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Wliere They Are What They Are Doing
CpL Charles E. Robert, a Wil
lamette university student before
enlisting in June. 1942, has been
prompted to sergeant, according
to wrd received by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Roberts, 235
South 23rd street. -
A nephew of Mrs. Zella James,
housemother at Delta Phi 'sorority
of Willamette university, was the
youngest naval officer at the re
cent Casablanca conference, Mrs.
James learned Saturday. He is
Lt Cmdr. Ralph James, 33, sta
tioned at Washington, DC, who
"was one of seven naval officers
who flew to Brazil, Dakar, Casa
blanca, Liberia and back. He grad
uated .from the US naval academy
at Annapolis in 1933.
David O. McKae, sen of F.
G. Kartz, Salem route two, box
six, has been promoted to ser
reant by the commandant, CoL
Frank D. Ilackett, Kirtland
field, AIbao.aera.ae, NM. Prior
to entering the service, Sgt. Mc
Kae was employed by the US
engineers. Be is now on doty
at Kirtland field with a bombar
dier training squadron.
Pvt. Alfred Ricketts has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. Nora
Ricketts, while on furlough from
the ordnance department at Fort
Lewis, Wash.
Four Salem men in the US navy
have reported for duty at the navy
training station in Farragut, Ida.
They are Melvin Russle Case, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Case, route
six; Walker Stanraore Fitts, son
of Mrs. Wilda S. Fitts, 254 North
Church street; Richard William
Maude, 872 North 20th street, and
Harry Kent Wechter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Wechter, route
five.
Lt. Alan D. Edgell. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Edgell, 1595
South Cottage street, is recovering
from an appendectomy performed
Production
Credit Group
Elects Here
George H. Fullenwider of Carl
ton, member of the state board
of agriculture and prominent
dairyman of Yamhill county, was
reelected to the board of directors
of Willamette Production Credit
association at the ninth annual
meeting of stockholders held in
Salem on Saturday. Members also
elected R. W. "Dick" Reed of
Lane county to succeed F. W.
Simmons of Springfield on the
board. Reed, an all-star in foot
ball during his days at University
of Oregon, now operates a dairy
farm a few miles south of Eugene.
: Holdover directors of the as
sociation are John W. Ramage,
Woodburn; Claud Buchanan, Cor
v a 11 is. and E. W. McMindes,
Astoria. Approximately 200 mem
bers and guests from 11 north
west counties of the state attended
the meeting and luncheon at the
Marion hotel.
Importance of meetingW arm
production goals for 1943 was dis
cussed by J. W. Bradley of Spo
kane, secretary of the Production
Credit corporation.
; Members of the association bor
rowed more than $1,139,000 in
1942, with approximately $400,000
of that amount disbursed in Mar
Ion and Polk counties, the trea
surer's report showed indicating
also officers said, that the associa
tion had the best year in its
history in 1942.
All officers were reelected by
directors, who met following the
stockholders session.
WAA Has Election
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Eugene, Feb. 20-Ruth Shipler, Sa
lem, was elected custodian of the
Women's Athletic association Feb
ruary 17 at the annual election. A
freshman in physical education,
, Miss Shipler is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Shipler of
Salem.
Sara Spencer Elected
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Eugene, Feb. 20-Sara Spencer, Sa
lem, was recently elected corre
sponding secretary of Kappa Al
pha Theta, social sorority. Mies
Spencer, a junior in romance
languages, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Carlton E. Spencer of
Salem.
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at the Torney General hospital at
Palm. Springs, Calif. Lt. Edgell,
who was previously stationed at
Camp Haan, Calif, wrote to his
parents last week, saying that he
was "feeling line . '
JEFFERSON Milton Libby,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Barley Lib
by, indacted Into the US army
December It, has recently been
made a serreant and transferred
to Camp Adair in the - head
quarters battery field artillery,
communications department.
His commander at Camp
Adair was his former captain
when Libby served three years
In the army in the Hawaiian is
lands. Mrs. Libby and son live
in Jefferson.
P. M. Ricks. has three sons In
the service. . Frank and Gerald
are on active duty In the . navy,
the latter on a minesweeper; and
Floyd Is in training at Camp White
at Medford.
MONMOUTH Harry Parker,
who formerly attended high school
here, left his home In Corvallis
Saturday for Santa 'Ana, Calif.,
where he will enter officers can
didate school for aviation cadets.
He was graduated from Oregon
State college in 1940 and has been
employed in the AAA office at
Corvallis..
He has two brothers also In the
armed service. Charles Parker is
a first lieutenant in army air
corps, stationed at Mitchell, SD.
Max Parker, who enlisted in the
navy the week following Pearl
Harbor, is on a supply boat in the
Pacific.
Wage, Hour
Agent Helps
Charles H. Elrey, Oregon di
rector of the wage, hour and pub
lic contracts division of the Unit
ed States department of labor, has
informed W. II. Baxllie of the em
ployment service that the experi
ment of assigning an inspector to
service in the Salem vicinity has
indicated an apparent real need
for such activity.
According to Elrey, Roy Ferris,
junior inspector of the wage and
hour division, handled more than
30 interviews on his first assign
ment to the employment office
last Friday. Most of the interviews
were in connection with problems
of employers concerning wage
stabilization. Ferris assisted sev-
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PORTLAND, Feb. 20-flP)-Dr.
Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power
administrator,. Saturday was
scheduled to testify Monday at
the SEC hearing into the proposed
reorganization of . the Portland
Electric Power company. ; i i:j
Cross-examination - of Thomas
W. DelzelL , independent ; trustee,
occupied most of Saturday's ab
breviated session. He testified as
to the complicated financial deal
ings of the early .1930s, when con
trol of the company changed hands
several times. f - ' K
Delzell said that in 1930; the
company benefitted, to the : extent
of approximately $7,500,000 from
the issuance of $16,000,000 in 0
per cent debentures and that the
balance ' "went 'down the rat-
hole." .
Around Oregon
A Coos county grand jury ab
solved George L. Maynard, 48-
year-old retired marine corps ma
jor, of causing the death of John
Kenneth Henninger, 27, In a scuf
fle at Coquille December 19 . . .
Grants Pass held funeral services
for Cornelius Jasper Armstrong,
89, who claimed to have been the
first white child born in the gold
boom town of Jacksonville. , 1. 1
Death also claimed Stephen A.
Douglas Meek, ' 85, Cornelius
farmer, whose father, Joe Meek,
helped organize the Oregon provi
sional' government at Champoeg
in 1843. . , Game officials report
ed bands of half-starved deer mi
grating to the - valleys, around
Bend from the deep snows of the
eastern Cascades. . .
Prospects of an increased vege
table yield in eastern Multnomah
county rose with the announce
ment that a number of wholesale
nurserymen of the Gresham dis
trict plan to convert to vegetable
production. . . The City of Port
land invested $200,000 of sewage
disposal funds in war bonds. . .
Ann W. Shepard was named dean
of women at Reed college to suc
ceed Mrs. ; Martin Leboutillier;
who will work for the navy de
partment in Washington, DC.
eral employers in completing
forms, necessary for consideration
of wage adjustments of the war
labor board and also made sev
eral preliminary determinations as
to whether or not the proposed
wage increase needed to . be re
ferred to the board.
Baillie stated that Elrey has as
sured him that this service will
be available at the employment
service each Friday hereafter -as
long as there continues to be a
demand therefor.
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Most-Bombed Spot
Malta Returning From Ruins
To Normal; Casualties Light K
; VALLETTA, Malta, Feb. 12-(Delayed)-Malta, still one of
the hottest and. most dangerous places in the Mediterranean, is
trying to return to normal. ' ,
. Since the fall of Tripoli, which the Maltese celebrated as end
ing, the island's long aerial siege,
the interests of - the people have
been going back to more routine
thTrtgs than the bare necessity of
keeping alive and away from the
bombs which have left the Island
a heap of ruins. J
ponnaing er months on end and
' the colossal property damage,
the casual ties were relatively
light as shewn In the. report of
the council of government. This
report disclosed that 248 "bills
widows' are receiving . compen
sation, while there are only ten
orphan -children and 64 desti
tute parents on the lists. In
jury allowances are being paid
to 814 persons and disability -compensation
to 95.
The steady arrival of convoys
during the past several weeks has
improved the food and general sit
uation greatly. New stores are
springing up and old ones are bet
ing repaired, restocked and reop
ened. There is little fresh meat on
the open market, but one normal
ly well-to-do householder noted
that things are much better now.
"We used to have to pay two
shippings .(40 cents) for one egg
and then it was hard to find, she
said. "Actually we had to deal
with profiteers to get anything."
Theatres, dance halls, bars and
all public gathering places are still
closed to service men because of
the outbreak of an Infectious dis
ease, but that has greatly dimin
ished and is now considered under
control.
There is the problem of the
goatherders for the . council to
solve. The famous flocks have
been all but eliminated either by
bombs or the carving knife.
SOTS- - m .
ine ; zarmers, meanwhile, are
trying to coax a living from the
earth with . methods dating back
to biblical times.
When an air raid interrupts
work in their well-terraced fields
peasants duck into one of the han
dy rock shelters which make Mal
ta something like a bomb-proof
rabbit warren. They usually take
their bomb-wise cattle with them.
Ages before the Germans and
Italians came in their planes, the
Maltese used these catacombs as
storehouses for the fruits of their
land.
Many- cultivated areas have
been ruined by bombs, but always
have been quickly resown. Farm
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labor has been augmented by sol
diers during their spare time. ; :
It was a common sight to see
the king's i own Maltese infantry
or an artillery" regiment toiling In
the fields. .'
Women as usual play an impor
tant part in the farm work of
Malta.
In contrast to their ancient
fanning Implements, practically
every one of them sports skil-"
fully fashioned costume jewelry
made from parts of wrecked
, German planes. - -
The RAF salvage crews usually
take away only parti of the
wrecked axis plane engines. When
they leave eager natives swarm
about the frame, removing light
metal mica, which they fashion
into brooches, combs and other ar
ticles. War Housing Added v
PORTLAND, Feb. 20-(iP)-Port-land's
war housing center is open
ing new living accommodations
for war workers at the rate of one
every 20 minutes. Manager A. D.
Newman said Saturday.
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War Writer -Casualty
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Rate High
NEW 7 YORK, Feb. 2&-(-The
casualty rate among United States
correspondents covering the pres
ent war since Pearl Harbor has
been three or four times greater
proportionately than battle cas
ualties suffered -v by US army
forces t: abroad the ,; newspaper
trade magazine Editor and Pub
lisher said Friday.
. Emphasizing the hazardous na
ture of reporting the present con
flict, the statistics show that 60
correspondents out of 301 to 350
now : serving abroad have been
listed since December, 1941, as
dead, .' wounded - in line of duty,
missing, or captured or interned
and still held bjr the axis.
Ten have . been killed -or have
died while on war duty." Twenty
six are listed by Editor and Pub
lisher -as having been, injured, 22
captured' or interned ; and ; still
held, and two missing. v
According to figures supplied
Editor and Publisher by MaJ. Gen.
A. D. Surles, director of public
relations for the war department,
battle casualties of the army to
January 31 totaled 41,119. More
than 1,000,000 men of the present
army of 5,500,000 are now over
seas, he said, but only a small
portion of them has yet been in
volved in actual combat.
In 1917-18 American press cas
ualties were one dead, one wound
ed and two gassed.
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Sentencing,
Awaits Probe
.Sentence of Hugh A. Strong for
forgery was postponed again Sat
urday while officers 4 were be
lieved to be awaiting results of a
Yamhill grand jury investigation
into two robberies in which Strong
was allegedly interested. . New
date for the sentence is Febru
ary 27. '-.
The forgery charge, almost two
years old, was pressed after
Strong had been arrested with
Ferdia Trumbly in a stolen car; It
had once been continued after the
boy had entered a plea of guilty.
Trumbly, on parole from the state
penitentiary when the car was
stolen, was sentenced to return to
the prison, serve .10 years on top
of his old term and is said to
have been involved also in the
Yamhill county escapades now
under investigation. - " :
Trial of Salverio "Sam Paris,
charged with contsibuting to the
delinquency of a minor, was., set
for April 12, and" that of Ralph
Leroy Warren, facing another
morals charge, for April 13.
Case of Richard Parsegian,
charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, was con
tinued 'with the - understanding1
that the youth, who is said to be
without previous circuit court
record, might be acceptable for j
army service. '
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Aircraft Factory -To
Hire Trained
Women Workers ,
Women between the ages of 18
and 40 are eligible for . employ
ment at the Columbia Aircraft
corporation plant in- Portland if
they have received at least three
weeks training In aircraft sheet
metal classes like the classes now
being conducted in Salem, accord-,
ing to information received by
H..N. Miller, state supervisor of
vocational training for war pro
duction.; ; '': ;
Columbia Aircraft is willing to
hire 33 women each . week for
work in Portland. Pay Is report
ed as high. Tasks such as drilling,
riveting, assembly of parts are
required of the women. :
C A. Guderian, Salem coor
dinator of vocational training, re- .
ported that classes here are not
filled to capacity. Instruction is
free, being offered- as part of the
war production training program..
Additional j information can be
gained at the US employment
service at 710 Ferry street or from
the Instructor at the senior high
school shop building.
Salem Man Pledged
' UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Eugene, Feb. 20-Warren Wolf, has
been pledged to Theta Chi, nation
al men's social fraternity, it was
recently announced by Virgil D.
Earl, dean of men at the Univer
sity of Oregon. Wolf is a fresh
man In the school of architecture
and allied arts at Oregon. i
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