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PAG2 TWO Plasma Bank Gives Call for Blood Donors Wanted: Seventy persons .wil ling to take 40 minutes of time from other activities iometime be tween 9:30 a. m. and 1 30 p. m. Tuesday to give one pifit of blood to the Red Cross-sponsored blood bank dedicated to lengthening the lives, of "men and women in this country's service on foreign fields. , To date Salem's volunteers as blood donors number 30. Dr. Peter A7 Loar of Silverton Is bringing 30 persons from that city to make their contributions on Tuesday, first day residents of this- area shall be offered the opportunity to give to the blood plasma collection.- ' iThe new Red Cross mobile blood plasma unit is to be at the First Methodist church Tuesday, accom panied by a staff of six nurses headed by an army doctor. Salem Legionnaires have joined with the Red Cross to assist the unit in operating here each Tues day for the duration of the war. Blood donations will be accep ted from personi ages 18 to 60 in clusive, with . the provision that those under 21 take with them to the bloodbank center a written authorization from parent or guar dian and that all donors be in rea sonably good health, their blood in good condition. Persons willing to donate should call the county chapter office of the Red Cross (9277 on Monday. Churches Observe Easter D (Continued from Page 1) D vents today will be the dedication of a service men's plaque at ML Angel, inspired by Father Hade brand. Ranking officers at Camp Adair have been invited to attend; the ceremony will be .based upon a martial theme, it-will be re broadcast tonight at 10 o'clock over KEX. . ; ' Rev. Theodore Bernards at St. Joseph's Catholic church an nounced Saturday that the 6:30 a. m. mass will be -solemn high mass, the resurrection service, fol lowed by masses t 8, 9 and 10 a. which will be marked by Eas ter music sung by the adult choir. Last mass will be at 11 a. m. At St. Vincent's de Paul, Rev. Robert S. Neusebauzer and Rev. L. G. Rodakowskii will lead the masses at 7:30 a. mv 9 and 10:30. The 10:30 a. m. mass will be devoted to music by the adult choir, prayers for men in the service and bene diction for children., Special music has been planned by all churches. First Christian members will hear their choir sing a cantata. The Easter Victory," at the night service. Dean Melvin H. Geist is to be the soloist at the First Methodist church. The Sev en Last Words" will be sung by the choir of the First Presbyter ian church at 5 o'clock in the sanc tuary. Soloists will be Josephine - Bross McGee, Agnes Drummond, Garland Holloway. Prof. Luther, R. Ravlor. Col. Macker Swan. Clifford Elliott and Willard' Horh- schuch. The a capella choir will? sing Easter hymns at the, Free Methodist church. j Baptists of the first church, and Its three branches will unite for services in the Salem church to night The-men's end women's choruses will sing, with Mary Cop ley, soloist , Easter breakfasts sand egg hunts " are features of the First Congrega tional church's plans for today and the Leslie Methodists. Prof. R- J. Lush will make his -debut as di rector of music at the First Church of the Natarene. Concert aooearance is scheduled for 2:30 by an army band .'sta tioned in this area when a pro gram of sacred Easter music and light secular numbers 'will be played at the fairgrounds. Salem and the valley have out done themselves -as usual for Eas ter, but this year, more than, ever before, the music, flowers, and v Impressive services of baptism and communion were designed for those burdened by the stress ol war. OPAOrders Price Gut Oii Meats WASHINGTON, April 24 OPA ? Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced Saturday new retail ceiling prices on beef and lamb will be one to three cents per pound lower than recently published CPA schedules and will m.t M,v 17. Standardized regional prices' ohiih Salem a few days ag . i - . . I . A 1 a a. a beef, lamb, veal and. mutton were to have gone into effect April 15 but were suspended before then tor review r to see if the prices could not be cut in line i with President Roosevelt's "hold the line 'order on the cost of living. Compared with prices charged by stores in February, Brown es timated that the new price sched ule will be one-tenth of one per cent lower, ;on the average. Com pared with,more recent prices, the OPA chief; said there will be sharper reductions. - Too Late to Classify FO F.rrrT or SALE: Beautiful mod. tfiini ri--"fj i'lirauiicd. -ft& Madison St. nmiiti?ipnitiiiing; :: TTDncB Wan Hews f f By GLENN BABB : "AP War Analyist for Tha SUUonia The war moved swiftly last week toward the grand climax and ' conclusion , of its African chapter while ;two great- con tending alliances sped their preparations for the next, the 'European, phase. , Secrecy naturally hid most of these preparations but there were' increasing Vindications that for the great armies and air fleets being trained and equipped in Britain, the United States and North Africa the zero day was rapidly approaching. Hitler for his part continued the muster tag of his forces, the allotment of missions and quotas to his StateUites and Quislings, the strengthening of the walls of his European fortress. Soviet Russia,-in the face of evidence that another mighty German offensive is in the mak- ; tag, repeated to her allies her insistence that there must be a second front in Europe soon to ease for the Red army the burden of standing up to the greater part of Hitler's military power. There was good reason .to believe that the allies were straining every sinew to pro duce the only form of help that will satisfy either the Russians or themselves, the invasion of Europe. As an indication of how the war is "moving from the African to the European phase came General Alexander's announce ment of evidence that Marshal Rommel had left the African scene. A captured document showed that the spectacular commander has given way to Von I Arnim as commander in Tunisia and his "present where abouts and new appointment if any, j are unknown," Alexander said.! , .-. ; , ': Rommel may have been re called to command the defense of Italy now that Africa is lost; he may be in disgrace; he . may be ill. " It was a good week for the Twenty PUC Staff Members Are Now in Armed Service Nineteen men and one woman from the personnel of the Oregon public utilities cornnrissioner have exchanged civies for cJr, ntpmhpr 16. 1940. when Col. Clifton M. Irwin grabbed the honor of being the th American war of life. Beiore the id of 1940. five office asso ciates 'of' the colonel followed h& example, and since then enlist- ments have followed so rapidly that the list of eligibles is said to be pretty much exhausted. Twenty stars now adorn the oi- fice service flag. "Every man and the one woman e oar list went with my blessina and best wishes, and with the definite promise that they eaold have their Jobs when they cense back from the war. We are setting-' along with fewer somber tf people,, -that's alt The employes are. prodne Ibx mere per person,' 'as Well as baying bonds." said v JtiIttle Commissioner Osmond K. Bean. i "But I think we have quite something to be proud of. ..That croup, who enlisted in the armed forces must have been . packing something besides their feet, be cause one of the 29 is a colonel; three have become majors, two of them are -captains, four are lieu tenants, three are sergeants,- one is a corporal, ' two are ensigns; there; is one yeoman first class, and one is a warrant officer. "We gave one man to the fight ing navy who has not yet been oromoted. and. our female contri button to the cause is in a WAAC training camp. "It is no wonder that our office crew salute our service nag wnen they bass under it. - and - Salem friends of the, boys may be interested in reading all that we know of them. "CoL Clifton M. Irwin of Salem is stationed at 'Los Angeles. "MaJ. Eugene E. Laird, coming from Mrytle Point, is said to have been ! captured by the enemy in the Philippines and is now in Japanese camp. S "Ma. Norman K. Raymond, Portland, is at Dutch Harbor. "Maj.-Van Svarverud, Eugene, is at ! army headquarters in San Francisco. i ; ' "CapL John H. Bagley, jr, Sa lem, is detailed to Washington, DC "CaDt. Raymond L. BelL Port land, lis stationed in Texas with the air corps. ; "LL Harrison Elgin, Salem, went with the army and is at Camp Abbott, near Bend. T,t. Jamea Haley, ; Seaside, was He was en route to Alabama to serve as a simal corn instructor. "Lt. James B. McClure of Port land is manning the coast defense suns at Camp Clatsop. "Lt. Henry A. Meyer, Portland, was with the forces in Africa when last heard from. He accom panied President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill through Africa. 'Set Thomas B. Handley. Jr; Portland, is with the fighting ma rines in New Zealand. SeL Don Devlin. Portland, is stationed at Fort Riley. Kan. "SgU D. R. Ringland, Salem, is on recruiting duty for the ma rines.; He is a former minister of the 'gc&pel'wfca-became a'sharp- Thm United Nations. There was steady if not spectacular progress to ward victory in nearly all thea tres. - " . United States forces, in the background during the recent weeksiin: which, the storied Eighth army and the veteran First army made Tunisia pretty much a British show, came back to share fully in the responf sibility and the glory. Units of the American second army corps, brought from the far south in a march which evoked British praise for its efficiency, took over the northern end of the allied line with the task of dri ving through the worst terrain of the whole 130-mile front to ward Bizerte. Toward the week- end the Americans; skilled veterans now in slugging, hill-to-hUl fighting, delivered their attack and their " first day's achievement , was a six mile gain , against bitter re sistance along the road to Mateur and Bizerte. On the Russian front the war flared into temporary fury in the western Caucasus, where it appeared the Germans were try tag to extend their small bridge head, probably as a jump off point for an offensive. But after a week of violent assaults, de livered by fresh troops under strong air cover, the German pressure was suddenly relaxed. Moscow said the attacking units had been "bled white," losing 5000 dead with nothing to show for it t- The principal change in the Pacific war picture was the dis closure that American forces had occupied some of the Ellice Islands, a microscopic archipela go on the western flank of our supply lines to the southwest Pacific and only 400 to 500 miles from the Japanese-held Gilbert group. This move heightened expectations of imminent spec tacular events in the Pacific. first to of fer to strike a blow for shooter and gunnery Instructor in World War I. Col. Kenneth W. King. Salem, is headed from Fort Lewis toward an officers' training school. "Ens. James W. Schriver, Port land, ; is a radio expert stationed at San Francisco. We hear that he got himself a charming wife while learninff the business at Washington. DC. "Ens. John R. McCullough, Sa lem, is attached to the navy at Norfolk. Va. "Yeoman First Class Walter L. James, Baker, is with the Atlan tic fleet. "Warrant Officer Clark R. King, Portland, is with the navy at Nor folk. Va. . , -. "Robert Knipe, Portland, is gunning, for Japs with the navy in Alaskan waters. "Eva M. Koessler. Woodburn, joined the WAAC and is training in Arkansas. - UMW Leader Ignores WLB g (Continued from Page 1) g issues and write a report recommendation on. t which board will base its orderJ and the The board made its plain that it wiU proceed with the case even if the United Mine Workers per sist in ignoring it except that in tne event ox a strike the proceed inas would be suspended in ac cordance with board policy not to consider the merits of any case while there is an Interruption of production. A one-month exten sion of the .Current contract ex pires April 30. Asked what the board would do if the UMW made no suggestions for a labor member of .the panel, WLB Chairman William H. Davis said "then we will have to use our own common sense about it." The WLB said it was prepared in - accordance with . President Roosevelt's request to the parties March 22 to consider and decide the coal dispute with all speed consistent, with a "complete and fair minded' settlement. ! Lewis has implied for months without flatly savins so that he would not argue his case before the war labor board.! He has de clared his case is Prejudiced and denounced the Little teel form ula. . - Lorence Rites Aire Postponed SILVERTON. April 24 Funer al services for Andrew. Lorence. once scheduled for Sunday, have been postponed; until "230: p. m. Tuesday, so that a son in the army can be here. They are to be held froa de Jukman..Ianeral home. OUTGO!! STATESMAN, Salem, Crowds Throng Open House At Salem USO Salem's new USO center for servicemen drew. 2080 townspeo ple and servicemen during its open house hours Saturday afternoon and night while still other hun dreds are expected to : visit ; the establishment at 357 Court street for its dedication service at z:30 this afternoon. When 11 o'clock closing time came Saturday night the clack of ping pong balls was still heard and uniformed : men were still calling at the service and infor mation counter to ask about rooms for the night Available at that hour were several beds In pri- vate homes 10 to 20 -blocks from the center. This afternoon's program, an nounced by Adj. and Mrs. C. H. Thomas, directors of the new cen ter, features music by the Port land Citadel band and songsters. Principal address is to be by CoL Gordon McCoy, post commander at Camp Adair, : Visitin dignitaries, here for the ooentaff of the Salvation Army operated center, include Col. Will iam Barker, reeional supervisor of USO operations; CoL James Dee, divisional commander of the Sal vation Army of Oregon and south ern Idaho, and Faber Stevenson, regional executive of USO. County Slates Farm Study B (Continued from Page 1) B whelming. They have justly earn ed the title, "line behind the line,? havine faced the battle of. war production from the standpoint of getting the crops out of the fields and into markets and canneries, The plan was devised when it became apparent in 1941 that the usual source of farm labor had dried up. Mrs. Booth, Mr. Ben nett, Mr. Baillie and half a dozen others- pooled suggestions and ideas to meet the crisis and came uo with the "Marion county plan' which spread and grew into the "Oregon plan." Originally. Oregon farmers de pended upon themselves and their neighbors to harvest crops, back in the days of husking bees and threshing crews. This was follow ed by a time when migrant agri culture workers, the so-called 'fruit tramps" who moved up and down the Pacific states, harvest ed. Gradually their ranks were multiplied by those from the mid die west who had been operating sub-marginal farms and had lost all during the years of depres sion. But with the coming of the war, these migrant workers were absorbed in war industries, leav ing the farmer with a bigger pro duction .task and Utile help. To solve the immediate prob lem in 1941. all Oregonians pitch ed in to aid in the harvest. But in 1942, Baillie introduced his plan to school children, making them aware of the agriculture resources of the state, their re sponsibility in it, and the best way for them to participate in the harvest. With Marion county eagerly adopting the idea, and with Mrs. Booth and Mr. Bennett releasing the course of study to the school Monday, Baillie meantime has been traveling all over the state. in each county outlining the idea of community cooperation to the coordinating committees, so that the plan may be used . all over the' state to save Oregon's food crops. Oresr on Flier C7 . . Saves Pilots : . Near Papua WASHINGTON. April 24-GrV-A landing on a sandy beach, so nar row that one wing of a big trans port plane reached out ' over the sea was made by Capt, Ray Tan- diver of The Dalles, Ore, to res cue three fighter pilots, the war department reported Saturday. , , The fighter nilots had been forced to crash-land after their fuel was exhausted'- in a lon aerial battle with Japanese planes over the Papuan gulr. They were First Lt. Robert E. Douglas. Bea- verton. Ore.; First Lt. Harry E. Lidstrom,, Chicago, and Second Lt. Arthur R. Bauhoff, Wichita Falls, Texas. : Capt Vandiver had planned to drop supplies, note position of the men and send a motor launch to take them off the island. But, the department said, "the supplies did not land where thev were avail able to the pilots. Darkness was setting in with the airmen facing tne prospect of spending the night fighting clouds of Jungle insects. so Captain Vandiver decided to make a landing. "Salt water lashed the wheel. and one wing was over the waves when the difficult landing ..was accomplished. Since the"" beach, was too narrow to allow the plane to wheel around, the airmen back ed it to the far end by hand in order to attempt a take-off. "With everyone aboard, the plane was forced to go the entire length of the beach before it finallr eased into the air for the return jour ney.": ;s....z Oregon. Sunday Morning, AprU . 1 ONtheHOMEFRONT By ISABEL CIHLD3 Salem Saturday night: The eirls wore sweaters and bright skirts beneath open, tai- inroii snorts coats, and they liter ally danced along oa the soles of their saddle shoes whlctt were worn over short,' soffox- Said the one with the glossy tmvn noD to ner raw w looked to me to be aU of 16 years of age: "My sister's 18 and I'm 19 but a plain-clothes man stop ned us at least that's what he said he was, we think he was Jut a pickup," this last witn con siderable scorn. v , l-V i coffee shoo the three soldiers ate and one paiL When Martha' cut an very large dill pickle in four parts, they gener-j ously shared with me, but un nv. mmit nersons at that friend ly counter they did not strike up t conversation, it was ippt that they were living in a world far from South Commercial street. -. Tnrmtv minutes later on North rtOTimerrlaL I heard them bring- n their same to an end. aaia - , - . the tall man behind tne aarx spec .,.if "Now get this straight, you . . ... . . n't sir Lancelot and," turning vr mmnimisL you are not Sir Galahad, and Fm not King Arthur." It seemed to me that they walked, on a mue more n - . almost as if a load had been lifted from their shoulders. At that, it must have been diffi cult even with imaginations like thir to make the right-angled mimtur rf tha coffee shop into a table round.. .-.-. to say nouung of what one would nave to ao with the hamburgers, the steak sandwiches and the soda pop. -r V Th uniformed man behind me in the lineup at the grocery store cash register gazed at we open tfon book in my hand. "Ah-h, thought I. 'iust a new way to , - oiri'i name, age and -weight,", but then he spoke up icaiu : I hope these aren't rauonea. "These" were potato chips and olio conversational weage. i.m.H that his mother lived in Maine, raised a garden tnat ne and" his wife "had spent iour aoi lan for dinner and that the boys at camp had been told td go easy on accepting invitations mw homes for Sunday dinner because they might be taking the food from the mouths of civilians. I bone someone will correct me it t niainfnrmii him. Said I. "It they invite you to, their homes. thev want you to come, ana thv're not going to starve. Maybe they've a boy in the service and seeing you eat will do their neans rrwvJ Besides, we live in a land flowing with milk ana noney, neither of which has yet been ra tioned. Personally. I feel sorrier for the restaurant people than for us home-dwellers, and I know the restaurant men will not think l m snoiling their business when supcrest that you eat a home- cooked meal when you can get one." However, there was still a doubtful expression on his face as I marched off wim my paper sack of vegetables, the pound of coffee and the ration book. , . Tunis Fight In Last Stage C (Continued from Page 1) C of Bizerte, since Cap Serrat is only 35 miles from the big naval base.) The British First army, striking hard on the western side of the enemy's defense line, was reported tn hive cantured the German -Verdun" -stronghold at Lone Stop hill, only 28 miles from Tunis and the key to the Tunisian coastal plain.;: Long Stop hilL which has been fiercely defended py xne Germans for months, ; guards a pass leading from " Medjez-el-Bab to Tunis. While one bat tie -tempered American unit fought its way toward Mateur, important traffic i unction between Bizerte and Tu nls, another force of Lieut.-Gen. dforem S Patton. ir.'s Second army corps was reported to have hacked its way through stubborn enemy opposition .for seven miles northwest of Beja and to the north of the Beja-Mateur road. ' American artillery pounded German positions around the dock, said Associated Press Cor respondent Harold V. Boyle, in the field with the US troops. He added that on one bill taken by Americans Friday, all 200 nazis there were either killed or cap tured. An announcement from Gen. c,v Harold Alexander's allied ground troop headquarters hfghlyi praised the speed and secrecy wnn which Patton's American troops were transferred from the Q Gue tar sector in southern Tunisia to fail on the enemy in the north. This decision involved the moving of large numbers of troops and great quantities of stores ana iilriment along the whole length of the front, and senior British of ficers have the fullest admiration the excellent staff work, par ticularly for the speed and secrecy with which the ; move , was car ried out," the announcement said. The discipline of United States , J troops also was praised.; ; ; 25, IS 13 Death' Takes '. Newswoman Veteran - srr.VERTON. April 24. Lenna c.t,i. - vtomn Oregon news paper employe, who for several years In the second aecaae o century worked at the old States- msn f on-. North Commercial street and for 20 years thereaft er was a member or tne snop force at the Oregonian, died Sat urday-in- Portland at the age of 59 years. --i:-: .?'" Whenv she was employed at -The Statesman as a linotype operator; h wa Mrsl" Ikiear StahL and both she and her husband worked nights in-the publishing plant when It was located where the Chinese Tea Garden la now op-, erated. r . Born at Silverton, she war the daughter of Theodore Schlador and Nettle Schlador, pioneer resr idents here. Her father died when she was small, her mother enly art few years ago. She was reared here and had her first newspaper employment with the Silverton Appeal -as .a '-girt. - . ; -- Survivors include' two broth ers and -a'- sister, J. Cal Schlador A. iW. j Schlador and Miss Aita Schlador, all of Portland. Funeral services ar to be held Tuesday afternoon from" the Hol- man chapel in Portland. Union Heeds FRV Orders, Quits Strike F (Continued from. Page with my request by 12 noon Mon- day, your government wUl " take step, to protect , the . interests oi the nation at war." " i Mr. "Roosevelt "acted on the re quest of the war: Jabor board, which asserted the strike violated lahor's nledae not "to tie up war production and crippled at least 22 plants by slowing tne ouxpui o essential materials. The president did not say what atnk the government would take to assure full operation of the big Plastics plant, formerly the Cel luloid Corp:; but in previous cases of WLB; defiance has ordered army or navy to sieze the plants involved. Nearing Quota G (Continued from Page 1)"7 Mt. Angel committee, headed by James Fournier,. manager of the United ? States National branch there, is holding group meetings and expects to make an individ ual canvass of the enure com munity. Another committee is that at Silverton headed by George Man- olis of the war savings staff and Glenn Briedwell of the victory loan committee. Chairman Card reporting that they were doing an exceptional Job. Total subscriptions of ' banks and individual citizens' are now a-tfn r1nr and closer lo .the $7,000,000 mark as against a to tal quota for the county of $5, 000,000. MARSHFIELD, Ore, April 24- (PV-Co6sv 'county club women raised ilOO.000 Saturday in a war loan luncheon in which Mrs. Elea nor Wilson McAdoo was the f ea hired speaker. The women bought $50 bonds as admission tickets; . Mrs. Albert Powers,, was in charge. " Airs. McAdoo said Coos county women have led the nation, in wo men's bond activity, starting in November. " County Drive US Claims Radar Discovery : Iii Disclosure of War Time ; , J Use of Vital liistiaiinent ; -H; WASHINGTON, April 2Mff-The United States army and navy, in their first official statement on the Radar, said Saturday the enemy-detector device was discovered in this country in 1922, The war and navy departments issued a joint statement on what they said was the "early develop ment" of the device. The Radar, using the . principle tf , reflected radio waves, ' is ; able to probe through fog, storm and darkness to pick up objects on the surface or in the air , and to determine their direction, distance and speed. Radar, the statement said, now stands' "guard : at many danger points -along the. united nations frontiers and at sea, warning of the coming of aerial and sea-borne enemy forces, and attributing to wards victory in' combat." It is, the two services said, "used for both defense and offense' and has "played a vital part in helping first to stem and then to turn the tide of axis conquest. Here Is how the statement de scribed the operation of the de tector, called by the- British the "radio locator": " - ; . "It is one of the marvels made possible by , the electron ; tube. Ultra-high-frequency waves ' tra velling with the speed of light can be focused, and scan air and sea. When they strike an enemy ship or airplane, they bounce backj Radio, waves.: travel jat, a constant Some Thirst, Eh, Brother? mLYMPIA. April 24-GTV-Capt Ray Hays, Olympia detective, is looking for some thirsty soul wno couldn't wait until the liquor store opened Saturday morning. During the night, Hays report ed, someone kicked in. the front door window of the store and walked off with four-fifths of Scotch whiskey. Array Reveals A (Continued from" Page 1) A if V Because HeT)odied' men -.art niuHn1 t ihm ' f irhtfnff fronts.- able bodfed women !do much of the lighter work at the depot. About 2T per cent of the employ- es in the packaging division are woroen. Because "f.'l proof, : Colonel Buyers, said more of them are sought. Male civilians do the rest of the work, leaving to a small corps of officers and a smaller detail or en listed men to supervise it, - 3Iore than a year before the Japanese sneak at Pearl Barber, army engineers were chasing the Jackrabblts and sheep off the desert spot picked for the depot. The first hdoo was filled. By De cember the contractor had virtual ly, completed his work on the mu nitions and administrative divi sions. ' " ' Between July . and December, 1942. a combat equipment area, not yet activated, was .built It will handle guns, tanks, 'instruments. vehicles and small arms: Although tons of TNT,' amatol, explosive- D, smokeless powder, the extremely sensitive tetryl and black powder surround them, ci vilian workers and the military complement ' are in little danger oX sudden, wholesale death. Once the munitions are stored la the Igloos there is little chance that ' more than one. If any, would be destroyed. Most of the explosives are insensitive te the -ardinary shocks of handling. Booster charges of tetryL stored separately, gives the oomph that bring the- f nil explosion. Hew ever, ne, one drops any thing if he can help It. : The igloos are so constructed that the force of . an explosion would be upward, and are so spaced that only one magazine would be destroyed. This construction-spacing design has proved ef ficient, Colonel Buyers said. At another depot recently an explo sion occurred in an igloo. Only the one went up, although others ad jacent to it contained explosives. . : The depot is self-contained, and need rely on no civilian facility for operation. It has its own rail road line, with four locomotors and 40 miles of track within the reservation. Machine shops f or the rail facilities, for a fleet of trucks and other repair work also are a part of the depot. They're even 'building a town for civilian employes. At the mo ment, aside from toe depot. Ord nance consists of a well-built rail road station provided by the Un ion Pacific, which serves the area. Across the tracks from the mag azines, a private , contractor... 'is building. , the city of Ordnance. Some 900 workers wifl Be housed in brick tile structures. : ' ' "We don't make much aolse, and the bands dent play whan . we launch a car.", said Colonel i Bayers, rout we've got what it takes to Mow the living .day,-, lighta eat of Mssrs. Hitler, Mus solini and Hirehlto aad ws're delivering lt as needed.' Couple Altar Bound ' A saarrlaa-e license was Is $tardar In Seattle te Frank Albe of that city and Lillian ZUa ef Saleaa. speed of 186,000 miles per second. Thus a small space of time is re ciuired for such sfcrnals to travel to the reflecting surface and re turn to the receiver, so that, with means provided for measuring the time interval, it is possible to de termine the distance to a given target" The statement said the Rritlsh reported the radio locator was' In strumental in saving England dur ing the aerial blitz of ,1940 and 1941 vtrhen the locators spotted German raiders long before they reached a target area and thus gave the RAFT and ground" de fenses time for preparation.1 ; - V News afories un( from TjvnAnn earlier this month said that Sir Kooert Watson Watts, British scientist, discovered radio loca tion accidentally while studying the ionized area above the strato sphere in connection with . re search looking to improvement of radio communications. The army navy statement made no direct mention of this claim but had this to say of Radar: : " 'Tt Uric fircf HtnAmraM tn ttia United States in 1822."; u.;. Ordnance Camp Leliman Rites Set Monday, City View Last rites for Mrs. Lydia Vande vort Lehman, '70, who died Thurs day, will be held from the Clough Barrick chapel at 120 p.m. Mon day, with Rev. B." Earle Parker of Eugene officiating. Mrs. Lehman, 1 who lived at 267 South Church street, will be buried In the City View cemetery. . - She was born at the family homestead near Brush college in Polk county: on September IS, 1873, the youngest daughter of William and Emily Vandevort. While spending her youth on the farm she attended the Brush col lege school. After moving to Sa lem with her parents in 1890, she attended Willamette university Where she graduated from the school of oratory. - rs ' Following ; the footsteps ' of her mother, she became connected with the WCTTJ earlv in life. Mrs. ' Lehman served as both local and county president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and held a life membership in the organization.: ;-..;In 1897 she married Uri J. man, who died six years ago Lehman t belonged to the Methodist church of Salem for 52 yearSi:"":;V:-":- j' I- v-.---c' i i Mrs. Lehman is survived by two sons, Robert W. Lehman of Sa lem and Russell C Lehman of Bristol, RI; one sister, Mrs. Grace V. Lehman of i Salem; and two grandchildren, Robert Harold and Larry Lee Lehman, both of Salem. Allied Heads Reveal Tox' Deserted ATJLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 24 - (&) The allied ground command gave official concurrence Saturday to an engaging piece of captured evi dence that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had been removed by some means from the African fighting scene, leaving his cor nered Africa corps under com mand of CoL Gen. Jurgen von Arnim. The basis for the crystallizing belief that Rommel had disap peared from Tunisia was a brief statement made public by the headauarters, of Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, the allied ground com mander, which said: i "A document dated March 19 and recently captured by the (British) First army was signed by Von Arnim as general Officer, commanderrin-chief, and not by Rommel, whose present where abouts and new. appointment, if any, are unknown." r . The enrotic i announcement im mediately revived speculation on what may have happened to tne wily Rommel whose whereabouts lone have been the subject of ' rumor and conjecture. That the nazi desert fox would abandon his personally hothouse- trained Africa corps, now engaged in its fight for life, opened these possibilities: j (1) That he had been recalled to take charge of the defenses of Italy's mainland and Sicily and Sardinia because the German high command is convinced Africa al ready is lost; (2 That he is in discrace with Hitler and has been removed tha same as many; other German gen- erais who xauea: ana v That he had been wounded or killed. -It is certain that Rommel's dis- anoearance- would- have a pro found effect on the Africa corps, which; he personally trained and, led in three years of desert battle.1 Mill Workers To Can at Plant ' ' ' ROSEBURcl. April 2.-iJfy-Employes of the Roseburg Lum ber company will be able to can produce froaai their victory gar dens at the company sawmill. Owner; Kenneth Ford purch ased ' come cannery equipment and is connecting it to steam boil ers at the mill for their use. 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