Vhoal
Tlcglstorl
IONiV April. lHflVS .
War hasnt declared a
many ranchert wires bar .
abandoned , automobiles for
saddle horses that the city
council Is receiving many
requests to erect , hitching ,
racks.
moratorium on elections,
Mr. Citizen! Today Is yeur
Ust chance to register for
the May primaries at tho
Marion , county courthouse
until t pan.1 - '
IXSIYTOST YEAB " i;n-V t: Salsa, frtxuTus " , : :-
l'm m miwiT A M I
9 Merchant snips
Of United Nations
Announced as Sunk
I adduced
Losses Occur in
Most of Oceans;
. Survivors Many
By Th AociaUd Pr
Nine United Nations ea
sels were reported Monday
.sank in the bitter war at sea
while from the war depart
ment in Washington came
the encouraging word that
the heroic defenders on Cor-
regidor Island in the Philip
Convoy Flight
O ver Atlantic
Is Described
. . ,
1 Trip in Naval Bomber
Discloses Hulks ;
Of Sunken Skips -
i ff-' '
So
-. . r-. . ;
(City Will
AppealQh
clarifies Plhiil Jihiinii'ini iP; Finn wis Clii'iiii &h
CLAY C COCHRAN
By JOHN A. MOROSO, 3rd.
(Iditor'f Note: John A. MorofO. rd.
it In hia dement with the Atlantic
fleet. ThU -y ear-old - Associated
Pn anrt xviA World reoorter. a na-
. . - i i , aMMi I ivm o f!hricton. sc. has been a tea'
nines naa ikbuuwu iw . - --- itw
. I nun mm WCil " '"-
gmall Japanese snips ana a 1 Here's his Utest nrst-hand report on
AUT,-m-rA n. I U war ai sea.
Two of the allied ships were
the American army transports
Meigs, 7358 tons, and liberty, ABOARD A NAVAL BOMBER
C211 tons.. The former sank un 0VER the ATLANTIC, April 8
At Jan bombs on February 19 in -rTVlavedWWide World)-LIke a
the harbor of Port Darwin, Aus-1 shepherd tending his flocks,: this
tralia.with the loss of two men, I powerful plane is mothering
including the master, and the lat- some, merchant ships through one manager of the Corvallis cham
ter was torpedoed twice by a Jap-1 0j the most dangerous submarine ber of commerce and a former
anese U-boat then beached with-1 xones in the world. I railway, timber and investment
out loss of life near Bali on Jan-1 As we roar along with every company official, was disclosed
man scanning tne sea zor sirn
of an axis submarine, I am
writing this in the waist of the
throbbing ship, seated in the
starboard blister bulging
window with a machine gun
for trimming.
nary 12.
Dispatches from Fort Alesa,
Brazil, told of sinkings by axis
submarines last week of the
American tankers I. C. Me
Cobb, 145 tons, and Eugene V.
B Thayer. 7138 tons; the 78M
ton British merchantman Em
pire Peregrine and the 2181-ton
Nerwerian carro vessel Balkls.
No word was received about the
McCobb or Peregrine survivors, dawn for a rendezvous with the
T ax Suit
A
Liable for Water,
Bureau in 1936,
Court Decision
.... ... " .
The city of Salem will ap
peal to the state supreme
court from a decision by Cir
cuit Judge James W. Craw
ford of Multnomah county
holding the city liable for
$27,000 in 1936 taxes on the
properties owned by the mu
nicipal water department, W.
C Winslow, one of the city's j
attorneys, said Monday night.
Notice of Judge Crawford's
memorandum opinion was re
ceived Monday morning by Dis
trict Attorney Miller B. Hayden. .
The suit, with the city as
plaintiff and Marion county as
defendant, arose more than a
year ago when the water de
partment properties were in
cluded in a foreclosure list be
ing prepared by the county.
The city asked for a decree en-
Inininff th ivuinf from aollintf
Monoay noon as mm man select tte water department properties
for the new position of business for for a declaratory
and extension manager tor tne judgment holding the taxes to be
saiem cnamoer oi commerce. ivoid
The new manager was introduc
ed to the membership at the cham-
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Enemy Mp and Stores;
JU.
Jap Fleet in Bengal Ba j
Uiamber Picks
Extension Man
His Problems to Be
On Cantonment
And Industry
Clay C. Cochran, secretary-
SUMNER WELLES
Friendly Policy
Inan eight-page opinion. Judge
Crawford came to the conclusion
To French Told
State Department Has
Reply to Protest
Of Vicky Envoy
WASHINGTON, April 13-
- Ibcr's weekly luncheon meeting by I X " - 1 - .Tl ! ... .1 . , , I The policy of the United States 1' "TT.i
uutuuuv (uui, wuucun w tne commiixee wnicn seiecieu rrtimm n io?k
tols and other tools of war
is the friendly policy of helping
We left' our
tools of war. from among a list of 18 applicants, :ble in 1936 desoite Oie fart "o". or regam, con
base shortly after Uj D. Thielsen will continue m K ZJHi? SftJS ol of their own territory, the
ruiMvon with the !l.17 -.v I01 city bought the system from ... . . . . '
. a. as mS 4U I m "
but reports saia mai o vl u pioaoung, neavuy-iuuenmer!
Thayer's crew bad been landed chantmen, and like an arrow
srul that nine were missing, pos-1 soeedina true to its target, Lieut
aibly having died in lifeboats. jH. K McNeely, of Detroit, led us
Twenty four of the Balkis com- straight to the spot many miles
Triement were rescued by a Swed- away.
i&h vessel and the Norwegian con- Naval rules prevent publication
sul at Fort Aleza reported that of certain defense features but X
seven of; the crew, including am allowed to say that progress
" stewardess and the ship's captain, is being made in combatting the
had been killed as the attacking! (Turn to Fage z. wi. oj
submarine machine-gunned ' the
lifeboats. ' 'AtklVJ?ttZ
Two more sinkings in Ihe Car- iVlJ. XJX lill i55 V'
.ibbean were r revealed. Advices
from Lisbon reported the subma- I -rrgC 1 Olfiri
rine linking of the British tanker gTO iTAUl Ull
Feder Bogen, 8741 tons, on Marcn
' 23 with 21 of its 43 crew members
missing. ' The 21 known survivors
readier Lisbon on a Spanish ves
sel.
i muuvc .cj v 1 the Oregon-Washington Water
Service company on August 1,
Pres. Carl W. Horr of the
chamber expressed the belief
that Cochran, because ef his
many years of business and
commercial club activities In
Oreroa and the Willamette val
ley and his part in paving the
way for the war department's
selection of the Camp Adair
cantonment site, was Ideally
1835.
Larceny From
PUC Charged
To Cashier
Holten Released on
Bail, to Enter
Plea April 21
Arraigned Monday afternoon on
a charge of larceny of funds from
the public utilities 'commission.
for which he had been cashier the
past seven years,' Edward Knute
Holten was, given until April 21
to enter his plea and was re
leased under 83000 ban. '
Holten -was arrested early
Sunday morning following a
three-hour conference with
Commissioner Ormond R. Bean,
State Police Capt Walter Lan
sing. District Attorney Miner
B. Hayden and Sephus W. Starr,
head of the state auditing divi
sion. Ho was held in the county
Jail here until his arraignment
before Justice of the Peace Alf
O. Nelson fat SUverton, from
warrant had
the absence
from Salem of Justice Joseph
B. Feltoa.
The hearing a week from today
has been scheduled for 1 p. m.
No accurate check of moneys
Ships
Ready
Invasion
state department has Informed
Vichy.
MS- 1 - a. J! s r
..... . I .t. "
ever, mat tne county couia not accounts handled in the office
take over city-owned property in ri'SL. km been" Investigated, officers
neu oi tne taxes. - w .wr,v"" -m K,,t ihm chortam
I.MA.'. fAMWBl fMVltMT 1 " " . I
equipped" to fill the new posi
tion.
The
business and extension
to work out business
'The result of the two opin
ions, if sustained by the su
preme court, probably wen 14
be an attempt by the eeunty by
a mandamus action to force
city officials te pay -the long',
(Turn td Page I, CoL 1)
The other newly reported
Caribbean torpedoing was that
of a ship of unnamed national
ity sent to the bottom on April
with two killed. Ten of those
aboard the ship are missing and
38 reached Nassau on Saturday.
manager is to work out business T?TYO Cs J
problems arising from construe- JJ J OlUQieS
tion of the cantonment and toj . x
carry on a program of adding toj- TriTlfl1u8aaTI
Ra1m nmrrnllK accordlnff tt V" jLiwl-
plans made by the board of directors.
A native ef Council Bluffs, la.,
I - M Jim, t Jt
Therms no room in America uoenran came to wrrgon ia x.
now for "poUtics . . . class warfare For eight years he served as trav-
w. ... 1 ti - a 4t Pane.
social uplift," former gov. eun xreujuk
rh.i.. W Marrm HoolarMl htre aian macule nan way cumpoujr,
. , ... , . . ! J I . . . .. . . ' 1
UTondav nieht in an address be-1 posmon wmcn piacea turn m rresiaent Kooseveit Monaay De- once
fore the members and auxiliary of touch with many of Salem s in-
Navy Flier Describee
Pacific War; VFW
Elects Officers
Admiral Land Suggests
National Policy of
Labor 'Freezing'
to the
against establishment of a United
States consulate general at Braz
zaville, in French Equatorial Af
rica. - 'V
tiFrfach" forces areola
eontrol ?tt- Trench f Euaforlar
Africa,; and tho Casoeroons.
Welles . pointed ost, and the
United States therefore is deal-.
Ing with the Free French au
thorities there. Bat If the Vichy
government had been In con
trol there the United States
would, as a matter of course,
have dealt with Vichy In the
consulate matter.
In his reply to Ambassador
Gaston Henry-Haye's protest,
Many
To Support
And Harm Sealanes
. r . . t '
Allies Continue Australian Successes
In Air; Soviet Warns Japanese About
'Ideas': RAF, Reds Continue Raids
- By WHJTJA
, .v" Associated .Press War Editor .. ... Y
The Japanese, " still strongly engaged in the Philippines
byv Corregidor's 'gmif and Idle before Australia, stood Mon
day night in apparently overwhelming naval force in the
Bay of Bengal in a position to support a major invasion of
India and to harry the allied lines in the Arabian sea.
This westward movement to the Bay of Bengal of a
substantial proportion of the enemy's total fleet three bat
tleships, five airplane carriers, numbers of heavy and light
cruisers and several destroyer flotillas was disclosed by
Prime Minister Churchill in such terms as to make plain
that the center of crisis had mov
ed to those far waters.
It was accompanied by slow
continued Japanese progress
afield in Burma, India's land
flank, where the British on the
allied right were under the shock
of four Japanese columns, one of
which was advancing from an
area only SS miles .below the
i center of. the main oil fields. The
position on the allied left, held
by the Chinese, was less critical.
! There, the defenders were re-
Sugar Ration
Blanks Out
Dealers9 Regulations
On Inventories
Described
wmcn orougnt noiieni w WAamuiw, n(irtH hnlriin An h. Rittan
saia w oe appro vv, -ine IOrms n wmcuu.c lriver about SO miles above Toun-
mscevery oi ue aucxem uu
erepaner In aeeounts was made
when an employes, noting lack
f i receipt tent a reutine bo
: tie to' Union ' Pselfle Stages,
Ine, called attentioa to Its fafl
ure to pay February fees
amounting to I1SSS.45, and the
company responded with a
photostatic copy of Its canceled
check for the payment. .Three
of the receipts were In the of
fice; the missing pink duplicate
was that earmarked for the aud
itor's records.
An attempt to locate a missing
duplicate office record of the pay-
one million sugar retailers and
wholesalers will register, at high
schools throughout the J country
on April 28 and 29 were teleajH
ed bV the office o pMce "admin
istration , ' r "
The reristration will take
place on the first two- days ef
the seven-day period In which
household consumers will reg
ister at public schools for war
ration books. Sugar sales will
be halted at midnlrht April 27
for about one week to resume
on about May 5 for sales under
the ration system. ,
WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Welles took occasion to cJar?y J ment which should have gone to tiers' dtaerT forms will
suu, iu; v th auditor's OmCO DrOUSni Q1S- 1 Th or PTTWt-
vcuu . vuvv. - .
1L.1 AL. VAAA.H I .... .
A large British passenger liner Post Mif Veterans of Foreign dustries. Later he was for seven
was sunk off the United States
Atlantic coast on Saturday, it was
revealed, as it . carried i refugees
from the far east The 290 sur
vivors brought to Charleston, SC,
said that there was no loss of life.
The war department in Wash-
, ington furnished the brightest al
lied news with the announcement
of the Corregidor sinkings of Jap
anese ships, and from Melbourne
' it was learned that allied bomb
ers had set a large enemy vessel
afire at Rabaul, New Britain. '
rations of its kind, with head-
(Turn to Page 2. CoL 4)
$2,500,000 Blaze
Hits Illinois Town
Wars, at Veterans' hall
"We're going to be pretty
groggy when we start bearing
the brant of it," the retired
major general said of the war.
"We've got to bend all our ef
forts for Just one thins war.
We are going to come out of this
war ... but we can't win with
our soldiers sleepulng In the mud
while we sleep in feather beds.'
How the fight is going in the
southwest Pacific was described PORTLAND, Ore., April 13-
vividly, by another speaker, Navy Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon
Lt Elwyn Christman, who is visit-1 Monday protested a war depart-
sald would
gan intensive study of means of United States toward France and fte concem', record to be available in
dealing wito inflation amid French possessions. card, too, was missing. It was said. caUty through local
years auditor and superintendent I mounting indications that a num- Welles pointed out that "more
of the Kerry Timber company and ber of hieh officials within the than ordinary friendship and con-
Columbia and Nehalem River administration were leanintf I fidence" have characterized the
railroad, one of the largest ope
goo, beating off enemy ' attacks V
supported by .planes and -artil
lery. - r ' V , j; jf-
The nem Jt" appeared, has r
east the dice In another sa-
presne gamble. By attenuating
his already, strained lines at
sea he had seised at least tem
porary effective control ef the
Bay of Bengal, for It was clear.
that the British naval units hi
those waters were rreatly out
numbered,
Thus, he had moved to provis
ionally secure the sea flank of
his Burmese armies, which must
be halted soon If they are not to
reach the sea where upper Bur
ma borders on India's Ganges
basin.
The great peril was plainly rec-
Sprague Hits
Rifle Return
administration were leaning fidence" nave cnaracxenzea me . g W35 from Portland,
strongly toward drastic, all-out I relations between the people of J v ' ' .
measures to cope with wartime France and of the unitea states
economic problems. since the earliest days of this
At the White House, where Mr. country's independence.
Roosevelt held down his engage- "The government or Tance ana
ment list to afford time for his many citizens of France, Welles
studies, it was emphasized that no asserted, "assisted the people of
decisions had been reached. I we umtea aiaies m
their freedom, me great pnnci
every lo
cality throuih local rationing
Holten. 33. came to the public several days before the . V? , tj:. , "
utilities commission here registration. Different forms wffl I J"e east 130000 of
r usm xor reaisveruiK unuw
Court Upholds
libel Law
ing his mother near ML Angel,
Christman told of piloting his pa
trol plane on bombing expeditions,
KEWANEE. 111.. ADril 13 first from the Philippines and
A roaring fire swept through the later from Java, ending finally
heart of Kewanee's business dist- after successful attacks on Japa-
rict Monday, leaving two square nese vessels, in a crash landing at
blocks looking like ) bombing sea and an 11-day struggle to get
wreckage and causing losses which back to bis base. He is soon to
Fire Chief AI Stuhlsatz said might continue east to Florida to serve
total $2,500,000. . ' ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8)
ment order that he
mean the return of all rifles at
state armories to government ar
senals.
A telegram to the war depart-
Possibly Indicative of senti
ment In high places, however, ,
was an assertion from Sear Ad
miral Emery 8. Land, chairman ,
of; the maritime commission
that labor-employer relations
should be "frozen" for the dura
tion.
nles of liberty, equality and fra
ternity acclaimed by. the rrencn
revolution have been an inspira
tion to the American people
throughout their national exist
ence, and the traditional under-
ctandlnff between our two na-
Says False Accusation
Of Racial Intolerance
Is Libelous 'Per Se'
WASHINGTON, April 13.-(
-The supreme court upheld Mon
day a lower court decision de
claring that under Mew xorn
Less than four weeks ago,, on cons na m no smau . v Uw a accusation of ra
ir v is 41.. t,..,) n i. hnM due to their common i zaim mi ...... . .
jxiorvu iUi uic w I .. .......
. . , i m: v. I - """-- vr j
uons ana mausuu had been moved inland.
i a m e dates ana ax xne same
places.
The aim of the retailers' and
wholesalers . form is -to assure
equitable distribution of sugar by
fixing an "allowable' inventory
for each dealer. The "allowable"
invpntnrv is intended to be a
reasonable working supply.
If the "allowable" inventory is
greater than the supply a dealer
uos u uwu, I . J V.HM
up.the difference. If it is .mail- were raismg such an effective fire
v" v. t,,n th I that in 22 enemy raids on Cor-
CX IUWI HW "-I I , . a v.
Amm nt roulred to auT- regiaor m iwo - cv
Far to the northeast of this
new theatre, the American-
Filipino garrison of Corregidor
In Manila bay still was beating
back the enveloping disaster,
The war department reported
in a morning communique that
the guns of Corregidor and other
Manila bay forts had smashed
number of small Japanese boats
and set fire to others and that
ment said the edict is "harmful to wartime shipbuilding effort had
states m the exposed western null- af- committee that no
tarv zone." The sovernor askedl i--t-i.ti-.- nrlof human freedom.
that the 12 Oregon state guard Lii o.,t. in Truj' to Its bade policy
rifle companies be allowed to keep pyhig baU," he said. c?. " (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1)
feJ? lASTrS and to cial intolerance against a public T m ltd through had been able to work only minor
f!T-iSSlf th rtuse official Is libelous "per se"-that e awT to householders damage.
f like dS"wto theyause to, without any necessity of (Turn to Iage 2, CoL 2) The department's late afternoon
of
their guns.
f Repulse9 and IW ales9 in Losing Fight
Bulg
Army
x
But Monday, Land, testifying
before the house naval committee,
said he thought open shop agree
ments, closed snop agreemenu - ' J '
and all other agreements between V nitlPXl tO
laoor ana management vus w
be frozen in their present status
until the war Is over.
Declaring there was need for
a "national labor policy,' he
added;
"If we can get It voluntarily,
so much the better; falling that,
Freezintf of wages and virtual-lthe BBC said Monday night in
l- an btImi but with crovlslon for I miotinc the Sofia radio. CBS
their adjustment in lnoiviauai heard the relayed bbc report .
The Bulgarian cabinet resigned
Saturday to make wajT for Pre
mier Bogdan Pflovs new cabi-
nev which retained oiy .two oi
ar
Be Ready
NEW YORK, April 13-(ff)-The
new Bulgarian war minister has
Issued an .order of the day telling
the Bulgarian army ?to be ready
to zuuui lis uuty at v uwui
uroving specific damages.
The decision was rendered last
July by the federal circuit court
of appeals In New York In con
nection with a libel suit brought
by Rep. Sweeney (D-ObJo)
against the Schenectady' (nx)
Union Star because of a publish
ed statement that he opposed the
appointment of a man to a Judge
ship because the man was a Jev.
(Neither, the circuit eonrt or
supreme court passed upon the
truth or falsity of the publish
ed statement; their decision
merely means that the suit is
to be tried on the merits.)
(Turn to Page 2, CoL S) '
communique gave a similar ac
count of continued magnificent.
Death Brought
it was stated, had sunk an addi-
' ' ' I if J!.. 1JI .VU
and had hit two Japanese tank
and truck columns on Bataan
peninsula.
Moreover, American and Fill
plna patrols en the far southern
Philippine Island of Mindanao
were still In action.
Communication with Cebu,
the Philippine island to the
south of Luson, remained cut,
and the progress ef the invad-
(Turn to Page 2, CoL 2)
By Collision
GERVAIS Lawrence Binder,
about 25, an employe of Carter
Keene, St, Louis farmer, was in
stantly killed about noon Monaay
when he drove his car in front of
a freight train; f
Considerable trouble was ex
perienced in freeing his body from
the car. which was carried ap
proximately 200 feet by the train.
(Turn to Page 2, CoL 4)
Labor Record
Here Praised
PORTLAND, April 13-(ffHSov-
emor Sprague Monday compli-
meniea uregoa iauor kwn. v . - - u - - id
their excellentrecord uv having ',rtrhMA: refused to
loss of time because ox stnres - - w?tw. rrr
was -succeeded by Gen." Michov,
former cemmander of the Sofia
army corps. '5 ? ; ,;
piplomatic quarters in Switzer
I no
In war 'Industries. r??'
In a letter to D. E Nlckerson,
executive secretary of the Oregon
State l Federation of t Labor, the
governor praised a resolution by
rt ndUnd tram Moscow to New York, Is described as having been made Ty a Jap filer dur
In- the December IS air atUck which sank the British capital ships Repulse . (left) and Prince of
kt.i. r.i.f,t.- m nhnia chows latter burnini while bombs fail at her stern. Photo tndl-
ca39 both ships traveling fast, Eepulse making shaO turn. Japs said' Scpulse was heclej en
ter side. - " - ', ' . . , . v - - t '
the organization's executive board Sunday 8 .Ve&ther.
pledging "continued and limitless Weather forecasts withheld
support for war activities ; and temperature . data delayed
Sprague said Oregon's strike- by army request. River. Mon
less record Is getting national day, -.1 feet. Max. temperature
receznition. I Sunday 3, mix, 44.
Winfleld Taylor Rigdon, 83,
his former ministers. Gen Theo-1 and Douglas C Minto, 80, two of
dossy Daskalov, the war mWster, StemVldest in nest jwwn
period Sunday night and Mon
day morning, the former at 730
p. m. Sunday and Minto at 9:15
a. m. Monday - 5 :'
.. : Funeral services for Blgdan,.
who filed at his homo, 2S9
North Winter street, are to be
. held from the, Rigdon mortu
ary . Wednesday at 1831 a.' in.
with Dr. J. C Harrison ef XL
First Methodist' church officia
ting, .-vy:.-' .W;;V;c ''
Christian Sale nee services
for Minto, who died at his
home, 821 Sagmaw street. wl
be held Wednesday at 1H9
p. m. front the Cleugh-Earrlck
approve AdoU Hitler's program-
believed to call for active Bulgar
ian -participatiori In the war
against Russia or Turkey or both.
chapel with the FJks lodge as
sisting. He was a charter mem
ber of Salem lodse. No. ,
bpor, -
Born In Iowa. February 18,
1842. W. T. Rigdon came t Ore
gon with bis parents at thsr as t oi
one year. ; They settled n a co
nation land claim east of Wood
burn. Els lathe? died, two years
after the family arnvea in wre
gon and as a boy he helped bis
mother In .fanning In .various
narti ef Marion county. He at
tended Willamette university for
a year In his early twenties, sup-
tifmsdf hv odd Jobs. In
mAj. n tMchins? school in
s't'mrm narta of Marion county,
' be wu at various times engaged
in the drug business In Jefferson,
operated a sawmill there and was
manager of the farmers' ware
house. 1' ' - -
He married Mattie Jane Smith,'
Jefferson, on August 28, 1878. In
1SC2 be served In the, bouse of
representatives from Marlon
county, and was with the United
States customs service in Port
land from 1884 to 1888. v
-.. In 1SS9 he moved to Salem
and was for a time associated
with Edward Bellinger In 4he
hardware business, and. 'later
engaged ta real estate activi
ties. He started In the under-
taking business b 1&3L' and-
ai the time ,tf tus-ueaus -
(Turn to Page 2. CoLJtl, : ,:
: i
St