Capital journal., April 21, 1941, Image 14

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Turkish Situation
Fraught with Danger
By DcWitt MacKenzle
As a demonstration that the pen may be mightier than
the sword, it's fair to say that the Hitlerian big-stick dip
lomacy now being brought to bear on Turkey is considerably
more dangerous to the allied cause
Governor to
See Roosevelt
On Motors Strike
(Br the Associated Press)
What to do about a strike threat
at plants of the General Motors
corporation and the contract dead
lock: which has halted soft coal
production were the two big de
fense labor problems which beset
official Washington today.
Governor Murray D. Van Wag
oner of Michigan arranged to talk:
over the General Motors situation
with President Roosevelt during the
day. The CIO United Automobile
Workers served a five day strike
notice last week against the giant
corporation which has millions of
dollars of defense contracts. The
union wants a union shop and
higher wages.
Union leaders have announced
that It a strike is called against
General Motors no defense work
will be struck.
Steel circles already were begin
ning to feel the pinch of a coal
shortage which resulted when CIO's
United Mine Workers of America
failed to reach a contract agree
ment with southern mine operators,
Northern operators agreed to a $1
a day raise, but the southerners
balked at a demand that they also
pay $7 a day. Eliminating a 40
cents a day differential In their
favor.
An appeal by Secretary Perkins
Saturday for resumption of work
tomorrow met no favor with any
of the Interested parties.
The United Mine Workers re
plied that they were willing to re
sume negotiations with the south
ern operators in New York. The
southerners insisted that they had
definitely withdrawn from the Ap
palachian wage conference which
Included northern operators, but
reiterated willingness to negotiate
separately. They renewed last night
an offer to reopen the mines with
an 11 per cent wage Increase.
There was speculation that in
view of the contretemps Secretary
Perkins might certify the dispute
to the national defense mediation
board. However, UMW President
John L. Lewis already had stated
that the union ' wanted no part of
any negotiation supervised by the
board.
This situation raised the hopes
of house supporters of a bill by
Representative Vinson (D., Ga.),
providing for a compulsory "cool
ing off" period before workers could
call strike) in defense lndustrlqs.
Prosperous Cooks
Hold Last Meeting
Looney Butte "The Prosperous
Cooks," 4-H cooking clubs 1 and 2
of Looney Butte school, held their
last meeting of the year at the
school house. Both leaders, Mrs.
Mabel Keller and Mrs. Florence
Barnes were present. Plans for the
annual achievement day were made
as well as plans for entries in the
Marlon county fair. At the fair the
following members will enter exhi
bits from the Prosperous Cooks'
clubs: Virginia Barnes, Lavonne
Benlon, Gloria Barnes, Frederick
Anderson, Fatty Barnes and Jean
Farmen. Guests were Mrs. Esther
Kleper, the Looney Butte teacher,
and Karen Keller.
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than Is the nasi advance into
Greece.
The fuehrer, looking forward to
a quick killing in Greece, is said
to be trying to maneuver the Turks
into a position where they . will
grant him passage of troops Into
the near east, - should he decide
to make that the scene of his next
conquest. He has no desire to
fight his way through the ferocious
Bashi-Bazouks of Asiatic Turkey.
As has been said in this column
before, conquering the Balkan pe
ninsula won't win the war for the
Hitlerites, but . breaking through
Into the near east would be more
productive. The Iraq oil, plus a
chance to assault the Suez canal
and Egypt from the east would be
big pumpkins.
You know the old Serbian say
ingIf you allow the devil to sow
pumpkins, he will hit you on the
head with them later. Thus the
nazi progress with Turkey is a
matter of vast Importance to Bri
tain and her allies.
There Is no reason to believe that
the Turks are panicky over the
German success in Yugoslavia and
Greece, because they expected it.
although not with quite so much
speed. However, Turkey is vitally
concerned over, anything which
challenges Britain's control of ' the
eastern Mediterranean.
This being so, without doubt the
Turks are watching the axis drive
along the Libyan coast into west
ern Egypt with anxiety. This thrust
hasn't created any desperate situ
ation as yet, and the British pro
fess to be confident of dealing
with it at the opportune momentJ
Still, it Is a grave menace poten
tially and so long as it exists the
Turks are bound to regard It as a
warning to them to tread cautious
ly In challenging the Germans.
Leslie Laymen
Meet Tuesday
Members of the Leslie Laymen's
association will meet at Leslie Me
thodist church Tuesday night at
6:30 o'clock for a no-host supper
and program. Of special interest to
church men and especially those
interested in boys' work will be the
appearance on the program of
Chester A. Lyon, Portland, founder
and director of the Big Brother
Farm for Boys at Lebanon, who will
speak on "Dividends on Investments
or Are You Getting Good Return
on Your Life?"
Mr. Lyon, who founded the Big
Brother Farm for under-privileged
boys 38 years ago and the Big Sister
Farm for under-privileged girls ten
years later, was assistant to Judge
Kanzler, court of domestic relations
In Portland from 1919 to 1931; prin
cipal of schools, Oregon and Illinois,
for eight years; superintendent and
founder of Portland School for Par
ents established In 1925; chairman
of committee of representative citi
zens, Interested in court of domestic
relations activities, and founder of
the publication. The Oregon Home
Counselor.
Mr. Lyon Is assisted in operating
the farm projects at Lebanon by
Mrs. Lyon and their two children,
Howard, student at Reed college,
and Catherine, attending Willam
ette university.
Property taxes, once the main
source of revenue for state govern
ments, now represent only six per
cent of state collections, according
to the census.
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Bennett Family
Keeps Preachers
And Courts Busy
Hollywood, April 21 M) Con
stance Bennett's fourth marriage, to
bachelor Gilbert Roland, 35, upped
the marital box score of the famous
acting family to 10 marriages and
seven divorces, with an eighth prob
able next month.
Connie, who once made herself
the highest paid screen star by ne
gotiating, single-handed, a 10 weeks
contract for $30,000 a week, leads
her sisters and father. At 33 her
record Is four marriages and three
divorces.
Roland completed a picture, "An
gels with Broken Wings" late Sat
urday night. Yesterday morning he
and Constance drove to Yuma,
Ariz., and were married by the Rev.
J. C. Bobb, retired Methodist min
ister.
Joan, 30, and youngest of the
three sisters, Is married to Produ
cer Walter Wanger. Previously she
had divorced John Fox and Gene
Markey.
Father Richard Bennett, matinee
idol before his famous daughters
were born, has been married and
divorced twice. He is 68.
Thirty-two year old Barbara still
Is married to her first husband,
tenor Morton Downey, but he has
filed suit for divorce at Bridgeport,
Conn,
Patients Discharged
Dallas Two patients at the Dal
las hospital, Al French, who has
been receiving medical attention
and Miss Beatrice Benge, recover
ing from an appendectomy opera
tion,' were discharged over the
weekend. Jess Johnson, victim of
a stroke, Is reported by Mrs. Carl
Kliever, hospital matron, as show
ing some slight improvement and
Mrs. otto Rosenau Is under medical
care. The latest arrival Is an eight-
pound baby girl born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Keller of Dallas Rt. 2.
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The Canitnl Jnurnnl.
Huge Douglas B-19 Ready for Final Inspection Douglas Aircraft
company officials said the B-19, built for the U. S. army air corps
and shown at Santa Monica, Calif., just before its final inspec
tion and ground check, is the largest airplane ever built. The
B-19 has a useful load capacity of 28 tons and a range of 7750
non-stop miles. With a fuel capacity of 11,000 gallons, the plane
can fly from Los Angeles to London and back to New York. A
basic crew of ten mans the plane, which, refitted as a troop trans
port, could carry 125 men. Its wings measure 212 feet from tip
to tip. Four Wright Duplex-Cyclone motors totaling 8000 horse
power will drive the plane at a speed in excess of 200 miles an
hour. Associated Press Photo.
Forest Fires Sweep
8 Eastern States
(By the Associated Press)
Thousands of woodland acres in eight eastern states were
charred ruins today, aftermath of a devastating series of
forest fires that consumed sun-dried countrysides like cord-
wood. Tiny sparks became raging
flames under the double spur of
brisk breezes and tinder-like trees,
shrubs and grasses and devoured
hundreds of homes as well as for
ests and farms.
A fortnight of unseasonably warm.
dry weather was blamed for the
seriousness of several hundred in
dividual blazes that felled dozens
of firefighters and resulted In at
least two deaths.
Hardest hit was central and sou
thern New Jersey, where 68 homes
were gutted and property damage
was estimated up to $1,000,000. In
Lakewood, a winter resort, 46 dwell
ings were razed by licking flames.
Vzevelon Glazoff, 52, died of i
heart attack while trying to save
his burning Lakewood home. George
Knight of Centralia. W. Va., either
was burned to death or killed by
a falling tree as he fought flames
nearby.
Other states where blackened
tree stumps marked the paths of
fires were Massachusetts, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland
and Virginia. In West Virginia,
some 150 separate blazes were re
ported. Sparks from picnic fires, cigarettes
and railroad locomotives were all
that was needed to set the flames,
authorities said, and in one case
wildlife was observed unwittingly
spreading them,
This was In New Jersey, where
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Col. W. G. Schaaffler, U. S. army,
retired, reported seeing a rabbit
with blazing fur and tail, dart across
a highway and ignite dry under
brush on the other side.
Six hundred Fort Devens, Mass.,
soldiers, fighting a fire in nearby
Leominster, were recalled to the
army post to beat out flames near
the 366th Infantry barracks and the
rifle range. Twenty thousand
troops are quartered at Fort Dev
ens.
Fourteen soldiers stationed at
Fort Dlx, N. J., were Injured when
a truck in which they were speed
lng to fire duty overturned.
In Maryland, two small blaze
threatened for a time Sagamore
Farms, home of Alfred Gwynne Van.
derbilt's thoroughbreds.
Two State Officials
Called to Colors
Oregon lost the services of two
state officials today to Uncle Sam's
armed forces.
Wallace Wharton, state tax com
missioner and a lieutenant com
mander in the naval reserve, will
leave tonight for Washington, D. C,
to go on active duty as an intelli
gence officer. Former Jackson
County Judge Earl B. Day will sub.
stitute for Wharton while the lat.
ter is on duty with the navy.
Sigfrid B. Unander, governor's
private secretary and a first lieu
tenant in the field artillery reserve,
reported today for active duty with
the third division at Fort Lewis,
David Eccles, budget director and
executive secretary to the governor,
will take over Unander's duties.
Poison Cocktails
Served Germans
Providence. R. I. April 21 (U.R)
Sulphuric acid cocktails and strich
nine-seasoned food are being used
by minorities to make life uncom
fortable for nazi conquerors, Dr. Jo
seph S. Roucek of Hofstra college
Hempstead, N. Y said today.
He told the Eastern Sociological
society that "Mickey Finns" spiked
with acid were served so frequently
In Holland to Germans that the sol
diers no longer care to drink in pub
lic bars.
Dr. Roucek said secret societies
flourish In the conquered countries,
"In Poland," he said, "the nazi
newspaper Kraknucr Zcltung report.
ed new and daring 'bandit' attacks
In German-occupied Poland. The
Rudno town hall was burgled; tele
phone wires were cut and German
funds stolen."
Hollingsworth Hurt
Sllvcrton Jack Hollingsworth. son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Holllngs.
worth, is wearing a heavy bandage
on his thumb and wrist as the result
of a badly sprained and torn set of
muscles and ligaments sustained
when he caught the ball on the
end of his thumb while in a game
with his school fellows last week.
All taxes In 1940 totaled $14,300,
000,000. according to the census bu
reau. Each person's share averaged
$100, of which $39 were federal tax
es: $27 state taxes, and $43 local
government taxes. Each family's
share of tax collection averaged $410.
Urges Funds
For Bonneville
Extensions
Washington, April 21 (P) Repre
sentative Smith ( D., Wash.) urged
the house appropriations committee
Thursday not to cut the proposed
$20,000,000 appropriation for Bon
neville, saying the $7,170,000 for
power plant expansion and $12,.
958,500 for transmission lines was
badly needed to push the work need
ed in national defense.
He said the power plant funds
would be spent in Washington and
the third congressional district of
Washington and provide energy to
serve Longview, Wash., where the
Reynolds aluminum plant will be
located. He told the committee the
transmission faculties would pro
vide transmission lines from Bon.
nevllle to Vancouver and Bonneville
to Grand Coulee with $1,000,000 to
provide the Reynolds connection.
He said the Reynolds plant would
have capacity to produce 100,000,.
000 pounds of aluminum a year or
enough for 6000 airplanes and add
ed that with the aluminum company
plant at Vancouver, his district
would produce nearly 30 percent of
the nation's aluminum supply In
1941.
Smith praised the construction
of the great hydro-electric plants
on the Columbia river and said
that since 1935 private utilities had
reduced rates more than $6,800,000
and had produced electric rate sav.
Ings in Washington and Oregon to.
taling more than $13,000,000.
The representative said with the
nation facing re-armament new de
fense Industries would produce al
umlnum, magnesium, copper, lead,
zinc, clorates, hydrates and high
grade alloy steels. Such Industries,
he continued, were essential to the
aircraft, munitions, ordnance and
shipbuilding defense activities.
Church to Present
Sacred Drama
"Their Last Warning" by Man-
ford Evans, four act sacred drama,
will be presented at the Four
Square church,
Aurn sf ai. i.vo
o'clock.
The production
is under the di
rectlon of Ray
Watson, of Port
land. The lead'
lng lady is Yno
na Evans Hughes,
daughter of the
Ray Watson author, . Rev.
Stewart G. Billings, the pastor, In
vites the public to come to see this
drama. Admission Is free.
Body of Robert
Case Found Saturday
Graveside services were held at
City View cemetery Sunday after
noon for Robert Case, 17, who was
drowned In Willamette river Feb
ruary 12. The body of his brother,
Kenneth, 20, who lost his life at
the same time In a boating acci
dent, was found March 12.
The body of Robert was found
late Saturday by Larch Douglas,
boatman, just below the Southern
Pacific bridge. The body evidently
had been dislodged from an ob
struction by a recent rise of water.
The boys were sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Irving T. Case, route 6. The
service yesterday was conducted by
Bishop Don H. Wall. The funeral
was In charge of the Terwilllger-
Ed wards Funeral home.
Duke and Duchess
See Bomb Damage
Belfast. Northern Ireland, April
21 (Pi The Duke and Duchess of
Gloucester paid a surprise air
plane visit to northern Ireland to
day and saw first hand the damage
done in recent nasi bomb raids.
West Salem Holds
Quiz Hour Tonight
Wp.t. Salem. Aoril 24 The quiz contest sponsored by
Stevens and Brown, with Sidney Stevens as master of cere
monies, will be featured at the Community club meeting
tonight at 8 o'clock at the city hall .
auditorium. Merchandise prizes
totaling $15 or $20 will be given
away. Ludwig reierson, ciuu pres
ident, urges every one in the com
munity to attend and take part in
the contest.
Missionary Speaks
Mrs. C. R. Manley gave a lecture
at the Methodist church Sunday
morning. Her topic was based on
the inability of India to oe sen
novernine and her experiences as a
Baptist missionary in that country
for 23 years. She was aressea in
the native costume of a high caste
woman of India.
Bail Is Forfeited
Fines levied in police court were
against Charles Ackerman $5, and
John Gardner $5. Both were ar
rested for violation of the basic
rule and posted bail upon arrest,
which was forfeited for failure to
appear.
Mrs. Hattie West has returned
from Portland after visiting with
her son, Mr. and Mrs. Willis West
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Wallace and
son, Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Haroia
Williams and children, Lyle and
Betty, and Miss Doris Miller of Sa
lem, spent the week-end at Nes
kowin and Three Rocks.
George Ray of Klamath Falls
spent the week in this city with
his family. Ray Is a government
inspector and is stationed at Klam
ath Falls at present.
Miss May Swearingen of Oswego
Is a guest of Mr. and Mrs, George
Swearingen this week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Voth of Dal
las and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Burns
and family of SUverton attended
the Grange dinner given at the
church Sunday. They also visit
ed friends during the day.
Sprague Appoints 2
Justices of Peace
Governor Charles A. Sprague an
nounced today the appointment of
Mrs. Lila Babbitt, Reedsport, as
justice of the peace for Reedsport,
succeeding Frank Norris, who died
March 31.
W. C. Hollinshead of Laplne was
appointed justice of the peace for
precinct No. 3 of Deschutes county.
The district was created recently.
Both will serve until the next
general election.
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The air of festivity that a fine folding top card table
gives the living room is only one of Its charms, for this
Is perhaps the most versatile of all types. The beautiful
18th century styled example shown here exemplifies true
party atmosphere" which the most fastidious hostess may
be proud to claim. This piece may be used as console or
wall table as illustrated, or for playing cards or serving
refreshments. Nor Is it only a living room piece, for it
makes an Ideal serving table in the dining room and estab
lishes a note of welcome In the hall. The interestingly
shaped top, carved pedestal base and brass claw feet give
this creation special distinction.
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Monday, April 21, 1941
Canby Singers
Win Honors at
Newberg Meet
Canby union high school vocal
groups and soloists, taught by Miss
Fay Sparks of Salem, won more
top ratings than any other school
participating in the northwest dis
trict Oregon high school music fes
tival and contest which closed Sat-fk
urday evening at Newberg. Appro- 'J
ximately 1500 students participated
in the contest. Miss Francis Virginia
Melton of Salem was piano adjudi
cator for the piano division and
acted in a similar capacity in the
mariabaphone classification. Miss
Sparks was vocal chairman.
Betty Jeanne Cochran of Canby
was given an excellent rating In ths .
girls' low voice division, while Ver
non White was given a similar rat
ing in the boys' low voice. Additional
students from Canby to receive rat
ings were: Vivian Farmenter, me
dium voice, excellent; Leslie Smith,
boys high voice, excellent; Donald
Huiras, violin, good; James Hamb
let, cornet, good; John Trethaway
and Billy Barnett, alto saxophone,
juniors, superior; Annette Kleve,
trombone junior, excellent; Char
les Lind. trombone senior, excel
lent; girls high voice, senior, Eliza
beth Stubblefield, Canby, excellent..
Don Renwich of SUverton was-
rated excellent as a coronet senior
and Jim Nelson, also of SUverton,
was rated excellent In French horn.
Russell Christensen, SUverton, ex
cellent, sousaphone.
Group awards included: Class B
mixed chorus, Canby, superior; Class
B girls ensemble, Canby, superior;
Class B boys ensemble, excellent;
Class B mixed ensemble, Canby,
exceUent; Class B girls chorus, Can
by, excellent; Class B boys chorus,
good.
Firemen Plan Dance
Mt. 'Angel The 26th semi-annual
dance of the Mt. Angel fire de
partment will be given at the audi
torium Thursday evening, April 24.
Music will be furnished by BiU Fish
er's orchestra and entertainers. No
advance tickets are being sold but
a good time is assured those at
tending, besides assisting a worth
while organization.
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