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They're Yours ; The community served by - The uregon statesman is - your community this paper ' your newspaper. Look tm It 'for newt that la accurate, ; interesting and on time. AYcathor Partly elevdy today and Friday with local" showers near moaatahu. Max. temp. Wednesday, 7( Kht, 41. South wind, stiver 4.1 feet Kala M tneh. CJevdy. FOUNDQD 1651 Solem. Oregon, Thundery Morning, May 8, 1941 Prtco) 3ci Newsstands) Sc Mew Plan sN "'k rmai 7 J L - I r a -V llll ill ftioa-li www aw a j ST' ! I I I JL J I 'II y vvvvy.w . . TV i 1 ' V TTT N . -n f 11 ' r '' ' ' ' Y M Offered For Tax High Officials , : Urg& Congress to Bear Down WASHINGTON, May 7--Two high-ranking administra tion officials urged congress Wednesday to bear down heav iest with defense tastes on excess profits of corporations and on consumer durable - goods, which compete with munitions produc . tion. ' ' . ' : ;.v The suggestions were made to the house ways and means com piitteeby Leon Henderson, fed eral price control administrator, and Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the federal reserve board. Both approved the treasury plan to raise $3,500,000,000 but objected to some of the methods the treas ury proposed, notably excise lev ies on non-durable goods and services.- ;' . . ' Contrary to the treasury pro- gram, Eccles also proposed low ering the' Individual Income tax base for married persons to : 11500 : from the present 2000 and decreasing the credit , for -dependents to $300 from the present $400. The treasury rec ommended leaving the present firures alone bat sarrested a-.. new set of surtaxes, starting at 11 per cent on the first dollar of taxable Income. ' Henderson advocated taxes that would "sock" automobiles,' radios, refrigerators and other durable goods which compete for mater ials and labor with defense pro duction. - WASHINGTON, May 7 0ty The house banking committee ap proved a bill Wednesday under (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Girl Student (Jets Writing School Bid ! Marion Horn, junior at Salem , high school, received word Wed nesday of her acceptance for this summer's national high school Journalism institute at Northwest ern university In Evanston, 111. Miss Horn, a member of , the ' National Honor society, is to at tend the session for four weeks beginning June 16. About 50 high school Journalists from over the country will participate. She is a .candidate in Friday's election for jeditor of the Clarion and has this year been high school reporter for iThe Statesman. - I Plane Crash Injures Two PORTLAND, Ore., May 7-(-jTwo persons were injured Wed nesday night In the crash of their ;light plane against a ridge near there. , ; ,;- I Clarence Richard Womack, Portland, the pilot, suffered facial cuts and Mrs. Margaret Look, Portland, passenger, a wrist in jury. Womack said the Diane's enrine failed and it struck heavily on the ridge, ripping away the landing gear and overturning. It was owned by the Island Flying dub, Portland. I Rails Warned By ICC Chief PHILADELPHIA, May 7-(P)-The government ifvill not hesitate to. take over American railroads it any defaults or deficiencies de velop In the carriers, Joseph B. Eastman, chairman of the inter state commerce commission, warned Wednesday. ; ' A railroad leader at the same time urged that railroads be given a chance to work out their own problems and a banker declared government ownership or manage ment was the way to "state o cialism." ,! Ask Alines Checkup MARSHFIELD, May 7-P)- uwners oz uregon manganese and tine properties have been asked by R. C Treasher of the state minlnc department to register the prop erties with the chamber of com merce here so they may be In vestigated for US armament needs. Our Senators Uca 0-4 Convoy Foes Claim Few. Aid Ships Sunk In Atlantic Transit Point to US Maritime Report as f Proof Navy not Needed; Qaim 1 Exaggerations as Propaganda I - WASHINGTON, May 7-()-Foes of assigning the United States navy to convoy duty Joyfully seized upon figures originat ing in the maritime commission Wednesday as showing that com paratively few vessels carrying-American help to England had been sunk in the battle of the Atlantic. The statistics were contained in a letter from Chairman a Paul Ilauser's Column We were walking down the the other day behind a street couple of high school girls, eaves dropping as we went, and wen picked up the following conver sation: "I've known him so he's Just rJike a brother, kid!" ' "Kinda cute, too, Isn't he?" "Yeeeah! But, kid, I sure hate to go out with him." "Yuh do? Gee, I think he's nice!" "Yeeeab, But he's so slow he couldn't catch a cold." - .PUaUns time brines to the (men and fardncra of Or- a reminder from Maaacer . La O. Spttxbart to pUa aheaO t state fair time. Ia short, to . plant tome seeds with the avowed purpose of earrytar off some ( the cash awards In the fair's land products show. ' State acricultare department . publicity release. Gardners, Awake t - Lo Spltsnart cans' " asm yon must heed the chime! Hoe .down the weed v. - " Sow. well" fiuf Seeds, 1 rrepare for the sUto fait Urns! Peter, Peter, plant yonr pumpkiK? PUnt yonr heansUlk, Jack! Little Boy Blue plant some of that corn. Ton may win SplUhart's Jack. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) State Draft Quota 210 Next Month Oregon's quota under the June selective service call is 210 men. Lieutenant-Colonel Elmer V. Woo ton, state selective service direct or, anonunced here Wednesday. Fifty-three of the men will re port at the induction station in Portland on June 2, followed by a similar number of men June 3. Fifty-two men will report on June 4 ana 52 men on June 5. No re placements will be included in the June call. Rejections now average between 12 and 13 Der cent of the men called, Wooton declared. Death Takes Famed Savant CAMBRIDGE. England. Mav 7 --Sir James George Frazer, 87, anthropologist and probably the world's greatest authority on folk lore, died Wednesday. ; His principal work was "The Golden Bough," a vast collection on savage and civilized briefs and customs.; It became known as a literary j as well as a scientific classic ; CC Votes Float Fund Directors of the Salem cham ber of commerce voted Wednes day night to underwrite $100 te add te the Cherrlans' fond for a float to represent Salem in the! Portland Rose Festival . parade, .- : ' Carpi, Magda Look Forward To Quiet Life in Cuba ABOARD THE SS EXCAMBION, At Sea, May 7-(P-Form-er King Carol of Rumania and Madame Lupescu are looking for ward to Cuba as a neutral spot that will remain neutral where they "can wait" i p "Madame Lurescu and I look forward ia vuoa, wmcn we inans: xor tne hospitality offered us," Carol said Wednesday, . . Since Madame Lupescu had no court or official status In Rumania, i i . . ....... t this was the first time that Carol ever publicly coupled his name with hers. I know quite well there has been criticism in the United States of me and my private life," the Emory S. Land of that agency to Senator Wandenberg (R-Michi The communication, prompted by an inquiry from Vandenberg, said that "only twelve vessels which left ports of this country for Eng land between January 1 and April 30 were sent to the bottom. Of 205 vessels sailing for England in the first three months of the year, the letter also said, eight were sunk. ' j Senators critical of convoys or other strong measures to saferoard Britain's Atlantic life line were quick to assert that exaggerated propaganda figures on sinkings had been used to stir ap sentiment for throwing the navy Into the battle of the rAtlanticY 4 I An official of the maritime com mission stressed, however, that the Land letter covered only ves sels bound from United States ports. -.') f "Sinkings have been much heav ier on west-bound trips. The Brit ish have concentrated their" naval resources on ships en route to England, and it has been neces sary to give less protection to vessels going to the United States. Consequently, losses on west bouriU voyages Jjave Jen much greater.",.. ' Viscount Halifax, the British ' ambassador, said It was argent for all possible action to hold ' intact the lifeline te Great Britain. I After calling on Secretary of State Hull, the ambassador told reporters: "That man (Hitler) is straining every nerve to cut the lifeline. It Is impossible to exaggerate toe urgency and the need of ail pos sible action to hold it intact" i Lord Halifax refused to express any opinion on the type of help needed immediately but asserted Britain, wants all the support you Can give. and this quickly. J WASHINGTON, May 7 -(JPf Voting 266 to 120, the house pass ed President Roosevelt's ship seizure bill Wednesday and sent it on to an uncertain future in the senate. : f The measure, requested by the administration, would empower the president to seize foreign vessels idle in American ports and put' them to any use he sees fit Thus he would be enabled to use Italian, German and Danish ves sels recently taken into protec tive custody, and others not yet requisitioned, in the help to Eng land program. ; Voting in favor of the bill were 212 democrats, 51 republicans and 3 progressives; opposed were 19 (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) British Woman Freed On Traitor Charge LONDON, May 7-tfV-Dr. Christabel Sybfl Nicholson, 50, wife of Admiral WHmot Stuart Nicholson, who was chief of the British submarine service from 1923 to 1925, was acquitted in a closed trial at Old Bailey Wednes day of a charge that she obtained and recorded information which might be useful to the enemy. : According to the prison docket, she had been detained since May, 1940. " exiled king continued. Tut there is much that the public does not know and circumstances it cannot appreciate," J i He naturally Is anxious about Rumania, but whatever his troubles they do not show greatly on his friendly face. He tries not to show any signs of his own and his country's political tragedies. illkie - ; t Defies Hitler .. Claims America Strongest People In World History NEW YORK, May- t1-(JPh Wendell L. WUlkie told a "free dom rally" in Madison. Square Garden Wednesday night that America must insure the safe delivery of war materials to Brit ain by "convoyingpatrolling airplane accompaniment or what not and then flung this declara tion at Adolf Hitler: "You have never met any people like us. And yea had best Implore whatever pagan God you believe in, that yea may be spared the day g . Never before in the history of the world, Willkie declared in his prepared address, has there been a WASHINGTON, May H-(JP-Senator Nye (R-ND) declared Wednesday night , that "the WInchells, the Thompsons, the Stlmsons, the Peppers and the WiUkles were "blitzkriering the American people Into this war" and urged ait MBS radio audience to "make known to official Washington", that the persons he mentioned did not reflect "popular faith and pop lar belief. people as strong as !the people of the United States of America. There never was any people so (Turn to Page 2, Cot 6) Ores on Units o 41st to Bivouac in Home Towns Salem Will Be Host to Third Division and Corpg Enroute to Maneuvers and to "Salem'a Own" on Return Jaunt ASTORIA, Ore., May 7-iT-Oregon contingents of the 41st division will bivouac in their home towns on the return from maneuvers 19 miles south of King City, Calif., in July, Major General George A. White said Wednesday. War News Briefs LONDON, May t-(Thursday) (JPy- Twenty German, bombers were reported shot down Wed nesday night as the luftwaffe stabbed at Liverpool and . scat tered explosives ever many other areas of England. The British air force eontinoed its own offensive by smashing again at the naval base at Brest and attacking other tar gets In. German-eccupied terri tory, . "i::-v; -J:' BERLIN, May I -(Tborsdaj) -VP- A limited number ef Brit ish bombers dropped explo sives on residential quarters fas two northern German cities Wednesday nlsht, killing and injurinr number of persons, the official German news agen cy,j DNB, said today. ATJCKLAKD, New Zealand, May g -(Thursday) -fl New Zealand is sending Minister of Lands, F. Lanes tone, to the United States Jto Initiate trade negotiations, . particularly j for hotter, cheese and meat, and to establish a New Zealand lega tion, It was announced today. HONGKONG. May g-(Thrs-day )-AVNearly SO Chinese were klUed and II houses were j (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Identify Sliip Stink With Yanks I5 NEW- YORK, May 7-(-The British passenger liner Nerissa, a sturdy 'little ship that had sur vived attacks by pocket-battleship, submarine and planes, was identified Wednesday as the ves sel sunk off the Irish coast with a loss of 122 lives, including 13 Americans. Eleven of the Americans were airplane ferry pilots . bound, for England. ;. Advices reaching here said 34 passengers and 84 crew delud ing the skipper, Capt George Wat sonwent down with the ship SO miles off the Irish Coast; presum ably i after a submarine attack. These advices said SS were saved, including 22 wounded. The 5322-ton Nerissa reportedly left Halifax April 19 and pre sumably was sunk about 10 days later. . Iraq Premier Pra-German Easchld All Beg Gal lant (above), premier of Iraa. Is reported seeking to inflame the whole Mohammedan world against the British. His request far marl military aid to sweep British troops from the country has brought the war deep into the Near East Gallant Wed nesday asked Turkey to inter vene when the Germans failed to answer his plea. See story column 8. - . Tillamook Air Meet Delayed By Meek Mink TILLAMOOK, May 1-ifPh Breeders protests that the roar of airplane motors was a costly aeeempaniment for salnk lit tertna eaased pectponemeBt ef the Tillamook air show sched uled for May 1L - naif the acw erc wmM be lest. Breeder-said, se In defer- ' ence to the industry which brings $25t.00t into the eennty ' annually, the event was pest poned to a date to be set later. General White, eemmander ef the 41st, Pert Lewis, Wash, uid 18,009 men of the division would leave the post for Cali fornia Kay. If. Nine thousand will travel ia meter convoys, stopping the first night at Van couver, Wash, may 20 at Bend and May 21 at Klamath Falls. - An additional 8000 mesr will travel by train, a trip requiring two days. The motor convoy will be di vided into five parts, each one spending the succeeding night in the town, vacated, by the earlier series. Third division and corps troops wiu spend the first night at Salem and the second at Kooe brr. On the return trip overnight bivoucs will be arranged at Bend, Medford, Salem, Roseburg, Cor vallis, Grants Pass, McMinnville, Lebanon, Portland, Woodburn, Forest Grove, IliTUboro and The DaUes. , ; In an 43,000 troops will pass through Oregon by truck and rail. Airport Work Work on the southeast portion of the Salem airport, delayed by recent rains, is expected .to be completed Friday; engineers in charge said Wednesday. , : .. j The southeast portion Is being completed ahead of other sections to provide CAA students with a landing and take-off. area. With completion of this task, work on the airport proper will begin. Drainage ditches to keep most of the water running off are al mdst completed, the engineers said. ; f.--;. Alien Seamen at LA ttpstricted to Ship ; SAN PEDRO. Califs May 7-(ff) -Immigration officials Wednesday ordered alien seamen on nine vessels In Los Angeles harbor for more than 30 days to remain aboard unless granted special per mission for shore leave from Washington. - ; They said the orders were is sued on instruction from immi gration service headcroartera, , Delay Stimson Backed" : By Knox i Asserts America. !Must Keep Seas :'l Open for Safety i WASHTNGTOV Maw Secretary Knox, asserting "we are living in fearful danger.'? :, w j . v ; declared Wednesday night "the only safety for us is to supple ment the forces of Britain." r ' He told a ban cruet meeting nf tne American Booksellers associa tion in an extemporaneous address ; LANSING, Mich, May -Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont) left for Washington Wednesday after completing a month's speaking : tour against Americair intervention fat war, . eharrinr Secretary ef War Hen ry Stimson with expression ef ! the administration's desire for Immediate war. that "a hazi victory means the ringing down of the curtain on civilization as we know it. Destruction of the British nin: Knox said, would mean that "we would have to face a seapower immediately superior to our own ; the combined navies at Or. many, Italy and France on one side-and, the other, the powerful neet or Japan." ! "TTio United SUtes Is earn. mUted to see that that (British) seapower Is not destroyed," he added. "Yep see what it would mean If this bridge of ships was not maintained." Lord Halifax, the British am bassador, read to the booksellers a special message from Prime Min Mter WinstoaCUMbni ,. "Your callinsf hair hn w.n scribed - as : a mishtv spmi in word," the message said. " Power has been taken away from, many nations by the nazi tyrants. Not easily will it be taken away from the English-speaking peoples, who. from writer ltv?n uwu. jamer courage and con' siancy io strengthen us in the inais we must undergo." The controversy --a w UU Wg intensified by a statement from secretary Kox that if the navy should be called on t S- delivery of supplies to Britain it was reaay to do the job. The Knox remark ' mi mi). during a press conference discus- uura io i-age 2, CoL 8) ...... Nazi Seamen Jugged by US NEW YORK. Mav hundred and twenty eight German seamen seized in Manhattan and elsewhere in a sudden pre dawn raid were concentrated m FJlii Island Wednesday night as fed eral operatives continued a search for. others . in the aovermnent's apparent effort to euard aeainst fifth column activities. v The aliens were accused hm. cifically of overstavinr thai. leaves In this country and were among the 160-German sailors At torney General Jackson ordered rounded up under the immigra tion law. r A few , scattered arrests also were made in Chicago. MinnMnn. lis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New- arx, jersey City, and Bayonne, NJ. Miami, San Francisco and Kansas City were other daces the government directed a search be made. f . Vote Against Convoys I NEW YORK, May HHU1 branches of the national maritime nnlnn i ffTftV .t.lf.!.. ww, WOUiUU M, X I yi e wmvw wv wm sent 65,000 seamen, have approved tention, Justice department offl a resolution opposing American dais said, 'that the two Germans convoys of war suDDliea ta En- had not maintained their status land, Joseph Curran, NMU presi-j dent, anounced Wednesday. Italalr Suffers Nervous ROME. Mav ?-VFascist tary Henry I ''Stimson' advocacy of United States naval protec tion of supplies bound for Britain a further step toward active American participation In the war and Italian newsnan-re d!. piayea pronunenuy ,eanesaay a e - e a dispatcn insinuating tat president Roosevelt -had suffered nervous breakdown., : ij Headlines described Stlirsson's speech as a "garrulous example of "war cries at Washington. r All the papers displayed prom inently a Ctefani (Italian news agency) dispatch ; from i Cerne, Artillery, Fifing K&newecll; After Qi ufcMWswalk lilbyd Geor US for Slowness in Forward Pro-Axis Intrigues by Iraq Premier Seen as Danger, but T Control Gained on Oil Lines By The Associated Press " Long-range nazi bombers and big guns combined Wednesday night and early today in a joint attack on British coastal targets as the luftwaffe, for the seventh consecutive night, smashed viov lently at the important port of Liverpool. British report shooting down 20 of the invaders. U ' ! i Dover suffered a brief but fierce attack from long-range guns ori the French coast and bombers followed up with raids on west coast towns, the southeast coastal area and East Anglia. Kerensky Sees Soviet in Axis Former Russian Chief Says Stalin Move Is ; ; io Joirr With Naas " NEW YORK, May 7--Alex-ander Kerensky, former Russian premier who led the revolution against the czasist government in 1917, expressed belief in an in terview Wednesday that Joseph Stalin's assumption of the pre miership indicated soviet prepara tion to enter the war on the side of the axis powers. Kerensky, long a foe of Stalin, said he believed Stalin's action was "due to recent developments in the war which may soon bring Soviet Russia into direct military collaboration with Germany in the middle east." Russian troops, he added, were being I concentrated in positions from which they could strike into Iran and pass through Trans caucasia into Turkey. Kerensky said he believed Sta lin's move was prompted by Sta lin's probable satisfaction with collaboration with Chancellor Hitler so far. ! i "He may now be expected to strike ; hew blows against Eng land in close cooperation with the nazis,, Kerensky said. US Arrests Two Germans WASHINGTON, May 7 -P)- Attorney I General j Jackson an nounced Wednesday that Man fred Tinn and Cuentber Tonn. German citizens under indictment for failure to register as foreign afents in connection with the operation of a nazi news agency, .ba ao had been arrested ana were Demg held without ball on deportation charges.- " ! I Jackson 1 said that Zapp and Tonn were being held at the Ellis Island,; NY, immigration quarters Tne action is Dasea an tne con as treaty merchants under which they entered this country. . . Breakdom " commentators rallpH War w-. Switzerland, alleging that Roose velt, tired out, had entered a rest horn for an indefinite stay. . The dispatch used the Italian phrase "casa di salute," which here usually means a place where per sons go to recover from nervous breakdowns, ge Flays ing Supplies ,ine renewal t the German air and artillery offensive came after British Prime Minister : Winston Churchill won a house of , com mons Vote of confidence by , 447 to 3 and pledged Britain to "fight to the; death" to hold its Mediter ranean positions. ' Much more American naval aid was needed to enable Britain to 1 beat Germany's Atlantic . submai rine, campaign, the prime minis ter admitted.--- -'rt; ,r ' Lloyd George Baps' TJS . . " - ! . ' for not Sending More Aid His expectation of "a good deal more help in many ways from the ( United States contrasted sharply with utterances of David Lloyd George, World war premier, who said bluntly: "America can do more. If she Is going to enable us to catch up and then overtake German sh has got to do Infinitely more . Churchill acknowledged that loss of the Suez canal, the islands , of Malta and Crete, or the oil jj (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Ten ItaKans Convicted in Slup Sabotage WILSON. NC. MaV federal court jury Wednesday con victed ten Italians of violating ihm anti-sabotage laws in connection with the wrecking of motors of the freighter vaiarperosa i while she wai in port at Wmriington. " Captain Adriana Merlano Bersia and: nine crew members said they were only obevinar orrf.m n Am stroying the motors. The captain lesuuea luesday that the orders were received from th Tti-. embassy in Washington. Conviction carried a ipossiblt fin of $10,000 and upta20yearao . f Gen. Booth SAN DIEGO Calif- -Ma-m 1-1 -Gen. Evangeline Booth, 78, for mer international head of the Salvation Army, which her father founded, collatwrl Won. f? hfle deliverin an addrest, The tail. English-born Salta tion Army leader became ill early wuc, dui was able to re sume. Later she collapsed,- could not! continue and was taken to her hotel. The general arrived h.er Ti.mI day; to open the convention of the Salvation Armv advisor k- for Southern California, '.:5 ' ' Alcoa to Get Powpf WASHINGTON. IT- Congressional sources said Wednesday that most nt ,A n nnm. - -w ,uvv kilowatts of power the office of proa action management asked the ; lionneviiie power administration to have ready for Jime H.Mtr- . would be allocated to the Alum- mum company of America, 1 Jubifee Elect Slitci ALBANY. May 7-FV-A eolden JufcHee meeting will be held here Thursday by Wi2amette valley lodies of the Women's benefit as sociation. .. .. 4Ki