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ge'-Bhpmwl Rant K TVTI TV f- . ) J O (LftZull lb V IP fiVDo JWWUILMd J 1 See Story Column L Pago 1 It's Complete! . - , . - Your morning - Statesman . Brings 7 on all the newt, the beat comics and columns, worthwhile pictures and stimulating editorials. Tell your neighbors about it! "; i Weather Fair today and Thursday; warmer with'-lewer humid Itj. Max. Temp. Tuesday, 75, MIn. 42. North wind. River 2.1 feet. Clear. .. , . ; FOUNDED Nunmr rrasT tzar Salem Oregon. Wednesday Morning. JMay 21. 1941 Prica 3c; Newsstcmds 5c No. 47 om 'Crete' lute 1B for Construction: of Sewa Sx-ss sHyl -O 11 fTTTi A .Mifekrieg t r K Balloting V Light On Issues i . Voters Approve Amendment on ' City Officers Salem voters approved Tuesday "of erection of a sewage disposal plant for Salem and bonding the cityfbf $200,000 to do.it. In a - f peciai city election which saw only . slightly more than ; 13 per cent of the registered voters go to the polls. - The $260,000 bond issue passed by 1393 to 097. The voters also approved a charter amendment extending HOW BALLOTS WERE CAST ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL BONDS YES ........... 226 ..153 - 11S : 162 NO 126 98 Ward 1 Ward 2 . Ward 3 Ward 4 .. Ward 5 Ward 6 . Ward 7 Totals S3 150 248 169 123 997 , 210 L 261 23 1393 terms of appointive city officers from one year ot two years. The favorable vote was 1321 to 1032. Although the vote was light only 2413 of the 16,607 regis tered voters cast ballots both proposals received comfortable majorities! in all but one of the city's seven -wards. In ward five alone both were defeated by a few votes. Passage of the bond issue sets machinery in motion for speedy work on the sewage disposal project, to be financed only in part by the city. , The. federal government is ex- pec ted to furnish WPA labor and the state of Oregon will share 18 ' 1 (Turn to Page 9, Col. 3) Straw Hat Day WHEREAS, Old Sol smiles Salem and the Willamette valley as is his wont in the merry month ol May. and WHEREAS, Pride in our to spread its fame in contradic tion of the calumny which "im poses upon us the nackname "Webfeet" dictate- outward ex pression of faith in its abiding salubriousness, and WHEREAS, It Is fitting (size 6Vu) that the male of the species adorn himself "gaily and appro priately for the vernal season, therefore BY THE POWER VESTED IN ' ME as Mayor of Salem. I hereby declare and proclaim Thursday, May 22nd, 1941, A. D. as Straw Hat Day. an occasion upon which headgear fashioned from1 the cellulose fibre stalks of by all stalwart males of this city. Paul Hauser . Column In case you haven't noticed, the army is in town. We have never seen so many live soldiers in our Vie. We have seen some dead loldiers in our time, but they weren't wearing khaki and wav ing at the girls. We see so many soldiers we 'wonder if one of them isn't the fellow we read about, a draftee. There were a bunch of them waiting to be inducted. An, officer read off a list of names: "Constantine, William, Freder - ick, Gerhart, Perclval, Leo Fran cis, Otto, Von Schier step for ward." Out of the group stepped one "Who are you?" asked the officer.' "Von Sehler." "Well," thundered the officer (Turn to Page 2. CoL 3) Our Senators Lcsl'9-IK Thanhs giving Goes Back to Old Date '42 WASHINGTON, May Vh-JPy- The 48 states arain will cele brate Thanksgiving on the tra ditional last Thursday . in No vember because, in the words of President Roosevelt, advancing the date failed to accomplish its purpose. The change will not occur until next .- year, however, so calendars, football schedules and sales campaigns will not be thrown out of kilter. For 1941, as he has done for the last two years, Roosevelt will pro claim the next to the last Thurs ; day in November to be Thanks giving day. That will be No vember 20. PGE Plans Cut On Power Rate . Applies for Change in Charges; Would Save Users $75,000 v - - - - . - The Portland General Electric company applied to the state pub lic utilities commissioner Tuesday for' permission to abandon its old "postage stamp" rate in favor of a-"locality surcharge" policy which James H. Polhemus, presi dent, declared would save Salem residential and commercial cus tomers approximately $75,000 in the next 12 months. Polhemus said that under the new plan, if it is approved by the utilities commissioner, his com pany would' fix the Bonneville "objective" power rate as a base and' add a surcharge intended to cover "the actual costs of doing business" in the subdivision to which it is applied. These would be costs above thfcse of production and distribution of power. The Salem surcharge would be 5 per cent, an amount that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Set Thursday benignly (knock, knock) upon unrivaled climate and ambition the grain fields shall be donned W. W. CHADWICK, Mayor of Salem. Board Says Row Settled WASHINGTON, May 20.-Jf- The defense mediation board an nounced settlement Tuesday of the dispute between the Columbia basin sawmill operators and their International Woodworker of America (CIO) employes. Marion County Canneries Speed Packing After, days of rain which set back the anticipated start of pick ing nearly a week from the date originally scheduled, the straw berry harvest in Marion county was believed to be well under way Tuesday and cannery officials re ported that deliveries were com ing in satisfactorily. Believed far more beneficial than harmful, the rain is said to have greatly increased the ton nage on the 3000 acres of straw--berries in the county, according to Acting County Agent Robert E. Rieder. Little rotting of berries was reported. However, one prob lem that is facing growers is the possible lack of pickers. . - . Orders for 500 pickers were yet to be filled Tuesday afternoon at the Salem office of the state em Hull Hits At Nazis In Vichy Tells Envoy France Exceeds Armistice Terms WASHINGTON, May 20.-(JP) -Secretary of State Hull told the French ambassador in strong language Tuesday that the United States is convinced pro Hitler elements are in supreme control in the Vichy government and France has gone beyond the armistice terms in "collaborating' with Germany. This, it was authoritatively re ported, was Hull's reaction when the envoy, Gaston Henry-Haye, called at the state department to seek an explanation of what he termed an explosion of emotions' in the United States concerning the "collaboration." Henry-IIaye contended that the French were acting only In accordance with the armistice between them and Germany and Italy. He also protested against the United States' "unfriendly action" in taking French mer chant ships Into protective cus tody.; r ; -, When the ambassador requested clarification of the American atti turn to Page 2, Col. 7) King Named to Succeed Brand Myrtle Point Attorney Appointed by Sprague for Circuit Bench Dai M. King, Myrtle Point city attorney and former state repre sentative, was appointed by Gov, Charles A. sprague Tuesday as circuit judge of the second judicial district to succeed James T. Brand, Marshf ield, who will - become justice of the supreme court next Monday. King will take office upon sub mission of Judge Brand's resigna tion from the circuit bench. He will serve a district made up of Douglas, Benton, Lincoln, Coos, Curry and Lane counties until June 14, when Benton will become a part of a new district with Linn county. Other judges serving the second district are Carl Wimber ly, Roseburg, and G, F. Shipworth, Eugene. The new judge was born near Wyrtle Point on January 14, 1893. He was graduated from University of Oregon in 1914. During the World war he served as a second (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) George Baker Funeral Held PORTLAND, Ore., May 20-(P)-Funeral services were held here Tuesday for George L. Baker, mayor of Portland through the first World war, the 20s and the depression. . Westminister Presbyterian church was banked with more than 500 floral pieces and several thousand Portlanders viewed the body as it lay in state duraig the day. Entombment was at the Port land crematorium. ployment service, according to William Baillie, manager, who re ported that approximately that number of workers had been sent out since the first ot the season. In most districts pickers are to re ceive Hi cents with a cent bonus, Crews employed at the vari ous Salem and West Salem can neries vary considerably In size with most plants reporting that .the peak of the strawberry sea son might be reached next week. At the Producers Cooperative a crew of about 50 are employed, William H. Wood, manager, re ported. Work started Monday on both' gooseberries and strawberries with the gooseberries expected to last about 10 days and the straw berries around five weeks. Six Sets oi Twins Mix on i If' f - ,. t ' If you see one of these It Willamette university students, don't jump at conclusions, for it may be the other one. Six pairs on the campus this year keep both fellow students and professors guessing. With- A. 1 1. , . mi mm. 4m.t .V.k. LamIam Mill flra1ll Jsff f laTlll Itd OU guarantee H to evrrev siuirun c mi w iiiuif awic uviHwi Leonard Williams, Keith and Kenneth Sherman; (below) Wlnfield Achor, Keith and Kent Markee, jUCIuira ACnwrp rrsnvci aau i ivicuv auuvcua Twins Puzzle University - Only One Pair Said to Be Easy to Tell Apart; All Boys but Two! Six sets of twins, four of them in the freshman class, roam the Willamette university campus this year baffling to say the least Individuals are correctly distin guished only by the experienced in five instances. -X Oldest of the group are Keith and Kenneth Sherman, : 24, who alone can readily be called by the right names. They are students in the law school, Keith a freshman and Kenneth a junior. Their home is Whitefish, Mont, making them the only non-Willamette valley pair. '.h Frances and Florence Lilburn at 18 are the youngest and the fairest. Both freshmen, they are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) - Glenn Lesgren, of the Starr Fruit Products company, said that about 80 girls were busy with strawberries and gooseberries at that plant and that canning straw berries for delivery would prob ably be underway by. the end of the week. Gooseberry packing will continue for about 10 days, he said..." '-i ; At the Bine Lake cooperative 4 in West Salem much activity centered aronnd the preparation of equipment for the beet pack, which is new this year. It Is expected to start about July 1 with most ef the beets com ing from the Dayton area and only a small pack anticipated -as- the first season is consid ered somewhat of an experi ment. - - ;v ' 1 K 5 t 1 Salem Flocks to Watch Soldiers Pitch Camp Second Contingent of Ft. Lewis Troops Bivouac at Fairgrounds, Then Visit City ; Other Units Are Due Today Not Only did the army move the city returned the compliment. Hundreds of civilian automo biles trailed the oliverdrab column of the second military party to stop here within 48 hours. Coal Miners Sign Pact NEW YORK, May 20.-;P)-A new two-year agreement between the United Mine Workers of Am erica and Northern coal operators, covering the bituminous industry in the eight - state - Appalachian area, was approved Tuesday by a ioint conference of union and management representatives. With an order for 50,000 cases of Blue Lake beans from the Campbell Soup company and to fill a larger pack than usual planned for themselves, " the co operative anticipates greatly in creased activity. Work on goose berries and strawberries will probably be underway the latter part ot the week, it was reported. Around 250 workers will be employed en strawberries at the Hunt Bros, plant, W. B. Baker, superintendent, V said. ' A small crew is packing gooseberries. At the Scenic 1 plant, near Gresham, and at Banks the Kelley-Farquhar ' company are working with. Marshalls but . in Salem a crew of about 40 were reported to be finishing the 1940 WV Campus 1 asvaJ r : I V -v;l 'I f --v.- A X Of t :..- i It - i - ' 1 'V 1 - in on Salem this week last night Whle men in uniform looked over thejeity, men in mufti, gaily clad women and girls, curious children inspected the military equipment at the s t a t e fair grounds, where 2,190 men and 97 officers were bivouacked for the night Missing were the sentries who Monday steered away : from the encampment all except those who were! willing to swear 1hey had official business there, and sight (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) of Berries cherries. The company has con tract for the Lacomb pool of black raspberries, estimated at about 170 tons. ".. K Gooseberry packing will con tinno for about 19 days and work ea Marshalls for at least three weeks, at their plant, ' Georre Paulas, of - Paulas . Brothers reported Tuesday. ' Packing of asparagus at Reid Murdoch started about three weeks ago and will probably con tinue until June 10, Ray Yocom, manager reported. Both Yakima and local asparagus is being used and the pack was expected to be about the same as usual, although hot weather might cut it short . Delivery of Marshalls at the Reid-Murdoch cannery started ? ; (Turn to Page 9, CoL 5) Invaders SIMn 0 r Captured Is British Nazis Disguised as New- Zealanders Use Gliders, Transports ' Churcliill Reports Battle to Commons; Says Situation Is Well in Hand; Fears Shown . . . I By The Associated Press British imperial and Greek troops on the Mediterranean is and of Crete were reported today (Wednesday to have crushed a big-scale nazj parachute, glider All nazi parachutist? and Prime Minister Winston Chur-,. chill said 1,500 of them were disguised as New Zealand troops were said in Cairo either to have been killed or captured. British-Greek; defenders were said to be "complete masters of the situation.? , . ' :- 1 This news was circulated by On Germans Assert Ship Sunk but People Landed iir France BERLIN. May ll-Wednes-day)-(iiP)-The 138 Americans removed by German naval forces from thedestroyed Egyp tian liner Zamzam are expected to be released soon and allowed to go to neutral countries, an authorised spokesman said to day. t ; BERLIN, May I 20HjT)-A11 the 322 persons aboard the Zamzam were saved and taken by a mer chant ship to the German-occu pied west coast of France after a nazi warship sent the Egyptian liner to the bottom of the south Atlantic, Germany announced ' of ficially Tuesday night. J See Pic tures on Page 2.) A nazi spokesman earlier had broken the suspense over the lost liner by announcing that the 8299 tonner had been sunk and its pas sengers, including 138 Americans, put ashore in German-held terri tory. . At the time he withheld details but implied that a surface raider ended the long, strange career of the Zamzam. Then - Tuesday night the offi cial German news agency DNB said the "passengers and . crew were taken in safety to a port on the west coast of France. .. Deutsche Diplomatiseh Poll tische Kerrespondenz, organ - of (Turn to Page 4, Col. 4) Unclad Sleep-Walks Onllimay S v a - year eld "Buddy" Kiley. walked out of his par ents' auto trailer in Burke's auto camp, , West Salem, Tuesday nightin his sleep, a la .."Sep tember morn." ; : When he awakened h was in the ear of Ernest Friesen, West Salem, one-half mile from heme and bound for the, police station. . . r. .. ; ";' ' Through sobs,' Wayne Parker, West Salem traffic officer, fi nally discovered where the boy lived and took him home. His parents learned of the lad's es capade only when the officer awakened them. Buys Oregon Ranch : v MEDFORD, May 20-JP-Mrs. Leila Rogers, mother of Movie Actress Ginger Rogers, said Tues day h"e had purchased an 850 acre ranch on the Rogue river, 17 miles .north of here. . I I All Passengers Boy Re port and air transport invasion. the British news agency Reu ters, which said that official Greek sources had disclosed it to the in dependent French agency, AFI. Prime Minister Churchill, in . telling the house of commons of the big assault . which many considered a dress reheafsaT for ' an invasion of the British Isles, had said the British military re ported "the situation in hand." But the general tenor of his statement left great anxiety in London. , " The British radio in a broadcast directed at Germany's armed forces warned Tuesday night that any nati parachutist dressed in the uniform of his enemy "must expect to be shot at once when taken prisoner. ' ' Employment of a disguise was taken by the British to be a viola tion of international law. The whole issue of the develop ing war in the middle east may turn on the defense of Crete, 100 miles off the German-occupied Greek mainland. British, New Zealand and Greek soldiers, under orders to fiht to the death for an allied base of almost incalculable im- (Turn to Page 9, Col. 1) Four Finlit Fans Hurt In Mishap Four Portland fight fans homeward bound from the box ing matches in Salem Tuesday night were Injured and their new automobile heavily damag ed when it crashed la to the rear of a big Southern Faclfle trans port truck on the Pacific high war a quarter mils north of Brooks at 19:40 p. m. The truck driver, was not hurt. , The injured were: Irving Bloomberg, the driver, shoulder injuries; possible fractures; Don aid Evans, scalp lacerations, possible! skull fracture; LaVerns Evans, minor cuts, and Tenia Metture, cuts and possible bead and neck injuries. Robert Watson, Portland, the -truck driver, declared to state police : that he ran his south bound seven-ton tractor and semi-trailer off the read in an effort to avoid the collision The trailer Jacknlfed back against the cab as he nunenrer ed to avert rolling down the steep embankment at the road side. .. - t.,,. The injured were brought to Salem Genera hospital by A. F. Shukhv who was drving an ambulance to Roseburg ' and stopped when he came to. the accident scene, and by Salem Taxi ambulance. - , - - Salem Girls Honored EUGENE, May. 20 JPh Among 15 University of Oregon co-eds' initiated into the Women's Ath letic association were Pat Carsony Silverton, and Betty Anunsen, Sa lem. ;. r; :; v - i-... ''
