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Act; lkt sight Wrre WcatHcr chool for the, blind from ri-,-i"'. - Partly cloudy . today. a4 Saturday; loetf frosts with rising daytime temperatures. Max. Temp,' Thursday. f 1. MIn- S3. West wind. River .7 foot. Clear. ' putting on plan, with stagey I HUH IU fcUC liUl , - props. Read of this fie aetl- j IJCIETYTIRST TEAB FrIco ScrltamtandV Sc Ik. II TN 'i 'Till J -v i u m i ij iw i ii n - i ? i ! , i -f - . i i ! i . i i - i i II if" j i r - !r r- - i i i i i i i i i i- .viiiiiiii ii ii 11-11 ! , ij "ScrJem, Oregon, Friday Mornings April Ifc 1S41, .. " r": 'v ;Tt ::rn";- o . 7-;::r j it AMied ' i. i 'i . I. . , - i : J I J aLL Hew Auto: alkoiil i Planned ' CIO Files Notice ." General Motors ". Next on List DETROIT, April U-()-R. J .Thomas, president of the United Automobile- Workers J (CIO), announced Thursday night that his union, which only. Saturday concluded a ten-day strike at the Tord Motor company, -Iwas filing a five-day notice of intention to. strike against General Motors cor poration. ,," ... A one-year union-corporation agreement on wages and working conditions expires Sunday, and Thomas ' said that a strike, "if necessary," would be carried out to enforce UAW-CIO demands for a new proposed agreement. 1 Thomas 'said that he had in structed subordinates to file tlfe strike notice with the state labor mediation board. State law re quires a five-day "cooling off period" before a strike may be called. - ' The 61 plants, the union said, employ approximately J 60,000. j " NEW YORK, April 17-P4 The policy committee of the ' United Mine Workers of America 7 (CIO) voted early Thursday night not to send miners back Into the nation's softoal mines 'ntU wage disputes With sonth-f. 'era Appalachian coal operators could be settled. V-- ; The southern group, earlier, had suggestea mat the union . wre-. sentatives meet their negotiaiorl4 Washington and negotiate a sepa jrate contraction the basis of the cjith group's proposal to increase Ha$:el If per centr A , - ; SEATTLE, April 17Jf)An In cipient Congress of Industrial Or ganization's 1 challenge . of the American Federation of Labor dominance among Boeing Aircraft workers loomed Thursday on bold er outline. (Turn to Page 2. CoL 7) BB Paul tlauser Column ' How they arent all professors. when it comes to absent mind edness . there are also cities, nur ses and basket ball teams. Take the bas ketball team at ( East Rockford,? 111 for instance.! ' It forgot that it, was . trailing by a few points in- stead of ' leading by the same and stalled until it lost the game. -And the city. It was Smith ville, M Iti, Paul H. Basser, Jr, which plumb forgot about a mu nicipal election that was duly and constitutionally scheduled. - V New the nurse was a gal in La Mata M& who got so interested showing some ether nurses bow -a child had contrived to swallow a toy airplane that she swallowed r the spoon she was sobbing for the airplane. In her demonstration. And there's tho example, now almost classic, of the soldier who was instructed to make some pork and beef sandwiches and turned up with sandwiches made f pork "and beans. Around Richmond, Va hunters got so near-sighted that the cem etery management had to ask them to stop shooting the iron an imals on an Elks monument.. . The guides at the New Jersey state capitol got quite a shock, too, when a family of. tourists tried to check in there under, the impression it . was. a hoteL ' We have an absent minded prof, though, come to think of it. It was In Saw Mills, NS. Dem onstrating to his class how to avoid violent sneeslng, he sneesed so hard he blew his false teeth light out the window. - - A movie magnate has been con victed of federal Income tax eva sion, .He found out the govern ment doesn't give away free dishes or anything else, MARITIME NOTE The Wheatland Ferry weighed -anchor yesterday for convoy daty Jn the Red sea. The commander took along a new purser and a , new life raft, both of which he said weald keep him out ef the Red. " v'v Seek to Lead I -I - T Woald-be gavel wlelders over the next year are these four yotang men, who will vie for tnes smaeni presidency at an election next Wednesday. The four pictured are, top row. Ralph May, at left, and Oscar Swenson; bottom row, Dave lEteinhard, at left, and John Hathaway Kennell-Ellis photos. Mother's Boys Home Due to Close Board of Director-I)eide'Bni'f!CTil.of : Management and Lack o I Finances too Great; Plan to Board Nine Boya i Mother's Boys home, started by an itinerant rummage col lector and provided with its first boy charges by an advertise ment in a Portland newspaper, is closing its-doors. ! The board of directors recruited from among Salem citizens by the . founder, William Mul rooney, in an effort to gain ap proval from the state public wel fare! commission last December, has decided the burdens, pf man agement immediate financial de mands and uncertainty qf ever qualifying with the state agency are too great to shoulder, Rev. Stewart G. Billings, chairman, an nounced Thursday. As a result, M. E. Holcomb, Marlon county pnblie welfare administrator, met with Mrs. Zola Kirk patrick, acting man ager at the home Thursday afternoon to work out a plan for caring for the institution's nine boys, who range in age from five to 19 years. Holcomb said they; would be placed In foster homes "within the next hours' until better arrange ments, such as returning them to parents or relatives, could be made. I Closing of the home's doors may prove! painful to its creditors, but no more so than would continued operation, Rev. Billings indicated. Mulrooney, who 'left the home -by j request" last February, "in his dealings had run us so far in : (Turn to Page 3, CoL 8) Road Work to Start WALDPORT, April 17.-(P-A WPA crew will begin grading and graveling the new road- to the Waldport cemetery next week. Tho i 3500-foot right-of-way ; al ready has. been cleared. , ; . US Air Raid Warning Bv Yclmiteefils Ordered - "I WASHINGTON", April 17 - (P) the creation of a nation-wide air raid warning system,. to be staffed by 900,000 or more civilian volunteers, as a step toward "real preparedness for a possible Patterned largely on uie jarii- ish organization for spotting raid ing azi bombers, , the new ob server 'Corps is expected to in clude many women.. 1 . ' The announcement came from General George C. Mar shall, chief of staff,- withoct. hint thai the move ras mora than generally precautionary." He made It clear, however, that' no time would be lost la set- ting up the safeguard for use' In the event of actual war The campaign for volunteers is to be opened Friday by Lieuten ant iGeneral .Delos C. Emmons, commander of the army's general headquarters air force, who will be la charge. Official hope to have between 500,003 and CO0.CG0 V (J Studehis sr 7 t v Willamette university student body -r Doors Drive Starts! By irants At University i - Speeches, as always, todiy begin the annual election ' campaign of the Willamette universitystudent body. Presidential hopefuls begin their campaigns in student chapel this morning at 11:30. Nominating petitions were sub mitted at the deadline Thursday noon and approved Vf the Student executive; council, President Wil liam Thomas said. , Presidential nominees9 are Dave Relnhard ef Portland, Ralph May of Denver, f Cole., John Hathaway of TillMnook and Oscar Swenson ef Spokane. Lucy Fisher of Salem, thi only woman entry, withdrew her pe tition late Thursday afternoon. Candidates for ?first vice-president are Maxine Holt, 2arorie Waters .and Carolyn Browt. all of Salem, ' Running for! seconJ vice president ' are Cliff Stewart of Great falls,'. Monlr and jumner Gallaher of Salem. Secretarial aspirants ar Doro thea . Greenwood : of Springfield, Mary Barker and Chloe Aiderson of Salenu , ' J Kf a No petitions were submitted for (Turn to Pago 3, Col. 9) - The army Thursday cj-dered emergency." - rr enrolled by the end of August. The warning observers, termed "minute-men" by the war dj?pari ment, are to cooperate wih the army's four air forces in tb& con tinental United States in spotting enemy war Icraft .and' flashing news of their' approach, m Marshall said mayors an oth er local officials . were expected to assist 14 the organization! cam paign, details of which are? to be announced Friday atMitchel Field, New York, by GcneraJ Em mons. j . . ' - ) TACOMA, April n-iJP-Ji un advertised simulated air attack on ; CTura to Page 2, CoL j4) - Asp US" Plans ; Huge Tax jProgram 'Present1 : to Be Raised; " Chiefs Concur : WASHINGTON, April 17rW) A tremendous hew. tax program designed to add $3,500,000,000 to the government's anual in come, perhaps by increasing virtually, all present tax rates and assessing new levies as well, was proposed by the administra tion Thursday with both repub lican and democratic leaders ap proving. ; J - - Details of the program remained to be. worked out, but Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was authoritatively reported to have advocated raising all present tax rates income, excess profits, ex cise, etc. from 25 to 50 per cent higher than existing levels. The present individual income tax is 4.4 per cent; the corporation in come tax is 24 per cent In addition to boosts "all along the line," the treasury plan was said also to include several additional excise taxes, such as levies on washing ma chines, radios and other so- . called luxury objects not now . taxed. f Whether 1 or hot the treasury program is adopted in detail, most sources considered that a big jump in the income tax lev ies possibly accompanied by a re duction in exemptions, was 5 a foregone conclusion.. Increases in the liquor and. other excise taxes, in the excess "profits tax and in the ; estate and ' gift taxes , were Althaughone source said the treasury plan did not include a general sales tax, others indica ted such a possibility could not be ruled out definitely, however much this method of taxation has been frowned upon by the ad ministration in the past. Explaining that President Roosevelt had already approved the idea of raising $3,501,900,- 000 of new- taxes and Would soon discuss the, subject with the people. Secretary Morgen thau outlined the plan to lead ing members ef the house and senate committees in charge of taxes at a comparatively early morning meeting In his treasury office. Tney, too, agreed tnat it was necessary to impose taxes to raise the money. Then, Morgen (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Service Clubs' Drive Approved For US Troops WASHINGTON, AprU 17-iTV: Spurred by appeals ' from Presi dent Roosevelt and defense offi cials, 776 ' community ; leaders agreed to raise $10,763,000 by pub lic subscription to provide recrea tion for service men. and 'defense workers, 'x -"The croeram calls for the build fng and operation of 339 service clubs near major army camps and naval stations. The government is expected to build the camps and their operation is to be privately financed. I President Roosevelt termed the Work a great enterprise. Secre tary Stimson, secretary Knox and George C Marshall, army chief of staff,' addressed the workers who represented the United Service or ganizations. The USO is made up of the Salvation Army. YMCA, YWCA, National Catholii Com munity service, Jewish welfare board: and the National Travel ers Aid association. Officer Training for ? Draft Men Disclosed ; WASHINGTON, April U-itfJ-General George C. Marshall said Thursday the army would give officer "training to approximately 10,000 selective service soldiers annually. . The' disclosure by the chief of staff enlarged original plans near ly five-fold..:'. Instead of four training schools. Marshall said, ten will open three-month courses In July. DALLAS, Texas, - April YtH&l -Robert Sherman 'Lazenby, .74, eminent chemist, founder of K the formula for the carbonated drink. Dr. Pepper, . and for nearly j 40 years president of the Dr. Pepper company, died Thursday. ; Levies Violent Battle Causes Fears New Invasion azis Bombings Continue as London Attempts to dear Bomb Debris LONDON, April lt-(Friday)- (JPy-The second air-raid alert since midnight sounded in the London , area at 3:30 ajsa. today (6:30 pan. Thursday, PST). The alert was brief and no In cidents were reported. One , German bomber crashed and exploded in a rural area and presumably the crew was killed. Bombs fell in "many open areas near the coast, indicating the Ger man airmen at times had to jetti son their loads in the face -of stubborn ground fire. Authoritative British v sources said at least 400 planes were con tinuously attacking for, eight hours, declaring, "They just wouldn't have had fields to fly from or room to fly if there had been any more." Notables among the dead the total still unknown include Lord Stamp, government economic ad viser, his lady and his eldest son, and Lord Auckland, prominent amateur ; wild-animal trainer well known in America. . Serious talk that this might be the forerunner of invasion gained - increasing attention. jme 11-informed, observers -Turn,, to Page "CoLUj Editors Told Censorship Not Planned WASHINGTON, April 17(JPy- Asserting tnat tree speecn was "in undisputed possession" of the press, the radio and motion pic tures, President Roosevelt told the American Society of - Newspaper Editors Thursday that there would be "no government con trol of news unless it be vital military information." "o. In a letter read to the open ing session of the society's an- ; nual convention, Mr. Roosevelt said thai "those who disagree with what Is being done, and with the manrfer In which it is , being done, are free to use their freedom of speech. ' " -. The " letter was , read by Tom Wallace, retiring president of the society-and editor of ; the Louis- ville Times. Wallace said it "may become a very historic docu ment," !"::. c;;. : ' . After saying that free speech was "in undispulted : possession? of publishers, editors, reporters, magazines, motion pictures, and of radio, President Rooseveltadd ed that so far as he was concerned "it will remain there for that is where it belongs." . Duke Sails for US NASSAU, The Bahamas, April nVFJ-Tb Duke of Windsor. governor of the Bahamas, and the duchess sailed Thursday night for Palm Beach,' where he is to con fer with his financial advisers. Albion m T 1 - "TBiT lrv bv pi dbergH.' Sees BrMsIi; Defeat CHICAGO, April n-iFy-Coh Charles A. Lindbergh asserted Thursday night : that it will be a. tragedy to the worlda tragedy even to Germany it the British empire collapses,' but he : opined that the "war was lost? by the allies "even before it was. de clared. He called for unity among peo ple opposed to US intervention and, In an address prepared for a , rally ; in the Chicago arena sponsored by the America First committee, declared that "it Is not yet too late for usrto save our own country from the chaos and fail-: ure of-this war- : "1 believe that It la not with-? ; In our power in America today to win the war for England even : ihourh we threw the entire re sourcts of ear nation Into - the conflict!; y' ; With all our organization " and industry, we are not and will not be able to transport an army Emtio rmo us Nazi Losses Athens Adm nr i-- L.t lOO Bntisli Hold Capture Axis Troops in Defending Tobruk ; Naval Units Active CAIRO, Egypt, April 17-fP)-Defenders of the British garrison at Tobruk, Ibya, fighting bitterly against mechanized axis forces, . . n w 1 ... a 1 J J capvurea piucers ana nunamis of men and! destroyed 20 tanks while British naval units shelled Fort Capuzz, near the Egyptian frontier, it was announced offi cially tonight. The British middle east head quarters said! a British' patrol had successfully penetrated enemy po sitions outside Tobruk and had captured seven Italian officers and 139 men in a single phase of op erations. Axis dead during the day were placed above 200. ; Officers said that an axis at tack on Tobruk was repulsed by artillery fire, while patrol activ ity continued at a high pitch In ""the Saium, Xirpt. area and fur ther pregriss ; waS " made by troops pushing en In Ethiopia. In Addis Ababa. S009 Italians and 4000 of Itheir colonial troops already, are prisoners. , A - The work of the Tobruk defend ers, the British said, brought to at least-1500 the number of German casual tiev wounded and prisoners, in the desert , campaign and in creased the number of tanks de stroyed to 35. The British losses were reported to be light. The naval shelling of the Libyan Fort Capuzzo, apparently was car ried out by the same naval units which ryesterday were credited with destroying an eight-ship con-. voy in an attack on the axis-Afri can sUnnlv line. f While, the ships shelled the fort, which has changed hands several times in the current conflict, Brit ish aircraft attacked a motorized (Turn tej Page 3, Col. 8) r More B usiness ForO egon WASHINGTON, April 17-P)- Con tracts for j 32 ship ways award ed by : the niaritime commission will total S22.507.150, the office of production . management said Thursday. Included was $1,538,000 for three ways of the Oregon ship building corporation at Portland. PORTLAND, Ore, April 17-tf5) -Milton P. Higgins, treasurer of the Norton .company, Worcester, Mass, one of the nation's large abrasives manufacture a- con ferred with utilities officials here Thursday. Higgins admitted that "my trip here is being made just as a preliminary . investigation.' across the ocean large enough to Invade the continent . of Europe successfully as long as strong Eu ropean armies are there for its defense. -- ' I Lindbergh declared that "Eng land is in a desperate position" and added: C;- ';U,,y?-v "Up to date, she has lost every major campaign in which she has participated. Her shipping losses are of the utmost seriousness, and her cities have -been devastated by bombs. Her geographical and eco nomic position! is as great a dis advantage, in this age of aircraft and submarines as it was an ad-; vantage In - tfie era" of sailing ships.: - . -j -- , - ; . lie said the United States was . able te defend Jtself against any fereirn powers but held thai If It was to maintain that ability ."we .must no expose our fleet 1st European war sones and we must stop- sending most ef ear fighting planes abroad. African Town Mm its German Strorig; ugos Dispatches Indicate Hitter Troops Dying by hpusands JitAll-oitifa ' By The Associated Press A Greek retreat somewhere to the west of Mount Olympus, where theBritish were reported today, Friday, to have smashed repeated nazi attacks, threatened to buckle the entire allied de fense' line and caused an - Athens spokesman to make this de spairing statement: ' ' .; 3 i , "The situation is developing unfavorably . . . the struggle against twV empires "(feerman and Italian) which was imposed on us by Germany could not last indefinitely." i War News Briefs BERLIN, April 1 -( Friday )-(JP)-A small number of royal air force, planes broke through anti-aircraft defenses to attack Berlin during the night, start ing fires in -residential sections and damaging: cultural institu tion. It was announced today. . LONDON, April l- Friday )T, (Jfy-GtrnUM bombers 'made . "4 V fairly heavy7 attack 'Thursday ' night on a town on . the.-south eoast," the air .muistry - au nouneed today. ,' . LONDON, April ls-(Friday) JP-Two brief air raid alarms chilled Londoners early . today but bo bombs fell to pile more deaths and wreckage upon the yet uncounted toll inflicted 24 hours earlier by the most sav age German air attack of the war; Both alerts came after mid night. ' - NEW YORK, April 17WP) Two French freighters, the Leo pold L. D. and the-lie De Jte, carrying a mercy cargo -of 13, ,600 tons of flour and 750 tons of dry milk, tailed Thursday; for Marseille. England and the US state department gave permis sion for the voyage on condition that the . Red Croos supervise distribution of the food In un occupied France. GIBRALTAR, April 17-iV Three Westbound French sub marines and a destroyer passed through the strait of Gibraltar by daylight Thursday apparent ly headed for Casablanca, Mo rocco. NEW , YORK, April 17-;PH German radio stations were off the air . temporarily Thursday night,, NBC engineers reported. Such . interruption of broadcasts usually Indicate an air raid Is In progress. Asks Special Stamps WASHINGTON, April 17-(ff- Rep. Pierce (D-Ore) has intro duced a hDl authorizing a special postage stamp to commemorate tho 100th anniversary, of. the founding of civil government in the Oregon country, blazing cf the old Oregon trail and the western migration of U43., V ' Lindbergh contended that, if the American navy. . convoyed ships "to England, American bat tleships would be sunk and Ame rican sailors would be killed. He also held that sending arms to-' Europe was a "mistake be cause It 'weakened our position, added to the bloodshed in Euro pean countries' . and, failed to change the "trend of tho war. Interventionists shout that we are defeatists because we oppose jumping . blindly Into ; a war In Europe, he said. "But I ask you: whose policy has led to defeat, ours or theirs?,, What have they to say about the long list of pros trate nations in Europe, .who un der, their leadership, jumped into war hastily and unprepared? i- ' It Was announced before Lind bergh spoke that he had become a' member of the America First committee, an ' organization op posed to US participation In the war abroad. : :: Wins Pove Reported English, Australian and New Zealand troops fighting violently in the Mount Olympus sector were said to have rolled. up enormous German casualties in hurling back wave after wave of nazi attackers, but British sources admitted that German advances-4 on their left, south of Monastir (Bitolj, Yugo slavia) . gap might force a rectifi-1 cation of their lines. ( : British sources earlier had said significantly that collapse . of the Greek forces on the Al banian front - might have "re percussions" on the British ex ' petitionary f o r e e. Observers took this to mean one of three things: t . - ' 1 i, An imminent British attempt to evacuate its Balkan army because of the overwhelming odds and re verses; capitulation cf allied troops; or a1 last-ditch British stand against the vastly more nu merous axis forces. : "Increased power of the Ger man troops' forced the Greek re treat, the . spokesman said. "The uneasiness . and regret regarding the military situation is justified," Presumably the retreat was in the center of the line or on the west wing along the Albanian frontier. Earlier reports had said the eastern wing was holding out unbroken on a 25-mile front from Katerina near the Gulf of Saloni ka south westward to Servia de spite wholesale assaults by the Germans who crossed the Aliak- mon river. t , Even before the Greek! spokesman's dark utterance, Berlin had anounced the uncon ditional surrender or the fight- j Ing remnants of the 1,200,000 strong Yugoslav army in the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) British Get Four Vessels WASHINGTON, April 17-tf)4 The United States started makin good Thursday on Presiden Roosevelt's promise to provide Great Britain with sorely needed cargo ships by transferring four new, high-speed freighters. j! The maritime commission an nouneed that three of the four vessels were being acquired fror) their American owners "for In mediate delivery" to tho Erlt government under the lease-lend law. The fourth, it was salL U ready, had been turned over. ( j They will be registered under the Entisa flag and will tt manned entirely by British offI4 eers and crews. . Orient Jaunt Seen for Roosevelt and Bride t LOS ANGELES, April 17.-JT1 -James Roosevelt, his bride and iwo memDers oi ner family Cv to San Francisco Thursday. th first leg for the president's sea. at least of a possible trip to tho orient. .,- " : . . ;j Roosevelt, a captain in ..'CO marines who has been stationed at San Diego, declined to cenv ment on reports that "he had! booked passage for two on V y Pan-American clipper leaving San Francisco for lior" Kcnj Saturday. ; ; ' i - - Auto Production Cn! " WASHINGTON, April 17-C)-The automobile industry t ' til Thursday to cut its rrc ' . i next year 20 per cent in crdtr ti Increase its output of rnu..;n.tj.