Tha OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon Tuesday Morning, April 22. 1941 PAGE TWO Noted Plane Designer Refutes Lindbergh on Dangers 01 lib Seversky Asserts America Vulnerable to Eventual Air Attack by Ships Able to Cruise 25,000 Miles NEW YORK, April ?l-W-Aviation Designer Alexander P. de Seversky envisioned today military aircraft with a range of 25,000 miles and asserted an eventual air attack on America was a practical possibility. Answering Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who in his recent let ter to Americans' asserted an at tack upon the United States by a foreign power was "out .of the question," Major de Seversky wrote in the May American Mer cury: I contend that those who deny the practical possibility of an eventnal air attack on America are lulling: the Ameri can people into a false sense of safety as dangerous as the 'Macinot line mentality' that cost France its independence. "Colonel Lindbergh, so well aware of what wishful thinking; in such matters has done to European nations, should be the last one to Join in the lullaby." With the continual extension of bombers' flying range, the Amer ican continent would be as vul nerable to attack, de Seversky said, as the British Isles. He said craft with a 25,000-mile range seemed "wholly realistic" in five years at the most. "That will mean, he said, "that no nation and no part of any nation will be immune from direct attack from any part of the world. And lent; before that, the Atlantic, then the Pa cific, will fall under the domi nation of one air power or an other, in total disregard f re spective naval strengths. There will be do genuine 'defense' arainst it except in the air. Oceans will be Just so many Skagerraks." De Seversky, who commanded the Russian imperial pursuits in the Baltic sea in the World war, said that he felt Britain, if given full material backing of this country, "has only a minor chance of not winning." Council Delays Milk Action (Continued From Page 1) of the year, was again put over when it was found that amend ments suggested by the health and sanitation committee had not been prepared in proper form. Appraisers appointed by the Sa lem Realty, board to appraise property which would be needed for improvement of the Kings Val-' ley-Independence-Salem entrance Into the city reported that the val ue of nine parcels oif property in volved is $5897.50. The appraisals were: Thomas Scott property, $1300; J. B. Bressler, $167.50; Jacob Schindler, $2700; Ernest Schind ler, $600; Spaulding Logging com pany, $25; state land board, $100; E. V. and Alda Geer. $100; Anna Grettinger, $500, and John Hoff meyer, $405. The council granted a re quest of the Valley Oil com pany to Increase the space it leases at the foot of Chemeketa street for service to tow boats .from 20 feet to 5 feet. The .company plans installation of an S000 gallon diesel oil tank In the Willamette river bank. . Resolutions were adopted for paving of Jefferson street be- Fifth street between Highland and 1 Spruce streets, and Academy , street between airgrounds road and Myrtle avenue. The council approved a resolu tion transferring $400 from the emergency fund to the band con cert, fund to add to $600 already budgeted. A hearing was set for 8:30 a. m. May 5 on proposed con demnation of a barn half a block west of North 21st street between State and Court streets. ' The building regulations com mittee reported that it had given the Wade estate until July 1 to remove old buildings in the 600 block on North Liberty street before condemnation proceedings are started. Speaker Denies Nazi Leanings At "War" Meet The time has come not only to write your congressman but your president as well to remind him that his campaign promises to keep this nation out of war are his contract with the American people," urged Dellmore Lessard. It Portland, speaking at Bush school Monday night. Approximately 60 - persons gathered to hear Lessard, former senator from Multnomah county, deliver the address pre liminary, to organization of a chapter of America First. In Sa lem, s '-.."1-' - ' Accusations of :haz 'tendencies In the organization were denied by the r speaker, who; named among its officers, directors and - sponsors 5 a former high-ranking - official In the US army, present RiUocaL political and literary leaierf ' mad former President Herbert "Hoover, Not opposed to aid to England, his organization Is Interested in seeing that this country receives some indication that it will be paid for its invest ments in this war, he said. Greeks Cover Albion Troops Allied Disaster Seen as Germans Drive to South; Near Athens (Continued From Page 1) to save the remnants of the Brit ish Balkan expeditionary force apparently intent on re-crossing the Mediterranean back to North Africa. Thermopylae, a pass from one to three miles wide in a moun tain chain at the southern end of the Thessaly plains, has been the scene of many epic struggles, notably when King Leonidas and his out-numbered Spartans were cut down to the last man by the Persian invaders in 4S0 B. C. , The British army will suffer the same fate, the Germans as sert. And at home the British public was prepared for news of such a disaster. "Rough handling" of the nazi mechanized units by hard-fighting Australian rear guards was said by the British to have slow ed the Germans and enabled the bulk of the British-Greek eastern army to take up new positions. But In western Greece be yond the Find s mountain range near the Albanian fron tier, the Italians reported roughly 15f,00t men were threatened with annihilation or capture by axis legions. The Germans, who have said all along that the British were planning to desert the Greeks in "another Dunkerque," reported that five full British, transports totalng 23,000 tons were sunk near Ewoia, the island strip com posing southern Greece on the Aegean seaboard. These ships were headed for Crete, the British-Greek island base puth of the mainland, the Germans said. The British said their with drawals in Greece were accom plished with heavy losses to the Germans and light casualties for themselves. Emmanuel Tsouderos, Greek economist and public leader who was elevated to the pre miership Monday following the suicide last Friday of Premier Alexandros K oris is, declared his nation would keep on fight ing "until the Balkans ar cleared of those who led the infamous campaign against us." British assistance was praised by Tsouderos and attention also was called to US aid. "Behind us," he said, "we also have the assist ance of the United States, from whose great humanitarian prin ciples mankind will benefit." But many realistic Britons in London apparently already had given up hope of retaining the only continental toehold obtained Se H. tro"t JIom dunkerque. '" LllZ ' . Qe . wact.: uucb jiui mean we've lost the war not by a long shot." They took grain of encour agement from the fact that axis forces driving ttrtn north Africa had been stalled at Sa lum. Egyptian outpost near the Libyan border; that other Brit ish units still were holding out at besieged Tobrak to the west, and that great reinforcements could be rushed from Italian East Africa as soon as the Ital ian army was broken In Ethi opia. The defense of the Suez canal and the Iraq oil fields, London editorialists pointed out, was of far more importance than the Balkans. The landing of British troops in Iraq caused loud protest in Berlin. In north Africa the RAF re ported its airmen strewed bombs up and down the axis-held coast line in weekend assaults. A British attempt to land men at Bardia, a port between the be sieged forces at Tobruk and the axis salient at Salum, failed and those landing were captured, the Italian high command announced. The Duke d'Aosta, Italian com mander in Ethiopia, rejected a British demand for unconditional surrender of his troops in order to insure' the protection of Italian civilians. Salmon Escapement at Bonneville Sets Mark - ASTORIA, Ore, April 2l.(P Officials said .today that early spring salmon escapement through Bonneville . dam counting - gates April 18 set a new record for the spring run. i .- . . A total of 2342 chinooks were counted through, compared with 1308 a year ago and 1535 on April 16V 1939.1 April 15. for the past three , years, has seen the heaviest escapement of salmon In the spring season. Planes Like Planes like the Donglas B-l (above) are only the beginning of larger types that will have a range of ultimately 25,t miles, according to Alexander T. de Seversky, noted aviation designer. This monster, according to present day standards, was ballt by the Donglas Air craft company for the US army air corps, and la now nnder going final inspection and ground cheek. It is the largest airplane ever Big Brother Farm Founder To Speak Leslie Methodist Laymen's asso ciation will meet at the church to night at 6:30 for a no-host supper and program with Chester A. Lyon, Portland, founder nd di rector of the Big Brother Farm for Boys and Girls at Lebanon, as principal speaker. His subject is "Dividends on Investments, or Are You Getting Good Returns on Your Life?" Former Big Brother Farm boys, now krown, to appear on the pro gram will include Ernest Burgard, Portland, connected with the Hon eyman Hardware company; Lloyd Beatty, Portland, Bank of Califor nia; Bill Schmitz, Salem, repre sentative of the Catholic Sentinel; Don Douris, Salem, and Harold Douris, Salem, linotype operator at The Oregon Statesman and president of the Leslie Methodist Laymen's association. In charge of arrangements for the program and supper are G. O. Boyce, George Hall, Warren Ber telson and George Warman. d d 1 1 1 o 8 ... in I fc Neu PLEASANT HILL, La.-V Three times recently, Haywood Stevens, 32, told a friend he had dreamed he would be killed by his new tractor. Shortly after his latest dream, Stevens started the tractor across a bridge. The bridge gave way and the tractor fell on him, inflict ing fatal injuries. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(;p-Wil-lie Bell was wiser and sadder. Needing cash, he sold for $16 a prized pistol. But as he pocketed the money, he heard a command from the purchaser and turned to find him self looking down the barrel of the gun. Willie forked over the $16 and the pistol purchaser moved on. HELENA, Mont. (iTV A Phila delphian applying for a marriage license gave Deputy County Clerk Rae Q. Smith a five dollar bill. The man refused three silver dol lars as change, saying "Give me paper money." ; , Leaning across the counter, Smith advised: "Out here a man isn't dressed until he has five dol lars in silver in his pocket.' The Philadelphia swept up the cartwheels and departed. SPRINGFIELD, DL-WVAbra-ham Lincoln's pay checks for services as an Illinois legislator have been found among yellowed, century-old statehouse files and will be turned over to the state historical library, State Auditor Arthur C Lueder declared. ; The old salary warrants en dorsed by A. Lincoln," vouchers for funds-paid to Stephen A. Douglas and other documents of historical value were found. ; P In his four terms in the general assembly, Lincoln drew 16 war rants, totaling $1950, in salary and expenses. He served in the house from 1834 to 1841. BALTIMORE - .(A'- Losing a taxicab race to a hospital, Mrs. Grace Doering, 28, gave birth to a daughter the other night in the cab. V : ; The Doerings took it calmly three years ago her third child was born during a taxicab dash to a ' different hospitaL t This Could Fly to .I'V-- la One Eai . . Paul Hauser'a Column (Continued From Page 1) front of Capitol theatre. That is alL" Just then Car No. 1 came screeching to a halt alongside the supposedly endangered Car No. 2 and it took the best ora tory of City Attorney Lawrence Brown and Alderman Tom Armstrong to convince the pa trolman in Car No. 2 that they weren't suspicious characters, bat only a couple of boys play Jng they were anti-aircraft spot ters. HEAT TODAY. GONE TOMORROW ONEONTA, N Y, April 21-(yP)-A 91 -degree temperature yester day provided this Susquehanna valley city with its hottest April day on record. Today it snowed. Church Meet Starts Today Christian churches of the Will amette district will hold their an nual spring convention in Salem today. The local First Christian church will be host The Willam ette district comprises the coun ties of Benton, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook and Yam hill, and includes more than 35 separate congregations. The program will begin at 10 a. m. and run throughout the day and evening. Main addresses will be given by Rev. A. C. Bates, Klamath Falls, president of the Oregon State Missionary board. Rev. C. F. Swander, general sec retary of state missions and direc- ) tor of Christian education; Rev. Walter L. Myers, field represen tative of state Christian Endeavor and northwest representative of the National Benevolent associa tion of the Christian churches. Rev. D. W. Daniels, pastor at Tillamook, Rev. James Osborne, pastor at McMinnville, Rev. Teddy W. Leavitt, pastor at . EUensberg, Wash., and Rev. Guy L. Drill, pas tor of the local church. Special musical numbers will be provided by the visiting churches. There will be a fellowship lunch eon at noon and an evening of the old-fashioned camp-meeting style. Sessions are open to the public. Men Leave for Navy School Four men who enlisted in the US navy have left for San Diego for an eight weeks training course before being sent aboard one of the ships of the Pacific fleet in one of the 55 trade schools operated by the navy, according to Chief Quar termaster Robert B. Fallon. They axe John Franklin Dierks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand P. Dierks; Kenneth Edward Culver, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Culver; Ralph Eugene Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Santford R. Cox, all of Sa lem, and Thaddeus Eggleston, Sil verton. Salem Architect to Speak at Conclave George Otten ' of Salem, land scape architect for the state high way department, is to speak May 9 at Corvallis at the . third, annual Garden festival. Joel MeCrea Lew Ayres in "Foreign - la Corre- ; "Dr. Kildare ' spondent" Goc Home' , 1 . 'i Europe and Back Without Halt 4. - IrrifiniiriaVitrmirii built. It has a useful load of 28 tons and a range of 7758 non-stop miles. With a fael capacity of 11.008 gallons, it can fly from Loo Anreles to London and back to New York. A as a troop transport 125 men. Its wings measnro 212 feet front tip to tin. Four motors totaling S090 horsepower will drive the craft in excess of 208 miles per hour. Rural Schools To Give Music Fete Friday Student assemblies occupy the forefront at most Salem schools this week, concluding Friday afternoon with the Marion county rural schools' music festival in the senior high school auditorium. Other activities, according to the schedule released by SupL Frank B. Bennett's office. Include: Tuesday: 9:30 a. m., Highland school fourth grade presents play, "Color Fairies"; 3 p. m, "Robin Hood" at senior high school. Wednesday: 2:30 p. m., "Color Fairies"; 6:30 p. m., Tri-Y ban quet at senior high school Thursday: 9 a. m., assemblies at Englewood and McKinley schools. Friday: 1 p. m., assembly in charge of Miss Gilles' room at Richmond school, assembly in charge of Miss Williams' room at Grant school, assembly in charge of sixth grade at Washington school. Vik Nine Plays Corvallis Here Corvallis' Spartans, the only club to defeat them so far, meets the Salem high Viks in -a return game at George E. Waters park this afternoon at 3:30. Southpaw Clay Patterson, un defeated this season, probably will start on the mound for the Salem preppers. Today's tiff is the first of four this week for the Viks, who play Milwaukee here Wednesday, the OSC rooks at Corvallis Friday and the Rooks here Saturday. Call Board ELSINOKE Today Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney In "Men of Boys Town." Edmund Lowe, Una Merkel in "Double Date." Thursday Clark Gable. Vivien Leigh In "Gone With the Wind." GRAND Today Alice Faye. Don Ameche. Car men Miranda in "That Niaht In Rio." Wednesday Sidney Toler in "Dead Men Tell." Cesar Romero la Rid on, Vaquero." Saturday John Loder. Nancy Kelly In "Scotland Yard." CAPITOL Today James Cagnejr, Olivia deHavil Und tn "Strawberry Blonde." George Brent. Ann Sheridan in "Honeymoon for Three." Wednesday Brian Ahem. Kay Fran in "The Man Who liost Himaelf." cis in "The Man Who Lost Himaelf." the Rio Grande." Saturday Joan Blond ell. Dick Powell In "Model Wife." Jack Holt. Mar Jorie Reynolds in "The Groat Swindle." STATE Today Robert Taylor. Ruth Hussey, Waiter Pidgeon in "Flight Com mand." Gail Patrick. Ian Hunter, Jackie Cooper in "Gallant Sons." Thursday Claudetto Colbert, Ray Mil land in "Arise My Lore." Bill Boyd. Russell Hayden in "Doomed Cara van." Saturday midnight G a r y Cooper, Pauletto Goddard in Northwest Mounted Police." LIBERTY Today James Cagney, Pat O'Brien in "The Fighting 60th." Dennis Mor gan. Gloria Dickson la "Ho Place So Wednesday John Payne. Jan Wr man in "Kid Nightingale." Wayne . Morris, Rosemary Lano in "Return of Dr. X." Friday Bob Livingston te - "Range Busters." Joel McCrea. Brenda Mar shall tn "Espionage Agent." HOLLYWOOD Today Joel McCrea. Laralne Day la "Foreign Correspondent." Lew Ayroa, Lionel Barrymore in "Dr. KikLare Goes Home." Thursday W. C Fields in "The Bank Dick." Roy Rogers, George Hayes tn "Colorado.6 I 1 basis crow off 18 men. it eoald carry Lato Sports WASHINGTON, April 2l.-) Louis "Kid" Cocoa, Puerto Rican welterweight, spent nine rounds Monday night "softening" Joe Sutka of Detroit, then tagged him for a knockout in one minute 10 seconds of the tenth. Sutka weighed 1534, Cocoa, 150. EUGENE, Ore, April 21-P)- The University of Oregon fresh man tennis team defeated Eugene high school Monday, 7 to 0. SAN FRANCISCO, April 21- (vP Vera Bybee, aggressive Og den, Utah, lightweight, knocked out Al Spina of Portland, Ore., in the second round of a sched uled ten-round bout Monday night at Coliseum bowl. Private Wins Rifle Title FORT STEVENS, April 21 Pvt. 1st Class Lyle F. Collver, Battery F, Marshfield, has been named "champ of rifle-slinsers" after emerging victorious from a field composed of platoon winners from all the batteries of the 249th Coast Artillery in the first of a series of competitive rifle drills, known in army terminology as "Drill Downs." Competition was by elimination first among the platoons of the units and then among the winners from each battery. As an incen tive to preciseness in the manual of arms, passes were given to the platoon winners good ' from re treat, Friday evening, until rev eille Monday. A total of 16 passes were issued. Those winning from Salem units were: Sergeant Quentin C. Rueck er, Battery G, First platoon; Pri vate First Class Paul" C. Rodgers, Battery G, Second platoon;- Pri vate Bernard J. Ridden, Battery G, Third platoon; Corporal Charles J. Zerzan, Headquarters battery, First platoon; Corporal Clarence W. Williams, Headquar ters battery. Second platoon; Cor poral Robert D. Lindstrom. Head quarters battery. Second battalion. Police Report March Arrests Thirty-two of the 1490 arrests by state police for traffic law vio lations during March involved drunken drivers, Charles P. Pray, superintendent of state police, has reported to Governor Charles A. Sprague. Fines resulting from arrests in the traffic law enforcement divi sion aggregated $8911. There were 214 arrests in the general law enforcement divi sion with fines of $2024.75. Other arrests included 114 in the game code division and 12 in the com mercial fisheries code division. The state police received 321 complaints and 252 were classi fied as cleared. aUbert ' Xnth Taylor v Haney Walter Fidgeon it Time: 233- 8.40 2NDmT-a Gall Patrick Jackie Cooper Time: 1:00, 0, 7:00, 10:25 MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON FR Intervent3s In Goal Strike '- : - V " - - . . Says Production Must Resume in Interests of, US Defense (Continued From Page-1) day in all mines compared with the previous $5 In the north and $5.60 in the south. Northern mine owners agreed, but southern op erators countered with an offer of a 11 per cent increase, then withdrew from general negotia tions In New York. The southern ers offered to open negotiations in v WASHINGTON. April 21-&P) Secretary of Labor Perkins ,1s. having few labor trovbles in herewn department, - A local of the United Fed eral Workers of America (CIO) has written her an open letter contending that many promo tions In the department are based on 'personal er political favoritisan.M - "Cqaally serious. it added, "has been the fail ore to accord to year, employes the prompt redress . of . their grievances through collective bargaining- tn good faith. - - . Washington for a separate con tract covering their mines, but John I Lewis, UMW president, demanded that they reenter the New York negotiations. He re fused to agree to reopening of northern mines until contracts were gained covering all mines. The strike, situation continued to claim much attention in con gress. Testifying before a senate committee, Sidney Hillman, as sociate director of the office of production management, ex pressed belief no new legislation was needed. Leaving; the coal anlnlag shot town out of aeeomnt. only lS.eOO workers are on strike, he said, la indostries concerned with de fense production, and an "era of even creator collaboration between management anal la bor .appears tn prospect. In the house, meantime. Rep. Cox (D-Ga), an advocate of some restriction on strikes in defense industries, asserted that private ownership had been placed at tha "mercy of government bureau crats and unionist dictators." It was time,' he declared, for con gress to "strike the shackles' from industry. A show of house sentiment on the question of restricting strikes may come this week. Rep. Vinson (D-Ga) is seeking to bring up on Thursday his bill to require 25 days wait between notice of in tention to strike and the effective date. . There were reports of disorder during the day at one struck plant. This was at the Bethlehem Steel company's Alameda plant in Oak land, Calif. PITTSBURGH, April X-Xt-An agreement calling for a flat wage increase of eight cents an hour for all hourly-paid employes in five plants of the Aluminum company of America was reached shortly before midnight Monday night between representative of the company and the CIO-Aluminum Workers of America. Harney County Court House Contract Let BURNS, Ore, Aprl 21 A. Ritchie & Co., of Baker, Monday were awarded the contract for construction of Harney county's new courthouse. The bid was $63,066. Construction work will be started on May 1 on the rein forced concrete, brick-faced struc ture. John Schneider of Portland was the architect SOS GOOD SEATS. 2c LAST TIMES TON1TE . James Cagney v Olivia Delia vill and . Strawberry Blonde" rims Ann Sheridan George Brent "Honeymoon v for Three" Also Serial. "SKY RAIDERS" 8TASTS WED. - 2 HITS And they'll have you goofy from giggling and guffawing at the comedy sensation of the year! COMPANION FEATURE Elating Border Adventure - , TTM HOLT la "ALONG THE RIO. GRANDE- "Somebody is going to get $ for naming my baby sister? lit may be YOU ; W , . ' . t.r More on Page 9 Schools Given High Rating At' Music Fete Silverton and Molalla high school musicians received high ratings in the northwest Oregon music festival and contest at New berg on Friday and Saturday. It was learned here Monday. About 1500 students participated. Competing against a' set stand ard, excellent ratings were won by Don Renwich, comet seniort; Jim Nelson, French horn, and Russell Christenson, sousaphone, all of Silverton. The former -two may nter the national regional competition-festival at Tacoma on May 16 and 17. Rating of good was given Mjcrd is Rogan, girls low voice; .Jean Park and Doris Schafer, girls high voice senior, and the class B mixed chorus, all of Canby. Piano and marimba phone ad judicator was Miss Frances Vlr ginie Melton, Salem music teach er. Reelected vocal chairman was Miss Fay Spark rf Salem, direct or of Canby high school music, whose entries won more top rat ings than any other school. Perfection Team Whips Portland The Perfection alleys bowling team defeated the Portland Cen tral alleys, 2756 to 2711. here Sunday. Hi Haman bowled a 677 series to top the capital city pinmen. Others: McCarroll 537, Murdock 479, Kertson 509, Kitchen 553. TODAY and WED. - 2 HITS ALL. NEW! M-G-Ms unforgettable se quel to the never-to-be-forgotten -BOYS TOWN"! wax :voMaaVsSs: Companion Feature "DOUBLE DATE Edmund Lowe, Una Merkel FREE To the Ladies Wednesday Night Constance Bennett COSMETICS t J COMING THURSDAY j Return by Popular Demand 3 Days Only - Continuous From 12 Noon Doors Open lliSt A. M. Show Starts 12 - 4:lt - tJf Mill Wl) Mat. 40c Kiddies 25c Ere. 55e 100 frit A