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An advisory state council
. Intended "to play an important
s part in helping Oregon make its
contribution to the national de
fense" was appointed by Gov.
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JERROLD. OWEN
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. Charles A. Sprague Monday and
Jerrold Owen, executive secre
tary of the World war veterans'
state aid commission designated
as state defense coordinator.
v Owen, originally a newspaper
man, will retain his position with
the veterans commission but will
devote the major portion of his
time to the defense assignment.
-.The governor named Ross T.
Mclntyre, Portland, as vice-chair
man of the council, with the
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Paul Mauser's Column
One of our most indefatigable
scouts is one of those scurrying
gentlemen who run the pumps
behind a soda fountain. There is
a lot of talk passing around a soda
fountain and we consider him one
of our best placed "spies."
Unfortunately, however great
the intake, the outgo is small. We
can never slow down this par
ticular scout enough to get an
Intelligible report. He is the
bottleneck in our vast informa
tion service and we ' are afraid
we are going to have to let him
go.
We go up to him with that look
in our eye and say out of the side
of our mouth, "What's cookin'."
He looks up from drawing
schooner of suds and says,' "Just
a minute. I've got one that'll kill
yuh."
So we wait a minute while
he serves three customers and
another minute while he pre
pares a doable snper exag
gerated malted milk and he
finally comes over to us. wiping
his hands on his apron, and
says, "WelL there were a couple
of feUows on a bridge and they
were thinking of . . pardon
me a moment.1
-And he goes off to jerk out
nulck coke for a steady customer.
Pretty soon, if trade is slack.
he conies back and starts, "There
j were a couDle of leuows on
: hridire and one of them said to
the other . .
A cutie comes in and orders
; something that isn't good for her
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Justice
Owen Heads
City Council
Mulls Issues
Postpones Parking
Meters and Alarm
System; Open Bids
Parking meters remained an al
most unspoken subject before the
Salem city council Monday night
as it indefinitely postponed a
resolution authorizing the city
recorder to advertise for. bids for
the penny-nickel machines.
The motion for killing the reso-
ution was made by its chief spon
sor. Alderman George Belt, chair
man of the police committee, who
explained that another parking
meter resolution' is to be intro
duced, at the next council meetings
Belt said the new resolution will
call for only a trial installation of
the meters, possibly for a six
month period, and will provide
for installation on fewer streets
than in the original proposal.
The Salem Retail Trade bu
reau Informed the council by
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Holiday Toll
In State Six
By the Associated Press
Oregon's toll of violent deaths
over the Memorial day weekend
rose to six Sunday.
A transient, tentatively identi
fied as Oscar Johnson, was found
dead at a cascara bark peelers'
camp near Hillsboro Sunday and
Frank B. Mason, 49, was jailed
without' charge.
The body of Judson N. Gain-
ard, 70, Salem, was found beside
railroad tracks Sunday in Salem.
Three traffic accidents and a
gunshot wound claimed four
other lives earlier in the weekend.
Eight persons were injured
Sunday near Hillsboro, three of
them seriously, in a head-on car
crash.
Christ Church
Names Leader
BOSTON. June 2 John Ran
dall Dunn of Boston and Center
ville, Mass., identified for many
years with the United States im
migration service, was elected to
day as president of The Mother
Church, First Church of Christ
Scientist, at the annual meeting
of the church here. He succeeds
Margaret Matters.
Mystery Seen in Death of Salem Painterl
An autopsy to bo conducted
this morning on the body of
Judson W. Galnard Is only one '
portion of the investigation un-v
derway Into the cause of the
Salem painter's death and may
"be forerunner to further action.
District Attorney Miller B.
Ilay den said Monday.
Gainard's body was found at
approximately 4 a. m. - Sunday
where the footpath running be
tween the two deadends of Nor
way street ' crosses the railroad
tracks. 1
"Most peculiar circumstances
accompanied the death, whether
or not f out play entered the case,"
Hayden declared.
A large amount of money as-
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President-Roosevelt warned the
speech proclaiming a state of unlimited emergent yj and declaring
forces of any of the Islands of the Atlantic would Jeopardise the ultimate safety ef the United States. Ar
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Capitol Hill Ponders
"Blanket Power" Bid
War Department Asks President Be
Permitted to Take Over Property
of Any Kind for US Defense f
WASHINGTON, June 2-;p)-A request by. the war depart
ment that President Roosevelt
over property "of any kfiid" for
reaction Monday night on Capitol
Some - legislators expressed
quick approval, others indicated
opposition, while still others would
not comment pending further
study. - '
Along with its request, the war
department sent a bill to carry it
out The. measure, it was made
known, had been approved in ad
vance by the president, the navy
and the office of production man
agement '
The authority asked was said
officially to be more sweeping
than that exercised sparingly by
President Wilson in the World
war.
In a letter to Speaker Rayburn,
Acting Secretary of War Robert
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School Board
Voting Nears
With Saturday the deadline for
filing nominating petitions, no
candidates have yet appeared to
seek, the position on the Salem
school board held for the past two
three-year terms by Percy A.
Cupper. Cupper, an attorney, said
Monday night he had not yet de
cided whether to run for reelec
tion.
The annual election is June 16,
and petitions must be filed seven
full days in advance, acceptances
five days before, or June 10, Dis
trict Clerk ConneU C. Ward stat
ed Monday.
The minimum of ten qualified
voters must sign each petition,
since the required three per cent
of the 65 voters in 1940 does not
reach ten.
sertedly carried by the man ear
ly Saturday night when he was
last reported seen alive was miss
ing when city police located the
body Sunday morning. One in
Jury and only one, a fracture at
the base of the skull was visible.!
Approximately seven feet to
the right of the footpath and some
distance below the track embank
ment where the body was found,
grass and brush were consider
ably trampled. Across the path
was found a b r o k en ball bat
whicn officers sad had not been
there long.
If the autopsy for which Dr.
Joseph Beeman, consultant on
pathology, has been called from
Portland, reveals that the 70-
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war "Is approaching the brink of the
be given blanket powers to take
defense purposes aroused a mixed
Hill. I
Happy Kitchen
Classes Open
On Wednesday
Programs at the Oregon States
man's "Happy Kitchen" cooking
schools, on Wednesday through
Friday, will be full of interesting
facts for homemakers. Cooking
and household hints will be fea
tured by Barbara X Miller, econo
mist in charge of the 2 o'clock
shows. I
Meat cookery, cake baking and
preparation of vegetables will be
featured each dayf Canning will
come in for its shae of interest,
and laundering hints will be giv
en. Family budgets are to be dis
cuss eu. !:
The latest thing m electrical ap
pliances will be demonstrated by
Miss Miller, who brings a wealth
of experience with: late model re
frigerators and ranges.
The shows are) free, and all
homemakers of the district are
invited to come and bring friends.
Mrs. Roosevelt Says
"No Gasless Sundays"
BURLINGTON, Vt, June 2-P)
-Mrs. Franklin D.' Roosevelt said
Monday she did not believe "we
will have gasless Sundays now."
The wife of the president w
answering a newsman's query for
comment on recent suggestions of
gasless Sundays as a fuel conser
vation measure, ff
year-old man died of any or
ganic ailment, an explanation
for the location and condition
ef his body may be simply that
he fell at the edge of the track
and lifted his head high enough
so that it was struck by a low
portion of a passing train, al
though even such an occurrence
might be difficult to imagine
the district attorney believes.
The force of a ' moving train
sufficient to inflict the skull in
Jury should have driven the vic
tim's face into the sharp gravel
so harshly as to have left abra
sions, Hayden declared, but no
scratches were found. The., body
was .found lying face down on
the edge of the ties,. not on the
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western hemisphere itself la his
the control or occupation by nasi
Gigantic War
"Games" Start
FiW Soldiers Hurt
in Truck Accident;
35,000 in "Fight"
By JACK BEARDWOOD
Special to The Statesman
CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT,
Calif June 2-Machine gun fire
rattled in the darkness along the
twisting course of the San An
tonio river Monday night as op
posing forces moved toward full
contact with each other in gigantic
war maneuvers.
The war games; designed to
whip the army into fighting shape, a
began Monday with the "reds" of .
the 41st division, and 9th army
corps moving up for conflict with!
the "blues" of the 3rd division.
Five soldiers were hart three j
seriously, in the first major ae
' cldent since their arrival here.
A 3rd division signal company
track toppled ever steep 75
foot embankment Into ' a dry '
creek bottom after It hit a soft
shoulder on a curve.
Preliminary skirmishes were
only a half hour old when a scout
ing detachment of Oregon's-186th
infantry captured four scouts from
the 3rd reconnaisance troop. An
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Supreme Court
Acts in Brief
By the Associated Press '
In Its final session of the
term, the supreme court:
Broadened federal control
over waterways In upholding
constitutionality of Denlson
(Tex.) dam. 1 1 .
Held Elklns act prohibiting
discriminatory ' concessions to
shippers applies to "any per
sen", as well as railroads.
- Ordered reargument of ' con-
- tempt of court cases Involving
Los Angeles Times and Harry
'Bridges. ' 'v -
rail, in a position difficult to con-'
nect with any txain Injury, since
the moving force should have
thrown it somewhat aside and
might have sent it down the grade
incline, he said. -
Whatever the autopsy reveals,
there is the question of the miss
ing money to be answered. Cecil
Walker, bus driver,, told police
that shortly after 8 o'clock Sat
urday night GamarcL; widely
known in Salem where he had
lived for a number of years and
where he had recently served as
president : of the local painters'
union, boarded his bus and; in
paying his fare revealed that he
was carrying, a considerable
amount of paper money.
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US Court
Head Savs
He Is 111
FDR Accepts His
Resiimation in
Sympathetic Note
HYDE PARK, NY, June 2-(P)
-President , Roosevelt accepted
Monday .night the request of
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes that he be permitted to
retire-from the supreme court
on July 1.
The chief justice, in a letter
made public by the temporary
White House, informed the presi
dent that "consideration of health
and age makes it necessary that I
should be relieved of the duties
which I have been discharging
with increasing difficulty .
The president telegraphed Jus
tice Hughes that he was "deeply
WASHINGTON, June tHJPi
John T. Snter, veteran supreme
court reporter for the Associa
ted Press, obtained his third big
"heat" Monday night on the re
tirement of a member of the
high tribunal.
It was he who first announced
to the world that Chief Justice
Hughes had sent a letter to the
White House saying he was re
linquishing his e e u r t duties
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' Previously, S a t en lad ob
tained beats on the retirement
of Justice James C. McEeynolds
and of the late Willis Van De
vanter. j
distressed" by the letter and that
it was his "every inclination" to
beg him to remain. But he said
"deep concern for your health and
strength must be paramount."
- Hashes' retirement created a
second vacancy on the supreme
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HarryHophins
Gives Reasons
Nazis to Lose
NEW YORK, June 2-(iP)-Harry
Hopkins, in charge of the lend-
lease program and confidante of
President Roosevelt, believes Hit
ler will not win the war because:
(1) He lacks real sea power.
(2) His air strength Is slowly
waning.
(1) He cannot match econom
ic resources being hurled against
him by Great Britain and the
United States.
(4) j American Interest is such
that he wQl not be allowed to
"consolidate bis Ill-gotten
gains."
Writing In the July issue of the
American magazine, Hopkins, who
went to London as the president's
personal observer, acknowledged
the widespread and thorough effi
ciency of the nazi war machine.
Chrysler Hikes Wages
DETROIT, June 2-CflVWage
increases and bonuses totaling
approximately $13,000,000 for
,70.000 Chrysler corporation wor
kers " were announced - Monday
night at the conclusion of nego
tiations between representatives
of the United Automobile Wor
kers-CIO and the corporation.
on
Galnard Indicated. Walker
. said, that he was going to visit
friends living on Norway
street, east of the Capitol street
intersection and across the
tracks. Whether he had spent
some time with them that night
before an apparently violent
"finis was written to his life,
police did not know when Hay
dea gathered his information. '
However, at 11:45 Saturday
night a train crew reported hav
ing seen a body lying by the
tracks near the fairgrounds sid
ing. A search of .that vicinity by
city police proved , fruitless. At
approximately. .4 a. m, Hayden
was told, another crew reported
the exact location in which police
Railroad
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Suez Canal
Resigns
CHARLES EVAN HUGHES
Weygand Meets
WitHPetain
Syria! Leader Flies
to Vichy as Conflict
in Near East Seen
VICHY, unoccupied France, June
2-(5)-Gen. Maxime Weygand,
commander of the only formidable
French army units left intact by
the armistice with German, con
ferred for a half hour Monday
with Chief of State Petain only a
few hours after a Mussolini-Hitler
meeting at Brenner pass. "
Weygand. head of the French:
forces in north Africa and for
mer commander of the French
' middle eastern army in Syria,
' arrived unannounced by plane
presumably to discuss the next
axis moves in the eastern Med
iterranean and a Berlin radio re
' port that ' a state of stere had
been declared in eastern part of
Syria, a French mandate.
(In Ankara, it was reported that
German motorized infantry had
been landed by coastal freighters
at the Syrian port of Latakia.)
Weygand's flying visit came as
the collapse of Rashid Ali Al Gai
lani's anti-British revolt in Iraq
left the British forces there with a
free hand on the Iraq-Syrian fron
tier for the first time since the
British proclaimed Syria "enemy
occupied territory.
Before Weygand was recalled
Trom Syria last spring to replace
General Maurice Gamelin as
commander of the e o 1 1 a p s Ing
French army in Europe, he had
worked out with the British
plans for Joint allied defense of
the near east. '
(The German wireless, in a
broadcast heard in New York said
Weygand and Petain discussed
British attacks on French colonial
possessions and measures Hto be
taken in view of the unfriendly
British attitude toward Vichy.")
Bomber Crash
e Seen
SAN DIEGO, Calif, June 2.-()-A
$250,000 British Liberator
bomber crashed in San Diego bay
Monday, killing four aircraft .ex
perts under circumstances which
aroused immediate Suspicions of
sabotage. -! ;
A .' Consolidated Aircraft cor
poration spokesman stated there
were "evidences of sabotage," but
did not specify as to the evidence.
FBI and other investigating agen
cies were working on the case.
found the body, lying in the foot
path at the west side of the west
rails. Thirty-five to 40 feet west
of the body was found the man's
hat, undamaged by any blow. Al
though no i money was found ' on
Gainard't body, there remained a
small, inexpensive watch.
Stm another note is added to
the mystery, Hayden said, by
the report of a woman residing,
on Norway west of the tracks
and net far from the scene of
the Incident er accident. At
about. 3 aw in she told officers,
she heard loud discussion out
side her window, got up and
shut it ' -':rr-- -
If the body reported acen by
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Fair with seme cloudiness
today and Wednesday. Max
temp. Monday-74; sola. 4X.
Wind north west, partly
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Near East
Battle Is
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mill
liient
. Motorizedrmy
. : Of Nazis Lands
In French Syria
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eThe great belligerents moved
quietly last (Monday) night to
ward a showdown in the middle
east, and it appeared that the
axis was ready at last to make
a direct thrust at the Suez canal.'
German motorized troops
have begun disembarking in
French Syria, at the port of Lata
kia, it was disclosed, and the first
troop ships to arrive on May
29, even . before the conquest of
Crete brought armored cars and
mobils field-guns. ;
With London informants unof
ficially acknowledging that Crete's
loss knocked out the Mediterran
ean itself as a part of the Imperial
lifeline, the British removed wom
en and children from the island ol
! Cypress against an aerial assault
expected at any hour.
London was understood to be
preparing Immediate m 1 1 1 1 ary
action against Syria both in the'
hope of preventing a major nasi
' entrenchment . sad - to hearten
Turkey against the' hour when
the axis knocks on her doors -for
passive or active help la the de
veloping offensive on, Egypt.
Telephone and telegraph com
municatlon was cut between
Egypt and Syria. .
The French for, their part ap
peared headed for a fateful-decision
as to how far to cooperate
with the nazis, for Gen. Maxime
Weygand, the commander of the
still considerable French forces in
North Africa, hurried by special
plane to Vichy to see Marshal
Philippe Petain, the chief of state.
Weygand's talk with Petain oc
curred only a few hours after an
other and a bigger conference:
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Death Takes
Lou Gehrig
(Complete Story, Sports Page)
.
Larrupin Lou Gehrig, the big
stick of the New York Yankees'
attack for 14 years, died Monday
night i
Dimple-cheeked Lou, the idol
of thousands of American youths
throughout the world as well as
all, baseball fans, succumbed to
the disease that necessitated his
retirement from baseball in 1939.
NEW YORK. June 2-P)-Babe
Ruth, the great Bambino of base
ball who with "Ironhorse" Lou
Gehrig held the sports spotlight
as New York Yankee players for
more than a decade, expressed
sorrow Monday night at Gehrig's
death and said he believed "the
boy hustled too much for his own
good."; . r
"I never knew a fellow who
lived a cleaner life." Ruth said.
"He was a clean living boy, a good
baseball player, a great hustler.
I tlrwik the boy hustled too much
for his own good. He Just wanted
to win all the time. His death wag
a great loss to baseball. i
War News Briefs
"NEW YORK. June S-(Tues-day)-or-The
Berlin radio In ft
Spanish language broadcast
heard here by NBC early today
said that the German air force
next will attack Cyprus, Haifa
and Alexandria, British near
eastern points. , j
A NORTHEAST ENGLISH
COAST TOWN. -Tuesday, Jvv
Bombs. dropped front
German planes killed an unde
termined number 'of persons to
day and wrecked a number of
houses in a short raid which ap
parently was ' the only, over
night raid en Great Britain.
: BERLIN,' June S;05r(Tues -day)-(P)-A
number of clrCiansj
were kCled and !njixred;2!an :
day night when Berlin was at
tacked front the air, authorized
sources sail today. .