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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Are (fcr Spcdsliy
For over 44 years we
have been scrrinj tha
people of Sakm by fin
ing their doctor's pre
scriptions accurately and
reliably. Bring your next
prescription to us. ;
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