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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1941)
Scoop! , vr " Shown first In Salem, INN and AP photos en paces one and two of this, morn hit's Statesman rive graphic portrayal of key US actions in meeting repercussions of the European war In this country. ' Weather Mostly cloudy with scat tered light showers, and con tinued cool today - and Wednesday. - Max. temp. Sunday, 17, Mia. 19. South wind. Rain .05 inch. Hirer Lf feet. Cloudy. FOUNDQD 1651 inumr-nnsT . year Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, April 1, 1941 Price) 3d Newsstands 8e roops for Auttadk 6n alem to Uncle Jjm Acts Qi 5 ickly to Halt Sabotage of Ships Envoy .Beat SI r YlDlg(O0 MJ7 Nazi Buy IPor Land Field Council Agrees to Pay 11.597 for 'Airport Acreage. The Salem pity council, speed ing to clear the' way- for civil aeronautic? authority expansion of the municipal airport, voted Monday nigh to pay $11,597.10 for 89 acres of land adjoining the airport, approved contracts for removal of obstructions, but ran into obstructions, itself. ' Main obstruction which halted the council and may delay the air port program was a contract proffered by Chandler Brown, as agent for William Brown, to per mit the city to remove buildings on the Brown property adjoining the airport which are considered haz ards to aviation. The contract included so many stipulations that, alder men feared it might cost the city or CAA $30,000 or $40,000 to move the buildings. It was re ferred to the airport committee and the attorney for action. . The; second obstruction was a question of whether CAA, WPA or the city was to pay for removal of obstructions surrounding the air port Aldermen said that the original agreement with CAA pro vided that the city's only expenses would be purchase of land' needed for airport expansion, while En gineer J. R. Keeffe of the CAA said that he had never said that the CAA would pay for moving of buildings. . . The council got around the argument by inserting an amend ment ; specifying if paid . for by WPA" or CAA" in resolutions for payment for removal of obstruc- tions on property adjoining the airport ; Mayor W. W. Chadwick was given authority to execute an affidavit that the city has met the CAA requirements of hav lng title to the land needed and of holding permission to remove obstructions, but with the Brown matter up In the air it was doubtful when he could issue the document. Keeffe and other CAA officials who attended the special meeting, anxious to get all legal matters cleared up so that construction may start, said that they would stay over today in hope that the necessary action can be taken and papers started on their way to Washington. . .City, Attorney Lawrence N. Brown said he would meet with Chandler Brown today to negoti ate further on removal of the buildings, now occupied by a dairy farm. , Purchase of land was author ized with $15,000 transferred by resolution from the incinerator fund and the 1 budgeted fund for sewer maintenance. . 'Payments authorized were: ' To Roy ' and Maude Rae for : 32 acres $3800; to Chandler - Brown, representing , William Brown of Redlahds, Calif., for 42.7 acres $5337.50; to James R. ' and Fan-is S. Linn ' - for . 10.S acres $1907.50; to state of Oregon for 3.26 acres, $551.80. The t council -, also authorized payment Of $600 to Linn for cut ting trees tn his property and $100 to W. H. Clark for the same purpose. Licenses for removing trees alsb accepted from Gus Schlicker, Frank Shedeck, Nerval E. .Edwards, and Cecil Montgom ery, all of whom give the city the right in exchange for removal of debris; and cord wood from the : trees cut ;; The mayor and city - recorder were authorized to accept other easements and licenses needed for ' removal of obstructions. There (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Lilt Senator Here Again Traveling into Salem Monday, as is pictured by the little Roman rascal here adjoining, were many aspirants to Jobs with the Salem Senator baseball club which opens its training season at George EL Waters park today. - The "Little Sena tor" ber hanging on to his suitcase, a la the pros pective fence busters who arrived here over the weekend, is but one cf a series of the wee gents who daily throughout the baseball sea son depict the doings of the Solons In The Statesman. - (See pag 8 for detailed story.) ! -r iMi (J --..'-n--;,-., .-- , - ,y ,i i, i-LI' - Ov , " 7LI f f 1 1 ' i 1 i , p. - , 1 " Supreme Court Urn W.zur eme Blocks Suit WASHINGTON, March Zl-iJ?) The supreme court ruled Mon day that the government is not entitled to sue alleged rice-fixing combinations for triple dam ages under .. the Sherman anti trust law, as a private individual or corporation can. The 4-3 decision, blocking a justice department suit jo collect $1,053,474 from 17 tire pianufac turers accused of conspiring to fix "collusive prices" In; 1936 and 1937, assumed special importance (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Late Spoils , VANCOUVER, BC, March 31 (CP) - Spokane's Palm J. Vickers Scharfe line kept the Bombers in the running for the Pacific Coast hockey league title by de feating Vancouver Lions 4-1 here Monday ; night in the third game of the best-of-five final , series. Lions had taken .the first two games, both by scores of 2-1. i i LANCASTER, Pa., March 31 (jPtKe& Overlin, the (California and New York middleweight champion, preparing for his title bout with Billy Soosej in May, won a f 10-round decision over Harvey j Massey, of Brooklyn, in a non-title scrap here Monday night i GREENVILLE, SC, March 31--Paul Runyan of White Plains, NY, two times former PGA cham pion, was injured in an automo bile accident near ber Monday and bis physician said Monday night it was very doubtful that he could play in the masters golf tournament starting at Augtista, Ga, Thursday, . li i .. rnji -) - :'- PRINCETON, NJ", March 31-VPy-Vesn Christian Gauss, chair man of . the Princeton hmiversity council on athletics, said Monday the seventh, annual Princeton in vitation track meet hadibeen can celled because of the 1uncertaln- t-'mM n ft- . t I -r- . : I 'l l f : I f l 1 1 : - . f, j j ... j i iii ,mjiaiMM ii nil ii i rmnum(WimmmmmmtmmiimtmtmmiiiS&u ,i M,fmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjmmmmmm "Paul llauser't Column We have been1 thinking about today for a long time, but it isn't going to do us any good. We're never quite fast--enough on the first day off' April. - We are the guy who is al ways grabbing at those billfolds that are yanked out of reach when you stoop, We are the guy who for 25 years h'as never failed to eat flannel filled pancakes Paul H. Hanser. t. on the first day of April. We are the guy who bites on everything, including those delectable choco- lates filled red pepper. witH mucilage and We are always thinking that some day our time will come, that some day we will be able to get there first and pull an April food gag before t gets pulled on us. "ThereH comtra day," we al ways say, but up to now it's never come. WeVe going to get there first attempt soon or die in the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Last Calif or Income Wiling Penalty and interest will ac crue on state income taxes of persons and corporations ' who faU to file their 1941 returns be fore midnight tonight the state tax . commission advised Mon day. The commission office here will remain open until that hour. Tax officials j estimated 1941 'collections would exceed those for 1940 by 12 per cent ' Two Inmate Escape ' Two inmates of 1 the . Oregon Fairview , home, IDelbert , Down ing, 12, and Everett Ware, 1 5, were reported . escaped : by, home authorities Monday night, state police were Informed. The picture above and those on page two are the first published in Salem showing the crew of the Italian freighter Leme under the ar rest of US coast guards and enroute to Multnomah county Jail where they are held under federal charges of sabotage. (Left) is CC Boat swain's Mate W. W. Grue surveying the smashed gyro-compass of the Leme, seized in Portland late Saturday night The Statesman was the only big morning daily in Oregon to carry the story Sunday morning. Photos by International Illustrated News, this page. aree Bail5 Set on Italian Ship Crew Sabotage Charges Filed Against Men of Duce Freighter; Penalty Carries 20 Years, $10,000 Fine PORTLAND, March 31-W-Fifty two Italian officers and seamen appeared before the US commissioner here Monday on charges of sabotaging the 8059-ton motorship Leme. Preliminary hearing was set for April 10, with bail set at $10,000 for each of six officers ; and $7500 for crew members. The charges were drawn up by US Attorney Carl Donaugh under a 1917 statute which carries pen alties of 20 years in prison, $10,000 fines or both. Donaugh said the men had used sledge hammers on elec tric motors on the Italian ship, put emery dust in the engines and smashed navigation instru ments and control switches. The Leme was one of two ships seized by the coast guard in the Pacific northwest Saturday mid night The other was the Nord vest, of Danish registry, taken into possession at Aberdeen, Wash. Capt Giovannia Polonio of the Leme, who terms . seizure of the ship "an act of war," said the ves sel was "immobilized. She can no longer move." With the other 51 seamen taken off the Leme, he was held in the Multnomah coun ty jail, j Marshal Jack Summerville said he found five large cans of oil soaked rags placed strategically in the lower hold of the Leme. ! (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Boys9 School Head Selected M. D. Wooley, 36-year-old Portland man, was unanimously elected by the state board of con trol Monday - to succeed Sam LaughUn, resigned, as superin tendent of the state training school ; for boys, located near Woodburn. ; The ' new superintendent will take over his duties this morning. Laughlin said he would move today to his home at McMinn ville. : . '. i Wooley recently has K been district director of the division of employment for the WPA la the Portland area, lie served formerly as probation - officer of the court of domestic rela tions, Multnomah 'county, three years as director of the Port- ? land transient relief service and two years as superintendent of WPA construction-camps. He is past president of the Oregon ; Conference of , Social workers. ' The new superintendent is a graduate of Kansas State Teach- County now One District Marion county alone will com prise the third judicial district and Linn county will be merged with Benton as a new district on June 14 as the result of the signing by Gov. Charles A. Sprague Monday of two 1941 legislative acts. On that date, when all 1941 enactments not bearing the emergency clause go into effect, the new one-county district with Salem as its seat will come into existence and appointment by the governor of a second Judge to sit with Circuit Judge"L. IL McMahan will become due. The act authorizes the two judges both receiving $6000 a year, to preside jointly or sepa rately over all types of actions and to decide between themselves as to the distribution of cases. They will be elected by position in fu (Turn to Page 3 Column 8) M. D. WOOLEY -r;,r , f; : - ! V ' ' ; t l ii I i i i hi . i . i ii i r - inn n I I .Exodus i - Axis Protests Ship Seizures In Anierida , Embassies Act Quickly When US Takes Over 68 as Protection ' WASHINGTON, March 31-)-Germany and Italy protested to the United States Monday the gov ernment's action in taking axis ships .into "protective custody" on the grounds of sabotage. The embassies of the two axis powers acted quickly after the seizure of a total of 68 German, Italian and Danish vessels in sweeping weekend raids. The contents of the notes were not disclosed, but it was consid ered likely Germany's was couched in more violent lan guage than that of Italy. Although Denmark Is under oc cupation, diplomatic officials of that country were said to have no knowledge- of any plans for pro testing the simultaneous seizure of 35 Danish vessels along with those flying axis flags. The Italian note was delivered personally . by the ambassador, Prince Colonna, to Breckenridge Long, assistant secretary of state. Germany's was dispatched later by messenger to the state depart' ment It arrived after most offi cials had departed for the day and was left in the custody of a guard. A long conference of the sec retaries of state, war and navy was held at the state department late in the day, but whether it had any connection with the seizure of the ships was not made known. Following up its dramatic seiz ure of the vessels, the United States Monday issued formal war rants accusing the German and Italian crews of violating the im migration laws. The 100 Germans and 775 Italians were alleged to have overstayed the statutory limit of 60 days permitted alien seamen and were ordered held pending deportation proceedings, officials of the immigration service of the justice department said. No war rants were issued for the sailors of the Danish vessels. Meanwhile, responsible sources said that new legislation might be necessary before the United States could operate or otherwise benefit from the ships, which were taken (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) No Lights? No Excuse! John IL Ellis, Morks auto court, had a novel excuse for going faster than the law al lows. -When picked up by Salem police on South Commercial street shortly ' after midnight Monday . morning Ellis said he was hurrying to get out of town because he had NO lights on his ear. The policeman looked and, sure enough, there weren't Ellis pleaded guilty to reck less driving and paid a $25 fine in municipal court ers college and a former Univer sity of Oregon student He taught for three years in Kansas elemen tary schools and served for two years as a school principal In Portland he was athletic direc tor and assistant to the director at a newspaper organization for youths for. two years. Woolley Is married and has one child. - Members of the board declar ed their selection was made -- solely on the basis of all-around Qualifications for the position. They said Woolley was recom mended by many leaders In so . cial work throughout the state. Laughlin before . entering state service was for 25 years cashier and principal stockholders of the Yamhill State bank. In 1927 be accepted an appointment . from Gov. L L. Patterson as head of I the state Industrial accident com mission. He was appointedjsuper Intendent - of the training' school In October, 193L . . , 66l Tl) CkVn dline Croats Foil Stick With UrS Action -Flayed ; Late Details of British Victory in Mediterranean Show Italo Navy Terribly Crippled J - By The Associated Press Five German divisions of some 75,000 men were reported con centrated early Tuesday on the Hungarian-Yugoslav frontier to augment thousands of nazi troops stationed on the Bulgarian side of the country which apparently intends to fight rather than to submit to Germany's "new order." - Eight minutes before midnight the deadline set for the exodus of German nationals from Yugoslavia the German min ister boarded a train for Berlin. Presumably this was the fore runner of a German ultimatum to Yugoslavia to demobilize its army of 1,200,000 men. These swift developments coincided with British claims of War News Briefs CALLAO, Peru, March 31H?) The German motorships Muen chen and Hermonlhis departed unexpectedly Monday night. They had' refuged here since the "outbreak of war In Sep tember, 1939. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 31-($-Crews and officers of the German freighter Eisenbach and the Italian liner Fella were held incommunicado on arson charges : Monday night for - firing their axis? vessels in Puntarenas, Pa cific coast .port Officials said the vessels Were a total loss. CHUNGKING, March 21JP) The military crisis. for China Is over. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek told the eighth plenary ses sion of the central executive committee of Kuomintang. China's highest political body, In an .address made last week but released for publication only tonight WASHINGTON, March 31-P) Secretary of Agriculture Wick hard indicated Monday, night shipments of food to Britain un der the lease-lend bill may total $300,600,000 to $500,000,000 within the next 15 months. ANKARA, Turkey, March 31 (vT") Turkey soon will call up youths in military classes- of 1924, 1925 and 192S in unspeci fied districts for training, it was learned unofficially Monday night LONDON, April l-( Tuesday) . -y7 The government reported today considerable damage re sulted from a sharp German bombing raid on a northeast coast town during the night BERLIN, April 1 (Tuesday) (-German airmen operating over Britain during the night ef fectively bombed objectives in southern and central England, preliminary German reports -f said today. ATHENS, March 31-)-Fast-moving developments in the Balkans brought Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, and (Turn to Page 3, CoL 4) Belle Passi School Burns WOODBURN Fire, believed to have started from a defective fur nace,: burned to the ' ground the 30-year-old Belle Pass! school, on the highway about a mile south of Woodburn, at 11:30 Monday morning. Miss Mamie Vincent, who teaches, th.eL.23 children attending there, first noticed the smoke coming through the floor and aft er dismissing, the students called for; assistance. Both the Wood- burn.: and Hubbard fire depart ments responded. " The pupils will continue . their studies at Woodburn. for the re mainder of the year. Tells Communist Aims ' SAN FRANCISCO, March 31- (3-Benjamin Gitlowy twice com munist party candidate for pre sident of the United States, de clared Monday that . , weakening the military strength of this coun try was a party aim in testimony at the deportation trial of Harry Ren ton Bridges, west coast mari time labor leader. . , : ' Axis, SerBs; having destroyed five and possibly eignt lascist warships ' in . the epic Friday night battle in the . Mediterranean west of Crete. A rescued Italian captain was quoted by the British as saying the Vit torio Veneto, 35,000-ton Italian battleship was so badly damaged that she probably never reached her home port Some 3900 Italian officers and men were believed to have lost their lives. Croats Decide U Stand With Serbs Against Axis The reported concentration of German troops opposite ' Croatia coincided with word that Yugosla via's big cro-jt element had de cided to stand united with the Serbian leaders who overthrew the .government which only last Tuesday had signed the tri-partite pact. In Berlin the Germans still talked the language of diplo macy, but manifestly throorh gritted teeth, Using the. line that the time had not come yet to enforce with tanks and cannon the southeastern new order they have sworn to create. iMevertneless, even In Berlin -there was every indication that the nrirri vf imo-serw . BUDAPEST, April l.-(Tues-day)-iip)-The Hungarian tele graph agency said today in a dispatch from Berlin that the Wilhelmstrasse had received a note from Belgrade explaining the Yugoslav foreign policy but that the note did not mention the three-power pact into which the since deposed regency gov ernment signed that kingdom. fast running out The German press thundered against alleged maltreatment of nazis in Yugo slavia, and it was observed pointedly that there were 600,000 "volksdeutsche" in Yugoslavia people of German birth all this an - echo of Czechoslovakia and Poland. German commentators in effect disputed the opinion widely held elsewhere that a nazi attack on Yugoslavia would bring the same thing for Greece, asking the world to note that "German citizens-in Greece (unlike those la Yugoslavia) have not been advis ed to come home. .... Greatest Sea Battle Costs Italians Plenty ' The Italian fleet's defeat by the British in the Mediterranean a two-hour action on the night of March 28 and the greatest of th war was acknowledged in Rom to have - cost Mussolini three cruisers and two destroyers, and thus the official British account was substantially confirmed ex cept that the Italians claimed to have destroyed one British cruiser and to have damaged two other British warships. - In sum, it appeared to Brit-, ish observers that the strongest aid which the Italians couli . (Turn to Page 3, Column 2) Notice! Salem MDs, Druggists WASHINGTON, March 31-V -Walter G. Campbell, food anl drug commissioner, appealing il physicians to watch for eon-' tamlnated solfatMazole HtUt, said Monday that tacomr'ti s re ports showed five deal: i ti 1 occurred in cases in which. Ls said the tablets were used. The lot numbers of the drcrs which the administration seel: 3 to recover are MP 029, IIP 11", and MP 163.