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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1940
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NO. 21
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Senator
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e to Pay Tribute;
irol Set For Bo.se
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iffllSGTON. Jan. 20.
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mf court, i"c
house of represen-
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I,,, the nation's leaders
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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