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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEND BULLETIN TIIK WKATIIKH I'ulr IiiiiIkIiI uiiiI Tucxiluy, lull imislilcralilo I'lniiilliii'HH or fug m-ar the coast, liny tcnipernliin-s rnnlliiiiiiig aliiito minimi. TEMPERATURE Maximum yesterday. Oil degree, .Minimum last liluhl, in degree. VOLUME XI.VII. THF. HKNI) HI.'I.I.KTIN, UK Nil, OIMXJON', MONDAY, AI'RJI, 21, 1011 NO, 11(1 AT ATHE Washington, I). C, April 71 Ciil. Frank Knox, secretary ol the navy, In being urged to establish it nnvy base ul I In' edge of til)' Kinky mountains, between 700 Mini MHO miles hum tin- I'iii-Uic iiii'.in. anil only u few miles from Yellowstone national i.i i k . Hie proposition Is Ising submitted In all seriousness anil has tin sup (Mil 1, U I'llUI'SC, III till' I ll.lll'J dele gation III congress. r'or (In navy liaso It In priiMscd thill Amciiean Kails Ik- ultllJ'd anil thai n M-ailam training mil Hon In- Installed. American Kails an now tamed Ity a dam anil pow i r plant anil Ihi'ii' la n liroail lake resulting from I ho il.ull us I In' waters of Snake river an hai-kiMl up to I In- oast; an Idea place for learning to operate amphibians ami wnli a smooth water surface unlike thi' tough water of the ocean. With tin- luki" anil t hi hy dtoi-ctiic ikiwit, a navy Htatlon ( .in la' roust rui'ii'il at a minimum of cxpclisc to tin1 government. Aigumcnt la in. nil' Hull ia n (-latter of national defense Amer ican Kails should In- used hy n.iv.il fliers In sweeping across tin colli Itu'iil from tin' Ail-intli- to I hi- I'ii rilu'. No naval avialois have ever liiadi' such a Hip, hut there if no reason why they inn not or may have lo with the n.ivy dcstliM-d to play such an ImtHiiiaiit roll; u cross rotinlry flight would Im iniirh quicker than Pillow lug I hi coastline. American Kails Is In the region where Captain llonnrvllli', the Hudson Hiy 1 1 m anil other fur hiiutcis roanail. It was on I hi (Mil (ii'iiin Trail ami llu-rp arc vast stretches o( sagebrush desert In all directions. Suggestion of such n place for a training station lor tl' navy caused ihr bushy i-ycluows of Secretary Kno to lift. In uilillllon In Knox. tli' ('A A Is being urgi-d to plaiv the laki' on Its airplane map. If thi Idea goes over with Sit- i-clary Knox tin' dammed waters of the C'nlumlila nt Grand Cou hi may ! proposed fur a naval nation, ami tin Owyhi-o dam. Boulder dam, Shasta il.im, and the Willi is of thi Wlll.iini'tti' anil Its tributaries formi'd hy the fliaxl control project. Nevada Is clrciilai lIng thi' run grct.sion.il delegations of western talcs proMilng that ruK'tal sii-tir-Ity Ix'iM'lita for Indiana Ih paid I'lilhvly hy thi federal govern menl. as Indiana art wards of the (Continued on Page 5, Column 71 Kenneth DonovanHurt In Automobile Wreck Kenneth Ionovan, 22, sor loualy injured enrly Sunday morn ing when the nulomnhili In which he was riding with Ifcmald Iyer and a car drlvi-n by Cordon Erick F.son were Involved In nn accident about 3 miles south of Bend. Dnno van'a skull wna fractured at thi huse He waa taken to thi St, Cluiiles hospital for treatment. ei... ....i. i. .nt n.u m.i i rP..H nf the Kli'phant Inn, thne miles niiulh of (lend, nl approximately 1 a. m., Sunday, wild Sheriff O. 1. MK'auley, InveatlKallnK officer. In the aame party with Oyer nnd Donovan were Dennis Dono van nnd HolH'i t Mayer, who saw the nivldenl aa they aloud In front of the Inn, waiting for Dyer to park. llalpli Hammond nnd One El liott, of liedinond. were ocrupants of the Krlckson niitomohile. Klllott wna trealed at the hospital for ruts nhoul the face nnd hend. Krlckson, Hammond and Dyer unstained minor euta nnd bruises. Mrs. Myrtle Stewart i Is Dead at Age of 64 ' Mrs. Myrtle Estelle Stewart, 64. native of Illinois nnd a resident of (lend for the past (our weeks, died here Sunday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Townsend. Mrs. Stewart is sur vived by two daughters, Mrs. Stewart of Bend and Mrs. Audrey ' Vlnmhiielr nf f tn I lib nnln Also surviving arc one grandson, Mor ris Mumbnrk, and a granddaught er, Mrs. Vlvlnn Perrln, and Wo step children, Mrs. Walter Gil christ, Salem, and Floyd Town send, Bend. Mrs. Stewart, a mem ber of the Christian church, had been III (or several months. Her husband, Isaac B. Stewart, died (our years ago. Services will be held Wednes day nt 2 p. m. from the Christian church In Woodhurn. The Rev. O. W. Jones nnd the Rev. -Gilstrap will bo In charge. 4 Burial will he In the Belle Tassle cemetery, In Woodburn, BRITISHTAKING TO SHIPS SAYS BERLIN SOURCE Transports Destroyed Is Claim NEW FRONTS SEEN Pressure IMaml on Spain To Open Wuy for Drive On (lilirultur lii-illn, Apt II VI "II - Na'J sources asserted tonlhl thai llrlllsn forces were einluii klllK and lleeliiK Irom Cni-ce. Cerman iHimhlnK planes heavily atlaeked the "fL-cliia"' Hrlllsh, the nals ii'iHirted, and succii-ded In destroying part of the transMirtH on which the Urttlsh were travel lug lM-tween KulKMa, an Island olf the Creek port of Ijinila. lo Crete. 1 1 n-.li.itc lies from Ijimliin re mii liil I hat foreign ohservera ex liecied the llrltish exM-dltlonary forcea to evacuate Cn-ecc but did not Indicate that an evacuation had stat ted I Hy Joe Alex Morris (t'hllMl I' IN KtT (',.,, raMrtM,, , Nals reported today that the Hrlllsh i'XM-llllonary force had startiil eiiilmi king from (In-cci under heavy Cerman all' attack and there were mounting Indica tions that Adolf Hitler might soon strike on other war (runts toward Clhrattar or the Sue canal. 'Hieii wei-e Increasing Indica tion of Cerm.in efforts lo bring Spam Immisllalcly into the axis and to strike from Spanish soil at the western end of the Mediter ranean in an effort In lake liltiral tar or nullify llrltish control of the "rock." On the Creek war front, Athens dispatches admitted that the al lied forces had fallen back to a third defense line In the moun tains about llll mile north of the capital as u result of terrific C,er man air and land attack. Dispatches from Umdoa aald that It waa believed ginerally that the Hritlsh must pull out of Ureece and then wa much specu lation on whether II would be pos sible to save the expeditionary force nnd materials sent there. The latest allied reMirt from the fighting front said that the battle continued, on a new and shorter line believed to Is' In the Orthys mountains near Thermopylae and that huge casualties were in flicted on the enemy. The nni aald that the llrltish transports had been attacked from the air and some of them de stroyed. . Once before the axis propagandists had reported the Hritlsh Owing (rom Crcccc but at the lime allied reinforcements still wen? moving into the defense line. Ring Rot Hearings to Take Place Tomorrow Kale o( the proposed potato con trol area In Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties will he decided tomorrow, when the courthouses of three counties will be the scenes of three hearings on the quarantine ureas. Frank McKcnnon. chief of the division of plant industry of the stale department of agriculture, will Im- In charge of the hearings, and will Im at the Bend court house at 10 n. m , In i'rlnevllle nt 1 p. m., and In Madras at 4 p. m. "From nil current comments. It nprars thai tills control area will Is a reality very soon," said County Judge C. L. Allen. He explained that potato growers In this urea were most anxious to shut out potatoes from diseased regions, first, Inh'iiusi iHitatoes i are the only cultivated row-crop In Central Oregon, and If even iwo per cent oi ine seen crop is affected hy the deadly ring rot, IH) per cent of the entire crop is hit. "The quarantine would menn that part of the old crop would have to be stored in a cuve, or some other cold place," said Allen, adding thnt hy planting early varieties new potatoes would he on l(K-al markets hy July. Hollinshead Justice In Lapine District Salem. Alrll 21 HW Gov. Char les A. Spraguc today appointed W. C. Hollinshead, Lapine, to be Justice of the pence o( the newly created third district In Deschutes county. The vacancy In the Lapine Jus tice court was filled by Governor Chnrles A. Sprngiie on the request of residents of the southern Des chutes county residents and the Deschutes County Sportsmen's association. A petition received by the Deschutes county court was forwarded to Governor Sprngue for nclion. Company I Bend With A tentative lllneiai-v for the movement of -III.IUXI men from I-oil I.cwIk to the St liuls Obispo country of California for summer maneuvers received here today in dicates that the fiisl seiials nulled Ihiough ISend will reach here on May 211. The I lend unit, Co. I of the C2 infantry, will I- among those moved over the Waplnltla cutoff und The I miles California high way, and. If the arrangements are not changed, the young Infantry men will reach here late on the evening of May 2.1, for un over night slop. 'Hie soldier.'! will blv ouac on grounds Just south of the city limits, according to present plans. Troops will be moving over The Dalles California highway and Pacific highway for five consent- Central Oregon Power Rates Cut Initial Charge Drops to 85 Cents Salem. April 21 'U Reductions In rates of the I'aclfic I'ower & Light company will save custom er In Oregon and Washington $110,000 a year. Public Ctillties Commissioner Ormond R. Ilcnn announ-ed today. They will be effective May 22. At Astoria, Bend. Hood River. Pendleton, The Dalles and Sea side the Initial rate will be drop lied from $1 a month to R5 cents a month, nnd the top rate will be only 38 cents per kilowatt-hour, dropping to 2.5 alter 60 klllowatt horn's have been used and to l.S cents after 200 kilowatt-hours. The rural rate will be dropped from on Initial charge of JIM a month to ! cents, after which the top rate will be 4 6 cents as comared with the present six cents. For all rural users who take more thun 60 kilowatt hours month, the rate will be the same as for urban users. CranirwrruU Kales Cat The commercial rates will also bo reduced, with the result that savings (or most such customers will bo between 10 and 15 percent, ranging as high as 20 per cent In some cases. 'The $410,000 rate reduction an nounced Monday by Pacific Power A Light company will put rates for residential electric service In Rend as much as 41 per cent be low the rates in effect in l'XM and as much as 25 per cent below present rates." according to W. A. Lackaff, district manger (or the company. "The new rate cut Is the third mnde in Bend since li:i and brings tutal rate savings to resi dential, commercial, industrial and (arm customers o( the Paeidc company to well over a million dollars a year since that date," he added. 'The new schedules are system-wide, affecting all of the more than 130 communities served by the I'aclfic system, and will go Into effect May 22. Rural, com mercial, commercial light and power, and industrial services also nre affected by the reduc tions. New Rates Listed "The four Central Oregon cities' new residential rates will be: First 12 kilowatt-hours or less per month. 85c; next 48 kwh at 3.8c (4.2c (or Redmond. Prlneville, Madras) next 140 kwh at 2.5c; ex cess nt 1.5c per kwh. In addition, nn optional block of 500 kwh at only 7 mills per kwh is available (or automatic water homing under single-meter service. The present 8-mill rate (or separately metered water heaters ulso will continue to be available. 'The present residential sched ule here is $1 for the first 12 kwh or less per month; next 28 kwh at 5.5c; next 120 kwh at 2.75c; nil excess at 2c per kwh. "Typlcnl bills for resldenllnl service nt rates effective In 1936, at present rates and at the new rates compare like this: 1936 Present 25 kwh $2.13 $1.71 50 kwh 3.37 2.81 100 kwh 4.87 4.19 150 kwh 6.37 5.56 New $1.34 2.29 3.67 4.92 "The now commercial schedule la $1 for the first 14 kwh or less per month; next 386 kwh at 4.3c; next 600 kwh at 3.5c; next 1000 kwh nt 2.5c; all excess at 2c per kwh." British Hammer at German Base Gties London, April 21 HP British bombers hammered nt Brest, an important German U-boat base, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Aachen and numerous other places last night, the air ministry said today. Large fires were observed at Cologne nnd bombs burst near a drydock nt Brest, the air ministry said. Will Stop in Army Units live days, us the southward inigra lion of 4(i,iH0 men, largest move ment of troops ever undertaken in tin west, gets under way. The march (rom i on I -wis will start on May 111. and the last of the units will lie at Jolon, California, wene of the summer maneuvers, on May 31. The migration back to Fort l-wls will In- In July. According to information con tained In "warning orders," the troop will move in daily serials, over the Pacific and 'Hie Dalles California highways. Interior Route Khorter The various marching serials will bring a total of 1304 vehicles through Bend. The Pacific high way will be used by 14.11 vehicles. The distance from Fort I-ewis lo Jolon by wuy of the Pacific high way Is 1040 miles. Over 'Die Dalles-California highway, the dis tance is 1004 miles. I The 41st division will go south ' through Bend und the 3rd division will tie routed over the Pacific highway. It is anticipated that approximately 20.000 soldiers will lie In the vuriuus serials using The Dalles California highway. The vanguard of the 41st divi sion will leave Fort Lewis on May 19, but it will not be until May 22 ' that the serials holding the 102nd I infantry und the iiend company 'start south. The daily march of the various serials will be as fol lows, if recommendations are fi nally approved: 1st day. Fort Lewis to Vancou ' ver barracks. 1 2nd day. Vancouver barracks to Bend. , 3rd day. Bend to Klamath Falls. I 4th dav. Klamath Falls to Red Bluff. Calif. I 5th day, Rod Bluff to Marysvillc. Calif. ' 6th day, Marysvllle to Modesto, Calif. I 7th day. Modesto to Jolon, Calif. Five Groups to Stop ! Hero ore the five serials that will pass through Central Oregon In late May: I Serial No. 1 : 359 vehicles. Head quarters and headquarters Co., 81st brigade. 161st Infantry: 163rd Infantry; detachment, special troops; detachment, 110th engi neer regiment: retachment. 110th quartermaster regiment; detach ment. 116th medical regiment. I Seriui No. 2: 408 vehicles, ap ' proximately. Headquarters, and headquarters battery, With field artillery brigade; 146th field ar tillery; 148th field ortillery; 218 Held artillery: detachment, mili tary police company; detachment, 116th medical regiment. Soriul No. 3: 213 vehicles; 116th engineer regiment, less detach ment; 116th quartermaster regi ment, less detachment: 116th med ical regiment, less detachment; special troops, less detachment. Serial No. 4 : 324 vehicles: head quarters and headquarters Co.. 82nd brigade; 162nd infantry (of which Bend company Is a unit I : 186th Infantry': detachment, spe cial troops; detachment, 116th quartermaster regiment. Division field maneuvers will be held at Jolon. Plans (or the move ment to Jolon include the trans portation of the maximum person nel by truck and the shipment of heavy Impedimenta by freight. War In Brief - - - Br UnlUd Ptm) Iindon Germans pour Into Thessaly: Indicate British may have to evacuate Greece; Indian troops join British garrison at To bruk: British indict more losses on axis forces at Solium; RAF raids Brest, Cologne and western Germany; claim coastal command bomber sank enemy supply ship o(( Norway; report submarine Tetrarch sank tanker cn route to Tripoli. Berlin Germans capture Trik knln, report pursuit o( nllied troops "far beyond" Lnrisn; cap ture Mot novo pass; King Boris of Bulgaria visits Hitler: Count Cltino goes to Germany to discuss division of Jugoslavia; admits raids by "weak" forces on north west and western Germany. Athens Germans within 100 miles of Athens; King George calls on his people fight to death; clnlm Anglo-Greek defense line still intact and reforming south of Larisa; report Germans being massacred, but continue on with out regard for losses. Koine Report British landing party beaten off at Burdia; Ital ians occupy all of Albania. Vichy Report Hitler offers France concessions If Laval is re turned to Vichy cabinet. Budapest Antonescu govern ernment reported In critical con dition; rumored Germany may withdraw support of Antonescu: traffic across Hungarian-Rumanian border reported stopped. REJECTS PEACE Rome, April 21 IIP The Duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia, has rejected categorically British pro posals that Italians surrender throughout Ethiopia, a communi que said today. The communique said that the British proposal was for the purpose of protecting the lives of Italian civilians in Ethiopia. TWO PER CENT BOOST SOUGHT IN INCOME TAX Fund-Raising Program ; Given Committee GAS LEVY JUMPED Corporations Would 1'ay .More; Cigarettes, Liquor Hit Washington, April 21 'lH-fhc administration's $.1,444,000,000 tax program presented to the house ways and means committee today contemplates increasing the Indi vidual Income tax rate by two per cent and corporation income taxes by six per cent, it was learned. The tax program was presented In a secret session by Assistant Secretary of Treasury John L. Sullivan. Committee members re ported that he recommended: Increase of the normal individ ual income tax rate from 4 per cent to 6 per cent, without chang ing the current exemptions of $800 fur single persons and $2,000 (or married persons. Increase the corporation tax from a maximum of 24 to 30 per cent. Eliminate the 10 per cent earn ed Income credit now allowed in dividual income taxpayers. Surtaxes Start Ixiwer Begin surtaxes at a lower level. Surtaxes now are exacted only on net Incomes in excess of $4,000 after all alowable deductions and exemptions have been made in computing the tax. Raise the gasoline tax from 1.5 to 2.5 cents per gallon. Increase the tax on beer from $6 to $7 per barrel: on whiskies from $3 to $4 per gallon and on wines approximately 16H per cent. Increase the tax on cigarettes from $3.25 per thousand to $4 per thousand. This would increase it from 6.5 to 8 cents per package of 20. . f Double the current 3.5 per cent manufacturers excise tax on new automobiles; increase the 25 per cent tax on tires and 4.5 per cent levy on inner tubes. Levy a 10 per cent tax on all railroad, airplane and boat tick ets. Levy a tax of 2 cents each on checks. Impose taxes on gum, candy and soft drinks. REBUILDING WORK STARTS ON CHURCH Some Changes to Be Made In Structure Sixteen days following the fire which partly destroyed the First Methodist church, reconstruction of the edifice was started this morning as plans for rebuilding. under consideration since the evening of the fire, took final form. The firm of Fred Van Matre, contractor, is tn charge and. it was announced, the proj ect will be rushed to completion. The building is to be completely restored, and in addition there is a possibility of changes and im provements. The church fire oc curred on April 4. A few days after the fire, the pews were removed from the main floor and two pianos from Epworth hall. On Saturday of last week, the huge Moeller pipe or gan was dismantled, under the di rection of the builder's represen tative. Other fixtures and furnish ings of the church are to be placed in storage pending the enclosure of the building. Trustees of the church under the leadership of George J. Childs have placed several sub-committees in charge of the various phases of the rebuilding program. Many members of the congrega tion are assisting. Harold C. Frledley is chairman of the committee on construction. Other members of this commit tee are Ivan McGillvray, John Newby, T. D. Sexton and C. P. Niswonger. Sustained Yield Film Shown to Kiwanians A sound film prepared by the department of agriculture on the theme of sustained yield was the headliner of the Kiwanls club's noon luncheon program today. Joe Lammi and Harold Nlherg, of the Deschutes national forest tnff, manned the projector. Kosanna Burgess, uapine, win ner of the Central Oregon oratori cal contest, repeated her prize ora tion on Americanism. Her subject was "Americanism." - Three new members were laken in by the club James Cothrell, W. J. B. Triplett and Gilbert Moty, with A. J. Glnssow explaining to them the objectives of Kiwnnis. Quick, Henry, Stony face of Adolf Hitler leers across Hudson river north of Vonk ers, N. where natives are torn between using a rock crusher or charging two bits to see what nature wrought. Likeness resulted from rock slide. Familiar hair lick and mustache are brush and trees. Differences Grow Between Italian and German Forces With the British Empire Garri son Beseiged at Tobruk, April 18; U Via Cairo and London: De-i layed) Evidence is accumulating I that differences are growing be-j tween the German and Italian forces besieging Tobruk. Two days ago German tanks i fired on about 1.000 Italian infan-! trymen, who, after forming for an attack on the barbed wire entan- Growing Unrest Seen in Rumania Government Reported In Critical Spot Budapest.. Hungary. April 21 ilPi The Rumanian government, headed by Gen. Ion Antonescu, to day was reported by Hungarian sources to be in an extremely critical position as a result of threatened loss of German sup-1 port and rumors that Soviet i troops weer massed on the border I of Moldavia. ' Traffic between Rumania and Hungary' was halted and Ruman ian guards shot at persons at tempting to cross the border, ac cording to Hungarian dispatches, which said that heavy pressure was being brought on Antonescu. There were reports that the Rumanian dictator might lose Nazi support as a result of dis put over Balkan territorial read justments and there were rumors that Soviet Russia was prepared I to step into Aioiaavia is Kumania showed signs of crumbling, ac cording to the Hungarians. tin Berlin, Nazis said that An tonescu was still head of the Ru manian government and therefore supported by Germany. Recently, the Soviet press has reported Rumania's -campaign to regain territory taken by Hungary with German air, from Rumania). Hungarians said that Anton- escu's future spport by Germany might depend on whether the Nazis were able to find a succes sor in Bucharest. Four Men to Leave For Army Tomorrow Filling Deschutes county's sixth call for men to serve in the army under the selective service act, four men will leave for Portland tomorrow for induction Into ser vice, it was announced this after noon from the selective service office. The four men are Julius Harry, Redmond: Arthur D. Wil liamson, Bend; Kenneth Waite, a transfer from Kansas, and How. ard H. Beck, a transfer from Ohio. Waite is a volunteer. Originally Dennis J. Donovan had been listed as a member of the county's sixth quota, but he was granted a temporary defer ment, because of the serious ill ness of a brother. The four men will leave by Mount Hood stage tomorrow morning. Final Instructions were to be received this afternoon. APPEAL FOR DOCTORS Washington, April 21 u One thousand young American doctors todav were asked to volunteer for service in Great Britain to meet "desperately" acute needs of Brit ish mtlitarv and civilian hospitals. President Roosevelt and the Brit ish Red Cross made the appeal. the Chisel! vM q q Im glements of the outer defenses, retreated before a blast of British artillery fire. A patrol of 20 Australian infan trymen, accompanied by three Bren gun carriers, then went out on what they called an encircling movement. They brought back 846 Italians, including a colonel. 23 other Italian officers and one German officer. Italians among the prisoners said that in one attack they were to have received German tank support, but the tanks failed to appear. An Italian officer said the Ger mans kept the Italians In ignor ance, not only of plans for opera tions, but of objectives. A German prisoner said axis troops were told to storm Tobruk in a great attack several days ago but received no specific direc tions and as the result, they start ed the attack but got lost. The abortive Italian Infantry at tack which perversely drew the fire of German tanks, was the first phase of the seventh big at tack on Tobruk. The attack resulted in the des truction of one German tank and the capture of three German tanks and seven Italian guns. To date the total of German and Italian prisoners is about 1.500. Thirty-three German and Italian tanks have been destroyed or captured and 24 German planes have been shot down over the To bruk area. (Coprriiht. 1911. hr United ?rail Joseph G. Wilson Dies In Tumalo Community Joseph Grant Wilson, 75-year-old native of Lebanon and a resi dent of the Sisters community for some 40 years, died yesterday in tne rumalo community. Mr. Wil son came from Linn county in early days, over the Santiam pass, and spent most of his life in stock raising and lumbering, except for 10 years in British Columbia. One brother, William T. E. Wil son, of Sisters, and three sisters, Mrs. J. B. Clay pool, Juntura; Mrs. R. F. Claypool, Burns, and Mrs. Osten Reed, Albany, survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Christian church in Sis ters and burial will be in the pioneer Camp Polk cemetery. The Rev. D. L. Penhollow will be in charge of the services. Mac Miner, 65, Dies At Residence in Bend Mac Miner, 65, a resident of Bend for 22 years, died Saturday night at his home at 16 Revere. Up until a few years ago, Mr. Miner was employed by The Shev-lin-Hixon Company. . Surviving . are two brothers, John Miner, of -Taeoma, Wash., and J. B. Miner, of Portland, and two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Johnson, Salem, and Mrs. Etta Moore, who lives in Missouri. A half brother, Allen, Moore, lives in Med ford. Mrs. Ben Gillander, Bend, is a niece. Services will be held from the Niswonger A Winslow chapel Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The Rev. John B. Coan of the Methodist church will be in charge. ROSS ELECTED Portland, April 21 iui Joe L. Ross of Bend was elected vice president of the Oregon state council of carpenters yesterday. Ross was also named district committeeman. U FIGHT TO THE DEATH" GREEK KING APPEALS Germans Are Only 100 Miles From Athens LINES NOT BROKEN Nazi Boat and Parachute Troops Massacred In Battle Athens, Greece, April 21 UV King George appealed today to the army and people to "fight to the death" as aerial warfare raged overhead and the battle against German invaders surged onto the plains of Thessaly, scarcely more than 10 miles from this ancient center of the "glory that waa Greece." British headquarters here re ported that a new defense line, considerably shorter, stronger and easier to defend, was being formed south of Larisa, gateway to the Thressaly plains, 1.10 miles northwest of Athens. Admitting Thessaly had been reached hv the Invaders- a war communique said: "In Macedonia and Thessaly the enemy, despite violent aenal action, at no point has broken through the Anglo- Greek positions which have been adjusted, according to plan." Troops Massacred German troops have been mas sacred in their first attempt in this war to invade a British posi tion by boat, a New Zealand of ficer reported today on his return. slightly wounded, from the battle ol Mount Olympus. In a manner symbolical of what they might have planned for the English channel, the Germans clambered aboard rubber boats eight men to a boat and, sup ported by a withering barrage from their armored cars lining the bank, and by parachutists de scending on the British side, tried to fight across a stream skirting a road in one of the Mount Olym pus passes. "We sank one boat after an other," the New Zealander said. "After two hours the rivet waa teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men." Disregard Life Loss The officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, said he was amazed at "the absolute dis regard of the Germans for their own losses." "We got sick of killing them." he said. "It was mass slaughter." The parachutists, he said, wore gray shorts and heavy gray jack ets and carried sub-machine guns that had terrific firing power. "Our position appeared to be in danger until my captain drew a bead on the leader in short pants, with an anti-tank machine gun," the New Zealander said. "The German was a six-footer. The blast got him squarely in the chest He disintegrated from the waist up. His short pants follow ers, seeing what had happened to him, hurled their grenades and withdrew. We continued holding our position." People in the News . . . (Br United Princess Elizabeth of England observed her 15th birthday anni versary "somewhere In England" today with King George, Queen Elizabeth and her sister Margaret. She received a turquoise and dia mond necklace, brooch and brace let set which once belonged to Queen Victoria, and a purse col lected throughout Britain for the Princess Elizabeth hpstal for children in East and London. C'apt James Roosevelt, son of the president, arrived at Honolulu by Clipper yesterday en route to the Orient on an undisclosed as signment for the marine corps. He continues westward today. It was reported unofficially that Roosevelt was on his way to Chungking, headquarters of the Chinese nationalist government. Former President Herbert Hoover said at New York last night that food should be sent the 37,000,000 persons suffering In Europe's small democracies be cause that would "hold them staunch for democratic Ideals, which will be needed if this world Is ever to be restored." In a nation wide radio speech. Hoover said: "We are a religious nation, and our faith rests on compassion. In these lights can any American say, 'Let these millions starve'?" Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D. Mont., charged at Butte, Mont, last night that "some war mong ers In the east are hoping and praying1 one of our boats will be sunk and that we will be dragged into the war."