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EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939
ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS So
NO. 21
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Early Negotiations
B, JOE ALEX MORRIS
Fm- News Editor)
i-'tea ricao - .
lis. clans were heard m
L'rope today.
Conciliatory wuiu .-
U sources in both London and
rlin as, oniy j -
customs guard was siain on
n,n,i fmntier. Nazi spokes-
n declared that Germany ex
,;is a peaceful solution of the
city problem without resort
force and proDaDiy wunui a
br months.
We reject a warlike solution
the Danzig problem luu per
l" the spokesman said, in
:oing Polish indications that
Danzig shooting was a cioseo
tier.
?aliaM cnnrres in London dis
ced that a small group of in
itial British leaders were aa-
anl a new "positive peace
a even more important than
it Berlin describes as "the
!er plan" for solving the Dan-
issue.
''Pncltlv,," Pl-in
This "positive" plan was do-
bed in British sources as nav-
nnlhino in nn with nnnpncn.
pi programs of the past and, In
. was designed ior open ctis
ssion only after all danger of
new totalitarian war inreai
Scouts now, canned on
engraving)
ndon, Berlin
'Peace'
SEE PEACE STORY
PAGE 5
ily, County Officials
o Discuss 'Jungles'
p.e "definite health menace"
l-rai in the hobn innple ramn
hted on the edge of town will
considered Friday afternoon at
reeling of county and city
onties, it was revealed by
n;i. T '
Ike meeting was set for late
th 8 f tflmvsn in ".......,.. T I
pen Hurd's office. Also to at-
mt meeting were Dr. E. L.
rdPPr pn,,n( KnWt. -fd
uulllJ iicrtuii uinuer,
- the city council health com
"f consisting of Louis Koppc,
mayor indicated that the
I'ura co-operate to the full
extent ;,, ,.. .
I.. -vumy omciais
Problem, brought to light
-. ... ivpuri maae ry
Gardnitr 3, iu. . .
i , me request oi
f-"? jear the jungle.
-. ... , menace- with a
;-er fa.ii-.. " ",R wunout
&c.lit,(5. sanitary provis-
m at . El" C' el;. Action
ZVtlry nd
" " i"r action.
52West SnUm wd a
f0ers Hold Protest
'3Z Jul.v21.-(UJ9
kiZ, VHA workers ,taa-
,"?-..w'lked off
r.-r' because tho .,,.,
v s P'ns had been called
father News
fr- 'Win WeaUl-
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' to m!ra,urc in inter
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J!jny. -2.2 feet.
Business Boom
Said Nipped
Roosevelt Heaps Blame
On Neutrality Defeat
By T. F. REYNOLDS
HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 21.
(U.R) President Roosevelt said to
day that refusal of the senate to
act at this session on neutrality
has killed off a nice little business
boom and will have an adverse
economic effect until next January-Mr:
Roosevelt, speaking at a
press conference, again empha
sized that full responsibility for
refusal to revise the neutrality law
must De accepted by the senate.
The senate, he said, is gambling
against the possibility of war this
year, and the result of its refusal
to act will have an adverse eco
nomic effect.
The president described a con
versation he had with a prominent
business man this week. The busi
nessman, he said, discussed the
effect the senate postponement
may have on business, and they
concluded that the postponement
probably cut short a nice boom.
With the international situation
and its effects on this country
highly uncertain, he president
said, businessmen will hesitate to
make commitments because they
can have no idea of what form a
neutrality bill will take if con
gress acts on the issue when it
meets again next January.
Actor Massey's Wife
Completes Switch
LONDON, July 21 (U.R)
Adrienne Allen was married again
today in the culmination of a ro
mance packed as full of "good
theater as any role the blonde,
blue-eyed star ever portrayed on
the stage or screen..
The bridegroom was William
Dwight Whitney, whose former
wife is married to Miss Allen's for
mer husband, Raymond Massey.
Miss Allen divorced Massey,
recent star of "Abe Lincoln in Illi
nois," on grounds of cruelty June
e in Carson City, Nev. Whitney
New York lawyer, was divorced
in 1937 by the former Dorothy A.
budington.
When Miss Allen arrived in the
United States to institute divorce
proceedings Whitney made the
beau geste. Knowing that his for
mer wife intended to be married
to Massey and fearing that Miss
Allen might not have many friends
in the country, he telephoned her
to ask if he could be of assistance
They met and fell in love.
"That was the best 'phone i all
i ever made," Whitney said tod ly.
"I'll never make a better one."
Due In Eugene
Raymond Massey will arrive in
Eugene early in August for the
filming of the outdoor sequences
tor "Abe Lincoln in Illinois " on the
McKenzie river.
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University Will Offer
Credit To Drivers
PORTLAND, July 21 P) For
the first time in history Oregon
will award college credit for stu
dents who pass a course in safe
automobile driving. K. N. Beadle,
director of educational division of
the national conservation bureau,
'aid yesterday a two-weeks
course would start Monday at the
University of Oregon summer
school.
Lucky Boy Scouts 'Initiate'
New Lodge on Blue River
Boy scouts of the Wallamet council now have a new
headquarters cabin, Fred Lindsay lodge, recently dedicated
at Camp Lucky Boy on the Blue river.
The cabin was erected with the help of Fred Lindsay a
sustaining member of the Wallamet Boy Scout council, who
died recently. Mr. Lindsay had been an active "supporting
scouter" for several years." ,
It is ol the stockade type, with
shake roof and pole rafters. The
building was completed about a
month ago and has been in service
during the summer camps now in
progress.
During the year the building
wil be used for leadership and
training purposes. The upstairs
will be completed, providing sleep
ing quarters for 20 or 30 men.
110 At Camp
Camp Lucky Boy is now occu
pied by about 110 scouts, partici
pating in the second period of
summer camp. They will com
plete their two weeks' of contact
with nature. Toward the end of
next week they will climax their
outing with extended hikes.
Approximately 70 scouts have
registered for the third and final
period, it was stated by H. B.
Sallee,. scout executive; . There- is
room for about 25 or 30 more. The
third period is noted, Mr. Sallee
pointed out, for . the -excellent
swimming facilities. An extend
ed program of aquatic training is
taken up during this final, period,
Morse Orders Laborers
To Resume Loading
Pending Official Nod
EUREKA, Calif., July 21. (P)
Longshoremen were under or
ders today to resume loading Fort
Bragg lumber aboard the Swedish
motorship Parakoola and to cease
picketing docks at Fields landing!
here.
The work orders were Issued by
Wayne Morse, of Eugene, Ore.,
Pacific coast waterfront arbitrator,
and the cease-picketing order by
Judge W. D. L. Held of the Men
docino county superior court.
Morse's ruling was made yes
terday following a four-hour
hearing here. He held the long
shoremen must work the ship at
least pending a full hearing of
the issue. He said the longshore
men's agreement provided for set
tlement of such disputes without
picketing.
Chamber Group
Recommends
Penny Meters
Councilmen Will Get
Signal To 'Go Ahead'
With Proposal
; Members of the merchants di
vision of the Eugene chamber of
commerce voted Thursday night
to tell the city council that they
will welcome a tryout of parking
meters of the penny type for a per
iod sufficient to determine if these
machines will really relieve park
ing troubles and make it easier
for all who do business in Eugene.
They did not indorse any make
of machine but stated a preference
for those where the parker buys
his space in penny increments
instead of the nickel type which
often compels the parker to buy
more time than he needs. The mer
chants also suggested that the
council look into the matter of
providing municipal parking lots
adjacent to the business area.
Fred Brenne, secretary of the
chamber, read reports from a long
list of cities the' approximate size
of Eugene where parking meters
are in use. In only one or two
have parking meters ever been
abandoned once the public became
used to them.
"We hope the people of the Eu
gene area will realize that we are
trying to find a solution for a
problem which gravely concerns
us all," said Roy Morse, of Broad
way, Inc., who presided at the
meeting. "One thing is very ap
parent. Not only the merchants
but everybody who tries to do bus
iness in Eugene suffers from loss
of time and waste of gas and ag
gravation as long as no effort is
made to find the answers."
Lots Suggested
Parking lots which would get
all cars owned by Eugene business
people out of the - streets and
where outside people could find
free space if they did choose to
use the metered spaces were sug
gested as a necessary corrolary to
any mechanical control.
.-It WHS: pointed out that parking
meters definitely remove ale
present hazard of parking fines
where people are unaware of ex
isting regulations. At near mid-
Eugene Girl Hurt
When Cars Collide
Betty Cruse, 1 1 65 Willamette
street, was taken to the Eugene
hospital Thursday evening with in
juries received when the car in
which she was riding with Wal
lace Bardell, 690 Nineteenth ave
nue west, collided with the car
driven by Lee R. Koch of Route
2, Eugene. Miss Cruse received
bruises on the face and other
bruises and contusions.
Mr. Bardell was driving west
on Nineteenth avenue east and
Mr. Koch was driving south on
Villard street when the accident
occurred. Lewis Eikenburg of
Springfield, the other occupant of
the Bardell car, received slight
bruises. Marge Clendcnen, 711
Eleventh avenue west, who was
riding with Mr. Koch, suffered an
injured wrist and cuts, and Lee
Koch, who was in the same car,
received cuts and bruises. Don
Koch, the other occupant of the
car, was not injured. Both cars
were somewhat damaged.
NO CONFIDENCE
PORTLAND, July 21. W)
The Willamette democratic society
refused yesterday to send an ex
pression of confidence to Major
Laurence A. Milner, witness in
the Harry Bridges deportation
case at San Francisco.
MINISTER WANTED
PORTLAND, July 21. (An
Detective Lt. L. D. Manciet said
today Rev. Noel L. Murray, 34, of
Portland, Episcopal minister, was
wanted on a bad check charge. A
warrant was Issued for his arrest.
MT. TABOR GETS BID
CORVALLIS, July 21. "
The Presbyterian synod of Oregon
selected the Mount Tabor church
of Portland yesterday for its next
meeting.
Waymie Morse May
Vouch for Biridlges
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DOWN south in Texas this little colored boy was recently found showing a couple of his friends how to
keep cool. Watermelons seemed to have solved the problem. (In Texas and Arizona, however,
tourists have found even the southerners have shifted their eyes northwards Into Oregon's Dillard re
gion for the BEST melons.)
SEE METER STORY
PAGE 2
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Board To Begin Hunt
For College Chiefs
PORTLAND, July 21 P) The
job of selecting presidents for
Oregon State college and Eastern
Oregon College of Education will
be started by the state board of
higher education at a meeting
here Monday.
Board members indicated there
was a chance a president, a head
for the La Grande institution
might be named at next week's
meeting but said selection of
successor to Dr. George W. Peavy
at the state college was not im
minent. Dr. Peavy reaches the
retirement age of 70 next November.
Siuslaw Man Going
To New England To Aid
In Rehabilitation
J. H. Lemox, member of the
Siuslaw forest service who has
been working on the Cascade
head experimental station, will
leave soon to take up forest work
on the New England salvage pro
ject, it was reported Friday by
Robert L. Campbell, administra
tive assistant in the forest.
Mr. Lemox will be working In
territory which was seriously
damaged in the hurricane about
a year ago. Salvaging blown
down timber and attempting to
remove the fire hazard which
the hurricane created will be part
of the work.
Library On Wheels
To Be Shown Saturday
Lane county's "moving library,"
the bookmobile which will carry
1,000 volumes and has just been
received by the WPA library in
this city, is to be on display all day
Saturday.
The bookmobile is loaded and
ready for its first trip. It will be
located on the streets and opep
for inspection, although no books
will be loaned at that time.
W. S. ROBERTS NAMED
SALEM, July 21 C. L.
Jamison of Canyon City, secre
tary of the cattle and horse rais
ers association, was appointed, to
day county brand inspector for
Multnomah county. The depart
ment of agriculture, which made
appointments for other counties
under a new law, said the inspec
tors must examine horses, mules,
asses and cattle. Inspectors for
other counties include Lane, W. S.
Roberts r.l Eugene.
Nippon Thwarts
Assassinations
3 ' Influential Men .
Tateetaf Death Plots
TOKYO, July 21. U.fi) Police
revealed today that they had
thwarted an assassination plot
against three of Japan's most in
fluential personages, including
Tsuneo Matsudaira, former Japa
nese ambussador to the United
Staates and Great Britain, and now
minister of the imperial household.
The others plotted against were
Count Nobukai Maklno, a former
lord keeper of the privy seal and
now an important odviser to the
emperor, and Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal Kurahel Yuasa.
The plot was attributed unoffi
cially to anti-British agitators.
Antelope Leave Valley
For Eastern Oregon
Bound for a spot in southwest
ern Oregon "where the deer and
the antelope play," members of the
Order of Antelope from this sec
tion of the state and points north
left here promptly at 9 o'clock
Friday morning for Hart Moun
tain wild life reservation. Under
the leadership of Hcrdmaster J.
Ed Turnbull the group will head
over the McKenzie Pass to Bend,
and on to Burns, where other
"herds" will also congregate.
. From Burns- the party will get
an early start Saturday for the
SEE ANTELOPE STORY
SEE PAGE 2
3,000 Unemployed
In Lane County Area
The percentage of unemploy
ment in Lane county is slightly
lower than the national average,
A. Ray Martin, district manager
of the Oregon state employment
service, told chamber of com
merce members at their luncheon
Friday noon. Out of a total popu
lation of about 65,000 in the
county, approximately 3000 are
now unemployed.
The local office has on file
about 25,000 cards, filed in the
last four or five years by those
seeking employment. An average
of 2000 persons call at the office
SEE 3,000 STORY
PAGK 2
Divers Again Digging
About Hull Of Squalus
PORTSMOUTH, N. H July 21
(U.fii Navy salvage workers ex
pected to complete Inspection of
the port side of the sunken sub
marine Squalus late today,
Divers who inspected the star
board bow yesterday reported It
apparently was undamaged whr
the submarine plunged back to
the ocean bottom with Its 26 dead
during lifting operations last
week.
McGurk Pierces Splendor
Of Washington, D. C After
'Nicer' Observations
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"T'orln.v be chntiers nbmii "Washington. D. C. So What?" The opinions arti
observations are solely Mr. McGurW's).
Defense Wishes
Dean To Define
Character
Dietrich Maintains
Australian Defendant
Had Red Publication
Xlean Polities'
Bill Favored
Hatch Measure Needs
Concurrence, Signature
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, July 21
(AP) The senate ap
proved today minor house
changes in the Hatch bill
prohibiting political activi
ties by government em
ployes and sent the meas
ure to the White House.
By AJAX McGURK
There are about 500,000 inhabitants in that fabulous city
which we know as Washington, D. C, and of these, at least
250,000 are IMPORTANT, that is to say, OFFICIAL, and
don't ever forget it! The rest are family appendages, serv
ants, trades people, newspaper slaves, lobbyists, and cx-IM-PORTANTS.
The actual population, Import
ant and unimportant, may be
much greater. Because a great
many who hold Jobs (or do actual
work) in Washington escape lo
the Maryland or Virginia hills at
night and thereby retain status as
citizens of the United States,
There Is a small SOCIAL ARIS
TOCRACY In Washington which
usually escapes notice. This con
sists of a very limited number of
QLD FAMILIES people whose
ancestors came there before Ulys
ses Grant (or earlier), saw possi
bilities in real estate, or something
and have been "above pollllx"
ever since.
There are a few wealthy ex
patriates from various parts of the
United States who maintain man
sions in the Embassy Section which
they condescend to open when the
SEASON Is at its height.
In the Swamp
It must have been premonition
which caused the Founders to es
tablish the permanent home of
government on a RESERVATION
and in the Potomac swamps at
that.
It would ho a swell idea if all
the people of the United States
(who pay the bills) could see
Washington because it becomes
more and more evident that Im
portant Washington can't see the
United States.
There was a man who took his
boy lo Philadelphia to see old
Independence Hall and that little
brick building along side of it
where the first congress did part
of Its work. The boy said:
"Well, Dad, It was nice, but
there wasn't much to II."
"Well," said the Old Man, "that
was the plot. In Philadelphia, you
saw what government in the U.
S. started out to be; in Washing
ton you'll sec what it has be
come." Oceans of muddy water have
rolled down the Potomac since
Tom Jefferson rode In from the
hills for his Inaugural and tied
his horse to a post out front. But
it isn't so long since those halcyon
days of the First Roosevelt and
Bill Taft when Washington was
still a Somnolent v I lingo. Your
might chance to sec the president
WASHINGTON, July 21. (U.R)
The senate received the Hatch
"clean politics" bill for concur
rence in minor house changes to
day and prepared to send it to
President Roosevelt for his sig
nature or veto.
Mr. Roosevelt's position on the
bill is not known. It is designed
to separate politics from relief and
prohibits all federal government
employes except the president, the
vice president, cabinet officers,
and other policy making officials
from all political activity, includ
ing participation in presidential
nominating conventions. It could
cripple a national political machine.
BULLETIN!
The hottest day of 1039
sweltered Kugenrans Friday
' when the temperature climb
ed to 90.2 degrees. A clear
sky and a merciless sun com
bined to give the city Its first
real summer day.
The record was not very
outstanding, however, as on
May 14 the temperature hit
A0.1 decrees during that early
hot spell. The official air
port bureau records Indicat
ed the mercury went over
the top at 2:30 p, m.
LUMBER "LP"
PORTLAND, Ore., July 21
(pi Reports from 113 mills show
ed last week's new business cf
79.728,000 board feet of lumber
was 81 per cent more than the
previous week, the western pine
association said today. The earlier
survey Included the July 4 shutdown.
SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 21
(AP) The Harry Bridges
defense today requested a
subpoena for Wayne L.
Morse, dean of the Universi
ty of Oregon law school and
arbitrator of the Pacific coast
longshore contract, to testifv
as a character witness for the
Australian-born labor leader
in his deportation hearing on
Angel island.
The application, stoned bv Carol
King, chief of defense counsel,
id Morse's tcstimonv would
"show Harry Bridges is a man
whose inteffritv and character arm
such that he is to be believed when
testifying under oath."
Bridges has repeatedly denied
that he is or every has been a
member of the communist party.
rue request came as the day s
first witness took the stand for the
government. He was Eugene
Dietrich, international organizer
for the AFL International Long
shoremen's association, who quot
ed Bridges' wife as once telling
him "I've got his (Bridge's) com
munist book.", ,,.,.. . ... ... .
The hearing grew out of con
tentions Bridges was a member of
the communist party and the party
advocated violent overthrow of tho
government.
"Satisfied"
Asked by Thomas Shoemaker,
chief government counsel, whether
Dietrich "believes" Bridges was a
communist, Dietrich said:
"I'm perfectly satisfied he is."
Dietrich also testified that prior
to tho 1934 waterfront tie-up,
Bridges tried to persuade water
front workers to affiliate with the
Marine Workers' Industrial union,
SEE MORSE STORY
' PAGE 5
Engineer Inspects
Work On Lane Dams
Major C. R. Moore, head of the
Portland district, U. S. army en
gineers was in Eugene Thursday
to look over the new Willamette
basin project headquarters. He
also inspected the work , on the
three dam sites.
Also present for the tour of in
spection were Lt. F. S. Bcsson
and Mr. Steele, from the office
of the chief of engineers in Wash
ington, it was reported by Lt. E
G. Herb, head of the Eugene area
headquarters.
Work is going ahead on sche
dule, the engineer! report. Re
modeling of the old postofficc h
continuing. Friday morning the
building blossomed out with a
new sign which designated it of
ficially as the home of the U. S.
Army engineers, "Portland dis
trict, Eugene Area."
Final Inspection Due
For New Postoffice
The new Eugene postoffice has
only one more final inspection
to pass before It is completely
approved, It was reported Fri
day by Walnnnrd Diippa, con
struction engineer in charge of the
project.
Earlier this week Mechanical
Engineer R. C. Shepard from the
eighth district headquarters in
San Francisco looked over the
building and found it satisfactory.
William A. Newman, district en
gineer from San Francisco is
scheduled to look the building
over Saturday for the final inspection.
SEE McGURK STORY
SEE PAGE 2
BANDON SIGNED
BANDON, July 21 (Pi Bandon,
a city made famous and almost
destroyed by fire In 1936, got
another taste of flames yester
day when an ice cream sandwich
shop and an adjoining residence
of H. F. Mersingor and A. L. Lea
man burned. Owners estimated
the lota at $4000.
fleet Week Begins
In Portland Harbor
PORTLAND, July 21 fP) Al.
though the Portland fleet week
assignments were reduced this
year because of naval activity
elsewhere, about 4,500 officer!
and men will arrive tomorrow.
Vessels sent here for the an
nual event Include the light
cruisers Honolulu and Philadcl
phla and the cruisers Brooklyn,
Phoenix and Nashville.