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Newspaper Page TextWeather: Fair Home Edition LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939 ON STREETS 8c; NEWS STANDS 60 NO. Ill reposes IRebiirtbh of L- . , TODAY'S NEWS TODAY in ", . " Russia IP- Triple E n . ,;; : '1 : BE combination of a rainless spring and hot weather got the Pacific Northwest forest fire season off h m early start this year, and brought threats of extensive damage on a wide front. This fire Is Ira sweeping: through hills on the Washington side of the Columbia river. A portion of the Bonneville his in the foreground. fray Into California Town Pef y Attacks of Population COALINGA, Cal., April 21. (UP) This town was sur- bnded by an invading army of billions of grasshoppers to- r and advance units already were entering its outskirts. Business was at a standstill and municipal authorities ibilized virtually every able-bodied male to hold back the aders, and, if necessary, fight Ithem through thestreets d from house to house. '"""''" resident Tells f Shake-Uo hief Will Propose Jgency Consolidation WASHINGTON, April 21. OP) President Roosevelt indicated to- consolidation of various gov-' Eaeni lenaing agencies was un- consideration in connection h exereisine his reorganization rers. He added no decisions had been reached. fSe president told a press con race he may have two reor- nation plans to send to con- m next week, but he would not "m wnat departments or in- , - -0 iTklolljVUIVCU. f e sa:d there was no substanca report neard on Capitol hill airman Jesse H. Jones of the "Btracuon finance corporation w pe made secretary of com f J cceed Harry L. Hop--J.whohas been ill recently. Rosevelt labelled as guess. reports the RFC and various "5 nning agencies would be sierred to tho rim,t . Emerce. ul I'ntiiu, , -t ""'"'K out reor-t-ation of such agencies. " Fs ar' examn f , n lis Irvine . , ",rT H'yuiems !rci me 'ending .thPm0Pmi0n de' aid such Conflicts shn,,M v. KT. lUt in '"e ffrs tin- 1. ? WOU d hp in . . corporation. P-fOf Coster cfn!bVrojnfuen2e .'5psn' treasurer of n. , Kobbins. Inc Personal invti i J rubier as avenue who WOuld have been f'rstv Sunday, had been ' turned ,Newton' N- J in Qfr0mJ Princeton iresson and CITV 1 on histor- t'fan'n:,u'as Piously Pj. la" at her horn v... home yes- The town actually was in a state of emergency. Barrel after barrel of poison bran mash had been spread but the hopper army, com posed of a type known as devas tators, was so great that those killed by the poison merely formed a protective blanket for the hordes following. Five Skins Men fought with whatever weapon seemed potent. They killed thousands and thousands of the tiny pests, not yet shed of all their five skins and thus unable to fly, but it seemed a losing battle. "They are such hard things to fight," complained volunteers, "you kill one and a thousand takes its place." Authorities considered digging a deep trench completely around the town and filling it with oil, as a last resort. The chamber of com merce and the associated cotton farmers of California, sent hur ried appeals to state and federal authorities emphasizing that men as well as new supplies of poison were needed. Assemblyman Hugh M. Burns, Fresno, said he would seek an emergency appropriation from the state to hire men and buy mash. Farmers whose crops lay in the hoppers' path beyond the town asked that CCC enrollees be sent here to aid in the fight. The first damage by the hop pers occurred southeast in the Pleasant valley where swarms got into 1,000 acres of cotton, flax and barley. Nothing was left. May Day Recipes New Contest Topic By MARIAN LOWRY Each season brings many May day parties, breakfasts and lunch eans, especially, so the recipes-of-the-week-contest again strives to keep up with seasonal demands, Carrot flower salad, see page 16. Carrot salad, see page 5. Carrot cutlets, see page 4. Carrot loaf, see page 9. Carrot salad Mexicano, see page 6. announcing the new topic to be: "Menus and Recipes for May Day Parties." This event will be divided into five classifications as follows: 1 Best menu for May break fast or May luncheon. 2 Best recipe for main dish SEE RECIPE STORY PAGE 2 . . MANY PEOPLE SALEM, April 21. A total of 1236 delegates to the annual Oregon Christian Endeavor con vention registered here yesterday but attendance at the opening ses sion was only 800. About 1500 delegataes were expected by tonight. Hint Of Rain Cheers Oregon Forecast Gives Hope Of End Of Hazards PORTLAND, April 21. OP) The familiar gray skies of spring and the smell of forthcoming rain eased ' the " double burden of drought and fire in Oregon today. As the state entered its 37th day without moisture, an all-time weather record, government fore casters predicted cooling showers in the northwest section Friday night and Saturday with lower temperatures in the grain, cattle and forest country east of the Cas cade range. A few brush fires still smould ered in the Willamette valley but danger, for the time being, had passed. A blaze on Gales creek, not far from Hillsboro, scene of the season's first serious fire several days ago, was controlled after It damaged two farm homes. Foes Of Foreman Stalemate Ickes WASHINGTON, April 21. M5) Opposition to the appointment of Clark Foreman of Atlanta, Ga., as Bonneville dam administrator and impending reorganization of several government agencies were said today to have caused Secre tary Ickes to postpone indefinitely the selection of a successor to the late J. D. Ross. An informed person said pub lished reports that Foreman, chief of the public works administration power division, was in line for the $10,000-a-year position had brought many protests from con gressional and Oregon and Wash ington groups. He said they were extremely critical of Foreman's background as "a new dealer" and of his par ticipation in the administration's efforts to unseat Senator George (D., Ga.) last year. He added that congressional op ponents, including several Pacific northwest members and Senator George, were determinted to avert senate confirmation of Foreman if he were nominated. England's Shaw Believes In 'Mercy Killings' LONDON, April 21 'J?) Geor?e Bernard Shaw said today he thought tliH human race should practice eulh?nasia the putting to death painlessly of those suffering from incurable diseases. Shaw, who is 82, gave the fol lowing comment on his election as vice-president of the voluntary euthanasia legalization society, which hopes to push a bill through parliament legalizing "mercy kill ings." "After all, there are circum stances in which it is rather un reasonable to persist in living. 'Now that I am in my dotage I am coming around to that conclu sion more and more, but I hasten to add there is not the slightest hope for humankind that I shall practice euthanasia myself. That may be a little inconsistent but I always like to be selfish." Eugene Gets Air Mechanics institution Vocational School New Center For Training Aviation Experts Designation of the Eugene voca tional school as an aviation me chanics school for Oregon was an nounced at the meeting of the state board for vocational educa tion held at the local- .vocational school Friday morning. ' The aviation mechanics course will start next year, and will be conducted in cooperation with the federal bureau of aeronautics, O. D. Adams, state director of voca tional education, told members of the board. Equipment valued at approxi mately $30,000 is expected from the war department to-be used in connection with the course. Di rector Adams said. The course will be opened to a limited num ber of students in line with the school's policy of training only that number of students that can be placed in employment. The meeting of the board was attended by Governor Charles A. Sprague and Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruc tion. Members of the board pres ent were Fred C. King, Portland, representative of employers; Bon Mathis, Portland, representative of labor; Mrs. C. W. Robison, Port land, representing home makers; Thurlow McNary Weed, Beaver- SEE SCHOOL STORY . PAGE 2 Perkins Orderk Bridges Hearing Labor Secretary Asks Deportation Proceedings WASHINGTON, April 21. (U.R) Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins today ordered a prompt hear ing in the deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader. Miss Perkins said instructions had been sent to west coast immi gration officers to prepare the evidence in the Bridges case im mediately. She revealed that the suspension of a warrant of arrest for Bridges, previously issued, had been lifted. Bridges has long been under in quiry by the labor department on charges that he is a communist and, as a non-naturalized Australian-born alien, subject to depor tation. He is west coast director of the congress of industrial or. ganizations. Action in the Bridges case had been held up pending supreme court action on a deportation case against Joseph George Strecker, Australian-born non-naturalized one-time communist. The court held Strecker not liable to deportation. Canadians Hunt Mystery Submarine OTTAWA, Ont., April 21. (U.R) Four Canadian naval vessels were assigned today to a search of north Atlantic waters off Halifax, Nova Scotia for a mystery sub marine reported sighted in that vi cinity during the past week. After announcement by De fense Minister MaJ.-Gen. L. R. LaFleche disclosed that the Sag uenay and Skeena and the mine sweepers Gaspe and Fundy had steamed out fo Halifax harbor to begin the patrols. The Royal Canadian air base at Dartmouth, across the harbor from Halifax, is cooperating in the search, LaFleche added. Southern Pacific Day Near Anniversary Of Line's Completion PORTLAND, Ore., April 21. W Lyle F. Watts, new United States regional forester, announced ten tative plans today to bring G. E. Mitchell, supervisor of the Siski you national forest in southern Oregon, to Portland to take charge of wild life management for Ore gon and Washington. The forester said Edward P. Cliff, assitant in the wild life and range management division here, probably would succeed him. It will be several weeks before de tails of the proposed change have been completed. WITHOUT disclosing when or where they would be married, Tyrone Power and Ann Carpentier, known on the screen as Annabclla, are shown as they applied for a marriage license at the Los Angeles City hall. Power gave his age as 24, Annabella, 25. It will be the act. ress' second marriage and the first for Power. Gov. Sprague's Henchmen See Him in U. S. Senate Neutrality Said Difficult In U.S. Senator Borah Holds Opinion Now Formed WASHINGTON, April 21. (U.R) Sen. William E. Borah, R., Ida., today indicated belief that Ameri can opinion on Europe's crisis has hardened to the point that true neutrality has become almost im possible. Borah expressed his opinion during questioning of Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, witness before the senate foreign relations committee which is considering revision of U. S. neutrality laws. "Already," Borah said, "things have taken place which makes it Impossible for other nations to look upon us as a neutral." He said he did not refer to any specific statement or act by a gov ernment spokesman, but referred rather to the manner in which na tionals opinion had shaped itself on European affairs. Borah said his conclusion was based upon "the general condition of mind" throughout the country toward totalitarian states. The senator felt the foreign re lations committee would find it "difficult to get ourselves in a state of mind" approximating a judicial attitude. "Haven't the people already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? he asked. "We have practically passed upon who is an aggressor. The thing that is uppermost in my mind is that there is no neutrality at this time because of conditions that exist in the world." Amateur Radio Men To Meet In Eugene Amateur radio operators of Ore gon and southwestern Washington will meet in Eugene Saturday and Sunday for the eighth annual con vention of the Oregon Amateur Radio association. Features of the meetings will be displays of short wave and television equipment by leading manufacturers, and talks by outstanding authorities on radio. Registration will start Saturday at 8 a. m and a dance will be held in the evening. At the busi ness meeting Sunday at 2 d. m, officers will be elected and a meet ing place for the 1940 convention chosen. Meetings will be held at the Osburn hotel. Press Ponders Means To Avoid War Censors WASHINGTON, April 21. (P) Members of the American so ciety of newspaper editors con sidered today predictions voiced by Henry L. Mencken as they gave attention to possible means of averting censorship in event this county should become involved in war. Mencken told the editors yes terday conditions of government control of the press in event of war would be "even worse" than in the World war when, he de clared, "every newspaperman in the United States did his work under threat and dureii." By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM, April 21. (Al though a newcomer to the political wars, Gov. Charles A. Sprague's intimates already are booming him for the United States senate in 1942. They will bet you good money that the governor never will re turn to his Salem newspaper, their theory being that when a man gets in politics, he can't get out un til the people throw him out. There have been many reports that Senator McNary, republican minority leader, who has served since 1917, will retire on Jan. 3 1943, to his beautiful country home outside Salem. Those clos est to Sprague want him to fill McNary s shoes. Of course the governor won't say anything about this, because that bridge is a long way off. The funny thing about Sprague's initiation into politics is that it was an accident. He was virtually un known about the state when he announced a year ago he would run Just so the republicans would not let the office go by default. Sprague never dreamed he had a chance because he was sure Gov ernor Martin, a democrat, would be reelected. But Martin was de feated by Henry L. Hess and Sprague, getting as many votes as the other seven republican candi dates combined, saw his chances boom sky high. The rest of the story, how Sprague led the republicans back into power after they had been on Reds Wish Britain, France to Form Bulwark of Nations Coalition Would Oppose Aggression By Germans, Italians or Japanese LONDON, April 2L(AP) Soviet Russia has proposed resurrection of the Anglo-French, Russian triple entente of the World war, a highly authoritative source said today, as a bulwark against possible future aggression by Germany, Italy or Japan. Such a recommendation of a flat reciprocal military alli ance was said to have been made by Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvlnoff to Sir William Seeds, British ambassador in Moscow. House Passes Monetary Bill Dollar Devaluation Included In Measure SEE GOVERNOR STORY PAGE 2 Republicans Bid Stray Democrats Join Ranks WASHINGTON, April 21. UP) An invitation from Republican leaders for anti - administration Democrats to join their ranks stimulated today the mounting capital discussions of the 1940 presidential campaign. Senator Taft (R.-O.) told a "Republicans-on-the-march" din ner last night President Roosevelt had issued "an insulting ultima tum" when he suggested that dis sident Democrats leave the party or remain loyal. "To the president," Taft said, '(anyone who disagrees with him is moved only by prejudice, and if he is unwilling to subordinate these prejudices, he is disloyal to his lord and master. "The Republican party certain ly mirrors more accurately the ideas of the leading anti-administration Democrats than do the New Dealers, and we welcome them to our party councils. There is no fundamental difference be tween us which cannot be recon ciled." Taft spoke of the New Deal as a "failure" and accused the ad ministration of "ballyhooing" the foreign situation "to take the minds of the people off their troubles at home." Republican Chairman John Hamilton also welcomed any Democrats who desired to "fall into step with us in our match to the restoration of this nation to Americanism." BUSINESS OFF PORTLAND, April 21. (Pi Reports from 115 mills showed last week's new business of 63, 142,000 board fect of lumber was 13 per cent less than the previous week, the Western Pine association aid today. WASHINGTON. April 21. C4) The house passed and sent to the senate today a bill extending for two years the president s au thority to devalue the dollar again, the treasury's sz.uuu.uuu.uuo sta-' bilization fund and its right to pay subsidies on newly mined domestic silver. The bill passed on a voice vote. Just before final passage, the house defeated by a 25 to 158 roll call vote, an amendment which would have abolished the presU dent's devaluation power. . Approval of the bill climaxed a bitter interparty scrap over ad ministration monetary powers, in which, the weight of the demo cratic! majority crushed republi can attempts to amend the measure and Kill some of its Key provisions. rne monetary powers would ex. pire June 30 unless congress re news them. Republicans centered their fight principally on the devaluation pro. vision, existence of which they contended, creates fear and un certainty among business men. Flying Colonel Asks For Better Airships WASHINGTON, April 21. VP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's plea for better American planes gave impetus today to a drive for more federal funds for aeronautical research. The noted flier told the national advisory committee for aeronaut ics emphasis should be placed on quality instead of quantity in plane development. The committee has recommended a $10,000,000 resarch station at Sunnyvale, Cal., which was rejected by the house. The senate approved $4,000,000 to start the project. Lindbergh conferred with his colleagues on the committee yes terday after a 25-minute visit with President Roosevelt. He did not disclose his recommendations, but some of those who attended the meeting said he declared it was vital for the United States to de velop superior types of civil and military aircraft. His reported advice was that plane production could be speeded up in an emergency, but quality could not be developed in plane design in a hurry. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Will Wed On Saturday HOLLYWOOD, April 21. P- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., motion picture actor, and Mrs. Mary Lee Epling Hartford will be married tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. (PST) in Westwood Methodist Episcopal church, members of the family said today. Fairbanks' father, Douglas, Sr., veteran actor, will serve as best man, and Mrs. Giles Thomas Ep ling of Bluefield, W. Va., will give her daughter away. Fortnightly Club Gives Library $100 A gift of $100 to be used at the Eugene public library was voted by the Eugene Fortnightly club, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Percy W. Brown as club librarian will present the check to the library and will work from the club in expending the sum for use at the library. The Fortnightly club Is the or ganization responsible for estab lishment of Eugene's public li brary and has worked in the in terest of the institution ever since organized In 1893, Both Britain and France, this in formant said, have the proposal under serious consideration. No official indication was given on the Anglo-French reply, but Britain, although favoring a less binding agreement, was believed to be ready to accept such a mili tary alliance rather than lose Rus sia's support. Wanta Full Support Moscow, having in mind the pos sibility of attack both by Germany in the west and Japan in the east, was said to have demanded full military support from Britain and France in return for her adhesion to the bloc of nations they are forming. Informed sources said Britain expected a much more vague and less binding agreement by which Russia would merely "support" the coalition being formed by London and Paris. Although British officials were reported willing to accept Russian cooperation on a flat tri-partite military alliance . basis, , it was feared here Rumania and Poland, now holding British-French guar antees of their independence, might block the negotiations, .i ; It was believed in London diplo matic circles Russia had offered to cooperate on an outright mili tary alliance basis because she fears she might be caught by a joint German-Japanese invasion. Princess Elizabeth Has Thirteenth Birthday Tea Celebration WINDSOR, Eng., April 21 OP) Princess Elizabeth, heiress pre sumptive to the crown of the world's greatest empire, came of teen age today, and was hostess at a five o'clock tea to celebrate her thirteenth birthday in a "grown up" manner. Elizabeth received a box of silk stockings real long ones from her mother, a symbol of the "young lady" status she is achiev ing. From her father there was another pearl for her necklace. In the last year the girl, tall and a bit gangling, has discarded half- socks and hair ribbons. She wears her brown bobbed hair with a clip. The king also gave his daughter a diamond bracelet while her grandmother, Queen Mother Mary, gave a silver dressing set. From Uncle Edward and Aunt Wallis the Duke and Duchess of Windsor came a movie camera. Republican Miaja Leaves France For Cuba PARIS, April 21. OP) General Jose Miaja, outstanding republi can military leader in the Spanish civil war, left Paris with his fam ily today enroute to Cuba to make a new home. They planned to sail from La Rochelle for Havana. Weather News Thursday's maximum tempera ture again neared the eighty-mark as Lane county's dry spell con tinues. A light shower of rain fell here during the night, measuring only a trace at the weather bureau. The forecast follows: OREGON: Cloudy tonight and Saturday, probably light showers in northwest portion and on coast, cooler in interior of south and east portions Saturday; moderate west erly wind off the coast. AIRPORT BUREAU RECORD: Minimum temperature, Friday, 41 degrees; maximum temperature, Thursday, 79.1 degrees; wind, at noon, Friday, north; precipitation to 4:30 a. m. Friday, trace. RIVER BUREAU RECORD: Stage of Willamette river in Eu gene rt 7 a. m. Friday, 1.1 feet. SIUSLAW TIDES High Low . High Low ...... Hlth , Low . , 1:41 a. m. 8:37 A. m. Sundiy 2.19 a. ni. 9:20 a. m. Monday 3.M a. m. 10:08 a. m. 2:48 B, m. 8:24 0. m. 3:37 p. 8:09 p. 4:59 p. 10:03 V.