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PAGE TWO Governor Calls For FDR Help Chief Executive Says Situation Absolutely Out of Control (Continued From Page 1) ment officials to speed production n $45,000,000 in defense orders came following the second out break of violence in the 70-day "strike of a CIO local. Union strikers, using bricks and rocks, tangled with peace offi cers armed with tear gas wea nons and fire hoses late today. At least seven of the 43 men were injured seriously and taken to the Milwaukee general Hos pital. Others were treated at the nlant hospital. Hundreds of windows of the eomoanv's main office and labor atory were broken, automobiles. including that of Governor Juli us P. Heit, were smashed and damaged; an eight-foot fence was torn down and the governor him self stoned as he tried to leave the shop office in which he had taken refuge. The governor finally got out of the plant and went immedi ately to the sheriffs office where it was reported that he telephoned Washington. Sheriff Joseph J. Shinners said he told the governor he did not have enough men to cope with the situation. The state has no national guard troops available, as all have been called to active duty and new units have not been formed. The fieht started at 12:30 p. m. (PST) and raged for nearly three hours. Then it quieted down and the strikers gathered in erouos out of range of tear gas missies. Four hours after the start there still were hundreds of men around the plant. Earlier deputies and police officers fired round after round of tear gas from the roof of the .office building and laboratory into the crowds of Unid Au tomobile Workers union ( CIO) members and sympathizers who milled on , the street near the main structure. The strikers surged back with each tear ru discharge " and then came f orwarsj"arain when it had settled" to hurl rocks, stones and bricks through the windows. j Deputies, barricaded hftiind the main gate on the west side of the "huge plant, played streams of water on the strikers as they at tempted to rush the entrance. Other deputies also manned a stream of water near the broken fence. They were reinforced by about 50 workers, armed with iron bars. When strikers tried to smash their way through this opening and over fences, the workers batted their hands." Later the office and production workers left the plant and no ef fort was made by the strikers to stop them. The plant had been closed for the first 65 days of the strike but reopened last Friday on orders of William S. Knudsen, OPM head and Secretary of Navy Knox. Lieut. Henry M. Marshall, res ident inspector of navy material, expressed satisfaction with na tional defense production at the re -opened plant PHILADELPHIA, April l-(P)-Edward McDonald,: federal labor conciliator, said Tuesday night an agreement has been reached that may end a three weeks old strike of 1500 workers at the J. G. Brill company plant here. McDonald said the agreement would be submitted to the strik ers for ratification at a mass meet ing Wednesday. Cows Dry From Spilled Oil; Damages Asked Because live of his cows drank water contaminated with oil from a trailer- track wrecked In the underpass north of Salem last September, and because. they went dry In eon sequence. James Mahals Tues day filed suit against F. W. Thompson and Joe Bookshnis, driver of the track, for dam ages to the cattle and for loss of their milk. In his complaint Mahola al-. lered that his cattle were gras ping In a pasture west of the 'onderpassthe da?-the tratter '"-trocE nil a mule-drawn con veyance drives by W. W. Wine 'ger, and was overturned. . . The oil from the truck spilled 'Into a stream sear the under pass, and Hosted past the pas ture. There -the oil-water mix ture was drunk by five cows - named Spot, . Mack. Pet, Dora and jydia .beloatiag to Mahu- , la, and by another cow named - Queen belonging to . Peter P. , and Blary S. Durnim. owners of the pasture.;:w.:.::V'; - v' -' , Mahula's 1, complaint ?. Is -. for $230 . general damages for loss . ef value of his. five cows, all of which-are new dry? $295.63 for loss cf their milk and $1$ f or i veterinarian's fee. ? I - Za addition he asks $41 on as- , '. slrnment fcr "Queen's" decline . V la-alaevf 53.7$ for snOk lost when, she went f dry,; and his -sia.,; - ,-:. Y 1,.. ? PILVrnTON Work on Silver-; toa'g new hlh school agriculture j : class buHiia s - progressing . r. piSly trader the supervision , of C. M." Ucdung, ' building super visor, and Donald Dawson, ; - ' . . - - ; - . -T ' ! ' ! M : 1 ... 1., ..... .. . 1 Injured in Steel Rioting ; f y y-' : - - Aadrew PayeBcky Among those Injured in the rioting about the Bethlehem Steel mi niant at Bethlehem. Psl. Andrew Pavellckv. a striker. Is i taoMner Vila ittrH YiphA km two picketing waj resumed about the . ..A A. Sprague Signs Seven Bills Gov. Charles A. Sprague Tues day signed seven bills of the 1941 legislature. One provides a maximum al lowance of $100 for funeral and burial expenses of old age assist ance recipients. Other bills signed: HB 347, by Chindgren To pro vide suitable equipment for the investigation of control of insect pests on nursery stock and ap propriating funds therefor. HB 532, by joint ways: and means committee To provide funds for the eradication of in jurious and disease-carrying ro dents, providing the manner of its expenditure by the state board of higher education, and declar ing an emergency. HB 537, by joint ways ; and means committee To provide funds for the federal cooperative extension service of the state board of higher education : and declaring an emergency. HB 546, by joint ways ; and means committee To provide funds for the payment ot ex penses of the Willamette basin commission and the state soil conservation committee and de claring an emergency. HB 547, by joint ways and means committee To provide for the collection and analysis of ag ricultural statistics pertaining to Oregon agriculture and providing for their disposal. HB 543, by joint ways and means ' committee To provide funds for betterments and im provements at the state institu tions of higher learning and de claring an emergency. Supreme Court Reverses Judge On Estate Suit The state supreme court, in an opinion written by Justice George Rossman, Tuesday reversed Cir cuit Judge G. F. Skipworth, Ben ton county, in a suit brought by Agnes S. Patterson to compel an accounting of her husbands es tate bj L Getz, her! son-in-law. The case was dismissed by Judge Skipworth. j Mrs. Patterson charged' that the estate had dwindled to virtually nothing and that Get had bor rowed a large part of it. She claimed that Getz owes her $53,383. i r ; Justice Rossman remanded the case to the circuit court on the ground that Mrs. Patterson was entitled to the accounting. The high Court did not pass on the question - of whether Getz ; owes Mrs. Patterson any money. Millionth Check Issued by Board The state public welfare com mission has Issued its 1,000,000th old age pension check, the exec utive department announced here Tuesday. ' This cXttcS; for the maximum monthly payment of $30, was payable to a Canyonvllle woman born there April 17, 1873. ; Approximately 20,000 persons are now receiving old age as sistance in Oregon of which number nearly 4000 receive the maximom allowed under the existing law. Teacher Given ! Fall Damages , A circuit court jury-debated for six hours Tuesday before award ing Mae Atkins the sum of $1250 damages i for personaly injuries suffered .whe n she fell on the premises of the General Finance corporation Salem. ' , - The case was' presented Monday and Tuesday before Circuit Judge McMahan.fi 1 j The plaintiff asked in her com plaint for $25,000 general dam ages, $109 for medical expense and $750 few compensation for loss of Income as a music teacher and tailoress because of injury to her left, wrist, una and shoulder and her cede f Berths Simmons . was Included as a joint defendant. Thm I - I Injured in riottag com- shown friends avmnathlza with himJ Bethlehem plant, both sides) a. 4.1 AW i i mot Airport Deal Ironed out ! i i (Continued From Page 1) other owners or groups pi! own ers, asked for and were pa d sev eral hundreds of dollars sever ance damage. j "The third question that came up," the statement con tinued, "and which the city of Salem was confronted; with, was the moving of ; certain buildings owned by private in dividuals in the immediate vi cinity of the Salem airport and that also constituted obstruc tions. I Here again we find j William Brown, through Chandler- Brown, his agent, being the persons con fronted with numerous buildings on their property which have to be moved. Again Chandler jBrown signified at all times his Willing ness to cooperate with the city of Salem, CAA, and WPA jby not asking any damages for the mov ing of said buildings except the right to have said buildings re moved and replaced in as good a condition as they are now." Amity Youth Wins Contest -! I PORTLAND, April 1-P)-Ed-win Heinonen, 17-year-old Amity farm youth, won the Oregon Fu ture Farmers of America j oratori cal contest Tuesday. f j Heinonen advocated thai dairy products be advertised to, the na tion. He termed dairying las the biggest farm business in the coun try, but asserted that milk con sumption could be doubledj Other finalists were James Bany, Canby, who won) second place, and Carl Bartlett, Baker, third. Resentment of j Mexicans Told At Club Meet I Anne Reed Burns, former Salem girl and a graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon Tuesday tol4 mem bers of the Salem Kiwahls club that Mexicans resent continued in terference of the United States in their domestic affairs, in.an ad dress given at the club's regular weekly luncheon meeting.) j Speaking from experience as a free-lance newspaper and period ical contributor in Mexico, Miss Bums declared that Mexicans par ticularly resented the de facto ac tion of the United States ihj recog nizing Camacho as Mexican pres ident by sending Vice-Piesident Henry Wallace to attend; his in auguration. I Since the 1910 revolution against the autocracy of Porfirioi Diaz, Mexico has seen a continuing ser ies of social reforms, Miss Burns said. Under the regime bl! Pres ident Cardenas these occurred in rapid succession, but have been less noticeable under the hew ad ministration of President Ca macho. j Schools, medical clinics Cor the people, land redistribution have been inaugurated or greally ad vanced under recent administra tions, she, said, but labor organ izations have occasionally a ssumed an excess of power. , In her conclusion. Miss Bums declared that Germans ire per sonally more popular than; Amer icans "south oL the border, but that little interest is shown in nazi ideas. . ' , '- To Open Road Bida - Bids for construction jof- roads and bridges aggregating a cost In excess of $800,000 will b4 opened by -the state - highway commission at a meeting in Portland Thurs day and Friday. . ! OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Yugoslavs Rush To Join Colors Western Hemisphere Reveals Solidarity j On Sabotaged Shipc -i i 'i (Continued from page 1) release of ships and crews seized in the country. Secretary of State Hull indicated (hat there would be scant consideration of these new protests. ' In Rome 200 Italian schoolboys demonstrated late Tuesday night before; the United States embassy, but to observers it appeared that their principal purpose was to sa lute Yosuki Matsuoka, the Japan ese foreign minister, who was in Italy to talk to -Mussolini about axis plans. Police: ran the young sters off. In Lyon. France, there were demonstrations of another sort. five hundred. Frenchmen cheer ed Yugoslavia and President Koeseveli and salated the Am erican flag at the US consulate. As to the Balkans, this was the situation: The Yugoslavs, still defying the Germans while Berlin's swelling anger made it appear that the showdown must surely come soon. were understood to be considering signing a neutrality declaration with soviet Russia and with the Turks, Britain's eastern allies, in the hope of making Hitler think hard before turning his Balkan ar mies loose. Yugoslav troop trains headed for the frontiers. It was widely reported but not confirmed in London that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Sir John Dill, chief of the British imperial staff, were going to Belgrade to talk to General Du san Simovic's anti-axis govern ment. -J The Germans themselves an grily spoke of this report as a fact and observed that such a direct descent Into Yugoslav af fairs would do anything- but in dicate that the Yugoslavs were coming; around to the point of accepting the nasi order that their army be demobilized. While Berlin officially main tained an air of impatient waiting. it was authoritatively stated that the tension had increased; that far from bettering the Yugoslav sit uation was worsening progressive ly. The German press played up atrocity stories and a government commentary service repeated one to the effect that a Yugoslav of German birth had been fire- branded on the face with a swas tika. In Africa the British claimed their biggest victory in some time: the seizure of Asmara, capital of Italian Eritrea, and so situated that its fall will open the way for an assault upon the Red sea port of Massaua and thus for the sub stantial dissolution of the whole colony. ! A eontinaed British advance in Ethiopia toward the capital of Addis Ababa also was report ed -and the arrival there would about finish that offensive. There was news, too, from the British command that British troops occupying Diredawa in Ethiopia had found the remaining Italian inhabitants "being injured' by deserter native troops. In the war of air and sea: Britain ' reported that she was using a new, secret and "devastat ing" bomb one powerful enough, said a pilot returning from a raid on Emden, Germany, to make houses take to the air, and re lated to the ordinary bomb as a howitzer shell is to the shell of a field gun. Declining British sea losses were reported by the admiralty, which said that in the week ended March 23, only 59,141 tons went to the bottom as against more than 94,- 000 tons for the week before. The Germans declared that in a daylight raid they had destroyed 12 to 14 British bombers and eight to ten fighters in a southern Eng land airdrome. The sinking of three tankers aggregating 24,000 tons also was claimed. NEW YORK, April l.-UJV-The French line said Thursday it had asked the treasury department for permission to operate its fleet of laid-up vessels in the United States between this country and French Indo-China. France has 18 freighters in this country and outlying islands. The liner Nor mandie, tied up at New York, was not mentioned in the request Pilot Training Quota Boosted J At Willamette Boosting of Willamette univer sity's quota from 20 to 30 stu dents for the civil aeronautics au thority 'pilot-training program was announced Tuesday by Dean Dan iel H. Schulze, coordinator. The ten will begin training as soon as they are selected. A group ten tatively chosen was taking phys ical examination Tuesday.' Ten Willamette students took the course in the fall semester and received their pilot's licenses in January. i ; Last Times Today! Last Times Today L-1JLL-L-- MICKEY ' JUDY ' ' ROONEY - GARLAND "STRIKE UP THE BAND And Second Feature i A Picture Every Traer American Should See t "WORLD IN FLAMES- Oregon. Wednesday Morning. Will Appear SIDNEY LUMET Child Actor Featured "The Road to Jerusalem,' an all-talking picture featuring Sid ney Lumet,' the brilliant child actor who has scored several per sonal triumphs on the Broadway stage, will be shown for the first time In Salem at the First Pres byterian church at 7 p. m. Satur day. Four showings of the historical picture are scheduled for the weekend. In addition to the p. m. showing there will be per formances at 8:45 p m. Saturday and at 7 and 8:45 p. m. Sunday. Young Lumet appears in this new theater-on-film production as the 12-year-old boy Jesus and his portrayal has been acclaimed by critics and public alike. Home Hopes To Continue (Continued from page 1) sion second only, to that of a home properly maintained by responsible parents. Tuesday's hearing was a sequel to a state welfare commission meeting last December 27 at which an order was issued deny ing Mulrooney a certificate to carry on the home and asking the attorney general to force its clos ure. Mrs. Zola Kirkpatrick, board secretary and bookkeeper, is act ing as manager of the home in Mulrooney's stead, Rev. Billings said. Rummage collecting and selling have been centralized at the institution's store at 721 South 12th street and other units closed. Other directors of the home are Lewis Christison, Orval E. Shry- der, Dr. D. H. Schulze and R. W. Tavenner. In One Eaz . . Paul Hauser Column (Continued from page 1) E. Franc Whitmore. a retired school teacher of Hermosa Beach, Calif., celebrated her 90th birth day Monday she said she can drink water or leave it alone, but for the past 20 years has left it alone. "I havent anything aralnst water," she said. "I just don't like the taste of if Call Board ELS IN OB E Today Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore. Laralne Day in "una t$ma Man." The Higgina family to "Petty coat Politics." GRAND TodaT Inirrid Bercman. Warner Bax ter, rmr wray in Aaam hm roar Sons." Saturday Penny SlnKleton. Arthur ren William in "The Lone WoU Takes a Chance." . CAPITOL. Today Jack Benny. Rochester In "Man About Town. jacK uau, aniriey Temole In "Youn Peonle." Saturdav Ida LuDino. Humphrey Bo- eart in i-ugn sierra.- Mori nariozx in "The Devil Command." STATE Today Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell. Dorothy umour in uiaa iianna. Joan Bennett. Louis Hayward in Thursday Marx Brothers in "The Marx Brotners uo west." Bianey Toler, Joan Valerie in "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum." Saturday mignight Jeannette Mae- Donald. Nelson Eddy in "Bitter sweet." HOLLYWOOD ' i Today Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland in "Strike up the Band, plus - world in Flame-" Thursday Fred MacMurray, Patricia Morrison in "Rangers of Fortune Ann Sothera. Ira Hunter in "Dulcy." LIBERTY Today Pat Kelly.. Juno Long to "Forced passport." Boris Karlou In "The Man With Nine Uvea." Friday Three Mesquiteers In "Pio neers of the west." Chariee BJckfora in "Street of Missing Men." , , sir AIT HENRY LINDA FONDA DAKNELK. DOROTHY EAMOUK it Chad Hansa' It Time, S:N-t:U SECOND HIT LOUIS JOAN HAYWARD BENNETT Hi 'Sen cl , Ilcnls Crisij it Time, l:0-4 Ji-:45-li:U Plug Mickey Mouse) Cartoon April 2. 1941 Senate Passes Defense Fund I .Comproniise " Army, Navy Plan to Y Buy Foreign Beef : (Continued from page 1) ready. - had -' been authorized to turn out arms and foodstuffs for delivery' across the seas bvt dis missed discussion of whether United States naval vessels might convoy the j shipments. ff To"- a press conference question whether consideration! was being given to assuring the arrival of war supplies in Britain. Mr. Roosevelt replied that .the matter had been under consideration for a year and a half and still was. WASHINGTON, April l.-(P- In a move expected to strength en the aerial defenses of the Pan' ama Canal and of Mexico, the United States and Mexico signed a convention Tuesday providing for reciprocal use 'of each other's airfields. - The pact, negotiated and signed by Sumner Welles, tinder-secre tary of state, and Francisco Cas tillo Najera, the Mexican ambas sador, will become effective upon its ratification by the American and Mexican senates. WASHINGTON, April l-(ff-A final vote on the record-breaking $1,340,810,744 agriculture appro priation bill was delayed Tuesday after Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) had protested that certain language In the measure "might .seriously impede the rural electrification program. The provisions which Norris op posed would grant the secretary oz agriculture authority to trans fer funds for the legal depart ments of REA and the farm credit administration to the solicitor's of fice of the agriculture department. SAN FRANCISCO, April JPj Wesley O. Ash, regional director of the federal wage and hour divi sion here, amplified Tuesday the ruling of the wage-hour adminis trator in Washington Monday on working time for metal miners. The region includes the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Alaska and Hawaii. OTTAWA, April 1-(JP)-Gen. Vladyslaw Sikorski, .premier of the Polish government in exile, plans to discuss with President Roosevelt the post-war formation of a joint Polish -Czechoslovaki an state of 50,000,000 people when he visits Washington soon, a spokes man said Tuesday night. NEW YORK, April 1-(JP)-Creation of Austrian Action "a militant, non-partisan organization of free and independent Austrians in the Americas," was announced Tuesday by Count Ferdinand Czerin. School Will Be Rebuilt WOODBURN Saved from total destruction, although most of the roor, ceiling and floor were ruined in Monday's lire, the Belle Pass! school, one of the oldest in this section of the country, will d rob- ably be rebuilt. In the meantime the students are attending classes at Woodburn, rnakina: the trio bv bus. Most of the school books were saved and the furniture was taken out without much damage. Dam age to the building itself was es timated at $1500, fully covered by insurance., School was held in a loe build ing as early as 1851 and when this was torn down a frame buildimr was erected to serve as a school house and church. It was moved to Woodburn in 1872 to become the old Cumberland Presbyterian cnurch. The present building was completed in 1911 and consisted nf two rooms, although only one has been used for four years. Fourth Congressional District Authorized Oregon is entitled to an ad ditional representative in con gress beginning with the congress convening in January. 1943. a. ernor Charles A. Sprague was ad vised Tuesday. The information came in n proclamation from South Trim ble, clerk of the national house oz representatives. Ortmn'i fourth congressman will ho elect ed at the general election in 1942. SALEM'S NEWEST THEATRE I mm mm Tcday and Thursday Ti!2K!::acFi:cnnc.i! Mas 2nd Hit "rfKTji (if Tl Cam ZZ3-- Accuse Boys Fraaklia Barber, left, aurt Peiry BaAe ----- Police m New York hold two Aotfison. N. Y, nfJllk, left, and Perry, 17, for questioning in connection with "ths derail ment of the main line Pennsylvania railroad train near Baden, Pa, in which seven persons were killed. The two boys wers picked tip en a hillside after haYing put 10 spikes on the ran. Police quoted the boys as saying they wers seeking a thrin.- - j Growers Told Of Program Oreeon fruit and produce grow ers who expect to sell their com modities to the army must them selves go out and get this business, according to Frank McKennon, chief of the division of plant in dustry, state department of agri culture. The army will spend nearly S 100.000 every day for fresh jpro- duce, thus making it one of the largest buyers, of these commod ities. About SO purchasing offices for buying of produce have been an nounced in Washington, DC, with one at Tacoma, and two others on the coast, at San Francisco and Dos Angeles. Army posts under 2500 men will continue to pur chase their own reauirements and vendors should continue to con tact these direct. The advices received by McKen non indicate that producer grow ers should contact men at the army buying offices from 10 to 30 days ahead of the tune produce is ready, telling the kind and quantity of the various items he hopes to sell. Growers should fa miliarize themselves with specifi cations that will be required by the army. "Any grower may sell to the army, provided he can put his commodity up according to army specifications and pack, and pro vided he can deliver in sufficient quantity. Where individual grow ers do hot have sufficient quantity to warrant consideration, such growers may consolidate their pro duce in order that they may be able to offer in a quantity that would meet the requirements, the department has been informed," McKennon said. ' Born at Silverton SIL VERTON - Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dennison are the parents of a son. born March 28 at the Sil verton hospital. STARTS TODAY - 2 Main Features j of Iko gorslort I X- r - tiisaSiaUako ' j rSeorV SvX : r : : ' - : - -raS TJZOS9 Feature - if ,T J ANEW BOLARIOUS HITI - iV" "PETTICOAT POLITICS' T7wT' , with -r. goseee garns. Rath Donnelly . in Train Wreck v Navy' Ri&erves Wanted NEW YORK, April l.--The navy department sounded a call for 1,100 hospital corps reserves Tuesday and said it was expected that those accepted would be called to acti ve duty "very shortly.' !' : :! .' . k : Starts Tonight - Two Hits TWO OUTSTANDING FCATUHES 'i with Rochester ' Betty Grable - Phil Harris COMPANION FEATURE - I V OF FUN V, ... as two rol jfcZS. lifting laugh- ynr.;s join lTJ-.i,- V Shirley' In, her- i latest,- happiest wti . i OAKIE 500 &S- 1 ' GOOD AiiOiiT 'SEATS -3viiViv DOORS OPEN :45 1 - 1 -