Leadership!
Sports followers In the
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Statesman sports pates. They
know The , Statesman leads
la Its coverage of sport
news, local and national.
Weather
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with little chant e la tern
per at are. Max. temp. Wed
nesday, :."jln. 45. North
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. June 5. 1941
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Speed Buildings;
j May Hold Guard
WASHINGTON, June i-h
A cryptic remark by the army's
c o n s t r u ction quartermaster
stirred conjecture among mem'
bers of congress Wednesday
rrieht that- the United States
army will be increased to .2,
600,000 men, double the exist
ing goal of. 1,418,000.' . -
.': Brigadier General Brehon Som
ervelL". testifying before, a' house
military sub-corrimittee, said he
had ; received i instructions in, the
last 1 24 hours to rush the award
ins of contracts for construction
work totaling ""about 81,000,000,
000." He declined to go into de
tails .. - s.U
1 1 However, the general's "remarks
Were immediately interpreted j by
come legislators conversant with
army matters as meaning the war
department had decided to (in
crease the land forces to at least
2,800,000 men, and that it prob
ably would ' accomplish part' of
that; Increase by holding the na
tional guard in federal service be
yond the originally scheduled
year. 'I
It has been known for some
time that In order to plan ef
feetlvely for the housing of any
' additional troops made neces
sary by changing world eondl-
lions, the army has been sur
jrejlng possible sites for 28 new
cantonements. Congress already
provided 11500,00 for sack
, preliminary work . In an effort
, to avoid the high costs and mis
takes encountered In the orig
inal program which cost In the
i neighborhood of $800,000,000.
i Informed sources said selection
of 11 of the new sites have been
made and officials have said that
if the proposed 28 new camps
were constructed, they would ac
commodate an army double the
present" size, or approximately 3,
000,000 men. In that connection,
Gen. George C Marshall, chief of
staff, told congress early in March
that the first augmentation of the
army, 4 1 f It; became necessary,
would be to 2,800,000 men.
, One . legislator . who Is close
I to the war department said he
; had learned 'of the new con-1
v ttraction program earlier In the
; slay and asserted It meant that .
' the International situation. Is
j such that it has been deemed
wise to prepare for this new
emergency that may be - ap
proaching our shores." !- j
I While Somerville was testifying,
the maritime i commission called
i upon the Atlantic coastwise and
: gulf shipping industry to turn half
its tonnage over to the pool of
ships that is being accumulated
for national defense and aid to
Britain. . - : ;j
The operators of fourteen ship
ping companies immediately 1 set
bout arranging the details of the
transfer It involves ships totaling
pome 375,000 ! tons. As contem
plated by the president the ship
ping pool would run to 2,000,000
.tons. . ' ; ; Y- i .
J At the same time it was learned
Ambassador John G. Win ant was
making -a complete report on
Britain's war experience in a ser
ies of interviews with President
Roosevelt His report was said
to cover not only England's; mili
tary experiences but her economic
, and food situation and sociological
background. It was said to make
no mention of the Rudolph Hess
5 affair. j
Earlier, New York maritime
aonrees reported axis snbma-
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Youth to Repay
US Hospitality;
Will Join Army
PORTLAND. Juno 4 -(ff)-A
Vienna-born school i boy ar
ranged Wednesday to enlist In
the. US army "to repay the hos
pitality accorded by bis foster
country. .
Harry Klaar, 19, Grant high
school senior, came to the Unit
ed States via England In 194$,
took out his first dtlsenship
papers and entered high school
Els host and guardian, Thom
as F. Gunn, Portland, has giv
en consent to the enlistment,
Klaar said. If ' he passes his
physical examination he wQ
bo Inducted June 2$ as one of
Portland draft , board No, I's
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Aftermath Here Is part t iUg Consolidated Aircraft corporation
, $250,009 British Liber t S . . .ber being taken from San Diego bay
early this week after U v'. r.zt& Into the water in an unexplained
manner. Four men aboard uere killed Instantly and a fifth died the
next day from Injuries. ILa plane broke In two when It hit the
Plane Plant
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Strike Galled
More Than 9000 Arc
Expected to Quit; ;
Rail Raises Asked
V INGLEWOOD, : Cf,l5unef
(Jfj-W. P. Goodman,' chairman of
the CIO United Automobile Work
ers union at the North American
Aviation plant here, said Wednes
day night 9000 production work
ers would strike at 3 a. m. (PST)
Wednesday. -
Goodman , declared the strike
would close the ' huge . planj, en
gaged in manufacturing war
planes for the United States and
Great Britain. His statement cnti
elzed the national defense media
tion board for "stalling the work
ers." . Company officials announced
they would remain at the plant
all night, and the rival Aero
nautics Machinists' union of the
AFL began mobilising men in
accordance with an announce
ment last week of its west coast
chief, James Lynch, that It
would replace striking CIO
members with its own workers.
Police headquarters announced
at least 50 officers would patrol
the vicinity of the plant
The CIO Is demanding an m-
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Ickes Plans
Oil Transit
WASHINGTON, June 4 -ijff-
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
Indicated Wednesday he would
call for wider use of existing oil
tanker; facilities to combat
threatened oil shortage in the east
which may lead to "gasless Sun
days" and lower temperatures in
homes next winter.
Ickes, petroleum coordinator
for national defense, talked with
newspapermen after a conference
with President Roosevelt and said
he probably would have
some
announcement Thursday.
tie reiterated were was no
shortage of oil or gasoline but
that there was a shortage of
tanker and pipeline facilities to
transport these vital commodi
ties. :' :- . '
Salem High to Graduate
518: Commencement Tonight
- Schools of Salem closed
but the year's largest event for 918 Salem high seniors begins
at 8 o'clock tonight, commencement exercises with Dr. Walter
G. Giersbach, president of Pacific university, as principal speaker.
- Program tonight Is: -
Prelude by Genevieve Winslow
at piano; processional by high
school orchestra, directed by Ver
non Wiscarson; invocation by Rev.
Robert A. Hutchinson; high school
chorus singing three numbers, di
rected by Lena Belle Tartar and
accompanied by Carol Cook. Solo
voices are Doris Lee Anderson,
Mabel Fox, Bernice Smothers,
Betty Pugh and Bill Putnam.
Dr. Giersbach's address; vale
dictory, given by Dorothy. Eey;
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Oregon, Farm Leader
Meets With
Asserts Oregon Consumer Ready
to Resist Price Skyrocketing;
Expects Help of Goxerjanie ht
SAN , FRANCISCO, June
tive secretary of the Oregon Commonwealth Federation, Farmer
Labor organization, "conferred fori two hours Wednesday with
Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general in charge of the anti
Hauter' Column
We , have been reading about
elephants, hens and Birmingham
rollers. . "
l The elephant was one In the
New York Zoological park which
is named Alice and is 44 years
old, pretty old for an elephant
r What we read about Alice -was
how they were beginning
to think her memory was slip
ping and thought they'd test It
You know an elephant always ,
remembers, so If they found
out she didn't remember It
Would be obvious that she was -,
In a bad way.
X So they were rigging up an old-
fashioned telephone to find out if
Alice, remembers' a trick her
trainer taught her back in 1909,
when the telephone was new and
so was she, comparatively.' :.
. In the old days Alice used to
spin the telephone crank that
telephones had in thoie times,
trumpet, Into the mouthpiece and
then place the receiver to a por
tion of her ear and listen for her
master's voice.
They figured that If Alice
could remember what to do
with a telephone after St years
she still has a memory Ilk aa
elephant.
Well, that was in a Saturday
paper from New -York and we
kept looking in the papers that
came afterward and didn't find
anything about Alice and her
telephone, so we assume she got
a wrong number first off and
hung up in disgust.
: About hens we read of the one
in Berlin, McL, who was given 12
eggs to hatch and turned up
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Wednesday for the year 1940-41,
violin, solo by Kathleen Broer,
accompanied by Nell Broer. "
l Presentation of awards by
Principal Fred D. Wolf ; presen
tation of diplomas by- Supt
Frank B. Bennett; benediction by
Rev. George H. Swift; recessional
by high school orchestra. :.'Z
. President of ; the senior class
is Bob Mundt, and advisors are
Ann Boentje, Mary Sayles and
Walter Bowman. ' -
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company spokesman was quoted as
jam unless tampered with.
U S Quef
4HVtaonroe Sweetland,- execu
trust law enforcement
Sweetland said rising retail
prices were a special concern to
his group, and that he was hope
ful the indictments being return
ed In the national anti-monopoly
program supervised fi by Arnold
would not have, direct effect on
the tendency o force up prices
artifically, under cloak of the de
fense program.? 1
"Oregon consumers ire pre
pared to resist the skyrocketing :
of retail prices," he asserted,'
"and we expect the help of the
federal government In our ef
fort. ; Hard - yeen Increases fat
farm and labo income must not,
be wiped out by increased costs-
of-living as they were In the
first World war." Z ,
iThe federation . secretary ; said
Arnold, who left for Seattle late
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On President
WASHINGTON, June 4 -iPf
A second call at the White House
within a' week by Supreme Court
Justice Frank.: Murphy stirred
speculation Wednesday as to what
he and, President Roosevelt have
been discussing, . ' out oinciau
would throw nJ light on the visits.
Friends of the justice denied
rumors that he might resign to
become high commissioner to the
Philippines, a I position he held
befor he was elected governor of
Michigan In. 1938. :
Murphy left the executive man
sion by a side 'door, " avoiding re
porters waiting for him at the
front entrance.? i
NY Solon
Drops Dead
WASHINGTON, June 4 -(-
Rep. llichael Edelstein, New
York democrat; died in the arms
of a friend Wednesday a few
moments after! he had dramati
cally defended Hhe Jewish people
in a speech in the house.
The 53-yearold New-Yorker
had just replild to remarks by
Rep.-Rankin (D-Miss. criticizing
"isternaUonal Jewish bankers
and was talking with Jacob Was-
serman of Newt York In the cor
ridor outside the house chamber
when he collapsed and died, of a
heart; attack.. -I rHY'-'
Rankin told Ireporters later his
remarks "had fco reference what:
ever" to Edelstein. !
I regret exiremely his pass
ing," the Missksippian said. "He
was a good man, a good citizen
and . a worthy -i representative , of
water and Its four engines were sheared off in the crash. Sabotage
bints received! the attention of FBI agenta after a part of the craft
was recovered." The accident occurred when the controls failed. A
Murphy
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saying bomber controls coald not
Initial Mimic
Battle "Draw"
I ; , Corps Leader Sayg
.j: value of Offense
lroven in Games '
'Tty JACK , BEARDWOOD
Special to: The Statesman
CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT,
Calif., June 4 -P- Except for
red', planes attached to the 41st
division strafing their own men
with machine gun fire, the 35,000
troops of the 9th army corps gave
fairly good ; account of them
selves in their: first mimic battle.
This was brought out by Major
General - Kenyon A- Joyce,' corps
commander, in a critique on Tues
day's battle, in which the 22,000
men of the 41st attacked the 13,
500 men of the streamlined 3rd
division. " ' .;' . ' ' ,-
General Joyce told 400 off!
eers that the misdirected ma
chine gun fire was one of the
most glaring ; mistakes made.
He also criUciied the 41st di
vision for. exposing its attack
In areas offering no cover or
other protection.
The error of the "red" planes,
he commented, was in : part ex
cusable because the:
were uniformed almost
ly. and battle lines were so close
together. :
Regarding: the course - of the
9th corps training, .General Joyce
said, the first maneuver had con
vinced him of one fact: That he
was certain we cant do other
than reach our goal the devel
opment of an outfit ready and
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City Asked to
Halt Parking
Near Capitol
The Salem city council will
prohibit automobile parking on
both sides of Court street m
treat of the capttot building
between East and West Sum
mer streets. If a request made
Wednesday by the state board
of control is granted '
" The board also recommended
that two-hour parallel parking:
bo established on other, streets
adjacent to the capital group.
One of Richest
Men in US Dies
NEW YORK, June 4-CffVAr-thur
Curtiss James, 74, one of the
12 richest men in . America, died
Wednesday of pneumonia, 23 days
after his wife's death.
James, who Inherited ; copper.
silver and gold mines and rail-
road securities , from- his grand
father and father, used his wealth
to purchase more railroad stock
until he was reputed to hold more
railroad securities than any other
man in the country.
His Investments at one time
were estimated at $350,000,000 In
approximately 40,000 miles - of
railroad. . . - '-
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I Union Chief to
Continue Strike
i Despite Parley J
f By Tho Associated Press -
1 'Announcing his withdrawal
from further negotiations . pe-
fore the defense mediation
board, a leader of striking west
coast lumber workers accused
Board Chairman -Clarence " A.
Dykstra Wednesday of "an all
out labor busting and - strike
breaking device. ; .
in - a , sutement issued after a
Washington conference -with
Dykstra, O. M. Ortont president
o the CIO International Wood
Workers of America, said that the
20,000 workers would continue to
strike until they "obtain a' decent
living.".
UrnuV he added, "is real na
tional L defense, - Mr. Dykstra,
phoney propaganda and . bull-
doxing to the contrary notwith
standing.' ,
J Dykstra commented at a press
conference that the situation
was "quite", unsatisfactory. He
tld he did not know what the
poard's next move would be. -
Orton said that twice within
two weeks "we have come to
Washington at the request of Mr.
lxstra," ootn times to be "con
fronted with the same edict,
namely, that we must accept the
proposal offered by him for the
mediation board, which is in no
way different from the proposals
previously offered by the Weyer-
hauser Timber company. -
"This is a very peculiar situa
tion," he went on, "where a gov;
ernment agency receives a prop
osition from the employer, adopts
it as its own, and then, by cajol
ery, threats and tricky propagan
da, advises the. workers to take
i$ or leave it, saying, 'if you doht
take It,' you re not patriotic."
i f Later, Dykstra said la s
statement that "the board's
recommendations were the un
animous recommendations of
the panel which heard the
rase." This panel,, he said, eon-
tamed two representatives of
the ClO-Clinton Golden, re
gional director of the SWOC,
tod ' Jorn Brophy, director of
industrial union councils. The
board's recommendations,'
Dykstra added, "were concurred
In by Philip Murray, president
of the CIO, who urged their
acceptance upon Mr. Orton."
The union is asking a lull un
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Long-Distance
Reduced
. j: WASHINGTON, June "4 J-
Ixng distance telephone users
will sate approximately $14,000,
000 a year equal to 14 per cent
of their bills the federal com
munications - commission . said
Wednesday in announcing rate
reductions effective July 10.
An uiqurry into long distance
rater was instituted by the com
mission! April . 1 and hearings
tre scheduled to begin next
Monday. The hearings have been
called off. but the commission
said it would continue studies
pertinent to the rate base and
other matters.
Chairman James L. Fly of the
FCC said the negotiations were
reached ly r mutual agreement
and illustrated the value of con
ferences in good faith between
government and - industry.
Theme of Rose
This year's Salem float for
rade will carry out the theme
Manager F. D. Thielsen of the
Wednesday. ; yy
. , Tweniy-iour lees long ana u
feet high, the float will depict
It garden, with a fountain la
flowers' near the front, and &
bower; ef blooms arching for
ward from ths.roar.lt will eon-'
j tala" 8751 blooms--1269 mart
itlds. ' U59 roses. 1201 white
peonies, 1589 blue and S99 yel
' low Iris, 1CI white larkspur and
ECa delphiniums. Three young
Salem women will 'be 'seated
"under 'the bower" " ' .
4 The Salem Cherrians sponsors
of the float, plan to have their
drill team, the Salem high school
t-and' and the" Oregon Mounted
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WILHEIAI U
Rites Planned
For Ex-Kaiser
Death Comes to Aged
War Lord Peacefully ;
Funeral 3Ionday
BERLIN, June 4-ii"P)-The last
Kaiser, Wilhelm IL the' supreme
war lord and' commander of an
imperial Germany that is no more,
died Wednesday in Doom, the
Dutch village that had been his
serene refuge since the defeat of
his -people in 1918. - -
He was 82; His death came ai
11:30 a. m. (1:30 . m. PST) as
peacefully ' a& he had hoped It
would come. The cause was intes
tinal disorders and a lung em
boly a condition in which one
part of a hollow organ is drawn
back within another.
. Never since he fled his defeated
Germany had he returned to the
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Crippled US
Bomber Lands
On One Tire
DENVER, June 4.-)-A
courageous' army pilot and his
four passengers laughed In the
teeth of disaster Wednesday,
"riding out" - a huge crippled
$200,000 army bomber In a
spectacular one-wheel landing.
Lives of the five men were
Imperiled after the 20tpound
left tire burst daring a takeoff
at the army air corps technical
school at Lowry field on Den
ver's eastern outskirts.
Once aloft, Lieut.'; Arch
Campbell, the pilot, from Fort
Worth, ' Texas, and his four
companions shook hands all
around. He suggested they
sight bail out In parachutes.
All voted to "ride It out,"
For an hour and a half, with
hundreds of officers and sol
diers watching from below,
Campbell droned back and
fortn ever the field, to lighten
the gasoline; Wad sad facilitate
the perilous one-point landing.
. finally, bo nosed the ship
down, twin I motors roaring at
lit miles per hour. As soon as
the right tire touched the con
crete runway, Campbell cut all
switches and threw every ounce
of his rugged frame against the
tight wheel; brake. This kept
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Fete Float Is
the Portland Rose festival pa.
"The Voice of Salem's Gardens,
chamber of commerce, announced
posse accompany it as a guard of
honor. -' ; .:'. " ' ..
." The drive for. funds to pay for
the float will enter the final stage
today with the opening of the
sale of rose , festival, buttons,
which admit the -wearer to all
festival events. W. C. Dyer, Jr,
announced Wednesday. The Cher
rians have arranged to sell the
first button to Gov. Charles A.
Sprague during a radio broadcast
over station ;KSLM at the north
east corner of State and Liberty
streets at 12:33 p. m.
d
eize
in
War
ove
Non-Belligerent
Ally Lists- Syria
As German-Heldx
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By The' Associated Press -"'
Britain urgently sped prep- ,
arations , Wednesday night tp
meet 1 the new f storm v blowing
up. in the Middle East and
Egypt, her non-belligerent . ally
at the gates of the Suez canal.
formally 1 is te-d -French-man
dated Syria as erman-occu- .-
pied territory." ," -; . -V; 1 . .
This historic but not infallible
preliminary 'to war,' ending
every sort of relations with Syria,
followed by a short time a dis
closure that the Egyptian gov
ernment had been shaken up
through the r resignation of , the
cabinet to make way for a coali
tion leadership carrying the wid
est possible popular support.
. London, acting co incidental
ly with Egypt if not in con-
cert, announced that British
troops had seised the Mosul oil
fields In northern -If a q. tho
source of supply for the Medl- .
terranean fleet, and had taken
necessary precautions In re
' gard to Syria."'
"It would be , wrong " said an
authoritative British source in ap- '
parent answer to home criticism
that has risen since the disaster
of Crete, "to assume that all ac
tivities and preparations In that
part of the world are French and
German." .... ".; . - ,
.While Mosul's occupation was
intended, among other- things,, to
stiffen Turkey- against the axis,
it became ciear that Britain's dil
flculties were not 'over , in Iraq
for It was ' 'disclosed that there
had been "serious rioting" in the
capital city of Bagdad. The out
break brought a declaration of
martial law in Bagdad by the Iraq
government. I
. All through the middle east
there! was a stirring of propa
gandist and military maneuvers.
There was growing evidence
that the FTeuekv were preparing
something. Pierre Boisson, the
governor-general of French
West Africa and known as the
"defender of Dakar" for help-
ing defeat the British and free!
French thrust at that port last
summer, arrived unexpectedly
In Vichy. Already there was the
commander of the French north
African army. General Maxime
Weygand. -
London attributed to the Turk
ish wireless a report that a nazl'
division, of perhaps 15,000 men
was already in Syria, and British
Sources said that nazl troops there
were constantly being reinforced
by sea, land and air. Twelve
planes, . most of them fighters,
were j said to be arriving daily at
Syrian - airports. One hundred
fifty ij troop carriers presumably -to
be used to ferry the naris
wherever their campaign may
lead ! in the middle east have
landed .at - Rayak " airdrome In
Syria, it was stated.
Tour hundred ostensibly
wounded men landed recently in
nearby Lebanon were described
as probably members; instead of
a nazl tank detachment claimed
to have taken control of French
armored cars and tanks.
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