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Newspaper Page TextQ Weather: Rain Home Edition LAME COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940. ON STREETS 3c;NEVS STANDS 5c NO. 44 flannerheim. Line Pillboxes Taken by IRedls Ipibikans U Pleas jrPurge I I. Unef Lincoln Day wines Rooseveltian tra I. iwneiated Press) f r innln dav appeals private enprUe .at the AmeriMii "mJL m dictatorship. je former President Hoover faring mat m e oust abandon a "national c , ...iiim " active and Ml presidential candidates criticizing we new tasting a Kepuoutdii v..., Lor Vandenberg (R., Mich.) ting at Grand Kapias, miui, bed Abraham Lincoln as first coalition president, ne .l. t innln'c reelection in -all like-thinkers, regard oarry affiliations," set the tutor 1940. mas E. Dewey of New York it Portland, Ore., that the deal had failed to recognize of capital," tican development is lagging, L ti "hapaiicA nf the na- LUKU, uvvuwum wide undercurrent of distrust far of the shifting of policies administration. tator Taft (R., Ohio) told a tcknrn W P.. auriipnre that Elation of the new deal would a "modern, streamlined to- ht declared, faces a funda- decision just as it did in I ator Bridges (R., N. H.), an 1 nrciHAnHat ranHirlntp cniH lilahoma City that Lincoln li want tor present-day Amer- rrwdnm frnm ppnnnmiV Ho. pxe or domination from the puent as well as Irom pri I roups." pessing a three-state rally rtw lorit, KepuDlican Chair Uohn Hamilton said: p people of America know men Mr. Roosevelt steps from lite House next January, he lave to his republican suc- country in as critical a -tion ss Buchanan left to ah." stral speeches at the 700 Mr. Hoover leading off aha: Nricani cannot allow their t? Ameriranc " u.. N "ret reUef cannot go on pr. The current cost of re- ?nis aspects, federal, state to, is nearly four billion We must restore fi''t0SeIf UPPrt be'ore fingthe country must keep mm irom "govern Widing to national thrift," president added it must .-""i" u is only "steadily increasing pro- . nauon mat we can Progress." ibrief 1uotations from . r--..u speakers: Pata!" Massachusetts, P aaonty leader: -For seven Feu, ann T), lecKle ex KfiiW se exPements . 11 destruction be ' Bartnn - . . 1 NuL,v",.u ..."e.w. Y: F. ill k j s -", il -nu-housed-and did not NiaT8,- Hlstry will re- w h; iam.ncl" 'reed i;M th. . ,.nKlln Roosevelt New York: "t am it I. President "'"nationalists w. K me nw inaugura l's Lv-. .... SaK.5.,1Ma?sachusett!;: a.n iinl 'or a"y cause j'erican cause." fa Thwarted j. ore : E: JT " P'MlSLK81?. a Seven- in onday-Two :"-iu. l'h?, .CU!ody of ing "trance to hsv. "Xljevcd that .u... , Wiltshire Engraving CZECHOSLOVAKIAN Fritz Neumann, aoovc, will be fea orchestra when it appears in the music auditorium Wednes tured violin soloist with the University of Oregon symphony day night. City School Teachers Bid Board Disposes Of Routine Matters By BILL PHELPS Eugene's city school teachers were all re-elected at a meeting of the school board Monday night. The instructors will serve for one year, with action on the ten-year plan deferred until the next school census is taken this summer. The election of the teachers was the main business , before the board which, however, discussed plans for using the city stadium on South Willamette street, con trolled by the board, for midget auto races. Two communications from interested persons were re ceived and discussed by the group. Under a plan presented in a letter from Bobby Rowe, Port land sports promoter, the school board would rent the field four nights in the summer for the use of the midget cars. Mr. Rowe would pay all upkeep and spec tator insurance, and assured the board that there would be no damage to the field. The racing cars weigh only 800 pounds, and no excavation or banking would take place on the field. While no action was taken by the board, it was decided to send to other Oregon cities which have midget racing, and determine their effect and interest in those places. Some members of the board voic ed a fear that the race track might become a detriment to the community, and that it would en courage unorganized gambling. The board did decide, however, that the light and water bill for SEE TEACHER STORY PAGE 2 Janitor Dips Flag tor Abe INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13. (JP) County Commissioner William A. Brown asked the .courthouse janitor why the American flags were at- half staff. "Well," the janitor said, "Mr. Lincoln is dead, ain't he?" The flags were raised. Two Eugeneans Die In California Crash REDDING, Cal., Feb. 13. 04 Lawrence Miller, 21 -year-old Portland, Ore., photographer, was in a critical condition today from injuries received yesterday m a truck-automobile collision which killed two of his companions. Elmo N. Gamrath, 21, and Joe Cobb, 23, both of Eugene, Ore., were killed when the machine, driven by Gamrath and a heavy milk truck operated by Henry Agostini, collided head-on 12 miles south of here. Agostini escaped injury. The three photographers had worked here for several days and were enroute to Red Bluff when the accident occurred. UNIDENTIFIED HERE Neither Elmo N. Gamrath nor Joe Cobb are listed In the Eugene city or county directories, and Eu gene undertakers have received no word of the death of the two men, it was reported Tuesday. SNOW AT MEDFORD MEDFORD, Eeb. 13 M) Snow melted as it fell yesterday in the Medford section of the Rogue river valley. Heavier falls occurred in the mountains, replenishing ir rigation water reservoirs. Dewey Impresses Portland, Leaves for Salt Lake PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. Thomas E. Dewey was on his special train rolling toward Salt Lake City today while enthusias tic Pacific northwest republicans quoted from his Lincoln day speech delivered last night and agreed he was a strong and col orful potential GOP presidential standard bearer. The trim New York district at torney lambasted the New Deal before an over-flow crowd of more than 5200 in Portland's muni cipal auditorium, and decried that "when national unity is most need ed, we suffer from politically-inspired hostilities." Elsewhere he assailed the pres ent administration for fostering a situation that discouraged replace ment of capital and asserted the nation had suffered a "constant erosion of capital." Capital re placements, he said, had fallen more than a billion dollars short annually of being sufficient dur ing New Deal years. He blistered the administration's strategy of "divide and rule" as "undermining our national unity" and declared domestic conflicts were retarding the nation while it worries abcut Europe's wars. . . . "We are embroiled in a dozen con flicts among ourselves. Govern ment and business arc In conflict. Labor and capital are In conflict; and labor is in conflict with itself. Collectivism has been pitted against individualism; centraliza tion of power against local self government; defeatism against courage. . . . These divisions . . . have resulted In wasted oppor tunities, futile bickerings, loss, of energy and human sufferings." Dewey was scheduled to make two or three platform speeches en route to Salt Lake today. 1 Committee Cuts lit Millions Off Navy Budget Single Million Included To Begin Development Of Island Of Guam WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. W1 A $111,699,699 slash was made in President Roosevelt's budget for the navy today by a house comi mittee which recommended appro priations of $966,772,878 and urg ed the nation build battleships and cruisers "superior" to those abroad. The cut, from the president's figure of $1,078,472,577, was the largest -yet made by the appropria tions committee in any single bud get recommendation, but the com mittee said the fleet's needs could be "adequately met" with the smaller sum. Included in the measure was $1, 000,000 to start work on a $3,000,- 000 project designed to develop the tiny Pacific island of Guam as a naval "lookout" post. Guam im provements were turned down by congress last year after a heated controversy involving questions of foreign policy toward Japan. (The president's budget figure of $1,078,472,577 included funds which he classified as emergency national defense expenditures. These were responsible for the difference between that figure and a $954,000,000 request by the navy to finance its normal, non-emer gency operation and construction). Another Cut In sending the navy bill to the house floor the committee also cut $16,316,250 from the amount of "contract authorizations" recom mended in the budget. With such authorizations the navy may con tract for work to be paid for later. Thus the total decrease In the amount the navy could spend or obligate in the fiscal year begin ning July 1 amounted to $128,- 015,949. While allowing money to start work on 19 new combat ships and five auxiliaries, the committee cut $7,750,000 from the sums recom mended for two new battleships and two cruisers. While $2,950,000 will be suffi cient for the navy to proceed with plans for the ships, the committee said, it should be determined be fore construction actually begins that the ships will be superior to those of other nations. "The committee is of the opin ion that definite advantage will be secured by making the new capital ships and the additional cruisers not equal "to, but superior to, any pending foreign' construction," the committee asserted. "As a foremost nation of the world, the United States is charg ed with a high degree of respon sibility for the maintenance of our peace This responsibility requires a policy of construction which does not confine itself to imitation of other nations. "Its economic strength and Its position of leadership among the nations of the world demand such ships and in such numbers as will maintain a preponderance of pow er and thus insure the security and peace of the United States." Jazz Man Shaw Weds Actress Lana Turner HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 13. W) Artie Shaw, the band leader, and Lana Turner, glamorous young motion picture actress, were mar ried today In Las Vegas, Nev., they announced after an air elopement. They were married at 4 a. m. by Justice of the Peace George Mar shall, after getting him out of bed. They also aroused a deputy clerk to issue the license. Miss Turner, a Wallace, Idaho, girl who has been rising rapidly in pictures in the past year or so, said her name was Julia Jean Turner. Shaw is 30 and Miss Turner is 19. Shaw gave up his band several months ago, after a serious illness. He went to Mexico late last year but suffered a knee injury in a surf accident and returned here last month. Film sources expressed aston ishment. A publicity man at Mist Turner's studio, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, said he "didn't know they were even acquainted." But they were acquainted and have been for at least six months. It was that long ago that Shaw and Lana played together in the M. G. M. picture, "Dancing Co-ed. Film sources said there was not even a hint of romance between them then. WHEN A FINNISH BULLET cut him down, this Russian froze almost as he fell, still clutching the telephone wire he'd been sent out to string. Scuttled Ship's Crew Is Saved Germans Set Fire To Vessel Off Brazil RIO De JANEIRO, Feb. 13. M Rear Admiral Sir Henry Har wood told the Associated Press to day that the crew of the German freighter Wakama, after setting their shin afire yesterday off the Brazilian coast, had been taken aboard a British cruiser. Sir Henry, comuhander of Brit' ish forces in the 'South Atlantic, said In an exclusive interview that 10 officers and 36 men of the Wakama's crew had been picked up in lifeboats by one of the British patrol vessels. Sir Henry's flagship, the cruiser Hawkins, entered port here last night. The cruisers Shropshire and Dorsetshire yesterday were in the waters off Brazil where the Wak ama was intercepted and fired by her own men. Because she was considered a menace to navigation, the burning Wakama was sunk, Sir Henry said, by the British cruiser that inter cepted her. He would not say which British ship delivered the finishing stroke but made it clear it was not the Hawkins. "I didn't see the Wakama burning," he said, "but I know she burned and sank because of a com munication I received from the other cruiser. "I understood they finished her off so she would not menace other shipping." When asked If a British scouting plane had been the first to spot the richly laden 3,771 ton freighter. Sir Henry said: "That is correct." "But the plane did not attack; it simply gave word to give up." Sir Henry, who was knighted after commanding the British squadron which drove the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee into Mpntevideo, gave Indi cations the overhauling of the Wakama had been an easy matter. Describing himself as a "pas senger" aboard the Hawkins, the admiral said the Hawkins did not make any move against the Wak ama. "We were in communication with the other cruiser. She lo cated the Wakama and then asked for instructions. "I said, 'you take care of her; we are going to to Rio de Ja neiro'." Asked whether the Shropshire or the Dorsetshire could take the credit for bagging the Wakama, the admiral answered: "It was one of them. Besides the Hawkins, there was on the other British warship near the Wakama." Her holds stowed with heavy consignments or lard, hides, cot tonseed oil, mica, rock crystal. cacao, the Wakama had flashed an SOS yesterday, giving her pos ition as 50 miles off Cabo Frio, east oi mo ae Janeiro. Since then some mystery had surrounded the fate of her crew for previously a British sailor off the Hawkins had reported that the Wakama had been set afire but he could not tell what became of the crew. NEW TOOTH UNWANTED CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Feb. 13. W A new tooth growing in his Jaw worries Zeb Farley, elder ly janitor at the Wabash avenue Presbyterian church. He had all his teeth pulled 10 yer an and bought false ones. Book Bait May Be Dull INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13. OP) Some young man is seeking a sweetheart with the aid of the public library. He left a note in an Aldous Hux ley novel suggesting any young lady interested in cultural pur suits should leave a card in James Whitcomb Riley's "Pipes of Pan at Zekesburg." Librarians scanned Riley's book. There were no takers. Pool Petitions Reach Council At Deadline Petitions, with their . required number of 1100 signatures, calling for a special election to levy a tax for the proposed city swimming pool were presented to the city council Monday night at Its regu lar meeting in the city hall. Previ ously City Recorder Cal Bryan had announced that Feb. 12 was the deadline. Because of the legal holiday rul ing of transacting no business, no action was taken upon the peti tions except the placing of them on file for checking of the signa tures by the county court. A spe cial election will have to be called before the swimming pool meas ure may be placed on the May primary ballot. A suggestion was also offered to the council that the 7-acre piece of property at the north end of the airport, which is city property secured along with the airport, be set aside by resolution of the council to be held intact for future use as a playground. The pro posal was set aside for future action. The resignation of H. L. Ed monds from the civil service com mission was read and accepted by the council and Mayor Large ap pointed William W. Bnrtle, lawyer, to succeed Mr. Edmonds. The coun cil approved his appointment. Dog License Deadline Set For February 29 Dog owners have until Feb. 29 to purchase dog licenses without a penalty, it was announced on Tuesday by City Recorder Cal Bryan. The Lane county dog control commission has ruled that all payors after that date will be required to pay a $1 penalty. License fees are for male or spayed female, $1; for female, $1.90. Dogs under eight months do not require licenses. Mr. Bry an estimated that at least 1000 dog licenses were issued by his office last year. Counter-Attack Said Success Red 'Smashes Against Line Said Foiled HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 13.- (U.R) A war communique today said that Finns had "successfully" counter-attacked Russian units on the Karelian isthmus after repuls ing new Red army smashes against the Mannerhoim line. Fighting continued on the Kar. ellan isthmus front, the com munlque said. The Red army has been pounding at Finnish defenses there for 12 days in what appeared to be a mighty offensive designed to break through to Viipurl, Twenty-three Russian tanks were destroyed In fighting yes terday, the communique said. Russian troops also were driven back on the Raate sector, the Finns forcing them to retire across the Soviet frontier, according to the communique. Raate is on the central front, where the Russians recently have been attempting to advance. The communlquo also reported that "most" of an enemy col umn of 100 sledges had been des troyed at Pitkaeranta islands, on the northeast shore of Lake La doga. Finnish officials said the Rus sians there were attempting to break through to relieve Red army units trapped in that sector for some days. The Finns last week stopped a Russian offensive at tempting to encircle the lake and strike at the Manncrhelm line from the rear. 61 Fortifications Held Captured In Moscow Finns Contradict Reported Successes Of Invading Forces BULLETIN! HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 13. (UP) Finnish troops today evacuated certain ad vanced positions in the Summa sector of the Man nerheim line, where a big Russian offensive has been under way for 12 days. MOSCOW, Feb. 13. (A?) Within a week, , the .high command for Soviet Russia's Finnish campaign has reported capture of 61 "defensive forti fications" on the Karelian is thmus where runs the Finns' Mannerheim' line. Today's communique announced' 32 of these positions were wrested from the Finns yesterday. Among them were "12 iron and concrete artillery forts." On the basis or today s report, the drive against the isthmus line vortex of the' war is gaining momentum. ' . . Finnish equipment seized by red troops in areas of defensive forti fications captured in the past few days, the communique said, in cludes 230 machine guns and 82 guns whether field pieces or hand weapons was not clea. v Capture of 13 "iron and ron crete" forts was reported last Thursday and yesterday's commu nique announced that 18 mora "defensive fortifications" hd fallen, to- .red . troops... Including . eight of the "Iron and concrete" variety. (Finnish reports have de nied any breech in the line). The latest communique SRid yes terday's warfare of regular infan try units and, artillery was "ani mated" In some sectors by the operation of scouts. "Due to unfavorable weather, Soviet aviation made only -rcon noiterlng flights," the communique said. . . Four Ships Lost As Result Of War LONDON, Feb. 13. (U.R) The loss of four more ships, one each by Britain, Norway, Sweden and Esthonia, was reported during the night. All were victims of the war at sea. High School Student Reporter Queries Dewey Of Third Term PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. OP) An 18-year-old high school newspaper interviewer got a bit rattled when he met Thomas Dew ey, New York republican presi dential aspirant, yesterday and blurted: "Are you going to run for a third term, Mr. Dewey?" "That's the most academic ques tion I ever heard," Dewey laughed. South American Family Wants Home on Farm Here's an opportunity for some rancher or farmer In the Wil lamette valley to learn about the South American way. A family from Buenos Aires. Argentina, wishes to come tu the United States, preferrably Ore gon, and stay at a ranch as boar ders for six months or a ycai. Included are a mother, father and two daughters, 18 and 19 years old. They are of English descent. They expressed hopcu that tliev could stay someplace where the head of the famllv earns his living working on the farm and where they could help in tne iarm and nousework "with, out compensation." The letter of inquiry was sent irom Buenos Aires to the Port. land chamber of commerce bv Jorge R. Lcrtora, agent for the liimny. Margaret Sullivan of the Pert land chamber referred the request to ine local chamber office. Addh UonM Information may be obtain' cd from Fred Uremic, secretary. Valsetz Rain Total Hits Four Feet During Short Period VALSETZ, Feb. 13. UP) This little Coast range lumber town claims the national rainfall title and is proud of it. There was 18.12 inches of ram from February 1 to 11, inclusive, of which 5.12 inches fell on Feb. In Salem, 40 miles east of here, the average annual rainfall is only 37.17 Inches, or slightly more than twice Valsetz's rainfall during the first 11 days of February. Condition Of Drain Man Is Serious' The condition of Crawford Tracy of Drain, who was hurl Sunday night in an automnbile accident, was reported as setiotis Tuesday morning. The extent of his injuries has not yet been de termined. Bill Baughn, who was with Mr. Tracy when their car went off the Smith River voad Into a ditch, is receiving treat ment for hip and back injuries. Both are at the Eugene hospital. Weather News Nearly three-quarters of an fnch of rain fell here during the 24 hour period ending at 4:30 a. m. Tuesday. The gauge at the airport measured .73 of an inch. The fore cast follows: OREGON: Showers tonight and Wednesday, snow over high moun tains; little change In tempera tures; fresh and strong northwest wind off the coast, fresh over In land waters of Washington, de creasing tonight. AIRPORT BUREAU RECORD: Minimum temperature Tuesday morning, 41.8 degrees; maximum temperature, 48.4 degrees; precipi tation to 4:30 a. m. Tuesday, ,73 of an Inch; wind, at noon, Tuesday, southeast. RIVER BUREAU RECORD.' Stage of Willamette river in Eu gene at 7 a. m. Tuesday, 4.3 (eet 8lu1iw Tides WiSnltdar S:SS a.m., -. 10;M a.m., Tfanradar 4:34 .m 11:30 a.m. rriaar Hlfh! i i t il j. Low; , , n 12:34p. m. Hlfh: Low: Hllh: Low: . 4:1? p.m. 10:01 .nu B:ll pjm. :J .