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' ' peaking - of the WLB, the letter
said: -i
? This board "wields the heads
man's axeagainst the workers of
the country. It has breached its
..'agreement with labor when it
Ipublicly substituted political ex
pediency for equity, in the settle-
( taent of disputes."
i',- Miss- Perkins had turned the ;
l..-case over to the board last week, i
f ,'sa'ybig It appeared that the long !
?idireet nepotist ions la New York
!-were not making progress. The i
! I MW asked her Tnesdar night,
la effect, to recall this action.
John I Lewis, the UMW chief
. tain, said in talking with reporters
In New York: '
"As matters stand, there will be
ho contract April 30. The mine;
workers will not trespass. on mine
property in the absence of a con
tract." It was generally believed in
Washington that the government
would act swiftly, if a general
work stoppage-, did develop.
Lewis Is df mandlnf a $2 in
crease la the basic daily ware, a
" . mininuuB of IS a- day, par ior
- underground travel and union -
lsatloa of minor hoasea.
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Playground
Fund Doubled
A playgrounds budget approx
imately twice that of last summer
will go before Salem school dis
trict's budget committee and prob
ably before the city budget group,
It became apparent when two al
ternative "budgets were presented
ifor preliminary discussion to the
"school board Tuesday night.
. Recommended by . the play
grounds committee, representing
city council and school directors,
the budget school board members
would like to present to the dis
trict budgeteers calls for expendi
ture of $14,997. Last year $7000
was spent, although less had or
iginally been provided.
The $14,997 budget would al
low operation of both Olinger and
Leslie playgrounds, as well as aux
iliary playgrounds at Highland,
Englewood, Richmond, Grant and
Bush schools. That an enlarged
playground program is needed to
counteract absence from home of
working parents and growing ten
dencies toward juvenile delin
quency was the recommendation
f Gurnee Flesher, director of the
city's summer recreation program
for children and the playgrounds
committee. Th nthtr hiirit
which might be 'considered as an
alternate, calls for operation of
-Leslie and Olinger and an auxil
iary playgrounds at Highland,
similar to the program of last year.
School directors voted to pre
sent the budget for the enlarged
operations to their budget commit
tee. City and district share expen
ses of the playgrounds.
Firm to Build
Ship Fenders
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wiU be needed in woods opera
tion. - - " -;--
It was indicated by company
officials that a larger operation
of another type was being con
templated here that might have a
direet -connection with Oregon's
big plywood business
The new-.design ship fenders
which ' Bohren's : concern is to
make here' consist of -an iron rod
core, covered by a solid cylinder
of wood, which in turn is matted
with fir sapling cuttings and the
whole unit wrapped in a soft rope
covering. . The. fenders . prevent
' Teasels' sides being scuffed
against docks arid" other 'ships.
The fir saplings, said Bohren,
are being obtained west of Black
Hock on a cutting plan ' worked
out with the forest : service in4
keeping with the. . reforestation
program. ' -f- .,'.
Bohren said the Satem chamber
of commerce ' had assisted mate
rially in bringing his' concern here
and Sen. Charles L. McNary had
cooperated with the corporation's
vice-president, T. O. Toon, in ob
taining an initial order from the
navy.
Open House.
Draws Crowd
'Between 400 and 600 townsfolk
walked "around the campus of old
-Willamette Tuesday night, de
spite inclement weather, to attend
the open house at which the Insti
tution which recently . observed
its 100th ' anniversary exhibited
new equipment : and its 'modern
outlook on life side by side with
the relics and treasures gathered
in museum and library from by-
: gone days. cr ; ;
Registration, conducted in the
library by women of Cap and
Gown , honor society, drew t only
231 persons, but several hundred
others, starting their tour at the
other end of the campus failed to
sign the record. '
Men of Blue Key, upperclass
men's honorary, served-as guides
to various exhibits and attractions
and declared the crowd enthusias
tic. Too Late to Classify
rOH SALE: rabbits. Inquire alter
i p. m. 13ts S. 13 Ux St
Scissors
CAMP ATAIbV Ah! The colonel admires her red earls, bat not for the
reasons of beauty that yon, and this camp's soldiers might think.
Her hair to of a particular red shade and of a degree of fineness that
lends It to use in vital 'and delicate instruments used by the ord
nance department, and she's agreed to let the army have some of It.
The yosmg woman is Kesemarle Werline, Independence, and ; the
colonel. LL CoL James ML Frasier, Camp Adair post ordnance offi
cer. Cut courtesy Camp Adair Sentry.
Knox Warns
Raid Threat
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way to reach the Pacific north
west Objectives in Alaska, on the
other hand, would be within prac
tical operating range of their big
planes. !
The Japanese had been expect
ed by American army men in the
Aleutians, according to dispatches
from there, to try for completion
of. their air base on Kiska about
this time of year. Recent recon
naissance and pilot reports had
shown them to be much stronger
than on March 1, when the pres
ent aerial offensive began. Since
the first of April the Japanese on
Kiska have been bombed 129
times. Raids against. Attu, where
enemy installations are much less
extensive, have been made only
occasionally.
The communique reporting
Sunday's 13 raids also an
nounced that in the south Pa
cific on Monday, Solomons Is
land time, a group of Liberator
bombers had attacked Japanese
positions at Kahili In the Short
land Island area of the north
western Solomons. Results were
not reported. -
The situation in the southwest
Pacific came up briefly at Knox's
press conference when he was
asked whether he had any infor
mation to bear out the latest re
ports from Australia that the Jap
anese were massing ships at Truk,
big naval base north of the Solo
mons. - t '
"I have nothing to substantiate
that," Knox said, later clarifying
this statement with the explana
tion that the enemy had of course
been operating from Truk since
the beginning of the war and even
a normally large concentration of
ships there would mean "nothing
unusual.'
Asked whether anything might
break in the Pacific soon, Knox
replied: "I dont know the Japa
nese plans and can't talk about
ours.! i
RAF Blasts
LONDON, April 17-(V The
RAF blasted Duisburg with ap
proximately 1350 tons of bombs
from 600 planes in one of the hea
viest raids of the war Monday
night, the British . announced to
night, leaving that great indus
trial and transport center, of the
German? Ruhr a vast carpet of
seething flames;
for 45 minutes, the air ministry
news service disclosed, Britain's
biggest bombers dumped an aver
age of 30 tons o? explosives and in
cendiaries every minute.
The Germans put up one of the
stiffest defenses of the city 12
miles west of pummeled Essen,
and they claimed 17 of the raid
ers. It was the first large scale
raid in a week during which poor
weather Interrupted the nocturnal
blows at Hitler's war potential.
The last big raid was on Stettin
and Rostock April 20.
Vehicle Report Due
PORTLAND, April 27-flP) Op
erators of three or more commer
cial vehicles must file operation
reports for the first quarter by
April 30, Herman O. Sites, office
of defense transportation district
manager, reminded Tuesday. -
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I wonder if Salem's lovely open
air theatre (which really belongs
to the state) doesn't lack, at least
one feature which seems to guar
antee success to an Easter sunrise
service height. Around the great
cross on Mount Davidson 35,000
San Franciscoans gathered Sunday
morning to worship in the cold
dawn. In church-filled Salem, the
size of the congregation for the
6:30 services at the state capitol
building has been revealed only
as "smaller than in previous
years."
Y-
When I think of heights, and
especially of Mount Davidson with
its towering cross, I recall a most
thrilling experience:
We took off through the fog
in the little red Stinson and sud
denly found ourselves above a sea
of white and beneath a glowing
blue dome.
Only break in the downy carpet
was a jagged hole torn by the
arms of the great, dark cross,
which rose above the clouds into
the measureless heavens . . .
saw it as I looked back.
One is supposed to look forward
only, my companions of the flight
declared, pointing to the sunny
areas which stretched . out beyond
us as we sped north 'of the bay.
There was new country to be an
and the warmth that sweetens the
grapes in the vineyards below
fcathed us even within the cabin of
the plane.
That was the day the young
Pan-American pilot (w h o w a s
spending his vacation as an a via
tor should in the air) suggested I
might like to move up in front to
handle one stick of the dual con
trols for awhile. There was noth
ing but pleasure in that jaunt, no
occurrence to mar the occasion,
but the thrills I recall most clear
ly lie in the vision we had left be
hind us and that to which we re
turned some 60 minutes later.
As we drew close to the South
San Francisco airport, in front of
us rose the cross which by" morn
ing light had been dark but in the
magic of approaching noonday
now gleamed in myriad changing
colors. Gone was all bleakness.
It had cleared away the cloud
and there remained nothing hid
den in the glory of the city it had
exposed. , The " time was autumn,
but the occasion was Easter.
Yes, for worship I like heights,
and, I suppose, one must have
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continuous pounding .without
cracking, v . '
Hitler still Is trying to supply
his African army, but lightning
pilots cut a hole in his efforts by-
hitting five ships in one convoy
with bombs. ; - ; : '
American Flying Fortresses also
gave Italy a frightening glimpse
into the future ' by pouring ; high
explosives - and - f r a g m e ntatfon
bombs on axis, airfields within 90
hilex of. Rome.-:': rx,:rJr-';..
While the French were re- .
ported at the outskirts of Font ;
do Falis, British armored forces
were threatening to cat off that
Important axis base In a drive '
southeast of Gonbellat. -,
-In fighting in this area the Ger
mans had lost 20 tanks In a 24-
hour period. . . - - .
Two British First army armor
ed columns had thrust to within
four and six miles Of the Pont Du
Fahs-Tunis supply road.
In the southern sector of the
front, the British Eighth army's
left flank was said by a spokes
man to have made "slight advanc-
iV In Infantry fighting , In the
hills.
Aloft, the already over
whelming allied air mastery
was being even farther extend
ed. The allied eommanlqae re
ferred to the "increasing intensity-
or attacks by the tactical
air force - on enemy positions
and air fields. One thoasand
sorties by allied planes were re-,
ported. . "
While the tactical force was de
stroying axis vehicles in large
numbers, setting off big fires over
the battle areas, the strategic air
force carried forward powerful
attacks on enemy communications.
The heaviest single raid was
delivered by flying fortresses on
Grosseto air field, 90 miles north
west of Rome, on the Italian
mainland, hundreds of bombs
were cast down; parked - axis
planes and airdrome buildings
were destroyed.
Fighter bombers "attacking
enemy shipping repoVted hits
on several vessels, at least two
of which were sank and others
left aflame. .
The destruction of a total of 13
enemy planes, against 11 allied
craft lost In these widespread op
erations, was announced official
ly. (A strong force of U. S. heavy
bombers based in Cairo raided
the Bari Airdrome in Italy's Adri
atic sea coast, about 50 miles
north of the Tarnato naval base.
("Many '.fires and 4 explosions
ur.r. .mtcrt aiwf vwr - consider
able damaee was done to air-4
drome installations," said a com
munique. In this and other op
erations one allied plane was lost.
(Both the German and Italian
commands claimed that allied
ground attacks in Tunisia had
been broken, but both acknowl
edged that axis activity was de
fensive.) FR Probes
Kaiser Tiff
PORTLAND, Ore, April 27-(J)
President Roosevelt investigated
the possibility of halting the na
tional labor relation board's Kai
ser shipyard hearing but found
he lacked authority to intervene,
John P. Frey, AFX. metal trades
chiefs declared in an address re
leased Tuesday.
Frey's statement, mad before-
a Pacific coast metal trades -conference
her last week, was in
cluded in a transcript issued to the
press by union officials. The press
iutd been barred from the meet
ings. .
Attempts were made to prevent
the NLRB from continuing its
hearing of CIO charges that three
Kaiser shipyards in this area
signed illegal closed-shop con
tracts with AFL unions, Frey said.
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Women Teachers Accorded
Same Privileges as Men
For War Enlistments
- Women teachers in Salem public school will receive the
same leaves of absence during; enlistment in the nation's military
services that have been accorded to men, school directors voted
unanimously at their.meeting Tuesday night. ' .
rV-; The action followed a presentation by Supt. Frank B. Bennett
of information from other large Oregon school districts and
SeattleJ to- the effect that the
granting of such leaves is general.
Portland grants to women as well
as . men teachers leaves for - mili
tary organizations and even , for
Red "Cross work; Eugene grants
leaves for Red Cross and USO
work as well as the armed ser
vices. '
Medford v'gives leaves, while
Pendleton has taken no action to
ward establishment of a policy but
will probably favor , the granting
of leaves - to the women," letters
written to Bennett from school ad
ministrators declare.
Mrs. David Wright, Don Young
and Chairman Roy Harland ex
pressed . themselves as favoring
the extension of the leave-of-ab-sence
system to women entering
the service, Mrs. Wright because
she wanted "no discrimination and
no barrier placed in the way of
service to the nation during this
emergency," ; Young because "it
seems fair ana because public
policy seemed to indicate it ' the
right step. Harland said he had
thought the matter over and
agreed. : . Only dissenting voice,
that of Ralph Campbell, was not
raised as the "nays" were called
in taking the vote. Said Campbell
"The popular thing may not be
best for the school system . . .
It seems just as important to the
national welfare to me that the
schools should educate as that
membership in the WAACs and
the WAVES should be built up.w-
ResignaUon of Mrs. Elisabeth
Gilchrist, assistant librarian at
Salem high school, who leaves
to Join her husband, was . ac
cepted. That of Walter Bow
man, previously accepted was
made effective May 1 so that he
may go to his ranch, where, he
had previously declared. It has
ben difficult to secure help.
Leaves were granted Mrs. Mary
B. Noland, now on leave, and Mrs.
Frances Graham Otjen, whose
health requires that she "should
rest the remainder of the school
year. She-plans to return in the
falL Mrs. Florence Emerson was
retained an a substitute basis to
replace Mrs. Noland at Parrish;
Mrs. Henry Otto was continued
at Parrish; Mrs. Ruth Y. Carkin
was continued as a physical edu
cation teacher, replacing Miss Es
ther Arnold, on leave; Mrs. Gladys
M. Jensen was continued on a sub
stitute at Parrish, as was Duane
Mellum at Leslie, Mrs. Logan,
Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Tobig at jun
ior high schools.
Named as new teachers in the
system were Glenn R. Beischer,
OSC graduate, who comes from
Burns to replace Raymond Carl,
on military leave; Miss Marjorie
Baird of Halfway, and Miss Max
ino Himel wright of Joseph, both
graduates of Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education, to teach in, ele
mentary schools.
Y Gleemen
Name Head
Aubrey Tussing wan- elected !
president of the Saleaa Y Gleemen
at their annual meeting Tuesday
night; Verne E. Robb, first vice
president; Sam J. Harms, second
vice-president; George Quigley,
secretary; Forrest Edwards, as
sistant secretary;; Raymond W.
Dahlen, librarian, and Max Alfred
and C. A. Kells, directors at large.
A program, arranged by.Quigley
followed the busineess meeting
and late refreshments were served
to Gleemen and their guests.
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C. F. French, only member of the
Salem public schools teaching
staff retiring this year. French,
who has taught here since 1924,
commencing his work at Par
rish and. transferring later to
Leslie Junior high school. Is a
city alderman.
More Activities
Under OPA Order
PORTLAND, A,ril 27-iF)
Meal and drink i prices must be
filed by boarding houses, private
clubs, tourist and summer camps,
and college dormitories, fraterni
ties and sororities, the district
OPA said Tuesday.
The filings must be made by
May 1 under the order which also
covers restaurants, taverns, soda
fountains and hotels, OPA said.7
Continuous Every Day from 1:00 P. Al. -
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OVERi'.lAII
PLUS C03IP ANION FEATURE
iJL Bay War Bonds X; I i
And Stamps Today 1 " . , f
3. Students
Are Expelled
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and presented In bulletin form to
high school pupils. At that time a
period of probation was provided
for society members, with the un
derstanding that affidavits to the
effect that they were not at regis
tration time this year members of
any such organization were to be
signed by any believed to have
held such relationship to the out
lawed societies.
Graduates . of -. Salem r high
school recalled -Taesday- -night
that similar affidavits were re
antred of entering pupils at the-:
school in the fall of 1925. when
the "secret society scandal? was
' rocking the city. This action fol
lowed by some years action of
the state legislature in outlaw
ing the societies.
Tuesday nighfs board action
was handled without discussion.
The facts had already been pre
sented to the board members per-;
son by person. Director Ralph
Campbell, who made the motion,
declared following the meeting.
Members of the group expelled
and "placed on record are said
to have attended a picnic given by
the organization, commonly re
ferred to as the "JCV on April
17 at Hazel Green.
Lower Columbia
Flood Expected
PORTLAND, April 27 -(JP)-Lower
Columbia river flood con
trol districts were warned Tues
day to check dikes in the area as
a precaution against a high flood
level.
Tjie warning came from Col.
Donald Leehey of the US army
engineers Portland office. The wa
ter level at Portland was 18.1 feet,
he said, with a possible recurrence
during May or June, of the 24.8
foot level reached in 1933. - '
Auto Quota Is 769
PORTLAND, April 27-rV-Ore-gon's
automobile quota for May Is
769 vehicles with 100 in reserve,
the district OPA announcedTues-
day. ';V--V.'- -V -..v;
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GOfS Reelect
Currant Head
:NEW; YORK April 27-(AP)
Thomas J, Currant, New York
secretary of state, was reelected
president of the national republi
can club Tuesday night and de
clared that in the 1944 elections
the American people will throw
the new deal out, as they threw
the democrats out in 1920 and us
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY
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Remember last season's hi
hit "Minstrel Days"? Fol.
. lowing in Its footsteps is this
cavalcade of vaudeville
greats, with imDersonatinn
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