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THS RSGISTZR. GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON p; Mott Speaks Here Before Two Clubs (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) war," th conjressman laid, re eelvinf i big round ci applause lor Ms statement, Interest Hih Public Interest In neutrality In the recent special session" over shadowed the great amount of con tractive legislation put through a the last regular session, the inter est In the special session somewhat crowding out of their minds all that happened last year, the con gressman said. He then highlight' ed some of the major things ac complished during the regular ses sion. That session exceeded any in recent years for the amount of legislation and the quantity of good legislation, he said. One rea son for so much good legislation was the fact that congress was more evenly divided along party lines due to the fact the minority party the republicans gained so many members, the minority thus being tsomg enough to force care ful and thorough study of all is sues coming up. This situation likewise brought considerable con troversy, he said. Defeata of the spending-lending bill, and defeat of the move to change the loan power authority of the federal housing set-up were two important "negative" accom plishments listed by the speaker. On the "affirmative" side, Mr. Mott listed the Hatch bill, re stricting the political activities of federal office holders, as one of the major non-partisan pieces of legislation. Largest Navy The Increased appropriations for the navy and war departments also were mentioned. Through this move the navy will become the largest and most powerful one in the world. There is i feeling in congress that It is not one country but a combination of the totali tarian nations, seeking to exploit the western hemisphere, that will oppose the United States should this country ever have to go to war again, the speaker said. These countries know but one argument, "force," he said, adding, that if America is prepared it need not ear encroachment. While the army will not be the largest, it will be the most modem and the best equipped in the world, he commented. Success in the act to create an slrbase at Tongue Point and the appropriations secured for the Willamette river basin project were the two major things affect ing the first Oregon district listed by the speaker, although this dis trict benefitted In all phases of the important congressional legis lation, he said. A large crowd attended the luncheon. Earl S. Beeson intro dueed the speaker. Earl Hill of Cushman, Lane legislator; Mayor Usna Large of Eugene, and F. G SUckels, president of the Eugene member, were among the guests. Charles L. Sigloh, Lions president, presided. V s t Mi NP - .I I' v $ -i I Ti i.iiilir'"':'iii.ii M TEMPORARY CUSTODY of the Lincoln Cathedral copy of England's Magna Carta was committed to the library of coneress. Washington. D. C, for safe-keeping during the war. Above Archibald MacLeish (left), librarian of congress, acknowledges acceptance of the famed document from Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States. 'Gone With the Wind' Due For Premiere on Friday By HUBBARD KEAVY HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 13. ) Gone With the Wind" Is now ready for nil those who always intended to read the book, but never got around to it, as well as for the vast number of faithful readers who wondered how Hol lywood would treat it. Its i.osy pages nnauy navo been compressed into a motion picture, and it is no ordinary pic ture. The long-awaited film was press-previewed yesterday, as a prelude to Its worm premiere next Friday in Atlanta, Ga., its very locale and the home of Au thor Margaret Mitchell. No film which caused so much speculation about treatment and casting, before production, and which runs for three hours and 87 minutes, in its final form, be longs In the everyday clnssifica- on. For these reasons alone, it an out-of-the-ordlnnry event. The professional flnw-findcrs. The previewers left the theater seemingly agreed that Vivien Leigh, although English-trained and "unknown" in this country, was the logical choice for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. Sometimes she was restrained, but mostly she was the dashing, fiery Scar lett. (The character of Rhett But ler was tailored for Clark Gable, nearly everybody always said; the author must have had in mind somebody very much like him. He Is Rhett.) Other performances, specially those of Hattie McDaniel (Mam my) and Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), are all that can be ex pected. There are about 100 speaking roles. "Gone" is strikingly told In technicolor: photographic experts say they consider it the best color job to date. There are many spec tacular scenes, notably those of the burning nnd siege of Atlanta, of the plantation Tnra and of the wounded and dying at tne rau- on the whole, were enthusiastic, rond station after the siege. THE OTHER SIDE PARIS, Dec. 13. U.R German patrols, resuming intensive activ ity after heavy artillery bombnrd ments, left large numbers of dead in no-man's land, French military dispatches said today. Operations were conducted by large units which had been con centrated just east of the Moselle, in the Nied river valley, In the ravine country north of Bitche and In the sector between the Saar river and the Warndt forest FIRST PORTLAND, Dec. 13. P) When the present two-year pro gram la finished the United States' air corps will be second to none, Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, predicted yesterday. There are at least 4J.2 tons of dust in suspension over New York city. Germans Gloat Over Return Of Bremen BERLIN, Dec. 13 P While all Germany glonted today over the return nf the $20,000,000 liner Bremen her whereabouts re mained a military secret. An announcement bv the North German Lloyd line office at New York that the Bremen docked at Bremerhnven after her trip from Murmansk was believed to be part of a camouflage campaign to hide the ship's real whereabouts. Circumstantial evidence points to Kiel as the present shelter for the ship. An enemy raid nn Kiel is far less likely than on the more exposed Bremei'haven. Berlin newspapers hannerlined the Bremen's safe return as a "world sensation." The papers asserted the British were bewildered by the German navy's feat of bringing the $20, 000,000 ship through the blockade. The official German news agen cy, DNB, said the Bremen was watched all day yesterday by German aircraft which forced a British submarine that sighted the ship to submerge. DNB declared the British, In formed by the submarine, tried to find the Bremen again but by 3 CORONA Glvo a Typewriter For Christmas HURRY I We are selling' new Corona Fort able Typewriters for only complele with $29.75 Easy Terms If Desired An Ideal Gift I Business Machines Co; 787 Willamette Phone 3204 ir 1940 Desk Calendar Free fclAfcfcfcltMifcfcMittat! that time she was "protected by aircraft and the navy and had long reached harbor." It could not be learned whether the Bremen carried a cargo. The German high command re ported British airplanes hunting for the Bremen had been forced to turn back before reaching the German coast. Fairbanks Funeral Will Be Private SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec. 13. (UP.) Douglas Fairbanks. Sr., will make no curtain-call in death for the world that thrilled to his dashing career on and off the screen. His sudden death by heart at tack early yesterday placed his beautiful widow, the former Lady Sylvia Ashley, under the care of a physician and until she recovers funeral arrangements will remain tentative. However, his business manager, Clarence Kricksnn. Indicated that, unlike the services for Will Rog ers, .lean Harlow and other film notables whose mourning public gathered by the thousands, Fair banks' services will be quiet and private. It seemed likely that only close friends of the screen's Don Juan would be admitted to services in the Wee Kirk o' Heather in For est Lawn Memorial park. The fu neral probably will be tomorrow or Friday with interment in a crypt at Forest Lawn. Morse Ends Hearing, Returns To Eugene LONGVIEW. Wash.. Dec. 13 (P) Wayne Morse, coast water front arbiter, had under con sideration today testimony ob tained at a two-day hearing on a dispute between longshoremen and Long-view employers. Morse returned to Eugene last night to prepare his report as arbitrator. Major points in the dispute Involved a demand for overtime pay for noon hour work and stand-by time for men re porting on Sunday. Morse said another issue, involving the union's demand that the employ ers share the hiring hall dispatch ers salary expense would be con sidered at a hearing December 20. The latter Issue has attracted coastwide attention. INVESTIGATE PORTLAND, Pec. 13. ( Federal agents visited Bend yes terday to investigate the business and life of Nicholas Doienberg. held In the county Jail here for New York on charges of passport irregularities. The electricity tree of central India it one of the oddest growths in nature. Its leaves are so full of eleetririty that you receive a shock if you touch them; and the tree influences magnetic needles I 70 feet away, Socialism Question Answered By Hunter PORTLAND, Dec. 13. P Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter assured the State Board of Higher Education yesterday a course in "economics of socialism and capi talism" was merely a study of comparative governments. "So far as I know there is no one in our system who advocates so cialism," he explained. "There is no institution of higher learning in the country which doesn't offer courses in comparative govern ments." His remarks answered E. C. Sammons, Portland board mem ber, who inquired, "How long have we been teaching socialism in our schools?" "There is no intent in cuch a course to teach socialism any more than a discussion of alcoholism is an advocacy of alcoholism," com mented F. E. Canister, board member. The surface of the human body i approximately 16 square feet. Red Cross Requests Aid For Finland . In accordance with the policy recently adopted by the national Red Cross in regard to Finnish re lief, the Lane county chapter is placing boxes in various business houses about Eugene where con tributions to be used for relief will be received. Between 20. and 30 boxes are being distributed. A statement issued by Norman H. Davis, national Red Cross chairman, says, in part: "In the last week we have been asked to send emergency medical aid to the Finnish Red Cross, and the requested supplies have al ready reached Finland. We have sent a representative to Finland and we are prepared to extend further aid as we gain more ac curate knowledge of the needs in that country." The American Red Cross has already sent aid to the Red Cross societies of Great Britain, France and Poland in response to requests, and to the societies of Hungary, Rumania. Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania for aid to Polish refu gees. Donors to the Red Cross fund may designate the peoples for whom they wish to have their contnbutions utilized. Sea Scout Officers Attend Conference G. E. Gaylord, commodore of the Wallamet council for the Sea Scouts' -division, and R. E. Kerr, Jr., skipper of the Eugene Sea Scout shrip, "Enterprise," have re turned from Portland, where they attended the vice commodore's conference for region 11, which in cludes five western states. Mr. and .s MrGaylord and Mr. Kerr also attended the annual Sea Scouts' ball held at the Masonic temple. Both the Pacific and Indian oceans have a Christmas Island. Cantata To Be Given By Christian Choir "Glory to God," acantata by Rob Roy Peery. will be presented in Eugene for the first time Sun day, December 24, at 7:30 p m by the choir of the First Christian church. Sixty persons, directed by Hal Young and accompanied at the organ by Elwyn Myrick, will take part in the program. Special light mg and decorations are bein. planned for the presentation of f cantata. Other events in observance n, Christmas at the church will be a n4 Wrtiej .2 ea Americ I lewceatn l m Labor Board Hears Startling Testimony WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Uft A memorandum from an official of the national labor relations board asserting a CIO leader had told his organizers in West Vir ginia to shoot organizers of the rival progressive mine workers of America "faster than they would shoot a rabbit" was read today into the records of the house committee investigating the board. The memorandum, from Philip G. Phillips, West Virginia region al director, to the board s secre tary here, stated that "Van Bit- ner have given the shooting ad vice to his organizers at a Labor day meeting in Charleston. The memorandum gave no identica tion of "Van Bittner." Edmund M. Toland, committee counsel, read the memorandum into the record during questioning of Joe Ozanic, president of the progressive mine workers. The common sign of greeting employed by Gulf of Mexico In dians on meeting friends is to blow into one another's ears. Trees- s EVERGREENS FOR PERMANENT BEAUTY We offer the largest and most complete at aortment In Ion Counh, i Bnaae ana uowenng trees, evergreens, shrubs, vines, rose buihai h, u J For fin. quality and reasonable prices. It will pay you to shop ounI W. w will be pleasantly surprised when you tee ow ten acres planted M v Z1 shrubs. ""'htisj in. Specialties for Christmas Holly Trees 75c, $1.50, $2.25 to $4 Espalier Fruit Trees for planting against walls Tree Roses $1.75 Each ;s Camellias Daphne. 75c $3 $3.75 to $5 $1.50 to fi Rhododendrons Reds, Pinks, Whites$3ea Evergreen Trees 75c, $1, $1.50, $2 to $3 ii Bush Roses 25c to 35c Each Woodruff's Cash Nursery On the River Road (Old Pacific Highway) 1V4 miles North of city limits, whin the su ture house sits by the side of the road. 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