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May Eyes and Ears . : Trained correspondents of the Associated Press, sta tioned at key points throughout the world are the "eyes" and "ears" of YOUR morning Statesman, sending- their "copy" over leased wires to YOU while it's still "hot" IICIETY-FIRST YXAB O w mm 1 OMSJil Council Takes Steps On Parking Meters; Capitol Zone Ruled .api Fire Alarm System Bids to Be Called; New Alderman Elected; Meters Opposed Definite steps' toward trial of parking meters around three end one -half downtown blocks and possible installation of a fire- alarm system, passage of a new James M. Clark as alderman featured Monday night's session of the Salem city council. ; The parking meter resolution adopted provides for calling of bids on penny and nickel meters for a six-months' trial instal lation completely around the two blocks between Commercial and Liberty and Ferry and Court, the block bordered by State, High, Court and Liberty and along the north side of Court from Church to High and the east side of High between Court and Chemeketa. was over opposition of Aldrmenrff rif1Tlt E. B. Perrine, and counter to the request of the Salem Retail Trades bureau voiced by Ed Bis- seU. . - The bureau, Bissell declared, . had studied the situation and ' .could offer only objections to use of parkinr meters in Salem. 'As a taxing system the meters were disapproved by the bu reau because its members felt that any additional city taxes at : present unwise. As a traffic -regulator it has not proved sat isfactory in other cities and would not solve Salem's prob lems, he declared. An invitation to a committee on the meter question to meet with tthe bureau for further study and discussion, issued by Bissell and upheld by Perrine, who declared experience of Portland merchants with the meters has been un happy, did not come to a vote. A fire alarm system of 20 boxes might cost around $30,000, Ross Goodman, chairman of the fire department committee, de clared;; as he pointed out that passage of the committee's reso : lution would not in any way com mit the council. The resolution provides for calling of bids for 20, more or less, boxes. Similar systems have notice' ably lowered insurance premiums in some other cities, Goodman declared. 's-: A totally new toning ordi nance, replacing three former ordinances and correcting minor errors In a new bill passed pre viously through two readings, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Snell Hires Night Crew On Licenses A night crew, to handle drivers license applications, will be added to the present state department personnel Tuesday, Secretary of State Earl Snell announced Mon day. ; Several hundred applications are being received daily. New licenses for the 1941-43 period are now effective although July 1 Is the deadline for obtianing the new licenses. Snell estimated that the num- atain Friday to the 87 men next two years would exceed those of past license periods by several thousand. Late Sports VANCOUVER, BC, June 16. - (CP) -Yakima Pippins, behind the ninth inning home run of Bill Reese, went on to defeat Vancou ver Capilanos 6-5 in a ten-inning Western International baseball game here Monday night Yakima -... 6 12 4 . Vancouver .. -.5 9 2 Fiseman, Lien and Sueme; Ker shaw, Goldman and Brenner. Our Senators T7ca 5-3 Heat San Francisco Seals zoning ordinance and election of City Picks Engineers To build Salem's new $400,000 sewage disposal plant the firm of John Cunningham and associates, Portland engineers, was selected Monday night by the city council. Selection was based on recom mendation of the sewerage and drainage committee. Skeleton plans and the survey material submitted in securing the WPA appropriation for the plant were prepared by Cunning- Ram, . ; -- The Portland firm of which Cunningham formerly was Junior member, Baar & Cunningham, has conducted several engineer ing studies for the city. Its sur vp and rermrt favnrintf the Little North fork of the Santiam river as a source oz water supply pre ceded the votes by the people in 1930 and 1931 that led to the ac auisltion of the private water system and its improvement. Vets Planning July Fourth Celebration Completed plans for Salem's Fourth of July celebration were reported Monday night by Don Madison, vice-chairman, to Cap ital post No. 9, American Legion. Further nominations were made for post offices, to be voted on July 7. The post is to have a stag meeting, "an oldtime Legion af fair" with no business, next Mon day at 8 p. m. at the hall. A vol unteer working bee is set for 6:30 tonight on the Legion baseball. diamond at Leslie school. "Crash" Campbell, dare devil auto driver, is to be featured in the two-hour show at the state fairgrounds July 4. A horserace is to be open to all who wish to en ter horses. Fireworks are report ed to be "the best yet in Salem. Oliver Huston, nominated the last meeting for post com mander, with Tom Hill and Fred Gahlsdorf, withdrew his candi dacy.- Herman Brown was added the nominees for vice-command er. For the executive committee, King Bartlett withdrew, and Chet Zumwalt and William Hardy nominated. Julius Hoppe was nominated for delegate to th state convention. Miss Long 'Unchanged Condition of Harriet Long, state librarian, was reported unchanged 1 by Salem General hospital at tendants last night She has been I "seriously" ill for several weeks. Schools Maintenance to the amount of about $30,000 is scheduled iot Sa lem public school buildings this summer. A. W. Andrews, neaa custodian, said Monday. Most ex tensive work is to be done on the old and new senior high school structures. In the old building, now lor the most cart rented, better lights will be placed in the lower halls, which are to be cleaned. Tne WPA offices will get new lights. Tie steam plant will be repaired TraiiMo pern 1 Elected L JAMES M. CLARK finance company executive from the seventh ward, James M. Clark, was elected a elty councilman Monday night when the council voted him to replace Armin Berger who is now in the armed service. , Rites Set for Woman L awyer Miss Grace E. Smith Funeral to Be Held This Afternoon Funeral services for the first and only woman to serve as as sistant attorney general in Ore eon. Miss Grace Elizabeth Smith, who died here early Sunday morning, will be held this after noon at 2 o'clock from the W. T, Rigdon chapel, with Dr. J. C. Harrison officiating. Concluding services are to be in City View cemetery. Miss Smith had been with the attorney general's office since September 1. 1921. The attornPv general's office will be closed ... durinz funeral hour. Born in Linden, la Miss Smith later moved to Kansas where she attended publle school in Guthrie county, la for two years. She then served as deputy county recorder of Guthrie county for three years and later graduated from the Capital City Commercial col lege in Des Moines. Moving to Ritzville, Wash- in 1907, she remained there two years before, coming to Salem where shs was employed in the state insurance department for a time and was later wrrptarv rvf physicians at the Oregon state hospital. She was also connected with the Capital City Nursery ior a snort period before aecent- uig employment with the state department wmie empioyea in the secre tary of state's office she spent ner nights attending the Willam ette university law school. She w sraauaiea in June, is 17, and ujumea 10 me vregon Dar the same year. Before being appoint' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Salem Colonel Is Stricken MONTEREY, Calif., June 16.- )p rp., ... . , , . (r?-Two lieutenant colonels of the airf j tne 41st division were under treatment Monday in Fort Ord hospital for chronic ailments that with Pacific northwest troops en- ucjune acute wnue tnesr were gaged in maneuvers on Hunter Liggett reservation. Lieut CoL George L. Dutton, adjutant general of the 41st from 1281 State street Salem, Oregon was under treatment for a latent gastric condition. Lieut CoL Joseph B. Conmy, to Spend with the addition of a return pump instead of the present grav ity system.: The hot air furnaces will be replaced. All outside doors and win dows, 15 of the former and SSI of the latter, at the present high school will bo painted. Improved acoustical material h to be placed in the auditor lam. A ventilating system is scheduled for the woodworking hop. - Considerable work Is also plan E FOUNDDD Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, June 17, 1941 TvT New Ca: Election Winner Defeats Three For Place on School Board Ralph H. Campbell, former assistant attorney-general as signed to the unemployment compensation commission, was the choice Monday of 1582 out of 1408 voters for a position on the Salem school board. On July 1 he succeeds Percy A. Cupper, who polled 561 votes as second of four candidates. - Cupper was elected to the board first in 1935 and reelected in 1938. He served as chairman during the last six months of each term. In accordance with an act of the 1941 legislature, Campbell's term is to be five years. Reports by Otto Hoppes, elec tion board chairman, showed Campbell with an increasing lead hour by hour as the counting pro gressed. Francis E. Manley re ceived 94 votes and Herman E. Lafky 69. Except for the 65 votes cast a year ago, the total vote was the smallest since 1936, when 132S citizens balloted. In 1937, 2122 votes were cast, 2273 in 1938 and 3070 in 1939. , Voters came steadily throughout the five hours the noil were onen. Hoonea reaorted. Two ballot'! were thrown out because each was marked for two candidates. One of the voters was a 95-year-old man. PRATUM, June 16. The annu al school meeting for the Pratum district Monday night resulted in I Cornu being elected direct I M Al J TT'!1 m vr lor uirec y8ars wmis VjOC Dei cierK ior one year. SILVERTON, June 16. W. Rv Tomison, the only regular candi date, was elected school director for the five-year term here Mon day and Glenn Price written in for the four-year term. Tomison received 134 votes. Price received 49 for the position vacated when O. E. Lee resigned after serving one" year. Names of 21 other persons were written in on the 160 ballots cast Opponents of I L sVfl - ' JLM UU1V3 Plan Fight Backers of the 1941 law ex tending free use of textbooks to private elementary schools are prepared to apply for an injunc tion in event the state denartment seeks to file as completed the ref- erendum petitions presented against the act last Friday, Rep. Leo Smith (D-Mult) "declared here Monday. . Smith, who- conferred with At torney General L H. Van Winkle and Secretary of State Earl Snell, expressed the opinion that the petitions are invalid because they were circulated under the ballot uue ma 1 uie supreme court re- i-j w L,v. c.n jected early this month. SneU has asked Van Winkle for a formal ruling on the question. Roosevelt Improved WASHINGTON, June 16.JP President' Roosevelt's cold im proved so much Monday that he busied himself in conferences with defense leaders and diplo mats, but abided by the ruling of his physician and cancelled trips to Boston and his home at tnpbell $30,000 on Repairs ned for the junior high: schools. Parrish maintenance includes the equipping of two rooms for .sci ence classes, enlargement of a classroom, addition of a teachers' restroom on the second floor and roof work. The shops building is to be enlarged by about nine feet in length to relieve crowding. One more science room, lino leum in the library and badly needed repairs to the ceiling of the auditorium comprise the work at Leslie schooL age for 0 fo TO Victor - RALPH H. CAMPBELL The assistant attorney general of Orecoa will become a member of the Salem school board July 1 as the resnlt of an election held Monday nlfht. Ralph H. Campbell was the victor over three opponents with a plurality of 121 votes. US Ousts All Nazi Consuls Embassy at Capital to Remain; Move Is Seen as Rupture WASHINGTON, June 16 In a drastic move to curb nazi propaganda and other similar ac- tirittesr the United . States Mon day demanded the closing of all German -consulates and three semi-official nazi agencies in this country by July 10. . A formal note to the German government also called for the removal from "American terrl- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) 1 TTo. cKes xiits Alcoa Firm On Defense 'WASHINGTON, June 16-(P)-i The senate defense investigating committee called .on the Alumi num Company of America Mon day to produce its records for ex amination after Secretary of the Interior Ickes. had charged the huge firm with "recalcitrance" and "obstruction" of the prepar edness program. Chairman Truman (D-Mo) said the Aluminum company had "ig nored" eight or 10 committee re quests for information. - "The Aluminum Company of America Is a very large corpor ation, but hardly large enough to defy the United States sen ate," Truman told L W. Wilson production vice-president of the company, Wilson, subpoenaed by the cbm (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) Draft Age Is Cut by House WASHINGTON, June 16.-()- The house military committee Monday approved draft act amendments providing: 1. That all men who reach the age of 28 by July 1 must be de ferred from military service. 2. That President Roosevelt shall be empowered to order re sumption 01 production at any strike-bound defense plant to use the armed forces to protect any employe voluntarily returning to work. 7 The amendments represented a sweeping revision of senate- approved legislation. Inside walfi of Englwood, McKinley and Washington ele . mentary schools are to be eal : cimined. Woodwork b to be painted at Englewood. At Grant the basement windows are to bo rescreened and a new foun dation and floor put under the bicycle shed. In addition, normal mainten ance work is to be done at these buildings and Bush, Highland, Garfield and Richmond grade schools. . V . ' , I V v 1 . ' - I Li, 1 1 1 Pilots at It 'jf "rrf Price 3c; G C Plans Meet of Civic Groups to Discuss Program Seen Necessary By RALPH C. CURTIS Establishment of a major de fense aviation facility involving the basing of a considerable number of men at the Salem airport loomed as a distinct possibility Monday. Civic lead ers were preparing to organize for the purpose of doing what ever might be done to further the prospect to cooperatee with de fense agencies and to meet any requirements which might be im posed. Representatives of all service and civic organizations are invit ed to meet at a luncheon in the aiem cnamoer 01 commerce rooms next Monday noon, June 23, to learn all thatt can be told at that time of the possible development and the role which the commun ity may be called upon to fill. Directors of the chamber of commerce are arranging for the meeting but it is their intention to offer all Interested groups an equal share in whattever pro gram develops. Exact nature and extent of the possible defense activity could not be announced authoritatively. The Civil Aeronautics authority and WPA are proceeding with enlarge ment and extensive improvement of the airport at a cost of close to $600,000. Representatives of the army engineering corps were re cently in Salem investigating thoroughly certain details con cerning the airport; availability of water supply and railway siding facilities among others. Any eitisen Is privUeged to add up these two facts together with some others, including the army's reported difficulty in finding enough suitable flying fields for its training program, and the government's recent commitment to provide such fields for the trainging of Brit ish and Canadian pilots. The prospects now envisaged.. by civic leaders here are not how ever dependent solely upon the logic of the situation; from quali fied persons who were not in po- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Here Is US TIlA RAiA ensive Leaders isews mat sa remaining crew ana passengers or the o-rated Kobia Bioor naa peea lanoea saiery oy m British ship at Capo Town, South Africa, Monday brings this picture of the US ship, sunk la the- Attth Atl&ntU lut antk k flmnu nKmiriu ar! tm IlmI!rht Incidentally thlfl is thO late Monday night, Salem- Newsstands 5c Hits Axis SIR ARCHIBALD WAVELL Word from North Africa Monday was that Sir Archibald WaveU, commander of the Army of the Nile had started a driving of fenslve in Libya and bis meeb anized troops have pushed 41 miles into the Italian colony. Survivors of US Ship Alive Missing 35 Landed at Cape Town; Taken up by British Freighter CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, June 16.P)-A11 missing survivors of the torpedoed Amer ican freighter Robin Moor were landed at Capetown Monday night by a British ship which happened to see their lifeboats after they had drifted 13 days on the hot mid-Atlantic. The 35 survivors, who had been given up for lost, said it was the luck of the sea that brought the rescue vessel over the hori zon, not any wireless notification of their .plight. Chief Officer Melvln Monday of Bethlehem. Pa the. officer who boarded the submarine, told how he pleaded with the (Turn' to Page 2, Col. 6) To Extend Reserves NEW YORK, June 16.-UP)- Mayor F. H. Laguardia, national director of civilian defense, an nounced Monday night he would create nine regional offices in far-reaching plan to train a civil ian army to defend the nation. Ship Sunk 4 '' 11 K it 1 - i - $ - . i ' V "i : V 4 i L s ' . - ' : i 7 - - '"( x" 7 ' ' j;' :. -'. - fjam IfAn MH.V ton CA41 it..MM M- ,: . " " i .-. Airport iL Story Page 1, Column 6 Weather Mostly cloudy with rain today and ' Wednesday, fol '. lowed by clearing weather, .! 7 Max. temp. Monday, 7, v mln. 52. : Southeast wind. River -1.7 feet. Kaia 4. Inch. Cloudy. No. 70 Pushes In 40 ftjile r On Drive Imperial Troops Follow, Fall of Damascus Nears By The Associated Press Britain sharolv stemmed im her war effort in North Africa and the middle east Monday under circumstances suggest ing that she was taking advan tage not only of the relative in activity of the axis but perhaps of its diplomatic preoccupation with the United States. Into Italian Libya from Esrvnt General Sir Archibald P. WaveU sent his army of the Nile, opening What appeared to be the first phase of a major offensive. Ad vanced British mechanized forces were declared to have struck 40 miles into the colony, ahead of tne main imperial body. In Syria and Lebanon continu ing British and Free French suc cesses imminently threatening those French colonies were ack nowledged in Vichy, although it became clear that final victory there would be achieved only at the cost of much blood an even tuality which the British all along had declared they were anxious to avoid. V.; '; The allies were reported un officiaUy to have broken through to wlthia five" miles of Damascus, the Syrian inland capital, and to within 12 miles of Beirut, the capital of Leban (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) War News Briefs LONDO.V. Tuesday. June 17. -(JP)-A major British bombing attack upon the "Invasion ports" of France In daylight Monday brought on a spectac ular series of air fights which " the air ministry said today cost the Germans 11 planes and the British six. BERLIN, Tuesday, June 17.- (iP)-Nasi fighter planes downed nine British bombers as tho RAF struck again at western Germany daring the night, in formed source said today. Tho . raiders failed to damage any military objectives, these sour (Turn to tMge 2. CoL 4) by German Sub 7 v v