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Change of Name Needed Before
US Will Name Warship Oregon
, Secretary of State Earl Snell Wednesday was advised by navy
department officials that the name of the ld "Battleship Oregon,"
now moored in Portland harbor, would have to be changed before
st new US battleship could be named Oregon.
Youth Killed
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At Jefferson
ALBANY; Ore., April 16.-(P)-Sammy
Weeks, 9, was fatally in
jured near Jefferson Wednesday
night by an automobile which
struck him as he attempted to
cross the highway.
Witnesses said the boy ran from
behind a highway grader direct
ly, into the path of the car. He
died at the Albany hospital four
hours later, -
Another accident in Albany sent
Mrs. D. W. Lashmut, Albany, to
the hospital .with a double frac
ture of the left thigh. Her auto
mobile was involved in a collision
at a street intersection. I
Censorship Foreseen
WASHINGTON, April
Secretary Knox pictured censor
Ship as a possibility, if necessary,
in a new plea Wednesday for press
secrecy concerning movements of
damaged British warships to Am
erican ports for repairs.
Officer Back on Job
E. W. "Happy" Hewett, night
desk sergeant on the Salem police
force, returned to duty Tuesday
following a two weeks' vacation
in eastern Oregon and Washington.
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capital city, Athens, and Its main
Greece by the German
Sues canal
(below) in an effort to
resisting gallantly in both sectors.
The 1841 legislature adopted a
resolution urging that the name
be changed to "Illustrious Ore
gon" and that one of the new
fighting ships now. under con
struction be named "Battleship
Oregon.'! The navy department
informed Snell that the name'f
the old ; vessel would have to be
changed to something entirely
different
"The Old "Battleship Oregon,"
which became famous for her
voyage around the Horn to join
the American fleet at Cuba in
1898, still Is carried on the navy
list. : ;. r;
' The navy : department advised
that when funds are appropriated
for new battleship's the name
Oregon j i Would be considered
along with a large number of
others.
Snell said his letter indicated
that 17 new battleships have been
authorized but four of them have
not yet Ireceived appropriations ot
been provided with names.
The navy department letter will
be referred to the battleship Ore
gon commission.
Freictiter Torpedoed
NEW YORK, April 18-iP)-Ma-rine
circles said Wednesday night
the 4351-ton British freighter Sil
verelm,! ,which has been trading
between: New.. York and En gland,
had been torpedoed and sunk in
the north Atlantic
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Hello, Joe! Whaddayuh know?
vveii, i snow tnere aren't any
circuses In town and it 4oesn't
look like therell be any this year
ana I keep hop
ing I'm wrong.
I know,! too,
that this is; very
seasonable
weather; for
April and Tm
hoping that all
the Mary, Marys
quite - contrarys
who peruse the
garden inaga
zines got all their
bulbs and . seeds
in triattlt . nivnew
nil EL Ber. J.
places. i . : ii
I am also cognizant of the fact
that Robert; Pohle Utter, th erst
while golf !. champion ? of 1hese
parts, will soon be Robert y Pohle
Yardbird Utter and that you cant
take divots! on a parade ground.
I also know that .wheni one
complained of the confjoslon
which . sometimes exists In! the
circles ef j city - government Dr.
W. C Jones, the WU economist,
Quipped, 'Would yen strike ; a
blow at democracy? Would yen
deprive us ef ear censtltujjional
right te be'enfBseotT--H''4 sj
?! '1 'am' aware as well thit the
promoters of ft Certain Lone Oak
subdivision: learned too late that
their Lone Oak was no Lon Oak,
but a Lone! Horse Chestnut! i 1
- I further ken that when epury
DUtrict Attorney .Talbot Bennett
and his. wife went fishing te past
weekend he caught 'ten ranging
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US Plans
Steps Oil
Defense1
Prograni .Mapped
by FDR, Officials
on Ships, Aid
WASHINGTON, April
New steps to -fortify I North
American defenses and perhaps
to-help "deliver the goods" to
Great Britain appeared to be in
the making Wednesday night.
Contributing; to this conclusion
among well-informed observers
were these developments:
An invitation "from President
Roosevelt for Prime Minister W. L.
MacKenzie Kin? of Canada to have
tea with him tnis afternoon.
A 'conference of Nevile Butler,
British ' minister, ' and ' Sumner
Welles,' undersecretary of state, on
the shipping situation. Butler in
dicated that one of the questions
involved was :i that of American
merchant ships replacing British
vessels in. the Pacific to permit di
version of the British ' ships for
carrying supplies to Great Britain.
An j Indication from Secretary
Knox that- the navy would
guard any American, land forces
sent te the new United States
bases In Greenland, and that s
part ef the coast gnard might be
transferred to the navy.
Prime .Minister King's visit to
the United States was described
as primarily for a vacation. Offi
cials were reticent about what
subjects he. and Mr. , Roosevelt
might d if cu s s, but momentous
events nave emergea xrom mior
mal chats' over tea cups.
Since Canada and the United
States are fast developing joint
defenses under a program map
ped out at the last meeting of the
president and, the prime minister.
the problem of getting American
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Group Hits
lowering of
Draft Age
WASHINGTON, April 16-(JP)-Representatlve
Faddis (D-Pa),
acting as spokesman for the house
miltary committee chairman, said
Wednesday there would . be "the
strongest opposition" within the
committee to any lowering of the
age limit for draftees, now 21 to
35. .
: President Roosevelt at his press
conference Tuesday indicated that
the matter of changing the limit
was under consideration. He said
both ends of the age limit might
be changed, but indicated the ad
ministration would prefer not to
go below 21.
Faddis was designated by Chair
man May (D-Ky) to inform news
men of what both men described
as an "mformal" committee dis
cussion of the subject.
. . "Practically every one present"
expressed opposition to a change,
Faddis said, adding that nearly
the entire membership of the 27
man committee was present
Faddis said placing the lower
age limit at 18 was discussed last
year during; consideration of the
selective service act and was dis
carded, ii '- "
Mexico Quake
Cities Looted
MEXICO CITY, April le-tfV
Gen. Armando Escobar Steger,
troop commander at earthquake
stricken Colima, asked the ' na
tional defense ministry Wednes
day for martial law to prevent
looting in the city of 15,000, worst
hit of a score or more southern
Mexico cities wrecked Tuesday by
a heavy earth shock. -v.; r.
At least 38 persons, we re
killed land 100 Injured there
when . the tremor shook down
half the city's buildings in five
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UP Rail Plans Told
OMAHA, April 16-HP)-Plans to
re-lay 53 miles of new steel rail
this year on the main lines of the
Union Pacific railroad at an esti
mated cost of $10,710,000 were an
nounced Wednesday, by ..W.M.
Jeffers, president of the road. The
program Includes 79 miles In Ore
gon it cost el f 1330,000.
Dismissed
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HENRIK DE KAUFMANN
COPENHAGEN, i Denmark (via
Berlin), April II (.Denmark's
minister to Washington, Henrlk
de Kaufmann, was formally dis
missed from the foreign office
Wednesday on the grounds ef
"misusing the king's name," the
foreign office announced. The
foreign office statement said he
"increased the difficulties of his
government, grossly . betrayed
the state authorities, and con
cluded an agreement which was
against the country's security
tnd Interest," Legal proceedings
under the Danish penal cede
will follow, it concluded.
Jobs Promised
Salem Youths
By Lockheed
J200 Sheet Metal Clags
Trainees Take Tests
for Aviation Work
Employment in -the Lockheed
aircraft fadbory" at "Burbank,
Calif., was promised Wednesday
by two company personnel of
ficials to members of the Salem
aviation sheet metal classes who
pass Lockheed tests.
. Donald McBain, Salem manager
of the state employment service,
and Frank G. Ferris, employment
officer in charge of defense train
ing, said 200 youths took the tests
Wednesday and their papers were
sent immediately to Burbank for
grading.
Highly trained workers is the
great need now for the aircraft in
dustry, McBain emphasized..
The Lockheed officials highly
commended the Salem training,
Ferris said, estimating that
probably not more than two per
cent ef the present group would
be rejected for positions, as
compared with the normal 40
per cent rejection. Physical ex
aminations and recommenda
tion of the Salem vocational de
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Farmer Hangs
Self in Shed!
Guy W. Taylor, 63-year old
farmer of route six, apparently
took his own life by hanging him.
self in the woodshed on his farm
east of Salem Wednesday, Deputy
Sheriff L. L. Pittinger said Wed
nesday night.
Pittinger said Coroner ' L. E.
Barrick placed the time of Tay
lor's death at about 1 or 2 p. m.
The body had been hanging about
five hours before it was discov
ered. .' .:.-!'.' . . "
A note found In the farmhouse
said despondency over illness was
the reason for the suicide.
- Taylor is survived by his wife.
Bethel,' school teacher at Scotts
Mills; a brother, C R. Taylor ef
Vallejov CaL, and a sister, Mrs.
D. V. Artie of Lancaster, CaL
The body is at Clough-Barrick
mortuary. .
Music Critic Dies
YUBA CITY, Calif, April 18
(jP) Redfern Mason, widely
known music critic and author,
died here Wednesday night. Ma
son served as music critic for the
San Francisco Examiner for 22
years. In 1937 he retired.
May Use Hemlock
WASHINGTON, April 16HP
Senator Wallgren (D-Wash) was
notified by the procurement di
vision of the treasury it had
changed its" specifications for Ve
netian blinds so that western hem
lock can.be used in their manu
facture. ' j :: ,
British
fioldvline
In
Navy JlitsfAxis .
Troops in Africa
in Suez Defense
LONDON
April 17-(Thurs-
day)rP)-An
entire convoy of
three
axis destroyers and five
cargo' ships :
bound for Africa
munitions and
with troops,
mechanized equipment has been
blown up and Sunk between Sicily
and Tripoli by a British Mediter
ranean squadron at the cost of one
British destroyer, the admiralty
announced late Wednesday night.
Disclosure of the annihilation-
so described followed announce
ment that the Mediterranean fleet
is continually bombarding the
German and Italian troops, airports
and forts along the Libyan shore
in support of the hard-fighting im
perial desert armies. x
.. Thus the British Mediterranean
fleet, with units freed at length
from convoy service to Greece, re
turned to the job of blocking axis
supply lanes to Africa. It has been
suggested that the Italian fleet
served as a Dure for the British
warships late last month, when the
Italians were Caught off Cape Ma-
tapan and battered by both light
and heavy .British units. Mean-'
while, this theory suposes, Italian
ships were carrying German Pan
zer forces to Tripoli.
, Heavy fighting raged Wed
. nesday night In several sectors
of the' allied j line m Greece and
the Brltish, hard pressed as
they were in the Balkans, gave
explosive notice at the same
time that the Mediterranean
fleet had gone back into major
-offensive action te choke off re
inforcements for the axis Afri
can drive toward the Sues can-.
.i. -V .(
The sunk . ships totaled 20,000
tons. The losS of a single .British
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Film Magnate
Convicted on
TaxE
vasion
NEW YORK, Thursday, April
17-(iiP)-Movie Magnate Joseph M.
Schenck was convicted early' to
day by a federal court jury on
two of four founts of income tax
evasion charges.
He was acquitted of a charge
of conspiracy.
His co-defendant, Joseph Mos-
kowitz, was
found guilty on one
count of tax
evasion and acquit
other counts.
ted of three
. . The . verdict was returned at
2:33 a. m. (EST) by the jury
which took . the case at 4:25 p. m.
Wednesday.
Schenck 14 board chairman of
the Twentieth Century-Fox" Film
corporation. Under the conviction
he is liable to possible imprison
ment of ten) years and fines to
taling $20,000.
Turk Trade Deal on
BEIRUT, Lebanon, ApriU 10-
(AVNewspapers reported here
Wednesday Germany and Turkey
were on thej verge of concluding
a new. trade! agreement whereby
more Turkish tobacco would be
shipped to Germany. ' '
Greece
Witnesses Say Bridges Seen
AtCIommiinist Meetings
SAN lilANCKCO, April 1 G-W-Two government witnesses
testified at Harry Bridges deportation hearing Wednesday that
he attended; and reported to communist party meetings in 1934,
the year that he became known to Americans as a militant labor
leader.' :
Sam Diner expelled communist,
testified Bridges made a report on
the San Francisco general strike
at the California communist con
vention to the party's trade union
committee. Diner, chairman of
the committee, said only commun
ists were permitted at the conven
tion. ' - i
' Thomas ! Laurence, former .
- communist and new a doth est
ter for the Bed Cross In Los An -geles,
testified he saw Bridges
at a top section committee meet-;
. lag fct Laurence's ! apartment
"daring the ! 1134 coastwise wa
terfront stride. .
Laurence was atUndizvg m co
Buried
Rage Over City
Ehbkihg Smoke Pall
Overhan
&fter
Savage
Afore Than 400 Nazi Planes
In Bombardment; Streets
Littered With Debris
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' LONDON, April 17-(Thursday)-(i,P)-Great tongues of flame
and' smoke coiled over this' capital at dawn today and great
sprawling areas of blackened masonry entombed uncounted vic
tims of the German air force's most savage attack of the war.
This was the worst ever, veterans said. The ancient capital
was a stricken witness to what Berlin had promised that the
RAF attack on the nazi capital April 9 would be ' repaid
"hundred-fold."
Wave upon wave of German bombers, some zooming low over
1
War News Briefs
BERLIN. April H - (Thurs-dar)H2P-British
bombers at
tempting widespread raids en !
northern - Germany's o a s t a 1
areas succeeded . In reaching
some objectives and dropped a
few bombs. Informed - quarters
said today. : ' -;
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ItOMEr: April 'i 17-(lWlay)
(iP) Italian forces operating
from Albania, hare crossed the
Yugoslav frontier near Scutari
and T are driving- the Yugoslav
army north ward, dispatches
from the front said today.
ATHENS, April 17 (Thurs
day) OF) Twe German- col
umns smashing through the
heart of the central Greek-.
British front threatened today
to outflank the strong allied en
trenchments thrown up on the
slopes ef famed Mount Olympus
en the eastern coast.
VICHY, France, April 17
(Thursday) -() - Vichy, the
temporary capital of unoccupied
France, had an hour-long air 1
raid ahum Wednesday night for
-. the first time since the French
German armistice. (This dis
patch said nothing about bombs
being dropped.)
BERLIN, April lMAVThe
German high command aneunc
ed Wednesday night that the en
tire Serbian second army had,
laid down Its arms in Saravejo,
birthplace ef the first great war,
bur semi-official sources ac
knowledged at the same time
.that the British army of north
ern Greece is "showing more
fight than heretofore.'
WASHINGTON, April IS-KjP)
Secretary of Navy Knox re
ported Wednesday . that the
United States was ready if need
be ta delay construction ef the
twe-eeeaa n a v y to assure,
prompt repairs ef war-damaged
British vessels in American
shipyards. Forecasting the ar
rival of "Targe numbers- of
damaged ships such as the bat
tleship Malaya, Knox said they,
had . been given first priority
"ever everything else in our
yards." r ;
munist rank and file meeting in
another flat in the building, he
said, but with another man crept
downstairs and peeked through
partially drawn window blinds
Into his basement apartment.
"We all wanted to take a look
at Harry Bridges," he explained.
At.. Bridges' first deportation
hearing so-called communist
meetings which government wit
nesses said Bridges attended, were
described by others as union
meetings. The government is seek
ing to deport the . California - CIO
director to Australia on charges
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as Fires
Capital
Attack
the city, dropped tons of .heavy
explosive and fire bombs to sur
pass the great December 29 fire
raid which gutted so much of Lon
don. v
-Observers estimated more than
400 raiders participated in the at
tack. '
A choking smoke pall overhung
the city, and London never really
NEW, YOrJC '"AprO. .ItMjff
James M. Mlnifie, . London cor
respondent ef the New York
Herald Tribune, was injured
seriously In Wednesday night's
air raid when a high explosive
bomb- blasted a section of his
hoteL The . newspaper announ
ced it was Informed that Mln
ifie was badly cut by flying
glass about the head and eyes
and that he had been taken te
a hospital. r
had a protecting darkness from
the moment the first nazi ava
lanche of fire and explosive hit
the city. "
The walling- sirens ef ambu
lances carrying their broken
loads ' te the hospitals and the
hoarse shouts ef firemen and
rescuers continued en into the ,
daylight long after the all clear
sounded about S:3t ajn. (8:3
pan., PST.). . '
Thousands who sleeplessly hud
dled beneath the crunch of bombs
and the barking anti-aircraft bar
rage throughout the night saw a
grim spectacle upon, entering the
streets again. I -
Great gashes ripped the capital.
Brick, timber and glass Uttered
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Imperial War
Council Seen
LONDON, April 16-P)-Britaln
was reported Wednesday night te
be attempting to arrange an Im
perial war conference attended ty
the heads of the Canadian, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and South Af
rican dominions. '
It was this project, reliable
sources said, which Is delaying iof
at least, two weeks the departure
of Prime Minister Robert G. Ilea
ries of Australia for the United
States and Canada. ' f
(There - are strong indications;
that the . conference is intended
largely to increase .the dominions'
output of manpower to fm the in
Creasing British need for troops
in the middle east particularly
in defense of the Suez canal.) i
Air Losses High j;
In Greece Battle j
BERLIN, April lOHSVA Ger
man summary of Tuesday's sir.
combat put enemy plane losses,
mostly British, at 39, including 22
destroyed on the ground at Laxixa
and Trikkala, Greece. Seventeen
were said to have been shot dcrcO
in dog fights, while DNB, German
news agency, said German losses
were only four,' . . :
NEW YORII, Apr3 IS-i-C?-lurohia
Broadcasting system
listening post reported Wedrtsf :f
hearing a London radio repcrt 11 " i
one British royal air force ar-'i-ron
had shot down 1C3 ax!J plascg
during the bafJe ef Greece.