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4rm j or Navy Man Will Tqhe
Over California Factory
Slwuldlen Fail to Return
1NGLEW00D, CaHf, Jane 6 (AP) "We will not
go back to work Saturday. The strike will continue," said
Bill Backman (see picture page 2), member of the CIO
UAW local negotiating committee regarding a Washing
ton report that the government would intervene in the
union's strike at North American Aviation corporation.
He declined further comment.
North American officials declined comment.
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; A high government official confirmed reports Friday night
that the government would take over the strike-bound North
American Aviation company by presidential proclamation on
Monday if striking employes did not return to work today, (Sat
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This government ! official, who declined to be quoted by
name, said that the war and navy departments and the office of
'production management had Insisted that some definite action
be taken in the North American strike which has tied up $198,
000,000 worth of orders for American and British warplanes.
The informant said that if in the interest of production the
plant had to be taken over under the president's unlimited
emergency proclamation, an officer of the army or navy would
be placed in charge to carry on production; . . .
Asked how the government would get the striking North
American employes back "to work under government manage
ment, the official said: : I ' . . ' .: . I ' : 'l
"The government IwiU-request the workers to go back or
else The government has means with which to do that. l j
" Sidney imiman, associate direc
tor of the office of r production
management, made, public a res
olution adopted by the labor ad
visory committee which asked an
Immediate end to these strikes:
In the shipyards In j the San
Francisco Bay area, at the North
American ' Aviation corporation's
plant at Inglewood, Calif, -and of
lumbermen in the Puget Sound
area of Washington. !:
The committee has 16 members,
Including representatives of the
AFL, the CIO and the Railroad
Brotherhoods, j A majority signed
the resolution, Hillman's aides
Said. I: II '
At the eapitol, meantime.
Senator Byrd (D-V) asked la
; a statement for "firm ; and de
cisive action" to halt strikes
and araln demanded removal of
Secretary, of Labor Perkins for
. fugling and Inefficiency."
Byrd suggested, too,! that the
president ,set aside the 40-hour
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for, it is certainly worth working
more than 40 hours a week to
save," the Virginian j said. "If
America is worth saving, it is
worth suppressing strikes hi vital
defense work to save." jj
SEATTLE, June 6-P-Interna-tional
Woodworkers of i America
headquarters, storm center of a
national mediation board contro
versy, released Friday night the
text of a commendatory;' telegram
from Harry Bridges In which the
west coast longshoremen's lead
er alluded to "union-smashing
proposals" f the board.
PORTLAND, Ore, June MV
The action of O. M. Orton, presi
dent of the International Wood
workers of America, In rejecting
the defense mediation board's sug
gestion for settlement;! of the
Washington IWA strike, was criti
cized today by Ralph Peoples, sec
retary of the CIO Oregon Indus
trial union council.
PORTLAND, Ore, June
A peace conference, ordered by
Mayor Earl Riley, In Portland's
13-day-oId bakery strike con
.tinued here late Friday night
SEATTLE, June -AP)-J. F.
J u r 1 c h, president International
Fishermen and Allied Workers of
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Tvice Paroled
Man Escapes
Police Spread Net for
Hospital Inmate Who
Just "Walks Away"
Twice convicted on larceny
charge, once paroled and once
released on his own recognizance
and ! facing still a third such
charge, Oscar Walters is at large
today. .
Shortly after 4 o'clock Friday
afternoon Walters was reported
missing from the receiving ward
at the state hospital for the in
sane, where he had been sent for
observation and report after he
had told officers stories of his
addiction to drugs.
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Text Books .
Referendum
Is Dropped
PORTLAND, Ore, June MV
The referendum against a 1941
legislative act providing free text
books for all elementary schools
will! be dropped, Floyd D. Moore,
secretary of the Association
Against Public Taxes for Private
Schools, said Friday night.
. The Oregon supreme court's
substitution of a new ballot title
Friday invalidated the 25,000 sig
natures obtained on referendum
petitions and left too little time to
get new signatures before the' June
13 dateline, Moore said.
Rep. Allan G. Carson (R-Mar-lon)
and Sen. Rex Ellis (R-Uma-
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Two Injured
In Collision
SILVERTON Joe Zimmerman
was confined to the local hospital
Friday night with cuts and. bruises
suffered in a collision at Rocky
Four Corners, east of ilverton
on the Oregon City highway, with
a car driven by Bernard Schar
hjfek, police reported. -
Scharback received a deeply
cut knee and bruises while L.
Whitlock, passenger in the Zim
merman car, sustained only minor
Injuries, hospital attendants said.
All were from Silverton,
Lars Momerak, Silverton. 70
years old, was also at the local
hospital for treatment of injuries
received when he fell down steps
at his home here :
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Lebanon was Jammed (no pan) Friday by a crowd oft mere than 13,000 persons participating In the an
i nnal Strawberry festivaL They helped to est the 1 world's largest strawberry shortcake, sliced, as
shown above, by Queen Rath Shackman. Tier font princesses, below, left, are depicted dipping
" strawberries from' one of tho four barrels provided for the festival. They are. left to rlaht, Jean Beach,
Alice Jennings, Jean Farrell and. Joyce Baric Is. Princess Geraldine Shafer of Halsey Is pictured below,
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i -Paul IIauser$ Column
I We ran Into our friend Mr.
Zizzls, the demon motorist, the
pther day, and after we had both
got out and Inspected the damage
Zizzle said, "Say, what's this this
I ekes has been saying."
j "Ickes," we said, "has been say
ing something or other for the last
eight and some fraction years and
we are not sure yet whether he is
really mad or eats the wrong kind
Of breakfast food."
"I mean," said Zizzle, "this stuff
about gasless Sundays. I read it in
the paper." , . .":.;.:
-Never read 'em," we said. "I
get more kick oat of misinter
preting what I hear half of on
itbe radio."
"Well, said Zlxxle, an angry
gleam beginning to glimmer in
his eyes, "he says no more Son
fday driving, no gas on Sundays."
f "Good thing." we said. "It
tmay be drastic, bat it's one way
to get rid ef the Sunday driver.
!Make it easy on the rest of ns."
1 "What do you mean, the rest of
us?" Zizzle asked. "You're a Sun
day driver yourself and you know
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illamette
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One hundred eleven Willamette
university . 'students today close
their undergraduate careers with
commencement exercises and be
come eligible f or membership In
the alumni association, which has
its annual banquet and business
Session tonight ,
Annual senior class break
fast Is set for t o'clock this
morning on the campus. An-
rnual meeting-, of the board of
trustees is to be at tJSt aun. in
Collins balL raul B. Wallace,
president of the board, said the
i buildings and gToonds com
mittee Is to report on fccrreve
ments needed on the eaunpns.
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Dr. J. Read Sain, Willamette
SaloxnJ Qr9oiu Saturday Moming. Juno 7 1941
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Parade
Strawberry Festival
More Thaqti3,000 Crowd Streets
of Lebanon: on Second Day of
Fete ; Salem Band Plays Tonight
LEBANON, June 6 Crowds,
persons, thronged ?tjiej streets of
Strawberry Festival, and witnessed the lOOentry parade which;
was one of the main, features of
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' Special to The Statesman
, CAMP ; HUNTER' LIGGETT,
Calif, June 8 Speed and" effec
tiveness of modern, mechanized
troops were demonstrated Friday
as artillery regiments pf the 41st
division captured ; n
"enemy
later es
brigadier general, ! : who
caped afoot through; the woods.
; General C Hall, I assistant
commander of the" 3rd division,
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Speed
U to iGraduate 111! at Gommencement
, :J I ' ,' ' Jib i . " - hi . -
class of 1918 and1 professor of
sociology at Miami university,
Ohio; - gives the graduation ad
dress in the commencement ex
ercises in the senior, high school
auditorium at 4 pm-l His subject
Is "Pillars of Cloud; and Fire."
" ; : Presence f vociferous mi
norities proves that democracy
Is still at work la the United
. States, Chief Justicl J. F. A11--shie
of the Idaho sapreme court,
declared Friday night In an ad
dress at the annaa alumni ban-.
uet of the Willamette unlver
sityeollege of law;! I ;;- '
The college's' oliefct ctassmsa
declared "wo shout! have bo
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estimated at more than 13,000
Lebanon Friday, for, the annual
the day.
. Awards were maae as zouows
First division, fraternal and civ4
ic Brownsville Pioneer ; Picnie
association, first; Lebanon Lionsj
second; Rebekah lodge, third, and
Lebanon Garden .club, fourth
honorable mention, Waterloo
community; second division, com4
mercial Radio . station KWTL,
Albany, first; Truax Oil company;
Albany, second; Lebanon variety
store, third; third division, Indus-;
trial Lebanon-Crown Willamette
paper mill and Pulp and Paper
Makers union, first; Stay ton
chamber of commerce advertising!
stayton Bean xestival, sec-.
ond; Lebanon Auction, House,'
third; honorable mention, Sweet
Home chamber of commerce;
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fear that this government of
ours can not stand , wader
criticism.' ': ':
; Justice Allshle went on to
plead for the maintemaneo of
edocatlonal tnstitatiimi Intel
lectually free from government
al, state or arbitrary compul
sion." adding- that they In torn
must guard against "being cor
rupted by communism, n&xlsm
or any of tho European ideol
ogies. -v-,
, The program comprises the!
processional, - Prof. T. S. Roberts;'
invocation," Dr J. C Harrison;
scripture," Rev. S. Raynor Smith;
violin "solo, Mrs. Mar ; Schultt
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I To Study Taxes;
I Attract Plants -
I A drive to ascertain how Ore
gon may obtain new industries
and vihy several recent addi
tions to the Pacific northwest's
industrial front have been es
tablished In Washington rather
than south of the Columbia was
begun! here Friday, with formal
Organization of the 18 -man indus
trial development Interim com
mission created by the 1941 leg
islature and appointed by Gov.
harles A. Sprague.
"The outstanding Job of this
3. m i.wwm nM. w w mill.
why some of the large tndos
f tries have located In Washlng
iton Instead of OregoH," the gov-;
ernor told the commission. "Or
egon's Industrial problem Is of
'great concern to Its people and
particularly to the city of
Portland which Is expecting
rapld expansion because of the
f Bonneville development."
The governor recommended that
he commission make a thorough
itudy of j Oregon's tax structure,
Which he maintained did not com
pare unfavorably from an Indus
trial standpoint with that of Wash
ington. He also recommended that
the commission weigh effects of
the recent state tax commission
ruling' that ' property assessments
jn- Multnomah county have not
been made in ' compliance with
state law-' . '
! State Budget Director David
Eccles, elected chairman of the
commission, said hearings; would
foe held throughout tho state,
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Three Die in
Plane Crash
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S Survivor in Naval -1
Accident at Sea
1 SAN DIEGO, Calif., June oH)
i-Three navy fliers perished and a
fourth parachuted safely after two
planes from ' the heavy 'cruiser
Chester collided in mid-air over
the ocean in the San Clemente
Island area.
yrhe. accident occurred late
ursday! during a routine flight,
but because the cruiser was 60
toiles from here at sea, details
Were not received from officers
until today. :
I The dead were? -
Ensi Thomas H. Pepuni, 27, San
Francisco, pilot of ; one of the
planes, apparently torpedo bombers.-
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I Paul Justice Burroughs, 29,
fadioman, third class, Albion Iowa.
1 Otto Henry Wilkennig, 25,
radioman; first class, Nebraska
(city unavailable).
Jack Russell Egan, Port Or
iard,' . Wash, and graduate of
Grant high school, Portland, who
bailed out after the planes came
together, h was seriously Injured.
Naval hospital attendants said his
injuries Included second degree
burns.! Details of his rescue from
the sea had not been learned. The
bodies of Pepuni, Burroughs and
Wilkennig were brought to a San
Diego mortuary. ..
Duncan, accompanied by Miss
Clara Eness; address; announce
ment of seniors elected to Alpha
Kappa Nu honorary, presentation
of awards and announcement of
senior scholars for 1941-42; sing
ing of "Farewell Willamette", by
Winston ' Bunnell; benediction' by
Rev. Dean Poindexter; bugle call;
recessional."" r j - j,
Herbert Hardy of Portland Is
to preside over , the alumni ban
quet and c meeting In - the First
Methodist c h u r c h . ' at . pm.
Graduates of '41 are to be guesti.
Election of new officers is sched
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Old Historic Temple" recom-
Industry
Board Is
Selected
Union
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Board Chief
DAVID ECCLES
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Farmers to Get More
for Grain ; Average
98 Cens per Bushel
WASHINGTON, J u n e
Farmers who; cooperate with this
year's AAA!; 'wheat - production
control program were virtually
assured about 32 cents a bushel
more for their grain than a year
ago by a government price-tup-porting
loan 'program announced
Friday.' -14 C,
- Acting Under recently approved
legislation designed to boost grow
er returns j rom cotton, wheat,
eorn, tobaccot and rice, the agri
culture department made public a
schedule of rates at which it will
make loans to producers on this
years bread 'grain crop. -
. The department said the rates
would average about ft cents a
boshel for; Wheat stored on the
farm, or mm . average of about
the same ! amount for, wheat
stored in Urmlnal markets aft
er transportation and handling
charges had been deducted. This
average Was said to be tS per
cent of parity, the department's
farm price foal.'
. (The teniI'lparity, is used by
economists j io describe prices
which would give farm products
the purchasing power they had
in the period 1909-1914.)
Under a j similar ! program last
year, growerf received an aver
age loan rate of 65 cents a bushel.
Not all wheat produced by co
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Dutch Deny
Jap Demands
BATAVIA, Netherlands East In
dies, June 6--The government, of
the Dutch East Indies Friday re
jected important sections in
Japan's demands for a large share
of the rubberj oil and ten of these
Islands, but there was no sign of
we subsequent crisis . wmcn ine
Japanese had intimated would
come In the event of an unfavor
able answer. 1 . .'. . i j -k
While the. terms of the Dutch
reply were not disclosed, the chief
Japanese negotiator, Kenichi Yos
bizawa, emerged from a 90-minute
conference With Dutch negotiator
IL J. Van MoOk to express disap
pointment and to predict that, it
would not suit Tokyo.
"It is my Impression," said Yos
hizama, "that! agreement will 'be
very difficult? ' '-
He indicated that the year-long
negotiations would not be broken
of summarily,! although he said It
was not Impossible that Tokyo
would recall mm at once. .
. commissions: "Fare-
wen Willamette"; welcome to
recruits of j'il; veterans on pa
rade; talk' fay Dr. J. Kead Bain
on "Oar B-lt, a Trial Flight";
"an eat" for WCUmette; hon
ored years at Fort Willamette;
"tops; salute to the reviewing
stand, campaigns of y ester
years. - t U -
, Registration! Is Monday and
classes pen Tuesday for WiHa
mette's first stsnmer session since
1533 Dr. William C Jones is dl
rector, and about 20 members of
the faculty -are on the staff for
the session. A variety of courses
are offered,-with a maximum of
six semester hours credit
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, Partly eleady and warmer
today: with scattered light
showers star mountain! .
fair! .Sunday. Has. temp.
Friday, CS, sola. 52. North
west wind, lain .11 Inch
River.;-! foot. Cloudy.
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The Vichv covernment t.
pressed surprise Friday night
thai Secretary of State Hull
considered - French collabora
tion, with Germany "utterly in
imical" to the rtehts of other
pdwers, and apparently intend
ed o pursue its chosen course.
Gaston Henrv-Hav. Prnrh nm
bassador to Washington said that
injthe French conception "the des-
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posed to that of America.?
uajtijbn," the French government
now has a great task "to safe
gua!rd the vital interests of
Fiihce " Vichy said In inferential-
ly jrejecting HuU's warning against
luvirei.uun WiUI uie nous.
rif lo surprising ; to see tho
American secretary 'of state de- '
erlbe as a policy of aggression , .
and oppression one which is
directed against nobody and
harms the interest of no other'
power,"! It was added. c I f.
Vhile the Vichy "government
denied German troops were enter
ing French-mandated Syria, re
peals persisted that nazl military
ana navai ecuvuy was increasing.
, Reuters, British news agency,
said. in a disDatch.from Ankara.
Turkey, that eight German "poc
ket f submarines" had been seen
In Beirut, Lebanon, harbor dur
ing ine past week. , ,
' Foreign , military attaches at
Ankara reported German air
corps engineers are constructing
a ifighter plane base at Latakia,
number three Syrian port only
62; miles from the British island
of ! Cyprus. . ,
Radio reports said German ri-
loisi technicians and officers
walked about the town of Aleppo,
"apparenuy disguised as sports
men." ; . ! -
The French cabinet met in la
IongS session with three of France's
colonial commanders to discuss
empire defense. L
Another strong indication of
wihere matters were heading In
Vichy, was furnished by a gov
ernment netex-issued primarily
to guide the French press as to
Its attitude which , flaUy ac
cused the British of preparing an
attack on French Syria, al
tbeugh saying that It was an
offensive which had not been .
"Completely approved" by the
British command because it was -"Wondering
If it has sufficient ,
forces to carry oat this aggres
sion." ; .'!'!
The French rnrnmnulw 1r v,tA
of the Levant,- General Henri
uentz, already has ordered his
troops Jn Syria: ! i'
j i lfThe command is clean De
fend oar possessions and defend
them with oar own forces.' t
He denied every British otato
ment that Syria was being turned
over to the Germans and assert
tdi There are not, there never
have, been, German troons In Svrin
or .Lebanon." . , . ; -
On the military aide, tho da
brought,, these principal develop
ments in the long drawn-out
crisis in the middle east:
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Ncvs Briofa
France in
Difficult
Position
fROME, Saturday, Jane 7-(ffJ
-Premier Benito Mussolini U
expected to inform his cabinet
today of the results ef his talk
with Adolf Hitler last Monday
at! Brenner pass, bat no public '
dfaclosures are probable. It was
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P)-German planes 'raided the
southwest ef - England Friday "
night and early today, loosing
bombs upon one town, . 1 '
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ENGLAND. Saturday, Jane T- '
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thef German - occupied French .
coast in the region of Clais 1
the . brixht moonlight early to
dari and German planes at the '
same time tried to cross tie
channel la Uils rcilsn. Anti
aircraft fire was heard clearly
from the French side. ',
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