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Smilol Vcathcr Dmi war new depress yeuT Turn to The States man's eomle pare for di version. YouH smile at Strictly Private" and laugh wlwth Blondle and Dtrwood Bumstead, !: Occasional showers today, becoming, fair; San day af terneen. ..; Temperatures slightly below normal. Max. temp. Friday 71, Xlln. 41. Southeast wind. River -U. Partly elondy. I 5 POUNDS!? 1651 n j lniOTf-nSST YIAB Salem, Oragon, Saturday Morning. Junt 21, 1941 , Price 3ci Itarsitandj 5e No. 74 tGrew VP .lievedl- Bead in iiiMkee 1 1 ' i Be r. PC u r 'i - (Co Selec t E x Go ittee; Duties mm Of Reserves Told ; Coordinator Will Be Named : Next Week; Registrations O f Volunteers Set Soon , ; . " By ISABEL CHILDS . " No amateur sleuthing, persecution of so-called subversive elements, no flaunting of expensive uniforms is to feature civilian participation in the war now threatening, Chairman Douglas Mc Kay and State Defense Coordinator Jerrold Owen assured mem bers of Marion county's defense council as it met in organization session Friday night in Salem chamber of commerce rooms. 1 The part of civilians, speakers constantly emphasized, is likely to be similar to that played in na tions now involved in war: Keep ing communications lines open, protection of public utilities and Industries by fighting fires, build ing public morale, meeting the DOUGLAS McKAY emergencies of the moment with prepared organization, and pos sibly air-raid protection. First activity expected of the county organization, Owen - de clared, is to be enrollment of the Oregon Civil Reserves, volunteer . service for which both men and women will be eligible. Among other questions, reg istrants will be asked if they would be willing to submit to beta flnaerprlnted for FBI records. Three character refer ences for ability and loyalty will be required of each applicant.' From this group of registrations, each of which may contain an expressed preference as to field of service, will be selected men and women to receive special train-, lng as police and fire-fighting re serves; persons who will comprise the great planned network of air warning service, and those who will do the more prosaic tasks required of first aid workers and home economists. Not a cent of payment for these services nor even expenses for county defense councils has been arranred or seems likely to be provided, Owen declared. Only funds in sixht to-da to for the program are those asked of the federal government by the national director, Mayor F. IL LaGuardto of New Tork City, who has requested appropria tion of $99,000,000 for emerg ency purchases of flre-flfhtlng and police equipment, he sold. That equipment is to be por tioned out to communities where It is needed, to be returned after the emergency to the federal gov ernment or possibly paid for on (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Riley Refuses RodentReward PORTLAND, Ore, Juno t-AP)-Mayor Earl Riley rriday refused to post a reward for the capture 4 o a d or alive of Portland's pestiferous squirrel. . The squirrel has bitten and scratched eight persons in a west side district In the past fix days, but the mayor said if , a reward were posted every boy in the city would turn up witft a dead squirrel, bank rupting the city. . Health officials hoped for capture of the rambunctious rodent, however, to determine whether or not ho baa rabies. Our Senators L::l 7-0 , i sin. ii nun i : -r -: ' - i I . Dei ecu tive McKay Heads County Unit With almost military preci sion Marlon county's defense council Friday nirht unanimous ly elected State Senator Douglas McKay permanent chairman and T. A. VTindishar as vice-chairman. It authorised McKay to select his own executive com mittee, sursestlnr that ho do It without regard to i-eofraphy or occupation. Named to the executive com-, mittee after adjournment of the council session were Chandler, Brown, William ' 2n tress, Ray Yocom, Bryan Conley and G. F, Ted" Chambers, who, Jt bvsup posed wQl head Cue council's five departments of planning, protection, necessities, commu nications and public utilities. To serve with them in selec tion of a coordinator and later in their capacity ' as advisers, McKay named County Judge Grant Murphy, chairman pro tempore of the council before Its organization. The coordinator is to be se lected after further considera tion, probably early next week, McKay said. Salem Woman Reaches 102; Feted Today Salem's oldest citizen, Mrs. Mary Littler, will celebrate her 102nd birthday anniversary today with a family dinner at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. A. Un derbill, 885 South Twelfth street Guests will be her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C, A. Littler, Forest Grove; two nephews, Dr. C. V. Littler, Al bany, and D. M. Littler, . Vancou ver, and their families; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Commett and son, Al bany; Miss Ida Menzies, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hockett and son, all of Albany; Mrs. Mysta Hendricks, Salem. Mrs. Littler has been a resident of Salem since 1910. Funeral Held For Pearson PORTLAND, June successor to the late state sena tor Walter E. Pearson will be appointed soon, Multnomah coun ty commissioners Indicated Fri day. They probably will accept the recommendation of the county aemocrauc central committee, commissioners said. Senator Pearson, once state treasurer, was a democrat' Funeral services were held here for Pearson, who died of heart ailment at Marshfield this week. A number of state bffi cials. Including Govern o Sprague, attended the services. Nazi-Russ Clash Seen NEW YORK, June 20-(-The Budapest radio, in German-allied Hungary, said Friday night dip lomatic circles there, were con vinced German-Russian tension must shortly reach the breaking point . . . Fire Hits Air Depot SITKA, Alaska, June 20-)- A tire at the naval air stauon here Friday destroyed the sta tion's original building, naval of ficials announced Friday night fMbse Council Organizes Here's Where. This map shows the location of all President Roosevelt by July 10. ?l ALSO ORDERED CLOSED; A i -V COLON, CANAL ZQNC . ife X honouuuu, hahA ty- EE PUERTO RlCa hSTAS f r"l MANILA, PHUPPAS 1 were broken off with the old imperial German government In 1917 ton will be the only official German agency in the United States. WPA District Here Fails To Get Notice of Cut Senate Passes Funds Increase Over House Bill, but Amount Much Less Than Used in Past Fiscal Year Salem district office of the works nroiects administration bad not received Friday official Viotice of its part in the cutting othe national WPA rolls to 1,000,0Q0 persons, said George Han- ' S . . ........ - - ' - - :- ' set-assistant district director Hansen said about 1800 are Ford Signs Union Pact Contract Includes Dues Check-off; Wages to Rise WASHINGTON, June 2H)- The Ford Motor company, last of the big non-union firms in the automobile industry, signed a con tract with CIO's united auto work ers union Friday, agreeing to a union shop, and a dues check-off. The conclusion of the history making pact after a fortnight of negotiations, took place in the office of CIO president Philip Murray and in the presence of Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, and more than a score of company and union repre sentatives. By the signing of the agree ment, Ford becomes the first big producer in the motor car field to install a union shop and the checkoff system by. which the company deducts union dues from the pay envelopes and pays them over to the union treasury. Under the terms of the union shop clause, all Ford workers must remain or become members of the CIO union. The union, in turn, agreed to accept all Ford workers into its ranks. A union shop differs from a closed shop in that, under the closed shop, the union usually supplies the la bor force. The contract specified no fixed amounts by which wages are to be increased, but statement by R. J. Thomas, union president, said the company agreed to pay wage rates ?which will be at least equal to the highest paid in the various classifications by other motor car companies. The com pany has 120,000 employes but there was no Indication how many would receive raises. Grange Wants CCC on Farms NEWPORT, June 2O-0VOre-gon state grange delegates pro posed Friday to meet the farm labor shortage by hiring CCC boys to harvest crops. They decided also to Join with other groups in initiating a meas ure to make a county-wide vote mandatory before pay of , county officials could be increased. , A resolution calling for taxa tion of all real property was de feated, but another, providing for payment of 2 per cent of fair value on all federally-owned land within Oregon, was passed. " Nazi Consulates the German consular offices in the The move was the most drastic step ..r-?i . - included on the rolls in the six I counties of this district, approxi- mately the same as a year ago. WASHINGTON, June 20-V Without a record vote, the senate approved Friday a relief fund of $936,900,000 for the fiscal year beginnig July 1 but ignored Presi dent Roosevelt's request for elim ination of a number of existing restrictions on WPA. The measure now goes back to the house for consideration of 950,485,000 of senate increases as well as numerous other amend ments. Both the senate and the house approved the $875,000,000 asked by the president to provide Jobs or an estimated 1,000,000 persons during the 12 months beginning July 1. This was a sharp reduc tion below the $1,381,000,000 available for WPA during the present fiscal year when an aver age of 1,700,000 persons were em ployed. WPA headquarters already had notified state and local of fices that some 400,000 persons must be dropped from relief Jobs by the first week la July. - Just before final senate action (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) "Sheridan Days" Opens SHERIDAN, June 20-JP)-rhil Sheridan, the army officer for whom this town was named, was honored at the opening of the seventh annual Phil Sheridan days Friday. State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott was principal speaker after a parade. . . . The British Th British ham acknowledged" ipfWllIllliSHplI MILES l if i, in inn, I , m LIBYA ISIIH ;? - , m EGYPT wSg ward positions," and axis sources reported an axis victory In the to drive Into Libya. White triangle indicates the British offensive. movement which, British said, caused their withdrawal. German an effort to relieve besieged Tobruk. Ieuea une indicate route te Are in US United States, ordered closed by the US has taken since relations The German embassy in Washing SF Machinists Refuse Work St, Second Parley Fails ; AFL to Continue in Strike at Ward's SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, J une 2 HflVStriking San ? Fran cisco AFL machinists early today f or thesecd time refused to call off their Walkout and return to work at bay area shipyards. ' PORTLAND, June 20-P)-A Montgomery Ward & Company spokesman said Friday the firm was ready to reopen its Portland store as soon as pickets were withdrawn and merchandise was delivered. George Bokat, national labor relations board examiner, blamed the store in a decision released Thursday for a strike there, ac cusing the company of failure to bargain collectively. The store was ordered to offer reinstatement without prejudice to all employes. Ward officers said the company would reinstate all workers but asserted that the decisions did not grant back pay to any of them. The unions interpreted the deci (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Boy Missing From Home Donald Dean Wilson, 12, was missing from his home from 4 pjn. Thursday, supposedly on his way to Portland, his father, R. D. Wilson of Aumsville, told city police. Last seen on a bicycle, the boy left note for his parents saying he was going to 'Portland. He weighs 00 pounds, ' Is five feet, one Inch tall and was wearing overalls and a blue-gray pi a Id Jacket Withdraw in Libya Campaign that their advance forces had withdrawn em the Libyan front, to "for FDR Calls Germans Outlaws Accuses Nazis Of Piracy in Moor Sinking By The Associated Press i In a solemn message to con gress. President Roosevelt ac cused Germany Friday of trying to capture the high seas in an outlaw plan for world conquest, and he declared before the United States and the world:' "We are not yielding and we do not propose to yield." He did not say Just how this country would meet the German policy of lawlessness and terror on land and piracy on the sea" whether, for example, by arm ing merchant ships or putting the fleet into action to protect them nor did he recommend any spe cific line of action to congress. Even before Mr. Roosevelt had thus spoken, there was specula tion in Berlin as to whether a for mal break in American-German relations was in near prospect. The nazis, seeking to support their action in ordering the ouster from the reich and seven occupied ter ritories of US consular and Ameri- can Express employes, insisted that it was not primarily in re taliation for similar United States action against German consular workers and propagandists. Bather, an authorised Ger man spokesman asserted, the reich had long had proof of "dozens of cases' in which American consular officials In Germany had obtained tnfor matlon for the British secret service and had - relayed ft through "a certain central of fice la WaahlnrtenV He said, America's initial ac tion against German consulates had simply relieved the nazis of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Marion Ranks Hi gh in 4H Judging Meet CORVALLIS, June 2(HJP) Judging contest winners were an nounced Friday at the close of the 27th annual 4-H club summer school at Oregon State college. Winners Included: Livestock judging Fred Klein, Edwin McCall, both Marion coun ty, Bert Denham, Lane, and Elton Medler, Sherman, tied for second. Crops Judging Ronald Allen, Marion, third. Room improvement judging Luella Nichols, Marion, in tie for third. Cooking judging Donna Clugs- ton, Klamath, and Margaret Kel ler, Marion, in tie for third. Prisoner Cuts Arm After being arrested on charge of drunkenness, Frank L. Paisley slashed his left arm at the county jail, the sheriffs office reported Friday evening. He was treated and removed to the state hospital for observation. Calum area after a British attempt Semi-circle marks axis encirclement sources pictured the British push as Toorux. Gravely III 'V VC7 SEN. PAT HARRISON Senate Chief se Mississippi Solon in Washington , Hospital ; Physician Concerned WASHINGTON, June 2H) Senator Pat Harrison (D-Miss). who underwent a n operation Monday for an Intestinal ob- strncuon. took a crave turn lor the worse at Emergency hospital Friday. Bis physician and close per sonal friend. Dr. sterling Raf fia noted, the change hi aKof- - flcial WUettn, and said he was greatly concerned. His son, Pat Harrison, Jr of Gulfport, Miss arrived during the day. , Harrison Is president pro tern- -pore of the senate and chairman f Its finance committee. The operation was performed only a few days after the sen ator's return from Hot Springs where the was under treatment sine the middle of March for general -t atlfue." His health has been unsatisfactory since he suf fered a severe asiaek of lnflu- ensa In 1939. Jones Named To UO Post EUGENE. June James H. Gilbert. University of Oregon social science dean, an- nounced Friday the appointment at Dr W. C Jones as nrofessor arid head of the department of nolitieal ac-tence and nublie ad - ministration. rif JnnM nm on th Willam- tt i,nivritv faculty hold d- r . frm whittier n.. raiif siihm . raiifnmJa and Minnesota. , . . Dr. William C Jones, whose appointment at University of Oregon had been expected since the state board of higher edu- caUon met nearly two weeks ago, has previously mdicated his LTtion So take the position. He has been head of the Wil- lamette departments of business administration and for the past ten years. Parking Meters Condemned by Salem S Renewed opposition to parking meters was voiced by the Salem 5im TtMifv tvuini TvWa and plans announced lor circulation ox petitions for presentation to the city council at. its next meeting, July 7. The business, bureau, declared Dr. Henry E. Morris, president, -believes thai a majority of the businessmen downtown, at least IS er t8 per cent of them, are uum pirnni mrwTfc , - " A survey recently conducted by the bureau showed relatively lit tle abuse of present parking, time regulations, Dr. Morris said. As a result, the bureau intends to ask the council to reject all bids when proposals for parking meter - in stallations, now being sought, are received. The realty board adopted a res olution expressing its disapproval of parking meters use here. Has Relap Wreckage Located By Ship Grapnels Fouled At 67 Fathoms; Daylight Waited Bulletin PORTSMOUTH. N. H- Satur day, June 21-iAVThe rescue ship Falcon radioed ashore early today that she believes she bad "definitely located the sunken submarine 0-9 m 440 feet of water, but continual efforts to communicate with the craft has bronj-ht no Indication of life In the submarine -. Bear Admiral Richard Ed wards, aboard the' Falcon, said . y that the rescue vessel had at- ' tached "two grapnels" to the submarine and "would attempt to send divers down when the Chewlnk arrives with equip ment about 7 0." . ' Edwards said a "Urge quan tity of cork, oil, air and decking sirhted." "Have made continual efforts to communicate,' his terse mes sage read, "but have received no indication of life In submar ine." PORTSMOUTH, NIL, Satur day, June 21-tP)-The death of all 33 officers and men of the sunken submarine 0-9 was in dicated Friday, night -by the navy after wreckage from the craft shot to the surface from the tremendous depth; of 402 feet. V r . The rescue ship Falcon radio fed Ishore" jusf-Tifter" midnight "have 2 , grapnels fouled on object on bottom." 1 The naval officer who made the announcement said that it could not be -said definitely whether the Falcon had con tacted the sunken submarine. The position where the con tact was made, however, was ALSEA, Ore., June 2KW Kobert Arnold Gardner, 15. tor pedomaa 3d Haas missing with the submarine O-t off Ports mouth, N. IL, Is the son of Dan Gardner, Alsea. Gardner was born April It, 1917, served one - three-year enlistment m the navy and re-enlisted Sept. 19, 1939. records of the Corvallia , recruiting office indicated. , r I carefully marked with three I buoys. Lieut-Commander Edmund Jeweu told newsmen that: "It's a good chance that the object is the submarine." He said, the grapnels fouled about two- enxns oi a mue ouume a "swept 1 area, usea ior suomarUM mves. but dded "thut rtgian probably WOUIO DC Swept tOO. vr neuier me wreckage meant tt the men below were trying to aid searchers in finding them, r""1" "'w ujm w i escape uieraitivCT,. or wnetner me f"cient binarine might bo break- " ur r,u:.r uw W1 S than twice the water she was built to stand, navy officers hero do- . I Zl'. " yT "l"' fe5 " " rhi " .7??. J7Z I T J itl" t navy yard here: picacv , w& painiea cork, pieces of 1-9 deck grat tna. oU slick, air bubbles, depth 7-fathoms.' - Previous reports had placed the 0-9 at a depth of 270 feet-J-deep er than any - submarine ' rescue had ever been successfullv at tempted previously. The Falcon's report gave the depth at 402 feet. :,l-y-:-. . :." Rear Admiral John Dwain- I wright , announced late Friday " w pic ua board " 4marine would be War News Bricfa . LONDON. Saturday, Juno It HT-The British news agency ' Reuters In a dispatch from Istan- . bul today said passengers. 'arw rivinff from Raman la- reported clashes occurring on the Rumanian-Russian border and thai "hostilities are developing, be ' tween Rumanian and red army : soldiers. . ;:: ; ; NEW TORS, Saturday. June t-(-neavy troop concentra tions were reported In the Len ingrad area if Russia today by (Turn to Pago 2 Col. 4)