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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1941)
Weather Fair today I& Uthtr temperature and Jower hu midity; partly cloudy Friday with foe or drizzles B coast and scattered- thunderstorms oyer mono tains. Max. temp. ' Wednesday it. Mia. 4C, Riv er 1.1 feet Northeast wind. Clear. NINETY-FIRST YEAH Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning. May 22, 1941 Price 3cj Newsstands 5c No. 48 9 wk- (Dim Greek Me Salem . Sees "Backer-Uppers" of the Infantry NewPlanel. It's Complete! . , Tour monitor Statesman .brings you all the news, tho best comlci and columns, worthwhile , picture . and stlmolatlnr editorials. Tell ' 'your' neighbors about it! . 7000 : G erim&m . V.' - " f 3 Pi ckets ahdin&s From t Dared to :-;-. Shipyard Hands i! Hit Union Lines At Oakland (See Picture on Pate 8) By The Associated Press AFL shipyard workers marched back to their jobs through picket lines of other union members Wednesday af ter striking machinists had re jected a plea of Governor Cul bert L. Olson that they return to iwork in i ll shipyards in the San Francisco bay area. ! John Frey, head of "the AFL metal trades council, led a group of 500 men into the Moore ship yard in Oakland, saying defiantly, "God help the man who tries to atop me." . Smaller groups went back to work in other plants, j The machinists, members of both the AFL and CIO, are asking wage increases from a new con tract scale sot $1.12 to $1.15 an hour and double time for overtime, i Negotiations , between south ern bituminous coal - operators and the CIO United Mine Workers, were broken off In New. York after the. operators, . In a series of newspaper adver- -tisements, had assailed John L. Lewis, the miners' president, as ' as man who would become "dic tator -of the country. K. C. Adam. Trivia nfffolil tnnW.i. man, countered that the south ern owners were -"mock pa triots." ; The dispute over a , new two , year wage contract now goes to . the defense mediation- board in Washington. wXhe-aouthern op erators have - rejected union ,de ' mands which include pay raises to $7 a day from the present southern scale of $5.60. The second strike in two weeks tied up construction of the gov ernment's $30,000,000 shell load ing plant near j Ravenna, Ohio. Between 5000 and 7000 AFL la borers walked out, demanding wage Increases of 25 cents an hour from, the present average Of 65 cents. At Buffalo members of the AFL International Longshore men's union stopped work at two Great Lakes p a e k a g e freight ; lines after rejecting a wage Increase negotiated by a federal arbitrator. Company of ficials, callinr the stoppage il legal, said the companies and the unjon had agreed to accept ' the 'award of the federal offic ial, calling for ; wage increases of ,Vt cents an hour to 81 Vi Turn to Page 6 Col. 3 Oregon to File Brief On Indian Fishing Law j PORTLAND, Ore., May 2l-Jf) -The Oregon state fish commis sion decided Wednesday to enter the suit now on file in the US supreme court, ; in which , the Washington fisheries board seeks to determine the status of Indians fishing commercially in the Co lumbia river. ; 1 ' ; Oregon will file a brief as a friend of the court This state's laws permit Indians with treaty rights to fish commercially in, the river without a license but Wash ington has no such statute. A riatd m nur. Mi. nresident. and Stra w Hat Day of the Salem chamber of commerce, work their way through a table ful of fibre toppers from various on the streets In the height of L i 1".. . "."V' r. , r Just one of the several hundred 155mm howitzers b shown above In the picture taken by The Statesman's staff photographer a few minutes after It was wheeled Into line and "bedded down" for the night following the arrival of the 9th, 10th, 39th and 41st field ar tillery battalions Wednesday afternoon at the Salem state fair Artillery Takes Over ore US M Third Fort Lewis Contingent Arrives One Minute Ahead of Schedule at ?fCampgroundsw Artillery centers the Salem military scene' this morning. Fol lowing two contingents of infantry, howitzers, the army's latest 75 mm. anti-tank guns and Jthe men who man them are slated to move out of the state fairgrounds beginning at 5 a. m. Plans Ordered For US Camps Medford and Eugene Get Cantonments if Funds Arc Voted WASHINGTON, May 2H) The war department awarded con tracts Wednesday for the prepara tion of advance plans of nine new camp sites which eventually may be constructed for that number of "stream-lined" army j triangular divisions. ' " The contracts are 'merely for architectural and engineering services, the army said,! to provide layouts for eventual construction of the big cantonments, costing about $23,000,000 each, should con gress later authorize their build ing and appropriate the necessary funds; . Amounts of the engineering and architectural fees were not stated. Among the sites and the firms to which awards were made, were: . Eugene, OreJohn W. Cunning ham and associates, end Lawrence and Allyn, Portland, Ore. . ."' Medford, Ore. Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers, Los Angeles, and Blackie and Wood, San Francisco. -They Picli'Em Fred D. Thlelsen. manaser of the local stores preparing to appear fashion on Straw uii oay tooay. V V-:' t ' i:' -fc:. v::l-J .. . . .;', ' ' ' ' Troops Dud Today and Friday Heaviest equipment Salem will see ; among the motorized units stopping here this week are the guni of the 9th, 10th, 39th and 41st field artillery battalions and headquarters battery of the third division camped Wednesday night on the "old campground." For the ' state fairgrounds to many Sa lem residents, will carry that title after more than 10,000 men have bivouacked there within a period of five days. ; v Three hundred ninety-three vehicles, ranainc from quarter-, ton to six -too trucks, traveling in five serials, comprised a pa rade 47 miles, of 2 hours and 25 minutes lontV Leavinr the fair srounds today they will follow the same route as that used by the- Infantry Tuesday and Wednesday morning-, hlrhway 99 to the state eapitol building, down Court to 12th and out 12th street to highway 99 Diversion for the 2377 officers and enlisted men and civilian vis ltors was the two-hour concert presented at the fairgrounds Wed nesday night by the sub-column's 70-biece band. Somewhere along the ; line of . march will be staged an amateur show, officers- said. but, the evening band concert is a .regular feature. Part of the gigantic troop move ment which is taking soldiery to concentration points " all over the United States for June maneuvers, the . artillery stationed in Salem finds even sham warfare "serious business. officers declared. Reminder of the place the military Is taking In other parts (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) We were walking the other day through one of those grocery stores where they let you In with a turnstile and you can't get out without buying something! or say ing apologetically and with the innocent look worn by an unsuc cessful shoplifter to the man at the : cash register that you just dropped into look for a friend. We were walking through, like we said, not shoplifting or buying anything, either, when we saw a sign that said, "PLEASE DO NOT PUT CHILDREN IN GROCERY BASKETS." V We knew the sign wasnt di rected at us for we have never been known to put a child in a grocery basket. We know a few children we would like to put somewhere, but It wouldn't be In a grocery basket. We can't even remember see ing anybody else put a child In a 1 Turn to Page CoL 4 Ib tee Eni? Ilauser'i Column 1 grounds. This field piece, crouched and In traveling gear Is part of hanaing from the hand Of the soldier passing the track Is the. strap to a set of binoculars.) ' Salem Cargroimd Salem Soldier i HurtinTrek Is Recovering The Statesman learned early-' today that Gordon Bressler of Salem, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Floyd L Bressler, 100" Garden road, one of the ten soldiers in-' jured In a crash involving twe army vehicles and : a' freight truck near Woodland, Wash Tuesday was "hi pink j of con dition,' able to walk around, no serious injuries, and would be released from Barnes hospital, Vancouver Barracks within ' a day or two. : Four Thwarted At Alcatraz SAN FRANCISCO, May 21-(ff)- Warden James A. Johnston re vealed Wednesday nighti that four life -term Alcatraz convicts were thwarted today in their attempt to escape from the island prison in San Francisco bay. -J ; The convicts overcame - and bound three officers who caught them in the act of attempting to cut through steel bars in the mat shop with an emery wheel. . Johnston said the ? prisoners were: Lloyd H. Bardoll; convict ed of robbing an Oregon bank in 1937; Joseph Paul . Cretzer, Los Angeles robber and murderer, who later escaped from McNeil fed eral prison and killed a: US mar shal at Tacoma, Wash.; Arnold Thomas Kyle, Cretzer's! brother-in-law, convicted of the same crimes, and Sam R. ; Schokleu, Muskogee, Okla, bank robber and kidnaper. , - . I , Must Renew Annually i PORTLAND, May 21.-()- Hunting licenses for aliens must be renewed annually, Frank B. Wire, state game supervisor, said Wednesday. In the past the $25 licenses issued to persons not citizens of the US were -regarded as having no expiration date.' r feidges Galled teadiri SAN FRANCISCO, May 21-vD -Major Lemuel's. SchoCeld, chief of the US department of jUnmigra tion and naiuralization, described Harry Bridges asa leading com munist of the United States"! at the Bridges deportation hearing Wednesday. . " I " Richard Gladstein, Bridges de fense . attorney, demanded on ciross-examination whether Scho field considered it proper, as chief of the service prosecuting the case, to give an opinion or try to affect the decision. Schofield replied he considered It his duty to do so. . i. "It is my conviction , Harry . 1 t'. J " Ati.-.-i.:. .v. ' .- : . , . V- i at its tow frame, canvass hooded the Ith's equipment. (That "thing i . . '. ;-. 41st Outfit Bivouacs at IOamath Falls (. - - Editor's note: Jack B. Beard wood .of the Associated " Press Tacoma bureau is accompany ing northwest soldiers from Fort Lewis to the California war games, and will cover their ac tivities for The Statesman. Fol lowing is one of his stories, written "en route with the 41st division.) ; By JACK B. BEARDWOOD WITH THE 4 1ST. DIVISION EN ROUTE TO - CALIFORNIA, May 21-iTlj-Almost halfway to its California war games camp, the lead column of the 41st division bivouacked Wednesday night in a meadow near Klamath Falls while civilians perched on knolls and watched the army tent city mushroomJ . l As the dust-covered, - truck weary: troops prepared camp, Montana's s 163d - infantry band played swing tunes. . . While the 41st camped only . 18 miles from the California border, 3d division and IX corps mech anized units reached. Weed, Calif. : Strang; ; oat behind the lead columns heading the biggest motorized, - troop movement In far - western history were four! other serials of 41st . division . outfits, going Into" camps, at Vancouver barracks, Wash and Bend, Ore, while 3d division and DC corps soldiers reached Salem and Koseburg. .v : ! (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Salem Seeks .1 : Salem . citizens I (who could) scurried . for sheltered shacks at the seashore Wednesday and mov ed, to the 'more "moderate mercur ial majesty: of the mountains, too, to escape the 80 degree tempera ture that fried the formerly frigid freeways of this ' fair flower of the Willamette falley. (Alrightr Mr. McGee, . that's enough!) I - - Bridges Is a leading communist of the United States," he said in ex planation. I i;:, i Also wader eross-examlnatlon, Schofield admitted readily be had opposed, before senate sub-eommittee on the Judklary, proposed teglslatiea which would permit aa alien threaten ed with deportation to obtain covernmeat records In his ease - and lists of prosecution witness es, before opening of the hear ing. : He said he did t so because of past . experience in the Bridges case and in view of "intimidation of. government witnesses and ef Escape Carriers Planned Knox Says Navy iRusliing Work to ; Protect Ships i WASHINGTON, May 21-v -A hint that the United States is rushing preparations to em ploy numbers of relatively small plane carriers to safeguard mer chant ; ships came Wednesday from Secretary "Knox" who said guardedly that the navy was "very busy on the undertaking. Without explaining whether such craft' might be used except under, actual war conditions, the secretary 'said - that in connection with the controversy over, delivery of munitions to. Great Britain, , it was. "silly" to dwell exclusively on World war methods, of protecting convoys from surface and under sea attack alone. . A speedy - former cargo ship already Is being rebuilt experi mentally as a carrier, and a score of new type "transports" and conventional plane carriers are tinder construction or planned, but Knox declined te divulge Just what steps were ' being taken to cope with ' the problem. presented by Ger many's aerial blockade of Brit ain. : . "It's one of the things we are not talking about," be told his press conference. 1 Knox reported at the same time that the navy's air force had been increased i numerically by more than 50 per cent within a year, witj a net reinforcement of 1304 planes. On May I there were 3478 naval aircraft of all types in serv ice p - . - - . - -. . Knox also announced that Ad' miral Thomas C. Hart would be retained indefinitely as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet after he reaches the normal re tirement age or 64 next month. He described Hart as "an excep tionally good man in a situation which requires a great deal of experience and knowledge. ' In another major develop ment, William S. Knudsen, di rector of the office of produc tion management, announced that the country's plane preduc- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) . Nazis Balk Q11 Release Of Yankees . BERLIN, May. of speedy release , for at least part of j pie : 140 Americans from the Egyptian steamer Zamzam, sunk by a German raider onroute from New York to Alexandria, were obscured Wednesday night by tan gled question of international law. The Germans have stated un equivocally that all of the Ameri cang aboard the Zamzam, which for a time was feared lost with all 322 passengers and crew, were brought through the British block ade and safely at SL Jean De Luz, France. . Later, authorized sources said German military authorities first would: make sure -that 24 Ameri can ambulance drivers who were enroute to Africa aboard the Zam zam would be in no position to re veal military secrets to the Brit ish. . 1 . Coast Paper Is Sold -PORT ORFORD.Iay 21.-jPJ-The- Port Orford Post has been purchased by Mayor- Gilbert E. Gable from Reeves .Taylor. The editor will be Francis W. Hilton, formerly ; of the Santa Barbara, Calif, .News-Press. forts to prevent them from testi rying." j :'r Tfou mean , in this case, or the last?" he was asked. , 7 -''Both," 1 he answered. . -. Gladstein , jumped to his feet, demanding that the major give a single instance of intimidation. . . T won't give you names," re plied Schofield, "because I don't trust my memory. I wouldn't do it if I did know It This case is not over yetf ; Schofield was called as a pre-arrangentent - made last month wie n .the prosecution -rested Its ease to deport Bridges - te his native Australia on the gortmds that he once was affili Hitler Steps up Blitz : x In Third For Strategic Germans Claim Seven Brithh isli Refuse Engl ; By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler's attempt to crush the island of Crete by the sheer force of air and sea-borne more furious jiace today (Thursday) but the desperately-fight ing British claimed the nazis had . The attack on Crete, where his cabinet fled with British imperial" soldiers after the fall of ; Greece, went into its third day. with London sources saying there was every indication .7000 German parachute troops were now Berlin Orders Paris Closed France- Loses Hope -to : Regain , Capital ; All ' Embassies to Leave . . , ; ... ... ... VICHY FRANCE, May 2i:-yp The possibility of the restoration of Paris as the French govern ment's full capital apparently was ended Wednesday by a German order for all foreign . embassies and legations tn Paris to with Turn to Page 6 Col. 5 Germany Driving at Crete DARDANELLES! XyRKEYi kATUCW DODECANESE IS. I 0 fill mnnnj mm Mediterranean Sea TOBRUK "r s - CRETE . L.Bf 2v-d lra - r - EGYPT fsQgr Y- a Seven thousand German troops were reported te have landed at night . on strateric Crete 1). as the Germans continued their aerial of fensive. British military men said Crete must be held ."at all costs" -because its capture would give the Germans another base te at tack the British fleet at Alexandria (2) fill tn the Aegean sea gay te the Dodecanese islands and shield the movement ef axis troops from Italy te Africa. An attempt on Cyprus (3), was foreseen. J Appointment Is Made WASHINGTON, May 21.-vP)-Dr. Walter Futrelle j of Little Rock, Ark, has been 1 appointed chief medical officer at the vet erans' hospital at Rose burg. Sena tor McNary announced Wednes day. The appointment was made by Gen. F. T. Hines, head of the veterans administration. ' ated with the communist party,. ' Schofield ' described a meeting with FBI agents, Albert Del Guer cio, chief of governmnet counsel, and James CNeil, former CIO publicity man and reluctant gov ernment witness now serving; 60 days In' jail for contempt of court "CNeU said Harry Bridges was a member of the communist par ty," the major testified. "He vol unteered he was the only man that had visual evidence that Har ry Bridges was a communist ' "He said ho actually had seen Bridges pasting stamps in a com munist party book. He said what he told us was the truth." 1 Day Battle Crete Bomb Hits on Warships but Comment troops raged on at a faster and not made any headway. ' the Greek king and remnants of engaged. iy j - '..''( ' v The fateful struggle for Crete thus continued its deadly progress with British and allied Greek units expending their utmost, energies in hunting out and round- ing up the swarming German f parachutists. As ; for the attempt to land from the sea, British' sources ' said It bad failed utterly. It v. was hinted that: strong British. naval action blew jn that, attack bat the British, as usual; were ' silent on their navy while the battle was tr. progress. The Germans claimed direct bomb hits on seven British war-' ships, including a battleship but to these reports the Britsh merely replied : that the Germans were ' out on another "fishing expedition Turn to Page 6 Col. 1 CTWUSX HAIFA ? . US Sells New Bond Issue ! WASHINGTON, May 21-(P)-Secretary -Morgenthau announced Wednesday mat the treasury would seU $600,000,000 ' of new. bonds Thursday to supplement funds being raised through-the de fense savings campaign. . - -; In addition, he said, the trees ury would refund $834,000,000."cf 314 per cent treasury bonds com ing due in August . - r . ' Earlier, Morgenthau announced that sales of defense bonds from May 1. to May 17 inclusive to tailed 1257,648,000, indicating that the previously announced mini mum goal of $300,000,000 for the month would be attained. 7" . Our . Senators Lcr! 7-3 G-5 J) auppo -: fr i 1 J 1 e mt m"A''- 1 sl "trans rr- JORDAN,
