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case Saving been reported in
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fever and one of chickenpox
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p. X. Paul E. Anderson, county
fcu officer, stresses the im
r.!nce of immunization from
tie diseases. At the present
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ii urging all parents to have
fer children immunized or vac
Led as soon as possible, and to
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FDR Still
Wont Debate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. W
President Roosevelt, a secretary
said today, is not accepting Wen
dell L. Willkie's offer to share an
auditorium with him in Baltimore
October 30. ,1
Stephen Early, the president's
press secretary, said that rather
than in Baltimore or Washington
on that date Mr. Roosevelt prob
ably would speak at the academy
of music hall in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Asked whether the chief execu
tive had any disposition to accept
Willkie's challenge to debate,
Early remarked that it had been
'public challenge.
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ay and merchants were
Fed that henceforth no naked
fciies in display windows will
Crated.
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atch for undraped dum
P.oJmringa campaign against
racy which was started by
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Republican View
On Election Given
The third term, national de
fense, the matter of class hatred,
the unemployment question, and
the fiscal policy are issues in this
coming national election, accord
ing to Frank B. Reid, local at
torney, in presenting the repub
licans' viewpoint on the campaign
at the Kiwanis meeting, Monday
noon.
"One of the most important Is
sues Is the third term. It is vital
and fundamental to republicans
and democrats alike who under-
stand our government and the
safeguards for it in the constitu
tion and in traditions that have
grown up through actions of form
er statesmen," Mr. Reid comment
ed. The principle against a third
term is so important and so en
trenched there should be a change
in administration to insure con
tinuance of our democratic form
of government and the American
traditions and principles, the
speaker added. He pointed out
that the statesmen who set up our
government spent much thought
and effort in working out the
checks and balances that would
keep the three branches of gov
ernment functioning, realizing
that should the executive branch
become dominant over the others
that democracy would be gone. If
the third term is allowed there is
no guarantee there will not be a
fourth, fifth, or sixth term, with
the new deal, through its great
power, perpetuating itself in con
trol of the government, Mr. Reid
added. He quoted Thomas Jeffer
son and George Washington in
their opinions against a third term
for a president, and briefly dis-
Churchill Tells
French Nation
May Be Erased
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PAGE 10
North Fork Farmer
Dies in Car Plunge
FLORENCE, Oct. 21. (Special)
Perry Green, 59. North Fork
farmer, was instantly killed Sun
day morning when his car Went
off a narrow wooden bridge cross
ing the North Fork as he was re
turning to his home. The car
turned over and landed top down
in about two feet of water. The
bridge was about 12 feet above the
water.
Mr. Green was discovered by his
wife as she was driving their cows
to the pasture. The bridge, which
is on a private road, is about one
half mile from their home.
Mr. Green had spent the night
in Florence, and was driving home
when the accident occurred. He
is survived by his wife and a son
and a daughter. The body was
taken to the Poole chapel in Eu
gene. Charles P. Poole, county
coroner, investigated the case
Sunday.
LONDON. Oct. i. -Prime
Minister Churchill Wu ned the
French People tonight that Ger
many "is resolved on nothing less
than the complete wiping out of
the French nation" and urged
Frenchmen to 'rearm your spirits
before it is too late."
In a fireside pep talk to the
people of Britain's fallen ally,
broadcast in both English and
French, he declared that Britain
is fighting for a victory which "we
will share with you" and said all
Britain asked of Frenchmen "is
that, if you cannot help us, at least
you will not hinder us."
An apparent reference to Amer
ican aid for Britain came in this
passage of Churchill's fighting
speech:
"Our Friends"
"The crimes of Herr Hitler are
bringing upon him and upon all
who belong to his system a retri
bution which many of us will live
to see.
"The story is not yet finished,
but it will not be so long. We are
on his track and so are our friends
across the Atlantic ocean."
Churchill's broadcast came at a
time when the Germans were ru
mored attempting to maneuver
the French into Joining forces
with the axis powers against the
British.
'To not imagine, as the Ger
man-controlled wireless told you,
that we English seek to take your
ships and colonies," the prime
minister remonstrated.
"The British seek only Ho beat
the life and soul out of Hitler'," he
continued.
Churchill reminded Frenchmen
that Britons have not forgotten
the "ties that unite us to the
French."
The British, he continued, "now
as ever." have command of the
seas and "in 1941 we shall have
command of the air."
The prime minister made a bid
for the good will of the people of
Britain's former ally, declaring
that "when good people get into
trouble because they are attacked
and heavily smitten by the vile
and wicked they must be careful
not to get at loggerheads."
Appealing to France he said:
"Frenchmen, for more than 30
years, in peace and war, I have
marched with you and I am still
marching along the same road to
night. I speak to you at your
firesides, wherever you may be or
whatever your fortunes are.
"I repeat the prayer around
the Louis d or, (French coin): Dieu
Protege la France,' (God Protect
France).
Declaring London is bearing up
well under German bombardment,
Churchill said:
"Our airforce has more than
held its own. We are waiting for
the long-promised (German) in
vasion.
Then he quipped, "so are the
fishes."
Willkie Warns
America Anew
Nominee Would Share
Baltimore Platform
Stimson Will Fish First
Draft Number from Old Bowl
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (AP) Draft headquarters an
nounced today that Secretary Stimson, rather than Presi-
. nt Roosevelt, would draw the first number in the national
conscription lottery at noon Oct. 29.
The drawing, it was said, will
be conducted in the presence of
Mr. Roosevelt.
Headquarters announced that
the president would make a brief
speech during preliminary ceremonies.
The change in plans, to have
Stimson pull out the first capsule.
followed the precedent of 191",
when the then secretary of war,
Newton D. Baker, led off the
drawing.
Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, selec
tive service director, made the
previous announcement that Pres
ident Roosevelt would pull out the
first number after he had confer
red with the chief executive.
Dykstra said the drawing would
be held in the Interdepartmental
auditorium adjacent to the labor
department building in Washing
ton, with the chief executive pull
ing the first number from the
glass goldfish bowl used in the
World war draft.
Dykstra said they did not dis
cuss whether Ml. Roosevelt would
be blindfolded and that addilinnul
details would be announced later
by his organization. But the draft
numbers, ho said, will be enclosed
in the same blue capsules used in
the last draft. He showed reporters
one of them, with a small tag bear
ing the number 2S8 the first in
the lottery in World war days.
12 Hour Job
Dykstra said he did not know
who would take over the bulk of
the drawing after Mr. Roosevelt
had selected the first number, but
that he thought the process would
take at least 12 hours.
The numbers drawn will cor
respond with serial numbers as
signed to more than 16,!00.000
men who registered for selective
military service last week. The
order in which the numbers are
drawn will determine the order
in which the men in each draft
area are called for service.
Drawings will continue until
numbers have been reached ex
ceeding the highest serial num
ber assigned in any selective ser
vice area. The reason for exceed
ing the top serial number, Dyk
stra said, is to "be sure that late
comers get a number."
Bv Theodore F. Koop
ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN
ENROUTE T O MILWAUKEE,
Oct. 21 (PI Wendell L. Willkie,
attacking President Roosevelt's
third term candidacy, declared to
day that under "one man rule"
the first things to be curbed are
labor unions, churches and edu
cation. "The precedent once estab
lished, even assuming that the
president has the noblest motives,
TALKS ON AIR
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 U.R
Today's political radio time
table, times Paolfio standard:
5:30 p. m. Henry A. Wallace,
from Mason City, la., (MBS).
6:00 p. m. Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg. from Logansport,
Ind., (NBC).
7:00 p. m. Wendell L. Wlllkle,
from Milwaukee. (NBC).
7:45 p. m. James W. Ford,
communist candidate for vice
president, from San Francisco
(NBC).
DIX KILLED
GRANTS PASS, Oct. 21. P
Emmitt Jack Dix, about 32, of
Grants Pass, was fatally crushed
in the pile up of a tow car and his
wrecked automobile yesterday,
Coroner Virgil Hull reported.
Air Convention Delegates
Tell of Flying Enthusiasm
A new statewide Interest in pri-.
vate flying clubs was reported!
Monday by S. V. Cuddeback, Eu
gene, who, in company with Andy
Christensen, Springfield, returned
Sunday evening from the first an
nual convention of the Federation
of Flying Clubs of Oregon, held
in Bend over the week-end.
Representing the McKenzie Fly
ing association, local air club, the
pair piloted the association's newly-purchased
Taylorcraft plane to
Bend Saturday afternoon, where
approximately 75 members of
eastern Oregon and Willamette
valley flying groups laid plans
and elected officers for the new
ciganization. Tom Stevenson of
Bend was named president
Mr. Cuddeback stated that the
Bend Flying club was "particular
ly enthusiastic" in the federa
tion's plan to encourage private
flying throughout the state, and
he complimented thu host club's
members on the hospitality .shown
to visiting flyers.
A Lonquet and business meeting
were the principal events of Sat-
urd.v evening, followed the next
day with flying stunic and con
tests on the Bend airport. Mr.
Cuddeback copped first prize in
the "bomb-dropping" contest
when he placed three flour bags
within pn average area of 50 feet
of a target 500 feet below on the
ground.
Plar for the coming year wpre
laid, including the formau'on of a
board of trustees to be made up
of one member of each club in the
federation. A possibility was seen.
also, that the second annual con
vent icn will be held in Eugene
next year, depending upon the
action of the McKenzie associa
tion, according to Mr. Cuddeback.
The two local aviators were
fnrrid tn return to Eugn via bus
after the convention. They ft
out for home in the Taylnrcraft,
nut storm over the Cascades
sent them back to Bend, where
they left the ship and hopped a
bus.
The plane will be flown to Eu
gene later this week by one of the
club members, Mr. Cuddeback
stated.
will be used by some successor to
take away this life of ours." the
republican nominee sa i d at
Wausau, Wis:
He quoted letters from Thomas
Jefferson in support of his con
tention that the two term. .tradi
tion should be' preserved. Jeffer
son. he said, once wrote that
should a president ever consent
to be a candidate for a third term,
"I trust he will be rejected on
this demonstration of his ambl
tious views."
There is great danger, Willkie
contended, that once a president
has been elected for several terms,
he will seek the office for life.
Willkie began the final two
weeks of his presidential cam
paign by urging that President
Roosevelt debate with him in Bal
timore, Oct. 30.
The republican nominee, who
two months ago challenged the
chief executive to a scries of de
bate on national issues, said last
night he had been told that his
backers obtained the only size
able hall for that date.
Canceled
"As a result," added a state
ment issued from Willkie's train
"it' is understood Mr. Roosevelt
was compelled to cancel his pro
posed Baltimore speaking engage
ment for that date.
"Mr. Willkie, in an effort to
avoid any possible inconvenience
to the president or disappointment
to the people of Baltimore, has
wired those in charge of arrang
iing his meeting to get in touch
with those who had been arrang
ing for the president's appearance
and offer to share the platform
with Mr. Roosevelt.
"Mr. Willkie informed the com
mittee he would be delighted to
have the president on the same
platform with him in Baltimore."
The Baltimore talk will be one
of the last campaign addresses
given by Willkie. who was travel
ing through Wisconsin preparatory
tn a speech in Milwaukee this eve
ning. The latter is expected to be
addressed primarily to young
voters.
The nominee will speak In Chi
cago tomorrow night, and then
will head east for the remainder
of the week. His last major ad
dress will be in Madison Square
Garden. New York, on Nov. 2. Be
fore that time he will appear in
Louisville. Oct. 28. Charleston.
W. Va., Ort. 29. and Camden,
N. J Oct. 31.
Phi Beta U-0 Season
Ticket Sale Near End
Phi Beta will end its season
ticket sale for the 1940-41 Uni
versity of Oregon "greater artists"
series Tuesday, the chairman, Mis.
Lester F. Beck, reminded Eu
geneans Monday.
More than 400 tickets have been
sold by the sponsors. The card
boards, selling at $4, $5 and $0,
will be available at Miller's store'
in downtown Eugene from 10 a.
m. to 5:30 p. m. Tuesday. Tickets
to Paul Robeson's concert will go
on sale Oct. 25. He will sing here
Nov. 7.
"BOMB BERLIN" demands, like this one plastered on a
London building, were answered Monday as the British
showed evidence of taking a strong offensive campaign
against continental enemies.
Northern Italy,
Berlin Taste
English Powder
German Skies, Fields
Will See Trouble
Londoners Predict
Turkish, Red
Chats Rumored
Bucharest Blackout
Blinds Drawn by Nazis
Farley Thinks Election
Will Be Close, With
Roosevelt Slim Winner
Yankee Fleet Reminded
Of Part in Defense
In 'This Serious Time'
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.'')
The United Stat?s fleet was re
minted today of its responsibility
as the nation's "first line -f de
fense against atack." 3ntl toid that
the newiy-contluded P.ome-Ber-lin-Tokyo
pact was directed at
this country.
Nrvy Secretary Knox. In his
message to bluejackets and offi
cers for Navy day, October 27,
urged that the fleet be kept
"strong, efficient and ready" in
'this serious time in our nation's
history."
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 fU.B
Former Postmaster General James
A. Farley was represented by
friends today as believing the Nov.
5 presidential election would be
the closest in years and that Presi
dent Roosevelt probably would
win by a slim margin.
The master-manager of the
1932 and 1936 campaign believes
1.000,000 votes in big battleground
states are likely to make the dif
ference between the winner and
loser.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 21.
W) Reports that Soviet nus-sian-Turkish
military talks had
been instituted and that Turkish
military preparation was increas
ing along the strategic Dardanelles
gateway to the near east were
heard today in the Balkans.
At the same time, Rumania in
augurated a blackout for Buchar
est and the nearby oil fields.
Travelers from Turkey snid in
Athens that rnilway lines to
Adriannple, a Turkish city in ter
ritory wedged between the Bul
garian and Greek borders, were
jammed with troop trains, while
a half a million Turkish troops
were said to be already in the
region of the Dardanelles.
A rumor that Soviet-Turkish
military talks were under way in
Adrianople was curried by the
Budapest newspaper, Magyar
Nemzet, while other unconfirmed
reports said the Turks were build
ing new fortifications and com
munications. The Turkish press, predicting
that the axis would attempt its
next push in the near cast, played
up British maneuvers to counter
such a drive.
Bucharest, the once-gay capital
of Rumania, and the rich Plocsli
oil fields nearby were blacked out
at midnight last night under new
regulations.
Despite warlike talk, however,
most Balkan observers frit it un
likely that an axis campaign was
in the offing but that only strong
diplomatic action could be ex
pected for the time being.
U. S. 'Chuters
Need of Army
WASHINGTON, Ort. 21. (T
Wanted: Parachute troops.
The U. S. army is looking for
412 volunteers to form the na
tion's first parachute troop bat
talion. The men must come from
the 24 infantry regiments of the
regular army. No draft trainees
need anply.
Parachute battalion volunteers
are promised extra pay and un
usual chances for advancement.
They must be between 21 and 32
years old, unmarried, and have
"agilitv, intelligence, initiative
and daring."
5 Ex-Councilmen
Back Mayor Large
Japanese Oil Mission
Held Hitting Obstacles
TOKYO. Oct. 21 fU.B Reports
of a serious hitch in Japanese ne
gotiations to obtain oil from The
Netherlands East Indies were fol
lowed today by a foreign office
announcement that Seizo Kobay
ashl, chief of the Japanese nego
tiators, was returning to Tokyo.
The foreign office insisted that
negotiations were progressing sat
isfactorily and will be continued
during Kobayashi's absence by
members of his suite and the
Japanese consul general.
Five former rity rnunrll mem
hers, who have served with M;vvor
Klisha Large, Monday, released l
signed recommendation urging Mr
l.argc's re-election to his office.
Their statement follows:
"The undersigned cx-councll-men
of the city of Eugene com
mend to the electors of the city
the candidacy of Mr. Large. Each
of us have served with him and
endorse him as a man and as a
mayor. Signed Arthur Hender
shott, P. J. Hanns, Fred E. Lamb,
C. C. Page, and II. .1. Cox."
A group of friends backing Ma
yor Large in his candidacy met
Sunday evening at his residence
and elected officers as a committee
to plan an active campaign in the
mayor's behalf. These officers arc:
Jason D. Lee, chairman; Mi'.i. W.
R. Curry, vice-chairman; A. L.
Ilawn, treasurer.
By The Associated Press
Great Britain served notice
on Adolf Hitler today that the
RAF is girding to transfer the
air battle into "German skies
over German fields" and that
"the day we can take the of
fensive steadily approaches."
This double-barreled warning,
voiced by First Lord of the Ad
mirnltv A. V. Alexander and
Colonial Secretary Lord Lloyd,
was further emphasized by a Lon
don air ministry statement de
claring: 'Both ends of the Rome-Berlin
axis had n foretaste of the gather
ing strength of the royal air force
Inst night, when the capital of the
German reich and two of Italy's
great industrial centers were- si
multaneously bombed by aircraft
on the bomber command."
The air ministry also reported
that RAF raiders slashed at Ger
many's big naval docks at Ham
burg and Wilhelmshaven and a
large warship "is believed to hae
been hit."
Other RAF bombers attarked
Berlin, the great Krupp armament
works at Essen, oil refineries and
other military objectives.
Lord Beaverbrook, minister of
aircraft production, disclosed that
England now lias more planes
than ever before, but he said he
would not be satisfied until "the
sky is swarming" with them.
Late today, heavy explosions
across the channel indicated that
Ihc RAF was hammering anew at
German-held Invasion bases,
which last night underwent a
100-bnmhs minute nssault by
British airmen.
Britain's intensified aerial counter-offensive
stung nazis to com
plain bitterly of "outright terror"
methods.
Berlin reported many civilians
killed and wounded as British
warplanes, striking In several
waves, destroyed an apartment
building in west Berlin and show
ered incendiaries and high-explosive
bombs on the German capital.
It was Berlin's first air raid in
five nights. ....
The Germans asserted that their
bombing squadrons had dropped
500 tons of bombs on Britain in
one 24-hour period over the week
end. Rome reported eight killed, 15
wounded by British raiHcrs at
tacking cities in north Italy for
the first time since early Septem
ber. By daylight, nazl raiders swarm
ed across the channel to attack
London, Liverpool and other sec
tions of the Island kingdom after
the 44th consecutive overnight
attack which Londoners charac
terized as "comparatively light."
An air ministry communique
acknowledged "some killed and
injured" in metropolitan London,
where "damage was done to build
ings including many dwellings."
LEG RROKKN
ASHLAND, Oct. 21. fP) Dr.
Walter Redford, president of the
Southern Oregon College of Ed
ucation, broke his leg in a fall
yesterday.
'Keep Out Linn County War
Flier Advises United States
Germans Clamp Censor's
Lid on Night War News
BERLIN, Oct. 21 0JR) German
authorities announced today a
complete prohibition, effective at
once, on the dispatch from Ger
many of any military news what
soever between the hours of 11
p. m., and 6 a. m., Berlin time.
Bv WENDELL WEI1H
SAN FRANCISCO, (Jet. 21. 'Pi
An American pilot who flew
with the royal air force at Narvik.
Dunkerque and other notable
scenes of war thinks "it would be
far better for England" if the
United States does not become di
rectly involved.
"If this nation stays out, Eng
1: nd should win in six or seven
years," 36-yrar-old Samuel G.
Thurston, of Linn county, Oregon,
said today. "If it doesn't, there's
no telling what will happen, be
cause Japan would come in and
England then couldn't get the ma
terials and supplies she needs
from America."
Thurston, one of the youngest
veterans of the first World war,
joined the Canadian royal air
force two years ago.
He served with the Britwh royal
air force in England from Decem
ber 10.19, to July, 1910, and re
turned to Canada for administra
tive work with the department of
defense before being "boarded"
(honorably discharged) for de
fective hearing six weeks ago.
Thurston termed the war, "pre
meditated murder" with none of
the "spontaneity" of the first
World war, and paid tribute to the
"brilliant strategy'' of Germany in
Its conquest of Norway and to the
"unquestioned ability" of German
pilots and the worlh of their
pl.tnes.
"The British boys have more
adaptable minds, however," he
commented, "and in unexpected
emergencies arc the better fliers.
. . . Britain's greatest advan
tage lies in the fact that most air
buttles are over British territory,
and the RAF fliers and planes
brought down olt-timcs can fly
again."
Darkness Sees London
Guns Blazing Skyward
LONDON, Oct. 21. lPl Anti
aircraft guns opene up a deafening
barrage in the London area when
larkness fell on the capital to
night after earlier spotadic fir
ing. The barrage signalled the return
of nnzi raiders tn the city after a
day they had devoted largely to
scattered' hit-and-run attacks on
Britain.
Alarms sounded twice In Lon
don before mid-afternoon. Two
bombs fell on the capital just be-
j fore the sirens shrieked the first
time ami me mruu oi me inv.m
ers' motors was heard during the
second nlcrt.
The all clear signal announced
the end of thes econd raid about
mid-nfternnnn. In the first raid,
the Germans again sent over fast,
"ingle engincd planes tn run the
Rritish anti-aircraft fire In one's
and two's.
At times, the barrage was a1
heavy as during some of the hig
hest night raids. British batterie3
thundered along the Thames estu
ary, trying to pick off Invasion
planes dodging low to take cover
among clouds on that aerial high
way to London.
Heavy Showers
Come Over Week-End
Heavy showers of rain swept
the Eugene area late Saturday and
Sunday following the warm tem
nerntures of the late week. Up to
4 30 a. m. Monday from the time
the storms began lute Snturday,
.79 of an inch had been recorded
here.