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Lather: Cloudy Sunday Edition LANE COUNT VS HOME NEWSPAPER. THREE SECTIONS 22 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1940 ON STREETS 8c; NEWS STANDS Bo NO. 21 ate Funeral gArranyeu Senator f j, Federal Officials e to Pay Tribute; irol Set For Bo.se 50NALDG VAN TINE iffllSGTON. Jan. 20. SUmn. grieved sen iJirt invited President m. ?.uc!SmBt c mf court, i"c house of represen- a-Sen. William r.. I,,, the nation's leaders . I 1nnP wolf" a the west, tne senate -"-"j nronarations for the e funeral with the ap L of Borah's widow the Uhaired "Mary" for n he constantly cauea in . i..t knnrs of his life. Lien-ices will be held in the K chamber at usv p. ' umHar President Roosevelt L to attend. Ten senators t mublicans and five demo- accompany the body 3e, Idaho, where uoran De- that n-ln him the title boater at large to the world." K Rev. Barney T. Phillips, f mate chaplain, will conduct Li Fniseonal service, and a few of the church choir will l tiro hymns. That will con- :te the senate s parting tnouie it man who dominated much 3 activity. Colleajue Talks pmnal announcement that hh died peacefully at 8:45 p. today night Irom a cerebral -orrhage was made to the sen kt hit vouthful eolleazue. Sen. Worth Clark, D., Ida. In a halt Lmre flarlr laid: l-Ijrt nicht at 8:45 n. m.. re- rratas events transnired un- fcdry to take from us our belov- friend and colleague." b then offered a resolution ex- pij the senate's sympathy for ti. Borah and outlining arrange rs for the funeral. .might workmen removed all main from the senate chain ed installed small ones to in- ,ye the cpatlntf nanapifv pah'i chair and desk were not pied. Sra. Arthur H. Vandenberg. R., t. an admirer anrl Innalime ad of Borah, put in the first E for the ifoclr TTr,rtn- tar,;.;., . Sen. Robert M. La Follette, WiL. would be entitled to it. 1 think it would be very won 1 to have it," Vandenberg a indmberg will be among the y '"v'ng Washington at 5 SEE BORAH STORY PAGE 2 . nib lo Benefit om Gleemen Event A3 T.rt nrnA. a ,, L, nm tne jlu- r-wemen home concert to F t program in this dis- ku, . ,. ""win oi me Hoy hi . Irom the w"i oe announced hi !an t. f, , " the funds J.f.'rr.1 Boy L-ty Bo, camp' CamP a m ... "'"-'"vn. win be Nfar. Z- court' Re I M direction nf .tm, c..-,J qi -.win, oiarK . Jng under the chilir. -L ,;geH- M". the r a forr. -s!rli,,! members "'atenZL u-!end in their t,C' , ""'Wing, or by KAL PCTHr. Choice ni' b"t real JJ DEPARTMENT 'in... "e Phone 1200 iQ. l-....i4 ROSEBURG'S Harris Ells worth, president of the O. N. P. A., which will hold its annual meeting in Eugene this week. Press Session Opens Thursday Oregon Speakers Will Be Featured An "All-Oregon" galaxy of speakers, that includes a number of names of national importance, will be on the program for the 22nd annual press conference, to be held at the University of Ore gon school of journalism January 25, 26 and 27, it was announced here today by George Stanley Turnbull, professor of journalism and program chairman. The serious business of the con ference will get under way Friday morning, when Ralph C. Curtis, assistant publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, talks on "The Changing Face of the Newspaper: What of the Make-up," He will be followed by Merle W. Manley, vice-president of Botsford, Con stantine and Gardner, Portland, who will speak on "What About Agricultural Laws." Lawrence E. Sprakery publisher .of. the Stayton, Mail, has taken for his topic, "The Newspaper Looks at the Motion Picture Show." Friday afternoon Robert Smith, advertising manager for Lipman, Wolfe and Company, Portland, will give the newspapermen the "lowdown" on "The Space Buyer Looks at the Newspaper." Donald J. Sterling, Oregon Journal, presi dent of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will talk on "Entertainment Features in the Newspaper." The subject of propa ganda will be discussed by Philip H. Parrish, associate editor of The Oregonian. At the annual banquet Friday the scope-and limitations of ar bitration in labor disputes, now a leading question in the United States, will be described by Wayne L. Morse, dean of the school of law here, who has achieved nation al recognition for his work as ar bitrator for coast maritime labor controversies. Saturday morning Dick Fagan, Orepnn lahnr evnprf will snnnlf on "Covering the News of Labor." unaer me title of "Drugstoring the Country Newspaper," Joe Col bert Brown. rn-nnhlirir nf hp Redmond Spokesman, will tell now -sidelines" help the publish er. What the legislature and news papermen can do for each other SEE PRESS STORY PAGE 2 Design Selection Necessary Before Start Of Power Plant Building Applications to supply the water board with materials, ma chinery and labor for the new S510.000 power ' producing unit have been pouring in, it was re ported Saturday by J. W. Mc Arthur, superintendent. It will take some time, however, he said, for the board to approve and select a design for the steam plant addition. Actual construc tion cannot begin for several months. Councilmen to Meet For Routine Session On Monday Night The Eugene city council will meet Monday evening at 7:30 in the council chambers for the reg ular bimonthly meeting. Routine matters were scheduled to domi nate discussions, according to Recorder Cal Bryan. Dog Licenses Going Slow During First Month The sale of 1940 dog licenses at the office of the county clerk has been slow this far, attaches of the office said Saturday. Dog owners are urged to obtain their licenses before March 1, after which date there will be a penalty attached. Fierce Battle Said Developing In Finland Air Raiding Continues As Reds Are Battered Back on Southeast Front Bv WEBB MILLER HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 20. (UP) A merciless pitch ed battle was reported devel oping on the north central front tonight after another series of Russian aerial raids over southern Finland and announcement that red army attacks had been' hurled back on the southeastern fronts. Intensified fighting despite the extreme cold appeared to mark a critical phase of the winter war, especially on the north central Salla front where Soviet troops were reported fighting desperately to offset reverses suffered earlier this week. Developments reported on three main fronts: 1. The Salla Sector: Russian troops, pushed back 30 miles to Lake Marka. counter-attacked In a vain attempt to break up Finnish thrusts from three sides and to join their lines west of Salla with other units 50 miles southward in the Kuusamo sector. Severe fight ins was reported, with the Finns holding the upper hand in an at tempt to cut off the Soviet forces from their base. Repulsed 2. Southeastern Fronts: An offi cial communique said that Rusian attacks Friday had been repulsed at Taipale, on the Karelain isth mus where four Soviet thrusts cost the Red army about 40 killed: and on the front northeast of Lake Ladoga, where several Russian advances were hurled back but where fighting continued late this evening. 3. Air: The communique said Finnish fighting craft and anti aircraft batteries on. Friday shot down seven more Russian bomb ing planes and that three other Russian bombers were believed de stroyed. Russian air raids today resulted in four alarms but no bombardment at Helsinki. Finnish oficials said it appeared that Sov iet aerial raiding elsewhere In south Finland was comparable to yesterday's activity,- when more than 1,000 bombs were dropped on 27 different localities. Britain Accuses U. S. German Sympathizers WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U.R) Great Britain charged that Ger man sympathizers in the United States are carrying forward an organized traffic in contraband with Germany through the medi um of the American mails. The charge was contained in the official British reply to the American protest against British interference with U, S. mails des tined for neutral nations. The British reply was made public here as U. S.-British controversy increased over the mail issue. Borah's Death Page One News In Nazi Germany BERLIN, Jan. 20. U.R After noon newspapers today gave front page display to photographs and biographical sketches of the late Sen. William E. Borah, emphasiz ing especially his opposition to the Versailles treaty. "Borah's death robs the isola tionist camp of its strongest pillar," the Deutsch Allegmeine Zeitung said. "He represented the line of thought of the typical American little man. which now is in its flood tide." r.. , GRAPHICALLY Portraying WARFARE in n frozen. wo:ded Finnish battlefield, defending troops arc shown, accord ing to a caption approved by British censors "taking shelter in snow-covered woods as Soviet planes come over on yet another air raid." Pageant Board To Meet Monday Koke'Calls Officials To Discuss Celebration Directors of the Oregon Trail pageant association have been called to meet Monday evening at the chamber of commerce to con sider plans for the big historic spectacle, tentatively scheduled by the chamber of commerce for July 2S,26, 27 In order to got. a place in the state advertising pro gram, schedules for which are made in December. In his call for the meeting, Joseph H. Koke, chairman of the pageant since it was founded in 1926. announced that eight direc tors are to be elected in accordance with the by-laws. Cal M. Young, veteran member of the pageant board and leaders of the pioneer parade, has signified his wish to retire from active service but ef forts will be made to get him to work again. One matter of prime importance is a decision on a request from Governor Sprague and Mayor Chadwick of Salem that Eugene postpone its pageant one year to give Salem better dates for its big centennial celebration this sum mer. Board members are divided in their opinions as to whether Eugene should wait a year. Doris Smith, director of the pageant, has signified her readi ness to serve again. Selection of a general manager for the big enter prise may be a much more diffi cult problem. On account of the heavy expense of moving the pageant from Hayward field to the fairgrounds and building addition al grandstands, only a small cash balance was carried over from 1937. Toy Terrier Appears On Downtown Avenue With Red Toe Nails! This business the ladies have of matching things up is really get ting out of hand, at least one Saturday's shopper believes. A woman was observed on Wil lamette street with a toy terrier whose toe nails had been beauti fully done over with red polish. Tall Fir Trees Now Being Pruned in National Forest BY PAUL DEUTSCHMANN Pruning, long recognized as a necessary part of orchard care, is also becoming part of the care of timber "orchards", experiments being conducted by the Willamette national for est reveal. CCC workers, under the direction of forest officials, are now engaged on two 400-acre plots at the St. Mary's and Oak ridge CCC camps. Approximately 80,000 trees in the area will be pruned. Pruning llic lower urancnes on Douglas fir Improves the qunlity of lumber which will eventunlly be cut from the tree. It also makes possible jnvrumad produc- uon oi vaiuHuiar puuici' u IVl veneer. Forest officials believe that pruned (roes will "ripen" into fcood peeler logs at 110 lo 150 years. In comparison, unenred for decs used as peelers usually lake between 300 and 400 years for maturity. No Knots Peeler logs usually come from old trees because they must be knot-free. Under natural condi tions dead limbs on the lower parts of a fir hang on for 20 or 30 years. The foirst workers Use three methods in pruning climbing with spurs, working from the ground with extended saws, and on the tree with ladders. The first-mentioned method has prov en most successful. It is possible to knock off dead limbs nnd cut green ones two log lengths, 32 feet, from the ground. The foresters use special tool, known as the "Hobo Club", to knock off dead limbs. Use of this tool, which was developed in the Siuslaw national forest experi ments in pruning in the Hobo dis torict, speeds up work consider ably. For green limbs a small pruning saw is used. Under present plans, about 100 trees in each acre arc pruned. Only the "dominiums" and "co dominants", trees higher and stronger than others, are pruned. The firs are usually between 40 and 00 years old. A crew of 12 men can prune about two or two and a half acres a day. J. E. Elliott, member of the Willamette staff working on the project, said that preliminary studies revealed a cost of between $7 and $9 an acre. After the experiment lias been conducted longer and more studies made he hopes to have definite information on the cost. Campus Queen Flies Alone v Mnxine Glad, attractive Eugene coed at the University who just last spring ruled Junior Weekend as Alice in Wonderland, was queen of the air Saturday. Friday, Miss Glad rolled her ship from its hangar and soared aloft alone, the first coed in the northwest to fly after receiving instruction in government-sponsored classes. Several men class mates had previously flown alone. "It wasn't hard," she said after alighting. "Atmospheric conditions were just right." Now she wants a plane of her own. Sheriff's Tax Sale Last For Two Days Some 50 pieces of Lane county property were sold at sheriff's auction at the southwest steps of the courthouse Friday and Satur day to satisfy the tax liens against them. Some good tracts were bought for small amounts while others went by without a bidder. The law provides that this pub lic auction shall take place, but sheriff's tax deputies say that bet ter results would be obtained by conducting the sale, without an auction, inside the office. More than 1700 pieces of prop erty on the delinquent list will now have to be sold by the county court at private sale. PRESIDENT DINES WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UB President Roosevelt, for the sec ond time during his administra tion, tonight attended the annual dinner of the Alfalfa club, a din ner organization of national poli tical leaders, capital newspaper men and notables. - kdJ rc fir i l Wlltahfre Fnirravlna MEMBERS OF A COED BANQUET COMMITTEE, several of them certainly frightened by protesting clucks of these chickens they're going to cook, arc busy preparing the tastiest of menus for dads who will il student sons and daugh ters on the Oregon campus this coming weekend. The careful coeds arc, left to right: Virginiu Gray, Nancy Riesch, Phyllis Foster, Elizabeth Steed nd Lisbeth Daggett. Passenger Dies In Train Fall War Will Sweep Neutral Nations; Briton Asserts Victim Leaves Relatives In Cottage Grove RENO, Nev., Jan. 20. Believed to have fallen off an eastbound passenger train, the mangled body of Lee Braswcll of Thayer, Mo., was found near a bridge In the Truckee river canyon 20 miles east of here this morning Deputy Sheriff Ben Parks said .Braswcll must have fallen .from the observation tar of passenger train No. 28 as it sped through the canyon. . Parks said that Ihe man was a passenger on the Iraln from Eu gene. Oregon, fo Thayer, Mo, He said that a wallet found In a pocket of his suit contained $130 In cur rency, and two baggage checks. A pocket watch was also recovered. Efforts were being made to reach the conductor nf the train for a further check this afternoon. Russian Inefficiency Exposed By Finland, Says Winston Churchill LONDON, Jan. 20. (UP) Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, declar ed in a radio speech tonight that Finland had exposed tho military "incapacity" of Sov let Russia and pointedly sug gested that European veutrals join up with tho Allies to guard against being divided between "the opposite though similar barbarisms of Nazisms and Bolshevism." The sharp-tongucd British cab inet minister for the first time In official pronouncements brought into open the question of general European action in this war and he based his warning to the neu tral states on the argument that unless the Allies win they will all become victims not only of Ger many but of Russia, This war, he said, will spiead. Only Italy, which considers It self non-belligerent rather than neutral, was not mentioned by Churchill, who told Belgium, Hol-t land, the Scandinavians, the Bal' kans and Switzerland that there was no chance of a speedy end to the conflict except through united action. . Churchill's speech was by no means defeatist. On the contrary, he said that the British navy waa dealing tremendous blows, that Germany's bold front hid gravaj economic weakness, that half of th Nazi U-boats had been destroyed and that the British convoy system made it certain that 409 of 500 ves. sets would get safely through to allied ports. Optimism Seen Never In any war, ho declared, have things gone so well from the naval point of view, while in con trast the Germans were divided in their councils and showing "re markable" signs of dissolution both physically and psychologically. The "liberation" . of .Warsaw, Prague and Vienna is assured, ha added, because there is no reason to doubt that the allies will be vic torious. But after giving that optimistic VISITED AT GROVE COTTAGE GROVE, Jan. 20. (Special) Surviving Leo Bras well, whose body was found In Nevada after he had evidently fallen from an eastbound passenger train near ftcno are his former wife. Mrs. Bessie Braswcll, and two grown sons, Roger and Orln Braswcll, all of Cottage Grove. Mr. Braswcll, whose home has been in Missouri for many years, was en route east after a lliree weeks visit with his family here. His two sons will leave for Miss ouri Monday to attend tho funeral. 'Abe Lincoln' Coming To Euqene in April; 'Wind' Due In March Eugene's "own" movie, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," which was filmed In part on the McKenzle river near here, will be shown locally in April, shortly after Easter, Bim Johnson, manager of the Ileilig theater, revealed Sat urday. The movie, produced by RKO with Raymond Massey in the title role, will have its national pre mier in Washington, D. C, Junu ary 28. It will then be shown as a roadshow in a dozen of the na tion's largest cities. "Gone With the Wind." three and a half hour epoch-making movie starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, will be in Eugene early in March at road-show prices, Jim O'Connell, McDonald theater manager, said Saturday. Obsidians Lease Former CCC Building Members of the Eugene Obsid ian club have leased one of the buildings at the former Belknap CCC camp to be used as a re creation center for the club. The building, formerly the officers' headquarters, will be remodeled. The club will also have the use of two dormitories and the kit chen and dining-room lot over night trips. CONFESS SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. UR) Arthur V. Watson, 30-year-old exconvict, today confessed ho and two accomplices robbed the Ah- wah-nee postofficc in Yosemite January 2, police announced. Watson also admitted three San Francisco robberies and three burglaries, police said, but had "forgotten the names oi his ac complied. SEE NEUTRAL STORY PAGE 2 Red Cross Field Man To Speak At Meeting Keith McCoy of Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Red Cross field director and field mnn for the veterans' administration of Port land, will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Lane coun ty chapter of the American Red Cross Monday at 6:30 p. m. at Seymour's cafe. His talk will emphasize the work of the Red Cross In the national defense preparations of the United States. Mr. McCoy was formerly in Red Cross work In Ohio and Arizona, and has been in this district since July, 1939. Also on the program will be a demonstration by the local first aid Instructors' club on advanced first aid methods, using living models. John Patterson, who is in charge of the demonstration, will be assisted by Bill Peltier, Everett Burden, Stanley Hbnsen and Harold Plumb. Election of the 1940 board of directors will be the main fea ture of the business mcetting. Charles Wiper, chairman of the executive committee, will pre side. All Lane county members of the Red Cross arc invited. Res ervations may be made with Miss Irene Ritchie, executitve secre tary of the Lane county chapter of the Red Cross, In the First National bank building. Weather News The weather continued cold In Eugene Saturday. Temperatures stayed above freezing, although it was expected to fall below that mark during the night. The fore cast follows: OREGON: Partly cludy Sunday, Monday cloudy with light rain west portion, continued cold, mod erate changeable wind off coast. Airport Weather Bureau: Maxi mum temperature, 41.7 degrees; minimum temperature, 30.1 de grees; wind, west. River liureau: Stage of Uie Wil lamette river at 7:30 p. m. Satur day, -1.1 feet. SnntUr HUh 9:11 . m. 10:3S B. tu Low 3 04 a. m. 4:31 p. m. Monday Hlh :04 a. m. Low 4:0 a. m. 5:00 9, m. Taetdajr Hilh10:M i. m. Low 5:01 a. m. 1:51 . m. 7
