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r"if-r:?f 7cathcr ': ::.. ... : I ' , " , - Morning News! v Tm late for afternoon pa-. pen,, of ten too late for the last radio broadcasts at sight - come bulletin after bulletin ' and extended stories of the : war over the AP wires to : : n YOUR morning papers E NTNETY-FIRST YEAH TTY O BOM Sternwlieel Steaii Pays First Visff al -H-l tf oaiem in Jo we Columbia River Pilot Brings Boat From Portland to Clear Channel Near Paper Mill "Steamboat 'round the bend!" 'For the first time since July of 1936 that old cry could be true in Salem Thursday. There was a steamboat, a husky stern wheeler, in the Wil lamette, with smoke puffing from her stacks and a frothy wake churning out from her big wheel. Up on the bridge of the river steamer Claire was Captain E. P. Williams of Portland, who was making his first trip up the river in zo years wnen ne puotea uie Claire Wednesday through the Willamette's sometimes narrow and often shallow, channel. Regular Elver Pilot Plys Channel After Twenty Years 1 Captain Williams, now a Co lumbia river pilot bringing ocean going vessels up from Astoria to Portland, used to pilot river craft up the Willamette to Salem and Corvallis regularly in the old days when it was no uncommon sight to see four or five river boats tied up at the dock here. Another old river captain. Cap tain Clyde Rabe, brother-in-law of Captain Williams and also a Columbia river pilot, came along on the Claire just for the ride and to see what the Willamette looked like 20 years after. The river has changed a lot," Captain Williams said, but added that he had no difficulty , in pUotins; bis craft up the now unfamiliar channel. j The Claire steamed up the river wrif Vt vi 1 4 n fivm parnn 4 v where i left a loaded barge It had shoved from Portland.- It came to do a special job for the Oregon, Pulp St Paper company in cleaning out silt and mud which has threatened to block the entrance to the Willamette slough where the paper company stores pulp logs. Claire Does Work That Ulsrh Water Used to Do Because of the dryness of re cent "years there have been no high water periods when the Wil (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) US Plans Army Of 2,000,000; Gets JNew Tanks .WASHINGTON, April 2i-(JF)-The army received a second lot of 28-ton tanks Thursday, while word came from the war depart ment that it would be readv to house 1,418,000 men by summer and had plans to arm a fighting force of two million. Initial deliveries of the big mo bile land forts were made to the army at Detroit and Eddystone, Fa.They include among their ar mament 75-millimeter field can non, 37-mitIimeter guns for use against r other tanks or airplanes and a battery of machine guns. A general staff officer, Colonel Stephen , J. Chamberlain, told a congressional committee that quarters would be ready for all of the 1,418,000 men expected to be in the army by July 1. Accomo dations for 1,150,000 now are available, he said. Under the questioning of a sen ate defense investigating commit tee. Chamberlain . discussed the comparatively permanent charac ter of present army housing, then added: ; "We don't know whether wo .will be demobilised In five or St year." i . - . . Healthiest B6y TvOBERT IIAILPEH lni Ck ears Marion 4H Club Show - Sets Record Competition Keen as Boys and Girls Vie for Many Prizes (See Pictures Below) More participants in special contests than ever before in the history of Marion county 4H club spring shows baked bread, cake, cookies and biscuits, squared boards, darned and stitched and identified forest pro ducts at the state fairgrounds Thursday. While number of exhibits, ap proximately 1500, and representa tion of clubs showed , no--greater increase over , last year's 4 "little county faur.enihusiasm; Jn 4em4 onstrations and actual ; on-the-premises competition far exceeds (Turn to Page 2," Col. t) Capitol Zone Proposed by Commission An ordinance bill to create a special restricted zone around property which the state has ac quired or has been authorized by the legislature to acquire for the state capitol group of buildings was recommended Thursday night by" a special council committee meeting with the Planning and toning commission. The committee authorized Hed da Swart, chairman of the plan ning and zoning commission, City Engineer Harold Davis and "City Attorney Lawrence. N. Brown to draw up the ordinance measure. As planned, the measure would create a restricted area extend ing 150 feet on all sides of the capitol group property. In keeping; with the resolu tion adopted by the' 1939 legis lature, the sone will restrict bufldlnrs in It to residences, apartment buildings, churches, schools and other buildings of an "educational or aesthetic" nature. The measure will be submitted (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Colombia Plane Down BOGOIA, Colombia, April 24-(JP)-The army announced Thurs day night that a tri-motored army plane " with ; J4 persons aboard is missing on flight from Caucaya to Tarapaca, in extreme southeastern Colombia, County They Com 1-11 girls, above, sewing In the doll dressing contest, are' left to right, Clara Manning-. ParkersvUle; yivtan'Ja uet, Victor Foist, and Erma SXartin, UayesviUe. ' : . -, ; f ' ' - : ...- J r-r,. . .SKuiio lLDemme Whoo-o-o-o-O, 1 Nose against the bank, the river in a Job of cleaning- out silt and la used for log; storage by the Oregon Pulp & Paper company, from whose tall stacks in the back ground arise clouds of smoke, caught In singular beauty by Frank Herbert, Statesman staff photogra pher. The Claire, which whistled for the Southern Pacific railroad drawbridge to open Wednesday night, was the first steamboat to come up the Willamette since the Northwestern made Its last trip In July, 1938. Treasury Presents Tax Plan to Committee Morgenthau Says Schedule Permits US to Pay Way as It Goes and Everyone Bears Fair Share of the Burden WASHINGTON", April 24 - defense tax schedules to the house ways and means committee Thursday i and through Assistant ""Secretary J John ' L. Sttfliyari argued emphatically- against the a sales tax for the proposed heavy imposts on incomes, i Sullivan faced the .committee after Secretary Morgenthau, flanked by 17 assistants, had urged that the prospective $3,500,- 000,000 increase in tax revenues be accompanied by a billion do! lar reduction in none-defense ex penditures. lie thought such a cut not only highly desirable but clearly possible. As for the $3,500,000,000 in new taxes, Morgenthau said It was a "small price" to pay for liberty. There Is -a possibility, he asserted, that "wr may spread to this country," , Morgenthau told the committee that although the nation has a "program of about $39,000,000,000 for defense expenditures including (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) McNary Asserts FDR Sympathetic To Coast Steel PORTLAND, Ore, April 24-ff) -The Portland '.Oregofdan. will quote Senator Charles, I. McNary (R-Ore) in its morning edition as saying that a west coast High-grade steel industry evidently has presi dential sympathy, . - , V The newspaper said that "Mc Nary, in a telegram, stated "evi dently the president is in sympa thy with the undertaking on ac count of national defense and strategic position In the west. He also quoted Gano Dunn, government steel expert with the office of production management as saying that "the electric steel processes were In every way prac ticable and acceptable to the in dustry." 1 , pete in Homem POUND3D 1651 Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, April 25, 1941 Steamboat 'Round the Bend V steamer Claire churns the murky water of the Willamette slough mouth mud which threatened to close the (J) - The treasury presented its new- substitution of a payroll tax or Eee eg Paul Hausers Column The governor of Oregon,, who in those few moments he can spare from the affairs of state likes to stretch his legs afwff bit in a bit of ai s V V!V u; ujac, put vi l uui r some uays ago; and went out to inspect things along the river. The governor 1 was particularly interested in the! ieL-i revetment work I the army en gineers are doing! along c e r ta In Pkal HamwFt j,. portions of the . Willamette banks , which would otherwise crumble away. He in spected the revetment work and he inspected the army's big dredge, tied up along the bank while the engineers did whatever army en gineers do of a Sunday. His inspection - completed the governor and our scout, who was his companion of that day, started on their way back. They trudged way from, the driver bank on a lonely track over which few cars had passed, but presently one of the few pulled out of a lane be hind them and ' drew abreast of them. ' '.. : . " "Want a ride to . tewnrv the driver queried. . "Sure," answered the gover nor. . . -.The governor stepped Into the front seat alongside the driver and . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) . in the cookie contest.- above, girls are shown taking tin of - cookies from the : oven r before putting tn s new batch. From left to rirht, they are Jean. Darby, Luelle Jaquet, Itfargaret Vnruh, Joyce Peterson, all Silverton. All 1 3 Statesxaan f hot.. ...'lp--''i-'.' Ki' channel Into the slough. The slough Parley Slated On Wage Plans For Loggers AfX, , Lumber Pact f Okehetl; CIO Strike Expected at GUC : PORTLAND, Ore April 24-( -The first negotiating meeting of employers and CIO . International Woodworkers of America on wage increases and other . concessions since a strike vote Wednesday will be held here Friday. - L. H. Mills, presidsent of the employers' association, . arranged the meeting at the request of Al Hartung, union council president. ; The unions are demanding wage increases of 15 cents an hour, two weeks' vacation with pay and two weeks sick leave. SEATTLE, April 24-()-A CIO organizer promised Thursday night that 10 employes of the Boe ing Aircraft company, discharged earner Thursday would be "re stored to their jobs with full back pay ... as soon as our union has secured a majority of the Boeing; workers." The statement was made by Wyndham Mortimer, internation al representative of the United Automobile workers, here with the anounced intention of corral- (Turn to Page 3, CoL 3) Packiiig Firm es CHICAGO, April V(JPihrm- our and company Thursday . an nounced an eight per cent wage increase for 10,000 hourly paid and piecework employes of its Chicago plants. Adjustments in other cities will be made locally. . ' Swift and company; Wilson and company .and cudany - PacJong company, others of the big four" in the meat packing Industry, an nounced similar increases Wednes day. ". - i .-. r-r ; :. Waii aking and tiber Contests ' -n. Shown comparing notes In the squared block contest, ' f above are from left to right, racl Aspcr and Dar- re! Bheinhol.it, both Woodiiurn. - - - 1 " .. .... ;. Knox an Hull Hit Nazis Key. Figures in Cabinet Want .; Stronger Stand I .WASHINGTON, April 2A-(ff) -Two key. figures in President Roosevelt's cabinet called Thursday night for more active steps to aid Britain, one of them declaring that "we can hot allow out goods to be sunk in the At lantic,' and, the other demanding "resistance whever resistance will be effective. Secretary" of State Cordell Hull said In an address here that "ways must be found" to insure that aid reaches its .destination "in the shortest time and in maximum quantity". , In an even stronger pronounce ment in New York, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared "this Is our fight," that "we must see the job through," and that "we can no longer occupy the immoral and craven position of making others to make all the sacrifice for this victory which we recognize as so essential to us." "Our manhood and our self - respect demand that we shall " assume our part of the burden," Knox said. Knox asserted that "Hitler can not allow our war suppies to reach England! he will be defeated if they do," and he added with em phasis: "We cannot allow our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic rwe shall be beaten if they do.". Hull, declared the safety of - the hemisphere called f a Re sistance wherever resistance will be most effective and that . it ; makes s vast difference to us w ho ' wins the present - struggle In Europe "the ' difference whether we stand "with our backs to the wall with the other ' four continents ' against ss and the high seas lost, alone defend ing the last free territories on .earth, or whether we keep our ' place In an orderly world." . : The secretary of state spoke (Turn to Page 2, CoL. 3) Nazis Praise, Eleanor Hits Col. Lindbergh BERLIN, April 24-P)-The Im portant German newspaper Ham burger Fremdenblatt, commeting on Wednesday night's "America First" rally in New York, de scribed Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh as "a real - American of Swedish descent out of the middle west." It said he was "not a war oppo nent through emotionalism but through devoted love of his coun try." -';:, ' " . -:' LOS ANGELES April ;24r-(ff) Mrs. jneanpr. Roosevelt told news men. Thursday that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh "seems to have a strange lack of confidence in his own people." . J . "He gives us very little credit for much ability, much courage, or much common sense," she com mented on Lindbergh's New York speech. "We ought to be able to decide for ourselves what we can do and when and how we . will do ft" ' s . ' : Prlc 3c Newsstands 5c of Greece 'Mot German Placed to Bitter-End D e f e n s e . Nazis Smash at Harbors by Air to Cripple Transports; Greeks Scorn Italb Win?9 . By The Associated Press . . J The battle of Greece today embraced a bitter-end British de fense of Thermopylae pass against newly planted nazi guns pressing-for the opening to Athens and a nazi aerial effort over-reaching that bloody front to smash the harbors and ships necessary for a British getaway. - Thus, the outcome of the Hellenic campaign apparently de pended on -whether the Germans would be able to snap shut the trap in which they are trying to pin Britain's imperial forces, i , The Germans say they are succeeding, pushing the British and Greeks relentlessly back into southern Greece and sinking by War News Briefs : LONDON, April 25-(Friday) -iip)-BritIsh bombers attacked naval bases In - northwest Ger many Thursday night, the min istry of information reported ('. BERLIN, April 25(FrIdayr' jpy-Germzn occupation of Athens, informed quarters In dicated early today; would take place only after assurance that the Greek capital eovid be tak en Intact as In the case of Paris. ' These quarters also Indicat ed such occupation would come only after it is completely Justi fied from, the German point of view and. without destroying the ancient capitaL V SANTOS. BrasiL April 25 (Friday) - (JP) - The 4422-ton German freighter Babttongs sailed early this anornfaur for Yaldivostok with a large num ber of barrels of oil In her ear go. She had been tn Santos harbor since Just before the outbreak of the -European war. LONDON, April 24 British bombers attacked the 2(,tf-Un German battleships Gneisenau (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Sprague Confers r With Leaders on Interim Groups Governor Charles A. Sprague, President Dean Walker of the state senate and Robert S. Far- relL Jr speaker of the house of representatives, conferred here Thursday in connection with ap pointments of interim committees created by the 1941 legislature. Walker f and FarreU said tne committees probably would not be released until early next week. One of the largest committees, to include 18 members, will study the Oregon tax setup and 'meth ods for attracting industries to this state. This committee will be repre sentative of all parts of the state. officials said. Healthiest Girl I, MARJOIUE TATE ' Fair today and Saturday with foe or low clouds sear coast; continued z&!M tem peratures. Xlax. Teup. Thursday, , Kin. SS. Northeast wind. Elver 1 foot. Clear. . No. S3 One Soldier Artillery Overcome tens of thousands of tons the ships which might carry the BEF back to its bases in Egypt. - Occupation of Athens, they said, awaits only assurances that the Greek capital with lis ancient traditions and great heritages of, early European civilization can be entered with out a struggle. ' " r, . But the :BriUhTtold "another version. . - . A British broadcast late Thurs- day night declared no British troops had . embarked in flight from. Greece and advices from Athens said the Germans, failing to smash past the British at Ther mopylae with Infantry were bring ing up six-inch guns the heaviest artillery yet employed In ' the Balkan offensive to blast an opening. . Heard In New York, a British radio commentator declared that "not one British soldier has re embarked from Greece." The broadcast waa heard by CBS. "Moreover," he added, "the allied lines -though In retreat nave neid iirm and still stand." The commentator pointed out (Turn to Page 3, Col. 1) Pope Requests Peace Prayers VATICAN CITY, April 24-()-Pope, Pius XII called Thursday for -a Maytime crusade of prayer for peace,' especially by the chil dren of the - Catholic world. It was the third appeal for peace Of his pontificate. -. , . In a letter to the papal secre tary of state, Luigi Cardinal Mag- lione, the holy father exhorted the faithful to lead their children in ever-increasing numbers to the shrine of the blessed virgin, there to pray. Mrs. FDR Sees Draft for Girlo NEW YORK, April 24-HWV-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Thursday recommended that a year of corn pulsoxy service for girls be consid ered as part of a permanent homo defense program. The president's wife made the proposal in an article published lri the ladies' Home Journal, in an swer to a letter from a girl who asked how she might serve, now that her "young man" had gone to camp. Mrs. RooseveK said In part, "I do not, of course, think of girls as taking the same training, or doinj the same kind of work that the boys 'probably will do, nor da I think of them serving in camps . "I think the opportunity ti.ouI3 be offered to girls to work fen 3 train themselves along many dif ferent lines." j ' - " Prisoners Giplurcd Km ON BAY, OnL, AprH 23 -(Friday )-J2p-The last f aur cf 2S German prisoners cf r.-r who escaped from a csr'," -western Ontario earm t last Saturday were c:L,:... ; - early.' today ' mm ' a trail i .i ii pulled out from t:.' s v" :