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JUU i 1 52nd Year, No. 70 STVE"a2Si Salem, Oregon fl fB .1 B Thursday, March 21, 1940 Price Three Cents Reynaud 17 ?Jiioin) Cabinet nves rrance OCF Bids for Democratic Parly Control Two File for Legislature Here; First Garner Speaker Billed By Harry Cm I ft Admission that they are using the regularly establish ed and recognized political parties in Oregon as vehicles upon which they hope to ride into office, and thereby fur ther their own policy of gov ernmental paternalism, is con tained in the action 01 mem bers of the Commonwealth Federation seeking election as precinct committeemen in Multnomah county, who have been striking from the prepared form on which they make their declarations of candidacy the pledge to support all party nominees. So far the deletions have been confined to Commonwealthers aspiring to places on the democratic committee, which the OCF has long sought, and with some measure of success, In that county. The strategy, Commonwealth lead ers are reputed to have confessed, is to permit democratic committeemen they may elect to support "progres sive republicans" In the event the democrats nominate "reactionaries' for some offices. The effect, if the Commonwealthers are elected, will be to demoralize and disrupt the democratic county organization In the general election campaign and give the OCF the balance of power with which to bargain in closely contested fall elections. Aspire for Control . Such strategy on part of the OCF Is not peculiar to Multnomah coun ty alone. There Is evidence In the filing for precinct committeemen In Marlon, Clackamas and other counties that they are trying to pack the county committees and through them gain control of the state central committee with Com monwealthers. But a peculiar form of pledge in Multnomah county, not required by state law, has resulted In exposure of Intended coup. Commonwealth candidates have been striking from the printed form they sign that portion which pledges each to "ful fill my obligation by supporting all the regular democratic nominees, and the district attorney has ruled that the deletion Is legaL File for Legislature Two more republican candidates for seats In the house of representa tives from Marlon county have made their formal filings with the secretary of state. They are H. R, (Farmer) Jones of the Rosedalc (Concluded on page IS, column 4) Dewey Plans Second Visit to Coast New York, March 21 (U.R) Thomas E. Dewey responded lnferentlally to Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg's cri tlcism of pre-prlmary campaigning among candidates for the republican presidential nomination today by arranging a second trip to the Pad lie coast next month. The district attorney, who visits St. Louis, Chicago and 20 Wisconsin cities next week, will leave here April 14 for a trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco and back dur ing which he will speak seven or eight times In addition to confer ring with various republican leaders, Big Willamina Mill Damaged by Fire Willamina, Ore., March 21 UP) An explosion In a dust bin fired and seriously damaged a section of the Pacific Ply wood corporation plant and injured one employe today. Three hundred workers at one of the largest plywood operations on the coast and pumping equipment from Sheridan and McMlnnvllle con fined the flames to the large boiler and power houses. Kenneth Epley, owner of the Wil lamina weekly newspaper, reported the fire, although still smouldering In sawdust, was under con trol. The Pacific Plywood corpora lion's large Aberdeen, Wash., plant was consumed by fire several weeks ago. Howard Knokey, a workman, was forced to leap from a high scaffold ing to escape the rapidly spreading Volunteers in Finland to Remain There Americans Continue to Arrive and Are Assigned To Border Duty Helsinki, March 21 HP) American volunteers in Fin land will remain indefinitely, it was disclosed today by the Finland association, which ap pealed for continued contribu tions of supplies for the Am erican unit. American volunteers, con tinuing to arrive, are being assigned with their unit to border patrol duty and recon struction work. The Ameri can unit Includes Canadians and Australians: Volunteers from other countries also are arriving. British transport units, headed by Miss Mary Runcl man, reached here yesterday, as did 20 Swedish trucks to be used In re construction work. Swedes on Job Swedish volunteer troops still are on duty on the northern front. The newspaper Uusl Suoml said Finland's coalition war government, formed by Premier Rista Rytl Dec. 1, the day after Russia started her invasion, Is expected to resign Im mediately after the Easter holidays. The newspaper said It was likely President Kyostl Kalllo would ask Rytl to remain as premier and one or two other ministers were likely to retain their positions. Leaving Karelia Meanwhile, the removal of Finns from the Karelian Isthmus, ceded to Russia In the peace treaty of Moscow, March 12, has virtually been completed. The chief of the border police at the village of vlro- Joki, north of Vlrolahtl, said not a civilian remained in territory east of Vllpurl bay. A trip along the western end of the ceded area, to within 35 miles of Vllpurl, disclosed almost no refu gees. Piles of furniture, grain and other goods had been abandoned along the road. The National Property Owners' League said 40,000 farms had been abandoned In the Isthmus. Soviet Demands More of Finns Stockholm, March 21 (IP) Reports that Soviet Russia had made new territorial demands upon Finland In connection with the final de lineation of her frontiers were pub lished here today without official confirmation. Official circles In Helsinki dis claimed all knowledge of any addi tional demands. Responsible quar ters here expressed belief that while some minor controversies might have arisen they would In no way Involve an extensive concession for the Finns. The Stockholm newspaper Tld ningen, however, In a dispatch datellned Moscow, said the Finns had been compelled to accept sev eral alterations in the boundaries as originally delineated by their peace treaty with Russia. "It Is reported," the dispatch said, "that the Finns have been surprised anew by further Soviet demands in regard to territorial limits which would penetrate Finland farther than expected." The location of the new limits was not mentioned In the dispatch. fire. His arm and leg were frac tured. Mill managers said no estimate of the damage was available immedl ately. All workers were released to combat the blaze and officials In dlcated It would be necessary to suspend operations for several days, shattering hopes of offsetting loss of the Aberdeen plant by Increased operation. The damaged building covered about a city block. Investigators reported their frame and concrete construction prevented the fire from spreading to other sections of the plant. ' f ffiilnWiii'i'illinftilarT ' New French Cabinet Above, Paul Reynaud, premier; cen ter, Camille Chautemps, vice president; below, Kaoul Dautry, minister of arms. Seeks Recall Of Cromwell Washington, March 1 (U.R) Rep. George Holden Tinkham (R. Mass.), suggested today that con gress "seriously consider the Im peachment" of James H. R. Crom well, U. S. minister to Canada, If he Is not recalled at once. Tinkham made public a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as serting that any disciplinary action snort of Cromwell's Immediate re call "will be Insufficient to meet the present situation." He charged that Cromwell's re cent speech In Canada, in which he pictured the allies as fighting to save democracy, were In "flagrant violation" of President Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation and of for eign service regulations. Tinkham also accused Lord Lo thian, British ambassador to the United States, of violating diplo matic privileges and Immunities In a speech in Chicago last October, and said another such violation should be followed Immediately by a request for his recall by Great Britain. Tinkham sent his letter to Hull while the latter still was awaiting an official copy of the speech Cromwell made on Tuesday. Hull said today this had been mailed from Ottawa legation last night and should be here tonight or to morrow, pending study of the texf huh maintained sldence. Man Killed While Photographing Train sulsun, Calif., March 21 (IP) Thomas Dardls, 23, focused his camera on the approaching stream liner City of San Francisco as It roared toward Sulsun station yes terday. He got the picture at the cost of his life.' The train struck him. Germans Sink 10 Merchant Ships in Raid Neutral and British Ves sels Victims 3 Safe Nazi Claims Denied London, March 21 (P) An admiralty communique to nicrht raised to ten the total of British or neutral ships attacked by nazi bombers within the last two days, but asserted that three convoyed ships bombed last night "now are safe. However, the admiralty disclosed that two other ships in the bombed convoy had re ported reaching port that they were damaged. These were the British Northern Coast, 1,211 tons and the Norwegian Erling Lindoe, 1,281 tons. The communique Insisted the German claim to have sunk nine merchant ships and war vessels to taling 42,000 tons was "In excess of the actual facts." The communique also told of dam age to the British steamer Barn Hill and the sinking of the Bothal and Viking, with 33 dead of a total of about 40 crewmen. The British said the Barn Hill neither was armed nor In a convoy, Danish shipping bore the brunt of the widened German offensive, losing three vessels. It was feared 30 men had gone down with the ships. The 2,468-ton British steamer Alblonlc burned after being hit by an Incendiary bomb and another British . ship, her namo undisclosed, was bombed last night off the south east coast and five of her crew killed. Other losses were: Denmark: Minsk, 1,229 tons; Bo thal, 2,109; Viking, 1,153. Norway: Svlnta, 1,267; Tora Ellse, 721. Swe den, TJtkllppan, 1,599. Parliament Recesses Parliament recessed for the Eas ter holidays today amid growing re ports that Prime Minister Cham berlain would reconstruct his cab inet during the Interval before sit tings are resumed April 2. . The house of commons sessions ended with outspoken criticism of two cabinet bigwigs, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Lord Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare, voiced by Geoffrey Mander of the liberal oposltlon. "It Is widely felt throughout the country that the chancellor of the exchequer and the lord privy seal are heavy liabilities both at home and abroad," he said. Nazi Sub Bases Next Meantime Germany's gun-brlst-llng submarine bases In the Baltic loomed the next probable targets of British bombers, It was reported, as the belligerents disputed the re sults of their heavy exchange of blows across the north sea. The admiralty belittled a German contention that nine British war ships and merchantmen had been sunk In an air attack on a convoy off the Scottish coast yesterday. DNB, official German news agen cy, said nine ships sunk totalled 42,000 tons and two others of 11,000 tons were damaged badly. The agency acknowledged that one Ger man plane had failed to return, Reports persisted that Germany's submarine nests and shipyards In the land-locked Baltic sea would be probable objects of attack. "The snowball begins to roll," com mented a newspaper columnist. "It will leave rather a bloody track." The Baltic sea Is sheltered from the North sea by Denmark. Watchers along England's south east coast reported that a myster ious bomber, believed to be German, dropped white, orange, red and green flares during the night. Hitler Completing Plans for Smash London, March 21 (U.R) The Daily Mall diplomatic correspondent in a dispatch filed from Rome quoted well informed sources today as spon sors of reports that Adolf Hitler was contemplating plans for a. big attack on the French Maginot line. In hope of breaking through and establishing European domination. "The attack may come at any moment now,' the correspondent, Wilson Broad bent, reported. "It will be accompanied by concentrat ed offensive!) on land, in the sea and In the air against Great Britain." -TC i t 11 ' '' miniwMwwwiBaxiaximaiiiiiiiah miry" i i "iiiiniiaiiiinnMiimn i i irTl n '"'iWWHMmu'wiiMiini ' j.jjum Apartment House Blasted to Provide for New Building Washington, D. C, was subjected to a plan ned "bombing" when one wing of the $2,000,000 Boulevard apartments was dynamited to make way for the $4,000,000 first unit of the proposed $26,000,000 war department building. This picture was made Just as the dynamite exploded and the walls oT the nine-story building began falling. Associated Press Photo. Limit Sought For Slush Funds Washington, March 21 (U.R) Rep Francis Walter (D., Pa.), chairman of a house judiciary sub-committee considering the Hatch "clean poli tics" bill, announced today he would seek to write into the mea sure a limitation of $3,000,000 on the amount either party may spend In a national campaign. "I think if we are going to keep politics clean, an amendment of this sort ought to help do it," said Walter. He said he would call his sub committee soon to consider the Hatch bill, which would restrict po litical activity by state employes who are paid wholly or In part by federal funds. It also would limit individual campaign contributions to $5,000 per person per year. In 1036 the republican national campaign cost $8,892,000 and the democratic campaign $5,51,000, ac cording to a report of the senate committee that Investigated cam paign expenditures. Walter said that "I think without doubt that the majority of the sub committee ' will support his pro posal for a $3,000,000 limit. He also predicted that the sub committee would resist any attempt to strike out the senate limitation of $5,000 on individual contribu tions. ian Slayer Again in Court London, March 21 (ff) A 37-year-old British Indian engineer, Udham Singh, alias Mahomed Singh Azad, was returned to Bow street court today for further ex amination on a charge of murder ing Sir Michale O'Dwyer, retired Indian administrator. Prosecutor Vincent Evans read a statement attributed to the prison er, as follows: "I shoot like I think, at the wall I Just shot. to make a protest not to kill. I do not mind what sent ence 10, 15 or 20 years or to be hanged. I did my duty." Udham Singh was arrested March 13 after four pistol shots were fired that night at a meeting of the East India association where O'Dwyer had just finished speaking. After testimony by several eye witnesses of the shooting the hear ing was adjourned until April 1, President Still Runs Temperature Washington, March 21 (U.R) Presi dent Roosevelt, still suffering from a temperature slightly less than a degree above normal, held his ap pointments to a minimum today and secluded himself In his study. The president, annoyed at the persistent cold, told his friends that he had concluded he Is suffering from "swamp fever." Dr. Ross T. Mclntlre, white house physician, said that Mr. Roosevelt's tempera ture was normal last night but was 09.4 degrees this morning. Blast Kills Eight London, March 21 (U.R) Eight men were killed and four seriously Injured today in an explosion at a coal mine at Stoke on Trent. Move To Food Stamps Fails Washington, March 21 (IP) Wis.), failed today in an effort to get the senate to appro priate $113,000,000 instead of the government's food stamp proaching a vote on the billion Ocean Queens Start Cruises New York, March 21 Two of the proudest liners of the British merchant fleet ploughed uncertain waters today in a gamble with war time hazards of the high seas. Slightly more than 12 hours after the 35,739-ton Mauritania slipped out through a misty rain from the pier where she had been tied up for three months, the giant Queen Mary nosed out into the sunlit-Hudson and passed down the bay. The destination of the two liners was known only to their command ers, who sailed under sealed orders, not to be opened until they were well at sea, but presumably sending them on dangerous missions as troop ships. Rain, wind and hall swept the Mauretanla's decks last night, whon she signaled her departure by two sharp blasts of her whistle, but this morning the 81,235-ton Queen Mary, the world's third largest ship, sailed under a clear, cloudless sky, Both liners were drab in their camouflage gray, their windows blackened and all signs of Identity blotted out. In a simple, dramatic sentence, the marine news ticker told of the Mau retainia's departure on her danger ous mission thus: "8:52 p. m., a British ship, no sig nals, passing quarantine, bound out. A series Dt strident blasts from the Queen Mary's whistle signalled her departure at 8:20 a. m. Staying behind at their New York piers were the giant Queen Elizabeth and Normandle, the world's first and second largest ships. Pope Participates In Maundy Service Vatican City, March 21 (IP) Pope Pius participated today In Maundy Thursday services In the Slstlne and Pauline chapels. At the conclusion of the Blstlne chapel mass celebrated by Qennaro Cardinal Oranlto Plgnatelll Dl Bel- monte, dean of the college of card inals, the pontiff himself took up the crystal chalice containing the sacrament and bore It in a brilliant procession through the royal salon to the Pauline chapel altar. Myron C. Taylor, President Roose velt's personal emissary to the Vatican, was among the diplomats who witnessed the services from a special stand. Bizzell Search Turns to Seattle Seattle, March 21 (IP) The search by Major Lee C. Bizzell of Vancou ver Barracks for his son, Lee O. Biz zell, Jr., 10, who disappeared March 11 turned here today. Major Biz zell believes his son ran away and may be headed for the Orient. Expand Senator La Follette, (Prog. $85,000,000 for expansion of system. With chamber ap - dollar farm bill, La Follette proposed that the Item for disposal of surplus commodities be Increas ed. The law already provides allo cation of a share of federal customs receipts, amounting to about $100, 000,000 for next year, for disposing of surpluses. LaFollette's proposal was held out of order under provisions of a tech nical senate rule. The Wisconsin senator asked the chamber to overrule the chair and act on his proposal. This It refused to do by a vote of 69 to 18. The food stamp plan was operat ing abut 100 cities, LaFollette said, and the larger fund would make possible the addition of 60 cities of the same average size. LaFollette declared the surplus removal activity was "one new deal program that has worked and won unanimous support." He argued that the food stamp plan was "the most effective device yet worked out to deal with the problem of under-consumptlon of food product by a substantial pro portion or the population." Senator O'Mahoncy (D Wyo.), told the chamber that unemploy. ment and farm tenancy were fac tors which might develop "a peas ant class In this country." How Nebraska Spuds Win Sales Alliance, Neb., March 21 UP) A success story of Nebraska "spuds" was the big topic today at Nebraska Potato Improvement Association sessions here. Howard M. McLean, area manager for the Nebraska Certified Potato Growers Cooperative, told how growers cracked the Chicago market on a big scale, getting top prices by a simple new practice. They washed their potatoes and graded them in a uniform high quality pack. As a result, he said, an estimated 2000 carloads of Nebraska "spuds" went to market this year, as com pared with about 50 in past seasons. Cold Wave Ushers In Spring in East (lly the United PreiiO A cold wave, accompanied by destructive storms in New England, was spring's gift to the eastern United States to day. Temperatures fell from Georgia to Ontario, which re ported heavy snowfall, and from Missouri to Washington, D. C, The Ohio and Tennessee valleys, the Allcghanles. the Great Lakes region, the great plains and Qulf states, and the eastern seaboard ex perienced temperature drops. Snow fell or was forecast from Virginia north. A storm compounded of rain, hall, thunder, lightning, snow and sleet struck new England on the first night of spring. Lightning topped a 180-foot brick chimney at Still Right and Left Groups Form New Ministry Daladier Minister of National Defense and Dautry, Armament Paris. March 21 UP) Ener getic Paul Reynaud today gave emoattiea f rance a new gov ernment designed to fight to victory" against Germany, holding the premiership and foreign ministry portfolio himself. The five members of the inner war cabinet" were an nounced as: Reynaud, premier and min ister of foreign affairs. Edouard Daladier, resigned pre mier, minister of national defense. Camille Chautemps, vice prem ier. Cesar Camplnchl, navy. Senate Laurent Eynac, air. Roaul Dautry, armament. Louis Marin's rightist republican federation Issued a communique . shortly before official constitution of the cabinet was announced, say ing it "had declined to participate In a government which does not correspond to a true war cabinet. This precluded a real national union government. The other members: Henri Roy, Interior; Louis Rollln, commerce; Albert Serol, Justice; Luclen Lamoureux, finance; Geor ges Mandel, colonies; Albert Sar raut, public Instruction; Henri Que quille, provisions; Paul ThelUer, agriculture; Oeorge -Monnet, blocks ; ade; Anatole De Monzle, publlo works; Charles Pomaret, labor; Jules Julien, communications; Louis Frossard, information; Alphonss Rio, merchant marine; Marcel Heraud, public health and Albert Riviere, pensions. The cabinet, a coalition one, was drawn from the socialists on the left to groups on the right. The socialists, largest party In the ehamber but without represen tation in a French cabinet sine Daladier took power in April, 1938, have three ministers in the new government, Monnet, Riviera and Serol. The cabinet was kept from being! a real national union government by the refusal of Marin's republi can federation at the extreme right to be represented. Mayor's Order Stirs Rioters New York, March 21 (F)A pro test against Mayor Laguardla'a or der prohibiting picketing of foreign government offices was the out growth today of a police battle with pickets before the French consu late. Mounted patrolmen rushed several hundreds demons tranta yesterday, pummelcd them as well as passersby, and loaded 22 scratching, biting and kicking pickets Into patrol wagons. None was hurt seriously. The demonstration, sponsors said was a protest against "the expul sion of Spanish refugees from Prance," a move which the French, have denied. The running free-for-all raged up and down Fifth avenue between 47th and 50th streets in the Rockefeller Center area for several minutes. Through Director Roger Baldwin, the American Civil Liberties union addressed a message to the mayor asking that "orderly and peaceful picketing" be permitted "before con sulates as elsewhere." water, R. I causing $50,000 damaga to a textile factory. Fire started by lightning swept a church at Centervllle, R. I., and destroyed a clergyman's home at Dennis on Cape Cod. Similar reports came from other widely separated communities. Snow fell at Buffalo, and Albany, N. Y., and additional flurries wera forecast for tonight or tomorrow with the cold wave to last over the week end.
