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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1941)
.-.FAGS S3 TEe o: ZOH f b 1 A i' -lATt. dilem. Citron. !Tirlcry rTcinitog, fScry; lfy Former Riding Academy Man Starts Terms Under two seven-year sentences running consecutively, Cecil F. Sharp, knnra here as James Bell, was dressed in at San Quentia prison this month, the Marion county sheriff - office was In formed Wednesday. I i ' Sharp, who as- Bell operated a riding academy oh the, South Riv er toad and left suddenly in 1939 allegedly taking with him consid erable riding k equipment belong ing to other persons, ad oriental rug and ther Items not his own, has "managed to stay out 21 years," he told Sheriff A. C. Burk In Los Angeles ten day ago when Burk talked with him in a jail there. " - '. " . ' Three bench warrants Issued In November, 1939, ara out for Sharp here, charging that . he obtained money under false pretenses, ob tained property by false pretenses and larceny by bailee. In Loi An geles, where the law caught up with him this spring, ha was tried for forgery and for use of a fic titious name. The woman known here as Mrs. Bell, was arrested with him in southern California, and as Ruth Alberta Lee Is serving a term at a woman's reformatory, according to information from California of ficials. ' Coastwise Ships Sought by US in Tonnage Drive SAN FBANCISCO, May 28-) -E J. Bradley, Pacific coast rep resentativc of the maritime com mission's division of emergency shipping, announced Wednesday that coastwise operators would be asked to turn over about half of their 60-odd ships for operation in offshore trade and to Alaska and Panama. - , Bradley said he had called a conference of about 21 coastwise ship owners for' 10 a. m. here Thursday. He returned from Washington Wednesday. "Such action is . necessary," he said, "to free the larger coast wise vessels for transfer to other trades and for carrying vital de fense materials to American fac- . tories. "The president has already asked for: 2,000,000 tons of ship , ping and this is one of the ways we can secure the necessary ships." i I Removal of half the coastwise fleet will put an additional bur den on coast railroads and truck ing companies. Coast shippers handled 4,503,258 tons of water borne, cargo last year. i j The merchant marine and ship ping act of 1930-40 gives the marl time commission authority to requisition or purchase any American vessel in event of a na tional emergency declared by the president Asked how soon the ships would be required, Bradley said, "as soon as possible." i Forty three- coastal schooners are in operation this week. Eleven already have been chartered in offshore trades, and another 11 are laid up, according to the ship owners' association of the Pacific coast i WASHINGTON, May 21-JP)-The interstate commerce commis sion refused Wednesday to rer mit intercoastal steamship lines to increase freight rates on lum ber . and r shingles from Pacific ports to Atlantic and gulf ports. The carriers proposed to in crease the rate on lumber from $16 to-$17 per 1000 feet and the rate on shingles from 60 to 82.9 cents per-100 pounds. British Release Picture of Hood Destroyed in Naval Conflict s , ' , - - - - ' ? ' -1 ' . -f i. ' ' ' ,. .. - r i- Y I; . tu.-. - : . rrwr vr T;vv: T :: : . o: . ...... ; . . - -wwv- i , y . -rV .. . -: fr: ::. v;w. .""?".. :.:.: - 'r - " : -- --.:. vhtm nioinr nf ih hnre battle cruiser. H-M.S. Hood, the larrest war- I oat ef the naval battle rreatest ef the war. The German battleship ... in . . . . ... . . . I w t . . j t . j nw iv. njui kin .final dMifATM in a m& Dime nir uwuiui wild bhilm di ine DiuniRi. nanui sni uw kbuuihsoi i srctuw wuu u German navy, has last been released by the British. Another British I destruction, but was sunk Tuesday. The Hood, fully loaded, displaced battleship was se badly damaged, the Germans claim, it was forced 1 4M09 tons, was 886 feet long and was armed with eight 15-ineh guns. Marfon (unty Persons Named On USO Board Twenty two appointments to the general committee of the Marion county division of the United Ser vice organizations were announced Wednesday by the coordinating committee, headed by Guy N. Hickok. Governor Charles A. Sprague is honorary chairman of the Mar ion county division. , . The appointments were: - W. W.IChadwlck, Paul Wallace. T. M. Kicks, Floyd Miller, Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead, Harry Scott, Harry A. Brown, Irl Mc- Sherry, lira. Karl Becke, Tom A. Windishar, Bay Stumbo, Doug las McKay. George W. Roasman, W. J. Roberts, Hollis Ransome, J. P. Jones, S. Parry Rose, Gil bert Schartsick, Grant Murphy, Sales Students Receive Awards At Graduation Certification of award were presented to ten Co-operative Re tail Selling students by Frans Bennett, superintendent of Salem schools, Wednesday evening at the graduation dinner held at the Sa lem hotel. - This is the first vocational class to be conducted for young work ers in distributive occupations by the Salem public schools in; co operation with Salem retailers. Rex Wirt acted as toastmaster and Informal talks were given by Lavona Kilgore, Donald Field, Mae Klnichek, Laura Greenbaum, Mildred Lindeman, Edith Lund- auist John Lindeman and Lucille Roberts. These talks described the application that had been made of class instruction to work experiences. Oscar Paulson, state vocational director, pro tern, spoke Inform ally on the activities of the Dis tributive Education service in Oregon. Cooperating business men Who attended the dinner and participated in the discussion at the close of the program were: F. E. Miller, O. E. Price, K. J. Golliet, G. E. Bissell, J. N. Cham bers, Adolph Greenbaum, H. J. Schoen, Mrs. W. L. Allen, E. W. Allin, Lawrence Balch, H. A. Fair- man, D. R. Adams. Mrs. Frankie Schmitz, state su pervisor of Distributive Educa tion, Mrs. Marguerite Willcutt, the class instructor, and Miss Violet Swanson, Director of , the Part Time Continuation school were also present Barbara Lowery, Mary Cham berlain, Marjorle Mack, Margaret Sorahan and Dean Morrison re ceived honorable mention from Superintendent Bennett for their participation In the class actlvi ties. 1 rt e i d e n auecial tamers i JL BeSubje therewith, than the rate! and charges which have been filed with the utilities commissioner. the new law reads. Special carriers transporting property for compensation on and after June 14 of this year will be subject to the transportation rate regulation, the state utilities department announced Wednesday, The new 1941 legislative act ex cludes from rate regulations those special carriers transporting saw dust, hog fuel and cord wood or while ' these carriers trucks are being used exclusively in trans porting i metallic ores, concen trates or raw non-metallic prod ucts, Whether crushed or other wise, for mines, pits or quarries or in transporting machinery, equipment, supplies to or from mining, pit or quarry operations. A special carrier transport ing on his ewn tracks property ef which he Is owner er per forming operations which are In fact those ef private carrier, will not be subject to the rate regulation. Special carriers, other than those mentioned, must file prior to June 14 a tariff or contracts to become effective June 15, stating piainiy the rates, charges and practices of the carrier. . These carriers shall not charge. demand, collect or receive a great er, less or different remuneration for the transportation of property, Vitamin C Content Of Berries Noted A break for strawberry grow ers, as well as those who have a yen for this fruit, has come with the discovery by food specialists that strawberries are almost as good a source of vitamin C as to mato Juice. Hereafter when one partakes of his favorite dish of . strawberry shortcake or strawberries and cream he. need not feel merely that he is pleasantly satisfying his ap petite, . but can feel the virtue which comes from eating some thing that is good for him nutri tionally. Some are even going so M - i A. . M. A. t A. tvm a f ias as u? say inai it wiu De pat riotic to eat strawberries in sea son and leave the tomato juice for defense food purposes. 1 fV7 I3JSW Strawberry fft e a neaaquari icrs Hons o! Hell Filled Boxes ODAHGES Sunkist Each &0 LETTUCE, j Jumbo Hetds for POTATO CHIPS ccnii flakes' n. 52) (J LEIIOIIS Sunkist Each 10 T0IIAT0ES IIET7 PEAS Telephone Lb. DAISIIIS Seedless - 2i L Lb. pkg .l.sd.P ) for PEAS' No. 2 Cans 250 Dili n-!3 Fc:!h rj. 20c Gallon tux : or PayWiU ctto Reffiil ations little Mother Of Prisons to Visit Here Mrs. Maud Balllngton Booth, president and eo-founder of the Volunteers of America, Is to be at, the Oregon atate prison today. according to word from the Port' land office of Volunteers. Known as the "little mother" of the pris ons, she will conduct a service for the men. She is to be greeted by Mayor W, W, Chadwick and to have luncheon with Governor Charles A. Sprague and members of the state narole board as ffuests of the or ior any service In connection warden. Production of Planes Growing Says Air Chief PORTLAND, Ore, May 23-P) -Plane production in the United States is now at the level of 1400 a .month, including every type, Major General Howard Brett, chief of the army air corps, said here Wednesday. 1 Continued increase in produc tion depends on future plans, General Brett said while inspect ing the new Portland air base. . "If we go Into big bombers we naturally will not get ao many in numbers, but the effectiveness wm be there. The trend seems to be toward bombers with a radius of 1500 miles or more, but with more speed and performance than the mammoth B-19 which awaiting a test flight in Calif or nia." - 1 Pilots are being turned out at the rate of about ! 800 every 10 weeks, lie said. Use of troop gliders is being studied by the air corps, the gen era! said. I 111 at Broadmead TJNIONVALEMrs. Ivan Craw ley. Broadmead, former residcnl of this locality, is ill at her home and confined to bed a portion of the time. Mrs, Mary Ball, Ralph OUbert, Mrs. Ralph Gilbert, r- ,. The aim of the organization la to provide services not otherwise available to men in military serv ice. It Includes the IYUCA, t h t National Catholic Community service, The Salvation Army, the YWCA, Jewish Welfare board, and National Traveler's Aid as sociation . Employers Ask Law Exemption PORTLAND, May! 28-ff)-Com- panies . supplying 'and hauling crushed rock have asked season al exemption from the federal wage-hour law. ; Harold" Stein," assistant director of the - wage-hour ' law, received the testimony of the" City Motor Trucking company of -Portland and the A. G. Held company of Rainier, which will be forwarded to Washington.. Company spokesmen said that To Celebrate Promotion on Army Pay Bay FOKT STEVENS, Mass. May It ()-The pest's wealthiest sol dier Private Wlnthrep KeckeJ feller will wait vntn pay day. to celebrate his first army pro motion and a pay boost to $31 per month The t6th Infantry private's recent award of the single stripe ef a private first class was re vealed Wednesday. A friend-Inquired w h e n the celebration would be held and Rockefeller replied "Net before payday. the crushed stone industry was classified in some northern states aa seasonal, permitting working of employes as much as 12 hours a day for as long aa 14 weeks a year without overtime pay. Corner N. Commercial and Chemeketa Streets Phone 7335 Salad Dressing or Sandwich Spread 250 Quart Quarts Each . Ico Cream 250 Crackers 24b. Wafers Peaches Fancy Fruit No. Yi can fj C Each A DP Pancake Flour 290 94b. Baa; Pectin The same fine as last year, Qtsn ea. quality 290 Galsnp ,250 bottles 30 Our Delivery Service Can't De Deal Every 15 Minutes ts i Our Specialty i SUGAR For Canning 1004b. .ce Base . vii cmsco 3-lb. 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