Albania through Italy across the Adriatic and 'for -"a narrow stretch on land, then along the borders of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, all dominated by Ger many. Only a 100-mile frontier with Greece would provide an out let if Yugoslavia should side with the British. .' . Weighing the scales against the axis was a British promise of help against the axis. Turkey Adopts Waiting Policy, Build Defenses , " Turkey, astraddle the Balkan fence, adopted a wait-and-ee at- " titud. with the extent of British WracJiing for Greece as a promin ent factor in her policy-making. Now that Germany is her next door neighbor in occupied Bul garia, Turkey is strengthening her defense preparations, but most ob servers agree that the prospects of her being thrown into the war im mediately are remote. . Government leaders here are waiting to see: : L Whir Yugoslavia does. Concern as to Yugoslavia's In tentions was expressed direct ly by the official Turkish radio in a broadcast which declared that the Germans intended to establish Black sea and Aegean bases , to control the eastern Mediterranean. "There is no doubt," the com mentator went on, that tho Germans plan also to isolate Soviet Russia by seizing tho Near East as well as all the Balkans.' ' It appears Germany Mill not make a new move until she has aettled her troops In Bulgaria. There are some groups in Yugo , . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Siam, Vichy Pact Set V ; TOKYO, March 7-Friday)P) -Government circles declared to day the conflict between French Indo-China and Thailand - is "al most completely settled" extension of the armistice expir ing at noon (7 njn. Thnrvf.v PST) will not be necessary. Secretarial staffs now are ne gotiating "final minor details. they said, and further interviews will not be necessary immediately between French Ambassador Charles Arsene Henry and Japan ese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Coniniittee Mum On Trades BiU 4 The senate revision of laws com mittee Thursday ; reoorted out without recommendation the so- called -fair trades" bilL The measure was introduced by Sen. Douglas McKay and has been the subject of several important committee hearings. - Sen. McKay said the bill was copied from the1 Washington law which -has been in operation for several years and-has been held1 constitutional by that state's su- prune, court Fsrmer Fundi Passed WASHINGTON, March C-tTV The house passed and sent to the senate Thursday a - biH tirr $S30,S24,C37 la appropriaUcnsV : another $32D,CC0,c: 3 ia lzzr s ti l '"..".. jauinorizaDons icr tn l. n izm proerams.
