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The OILEGOH STATESMAN. &ilein Oreaoiu Yedaeadcry Morning. Korember 17. XS43 PAGE TEXT MottSaysUSO Improvement Priorities Fixed Improvements in the American Legion building on Chemeketa street to enhance its convenience as a USO center may now pro ceed, it was indicated Tuesday when v Congressman James W. Mott was advised by telegram from his Washington office that the Salem USO committee's appli cation for $12,000 for renovation and furnishings had been; cleared fbr priorities by the war produc tion board. !i The allocation previously had been approved by the war works agency and Mott had taken the matter of priorities . up with Maury Maverick of WPB when delay occurred. Proposed improvements are mostly in the interior of the build ing though a change in the exte rior at the southwest corner will be effected to provide an addi tional storeroom, and drainage to prevent seepage of water into the basement will be installed. V i ! - The ventilating system will be replaced with one adequate in view of the number of persons using the building. The stage in the main auditorium will be re built for fireproofing and addi tional space, and there also will be some changes around the fire place In the lobby,' and the "shav ing" room adjoining will be en larged, s Front arid rear stairs and the basement floor will be tiled, rest rooms will be enlarged and their facilities augmented, additional storage space will be provided and one portion of the basement wall will be " altered to provide a checkroom; the canteen will be made several feet wider and a new -"coke" bar installed. In ad dition to the exterior provision for drainage, basement walls in side will be waterproofed. The $12,000 allocation also will cover purchase of furniture-, some of which has been received, and rental - Of the building. R. R. Boardman, director of the Cheme keta street USO, said the impend ing improvements would make it possible to . serve more satisfac torily the large number of service men who patronize the building. Em nn Where They Are What They Are Doing l KaJph Palmer II awe, 809 Mill street, Dallas, has been promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant - in the army engineer corps, the war department has announced. ' Samuel Curtis DashielL whose home address is route 1, Dallas, has been promoted from ' second lieutenant to first lieutenant in the corps of army engineers. f Kenneth C Howe, son of Mr, and Mrs. A. L. Howe of 1740 Lee street, has been commissioned a second lieutenant .and awarded the silver wings of an aerial bom bardier upon graduation from the advanced bombardier school at Kirtland field, NM. f Pvt. Kenneth E. Townsend, ton of Ben Townsend of route 3, is spending his furlough visiting his father and Mr. and Mrs. 'Roy R. Reed of Highway, avenue. Town send was a student at Salem high school before his induction a year ago. He is with a cannon division of the infantry stationed in Georgia. LA BIS H CENTER Lyle f ftlampe, seaman first class, vis ited his parents over : the week end from Whidby 'Island, Wash. Froemel Rites Are Thursday MT. ANGEL, Nov. 16-Ann a Schmidt 'Froemel, 64, , wife of Frank Froemel, died Tuesday morning at the Silverton hospital following eight weeks illness. Funeral services will be held fol lowing a requiem mass at 8:15 Thursday morning in St. Mary's church. Burial will be made in Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Froemel was born Decem ber 21, 1879 in Humphreys, Neb. She was married in 1899 to Frank Froemel ; and - they came to Mt. Angel in 1914. The husband and seven of their nine children sur vive and all reside in Mt AngeL The children are William Froe mel, Mrs. Ceil Bentz, Mrs. Hed wig Kloft, Eleanor, Edwin, Helen and Evelyn. Six grandchildren also survive. Joseph and Frank Schmidt of Mt. Angel are broth ers and other brothers are Louis Schmidt of Carroll, Iowa and Carl Schmidt of Peoria, 111. One sister, Mrs. Marie Fugger of Piatt Center, Neb., also survives. . Mrs. Froemel. was a member of St. Ann's Altar society "of St. Ma ry's parish and members will meet at 2 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon at Unger's mortuary to recite the rosary. It will be re cited again by the general public at 8 o'clock in the evening. Commissioners Named for Scouts Organization of the scout com missioner staff has been complet ed by Carl E. Ascbenbrenner, Cherry City district scout com missioner.. Neighborhood commis sioners appointed on the staff are Don Black, Jack Spong, Rusty Romine, Walter Beck, Arthur Meyers and Dick Tatro. Each commissioner will over see not more than four troops, guiding troop activity, smoothing out difficulties, and generally see ing, to the welfare of the troops. A dinner meeting and training section will be held Tuesday, No vember 30, at the Argo hotel at 6:45 p. m. RATION CALENDAR , .' roon Canaed Goods Blue stamps X, T. Z valid until Nov. 20. Green Stamps A. B and C in book. 4 good .- through December 30. Meat, eheese canned Bsh and edi ble fats Brown stamps G. H, 3 and K valid, good until December 4; and T good until November 30. Sugar Stamp 29 in book 4 good for a pounds unUl January IS. SHOES Stamp No. 18. book one. good tn definitely. Airplane stamp No. 1 valid StOW. . V.;' .-7 GASOLINE Book A coupon No. now good tor three gallons each. - s -. rvtx. on .1 Period 1 coupons tn new fuel oQ rations valid through January 3- Cou pons with gallonage printed on the face valid for amount indicated iuh til expiration date ahofn on coupon sheet, . trass Cars with C ration books must have tires inspected every ' 3 months; B books every 4 months; A books every months. Commercial . motor ve hicles tire inspections every months or every 5000 mUr. STOVES' Purchaser must get certificate at ration board for new stoves. - WOOD, SAWDUST, COAL Fuel dealers deliver by ' priorities based on needs. PORTLAND, Nov. 16-;F)-Ore-gon men signed today, by. the navy included William L. Ander son, Robert A. Guderian, Ter rance W. Hagel, Leo E. Horner, William F. Mathis, Angus A. Mc- Rae, Rex L. Minard, James D. Mohney, Carlton Lamar Ramsden, Richard L. Russell, Norman A. Sholseth, Georgie F. Sutton, Sa lem; George F. Christofferson, West Salem; Robert M. Williams, Woodburn; Donald D. Weinberg, Scio; Imer J. Henry, Charles A. Hosford, Silverton; Claude Case, jr.. Amity; Phillip D. Bremer, Lyle W. Simons, Lebanon; Jack B. Tra viss. Mount Angel, and Cornelius Haima, Walter W. Niebuhr and Kenneth E. Peterson, Albany. i LYONS Cpl. Archie Day, who is stationed at Camp Adair, visited last week at the home of his brother, Ivan Day. Bob Brassfleld, second class seaman- from Seattle, spent the weekend at the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Brass field. They accompanied him to Portland Sunday. Pvt. Ted Bannister of Fort Ord, Calif., is visiting his parents in the Jordan district. Pvt. Burmis ter has been away 13 months. He also visited friends in Lyons and was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bodeker. Mrs. Clyde Bressler has received word from her son, Leland Leroy Manning, second class seaman, that he is in the hospital with scarlet fever. Manning is attend ing gunners' mate school at Great Lakes, 111. not finish It before - going over seas. He is now a third class petty officer . and aviation radio man third class.' The men ; have been living in tents but there is a saw mill near so they hope to have houses soon, he writes his family. Several letters were received this week after a long interval. Field Named For Brother .: Of Mrs. Reavis BIT, ANGEL Ensign Law rence Epping arrived in HL An gen Monday noon, . flying here from Philadelphia on a short leave. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry - Epping and entered offi cers' naval training : school after being graduated from Mt Angel college last spring. He left Tues day night, by plane to return to his base. BETHEL Mr. and Mrs. Boy Lively have just l received word from their son, Pvt. Dale Lively that he has arrived in England. He was unable to give his location but stated that he is seeing many interesting things and is feeling fine. . Sgt. Fred O. Baker, route 7, ts in Salem on furlough visiting his family and friends. He expects to start training soon as a pilot in the air corps. He has been sta tioned at Camp Haan, Calif., with the anti-aircraft division. Horace Beldin, seaman second class, who just completed his boot training with the navy at Farra gut, is spending his leave with cis mother, Mrs. James ' Smart on route 1. Beldin will return to Far ragut, Idaho, for further orders. SILVERTON Allan Thostrud, who spent the weekend at Silver ton with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Thostrud, left Mon day night for encampment in Ari zona. Young Thostrud has been stationed at Bend recently. AUMSVILLE Staff Sgt. Carl Olson of Camp Adair was a guest at the home of his brother, Ralph Olson, last week. KWEGLE Leland Brandt, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Brandt, writes his parents from some where in the south Pacific where his division is land based. He is in the Acorn division which does work similar to the Seabees. When he first enlisted in the navy he was given radio training but did Edward Louis Herman, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Herman, 2360 South High, has arrived at Shep herd Field where he will take ba sic training in the armjr air corps. He is a graduate of Salem high school and war formerly a car rier for The Statesman. Li. Robert French who suf fered a spinal injury recently has been moved to a Battle ; Creek, Mich., hospital from a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. French, 1745 South Church. Robert L. Selberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Selberg, route 2, has completed airchip flight training at the Lakehurst, NJ, -naval air station, lighter-than-air base and has received a commis sion as an ensign in the naval re serve. Assigned as a navy air ship aviator, he has reported to a navy blimp squadron stationed on the coast on anti-submarine patrol. He was graduated from Salem high school in 1941. He was captain of the track team and as sistant editor of the Clarion, school newspaper. He has two brothers in the service, Phil and Richard Selberg. Staff Sgt. Robert S. Kennen, 11715 SE Boise street, Portland, received the air medal recently. He formerly resided in Salem and is the nephew of Orville C. Ken nen of the Salem branch, US Na tional bank. ... KEIZER Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCall are in San Francisco vis iting their son, Cpl. Howard Mc Call, who is in the United States A flying field, portion of the navy air station at Whidby Island, Wash., has been named Ault Field in honor of the late Cmdr. Wil liam B. Ault, killed in the battle of the Coral sea, his sister, Mrs. D. B. Reavis, 306 ' North 20th street, has been advised by naval officials. . t '..; Native of eastern Oregon, Cmdr. Ault had entered the first. World war when only 17 years of age, was appointed to the USi naval academy at Annapolis in 1918 by the late Sen. George E. Chamber lain, and was graduated there in 1022, having served as captain of the academy basketball team dur ing his senior year. - After serving as commander of Fairfax naval airbase at Kansas City, Kans he had taken com mand of the air personnel on the Lexington , and" was senior flying .officer there at the outbreak of the current war. . . In the Coral sea battle,1 Ault was commander of a squadron of dive bombers that attacked 'a Japanese convoy without fighter escort and, after sinking a Jap carrier, was attacked by Japanese Zeros which shot down the com mander's plane. . - ; . - The convoy was located through the superior ability of Ault as a navigator, . Rear 'Admiral - F. C. Sherman, who as a captain was in command of the Lexington at the time of the engagement, has written to Mrs. Reavis. Cmdr. Ault's plane dropped the first 500 pound bomb on the enemy car rier, according- to Sherman. The navy cross was awarded to him posthumously. ' Toledo Grange Asks Lower Meat Rationing TOLEDO, Nov. 16-()-The To ledo grange, complaining that un salable cattle were causing an acute feed shortage on dairy ran ches, appealed to Oregon's con gressmen today to cut down meat point rationing. Suspension of rationing, at least on lower grade meat, for a 60-day period would enable stockmen to market surplus cattle, the grange declared. Cattle which would normally be sold for beef are piling up on ranches, the grange said, and will cut into a scanty feed supply needed for dairy cattle, endan gering winter milk production. Western GOP MayPoolVotes J By CLIFFORD SANDAHL ' WASHINGTON, Nov.' 16-flP) Western republicans' in congress are launching a drive to nominate a westerner: for president or vice president,' Sen. Butler (R-Neb), disclosed today. The strategy, he said, is to get western delegates at the republi can national convention to vote in a bloc in an effort to offset ad vantages held by the more popu lous eastern states. ; ; Attentions are not . being cen tered on any particular mid-westerner or westerner for either place on the ticket, he said, adding "that will be up to the delegates to de termine as the picture unf olds. But he pointed out that Nebras ka probably would have a "fav orite son in the person or tne gov ernor, Dwight Griswold, who can possibly develop , the leadership and the cause to which the west ern states might want to rally." We reailze,; of course,. Butler went on, ."that " we'll have compe tition from other formidable po tential candidates in . western states. For example,' California may have Governor Earl Warren and the state of Washington may have Eric Johnston, president i of the United States chamber of com merce : . .' . ';7" Grange Votesfe. Against marine corps and stationed on Mare Island. Mr. and Mrs. McCall expect to be gone two weeks. o vtrm a ur Awrrwr ' - GRAND RAPIDS,- Mich, Nov. 16-(P)-The national, grange con vention, declaring the national welfare demands full production on the home front, today, adopted a resolution condemning strikes, lockouts or other "methods that retard the war effort.". In other, resolutions, the con vention called upon the govern ment for a "stabilized farm la bor program and for an agricul tural commodity price structure that would give farm, workers a wage return comparable to that of non-farm workers. It refused to approve recom mendations of Albert S. Goss, na tional master, and several state granges that it help obtain legis lation extending benefits of the federal social security system to agricultural workers. The convention asked "that the war manpower commission re scind an order under which es sential war industries may em ploy farm workers for a six weeks' period without obtaining a release from the commission. This order, the grange asserted, opens the way for industry "to raid the farm labor supply, and often at the most critical period, thus jeopardizing the food production program.' . ? Scout Troop 13 Celebrates -l-r Anniversary Members and families of Boy Scout troop number 13 met at the First ' Methodist church Tuesday night for a banquet and program in celebration of the seventh an niversary of-the' founding of the troop. Fifty-five were in attend ance. - ' . - ' L R. M. Gatke, toastmaster, offer ed thanks i preceding -the .meal. The troop's history was-presented by W. T. Porter, who said the group was organized in Novem ber, 1936, with a total of eight registrants. This number has in creased to a present figure of 24. Troop Leader Arthur-: Laxnka was the principle speaker, his topic being "Parents ' Are Neces sary.; He brought out -the fact that parents could play a leading part in. the success of any, scout troop by encouraging attendance and advancement - of their sons, plus": making - suggestions to , the scout leaders : concerning possible projects or improvements, etc v- Harry W. Scott made the fol lowing presentations:, emblems, James Nickel, junior assistant seout I IU 11 . l. II.. Mwwwu, i " - T Avail 7 uvflia- TVul PnTtM1. Dl. trol leader; Tom Wriston, patrol lead er; service stars, -Verne. Scott, seven years, reen-sUr: David" Seott. five years, red star; Richard Gatke. - four years.- green star; - Leo Rebia. three years, green star; Calvin Button, three years, -creen star; James Nickel, six years, rea star;- Armur -- Apiin, ww years, - green star; - Douglas Berwick, two years, green star; Don Porter, two years, green star; Michael Lovell, one run year plus, green xr; isavra n.ow it. nm niua. turn mtMn Law rence Yates, one full year plus, green star. yal Family Ro Joins Songf est ... LONDON, Nov.' 16 -KV-JVith the king and queen of England and - the : royal princesses ini to day's audience Irving Berlin turned his all soldier musical show, "This IS the Army, into an in formal son gf est, jj ( The royal family, accompanied by Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Deversj US commander in the Europeans war theater, was greeted ,by cheers from' the audience, composed largely of American soldiers. The. show, which has been fun ning a week, went off according to schedule until Berlin himself ap peared and sang "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, his hit song from the First world wai Berlin invited ' the audience to sing "My British Buddy withT him and before turning the fhow back to. the cast he led in (sing ing such of his hits as "Alexan der's Ragtime , Band and "White Christmas. : p', Afterwards the king and queen went back stage and met some of the members of the casL - Gerjvaiq Home Siene of JBLazo GEKVAIS,! Nov. 16 A : fir alarm jat 5:20 Tuesday calif d the UCnt IICIJ UiC aiUUte VF. Kuhn Where ;anj overheated 3chim- ney. ignited (the wall pape?. and caused; the blaze. - j I Neighbors jwent in and carried outf Almost all the furiture which is considerably dama'fjed by water and smoke. Mr. Kuhn had just put a new roof on his lrjme. 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