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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1941)
- ' " : :: - , - i Editorial: Weather - Local showers today and "Thursday; partly overcast xnursaay; local frosts Thursday night. Max. temp. Tuesday 3, Kin. 49. West wind. Rain .24 Inch. Rlyer -Lf feet. Cloudy. am: .Editorially speaking The Statesman's perio named comment on pace four this morning details the "jinx" in Japanese Foreign Minis ter . Tosnke Blatsuoka's re , rent sojourn in the lap of the axis: , - V W v vv- POUNDQD 1651 NTNETY-FIRST YEAH Salem. Oreejon, Vedneday Morning, April 2. 1941 Price 3c Newsstand 5c 17a. 5 mm n nirn : w mr-. k y 2 Oj 9 s 'F SITU II II ill! " ,-, - - - - . ' : f AMi TED Slavs Mush to Western Americas' Solidarity Slio wn In Ship Seizures South Ainericaa Nations Follow US Lead in Taking Sabotaged Vessels; Yugos Still Defy Angry Germans By The Associated Press Thousands of Slavs answered the call to the colors in Yugo slavia today (Wednesday) as the axis stepped up its press and radio campaign against the kingdom. j In. the western hemisphere ports nine axis merchantmen totaling 44,468 tons were burned or scuttle! by their crews while 19 others aggregating 88,432 tons governments to forestall sabotage.: The 24-hour toll stood at 11 ships "destroyed, 16 seized. Mexican naval detachments closed in to seize 12 axis ships refuged at Vera Cruz and Tampi co, but the crew aboard the 2005 ton Italian tanker Atlas sank the Ship by opening the seacocks. . As the seizures increased an Ar gentine spokesman said that gov ernment might take similar steps to prevent sabotage. This demonstration of western hemisphere solidarity stood at the forefront of the international developments of a day which saw an apparent slight accelera tion of the slow approach of war In the Balkans and the begin ning of the end of the victorious v tii . i l a si srvi-i l w n mm i st-kb an mrira. The torch was put to three Ital ian tankers and a German cargo passenger ship in Puerto Cabello, " Venezuela, and at Callao, Peru, to a pair of nazi vessels which earlier jhad been prevented from escap ing. A fourth German freighter j . 'ill V. . ':-- - . fit. was KUitwa in rails, jrercu a uur German steamship was set afire in the late afternoon at Guayaquil, Ecuador. - Peru doubly showed her inten : tion to go along with Washington, IV! tlCl VA UVy4 J V fcV- 1UVU. ties of the German commercial lirline Lufthansa in Lima. Mexico likewise said it with deeds: A Ger sian and an Italian ship were seiz ed in Vera Cruz and the Mexican aw arranewl tn Hanril 10 nthpr resseli 'in Tampico in the same ivay. Cuba, by her seizure in Hava na harbor of an Italian ship, already had joined the parade; ' so, too, Costa Rica, which took under consideration the seizure ""of nazi funds to compensate for the scuttling Monday of two axis ships In Punta Arenas. - German and Italian irritation at mrhat the United States alone had , gone was reflected in the disci os- ire that both countries had served lemands upon Washington for the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Salem Sends Five to Army Five more Salem young men de parted "from the armory by special stage Tuesday to swell the na tion's fast growing army. V ' The five, replacements for men rejected in the third and fourth draft calls, were John Francis Wilson, Gordon Herndon" Randall, Ernest Solomon Park, Daniel Reed Lusk and Frank Herbert Al ley. - Sheriff Rescues Woman Prisoner HIIXSBORO, April l-W-A 72-year-old woman who had been imprisoned in an attic for years was found Monday in a Tualatin valley -house. Deputy Sheriff R. IL Busch of Wash ington county said. ; The tip on which the Wash ington county shertfrs office acted in freeing the Tualatin valley woman was provided byj. Sheriff A. C. Burk of Marion1 county, to whom the case had been reported by a local citizen, whose name was not disclosed. Lato Sports r NEW YORK, April l.-pp)-Lou Nova, California heavyweight hopeful, Tuesday impressively wound up ) his preparations for Friday's 12-found scrap with Maxie Baer. McMINNVHJLE, Ore, April 1. -P)-A four-run rally in the sec ond Inning gave Linfield college's baseball team a 4 to 2 win Tues day over Mount Angel college. - lb were seized by .Latin American j War News Briefs SHANGHAI, April Z-fcWed-nesday)-(i'P-Japanese authori ties virtually closed the Yangtze river today, when reliable sources reported permits for travel on the waterway would not be Issued for at least four weeks. It was understood, too, that Italian, German and Chi nese river steamers would bo phohihited from stopping at Yangtze delta ports. SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 1 ( Passed by censor) Bulgar ian students belonging to na tionalist clubs held patriotic demonstrations Tuesday in the streets around the royal palace, singing songs and distributing leaflets. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Ap rU l-iP)-Two neutral legations here Tuesday jfenghi received diplomatic ' messages, reporting that police charged a crowd of several hundred students and made many arrests Tuesday tn Sofia. : ' TOKYO, April l-(iT-Masa-tune Ogura, one of Japan's most prominent Industrialists, accept ed appointment as cabinet min ister without portfolio Tuesday amid intimations that he is to be the "Knudsen" of Japan. ATHENS, April l-(iip)-k5reek troops defending a position cap tured the day before drove off Italian attackers ; Tuesday and took SO more prisoners, the high command announced. Dispatch es from the front said that in' (Turn to Page 3, Col. 8) Alunite Plant Is Probable; Says Raver PORTLAND, Ore., April l-(P-Administrator Paul J. Raver of the Bonenville power admiinstra tion said Tuesday that an alunite plant in the Pacific northwest; was a probability. The admiinstrator, on his ar rival by plane from' Washington, DC, indicated that private inter ests would develop such m plant if the office of production manage ment declared it to be in the inter est f defense. ! The plant would manufacture alumina the powder-like sub stance from which aluminum is derived, Mulrooney Gone, Boys's Home Board Hopes to ! Directors of Mother's Boys home, refuge for tieedy youths at 1535 Liberty street, announced Tuesday that thejy hoped to place the institution on a basis acceptable to the Orjegon public welfare commission. j r ,. . J y I The announcement j followed a hearing conducted at the by Elmer Goudy, state welfare ad ministrator, who was told by the directors that William Mulrooney, tight-lipped founder of the refuge, had left last February fby re quest," j I Goudy was accompanied by Loa Howard, state director of social work; Victor D. Carlson, his field representative; Clyde Gets, state , director of child welfare services, and M. E. Holeomb, Marion county wel fare administrator. . i .r . Mulrooney, whose establish ment of the home and a chain of rummage collecting and selling units extending through Portland, Salem and Eugene had I aroused complaint 1 from questioning cit izens and other welfare agencies, was removed from the manager ship of the institution at' a board meeting on February 7, Rev. r CoasJ CIO : : C". ' ' - . toy: :: f i ' J, :'igSl -111 : Flanked by bis attorneys, Harry Bridges, West Coast labor leader, went- into court fat San Francisco where the government Is holding an Immigration hearing, seeking to prove that Bridges had commu nistic affiliations and should be deported. Left to right: Attorney Carol King, George Wilson, Harry Bridges, Attorney C. Aubrey Grossman and Attorney Richard Gladstein. ?! Program jl or American Communists ' Revealed During Trial US Attempts CIO Chief as Member Federal Attorneys Assert Internationale Dominated Reds" Here Who Must Do Bidding if Overthrow Attempted SAN FRANCISCO, April l communists were Completely under the thumb'of the Internittion the entire day in its deportation hearing maritime labor leader. Benjamin Gitlow,1 (expelled for mer general secretary of the party in the United f ied in the second States, testi- day of the hearing that the ordered: 1. Creation of Internationale ai negro re- public from the southern states when the America revolution comes; Z. financing Mcaragua.n against rebels who fought American marines; 3. Communist control of la bor unions and separation from the AFX. which "culminated in success when the Congress for industrial Organisation was formed." J The communist party of the United States, Gitlow testified, had no choice but ;to obey these orders reached in sessions of the internationale in Moscow. And a series of American or ganizations he listed as being communist conceived, inspired and controlled could do nothing but obey.the edicts of the Ameri can communist party. Among these he listed the; International Labor Defense (ILD). Government attorneys were trying to show that; the commun ist internationale advocated world revolution; that commun ists in the United States were ut terly helpless under edicts of the internationale; and jtherefore when and if the 'internationale ordered the overthrow 1 of the United States government the (Turn to Page .3 Column 8) Continue Stewart G, Billings, chairman, said. He was last reported to be in Salinas, CaL I j Requirements of the . welfare commission': for certification of such institutions are made exact ing ."for the protection of future citizens of Oregon,f Goudy told the home's directors. He advised the board to outline specific pol icies as to age limits, conditions under which boys Wpuld be ad mitted, assuring competent staff ing and adequate financing and submit them : to the commission for consideration, .(-,,.. ' ; ... $ Rev. Billings declared 25 his belief that the hoine ja now be ing conducted filM a need that other child - ei-.5ng I Institutions can not, by jr'ivmg Vys a home like residence under supervi- , (Turn to Page CoL I) Leader At Deportation Trial to Oust Harry to Show - W - Testimony that American attention of the government Tues against Harry Bridges, west coast Senate Passes Defense Fund Compromise With Army, Navy Plan to Buy Foreign Beef WASHINGTON, April !.-(&)- The senate, in passing a $4,389, 421,174 defense appropriation bill Tuesday, compromised the Ar gentine canned beef controversy by voting to permit the army and navy to purchase foreign prod ucts when domestic articles of satisfactory quality are not avail' able' at reasonable d rices. It thus checked up to a joint senate-house conference commit tee the question whether the war and : navy departments should purchase 20,000,000 pounds of canned beef from Latin American countries and whether they should buy an undetermined am ount of wool from Australia. Adding a total of $315,611,-609- to the house approved de fense appropriation bill, the senate included funds to step up ' the army's pilot training program to the point where it would be producing 30,000 combat fliers yearly In 1942. The measure would provide funds for 'the purchase of 4,750 mecuum ana neavy bombers as well as 79,003 additional motor vehicles for the army. Included also was $971,769,114 to obtain "critical equipment for the .army, $828,286,000 for indus trial: plant expansion and $87,- 825,000 to improve Atlantic bases recently acquired from the Brit ish! , .- i The navy would get $295,416,- 820,1 including $133,118,820 for ordnance, $75,000,000 for reserve materials and $60,000,000 for 12 newi auxiliary vessels. WASHINGTON, April IHJPf Presddent Roosevelt- disclosed that expenditure of $1,080,000,000 al- ! (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Cliiirch Funds Raiser Dies NEW YORK, April lP)-The Rev." Frank H.' Divine, 76, founder of i the ' Big Brother I Financial Agency, which raised an estimated $35000,000 for Protestant churches of all denominations since 1921, died Tuesday. The agency was created to raise money for churches that planned new" buildings or .wanted to pay off debts. - Bridges Paul Ilauser b Column . One ..of our less reliable scouts reports from her sector, which happens to be the campus of the Universityof Oregon, located in Eugene City to the south. " it seems, ac cording to our scout who can't be trusted with the truth and be lieves that the very walls have hearsay, that a reporter on one of the Eugene papers was mak- Paul H. Bsaser. jr. ing a routine check of the hos pitals in search of births, deaths and sore fingers for the local column. He dialed a number. There came a feminine voice.- "Any births?- he asked with out Interest. . "Nooor said the voice. "None f us girls Is married. This Is Susan Campbell BalL" You can't believe a thing that scout says. We see by the papers that the Willamette university Anthro pological society recently ne gotiated a trade with the United States National museum of a choice skull of an ancient chief of the Calapuyas for- a de-. formed Peruvian skulL We suppose it's all in the interest of science, but It rather takes us back to our youth. We can see the United States National museum sitting on one side of the continent and dickering with the Willamette University Anthropological society on the other, saying, "I'll swap you an almost new Patagonian with a swell alvealocondylean plane for that uncancelled Cayuse and a busted jackknife." The Salem Water Commission needn't read this, but when Miss (Turn to Page 2, CoL. 5) -v.. iV . Airport Deal Is Ironed out! Removal of buildings on the William Brown property adjoin ing the Salem airport, which are considered aviation -hazards,' will be paid for as damages by the civil aeronautics authority, nego tiators decided . Tuesday as . they cut away red tape .which had temporarily entangled , the city counciL Chandler Brown, agent . for William' Brown of Bedlands, Calif, said cost of moving the farm buildings would be slight ly under S5G0&. The buildings will be moved by Brown.'" The original ; - proposal, which . caused- confusion in the dry council Monday night,. was that the city would contract with Brown for removal of the build ings. . '-. ' ' The change In procedure at one sweep ' settled ' a question raised by the council Monday night as to whether the city or-the CAA would pay for removal of the TVT7 Dearborn r 1 ... . FDR Balks on to Says Mediation Board Doing "All Right"; Coal Miners Quit WASHINGTON, April President Roosevelt Tuesday turned thumbs down, for the present at least, on a newly-in troduced bill which would give him vast new authority to take over defense factories tied up by strikes. Ottered a few hours earlier by Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house naval committee, the meas ure would permit the government to take possession of any defense factory after the president had found that "an existing or threat ened failure of production ... is such as to interfere with, or hamper, delay or impede the na tional defense." . But Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference that the defense mediation board he recently created was getting along all right, and he indicated that he saw no necessity at present for taking new legislative steps to curb the strikes that have dotted the defense landscape. He expressed belief that existing machinery should be given a trial, to see whether the situation could be worked out in a spirit of give and take with an ' understanding that the defense program should not be sibw'edNn?. The Vinson plant seizure mea sure, proposed as an amendment to conscription law, would broaden considerably presidential power regarding the conscription of de fense industries. If the government took over a factory, Vinson indicated, a strike would virtually be outlawed. "I feel that this would stop further strikes in those plants," he said. "It is unwritten law that you can not strike against the govern ment" NEW YORK, April 2-(Wednes-day) A work stoppage in the nation's bituminous coal mines be came fully effective Tuesday night after labor and management failed to reach a contract agreement, but a federal conciliator said he be lieved continued negotiations dur ing the next 48 hours would bring 'a temporary arrangement for re sumption of operations. The United Mine Workers of (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1) Group Names Salem Man SPOKANE, April l--James Cook of Salem, Ore., Tuesday was elected president of -the Northwest Stationers association which held its annual convention here Mon day and Tuesday. Portland was chosen for the 1942 session. Other officers are Horace Kil- ham, Portland, first vice-president; Darrell Ireland, Seattle, second vice-president; Charles Miller, t Over Plants Portland, secretary. Members are I justice department late Tuesday from Oregon, Idaho, Montana, J ordered immediate Criminal prose Utah and Washington. ' ' cutions in all cases of sabotage. - buildings and also removed con fusion over the original detailed contract. J. S. Keefe, engineer for the CAA, left for Seattle headquar ters of the CAA Tuesday noon and will send Brown a blank proposal form to be forwarded to Washington for approval. The! proposal -presented the council Monday by Brown, drawn on short notice at request of City Attorney r Lawrence N. Brown, contained - specific proposals for removal, of each separate build ing. The lengthy contract, which had not been read by any of the councumen, - was set aside for further study after Alderman Tom Armstrong, chairman of the airport committee, and Bert Ford expressed belief that such a docu ment should be carefully consid ered to make certain it would not cost the city "thirty or forty thousand dollars. ' ( Alderman Armstrong issued 1 it-Bdwiiers at Start Evacuation Police and Strikers Fight ThreeHours With 48 Hurt: 7 Chief JExecutive : Stoned; Sheriff Lacks Deputies MILWAUKEE, April 1-P)-The Allis-Chalmers manufac turings plant, scene of a three hour battle between police and strikers in which 48 were in jured Tuesday, will cease pro duction -Wednesday r at the re quest of Governor Julius Heil. Max W. Babb, president of the huge West All is firm, said he had ordered the plant closed at the urgent request of Sheriff Joseph Shumers and of Governor Heil. The situation now is "in the hands of the. federal government for action," Babb stated: Governor Heil simultaneously announced- that he had wired President Roosevelt that a "mob had created disorders beyond the control of all peace officers which can be assembled by the combined forces of the state, county and city. "The situation is absolutely ut of control of all the- peace officers available," Heil wired. "I am notifying you of this action In order that you may direct such action as you deem advisable. In the meantime In order to prevent bloodshed. I am directing - the company to cease all productive operations. The, order. closingthe plant which ""bad beex reopened last Friday, at the- request of govern- (Tura to Page 2, CoL 1) Labor Board Slaps Ward's At Portland PORTLAND, Ore., April A three-month strike by AFL un ions resulted Tuesday in a na tional labor relations board com plaint that the Montgomery Ward & copaiiy Portland store engaged in unfair labor practices. The board called a hearing for April, 14, after investigating charges of warehousemen's, retail clerks'- and office employes un ions.' " Mayor E. R. .Riley's attempts to arrange a peace' conference have failed, union officials said. PORTLAND, Ore., April l-JPh AFL. lumber unions probably will discuss wage readjustments with Pacific northwest sawmill operat ors at the Winthrop hotel in Ta coma Thursday, Kenneth M. Davis, union council secretary. said Tuesday. Representatives of unions from Coos Bay, Ore, to Bellingham, Wash- will be on hand if em ployers say the meeting time and place are acceptable, Davis said. 9 ' Prosecution Ordered WASHINGTON, April 1-WVIn the face of axis demands for the release of 30 ships and their crews seized by the United States, the a' statement Tuesday to correct any misapprehension as to the cooperation of Chandler Brown as agent for William Brown. . Armstrong's statement pointed out that Brown offered his 42.7 acres of the 89 acres the city must acquire for airport expan sion to the city at a price of- $123 per acre, a figure $35 to $55 lower, with one exception, than the prices asked by owners of the other property and lower than the $130 per .acre appraisal placed on the Brown property by viewers, appointed by the coun cil. :,. , . '. . : - The statement also said that Brown , had asked no - severance damage from the city for removal of trees on his property, deemed aviation obstructionsthough he would be damaged more by re moval bf said trees than any one of the other owners, and all, not withstanding .. the fact . that two ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL J) Union Leaders at Rouge Factory Blaiiie Firm DETROIT, April 2-(Wednesday )-W-The United Automo bile Workers (CIO) declared a strike today at the vast Ford company's Rouge plant and most of the 20,000 men involved in the work stoppage, said union officials, had left the factory and prepared to take up picket positions.' An aide of Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner declared that "every thing was peaceful and orderly." CHESTEK, Ps April 1(A x James Francis Dewey, federal labor conciliator, said tonight he wll fly to Detroit "first thing" in he .morning in an effort to settle the strike at the Ford Mo tor company. ' "I'm sure we can straighten this trouble out in euick order," he asserted. Frank Wynn, UAW publicity director, speaking for Michael Widman, jr., chairman of the UAW-CIO Ford organizing com mittee, said "all the workers have left the plant except a few scat tered groups." " , No. violence was reported Harry Bennett, personnel di rector for the company, issued a statement shortly before 2-, a. m. (EST) saying: "AH those who want to work should report as usuaL If no work Is available for them In their regular departments, well find other Jobs for them In oth er departments." The giant plant, which figures prominently in the defense pro gram, employs 80,000 workers. The 20,000 immediately affected were on the night shift. The announcement was made at 12:15 ajn. by R. J. Thomas, pres ident of the UAW, following a partial work stoppage at the Rouge plant which had tied up production last night. "The international union of the United Automobile Workers has authorized a strike of all workers at the River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Co.," Thomas said. "The strike is to take effect -at once." - Thomas said all workers had been notified to leave the Rouge plant and report ' to the union's Ford office to prepare for picket duty. - Meanwhile, at a downtown hotel Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner said he had received "assurance" from Michael F. Widmer, jr., chairman of the UAW-CIO Ford organizational drive, that "the men will be out of the plant with in the next hour." The governor said he did not know whether ltwas "physical ly possible" for the men esti mated by union officials at 20, 00 to leave the various divi sions of the Ford plants within an hour's time, but added "that's the way it was put to me." Gov. Van Wagoner was called early Tuesday night by Dearborn city officials who requested state Uxzpen Ui -evacuatelxoxa the plant between 7000 and 80CO workers,-whom they described as "sit-down strikers." ! ' At the time of the strike order, only the foundry and part of the dye shop were operating. Thomas statement 'said in part: "Declaration of the strike at this time was forced on the un ion by the Ford Motor Co. which has for months, up until Tues day engaged in deliberate and , continuous effort to prevent ad- (Turn to Page 3, CoL 5) ' Snake in Gas Is Problem This Is one ea Lewis Stanley, state hydroelectric commission , assistant engineer: ma son, Jackie, , a neighbor complained M n d a y , put snake in the gasoline tank cf the neighbor's automobile. " To extract the wriggler. Cry had to remove tie U&k frcrs the car. ,