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Newspaper Page Textr 'Hi, Weather: Cloudy Home Edition Si I j - TTi TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1940 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 104 p FLEETS STBUKE MOMS gj ? Nazi Ties .Strained;' In Balkans I I -l : : lumania Halts flow Of Freight fo Germany Krmanv txpecrea iu present Stiff Demands 0r Danube 1 rade BUCHAREST April 13--- Ir.ars mat oeiiii""-" rsde relations arc rapidly near Z a crisis were expressed here ? om.nia suspended the l;LVf freicht cars for the leich preliminary to imping an (mbargoon expun u sded for domestic use. nf par loadings ollovred swiftly Germany s action In banning export oi a long t- Diimanin among them letallurgical coke, which is vital o the Rumanian ore industry, r t..j: nf namihp river oil LlMums - -... c cnsnenried for several Cjyi, but Rumanian authorities ,iid that high water ai uiuBm .... ..nncihip fiprman trade was luirters palled this explanation a pretext. nffiVial snnrrp.i said the eco- L.i. Annnxii nf the Rumanian tibinet was drafting a list of raw materials which would he emDar toed on the ground they are need led for internal consumption. Repercussions Tt mac pvnpnprf ppnerallv that Li. aMinn urnilM VlO fnllnwpH bV (stiff demands from Germany lriin insisting that Rumania Int hor trade with the allies and direct her exports almost wholly lo the Reich. I Sources close to the government, VnnraiTOr caM (Viat nnv sllph de- pands would be rejected firmly. An apparent indication oi ine Itarinnc tripiir tiihlph thp 0nvfm- linent takps nf fhp ppnera! situation jas an urgent meeting which ironier Lineorgne latarescu neia lastnicht with the Rumanian een- leral staff. Reports have been current here fhat flprmanv tiac unrnprt Ralkan Itraria rirnlpc (hat arw onmmprpial favors accorded the allies at the expense of the Reich would be re garded as "unneutral and might have serious consequences. FEAR ITALY BUDAPEST. Hungary. April 13. (DPI Yugoslav quarters here (eared today that Italy was plan nine a lightning stroke in the Balkans, in conjunction with Ger many, to check-mate any entry Bnto southeast Eurone hv the now- krful allied army In the near east commanded by French General Maxime Weygand. The uneasiness was caused by reports that thousands of Italian F workers" had landed in Albania; that the Albanian-Greek frontier was being hurriedly fortified, and hhat the allied Mediterranean fleet was active oft Salonika, Greece. Springfield Youth P"o Hold Cord Dance ' The Snrinefielrl Vmith Nil hold a Print and Cord dance M the SnrinefiplH nrmnrv Mnn. FV. April 15. Print dresses will P the fashion kevnote for thp p. while the boys will wear At thp laf ,i . .,ILt,UiK ui ui san ation, it was decided to hold the vf.vT beneIit dance for the outh League-University of Ore Son scholarship fund, April 22. Weather News f .-"' r riaay s maximum of he swf M5 Was thc high Pint of hi,.., ' uaie- ana one or the 'eve miX!mums for April In ra years, U did not break , " ine ifirnact f nL. -ws; fooler ,hLUy. 'oudy- sliEhy Kniav .: "'" tonigni; .r.d 4.f " v "'eraie northwest i . "u " coast. ori: Mini- tmg. 5fi2 des - " .""I :, ";ure Friday, 81.9 d Kw "wn, Saturday, north- te?""u Rnr1 Stage of m. " '" t-ugene at 7 - ay, .8 nf a foot. Siuslaw Tidr. Pilt Run4r 1 1 5:13 " Voters May Register Till 8 p. m. Tuesday A large number of voters in Eugene who are unable to register in the day time are taking advant age of the night service offered by County Clerk Dillard. For several nights the clerk's office has remained open until 8 o'clock for the accommodation of those who cannot get away from their work by 5 o'clock. The office will remain open un til 8 each evening until after Tues day, which is the last day to reg ister for the primary election. Wife Of Tacoma Publisher Dies Mrs. Frank S. Baker Long Active In Civic Affairs Word reached Eugene early Saturday morning of the death of Gertrude Elizabeth Vilas Baker, wife of Frank S. Baker, publisher of The Tacoma News-Tribune. Frank S. Baker is a brother of Alton F. Baker, editor and pub lisher of The Register-Guard. He and his wife left immediately for Tacoma. The Associated Press dispatches say that Mrs. Frank Baker's death occurred at a Seattle hospital where she had gone Friday eve ning to prepare for an examina tion, but her condition had not been regarded as dangerous and during the last week she had con tinued her usual activities. For many years she had been president of the children's home of SEE PUBLISHER STORY PAGE 4 Young Eugeneans Win Solo Music Acclaim ALBANY. April 13. (P) Or. chestra and band contests occu pied the northwest Oregon district high school music festival today following completion of solo con tests yesterday. Winners of excellent or super ior ratings yesterday included: Trombone, senior. Herman Burke, Eugene, Don Burton, Sa lem. Sousaphone, Donald Burke, Eu gene; Leonard Rush, Salem. Baton twirling, senior division, David Tallmadge, Salem; Lorraine Mason and Jean Miller, Eugene. Clarinet, Shirley Baldwin, Eu gene; Charles Schuster, Corvallis. Bass clarinet, Phyllis Kachei- moffer, Corvallis, and Maurice Childs, Eugene. Flute, Barton Spring, Corvallis; Vera Fair, Eugene. Alto saxophone, Howard Smith, Eugene, junior division, and Mar garet Mickelson, Eugene, senior division. Clarinet trio, Springfield, Girls' chorus, class D, Corvallis junior high, class 1, Corvallis and Eugene. Boys' chorus, class A, Eugene. Mixed chorus, class A, Eugene and Corvallis. High voice, girls, Bernice Ayers Corvallis; Patsy McCoy, Eugene. Violin, Kathleen Broer, Salem; Flora Secher, Corvallis, and Bill Shisler, Eugene. Orson Welles' Draw Wrath of HOLLYWOOD, April 13. UW What Orson Welles, the "boy wonder" thinks about the "future of the theater" brought the wrath of Hollywood down upon him to day. Movie actors, Welles said In Kansas City, Mo., are "really the same class as those who wait on tables. ... Of the movies, I will speak only in terms of contempt" "He is just trying to imitate a Harvard undergraduate," said Ann Sheridan, the $100,000 a year "Oomph Girl" the Harvard Lam poon selected as the actress "most likely not to succeed." "He came out here to make pic tures, and as a producer he turned out to be a good conversationalist with a cute beard," Olivia De- Havilland, the English actress said. "Now, I am told, he hasn't Dies See ' J?ol Of Cor Jhazis In Y Co Germany, Russia Said Plotting Revolution South Of Border By JOSEPH H. SHORT WASHINGTON, April 13. VP) Rep. Dies (D-Texas) said today he had Information that Russia and Germany were plotting to bring on a revolution in Mexico and set up a puppet government on the door-step of the United States. The house investigator told newsmen that communist Russia was keeping alive, for use in a Mexican upheaval, "the same or ganizations" which functioned in the Spanish civil war. This information, the Texan de clared, constituted one of the rea sons why his committee on un- American activities was question ine veterans of the Abraham Lin coln brigade, an organization of Americans who fought for the Barcelona government in Spain. Dies said that 5,000 to 6,000 Americans were recruited by com munists for the brigade and that a military force of similar strength "might turn the decision" in Mex ico. He was informed, he added, that communist organizations in the United States were prepared to begin a new recruiting drive for a Mexican coup, . . .. Senators Are Source The committee head said that his informants included "elective officials" in Mexico and "one or two United States, senators," all . . 1 1. - ...MUL.IJ oi wnose names ne wiuimnu. Among the things they told him, he declared, was that 10,000 com munists already had moved into Mexico from Spain and France. Dies' said he "certainly re garded the information as authen tic. ' "The same crowd is perfecting plans to do in Mexico the same f, . . j:j i cn; Vip inmg tney um in oycwn, chairman added. Their strategy, he continued tr seek victory in Mexico's national election next July and, that failing, to resort to force. "I know." Dies said, "that Gen man agents and communist agents are active in Mexico now. I think we'll be able to develop this fully.' Pendine hearings on this sub ject before his committee, which was in recess today, Dies called on the justice department to oe pre. pared to deter any attempts to re cruit, for this Mexican campaign Anthonv Demaio of Hartford Conn., a former officer in the Lin coln brigade, refused at the com mittee's hearing yesterday to tell anything about the passport he used. Terrorism Other witnesses told of execu tions and brutality against Amer icans in the brigade. William C. McCuistion of Frederick, Md., said he saw "Demaio kill two men" in a Barcelona cafe. McCuistion later amended this statement, saying one of the two died on the spot and the other was moved to a hospital, where he presumed he died. The man who died instantly, McCuistion said, was an American named Mathews and the other was a Canadian named Moran. Both were "stragglers" from the army, he added, and Demaio was engaged in rounding up deserters. Strictures Hollywood even the beard." Bette Davis thought he was "un kind." "I know some very nice wallers and waitresses. I only hope they won't mind being put in the same class with those of us in Holly wood, she commented. Pat O'Brien, husky Irish actor said: "I know it sounds awful screwy, but I met Orson once and he's really a nice kid." Welles, who makes $5,000 a week from radio, but has yet to com' plete his first major picture as Hollywood's only dircctor-pro-ducer-writer-actor, said In Kansas City that the average person at tends the movies because "it is better than drink." W. C. Fields, the bulbous nosed .comedian, remarked: "Well, I don't know about that." LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. Poor Fish Take Opening Day Of Local Anglers A-Tripping Lane county's myriad fishing streams and lakes were a mecca Saturday morning for hundreds of hopeful trout hunt ers as another fishing season got off to the usual flying start. Conditions over the county good," but early birds were bringing in sizeable catches long before noon. The season opened at 4:28 a. m. one hour be fore sunrise. Increase Asked For Flood Project Angc en wants - Minion w w I J i 1 For Willamette Valley WASHINGTON, April 13. (P) An increase in the appropriation for the Willamette valley flood control-irrigation program from $11,000,000 to $16,000,000 was asked of the house flood control committee yesterday by Rep. An- gell, republican of Oregon. Construction of parts of seven dams included in the project is now going on under last year's $5,000,000 apprpriation. Angell styled the project vital because of an estimated flood damage of $1,693,000 annually in the valley. I Held Good Satire For audiences which are won dcring "how soon" the United States will get tangled in the Eu ropean mess, the University Thea tre presents "Idiots Delight- satirical melodrama, from the pen of Robert Sherwood. Horace Rob inson directs. Friday night's aud ience registered appreciation in dicating sellouts for Saturday night and the third showing next Tuesday, night, both at 8 o'clock. A tourist hotel in the Italian Alps near the Swiss-Austrian (be fore anschluss) border is the set ting (done swank by Robinson and staff). There you 'have gathered the usual conglomeration of trav elers the very British honey mooners, an Austrian doctor and scholar, a pacifistlc Frenchman, an international munitions scoundrel and his more or less Russian lady friend, and. for good measure, a stranded American vaudeville troupe. Sherwood miscalled his shots a SEE "IDIOTS' STORY PAGE 4 100 200 Miles NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN SHETLAND IS, IS- S3" ..n vAl.-vtrpr.rw I rtSC" I J tXP x'STAVANGl TnflTH OF Jtfr" - FORTH v .30V NORTH it i hull i SEA GREAT BRITAIN 4 TUT LONDON HAfiirr I A .- . i i t,. ov V777777V7 . .............. THE JUTTING peninsula of Scandinnvin, above, is thc scene of fighting on land, sea and air.- Map shows German occupied Denmark and the coastal ports of Norway, where the British arc reported trying to dislodge the Nazi units of oc cupation. ' Beating As Sends Swarms were reported only fair to The nationally-known McKen- zie river attracted a large throng of visitors from points all over the state and from other states. First reports were that the wily denizens of the stream were biting on spinners and salmon eggs be low the dam. Several nice catches were en tered in the Montgomery Ward and Lightning's contests before the opening day was even well underway. The contests closed at noon. , " Charles McCormick and Bill Hansen brought in 15 fish rang ing from 12 to 17 inches in length from the McKenzie before going to work. This catch, reported at Hendershott's, was made with a grey jitterbug and McKenzie spe cial. Jack Elliott was an early en trant at Lightning's. He brought in redsides measuring 16, 12 and 10 inches from the McKenzie. El liott reported that the fish were not biting well. This report was confirmed by Jerry Towne and Ray Nehl, who fished at Oak Point before work and brought home only two fish. Fishermen were reported .Pass ing McKenzie bridge in a veritable cavalcade. The weather was cloudy there. The opening day, customarily April 15, was moved up by the state game commission to give anglers a week-end of fishing in stead of a hasty Monday-morning foray. Wilbur Bishop Gets Oregana Editorship Wilbur Bishop of Tigard, Uni versity of Oregon sophomore, was selected as 1940-41 editor of the Oregana by the educational activi ties board it was announced Fri day night. The appointment was confirmed by the student execu tive committee. The new head of the annual yearbook is a sophomore in social science, and but 20 years old one of the youngest men ever to be selected for that position. He has worked on the staff of this year's Oregana, serving as sports editor, and acting as director of the activity and administrative sections. (jb .TRONDHEIM A RBTlAHSUm)I W I i . r,! i in jr SVOIVAB& rnoi m J I k DENMARKc $J ? A i f ' ' 'i i rititiiiiiiiiitifiMfiwim u ERMA tt VA Nazis Claim Tight Clutch On Norway Berlin Says Big Guns, Additional Troops Run British Blockade By GEORGE KIDD BERLIN, April 13. (U.R) Ger man big guns have been transport. .'d through the British naval anu air blockade of the Norwegian coast and were landed yesterday at Trondheim, between Bergen and Narvik, the official German news agency DNB announced to day. The agency earlier said that large, additional units of the Ger man armed forces had been land ed at Oslo yesterday. v Germany, according to DNB, has taken over units of the Norwegian navy In occupied Norwegian ports and has manned them with Ger man crews. Sink Big Cruiser DNB said it had been confirm ed that the British cruiser York, 8250 tons, had been sunk off Trondheim. The announcement in dicated that the cruiser went down on April 11 as a result of an at tack by German bombing planes. Regarding north Norwegian events, the agency said that "Ger man troops assigned to securing ,and extending occupied territory in the region around Narvik have taken control of the greater part of the roads from Narvik to the Swedish border." (Stockholm dispatches yester day reported without confirmation that British naval and air units werer being concentrated north of Trondheim, apparently In prep aration for an attack on the Ger man forces of occupation there). Oslo Re-enforced The announcement that German forces at Oslo had been re-enforc ed was regarded as another Indi cation that the British had not yet succeeded in cutting Germanys communications with Norway. Dealing with thc rc-enforcements for Oslo, the agency said: "They were immediately trans ported to assigned locations, part of them being quartered near Oslo," the agency said. The high command announced this morning that German troops "continued to expand" the occu pied zone around Narviw, Norway. Norway's King Pledges To Remain In Native Land To Bitter End STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 13. (U.R) King Haakon of Nor way said in an interview published today by the newspaper Svcnska Dagbladet that he would remain in his country so long as there re mained a single Inch of Norwegian soil. "My ministers can visit Sweden, my people can evacuate lo Swed en," he said. "I will have to stay." Kattegat Sea Battle Just Myth to Danes Living There By LOUIS P. LOCHNER GILLELEJE, Denmark (On thc Kattegat) April 13. (P) There may have been a great naval bat tle in or near the Kattegat, but the Danes who live along its coast line know nothing about it. Although British warships and planes have headed toward the Kattegat (and according to Swed ish reports destroyed a number of German troopships near Swedish shores where thc Skagerrak Joins the Kattegat) Danish shore police, fishermen, factory workers and ordinary folk have neither heard nor seen anything to indicate such a battle was fought. And they should know If there had been one for in the 1916 bat tle of Jutland countless windows in their homes were broken by violent concussions. The skipper of a little fishing smack assured me calmly he had "started from Skagcn Wednesday, put In there at Gillcleje that night and we heard and saw noth ing." Curious crowdi wer waiting (or Anglo, Nazi Planes Swirl oyer Norway . .ii ii ..I- " Conflicting Reports of Successes Emanate from , London, Berlin (By The Associated Press) British and German air fleets, striking over land and sea, claimed signal successes today in the furious give-and-take conflict swirling around Norway. The German high command reported two British sub marines were sunk at the same time by German warplanes which attacked them as they came to the surface in the North sea. British fliers meanwhile were carrying the war to Norway again. Norse Troops In Violent Clash Volunteers, Soldiers Fighting For Homeland By RALPH FORTE STOCKHOLM, April 13. (U.K Violent clashes between Norweg ian and German troops were re ported from Kongsvingcr, north east of Oslo, by the newspaper Aftonbladet tonight. The German air force was reported attacking Norwegian forces north of Oslo. Aftonbladet said that there was heavv fighting at Vornsund, near Kongsvinger, and that fighting also raged at Aarnes, in the Oslo area. The brunt of German air attacks was centered on Eidsvold There was no further confirma tion of earlier reports that Nor wegian troops at Narvik were at tacking thc German forces-of oc cupation while British troops landed from men o'war in the face of a German land and air bom bardment. Norse Hold Out Norwegian soldiers and volun teers are holding Halden, on the Oslofiord. despite reports or German troop landing and the Norwegian flag still flies over the strong Norwegian fortress of Fred- riksten nearby, it was reported Earlier it had been reported that a German battleship, three de- SEE NORWEGIAN STORY PAGE 4 Dean Morse Reiterates Stand On Picket Law In renlv to the apparent con fusion of names on the part of Claude W. Barrick, attorney and director of the associated employ ers of Oregon, in a talk given in Salem Wednesday night and re ported in Thc Oregonian, Satur dav. April 13. Dean Wayne L, Morse of the University of Ore gon law school announced today that it was he and not Dean Vic tor P. Morris who had repeatedly criticized the Oregon anti-pickct- ine law as "vicious legislation. In the story In The Oregonian, Barrick was credited with snying that he resented "that sort of thing from a man employed by the people who are paying the taxes that pay his wages. Dean Morse, who as coast labor arbitrator is In constant demand SEE DEAN MORSE STORY PAGE 4 the ferry to Halsingfors, Sweden to open up again. Halsingfors is directly across the strait from Helsingor in Denmark. The ferry has been closed since the German occupation but chances appeared good that It would reopen soon. One little tug boat that brought a dozen rest dents back from Sweden had been permitted to enter the harbor, German guards closely scrutinized each passenger. To all my questions If anyone had heard any cannonading, they answered, "ikke" "No." To find out what had happened at thc other end of the Kattegat, I phon cd the chief of police at Skagen and he too answered "ikke" when asked if he had heard any can nonading. And no one had seen any war pianes, battleships or debris wash ed ashore. The people I saw enroute still seemed dazed at the events of th past few days. Yet there seemed to be no bitterness and no one expressed himself In any manner derogatory to the Germans, Raiders bombed the German- held airfield at Stavangcr, south western Norway this morning, a London announcement said, "and it is believed that extensive dam age was done to a hangar and an ireraft on which mechanics were seen working." - A German fighter was reported shot down in flames. Belgium Prepares Belgium took precautions "be cause of the general tension" in tempestuous Europe, the army mounting guards over offices, radio stations and air fields in the Brussels area. Lightning thrusts from the air were announced by the British to be continuing against the Ger mans in Norwegian waters after these successes yesterday, which included: ' British Claims A munitions warehouse blown up at Bergen, Norwegian west BULLETIN LONDON, April 13. (IF) Led by thc great battleship War spite, the British fleet today penetrated the Fjord of Narvik, Norwegian ore port, and sank seven German destroyers, the admiralty announced tonight. German soldiers were believed to have fled from Narvik over the hills. coast port held by the Germans, and Warships and supply ships machine-gunned and bombed. German staffmen and aircraft personnel killed or injured 'and airplanes destroyed In an attack at Kristiansand, southern Norway. A German flying boat dam aged and a German destroyer raked with machine-gun fire by British bomber over the North sea. Contradictions Conflicting German and British announcements hid the price paid on each side for the furious fight ing. The British said one of their planes in the Bergen raid made a forced landing, while eight of their aircraft were shot down, two made forced landings and four German warplanes were downed, in the Kristiansand raid. German accounts made no men tion of a Kristiansand attack but said 10 British planes were shot down at Bergen while the Ger mans lost five. They also said one British airplane was downed at Narvik, northern Norway, and one at Stavanger. Nazi Grip Tightens German reports said the Invad ers wore tightening their grip on the country, with continued troop arrivals to reinforce the expedi tionary forces, and the taking over by German crews of Norwegian vessels found in seized harbors. There was no explanation of how reinforcements were reach ing Norway since the British min ed the sea lanes between Germany and Scandinavia. Some troops, however, already were known to have been flown to the northern kingdom. George Jessel Wed. Youthful Show Girl DETROIT, April 13 (VP) George Jessel, "42-year-old comedian of stage and screen, and Lois An drew, 16, New York show girl, were married here today with James H. R. Cromwell, United States minister to Canada, acting as best man, Cromwell explained he was en route from Ottawa to St. Thomas, Ont., when his airplane was grounded at Detroit by bad weath er, and he met Jessel whom he described as an "old friend."- ' The ceremony was performed by Common Pleas Judge Gerald W. Groat of Detroit In Jcsscl's 15th floor suite In a downtown hotel. Thc bride was attended by Betty Allen, New York actress. Jessel has been married and di vorced twice. His first wife was Florence Courtney; his second, Norma Talmadge.