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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941
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Action Taken Despite
zamzam s Fate And
Vichy Advice
By LYLE C. WILSON
WASHINGTON. May 21 (U.R)
United States merchant vessels
are going into the hazardous serv
ice of supply to British lorces in
the Near East despite the fate of
the Egyptian steamer Zamzam
and emphatic advice from Vichy
that the Dakar air base is at
Germany's service.
The maritime commission re
vealed in a circular addressed to
newspaper editors that it was go
ing ahead with the Red sea serv
ice. Elaborate plans for it had
been made before these develop
ments took place:
1. Germany threatened to sink
vessels entering the Red sea in
the interests of British forces in
the Middle East.
2. French Ambassador Gaston
Henry-Haye told the state depart
ment that all French air fields,
including those in the colonies,
were placed at Germany's dispos
al by the armistice of last June.
3. Revelation that Germany
sank the Egyptian liner Zamzam
a month ago in the South Atlantic,
alleging she carried contraband.
The maritime commission cir
cular requested a voluntary cen
sorship of movements of mer
chant vessels aiding the demo
cracies and, specifically, regarding
actual or intended sailings to the
Red sea, China, Rangoon and feed
er services. On May 9, before that
request was made, the United
Press revealed that 27 United
States merchant vessels were be-
ing assembled for the Red sea
service. Germany suDsequenuy
proclaimed a combat zone in that
area.
YVord Today-
By UNITED PRESS
LONDON Battle for Crete
rages fiercely, with nazi reinforce
ments reported to have raised
number of air-borne troops to 11,
500. British say large number of
foe wiped out or captured but ad
mit that strong parties continue
fight. Luftwaffe presses attacks
on Crete and London reports say
attempt to land reinforcements by
sea has been made.
BERLIN Germans report for
midable force of aerial invaders
holds important points on Crete.
Nazis reveal passengers, including
140 Americans, rescued from Zam
zam landed on French coast. Cases
of 24 American ambulance drivers
en route to aid "free France"
forces in Africa studied to deter
mine whether will be held as war
prisoners. Others to proceed to
neutral countries.
CAIRO British press offensive
Iraq, reportedly bombing the
Mosul oil field sector. French
army of perhaps 30,000 in Syria
reportedly in poor condition with
out necessary equipment.
ROME Part of Greek cabinet
reported leaving Crete for Cairo,
Italians claim hit on British heavy
cruiser.
Hall-Comptori
Bid On Airport
Found Lowest
Formal Award Of
Contract To Take
Place Later
Pageant Poster
Winners Named
1 the to t . ,,ia lrom otner years are snown
lovel iw crown as "cnucKawaua reie, nexi
their i, .raptl0n Don and Leon White figured out to
, boi,P" roffr "Andy" a chance to win a prize, and
. """urn is "F sin ta r,.. ,..uu not Tfnnrv
Proclaims Saturday
uncial Pet Parade Day
PR0CLAMATION
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PParTd7ir Umy s an"
enSm.1S.providcd
R and and over 2
H t our , place
11 our om.i lss,ers as
oldsters' ar.d pets,
KnT'ft f- Pets Is
C h Bali- aren' ond
Kthence ' their
f&lrf'. "r of
ne countv
e Eugene
Register-Guard and the leading
merchants of Eugene for this
celebration."
(SIGNED) ELISHA LARGE,
Mayor of Eugene.
Lane county's ninth annual Pet
Parade will close its entry books
at 9 a. m. Friday, according to
rilroninre rt tVin nnmial fun-fest
which is expected to attract some
25nn entries nnri tnnusanas OI
spectators here in Eugene Satur
day morning
Noah nr Bnrnum would be as
founded . at the collection of
domestic and semi-wild pets to be
paraded on Eugene streets Satur
day morning after the owners
Vie fnr mnrn than 200 Valuable
merchandise awards including
SEE MAYOR PROCLAIMS
PAGE 4
A tall pioneer garbed in pic
turesaue fringed buckskins stand'
ing guard as a stream of traffic
pours into a replica of the block
house entrance at the Lane county
fairgrounds was announced by
George Hitchcock as the winning
entry in the Oregon Trail pageant
poster contest Wednesday after
noon. Artist of the poster and
winner of the $15 first prize is
David Stone.
Other winners are: Kay Chin,
serond nrize. $10: Lester Swag'
gart, third prize, $5; and honor
able mention, Myrtice E. Gibson,
Alice Smiley, and Winlrea mi'
verson.
The Judges. N. B. zane, n. T.
Wiltshire and Dale Cooley. de-
clared they were surprised at the
hion nualitv of work on the Con
test and that entries on the whole
wore much better than in 18J7.
Thu new riosters together witn
the winning posters from previous
pageants have been on display in
the window of Miller's depart
ment store this week and ribbons
will be nlaced on tne winners
werinoadav afternoon. The dis
play will remain in place for the
omoinW nf the week.
Winner David stone win wont
with the pageant office in making
a few minor changes in his entry
t rtnnt it for the urlnted poster,
18 by 25 inches. Hundreds of
these posters will be printed and
used for advertising up and down
the Pacific coast.
Mill Worker Dies
Following Accident
Erwin Dyck, 29, of Dexter, died
Wednesday morning at the Sacred
Heart hospital from complications
following injuries received in an
accident at the Giustina Lumber
company mill at Dexter last Fri
day. His left leg was broken in
the accident. .
rirjcif was unmarried. He
survived bv his parents, Mr. and
Mn. Henrv Dyck of Syracuse,
Kan.; two sisters, Mrs. Thelma
Warner of Ulysses, Kan., and Miss
vrnn Dvck. at home. He was
horn Aoril 4, 1912, In Syracuse,
Funeral services will be an'
nounced by the Poole chapel.
Morse Describes
Bridges' Conduct
SAN FRANCISCO. May 21
(u.ra in from 40 to 50 instances
that Harry Bridges appeared be'
fore Arbitrator Dean Wayne
Morse at Pacific coast longshore
arbitration ; . hearmg8,;the coast
maritime union leader never once
conducted himself as a com
munist, Morse testified in San
Francisco Tuesday.
Morse appeared as a defense
witness, but it was pointed out
by Presiding Judge Charles Brown
Sears, that the arbitrator had been
subpoenaed for this purpose, and
had no choice but to testify.
Witness Morse said that in his
capacity as arbitrator of coast
maritime disputes, he found
Bridges had acted as a good trade
unionist who sincerely supports
the democratic processes.
Morse said Bridges always had
taken the stand workers and em.
ployers could bargain amicably;
that Bridges favored negotiation of
differences and occasionally urged
arbitration; that Bridges never
appeared to favor strikes merely
for strikes' sake; that on the basis
of the court's definition of a com
munist as one who foments revo
lutions, there was nothing to indi
cate that he was a communist.
Morse emphasized at the hear
ing that he wanted the record to
show that, he had no communist
leanings himself; that he was tes
tifying because he had to, and
that he had had no meetings with
Bridges other than at the mari
time hearings and at one long
shoremen's meeting, where he was
PORTLAND, May 21. OF)
The joint bid submitted by E.
C. Hall of Eugene and J. C.
Compton of McMinnville on
paving and lighting work at
Eugene's CAA airport was
found to be the lowest of five
submitted, the U. S. army en
gineers' office said today.
The contract division of the
engineers' office reported that
correction of some minor errors
reduced the bid to $290,161.15,
which placed it below the
Farker-Schram, Portland, bid
of $303,736. Formal award of
contract will take place later.
The Hall-Compton bid ori
ginally was set at $308,761.15.
Troop Truck Turns Over
On Crooked Southern Oregon
Highway; One Dead, 76 Injured
ROSEBURG, Ore., May 21 (AP) Two accidents as the
motor convoy- of the 7th infantry, en route from the Fort
Lewis area to California, struck the crooked mountain roads
of southern Oregon this morning left one dead, one report
edly seriously hurt and 15 others hospitalized with unde
termined injuries.
- Fatally injured was Private E. Dow, Co. C, 7th infantry,
who was crushed when a squad truck containing 24 men roll
ed off the Pacific highway near the Douglas-Josephine county
line about 9 a. m. Fifteen passengers in the truck, driven by
Jerry Carney, Jr., Co. G, 47th QMC, one of the injured, were
taken to the Josephine county Hospital at urants .f ass.
.. The convoy unit
Glider, Xhute
Forces Pour On
Island Of Crete
Full Division Of
Germans Involved
In Attack
Shifting Population
Brinos Acute Problem
For Eugene Schools
A problem of shifting popula
tion in Eugene which has' resulted
in some of the grade schools bet
ing crowded to overflowing while
enrollment in others is dropping
steadily now faces .the . school
board, Dr. J. f. Cramer, super
intendent, revealed Wednesday. .
To meet this problem which
may become even more acute in
the face of proposed military ex
pansion here the school board is
faced with three alternatives: -(1)
To close their eyes to the
situation and Ignore the uneven
spread of enrollment which finds
as many as 45 children' to one
room in one school and only -15
per teacher in another. ; 1
(2) Through careful study to
map the city into districts and to
make, compulsory the attendance
of children at the school for their
district. Dr. Cramer points but
that Eugene's present system of
permitting children to attend any
school they wish is seldom follow
ed by other cities of this size; or
(3) Close the : Washington
school and add extra rooms to the
more crowded Lincoln and Con'
don school buildings.
The population bulge, according
to ur. Cramer, has occurred large
ly, in two parts of town, on. the
southwest side in the neighbor-
convoy unit was m
command of Lieutenant By
ron Burns.
Private Ralph F. Kraby, MB Co.
209, 75th Infantry, of 4331 42nd
Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn., was
reported seriously injured about
11 a. m. when his motorcycle
crashed head-on into an automo
bile occupied by the Rev. and Mrs.
E. Mack. Prescott. Mien. ne
accident occurred about three miles
south of Canyonville. Kraby was
brought by ambulance to the Vet
erans', hospital at Roseburg. He
was reported to have suffered in
ternal injuries, the extent of which
had not been determined. Occu
pants of the automobile escaped
injury.
SEE MORSE STORY
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Grand Jury Ordered
To Meet Monday
The' Lane county grand Jury
will meet Monday, May 26, to
take up accumulated criminal
cases- and possibly others wherein
arrests have not yet been made.
Judge G. F. Skipworth in circuit
court Wednesday issued an order
to call the jurors together at 10
a. m. on that day. The work of the
grand jury will be preliminary to
the convening of the regular term
of circuit court June
me grand jurors, neio over
from the last term of court, are
Mary I. Dunn, Eugene; H. H.
Drew, RFD 1, Junction City; Roy
Jorgensen, Veneta; Dorothy Hesse,
Eugene; Jack H. McDonald, Eu
gene; Leota M. Neat, Eugene, and
George P., Piatt., Thurston.
Three Men Injured
Three employes of the Rosboro
Lumber company received minor
injuries while riding the carriage
at the company s mill at Spring
field Tuesday evening. The car
riage valve became stuck, throw
ing Tommy Lee McCall, Eugene,
from the carriage, and bruising
the other two men, Kenneth War
ren of Springfield and Raymond
R. Adams of Eugene. The three
men were taken to the Sacred
Heart hospital. Mr. Adams and
Mr. Warren were dismissed Tues
day night, and Mr. McCall, Wed
nesday morning.
SEE SHIFTING STORY
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Pendleton To Receive
Air Troops June 3
PENDLETON. May 21 OP)
The smallest city in the United
States to receive an army air base
Pendleton of round-up fame
will receive first air corps, troops
June 3, 4 and 5, it was announced
today by Colonel Frank W. Wright,
base commander.
The units to arrive will total
915 officers and men.
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Salem Approves .
Sewage Plant Bonds
SALEM, May 21 W A S200.-
000 bond issue for a sewage -dis
posal plant was approved by
Salem voters yesterday, 1393 to
997. Only 13 per cent of the reg'
Istered voters appeared at the
polls.
E. C. Hall Awarded
Highway Contract
SALEM, May 21 OP) The
state highway commission award
ed a contract today, as follows:
Lane county grading and pav
ing 1.27 miles of Eugene' 'over-
crossing-7th avenue section of Pa
cific highway.- Awarded to E. C
Hall, Eugene, $70,851.
MOVEMENT CONTINUES
FORT LEWIS, May 21 OP)-
Trucks and troops continued to
pour out of the main gates, of Fort
Lewis and Camp Murray at day
break today to feed into a 600-
mile army convoy, that: .will
stretch to'Klamatli'Falls; Ore.; and"
Weed, Calif., by tonight .
Today s- contingent of a mod
ern army on the march included
"San . Francisco's own" 30th in
fantry, which made the trip north
only two months ago, to make
the crack 3rd division a complete
full-strength fighting unit Under
the command of Lieut. Col.
Troop Sidelights
Soldiers Play
Ball at School
GLENWOOD, May 21. (Spe
cial) A baseball game between
the Glenwood school and the U.
S. army was called Tuesday
noon, not because of rain, but
because members of. one team
were afraid of being A. W. O. L.
- The trucks of soldiers and
equipment going from Fort
Lewis to California were stop
ped before the Glenwood school
Tuesday noon by a traffic jam.
The men, seeing the children
playing ball apparently could
not resist the opportunity for a
game, - and swarmed over the
field appropriating the bat, ball,
and mitts. The game was hardly
jinder way when - the soldiers
were called back to the trucks
to resume the journey.
A number of the school boys
suspect Hank Greenberg of be
ing among their would-be op
ponents,, although they did not
see him.
SEE TROOP TRUCK STORY
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Dal M. King Succeeds
James T. Brand In
Second Judicial Area
SALEM, Ore., May 21 (U.R)
Dal M. King, former state legis-
later and present city attorney of
Myrtle Point, has been appointed
circuit judge of the Second judicial
district to succeed James T. Brand.
newly appointed to the state su
preme court.
The appointment was an
nounced by Gov. Charles A.
Sprague, who last week appointed
Justice Brand to succeed the late
Justice Henry Bean. Justice
Brand will start his term on the
high court on Monday.
juage King will preside over
the district made up of Douglas.
Benton, Lincoln, Coos, Curry and
Lane counties. On June 14, when
legislative laws go into effect,
Benton will be separated into
new district with Linn county, and
will no longer, be under the new
judge.
Judge King was born near Myr
tle Point Jan. 14, 1893. He was
graduated from the University of
Oregon In; 1914, and served with
the air crops as a lieutenant dur
ing the world war. He was ad
mitted to the Oregon bar in 1929,.
His term will start as soon as
Judge Brand's resignation lrom
the post becomes official.
BULLETIN!
. LONDON, May 21. () A
German attempt to land soldiers
In Crete from small speed boats,
in support of air-borne troops,
has been defeated, authoritative
British sources said tonight
They gave no details.
BREAKDOWN
The . army stopped in Eugene
Wednesday, briefly it is true, and
only four trucks but onlookers
were given a chance to chat with
a few of the boys. Among those
stopping was Lt. Arthur Murphy,
son of Mrs. E. V. D. Murphy, of
Eugene.
The stop was caused when the
brakes in one of the front wheels
of a command car began to drag
and the men signalled to the re
pair car for some "'first aid." Out
came tool boxes and off came
the offending wheel and in a jiffy
the damage was repaired.
The command car was of a type
known as a four-by-four, mean
ing it has a four-wheel drive.
Other vehicles stopping were a
SEE TROOP SIDELIGHTS STORY
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U. S. Asks Vkhy
To Declare Intentions
WASHINGTON, May 21 OP)
The United States, it was learned
authoritatively today, has made
the equivalent of a diplomatic call
on the Vichy government for a
forthright declaration of France's
future intentions in "collabora
ting" with Germany.
Vichy has been given to under
stand, it was said, that it cannot
hope to restore Franco-American
relations to harmony unless it is
first prepared to supply full as'
surances in writing that France
will hold rigidly to the. terms of
the June, 1940 armistice in all
subsequent dealings with the
Third Reich.
Analyst Sees Significance
In Nazis' Landings in Crete
By The Associated Press
Adolf Hitler stepped up the lury
of his aerial invasion of Crete to
day, with 3.000 more nazi glider
and parachute troops landing on
tne ureek island after the entire
contingent dropped from the skies
yesterday was declared to have
been killed or captured.
me situation is well tn hand."
the British said tersely, adding
without details that German naval
forces had also made an attempt
to land troops in two places.
Authoritative quarters in Lon
don said a full German parachute
division of 7,000 men was involved
in the 2-day-old assault includ
ing two infantry regiments, an
artillery regiment armed with. 75
millimeter guns, an anti-tank bat
talion with 37 mm. guns, a motor
cycle reconnaissance group and
other units. ...... .."3. . -
Striking from Greek mainland
bases, 75 to 100 miles away, Hit-1
ler's "Men from Mars"' were BSid
to be using a fleet of 250-huge
new Fockewulf air transports car
rying 50 to 75 men each, and -an
undisclosed number of gliders.
So far, there were no reports
that the Germans had landed air.
borne tanks on Crete a feat first
exploited by Soviet Russia in the
Balkans.
Defending the island, the gov
ernment seat of King George II
and a British' naval stronghold,
were said to be two full Greek di
visions and large numbers of Brit
ish imperial troops under orders
to fight "to the death with no
thought of retirement."
"Coast In"
British reports said . the nazi
gliders were cut loose from tow
ing planes at a great height, many
miles away from their objectives,
and coasted in among the Grecian
isle's olive groves and mountains
without the tell-tale drone of
motors.
In Berlin, authorized quarters
angrily denied Prime Minister
Winston Churchill's assertion that
1,500 nazi 'chutists disguised in
New Zealand battle-dress en
gaged in the initial assault.
The Germans said Churchill's
remark was "infamous," and
threatened that any brutal or Il
legal treatment of nazi 'chutists
would bring stern reprisals.
The London radio broadcast a
warning that "whoever, in viola
tion of international law, fights in
an enemy uniform, must expect to
be shot at once when taken pris
oner." A Berlin spokesman expressed
satisfaction with the progress of
the attack possibly a rehearsal
for Hitler's long-heralded attempt
to invade England and asserted
that if King George II has not al
ready fled Crete "you can be sure
he's ready to jump."
Previously, the king was said
to have rejected pleas by his
ministers that he leave the siege-.
battered Island.
The British reported that Ger
man naval units tried to land
troops at the western end of the
island and in the Candia region.
Missing Student
Located In Nevada
PORTLAND, May 21. OP)
Laurence Moore, 20, University of
Oregon student missing since Feb.
28, has been located at Las Vegas,
Nev., police said last night.
The youth is the son of Earl
Moore, John Day, Ore, attorney, .
By DEWITT MACKENZIE '
(AP War Analyst)
The landing of 3,000. more Ger
man parachute troops on the
mountainous isle of Crete last
night, accompanied by an effort to
put nazi naval forces ashore, labels
the invasion of this strategic Al
lied base as no mere experimental
affair but as a continuing opera
tion which is growing in weight.
It's unlike the Germans to start
anything- they don't intend to fin
ish, and their strategy as thus far
disclosed Indicates an original in
tention of pursuing the assaults
progressively and with increasing
intensity until a foothold is secur
ed. ... This Is a variation of the well-
known tactics long favored by the
Germans when it is necessary to
make frontal attacks with infan
try. The idea is to jam a way
through to the objective by sheer
weight of numbers, thrown against
the enemy in waves and mass for
mation, without regard to loss of
life among the assaulting forces.
The Anglo-Greek defense claims
to have killed or captured the in
itial contingent of glider and par
achute troops at the openinit of the
battle of Crete yesterday, and to
have control of the situation de
veloping from the second landing.
Details of the exact numbers of
the opposing forces haven't been
made public.
The moral of this story of land
ing Infantry from the air seems
to me to lie In the demonstration
BEE ANALYST STORY
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SEE GLIDER STORY
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Weather News
(U. S. Weather Forecast)
Oregon; Fair with higher tem
perature and lower humidity to
day, tonight and Thursday; mod
erate to fresh north to east wind
off the coast . ,
(Local Statistics)
V. S. Weather Bureau Record:
Minimum temperature, Wednes
day, 42.4 degrees; maximum tem
perature, Tuesday, 66 degrees;
wind, at noon, Wednesday, north
River Bureau Record! Stage ol
Willamette river in Eugene at I .
a. m. weanesaay, ,i oi a n
tilth,
tow I
Tharidty
10:13 a. m. (M fcctV
10:1S p. m. (S.l tMtft
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4i Up,a.d (Mr