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Romantic?
If you. like thrilling re
mance -and who doesnt
youH want to read Barrett
Willoughby's story. j"Lover
Weather
. Partly cloudy; ceatinueif
cool . today aad Thursday;
with local showers. Max.
Temp.' Tuesday S3, Mln. 13.
Northwest wind. Kaln .13
Inch. Hirer -.7 foot. Partly
clondy. ,
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of The Statesman today
POUN
NINETY-FIRST YEAB
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. April 16. 1941'
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Lava Sets Forests 1 GemntaMs Claim British Metreatim
Aft
Thousands Injured
Southern Half of Nation Hit
w - - -mar k 1
liiciuaing luexico iity; Aia
Rushed to Stricken Areas
Amateur Radio Keeps World Informed
of Great Disaster; Blazes spread
in Many Towns ; Deaths Unknown
By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, April 15 President Avila Camacho's office
was informed late Tuesday night that probably half the 15,000
residents of the city of Colima were left homeless, injured or dead
in an earthquake Tuesday afternoon, and that the Colima vol
cano nearby erupted and set fire to the forests.
Radio advices to the president from Governor Pedro Torres
Ortiz of Colima state reported the
stricken provincial capital was
menaced seriously by the forest
fires.
The volcano was set in eruption
when the quake rocked" the south
ern half of Mexico, shaking Mexi
co City as well as the provinces,
and starting fires here.
Fire and other damage here
was estimated at $1,000,000 or
more.'
Colima military authorities re
ported numerous smaller towns
around the city had been levelled,
and that surrounding forests were
"roaring mass of flames."
A radio message picked up here
from an operator who described
himself as an amateur sending
from Colima said at least 30 per
sons were dead.
The station -kept repeating:
"Colima in ruins. We need
aid.",.. r, j
The reports to ' the - president's
ffice said the earthquake lasted
five minutes at Colima, nearly as
long as the disastrous quake
which wrecked the city in 1932.
Avila Camacho ordered doctors
and nurses to leave with medical
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Airport Land
Deals Near
Completion
Salem's airport dealings, which
appeared Tuesday to be settled
only to run into another hitch,
may come to a conclusion today
or Thursday and the affidavit
that the necessary lands have
been acquired by the city speeded
on to Washington.
Only one deed of the four the
city must acquire is now 5ut of
Its hands as an unforeseen delay
arose in obtaining title to the 10.6
acres to be purchased from James
R. Linn.
The city Tuesday received title
to three of the four parcels in
cluded in the 89 acres needed for
airport expansion. Deed for 42.T
acres was received in exchange
for a city of Salem warrant for
$5337.50 paid to Chandler Brown,
as agent for William Brown of
Redlands, Cal. Warrants were
Issued for $3800 to Roy and
Maude Rae for 32 acres and for
$551.80 to the state of Oregon
for 3.86 acres.
Yet unsettled are the questions
of where to move the powder
house on the remaining William
Brown property and whether the
civil aeronautics authority? will
agree to pay for removal of other
buildings on the same property as
damages.
Robber Youth
Escapes Home
dad only in pajamas, .Earl
Bonney, ,16, of Salem, escaped
from the state training school
for boys at Woodburn j late
Tuesday, state police reported.
Bonney was sentenced Feb
ntary IS on a conviction of as-
MBli JnJI itfMrv with deadly
weapon. Accompanied by I an
other youth, Bonney robbed W.
1L Henderson, local publisher.
Senate on Vacation
WASHINGTON, April
The senate decided Tuesday to
take an unofficial vacation until
next week after Democractic
Leader Barkley of Kentucky ob
served that there was not a sin
gle leglslative egg" on hand. He
said the senate would meet per
functorily Friday and adjourn
until Monday. .
Near Colima;
New Addition
To Kay Mills
Starts Soon
Contract May Be Let
Today for $8000
Improvement
National defense demands on
the facilities of the Thomas Kay
Woolen Mill company of Salem
brought anouncement from Er
eel W. Kay vice-president and
manager, Tuesday night that ft
contract probably . would i be let
tocjay for an $8000 addition to
the firm's 46-year-old plant on
South 12th street at Trade.
Bids for the new unit, a two
story brick and heavy timber
structure 36 by 60 feet in dimen
sions, were opened Tuesday after
noon in the offices of Lyle J, Bar
tholomew, architect. Pioneer Trust
building. Barham Bros, was an
nounced as the low bidder.
Bartholomew said construction
would start Thursday and be com
pleted within 40 working days.
The addition will Include the
area occupied by the plant's
present dry finishing unit, a
one-story structure adjoining
the main building on the south
and east. Because of the pres
sure for blanket production, op
erations In the finishing room
wul be carried on while walls
and supporting inner timbers
for the enlarged structure are
being- erected.
The first: floor above ground in
the addition will be equipped for
blanket dressing and the second,
constructed without obstructing
posts or pillars, will house new
carding machines now on order
from an eastern factory. Shortage
of carding equipment has been the
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Reveal Quints9 Doctor
Has Major Operation
TORONTO, Ontario, April 15-(Jf)-
Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe, physi
cian to the Dionne quintuplets,
underwent a major operation here
Monday, his brother, Dr. William
Dafoe, announced tonight The
nature of the operation and Dr.
Dafoe's present condition were
not disclosed.
First Army Aviation Unit iri
Oregon Ready for US Okeli
The 123rd observation squadron, Oregon national guard,
first military aviation unit ever to be formed in this state, will
be presented for federal recognition Friday night at the Port
land armory, national guard
After receiving federal recog
nition as a component part of the
army of the United States, the ob
servation squadron will be main
tained on an armory-drill status
for a brief period and then or
dered to active duty for a " year,
officials said. i
Major Carlisle I. Ferris, air
corps, USA, has been designated
to inspect the unit when it is pre
sented for federal recognition. Ma
jor Ferris recently arrived in
Portland to serve as instructor lor
the squadron. : " ' ' "
i i The squadron is In command
! of Major G. Robert Dodson
Portland, with First Lieutenant
i Wallace J. OTJanlels, second in
! command. Both are former sir
r corps reserve officers.
Besides! the two officers there
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FBRPlsms
Red Sea
Asserts Supply
Ships Will Get
Armed Help
WASHINGTON, April 1S-(JP)
-President Roosevelt indicated
Tuesday that American mer
chant ships carrying -War sup
plies through the newly-opened
Red sea route to Egypt would
have armed protection.
Me was askea at a press con
ference whether it was the' policy
of this government to protect its
ships whever they go, so long as
they stay out of the combat zones
defined in the neutrality act. He
replied that was the law.
He did not say to what law he
referred, but other officials ex
pressed belief he meant interna
tionai law which, they said, pro
vided for the freedom of the seas.
Although the president refrained
from going into details about
methods3 of protecting ships, naval
men said several courses were
possible.
They mentioned actual escorts
by United States naval vessels,
assignment of such vessels to
patrol specific areas of the seas
to see ; that no harm comes to
American merchantmen, the
use of j airplanes, and the arm
ing of the merchantmen them
selves. ;
The president had told report
ers, howeveivthat he knew of no
discussion of arming merchantmen,
except talk by orators.
The day also brought a new de
velopment related to the recent
seizure of German, Italian and
Danish vessels in American har
bors. Chairman George (D-Ga.) of
the forejgn relations committee in
troduced legislation authorizing the
president, during the present
emergency, to purchase, requisi
tion, and take possession of for
eign vessels lying idle in the ports
of the United States.
Less than a week ago,. President
Roosevelt eliminated the gulf of
Aden and the Red sea from the
areas listed as combat zones. Con
sequently, American vessels may
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Sing Sing Dasb
Is False Alarm
OSSINING, NY, April 16-( Wed
nesday)-)- A miscount of pris
oners in a cell block caused Sing
Sing prison authorities to send
out an alarm early today that two
convicts were missing.
The prison siren and whistles
sounded the warning for 20 min
utes, and Ossining and ; state po
lice sped to the scene before the
error was discovered. !
The Ossining police alarm,
which Ossining headquarters said
was authorized by prison offi
cials, was sent at 12:13 a. m.
(EST) and said:
"Escaped prisoners. Unknown
how many. Further Information
will follow."
A third count of the cell block
today showed all 640 f prisoners
safely behind bars.
headquarters
announced here
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MAJ. C. ROBERT DODSON
Convoys
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Nazis Dig Deeper Into Greece
lip" T U N -BULGARIA
IfTiRANA YUGOSLAVIA PfSL
corVJ8t lRi$Aii Sea
lllllbpR E ECE jiMi
o loo I I
miles I
When reading the lead war story this morning note on the map
(above) the British-Greek defense lh)e as indicated by the Invert
ed "V" which the Germans claim they pierced on the right as far
south as Larisa, 35 miles beyond Mt. Olympus. The naxls also claim
to have broken throuch the upper part of the ritht side of the "V,"
some 50 miles south fThlorina (below the figure 2). The Hitler
Storm TrooDers came throurh from Turoslavla into Greece (1)
through the rough Bitot j pass.
completely over with the Greek:
tured. The black arrows shew
thrusts.
Soft Coal Stride Nears
Accord: South Balks
US ConciliatoiSarWaiCdntract
May Be Signed Today; Dies Group
Hears Communist Testimony
NEW YORK, April 16-(Wednesday)-W-Chief Federal Con
ciliator John R. Steelman announced; early today that "virtually
the entire wage contract has now been completed" for a major
portion of the country's paralyzed soft coal industry, and that
Paul Batuer't Column
Things were pretty confusing
up in Seattle the other day and
had the officials of a steamship
line all up in the
air an on ac-i .
ssJ?
'Jv'
count of a cow
The cow's
name was Daisy
1
anrl sh was crru.
ing to Alaska. t
Her fare wasJ
paid and every-1
thine was finet
m
1 1 a t: -: -
waen sne wautea
up the gang
plank of the
L
steamer : Tongass
i .u Pmul H. Bmaser, r.
sample the ex
cellent cuisine (hay and vetch) of
the seagoing cattle car.
Of course, everybody was very
considerate of Daisy. After all,
she was an expectant mother, but
her former owners had assured
the Alaska Transportation com
pany that the blessed event could
not possibly occur before Daisy
docked at Sitka six days later.
That's where Daisy exercised
feminine perversity and fooled
the experts. Because at t p. m.
Daisy made liars out of the eow
cognizent.
That was where the problem
started. The calf stood there.
wobbling, not knowing that it was
crisis in the affalrs ox the
Alaska Transportation company.
The company officials pondered.
Here was the calf named Win
nie by a deckhand in honor of
company official named Wins
ton and here were the rules and
regulations governing the fees to
be paid ; for cattle taking jaunts
to Alaska. The fee for a calf
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Fliers Discover
Monoplane Wreck
RAWLINS, Wyo., April 15-P)
A shattered small monoplane, in
which two Denver men were lost
during s- storm yesterday, was
sighted fronr a searching plane
Tuesday land Captain H. H. Clark
of the Wyoming highway, patrol
said he did : not believe : "anyone
could be alive in the wreckage."
The men aboard the lost plane
were Charles Owen, 48, Denver
contractor, and Stanley Jamel
lier, 30, Continental Air Lines co
-pilot. :
The Rupel pass battle (3) is reported
defending army either killed or cap
the
general direction of the axis
there were indications that at
least an important part of the
shutdown mines would reopen
soon.
He made this statement after
northern Appalachian coal ope
rators and the United Mine Work
ers I of America (CIO) worked
past; midnight in an effort to
complete all details for a new
wage contract.
The proposed contract, Steel
man said, : was "very nearly in
shape" for possible signing today.
WASHINGTON, April 15-()-Southern
soft coal producers, re
fusing to rejoin the Appalachian
coalj wage conference in New
York, asserted Tuesday that the
shortage of soft coal was grow
ing j more acute each day the
mines are closed pending a wage
agreement.
. WASHINGTON, April 15-(JF)-
The house military committee was
told jby a Dies committee official
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Labor Silent
On Pickets-
i it
Salem labor organizations have
no intention of replying to an ad
vertisement published here Tues
day j by the Salem Automobile
De 4 1 e r s association regarding
pickets posted in front of the
piace oi pusiness ox an associa
tion member, Charles W. Grary,
president of the Salem Trades and
Labor council, declared Tuesday
night.
The pickets returned to their
stands early this month after hav
ing been removed pending nego
tiations with the dealers organi
zation, Crary said.
The labor council executive said
further that he knew nothing of
reports that pickets would appear
today in front of at least one res
taurant and one bakery.
"The usual procedure In case
of sj grievance is to report It to
the j central council, to attempt
to settle the matter by arbitra
tion! and. If no agreement can be
reached, for the council to put .
a place on the unfair list, before ,
picketing Is started." Crary ex
plained. "Nothing of the sort
has come before the eouncU. .
Woman Hurt in Fire -'!
PORTLAND, April lS.--An
apartment house fire critically
burned Mrs. Laprele Bewsley, 24,
Portland, and injured three fire
men who rescued her from a sec
ond ptory suite Tuesday night. -
Transports Reported
To Evacuate Troops
Defense lIAnes Penetrated
War Secretary
Sees US Fight
Outside Nation
Tells Congress Group
Arned Forces May Go
to Various Terrains
WASHINGTON, April 15-W-Secretary
Stimson, one of sev
eral racking officials to testify
at congressional hearings on de-
fense
problems, strongly inti
Tuesday that it might
mated
become
I necessary for the United
to wage war, in its own
States
defense,! outside the Americas.
"Our forces must be prepared
for the possibilities of war in many
and varied terrains," he told the
special senate defense committee,
"it being quite uncertain in what
part of North or South or Central
America, or even possibly other
regions, it ultimately may be
necessary to use in the defense of
this country and its possessions."
Robert P. Patterson, the un
dersecretary of war, following
Stimson on the stand, told the
senate committee that the army's
light rand--medium tanks t were
"superior' in speed, armor and
weapons to those of any other
nation,! and said American pur-
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Serjvdce Station
Defers to State
Owners Will not Ask
for
Permit if Plans
HiMder BuUding,
No request for a permit to erect
a service station at Capitol and
Center ptreets will be made by
Breyman Boise and A. C. Eoff
until a
determination has been
made whether such a- building
would
hinder the building pro-
gram of
the state of Oregon, their
attorney
Paul R. Hendricks, in
dicated Tuesday.
Boise land Eoff, owners of prop-
the southeast corner of
the intersection, have asked the
city engineer to determine wheth
er such ia permit could be issued
under local option provisions fit
the city
izoning ordinance.
Engineer Harold Davis has
notified
affected
property owners in the
area of 300 feet and
has received objections, but has
not yet
determined whether the
objectors constitute holders, of
SI per cent of the affected
property.
Under the zoning ordinance the
engineer could issue the permit
for the j service station erection,
when requested, if holding of ob
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City Council Asked to Clear
Status of First Aid Cur
Thei Salem civil service commission broke up a meeting
heralded as one to settle the
Tuesday night by voting to ask
of the first aid car under civil
Dr. Wl C Jones of the civil
service commission made the mo
tion after stating that the civil
service commission has no au
thority to decide the fate of the
first aidl car and merely wants
to know how it is to go about
filling a vacant captaincy on the
first aid crew. He then moved
adjournment.
About BO people, including the
police arid fire department com
mittees of the city, council, were
present at the session, but only
one of them spoke. ; ; ;--
: Herman Lafky, Salem, attor
ney, said that he was interest
ed in seeing that the first aid
car: should be continued. He
suggested that means might be
devised by which . persons who
benefit from the car could eon- -tribute
jto Its maintenance.
Last night' session - grew out
of a request of the commission to
in
End of Balkan Fight Seen as V
Axis Say Serbs Surrounded; ; ,
.. African War Grows Violent
By The, Associated Press
Germans reported early today (Wednesday) that British
forces in Greece were in full retreat southward and a report from
Ankara, Turkey, said eight transport ships were en route to
Greece, possibly to evacuate British soldiers.
The German report said nazi planes were bombing the Greek
coast relentlessly, seeking out British ships. , ' "
The Ankara report, from Columbia Broadcasting system's
correspondent, Winston Burdett, said German tank squadrons
War News Briefs
LONDON, April l-(Wednes-day
) -P)-British bombers at
tacked the German naval base
at Kiel Tuesday night while a
heavy force of German war
planes made a large scale raid
against northern Ireland! and
roved widely over England.
BERLIN, April (Wednes
day) (-British raiders flying
over northern Germany Monday
night dropped explosive and in
cendiary bombs at several
places, killing two persons, in
juring others and- destroying
buildings, informed Germans
said today. ;
fr ROME; "ApriT" l-( Wednes-y)HP)-The
' official Italian
news agency Stefani, declared
Tuesday night that there was
"Insistent" information, that the
British would abandon Greece
and Yugoslavia "to their sad
destiny," even though it said
"official" confirmation was
lacking.
' BERLIN, April l-(Wednes-day)-(P)-German
news agency
dispatches from Sofia said that
Bulgaria had broken off rela
tions with - Yugoslavia on the
grounds that Yugoslav diplo
mats in Sofia had tried to fo
ment a revolt. It was charged
that Yugoslav planes had killed
Bulgarian women and children.
ISTANBUL, April lS-P)-The
newspaper- Yen! Sabah de
clared Tuesday that rumors
Turkey is negotiating with Ger
many for a non-agression pact
are "a shadowy form of German
propaganda."
BUDAPEST, Hungary, April
15.-(5J)-A report that Yugo
slavia has requested an armis
tice of Germany came from of
ficial quarters here Tuesday but
nothing was . published to that
effect.
Authorized military and dip
lomatic sources in Berlin de
nied knowledge of such a re
quest, although first reports of
It were attributed to German
sources.
OTTAWA, April 1S.-VP)-Frime
Minister MacKensle King
left Ottawa for Washington and
what observers said would be
"momentous" conversations
with President Roosevelt.
fate of the Salem first aid car
the, council to clarify the status
service. . .:
, . '
the council that; an examination
open to the public instead of men
with three years civil service ex
perience be : authorized.'
The council at its last session
authorized the examination, but
confusion. exists as to whether it
authorized making the examina
tion open.
Alderman Ross Goodman, chair
man of the fire department com
mitter, -recalled - Tuesday -night
that after he made the motion to
authorize the commission to hold
the examination - Mayor W, W.
Chadwick asked, if he wished to
include the request of the com
mission - making the examination
open. '--
You can include that if yon
want to," Goodman said he an-r
swered. '
Minutes of the council do not
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Greece
Ready
After
had broken through the British
Greek lines and were operating es
far southward as Larisa, about S5
miles south of Mt. Olympus.
A. German commentary, Dienst
Aus Deutschland, hinted the Balk
an hostilities may soon be ended,
with what it called the withdrawal
of British forces. (
Dienst said remnants of the
Serbian crmy are surrounded by
German and Italian forces with
surrender "a matter of time."
The German army, increasing.;
its pressure on the Greek-British
front line, broke through an
important mountain pass 50
miles inside Greece at Siattsta,
Greeks admitted last night.
The naals, said the Greek
spokesman, had "reached the
, western outlet-of the-' pass
presumably bad gone through it
In some forceend thus appar
ently had got beyond a 6000-.
foot-high : mountain range inte
relatively open country to the .
south. 'i
h The allied right, so far as could
be learned, was substantially st.il
intact. ; !.'
Nazi advances on the right
center, across the Aliakmon river
north of Servia, which lies C5
miles into Greek territory, were
claimed in Berlin, but this thrust
appeared of relatively minor"
present importance, for it appar
ently had not carried the Ger
mans forward to the point where
the main British defense zone had
been -formed. - ' j .
Although the Germans spoke
generally of the British as being
in retreat, 1he British for their
part claimed that there had been
no activity in their sector save for
several lunges by nael mechan-i
ized forces, all of which had been
beaten back. m
The Italians leapt into a new I
activity against the Greeks with
dual thrusts. One offensive was
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'Mercy' Plea j
Is Made by-
Judge Walker
An appeal to the mercy of the .
police was substituted for a plea i
for mercy from the court Tueg
day night when Circuit Judge 1
Arlie Walker, lieutenant-governor
of Klwanis. closed a district
meeting at the Marlon hotel and
found the keys to his automo
bile missing. ; -v .. .
"A Judge doesn't like to be
arrested, yon know, he ( ox-
plained as be asked a city police
sergeant the courtesy of taglest
parking for his car. . i
It seems Judge Walker j had
loaned the ear to a friend, who
returned the wrong set of keyo
when he brought the auto back. ;
The judge rode home to Mc-
Mlnnville with fellow Klwan-
tans.
Murders Claimed
Strike Violence
MIDDLESBORO, Ky., April IS
-VPh- A hail of bullets on a dark
mountainside road killed four men
Including . the president .1 gal
vice president of a coal mine
and wounded . possibly 25 otherl
Tuesday m this month's thira
life-taking outburst of violence" li
southern Appalachian coal ficldl,
tight wounded men srtro UL
en to hospitals. The shooting we
near the Kentucky-Tennessee linf,
on a. road leading from Middles
boro to the Fork Ridge Coal ccsh
pany mine in laziness te about
one siile from the border.