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Tlx OREGOtT STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning., April II, 1SI3
Cannery Wage
Rise Dropped
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ommission
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then would ask higher wages In
'the light of the ' women's -order.
; Ju ( A leading Sales cannery
.. manager who asked that his ;
. v name be withheld. . ' declared
Saturday night that "the indai-
iA. try will eentlaae fie efforts hy
every possible aeaas to obtain
.'t authorisation for ware lar-,
crease for swi and women
.workers."' " r
v .This spokesman aaid the can
raers feel they must be permitted
to pay higher wages than were
t, paid last season if; they, are to
obtain labor for the 4943 packs, f
i' The -fact that the Industry . in
California has received , federal
authorization to raise wages to the
same scale proposed for Oregon,
.70 cents an hour for women and
85 cents for men, was cited as a
favorable factor in the expected
further effort to boost workers
pay in Oregon plants.
Cannera who met with the re
gional war labor board In Port
land Thursday left with the ex
pectation that the new scale was
to be finally approved. The presi
dent's new - stabilization order,
however, changed the situation the
same night
Fliers Receive
French Medals
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, April 10 JP)
Three American Warhawk pilots
who destroyed 21 enemy planes
received the eroix de guerre from
Gen. Jean l&endigal, commander
in chief of French air forces in
northwest Africa, in a simple
ceremony outside an operation
dugout at the most advanced
jrjgnier ueia nuajr.
The pilots were Col. William
' W. Momyer of Seattle, Wash, who
downed : eight planes; Maj. Levi
R. Chase of Cortland, NY, who
got 10. and Lieut.. Tom A. Thomas,
jr., of Ada Okla, who accounted
y for three, t .
; Thei citations- were for aiding
1 French troops in Tunisia.
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Odd Angles
On Day 's News
, WASHINGTON, -(P)- Forty
French officers, studying in the
United States preliminary to join
ing the forces of General. Henri
GiraUd in Norm Africa, leaped
to .their feet to drink a toast to
"La Belle France" today.
A waitress in the Union station
stopped them. ,
"It's against the rules," she said.
They sat down, meek but puz
zled until the waitress explained
that the District of Columbia has
a law. against .-. drinking while
standing, up. 1.
; COLUMBUS, 0-;P-Pfc. Harry
Simmons snappy hand salute paid
off today. ,
i Meeting a second, lieutenant on
a downtown street the Lock
et bourne .army air : base private
-.whipped up a salute and received
an equally sharp pne in return.
Then the officer stopped Simmons
Land said; L
- "Private, that was a. very fine
salute youjust gave me. ; Here's
a dollar.". -. : ?
Before the startled . Simmons
could recover, the officer explain-
J ed: "Three of my pals and I Just
finished officers' candidate school
and we vowed that the first men
to give us a real snappy salute
would get, a dollar' from each of
us. So go ahead and have a good
meal on me.
r BOISE, IdahoHAV-Technica
Sgt. Francis D. Schatfer asked LL.
Wade Carter, Gowen field base
'chaplain, to indorse his request for
a three-day pass; explaining that
. he was "tired" and wanted to rest
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Lt. Carter suggested that the
pass be granted providing Sgt.
! Schaffer make a four-hour tour
. over the obstacle eourse, turn in
' four hours of close order drill and
two days duty on KP.
Somewhat dubiously Sgt. Schaf
' f er took the ; indorsement to his
commanding officer, : who said he
.could see no reason why "the pss
: shouldn't be granted on the chap
lain's terms providing the chap-
'lain accompanied the sergeant
over the ' obstacle .course and did
the drill with him.
f Back to the chaplain 'went
Schaffer. L Carter agreed
promptly. So Sgt; Schaffer ran
the course and did -the drill and
the chaplain- -went -along.-" -- : ,
When it was all overthe chap
lain indorsed a new recommenda
tion for three-day pass for both
Sgt. Schaffer and Chaplain Carter
to rest up from preparations for
three-day pass. , J
' i. "Thank-goodness Sgt Schaffer
fdidnt ask , for si Xurlough," the
chaplain added. .
pti(r A T : M.1a 4jA
s"i i r- i . m. imiM 1 a mm sw. xe a r- uc i
eral "employment service office
didnt stop the agency labor re-,
"cruiters. ; '
They scurried among onlookers
"watching 'the blaze and signed up
'JslZ3 Car essential jobs. -j-w
President Launches Second War
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Askina- the American people to observe the sloaaa, They Garo Their Uvea. Wo Lend Onr Money,"
President Koooevelt laanches the second war loan drive tnt Washington by aeUlng John . H. Pyo
(left), White House messenger, a $25 bond. Treasury Secretary Mergeathaa (right) leeks eau The
national drive begins April 12-
IIimtfcD'pireitfiimg
TTHnie wan Mew
By GLENN BABB
AP War AnalrUt for Th SUteamao
The Tunisian campaign swept
rapidly last week toward its
thunderous climax, overshadow
ing all other phases, of the war.
Montgomery's pursuit of Rommel,
probably the longest in military
history, neared its end. So did
the whole African phase of World
war two.
Th AnAmv wilt cleared from
all southern Tunisia, and appar
ently was fleeing from the cen
tral bulge as rapidly as his mo
tors Would carry him.
All surface indications were
that the Casablanca master plan
for carrying the war to Hitler in
Europe was proceeding on sched
ule. The fuehrer -and his satellites'
concentrated on final preparations
for meeting this assault Axis
propaganda prepared its people
for disaster n Tunisia, indicat
ing that Rommel and hia men
were being written off the war
ledger, i 'r
Onlv in the Pacific-Asiatic the
atre was the enemy, by liberal
exaggeration and falsification,
able to claim any measure of suc
cess. It was noteworthy that
Berlin and Rome, as well as To
kyo, trumpeted the Japanese tales
of sains against the British in
Burma and destruction of allied
Re-elected
Chicago's mayor, Edward J. Kel
ly (above), triasaphed- over hla
republican opponent, George B.
L M cKlbben, la the recent city
.' election. This is h fourth term
la office. JIN Photo.
Publisher Joins
C RANTED a leave of absence from
his duties as publisher of the Se
attle , ' pDat-Intelligencer, , John
Eoettiger.' above, aon-La-Uw ot
President Roosevelt. - has Joined
the U. & Army as a captain. -.He
wQ report to Amy military gov
exxunen school. (tatermtioaal)
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Associated rresa Ttiemac ;
planes and ships off the Solo
mons. Obviously these distorted
accounts were welcomed as an
offset to the black news from the
European-African fronts.
The fighting in the Pacific
demonstrated anew two signifi
cant facts: the Japanese are de
termined to keep the initiative
and ready to spend men, planes
and ships freely to that end; the
Americans have such tremendous
superiority in the quality of
planes and pilots that this Jap
anese determination may hasten
greatly the attrition that eventu
ally will lay Japan open for the
death blow.
This week may see the Tunisian
war in its final phase, the siege
of the Tunis-Bizerte area, where
the last stand of the axis must be
made on or near the. battlefields
of 21 centuries ago on which Car
thage. another power that bid for
world domination, was destroyed.
After that phase we shall see
whether there can be an axis
Dunkerque, whether there will be
anything left to evacuate, wheth
er Hitler cares to expend the
ships and planes that would be
required at this' time when he
must look to the defenses of the
continent Itself. If he does, the
narrow waist of the Mediterran
ean probably will witness an air
and sea battle surpassing any
thing In history.
The Russian war remained
locked in its spring quagmires.
The Germans keep prodding at
the Donets line without success.
The lull promised to continue for
weeks before the onset, which will
disclose whether the summer of
fensive will be Russian or Ger
man. The Japanese gave proof of
their concentration of new pow
er in the south Pacific Wednes
day when they sent 98 planes
against American shipping off
Guadalcanal. American, fighters
knocked 34 planes out of the skies
at a cost of seven of their own,
but the Japanese got through
enough to sink four allied ships
(most of them presumably Am
erican), including a destroyer.
The Japanese claimed :.much lar
ger allied losses making this the
basis for boasts of victory.
Word came; that General Mac
Arthur, was getting mort planes
for the fight for. the islands above
Australia. His airmen; continued
their bounding of -Japanese bases
all around the big are, but the
particular attention .paid to New
Guinea's southwest coast .and the
islands offshore indicated ihat the
enemy was moving in force down
mis coast Probably he hopes to
establish a springboard" which
might be as great a threat to Aus
tralia as Port Moresby would
have been if MacArthur had not
stopped the Japanese on its ap
proaches last September. '
From the battle of the Atlantic
came, only the guarded word that
it was raging in terrible ferocity,
that our losses were rising but
that remedial measures were be
ing speeded. More . than.r ever It
was apparent that Hitler was
staking-on the submarine., all his
hopes of achieving a stalemate.
' Closely linked with the war on
the .U-boats, the blasting of Eu
rope from British air bases went
on relentlessly although bad wea
ther enforced a midweek, lull., The
week began on a high pitch-with
devastating daylight raids by Am
erican . heavy bombers on .industrial-
"targets in the suburbs, of
Paris and Antwerp. Lal : in 'the
week the RAF. resumed its ham
mering of the Ruhr, the heart of
German war, production.- Under
this punishment i it : was obvious
that, German civilian morale was
undergoing . a test that gave , the
reich'a leaders much, anxjetyvj. ..
Loan Drive
Jersey Qub,
CC to Give Calf
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INDEPENDENCE Cooperation
with the ocal Jersey club was de
cided by the chamber of commerce
Tuesday iught, in a project to re
ward an outstanding member of
the Calf club. Each year the out
standing member of the club will
win a calf, to be provided by the
chamber of commerce and the
Jersey club. Progress on the plan
was reported by Hersel Peyree,
Smith-Hughes instructor at the
high school. The amount of $20
was approved for purchase of a
calf.
Guests at the meeting were Eu
gene Weddle and his father, E. A.
Weddle. Eugene, seaman first class
in the navy, who told of many of
his experiences and answered such
questions ; that he could.
This was the first meeting for
the new officers. They are: Paul
Robinson, president; W. A. Bar
num, vice-president; X. L. Gray,
secretary;; Ira Mix, treasurer; R.
M. Walker, Dean Walker, J. H.
Hart, M. M. Nelson and Dr. M. J.
Butler, directors.
Committees for the coming years
were announced by Mr. Robinson.
They are: roads, Dean Walker, Dr.
M. J. Butler, J. H. Hart; Athletics,
Elmer Addison, Joe Rogers. R. W.
Craven; education, Tom Smith, H.
M. Ams berry, E. A. Dickinson; ag
riculture! Ralph Kletzing, Hersel
Peyree, Walter Smith; industrial,
R. M. Walker, A. L. Thomas, Dr.
George C. Knott; taxation. Glen
Smith, M. C. Williams, M. M. Nel
son; entertainment, W. J. Darling,
Dr. C. A. Fratzke, Harold Lacey;
charities,! W. A. Barnum, Frank
Ellis, W. F. McBee; street lights,
Ralph Scranton, Leif Harpole, Ed
Alger; resolutions, Ira Mix, A. L.
Harding, B. F. Swope, and, mem
bership, Mrs. Cleve Robinson, Dr.
Mae Hall, E. L. Cray.
Barlow Rites
Set Monday
Last rites for Dr. Howard H.
Barlow will be held Monday at 2
p. m. in the Clough-Barrick cha
pel with interment In Belcrest
Memorial park. Rev. George Swift
will officiate. Dr. Barlow, a cap
tain in the army when he died
April 2 in Vancouver, Wash., was
a prominent Salem physician and
surgeon.
Pallbearers are: Dr. William
Lldbeck, Dr. Burton Myers, Dr.
Charles Wood, Dr. Ed Lebold, Ira
Fitts, Jr- and Joe Abourezk.
" Survivors of Dri. Barlow are his
widow, Mrs. Dorothy Barlow; two
sons, William and James Barlow;
a daughter, Jane Barlow; parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Barlow,
Mason City, la. two sisters, Mrs.
Fred D. Blake, Chicago, 111- and
Miss Madge Barlow, Mason City,
ia.; i our Drotners, fjnaries W. Bar
low and M. J. Barlow, both of Ma
son City, la, E. J. Barlow, of Clar
ion, Ip.; and Fred S. Barlow, Spirit
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MOTHER'S DAY MAY 9
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WPB Resets
32 Projects,
Rural Power
WASHINGTON. April 10-CP)
The war production board, which
last -July halted work on 32 rural
eieCUUlCaUUU UUU1WUUUU
ierta. reinstated them Saturday
"in the light of current farm
needs for power," and authorized
iheir ; completion , as . rapidly as
possible.. - - -
. Completion oi me projects,
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson
said, will permit electric service
to 6700 farms. Most of the neces
sary materials already are on hand
or can be obtained from excess
stocks, he . added.
While this -action does hot rep
resent a lessening of , the critical
(nation in the material field.'
NIson commented, "it does repre
sent a decision to make the best
possible use of materials on band."
. The projects already average 71
nr rnt comDlete. and $1,800,000
has been invested in them. About
1800,000 will be needed to com
plete the projects. Total construc
tion involves 2861 miles of line.
One Baffled in
Auto Wreck
Claude C Mongold, . assistant
area engineer from Eugene head
quarters of the US army engin
eers, was killed almost instantly
late Friday when an automobile in
which he was riding plunged
from the Santiam highway near
Gates and rolled , down an em
bankment. (
Frank I; Towle, Portland, driv
er of the car, sustained only
minor injuries.
Mongold, 47, years old, appar
ently, died when his head struck
some portion of the car' as it
jolted from the soft shoulder on
the left side of the highway. Dr.
L. E. Barrick, Marion county cor
oner, indicated. A ravine several
hundred feet deep yawned below
the tree which caught the car as it
dropped.
Towle told state officers that
he was driving west at approxim
ately 20 miles an hour when on a
right curve he met another car
hugging the wrong side of the
road. He took to the left aide of
the highway, avoiding the other
automobile, but striking a soft
shoulder through which his ve
hicle plowed for some distance be
fore falling, he said.
Mongold's body was ' taken to
the Weddle mortuary at Stayton.
Allied Food
Conclave Set
WASHINGTON, - April ...10-(ff)
The first United Nations confer
ence on postwar planning, to deal
with food and agriculture, was
officially set Saturday for May
It at Hot Springs, Va., and Judge
Marvin Jones, who as a member
of congress helped push through
much of the new deal's farm leg
islation, was named chairman of
the five-man American delegation.
Jones, now a judge of the US
court of claims, is assistant on
agricultural problems to James F.
Byrnes, economic stabilization di
rector. A democratic representa
tive from Amarillo, Tex., from
1917 to 1940 he was for nine years
chairman of the house agriculture
committee and helped draft the
agricultural adjustment act.
Pair Indicted
In Child Slaying
MEDFORD, April 10-CP)-Sgt.
Bernard J. Lotka, 23, and Tillie
Michanalski, 22, his common-law
wife, were indicted on a charge of
first degree murder by a Jackson
county grand jury Saturday.
The couple, from Cleveland, O,
are accused of slaying their 10-week-old
son. District Attorney
George W. Nielson said Lotka con
fessed smothering the infant in
blankets because of its Illegitima
cy. The baby's, body 'was found
April 1 in an overnight bag in an
auto camp cabin. ,
Temblor Shakes
Salt Lake Area
SALT I LAKE CITY, April 10
(JPyA temblor of unknown extent
and origin shook the Salt Lake
and Magna areas Saturday night
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The tremor Jasted tor several
seconds and was particularly dis
tinct in. s the ' western half of the
city. No damage was reported,
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A&I IS HO DCTCKkENT to Ahrahaat Klomptaer as ho plants onions, '
above, In a Victory garden at the Orthodox Home for the Aged In
Chicago. Klemptner, an inmate of the home, la 83, but he is de
termined to do his share on the home front. - - ImttraathaMl)
ON the HOME FRONT
By ISABEL CHHJD3 1
A youth with a dream Is Rail
Gonzales, who late this past week
visited the Salem 'office of the
federal employment service seek
lng a job as timber faller.
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But that is getting Into the story
at the middle. First, Gonzales,
fair-skinned and. nice-looking,
I'm told, appeared at the office,
where knowledge of a foreign
language is not one Of the j re
quirements . for a placement offi
cer. Salem's boast that it is en
tirely English-speaking and 'ap
proximately 90 per cent longtime
American in descent Is true if the
visitors at the employment office
are a sample. - j
So the young man who spoke
only a foreign tongue was strange
to begin with. j
By a system of signs he made
it clear that he wanted work
a fact which his appearance at the
office had already indicated. I
Now, Harold Rosebraugh is, I
suppose, good nordic, but he rates
as a speaker of Spanish, so Har
old was called in from the foun
dry to give a bit of assistance.
Then it was that the interview
er learned what Gonzales most
wanted to be. A graduate of j the
fourth grade (in Mexico that cor
responds to a college degree here),
the youth, nevertheless, wanted to
be a timber faller.
With Harold's aid, employment
service personnel persuaded him
that the task would be difficult
and dangerous unless he could
speak English. Gonzales had been
in this country four weeks, had
worked for three of those in Cali
fornia. The employment service
said Oregon City could use him
and got ready to ship him off.
Someone went down to the sta
tion with him and just as the
young visitor was ready to de
part, young Mr. Rosebraugh de
cided he could use his services.
Question: Is Harold's Spanish
becoming more fluent or is Rail
learning the English language?
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Victory Garden
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Second USO
Fete Planned
Opening of Salem's s ec o n d
United Service Organizations'
center for service men is sched
uled for Saturday, April 24, with
an opeh house and band concert
feature 1 planned, for Easter Sun
day afternoon, Mrs. C. H. Thorn
as, who with her husband. Adj.
Thomas, Is to be a director of the
new club, said Saturday.
Temporary quarters for the
new USO at S57 Court street are
to house game room, feeding and
writing I room and snack bar.
New metal; leather-upholstered
furniture for the -center has al
ready been 'received- here and
residents of the" area will later be
permitted to donate furnishings to
add to he comfort of the rooms
at the larger center In. the Brey
man building at . the corner, of
Commercial and - Court ' streets,
which may be put into use by
mid-summer. .
Adj. Thomas, now attending
USO school at Columbia univer
sity in New York City,, is to re
turn here next week and will be
in Salem .for the opening of the
temporary 'center. In addition to
Adj. and Mrs. Thomas, the cen
ter will employ a senior hostess,
program , director, secretary and
sneek bar attendants. At the bar
will be j sold doughnuts, made by
machine at the center, milk
shakes, sandwiches, pie . and cof
fee. ' j j ...
The Salvation .Army citadel
band from Portland Is to present
the band concert planned for the
first Sunday the center Is open.
DeCaulle, Eisenhower
Exchange Messages ..
LONDON, April 10 - VP) -The
misunderstanding between Gen.
Charles De Gaulle and .Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower over" the
delay of Fighting French leader's
trip-to north Africa ended in an
exchange of friendly messages bei
tween them as De Gaulle's liason
officer. Gen. Georges Catroux, ar
rived here Saturday from Algiers
to report ; on his discussions with
Gen. Henri Giraud, - ; ;
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Lewis Raps
FR's Order
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flation to a substantial degree
inflation represented by increased.
cost of food stuffs and living es
sentials and definiate scarcities of
many commodities' due to war de
mands, Lewis said at a general
press conference.: '
He asserted that aalae work
ers, fanners and railroad work- .
era were "aimed at", by the ad
stdnistratlon . order tightening '
control of wages and prices at a
time when he said industry and
finance had received approx
imately S6.2av.t0O.fOO la profits
' daring the first nine months of
the present governmental fiscal
rear. ,. , " :
' The UMW will continue its ne-"
gotiations for a new contract next
week with Northern and Southern
Appalachian soft coal mine oper
ators, seeking "proper wages',
Lewis' said. Both groups, are
scheduled to meet at 10 a. m.
Tuesday. They were not In ses
sion Saturday.
The UMW chief said a US
treasury report revealed war ex
penditures for the current fiscal
year from July 1, 1942, to April
1 last totalled $50,574,252,869
and declared it is "conservatively
estimated that 12 V4 per. cent of
this amount, or ' approximately
$6,250,000,000, is "profit to indus
try and finance. I
"Obviously this $6,250,000,000
profit is inflationary because it is
utilized for expenditure by those
who receive it according to their
whim or caprice, he said. He ad
ded that "$6,250,000,000 profit in
nine months represents the differ
ence between inflation and non
inflation in the United States.
Lewis aald he estimated the
profit figures on the basis of "ex
orbitant amounts set aside by
corporations for costs created by
the war and wear on plant facil
ities as well as on announced
dividends.
Davis Reveals
Food Program
WASHINGTON, April '10-VP)
-Moving to assure high produc
tion of meat, dairy and poultry
products and carry out the admin
istration's anti-inflatioin program.
Food Administrator Chester C.
Davis announced Saturday a pro
gram designed to balance prices
and supplies of feed on the one
hand with prices and supplies of
livestock on the other.
". The program provides for the
importation, of feed : grains from
Canada and Australia' to supple
ment dwindling domestic reserves,
and an increase in corn prices in
the midwest to start ' "frozen
stocks of that grain moving to
market again. ,
Davis said the program will
cause no increase in the cost of
living.
RAF Again
Raids Europe
LONDON, Sunday, April
-Royal Air Force bombers ..re
turned to Germany Saturday night
for the third, successive night as
sault, the British reported .Sun
day. - . ..
The night attack followed - a
series of widespread daylight at
tacks Saturday on rail and water
communications in France and
Holland. The specific target for
the raid was' not announced im
mediately. Friday night Duisburg
waa the principal objective.
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