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-r . ' V - T ' 1 t - - . I ' - - r .." Weather. General fair and mild t dij and jrtnday; medtnis t fresh northerly wind at coast. Max. teaay. Satnrdar 3, mln. 37. Xorthwest wind. Klver JE foot. Partly cloud v 3 Sections 2d Pages FOUNDED 165! IHNETY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 13, 1941 Price 3c? Newsstands 5c No. 15 it i r I ' ' " f - - , 'i f ... fr - - , . ; - . . A IMeSc, Axis ClaA-. ie ; Key tt'i? : ; ' ' : : . : - . . .. - . i i ' r - i i 7 . -sky ,,' Ff if .t ' a. "He is not here, Be is risen: remember how He spake unto yon when He was yet in GalUee . . Si. Luke 24:6. U 1 4 Salem Joins - America, Almost Alone, Observes Christendom's Joyful Festival ; 1 Rites Start Here at 6 a.m. Only a few hours after The Statesman comes off the press Easter sunrise services are scheduled to start at Belcrest Memorial park, seven miles south of Salem. Although the main program will not begin until (a. m. the gates are to open at 5:30 o clock and a 15 -minute organ concert, played by Don Huckabee, will be broadcast. Dr. Franklin Thompson of WH limette university will give the main address. His talk will be fol lowed by music and special rites in which ministers . from several Ealem churches will participate. The services are sponsored by the Salem Christian youth council. By the Associated Press Easter in a world at war finds America almost , alone observ ing Christendom's most joyful festival in traditional fashion. Sunrise services at Arlington cemetery in Washington, in Hollywood, and many other (Turn to Page 2, Col, 3) Peace Plea By Pius to Be Radioed NEW YORK, April lZ.-i0-Complete network relay In this country of Pope Pius' early morn plea for peace, delivered from the Vatican along with the apostolic benediction, ' will bo : included In the schedule of spe cial Easter broadcasts for Sun day. (All times mentioned, PST.) Transmission 1 a to start around S a. over NBC, CBS and MBS, with MBS planning a repeat from recordings at 7:31 a. m. Among other broadcasts which Include sunrise services, fashion parades,' etc., are these: ' NBC-RED a, m British refugee children describing New York Easter and talking to folks at home. CBS, t:3 p. m Easter In British Isles, pickups from four . cities. ' NBC-Blue 3:05, roll call of European, notables in exile In , the Americas, the theme to be We Shall Live x Again.' Knew It Was Easter PHILADELPHIA, ' April : 12 (JP)Fot It years Big ,oy has -been pointed out as a fine ex ample of V male" Australian cassowary, ;turkey-llke bird, at the Philadelphia .v , Saturday "he? laid an egg. 'in. Xi 1 : rrrt With US Boys Rescued In Avalanche More Than 100 Speed , to Northwest Scene j to Dig out Youths ; NORTH BEND, Wash., April 12 -7P)-Two youths, trapped in an avalanche of snow on a mountain side near here Saturday, were res cued Saturday night by lOOjCCC enrolees and state patrolmen. . The boys, Jay Gage, 17,1 and Claude Covington, 18, both of Se attle, were dug from deep snow which covered them to their necks. Believed seriously injured by rocks and - ice in the slide, i they were being rushed to a Seattle hospital. , A third member of the hiking party, Ben Bryant, 18, suffered a broken hip, shock and other in juries.; He managed to stumble and walk 12 miles for help when he slipped free of the snow. ' The boys were on a mountain climbing trip. Recent warm wea ther, which loosened snow, was believed responsible for the ava-lanche. Public Approved First Aid Car Fate to Be Decided Decision of what to do about Salem's first aid to break down 1 from old age public, may be made at, a meeting of the Sal4m civil service com mission Tuesday night at 7:30 in the council chambers at whkh the, fire department ' and . police committee of the- city council and the city: attorney have been in vited to sit in. j i . The session will have befdreit: 1. What to do about an exam j fatation to fill a' vacant first aid captaincy which the civil serv ice commission wishes, to throw' open to the public The city at- r terney believes j they cant and must restrict the examination to men with three years civil serv ice experience as for other pro motions. Captain Percy L." Clark of the first aid car con tends there are several firemen Qualified for the Job. j . 20 000 To Open Mill .. Detroit, April 12-w-The Ford Moor company Saturday called: 20L000 to work Monday to ffeopenj the huge River Rouge plant after a shut-down of near ly a fortnight because of a strike called by the United Auto mobile Workers (CIO). -While officials of the company enlarged heir first back-to-work call, they jsaid no production men were included among those di rected to j-eport on Monday. Re opening 01 some departments they said might take from 10 days to two weeks. LOS ANGELES, April 12.-(P) -The CIO; International Long shoremen' and Warehousemen's convention ordered Saturday that a. report pe sent to each Pacific coast localj on charges by its pres ident, Harjry Bridges, that Seattle union leasers were disloyal and leagued with the AFL. Seattle J delegates declined an offer to have a man on the spe cial committee named to prepare the statement. Convention heads said the report wjrald be part of a cam paign to remove recalcitrant of ficers; in ! Seattle,: Portland and various Pnget Sound locals. ; A caucus of Oregon delegates was called to consider Bridges' charge that John M. Brost, state president pid field representative pf the Oregon CIO, was working against union interests. Bridges,! asking-tor special re port on. the Seattle .situation, called upon the union to eliminate dissension in the ranks. He said the convention, which was to have ended Saturday, might continue through Easter Sunday into Mon day. He is; due back in San Fran cisco Tueiday for resumption, of his deportition hearing. WASHINGTON, April 12.-(P)-A Chicagcj industrialist who in quired of Secretary Perkins about her attitude toward the labor sit uation, received a 1,500-word re ply Saturday in which Miss Per kins asserted that strikes were decreasing) and had not "paraly zed" the defense program. WASHINGTON, April 12.--A defense j mediation board panel considering the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber company strike case re cessed Saturday until Monday without reaching an agreement. The Snoqualmie Falls strike question Was brought before the board here after months of un successful j negotiations between the AFL lumber and sawmill (Turnj to Page 2, Col. 8) Famed Negro -Savaiit Has New Success TLSXEGEE, Ala, April 12-(iP)-Dr. Cfeorge W. Carver, famed negro scientist Of Tuske gee institute, disclosed Saturday that he has developed from the persinuno4 a drur to treat py orreah. I Dr. Carver said the persim mon, which grow In profusion in the sokth, was boiled and the juice was combined with other - ingredients . to . form a powerful liquid astringent. car, about and wanted i by nobody but the 2. What to do about the ailing first aid car, commissioned in 1937 and said to be badly in need of replacement The present car was bought and presented to the city by the Salem Trades and La bor, council with V funds i raised from ? general r subscription ' and benefits. There is now no provi sion in the' city budget for replac ing : the i car or for; extensive jre- pairs. 1 3. What to do with the first aid car if there Continues to be a first aid car. The car has been under . (Turn to Page 2, tCol. 8) Dane Envoy Balks When Recalled on Greenland 'Deal9: Claims Come Home Order Dictated By Nazi-Controlled Government; Wheeler Warns on; Warmongers WASHINGTON, April 12 - Copenhagen Saturday recalled Henrik de Kauffmann as min ister to the United States but the envoy, who signed the Green land and the ship sale agreements with this country, has de Price Control Chief Watches To Depend on Public Opinion to Prevent Unwarranted Rises WASHINGTON, April 12.-i,JPy Leon Henderson, chief of the newly-created office of price ad ministration and civilian supply, indicated Saturday that he was counting chiefly on public opinion to prevent unwarranted price in creases.. He told a press conference that his agency's biggest weap on of enforcement would be "the moral support of the com 'munity," presumably gained by calling public attention to price ; hikes which appeared, to be 1 n'lfliAiii sMiiib'miAii. ' k Beyond J that, Henderson - wras vague about what means would be used to hold down prices. He said, however, that the agency was clothed with sufficient power to curb inflationary rises. At the same time, he made clear his view that supply and demand inevitably must affect prices, and that the one sure way to prevent rises was to increase production. "You can't build ships or sir planes out of price controls," he said in remarking that no amount of penalties served as a substitute for adequate sup plies of essential commodities and materials. The agency, he said, already is "watching" textiles, steel, coal, drugs, chemicals, non-ferrous metals, building supplies, ma chines and equipment, and hides and leather. : After saying that steel prices should not go higher, he added: "We are watching wages as a prime cost If there are unwar ranted prospective wage rises we will have decided interest in them." le Me fa 'Paul Bauser's Column This here now fishing, as Broth er Gemmell puts it so colloquial ly ungrammatically, isn't so hot for all concerned. Take the fel low who had a toothache y e s terday. He didn't want to go f ish ing. All he wanted was a dentist So he ran all over town, beat ing on the doors of dentists, and all he found was office girls say- Tmml BW BUMt. - Lnjr. "Sorry, the doctor is out" They didn't, add that the doctor, was out yanking a trout from a rippling brook in stead of a canine or a molar from a dribbling mouth. In all the town i this poor pained. victim of a cav ity could find not a single doctor of dental, science V , So, defeated at last, he returned to the place he had left his car and found that dentists may go fishing;' but policemen don't The windshield was plastered with parking tags. . . - We're glad to see the army is doing things'' in a big way. Down in Louisiana it's gemsr to : buy a railroad just tor train ;. . special railroad battalion and at Fort Dlx it fitted a private with a pair of size 47 "trousers and a' sU 50 shirt - i QUOTE OF THE WEEK . "The only justifiable war was (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) W) - The Danish foreign office in termined to disregard the order, "The instructions obviously were sent by the foreign office under duress," said a spokesman at the legation, "and the minister feels it his duty to remain here." The recall order followed de Kauffmann's report to Copenha gen, of his signing of the agree ment by which the United States obtains air bases designed to protect Greenland from possible German arcression. De Kauffmann did not advise his government of the action un til after the formal announcement was made here at noon Thursday. Then he sent a lengthy cable which included the text of the agreement and his exchange of notes .with Secretary Hull. He received a bare acknowledg ment of the receipt of his -report from Copenhagen only Saturday morning and this was followed immediately by the order .for his recall. The legation spokesman pointed out that- all communica- tions to and .from Copenhagen go P? wa 'f Berlin. De Kauffman plans to notify Hull of the recall order "as a mat ter of form," the Spokesman said, but it is expected that the United States will continue to recognize him as the official representative of his country. WASHINGTON, April 2.-iB)- Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) Sat urday called President Rfoose velt's action in opening the Red sea and the Gulf of Aden to Am erican shipping "an asinine pol icy" that might force the United (Turn to Page '2, Col. 1) DuPont Lease May Solve Air Field Problem Possibility that the question of what to do with a powder storage depot on land adjoining the Salem municipal airport may soon be set tled was indicated Saturday when it was learned that the DuPont company, lessee of the powder de pots near the airport have taken option on property in Polk county as a possible powder storage site. The powder house question has been holding up award by the civil aeronautics authority of the $128, 907 contract for expansion of the Salem' airport. Although low buildings, the powder houses are considered hazards because of CAA regulations prohibiting pilots from flying within 1000 feet of them.,-' , Local agents of the DuPont com pany could not be contacted for verification, but the information of the Polk county option came from a reliable source. The city has started condemna tion proceedings on the two build ings on the William Brown prop erty near the airport but has been anxious to provide the explosives firm with an alternate site. Evade Police No trace had been found by state police Saturday night of six inmates of the s t a t e training school for boys who escaped Fri day night during an entertainment at; the institution. Since no cars have been re ported stolen in . Woodburn, . Hub bard or - Aurora : in the district near the school it was believed the youth may have hopped a freight train. : . The six Were Eugene Emerson Johnson, 18,' Robert Allen South mayd, 17, and Jess William Neal, 18, all of Portland, William Shad duck, 18, of Klamath Falls, Mar- ston Stan dish Dunham, 17, of Sa lem, and Jack Donald Rush, 13, home address unknown. Escaped Boys Holding Fast 1 tKOPue'S. I SUlOAftlA rfaumi MtOl TtfiRANfAH - w oo Mtif C This map of the war-smashed Bal kans shows graphically how the main Greek peninsula is strate- placed for defense - de spite the fact that the nasis are in Yugoslavia, Albania and part of Greece, even holding the im portant port of Salonika. The German dash to cut Greece in not stopped Greek re- two has sistance ias the latest news from the battle front indicate the Greeks are not only holding but giving the naxis a dose of their own medicine. Soviet-Frowns On Hungary U J . Disapproves Invasion ox xngosiaviav.ana r Warrts of Trouble j i i ; ' MOSCOW, April 12-K)-Soviet Russia, asked by- Hungary to en dorse the Hungarian invasion of Yugoslavia! has replied with her disapproval and a reminder that Hungary, too, might one day be "torn to bits," Tass, official soviet news agency, disclosed tonight f "It is not difficult to realize what woud be the position of Hungary should she herself get into trouble and be torn to bits, since it is ; Jen own that there are national minorities in Hungary, too," was the word sent back to Budapest Tass said. The German ambassador. Count Friedrich" Werner Von Der Schu- lenberg, meanwhile, was sum moned to Berlin. At the same time, Joseph Stalin received Yosuke Matsuoka, . Ja pan's traveling foreign minister, to bid him farewell before his de parture fori Japan after visits to Berlin and Rome and two stopsXin this capital.! Stalin was accompanied to the kremlin by Russian Premier and Foreign Commissar Vyachesleff Moloioff. The Japanese minister. who has prolonged ins stay here to discuss soviet-Japanese relations, offered thaiiks for Russian facili ties provided for his travef - 1 Motorcyclist Injured 1 In' Skid After Crash I Clifford Probert 22. Portland. received an; injured right shoul der Saturday night when he slid from his motorcycle' after a col- lision with another, as yet un- identified, motorcyclist at 24th and Breymah streets. iTODert was given emergency treatment by Salem first aid men and taken to the Salem General hospital. : - Seasoned Troops Plan Brigade Combat Problem CAMP MURRAY, April l2 of the 41st division will enter into Monday night that will overshadow any maneuver undertaken by local army forces since last summer.. The field problem will unfold' all night Monday and all dav xuesaay. Tnere, wiu De mocs; gas warfare, with troops wearing gas masks,' and artificial casualties for the medical units to work on. Troops will move into their as sembly areasj some 30 miles away from the horxie camp in the rugged section of the Raini er-McKenna. district late j Monday afternoon and i will s t a r t - developing- the problem soon after dark. , " " f ' The - entire division-- jacking only newlyl arrived trainees -is to be sp$& into two brigade combat teams. The list brigade will include! the 161st and lS3rd infantries, tae 14Sth fleld artUl . ery - and - one " battalion., el the 218th field artillery. These men. will wear i their - brown unl-. forms, leggtns and steel, heli ' A rumored WmUs GeraairMotorized Lifitiitrv f Rep i orted Yug(rResistaiie Nazis Claim Slav Resistance Practically ; Overf but Other Reports Indicate They Have Just Started to ilake Drive , . By .The Associated Press " The battle of Greece appeared to be.reaching major proper tions this Easter-morning as land, from' Sofia, Bulgaria, told tween British and German armored columns on the plain between Bitolj (Monastir),: Yugoslavia and Phlorina, the western anchors of a Greek-British defense line. ": ' - These reports followed an announcement by a Greek spokes- -man that Germans, complete with tanks, jarmored cars, motor-: War News Briefs LONDON, April 13.-(Sun-. day)-vP-Up to an early hour today London had been with out an air alarm for its second successive, night NEW. YORK, AprU itJF The Seme . radio Saturday nisbt reportettthai Iraq troops have captured the fort of'Ruiba, in Iraq, from a "considerable, . force of British troops. The broadcast was heard by NBC; ISTANBUL, Turkey. AprU 12 -Py-Mere than LSOO.eoo per- sons, most of them living in the Bosporus regions were reported - Saturday to have been given no tice of government intention to evacuate Istanbul and Turkish Thrace. NEW YORK, April IZ-UPf-The German radio in an English language broadcast heard by CBS said Saturday night that two British wings in Greece were said to be .giving way to. the Germans. As recorded by CBS the radio said: "The British troops sta tioned in northern Greece have clashed with the Germans and already according to a report from .abroad the two British wings are beginning to give way before the German onrush." SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 12.-(JPy-The ' inclusion of Mace donia, most of w hich was ceded to -Serbia and Greece after the 1912-13 Balkan war, in greater Bulgaria was foreshadowed Saturday In the press as a're sult of German miliUry vic tories and settlement of long standing disagreement between two branches of a Macedonian revolutionary organization. , BRISTOL, England, April 12.--P-Winston Churchill' stood among the newest ruins of this much-bombed west coast port Saturday after one of its sever est overnight raids and told the Inhabitants . "I see the spirit of an unconquerable people." of the 41st - (ff) - Th 12,000 seasoned troops a brigade combat problem next mtts. They will be the "reds., ;' I iThe 82nd brigade, representing the "blue" " army, will wear the blue fatigue uniforms with, leg gins and. helmets. The 82nd will include the 162nd and the 186th infantries, with the 146th field ar tillery and a battalipn of the 218th field, artillery- . Simulated war time, conditions will exist from the time the prob lem gets under .way . tin til it is called off some time .Tuesday. During the night hours, no lights I will be, used and all movements will be under full blackout condi tions. . .. " ' . y . ' - Chemical 'warfare officers-: of . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) . Destroyed: Teports reaching1 Bern, Switzer of a "violent" engagemant be-1 cycle manchme-gunners artd mot-v brized infantry had slashed against j the northwest flank of the defense line between Phlorina and Vanitsa.; Friday only to be repuls? on a' 12-mile front - , j j The Sofia reports said fasti moving columns of Germans and I British, supported by dive jbomb-1 ers and fighter planes, had flashed m a fierce struggle. Such a battle is one pf the first its klni to be,' reported -in this wsrnac-tfeje- SaW, kan . peninsula. Ko i detail? jof the'j meeting were included in the re- j ports.. -.-'...--.v.-.-' X ! Report Says British t Destroy Armored Unit . V J? . An earlier British report reach- i ing Bern said armored car patrols, i; scouting in the Bitolj region, had ;' destroyed a motorized: German';' infantry unit without losses to -themselves. "I . Yugoslav resistance - was re- " ported stiffening, especially I north i of Zagreb, south of Nis. near the Rumanian frontier and in the ! mountains northwest of Tetovo. The German radio, however. said 14 Yugoslav divisions have been "complctelr annihilated.' Germans declared the Yugoslav campaign was about completed, but ssid nothing of the righting in Greece and southern Yugo slavia. 1 , ! ' : The.-Athens radio declared a strong Yugoslav force was hast ening southward from central Yugoslavia and . "breaking" all (Turn to Page 2, Co!. 6) Jim Roosevelt Weds Monday; Mother to Fly I LOS ANGELES, April 12-flT)-James Roosevelt announced; Sat urday he would be married to : Romelle Schneider, his former nurse, by a municipal judge next Monday. 1 -"" - 1 j " THe said at a press conference he regretted he could hot be mat 1 ried by a Catholic priest since he ; has been divorced. He formerly j was' married to Betsey Cushin of Boston. Miss Schneider, !g"a -Catholic - : "-"Roosevelt eldest son of the president is a captain in the US ; marines reserve at" San Diego. He i said he had been granted three ' days leave for a honeymoon, and I that he and bis bride would live at San Diego. His mother will fly I from Washington for the mony. ' ' cere WaUaceffits Spy 5 WINSTON-SALEM, NC, ! AprD 12-(iiP)-Vice President VVaUace charged Saturday night that "for- ' eign . agents", are "sabotagicig our labor organizations to the i great -disadvantage of. labor itss'j.! ' . Calling for national , unity lo demonstrate : the ? f ull pro-uctiye capacity of this country, -1,"Il'c said in a prepared idizczt that - "the public cannot hold 'guU"::s those who seize the current sit- -uation to settle-ancient regional, personal and jurisdictional grudges and in so doing put sand into the bearings of our industrial machines." ; 1 1 ; Foreign jr. - i . i