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Keep Posted Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while you sleep but also while "he Statesman news services are reporting- them. Keep posted; read The Statesman. Traveler VTYN VANCOUVER, BC, May 22-(CP)-Rkhard A. Wood ring, of Amarillo, Texas, traveled 3201 mUes to Van couver to -enlist in the Ca nadian army as a private. poundoit 1651 NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 30, 1942 Price 5c No. 47 i Service IiiWork Today Work, Watch To Continue On Holiday MEMORIAL SERVICES IN SALEM TODAY ;; 10 a.m., City View Cemetery. 1 p.m., at Willamette River bridie. 1:30 p.m., Parade organises at Marlon Square. ' - 1:45 p.m.. Parade marches. 2:15 p.m.. Services at eourt ' house steps on High street (in ease of rain, st Armory.) For the first time since its in corporation under the name which means "City of Peace," Salem today pauses from rou tine activities to honor its war time dead under conditions of warfare at home. In spite of tire rationing and gasoline shortages, undeterred by a majority of merchants' decisions to close stores to would-be Sat urday shoppers while services are in progress, families from this section of the valley are expected to pour into the city today. On the hilltops they will leave behind; them hundreds of watch ers, largely women, volunteer op erators of civilian defense-established, army-regulated listening posts. inner hundreds learned in preparation for possible war' emergency at home today join the veterans and their auxil iaries in the city's colorful pa rade as the Civilian Defense corps. Veterans' groups forget pride (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Reprisal Total Reaches 18 Czechs Feel Heavy Nazi Hand for Attempt On Heydrich'g Life LONDON, May 29 -(JP) Ger man firing squads executed 12 more Czechs Friday after a speedy court martial, bringing to 18 the number of persons put to death for the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the gestapo leader Throughout the day ru mors were current in Europe that Heydrich had died, but these still were unconfirmed late Friday night. A Stefan! dispatch from Prague shortly before midnight said that Heydrich, known throughout Europe as "der henker" (the hangman), re mained in critical condition with bullets in his spine. Of the 12 persons executed Fri day, four were women. All were charged with harboring unregis tered persons engaged in activi ties hostile to Germany. Six lived in Brunn and another man and woman lived in a suburb of that city. Six others were executed Thurs day as Heydrich's gestapo agents began rounding up hostages. The Moscow radio reported that 200, seized as hostages, were in danger of execution. Property of executed persons is seized by the state. There was little doubt that ' Adolf Hitler was ' demanding bloody reprisals from the people of Bohemia and Moravia for Wednesday's attack on Hey ... drich as he was motoring to Berlin. Just outside Prague. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bohemia and Moravia, and mid night Friday was the deadline for registration of all Czech males ov er 15. en Declaring they apparently had been "double - crossed, by the OPA," members of the committee appointed at a meeting of berry growers held in Salem on May 18 issued a call Friday, night for all berry men. in Oregon to assemble here Monday night prepared to chart a course of action to get re lief from adverse effects of fed , eral price freezing orders. " ,.We want to have berry grow ers here from all berry areas in the state, if possible, to hear our report," George Tate; of Sub. I llmity, chairman of the commit 7 tee, said. "We have concluded that any benefits that may be derived must come ' from the growers own efforts. The meeting is set for 8 p.m. Berrym Curtains IIIM Ill'WWftillin ltm f : - " ,' ' x. if ' . 1 . 1 2 f - t v i "N 4 it' JOHN BARRYMORE Committee Has Okeli, Budget One-Quarter Mill Cut In School Levy Meets Approval A proposed Salem school dis trict budget calling for expendi ture of $624,174.50, with an esti mated cut oi approximately 4 mill in the tax levy for 1942-43 was given enthusiastic approval Friday night by the citizens' bud get committee. At the close of a two-hour ses sion devoted to studying the esti mates, which they left unchanged, the committee by motion com mended school directors and ad ministration upon what they de clared the soundness of the docu ment which is to be presented at a public budget hearing June 23. Although the millage levy was estimated at .24 under that of the previous school year,, that figure was based on a somewhat increased valuation, the actual levy topping by $3329 the 1941 42 levy. Only appreciable increases lay in salary payments, figured under the system's tenure plan by which pay scales rise, within maximum and minimum limitations, accord ing to years of service and edu cational preparation. Included also in the increases were the "bon- uses on a yearly basis voted to each employe earlier this year by the board to meet rising living costs without requiring their continuation another year should financial difficulties arise. Most costs of operation, outside the salary items, were decreased, greatest cost cuts credited to the inability of the system to secure certain types of supplies, to the better financial condition which has necessitated less foreseen pri orities problems the board has this year invested as much as possible 5 (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Hop Industry Strengthens Agreement YAKIMA, May 29-(jP)-Testi-mony presented in the hearing on the proposed hop marketing agreement, which closed here Fri day night, indicated that growers, dealers and brewers in the in dustry had been brought closer together by the current agree ment and no substantial opposi tion was evident to the one of fered for 1942, 1943 and 1944. William Powell, department of agriculture representative who presided, said at the close of the hearing that the meetings will be resumed in Salem, Ore., June 1 at 9 a. m. and that before the close of the final session in Santa Rosa, Calif., a time will be an nounced for the presentation of briefs. Jill 'J" Seek State Action Monday, tentatively in the Salem ! chamber of commerce auditorium. The price situation fa acute as to strawberry growers, Tate said, because light deliveries from the- fields have already started and the heavy picking period Is approaching rapidly, with no price agreed; upon with the packers. "Due to overconfidence in a supposed subsidy that does not seem to materialize, some grow ers are selling at prices below the cost of production,' Tate said. "As matters now stand,' the growers are not going to get that subsidy " At the May 1 18 meeting here growers complained to EdmondF. Maher, regional representative of Veteran Actor Dies - NVU Vila Camacho's request for Lr -- ... oST .thority to declare war on the or real i rO v ' i Succurg Long IlLes8 HOLLYWOOD, May 29 JP) John Barrymore, veteran star of the stage, screen and radio, died Friday night at 10:20 o'clock. Only his brother, Lionel, also a veteran actor, was at his bed side in addition to his profes sional attendants, when the end came after several hours of un consciousness. His physician, Dr. Hugo M. Kersten, said the immediate cause of death was myocarditis, with chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver and gastric ulcers as recent contributing factors, Barrymore's daughter, , Diana, had returned to the Hollywood Presbyterian hospital a few min utes before his death, but was not in her father's room at the end. She had visited the hospital several times previously Friday, as had several of the actor's close friends, and sheafs of let ters and telegrams were re ' ceived from other relatives and friends over the nation. It was not until 10:40, 20 min utes after Barrymore's death, that Dr. Kersten notified reporters on another floor of the hospital. Barrymore had confined his ac tivities lately to the radio where he was the butt of comedy on Rudy Vallee's program. He got a big share of the laughs but vet eran theatre-goers who had seen him in his prime, dominant as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day, winced at his bur lesque of former roles. Occasionally, Brother Lionel had to come to John's assistance (Turn to Page 2. Col. 2) Play Program Opens June 8 Severe Curtailment Seen Unless City Adds to Budget Salem's 1942 summer play ground program, in whatever form available funds will permit, is scheduled to open on Monday, June 8, W. Vernon Gilmore, sec retary of the public playgrounds board announced Friday night. Gilmore, however, reiterated formally -expressed fears of the board, that a severe curtailment of the program will have to be effected unless the city, council matches the. $5000 appropriation ' made by the Salem, school board's budget committee. "In other years we have re ceived up to $4000 from the WPA to help man the playgrounds and swimming pool staffs," Gilmore explained. "We won't have any WPA help this year. That means that we'll have to operate the Olinger and Leslie pools but not the playgrounds, or one pool and one playground, unless we receive more local assistance." The school board has specified that it will spend no more money pn the playgrounds than the city council does, and the latter body has proposed an appropriation of only $2753 for the season. "If we operated on the same scale as in the past, the $5500 that would be available on this basis would last us just one month," Gilmore said. The playground board has asked that the city and the school district contribute a minimum of $4500 apiece toward the summer program. Gurnee Flesher, director of physical education at Leslie jun ior high school, will serve as play ground director this year, Gilmore announced. .. the federal office of price admin istration, that imposition of "fro zen prices" on berry products had made it impossible for packers to pay the grower the price he must have to break even on his crop. Maher told them .that relief could be expected, hinting at a subsidy to the growers, and at a meeting of the committee two" days later promised additional', information, Tate said; within 48 "hours. ( Maher, in reply to " tele graphic inquiry made "Thurs day, replied Friday that he was still without information as to what, if anything, would be done by the OPA to assure the growers' receiving a fair price for their berries. " . Mexico House Passes War Measures MEXICO CITY, May Z9-iJP) The chamber of deputies unan imously approved President axis Friday night and then passed a second measure grant ing him extraordinary powers to suspend many constitutional rights, including freedom of the press. The vote on both measures was 138 to 0 and both went to the senate for action. The sec ond bill, granting the president unusual powers, was designed to give him authority to com bat "espionage and fifth col omnlsm" in the country. Pay Raise Is Deadlocked Joint Committee Fails To Reach Decision; Compromise Talked WASHINGTON, May 29.-(P)-A senate-house conference com mittee was deadlocked Friday night on legislation granting pay raises to service men, and further efforts to r e a c h an agreement were put off indefinitely. The senate had approved $42 a month as the basic pay, and the house voted for $50. The present minimum is $21, which goes up to $30 after four months. Although some talk of a compromise on $46 was heard. Chairman Reynolds (D-SC) of the senate conferees said it might be "some time" before another meeting. Senator Johnson (D-Colo), an other conferee, predicted nothing would be done before mid-June, although Senator Austin (R-Vt) said he saw no reason why an other meeting could not be held next week. Members reported after Fri day s conference that the eight conferees present voted four to four to accept the $50 rate, with one senator joining three house members for it and one represen tative lining up with three sena tors for the $42. One senator and one representative were absent Warrant Out For Bridges SAN FRANCISCO, May 29.-P) A telegraphic warrant for the arrest of CIO Labor Leader Har ry Bridges was received from Washington Friday, but probably will not be served until Monday. The warrant came from W. W Brown, chief of the immigration and naturalization division's war rant Cranch. Paul Armstrong, as sistant director of the division's San Francisco office, said it re cited the five grounds on which Attorney General Biddle Thurs day ordered Bridges' deportation, and directed his arrest, but made no provision for bail. NEW YORK, May 29.-;P)-The Daily Worker communist party or gan, said Friday night that" Attor ney General Francis , Biddle's or der for the deportation of Harry Bridges, west coast CIO leader, "constitutes a direct attack upon one of the most important labor leaders and upon one of the un ions which is a fortress of our country's defense." Officer Training Calls Salem Men To enter officers' training un der selective service 3-A provi sions, a group of Salem men is scheduled to leave Sunday morn ing for Portland, selective serv ice headquarters here revealed Friday. Called suddenly after some oth er section of the country had al legedly not been able to supply the full quota allowed it, Salem's men are Dana E. Stoddard, 2248 Trade street; Frederick- Sullivan, 585 North Summer, street; Loyal Smith, Oceanlake; Wayne Dough- ton, 630 Electric; Loring Schmidt, 177 John street; Harry Wiedmaier, 934 - Saginaw, . and Gordon , Bo- cock, 470 North 24th street , Gas Masks Arrive PORTLAND, Ore; May 29 (VP) -Eleven thousand gas masks ar rived Friday and were distributed among firemen, policemen and civilian defense workers. More are expected. ' - Our Senators Lcsl 8-5 Marshall Prom ises Invasion Tells Army Size A& All Fronts Feel Struggle By RICHARD McMURRAY Associated Press War Editor United States troops will in vade France, Gen. George, C. Marshall declared Friday against a background of world war which saw the British turn back a German tank" force 50 miles from Egypt, the Russians taking a growing toll f the nazis in the blood-soaked Ukraine and the Chinese fighting desper ately against a Japanese drive of annihilation. 'Today we find American sol diers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India," the US army chief of staff told West Point graduates, "they have flown over Japan. They are landing in England and they will land in France. We are determined be fore the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recog nized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on one hand and of overwhelming power on the other." His words served as a re minder of 25 years ago, when America, with one voice, told the kaiser "The Yanks are coming," a slogan which was fulfilled by the death of imper ial Germany. Marshall said the army would have 4,500,000 effectives by the end of the year and "We must be prepared to fight anywhere, and on short notice." The smell of battle was close indeed to one of 30-odd American expeditionary forces scattered throughout the world. That group was the service units backing the swaging nriusu unes in uie al most insufferable heat of the Li byan desert. These troops were repairing the scorching tanks and riddled RAF planes, and helping man the sup ply lines leading to the scene "of conflict which was . at .peak fury near Sidi Rezegh, 25 miles south east of Tobruk and 50 miles from Egypt. The whole desert battle ran ged over a wide area possibly 500 square miles and assumed the characteristics of a naval engagement with the great clanking monsters of tanks playing the role of sleek war ships. Hundreds of machines were engaged, with benefit of little artillery or infantry. The RAF, using a preponderance of American - made planes, ruled (Turn to Page 2 CoL 6) Bulletins ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, May St (JP) Allied airmed shot down five Japanese planes over the Coral sea, 60 miles southeast of Port Moresby, Friday, while two other air units rained explo sives on Japanese bases in Ti mor and New Britain islands," General MacArthur's headquar ters announced Saturday. . LONDON, May 30 HJPf- Brit ish bombers, resuming their at tacks on German war industries in occupied France, again bombed the Gnome-Rhone air plane engine factory near Paris Friday night, it was announced Saturday. MEXICO CITY, May 29 H7P) Gen. Joan Andrea Almasan, generally rerarded as a leader of the rightist movement in Mexico, Friday offered his ser vices for defense of the nation to President Manual Avila Ca macho, who defeated him In the presidential election of 1940. LONDON. Saturday, May 3 (JPy- Four German' planes were reported shot down Friday night during-' raids on the east and southeast coasts ; of England. First report said damage done by the raiders was not exten sive. - - PRETORIA, Union of South Africa, May ; 29 Field ifarshaj Jan Christian Smuts announced . Friday night - that South African forces were ope rating with the British troops, on 'Madagascar - - NEW YORK. May 9-P) German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels wrote in. the weekly newspaper "Das ' Reich" Friday that German sol diers at 'the front "knew that r at home there was no hotter and not enough bread," the BBC reported in a broadcast heard here by CBS. Changes PRES. CARL S. KNOPF 8? -vw- DR. R. FRANKLIN THOMPSON Resignation of Dr. Carl S. Knopf (above) and selection of Dr. R. Franklin Thompson (below) as president of the College of Pu get Sound made imminent for Willamette university Friday vacancies in the offices of presi dent and vice-president Selec tion of Dr. Knopfs successor is to be made by a special commit tee of trustees, who have not yet learned officially of Thomp son's selection. Adult School Program Set 433,000 of Draft Age Said Insufficiently Educated for Army WASHINGTON, May 29 -(JP) An adult education program of unprecedented proportions began to shape up in Washington Fri day, after President Roosevelt was advised that insufficient edu cation already had eliminated ap proximately 250,000 physically fit men from military service. The plan aimed both at adding many new divisions to the armed forces and placing thousands of better qualified workers in the" war production lines. Mr. Roosevelt discussed the education problem at bis press conference, . after John W. Studebaker, federal education commissioner, and Mai. Gen. Lewis B. .Hershey, selective service director, presented what ' the president termed startling figures. Paul V. McNutt, manpower chief, said he expected to ask the budget bureau for funds and that, if finally given the go-ahead by the president, the program probably could- be launched late in the summer. "Vie can start as soon as we get the money," he told newspapermen. - stuaeoaker said were were 433,000 men of draft age withou sufficient education fourth grade to serve in tne army, ana esti mated that 250,000 of these were physically fit, meaning that only literary requirements prevented them from army service. Mr. Roosevelt told -his press conference the men rejected were not morons, but were re jected largely because they had lacked a chance for education. He added that these men needed to have their wits sharpened, and perhaps this should be done through a manual vocational process. . Among state statistics on per sons over 25 years of age who have had less than fourth: grade schooling as reported by the ed ucation office were: Persons 4Yrs.: " 29Yrs. or Less 4Yrs. or Older Completed or Less 4,420,555 358,349 - 8.1 274,871 315,147 75,519 14,418 23,477 ,35409 63434 5.2 7.4 5J8 5.9 1,074,077 Three German Alien Arrested on Coast PORTLAND, May 29--Ar-rest of three German aliens .here and another at an undisclosed Ore gon' coastal town was announced Friday by J. Douglas Swenson, lo cal FBI chief. - Swenson said a number of short wave radios and cameras were confiscated. f-?.-: - .-':. w '&.:' A-:'fttifei:':::- v. V ' : 7. v : -x-:- . , . vV fir -: f a) V:; ; State . CaliL Idaho. Mont.... ; .. Ore- .. Wash. Or. - Carl Knopf ResipiisPdsitioii At Willamette Board Exonerates School's Head of Legion Charges; Harrison Heads Trustees Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, at whom criticism had been aimed by a Salem American Legion committee concerning his draft registration on April 27, resigned from the presi dency of Willamette university Friday afternoon after a special investigating committee of trustees had presented a report of the full university board exonerating him of the veterans' charges. 4" The special committee's report declared that members of the Legion committee, from Capital poet No. 9, "agreed that they had acled hastily and that their charges were mi TVT son new College Head Vice-President at Willamette Takes Place of Todd TACOMA, May 29.-0P)-Dr. Franklin R. Thompson, 33, vice president of Willamette univer sity, was elected Friday to suc ceed Dr. Edward H.. Todd as pres ident of the College of Puget Sound. Dr. Todd has announced his re tirement, after serving 29 years as head of the Tacoma institution. Dr. Thompson, who will take over his duties on July 1, holds degrees from Nebraska Wesleyan university, and Drew university, and studied also at Oxford and at the University of Zurich. Dr. - Thompson Joined the Willamette university faculty In 1937 as associate professor of classics. The. following year he was designated as freshman councillor and in. 1939 as dean of freshmen. He was elected vice-president of the university last fall. Since January, 1941, Dr. Thompson has also served as in terim pastor of the First Metho dist -church of Corvallis, in the absence of the regular pastor, who is in the armed forces. Dr. Thompson's appointment to head College of Puget Sound makes him one of the youngest, if not the youngest, college presi dents in the United States today. Mattliieu, Son Of Cliampoeg Hero, Dies AURORA, May 29 John Sa- bian Matthieu, 78, son of the man who allegedly cast the deciding vote at the famous Champoeg meeting 99 years ago, died at his home in Butteville on Friday morning. San of Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Matthieu," early pioneers who came to the Oregon country to settle in 1842, he was born at Butteville and had resided there all his life. He had been ill for 1 years.- Survivors include three daugh ters, Mrs. C. T. Johnson of Oak Grove, Mrs. . Eugene Osborne of Oregon City, Mrs. Leslie Wade of Milwaukie; six sons, Willis of Aurora, Lowell of Bremerton, Howard of Tigard, William and Arnold of Portland, and Alton E. Matthieu of Oak Gorve; a broth er, Ernest Matthieu of Stay ton; 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services are to be held at p. m. Sunday from the Kansom Miller chapel here, with burial in the family plot at Butteville. Girod Appointed State Field Man CORVALLIS, May .29-v5J)-Al bert Girod, Salem, has been ap pointed state' field man for the USDA war board for Oregon, Chairman Robert B. Taylor, Ad ams. announced Friday. ' . Girod will serve a special as sistant: to the chairman and con- tact county boards" personally. He has been field manlor the AAA in the Willamette valley area for three years. " , . . . Thursday's Weather V Weather :' forecasts withheld ; and temperature data delayed by army request Max. temp. Thursday, (5, mln. 47. ' River Friday C ft. inomp inaccurate in important parucu- lars." The report to the trustees was signed by Paul B. Wallace, Dr. J. C. Harrison, Dr. J. Edgar Purdy; Robert Notson and Tru man Collins, all members of the board. The Legion committee hadThar ged, in a letter to the Willamette trustees made public at the time of mailing, that Dr. Knopf had refused to register unless permit- Turn to page two for full text of investigating committee's re port on American Legion crit icism of Pres. Knopf. ted to inscribe the words "con scientious objector" on his card "by vehemently protesting" when a registration clerk improperly denied him this privilege. None of the major allegations against Dr. ; Knopf were true and he in fact signed the reg istration card "without duress," the trustees' committee -report declared. The president's r e s i g n a t ion came after he had asked for the counsel of individual members" of the board as Jo their opinion of his effectiveness should he .con tinue as head of the campus ad ministration, j a board spokesman said, and after hearing the trust ees' comments "he decided volun tarily to submit his resignation." It was emphasized by the board that "Dr. Knopf has not resigned because of the Legion's charges or because of a feeling on the part of the board that as a conscientious objector he should resign. Rath er, it was stated, his resignation was a result of a feeling that his effectiveness had been under mined by the unfavorable public attention given the registration incident. Not without criticism of Dr. Knopfs position, the special com mittee's report concluded: "we recernixe me fact tnai Dr. Knopf in this, as in other matters, had a clear duty to follow the dictates of his con science. We think it clear, how ever, that the expression of his personal convictions under cir cumstances where no such ex pression was required or called for inevitably created in the public mind the Impression that he expressed the views and po sition of Willamette university. We believe that he owed a duty to the university to refrain or any other action which could be construed by the public as committing the university to any position " on such a vital question without consultation with and express authority of the university's governing board." Dr. Knopfs resignation was tendered, effective September 1, conclusion bf the faculty fiscal year, with the understanding that he was at liberty - to relinquish his administrative duties at any time that he deemed it to his best (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Green Sorry About Strike - TACOMA, May 2MP)-William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, Friday prom ised operators of six plywood plants closed here Thursday by a strike, that he would aid in bring ing the 2500 men back to. their I aim truly sorry," Green wired, "to learn -of the strike. Such ac tion is contrary to the no . strike policy- of th American - Fed era- IfQ 0f Labor, and to the pledge we made to; the president .of the United States that no strikes would occur during the war r i i j : Green : saidj hT vould put ..the matter: before r:fiicei?.: of the Brotherhood of Carpoaters. . . He said he was Tsui-it ' they; would ,act quickly by -efldir: tuctions to membership WirtSUSGejwork im mediately and.-take :uq. questions for adjustment in arCordetly way."