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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940.
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iccused Man Admits'
Milking With Friend
Jter Killed In Crash
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Sughter in circuit court, on
u witness suiiu ..u.-j,
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fjjtl, 2 to the poor condition of
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t time, nesn'u "-rr
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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
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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
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, ..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
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r. p h Frances Wullschlcg-
'Ttaxler.
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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
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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.