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FAGS TWC Th OnZGOn GTATECMAIL Ccka. Oregon. Saturday Morning, liar 27. 18U Lumber Strike On Increase Despite Order E (Continued from Page 1) E insist the union accept the respon sibility for a strike in an essential Industry on the eve,, of invasion." Both CIO and .AFL leaders have described the walkouts as wildcat.'' sarin the mem left ' their Jobs despite anion pleas. A i C I O' spokesman reported seme 100 legging ' workers ) walked out at Molalla and Tula nook. Ore, today. Nearly all log hauling opera tions in Linn county halted to day, and two plywood mills , at 'Albany and Lebanon closed. An estimated 1200 AFL workers -walked out. ": ',- Log hauling epe rations la Linn eoBnty, Ore, were crippled to day, as walkoata of 400 AFL workers forced seven firms to suspend. Only one large com pany and two small ones con tinned. All hauling to Albany wms stopped. - Snow Peak Logging company and Roaring River Logging com pany suspended hauling logs -today because timber fallen, buck ets and other woodworkers failed to appear for work. The Willamette Valley Lumber company sawmill at Dallas shut down- today as several hundred AFL Workers walked out Lumber mills at Albany. Sweet Home and Lebanon were still j operating with , logs on hand. Officials of Oregon Fly Wood company. Sweet Hohe, and Westers Door Plywood company, Albany, said they would hare to close In few days ) when their log supplies - axe .used. Plywood mills of the Cascade Plywood company, at Lebanon and the Albany Plylock corpora tion remained closed . today after their 800 employes voted at a mass meeting last night to continue the walkout Frank Willis, business manager of the Albany Plywood Workers' union local (AFL), said the meeting was not sanctioned by the union. i Six lumber mills in the Eu gene area closed today as 500 men left their jobs. i Harvey Nelson, president of the -Columbia river district council of the International Woodworkers of America, CIO, reported that 500 loggers have left operations around Molalla and 500 . at Tilla- mook. Also reported closing were logging camps near Sweet Home, Lebanon. Vernonia, Lyons, Mill City, Taft and Sfletz. ! TOLTOO, Ore May 26-(A)-A j walkout of AFL Sawmill Workers here today left" many Lincoln county coastal communities with out electric power. Restaurants, dairies and other establishments faced food' losses and Toledo feared its water system, would go ; dry because of lack of . power to operate the pumps. The C D.. Johnson ; company's power plant Lumber was left i without fuel when the men failed to report for work at the com- pany s null.. The plant uses waste from the planer mill. CCC Barracks Go on Sale PORTLAND, May 26-ff)-Bar racks and CCC camps no longer needed by ' the war department were offered for sale preferably to a government agency by the army engineers today. ; . ; v The engineers said the buildings . would be sold to the highest bid der v if ' no offers were received , from state or local government groups who could ; convert the buildings to some public use. - " The - barracks are located at Gold ' Beach, Bandon, Waldport, Newport; Miles Woods, Manzani ta, and Longview, Wash.; the CCC camps at Florence, Coos, Stan ' field. Baker, Heppner, and Squaw Creek on the Columbia river. Bids for a CCC camp at Reeds i port will be opened hero Wednes- day - by ' the engineers. ' Possible aalo of two residences and tracts near the Salem airport is also un der consideration, the engineers said. : ' " - ' i . ' Young Grangers Feature Posters ; -;'' ; : : ,v UNION HILL The Union Hill juvenile grange meeting last week festured wild life posters. ; Division I Age 5. to 9 years, first Idon Jaquet; second, Fran ces .Fox; third, Mertie Mae Han sen. . Division II 10 - to -' 18 years, ' first. Jeanne Darby; second, Lu cille Jaquet; third. Merlin Darby. Local OPA Warns of Strawberry Ceiling Preparing . for the Imminent strawberry season, local war price and rationing boards of this dis trict have been' notified that' any charges for strawberries over, the pries l:vc!j f:t by OPA will be dr.lIy fci violation' of rcgula tics and subject to penalties. r': ll cc;I!r. price for a stand 'ar4 12-c-.--i box is" 23 cent3;,for a 12-L cr-4.? delivered the re ;' ; j :;y : na more- than ; ; ;; ' ? h:l;culer may pay no r.-.j. "'U cr '$U3. f.o.b.; wil'i a f:-:; "... '..t tllcwance 'y? to, 5 c r r cr-'.J ia Ealea 'area. Where They Are What They Are Doing LT. REX W. HARDY i V L LT. WILLIAM G. ROBISON Graduates of advanced p Ho t train ing class 44-E, at Douglas Army Airfield, ArlaV Kex W. Hardy and WilllAm G. Robison of Sa lem ea Taesday received their wmgs and commissions as sec ond lieutenants In the, army air forces and today are preparing for new assignments. Lt Hardy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hardy of Salem, arrived hero Friday on brief leave and whea he departs will go to Randolph field. Tex for a special two-months training course to prepare hla as an in structor. Both officers are graduates of Salem high school and Lt Har dy was attending. Willamette university at the time he was called into the air forces. Lt Koblson was employed by Nea Ion Sheet Metal and Roofing at the time he entered military service. - Fred Inkster ElectedrGty League Head PORTLAND, Ore., May 26 W) The League of Oregon Cities elected Fred C. Inkister, Oswego, president today and urged a state act to authorize anrointment of cjty and county planning com missions. The proposed act also would create metropolitan or. regional commissions to zone fringes of cities. . Other resolutions adopted at the league's final session urged: Cooperation by the cities with the Oregon State college school of engineering in obtaining sur veys on which designs for sewage disposal plants may be based. Establishment by the state of an adequate retirement system for the governmental and educational agencies of the state and for 'the local units. The federal government to give preference to the state and local governments in disposing of prop erty acquired for war purposes. The federal government to es tablish a national planning agency to coordinate plans of the federal government with those ' of state and local governments. Inkster is president of the Os wego city council. " Mayor Orval Eaton of Astoria was elected first vice-president; Mayor George , P. Stadelman, The Dalles, second Vice-president; J. W. McArthur, superintendent of the Eugene wa ter board, treasurer; Mayor C A. Meeker, of : Medf ord, Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, Mayor: Orvsl wood of Coquille and Mayor!. M. Doughten of Salem, directors: Herman KehrlL Portland, secre - ry- ' W-.V'. Hardy Calls An - athlete - remembered ; by many sports, fans of Salem came home Friday to tell-his-friends and his fathers that fivine was a sport to make all others look Flying Sport tame and that the sheer Joy of regularly on Wednesday nights injing on this at his news confer aviation experience had . been I the I0OF. haU in Woodburn. lence, said he wondered what worth any hardships of army life. IA. Rex W. Hardyt away from 2aiem we past 13 months, who cua nis earuer -eying" on basket- oau zioor and , xndiron. , talked Friday noon simply and . without preparation to the Salem Board of Realtors; of which his father, w. G. Hardy, is a member. The thrill ef; flying low, the friendly, relationship between men training and flying together,- the beauties of the Willamette valley and his : hope to return here to join - bis , father , in the . business were discussed . briefly ; by the young lieutenant, who last Tues day, receivedMiis wings Sand his commission at Douglas Army Air field,. Arizona., .v; v.- .-it LECE2TY Lt F. F. Matthew- son, US naval air corps, is spend ing a SO-day leave with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Matthew- son. Lt. Matthewson has been in the navy nine years and is now just back from England. ANNAPOLIS. Md Mav t WOT pMf Art Jnhn n wrrtan erintendent of the United States rially requested wage to naval f academy, today listed six w? knocked out. when midshipmen from Oregon as mem- commltteo started work on km k -tw . kik tii w.iuic owvek wra ioe unaernana- graduated on June 7. The entire tmfX m VA Ui WJS TV 111 1 W AAA WC ft class numbers 915. . , Oregphians to be commissioned: James Allen Strand, V Corvallis; Merrill; Edwin Wagner, Hillsboro; John Gordon Hammer, 1958 NW Irving ! street Portland; Floyd Kenneth Llssy, 10120 SE Knight street Portland; Robert Clarence Thomsen, 1525 North Kilpatrick street, Portland; Wayne Stuart NeUon, 260 West LefeUe street Salem.; f. WITH THE 12TH AAF Wfl liam R. Frazier, son of P. L. Fra lier, 745 North Capitol street Sa lem, Ore, has been promoted to master sergeant it was anonunced recently .; at 4 headquarters of ' the 12th air force A-36 Invader fighter-bomber group with which he Is serving as squadron inspector. ' Sgt Frazier's unit attached to one of the desert air force, fought through the Egyptian-Libyan, Tu nisian and Sicilian -campaigns and Is now In the Italian campaign, its fourth major effort The outfit has more than 18 months overseas duty to Its credit Sgt Frazier's wife, Mrs. Esther Frazier, lives in Oakland, Calit UNIONYALE Sgt Roy John son has notified his family that he has arrived safely infEngland. GRAND ISLAND Russell Sar gent US navy, has been home on leave from Farragut and visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sargent He accompanied his fa ther on a fishing trip to East lake. HOPEWELL CpL William Charles Loop, Camp Crowder, Mo. spent a-recent furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Rob erts. His brother. Bud Roberts, US navy, master mechanic, spent a two-day leave hero while CpL Roberts was home. Set Raymond Gillespie of Fort Dix, NJ is home on furlough and with Mrs. Gillespie is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack son Gillespie. , r Don ; Fleming, member of the Seabees, is at home on' leave with Mrs. Fleming and their three chil- dren at their home on route three, Salem,' after 17 months in the Aleutians. Weather in the north ern islands Is not unpleasant throughout most of the year, ac cording to Fleming, who tells also of meeting a neighbor in a service theatre there. Walking in to see a movie, he found himself beside ARM 3c Alan Cannon, son ; of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cannon, 248 South Cottage street, who had liv ed near him in Salem. Young Cannon,1 Fleming has told the youth's i parents, : has grown and gained weight during his navy service, is one of 'three members of a scouting squadron which makes regular air trips in the northern sea area. Youth Draws 3-Year Term McMINNVTLLE, May 16-Ufi Carol Loren Cram, 18-year-old driver of a car in which Allen J. Henderson, 18, and his 13-year- old sister, Wanelda, were killed, was sentenced today J to three years imprisonment on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker, setting what may be a precedent! for accident cases in Oregon, ad mitted as evidence specimens of cram's blood taken by state po lice while he was still .uncon scious following the accident Cram's attorney contended that the-specimens, examined by the state criminolorv laboratory for alcohol t content. - fnrrw! fh f 1 f mdant to tsf Matmt nimeaif I The attnrnev aaM h wraiM an. peal to the state supreme court Woodburn Cannery Affiliation,, AFL TmnUvmm rr - hjt.k - - J cannery at Woodburn have made DDucation to the American Fed. i eratlon of I jhor for a charter n4 I are holding oreanization meetincs I Charles ; Smith, AFL organizer, 1 said here Friday. The Woodburn I workers will ask for barrainine rights shortly. Smith said. .". ; . l n r Sponsored by Carital County Budget Under Ceding, Gets Approval B (Continued from Page 1) B The budget committee trimmed off a total of $28,160 from the budget estimates submitted by the I various . departments, . but these Jvl . a mm - I wiu . oe aomewnai ousel ny ine increase m wages, au ox ...... . ' '? Peengo increase would bo considered. Following is the complete , list of decreases made by the com umwk vvwuy noil) vw, nwuv clerk. $645; district attorney, $180; VVUUft UCPU UUCUI, f4VAO. fi9; herd tospector, $951.05; county i" f"0 justice covin, J2"; Jefferson justice court, $25; ,v, uu eco.rde' 48; cho1 wperinten- dent $324; sheriff, legal depart ment, $970; sheriff, tax depart ment, $2B3i; county surveyor, $60; y public welfare commission. 914.-1 1 625; market $4000. road maintenance, Additional revenues totaling $26,000 made an additional crease in the budget These eluded $1000 from O At C grant lands; $20,000 . from the sale county properties received under rg and $5000 in revenue from the market road fund. In addition to ; the appropria tions made Thursday, afternoon, the committee made - the follow ing allocations tor departmental operation: office ox county re corder, $1197; registration and elections, $10,000; office of county school superintendent $10,381: 4H club agent $2500; office of county sheriff, legal department $14,350; office of county sheriff, tax department $15,727; office of county surveyor, $2619; office of county treasurer, $4403; miscel laneous, $55,832; aid to dependent children, blind assistance, general assistance,' old age assistance, $214,014; indigent soldier relief, $1000; care of poor, miscellaneous, $2680; care of poor, poor farm, none; market road improvements, $37,500; market road maintenance, $124,000; general road fund, roads and highway fund, $100,000; coun tyroads, bridges, and ferries, en gineer's office, $5120; county roads, bridges and ferries, $50,000; road construction and mainten ance, $50,000; roads and highway fund, sinkina Ibnd. 150.000: roads and hiehwar fund. S158.07S: new courthouse. $75,000. Actual budget figures are not yet available because of the ad-1 justments which wUI have 4o MtervieevPistoI, nsin ,;was XL VT 3M7 TT made on the five ner cent wa linked fromWWJcuffs to theR0.1?? tomorrow will look made on the five ner cent wage increase and the six per cent in- crease granted some of the de-1 I partments. The final figure will probably be approximately $500 under the constitutional i; limita tion, according to County Clerk Henry Mattson. Senate Group I TI ff-o llTfa AAXU3 VCAlJ-c D (Continued from Page 1) D The subcommittee, which split two to one on Its findings. said the attorney general "was misadvised" whea "he ruled that the president was empow ered under the war labor dhw pates act to seise the plant The committee majority. Chair man McCarran (rf-Nev) and Sen- aRevercomb i (R-WV); ? said Biddle was "in error when he stated that the president is in pos- session.of an 'aggregate of pow- wutvu "wt .iw constitution and from various sta- tutes enacted by congress' which would empower him to take pos session of the Chicago faculties of Montgomery Ward & Co. Senator MeFaiiand (D-Aris), the dissenting member, said the subcommittee had r "denied the Interested parties an opportun ity to bo heard" and had baaed Its report on documentary evi dence and on the "hearsay" eon- elusions of tarostigators. ;Wt im majority ; report' recom- linended that "m tto fut I executive I cder - issued rby thelment exercises. Rev. W. W. Hess 1 president I of . tha United . SUtes (should contain crHf ritatinna (nrl ! numhw of all fHnm r ty I ctitutlon anl thm virln., Mm congress upon which the presi dent is relying for statutory and constitutional authority to issue the eecutive orders." ' : It also recommended that sen - ate committee hearings be held to Idotermln e whether legislation I should enacted providing for judicial review- of war labor 1 board orders. I PresUeut . Roosevelt, comment- I wcu be come of workers knock- ed out of. their jobs while cbn- tress and the courts were studv I ing their case. 7- Fost I.'o. 9, American Lecica Swancutt Ruled If" f t w j , &mmJ&SammmmjmiQttmm W'f iflmi iiiiiiiwMi Lt Beaufort G. Swancutt under guard of Lt Dale Frasler. tofWs h.i. mtn th Minrt Mam at Cams Ansa. Calif- awaiting I resumption of Ms court martial A blanket eovers Swancutt's shackled hands, tie was found guilty. (AF Wirephoto) Army Court Reco Hill CAMP "ANZA, Calif, May 26- (if)-Standing erect and seemingly emotionless, 2nd Lt Beaufort G. Swancutt today heard a court-1 martial's recommendation that he be hanged- for the gunfire murder of his girl friend and 'three other persons last March 5. , The 12-officer board deliberat ed an hour and a quarter before its president Lt Col. Duncan P. FrisselL emerged from an ante room, ordered the La Crosse, Wis., officer to I stand and announced the decision. Handcuffs were clapped fmme- I diately upon Swancutt and he was ted to a wheelchair to return to the camp hospital where he is re- I covering- irom police Duiiets tnat ended nis murderous zoray witn chair "Oh. helL" Swancutt said as he was wheeled out of the room, I forgot my cap" ;; ; - Somebody returned to the coun-; sel table for the overseas cap and placed It on his head. " ' Later the officer, who had tes tified his mind blacked out before the shootings, told a reporter: "I told the truth. That's all I could do. I am not afraid to die." Outside, he met his gray-haired, widowed mother. Mrs. Caroline Swancutt of Detroit who appear ed., near collapse. Standing - with his arm about her waist was an other son, CpL Wellington Swan cutt" of the Santa Ana army air base. Also present for the brief reunion were the accused's sister, Mrs. Beatrice Wright of Detroit and his wife, Gertrude. The 'court's recommendation win be reviewed by CoL J. X. Herbert commanding officer 7of the Los Angeles port of embarka- tion, and the army's judge advo- cate. general nx wasningwn, who are empowered to reduce the pen- alty. The president will fix the time and place of execution. Scott Addresses Hillcrest Girls junoness ana neipnuness are qualities of womanliness, which outshine many other virtues. State Treasurer Leslie Scott told girls of Hill crest school Friday after- commence- delivered the Invocation. The school Chorus and ; three Soloists aan and everv member ' of the I class of seven sdrls completing the - i eighth grade participated mama W m xne program. - Diplomas were presented by I Miss Elda RusselL former super- 1 Intendent of the school, and cor- sages were distributed to the girls r and to their mothers before the school and friends attending scat- terea w vnai ciassroums. r wa was servea on xne lennw court. VJ.W. Victory Oab W1W . Old Time Dancs Horner Hood and Church Streets . Music by - T -THE I " czsGoanns Clb llecibers Otly Hanging yon Guilty by Court v vr j miosmosa on charges o!smwerlngfomri Truman Raps To His Face WASHINGTON, May 26-(-A flushing, suspended naval com mander, "who ' had acknowledged sending a "restricted" document to his private corporation with a request that It be burned after! use, heard Senator Truman j CD- Ma) recommend ithat he be f im mediately court martialed." L The commander, John D. Cor- rigan, has. testified, before Tru man's war investigating commit tee that half a dozen firms he in spected as a production "trouble shooter'" for the navy's ordinance bureau have engaged the private engmeerinc and management consultation firmv Corrigan, SO-, burne and Wells, in which he still retains a half Interest i The navy suspended the oficer yesterday, and it was announced federal grand jury convening into his case. Still wearing his naval uniform. he was questioned for an hour and a half today hy the Truman committee. As he rose and stood beside his chair, Truman shook a finger at him and declared sol emnly: . . ". - j think that Commander Corri gan should be immediately court martialed by the United States navy. I think it Is the most fla grant violation of the rules and regulations of the navy since this committee has been at work.": Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) ex pressed agreement with the state ment - I Corrigan reddened and walki ed away. ' . .- -j - Berger Lauds Blood Plasma 'If you could just see the effect of blood plasma on one wounded man you would remember it all the rest of your life," MaJ. Armin Berger told members of the Salem credit association at the Friday luncheon meeting; The statement was made in answer to a question from a member. ! t Many people ask reiurnlng ser vice men if they are .afraid when going into combat but whatever the answer , might be "there Is nothing left for mo to be afraid after facing a whole room 1 tAH J TtA, full former salem dentist now a line officer with the 41st division iri the South - Pacific said. Maj. and Mrs. Berger were guests at the luncheon Friday noon in the offices of j the Credit jasso dation. The -officer, .home on an extended leave, was introduced by Ralph Glover. ! JL Last Chapter of "SECRET SERVICE IN DARKEST AFRICA- soN0fcowsosovm j(rfmWCiomai Comgan ju& Tunes A Today . A Centlauewa Shows Starting at If. M. I Gary Cooper I I I - as Leu- Gerix la i ' rnro pride ' c:f J -W'--OP THE - YANKEESW V rnE T f BODY AX DISAPPEARS. I J ; ; with i j j Jane Wyman ! . , . Jeffery " NX -y0 Yank Forces Pushing Nazis Stea C (Continued from Page 1) C Una Intersects the new German defense line at Valmontone. Already the; war waa within sight c-f Rome; The German ra dio reported that the flash of heavy guns could be seen at night from the housetops of the eternal (A Swiss telegraph agency dis patch said the sound of cannon could be heard "clearly in Rome and added that "Romans are quite conscious that ; the battle is ap proaching. Eome.") . " - Swarms of allied fighter-bomb ers continued their merciless at tacks on German road and rail transport in the battle zone, de railing several; trains, ; destroying more than 400 vehicles and dam aging 300 others today; This i brought the total of enemy ve hicles destroyed or damaged by air attack in the past three days to 2500. As a result of these blows tiie nazis were being forced to abandon much equipment FDR Prefers Liberation A (Continued from Page 1) A conference, and he has. called monetary conference for July. in other words, he remarKea, we are. making far greater prog ress in this war than we did in the last ; j- : '- Vy:;, A reporter put la that Secre tary of State Hull had said this country was I further advanced than others on study of postwar overall security, and asked If Mr. Roosevelt agreed. - The. president said he thought that was probably true. . The subject had been discussed. he said, at the Teheran and Cairo conferences his meetings with I Prime Minister : Churchill and J Premier Staling and with Church- m and Generalissimo Chiang Kal Sbek respectively, While Ideas have been put into a rough draft : the president said, he would no more think of giv ing out a rough draft of that sort than he would a rough draft one of his speeches. ;: STMTS oily istles aik rU W -i net ' . mi i vi N -V'ii :.tjir..i.,.t: X-' --'-;W-- " n&ivEUBSi r:-- r v:-- Its tas swrt list- V . . . . , - is, rssisttl i, - rastllag aiatsb . -h or " fen that! . rw-fiJ ' Companion f . Hit; : y Feature! - " yj fa m r v$v Citatgwtsacna: , ry" N, . ' I - .3 OHMOMEFRONT i , ly I3AXIX CHILD3 - i - She .wore: white gloves and, as I now recall, a trim little black and white hat ; with j her : gray . spring suit this supreme court justice's wife. And when: she stopped! the school teacher and' me (as the lights changed) in mid-traffic of, High near Court street we thought surely it was to invite us to a tea or to share with us some impor tant bit of social news. We're publishing: this little story so that the motorists who whizzed by on either side of us, the pedes trians on the sidewalks and the help in the nearby stores will un derstand why we broke and ran away from Mrs. Brand one sunny afternoon this week.- What she said in beautifully- modulated low voice was: "There's Kleenex 'at '-Fred Mey- Today thru' Monday ft vjMBnexA -.a Co- Feature "THE GIRL IN THE CASE" c With Bdmund Lowe . News T0DA7 the exercije! ...X. . . ' '"t Extra EerLa.1, CziL America' ) - i'i p, 'I ii 1 v i