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FAGF. TWO Tha OHCGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Saturday Moralng, Tuna 23. 1841 German Blitz A Seems Stalled Says Analyst Hot in Soviet Proper yet By KIRKE L. SIMPSON . special te rne statesman . . . Just how the six-day nazi blitz against the Russians is go ing is uncertain, but as this is written it appears that the nazis have proceeded no further than Soviet buffer regions, except in one possible easel - - Moscow admits that a panzer edged thrust has speared north or ine rapet marsnes to tne vicin ity of Minsk in White Russia. It savs. however, that a more dead ly drive south of the marshes to- wara &.iev sua is siauea in aov- letized Poland. Elsewhere the only nails In Russia proper are either prison ers r parachutists so far as eaa be discerned. If that Is true, Hitler's hltch-hlklnr Kumantaa allies are being held on the Bes . sarablan front, and apparently confirmed reports of Russian Bomblnt; of the Ploesti oil field In Rumania Indicates It Is true. That is the first blow struck at that vital nazi-fascist war re source for the protection of which Hitler risked both the Balkan and Russian wars; Britain missed a chance to do it from Greece. It Is. effort and British failure to hit at It before Greece and Prt fn has aroused sharp criticism In the British press. There is a veiled implication thfK British invest ments in Rumanian oil might have had something to do all along with reluctance to destroy wells and plants. - . , Turning westward, to survey the battle of the Atlantic In re lation'to the Rnsse-nasl war. a London claim now Is made that Corvettes, the ugly-dackllngs of Britain's navy, and American built Catallna planes are win. nlnr a slow-but-sure victory. Of Itself that claim might mean little. It comes, however, close v In the wake of a secret debate In parliament on the Atlantic situation. If the claim, which is modest enough at best, ran contrary to what was confidentially revealed to parliament, there would be a fuss about it in England. The Churchill ministry has enough outspoken critics to insure that Thus the more encouraging pic ture of progress being made in sea-fighting and the prolonged lull in Iuftwaffe hammering at British ports and shipyards are doubly significant .t . It seems reasonable to be lieve that Germany's failure to se nc powerful new battleship Bismarck to tea and the im mobilisation of other German heavy ships In French ports had tnueh U do with throwlnr the Hitler sea attrition campaign against England definitely off schedule. Perhaps that was one of the factors that prompted Mm to turn his attention to Russia. Meanwhile German power and resources are being dangerously sapped in the eastern "crusade." Hitler's means of carrying the war to England effectively before winter is being used up. Billy Conn's Mother Dies PITTSBURGH, - June 27-P)-Mrs. Margaret McFarland Conn, 41, mother of Boxer Billy Conn and the inspiration behind his rise to fistic fame, died Friday night after a Ion? illness. Mrs. Conn had been at death's door for weeks, and friends said only her will to live and not to "worry Billy" during his train ing for the heavyweight title flffht With fiavi.sin.. . T V l iiur XjOUIS last week had-enabled her to hold out so long. Bill, undefeated as light-heavyweight champion, often said he wanted to win the heavyweight crown and all its riches so he "could give Mom everything she needs." 9 . Largest Halibut in Five Years Caught ; .ASTORIA, June 27-()-Oscar Wirkkala's boat Republic has landed the largest halibut caught off the Oregon coast since halibut tatirm vn nruj : . vwv.ivn ivc cars ago, it .was reported Friday. lis dressed weight, was 228 pounas. : wiricKaia's catch for the trip was 20,000 pounds. Truck Driver Killed GRAFTS PASS, June 27-V-FJmer Hubbell, 24, Cottage Grove, Pacific highway construction worker. .was killed outright Thursday night at Mount Sexton when the bed of his dump truck crushed his head. Surviving are his widow and two children. Eagles Open Conclave BEND, June 27-(a)-Delegates from all sections of Oregon were registered Friday for, the second day of the state Eagles' conven- vm a mm v & -m w tfuujl son of Bend and Earl Snell, Sec retary of state, opened, the con vention with speeches. Thursday. ,Two UilA' rilots Vie ' TTAvJIPEO, June 27-(VTwo Toronto airmen, Sgt ,W. G. Walk er and Lac, L. Fenner, were lulled Friday when their Fairey battle grlane crashed in flames near the hoyal Canadian air force gunnery School at MacDonald, Man, CO tiiles west of here. - jainst TVT nazis Russians Back Soviets Say Germans Suffering Heavy Losses in Poland (Continued from Page 1) and promised for the third suc cessive day that great news for the German people would be "made known shortly." Moscow's acknowledgement that the red armies had fallen back In Lithuania and old Po land before two German arm ored columns seeking to cat off Minsk, the white Russian capi tal, implied an aggregate Ger man penetration 12t miles deep la Russian territory In that area. Yet, considerable as was this cumulative thrust, it still had not reached the territory of Russia proper, so far as could be judged. The Russians retired In the re gions of Vilna and Baranowlcze, Poland the latter town some 90 miles southwest of Minsk itself but still 30 miles short of the old Russian border. Berlin again was preoccupied in trying to put the whole of Europe most of it nazi-dominated or occupied against Russia, and with not indifferent success, ap parently. Spain recruited anti-bolshe-vik "volunteers," Hungry de clared war on Russia; Slovak tan troops were aeciareu le have crossed Into Russian ter ritory; Croatia was said to be ready similarly to move; a Ger man spokesman asserted that even In , long -neutral Portugal influential men were favorable to raising a volunteer force to help the nazis. Occupied Norway was under stood to be sending a "volunteer" legion to Finland to aid that country against the bolsheviks; occupied Denmark broke off rela tions with Russia. Britain ' protested to Sweden against her decision to allow a division of German troops to pass through that country and au thoritative nersons in London re pelled any suggestion that Ger many should be enocuraged in her attack on the soviet now. These British informants said what they had said many times before: That a victory over Rus sia would simply give Hitler all the more power to attack Eng land. The Finns, in the war against Russia on a defensive basis as they describe it, were again heavily bombed by Russian war planes during the day. . In the finnish port of Turku, probably a point of debarkation for German troops, soviet bombs weer said to have smashed more j than 100 houses. The Soviet's heavy and con tinued aerial attacks on Fin- j land, taken together with the continuous action of bombers declared to hava smashed un counted. German tanks and to have been largely responsible for the mighty list of German cas ualties claimed in Moscow, sue -tested that thousands of red warplanes were in almost con stant service. This threw into a sharply con trasting light earlier German claims to j air control over the eastern front a light that was not dimmed by the failure of the nazi command even to mention the' activity of its air arm in the east save in the most general way. .";""' Unofficial nazi sources, how everagain it was the; German news agency claimed that Ger man bombers had caused exten sive disruption of Russia's rail road system. - Too, the Hungarian general staff announced that considerable numbers of Hungarian planes had bombed certain unstated Russian military objectives in retalia tion, it was said. In the air war of the west, British Bombers heavily at tacked the German-occapled French coast for the 17th con secutive night. This uninter rupted offensive was highly praised In Moscow it ef course handicapped the Germans in b riming full air power to bear -la the east and Rassiaa sour ces declared that the Germans already had lost an aggregate of 2000 planes on the western' front. - ; ; In the middle eastern fight ing, a final .victory seemed near for the British and their free French allies In Syria and Leb anon. -' , : f British claims to continued suc cess were disrupted by the Vichy French, but a perhaps more re vealing circumstance was the fact TOIHSuT 5I2 nnzEn Music by The Oregonlans Pushing Boy "Solons" Meet Acting In the board of control room at the state capitol, above; chief officers of the Boys State new In session at Corvallis talk over points of Interest In the building with state executives. From left to right, they are Commander Ray J. Stnmbo of Capitol post No. f, American Legion; Bill Blackmer, Boys' secre tary of state; Dean Walker, acting governor of Oregon; Tom Spindle, Boys' governor; Bob Holmes, sec retary of the treasury, and State Senator Douglas McKay of Salem, Senate Okehs Big Army Bill House Concurs With Added Funds; Fiscal Deadline Nearing (Continued from Page 1) federal housing administration and increasing the maximum of mortgage insurance It may hava outstanding from $4,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000. A $150,000,000 outlay for pro viding recreational and sanitary facilities for defense workers. This, like the FHA bill, was sent to the White House for the pre sident's signature. The regular appropriation bill for the District of Columbia, to talling $34,795,200. It was necessary, to avoid awkward situations, that all these measures be finally en acted by Monday at midnight. The fiscal year ends then. Fail ure of enactment of any of the bills would leave the agencies without funds. Without new legislation the FHA would ex pire at that time as well as the president's power to devalue the dollar and make use of the stabilization fund. Mr. Roosevelt's monetary pow ers were granted originally in 1934, when he was authorized to reduce the gold content of the dollar by 60 per cent Shortly af terward he cut the gold in the dollar by a little more than 40 per cent. The same legislation authorized him to establish the $2,000,000.-1 000 stabilization fund. Both grants of power were for two-year per iods and they were renewed in 1936 and 1938, but always after a controversy. Friday's debate found a for mer inveterate foe of the devaluation- authority siding with the president. He was Senator Glass (D-Va), acting chairman of the banking committee, who urged passage of the bill In or der that Mr. Roosevelt might have the utmost freedom In , dealing with any Internal or external crisis arising from the war. x Senate attaches said the $10.- 000,000,000 army bill was the largest single appropriation in th nation's history. Even so, the senate displayed little interest in it It had been thoroughly combed by the apropriations committee and its passage was a matter of routine. It went through after an hour and 20 minutes humdrum discussion, with scarcely 20 sen ators on the floor. Included in the measure was $2,790,890,000 for procuring 12, 856 planes . and accessory equip ment for, the army air corps. The remainder was spread over the vast variety-of items needed by the nation's expanding army. . While the senate was at work, the house was standing by to send this - and " other appropriations measures to conference, in the ex pectation of passing them easily by Monday night. Draft Rule Against .; Jehovah's Witnesses PORTLAND, Ore., June 27rW The Portland draft appeal board ruled Friday that Jehovah's Wit nesses could not be classified as ministers of the gospel and thus exempted from all draft service. "Two members of the religious sect appealed from classification as conscientious objectors on the ground that all members of their that : the Turkish government granted - Vichy v permission to evacuate disarmed French mili tary forces from, Syria through Turkey. Enjoy a Real mm at Hazel GrcDa i , ,,. . . " Every Saturday Wayne Strahan'aCand Adm,. S5e Per Couple - group were ministers, ordained by God. , Exemption Is intended to Insure that thespiritual leader of a con gregation will not bo called to service, but does not entitle the rank and file of a congregation to such exemption, Frank C. MeCul loch, chairman of the appeal board said. Young Matron Hurt in Auto Train Smash (Continued from Page 1) Mrs. White's mother, Mrs. Gertrude Archer, her small daughter and Paul Archer, driver of the car, sustained no severe Injuries, although the little girl and her grandmother were given first aid and were treated at the hospital for bruises and minor lacerations. The accident occurred at 9:19 o'clock at the railroad crossing near the fairgrounds. Archer said he saw a switch engine on the siding at the crossing and be lieved this to be the only hazard until he had driven onto the tracks; he waa able to escape the full impact of the train's blow but the rear of the car was struck and the vehicle was thrown ap proximately SO feet to land on its side against a power line pole. Treated also Friday by fire men first aiders were ' David Neal, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Neal, 2675 South Summer, who suffered a concussion when he fell from bed; Gladys Stock bridge, 1060 Broadway, who fractured and dislocated her left elbow in a ball game and W. J. Bates, 2011 Maple, whose chest was Injured in an automobile ac cident on the liberty road. Salem Health Unit Lauded Dr. Benjamin G. Horning of New York City, associate' field director, American Public Health association, was a visitor at the Marion county department of health Friday. He conferred with Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, health of ficer, during the afternoon. Dr. Horning commented on tho ex cellent health program and work of the Salem unit. . Dr. Horning visited 16 health departments in California and is stopping at several departments in Oregon. He came west for the western branch meeting of the American Public Health associa tion at San Diego. ' Oregon High in Draft Selectees Unfit for Army PORTLAND, June 27-yP)-Nearly 40 per cent of 6500 Ore gon men of military age examined for the draft have been found un fit for full military service, na tional draft statistics showed Fri day.'' One man in five conscripted has been rejected for physical rea sons. The report stated that of 6533 Oregon men "examined, 4017 or 62 per cent were fit for unlimit ed service and were given A-l classifications, while 1251 or 19 per cent were fit only for limited service. , A total of 1260, or 19 per cent, were found unfit for any service. SALEM'S NEWEST THEATRE Last Times Today -ONE MAN'S LAW with Don Barry . TM STILL ALIVE . with Kent Taylor Chapter S Serial "DB. SATAN C Continuous Dally A3C From 1 PJL STARTS SUNDAY' "HIRED WIFE" Keaalind Brian EUSSELL 1AHEaNE 'TOoluNflGniLS mmmt Governor I ' j J 4.V . ' 1 N Stone Okehed By US Senate Action Is Delayed on Robert Jackson With Opposition. Expected A (Continued from Page 1) my pubUe life is te rectify that President Roosevelt sent Stone's nomination to the senate June 12 along with the appoint of Senator Byrnes (D-SC) as an associate justice to succeed James C. Mc- Reynolds, retired. Byrnes was confirmed the same day but similar action on the appointment of Jackson, which arrived at thesame time, has been delayed, to permit Senator Tyding (D-Md) to pra se n t opposition - testimony, probably next Monday. .. Two witnesses appeared Friday at a hearing before a senate Ju diciary subcommittee to fight the Jackson nomination. Bombing Pact Is Discounted LONDON, June 27-tfVSugges- tiona that there .might have been a tacit understanding between Germany and Soviet Russia to avoid bombing raids on Moscow and Berlin were discounted in all quarters here Friday night and military sources believed the chief reason neither capital has been bombed is distance. A German bomber sent against Moscow would be obliged to make a round trip of at least 1000 miles, flying a little more than four hours. Russian fliers would be up against the same problem. Death Takes Brooks Woman WOODBURN Mrs. Rebeccah Ann Johnson Schaefer, route one, Brooks, died Thursday at a Sa lem hospital. She was born in Missouri, Aug. 12, 1868, but-lived in Oregon most of her life. Survivors are one son, George F. Johnson, Brooks; two brothers, Charles Pickens, Salem, and Frank Pickens, Mt Angel; and six' grandchildren. Services win be held Saturday at the Ringo chapel in Woodburn, 2p.ni, with Rev. George Cromley, Presbyter ian church of Woodburn, officiat ing. Interment will be in the Belle Pass! cemetery. - Single Picket Halts Building EUGENE, June 27-(ff)-A single picket halted work on the new Springfield union high school Friday. He picketed Shields & Shields, general contractors, who have non-union carpenters on the job. Men working for, sub-contract- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in "BITTER SWEET la Technicolor Last Times I 1 I'iViTM 1 I 'WO IJ I ay 1 M I', 1 VrViVI.sU Future liBj Also News, Popeye Cartoon and Chap. 9 "Junior G-Men" On Our Stare at 1 pja. The Bollwad Bnckaroo ProfTa STARTS SUNDAY TWO BIG FEATURES CONTINUOUS SUNDAY 1 te U FJf. ft?e feasts rt. f I . rJ sw"fc" fj(L7-"':" f tmJ!t Also News - Colored Cartoon Eight Neiv Aluminum Plants Asked by US Off icia Power Supplies , (See Oregon Story Page l, CoL 7) : - WASHINGTON, June 27-55)-Defens officials recommended Friday the construction of eight new aluminum plants to produce an additional 600,000,000 pounds a year, raising the national capacity to 1,400,000,000 pounds. AFL Cannery Union Delayed ;anizer Plans New Sleet ; Dallas Union Issues Discussed (Continued from Page 1) the harvest when in accordance with x federal laws employes are allowed to put in a 59 hour week instead of the usual 40 hour week. MDLTON-FSEEWATES, Jane 27-AThree demonstrators were fined and sentenced to 6f days in Jail after a dash be tween strikers land workers en tering the Rogers company plant .here. The plant continued oper ations. By The Associated Press A labor dispute over the disci plining of a union member threat ened Friday to halt top-speed production at the Midland, Mich, plant of the Dow Chemical com pany, producer of 75 per cent of nation's output of defense-vital maknesium. ' ' At the same time, it was dis closed la Washington that the government waa seeking broad agreements Intended te prevent strikes and lockouts la the air plane Industry and te stabilise labor relations la defense con struction. Sidney Hillman, associate direc tor of defense production, said an effort would be made to estab lish "zone" agreements covering airplane manufacturing such as have been worked out for ship conslruction. These general agree ments would continue normal em' ploye-employer , collective bar' gaming. - The Dow plant continued to op erate. Officials made no state ment as to how many workers had Ignored the picket line. About 4500 are employed. Against this development, de fense officials balanced the news that CIO machinists had voted to ge back te work la San Fran cisco shipyards, If given a sep ante ' contract, and - announce ment of settlement of the strike at the Piper Aircraft corpora tion. Leek Haven, Pa. The CIO machinists followed the lead of AFL members of the craft who had agreed to return to work under a so-called ATI "master contract" providing for $1.12 an hour with time and one half for overtime. In New York City, Mayor F. H. La Guardia adopted a firm atti tude toward the threatened strike of municipal transit workers on July 1. He declared that the city would not recognize a walkout as a "le gitimate' strike and that the city government "can not fail to exer cise its functions, in this instance being the operation of transit fa cilities for the people of the city of New York." Plot Projects Funds Okehed PORTLAND, June 27-P)-Rep. Homer D. Angell (R-Ore.) ad vised his Portland office Friday that a $56,757 WPA project spon sored by Oregon State college for construction of pasture demon stration plots In 18 Oregon coun ties had been aprpoved. The plots will be located In Clatsop, Clackamas, Columbia, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine, Lane Linn. Lincoln, Marion, Mult nomah, Polk, Tillamook, Washing ton and Yamhill counties. - ors, all employing union labor, said they would not cross the line. The Springfield school board said it had taken the lowest bid and the question of union labor was not involved. John Howard and Ellen Drew TEXAS RANGERS RIDE AGAIN" ru.Tix:::a Tat little Id LwultaCdail5rfa Oq aewasriDwni ;tate; Iistei William S. Knudsen. OPM di- rector general, and. Sidney Hill man, associate director, sent the recommendation to Secretary of War Stimson . for approval, after which it will be sent to- defense plant; corporation, which would be asked, to finance -the new plants.' - - -;.;-( ; v- The areas selected and the pro posed annual aluminum capacity Include: 1 " - Arkansas, r 100,000,000 pounds; Bonneville-Grande Coulee area, two plants, one of 85,000,000 pounds capacity and the other of 55,000,000 pounds; upper New York state, two plants, . one of 100,000,000 pounds capacity., and the other of ' 50,000,000 pounds; Alabama, 100,000,000 pounds; Cal ifornia, 70,000,000 ) pounds, and North Carolina, 40,000,000 pounds. OPM said the problem of power had been solved and that con struction of all eight plants could be started Immediately. The plants are to be built and owned by the government, but will be operated by private com panies under lease. The com panies were not named. OPM reported that it was for mulating. In cooperation with the power commission, the war de partment and other agencies, a specifje program for permanent removal of power deficiencies which meanwhile were being met by emergency measures. iui cooaiaerauons in connec m ? j . - tion with the recommendations for the new plants listed by OPM were these: L New plants should be sit uated where they would be economically sound after the present defense emergency. Z. A power supply should bo available aa rapidly as, the planta could be constructed. S. Temporary measures to as sure necessary power could be taken . by Improving transmis sion Interconnections, pooling power reserves, etc. While not announcing exact lo cations of the plants, the OPM made public the text of the fed eral power commission and the power section of the OPM recom mendations. Among the recommendations were: OREGON: Power supply 87,000 kw, ob tained from new capacity sched uled at Grand Coulee for late 194L- Some curtailment of non essential loads may be temporari ly necessary. WASHINGTON: Power supply 65,000 kw, ob tained from new capacity sched uled at Grand Coulee for late 1941. Some curtailment of non- 1 9 II V Ati MJtJ" cw 111 9 ' . d by 0PM inj ini Mstab Scrap Drive Started ! tJUtlC VdVAI iCXCUBO . - ' mm . Coordinator Plans Oregon Campaign . (Continued From Page 1) drive, Gov. Sprague held up his plans. . " Housewives are V expected to contribute the pots and panj. which will comprise the bulk of the scrap aluminum. " PORTLAND, June 27-WVOre-goh Fire Chiefs' association and fleers laid plana here Friday for civilian defense In fire fighting; bomb defense and other war-time services. They pledged support to Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York id his civilian defense program' and asked federal funds for fire train ing service. The officers said the fire chiefs convention (would be held here September 19 to 17. ' Children Vie For Dress-up Day Ribbons (Continued from Page 1) ond; Loren Cooler, third. Oldest costume, Patty Sexton, flrstf singer, third. 1 Olinger Prettiest costume. Sue Arlene Wilson, first; Carol Har die, second; Jean Giles, third. Funniest costume, Jimmie Har die, first; Mildred Hagen, second; Gordon Morris, third. Foreign costume, Virgil BealL first; Alice Fish, second; Jerry Kelley, third. Historical costume, Judith Dean, first; Don Ray, second; Rosemary Shattuck, third. Best character! zauon, uean itowiana, iirsi; Bar bara1 Smith, second; Jimmie Stew art, third. Best Group, Anna Shwiegert and Gene Fish, first; Jean Gettman and Donna Mae Luidahl, second; Mildred Sellard, Donna Kipper and Betty Garaett, third. Marion Men Accept Reserve Corps Posts WASHINGTON, June 27-(ff)-The war department announced Friday that 87 Oregon men had accepted apopintment In the of ficers' reserve corps, including! Second lieutenants, field artillery, Douglas W. Chambers, Sal em j Noel F. Sommer, Scio; Charles L. Wood, Salem. Second lieutenants, Infantry, Harry Carson, Jr, Sllverton; Mil ton M. Fox, Salem; Robert 2. Heimerdlnger, Lebanon: Jean M. Hollstein, Salem; Harold J. W. tm . rangie, aaiem. essential loads may be tempor arily necessary. I See . Rudy Vallee Get Socked on the Jawt .p 7 DJ
