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KINGTON, Oct. 21. UJ.R)
jetorj of State Cordell Hull
urged we senate ioreign
ku committee to approve
ha house resolution to arm
fan merchant ships, lest
fen "efforts at self-defense
to late."
I was the first witness at
l on the house-approved
Ion, His testimony followed
Ite House conference with
fcstonal leaders, who re-
that they would press at
be only for the ship-arming
(her than repeal of the en
utrality act.
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ff. Barkley of Kentucky
bad, however, that there
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hearmes were closed, but
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lot which he read to the
committee.
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Joe Gordon
Hunts Ducks
REDMOND, Oct. 21. UP)
Joe Gordon, New York Yankee
second baseman, who arrived in
Redmond from Eugene Friday to
join friends on a deer bunting
trip in the Metolius river coun
try, left today to hunt ducks at
Summer Lake in Lake county.
Ford Danner .of Eugene, mem
ber of the group, bagged a large
buck Sunday.
From Summer lake the hunt
ers were to go to Vale Wednes-.
day for the opening of pheasant
season. , .
Florence J. P.
Is Arrested
Carl M. Severy, justice of the
peace of the Florence district, was
arrested Tuesday on a charge of
non-payment of public funds. He
was indicted by the grand jury
Monday, this being one of the two
secret indictments returned. A
warrant of arrest was mailed by
Sheriff C. A. Swarts to Deputy
Sheriff C. S. Carlson and that of
ficial made the arrest, arriving
with the accused official at noon.
Severy Is accused of failing to turn
over to the county treasurer $82 50
collected by him September 25 as
fines.
Severy was arraigned in circuit
court at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon and pleaded not guilty.
On request of his attorney, John
Pennington, Judge G. F. Skip-
worth allowed him his freedom on
his own recognizance. Attorney
Pennington pointed out that the
accused is a native of Lane county.
that he is a member of a well-
known family and that the court
would be justified in allowing him
to go without bail.
The Indictment accuses Severy
of "holding in his possession and
custody by virtue of his office,
public funds, fines Imposed by him
as justice of the peace in the sum
of $82.50 and did not, as soon as
practicable, pay the same over
to the county treasurer."
November 24 Date
Of Budget Meeting
The county taxpayers' meeting
to consider the budget for the
first six months of 1942 will be
held in the courthouse Monday,
Nov. 24, it was announced Tues
day by County Judge .-Clinton
Hurd.
The budget as agreed upon two
weeks ago by the committee made
up of the three members erf the
county court and private citizens
as taxpayers is almost ready for
publication. It must be published
20 days before the taxpayers'
meeting.
Miss Patricia Svlvers. secretary
to Judge Hurd, has been busy
every day for more than a week
getting the figures of the budget
m siiape for publication.
DEATH FOR LOOTERS
LONDON, Oct. 21 W) A Mos
cow radio announcement today
said three factory workers had
been sentenced to death "for
spreading panic and looting" and
a number of others had been sent
prison by a military tribunal,
lavLuiics as iiic uiiicii ui men
Middle East
Battles Loom
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
(of the UP war desk) ,
Even while the battle of Mos
cow is at its height, with the
strongest concentration of which
Germans is capable massed on the
Central front, events are shaping
more ana more towards an ap
proaching battle front in the
Middle East. ' i
East of the Black sea, in the
Caucasus isthmus, may be the
ground where the British and Rus
sians will join forces in battling
the Germans. At any rate, it is
a possible answer to the continu
ing demand in England for active
intervention by Britain to create
another front while Germany is
still heavily engaged in Russia.
The German drive along the
Sea of Azov towards Rostov is a
direct threat not only to Russia
but to the Caucasian oil fields and
to Britain in the Middle East.
Only 175 miles south of Rostov
lie the great oil fields of the Kras
nodar reeion. from where the pipe
lines branch out north, west and
east .
Valuable Prize
Tt would be a prize of incalcu
lable value to Hitler. If he can
take those fields in workable con
dition, his oil problem might be
solved. Even if tne wells, reiin
eries and pipe lines are put out
of commission, Kussia s source oi
oil would be cut off.
Established in the Caucasus,.
Hitler would be in a position for
a flanking drive on Suez througn
the Middle East, while the axis
forces strike simultaneously from
North Africa.
The Near East and the Mediter
ranean is an essential goal for
Hitler if he is to consolidate his
SEE MIDDLE EAST STORY
PAGE 2
Woman, Child Escape
Death In Train Crash
Mrs. Mabel Damewood, 33,..of
Fall Creek and her small son es
caped with only multiple abrasions
when their car was struck by
Southern Pacific train late Mon
day afternoon at a crossing on the
first Jasper road east of Spring
field. Details of the accident were
not available as it was not inves-
tieated by the state police. The
car was almost completely de
molished. Mrs. Damewood was brought to
the Sacred Heart hospital for treat
ment. Her condition was de
scribed by her physician Tuesday
as being painful but not critical.
State Sues Lane Men
For Failure To
Control Forest Fire
The state of Oregon is plaintiff
jn a suit filed in circuit court
Tuesday to collect damages from
private property owners for al
legedly failing to extinguish a
forest fire.
Fred Washburne and the Glen
brook Logging company are de
fendants. The state seeks $1510.76
damages. It is alleged that June
11, 1940, a lire originaiea on
property owned by Washburne in
the vicinity of Glenbrook and that
the defendants refused and neg
lected to control and extinguish
it. It Is alleged that from June
11 to September 9 the state fur
nished services and materials in
extinguishing the blaze in the
amount sued for.
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941
A
minics.in.
Hlk In
Grand Jurors
Condemn Lane
And City Jails
Sanitation Poor,
Fire Menace Seen
In Report To Court
The needs of -the county de
mand a more modern county jail
and the Eugene city jail where
county women prisoners are kept
is badly in arrears as to its ade
quacy, the Lane county grand
jury declared in its final report
to Judge G. F. Skipworth in cir
cuit court Tuesday.
The sanitation at the county
jail was found to be poor and it is
a lire hazard, the jury said. Re-
garding the
W?J .fdvi
city jail for women,
advised that the quarters
should be separate so that drunk
en women and others would not
have to be thrown together. Pro
vision for a matron at all times
should also be made, it was ad
vised. The grand jury visited the poor
farm and found it to be in first
class condition, the report stated.
Grand jurors at this session were
John Halderson, Paul S. Bssford,
Charles V. Miller, Nora C. Walsh,
Mabel C. Perdue, Hazel D. Wilt
shire and Evelyn S. French.
The report touching on the two
jails and county farm follows:
"The county jail was built 48
years ago to serve the public at
that time, and' we feel that the
need of the county demands ' a
much more modern building. The
sanitation is poor, foul air and
not much chanoe-for exercise, and
we feel these men should be nut
to hard labor. The building is a
fire hazard and the sanitary con
dition is deplorable. :
"As to the Lane county farm,
we found it in first class condi
tion, everything immaculate and
in perfect order.
"The city jail where the county
is housing its women prisoners is,
in our opinion, badly in arrears as
to its adequacy. . The quarters
should be separate so that the
drunken women and others would
not have to be together. We also
feel there should be some provi
sion . made for a matron at all
times, instead of just once in a
while. We understood the city
was going to try to get along for
some months without a matron,
then when they do hire one, it is
to be at reduced wages.
"We suggest that the city and
county combine their efforts to
hire a' police matron for full time."
Dr. Erb Named
To Civilian Defense
Board For Schools
Dr. Donald M. Erb, president of
the University of Oregon, has been
appointed to a commission on col
leges and civilian defense by F.
H. LaGuardia, United States direct
or of civilian defense, according
to word received here today.
The committee' will meet in
Washington, D. C, sometime in
November to formulate plans and
submit recommendations for the
civilian protection of universities
and university students, according
to the announcement.
Dr. Erb plans to go east in No
vember and will be in Washington
for the conference, he has indi
cated. Police And Fire
Reserves Meet Friday
A meeting for all police and fire
reserves to hear instructions re
garding the blackout will be held
this coming Friday at 7:30 p. m.
in the armory. At "that time, in
structions and identification cards
will be given out preparatory to
the blackout to be staged the eve
ning of October 31.
Members of the national de
fense council In the county and the
committee chairmen for each de
partment will be present Friday
evening to outline what is to be
done on the blackout.
There are now 200 police in the
reserves and a large number ot
firemen, but more volunteers are
needed in both groups, reports
Herschel R. Taylor, chairman for
that division.
The blackout is to be held
throughout the valley, other com
munities cooperating, too, so it is
essential that the Eugene group
get its program fully outlined,
Taylor says,
Pheasant
Season Opens
On Wednesday
By JOE SOAP
Hunters in the Willamette
valley area have the privilege
Wednesday, Saturday ana Sun
day. - ot shooting upland game
birds between 8 o'clock in the
morning and sundown.
The state game commission
made this big concession to us
nimrods after a two-year clos
ure of the pheasant-filled val
ley country three days of
hunting with the right to bag
two male birds (no hens) in
any one day and four during
the three days.
There is another restriction,
however, in that 100,000. acres
of land in the valley has been
posted (at intervals of 400 feet)
under the Pittman-Robertson
project.
Actually the butcher, the bak
er and the candlestick maker,
or fellows like your scribe who
work for a living, will get vir
tually no shooting until Sun
day when the bankers and
other professional men will
have scattered the birds from
"here to there." Most of us
work between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.
But, fellow scattergunner,
should you happen to nail a big -fat
rooster with a tag, don't
fail to -make a report to the
commission.
There are other open seasons
until November 23 in Mal
heur county. November 4 in the
southern and south-central part
of the state, and six days in
Harney, Wheeler, Lake and
i Jefferson counties.
Inflation Trend
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. (U.B
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard told the house bank
ing committee today that this
country "may be starting on the
same ruinous inflation we set out
upon about the same time in the
last war."
Urging the committee to approve
the administration's price control
bill, Wickard declared that while
recent increases in farm prices
have been "unusually rapid," they
are not yet "out of line."
This is so, he explained, be
cause the levels from which these
prices have risen were abnormally
low. He said that in, 1939 farm
prices were so low that farmers'
purchasing power was only three
fourths of what it had been in
1910-1914 the parity base period.
Many Villages
Change Hands
LONDON, Oct. 21. OP) The
Russian armies are pressing the
Germans hard in most sectors of
the front before Moscow in fight
ing in which "many suburban vil
lages have changed hands as many
as three times a day," the Moscow
radio stated tonight.
"Encountering heavy resistance,
the Germans have considerably
slowed down their drive," the an
nouncer said.
Nazt spearheads pressing into
the steel ribs of Moscow's de
fenses have made some slight
progress from the south, said in
formed quarters who added that
it was a "good guess" that -the
Germans were a scant 50 miles
from the capital in the Maloyaro
slavets sector.
Russian quarters said it was
"quite definite" that Soviet counter-attacks
near Kalinin, 95 miles
northwest of Moscow, however,
SEE MANY VILLAGES STORY
PAGE 2
Bulletin!
RAHWAY, N J Oct. 21. CP
An undetermined number of per
sons were injured today when two
Pennsylvania railroad passenger
trains collided a short distance
west of the Rahway station.
Linden police, a few miles
away, said they had received a
call for all nossible ambulances.
The Rahway hospital reported
private automobiles were starting
w arrivi wiw uuurea.
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Attack On U-0
Pure Science
Issue Protested
Eugene Members Of
Taxpayers' Federation
Decry Buchanan Move
A press release out of Portland
on the stationery of the Oregon
Taxpayers' Federation, over the
signature of President Claude Bu
chanan, of Corvallis, attacking the
proposed restoration of degree-
granting courses in pure science at
the University of Oregon roused
lively protest today from promi
nent Eugene members of that body.
The Buchanan statement calls
for a meeting of his executive
committee at Portland next Fri
day to consider the statement "is
sued today and released for publi
cation in order to bring the issue
td the attention of the people of
the state."
"I object seriously to the man
ner in which the Oregon Taxpay
ers' Federation has been publiciz
ed as in seeming opposition to an
important educational matter
which it has not yet had any
opportunity to consider," said
Stanley Stevenson. Eugene mem
ber of the board of the Taxpayers'
Federation.
"No Effect On Millage"
' "I had two notices from Mr. Bu
chanan of a board meeting to be
held next Friday to plan for the
annual meeting and asking sug
gestions as to tax matters to be
considered. Neither notice men
tioned this topic in any way, and
irom what I know of the science
issue it is purely a . curricular
change which will not affect the
fixed millage of higher education
or taxes. .
"With me there is no animus in
this matter. I attended Oregon
State and one of my boys went
there. What does concern me is
dragging the Taxpayers' Federa
tion into this matter in this way,
lest it impair the real usefulness
of this important organization."
James A. Rodman, state repres
entative, who was one of the char
ter members of the organization
also expressed protest over the
form and manner of the press re
lease. Misleading
"It Is a misleading document,"
said Mr. Rodman. "Personally I
SEE ATTACK STORY
PAGE 2
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Chamber Now
Even-One
Win, One Loss
" The heart balm department of
the Eugene chamber of com
merce recently allowed Cupid
to shoot an arrow into the air
and it fell to earth they knew
not where. But now they do.
The occasion was the search
for the lost "dream girl" of
Private . Chuck Green at Fort
Lewis. He asked for her. They
found her. All was apparently
well.
But . . . everyone reckoned
without the consideration that
there might be TWO Chuck
Greens! Apparently there are.
And Chuck Green number 2,
resident of Salem, found him
self in a real pickle when his
girl friend read in the papers
that the Eugene chamber of
commerce was hunting up a girl
for him. She dropped him like a
hot potato. And by then Priv
ate Chuck number 2 was fairly
sizzling.
He wrote - the chamber a
scorching letter. "I've been blitz
krieged!" he declared. "I al
ready have a girl pardon me,
I HAD a girl until Cupid shot
his arrow. . . . Now what are
you going to do to get back MY
girl?"
Which leaves the heart balm
department feeling a little in
adequate. Oh dear.
Blackout Broadcast
Tonight At 7:30
KORE radio station will broad
cast a program at 7:30 o'clock this
Tuesday evening, featuring the
Eugene blackout on the night of
October 31.
Speakers will include Howard
Merriam. Herschel Taylor and
Roy Woodruff. The Idea of the
program is to give the people a
more complete understanding of
ma importance oi tne blackout.
NEWS STANDS 8a
Lehigh
Court Ruling
May Deplete
Jobless Fund
SALEM, Oct 21 0W The Ore-
gon unemployment compensation
commission lost a supreme court
case today-which the commission
said might cause depletion of its
reserve fund out of which jobless
benefits are paid.
The decision ordered that ben
fits be paid to Thomas Layman,
faller and bucker for the Crown
Zellerbach corporation, for-Jam
ary and February, 1938, when the
corporation shut down operations
at its Lewis and Clark logging
operation in Clatsop county. The
commission had denied him ben
efits on grounds that during those
months, the corporation ordinarily
shuts down operations because it
is seasonal.
Circuit Judge Howard K. Zim
merman, sitting in Multnomah
county, upheld the commission,
but the supreme court, in today's
decision by Justice Lusk, held that
th e .commission exceeded its
SEE COURT RULING STORY
PAGE 2
President Spurs
Aid To Russia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (U.B
President Roosevelt returned to
the' capital today to speed war
aid to the Soviet union which ap
parently is considered a most vital
necessity. . , .. - i .
The Far- East is seething.
Japan's next moves are believed
to depend largely on whether and
how soon the German' army is able
to give the Russians a really
smashing blow.
The nazi legions are now within
two minutes or less flying time
of Moscow. Assistance for the
Red army being discussed today
scarcely could: reach there in few
er than several weeks unless the
President ordered airplanes now
in service or those coming off
assembly lines to fly to the aid of
the Red army.
. A step-up in aerial aid to the
Russians at this time when there
is tremendous pressure to rein
force our own defenses in the Far
East against possible Japanese
moves, would impose desperately
difficult decisions upon the men
who are discussing Russian prob
lems here. Some military experts
indicate uneasiness because of
commitments already made to the
Soviet union which, when super
imposed upon pledges to Great
Britain, apparently must reduce
the supply of weapons available to
our own forces.
But the administration is ap
proaching the problem with an
accelerated speed which suggests
that Mr. Roosevelt feels that the
SEE PRESIDENT SPURS STORY
PAGE 2
More Rail Crews
Spurn Arbitration
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fourteen non-operating railroad
brotherhoods with 900,000 menv
bers today joined five operating
Brotherhoods with 360,000 mem
bers in rejecting an offer by Presi
dent Roosevelt s emergency board
to arbitrate the wage dispute be
tween railroads and their organ
ized employes.
The five operating brotherhoods
rejected the offer yesterday after
carrier managements had agreed
to it Both union groups rejected
arbitration last summer when dis
pute was before the national rail
road mediation board.
In other fields, steel production
was hampered in the Birmingham
area by strikes which started in
Alabama coal mines and spread
to steel plants and conferences
started at Buffalo, N. Y., to avert
a threatened walkout at two air
plane plants of Bell Aircraft
Corporation.
French Officers
Held After Slaying
Of German General
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Oct. 21. 04 The arrest of four
French Gendarmerie officers at
Nantes In connection with the
killing there yesterday of the
German General Holtz was an
nounced tonight along with the
' executions of four more persons
various parts ox me country.
NO.
a
Ship Torpedoed
Sunday Night,
FDR Announces
Craft Sinks, But
No Lives Lost,
Is Belief
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2101.19-.
President Roosevelt announced to
day that the 9000-ton freighter
Lehigh, flying the American flar,
was torpedoed in the South At
lantic at 9 p. m. Sunday night.
Endorsing the statement of Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull that
such acts are piracy, Mr. Roose
velt said that it was believed no
lives were lost although the ship
sank.
But, .he added, it was also be
lieved several persons might have
been injured in the explosion.
un boatload of survivors has
been picked up, he $ aid, and two
Bulletin!
ANOTHER SHIP TORPEDOED
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (VP)
An American-owned ship flytaut
the Panamanian flag, the 3,222
ton Bold Venture, has been tor
pedoed en route from Baltimore
to England, reliable marine cir
cles reported today.
Details of the sinking were not
Immediately available.
The Bold Venture, formerly -the
Danish freighter Alssund,
was one of the Danish, Italian
and German ships seized last
March 30 under the 1917 anti
sabotage act' She was in Balti
more at the time.
She was turned over to the
U. S. maritime commission and
was operated by the Waterman
Steamship company.
She was built in 1920 In Den
mark and was once named the
Sierra Leone. . .
additional boatloads are being
sought. . .
The president said that the tor
pedo was launched by a subma
rine. He left the unmistakable in
ference that the attackers must
have been German.
The attack occurred between
South America and Africa, close
to the equator, Mr. Roosevelt said.
He added that the ship went down
nearer the southern bulge of
Africa than the South American
coast.
The Lehigh, a 9,000-tonner, was
running empty after discharging
her cargo at Bilbao, Spain, the
president saia. tie implied that
the submarine which sank the vesi
sel was German.
The Lehigh was the ninth
American-owned vessel which has
been sunk by sea and air raiders
since start of the war. She was
the fourth American-flag vessel to
have suffered that fate. The other
five were American-owned but
flew the flag of Panama. (A sixth
vessel, the freighter Bold Adven
ture, was reported torpedoed as
the above was being written.)
Mr. Roosevelt placed the sinking
at 8 degrees north latitude. 14
degrees west longitude, or ap
proximately 100 miles from the
British port of. Freetown, West
Africa.
The president made clear he
feels that this sinking of another
American ship emphasizes the
urgency of putting arms on Ameri
can merchant vessels.
From the way things now arc
going, he said, a ship will have to
be armed if it is on a simple
freighting cruise between this
country and Cuba. With the seven
seas all hazardous, he said, the
government will have to arm all
American ships.
Bilbao, the Lehigh's last port of
call, lies outside of the European
combat zones forbidden to Ameri
can ships by presidential procla
mation. Mr. Roosevelt said that while it
was not believed any of the Le
high's crew was killed by the
torpedo's explosion, it was not
known whether any was injured.
New Priority Order
Affects Copper
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 OP)
Effective Nov. 1 the use of cop
per will be forbidden in all non
defense building construction.' -
Donald M. Nelson, director ot
priorities, issued the necessary
order yesterday, and one defense
official termed it the "toughest"
defense restriction yet imposed to
conserve the supply of a strategio
metal for arms production.