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1 ' thm CH2GCII STATESMAN. Cclem.' Oregon. CahirdayX.Icn!jic, Ja 13.' 1243 , 4 -t mi FEELS ALLIED BOMBINC FUR Y Allied bombers city on the North Sea. with the city's aircraft plants as their Where They Are What They Are Doing ROY POTTER .1 i V SGT. "BUDDY" AMBROSE ' ; CpL Roy ; Potter dropped the . prefix from his name this week and became a civilian e n e e r snore. Arriving here Friday from Walter Reed hospital with a medical discharge, young Pot ter plans to spend two months : here at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lovey Fetter, recuperat ing. He , will always carry a - limp as a reminder of light leg ' weands received In action la v Africa. ' ' Enlisting la February, 1939, be went first to Hawaii, bot waa -sent from the states to - Africa, with his Infantry nnlt. ; He arrived In the United State last Novftber 28 for hospitali- aaiion atWalter Reed, had . been liome ' from the hospital onee, before his most recent stay there. Prior to entering army service, . Potter ; waa em- v ployed by Montgomery Ward and before that had driven a .truck for Wleder's laundry. Another son of , Mrs. Potter, v Sgt. Floyd "Buddy ; Ambrose, who enlisted in December, 1939. , haa retorned to his duties with the' coast artillery In Panama after a "recent fnrloagh here. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Moots of route 2, Salem,, have learned that their son has arrived for his train ing at the Fa rragut, Idaho, naval station. . ' Gordon Reeves, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Reeves of Salem, has completed his first course at the flight training center in Ontario, Calif. and will be transferred to Gardner field, Taft, Calif., for his bask: training. ; In the fourth contingent of men from the enlisted reserve corps at Oregon State college the fol lowing men have been listed: Russell A. Beardsley, Salem; Er Jand Joseph Anderson, Silverton; Lyle T. Lindley, McMinnviUe, and John Robert Pescheck, Albany. Students in engineering courses may take their 13 week basic training program in the army and then apply for reassignment to a college for specialized, training. I Ten who have qualified for training to become naval encZgns Target of Allied .... n jit , .: i i : TiC? 2 v -- or marine corps second lieuten ants , were Ronald M. . Smith, Sa lem, . and Charles W. Maxon, Grand Ronde. Others passing qualifying tests were Charles H. Beardsley, Robert P. Aiken and Leighton C. Fairham, Salem; Har old M. Cox, Sherdian; Robert M. Ohling and Waren W. Conley, Al bany; Robert Paul. Knoll, Cor Vallis; James G. Spinup, St. Paul, and William L. Loersch, Lebanon. '. Arno Carl Nelson, Salem; Harry Leroy Simmons, " Sherdian,- and Crowin Charles Logue, Silverton, enlisted j in. the navy at the Port land recruiting station. ' ' Raymond W. Lamka, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.' W. Lamk a, 1845 South 12th street, has been pro moted "to lieutenant, senior grade, in the navy according to word re ceived by his parents. Lt- Larnka .who graduated from Salem , high school and -attended Willamette university, is assistant - navigator on' board an auxiliary naval vesr sel in . the south Pacific. V Barry W. Heckes of lis Che meketa street, Salem, is now sta tioned with army air forces in Kearns, Utah, where he is study ing subjects which will prepare him for his work with the ground crews, f , 1 T. . Perry Edward Cllpfell. son . of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Clipf ell, Lyons, has completed his 45-day course in the maintainence-and repair, of peeps and jeeps at his -training station in Fort Knox, Kentucky.. Leo E. Larsen, rente 4. Salem, is now i stationed at Fort Knox, Ken., where he is learning meth ods of operating tank and truck radios before being assigned to a combat S with the armored units. Lt. and Mrs. Gilbert Mater left Monday for Camp Haan, Calif., after a furlough in Salem and Portland. Lt Mater is the son of Mr. Howard Mater. His wife is the former Katherine " Boyer of Stayton.' ' Donald llagg. son of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Hagg, 497 South 23rd street and 1 his wife, the former Naomi Dresslerare in Salem on a visit to his parents. Hagg, a radio technician 2nd class in the navy has just completed a radar course at Treasure island and is enroute to a new station In the east He was formerly i weather observer here. v r : ' 4 7 A brother, Kenneth, is still in radar school at Treasure island. John Martin, nephew of Mrs. C. G. Olson and Mrs. W. L. PhU lips of Salem, has been graduated recently from Willamette univer sity and will report to Columbia university where- he will take navy training. LINCOLN Pfe. James W. Mickey,! youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence I. Mickey, is hap py in the air corps program at Cnanute Field, 111. Their second son, RJbert Mickey, is stationed In north Africa. The last message his parents received said that he had just received his first mall in three : months. "We are cleaning up the mess left by Adolph and his "boys," he said. In speaking of north Africa, he said he wouldn't trade a little bit of Oregon for all of it. His wife, the former Eileen Tarpley, is employed in the West ern Union at Portland. WEST . SALE James, yovngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kessel, has enlisted in the army and will be leaving for camp in about two weeks. All four of the Kessel boys are now in the service as volun- teers. , if : f:-" r-"":':, : ,' Bombers? Wrath " j k "Y. 1 bare struck many times at Bremen. German seaport sad industrial special target This aerial view was made before the war,. GERVAIS Sgt Cleo J. Grass man writes his parents that he has moved from Muroc, Calif and now is stationed at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas. , His . brother, , Glen Joseph Grassman, seaman second class, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C Lk Grass man in the St. Louis district . He has been transferred from Farra gut Idaho, to Bremerton, Wash. Cpl. Harold Leith was home from Bloomington, 111-, this week. He is leaving June 21 for Salt Lake City where he now will be stationed.. , f Word from Pat De Jardin, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. De Jardin, is that he how is stationed at Camp Rob erts, Ark. I: JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. John De Wall left Thursday after noon for San Francisco, Calif., for a visit with their son, Sgt Walter DeWall and Mrs. DeWall. ; Sgt. DeWall . was married June 3 to Miss Louise Boswell ' at the Pre sidio. He has been in the service since January, 1942. They plan to be gone several days. Yirgil Wilson of the navy, sta tioned. at Pasco, Wash., and Mrs. Wilson visited Wilson's father, A. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, Monday. Wilson is having a five day leave and they also are visiting relatives and friends at Fruitland. Dexter Dale Deur, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rise,; has returned : to Jefferson this week, having been released from! anny duty. He had been stationed at Fresno, Calif n since April." Mrs. Deur has been staying in Jeffer son with her parents. Mrs. Georgia Whitman left Sat urday for Seattle, Wash., to visit her husband, John Holly Whit man, who is in the navy with a gunners crew. She also will visit her brother, Eugene - Hunter, in an army battalian. He had com pleted his basic training at Fort Lewis and been transferred to Seattle. ;" No. 51-48 ; Synopsis of Annual Statement of the U. S. Branch. Scottish Union and Na tional Insurance Company of Edin burgh, Scotland, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, on the thirty-first day of December. 1943. made to the Insur ance Commissioner -of, the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: i . Capital Amount of. statutory de- posit S 500.000.00 j Incoaao Net - ' premiums received during the year .f 3173.60 Interest. dividends . and rents received during the year . , , 299,(23 Income from other sources received during the year lS.534.a3 Total income : 375,431.66 DisanrscneBts Net losses paid during the year Including adjust ment expenses 1 ..S 10647.33 Commissions -and salaries paid during the year 1473,443.89 Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year . 133.S40.51 Dividends paid on capital stock during the year : None Dividends paid to policy- , ; - ' . holders during the year - None Amount of all other expen ditures 58316 00 Total expenditures S 399.449.73 . Admitted Assets Value of real estate owned (market value) 430J60.33 Loans on mortgages and collateral, ete. . 373,407 JO Value - of bends owned (amortized) - 3,130.333.76 Value of : stocks owned (market value) IJ19.5S7 M 742.908 .96 : 490.S01.1S - 403053 : UJ4S.04 (Premiums in course of col- : tlon written since Sep tember SO, 1943 ,- Interest - and ? rents f due and accrued ",. , . Other assets (net) - TotaT admitted assets S SJ61.T77.74 LUkiUUct Gross claims for losses un paid ; S 389.09S.00 Amount of unearned prem iums on all outstanding " 4 risks 3,61370S7 Due for eommiion : and broker a - n , . , r 1S.OM.OS AU other liabilities X12.59i.73 Total liabiiities, except , capital '. I316fl.W Statutory deposit $ 500.000.00 Surplus over aU liabilities 330.117.03 Surplus as recards policy - - holders - .. a 430.117.03 ToUl Jf 161,777.74 Business in Orecoa for the Tear Net premiums received dur ing the year .S . 3793.59 Net losses paid during the - year . : 17.862 Jt3 Name of Company, Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. . Name of U. S. Manager, J. H. Vree - land. --. - - Name of Secretary. J.. H. McCormick. Statutory resident attorney for serv ice. Reads M. Ireland. Portland. -E. A. MUler. A Kent. Guardian Build-t Jng. . Slem. Oregon. 7,4 'V M . INDEPENDENCE Mrs. Her man Kyllo received word from her husband this week that he is stationed with the air corps in England. He likes the country very much and says the people are grand to the soldiers. Their food is rationed, but they receive plenty to eat. He wrote "of the flocks of cuckoos and love-birds and ' the ' amount of ' noise "they make. ... Sgt . Kyllo . is with . the ground crew of the air corps. Master Sgt. Bill Becken has been transferred to office work wiui the. air corps in England,' where he has been stationed for some time. He writes that he likes the country and the people very much, and that the climate is very similar to Oregon. . Mr. and Mrs. George Wester man from Pasco, .Wash., visited this week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Dickinson. Mr. Westerman is a machinist's mate second class with the navy, and is stationed at Pasco. Mrs. ' Wes-r terman remained here for a long er visit. I 1 Since he has been stationed . in India, Flight Officer James E. Mc Neil, son of Mrs. J. McNeil - of North CorrmierdaV street, has made numerous trips: into China and Burma, he has revealed in letters . home. . It was following a trip to Burma and an incidental bombing in that country that Sgt McNeil lost his Indian servant The boy lit out for the. jungles and did not ' return. Too much noise to suit the lad, McNeil, who is in the US flight transport ser vice, suggests. The native lan guages of China and India are among the bits of knowledge his group is picking up, McNeil writes. "I know all the swear words, any way," he' declares. WCTU Urges Tigtt Clamp On uor PORTLAND, June I8.-P)-The Oregon liquor control commission Friday heard pleas for tighter re strictions from one group and an easing of restrictions from an other. - ' " Representatives of the state Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Liquor league urged a tight lid clamped on sources of intoxicants "in war plant and. military areas. : They also asked the commission to ban liquor advertising fn Oregon and not to purchase liquor from pro ducers advertising in out-of-state publications. . Spokesmen for-. Portland and Astoria night clubs urged that the midnight closing hour be extend ed to allow civilians to be served until 2 a. m. Andrews Move to Scio BRUSH COLLEGE Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Andrews and son, Eu gene, have moved away to Scio from the Louis Himmel farm here. The Andrews family has been ac tive in community and school af fairs. They are now on 130 acre farm which they have rented. Haymakers in Trouble ATJMSTHJLK "- Haymakers here, are finding trouble taking care sf their - clover hay crop. Danker , brothers have had SS acres evi for the past week and will fcaye to keep tnrning it. B AIICS !: TOEHGIIT . -t -. ' f Vcicrans IZzIl Corner Hood & Church St Old Time Dancing Mcsic by ; The Oresronians . . L1Q .. M. Naval Monies Largest in A - WASHINGTON; June $27,637,000,000 naval appropria tion ' bill, . largest In - history for the expanding fleet, was made ready Thursday for final congres aonaKaction when house and senate conferees adjusted differ encesT - ; ' Senator Overton (D-La) said he hoped to send' the measure' to the president Friday. ; f , . The conference added $173,539, 000 - to the appropriation total approved by the house by accept ing senate amendments providing additional, funds for pay train ing and maintenance of naval per sonnels j -. The measure carries ; 9,l 1 8,- 000,000 for-29,142 airplanes. Two Speakers' Named 5 .George Alexander, state peni tentiary warden, and ' Ernest M Jachetta, state liquor control com mission f attorney, y were listed among speaker for the western probation and parole conference in Jortland June 25-26. . r Carriers in Service v Philip J. i. Gallagher Woburn, Masa, president of the National Association of Postmasters, said at Portland that approximately 2600 postmasters are in the armed services.; w .," ' I THE rKUSTlufMiTS BUW.T 4U:l;ffi.:rhrNV .W'aswsoMsyisBWirwwMMMWNWinCP'HWM !.- v a Starts Tommorrbw : Midnight Show Tonight f j ( Charles Boyer I , R1U Hayworth J , Ginger Rogers .. 1 ; ' Henry Fonda . : -Edw. G. Robinson Charles Langhton S ' A Paul Robeson- i y2 j Thomaa Mitchell ; . f I Cesar Romero .. . 1 , Gall Patrick - l -ifT Elsa Lanehester , . 1 X Roland Toong 'sv. I . Ethel Waters . . v f X--- j . ; Eugene Palette ;.- ; j ' George Sanders :.-: ;;: S ,1 - . I , X . "- V .; : . 1 From the first kiss to the! last breath-taking; moment J U r- t " ! - I j':- "TALES :!fK(.-'K nocnESTEB ; rri r yai - Wednesday i ii ii V liini tilt,,T," ' 4 f -CIC2I TRACT 1 L i vs. . jsfcr "'"- csniE, inc.- - - ' Odd Angles ;. w On Day9 m JVcitj ' " FORT WAYNE, lnd-P-A ro mance .that started -with failure of a WAVE to salute an alroy of ficer, and an ensuing reprimand, ended with the exchange of mar riage VOWS Recently at Baer Field. The principals were First Lieut Jack- Irving Levy, former Chicago lawyer, and Harriet Mindich, for merly of New York and now with the WAVES in Cleveland. - Their - romance . started , when both were on duty in Indianapolis. She failed ' to .salute in passing Lieutenant Levy ' and he ""called her for It, v ' " PORTLANDiPMrs. Pauline M. Johnson sent her five sons off to war with the one wish' that they all meet in the city "of her childhood Berlin. - STiLOUI& -GPV- The professor thought he had " heard ' them all, but a soldier-student's explanation for, absence from class waa a new one even to Dr. Marion E. Bunch, associate professor, of psychology at Washington university. - He had just finished teaching an evening class which meets once a week when a soldier volunteered: -"I'd like to tell you why I wasn't here last week. I happened to be In -Australia that night." STAMPS, Ark.--John 1 Ed win Hughes hound dog, Sport," made a hat it cf sleeping on the wooden cover of a well a very cool place.'. Recently, Hughes related, "Sport" got a running start and jumped lor his -favorite spot He was rescued. with, a lasso. Some one had moved the cover, - .-t CINCINNATI (ff) -: Walter Hurd, 48, a cafe night watchman, slept soundly .while his v mattress burned, two shells In bis revolver exploded from the heat, and neighbors pounded on ', the door. He did not awaken until police arrived. He suffered first degree burns on his arm. SPRINGFIELD, Ill-()-A bill to require Illinois legislators to have an eighth grade education was Introduced in the house by Rep." J. S. Mundy, a democrat Mundy said he knew of two leg islators within the last ten years who could neither read nor write. : "One," he added, "got himself elected three times." SPOKANE-(iP)-M r s. . J a m e s Garvin awoke from a sound sleep and, heard someone walking about the room. " "Who's there?" she asked. ."Jim." -Mrs. Garvin checked to see if husband "Jim" was in his usual place. He was still sleeping peace fully: a'.-;.:' ; . Meanwhile, intruder Jim" dis appeared and so did $85 from husband ."Jim's" pockets. Lcsly Laughs Snliry llcsxc She - had : taps ' . on her toes . jy and jerks at her heels . Last Times Today - ORSON WELLES 1 1 Dolores Del Rio I :v:;:.. : I Joseph Cotten " :. m ' I- J s J ' -'Journey into I. ) : " 'yJ Fear" A ; ' V ; - . and ... I - y . ,,,: :,:"' i) Allan -Jones- . ( Andy Devino . -. 1 V; X - Jane Frazee ,'S ' "In I : , - ' ' ' r i ' v .-..-: : "Rhythm J " ; ! : js:f c - , vv i : -Y ' i I Tees. f - IS m as wise i ' , S Ued. . 1 II ! V L i-J U Li U . L. " " VrM1 T --.-'- . . n0 - I .'"': - I i ; t J w t -u , - v i .:!.,,. , F- . - f ' i . . k . - . - . .., t . ' - if' -" r f- - ' . . , t ': .. W - ' , m - r o '' m. : - vi " I ; t ' " " - ' "" i ' : i . t I AXYX L PHILADELPHIA-Vn-T h i r t y five years if e circus boss fired 13-year-old A. C Peters without pay from . his Job of carry ins; water lor the elephants and Just 'when Peters thought he had worked enough to earn an ad mission. The circus, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey, made amends recently. I i After Peters described the in cident in a letter from his Allen town, Pa, home, James A. Haley, senior vice president of the cir cus, sent him two tickets. - WALLACE, Idaho -JPt- The Wallace Press-Times carried this classified advertisement: , '. . "Party who stole accordion and quart of whisky 'from car parked in front of old miners home Is known. Return liquor to Press Times and keep accordion- and no questions-win be asked." : PHOENIX, Ariz, The gold rush of '49 had Its counter part in a fire that leveled a local packing plant's main building. . - After, firemen left, hundreds of residents sifted through the ruins rigging out choice pieces of bar becued pork, barbecued beef and smoke hame no ration points required."-; CLARKSD ALE,' Ust.-VP)-T h draft followed Sherman Jenkins sons one at a time until it took all twelve. His bovs ranee in ace from to 39 years. ! I ' . iff-': . .,'t(.j:.1DEflC7 ""t rmisfJt rrn7V7Q U wo uu 7 SECOND FEATURE BELA LUGOSI WALLACE FORD