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Eyes and Ears Trained correspondents of the Associated rres throughout' the world arc tho "eyes" "and "ears' of YOUR mornlnr Statesman, sending their "copy" over leased wires to YOU while Iff still "hot." Weather Partly Cloudy with light showers today and Saturday. Slightly warmer. Max. temp. Thursday. C9, Mia. 52. South west wind. Kai J J. Kiver 1.1. Cloudy. ,. FOUNDQD 1651 NlNETY-nBST YEAR Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. Juno 23, 1341 Price 3cj Newsstands 5c No. 73 jr-4- Lumber Board's On Union Accord Northwest Employers Balk On Inuustry-Wiue : Dykstra Resigns Post By the Associated Press The defense mediation board's efforts to iron out labor dif ficulties in the Puget Sound lumber industry met a new set-back .Thursday. Employers rejected a proposal for industry-wide ne- "cnHatirtne'witVi tho Tntpmatinnal WnnHwnrlrpru nt Amprira ff!Tf)l. . Only last Saturday, the IWA irVirVi M-ierSnollv nffwtrl 95 Oftfl camps and mills. t The board proposed industry ing : problems as . an alternative, I to a study of the whole situation by a board appointed commission. Employers said two-thirds of the strikers had gone back to work before the union acted ; and that negotiations on an industry-wide basis now. would ' confuse both sides. After notice of the employers' view, the mediation board tele graphed both sides that it would have to appoint a commission to make final recommendations un less agreement was reached for direct negotiations. Mill and logging operations em ploying nearly 2000 men, includ ing the Weyerhauser-o w n e d White River Lumber company at Enumclaw, reopened Thursday under the board's May 23 recom mendation. 1 4; The new operations now work ing leave only about 1500 men still out, with all plants and camps previously closed by strike now working except a small group, J. B. Fitzgerald, secretary of tho employers' negotiating committee said. O. M. Orion, president of the union, said tho workers voted to return to work under the June IS proposal of the mediation board "conditionally only upon tho fact that they were guaran , teed tho right to bargain collec- tlvely on the four points still la dispute . ; Employers have re fused to negotiate." " Ho said that at operations where employers rejected the June 13 terms, workers were still on strike. "The June 13 proposal of the board, at our insistence, provided for immediate negotiations as a condition upon which we would return to work. The employers, in rejecting it, are arbitrarily jeop ardizing the future of peaceful in dustrial relations to the industry,' he said. What future steps the union nlanned. if any. were not an nounced. , The development dropped a major new problem into the board's lap at a time when it was losing its present chairman. Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra. The White House announced that President Roosevelt had ac cepted Dykstra's resignation, ef fective July 1. He will return to his duties as president of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. There was speculation that Dyk stra would be succeeded by Wil liam H. Davis, the present vice chairman. : .-. r ' Davis, a patent attorney, was chairman of the New York state mediation board when Mr. Roose velt drafted him for the new fed eral agency established to try to avert work stoppages affecting de fense production. Another west coast develop ment was apparent arrival of a crisis In relations between na tional leaders , of AFL machin ists and San Francisco local (Turn to Page 3, Col. 5) Pearson Rites Slated Today A number of state officials,' in eluding Governor Charles A. Sprague, will attend the funeral services for tho late State Senator Walter E. Pearson In Portland to day. Pearson died unexpectedly in Marshf ield early Wednesday while en a combined business and pleas ure trip. PORTLAND, Juno lMVFun ral services will be held at the Flnley chapel here at 2:30, pjn, Friday for State Senator Walter X. Pearson, 68, former state treas urer. ' Dr. Weldon M. Wilson will of ficlate and burial will be at Lin' coin Memorial park. Our Senators 32 c& 1.1 JJ M UtW , v nen Reject Proposal Plan; had accepted board recommen- u,-nrlrr and fiftv-rfM Inmlwr - wide negotiations on remain- ; ; Airport Work Order Awaited Boatwrigkt Requests WPA Start July 2, but Okeh Delayed Order to begin July 2 on the WPA project at the Salem muni cipal airport has not been given, but only requested, G. R. Boat wright, district director of the WPA, declared Thursday.. Both Boatwrifht and Harold Davis, city engineer, said ap proval for beginning work was asked some ten days ago. The former further stated it was unknown here whether or not only relief labor will be em ployed on the project, first part of which is to be $234,000. Grading of tho airport under the CAA construction program is es timated 73 per cent completed, Davis said, and paving of the run way is not expected to start for some weeks. WASHINGTON. June 19-iJPi- The WPA Thursday ordered itsfw- rolls cut to a maximum of 1,000, 000 within .the next three weeksi to brin& tho total to the lowest since the creation of that relief agency. ; - Howard O. Hunter, works pro ject administrator, ordered a 415,- 000 reduction, saying it was nec essary to bring the work program in line with the expected cut in the relief appropriation by con gress. The house passed an appro priation bill of 1885,900,000. while tho senate appropriation committee has recommended - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Irving Berlin Writes Bonds Buying Song WASHINGTON, June - Secretary Morgenthau announced Thursday that a theme song writ ten for the defense savings cam paign by Irving Berlin will, be In troduced in a radio program Sat urday night. , ' The song, entiled "Any Bonds Today?' will be sung , by Barry Wood on a program beginning at 5 p.m. (PST) Saturday over CBS. ' The chorus of the song goes: Any bonds today? Bonds of freedom, that's what I'm selling- Any bonds today? Scrape up the most you can Here comes the freedom man Asking- you to buy a share of freedom today Any stamps today? V Well be blessed if we an invest-. In the USA. Here comes the freedom man Can't make tomorrow's plan Not unless you buy a sharo of freedom today. FDR to Visit Canada MONTREAL, Que., June 19-ff) -Prime Minister W. L. MacKen tie King, returning from- the United States, said Thursday President Roosevelt still intends to visit Canada this summer. House Group Approves $287,000,000 for Defense WASHINGTON, June 19-Pfr Rep. Mott announced Thursday that the house roads-committee had approved a house bill author izing $287,000,000 for defense highways. This was $37,000,000 mora than passed by the senate. The committee-approved meas ure provides $100,000,000 for a strategic network on which states will contribute 25 per cent and the federal government 75 per cent; $150,000,000 for access high ways to military establishments, wholly paid by federal funds; A Axis Committees of Ciyic Croups Plan Air Meet Prospects of Getting Pilot Training Unit Will Be Discussed Active community interest in the prospect of obtaining an army pilot traiinng unit or de fense aviation facility of equal magnitude for the Salem air port was demonstrated this week by a number of civic or ganizations which, at the sug gestion of the Salem chamber of commerce, designated committees to attend a joint meeting at the chamberinext Monday noon. It was indicated Thursday that spokesmen for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the United Airlines which also is . Interested in the Salem airport development and possibly the army air corps, would be pres ent at the meeting to explain whatever may be announced authoritatively or to offer in formal advice as to the pros pects of such a development at , the Salem airport. . Members of the various civic organizations' committees i n clude: . Chamber of, commerce: Presi dent Floyd Miller, Chairman Ray Yocum of the' industrial commit tee, Fred Klaus, Henry Crawford, L. Phillips, Frank Bennett, Bifo Mis. Ilda tBingen- heimer JBei famseyer. v Ad club: Tier t Renhard, Charles Bier, Earl - Headrick, Robert Sprague, George Arbuckle.. Active club: James Nicholson, jr., Ronald Hudkins, Rodger Kel ley, Joseph Felton, Garland Simp son, Robert White. Twenty-Thirty c 1 u b: George Herberger, Jim Stevenson, Ernest Kunney, Elmer Barkus, Cliff Overson. Junior chamber of commerce: Floyd Emmons, Dr. Joe Burton, Roy Gray, Malcolm Mitchell, Da vid Lowe, Jr. Kiwanis club: Douglas McKay, Fred Lamport, W. W. Chadwick, Linn Smith, Carl Hogg, Ralph Cooley, George Schwenger, I. M. Doughton. Zonta club: Mrs. William Stacey, Helen Yockey, Mrs. Roland K. Page, Miss Nellie Schwab, Mrs. BrownelL . . . Lions club: Virgil T. Golden, Ronald E. Jones, Hollis Hunting ton, Irving Miller, Dale Wood, (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1) Isles Pledge US Loyalty MANILA; June 19-WVMillions of Filipinos led by their president, Manuel Quezon, Thursday reaf firmed their loyalty to the United States in event of war and pledged their all, even their lives, to the defense of democracy. Loyalty day a new holiday for the islands was the occasion for the island-wide expression of al legiance, and in cities and villages the the populace paraded and pledged fidelity anew. Late Sports RICHMOND, Va, June 19.-flP) -Jimmy ' Webb of St. Louis knocked out Johnny Romero of Los Angeles in tho third round of their scheduled 10-rounder co feature of the sixth annual Rich mond police boxing shows Thurs day night before a crowd of about 10,000. Webb weighed 174 and Romero 173V4. $25,000,000 for emergency repair of roads used by the military; $10,000,000 for post war road planning and surveys, and $2, 000,000 for airplane flight strips along highways. WASHINGTON, June 19-VP)-Final designation of strategic mil itary roads throughout the coun try will not be made by the fed eral works administrator until tho road authorization bills (S-1580) has been enacted into law. - The office of Administrator ied Trows Enter Ousts '-American Curtailment of Rubber Ordered by Government Tire Manufacturers Hit Hard When US V . Decides to Build Stock Pile; Ickes . Proposes Gasoline Ration Cards WASHINGTON, June lMVThe government Thursday or dered a curtainmit in consumption of rubber in order to build up its stock pile for use in the defense program. j Officials said that a formula would be worked out under which processors would be allotted" a fixed "percentage of the amount of rubber they formerly had processed. . www. wwowtoostmnnwwLW.ywwqsoMusooiHBSH if . . . i HAROLD ICKES The secretary of the Interior and oil coordinator has authored an other plan, this time a "gasoline ration card" for motorists in the eastern part of tho US. Ickes says he hasn't worked out the details but Inferred. It was a good idea and needed because of the lack of oil tankers. Labor Parley Flays Taxes - ; Oregon Federation Hits i Sales and Fag Levies; ; Opposes - Exemptions ASTORIA, June 19.-(4-The sales tax, cigarette tax and the proposed $2000 property tax ex emption were opposed Thursday by the Oregon Federation of La bor. The property tax exemption would be a step toward the sales tax, which the federation has consistently opposed, several delegates said. Establishment of unsuper vised private schools to train defense workers was opposed on the ground that "such rackets are being operated for the benefit of the private Indi viduals rather than to assist tho government in Its defense pro gram.". A resolution asked the state board of vocational education to "do all in its power to secure the establishment of proper stand' ards for such. private defense training schools, and to eliminate (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 2) ' Norris Favors Recess . WASHINGTON, Juno 1 Senator Norris, veteran Nebras ka Independent, favors a con gressional recess. "We stayed here last summer," he remark ed, "and about all we did was make fools of ourselves." . John M. Carmedy said the final action would be withheld until the agency knows Just what funds It will have to work with. The senate passed the measure Wednesday setting the total ex-, Senator McNary (R-Ore) took penditure at $250,000,009 and a prominent part in getting the basis of state pariclpatlon re-" taxed.' ' . ,.- , McNary two weeks ago objected to the provision in the measure that states would have to match federal funds on a 50-50 basis in It was expected that proces sors would not be told which items they must cut down on. but officials acknowledged that tire manufacturing would be cur tailed. The broad outlines of the con trol program were given to a meeting of large and small rub ber processors. Officials of the office of, pro duction management said that ' under the ' program, consump tion of rubber during the last six months of 1141 would be re duced from the current rate of 817,000 tons annually to a rate of about 400,000 tons. Tire manufacturing consumes about 70 per cent of the rubber used in the United States. WASHINGTON, June l.-(jp)-The possibility of gasoline ration cards lor eastern motorists arose Thursday as officials considered ways of combatting a threatened oil shortage in the eastern part of the country. ' Interior Secretary Ickes told bit press conference that a ra t,n card system was "one of 4f?ti tfngs under consideration." U tigld restrictions ' on non- 'essential use of automobiles be came necessary He previously had indicated, however, that the first step would be a gov ernment appeal for voluntary conservation by motorists. , Asked how a ration system would work, Ickes, who is oil co ordinator, said no details,- had been worked out ; Ickes previously had told an emergency conference of approxi mately 800 representatives of the $12,000,000,000 oil industry that unity, of effort. was imperative "to defend democracy." He said "our very national existence may be at stake" in the preparedness and aid-to-Britain drive. Ralph Ki Davies, deputy pe troleum coordinator, added that broad readjustments may be nec essary in the industry during the emergency. - The prime immediate objec tive of tht conference was te ease, so far as possible, the (Turn to Page 3, CoL 6) - Grange Hears Power Plans NEWPORT, Ore, June liHH A $50,000,000 electric power trans mission line program in the next year was forseen by U. J. Gend ron, assistant Bonneville adminis trator, speaking Thursday before the state grange convention. " . After citing Aluminum Com pany of America and Reynolds plants as evidence of industrial growth in the northwest, Gendron said that immediate steps should be taken to construct the proposed Umatilla dam so it would! be ready by 1843, The delegates adopted a resolu tion approving graduated land taxes to discourage corporation farming. Escapee Still Absent Search for Harry Williams, 42, who escaped from a state peniten tiary work gang Wednesday morn ing, continued Thursday, and no trace of his whereabouts had been found late in the night ; money used for federal highways and suggested that the amount should be 75 per cent federal funds to 25 per cent state funds with the government paying all of the costs of access roads to military and naval areas and. to areas of strategic metals, The roads are to be con structed for national defense, and In matters of national de fense the government always pays 100 per cent" McNary said." and I think we should not expect' any more from the US Purge of Italo Consuls Seen Certain Capital Surprised at Action of Rome; Full Break Believed Near WASHINGTON, June 19-;P) -A purge of Italian consuls from the United States was reported virtually certain tonight to fol low an axis double-play against American representatives which brought diplomatic relations even nearer a complete break. Germany's action in ordering ! American consuls out of the reich and German-occupied countries was fully anticipated here when nazi consular officials were di rected last Monday to leave this country by July 10. However, the fact that Italy also ordered American consuls to leave the territory under her control by July 15 the same deadline set by German y . caused some surprise here. The American expulsion order was confined to Germans and left Italians free to continue their duties here. Informed sources said there was little doubt that the United States would now eject Italian consuls as well as German. , The axis moves led to increased conjecture in the capital on the possibility that an early severance of all relations between the Unit ed States and Germany and Italy. . There was no official indication Thursday naghChoweVeri that tho American government was ready to take the initiative in a step of such far-reaching implications. - Expulsion of .Italian consuls would close consulates in 49 cities In the United States and Its possessions, and force tho departure of 'about 55 consular officers. , . As a result of th Berlin Rome orders, the United States must recall at least 84 consular -' (Turn to Page 3, CoL 7) Japan Stops US War Move Says Leader TOKYO, June lMKoh Ishii, director of official Japanese information bureau, declared Thursday night that although "it is almost certain -that the United States will enter the European war on -the British side," she is now strongly deterred by axis partner Japan's dominance in the far-eastern seas. ' Addressing the central coopera tive council, Ishii said, "Japan, as a partner in the tri-partite alli ance, remains dominant on the other side of the Pacific and is playing an important role as a strong deterrent to her (United States) entry into the war." "As things stand," he assert- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - First Aid Men. Aid Two Hurt Esther ReideseL 259 North 15th street, was treated Thursday night by irst aid men or serious burns on her ace, hands and chest, suffered when some turpen tine that was heating exploded. She was taken to the Salem Gen eral hospital. Jimmy Moffit, 1909 North Fourth street, cut a finger when the glass broke as he was trying to . open a window. He walked into the station for treatment states than 25 per cent, which they would pay in order to Identify themselves as part ners.' The senate adopted that sug gestion. v The senator said he also be lieved the federal government should pay for strengthening or constructing bridges needed by the army in moving its heavy equipment - ; i Senator Hay den (D-Arlz) told the. senate a burden was being placed on the nation's highway Co n ids Planes nn ATI pie Oil Syria Germany Strike Back at US In Diplomatic Roiv Russia Silent on War Plans As Rumors of Conflict Fly; Finns Prepare for Fight LONDON, Friday, June 20-P-Britifeh and Free French forces were report ed. today to hsve fought their way into the suburbs of Damascus, with full occupation of the Syrian capital "expected perhaps in a matter of hours." The Cairo correspondent of Reuters, British news -agency, said the allied troops, heavily supported by British bombers and fighters, were smashing toward the heart of the ancient capital. Military circles in Jerusalem said French artillery had shelled British, forces advancing toward Damascus along the road from captured Kissoue and that snipers had fired on, allied soldiers FDR Says US Would Fight Accepts Degree From Oxford by Proxy atv Harvard Ceremony CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 19 (tf)-President Roosevelt told rep resentatives of Great Britain's old est university land , of his alma mater Thursday that this country would fight for freedom and that "we . "i t would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.' . In a setting that made academic history beneath the elms of Har vard, America's oldest university, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, as chancellor of Oxford, conferred upon the president the centuries old English university's honorary doctorate of civil law. Precedent was shattered as ' Oxford held its convocation dur ing Harvard's 290th commence ment at which Lord Halifax re (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) English Radio Jobs NEW-; "YORK, June 19.-0P)-More than 250 men and six wom en applied for . akcraft-detective duty in England as the civilian technical corps,' seeking upwards of 15,000 volunteers, swung into operation Thursday. , Cab - drivers,' actory workers, mechanics, radio engineers, la borers, either telephoned or called at the British consulate or ap plications, hoping to work with the new radiolocator which spots approaching planes. "7 Most of them were between 25 and 30 years old. ; The R a d 1 o Corporation of America, which will test those ac cepted, announced the volunteers would be paid, non-combatant employes whose work would be chiefly maintenance and servicing of the equipment system by reason of increased troop movements and that it was a burden solely due to national defense, while Senator Chavez (D-NM) pointed out that present bridges meet civilian requirements but not military requirements. - . The senate provided that the federal works administrator should designate the existing and . proposed highways "eon forming to such approved routes as lines el the strategic aef work of hlxhways." Highways Siipraort jl it ssault and Italy from vantage points aithe slopes of Jebel Kabl.; ft " : .Earlier, the French counter- offensive of the central front was reported to have been stayed and allied progress was said to have been made along the Lebanon coast toward Bei rut - Warned z last of the resolute nature of their foe by the sudden French counter-offensive between Damascus and Beirut which , reached almost to the Palestine frontier, the British were reported to have done with parleys before Damascus.: and unleased an attack on the Syrian capital which was converging from the east south and west : ; " Apparently the French had not responded to a reported ultima- turn by the British commander. Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, demanding surrender of the capi tal by 5 JO am. Thursday. (By The Associated Press) The Germans, carrying on m' subtle fear , campaign against soviet Russia, that brought a real and imminent threat of new war along a 'thousand-mile front turned their official diplomacy last .Thursday night in quite an other direction against the United States. In retaliation for Washing ton's order expelling nasi con sular officials from this coun try, effective July 10, and clos ing the German library of In formation and railway tourist ; bureau. Berlin ordered US con sular and American Express company employes to learo th (Turn to Page 2, CoL I) World War : ' ' News Today By the Associated Press ' Germans and Italians order ouster of US consular officials in retaliation for Washington's similar action against the nazis; American Express also to be closed in the reich and in seven occupied territories. Nazi fear campaign against soviet Russia is sweeping tht Baltic-Black sea ' area; Finns restrict civilian rail travel to speed troop movement and make full officers of cadets; British say Turkish - German accord is an almost 'infallible' sign that Hitler will march against Russia; Moscow remalng utterly silent v : : British and free French, are driving on in Syria and Leba non; Vichy admits its counter offensive at the allied center has run its course; Damascus reported under attack from three sides; the allies are Ja sight of Beirut Lebanon. ' j Capital