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ON STREETS Ic; NEWS STANDS 5a
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Raos Mmiey Wafe Tristan "Kidnaped
ounty Fair
Soes Booming
Sto LastDay
Ld Concert, Rodeo,
jaiideville On Program
for Saturday Night
8, GLENN HASSELROOTH
il. tj.ne county fairgrounds Is
adin. ahead with the gusto and
0( a pioneer "boom town"
JJ week-end, as attendance rec
Z, are shattered and thousands
Jfairgoers pronounce the 1940
juration the "best ever."
. dampness and chill of the
m two days of the fair have
Lm away to xne waouui nu
i -i-.., nt TnHinn summer.
HRn w --,
Lj. the Friday attendance to
! to more than 13,000, according
hliures released Saturday aft
Looo by Fred Knox, fair man
iTGate receipts totalled $1,730
fj, including season tickets
y m even larger take is pre
taj for Saturday.
I ftiday night's rodeo at the sta
ifcn, preluded by the pageant
niew, attracted a crowd such as
Imium might have been proud
jhe visitors jamming the
fnfotand to the tune of more
aa 4,300 admissions.
IHwas a, fine day," and every
y was happy," Manager Knox
lorofnted on Friday's fair. "I
tont heard a grouch from any
&y. And everything indicates
Ht Saturday will be even bigger
in Friday."
Te-nifht Last Night
I Sturday is "Lane county day"
H fair directors expect residents
11 parts of the district really
"go to town"? with the celebra-
that are planned for Satur-
? night which definitely will
kilt last of the fair.
fsturday afternoon's festivities
r started witn tne Dana concert
130. followed by the races and
Wevllle acts at the stadium.
4l night's activities at the sta
in will include the band concert
iWO, vaudeville acts at 7:45, and
rodeo at 8:45. Henry Chris
ten reports ' that the "best
las'1 have been saved for to
ld, and promises a rip-roaring
te tor all attending.
I Hi carnival and the stands
ta "lemonade alley," the while,
letting ready for the final
it oi business. Fireworks will
ttlen up the skies at 10 o'clock,
k the funmaking will continue
Walter.
fair Glances
Bj GLENN HASSELROOTH
and MARGARET RAY
tuny a faireoer exhibited
TOless astonishment in the
atrial building at the Lane
Wounds Friday noon during
fcipeech given by Mr. Roose-p-
A Register-Guard teletype
sine, placed near a blaring
"0, was tannine nff thA nmi.
!i words before he said them,
(""porter had to explain that
"ipeeches, political and other-
ahead, and often set up"
oeiore xne talk is ever
"orai expression over the air.
! fcwrs of the stands along
Jnade allcT" report that
C '4 drinks are taking a
Pat ln favor of not coffee.
'"Illy nights are respon-
c. .
VTr'ure of tne Pageant pre
r. riday night, which prob
Tnt unnoticed by the crowds
tr Pandstand was the joyful
C o' Doris Smith, beloved
C 'he past four pageants,
gjm8 and old members of
l casts. One by one they
down to say "hello" and
tofc,r.. work'nB with her
Wiouli, was encountered by
fister.Guard' photo
JT Larry Quinlan, in try
""P Pictures of the prise
5 Dtor George
vn.npn him ,.,,-
J stae once saying
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"lA.N INTEREST K-nnv
Winners at Pageant Preview
Described; Doris Smith Says
Canadians to Help in 1941
1 By MARGARCT SAV
Tr-7liSfgon heels wU1 fl8ain ro11 dwn the Oregon
Trail and 4,000 people join in the work and fun of an even
Pa.8eanV" 1941 ifJriday night's preview at the Lane
county fair the enthusiastic grandstand crowds are a
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'Goiiv' ay'
Guar sfed
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Nam. Recruits
Help Swell Roster
Kiss the boys good-bye!
Here are the local guardsmen
to whom Eugene will bid farewell
for a year.
Word was received at guard
headquarters Saturday morning
that guardsmen will entrain at
:ou a. m. Monday.
The names of a large number
of new recruits have been added
to the rosters of the four local
units of national guard that will
leave next Monday for Camp Mur
ray, in Washington, to begin their
year's intensive training as units
in the regular army.
All units have been recruited to
practically their full strength.
Captain C. A. Mahany of Com
pany C said Friday there may be
two or three vacancies yet to fill
in his company. The rosters of the
different companies follow:
MEDICAL DETACHMENT :
Major Delbert C. Stanard, commanding.
Captains. William H. Chapman
John P. MacKinnon, Richard S.
Kogers, Webster K. Ross.
First lientenant, Robert W.
Sleeter.
Staff sargeant, Edward V.
O'Reilly; sergeants, James Moun
tain, William C. Peltier, Richard
T. Smith.
Corporal, Lloyd E. Sutton.
Privates, first class, Charles E,
Cunningham, Ralph P. Huestis,
fcigin L Lester, Eugene C. Mur
SEE
DEPARTING
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STORY
father News
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Generally fair to-
t5h(ou"tla5r. Cooler on
and in west portion
l. ' !entle variable wind oft
feVah,u'Bra.u:
fes. .rrjture. Saturday
fcVffi Thursday, 75.8 de
na. t noon, Saturday,
hnS? Record: staKe '
nv..'11 in tueeni at 7
--"ay, .2.60 Ice
550 Infantrymen
Camp Near Airport
The brown straggly weeds In
the flat fields north of the munici
pal airport were trampled under.
foot Friday by the soldiers of the
first battalion, 30th infantry, who
moved in from the north, pitched
mess and pup tents, and encamped
overnight.
Five hundred and fifty of them,
under the command of Major E.
M. Sutherland, made an impres
sive sight as they rolled in from
Vancouver barracks in their
motorized convoy of 80 trucks,
and small, envious boys gathered
'round to watch the soldiers en
camp, go through drills, and
answer mess call.
The men were returning from
Fort Lewis, Washington, to their
barracks at the Presidio in San
Francisco, and after buzzing
around town during the after
noon and evening, and taking in
the fair Friday night, the battal
ion arose Saturday morning and
left for the south at 5:30.
Officers said the men were in
top shape, despite Intensive drill
ing and a 100-mile, six-day hike
from Fort Lewis to Vancouver
where trucks awaited to trans
port them to San Francisco.
Lt.-Col. L. A. LaGarde was the
medical officer, while command
ers were Capt. Robert L. Cook,
company A; Major Maynard B.
Carter, company B; Major Aus
tin F. Gilmartin. company ana
Major William B. Force, com
pany D.
A pageant of national and inter,
national magnitude given in co.
operation with the British Colunv
bia Canadians, honoring the com
mon ideals of freedom and dem
ocracy of these two great western
nations, and celebrating the 100
years of unfortified borders and
peaceful settlement of disputes is
the dream of pageant board mem'
bers and pirector Doris Smith.
This plot was presented to the
crowd by Mrs. Smith who an
nounced that-the people of Brit
ish Columbia are ready to cooper
ate in any way they possibly can
considering their present part in
me war.
I want all of you people in
tne grandstand to be on the stage
with me next, year," Doris Smith
enmusiastically cried. "We're go.
ing to have a cast of 4,000 next
year, and make it the biggest show
in the Northwest! Tonight I want
each and everyone of you, here
on me stage and up In the grand
stand, to appoint yourself a com.
mittee of one to interest others
to talk pageant to begin to plan
for next summer, and to urge and
help others to plan. A pageant is
tne true expression of a democ
racy the individual carrying ac.
corning to his capacity this re
sponsibility."
Pageant of Democracy
"What better place could be
found for a joint Canadian and
American celebration, such as this
man on me pacific coast and in
the Willamette valley," Mrs. Smith
went on to say, "where these two
peoples lived under joint govern
ment until 1843, and in the years
following continued to ioin peace
ful hands across the border at the
end of the trail? Let your imagi
nations go see how timely how
great and how universal this will
make the Oregon Trail Pageant.
This is our opportunity to tell j
brutal old world .that the new
world has been, is, and always will
be democratic."
Highlight of the four-day fair to
many persons was this preview in
which some of the familiar scenes
from previous pageants were re
enacted and the appearance . of
Doris Smith, veteran and beloved
director of the drama. The eve
ning's program opened with a fan
fare o'f trumpets, after which the
Eugene municipal band began the
familiar . pageant theme song,
"Land of Hope and Glory." W. F.
G. Thachcr, author of the pageant
script, and pioneer in the 1937
performance then took the stage
to recite the prologue:
. "Hear me, Oh people! , '
I am the Pioneer, the Explorer,
the Adventurer
From the first faint dawn of
unremembered time,
It was I who lead the sons of
men
Forth on their primordial pil
grimage. . . ."
Next event on the program was
a parade of the various entrants
in the preview contest along the
track in. front of the grandstand
and the awarding of prizes. The
prize winners came to the center
of the stage to receive their rib
bons from Mr. Thacher, master of
ceremonies, and then repeated
their performances of the after
noon judging.
Winners Listed
Led bv two Eugene Radiators In
their snappy white suits with red
buttonnieres and canes, the par
ade moved forward amid applause
from the grandstands the Junior
high and high school chorus young
people in pioneer dress, Hugh
Simpson, the Lone Cowboy, with
his guitar: Karl F. Love, a pros
pector; C. D. Farmer as Jim Bridg
er, Ulysses Ellmaker as Abe Lin
coln; Patricia Edwards and her
Grangers Pull
Cowboys Under
Ross Mathews' grangers were
ready and wait in' in front of the
grandstands when the tug-o'-war
call came Friday night at the fair
groundsbut E. H. "Bulldog"
Peterson and his horde of busi
nessmen did not show up to yank
on the other end of the rope.
It was just as well they didn't,
because the master of ceremonies
quickly substituted half a dozen
cowpunchers, who grunted and
hauled and finally went down to
inglorious defeat before the well
trained grange crew.
Bulldog Peterson explained Sat
urday that every businessman in
town was out In the woods hunt
ing deer, and wouldn't come home
for a tug-o'-war.
SEE WINNERS STORY
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McNary Takes
Wallace To Task
Says Demo Opponent
Dodges Farm Issue
AURORA, 111., Sept. 21. U.R
Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon
opened his republican vice-presidential
campaign today with a
pledge to free domestically-consumed
American farm products
from competition with world price
levels.
He accused his democratic op
ponent, former Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace, of dodg
ing the farm issue in his campaign
speeches.
McNary proposed creating a
marketing allotment plan that
would divide the American farm
output into two classes segregat
ing the part required for domestic
consumption from the part to oe
known as "the exportable sur
plus." '
, He said It would "allot to each
farmer his fair share in the Amer
ican market upon which he will
receive parity price- and assured
the farmer his equitable share in
the national income.
"Too long a world of lower
standards of living, lower wages
and lower incomes has fixed the
prices of American agricultural
products. Let us end that situa
tion without delay," McNary said.
McNary made his first campaign
speech on behalf of himself and
Wendell L. Willkie, his presiden
tial running mate, before a rural
audience at an Illinois rally in
Exposition park.
"Wallace Avoids Issue"
He chided Wallace for seeking to
hang an appeasement label on re
publicans and transferring his
campaign from the farm belt to
Europe.
"I fear that Mr. Wallace seeks
a change of venue," he said. "The
device is familiar. When I was a
young lawyer out in Oregon, we
observed that shrewd counsel, In
defending a weak case, preferred
being as far from the scene of the
crime as possible when he went to
trial.
Mr. Wallace has been physically
present in the farm belt during the
last few weeks, but his uttered
thoughts, have been far, far away."
McNary reaffirmed his own de
scription of Wallace as a "high
minded and sympathetic secretary
of agriculture" but added that as a
vice presidential candidate Wallace
was "energetic, - articulate but
mischievous in argument."
Lorane Hunters Report
First Deer Of Season
Ben Briggs and Lewis Briggsof
Lorane started off the open sea
son on . deer Friday morning by
bagging two mule deer in the
Ochoco mountains of central Ore
gon at 8 a. m. The season official-
Jy opened at 6:05 a. m.
The Briggs brothers reported
their kill in Troeh's sporting goods
store at 4:30 p. m., having made
good time all around. The ani
mals weighed 200 and 165 pounds
each.
Old Greeting to UO Freshmen Uncovered
By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
While rummaging through some
old papers recently Mrs. Ellen M.
Pennell of 541 Twelfth avenue
east, Eugene, came across a manu
script containing notes for a wel
coming address made to Univer
sity of Oregon students three dec
ades ago.
The notes were on the presi
dent of the university s siaiion-
ery and in the nanawmin ;
Prince Campbell, presiaenim
the university from 1902 to 1925.
Mrs. Pennell, who was instruc
... i. cnti.h and assistant dean
Df women in 1909 and who later
was associate professor of the his
tory of art. said that the president
gave the notes to her after using
them in greeting new students
several times.
Mrs. Pennell pointed out Satur
day that Dr. Campbell's words are
as timely today as when they
were written.
The notes follow:
THE OFFER OF THE COLLEGE
"To be at home in all lands
and ages; to count Nature a fa
miliar acquaintance and Art an
intimate friend; to gain a stand
ard for the appreciation of
other men's work and the crit
icism of your own; to carry the
keys of the world's library In
your pocket, and feel its re
sources behind you in whatever
task you undertake; to make
hosts of friends among the men
of your own age who are to be
leaders In all walks of life; to
lose yourself In generous en
thusiasms and cooperate with
others for common ends; to
learn maimers from students
who are g e n 1 1 e m e n . (and
ladies), and form character un
der professors who are Chris
tians: This is the offer of the
college for the best four years
of your life."
At the bottom of the sheet was
signed the name of William De
Witt Hyde. Mrs. Pennell thinks It
probable that the notes are a quo
tation from some of the writings
of Dr. Hyde, a former president
of Bowdoin college in Maine who
died in 1917 after having writ
ten m'ne books, one of which was
"The Teacher'i Philosophy."
British Bombers
Bast War Bases
Of Dictators
Axis Hints Spain
May Enter Conflict -Against
Great Britain
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
(United Press Foreign Editor)
British bombers blasted with
mounting fury at German and
Italian war bases from Europe to
Africa today to offset steady Nazi
air raids on the British Isles and
Axis hints that Spain might soon
enter the conflict.
Daylight raids on London and
other targets in southeastern
England continued at a slackened
pace following a night in which
bombing of 35 districts in the
London area was carried out so
sporadically that the harassed
population got a chance to sleep
for the first time in two weeks.
But British bomber pilots got
little rest. Throughout much of
the night they showered high ex
plosives on German "invasion"
bases across (he calm but foggy
English channel, and blasted Nazi
airports, harbors and communica
tions lines as far as western Ger
many, one of their most power
ful counter-blows of the war.
Berlin Verifies Many Raids "
Dispatches from Berlin ad
mitted for the first time that
steady, powerful British raids had
I been made for weeks on the
French side of the English chan
nel where the Germans have been
reported massing boats and men
at Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend, and
other oorts tor a possible inva
sion of Britain.
German attacks on Britain were
described by the Nazis as success
ful in smashing with the aid qf
new fog-piercing apparatus at
British industrial and communica-
lions objectives, especially rail
road- icenters in the LondAn area
which are vital to British defense.
In Africa, the Italians admitted
that British planes which have
been bombing fascist concentra
tions in the Sidi Barranl area had
again attacked the big Libyan
port of Benghazi, but said that
Italian pilots had "Intensely" re
plied by bombing railroads, store
houses and defenses around Marsa
Matruh. The British base at Aden
also was again reported attacked
and British convoys were bombed
in the Red Sea.
Egypt Drive Stalled
Official communiques, however,
Indicated that the Italian offen
sive into Egypt was momentarily
In a lull, with the fascists holding
Sidi Barrani,
The African campaign and the
role of Spain in the war appeared
have been of greatest Importance
In the discussions of Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop
with Italian Premier Benito Mus
solini at home. The fascist press,
led by the newspaper I Telegrafo
of Foreign Minister Count Gale
azzo Ciano, asserted that In the
decisive phase of the war. Spain
would line up with Italy and Ger
many. In the Balkans, Bulgarian troops
began taking over the south Dob
rudja area ceded by ' Rumania
without incident.
In South America, the Uru
guayan government arrested a
number of Germans charged by a
recent investigating committee
with activities against the state.
One of those reported arrested was
described as the leader of a Nazi
movement throughout South
America. Others were reputed
German agents or propagandists.
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KIDNAPED CHILD Thrce-ycar-old' Mnrc do Tristan,
above, son of Count and Countess Marc do Tristan of Hills
borough, California, was taken from his nurse yesterday
afternoon by a man who struck or shoved (lie middle-aged
woman. The worried family is trying to got in touch with
the kidnaper to pay the $100,000 ransom demanded.
Odds Against Kidnappers
Of Tristan Child Held 93 to 1
By JAME J. TREBIG
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. (AP)-The kidnaper, or kid
napers, of 3-year-old Marc do Tristan took a 93 to 1 chance
of ending up in prison or worse.
since passage oi ino "kind
Indo-China Talks
Take Turn For Worse
HANOI, French Indo-China,
aepi. ii. vn Tne French Indo
China government reported a turn
for the worse today In negotiations
with Japan after there had been
indications the crisis had passed.
A government communique said
"a new shift has compromised"
tne negotiations and that the situa
tion was back where it was two
days ago when General Issaku
Nishihara packed up and prepar
ed to walk out of the conferences.
The negotiations were resumed
yesterday, the announcement said,
"" hen the viewpoints of both par-
ex- appeared drawing closer to
..tlicr," But new Japanese de
mands, It declared, have put a
monkey wrench in the proceedings.
VICHY, France, Sept. 21. P
Negotiations at Hanoi on Japanese
demands for military rights in
French Indo-China have entered I
difficult period "from which any
thing can be expected," the French
government announced today.
bergh" law in 192, the ' federal
bureau of Investigation has In
vestigated 187 kidnaping and
solved 185. The unsolved cases
are those of Charles Muttson, 10,
kidnaped at Tacoma, Wash., De
cember 27, 1936. and Peter Ir
vine, 12, New Rochcllc. N. Y.,
seized February 24, 1938. Both
boys were slain.
Their work adds up to this:
In the 188 solved kidnaplngs,
the G-men have gained 367 con
victions In which the courts have
Imposed 12 death sentences; 42 life
sentences; 3.952 years in prison;
72 years suspended; 108 years
probation, and $34,270 In fines.
Only 24 federal kidnap defendants
have been acquitted.
The "Lindbergh law," which
made kidnaping a capital offense,
resulted from the abduction and
slaying of the infant son of Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh from their Hopewell, N. J.,
home on March 1. 1932. Brunn
Richard Hauptmann was executed !
lor that crime.
Tristan Kidnaper
Faces Gas Or Life
Tijuana Business
Block Hit By Fire
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept 21.
(Pi The abductor of. thrce-ycar-old
Mnrc do Tristan, Jr., If
captured, will face execution in
the lethal gas chamber or life
imprisonment under California's
"little Lindbergh" law.
The punishment depends upon
Iho nature of the crime and the
decision of a Jury.
Section 209 of the penal code,
as amended in 1933, provides the
death penalty or life Imprison
ment without possibility of parole
if the victim suffers bodily harm,
and the latter sentence if he is not
harmed, in cases of kidnaping for
ransum.
An old child-stealing law, first
enacted in 1872, provides punish
ment by imprisonment not ex
ceeding 20 years for taking away
a minor child from its parents or
guardians.
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LEGION AT BOSTON
TIJUANA, Lower California,
Mex., Sept. 21. r A half-block
of thlr sleepy resort city's busi
ness district was leveled by fire
today, Including the federal postal-
telegraph building. Some of the
records In the latter were saved, here since 1930,
BOSTON. Sent. 21 (piThi.
city of almost 800,000 population
encountered a "spare room prob-
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of American Legionnaires arrlv-!
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mcir seconu national convention
Wealthy Family
Posts $100,000
For 3-Year-0ld
Police, FBI, Press
Withdraw From Hunt
At Family Request
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
HILLSBOROUGH, Cal.,
Sept. 21-(UP) The wealthy
and socially prominent family
of three-year-old Count Marc
De Tristan, Jr., met every de
mand of a hook-nosed kidnap
er today and, with $100,000
cash ready for ransom, waited
for him to make contact.
A classified ad in the San
Francisco Examiner told the
kidnaper the money was
ready and his terms had been
met.
The ad, offering a Lincoln
Zephyr 1938 four-door de luxe se
dan for sale at the bargain price
of $845 key words suggested by
the kidnaper was telephoned the
newspaper as ordered in a note
the abductor left behind yester
day noon when he seized the scion
of five of California's wealthiest
families, two of them nt th F.nk
nobility.
Police Withdraw
. The family also complied with
second condition and prevailed on
the federal bureau of Investigation
and other law enforcement agen
cies and on the press to withdraw.
With these conditions met, the
family assembled at the palatial
mansion of the Count and Countess
Marc de Tristan and waited for
the hook-nosed man's next step.
The home itself had the appear
ance of being deserted. Shades and
Venetian blinds had been drawn;
the driveway was clear of auto
mobiles;. the servants and the fam
ily kept Indoors.
The newspaper ad was a pledge
of good faith on part of the de
irisians. The kidnaper in his in
structions said that as soon as the
ad appeared the family would re
ceive further instructions. He ad
vised them not to try to communi
cate by other channels and said:
"Wait Until Vflll hflva ruiira n..-
next letter."
Fear For Safety -:'
But some authorities entertained
ffraVA fPflrfl fnp th aafatu. a, U
little victim, despite the kidnaper's
repeated assurances In a ransom
note that he would be well treated.
The kidnaOPr. n mnn hMura.. IK
and 50, apparently a Latin, with I
prumuiem nose, naa acknowledged
on unstable mind by signing the
note, "unconventional eccentric."
They were dealing with no
ordinarv criminni Hia AnA.vrnHi
ransom note had made that clear.
And he had bungled the Job from
the start. This caused authorities
some anxiety lest he bungle ir
revocably in thp Hnllnnt hiioir,.
of collecting the ransom and feel
nimseu unaer tne compulsion of
killing his baby victim to escape
detection.
A Bungler
The nnto wai nhuinnalu ulttM
hv D Uftll pHllrntArl nir,n ...Via ..m
derstood the subtleties of English
tense and mode, despite the clumsy
attempts of the writer to throw
Investigators off by misspelling
simple words. It was replete with
the phrases of the dilletante
"most charming" "unsocial mat
ter" "our little captive, (guest,
rather)."
The kidnaper's bungling gave
his crime the full light of public
ity almost before the parents were
aware of their tragedy. He park
ed his four-year-old Ford sedan
near the de Tristan estate at noon
SEE TRISTAN STORY
PAGE 4
Bartholomew Files
Petitions Friday
Phil Bartholomew, Springfield
funeral director, late Friday, filed
petitions with the county clerk's
office seeking to have his name on
the November ballot as an inde
pendent candidate for county cor
oner. The petitions will now have
to be checked at the clerk's office.
Mr. Bartholomew said he had
1700 signatures on the petitions,
800 more than were needed. He
would be the only independent
candidate running for a county of
fice in the November election,
other candidates having been plac
ed on the ballot through the May
primaries.
I. P. STRIKES AGAIN
MADISON, Wis., Sept, 21. 0l
Infantile paralysis last night
claimed the life of Mrs. Edward
T. Gernon, 31, the former Dorothy
Page, who won the women's west
ern golf championship when the
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