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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1941)
-. k ' ffACC nszxr Tha CTATESMAIT. Coiam. Oregon. Friday Morning April 4. 1SU - - - - - : t t I . . : r These Are Metropolitan Opera Contract Winners C A n va I ' 9 ft I - y j -: n Mou Paulee, Mary E. Vu Kirk and i?iqr. f-a Being handed Steade ( win-Wmiasss thtt three pany udr for tXfiOQ by Arthur W. left), president of tha Sher- eompazry, radio sponsor, are the Hit intinlTTiii Opera com- Pankw, mi i im-goprano of EdmoctOB, Aiberta, and Los Angeles; Uarj Van Kirk, contralto, of Cleveland, ana Lanier Hat field, baritone, of Xraakna. Va At rrtriens left is Edward Johnson, jMetropoHtaa Opera Impresario. The trio has been given Metropolitan contracts. Soviet Ship Still on Spit (Continued From Pace 1) tared and the sake Tmlres I had fast la a crasBe af alnkiar AttWm gh the Aip crmouied inside, hm was ia direct wit the tar aad woald cet little imteetUa frMt the Jet ties! The Vorovsky, formerly the British freighter Uaskinoufe, was launched la Stmderlaad, Englaitd, In 1912. She is the first ship of any size to hit Peacock spit since the freighter Iowa was blown co to the deadly sands In 136 dur ing a storm. SKe was lost with all hands. Almost 70 ships are known to have ended their days on the spit and countless pieces of unidenti fied wreckage have washed in from it. Cougars Feted At Banquet of the senate finance committee ia the absence of Senator Harri son (D-Miss), said he thought thi3 amount could be raised by rate increases within the present tax structure without invading other fields. New Army Units Planned by US From Selectees WASHINGTON, April 3-;P)-Plaas for the organization of more than 300 new army units, ranging in size from small de tachments of 10 or 15 men to full regiments, were a n n o u need Thursday by the war-department. These units will be formed from the first ".graduate", class of selective service trainees who will complete their preliminary train ing in replacement centers be ginning about June 30. There will be approximat-ly 148,000 train ees in this group. Among the units to be formed, with their strength and locations were: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d battalion, and batter ies F, H. I A DN K (Searchlight), 14th Coast Artillery, harbor de fense of Columbia, Wash., 100 men. 00th engineer regiment (heavy pontoon), 400 men; and 73rd En gineer Co., (light pontoon), 200, Fort Lewis, Wash. 20th Signal Co. (radio intelli gence), Fort Lewis, Wash., 200 PULLMAN, Wash, April 3-(JF-This wheat country "home of the Washington State -college Cougars snade up for lost time Thursday night, cramming into one evening the celebration of three basketball championships. Coach Jack Friel and his squad f Washington-grtwn giants, who men. won the northern division. Pacific 1 72d Tank BN. (Med), 606, and : coast and western collegiate 76th Tank BN, (light), 450 men, . crowns after they were picked to j Fort Lewis. finish well out of the running, i Fort Lewis CC. D, 58th QM were honored guests at a dinner regiment (heavy maintenance), attened by every Putmanite who 1 200; 2nd platoon, 21st QM Co., could squeeze into the Washing-1 (:-4), 25; CP. B, 204th QM bat ton hotel banquet room. I talion (gas supply). 100; Head "It was the way those Cougars ! quarters and Headquarters de won their games, not the fact that tachment, 73d QM BN., (light they won them, that makes Ihem maintenance) 10;-Co. T3d QM magnificent m my opinion." said I BN, 150; 18th QM Co. (railhead) veorge varneu. Seattle sports 100 men- writer. The reception, said moved the string the defeat gave the boys. WSC dropped its first two games in the northern division f the Pacific ' Coast conference,, thea piled up 13 straight victories to take the division crown. FrieL re-Wisconsin Raising New Taxes Seen by Congress WASHINGTON, April 3-(,$V-Senator George (D-Ga) said Thursday after a conference with Chairman Dough ton (D-NC) of the house ways and means com mittee that it was "highly prob able" that congress would aim at raising $1.500 .900 40 in new taxes. George, who is acting chairman Enlistecf Air Student Pays Visit to Folks Corp. Thomas B. Stuart, son of Mrs. Edith Farmer, Salem, re turned recently from Scott field, 111, where he graduated from the army radio school. He will be stationed with the 89th reconsoisanee squadron at McChord field. Wash, where he will operate radios in tlve large bombers. Stuart visited briefly with his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Anna Patton. Blaze Razes Idaho Hangar jPOCATELLO, Idaho, April 3-(JPp-Fire destroyed the hangar at the municipal airport Thursday night with damage estimated un officially at $25,000. Planes housed in the hangar were destroyed. They were used by students enrolled ia eiril aero nautics authority civilian - pilot timing programs. lre Chief A. A. Girard said cause of the fire was undetermined. Senate Approves Record Annual Farm Appropriation Sans Vote WASHINGTON, April 3-P-Beatin down' all attempts to cut the total, the seriate Thursday approved a rerxjrd-4Keaking annual farm bill carrying $1,340,622,707 cash. "v The measure, "which went thsxm&i sviihoat a record vote. now ' goes back to the bouse for consideration of nearly $459,t8,-! 000 added in the senate. , Senator Taft R-Ohk) led a futile attempt to reduce a $450, 000,000 ; "parity payment" item. 1 Protesting against "raids on the! treasury" and increases ia non-de-fense costs, Taft asked that "this fond be beld to the $tl2,OO0,JO0 voted by the house and Teeom-1 mended by President Roosevelt's budget. The economy effort was smoth ered under a 41 to t vote as Sen ator RusseU I-Ga), floor man ager for the bill, asserted the ben efit payments " would merely per mit "farmers to csMst while labor and industry reaped linge profits from the defense program. A second test on an increase A $35,000,000 in funds to finance the stamp plan for eustxibuting food to needy persons failed to produce a single opposition vote. The roll call showed 58 senators answering -aye." ' From then on items ranging from a few thousand dollars to mm inns were approved "without objection. Under the senate version, near ly a billion dollars would be paid out of the treasury In the form of benefit payments to, farmers co operating in administration farm Both the house and senate ap proved without dispute a $500, 000,000 fuad for "amL conserra tion" payments to growers who comply with acreage allotments and soil building rules. The dis agreement was ever "parity pay ments" intended to raise the pur chasing power represented in five major crops: cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and rice. The house had voted $212JB00, 000 for these benefits an next year's crops. The senate hiked this to $45100,000 and then made $150,000,000 available for this year's crops. AUis Clash Is Averted MILWAUKEE. April 3-dV A threatened attempt of, non strikers to reopen the strikebound Allis-Chalmrrs lffjg. Co, by force was averted Thursday as the de fense mediation board took a hand in the 72-dy-old contro versy. Leaders of the back-to-work movement, who bad declared they would use any tmrMy force to lines Friday snorning, rJ"f for lfte foray when omiunr and anion rep- had been j""Wfw' Satarday" . Likewise, the GO county coxm- cH called eft a. proposed counter The bad a coonty-sride work holi day to enable CSJ)O0 workers to display '"the solidarity behind the strikers" members of the CIO United Automobile Workers union. Except for a few jeers from the strikers as office workers reported for duty, ruiet prevailed at the factory today. AH work on $45. 060,00 worth of government or ders urgently needed for the na tional defense effort was in suspension. Henry Ford Grandpop DETROIT. April 3 0P-A seven and a half pound daughter was born at noon today to Sirs. Henry Ford XX. wife of Henry Ford's grandson The baby. Henry Ford's first great-grandchild, was born at Henry Ford hospital. The mother is the former Anne llcDoonelL She and Henry Ford Indicted on Bribe Charges f - i --- , . i i t $ i i I i j r - x t .xanssi m ssrar nraLi. iaa"sasssr ssssmaassasasjBBav naowMw sp w- m.n-J .fl rJrm it rmr 3tv to man, former Federal aankraptey relnroi. Tba charge to vol tan actions la bankruptcy sjosVarlaa at OMjfai st mm n xgssedjy Plan to Ban Convoys Seen WASHINGTON. April $ - A plan to ban use of American naval vessels to convoy shipments abroad was made the first objec-j tive Thursday of a congressional group organized to oppose in-i volvement in war." Senator Wheeler X-lfbntana); announced it had been decided to support the an ti -convoy resolu-j tion introduced by Senator Tobey (R-New Haven). At the same time, he said an H II were married last July 13 i Southampton, L. 1 home of th McDotmell family. member "executive committee' had been appointed to plan for mm tnfrtinn in every part of the country aimed at bin Ming up public seniment against taking the sew remaining steps that will lead to actual participation' in war. Wheeler is chairman of the or ganization formed at a meeting Tuesday of some 73 senators and house members. He asked the fol lowing to serve with him on the executive committee: Senators Clark (D-Mo-).Hulow (DSD), LaFollette Prog.-Wis.). and Taft CB-Ohio), and Representatives Fish (RNY). Van Zandt (BPal. lfuadt (R-SD) Hill (D-Wash.), Costello (D-Calif.) and O'Connor CD-lfont). BlackWatck On Duty Again Ladles From HelT Deciinxted at Dunkirk but now Reformed - By J. NORMAN UODGK LONDON. April a-HJPy-Depleted In the Briush retreat from France last June, the limed Scottish Black Watch has ; been, reformed and again is on . war uuw . ment of the 51st bighlanders u- vision, : . , The 4Uck-tartaned- Ladies From Hell" for more r man zoo years bare, helped to make Brit ish history; wne ver iwiuw Xought. there usually has been at least one" battalion of the hairy legged bighlanders. . vThere they wia iigas nexi last know, bat as am otn- : .id. fl tfn be. laddie. with sock a boasde toss a , neea." : (Qoeen XSzabeth Is " Stalllub "I Theirs nt tne onXy regiment of . ' the British army allowed to wear ,, the red . hackle of .courage. ;.The (., hackle a tuft of red feathers, that t dangles from the tamro-banter was won against the.' French , In , , 1795. French cavalry over-' : whelmed the red-coated regulars, captured two of their cannon, and turned them on the British.; t .v. Only the bighlanders lines held. The red hackle waSTnade their of ficial decoration by' a war fflce p h utr Tvrrm of 1S22. ' " .. Ocganlaed in lT2f to keep the peace in northern Britain, the regi ment has fought from Africa to Flanders and from India to North America. The watch was decimated in covering the British retreat from Fx ante last spring, only a few hundred of the kilties escaping to form the nucleus of the present regiment. Other regiments in the present 5 1st division are the Seaforths. ' Argyll and Sutherlands. the Cam eron and the Cordons. Earl Crawford Immed the Crsl unit of the Black Watch. He was j a lowiander and had no dan re galia or tartan. . He ordered dark kilts to set his retainer apart from " the red-coated regular British amy. IPj ' i ' - -lii' . aoauLr i tfttrr .iiii'.w.Yfiivimrtr TivifWftVfiYriiiiwwftYiiiiitiivmYiiiiiiiMMft wi-r inn-v iTnt.v M.irm.n . , . -j Mm tf CX-:-::-:-:-. . r-r f mmb. mmammmm t mm imi Fre- mm ) d d i t i c o ..la tha Veto Five Peopl Yes, five different people, having read our last week's ad, gathered enough cour age to try a. weekend with us and this is what they said: ?Weve often wanted to stop but were always afraid it is so "Ritzy", looking; but now that we know, bow beautiful and how reason able it is, we're coming often." And you will Cad it so. We cordially invite you.; ' Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Walker Dorchester House OCEAKLAGv ORE. WASHINGTON-(V"The beard of His Majesty, George III" so the label said went on sale re cently. The wisp of reddish -gray hair tied with a tiny red and blue bow was offered at a benefit-sale for the Briush royal air force. Just how much of a price tag to pin on the whiskers of the crusty chap who didn't think toe colonists were contributing enough to the royal treasury back in 1770 was puzzling to the society wom en selling several thousand dona tions ranging from a baby carri age to cakes. mm III e I3USTER0LE fcr lYoarOCLS This Sassa Expert Caret At tit first irn f the Diana Qoia tsplti eatckrag eld tWrchMUarf threats an rubbed with. Childrea'a MUd Hoatarele a preOact made to nremptiy seHepa taa DiSTXESS f children's caUs and icsoitiax; cooghs. TheQaiata bwwalwfra had the aanrWkfwBr just aboutthe BEST prodaet aiad when yea dm St aterole. M0JS thaa aa.'rdiary salve" warmiacv aaataiag Musterle kehta ia Beralar md Extra StreBth fr tast S H O W I N m - mm . . . Kw.VAJ :v..:.:.:::::j mm KvX'.v.v mm C0STUI2E JEWELRY We are showing the largest range of necklaces, bracelets, pins; lapel ornaments and exclusive pieces in costume jewelry that has ever been pre sented to a select trade. Be sure and get your Easter gifts early. Every article beautifully w raped and boxed. $1.95. $2.95 . $495 HATS You must visit our millinery department this week and see the pre-Easter showing of fine rnillmery. We have been fortunate in securing Sleadowbrooic!' original pattern hats for the peak of the season.' These numbers are exclusive to Price's. Be sure and et at least one of these beautiful creations, priced at ... . LDC1EII LEL0I7G Colognes, perfumes, soaps. A complete line. Lap suck, powders, rouges, make-up kits. All the new shades. Nasturtium is one of the new shades. Beau tiful compacts. Prices Range From $1.00 op G Kv..".".".". t...".5 - Ev.W.'A - - VVV ."-. - ' &&&& (Xw.'.v HAIJDKERCHIEFS hand embroielered 5Cc Ci $1X3 Handmade white linen, n ambers. AH handker chiefs axe imported tx-X-X-X5 $5.95 ,. $223 sif.rr HOSIERY SPECIAL For Easter gifts and personal wear. All lengths and weights. Regular price $1.00 and $1.15. You can: buy them for only ... I 32 or 3 for $2.G3 Bnrmel Handkerchiefs -of the Month. The most beaotifol print linen in America and sens at the un popular price of . ; siU Very fine Sheers, in generous sizes. Very popular at formal functions. PA Reasonably priced at only 9Uf BEAUTIFUL LUIGEDIE Specially styled and designed for Easter gifts. Crepes, satins and combinations; tailored and im ported lace trimmed; white, tearose and pasteus. We have just received dozens of beautiful gar ments bought especially to be sold at . . . $1.95 A $23 Valae at Other Stares Other Garments $3.95 to t53i vxx-xr ....---a - Yoar Far Eoafi EJW! rervirs irclcded wiih your sioraje xviltaal extra ccsl. Ask irJ ra big saving cn your iasnrance. sf - i.-.-.-j.vVi-.-.-----. A.-.-J.y'-'' .i....-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.v.-.i, n n - .... i--;y:X;.;.;X-. a;.;.;.;.;.-.. , t- Easier Gostnme Datjs New leather, patent and gabardine bags in alt sizes; handles and underarm. White, pastels, black patent and colors to match every costume. $2.55, $3.95 ,. $5.95 SILK HOSE Beautiful new Spring- shades in 2. 3 and 4 thread. You must see these beautiful hose to fully appre ciate them. m $1X3 3 & $2.75 lx$x mm C'X'X'X'3 i$$x3 1 Shoes for Deller-Vcor Our show stock is complete in every respect. Feat uring Bice O'Neill and Palter Deljso Shoes for discriminating women. We are showing all the better shades and colors. Prices range from . . . . $H95 $15.75 i : DEAD? TO WKFtil exclusive showiac of Spring wearing- apparel "ZJTttfifJ J006 of BtttrWand every garment is exclusive to our shop. Dressy Costumes. Spring coats, sheer dresses, beau wjeeu pruats; sport costumes. fornusTExcln. aivety purchased for the better dxessedrnenT- mm :-x:x-::xf i ::?x? ,v.v.-3 IV.'.V.VJ R-X-X-X w:x mm t-X-X'X-3 ' t-X-X-X-I I KSv.w.3 Pxwrj ill mm m xi;X;"' taaaa jveusmac a