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The OKCGOH STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. Mar 13. 1S11
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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)
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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
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Rescued by German Battleship
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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
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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,"
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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." ,
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Vets Dedicate
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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.
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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.
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Follows Storm
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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
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Sprague Mulls
Vacancy
Will Take Few Day.
to Decide Numerous
Judge Candidates I
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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.
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