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Thoy'ro ; Yours 1 The community served by , "ine . uregon (statesman . is your commnnlty. Ibis paper' your newspaper. Look t It for news. that b accurate. Interesting and on time. Vcalhcr j rair with alisfctly Usher temperature Friday; Katur day elondy with showers. Max. temp. Thursday, s3 mi. St. North mted. Elver, 4 ft. - . . . . ' NUIETY-FEST YEAH Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning,' May 9. 1S41 Price Set Newsstands Se New tJ MoiMinis in Over Britain Bo Z1S SI 111 ) -'4: r v-i.-. i ;' r:: TT i ! A tssw air itolll. j. Mem h iH ;.'M' ' ' - - JLose 4 : - , j , ..I ., , Death Comes at 88 i o oiaest Of Supreme Court Long Service to Oregon Ends Following Year of Illness; Came to State From Maine I I Associate Justice Henry J. Bean, dean of the state supreme court, tiied at 8 p. m. Thursday at the Deaconess hospital, where he had been confined by illness since December 26 of last year. j Justice Bean, who was 88 years old, had not been active as member of the court for nearly a year for reason of his illness. j First elected to the supreme court in 1910, Justice Bean had served longer in the position than any other member, past or present. His long service included two terms as chief justice. He was the ranking justice in was 1931 and 1932 and in 1937 and 1938. During his many years on the supreme court, Justice Bean wrote more than 1100 opinions and gained a reputation for careful analysis, thorough knowledge of the law and unbiased judgment Major Contribution Was . Adjudicating Water Sights One of the major contributions he. left to the law of the state were opinions adjudicating water rights on nearly all of the eastern Oregon streams utilized for Irrigation.. His ' opinions appear in more than 100 volumes of the Oregon supreme court reports. " -j Justice Bean's lonr career ra law extended from bis NtdmisNi. Career Ends JUSTICE HENRY J. BEAN slon to the Maine bar in 1881 throuth private practice and a - m a A A 9 A terms as ciiy attorney, cny re- eorder. district attorney, state rcpraeniauYC, Buprciuv tuiu clerk, county and circuit judge. Born November 13, 1853, at Be thel, Me- the son of Timothy and Elizabeth E. Bean, Henry J- Bean passea inrousa ui xuic ,-iuuv schools and attended academies at North Yarmouth, Hebron and Gould in Maine. He taught school for six years (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Zoning Group Plans Parley Alderman L. F. LeGarie, chair man of the council's special zon ing committee, announced Thurs day that his committee will meet tonight with the planning and zoning commission and Dan J. Fry, secretary of the state board of control, to discuss further a proposed ordinance to restrict commercial development around the state capitol group. The zoning committee submit ted a rough draft ef the proposed ordinance to the board of con- tror recently and the board has suggesiea lew enanges la wording of the measure. The ordinance would restrict commercial activity to certain ap proved types for a distance of 150 feet surrounding property now owned or to be acquired by the state for the capitol group. AT i - "W Senators Icsi 7-5 lviemDer Child Rescued By Salem Girl Plunges Into Pringle Creek to Save 6-Year Old From Drowning Quick response of Edna Scho- field, 13, to the screams of a C year eld girl, Darlene Smith, saved a life late Thursday aft ernoon when the younger child Jtnzm soiree InU: Prinrle creek and the older girl plunred la and rescued her, according to Norval Hirons, actinr first aid captain. v . t Darlene was playing; : in a playhouse built in a tree near the Scho field home at 1165 At 6:15 p. m. she slipped, 'Mirious monthf apparently close to lng Into the creek near an llrsgt feet deep hole. Edna, hearing Darlele screams, ran to the bank, sifht ed the child's clothing bobbing? in the water and planted In to rescue her. She carried her Into the house where first aid men gave treatment for shock and hysteria. Hirons said Darlene also had a possibly fractured arm. Darlene was riven further treatment by s doctor and tak en to the home of her mother, Mrs. Otha Wallace, at 1615 South Capitol street. j Ford Labor T O I VOlC IS Set DETROIT, May 8-(flVAn em ploye election to determine a bar gaining agent in the great Rouge plant o Ford com. w Ust n0n-union firm m automobae industry, ; was set for May 21 by the national la bor relations board Thursday. Eighty-five thousand workers, In what labor board officials said will be the largest single plant election on record, will cast bal lots " for the United Automobile Workers (CIO), the Federal Labor union (AFL), or for neither. Leaders of each union claim a majority and have forecast a vic tory for their said. j Well give the CIO its worst licking," said John J. Murphy, jord organizational director for the AFL. "Ford workers will vote SO to 95 tot the UAW-CIO:said Michael F. Widman, jr- director of that union's Ford drive. War Statement Asked CHICAGO, May 8.-W-Philip v Ia Frtllpttp. former eovernor Lf Wisconsin, said Thursday night that-President Roosevelt should make a "forthright announcement to the American and British people" that he would abide by his pre-election public - promises to keep the United States out of war. ; Lindv Books Barred i BEAMS YILLE. Ont- May o-lAl -The Beamsvflle town council to day ordered books by Charles A. Lindbergh removed from puoue library shelves. Similar action was taken by the Guelph council cently.. Focal Points lllilililpsNo z I ililillirf Maritime Board Corrects Losses Sea Destruction Toll in April Is Set High in British Report WASHINGTON, May The British government and the maritime commission hastened to Correct Thursday night any Im pression that recent British ship ping losses on the Atlantic had been minor a disputed point suddenly important in the flar ing congressional controversy over convoys. In high London quarters it was said that tonnage lost in April 460,000 tons. The previous peak was 463,000 tons in June, 1940. .Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission issued a statement making; it plain that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 0) May Enlarge Water Limits In Englewood i Boundaries of the proposed suburban water district east of Englewood school may be en larged beiore definite steps are taken toward formal organization, interested residents decided at their initial meeting, held at the school Thursday night The group wO meet again at the school next Thursday night : The area originally proposed for inclusion in the district is bounded by the east city limits, East Center street, Turner road and Sunnyview avenue. Salem Company Gets Contract PORTLAND, May 8.-P-More than half a million dollars worth of road contracts were awarded Thursday by the state highway commission. : Among awards was: Clackamas county Grade over- crossing. Cascade secondary high way, Roy IL Houck, Salem $97,018. Here Is View . II II L .1 H.. I .11.. V,.,l,,l..,.l,. " 111 ' "' " " ' " '" 1 ' ' I -. 9-.- -.: ' .. . . v . ' I . . . According to latest London reports the British are In eon- j lterranean war machine. Hostilities broke out When pre-1 shown above, reportedly Is held by the Imperial troops, trol at Basra, chief port of Iraq, where the Tg"sh troops next Iraq artillery shelled the British air base at Cabman- J Basra is located at the head of the Persian gulf and was the are seeking to protect the flow of Latest Moves in Axis -British War Willamette Action Is Assured Basin Commission Secretary Reveals Result of Congress Hearings and . t Sees Authorization as Certain BySTEPHEN C. MERGLER -. PORTLAND: Mav L 8(Ebeclan-rTher Willamette vallev mav safely anticipate definite action ing continuance and extension: of That is the word brought hi Eie Eas- Paul Uauter t Column Hello, Joe! Whaddayuh Know? Well, I know thai May ; weather has at last arrived after stopping somewhere for a short beer and a ham on rye. .V ! I know, too, that for today Pendleton is more the capital of Oregon than Salem is. Both the governor and the Supreme court are there. And I'm aware that with? the governor gone and Dave Eccles, his right hand man; away to visit Washington (and then New York's night spots) there has been leuain' going on between Lloyd Ritten- house Smith, the corporation com missioner. and C M. Rynerson, the accident commissioner, about (Turn to Page 3, CoL 7) j Four Die in Seattle Fire ! SEATTLE, May 8P)-A lash fire that whipped up a stairway and through hallways of an old residential hotel snuffed out four lives before dawn Thursday and drove several dozen tenants into the streets in their night clothes. Eleven persons were taken' to hospitals for. treatment of their burns, or injuries, and firemen re ported the rescue of 15 from upper floors on ladders. ? The scene of the early morning tragedy was the Hotel Stewart, just uphill from the Seattle pub lic library at the edge of the downtown business district It was Seattle's worst hotel tragedy since five persons burned to death In 1920. . . of Basra, Iraq, of oiL vital for the Bled-1 lyan. 61 fS'- mosuiX IRAN ADANA Jr T f S A ' HAIFABA IRAQ port It trans- SAUDI JSi a5 Jordan ARABIAff Vu XL1 loo These two maps show in detail the battled powers. On the left, the by British and naxis trading blow war story today. Above, the mas picturixes the conflict In Iraa. where according to latest advices the British have wrested control of the oil pipelines (1) at Rntba and to the north an encirclement by the Ira qui of the Haddanlyah airport has been broken. The situation at Basra ) is reported "QuIeC See view of the Basra airport on this page. The maps are by The Project by. the present congress authoriz the Willamette basin project. back today from Washington by R. H. Kipp, executive secretary of the Willamette Basin commission, who attended congressional hear ings and a conference of flood con trol advocates from all parts of the nation during the last two weeks. National defense needs, In manpower, materials and money, will have priority, of course, but important authori zations "for the valley project are virtually certain to be forthcoming, Kipp declared. He anticipates a report from the house flood control committee within ; the next 39 days and possible passage of the 1941 bill by July 1. President Roosevelt will sign it, he asserted. "We are sitting in the front row," Kipp said . of the valley project The house committee appears highly favorable to inclusion of $11,000,000 for the Detroit dam and allied project units in its pending; bill, Kipp reported. Boosted $2,500,000 from original recommendations, this sum would provide for the dam, highest among the seven in the valley project plan, and as well for re location of the North Santiam highway and "a fishery project that will be of benefit to the whole Willamette valley Kipp (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Salem Soldiers Get Promotions FT. LEWIS, Wash, May Promoaon of two men from Sa lem and one from SUverton, all of the 162nd infantry, of the 41st division here was announced Thursday. They are: From Salem Corp. . Melvin - B. Larkins to sergeant, Private First Class Joseph P. Meier to corporal. both ox Company B. From Silverton Private .First Class Charles W. Stuart to serge ant, anti-tank company. Airport, now mues west ex uagnoaa. xne airport at isra, borne ci the legendary 1 - ' ; Flame latest war moves of Europe's em map depicts points of aerial attacks for blow as outlined in the lead Associated Press. US War Games Are Ordered . Guard May Be Held Beyond Single Year; New Draft Planned WASHINGTON, May 8.-WV- War games , involving a record total of more than 550,000 troops were, ordered Tburjday by ' the war department which disclosed also study was being given to re- tent! on of national guardsmen in service beyond a single year. At the same time, there were reports that men who have be - come 21 years old since the first selective service enrollment (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Extension of Dollar Power Is Sought WASHINGTON, May 8.HFr- On the ground that the nation is approaching times of peril. Secre tary Morgenthau made "the strongest possible recommenda tion'' to congress Thursday to continue the $2,000,000,000 cur rency stabilization fund and President Roosevelt's power to revalue the dollar. ? Both the fund and the dollar powers expire on June 30 this year unless congress renews them. The secretary appeared as first witness on legislation, re quested by the president, to ex tend both for an additional two years.. Speaking behind" closed doors from a statement that was hand ed to the -press, he added that the fund also had made possible, with essential speed and secrecy, three acquisitions of gold ; from hard pressed friendly countries. -. He called the stabilization fund a potent weapon of defense and repeated 1 his assertion of two years ago. that presidential power over the dollar was as important as a powerful navy. Salem Girl Pledged S EUGENE, May t.-iJPr-AmoDg 29 sophomore women at the Uni versity, of Oregon pledged this week to Phi Theta Upsilon, women's " service honorary, was Marylee Fry, Salem. , Headlined in Latest War News -i A Battle Kages Iraq Premier Flees Cairo Reg . . . f ent May Return RAF Claims Direct Hits on Nazi Battleshir, And Raids on Coast Points j . By The Associated Press ( i British; night fighter craft tangled With swarms of invading German aircraft high over England in a clear and starlit sky early today (Friday) in a noisy and violent air battle as the British claimed a total of 47 German planes shot down in the 36 hours ended this morning. Defending anti-aircraft units ing away at bombers picked up constantly swept the skies. The luftwaffe continued to come US Gets Blame For Long War Modification of Vicby Pact Planned ; Moscow Denies "Troop , Mo 4 ci ' BERLIN;! May o.-Frlday)- -United States interventionist policy is solely responsible for I Prolonging the European conflict 1 authorized sources asserted today I on the eve of the first anniversary 1 of Adolf Hitler's western blitz campaign which crushed France in six weeks, 1 The foreign office mouthpiece,' Deutsch Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz, reviewing the mil itary situation following British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's house of commons speech of Tues day, said bluntly: - "Everyone knows how the ait nation in England la today. : Without foreign help England would be compelled to give up the fight for Its imperialistic ! pretentions within a short time." j in neavy Diaoc type, me enure Berlin press displayed on front (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) War News Briefs LONDON, May .-(Frldaj)-(AVSwarms of German raiders, bitting Britain with tleckllke regularity, for eight days and nights despite mounting tolls ex acted by British fighters, blasted jftith force at British port areas, London and the industrial mid lands last night and early today. BEKLTN, May -( Friday -The royal air force sent unus ually strong formations ever Hamburg-, Bremen and ether points in northwest Germany daring the night but nasi de fenders dispersed the attackers thai the effect of the raid was weakened" it was an nounced today. BERLIN, May t-(Frtday)-AV -Philippine ciriliaa defease plans are rapidly being trans lated into action but the problem of Imported food lo giving effU elals 'seme eoneena, FraacJa B. Sayre, US high commissioner, said today. : Einbad the Sailor. . , s 300 Mem Report Says; is at Brest ; ! ; ( ; ! added to the general din.' fir in the rays of searchlights that on across the channel, wave after wave, m this continuing new "bat tle of Britain." From Cairo, came Egyptian press reports that Rashid All Gailani, head man in the month-old Iraq government, had fled the little kingdom's ; capital, Bagdad, as British bombers blasted the city's flrport and other strategic points. ljmi MM IUM Taufiq es SewaidL foreign mhv; Ister in 'the government ever- Iraq Regent EMIR ABDUL ILAP thrown by the Saahld, had gone : to meet the deposed regent Emir v Abdul Bah who was said to be ready to return te newer. The Cairo reports, however - were not confirmed in London. Direct armor -p ie r c I n g bomb bursts on the decks of the 26,000 ton .German battleships Scharn- horst and Gneisenau at Brest. France, also were claimed. Twenty of the German planes were downed by British night fighters. It was this fact that cheered 'Britons as they dug vie' tims from the smoking rubble of devastated areas in Liverpool. Bristol, and other cities blasted in Wednesday night's mass at tacks. . I i There have been reports that the British had a secret device I In the effing to combat German nlxht raids, but official sourcea said there wu se "witchcraft' Involved la this latest success. "It was a clear night and the bojrs are getting better at Inter (Turn to Page S, CoL 4) Don't Bo Disappointed ;Th Oregon Statesman annual Baby edition al ways sell put Yoult want to see this - year's edition, oS the) press Sunday, mare Inter esting than ever. It wlQ . present photos by Ket nell-Eilis studio of mare than 500 children from Sa lem and vicinity. -; Order extra copies to . day. - This edition wET be wrapped, addressed Mnd mailed by The Statesman to any point in the United States for Jen cents.