The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 27, 1944, Image 9

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Newspaper Page Textv ' Th OUTGOI! STATESMAN Scdtm, " Oregon, T&ttrsdCctr Morning, April 27. 1844 ."''. - 'T PAGE XHIIS . 1 - J r ( '4 if 'HI 4 ALLIED CAVE DWELLER S Allied force use natural care la bwkrrouna as a birouaa - ' area a Greea Island, aorth of BeagaiiivUIe. Ia forerrnnd is a native caatctu -a A- Where They Are What They Are Doing SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Pf c Wilbert Herb of , Salem, Ore, recently assigned to an army training center, has just complet ed his second year of overseas service. -. "' ' Pfc Herb is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Herb of 645 South Summer street, Salem. His broth er, Sgt. Donald Herb, is with the army in California. He is engaged to Miss Lorraine Nash of 1206 Northeast Thompson street, Port land, formerly of Salem. "A national guardsman, Pfc Herb was called to active service in September, 1940. He was sta John Richards!! fa new with the army air corps base at Am arillo, Texas, he wrote his par ents, who live in the Webfoot dis trict. . The 18-year-old boy went there from Fort Lewis where he was sent Immediately following his induction. Before he went into the army he was a senior at Day ton Union high school. Cub Trkiner . ,1 Due to Stay Based Here CpL Robert L. Miller has writ ten his parents that he is now ready for assignment to actual duty with a base operating group or with some other unit which tioned at Fort Lewis, Wash, and the AAF training command may wriorlo sailin for Australia in send him to. He has completed vrn.h was mi coastal de- the intensive training course in fense duty. During the battle of Salamaua in which his regiment received a citation. Pfc. Herb sow action as a forward observer for Prior to his call to active serv artlllery fire. Ice, Pfc Herb was employed by J he would be prepared for duty in radio mechanics at the technical school army air force of the tech nical training command at Truax field, Madison, Wis. Rigid drilling and physical training were also included in the program so that the Mackenny Sawmill company of Portland. RICKEY CpL Airnt Mabit is with the army air corps engi neers overseas. His wife, an audi tor for the Spokane air depot, re cently visited here with her moth er-in-law. .;'- ': ' Another son, CpL Robert G. Mahit, is with, the military police in Australia where h has been for three years. the combat area if assigned. CpL Miller is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Miller of 2441 State street Pvt. George K. Gjesdal spent a 15-day furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gjesdal, Route 5, Salem. Pvt. Gjesdal is stationed at Camp Haan, Calif., with the anti-aircraft division of the US army. One of the four TaXlorcraft 4-L trainer planes brought to the Sa lem airbase Wednesday .morning from the Corvallis airbase will probably be based here, CAP of ficials in this area' have been giv en to understand. If permanently stationed in Salem, it would be used for Red Cross emergency work. . The planes, from a group re leased by the federal government for use by 'the Oregon wing of the civil air patrol, had been at Corvallis field for several weeks. They were flown here Wednes day by Capt. Lee U. Eyerly, train ing and personnel officer for the Oregon wing of the CAP; Lt El don Turnidge, Jefferson, Salem unit, CAP; Al Adams, Silverton, former member, and Gene Mc Carthy, Independence, instructor for the unit. Originally, the craft were re leased for CAP use, while the pa trol was recruiting air cadets and an order was issued simultaneous ly with the release for civil air patrol aviators to take each cadet for a flight Since that time the CAP recruitment program has been canceled. Junior Nurses Aide Program Set Saturday The junior nurses' aide pro gram, sponsored here oy vie younger girls' department of the Salem -YWCA in cooperation with Camp Fire Girls and Girl Scout! groups, will be launched Saturday when registrations are opened at , the YWCA and in Camp Fire; Girl offices. . V Registrants will be trained in basic hospital service, to allow the ! regular Red Cross nurses aides to do more ot the work of regular nurses, whose numbers are di- mlnishing as they enter war ser vice. Juniors will have no care of the sick, sponsors explain, but will handle such detail tasks as care of linen closets under super vision, care of flowers and other i not-heavy but time-requiring work. Fourteen-year-old i. and older girls who are in the ninth grade or high school are eligible for the training classes. Mrs. C. H. Reeher of the YWCA is chairman of the committee in charge. Serving with her are Mrs. W. L. Phillips, Girl Scouts; Mrs. A. E. Ullman, Mrs. Emma Max well. Mrs. Sidney King and Mrs. George Rhoten, Camp Fire; and Mrs. O. L Paulson, YWCA. , Selma V. Hilmer, superinten- j dent ot nurses at Salem Deacon ess hospital; Lillian M. McDon ald, superintendent of Salem Gen-j eral hospital; Dr. W. J. Stone, county health officer, and Mrs. Ernest Arneson, Marion county Red Cross nurses' aide training chairman, comprise an advisory committee. CpL Frank Wiley Is spendlng his first furlough in Salem with his mother, Mrs. Anna L. Wiley, 470 Evergreen avenue. Wiley, who enlisted in the marines in Port land in 1940, is now stationed at Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif. He has been in the south Pacific for nearly two years. Child ers Gets Big Welcome Orland N. Stalkope Toss written his wife of his arrival somewnere I w fi 11 in England." He is now serving 111 fj KLfltlOTtia with the rail transportation unit and was a former employe of the Southern Pacific line. The Stall core home is located at 1997 N. Capitol street Two more 17-year-elds, Ray mond Prescott and Anthony Ed mund Gerspacher, enlisted in the marine corps through the Salem recruiting office Tuesday, ac cording to Sgt Herman M. Doney, local marine recruiter. Private Prescott is the" son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat N. Prescott or Route 1, Dallas. He will continue his studies at high school in Dal las until the end of the current term before he is called to active duty. Private Gerspacher Is the son ' of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Ger spacher of Sublimity. He will con tinue to help, his father on their farm until called to active duty. Both boys will receive their re cruit training at the marine corps base at San Diego, Calif. Clifford C. Lefsdesw varter- master third class in the navy. has been at home on a 10-day leave. He was met in Salem by his wife Dorothy, now of Port land, and together they visited his narents. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Logsdon Of route two. He has now returned to San Diego where he will instruct in landing craft Commander Max Ai M o n arrived at home after 19 months ot active duty in the South Pa cific. He is on a 25-day . leave and will report to the new naval hospital in Astoria. Commander Moon was a practicing dentist in Salem before his enlistment Mrs. Moon and their son reside in their home on Croisan Creek. Pfc Edwin W. Schwkhtenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs." W. A. Schwichfenberg of 486 North 14th street Salem, is now spending a furlougn at nome aner returning to Camp Carson, Colo., from act ive service in the Aleutians. He was formerly employed by the state highway department Healing Arts Get Big Fund FromBaruch BROKEN ARROW, Okla., April 6-(iT-Home folks from through out this sprawling cattle section today extended a heart-warming welcome to their native son war hero Lt Ernest Childers, 26-year-old Cree Indian. For miles around, cowhands, dirt farmers, and Indians, and the more austere officialdom, mili tary and civil, paid homage to the infantryman who distinguished himself on the Anzio battlefront And he was mlghty pleased" with it all, the said time and again during the homecoming ceremon ies. "Not so much for myself," he said in addressing the crowd of some 5000 at the town school house, "but for my comrades in the service as welL "These ceremonies here, he said, "signify the appreciation of the homef oiks to all our men and women In the armed services, rather than to me as an individ uaL" ' As for his own feat the win ner of the congressional medal of honor had little to say. -. The instance in which he drag ged himself from a field hospital to wipe out German machine gun nests, he described thusly: 1 worked my way to a German fox hole , and executed an oper ation." v-t Heu DAII nADIIOII Speak Every Thursday Night 9:15 P. M. - KOIN What Congress Needs Conner Tells Service Clubs m About Security The vast proportions which so- rial security may reach if the pro posed "cradle to the grave" legis lation is enacted were sketched for more than 250 Salem men and women Wednesday at a joint Kiwanis and Lions club luncheon chamber of commerce. Rotary, meeting in the Marion hoteL The speaker was Ed H. Conner, execu tive director of Insurance Eco nomics Society of America. Social security now costs more than 16 billion dollars a year and the ultimate cost will be 20 billion dollars and 50 per cent of the in come tax will be used to finance the social security program, Con ner said. Stressing the fact that free en terprise had been the means whereby the United States has been built into the greatest na tion in the world and is now not only the arsenal of the world but also its bread basket, Conner said the right to free enterprise must be preserved. The luncheon was so largely attended that an overflow group of. luncheon guests were taken care of in the Marine room while the principal group were in the Mirror room. Feathered Forecaster MONMOUTH Several flocks of wild geese going north during the last week usually harbingers of SDrinc seemed, this time, to usher In a storm. Local weather observers noted something ot a phenomenon Sat urday morning, when a flock of sandhill cranes, which usually ex hibit a peculiar mode of flight, that of flying in a circle much of the time, were seen going straight north, .without circling, ' evidently going direct In order to avoid the coming storm of Sun-; day. Their odd vocal expression i of continuous honking was not changed. " KN! WOMZN! AasszIagNewWayto LOGE VJGIGUT t ft F00SS that TAKE KUMGE1 AWAYI Wat "" 20 to 70 pwi f ashr fofT SMak S to 10 MM afeMt yaur Vm Gal fid f difiiam, iirtmn IE it em4 gitw rrmplem$ 4mm t KCI lnfrflitl mmmmf V mbt Tate HimsW Am WKl I - -- aW Pfstr snsj Bsl snrsffsjsw aacar4 HI 4a. M WlUMMS HEALTH SYSTaM. hfL ,541 $. Ssrtoa . u a iTm ia, um. D RY Sack aboard an eseari 'shia aflar aa fcss f fcs-etag ia Icy Norti AUiriU waters 3 an eastsm Car?. '.sa tot Keyal Casadn Air force Uot fosnd ealy User? of water U seeseJ IZrtTZ V Aieri. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AsHwiated Press Science Editor NEW YORK, April 26-MVBer- nard VL Baruch today gave $1,- 100.000 to extend the oldest branch, of the healing arts, physi cal medicine, which started among cave men with the "laying on of IhandsJ ':J--'-r Simultaneously the; Baruch committee on physical medicine, headed by Dr. Bay Lyman Wilbur of Stanford university, recom mended a nationwide, scientific boost of this art, particularly for rrtirninff soldiers. The committee defined pnysicai medicine as use of light, heat, wa- t cold, electricity, massage, maninulatian. exerdsei spas, cli matology and hydrology, the lat ter sneclaliring tn oaxns, nA th like. ;..; : -I am convinced,-:, wrucn gaid, "that returning, men women now In the armed services H7l need the advantages or poy- Trirlne-and X feel this pro- ,m ,.in rpfitnre discharged E11U -W " . I a rinrmal chYSlCal and miUJCi, - Rom "where I slt.SJoe Marsh Silas Clay Gets Mad a! Women's Hats 7 Silas Clay is complaining that his wife's new hat cost mora than a bull calf. "And I wouldn't mind It, if it v?m a hat," he says, -"but all it Is, is a small bow and a piece of feather." It Isn't the aiae of the hat that comnta," aays EiToa Carp, . roprcbfmCy. v : . : 5,;' ' -Wen, what la lt that counts? t&s Si, CTanpcmtcd. ' : , ni tea you what it U that counts," eaya Dec "If the W that a new hat irej to txy,i woman, It sort of plda up their spirits-f toasts morale. Llttla . things can da that. Like the . flower in your buttonhole," he says to Silas, "or that glass of teer that you're enjoying. : From where I sit. Doe haa given ma m thty good 4eftsd tiom of xaorale. Important thfacfc A Cower in jrtmrfcnttoav hote . . m Idad word tnm strurer . a aseBow gli beer wl'Ji Ixiends. IitUt tiirjs mpteUSr Laportamt ia tiSM ;4kt of strata. Vix'. ft. Citfm Sxk$ I ' '' . " ' ' ' ' ' : . : . '. ' ' ' I ' . - . ' --r. ' ' ' - ' . . . BEPtY II i! E President: We have your telegram of April 23, 1944. Wards welcomes the susrsrestion that an election be held at an early date to - - nn ar 'determine the employees choice of representation. The question whether the union represents a majority of the employees in in Wards mail order house and store in Gilcaga has been pending since November 16; 1943. "Wards has repeatedly urged a prompt determination of this question, and has publicly announced a readiness to recognize the union when proof of its representation is presented. Although over five months have elapsed since the question arose, the union has refused to shclw that it is the majority choice of the employees by either a card check or an ele lion. - - ' :" - . . : - - ' j ' " '.! . Wards will continue to observe the wages, hours and related terms of employ ment as they were before the expiration of the former contract. Wards has made ; no change in any of these conditions since December 8, 1942, and could not do so f under the wage stabilization law' without prior governmental approval. Your assertion that the strike is interfering with the distribution of essential goods is based upon misinformation. On April 13, the United States Post Office, presumably acting on orders from Washington, removed its seventy employees from the mail order house. For more than thirty years the post office had main tained this department for the purpose of handling parcel post shipments to Wards'. . customers. On April 17, the United States Post Office refused to deliver to Wards incoming parcels' from customers on which postage had been fully paid. Despite the assistance given to the strike by the United States Post Office, Wards' store has been open for business during the usual hours each day since the strike began and Wards is up to date in the filling of mailorders. Although Wafrds welcomes early election, Wards cannot, under the law, grant special privileges to the union pending the election. To grant maintenance of union membership before the election is held, as the war labor boaroThas ordered, would not only violate the employees' fundamental liberty of free choice but it would also permit the union to demand the discharge of aU the employees who have resigned from the union since December 8 ,1943. Compliance with the board's order would thus make a mockery of the democratic right of employees to choose their bargaining representatives freely and without interference. , By ordering tbe retroactive reinstatement o maintenance of membership, the war lahor hoard has demonstrated its utterly unfair character, and its com plete disregard of the command of congress that its orders conform to the national labor relations act. Y Wards' experience with the war labor board over a period of two years has convinced Wards that the board is a means by which special privileges are granted to labor unions. The union members of the war labor board are men chosen for leadership by the unions, and have actually advanced the interests of the unions. The so-called public members have consistently joined with the union members to support the demands of organized labor. The. so-called industry members are committed to a policy of supporting the majority vote of the. union members and the union-dominated public members. The war labor board has always claimed that its orders are law and must be obeyed. It has coerced innumerable employers into acceptance of its orders by threatening the seizure of their businesses. i i When Wards brought suit to have the board's orders-declared illegal, the board asked the cotiru to dismiss the case, m DIRECT CONTRADICTION TO ITS PREVIOUS CLAIMS OF POWER, THE BOARD'S PLEA TO THE COURT WAS THAT ITS ORDER WERE NOT "LEGALLY BINDING," BUT WERE ONLY "ADVICE" WHICH WARDS NEED NOT ACCEPT. The purpose) of this plea was to deny! Wards a trial before the courts. The issues raised by Wards' case against the war labor board are judicial questions which under the constitution only the courts may decide. The war labor board, by asking you to force Wards to witli it order while seeking to deprive Wards of an opportunity for a hear ing in the courts, has demonstrated its lack of respect for our constitution and the lundamentai rigms wmcxi uic wmmuuvu 6uiaU,w. Your assertion that, if Wards does not accept your directions, you will take further action, has been construed by the press to threaten the seizure of Wards' plant and business. Y . Vi - The constitution of. the United States guarantees to the people the protection of those .fundamental rights without which there can be no liberty. Under the constitution, congress is the sole law-making authority. Neither the president of the United States nor any other official has the legal right to seize any business or property either in time of peace or in time of war unless congress has expressly, given him the power to do so.v ...... , I Congress has given theresident no power to seize the non-war businessf Montgomery Ward. Any seizures of Wards' plant "or business would be in com- . plete "disregard of the constitution .which the 'president is sworn to uphold and t ""defend.' . - T ' " . . - '' . " . t: 3. " Wards has violated no law nor denied to the union any privilege to which if Js legaRy entitled. ; - v : . . . ' ; . ... -; f Respectfully, . , : t ' - ;" : t " " : : : ' r MONTGOIERYWARDfiCO. r " ' - : ' r ; - " " r - Seven Avery. ; r i mental condition."