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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1941.
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NO. 44
German Ti-oods Smash Odessa From ThreeDirections:
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8-Hour Day Law Suspended on Defense Public Works
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films Soldiers Benefit
10 OF MONTEREY.
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Pill nearly 2.000 vehicles
U more than 10,000 men
pir equipment are sched-
ppus tarough Eugene over
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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. , ..,'--.
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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-
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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
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