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Dock Picket jCines
", Shipyard Workers at Oakland Are ;
Taken to Defense Jobs Through
Jeering but Quiet CIO Strikers
OAKLAND, Califs May 22iP)-Bluejackets and marines
manned navy trucks Thursday to haul about 600 AFL shipyard
workers through CIO picket lines at two of the 11 shipyards and
repair docks tied up by striking machinists. "
. i tiu macninisis on mc pitaei lines jeerea ana mrew copies oi
strike bulletins at the fleet of navy conveyances, but there was
ho violence. - ." ' - . -
The struck shipyards, closed
about a hall billion dollars worth
of defense construction and repairs.
Last Friday Acting Navy Secre
tary James V. Forrestal said "the
navy department is shocked at
the failure of the machinists In the
$an Francisco bay area to accept
the west coast. aone standards."
He declared the navy was . "re
questing the commandant of. the
12th district . . . to give every as
sistance : . . to correct this most
unfortunate situation.".
Thursday the uniformed enlisted
men and marines showed up with
navy trucks. They carried no
weapons. : .
The Alameda County CIO In
dustrial anion council, of which
the machinists are members,
dispatched indignant telegrams
of protest to President Roose
'veltSecretaries Knox and Stlm.
son and others against "this
' unprecedented high-handed ac
tion," and urged Immediate steps
"to restore fundamental rights
now being " violated by this
strike-breaking act"
The speaker in a cruising CIO
sound truck, present when the
trucks were being loaded, declared
"we cannot tolerate the breaking
of strikes with the use of , the
armed forces of the United States.
It is -undemocratic and setting a
dangerous precedent that we will
not. tolerate." '
PORTLAND, Ore ,- May 22-JP
Columbia basin loggers and CIO
woods workers, attempting to beat
the deadline for settlement of their
dispute by the federal mediation
board May 28, met all day Thurs
day.
Federal' Conciliator Charles A.
Wheeler said some progress was
made and that there was a possi
bility of local settlement Employ
er spokesmen said the principal
stumbling block was a demand for
a union shop.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 22-&f-Petitions
were circulated here
Thursday among members of the
International Longshoremen's and
'Warehousemen's association local
1-8, demanding a referendum vote
on the recently amended constitu
tion. - -
Members charged that. Matt
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Airpbrt Wrk
On Sclicdule
Work on the Salem airport is
preceding on schedule, ' James
Craughn, construction superinten
dent for Edlefsen-Weygandt com
pany, said Thursday,- and crews
are expected to start placing
blacktop ior runways in about
three weeks.
' Heavy equipment has been
working on the eastern section
of the field and Craughn said
levelling of that portion .will be
completed in two or three days.
That section can then be used by
student pilots.
Work on the airport project is
expected to reach its peak when
laying of the runways is started.
Work to Start
On Sewer Line
Workmen are, scheduled to start
today breaking paving , ton South
Commercial street near Ferry for
change in sewer flow direction
of a small section of sewer run
ning from Ferry and Commercial
to Bellevue street
The line is to be connected with
the Bellevue street line, which
will drain into the Ferry, street
sewer Instead of the river.
The project is one of a number
f small sewer jobs being done
" preliminary to construction of the
main intercepting sewer to the
planned sewage disposal plant
Work Is being done by WPA
tinder supervision of the city en
f ineering department .
Our
Senators
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Guarded
Break
for 13 days, hold contracts for
CIO Wins Vote
' Collective Bargaining
Rights Obtained in
. Victory by Union
DETROIT, May 22HfVThe
United Automobile Wortyers-CIO
won collective bargaining rights
in the Ford Motor company's gi
ant River Rouge and smaller Lin
coln plants In Thursday's employe
elections and announced Thursday
night it would immediately seek
negotiations for a contract -
When the national labor rela
tions board finished countins
Thursday night the votes of ap
proximately 80,000 Ford employes
it was shown that production
workers in the Rouge and Lincoln
factories and pattern makers in
the Rouge all had ' voted over
whelmingly in favor of the UAW
CIO over the American Federation
of Labor. A comparatively few
workers voted In favor of no un
Ion. - - . ' ! -
Immediately folio wing an
nouncement of the, result' of the
vote tabulation, Michael F, Wid-
man, jr., who has conducted the
UAW-CIO drive to organize Ford
workers,' said: - ; ; , .
"ATlthln a few days practic
ally all the . Ford workers who
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aid Hauters Column
Remember Dr. Agnes Fay Mor
gan of the University of Califor
nia? ; ;
Oh, sure you do. Naw, ; she
wasn't the tall blond at the end
of the second row.- She was the
one that fed dogs prunes whether
they liked, prunes or not
Yeah, her. She's the one.
Well, she's come up with an
other one.
It's bags this time.
Naw, she isn't feeding prunes
to bugs. She's feeding bugs to
prunes. We mean those human
prunes who will agree to eat bugs
for the' benefit of science.
' . She says that if we'd all get
little sense and eat a mormon
cricket now and then we'd be bet
ter off. Just eat a few bugs every
day and a few choice morsels
from the entrails of a. sheep or
a . cow and youH feel . fit as
fiddle and live td be as old as
a Stradivarius. .
Dr. Acnes says that mankind
Ik suffering from "modern dain
ty diet Says If we'd get over
oar prejudices and eat a (rasa
hopper now and then we'd get
a vitamin we've been missing.
, It's quite a vitamin, too, if we
can believe -what the papers say
about Dr. Morgan's latest pro
nouncement Keeps hair from
falling out, keeps one young and
gives the glands a shock.
Well, we've been counting up
and we figure, what with this
new bread, we've got all the vita
mins we can handle, so well noj
start right away on filet of lady
bug, but will stick to our old ex
elusive diet of ladyfingers, cream
pulls and chocolate eclairs.
It appears that summer, after
being a bottleneck too long, has
finally reached fall production.
Good progress Is being made to-
ward a Pan American highway in
Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador
and Nicaragua, but little has been
done In Honduras, while Costa
Rica is Just starting; Fletcher
Johnson, Salem high school grad
uate now holding a position on
the road project in Panama, re
ported to The Statesman in a let
ter received this week.
Johnson, a graduate of Salem
high, where he was active in mi
nor sports, in 1932vis now in Pan
ama City.
1 (San Salvador's rotds, Johnson
In Ford
Plant
Salem
.Briliglh maIi 'Has
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Mamie
Gut Asked
hi Whe
Acreage ?
Lack of Storage
'Said Reason for
Restrictions
WASHINGTON, May 22-(JPh
Confronted by the prospect of
haying to pile new wheat on
the' ground for lack of storage
facilities. Secretary of Agri
culture Wickard asked farmers
Thursday to cut planting for the
1942 crop by 11 per cent
Acting under crop control legis
lation, the secretary established a
1942 planting allotment of 55,000,-
00O acres, the minimum allowed
by law. This is a reduction of
7,000,000 acres from the 1941
allotment and compares with a
record planting of about 8 1,000,-
000 acres in 1937.
f The national allotment will
be apportioned among farmers
under a formula set up by law.
While producers are free to
abide by or Ignore their allot
ments, only those who comply
are eligible for maximum bene
fit payments and crop loans au
thorized under federal farm
programs.'
Wickard said that surpluses and
this - year's prospective bumper
crop would give .the United
States about 1,250,000,000 bushels
of ; wheat : for the - coming season,
or; enough to supply the country
for nearly two years. -j
The: surplus reflected, the sec
retary said, losses in export mar
kets as a "result of the war. For
eign sales this season are expect
ed to be less than 35,000,000 bush
els. They averaged around 200,-
000,000 in the 20's.
The department's announcement
of the reduced allotment said that
the United States was not, how
ever, retreating from world mar
kets.
: PULLMAN, May 22 - (TP) - The
state land use planning commit
tee. asserting that shortages of
farm labor would become acute
.this summer, developed a nine-
point program Thursday with
view to correcting the situation.
J. M. Whittey of the Yakima
state employment service- office
told the committee high wages in
defense industries, plus the select
ive service program, -had taken
men from farming areas and de
creased the supply of migratory
labor. ..
The committee's suggested pro
gram:
- 1. Appointment of regional
representatives of the. US bu
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Church Names
Moderator
ii - .
ST. LOUIS, May 22-(P)-The
Rev. Herbert Booth Smith, pastor
of j! the Immanuel Presbyterian
church of Los Angeles, late
Thursday was elected moderator
of j; the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States of America.
The retiring moderator Is the
Rev. William Lindsay Young, of
Parkville, Mo., president of Park
college. ,
A major matter to be discussed
wul be the status of the conver
sations looking toward union with
the Protestant Episcopal church.
the Presbyterian church In the
United States and the United
Presbyterians.
Man Reports
says, are the best of any Central
American country with excellent
pavement Work on the Pan Am
erican highway sections will soon
be completed.
Guatemala also has fair roads
running from boundary to boun
dary, while the Pan American pro
ject is advancing well in Mexico
with surveys completed from
Oaxaca south to Tehuantepec.
) i "In Honduras," he writes, I
found no evidence of 'work on 1
the Fan American highway sec
tion. The bull cart trails are very
bad and in the rainy season they
to
Final Contingent of
lFt. Lewis
Bivouac Here Today
Thirtieth Infantry, Well Known
to Salem, in Fourth Unit to
Gimp at State Fairgrounds (
Last motorized troop movements south through Salem for
June maneuvers on the Heart ranch in California is slated today
as approximately 1,000 officers
take up a one-night stand at the
41st Causes
Traffic Jam
Joining
By JACK BEARDWOOD
: Special Statesman Writer
EN ROUTE WITH THE 41ST
DIVISION, AT RED BLUFF,
Calif, May 22-fP)-K horde of
khaki-uniformed men' the van
guard of 35,000 of the northern
army enroute to maneuvers at the
Hunter Liggett reservation, swept
into northern California Thursday
in sweltering heat that slowed
down the huge motorized move
ment and piled up 10-mile traf
fic jams on the twisng highway
between Weed and .Redding. v
je or uie urst time since leading
columns of the 3rd and 41st divi
sions and the IX army corps left
Fort Lewis Monday, civilian traf
fic was seriously hindered.
' The great motorized units,
serpentining through the Siski
yous, lost their 100-yard spacing
and private vehicles were unable
to scallop them. It was 7 p. m.
when the last units of the 41st
divisions leading column pulled
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Death Talies
Evanselist
In Seattle
: SEATTLE, May l22.-(iip)-The
Rev. Lyle H. Peterson, 30-year-old
evangelist who was widely
known throughout the: northwest,
died in a Seattle hospital Thurs
day after being stricken while
conducting a service across Lake
Washington. ; t
In the past four years he had
appeared in the pulpits of 140
churches in Washington. A native
qt Portland, he made his home
on Whidby island. Survivors, in
clude his widow, 'a son and
daughter, his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hans Peterson of Portland,
and a sister, Mrs. Rnby C. Curtis
of Salem, Ore. I !
Funeral services will be held
at 4 p. m., Saturday at the
Georgetown Presbyterian: church.
Straw HaDay
Brings HEATr
Straw hats blossomed like
spring flowers Thursday as
burning sun sent the mercury
shooting ap to s new tempera
ture record for the j season of
88 degrees.' ' !
The second day of the heat
wave saw the April 25 record of
82 degrees shattered iaa though
in answer to Mayor Chadwick's
proclamation of Thursday as
"Straw Hat Day. i
Progress
will be absolutely Impassable tr
automobile traffic l ji i-'-4" .
"Nicaragua has negotiated " a
$2,000,000 loan from the United
States for Pan American highway
work. At present the government
is building a road from Mangua,
the - capitaL to RivasJ President
Anastazio Soxnoza said that he
hoped to complete Nicaragua's sec
tion of the road in three years.
"In Costa Rica a very short sec
tion of the road has been comple
ted. - The government, however,
recently obtained a loan from the
United States which is earmarked
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e Meat
Troops to
and men arrive this afternoon to
fairgrounds.
Meanwhile, at ' Fort Lewis,
Wash, first of 27 J troop trains
starts the journey; to California
tonight - More than 13,000 combat
troops are to be moved to San
Lucas and San Ardo, Calif, by
rail, a two-day trip, .
Ai the Hunter-Liggett reser
vation (San Simeon ranch),
Jolon. Calif, the 13,000 will jobs
the 22,000 officers and men who
have formed the parade In 3400
tracks down through central
Oregon and over highway 99. ' :
There throughout June they
will "fight" troops of the VIII
army corps, concentrated there
from southern parts of the far
west, in the biggest military
"games" , the coast country has
ever witnessed. 1
Current plans call for a migra
tion northward early in August
for conduct of even larger ma
rieuvers ' in southwestern Wash
Ington,-where 100,000 men are lo
De.agagea. . -v -
Going home, "San Francisco's
own 30th," the regiment of in
fantry regularly stationed at the
Presidio above the Golden Gate,
was back on familiar territory
bivouacking last night at the state
fairgrounds at the north outskirts
of Salem. .
Where are the beards?"
asked officers and men of the
week's fourth military contin
gent to spend the. night here.
Many of the 1300 officers and
men in this sub-column were
stopping at the fairgrounds last
year on- the occasion of Senator
Charles L. McNary's speech ac
cepting the - vice - presidential
nomination and recall the Cen
tennial facial decorations and
garb worn by the city's resi
dents then. .
Included in the sub-column are
the third division's reconnaisance
troops, the 91st observation
squadron and the 69th engineers'
company as well as the 30th in
fantry, traveling in 302 vehicles
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UO Graduate
Plane Victim
: MILPITAS, Calif, May 22-V
Two army fliers from nearby Mof -
fett field died Thursday when
their training plane crashed in
ranch field near here.
Flying Cadet Ralph V. Nipper,
24-year-old former University- of
Oregon student from Pocateilo,
Idaho, was killed in the crash.
while Second Lieut Warren P.
Rece," 24, of Dallas, Texas, died
several hours later in a San Jose
hospital from head and internal
injuries.
Carol Hearing Haven;
ST. JOHN, Antigua, May 22-P)
-The liner Acadia . with former
King Carol of Rumania and Mme.
Lupescu aboard, enroute from
Bermuda to Cuba, arrived here
Thursday for a 2-hour stopover
too brief for Carol to come ashore
on this British West Indies Island.
of Pan American
specifically for the construction
of a highway from Cartago south
to the boundary with Panama. The
public roads administration has
engineers making a survey at this
time. Machinery has been arriv
ing in Costa Rica for highway
work. . " " .
President Rafael Calderoa
Guardla hopes that the Costa
Rican section w ill be completed
.during his administration. How
ever, I believe that it will take
at least eight years to complete
that section depending on the
Repeal of
Neutrality
Act Seen
Two Cabinet Men
Hurl Criticism;
Capital Buzzes
WASHINGTON, May 22-flV
Strong criticism by two cabinet
officers "of the United States
neutrality act Thursday caused
speculation that an effort to re
peal the act might be in the
making, ' and at the same time
stirred up a spirited controversy
on Capitol HilL 1
Secretary of War Stimson told
his press conference in response
to questions that the act violates
"America's most sacred and im
portant tradition of foreign policy,
freedom of the seas. . Wednesday
Secretary of the Navy Knox had
called the act a terrible blunder.
The neutrality law, among other
things, prevents American ships
from carrying supplies to England,
which is In a combat zone.
Soon , after Stimson made his
criticism of the measure. Senator
George (D-Ga), chairman of the
important senate foreign relations
Committee, told reporters cryptic
ally that the much-discussed ques
tion" of using the American navy
to convoy ; shipments to Great
Britain, was "not the fulLt com
plete or final answer to the dif
faculties now . facing: the British1
empire."- :p V -
1 1! Whether he meant that the
answer might Include the use of
i; American merchant ships to de
liver supplies was not stated, bat
he did say that If the United
- States made any change in pres
ent policy It doubtless would in
volve alteration or repeal of the
neutrality law. -
i lti have-confidence that the
president is thinking the question
through with great care," he
added.
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) de-4
dared that both Stimson and
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War News Briefs
! LONDON, May 23.-(Fridy)
--(-Britain had passed its sec
ond consecutive night free of
nasi air raiders today, and Lon
don had enjoyed its 12th suc
cessive raid-free night The lack
' of activity "was attributed to
continental weather conditions.
t - -
I BERLIN, Friday. May 23T)
-The most ' destructive blow
since the beginning of the war
'has been delivered to Britain's
seapower, Berlin newspapers
jubilantly announced today in
reporting the sinking of four
English cruisers and several
destroyers by nasi air bombs In
rthe' eastern Mediterranean.
I BOMBAY, India, May 2J.-(Friday)-(A-General
Annfbale
(Electric Whiskers) BergonsolL
Italian army leader captured by
the British last February at
Bengasi, Libya, arrived today
in a contingent of 1900 Italian
prisoners brought to Bombay
for Internment
;; NEW YORK. May tlrtJPr
The safe arrival in Britain of a
convoy of 50 ships carrying
more than $100,000,000 1st war
supplies was announced Thurs
day in a cabled report to Col
lier's weekly by Quentin Rey
nolds, correspondent for the
snagaine. Reynolds said he be
lieved the convoy was the larg
est ever to make the Atlantic
crossing. '
amount ef work expended en; j
the project Naturally, the bill
brought up by President Roose-j
yelt win push things through!
' much faster, if It goes through
i "Panama has 'a good road run
ning all the" way; from David to
the Canal Zone. It is the only
highway-, south of San Salvador
that you' can drive by night I
iAt this time'the public roads
administration Is rushing work on
the Trans-Isthmian highway pro
ject which will be completed not
later than March of next year The
On
Leads French
Late reports from north Africa ln
i dicate that Gen. Charles De
! Gaulle, leader of the Tree
, i French forces may be reeog
. nixed as chief of the government
of the French, people by the
. British following a warning to
Vichy that attacks on onoccu
j pied France may be expected If
j military aid Is given the Ger
mans under the "collaboration''
Ipact I'- -1'
Brand Takes
OatE Monday
.Circuit Judge James T. Brand,
Marshfield, recently appointed
Justice of the state supreme court
to succeed the late Henry J. Bean,
will arrive in. Salem early Mon
day to assume his new duties.
1 Brand' will receive the oath of
office in the ; chambers of Chief
Justice Percy Kelly with members
of his family and a few close
friends witnessing the ceremony.
j Dal M. King, Myrtle Point at
torney, has been appointed circuit
judge of the second judicial dis
trict to succeed Brand.
Typos Turn Down AFL
PORTLAND, Ore., May 22-J!y-Reaffiliation
with the AFL was
opposed 224 to 100 by the Multno
mah Typographical union, a tabu
lation of votes Thursday showed.
Highway
highway wOl connect Balboa and
Panama City 1 with Cristobal and
Colon. Now the only way of cross
ing the Isthmus is through the
Panama Canal or on the Panama
railroad. However, in case of em
ergency troops could be rushed
easily from one side to, the other
due to good trails. ' -r
i ."It , doesn't t seem possible that
ii takes such a long time to com
plete 28 miles of road. Conditions
in road building are quite differ
ent here in the tropics in compari
son with the states."
C tele
Control
T
Sides
Violent Naval
Action Rages;
French Warned
By The Associated Press
j .......
The British navy was renorted
early? today (Friday) to have
smashed "whole j shiploads 'of
nazi Reinforcements off Crete,
but it appeared that the Ger-
mans were able to land, many
more parachutists on the island
where they already hold two
key points. " , 1
The - Germans. moreover.
claimed that their ' dive-bombers
sank I four British cruisers and
several des trovers Thursdav in
addition to nine warshiDs re
ported hard hit on Wednesday.
British-Greek ground defenders
admittedly were, at a grave dis
advantage without RAF support
on the island. The German para
chutist held one of the two air
dromes on Crete, and the RAF
was withdrawn to save it from
annihilation.
London newspapers editorially
described the epic air-versus-sea
battle in tones reminiscent of that
just before the British withdrawal
from j Greece. : -( .
; Bat Prime Minister Winston
; Churchill said there would ,-be- y
no withdrawal at Crete; In fact
he ; told the house of commons
Thursday that neither side
could retreat Thus It was a
"battle to the death" on this
rocky island 100 miles off the
Greek mainland.
Nati parachutists drifted down
through a shower of anti-aircraft
fire. Many were riddled with machine-gun
blasts before they
touched earth, but they kept
coming.
Wiyes of the Cretan hillsmen
were j said to be aiding in the vast
modern guerrilla warfare rocket
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Road Board
Awards Work
PORTLAND, May 22-6p)-The
state highway commission award
ed contracts, Thursday on five
projects totaling $437,000. referred
two totaling $88,000 to engineers
and rejected two. . 1
Projects awarded Included:
Liiin county Grade f widening
and paving 3.17 miles on Crabtree
corner-Lebanon section of Santi
am highway, Warren Northwest
Inc4 Portland, $6931
The commission voted to widen
9th street in Corvallis on highway
89-W. The cost was estimated at
$30,000.
Grew of Leme .
Is indicted
PORTLAND, May 22-(1P-Twen
ty-one officers and crew members
of the damaged Italian mbtorship
Leme was indicted by a federal'
grand jury Thursday oh charges
of sabotage and conspiracy.
Named in, the Indictment were
Captain Giovanni Polonio, most of
his officers, two radio operators,
the Ship's carpenter and a large
portion of the engine toodv force.
Coast guardsmen found engines,
navigating instruments, the shlp'g
radio and other equipment badly
damaged when they seized the
vessel here.
In
Is
Lost
Salem Students
"... i . , . . , . . . . .
Honored hy ;OSG r
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" COR V ALLI S , May llyifl'
Scholarships of $66 each foV the
next achool year, announced today
by E. B. Lemon of the OSC com
mittee on high', school -Telatiohji-weref
awarded to 75 high school '
seniors and 41 Oregon State under
graduates. Including Donald Bow'
er and Bernice Smothers,' Salem,
high school students; : Betty '
Smith .Dallas, and Eileen Kolvlen.
and EUeen Ullman, Salem, under
graduates.- - "
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