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PAGE. TWO Th OSEGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. June 6, 1S41 t.:.' i: H. U'l r: i " - - i i - y i 4 ! --! Salem Seniors v Get Dipl omas Second Largest Class Hears Pacific U Head Chart .Future Courser (Continued from Page 1) of the surveyor who had deter' mined property lines on a Lake Superior island, where the boul der, the tree and the road which once ' had marked Giersbach's property j there . had disappeared with the years; How did you survey lit?" asked the property owner. By latitude and long! tude," the surveyor informed him. "Although jrou-can't tee-the equator, that surveyor had used that true line, 'and property own' era accepted it, one and all mov ing the recognized lines of their property several feet to the left, said the speaker. . Samuel Johnson's axiom. "The. future Is purchased by the .', present," served as theme far Dorothy FJey's Mel vsledle- tery address. The diminutive miss, wb had carried off first - honors l" scholarship ta the -class, H discussed 'aeeempHsh ments of Frans Schubert and Abraham Lincoln as proof that those who make the most ef opportunities of the moment eventually make the most of life. She declared the class of '41 a group of optimists who look upon high school graduation not as the end of friendshisps and cer tain associations but as the be ginning of greater friendships . and broader opportunities., Among- highlights of the var ied and briskly . conducted pro gram were presentations by Prin cipal Fred D. Wolf of awards to previously-unannounced winners ' oi special Conors. , Declared the most outstand ing; student: of American his tory, Margaret Forsythe re reived the American Legion auxiliary award. . Because his record during three years of .work in biology, chemis try and ; physics was above all others in the field, Elbert Mc Kinlay was. awarded the science prize! .T. ' 1 K -: !.:... To Donald Bower went the "S" club award v for rhis outstanding leadership in . character, scholar ship, service and athletic achleve ' ment. . Band and orchestra prizes in recognition' of ability, depend ability and service were presented to Sana Millet and Kathleen Broer. Miss Broer played a violin solo, Kreislef's "Tambourin Chinois" as a program feature, i - .The James Cf Nelson trophy, gift of the class of 1937, was pre sented by MrV Nelson, principal emeritus, tp Patricia Higgms, se lected by the jSOcial science fac ulty as that department's best student I ' i j ."' Preceding the ; exercises, Gene vieve Winslow, ; member of the class, played an "Arioso" from Bach and "Fantasy in D" by Mo tart, j ' To Mendelssohn's march from "Analia," played by the high school orchestra, the .clam, girts in long, full-skirted paat el dresses, boys In dark salts, marched down the three aisles f the auditorium, while many unable to" secure seats or even obtain entry to the building; for the occasion watched through tht glass front doors. The Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson delivered the invocation. . Directed by Miss Lena ; Belle Tartar and accompanied by Carol Cook, member of the graduating class, the high school chorus sang "Now Is the Month of Maying" (Morley), ' Holy Art Thou" (Handel , arr. Whitehead) and "Water Ripple and How" (Czecho-Slovak, arr. Deems Tay lor). Soloists' were Doris Lee- An derson, Mabel Fox, ..Bar nice Smothers, and . Bill Putnam, all members of, the-class, and Betty Pugh. : z - f" - Far well over an hour, fol lowing presentation ef awards, members, of the- class, second largest ever graduated by the school, walked acres the softly lighted, polished stage to re-' eeive , diplomas from Superin tendent Frank B. Bennett. Name of each graduate was called by Principal Fred t Wolf as he or she stepped upon the platform. ; , Following pronouncement of the benediction by the Rev. George ;;' . oiW t.,: . . Huge Bombing Plane Readied for Test V - x 5 ! - trT . ',- The B-lt, largest experimental bomber ever built for the United States army. Is shown mm the Douglas Aircraft company field at Santa Monica, Calif., as final preparations are being made to ready the ship for Its initial test flight. The four-motored plane, which cost S30Mf to construct, weighs snore than 41 tons. It has a wing-spread Farm Croup Heads Demand All Units Back Defense Efforts CHICAGO, June (-(-Representatives of three big farm organizations demanded Thursday night that all groups "con tribute their utmost to defense production without "stoppage or delay." - I Spokesmen for the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Na- tlonal Grange and the National Council of Fanner Cooperatives who asserted they spoke for more than 3,000,000 farm people in 48 states issued a statement of pol icy calling for national, unity "during this acute emergency, it added: i -AU groups should contrib ute their utmost te produce ev erything essential te national defense with maximum speed and efficiency. Adequate de fense requires that there be ne stoppage or delay la production and distribution of essential materials or services ia Indus try or agrlcnltore. ' "National safety demands that Salem Defense Training Group. Plans Courses Plans for the enlargement of courses and addition - of new courses for the summer in nation al defense training at Salem high school were considered Wednes day night at a meeting of the lo cal advisory committee for de fense education, headed by Supi Frank B. Bennett. ' Approval by the state board for vocational ed ucation ia needed. The increase is made possible by summer vacation of the pub lic schools and is called for by increased need of trained defense workers. No further extension is to be made, however, in the avia tion sheet metal classes because the board expects 1 the present schedule sufficient to meet the demand. Members of the committee are Harry Scott and Robert Crawford, J r., " employer representatives; William En tress and Herb Barker, employe representatives; W. H. Baillie, Salem director of the state employment office; Frank G. Ferris, defense training officer in the employment office; Chet Nelson of the national youth ad ministration; Ed Nelson of the division of employment, WPA; Harold Shogren from the board for vocational education; Paul Jackson, superintendent of the Chemawa Indian school, and C. A. Guderian, local defense coordin ator. Garrett Smith of the CCC Indian service was a visitor. H. Swift, the class, marching for the last time as an organization, streamed up the aisles to the mu sic of the high school orchestra, directed by Vernon Wiscarson. Class advisers from the faculty, who assisted with graduation ar rangements, were I Miss Ann Boentje, ' Miss , Mary Sayles and Walter Bowman. .... of 212 feet. immediate action be taken to-pro vide adequate means for con tin uing operations whenever dis putes arise, until differences are composed.' We r e c o g n i x e the rights of labor and agriculture to organize and to bargain collec tively, but the emergency requires immediate, effective authority and action to eliminate all threats of violence, destruction of property, intimidation, coercion and illegal collusive practices whether in in dustry, labor or agriculture," The statement nrged that, in sofar as practicable, the costs of the defense program be paid from current income, adding "this retakes a tax program with a broad base. , in which everyone will take part la ac cordance with his ability to pay. In this emergency all unwar ranted profits ef industry, labor sad agriculture should be re captured by appropriate taxa tion to help pay the cost of the defense program." Ainong the conferees who is sued the statement were Presi dent Edward A. O'Neal of the federation, L. J. Taber, head of the grange, and H. . Babcock and: N. C. Williamson of the council. They also requested that agri culture be given equal recogni tion with industry and labor and be represented on all national de fense agencies, and advocated a farm prices,- industrial prices and wages for labor. War Nows Briefs (Continued from Page 1) up four coaches of, a Japanese troop train May St oa the Lung hal railroad west of Sachow in Shantung province, a delayed Chinese Central news dispatch from Loyang said today. OTTAWA. Friday. June -(JP Captain Elliott Koosevelt, sec ond sea ef President Koosevelt, arrived la Ottawa by US army plane late Thursday oa a mis sion ef undisclosed nature. CHUNGKING, China, Friday, -)-Japanese bombers kept Chungking residents fat under ground shelters for five hours Thursday night ta one of the longest air raids ef the year ea this Chinese capital. It was the seventh raid since May 3. FORT DE FRANCE, Marti nique. Jane -JPy-A. British warship stopped the 5391-ton French steamer Arlca about 50 miles from Martinique while she was earoate east, aad her fate Is not known, the high com missioner of the French West Indies aad Gulaaa announced Thursday night. i AAltt'ir- v - . a. . n i ,; I $ In Ono Ear.. : ? (Continued from Page 1 1) on a rail fence nnder the big oak aad wondering why we had ta have five books, . wheat Abe Lincoln only had one. I - ' Up in the woods above the schoolhouse one day, we found a whiskey stump. Maybe I better explain. You ; hollow out a green chestnut stump, pour it full of moonshine and seal it with clay, When it's aged for a year or so, you drop a mule shoe in. If the shoe dissolves before it bits bot torn, then it's fit beverage to drink. : f :-;v " i Being only seniors that ' year, we didn t realize. AH I can re member wasjfalling off the fence trying to get back to school when the bell rung; '. They flunked me in Physiolo gy and said i was too dumb to let graduate, put I guess I learned a lot more about the human anat omy than a o of these kids to day. Anywa,yj I've never touched another drapf of whisky to this day. f ::$ l Which fa rare. I guess, consid ering" the anCeatorago. How take my Uncle Malcolm. Him and my Aunt Ceathla has done more than aay other two - people I know for j prohibition. She's fought boose with teeth aad tee aalL And my Uncle Malcolm's tried to drink It all ap.. j ,M ( Ono day he fell ia a barrel of' . McNbh audi (Censored). ' ' ; ANGUS M'GOOBZR. Banker! Charges US Behg Led ; Into Socialism SEATTLE, bune t-(Jpjr-Ap Spo kane banker! held the opening day i spotlight, members of the Washington State Bankers' asso ciation were I admonished Thurs day against the new dial's! "Je hovahs at Washington" and were advised to extend their institu tions' services . to regain lost clients. - ; ' The castigajtion of government al policies came from Edward P. Ryan, Spokane investment bank er, who charged the administra tion was leading the nation to ward socialism. . About' 200) bankers were .as sembled for opening of the two-day session. ' ,: j They heard R y a n denounce what he described as the adminis tration's "amateur executives," and declare: j . ' j;'-- r "We need to know what's to be done, but America"--baa a baffled leadership, bewildered lieuten ants and confused people, i "We spend millions or billions and we bive the greatest mili tary and natal . experts in the world, but then we hunt out a few garrulous gentlemen and let them tell thefe experts what to da" -- - . .. -fc , j:-' He charged? that the adminis tration was leading the United States 1 n t o socialism "even though no single group in Ameri ca i strong: for socialism.' i Soviet Attack Rrmiors Heard Reports Overshadow Alexandria Bombing ; Stalin Pact Said ' (Continued From Page 1) great granary of the Ukraine and were ready to strike for it by mid June if matters were not mean time arranged to their liking. It was, however, an implication that squared not at all with some what 4 roundabout reports from Vichy France, on the same sub ject of the Ukraine, , : Tha-sense or These reports ana they were heard in diplomatic cir cles was . that Adolf ;. Hitler and Joseph Stalin in a1 recent secret meeting had made a deal by which wheat production m the "Ukraine would be so' increased as to per mit it to serve ax the breadbas ket' for the whole of Europe in Hitler's new scheme to tie Europe and Africa closely together. ' Whatever the altlmate meaa mg of an these reports they did reflect a sense ef the Imminence .of Important events that per vaded Europe, aad one thing appeared, reasonably probable: -That the axis was Indeed yifnif; gome sort of new move, and that perhaps it was to be oa the diplomatie front. This was suggested by a wire less announcement . from Berlin that Mussolini would make an important declaration' today, Fri day, before an extraordinary ses sion of his fascist -grand council. When the axis gives advance ad vertising, tot such a thing,,- it us ually means that an adventure in persuasion is under way, - As to the middle east, it seemed Impossible that a great, show down there could be delayed much longer. British and Turkish accounts had, more and more nazi soldiers arriving in: Syria; the Germans on the contrary sought to -show that fte British (were taking the initiative, asserting that British soldiers were making read Thursday night .to land on the north Syrian coast and to attack from .Palestine . and Trans-Jordan. The Turks, non - belligerent ' British allies, were in great fear. Their foreign minister, Sukra Saracogla, called la German Ambassador Frans von Papen and was understood to have told him that Turkey was most anxious about reports of the German movement Into Syria and weald take additional "se curity" measures along her awn southeast frontier. - The French government at Vichy, whose at least nominal control of Syria made It the key to the German plans, seemed to be Jeaning more and more to the German side."" ' ' , To that government during the day Cordell Hull, the US secre tary of state, directed a state ment that French-German collab oration was "inimical?- to the rights of the United States and other nations and- he Indicated that the American policy toward France was changing a policy whicn had been "continue friend ly and helpful cooperation with France." : . .j - A crisis In some respect match ing that in the middle east ap peared to be nearing in the south seas. ' 'ct " Today, Friday, was the dead line for a Dutch reply to Japan's demand for-vast war supplies of rubber, oil and tin from the Dutch East Indies and ithe chief Japa- negotiator declared. Thurs day ( night that the . negotiations had -reached ; "the edge of a precis pice." -..:-"- ... V This remark and such other in formation as .was available indi cated that the Dutch were not going to go as far as the Japa nese wanted. ; ' VICHY, Unoccupied France, June 5-(iF)-Reports received in usually well-informed diplomatic circles Thursday night said Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin at a se cret meeting had agreed on a far reaching European - African col laboration scheme in which the Russian Ukraine would undertake to step up, wheat production to see that all Europe has bread. Jast hew Jtassla wenld fit late a European-African sys tem was not made dear by . these reports, which were with out official or direct confirma tion. They only said that the German aad-., atasslsa leaders bad. agreed at aa unstated time and place ea the baste arrange ment, and; that the Ukraine weald make up aay deficit ta the wheat production af France, French North Africa, and Hua gary. L--.,;J -. (Last January ; 10 Russia and Germany announced an "econom ic plan" which, the official Ger man news agency said Included the greatest I wheat deal in his- Hory. Amounts were not specified. nut uussia set out immediately to try to buy large wheat supplies la Argentina and elsewhere, even in cluding Canada, t 4 Ill ll l' II. KU BASraCKXTaSIBBON Mussolini Has Little to Boast About in S Says N' otedvar Analyst. ; l - By KTKKE L. SIMPSON . . j -Special to The SUteamaa ! ' ' Reports radioed from Berlin that II Duce Mussolini is about to make an "important declaration sound credible, although there is no hint as to its nature. . s . ' ,:':', ii ) .y. It is time for a Rome accounting, ago Italy entered the war, in time to share in the spoils of the nazi won victory in France. T If for bo other reason, the approach of the first anniver sary af Italy belligerency; pre seats Mossolinl with aa .iarlU lag ropportanlty . f or s p e e e h maklag. Wjthta that twelve months his own and Italy's prestige has gone down, yet ha can' beast ef victories Ger-maa-made victories. In Africa, east and north, and in Greece Italian armies have suffered morale-shattering de feats, Italy's once powerful fleet has been , repeatedly blasted by the British navy. The fascist con quest of Ethiopia that helped pave the way for the present war (since It - disclosed Franco British un readiness" for war) has been un done.. Italy has been routed from all East Africa except for minor units still holding out. . Bat for German taterventiea ta the Balkans and la North Africa to reverse Italian mili tary failures there,-D Dace would have only a very grim : accounting to make to his peo ple for that year of war. Evta as t Is. ne realistic appraisal "of Italy's own war effort can be very .cheering te Italian pride. Greece wag conquered by he aaxls, aot fascists: Libya re-won from Britain by. Ger maa skfll and ander German, Aid the C AO. Fund (Soldlera Kill Hon) ay attending Ball Came, real- - . Milled of choice bine r?H,Grrmm,:tte wheat Satlsfaetlea Water's Park. Friday. 9:15 pjb. - - M';.-- r imsnnr Cciix nic PEIIJELLc tlCP PECTIII Ilcrr Jar Caps li. 19 c 2 Its. 37c SUNSHINNE KRISPY BLUE i f ' Larxe No. CAIinOTS mid 2 BEETS ... i , mi WWiMlwaw 1 19 S ilUilLa ti it ' , , . .... i . T7til3 Salia SsEHrnrrlslU ttckls Cl:rcx. Fisicr'i Hhzi' 1 Tlzzr. Diss Dell Pclala CliSps, Pcrisr'i Fril-leb r I FREE DELIVERY; OPEN UNTIL" 9 P. M. SATURDAY EVE. it -tiacJZ3 mm cheduled Speech Just a year less five days 'at Italian, eomnund.. Nor is there the slightest prob ability .that Italy Jean regain her empire across the Mediterranean except, as a gift from the naxis. That year of war has ao com pletely deflated Mussolini, prob ably even in German eyes, that his and Italy's military prowess actually must be held In no less contempt it Berlin than It is In London. : . - There have been vague rumors of an impending axis peace ges ture of some sort - They seem to center largely in Vichy but lack any substance, f Pepper Booed At Aid Meet ' ,- ' .- : j -. . ' DENVER, June oHVTwenty men and women were ejected by police from a high school audi torium when their booing and cat calls threatened to drown out aa address by Senator Claude Pep per, Florida democrat Spokesmen for the committee to defend America by aiding the al lies, which sponsored the address, said they were forewarned of at tempts to disrupt the meeting; and extra police were assigned. Coslle Bracd Montana Hardwheat. 49 lbs. " , , 1 1 recrea- Ced T7Hil3 &nJ 10 R f i clOO-lb. S -u Beg : I 5 3 .& 250 ; 3 250 Lb, Tin OLIVES Tall Cans Ripe 2 fcr 250 2yt Carta? fcrzacHcj for mi QL "IB BP".. I I I" : - uunuunuannunuuuunuwnHUUUHUHB '-" ; 2 Dcz. 5)(oY Uaterway Is Urged by FDR . " ''A j .','", Sl Lawrence Project Declared Vital in Defense of Nation ' (Continued from Page 1) "The enemies of democracy are developing every hydro-electric resource and .every waterway from Norway to the Dardanelles. Are we to allow this continent to be : outmatched because, .short sighted interests oppose the de velopment of one of our greatest resources?" And, referring to the length of time it would take, he added: "Its authorization will demon strate to . the enemies ' of democ racy that however long the ef fort we intend to outstrip "them in the race of production. In the modern i world that race deter mines . the rise ' and fall of na tions." ,- Two Injured In Gar Crash Eugene Watson, 2290 North Fifth street, and Frank Mfllett, 2279 North Church street were taken to the Salem General hos pital about? o'clock Thursday night following an accident' in accident in which they were dri vers of two of three cars in volved. . ' - .. -, " .Watson suffered a ions; ash on his left temple, and Millett se vere bruises on. his leg. They were treated by first aid men. .i Kenneth Lyle Mohney, 151 Bellevue street, was the ; third driver involved in the 'crash, which was at Myrtle and Colum bia 'streets. . 'r-: 7 v 5 a- 19 B1&8 31-49 stem gaaranteod. - . htonhiL nonnniG staii' iL620 ! nfll d nnf ni?TT ttpct Drip -O0 lbs, OP POt nPnC sUgalar Drip Pound Tin 250 90Ht0M i ism Tall Cans Armour . for guaT P $34 FIG BADS White or Whole Wheat dSa lbs. for . -190 CLEIUISED ;babo an cans for HOLLY or LIGHTHOUSE 3 caasfsr 9c EXTRA SPECIAL! FitE PEiiS - i 20-OZ. gam.,. , . We are orergtocked on this item . . . the reason for the price. I - - Gan'IInl OLEO 2 lbs. for 250 ;- 1 l3o ' ... CcmZi1 o - y ' " B 1 7311
