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Crisis Grows
"' As the.' Jtolkan situation
frws raort tense And A
erica seeminrly nears en
tering the . . conflict. . The
Statesman continues to re
port developments "that are
as new as late press time
will permit. ,
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Crashed Wlavte
Aground on Clutching Sands
WmETY-ITRST YEAR - X ti tefr i.:' 'V": "l : ' ; 1 : Satan, Oregon, Fridgr ' Morning. Aprfl 4. 1341 , : ,- - j Prlcs 3q ITerotandg 5c : ; V -': T ffa 7 '
1L MgU.S
omais Set
JL
Found;
FltmdajReporter Revealfe
Crew arid Passengers Safe;
Surgeon's Wife Tells Fall
MIAMI, Fla., April 3-W-A miami Herald reporter at Vero
Beach informed the newspaper Thursday night that all 18 oc
cupants of the Eastern airliner forced down in a swamp were
injured, but none critically. f
xiis miormation was mat
most seriously hurt.
The pilot, Gerald O'Brien,
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Crile
were first to be brought to the
hiffhwav . The eminent Cleveland
physician had a broken rib, while
his -wife suiierea rrom sqock.
Mrs. Crile . said the plane was
brought down in about three and
one-half feet ol water.
- Water was up to the waists of
the passengers as they sat in the
craft, and both motors were iorn
from the plane, the reporter said.
"It was so black outside wnea
the plane landed," Mrs. Crile
said, "that we did not know we
limA hit the around until we
were Jarred from our seats. -
"Everyone was very sane.
There was no crylnr.
The captain was magnlfl-
eent."
O'Brien was hurt as the result
of being thrown against the steer-1 Issuance of deeds on the p rop
ing apparatus as he strained to J erty awaits, however, bringing of
land the craft right side up.
The passengers were brought in
flat-bottomed boats to a highway
about six miles from the scene of
the crash. ,
They were rushed to a Vero
Beach hospital.'
George Shaw, a passenger, was
reported to have a broken leg. He
was forced to sit with the injured
limb under water.
Ernest Tyner, the Herald's Vero
Reach reporter, was one of the
first to reach the ship.
Rescue workers said it would
take hours more to remove all
those on the plane.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April
3-Jfn-The shiny. Eastern Air
Lanes plane, missing with 16 per
sons since mid-morning on a flight
northward from Miami, was lo
cated late Thursday 10 miles west
of Vero Beach. Fla.. and the 13
passengers and three crew mem
bers were reported alive.
An . Eastern Air Lanes rescue
plane, piloted by Don Johnson,
radioed at 3:20 p. m. (PST) that
the 21 -passenger Douglas plane
which left Miami on the run to
New York at 4:30 a. m. (PST) was
sighted on a fringe of the marsh
lands west of Vero beach.
VERO BEACH. Fla., April $-JP)
Mrs. George W. Crile, wife of the
noted Cleveland physician, Thurs
day night related to Stephen
Trumbull, Miami Herald reporter.
this account of the crash of an
Easter nAir Lines plane near here
Thursday,! "
"I don't think anyone is critic
ally hart. The pilot is apparently
the worst injured. He suffered
-a broken leg and other Injuries.
He lapsed into unconsciousness
several minutes prior to the
rescue. The steward is badly
cut bat not seriously.
"Shortly after leaving Palm
Beach, we ran into the most
terrible storm I have ever seen
and I have flown tens of thou
sands of miles. The plane was
tossed around and we didn't
know where we were for ft
while. The blankets and cush
ions flew about the cabin and
the tossing was so severe we
; didn't even know when we were
going down."
"The plane hit with ft terrific
crash in the mud and water.
Everyone maintained his com
posure and there was no panic
The conduct of the crew was
superb. The water poured in
the open windows and we have
'been sitting in It up te our hips
all day long.
House Okehs Probe
Of Federal Workers
WASHINGTON, April M)-
The house approved Thursday an
investigation by the justice de
partment of government em
ployes alleged to be members of
subversive organizations.
At the request of Rep., Jones
(R-Ohio), it earmarked for this
purpose $100,000. Jones said' the
purpose was - to check the rec
ords of employes whose names
were oh "mailing and member
ship" list of the American League
for Peace and Democracy.
16 Are
1 ! :
d Burt
uie puot ana steward were
had ft crushed chest.
Airport Land
Sale Okehed
Slate Control Board
Action Finishes
Deal for Acreage
The state board of control ap
proved Thursday J sale of 3.86
acres of land to the city of Salem
for $531.85, making; final consum
mation of the, city's four deals
with properly owners for 89 acres
of land to be used in expansion of
the Salem municipal airport.
I abstracts up to date and issuance
I of title insurance.
City officials are now. awaiting
word , from , Washington, PC, on
whether, the cival aeronautics au
thority, wft agree t4 pay damages
for removal of buildings on the
William Brown property deemed
hazards to aviationi The proposal
has been forwarded to Washing
ton by Seattle headquarters of
the CAA and will be expedited.
Queen of May-
Fete Chosen
Barbara Young, Salem
Student at Willamette
Wins 1941 Honors
Queen of the 1941 Willamette
university May fete is Barbara
Young of Salem, chosen Thurs
day in a student body vote.
Total of votes cast for queen
was 440, wnue ine amendment
won by 301 to 121, barely the
necessary two-thirds majority.
Queen Barbara will reign over
May Weekend on May 2 and 3.
Her princesses, the I other candi
dates in the election, will be
Dorothy Baldwin of Beaverton
and Hazel Bunnell ! of Portland.
The fete, under the t management
of Dave Reinhard of Salem, will
include a baseball game and stu
dent body dance Friday, spring
breakfast, coronation festivities
and junior play Saturday.
Approval was given an amend
ment to the student) constitution
for a revised publications organ
ization. Principal features of the
amendment, drawn by the upper
division journalism class, whose
instructor is Prof. Murco Ring-
nalda, are establishment of a
publications board with ji student
majority, unification of advertis
ing in student publications under
a single manager, nomination of
Collegian and Wallulah editors-
in-chief and advertising manager
by the board. It will j go into ef
fect at the time of the student
body election this May.
Joe Martin Calls
On GOP to Help
WASHINGTON, April 2-JPh
Rep. Joseph W. Martin, jr., re
publican national Chairman, called
on Americans Thursday night to
unite in making ; the nation in
vincible against I assault from
within or without and declared
his own party must police and
audit the Roosevelt administra
tion in the present emergency.
In an address prepared for
broadcast over CBS, the Massa
chusetts representative declared
that In the midst of a great na
tional crisis there was a; vital need
for vigorous, virile republican
party.- HP ' I ;
It must, he said, "police and
audit the new deal administra
tion to protect our country from
financial, political
and social
bankruptcy.1
V
The Kossian steamer Vaslav Verovsky is shown above hard aground
breaking shoreward from it. Cape Disappointment llfhthouse is in right background. North Jetty at
the mouth of the Columbia In the left background. This Associated Press photo rushed to The States
man by special service. . ,
Nazis, Japan
Arrest Yanks .
Uncertainty Spreads
as Residents Taken
for Questioning
BERLIN, April Many
American -residents of Berlin
mads) arrangements Thursday
night to telephone each other fre
quently and were urging friends
to call often at their homes and
offices as uncertainty spread as to
who. would be arrested next.
The name of the Rev. Stewart
Herman, pastor of the American
church of Berlin, was added to
the list of United States citizens
called in by police for an unex
plained and apparently routine
questioning.
(Herman, of Harrisburr. Pa..
was struck on March 27, 1936
by a nasi workman who
thought the pastor ; showed a
lack of reverence for the nasi
flag. Herman failed to salute
the flag daring the .minute of
silence ordered throughout Ger
many that day.- The worker
disappeared when he learned
Herman was an American.
Propaganda ministry spokes
men expressed regret for the
incident)
The purpose of the Americans
in keeping in touch with each
other was to be sure someone be
side the police would know of any
future arrests.
if someone is missing any
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 6)
Red Web Told
In SF Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, April
A spider-web maze of organiza
tions spun by the" communist par
ty through almost every phase of
American life from the courts of
law to the farm, from universi
ties to the waterfront, '" as pic
tured Thursday by ex-communist
witnesses in the j deportation
hearing against Harry Bridges,
CIO. longshore leader.;
FarreU Schnering of Milwau
kee, Wis., unemployed for 20
months, testified members of the
organization ranged from young
sters "more interested in playing
baseball than in the class strug
gle,'' to "second rate intellectuals,
broken down school teachers,
writers who couldn't find pub
lishers to publish their books.
older women.
Governor Wetoes Wine Measure
The Jones wine bM, authorizing
sale of light natural wines over
bars, met the expected veto by the
governor Thursday as the number
of 1941 enactments awaiting ex
ecutive office action was cut to
11. S '-Kuii-'-
"I fully recognize the distress
which has attended berry grow
ing, Gov.-Charles A. Sprague's
veto message' read,-"and were the
interest of berry growers the only
thing to be considered I would be
Russ Freighter Stuck
On Peacock Spit
Captain Remains Alone on Vessel Doomed
at Mouth of Columbia; Crew and Pilot -Removed;
Little Hope for Floating
ASTORIA, Ore., April S -
lone vijril Thursday nieht on
"fXkaSeet drhinished Jotihe
tends of Peacodk spit at the mouth of the Columbia river.
' The highest tide of the day
began to ebb at 6:11 p. m. and
the steamer, with only Captain S.
Tookareff aboard, still was hard
aground.
X coast guard beat went out
at high tide to remove all on
the Russian ship, but, after 16
others had descended, the cap
tain yanked the ladder and or
dered the others to shore.
A seven-foot tide at 538 a. m.
Friday wiU present the next op
portunity to pull the ship off the
spit
The Vorovsky, outbound from
ASTORIA, Ore., April 3-UP)
-Captain S. Tookareff, last man
aboard the Russian freighter
Vaslav Vorovsky, grounded at
the mouth of : "Columbia' river,
signaled coast guardsmen late
Thursday night to remove him
from the threatened ship.
Portland for Vladivostok with oil
drilling machinery, oil rags and
lard, piled onto the spit apparent-.
ly wnue sne was unoer power
early -this morning. The weather
was clear but a 40-mile wind was
blowing. ;
The bar pilot who was taking
her ! out of the Columbia river,
George Conway, of Astoria, has
been removed. Cause of the acci
dent remained Obscure. It ap
peared, however, that the Amtorg
Trading company's 4793 gross ton
steamer's rudder failed.
Coastguardsmen took 37 mem
bers of the crew, including two
women, ashore shortly after the
accident
Holds No 2 and 4 were flooded
and water was up . to the cylin
ders in the engine room. In addi
tion the Vorovsky listed heavily
to starboard.
Some of the bulkheads had
buckled, a few plates were run
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New Rubber Plant
NEW YORK, April 3-CFV-The
Herald Tribune says E. I. Du Pont
De Nemours & Co. will build a
new plant at Louisville, Xy., to
enlarge the company's manufac
turing of neoprene synthetic rub
ber, j
most happy to do Something for
their benefit But the Introduction
of sales of wine up to 14 per cent
alcohol by ; yolume : would be
drastic alteration of the plan, of
liquor control set up following re
peal of prohibition. s , -.
fAt present thconly bar sales
of alcoholic beverages allowed is
for beer with an alcoholic content
of1; 4 ! per cent Even this .har
brought its problems and numer
ous complaint have been made
en Peacock spit with whitecaps
- A Russian sea captain kept a
the freighter Vazlav Vorovskv as
vessel ,Q escapCeracherous
is sae Eat..
Paul Hauser'g Column
We see that the Easter egg sea
son Is upon, us, but you needn't
expect us to go rolling eggs. We
fust 1a
We have some-f
what of an aca--d
e m i c interest;5 4
in eggs, espe- i
.1.11.
-fillH rrom uHtTi
choc olate out-
sides, but we're
still not convin
ced they
sd they corned
tan a rabbit t
It was our in-J
Test in eggsj
hat made usTT
from
terest
that made
stop in front of
rani B. Haoser. if.
a booth in a local emporium yes
terday where a young lady was
boiling some eggs.- A sign over
her head said something like,
"Geet your autographed Easter
egg here." . -
We didn't know whether the
egg was going to be autographed
by the hen that built it or by the
young lady, but we stuck around.
The young lady kept putting
fresh eggs in the boiling water,
but while we stood there ber 'au-
(Turn to Page 16, CoL 4)
Jym Jamboree -
Set Tonight
Girls of senior high school gym
classes will go patriotic tonight
in their presentation of the an
nual Jym Jamboree, opening at
8 o'clock. Under the direction of
Mrs. Grace Wolgamott, second
performance will be given Satur
day night. .
"Why We Cam to America
is the title for, the dances and
skits. Betty Provost portrays the
central character of liberty. The
grand finale is a huge American
flag comprising 72 girls dressed
In red, white and blue.
against so-called beer parlors. To
widen the sales at retail as this
bill contemplates would surely in
crease the .dangers from this
source because of the higher alco
holic content of the wines. . , -j ; :
"The larger good of the people
as ft whole should prevail over the
potential benefits to the group
whose assistance It Is sought the
object of the proposed legislation.'
(For . action on other bflls," see
page 3.) V V . '
buhdha
Fnr n
Italians Repeal Resignation in-
Loss of Ethiopia and Eritrea;
British; Adnnt Libya
Court Forbids
GO Violence
Ford and Unic n Men
Differ on Plans
for Settlement
DETROIT, April 3-W-Fed-
eral court forbade tfhe CIO's
United Auto Workers Thursday
night from "interferitog" with
Ford Motor company employes,
and the union immediately ac
cused the company of breaking its
word in a pact to keep the River
Rouge plant closed.
The; company's application for
1 the injunction, a union statement
-aid, was a "deliberate violation !
-4 its pledge to make no effort to 1
jpen the Rogue plant fduring a
j period of conciliation. A tern-i
fporary injunction was issued by
Judge Arthur J. Turtle.!
. For ,-two. days ,the giant. River
Rouge plant, - employing 85,000
men, has been -closed because of
the UAW-CIO strike, n a sur
prise - move . Thursday night - the
company sought a court; order to
restrain the UAW-CIO from
"threatening and intimidating em
ployes. ' 1
Judge Tuttle, ruling there was
"a great emergency at the Rouge
plant, granted the order.!
The union statement from R.
J. Thomas, president and Michael
F. 'Widman, jr., chairman of the
UAW-CIO's Ford organizing drive,
condemned the injunction as "un
justified. A motion for
idismissel
will be made tomorrow,
Thomas
said.
WASHINGTON, April 3-P-
The possibility of federa seizure
and operation of the long strike
bound All is -Chalmers plant in
(Turn to Page 16, CoL 6)
War News Briefs
LONDON, April 4-(Friday)-OP)
The miinstrj of information
anounced today that British
bombers attacked Brest, jon the
German-occupied Frenchl coast,
Thursday night.
MANILA. April 4-(Friday )
(AVSir Robert Brooke-Popham,
British commander-in-chief in
the far east, left by plane for
Honr Kong- today following, ft-
two-day visit with high Ameri
can' military and civil
here.
officials
WASHINGTON, April
In a step Just short of a break In
relation, the United States
Thursday linked Italy's high
ranking naval attache herf with
widespread sabotage of Italian
merchant ships and bluntly told
his government to call j him
home Immediately.
LONDON, April 4-(Friday)-(AVGerman
bombers sharply
attacked ft west country Rector
for - several hours Thursday
night and early today and sub-'
Jected London to two night
alarms without"; bomblngi the
capital. Heavy anti-aircraft
fire beat off the western attack,
witnesses said.
: CADIO, April 4-(Friday
-British general headquarters
announced early today that the
army ef the Nile had wthdrawm
from Bengasi, important Libyan '
seaport but had v Inflicted feon- .
slderable casualties en personnel
and tanks" of axhv mechanized
forCCS. j
WASHINGTON, April tfilP
The senate Thursday ratified an
agreement between the United
states and Mexico for the jtraa
sit of military planes across; each '
other's territory. f 1 Approval
came on a voice vote after s
brief ' explanation of the agree-'
ment by Chairman George' (D-,
Ga) of the foreign relations Icom-'
mlttee.
gs as
elgrade
MusstilinVs Newspaper Tells
O f People's Sorrotc in Loss;
Berlin Lists Balkan Crimes
" By The Associated Press '"
Yugoslavia declared Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana open cities
early Friday as German diplomats leaving Belgrade disclosed they
had ordered standbags to protect German buildings from nazi
bombs, which, they said, "probably soon will be dropping.'
Belgrade, though hoping to escape from bombs by the dec
laration, nevertheless held a half hour practice blackout. " . s
The German diplomats said they had no official word of the
"undefended cities" declaration, made in a government communi
Axis Blamed
7
7
. COUNT PAL TELEKI
Hungaiy Chief
Shoots Self 3
Premier Leaves Notes
Saying "Future
Is Hopeless
BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 3.
-P)-Count'Pal TelekJ," the pre
mier who aligned Hungary with
the . axis' but fought to keep her
from falling completely, under
German .domination, was found
dead in bed. Thursday, and autb
oritative sources said he had put
a bullet through his. brain. "
Most Hungarians agreed that
the man they knew as the great
tight-rope walker took his life be'
cause he could not continue his
precarious balancing act
Death came as motorized Ger
man troops moved to southern
Hungary; amid reports the nazis
were demanding Hungarian army
help to attack: Yugoslavia, with
which Teleki - had a friendship
pact "r"
He left farewell notes to his in-
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 1)
He's in Jail
But Pets Free
Albert TClotsen, SOS Bellevue
street must spend 15 days in
JaU. but bis eat and dog have
their freedom. i - v-
M & pan, Thursday Tillotsen.
stood before: Municipal Judge
nannah Martin as she 'sentenced
him te JaU for drunkenness. ;. :
"My cat and ' dog are t locked
up," TlUotseu protested. "Tve
got te let them, out I before -1"!
get locked up. -I -.-- : "
Judge Mart la told him te go,
without police escort, to free
his.. pets. ;..; ;-:V-''r.-T.v' ' ,
At f pan. Tillotsen returned
to the city bastnie, ready te
start his 15 days.
i . . . 4
Retreat
que which promises to inform all
belligerents concerned if the "ef
forts of the royal government for
peace fafl. .
Yugoslavia at the same time con
tinued to rush soldiers of its "many
races to frontiers already virtu
ally ringed by axis legions chief
ly Germans. C
- In . Athens, the: newspaper
Kathemerini Quoted the Yugo
slav foreign .- minister, Mont
chilo Nlnctc as saying the sit-,
nation In .hi country .was de
veloping toward "warwar .
which others wanted to Impose
n' us. .
' He said that the government
accepted the tripartite pact but
that subsequent conversations to
WASHINGTON, April 4-(Friday)-()-The
United
States has flatly rejected Ger
man and Italian protests against
the seizure of 30 merchant ves
sels in American harbors, it
was learned authoritatively to
day and refused axis demands
for release of the ships and 875
crew members now in custody.
clear up points impigning on "the
national honor" were broken off. ;
At the Rome end of the axis,
the Italians,, by their own words
and those of their allies, the Ger
mans,, were pictured as resigned
to a major disaster hi Africa and
as exhibiting toward the Balkan
crisis little of the confident bel
ligerence shown by the nazis. 4 !
The manifestation, of gloom in
Italy was beyond question for
Mussolini's own newspaper re
ported the , people's "sorrow at
Ethiopia v and Eritrea," in effect
thus acknowledging the imminent
fall of the whole of Italian east
Africa, and plainly told them to
expect more ."painful losses." :
In this extraordinary bald
warning- written by the mili
tary commentator Mario Appe
. lius there was but ft single re
, mark to suggest some feeling of
confidence: , that Britain was
" (Turn to Page. 16, CoL 1)
GamacHo;Kiii
Ordered Held
MEXICO CITY, April J-flPV-
President Avila Camacho was re
ported Thursday night to have or
dered the arrest of his younger
brother, Gabriel, in connection
with the fatal shooting this morn
ing of Manuel Cacho, son of Mex
ico City's leading jeweler, . in ft
political argument
Francisco Moreno Sanche2.
chief of the division of investiga
tion of the federal district attor
ney's office, said the president's
32-year-old brother was held in
the penitentiary. A
Moreno Sanchez said agents
from his office had arrested Ga
briel after receiving instructions
from the presidency. The chief
executive was described as "out- ,
raged" by the incident' ",
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Windsors Stranded r ; 1
NASSAU, The Bahamas,' April
3-P-The Duke and Duchess cf
Windsor, stranded " for ' ft : Vm
aboard-Alfred P., Sloan's yach!
Rene, which ran. aground Thurs
day afternoon off Abaco -island
landed here at 8 p. m.
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