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Newspaper Page Texteather: Cloudy Home Edition LANS COUNT VS HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938 PRICE: ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS So NO. Ill aine Gets Year, M Months In State Pen I nco Bombers inch Drive ainsf Links iv Killed As Air ies Attack n-France Link rninviV. France, (At the nrrfsrl. ADril 21. MP) -' insurgent airmen today -ded towns, troop concen and one of the principal ,s of northern Catalonia in : t smash the remaining inks between Catalonia and i civilians were killed and tred at Puigcerda. Pyrenees iv from France mio iuia At Catalonian railway runs frontier there through one i three border passes still government control. Uping low to rain bombs and ke-gun bullets, ueneran- Francisco t ranco s pian a 40,mi!e branch railroad n Puigcerda and Ripoll in Gerona province. Cut Rail Spur stmt from the main line to Icna was cut in three places. an trains in me ruisceiua were struck by bombs. One. with 'chemical products' ranee, burned fiercely. tell and Spanish authorities tried first aid workers from Sides of the border. Spanish pr guards, however, refused Jnit any one except French fci3ns to cross into Spain and Back Spanish civilians seeK- flee into France. fcrts telephoned to Bourg- fce, France, said the aerial :s coincided with the sched rrival time of troop trains Barcelona to reinforce gov- r-.t forces against the tnsur jsh along the frontier. Farmhouses Hit ges were attacked on either the branch railway. Bombs Bell on isolated farmhouses. bombardment of Puigcerda at noon when four bombers bur pursuit planes swept in Khe Pyrenees. The attack almost half an hour, with kmb dropped every minute. pen authorities took prompt ions aeainst spread of the e to French soil. French guards reinforced frontier and French anti-aircraft rs fired red rockets to warn argent airmen. le of the rockets burst among es. i ne attackers remam the Spanish side of the en bombs fell on French soil in the last previous bom- pt of pjigcerda. Twenty- persons were killed and 17 f in Puigcerda in that attack. Development of Water Power On Lake Creek Planned In Greater BilJ hly Project Application from th ciation was filed witl Washington, D. C, Th 5 veiopment of a major S Triangle lake. " Martin Revokes Special Session OLYMPIA. April 21. OP) Gov ernor Martin "revoked the pur ported' proclamation of the lieu tenant governor" which called a special session of the state legis lature, and in a proclamation to day declared "the legislature shall not convene." Lt. Gov. Meyers had "called" a special session for next Monday. Informed of the governor's proc lamation. Lieutenant Governor Meyers said he had no statement to make at this time. He said he did not know what would be his next step. The governor s proclamation said in his opinion "there was no ex. traordinary occasion necessitating the convening of the legislature in extraordinary session" at the time of Meyers' proclamation. He said by reason of said actions of the lieutenant governor, "con fusion has been created in the public mind, and uncertainty exists among the members of the legisla ture as to their duties. "The attorney general of the state of Washington," Governor Martin said, "has rendered an opinion holding the lieutenant governor was without authority to call the session, and that the pur ported proclamation was void and of no effect." Governor Martin said the lieu tenant governor "assumed the au thority on April 19, and by pur ported proclamation, called a spe cial session of the legislature." :hly Co-Operative Electric asso federal power commission in y, asking further rights for de r project on Lake Creek out of , Under the original plan of the project, the association was to generate its power with a Diesel engine.. The new application abandons the engine generation and asks for building of a dam to generate with water power. The dam will be located just below the lake on the outlet in Lake creek, the association believing it will be more profitable to generate with water power. Cost Is Greater The change in plans will call for a larger expenditure on the gener ating system, but the project still has several thousand dollars avail able within the original allocation of $108,000 granted by the rural electrification administration. With the dam planned, the total cost on the project now will run around $75,000, cost of the transmission lines being less than the sum allowed. Transmission lines are practi cally complete except for a strip over government land, request on this area being included in the new application before the . gov ernment. The proposed dam would have an installed capacity of 225 horse power. The project includes pro vision for additional units and 47 miles of 7200-volt distributing lines to serve farmers through the Blachly. Eugene, Junction City, and Florence areas. Rates To Be Based On Kilowatt Year PORTLAND, April 21. W J. D. Ross, Bonneville dam adminis trator, formally announced yes terday that power would be sold on a kilowatt year basis, a unit system new to the United States but successfully tried in Ontario, Canada. Ross said rates for a kilowatt year to the public utility district or private utility company which purchases Bonneville power re tail consumers can not purchase direct would be announced soon by the federal power commission at Washington. The kilowatt year sales unit is based entirely on the cost of pro duction and is an attempt to leave present practices of selling power "from the old scarcity standpoint," Ross declared. The kilowatt year was defined by Ross as 1,000 watts furnished day and night for 12 months, or 8, 760 kilowatt hours of electricity. He declared the low charge would fHIXGTON. April ! (Pi ' lnsP're distributing city, company federal bureau of Dublic or Power districts to encourage -- e Road Program ned This Year Martin Criticizes Attempt At Schism PORTLAND, April 21. OP) Criticizing statements that he is not sympathetic with the- Roose velt administration, Governor Mar tin, candidate for the democratic renomination, said today that his platform consists of "sound prin ciples, with which only the selfish can quarrel." In an address prepared for de livery at a luncheon of the Wil lamette Democratic society, - the governor said that efforts to make it appear that he is not in sym pathy with the Roosevelt' program were "part of a deliberate cam paign to distort the truth and create schism within our party ranks." He quoted from a letter from Postmaster General James Farley, chairman of the democratic na tional committee, who said: "You have done a splendid job, governor, and I am sure that the citizens of your state realize it. You are bound to be criticized by some people; but you have been around a long time, and I know, that you don't let it bother you as long as you are doing the right thing." Nation's Chief Asks Ford To Conference Detroit Manufacturer To Visit President To Discuss Recovery WASHINGTON, April 21. OP) Henry Ford, strenuously at odds at times with the present adminis tration, accepted today President Roosevelt s invitation to an infor mal White House conference where depression problems will be dis cussed. The Detroit automobile manu facturer, who refused to sign the automobile code when NRA's blue eagle was flying, was asked to lun cheon in the executive mansion here next Wednesday. The invitation to Ford went from the White House at time when Mr. Roosevelt and his aides are seeking all means to aid busi ness recovery. GRINDS NO AXE SUDBURY, Mass., April 21. W) Henry Ford of Detroit today re vealed plants for a discussion of "business conditions" with Presi dent Roosevelt, but asserted he would enter the conference with no axe to grind. Standing in the warm spring sunshine of the extensive Wayside Inn estate, which he has rehabili tated as an early American hotel property here, the multi-millionaire automobile maker said he did not intend to give any "advice." At the same time, however, he left no doubt of his own views. His solution of present-day prob lems, Ford said in rapid-fire fash ion, would be an expansion of the "back-to-the-farm movement. Must Raise Food "If people do not raise their own food," he asserted, "they will have to. have a dictator to, tell them to do it." He declared that in his opinion, SEE FORD STORY ' PAGE 4 Decree Given In -Automobile Case uuviosca today that under conercssnmnl authoriza 32.098.000 could be poured highway construction f i'ir-.g the next 14 months. Me.-al government' hr said, would be $370. M 'i of the states, fairbank. n assistant chief b"reau. fMd thousands of -' WW couid be rrpataorf 3nw 'O fit in Present e"s rccov e:y program. 1 Tell One izens are out By BOB BURNS - private a politician can al ' job cn ore of them in- vtigatin' corn- Power Defeat In Oregon Significant WASHINGTON, April 21. M Defeat of a recent special elec tion of Oregon's proposed seven county public utility district to distribute Bonneville dam power "appears to be strong evidence that ihe people do not want these gigantic projects imposed on them from Washington." Representative Bert Snell, republican house lead er, tcld congress yesterday. "Bonneville dam will be com pleted in about a year, but the people in the immediate vicinity have already emphatically disap proved the proposed distribution scheme," Snell said. m In the circuit court case of Mary Ashbaugh against George W. Ashbaugh and others, Judge G. F. Skipworth Thursday gave a decree that George W. Ash baugh be restrained and enjoined from selling or disposing of a certain cap and that the sherfif is authorized to seize the car on a writ of execution. In the divorce case of Adrian Clayton Minkler against Pearl j Luciie Minkler the decree was j modified by Judge Skipworth so that the plaintiff shall have the j care and custody of the minor son ' and the defendant the care and , 800 Killed When Quake Hits Turkey ANKARA, Turkey, April 21. OPI The Anatolia earthquake toll of dead and missing soared to at least 800 today after a night of con tinuing shocks which 50,000 home less spent in mad terror. Terrific-underground rumblings were accompanied by intermittent earthshocks over a wide area of western Asia bordering the Aegean sea, and especially about Kirshehr, Yozgad and Tchorum. Panic stricken refugees fled from crevices full of boiling wataer. Eighteen villages were utterly destroyed, and 22 others were badly damaged. . Whole families were buried un der: mountainous debris. Most of the victims were women and chil dren. Salvage and relief squads were organized throughout the stricken country and the national assembly voted emergency funds. Heads of foreign diplomatic mis sions presented condolences to the government. . . . . miimw i jx , - i- . , -."'"" " " 1 '"" f1' . .." ' ." """"""i"!- ' "u 1 1 mm t Wr. i .j!(.;v y Judge Grants 3-Day Stay Of Execution Concurrent Sentences On Three Counts Given Local Barber STARRING In the production of "Peer Gynt" on the university campus Tuesday night will be Lorraine Hixon, soprano, and Walden Boyle Instrutor in dramatics, shown above. Miss Hixon plays the part of Solveig, while Boyle Is Peer Gynt. Wiltshire engraving, Kennell-Ellis photos. Milk Price Ordered Slashed One Cent THE DALLES, April 21. ( Edgar Smith of Portland, chair man, announced milk price de clines of one cent a quart effective at the end of the month at The Dalles, Eugene, Klamath Falls and Astoria yesterday at a state milk control board hearing. Four per cent milk will retail for 11 cents a quart and 9 per cent milk-at 13 cents.. Similar reduc tions occurred recently at Port land. The Dalles prices went up in October following a board hearing. Smith said the reduction was de signed to bring the cost to consum ers on a level with other - commodities. Coastguardsman Is Injured As Boat Overturns In Surf Swallowed Button Removed From Throat' custody of the minor daughter. Board To Consider School Budgets CORVALLIS, April 21. The annual budgets for the five institutions will be the chief bus., iness before the board of higher education when it meets here Tuesday. - Separate sessions of the finance, building and insurance committees ; will be held Monday. The execu tive council will confer on the Walter Gossler, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goss ler, Springfield, is in the Eugene hospital resting - comfortably fol lowing - a freak accident that might have proved fatal. - The baby swallowed a metal button about the size of a 25-cent piece five days ago, the button lodging-in his throat. - Dr. Henry H. Norton Wednesday night re moved the button from the baby's esophagus through use of a spe cial instrument he secured . in Austria. Portland Man Drowns While Fishing In Triangle Lake Francis Marion Skinner, 48, a member of the Portland fire de partment, was drowned Thursday morning when he fell from the log boom from which he was fish ing in Triangle Lake. Mr. Skinner left the W. B. Blachly ranch, where he had spent the night, about 7:45 Thursday morning. Lawrence and Henry Bauman, owners of the Triangle Lumber company of Blachly, heard his shouts as he fell, but lt was 30 minutes before his body could be found His watch had stopped at 8:20. Floyd Miller and Dwlght Templeman worked for more than two hours in efforts to revive him. Mr. Skinner was a fireman for engine company No. 2 in Portland, and lived at 510 N. W. Third ave nue. He is survived by his wife and one child. The body will prob ably be taken to Portland for burial. The county coroner's office, the state police, and a deputy sheriff made an investigation of the accident. Baseball Scores AMERICAN New York 2 13 0 Boston 3 3 0 Donald. Stine (7) Beggs (8) and Dickey, Glenn (8). Marcum and Desautels. S;s Jh!iLaFollette Splits p;'e- a lot ta; With President rocr.ey. but; - H-VJ( TV S fPme sat"! MADISON. Wis., April 21.') -J. -'action in , Governor Philin P. La Follette. - j thatwho disclosed last night he had j Oregon State college campus Mon- j . Ining,sDllt with President Roosevelt over I dnv afternoon. Both me board ana recovery policies, promised today ; the council will be the guests of i 1-ni.ie Hoa to offer his own plan for master- the faculty men s club at a dinner. -d t-. fJDl:Tlclan : mg the business slump. ..,; . 'ner day he He announced he would discuss L'l '-. !a;d "I"v recovery tonight in the third of a ern investi- : series of four radio addresses, in- was never itimating he had in mind a self- SHOT IN BACK TOLEDO. April 21. C4 Cal vert Fitzpatrick, 22. Taft, shot in , T t ain t liquidating works program of tneine oac ma it - dodging the kind he submitted in 1935 to the! rifle when he dragged it over a s i, mv"Satin' me.' Wisconsin legislature, which re- j log while hunting, was in serious , "Wi.t rune. inc. i j jected it I condition at a hospital here today. SAFETY FIRST EUGENE 1938 Accidents 244 Injuries 40 Deaths 1 LANE COUNTY Accidents 187 Injuries . ...... 30 Deaths . 2 1937 1268 159 2 1698 351 17 CITY'S DANGER SPOTS 6th and Blilr crashes, 2 Injuries. 10th and Willamette 7 crashes. 7th and W 1 1 1 a m e 1 1 e 5 crashes, 1 Injury. NATIONAL Brooklyn 9 15 0 Philadelphia 0 9 0 Presnell and Chervinko; Mul cahy, Kelleher (4) and Atwood. Chicago 2 4 1 Cincinnati 6 13 1 t Carleton and Odea; Derringer and Lombard!. HE'S TYPED WASHINGTON, April 21. 'Pi Congressman Walter M. Pierce, democrat trom La Grande, grinned today when an anonymous donor sent him a rubber stamp from Portland with the one word "yes." REEDSPORT, April 21. (Spe cial) Boatswain Prentice M. Clark, 60, skipper of the Ump qua Coast Guard station, received a broken shoulder and Is now in a North Bend hospital, as the re sult of an accident on the Ump qua River bar this week.- , The coast guard station had observed what they assumed to be a distress signal from Ihe troller Wauseeka and had crossed out over the "Umpqua bar to ren der assistance. Finding that aid was not needed the life boat and crew were returning to the sta tion when rough seas on the bar capsized the boat, and Boatswain's mate Van E. Clark and Surfmnn Raymond Miller were thrown overboard. Capt. Clark's shoulder was broken but he managed to remain in the boat with Donald G. Barber and Arthur Doyle, surfmen. Sprayhood, cowl and sea anchor were torn away, and the crew was unable to start the boat's mritor for about 20 min utes, during which time Miller and Van Clark were being tossed around in the breakers and had great difficulty in keeping theirs heads above . water even though wearing life preservers. After picking up the two men the lifeboat headed for sea, not wish ing to attempt another passage of the bar with part of the super structure of the boat missing. After spending the night at sea they put in to the Coos Bay bar, but finding this bar also rough they finally landed Bt Sunset bay. Although all .suffered from ex posure. Captain Clark was the only one requiring medical attention. Public Auditorium May Be Asked Here Eugeneans have been making preliminary studies towards pos- jsible construction of a public au ditorium, long one of the city s major needs, it was revealed here Thursday. A committee, headed by Mrs. Gilson A. Hoss, has been as sembling facts and figures on at tendance at civic and University musical and dramatic functions. Another committee, headed by John Durr, chamber of commerce secretary, has been studying sim ilar facts in the downtown area. The plans for the proposed structure, yet in the formative stage, were revealed when efforts were made to find out possible PWA projects in this vicinity. C. C. Hockley, PWA administrator for Oregon. Washington and Idaho, requested Wednesday that public officials prepare for possible re sumption of PWA dllotmcnts tin der the president's pump-priming expenditures. Other possible projects In this area included a new airport but no definite stops have even been con sidered for one. The present Eu gene municipal airport, built at n cost of over $100,000, was declared inadequate' to care . for modern transport planes. For some time it has been hoped that another port could be constructed where no hills will obstruct the landing and take-off of even the largest planes. I Anti-War Program Planned On Campus Permission to stage a demon stration against war April 27, has been given to students by the fac ulty of the University of Oregon, it was announced here Thursday by Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel, The demonstration will be nation-wide on that date, and those behind the movement hope that some 750,000 students will take part. Students backing the event here did not ask that classes be dismissed, nor is it expected that a "strike" be called here, as is planned on some campuses. It is probable that talks will be given from the old library steps, as in past years, at the 11 o'clock hour, to those interested. Last year the demonstration drew only a small crowd in spite of rather elaborate preparations. J. C. Boy Fractures Skull In Accident Eleven Plants In Detroit Are Closed PORTLAND WARM I PORTLAND. April 21. A) i The temperature reached 71 de grees here yesterday, the highest , point of 1938. The weather bureau I predicted the mark would be equaled or bettered today. DETROIT. April 21., fP) Strikes closed the Bonn Alumi num & Brass corporation's eight plants here today, bringing to 11 the number of industrial units (n Detroit in which labor troubles have stopped production. In Flint. 3,700 employes of Genera 1 Motors' Fisher Body plant N'o. 1 returned to work without incident after a three-day shut-down resulting from a United Automobile Workers pick eting campaign to collect union dues. JUNCTION CITY. April 21. (Special) Coe Baldwin, ll-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Baldwin, was found unconscious recently by some of the men of the Southern Pacific bridge .row, who arc driving piling for a culvert near the north city limits. The boy had been watching the men at work but no one had seen any ac cident. It is believed that he fell from the railroad trestle. The men removed him to a local physician's office, an ambulance was called and he was taken to the Sacred Heart hospital. He regained par tial consciousness before reaching Eugene. He received conrussion of the brain, two small skull frac tures and a filight scratch on his left cheek. He has been taken home where he will be kept In bed for several days. Junior Queen To Open Ball Season Friday Something different In the way of opening day baseball games Virginia Regan, junior week-end queen, will toss in the first ball Friday afternoon at 3 p. m. when Oregon and Oregon State nines open the northern division con ference season. Prior to the game, a parade win be held on Willamette street, starting at 2 p. m. with the R. O. T. C. band, and both teams. The Howe field memorial gates will be dedicated by Chancellor F. M. Hunter before Miss Regan's pitch to some prominent political head, yet unannounced. ' Mayor Elisha Large will umpire. Ray W. Blaine, Eugene barber convicted on, three counts in the skunk musk "bombing" case tried here in February, was given two sentences to the state penitentiary and one in the county jail when he appeared before Circuit Judge G. F. Skipworth Thursday morn ing. On one count he was sentenced to a year and four months in the state penitentiary, on another one year in the penitentiary and on the third, six months in the county jail. As all sentences run concur rently, he will serve one year and four months in the state peniten tiary with the possibility of time off for good behavior. On motion of Defense Counsel H. E. Siattery a three-day stay of execution was granted by Judge bkipworth so that the defense can decide whether or not to appeal the case to the supreme court Blaine was remanded to the cus tody of Sheriff C. A. Swarts and must wait out the three-day stay in the Lane county jail. - Stay Is Granted Blaine, who was president of the journeymen barbers union lo cal in Eugene at the time the City Barber shop, a non-union estab lishment, was "bombed" with skunk musk here last Jan. 22, was convicted by a circuit court jury on charges of conspiring to commit a felony, malicious injury to per sonal property, and disorderjy conduct. He was sentenced to one year and four months in the penitentiary on the first count; one year in the penitentiary on the second; and six months in the county jail on the third. Sentence was passed at 9:30 o'clock "Thursday morning, before a small crowd In the circuit court room. Defense Counsel Siattery asked Judge Skipworth to take into consideration Blaine's previ ous record as a law-abiding citizen in the community, end asked that he be paroled for a five-year per iod rather than be sent to the penitentiary. District Attorney L. U Ray, wh handled the prosecution of the case for the state, answered Mr. Slattcry's plea by asking that Jus tice be done in the case and that Blaine be punished for his wrongs. In passing sentence, Judge Skip- worth stated he was sorry that others who were originally linked with the case Arthur Peterson, union barber, and Dave Bishop, Jimmle Dcmpsey and Sam' Day, trio who actually "bombed" the City shop as hirelings of Bl nine- were not being punished along with Blaine. The four men turned state's evidence, and it was their testimony which ultimately result ed In Blaine's conviction. Judge Skipworth then passed sentence. Blaine had nothing to say, and gave no sign of emotion when he heard the Judge's decision. He was immediately taken to the county Jail by Deputy Sheriff Nel son Whipps. Must Pay Postage WASHINGTON. April 21. A) Post office officials said today they would ask Horace Russell, resigned general counsel for the Home Owners Loan Corporation, to pay approximately $280 in postage charges for letters he sent out under the franking privilege, praising the legal abilities of O. B. Taylor, a former H. O. L. C. attorney. Weather News Eugene continued to enjoy mild temperatures and sunshine, Thurs day with the prediction for prob- me -cloudiness and rain this week-end. The forecast follows: Oregon: Unsettled tonight and Friday with occasional rain north west portion and on the coast. cooler interior west portion Fri day; moderate southerly wind off the coast. LOCAL STATISTICS: Minimum temperature. Thursday, 38 degree; maximum temperature, Wednes day, 69 degrees; stage of Willam ette river at 7 a. m. here Thursday, j3.1 fiet: wind, north. SIL'SLAW TIDES: Friday, high, 4:57 s. m.. 6:46 p. m.: low, 12:07 p. m. Saturday, high, 6:06 a. m., 7:42 p. m.; low, 12:30 a. m., 1:07 p. m. Sunday, high, 7:23 a. m.t 8:33 p. m. low, 1:43 a. m.f 2:05 p. m.