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Order Now! j Place your order now for extra copies of the big 90th anniversary edition of The Statesman, oft the press Sunday, lit will teU the story of progress In the Willamette valley. Weather Cloudy with local show X ' ' ers and cooler Saturday and Sunday. Max. temp. Friday, 71; Mln. St. Wind, north. River, -1.C ft. ... 0- W VV NINETY-FIRST YEAR Price 3d Newsstands 5c TED SI AT III II 1 uk . I' II M I tlll ll ll II I I I 1 . . . -h filmKI 1 , . , . J- I If-- I II- I I II II 7 II X-H ly . If III s II VXeT' .-I VJ 1, I I II vK. ! II II II II II A N M M i '"'r'- : 1'. POUNDDD 1651 ' f j Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning, March 29. 1941 " Nazis a Li : trh ; 1 . - ' . ' i . , fc , . Workers 1 hC -Pii U U s J To Jobs First Group of Strikes Given Board Ends By The Associated Press One of the group of strikes turned over to , the defense rneaiaiion ; ooara ior settlement was lifted; out of its hands last night (Friday) when a CIO com mittee arid the management reached art agreement ending the five week's stoppage at the Uni versal Cyclops Steel Corp., Bridgeville; Pa. CIO workers also ended their strike at one Bethlehem Steel company plant, but walked out at another. A meeting of a CIO union at Hoboken voted to empower Its executive committee to call a strike of 1,500 workers in the shipyard of the Bethlehem com pany there. But a' simultaneous meeting of another CIO union at Brooklyn named a negotiating committee to meet Monday with spokesmen for the Bethlehem management at two Bethlehim company yards there. Spokesmen for the Hoboken union said, however, that "we . shall use every means offered by federal conciliators to seek a settlement before a strike call is Issued. The dispute involving both the Hoboken and Brook lyn unions involved demands for a contract. The mediation board moved swiftly to try, to adjust the other disputes referred r to It, while in congress, reports circulated that the administration might seek sweeping new powers to deal with defense production stop pages. As a first step, the board or dered hearings in Washington to day on strikes at the Vanadium corporation, Bridgeville, Pa., and the CorneH-Dubilier company, South Plainfield, N. J., a hear arnr rm ctt-itea in frair nlant nt the International Harvester com pany was called for Monday. The board also asked that work be resumed at all plants while its mediation efforts were "under way. International Harvester im mediately announced that it would open its closed plants. ; More than 20.000 workers are employed In its four Illinois : and Indiana plants where the " CIO farm equipment workers organizing committee has called i (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Paul Hattser'$ Column I We have from one of our scouts, who Is often in a position to get things on the level, a tale about m young lady LojRr"r """1 ine empiojr one of our larg-;" er utilities who ; recently at--A tempted to make? igags V with the i Salem Brewery; association. . -u It seems that: the brewery naa let, by one of those slips that happen in the i . i i Desx resiuatcu M R H4wn breweries, its bill run over the ? tenth of the month beyond which, as .you are warned on your notice, the Utility begins ; losing patience.' . i It was the duty of the young lady of the utility to remind err " tog clients of their ; delinquency and drop gently the hint that a check would be appreciated. - So she called up the brew ery and. In -playful mood and ' Ms ... wm . . . . ma... mi ...... k -1 II M las.. three bottles of beer and that . bill yon forgot, Apologetically, a voice on the other - end said something about - the calendar slipping by so fast they, hadn't realized the tenth had come and that it would be taken care of pronto. , ; It A was pretty pronto, too. Five minutes later up before the of fices of the utility rolled brew ery! truck. Out hopped a brewery truck driver and stalked in to the : offices; He halted before the desk of our young lady. Gravely h deposited a check to cover the bill, and three frosty bottles-of beer. , - : i -Then he left, leaving the young jicty gasping and frantically try- t (Turn to Page S, CoL 7) Governor j Presets i Pen ... t i Several legislators, state officials and groups of traffic safety officers of several Oregon municipalities watched Governor Charles A. Sprague Friday affix his signature to the new speed law bill at the . capitoL After signing the measure the governor! gave the pen to Sen. Dorothy MeCulloug h Lee, author of the bill, Ss pictured above. Watching the brief ceremony! are (right) Earl CaippbelL director of traffic safety In Portland; Sen. Douglas McKay of Salem and Rep. Harvey Wells, Portland. Statesman photo. SEE jSTORY, PAGE 2- Sprague Jffolds Wine Bill in Abeyance i Governor Hear Pros and Cjons at Public Hearing Says Can Spe Both Sides; Decision Soon j . Gov. Charles A: Sprague listening to berry; growers advocat ing his signing of the Jones wine bill, and to Women's Christian Temperance union' tnembers arguing for itsfvetoj at a hearing at the capitol Friday afternoon,! remarked that he saw ground for i Farm Work Aid Asked Extension of Priorities to Harvest Workers Isj Sought in US, State j National defense priorities should be extended to agricultur al labor to prevent a shortage of harvest workers, the agricultural committee of the Oregon st4te employment service advisclry council urged in a resolution adopted here Friday for presen tation to national and state offi cials. ; The committee also asked tfcjat CCC workers and those enrolled for rural training in vocational schools be called upon in season al harvest emergencies. j The resolution requests the national defense commission to "place the activities of harvest ing of crops in the same catei 'gory as the labor requirements in" Industry so that during emergency periods workers will not be diverted from harvesting to certain defense projects." j Copies of the resolutions were signed by E. C. Ziegler of die Hood River Apple Growers asso ciation, chairman of the commit tee; William Bowes, Portland, and (Turn to Page 2, Col. ) New Duty Ordered WASHINGTON, March 2&-VP) Rear i Admiral James O. Ri4h- ardson, recent commander chief f the fleet, has been dered to duty as a member the rxavys general board. in Gr ot Amiivcrsai Should Be Ordered TODAY ' ; I - : - '- ; f . 4Why should we ordeif our extra copies 6t The States man's ninetieth aniversary edition Today? Why not just let us drop into the office ( sometime next week and pick them DP t7 the many persons ho hare asked these questions in the past few days and to others who haven't put them into rnn!a hut Rtill feel curious about the reason! for reserving copies now. The Statesman s sir- eulatlo department makes answer: J Certainly, more copies .will j be printed than are sold in advance of publics tlon, but no - promises are made aa to how many more. The very person most anxlotui to send extra copies to ether parts of the country may -be the first one told "Sold out! Te print large quantities of unsold papers re quires ! extra storage space' that A-: - 4 DOtn contentions, tnen aeciarea that he would Announce his de cision within a few days. "I do realize 'the berry grow ers' problem," f the governor commented, concerning argu ments that if the Jones bill be came law, it would open up a much-needed market for Ore gon berries in the wine trade. "I concede that there would be a marked increase in the sale of berries if light wine sales over the bar wjpre allowed." The governorf aided that he felt it his responsibility to con sider the bill from the standpoint of "the welfare bf the people of Oregon as a whole." He pointed out that one 6t his campaign promises was Knox law." I to "sustain the Rep. II. R. "Farmer" Jones, au thor of the bil, which would authorize the state liquor commis sion to license .leverage dispens ers to sell natural wines of less than 14 per cent alcohol by vol ume for "on premise consump tion," declared the measure (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Mexico pkelis Carol Visit MEXICO CITY, March 2S-(JP) Applications from former King Carol of Rumania' and Madame Magda Lupescu fto enter Mexico have been apprpved, the immi gration department said Friday. Carol and Madame Lupescu probably would leave Lisbon for the United States, the department said, and then Come to Mexico. It was not knotfm whether they planned to remain in Mexico or continue on to Central and South America. ! newspaper" plants do not have. Festal regulations are such that extra , copies mailed, from , The Statesman office the day of pub lication can be handled . with greater facility tbkn those mailed several days later f"'-; . Every subscriber to The States man will receive lone copy ef the birthday edition e be published Sunday. Others may be secured through, The Statesman's circula tion department, f FDR Back For Radio AM ress Senate Approves Huge Fund for Agriculture PORT EVERGLADES, Fla., March 8-00 -President Roose velt returned to this south Florida port shortly before mid night Friday night after , a week's cruise off the Florida coast in 1 tfee White House 'yacht Potomac The Potomac's escort destroyer, the Benson, followed the presi dental yacht into port about 40 minutes later. Indications were that the presi dent woild make his Jackson Day radio broadcast frpm the ward room of the vessel Saturday night. WASHINGTON, March 28-OF) -President Roosevelt, it was an nounced Friday nighty had sent the following telegram to King Peter II of Yugoslavia: "At this moment, when your majesty ; has assumed the full exercise of your royal rights and powers, and the leader ship of a brave - and independ ent people, I wish to share with the people of the United States, in the expression of our sin cere and genuine wishes for the health and well being ef your majesty and for the free dom and independence of Yu ' goslavia. "Furthermore I extend the hope that the relations between your government and the gov ernment : of the United States may be mutually beneficial in the support of those principles of liberty and tolerance cher ished by the Yugoslav' and Am erican peoples." NEW YORK, March 28-(;p)-An all-network broadcast to the more than 525 stations making up the NBC, CBS and MBS chains will carry the Jackson Day address of President ! Roosevelt, to originate Saturday night from the yacht Potomac. Time on the air is an nounced as 6:30 to 6:45 (PST) short waye transmission will be included. WASHINGTON, March 28-(&)-Acting with the same speed used on defense billions, the senate appropriations committee Friday (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Jackson Day Dinners Set WASHINGTON, March 28-P -With a radio speech by Presi dent Roosevelt the principal item of the program, democrats in doz ens of cities will gather Satur day night; for their annual Jack son day dinner and party jubila tion. But this time the observance will be unique in that here in Washington there will be no $100-per-plate dinner attended by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt. The dinner here was uncere moniously' called off when it was found that Mr. Roosevelt's ab sence was seriously affecting the last minute sale of the $100 tick ets. The party members had bar gained on seeing as well as hear ing the president, and that was that But in other places, where the prices run from $50 to $10 or less, and:! the tickets : had been sold to democrats who expected to hear the president only, the dinners will go on. A corps of democratic orators is en route to principal cities to fill out the program. Lumber Shows Week's Gain WASHINGTON, March -The National Lumber Manufac turers association reported Friday that, lumber production for 1 the week ended March. 22 stood at 133 per cent of the average of the corresponding week 1935-39 and shipments 131 per cent. . I Production totaled 246,598,000 feet,- which was one per cent greater than the 'corresponding week a year ago. j: Shipments aggregate 266,852, 000 feet, which was five per cent greater than the previous week, and 16 per cent greater than last year's corresoonding week. Show Qo Through WiimM US Fleet Move 4 -J - Seen as Block To Japan Aims American Ships May Be Kept in South Seas as "Moral Influence' WASHINGTON, March 28-(P)-A cryptic statement by the United States navy stirred speculation Friday night that American warships might be kept indefinitely in the south Pa cific for the sake of their moral influence on Japan. As a formidable squadron of seven fighting ships sailed away from Brisbane, Australia, Admir al Harold R, Stark, chief of oper ations, issued a statement that he had "no comment" as to its fu ture destination. The navy said the statement was occasioned by inquiries. The stay of the contingent of two heavy cruisers and five de stroyers, commanded by Rear Admiral John II. Newton, al ready had been extended a week beyond the three-day vis it the navy had said was con templated. Meanwhile the movements of a smaller force which visited New (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Human Bones At, Fort Lewis Under Probe FORT LEWIS, Wash., March 28-WP)-A human skelton found under weird circumstances by 41st division troops undergoing night warfare training near Rainier brought both military and civilion developments Friday night. Fort Lewis s officers admitted the army was investigating the case. " Coincidentally, Thurston county officials " announced at Olympia that the body was being sent to the University of Ore gon medical school at Portland for examination. "If It is the body of a wom an," one high-ranking officer said, "we think we are on the trail of something big. She dis appeared about four years ago In that area. She was of suf ficient prominence to require a complete investigation of the case now." - The officer declined to elabor ate. OV Sol Hits Hard Friday OV Sol came out in i'l his glory again Friday afternoon after hiding behind an overcast most of the morning. Although It got hot, the mercury failed to reach the 11-year high for March marked up Thursday at 7 degrees, falling short by S points. Possibility of a resumption ef the heat wave today was fore- . east by the US weather bureau despite a slight rain which fell last night. Late Sports CORVALLXS, Ore., March 29 -j!p-Southpaw Glenn Elliott, mainstay of the Oregon State mound staff, flashed mid-season form Friday aa the Bea vers turned back Unfield col lege, t to 2, in a iuseball game. Elliott allowed only three hits and struck act 15 batten. VANCOUVER, BC, March 28 (CP) Vancouver Lions moved closer to the Pacific Coast hockey league crown here - Friday night by handing Spokane Bombers their second. consecutive 2-1 de feat in a best-of-five final series for the trophy, lions defeated the Bombers by the same score hi the opening game here Monday night. NEW YORK, March 28 - (P) -Mike ' Belloiser former - feather weight boxing champion, wa re jected by the army Friday, when he failed to pass his medical ex amination. ' ; r; - 'rt n' -' - n i Qermans May Use Propaganda To Promote Racial Rifts as : Groat Vice-Premier Confers Strong Man Gen. Dusai Slmovic (above), chief of the Yugoslavian air corps, di rected , the Belgrade coup, took over as premier and formed a new Yugoslav government af ter King Peter II, 17 -year-old monarch, took the throne. British Say 70,000 Die Report Heavy Blows on German, Italians as Casualties Admitted LONDON, March 28-(-Brit-ish air and sea forces reported heavy blows to German arsenals and Italian supply lines Friday night while on the home front Great Britain acknowledged civil ian casualties of nearly 70,000 since the war started. The RAF blasted the great Rhineland industrial centers of Cologne and Dusseldorf and the German-held French "invasion ports' of Dunkerque, Brest and Calais, the air ministry an nounced. in the Mediterranean, the ad miralty said, the submarine Parthian torpedoed a 6000-ton supply or troop ship and a 10,-000-ton tanker in an Italian con voy off southern Italy. With only a brief daylight (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Noted Briton Dies LONDON, , March 28-f-Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wil berforce, 77, a great grandson of the emancipator, William Wil berforce, died Friday. Radio Stations Statesman Gives Station KSLM KGW . KEX ... KOIN . KALE KOAC Be rinlng at 12:01 this morning, (S A. M. here on the coast) ninety per, cent ef all US bread east stations will have a new spot en the diaL " ' ." It will be radio "Movin Day" for 802 out of 893 standard broad casters and f or the, owners of 50 million radio sets, all ever Amer ica. This win be a major Improve ment in broadcasting and will tend to eliminate many eases of Interference now Bothering many . stations.' e;:y- - .. This re-allocation of channels naa net been born overnight. It required- over three years of planning and dellberatios by the f i rv, . - f i orce British, Americans Cheered By Belligerent Belgradians Shouting Loud iYo" to Hitler NEW YORK. March 28-;P)-The British radio Friday night quoted a Belgrade, Yugoslavia, report as - saying that the German minister to Yugoslavia. Viktor von Ileeren, had been recalled by Germany after he had had an audience with the new Yugoslav premier. Gen eral Dusan Simovie. The British radio was heard here by NBC. -. By The Associated Press ; The Yugoslavs cast aside Friday their three-day-old agree ment to line up with the axis, and Germany" did not seem ready to fight -immediately at least to make the Balkan kingdom go through with the allience. The nazis this was the expressed opinion of informed per sons in Belgrade had another plan; (to use a fifth column racial War News Briefs SAIGON, French Indo-China, March 2HSatnrdayHj ' Widespread reports here today said the Japanese were pre paring to use northern Thailand : (Siamese) air bases for their bombings of the Burma supply .road leading into China. Siam air fields are only about 200 miles from the road. The. Trench ofndo-Chkm' ports - m -Tonkin province Which the ,- Japanese - now use are twice that distant. BERLIN. March 28-(Saturday) -Old differences : between Croats and Serbs were being watched intently by Germans today as Yugoslavia's new gov ernment tried to decide whether it Is in or out of the tri-partite pact. (German version.) ISTANBUL, March 29 ( Saturday )-;p)-An Oil storage depot located , outside Istanbul was reported oh fire early today. The fire's cause and its extent were not immediately known. ; ANKARA, Turkey, March 28 F Germany is sending an ad ditional 200,000 troops into Bul- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Four, Held n TOKYO, March 29-(Saturday) -P-US Consul General O Gay lord Marsh, stationed at Keijo, Korea,' was reported today mak ing every effort .to aid four Amer ican missionaries arrested by the Japanese on . charges of plotting a campaign in Korea against Ja pan's war in China. Marsh at first was reported among those arrested but he nev er was detained in the roundup. ' A Dr. Clark and eight women missionaries were seized by au thorities but were' released after questioning, it was reported in Tokyo. Those still , held were reported to be Dr. D. S. Lowe, Miss Alice Butts, Herbert P. Blairan and Otto De Camp. Shift Today; New Dials'9 Old Kc :i360 620 . 1160 - 940 - 1300 550 New Allocation 1390 i 620 1190 970 1330 550 no change gevtrnmen ts"of the United States, Canada, Mexico. Cuba and Haiti to make it effective. It wOI bring better over-all program re ception throughout the entire na tion. f " s !".; For the convenience of iis read ers The Oregon Statesman gives a table showing whera stations list ed in its published programs will be found, above., ".-- Keep this list for reference un til yen become . familiar with the new locations. Many owners of push-button sets v wCl 'possibly have to call a reliable radio serv ice man for adjustments. - - - t Byjapa Nation hate - to bring disunion and . thus to destroy the country's new. po litical front for independent "neu trality; ' ! : ; Among Yugoslavia's peoples, the Croats are historically . the more nearly pro-German, and. it was to these that the Germans ad dressed themselves in propaganda designed to underline the ' old Croat differences with the Serbs. Decision of Vice-Premier-" - Seen as Utmost Importance ; Vladmir Macek, vice-prenfier and leader of the Croat peasants, went to the- Creation provincial capitol of Zagreb to discuss with his followers . whether he should remain . in the new anti-German cabinet,' and the decision he will make appeared of the utmost im portance. - ! - This apparent nazi disinclination to risk the dangerous imponder ables of opening up a major Bal kan front,-and the action of the United S t a t e s government in strongly encouraging the Yugosla vians to stand pat, summed up the day's principal; developments in connection with the loudest "No!" bellowed by a small nation at Hit ler in a long time. ' Yugoslavia, which had more than a million men ready to do battle if the Germans should spring upon the country, had gone discreetly but defiantly about the business of refusing any German alliance. The newt administration of Premier General Dusan Simo vie, supported by a happily bel ligerent Belgrade population 1 which showered affection upon the resident British and Ameri cans, avoided an outright de nunciation of the pact but told Berlin nevertheless that it would not be ratified. Such a ratification, said1 Bel grade, would be against the will of the Yugoslav people generally as expressed only Thursday by the military coup which put Simovie in the saddle and overthrew, those who had capitulated to Germany. The Germans prepared to re move their non-essential nationals from Yugoslavia. But, aside from protesting the beatings of such ha tionals and demanding a written, specific answer as to the country's attitude on the axis pact; they showed a reserve which was ex traordinary for them tinder such conditions although " not failing to prepare the German people for the apparently still distant possi bility of a blow with the fist at Yugoslavia. , . : . Nasi sources In Berlin, appar (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Generals Appointed ; To- Armored Divisions WASHINGTON, March 23-JP)-Appointment of two brigadier generals, Alvan C Gfllem,'jr andl Henry, W. Baird, to command two new armored divisions of the ar my was announced Friday by the war department. . , 'General Gillem, now on duty with the Second armored division at Fort Benning, Ga, ..will cora; mand the Third armored division ' to be organized at Camp Polk, LaV and General Baird now on duty with the First armored di vision at Fort Knox, llyH will command the Fourth armored di vision to be organized at Fine Camo. NY. . .-r .