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EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942.
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llngineer wmia
L. the firemen's conventions
ldn the park departments
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mure slashes.
kraid Fropim Eyed
L-tattned with jnaiming or
Ictioc mi the city nlay-
ti program, headed by
fell W. Fisher. The war ef-
lil keep most of the young
blur in the harvest f
year, the city swimming pro
ms oeen cumulated, ana
il need for a rerrMtlnn
am only during the summer
m, a was arguea. Mean
i Mayor Ellsha Large ex
A that Mr. Fisher had been
! considerable work helping
M visiting soldiers with a
fctioo program, besides car-
la his regular progam.
fathelen. an inVMttffatlntr
fcitt was appointed to look
ii proposal to make the play
ed strictly a summer propo-.
f- Ob committee to con-
HeWasHungry
DENVER, April 21 W) Elmer
Woods got hungry, left hii Jail
work gang and made for the near
est restaurant.
Elmer ate three pork chops,
two fried eggs, three pieces of
pie, two cups of coffee, and signed
Police Captain William J. Arm
strong's name on the check.
Elmer was detained while the
proprietor called Captain Arm
strong. Elmer now Is back with nil old
gang digging dandelions.
194243 School
Budget Okeyed
The Eugene school budget com
mittee Monday night approved an
estimate of $469,863.51 expendi
ture for the coming school year,
incuding an increase in bond pay
ments of $11,000, but representing
a saving of $1100 in comparison
with the present year's costs.
Despite the reduction In total
cost, salary adjustments were
made, continuing the special $6.50
per month special increase allow
ed to Janitors and special employes
and bringing teachers' salaries to
100 per cent of the previously
adopted salary schedule. The sal
ary Increase, which averages
$32.21 per teacher, for the year,
was made possible by a drastic cut
in capital outlay for new equip
ment Expenses Cut
The budget committee, made up
of the five members of the school
board, with A. B. Stillman, F. L.
Chambers, Mrs. George Spicer, E.
H. Christensen, and Fred Stickels,
reported a substantial reduction In
current expenses of the district.
Total expenditures for the year
amount to $469,863.51. Receipts
from other than tax sources were
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Wafer District Gels
$27,000 WPA Grant
Congressman James W. Mott
telegraphed from Washington
Tuesday morning that President
Roosevelt has approved applies
tion bv the Glenwood water dis
trict for WPA aid amounting to
$27,000 in constructing a water
system.
The plan to connect the subur
ban community with the services
of the Eugene water board will
not, however, be materially bene
fited by the grant, Donald R. Hus
band, attorney for the district
said.
"The real problem at present
Is that of gaining a favorable pri
ority rating," Husband aaid. Di
rectors of the water board several
months ago made' application for
a rating that will allow them the
necessary construction materials
for the project, but as yet have
received no definite answer to
their request.
Salvage Committee
Named BySprague
Appointment of memben of the
Lane county salvage committee to
at sist Judd Stauffer of Eugene, who
wsa appointed chairman some time
go, was made by County Judge
Clinton Hurd Tuesday. The Judge
received the names of the men p.
Pointed by Governor Charles
Sprague In the morning mail.
The members to serve in Eugene
and vicinity with Chairman Stauf
fer are R. A. Babb, Fred C. Knox,
and M. H. Stewart; for Cottage
Grove and vicinity, George W.
Sweet, and for Junction City and
surrounding territory, Chuck
Thornton.
Ouf-Of-State
Carpenters Get
Jobs At Adair
Local Men Charge
Corvallis Union With
Discrimination
Members of the Carpenters'
Union in Eugene (No. 1273) made
complaint Tuesday that preference
for work on the Camp Adair pro
ject near Corvallis has been given
to new initiates of the Corvallis
local and to people from out of
state, an dthey are demanding ac
tion to clarify their rights in the
situation.
Myron Tone, of Eugene, acting
as spokesman for six union carpen
ters from this community, made a
statement aetting forth that after
having been called to report to
Corvallis for work Monday, they
sat all day and could get no satis
faction from the Corvallis union,
or from the U. S. Employment
Service to which they were direct
ed to tell their troubles by Col. R.
M. Des Islets.
Charges Denied
A. W. Krammerer, business
agent of the Corvallis local of the
Carpenters' Union denied the
charge of discrimination when
called by The Register Guard over
long distance phone. He said:
"That is a false report Men are
assigned to work strictly on prior
ity rights in line with the date of
filing their applications for work.
It depends on the order of their
filing when they are called for
work."
Mr. Krammerer said he was not
permitted under the rules of his
his union to divulge the number of
new members who have been Ini
tiated at Corvallis. He said that all
kinds of charges were in the air
but that his union was doing the
best it could under the circum
stances.
' Asked as to whether any regu
lations for the hiring on the camp
Job have been laid down by the
state labor organiaition, Mr.
Karmmerer said he did not know
of any and indicated that they
were proceeding under the nation
al laws of the union.
John Wagenman, business agent
of the Eugene carpenters, said
that he had made repeated efforts
to get a clarification of the situa-
Japan Opens Attempts for Peace Offensive;
Air Raid Alarms Sounded Again in Nippon
Nip Cabinet
Sugar Rationing
Blanks Now Ready
All blanks for sugar rationing in
Lane county ire now In the hands
oi county Clerk Walter B. Dillard
and those for wholesalers, retailer.
boarding house keepers, restaurant
operators, and others who handle
large quantities will be distrib
uted to the high schools in the
county immediately. The heads of
these places are being urged to get
their blanks for registration before
Saturday of thia week.
In Eugene registration of such
institutions will take place only at
the Eugene high school. There
will be no registration at Univer
sity high school. Registration will
take place at every other high
school In the county. Registration
of housewives will be conducted
May 4 In the elementary school
ouiiaings.
Injured By Bottle
Robert Guv Rh.lnhr 1090
Friendly street, was treated at the
Eugene hospital Monday evening
iw neaa cuts sustained, according
to a police reDort when he was
struck over the head by a bottle
me nanas of John Crawse, 391
f-ignui avenue west
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1000 Expected For
State C. E. Convention
Some 450 young people have
made advance registrations to at
tend the statewide Christian En
deavor convention in Eugene this
week-end, Mrs. A. F. Holmer,
hospitality chairman, announced
Tuesday. This figure Includes only
out-of-town visitors, and officials
look for the convention to numbor
1000 or more.
The C. E. young people are to
be entertained and housed through
co-operative efforts of many Eu
gene church groups. They will be
here Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday nights, and the hospitality
committee is in charge of making
arrangements for finding places
for each guest to sleep and have
breakfast for the three nights and
three mornings of the convention.
Anyone who is willing to have
a young conventionite as house
guest for the three nights, feeding
him breakfast for the three morn
ings, has been asked to contact
Mrs. Holmer at 3869, or one of the
city-wide committee representa
tives. They include: Mrs. H. V.
Johnson at 3074-W for the First
Christian church: Mrs. Frank Fat-
tison at 20-F-4 for the First
Baptist church; Mrs. William Kuy
kendall at 88 for the First Metho
dist church; Mrs. Harry Lichty at
1286-J for the Central presDyier-
ian church; Mrs. Allen Osborne at
3053-W for the Episcopal church;
Mrs. Harry Talbot at 1561-J for
the Congregational church; and
Mrs. James E. Pierron at 1542-R
for the Fairmount Presbyterian
rhtirrh.
Mrs. Holmer said Tuesday that
500 places will be needed, and
that, since the convention Is to
begin Thursday, it is urgent that
those who will offer hospitality
-snare to the young cnurcn people
do so immedately by contacting
one of the listed committee mem
bers.
Cash Elected President
Of Oregon Policemen
BEND, Ore., Aprfl 21. 0J.B
Delmer E. Cash, Eugene, today
assumed the presidency of the
Oregon Association of Police Of
ficers at the closing meeting of
the association s annual convex
linn
Other officers selected to assist
rh were Everett Hamoo, tsena,
first vice-president; Arthur
Frankson, Astoria, second vice
president; and Paul Robertson,
Klamath Falls, secretary-treas-
Athel Dudley. Redmond, and,
Ted Flnukane, Springfield, were
named to the executive board.
U. S. Bombers
On Way To Blast
Nazi Europe
English Announce
Co-ordination Of All
Armed Forces
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
United States warplanes, now
blasting the axis on many fronts,
are already being ferried to Brit
ish operational bases to Join in
the RAF's great aerial offensive
against the continent, London
sources reported today.
At the same time Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden disclosed
that Prime Minister Winston
Chutfhill has approved a plan to
organize a combined operations
staff, linking Britain's army, navy
and air force into a siagle gigan
tic combat team.
Coordination Planned
The move to coordinate the
three British fighting services
perhaps as a prelude to an allied
invasion of nazi-dominated Eu
rope closely followed confer
ences by Gen. George C. Marshall,
U. S. army chief of staff, and
Harry Hopkins, President Roose
velt's representative, . with British
military and political leaders.
Dutch quarters in London said
German Field Marshal Gerd von
Runstedt was building up a nazi
bicycle army in northern France
and Belgium in defense against
new British Commando raids and
a possible allied Invasion attempt
Dutchmen escaping from Hol
land said the Germans were tak
ing the entire production of bi
cycle factories in-.the low coun
tries and Denmark and reported
mounting anxiety among nazl oc
cupation troops over the prospect
ci a uritisn invasion.
Dutch refugees said German
authorities had forbidden soldiers
to sing the song so popular a year
ago "We Are Sailing Against
ingland."
Sea Warfare A Berlin radio
broadcast asserted that more than
2.000,000 tons of shipping had
been sunk by axis submarines
operating off the Amjrican At
lantic and Pacific coasts in the
last three months. . (Note: This
figure Is far in excess of losses
disclosed by the United States.)
Tie broadcast said that 1,772,
900 tons of British and American
shi'S-i had been sunk off the At
lantic seaboard between Jan. 15
and April 14, and that Japanese
unde;eas raiders in the - same
period had sunk 22 ships off the
Pacific coast.
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WHEN TOKYO PLAYED 'AIR RAID' Smoke from a practice incendiary bomb rises
from the plaza directly in front of Tokyo's main railway station in the pre-war Japanese
air raid demonstration. Japanese civilians for several years have been trained through such
demonstrations for the 'real thing in air raids which according to reports came to Japan
when enemy planes bombed four cities.
Second Bus To Camp
Adair Is Scheduled
There Is so great a demand for
transportation of Eugene work
men to Camp Adair that a sec
ond bus. with room for 33 per
sons, will start regular trips to
and from the cantonment area
Wednesday, it was announced
Tuesday by M. L. Edge, chair
man of the transportation com
mittee of the Eugene chamber of
commerce.
One bus and a private ear were
filled on the first trips Monday
and Tuesday mornings, Mr. Edge
announced.
A third bus will be added to
the service If demand warrants,
he said. The present price for
the "club transportation" is 85i
cents per round trip.
Arrangements have been made
to give jobs on the cantonment to
the bus drivers as well as the
passengers.
Hereafter the busses will leave
the corner of Sixth and Willam
ette streets at 6:15 a. m. daily, to
give time for the men to reach
the work scene by 8 a. m.
Baseball Season
To Open Officially
Here Wednesday
The University of Oregon
baseball team opens its confer
ence home season here Wednes
day afternoon, meeting the
Washington State Cougars at 3
p. m. on Howe field.
The Duck nine originally was
scheduled to open last Friday
against the Oregon State Beavers
here, but rain cancelled the
Beaver tilt here.
Additional details - on sports
page.
DRAIN VETERAN DIES
PORTLAND, April 21. (U.B
Benjamin W. Perkins, 81, of
Drajn died here yesterday at the
U. S. veterans hospital from a
brain Iniunr suffered in an auto
mobile collision September, 1941,
near Medford. Perkins is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Eva
Parkin of St Hales.
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TWO TARGETS OF AMERICAN bombs were Tokyo and Yokohama. At left is an air
view of the heart of Japanese capital, showing a big railroad station in the background.
Yamashita Park in Yokohama is seen in the picture of the harbor of the Japanese shipbuild
ing center.
Hears Details Of
Raid Damage
Kagawa Quoted As
Praying For Early
Peace In East Asia
By ROGER D. GREENE
(Associated Press War Editor)
Japan launched an apparent
"peace offensive" today as new
r raid alarms were reported to
have sounded in central and west
ern Japan and the Japanese cabi
net received details on the dam
age Inflicted by American bomb
ers in Saturday's historic assaults
on Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya ana
Kobe.
While warning of the propa
ganda danger, American officials
have already discounted such an
Axis peace drive with the declara
tion that the Rome-Berlin-Tokya
bloc couU not be trusted In a ne
gotiated peace.
The new air raid alarms in Ja
pan were the second since planes
with the U. S. insignia spread
flaming destruction and terras
across a 1,000-mile trail on Satur-
day.
A Berlin broadcast said the
alarm sounded in the afternoon
and was lifted in central Japan by
an all-clear at 5 p. m., Japanese
time (1 a. m. PWT.)
Planes From China?
Japan's west coast faces China,
indicating that the planes may
have come from the Chinese main
land. Imperial Tokyo headquar
ters said yesterday that some ol
the big U. S. bombers which took
part in the raids Saturday had
"escaped" to bases In China.
"For central -Japan, the all
clear sounded about 5 p. m., while
the alarm remained In force foe
western Japan, especially for ICyu
shu," the broadcast said.
Kyushu, one of the four rosin
Islands of the Japanese archipel
ago, lies nearest to China and la
the site of the great Sasebo naval
base, a teeming industrial belt and
uie port of Nagasaki.
The Berlin broadcast did Sot
say whether any bombs were
dropped.
Dam.ge Belittled
In Tokyo, Japanese cabinet mln
lsters belittled the damage-In
flicted on Saturday's raids, assert
ing that ths transportation system
was "hardly disturbed," that th
postal service was fully resumed
soon after the planes left, and that
Japanese life was affected only in
a few Instances.
While Japan thus minimized the
first aerial attack in her history,
three days after the initial shock
had worn off, Australia's army
minister Francis M. Forde declar
ed in Brisbane that "the war has
turned in our favor" and that the
approaching allied offensive "will
be a staggering spectacle."
"The day for it to be unleashed
Is not yet here," Forde said, "but
it is not too far off."
Forde warned that a Japanese
attempt to invade Australia will
ALSO REPORTED RAIDED were Nagoya, a business street of which is shown above.
(Nagoya is a vital steel fabricating city.), and Kobe. Pictured is Kobe's Motomachi street
Laval Will Attack
Free French Areas
By UNITED PRESS
Pierre Laval, established as
overlord of Vichy France by nazl
pressure, is committed to attack,
Free France and especially the
vitally important Free French
territory In Africa, private ad
vices received In the United States
said today.
These advices, received from a
source believed to be unimpeach
able, said Laval had made it
plain that as chief of the Vichy
government, one of his principal
policies would be an aggressive
military campaign against Free-
France, especially In Africa.
They said also that because ct
deep hatred of Laval throughout
France he might be the target of
an assassin soon. They asserted
that 99 per cent of the French
people detested Laval's policies
and as the result terrorism and
harsh repression might provide
the headlines from France before
long.
Laval was quoted as having
said that he would never volun
tarily initiate a rupture in rela
tions with the United States.
He was said to believe that with
himself In power, the nazis woulu
have more confidence in Vichy,
and permit continuance of Vichy
United States relations.
Tokyo Radio Says
Defense Units Will
Be Court-Martialed
MELBOURNE, April 21. (U.B
Tokyo radio reports that Japanese
defense units will be court-martialed,
that reorganization of the
Jaanese war bureau is Imminent,
and that there will be a shakeup of
high military officials as the re
sult of last Saturday's air raids on
Japan.
Wife Of Admiral
Leahy Dies At Vichy
VICHY, April 21. (U.B Mrs.
William D. Leahy, wife of the U. S.
ambassador to Vichy, died today at
the Rosary clinic here where she
underwent a serious operation 10
days ago.
Ambassador Leahy, recalled to
the United States last week "for
consultation" on the state of
French-American relations, had
left his departure indefinite pend
ing Mrs. Leahy's recovery.
She appeared to be recovering
when she was stricken with an
embolism, causing death within 15
minutes. The ambassador reached
her bedside Just before she died.
CARNEY ENLISTS IN V-7
PORTLAND, April 21 W
Bill Carney, University of Oregon
baseball captain, has enlisted in
the navy's V-7 class and will en
ter training at the close of the
current semester.
Jap Aviators Tell
Of Bombing Raid
TOKYO, April 20 (U.F9 Japan
made its first attempt today to
give a coherent account of the ap
proach of bombing planes to Tokyo
Saturday.
The official Japanese news
agency gave what it called "a first
hand account of a dog fight with
the first enemy planes ever to in
vade Japan proper."
Two pilots told the story. They
said that not only North Ameri
can twin-motored B-25 bombers
but Lockheed-Hudsons took part
Luridly describing how they
turned the two planes away from
Tokyo and hotly pursued them,
the pilots said they riddled both
with shots. But they had to con
fess, In the end, that both disap
peared, still in the air. The pilots
said it was certain that both planes
must have plunged into the ocean.
The pilots revealed that they
received their first warning of the
approach of hostile planes to Ja
pan In a report which put the
planes over Mito, about 60 miles
northeast of Tokyo.
The B-25, one pilot said, was
flying Inland at less than 5,000
feet when he sighted It over the
Keihin (Tokyo-Yokohama) dis
trict He reported that he turned
it southward and that it disap
peared Into clouds, trailing smoke,
near Osnima island off the eastern
end of the south coast, at the en
trance to Sa garni Bay, 75 miles
south of Tokyo.
SEE WAR STORY
PAGE Z
War in Brief
By United Press
JAPAN New air raid alarms
sound in central and western
Japan but no bombings reported;
Japanese planes attack eastern
China In search for bases to which
allied planes may have flown after
bombings.
FRANCE Laval goes to nazi
held Paris for conferences; new
nazl reprisals at St Nazalre bring;
executions of French hostages to
85; Laval reported pledged to mil
itary campaign against Free French
in Africa and elsewhere.
BRITAIN Free French say
Vichy has turned over 60,000 tons
of Indo-China shipping to Japan
ese for war in Pacific.
BURMA Lieut. Gen. Joseph W.
Stilwell braces for strong Japanese
uttacks on center of allied line after
Chinese rescue 7,000 entrapped
British at Yenangyaung.
RUSSIA Guerillas and red
army troops capture strong point
and Inflict heavy losses on enemy
around Leningrad.
AUSTRALIA MacArthur's first
supreme command communique
tells of heavy air attacks on Japan's
Rabaul and Salamaua "invasion
bases."
ADMIRAL DIES
WASHINGTON. April 21 m
Vice Admiral Arthur Leroy Bris
tol Jr., 55, commander of a task
force in the north Atlantic, died
yesterday after a brief Illness, the
navy announced today. "Death
was from natural causes," the navy
said.