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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1941)
Yugo Revolt Is Expected Tliree From Cabinet May Resign in Protest Over Prince Paul Act (Continued From Page 1) pel en i, the long-held Fascist de fense position in AlBania; had fallen.-, A The information of these Fas cist deserters however reliable it may turn out to be pictured Mussolini's troops as in. a state of collapse and disordered flight.' Nazi Spring at Greece Expected, at any Moment Combined with these tidings, the report that British troops had landed in Salonika in great num , bers appeared freighted with consequences. It was to this that ' the Germans reacted most vio lently, if untrue, said German diplomats in - the .Balkans, the spring at Greece from occupied Bulgaria might come at any time. An Associated Press corre spondent with the . British battle fleet in the Mediterranean wire lessed that long ,' British convoys were . entering A Grecian ports daily. Salonika, the Aegean port which would logically be a prime objective of a German Invasion, was not mentioned but not ex c&ded. ' i j The forces of Turkey, Brit ain's thus-far non-belligerent ally. . were understood to be ranged 100,000 strong along her frontier nearest to Bulgaria. On the, broader front, the seas, there was news that British and Axis sea forces had been at each other's throats again. I The London - Admiralty an nounced that British submarines, carrying on an bid campaign to cut the lines of reinforcement and communication from Italy overseas, had torpedoed five loaded Fascist, transports and sup ply ships. Two, of these were de clared sunk without question; an other to have been exploded by a torpedo, and one other "almost certainly" destroyed. Nothing Was said of the fifth, other than that it was hit. British Naval Planes Sink Italian Cruiser In a separate operation by Brit ish naval planes, an Italian war ship, either a cruiser or a big destroyer, was reported sunk in raids on the Albanian ports of Yalona and Durazzo. Others, Said the Admiralty, were hit The Germans reported the Sinking of 59,500 tons of British shipping from a single convoy locale not stated aside, incident ally, from a' claim that scouting planes had sent a 7,000-ton mer chantman to the bottom. The Berlin press joined in with scareheads " over an Axis rumor ' that the first shiploads of United States material to leave for Bxit , ain since passage of the American i lease-lend bill had been sunk by ! U-boats. There was no further information. British pilots reported new bombing raids on Cologne, the German U-boat base of Lorient, Trance, and Nazi airdromes scat tered about Belgium and The Netherlands. The damage, said the Air Ministry, was heavy. The day brought a stirring el concern la the east, for rumors went about la French Inde Chlna that the resUesa Japan ese were planning to dispatch 160, MS troops from Hainan Is land aero middle Indo-Chlna and thence Into Thailand, 'rhere was no official confirm auon, but , tne speculation was that the Japanese command might bo intending either to menace Malaya, the way to Singapore now defended. by reinforced Brit ish Imperial troops, or to cut the Burma road over which the Chin ese get much of their war sup plies. Oregon Firms Get Ship Jobs WASHINGTON, March 2(M- The Navy department has con tracted with two Oregon firms for eight 135-foot minesweepers, Sen. Holman (R-Ore.) said he learned Thursday. The. boats will cost about $2, 500,000. Four-wiH "be built by the As toria Marine Iron Works and the other Jf our -by;' the. Kruse and Banks ; company at North'Sendi i ; Span Bond Holders May et Court Aid 'iL " - SEATTLE, March 20-(yqp)-A possibility of holders of bonds on the collapsed Narrows bridge ap pealing directly to the courts for protection of their interests in any insurance settlement was reported Thursday night by the Post-Intelligencer. ' Un . r i CfctaM rwwBw : -gMMfaf SaOCKSS far S0OO Jr ta CHlif A. K Mttir with wka ilMt ran ra arn.ICTEI ata riert. aiaaaiiic. aaart. taac llvar. kldart MtsHk, gaa, aaiiaata. aleaca. aiaaatia. Irvar. ' ' aiaia aaaialalBta . CLirllaCiap Chinese Herb- Co Offlaf Haara Oa Taaa. U U 9 a , V U . iK .nu'ajM ; San. aa 0 .to !. Ulssn sL3m L w - - i iri W. Oornt St.. Htl. wt. r, Taken out ' a. v ' . - ..... Several old 155-millimeter runs, in storage in caster arsenals since t "Scott for training purposes. Above, a crew of trainees and regmlars g coi Scraping and rabbutg War News Briefs (Continued From. Pag 1) would have to be transported home In event of a break in re lations with this conn try. It was disclosed Thursday. German sources said th check -ap was "routine" and applied to other countries aa well aa the United States. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March (JP)-Trpedoes by air and by sea have ripped new holes in Italy's battle, transport and sup ply fleets, the admiralty an nounced Thursday night, with three vessels definitely sunk, two others placed in the "almost certain" category, and unde tailed additional damage wrought LONDON, March 20-;P)-RAF bombers struck at the Ger mans with fiery overnight raids oa Cologne, the nasi U-boat base at Lorient, France, and air dromes in Belgium and The Netherlands, the air ministry announced T'h a r s d a y, even while London was undergoing its heaviest aerial assault of 1941. Lost Pheasant Enjoys Short City Sojourn Perhaps It was spring open ing,: or, - mayhap. Just that he was dizsy with spring fever. At any rate, a Chinese pheas ant rooster, evidently young and anfamillar with city life, wandered downtown In Salem Thursday and ended up, tem ' porarily. In a coop. The bird, first seen swooping aloajr Chemeketa and High streets, made a running landing on State street and dodged under a parked automobile. Shooed out by Ray Rew, shine parlor employe, be scurried around the corner and along High street, ducked under a magazine stand and there met his captor. Rew said he intended to take the bird to the safety of Bush's pasture. Call Board ELSINORE Today Frederic March, Margaret Sulla van in "So Ends Our Night," plus "Here Comes Hap piness." Saturday "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with Carole Lombard and Rob ert Montgomery, plus "A Man Betrayed" with John Wayne, Frances Dee and Edward Ellis. Midnight show tonight GRAND Today "Tobacco Road" Saturday Virginia Gilmore, Wil liam Henry in "Jennie." Mar jorie Weaver, John Hubbard in "Murder Among Friends." CAPITOL Today Lloyd Nolan, Irene H'er v e jr in "Mr. Dynamite. . Ueorge trjsrien in, ruTJPe wus tlce " v- - - Saturday "The Mad Doctor" with Basil Rath bone, Ellen Drew and Barbara 'Vera Vague' Allen, plus Ellen Drew and Paul Lu kas in "The Monster and the GirL" Also chapter two of "The Sky Raiders." STATE Today Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, -Preston Foster in "Moon Over Burma." Robert Paige, Virginia Dale in "Dancing on a Dime." Saturday midnight Norma Shear er. Robert Taylor in "Escape." HOLLYWOOD Today Victor McLaglan In "Dia mond Frontier." Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, .Frances Langford in "Too Many Girls." ' ' i - LIBERTY:' r-;.: f : ' ' V Today - Tex' Ritter in "Arizona Frontier Robert Cummlngs. Helen.-Mack, in "I .Stand Ae-'cused."-.r v ; - - rw- j r j Hal, ga. AT last rrs ON THS SCmXKM 1 llMSffMo of Storage for Pri I ) flown are preparatory to a repaia. Shift of Japanese Current and Winds Iake Oijegon Warmer WASHINGtON, March ZJH-Warmer climate in recent years in western Oregon may! have been caused by northwest trade winds driving the Japanese current closer inshore, coast and geodetic survey officials Thursday told Senator McNary (R-Ore-gon). ! The official expressed the. opinion the northwest trade winds US Warship SI Paint Hit By Gaylda ROME, Marci 20-(P)-Coml menting on reports that United States warships are being painted darker than the ! traditional "bat tleship ! gray," iVirginio Gay da, fascist editor, inquired Thursday whether the action was Intended to provoke an incident with the axis. Observing that the new coldr would tend to jmake American vessels more ilosely resemble British warships Gayda wrote in 11 I . -an aj . a uie nome newspaper n uiornaie D'ltalia: i if "Is it the intention to create misunderstanding over American ships in order j to expose them more readily to attack by axis forces to provoke an incident from Roosevelt's policy which would draw a! provocation to which it would; be necessary to reply with a so-called defensive war?" j "Or is it the intention with Ie$s hypocrisy to send forth the Ame rican fleet deliberately for direct Intervention in the war beside British imperialism?" God Help Japan Says Britisher NEW YORK4 March 20-(Jff-Japan will not .wage war on the United States uiless forced to do so by Adolf fiitler. Sir Victor Sassoon, British1 banker and In dustrialist, said Thursday follow ing an extended tour of the Far East :? "If there is .to be a war be tween you and Japan," Sir Vic tor said, "It wifl be only because Hitler will hav forced that war onto Japan and fyou, and, if Japan is forced to fight the United States, then it (will be a case of God help Japan'." Sir Victor pointed out that Jap anese could do p useful work for the Axis "by flaerely developing a war of nerves and trying to at tract more troops, more airplanes and more naval vessels to the Pacific and thijs neutralize then- existence." Air Studied Proposed 1 For Primary Schools J NEW ! YORKj, March 20-P)i Robert i. Hinckley, assistant sec retary of commerce, proposed in an . address Thursday that edu cation in aeronautics be extended into every primary school in the United States n the interest di national defense and industrial development, f I He would prefer, he said, to see it done by civilian groups with out participation by the federal government j ; l Fire Destroys Circus MOBERLY, ijlo, March 20-fPfr Twenty six truicks and other pro! perty of the. imperial Shows, a carnival, and the Harris Lumber company buildings, winter quarV ters for the show, were destroyed Dy rare j unursaay. Damage . w a f estimated at. 100,000. ; , , Derethy I . . " Rabert LAMOUR ; ; PRESTON :'TTfUm FOSTER ; ;' j "... , - s "Moon Over Burma ;" j ' , " f. uim hit "Dancing on a Dime" Robert j Ylrgmia ,rAIG3 ' i a ' DALE ctice Purposes by US Troops he World war, have been brourht tvo this veteran piece a "rabdewa" t jon w im Uf Na-uatn. . have been more prevalent in the last few years but added they did not believe this would be a perm anent condition. They agreed, however, it would be wise to send an exploration and survey party to determine the exact situation adding they were collecting data from lightships and lighthouses along the Pacific northwest coast. Mayor Asks Reason McNary informed Gilbert E. Gable, mayor of Port Orford, Ore., of the officials assertion having asked their opinion at Gable's request. The mayor said warmer clim ate in western Oregon indicated the current had shifted inland. The Coast and Geodetic Survey officials said an exploration party would require more funds than now available. Army engineers notified Sen ator McNary (R-Ore.) Wed nesday It had investigated shoaling and silting In Depee Bay, Oregon, and found the shoaling was caused by soft materials in the bottom of the bay being washed into exca vation for the deepened see tkma. The communication added that silting from streams also con tributed to the filling in of the excavated portions. The engineers said reports of the district and division engineers now were being considered. Ask Willamette Stamp McNary forwarded to the Post office department Thursday a re quest from Bruce R. Baxter, of Willamette university that a spe cial postage stamp be issued to commemorate the 100th annivers ary of the institution. The Sen ator acted after conferring with Postoffico officials who showed an interest in the proposal and promised consideration of it The University is the oldest college in the far west Russ Engineers Escape Wreck PITTSBURGH, March 20-OT)-Forty four Russian engineers and 18 enlisted US soldiers were aboard the Pennsylvania railroad's Manhattan Limited which sped along the tracks near Baden, Pa., 18 minutes before another passen ger train was wrecked Sunday, railroad officials told the inter state commerce commission Thursday. The wreck blamed on sabo teurs by roalroad officials killed five persons and injured 114 oth ers. Veteran railroaders express ed belief a rail had been loosened arid shifted In an attempt to wreck the Limited but the effort foiled because of a lack of time. Indian Center Planned EMPIRE, March 20-V-RalDh Fredenburg, Salem, superinten dent of the Grande Ronde-SOetz Indian agency, said Thursday that a $9000 community center for the Coos Indian tribe would be con structed this year. ilAGLE. AAsVVJr'aoUU And Feature Mjiskat y.jLL Abo News, Oat 'Gang. Comedy Jt Chap. It of The Green Archer" TJ 4! 1 i- to Saa Francisco's Fort Wlnfleld ander the eye of a lieutenant fat i . En ne Ens . . Paul i Uauser Column (Continued from page 1) apparently show piece and had no scars. We thought we were about past the mayhem department when we spotted Roy Mink's collection of cartridges. They looked mighty lethal so we left. We moved ever to the glass ware department and, obeying the admonition not to lean on the glass, found that Mrs. Frank James gets a big boot out of little shoes. We mean she collects glass miniature foot wear, a la Cinderella, We stopped to look at Jo Anne Lang's collection of exotic dolls and thought for a minute that the sailor there was motivated by de fense. Learned different He had Empress of Japan on his breast We tripped lightly down the stairs, ending in the kiddies' room, where we doubtless be longed from the first While we were there we in spected Marilyn Hill's collec tion of badges. Shows her poll tics. There were 29-odd Willkle buttons and nary a Roosevelt. She's a Junior G-Man, too, strangely enough. There is a new organization in San Francisco for the preserva tion1 of the barber shop quartet Has a nice name, too. Call it "The Where Mary Anne McCarthy Dug Her Clams Chapter of the Soci ety for the Preservation and En couragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America." Logging Meet Is Scheduled LEWISTON, Idaho, March 20 (JPJThs lumbering ox of the skid road will bo permitted not even a bellow of protest when its succes sors, the massive logging machines of 1941, strut their power before the northwest lumbermen at the annual intermountain logging con ference April 4 and S. -E. C. Rettig, conference presi dent said Thursday more than 300 operators and equipment men from Montana, North Idaho, northeast Oregon and eastern Washington would attend, and that machinery and its uses would be the major topic Some of the equipment for the demonstrations is coming from as far as Cleveland, Ohio, Rettig said. To supplement the demon strations, motion pictures of big tractors and other machinery at work in the woods will be shown. . Charles P. Keim of Missoula, Mont.,' Is conference secretary. Officers and directors will be elected during the meeting. Bus Strike Ends NEW YORK, March 20-V- New York's striking bus drivers agreed. Thursday night to submit their demands to arbitration and will resume operations Saturday on two struck lines carrying 93 per cent of Manhattan's surface transportation. SALEM'S NEWEST THEATRE Tcday csd SaL ! plus znd nrr 15c Chap. , t Serial "WHITE EAGLE" mmmt 1 "m v w 1 US Officials Oppose Aid Stimson, Knox Assert Big Fund Measure in Right Form (Continued from page 1) ation,' the largest in United States peace-time history, was passed by the senate Thursday, while x on the house side of the capital in formed legislators reported that the navy was planning to build five 60,000 to 65,000-ton battle ships, biggest ywarcraft - ever, to sail the seas. ' . - The naval bill, carry ins funds to operate the navy establish ment In the next fiscal year and to proceed with the build ing of the two-ocean nary bow . goes back to the; house for ac tion on senate amendments. Included in the measure are: 1115,000,000 " for new ships. -Including six battle cruisers of 20.90t to 25,0a tons, and J350, 372,000 for airplanes. A senate-house 'conference re port on two bills authorizing a 1343,000,000 naval public works program waa approved by the senate,' and : the measures dis patched to the White House. In cluded in the authorization were $8,100,000 for enlarging the na val station at Samoa; $4,700,000 for fleet facilities at Guam, and $88,050,000 for developing bases being acquired from Great Brit ain. ' : ' ' The senate banking committee approved a bill authorizing the government to insure mortgages on $100,000,000 of housing for de fense workers. WASHINGTON, March 20- -Vice President Wallace, enter taining guests at a duck luncheon, missed his first chance to break a senate tie Thursday and there by enabled opposition senators to kill an administration plan to buy Argentine corned beef for the navy. The amendment, which would permit food purchases now for bidden, was calculated to enable the navy to obtain 2,000,000 pounds of low-priced Argentine canned beef and to help cement American - Argentine friendship. It was rejected by a vote of 32 to 32. Wallace declared ho had been very "upset" by the incident and added that he would have voted with the administration had he been on the floor. PORT EVERGLADES, Fla, March 20A3)-Presldent Roose velt vacationed Thursday night to find temporary escape from the weighty problems of his office, but he postponed until Friday a sea voyage aboard the White House yacht Potomac He boarded the Potomac at dusk, but officers kept her tied to Port Everglades docks because of threatening weather outside the harbor. With his fishing gear oiled and a half a dozen other devotees of the art of angling along, the presi dent was ready to sail at nightfall from this port on the lower Flor ida east coast Mr. Roosevelt expected to spend a week or II days com bining his two favorite forms of recreation fishing and erels lng. But where he Intended to go, perhaps among the Baha mas, perhaps late the Gulf of Mexico, remained a secret. Lights were set in place to glis ten at night from the gray-hulled Potomac, formerly a small coast guard cutter which now is com missioned in the, navy, and from the escort destroyer Benson spot- I I II I I af" V ii II Miimniai LAST : Fredrie March - Margaret Sullavan in TIMES SO ENDS OUR NIGHT" Plus 2nd Hit i TONITE "HERE COMES HAPPINESS") . - STARTS SATURDAY &riilt DAVMIIHII ut.it lum.iui.u rS a sap sj t - - I -: ill: lights were to pick-out American flags on both ships so there wouia Lbe no ipifftgVing) their identities. On the destroyer, ' gun crews were ready to establish a round-the-clock vigil, once the cruise gets under way. " . Men aboard were mindful of a British Up that a German sub marine was crossing the Atlan tic to operate along the Ameri can coast and! of the possibility- that armed vessels of bel ligerent - nationals " could be cruising en this side 'of the sea. : Had there been : any 1 thought thaf dangers might be encoun-. tered, however! White House of ficials ; said the chief executive would not have sailed. " ; A' 27-hqur train trip ;from Washington was mterrupted at Jacksonville, Fl, to let the presi dent inspect the southeastern na val air base," an aviation training station which, when It xeaches full operation, jarill turn out nearly 10,000 pilots and mechanics year ly for .the navy's . expanding air armada. - , I - Church Starts Celebration h Moi.Tlw3SOJg4WEle : Attend Banquet j If etc WiU End Siindar (Continued From Page 1) - i- , r . were modeled under the direction of Miss Beryl Holt Mrs." Donald Brazie told - the history of the dresses whilo Mrs. Lloyd-Lee ac companied on the piano, Entertainment was provided by the singing lof Helen Dean and Mark Waltz. George Kelley, ac companied by Mrs. Art Clemens, also sang. "' j - Included In the, morning ser vice, planned for " Sunday at 10:50, will lbe singing j of Gou nod's "San etna" by the cathedral choir with1 Dean Melvht H. Geist, director, taking- the tenor solo. Bishop Bruce K. Baxter will preach the centennial ser mon on "Holding the World To gether," after Governor Charles A. Sprague has delivered an address oni appreciation for the people of Oregon, j Prayer will be offered by Dr, Sydney W.I Hall, . superintendent of Cascade district, with Dr. J, Edgar Purdy, superintendent of Salem district, leading responsive scripture. Dr. J. C Harrison wiH preside at the service. While the dinner Thursday night was for Methodists, the antique and hobby Show, also held in the church and continued from 8 to 12 pjn., was open to the public. New Bombers Take teste - -. SEATTLE. ' March 20-UPHThe first of a series of six1 new giant Boeing clippers for Pan-American Airways took its first test flight Thursday, a two-hour cruise over Puget Sound. J The big! four-motored ship, can carry 13 crew members , and 74 passengers. With Increased horse power over the previous series of six now hi use on Pacific and At lantic ocean runs, the clipper could fly from New York to Lisbon nott stop with its 5400-galIon gasoline capacity. The ships now in use carry only 4200 gallons, j Asks Daylight Time PORTLAND, March 20-iA)-The Oregon congressional delegation was asked Thursday by the Fort land retail trade bureau to favor national daylight saving . if the issue should arise. ' I - 2 MAIN FEATURES G0F.1E11Y t oeJ v Festi Screen I I FEARLESS! Stalking his prey In a atrougbold j of eerrapUon . . . MTTOItltfor the wom i'X , an he loves! ;. Nazis, Italos Rap America Germans Say US Aid Ship Sunk t Posters in Rome Revile (Continued from page 1) " ever more - Irreparably In the " European eonfllct., "Let it be said here that fasces (fascist units) and therefore fascists no longer exist in the United States, Gayda added. . The posters said 'against the North American menace, all the "European continent has come to gether behind the axis and Is or ganizing its own economic and commercial life outside the Unit ed States, whose blindness wfli have to be atoned for in the fu ture. The evil dream of the syna gogue of Washington will col lapse just as ponle Carthage and Jewish Jerusalem collapsed ander the sword of Rome, Just as renegade England Is collaps lug under the hammerings ef the axis. ' ;' ' ;l ." A special number' of the maga- , ainr 1 Storia - (History) " enUUed , Secret America" meanwhile was :' devpted Jo ,rhat, Jt.. said were ;, American evils. ' , " 1 The copy was filled with pic tures of strike, lynchlngs, gang-. r sters, news of the "freak vade- i' ty, and other items and cartoons tending to show the United States as land of extravagance, law lessness, brutality and craziness. Four Oregon AAU Champs Keep Titles PORTLAND, Ore March 20-CP)-Four Oregon AAU champions successfully defended their box ing titles here Thursday night and qualified for the national cham pionship in Boston March 31, April ' 1 and 2. . '"':r ; ; - They were Tommy Moyer, Port- 1 land, Multnomah Athletic club 135-pounder; Pete Riley, Portland, Multnomah Athletic club 147 pounder; Danny Snipe, Chemawa 118-pounder; Walt J Sadde, Port land, Oregon Amateur 'Athletic club, 160-pounder. Moyer won by a decision over Bob McBrlde, Portland, substitut ing for Hal Petersen who broke a bone in his foot. Final round results were: " 112 pounds Melvin Sltser," OAAC, decisioned Dick Clevinger, OAAC , - . f , '' lt8 pounds Danny Snipe, Che- mawa, decisioned HarcJd Eastman, OA4C.- 116 pounds Mike sFkileyf. Che-" mawa, decisioned Dennis Quinn, Eugene Elks. -1 147 pounds Pete Riley, MAC, s technical KO over Martin Sched ler, MAC 160 pounds W alter Sabbe, OAAC, decisioned Ray Pliaka, Aero club. 173 pounds Lynn Eqing, MAC, won by. default from Carl lelsen, MAC - Heavyweight Glenn Prohaska, OAAC decisioned Bill Bettis, Aero club.. , -:.... , 1 End Tonlte -Set Seats 2e Lloyd Nolan Irene Harvey in MR. DYNASIITE Plus Geo. O'Brien in TRIPLE JUSTICE STARTS SATURDAY DOUDLS THRILLS! DOUDLE CHILLS! , Hs ! reatett ! UJ.l I tin " " corn cne:::r.r txizi Wo J 1 1 'v E !... 4 i i
