y ' - -. . . t. t ... .- :;'. - '
Churchill Is to interview
Hess, No. l sail who pin-'
chitted Ids war Into Scot
land Saturday; ; Germany,
says Y. Tarn to pages 2
or 3 for these sidelight
stories on this extraordinary
happening. " "
Vedthcr
. Partly cloudy with local
showers trer mountains to
day, sllthUy warmer: partly
cloudy Thursday, Max. temp.
Tuesday, C3, Jiia. 45. North
west wind. Kirer LI feet
Main .St inch. Clear.
Will Mull
am
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MRow
Capital Hearing
Ordered; Oregon
strike Settled
SEATTLE, . May 13-(vP-The
northwest s timber strikes
actual and threatened were in
!the hands of the national de- i
'fense mediation board Tuesday
.xueht.
The board ordered a hearing
fiu.asiungion next xvionaay on
. issues involved in the walkout
. . .
I- ir. t. . . . . .
in wasninnon state oi most ol
the lop?er af filiate hv
International Wonrtwnrlr I
America. Previously, a threat
ened Oreeon strike had
certified to the board, but later
.Tuesday -a tentative agreement
was reached.
The announcement of the hear-
Mi came Tuesday night simul-
taneously with the break-down of
negotiaUons between IWA and
employers' representatives here,
Federal Conciliator E. S.
, Jackson, after a day of eon
l f erences, said he had suggested
i that all the issues involved
r wares, vacation with pay. the
union shop, preferential hiring
. and abolition of piece work-
be submitted to arbitration.
Employers, he said, had agreed
tot arbitration of wages and vaca
tions but balked at submitting
tne other subjects; while the
i (Turn to Page 2. Coi. 4) ,
Paul Mauser's Column
i Well, we have been reading the
papers again and we can't say that
it s the worst way to get a liberal
education. " . I
We learned, for Instance,
about the camera business up
around, Nome. From what we
. read down in the last columns of
: the last page of our paper thai
fellow who went to Alaska to
sell an Eskimo a refrigerator
(and did. It, too) must ! have
.taken along a supply of cam
eras. . , . 1 .
; Anyway when the army flew a
couple of four motored bombers
to SL Lawrence, which Is only
about 20 miles across the Bering
strait from the land of the, Soviets,
they were greeted by a crowd of
natives. Every last one of them
had a camera and were Khnnfinv
pictures all over the place,' so the
army said. Some of them were
movie cameras, too. '
We don't want to scare the
army, but wouldn't a Jaiinese
make a pretty fair looking Es
kimo if yon took his camera
away from him and pat him in
furs?
Then we got a little closer to
home and were reading the Amity J
Vi urn io -ace z. LOL 01 I
Til- - 1 T -c
IVIllTllfll l-fclCllrGf
"
WZ.l TVT a 1
lth INetWOrKS
ST. LOUIS, May 13-WVThe
Wurual RrnadVactin 77;
dint Hfh th. t,
major radio networks over the
,v)wjr music war ana ine gov
ernments anU-monopoly policy,
iuesaay DroKe oil relations I
with the National Association of j
Broadcasters and three principal
StOCkhOId(r urithHMur thsi'v vnom I
' . u. w.. luiu-
bershin. ' -
They are the Bamberger Broad-
casting Service, Inc., WOR).
Newark, NJ; WGN, Inc, Chicago,
uiM, uic, umcago, i
Broadcasting sts-I
ana tne uon Le
TLfntiial asfiv-t ai4 ICHID m...s.
. I
aTS!:!
nounced they were conUnuing
negoUaUons with ASCAP.
nounced they were conti
negotiations with ASCAP.
Giant Panda
Dies in NY
NEW YORK, May 13-(-Pan-1
dora, a giant panda, died Tuesday,
u " . . OIlu Panaa to die fa
capuvity in tins country. For sev-
cf moauu sne naa suixered from
.iu
wjuvuisivB anacxs, ou x-ray ex- I TVT ' t
aminations faUed to disclose theNaZlS JrCler
soo June 10, 1938, from western
China. There are four remaining
pandas In the United States, two
each in the Chicago and St Louis
aoos. ' - . ....
Our
Senators
T7a G-2 '
ts
1941
Gtizens' Committee
Approves Increase
of Six Mills Levy j
The Salem school board and
its citizens hudtret
aaontedi Tuesdav iVM-.
- I - ; r - wuva
pt rallina j.-i i .
..-f, iv,i CiUaiUilUTB OI
i7S7WftM. :i-i
T; .iV-Trr Vi "lc year
- 1 in? budget calls for a school
Wx Jevy r $377,725.50, an in-
crease ' $18,139 over the levy for
If:?"1841- 7116 levy in mills is
Z2a mills, an increase of six.
tenms of iU over the previous
years lev3r-.
The citizens committee adont-
ed the budget estimates prepared
oy uerk c. C. ward without a
Single change, but discussed and
recommended increases in teach
ers' saianes for the 1942-43 bud
get.
actress, a member of
we citizen's committee, made th
motion that the committee to
on record recommending that
the school board "do everything
it can io raise teachers salaries
In 1942-1943 -In keeping with
sound budgetary nrlnclnlea
The committee discussed nnb
sibility of making such an increase
in salaries by putting before th
people an increase in the budget
over me statutory six per cent
limitation, but it was pointed out
mat thereIs not now sufficient
time for such a Question ia
suDmittea at the June school elec
tion- . .
Mumanea receipts from Ha-
unqueni taxes and from other
sources, lncludm elementary
vuwt wna apporuonment and
non-high school tuition fees, were
1 M. J .7
piacea at $379,855, an amount off.
setting the, amount to be
General items in the bud't ln
ciuae;
Administrative expense! 13.,
875, an increase of $700, mostly
in saianes.
Instruction, supervision 140
060, an increase of $2004. ac
counted for largely by a change
in oooajceepmg method.
1 . i a
Instruction, teaching $315.
U urn to rage , coL 7)
Qfof o T ictol
JULSttjtl
For Nev Army
lraininff
C7
WASHINGTON, May 13-tiPW
The selection of sites for nine of
h 28 new training camps which
wuuia nc neeaea ir congress
nnouncea toaay by me war de4
partment.
The training camp sites which
have been approved were at
Blackstone, VJ! August Ga
iMeosno, Mo., Fort Smith. Ark :
Columbu. Santa Maria-Lorn-
poc, Calif. Medford and em:
Ore, and Cookson Hills. Okla. , i
would accomodate about
til' ill -"t w,wv.ig
J3'00.0 s- They would be usd
", , -"""fc uuuitumr uuanirj i
Ulv'n ana armored divisions,
fnd for anti-aircraft firing ce&
R Arr, A nii
XlOIIie i2iaill
twTi
1PP11GPC Wi I )K
ROME. Mav 13WTh
ficialluThannewsagenVslefahl
?id Tuesday ;. night that well-
informed;, circles, in Washington
uiuui. nwscveii is worxing out
an enormous political and finan-
cial combination in agreement
with London and IsraeL I
The plan. Stefan! said, "ia th. I
umung of one political and eco-
nomic union of all peoples of the
EngMsh lanffuap. thn lnnnrriinif
to histnrv a tArt nf ,..
federation of peoples of British
origin the center of which.
course, should be Washington."
Radio Ban
BERLIN, Wednesday, May li-J
()With the entire reich aroused
over The case of Rudolf Hess",
and eager for details, the official
German news agency, DNB, bub-
Board Adonts He,
Salem
Camp
lished a list of seven recent cases points between Seattle and San
in which six men and one woman Diego,' and Bellingham, Wash a
were arrested in different localities similar stopping place between Se
for listening to foreign radio attle and Vancouver, EC, had
broadcasts. frowned on the establishment
The seven were given prison 1
terms ranging from four to six I
years. DNB said. ,
I 1
"Z1 9reon'
J.
in th. k-v a -
majman Homer Angeli In Twashikn ZSZZZttZZSZS ! ! 2L?r 5"
tuirauui ua un mmil wenitinr nf
w oanner
State Leads
US Safety
Reduction of Traffic
Deaths First Three
Months- Sets Mark
Oregon and its principal city,
Portland, led the nation in the
saving of lives in traffic during
the first quarter of 1941, Secre
tary of State Earl Snell announced
Tuesday.
On the basis of the state's re
duction in its traffic death rate
during the three-months period,
the state saved 16 lives, Snell said.
Illinois was second with 14 lives
saved and Texas third with 13
lives spared. -
Portland led all cities of mora
than 250,000 population with a
reduction of 5$ per cent fn traf
fic deaths. This record excelled
that reported by Kansas City,'
Mo, and Dallas, Tex, winners
In the cities traffic safety eon
test sponsored by the National
Safety council for 1940. -
While Oregon made a fine rec-
ioi, v.rZrZI
" V rr. . -." uuea
rf,7th.T when traffic
J totaled 40 compared to 22
month a year ago,
Reduced speeds on the ; high-
W-JB were "commended bySneU
means of reducmg fatalities.
ij TT
ilCSerVe Ulllt :
Wlnfn- Tl.
Report of an auditing committee
and the transfer of books to the
new officers will mark a dinner
meeting of the Marion chapter,
Reserve Officers Association, at
the Argo hotel tonight at 6:30,
chapter heads announced Tuesday,
The transfer of duties to the new
"icers is being necessitated by
ttU-1 w active aury in tne army
of tb5 last year's officials. Major
Clarence Collins, Salem, and Lt
Werner Dinteman of Aurora are
expected te be in charee of the
insirucUon
Airline Service for Salem I?pmme7icierf
That United Airlines should be
authorized to establish regular
service to and from Salem was
recommended in Washington, DC,
Tuesday by civil aeronautics board
examiners.. ;.i
Press dispatches from the na-
tion's capital Indicated 7 that the
examiners - who approved the
company's application, to make
Salem and Eugene intermediat
service to Klamath Palis.
Although the report of the ex.
aminers, Francis W. Grown and
re s Proof of Oregon's Safety Record
. : - ' - " -- i i .
- --rr' ! I
victory in the western division of
. 1
i lEMraTirW
vt ulc sum:
procuiminr Oreron winner iMbm rfLirU. . . .i' " 7 7
v -
City Planning, Zoning
Lommiss
ion
Enabling Ordinance
Year Ago, Gty Attorney Finds !
Changes Unaffected,
... By PAUL H.
The Salem planning and zoning comrnission
that it no longer legally exists. -
The commission and City Attorney Lawrence N.
paring to revamp- the Salem
Youth Nabbed
As Burelar
.
Police Say "Suspect Is
"Fishpole" Thief and
Has Admitted Crimes
, Salem's fishpole', burglar, the
gent who haunted the homes pf
party givers to lift the purses of
women guests from beds by use
cf a long pole, has apparently at
tended-his last party, Salem police
believed last night
Under; arrest on a charge of
burglary was Jesse W. Barham,
17, 1010 North ; 18th street De
tective Hobart Kiggins said Bar-
ham has admitted several party
burglaries, including an attempt
to take a purse from a bedroom
of the E. J. Church home. 755
North 16th street, which was
foiled when a five-year-old child
frightened him away.
Dolores Picha, the five-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bart Picha, was s gvest along
with her parents at the Church
home on March 24. The- Uttle
girl walked into a bedroom just
in time to seel her mother's
purse being lifted from the bed
en a long pole. She grabbed the :
pole and It droped to the floor. ,
Men In the. house and police
were unable to track the ma
rauder..;..'. '7.. yi.-s-
Barham, police said, also ad
mitted theft of two purses from
the Dwight Lear home, 555 North
20th street. 4 . ,
John W. Belt, is subject to review
by the board. United Airline of
ficials said Tuesday that such re
ports are ordinarily accepted by
tiie civil , aeronautics board.
' ' "It has been granting applica
tions which do not Involve mere
equipment or route miles,' such
as. those at Eugene. . Salem: and
Bellinsham." said W. B. Thlx-
pen, : the ; company's Portland
district' traffle manager.
: Immediately upon the board's
approval and approval of the air
ports : by the local inspection
board, his . company would , be
ready to inaugurate the service,
according to Thigpen.
Approximately a year ago Unil-
.ed's application was planned. It
the Jtatlonal Ryf m -.J
"'
When
. . r '
program in irame safetr dnratlAn
m au a aoauaa mu iun iiaiiunai aBmTaoar
Is Illeeal
.Was Repealed Just
Is Opinion
HAUSER, JR.
discovered
" : ' i . ' .7
zoning code ordinance
iwn, pre
tave dis-
covered that the enab!
ig ordi
nance, creating the zonih
mission was repealed in a
i crriiiiim oruinance two yearsxago
ana nas never een reenacted.
The discovery casts a shado
on proceedings of the zoning
commission since May 15, 1939,;
when the ordinance setting up
the commission was repealed. 1
The repeal; was part of sjc!
ending of the city ordinances
sponsored by the League ef Ore-!
ton Cities. It was apparently
Included with other ordinances
which were i considered out- '
moded. 7. " - f! - , m ' fi
v ' il; ' ' ' -;:. Yj :
;f Brown said , Tuesday that ire
enactment of ;&e original ordin-
an. ? J t..i
taaaSiT-l
the citv ronnHl i .. , h- d
It is doubtful If the discovery
01 affect rnn. n it
will affect tone changes or local
option permits granted during the
last two years as they are made
final by the councfl.; The plan
hing and ; zoning commission
(Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) ,
Former Salem
Man Purchases
Border Paper v
" Al Haworth; former Salem bov.
and a partner have bourht the
Calexico . (CaL) Daily Chronicle.
newsnaiMn hv viiii ha dd. -- '--
employed since leaving Salem
aoout ten years ago, according to
word received here. S
The paper Will be changed to a
weekly. Ha worth Is the son i of I
Prof. C. C Ha worth. Instructor In J theatre. His condition was re
Spanish at Willamette university. I ported as -fair" early Wednesday.
has been given extensive local
support. Late last September
State Senator Douglas McKay ap
peared, as witness" before "the
examiners In behalf of Salem. .
A compilation of information
concerning the area's principal in
dustries, extent of the city's trade
area, probable increase in popula
tion, current' volume of business
and travel, express shipments,
mail and" similar information was
prepared and presented by Fred
D. Thielsen, Salem chamber cf
commerce manager. . .'
- Governor Charles A." Sprague
and Secretary Of State Earl Snell
were among those lending their
support v -
igher Farmer
Loans Okehed
By US House
Stiff Penalties Set
f .. on Alarket Quotas;
Full Parity Seen
WASHINGTON, May 13-(P-The
house' oveiwhelrningly ap
proved higher loans to fanners
Tuesday on this year's crops of
wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and
rice,, with stiff penalties for ex
ceeding marketing quotas. J
Agriculture department offi
had estimated that the higher loan
would increase food costs to con
sumers by 10 to 20 per cent but
Edward A. O'Neal, American Farm
Bureau , president, today . denied
these contentions. He. said ' that
nhe Increased cost to the consum
er would be of very little conse
quence and estimated that pork
would go up 5 per cent, bread one
sixth cent a loaf and cotton 1.6 to
1.8 per cent v
By s roll call vote of 275 to
C3, the house approved and sent
to the senate a compromise bin
to require the government to
make loans ' of S5 per cent of
parity on the five crops. -
arm members said that if
former chose to put his crop in the
1 nMtf lAan . .A . .
o per cent
conservation
parity payments
i - . -
I n&S not been -rearhod (r. fnanv.. "
7 "
a w r-i x
vx-wiix prices are tnose which
would give farmers purchasing
power, in terms of other commodi
ties, equal to that of 1909-1914.)
;i . .
ine legislation would require
loans as follows: wheaL 1S72S
eenU a bushel; corn, C9J7 cents;
. cotton, 13.49 cents a pound; fine
cured tobacco, 19 cents a pound?
rice, 9L9C. Current market
soioa are approxfmaiely as fol
lows: wheat. l; corn, 7J cents;
cotton, 122 cents. 7"1-
With prices rising and certain
to rise still more when the nrice-
veggmg loan program becomes ef
fective as the crops are marketed
predictions were made in the
house that small quantities of all
commodities actually would be
placed in the loan because. they
vutu move more easily in th
i marxets.
Bush
Changes
ffice Site "
eight years and five
1 months from the time Ji mfer.
Bush, Bankers In the
his father. Ashahel
Jush on Tuesday mov-
ld familiar location
corner of Stote
I . .uum uic
intersection to the Pioneer Trust
company, successor to. the Ladd
f 1 company which he
founded In 1924. i; ?
Desiring to make his headauar.
ters in the offices of the trust com
pany, which he still heads as
president, Mr. Bush moved bis
detic and personal belongings from
tne position near the corner entry
of the Ladd & Bush building to
the front corner of the Pioneer I
Trust offices, in the former US
national bank building. ,
Mr. Bush, as successor to hi
father, headed the Ladd it Bush
bank until its merger a year ago
Willi ute saiem branch of the
United States National bank of
Portland. , i , ..
Suffers Heart Attack
Owen O. Lacey, Turner, i was
treated at the Deaconess hospital
Tuesdav nirht fro- h. .m..w
suffered in fmnt --
Since presentation of the com-
panyrs application approval has
been granted i rAA.wp
fense program project for expan -
aion and
sion and dW-loonwmt thi
. Z
ttu n jn w. unua toiaung ap-1
proximately $500,000 have been
apportiondi for the work, which
u vmxicu un as scneauiea, snouid WASHINGTON, May 13 -m
ttake possible the safe landing A bill exteding' President Roose-andtokina-
off of United Airlines velt emergency monetary pow-
Al "r I
One and possibly two stops a
uax nere oy coin norm and south quickly Tuesday that an amend
bound planes are contemplated, ment designed to forestall farther
accruing , w ttusseu vv. jMunson
of Chicago," assistant lo the com-
vanj a president.
USWmimwre
nr
w
armnm
irro
Berliii Sources S
rebple Aroused Ov
liesertio
n
British Claim
Solum Routed; Turkey Will
UAlil I ! a ll. J :
lO Druisn muance , J
' By Th AssocUted Press I ' i f
Germany pointedly warned early today (Wednesday) that
SSTtSST ?f ' but " Sd was not P to detel
Informed circles in Washineton said th
ment owing an operations zone in the northern part of the Red
I
U AT....1 T f
a r arm bw v m-m
l 1
BEMJN, Wednesday. May 14
-W-Ten British bombers at
tacked the German Island of
Helgoland Tuesday night . kill
ing seven civilians and causing
aught damage to non-mliitary
.n . t . ....
ojtchycs, , authorized sources
isald today.
TOKYO,.Wedjes4Uy..Maj 14
-i)-The flight of Rudolf Hess
from Germany to Great Britain
.was prominently displayed to
day In the Japanese newspapers
and the Times Advertiser said
that "news of the flight of Hess
caused "great consternation In
. Japanese diplomatic circles.
- HONGKONG, Wednesday.
Alay 14-PhChtnese dispatches
today reported Intensified fight
ing in Sooth - Shansl province
and said the main Chinese
Japanese battle line extended
more than 150 miles in an In
verted "V" shape front Tshlng-
shul to Siahsien and. Menrhsien.
SHANGHAI, Wednesday. May
l-VP-CUrenc E. Gam, new
US ambassador to China, ar
rived on the liner President
Garfield: today, enronto to
Chwigklng. ;
JuRLIN, Wednesday, Slay
l.-f-Government tax, re
turns for the fiscal year 1940,
which previously had been es
timated St 25,009,000,000 marks
(abo.t $ll,000.00,te) actual
ly yielded 2700,000,000, Stoto
Secretary of Finance FriU
SelnhardL said today.
BJO DE JANEIRO, Wednes-
daj, Jlay 14.-VTlie BraxU-
' fan consulate at Hamburg,
Qermaay, has been serlonaly
umagea in suiusb - raids on
that city the foreign ministry
announced early today.
MADRID, May 13.-yP)-Gn.
Jean- Marie Bergeret secretary
ef state tor aviation in the
Vichy government, arrived . at
Dakar. French West Africa
Tnesday f or tonr of lnspee
tion. Dispatches from Dakar
said Bergeret will stady aerial
defense plans for the. entire
North African region. ",'
7 NEW TOCK, Blay 13.-4V
The British radio, neard here
Tuesday night by CBS, assert
ed that It was officially an
nounced In Cairo that "bombs
were dropped en Alexandria
this morning" but that neither
damage nor casualties resulted.
New Tax Plan Offered
An Individual cT rLJZltV
taxing wage and salary increases
and other . additions tn mvtm
L' VWosed to the house mJ?nillM "VrtTO
1.1 conmutte. Tuesday by 4 I Catr2 X OTJl
I. rt" xuesoay ny
If Washington at-
torney.
Bill Passes Quickly
rs xor-two years won approval
cf the house coinage committee so
devaluation of the dollar slipped
into the measure almost unno-
uced. x ,
Muvy
Secret
i . ! F -
ay
er
of Hess
Axis Push at
Roosevelt xecenUy reopened
. iu( sea route tn m4M. .i;..
lt i -r"r"-"
The administration
has refused to recognize the legal
ity of Germany's method of block
ade and sea warfare. i
Many observers also question
ed Germany's ability to harass
Red sea shipping by air attack
unless she establishes closer
bases than those presently avail
able In Iibsau It Is approxi
mately a 140-mUe roand trip
by air from Egypt's' western 1
frontier to the edge of the Red
"-,:-'. i .
German submarines would
have to pass Britain's powerful
I WASHINGTON.1 May 14 -(Wednesday)
The United
SUtea will imore German
Warnings against sending ships
Into the Seal tn area and will
rush plans for getting supplies
into that gateway of the Medi
terranean informed ' circles ' be
Ueved Tuesday night. j' ' ,
naval defenses at t the Gulf cf
Aden to get into the Red sea. ,
It was believed in Washington
that US officials i ah-Mriv s.j
taken Germanv'a offiHai th-.9
(Turn to Page 9, Col. 5)
US to Train
British Men
s - " ' 1
WASHINGTON. May 13.-UPW
I British and - American officials
are perfecting a plan for bringine-
some 2000 young Britons to this
country , for preliminary training
as! combat fliers. "
The war department ' and the
British embassy,, it was revealed
Tuesday, have the project under
discussion and, it was under
Stood, are about to come to a
final decision upon it ; ,
As the plan for training BritisK
fliers was unfolded, the men
would be assigned to six schools
understood to be situated In Calf.
fornia, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma
and Georgia. I
Darlan Report Awaited
VICHY, France. Mav 1-IJPU.
The French cabinet wDl meet at
111 ajn. Wednesday to discuss
terms brought back from Germany
by Vice Premier Admiral yM
Darlan it : Was announced late
Tuesday night after Darlan had
hastened home from a significant
conference with Adolf Hitler on
the whole subject of German
French collaboration, t ,
: 1 . .
Lumber Group
Will Reprint
i The Northwest Lumbermen's
association Tuesday asked nr.
htaion of The Oreron KtitM-
to reproduce a .featura.
ttory on the West Salem Ears?-
Workshop, r pnbUshed Sonday, .
May 4. - - , - '
According to James Elevens.
bead of the crgzrlza'Joa's putli
city and laformaiioa bnreaa. ,
mimeographed . ccples. alone 7
with photo mats, wU! be mailed '
to aU northwest newspapers and
,)
Inmber publications. ;