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Newspaper Page Textv.; Home Edition Veather: Fair LANE COUNTY'S . HOME ' NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1941. ON STREETS 3c; KSWS STANDS So NO. 44 German Ti-oods Smash Odessa From ThreeDirections: . . : 8-Hour Day Law Suspended on Defense Public Works ""' ' . films Soldiers Benefit 10 OF MONTEREY. Am 13. Amw pnnvAVB Pill nearly 2.000 vehicles U more than 10,000 men pir equipment are sched- ppus tarough Eugene over Nay period next week as ; im movement of the III Corpi from California tn Mta to participate in the fjv games ever held In "CWitenla Corps," com- Ue 8th Dlviclnn 4rnr Wind the 40th (California ikw Yin Division from w LUIS Ohlsnn 4nh iVUinn pnnu m to riart the move from IuTtb Saturday Eifft iwash maneuver P" w followed hv th 9 unn "wying I 22,500 men of West route will W "long highway Ike East route over high- FLt 15 troop trains are carry about h- men 01 the ,rnia cores I t..t. h br f J" PIlng an B WW enemy force ren- r. "J me mi, t,. EJ9 to Washington from the min IE. V. ?.' the motor em. Woh. " "n108"1 t father News c? ?orecast Ut mLight "WW'S"8,'0 in it " northwest winds Lc; aftemoon leV- Brth; PreJ RECORD: -uraaay, 2.81 -.ft." TODAY'S NEWS TOJMU life lY NOBLE, famed orchestra leader, brings his orchestra niallv far the Lane county defense dance sponsored L junior chamber of commerce, set for Willamette Park hbk Dance for Noble Cause my for Thursday; Lane's lth an encouraging response from the many Eugene and fraternal organizations ana people tnrougnout aunty, the "Noble dance for a noble cause" will be Thursday evening at Willamette Park. Wto being sold by the junior chamber of commerce (dub, the Del Key Cafe, and Newman's grotto indicate m affair will be one of the most successful in Eugene I liitory, although plenty of tickets are still available per couple. da of the dance will help furnish the recreation of Lane county soldiers at Fort Lewis, who at present have sadly inadequate recrea- X tional and amusement fa- Trooos ciiities iivvi Co-chairmen "of ''the - defense EllMAN A spirited civic group in Eugene riinPIlP ani Lane county, are Merle Nash hill) VI IV and . Francis Kelley, Jr., mem bers of the Junior chamber of commerce. The dance was undertaken by that group as part of its program of aiding in sponsoring and pro moting methods of civic better ment, with the idea- in mind to illustrate to soldiers at Fort Lewis that Lane county citizens are fully aware of their services and back ing them fully, according to co chairmen Kelly and Nash. . Ray Noble was expressly signed for the dance and has promised to give an outstanding program for the evening as his orchestra's snare in the defense dance. Featured with Noble's orchestra will be Snooky Lanson, famed romantic singer, and Lynn, Lee, SEE NOBLE STORY PAGE J Auto Stolen From Used Car Lot The theft of an automobile from their used car lot was re ported to city police Tuesday by the Simmons-Kendall motor com' pany. .... Police also received reports on the 'theft of bicycles belonging to Herman Leff, 568 W. Sixth, and Say Boggs, 1060 Washington. A car stolen in Portland was recovered Wednesday. Collier Glacier May Disappear Collier Glacier on the slopes of the North Sister, once reputed the largest glacial body in the United States, is but a shadow of its former self, according to Ruth Hopson, geologist, who has been making a photographic record of the big ice pack for 10 years. Miss Hopson, a pupil of War ren D. Smith, was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1931 and is now preparing to take her Ph.D. at Cornell. Her Collier glacier studies will be submitted as the minor problem for her thesis. During the coming year she will teach in the Eugene schools. The dry cycle in Oregon weath er has been very hard on the gla cier, Dr. Smith reports on- his re turn from an Obsidian trip over the mountain. Miss Hopson's photographs will show that the snout which used to rest at the Airport, Fort And Housing Crews Affected Action Taken To Speed Completion Of All Military Work WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 VP) President Roosevelt has suspended the 8-hour day law as applied to mechanics and laborers employed by the war department on public works necessary to naUonal de fense In the United States. The action, by means of an ex ecutive order announced today, was said at the White House to have been taken because of the necessity of completing all mili tary projects at the earliest prac tical date. The suspension applies to work ers on air fields,' troop housing units, fortifications and other works' necessary to the military establishment A war department official said the executive order would affect only mechanics and laborers di rectly employed by the war de partment. It will not cover the vastly larger, number of workmen employed by private contractors on army cantonment construction, fortifications and air fields. The flat overtime rate of time and' one half pay, it was said, will be given for work in excess of 44 hours a week the standard work week for .this type of employe. The suspension will apply only on projects to be designated by Secretary ... of -War Stimson...He did not Immediately issue any list of projects affected. - Employes of private contractors working, on .defense projects re ceive time and a half pay for work in excess of the ' 5-day, 40-hour week, under an agreement made effective August 1 between the building and construction depart ment of the American Federation of Labor and the Office of, Pro duction Management. . This covers work undertaken for the army, navy, maritime commission,' iea- eral works agency, ana all suo sldiarles of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation which are in volved in the defense plant ex pansion program. Grading Bids Will Be Opened Thursday Bids for Bradlne a mile and a quarter of Route F highway from the Fisher roaa to we west ena of the proposed overhead cross ing five miles west of Eugene will be opened by tne state nignway commission at a meeting in Port land Thursday. County Commis sioners Walter Holland and Allen P. Wheeler and County Engineer P. M. Morse plan to attend tne meeting. Bids on tnis worx were cauea fnr once before but nobody ap peared to be interested as there were no bids offered, sen added. a Defense Production Prograrn Is Speeded MEW YORK. Au. 13. Director General William S Knudsen of the Office of Produc tion Management predicted today that, if the nation's defense pro gram hit the half-way mark by January 1. 1942. "we should hit oeak production by July and after that, America can write its own ticket on war material." Wears Away, Entirely head of White Branch has re ceded a long distance and the in rvnlnff nace has become a sizeable lake which is now begin ning to drain out "And White Branch is becom ing Red Branch or Pink Branch," says Dr. Smith. ' Thin chance of color in the ef fluent from the glacier indicates that it is now draining a new stratum of lava soil which is red instead of the traditional white h . Thm uncut of the alacler has ulled back to about the foot of ittle Brother, one of the minor tank In the- Sisters Croup. Dr. Smith says nobody can pre dict the outcome. Unless there la a flaw Blaclal ace or a protract ed series of heavy winters, the famous Collier Glacier probably will disappear. However, it will be a long slow process which no person now living may see son plattd.. Draft Trouble INDIANAPOLIS, Aug 13 C) Two letters enlivened the work of Indiana selective head quarters. One was from a Marlon coun ty grandmother who offered to go to camp instead of her grandson who still had a year before finishing college. "I can cook I can sew. I could help with the washing. Please let me go," she said. "I'm not doing anything at home here." The other was from a wife on the Ohio river who said she wished her draftee-huband had been sent to Alaska or some other far off place instead of Fort Knox, Ky., right across the river. . The woman complained he "insists on coming home each week-end." Draff Board 2 Lists Numbers Order numbers for 21-year-olds who recently registered for selective service boards have been allotted by . Lane county draft board No. 2. The complete list of orders numbers follows: y Orders No. S-815, Ackermen, Leonard Harold; S-1669, Adams, Carson Glen; S-6S8, Adams, Ir vin Chester; S-543, Anderson, Norman Lawrence; S-717, Ash more, Cecil Frank; S-1510, Aus tin, Orval Burke. S-1312, Bailey,- Gordon- Vern; S-2447. Baker. Kenneth Lyle: S-2407, Barger, Morris Alfred; S-1809. Barrett. . Kennetn Law rence: S-2486. Barto. Merrill George: S-622, Bealey, Albert Wilbur; S-2506, Beck, Robert Frank S-I470,-'erg,-' AiDert jonn; S-1292, Bernhardt, William Keith; S-2748, Bires, Harold Rush; S-2586, . Bishop, Harvey Lovd: S-2069.' Bivens.' Charles Henry; S-2466, Borgaard, Meryl Eugene; S-2307, Bowman, Lester Franklin; S-582, Briggs, Alden SEE DRAFT STQR PAGE 2 1 ' ' Deserter Faces Larceny Charge Dave Bishop, 26-year-old army deserter from Fort Lewis, faced charges of larceny from cars and resisting arrest Wednesday morn ing after a brief, but busy one- man "crime wave" here Tuesday evening. Bishop, who formerly lived at 245 Monroe street, was captured by Officers Ted Brown and Paul Snell in tne- vicinity oi rounn and Monroe after a brief battle. At the time of his arrest Bishop had in his possession a large quantity of loot which the officers said was stolen irom cars be longing to Art Richardson, 909 W, Fifth, Wayne Tullar, 793 W. Fifth, and Allen G. Sneed, Springfield, officers said. Richardson, who said he would swear out . a complaint against SEE DESERTER STORY PAGE 2 : Defense Saving Luncheon Slated T.one eountv oostmasters and mayors have been invited to meet with tne state-wiae aeiensc sav ing committee, neaaea Dy maimer Hoyt, publisher of The Oregon- ian, Thursday noon at the Osburn hotel, Howard Merriam, Lane county defense coordinator, an nounced Wednesday. Plans to set up a aeiense sav ings program in Lane county will be made at the meeting, une committee is on -a tour of the southern part of the state. Accompanying the group will be Ted Gamble, state administra tion; Ray Conway, assistant adi ministrator; George H. Godfrey, deputy administrator; and Robert S. Farrell, Jr., chairman of the speakers committee. Stubble Fire Lights . Sky At Lone Pine . LONE PINE, Aug. 13 (Spe clal) Eighty-seven acres of blazing stubble field lit up the night sky on the Curtis Bass farm here Tuesday night, attracting at tention of scores of motorists who thought farm buildings were burning. There was no damage, and the fir was under control at all time, Bass reported. Nafion-Wide Phone Tie-Up Is Threatened Locals In 13 Cities Vote For Walkout Authorization By the Associated Press A tie-up of the nation-wide Bell telephone system was threatened today when the Association of Communication Equipment Work ers announced that a majority of its locals in 13 cities had voted a strike authorized in connection with its dispute with a Bell com pany.. Negotiations between the associ ation and Western Electric com pany, Inc., a part of the Bell sys tem, are now stalemated over four points of a proposed master work ing agreement, the union said. Commissioner James W. Fltz- Patrick of the New York state mediation board, attempting to avert a nation-wide : stoppage, called the disputants to a meet ing in New York City , tomorrow. In a statement issued from New York, the union said that plant workers of the associated com panies in the Bell system were af filiated with the-Association of Communication Equipment "Work ers in the National Federation of Telephone Workers, an Indepen dent union, and that these affili ates' have indicated they would not do anything which could be regarded as a strike-breaking ac tivity. '" ' '' " ' . "If -that should eventuate," the statement said, "it would undoubt edly result in. an almost complete tie-up of the . Bell system in the United States." The association' added . that a work- stoppage by its claimed 8,000 members employed in Western Electric's installation' department would tie up work on Bell system private communications - instal lations in military cantonments, government buildings and defense plants throughout the country. : There are association locals in New York, Atlanta, Washington, Albany. Philadelphia,- Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Oma ha, Denver, Newark and - San Francisco. -- The four points at controversy in the negotiations were said by the union, to be an automatic pro gression of wages in place of. the current merit system, maintenance of a union membership clause, se niority, and holiday pay for all observed holidays. The union quoted Commission er- Fitzpatrlck as saying that if tomorrow's conference did not bring results, he would ask Secre tary of Labor Perkins to certify the case to the defense mediation board. , . . ' CIO Wins NLRB Vote at Westfir WESTFIR, August 13. (Spe cial) The CIO International Woodworkers of America emerg ed as the bargaining unit of the Westfir . Lumber company - Wed nesday, it was reported by Max Gardiner, CIO organizer. A NLRB election Tuesday gave the CIO union- 239 votes as com pared with 172 for the AFL lum ber and sawmill workers union, the organizer reported. Tne election was tne second one held within the last two months. The first vote failed to determine a bargaining unit. The company employs 550 men tn the mill and logging operation. Action-RAF Supplies Plenty! (Pilot Officer Jack Calder, former Canadian press staff writer, now an observer In the Royal Canadian air force, here describes his first operational flight over German-occupied territory as navigator and bomb aimer.) Editor. - Copyright, 1941, by the Canadian Press LONDON, ' Aug. 13 Maxie looked at the oil pressure again and then he looked at me. "I think we might just make it" he said. . Then it was time to dash out to sea, it we were to be at the tar get at the zero hour. The forma tion tightened behind us and we climbed for three minutes through broken eloud. Behind were other Northwest Troops Battle Fiercely As Invaders' Land FORT LEWIS, Wash., Aug. 13 (AP) A huge mythical enemy fleet theoretically invaded the coast of Washington at dawn today, officially starting the biggest war maneuvers in west coast history. First enemy troops theoretically landed by parachute from transport planes at Aberdeen and Raymond, Wash., in the Grays Harbor area. Transports pulled into the harbor and prepared to unload under cover of the guns of mythical war ships standing off-shore. Parachute trpops also landed at North Head and Camp uatsop. Fort Worden, one of the mam Fueet Sound defense out posts, was destroyed after only make-believe enemy fleet. The new si2,000,00u McChord field air base, near Tacoma, was bombed, half its planes destroyed before they could get into the air and its run ways blasted to bits. . Oregon Cities "Taken" Four hours after the attack, the cities of Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Aberdeen, Ho qu i am, Raymond, Seaside, Ore., Canby, Ore., Warrington, Ore., and the mouth of the Columbia river had been theoretically captured by the enemy. Two squadrons of planes from Fort Lewis took off to scout the enemy to determine which of the thrusts was the main attack so the 9th army corps could act in a specific area instead of spread ing its forces.. All this was part of the paper maneuvers of the war games which will involve about 100,000 troops. The 50,000 men and of ficers of the fort were expected iu go inw hcuuo any .moment, to repel the mythical, attack.' ... . The. actual theoretical attack followed two days of a "war of nerves," which kept officers on the alert day and night awaiting SEE NORTHWEST TROOPS .' PAGE t ..... - Eugene-Drain Line Work of clearing the right of way for the Bonneville transmis sion line to be built from Eugene to Drain to furnish power for the North Douglas and West Douglas electric co-operatives is now- un der way. ' A crew is at work in the Spencer Butte country south of Eugene, according to Fred Knox, manager of the Lane county fair, near whose farm in - the Fox Hollow country the line will pass. Plans for the erection of a sub station, in Fox Hollow are under way. -It will be located on the Taylor place, Mr. Knox said. Bids were opened Tuesday for the construction of the transmis sion line between Eugene and Drain. The Tri-State Construc tion company of Portland was low bidder. Its figures are $91,965 for the entire contract or $55,699 with out conductors. ' 29 More Vocational '' Students Employed Twenty-nine mom vocational school students were sent to the Boeing aircraft factory in Seattle, Wash., this week, it was reported Wednesday by James Bagan, man ager of the Oregon state employ ment office here. The total of vocational school students employed in the industry this year is near 700 now, he added. The group placed this week Included aviation sheet metal workers, and several train, ing in aviation mechanics. formations all streaking Brest and the Gnelsenau. fori We leveled out and suddenly broke cloud. Below us was blue sea and far ahead the coast of France. I thought of that bad oil leak which might make our gun tur rets unserviceable at the target area. The wireless operator was working desperately to repair it. His wedding was only a couple of weeks ahead and he wanted to come back for it. . Cool Objects on the coast grew big ger and I went forward to the bomb-aimer's position. Max pat ted me on the shoulder as I pass ed him. Boy, he was cool. He had refused to turn back because we war- leading - the formation and 16 minutes of battle with the Kill Loader COTTAGE GROVE, Aug. 13 (Special) Floyd Schmitt, 32, log loader for the Green Ridge Lum ber company at Walker station, was instantly killed Wednesday morning when three logs rolled off a loaded truck while he was attempting to chain them together. The' accident occurred: shortly after 8 a. m. The coroner's office was-called to investigate. ' Schmitt,. son -of Adam Schmitt of Creswell, is survived, by his widow, Evelyn Rose Schmitt, and a lour-year-old daughter; carol. This was the second fatal acci dent ; involving - Cottage Grove residents in- the past 48 hours. 1 Virgil S." Dame wood,; 38, resi dent of Cottage- Grove until six months ago,- was. fatally Injured Tuesday in-an automobile acci-j dent in Brewster-Valley: near Myrtle' Point Funeral services will be held Thursday at. the Smith chapel, and interment will be in the I. O. O. F.-Masonic cemetery.-... Mr.Damewood was born in June, .1905, at Cottage Grove. Survivors:; his widow, two chil dren, Donald and Jerry; parents, Mr. . and Mrs, J. E, Damewood; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Slagle, of Elkton and Mrs. Corbett Smith of Culp Creek; a brother, C. E. Damewood. , ..,'--. ; - . Men Sign Up For Police, Fire Reserves Applications to participate in' Eugene's police and fire reserves are being received at the police department, the fire department and the armory, Herschel Taylor, head of the protection division of the Lane county defense council, announced Wednesday. - The fire reserve is open to ac tive men under 40. No age limit is set on the police reserve, but applicants must be nhvsicallv fit As soon as a sufficient number or men have signed up for the reserves, classes will be held to give them instruction on their duties. Instructors from the state police and fire marshal's offices will teach the classes., Shipyards Still Closed WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 OP) The big yards of the Federal shipbuilding and Dry Dock com pany at Kearney, N. J., remained closed By a strike today, no de- cision coming out of a conference on whether the navy should move in and. operate the plants. . there was a Job to do. "Look at that Ack-Ack come up, someone gam. - Ahead of us the sky was clut tered with little patches of anti aircraft shell bursts. We headed across the little Peninsula toward the drydocks of Brest "I'm going to try the run-up from here," Max said over the inter-communicating phone. "But we're 10 miles oft the tar get and will be there two minutes early if we make our move now," I told him, ' "That's all right," he argued. And he was captain. "They're not bothering us now and we've got a good chance of getting in." "Okay," I said. "Steady ahead, Target' - - Below I taw barrage balloons Russians Appear Near Defeat in Ukraine Front Reds Remind World Of Stalin's Order For 'Scorched Earth' - ;- By The Associated Press! -Russia's Red armies appeared to have all but lost their grasp on the western half of the Ukraine below the Dnieper river today as German troops smashed from three directions at the great port of Odessa- and suicide rearguards fought bitterly to cover the Soviet retreat to the Black sea. " A British war office spokesman acknowledged that' the Russian position in the Ukraine had de teriorated rapidly, and the Soviet high command was ominously silent on the climactic struggle.': Russian quarters in London. however, declared that if the Ger mans entered Odessa and Niko laev, 65 miles east, the would find only "the smoking ruins of. de molished factories and empty streets" ghost cities left in ruins under Premier Joseph Stalin's order for a so-called scorched earth campaign. ' t Huge Counter-Attack ' " Thousands of Russian tanks. great masses of infantry and tens of thousands of hard-riding Cos sack horsemen, Soviet sources also said, were hurling more counter attacks' - against Field - Marsnai General von Runds ted t's , advanc ing Germans. " 'T ' . - While- the-, situation-, was--undoubtedly grave for the Russians, qualified observers said that the loss of the lower - Ukraine,- vn the capture of Odessa,' and Nike laev, wduld not be a decisive blew to .the Soviet It was-pointed-cut that -the richest prizes stui-uo beyond the: Dnieper river,, to -the east -where the big industrial centers are located. Moat of the lower Ukraine, now being -overrun by the nazl Invasion armies, is an sericulture-producing country. while the treasure vauls of iron, manganese and - other. . war ; ma terials are in the east. Meanwhile, new friction - da- SEE RUSSIANS STORT PAGE S Highway Board Buys City Lots The state highway commission has purchased 30 city lots os fractions . of lots In Victoria Heights addition from Lane county as a part of the right of way for the new highway , soon to be constructed through Eu gene. These lots were taken over by the county for taxes at differ ent times during the past few years. The deal for the purchase of the property was completed late Tuesday, J. M. Devers, at torney for the commission, who was here at the time, acting in, behalf of the state. These lots are located on the north slope of the heights at Jud kins Point A very heavy cut will have to be made at that place to provide the necessary width fot the highway.' The lots are located immediately above the tracks-of the Southern Pacific railway. -. - While there is no definite in formation at hand as to when' construction will be started, County Judge Clinton Hurd, who handled the sale for the county, predicted that blasting would be started on this property in the very near future. at about 6,000 feet Something was burning on the ground probably a fighter aircraft. '. . Like a Flash! It happened like a flash. "Rat-a-taUat-tat-tat," went the guns in our rear turret "I just shot down an ME10B,": called the rear gunner. "I didn't even have time to report it." - "Heads up," cried the gunner leader. "Here come two more.", ; "I've got one," called the rear gunner of No. 8 aircraft. -. 'Let's have less people talk-: ing at one time," Maxie ordered. "Give the gunnery leader a chance." ' . "All right, but I've got an MI- BEE ACTION 8TOBT PAGlt T.