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Sport Weather ; - Mostly cloudy with scat tered showers today and Friday; snow squalls la th meant alas. Max. temp. Wednesday 59. sola. AS. Hir er . ft. Trace of . rain. Southwest wind. Cloudy. Sports coverage as swift and sharp as th crack of s - bat to s ball witli "home run, efficiency will keep do ings of the Salem Senators on local doorsteps before six each ajn.' through The Statesman sports paces. NINETY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon,' Thursday Morning. April 10. 1941 Ftfos- 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 11 State Considers New Hos Balkans SSI - 'f :!!; 1 VI ill II II I I I r XII II II POUNDDD " 1651 ! V : ? . ' '' i it T" " I ; . Control Board PlaW0Br . -. - -f S . i . , , i i I, . , . i -. - -- - r urihiiiiiimll Radwvhotos From Nazi in : Construction Start Next Fall; Aide Takes Pendleton Job The state board of control decided Wednesday to start ajt once n nnlimin9ri nroMwIsnt in rnn st rtirti on of the 1325D0(i 300- Vll !CUUUiiailt4 Mr - -r j t - bed treatment hospital unit authorized by the 1941 legislature for the state hospital for the mentally ill on East Center streelj. After, discussing qualifications of architects, several of whom have already inquired about the job, the board members Agreed to meet at the hospital next Tues day noon to discuss plans of Dr. J. C. Evans, superintendent, for the new units and to look over the institution grounds. "This is the initiation of a new (roup at the hospital," Gov. Charles A. Sprague com mented. -Possibly it will be lo cated across Center street (north of the main institution). It should set the design for a whole new rroup." Board discussion indicated that next fall was being considered as the practical time to start con struction of the new building. It should be put under way "at an early date," Secretary of State Earl Snell said, and Gov. Sprague and State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott agreed that late this year would be the right time to start, or after the rush of army bar racks construction has passed. ' The board Wednesday form ally accepted the resignation of Dr. W. D. McNary as superin . tendent of the Eastern Oregon . state hospital and designated his assistant, Dr. Donald Wair, (Turn to Page 3, Col. 1) Sprague Urges Labor Unity Says Democracy Must Be Also Guarded at Home; Hits Strikes PORTLAND, April 9-P)Gov-ernor Sprague urged Wednesday that democracy be guarded at home as well as around the world. "We must not overlook the ne cessity for auditing and policing the new deal expense account, even in the present crisis," ' the governor told the pro-American club. "We're spending money by the billions today for defense but aft er it's all over we're going to have a mop-up that only the re publican party can take care of." He protested labor strikes hold ing up rearmament industries, be cause "this is no time to wage economic warfare." Im not here to denounce labor organization," he . said, "but to call upon all groups to do the job which has been placed upon this country." Nation Mourns Congress Dean WASHINGTON, April 9-UP)-President Roosevelt and other leaders expressed sorrow Wednes day over the death of Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, the "father of prohibition-," dean of congress and chairman of the im portant senate military commit tee. Sheppard, who was 65 years old, died Wednesday morning in Walter Reed hospital of a brain hemorrhage. He had served in the house 10 years and in the senate 28. President Roosevelt issued a statement calling Sheppard a "tower of strength" in the na tional defense. Mr. Roosevelt add ed that Sheppard had "refused to heed all warnings of friends that he was overtaxing his physical re sources and he has gone to his account with every obligation to duty fulfilled." Largest Diamond Cutting Started NEW YORK, April 9--Cut-ting of the world's largest dia mond, the President Vargas, 728.6 carats, began in a Fifth avenue shop Wednesday. The flawless diamond found in Brazil August 13, 1938, Is to be cut into 23 stones, ranging from Whert finisnea tney ore expect ed to bje worth about $2,000,000. Horse Bites Alulea BOSTON. April 9-)hAttempt-Ing to stop a runaway horse to day, a man was bitten on the leg by the horse. The man's name? Henry Mules. Exoected to" i " McNary?; ' ' Oregon Named Defense Area New Homes Finaiicinjr Plan Outlined in Roosevelt Order WASHINGTON, April t-(JP) President Roosevelt d e s i nated 146 localities Wednesday as "de lense areas wnere nome may be financed under new liberalized Federal Housing Administration regulations which permit sale of homes with no down payment. The new law provides tpat iri the designated areas the FHA may insure mortgages up to 90 per cent of the value in cases where the builder is the mortgag or. Heretofore, the ownerroccu pant was the only one whoi could be the mortgagor in such a! case. under the new management, officials said, a builder may put up 10 per cent of the cost of a dwelling, place the property un der an FHA mortgage, and sell it without any down payment. He also may rent the property if he chooses. Mortgages will be limiied to $4,000 on a single-family home, $5,000 on a two-family home, $8, 000 on one for three families and $10,500 on one for four families. The new plaEMs designed jto ' aul 1 defense workers with yearly in comes of $1,800 to $3,000, officials said. . Among areas designated by Mr. Roosevelt were: Oregon: Pendleton, Portland -Vancouver, Washington. Wash ington: Itremerton, Seattle, Taco ma, VanMaver. Paul Hauser't Column This has been a good week to see things. j The other day we were talk ing along Liberty street and we saw a nirkpt TT p I w a s n't picket- f ing. He was sit-1 ting on the curb m gross ne&ieci of his picketing duties. He was sitting with a help f u 1 friend They were sit- tins there work-1' ing a crossword j puzzle. That is I what we calll ptateiui jji(j-cL- paaj H. Bar, jr. ing at its peace fulest. He even had a piece of newspaper spread out on the side walk to keep his pants clean. And we were driving along Chemeketa street where5 the Legion boys are making them selves a hall out! of a church and we saw a pulpit.. We saw a pulpit In the parking, justj sit ting there and not a preacher in sight. Wo have before us the case of Mr. Biggs Cox and his wife Jutry Jemima Elizabeth Gertrude Hart Cox of Jacksonville," NC. They have about run out of Z's. fTheir II children are named Zadiej Zyl pha, Zula, Zadoc, Zeber, .Zenobia, Zeronial, Zeslie, Zeola, Zerd and Zelbert. IARTTI3IE NOTE ; - The commander of the Wheat land Ferry greets with scorn and a curled lip the reqnest of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) 1 tt Mott Home, AssMts Congress should be consulted but fit probably won't" before the United States navy undertakes to convoy ships bearing aid toj Brit ain, ! Congressman James Wi Mott declared Wednesday afternoon at his Polk county home, where he went - into hiding Sunday if or a two-day rest. Reporting a tendency in public sentiment "to reconcile ourselves to convoying,'' Mott said the I ease lend bill contained all the author ity President Roosevelt needed to arn I Tells Russ and Turks Nazis to Attack Them ! LONDON, April 9-(iP)-Prime IVIinister Churchill warned Rus sia Wednesday that) Germany's Balkan drive pointed in her di rection and pledged that no matter how Adolf Hitler goes "we who are armed with the sword of retributive j justice shall be on his track." "There are many signs which point to an attempt to secure the granary of the Ukjaine and the Oil fields of the Caucasus," the prime minister told the house of commons in a lengthy war review. ! He also warned British-allied "turkey that the German army idriving fast through he Balkans" rjiay at any time turn upon her. j The prime minister painted a dark picture of the War situation not only in the Balkans, but also in Libya, where he ,said Britain must expect a hard fight not only for the defense of .Cirenaica, but Egypt too f "A fortnight ago I warned the public that an unbroken con tinuance of success could not be hoped for," he said in discussing the African campaign, i In language reminiscent of that he used in discussing the lowlands and French debacle last year, the prime minister said that had Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece stood together they had at their disposal visions which might the Germans. would have 60 or 70 di have halted i Such a united frolit, Churchill said, was sought by Foreign Sec retary .Anthony Eden Sir John Dill, chief of British im perial staff, in their February con ferences in Ankara and Athens, They would have gone to Bel grade, he added but "they were refused permission by Prince Paul's government." Only Greece, he said, per mitted full cooperation with the British when she was invaded by Italy and subsequently men aced by Germany. Turning to other aspects of the war, the prime minister said that "everything turns on the battle of the Atlantic," whicti, he added, must be won "not only in the fac tories and the shipyards but upon the blue water." ; To do this, he said, U-boats and surface raiders of Germany must be overcome, and that "has been proved to be entirely a question of adequate escorts for our fast con voys." "It will indeed be disastrous (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) US Probes Ship Wreck PORTLAND, OreJ April -JP) The federal government entered investigation Wednesday of the wrecked Russian ship Vazlav Vo rovksy at the mouth of the Co lumbia river last week. Capt. S. Tookaref f told inspect ors of the bureau of marine in spection and navigation that the vessel's steering gear was in work ing order until after his ship had grounded. He gave the same evidence, con tradicting that of a river pilot, be fore the Oregon pilot commission ers the day before. Noted Sheet Mi Publisher Dies sic NEW YORK, AprU 9-(-Isi-dore Witmark, 71, former presi dent of the music publishing firm which marketed "Swjeet Adeline" and other Tin Pan Alley favorites during the last 50 years, died Wednesday. . One of Witmark's first popular compositions -was "P resident Cleveland's Wedding; March. initiate the convoy I system and that it probably would be invoked. "If we convoy shins, the Ger mans will try to stop them, snd If they sink one ef our ships, well be In the wa," the rep resentative commented,' adding1 thst possibly, tho Germans' may try to bomb British ships admitted to our 'harbors for re , palrsV;r;;.:'l:U4;;.' . f The congressman, not anticipat ing being called back to Washing ton before April 17, plans to spend s wrw g Neutrals . -'rr ?" ' i "'L' -wp mil Ml - , - - fe-tin i ir mrf". , m m -iti-iiiSTLLi i i i I Radiophotos from Berlin show first Nasi thrust Into Yugoslavia. Top, German army cars pass a burning building as the Balkan Invasion begins. Only description the German censor would permit on the picture was: "German troops, In Serbian war xone. How building at left was fired was not reported. Below, tanks moving into the Skoplje sector, captured by the Germans. These tanks pierced into Yugoslav territory 5 miles to eapture Skoplje. Ford Strik& Aim at, Quick Peace and Ford; Says Settlement Nearslbut Balks on Giving Date for Work DETROIT, April 9-W-Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner said Wednesday night that he had conferred with Henry Ford and President Roosevelt about the Ford Motor Co. strike and asserted that "all parties are aiming for a quick settlement . . . with a singleness of purpose." It marked the first time that Ford, founder of the giant com pany closed last week after a strike of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), had talked with mediators regarding the labor dispute. "While we did not reach our today's objective of settling the strike at the Ford Motor com pany and of setting a date for work to be resumed, I am far from discouraged," the governor announced. "I talked with President Roosevelt late this afternoon and : gave him a detailed report of Wednesday's developments. I also had a fine talk with Henry Ford in company with Harry Bennett. "All parties are aiming for a quick j settlement of the strike with a singleness of purpose. We must maintain the feeling of confidence and trust." Governor Van Wagoner made these disclosures to newsmen at mediation headquarters in a down town hotel several hours after an nouncing, following a six-hour conference, that "the strike is not (Turn io Page 3, Col. 5) Senators Plan Bonneville Bill WASHINGTON, AprU Senator Bone (D-Wash.) said the Oregon and Washington senators would utilize the week's congres sional vacation to begin work of drawing legislation to provide for a Columbia valley authority to handle the electric energy from Bonneville and Grand Coulee hy droelectric projects. - . The delegation has been so busy with other legislation pending be fore congress it had been unable to start work on the' Bonneville bOL i ' , ess several days this week and next checking up '. on naval contracts throughout his district "- , Tillamook, probably wfll be the next city to secure! s contract to build ships' for the navy raider the defense program, he said. The Steinbock Iron Works there has been accepted as a bidder, is cap able of : building ships such ' as small mine sweepers, mine layers and submarine chasers up to 135 feet in length' and' has already submitted proposals.' W (Loner ii- - - i --I Mediators Navy Launches Powerful New Dreadnaught NEW YORK, April 9.-JPy-One-thousand of the navy's fight ing men representing every state in the union Wednesday commis sioned the 35,000-ton battleship North Carolina before 1,500 spe cial guests at the Brooklyn navy yard. . The $70,000,000 dreadnaught, most formidable ship of the fleet and one of the deadliest in the world "from the standpoint of shooting power, was the first capital ship to be commissioned by Uncle Sam in 18 years and her complement showed their pride in a colorful and .tradi tional 29-minute ceremony. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the audience and the world that "we are foreshadowing with this ship the greatest navy the world has ever seen." The North Carolina is the first of 17 battleships ordered by the navy. j Knox, stressing that 'Americans want peace, emphasized that the best way- to insure it was to hav a navy & strong that no nation dare attacx the United States. " Admiral Harold R. Stark. (Turn to Page 3, CoL 5) Sister Anna Duerksen ' Reported Quite Dl'V Sister Anns Duerksen, one ef the founders of the Salem Dea coness ' hospital, was reported by attendants Wednesday night to be "quite ill" at the hospital. Her condition at the time was "fair"; -i bn9t . Cuing S2t,7284SC in naval shipbuilding j contracts already swarded U i Portland, Astoria snd North Bend firms. Most - pointed oat that the several bfl Uotts available for naval vessels . ' la' the lease-lend hU bad not yet seen touched. .- - Small machine shops as well as large are .likely to be given army and navy sub-contracts in the near future, Mott predicted. The . representative will testify on behalf of th Willamette valley . . . - t """ Be WIMalng liines Italians Ask UStoRecaU i Army Attache Diplomatic Reprisal Seen as Italo Aide Told to Come Home. WASHINGTON, April 9-(JP)-Continuing a diplomatic "war of reprisals" with the ujnited States, Italy called Wednesday for the immediate withdrawal of the as sistant military ' attache of the American embassy in Rome. The request was made in a note advising that Italy was complying with a demand from the American government for the recall of the Italian naval attache In Washington, Admiral Alberto Lais. He Was accused of ordering sabotage of Italian ships in American ports. The Italian note said Captain William C. Bentley jwas persona non grata to the Rome govern-, ment but gave no reasons. Cap tain Bentley, a native of Virginia, has been assigned to Rome since February, 1940. He will be trans ferred to another post, officials said. Authoritative fascist sources in Rome said that Admiral Lais was beings recalled undeif protest. NEW YORK, April - 9--The New York "Herald Tribune says that the department of justice has I begun, jsn .investigation , of -Ger- man-ccntroned chemical -firms in this country ."whiclj, in the last year have been engaged actively in trade with Latin-American countries, the result being the building up in NeW York banks of huge dollar reserves for the nazis." j "Frankly labeled ias an appar ently successful effort to break the British financial blockade," the paper said, "federal anti trust officials said j at the same time that the economic control exercised in this country by the Germans was creating a shortage of important pharmaceutical and chemical materials, including an ti-shock serum." British Ship Rescues $7 MONTEVIDEO, liTruguay, April 9-(P)-The British feighter Ra ranga brought 57 survivors of the sunken British liner Britannia to this port Wednesday night. The 8799-ton Briiannia was re ported sunk by a German warship on ' March 24 off! the African coast Last Thursday, 77 survivors landed on the Canary islands said many of their shipmates were de voured by sharks, j The Raranga was expected to land its survivors Thursday. CIO Director Balks Fund on SEATTLE, April 8-JP)-Region- al CIO Director Richard Francis said Tuesday that his office had been notified that the congress of industrial organizations defense committee would hot call upon any locals to contribute to the de fense of Harry Bridges, if it de cides to seek fundi for the west coast longshore leader's case. ; Francis said the letter said that "if and . when funds are needed" national and international CIO affiliates will be called upon to contribute, but not locals. The letter was signed by Com mittee Chairman Sherman Dal rymple and Secretary David Mc Donald. : j v I .. - :" . ;.; project before the bouse flood con trol committee late this month. An effort is being made! to push out a flood control authorization bOL in spins- of opposition from the-president, and any such jbill that may be passed will include the .valley project, Mott declared. ; . ; Mott doubts, he said, that the army ; will appropriate valuable Polk and Benton county lands for a cantonment, as. his been rum ored in those counties. Tt's t not the- policy af the- Consulted Battalions of Flame-Throwers and Tanks Rush North to Battlelines Slavs Push South Into Albania to Make Contact With Greeks and Crush Italo Units; Germans Laud Balkan Fighters LONDON, April 10-(Thursday) -(-British bombers "suc cessfully' attacked Berlin Wednesday night, the rninistry of in formation announced today. . ' - - ' The Berlin state opera and the historic Prussian state library are burning Thursday morning as the resuhf of incendiary bombs dropped by the British raiders Berlin announced officially today. The raiders scattered their bombs over the capital, hitting two hospitals as well as apartment houses, it was added, killing and wounding numerous persons. ."' ' By The Associated Press V Greek troops trapped east man capture of Salonika were reported by Berlin to have capitu War News Briefs ROME, April lO-(Thursday) HiP)-Italian dispatches said the German and Italian armies were on the point of Joining" to continue the fight gainst Greek land British forces' on the Balkan front today, i LONDON,- April l-(Thurs-day) (iT")-Gorman raiders struck heavily at a west mid lands town Wednesday night and reports reaching here early today Indicated civilian casnal . ties -might b nomeroBS. Rescue workers toiled amid a" deluge of bombs. -- ' I LONDON, April 9 - (P) -Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia, mother of King Peter, in a broadcast over the British radio,- appealed to her people to recall the last words of her as sassins ted husband. King Alex ander: j Preserve Yugoslavia united. She paid tribute to the heroic fighting of Yugoslavia and her allies snd added In Serbo Croat: I myself send you this mes sage: Keep. Yugoslavia united. Alain tain your dignity and have full confidence In your king and ' his heroic army. I 1 TAMTICO, Mexico, April f-(vP)-German sources here re-. ported j Wednesday night . that six officers from the seised and expropriated German liner Ori noco escaped to sea In s 30 foot ywl built during their months j of refuge in this port. NEWj YORK, ADrU Two -English ships totalling 12.000 tons were sunk Wednes day byi German bombers and another 4000-ton ship was dam aged off the southeast English coast, the official Berlin radio announced la a broadcast heard W NBC. NEW! YORK, April 1-Vf)-The Budapest, Hungary, radio said Wednesday night that Yu goslav troops which crossed the southwestern Hungarian, fron tier Wednesday morning were .' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) - - i Navy fails to Find Lost Bomber at Sea NORFOLK, Va, April The navy and coast guard sought J without success weanesaay io lo cate the wreckage and other bodies of the. ten-man crew of s navy patrol bomber which crashed into the sea Monday, ap parently at Great Machipongo in let off the. Virginia eastern shore. Two bodies and fragments of two. or three others were found Wednesday. - on Convoys army or i the - navy to snake wholesale condemnations where they, can be avoided," he ex- ' niainc; -4 ,L,, -;,;;V- .But. should . condemnation of Polk: . and Benton lands be , at tempted,! Mott said her would in sist, on the basis of the precedent set in the case of. the O & C grant lands, that - payments " approxi mately equivalent to the taxes that would be lost be paid these counties. . -: ' - ' - - " British With of the Vardar river by the Ger lated Wednesday but Athens later said they still were fighting stub bornly. The Germans, driving hard to partition Yugoslavia after splitting the Greek forces, said "the Greek army fighting east of the Vardar river, recognizing the hopelessness of their situation, this morning capitulated and laid down their arms." But the Greeks said that their outnumbered troops, despite their "difficult position . :. . did not weaken their resistance on the (Bulgarian) frontier and held then lines intact, accord- t-ing to Information received un til the .afternoon hours " Occupation f eastern Greece by the nazis had been foreseen, tfco Greeks said, in announcing theil determination to fight on. So far as is known the British Imperial army has not yet col lided with the German army. Battalions of British Rushing to Battle Front Battalions of British flame throwers, tanks and armored ran were reported rushing northward from Piraeus, port of 'Athens. The British and Greeks were said to be preparing a new line of de fense against the axis from the Aegean to the Adriatic seas. The Yugoslav legation in . Athens announced that Yugo slav troops had crossed the Drin river south of Scutari, the cap tured northern Albanian town. They were trying to crush the Italians snd make s junction with the Greeks la the south.' But available reports indicate the Germans might spike this hope shortly. , The Germans pushing across Yugoslavia to meet th o Italians were reported near, the Albanian frontier. . The Greek port of Piraeus near (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Powder House Site Sought City officials are still searching for a site on which to relocate i powder , house, now located on William Brown property adjoin ing, the Salem airport, to whicS it is considered a hazard, although condemnation proceedings have been initiated by the-city. -Clearance of the powder house, under lease to the Da- Pont company. Is the one re maining obstacle to award of 1 12 6,907.2 contract for expaa- -sIob of the airport by the civil aernonautles authority. City Attorney Lawrence N. Brown said Wednesday that the city Is concerned with arranging for an alternate site for the pow der storage depot In order to mini mize damages arising from the condemnation suit,. " Official award ef the contract. cd which : Edlefsen-Weygandt company of Portland wag low bid der, is expected immediately after the powder house matter is cleared. The contractors have agreed to start work within three days af ter the award and to finish thf taxi ways hvlOO days. . Nazis Lose 16 Bombers : NEW YORK." April S-CSVSix- teen German bombers, nave been shot down over England dxai this week, the British radio an nounced -, Wednesday -night ia A