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feather: Fair Sunday Edition LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. THREE SECTIONS 22 PAGES t3u 95 EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1939 ON STREETS Sc; NEWS STANDS So NO. 44 iuslaw Route II Be Studied VingWeek ;wte Commission rtH Seek Reduction Grades, Curves is s sVtinvestiate f on be done to reduce 'fdesand curves on the Si hilMvay, the state high fwnUion and local of Si bodies will inspect that M next Wednesday and "r-ursday- . m highway commission, head- t i, Henry Cabell, chairman; of the Eugene chamber iaamerce highway committee, I Lane county court members, It the representatives of the .iera Lane organizations will ti up the official party, tte group will assemble at Flor in Wednesday evening for a iar meeting at the Florence c!e at 6:30 o'clock. While in that Kton, the commission also will xl over the city road system at bit end of the highway. Luncheon at Lake Thursday morning will be spent . jtspecting the Siuslaw highway, "-d at noon the group will meet t Triangle lake for luncheon as a k-at meeting with the Junction ;j chamber of commerce. The study of the Siuslaw route ! being made following requests -m the western part of the coun . !r a better highway, especially : the summit region east of Eihly and Triangle lake. The .-.erase in traffic for logging rales operating in connection with it lumbering industry of that Kion has made the steep grades cd numerous curves a real prob a. At the last session of the state Ljhway commission, the Lane waory court and Eugene chamber cf remmerce delegations reDorted Ethe group they were supporting e reouest of western Lane for a prelect to improve the Siuslaw ttipwiy, I The entire route from Swiss ktae to Junction City will be in Presidential Possibilities No. 10: Bruce Barton Bruce Barton: knows how to pick an Issue and dramatize it. Eugene's Fire Loss iKepf At Minimum frr 1a In U. -t Ewi.cn iu 9i,ioy nonars in tne th of July with all but $20 .v... UiT ni3Uidjice, u was re- f. , . i ... -- f" aaiuraay Dy w. t. JVus iiiim, fire chief. Mt of the damage was done uaungs, wnere 51,170 pra of property was burned, fr S289 destruction was done f w office buildings and other iz .r uciion5 wnicn ".ciicu oy lire. We city fireboys answered 34 JU during the month and pro- (M rPrkfrty valued at S172-- -B"in ui me calJS were Pass fires. j loss increased consider- , . "'umu oi june only S58 damage ws done ESTiES4 and On h.;. t , report indicates, hois ed 120 feet of lad- ' 'ater and used --t2 P5'nt 13 hours 32 ",,l,e major Sism y the 'lre n the Wtw7.t, ram,,-v house. -7 IMS a"S W(,re made in ews AST vn M0T"ER? - boir,Troe said ,odav hat Sin chickisd- Weather N 'n rl temperature --! rncM y Eugene Kau hWt?. than 30 degrees Ra Tv. raKimum and mini. OM, ';artcd b"t "VwT:?ly Warm during th. ...Vi f a' ' P- m. the tem UGov r0od at 72 Agrees. rt: '"'n. and fog c.j' ,;a' fooler in C,,ry; s nt;e northwest SltAC RECORD: ?. - -luraay, .v. - 6- S degrees; wind, nt ..... .f it itjf'te river in D. m ' By BRUCE CATTON (Register-Guard Washington Correspondent) Strictly a dark horse for the Republican nomination, but a rather promising one, all things considered, is Congressman Bruce Barton of New York. Ordinarily no congressman who has not yet got half way through his second term would be considered for the presidency. But Con gressman Barton is a bit different. For one thing, he was widely known all across the country before he entered public life. His books, including the famous "Man Nobody Knows," were best sellers: long before he got into Congress, Mr, Bar ton's name was familiar to thousands of people who couldn't have named four congressmen to save their lives. His newspaper and mag azine writings, of course, helped to spread his fame. For another thing;, Mr. Barton Is an effective congressman and is possessed of a great deal of ability. As one of the coun try's leading advertising men, in addition, he knows how to select an issue and dramatize It so as to appeal to the masses. The son of a widely known clerjiyman, Mr. Barton is a midwest erner by background and a New Yorker by choice. He is affable, popular with his colleagues, and given to rather puckish jibing at the New Deal's foibles. He attracted a bit of attention earlier this year by announcing a campaign to get at least one useless law repealed each week. Glenwood Merger Question Again Bobs Before Council Further Delay Thought Due BY PAUL DEUTSCHMANN In spite of an agreement to settle the question of the Glenwood annexation at the regular Monday evening meet ing the Eugene city council appears faced with more delays over the question, which has been under discussion at the last three council meetings. American Fliers Missing Oyer Ocean FOYNES, Ireland, Sunday, Aug. 13 (U.PJ Two young "do or die" American fliers failed to appear over Ireland today and fears in creased that they were lost in the Atlantic. The fliers, Alex Loeb, 32, and Dick Decker, 23, took off in an antiquated Ryan monoplanne from St. Peters, Nova Scotia, Fri day for Ireland, and "possibly Palestine." They said they had "some swell information" about trans atlantic flying from their friend, Douglas Corrigan, the "wrong way" flier who left New York for California and landed in Ire land. They said they had enough fuel to last them 35 hours. The time limit passed at 2:14 a. m. and they were unreported. The plane they used was the same type used by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, and, like "the lone eagles." they followed the great circle route. Grants Pass Man Named By Legionnaires SALEM, Ore., Aug. 12 UI The Oregon department of the American Legion today elected N'iel Allen, Grants Pass attorney, as commander after hearing As sistant Secretary of War Johnson issue an appeal for staunch de fense of democracy against evil influences both at home and abroad. The auxiliary footed Mrs. Ly dia E. Horsvall of Marshfield as president. The convention did not select a site for next year's convention. An ordinance calling for the election, which was prepared over a month ago by City Attorney S. M. Calkins, is not yet in shape for consideration, it is believed. Mr. Calkins told the council at the time he presented the measure that it would be necessary to indicate polling places and eelction officials in the ordinance to make legal con sideration possible. As far as could be learned this matter had not been taken care of and the council was no farther along than at the last meeting. Fred Lamb, president of the coun cil, who will be in charge of the meeting Monday in the absence of Mayor Elisha Large, agreed that if the ordinance was not in shape for consideration the anexation ques- SEE GLENWOOD STORY PAGE Z President Roosevelt Sails In North Atlantic ABOARD DESTROYER LANG. Aug. 12. (UP.) President Roose velt sailed for a 10-day vacation cruise in Canadian waters today, apparently with state department assurances that the European situ ation was not immediately omin ous.. He was understood to have talk ed with state department officials in Washington by telephone short ly before motoring from his Hyde Park home to New York, where he boarded the cruiser Tuscaloosa for a sea-going rest in the north Atlantic. Hurricane In Eugene? Oh My Gorsh! Thinking she was calling the weather bureau, a Eugene lady was accidentally connected with a theater Saturday. "Could you tell me the weather forecast?" she asked the girl in the glass cage. " "Hurricane will start at 6:13" was the reply. - The cashier said the phone then "went dead." Disaster Set-Up Ready For Lane Emergency Will Find Relief Forthcoming The organization of a system for public protection and relief iri case of forest fires, floods, or any other major disaster has recently been completed by the Lane county chapter of the American Red Cross. Bruno Rath is general chairman of the Lane county disaster set-up. In the second division of the sys tem, under government organiza tions, the Siuslaw and Willam ette national forest officials have arranged for coordination in the event of forest fires or other ca tastrophes occuring within or near forest boundaries. The National Guard will be available in case of emergencies. Dr. Orville Waller is general chairman. Under him are Dr. D. C. Stanard, medical division: John B. Patterson, first aid; Mrs. Anne Leffingwell, nurses; and Harry Powell, housing and feeding. The Ski Patrol will work under Mr. Patterson. In the county organization, headed by C. A. Swartz. county sheriff, will be available such equipment as may be required, and the services of the coroner's office. The fire and police departments of the city are coordinated under Cal Bryan, city recorder, Karl Onthank Is in charge of housing for refugees. The R. O. T. C. units at the University are included in this division. Small boats are listed with Ar thur Hendershott and .will be manned by the Eugene Sea Scouts under Raymond E. Kerr. Jr. The Boy Scouts will be available for messenger and other services. Au tomobiles for transportation and other uses are listed with Mahlon Sweet. In the communications division are long wave radio facilities with KORE in charge, and short wave radios under Wallace Wintler. Joseph Harrell of the Eugene air port is in charge of air service. Registration of refugees will be handled by Mrs. Glen Lewis of the American Lgion auxiliary and Mrs. Frank Hassed of the V. F. W. auxiliary. The veterans' organiza tions, such as the American Le gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and the Spanish-American War Vet erans will work together through the office of C. S. Dillon in the Miner building. Parking Meier Bids Will Be Received Bids for parking meters will probably be formally received at the city council meeting Monday evening. It was reported by Fred Lamb, president of the council. Also on the schedule will be a report from the police committee, headed by Councilman Sam Bond, which has looked over the meters of five different companies during the past two weeks. The council voted at the July 24 meeting to try out 200 meters for a period not less than six months. Mr. Lamb indicated that no immediate decision need be ex pected since the council would re quire time to study the bids. Meanwhile, E. H. Peterson, realty board president, who has been conducting a one-man cam paign against the devices, had no report on the progress of his anti meter petitions. He promised, however, that they would be pre sented to the council Monday and has stated in the past that he ex pects in 300 signers against the meters. Infant With Heart On Exterior Thought Near Death CABINET OUT CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 12. OlfT The cabinet of Premier Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha resigned today. Mahmoud has been ill for some time. MANILA, P. I., Sunday, Aug. : '..rl beating outside the chest of baby Maria Corazon Rafeel fluttered dangerously today, and doctors feared the baby could not survive the sixth day of her life which has made medical history. The baby, born with her heart outside the chest cavity, contract ed bronchial pneumonia, and Dr. Guillermo Del Castillo said "only miiacla" could tav ber. Axis Partners Still In Accord On War Policy Danzig Issue Thought Not Worth Conflict, Is Wofd From Session BERCHTESGADEN, Ger many, Aug. 12. (UP) Ger many and Italy are in "100 per cent agreement" on a joint policy to be pursued in event of war, it was stated tonight as Fuehrer Adolf Hit ler conferred with the Italian and German foreign ministers here. Informed Nazi and Fascist quarters said it was agreed in the conference that the Danzig ques tion is "not worth war" and that both powers of the totalitarian military alliance will seek to avoid a conflict. Nevertheless, it was explained, the situation is such that Ger many and Italy are fully agreed on measures to be taken to meet any "provocations." An informed Italian source said that Danzig would be restored to the reich in the near future but that it was expected that this would come about by "natural gravitation without either Ger man or Italian initiative." Lunch on Veranda Hitler's mountain-top confer ence with Italian Foreign Minis ter Count Galeazzo Ciano and German Foreign Minister Joac him von Ribbentrop began at 2:30 p. m. (9:30 a. m., EDT) after luncheon on the veranda of the fuehrer's chalet. The talks were described as having entered their "most Im portant stage" late .In the after noon. It was said that Hitler was in excellent humor, laughing and chatting with his guests. It was reported Hitler's Nazi lieutenants In Danzig might ar rive in Berchtesgaden Sunday morning for a private meeting with Hitler, and perhaps to meet Ciano. The Danzig Nazi leaders, Albert Forster and Senate President Dr, Arthur K. Greiser, have confer red several times with the fueh rer in recent months. Forster SEE AXIS STORY PAGE 2 Two Drive-In Markets Will Be Constructed The contract for the erection of two large drlvein market build ings In Eugene has been let by the Safeway Stores, Inc., to Smith and Huffman, a local building firm, and work on both is expected to be started in a week or two. One building will be located on the old Hendricks residence prop erty at the corner of West Broad way and Charnelton street and the other at the southwest corner .of Willamette street and Thirteenth avenue. Early this summer the company leased the Hendricks property, covering a whole quarter block from the estate of the late T. G. Hendricks, pioneer Eugene bank er, and the large residence was moved off. Only a few weeks ago the company bought the property at Willamette and Thirteenth and will move the old wooden store buildings and several residences from the property. John L. Reynolds, architect of this city. Is drawing the plans for both market buildings. They will be modern in every particular, each will be SO by 120 feet in dimensions and of reinforced con crete construction. The contract figure on both buildings is in the vicinity of $34,000. Cragie May Talk Money With Japanese TOKYO, Aug, 13 (U.P.i Brit ish Ambassador 6ir Robert L. Cragie today was understood to have been informed by London that he has authority to "discuss" the question of Chinese national ist silver and currency in the Anglo-Japanese talks. Britain refuses, however, to link any Japanese demands for British support of Japanese cur rency in China with a settlement of the Tientsin dispute, it was said. . . British quarters said London would maintain this stand, even at the risk of collapse of the negotiations. Morse to Open Labor Hearing on Monday Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University of Oregon law school, said today he would open an arbi tration hearing on the dispute be tween the Masters, Mates and Pilots and the Columbia river boat operators Monday morning in Portland. The hearing will begin at 9:30 i. m. at Ui Benson hotel, Arbitrator Wayne Morse Rules Union, Employees Responsible For Closure tin ' 1 I ?vt ! 4TJ!' ! i hi "x."' t -1 - 6 I I LOCAL astronomy fans have been given an opportunity to do a bit of concentrated "star-gazing" with "Bai" Williams' telescope which he recently turned over to those wishing to see the planet Mars. He is pictured above with the Instrument. (Wiltshire engraving) 'Baz' Williams' Neighbors Join Him at Star Studies , BY J. HUGH PRUETT " : Astronomer, University of Oregon Study of the stars appeals to multitudes of people in vari ous occupations. Not the mathematical study this is left to professional astronomers but the purely pleasurable kind which is concerned chiefly with observations and the acquisi tion of interesting facts regarding the vast universe around us. Postotfice Dedication Billed For Monday Eugene's $250,000 postoffice, with the "brand new" shine worn off by five weeks of actual use, will be officially dedicated Mon day evening at 7:30 with bands, speeches and all the trimmings. Heading the list of visiting notables who will be on hand for the ceremony will be Am brose O'Connell, second assistant postmaster general, who has come from Washington, D. C, to give the dedicatory address. In the absence of Mayor Elisha Large, who is vacationing in the cast. Dr. A. T. Oberg, president of the chamber of commerce, will accept the building in behalf of the city. The program will open with a few remarks by Frank L. Armitage, postmaster. Lawrence T. Harris, local attorney, will follow with a history of post offices in Eugene. Also on the program will be the turning over of the old postoffice building to the Lane County Pioneer museum asso ciation. S. H. Morse, postoffiie inspector, will present the build ing. Cal Young, president of the association, will accept. The I.O.O.F. municipal band will play. Judge G. F. Skip worth has been in charge of the program arrangements. After the program has been completed the building wf!l be opened to the public for a tour of inspection, Mr. Armitage an nounced. We read the splendid astro nomical books of the late William Tyler Olrott, the Connecticut lawyer. We mnrvel nt the nu merous enmetary discoveries of Leslie Peltier, the young and world-famous auto mechanic of Ohio. We envy the expensive observatory of Wynne Conk, the Pennsylvania banker. We are proud of the nation-wide reputa tion In varliible-slar and orculta tlnn work gained by our fellow Oregonlnn, Robert E. Millard, the Portland musician. But we do not have to leave Eugene to find a man who Is very busy and successful at a purely nnn-aslronomirnl occupation, yet who is a rabid star fan. This Is none other than Basil T. Wil liams, formerly freshman football coach at the University and now proprietor of a bakery. For a long time Mr. Williams popularly known as "Buz" has been deeply Interested In star study. With the aid of sky charts, he became familiar with the lo cations and names of the prin cipal constellations and stars. Last summer he derided to add optical aid to his equipment, so bought a pair of powerful Zeiss prism binoculars. These whetted his desire for better views. When In San Francisco last December he bought a Bausch & Lomb re fracting telescope of 4-inch aper ture and fiO-inch focal length. As the telescope Is quite heavy, and quite shaky when on a trl- KEE 'BAZ' WILLIAMS STORY PAGE 2 Second Person Dies After Train Wreck DENVER, Aug. 12. IIP) The toll of a train wreck inside the An nnnortuniiv f,rr ! Denver city limits today rose to Eugeneans to look over all of ! two tonight with the death In a the offices in the building, the j Denver hospital of Ray S. Scott, new improved facilities for the postal department, and other In teresting features of the struc ture will be provided. English Hop Pickers Warned to Take Masks To Fields With Them LONDON. Aug. 12. UP) The Kent county council today in structed 100.000 hop-pickers who will be hired for the Kentish hop harvest the first half of Septem ber, to bring along gas masks. The council explained that It is with out enough reserve masks for the pickers "in event of an emerg ency. Sfl, of Denver, passenger on Santa Fo railroad train involved in the collision. FOUL DEED? ALBANY, Ore., Aug. 12. (UP) Authorities tonight investigated the possibility of foul play in the critical injury of Bluchcr V. Law son, 27-year-old transient, who was struck by a passenger train in the Southern Pacific yards here. TROOPS MOVE CAIRO, Aug. 12. (UP) A force of 7,000 British colonial troops from India will land at Suez Mon day and go directly Into positions facing the Italian Libyan frontier wnere large-scale Italian troop movemenU have been reported. San Francisco Workers Placed On Monthly Pay Eugenean Issues Detailed Decision On Recent Port Tie-up BY WAYNE HARBERT Employment of the 10 clerks by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. m San Fran cisco, shall be, beginning Monday, August 14, on the monthly rather than a daily basis, Arbitrator Wayne L, Morse, dean of the Universitj of Oregon law school, lias de creed. Both the Dock Checkers Em ployers association and the Ship Clerks association violated the agreements by action taken by them in connection with the sev eral Issues involved in the dispute, It was decided by the arbitrator. The union violated the agree ment, he ruled, when it stretched the picket line prior to submitting the dispute to arbitration. Like wise, the union violated the agree ment when it refused on several occasions to arbitrate the various Issues over which the Joint Check er committee had become dead- locked. It violated the agreement when It Interfered by means of economic force with the employ ers' rights to hire monthly check ers in accordance with the pro visions of the agreement. Closure 10 Days The dispute, which resulted In the closure of the port of San Francisco from June 17 to Juno 27, 1030, arose when the steam ship company offered employment on a monthly basis to the 10 clerks who had formerly been working on a daily basis. The men accepted the monthly Jobs but were told by union offic ials to resign and seek reemploy ment on the dally basis. The clerks did resign, but the company re fused to rehire them on the form er basis. The company maintained it had the right to make the trans fer and if a clerk did not wish to accept such employment it could hire them from whatever labor supply it wished. The men wera told to go home and wait for de velopments. The union officials then ordered the formation of a picket line in front of the American-Hawaiian dock on Juno 14, learnln the em ployers planned to weaken the union by Increasing the number of monthly men. Both clerks and longshoremen then halted work and the 10 involved clerks joined the pickets. The port was closed by a lockout June 17 after the pickets did not withdraw as de manded by the dock checkers em ployers association. Agreement Cited The arbitrator's decision was drawn from a previous agreement between employers and employees which said, in part: "A daily checker who is offered and wishes td accept a position as monthly checker shall be free to do so." "Whatever the causes for the union suspicion may be, the con trolling fact In the premises is that tlie union was, nevertheless, bound by the terms of the contract which it signed," the report reads, "and by the terms of that contract It had granted to the employers and to the daily clerks, under the agreement, the legal right to em ploy daily checkers as monthly checkers, and the legal right on tho part of the daily checkers to ac cept such monthly Jobs without interference. , . . "Changed employment condi tions, allegations charging em ployer Interference with union policy, suspicions, animosities, and fears are not sufficient as shown by the record of this case to alter or destroy the specific legal rights granted to the employers and to the daily checkers," in the agree ment. "The men," the arbitrator has declared, "looked upon the ap pointment to a monthly status as a promotion and as a very desir able thing because of the relative economic security and certainty ot Income which accompanied the appointment." Other Decisions Made Other decisions issued by Dean Morse on the San Francisco dis pute are: 1. "It is the duly of both the union and the employers associa tion to arbitrate disputes upon which there is disagreement In the SEE MORSE STORY PAGE t -j j fU' '
