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sJf it Thm OREGON STATESMAN. Solan. Oregon, Thursday Morning. April 10, 1941 New Hospital Plans Mulled . - , .!.;. : .i ' - State Control Board ' Considers Data on Fall Construction ; (Continued from page 1) - as acting superintendent "with full executive responsibility." TDr.-'McNary will remain at the hospital until next October 1 to be available for consultation. - The salary of Dr, Wair, who 4s considered by observers outside the board to be first in line for permanent appointment as the superintendent, was "raised from $275 to $325 a month. , The board declared itself "high ly appreciative of the long record of service" of Dr. McNary, who has been in the employ of the state for approximately 45 years, and said he is retiring "with full recognition of that service." Mr. Zero Dies At NY Mission NEW YORK, April 9-P)-Mr. Zero, shepherd of the jobless and probably the Bowery's best friend, is dead. , ! ; ' ' Hls real name 1 was ' Urbain J. Leioux'. He1diedTuesday night at the age 6f 67 at his mission. As Mr. Ledoux, he had a career in the consular service, spending years in Canada. Bordeaux and Prague. As Mr. Zero, he was wel come "nearly anywhere that men were down and out. Down through the years he championed the outcasts. In 1921, while 5000 persons daily crowded Boston common, he "sold" 150 homeless men at public auction to bidders who had work for them. He tried the same thing in New York in 1928, but there weren't any jobs. ONYX HOSE 59c Pair f ' I AA ''i- vj ! r -c-v vA y-;vJ -. ;-.-:-. . . .- . -mi rn m Their Discharge Precipitated Ford Strike r 1 vx r h r x v- v it A ! I-. t V .in i" v, r " o even of the eight UAW members, whose discharge by Jhe Ford Motor company precipitated the .River Rouge strike, meet at Detroit .union headquarters. Left to right: Oscar Klrsteinand Joseph Aron, rub ber employes; Andy Dewari of rolling mill; James Sullivan, pressed steel; Thomas Gjtddes of body building; Jack Driscoil and John Lucas of rolling mill. US Manufacturers Turn Into Strange Channels for War BILOXI, Miss., April 9- American manufacturers intb such strange channels that ladies' lingerie while a Tfiese concerns now are making mosquito nets for the army decoy Huck maker is were some of the ex- amples Of American adaptability cited to the Southern Commerpial Secretaries association by Col. fcoy M. Hare, director of the army navy munitions board. The colonel said that when fthe government sought mosquito bars the industry was found to be al most extinct and, since the nearest thing to nets was women's under- doming, some oi these concerns were given orders for 4,000,1)00 nets. u x u r l o MILLINER ueparime Offers the Greatest Selec tion of Hats Ever Shown in Salem! BONNETS BERETS SAILORS CASUALS A Hat for Every Costume 2.98 3.98 to 7.50 Nylon Hose ! 1.35 i v -The defense program has turned turning out shoe lasts. There were not enough lasts for soldiers shoes so the government turned to the decoy duck manu facturers. The nearest approach to some machine gun parts was steering gears so concerns of this type were pressed into service. Bathtub manufacturers became airplane bomb manufacturers while , steel casket makers began turning out bombs, too. Pipe or gan companies now make trees for saddles, the colonel said, and a t A or y U S .-va .. - t" 1 Y vP&' T1 5t Give her Pedigreed Gotham Gold Stripe beautifu'. stock ings for Easterl Sally's has them in short, medkm arid long lengths proportioned throughout in the ankle, calf and knee to assure a smooth streamlined fit. Ev ery pair bears the "duality Tested" seal of the Better Pabrics Testing Bure!d. 69c to 1.35 Comer Liberty anq Court 1 - ." V man with; a garage in his backyard is busy manufacturing bands for pigeon's legs. The colonel said more than $11, 147,000,000 defense contracts have been let by the government with 15,543 contractors participating. He said the entire south has $1,380, 000,000 in contracts. NY Newspaper 100 Years Old NEW YORK, April 9-(JP)-The New York Herald Tribune Thurs day will observe the centennial of its founding. One of the nation's great news paper, it has pioneered in de veloping many improvements in the daily press field. The late Horace Greeley pub lished Vol. 1, No. 1 of the old New York Tribune on April 10, 1841, as a "newi morning journal of poli tics, literature and general in telligence" The paper carried on for 83 years before it absorbed the New York Herald in 1924. , In its first century, only three men Greeley, Whitelaw Reid, his successor, and Ogden Mills Reid, Whitelaw Reid's son have controlled the newspaper's des tinies. Helen Rogers Reid, Ogden Reid's wife, has been one of the newspaper's pillars since 1918. Whitelaw Reid was an active friend of the enterprise, which in troduced the Mergenthaler lino type to journalism. The Tribune also gave Stephen H. Horgan his chance to prove that a daily paper .coujd' print a half-tone, which it did successfully for the first time in 1897. Oregon Water Report Made BERKELEY, Calif., April 8-( -Western! states generally have good irrigation water prospects for 1941, the division of irrigation of the soil conservation service announced Wednesday after a survey of snow storage in the mountains. The survey was made by the division of irrigation and federal, state and other cooperating agen cies. Oregon irrigation water pros pects since February have become extremely variable; reservoir ed supplies expected to become cri tically short In some sections al though ample in others. One of most critical shortages expected in Milton-Freewater area on Walla Walla watershed. Concert Given By High Band The1 Salem senior high school band, playing to raise money for needed uniforms, appeared in concert Wednesday night under the direction of Vernon Wiscar son. Selections which received great est tribute from the large audi ence were a clarinet solo by Brent Dietrick, accompanied by Sue Ellston, and numbers by the Hungry; Five band, comprising Mark Twedt, Brent Dietrick, Rus- sell Hackett, Tilman Kreft andi- Carl Butte Other music played by the 96 piece organization included num bers which will be used In the state high school band contest Salem "Hams'' Handle Relays Of Red Gross Test Messages V 1 , Salem amateur radio operators through their local, emergency co ordinator handled two of 3700 messages relayed to. national Red Cross ' headquarters in Washing ton," DC, last weekend as a test of t h e "amateur system's ; ability to serve in event of an emergency occasioned by national -defense or catastrophe. : .. . - - The Marion" county Red. Cross' chapter's message, reporting ap-. pointment of delegates to the Red:; Cross national convention ' in Washington April 22 to 24, was started on Its way by Lloyd E. Taylor, 944 Leslie street, emer gency coordinator, over' his sta tion, W7HFK. ". ... . He relayed, the message . to a Beaverton operator who in turn sent it to San Francisco over the Ford Mediators Aimfo Governor Talks With FDR and Ford; Sees ? Settlement Soon, :,, - (Continued From. Page 1) " " - . settled.- We -. will continue to ne gotiatcr.;".'. '),- - These developments .placed the labor dispute before the highest officials .concerned ..with its out come and informed sources de clared that some definite - action would be taken, . one way or an other, before long. SEATTLE, - April fJ--Settle-ment of a three-day strike at the Milwaukee, boom- at" Tacoma, which also halted operations- at tho -Kosmos Logging company "at Morton, was reported Wednesday night by federal conciliator E. S. Jackson. ; WASHINGTON, April Legislation permitting the army and navy to take over strike bound defense plants after media tion had failed was mildly advo cated Wednesday by William S. Knudsen, director of the office of production management. Navy Launches Powerful New Dreadnaught (Continued From Page 1) chief of naval operations who flew here for, the ceremony, handed the vessel over to her captain, Olaf M. Hustvedt, and ordered the crew to put her in the best running shape, ready "for a fight or a frolic." She is the first American war ship constructed without port holes below the main deck. Her huge blisters, below the water line, and water tight doors make it almost impossible for a torpedo to sink her. Coroner Calls Death Suicide Discovered dead behind a brush hidden automobile by Sergeant Farley Mogan of the state police, Colistro Padillo, a Filipino, was declared a suicide Wednesday by C. W. Henkle, Polk county cor oner. Mogan discovered Padillo's body late Wednesday afternoon on a back road near Eola on "property of theHorst Bros, hop ranch. Papers on the dead man's body indicated he had lived for time near Troutdale and that he had spent considerable time in a hos pital recently. A Utah driver's li cense gave his age as 22. Coroner Henkle said Padillo met death by shooting himself in the chest and that he also had drunk a quantity of tincture of iodine. Cigarette Tax Petition Filed Preliminary petition to refer the cigarette tax bill to the voters at the November, 1942 general election was filed in the state de partment Wednesday afternoon by G. J. McPherson, Portland, secretary-manager of the state retail grocers association. The petitions, approved as to form by the state department, were sent to the attorney general, who "has 10 days to draft a ajlot title. Then the sponsors will seek to obtain 15,866 signatures of reg istered voters. The bill, taxing cigarettes two cents a package to raise $1,500, 000 a year for old age pensions and $300,000 for vocational edu cation, would become law June 14, but if enough signatures are obtained by June 13, the voters would act upon the measure at the 1942 . general election. If the signatures are not ob tained, the bill would become law Jiine 14 just asif no preliminary petition had been' filed. Rail Orders Placed. CHICAGO, April 9.-(JP)-The Santa Fe railroad Wednesday an nounced it had placed orders for 1,700 freight cars; 22 steel passen ger cars and a 5,400 . horsepower diesel-electric freight locomotive. amateurs' Mission' Trail ; net work. Taylor also received and re transmitted a similar message from the Lane county chapter. , . Amateurs all over the nation have been increasingly. , adding self-powered equipment to. their stations in order that they might be able to take, over .their com l muni ties' .communication " needs should fire, earthquake, hurricane f or similar disaster cut off electric j power and regular telephone and ! telegraph facilities. . - . v - The Marion county delegates to the Red Cross convention. Judge George Rossman, chapter chair man, advised national, headquar ters via Taylor's station, will be Senator and Mrs. Charles L. Mc Nary and Rep.' and Mrs. James W. Motf. " Bridges Leads Fight to Curb Local Unions' "Accusations" LOS ANGELES, April 9-C)-Harry Bridges, Pacific coast CIO director, led a success ul floor figfit at the longshoremen's con vention Wednesday for a constitutional clause enabling interna tional officers to "lower the boom" on "officers and members of local unions. ." Bridges " said the . clause was "aimed, at members who whisper around the . bulkheads" mak,e false accusations , against! interna tional officers outside of longshore men's meetings or "union.' "publica tions. - r-" .' --i..',-:'. Another provision, adopted' 'by' the International - Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's jmion..cqn; vention after- Bridges had argued for it, restricted the power of .loV cal unions o bring charges against international .officers wo' happen 10. oe memoers oi tne local.- ' Arguing In behalf of the first constitutional, amendment. Bridges said that a .longshore delegate at Seattle industrial un ion council meeting had called him the -No. 1 rat of; the Pa cific coast" and Matt Meehan, International secretary, as the "No. t rat" "We're going to go after a bozo like that and sneak him out of the i - - i , visit KKIy P:': I ULTRA-MODERN T S MEZZANINE 1 ' CiM i SUIT "''iS iff iTs ftX I W ! Iw Easter '. '; V; I MM poAT r -") I &TV SUIT --T- jfV I 11695 -lUM! U .K 10J95to h :lilrSr ' . 29.50 jjl I lllTS SALLY'S: FOR ' j " ' I IjACCESSORIES Si' ' Eadter : . w And Youfll Wear 1 dj AMrlPV Th e m Al ; Spring! 1 M-f ; v v . 1; -Jacket Frocks! ; : V ;S7.95 ; 9.95 ; ; 'SM j;P fHillE3EO -SALLY'S; Liberty & Court la-.i:'T-" r-; -, , ,. - --- - I union if 'we can, said Bridges. .Dorrt make any mistake about it we are going to use this clause. I know ihei guys I am going after. The fight for the. other provi sion, restricting power of locals, bf oiighjE -Bridges into - argument wJthJ John) Brost; Portland, Ore, delegateiThe Portland union re cently brought 'charges . against Meehan;:j; c . ;' ..- Bridges said the charges against Meehan were. phoney. .The new provision, , ne said, would prevent disgruntled .elements in small lo cals from disrupting international officership. ' - . Brost f defended Portland's charges,' said the union was not s small local, and declared that it was time that the yelling of "phoney lit members who criti cized international, officers be stopped.- j . " "It is time that the rank and file had something to say about how Mama CatLicko Huge Cousin 8 . HOLLYWOOD, April -JP Emma, - normxlly-peacefol cat mascot at the Alexander Korda - : studio, attacked and drove away . a year-old lion Wednesday. Emma gave birth to four kit tens several days ago. When the lion was brought to the studio, 'testing for a role in a forth coming jungle picture, someone thought its reaction to the kit tens might be interesting. 'The lioa was eyeing the kit tens curiously when Emma shot out from behind some props ' and snarling landed on the vis itor's back. It was no fight at all. Within a minute the lion was gone - and Emma . was back, washing her face. ,E things are run,"- he "shouted. In response to a demand for a roll call, the convention approved. by a vote of 160 to 75 a provision of the new constitution by which it will meet each two years instead of annually. - George Wilson, executive secre tary of the Bridges defense com mittee, reported a fund of $50,000 will be released to fight the de portation of the union head.