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Morning News ! i Weather . Too late for afternoon pa- J pers, often' too late, for the . list radio broadcasts at night come bulletin after bulletin . and extended stories of the war over the AP wires to. TOUR morning- paper. Falrjwltb scattered clou 3 . Iness near zoountzins tiay and : Friday.. XIxx. tec?. Wednesday, C3, Mln. 42. Northwest wind. Elver -s8 foot. Clear; sS FCUNDOD 1651 NTNETY-riRST YEAB Salem. Oregon, Thursday. Morning;, April 24, 1941 Price 3c? Now a kinds 8e I'o. 24 OOOIffilL eaJled; ( mum 0h m m mm . - ' --i . -v. II til T S 1 11 IV M V t SSSIII II El K i S I - dr ; a it II i i i i - i if j. - i ' i i i i II i i i i i i it Deal Let To Design Hbspital ; : Architects Are' Named, New Unit ; State Institution At least three birds will be lulled with; one stone when the new s $325,000 f building at the state hospital, 1 for "which A. E. Doyle and Associates of Portland were . employed as architects Wednesday by the state board of control, "is completed. 1. The new structure's 300 beds will relieve to that extent the general crowding of the in stitution. 2. Facilities will.be provided for more thorough early diag nosis and treatment of new patients. . 3. Steps toward creation of a separate unit of the hospital for specialized purposes on the north side of Center street will be well under way. The new unit, upon which con struction will be started about July 1, will serve as a receiving hos pital with approximately twice the capacity of the present receiv ing ward; thus it will be possible to keep patients in the receiving hospital for about three months on the average, the period varying greatly according to need so that some may be kept there for as long as six months. This is in line with the recom mendation of Dr. John C. Evans, superintendent, who told the board early treatment afforded the best opportunity for permanent aire of mental ailments. - (Turn, to Page 2. CoL 7) lu ue Hair Paul Ilauser Column Things have changed a lot since 1917, but the firm of Skinner 8t Eddy in Seattle keeps rolling right along, one way and the other. It appears, so our No, 1 oper ative informs us, that a m a tit? showed up the'A other day at the g: A local office, of V uie c cut 1 r ployment . serv ice to register as a ship caulker. The man had b e e n a ship PaaI H tuwt.tr. caulker in 1917 and 1918 and had worked for the shipbuilding firm of Skinner & Eddy in Seattle. That firm was then, so our operative assures us, one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world. " When the government began handing out shipbuilding con tracts right and left lately, the man who had caulked ships in 1917 remembered he had been a pretty good ship caulker when there were ships to caulk. He sat himself down and sent an application to the firm of Skinner & Eddy, asking employ ment as a ship caulker and cit ing bis experience with the com pany in the days of ihe former war. Some days later back came a letter from Seattle. It thanked l the man for his application, bnt - regretted that the company 1 weald be unable to employ him aa a ship caulker, because the letter said. "We are no longer In the shipbuilding business." At the top of the letterhead of the former shipbuilding firm was the name Skinner St Eddy and below it Hhe new motto, "Mak ers of the world's finest noodle soupV William MtChtny Martin, S4-yesr-ol4 head f tha Nw -rk Stock Exchaagtr la seen sixains his induction papers ' tnt the army. photo cutlinea in Tha Oregon ' Statesman, April 22. KIBea Im Erpt Tne war de partment annonnced Celonel ; - . oerald Brewer above), 1, a t luted States military air eb-i- aerver, was killed in the Aaclo tryptian 8 a dam an alrplan ' accident. J?hoto eutlinea In'- Capital ' Journal. AprU 33. . ' The army just doesnt have any regard for age, either way you look at it.v.v '- .f;: .-" - ;.. :.;-:. ;;;..: L;-,:. MARITIME NOTE ! The Wheatland Ferry has been in .drydock the past week. The commander is in a hospital after te was accidentally scraped for .barnacle." - . . Prophetic Ear Turn on Grecian King Be it a "hunch or "proof of the pudding, the Statesman editor who wrote an "ear"- the Informational note, carried at the left f this paper's page one signature at 7:39 o'clock Tues day night drew a winner, i -Morning Newsr r n: the - note. : "Too late f or afternoon papers, often, too - late for .the - last radio broadcasts at night come bulletin after bulletin and extended " stories of the war ever the AP i wires to YOUR morning paper. The editor was pleased, and not at all surprised, when he picked up The Statesman on his ! doorstep early Wednesday morning and read: "Greek King Abandons- Athens. Net be cause peer Kinr Georre II had been driven out of his country, but because the "ear had been more than well justified. This news bulletin was the last story filed on the night Associated Press wire,' it 1 t nt and The Statesman, as us ual, was able, because of its late press time, to print the lat est ' news available from this premier news service. Firm to Start Airport Work Assembles Equipment Preparatory to Building Runways Workmen of the Edlefsen-Wey-gandt company, Portland contract ing firm, began Wednesday the erection of workshops and assem bling of equipment preparatory toj start in two or three days of night and' t day construction of a con crete runway, taxi strips and a hangar apron in the $126,907 ex pansion of the Salem municipal airport. A crew of workmen and CAA engineers under direction of J. H. Keeffe,, assistant engineer of the CAA northwest area, were on the ground shortly after the con tracting firm announced Wednes day that it had been informed from Washington that it was awarded the contract. Edlefsen-Weygandt company's bid of $126,907.20 was the low bid and award of the contract has been expected, for several weeks. The CAA engineers were busy Wednesday placing grading, drainage and runway stakes. The airport has been closed to all commercial flying and students are to use only the northwest cor ner of the field. The contractors, limited to 100 days in completion of the project, will work , three shifts. James Craughn is construction superin tendent and5avid Perkins his as sistant. Two other contracts, one for lighting and one for fencing are to be let under the $160,000 allott ed the Salem port by CAA. The project will be completed by WPA which will add three runways to the one being constructed by CAA to bring the total expenditure close to $500,000. Salem Firm Gets Job PORTLAND, April Z3.-(JP-The Bonneville power admin istration announced Wednesday that the Salem Supply com pany, Salem, had submitted a low bid of $1721 to furnish 650 cubic yards of crushed rock for the Salem substation. Aircraft Fin Ninety-nine members of avia tion sheet metal classes in the Sa lem area were employed Wednes day j by a i Pacific . coast , aircraft manufacturer, whose name was not disclosed by Frank G. Ferris defense training officer from the state employment service. Most will report to work within a few weeks. - ' Ferris said other coast factories have sent inquiries and are eager in their search for men trained for the. work.:' v -t- .. Twelve Weeks' Course C. A. Guderian, training -coordinator, said more students may en ter the classes here now for a 12 weeks course. The work requires six hours a day, five days a week. Four hours is spent fn shop work and two in blueprint reading and; related study.: ; : j 4 :v,: Aa application la provided In this paper for admittance te the class which must be taken or mailed to the Oregon state mm? Pittas O ; J;;;: i ' Expected . North Atlantic Believed Scene of New Move WASHINGTON, April 23-() -The United States navy, it was believed in informed quarters Wednesday night, plans to es tablish a patrol of the North At lantic half-way to Great Britain on the main route of British supply ships. A statement of Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New : York, chair man of the joint American -Cana dian defense board, that the board had provided for the defense of North American waters up to 1000 miles off the United States and Canadian coasts was interpreted here as meaning that British and Canadian naval convoys on this side of the Atlantic would largely or entirely be dispensed with. The recent acquisition of Am erican defense bases in Green land and the decision of the American government te take ever the protection of that Dan ish colony appear to fit Into a general plan to relieve the Brit ish shipping emergency. Mayor LaGuardlas statement, made Wednesday during a speech hv Ottawa, was believed here to mean that " the United ' States would establish a naval and per haps air patrol of the Atlantic wa ters extending out to the limits of the western hemisphere, which in cludes Greenland, f ... Although this patrol was not ex pected to be strictly an American convoy of British suply ships, it pwoul$teHd tester unr identical purpose in keeping German sub marines away from the convoy routes. British naval vessels could take up the convoy service at a point about midway across the Atlantic. Naval quarters here, comment ing on an interpretation made in Canada that Mayor LaGuardia's statement meant the United States would convoy British supply ships half way across the Atlantic, said there was "nothing in it." Mayor LaGuardia was believed to have spoken for President Roo sevelt in making the announce ment in Canada Wednesday. WASHINGTON, April Z2-JP) Transfer to Great Britain of about 20 mile-a-minute motor torpedo boats, some especially (Turn-to Page 2, CoL 4) Student Pilot, Teacher Killed SPOKANE, Wash, j April 23-(P) -Instructor Don Jones and a stu dent flier tentatively identified by Deputy Sheriff Pat Griffin as Joe Armana, were killed Wednesday when their airplane crashed on Pleasant prairie, ten miles north east of Spokane. The Wallace Air Service, which employed Jones, reported the plane had been off the field about 15 minutes when the crash was reported and that details were lacking. The student was training under the civil aeronautics authority program, the air service reported, Jones was a brother of Hal Jones, assistant coach at Eastern Washington college, and Del Jones, coach at RitzviUe school. employment service, 710 Ferry street, Salem. - ' : j' The age limit is set at 18 to 40 years, the maximum raised from 25 years. A high school ed ucation or its equivalent, especial ly in mechanical work, is required. Mechanical drawing , training is preferred but not compulsory. One hundred trainees can be taken at the senior high school shops and 50 more at Chemawa, a national youth administration center where part time work is available to boys who cannot com mute to class. They must, howev er, there meet the age require ment : of: being" under 25 years. . Ferris said the employment of fice will try to get part time jobs for- men in the Salem classes. Gu derian expressed the " possibility that classes may be soon resched uled.' Four shifts are now being handled. - - . . :, s . -f , Tests given by the manufacturer were taken by the students last - Employ Nazi; Troops UN Radiophoto speeded to The Statesman shews Austrian Alpine troops of the German army preparing te hoist the swastika ever Mt. Olympus, legendary "home of the gods," after wresting it from the British. Germany's blitskrieg armies are reported storming through Thermopylae Pass, less than 100 miles from Athens. Historic Thermopylae b where 300 Spartans held off a Persian Invasion 2421 years ago. ' Pick of County 4H Health Clubs to Vie Boys and Girls o 27Coiinly Units : :ekJtJjJesfH t,t " at Annual Spring Inhibitions ' Fifty-three of the healthiest boys and girls in Marion county, members of 27 Marion county 4H health clubs, will compete at 9 a. m. today for the distinction of being named healthiest boy and healthiest girl in the county as a part of the annual spring Five Student Of f ices Filled Runoffs for Position on Willamette Campus Slated on Friday Five student body offices were filled Wednesday as 465 Willam ette university students cast bal lots for next year's executive council and other leaders. Runoff election for four offices are set for Friday. nainh Mav of Denver. Colo- and John Hathaway of Tillamook were left in the field for president to succeed William Thomas. Os car Swenson of Spokane and Dave Reinhard of Portland were unsuc cessful. -: - t Officers elected included Sum- M OS 1 ma MtllM ner liauaner , or. bii w polled, J34 votes to defeat Cliff Stewart of Great Falls, Mont, in a close race for second vice-president. Barbara Pitts, Canby freshman. became song queen witn ai (Turn to Page 2, CoL Z) - Sprague Names Justice REEDSPORT, April 23-flP)-Mrs. Lila Babbitt became justice of the peace here Wednesday on appoint ment of Governor Sprague." She is former editor of the Port Umpqua Courier. .- ..A.. s 99 Sale week and physical examinations Wednesday. The head physician and assistant personnel manager of the firm were- in Salem to give them.,,-'. - - -.xv-vr Some Start Saturdajr - ---r Time to report to' work at the factory ranges from this Saturday to May; 12 for the youths, taken from SalemIjebahon,VMcMinn ville and Chemawa. : - r ; Figures on the number accepted include: Salem, 104 took original test, S3 passed, 65 accepted for po Application - for admittance to v class: No Fee. Name Address Phone Course desired -v .- Special training and education Special work experience s Plant Flag' - show of the county 4H orgamza- Uon. ( Meanwhile, at the boys' and girls' club building at the Oregon state fairgrounds, 1500 exhibits of homecraft, domestic science, man ual arts and health achievement fashioned by over 3000 county 4H club members will go on display on the opening day of the spring show. Contestants In the health' competition will be judged by ' County Health. Officer Vernon A. Douglas. Two entrants, a bey and a girl, are competing from each health club with the ex ception ' of - Sidney, which has but one entrant. ' Winners will be awarded schol arships to the annual 4H summer school on the State college cam (Turn to Page IS, CoL 7) Salem Youths , Five ' young men of Salem and one of Austin, Texas, ' will report at the -Salem armory this morn ing at 8 o'clock for transportation to Portland where they win be inducted into the United States army as part of Oregon's quota in the seventh draft call. The six are Robert Pohle Ut ter,' Gordon Edmund Duval, Fin ley Elston Gibbs, David Taylor, Delmar Kenneth . Gwynn. all of Salem, and Loy Preston Townsley of Austin, Texas. sitions: Lebanon, 20 took test, II passed and nine 'accepted; ' Mc Minnville, 19 took test, 14 .passed and seven accepted; Chemawa, 37 took test, 24 passed and 18 ac cepted, - - --T-.i i.-. . JLr.; Those accepted from the Salem class', are -v :.; :! William P. Holman, George E. Thompson, Earl D. Withers, Ray mond E. Baker, Cleave Wine Bart lett, Northrup K. Bates, Byron B. Beard, Jafck G. Beckman, Max T. - t (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) j r Age Report Today m afouths .Social Security No. .(AVIATION SHEET METAL) on Olympus Experts Reveal Plan for Tax ' Congressional Group Submits System Less f Harsh on SmalI,3Ian WASHINGTON, April 23-(F)- As a substitute for a treasury in come tax plan which would make some taxpayers. 1 bills six times what they are now, congressional tax experts were reported Wed nesday to have proposed a system which would be much easier on persons with - income less than 820,000. The counter proposal was said to have been prepared by the staff of the joint congressional (Turn to Page 3, CoL .2)' Log Workers Plan Strike PORTLAND, Ore4 April 23-ff) -Columbia river district CIO saw mill and', logging camp workers have authorized a strike . call if negotiations for wage increases and other concessions faiL - Al Hartung. president of the In ternational Woodworkers of Amer ica district council, in announcing the. vote Wednesday, said about 70 per. cent of the 8000 workers who would-be affected voted 78.4 per cent for the strike calL- . The workers demand wage in creases of 15 cents an hour and other concessions..: Operators .re fused to consider 'the wage ' de mands, saying they-were twice those sought by the IWA in Wash ington. They indicated- they would be willing to consider smaller boosts. - Bridges Is Branded ., Labor's Big Enemy J x : SAN FRANCISCO, April 23-W5) -A government witness called Harry - Bridges. labors greatest enemy at the CIO leader's de portation hearing Wednesday, and another testified he had seen the defendant enter communist party headquarters at New York city. T think he is the greatest ene my labor has today," said Robert Patrick Wilmot of Portland, Ore, a former" communist. ,' Late Sports " ATLANTA, April 23-(5-Some-body must be selling the formula. On the same day Cornelia Mc Kimmon scored a 160-yard hole-in-one at Raleigh, NC, H..W. Mil ler got a 147-yard ace at Jack sonville, Fla and Milton Fielding dropped a 120-yarder at Chattanooga,- Tann. - . . '. : SAN FRANCISCO, April -Tyrus Raymond 'Cobb accepted a challenge "Wednesday to meet his old, baseball rival, Babe Ruth, in sr benefit golf match over any distance and on any course. " At his home in Atherton, Coun try Gtntlemah Cobb. had barely (Tern - to Pags -2, CoL 8) ; Athens But Fall Seems To be Inevitable - . ... m- w . ...... ., Expected in T Germany Pounds at British Transports to Slow Troops From Gaining African Ports - . .- By The Associated Press . - Athens -remained in Greek hands after dawn today but its fall to the Germans appeared inevitable. ; ' Nazi troops were reported pouring far past Thermopylae pass 100 miles north of Athens after Greece's northeastern army esti mated at 250,000 men surrendered and King George II and his government fled to the Greek island of Crete. With Greece's doom thus evidently sealed, two questions remained to be answered. How great will the British-Greek disaster be? What will be Adolf Hitler's next stroke? War News Briefs A SOUTHWEST, AREA, OF ENGLAND, -April 24-Thttrs-day)-(.P)-A heavy German at- . tack en this bomb-damaged section of - England killed at least 12 person early today but. : grbny '-air raid workers said it t-r was t?mVfthuV! - - BERLIN, April 24 - (Thurs day) P The Luftwaffe acaia centered its attacks last night en -harbors a n d airports la southern England, authorised Germans said today. Plymouth, it was said, was bombarded for the third consecutive night, the raids adding new fires to those still burning from previous at tacks. LONDON, i April 24-(Thurs-- day)H-P-The Dally Mall In an editorial headed "Too Late said today Foreign, Secretary Anthony Edea was give the task of consolidating Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece but "failed In bis mission." 1 ISTANBUL. - April 23-fl-Gevernment spokesman refused comment Wednesday night en reported German seizure of the islands of Lemnos and Samoth rake near the vital Dardanelles ea grounds that the reports were, net ; offlciaL Turkish news papers, however, displayed the reports ea their front pages and the i nation prepared for any . eventuality, - guarding against any axis attack even though it was declared such a develop ment was not expected for the .present. . . (Turn to- Page 2, CoL 3) Mott to Probe Snips WASHINGTON, April 23-P-Rep. Mott (R-Ore) wfll help in vestigate shipbuilding facilities in the ; United States. He has been named a member of a house sub committee which - will : undertake this task. ' Nazis Drive Close to Athens AK. 1 A . - . . . - wsMESOLONGION S- Gmnany's blitzkrieg army stormed through historic Thermepylae Pass, barely 160 miles from Athens, Greek .eapiiiL Wedaeslay ' while British forces prepared for new stands wt'.!z Creek forces c:s a line west and north from Thermopylae to ArU, as tndl-t ri the map. Later reports Indicate the Germans lire tlrts.cz r - X5 relies ef Athens and tlztm domination ef tl ULzx-sm. Holdin The answer to the first lay in what the Germans pictured as a race between routed British troops to flee by sea and the nari airforce to batter Greek ports of escape and sink every British' ship it can get under its -bombsights in the eastern Mediterranean. . t The Bosphorus ' and i the . Dar danelles the straits between the Mediterranean' &d HIlc2" seas were " suggested . by the London Daily Herald as the answer to the second. ' , ' Germany Demands Control Of Straaetle Dardanelles It quoted foreign diplomatic circles today as saying Germany had demanded that Turkey yield complete military control of the straits in exchange for Greek Thrace and that Turkey was being pressed for an immediate reply. Such a possibility apparently was envisioned in Istanbul where it was said Turkey prob ably would refuse any request for passage for German troops throuxh her territory but mixht atree te shutUnc the straits te . foreign warships. - Some German "proposal' was expected there, foreign sources said, when German Ambassador Franz Von Pa pen returns from Berlin. ' -- At midnight eastern standard time 7 a. m. Athens time the radio in the Greek capital still was transmitting normal commer cial messages but; said a Berlin military spokesman, "it is the last act. The conquest of- all Greece is practically effected? Germany's powerful army had crushed Yugoslavia and most of Greece in less than three weeks. Nazi Dive-Bombers Hammer At Forces Fleeing Greece Nazi dive-bombers hammered at all : southern Greek ports where the Germans said Britain's im perial forces frantically were at tempting to flee v .the country. Fully-laden troop .ships were re ported sunk in the -"second pun kerque. A total of 152,000 tons of shipping was claimed to have gone under. Allied troops still were flghtfng (Turn to Page 2, CoL I) .