THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE. OREGOW
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238 Refugees
Lost A! Sea
Craft Disintegrates
In Sea Of Marmora
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 13
(Jf) The stormy Sea of Marmora
gave up the bodies of 69 Jewish
refugees today and 169 more were
missing and feared drowned after
the break-up of a ship carrying
more than 400 passengers from
Bulgaria to Palestine.
Unofficial reports said that 114
of the refugees were known to be
safe. The recovered bodies in
cluded . those of 38 women, 15
children and 16 men.
The little steamer crumbled In
high seas near Istanbul.
Approximately 3R0 passengers.
Including many children and their
mothers, were thrown into the sea
without an opportunity to take to
lifeboats, the newspaper Cumciyet
reported.
The captain of the Uruguayan
boat succeeded in " swimming
ashore and called government res
cue crews to the scene. The sea
was said to have been dotted with
struggling refugees and debris.
Bogus Construction
Agents Prompt, Warning
A warning has been Issued by
the Better Business bureau of gu
gene chamber or commerce against
men contracting for roof repair
and small construction jobs.
Complaint has been made that
several men who have been doing
this tyce of work have been doing
poor jobs, charging higher prices
than they originally set, and in
some cases actually damaging the
roofs.
Persons in'doubt as to employ
ment of men for these jobs may
call the chamber of commerce to
check their references, Mr. Brenne
said.
Growth Of Eugene
Shown In Records
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SUICIDE
PORTLAND, Dec. 13. UP
Gideon Snook, deputy coroner,
pronounced the death of Dr. Ed
win P. Fagan, 38, suicide yesterday.
Lighthouse Temple
Program Announced
Children of the Lighthouse
Temple Sunday school will hold
their annual Christmas program
Wednesday evening, December 18.
The public Is invited. Solomon
Rexius, Sunday school superin
tendent, is in charge. The Bible
school will have a special Christ
mas service Tuesday, December
17. at 7:30 p. m.
The annual church pageant,
"They That Sit in Darkness," will
be given Sunday evening, Decem
ber 22. This will be an illustrated
sermon.
Honeycombs six feet in length
are not uncommon on the Malay
Peninsula.
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cost slightly less than a 24-hour
heating plan.
Figures show a loss of 175 cus
tomers from a rate schedule now
being discontinued by the board,
these persons having transferred
to the class A residential schedule.
An increase of 3.1 per cent in
the number of electric ranges in
the homes of domestic customers
is also revealed by the yearly re
port. Water utility customers
have increased 225 in the past
year.
Indicative or tne rapid spread oi
electricity to homes and farms in
this area is a report compiled by
the water board in regard to the
functioning of the federal electric
home and farm administration.
The walerboara and local electric
store dealers cooperate with this
administration in making elec
trical appliances available to a
large group of consumers. This is
the way the plan works:
(1) Any customer of the Eu
gene water board who needs a new
refrigerator, range, or washer,
may go to his electric store and
make application for purchase
under the EHFA plan.
(2) Cost of the equipment he
wishes to purchase will then be
pro-rated on a monthly basis and
charged on his light bill.
(3) Once a piece of equipment
is sold the dealer presents the con
tract to the water board, which
pays him the purchase price. The
water board then collects tne
money from EHFA, plus 12 Vs
cents for each contract and a $1
booking charge. Monthly pay
ments are turned into the EHFA.
(4) Financial condition of the
retail stores and their ability to
stand the cost if payments are not
met and the equipment is re
possessed is checked closely each
month by the EHFA.
(5) The Eugene water board
serves only as a collection agency
for its customers who take ad
vantage of this service. It cannot
lose anything by the transaction,
and as Mr. McArthur pointed out,
benefits in the increasing load for
electric power, and shares the
benefit which accrues to the en
tire community from better busi
ness.
Contracts signed with the EHFA
have been nearly doubled in 1940
over 1939. Mj. McArthur said. Last
year's report shows $46,792.56 in
deferred balance payments for
electrical equipment while for
1940, $76,452.61 has been chalked
up. or a total of $123,245.17.
Largest sales increase has been
for refrigerators, with 130 sold
in 1939 and 313 in 1940. Figures
for some of the other equipment
are: ranges 67-126; radios, 46-46;
washers 40-(6, and vacuum clean,
ers, 8-36.
Importance of these figures, so
far as the water board is con
cerned is the increase in the use of
electricity which will result, Mr.
McArthur explained. An incom
plete picture of retail sales is
given, for only 12 local dealers are
cooperating with the program,
and over $76,000 is still in deferred
payments which will come in dur
ing the next two or three years.
Cold Water
Discouraging
LOGANSPORT, Ind., Dec. 13.
W George Cook "told police he
saw this happen on the banks of
the Wabash:
A well dressed man about 35
tied a heavy rock around his neck
and jumped 14 feet intd the river.
He stood for a moment shivering
in water up to his knees.
Then he picked up the rock,
climbed back on the bank, untied
the rope and walked away.
Eugene Flu Situation
Is Found Unalarming
Sheffield Suffers
Coventrated Raids
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to the attack on London around
dawn to cause slight damage in
one district.
A hail of Incendiary and ex
plosive bombs broke on Sheffield
late last night and continued for
about two hours and less severely
until early this morning.
Many Casualties
There was extensive damage and
there were many casualties. The
shopping center suffered extensively.
Aided by bright moonlight the
Germans dropped first incendiary,
then explosive bombs. They start
ed many fires. But firemen, work
ing in disregard of danger, fought
the fires during the worst part of
the raid and overcame them.
Water System Escapes
Cold; Minor Damage
The four-day cold wave has
caused little damage in the city's
water system, W. J. Moore, super
intendent of the water department,
declared Friday. Several persons
have reported frozen pipes at their
homes, however.
The Friday morning low of 15
degrees caused all four settling
basins at the city filtration plant
to freeze, Mr. Moore said. This had
not occurred the three previous
days, There is no danger from this
ice unless it freezes six or more
inches deep, but in that case it
would have to be broken to pre
vent pressure.
Work at the steam plant and on
the city pipe laying projects are
being slightly delayed by the cold
weathher because of the difficulty
in handling steel at freezing tem
peratures. Two blocks of pipe
have been laid at Tyler street and
will be connected soon, Mr. Moore
said.
Enemy Subs Balance
Respective Losses
LONDON, Dec. 13. (PI The
British submarine Sunfish has
sunk n German supply ship of
about 4.000 tons off the Norwegian
coast, the admiralty announced
today. The submarine also was
to have hit and damaged a Ger
man oil tanker of about the same
tonnage.
EVEN TRADE
BERLIN, Dec. 13. 4 One of
Germany's pocket U-boats was re
ported today to have sunk three
armed British merchant ships to
taling 15.800 tons.
The Indianapolis Speedway, site
of the annual auto races, was built
in 1909.
Only 12 Days Left
to build a linen closet for
mother. She would be
Slad lo trl this gift.
TWIN OAKS
Builders Supply Co.
669 High St. Ph. 781
WORSE THAN COVENTRY
BERLIN, Dec. 13. lU.fi Wit
nesses of last night's German air
raid on Sheffield, great English
steel city, were quoted by well
informed German quarters today
that, from the standpoint of strik
ing power, the attack was greater
than the "utter destruction" raid
on Coventry.
Witnesses described "numerous
full hits on steel mills and other
industrial plants."
Fires could be seen as far away
as the Wash, on the English coast,
75 miles away. An "all out" raid
on Coventry last month inaugur
ated a series of "utter destruction"
raids on Birmingham, Portsmouth,
Bristol, Southampton and now
Sheffield. The Coventry raid had
been considered by the Germans
as their .peak.
"Several hundred planes par
ticipated in the raid on Sheffield
and all returned, informed quar
ters said.
Sheffield was attacked with
bombs of the "heaviest caliber.
Returning pilots reported exten
sive fires. The attackers were not
hampered even by unfavorable
weather.
University of Oregon health
authorities said Friday the mild
flu epidemic, which has been ap
parent for several weeks on the
j campus, has slackened consider
i ably. About 30 student patients
) are bcinK watched by doctors and
nurses in their homes. Thirty
more are confined in the infirm
ary, which has been filled to ca
pacity. None of the cases is ser
ious and there are no restrictions
on social activities among students.
City schools, for the most part,
reported their attendance as aver
age or only slightly less than aver
age. Frances Willard school had
the greatest number of absences,
83 pupils, or about 20 per cent of
the, total enrollment. One teacher
was absent Friday. The usual
percentage of absences is from
two to eight per cent. Because
of the prevalence of the flu the
all-school Christmas program
planned for December 20 has been
cancelled, and the r,ooms will hold
Individual Christmas parties.
Condon school had from 8 to 10
per cent of the children absent.
The average is about 5 pqr cent.
At Edison school, the percentage
of absences was about seven per
cent, a normal figure. About 140
or 12 per cent, of the pupils at
Eugene high school were absent
Friday. The usual figure is around
50. One teacher also was reported
ill. At Lincoln school, 67 of the
405 children were absent
Indications that the spread of
the disease is being checked was
shown at Roosevelt junior high
school, where 87 of the 375 chil
dren were absent Friday. Earlier
in the week, 103 children were re
ported out of school.
First grade punils of Washington
school suffered the most from flu
or other illness, as about one half
of the children in that room were
absent Friday. Otherwise, the
attendance was normal. Atten
dance at Whiteaker school was
also reported as being the same
as usual. .
Fifteen per cent of the pupils
and two teachers at Woodrow Wil
son school were out Friday. The
average figure is from five to
seven per cent.
"break Greece's back, whether in
two months or 12."
Five Generals Fall
A British communique said the
20,000 Italian prisoners already
announced had now been "in
creased by several thousands" in
the 5-day-old battle along the
Mediterranean sea coast Two
more generals were reported
taken, raising the total to five.
"In the western Egyptian des
ert, remnants of the beaten Ital
ian army continue their with
drawal, closely followed up by our
advanced troops," a British com
munique said, adding that be
cause of the vast size of the battle
field "it is still impossible to give
any precise figures" on the num
ber of fascist prisoners.
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill said yesterday, however, it
would not be surprising if the
best part of three Italian divisions
were snared in the British blitz
krieg trap.
Dispatches from Athens said the
Italians had thrown fresh troops
into the war with Greece in a vain
attempt to halt the onrushing
Greek drive against heights sur
rounding Chimara, Adriatic sea
port.
, Forces Fresh
"At many places, the Italian
command replaced entire units
with fresh forces at the cost of
many sacrifices, because the
morale of the older forces was ser
iously impaired and they were
considered unfit for further fight
ing," a Greek dispatch said.
After the Greeks repulsed fas
cist counter-attacks, it said, "the
initiative along. the entire front
passed once again to Greek
troops. The enemy is continuing
to retreat.
Captured Italian officers were
quoted as doubting Italy's ability
to continue the fight after the ex
pected fall of Klisura pass, 10
miles northeast of Tepelenl on the
southern end of the 100-mile front.
An exchange telegraph (Brit
ish) news agency dispatch from
Athens said the Italians had
started withdrawing from Tepe-
leni after fierce fighting.
British May Chase
Italians Into Libya
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sibility of an Italian armistice
with Greece, asserting that Italy
would defend her lines in both
Albania and Libya all winter,
come what may and carry out
Premier Mussolini's threat to
Hitler, Von Ribbentrop
Leave German Capital
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. P
Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop have left
Berlin for an unknown destination,
a CBS broadcast reported from
Berlin today.
Earlier dispatches from Berlin
had told of rumors there denied
in authorized quarters of an im
minent meeting between Hitler
and Benito Mussolini.
NEW KNITS BLOCKED
Electric Cleaners Phone 300
Holiday Programs
Planned By Church
The annual children's Christmas
program of the Grace Lutheran
church will be Christmas eve, De
cember 24, at 7:30 p. m. Rev. W.
B. Maier will give the addre
The Christmas day service at 11
a. m. will be conducted by Rev.
Walter F. Mueller, assistant pastor.
The voune neonle will hr,. .
Christmas Dartv Sunriav
December 15, at the home of Miss
oertrude Libke with a presenta
tion of gifts for the Lutheran san
itarium at Wheat Ridge, Colo.
They will go caroling the eve
ning of Sunday, December 22.
As a Christmas eift for
church, members of the congre
gation nave authorized remodeling
of the chancel of the church, which
includes placing an altar dossal
curtain and a stained glass window
over the altar, and the installation
of church lanterns. oenoHnllv re
signed for this church.
ine new Year s Eve service will
be at 8 rj. m.. and will ho
ducted by Rev. Martin P. Simon.
The New Year's Day service, with
holy communion, will be held at
it a. m., Kev. w. B. Maier in
cnarge.
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