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Page Two. THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON School Board Hits Carnival Program (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) says that he had previously talked it ever with board members and had been assured a clear track). April 10 On verbal understand ing, Hitchcock signs contract with carnival and accepts $1200 down. April 14 School board meets and directs Superintendent Cram er to transmit written offer of grounds for $375, price of certain fence, also stipulating sanitary conditions of operation. . April 15 School board's written offer transmitted (never acknowl edged in writing by Hitchcock, but he claims to have discussed It verbally with board members). May 28 School board modifies its offer at Hitchcock's verbal re. uest and state (in writing) that if pageant should not make money, the board would cut rent of wit lard grounds to $100. June 9 Petition from neighbors of Willard school protests permit for carnival and board vines to withdraw its offer. June 10 Written notice of withdrawal sent to Hitchcock and ignored by him . July 20 Carnival moves onto grounds and telephones begin to keep Hitchcock, Cramer, board members, legal talent et als very busy. Superintendent Cramer alleges the board was drawn into an em barrassing situation through try ing to help the pageant board with its problsms and claims that Hitch cock was hard to hold to his ver bal promises as to toilet facilities, etc. etc. Hitchcock says that he went ahead and signed up his contract with the carnival company on the gentlemanly assurances of the - school board and that having dont so and accepted payment he would be e6mpelled to sue the school board Should the pageant board be sued for any recision of its con. tract with the carnival. In the background of the eon- trOversy lurks some of the issues of the recent school board cam paign in which Dr. G. F. Beards, ley was a candidate against Mrs. C. L. Constance. According to Hitchcock, it was Sr. Beardsley who first raised question as to possible infection of the grounds leading to the efforts of the school board to get positive clearance from the medical association. American Legion Program For Tuesday and Wednesday Tuesday, July 22 Annual Convention Parade. flrum Corps Contest (Junior and Senior) Civic tadium. 20th and Willamette. 9:00 p. m. Official Legion Dance The Holland. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Germans Pour Bombs On Moscow (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) destruction of individual groups of me soviet armea torces continue steadily." Going Rough In comparison with previous communiques, the nazi high com mand's mention of both "stout" re pittance and "stubborn" Soviet eounter-attacka indicated that Hit ler's invasion armies were finding the going rough. The high command declared that the attack on Moscow was "in re taliation for Bolshevist air raids on open capitals of the allies, Bu charest (Rumanian) and Helsinki RADIOS 1941 Model! at LIGHTNING'S 1151 Willamette Phone 1319 Wednesday, July 23 9:00 a.m. C6nvention business session Elks lodge room. Advancement of Colors: Department Serjeant-at-Arms. Wavne Arnold and Asst.. Lvle King. Invocation: Department Chaplain, Rev. Joseph J. Dixon. Introduction of Distinguished Guests. Address: Lt. Col. Joseph L. Stromme. Unfinished Business. Nomination and Election of Officers: Delegates and Alternates to Milwaukee Na tional Convention: Department and District Officers. Installation of Officers-Elect. Retirement of Colors. Adjournment of Convention (sine die). Oregon Trail Pageant Program Legion Auxiliary Program For Tuesday and Wednesay Tuesday, July 22 3:30 p. m. Tour of Museum on Campus and Chase Gardens. 7:00 p.m. Annual Convention Parade. 8:30 p. m. Drum Corps and Band Exhibition (Junior and Senior). 12:00 p.m. Stunt Show. Rex Theater. Wednesday, July 23 7:00 a. m. District Presidents and Past District Presidents Breakfast, Eugene hotel. 9:60 a.m. School of Instruction for Unit Secretaries, Methodist church. 9:30 a.m. Call to Order, Department President Laura Goode. Pledge of Allegiance and Salute to the Flag. Star Spangled Banner. Invocation: Winifred McLucas, Department Chaplain. Roll Call of Units. Reading of Minutes of previous day. Report of Committee of Resolutions and Recom - mendations. Report of Trophies and Awards Committee, Helen Lewis, Department Chairman. Awarding of Trophies. District Caucuses: Election of District Presi dents. (15 minute recess). Introduction of New District Presidents, i Election Of Department Officers. Election of Delegates and Alternates to National ' Convention at Milwaukee. Installation of Department Officers. Unfinished Business. New Business. Awarding of Daily Attendance Prize Donated by Devil's Lake Unit No. 114. Announcement of Convention Meeting Place for 1942. Introduction of new Commander for 1942 Adjourn Sine Die Meeting of National Delegates and Alternates. Meeting of Newl Elected Dept. Executive Com. 3:00 3:30 3:45 4:30 4:45 5:00 7:30 8:00 11:00 3:00 8:15 8:30 p. m, p. m, p. m, p.lm. p. m. p. m. p. m. p. m. a.m. p.m. p. m. p. m. 9:30 p.m. 10:30 12:30 a.m. p.m. 1:00 p.m. 8:30 10:00 12:00 2:00 8:30 9:00 p.m. p.m. noon p.m. p. m. p.m. Wednesday, July 23 Eugene Day Old time costume parade. Arrival of Susannah, Belle of the Trail, and her retinue to Eugene. Judging of old time costumes, City Park block, 8th and Oak streets. . ... Address of welcome to Susannah and visiting Belles by Mayor Elisha Large. Public reception for Susannah and party at Os burn hotel. West Coast Circus attractions at Amusement Center. Final judging of whisker contestants, City Park, 8th and Oak streets. Free entertainment, amusement center. Thursday, July 24 Oregon Day Civic and Industrial parade. Old fashioned costume Whist party, Osburn hotel . Crowning of Susannah V, Pageant grounds. "Oregon Trail" Pioneer Pageant at Lane Coun ty Fairgrounds, 13th. and Monroe streets. West Coast Circus attractions, Amusement center. Friday, July 25, Pioneer Day Pioneer Parade, forms at Fairgrounds. Pioneer Barbecue and Reunion, Fairgrounds. (Admission by ticket only). West Coast Circus attractions, Amusement center. "Oregon Trail" Pioneer Pageant, Fairgrounds. Queen's Ball, Gerlinger Hall, University campus. (Admission by invitation ticket only). Saturday, July 26 Lane County Day Guest luncheon and Pioneer style show, Eugene hotel. Baseball, Civic Stadium, Eugene Athletics vs. House of David. "Oregon Trail" Pioneer Pageant, Fairgrounds. Free entertainment, Amusement center. Convention Sidelights (Finland)." It waa Moscow's first raid of the war. Natl pilots said that 12 big ex plosion shook the Kremlin dis trict, In the center of the city, and that fires spread over a huge area southea.lt of the Moskva river. East of the Kremlin, 20 tires were reported. Th Germans said the entire re gion of the Moskva bend, site of communist party headquarters and power plants, was aflame. Russian officials said at least 206 nasi bombers struck at the capital, but that night fighters of the Red air fleet and a thundering barrage of anti-aircraft tire down- MAIL YOUR FRIENDS The Eugene Register-flu erreVi PAGEANT EDITION This fine Edition will be published Sunday. Place your orders now as there will be a limited number available for extra mailings. WRAPPED AND MAILED ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, each 10c ed 17 planes and prevented all but a few from getting over the city. "Several private dwellings were set afire and a small number of persons were killed Or wounded," a Soviet communique said. "The attempt should be considered a failure." Springfield Bean Growers Incorporate The Springfield Co-operative Bean Growers have tiled articles of incorporation in the Office of County Clerk Dillard. The pur poses are to market, sell, preserve, and pack beans and conduct a business connected with the bean growing industry. The names of the incorporators appearing in the articles are A. ft. Cockeriine, R. O. Houck, Stanley Ziolkoski, Harry Ryan and Peter RodakOwski. The Wild West CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 22. m Hugh Bennett, Arizona bulldogger, fancy rider, roper, etc., arrived by plane for the 45th annual frontier days rodeo. His horse is en route by auto mobile trailer. STANDING joke for the Legion convention assemblies at the Elks temple la to remind the speakers not to talk past 11 o'clock you see, all the "clocks" in the Elks temple say 11 o'clock a fact, too, which makes some of the more talkative ones feel perfectly safe. Col. E. V. Wooten of the state selective service headquarters, Salem, attended the convention Tuesday. Another visitor Is Seneca Fouts, Portland, lalsion officer, United Spanish War Veterans. Ouy Cordon, Roseburg attorney, and a past department commander of the Legion is among those tak ing in the sessions. Cordon re cently announced his candidacy for the republican nomination in the recently created fourth con gressional district tor the state. Another of state officialdom tak ing In the convention is Leslie M. Scott, state treasurer. Circuit Court Judge Carl Wim. berly, Roseburg, is here for the rest of the convention,- coming Monday afternoon. And there are special greetings to Judge Wim berly today, it is his birthday. Circuit Court Judge Del King of Myrtle Point, newly named to the court, also is at the convention. Greeting old friends here is Hugh t. Rosson, formerly of this city and now of Portland. He is a past commander of the Eugene post. Col. C.'A. Robertson, who was democratic candidate for congress in the first district last November, Is among convention visitors. . Angus Gibson, Junction City, one of Lane county's legislators, was attending the convention, Tuesday. . Among other Lane county folk at the meeting are Mr. and Mrs. Orvllle Cox, Florence. Rex Putnam, state superintend ent of public instruction, was greeting Legionnaires at the con vention, Tuesday morning. Tribute to the work done by the American Legion auxiliary for the veterans' facilities at Roseburg was given by Col. E. F. Tandy at the convention meeting, Tuesday morning. He said the auxiliaries throughout the state did numerous services for the in stitution throughout the year, t The Register-Guard office came in for its share of attention from the visiting legionnaires Tuesday morning when the drum and bugle corps of the Portland Post NO. 1 lined up and presented a serenade. Victor D. Brown is commander of the post. Colorful Bands Here With Legion (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) p. m., ending at the Civic sta dium. Scene Colorful Flashing reds, bright blues, gay Scotch kilties, and many other colorful costumes feature the dif ferent corps, the Civic stadium to be a blaze of color when the dif ferent units march in Tuesday evening to do their stuff. The contest is open to all of the public. Seats are on sale at the Eugene and Osburn hotel lobbies, and at the stadium gates at 7 p. m. Tuesday. Annually the contest is the spectacular show of the Legion convention. Adult tickets are 50 cents, children 25 cents. Prizes at the contest are award ed for excellence in a march for mation, cadence, drumming, and music. Entered In the competition are the following junior corps: Al bany (1940 champion), Baker, Oregon City, Newport. The Leb anon junior group will parade only. The senior corps exhibiting only are the Ashland Kilty band, Portland Post, No. 1, Klamath Falls, Roseburg, Corvallis, and the host post, Eugene. Police TV and Eleventh 'S the Legion vuce ravin.. i be removed ' W k!?t off WilC me 48 statea wereTlS? than collection, f'S Auxiliary Backs Laura Goode (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) ' FOR WOMEN four choice of our complete stock . . . styles for now and for Fall wear, too! Reduced without stint ; . . in fact nothing is changed but the price. H95 I auid t 95 Most Styles NO EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS ment of a child welfare commis sion to be composed of three mem bers, one from district one, an other from district four, the third to be from another district. This project has been a major one within the auxiliary. Presentation nf auatvte in choral contest held late Monday msnt was maae ai tne Tuesday morning session. Rose City unit, Portland, carried off air hnnnn In the first division, choral club, sex- quai'iei, ana trio, iviewoerg took all honors in division two, choral clubs, sextet, ouartet. and trio. The Eugene choral group did not compete but opened the program. Another feature of the Tuesday Bcssiun was tne report irom Mrs Goode as retiring president. Establishment nf th rhi fare commission evoked a lively session wnn me result mat a mo tion to table the resolution was out-voted and tho on favorably by a large majority. nmcrrca DacK to me nnance committee were the resolutions ha Vinff to fin with th hiivlna A n iron lung and th increase of al ary for the department secretary. Margaret Antrim, resolutions chairman, presented the readings. jioun orown, nnance officer, made the financial report recom mending the nnwtr tn restricted savings of the auxiliary in case of emergency such as might be incurred in case of war, or acts of bellieerence. Snecial snet ,. Cook of Albuouermie. N. M uunai vice presiaent ot tne west ern division: Mr. Rftrthfi Tin,.! of Eugene, oldest past department prraraem; tapi. AJirea P. Keuey, legion department commander, who gave a brief address concern ing the need of the services and sacrifices of the organization dur ing the coming five years; and Mrs. Lydia Horsfall, national com mittee member. Roy , na Numbers Help Arrange Thursday's Parade All entries in the Civic and In dustrial parade t the Oregon Trail pageant, scheduled for 11 a. m. Thursday should pick up their resnective mimhi immutt.,.i.. according to C. A. Huntington, in cnarge oi me paraae as a result of Chairman Wlnlr WlnfW. jan.ri. ure for California. The numbers, assigned to every entry received thus far, also have instructions xor organization of floats in correct orrii n than. and must be obtained for all entries. Organization rflrln the parade, scheduled for Thurs day, may still do so, said Chairman Huntington, and will be assigned late numbers. Accidents Involving firearms, In cluding "I didn't know It .. loaded" guns, killed 2,582 Ameri cans in 1939, the Census Bureau report, Never Before . 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