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Newspaper Page TextThe OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning, March 18. 1941 PAGE THSZS The Irish Celebrate Soberly a ft r --m Ann New York Reaches Miles Dull in Dublin While Greatest Army Prepares for Possible Conflict; De Valera Wears His Shamrock I DUBLIN, March 17-W-It was Irish capital Monday all public houses closed, no paifade and, to make matters worse, 36,000 sober Irishman watched a northern Ireland football team hand Erie rock, cheered Prime Minister Earaon De Valera and his min isters on their .wa tyo mass in the morning. A feature of other St. Patrick's cancelled because it might have days, the military parade, was interrupted the traiinng of: the largest army in the island's his tory; NEW YORK, March 11-JP)-A 70-year-old man fell off a horse Monday on Fifth avenue, but no rtESPRTTOF fry JOHN CLINTON My hot-tempered friend, the doctor, was driving me home again last week. "What's all this business Jxjut Minute Man Windshield Sen ice at Union Oil stations?" $ki the medico. "What's so hot about wiping off a windshield with a damp rag?" j "Wll,"aysl,"in the first place Union Minute Men don't us a rag, at all damp or dry!" Th doctor paused to exchange ex pletives with a passing truck. "What da they use, then blot ters?" he asked. "They use Minute Man Towels chemically treated so as to leave not a siniile. smear, streak or blur on the glass-a new one on every cr. They also use Union Wind shield Cleaner which not only tuts traffic film, hut also keeps heads of water from forming when it's raining." So I mode him drive Into Union Oil station, and I had them clean just half of doc's windshield with a Minute Mem Towel, and the other half by th old-fashioned damp rag method. "Now, com rain," I aid, "so for yourself what m difference It makes!' Well, it rained that night, and doc had to make his calls as usual. Next morning he hailed me. "You're right, Clinton," he said. "You and your Minute Men can have free castor oil all the. rest of the month"- which thows you how generous doc is. tut anyway, make this test yourself. It's kind of Inter esting to sa how Union Oil C o m p any keeps Improv es It's free. tng Its service. j :jfcS ' " It ri V WA 11 m I I C VY I I ft. II 1 1 All mUDAUV I i wniwn wih iWru-s s 1 1 111 i : f DRIVE THE "V j a dull St. Patrick"! day in the an 8 to 3 lacing. bones were broken fThe luck of the Irish still held asf he and 75,- 000 others marched tip the great street to honor Saint Patrick once again. It was like that all day. At 7 a.m., it was snowing hard; at 1 p.m., as the van of the long march swung out from 44th street, the snow was gone and jthe sun was bright, though the wnd was bit ter. Up ahead Johh J. Splain, grand marshal, walked grandly under a tall silk hat.j Behind him for miles and miles walked the sons and daughters afid grandchil dren of Ireland. j - Shades of the snakes that the patron saint never drove from Erin! There was the Tlpperary Men's N & B association and the Monashan ' society Hh its la dies' auxiliary and the County Waterford men; the Cavan men, the Donegals, those fom Connty Lonrford, County pown; the Wexford men, Comity Mayo boys, the Derrj rnenl Clan-Na-Gael, Cumann Jfa JWban and ah, yes, the Irish-American as sociation of the department of sanitation of the city of New York. j That's not the half of- it. One out of every six cops In New York was on hand, some to! march, oth ers to pin back the cheering sham- rock-wearing well-w Ishers. Four hours were requiied for the marchers to pass Francis J. Spellman Archbishop fend other church dignitaries in Patrick's cathedral a front of St. ad city offi- cials at 64th street. PHILADELPHIA, Inarch 17- P) -Patrick J. Murphy vjas fined $50 Monday on a charges of distribu ting Irish sweepstakes tickets. Judge Guy K. Bard commented that he ordinarily wo Id have im tence, "but posed a heavier se this being St. Patrick day we can fenient." afford to be a little 1 Army Chdrges Teeth Dollge SALT LAKE CITY, March 17 -P)-Lieut. Col. Gorman B. Adkison, Idaho selective service executive, Monday said he was investigating: evidence that cer tain Salt Lake City dentists were pulling healthy teeth from potential draftees to make them physically ineligible- for the ar my. Most of the registrants sub mitting to this for,m of draft dodge, Adkison said, were from southeastern Idaho. "Understand." h added, "I do not make the charge against upright Salt Lake dentists. It is just one or two black sheep to be found in evety commun ity." Col. B. E. Grey, jchief of the Salt Lake army recruiting dis trict, said no such practice had yet been brought to his atten tion. Drunkenness (Jharged City police charged Floyd R. Rundle, 555 South 1 15th street. with drunkenness Monday night. Luck Runs m...i -ft - - m " , - ' I . X- I rv r - I - 1 ? y;T L, I -v.wfu s'7Jr . : JO d d i 1 1 o o . . in the Veto PORTLAND-(P)-Fumes from a broken bottle of oil of mustard overcame Either Troupe, employe of a pickle; factory, on a Portland street the dther night. Firemen jidonned gas masks to rescue her ifrom a truck in which she was hauling the gallon bot tle. She ffrst stopped, her eyes streaming tears, shortly after the firsf fumesJI arose but attempted to continued A few blocks farther and the fumes blinded her again. She stopped th4J truck near a fire sta tion, wher gas-masked firemen removed the broken bottle and neutralizedthe pungent compound with olive jil. Although) chemically unrelated to mustard) gas used in warfare, the oil of jinustard has a similar odor and irritating effect. TACOM4-4J-The busy main street through South Tacoma be came a mad mass of tooting horns and irate drivers recently when the truck of Frank Avers of Taco ma broke down and refused to be started again. While . traffic policemen bera ted him fop clogging traffic, Ay ers calmly iclimbed out of his cab, went to the rear of his truck, let down the end gates and led out two magnificent Percheron horses. Ij Hooking fjthe doubletree to the truck bumper, A y e r s climbed back into jiis cab, took the wheel in one haiid and the reins in the other, and proceeded down the street. BEAVER, Pa.-iP)-Judge Henry H. Wilson hearkening back to the days of his youth upheld a school teacher's right to give a pupil a "tahning." In doing so, he directed a ver dict of acquittal for Mrs. Zoola G. Vaughn, 50-year-old rural school teacher, Who was charged with assault and battery in whipping three students at the Bocktown school in Independence town ship, j; Declaring there was no evi dence of malice and that a teach er could, winder the law, use her own judgrhent in punishing stu dents, Judge Wilson said: "If everjy kid who got tanned went to court, the schools would hot amount, to much. We all went through this ourselves. When we get older we can look back on it with a gobd deal of amusement. Let's all just live it down and forget it." f jj ST. HELipNS-lIVDuck hunters probably don't care for farmer M. M. Lyons of Sauvies island which ! is only half the story. He doesn't care for duck hunters, and neither do his 15,000 turkeys. Lyons has offered Columbia county $450 for 120 acres of worthless flooded land. With the land in his possession, he ex plained, the land could be posted against shooting and that would be the last of shooting grounds in his territory. The trouble, he said, was that the gobblers and hens simply go to pieces witjl the first shot duck hunters fire in the vicinity of his fields. Soihe get the jitters and waste awayj. Others take it on the lam to back. the hills and don't come County Judge Ray Tarbell said the offer probably would be ac cepted LOS ANGELES-yP)-T o u g h but oh so gentle with an egg-beater is Depiity Sheriff Francis Patrick Shanley. For the; second straight year, the husky,; 6-foot Shanley was awarded grand sweepstakes prize in a cakejj baking contest spon sored by the East Los Angeles Tribune. Iis entry was a luscious layer cakeiJ The prizif an electric mixer. The vanquished 200 angry housewives The recijpe a closely guarded secret. NEWARK, NJ.HPr-A horse scared a horse the other day and Mulberry (Street had its first run away in many a year. A huckster's aging steed, ac customed to automobiles, bolted when a fellow equine appeared. He was jeaught, none the worse for wear, ij after racing through traffic. -. PORTLAND, March 17--A hot watery heater operated just a half-hour in Mrs. E. M. Mc Cawley's ; restaurant. Cost:" $130. 1 The proprietress remembered after 30 minutes that she hid the money injj the heater Sunday night. Currency worth $32 was destroyed, and the rest in silver was prettjj well melted-down. She hoped, however, that some of it out for German Liner Bremen C'-l- -u i;- s ffr'sy I Idle Pride of Nazis in Flames At Undisclosed Port, Report BERLIN, March 17-W-A big fire raged late Monday on board the 20,000,000 German liner Bremen, idle pride of Ger many's merchant fleet and one-time holder of the blue ribbon of the Atlantic. The whereabouts of the 51,731-ton liner were not disclosed in so many words and the cause of the flames was undetermined but a DNB, German official news agency, account of the fire was carried here under a Bremen f dateline. The liner completed a spectacular hide-and-seek dash across the Atlantic to a home port soon after the war began. Late Monday, ' authorities said, the fire was "big" and was "still continuing." They declined to give further details. The British Broadcasting cor poration hinted that the Bremen was the victim of a British air raid. The announcer said in a broadcast heard in New York by CBS: "It will be recalled that the RAF last Thursday night carried out a particularly heavy raid on the German docks and ship yards at Hamburg and Bremen." In the developing war at sea, meantime, informed Germans as serted Monday that two British "battleships" had been torpedoed by nazi planes off the Mediterran ean island of Crete. LONDON, March 17-(P)-The world's authority on shipping, Lloyds of London, declared Mon day that British, allied and neu tral maritime losses in the first 18 months of the war were one seventh greater than those of the first 30 months of the World war. Confirming with figures previ ous reports that Germany's de struction of shipping was running ahead of the World war pace, Lloyds and the Shipping Gazette said British, allied and neutral merchant tonnage sent to the bot tom was 4,962,257, over 600,000 tons greater than in the first two and a half years of the World war. On the other side, German, Ital ian and axis-controlled shipping losses were placed at 2,028,140 tons. The losses represented to the British, her allies and neutrals 1245 ships; to the axis 422 ships. Sprague Okelis Vets' Expense Gov. Charles A. Sprague Mon day signed a bill by Sen. H. C. Wheeler, Lane county, appropriat ing $10,000 for expenses of the 1942 national Disabled War Vet erans convention, provided it is held in Eueene, Other bills signed HB 266- -Re-sol- pealing all laws relating to diers' home at Roseburg. HB 388 Relating to sale of fertilizers. - HB 509 Relating to confirma tion or setting aside of sales of real property by executors or ad ministrators. HB 510 Relating to Citation in matter of guardian's sale of real property. HB 531 Appropriation for state treasurer. SB 199 Relating to size of ve hicles and loads upon highways. HB 451 Authorizing forestry board to accept federal funds for protection of forest lands. HB 525 Appropriation for state penal institutions. HB 530, by ways . and means committee Appropriation for state public welfare commission. Funeral Slated For Aged Woman Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ada Gibler, who died here Sun day at the age of 82 years, will be at 2 p.m. today from the Clough-Barrick chapel. Rev. W. Earl Cochran and Rev. Amo Q. Weniger will officiate. Burial will be in City View cemetery. Mrs. Gibler, born in Whiteside L county, Illinois, came to Oregon 63 years ago. Her husband was the late Christian A. Gibler. She had resided in Salem for the past 33 years, living with her daugh ter, Mrs. Addie Curtis, 245 East Myers : street, before going to the hospital. She had been ill for some time. Survivors ate Mrs. Curtis;" a sister, Mrs. Margaret Taylor of Rock Island, 111.; four grandchil dren and one great grandchild. Extortionist Convicted STOCKTON; Calif, March 17-(.ipy-Raymond Parker, ex-convict accused of writing extortion notes to the wealthy De Tristan family of HUlsborough, was ; convicted here Monday on charges of kid naping an Oakland taxicab driver and stealing his vehicle. He will -soo.:. . . - M Court Appoints Pro Tern Judge PORTLAND, March' 17 - yf) -Circuit Judge James P. Stapleton made use of a law passed by this year's legislature to appoint Wal ter L. Tooze, Portland attorney, as pro tempore judge. The law allows appointment of an additional judge for 90 days whenever dockets become clogged. Usual Curry 4S4 STATE STREET r -Klng-f or - NIne ii i ?mi kiwiuv zyy . W j ft ljC. Freezing compart- MwhI i .. .. 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I I S I 1 -Sleuu" I Economy 1 Wm u Northwest Record "Drought" Ends With Sudden Rain Squalls; All Oregon Forest Fires out Cold Wave in East and South Takes Toll of 68 Lives, Possibly More; Calm Freezing Weather Follows Gales By The Associated Press The Pacific northwest's record-breaking ' March ."drought" and its premature forest fire; threat ended together in a sudden rain squall late Monday. j The US weather bureau! at Seattle reported the ram was general throughout western Ore gon and Washington. It started in Seattle shortly after 5 p. and .16 of an inch fell in tiio hours. j The last precipitation in the re gion was on March I. Admonitions had been issued of possible early season water shortages. I Increasing humidity had im proved the forest and brush fire situation in the two states even before the rainfaU. Small craft storm warnings were hoisted by weather stations from Eureka, Calif., to Tatoosh island off the Washington coast. I Clouds blew in suddenly at Portland, accompanied by a pint sized windstorm which shattered a few windows and inflicted cuts oti three men. Rainfall was light, but the Portland weather bureau pre dicted general showers for Tues day. All Oregon fires were under control. - Torrents of frigid air gushed into the east and south Monday while the toll of deaths in the wide area raked by winter's end storms rose to 68. In Charge) , - Days" ;--' Contlnnous Throughout In the calm cold that followed the weekend gale, snow plows bucked hard-packed drifts in North ' Dakota and Minnesota as rescue parties strove to reach those still isolated. Hour by hour, the count of fatalities increased until it had reached a total of 60 for the two states. Most f the victims froze, of ficials said, but they expressed the belief that some suffocated when trapped by the choking mass of snow and dirt churned up by winds that were canted officially at ? miles an boor. But anxiety turned to elation on Michigan's upper peninsula when the Baraga county sheriffs office reported that nearly a score of fishermen who had been swept into Lake Superior' Sunday on broken ice floes were "safe and sound." Survivors Tell Story Five men reached shore late Sunday night. Seven men and a woman drifted to the beach near the Huron mountains Sunday and 6.3 Cm. Ft. Qold Seal (CdDLDDSIPdDTr OFFERED FOR THE LAST TIME AT THIS LOW PRICE Check.i the outstanding features Gjldspot . . . you'll find no offers you so much for your money! Scientifically planned with five zones. . . to give you the proper temperature for keeping ell types of food. Tested ) ond approved by Underwriters, by Good Housekeeping Institute ond by Sears' own Testing . 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Chi- " ease's one above was the lowest for the date in 41 years. Mod eration was forecast for the area tomorrow. " Snow pelted upstate New York and Pennsylvania, where windi scaled up to 45 mph. Gusts of gale force buffeted New York City in advance of an expected siege el ten above weather. Skies cleared during a parade of 75,000 Irish men there, but the legendary luck of the sons of the "ould sod" failed 25,000 others who were forced tc cancel a St. Patrick's day proces sion in Cleveland because of snow. South Is Invaded The chill invaded Maryland and Tennessee. A hard freeze was in prospect in northern Mississippi and Alabama . ' and sub-freezing conditions were forecast for Louisiana and northern Florida. ' Snow - squalls moved into New England. A six-inch fall disrupted auto traffic in the mountains cf West Virginia, Some highways were blocked In the northern reaches of Michigan's lower pe ninsula. offered in this ether refrigerator Protection Plan on - FllOXE S1SS 11 9 P. M.