THE BEND BULLETIN
TIIK WKATIIKH
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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.
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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."