Eugene register-guard., August 13, 1940, Image 2

Page Two.
Plywood Officials
Visit In County
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Nurenburg of Fort Worth, Texas
Paul Peltier of Brooklyn, New
York; E. A. Wright of Lo An
geles; Paul Trojel, assistant treas
urer and manager for the Spring'
field plant.
Mr. Willis was the speaker from
the group for the Rotary meeting.
"This is the lumber age," he told
the group, adding: "Lumber has
never failed man. There have been
failures in the lumbering bus!
ncss, but it was not the failure of
lumber." He then went on to re
cite the many uses of lumber and
how it has stood the test above
11 other constructl'jnal materials.
He mildly scored Portland when
he mentioned the fact a new air
field hffngar there Is of steel, while
in Chicago a tew miles from a big
steel center they had found lumber
in demand for hangars over steel,
Lumber is safer under fire than
any other material, Mr. Willi;
slated. Concreto is likely to ex
plodc, steel pours down on you.
Lumber will char, but when the
fire is over usually there is much
salvage while nothing but junk is
left from other materials, he said
failures in use of concrete are
so common and taken so for grant
ed they are not news, where, If a
boat, an airplane, or other object
has wood In it news stories play
up big what happened to wood
Mr. Willis commented. He recited
a time when a news story came out
with a big headline on a wooden
boat blowing up, when as a matter
of fact it was the boiler that had
blown up and the boiler was not
made of wood, he said.
Discussing some airplane acel
dents the speaker said considerable
stress was placed on the term
"wooden plane," when it was a
metal gadget that had failed, and
it was an engine that had failed
"and engines are not made of
woQd." He recited many Important
uses of wood used in construction
In the steel centers of the nation,
the' wood being used because It is
safer and wears longer.
Mr. Willis mentioned the sta
tistics In the east revealing that
many, many of the new homes are
belAg constructed as 100 per cent
wood ones.
Conscription Fight
Draws Wheeler
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of tpe world does he Intend to send
outi men these millions of men
he eeks to conscript when the
array and all expert military au
thority agree that only 400,000 ad
ditional are required for ample na
. tloilal defense?"
Bg. Gen. William E. Shedd said
meanwhile, that the amount of
Umf required by congress to con-
biqv conscription legislation naa
brntight about a postponement of
wij department plans to have
BOOiOOO men In uniform early this
fain
We department now plans to
haJe 900,000 men In uniform by
January 1, Shedd said, "and even
that is an optimistic program."
The assistant chief of staff In
charge of personnel appeared be
COMING
fore the house military committee
as the senate began its third day
of debate on the Burke-Wads-worth
compulsory service bill un
der which men between 21 and
30, inclusive, would be required to
register for service.
The army schedule had called
for registration in September and
for 400,000 conscripts called to the
colors October 1. Shedd did not
touch upon any new time for reg
istration but testified that the fact
that conscription legislation had
not been approved, together with
its necessary appropriations, had
necessitated revision of the pro
gram. His outline of the program
showed that the army included
regular soldiers, volunteers, and
conscript trainees in the 900,000
troops. Legislation for calling up
the national guard and other re
serve categories for training and
use anywhere In this hemisphere
has been passed by the senate and
was approved by the house mili
tary committee yesterday.
It won legislative right of way
to the house floor from the rules
committee today.
The senate military committee,
meanwhile decided to Invite Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman of New
York to testify Thursday on his
plan for creating home guard units
equipped by the federal govern
ment These would serve only in
home defence.
In the compulsory service de
bate Senator Burke (D Neb.) as
serted that the controversy had
been reduced to a single Issue
whether voluntary enlistments
would produce sufficient recruits
to man the nation's defenses
sneedlly. Opponents of conscrip-
lon have advocated the volunteer
system. Proponents, including
Burke, say voluntary enlistment
would not produce the men
needed.
Tart Has Plan
Senator Taft,' (R., Ohio) earlier
had proposed that the United
system of voluntary military
States create a permanent special
training, rather than resort to con
scription. As the senate resumed Its debate
on the controversial Burke-Wad-worth
comDUlsory service bill.
Taft offered a substitute plan
which he said was designed to
build up and maintain a reservoir
of 1.900,000 trained men.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky,
the democratic leader, voiced op
position however, to any substitute
or compromise measures .which
would delay Inauguration of a con
scription program.
With two days of debate In the
record, Barkley observed that
things were "going along pretty
well" and told reporters he thought
the senate would vote against
postponing a draft law to experi
ment further with voluntary en
listment plans as anti-conscrip-
tionists have urged.
Joe Gordon
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Bonneville Asked
For Home Rule Vord
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per kwh delivered. Emergency or
break-down relief to be supplied
at same rate.
On Section II
Discussion at Monday night's
meeting turned mainly on Sec
tion 11 of the proposed contract
together with "Exhibit D" (Bon
neville's general regulations con
cerning the management of cus
tomer utilities and the rates they
shall charge) and whether Sec
tion II, as rewritten by Bonne
ville's lawyers meets Eugene's
demand that the principle of
"home rule" shall be definitely
and unequivocally recognized. Sec
tion 11 reads:
"11. Stipulations as to Resale
Rates and Service. In view of the
fact that for a long term of years
the city has followed sound poli
cies and practices, substantially as
set forth In general terms in Ex
hibit "D" attached hereto, in the
operation and administration of
its electric utility, and has estab
lished relatively low rates for the
benefit of its electric consumers,
it is considered unnecessary to in
clude in this contract any specific
resale rate stipulations for effect
uating the purposes of the Bon
neville Act of August 21. 1937.
"The city agrees to supply the
administrator, for his files during
the term of the contract, copies of
schedules of all its rates and
charges for electric energy, and
such alterations and changes
therein as may be put into effect
from time to time.
"During the term of this con
tract, the administrator shall not,
without written consent of th
Eugene water board, sell of offer
to sell power to any Individual or
any publicly or privately owned
agency or industry now served
by the city, or to any customer
now within, or hereinafter locat
ing within the territory served by
the city."
The question was raised In the
Water board meeting as to whe
ther the first paragraph of Sec
tion 11, by reason of its peculiar
wording, and taken in connection
With Exhibit "D" will not bind
the city to recognize Dr. Raver's
claim "to keep Uncle Sam in the
driver's seat" in resale rate mak
ing instead of binding Bonneville
to recognize the Eugene claim to
complete Home Rule at all times.
At the suggestioil of Board Pres
ident Percy Brown it was pro
posed that Administrator Raver be
asked to accept the following
amendment and addition to the
first paragraph of Section 11:
". . . . and the Bonneville Ad
ministrator recognizes the city's
right to complete Home Rule in all
its rates and operations."
When negotiations with Bon
neville were in early stages Bon
neville incurred vigorous protest
by seeking the right to transmit
and sell over Eugenes municipal
lines, and the last paragraph of
Section 11 embodies a specific re
nunciation of this contention, but
in view of some of the Eugene
people an equally specific and
forthright declaration on the
Home Rule section is just as im
portant.
The question was raised as to
whether Bonneville has not re
tained "by implication" the right
THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE. OREGON
to meddle with Eugene's rate con
trols, and whether as worded the
first paragraph of Section 11 and
Exhibit "D' might not later lead to
troubles unless there Is added a
flat-footed declaration recognizing
the Home Rule principle.'
Eugene, with 30 years of suc
cessful operation, the lowest con
sumer rates in the United States
among cities of its class, and a
strong cash position has made a
stubborn fight f r complete recog
nition of the home rule principle
and the Eugene stand has had
pronounced influence, on the whole
campaign to extend public owner
ship in Oregon.
"I think we should lay the pro
posed contract before' the people
of Eugene and invite their criti
cisms and suggestions before we
make any final commitments," said
Mr. Brown.
He pointed out that the Bonne
ville tieup is desired mainly to re
duce overload during the next year
or so while the additional gener
ators (now under contract) are be
ing installed, and to insure good
service in case of breakdowns, al
though by cutting in the steam
standby plant the Eugene system
could probably tide through any
ordinary emergency without Bon
neville power.
German Blitzkrieg's
Fall Imminent
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ulna; early tonight, the agency said,
with new waves of German bomb
ers and dive-bombers again and
again roaring over the British
coasts in the late summer- twi
light Almost every wave, ft said con
tains tight wedges of high-flying
bombers escorted by swift, mobile
Messerchmitt fighters and destroy
er planes.
So effective are these flying
wedges, DNB declared, that they
have broken through the British
defenses and, apparently, have not
been compelled once to veer off
before reaching their objectives.
Exact figures on plane losses
announced that air battles were
waging over Portsmouth, Alder
shot and other points over the
English channel and elsewhere as
the Germans sought to bomb mil
itary targets.
Earlier in the day It had been
at the moment were not available.
But the Germans insisted in gen
eral that their losses were light
and those of the British heavy.
In a German bomber raid on the
harbor of Walsend, between New
castle bombs caused widespread
fires in storehouses and ware
houses. Five minutes after the
missiles fell, the agency said, a
terrific detonation was heard.
No Damage
British chasers and anti-aircraft
batteries trying to repel t'.'.e be-fore-dawn
nazi raiders were un
able to prevent the attack or even
inflict damage, DNB declared.
It said fierce air battles develop
ing over the channel and along the
coast, cost the British "a great
number of chasers" as German
fliers succeeded in breaking
through aerial defenses to bomb
previously designated targets.
The German wireless said Brit
ish losses today alone were 69
against only 7 for Germany.
In the British losses were 16
planes said to have been shot
down in two attacks on the "for
tified town" of Aalborg, Denmark.
Only seven raiders escaped, the
radio said. Others were listed as
destroyed in the assault on Eng
land. The attack destroyed planes on
runways and hangars at an air
port at Portsmouth, DNB said,
adding that fires were observed
In the port after both
weight and heavy bombs had been
rained on It.
Informed circles estimated the
number of British planes shot
down In today's first encounters
at between 20 and 30.
Meanwhile, DNB said, nazi
planes reconnoltering the channel
sank two British patrol boats off
Godwin sands, west of Deal.
In Its reports on activity todav.
DNB said the Germans downed 14
British planes and lost five In air
battles over Eastchurch on the
Thames, Portsmouth and Alder
shot. Bombing attacks severely dam
aecd airports at these points, start
ing fires and wrecking uncounted
planes on the ground, the niw
agency declared.
The high command, reiterating
the DNB reports, added that night
raiding German planes had at
tacked shipping at Swansea nnrt
Cardiff, both in Wales and also
anti-aircraft and searchlight bat-
itrics ai i iymoutn and Humhr.
mouth. Plymouth Is on the rhm.
nel and Humbermouth on the
east coast
Its communioue also rrnor(,4 o
dive-bomber attack on a "strong,
ly protected convoy," and said
that, "despite hectic defense by
chasers and anti-aircraft," two
merchantment totaling 5,500 tons
were sunk.
One of the British patrol boats
reported sunk, it disclosed, was
speedboat, one of a group which
battled in the North sea with
squadron of German mine-sweep- I
ers. None of the German hin i
was damaged, the rnmmnnin... i
declared. j
TEAL DIES
PORTLAND. Aug. 1.1
Henry Teal, 68. Portland financial
and business leader for mnv
years, died here early today. He
was the son of Colonel Joseph Teal,
a well known figure in the early
days at Eugene.
More than 90 per cent of all
motor-vehicle trips are for dij.
Umccs ot less than 30 miles.
British Stubbornly
Resist Germans
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over a wide area, embracing in
land gunnery stations one of
them within half a mile of where
a big Dornler bomber crashed this
morning with bomb racks still half
full.
These mobile batteries and troop
concentrations are scattered from
the coast to several miles' Inland.
On nearby roads, new type barri
cades, designed to block invaders
and yet to permit swift movement
of defending troops, are being
erected.
The Germans, by British admis
sion, drove tneir strongest waves
today across an 80-mile pathway
from the Thames estuary to the
Sussex coast of southern England,
but they struck at distant object
ives, too.
Hour Near.
(On both Berlin and the neutral
listening posts of Switzerland, the
belief was expressed that Adolf
Hitler's air force had all but com
pleted its familiar preparation for
direct assault and that an attempt
at actual Invasion' was imminent
possibly within the next 72 hours).
The official account of today's
raids was guarded.
It did. however concede that the
main attack was lengthened to take
in the bombing of both seaside
towns and country districts in
Hampshire, as well as the stretch
from Sussex to the Thames.
(Thus Portsmouth, great naval
base sheltered by both the Sussex
and Hampshire coasts, obviously
was again a principal target).
"A few. casualties, some fatal"
were officially admitted.
The authorized accounts, how
ever, stressed the damage done by
the British Spitfire and Hurricane
fighter defenders. '
One squadron of Spitfires, it was
stated, chased a large formation
of Dornier bombers across the
channel toward France and "dam.
aged at least five." Another Spit
fire group engaged more than 30
Dorniers five miles above the
Kentish coast.
Four Attacked
A British flying officer was de
clared to have attacked four Ger
man bombers "one after the other,
silencing the rear gunner in two
of them and seeing thick clouds of
smoke pouring from a third as it
dived crippled toward the sea."
Over the Thames estuary, the
waterway to London, two dozen
Dorniers flying in tight wadge for
mation, were attacked by a group
of Spitfires. The official account
said that a sergeant pilot who al
ready had shot dovn eight German
Dlanes, "saw the rear guard of a
bomber he had attacked jump out
by parachute." The plane fell to
ward the water. ' i
Reports from one southeast coast
town said at least six German
planes were shot down off two
points in that area.
Ominous undertones to the day
of aerial struggle were continued
reports, trickling belatedly through
the censor, of the reported shelling
by long-range cannon yesterday of
one southeast coastal town. House
holders were unaimous In their be
lief that shells, not bombs, caused
damage to houses. However, au
thorities said there was no con
firmation "at all" of the reported
cannonade.
The extent of today's mass em
ployment of raiding planes was
pointed up by one story which said
that Hurricane fighters, trying to
stem the invasion over the Sussex
coast, engaged 50 bombers Dor
niers, Helnkels and Junkers and
that "a long way behind were 50
Messerschmltt fighters, flying at
15.000 feet."
Despite the hundreds of plant
which the Germans used today and
the "zero hour" predictions from
the continent, some British experts
said they didn't believe the battle
yet had reached "blitzkrieg force."
Germany, they asserted, can af
ford to send a thousand planes a
day against England in an attempt
to smash aerial resistance. They
speculated, too, on the possibility
that the reich may choose to main
tain an aerial blockade of England
to bring her to her knees before
winter, rather than a frontal as
sault. The aeronautical correspondent
of Reuters, the British news agen
cy, said such a blockade was "a
Mondays thru Fridays
10:30 a. m.
weapon even more deadly than the
submarines with which Germany
nearly brought off the (starvation)
attempt in 1917."
Mrs. Brattain Dies
In Florence Monday
FLORENCE, Aug. 13 (Special)
Mrs. Alice G. Brattain of Flor
ence died at her home Aug. 12.
She was born Feb. 10, 1868, Alice
G. Vincent, in Buchanan, Mich.
She and her husband lived in
Paisley, Ore., and then moved to
Camp Creek. Later they moved to
Springfield, and in 1920 to Flor
ence, where they have lived since
that time.
She is survived by her husband,
Edgar E. Brattain, and the follow
ing children: Creed, Eugene: Mrs.
Alberta Rice, Florence; Mrs. Eva
Counts, Springfield; Miss Helen
Brattain, Florence; Mrs. Esther
Cooper, Florence; Mrs. Hazel
Gardner, Eugene; Mrs. Ruth Mc
Cullough, Marshfield; Wilbur,
Powers; and Edgar, Coquille. The
following brothers and sisters also
survive her: Bert Vincent, Vida;
John Vincent, Medford; Mrs. Ethel
Sanke, Marcola; Mrs. Edith Lari
mer. Springfield; and Mrs. Adeline
Sapp, North Bend. .
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday, Aug. 14, at the Evan-
gelical church in Florence, Rev. i
Jameson officiating. Services will !
be at 2 o'clock. Interment la to
be in the Masonic cemetery.
Clarence R. Irvin
Dies In Monroe
Clarence R. Irvin, 41, well
known building contractor and
cabinet maker of Monroe died
suddenly Saturday in Corvallis
where he was transacting business.
He was the husband of the late
Dorothea Elizabeth Irvin and the
son of Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Irvin,
all of Monroe. He was born in
West Cairo'Ohio, May 8, 1899, and
had also lived in Oklahoma and
Colorado before moving with his
parents to Boise, Idaho, in 1913.
He married Dorothea E. Irvin June
2, 1930, at Los Vegas, Nev. Later
the family moved to western Ne
braska where Mr. Irvin assisted In
constructing the reservoirs for the
city of Denver water system. He
came to Oregon five years ago,
and a year later came to Monroe
where he has lived since that time.
Mr. Irvin was active in civic
and fraternal circles. He had
been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church since childhood
having united with the First M. E.
church of Boise, Idaho, where his
name still appears on the World
war honor roll. At the time of his
death he was serving as vice grand
of Alpine lodge No. 197, 1. O. O. F.
and was also a member' of Perin
Edwards post No. 112, American
Legion, Boise, Idaho, lodge No.
310, Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks and the South Benton
grange.
Besides his widow and parents
he is survived by a brother, J. Ed
ward Irvin, Santa Ana, Cat, and
oUier'relatives. ,.
The remains are at the Keeney
funeral home in Corvallis, and
plans for the funeral service will
be announced later.
Prescott Committee
Busy With Airport
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that may pass federal require
ments. Ownership maps and as
sessed valuations on these prop
erties are being drawn up, ani
when that job is completed, legal
descriptions will be obtained and
options will be drafted.
Following that, the properties
will be studied, and options will
be secured on the most- suitable
site.
Next Wednesday the commit
tee will meet to report on progress
made, and at that time the mem
bers will go Into the matter of
finding means to finance the pro
ject. Other members, besides the
chairman and councilmen named,
are Mahlon Sweet and Earl Mc
Nutt of the chamber of commerce;
and Paul Campbell, realtor.
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell
patented an apparatus for trans
mitting "two or more signals sim
ultaneously" on a single wire.
COLORED GLOVES REDYED
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Dorena Dam Job
Is Next For Army
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eluding the spillway, of 2,095 feet.
The dam itself will be made of
earth, while the spillway structure
will be Concrete.
Estimated cost ot the dam and
reservoir, including costs of lands
and highway relocation, is about
$2,440,000.
The spillway is a sravltv
overflow structure with crest
lengtn oi 204 teet and a maximum
reight above its foundation of
about 90 feet,
Water will flow over the spill
way only In times of excessive
floods when, after the reservoir is
full and the inflow exceeds th. .
pacity of the outlet conduits, the
pool win rise and cause the excess
CLEARANCE
Last Three Days!
A last 3 day clearance sale that gives you turfu
reductions in broken lots and sizes. All are o
t cellent values ... you'll lind merchandise C
that is unexcelled for back-to-school and to use
in the early fall. Be sure to check these last fa,
days' values.
Corsets & Foundations . . $
Broken lots of fine foundation garments that told toJ
i n ... .k tut -ii : H
Hum w fid. nut an uzes in any one miKe.
HoUSe CoatS pastels and prints. .
Hosiery Clearance
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Berkshire Silk Hosiery 3, i and 6 thread .
Regular 89c, Now - - - - -
Artcraft Hosiery, 3-thread
Reg. $1.35 Now - - - - -
Artcraft Hosiery, 2-thread
Reg. $1.35 and $1.50 ......
Summer Dresses
A group of dresses that would make good all diy dm I
the house. Sizes: 12 to 44. &n nn til
Reg. 7.95 to $14.95, Now i)0.33 to )Q4
Slack Suits
Sizes 12 to 16 only
Reg. $8.95 and $7.95, Now
Denim Play Clothes
Broken sizes in slacks, sun suit, jacked, lUrfe
culottes and shorts.
Reg. 1.95 Now
Reg, 2.95 Now
7 Play Suits Skirts to Match
Were $8.95 to $9.95, Now - . . - -
One Group Sweaters .
Reg. 1.95 to 2.95
on SDecial -
Slip on and Cardigan styles. Sizes 82 to 40.
Summer Skirts
Reg. $2.95 Now - -
Reg. $3.95 and. $4.95 Now
,Rsg. $5.95 and $7,95 Now
Boys' Kaynee Wash Suits 2 pc
Lona and Short Pants, Sizes 2 to 6
Heguiar sz.as wow - - -, - - . . $l
rieguiar ifi.so wow
BOYS' KAYNEE SUN SUITS SlM I S
Regular $1.00 Now '
GIRLS' PLAY SUITS
2 and 3-pc. Size 1 to 14
Girls' Wash Dresses
t t.. d... nnjt otin Sizes 3 to M
X)lUiCIl 010 dim on....-
; Regular $1.25 Now J
. Regular $1.95 Now j;J
'Regular $2.95 Now
One Group Children's Swim Suits
Sizes 2sto 14
ALL Y PRICE
Sheets that exceed government 'SSfar
stronger . . . wear longer. Double "P T5 a esn
strength, index tabs so you can ei J ' . Au
width for each bed. These are special pn
Sale. d
81x108 -
72x108
PUlOW Cases, 42x3,ea.
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Grove reservolT jq
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general hospital f3
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