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Y Nr-!. .Nr: if tf. . Weather vrycs They're Yours ' The community' served "by The Oregon Statesman la YOUR community; this pa per YOUR paper. Look to It for newt that is accurate. Interesting and timely. Mostly cloudy with teat tered showers today, clearing tonight. Thursday fair and ' . wanner. Max. temp. Tues. IS. Mln. 12. South wind. Hir er .7 foot. Rala 43 inch. Cloudy. ? , FOUNDDD 1651 inJiETY-FEST YEAR Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Morning, June 25, 1941 Prlcn 3cj Kwtt1ands 5c si sn- -V' . Ill I v. v x Vv : : ' " ; ' 1 - ' ' United Air Ready for Local Stop Election Fund Grows; Paving to Start Soon s - , United Air Lines is prepared to serve Salem and Eugene as soon as a permit is issued by the civil aeronautics authority and their landing fields are put in shape for use by 12-ton Mainliners, Dist. Traffic Man ager W. R. Thigpen of United announced Tuesday. Both cities are to be scheduled as regular stops on th Pacific coast route. Thigpen said United had filed a brief with the civil aernautics board at Washington, DC, sup porting the report made by the CAA examiner recently recom mending inclusion of Salem, Eu gene and Bellingham, Wash., in the coast flight schedules. The company, he said, is hoping for an early and favorable decision! by the board, Sixteen coast cities over the 1344-mile route from San Di cta, Calif to Vancouver, BC. ' will be brought within direct " access by air if the service is Instituted here. Direct connec tions with 250 cities In the 48 states and with International lines to Europe,,, South. Amer .. lea and the Orient also would then become available ' here, according to Thigpen. Salem's airport election fund by Tuesday night had reached $819, a sum possibly sufficient to finance the election which is to determine whether $75,000 is to be raised by bond issue for ex pansion and improvement of the municipal flying field. However, citizens who are enthusiastic over 4ha im1aa4 fiTAMi itl am f r 4v, cul ate, subscription blanks throughtout the remainder of the week In order to raise $1000, the estimated maximum cost of hold ing the election. i.-!,,."', . '- Construction of an adminis tration building and hangars and purchase of additional property so that runways could be extended to 5000 feet in length Is the' purpose of the proposed bond Issue. The fed eral government is spending approximately $600,000 on the airport. Possible selection of the Salem airport as an army !base Is one of the factors In .the present planning. Paving of the new runway at the Salem airport probably will get under way next week, J. H. Keeffe, resident civil aeronautics authority engineer, announced here Tuesday. The surfacing will be done by (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Marion USO Quota Hits Half Mark " With -over half the Marion county quota of $5500 raised for the United Service organizations, additional plans to carry on the drive throughout the city were made - at a luncheon Tuesday .at the Marion hotel, according to Mrs. Bertha Ray, secretary. Chairmen of groups assist ing with the work Include El mer Church, 50-50 club; Harry Brown. Lions; J. B. Felton, Ac tive; Ray Yocom, Rotary; Ray J. Stumbo, Hollywood Lions; Leo M. Chllds, Realtors; Dr. J. E. Burton, Junior chamber of commerce, and C F. Luther, Willamette university. The aux iliary to the TFW is helping In the residential area. Included in the $847.85 con tributed from rural areas is $31.70 from Gervais and $26.23 from Hayesville, ; both of which exceeded their quota. From the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Naming Coordinator For County Delayed ' i - . Appointment of a coordinator for the Marion county defense council cannot be announced un til one man concerned has re turned to the city, Douglas Mc Kay, chairman of the council said Tuesday night. The individual concerned is ex pected to be back in Salem be fore the weekend, he said.' Mc Kay had previously anticipated naming the coordinator early this week. Our Senators EinKicil Qui MM Parties Hunt - Missing' Girl In Thickets Searching parties of state police, men from the neart' 4AMa A 49 VMM tkwiA s1afl4sK Ob t cki eue veuajp pwof iviini the area continued ' Tuer ' their' ' unsuccessful ' search - v - 10-year-old Beity McCullouch, missing- since Sunday morning from her home in the Silver Falls area. 4 ; . Waist high brush and dense growths of fernsrequire a foot by-foot investigation for thor ough search, police declared as they beat the brush and check ed on" rumors, none of which had proved founded late Tues day night. . Bulletin Russians Bomb Finn Helsinki Feels Shock of Explosives; Japan Next Move Awaited , HELSINKI, Finland, June 25 (Wednesday) -W Soviet Rus sian warplanes raided Helsinki at 7:20 ajn. today. ' Sirens sounded the air alarm and about 10 minutes later Hel sinki observers counted nine bombers flying high eastward from Hango. There was a violent burst of anti-aircraft fire and shells seemed to surround the planes, followed by heavy, earthly ex plosions from East Helsinki. The Finns showed no signs of panic. While - many ran Into shelter, the stree "wev. crowd ed with spectators shaoing their eyes to watch the warbirda in the cloudless sky. (Turn to Page 2. Col. 2 Blast Fatal To Four in Gal Mine DRUMHELLER, Alta.. June 24 -(CP)-A terrific explosion in the North American Collieries mine at East Coulee, 16 miles east of Drumheller, entombed three min ers Tuesday night, and a rescue worker going to their aid died shortly after from monoxide poisoning. Officials expressed little hope the men would be rescued alive, although rescue squads pledged themselve to toil throughout the night until they are found. The rescue worker collapsed from gas after penetrating 70 feet into the mine, and died after be ing brought to the surface. Arti ficial respiration for an hour and a half failed to revive him. The initial explosion occurred at 6 p. m. As far as officials know, only the three trapped men were working in the mine, which is Just being developed. The three men are entombed by a mass of debris brought down by the blast : : ; Men were called from all mines in the Drumheller and East Cou lee areas. At least 36 men were formed into various rescue squads, taking turns Of 20 minutes eich, in trying to reach the entombed men.' Cause of the explosion was not Immediately learned. Garlic Theft Fine Strong PORTLAND, June 24 -Wh Garlie was strong In temptation as well as In other qualities and George P. Soley, 47, and Mark Burton, 43, pleaded guilty Monday to .theft of 30 pounds of It. Municipal Judge Julius Cohn fined each $25. Capital M ore Skill Work Classes Formed Here Three daily classes in electric arc and oxy-acetylene welding, intended to help build up a sup ply of manpower to be needed soon by Portland shipbuilders, have been added to the courses of fered at the national defense training school maintained by the Salem high school vocational de partment, Frank G. Ferris, de fense training officer at the Salem office of the state employment service, announced Tuesday. Ferris office Tuesday sent IS more young men to Seattle for placement in the Boeing -Air .FireBoMlB Soft Coal fj&ike . Is House Speeding Bill to Handle New Walkouts : By The Associated Press The threat of another soft coal shutdown was seen Tues day when the united mine work ers policy committee voted in "Washington to stop work at the Southern Appalachian mines after July 7 unless a two-year contract is signed by that time between the union and the south ern operators. The decision was reached after two-hour conference between union and company representa- ives had failed to bring a new awge agreement Before this new threat to the defense program arose, democra tic leaders of the house of rep resentatives . accorded right-of- way . to legislation which would cloak President Roosevelt with broad powers to handle strikes or other work .stoppages in de fense industries. Speaker Ray burn (D-Tex), in announcing that the legisla tion would be given preference, said this would result in side tracking the Vinson bill calling for cooling-off periods before strikes could be called in plants producing munitions. Under the measure given right- of-way, the president would be authorized to use troops to pro tect workers desiring to comply with a presidential order to go back to their - jobs. Persons at tempting to prevent, workers" from accepting or keeping de fense Jobs, , or from going back and forth to work, would be sub ject to five ' years imprisonment or fines of $10,000. This grant of power to deal with work stoppages is contain ed in a bill deferring from the draft all men who' reach the age of 28 on July 1. The measure also would permit the government to take over plants whose owners refused to use federal mediation or conciliation agencies to settle strikes. It was approved by the house military committee last week. The senate has passed simi lar legislation granting draft deferment to men of 28 and older. Attached to It was a pro viso empowering the govern ment to seize defense plants in cases where mediation failed to settle strikes. It did not, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) People Back Keep Oregon Green Week Enthusiastic response from every part of Oregon is meeting efforts to organize the state for Governor Sprague's "Keep Oregon Green week," June 30 to July 6, according to Edmund Hayes, chairman of the executive com mittee of the Keep Oregon Green association. John B. Woods, executive secretary ef the association, la Salem Tuesday In connection with the movement to perfect organization throughout the state, announced that local headquarters for the enrollment of members would be set up soon. ' ' "Hearty encouragement is being extended to our workers every where," said Woods who is direct ing a staff of forestry college stu dents covering the state in the hv- terests of the special week. "Oregonians generally express the belief that forest fire preven tion Is even more Important than ever this year, since forest defense is a vital part of national defense. craft company plant after Boe ing officials had taken five last week en a trial basis. Boeing Is now offering to empiay all stu dents who complete, the Salem school's 12-weeks course In avi ation sheet metal work, Ferris Unlike the sheet metal classes, the welding course is open to all applicants without regard to age. Classes start dally at 6 ajn 1 poacL and 7 p.m. and run six hours. ; Young men sent to the Boeing plant Tuesday.. Included: Ray mond N Seagreve, Clifford J Riiss Adept at Photo shows s soldier of the Red grenade. The soviet anti-tank troops are particularly proficient in this form of warfare. The grenade contains sufficient explosive power to completely demolish s Salem School District Has $40,000 Balance Directors Hold Year-End Session and Declare Ralph Campbell Officially Elected to Succeed P. A. Cupper A $40,000 balance h held by parison with the $3000 district school year, Connell C. ward, at their year-end session Tuesday night. Approximately $15,000 of this may be credited to the payments made ahead of schedule from the county non-high school fund, Ward said, but most of, the re mainder is explained by recent large tax turnovers. Of the $40, OOO. a sum of SSOOO set aside Car-. chase may be expended shortly, other board members were re minded by Percy A. Cupper, re tiring chairman. An official canvass of the re cent school election vote tallied with the . report of the election board and Ralph Campbell, at torney, was declared officially elected to the board replacing Mr. Cupper. Mrs. Dwight Lear, Garfield teacher whose husband Is at southern California army, post, was granted a year's leave of absence, and a continuation ef the exchange arrangements by which Miss Cecelia Mielke of the Bush school faculty has spent the past year In Los Angeles was approved. Teaching In Miss MJelke's place next year is to be Miss Myrtle L. Barkley of 'the Los Angeles public school system; Miss Stella Wleman of that city has filled the vacancy this year. " Commendation of the project and authorization to carry on classes in Bible study through an other year were voted following presentation of the annual report of the activity, prepared by Mrs. Roy M. Lockenour, chairman of the religious education board. - : In Salem schools the past year 1350 grade school boys and girls (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Oregon Loggers To Get Back Pay PORTLAND, June 2i-VPf-A contract signed Monday night will give $50,000 in back pay to some 3000 CIO loggers in the Columbia river area. Pay raises of 7 cents are retroactive to April 16. A week's vacation with pay la included In the contract Right of Way Planned WASHINGTON, June 24-P)-Formation of a central motor truck transportation committee to assure defense materials the right of way on the highways as well as in factories was announced Tuesday by the office of emergen cy management V Amend, Max P. Llphart, Ekh ard F. Gentxkew, Ben - Blake,' Chester Hern and Don Park, all of 'Salem; Robert E.. Jones Woodburn; Olia E. Campbell, Sheridan; John T. ThornhttV Dale Blust, Boss Harts and. Charles E. Goldworthy, all of SQverton. , . , , The advance group, which left here last Thursday, consisted, of Kenneth R. Hunt and Raymond J. Riffe, of Salem; Ivan J. Allen, Dallas; Orvflle Rehfield, Jeffer son, and Benjamin J.- .Goddard, Klamath Falls. " Nazi Anti - Tank War army In the act of hurling a deadly tank. the Salem school district in com debt recorded at the end of last clerk, told Salem school directors Dress-up Day Funfest Set i Salem Playgrounds, to Be Scenes of Annual Program on Friday Kids in costumes pretty ones, funny ones, foreign ones, histor ical ones and all kinds mixed are slated to parade Salem's two playgrounds Friday afternoon in the annual Dress-Up Day funfest This was the announcement Tuesday from Harold Hauk, di rector of playgrounds, who set the starting time at 2 p. m. for both Leslie and Olinger grounds. Three ribbons in each on seven classes are to be awarded, Di rector Hauk stated. The classes include: Prettiest, funniest, best foreign. best historical, best gorup and best characterization. Woman's Body Recovered in Dive of Auto TACOMA, June - 24P)-The body of Mrs. Bertha Woodard, 41, of Milton, was 'recovered' about 9 pjn. from the car which she drove over the 15th street bridge into SO feet of water in the city waterway two hours earlier, po lice reported Tuesday night Boats from the coast guard, the fire department and private tug companies aided in recovering the body and automobile. Witnesses reported the car which Mrs. Woodard was driving crashed through a -side railing of , the bridge and dropped into the wa The witnesses had said there were two-people in the car but were apparently mistaken, police said.', . Plan Balloon Barrage NEW YORK, June 24 -VP)-The Herald Tribune in a dispatch from Washington says the army air corps is working on plans to use 6000 , barrage balloons over principal , American cities as defense measure; .'Ferris advised pupils in aviat tion sheet m e t a 1 work who dropped out when they failed to obtain : positions with the Lock' heed aviation plant in California last week to re-enroll and com plete the course in anticipation of securing Jobs with Boeing. There is also room in the' day and night classes for new students who can meet the age requirement of 18 to S3 years.-.'-" 'x' . :; Applications for enrollment . In both branches of the 7 school - are being taken at the employment office, 7 10 Ferry street 1 4 Pccmt US Help Promise Is Made Frozen Funds of Sovet Released . by FDR Edict WASHINGTON, June -Carrying forward the policy of favoring Russia against Ger many, President Roosevelt Tuesday promised all possible American help for the Soviets and released "frozen" Russian assets to permit the purchase of needed materials in the United States. The president told his press conference that Russia had not yet submitted any list of items needed by the red forces to hold back the German anslaught and HOME, June 24-A-The Ital ian government today restrained American citizens from leaving this country In reprisal, the press said, for similar action against Italians in the United States. until such a request came, he did not have the foggiest idea of what the United States would supply. He said also that he did not know whether aid would be given under the lease-lend act or through Russian purchases and he declined to answer a direct question wheth er he deemed the defense of Russia essential to - the defense of . the United States. " - But the president made It clear that aid to Russia -would be limited only by the produc tive capacity of American in dustry and the prior defense re quirements of the United States and Great Britain. . Just before this, the treasury announced the release of Russian assets which were "frozen," along with those of Germany, Italy, and other European nations on June 14. The purpose of the freezing order, issued when Germany and Russia were still "friends," was to make sure that none of the as sets would be used for the bene fit of the axis. It was estimated that Tuesday's decree would free from $50,000, 000 to $100,000,000 of Russian funds and other assets for Amer- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 0) War Games Are Started By JACK BEARD WOOD , CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif, June 24 - -Anti-tank guns, machine guns and automatic rifles brought the sounds of real war to the mimic warfare of the American army as fighting broke out Tuesday night in the far west's war games culminating almost a year of concentrated training for 53,000 men. The fighting began at 1 pjn. after almost two days of maneu vering and reconnaissance, both on land and in the air. The 18,000 man Red force, com posed primarly of 7th division troops commanded by Major Gen' eral Joseph W. Stilwell, sent its (Turn to Page 2, CoL 0) Suspect Held In Slaying ARLINGTON, Ore, June 24-(ff) James Harvey Thomas was jail ed at Condon, Ore, Tuesday after he had been taken by Washington authorities to the place near here where the body of Douglas Smith was found Monday .night . Salem Officers Get Army Call PORTLAND, Ore, June 24-(ff) -The following reserve officers were ordered to active army duty Tuesday. L ; First Lieut Homer L. Goulet infantry, Salem, to McChord field First Lieut Robert C Irwin, in fantry, Salem, to Snohomish coun ty air base. Rain Causes Mishap Harold Aune, San Francisco motorist told t Investigating city police he ; skidded on wet pave ment, struck the " curb !and his car tipped completely over about 1p.m. Tuesday in? the J700 block on South Commercial. Although the left side of the car was con siderably -damaged, no on was hurt -police sslL EDieQL World War , r News Today By The Associated Press Russians say ; their bombers blast Rumanian port ef Con stanta lnio names una ram Warsaw and Kenlgsberg, Cast Prussia. Report fierce fighting In Grodno, Poland, , and Vilna Lithuania, areas. Red fleet ' claims, sinking German U-boat ; in Gulf of Finland. Soviets say they annihilated panzer regl- ' ment and German parachutists beginning to arrive. Three German blits columns reported 80 t 125 miles Inside the Russian frontier and major battle developing on 100-mile front north, of Brest Lltovsk. Nails ' claim sweeping "suc cesses. .Military and economic part nership of Britain and Russia In fight against Germany is an iouneed by British Foreign, Secretary Eden. President Roosevelt declares United States will give all pos sible aid to Russia. Treasury lifts restrictions en Russian money and assets. RAF strikes at occupied coast In another big raid. Admiralty reports sinking of one Vichy submarine, possibly two others. Many Germans reported evac uating to Norway because of raids.... T Spanish f alangists In pro-German demonstration near for eign minister call for "exterm ination" of Soviet Russia. British and Free French re port advances In Syria in at tempt to mop up Vichy resist . anee while Germans are occu pied with Russia. British And Russia Join Eden Announces Pact to Fight Together Against Germany LONDON, June 24-UP)5 Britain and the Soviet Unioi agreed to fight Germany to; as military and economic pi foreign secretary Anthony Informed the house of coi Tuesday, and the government an nounced Tuesday night that prep arations to send a mission to Rus sia "are being pressed forward as quickly as possible." These plans are expected to be completed shortly. Sir Stafford Cripps, British ambassador who returned home from the Soviet Union June 11, "hopes to be able to return to Moscow In a few days time." the foreign office announced. He is occupied In London "with further consultations and dis cussions." j Great Britain and Russia in be coming partners are overlooking the difference in their respective (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) a have rether iriners, Eden ifimons Where Nazi-Russ War Rages Witiii n fviiv lci i r 1 IN Li A IN ' r TURKU MELSIWCU tS m r( ESTONIA LATVIA ssWZ a n n, (POLAND) GERMANY K,EV Black arrows mark German and Rumanian drives en Russia. rmLa spokesmen declared Finland (1) would maintain neutrality as loni as possibler Lithuania (2) declared her Independence from Russia. Kler (5) and Sevastopol (5) were bombed. French sources lev . Kharkov (4) as s German objective. " rio . o Litie Tanks Get Pounding Say Riiss Hitler Refutes Soviet Claims; Tells Success By The Associated Press The Russians declared todav. (Wednesday), that the red ar my, putting up "stiff resistance" to the German invasion, had de stroyed nazi tank formations and "annihilated" an entire mechanized regiment while soviet bombs had started huge fires in Warsaw, Constanta, Lublin and other German -oc cupied cities. , ,r Claiming the air raids were in retaliation for bombings of Russian cities, the red . army high command said great dam age was inflicted on military ob jectives, with gasoline dumps flaming in Warsaw, and the Ru manian port of Constanta "ablaze." The official soviet communique disclosed that the Germans had loosed their famed : , parachute troops in a widespread effort to disorganize Russian communica tions behind the lines." Charging the parachutists were clad In soviet uniforms, the war report said the NKVD (Russian secret police) had been charged with destruction of the nails. " r v' 'The Russians ' reported fierce battles to progree&'ln northern . Poland and i central Lithuania) A German drive in the SiaullaV area in Lithuania was said to fhave been repulsed with heavy losses to the nazis. Heavy fighting con tinued near Grodno, Poland, and Wilno (Volna) and Kaunas, Lith uania, j " The soviet communique indi cated the , Germans were using great numbers of tanks and mech anized weapons on the northern front It was in the Siauliai battle that the Russians claimed destruc tion of the German regiment On the central front the Rus sians said their army was resist ing the nazi advance in the region of Brody, a town 60 miles within the frontier. In the south the Red army was reported te have repelled: re peated attempts of the German- Rumanian armies to capture Cernauti, Carpathian mountain Stronghold in Bucovina, and to gain a foothold on the east bank of the Prut river. I The Russian air force was cred ited with shooting down 34 air craft Tuesday, bringing the total of German planes claimed de stroyed to 381 161 in air battles and 220 while on airctomes. A small German force attempt ing to break through the Russian (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) SOO U miles LENINGRAD m MOSCOW o KHARKOV RSTINOPOL XHITOMIR