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Page Two. 2,000 Pit Selves Against Fires t. i. Montana, Idaho Blazes Running Uncontrolled . SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 12 " (U.R) Two thousand CCC enrol- i lees and volunteers matched . themselves tonight against three " dangerous forest fires menacing towns and rich timber in north ern Idaho and eastern Washing' ". ton. The -worst blaze cut a swath through the Idaho panhandle's holiday playground and headed toward the village of Athol after leaving damage estimated at $1,. 000.000 at Spirit lake, region V which got Its name decades ago from an Indian legend. The fire - sprawled over 30,000 acres, T" 4.... . The other two fires were In Washington, one 20 miles south east of Spokane along the shore of Liberty lake, a summer resort. Northwestward, toward the Can adian border, an eight-mile-lcrng blaze burned on the Nespclem Indian reservation near the Col ville national forest. Lieut Joseph Delaney, CCC fire line inspector, reported to Spokane CCC headquarters by radio that the Spirit lake can flagration was "crowning" so rapidly he had pulled crews from In front of the .blaze to ave them from being corraled and burned to death by the flames. "We won't be able to stop the fire's progress until a strong wind either reverses or dies down," Lieut. Delaney messaged. Two CCC youths, Murray Rey nolds and Jesse Mead, were caught for a time in a canyon when the flames leaped over the firs lines. Parts of their clothes were burned before they gained a safe position. At least two cottages on the southeastern shore of Liberty lake were destroyed by a fire that swept down a slope of Mica peak Into the Dreamwood bay summer resort. Earlier two farm houses reportedly were burned down. Numerous others and two fur farms were threatened. Williams' Friends 'Join At Star-Gazing (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) pod, Mr. Williams at once be gan to look for a substantial mounting. He obtained permis sion to use a vacant lot at the corner of University and Twenty- second streets as the site for his "open air" observatory. There in a base of concrete he set an iron post which extends about five feet above the wooden floor built around It. When not In use, the telescope Is kept in Mr. Wil liams' house across the street from the observatory. It Is easily mounted on the Iron post and I pointed to any part of the sky I when observations are in order. A bright street light not far I from the Williams' observatory j caused some disturbance at first. J But the city light department J very kindly "blacked out" one I aide of the globe so that no longer la there any disturbance from this i source. I Last month when Mars was at j Its nearest approach to the earth J in IS years, Mr. Williams decided I to hold a sort of "dedicatory j party," so invited the public to j view the fiery planet. Accordtng i ly, he ran a short note In the j Register-Guard to the effect that j every one was welcome on the 1 evenings of July 27, 28, 20 and j SO. How many to provide for the first night was a troublesome problem. Mr. Williams went to J the Elks club to borrow a bunch of chairs for the occasion, but was advised that he was likely 2 too enthusiastic and would prob er ably have present not more than half a doren men and their 2 wives, so took with him eight r chairs. These "eight chairs" are novt " famous pieces of furniture. By it tha time the telescope was pnlnt 1 ed skyward. 100 people were waiting In line. That was only the beginning. When at 2 a. m. Mr. Williams was finnlly five to - take his telescope home, he de al elded that his SO0 or 400 guests had rather overdone the seating J facilities. The next three nights were repetitions of the first. People came from Euecne and surround. lng towns. Many Inter reported that the long waiting line hd so ., discouraged them tint thev hsd left without getting ner the tele J scope. - After four strenuous nights as t an astronomer, the genial baker J felt the need of returning to his Usual occupation, and derided to "catch up" with his sleep. On J the fifth nlKht he retired earlv a But he had gainer) too much it popularity the few rrecedmg J nights. Several times ha had to p climb out of bed and answer the J dftr bell and the querv, "Are 2 you showing Mais tonight'" SAVED BY rARAriir-rm LANGLEY HELP. Va., Aug. 12 - (U.PJ Two army fliers pararhut- ed to safety today when their speedy pursuit plana crashed about 25 miles northeast of here. jOnly 59c per day (Just reduced from IBc) for a modern home of I W own' How much rent do you pay each day? Build now. Pee us I b, .P,rt'eulr. One Stop Home Su' Jn e Service. Tw,n Oaks '' I ' J I I 'hi Sv.ltnJ"' Wi RA O. STEWART, above, left, moni the Shrlners who are preparing for the annual picnic Aug ust 27 at Swimmers' Delight. Mr. Stewart Is raiah of Al Kader Shrine temple, and Mr. Chlaramonte Is general chairman for the picnic. Dies Committee Will Expose Reds BY JOHN R. BEAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (UP) Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, R., N. J., predicted tonight that new evidence un covered by the Dies committee investigation of un-American activities would "kill the communist party in the United States." Thomas declined to amplify his statement but another member of the committee declared that Dies investigators had evidence of a purported financial link between Soviet Russia and communist activities In the United States. The committee will meet Wed nesday to prepare plans for new hearings which are expected to resume shortly and continue in definitely through the autumn. "We'll disclose the real big shots of the communist party," Thomas said. Another committee member said that the Dies agents had "much more startling information this year than last year because it had more money and investigators with which to pursue Its Inquiry." The committee members snid Dies agents on the Pacific coast had uncovered "a wealth of ma terial" on communist activities, some of which had been turned over to the labor department and some to the Justice department. Other material has been found bearing on an "Important" Nazi spy case. Original plans of the committee for homings called for a 3-riay session in Washington Nazi and Fascist activities, followed by hearings on the west coast, and in Chicago and Pittsburgh and pos sibly other cities. It was planned to run almost continuously until Christmas. It was uncertain tonight wheth er these plans would be followed through without change. Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., Is aboard a liner en route from Galveston to New York. He is scheduled to ar rive here Tuosday. Before leaving Texas he said he would hold an executive session of the commit tee on his arrival to determine the future course of the inquiry. In addition to Dies and Thomas, Reps. Joe Starncs, D., Ala., John J. Dcmpsey. D., N. M., and Noah Mason, 11., Ill, are expected to be on hand. Rep. Jerry Voorhis, D., Calif., was not expected until af ter the hearings start. There Is one vacancy on the committee still to be filled by Speaker William B. Bankhead. It was created by the resignation of Rep. Arthur D. Healy, D.. Muss. The Dies committee, which had Its authority renewed early this year with a grant of $100,00 of ad ditionnl funds and a time limit of one year on Its Inquiry, held only series of hearings during the ses sion. This was an Investigation of an antisemitic propaganda campaign during which the committee in quired Into the activities of Mnj. Gcn. George van Horn Moseley, retired. Since the close of those hear ings, a slaff of investigators under Hhe.i Whitley, former G-man. has continued at work preparing for further disclosures. The commit tee has established branch offices In San F'rannseo and Los Angeles. DIES OF INJI'RY PORTLAND, Aug. 12. JR ' Alien Fox, 18, Oswego, died today of I nHii.es suffered when a car overturned yesterday. His death brought Portland's traffic death i toll to 32 since January 1. ! DIES IX PORTLAND PORTLAND. Aug. 12 u. rh.ilip KfMmsn, 75, retired soap manufacturer, did here todav. High Blood Pressure to you know these condi tions are now being success fully treated bv the modern nifth.Kls of Chiropractic and Physiotherapy. It mav oav you to investigate this meth od. Dr. Geo. A. Simon Chiropractic l'hrtlrlan 31 C. 10th Ave. Phone SSJS and Joe Chlaramonte, right, are Morse Tells Decision On Labor Dispute (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Joint Checker committee in ac cordance with the arbitration pro cedure provided. 2. "The union violated the ex press terms of the agreement when it stretched a picket line in front of the dock of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. prior to arbitrating its dispute with the employers. 3. "If any of the employer members of the Dock Checkers Employers association see fit to Increase the number of monthly checkers between now and Sep tember 30, 1939, they are clearly entitled to do so" without any in terference on the part of the union because of the previous agreement. 4. "When the lists of regular registered checkers and of joint ly approved permit checkers are exhausted, the dispatcher has no right to dispatch unapproved men to work for the employers until he at least obtains the con sent and acceptance of the em ployers. 5. "The dispatching rules bind ing upon the parties, subject to modification in accordance with any amendments which the union can establish at a future meet ing of the Joint Checker com mittee have been adopted by the parties." Dean Morse announced he could not decide with finality on this issue because evidence has shown that union represen tatives were to be given addition altime to submit evidence to the employers relative to the status of dispatching rules as the union viewed them. Oregon's Three Major Forest Fires Slowed TORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 12 (U.R! Oregon's three major forest fires smouldered within their three-day old boundaries tonight as booming humidity and cool temperatures prevented new outbreaks. Forest officials snid all blazes were surrounded, and that, barring new weather complications, they would be under complete control by the fust of the week. Approximately 100.000 acres was burned over by the Saddle mountain. Wolf creek and Dutch canyon conflagrations. Across the Columbia river In Washington, a 1,100 man crew re portedly had corralled the Colum bia national forest fire, which con sumed about 6.000 acres. A IN'.H RED FROM TORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 12 OJ.RV Miss Frances Rolfe, 18 in-i m w.im wms irmay near Denver. Is a student at Franklin I """ " U""K.'U" Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Rolfe. She ; suffered a serious spinal fracture. NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY Fllf?n, fin 839 High St THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON Holland Sees Security InSea Dikes May Be Broken If Invaders Arrive AMSTERDAM. Aug. 12. W) If the Netherlands should be in vaded, her citizens may resort to a daring collaboration with their old enemy, the sea, in an attempt to hold off the new foe. Military experts say that care fully worked out plans for Hood ing a vital area of this tiny coun try by opening the dikes and di verting the canals lie ready in the generals' offices. The unique part of the "water line defense plan" as it is called is that the Netherlands would be fighting not on the dry but on the wet side of the line. They would stay on in the in undated area with intercommuni cation assured, they believe, by certain central roads possessing elevation enough to remain above the water level. The Netherlands hopes, of course, that she can remain neu tral as she did in the World war and she is following a cautious diplomatic policy. She is very careful especially not to say or do anything which might give offense to her mighty German neighbor. Get a Netherlander talking In private, however, and he will tell you how much he fears the possi bility of a German invasion if Germany and Great Britain should go to war. The Netherlands' coast, he points out, would be ideal for air plane and submarine bases against the British. That is why the defense mech anism is geared for a thrust from the east. The flooded section west of this would include the four principal cities ' of the nation Utrecht, The Hague, and the ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The Netherlands' worries do not stop in Europe but go on to the far east, where the safety of her empire is a constant concern. Japan's invasion of China and steady advance southward toward Java and the other East Indies is lands cause anxiety here. Washington Governor May Halt Strikers SEATTLE, Aug. 12 () Gov. Clarence D. Martin threatened to night to use emergency powers to establish state operation of Puget Sound ferries, strike-bound for 12 days. "Service must be resumed soon or the state will be compelled to take steps to give the public the service to which it is entitled," the governor said in an interview. Answering a question as to whether his statement meant he would establish state operation, he said: "We may have to. The public in terest must be preserved." The governor did not elaborate upon the plan or set any definite deadline for settlement of the deadlock, which has disrupted ser vice between Seattle and Bremer ton, to Vashon and Bainbridge Is lands and on various other ferry routes affecting the Olympic pen insula. Eddie Cantor Acts In Labor Dispute NEW YORK. Aug. 12 W Eddie Cantor, president of the American guild of variety artists, demanded today that the Ameri can federation of labor settle an actors' union Jurisdictional quar rel by ousting Ralph Whitehead, executive secretary of the embat tled American federation of act ors. In a telegram to William Green. AFL president. Cantor said Whitehead was attempting to "hide behind the skirts" of Sophie Tucker, buxom president of the AFA. The current dispute arose when the associated actors and artists of America, parent AFL union of actor groups, accused the AFA of mismanagement, revoked its char ter, and chartered the new guild of variety artists in its stead. The AFA. which claims 10.000 members among night clubs and vaudeville performers, then join ed ina international alliance of theatrical stage employes (the state-hands' union, also an AFL affiliate. The 4-A then protested ' ,nf AtL" caning for cancell; tion of the stagehands--F ma rtage. Keep Looking Your Best It Pays . . . Summer warmth need nM rob you of distinctive garment fiesh ness, if you send your garments to us regularly to be cleaned. You'll appreciate tha lasting ap pearance and painstaking car they receive. T . .-, J-.. : ' T.lophon. 825 826 Cavemen May Build Peak Higher GRANTS PASS, Aug. 12 MV The Oregon Cavemen of Grants Pass awaited an answer today from the Tacoma chamber of commerce to their offer to add approximately 50 feet to. Mt Rainier. The Cavemen telegraphed the chamber of commerce they would stretch the mountain six men's shadows higher for 10 dinosaur eggs. They explained the cave men of old dug the Oregon caves and Crater lake, piling rocks on Mt. Shasta. "We will dig cave side of Rain ier, push top up from under neath," Chief Bighorn W. W. Llghtner telegraphed. Glenwood Situation Still In Muddle (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) tion would face another postpone ment In Seattle City Attorney Calkins was in Seattle Saturday on business and could not be contacted. It was be lieved that he would return in time for the meeting but no defin ite word was available. The Glenwood annexation ques tion has been debated at length by the council during the past several meetings. It came as an aftermath of the proposed Springfield Eugene merger when a group of Glenwood citizens presented a petition requesting that they be joined to Eugene. Presentation of a petition from an anti-annexation group prevent ed action at the July 10 meeting of the council. The decks were be lieved cleared at the last meeting, July 24, when those in favor of joining to the city brought in a re port indicating that there was a clear majority in the area under consideration in favor of the move. Agreement Informal At that time the council inform ally agreed to make a definite de cision on the question at the next meeting. The city fathers have in dicated that they might be favor able toward annexation if the peo ple in the territory definitely de sire to be added to Eugene. They have been wary of calling an elec tion and having the measure de feated at the polls. Mayor Large has been in favor of the move since the initial dis cussion. Other city officials, who would be faced with the problems likely to result from joining the area to the city, are more cautious in their opinions. None have made any study or are able to indicate what their departments could do In case of annexation. If the council was to decide definitely upon the question Mon day night, only one alternative, would be open, that of defeating the measure, since adoption would be impossible with the ordinance in its present condition. Kehrll Makes Study The problem has been studied extensively by Herman S. Kehrli of the University bureau of muni cipal research. Mr. Kehrli main tains that the question is actually one involving not only Eugene and Glenwood, but Springfield as well. He points out that the three com prise an economic unit, and that combination would provide for a more unified, economical govern ment. Statistically, in a report sub mitted to the city council July 24, he shows that the annexation would increase the Glenwood tax rate 19 6 mills, which would mean a tax increase of $10 on property of $500 assessed valuation. Coun terbalancing this increase he sees the possibility of a decrease in the Glenwood school tax, and a de cided saving in power price. However, the city council has not indicated that a school district merger would accompany the an nexation, this phase of the ques tion having not been discussed. J. W. McArthur. water board super intendent, has prepared no definite information on possibilities of re duced power costs, but admitted that if the area was brought into the city the municipal plant would! probably serve it. Mr. Kehrli's! rate comparisons indicate that the! change would mean between 40 i and 50 per cent lower electricity! costs. I The report also points out that Jftm&lVetpCiim VcsJon Lunsn 1 u -mmr are a common cause of "nerv e leaks" or loss of nervous vitality. Many conditions such as insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, list lossness, melancholy, inexplalnible fatigue, poor concentration, poor memory, headaches and other discomforts are due to poor or inefficient vision or imbalanced occular motor muscles. A thorough eye analysis Free and no fancy prices. In Eugene since 1915. Jealous Man Runs Berserk Two Are Injured Before Killing Self SMITHTOWN BRANCH, N. Y., Aug. 12 OP) The ex-husband of a Broadway showgirl invaded a fashionable north shore Long Island house today and in a jeal ous rage critically wounded a so cially prominent young divorcee, shot a state trooper and then committed suicide. Principals in the tragedy which followed a quiet house party were Mrs.' Elizabeth Greve Caldwell Carolin, 31, mother of two child ren and daughter of William Marcus Greve, former New York financier; and Lawrence Spregue, 30, stepson of Dr. Shirley E. 6prague, prominent New York City physician. For half an hour, after chaf ing Mrs. Carolin into a bedroom in the home of Mrs. Madelyw Waterman Higgins, Sp r a g u e threatened death while Mrs. Ca rolin waited in terror and Mrs. Higgins. having called the police, vainly tried to save her guest from harm. Mrs. Higgins is the fountain pen fortune heiress and estranged wife of a member of the Higgins ink family. When two trooDers. John Busch and S. J. Bugala. arrived and entered the room, Sprague opaxd fire with a .25 caliber automatic pistol, hitting Busch in the left arm. Then Sprague fired three shots at Mrs. Carolin, wounding her in the abdomen. Breaking free from the troopers who had seized him, Sprague then shot himself through the heart. Mrs. Carolin, whose first hus band, T. Grant Caldwell, bus and milk company executive, valued her affections at $250 000 in an alienation of affections suit brought last year against her sec ond husband, Capt. Edward M. M. Carolin, a British subject, was taken to the southside hospital Bayshore. "We said,- 'either we make up or I'll kill you'," she told State Police Lieutenant Charles La Forge, describing the scene with Sprague in the bedroom. "I told him we just couldn't make up. He said I know you ve called the police. If anyone en ters the door, I'm going to kill you and get him and then shoot myself. Regular Training Due For Students In Education An "interneship" in the field of education, with intensive training in actual schools that offer prob lems of teaching and administra tion, will be given fifth-year stu dents in the University of Oregon school of education, starting in September, it was announced here today by Dr. J. R. Jewell, dean. Under the new plan, supervised teacher students will do a half day of work daily at University high school. This half-day will not be divided, and the prospective teach ers will get to follow through daily problems just as a regular teach er. Dean Jewell said. Twelve term hours will be completed in this manner. Dr. F. C. Macomber, professor of education, will give "practically full time" to devolping teacher training problems. Dr. Jewell said. the Glenwood community would benefit by reduced insurance rates with added fire protection. It also counters charges that annexation would increase valuation and taxes in the ara with statements from the county assessor, Welby Stev ens, who points out that assess menU are based upon actual val ue, which cannot be changed per ceptibly through the mere exten sion of city boundary lines. The area under consideration comprises between a half and two thirds of a section, bounded by the river on the north and west, Eu gene city limits on the east and an irregular line on the south, be tween one-half and one-quarter miles from the north boundary. Back Number Magazines MAGAZINE EXCHANGE 1163 Willamette Novelties, Notions, Toys Eye Strain and Defects Tropical Hurricane Roars Off Florida NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 12. (U.R) A tropical storm roared toward the Gulf coast near Apalachicola, na, late today. The storm, which originated east of the Bahama islands earlier this week, was centered near and mov ing in a northwest or west-north west direction toward the Florida town. The federal hurricane warning system predicted strong northerly winds ranging up as high as gale force as far west as Fort Walton, Fla. Strong gales were expected between Apalachicola and St. Marks the rest of today and early nigni. . Storm warnings were ordered displayed between St Marks and Mobile, Ala. Axis Powers Still In Complete Accord (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) went to Nuremberg from Danzig Friday night to address a Nazi political rally there. Interpreter Present During the conference here Hitler was attended by his of ficial interpreter, Dr. Paul Sclv midt, who sat in on the Munich four-power conference last Sept ember as well as Hitler's historic Godesburg and Berchtesgaden talks with British Prime Minis ter Neville. Chamberlain. While Hitler and the foreign ministers talked one of der Fueh rer's adjutants took members of the Ribbentrop and Ciano en tourages to tea at a nearby villa. Italian comment on the talks said the revision of the free city's present status would be carried out "with reason and generosity." ' These statements appeared to indicate that the fuehrer had agreed with Ciano that the Dan zig issue is not a cause for war, but that Germany must regain her war-lost city on the Baltic. Foreign diplomats interpreted Ciano's talk with von Ribbentrop at Salzburg Fi-fday and his visit to Hitler today as conveying Premier Benito Mussolini's desire for Nazi caution in handling the Danzig dispute, lest Italy be drawn into war. HOP ENDED SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 12 (U.R) Twenty-seven navy patrol bombing planes, under the com mand of Capt. Charles P. Mason, landed safely at 3:20 p. m. today, completing a 1200-mile non-stop flight from Sand Point naval air station, Seattle, without a mis hap. I IT T 1 1 " :.t II Johnson Furniture Co. wilt,. aa W l-mott- " r- Au;b Alfrprl TIJ Alfred UnJ(C UnivVrTityT August 20froa;,3J batical leave 5,??. Hawaii IW.1 nounced JU5 Jt Professor of Wine'J ion during absence, will ror01 13 5fr of the schc' Dudley is now oi r 1 trip of eastern contacting foreiSil chambers of commeS!1 special probwTw.J'N ministration. i "mng the 1938-40 &M I Professor Lomax JiiSM third of his tim. Phy department, Dr. Marsh Gas OvercJ 2 Ynnfli I. tn ,i A uii m vreii tempted unsuccessfully fcj the other. Hl.rf ,J B !N Fr'iM'l whee in .'.""J'Sl ence InenM . Mrs. Ingold said the bet J a concrete slab and ",lu " cistern. When he fMt t few minutes Mr. t ,1TTA ' ,uiim old son summoned Rufuj jjj "' '"i jumped uu;tt.rj ,W wda overcome. Rnrmr rv n..r PORTTANn n r"' (U.R) An argument oetwteJ er and enn 1. !-, .v I cide of George Carlson, 8. 3 aiiui, iiimseu iwice UUO'i I left side near the heart n( J ona Duuet wounded hu uic ndna. TO SAV FIMVrterA ... . m.i,uiv Mr. and Mrs. C. K. DeXeS leaving Eugene Sunday fx t T .nc ln.alu 1 their daughter in San FrccK. 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