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Salem Oregon. Wednesday Morning. JMay 21. 1941
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Balloting
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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
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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
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Our
Senators
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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
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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
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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
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When the ambassador requested
clarification of the American atti
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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
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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.
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other one. Six pairs on the campus this year keep both fellow students and professors guessing. With-
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Leonard Williams, Keith and Kenneth Sherman; (below) Wlnfield Achor, Keith and Kent Markee,
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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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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Invaders SIMn
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British
Nazis Disguised as
New- Zealanders Use
Gliders, Transports
' Churcliill Reports Battle to
Commons; Says Situation Is
Well in Hand; Fears Shown
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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