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Text of FDR's Speech
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-(rP)-The
text of President Roosevelt'i
address tonight follows:
Washington's birthday is most ap
propriate occasion for us to talk with
each other about things as they are
today and things as we know they
Shalt be in the future.
For eight years. General Washington
and his continental army were laced
continually with formidable odds and
recurring defeats. Supplies and equip
ment were lacking. In a sense every
winter was a Valley Forge. Through
out the 13 states there existed fifth
columnists eeiiich men. Jealous men.
fearful men, who proclaimed that
Washington's cause was hopeless- that
he should ask for a negotiated peace.
Washington's conduct in those Jiard
times has provided the model for all
Americans ever since a model of
moral stamina. He held to his course.
as it had been charted in the Declare
tion of Independence. He and the
brave men who served with him knew
that no man's life or fortune was se
cure, without freedom and free in
Stltutions.
JThe present great struggle has
taught us Increasingly that freedom of
oerson and security of property any
where in the world depend upon the
security of the rights and obligations
of liberty and Justice everywhere in
the world.
This war la a new kind of war. It
Is different from all other wars of
the past, not only In Its methods and
weapons but also in its geography.
It is warfare In terms of every con
tinent, every Island, every sea, every
air-lane In the world.
That is the reason why I have asked
Sou to take out and spread before you
le map of the whole earth, and to
follow with me the references which
I shall make to the world-encircling
battle lines of this war. Many ques
tions will, I fear, remain unanswered:
but I know you will realize I can not
cover everything in any one report to
the people.
The broad oceans which have been
heralded in the past as our protection
from attack have become endless bat
tlefields on which we are constantly
being challenged by our enemies.
We must all understand and face the
hard fact that our job now is to fight
at distances which extend all the way
around the globe.
We fight at these vast distances
because that is where our enemies
are. Until our flow of supplies gives
us clear superiority we must keep
on striking our enemies wherever
and whenever we can meet them,
even if, for a whUe, we have t yield
ground. Actually we are taking a
heavy toll of the enemy every day
that gses by.
We must fight at these vast distances
to protect our supply lines and our
own lines of communication with our
allies protect these lines from the
enemies who are bending every ounce
of their strength, striving against time,
to cut them.
The object of the nazis and the Jap
anese" is to separate the .United States,
Britain. China and Russia, and to iso
late them one from another, so that
each will be surrounded and cut off
from sources of supplies and rein
forcements. It is the old familiar axis
Dolicv of "divide and conquer.
There are those who still think in
terms of the days of sailingships. They
advise us to pull our warships and our
planes and our merchant ships to our
own home waters and concentrate
aoleiv on last ditch defense. But let
me illustrate what would happen if
we followed such foolish advice.
Look at your map. Look at the
vast area of China, with its millions
of fighting men. Look at the vast
area of Russia, with its powerful
armies and proven military might.
Look at the British isles, Australia,
New Zealand, the Dutch Indies, In
dia, tne Near fc.at and the contin
ent of Africa, with their resources
of raw materials and ot peoples de
termined to resist axis domination.
Look at North America, Central
America and South America.
It is obvious what would happen if
all these great reservoirs of power
were cut off iroin each other either
by enemy action or by self-imposed
isolation:
1. We could no longer send aid of
any kind to China to the brave peo
pie who, for neany five yeais, have
withstood Japanese assault, destroyed
hundreds of inouoands of Japanese sol
diers, and vast quantities 01 Japanese
war munitions, it . is essential tiiat we
help Cnina in her magnificent defense
ana in her inevitable counter-offensive
for that is one important element in
the ultimate deteat ol Japan.
2. If we HWt communication with
the souutwest Pacific, all of that
area, including Australia and New
Zealand, would tall under Japanese
domination. Japan could then re
lease great huuioers of ships and
aea to launch attacks on a large
scale against the coasts of the west
ern hemisphere, including Alaska.
AS the same time, she could im
mediately extend her conquests to
India, and through the Indian ocean,
to Alrka and the Near East.
3. If we were to stop sending muni
tions to the British and the Russians
in the Mediterranean and Persian gulf
areas, we would help the nasis to
overrun Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Persia,
Egypt and the Suez canal, tne whole
coast of North Africa and the whole
coast of West Africa putting Germany
within easy striking distance of South
America.
4. If, by such a fatous policy, we
ceased to protect the north Atlantic
supply line to Britain and to Kuasia,
we would help to cripple the splendid
counter -offensive by Kussia against the
nazis, and we would help to deprive
Britain of essential food-supplies and
munitions.
Those Asnertcaas who believe that
we could live smder the illusion of
isolationism wanted ta American
eagle to imitate the tactics of the
wick. Now, many of those same
Ciopte, afraid Aha we may fee stick
g oar necks out, want our na
tional bird to be turned into a turtle.
Bat we. prefer to retain the eagle
as It Is flying high and striking bard.
I know that I speak for -the mass
of the American people when I say
that wt reject the turtle policy and
will continue increasingly the policy
of carrying the war to the enemy in
distant lands and distant waters as
far as possible from our own homo
grounds.
There are four main lines of com
. snunication now being travelled by
our ahlps: th north Atlantic, the
south Atlantic, the Indian ocean and
the south Pacific. These routes arc
not one-way-streets for the ships
which carry our troops and munitions
outbound bring back twntUI raw
materials which we require for our
own use. --
The maintenance of these vital
lines Is a very tough Job. It is a
Job which requires tresnestdous dar
ing, tresaendous resourcefulness, and,
abeva all, tremendous production of
'. puaes and tanks and gvns and of
the ships to carry them. And I
speak again for the American people
when I say that we can and will do
gnat Job. ' vnv.,.
The defense of the world-wide lines
of communication demands relatively
aaf use by u of the sea and of the
air along the various routes; and this,
tn turn, depends upon control- by the
United Nations of the strategic bases
along those routes. .
rmini nf th air involves the simul
taneous use of two types of planes
first, the long-range heavy bomber;
- and second.- light bombers, dive bomb
; era, torpedo planes, and .short-range
pursuit planes which are essential to
the protection of the bases and of the
Bombers inemseivo.
Heavy bolsters can fly snaer their
. Sws power Um here to the seatfc
. west Pacific: hut the smaller pls
tli
liaater
planes nave to fee packed tot crates
and sent en beard cargo ships.
Look at your man scan: and you
will see that the route is long and at
many d laces perilous either across the
South Atlantic around South Africa.
or from California to the East Indies
direct. A vessel can make a round trip
by either route in about four months,
or only three round trips In a whole
year.
In spite of the length and difficulties
of this transportation. I can tell you
that we already have a large number
of bombers and pursuit planes, mannea
by American pilots, which are now in
daily contact with the enemy in the
southwest Pacific. And thousands of
American troops are today in that
area engaged in operations not only in
the air but on the ground as wen.
In this battle area, Japan has had
an obvious Initial advantage, for she
could fly even her short-range planes
to the points of attack by using many
stepping stones open to her bases in
, a multitude of Pacific islands and
also bases on the China, Indo-China,
Thailand and Malay coasts. Japanese
troop transports could go south from
Japan and China through the nar
row China sea which can be pro
tected by Japanese planes through
out its whole length.
I ask you to look at your maps
again, particularly at that portion of
the Pacific ocean lying west of Hawaii.
Before this war even started, the
PhiliDoine islands were already sur
rounded on three sides by Japanese
Dower. On the west, the Japanese were
in possession or tne coasi 01 inuia ana
tn coast to inao-uiuu wnicn naa oeen
yielded to them by the Vichy rrencti
On the north, are me lsianas oi japan
themselves, reaching down almost to
northern Luzon. On the east, are the
mandated islands which Japan had
occupied exclusively, and had fortified
in absolute violation of her written
word.
These islands, hundreds of them,
appear only as small dots on most
maps. But they cover a large stra
tegic area. Guam lies in the middle
of them a lone outpost which we
never fortified.
Under the Washington treaty of 1921
we had solemnly agreed not to add to
the lortification ot the Philippine is
lands. We had no safe naval base there
so we could not use the islands for
extensive naval operations.
Immediately after this war started
the Japanese forces moved down on
either side of tne Philippines to nu
merous points south ot them thereby
completely encircling the islands from
north, south, east and west.
It is that complete encirclement,
with control of the air by Japanese
land-based aircraft, which has pre
vented us from sending substantial
reinforcements ot men and material
to the gallant defenders of the Philip
pines, lor forty years it has always
been our strategy a strategy born of
necessity that in the event of a full
scale attack on the islands by Japan,
we should fight a delaying action,
attempting to retire slowly into Ba
taan peninsula and Corregidor.
We knew that the war as a whole
would have to be fought and won by a
process of attrition against Japan it
self. We knew all along that, with
our greater resources, we could out
build Japan and ultimately overwhelm
her on sea, on land and in the air.
We knew that, to obtain our objec
tive, many varieties of operations
would be necessary in areas other than
the Philippines.
No tiling that has occurred in the past
two months has caused us to revise this
basic strategy except that the defense
put up by General MacArthur has
magnificently exceeded the previous
estimates; and he and his men are
gaining eternal glory therefor.
Mac-Arthur's army of Filipinos and
Americans, and the forces of the United
Nations in China, in Burma and the
Netherlands East Indies, are all to
gether fulfilling the same essential
task. They are making Japan pay an
increasingly terrible price tor her am
bitious attempts to seize control of the
whole Asiatic world. Every Japanese
transport sunk off Java is one less
transport that they can use to carry
reinforcements to their army opposing
General MacArthur in Luzon.
It has been said that Japanese gains
in the Philippines were made pos
sible only by the success of their
surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. I
tell you that this is not so.
Even if the attack had not been
made, your map will show that it
would have been a hopeless operation
for us to send the fleet to the Philip
pines through thousands of miles of
ocean, while all those island bases were
under the sole control of the Japanese.
The consequences of the attack on
Pearl Harbor serious as they were
have been wildly exaggerated in other
ways. These exaggerations come orig
inally from axis propagandists: but
they have been repeated. I reret to
say, by Americans in and out of pub
lic life.
You and I have the utmost contempt
for Americans who, since Pearl Harbor,
have whispered or announced "off the
record that there was no longer any
Pacific fleet that the fleet was all
sunk or destroyed on December 7th
that more than 1,000 of our planes were
destroyed on the ground.
They have suggested slyly that the
government has withheld the truth
about casualties that eleven or twelve
thousand men were killed at Pearl
Harbor instead of the figures as offi
cially announced. They have even
served the enemy propagandists by
spreading the incredible story that
shiploads of bodies of our honored
American dead were about to arrive
in New York harbor to be put in a
common grave.
Almost every axis broadcast direct
ly quotes Americans who, by speech
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or in the press, make damnable mis
statements such as these. :
The American people realize that in
many eases details of military opera
tions can not be disclosed until we
are absolutely certain that the an
nouncement win not give to the enemy
military Information which be does not
already
Tear government has aamlstakt
able confidence In year ability to
bear the worst, withoat flinching or
losing heart. Toe aaust, tn sera,
have complete confidence that Few
government Is keeping nothing treat
yen except Information that will
help the enemy In his attempt to
destroy as. In a democracy there
is always a selesaa pact of troth be
tween government and the people:
bnt there mast also always be a feu
ase of discretion end that word
"discretion" applies to the critics of
government as well.
THIS IS WAR.
The American people want to know,
and will be told, the general trend
of how the war is going. But they do
not wish to help the enemy any more
than our fighting forces do; and they
will pay little attention to the rumor
mongers and poison peddlers in our
miast.
To pass from the realm of humor
and poison to the field of facts: The
number of our officers and men killed
in the attack on Pearl Harbor on De
cember seventh was 2,340, and the
number wounded was 940. Of all the
combat ships based on Pearl Harbor
battleships, heavy cruisers, light cruis
ers, aircraft carriers, destroyers and
submarines only three were perman
ently put out of commission.
Very many of the ships ot the Pacific
fleet were not even in Pearl Harbor.
Some ol those that were there were
hit very slightly: and others that were
damaged have either rejoined the fleet
by now or are still undergoing repairs.
When those repairs are completed, the
ships will be more efficient fighting
machines than they were before.
The report that we lost more than
a thousand airplanes at Pearl Harbor
is as baseless as the other weird ru
mors. The Japanese do not know
just how many planes they destroyed
that day, and I am not going to tell
them. But I can say that to date
and including Pearl Harbor we nave
destroyed considerably more Japa
nese planes than they have destroyed
oars.
We have most certainly suffered
losses from Hitler's U-boats in the
Atlantic as well as from the Japanese
in the Pacific and we shall suffer
more of them before the turn of the
time.
But, speaking for the United States
of America, let me say once and for
all to the people of the world: We
Americans nave been compelled to
yield ground, but we will regain it.
We and the other United .Nations
are committed to the destruction of the
militarism of Japan and Germany. We
are daily increasing our strength.
Soon, we and not oar enemies,
will have the offensive; we, not they,
will win the final Battles; and we,
not they, will make the final peace.
Conquered nations in Europe know
what the yoke of the nazis is like.
Ana the people of Korea and of Man
churia know in their flesh the harsh
despotism of Japan. All of the people
of Asia know that if there is to be an
honorable and decent future for any
of them or for us, that future depends
on victory by the United Nations over
the forces ot axis enslavement.
If a just and durable peace is to be
attained, or even if all of us are mere
ly to save our own skins, there is
one thought for us here at home to
keep uppermost the fulfillment of our
special task of production.
Germany, Italy and Japan, are very
close to their maximum output of
planes, guns, tanks and ships. The
United Nations are not especially the
United States of America.
Our first job then is to build up
production so that the United Nations
can maintain control of the seas and
attain control of the air not merely
a slight superiority, but an over
whelming superiority.
On January 6th of this year, I set
certain definite goals of production for
airplanes, tanks, guns and ships. The
axis propagandists called them fan
tastic. Tonight, nearly two months lat
er, and after a careful survey of prog
ress by Donald Nelson and others
charged with responsibility for our
production, I can tell you that those
goals will be attained.
In every part of the country, experts
in production and the men and women
at work in the plants, are giving loyal
service. With few exceptions, labor,
capital and farming realize that this
is no time either to make undue pro
fits or to gain special advantages, one
over the other.
We are calling for new plants and
additions to old plants and for plant
conversion to war needs. We are
seeking more men and more women
to run them. We are working longer
hours. We are coming to realizing
that one extra plane or extra tank
or extra gun or extra ship completed
tomorrow may, in a few months,
turn the tide on some distant battle
field; it may make the difference be
tween life and death for some of our
fighting men.
We know now that if we lose this
war it will be generations or even
centuries before our conception of
democracy can live again. And we can
lose this war only if we slow up our
effort or if we waste our ammunition
sniping at each other.
Here are three high purposes for
every American:
1. We shall not stop work for a
single day. If any dispute arises we
shall keep on working while the
dispute is solved by mediation, con
ciliation or arbitration until the war
is won.
Z. We shall not demand special
gains or special privileges or ad
vantages for any one I reap er oc
cupation. J. We shall give ap conveniences
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and modify the routine of ear lives
If our country asks as to do so. We
will do it cheerfully, remembering
that the common enemy seeks to de
stroy every home and every free
dom in every part, of oar land.
This generation of Americans has
come to realize, with a present and
personal realization, that there is some-
thing larger and more important than
the life of any individual or of any
individual group something for which
a man will sacrifice, and gladly sacri-
fice, not only his pleasures, not only
his goods, not only his associations I
with those he loves, but his life itself. 1
In time of crisis when the future is
in the balance, we come to understand,
with full recognition and devotion,
what this nation is. and what we owe
to it.
The axis propagandists have tried
in various evil ways to destroy our
determination and our morale. Failing
in that, they are now trying to de
stroy our confidence in our own allies.
They say that the British are finished
that the Russians and Chinese are
about to quit. Patriotic and sensible
Americans will reject these absurdi
ties. And instead of listening to any
of this crude propaganda, they will re
call some of the things that nazis and
Japanese have said and are still saying
about us.
Ever since this nation became the
arsenal of democracy ever since en
actment of lend-lease there has been
one persistent theme through all axis
propaganda.
This theme has been that Ameri
cans are admittedly rich, and that
Americans have considerable Indus
trial power but that Americans are
soft and decadent, that they can not
and will not unite and work and
fight.
From Berlin. Rome and Tokyo we
have been described as a nation of
weaklings "playboys" who would hire
British soldiers, or Kussian soldiers,
or Chinese soldiers to do our fight
ing for us.
Let them repeat that now!
Let them tell that to General Mac
Arthur and his men.
Let them tell that to the sailors
who today are hitting hard in the far
waters of the Pacific.
Let them tell that to the boys in
the flying fortresses.
Let them tell that to the marines!
The United Nations constitute an as
sociation of independent peoples of
equal dignity and importance. The
United. Nations are dedicated to a com
mon cause. We share equally and with
equal zeal the anguish and awful sac
rifices of war. In the partnership of
our common enterprise, we must share
in a unified plan in which all of us
must play our several parts, each of
us being equally indispensable and de
pendent one on the other.
We have unified command and co
operation and comradeship.
We Americans will contribute uni
fied production and unified accept
ance of sacrifice and of effort. That
means a national natty that can know
no UsnltaUoas of race or creed or
selfish politics. The American people
will find ways and means of ex
pressing their determination to their
enemies, including the Japanese ad
miral who has said that be will dic
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tate the terms of peace here in the
White House.
We of the United Nations are agreed
on certain broad principles in the kind
of peace we seek. The Atlantic chart
er applies not only to the parts of
the world that border the Atlantic but
to the whole world: disarmament of
aggressors, self-determination of na
tions and peoples, and the four free'
doms freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, freedom from want and free'
dom from fear.
The British and the Russian people
have known the full fury of nazl on
slaught. There have been times when
the fate of London and Moscow was
in serious doubt. But there was never
the slightest question that either the
British or tne Kussian people wouia
yield. And today aU the United Na
tions salute the superb Russian army
as it celebrates the twenty-fourth an
niversary of its first assembly.
Though their homeland was over'
run. the Dutch people are still fighting
stubbornly and powerfully overseas.
The ereat Chinese people have suf
fered grievous losses; Chungking has
been almost wiped out oi existence
yet it remains the capital of an un
beatable China.
That is the conquering spirit Which
prevails throughout the United Na
tions in this war.
The task that we Americans now face
will test us to the uttermost.
Never before have we been called
upon for such a prodigious effort.
Never before nave we had so uttie
time in which to do so much.
There are the times that try men s
souls."
Tom Paine wrote those words on a
drum-head by the light of a campfire.
That was when Washington's little
army of ragged, rugged men was re
treating across New Jersey, having
tasted nothing but defeat.
And General Washington ordered that
these great words written by Tom
Paine be read to the men of every
regiment in the continental army, and
this was the assurance given to the
first American armed forces:
"The summer soldier and the sun
shine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink
from the service of their country; but
he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily con
quered: yet we nave tnis consolation
with us, that the harder the sacrifice,
the more glorious the triumph."
So spoke Americans in the year
1776.
SO SPEAK AMERICANS TODAY.
Order Filed
On Estate
DALLAS -An order appointing
Maude C. Brown, administratrix
for the estate of Edwin Pike
Brown was filed February 20 at
the Polk county clerk's office.
Oscar Hayter is her attorney.
Mr. Brown died February 6, at
Falls City, where he made his
home many years. He left no will
but real property amounting to
$10,400 and personal property es
tJmated at $8,000. Heirs to the
property are Mrs. Brown, a
daughter, Bertha Alice LeFrinc
of Milwaukie, and two sons,
Frank Clarence Brown and Floyd
Edwin Brown, both1 of Falls City,
Charles Orville Palmer was ar
rested for non-support in Portland
by the Multnomah county sher
iff. He was returned to Dallas Fri
day morning by Sheriff Hooker.
Anniversaries
Noted at Party
LINCOLN Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Ashford gave dinner at their
Lincoln home Sunday noting their
wedding anniversary.
Present were Mr. and Mrs Ash
ford and Grace, Jason. Harry and
Genevieve Ashford, Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Feller, Mr. and Mrs. P. M.
GemmeL Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Dye,
Lola Ann and Eddie Lindqulst,
lit N. West and Clifford.
Weekend guests here at the
home, of Mrs. Lois Crawford were
her daughter, Wilms, and a neph
ew, B. G. Smith, Seattle.
ratjaers' News
TURNER The women of Tur
ner Surprise grange entertained
the men at the February meet
ing. presiding over , the . noon
luncheon and program Mrs, U. E.
Womaii's Club
Plans Event
Pringlc Club Fete
Husbands, Friends
At Rlarch Meet '
PRINGIX The Prinze Wom
an' club held their all day
meeting at the clubhouse, Wed
nesday with Mrs. O. F. Seelea,
Mrs. William McCarroll, Inez
Simmons and Irma Simmons as
hostesses.
Plans were made for social
night for husbands and friends
March 8. A surprise handker
chief shower was given Mrs. Sa
die Kottek for her birthday.
Hostesses for the meeting
March 4 will be Mrs. S. Hetzler
and Mrs. O. Davis.
Guests present were Mrs. Lot
tie Kinnear, Mrs. John McCon
irlle and Miss Doris Rickett.
Members, Mesdames R. Curtis,
J. Minty, L. Lorentz, S. Keyes,
B. Hilflickef, H. Stapleton, E.
Kottek, C. Grabenhorst, J. Hol
den, . Schendel, H. Ramey, J.
Fabry Sr., 0. Davis, S. Kottek,
H. Melchert, F. Wfltsey, G. Ad
ams, O. Hoge, S. Hetzler, B. Mil
ler, W. Schendel, P. Gurgurich
and J. Klinger.
Mrs. Harry Wechter returned
Monday from San Francisco,
where she spent several days vis
iting her son. Gene, who is in
the navy. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Mabel Winchester who
visited her son, Harold, also in
the navy.
Plans for holding school six
days were discussed and voted
down at a meeting of the local
school board.
Five new pupils have been
added to the Pringle school, two
coming from Rickreall. The oth
ers are transfers from Salem
schools.
Mrs. I sa belle Powers, primary
teacher, spent the weekend in
Tacoma visiting her husband,
who is employed in the ship
yards there.
Legion Dinner
Set Today
WEST SALEM The Kingwood
American Legion post. and auxil
iary are sponsoring a benefit tur
key dinner Sunday at the hall
on Parkway drive. Serving hours
will be from 12 to 2 o'clock.
committee , members who are
taking charge are: Mrs. William
Reid, Mrs. Nellie Hammar, Mrs,
Marjorie Wood, Mrs. Kenneth
Abbott, Mrs. Elizabeth Muller,
Mrs. Ester Wendt, dining room;
Betty Jean Estey, Mrs. George
Combs, Mrs. Lillian Williams,
Mrs. Karl Mobley, Mrs. O. B.
Long, Mrs. Fannie Smith and
Mrs. Albert Bouffler, kitchen.
Floyd Neely attended the
meeting of the mayors of the four
county cantonment at Monmouth
Wednesday in place of Mayor
Guy Newgent, who was unable
to attend.
City officials reported that 40
people registered the first of the
week for civilian defense work.
Samuel James Yates, Salem,
was fined $730 in police court
for violation of the basic rule.
Mrs. Paul Lee was hostess to
members of the Kingwood Gar
den club at her home Thursday
afternoon. Plans were made for
the meeting next Thursday at the
home of Mrs. John S. Friesen, at
which time the Polk county agri
cultural agent, Walter Leth, will
speak to the group.
The hostess served a dessert
luncheon to those present: Mrs.
Lynn Richardson, Mrs. Anna Al-
derson, Mrs. Thomas Dalke, Mrs.
Harry Bonney, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hoffman, Mrs. A. Hamblin, Mrs.
Mike O'Brien, Mrs. A. F. Goff
rier and Mrs. Claud Miller.
Mrs. Lura Tandy had a stroke
Wednesday night at her home.
She was found in an unconscious
state in the morning and was
taken to the Deaconess hospital.
where it is reported that she is
in a serious condition.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Forsburg,
Portland, called at the Henry
Toevs home Tuesday evening.
Mrs., Elizabeth Hoffman, who
has been visiting friends and
relatives in the central and sou
thern states all winter, returned
to her home Tuesday. She plans
to leave Saturday to visit her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Alderson, at Coquille,
for a month.
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. King went
to Portland Wednesday to see
their son, Merrill, who had , been
seriously injured in an accident
when , the truck he was driving
on highway work rolled over an
embankmenL
Laurke, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leighton Dashiell, is spend
ing a few days with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Voth,
at Polk Station.
Oenyer was chairman.' In March
the grange plans initiation for a
new candidate. .
Many Attend Burial Rites
For ML Angel Blind Abbot
MT. ANGEL RL Rev. Bernard Murphy, OSB, the blind ab
bot of ML Angel who lor almost ten years had lived in darkness
and yet had shown such good nature and cheerfulness that hi '
blindness was almost unnoticeable,
aooey cemetery Saturday morn
ing. -;
Many friends, clergy and lay
people, thronged the abbey cha
pel where the solemn monastic
burial, service was held, and
countless more sent telegrams and
messages.
The pontifical requiem began
at 10 a. m. Abbot Thomas Meier
was celebrant with Very Rev.
Prior Jerome Wespe acting as as
sistant priest. Rev. Patrick Meag
her and Rev. Method Korn were
deacons of honor, while Rev. Ben
edict Keber and Rev. Albert Bau
man acted as deacon and subdea
con of the mass.
Rev. Robert Keber and Rev.
Stephen Hofmann were masters of
ceremonies.
The youngest clerics of the
community were the pallbearers.
They were Frater George Houck
and the Frater Novices Jeremiah
Shea, Joseph Zenner, Philip Me
ier, James Sawerby and Paul Ai
cher. Abbott Lambert Burton of St.
Martin's abbey, Lacey, Wash.,
preached the sermon and Bishop
Joseph McGrath of Baker blessed
the body.
At the close of the services the
long procession filed from the;
chapel to the cemetery to consign
Abbott Bernard to the earth be
side his predecessors, Abbot Ad-
elhelm Odermatt, founder, and
Abbot Placidus Fuerst.
With the advent of his total
blindness. Abbot Bernard retired
from public life but within the
monastery he remained the cen
tral figure around which the life
of the community moved. His ad
vice was sought by all and his in
terest in the affairs of the world
never waned. One of his monks
read him the news of the world
daily, and the sad condition of the
world at war was one of the bur
dens of the prayers that occupied
all his free time. He had a phe
nomenal memory that permitted
him to say daily mass and recite
the divine office from memory,
Even in his last illness, caused
by a heart attack, he remained in
full use of his faculties and up to
five, minutes before his 'death
Wednesday morning conversed
with his monks.
Abbot Bernard came from a pi
oneer Oregon family. His father,
James J. Murphy, was born in
Boston, 1840, and came to Oregon
in 1861. His mother, Mary Fitz
gerald, was born in the Willam
ette valley in 1847 and baptized in
the church at St. PauL Her par
ents had come to Oregon by wag
on train in 1846.
Abbot Bernard was born in
Portland as James Elmer Murphy
on December 10, 1874. In addition
to his schooling in Portland and
Mt. Angel, he studied several
years at St. An s elms college,
Rome, Italy. He was scholar and
teacher and had traveled over
most of the world.
Ship Launched
At Portland
PORTLAND, Feb. 23-(")-The
SS James Wilson, first Liberty
ship sponsored by a wife of a
worker at the Oregon Shipbuild
ing corporation, went down the
ways Sunday.
The sponsor was Mrs. John J.
Spady, wife of a steamf itter, who
was chosen by a drawing among
the workers.
Perrydale News
PERRYDALE Dave Rempel is
out again after two weeks of ill
ness with the mumps.
Professor Eugene Silke, Spring
field, visited here with friends
while on. his way to Portland
Monday. Silke taught here several
years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack De Jong and
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mitchell were
guests Thursday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy fink, McMinn
ville. Mrs. Roger McKinney displayed
two dozen figurenes carved from
soap that her sister Mary Evelyn
Minkiewitz, Salem, made at the
meeting of the Goodwill club Fri
day at the home of Mrs. Henry
Keyt She also showed weaving
done by Mrs. Hans Sietz, Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gregg and
Eleanor - Gregg and Robert and
Mrs. Joe Gregg spent Wednesday
in Corvallis on business.
Mrs. George Woods has been
going to Salem every other day to
receive treatment for her eyes.
Mrs. Henry Keyt spent Wednes
day in Portland.
Mrs. Henry Gillam returned
home Tuesday after two months in
California visiting relatives. -
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nelson, who
for the past two years has been
employed at the Andrew Camp
bell home, left last week for Call
fornia to work. - V
was laid to rest in the peaceful
'Bo Retires
In Fire Hall
-Turner firemen Find
Traveler as
Watch Begins
TURNER A transient who had
evidently found Just the place he
was looking for, was discovered
Thursday night in the recreation
room of the new fire station.
Curled up on old newspapers with
the billiard table cover over him,
he was fast asleep beside the
stove.
Firemen, incensed -at the lib
erty taken, awakened the traveler
and sent him on his way. Nightly
radio watches are still being kept
from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. in the fire
station.
The army board got his number
Earl S. Prather, Turner drug
gist celebrated his 45th birthday
on Thursday, just two days after
registering for selective service.
Prather served in the first World
war.
At a dinner party Thursday
evening covers were placed for
Mrs. N. W. Hutchens, Charles
Stephenson of McMinnville, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Prather, Stanford
and Margaret Ann.
The sisterhood of the Christian
church met Thursday afternoon
and completed the bandages for
home defense in Turner. Twenty
yards of new material and many
yards of used muslins and sheets
were made up by the church
group, for the use of the first aid
squad. The remainder of the aft
ernoon was spent quilting, and in
a fortnight the women will con
tinue quilting for Mrs. M. B. Mad
den. Those in attendance were
Mrs. A. Polston and Darlene, Mrs.
Martha Church, Mrs. Mary Stan
dley and Dale, Mrs. Homer Hag
gard, Mrs. Frank Parr, Mrs. M B.
Madden, Mrs. Macil Farrell, Shir
ley and Polly, Mrs. Lily Lyons.
Pearl Masonic lodge held its
regular meeting with the appren
tice degree conferred by M. F.
Webb. U. E. Denyer delivered the
lecture and charge. Milton Myers,
past grand master was scheduled
as guest speaker, but due to ill
ness was unable to attend.
District Deputy Grand Master
Harry Swafford was present and
gave an instructive talk. A. A.
Trahan, master of Darlington
lodge of Portland, was a special
guest of Pearl lodge. At the din
ner table speakers included J. O.
Russell, Turner; A. A. Trahan of
Portland, and Harry Swafford of
Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitchell mo
tored to Eugene Sunday and spent
the day with Mr. and Mrs. Her
man Lewis, residents of Aumsville
for many years.
Following several weeks spent
in Turner with her daughter, Mrs.
Lois Barber, high school instruc
tor, Mrs. Roger Q. Mabry of Day
ton left several days ago for Bro
ken Arrow, Okla., where she will
visit her aged parents. She plans
to be gone for four months, and
home in Turner.
Charles Stephenson of McMinn
ville, was an overnight guest
Thursday of his grandmother,
Mrs. N. W. Hutchens. Floyd W.
Hutchens of Corvallis was also a
dinner guest this week of his mo
ther here.
Mrs. Anna Farris, who has spent
the winter in Salem with her son.
Grant Farris and family, was a
weekend guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. William Spiers here.
Later Mrs. Farris expects to re
turn to her home in Turner.
Mrs. Gene Poitras of Klamath
Falls was a recent dinner guest at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Visits Parent s-
At Turner Home
TURNER Oran Robertson,
who was recently promoted to as
sistant foreman of his division at
Boeing Aircraft company, Seattle,
spent two days here with his
mother, Mrs. A. E. Robertson.
Mrs. N. P. Webb entertained
her Sunday school girls of the
Christian church, the Merry
Maids class, with a party at her
home pn Mill creek. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. Webb- to
Marjorie Polston, Aflene Hatfield,
Betty Bouchie, Carol Standley
and Kathleen Van OsdoL
Guests From Idaho
AUMSVILLE Mr. and Mrs.
Lew Sc4man, Payette, Idaho, were
here over the weekend for a visit
at the home of their son,' A, E.
Silman. They were accompanied
by, their son-in-law, Robert Cc4--lingwood.
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Warehouse Built -
PRATUM Fred Hersch Is
building a modern warehouse,
40x120, part of it two stories.
Machinery will be placed on the
upper floor. The building la on
the same place where the. other
building burned last tail.
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