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leather: Fair Sunday Edition LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 4 SECTIONS 26 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1941 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 6o NO. 193 CLADM STALIN LINE BUOK Ml IN tf)L. 98 Rzls n I- vey Kevedb ailed Plans Cantonments Lne-Corvallis Are of Three Proposea lamline Campsites L fRANCISCO, July 12. L Sites for three huge new camps near Medford, ure., Lgene-Corvallis area, and Li Maria-Lompoc area In tola are under "active con- tion," the nmtli zone con Lflne Quartermaster an- ki today. tc: Information in Eugene ,tW effect that sites In tne bifn vicinity of Eugene are Ely discarded and prefer- probably will go to the site of Corvallis in the Corvallis-outh-Airlie area.) h of the camps would house ermy "triangular divisions" kith tne exception oi run. south of Tacoma, win oe nrf arpommodate more than on nfhprs in the sev- ites of the ninth corps area. For 700,000 Men m.E whan finallv aD- H, would house about 70,000 knd cost approximately ?bB, fo. it was announced. Hual construction depends litability and availaDinty ot boposed sites, congressional t-al anil nihar fnrtnrs." ninth fceadauarters explained. vance planning specifica- icaii lor tnree camps oi ai- IMAnii'eal siva enrt annctwr. cost approximately $22,- contrast to the old square in type, 'the new stream trlnagular division permits mployment of troops with affaftl.ranace Tic Irnvnnfo later mobility and striking Site Not Chosen Waartnilnrtam cairl TnVir, kmingham & Associates and pee a Alien, arcnitect-en- Nflflffll!)! finorrt amuw of e, Ort, since May 28, to studies in the vicinity of e and Corvallis with regard ography, water supply and e disposal, but that site has :en chosen. b entire proposed reserva a the Santa Maria-Lompoc i iias oeen appraised by the meat. A thorough investi- "3 government agents, as- by the geological Hanart. Of the pnact arA HanJail. I - ......... hum wcuv r. haS TPVPalarl a cqtl.fnA- uantity of water. Pis, nui, Barnard & Jewett, ct-engineere from Los An hSVP haan noli... !. i I .... aLutc in nic Hnce May 5 and now have i "u employes. Ilu ara Rl ... ... hi a Fcl complete ffitld surveys 44 per cent VtG I two nrAnneaJ ...... I 1 house one triangular dl fomposed of 15,245 troops, f. Ps, the announce- Sain. Taa ci k. 1. 1. . oauut iviaria K Jng Planned for one L . xo.ouu persons. F.S-U b designed as theSrSservi?e building? fcaki i ?ranance facil- land un?ry- '"-making l!!liffParshops. r rt.... .-Mi...-....,..........i...f.....1 int MmWijjIJM1j?iiIJ ,j .,, jujinnmjjji ifjpiil " . ' I. " SELECTED QUEEN SUSANNAH V late Saturday night was mary sue Jackson, brown haired candidate of the women's service clubs, lumbermen, and army engineers. Princess Mary Sue Jackson Reigns As Queen Susannah V (Final Tabulation) Mary Sue Jackson ...-20,842,255 Evedene Mellott 10,580,935 Belle Bobbins 9,229,070 Louise Conger . 4,240,255 Marjorie Durno . 3,824,705 Ellamay Small 2,306,400 Grand Total 5r023,620 Princess Mary Sue Jackson Is now Queen Susannah V, ruler over Eugene's Oregon Trail Pa geant, July 24, 25, and 26. Hearing Scheduled On Zone Change A public hearing on an ordi nance changing the area on either side of West Seventh avenue, from Taylor to the city limits. from single-family residence to business district will be held at the regular city council meeting Monday evening at 7:30 p. m. The property adjoins the new highway entrance into Eugene, now under construction. The ordi nance has received its first read ing and will be up for second and intra readings after the hearing. The council will also receive a request from the Southern Pacific railroad for franchise riehts. al lowing the construction of three new switch-lines across Lincoln street, near West Fourth avenue, The new lines are part of the expanded track system being in stalled here by the railroad conv pany. W School Sites in Lane "nty Recalled by Markers PONEER HrEMORIALS I SE ETCHER r were Dr . , , . 'in its srZ.:"'ou'l r Selert e. . inere r .icct Seminnm.u i i. X0at?iontheeastsid lildren ,ar.sattended by fe,, nugene's "first KfflLool was rentw.-j -."6 Br corner ret i,,""e ,ton streets k It J to. 0J sva's used "b aoirtV00"!, l0 .huJ&.was F north sin. - S'ace-A aoor Wrmut' one on the th. !?? hrse to drae n fa' e 7h ntJhrou8l h Va.v:nJ:. clHdren ha f ncls haa V ,e Wondera Lfthtffjfe' of F"e'ves built .- uaySi Tnere froont 6Ulltarondthe edge kJ this first nM, moil,.. 10?K n N nelpontu -'waCharneltonhad, a brief disastrous history. It was built by the Cumberland Presby terian church, was opened in 1856. Three days after its opening, it burned to the ground. A new structure was erected. That too, was burned. A third was begun, of stone this time, but dissensions arose and it was abandoned. The location was known as College Hill. The marker placed by the Pioneer association is in the center of the block mentioned. The graves of Eugene Skinner and his family are in the Masonic cemetery. They are marked by luge, old-fashioned stones with lengthy histories that are no long er decipherable. A monument is on the family lot. Sarah Morgan Butler, whose father was a soldier of the American Revolution, is buried In this cemetery. Her grave is marked. . On the University campus are statues of The Pioneer, a virile figure, by Phimister Proctor; the Pioneer Woman by the same sculptor, given by Burt Brown Barker in memory of his mother. A number of Eugene's streets SEE EARLY SCHOOL STORY PAGE II The brown-haired descendant of Andrew "Old Hickory" Jack son was elected last night after tabulation of votes credited her with over 20 million votes, almost twice as many as her nearest com petitor, Evedene Mellott. Third was Belle Robbins, with Louise Conger, Marjorie Durno, and Ellamay Small trailing in that order. Queen Susannah V, the candi date of the women's service clubs. lumbermen, and army engineers, had approximately 15 million votes cast for her Saturday night, as she walked off with the crown formerly worn by LaVonne Le- dahl. The official tabulation was announced at 11:50 p. m.. with hordes of townspeople thronging outside Pageant headquarters to view the official counting board tabulate -the votes, as it sat around a huge oval table. The first seven tabulations posted on the huge blackboard in the window of the Pageant offices disclosed Evedene leading the first four times, and Belle the two just previous to the final tally. However, harried managers and a weary counting board saw the final surge of votes for Mary Sue put her far in the lead. Of the 51 million votes cast, 31 million were cast the final night of the contest, Contest Chairman Rube T. Ross said. Ambulance Driver Hurt in Collision Collision of two civilian cars and an army ambulance Saturday. D.OA w An TJ.nh.ira.. QQ 4t.m an PrilU y 111. Vll H'fti. J vnv miles north of Eugene resulted in a serious arm injury lor wanow ment stationed at Fort Lewis, He was receiving treatment at tne Eu gene hospital, where his arm in- 4iiv wm 4papr1hfri flfl serious, hut his condition as not critical. Drivers of two other machines involved in the accident were Ru dolph Fredrick Sulflow and Ralph W. Sinclair, neither of whom was injured, state police saia. Accom panying Dunlap were Charles Tamas Oa1,ac aiaft ePr0PHTlt. fl n H Pete Leon Yzaguirre, private, first class, mecucai aivision, neiuier ui whom was hurt. ' SILVERTON REGAINS TITLE GTTA71TPTnM. rirp. .Ttllv 12(U.R) TnA cil.taptAn nan Rav tnnitfht regained the Oregon semi-pro Daseoau line iney losi-io iuoany a ..An. a nn Kv Klneflntf Rend. 12-2. a fni Bvf J D ' ' for their third easy win in four starts. STARS SINK ANGELS ott T.vwnnn. .Tnlv 19MP) . Hollywood defeated Los Angeles . - . , r . , l. in; . .. Vi to li in a wiia-niiwig uuee hour Pacific coast league baseball a-ama innlffhf. that saw three nlav- ers ejected. With two down and two on in tne nintn, ine Aiigeis had a chance to tie the score, but failed. Roosevelt To Consult Leaders On Use Of Army National Guards and Selectees Confined to Western Hemisphere WASHINGTON, July 12. (U.R) President Roosevelt will con sult Monday with congressional leaders on what the army high command regards as the para mount necessity for authority to use American troops any place in the world and to keep existing units in service. Chairman Robert R. Reynolds, (D N. C), of the senate military affairs committee already has in troduced in the senate legislation to effect these recommendations and Chairman Andrew J. May, (D., Ky.), of the house military affairs committee will make sim ilar proposals in the house next week. Chairman Walter F. George (D Ga.), of the foreign relations committee, is ready with a com promise to insure speedy enact ment of the program. Heretofore most congressional leaders have been reluctant to change existing laws which for bid the use of national guard troons and selectees outside the Western hemisphere and U. S. oossessions and limits federal service of such units to one year unless the nation is in a state of war. May was one of those not enthusiastic about changing the law until recent conferences with Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff. He said today that a conference of house leaders with the chief of staff . has . convinced him of the "paramount necessity of untying Marshall s hands." "Information furnished by Mar shall would be enough to knock the hats off congress if it could be released," May said. "The nation will need every possible man of military value and the war department should be given free rein to meet any pos sible emergency. Without disclos ing vital military information it will be hard to convince congress I expect a hard fight but it is of the necessity of such action and something that needs to be done. An additional fill-in on the in ternational situation, ' which in Marshall s estimation demands re moval of legal restraints on geo graphic use of troops and terms of service, is expected to be given congressional leaders Monday when they meet with Mr. Roosevelt. Considerable opposition has cropped up in congress over the proposal to retain selectees be yond the one-year training per iod. Speaker Sam Rayburn, who was one of the group meeting with Marshall yesterday, opposed ex tension of selectee service unless it is done on a voluntary basis that is enlistment. 'Tom' Adopts Young Kitten LOWELL, July 12. (Special) From this section comes the latest "unusual," challenging Route F. Mrs. E. C. Curts has a torn cat at her home who adopted a tiny kitten, brought it home, washed it, then carried it to the door where it made noise enough to attract the attention of Mrs. Curts to get the kitten fed. The next time the torn cat was gone when feeding time came, but upon his return in sisted (?) on Mrs.. Curts feeding the kitten again that he might be satisfied that the tiny one had been cared tor. "In all ways but feeding the kitten, the torn cat makes a good 'mother'," says Mrs. Curts. Mrs. Honeyman Gives Challenge D'YaLike Alt alia Juice? Will you have a glass of bright sparkling alfalfa juice? That may be the popular drink in coming fads and fancies. Anyway, the cannery of the Eugene Fruit Growers associa tion has packed several hun dred cases of alfalfa juice, or dered by an eastern company. The strange sight of several tons of alfalfa cuttings being deliv ered at the EFG plant is now explained. The alfalfa was washed and processed and then canned at the cannery. Weather News , 0. S. Weather Forecast) OREGON Fair Sundav and Monday but fogs on the coast and scattered thunderstorms over and east of the Cascades Monday; slightly cooler inland Monday: little change in temperature and humidity, moderate northwest wind off coast. V. S. WEATHER BUREAU Maximum temperature Saturday, 82.1 degrees; minimum tempera ture, Saturday, 49.8 degrees, wind, north. RIVER BUREAU RECORD Stage of Willamette river at Eu gene Saturday. 2.24 of a foot. SMiaajr High u 3:18 a. m. (7.3 feel) A gallant lady of 89 Jessie M. Honeyman saw the finest state park in Oregon and one of the finest in the United States dedi cated in her honor Saturday after noon, heard a dozen orators extol her public service, and then to hundreds of friends gathered to pay tribute she gave challenge: "A task without vision is drudg ery; a vision without a task is a dream; a vision with a task is victory. We still need you, every one of you. Somehow and some where and sometime is something every one of you can do. Open your eyes to see, your ears to recognize the call, because: "We are not here to play, to drift. There is hard Work to do And loads to-lift .-. . Shuii not the struggle ' It is God's gift!" : ; Standing erect, her voice vi brant, unworrled by the, sharp northwest wind which whipped in across the sanddunes and Clea wox lake, Mrs. Honeyman urged her hearers to carry on the work of the Oregon Roadside Council, especially the conservation of our forests "the wherewithal for de fense." To her co-workers in Oregon over the years, she paid high tri bute Robert W. Sawyer, Bend; Dean Eric Allen and Dr. Phillip Parsons and Fred Cuthbert of the University of Oregon; the late President Arnold Bennett Hall. Mary Miles, "my first assistant"; Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Harlow. Mrs, Godfrey, Ed Turnbull, Elmo Chase, mrs. a. n. Kockey, of Portland; R. H. Van Duzer, former state 1500 Delegates Expected Here For Legion Meet State Convention Will Open Sunday, July 20 Scores of street banners waving hearty greeting of "Welcome American Legion," all Eugene is preparing to receive hundreds of delegates and visitors who will arrive in town during the late week for the annual state' con vention of the American Legion, July 20-23, inclusive. , Busiest man in town right now is Ben F. Dorris, general con-, vention chairman. He and other; members of the convention mm. : mission report all details for the! . convention "clicking nicely." Some j 1500 visitors will be in Eugene from all sections of the state for i the convention. j I First activity in opening the' l convention will be the moving of I department- headquarters of the I T.AC!n aYtA all-viTiarc, int.. ITi.aama. n ............ j ...w I the middle of this week, the head quarters to be the Eugene hotel for the Legion and the Osburn hotel for the auxiliary. Carl R, Moser, Legion department adju tant, and Mrs. Mae Whitcomb, secretary of the auxiliary, are to arrive here Wednesday with their staffs to make final preparations ! for the convention opening next Sunday. National Head Due Milo J. Warner, national com mander, will arrive here next Sun day morning with his aide and will make the principal address ot.the opening convention- sf Ssloti on Monday morning, July 21, at iu o'clock in the McDonald theater, The public is invited to this event, a joint meeting for the Legion and auxiliary. At 11 a.m. that day tne joint event will recess, the Legion members to go to the Elks temple for their session, the aux iliary to the Methodist church for its meeting. J. P. Schimberg, chairman for registration, and Harvey L. Hilton, housing committee head, will open their headquarters next Sunday morning at S o'clock at the Ore, gon Trail pageant headquarters, Seventh and Willamette streets. Additional registration booths also Vj:i STATE COMMANDER of the Oregon department of the American Legion, Alfred P. Kelley will be on hand early to start off the annual con vention opening in Eugene next Sunday, July 20. SEE HONEYMAN STORY PAGE 2 Street Dress-up For Legion and Pageant Continues Decorating of Eugene streets to welcome the Oregon American Legion who will be here for its convention July 21, 22, and 23, will continue today, with the work being done by the Eugene Page ant association as a good will gesture toward the American Legion. Centerpieces for all lamp posts will be Installed, and all decor ations will be put up as soon as possible. These centerpieces wel coming the American Legion will be taken down Wednesday night, July 23, and new decorations welcoming visitors to the Oregon Trail Pageant, July 24, 25 and 26, will be put up before the towns- SEE STREET STORY PAGE 2 SEE 1500 DELEGATES STORY PAGE 2 . Big Soap Box Derby For Kids Tuesday Miniature racing cars, stream lined to the 'nth degree, will roar down the steep Charnelton street speed course Tuesday morning in test and time trials preparatory for the annual Soap Box Derby next Saturday morning. Tuesday's event, starting at 10 a. m., is being staged for one pur pose only so that contestants will have an opportunity to find flaws in their machines before the championships Saturday at 10 a. m. Harry Hearne, manager of the event, announced that pilots will not be required to race Tuesday and that the trials will give the drivers a chance to vie under com petitive conditions. The champion and runner-up next Saturday will win entrance in the state finals in Portland all expenses paid. The Portland race will determine an entry to the Nationals in Akron, Ohio with many fine prizes including a four- year college scholarship offered the winners. Russians Flee Dunkirk Style HELSINKI, July 13 (Sunday) (U.R) The Red army was report ed today to be attempting to evacuate its forces at Tallinn and the Estonian port of Baltiski by sea to Leningrad. Virtually cut off frofn the rest of Estonia and with German troops reportedly at their heels and German bombers constantly harassing them, the' Russians ap peared to be facing a task as the British had at Dunkirk. Ever since the Plesbov railway was. cut by ..the.: .Germa.nsajveek. ago at "Walk on the Latvian-Estonian frontier, it was reported, the Russians have been trying to evacuate their, troops from Es tonia by land through Narva, on the Estonian-Soviet border, and by sea. Both lines of retreat were sub ject to constant attack by German planes. The sea route was ren dered hazardous by German and Finnish naval forces. Leningrad is being repeatedly bombed, it was reported. 2,000 Sign For Civil Reserves in County As final returns began to come in to the offices of County Judge Clinton Hurd and Coordinator Howard Merriam on the civil re serve registration Tuesday it ap peared that nearly 2,000 persons had made their applications for membership in the corps. A card file has been started at Mr. Merriam's office classifying these persons as to their abilities and services offered and a meeting of the Lane County Defense com mittee will be called in the near future to consider further organi zation of the reserves. Registration will continue with blanks available at the homes of the chairmen of each precinct and at the county court house, city hall, library, two newspaper of fices and Mr. Merriam s office in Eugene. The registration blanks which the ex-service men signed earlier in the year have also been turned over to Mr. Merriam and a separ ate card file will be maintained in his office. Announcement has been made from the Camp Creek precinct that as the people were too busy harvesting last week an extension of time has been granted and the blanks have been left at the Oak Point grocery. German Forces Aim at Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad Report Believed Partly Propaganda, But Gains Evident By HARRISON SALISBURY Unted Press Staff Correspondent The German high command Saturday night claimed that the so-called Stalin line had been broken at all decisive points and that blitz troops are sweeping ahead toward Leningrad, Kiev and Mascow. The high command's specific claims were that German troops have advanced beyond Lake Pei pus to within about 125 miles of Leningrad. That Vitebsk on the Dvina, 80 miles northwest of Smolensk has been captured; that the Dnieper has been crossed north of the Pripet marshes, ap parently in the vicinity of Orsha,"' about 125. miles east of Minsk; that the Dniester has been cross ed in Bessarabia and again to the north where German troops were said to "stand before Kiev." Advances on Small Scale The claims concerning Kiev, however, if true, would indicate that substantial German headway has been made on this front where all previous reports both have indicated that the blitz from German and Russian sources forces had found the going very heavy. The communique would indic ate that on the northeastern front the Germans may have advanced some 30 or 40 miles' in the past few-days.- The extent' of the ad vance in the central sector could not be estimated from the vague language of the high command. The - communique- interspersed its specific claims with sweeping assertions concerning the disin tegration of Soviet forces, bom bardments of rail lines which were said to make concentration of large defense forces impos sible, etc. Propaganda The most sensational claim, however, was that the Stalin line had been "broken." Since the so called Stalin line is not a continu ous system of forts but rather the fortification of an entire deep area reaching far back into Soviet territory, and, since the Germans did not claim to have gone through this whole area it seemed likely that the assertion was is sued chiefly for its propaganda value. Actual German penetration of the entire Stalin system, of course, would be a military development of first magnitude and, presum ably, would leave the way clear to a quick and easy German ad vance to the main objectives of Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. The Russian reply to these op erations has been to launch a heavy air attack against forward nazi air bases, concentrations of armored cars and columns of Ger man troops moving up to the front. Reds Claim Successes The Russians reported that these tactics have proved effect ive and that at least four German Skeleton of Aged Recluse Who Disappeared 13 Years Ago Found in Bear Creek Ravine 4:12 p. m, (7.9 feet) 6:52 a. m. (zero) 10:28 p. m. (1.9 feet) monaay High . 4:02 . m. (S.7 feet) 4:B3 p. m, (7.9 feet) Low.. .10:,-12 (. m. (.8 of a ft.) Ttienaay Hllh.. Lew. 4:53 a. m. (6.1 feel) S:37 p. m, (7.4 feat) 1HH a. m. Xt,a fcttt. Discovery of a moss-covered skeleton wearing only one shoe late Friday cleared up a 13-year-old mystery the unexplained dis appearance of an aged recluse. James A. Wiihelm of Bear creek district, five miles east of Cres-well. Covered with moss and ferns. the skeleton lay in dense under brush, in a ravine about 200 yards from the aged man's old shack, which burned July 5, 1928 two days before his disappearance. Deputy Coroner Harold Poole, Deputy Sheriff Nelson Whipps and a granddaughter of Wiihelm made positive identification of the skeleton Saturday, Poole an nounced. For four days after Wiihelm disappeared, searchers from Cres well and Springfield districts combed the woodi in vain for his body. Then for many monthi fol lowing, CreswelUtes made up Im promptu search-parties in an ef fort to discover the body. Finally the case was chalked up to "just one of those unexplained mysteries," until Friday evening, when John and Leslie Martin, Creswell, who were doing some prospecting on Bear creek, caught sight of the skeleton in the thickly wooded ravine. They notified the sheriff's of fice, and the identification was completed Saturday. The Eugene Guard files of July 11, 1928, cast light on the mystery. "For three days," reads the banner story for that day, "search ers have combed the woods, An ax, a lantern and a shoe arc all that have been discovered. . , . "Wllhclm, who has lived for many years In the Bear creek di- Met tut of Creiwtll wai left homeless when his dwelling was destroyed by fire last Saturday night (July 7, 1928). "He told neighbors that he was planning to fix a chicken coop on his place for use as a tempor ary home. "Fred Scherler, a neighbor (now of Creswell), went to the Wiihelm place Sunday to see how the owner was getting along. The man's bedding lay in the yard and evidently had not been used the previous night. A search was started that night and Sheriff Frank E. Taylor was notified Monday. The sheriff aided In the search Monday and Tuesday, "An ax and lantern, borrowed by Wiihelm from neighbors after the fire were found Tuesday by SEE GERMANS STORY PAGE 2 Farmers' Creamery Schedules Picnic SEE SKELETON STORY PAGE 2 Dr. James Millar, Portland, will give the feature address at the Eugene Farmers' Creamery picnic Sunday afternoon on the west bank of Swimmer's Delight park. Dr. Millar will discuss the re lationship between events on the European continent and the American defense program. A complete program of enter tainment has been provided. It will start at 1:15 p. m. after a bas ket lunch has been served. On hand will be the Creswell community band. Entertainers include Hugh Simpson, cowboy singer; Marette and Larry Gishler, singers; "Rigger Slim," steel gui tarist: Jackie Day, tap dancer a group of tumblers from Eugene playgrounds, and Dave Blair and his "Serenaders." Sneakers besides Dr. Millar will include, J. W. Maxwell, president of the creamery association; Fred Brenne, secretary of the Eugene chamber of commerce; Dick Williams, assistant business man ager of the pageant; Doris Smith, director;; O. S. Fletcher, county agent; and G. A, Brown, manag er of the Interstate Association of creameries from Portland. Coffee and buttermilk will ba provided by the association,
