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?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.
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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."
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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.