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Lather: Cloudy Home Edition LANE COUNT VS HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939 ON STREETS 8c; NEWS STANDS 6o NO. 13 1 jins Wash City sThunder reaksHeat fewer inreiiup.v-, reswell I ree Lightning eoir noisvbut not very dangerous ctorm shook Eugene and ader -"'. ,. Thursday ' sa" , hot spell that r.J-rnprature to a max- ' f sm decrees Wednesday. Lver service in a small portion I .hpnortneaM V" , -mated for about nan an nuu. dav morning when a section--M o'il switch blew out due to -al. rfutmbance. The Ip eieciiit" a mall flicker in almost all i' ligni uui lost spectacular effect .of the i mwas reportCQ irum Z lightning struck a 100-foot tree in a vard and spiralled its v to a point seven feet above 1 . . l,,-rt loft ground, mere i"-- -"-' e tree jumped to a cement wall '. . a- n..min4 T iron j ,L-er1 11 in illtr K1UU11U, j-iai In of the tree were thrown all ter the vara ana aouso "i i -:. kinWaV POl'tiOllS Of the ILL lii5""uJ- ie were burned and charred as if r fire in a siove. xnc it-iiun as heard all over the area. The thunder shower, which j easured only .01 of an inch ac . ..ji tn the weather bureau. ilinitely ended the hot spell. The iXimum lemperaiuie uj iu v Thursday was only 68 degrees. WPA S trike Folds Here; Maoy Lose Jobs in Sasfc ction On Siuslaw arbor Expected Gus E. Carlson, member of the t of Siuslaw commission, ap- wed before the county court fiursday afternoon to ask its nport in a movement to make Siuslaw river navigable to ran vessels as far as the head tide at Maplcton. A hearing of ernment engineers will be held Florence on the project in the par future. The commerce committee of the united States senate passed a solution May 17 directing the bard of engineers to review the ttport of Jan. 7, 1937, on the improvement of the river. Mr. Carlson said it is hoped to (btain favorable action on the foject. He pointed out that fed f si funds have been made avail- !e for harbors north and south the Siuslaw and that the Lane 'unty port appears to be rii its share. ridges Proceedings onfinue In South SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 -The testimnnv nf Tr,V,r T. yech. former communist party fgamzer, was interrupted today J Examiner James M. Landis at e Harry Bridges' deportation farms after Leech stated the P t "teaches that the giving oi KMimony n of no conse race in a capitalistic cnm-l thai fy lie to the interest of the rrars is justified." Vou leave the F'J'self have given false testi- ny in rom-t. Landis remarked. Teachers Role In Stimulation Of Thought Talked Campus Delegates Hear Arguments On Subject Of Controversial Items at all happy over her victory was Suzanne Nez, five-months-! ' old Navajo orphan, after she had won first prize in a better babies contest at the southwestern All-Indian pow-wow at Flagstaff, Ariz, Suzanne is held by Betty Burton, Hop! Indian nurse. Lewis Asks Guard For Mines Garner's Backers Maneuver To Keep New Deal from Dictating Ticket in 1940 By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, July 13. (UP) Garner-for-president organizers today are leading efforts to prevent administra tion domination of the 1940 presidential nominating con venetion. Vice President John N. Garner, himself, has publicly an nounced his support of the Hatch bill as originally drafted to bar practically all federal officials from political activity, Texas advices reveal mai ear ner's managers in his own state have decided to set others an ex ample for excluding federal, job holders from theh-delegatioiV to the democratic national conven tion. The practical fact is that the traditional way for President Roosevelt to control the 1940 convention for himself or his se lection would be to have many delegates chosen from among persons who owe him their jobs. The Hatch bill, as passed by the senate, would forbid political activity or membership on a convention delegation to govern ment employes except those of the legislative branch, cabinet members, policy forming officials and the presidential establishment. Bill Changed The house Judiciary committee amended that bill, emasculated it according to supporters of the senate text, so that politics would be forbidden in the federal relief establishment but government em ployes would be free to continue their political activity, attend the nominating convention in large numbers and, perhaps, select the 1940 ticket. When the house takes the bill up, probably next week, an effort will be made on the floor to re store it to the original senate form. That situation puts Garner on the political spot. He has been de scribed now for months as one of the congressional . masterminds capable of exerting tremendous Whether school teachers should avoid controversial subjects, espe cially those -on politics, or lead and encourage pupils to freely ex press their views was being argued on the University of Oregon cam pus Thursday. These two widely divergent ap proaches as to what and how the teacher should teach were brought out at the institute on educational policies attended by several hun dred educators and citizens. Taking a middle ground, Worth McClure, superintendent of schools of Seattle, urged teachers to "make real use of controversial ques tions." Students should be en couraged to look at all sides of (he problems, rather than shrink from them, he stated. The teachers' role, Harlan Intervention Asked In Washington WASHINGTON, July 15. (U.R) President John L. Lewis of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions today asked that the federal government intervene in "bloody Harlan" county, Kentucky, to pro tect miners from a "politically dis appointed and angry governor." Lewis, who also is president of the CIO's United Mine Workers' union, wrote Attorney General Frank Murphy, charging that Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler "pursues and wounds them (the miners) with the same ferocity and lack of restraint that characterize the hab its of a dominican dictator." SEE BRIDGES STORY TAGE 2 NICE GIFT ....luiun, JU1V 13. Wt uel H. Kress, New York mer int has given the nation a col '"n of tali5n paintings and -ure valuer! by experts at be- le'n ".OOn.oon and $30,000,000. jVeather News -u;ene experienced several va les of veathcr, ranging from arm .emperatures of Wednos the thunder shower Thurs ;"rmng. The maximum tem r Wednesday was 88 ORrrJ.r'e forecast follows: d t ,? UnseU'ed tonight and ,hunder st0'-ms locally over w..v.ns and showers on coast, Zl'Knc,r Friday: Kentle to ratc changeable wind off the "RPORT Bl'REAU RECORD: ;7 '"Porature Wednes srM'4: minimum, 44.7 de MMecpttatton since 4:30 a. m. ,,T".' of an inch: wind at .';R BlREAU RECORD: T.''',p wiHamette river at '"Ursday. .1.9 (cct '11 snd;r " ' " m " '! P- m. AFL-IEU Labor Battle Seen As Imminent Local AFL lumber and sawmill union officials intend to challenge the Industrial Employees Union on -all .fronts in the Willamette valley in spite of statements by IEU officials that the organization war declared to be a bona-flde bargaining agent by the NLRB in its decision handed down Monday. The officials point to a portion of the decision- which they be lieve opens an opportunity for them to proceed against the IEU, already invalidated in the cast of the C- D. Johnson Lumber com pany of Toledo and of the Wil lamette Valley Lumber Operators' association whose headquarters are located at Eugene. The ex cerpt read as follows: "As the IEU and the IEU locals are not employers they cannot of themselves engage in unfair labor practices, and the board will not pass upon their activities as dis- tinguished from the activities of SEE AFL STORY PAGE 2 J. H. Miller Funeral To Be Held On Friday JUNCTION CITY, July 13. (Special) The funeral of J. H Miller, former mayor and promi nent citizen, will be held at the funeral home which was operated by Mr. Miller prior to his death at 2 o'clock on Friday, July 14. The services will be conducted by Rev. A. B. Cromwell and Rev. W. B. Empey. SEE GARNER STORY PAGE 2 . Hoover Thinks Engineers Might End Depression SAN FRANCISCO, July 13. (VP) Former President Herbert Hoo ver suggested today the engineers of the nation might succeed where economists, politicians and sociol ogists have failed in finding a so lution to the unemployment prob lem. Hoover, himself a mining engi neer, was guest of honor today at "Engineers Day at the Golden Gate international exposition. In a prepared address for deliv cry before a group of engineers, the former chief executive declar ed the problem of employing America s 11,000,000 jobless is i "vital emergency for the objec tive minds of the engineers." Gleemen To Be Guests At Chamber Luncheon Guests at the chamber of com merce public affairs luncheon Fri day nonn at the Osburn hotel will hear all about the trip the Glee men took to the San Francisco ex position from Gerry Gaylord, pub licity manager for the singing group. John Stark Evans, director of the Gleemen, and directors of the or ganizations, will be present Mem bers of the Gleemen have been invited to attend, but will not come as a body. SEE CAMPUS STORY PAGE 2 ' Vancouver Babe Back Home ' ! j & , ; 1 : . a. ? ew Answer Alliance Plea For Walkouts ikelihood Of More Action Thought Small; $200 In Wages Lost EUGENE'S GLEEMEN, just back from a successful song Invasion of San Francisco, will be honored Friclnv noon at the woeklv chamber of commerce luncheon. Members of the chorus arc shown In this picture against a striking background of world's fair architectural splendor with Conductor John Stark Evans. In the center is Accompanist Cora Mnorc Frey and Miss Dorothy Hammond, In charge of the Oregon exhibit, (Photograph by Dr. James Stewart, Wiltshire engraving) Japanese Think Outer Mongolia Scrapes Have Labelled Nippon Superior to Reds 'Joking.- ForrrfhOTd' Child's Mother Jailed VANCOUVER. Wash., July 13. (U.R) Maurice Lies, 20, a farm hand, wanted to marry Mrs. Alice Winston, a blonde young divorcee, so he stole her 18-months-old baby to scare her. This was his story to police today and he said it had all been a joke. But both he and Mrs. Winston were in jail today while Clark County Prosecutor Eugene Cush ing pressed his investigation to de termine whether an actual kidnap ing had been involved or whether it was another matter. Mrs. Winston notified police yesterday that her baby, Teddy, had been kidnaped. She said she found a note notifying her that unless she consented to marry Lies, Teddy would be killed. Several hours later police found Lies driv- SEE VANCOUVER STORY PAGE 2 Postmaster Tells Of Airmail Schedules Under new summer air transport services linking all major Pacific coast cities, air mail patrons of Eugene arc given the choice of three fast schedules to California, according to a bulletin released Thursday by Postmaster F. L. Ar- mitage. The postmaster urges Eu gene citizens to acquaint them selves with the various trips and with closing times at the Eugene post office in order to use the services most advantageously. Air mail reaching the local post office not later than 4 p. m. will be flown from Portland to California over niglit without loss of busi ness hours, reaching cities as far south as San Diego in time for morning delivery. Airmail depos ited at the pijst office by 3 a. m. will arrive in San Francisco at 1:49 p. m., Los Angeles at 4 p. m. and San Diego at 5:10 p. m. On a third schedule, air mail delivered to the post office not later than 11 a. m will reach San Francisco at 8:43 p m. and Los Angeies at 10:55 p. m The postmaster pointed out that, in the case of the two day. light trips down the coast, special delivery can be used in conjunc tion with air mail postage to insure "same day" receipt of correspond ence. For example, a special de livery air mail letter reaching the post office by the 11 a. m. closing time can be received that night by addresses in such distant cities as San Francisco and Los Angeles. CANADIAN DIES LOS ANGELES, July 13 W Fernand Rinfret, 56, Canadian secretary of state and former mayor of Montreal, died suddenly shortly before midnight last night in an ambulance removing him to a hospital. Bv JOHN R. MORRIS JAPANESE ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Hailar, Manchu kun, July 13. (U.R) Japanese army leaders said today that they had about completed their present campaign, on the Out cf "Mongolian front ici but Ah.id made preparations for a situa tion many times more serious. A three-day tour of the front and of numerous bases be tween the front and Hailar, provided ample evidence of the big scale preparations the Jap-anose-Manchukunn army has made for any future test with the Russian-Outer Mongolian for ces. It appeared that the Japanese had used the present "inci- $50,000 Is Needed For August Relief Nearly $50,000 will be needed by the Lane county public wel fare commission for public as sistance in August, according to figures contained in the formal application to the state welfare commission approved at tne monthly meeting of the county group Thursday. Of the total amount needed to carry on the work, it is estimated that $10,500 will be needed for general assistance; $28,250 for old age assistance; $8,750 for aid to dependent children; $525 for blind assistance; $2,584 for ad ministration; $250 for soldiers' and sailors' aid and $700 for county farm. The exact total amount is $49,580. Under the head of general as sistance the estimated number of cases to be assisted is 450. The administration estimate Is divided as follows: Nineteen em ployes, $2030.67. travel, $225; furniture and equipment, $25; rent of office space, $97.50; all other, $205.83. dent," which has resulted in nearly two months of frontier fighting. to hold elaborate maneuvers of military and po litical importance. The Japanese expressed confidence that they had . demonstrated tjioir. military superiority wiiK both land' and aerial arms at a point where they said, the Russians' had chosen to contest Manchukuku an boundary claims. The Japanese assert that they have expelled the "invaders" Route F Road Is Discussed Frank Blair Dies Thursday In Eugene Frank E. Blair, for many years a merchant at Lowell, later oper ating his ranch on Fall creek, died Thursday at the Sacred Heart hospital. Mr. Blair lived in Eugene prior to engaging in business at Lowell and traveled for a wholesale house while here. He had one of the largest country stores in the coun ty at Lowell. He sold out a num ber of years ago, retiring to his ranch where he raised blooded livestock. Funeral announcements will be made from the Veatch chapel. Realty Board Members Hear Todd, Morse Dwellers along Route F, who seem to excel in producing rare plants and animals, will be pleased to learn that the Route F highway running through their area will be second to none in the state when completed, according to Victor Todd, WPA administrator in charge of construction. Mr. Todd shared the spotlight with R. A. McCully, Eugene real tor and long an advocate of n highway connecting Eugene with the coast, in speaking before tho regular Thursday luncheon of the Eugene Realty board. "Route F is a heavy construction Job. not a fisherman's holiday trail," said Mr. Todd. "When completed it 'will be able to carry the heaviest kind of traffic and will be vastly superior to the Eu gene to Oakridge highway, or tho Coast highway. No road in Lane county will be better." Since the works projects admin istration looki over the construc tion from the transient relief peo ple, $420,000 has been expended upon this link between Eugene and Florence, Mr. Todd slated. Of this sum, $8(1.000 has been credited lo the county. Lane cnunly furnishes Ihe work ing equipment and the WPA per forms the labor under the present set-up. The county has spent ap proximately $15,000 in purchasing right of way, P. M. Morse, cnunly engineer and surveyor, said. There arc still about 20 miles of right of way between Vcneta to two miles east of Austa not yet purchased, Los Angeles Scared By Paralysis Epidemic LOS ANGELES, July 13 (U.R) Los Angeles county prepared today to use an emergency fund of $500,000 to combat an out break of 30 Infantile paralysis I cases within the last 10 dayi. SEE ROLTE K STORY PAGE 2 Howard Hughes Lands At Super Airport Near Portland PORTLAND, Ore., July 13. IP Howard Hjghes landed a spe cially-equipped Boeing stralolincr plane at the new I'ortland-Colum bia airport at 9:40 a. m. (PST) to day. The famous pilot, en route to Los Angeles, used the new supe airport still under construction be cause of a 15 lo 20 milc-an-hour wind nt the Swan island field in the Willamette river. twice within six weeks and that they believe they have dis couraged Russia from initiat ing large scale hostilities. They said they had carefully avoid ed retaliatory incursions into Outer Mongoliai : 11 whs noteworthy that ' the Russians wore now in uncon lested possession of Changku long hill, on the Siberia-Man- chiikiio-Korca ' frontier which was (he scene of a long and bitterly fought battle late last summer. The Japanese with drew from the hill by agree ment. Japanese intimated they be- Lane county's WPA pro test strike was over Thursday morning with almost all work ers back on the job. it was reported by Victor P. Todd, county supervisor. While the strike committee re mained in existence little action was expected from the group. Last meeting was held Wednesday aft- noon at Skinner Butte park. when a group of about 35 attended the scheduled "mass" meeting. Tho motion to continue the committee as made and approved at that time. Lane WPA workers had not been expected to prolong the strike al though a few men spoke of "hold- ng out until demands were met, it the meeting Wednesday. Gen eral sentiment of workers which lias been repeatedly expressed dur ing the past three days was to make a "protest" only. The number of strikers In the county was set at 100 by Super ior Todd. Majority of men who went out were from the Camp Jackson road crew on the coast where 90 were reported to. have quit. In the city less than 50 work ers quit for the half-day demon stration. The strike cost the work ers about $200 in wages, the WPA head estimated. SEE JAPANESE STOR PACK 2 Squalus Breaks Line, Sinks Back To Bottom PORTSMOUTH, N. Y July 13 (PI The ill-starred submarine Squalus, which carried 28 of her crew to death in a plunge to the bottom last May 23, broke loose from a navy salvage crew late to day and plummeted back to the ocean floor after being lifted par way lo the surface. The 20 feet of the bow vanished almost as suddenly as it appeal ed, and from the surface it seem ed tho entire forward part of th Squalus had broken away from a least one, and possibly both of its lifting pontoons. The pontoons burst out of Ihe water Just as the bow appeared and one of them . floated bottom side up, as if jt had sheared its moorings. The other remained par tially submerged, giving the sal vage crew hope that it still sup ported the bow of the Squalus.. Hatch Thinks McNutt Should Drop Position If After Presidency WASHINGTON. July 13. (ft Senator Hatch (D-NM) said today Paul V. McNutt should give up h: position as federal security admin istrator if he wants to campaign for the democratic presidential nom nation. Hatch, author of a bill to ba political activity by government employes, told reporters his meas lire would not prevent McNutt from campaigning because it docs not apply to the president, cabinet members or policy-making govern mcnt officials. Drill Work Finished At Dorena Dam Site Preliminary drill work on the Dorena dam site has been com plcted, it was announced by Lieut, E. G. Herb, head of the Eugene area headquarters of the Willam ette basin project. The Dorena drill has been moved over to the Fern Ridge site where three drills are at work. He indi cated that possibly there would be more drilling work done at the Dorena site later in the year. STRIKE BORN, DIES PORTLAND, July 13. (P . Oregon's WPA strike that practi cally died "abornin'," yesterday lost more ground today after sev eral strikers in two localities voted to return to work immediately. Elsewhere mass meetings to dl cuss strike plans drew scant WPA attendance. At Salem, where no walkout oc curred, the Workers' Alliance local postponed decision on a protest strike until Sunday and announced If a strike was called it only would be a four-hour work stoppage. Strikers yesterday totaled 362. Added to those who had 'gone out earlier, the total in Oregon was set at 410 by Assistant WPA Ad ministrator Ivan Oakes. There are about 14,700 WPA workers. A mass meeting in Portland drew about 100 WPA employes who voted to return to work today and leave further strike plans in the hands of a committee. 13,000 DISMISSED WASHINGTON, July 13. (U.R) Works Projects administration officials dismissed more than 13, 000 WPA workers today for strik ing against abolition of the new prevailing wage scale for skilled laborers on relief. Naval Aircraft Ship Damaged By Blast NORFOLK, Va., July 13. OT Naval officials sought the cause today of an explosion and, spec tacular fire which damaged the huge aircraft carrier Ranger and injured seven enlisted men. A muffled roar came from the water line amidship the 735-foot vessel, witnesses said, and flames swept over the plane and flight decks for a breadth of 200 feet. Firemen at the Norfolk navy yard, where the Ranger was docked for repairs, battled the blaze for three hours before it was brought under control late yesterday. Capt. II. E. Keys, capt-un of the yard, said "we do not know what was responsible for the explosion." Other officers withheld any in formation in their possession pend ing an investigation of a board of inquiry. MILK FLOWS TIENTSIN, July 13 P) Jap anese blockading the British and French concessions relaxed their restrictions today on the British area's milk supply, permitting en trance of a nearly normal supply. TO SALEM YAKIMA, July 13. (P) A de partment of agriculture hearing on a hop marketing agreement, un der way here for two days, re cessed late yesterday to reconvene tomorrow in Salem.
