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Newspaper Page Text... , v. - y w Weather: Fair Home Edition LANE COUNTY'S . HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY vet96 EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940. ON STREETS Sc;NEWS STANDS So NO. 81 T yccessor rouoiie do n Into Runs ii Faulty Truck ondition Said Went Cause iccused Man Admits' Milking With Friend Jter Killed In Crash - m ,i 4r.nl fnr Sughter in circuit court, on u witness suiiu ..u.-j, Med we acciirein " r . ni.pl rnmntnn on fjjtl, 2 to the poor condition of , wick wnicn wuo - t time, nesn'u "-rr , hl-c wprp defective. fe-mis a"" u.-" ------ . T K-ey was accused of being drunk I. the time ana was amuwaiu Igied on a drunken driving Tt- nlnt4fl anillv in Inc.. targe, ne pi--u- &"v - J u court and later withdraw this fl and entered a plea of not Trarpv was the first witness for i defense after the state had ;;ed about 11 o'clock ana naie Thompson, defense . attorney, ;jhe had six more witnesses be- je testimony in behalf of the pjied is finished. It was thought case would perhaps go to the by late in the afternoon. vimc uriniK Iracey testified as to the cir- tatances prior to the accident i while he admitted that he and ttral companions had been iing wine that day, he main- :(d that he was able to control truck, which is owned by Mrs. La Moore, on whose farm he dbeen working. He said on the ai that on the day of the acci ct he and Mrs. Moore had been Eugene and that after return t to the Moore farm and after land Mrs. Moore had eaten din ::. he took the truck and his kltle of wine and went to the apton farm nearby. Here, he id, he offered drinks to Compton ri his brother George and they ioranK Irom the bottle. They n drove to a neighboring farm a all three continued to drink SEE TRACEY STORY PAGE 2 fealfors Favor Jxpayers' Group Motion to encourage organiza ot a group in Lane county, alar to those functioning r.'iicli II.- r m I --&. mu vjicgun xaxpayers wation, was passed at the , s ui Eugene nearly r;H T1.......J ... . , ..luuudy noon, xne mo 5 ras passed following a talk by Buchanan of Corvallis, "dent Df tho Kinin ..n;qotlnn i remarks by O. K. Do Witt, sec '7 of the Marion County Tax :;W association. closing the meeting of the .'Jrt T,n,An A T, I ! . . nuuman, presi - pointed out the situation ap- ub .nong tnree lines, se- SEE TAXPAYER STORY 1 AGE 2 wwell Approves Reorganization ISWELL, March 21. (Spe- ; '"-organization of the union ;Kol district No. 12 at Cres- M annrnvoH v, ni. i Kd.ricts ccerned at their "eonosday. The result - voting in the districts is .tb ,A -' iJ' no, . tiowe "ivL no' 0; Lower Camas :t25- 2; district no. 4 . ?CE- U. no, 10; Bear 1. no, 7. P;yi it tl-luls are .arie r. p h Frances Wullschlcg- 'Ttaxler. Spring Su clean; ggestions 4 . . ""irris is in spsisnn c" mean, trash t fa ""1 away. 3re renewing them- 'rM 5hou,d homes. , ' colors win ii,. ncw interiors will ;:o'- Iun5hine indoors. :t C V f,,rn'ture need -cd ardcd; U can be :on ', hc,p yu kceP 'is anJlturn t0 ,he Want CONSULT 740 Vtp "mtSS SERVICES mt . . .. . 17 X?!? x IP GIT ir 4 s . HIGH OVER TOWERING MT. RAINIER was the Boeing-built "Stratoclippcr" when this photograph was taken shortly after it left the Seattle factory. It arrived in Brownsville, lex. Thursday for delivery to the Pan-American airways. The giant ship will be used in U. S.-South American service. Income Taxes Up 31 Per Cent Collections Said Well Ahead Of FDR Estimate WASHINGTON, March 21. (VP) Secretary Morgenthau said today that preliminary estimates of an nual income tax collections were running 31.2 per cent ahead of last year and "comfortably ahead" of President Roosevelt's budget esti mate, ' The treasury secretary said at a press conference that telegraphic reports from regional collection offices showed collection of SG21, 000,000 of income taxes in the first 20 days of March, compared with $473,000,000 in the same period last year. March collections are always the biggest for income taxes because annual returns, and at least first quarter installment payments are due on March 15. Morgenthau declined to say by what margin the collections would exceed budget estimates, which are made only on an annual and not a monthly basis, but added that there was "not a chance" of the excess equaling the $460,000, 000 of additional revenue asked by the president to pay for emergency national defense costs and to help keep the treasury under its S45, 000,000,000 statutory debt limit. Alaska Eyed For Finns TOLEDO, Ore., March 21. IP) A Finnish refugee settlement in Alaska was proposed today by the North Lincoln chamber of com merce. Thp organization suggested con gressional legislation to open the way and aid from Herbert Hoov er's Finnish relief group in re settling the hardy Finns. Smoking Tree To Be Axed RALEIGH, N. C, March 21. W) A 100-foot oak in Capitol square that breathes and smokes is going under the axe soon. The trunk is split, and the crack opens and closes as the ancient tree sways in the wind. A cigar ette stuck into the opening puffs slightly as the tree "exhales." Despite its scenic value, officials decided that the tree was a menace. Crucifixion Is Theme Of Friday Services The story of the Crucifixion will be the theme for services to be held in Eugene churches in. ob servance of Good Friday. The union service sponsored by the Eugene Ministerial association will be held at the First Baptist church from 1' to 3 p. m., and will have as its subject "The Seven Last Words of the Cross. For the first word, "Father, for give them for they know not what they do," Rev. E. J. Fulton will give the scripture, Rev. Herman Smith, the meditation, and Cen tral Presbyterian church, the prayer and special music. For the second word, "Verily, I Say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in Paradise," Dr. S. Earl Childers will give the scripture and Rev. F. R. Witmer, the meditation. The third word is, "Woman, be hold thy son! Behold thy Mother," and Rev. A. J. Harms will have the scripture, Rev. Frank S. Bei stel the meditation, and the First Christian church, the prayer and special music. Dr. Norman K. Tul Iy is to have the scripture and Rev. Frank L. Cook, the meditation, for the fourth word, "My God, My God, why , hast thou for saken me?" For the fifth word, "I thirst," Rev. Charles E. Funk will have the scripture, Rev. Williston Wirt, the medita tion, and Jhe First Baptist church SEE CRUCIFIXION STORY PAGE 2 Expectant Mother of Five Babies Gets Extra Care MIAMI. Fla., March 21. Enriched by an agreement that provides funds and medical care, Mrs. Katherine Callahan, who hopes to become a mother of quintuplets, rested today in a hos pital suite far more luxurious than her one-room, $2.50-a-week apartment. But she was not a willing pa tient. Her physician, Dr. Arthur W. Wood, who earlier confirmed that X-ray photographs apparent ly showed five distinct heads of un born babies, had to persuade the mother that a period of rest was necessary. "I'm not sick," she asserted, i a in ho nrrmltted to join her husband. Emory. 30-year- old furniture lactory who earns $15 weekly. Today the Miami Herald, whose owner, John S. Knight, placed the Callahans under contract for ex clusive publication rights of pho tographs and news, planned to leac a new home for them where nursing and medical attention would be constantly available. The Herald's agreement pro vided. the prospective-mother with an undisclosed sum of money, the services of Dr. Wood and special ists if the physician desires to call them, and all hospital expenses, including nurses, as well as in come from news arid pictures. Normally, the babies would be born May 20. Medical men point ed out, however, that multiple births usually are premature. The mother, a small, brown-haired, hlue-eved woman, has gained 20, pounds in recent months. She weighs 128 now, but her condi tion was declared to be excellent by Dr. Wood. The husband's father, Thomas C. Callahan of Thomasville. Ga., was a twin, but no other multiple births have been recorded in the family. . , ' The Callahans are pleased that fate apparently has selected them for the event with a mathematical probability of 1 in 57,000,000. "I hope they're all boys," said the mother. "Emory likes boys." She paid she wanted a family of 12 children "and It's all right with me if there are two scU of quin tuplets and twins." Dam Contractors Arrive !n Ciiy Preparations Made To Start Fern Ridge Job C. A. Williams and W. H. Woods, representatives of the Morrison- Knudsen Construction company of Boise, Idaho, were in Eugene Thursday making advance prepar ations for the beginning of work on life Fern Ridge dam. 4 The IdrlhTTfirm was low bidder1 on the project March 5. Formal notice to proceed will be given by the army engineers within the next few days, it is believed. M. G. Kennedy, who will be res ident manager for the company in Tugene, is expected to arrive in the near future. Mr. Williams will be superintendent of construction and Mr. Woods, chief accountant. The Fern Ridge dam is the first of the seven dams contemplated in the Willamette river basin flood control project to be taken over by a private contractor. It will re quire an earthen fill of approxi mately one million cubic yards, to hold, back flood waters- of the Long Tom river and Coyote creek northwest of Eugene. Work on two other sites Is pro gressing, according to the engi neers. At Cottage Grove rock core samples are now being taken by a 36-inch calyx drill. The drilling is part of the exploratory work on the foundation arga. Highway Commission Has Routine Session PORTLAND, March 21. M The Stnte Highway commission whipped through a routine session of bid opening today after seating Herman Oliver, John Day. Oliver, formerly a board of high er education member, was ap pointed by Governor Spraguc to succeed E, B. Aldrich of Pendleton, who resigned. Among low bids on road projects was: Lane - county Grade widening, surfacing and oiling 3.57 miles of Low Pass section of Siuslaw high way. Fisher Brothers, Oregon City, $61,493. , Action Sought Members of the Lane county court and representatives of the chamber of commerce highway committee were in Portland Thurs day to attend session of the com mission and to ask for action on the new route through the city, Besides Judge Clinton Hurd, Commissioners Walter Holland and Cal Young, in attendance at the meeting were Ed Turnbull chairman of the chamber commit tee, Fred Stickels, president of the chamber, Howard Mcrrinm, and Mayor Elisha Large. British-Bound Ships Are Sunk By Nazi Powder Criticism Of War Policies Rumbles Through Parliament LONDON, March 21 OT Eight merchant ships, six of them flying the flags of Scandinavian neutrals and two the Union Jack, were counted today as new sea casual ties, sunk or damaged by bombs in the past 48 hours. Danish shipping bore the brunt of the widened German offensive, losing three vessels. It was fear ed 30 men had gone down with the ships. The 2,468-ton British steamer Albionic burned after being hit by an Incendiary bomb and an other British ship, her name un disclosed, was bombed last night off the southeast coast and five of her crew killed. Parliament recessed meanwhile for the Easter holidays amid growing reports that Prime Min ister Chamberlain would recon struct his cabinet during the in terval before sittings are resumed April 2. Criticism A'olccd The house of commons sessions ended with outspoken criticism of two cabinet bigwigs. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Lord Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare, voiced by Geoffrey Mander of the liberal opposition. "It is widely felt throughout the country thnt the chancellor of the exchequer and ihe lord privy seal are heavy liabilities both at home and abroad," he said. DNB, official German "news agency, said nine ships sunk tot alled 42,000 tons and two others of 11,000 tons wore damaged badly. The agency acknowledged that One Germatf plane had failed to return. Targets Eyed Reports persisted that Germany's submarine nests nnd shipyards in the land-locked Baltic sea would be probable objects of attack. "The snowball begins to roll," commented a newspaper column ist. "It will leave rather a bloody track." The Baltic is sheltered from the North sea by Denmark. Watchers along England's south east coast reported that a mys terious bomber, believed to be German, dropped while, orange, red and green flares during the night. Intense activity of British coast al defense forces last night led to reports that German planes were approaching but there were no verified rcpiti'ts ol plane visits to- ' SEE BRITISH STORY I1 AGE 2 Explosion, Fire Damage Plywood Firm WILLAMINA, Ore., March 21. P) An explosion in a dust bin fired and seriously damaged a sec tion of the Pacific Plywood corpo ration plant and Injured one em ploye today. . . ' Three hundred workers at one of the largest plywood operations on the coast and pumping equip ment from Sheridan and McMinn villo confined the flames to the large boiler and power houses. Kenneth Eploy, owner of the Willnmina weekly newspaper, re ported the fire, although still smouldering in sawdust, was un der control. The Pacific Plywood corpora lion's large Aberdeen, Wash., plant was consumed by fire several weeks ago. Howard Knokey, a workman, was f'irced to leap from a high scaffolding to escape the rapidly spreading fire. Ills arm and leg were fractured. The damaged building covered about a city block. Investigators reported their frame and concrete construction prevented the fire from spreading to other sections of the plants. Youth Arrested In San Diego Faces Cottage Grove Charge SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 21. W Arrested today while asleep in an auto, William Barton Mc Coy, 19, was held in jail on charges of burglary in Long Beach and Golcta, Calif., and car thefiin Cot tage Grove, Ore, Detective Fred Wctlcrdahl reported. Man Is Injured In Car, Truck Crash L. L. Beezley, 60, living nt Bailey Hill, was severely injured when a car In which he was rid ing and which was being towed crashed into a fuel truck on Route F highway two miles west of Eugene at the intersection of the Bailey Hill road Thursday morning. The truck was proceed ing west when the car being towed ran Into it. Mr. Bcezlcy suffered a broken arm and bud contusions. PAUL RKYNAUD Reynaud Faces Internal Politics Broad Coalition Government Drawn To Include Former Chief, Socialists By JOHN H. MARTIN PARIS, March 21. (AP) Paul Reynaud, France's finan cial trouble-shooter, formed a broad coalition cabinet today to replace the resigned ministry of Edouard Daladier but im mediately ran into internal political difficulties. Even though he named Daladier national defense minister to step up the war against Germany and appeased the social ists by including three in his ministry, these three develop ments struck the new premier-foreign minister before his first cabinet meeting tomorrow: I. Daladiers own radical-so Nazis Scatter, Damage Convoy Warships, Merchantmen Claimed By Berlin BERLIN, March 21. (U.Ri Gcr man airplanes, in an attack on a British convoy protected by cruis ers, destroyers, airplanes and an armed merchantman, sank nine warships and merchantmen total ing about 40,000 tons and seriously damaged two merchantmen total ing about 11,000 tons, the high command asserted toady. The attack, 24 hours after the British raid on Sylt island, took place "toward cveuiulM'',rr'f8ay off Scapa Flow, British fleet base in the Orkney Islands above Scot land, the high -command asserted. One of the attacking planes Is missing, it was said, and one Brit ish plane was downed. It was now established, the high commad said, that three British planes were destroyed in the Sylt raid. The official German news agen cy D. N. B., amplifying the high command's communique, gave the following details of the German aerial attack on the convoy: "The German air force late yes lerdny afternoon carried out a bril liant attack off Scapa Flow against a strong enemy convoy which was powerfully protected by warships. The actual attack followed careful reconnaissance. Queen Mary Sails Atlantic Giant Craft Follows Mauretania From Harbor A. W. Metzger To Talk To Chambermen Friday A. W. Metzger, chief of the state division of foods and dairies, will be guest speaker at the chamber of commerce public affair lunch con Friday in the Osbui-n hotel. Mr. Metzger, nssistunt to J., D. Mickle, state director of agricul ture, will speak on the relation of his division to tho communities of Oregon, In addition to general stati! conditions he will speak spe cifically on Lane county, one of tho leading dairying counties in the stale. Charles P. Poole of tho Moose lodge will speiiK briefly 'on the plans hr-ing made for the annual state and nnrthwe-;! convention of the Moose lodge. Between 2.ri00 and .1000 delegates are expected lo attend. Bv EARL B. STEELE NEW YORK, March 21. OJ.R) The 81,000-ton British liner Queen Mary, second largest ship in the world, sailed from New York har bor today in the wake of her small er sister ship, the 35,000-ton Maur etania, presumably embarked on a new career as an allied troop transport. The armed Mauretania, which the Germans have promised to sink on sight as an auxiliary naval ves sel, was the first to slip away. She was cased into tho Hudson liver and headed south toward the Nar rows and the danger-fraught At lantic during a- thunderstorm at 8 o'clock last night. She passed qwtrantono 55 minutes Inter in a pelting rain. It was reported thnt both ships, their last-minute sailing prepara tions and Instructions shrouded in secrecy, had been assigned to transport troops between Aus tralia and the near cast, where Great Britain and France are massing n great army already es timated at 1,000,000 men. "Exiled" Since September The Queen Mary cast loose the lines which had held her to the Cunard White Star line's pier since Sept. 4 at 8:22 a. in., and tugs pushed her into the river and turned her prow toward tho bay to tho accompaniment of bass blasts from tho liner's whistles. Speculation at the pier was that Ihe Queen would follow Ihe Maur etanla's suit and drop anchor off Ambrose light after she clears the harbor and there open sealed or ders containing detailed Instruc tions for proceeding to her desti nation. For 12 hours before the Queen Mary sailed the pier had been a scene of intense activity. The "black gang'" In the liner's engine room had received orders at 10 p. m. yesterday to have steam up by 1 a. m. today. Shortly before midnight Commodore R. B. Irv ing, commander ol the Queen Mary followed his officers aboard. A man who accompanied him to the gangplank 'shook his hand, kissed Hie commodore on the cheeks and shouted "good luck." The huge liner, It was believed, was unarmed when she left the harbor. British circles said Amer ican laws prohibited placement nt guns while she was in port. There was speculation, iiowcver, that she might receive anti-aircraft and anti-submarine guns somewhere at sea from another vessel. Medics Agree Popular Spring Fever Is Nonexistent cinlist party both in the senate and chamber of deputies "re served" approval to "await gov ernment acts." 2. Louis Marin's rightist repub lican federation branded the new ministry as failing to represent national adhesion and refused to bo represented in it. 3. Former premier Picrre- Etienno Flnndin's rightists repub lican alliance ruled "no support from us." The finance portfolio which Reynaud held in Daladier's re signed ministry went to Lucien ' Lamoureaux. Reynaud assumed the premier ship and foreign ministry port folio himself, set up a special "war committee" whose five members include resigned Premier Edouard Daladier and announced a sepa rate "economic council," similar to Britain's ministerial economic warfare group. Daladier Included The five members of a specially named "inner war cabinet" are: Reynaud, premier and minister of foreign affairs. - Edouard Daladier, resigned pre mier, minister of national defense. Camille Chautcmps; vice pre mier. , ... , ..' - Cesar Campinchl, navy. Senate Laurent Eynac, air. Rnoul Dautry, armament. Tho other members: Henri Roy, Interior; Louis Rol lin, commerce; Albert Scrol, jus tice; Lucien Lnmoureux, finance; Georges Mandel, colonics; Albert Snrrnut, public Instruction; Henrt Qucquillo, provisions; Paul Thel ller, agriculture; George Monnet, blockade; Analole de Monzie, public works; Charles Pomaret, labor; Jules Julien, communica tions; Louis Frossnrd, informa tion; Alphonse Rio, merchant ma rine; Marcel Hcraud, pub lie health, and Albert Riviere, pen sions. The cabinet, a coalition one, was drawn from tho socialists on the left to groups on the right. Socialists Have 3 The socialists, largest party in the chamber but without repre sentation in a French cabinet since Daladier took power in April, 1938, have three ministers in the new government, Monnet, Riviere nnd Scrol. The cabinet was kept from be ing a real national union govern ment by the refusal of Marin's republican federation at the ex treme right to be represented. Svialists in tho chamber of deputies, after receiving a report from former socialist Premier Leon Blum on the three of their group chosen for ministerial posts and three others ns undersecre taries, approved the selections by a vote of 80 to 7. The designation of peppery, 61-yenr-old Reynaud, whose reor ganization of French finances is rated ns one of the greatest achievements of the Daladier cab inet, was well-received in parlia ment. Legislative circles, whose de mands for more strenuous French, war efforts led to Daladier's downfall, considered Reynaud well qualified to lift Ihe war out of stalemate with British-French initiative. PHILADELPHIA, March 21. lPl Grandmother probably will never believe it but take the word of- exx;ru fho was all wrong when she gave generous doses of sulphur and molasses as a curj for "spring fever." There Isn't any such thing. That listless feeling you get around this time of year, three medical authorities agreed today, isn't something that you can pre scribe medicine for, or put down in a textbook, or analyze under cau.'O and effect. It is, well ' "It's all a myth n stale ot mind," says Dr. llobait A. Hei mann, professor of medicine at Jefferson medical college. "When the weather gels warm, people begin to think of going fishing nnd going on vacations. But they can't because they have to keep working. So they rebel against the restraint nnd become restless. That's all spring fever is." Dr. Mycr Solis-Cohcn, chair man of tho county medical so ciety's public relations committee, explains it this way: "The feeling you describe as spring fever is probably due to the fact that the body has become accustomed lo cold weather all winter and too suddenly is called upon to make adjustments to warm weather. Probably the nerves controlling the blood ves sels don't make tho adjustment without upsetting you a bit." Dr. John C. Scott, professor of physiology at Hahnemann medical college, thinks the change in blood volume may have something to do with the case. "You need more blood in warm weather to carry heat from the Interior of the body out to the skin," ho said. "It takes about five days for the body to manu facture the additional blood. Hence, in the first few warm days you're like an automobile that doesn't have enough water in the radiator." Weather News More bright warm sunshine, Thursday, sent Eugcncnns scurry ing about for that nil important Easter shopping. Tho forecast follows: OREGON: Generally fair to night and Friday, but becoming cloudy west portion; local valley fogs west portion in morning; little change In temperature: gen tle cast to south wind off the const. AIRPORT BUREAU RECORD: Minimum temperature, Thursday morning, 35.4 degrees; maximum temperature, Wednesday, 67.6 de grees; wind, at noon, Thursday, northeast. Siuslaw Titles Friday HUh 11:19 a. m. 1-ow !l:23 n. m. Snlitrdny Hlah 12:tJ p. m. Low B:M n. m. Sunday flluh .-12!34 a. m. Low 7-03 a. m. Monday Mlh 1:1 a. ro. 5:47 p. m. 8:32 p. m. 1:04 p. m. 1:17 p. m. Low ... I:M p. m. , 7:32 a. m. 8:01 p. m.