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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1940.
ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c
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The second annual city-wide
bargain days" under the direc
tor, of the retail mercnanis- aivi
1. .a th FiKTpnp chamber of
fcmmerce will be held April 25,
Jand 27, it was announced oai
day by Ford Hand, chairman.
The three-day event is aesigneu
t ehnnnprs in the wide Eu-
Jtne trading area a better idea of
Itablishments and to offer them
t the same time a number ol
red-hot specials."
er To Entertain
el Paraders Again
Hundreds of Lane county chlld-
fcn will again be the guests of
lie McDonald theater, following
le annual spring pet-parade Sat-
pday, May 2d, it was announced
Jimmy O Connell, theater
lanager.
Each year, after pet dogs, cats,
ptiles, bunnies, pigs, and nu
lerous other assortments of ani
:al life have been paraded up
r.d down the streets of Eugene in
le "pet festival," the young par
Hpants are entertained during
Je afternoon at a "free for
othing" picture at the McDon
Id. This year promises to be the
iegest and best of the parades
et sponsored. Already, great
limbers of children have sent in
uiries as to "when can I send in
iy entry to the pet parade?" En
ies will be officially open the
rst of May.
This year's parade will be the
ghth annual event, sponsored by
ne Register-Guard and Eugene's
ading merchants ,for the pro
wtion of friendliness between
child and its pet. Last year
l' 2,000 children entered 57 dif
Wnt kinds of animals.
Organization is now complete
f the parade, and children- can
ar groominr? their Rovers and
Iff" ?nd Spotties at any time
blue ribbon event. Mer
wnd.se prizes are offered In the
-nous classes of entries.
joy TTityly Elected .
resident of Lane Bar
The Lane county bar association
V" coni"nc'ion with the board
r Z0." f the reKn sla'e
assoaic ion at the Eugene hotel
pturday mght and elected Day T.
president: G. Bernard
, S 'ce-P"!sident, and Gordon
ChM r L sccrctaT-treasurer.
rd W ,rAnl"fon' S-M. Calkins.
Uilham G. East were named
eoffi, f "tlvc c""mitee. All
e M'icials arc of Eugene.
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iminvrt FIRE BY PREHISTORIC; METHOUS-quicker
Lialtv nf these Leabure Boy Scouts. Mike Gillespie, left, and Harold Smith, right,
Eth with spindle and bow, pause as Phillip Mallory blows his spark into flame. Members of
. -hn will be out for top honors at the scout circus May 4, have held the Wallamet
Jouncil championship for the past eight years. Gordon Vance
Bargain Day' Event Marked
to April 25, 26, 27
"It is the desire of Eugene mer
chants," Mr. Hand explained, "to
make some outstanding bargains
so that shoppers can see the com
plete and varied stocks on Eugene
shelves."
Mr. Hand said Eugene merchan
dise and prices compared favor
ably with those of establishments
on the Pacific coast. He also in
vited shoppers to visit the city to
inspect the many modernized and
newly constructed business build
ings In the city. .
Morse Goes
South Again
Dean Wayne L. -Morse of the
University of Oregon law school
left Saturday for a three-day trip
to San Francisco where he hopes
to bring the three or four-months'
old clerk's union arbitration to an
end.
The dean will return ln time to
teach his Thursday classes next
week.
Army Air Board Ready
To Start Examinations
Unmarried men between the
ages of 20 and 27 who have had
at least two years of college will
haVe an opportunity to apply for
training in the army air corps
during the coming week when an
examining board will be at the
physical education plant on the
University of Oregon campus to
interview applicants. ,
No appointment is necessary
for men wishing to apply. Hours
will be from 8 to 12 mornings
through Saturday, and 1 to 4 on
afternoons through Friday. Can
didates accepted by the board,
after being officially notified of
his appointment, will be sent im
mediately to the nearest flying
school at the government's ex
pense, according to Lt. Murray
A. Bywater of the air corps, ad
vance agent of the board.
After six months of basic train
ing, the cadets will be transferred
to the air corps training center
at Randolph and Kelly fields, San
Antonio, Texas. After six months
of more advance work at the
"West Point of the Air," cadets
will be commissioned as second
lieutenants In the air corps re
serve. The examining board is traveling
to the 13 major colleges and uni
versities of 8 western states. It
consists of Major Thomas W,
Blackburn, Captain Steven V.
Guzak, Captain Ehrlmg L. Ber
quist, and Lt. Frank A. Kurtz.
Councilmen Face Quiet
Business Session Monday
The city council will meet Mon
day evening at 7:30 in the coun
cil chambers for the regular semi
monthly meeting with no special
business on the slate.
The council will receive noti
fication that the required nunv
bcr of names to put the swinv
ming pool measure on the Novem
ber ballot have been secured. No
action on the measure is required
of the council, however.
CAR FIRE QUENCHED
City firemen were called out at
8:45 Saturday night to quell a fire
in an automobile belonging to I.
O. Brown, parked at Eighth and
iCharnelton streets.
Paul Deutschmann Photom-Boh. Wiltshire Enffravlnff
than lighting a lurnace is
is their scoutmaster.
Scout Circus
Will Be May 4
70 Troops Will Join
In Presenting Program
The spectacle of 70 Boy Scout
troops participating in a gigantic
eight-act circus that runs like
clockwork even though- it hasn't
been rehearsed will be seen by
Eugeneans May 4 at McArthur
court.
Secret of the complicated event,
which involves everything from
building fires in the Igloo to rac
ing chariots, is careful planning,
according to scout officials. De
tails are worked out in advance
down to the last item, so that
every troop and every boy knows
just where he is supposed to be
and when.
. Most thrilling event of the eight
is expected to be the chariot race,
with 70 two-wheeled vehicles be
ing pulled wildly about the arena
by quartets of stout scouts. The
event always provides thrills and
spills.
Spectacular will be the mass
camping, signalling and games
events, with the spacious Igloo
floor filled to capacity.
Fun and laughs will be provided
by a crew of scout clowns. This is
the ninth annual presentation of
the Boy Scout circus in Eugene.
Lloyd Payne is chairman of the
event. Ticket sales are progress
ing satisfactorily, he reports. As
a special attraction 50 cent family
tickets will be available.
Springfield Mill's
Opening To Be Soon
SPRINGFIELD, April 20
(Special) Beginning of opera
tions at the Rosborough mill here
is tentatively set for Wednesday
of this week, it was revealed Sat
urday by T. W. Rosborough, own
er. If operations begin at that time,
Mr. Rosborough said, only log
sawing will be started. The planer
plant will not be ready for oper
ation until the beginning of June.
He said the kilns would be
ready within 10 days. The plant,
one of several major additions to
the Springfield industrial section,
has been under construction for
the past year.
HOSPITALS MAY STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20
(U.R) Health Director J. G. Geiger
tonight indicated city officials
were considering the possible
opening of wards in city and
county hospitals if the hospital
and industrial workers union call
a strike Monday against 10 ma
jor San Francisco private hos
pitals for higher wages.
CITIZENS OF EUGENE, HAVE YOU BEEN COUNTED?
If not, or if you have any doubt, fill out this blank and mall to
MRS. MERLE C. STUART, Supervisor of Census
34 Hampton Bldg., Eugene, Oregon
or call Phone 2572
Oh April 1, 1940, I was living at address below, but to the
best of my knowledge I have not been enumerated, either there
or anywhere else.
Name - . . .
Street and Number .... - .
City '.
Best time for enumerator to call ....... ...............
President Asks
liberal Pair'
For Candidates
Republicans Scored
For WaiAccusations .
In Georgia Address
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April
20 W) President Roosevelt
urged again tonight that his own
party choose a "liberal pair of
candidates" and at the same time
waded into the republican oppo
sition for "seeking to frighten
the country" by declaring the
present administration "Is delib
erately trying to put this nation
into war."
' It .was an out-and-out political
talk "that Mr. Roosevelt made by
radio to a series of country-wide
dinners of Young Democrats'
clubs. And while it carried an ob
vious bid for continuance of the
new deal, it offered no tangible
clue to the outstanding political
question of the day: Will the
president seek a third term?
Asserting that America faces
this year much the same kind of
campaign as it did in 1932 and,
1936, .the chief executive added:
'It seems to me very obvious
that if the democratic party is to
defeat the republican party next
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Zonta Women Close
Conference Todav
By MARIAN LO WRY
Sessions of the Zonta club
spring conference for District VI
conclude this morning with a
breakfast at the Eugene hotel at
9 o'clock. Featuring the program
will be devotions by Dr. Norman
K. Tully, pastor of Central Pres
byterian church; songs by the
Women's Choral club of Eugene;
and the official address to the
conference by Dr. Helen Pearce,
Zonta international president. The
80-voice Choral club will sing
several selections. Mme Rose Mc
Grew is to sing a solo.
Election of new district officers
will be announced at the business
session following the breakfast
and program, and invitation will
be extended for the fall confer
ence, the Seattle club is expected
to ask for the fall meeting.
Winding up a busy day, the
Eugene club, hostess group for the
conference, entertained Saturday
evening with a formal banquet at
the Osburn hotel, 115 attending.
Dean J. R. Jewell of the Univer
sity of Oregon school of education
was the guest speaker. Dean
Jewell brought out the parallel of
the advancement of education and
SEE ZONTA STORY
PAGE. 2
Rural Musical Fesf
Is Ready For Friday
Nearly 1500 school, pupils of
Lane county will participate in
the annual rural school music
festival to be held in McArthur
court on the campus of the Uni
versity of Oregon Friduy, April
26. , The number already regis
tered Is 1,476 and 39 districts are
represented.
Laurence C. Moffitt, county
school superintendent, Saturday
announced the committee in
charge of the festival, all being
teachers in different schools. They
are Crystal Male of the River
road school, Elsie Dann of Santa
Clara, Lelah Parks of Bethel,
Martha Moore of Eugene; Helen
Little of Lowell, Mamie Cochran
of Rivcrview, Helen Dove of Mar
cola and Harriet Ingram of Cres-well.
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DeWey, in Gaiifornia, Sees
Need for Different Attitude
Toward Social
LOS ANGELES. April 20.
told the California republican assembly, in an address tonight,
that the nation "demands an administration which looks
upon social security as a necessary safeguard to workers who
may occasionally be unemployed, not as a substitute for al
lowing the country to go back to work."
speaking at a mass meeting
New York district attorney and candidate for the republican
presidential nomination voiced the need for "an administra
tion in Washington which does not consider proved incom
petence to be an essential qualification for public office."
Real Problems
Face Guardsmen
150 Reserve Officers
To Superintend Activity
Barring unfavorable weather,
150 reserve officers and 200 na
tional guardsmen from . Eugene
and Springfield, will discover the
tactical problems involved In the
occupation of a defensive position
by an infantry battalion Sunday
morning.
The maneuver, to be held two
miles south of the city, is the final
event in a two-day contact camp
for reserve officers which is be
ing attended by officers from all
over the state. The camp Is under
the direction of Lt. Col. H. C
Dempewolf, head of the Eugene
military district.
Saturday evening the army men
'attended a banquet at the Osburn
hotel. After the dinner they retir
ed to the armory to hear Lt. Col
Dempewolf speak on, -infantry or
ganization. His speech was follow
ed by a practical map exercise.
Saturday afternoon and evening
instruction and problem work
was designed to give the men
background for the actual field
operation Sunday.
The two-day session will be
"talked over" Sunday afternoon
nt a luncheon meeting ln the Del
Rey cafe. A similar camp under
the direction of Eugene military
district officials is being held at
Baker this weekend.
Bar Association Asks
Salemife's Suspension
The board of governors of the
Oregon Stale Bar meeting here
Saturday recommended to the su
preme court that M. Clifford
Moynihan, Salem attorney, be
suspended for three years.
The board found him guilty on
two counts involving false swear
ing in connection with a trial and
with an affidavit, according to
Alexander G. Brown, public re
lations chairman of the board.
The board completed its visit
here Saturday night with a ban
quet at the Eugene hotel where
H. H. DeArmond, Bend, president
of the association, declared the
tone of the bar had been consider
ably brightened. He urged new
rules of procedure and practice
be considered at the next meeting,
tentatively set for Corvallis this
fall. ,
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the
Oregon law school, urged closer
cooperation of the bar with the
school, particularly on the spon
sorship of new members.
Other speakers appearing on
the program included George M.
Roberts, Medford, Carlton Pepper,
The Dalles and R. R. Bulllvant,
Portland, all members of the
board; F. M. Sercombe, Portland,
secretary, Allan G. Carson, Salem,
former president, and Mr. Brown.
Weather News
Spring continued In full force
Saturday after a light early morn
ing shower cleared the air. The
sky was clear during the day and
indications of a pleasant Sunday
seemed overwhelming. The fore
cast follows:
Oregon Fair Sunday and Mon
day, warmer Monday, gentle
northerly shifting to easterly off
coast.
Airport Bureau Report: Maxi
mum temperature, 62.3 degrees;
minimum temperature. 38.7 do
grees; precipitation, .06 of an
inch: wind, northwest.
River Bureau Report: Stage of
the Willamette river at 7:30 p. m.
Saturday, .1 of a foot.
Siuslaw Tides
Sunday
High 12:01 p. m.
Low 1:37 A. b. 8:04 fj.
Security
(AP) Thomas E. Dewey
in the Hollywood Bowl, the
He discussed the social security
program at length, and offered
five requirements for "a personal
industrial economy such as ours":
First, and foremost, the re
lease of all of our productive en
ergies so that our economy may
provide the fullest measure of
material well-being for our peo
ple. "Second, adequate and non
political relief for those who are
thrown out of work and for whom
unemployment insurance has not
been provided.
Insurance Advocated
"Third, unemployment insur
ance, efficienctly and economically
administered In the interest of all
workers.
"Four, old-age insurance, to
provide a reasonable standard of
living after the years of active
work have passed.
"Fifth, a continuing survey of
the possibilities of extending so
cial insurance to new fields when
ever the administration of existing
forms has been sufficiently con
solidated to justfy further expan
sion." He told the convention that "for
some years now the leaders of the
present administration have been
advising the American people that
only under the new deal can this
country make and keep social
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Legion To Discuss
Junior Olympics
Plans for the Junior Olympics
to be held here May 3 and 4 will
be discussed at length at the
meeting of the Eugene post of
the American Legion Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock in the Moose
hall. The Legion is the sponsor
of the event
Committee heads to give re
ports include: T. I. Chapman,
general chairman; I. W. Stearns,
houring; C. R. Manerud, trophies
and awards; J. P. Schimberg, en
tertainment. Today, a large delegate from
the local Legion will be at Toledo
for a district meeting. Plans for
the Junior Olympics will be out
lined neighboring posts' cooper
ating in staging the event.
At the Tuesday meeting of the
local group there will be motion
pictures, entertainment, and re
freshments.
Wiltshire r nm-vln
CYNTHIA THE DUCK, PET OF THE JUNIOR chamber of commerce-sponsored Quar
terbacks clii'i, is pictured getting "wised up" about the J. C. state convention hero May 3, 4
and 5, in which she will play an important part. Ralph Newman, J. C. president, holds tie
kcts to the event, while Hale Thompson shows a badge to Mrs. Halo Thompson, chairman
of women's events, and Leo Valentine, chairman of local registration.
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- KenneU-Ellts Photoitrnph
Wiltshire ffngrnvInK
FRED BKENNE, above,
ncwly-clccted president of the
Oregon chamber of commerce
secretaries.
Germany Brags
Birthday Blows
Berlin Admits Island
Troops Near Trondheim
BERLIN, April 20. (U.R) Ger
man armed forces marked Adolf
Hitler's 51st birthday anniversary
today, with reports of smashing
air and sea blows against the al
lied powers, but admitted British
expeditionary troops had landed
south of the Norwegian west coast
port of Trondheim,
Nazi airplanes "effectively
bombed" British troops at the Nor
wegian port of Andalsnes, an im
portant railroad terminal 115 miles
south of the German occupied
port of Trondheim, the official
news agency said after sternly
warning Norwegian resistance
would be "shattered" and the full
power of the Nazi military ma
chine would bo thrown against
allied forces in Norway.
Home Show Booth
Space Going Fast
Booth space for the American
Legion "Build a Homo Show" to
be held in the Armory May 6, 7
and 8, are rapidly being filled, ac
cording to Con Dillon, chairman
of the event.
A wide variety of exhibits em
phasizing building materials and
other industrial displays will be
included. The show is an annual
event.
Mr. Dillon said that a new type
of entertainment was being
planned for the show this year.
A style show will be part of the
program and spcciul musical num
bers are also planned.
Counter Move
Against German
Port Rushed 1
Allies Continue t ,
With Efforts to Force ;
Hitler From Norway
STOCKHOLM, April 20.
(UP) British, French and
Norwegian troops were re
ported massing at three points
on the west coast of Norway
tonight for a powerful counter-offensive
against the Ger
man army north and south of
Trondheim. , . :
A battle for possession of
Trondheim, with the isolated and
besieged Norwegian fortress of
Hegra in the center of the battle
field, was described in messages
to neutral diplomats as the prob
able first major action an en
gagement that may be already in
progress.
The opposing .forces were be
lieved by military experts here to
be stronger than previously in
dicated and supported by heavy
artillery. r n e British-French
troops were expected to go into
action as quickly as possible in an
effort to relieve Hegra fortress.
Flag Still Out
Frontier dispatches said that
the red, white and blue flag of
Norway still flew over the fortress
this morning, despite several Ger
man attacks and a heavy bom
bardment by German airplanes.
A recapitulation of the military
developments In Norway as based
on neutral diplomatic advices and
press dispatches from the frontier
showed: , v
Trondheim zone British and
French forces said to number 'up
to 55,000 men were reported
landed in Names sector north of
Trondheim and to have advanced
with artillery, toward the Stelnk
jer sector, where the ' Germans
dug in for a defensive stand after
isolatlnf Hegra fortress. Allied
troops also were reported landed
in the face of nazl aerial attacks
at the railroad port of Andalsnes,
115 miles south of Trondheim on
Romsdalsfjord.
Another Report
Still other reports said that the
British had ' troops at Orkdal,
which Is only 20 miles south of
Trondheim, for a pincers attack
on the Germans. But neutral ex
perts here doubted that the allies
had been able to reach Orkdal and
believed that they were more like
ly to use the railroad from An
dnlsnes ln an effort to crush tha
Germans lit Trondheim from the
south while the allied troops at
Steinkjer at'acked from the north.
Germans in the Trondheim zone
were reported to have built up
strong defensive fortifications and
to have mined bridges and roads.
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