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PAGS TWO The OKCGOH STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. Mar 13. 1S11 t-. . RAF Blasting of German Ports Forces Change in Luf tewaf f e Plans, War Analyst Asserts By KIRKE L. Special Te The Bomb-blasted Britons can- One is the reported rising toll of nazi planes brought down by Royal Air force night fighters. i The other is a virtual admission from Berlin that sustained bombing of such targets as Ham burg and Bremen has forced at least a temporary shift in luf twaff e tactics. I . , : . This admission is implicit in the stress laid in Berlin on the Sun day night blasting of a score of British i bomber fields in eastern and. central England. . The luftwaffe pounding of Lon don the; previous night was obvi ously pure retaliation. .Unless it served to break British morale, it had no great military significance, and both that raid and the sub sequent; German blasting of Brit ish bomber air fields represent a significant departure in nazi air strategy. ' Increasingly through April and May, German' night raids have been focused on port and ship building, targests in the west of England. The purpose has been plain. It has been to supplement the naz sea attack in the Atlantic by preventing the landing of war supplies from the United States and by j crippling British ship building and ship repair plants. It seems certain, however, that nazi concentration on British air fields means that the Royal Air force cjounter attack is proving effective. If that were not so, the luftwaffe surely , would take ad vantage! of the special opportunity these-moonlight nights afford 'to press home the progressive blast ing of west coast targets. Meeting of Big Three Is (Continued from page 1) ' i -. Although Bergeret arrived in Dakar Sunday, Monday's official announcement was the first dis closure that such a Journey had been contemplated, much less made. ! - -i iv Chief of State Philippe Petain returned from his Riviera vaca tion Monday to await the arrival of Darlan Tuesday . from collab oration conferences with German leaders.) . ! , Also high on Petain's' list of ap pointments was one with US Am bassador' Admiral William D. Lea hy, who! has asked an interview to discuss the general European sit uation, Including that of food sup plies., j. ' ' T This meeting commanded ex traordinary Interest In diploma-. tie circles In view of recent at tacks on Leahy personally and the United States In the German-controlled Paris press. An echo of the warning from Fernand De Brinon, Vichy ambas sador to! Paris, that France would defend Dakar should the United States attempt to seize it has ap peared in the Maris Matin. ! Over a picture of the West Af rican - port, this defiant caption appeared: "Come and take it!" Expected ; NEW YORK, May 12.-)-In- stead of; being insane, as the nazis V said, Ruldolph Hess "suddenly ! be- came sane" when he flew to j Britain, a British Broadcasting company commentator declared Monday! night . 1 In an) extended commentary on Hess' getaway, picked up in New ; York by CBS, the British com- raentator called "the man in the street" said this. In part: 1 "Thai news that Bess, offic ially the third man la nasi Germany, has landed la Scot land Is sensational enough. It sever was possible ' to believe the official itery that. althovirb. unfit for flying and forbidden te dejse by the good, kind j fuehrer, he had get bold of a plane when no one was looking and then met with a fatal aeci " dent, j - ,. i Tor one thing, Hess was a fine pilot and there had been no sug - gestion until today that he was suffering from a .long standing disease, Nexcept the disease known as naziism. ,! "There was no. trace of grief or regret In the announcement of his disappearance. Indeed, ' the Whole communique was callous . - and hostile. And that reference v to his mental confusion, his hal lucinations revealed m the letter he left mental confusion and '. hallucinations are always attrib ' uted by the nazis. to: those 'who disagree with them. . :; : ! "No. It looks to me. as If Hess, so far from becoming, a victim of hallucinations and mental con fusion, may have suddenly begun to think straight and to get rid of ; the hallucinations that made him see Hitler as the fuehrer destined I to conquer the world. V j "It looks as if Hess suddenly ! saw $it truth, perhaps, after 1 . living for years In a dream. He f may an at once have realised that the whole nasi system was a monster sham, and that Hit ler waa. leading -the German people to catastrophe l' "It looks as if Hess suddenly became sane, perhaps, and saw the truth. And if meant one thing to Hess death unless he could escape. ' "Well, one German who sud denly sees the truth has escaped. One day, millions ot GermarSjwill gee the! truth. It won't be pos- SIMPSON Statesman , find solace in two developments. In Ship Plan Senate Group Okehs Giving Foreign Ships j to Britain (Continued From Page 1) Overton, Bilbo, Radcliffe, Pep per, Lee, Hill, and Mead, demo crats, and .Senators MeNary and Barbour, republicans. Incidentally, the committee heard; from Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission that his report of last week that only eight of the ships sailing from American ports for Britain had been sunk in the first three months of this year did not in clude vessels which cleared from Halifax. No figures were given on these. .! . Legislation approved Monday by the house merchant marine committee j would authorize the maritime commission to control the I departures, destinations and cargoes of all merchantmen. In return the vessels would receive priorities on the use of dock fa cilities for loading and repair. The measure apparently was designed to facilitate the com mission's task, assigned recent ly by President Roosevelt, of obtaining ! a vast pool of ship ping ; for aid to Britain. The commission said It would facili tate "the movement of national ' defense materials and goods vital ; to the national defense and to the national economy during the emergency." The f- day also brought these other developments: Selective service headquarters requested amendments of the conscription act to permit the de ferment of older men. No spe cific ages: were mentioned, but there has been talk of deferring those past 26 or 30 years, and building the conscript army of younger . men 'who would have a longer period of potential useful ness in the reserves. The house military committee voted to remove all statutory lim itations on the size or the army for the next fiscal year. The mea sure would suspend provisions of a 1920 act fixing the proportions one branch of the service ' must bear to another. Senator; Pepper (D-FlaX and the offices of Senators George (D-Ga) and Mead (D-NY) re ported their mail was bringing demands for a declaration of war against Germany and Italy, while Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) said in an interview that the admin istration "apparently" was trying to Induce Eire to enter the war by, promising "goods we could not deliver." . Students Plan Installation Of Officers Joe ! Bowersox, president, and other student body officers at Sa- flem senior high school will be in stalled Thursday at 12:50 p. m. in an assembly. - Five offices for which! no candidate received a majority Friday - were filled in an election Monday. Those elected in the revote were: Edith Moxley, vice-presi dent; Helen Zlelinski, secretary Roger Wagner, forensic manager; Phyllis Walker, song leader; Don Cutler, sergeant-at-arma. - War Nows Briefs (Continued from page 1) reciprocal trade agreements with f Argentina and Uruguay chief ; meat-producing countries In Latin-America. - ' BUCHAREST, Rumania. May 12Hff-rood rioU whlctt . hundreds sought to buy up largo supplies of bread have been fol- lowed by government cancella tion of plans tor twe breadless daya each week. SING AFORE, .' May VHfir , The government radio - an 1 Bounced Monday .night that British authorities had sent an Indian army battalion with armored ear and auxiliary units to restore order la the Klang dlstrict, 225 miles northwest of here oa the west coast ef Ma laya, where 7,000 striking In dian laborers seriously threat ened security ot the state. SHANGHAI, May J-(Tues-day-(P)-UnIted States inajrines were called out to restore order, today after a spectacular gun battle ou Bubbling Weil read, near their barracks, resulted tn the wounding of at least II per sons, no of them an American police sergeant. sible,for them to escape, except in one, way.!"-. "So let us look to the day when the German s' nation . comes to share Hess 'hallucinations. ... , "Someone else then will have to flee for his life if he can," FDR Supported British Sailors ir.' So- This radiophoto from Berlin shows i man battleship which rescued them and took them prisoner after sinking their ship "somewhere In i the Atlantic A German officer is shown giving orders te his underlings as twe British tars, in left background, puff -their clgarets. Berlin Claims Hitler Deputy Has Lost Mind I (Continued From 'Page 1) crash, and by Implying that he had lost his mind, was suffering ; "hallucinations' and long had j been irresponsible. Indeed, Berlin announced, that Hitler had forbidden him the use of any - plane and that for their negligence In allowing him to take off from Augsburg, Germany, last Saturday, his aides had been ar rested. The British announcement of his internment was bland and of fered no open speculation as to what he was doing on a solo flight to Britain in a military plane. Likewise the British radio, in a broadcast heard in the United States, had good words, for Brit ain's extraordinary visitor: It was declared that in all the nazi heir archy Hess was "the only ideal ist.' All this pointed unmis take- ably to a British view that Hess- was to be regarded as a man who had had, enough af home. ' The whole extraordinary story opened the way to much specula tion. " '- " fin that great continuing en gagement so ; freighted with fate for in all the west now the one great active front is that of the skies and the sea British and German bombers grappled des perately. - i i Overnight there was a mighty duel. British pilots, in an assault which the nazis themselves de scribed as "stronger" than in the past, reported leaving mile upon mile of destructive fire In the great German naval bases of Hamburg and Bremen, aside from attacks upon Emden, the German-held port of Rotterdam; the docks of IJmuiden, the Neth erlands, and the Dutch island ef Texel off the Netherlands coast.. The Germans for their part acknowledged ; in effect that this pattern of repeated RAF attacks on key objectives in the reich it was the third , assault - In four nights "for both Hamburg and Breman was having some sue cess.' The ' nazi high command itself specifically designated British long-range' bomber bases as the chief targets of several hundred German planes sent springing across the channel overnight, oth er nazi sources saying more spe cifically that 20 such bases were effectively raided. This was formal notice of change of tactics, British harbors having previously been the arch bjectlves. I But none of this occasioned so much interest as the mystery of Rudolf Hess the man who at the start of the war had been publicly designated by Hitler as bis second choice for fuehrer should he himself fall, the first bestowal having been made up on Relchsmarshal Hermann WOhelm Goerlng. Hess, who had been an early and avowed hater of communism, had occupied in nazi party affairs a ; place second only to Hitler hhimself, since, Goerings specialty has been military rather than po litical. Hess liquidation as a party force whether voluntary, acci dental or whatever paralleled in one minor respect the still unex plained, death last June of an erst while ; Mussolini lieutenant Air Marshal Italo Balbo. Balbo, too, came to grief in an airplane over Tobruk, Libya.1 An authoritative Italian source re ported that his plane was shred' ded with bullets; that a British raid was in progress at the time ;5ALEM'S NEWEST THEATRE Last Times Today, "ALL TIIIS AND ! HEAVEN TOO" Bette DAVIS Charles BOYER Plus BOTS OF TITK CITY 1 1 Rescued by German Battleship u bedraggled British Sailors being Name of the battleship was not divulged, t nN Kadiophete Strikes, Threatened Walkouts Tie up Ships and By The Associated Press A new upsurge of labor diffi culties halted work yesterday (Monday) on $500,000,000 of war ship construction and other de fense contracts in west coast ship yards, and on a $3,000,000 naval drydock project in Boston. In addition: H . A strike was called for t a. m. FST) Tuesday in the Hudson Motor company in Detroit, great Michigan industrial cen ter already in the throes of a teamsters' strike and faced with the threat of a walkout In many General Motors plants en Thurs day. : I I . A walkout of 200 employes of the Smoot Sand Sc. Gravel Cor poration, building supply concern, threatened to delay emergency construction in Washington, in cluding new buildings for the war and navy departments and addi tions to the army war college. .Engine, train and yard service men of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast railroad voted to strike, but set na date. I Only a relatively small number Sewage Plant mm L. R. Stockman; Baker; consult ing engineer, submitted to' the city council's sewage and drain age committee Monday a sealed proposal which will be considered along with; similar proposals ex pected from several other engi neers with sewage disposal plant experience, if the voters approve a $200,000 bond issue for a sew age disposal plant ;; Stockman, who has acted as consulting engineer for 13 sewage disposal plants built by cities in Oregon, Washington, ' Idaho I and Montana, conferred with the com. mittee Monday - before giving it his proposal. r w It was brought out in the dis cussion that costs to water users if the proposed bond issue, to be partly financed by a service charge, passes win be less than $3 per year. Phil Harris Weds Actress SAN DIEGO, Califi May li- (ff)-Alice Faye, 28, blonde movie star, and Phil Harris, S5, orches tra leader, were married Monday in Knsenada, Mex they reported Monday .night, when they " re turned to San Diego. ; Miss Faye was divorced from Tony Martin, singer, and movie actor, in March, 1940, and that . the Italian defense was active both on , the ground and from fighter planes. - ,i "Exactly., what happened." this source observed, rmay nev er be known, since those aboard the plane who mlfht be able to teU were killed.- : ' WASHINGTON, May 12-iPf The , flight of Budlof Hess, nazi party leader and probably Adolf Hitlers most Intimate associate, into British i hands "in Scotland aroused intense speculation in dip lomatic quarters tonight - on the possibility of a split in the nazi hierarchy. - i I mm Today - Tomorrow Two Features c 7nr 7i Added News, Colored Cartoon and larch of Time I I an n in 1 1 , I I Kvnwnw i 1 assigned te quarters aboard a Ger- Defense Wort of workers 1700 AFL and CIO machinists were involved in the west coast ship construction dis pute. Their walkout, described by President William Green of the AFL as an "outlaw strike," forced the closing, however, of 11 ship yards and drydocks in the San Francisco area with between 15, 000 and 20,000 employes. PORTLAND, Ore, May 12-(P)-Representatlves ef 9000 CIO loggers of the Columbia river basin indicated Monday that a strike Is not planned for Tues day., ' After a meeting with employers. they scheduled further sessions for Tuesday and Wednesday. : Al Hartung, CIO district coun cil president, would not comment on possibility of a strike in the near future, but said no progress was made in today's negotiations over a 15-cent-an-hour wage in crease, a closed shop and work conditions. 1 WASHINGTON, May 12.-JP)- The. labor department certified to the defense mediation board a threatened strike involving 9000 loggers and . sawmill workers in the Columbia b a s in areji near s .V . JW-v 'Aim i-oruana, vre. .:. v,-. The depar tment (.said the CIO Intern ational Woodworkers' of America . threatened a a trike Tuesday against the Columbia basin area loggers and sawmill operators. PORTLAND. Hay 12.-A)-The Portland metal trades council, composed of 28 unions engaged In shipbuilding work, urged x the San Francisco ma chinists union Monday to abide by the vcoastwide arbitration . agreement' i : ' Employers also were informed by the council that it disapproves of the San Francisco local's strike. Call Board GRAND Today Car? Grant. Irene Dunn In P,nn, Serenade.' Wednesday Alice Fayci John Payne, Jack Oakie in "Tht Great American Broadcast," STATS f O Today Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Mary Martin In ov Thy Neigh bor. Lynn Bart. Lloyd Nolan in "Charter Pilot." " Thursday Lane sisters, Jeffrey Lynn ". in Tour Mothers.'' Lew Ayres. uom Barrymore ux -or. Kuaare s Saturday inidnlght Robert : Younk, Randolph - Scott. Virginia GUmore In "Western union. . BOLLYWOOD Today Oeanna rMrMn in "Spring : Parade," Ied ' End Kids, Little Toujth Guys in - "Give us wines.' Thursday Allan Jones, Nancy Ktl- ty, ADDon and Costello in "One ' Night in the .Tropics.' - George O'Brien in LIBERII aia to uuno. Today Bette Deris. Charles Beyer in "AH This, and Heaven too," plus "Boys ot the Cuy." '. Wednesday Pat O'Brien. Ann Sher idan in "Castle on the Hudson." Charles Bickford In "South ot Ka ranga." Friday John Wayne In "The Big , Stampede." Wayne Morris. Virginia - eruce in ugni Angus. ELSINOKS Today Bette Davis. George Brent in 'The Great Lie." rrank Morgan. - Ann rutnertora : m - Melodrama." Thursday Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney In "Wagons Roll at Night." Higgins family In "Gay Vagabond." Saturday midnight James Stewart, , Judy Garland. Hedy LaMarr, Lena Turner In "The Ziegfeld Girl.' CAPnOL- , - Today Richard Arlen. Jean Parker In "Power Dive." Roy Rogers in "In OM Cheyenne." Wednesday Frank Albertson. Lost Chancy. Jr. in "Man Made Mon ster." Peg fry Moras, Dick roran in Horror LOand." , MJA SACK "- i-- ' ' FEED .BENNY ALLEN ; ; -. . MARY MARTIN love .Thy Ilciglisr Time: lS-4:l-7.-fl5-10:0S '' ' 2ND. lTfT : ' LLOYD NOLAN BAR! II tviidnur rusi ; Tlnae: 3HS-5:55-Se W, Plus - -; .' . . ; . SnCKET MOUSE CARTOON Continuous Show Daily Matinee Ml Vets Dedicate Home of Post St ' ,: - - 'r .- ; ' - , - j '('-" '.y-t' '' ;:V; "''y'-S'; Ex-National Leader of Legion Calls for US Unity ' ' (Condhued From Page 1) dangers are, that a change be made in the labor post in the cabinet and that strikes in defense industry be no longer tolerated, are the three points in the legion's present plat form,' Chadwick continued; and he concluded with a declaration that if leadership is not forthcoming from Washington, DC, it must come from the people as a whole. : "X never saw a nation so di vided,' the speaker observed as the conclusion reached in his re cent travels, lie pleaded for un derstanding on the part of work ers In defense Industry that the issue Is not "another dime an hour" but the lives ef their sens; and while adhering te the le gion's principle that no undue profits be made because of war or the threat ef war, he pointed tut that profits can be t a k e n away later, wages may be ad justed later but the one thing : that cannot be recovered is time. . Mentioning the legion's endeav or as set forth in its preamble to "promote peace and good will on earth," Chadwick voiced regret at the prospect that it may fail in its ambition to be "the last such or ganization in America."'. Greetings to Capital post and Capital unit of the legion auxiliary upon the occasion of the dedication were brought by Governor Charles Ai Sprague, who complimented the post upon performing many com munity services while delaying the acquisition of a home; Mayor W, W. Chadwick,1 who said the legion-had never failed in its civic duty; Alfred P. Kelley, Oregon de partment, commander of the le gion; and Mrs. Josephine Kane, district president of the auxiliary. j Commander Say J. Stumbo of Capital post presided and Irl S. McSherry was master of cere monies. On the platform in ad dition to the speakers were Sec retary of SUte Earl Sneil, State Treasurer Leslie W. Scott, Mrs. Harold Perkins, 'president of. Capital unit of the auxiliary. B. E. Owen, president of the Fed erated Patriotic societies, and Brasler C. Small representing the committee which arranged for purchase and remodeling ef the buOding. ' ' (Musical numbers included selec tions by the auxiliary quartet and toe port glee club. Preceding the program "open house" was held and guests of the service organiza tions inspected the building. 'Cat Netmen Top Pacific Willamette netmen defeated the Pacific : university tennis " team four matches to three at Torest Grove Monday with all but two of the matches going to three sets. j -Summary: v . -. Uallaher, ; Willamette, beat Thidley, Pacific, 6-3, 6-2; Hutch- 1ns, Pacific, beat Carkin, Willam ette, 8-6, 1-6, 2-6; Gordon, Pacific, beat Sturdevant, Willamette. 6-2, 6-8. 12-10; Olds, Willamette, beat Ward, Pacific, 6-1, 6-3; Willamette, beat Welch, Pacific 6-3, 9-7, 6-3. ; i Doubles: Dudley and Gordon beat Galla her and Sturdevant, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6; Carkin and Olds beat Hutchins and Ward 8-7, 3-6, 8-10. Last Times Tonlte Vt-TOWER DIVE : Rich. Arien. Jean Parker TX OLD CEYENN1 ; Roy Rogers . STARTING WEDNESDAY r"""T - - UONU ATW1U laCHAJIEY.Jr. OICK OtAM ItOCASIIUO MOOT atoiAM IUZZT KMIOMT arm L "fit, A , 6E0R6C BRENT MAIVASTOO "Washington '. ' iiii" Mela- UNOOUID.N. cSST I News ; Starting Thursday "WAGONS ROLL AT OTGHT Humphrey Bogart. Sylvia Sidney la nsEaK. PcitJ n&user Column (Continued From Page 1) . of his own, felt pity mount la his heart and he snatched the bride from the hands of the charlvare- ers. He put her in his car and r stated that he would, gallant knight that he was, unite her with her beloved. y : Se he drove away to look for' the groom and any stray dragons that might be reaming around the country, like a, good knight and minion of the law. So' while he was aiding -fair damsel in distress the groom re turns. The groom, a little im patient with the whole affair by now, demanded where is his darl ing wife. So, reluctantly, they had to tell him: that she has fallen into the arms of the law. So he had to phone the police station and ask them to radio Car Na XI - (which should not be identified with any actual police car, living or dead) to bring back his wife and go look for another damsel in distress. We doat knew If he ever got his wife back, because we dldnt see 1 any ef this . oa the police reports. ee Report Follows Storm - (Continued From Page 1) : The falling limb broke the car's windshield and did. other damage. Heavy branches f allinr on power lines caused most ef the trouble experienced by the Port land General Electric company, which reported temporary in terruptions in local, services In and near Salem. Service was all restored early today. The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company reported about 14 farm j exchanges were put out of service. Interruptions in the city service were minor. . The wind also blew a tree over onto a vacant house on the Wade property near North Liberty and ("Broadway and blew down scaf folding on the new Larmer ware house in the same neighborhood. White House Qash Quelled WASHINGTON, May 1.-IP A clash between what police said was soldiers, and marines off duty and a group picketing the White House occurred Monday night 11 Police who were, called to Pennsylvania avenue in front of the White House brought one soldier and marine back to head quarters and said a picket had been sent to a hospital for treat ment of minor injuries. Placards carried by the pickets identified the demonstration as that of the American Peace Mo bilization, r i One of the marchers was struck in the face by a belt buckle, Wal rodt said, and was taken to a hospital -for treatment MARY ItTH HUGHfS NICHOLAS KOTHEKS Will! BftOTHERS THI FOUR INK SPOTS' 737 503 HITS! W I!! THE GREATEST CUSlCAl fA of:ti!e;.i aiu tn BSBSasSSSBBSSB1 BBSBSsjLBSBal OaBBSSSSsW WjaSPBI Ssl1 BBSBl 1 1 XI ID -K- .:. - 'y:": Xy ---y:y:':d Sprague Mulls Vacancy Will Take Few Day. to Decide Numerous Judge Candidates I : (Continued From Page 1) support of any individual for the appointment, J. Ray Rhotea, secretary, announced Monday night . - , ., Statehouse .observers' continued to maintain appointment of an eastern Oregon man was tht strongest possibility. 1 , WASHINGTON, May 12 -Xy. David Eccles, executive secretary to Governor Sprague of Oregon, conferred Monday with. Senatoi MeNary (R-Ore) and officials oi the' office of production manage ment in an effort to fit his staU more closely into the defense pro "Oregon is 3009 miles away from Washington and In setting up our defense council and oth er defense activities It was nee essary to carry on all nerotla- Uons by mall and wire, Eccles said. "This slowed thinrs'down and; I came to discuss' with of -( flcials concerned the best pro-' eedure te follow." Eccles said he expected to be here -until- the jlast , ojt the weelti, United States armv "officials re cent tours' through the Willamette valley in search of cantonment sites were made purely in order to be prepared should additional camps be required rather than to meet: immediate needs, MaJ. Gen E. D. Peek, San Francisco, com manding, general: of the Ninth corps area, told Gov. Charles A. Sprague here Monday afternoon. The general's statement ap peared to minimise fears recent ly expressed by farmers in Polk county south of Dallas that they were m danger of having their lands condemned by the army, whose officers are understood to have that district and ad joining sections of northern Benton county . as one . future cantonment site. r Gen. Peek, the governor said, pointed out that the army would havejto have additional authority from congress and additional? ap propriations to finance any major new cantonment in the valley: He indicated the surveys were taken merely as preparedness steps. Morel detailed surveys are now under way, ., The governor expressed general satisfaction with Oregon's defense activities. , ,r - .. . . Suspect: AdmitB Auto Prowling : Eugene Lovelace, 2219 .Hyde street, charged by police Saturday night' with car prowling, admitted Monday a number of other car prowl offenses, police said;! ported, theft of a saw, shoes and groceries from a car owned by Bud O'Brien, route two. The saw was recovered at Lovelace's homo along: with a number of automo bile wheels and tires. Last Day Cary Grant rcsia Dsuu Penny Serenade - Pins Special , - Reqoest S hawing af "Lost v . Horizon' At 7:13 pan. ' v Only . f ' S-" -3: ' . I
