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You, Tbo? Few are the readers of 'The ' Statesman who ' arent devotees , of "Strictly Pri vate," one of Its many top fiotch " eomle i panels.' It brings you a humorous slant on army life,; f Teathcr'': -' t7settIe4wlt'es)tteTCt light showers today and Frl-, day. Max. terns. Wednesday 5S, Uk 48. South wind. Cloudy. River -.7 foot. Rata JLt Inch. 3 : FOUNDQD 1&51 imiETY-rmST YEAB ' Salem, Orecon, Thursday Morning, Mar 29, 1941 ' i - . - Priest Zci Newsstands 5c i ' No. 14 Five -: (OF. 0111iQ)eF CPOFUS JUL SI mm i i CM U HgW!st iTl i .' " ; ' 1 Newjudge Of County Is. Nit Grant Murphy of Slay ton Assumes Position By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Grant Murphy, mayor of .Stayton; founder of a success ful lumber business and a lead er in the republican party, was appointed by Gov. Charles A. Sprague Wednesday afternoon to succeed the late Leroy Hewlett ; as Marion county Judge. "The judge-elect told The Statesman 1 from his home at Stay ton that he would meet with the other two members of the county court at 9 o'clock this morning "and take over just as soon thereafter as is convenient to them." j Accumulation of probate- court business during the extended ill ness of Judge Hewlett, who died Monday morning, led the gover nor to act quickly in appointing a successor.. I . Both county commissioners, J. & "Jim" Smith and Ralph Girod, declared themselves ' thoroughly satisfied .with the appointment of Murphy. Comment by other county officers was equally en thusiastic, j i : . We know he win work for . the Interest of the taxpayers of .Marlon county," commented Smith, lesltr commissioner, who has known the new Judge lor more than 1 years. "It's a - fine appointment and I'm well pleased.". - . . . . Girod expressed the expecta tion that "Mr. Murphy will make fine judge." and said' no was looking forward to working with hinuH . ? : . : Judge Murphy will preside over the probate court hero only until June 14, when a 1941 legislative act transferring juvenile and pro bate matters to the circuit courts will become effective. Thereafter his duties will be confined to di recting county affairs as presiding officer of the county commission in' court ; i Blurphy, born In Marlon county In 1885, has long been a leader In Stayton civic and governmental affairs. lie was city councilman In Stayton from 112 to 1918, mayor from 1918 to .1922, and reelected to the latter position last year. He ad vanced In 1958 from the chair - manshlp of the Marlon county republican central committee to the state commltteemanship. The Murphy-Gardner Lumber company was founded by Murphy In 1918. In business circles one of Sis important positions has been that of trustee of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, held in 1934 and 1935. . -i How We Know Rain Total Mr, Genunell sat at his desk pounding oat his sports column when ho heard a light pitter , patter at the window. -I think It's raining." he said. "That's not vnnsnaL though be cause It says hero In my col umn that the Senators are com ing homo Friday." j Being a factual sort of per son, Mr. Genunell turned to the Little Senator who was sitting In corner playing solitaire en a spread out corner of his toga, "Say Ltl Sen, stick your head out the window and see If It's raining, will you?" j "Okay, chief." he replied. . So ho jumped up on the wla , dew sDl and flung j wide the shutters. Leaning out, he turned his head and looked up just as a huge drop of water swished down, It Was too much for the little Senatorhis foot slipped and down ho fell. - Sometime passed before the little feller dripped up the )alrs again, wringing out his toga. "Yes, It's raining, ail right X 'splashed. There's 49 Inch of water la one of those holes the (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) tried Our' Senators A Named Judge 1 " ' .. . .. . "- . i - A i GRANT MURPHY to; l r worKcrs Get Pay Hike j Flat Ten Cents per Hour Raise Goes to : ; 15,000 Employes i A flat ten-cent hourly pay in crease for 15,000 Pacific coast AFL pulp and paper workers, ef fective June 1, was granted in ne gotiations completed in Portland Wednesday, Charles F. Davis, president of Salem local No. 230, International Brotherhood of Pa per Makers, reported on his -.return home Wednesday night , The agreement boosting men's base stay to .15 cents an hour and women's to 62 Vi cents,! la subject to ratification by the ; tl local paper and pulp work ers' unions on the coast. It con- J tinues as ha past agreements to carry a no-strike clause. ' Davis said the new agreement lifted wages well above those prevailing elsewhere. The con ference group estimated, he said, that the wage increase would boost coast mill payrolls by $2,- 500,000 a year. Waldo Baker, one of six dele i (Turn to Page' 2, CoL 4) Experience Ratings Go To Employers employers : who attended ; a meeting at the chamber of-com merce Wednesday night at which changes in the unemployment compensation low to become effec tive about June 15 were explained learned that they will receive their new experience" rates, rang ing from 1 to 4 per cent about July 1. The experience rates, varying in direct ratio as to the employ er's labor turnover, determine the amount of . payroll the employer contributes to the unemployment compensation' fund.. The. new; rates, which replace the present flat rate of 2.7 per cent will be effective on payrolls for the last half of 1941; t : ,, The new rates will be given ;all employers who -have been subject to the unemployment compensation law for three years. 1 : - -- ?r " Wednesday night's meeting, one of a series being held through out the state, was attended .by about 175 persons. W. IL Baillie, manager of the Salem employ ment office, opened the session, which was conducted by Silas Galser, UCC administrator. .: Speakers Included' Thome Hammond, supervisor of training, who outlined changes In the law (Turn to Page 2, Cot. 7) orial Rex Putnam, state superinten dent of public instruction Is to speak on The American Way"! as the principal address of Sa lem's Memorial day celebration. Friday's program was announced Wednesday night by CoL C A. Robertson, chairman of the Me morial day committee of the Fed eration of Patriotic Orders. The GAR and American Le gion circle services are planned In City View cemetery In the morning, services from the; mtereounty bridge at 1 p. m followed by the parade and ceremonies from the courthouse steps or la the armory, In the event of rain. Various lnstitu-. tiens are to observe the day , with services. Program at the war monument n rape Mem FEi' . Savs V t Jutrality Act Stays j a, ; Elaborates Upon Speech, Reveals j New Factors 1 WASHINGTON, May 28.P) Contending that the neutrality act in no way infrinees urjon the nation's newly reasserted policy of insisting upon the freedom of the seas, President Roosevelt disclosed Wednesday that he sees no reason for re pealing or changing that law.' i I addition ; he made it clear that despite the renewed deter mination, to see Great Britain through to victory expressed In his speech of Tuesday night, the administration will continue to keep American flag ships out of British and other . belligerent ports. . - While virtually the entire world excitedly argued the impli cations of Tuesday night's ad dress, Mr. Roosevelt followed it up with an unscheduled press conference, In which he elabor ated upon some of his points and brought new factors into the dis cussion. . . Convoys In the old sense were outmoded, he said, because while they had only submarines 1 to deal with in the World war, merchant ships must now be protected from submarines, sur- ! faeo raiders and airplane Umb- crs. The patrol ships now comb- ring the 'Atlantic are endeavor ing to ascertain where any sub- i marine, piano or raider la at any : given time, he said, and while they can't do it 100 per. cent, they grow more, effective every ,. day. - 5 While an overall shortage of steel is in prospect the president reported, there is an ample sup ply for defense purposes. But be cause there is not enough to fill civilian needs, certain priorities have to be applied , to the steel industry, he Indicated. The president said no additional action was contemplated at this time to implement his call for a cessation of strikes and his re quest that capital and labor abide by the decisions of impartial boards. But he went on to say that if strikes continue, some ac tion will have to be taken. This was not said, he added, as a threat Be announced that he had signed legislation designed to prohibit the exportation from the Philippine Islands of arti cles or commodities of strategic al value to the defense effort Licenses for such exports win be Issued by the high commis sioner of the Islands, acting for . the secretary of state. Several times, Mr. Roosevelt re (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Valley Flood Control Gets More Funds WASHINGTON, May 28-(PH Authorization for expenditure of an additional $11,000,000 on the Willamette valley flood control project was approved by the house flood control committee, Rep. Mott (R-Ore.) said Wednes-: day. " ' I The flood control bd will be introduced soon. An appropriation bill will be necessary to make the funds available if the authoriza tion bill passes. Congress provided $11,000,000 in 1938 to start the project, estl mated to cost $64,000,000 ulti mately. Day and west steps of the courthouse, or armory, is in charge of B. . "Kelly Owens, president of the federation. Invocation and bene diction are to be given by Rev. P. W. Eriksen, opening remarks by Gov. Charles A. Sprague. The Gettysburg, address will be given by John Carlson, and Gen. Lo gan's orders No. 11 by Donald Barrick.. Salem school children will sing "America." The Hags will be massed on the steps. Schedule for the day Is: 10 a. nv GAR circle, in charge of Woman's Relief corps and Sons of Union Veterans, Commander L. "P. Bennett Cornelia Strayer and Loris Harlan of VFW auxil iary Juniors will place wreaths. Margaret Fessenden and Mrs. Florence Small will sing. Program, Willamette Co-Eds Know Jwiv to Fly V. L If one of the two Willamette coeds shown with Dr. Kenneth McLeod of the university faculty, above, ' ever has airplane engine trouble while cloud hopping, she can get out and fix It At least she can solve the problem of the magneto which Dr. McLeod, ground instructor for the CAA program, b ex- plaining. The girls, June Earle at the left with 19 flying hours, and Jessie May Buhndorf with 22 hours I nthe ah, are the only two coeds from Willamette to enter the instruction course. Both have soloed. Statesman. staff photo,: - . - . - I - i FDR Won't Use Present Power Germany Scoffs at Roosevelt's f Arguments" Spraiue, Others Back JL - O Object Said To Startle US Citizens WASHINGTON, May 28-P) President Roosevelt Wednesday disclaimed -any present inten tion to exercise i the extraordi nary powers which became his with his proclamation declaring the existence of a full state of national emergency. , To put any one of these broad powers into effect he would have to issue a proclamation or execu tive order, he told a press con ference, and no such document is now in preparation or contem plation., r i: ' ' In response to questions he said the basis for the assumption of. powers involved ; rested in the constitution, In laws enacted by congress and in decisions of the supreme court Many congresses had recognized the president's right to declare ah emergency, he continued, and there were about eight pages of titles of laws, some dating back to the Spanish Amer ican war, granting him unusual authority in time of emergency. At the very, outset of the war abroad; he declared a limited emergency, and legal minds here were of. theopinion that there was but a vague; borderline be tween' that and fan 'unlimited" emergency. The opinion seemed to be that under the limited emer--(Turn to Page 2, CoL G), Salem Girl Honored PORTLAND, ; May 28-(P-The Arlien Johnson fellowship in so ciology at the University of Wash ington has been awarded to Mar garet Bailey, Reed college sociology- major and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.! R. Bailey of Salem, the college announced Wednesday. - Parade Plans 10:30 a. m. Legion circle In charge of Commander Ray J. Stumbo. Rev. P. W. Eriksen gives invocation and benediction at both, and Boy Scouts of troop nine police both circles. : 1 p jn.-Water service at bridge in honor of sailors, marines and airmen. Hassenstab band plays. Philip Crary, of scout troop IS, reads "Tribute to Airmen." Floral boat to be floated down river built by Sea Scouts of ship 12 and decorated by WKC . ; 1:15 p. mj AiTjservices'ot bridge. Airplane S drops : flowers and wreaths into river. ' . 1JS Assembly at Marion Square for parade. Staff com prises 5UJ. Miller B. Hay den. marshal; Lieut George. Bag naJL chief of staff: Capt Paul 1-f Governor of j j Oregon Tells Speech Fietc s Gov. Charles A. Spraguo sawf little new In Pres. Franklin D. 1 Roosevelt's "unlimited emer-i geney" address to : the nation Tuesday night but ho Intends I - to continue to support the chief executive's polky of aid to thol democracies, ho said Wednes-i day. . -. . : I It Is my opinion that the f address wont satisfy the Inter-1 ventlonlsts because he didn't j pun any triggers, Gov. Spraguo I added. "It wont satisfy the tso- latkmista because it Is another step toward , war. All we have to do now is to wait for some- i 'body to commit' an overt act! and we will be in the war. t i "The speech wont scare Hit- f ler.- ' - ' f ,1 The governor expressed' thef belief the entire situation ' is Just the same as It was before the speech was made, explain-1 (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) 'I Judge Hewlett Funeral Held; , ! i I : The great and the near great, state and county officials, old per- sons and farm folk, filled the WJ T. Rigdon company chapel Wed-I nesday afternoon to pay final tribute to Leroy Hewlett Marion county judge who died Monday morning following a long illness, i . Music for .the simple services was provided by Prof.,T. & Rob erts, organist and Newell Will iams, soloist The Rev. . Guy Ll Drill officiated, and 'concluding services were held at Oty View cemetery. . Tharalson, ., adjutant and all officers of the US army not otherwise detailed." -, Order of march is: Section one: Staff, color guards from army recruiting station, 're viewing ' party, Salem - municipal band, t ' .-' ;" v. I I. Section two: Sherman Nelson of USWV commanding, massed col ors of veterans' organizations USWV firing, squad, all veterans; Sons of Veterans of GAR and Sons of tLe Legion. ; ' j : j .' Section three: Ray Stumbo of Legion . commanding, auxiliary flags massed and carried by Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts, Woman's Relief corps, Ladies of the GAR, uatJgnxen : ox veterans, . sons ,of Veterans auxiliary, - S p a n i s h ' American War auxiliary. Amer-J An .rTMirililWWlW US Policy German Jrress Says Nothing New in Talk BERLIN, Thursday, May 29-(i'P)-Germany's controlled press, apparently acting on a tip from higher-ups,: today unanimous ly lashed out at President Roosevelt's speech as "a typical product of his Jewish sugge ters" and said nothing' new was contained in it - "One can only laugh about the president's arguments, Adolf ,j (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) . Draft Galls 15 Youths From Salem v.'i-i .-I - ' ' -: ' ' ' . Names of IS men to be inducted into military service June 18; as the; largest single contingent to be drafted out of Salem thus far were announced - Wednesday by Marion county local board No. 1. " The . 15, of whose order num bers range from .745 to 964, are: . Robert Lorimer - Skewis, Lyle Delbert Cave, Walter . Charles Lebengood, Leonard Dell Van Vleck, Francis Harold Tanner, Eugene Harvey Strickland, .Fred Junior ' Nicholls, Paul . Clifford Johnston, Edgar Joseph Kolln, George Otis Coster, Harry Leslie Palleson, Maurice Arthur Blue, John Wilmer DorreU. Roy Her bert DobelL Ut and William La moin Neimeyer, the latter a vol unteer. ''- '; :- - They have been ordered to re port to the Salem armory at I av m June 18 far transportation to the Portland induction station. noun lean. War Mothers, Daughters of American Revolution, Veterans- of Foreign Wars auxiliary and daughters, American Legion aux iliaries. Disabled War Veterans auxiliary. : Section four: Phil Ringle com manding; Hassenstab band, Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, Girl Scouts, all school children. ;-r - Section five: Don Madison -; commanding,' high school band. Salem Cherrians. Salvation Ar my, Eagles and auxiliary, pe , lice reserves. American Ked , Cross,. Maccabees, other frater , nal and . civic ' organixations, .Meismger band. ; ; line of march is south on Com- 1 meraai street to state, east on I State to Church, north on Church (Turn to Page 2. CoL 4) ced Germans British TTT -r ; 7f Breaks London Says Allied Pos itioii Dangerous; E v acu at i on Is Seen French Get Hitler Oheli on Rebuilding of Air Force; English Subs Are Active . v r (By The Associated Press) ! ' .;; ": . - I i' ' . . ' ' - -f '- . ,!!' Nazi! dive-bombers sank five; British transports in Crete island's Suda bay and inflicted heavy casualties on British and Greek troops attempting to board them, Berlin reported earlj today (Thursday). - ' JL Two' other transports were reported damaged. German opinion was that the final victorious stage of the in vasion of Crete was at hand, and; London admitted the position of British-Greek defenders was dangerous. - f Great Troop ) Only One Fatality in Movrhcnt 122,000,; .sidicrj iiSoutii ) I. ; By JACK BEARWOOD Special to Tho Statesman CAMP I H U N T E R . LIGGETT, Calif- May 28 The greatest mo torized march In far west military history, in which 22,000 soldiers caravaned more than 1,100 miles from Fort Lewis, Wash., was com pleted Wednesday night with the amazing record of only one traf fic fatality. . Officers, on the basis of actuari al tables,: had expected between eight and ten deaths. - The truck movement which started onMay 19, finished when the command car of Oregon's 162nd infantry rolled into the hill encircled Valley where nearly 35, 000 troops of the 3rd and 41st di visions ninth army corps troops were encamped Wednesday night The so a r e h of Fort Lewis troops participating la tho war department's biggest summer maneuvers since the World war,' will end: at It ul Wednesday when tho last seven of 27 troop trains arrive at San-Lucas and San Ardo. The men will be trucked 23 miles into camp, v The 41st division, backboned by former national guardsmen from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon tana, and ; Wyoming, came through the hazardous movement without a fatal accident The 3rd, moving over a more westerly route with ninth corps trucks, had one fatality when a 7th infantryman was crushed to (Turn to Page 2, CoL t) Paul j Uaus&f Column There Is u fellow in Decatur, DL, named Cal Waggoner who Is notable simply because for 35 years he has been betting; , his friends it would rain on May 10. It did rain on May 10 in Decatur, 111 . this year, so he won his ten dollars. It is a good thing he doesnt live in Oregon, though, or everybody would call him sure thing better and he couldnt place a dime. . ... - ' There IS a man In Oklahoma City named John Workman. All be did to get his name in the pa pers uus jmontn was nave a dream. He dreamed he was In a terrific fight with any number of grisly villains. So he reached under his pillow, grabbed his pis tol and shot himself in tho leg. , . In San Francisco there Is a, man named . Phillip Schmidt ; Ee got tn tho public eye by run ning through- red light He , was acquitted, though, wheal ho told the Judge that his. pet seal .fat the, back, seat broke loose, : swarmed; all over him and dis tracted Lis attention, -, Donald Kobs lives in Minneap olis. Ho drove a car ten miles. In to a ditch and called a wrecker. (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) - Trek Complete (amiiim Defense I TT Iff on lisle v Presumably outnumbered and certainly exhausted under what London called the appalling strain of the longest concentrated bomb ing attack ever withstood by fight ing men they were forced back from the Cretan capital of Canea and left in av position- of obvious perfl. Imperiled, too, it appeared, Was the nearby base of Suda Bay --the probable, point ft exit Jl an evacuation Is' to come. - .i p The GeraanWfJt.foinratnd which In all the t days of flrhtins- had Wen extraordinar ily reserved in making claims, said resistance had broken, 'and claimed that a British at tempt to flee by sea had been broken up by German war- J planes. Berlin reported tho j (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Special Meet Of Council ' Seen Unlikely ii - j ? ; f Mayor; W, W. Chadwick re turned to his office Wednesday alter ten days spent visiting hii hotel properties in southern Ore gon, but there appeared little likelihood that he would be re quested to . call a special council meeting for selection of a con sulting engineer for the sewage disposal project and for calling bids on the $200,000 worth of sewage disposal bonds authorized by the voters. 1. 1 ' j Aiiirnia uuaa uregg, Chairman of tho council sewer ago and drainage committee, s said Wednesday night that the matters would probably be left until the regular council session Sloa' next Monday. JA special meeting might be re quested, he added, if matters rela tive to the bond issue could be put in shape before Saturday. He said City Attorney Lawrence N. Brown doubts whether this can be done. " The sewage and drainage com mittee holds sealed proposals from three engineering firms, but has decided to open them at a meeting of the general council In stead of -in committee. Ship hikers Told to Stay JSAN ntANdsCO, May 28- -Striking AFL shipyard machin ists were told to "hold your picket lines tight" in a message Wednes day from a unio nbfficial in Wash Intgon, who also said he had been "accorded brutal treatment by the Senate' - ..... ;j I Tom Howard, financial secre tary of the union, said the message came from E. F. Dillon, union business agent, who appeared Wednesday before the senate do fen so investigating committee during an Inquiry Into' the CIO AFL machinists strike against , 11 San Francisco area shipyards, - ' j, i , King Prisoner Year '; V ; . BRUSSELS, Ocan?i?4 Eettn, May 28HP)-King: Lecrcl J com pleted bis first year as a relative ly comfortable prisoner of war Wednesday without learning any thing, definite as to the fats cf Belgium or his crown. . 1