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;: i OREGON STATESMAN, Sdaxa. Oregon. Wednttday Morning. March 2t 19S pacs seveh I i Youth Participation Centers FarmLabor JRecridthigdrt .Responsibility for all farm labor recruitment programs in Marion county will center in the coordinating committee on youth participation in farm labor, organized this week with lay Glatt as chairman, it was . announced Tuesday. Joe Wilson of the federal employment service, Sa lem office, will have charge of the platoon program. . - The coordinating committee set up an executive committee com posed of the county superinten dent of schools, the chairman of county youth ", participation com ' committee in civilian defense, the chairman of 4he county farm la--bor committee, the r county agri culturist and representative of "the employment services. r " An Initial step will be revision "of the course of stndyoffered In the schools a year ; ago, prepar ing students for their participa- -tion In harvest work, Walter Snyder. : curriculum director in the Salem schools, will have charge of final , preparation of the course of study which will be delivered to the schools by April 12. It will be offered in the fifth and hither grades. The executive group of the co ordinating committee met with Charles Gram who Is representing the canneries, to discuss trans portation problems. Cooperation of service clubs and other organi sations will be requested. The platoon system of providing youthful harvest workers, now designated as the "Marion county plan," is to be adopted in other .counties this year just as the "Ore gon plan" of community coopera tion is being adopted in many other states, it was reported at the meeting. Huge Dogs Block Bridge Traffic PORTLAND, March 2 3-(JP) Traffic over the Burnside bridge went to the dogs for a while Tuesday. V Two Great 'Danes, about the sixe of Shetland ponies, took oyer the bridge j for a play ground. Drivers 1 slammed on their brakes, cars piled up and everything stopped except the dogs cavorting and the motor ists' cursing. Finally all was back to nor mal after the arrival of a police patrol car- into which the dogs were lured by de luxe ham burgers. i?W : A - 1 i -: T ,7 , X:" " U- Marsha Hont, Frances Drake and Richard Carlson become slightly In volved In this merry-mad scene from "Affairs of jMarthaV now showing at the Hollywood theatre technicolor. r 1 r - A shamrock In his hoart . . . and dynamite fat his flsU . . . krm Hthh and Alexis Smith In "Gentleman Jim." bow showing at the State theatre, co-featured with "Meet the Stewarts- with Wllllaas ait Parade of IKS stars Jalus arraU: Susan Hayward, Gall Pat iv iir.vtin fenii.archmtrm. Cosmt Basla land orchestra, Golden Gate quartet and a host opening today. Co-feature Is "Xhe Seborah Eerr. ? Bids To Be Bids for state highway depart ment projects aggregating an ex penditure estimated at $175,000 will be considered by! the state highway commission at ; a meet ing in Portland Onj April '7 "R. H. Baldock, '"state highway engi neer, announced Tuesday 'f The projects?; f j ' ;" . - I Furnishing .10,600 j cibic . yards crushed rock in stock piles on the Alsea mountain rock . tproduction project in -Benton county. S Furnishing 7000 cubic yards crushed rock or crushed gravel in stock piles on the central Oregon highway in Harney i and Malheur counties. i ; ! Furnishing 10,000 f cUbic yards crushed rock or crushed gravel on the Dalles-California highway in Klamath county. :j j Grading and paying .25 mile of the Vanport sejetibn of the Swift secondary highway in Mult nomah county. U i Furnishing 16,500 clibic yards crushed rock in stock piles on the Sherman highway in Sherman county. . : i ; CIO Plans IVIember Drive, Shipyards PORTLAND, March -(-The CIO Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America . announced Tuesday it will start a union mem bership drive in Henry J. Kaiser's three Portland-Vancouver area shipyards. , j The announcement vyas made by Irwin L. De Shelter, former Cleveland area CIO director, who arrived Monday night to set up a staff here. I ' .' The drive will be started in an ticipation that the national labor relations board will; decide in fa vor of the CIO after concluding its hearing into CIO charges that the Kaiser yards (signed illegal closed shop agreements with the AFX De Shelter saidJ The NLRB hearing of the Kais er case, now in recess, is scheduled to reconvene here Apfil 8. X - - JV ! f " wun "iwwn Argeuune ! I- V : - ZH of others i tlie Grasrijfceatee. Avengers" witn .miph .,,,.,-.. Highwa Opened 'Ml H i McNary Seeks Use of Lands WASHINGTON, March 23-i!P) Sen. McNary (R-Ore) Tuesday in troduced a bill (S 904) which would permit certain lands in Ore gon to be used for mining if not necessary to the nation as agricul tural or timber lands. "1 1 The bill states that any of the revised Oregon and California railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon road grant lands In Oregon "May be classified by the secretary of the Interior as mineral lands,! if the secretary finds . . .that suth lands are more valuable or suit able for mining purposes than for use as agricultural or . t i m b e r lands. :'i 1 i. -'j 'The bill says that lands so clas sified "may be restored to the pub lic domain and may be opened location .and entry under the min ing laws of the United States.' Baker Dies, McMinnville PORTLAND, March 23-OP) Gordon G. Baker, 55,! McMinn ville insurance company execu tive and civic leader, died Tues day in a hospital here where he had been confined for two weeks. He was vice president in charge of agencies for the Oregon Mu tual Fire Insurance company, whose home office is in McMinji ville, and a member of the Co lumbia Empire Industries board of directors. j He formerly had served as Mc Minnville mayor and president iof the chamber of commerce thee. He was active in the Elks and Masonic lodges. j East Aids Trail Centenial Plns PORTLAND, March ?3-(P)-The Old Oregon Trail centennial this year is attracting increasing in terest in the east, Dr. Howard r. Driggs, president of the American Pioneer Trails association, said Tuesday. j j Plans for participation in the celebration are being made by New York, New Jersey and Con necticut, Driggs said in a letter! to Executive Secretary Walter Ma cham of the Old Oregoii Trail cen tennial commission. j j Even the -exclusive. Explorers' club in New York City is boost ing the celebration, Driggs said, with a meeting next Sunday hon oring Ezra Meeker, William j H. Jackson and Capt. Edwin W. Dem ing, noted western pioneers. Ded ication of an Arlington cemetery monument to Jackson, painter and photographer of western scenes, has been set for April 4. I Uniform "Wearer Heidi PORTLAND, March 23-P) William Albert Clayton Dent, 28, was under arrest Tuesday on a charge of wearing a US navy uni form illegally. He is j accused j of donning the uniform so he coiild gain admittance to a Servicemen's dance. ' Around Oregon By The Associate Press AAA officials estimated at Pen dleton that sub-zero temperatures last January and a cold wave early this month killed one-third of the winter wheat and one-half of the Austrian peas -in Umatilla county . . . state liquor control administrator L. F. Allen repotted at Portland that liquor sales drop ped 14 per cent the first dajf of reduced rationing to) a quart a week . . . Duchess Charlotte, Who will arrive at Portland Thursday, will be greeted by Gov. Earl Snell and Portland's Mayor! Earl Riley. Circuit Judge C. L. Sweelt at Pendleton paroled S. j E. Roberts, Bend, . convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the hunting death of E. W. Kain, Sandy, after Rob erts paid a $700 fine ... Port land Postmaster E. IT. Hedlund asked 35 more women! to take nail carriers'' jobs ... a j 2090-pound bull brought $297.82 cents; on the Portland livestock; marketj the highest price on record for a sin gle bull . . . Oregon jshipbufljding, corporation launched its 154th Liberty ship, the Albert B. Cum mins. ... 1 j Dairies operated in The Dal les area by J. Y. Gibson and Frank Ingels will quit business soon! the . - Vtt. MJi and labor cost. . among pledg es announced by university of Oregon sororities and fraternities wero Maxfn Coleman, Newberg, Gamma' Phi Beta, and James G. Try on, Salem, Delta Tan Delta . . Leas Randall, recruitment di rector for Henry J. Kaiser at Port land, said the yards ; there are in critical:. need .of 30,000 additional workers and suggested many of them could come from men 38 years old or over who are eligible for release; from the army to! take war jobs J, . Word was received at Pendleton of the election Of & R. Thompson, Pendleton roundup president, as a" vice-president of the rodeo, association of America, YC3 TTT.3 SUrTE3 FhCUv c Tf yon suffer from hot flash, dlzzi- eiatrmm or "tmgmmtnun are mMdlo ogo period In a woman Uf try LytUa E. plnkham's Ve t&bl Cotapeuad. IVu helped thou sands upon thousands of women to ratteva such aanoymg symptoms. Tollcm tebd dmetlons. Itnlrham'a Compound la wort- try" t UN I .pi ., I m W II.IJM I .1.1 !... ,.,.. ..,! 1, I III Ml hi ' 'K - - - - - -1 THESE HEELS WON'T CLICK ACAIN These Nazis were killed la aetlea Russian front, says the caption f this picture fraaa March af Time's "On Day of War, Missouri (Would Let Convicts Fight JEFFERSON GITY, Mo., March 23-(-A bill to release Missouri's model young convicts to war duty as fighters, farmers or Indus trial workers was approved for passage Tuesday i night by a house committee. "I have an idea," said Rep. O K. Armstrong (4) 1 "that if these young fellows who have been pri soners are put in tanks they can shoot as good as anybody else. And they're rarin' to go to fight or farm or help make bombs." The bill provides that state in mates 18 years or older could be come eligible immediately for war paroles on their good behavior. Extra Jury List Drawn at Albany ALBANY, MaTch 23-()-Unn county officials, preparing for the Robert . Lee Folkes trial on a first degree murder charge here April 7, drew the names of 13 more prospective; jurors Monday. They said they: felt the present list might be exhausted in the se lection of the jury. Folkes, for mer negro dining car cook, is ac cused of knifing Mrs. Martha Vir ginia James to death in her train berth last January 23. Baker to Entertain State Legion Meet ? BAKER, Ore., ; March 23 - (JP) Baker Legionnaires said Tuesday the annual Oregon American Le gion convention would be held here August 19, 20 and 21. They said the city's bid for the convention was accepted at a meeting of state officials. TIODAT, our country is at war en Igaged ia a desperate struggle to de termine whether the freedom we hare created and cherished shall surma or Pkb, j Beside the ajtemiracing immensity f that issue, the Diamond Annrferssrf which Metropolitan celebrates this month is of saCsll importance. Yet today, on our 7Sth birthday, ft Is perhaps proper that this company, rep resenting nearly thirty million policy holders, should here yoke its-faith in the future, and fts dctcrnunation to help nuke that forare brighter than any pe riod in the; TTe have Just reason for oat faith. Ours Is a business that has been built n faUhfaith la the cootinned and growing greatnesa ef sr country, faith ia the integrity ex ear people. Ia the 75 years since Metropolitan was founded, on March 24 1863, we have sees America face crisis after cii-'. aistrsrs, panics, depressions, disasters , fimany kinds.. ,tnl front each such crisis we hare seen tins country emerge stronger than ever. .Ve confidently be Xieve that America' wi3 do jost that sgsln that the best years of ear his tory lie before us. j ; we hsT every reason, tee, for car- - - . , V - " 1 fnitnek H. Edr, T Vr-T--l 13 AC.J ""'"'niiiiiiiii'ii i i i. .mi TID-BIT FOR PICEO NAlthMgh It leeks as'tf J. HrJ risoa is ready te bite into his neck, this pigeon Is really feeding from Harrison's mouth. He' feeds the pigeons daily ia City Hall Park. New York City. - Portland Officer Missing in Africa ! ! WASHINGTON, March 23-(JP) The war department Tuesday niade public the names of 256 United States soldiers missing in action in the European, north African and Pacific areas and missing at -sea in the north At lantic. The list included, for Oregon: ; North African area:, ! Second Lt. Alan S. Thomas; mother, Mrs. J. M. Thomas, Port land. Navy Seeks Lawyers And Investigators PORTLAND, March 22-JP) Lawyers and men with investi ; i . i i - , determination to help make that future brighter. N business, perhaps, touches the lires and aspirations of millions of people more closely than ours. It is our plain duty to help those people fulfill their dreams of an education for their children, of security for their families, of finfliyM independence in their own eld age. ' In the past, we have tried to perform that duty through the wise investment of more than she bulion dollars which we hold tor the benefit of our poBcy -holders, we have tried te de it through coixsdentioas,econonucalmansgemcn so that insurance costs would be held to a minimum, we hero tried to de it through the prompt payment ef all ben efitswhich, in the 75 years ef ear ex istence, hare totalled aver alne and a half hilSosi dollars. And through our orgaaaxed health actirttaea. sstaMiahed in 1909, we hare tried te make every possible eoatribotion te healthier, longer lives for ear policy aeJders-five; whkhtatca from birth, now average ever twenty years longer than they did inioa. . ' Ia doing these things, we have alas tried to be a good ckisea. For wo are, part of America. Her future Is" oars. And today, fa this critical hour of be . history, we say again our faith in beg : future has never been stronger. ' " lies " Llctropollica l!fo Inrarcnco Conipcciy t MUTUAL COMMIT) ' " ." (ft cnAUUCAlt or TSS KUU ttny A. Limam, naXDCXT 1 MADISON AYXNUX, KtW VOUC.N.Y, . MetwUtasi'a 75th Anniversary Eadla rregnm Blue Network n th gative experience are needed by the navy. Lt. Cmdr. J. F. W. Gray, In charge of the Portland branch, office of naval officer procure ment, said the need is for college graduates who have had extensive experience as trial lawyers or in vestigators. Age limits are from 30 to 40 -years. Wins FFA Oratory PORTLAND, 'March 23-flP) Russell Cary, Roseburg, won the state Future Farmers of .America oratorical contest Tuesday and Will represent Oregon in the re gional finals- here April 28. Sec ond place went to Milton Rich ardson, Junction City, and third to Jim Rogers, Pendleton. The speeches were presented before the Portland Rotary club. L.vJ GS2 Ke. Draft Gharge f J . f ; C7 - ourt f PORTLAND,' ! March 23-(ff) Herold FJmeri Dav. 21 -year-old merchant ship 1 seaman, couldn't understand why hie was charged with violating ; the Selective serv ice act. ?t : ., -. : j :. neither.' apparently, could Fed eral Judge Cladde jMcColloch nor Probation Officer Loren CJ Cochr ran.' i i''-v . -y-v- ' fThis : is one of the rankest cases of injustice that I haf e ever Seen,! Cochran kolc the court and explained the situation thus: ' V .-: .Day signed; up l4 the merchant marine last SeptejEnber aid ob tained; from jthr secretaryjpf his draft board ."verbal approval to ship out. As an; oiler on a ;Liber ty ship he went to Russia.' On bis return here ' hei wis arrested n a secret indietmen chargihg him niui KKVUp, ki vac vnuauvw. The judge released Day jon his own recognizances and Witnout bond, advised him o see his draft board and' get. the wholej affair patched up. ' : ' Day said he ! would and j added he'd like to ship, out again! If the draft board says It's okehj Assault Charged It PORTLAND, &f a r c h- W) kunicipal Judge 1 J. J. Ruttlin Tuesday ordered Robert Clerland Noonan, 45-year-old ex -convict, held for, the grahd Juryj on n charge of assault and robbery While annedUwith a dangerous weanon. Noonan lis accused oz holding up a pharmacy Mrs. Katherine Livingstone, the pro prietor, Identified INoonan as the ? ' Yt m m La t man wno accosted ner ai ner home two days after the pharma ty ; was held up. i Apples Auctioned i DALLAS, k Tex.. March The big box bf Ipples that the Spokane Kiwanis club sent the Dallas organization will help keep the axis away. The apples were auctioned off. bne!by one, for war bonds totalling $20,550. One ap ple brought $5500 ' . j ! - fit : ; 1 5 f Amazes G -i S - It's J brand newi. v . irs a riot' . .1 and, best of all, it's by Frcdoricc !fl Vavortt 'Autbpr. of Alillions pA&Umng those amiable terrors of tlic U. S. Nay, MwM and Tim EHinnevan (alias Force and Bnuns. Inc.). in a new fuimy serial entitled V! r-an o ei. , .- . , .... g War Thermals Thermostats similar te those that formerly controlled : tempera tures of electric irons today de tect fires In warplanes, meter trouble in mechanised vehicles f war. and jsverheating In bat tleship gun equipment. A West lnghouse 'worker Is shown spot welding the I base of a thermo stat to Its bedy-IlN Photo. Civilians Invited To USO Open House I Civilians come into their own between 1 and 3 p. m. Sunday at the USO, when an open house fjr civilian ridents of the Sa lm area is planned." Guides, per haps some of jthem the uniformed men ; who have - found the first ; USO . center lin Salem an attrac tive place to Iread, lounge, dance and , eat, will show visitors through the clubhouse at the cor ner '01 cnemeiceia ana couage streets, j Bowdens Move KEIZER Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bowden and small son will soon be moving td Keizer. They have Ceorfe Casebeer riroperty. Just east of K e 1 z e r school, i Hi riotously " i ; ' - " 7 c::a fa . I, :3 3 mmau laugh Urcnn