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Weather
, Fair today and T7eaesay
with continued warm tem
peratures; mostly for or
clouds and cool at e a s t
Max. Temp. Monday, 76,
Min. 40. River -J foot.
Northwest wind. Clear.
POUNDQD 1651
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Satan Oregon, Tuesday Morning April 22, 1941
Prlco 3d Nowaatanda Ic
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Greeks
Milk Law
Action Is
Delayed
Council Orders
Service Unit
! Permit Held
The Salem city council or
dered City Engineer J. H. Davis
Monday night to hold up issu
ance of a-permit sought by A.
C. Eoff and Brey man Boise for
erection af a service station at
Capitol and Center streets under
local option provisions of the city
zoning ordinance.
Two other controversial matters,
clarification of the civil service
status Of the city first aid car
and final passage of a revised
milk - ordinance, " were put over
until the next council session.
Passage of the resolution in
structing the city engineer to de
lay further proceedings on the
Eoff-Boise request came after a
report from the engineer that pro
tests against the service station
project were insufficient.
Davis reported that protests
filed before expiration of the
usual ten day limit represented
holders of 42.98 per cent of the
affected property. Two other
protests filed later, he reported,
would, If allowed, bring the fig
ure up to 45.32 per cent, still be
low the required 51 per cent.
. Erection of the service station
has been protested by the state
board of control as counter to the
State's building program. .
, Alderman David O'Hara, spon
sor of the resolution, said -its pur
pose was to suspend on the mat
ter until the planning and zoning
commission and- a special council
committee could confer with state
officials about the situation,
r Padt Hendricks, former ity at
torney and legal counsel for Boise
and Eoff, pointed out that a reso
lution cannot affect an ordinance
and said that in passing the reso
lution the council was "instruct
ing a civil servant, the city engi
neer, to disobey a law."
Alderman O'Hara protested -that
the ordinance specifies no
time limit in which the city en
' gineer most issue ar permit un
der local option and that the
council was not, therefor, ask
ing him to break the law.
The milk ordinance, which has
been kicked around since the first
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Flames Roar
Through East
By The Associated Press
Flames roared through the east
ern seaboard's parched woodlands
Monday ; as the devastated acre
age in nine states mounted past
the 100,000 mark.
t For a while the naval air sta
tion at Lakehurst and the borough
of Lakehurst in central New Jer
sey were threatened, but were
saved by 500 sailors and marines
and other fighters. At nightfall
there were still 25 fires raging in
the state.
New York, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Maryland, West Vir
1 ginia, Virginia and Connecticut as
i well were ravaged by fires which
raced through brush and trees
with lightning swiftness the re
sult of more than two weeks re
lentless sunshine.
Patriotic, to
Say the Least
WASHINGTON, April Zl-iPi
Mrs. Equality Pagan, daughter
of former Resident Commission
er 'Santiago Igleslas of Puerto
Rico and wife of the present
resident commissioner, Bolivar
Pagan arrived from San Juan
Monday after a six months visit
on the island.
; Mrs. Papan was met by her
sisters. Liberty, Justice, light
and Peace. Equality's other sis
ters. Fraternity, America and
Victory, were absent from the
city.
Canada Still Seeks
Six Escaped Nazis
PENINSULA. Ont, April 21-
(V Only six of 28 German war
prisoners who tunneled their way
out of Canada's most isolated in
ternment camp were at ' large
Monday night and authorities said
more were coming to this Cana
dian Pacific railway station house
to help in the manhunt.
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HOWARD JENKS
Howard Jenks, members of the
Jenks-White seed firm, was
unanimously elected by the city
council Monday night to fill a
position on the Salem water
commission vacated by the res
ignation of Floyd B. Seigmund.
Jenks, who lives at 560 Cross
street, was nominated by Alder
man Bert Ford. His nomination
was recommended by the water
commission. There were no oth
er nominations. Seigmund,
elected last November, resigned
to go on active duty as a mem
ber of the United States army
officers reserve corps.
Concert
Group
Opens Drive
75 Volunteers Attend
Banquet; Goals of
Association Told
Opening of the fifth , campaign
for the Salem Community Con
cert association started Monday
night with a banquet at the Mar
ion hotel. More than 75 volun
teer workers Attended. J. Lyman
Steed, president of the association,
introduced the board of directors
and out-of-town workers.
The guest speaker, Herbert
Fox, of Columbia Concerts, NYC,
talked on the coming drive and
the headline attraction for the
1941-42 season, the original Bal
let Russe. He said the ballet ; is
the largest and most outstanding
ballet in the world, composed of
150 members. The ballet is ap
pearing in only three other cities
in the northwest next year, Spo
kane, Seattle and Portland. J
The goal for the Salem cam
paign is 300 new members and a
$5000 budget. Fox stated that he
expected the Salem workers
would sell out the high school
auditorium for the coming season.
The campaign closes Saturday
night and no membership tickets
will be sold after that time.
Check up meetings will be held
on Wednesday and Friday at 5
p. m. at campaign headquarters.
Senator hotel. Anyone desiring
membership may call the hotel,
6177, or contact Mrs. George
Moorhead, drive chairman.
Fox announced the available ar
tists for the four concert series
include: sopranos, naming many
of the best known now in the
United States.
Wae Increase Seen
TACOMA, April 21yp)-Wage
increases for lumber millworkers
of Oregon and Washington greater
than the five cents an hour orig
inally offered by mill operators
appeared likely from the tenor of
the four-hour AFL union parley
held in Tacoma Monday after
noon. Discussion will be resumed
at 10 a.m. Tuesday, apparently for
final negotiations.
Salem 1940 Audit Submitted;
Minor Recommendations -Made
The city of Salem should make an effort to collect over $1200
in claims it holds against Marion county mostly arising from tax
foreclosures within the city limits, J. B. Protzman, auditor, re
iterated to the city council Monday night in submitting the general
audit of the city's financial af
fairsifor 1940.
The claims were pointed out in
the 1939 audit, but, Protzman said,
"do not appear to have been col-1
lected in the past year.
(City Recorder Hannah Martin
told : the council that ' her office
put in a claim for the money
shortly after the first of the year
and that the county is presum
ably now checking its records.) .
Protzman reported the records
of the 'city departments were
found in excellent shape, V
He made several recommenda
tions, including that the Salem
armory board, created during the
past year, should be placed under
a small bond. "This board," he said,
7m r
celt
Says Production Must Be Resumed
in National Defense Interest;
Hears Report on GMC Trouble
By The Associated Press ,
- President Roosevelt intervened in the coal dispute Monday
night, asserting in a public statement that production "must be
resumed, and promptly" in the interest of national defense. "
He proposed that the northern operators of the Appalachian
area and united mine workers, who
came to an understanding last
week on a new wage contract, re
sume production under terms of
that agreement.
Referring to the southern operat
ors, who walked out on the general
wage conference in a dispute over
wage differentials, Mr. Roosevelt
suggested that they resume ne
gotiations and at the same time
reopen their mines, jvith an ulti
mate agreement made retroactive
to the date on which work was re
sumed. Earlier, Senator Byrd had de
manded to know why Secretary
Perkins had not turned the soft
coal dispute over to the defense
mediation board.
In a telegram Byrd told Miss
Perkins that "your own efforts
to mediate have' failed," and
declared that further delay in
re-opening the mines would
"imperil our national security."
Meantime, President Roosevelt
received a report from Gov. Mur
ray D. Van Wagoner of Michigan
on the threatened strike in Gen
eral Motors plants. The CIO
United Automobile Workers, ask
ing a union shop and wage in
creases, filed notice last week of
its intention to strike General Mo
tors plants.
The Michigan labor mediation
board stepped -into the situation
last night with an order invoking
a 30-day "cooling off period. The
board had followed that procedure
in previous disputes Tiivolvlng de
fense industries. The union served
a five-day not ice of intent to
strike last week, but yesterday's
order extended that period.
Some steel mills and other in
dustries vital to defense already
have slowed production because
of a fuel shortage due to the
work stoppage at' soft coal
mines. About 400,000 miners
have been idle since April 1
when the contract between the
CIO United Mine Workers and
mine operators in the eight
state Appalachian area expired.
The UMW asked a wage of $7
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Fire Group
Wants Car
That the first aid car is here to
stay was the sentiment Monday
night' of members of the Salem
city council fire department com
mittee. Chairman Ross Goodman re
vealed that plans and specifica
tions are being drawn up for a
brand new car, to replace the
Floyd B. McMullen memorial car
which has done yeoman duty
since 1937, and that funds for its
purchase in 1942 will probably be
budgeted.
The fire department committee
and the council is faced with a re
quest from the civil service com
mission to clarify the status of
the first aid car under civil serv
ice and will introduce a resolution
tc do so at the next meeting of
the council.
Goodman indicated that the car
would be retained in the fire de
partment and that its personnel
would probably remain under ci
vil service.
"will probably handle as much or
more money than the boxing com
mission." The, boxing commis
sion is under bond.
The audit showed assets of the
city as of December , 31, ,1940 ? to
be $7,198,032.63 and liabilities the
same. . . J -
A deficit of $134,802.17 was
shown injthe street improvement
bond and interest fund and a de
ficit of $4005.82 in the general bond
and interest sinking fund. r .
Bonds payable were . listed as
general bonds, ,$593,000; water
bonds, $2,173,000; . Bancroft im
provement bonds, $334,107.30 and
matured coupons payable,
$1,743.73. .
Intervenes
Coal Dispute
US Troops May
Bivouac Here
Chamber Chief Tells
Ft. Lewis Officer
Space Is Available
Belief that overnight parking
accommodations can be provided
for the 10,000 Fort Lewis soldiers
who are scheduled to pass through
Salem between May 19 and 24 was
expressed Monday by Manager
Fred D. Thielsen, manager of the
Salem chamber of commerce, in a
letter to Capt. N. E. Poines, ninth
field artillery officer, who is
making advance bivouac arrange
ments. Thielsen advised the officer
that "unless it should be very
bad weather, there Mill be
ample space on the fairgrounds
parking lot for your cars and,
even should the weather be bad,
the cars can be parked in the
streets of the fairgrounds." If
necessary, an additional 30 acres
of parking can be provided at
the Salem airport, he wrote.
The chamber manager's letter
was prompted by the report left
here by Capt. Poines last week
that he had been advised the, fair-J
gmuius par&ing iQi'woum nufc utr
available, to the army units, com
ing through Salem in daily sec
tions of 2000 men and 250 ve
hicles. The troops are going to
southern California for maneu
vers, according to word reaching
the chamber.
Coast Group
Pick Astoria
MARSHFIELD, Ore., April 21
JP) The Coast Highway asso
ciation Monday selected Astoria
for its 1941 fall meeting, the ac
tion date to be set by the board
of directors.
Cooperation of the state high
way commission in placing his
toric markers, particularly on the
Oregon Trail, was promised by
R. H. Baldock, commission engi
neer, speaking at the final ses
sion of the meeting.
Houston Named
Texas Senator
HOUSTON, Tex., April 21-03)-Andrew
Jackson Houston, 87 year
old son of Gen. Sam Houston, hero
of the battle of San Jacinto, was
appointed Monday to the US sen
ate seat his father filled in 1848.
Officials said that, to the best
of their recollection, Houston was
the oldest man ever named to the
senate.
Jim Roosevelt Goes
By Air to Manila
HONOLULU, April 21-P-Captain
James Roosevelt, US ma
rine corps, left by clipper Mem
day for Manila. Roosevelt, son of
the president, maintained strict
silence as to his assignment.
He arrived by clipper Sunday
from the mainland, where he left
his bride of a week, the former
Romelle Schneider. . .
Ready for Anywhere
NEWARK, NJ, April tl-)
-Lieutenant General Hugh A.
Drum, commanding general of
the first ' army, said Monday ,
night ; that the United - States
army was being organized into
a "field force ready for action
anywhere." . sv: '
Typos Blay Rejoin AFL
- INDLAJJIAPOLIS, April 2 l-ff)r
Headquarters of the International
Typographical , union announced
Monday night the union would
hold a referendum of its member
ship May 21 on whether to go back
into - the American Federation of
I Labor. , l
NewTaxes
ii
sted
in
Treasury Would
Boost Income.
Other Levies
WASHINGTON, April 21
An increase in the basic individ
ual income tax rate from 4.4 to
6.6 per cent was reported au
thoritatively Monday to have
been, proposed by the treasury
as part of a plan to raise $3,500,
000,000 in new revenue.
The plan, submitted to the house
ways and means committee behind
closed doors by John L. Sullivan,
assistant treasury secretary, was
said also to include an increase in
the corporation income tax rate
to 30 per cent from the present 24.
Chairman Doughton (D-NC)
refused to disclose any details
of the treasury proposal but eth
er members said the department
suggested that present individ
ual income tax exemptions be
kept, at $800 for single persons
and $2000 for married individ
uals.
They added, however, that the
treasury proposed to eliminate
the present 10 per cent credit for
earned income below $14,000. This
provision, coupled with the high
er tax rate, wouia mean tnat a
married salaried man who has a
net income of $2500 and who paid
$11 last March 15 would pay $33
on his 1941 income. One member
said that in some cases an indi
vidual's tax bill would be seven
times what it is now.
Other reported phases of the
plan which would affect mil
lions of individuals would: In
crease the tax on cigarets from
H to 8 cents per pack of 20;
"boost the" gasoline tax from
to 2i cents per gallon and
place new levies on chewing
gum, candy and soft drinks. De
tails of the latter taxes were
not available. .
The treasury proposal was said
also to include an increase in the
tax on new automobiles from the
present 3H to 7 per cent; a re
vival of the 2 cents per bank
check levy; a boost from $3 to $4
a gallon in the whisky tax and an
increase from the present $6 to $7
per barrel on beer.
A World war revenue producer
which the treasury would also
revive was a levy of 'about 10
per cent on the cost of railroad,
airplane, bus and other trans
portation tickets.
The treasury plan was said
not to have included any gross
salary tax or any general sales
-tax. Members said, -however,
that the manufacturers excise
tax, a form of sales tax, would
be extended to cover many new
objects not now taxed.
While the legislators were
struggling with the revenue bill,
the treasury reported total tax
collections of $1,472,294,600 in
March, the largest for any month
in the nation's history.
M 1 Ofte Baa
'Paul Hauser Column
A couple of the town's most
suspicious characters had the police-force
worried Monday night
about its patrol
car No. 2, one of
our alert State
street scouts re
ports, i
It appears, so
we have it from
our scout, that
Patrolman Ercel
Mundinger was
doing his nightly
escort duty for
the box office
funds of the
CP,lti1 1beatrePaIH.H.er.Jr.
and left his car
parked outside.
; It was then that the suspicious
characters came wandering across
from . the. courthouse and. In
trigued by ' the spotlight on the
copper's car, began flicking it here
and there. Mundinger saw them,
and it being hi business to be on
speaking terms with the suspicious
characters of the village, waved
them a greeting and went about
his business. .
' Close by some citizens figured
nobody ought to be so familiar
with a police ear. He buzzed the
'station.- v ; -V, -
When Mundinger came out of
the box office he heard his radio
blatting out : into the night air.
rear No. 1 Car "No. 1," it said,
"Investigate suspicious characters
loitering around. : Car No, 2 in
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ISTANBUL. Turkey, April
Two destroyers have been' or
dered to stand . by in Greece
with steam up since last Thurs
day to take King George II of
Greece, his v royal family and
Greek officials from Athens, it
was reported here Monday
night. But King George has
postponed the departure " and
continues heading' the ' Greek
government almost single-handed
since the death of Premier
George Korizas.
Canada Plans
US Warships
Smaller Vessels May .
Be BuUt in Trade
for War Supplies
MONTREAL, April 21
-(Canadian Pres s) -Canada
may soon be building, small
warships for the United States
navy, Angus MacDcnald, rnin-
ister of national defense for
the naval services, indicated
Monday after returning from
an American tour. .
Asked in an interview if
there was a chance that the
United States would build
warships in Canada, MacDon
ald replied:
"The chance is the other
way about. We might build
warships for the United States
navy. They're going to take
supplies from us to help our'
exchange. WelL if they want
warships from us we can ftfvc ?
them .corvettes and minesweep
ers." Oregon Gets
Safety Plaque
WASHINGTON, April 2ff-
stablisnment of a federal traf
fic safety agency was urged -by
Senator Burton (R-Ohio) at a
dinner of the national safety
council which awarded bronze
plaques Monday night to - four
states and seven cities that set
safety records in 1940.
. The council estimated that the
seven winners through their
safety promotion programs
averted the deaths of 650 per-.
sons in traffic accidents.
The four states Connecticut,
Oklahoma, Minnesota and Ore
gon - had a . composite - death
rate. 24 per -cent below the na
tional average.
Rep. Angell (R-Ore) repre
sented Governor Charles A.
Sprague of Oregon in accepting
Oregon's award. . - -,
Three Soldiers
Get Promotions
Promotion of three Marion and
Polk county men have been an
nounced at Fort Lewis.
Robert E. Kitchen, - Salenv of
Company B, 162nd infantry, : has
been advanced to the Dosition of
first lieutenant,' Douglas L. Jones, !
Salem,' also of the ,162nd, to cor
poral, and Wfllard F. Bogin,
Woodburn, of the 186th infantry,
to sergeant. J
Private Lester E. Cobb, Men-
mouth, of Company B, 162nd in
fantry. Is one of 33 men in the
41st division receiving a month's
course ; of instruction for army
cooks and bakers. . '
Red Cross Ship Lost
WASHINGTON, April 21.-3V
Red Cross officials said Monday
night a Greek fre'zhter carrying
$120,000 of medical and relief sup
plies to the Balkans had been lost.
The freighter , Grigorios dis
appeared. In .the south Atlantic
about three weeks ago, they said,
Allied- Disaster
Seen, in
Fleeing Troops
English Expected to
Atteni
To Northern Africa
Italos Claim 150,000 Greeks
Trapped in West; London
Told to Expect Defeat 1
- . By The Associated Press I
German troops drove hard on the heels late Monday night of
a-British army of Between 50,000 and 80,000 men retreating south
to Thermopylae, historic gateway leading to Athens and southern
Greek embarkation points. :
A dispatch from an Associated Press war correspondent
(Daniel Deluce) who landed at Cesme, Turkey, after crossing the
Aegean sea from Athens, said Greek troops, with little or no.
chance to escape the country, were sacrificing themselves to
War News Briefs
LONDON. April 22.-Tues-day)-JP7Fire
"rae of them
large were started in a south
west English coastal town which
bore the brunt of nazi overnight
air raids, the government said
early today. ;
BERLIN, April .-(Tuesday)
-py-Sinee the early evening
hours vf Monday, strong luft
waffe'vnits have been heading
over the British Isles, DNB (of
ficial German news agency) re
ported today. By midnight, it
was aaid, hundreds of German
bombers had carried out attacks
on war-important objectives.
NEW YORK, April 2L-flV
The German radio in a broad
east heard here Monday night
by CBS said a state of siege1 has
been declared in Athens. "After
manifestations in the capital in
favor of peace,' the broadcast
added. "Some British diplomats
fled from Athens to Egypt.
OTTAWA, April 2L-V
President Roosevelt may visit
Ottawa between May 16 and 15,
Prime Minister MacKenzie King
announced late Monday after
returning from conferences with
the president in the United
States..
LONDON. April -2L-CiP)-Dis-patches
reaching here Monday
night indicated that the boy
King Peter of , Yugoslavia had
arrived safely "somewhere in
the middle east."
BUDAPEST. April ZLr4JPr
The -Budapest radio said Mon
day night that the Rnmanlan
press had reported - new iron
guard demonstrations in Buch
arest against the government of
Premier . Ion Antonescu. Refu
gees arriving in Hungary from
Romania described the situation
as "little short of eritiraL
Do wn to $21
r
William McChesney Martin. 84- Leon Henderson, price adminis
: year-old head of the New York trator, Monday asked manufac-'
Stock Exchange, Is seen signing , turers of farm implements cot t
his induction papers ' into , the increase prices now, saying V,l
, army. Martin, thus Is giving up J voluntary cooperation, was re-"
: a $4s,C39-a-year Job ."to receive J Quested in the hope" that ether
, 21 a month as m electee. .'steps may be avoided."
80000
ithdrawal
cover the British withdrawal..
An allied disaster, he reported.
had been regarded as inevitable
ever since the third day of battle
when a nazi armored column sliced
through Bitolj gap from Yugo
slavia. King George has postponed his
proposed departure from Athens
following the suicide Friday of
Premier Alexandros Korizis and
remained to organize a -new gov
ernment pledged to fight to the
emi. ' .. c -.- -
" The dispatch fromTurkey said
Greek and British soldiers alike
performed legendary feats. ,of
. heroism in saving allied forces
on Mount Olympus from being
cat off by German tanks which
broke through- to the west and
fanned out. over the plains of
Thessaly.
German troops were only 33
miles from Themopylae where,
Greek defenders, and possibly
ATHENS, Greece. April 21
(T" A curfew was imposed on
Athens Monday night forbid
ding anyone In the capital from
appearing on the streets be
tween 9 pjn. and 7 id. without
a special permit.
some of the British, intended to
make a final bloody effort to save
Athens, 100 miles away.
But the report from Turkey
made it : appear likely that the
Greeks would shoulder the great
job of holding off the crushingly
superior German forces in order
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Japan Army
Takes Port
SHANGHAL April 22-fTues.
day) -JPr- Foochow, last treaty
port . of China' uninvaded. was
occupied , by the Japanese army
Late. Monday, a Japanese military
communique said today. 1 ;
The Japanese apparently met
no opposition as they reported
advancing up both banks of the
Min river after landing before
dawn, i
The mouth of the Min has been
blockaded for the past year.
US Food Stamp
Violators Hit.
L. F. LeGarie, chairman of the
food stamp committee of the Wil
lamette Valley Food Dealers as
sociation, warned Monday that
violators of the food stamp regu
lations are being prosecuted and
that 16 Oregon .food dealers have
been arrested. ; .
LeGarie said that the most
- common violation has been the
selling pf inferior products to re-
lief recipients using the food
stamps.' ' . . . i
j Maximum penalty for violations"
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Ask Prices Kept Down
WASHINGTON. Aoril JW.T1.
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