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,1 : page roun Tt OHGO!I CTATECMA17, Salen Orejon Tuesday Morning. t!arc5 IX ISlT k V' Where They Are What They Arm Doing MARFA, Tex. As L. Lewel- ling, son of, Mr. and Mrs. I. G, Lewelling; r 124 - West j Seventh street, Albany, Ore, received his wines when ha graduated as a second lieutenant from the Marf a. Tex, AAF advanced fixing school, it was announced by the com manding officer. i - IX. Lewelling was commissioned upon completion of his course in training in twin-engine planes. Lt Lewelling Is a graduate of Albany college , and Willamette university, where he received his AB and LLB degrees. Before en tering the service he was Junior partner in the law firm of Ross and Lewelling at Salem, Ore, Capt Herbert B. Glaisyer, Mrs. Glaisyer and their small son, Johnnie, after a brief visit with Capt.' Glaisyera parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Glaisyer, are to leave today to return to Chandler, Ariz. Promoted ?H...tujijminiim..i mi 1 1 I I ' J " : i M f ... V- 7 r Wilbur John Wkhmaa, ef Salem, recently promoted to the grade of corporal at Stlnson field air depot training station, San An tonio, Tex, He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wfehsaan, 190 Center street. -Air Trainee 4 i pursuit ously to Second Lt George W. Hynes, Jr., son of LL George W. Hynes, Camp Adair postal j officer, was received recently by his fath er, i:. . Youn Hynes. an army flier, lost his life in the far east ern theatre of war. : $ Lt. Hynes, sr, has been the Camp Adair postal .officer jjsinee December, and during: his H past military career has seen 'action In Vera Cruz, Mexico, and the 90th division - overseas -- during! 'World war X, where he was wounded twice. He also participated In the Pancho Villa encounters along the Mexican border in 1916. Nick Serdotz, machinist's mate second class in the navy, has just finished training at San Diego and is visiting his wife at 740 i Terry street, before reporting to a ship. He enlisted six' months ago, has been training for the last four months. Serdotz arrived last Thursday and wQl remain In Sa lens for a week. 2 Uniformed Men in Jail. Investigated Mr. and Mrs, Janes Wi Kel so, 1995 South Church Street, have received word that! their sen, Billy G. Kelso, has j been graduated from torpedo school at Pearl Harbor. He ha been assigned to a ship. Ho is m tor pedoman third class on a de stroyer. Kelso is a former Statesman carrier. 1 of Mr. of 935 Robert E. McKee, son and Mrs. Elmer McKee Shipping street, left Saturday for the induction center at Fprt Lewis. He enlisted last fall and has been taking a radio course for the last six months at .Salem high! school. He is in the radio division 'of the signal corps. McKee is a S Salem high graduate and attended Ore gon State college. Roy H. Ostrin, who enlisted in the navy in January, 1942, and transferred to the marine corps later, is now visiting j in Salem with his parents. Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Ostrin, while on; a 15-day furlough. Ostrin, a pharmacist's mate first class, graduated, from Salem high school in 1939. Aviation Cadet Virgil A. Hagan (above), who graduated from Marann basic flying school near Tucson, Aria last week, will re ceive his advanced flying train ing at Williams field. Chandler. Arts. Cadet Hagan, a graduate of Salem high school, is the son ef Mrs. Charles Hagan, 1315 North Cottage street. No longer a It's Lt. Har old Hank now. Hank. Willam ette university graduate and former Salem high school ath letic coach, la naval liaison offi cer for Oregon, headquartering in selective service office here. His promotion came through last week. Willard Glaze, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glaze of Salem, was a Monday visitor in Salem. He is stationed at San Diego with the army transportation division, and was formerly employed at Ladd & Bush-Salem branch of the US National bank. Enlistment of Clarence E. Hock ett of ML Angel , was announced Monday by Portland navy cruiting headquarters. re- STAMFORD. Tex. March Another of Salem's boys is keep ing his nose up in the blue for Uncle Sam. Aviation Cadet Char les I, Andrews, , having success- z u 1 1 y completed his pre-flight , naming, is now taking his pri- DMiry phot, training her at the Stamford flying school, where the army air lorces has set up a train ing attachment Cadet Andrews will spend ap proximately nine weeks at Stam- rora. He Is the son of Mrs. Nettie . Anarews or salem. itjkt BANNING, Ga. Robert Alan Wagner of Sherdian. Ore, was commissioned a second lieu tenant; in the army of the United S t a t els Monday upon successful completion of the officer candidate course af the infantry school.at ort Benning. Lt. Wagner is the son of Mrs. E. A, Wagner of 7215 S.W. Third avenue, Portland, Ore- : gon.' The new lieutenant was induct ed Into the army on June 18, 1941, and served with the 90th Battal ion, Camp Roberts, Calif., before going to officer candidate school three months ago. . c.r-' The new officer is a graduate of Perrydale high school. CAMP ADAIR, March 15 Notification from the war depart ment cf the awarding of the order of the Purple Heart posthumor- Naval recruits who arrived In Farragut, Ida., last week to be gin training include Harlyn Bever ly England, son of Mri and Mrs. J. E. England, 1344 Edgewater street, Salem; Mil ford j Dewane Litwiller, son of Mr.: and Mrs Frank Litwiller. 873 North Liberty street, Salem; Oliver Willard Min ter, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W Minter, route four, Salem: Clar ence Edgar Clark, son o Mr. and Mrs. EL R. Qark, route one. Aums ville; and Raymond Fred Duffy, son of Mr. and Mrs. f Fred D Duffy, route one, Lyons. stationed is visit- Mrs. E.B. Pvt. Verl C. Taylor, at Camp Roberts, Calif, ing his parents, Mr. and Taylor, route seven, Salem, while on a 15-day furlough, j A Salem high school graduate, Pyt Taylor was inducted into the army last September. i James H. Lucas, who left for basic training in the jsir corps at Fresno early in February, is now studying pre-fUght at the Unlrerslty ef Montana. He is the son of Mr. and .Mrs. JX. Lucas, and his wiff is also a Salem resident. I LYONS Pvt. MUtbn,1 Anderson, who is stationed at! Florence. Is spending part of his; furlough at tne home of his brother! and sister in-law, Mr. and Mrs! Art An derson.; ; j j j Stanley Weitman, who j is with the navy, is spending a seven-day leave at the home of his parents, r. ana Mrs. Joe Weitman. Weit man is stationed at j Bremerton, wasJD, has covered allot of ter ritory and put out to sea for four months. This is his first trip home since leaving last fait AMITY Billy Yafnes in the navy is visiting at .the home of his parents, Mr. and jMrs. W. Yarnes on Jellison street Richard 1 Vannlce, ! former Linfield student and a graduate ef the University of Oregon, has been commissioned an ensign In the navy air corps and received hi wings March 5. He trained at Pasco, Wash, and at Pensa eoln, FT. After a short vacation at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Ensign and Mrs. M. S. Sanderman it, Key Weit, Fla he Is to report Jto Jackson ville, Fla, Easirm Vahnice la the. son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Vannlce of Amity. Mr. and Mrs. Vannice both are: jworklng : in war service in Portland. PEDEE Rarley Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aivin Edwards of Philomath, is home on a week's furlough. Mr: and jlflrs. Edwards lived on the home place for manv years before moving jto Philomath. Joe JUodge of San iDiego. Calif- was home on ten-fday furloiugh from- his post with the marine corps. He left for Sain Diego Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. attended n farewell in Dallas Saturday. Rufus Dodge party for him t WEST SALEM WhitxeUo Kuhn, in training ln the naval school at Bremerton, Washi In preparation for ship's cook, arriv ed Sunday night fo an overnight visit at his home. He returned to his station Monday afternoon. The event was made the occasion; for Kuhn family reunion. Amone the relatives present were Homer Kuhn, wife and son from Seattle, Neva Lawrence, daughter of Fred Army and marine authorities entered the investigation of pf Sa lem automobile theft Monday, in dicating that both Kenneth (Wil liam Bailey. 25. charged with possession of the stolen property, and .William Donald Duffy,! with him when the arrest was jznade Sunday night,, wore uniforms of US services without authority so Bailey wore the uniform! and bars of a second lieutenant, had in his possession another uniform with first lieutenant's insignia, several army caps, it was reveal ed at the Marion county sheriffs office, while army authorities were questioning him. II Duffy, garbed as a marine cor poral, evidently also was "phoney," civil officers said after marine authorities had j made their first checkup. jj Both men were arrested by city police Sunday night in a car offi cers said had been stolen last week from the Otto Wilson ga rage. li l A long record of offenses is chalked against Bailey, according to police, dating to 1934,! when ho received a parole and was sent the next year to Oregon state training school for delin quency. He ran away three; times in two years, returning on charges of larceny, robbery and burglary. His six-year stretch in the pen! tentiary for burglary beginning In 1937 ended in parole, but He was again returned to the state!! prison for a car theft in 1940 . Kurtz Taked Federal Pos Alvin Kurtz, who has accept ed a position as senior attorney for the federal securities ex change commission, will leave Sa lem within a week to begin his duties in Philadelphia, Pal, where ho will make his residence. Kurtz resigned from his post as attor ney for the Oregon public com mission after serving in that ca pacity since 1935. j A graduate of Willamette uni versity law school, Kurtz jwas ad mitted to the bar in 1929. Before receiving an appointment! to the public utilities commission, he was employed in the secretary of state's office and later practiced law in McMinn ville. The attorney was born in Salem, the ! son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kurtz, route two, Salem. Kurtz has sold his home at 519 North 24th street. His wife and two children will go east with him. Motorboat FucI Ration Extended j i PORTLAND, Ore., March 15 (;P) Restrictions on the amount of gasoline small boats may use for non-occupational purposes have been extended from the eastern seaboard to Oregon and Washing1 ton, the Portland OPA announced Monday. j Rations will be issued for three- month periods. Inboard motor boats will be allowed gallonage equal to twice the manufacturer's rated horsepower of the motor, but not to exceed 123 gallons. Outboard motors may get IVg times the motor's horsepower, hut not over 20 gallons. 44 Army Trainees Arrive at OSCt CORVALLIS, March! 15 -iPi Forty four student soldiers, ad vance guard of 500, arrived ) at Oregon State college Sunday night for special training in ij engineer ing. All former college pen, they came here as privates for their studies regardless ofj previous rank. Army officials said the men, quartered in a dormitory, may participate in all campus activities but are barred from hitercolleg late athletics. Chennaiih, Over Jap Arms A Qrenilins Deck1 Freshman Glee Wartime Contest at Willamette f . j By RUTH MATTHEWS Willamette university's 35th annual Freshman Glee is sched uled for Saturday night in the gymnasium. Novelty is the theme the annual interclass song competition, w 1th the topical 'gremlins' featured In the decorations being readied by the host class, the freshmen. Manager o: the Glee is Reid Shelton, fresh man of Salem. .Words and music of the songs were due Monday for preliminary inspection - by ; the judges, Ada Ross, Hugh Morrow and Dr. EL S. Oliver for the words, Prof,,T- S. Roberts, Gretcben Kreamer J and Prof, Lewis Pankaskie for the mu sic. ' Presentation and adaptation will be judged by William Phil lips, Fred Wolfe and Gale Currey. The competition is judged, 25 per rcent on words, 25 per cent on mu sic and the rest on presentation. marching and formations. Tickets for the affair are avail able only to students, alumni,' fac ulty and trustees due to space lim itations and are not for sale Grad uate Manager Lestle J. Sparks states that, even so, the 2500 avail able seats will take! care of only half of the requests for tickets. A conspicuous loss to the tradi tion of the Glee will be the cus tomary presentation of prizes by tne late ur. James iv luaunews. WiUainette's "Mr. Chips. A sub stitute has not been deckled upon by the Glee committee, according to Sparks. Memorials will be ded icated to Dr. Matthews, Miss Clara Enness and - Dr. Car 1,. Sumner Knopf." .- " i . : Other changes in. Freshman Glee result from the wartime lack of men Students, which will make the senior class presentation number the smallest of any class since an other war year, 1917, when the class of '19 numbered only 25. The Glee : has been presented contin uously since its beginning in 1906 Songs for the novelty theme this year; range from blues to hops. The seniors will present "Bearcat Blues," written by Betty Sackett of Sheridan and Jean Jackson of Astoria. "What We Found at WIT is the title of the junior song, com posed by Ray Short of Emmett, Idaho. The sophomores have cho sen "The Gremlin Hop" by Bill Byrd and Marion Crews of Salem and 'Louise Wrisley of Bremerton, Wash. "Keyboard Cogitation, by Gloria Wunsch of Glendale and Faith Idso of Salem will be pre sented by the freshmen. No class now: in school has won a competi tion, the class of '42 having won last year. I The traditional white dresses for women and dark suits for men will be worn. A university dance is slated to follow the Glee. A fea tured part of the rivalry is the paying off of bets on the campus Monday. 1 ' Mines Bureau Asks Fund for Alumina Hunt (WASHINGTON, DC, March 15 At the urging of . Senators Holman (R-Ore) and Nye (R-ND) the bureau of mines has asked for $2,500,000 to be used in finding new aluminum sources. ? The request was made at a de ficiency appropriation bill hear ing after Senator Holman declar ed something must be done quick ly to develop a process of ex tracting aluminum from' alumina clays before present limited baux ite and alunite supplies run out. 1 Holman; criticized delay in the construction of a research labo ratory in the northwest for which congress ! appropriated S500,ooo. Dr. R. Ri Sayers,1 director of the bureau of mines, testified that the delay was caused by a war pro duction board order limiting con struction f I" "Our laboratory work has indi cated that the clay of Hobart butte In the upper Willamette valley is suitable for the treat ment by) the ammonium; sulphate process which the. Columbia Met als corporation proposed to use," he said. Dr. Sayers said the Hobart butte clay Was favored lover the clay at Molalla, a short distance south of Pprtlan, because of an an alumina: content in excess of 30 per-cent, which was -about per cent above the Molalla clay. Newspaper Files l Added to Library f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene; A gift of 148 volumes of the Eugene Register was received this week by the University: of Oregon library. Presented by the EugeneRegister-Guard, the files cover a period of 45 years from October 7 , 1885, to -"November, 1930. I . ; Willis Warren, acting librarian. in acknowledging the gift, urged other newspapers to preserve their valuable and historical back issues! in the library's adequate and safe storage vaults. He said that after the war the library might develop a microfilm labor atory j and aid newspapers with their filing problems. Among newspapers already on file in the library are a fairly complete file of The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Two Oregon Men On Missing List i ! ; WASHINGTON, March 15-W) The war department made public Monday the names of 172 United States soldiers listed as missing in action. The list included forOre gon:' ; European area: Capt William Wayne Kelty; father,; William Kelty, Pendleton. South Pacific area: Pvt Walter L. Barger; brother. George C. Barger, St Helens. Salvage Slated ! MARSHFIELD, March 15 Jf) CmdrJ W. R. Brust of the Coos bay j navy section base said , Mon day . extensive salvage operations on the beached minesweeper YMS 133, which capsized in heavy seas off Coos Bay February 20, will begin this week. ,1 Licensed to Marry ( VANCOUVER, Wash., March 15 (JP)- Lloyd Newlin, 43, and Olive Walters, 34, both 1 Newberg, and Sam lLacoco, 27, Sah Francisco, and Lucille Bivens, 22, Lebanon, have; taken out marriage licenses here.; . Talks Lumber Prices PORTLAND, Ore., March 15-yP) -Peter A. Stone of the Washing ton, DC office of price administra tion staff arrived Monday for con ferences with lumber operators Tuesday and Wednesday on pos sible Increases in price ceilings. Growing Power Lend-Lease Goods Hove to Russia via! Pacific " " ' S : Islnl oni4fnS) ensoj tfssnVesntVsV' " ' "p"1- l-1 . ' " ' tBHgj ason9s SnnMS) GOODS UE HAVE LEND-LEASED FROU MARCH H4I THROUGH FEBRUARY 1943 ' - S I: f :i ; T vwyvwwvwvv AiflCAarT aanajNiriot tsmks Mcratt xxxx; D VDOCLCS I tr, each srutoc fl KEPftESEMTS TP 1 9oaooaooo II or GOODS fill rntoLCUM ncoucTg c onl .5 ' rnbllcatlon of this man In n lend-lease adinlnlstratlon renort to eon- greos brought the first official revelation that large quantities of material are moving to Rossis via the Paclfle. The mapj Indicates approximate rentes ever which shipments are made and; the rela tive quantities of goods moving by the varloes rentes. This chart, prepared by the lend-lease administration land submitted to con gress, shows the amoant of goods lend-leased by the United States from March, 1941. through Febraary 1942. Each symbol S100.000.0t0 In goodsw Associated Press Telematl . represents ;1 Sees Sitperiority pproaching CHUNGKING, March 15-WEVB r i e.-Gen. Claiw T. f-K nault, commander off the newly-formed 14th US army air force1 in the rhint wav ftmoAl mmi J l. tr ... . ! - a.wBUKK wuu mm, jccui jyionoay uiav alter a long period of wkitin he could see the t day Jipproachin i nucn we can nave leauaiiisr m arms and then superiority over the Japanese. :j l XJrganization of the 14th; air force marks a distinc itn In; that direction it points the way to in tensification of the Allied effort against Japan, the general amid. "I know China ? will give - her best You need equipment!, and you are going to get it ; I "We are going to produce more weapons, : all kinds i bf weapons. than all the axis powers com- Kuhn, from McMinnvfile, j and Emerson Kuhn with his - wife, three sons and daughter from Newberg. . - j Sgt George E. Donaldson, medi cal instructor at Camp White, re turned to Medfoni Friday inight after spending a 10-day furlough in Salem with hiM wife. I Mrs- Frances Donaldson, and parents. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Donaldson. ' s - -- - .- : .. ; . l bined. We are going to pursue this war j to the end our j president requires-- unconditional surrender ofotir enemies.' J, -; General Chennault spoke at an entertainment arranged In his hon or by the national commission on aeronautical af f airs and attended brlmany prorninent generals and almost the entire j cabinet. Half a dozen baskets of flowers sent to Chennault included one from Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and another from the women's relief organizations.: ; ! . s - A slogan on one wall of the banquet hall read: : 'Formation of the 14th TJSAF seals the fate of Japanese' aggression . Jf I Chennault received a. prolonged; ovation as he rose to speak. He; emphasised that in the pft "most of my work! has beeh?waif-i Ing waiting : to take the war to the enemy." i L- .. Mi 4 tm. 1 of boay or ever, ' bos lOO esMnJafl total of store then 79.C53 o oMietoto deny V 'TT7HXLE U. S. airplane produe ' V Hon has not reached the goal ' set by President Roosevelt shortly : after Pearl Harbor, nevertheless a comparison of the production fig ures ef January. 1942, with those ot the past two months gives an en couraging v picture of America's growing strength la the air. Fig rea given Indicate planes of all categories; more than C5 per cent are in combat class. (International " V, -TV PARATROOPER col. Edsoa D. Ran (above) of New York led U. S paratroon forces i In the Tanlsla invasion. ' LEADER MaJ. Peter D. Clalnos (above) Is commander of Ut S. Army's first all-Greek nalt . now In tralaing. f i 7 .4 - r MESSAGE AT SEA Infetnatlonal cede flags are hoisted by a Coast Gnardsmaa aboard a cotter somewhere at sea to comanntcate with other vessels of a foreign-bound merchant covey. Use ,1 ef the radio la barred because of the submarine menace, i 1 5 J 5 . JLS!i A R5 CAt 5 C 11 E D- & Wtrye charge , a h!'J IeaUtg U. St9 Nazi oatpost It Seaed. TanLlV sUrt lag a batCo lasting from Jan. XI u Feb. 2. -