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PAGE TWELVE v Angell Urges Centennial Ltion Recoffifi WASHINGTON, April 3-P-Legislation to provide recognition and commemoration of: the first civil government established in the Oregon country on May 2 and July 5,' 1843, was urged in the house Tuesday by Rep. An gell (R-Ore.). The achievements of pioneers , traveling the Oregon Trail from Independence, Mo., to the Wil lamette valley of Oregon were recalled by Angell, who said the 100th anniversary of the estab lishment of civil government should be given ftiting recogni tion by congress. He placed in the congressional record a memorial from the Ore gon . legislature urging Washing ton, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and the national government to Join the state in proper observance f the deeds of the pioneers who blazed the trail to the Pacific coast. The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning. April 4. 1S41 : i 1 - 1 i. - - : I i . i : . ! Army Uses Cable Bridge to Cross River Italo Tanker Chief Reveals Fire Reasons TAMPICO, Mexico, April The captain and chief engineer of the scuttled Italian tanker At las were jailed Thursday night by federal police, who quoted the master as saying he carried fas cist orders to "blow up" his ship if it ever arrived in a US port and was threatened with seizure. An agent of the federal attor- F 1 jJ t - t - - - .-..( ;.- , : , V. T' . "r -'T , , . . - t -' - i I t t , . ' -I " 4 ' S " l ' r ' t " - - rXi vr t; -1 - ... ...... A new type cable bridge developed by Lieut CoL R. B. Lord is given a successful trial at Fort Riley, Kan., as a seven-ton military truck Is whisked up, over and across Smoky Hill river three hours after construction of the device was started. Below is a new type portable foot bridge with which the army is practicing. AP Telemai. ney-generaFs office said thfe two confessed responsibility foj: the sinking of the Atlas Monday night and would be arraigned, probably Friday, on charges of saljrotage endangering navigation in Tam- pico harbor. The Atlas was pumped out and refloated Thursday, and examin ation showed the engine cylinder heads had been smashed with a sledgehammer. Flashes of Army Life P IE P P IE rS Wf)(k TOriATO JUICE 18-oz. 2 for H50 Large 46-oz. 190 GMPEFRUIT Fancy Del Monte No. 303 Cans, Ea. BOREIIE SOAP 90 Per Case S2.C0 4 bars for 150 FLOUR or 2.29 CLIPPER BRAND or WESTERN CHOICE Ckf 49 lbs 980 RED WHITE AND BLUE KITCHEN QUEEN 49 lbs DRIFTED SNOW 4 Jf" 49 lbs. JL FISHER BLEND Q 49 lbs. . JLaO 4 11)8. Pancake Flour lc with Each 49-lb. Bag POPGOnil dSm lbs. for 150 PREL2 Cans for SBOCO Lb. tic!) Grade A Large Dozen 1BC Without Cartons SHOBTEinilG DINNER BELL 3 lb. tin '.1 ..: 370 CLM2S KCB Tall 10-os. Tins 2 for 25 C SUGAR BROWN GOLDEN C 3 lbs. for 160 WHITE SATIN, 100-Ib. Bag Dae t the eontinual Increase in price we cannot advertise prices, bat ar prices .will be rijht at all times. ' : . Dinner Bell i Lb. sPEiJicn H and D or FAME. Large 12oz. Bag I-Iarshmallows i Factory Cello Wrapped i .... 80 TRY THIS CANDY RECIPE ICI KKISPIIt II MAIIHMAllOW taUAKil . U . B I r mp ovum 9 mtiuuM vatrnw Htt. mrtmnow (about 30) Itott batter HMrsMwItowt In iibli etf. Add illti; t t . Put Rkl Kna- M. Cat tata hhiM. VMd; It J5-ttdl aquarM 1 l 10iIO-indlDM)L ,nr IMa:aat 1 tatr a ta 109 No. 2', Can, Each 140 ,731 1---- (By The "Associated Press) CAMP BOWIE. Tex. The Job of barllnf the boys of the 36th division oat of bed is, more ; or less, a pipe. The yoanc man . with . the horn simply reaches under his cot, turns off the alarm, leans back on his pillow and blows the notes softly, in a bedside microphone. Four large amplifiers placed about the post do the rest. CAMP LEE, Va--jp)-"Your first name?" asked the quarter master replacement center classification and assignment of ficer of a raw recruit. "Charlie." "Tour middle name?" "I don't have a middle name, sir." "The record here aires a mid dle initial. f Do you or do you not have a middle name?" The line lengthened as the soldier shifted: from one foot to the other. "Yes, sir."" "Well, what is it?" -McCarthy, sir." " There was a last name, of course, bat few of the soldiers will remember it. FORT BRADY, Mich. Serf e ant Frailer of the medical corps, , who is no Hnauist, has reehristened three of his assist ants as follows: KurtinskI to "Casey," Wojelo ehowski to "Murphy" and Mien tkiowskl to "Kelly." CAMP SHELBY, Miss. Priv ate Dayne Penny of the 134th field artillery band was sum moned to headquarters. ' "When," asked the officer, "are you roinr home?"- "Home?" the bewildered sol dier countered. "Didn't you know that your enlistment ran out 15 days ax?" the officer inquired. Penny ran out, too, in the general direction of his home In Bucyrus, . Ohio. INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa- I The tune that has delighted th i men at this military reservation is entitled "Your Number Has I Been Called." ' It . was written by Sergeant ! -David F. Lindsay of Philadelphia. But, incidentally, his ber wasn't called. He enlisted. Hop Growers Will Elect For the purpose of electing a representative to serve on the growers' advisory committee for a two year term, a meeting of hop growers of district six, which in4 eludes1 the $alem.-vicinity, will be held April 10 at 8 p. m. at the chamber of commerce rooms, ac- cording to C. W. Paulus, manage ing agent for the hop control board. Romeo Gouley is at pres ent a member of the committee. Similar meetings are being held in the 11 other hop districts of the state on the same date, Pau lus said. ' Farmers Union News TALBOT-r-About 130 DeoDlo at,! tended the meeting of the Sidney Talbot -Farmers union'- meetins Friday . at Talbot . school house. , J . An hours program was riven by four- cotton- blossom singers, students of the Piney Woods school in Mississippi. ' 1 ' The I obligation; of the Farmers Union was read' by G. W. Ptotts sr., to Henry Hess.- Mr. and Mrs. Clint Hampton and Edwin Swartf! '. Refreshment committee ap pointed , ior 4 the ;next" meetina J is MTi . and-. Mrs. Firedjorgerisoir, Chris ' Jtr0fnnri Ut. arulv HT- : i John Jones," Mr. -and Mrs. afn f Iuneen and ASr. . and "Mrs. "ir-h-1 lard King.7:--.: --r -;t' Twenty Silverton Teachers Get Raises; Eight Given Guts SILVERXON Twenty Silverton teachers were given a raise in salary and eight teachers received cuts, H. W. Adams announced Thursday. Adams, superintendent of schools and clerk of the districtJ is working under a three-year con tract and his salary remains un affected. The three principals, Harold Davis, senior high school; Richard Barse, junior high school, and Harry Cameron, Eugene Field building, were renamed at the same salary.' v Special salary increases given Mrs. Vera Cox, dean of girls; Ray Goates and Kenneth Hewitt, ath letic coaches. The 20 increases will affect, those in the lower brackets who have been in the Silverton system two years or more. The general raise for this group is ?45 a year- The cuts, refered to by the school board as "adjustments," will affect those In the upper brackets of salary and amount to 3 per cent Two resignations were accepted and more are looked for. Miss Kathryn Slawson resigned to ac cept a position at Oswego.. Miss Seville Riley does not plan to continue teaching. No new teachers have as yet been hired. Vacancies will prob ably be acted upon at the .May meeting, Adams said. He announced that the two per cent interest bid at par Marion county offered for the $2000 ne gotiable bonds was accepted. Only one other bid was received, that of Fordyce and Co., Portland, at $100.06 and 2 per cent interest. the,gra-tvc Tacoma Told No Blackout Needed There TACOMA, April Z-fP)Smcke and haze, not blackouts will pro tect the city of Tacoma from any enemy bombers flying over the city, Col. William H. Crom, com manding officer of McChord field, told a Tacoma audience Thursday. Col. Crom revealed that the army is now installing radio beams to overcome this visibility hazard. Seatle, however, should not de pend on blackouts for protection he said, as the surrounding- lakes, easily visible to pilots, afford fine landmarks either night or day. "You have a splendid climate. I have nothing against it, but it is a fact fliers have difficulty spot ting oven McChord field through the haze," he said. Best Burglar Boasts 300 Robberies SPOKANE, Wash, April 3-(JP) -Not quite the best but possibly! the most modest burglar in the! world, thinks Detective Lieu ten ant L. E. Richards of Los An geles, is James Pope, 27, brought here from the -southern Calif or nia city to testify before a federal! grand jury., .. . 4 "Pope," . reported , , the detec tlve. "says there is only one bet-t1 iter burglar in the world- than he, and - that's - the man he learned f rom. The witness pleaded guilty ' to a burglary charge at Los .An geles and will be returned tomor row for sentencing, Richards said. With him will be Morris Simon, accused by federal authorities here of conspiring with Joe Schnitzer of Portland and Harry Shulxnan of Spokane to transport $8,000 worth of stolen jewelry from Spokane to Portland. Oscar Oldknow, Los Angeles, whose home was burglarized, also was here to testify. "Pope testified (in Los An geles) he committed more than 300 burglaries in the ultra- rich district," Richards continu- u. ed. "The 60 square miles in which : he operated represents more wealth than any other similar district in the country. He testified the proceeds of more than 40 burglaries went directly to Simon. "He has an uncanny knack of picking out good Jewels and leaving fakes even at night. Says he can tell real pieees by the feeL" ' The audacious. Pope, added the detective, "talked his way out" of several fashionable homes when caught in an tmdetermined number ot cities of a ; heatless permanent waving preparation declared by the federal food and drug admin istration to contain a "dangerous poison." - ' . - f A socially prominent Georgia matron died a few minutes after a visit to a hair-waving shop us ing the preparation. - r Dr. P. B. Dunbar said the prep aration was known as the - "Wil lat method of heatless permanent waving" and that his agency had put that name into a federal court record- Thursday to moving to seize the product . . .. . science Bothered Him A conscience-stricken souv enir hunter, m an unsigned letter. -Thursday returned to the executlve department, here twe number plates removed - from fire signal stations in the state capitol last Sunday. "Because of a stricken con science I am forced to return these two numbers the letter read. "I hope they will the proper persOTu" Wave Lotion Said Poison WASHINGTON, April 3-PH Federal agents moved swiftly! Thursday to clear beauty salons IF(lDim , The following Judgments, Claims, Notes and Accounts are offered by the undersigned, ks agents, for sale to the highest liidder. The right is reserved to reject in full, or in part,3 any offer. v - Name : Address H Amount ' Cross, J. 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