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Th. OBEGOH ' STATESMAN. Sal.m. Onqon. Tiuniay Manilla. Jim 24. IMl TAC3 THHEE Marion County Has 47 Reserve Officers on Active US Duty ; Area Executive Reports Of the 2133 reserve officers of this area ordered to dutv with the regular army, 1023 are Oregonians and 47 are from Marion county, according to Col. A, W. Cleary, acting executive of the second military area who conferred with Major Van Svarerud in Salem on Monday. Every section of the state is represented by reserve officers now on duty in nearly every state of the union as well as the Phil ippine islands, Hawaii, Panama, and Alaska; Colonel Cleary said. From Marion county on active duty are: George R. Mursell, 1st Lt., Sa lem, Fort Lewis, Wash., AG; Wal ter A. Hazelwood, 1st Lt., Salem; Hamilton field, Calif.; Ira F. Win termute, 1st Lt., Salem, Hawaiian islands; Carl P. Gies, 2nd Lt., Sa lem, Stockton field, Calif., all air. Richard E. Carberry, 1st Lt., Silverton, Philippine Islands, chaplain. - Emmett C. Forsythe, major, Salem, Fort Stevens, CA. Salem, Fort Winfield Scott, Calif.; Stanley W. Price, 1st Lt., Salem, Fort Stevens; John S. McEwan, 2nl Lt., Salem, Fort Rosecrans, Calif.; Gordon L. Skinner, 2nd Ltn Salem, Fort Stevens,, all coast artillery. George Spaur, major," Salem, Portland; Richard N. Chase, 1st Lt., Salem, Fort Belvoir, Va.; Lockwood W. Franklin, 2nd Lt., Salem, Fort Lewis, all engineers. Marion B. Caster, 1st Lt, Sa lem, Camp Murray, Wash.; John I Geren, 1st Lt., Salem, Camp Roberts; Victor T. Murdock, 1st Lt., Salem, Camp Murray; Floyd L. Siegmund, 1st Lt., Salem, Spo kane, Wash.; Harold A. Thomas, 1st saiem, camp Murray; Sigfrid B. Unander, 1st Lt., Salem, Fort Lewis; Fredrick H. Dahl, 2nd Lt., Silverton, Camp Murray, all field artillery. Orville A. Lesley, 1st Lt., Aums ville, March field, Calif., flying instructor. Curtis Miller, major, Salem, Fort Frances E. Warren, Wyo.; Carter O. Carver, captain, Sa lem, Camp Murray; Eugene E. Laird, captain, Salem, Fort Lew Is; Elmer H. Stambaugh, captain, Salem, A, Basic Flying school, Taft, Calif.; Robert B. Taylor, captain, Salem, Fort Francis E. Warren; Harold E. Allen, 1st Lt, McChord field; Vinnie J. Bell, 1st Lt, Salem, Hawaiian Islands; Ed ward S .Gordon, 1st Lt, Salem, Camp Craft, SC; Robert P. Kid der, 1st Lt, Woodburn, Pres. of Monterey,' Calif.; Lawrence W. Oakley, 1st Lt, Salem, Fort Knox, Ky.; David S. Shepard, lsti Lt, Salem, Camp Roberts; Robert E. Goodfellow, 2nd Lt, Salem, Fort Ord, Calif.; Harold J. Pan gle, 2nd Lt, Salem, Camp . Rob erts, all : infantry. Clement J. Ebner, captain, Mt. Angel, Camp Murray; Willard J. cnancuer, isi woociDurn, Vancouver barracks, Wash.; Al bert T. King, 1st Lt, Salem, Hoff General hospital, Santa Barbara, Calif, all medical. Kenneth W. Dalton, captain, Salem, Fort Lewis; Chester L. Fritz. 1st T.t. Salpm Portland- Dwight Lear, 1st Lt, Salem, Camp Callan, San Diego, Calif.; Charles A. Raffety, 1st Lt, Salem, Fort Lewis; Howard G. Adams, 2nd Lt, Salem, Fort Lewis; Albert L. Gibson, 2nd Lt,- Salem, Fort Lewis; , Harlan A. Judd, 2nd Lt, Salem, Fort Lewis, "all quarter master's corps. - Rodwln C. McCornack, 1st Lt, Salem, Fort Bliss, Texas; William W. McMichael, 1st Lt, Wood burn, McChord field; William B. Snodzrass. 1st Lt.. . Salem. Fort Ord, Calif, all veterinarians. Willamette Valley Briefs Attend Clan Reunion MIDDLE GROVE Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Turner attended the Turner reunion in Portland Sunday. Yvonne Goode, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Goode underwent an operation last Monday. Guest at Liberty LIBERTY Mrs. Robert Mori- son, McMinnville, is the guest of her mother, Schmidt Mrs. Katherine Home From Convention JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. Harley Libby returned Thursday from Astoria where Mr. Libby spoke before the state labor con vention which convened there. Officers Chosen PRATUM Louis Cornu was elected director and Willis Goebel was reelected clerk at the school board meeting. . ' Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Corbin, from Molalla, and Mrs. Corbin's mo ther, Mrs. Martha Steiner, Up land, Calif, were visiting with friends in the Pratum community recently. . Director Elected NORTH HOWELL Steve Schmidt was elected director for three years at the annual school election and V. V. Van B roc Id in clerk for one year. Visits Sick Mother NORTH HOWELL Mrs. Gil bert Dickson, Kalama, is here for a few weeks' stay with her moth er, Mrs. Mariba Vinton, who has been quite ill for, the past Jaw weeks. Mock Conflict Started With 52,000 Men By JACK BEARDWOOD CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif, June 23.-(iP)-HeavyJ packs bobbing on their backs, tin hats resting a jaunty angles on their perspiring foreheads and heavy boots plopping rhythmically through four -inches of dust, sol diers Monday marched off to a mock war. - The boys in khaki are the mal leable men who have been con verted from grocery clerks to machine gunners, from filling sta tion operators to artillerymen, from white collar jobs to fatigu ing tasks of signal, engineer or communications units. They range from veteran sol diers with 25 years service to selectees with but a few weeks training. They are tanned, toughened men, of whom Lieut. General John L. DeWitt said in an Inter view Monday: The United States army' is composed today of the highest type of enlisted men it has ever had It Is an inspiration to natch them. ; "With proper training, proper equipment and sufficient lead ership, it han't peer In the world, no matter' what army you may select for comparison." The mock war ' was declared early Monday morning between the southern "Reds," made up of approximately 18,000 troops from Fort Ord, and the "Blue" army of 34,000 from Fort Lewis, Wash. Soldiers have been marching and trucking to initial positions all day, eager for their first contact with the "enemy" sometime TueS' day. Over the roads and sun-baked fields of Hunter Liggett, the blues moved northwest ward almost endlessly all day. Up gulches and through tree filled meadows they came mar ching in double files, raising columns of dust, pausing to cool their feet .as they walked through shallow streams. uewiu pointed out a survey made this morning showed 2418 officers and 50,405 men were par ticipating in the biggest military maneuver ever held in the west. "For comparison," General De- Witt said, "that is 10,000 men more than in both the Union and Confederate armies when they battled at Shiloh. If our inform ation is correct, it is 20,000 more men than General Wavell had in Libya when -he drove the Italians out." CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif, June 23-J!P)-Declaring the army and navy must "work close ly on joint plans for the defense of the Pacific coast," Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, fourth army commander, announced Monday the navy would have an official observer at the biggest maneuvers ever held in the far west. Rear Admiral ! John Wills Greenslade, new commandant of 12th naval district, will come here as guest of General DeWitt Walker to Act For Governor President Dean Walker of the state senate will arrive here Tues day from Independence to serve as the state's chief executive dur ing the absence of Governor Charles A. Sprague, who leaves late Wednesday for Boston, Mass. Governor Sprague will attend the annual conference of state ex ecutives in Boston and will not return to Salem until about the middle of July. Commands i 1 V , Bear Admiral Simons . ;: i. - Rear Admiral Manley H. Simons, above, has been Installed as com mandant of the Fifth Naval dis trict with headquarters at Nor folk, Va. He succeeds Rear Ad mini Joseph K. Taussig. U of 0 Student i ' 1 -J t Edna Crowe, native of Korea, is far-off Asia. She is now a student at the University of Oregon. Others in the photo are, left, Emma Verdurmen, Portland, and Helen Work Starts to Enlist Thousands In Oregon's Civil Reserves Actual work of enlisting thousands of Oregon citizens into the civil reserves, to protect the civilian population in event of air attacks, got under way in a number of counties Monday, Jer- rold Owen, state civilian defense ;Owen sent out a bulletin Sat urday advising the county de fense councils to check powder and dynamite dealers and report any unusual purchases of these explosives. The purpose of this check is to discourage sabotage, Owen declared. Civilians will not be compensated for injuries re ceived in line of duty. "In our communities adjacent to military reservations, air liil dditioD ..in the N etc HAMMOND, Ind.--W h i 1 e Rosecoe Woods, a Hammond real tor, was telling of depression caused losses at a bankruptcy hearing his belt became un buckled and his trousers fell to half-mast. "Not the first time I've lost my pants," Woods said as he yanked them up and continued his testi mony. KANSAS CITY.-(yF)-A back seat driver has paid for her ad vice. Mrs. George Byrne told Munici pal Judge Edmund B. Keith she insisted her daughter Genevieve, make a turn even though the daughter kept saying it was wrong. Judge Smith canceled the $1.50 traffic ticket given the daughter and assessed the mother 11 in court costs, adding: "If you are going to drive from the back seat you will have to learn o watch the signs." SPOKANE, June lMPJ-Rich-ard Shrapless waited eight years for his wife, Emma, to come back after she told him she, was in love with another man and went away, he testified in asking for a divorce. "That was right after our gold en wedding anniversary," he added. "I'm 83 and Emma's 76. She isn't back, so I want to in sure my future happiness." He got the divorce. FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md.-;p)-Master Sergeant Charles W. Getty had a free day and: In the morning he was married. In the afternoon he received a degree from Georgetown univer sity, .where he attended the foreign service school. FORT SAM HOUSTON, Tex.-(TPJ-A soldier who would rather rest than work reported daily at the clinic. Apparently he,' was suffering from aphonia loss, of voice. He failed to respond to treatment, so puzzled officers tried a new rem edy. An orderly snatched the troop er's wallet and ran. The "patient" leaped to the pursuit, shouting: -Stop that guy." The disease was diagnosed quickly then as "goldbricking." FORT JACKSON, SC-T-The army chief wouldn't listen, so a prospective volunteer decided to tell it to the marines. He telephoned post headquar ters and asked to speak with "the general." Informed that would be impossible, he retorted: "All right I just wanted to en list in the anny." He rejected advice to go to a recruiting station and snapped: "IH join the marines." BAKER-(-Pete McCann, who collapsed while hitch-hiking from Pendleton to Baker to answer a draft induction call. Is recovering and may soon be able to enter the army, selective service of ficials report McCann collapsed at La Grande but later was allowed to proceed toward Baker. By the time he reached here he was seriously ill with typhoid fever. He told the board then, "I'd like to get into your army' Comes Long Way to a i X - V- shewn above pointing out to two of Angell, Salem. coordinator, reported. bases and civilian defense pro jects, there should be set .up as soon as possible an Intensive and comprehensive leisure-time activity prorram for the per sonell of armed forces, defense workers and their, families, Owen advised county defense councils. "This would be valuable in maintaining morale on the home front and pay dividends to the cities affected." Owen further suggested that cities in which troops stop over night during mass movements should make provision to enter tain the troops. Governor Charles A. Sprague said the defense program was well in hand. The city of Portland has requested 100,000 civilian re serve applications wnue jacKson and Umatilla counties each have requested 10,000 applications. Have you pick up Fast. Slow. Now way you drhra 1 J V. r v t-?siii-. - 1 - - At one of these traffic speeds your motor probably fails to run smoothly. That is, with ordinary gasoline. Some motors run smoothly at low speeds but not at highway speeds. Other motors are best at the high speeds but balk at low-txafnc speeds, or on the pick-up. What to do about it? Just use this different kind of gasoline that's smooth at every speed, ? If 7 nasoUnet blended Into ana. Big scientific parpes such as Polymerized gasoline, Alkylated gaso line are on the Finer Flying A roster. 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"If further information should disclose an assurance of an ore supply such as a private enter prise would require before putting up its own money, then we would be glad to recommend a corres ponding use of government mon ey," he said. He added that the latter state ment was based on the continued discovered how smoothly you speed with Finer Flying A? speed up again, that's tha vary day. 8H&fifia Finer flying A Old Oregon rail C Lavs Plans for Series of Celebrations at Necessity of an adequate "build up for a scries of celebra tions to be promoted in 1943, in niversary of the Old Oregon Trail, ing of , the Old Oregon Trail commission; here Monday. Phil , Parrish, Portland news paperman- and- chairman of the commission, presided. The com mission was created by an act of the 1941 legislature. , We have real opportunity to publicize the old ; Oreron Trail and attract a large num ber of visitors to Oregon," Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague said. First definite action of the commission will be the employ ment of a so-called "advance man to contact many towns and cities extending along the trail from Independence, Mo., to Ore gon City. :A part-time publicity agent will be .hired later. Celebrations already are being discussed at Baker, Pendleton, The Dalles, Oregon City and Champoegpark. . Citizens and towns in Oregon off the direct trail route will be requested to join in the observ ance. "The whole state is interested In the history of the old Ore gon Trail," Roy Meyers, Eagle Creek, a member of the com mission, declared. : , The Oregon City celebration probably will be the last of the series to be held. . A proposal to launch state-wide organization in states through which the trail passes also was advanced. Annual Oregon celebrations, with dates definitely fixed from vear to year, wiu De asKea to stress Oregon Trail history in their programs. 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II ',".'n ,tt '"!' : v s . . a 4 - -:y. u 14 1 r IS 7 CASOUNIS IN OKI k ra n n nn Branch of Natioul usoclatioa cl letter carrier and ;ihe"Oregoa Federation Postoffice clerk? met In Astoria Saturday and Sun day.; . . " " r- T; ' Garrett is head of ithe letter carriers and Rosa of the clerks. About 24 employes of the Salem postoffice and their wives attend-, ed the parley. f , j Draft Dodger Resigns Post NEWBERG, June 23-Edwin A. Sanders, professor of English arid German at Pacific college, sent his resignation from the fed eral road camp at Fort 1 Lewis where he is serving a sentence for refusing to register for the draft. ' Although the college board had not yet considered it. President Emmett Gullcy said the resigna tion would be accepted. , - THE THING! AND CAMELS TASTE SOGOOD SO COOL, FLAVORFUL WITH CAMELS I DON'T GET TIRED OF SMOKING the difference at any speed