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Mason Sinks
Another Sub
Three Reported Bring
Total to 28 Axis
' U-BoaU Blasted
, WASHINGTON, April
t Donald Fran'ds Mason, the naval
enlisted pfl - vho recently "sight
fed tub tank same," has done it
t again the navy reported Wednes
i day, and for his unprecedented
double success has. been -awarded
I the. equivalent of- a second dis-;
I tin guiihed 'flying cross and given
i an officer's commission.
Mason's second successful at
tack was on of three submarine
sinkings reported by the navy
j Wednesday. The three, two in the
Atlantic and one in the Pacific,
l raised to grand total of 28, the
, number of axis undersea craft an
' nounced as "sunk or presumed
t sunk" by US military and naval
i forces thus far in the war. Of this
! total, 21 were blasted In the At
t lantic and seven in the Pacific
I In addition te these, the navy
asserted that "there is evidence
I of additional sinkings of axis
undersea craft" tn Its. campaign
Z against merchant shipping rald
i era. Bat It- said n claims would
be made to these until they are
v absolutely eertala aa until the
i news will be of "no possible
I use to the enemy.'
Meantime, ship: sinkings by
? axis subs continued off, the At-
lantic coast The navy announced
!; the torpedoing of a medium-sized
'.Panamanian merchant vessel, and
It was disclosed, that 13 of its
crewmen, weak and numb from
- exposure, were landed at Nor
i t oik, Va, Saturday night
A rescue vessel picked them
: up after they bad drifted for 45
: hours ?tii one lifeboat and two
; rafts. Two ethers ef the crew
'' were known dead and 38 pre
: sumed lost
At New York, the captain of a
. Norwegian freighter, the 2362-ton
; Gunny, told how he and 11 other
: survivors drifted for seven days
... on a raft after his ship was tor-
pedoed in the - south Atlantic
' March 2. The survivors ate all
their rations and were reduced to
chewing bits of wood before be
. lng rescued. The torpedoing re
sulted in the death of 14 other
crewmen.
Mason,' 28-year-old Rochester,
Minn., man, who sank two sub
marines in the Atlantic area, was
promoted to ensign, the starting
commission rank, and was award
ed a silver star to add to his dis
tinguished flying cross, previously
given for bis first sinking.
Both the other sinkings dis
closed Wednesday were also
y. due primarily, to air action. One
' of toes was accomplished
chiefly by, JBnslga William Te
punl, 26, naval reserve pilot of
:i San Francisco, Calif., and was
I in the Atlantic area. Vice Ad
as ral Royal E. IngersoU. com
. mander of the Atlantic fleet,
awarded Tenant the distin
guished flying cross for his ex
ploit The other, in the Pacific, was
effected by First Lieutenant
: James Valentine' Edmundson, 26,
of Santa Monica, Calif., an army
flier. "Navy Secretary Knox com
mended Edmundson for the "keen
observation, flying skill and suc-
" cessful attack with bombs" in
volved in big feat '
i Camelback Ready
For Retreads now
PORTLAND, April l.-(P)-De-...
lay In releasing camelback to re-
cappers will not materially affect
retreads for passenger automo
biles added to the rationing list for
- the first time Tuesday, the ration
ing administrator's ,off ice said
Wednesday: y ; ?
The majority' of recappers al
ready have camelback supplies on
band, the; office said, and addi
, tional supplies will be released
within a few days. . .y.
Seagulls Predict
End of Smelt Run
PORTLAND, April MflVAr
Tival of seagulls along the Sandy
river Wednesday brought a pre
diction from observers that one
of the longest and heaviest smelt
runs was near an end. -
sisnermen sua the gulls us
ually follow the stragglers of the
- run. ' . . -- . ; , ;i
Commercial and amateur have
taken an estimated 3000 tons of
smelt this year, ;
Do Student Teaching
MONMOUTH Marr Lou
Sears, senior at the - Oregon Col
lege of : Education, daughter of
. Mrs. Blanche Webber Sars, Gates,
Enid Nelson, senior, daughter of
Mrs. IV T, Bishop Salem, and
Mary Hammack, senior. Salem.
began their first term of student
teaching -with the., beginning of
.the spring quarter. . "
Lumber 'Auction Opens
, PORTLAND, April l.-fA-An-other
two-day lumber auction
opened here Wednesday with US
army engineers planning to pur
chase about 63,009,009 board feet
from western lumbermen. '
jGrT3 Pays .Visit
MACLTIAY In the Marion
county grange exchange meeting
ccheJule Zlacleay grange will
visit Ankeny Saturday, - conduct
the business meeting and put on
tie literary program. -
.On a Trip With Uncle Sam's Atlantic Patrol
v '.
For the first time, press photographers were permitted to accompany a flight of U. 8. Army bombers
on a part of their route on Atlantic air patrol duty. Looking down from the patrol plane you can sea
an Allied freighter and two Army bombers hovering' over it The bombers afford a real menace to
wim m)mrin wHch fyT rmlAlng ahtpptny off thm niturn TJL SL eaaat-
Bulletins
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Japanese bombers attacked La
shlo, Burma, a Chinese central
news dispatch said Wednesday
night
WASHINGTON, April
-The navy department announ
ced Wednesday night that a me
dium slsed US merchant vessel
had been torpedoed off the At
lantic coast'
VALLETTA. Malta,. April L
flVSix German planes were
shot down, at least three dam
aged and a number of others
probably damaged during hea
vy sustained attacks on this
British Mediterranean island
base Wednesday.
The RAF, without loss, shot
down three planes and anti
aircraft batteries bagged the
others.
Scholarship
Cups Awarded
Delta Phi sorority and Alpha
Psl Delta fraternity were award
ed trophy cups Wednesday for
highest scholarship in Willamette
university's inter-organizational
competition, based on fall semest
er grades.
Grade point averages for the
women were Delta Fni, 88.813;
Beta Chi. 88.750; Alpha Phi Al
pha, 88.264; Delta Tau Gamma,
87.126. Men's averages were Al
pha Psi, 87.707; Kappa Gamma
Rho, 87.296; Sigma Tau, 85.545.
Alpha Psi Delta retains the cup
which they won for spring, 1941,
grades. Delta Tau Gamma held
the women's cup during the past
semester.
Neer, Olds Speak
To Local Clubs
Frank Neer. dean of men at Sa
lem high school, spoke to mem
bers of the Abel Gregg at their
meeting Wednesday night on per
sonnel work.
Glenn Olds, completing his
round of the Hi-Y dubs, gave his
highlights of "Bughouse Square"
to the Arthur Cotton club.
Deb to Wed
Shaw Carter - - .
Engagement of -debutante Jean;
Shaw Carter of Pelnaa Manor,'
. N. T, a member of the Bed Cross
Motor Corps, and K. John Ward
of Larcbmont, N. T, Duke uni
versity graduate, has been announced.
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Moving men and mounts fill the picture as the Fourth Field Artillery,
a pack mule outfit, moves out ef Fort Bragg, N. C, for a workout in ths
hill. Each mule carries a taction of a 75-mm. howitxer, ammunition, oi
other equipment. ,
Actor Arrives at CO Camp,
Likes Scenic Oregon Setting
WYETH, Ore., April l-CAVAlready holding a work assign
ment. Lew Ayres settled into the
jectors' camp late Wednesday. -
. The motion picture actor who chose the camp in preference
to military duty, carried his suit
case and steamer trunk his only
luggage to the dormitory which
he will share -with some 40 other
men.
Among his companions are a
cheesemaker,a farmer, a lawyer
and a carpenter.
He and another enrollee will
handle first aid work. At ajn.
daily he will arise and leave
with work gangs in the Umber
at 7:M after breakfast and a de
votional period. There work day
ends at S sua. and lishta are to
be eat at It pjm. Three sheet
recreational leaves a week are
allowed.
On the short train ride here
from Portland, Ayres seemed pre
occupied and nervous. , He care
fully tore bits from several news
papers, but wnetner tney were
stories concerning him was not ob
served.
At Portland, where he had an
hour's wait, he made arrange
ments with a bookstore to mail
books on a rental basis at regular
intervals. -
Be became earollee Na. 171
at the caaam, which. Is operated
by the Brethren and Menaonite
chorches. A greap ef men,
fighting a minor flee, left their
work to witness his arrival.
"Gee, this is an ideal spot," he
remarked after finishing a lunch
of vegetable soup, curried rice,
Portland School
Vacation Cut
PORTLAND, April l-WW. W.
Edwards, assistant superintendent
of Portland schools said Wednes
day the usual week's spring vaca
tion would be narrowed to April
3-6 to permit prompt start of sum
mer vacation which would release
students for: farm and. defense
work.-'i '
UO Pledges Named
EUGENE, April L-4P)-Soror-ity
pledges announced at the Uni
versity of Oregon this week in
eluded Pa Carson, Sflverton, Sig
ma Kappa; Mary Jane Brabec, Sa
lem, Pit Beta Phi, and, Barbara
Beu, saiem, Alpha PhL .
tkt Offered Bomber
' PORTLAND, ' April l.-6P-The
first man to drop a bomb on To
kyo will receive $500 a present
from the employes of the Willam
ette Iron it Steel company who
turned the amount over to H. A.
Hamlin, company official Wed-1
nesdar. I
routine of a conscientious ob
canned cherries, coffee with con
densed cream, bread and butter.
The camp nestles in the woods
at the foot of Mount Hood which
he said he hoped someday to
climb.
Other camp enroll ees seem
ingly accepted him Immediately
altheagh' Ayres appeared shy
aad BBWOBunaateattve. One en
roOee said "He's a swell gay."
. The erstwhile movie actor told
newsmen ne would prepare
more detailed statement of his. be
liefs which prevent him from en
tering military service.. He refused
to comment on them orally be
cause to do so in a brief time
"could only bring about a misun
derstanding." Killed Three
Coartney Fred Sogers
Police In Lob Angeles are holding
-UMirmey area ttogera, 14, a
church organist, for the confessed
slaying of his father, mother and
his grandmother. Authorities said
that Rogers, who confessed, a
' month ago, the slayings ef his '
father and the chloroform ldmag
of his mother now has confessed
murdering his grandmother by
poisoning her.
Columbia Bill
Is Introduced
Proposes Authority to
Ron Bonneville and
Grand Xonlee .Dams
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sition of private utility systems. In
the Pacific northwest
The bul provides for the au-
'thority to remain under the m-s
tenor department, witn the
administrator to bo appointed
by the president and confirmed
by the senate. s- r
Representative Smith (D-
Wash) said he would introduce
companion measure in the house.
Bone asserted that the private
power company acquisitions con
templated under the bill "are ne
cessary, for the most complete
wartime use of the vast water
power resources and facilities of
the northwest"
He explained that the proposed
revenue bonds "win be supported
by and be repayable only from
the revenues derived from the op
eration of the great system cre
ated under the proposed amend- f
ment.
Strike Shuts
3 Canneries
In Portland
PORTLAND, Ore- April 1-6P)
Three , Portland canneries closed
Wednesday as AFL workers went
on strike to enforce wage de
mands. 1
Skeleton crews, numbering
about 240 In the three plants
Libby, McNeill & Llbby, Starr
Fruit Products and Northwest
Packing companies were affect
ed. The canneries employ about
2800 workers during the oeak
season.
Secretary C A. Fouts of the
Cannery Workers' union said the
union demanded minimum wages
for men boosted from 57 cents
an hour to 73 and an increase
from 45 to 60 cents for women.
He said the higher scale was in
effect in California.
The contract under which the
union and the companies h a d
been .operating expired Tuesday
nignt.
Albany Offers
PORTLAND " April 1-MV-Dr,
Morgan S. Odell, chairman of the
religion and philosophy depart
ment at Occidental .college In Los
Angeles, has been offered the
presidency of Albany college, the
trustees of the Presbyterian
scnool announced Wednesday.
Dr. Odell, now in Portland, re
quested several days to consider
the offer. Dr. Clarence W. Green
resigned the presidency last De
cember.
Signing Urged
For Rationing
PORTLAND, April 1-tfVState
Rationing Administrator O. L.
Price Wednesday urged all civil
ians to register for sugar rationing,
of other commodities later.
He said the government was
considering rationing upwards of
z items but declined to name
them specifically.
Power Additions
For Salem Okehed
PORTLAND, April l-WVAddi-
nons costing approximately $183,
000 at Bonneville's Salem substa
tton have been approved by Bon
neville Administrator Paul J. Ra
The additions, to be completed
by the summer of 1943, will im
prove terminal facilities for the
Salem-Eugene! 113,000-volt line.
me Oregon City-Salem 115.000-
volt lines, the McMiimville 57,000-
vou nne and the Monmouth 12,
450-volt line, i
Colombia Moisture
Conditions Good
TUB DALLES, April l-p)
Moisture conditions in the mid-
Columbia area are more favorable
for crops man at any time inlO
years, it was agreed Wednesday
at the annual water forecast
meeting here.
Snow water supplies m the
mountains are the best since 1339
and watersheoVsofls are saturated.
Roger Wiinelm, Wasco county
watermaster, said.
Chemist Appointed
; PORTLAND. Ore, April 1-p)
Dr. Albert ,W. Stout... assistant
chemistry professor at , T4nffcld
college, was appointed Wednesday
as research, chemist for the West
ern-Pine association.
Red Roondap Canceled
. ... x aft, Apru ; l.-CJVThe aa-
aal Taft redhead rpandap was
eaaeelled Wednesday because ef
the army reqaest to eliminate
crowds.
Taxi Scene of Birth-
PORTLAND. Aprfl HSVBprn
to Mr., and Mrs. . Delmax Young,
Portland, a daughter, Mary Louise,
March 31, 1942, at the Intersection
of 12th and Burnside in a taxicab
Presidency
enroute to a hospital.
Army Moves in on Midmi Beach;
Hotels Beckon to
MIAMI BEACH. Fla, April
glittering resort have been dimmed lor the duration,' !
a tmiriri itAn ih( Kfnn Pearl Harbor has run
its course with a normal amount
courses, tennis coorts, in ocean
front pools and Cabana colonies.
isNew Miami Beads, Is far the
army. Most of the hotels In a
24-Ueek strip ranalag sooth
from Thirty First . street have
been leased for an army air
eorps technical - tralalng eaaaav
Twenty fear already have sign-,
ed up. Many ethers will join
the program.
The resort has hotel and apart
ment space for a b o u t 100,000
tourists. 'The air corps, already
on the training job, is making
plans to house 30,000 men at the
peak of its program. It will double
the population of the city, which
has an official year round 'count
of 26,000 residents.
Miami Beach proper has 329 ho
tels, of which about 40 per cent
wfil be used by the army. Many
of the remainder will stay open
throughout the year. They expect
to draw thousands of families
to enjoy vacations and visit their
sons and husbands who are In the
training camps.
Beach officialdom agrees that
the customary tourist business
Is finished aatn after the war.
The manicipallty will continue
to employ the services ef Its na
tionwide publicity organ ha Hon,
bat the appeal will be different
from now en.
The arrival of the army means
the end of bathing-beauty pictures
and playtime resort appeal. In
their place, the beach will direct
ts advertising and publicity to
ward attracting soldiers families
to the hotels and apartment houses
that remain in private hands.
April Fool's
Day Slipping
BOSTON, April l.-iavAmerica
isn't fooling in this war.
Julia Johnson, a switchboard
operator at the Angell Memorial
Animal hospital, has received on
other April fool days as many as
500 telephone calls for "Kitty"
"Mrs. Cats" or "Miss Fox."
Wednesday, she said, the calls
were very few.
OMAHA, April L-KAVAp-proximately
591 persons passed
by aa old plus hat ea a down
town sidewalk Wednesday
without giving It a single kick.
It waa April fool's day and
they wouldn't bite oa aa old
gag. . .
Then J. M. Koncka lifted the
hat to peek underneath.
He found one dollar la de
fense stamps, planted by a re
porter seeking a story.
ANGOLA, La-, April l.-tfV
The Argus, published by inmates
of the Louisiana state peniten
tiary, Wednesday commented ed
torially:
"April fool's day should be, we
believe, set aside and dedicated
wholly to the biggest fools in the
world the penal inmates of Am
erica."
Log Truck Needs
To Be Surveyed
PORTLAND, Ore, April
Questionnaires to determine new
truck needs for 1942 will be sent
to all logging truck operators in
Oregon and Washington, Truman
Collins of the regional transports
tion committee said. Wednesday.
The blanks will go out through
channels of the Pacific Logging
congress, he said, and later will
be used as a basis for estimates
by the interstate commerce com
mission's bureau of motor carriers
which has supervision of truck
rationing.
Plane Crash Seen
SANTA BARBARA,
Calif,
April l-VPV-5pectators on
the
shore reported. a navy patrol
plane crashed Into the sea near
here Wednesday evening. Navy
sources said they had nothing for
official release concerning the in
cident. C-'-
-FOR A TRAINED CREW TO ROW r0WRDS
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Relatives I
1-V-The bright lights of this
of play in night clubs, on golf
Training f or j-
Sheetmetal ; ; ;
prkUrgea.::
An unrent call for would-be
sheetmetal workers to enroll to
day for free training classes came
Wednesday night from the US
employment service. K was De
clared there was an Immediate
and urgent need' for cantonment
workers trained in sheetmetal and
for thousands In the shipbuilding
Industry. i. v , ,.4 - m
At both. the Salem vocational
school and the Chemawa Indian
school new classes are noW.to
Drocess of formation, under su
pervision of C A. Guderian.
Offered at no cost except xor
nersanal tools, the classes are
open to trainees who are physic
ally employable. Preferred pupils
are those between 18 and 59 years
of age, able to offer proof of
citizenship. : ; " ! i ?
Enrollment headquarters are m
the employment service office at
710 Ferry street . j
Fat Salvage!
Is Next Plan
For Explosive
X .7-
WASHINGTON, Ad r 1 1 !-(&)
"Out of the frying pan, into the
firing line," may be the next sal
vage campaign slogan - for - tne
nation's housewives.
Flans are underway. It was
learned Wednesday, for a drive
to salvage bacon fat and
greases left over from Mrs. Ameri
ca's daily stint in the kitchen
and pay her four or five cents a
pound for the product
Details of the proposed cam
paign are not perfected, and offi
cials warned housewives not to
begin collecting and saving grease,
until the drive is announced for
mally, since it probably would
turn rancid.
As now outlined, the campaign
would be financed by soap man
ufacturers, who have large gov
ernment orders for glycerine
needed in explosives. To make
glycerine, they must first: make
soap, and supplies of Imported
oils and fats formerly used In
soap . production have been cur
tailed, drastically by the war. .
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New Record
Set, Ferry
LONDON, Thursday, Arfl 2-ff)
An American-built four-engined
Liberator (Consolidated) bomber
has flown 2200 miles from New
foundland to Britain in the record
time of six hours and 40 minutes,
the ferry command announced
Thursday. j
The new time of 400 minutes
eclipsed by exactly one hour the
transatlantic flight record set
three months ago by a young Eng
lish pilot
Attorney Dies
OREGON CTTY, April l.-UP)-WOliam
L. Mulvey, 62, practicing
attorney here for many years, died
Wednesday. i
Northwest Strategic Mineral
Production Shows Progress
WASHINGTON, April; l-)
Progress in increasing production
of critical and strategic minerals
in the Pacific northwest and Alas
ka was reported mis week by the
Metals Reserve company .j
The' report, released by Federal
Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones,
said that zinc, copper and lead pro
duction In small mines had been
stepped v up by premiums over
ceiling prices for a period of two
and bne-half years from' February
l, 42. r
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conclusion, asserting fkatlt t '
'company had gives the navyli
representottve -everything Jthat
he was .Interested to.,;",
; "The navy was not,1 as I. un
derstand it Farish told the com
mittee, "interested to the. manu
facture of the product but la its
possible use. ' ,, ' " '
; "The idea was to see If This
rubber had such properties that
the navy would be interested ia
wing ft- -
"It was youj judgment and not
the government! judgment that
governed the disclosure,,, CMa
honey asserted during the ex
change, i .. - . " .. -
Unemployment
Payments
Boosted
WASHINGTON, Aprfl , l-(ff
Conversion of Industrial plants to
war production has been accom
panied by a sharp increase in un
employment insurance payments,
the federal security board report
ed .Wednesday. , 7 . :
Payments by states and terri
tories amounted to $81,000,000
during the first two . months . of '
this year, nearly one-fourth of
the total for all of 194L f
Payments in February by states
showing Increases over the same
month a year., ago, .and the per
centage of change, included: Ore
gon, 925,900 and 25. . .
Two Groups
Reject Plan
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by bargaining, cause the plan to
collapse, Indians wills forfeit ths
good opinion of the United. Na
tions.'. .
Tet it was doubtful whether
such warnings weald be enough
to chance the eonsTess commit
tee's attitude.
..Wednesday's first definite mi
nority refusals, auguring HI for
the success of - Cripps effort to
align India firmly behind. the. al
lied war effort, were received
glumly by Britons, and the press
sounded solemn warnings that If
the plan were scrapped, nothing
could be done until the war ends.
The 'Sikhs, numbering about
; 4OO.O0t. turned down the pro
gram through their all-parties
' committee for fear they weald
be placed at the mercy of the
Moslem majority ef 130t,aaa
in the Punjab.
The Hindu Mahasabha group
rejected the British proposals and
made common cause with the
Sikhs because of opposition to the
provision permitting formation of
separate Moslem states if a. sin
gle dominion is found impracti
cal. The group's memorandum
said some features of the plan
were more or less satisfactory but
since Cripps "unfortunately" had
demanded the scheme . be- accept
ed or rejected In toto, the Hindu
Mahasabha was obliged to reject
all Of It -
. The Moslem league, which rep
resents more than 77,000,000 Mos
lems, is expected to reply Friday.
The all-Indian congress committee
still was drafting its answer Wed
nesday night
been increased and large compa
nies producing copper had boost
ed their output
In southern Oregon and north
ern Calif omla, the report said,
arrangements had been .completed
to purchase chrome ores from
um operators in truckload lots.
Stockpiles and sampling facilities
have been set up in many places.
A mill to recover chromite
fnm .bench gravels has been
V.SS for annu1 delivery
of 35,000 tons of concentrates. '
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