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The OnTGCII STATES! JAIL Cclsn Ore?czu Wednesday Koalas. Oris! XL 12U PAG2 TirJ- Service Men Where They Are What They're Doing Ensign Bert Walker and Mrs. 1 Mason, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Walker were Salem visitors early Mason of Salem. Formerly sta- May Robson Dies at 78 In Hollyvood ' BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Oct 20-(flVMay Robson, who retired from pictures because her pride wouion i id ner aamit mat sue w- of Astoria, fmhman was going blind, died quietly Tues- das president at Willamette uni- on a short furlough- to visit his this week, stopping here en route north. Walker, former Oregon state police officer, has just com-1 I pleted special training on an east ern college campus. - tioned at Fort Stevens, they left Salem Monday morning for new posts. - A3 are Salem high school graduates. Sgt" Eugene C Kears, has recent ly been discharged from -the' hos pital at Fort Richardson, Alaska. He has been stationed in Alaska since June 1940. ' Bob White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd White, is home in Salem day as she slept ' She had spent 58 of her 78 years as an actiess of stage and screen. But she gave up her career last year after instinct alone had car . ried her . through pictures when . she could recognize fellow, play ers by voice alone. With her as she passed away, consciousness, . were her , son and - daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.. E. H. Gore, and her secretary-com-panion since 1810, Lillian Har- . Outside were the birds she loved so .well. In the cages and bird houses which studded her back yard. Surrounded by , them, she fnr var had rnpnt her hnur ef relaxation. She neded relaxation, for her capacity for work exceeded that of many actresses less than half her age. As recntly as three years ago, she made seven pictures in single year. . - Miss Robson was beloved by Hollywood as was probably ne other character - actress - except the late .Marie Dressier. Her birthday parties were annnal ee eastons of celebration - often an elaborate luncheon on the set -of whatever picture she hap : pened to be working in at the time.',. .; - She was beloved, too, outside Hollywood. : 1 'Driving one. day, she and Miss Harmer noted two crying young .sters on a curb. They stopped , to inquire the trouble. The pair said their parents were being put out .of their home because the land lord didn't like children, and that they had been unable to move be cause other owners felt the same way. :Y" - . "V - Their tears and story turned Miss Robson into a landlord. She . built a number of houses and rent ed them only to families of four t'or more. r.--v.vl.: ,,'';..;' --v Born in Melbourne, Australia, April 19, 1864, Miss Robson was educated in "France. At 16 she married E. H.' Gore, an inventor. But soon after the birth of their ' son, Edwin, Gore died. In 1886 she was married , to Dr. A. H. Brown, then a Harvard medical 'student later a New York ply sician. He died in 1919. versjty, has enlisted in the coast guartl and been granted a week's furlough before reporting to ac tive duty.' He is rated as a third class pharmacist's mate. parents and -wife and son before he enters army "officers training school. PORTLAND, Oct 29 (ft Armed service enlistments an nounced Tuesday included: , Navy Virgil L. Wilson, Salem. Kenneth "J. Templar,, Albany: Morgan W. McClain, Dayton; Mil ton H. Wetherald, McMinnville: Charles W. Miller, Donald B. Whelan, David A. Whelan, Sa lem: Arvid H. Friedland, West Salem. - "';':;. '''"' . Army Bryson T. Clutter, Louis R. Fenner, Alfred W. Hensell, Raymond V. Kaser, Vance L. Mor rison, Herbert F. " Schoenlen, Frank A. Whittemore, Salem. " 1 Coast Guard Joseph Dotson, Aurora; Harold Pendleton, Stay-ton. Mrs.' - Nellie Morgan, rente one, box 60, received a letter Tuesday from her son, Francis Morgan, US marine corps, who wrote October 4 from Guadal canal In the Solomon islands. Writing from what has become a major battle front Morgan said he was enjoying himself and hav ing "lots of fun". Morgan work ed for The Statesman two years ago and later was employed by the United Press. He is now in the public relations department of the US marine corps. Road of Money Found, 217.29 ' PORTLAND, Oct 2i Mr. and Mrs. Victor Thomas were amazed to find the river road almost carpeted with Pper money as they drove along. - " They stopped and collected bills and four checks totalling $217.29, noting that the cheekr were pa;iw w sw w. They traced Brown, a service station operator, who had given p hope of finding the money. It had dribbled oat of a bulging trouser pocket as he was riding te work on a motorcycle. , .-. Second L.L Don C. Smith, jr.. was a gradoate of the officer candidate department of the eastern ; signal corps school. Fort Monmouth, N. J, Friday. He was commissioned a second lieutenant In the U. S. army and assigned for doty with the signal corps. Lieutenant Smith , was a former resident of 725 North 16th street Salem. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Smith. Court Rules Bank Not liable axes on Fixtures - To Pay T .. .The state supreme court ruled here Tuesday that the Salem branch of the First National Bank of Portland is not liable for payment of tax on its fixtures and equipment - The opinion, by Justice Bailey, reversed Circuit Judge L. G. leweuing, Marion county, who held for the state tax commission and county which filed suit to col lect the tax against the bank. Bai ley ruled that the bank does not have to pay the tax because the owner of the building must pay taxes on real property. In this case, the owner of the building is T. A. Livesley, Inc. X- The court did not pass on the question of whether the equip ment is real or personal property. Personal property is not taxable. The way is now open for charg ing the owner with the tax, since the court did not determine whether the owner should pay it ' Other decisions: :'f-tm -1 B. CL Skulason, appellant, vs. Sheriff Martin T. Pratt, Multno mad county, and the Fidelity & Deposit company of Maryland, ap peal from Multnomah-county. Suit to recover damages resulting from alleged failure of, the sheriff in serving writ to oust debtor from possession of a house. Opin ion by Justice Belt Judge Martin Jordan Casfe Not to Come Before Jury When the new Marion county grand jury reconvenes today, with Oscar Sederstrom as foreman, it will not consider the case of Ted Jordan, Negro now serving a life term at the state penitentiary who W.' Hawkins affirmed. .Appeal dismissed In Adams, ap pellant, vs. City of Toledo. Circuit Judge Ralph S. Hamil ton, Bend, assigned to La Grande, replacing Circuit' Judge R. J. Green in three divorce suits.. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimber- ly," Roseburg, . assigned to Med- f ord, to substitute for Circuit Judge Hanna in five suits. . - la accused of having incited other convicts to fire state flax plant sheds.-. t Announcing that the matter would not be taken before the grand Jury, District Attorney JJI1 ler B. Hayden said Tuesday he had conferred with Warden George Alexander and that - they were agreed that expense of the hear ing, which would require present ing a number of convicts as wit nesses, would be considerable. The same effect could be achieved,' they declared, if the warden would spread on the re cord of Jordan, at the prison all information available concerning his alleged part in the recent fires. Killed by Truck HILLSBORO, Oct 2ti tfP) Struck by a truck while crossing the Tualatin highway in front of his home near here, C. C Bow man, 73, a shipyard worker, was killed early Tuesday. . Donald G. .Farrar, a nephew of John H. and Dee Farrar, 267 North Cottage street is now drum major in ! the US " marine corps. He enlisted in 1937 when only 17 years old and as a bugler posed for the marine corps poster. Copies of the poster are used in all recruiting stations including Salem. . ' " The same picture was used in a story in the Saturday 'Evening Post, April 5, 1941. When he was promoted to drum major he was the youngest man to receive that rating. He is a son of Herbert Farrar of San Diego. His wife is living in1- California. . . t Dooley Johnson, member of the Salem fire department now has three sons in the armed forces. Robert W.; Johnson, also a mem ber of the fire department before his enlistment in the navy, is now aboard a battleship as second class seaman. Jack D. Johnson, who entered serviceO ctober 1, is at the naval training station at Camp Farragut Idaho. The oth er son, Gerald W. Johnson, who enliste April, is in the air corps, and is stationed at Hickam field, Hawaii. All are graduates of Salem high school. ' v MARION Leonard "' Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norris, has en listed in the US navy. He had been vTSfking as a welder in a Portland shipyard. . Loyd W. Sidwell, who was re cently married, left Wednesday for Fort Lewis. Harold E. Rob- bins and Jack Parker have re ceived notice to report for induc tion in -the army early in Novem ber. ' . .' Judge Successor Naming Delayed; Snell to Attend v. Sgt. Melvin Larkins, stationed in Australia is now out of the hospital and fully recovered from an injury to his knee. His par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Larkins, Station A, Oregon State hospital have received word that Melvin is now back on active duty. Staff Sgt Pilot James McNen is at Pope field, N. C, where he Is taking final training before be- ! Ing sent overseas. " Gov. Charles A. Sprague an nounced here Tuesday that it probably would be several days before he appoints a successor to Circuit Judge Carl Hendricks of Fossil, who was killed Sunday in a hunting accident I The Governor Indicated that he had received 'two of three appli cations for the office but he re fused to divulge their names. : Hendricks' successor win serve until January 1, 1845. - Secretary of State Earl Snell will represent the state board of control at the funeral services for , J udge Hendricks. The funeral services will be held at Fossil at j 2 p. m.r Wednesday, .v yi '' Merrill Van Cleave, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Van Cleave ' of AamsvCle, is home on for leagh from the submarine Pickerel. He attended WUlam ette unjlvertity and enlisted In 193S. SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Tucker have both their sons in the army. ' Kay Is sta tioned at a training camp In Montana and Glenn Is at a camp ha California. Milton Fuhr has gone to Wash ington to be inducted into the army. He is a son of Rev. and Mrs. M. J. K. Fuhr and has been employed at Boeings aircraft fac tory in Seattle. ; Norman Eastman, former mem ber of the Silverton fire depart ment, is now stationed at Pearl Harbor and is enjoying his .work,- according to a letter "received by Fire Chief L. F. Tucker. He en listed in the US navy ' several months ago. - . LABISH CENTER Lyle Klam pe, seaman third class, US navy, visited his parents here Sunday, He is stationed at Seattle. ' - ; Mrs. VirgU L. Pade, 240 North 13th street has returned home from' accompanying her husband, an army privaate, to Seattle, Wash. Pvt Pade is now stationed at a Puget Sound fort Discussion Slated On School Taxes The school tax; measure on the fcallot for November, 3 is to be discussed by City Schools Supt Frank B. Bennett Thursday night at a special session of the AAUW child study - class called for 7:45 at the YMCA, Mrs. Cecil Monk, class leader, announced Tuesday. Husbands and friends of class members have been invited to at tend the " meeting, which is to take the place of the class regu . larly scheduled for next Tuesday night ,; Weekend visitors at the homes of their parents were three recent graduates of officers training school at "Fort Monroe, Va. They are Lt Clarence Soliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. C E. Soliday of Spokane; Lt BUI Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Town send of Salem, and Lt Daryl K. TURNER Archie Rankin Is now at Camp Robert! and has written of several days spent with Mr. - and Mrs. Charles "Chock-. Davles at Modesto. Rankin was Turner postmaster and rural mail carrier before entering the army. Capt and Mrs. Kenneth Shultz (Mable Rankin) - formerly of Turner and Salem, have moved to - Riverside, Calif, from , Las I Vegas, Nev. Capt Schultz is with the US army air corps. PEDEE Mrs. M. Lacey has re ceived word that her grandson, 1 7 "wmm 'Oure&lecaii Strike-Lost Days ; Climb, September WASHIfJGTON, Oct 20 HJPh The war" labor board reported Tuesday that 318,892 man-days were lost by strikes in September, compared with 268,353 vman-days lost in August The September loss was 0.1 per cent of the total man days worked.' -: rY The total of manlays worked rose from 300,000,000 in August to 332,000,000 in September. The number of men involved in strikes rose from 79.4H to 80,799, while the number of strikes fell from 129 in August to 187 in September. Migration Decrease To Relieve Shortage. PORTLAND, Oct 20 Ml of labor should be de creased as much as possible to re live the housing shortage, James G. Bryant regional representative cf the US. employment service. e-;J Tuesday.. ' TTpre from San Francisco, Bry ant said Pacific coast labor reser- vrirs Still have IK Been jmuu. ni Answering the pall to arms. The Milwaukee Road's great army of loyal employes are miking it their first Job to speed the transportation of our fighting men, of the ma chines and munitions of wax. You can help by observing this wartime travel code: - Travel in midweek . . . make ' reservations early . . . cancel promptly if trip is postponed ...travel light avoid excess luggage . . . leave the dining A long program of improve- car promptly when you finish ment finds this railroad at your meal . . . consult us In peak efficiency carrying advance when planning a iis full share of the war load. trip. Thanks for cooperating I The CLTrTIAIl n.- CoackoMoarist .HSt airistandardstop- 1&30j J-v. ma cars. Obser- blsy 8:00 a a Lt. vatioa Lomig cmx bl qr 3:50 p Lt. ad Ettaiag eat. M tmf 7:03 pa Lt. Mfaf 320 pm Ax. .Taooma. .SMtU. Spokane MiMovia Bon . , w L Bay fickets early. Bamanber the OLTMFIAH la do hj doaJbio duty "Sexviag tha Serf Ices and yoo." rwndOfBeS3aS.W.TBhaSU a. x. tAoOtru Tiaraf yiiin r. a. t- . Ax. 8:30am M . Ax.4 8KX)am Ms Axt 920pm tutai . Ar. 3.-00 pa Mfcr Ax. 12:10pm uf Abardeea Lt. 4X)0pm lsw Mln 10:00pm Ar. laaaapolis Lt. 920am klan 217 10:55pm Ax. . .St. Paul. . Lt. 8:25 m hi fay M i 6:53 am Ar. . Milwaukee , Lv. 12:53 am M y Hfar 83 am Ar. . Chicago . Lt. 11:13 pm MtMM ar.J TRANSITU ' n A new and glorious chapter of American history is being tcritten. It is. a chapter of adventure the supreme advenm pure of all time for young Americans, , On its pages trill be the names of millions of young men uho note accept the challenge thrown in our free American faces by Hitler, Mussolini and Toya accept it and ram U back down their cruel throatst There's a place on those pages for your name, and the glorious achievements for which you trill be honored all the balance of your days. Hhe War Department Has announced new enlistment oppoiv tnnities for men of 18 and 19. You can now select and serve in any of 13 different branches of the Army. - There'i a good reason why you young menand only, you rc given that privilege. Men of your age -make first-class fighting men. You learn fast. You think and ct fast and in Battle that save lives. 'it- Pick oat the branch of service that appeals to you mosL You may ' choose the Army Air Forces (including Aviation Cadets), Armored Force, Cavalry, Chemical 'Warfare Service, Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense or Antiaircraft), Corps of Engineers, Corps of Military Police, Field Artillery, Infantry, Medical Department, Ordnance. Department, Quartermaster Corps or Signal Corps. ; . Youll get action and adventure in every one of them. YouTl he thoroughly trained, and youll learn technical skills that will be valuable to you all your life. The Army encouragea qualified men of your , age to apply for OfScer Candidate Schools, where many 'have already won their, commissions. . The sooner you enlist the better prepared you trill be, end the faster you trill advance. Get full information about the branch in which you wish to serve at the nearest Array Recruit ing and Induction Station. Talk it over with your parents and your friends. Vhen you step out in the world's most honored uniform youll know the thrill of saying, "This is my battle, and nobody else is going to fight it for mer i - i tt Is not eneu;h for eur Army to be as tfj and as wttl-equlpped as the liwmy'i it should aUo bo ae woU-balanead In as groups. The Army Invites American youth to mntwr that chaflang. The privilese el electing their branches ef the service can. safely be s!rn to tho man In tho younger ago group for prsclssly the reason for - .which the Army needs them-thelr adaptablUty and ready response to tralnlnj. - 0 JUL! L pienuimiG iWD mDucnou sEnuioE POST OFFICE ELCG, SALE!, OH DUY O. 8. WAR DOKSS AHD CTA?3
