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paw Twri; . , ... . 7 ; - ' ' I ..... , i . . . . - . ... . . - ... i ; j I QO Recalls Progress Reported in Settlement of-Ford Fight; Allis to Work (Continued from page 1) within the next 45 days to deter mine collective bargaining agents at the company's plants in Dearborn-and Detroit, Mich. When the bailoting Is held, Ford employes will have' opportunity to choose as bargaining representa tive the CIO-UAW or an AFL fed eral union, or they may reject both. : Other strike developments: New York Nation's soft coal industry, in which 90 per cent of the mines have been idle for a week, continued to be virtually paralyzed as labor and manage . ment failed to break their wage dispute deadlock, after being on the verge of agreement. Negotiations will be resumed at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. A new contract, covering 330. 00 United Mine Workers of America (CIO) in the eight state Appalachian area and in directly affecting 120,000 others ' In outlying states, was expected . yesterday, hot a rift between northern and southern operators over local wage conditions post poned settlement. Coatesville, Pa. Machine shop force, 130 CIO men, strikes at Lu kens Steel company for higher wages. Elizabeth, NJ CIO calls strike at Bay way plant of Phelps-Dodge Copper Products corporation. Cleveland Strike of CIO elec trical workers, asking, wage in creases, closed Harris-Seybold-Potter Co., machinery concern making shell lathes. San Francisco Three plants of American Can Co., employing about"-1000, closed by machinists' strike. In Washington, a house commit tee began an investigation of work stoppages in defense production. One witness at its initial hearings was John D. Biggers, dollar-a-year production director in the of fice of production management, who asked that management and labor "banish selfishness" and "put the interest of our country above our own." RICHMOND, Calif., April 7-P) The Richmond assembly plant of the Ford Motor company halted operations Monday afternoon when supplies from the struck River Rouge plant at Detroit were exhausted. The plant has been turning out 40 automobiles and trucks an hour, when operating at capacity. It employs 1500 men, 1200 of them on the assembly line. SAN FRANCISCO, April T.-(JP) About 50 plants, employing an estimated 5000 persons, closed Monday when the AFL Interna tional Machinists union called 1500 men on strike after wage negotiations broke down. Max Lowe, secretary of the California Metal Trades associa tion, said the firms held about $7,000,000 in defense contracts, Including those for machine tools and electrical equipment. Wootlburn Slates Cliemewa Clash WOODBURN Coach Hal Chapman's Woodburn high base ball team meets the Chemawa In dians here Tuesday at 2:30 pjn. Either Holman or Mathews will open on the mound for the Bull . dogs, who haven't as yet uncov ered a number one pitcher. Balance of the Bulldog lineup will probably consist of Pavlicek, catcher; Garber, first, base; Pear - son, second base; Gamero, third base; Gustafson, shortstop; Cros by, lefy field; Erwert, center field; Wertz, right field. Norse Man US Ships j LONDON, April 7-(P-Four United States destroyers trans ferred to Britain under the naval trade are manned by the Norweg ian navy and are under: the Nor wegian flag, the Norwegian for eign minister Trygve Lie,, said Monday. BILL DAVIS Distributor for HIRES ROOT BEER made from real root Juices. The nationally fa mous Root Beer drink. A deli cious, whole some, bever age. 1 and Fred A.-Davis will supply s your favorite deal- art with th f ra o u a drinks. - . Cm tzi Fred JL Davis - Distributors PHONE 5741 ese - . I : ... . Here's Type - - r - -f : n i - IT -ti V1' x v 1 i. jirz- -I i -) i.. - - , k ' . ' ! - - - ' v 5 fW - 1 J i ' I: ' - - - . These Yugoslav troops marched through Belgrade recently. Today they arc In battle positions meeting the attacks by German troops who were told by Adolf Hitler, "Soldiers of the East Front your hour has come." The Togo troops cry "Let 'em come, 'twill be their last hour." Latest reports from the Bal kan front indicates the Germans are having a tough time against the fighting men of the mountains. Hospital Head Resigns Post (Continued From Page 1) Dr. McNary, a cousin of U$ Senator Charles L. McNary and a native of Salem, joined tht state hospital staff here in 1891, and served that institution until 1906, when he resigned to enter private practice in Portland. j He received his early medical school training at Willamette unit versity. j From a small beginning, the Pendleton hospital has grown to an institution having an average of 1200 inmates. Mexico Calls Berlin Envoy MEXICO CITY,' April 8-(Tuesj- day)-(P)-The newspaper Excel soir said today it had learned ito reliable quarters that Foreigh Minister Ezequiel Padilla had called home the Mexican minister to Germany, General Juan Azcaij rate, for "consultation. j MEXICO CITY, April 1-(&ir Mexico .Monday night condemned the German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia. Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla said the attack should "serve as an example and an 'awakening" to persons who believed neutrality is a guarantee of peace and salvation. j TAMPICO, Mexico, April 7-(Jp) -The scuttled Italian freighter Atlas was refloated Monday night and will be towed across the Panuco river to new moorings fbr unloading her cargo of 1600 tons of bensol and toluene. MEXICO CITY, April 7--Mexico flatly rejected Monday night requests of Italy and Ger many for the immediate surrender of the 12 axis merchant ships seized in Mexican ports. j Police Solve -Theft Problem SILVERTON State Police Of ficer C. E. Emaheizer and Chief of Police Omar Halverson of Sjil verton, during the weekend clear ed up thefts which had been go ing on around the Silver Falls Timber company mill over a per iod of two months. The thievery had been carried on by minors and no arrests had been made by early Monday. Whether ainy would be made the officers said they could not say. Tools, including electric saw, had been taken from the saw shops. planers, lockers, pond and . un loading dogs. The variety includ ed almost every type of remOv able tool. First Lady Warns on Fifth Column Gossip ANNAPOLIS, McL, April l4JP) -Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Mon day advised women suspecting perrons of fifth column activities not to "gossip" but to report tieir suspicions to "proper government authorities." "None of us," she replied, ' any business saying anything rogatory about our friends neighbors. has de- or PUD Qrder Issued WASHINGTON, April The securities commission Monday issued an order declaring beginnig May 7 all issues of pub lic Utility securities -amounting to more than $1,000,000 . must floated through competitive bid ding. ' Qub Denounces Nye SEATTLE, April 7--The ex- ecutive committee of the King County Young Men's Democratic club denounced US Sen. Gerald P. Nye (R-ND) as "a renegade republican'' and sharply criticized two democratic officials'who were listed as sponsors of his address here Tuesday night. Xh of Yugoslav Troops In One Eas . . -Paul Hauer'$ Column (Continued From Pago 1) she was well pinned, though not seriously hurt. While people stood waiting around for a tow car to come and pull the automobile off her a cop climbed down under neath the big car and asked the woman if there was anything he could do. "Yes," she said. "Phone my daughter to turn the heat off under the preserves. And in San Francisco in 1906 they "had a little affair they still say was a fire. At one house, which suddenly got the dropsy and leaned over against it's neighbor. a woman rushed out wearing only a nightgown. Bricks were falling and fires were breaking out all over San Francisco, but she paused a moment on the Stoop to stick a note in a bottle. It said: "No cream today." And there was the woman who fell "through a manhole and was critically injured. The ambulance came and a crowd gathered. But before the ambulance crew could lift the woman out of the manhole she grasped - frenziedly jfor her handbag. They waited while she did a few little things. "I couldn't face all those people with a shiny nose," she said. Dance Revue Plans Made DALLAS The annual spring dance reyie, given by the stu dents of u Mrs. Dorothy Craven, will be held at the Majestic the ater, May 15 and 16. Seventy-five students, from two to thirteen years of age, from communities in Polk county wil participate. Mrs. Lee Miller will act as ac companist and Mrs. Bolton Stint nette and Mrs. Ernest Lettiken are assisting in making the cos tumes. Members of the Dallas high school boys' quartet will sing. The revue will be built; around the theme of the "Ginger-bread Boy." Business Is Good, Greeks Gonna Win" WASHINGTON, April 1-iIPf-Steve Vassilakos, who runs a pea nut and popcorn stand - near the White House lawn, announced that all his receipts Monday and Tues day would go' for Greek relief. "Business is good," Vassilakof declared, "the Greeks are going to win." i d dill co ..in the New ATLANTA -OP) -The plaintiff in a damage suit said locked auto mobile brakes caused a I serious accident. The defendant! pooh poohed the idea. So a full-sized, complete auto mobile chassis was carried (by hand) up four flights of j marble stairs and parked in front of the jury box in superior court. There it will be used to show how brakes do act. ! MACON, Gav-0P)-A Macon draft board had Its official life brightened by a letter from Private Benny Scott of Fort benning taken from a railroad fireman's Job and inducted Into the army In March. Scott wrote in part: - "I am inclined to believe nothing better ever happened to mo titan coming here!. . X sincerely grateful to the board." . KINGSTON, NC - VP) - Rodney Askew was .wading in a Duplin county , creek when a one-pound perch leaped into one of his hip boots. . - i He threw the prize back, how ever, because, he said: ; "One is forbidden to take fresh water fish during spawning sea son. -Besides, I have no j fishing license. OHEGON STATESMAN. Salem, FacinglNazis Siam Axis Plan Causes-Tension (Continued From Page 1) "sudden" and said that if Thailand signs the axis pact, tension unques tionably will increase in the far east. Thailand's adherence to the axis, it Is believed here, would end all doubt about her attitude toward Singapore, the Malaya Peninsula and The Netherlands East Indies. The consensus of observers is that the "waiting period" In the far east is near an end and that concrete action toward Japan's aim of a "new order" in asia will be expected. Cited in support of this view, were the recent visit to Bats via of Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke - Popham. commander-in-chief of British Asiatic forces with headquarters at Singapore, and the British-Dutch-United States defense conferences in Manila. An alignment of Thailand with Japan would bring the latter's fighting forces down the Malay peninsula within sight of Singa pore and easy striking distance of The Netherlands East Indies. British Total Italo Losses LONDON, April 8-(Tuesday )-(iP-Italy' loss of the greater part of her African empire has cost her 191,195 men, the British ministry of information claimed today. Italian casualties including prisoners in Eritrea and Ethiopia up to April 5 totaled 20,169; in Libya up to March 4 the number was 140,000 including 24 generals and one admiral; in Italian Somaliland.the total was 31,000 in cluding one general. British losses up to February 23 were put at 2966. Italy lost 92,000 men in the Al banian fighting up to February 3, which made a grand total of 283, 195 in both war theatres, the Brit ish said French General Gains War Guilt Acquittal VICHY, France, April General Andre George Corap, whose ninth army collapsed at Sedan last May and opened the fatal hole in the allied front, has been exonerated by the Vichy gov ernment, a reliable source said Monday night Corap was vindicated in govern mental eyes after an investigation proved the general's army did not fail to blow up bridges over the Meuse river, the source said. Ger man forces crossed the river on their own pontoon bridges, it was said. Fair Pavilion Burned SAN FRANCISCO, April 1-JP) -Flames and! smoke billowed over Treasure island Monday as the beautiful Japanese pavilion was destroyed; by fire. The huge structure, one of the best-liked at the Golden Gate international ex position, was fired so as to clear the way for the navy's occupancy of the man-made island in San Francisco harbor. White House Picketed : WASHINGTON, April 7.-P-Between two and three hundred representatives of the American peace mobilization picketed the White House Monday, carrying signs demanding that the United States remain at peace. Dorcas Meet Changed i " Bethel Dorcas club wfll meet Wednesday afternoon- at the home of Mrs. J. Vinton Scott on -North Capitol street Instead of at the home of Mrs. John Hain, it was announced Monday night. ; ;iy:-: : j ; :. j Ex-Champ Skater Dies j : TLKRON.j Ohio, April IHJPH uoyd Lowther, 72, formr world champion f fancy roller skater, cued. Monday. , ; Oregon, Tuesday Morning. April Nazi Panzers Split Nations British Aid Stemming Of German Advance; Yugo Planes Raid (Continued from page 1) r down or . destroyed on the ground. (German radio reports heard in New York said 117 "enemy plains" had been de stroyed within the last 48 hours and total enemy losses Includ ing those: Jn the west wire 130.) -Belgrade, Yugoslav capital, was attacked for, the 'fifth time last night, DNB said. More fires were' started, the agency said. The Bulgarian army command in Sofia announced mat several persons had been killed' Sunday night when "foreign planes" bombed Sofia. (RAF planes attacked German military concentrations, railway Junctions and warehouses in So fia, the British said.) Budapest reported ten Yugo slav planes had been shot down over Hungary by Hungarian anti aircraft guns and an undeclared war already existed between those two countries. Britain-also notified Hungary of her decision to break diplo matic relations because of the presence . of German troops in Hungary. Britain already has severed relations with nazi -occupied Rumania and Bulgaria. (The British news agency Reuters, quoting the Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, radio, said Yugo slav troops had entered Scutari in northern Albania Monday night in action against the Italians.) Both Greek and Yugoslav troops were said to have inflicted heavy losses on the Germans, but no direct official word had yet been received from the Yugoslav government since the nazi blow fell at dawn Sunday. For their part the Greeks said the Struma river valley was strewn with German dead and claimed the capture of 500 more Italians on the Albanian front The Germans pounding into Yugoslavia were said to have penetrated 25 miles inland in some places, but the available in formation did not indicate that any vital Yugoslav defenses had been broken. . The Germans themselves, claiming general advances and the destruction of unspecified al lied positions, warned the people to expect no such spectacular suc cesses as occurred in the cam paign of the west, although de claring their confidence in ulti mate victory. It was not blitzkrieg country, they observed. In the skies, nasi pilots and the warplanes of the allies British and Yugoslav partic ularly fought a mighty strug gle which spread out beyond the areas of the ground combat to take in Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary, the minor axis partners and hosts to the Ger man divisions w h 1 e h sprang yesterday from those campaign grounds to open the Greek Yugoslav invasion. The RAF. the British an nounced, heavily bombed German troop concentrations, railway stations, factories and motor transport shops in Sofia, the war base capital of Bulgaria. ; "Considerable damage" was claimed. ' Hungary, Bulgaria and Ruma nia complained that Yugoslav bombers had raided Pecs, Szeged, Arad, Temesvar and Kustendil all long-established nazi air and land bases. The Germans, who appeared to be seeking to break Yugoslavia in bits from the air as they had done in Poland, claimed that the coun try's entire system of transport and communication had been "fa tally" disrupted and that at least 98 Yugoslav planes had been de stroyed. i They pictured Bulgaria, Ruma nia and Hungary as the victims of violations of international law, but professed themselves unable to say just how those countries would respond. The enormous German land movement appeared to be in five principal sectors from the Fiume river to the Aegean: Toward Ljubljana and Zagreb in northern Yugoslavia a region difficult of sustained defense. Toward Belgrade from the Hungarian frontier near Subboti ca. Toward the highly important railway center of Nis, which stands roughly at Yugoslavia's "waist." Toward the southern Yugoslav city of Skoplje, which commands the Vardar valley leading to. the Aegean. Roughly southward down the Greek Struma valley "defenses from southern Bulgaria. (Refer to Page 1 map.) - , The fall of this would mean the severance of rail connection be tween northern and southern Yu goslavia; Skoplje's capture would put the nazis halfway, across Yu goslavia to Albania and mean a possible junction with the Ital ians which would isolate Yugosla via from Greece and the British forces there. " " . It was for Hitler's armies a new sort of large-scale warfare for, Why Bo Sick? Bring this ad to my office est or before April 12. If 41. and it wCl entitle you to an appointment for a free spinal x-ray. DHL BOY S. SCOnSLD ' '"Palmer Chiropractor 48 S U. S. Bank IUdg. - Fh. C34T 8, 1941 save for the region -south of the Hungarian-Yugoslav frontier, bis Panzer divisions were of little ue in the wild country- where roads are hardly more than goat paths. Three months were required by the Germans in the world war fight through Serbia; a stronger Yugoslav army, aided by the Brit ish and Greeks, appeared prepar ed this time to put up a longer r sistance. - ' .- - ' 1 What the intensive use of avi ation would do in mountain war fare remained, , however, k to be seen. C.''-'.!-- ; r'"i'-' . Circuit Judge E. M. 'Max' Page Gets A New Marion County Judicial Post (Continued From Page 1) current jurisdiction over cases at law and at equity. - Mr. Page was born in Salem on April 28, 1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Page, 934 South Com mercial street. He attended the old Lincoln grade school, Salem high school and was graduated from Willamette university col lege of law, which he later served as faculty member, in 1913. He had to wait until he reached his 21st birthday, the following year, to gain admission to the Oregon bar. The new Judge's association with the law firm of McNary and McNary began on Decem ber L 1912. Senator McNary left the office in 1913 to accept appointment as Judge of the Oregon supreme court, returned in 1915 after losing an election for his return to the bench by one vote and left again to ac cept the United States senator ship in 1917. The following year W. E. Keyes, pioneer Salem lawyer, joined the firm, today known as Keyes and Page. John McNary left in 1927 to become federal dis trict judge for Oregon. Mr. Page has never held public office but has been active in civic affairs. He is a past commander of Capital post No. 9, American Legion, past president of the Sa lem Rotary club and past exalted ruler and district deputy of the Elks lodge. During the last war he was stationed at the Fortress Monroe, Va., coast artillery schooL SpragueNames KIDDf NG...ABOUT WHAT? EXCITING NEWS AHEAD -SO BE .4 Council Votes River Ro .Will Condemn Land To Straighten but ' Dangerous Curve (Continued from page 1) J was voted down by the council. Alderman avid OUararsaid . that there were no funds" In the .budget for - the purpose and that there would nt be in 1942 7. Without bitch r k council rkssed ord! nairyps -catlmga spe cial election May 20 and to place before the, people at ;the election a 00,000 bond issue for a. sew age disposal plant and a proposal tniriipg appointment of non-elec-tivW. city officials for two years, but balked at jref erring1 to the vot ers; a proposal to issue $30,000 in bonds for the new incinerator, j The incinerator bill was .re jected r to 4 after the council earlier accepted aa adverse re port from; Its . sewerage and drainage committee. :; i 4" I' lAldermaa! I F. Legarie ex plained that it was feared two bond issues jen the same ballot might confuse the Issue and re sult in death Of the sewage dis posal measure.' - " . LeGarie, suggested that the in cinerator proposal might be sub mitted to the voters at a later election. I Retention of an incinerator of some sort was urged from the gallery by Fifed A. Williams, for mer councilman and city attor ney. The present incinerator is to be torn down1 soon as an obstruc tion to aviation. Selection of a water commis sioner to succeed Floyd B. Seig muhd, who j has submitted his resignation for. reason of being called to active military duty, was deferred forj two weeks when Alderman'' LeGarie objected that thej council should not be hasty. Howard B. Jenks, member of the Jenks-Whit seed company, . was recommended by the water commission j to fill the vacancy and was nominated for the posi tion by Alderman Bert Ford. There werei no ether nomina tions. . - j Also deferred was action on a proposed new milk ordinance in order to give time for all objec tions to be heard. A number of dairymen appeared at the coun cil session and protested that they had not. had, sufficient opportun ity to be heard. The measure was referred to the health and sanitation commit tee and Chairman Mrs. G. F. Lob dell announced that a public hear ad Aid ( HONEST POP, O V VOU'RE MOT J A I I KlDPlNfi ) SURE TO READ BL ONDIE Datly in ing will be held in the council chambers next Monday at 7:30 pjn :;; : Condemnation ' of : powder house building en the wmiaxa Brown property near the airport, held by the CAA to be a hazard ous obstruction to air travel, was voted. The powder house is under lease to the DUPont company. The council approTed a change of cone from special business to class 2 business for" property on the northeast cor ner of Capitol and Market streets where new Piggly Wlggly store Is to rise. The proposed building will cost be tween $15,000 1 and $18,009. "'A resolution changing the sys tem of parking on Court street between Cottage and Church from diagonal to parallel was passed. Alderman Frank Marshall in troduced a resolution calling for transfer of $400 from the emer gency fund to the band concert fund. The resolution was accom panied by a contract in which the Salem municipal band would agree to furnish ten concerts, play in all parades during 1941 for $1000. The band concert fund was budgeted $600. Improvement of Smith street from Fairgrounds road to the Southern Pacific tracks a block away was asked by both the Will amette Valley ; Cherry Growers association and the Oregon state fair board. Authority was "given the civil service cforrprrtssioa bgt thf ffiftfoa council Monday night to hold a compeUtie , eftfminjltioif . for' a temporary appointment as J first . aid captain '. to replace Captain Charles M. Charlton, called to ac- tive naval duty. ; , The examination will not be limited to members of the fire department, but will be open to the general public Captain Charlton was granted a leave of absence and voted one month's pay of $150. Heart Attack Proves Fatal -.-. Warren A. Comsiok, 7T, died Sunday morning from a heart attack which struck him down at his home at 2330 Broadway. The first aid car was called nut death was declared instantaneous. He is survived by two daughters, Delia Coleman of Sutherlin, Ore, and Vinnie Wildman of Milkan, Ore, and a son, Howard O. Comstock of Salem. Funeral services will be held in the W. ,T. 'Rigdon. chapel Wednesday at 3 p. m. Rev. J. F. Lawson will officiate. Concluding services at the I OOF cemetery paper . -- i " $ aoM" aa .