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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1941)
It's Complotcl i '.Yow morning Statesman brinrs yea all the newt, the best- comics and columns, worthwhile plctnres and V stimulating editorials. Tell your nelf hbors about It! j Weather m mm v vcs IE Partly cloudy today and Saturday; cooler wlih high er humidity Saturday. Max, . temp. Thurs. tt; sola. 49. North wind, River 14 ft : i w "viA POUN 1651 inUETY-FIBST YEAB I: !' Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning. May 24. 1941 Met 3d Ntwsstands 3 SI I I II 1 US Fore! Asked In Strike ;!"; "i A - Maritime Chief Tells Congress : to Act Quickly ' WASHINGTON,. May 23-W5)- A call for immediate government intervention, . by . force if neces sary, to end a. dispute which has tied up five shipyards in .the San Francisco - area was made : before a senate committee Friday ' by Bear : Admiral Emory S. ; L a n d, chairman of the maritime com 'mission. '';' i ,f : The committee, which is; inves tigating the defense program, heard a' half-dozen witnesses. and: then suspended the .hearing until. Monday with the hope ex pressed by Chairman"1 Truman (D-Mo) that current negotiations on the west coast might bring the dispute to a close b e f o r e that time, . ' t . ' ' j , " Land told the committee that the dispute was 1 an "outlaw" strike in which 1700 machinists SAN FRANCISCO. May 23-(jF)-Tht navy won t use its armed forces er own machin ists In an attempt to reopen 11 strike-bound San Francisco bay shipyards holding $500,000,000 In defense orders,, naval forces said Friday, but It might finish work In its own yard on some of the tied up ships. A warning that vessels undergoing repair or conversion might be towed to Mare island naval yard, on northern San Francisco bay. to put I them in service, came as possible government operation of the yards was increasingly, discussed. : ! had stopped the work of ! 17,000 persons and had tied up $500,000,' 000 of merchant shipbuilding and naval orders. "I believe ihere is justifica tion;'' be said, "for every pots! ble 1 step the government can take, up to and including the use of United States forces be they city, state or national to . take off this picket line so that . the ' people - there can ' go to work." Senator Connally. (D-Tex) ob served that if necessary to main (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Jj ; . - -,. City Assured Of Action on Powder Units . " i .. ;. ,:! " Assurance from Senator Charles L. McNary that the civil aeronau tics authority will give early at tention to the matter of two pow der houses under lease to the Du Pont company on property ' pur chased for Salem airport expan sion has been given Alderman Tom'! Armstrong, chairman of the council airport committee. J .. r A 4 portion of the construction work at the airport has been un able I to proceed because 1 of the powder company's refusal to can cel it$ lease unless paid damages j of $1000. The CAA will not per- ; mit contractors to work ; on the i property involved until the lease : is cancelled.. , U Governor Charles A. Sprague j has jalso interceded for the city j and has written a letter to the j duPbnt firm headquarters in Wil- mington, DeL Congressman ' James ! W, Mott and Secretary ot State : Earl Snell are also cooperating. us by City The Salem water commission authorized Friday night signing of a contract with Rich L. Reimann for purchase of surnlus water through a six inch line connecting with the Salem system at Mar ket and 21st street. z The commission also agreed to contract with Thomas A.! Rob erts,;; who is to connect a two-inch line to the Salem system at the end sion of its Silverton road exten- to service homes in the Lar- sen addition f 1 Medical Chief Named ' - PORTLAND, May 23-P)-Em-ployment of a part-time medical director for the state welfare board : was authorized Friday to replace Dr. Neil Black, full-time director who resigned in Decem ber. - -i . . Sendtors Lc:l52 S Siirpl TFTY oomso (LJlaimi This One Will Really Floor His Honor SPOKANE, Wash May 13 -(PhCecU ninklet walking to work after parking - his car.; stopped for a traffic light. j He looked up and saw his ear stop for the same light Astonished, he hailed a pass-; Ing sheriffs ear and stepped on the running board of! his own machine.- . I ;" ' 'Deputy sheriff Emll Veechlo said- the driver, who identified himself as Eugene Maddox of Butte, Mont, appeared Just as astonished when arrested on a charge of car theft ' "Maddox! said he got into the ear with another man who! claimed to be the owner," re- j ported Veechlo. They had a few drinks and the other man! left Maddox said he got to wor-1 rying ! about the condition of ; his friend and started to drive; to the police station to report his disappearance when . hailed by Hlnkle." Arraignment of Maddox was set for : Saturday. Paul ttauser Column This is the story of M. Peter sen, the 88-year old commentator on affairs of the world and doings in the Grand Ronde Valley, th painter, the singer, the real estate agent the storekeeper, the bread baker, the road straightener, the hiker over, hills, and the notary public, as he -told it himself in the latest issue of the Sheridan Sun. I sit and think, . I ! lie and think. Silence and thinking harms no one. Well, it was the J -28th day 01 June, 1871, I, an .eighteen year old boy, bade goodbye to my friends in Den mark, ' singing the tune of the red, white and blue on the train. My ! father took me ' to Hamburg. Stayed there three days, visiting the aquarium and many - other sights of interest including animal shows. Arrived in New York, Castle Garden, July 13th. Never saw my folks any more. That is 70 years ago. Landed in Webster City, Iowa, X, a city raised boy, worked sev en months on a farm for a fam ily, Middleton, 10 miles from Webster City, Wright county, doing all kinds of farm work even carrying brick from the moulder, husking corn when the snow was four inches. Had four horses to care for and many cows. Threshing grain and mak ing sorghum syrup. Lost in a snow storm and went to school for a month. Left Iowa for Milwaukee in May, 1872. Found my j uncle Peter Petersen, a painter with whom I worked, - painting for two years.! During the first win ter I worked for a wholesale oyster house, caring for a horse (Turn to Page 2, Cot! 2) Oregon GOP Plans Meet i Here Today ' Republican party leaders from all parts of the state are due to ar rive in Salem early today for a morning and afternoon session of the executive committee of the Oregon Republican clubs 1 and a public forum luncheon at the Mar Ion hotel at noon. , i- . Ralph H. Cake, republican na tional committeeman for Oregon, will conduct the forum discussion at the noon luncheon. The forum will be pointed toward developing plans for the pre-primaryj party organization. ! The- Marion county chapter of the Republican clubs is host for the luncheon. V . J I Linclyv Wheeler Hit Leadership NEW YORK, May 2HJPh Charles A. Lindbergh and Senator Burton K. Wheeler joined tonight in a call for "adequate leadership' to keep the nation out of the Eu ropean war.: - j . With the declaration that Am erica could be the ; "strongest and most influential country, in the world, Lindbergh asserted 1 that "We lack only a leadership that places America first".. , Senator Barkley 111 t WASHINGTON, May Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the democratic leader, 1 was in naval hospital Friday night for treat ment of a leg infection. Iei(S) htrolof f 5ea Vital SaysKnox Makes Plea for i 1 1 Stronger Moves ; Jj Against Nazis j WASHINGTON, May 23.-(P) -In a fervent appeal for strong er measures to defeat Germany, Secretary of the Navy Knox de clared Friday: This is a fight for control of the high seas, and God help us if we don't bear our share in that fight for the control of the sea and against human slavery." Following up his recent dentin ciation of the neutrality act as a terrific blunder, Knox told the So ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers that if the na tion is to keep its self-respect It must "recapture a principle for which we fought twice, the prin ciple of the freedom of the seas." Near the naval secretary as he spoke sat Lord Halifax, the Brit ish ambassador. Halifax did not make an address, but received a rising ovation as he was escorted into the Mayflower hotel banquet hall by! Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime commission and president of the society. Land told the crowd: 4 fNo matter what figures are given oat no matter how they are Interpreted or misinterpre ted, our shipping situation Is serious to desperation. i: "You gentlemen have the bur den in your hands and on your -shoulders to ameliorate this sit-; nation of ships, ships and more ships." Knox addressed his opening words half toward Lord Halifax. He said that he was "proud as nev er before that the blood of "these British men who are fighting with their backs to the wall flow in my veans. 1 Life is richer because Lord Halifax and his fellow Britons have demonstrated what men who love their liberty can do in its de fense." I The navy chief said, in ex panding his comments on the high importance of sea power, that he included air power as a part of ocean domination. The - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Salem Typos Turn Down AFLinVote Capital Typographical union No. 210 of Salem has voted 48 to 5 against reaf filiation with the American Federation of labor, it was announced Friday. The local voted in a nationwide referendum of the International Typographical union. CIO affiliation was not at issue. .- - -. . The Salem local has designated Herbert Lange as its delegate to the ITU convention to be held soon at Vancouver, B.C. More than one hundred horses, are stabled in the stadium on the Oregon state fairgrounds, ready to compete in the Salem Saddle club's second . annual horseshow, tonight at 8 and Sunday at 2 o'clock. Tonight's show opens with an exhibition ride by the Oregon Mounted - posse, ' the governor's guard. Opening event Is the popu lar! jumping class, when horses from Portland, Salem and Eugene compete for a 150 cash stake. I The Junior seat and hands event will feature . child rid ers under 15 years of age who 4 will compete for the Captain Ce cil Edwards trophy, a-bronse horse statue. The event is Judged on horsemanship only. . Fine harness horses will com pete for the stake of $50. Three galted horses with nlcket tails will come! in : for " competition as . 4th event in the show. - Five-gaited horses ,wll compete t or The Statesman trophy and three-gaited pairs for Shafer's trophy. The lat ter' event is for members of the Salem club only, andv will be judged, on team work J and ap pointments.' ' - " I An event of interest Is' the plantation class, for Salem club members only. The combination three-gaited event is always of interest at a show, and is in 1 eluded on tonight's prosTam. Salem s High l Command of the Third Division y The army which has been passing through Salem this week "invaded" The Statesman office Friday after . noon to thank the capital city for its accommodation of the troops on their overnight stops. Its chief, . six-foot-plus MaJ. Gen. Charles F. Thompson, Third Division commander,: was pointing: at Salem on a state highway map in the editor's office when The Statesman photographer snapped this picture. With him were, nearest map. Brig. Gen. Charles P. Hall, assistant to the commander, and, at left, Lt. CoL E. M. Landrum, chief of staff. j , j Generalauds Salem and State . ' . . ; - . " . . . ; -.; : '. 1 Mnal UhitsLeay e Fairgrounds High Rankers Pay Call on Statesman The well-laundered and newly pressed army of 12,500 soldiers and men that has passed through Salem this week en route to Cali fornia maneuvers won't look the same - when it returns through Oregon in July. Clothing will be "battle"-worn, heads will not be as neatly clipped as they might be and grime - of a long, bathless journey will be evident That was the continent of MaJ. Gen. Charles F. Thompson, Third division, commander, : when he arrived In Salem from ; Fort Lewis Friday to express his thanks to the cities that are. : providing overnight encamp j stent sites for his men, and to j catch up with the more ad- vanced columns. i "Before we leave," ; he added, fl want to express my apprecia tion for, the fine facilities pro vided my men by the city and the state. They certainly enjoyed the beauty and convenience of your fairgrounds." ; ' I The 800-mile drive, over a type of terrain strange to many, of the I (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Hbrseshow t J ! X' . ' Frank McCarthy,1 below, sets a shoe firm on Roy Simmons chestnut mare. Vagabond, In preparation for the horse show today and San day. Ivan Morran. trainer, holds the horse's head. Edge 13 s . . A 1 '.: Salem to See Some of Many Troop Trains TACOMA, May 23-P-Leaving at 15-minute intervals, four troop trains, the vanguard of 27 sched uled to make the trip, left Fort Lewis Friday night for California war games with 2,000 men and 200 mules. The first train departed at 5:30 p. m. ' Also leaving earlier was Major General Charles' F. Thompson, commander of the 3rd division, and his staff. Switches were spiked to allow trains to get onto the main lines for the through trip to San Ardo, Calif., where they will arrive at 1a.m. Sunday. The first three trainloads carried ' the 1st, tnd and 1 3rd battalions of the 7th Infantry,, a j regular . army unit formerly stationed at Vancouver . Bar racks. The fourth train carried, the 98th mule ; pack artillery troops and 200 mules. s r- ' ' Movements by rail will continue to leave the fort until Tuesday with the peak being reached Sun day when eight trains leave be tween 5:15 and 8.30 p. m., carry . - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) . i . mmmmm Will Open ( Tonight v i . -I v - -. .... i in 7 Rear Guard Troopers Spend Night I Between Salem and San Fran cisco j the olive-drab motorized column Is complete today. No more ! khaki-clad troops and can- vas-epvered trucks are coming from the north along the highway, although Salem is due to see at least i a portion of the 27 troop trains by. which 13,000 men are yet to travel south. .When the rear guard of the I motorized forces traveling by 7 highway 99 leaves the fair grounds between 5 and 7 o'clock this morning the ribbon . of paving from Oregon's capi tal city to California's northern metropolis will be spantied with, the five sub-columns that have moved through the Wil lamette valley in the past, five ..days.- 1 ; VA. .1 Not slated to reach their Jolon, Califs .destination until sometime tomorrow, the 4000 officers and men ! who bivouacked in ' Salem Monday night are on the road in northern i California. v Between them- and Salem are lour other i ;(Turn to Page .2, CoL 3) .Horses are first driven in a pure - trotting gait and are then stripped and ridden under sad dle, by the same person. There 'is a!5 stake for this event. . Other features at tonight's show are the English style drill and the "nightmare race! a comic event. Sunday at 10 ajn. futurity and stallion classes are to be judged under halter, and admission to the judging will be free. Winners will be paraded at the afternoon show. Events on Sunday Include five and three-gaited horses competing for;' 1100 stakes; pleasure, horses, those used regularly for drill and riding by members of the Salem Saddle club; combination five gaited horses; and the family event, with three or more members of one family competing. This class wiH be judged 1 by popular ap plause. An exhibition ride by the governor's guard, and a western stylo ' drill are also scheduled. :. The Salem Saddle club, organ i lzed only a little over a year ago, includes 100 members, with CO j horses regularly, stabled at the sta dium and many more outside. This is the first large: showT scheduled by tlte club and compares with the large 'show throughout the state. Well over a hundred horses are entered. In the competitive events and many others will appear in the drill and special events.- A .- 'A Retake to Attempt Ofl Nazi Hand Ra Tale Convoy Every Sea Declared Hurled Back; One French Unit Deserts - j By The Associated, Press The British claimed at least a momentary edge in Crete last (Friday) night in a battle of still rising violence where warships and dive bornbers fought out their bitter rivalry and desperate men struggled toe to toe upon the island's northern coast. The allied ground forces, engaging the Germans in hand to hand combat that seemed likely to add a new legend to the his tory of war, recaptured Crete's middle area, the British com mand announced from Cairo, and the British navy was declared to have hurled back every German attempt to disembark troops from the sea to support the aerial invaders, t , Says Hitler Did not -Ask forj Fleet or War Declaration VICHY, Unoccupied France, May 23H'P)-Adolf Hitler has not demanded possession of the French fleet, colonial; concessions or a French declaration of war on Brit ain, vice premier admiral Jean Darlan told the French people Fri day in a radio address on his nego tiations with Germany. ' Admiral Darlan did not dis close the nature of the arrange ments being ' made with Ger many, but declared they pre sented a choice between life and death and the French govern ment had chosen life. .In brief sentences' suitable to the Quarter-deck, he stated: "The chancellor (Hitler)' did not ask 'me to hand over our fleet to him... "Everyone knows and the Englishs better than anyone that I will never hand it over. "The chancellor did not ask me for any 'colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England. j r, "Why has he acted so? - "Germany began the war alone and judges herself able . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) WaT News Briefs LONDON, Saturday, May 21 -(-British t bombers roared over the Dover straits early to day to blast Boulome, occupied France, in an attack clearly vis ible from the Kentish shore. Vivid flashes lit. up the sky ver the French shore bt bomb explosions were muffled by a 'stiff wind." $ I BERLIN, May 24-(Saturday) ifV-Weak RAF forces dropped a number of bombs and incend iaries at undisclosed points In western .Germany during the night . without causing note worthy damage, authorised German sources said early today.- .: s " LONDON, May 24-(Satur-day )HP)-Ilritish bombers at tacked targets la western Ger many last nlxht, an authorita tive source reported today. -. ' HONGKONG, May 24-(Sxt-, urday)-iTVThe Chinese central bows areney aausouneed offlci ally today that Chinese troops have reoccupled the strategic city of Walchow on the Tung Kiang, or East river" In Kwang tung province. "i I HALIFAX, NS, May lUJfy-' ' German Dorner flying boats have been flying over the north Atlantic island of Iceland re cently, and have been fired upon by British, ground batter ies, a trade representative from there said Friday Sight. No bombs were dropped, ' - - Q. Middle Fight of Huge to Invade hy ' Telling- Friday nif ht of one such assault upon a huge Ger man convoy this particular one : was on Wednesday' bUM Brit ish naval officers- said then- tire line of ships was destroyed or dispersed; that thousands of German soldiers were thrown screaming into the water to die, and that of all that nasi detach ment headed for Crete not a single member reached its shore. The convoy, it was added, was made up of about 40 seized Greek boats and a number of small mer chantmen, the Greek boats each carrying 100 men, the merchant men: several hundred. "We sank then with four-inch guns and pompons (anti-aircraft) guns," a British cruiser captain related. "Cruisers and destroyers rammed them. The sea was full of thousands of Germans clinging to the wreckage and shouting for help." These furious counter-attacks ashore were . said specifically to have 'accounted for the nari in vaders both at Candia and Retimo, and to have been brought down to a halt only on the area of Mal (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) nior to FoUow US Oii Council r v.-; . :M Gov. Charles A. Sprague is. awaiting further instructions from the federal government before set ting tip Oregon's state defense or ganization, he said Friday. -Personnel of the state defense council may be announced soon after David Eccles,-state budget director, returns , late next week from s Washington, DC, where ht has been studying defense organ ization and investigating possibil ities of 'obtaining additional de fense industries for Oregon. City and county defense organizations are to be established later. , Clierrians Plan Special Train To Rose Festival . , . - - i - . - . The Salem Cherrians expect U arrange for a special train to carry their members and interested lo cal citizens to the Portland Rosa festival next month. King" Bing Frank; Doerfler announced Fri day. 'A ;-,rv. - - Cooperating with the Portland Rosarians, the Cherrians are now selling festival buttons, which, for $1, admit the wearer to all rose fete functions. Nevr Zealander Here t ' SAN PEDRO, Califs May '23-iT)' -J. G. Coates, New Zealand, war minister, arrived by clipper plan Friday en route to Washington, D. C to establish a legation for his country.;, , , r' 'k:y": Pick Rose Fete Qaeca PORTLAND, May 23'-XT) Portland's Rose Festival will , be chosen Saturday night from' among- nine princesseg named by the city's high schools, - Invaders Hand Losses Told : A: A j- 1 1 t .; Y 3P