The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 17, 1941, Page 2, Image 2

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    FAGS TWO
Thm OSEGON STATESl.iAlT, Calem, Oregon, Thursday Morolng, April 17. 1341
British Hold
Nazi Smashes
Entire Axis Convov
Sunk Navy Pounds
at African Foes
(Continued from pace 1)
destroyer, the -1870-ton Mohawk,
was acknowledged.
The disclosure that the great ac
tion a last had been) joined in
' Greece came in an announcement
of the British war office which
said that fighting was heavy "in
more than one sector" and in ef-
' feet denied reports attributed to
the Germans that the nazis had
carried out a damaging break
through on the allied right.
The Greek ! command's Bight
commnnlque - acknowledged a
nasi smash deep into the center
of the eeantrj which had reach
ed the area ef Grevena and was
menacing the important rail
head ef Kalabaka, $ miles to
the sooth and 90 miles within
Greece. m
The Italians, cooperating -with
the' Germans from Albania, were
acknowledged to , have made ad
vances south of Corizza.
All this, and the statement of
the British war office, made it
dear that the allies were hard put
to it on both their right and cen
ter. Italian dispatches pictured the
struggle in Albania which the
fascists are seeking to regain from
a Greek foe faced in the homeland
with a more powerful antagonist
as the most widespread since
the beginning of the Italian-Greek
war last October.
The Greeks, Kerne claimed,
were everywhere In retreat be
fore "a tide of troops and arms
. spreading toward the south on .
all roads leading to the Greek
border." Hundreds of thousands
of men were declared to be en
gaged although this squared 111
with a seemingly casual report
Of the Greek high command
that Italian attacks In Albania
had been thrown back with
heavy fascist losses.
The capture of Split, Yugosla
via's main Adriatic naval base,
likewise was claimed by the Ital
ians in a 240-mile thrust from the
Italian-Yugoslav frontier.
In Africa, British imperial and
axis forces fought bitterly about
the Egyptian border village of
Salum and the British anounced
heavy attacks on Fort Capuzzo in
Italian Libya. The British fleet
went back into the struggle with
strong suporting bombardments of
, both areas.
British Informants in Cairo
implied that both Capuzzo and'
Salum were in British hands;
the Germans. In effect denied
this by declaring that British
armored car assaults upon Sa
lum, supported by warships, had
been thrown back.
In east Africa, the British
cleanup went on and British mili
tary headquarters anounced that
the Duke of Aosta, the Italian
viceroy of Ethiopia, had dispatch
ed an envoy to the town -of Dire
da wa presumably either to nego
tiate for the surrender of his 75,
000 fascist troops or to arrange
lor the evacuation of Italian worn
en and children.
American Mother
Of '41 Chosen
NEW YORK, April lft--Mrs.
Dena Shelby Diehl, of Danville,
Ky., whose activities have ranged
from music to gardening while
mothering four children, was cho-
sen Wednesday "The American
Mother of 1941" to reign on Moth
ers' day.
She was elected by the Ameri
can Mothers' committee of the
Golden Rule foundation as "rep
resentative of the best there is in
motherhood, and during the war
period the spokesman of American
mothers in the interests of home
less mothers and fatherless chil
dren in war-torn areas of Europe
ind Asia."
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Here is ! the new 43-ton .Pan-American Clipper
plane, pictured on arrival at LaGuardia airport
New York City, following a flight from Seattle.'
Wash. ; The ships were built fori rn-a
Nazi Culture
Destroys Self
Says Speaker
The culture of national social
ism can never be a great culture
and will eventually destroy itself,
Emanuel iBeller, Austrian youth
who escaped after two months in
a nazl j concentration camp, told
Rotary club members at their
luncheon i session at the Marion
hotel Wednesday.
Hitler has destroyed all great
individuals in Germany, Beller
said. "Unless we have great indi
viduals i we cannot have a great
culture." ;
Hitler, who Beller said is merely
a symbol,: has sown the destruc
tive element so thoroughly in the
Germans that, even should the
Germans conquer, the destruction
will continue. "The destruction
will go on until Hitler is de
stroyed,'' he said.
National socialism was the end
product; of a Germany which had
turned entirely to material aims,
Beller said. This grasping ideal,
he declared, led to unemployment,
and poverty, creating great gaps
between one part of the people
and another.
Hitler, reached power in this en
vironment, he said, by creating
suspicion and destroying family
lines so! that the entire nation had
no confidence in its former leaders
and friends.
Beller, now a student at Lin
field college at McMinnville, is a
native Of Vienna.
Dies Asks Texas
For Senator Job
ORANGE, Tex., April 1,8-iS3)-
Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex) Wed
nesday asked Texans to elect him
to the senate to press legislation
"to safeguard our future against
enemies that threaten from within
and from without."
He formally announced his can
didacy for the seat left vacant by
the death of Morris Sheppard. The
election will be held before July
9. Four other candidates, includ
ing Gerald Mann, Texas attorney
general, had already announced.
;He predicted his candidacy
would encounter the "bitter op
position of all the unAmerican
elements, not only in Texas, but j
throughput the United States."
Engagement Disclosed
PORTLAND, April 16-(JP)-Friends
disclosed Wednesday the
engagement of Paula Latz, Scars-
NY to Richard S. Frank,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron M.
Frank, Portland, A June wedding
is planned.
Publisher's Wife Dies
MARSHFIELD. April lB-UPV-A
j heart attack was fatal Monday to
Mrs. Dan E. Maloney, 49, wife of
the former co-publisher of the
Coos Bay Times. She died at San
ta Ana, Calif. Surviving are her
widower and six children.
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Super Clipper Ships
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Laid Sports
OAKLAND, Calif, April l44F)
Joy Ybarra, 140, of Oakland,
won a ten-round decision : orer
Flashy Sebastian, 149, of Mar
here Wednesday night.
Mexico Quak
Cities Looted
'I
Martial Law Asked a
Colima; Death Toll
Mounts in Nation '
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 1)
minutes. Troops patrolled tji
streets. There was no light
water service.
government quarters said tftey
believed the nation's casualty -toll
would be around 50 dead and 50
injured.
Tuxpan, in Jalisco state, ftras
reported in ruins with an official
toll of four -dead, 85 injured. 4
Ciudad Guzman, also in Jalco,
reported four dead and 40 injured,
but the national defense ministry
said a military report as yet dm-
confirmed listed many more, (as
ualties in that city of 18,000.
Major Yelaxce Grimaldo Re
ported from Colima that 199
were reported killed in Zapo Cel
tic, but added he had been un
able to confirm that figure, f
In Mexico City, where damage
estimated at more than $1,000 "000
resulted without casualties, gthe
new, $500,000 Pontiac building.
which suffered heavily, begaijt to
1 A a 1 v . K
ran i a nouceaDie angle &na
engineers said it might h&vS to
be demolished.
MEXICO CITY, April lff-JL-
M. ... . . -
me oince or: president Ayila
Camacho was advised by the rfeay
or of Tuxpan, Jalisco state, hat
up to 11 a. m. Wednesday 27 gad
had been counted there and 57
injured. jf
Half Tuxpan was destroyed by
luesaay's earthquake.
Legion Funsters
Plan "Wreck"
Date for the spring "wreckf of
Marion county voiture 153, 4et
society, is May 3, Chef de 3are
unet z.umwalt announced Wed
nesday night following the it-
ures meeting. The session Hva
Zumwalt's first as presiding f of
ficer. Several candidates were vted
upon. Annual crawfish feed! of
Silverton American, Legion gost
was announced for S a t u r da y
night. A delegation of voyagejirs
was present from Portland, head
ed by Grand Chef de Camp
nest.
Fire Victim Die I
PORTLAND,; Ore., AprU 16-iiP)
-Mrs. Laprele Beasley, 24, trap
ped by fire in her apartment Tues
day night, died, of burns in a fgs
pital early Wednesday. i
Three firemen suffered
or
in juries in the rescue.
Northwest Hops and Bar l?r
tor Britain
-a
daily service feetween the United States and Europe.
However, since placing of the 'order, Paa-Amerf.
can has decided to let Britain take. three of the
PiAnea. -: h
Eugene Boat
Ends Cruise
On Highway
EUGENE, April lo-UfV-The 45
foot, ocean-going ketch Norwind
cruised over the highway Wednes
day from Eugene to Mapleton,
where It will be launched in the
Siuslaw river.
The state highway commission,
which had refused at first to al
low the boat to be towed over the
road, gave its blessing to the trip
and the vessel started on its, way
with a police escort.
A parade of small sailing boats
ana motor boats on trucks pre
ceded the departure. The Norwind
was built here by Chet.L Good.
Salem to Send
Six to Army
Five Salem youths and one reg
lsierea nere wnose nome is in
Austin, Texas, have been named
by the Salem local selective serv
ice board as the contingent from
this area to answer the April 24
draft call.
Among the group is Robert P.
Utter, personnel technician of the
unemployment compensa tion
commission. Others are Gordon
Edmund Duval, Finley Elston
Gibbs, David Taylor, Delmar Ken
neth Gwynn and Loy Preston
Townsley of Austin, Texas.
The six are to report to the Sa
lem armory April 24 at 8 a. m.
and will be sent by stage to the
Portland induction station.
Soft Coal Grouns
Make 2-Vear Deal
NEW YORK, April 18-UP)-
l-aoor and management Wednes
day agreed upon a new two-year
labor contract for most of the
country's defense-vital soft coal
industry, but immediate reooening
01 tne paralyzed mines remained
indefinite because southern coal
operators still spurned the accord.
Chief Federal Conciliator John
R. Steelman indicated, however,
that if the contract did not lead to
immediate industry-wide agree
ment it would result in resump
tion of a major portion of bitumin
ous production within a week.
Salem Accordion Band
Seeks New Members
Salem's uniformed marching
accordion band, which appeared
in the Centennal parades and has
been invited to participate in the
Portland Rose festival on June 14,
has increased in membership to
60 players, according to George
Meisinger, director. He has plans
to build the organization soon to
100 members.
"This is purely a "music for
fun group," Meisinger said Wed
nesday. "We have jl place for
both the beginner and the advan
ced accordionist and for major-
US Plans New
Defense Steps
Program Outlined by
FDR and Officials
on Ships and Aid
(Continued From Page 1)
and Canadian war supplies across
the, submarine - Infested Atlantic
was thought to be one of the most
urgent before them this time.
, -, How this problem would Jbe
met whether by conveys or
perhaps by some as yet anmen
tioned device was the subject
of wide speculation. -. iv.r
ine convoy issue itself was
shunted aside temporarily in con
gress "when the senate foreign re-
lations committee unanimously
agreed to put off consideration of .
the Tobey anti-convoy resolution
until April 30. !
Senator Tobey (R-NH) said he
would continue meanwhile to seek
support for his resolution banning
the use of American naval vessels
for convoy purposes. - ;
President Roosevelt's remark
Tuesday that the i goods had to
be get over to Britain in some
way gave the impression that
steps of some kind were la
prospect to strengthen present
British protection of the supply
ships. .
The Canadian prime minister.
also "vitally concerned with the
problem, has first-hand knowl
edge of the. needs in this respect
since British convoys for mer
chant vessels - are. organized off
the Canadian coast.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-JP-
Precautionary plans for housing
800,000 -additional troops, just in
case they should be needed, were
revealed Wednesday by Robert P.
Patterson, the undersecretary of
war, with a disclosure that sur-
veys for 28 new cantonment sites
had begun..
Patterson said that with 115.
000.000 recently made available.
engineers had been or would bet
retained to make the cantonment I
surveys. He was emphatic in tell-1
rag reporters, nowever, tnat no
plans for calling up 800,000 add!
tional men had been made and
that the measures being taken
were entirely precautionary
Plans long approved call for hav-
ing 1,400 men under arms by
June.
Credit Men Hear
Speeches at
Independence
Nearlv 10ft twuwt mt v
banquet and meeting of the Inde-
pendence-Monmouth Credit asso-
elation Monday at Independence I
mt v.iVh m I
bany, Corvallis, Willamina, Sher-
idan. McMinnville. Foret riml.
niusDoro ana Salem were pres
ent
responsibilities of parents and
schools in training children In
honesty and the promot navmenf
of obligations were stressed by
Frank Bennett, superintendent of
S9im tm.ki.. l.
Other speakers on the program, I
sponsored Dy the credit bureaus,
mciuaea wes McWain, Willamette
university, and Lynn MacLachlan
who said "Selling is competitive;
unu' sianung is cooperative, and g- --- -the
quality of your credit control WaS JJeath
can oe measured by the quality
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..w.. w U1C inucptniueuce-1
aiunuiouui
Credit association. I
presided.
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b!a75ft0r Threatened
CHICAGO, AprU lS-UPl-The
.
wno raised charses of "fifth
mraam n fiMk
column activities" and attacked
the Italian consulate In Chicago"
in his editorials, stated Wednes
day that he had received many
teiepnoned threats before he was
slain. -
ettes and
well."
snare drummers as
A. GERWIN CO.
444 S. Commercial
; Salem Distributor ,
if rs j
1 Paid Ilauser Column
(Turn to Page 2, CoL 8)
I up to 10 inches while she' caught
two, one 15 and $ne 13 inches and
when he showed his catch his
wife, Elma, deflated him "Cute,
aren't they?" : - '-
It is well known to me fur
thermore that jthis department
has a new desk; and Is dared by
the society gals to keep it as
dean as the Beys code. As for
the columnist.
with the ' clean
desk he feels like a mother dog
deprived of her
pttps, lost with
out his Utter,
Worst Bombing
Capital Laid Waste
as Fires Stage in
Littered Streets
( Continued from page 1)
the streets. Firemen battled more
flame, m last a they reduced
others to smouldering pillars of
smoke. f
Only two German planes were
shot down duruig all this, pre-'
llmlnary authoritative reports
said. One was destroyed by anti
aircraft fire, another by British
night fighters.
Apparently London received
the fall impact of the German
raid. There were no other.
bombings reported at this early
hour.
Many areas were roped off to
prefect civilians Itromhe havoc
of delayed action! bombs.
(A slight interruption of com
munications between the Associ-
I ated Press London and New York
offices indicated that a time bomb
forced tho vmtin nf h. T
don office.)
Only two or three minute in-
tervals at times
marked the re-
lenuess attack.
reat orange and red flames
lighted the skies
throughout the
night as thousands
ef bombs
whistled down.
xne unusn saia tne raids were
discriminate, business, residen-
and shopping districts suffer-
ing alike. I
Observers at one post counted I
no less than 70 to 100 bomb bursts
w uieix ungie area. 1
At 432 ajn. London time. (732 1
pm. PST) the Associated Press
office messaged that there was a
temporary delay in communica-1
tlons, recalling a similar interrun-1
110,1 durin the devastating attack
1451 AJecemtr when the As-
soclalea Fres bUflding was de-
strored br fire. . "
Earlier. In New? York both the
National Broadcasting eompanr
and the Columbia Broadcasting
system reported building
eliding hous-
ing their offices had been struck.
The German radio, in a broad
heard by CBS, quoted Ger-1
PHota saying on return to
er base, that the raid had ex-
cellent rem.it. nM. ;
Mid ' b raging
in the Thames
ocsiae.
Mailman 1? inUS
Note
KNOXVILLE, Tenn April 18.
yfj-A postman
on his rounds I
found nn m;nw . i..- I
i -""-"i"- wuiui I
Please call police station and
li.ii a.t a. a . I
Miu uiem w investigate gas cdm-
'mg ,rom 1831 venue.
PoUce ln.vestiV.ted Th a I
fri... a I m . I
viw;i uu uu(u u lumes.
London
is a Bigger Gar a Finer Car yet
: ; itepriceis
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Jobs Promised
Salem Youths
200 Sheet Bletal Class
' Trainees Take Tests
I for Ayiation Work
(Continued from page 1)
Partment Is also reeulred for
employment.
- Lockheed plants now employ
about 17,500 men and expect- to
double, the figure as trained men
become available. They 'are co
operating with the state employ
ment service in California and
came only this week into Oregon.
Youths are given personality and
intelligence tests and kept a file
to be hired when - recommended
by their schools.
' As the. present disses are de
pleted ky employment there
win be vacancies- for the train
tag. The shep' capacity is
about 71. Requirements are age
ef It to 25 years. Ugh school
edaeatlon or Its equivalent and
American cltlxenshlp, which
st be proved by birth cer-
I tlflcate or naturalisation papers.
L "P1?. in
I r - ;.
I t aecurea inrougn tne
state employment office.
The 200 now available for em
ployment, Ferris said, have had
from six -to 14 weeks of braining,
while about 40 are in a class- start
ed this week. C A. Guderian is
coordinator, of the program.
The : course, which has been
conducted since June. 1940. has
sent 62 youths to positions at the
Boein aircraft plant in Seattle.
Ferris said these received high
I Boetog officials and
were among the first called back
to work after short plant layoffs.
Seven or eight from Salem have
obtained jobs - in Lockheed and
ott California factories
" uuuauve.
Willkie Joins
NY Law Firm
NEW: YORK. April 18XJP-
wenaeu l. willkie announced
Wednesday that he has becomes
member of' the firm of Miller
Owen. Otis and Baillv. which will
continue the general practice of
"W. under the name of Willkie.
uwen, mis, ana iaiiiy. , -
Nathan L. Miller, former ov-
ernor of New York, whom Willkie
succeeds as senior partner, will
continue as counsel to the firm.
The 1940 republican presiden-
tial candidate said he exDected.to
d occasional writing and speak-
puouc questions involving
jPraapie and belief.
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Kadffefl A W?1TfIrl
"rfU&C8 AWoTQea
Tri "Rr-
-
Two life and two star badges
TJt rZ. iepaim er?
and a bronze easle rulm m
" .tTK. TT
Jfig nTIt
uisvnct court 01 nonor. Robert
Lange presided.
William Ready and Dourias
Cartel1, both of troop 11, became
life scouts, while Richard Colley
or troop 14 and Roy Houck of
troop 11 became star scouts. Ed
ward Porter of troop- IS was given
the palm, signifying five merit
badges and three months service
above eagle rank.
New second class scouts are
tt..i t -cj
uuwi- uiwsrus. wuuam 1
I iev. wmam Hart T C,. J
August Nelson of troon 22- rrt
p
Pope, Wendall HalL David Jor-
dan and Arthur dbart of
t .- .ZV .
. . .
Merit badges were awarded to
David Scott, Clarence Conrad,
Hugh. LovelL Clarence Hammer
and Harry Hammer of troop IS;
Wallace Adams and 'Bob Bailer
of troop 82; Don Bowers of ship
12; ; Cole Stephens,. Jim Arnett,
Howard BeuglL Douglas Carter,
John Hagan, Roy Houck and Rol
lin Hammett Of troop 11; Richard
CoUey, Delmer Michener, Robert
Hoague and Ray Jordan of troop
14. . " ; . ' .
Witnesses Tell
Of Red Meets
" (Continued from page 1)
that he is or once was affiliated
with, an organization advocating
the violent overthrow of the gov
ernment.' PORTLAND, Ore- April 1S-V
AFL unionists accused Mont.
gomery - Ward and company of
ficials Wednesday of refusing to
submit a dispute at the Portland
store to arbitration. :
Max Langford, retail clerks un
ion representative, told George
Bokat, national : . labor relations
board examiner - who, is hearing
charges of unfair labor practices
against the, firm,, that Ward offi
cials would not! agree to a union
shop, wage increases: or any form
of arbitration that did not give
the company final tUiision. !
A strike has beenunder war at i
the Portland store since Decern, i
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