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WCOl jather: Fair Home Edition LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE. OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1939 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 52 axing of Utilities Brings Warm Debate (to Nazi H Ends Violence Ifilto-Beorers Jews, American To Democracies MUAH S. WHITE vnRK. Feb. 21.-P' In I inonstration that filled ..... cnnarp Garden lead- fccWman-AmericanBund iicht under iu .s" ijjcka to aenuu.. fit Jewrv. SOhte meniucio fjvclt cabinet, and any a alliance wim km. ..-fmned storm troop- tched intermittently inside inwhich at omciai es- Md 20.000 a muvi(iB t o! anti-Nazis, theatregoers merely curious, nuucu i the streets outside. 1.500 police reserves jard over the area, while purled up inside the snH out. r-'-i Kuhn. national leader band, was concluding a against Jews, Isadore gm, a slight. 26-year-old vorker. leaped upon tne ait and ran toward the a dozen or more troopers set upon mm, hint down and Beating he held his head In his lis black, wild hair flying. Clothinj Torn of police pushed the troopers aside, picked i the floor of the plat- sd holding him high I their heads, ran to an exit. his clothing was torn i body. ide the Garden. 13 persons were arrested in a ser- linvolvins the police td permission of anti- Jailed Youth Tells Story Of Mother's Death 'Four Men' Bother Patient, Puzzle Police 16-Year-Old Boy Being i Held In Eugene For Missouri Authorities SEE GOTHAM STORY PAGE 2 p Bombs fish Territory ISO KONG, Feb. 21. fU.R) airplanes dropped I British territory todav i a British Indian police- nff ? rairi cm Mm C9inn railroad. Ins reported that 58 persons (mica ana more than 100 (Win Chinese territory im- PJ adjoining the British IM Chinese village of MB was renorteri in P Were Unconfirmed m- I thai about 20 persons, in- Ml Ttol.ysm..- Ju nLut wouna- - wuns.T Terr!!-M-v anri Br.tish train was hit. 3 of Chinese and British r were tVttmA -r w v. no a i fault HB, v-v, , wmuinn Paries ,7 lhe "id. Ti.cy dropped first on u.. rZ p. iide of the Hong Kong i . ra includes the - UJ1K ionc and the rr:,orj- 0, Kowloon. on 4 Kfed Sprinkler P1 Might Have Jefferson Fire ITlAVn r.i. . . i u.. K " Ior 'he huge 't! k at the Jcffer. 'nV:dedbR0ber,s said I the M. Pr.Pcrly ef,.w , "ouia nave IT 1 area and LAed. ted I ih 5S ot th. v.".. :. 1,1,1 W0.O0O." 1RVIN BUGARD, 16, being held In Eugene by officer! for authori ties from Missouri who want him in connection with the death of his mother. Child-Stealing Man Lewis Proud Returned To Pasadena Of Columnist Wife EL CENTRO. Cal., Feb. 21. IIP) Manacled for a trip back to Pas adena to face a charge of child stealing, 40-ycnr-old Townsend Davis, gardener and church organ ist, told a shocking story today, police said, of his attempted flight to Arizona with golden-haired Anne Louise Sweitzer, 8. The gaunt, hollow-cheeked man and his tiny companion were seized late yesterday as his old sedan ap proached the state border, more than 24 hours after secret depar ture from Pasadena. Faint from an attack of nausea, Anne Louise was not able to be questioned. A medical examination was to be made of the girl to determine if she had been harmed. As reported by police. Davis told of spending Sunday night with the girl in a single room at Indio, be cause he "didn't have money enough to rent two rooms." He told officers he had planned to take Anne Louise to Somerton, Ariz , where they were to visit the Rev. Virgil Vance, an evangelist, who has a daughter about the same age. At Pasadena, the girl's parenU. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph. Sweitzer, in dignantly denied she had been ill treated or led anything but "a happy, normal home life." Sweit zer is a disabled World war flier and his wife is a semi-invalid. DETROIT, Feb. 21. wPi Sin clair Lewis, author and playwright, said in a statement today he was "extremely proud" of his wife, Dorothy Thompson, newspaper columnist, who narrowly escaped ejection from a German-American Bund rally at New York last night for shouting "nonsense." "Getting" Is Said Finally To Be Name Of Lane Creek Hopkins Entangled In 1940 Politics nd etween 0l Pa Den; I In Cn,..i . er in SSrZ?;"! chart. 'fy hie. "u fp"mg: ! h madp toi the , 2'y ,ook and WW. !y Juvenile of kjfcJ,,h 'hese boys. ks S'r'!! for ,he last UjMPer, and 5ol(J them - , ::Pr1 p:5e- ht na!'"1' The aRent of M Sund aI,Prehended "tn over' rr'orn'nS and the Juvenile WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 (UP' Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins' first formal appearance as conciliator between business and the New Deal became embar rassingly involved today with 1940 presidential politics. Hopkins left last night for Grin nell, la., to remain three days before delivering in Des Moines his widely publicized first address as the representative of business around the Roosevelt cabinet table. His departure was preceded by dispatches from Des Moines that Democratic State Chairman Ed H. Birmingham has undertaken to align 1940 democratic national con vention delegates for Hopkins. The Iowa boom for Hopkins got a chilly reception here. Old line democrats, battling now with Pres ident Roosevelt for control of next year's convention, generally con cede Hopkins' administrative abil ity but they do not want him as their 1940 presidential candidate. There have been some indications, however, that Mr. Roosevelt might like Hopkins to succeed to the White House, provided, of course, there is no third term. It is now pretty well estab lished that the name of the small creek that flows In to the Coast Ford near Saginaw and over which there has recently been a dispute over its name, is "Get ting." George Getting, who says he is a descendant of Samuel Get ting, an early day settler, de clares the stream was named after the latter, who was a Civil War veteran and who operated a shingle mill in the hills near the source of the stream. Aden Miller of that section also spells it "Get ting." J. E. Redford of the Saginaw district adds an "s" to the name and says it was named after the war veteran and mill man. This information has been re. ceived by Cal M. Young, county commissioner, who a short time ago was asked by forest service officials to determine the correct spelling of the name of the creek. Arrested on a charge of mur dering his mother, Mrs. Mabel Burgard. 50. in Livingston. Mo., July 31, 1938, Irvin Burgard. 16. is in the Lane county jail awaiting a Missouri officer who will be here in a few days to take him home. The body of Mrs. Burgard was found In a rocking chair the day after the shooting. Irvin and Die family automobile had disappear ed. Three days later the car was found In a dense thicket three miles from the Burgard home. Arrested Late Monday Sheriff C. A. Swarts and Dep uty A. T. Sprensen made the arrest late Monday afternoon at Junction City where the boy had been staying since Christmas. The ar rest was made on information re ceived bv Sheriff Swarts from Sheriff W C. Uhrmacher at Chil licothe. Mo., that the boy might be in this locality. He was using the name, Bill Rogers, but readily admitted his identity when placed under arrest, the sheriff said. The boy's mother was killed by a bullet In the head from a .22 rifle, according to information re ceived from the sheriff at Chilli cothe. The boy readily admitted shooting his mother but declared the shot was accidental. He said he fled through fright. Was Oiling Gun "I was oiling my gun when In some manner it was discharged," the boy told a Register-Guard re porter Tuesday. "The bullet struck my mother in th" head aad she must have died instantly. I was terribly frightened and left at once. I figured maybe that my folks would not believe my story about the shot being accidental but I tell you it was. We lived on a ranch near Avalon, Mo. From home I went to Carrolton. Mo., and from there to Kansas City. I then went to Ely, New, where I was in a CCC camp until about Christmas time. Then I came to Junction City and have oeen there since. Of course I am sorry for what I did and am willing to face the music. Perhaps I should not have run away, but I was terribly scared." Young Burgard said that he had no trouble at home and declared that lie would have had no cause to murder his own mother. He said his father is not living. Sheriff Swarts talked to the sher iff at Chilhcothe over long dis tance telephone Monday evening after Burgard's arrest and was in formed that an officer would be ; sent to Eugene at once. He is ex pected to arrive about i nday. City Councilmen Meet In Special Session, Revise Curb Ordinance WORD RECEIVED CHILLICOTHE, Mo. Feb. 21. tP)Shcriff W. C. Uhrmacher re ceived word of the arrest last night at Junction City, Ore., of Irvin Burgard, 16, sought In connection with the slaying of his mother, Mrs. Mabel Burgard, 50. a widow, at her farm home 12 miles south of here last night July 31. Sheriff Uhrmacher said the youth would be returned here to answer a murder charge filed by Prosecutor Charles S. Greenwood. CHINESE MURDER SHANGHAI. Feb. 21 'i Li Kuo-Chieh. better known as Mar quis Li, grandson of LI Hung Chang, famous Chinese statesman, was shot and killed in the Ameri can defense sector of the interna tional settlement by two uniden tified gunmen. A special meeting of the Eugene city council Tuesday morning pass ed a new ordinance revising ex isting regulations in the cutting of curbing on any street or alley in the city. Final approval for any such alteration now rests in the hands of the council. The new ordinance declared an emergency and entirely revised the procedure necessary for any indi vidual or concern to go through to obtain the city's permission for curb cutting. The new law provides that ap plication shall now be made to the city engineer who shall investigate and make a report to the council with an endorsement of approval or disapproval. Following the engineer's report, the council will discuss the appli cation and grant permission or denial. If the application is grant ed the city recorder will be direct ed to issue a permit authorizing the proposed curb cutting or alteration. New Indian School At Burns Demolished By Flames BURNS. Feb. 21. 4 An In- : dian community center and school building near here, just completed by the Indian service at a cost of $26,500, wes destroyed I by fire yesterday. Burns firemen, lescued Mrs. ! Gladys Hutchinson, Indian school ! teacher, her infant child and aged mother from their second story quarters into which they had 1 just moved. The building, which was a total loss, was to have been dedicated in a few weeks. The fire was I of unknown origin. Eugene city police were puzzled Tuesday at the actions of their latest "boarder." Kenneth Wilson. 28, of San Francisco, who is obsessed with the idea that four men are out to "get" him. Evidently Wilson's persecutors were 'gaining on him yesterday in Grants Pass. He chartered a plane to Eugene with $10 of his $10.83 bankroll and fled to safety. The pilot, however, upon land ing at the Eugene airport yester day afternoon, reported that his passenger claimed the four men l,aa rnnl,) iim n,,l An get in at him. Police reported no Improvement in Wilson's condition Tuesday morning as the "four men" are still lurking in or wait near the jail, according to the prisoner. If efforts to obtain any coher ent information from Wilson or to contact possible relatives prove useless, he will be taken to the Salem insane asylum. France Prepares To Recognize Franco By RALPH HEINZEN PARIS. Fb. 2 'U.R Negotia tions between Fiance and Gener alissimo Francisco Franco for recognition of nationalist Spain will be concluded tomorrow, French Official circles said today. These circles said u final meet ing between Franco and Senator Leon Berard, special French en voy, would be held at Burgos "un der good conditions." Other informed quartern expect ed France and Britain to grant recognition by this week-end with out obtaining written guarantees covering withdrawal of Italian and German troops and clemency for the VepuMicans. They believed thai Franco had decided to stand solidly with his allies. Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini, and to resist the temptation of financial credits reported to have been of fered by London. Looks to Berlin These quarters expected that Franco would continue his trend toward the Berlin-Rome axis. The French cabinet postponed a meeting set for today, until Berard could return to Burgos and com pleto negotiations with Francisco Gomftl Jordana, nationalist foreign minister. Berard went to the French side of the frontier to communicate with the government and receive new instructions. The foreign of fice said, after Berard reported last night, that recognition of the nationalists was near and that only a few minor points needed to be cleared up. Senator Berard was expected to return to Burgos tonight and to see Jordana late tomorrow. There was no doubt that the nationalists had been firmer than France expected on exchanging guarantees for recognition. They took the view that they were en- I titled t' unqualified recognition. I But there was considerable doubt regarding some repurts which ema nated from Spain. It has been m j timatcd that Jordana broke off I talks with Berard. Actually, as I had been made known before, he ! had prior engagements which call ed him from Burgos. It was made plain today that this engagement was to go to Barcelona to'he pres ent at the formal entry planned today by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. ' FRANCE . . .. . T. Perplonan City of MADRID -.J Now shelled by RcbeU; " besieged s-nce October, Puivxerdo? 1936, franco soys one f A I Kl million Insurgent troops x f y jf ill march on this key city jr uodolojoro t AAASMurelo Loyalist capital, mwOvvSNSN torget for Insuigent MEDITERRANEAN SEA X , s SPANISH MOROCCO 7r'U City of CARTAGENA Bose for Loyalist fleet, this port controls imports to Loyalist area. AFRICA I 1 Noliooalist 1 Loyalist Eugene Figures Prominently In Legislation McArthur, Maxey Join In Discussion At Committee Hearing AN area approximately the slie of the state of Virginia, nme 4J.000 square miles, remains In the Loyalists as civil war In Spain Hears Its climax. On the atinve map. l oyalist territory, divided Into II pro vinces designated in hold type, is shown by airtight line shadm; .In surgent General Franco announces he will follow the bombing of Madrid with a mass march on Ihe city. Meanwhile, Hie Loyalist fleet, massed at Cartagena to protect the Madrld-Valencla-Allcante lone, plans to challenge Insurgent control of the sea. Guarded King George VLT Consents Launches Battleship Veto Of Governor Kills Pilot Bill f.O KRNMKNT PAYS WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 'IP The senate passed and -ent to the house a bill to pay Roy D. Cook, 12-year-old Portland lad, S25U0 for injuries received when a large U. S. mail box fell on him in 1935. Work Progressing On State WPA Projects PORTLAND. Feb 21 ' Work on approved WPA projects in Oregon, including the Portland super-airport and the Wolf creek land Wilson river highways, will continue for several months at least. E. J. Griffith, stale administra tor, said today "under existing ap propriations, we have adequate funds for work for several months." SALEM, Feb. 21. Gover nor Charles A. Sprague exercised his veto power for the first time yesterday when he killed the pilot bill. lie charged it would establish a monopoly for the Columbia River Pilots' and the Bar Pilots' associa tions. The measure would have provided n five-member, statewide pilot commission and limited the number of Columbia river bar pil ots. "It is not sound public policy for the state to foster closed monopo lies," the governor said. "The state should license all pilot appli cants who meet the necessary qualifications." A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish capital pun ishment in Oregon wbb rejected by the senate, 17-10. The house pass ed a bill to tax motorists biennially to defiay hospital costs of indigent traffic victims. The senate again 8KB VETO STORY PAGE 12 NEWCASTLE, England, Feb. 21. (Pi King George VI. guarded by more than 1.000 police, today launched Britain's groat new bat tleship which bears the name ot his father, King George V. "May God bless her and Uiose who serve her." the king cried as the 3."), (100-ton ship shot down the ways into the River Tyne, the first battleship Britain has launched in more than 111 years and the first of a new group of monster vessels that will total at least nine. As the king and Queen Elizabeth came to Newcastle for the cere mony they were under the strictest guard ever given a modern British monarch in hll own country. Because of the wave of bomb tei rot ism in recent weeks which was attributed to Irish republican sympathizers, nearly !00 special constables were called to augment local police. Every place the king and queen were to visit was in spected f.tr bombs. Dean Morse Gives Two Strike Decisions Twn decisions in Sim Knim-isco waterfront disputes, one which forced longshoremen to Ctll off u strike until after the case had heen arbitrated and another which Have longshoremen the right to re fuse to cross a picket line without violating their labor contract, were announced here today by Uean Wayne U Morse of the Uni versity of Oregon law school, who is official arbiter in longshoremen employer disputes for the bay area. Dean Morse pent Friday and Saturday in San KrawiRco review ing the cases. In his arbitration decision on a dispute over the number of men to be employed in unloading the steamer Birming ham. Dean Morse stated that ac cording to their agreement with employers, longshoremen must ar bitrate the case before calling a strike. The case will be fully arbi trated on the first Monday in March when Dean Morse is free from his dulies at the university. In the Enclnal terminal strike, involving a question as to whether longshoremen were required to pass through a picket line estab lished by another union, Dean Morr.e decided that longshoremen were not compelled to do so under the existing agreement with em ployers. 4 Offices And Banks Close Wednesday Wednesday is Washington's birthday and a legal and Judicial holiday in tins state. Kor this rea son no offices in the courthouse and city hall, except police, will be open and the banks will also re main closed. No court orders can legally be made on that day. Some of the schools will observe the day with special programs concerning the life ot George Washington. To Repeat Current Hit Popular demand has convinced members of the Very Utile The atre that their "Smllin' Through," should be presented before the lights (or a third night. So, tonight at 8 p. m. Kugeneans will have their last opportunity to see the drama at the fairgrounds playhouse. Virginia Mikuhik, in the leading feminine role, has won great acclaim at two previous per formances before large houses. Fog Forces 8 Planes To Crash, 2 Die PKNaSACOLA, Fla., Feb, 21. (4) Trapped in a dense fog, eight navy planes were wrecked and two pilots killed on a routine training flight last night. Rain washed nway the fog at dawn today, disclosing Ihe full toll to officers of the Pensacola naval air station. Six student fliers escaped by bailing out in the darkness In their first parachute jumps. tiatlt G. K. Presser, Sr.. a Bra zilian navy officer receiving reg ular training here, died when his plane crashed and burned at Coi ry field, where land planes are quartered. Lieut N, M. Ostergren was found in his wrecked anil burned plane neap McDavid, Kla., about 25 miles north of Pensacola. The fog kept his fate a mystery until after dawn, when scouting plane took to the air for a search of the entire section. Lieut. J. P. Monroe, aide to the commandant, said there was noth ing anxious ground crews could do except wait for the pilots to jump. The planes, standard naval single-seated Boeings, with high landing speed that makes it dif ficult for them to alight on soft ground, were not equipped with radio. SALEM. Ore., Feb. 21. OJ.tt The senate committee on railroads and utilities prepared today tore turn its verdict on an amendatory bill to the present people's utility district statute. The third PUD hearniR of the session last night drew an audience of nearly .'100, most of whom stayed on after midnight to listen to a de bate between Peter Zimmerman, "the Yamhill farmer," and Frank lin T. Griffith, president uf Port land General Klectric. Committee members were ad mittedly puzzled over their task. Two out of throe hearings have been devoted to two measures an amendatory bill by Sen. W. K. Burke, repn.i Yamhill and a meas ure by Sen. Lyman Ross, deny, Washington, providing for taxir( of publicly-owned utilities. Even as the committee began Its deliberations on these meas ures, however, Ross was preparing to introduce a bill repealing the present net and substituting en tirely new legislation. Assertions Made Attacks last night on proposed PUD legislation centered on asser tions that: 1. Public districts should be re stricted on tax-levying powers. 2. Restrictions should be placed on issuance of revenue bonds. 3. Districts should pay taxes to state, county, city and schools as privately-owned utilities now do. "The only purpose of revenue bonds," Griffith said, "is to avoid liability for mismanagement." lie added "Bonneville power is cheap because the cost of con struction, operation and mainte nance is not paid from revenue." Zimmerman replied public dis tricts "are not asking any special favors, but their financial structure Is essentially different from that of privately -owned utilities." He also charged Portland Gen eral Electric with dominance by a holding company. This was de nied by Griffith. J. W. McArthur, superintendent of the municipally-owne'l Eugene Bids Called For Bonneville Power Line To Eugene Area PORTLAND. Feb. 21. 'Pi An othrr Mm biwnrd extension of BonnaWllfl dam power lo Ihe Wil lamette, valley wh taken today with n call for bids for construc tion of a 1 10,000-volt transmis sion line from Vancouver, Wash., to Kuflcne. This line will be the southern arm of power from the main dis tributing station at Vancouver. Bids will be opened March 10 and awards will follow shortly with the expectation that the first unit of the line will be ready to carry power within five and one-half months the fall deadline set by the Bonneville administration, for delivery of power. Willamette valley towns which will be close lo the line include Orleans, Verdure, Tangent, Oak villc, Peoria, Shcdd, Halsey, Al (ord, St. Paul, Gervais and Independence. SEE PUD STORY PAGE n Hospital Insurance Interests Executives SEATTLE. Teh. 21. Voluntary hospital care insur ance on a non-profit basis con tinued to be the principal topic of discussion as 52.ri hospital exec utives, physicians and nurses opened the second day's session today of the convention of the asociation of western hospitals. Dr. (!. Harvey Agncw, of To ronto, Canada, president of the American hospital association, here to address the convention, told newsmen of the value of vol untary medical and hospital care insurance. "Medical and hospital Insurance was started in Ontario two years ago witli the blessing but not the support of the provincial govern ment, " he said. Dr. Agnew is also secretary of Ihe hospital di vision, Canadian medical assocla. tlon. "The plan provides for medical care by general practitioners and specialists and also nursing service," he said. "It guarantees this service for $2 a month per person with reduced rates for families. This protection costs a family of four $B 50 a month." Weather News OREGON: Pair tonight and Wed nesday but considerable cloudiness in west portion; little change In temperature; gentle variable wind off coast. AIRPORT 111 READ REI OKI): Minimum temperature, Tuesday, "2.(1 degrees; maximum tempera ture, Monday, 47. li degrees; wind, at noon, Tuesday, east, northeast. RIVER B t li 8 A l RECORD! Stage of Willamette river in Eu gene at 7 a. m. Tuesday, 2.2 feet. Ml SI. V TIDES 'tndav High 7 ill . m. 3:31 p. m. Low 8 37 a m. 8:31 m. Hlfh 2 44 a. m. : p. m. Isiw 0:13 a. m. 8:S8 d. m. High 3:50 a. I Low I 43 a
