Wednesday, August 26, 1942
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
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Spokane Girl
Weds Soldier
By Cablegram
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 26 U.B
The bride was in Spokane and
the bridegroom was serving with
tho United States army in Aus
tralia, but Eleanor Lucille Gran-
lund and Benjamin Vaughn were
married yesterday, according to
a marriage record filed with the
county clerk here.
Full details of the marriage
between the Spokane lass and
the former Llbby, Mont., soldier
were revealed in a series of ca
blegrams, sent here from San
Francisco.
Thft first nne the cablegram
of proposal was dated July 13.
It read:
"Darling, will you marry me
by cable? Today I Benjamin
Vaughn take you, Eleanor Lu
cille Granlund, to be my lawful
wedded wife. (Signed) Benja
min Vaughn."
Miss Granlund's answer fol
lowed swiftly:
"Darling, I marry you by ca
ble today, I, Eleanor Granlund,
take you, Benjamin Vaughn, to
be my lawful wedded husband.
(Signed) Eleanor Granlund. At
test Chaplain Rusell Blaisdell."
Vaughn's affidavit, sworn to
before his commanding officer,
read in part:
"Benjamin Vaughn, being
sworn and deposes, says his
home is at Libby, Mont., and
that at present he is with the
United States army in Australia,
and that he did on July 13, 1042
transmit a cablegram to Eleanor
Lucille Granlund, Spokane, stat
ing that he took her to be his
lawful wedded wife.
"He further deposes that said
Eleanor Granlund did on the
16th day of July file a cable
gram, accepting the agreement
of marriage, and that copy of
said cablegram is attached."
Vaughn sent the affidavit, ca
blegrams, ct al, to the county
clerk here, and he acknowledged
their receipt and recorded them
yesterday.
Mrs. Vaughn now lives with
her father-in-law at Libby,
Mont.
Fishermen Store
Gear for Season
Astoria, Ore., Aug. 26 (I')
Columbia river commercial fi
shermen stowed their gear today
as the summer season ended
without the additional days they
sought.
Their request for a longer sea
son was denied as result of an
opinion by I. H. Van Winkle,
.Oregon attorney general, yes
terday. He ruled that the law
requiring a 15-day closure be
tween the summer and fall sea
sons could not be sidestepped.
If the August season were ex
tended, he said, the opening of
the September season would
have to be delayed the same
number of days.
The Washington state bureau
of fisheries favored extending
the August period by two days
but starting the September sea
son on schedule.
Leg Broken In Street Row
Silvcrton, Ore., Aug. 26 As
a result of a street fracas on
North Water street last night,
Francis Shepnrd 1 in the Silver
ton hospital with a broken leg
and Robert Dahl, the olhcr man
involved, was fined $7.50 in po
lice court this morning on a
charge of misconduct. A similar
charge faces Shepard when he
leaves the hospital.
Japs Claim Thousands CnpliircdIn the fall of Singapore the Japs claimed to have taken
thousands of British troops prisoners. This picture, which reached the U. S. via Brazil,
was described by the Japs as showing these prisoners of war, many of them Indians and
Malayans, Associated Press Photo.
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Yanks Examine Wrecked Jap Zero Members of the U. S. armed forces stationed 'some
where in the stormy Aleutian islands, climb over the wreckage of a Jap Zero fighter plane
shot down by the gunner of a U. S. navy patrol plane on an Aleutian island. The pilot
of the plane was thrown from the wreck and killed when the plane flopped into a
swamp. Associated Press Photo.
Initials Cut
In Hayfield
Worry Flier
Elgin," 111., Aug 26. (U.R) Avi
ator C. A. Bohle, from a mile
above, looked down and saw the
50 -foot initials, "C.B. D.R.",
cut in pale green letters in the
dark green hayfield.
Bohle, his mind on fifth col
umnists, wont to Sheriff Marcus
W. Damisch of Kane county.
Damisch was. skeptical, but he
called the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation at Chicago.
Bohle, Damisch and the fed
eral agent went up in Bohle's
plane. Bohle had not exagger
ated. The letters were plain as
ever in the six-inch stubble of
the field. The men marked
down the field's location and
visited Joseph Bagg, its owner.
Bagg, knew nothing about the
letters. He said his son, Charles,
15, had mowed the field. Charles
blushed and gave the explana
tion that ended the spy-hunt
and earned him another mow
ing job yesterday.
"I was cutting the field last
Saturday," he said, "and it oc
curred to me thai, well, that I'd
like to cut my initials with the
mower. The 'C.B.' stands for
my name and the 'D.R.' stands
for, well, those arc Dorothy
Russell's initials. We're in the
same class in high school and
she's my girl."
Damisch said he didn't want
to interfere with a high school
romance, but neither did ho
want to be bothered with an
other spy-hunt. He told Charles
to mow the letters out of the
field and carve them on an oak
tree.
Aviation Training
Sought for Salem
A proposal (hat a refresher
course In training aviation
cadcls be established in Snlcm
as well as olhcr points in the
state came up for discussion re
cently between representatives
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and public school heads. Simi
lar classes have been conducted
in Portland.
Those eligible for training,
should the program be establish
ed, would be men between the
ages of 18 and 26, capable of
passing an adequate physical ex
amination. The courses would
include English, mathematics,
current events and certain re
views of general science. The
plan calls for opening of the
course about October 1.
The committee from the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars have ask
ed the school administration to
make a study of the situation and
draw up a tentative outline by
which such a program can ope
rate. Child Program
Defense Need
Washington, Aug. 26 (U.R)
Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of
the children'es bureau of the de
partment ot labor, said today
that a federal maternity and
child-care program is badly
needed in 400 critical defense
areas.
Miss Lcnroot's statement to
reporters followed a request by
President Roosevelt that con
gress extend the activities of the
children's bureau "to meet war
conditions." The president es
timated $7,500,000 would be re
quired for the expanded pro
gram during the first year.
Miss Lenroot said the social
security act must be amended
before an appropriation above
$11,000,000 annually can be vot
ed upon. The bureau now has
no way to finance increasing ex
penditures under the present
law.
If tile bill now before congress
is passed, she said, the addition
al $7,500,000 will be used to
moot the special needs of boom
town defense areas, provide ma
ternity care for mothers in such
areas, combat juvenile delin
quency, provide maternity care
for wives of enlisted men, and
study the problem of the increas
ing number of illegitimate chil
dren. Ninety out of every 100 New
Zcalandcrs are of British origin.
Four out of every 100 are na
tive Maoris.
Blackout and
Eclipse Aid
N.Y. Gunmen
New York, Aug. 26 VP) Gang
land guns found two unwitting
allies last night when under the
double cover of a city-wide
blackout and a lunar eclipse they
spurted flames of death from a
speeding automobile that es
caped in the confusion of dark
ness and wailing police sirens.
Four bullets fired from the
car felled Salvatore Maggio, 36-year-old
suit presser, as he stood
near his parked automobile on a
Brooklyn street at 9:23 p.m.
just two minutes before an army-
ordered "red" air raid alert set
sirens awail.
Police prowl cars already were
shrilling the warning for the
surprise raid alert test when
they received the alarm for the
murder car, while at 9:01 p.m.
the earth's shadow had begun
blotting out the moon, almost as
if in conspiracy with the slay
ers. With pedestrians running for
shelter, and both man-made and
heavenly' light blinking out rap
idly, police missed the killers'
sedan, which was further indis
tinguishable because it was
black.
The 50-minutes practice air
alert was the longest the city
has undergone.
The eclipse lasted from 9:01
p.m. when the moon entered the
penumbra or partial shadow of
the earth until 2:34 a.m., when
it emerged, having been in total
eclipse from 11:01 p.m. until
12:35 a.m.
Mayor L. F. LaGuardia, who
heretofore has set the time for
practice blackouts, received only
four minutes' notice himself.
Some excitement swept a
crowd of 10,000 in Times Square
when almost at the same time
the lights went out. a big air
plane Could be heard droning
overhead. One woman shouted
"This is it!" but air raid war
dens quieted her.
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Nelson Tells
Labor to Prove
Grievances
Washington, Aug. 26 U.
Production Chief Donald M.
Nelson today was committed to
further inclusion of labor in
terests in WPB councils if ' a
joint CIO-AFL committee is able
to prove how, when and where
"specifically."
Countering a series of attacks
by labor leaders, Nelson made
this flat proposal to a meeting
yesterday of more than 100 rep
resentatives of 20 metal fabricat
ing unions:
"You have said that you want
to participate more fully In the
war effort. All right then I
say, tell me how and when and
where, and tell me specifically."
He requested the conference
called by WPB labor production
division Chief Wendell Lund to
discuss material shortages to
designate a committee to meet
him within the next week and
promised to give the commit
tee's suggestions and criticisms
"most earnest consideration."
Immediately preceding Nel
son's address, the conference
adopted a four-point program
designed to alleviate a long list
of labor grievances against WPB
operations. The program urged:
1. Reorganization of WPB to
include in its membership "di
rect and effective representa
tives of the nation's organized
workers."
2. Creation of "a production
planning and coordination board
wifh direct representation of or
ganized labor."
3. Creation of labor-management-government
committees to
work with WPB's industry
branches and divisions.
4. Elimination of "overlap
ping jurisdiction and conflicting
functions of the several govern
ment agencies responsible for
war production."
Judge Lectures
CO in Court
Portland, Ore., Aug. 26 (U.R)
The government is more liberal
toward conscientious objectors
in this war than ever before but
that gives them no right to ques
tion the merits of the jobs to
which they are assigned, Federal
Judge Leon R. Yankwich told
Kenneth Farson, 24, of Glendale,
Calif., yesterday.
"This is not desertion but it
is tantamount to it," said Judge
Yankwich after hearing the
former Los Angeles Bible stu
dent's story. Farson told the
court through his attorney that
he had left the conscientious ob
jectors' camp at Cascade Locks
after eight days of wood chop
ping because he "thought he
could do more good" at the Boer
Ing aircraft plant at Seattle,
where he had been working sev
en months when he was arrest
ed. He pleaded guilty to violation
of the selective service law and
his case was assigned to the pro
bation department for investi
gation after a lecture from Judge
Yankwich, who said that in the
last war he wound up doing
latrine duty despite his two col
lege degrees and membership
in the bar.
Canada has a population of
11,419,000, less than that of New
York state.
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Japanese Show Scorched Earth Policies Japanese sources
identified this picture as a scene of burning oil tanks and
oil cars left by the Dutch in retreating from Tandjong,
Java. The picture reached the U. S. from the Japan photo
library by way of Brazil. Associated Press Photo.
Engines Cause
Bottleneck in
Plane Building
By Amy Porter
Burbank, Calif., Aug. 26 (IP)
From the windows of the sky
grill at the Lockheed and Vega
Aircraft companies, we looked
out on Lockheed field today and
saw dozens of almost completed
0-38 combat planes being
wheeled over to a storage shed.
"What about those planes?"
we asked, "aren't they almost
ready for delivery?"
"Yes, almost," said H. E.
Ryan, vice-president in charge of
manufacturing at Vega, "they're
complete except for engines,
propellers and wing tips. The
first two are government furn
ished equipment and we have to
wait for it."
Thus Vega, along with other
manufacturers on the Pacific
coast, confirmed War Produc
tion Donald M. Nelson's state
ment that engines were largely
to blame for the bottleneck in
aircraft production.
Lack of engines also is retard
ing production of Boeing flying
fortresses, now being built by
Vega and Douglas as well as by
Boeing, although these big
bombers get first call on all ma
terials. At every aircraft plant
this group of reporters has vis
ited so far on the National As
sociation of Manufacturers tour,
executives were reluctant to ad
mit that production was off.
At Douglas, A. M. Rocklon,
industrial relations director,
said, "let us put it this way,
the rate of increase has not been
what we hoped for."
Nelson, announcing a 16 per
cent increase in war production
generally in July over June, said
yesterday that production of
war planes had not come up to
expectations. He said combat
plane production rose only six
per cent, as compared to an 11
per cent increase in all types of
planes.
Journal Want Ads Pay
Upholds Bigger
Trucks Order
Attorney General I. H. Van
Winkle upheld today the legal
ity of a state highway commis
sion resolution of June 25 which
increased the weight and length
limits on trucks operating on
state highways.
Van Winkle held that the
commission has authority to
change such regulatory laws be
cause of the national emergency.
The commission said that the
law, limiting weights and
lengths of trucks to 54,000
pounds and 50 feet, hampers the
war effort by restricting move
ment of war materials in inter
state commerce. California,
Washington, Nevada and Idaho
have larger limits, so Oregon's
truck limits would make the
state a bottleneck, the commis
sion said.
The opinion also held that the
public utilities commissioner has.
authority to require truckers to
declare the maximum loads they
will carry under permits to carry
larger loads.
Cattle Tail Hair
Good for Mattresses
Washington. Aug. 26
Dairy hands who have been
slapped in the face by a cow's
tan may not believe it, but cat
tle tail hair makes a mighty
soft mattress and hereafter only
the armed forces may buy it.
The war production board,
announcing' the restriction to
day, said the navy Itself need
ed more cattle hair, for bunk
mattresses, than this country
could SUDDlv. In the nast much
came from Brazil and Argen
tina but the shipping situation
has put an end to that.
Don't fail to read this thrilling serial, starP
ing in today's Capital Journal. Turn to Page
Nine.
V-Mail Type c
Of Letters for
Service Men
The general public has accept
ed the "V-mail" type of com
munication for service men sta
tioned at certain points outside
the continental United States
with considerable readiness and
Us general use will soon be in
effect. The post office depart
ment inaugurated the plan last
June 15 for the purpose of re
ducing to a minimum the weight
of letters which are directed to
service men overseas as well as
the replies.
V-mail letter sheets are avail
able at the post offices where
they may be had without chargfj
Private firms and individuals'
have been permitted by the post
office department to reproduce
the letter sheets and it is ex
pected they will be available
soon to all stores selling station
ary. The letter sheets carry in
structions as to how the com
munication is to be written and
other necessary information. ,
Prior to being sent overseas
photostatic copies of the sheets
are taken, while the originals
are filed for use if necessary.
The film rolls on which the let
ters are photographed take up
little space and often can be
carried on ferry planes or bomb
ers, thus expediting their deliv
ery. The letters are photographed
on micro-film by automatic ma
chines at the rate of 2,000 or 2,.
500 per hour and the film rolls
containing 1,500 letters each afit
transmitted to destinatlo n
where reproductions are made.
The V-mail forms do not per
mit of enclosures of any nature.
Women Working
As Liquor Clerks
Portland, Ore., Aug. 26 (U.R)
Four women are working be
hind the counter In state liquor
stores here as an experiment
conceived to meet a shortage of
male clerks, John Walker, state
personnel supervisor, said to
day. Women have been employed
as bookkeepers in various state
liquor stores since June when
the man power shortage first
reached serious proportions.
Further losses of clerks to the
armed forces and to war in
dustries brought about the ex
periment of allowing women
handle counter sales, Walker
said.
He offered no 'comment on
the reported campaign to bar
women from beer parlors and
liquor stores.
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