The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 21, 1944, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextTk CZZZCll CTATXTMAXL Cdzx Orcx Friday Hcrrii Jry 1. Kii Four Fear members of the Straw family, December and January at homo while on a 30-day leave. Left to right are Lyle "Bob" Straw. the ancle. W. H. "Bad Straw. Charles and Bin. the nephews. Both Bob and Bod are third class petty ettl- cers tn the Seabees and hare Just Aleutian. Both hare been visiting their wires In Salem. They hare rone to take farther training- fat Oakland, Calif. Charles, la the rem " lar nary, is a first class petty officer and Is an aviation machinist's mate. Be has been stationed In Miami, Fla and has been in the nary for fear years.' His wife and child are living alto in Miami. BIIL also a third class petty of fleer in the Seabees. has been in the Seath Seas for the-past 18 months and is now in San Diero. Father of the three sailors, and brother of one, la Fred Straw, 1279 Hoyt street. (Photo by Bishop). Where They Are What Two brothers. Staff Set. Arthur Lerey Priem (top) of the air corps and Claire E. Priem, sea ' man second class in the nary, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Priem of 17 South 25th street, Salem. Set. Priem re ceived am air corps medal on January 2 for serving as first grunner on a flylnr fortress :: based , in England, according to i a letter received by his! parents. ' A rradnate of Salem high ' school, Priem - enlisted In ; De cember, ' 1942, while a student at Willamette university. lie took - gonnery training in Kingman, Arbt, and armor work at Low - ery Field, ColT Seaman Priem " Is on a crash, boat at Kodlak, Alaska, He trained at Farrarat ; leaving Salem la August for the I. service. Priem was at home on ; leare before reportlnr to Brera ; erton to be sent to Kodlak. He has been In Alaska about a s month, ' Lt. CL Dudley ' Henderson, son f Mr. and .Mrs. IL G. Henderson. 1705 Fir street, recently landed In northern Ireland where he Is on duty with the military police. His wife, the former Jean Victor, is working and living in Washing- ton, DC James P. Henderson, seaman first class US coast guard, is now Stationed in Alaska. The two bro thers were i home , In October at the same time, r . WOODBU R N CpL Noble Shrock came home " Sunday to spend a two weeks furlough.vHe Is stationed at an army air corps replacement training center at Salt Lake City. . First Lt. Torlef Nelson Is rislt Ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Nelson." He has been sta tioned in Trinidad, British West Indies and recently was. transfer red to Camp Stewart, Ga. He will return to the Georgia post after his 20-day furlough expires. ' CLEAS LAKE Vernon Soren sen has Just returned to duty aft er a five day leave. He has been on duty la the south Pacific and this was his third visit with his family In tw years. A shfpmafe, - Hoy..: I.laoca of Bsmidjl, llinn., who hcS'bccn in tie ser'ice 18 rionlhs, tcecmpantel hid.;'. 1 ' 'f ICS" v , ; .; TZA S . ' i nr i Im iMiir T ' ;r i. - .1 r Members of Straw serving In the navy, spent part of returned from 14 months la the They Are Doing Kirk V. Bell has completed a course is officers candidate school and has been commissioned a sec ond lieutenant according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd V. Bell. 2034 Warner street, Salem. Lt Bell, who was graduated from Oregon State col lege in 1943 in electrical engin eering, has been assigned to Hat 4 vard university for advanced training. He recently spent: a ten day furlough with relatives in Beacon, NY, i CpL Darwin W. Shlnn and his wife, the former Shirley Turner, are home for two weeks visiting their parents,. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shinn, 704 North Cottage, Salem, and Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Turner Springfield, having come here from Santa Ana, Calif, where Cpl. Shinn , is stationed with the alti tude training unit, army air base. WOODBURN T h o m a s Vera Engle, son ofMr. and Mrs. Thom as T.' Engle of Hardcastle avenue, has enlisted in the' US navy and was inducted at the Portland center,- January 17. His parents do not' yet know where he was as signed for boot camp training. He hopes to take training in radio. ZEN A Chester Clinton Mer rick, son : of Mr. and Mrs. C F, Merrick, has left for Farragut na val base, following his enlistment He is a Salem high school gradu ate. - - - J SCI O James Summers, USN stationed at Farragut, spent a few days leave last week with his mo ther, Mrs. Al Baker. He Is now a third class petty officer. i f Clyde Flneran, signalman sec ond class, USN, spent- the week end here at the home of his par ents,' Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Finegan. He is stationed at Bremerton navy yard but previously was on duty in Alaskan waters. -' i GEKVAIS Richard Holorebek is home on a 10-day' furlough from Camp Phillips, Kan. He re cently completed maneuvers in Arizona and since has been in be low zero climates and is enjoying Oregon weather. IIAYESVILLE Lt Vernon Greig. .son of Mr. and Mrs. .David Greig, Is now overseas. His wife, the f ormer Helen Bowers of Can ton, ' Ohio, recently arrived for a visit at the home of his parents. They were married in New. York, November 20. ' V Two couples present as many problems la II-G-JLTs musical, fiesta, "Thousand's Chfer. rrc--ced la technicolor and starting Friday at the ELLaefe theatre. First we hare Jclm Csles aci t'j e''.rac;ei wife, Zlxrj Astor. Then wo have Gene Helly, the private, who falls in lore wUh the ecloncla daurhler and has an Idea his rank does not qualify him for Kathryn Grayson's hand. XZlsa Grayson. "Kelly, Miss Astor and Boles are only a few of the many stars la the oatstandlsr attraction which has practically every star on the M-G-f.I roster In It Latest March of Time and other selected s!;srt sutjects are Also ttlrx thown -at the"LTi2ro,''li---; i.; I i -y 'i J'r -I-.. f.-'.w'1'' .'', Family Serve in Navy X4 Hogh E. Perkins, seaman second class stationed ; at Farrarat na , val station, is a son of Mrs. Ef , fie Perkins, 1091 Jefferson street. Salem. He attended Sa lem schools. . ! - Claude C a s e.-Jr' abore, was named honor man of his com pany an completing; re emit training at Farrarat, Idaho, na val traininr station, on the bas is of excellent arerares In the many phases i of the ' training prorram. Ho served as a platoon leader.! Ho formerly drove ' a taxieab In Salem, and Is a rrad nate of Perry dale high school. Bis wife, Carolyn Case, is llr Inr with her mother, Mrs. Ba sel Hastings, at 1915 South 25th street His - parents,: Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Case, live at Amity. ! 1 1 LYONS W. R. Stevens, run ner's mate, third class, has left for Norfolk, vVa following a short leave spent at the home of his family in Lyons.' . . : ' MARION ! FORKS Etoil Jer ry"; Myers v isited! the Scott Youngs this week. He formerly lived in Detroit and is home aft er two years In the US army in Hawaiian island service. MIDDLE ? GROVE CpL Floyd Jepson, stationed at White Sulphur Springs, W.i Va.who 'came west cn a business trip spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eisenbach. His wife was the former Sylvia Eisenbach and she and their small son are with him in West Virginia, ' r '. hiiiiW" ' ;, ?.! f it ! : i- A t ( ?--.--v-' v- .y : i - f " . - ' 1 - - ' - ' I x : t r i H s s ; ... ;. . r ' Staff Srt Allen M. Stratton sU- tloned with a ferry squadron at Homestead. Fla is the son of Mr. and Mrv Byron Stratton. route two. and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Stratton, 955 Belmont street' He enlisted im mediately after his graduation ' from Salem high schooL " RICKREALL Donald ' Pence. USN hospital ..corps; jhas been spending a brief leave .with his mother in Portland and his sister, Mrs. Harry Gustafson in Salem. He is now stationed in San Fran cisco. - : Paul Taylor, US army, until re cently stationed at Dutch Harbor, Is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. G Brabowski. - ' t , ' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dempsey have received word that their son. Capt Ralph Dempsey has been promoted to major. He is serving In the Pacific j theater and was commissioned In May 1942 at the Aberdeen proving ground. Md. He was sent overseas with his com pany in January, 1943. CpL Charles W. Adams; TJSMC, was married to Ardis -J. -Stanton in San Diego, last November 30, friends here have learned. He has; since been transferred to act ive combat duty. His mother, Mrs. Mary Adams of Portland, was a recent visitor here where she for merly lived. American Japs To Be Drafted WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-JP- American citizens of Japanese de scent again will be brought under the selective service program.; The war department said today that Japanese-Americans consid ered acceptable for. military serv ice will be reclassified by their 'draft boards on the same basis as other citizens. ' None has been drafted since February, 1942. : The . announcement said ; that fThe excellent showing" - which the! 44nd combat , team has made in training and the "outstanding record achieved by the 100th battalion now fighting In . Italy, both composed . of Japanese-American volunteers, were major fac tors in the decision to reinstate se lective service for citizens of Jap anese descent . 7 ' - Tin-Hat TJanns Park Kiddies ICaiserCbild j L P Care Centers Frecj Vbrkers . ; By, MAFFORD CONRAD , PORTLAND Ore, Jan. 20 -JP) Tin-hat packin' mama is getting in more licks for victory now thanks to Henry J. Kaiser and his two new , child care i centers. If there are any ; larger i or more modern in the world, the slup building genie and his child spec ialists ha vent heard of them. . xraw an oval around a city block and you "have the approxi mate size; and shape of : the cen ters. Cough up $700,000 and: you can have a pair Just like 'em. - ' Kaiser started with the principle that nothing was too good for the children of mothers willing to fill In for the shortage of male work ers. He sold the idea to the US maritime commission, which foot ed the bffl. . .i , - ' ; rsTho ' KalserKperated, commission-owned centers are . at the gates of the Oregon Shipbuilding and Swan Island yards. Special buses pick' up : mothers and chil dren, drop them at the yards; lat er naul them home, y r. ; , t - Mama Welder takes five-year old Johnnie and 18-months-old Mary to "the door of a one-story, 'fireproof, ! brick-glass building that seems to" be nearly all: windows. Mary, who is just old enough to attend, and Johnnie,' at the age limit, are; ushered Into two of 15 large play rooms which jut from the oval main structure1 like cogs in a wheel. The rooms are bright and cheerful; windows are 40 per cent of wall space. ' : The room teacher ; : examines each child for signs of illness. Mary - has a cold and Is sent to an isolation room, - equipped like the other; play rooms, with regis tered nurses presiding, i If neces sary, she is given medical atten tion by physicians: at the -ship yards' hospital or first d stations. J There . is nothing 1 wrong with Johnnie and he enters into activi ties with zest He likes, the minia ture furnishings lockers, tables. chairs dishes, . silverware, wash basins and even toilet bowls are just his i size. He has .. his ' own toothbrush and towels just like home. . ' ' f - ' Two dozen boys and girls, are in his playroom all his age. There are work benches with tools, pic ture- books, : musical instruments, easels, paints, crayons, toy house keeping sets, dolls, doll carriages. In good weather they , spend much ; of the time in Tithe inner court .i a playground i fairyland with jungle gyms, slides, climbing ladders, teeter-totters, sand boxes and dozens of shiny new tricycles. ; Even in rainy weather they get to romp ; in, the fresh, air on large,- covered play porches. - ' The daily program, in addition to supervised play, includes meals and rest periods. Each child gets 85 per cent of his daily food re quirements at the centers. Meals are prepared under supervision of a dietician. . ' ,U jOVr: .; Children of day shift ' workers have breakfast at 7:15 a.m.; lunch at noon. Youngsters of swing shift mothers arrive in late afternoon, play, eat; supper and then sleep until taken home about; midnight Children f brought by graveyard shift workers are put to bed soon after arrival, and have breakfast at the 'center. - J . . i,; ; Cost to parents, including meals. is 75 cents a day for: the first child and 50 cents for each addi tional child. . Each center can handle 475 chil dren every eight-hour shift.. Per sonnel numbered 70 at the open ing of the centers recently. " . Bidding High, ' NASSAU, '. Bahamas, Jan.: 20.- (A-Fantastic prices were paid to day' at the auction ; of household articles and objects of art. from the home of Alfred and Nancy Oakes de Marigny. ,! " A five-shilling washtub brought 50 shillings and a second-hand bi cycle .went for 25 pounds, (about $110) in spirited bidding. .. Nancy, daughter of the slain Sir Harry Oakes, was left between two; and i four million dollars: in his will, but funds are tied up by exchange 'controls and she arran ged to close her Nassau home and sell over 400 articles to the high est bidder to raise needed cash. She announced she -would, re main here until Monday to con tinue negotiations to obtain the release of money which, she said she required for living ; expenses and an operation far en ailing jaw. . , " - t . , , Fruits, 'Vegetables . ;j Increase 9 Per Cent WASHINGTON, " Jan. 29 The bureau of labor l statistics wholesale price . Index increased 9.1 per cent last week. Under prices for fruits and vegetables, particularly apples, citrus fruits and potatoes, largely accounted for the increase. . ' Vp The index climbed to 1C3 per cent of the 1S2S averase, 1.4 per cent higher than a year ago 23.2 per cent above corresponding week of jlS37 end 7.4 i per ; cent above the average for January, Actress Llches Building Her Homo An old phonograph crate becomes a clothes closet for Actress Jane Lawrence (above), who with her husband. Anthony Smith, an ar chitect has moved into a former beauty parlor after being unable to rent an apartment here. She recently' came to Hollywood with a con , tract at Columbia after appearing end the Broadway stage. (AP Wire . photo). r .;;.. Wine, Women, Song in Hawaii? Service Men Sing Blues . By AL DOPKING HONOLULU, Jan. 20-(P-Ask any service man about wineK women and song in Honolulu and he begins singing the blues. ; 4,What women?" - . ',''' p There are about 250 men to every; woman now on this island they called the paradise of the Pacific; before the war. And while it might look like happy pickings for ; the fairer " sex, "they ' are nearly as fed up witn it as tne thousands of GFs and. sailors who spend, most of their liberty time walking the streets. ':-'r0r. An army officer arrived the oth er day fresh from; the states. He was confident the Woman situa tion would be different for him. His little black address book was filled: with ; telephone numbers, supplied by acquaintances recent ly j returned from1 Honolulu and others from friends who wanted him' to look up someone. , . Four hours of telephoning pro duced, one invitation . to, a young woman's home. They had . a drink or, two when an officer friend of hers ; arrived unannounced. Then the new arrival learned of hold out," a popular- parlor game in which two or more males try to outlast the rest with the idea of ending up alone with the' young woman. The game generally ends in a tie. - The next day the young army officer tossed away his little black bookj (Most of them do. sooner or later.) - . A date merry-go-round has be come such a whirl for some girls that they substitute their initials for their first names in the tele phone directory. There was a hab it growing among service men to scan the directory for feminine names and then resort to all sorts of approaches in trying to build up an acquaintance. It had begun to reach the point where all a lot of the women were able to do in the evening was answer their tele phone. There was the Honolulu girl, who had one of those common names. One day she was. phoned by a man, who said his name was the' same-as hers. - :- h- : 'Why': he said,.- -It's even spelled the -same - way. . Do you have any relatives in Oregon? , Informed she had. not relatives in Oregon, the young man was in sistent that he come out to see her. He was sure, he said, they must be related in some way. Yes, I've heard that one, too,", she replied and hung up. The CPs dating problems are the toughest He has 'no rank-, to fall back on. Women like rank. It gets them into the nicer places. - Waitresses find i the w am a n shortage profitable. ' .'. ' ' . '.. Sailors, after months on the wa ter, come ashore with pockets bul ging with unspent pay. They have one thing in mind getting rid Of it before they get back to sea. Waitresses often make $20 a day in tips and occasionally axoy one with a glib tongue and a rea dy smile may run it up to $30. ' - Sailors - simulate ' romance by posing with Hawaiian girls for pictures they can send home. And they have to stand in line and pay 75 cents for that : Spiinz-.OKs'Seal Pact SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 -(JF) The San Francisco baseball dub announced today that Joe Cprinz, veteran catcher, had jipel hij 1344 baseball contract, the first of the Seals to come to terms this season. Eprinz will be playing his seventh consecutive season for th Izczl czzzi lecc-s It: 12. A . v.-. . -. -:' JsC ,f. iiniiMlh iwwtii m i i i k ' i mil i variig Gustafson Rites Friday t. FAIRVIEW -- Mrs Margaret Gustafson, 77, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Alsop, after several months ill ness.iShe had been a resident of this district for many years. Besides Mrs. Alsop another daughter, Mrs. Paul Thompson of Portland survives.. One son and her husband preceded Mrs. Gus tafson i in death. Surviving her also are five grandchildren; and one 'sister, Mrs. Effie Woodward of near Amity. . t Funeral services will be held at the Hopewell Seventh Day Ad ventist church at 2 o'clock - Fri day. Elder George - T. Dickinson of Salem will officiate. Mr, and Mrs. Gilbert Hallstead and son, Ersel Hallstead and Mrs. Stanley Sargent will . sing. Burial will be at the Hopewell cemetery by the side of her husband and son. Trotters Slated PORTLAND, Jan. 20 The Hariem Globetrotters will be pit ted ; against an all-star quintet from j Portland's independent bas ketball league here Sunday.. SALT LAKE ClTY-iiP)-More than j a - year ago -- a. householder asked the OPA to xheck whether he was being charged too much rentj ' ; Six months ago he bought the house to- escape .eviction; - r j Today: the OPA , notified him the rent was $15 a month too high and to start paying the lower amount immediately. : Love Birds The t!rJ c a Nellie's t;t was a rier ecia-ared to CLi newest frl.-.r chxpeaax worn by allar lax; Cs,Ie Etora cf Los Angeles ; and CiIayed at the Cal-araia ' rrrlrx f.Ilatry crenlzg ' there rcc:r.!y. Two tcsrltt tesieJ .; Llr's kLis ate? the I At and tSe!r tnrijiiolse tine feathers cascade Cast a each si a to frame the f:5. Y7cr Lean Zli! 622 Million j WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(.T) "War bond sales credited to t fourth war loan totaled $22,' -000 through last night, or I Is more than 11 per cent of the . 500.C00.CC0 goal et for indiv! zl purchases. The fig u r e, ! embracing r zl since January 1 although drive did not open formally until Tuesday, was reported to war loan headquarters tonight by Sec retary Morgenthau from Cincin nati, where he was scheduled to speak. ' - . , :" Although total goal of the drive is $14,000,000,000, the first two weeks have been devoted exclus ively to sales to individuals. Sub scriptions from corporation, in surance firms and associations will not be reported! until after February 1. I The treasury said it would not release sales figures by states at least until the campaign for Indi vidual purchases is concluded. 622 Head Cattle Auctioned DENVER, Jan. 20-iP)-Stx hun dred forty-six head of Hereford and Aberdeen-A n g u s . breeding cattle Were auctioned at the na tional western stock show this week for $423,691, biggest total since 1919 and 1920. Last year '407 registered ani mals In the two breeds were auc tioned for $283,855. ! In this year's Hereford auction. 234 bulls and females were sold for $315,335. Last year 207 brought $222,510. The Denver Hereford breeding stock auction customarily is the largest in the nation each year. ' This year 412 Aberdeen-Angus bulls and females were auctioned for $108,356. In 1943, 200 sold for $61,345. , ! " Ex-Track Star Now Prisoner MEDFORD, Jan. 20 -P)- CpL Raymond Crosby, former state guarter-mile champion captured by the Germans in North Africa, took part recently in a prisoner of war broadcast his parents said today. . The Medford high ' school ath lete's voice was heard on a Jap anese program featuring German prisoners, the federal: communica tions commission (FCC) and' Pro vost Marshal-General's office told Mr., and Mrs. David B." Crosby. Crosby, who holds the Silver Star was imprisoned in Italy and then Germany. Mexican Oil ' Surplus Falls Off WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-4V Mexican oil probably will not be available to alleviate gasoline shortages in Pacific coast states. Rep. Anderson (R-Calif.) said to day. ' " r..;. i . ' Basing his statement on infor mation received from the office of the petroleum administrator for war, Anderson said Mexican crude oil production had fallen off "con siderably since the Mexican gov ernment - assumed control of oil properties , and that there was very little surplus" for export " Whatever surplus exists, Ander son added, is largely shipped 'to the United States east coast for fuel, or, to Latin American coun tries. Labedz to Move Inland to Boise r PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 20.-) -Carl La bed z, naturalized German who lost a ' federal court battle against an army order excluding him from the Pacific coast, plan ned today to move to Boise, Idaho. 1 It will be the third move within 10 r months for the , Portland ma chinist, whose test case against the western defense command was denied on the grounds that he had not been threatened with bodily eviction. Labedz attorney said he wouM aslc WDC to suspend the exclu sion order. ;, . , Labedz, ordered from the coast last March, returned to stand trial in an action later dismissed ,pf the government to 1 revoke his citizenship. He remained here.' Mrs. Douglas Turns" Latin School-Marm V,1,. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -)- Mrs. William O. Douglas, wife cf the Supreme court justice, "has turned school-marm to help re lieve the shortage of school teach ers here. Today she taught Latin to a class of Powell high school students" whose regular teaclit was ill., i "She knows Latin pretty good" volunteered on of her new stu dents. '!-; :.; i1'' . Three Arrive Cut ' ' Plate Srt for Fourth - - -..." i . . ; i ronTLAin, Jan. 20-(VThre -' of I.Trs. J. II. Cooper's sons ar rived here simultaneously on fur lough.. ' . . - - Eut "she wasn't Quits sat;.: The fourth son, en aviation t was due home, too; a..:. 3 i"' s . his' plate already tut cn t!.-s t-i-. -when his leave was csncc" - -..