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vafcer: Cloudy Sunday Edition LANE COUNTYS HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1939 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 141 Winning Pels, Young Masters 'Militant Treason' Is Disclosed By Are Announced Mercha'S's Donate 1 V-t r tuij ... i.n r of (h. L- THREE SECTIONS 24 PAGES , V,, 5 i4f; 4s "fW a it 'er ' ' 2 1 r ;s, . (I ' - Si M ' ' annual Lane county pet parade Saturday ? "Wmiii toil , lo ,his Prospector from Route 1, Creswell, i, Uilh ,Son,nlele with slouch hat. beard, and burri, xiou, in. , f s,r"'1- 811 Sf,l t"k l" ,c llllis- ln 1110 J tn ,.,Ttutor. blond WllJiam Franklin Roberts, rets out tnS 15 Willi, Kni ,ni thp I""1 comlr? down the street. At lel uhi i kerborker- ''""I "kid" in the parade and U3:s wan his "pel" bike. Prizes (appy Kids In Dr?Vvown Parade It o .ded like a zoo it loo' .f" .ke a circus at the end of ? amette street Saturday n iff, but the noise and and excitement and coii.motion were products of the seventh annual pet par ade, sponsored by The Eu gene Register Guard cooper ating with the leading city merchants. Hundreds of children entered the contest and before the parade began, it seemed that never could the colorful surging crowd become organized. But promptly at 10 a. m., the parade began, led by the Creswell band, snappily dressed in red and white uniforms. Contrast Prancing behind the band came horses all kinds, from Shetland ponies to gleaming saddle horses. One brown horse with a flowing golden mane, stamped proudly be side a naive little Shetland draw ing a huge basket in which two children sat. Along with the horses came a willing burro, trailed faithfully by a tiny white lamb and two chil dren dressed as pioneers, looking very much as if they were all starting for a lengthy trip across the plains. And trailing behind them all came a strange looking animal a burlap horse, looking suspiciously as if two children were masquerading. Fowls followed the horses all manner of them including two blinking baby hoot owls, who look ed very bored at the whole pro cedure. The fame of Oregon's bas ketball team has not waned, it seems, judging from a cage of ducklings, labeled "UO Champs, and including the names of the SEE WINNERS STORY PAGE 2 D: A. V. State Meet Set For Eugene Vncmno will ht hnst tn thp IRth annual rfnartmpnl. pnnvpnt.inn of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War ana tne eignui annual convention of the auxiliary In liat ni-nnn on .Time 1 1 to 14. it is announced by Henry Quam, commander 01 tne local cnapier, and Mrs. M. B. Huntley, president of the Eugene auxiliary. The D. A. V. is composed en tirely of men who suffered in juries in tne worm war or con tracted disease directly attribut ki. 4V,.;i c.rvirA Rpn F. Dorris auic w .in-. - - has been named general conven tion chairman by Commander ill beein Sunday evening, June 11 with a memorial service at one 01 me iochi huri-ho the rjlace to be an n,in4 lnt.i. Thp business ses- tinne itlill (VITIVPIIP flt 10 3. IT1. Monday, in a oim session 10 db held at the Eagles hall. There-oft.-. i,a n A V. sessions will be held at the main auditorium at the armory, and the auxiliary sessions at the veterans' room bv me m mory. Monday evening, the life membership club will hold its an nual dinner. The parade will ne neia at i.ou p. m. Tuesday lonoweo oy iu . .ninn rfance at the Winter n.,w4.n n whirl-, the nublic is in' annual banquet will be held at the Moose hall, various rornis ui en tertainment will be given the vis itors, including an open ihmk "Dugout" each evening, at which .u nnia-43inmnnt will be fur nished by the visiting cnapier-. and teas for the ladies. k to Himi pv ot nnnEiieiu AJ. ...... n,ent ripnartment senior IS tne 1 j i 1 i' vice commander, ana 15 in imc for election as department com mander. 200 Swift, Efficient Bombing Planes Ordered By U. S. Government WASHINGTON, May 20 UR The war department tonight step ped up its air armament program with contracts for approximately 200 new light bombing-attack planes considered by army en n.n ih factpst and most effic ient planes of their type in the Johnson declined to divulge top speeds shown Dy me new pianes, ...utnu r.pntlv nartirinated in a design competition at Wright field. O., but reliable reports indicated (hpv would do upwards of 400 miles per hour. M'.BONS TARGET PRAGUE. May 20. U.B An .vnincinn wrecked a house which was headquarters for four Ma sonic lodges. semi-annual evening of this week, May 24, to right, top row: John Stark Evans, violin soloist. Lower row, left to and Ralph Patterson, tenor soloist. Gleemen Will Sing 'Hit Parade' of Popular Songs In Wednesday A "Gleemen Hit Parade" it sents its annual spring home ing in McArthur court, the program consisting ot selections voted most popular by a poll of. the Gleemen associate mem bers taken recently. The concert is planned for 8:15 p. m., John Stark Evans conducting. Recovery By r40 New Deal Chant Appeasement Program Outlined in 4 Points WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP.) Administration leaders tonight revived business appeasement in modified form in an effort to pro duce substantial recovery by 1940. The program appeared to shape up along these lines: 1. Speedy enactment of a new tax law. 2. Aid to little business through more liberal credit extension, probably taking the form of gov ernment - guaranteed commercial bank loans. 3. Expanded research facilities to develop new markets and im proved distribution methods. 4. Creation of a bureau of in dustrial economics in the com merce department to serve as a clearing house for settlement of differences between government and industry. Canada Fetes King With Birthday Dinner OTTAWA, May 20. (U.R Otta wa formally celebrated King George VI's Canadian "birthday" tonight with a brilliant parliamen tary dinner at historic Chateau Laurier. Besides the Invited guests, there were more than 50,000 persons waiting outside the chateau for a glimpse of the king and Queen Elizabeth. The dinner was the final event of a crowded day, but despite the ceremonies their majesties found time to slip away by themselves for a brief automobile ride through the countryside. It was the first time they had turned aside from the pomp and splendor of cere monies in their honor since start ing their Canadian tour last Tues day. 6,000 PICKERS NEEDED PORTLAND. May 20. P Six thousand pickers are needed to :ave Oregon' million-dollar straw berry crop, Karl R. Lovell, man ager of the Portland office, state employment service, said today, home concert of (lie Eugene Gleemen will be presented Wednesday at McArthur court. Principals for conductor: Cora Moore Frey, accompanist: Dclbcrt Moore, Corvallis, right: Rollln Calkin, baritone soloist; llalfred Young, tenor soloist) Appearance will be when the chorus pre concert next Wednesday even Featured soloists for the evening will be Dclbcrt Moore, Corvallis, violinist; Unified Young, tenor; Ralph Patterson, tenor; and Mollin Calkin, baritone. Cora Moore Frey is accompanist. Complete program for the con- SEE GLEEMEN STORY PAGE 2 Strawberries Now Popular In Pies The luscious strawberries com ing on the markets now should give you many ideas for pie mak ing. Then there is rhubarb, not to mention raspberries coming on soon, lemons, pineapple, oran ges, etc., all to be used in making pies. Topic fos this week's contest Is "Recipes for Cream Fruit Pics." This topic also includes the chif fon pies. Deadline for entries Is 6 p. m., Wednesday, all recipes to reach the Register-Guard by that hour. Tne usual five prizes are offered, an one-dollar certificate, good in trade at any of tne grocery stores advertising in the Registcr.Guard, to go to the winner of each of the five best recipes selected. Harlan County Coal Settlement Imminent HARLAN, Ky., May 20. (UK Prospects for peaceful settlement, possibly Monday, of the Harlan county coal strike increased to night despite tension over plans of the united mine workers union to hold a huge mass meeting tomor row. Federal and slate conciliators seeking to bring agrement between the Harlan county mine operators assoication and the mine union be lieved settlement may follow i conference Monday. The Harlan deadlock has resulted from union demand for a union shop which operators declined to grant Wall Street Business Cheerful, Slow NEW YORK, May 20. (U.B Stocks, bonds and commodities de clined this week, but buslnesr. made a better than anticipated showing and Wall street sentiment a', the close of the period was more cheerful than at the start. Although the stock list put to. gether two consecutive rallies at the close of the week, leading shares were dowi. fractions to more than 2 points from last Sat urday. the event are those above: Left 'Big 3' Days Offer Bargains City's Merchants Plan Special Sales Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be the "Big 3" dHys, it was announced Saturday aftor- noon by Roy Morse, chniimnn of the chamber of commerce mer chants committee. ' Sacrifice bargains will be put on sale in stores all over town, Mr. Morse . indicated. The city-wide sale is being sponsored by the Eu gene chamber ot commerce in an effort to show the people of Eu gene and the surrounding terri tory what the local merchants can do for them. "The idea back of this," . Mr. Morse pointed out, "is that the merchants make a sacrifice in prices of many articles which di rectly benefits the consumer; but more than this it especially calls attention to the fact that Eugene is a rapidly growing shopping cen ter where people may obtain any. thing they desire at competitive prices which often cannot be dup licated elsewhere." The chamber of commerce mer chants' committee has been work ing on the 3-day bargain sale for several weeks. All Eugene mer chants have been invited to par ticipate. "Nearly every store in town will join in offering special values," according to Chairman Morse, "so outstanding as to attract attention of all those living within a radius of 100 miles." Window cards, supplied by the chamber of commerce, will be given to all merchants participat ing. Stores carrying these cards will feature special values during the sale. All store managers arc request ed by Mr. Morse to get their dis play cards from the chamber of commerce offices In the Eugene hotel before Wednesday evening of next week. The merchants' committee of which Mr. Morse. Is chairman In cludes Ford Hand, Harry Holt, W. W. Waters, Earl Byrom, and Ben Perlich. A special publicity committee Including Ken Mnxon, chairman, Karl Thuneman, E. L. Barth, R. D. Dickinson, and staff members of both daily newspap. crs, has also been working. Possibility that similar events may be scheduled during the lat ter part of the year, was Intim ated by Chairman Morse, in re porting upon the enthusiasm dis played by Eugene merchants this time. GOODWILL TOLR SAN FRANCISCO, May 20. (U.Ri The Douglas DC-4, largest commercial land plane in the world, will take off for Salt Lane City Ht 8:30 a.m. (PST) tomor row on a transcontinental test and exhibition tour, United Airlines announced today. Dies Committee Evidence Disclosed Revealing Plan To Fight An 'American-Jewish War' Rains Finally Wash Eugene Lightning, Thunder Pace Saturday Storm The rains came to Eugene Sat urday. It wasn't a deluge, nor was it a Hood, but it was a good shower. More rain fell from 4:30 to 8:30 p. m. Suturdny than had fallen in all the previous 19 days of May. The weather bureau at the air port recorded .36 of un inch pre cipitation for four hours Saturday evening, and .41 of an inch for the 12-hour period ending at 8:30 p. m. Total precipitation for the first 19 days of May, according to figures at the river bureau, was 28 of an inch. April showers reg istered even less rainfall: .9 for the month. Thunder and a little lightning marked the shower, and down town lights flickered three or four times is the lines were struck by lighting, but Eugene Water board maintenance men were reassur ing, and said that no serious dam age had been done. Farmers with thirsty crops were pleased by Jupiter Pluvius offer ing but saw no reason to get ex cited over a half-inch of rain fall. Local Eugeneans, with only a front lawn in cultivation, were glad that the rain came early in the morning and late in the after noon, not hampering the yel fa rade and the high school track meet. Sunday's weather forecast Is sad news for those going on picnics but Rood word for agrarians, showers expected with snow over the mountain area. July Adjournment Sought By Congress WASHINGTON, May 20 U,R Bi-partisan efforts to gel congress out of Washington by July 1 were underway tonight. It was learned that Influential members of Republican and Dem ocratic sides of the senate were at tempting to work out a program that would permit adjournment before the dog days arrive. Chief obstacle lo the get-con-gress-out-of-town drive continued to be the tax revision nettle. Here the advocates of substantial revis ion to aid business, headed by Sen. Pat Harrison. D., Miss., collide head-on with President Roosevelt's insistence on retention of the stub of the undistributed profits tax or an equivalent There were some Indications, however; that a compromise might be arrived at on the tux front. Sen ate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary was known to be active in seeking to discover a tax program agreeable to both sides of the con troversy. Fat Lamb Show On Next Saturday JUNCTION CITY, May 20 (Special) The big event for this community next week-end will b" the annual fat lamb show, put 1 1 by the local Lions club in coopera tion with the local merchants and the county court, Saturday, May 27. There arc divisions for 4-H clubs, F. F. A., and open classes. Judging will start at 0 a. m., and a full day s entertainment is ar ranged. Among buyers signifying thci Intention to be on hand to bid on quality lambs are: J. R. Clark of Clark, Taylor, and Hoard, Port land; Joe Haslelt, Bodlne and Clark, Portland; Jess Rogers, AI bnny; Arch Wassom, Harrisburg; Kyle Brothers, Monroe. This show has been put on for the past six years and this time is open to all entrants from Lane, Linn, and Benton counties. Many cash prizes will be awarded, as well as trophies and ribbons. Eugene Boatmen End John Day 'Run' THE DALLES. Ore., May 20 'U.Pi Four Eugene boatmen today completed what was believed to be the first "run" of the dangerous Tumwater falls in the John Day river. The four George If. Godfrey, Oscar Bussell, Prince Helfrich and Veltie Pruitt arrived at The Dal les after a 100-mile trip dewn the twisting nver, BY FRANK McNAUGHTON (United Presi Correspondent! WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP) The Dies committee investigating unamerican ac tivities tonight made public the record of a secret hearing at which testimony was heard concerning a "treasonable" plan to form a nation-wide "militant fighting force" in order to prevent the outbreak of a purported leftist revolu tion. The plan was outlined In a let ter by George Deatherage, St. Al bans, W. Va., head of the Knights of the White Camellias. Deather age proposed Gen. George von Horn Moseley, retired, assume leadership of the proposed organ ization. The letter was written under date of Dec. 14, 1938 to James Erwin Campbell, retired captain of army engineers. Campbell told the committee the letter was filled with "treasonable utterances" and had caused him to break off con nections with Deatherage. Testifying Coming The committee has subpoenaed Moseley und Deatherage for ques tioning concerning the affair. Deatherage probably will testify before the committee Monday and Moseley later in the week. Purpose of the proposed "fight ing force" was described by Deatherage as to fight the "American-Jewish war." " Witnesses testified extensively concerning purported information they had received regarding the supposed Imminence of a revolu tion, They alleged they had word of a. plot to overthrow the govern mont either through embroiling the United States ln a foreign war, by a leftist uprising "as ln Spain" or by bringing on a national eco nomie breakdown. Rhododendron Day Comes May 28 FLORENCE, May 20 (Special Western Lane county is all set lo welcome hundreds of visitors for the annual "Rhododendron Day" festival next Sunday, May 28. The rhododendrons are out in profusion and are at their best now. This festival lias been held by the coast communities for many years. Program events for this year's festival include: Bathing beauty contest, 11 a. m.; clam chowder feed, served free to crowd, 12 o' clock in the new city park at Florence; pet parade at 1:30 p. in ; boat race between Yaquina Bay Coast Guard und Siuslaw Coast Guard, 2 p. m. Stunts will be put on by the local Beechnuts during the day. Dancing will be featured in the evening at the Rainbow ballroom. The Junction City high school bund is to play during the day. British Columbia Drapes Flags, Bunting For Royalty's Visit VANCOUVER, D. C, May 20. P) Decorations are being put in place on downtown buildings, und store windows everywhere sport pictures of King George and yueen Elizabeth, as British Col umbians prepare to welcome the sovereigns when they reach the coast on their present trans-Can. uda tour. It will be more than a week May 29 to be exalt before their majesties reach Vancouver. But the royal visit is on the tip of every Ioiiruc, and already the city is taking on a holiday air. Weather News Cloudy skies and a little much needed rain fell on Eugene Sat urday. The forecast follows: OREGON: Showers Sunday and Monday; snow over mountains; slightly cooler with higher hu midity in interior; moderate southerly wind off coast. AIRPORT BUREAU RECORD: Maximum temperature for 24 hour period ending 4:30 p. m. Sat urday, 65 degrees; minimum tem perature, same period, 46.3 de grees; wind southwesterly; pre cipitation, 0.5 inch. RIVER BUREAU RECORD: Stage of Willamette river, at 7 p, m., minus .2 inch, '
