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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY :i. 1942
TODAVS NEWS TODAY ON STREETS 3c. NEWS STANDS 5e
NO. 141
CinBe Taken House Committee Seeks
JjlODe iplan For Tnst-mot D,;
x Ujf
Of Increased Income Tax
By DONALD A. YOUNG
WASHINGTON. May 21-AP)-The house wavs and
means committee sought today to work out a svstem of in
stallment payments of income taxes to soften the blow of
steeply-increased rates in the low-income brackets
rtaraiy naa ine rvmmmee com
pleted its new individual tax pro-
Coast Fork
;dgeJune4
uteOl Ne.
. ilui Plonned
DC n U Luinu pieiea lis new uiuivic;uai iax
W'llanifitte nignwayigram by raising the range of
j, the elimination oi i cent an turned to Secre-
s:)C.roaci:c - xary iviorgviiuiHu s proposal io
--OK. ,l,.arv traffic ii. in in ner nent nl lav.
p.ble income from salaries and
rases.
That plan would authorize the
treasury department, perhaps in
September, to make regular de
ductions from paychecks which
would be used as a credit against
the tax bill due next March 15.
The committee's new income
tax proposals would add an esti-
im w": ,,, mated sz.ian.uuu.uuu to tne $s.
.A:nc at the June ftn nftn nM(J,j
.1 ,t Portland. . nno.
I TurtbulL chairman of the jhe pr0gram would be based
aiittee. iw y on s.iuu exemptions lor single
',t tie Jutlkins point persons ana- $1,200 for husbands
?. . , ; . rnpcne- , ' j 1 , c
aiiu ivn, tt ovinia, uia vi u per
cent instead of 4. and minimum
surtax rates starting at double
the present level of 6 per cent on
the first S2.000 of net income.
The committee, rejecting a
treasury suggestion, decided to
retain the present 10 per cent
earned income credit up to $14.
000 in computing normal taxes
only and also kept the present
$400 exemption for dependents.
... ,l!arv
.a lis ' , - ...
krJBJ Willamette
'"L-d of Goshen, and
K rlTtn four miles oi
ipi"w
for
made
""TTsrste H.shway,
Vidock. The new.:
aer B. 11 -,-h ffrade.
,.n ib in tne t-um-.- ,
t.i s.Per'
ed by the
k' rT-ablv iH not be
' J.'1':. use of fur-
1 ,k. iesirn of this
:'f the constnic
it three railroad
nr it-
.,m is bfi"! usn
bnd: nd v.adurts
h the shortage nf struc-
U ind steel workers.
" rt, of the remaining
, -to Eugene-Springfield
.... .MniatrH rfnrmff
L ha not been revealed.
U hi been run for the
FL. ludk n Point to
U . . ...t.U
l It the lUtVtinn ii.i
1 Imene h'jhway. This 5-
-.1 would fct r'o 01
--IB between Springfield
ii-en. which now block
j.kli-!tr Dieces of army .
Unt It may be given pref- .
mtr some oi
thr Eacene-Snringfield
irh is th. boule ard in
I. im along the river in th
ni section.
fceneer P- M Morse
r'nKm! descrirtion of the
t od rrade job on the Wil-
"f roar.
roMtruction will eliminate
i. pad turns in the old high
yrfen Goshen and Tlcas
:mi shorten the distance
KC &t two points.
tier indicates that the
stance south of the un- " 1
' ht!b of Goshen and ex- 4 7T"
- jjrost 1 straight line to
ion h;!L will pass near the
yv. ko house and through
I afford farm.
r remission will also open
r IK construction of a new
k n the Coast Fork on
rnt:t. to be located a
jusce below the present
1 Tie new structure will
i saa span of 180 feet and
"Ithe How truss design,
ir-aller bridges will have
:rit, Erpneer Morse said.
Dr. Willoughby
Dies At Age Of 64
1. I
Dr. C.
B. Willouthby
Dr. Claire B. Willoughby. who
practiced dentistry for nearly 40
years here and held many offices
in civic and community groups,
died Wednesday at the age of 64
years.
Dr. Willoughby was a past pres
I idem of the Oregon State Dental
I society, a past president of the
) Lane County Dental society, a
j member of the Eugene city council
for several years, a past president
PWJOO nd 400 voters of 01 ,he EuSie Rotary club, a past
tnucre, uiung y,at a bi'j be chancellor commander of the local
worshipful master of Eugene lodge.
No. 11, A. F. and A. M. He was
a member of St. Mary s Episcopal
church and of Sigma Delta dental
fraternity.
He was a native Oregonian, born
Aug. 10, 1877, at Harrisburg. Ore.
Sous Seek
Distribution
h ,
armj the signatures
3 (Ustnbute surplus
dilate income tav.t t
F bave been filed in the
F t COUr.tY rlerlr
3oua
fevj from state income
;ro,0($7 -50000 m any
,1 distributed to the
M and union hich
-" m Pmportion to the '
f Hays of actual school
T same basis for all
nthe, pay ,u;t;n.
of the bill ,0
, m the ,,001 dl5.
rr Su-e Teacher.-
har, .,
me proposed s
SEE WIU.OIGHBY STORY
rAr;E 4
PASS TO OPEN
SALEM. Stay 21. '-Pi The Mr
Kenzie highway between Rend and
Eugene, closed during the winter
br snow, will be reopened it mid
night, the state highway commis
sion said. The road was to have
heen opened two weeks ago. but
fresh snow mad elt Impossible. All
snow has been cleared at the summit.
Army Hold On
Lumber Slows
Defense Work
Housinq Projects
In 15 Cities Are
Completely Stopped .
; Bv WILLIAM KEEDHAM
I WASHINGTON. Mar 21 u
Defense housing construction
j thrc'-hout the country is slowing
I a standstill as a result of the
1 army's hold on virtually all sup
plies of softwood construction
lumber, war production board of
ficials disclosed today.
In at least 15 cities, many with
heavy concentrations of war in
dustries, housing projects have
been stopped entirely and at least
35 other cities hnve reported "cnti
t cal" situations because of dwin
dling lumber stocks. Similar re
ports from other defense housing
i areas are flooding into Washing
ton daily.
Direct cause of the threatened
collapse of the housing program
, is a WPB order, issued a week
ago at the insistence of the war
department, "freezing" all sales
and deliveries of softwood con
struction lumber by large produc
ers for 60 days except for de
liveries to the army, navy or mari
time commission.
Some officials at WTB, sharply
critical of what they described
war department "shot-gun
methods, said the "freeze"
: fected private as well as public
construction. For example, farm
ers who cannot ship grain to
already-filled elevators will be
unable, in manv sections of the
country, to build bins for their
spring wheat crops.
It was indicated ihat the order
was rushed through WPB's lum
ber branch under army instruc
tions before high-ranking WPB
officials realized its full effect.
"There certainly was no inten
tion of stopping defense housing."
James S. Knowlson. director of
industry operations, declared to
day, "and something will be done
about it.'
Some pmendmrnt would be
drawn, it was understood, to per-
, u..n. n.nwjvnmtwi wiri. fense housing at lrat. Defense
i.di.n, ivdx m ivim.a, irenrn.i. housing officials now
i nps, jamrs nusseii, iiienn mim,
1 Fred Stickels. Loui Torgeson. Al
; fred Tyler, Edwin Wheeler, all of
Eugene.
Frank Albrecht. Baker: Richard
Blickenstaff. Klamath Falls; Gene
Brown, Beaverton: Duane Carl
son, Baker; James Carney, Pen-
SEE 52 ROTC STORY i
PAGE 3
Memorial Sunday
Services Planned
The annual Memorial church
service for veterans' organizations
and other patriotic group? will be
held at the Firt Methodist church
Sunday, May 24. at 11 a. m. Dr.
E. Earle Parker. pator of the
church, will deliver the sermon.
A feature of the services this
year will be the attendance of the
parent of young men in the
army, navy and marines, serving
in the present war. They are be
ing given a special invitation 1o
attend and if they will come
early and make themselves known
at the entrance of the church they
will be given special seats in the
auditorium.
Frederick K. Davis of the Sons
of Uninn Veterans is chairman of
arrangements for the observance
nf Memorial day in Eugene this
year. The commanders' council of
the veterans' organizations have
charge and each commander is a
member of the general committee.
Clarence V. Simon is commander
of the council.
Services will be held in the eat
park in the forenoon of May 30
and exercise will be held at the
G. A. R. and Spani-h-Amencan
war veterans plots. Water serv
ire. will aUn be held by some of
the women's organizations.
52 ROTC Men
Commissioned
The annual Governor's Day re
view of University of Oregon R
OTC cadets was carried out Thurs
day, with Governor Charles A.
Spracue. Dr. Frederick M. Hunter,
rhancellor of the state system of
hicher education. Dr. Donald M.
Erb, president of the universitv.
Col. Charles L. Sampson. ROTC
commandant, and Col. Robert M.
Lyon, past commandant, partici
pating. Governor Sprague presented 52
graduating seniors with army
commissions, following which the
men were given lieutenant's bars
by the Eugene post of the Ameri
can Legion.
Chancellor Hunter made the
award of the William Randolph
Hearst intercollegiate rifle contest
trophy to the 5-man rifle team,
winners of second place in the
ninth corps area competition this
year.
Outstanding freshman and soph
omore cadets were presented rib
bon and medal awards by Scab
bard and Blade, military hono
rary, which also awarded bars
to Scabbard and Blade members
of the graduating class after the
review.
Following are members of the
ROTC graduating class who were
presented with second lieutenant"
commissions: Allen Adams. Paul
Bocci, Kenneth Bowes, Robert
Chcrney. James Creihton. James
Curry. Eugene Didack. Richard
Draper. James Durkheimer. Thom
as Hardy. Loyal Lang. Carl Little.
Robert Oleson, Emerson Pace,
William Reiner. Jerome Shank.
Don Swink. Waiker Treece. Er
nest Williams, all of Portland.
March Bowers, Kenneth Bovle.
I II II I PITT " I JF
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L-J Battle Lessens:
"SI Still Undecided
N
; Destruction Of Nazi
1 Striking Power
I Thought Russian Goal
COXGRKSSIONAL MKDAI. OK IIONOK KOK HUM HI- It OK TOKV( At Ihr White
Ilnue, President Roosevelt pins a ConRrrRntional Mo Hal of Honor on Hrig. ("cn. Jamrs 11.
(Jimmy) Doolitllr, at thr same time rcvralrd it was tic who led a squadron of voluntror
flyers on a "highly surrrssfiil" hoinhini; raid on Tokyo and Ihr mainland nf Japan. Krnm Irft.
IA. dm. H. H. Arnold. I'hirf of thr army air forcr; Prrsidrnt Roosrvrlt, Mrs. Doolitllr, (irn.
Grorgr Marshall, rhirf of staff.
are engaged
in a review nf all product,
planned and under way. in es
tablish their own priority list.
FATTEST MAN DIKS
JOHNNKSBrr?r;, SnTJth Afrl
ea. Mav Il'U"' Smith Poti
Naive. i2. believed to be the
world's heaviest man. died yes
terday in a Johannesburg ho-pital.
He weiched 756 pounds and was
five feet six inches tall.
1 5 Army Training
Planes Missing
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. May 21.
Gunter field reported five
of its U. S. army training planes
missing today, and Brooklcy field
nt Mobile reported that two of
them crashed near Atmore, Ala.,
and that one pilot was killed.
The planes disappeared on train
ing flights last night.
Brookley field did ivt rclcae
details.
The southeast air forces training
center ured anyone finding the
missing craft to report Immed
iately to the commanding officers
at either Maxwell or Gunter fields
here.
The planes disappeared on a tri
angular flight from Montgomery
to Crcstvicw, Fla., to Mobile, Ala.
The field declined lo reveal the
names of basic school students or
ethers assigned to the various
planes.
War In Brief
RI'SSIA Red army crashes
through main German defenses
on Kharkov front and fights to
destroy inner rms of defenses
around city; large German losses
reported reducing number of
tanks available to support nai
infantry: one big tank battle still
raging with issue undecided.
tivKMAM Nai high com
mand ncknowlcdfics continued
Snviet attacks at Kharkov but
vays they arc repulsed with grave
Id.1.' C:.
r.im AIT U Get man news
agency, in dispatch from Madrid,
claims American troops, escorted
by Bi ill: h destroyers, arrived at
Gihrallar.
Japs Attack East
Coast Of China
By JOF Al.KX MORRIS
(fnitrd Tress Foteigu Kdttor)
The Red army fought inside lha
inner circle of deienses around
Kharkov today in a diminishing
but still undecided battle to knock
out Hitler's main offensive
strength and seize the communica
tions center of the Ukraine.
Both the Nazis and the Rus
sians appeared to have tost some
of their driving power in attack
and counter-attack on the Khar
kov front, but Moscow said the
Red army still held the offensive,
had crashed through or swept past
the mam enemy fortifications on
the outer defense lines and was
hammering at weakened German
mechanized unit. One big tank
battle was still in progress and
iltll undecided but eUcwhere N;ii
Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock
was able to muster only ten or 15
tanks to support infantry units.
Word Larking
There was still no specific word
as to how close the Russians were
to Kharkov itself or whether their
main onslaught was against ths
city or. as appeared nv'ie likely,
aimed at cutting the enemy com
munications and destroying hit
men and machines.
In any event, the Red army has
advanced some 40 miles as an
nounced in Moscow earlier this
week and recaptured some 300
fortified localities, including sev
eral key towns and road junction,
in 10 days of hard fighting.
Dispatches from the front line
telling of Rmsian success in draw
ing Nazi tanks into "suicide" at
, lacks in which units of 15 or 20
. vehicles were destroyed at a time
by Soviet artillery ami two-man
anti-tank rides indicated that the
('If l A Chinese fiqht strong
Japanese offrnsive by 80,000 troops
on 200-mtle front in Chekiang ,
province, where enemy seeks to 1
knock out allied air and supply :
bases to eliminate possible threat
of new Tokyo bombing.
CHUNGKING. May 21.-fi
Japanese troop have been land
' ed near Foochow, chief port and
I capital of the east coast province
, of Fukien, and have been en-
tfnood in honvv fichtmff with Chi-
, , , , ... ru,- man purpose of Marshal Semyon
nese defeiue forces, the hinese ' .
. . , i Timoshenko was to knock out (fer
hinh command announcd tolay. m;m lnkn(( powCr, and that he
The invading force was carrion WRS itucceeding.
aboard a dozen transports, which , Dispatches from the Russian
made their way up the Mm river front indicated the Russians sdU
u- i were in action on the Kerch penin-
to point near the e, y. ih. rrtmeTtwrW mm
rne ncscem on rooennw, n iny
of 4 no 000 and largest port be
tween Shanghai and Hongkong,
was a nouthward extension In the
serie of Japanese attack which
I assuming the character of a
major offensive, perhaps intend-
AI STKAI.IA A 1 I i ed planes ed to knock China nut of the war.
start fires and destroy two Japa
nese plunes at Koepang and Dili,
on Timor i-land. Kour of 12 Japa
nese bombers damaged in 53rd
laid on Port Moresby.
SIX SONS from one family wearing- uniforms in the
service of their country is a record Lane conntv and Kusene
are proud of. But the proudest person of all is Mrs. K. V. I).
nmrpny (center photo), the mother of six soldiers, allium
She IS not one to hoast or make a fus nhimi th nmtler
"There are many mothers with hoys in the service, some with
one, two. or three I happen to have six there," is her modest
comment. The hoys, left to light, are: First Lieutenant Kr
nest V. I). Murphy. JrM infantry; Kirst Lieutenant Arthur
Murphy, infantry; Corporal James Murphy, medical detach
ment, infantry; Private (first class) Kugcnc Murphy, medical
detachment, infantry; Second Lieutenant Charles Murphy,
infantry; First Lieutenant Allen Murphy, coast artillery, anti
aircraft. The military life is traditional in the family, the
father, the late Col. F,. V. f. Murphy, having had a dis
tinguished career in the army. He was commandant at the
I'niversity of Oregon ROTC heforc he retired to live here.
(Kcnncll-Ellis photos, Wiltshire engraving)
Orders Awaited On
S.UO. OSC Japanese
CORVAU.IS, May 21. un-American-bom
Japnaese students
.it Oregon State college must leave
the campus today or tomorrow if
they drMre lo join their families
ir. evacuation.
Officinl orders said, however.
Ihat those not desiring to be
moved from restricted zones with
their parents may remain until
next werk although It was thought
they would be lequircd to leave
before commencement May 30.
Only 15 of the 40 Japanese stu
dents on the campus at the out
break of war still remain.
Foochow was blockaded and
bombed by the Japanese in June.
19.19. In April, 1941. they Invad
ed the city and moved inland
along the river, but met stubborn
Chinese resistance and finally
withdrew last September.
The new invasion was coupled
with a land drive southward in
Chekiang province, .soulh .of
Shanghai, in a determined effort
to conquer that zonei n which
supposed air bases are a threat
lo Tokyo.
$4,300 More Needed
To Fill USO Quota
trend of the whole louthern fmil
depended on the uutcome of th
Kharkov battle.
1 Military expert said there waa
little or no possibility of the Ger
mans attempting any thrust from
the Crimea toward the Caucasus
nil fields until and if they wen
able to break through the Ukraine
front toward lloslov, where they
suffered a heavy defeat last year.
I Any attempt to cross the Kerch
' straits lo the mainland on a short
cut to the Caucasus at present
would merely make the Nam vul-
nerable to counter attacks unlesa
a strong Axis naval force could,
he mustered In the Black Sea,
which appears to be out of the.
question now.
Dispatches from Istanbul inirl
(he Russian Black Sea fleet still
I was strong, including modern
( cruisers, destroyers and submar
ines and at least one old battlishlp.
Thus the Kharkov battle is ex-
perted to deride the whole trend
I nf the campaign in southern Russia.
Phy, Jr.
LU Arthur Murphy
Corporal James Murphy
No orders on evarua'inn nf
The T,ane county campaign for
the USO war fund will be brought
to a close on Memorial day. May
30, it was announced Thursday by
Jamei A. Rodman, chairman of the
executive committee.
At a meeting of the campaign
committee Wednesday it was de
cided that with the eoneentialed
' r ' v.? V
Japanese students have rnme to effort of all workers it would he
the registrar office on the Uni- pnssihle to reach the county quota
vrriiv campus, u was announcea ( tn,."(IO hy that time. All work
' t Tr-"rM,''J' n'lernoon. rl. are asked to lake particular
, 5 At the beginning of the term, notice "f the closing date now et
i '"N , 2 12 J.lwnee students were regis- fr tnp campaign and that all
l. -; I .; Icrrd. the .s showed, hut three funds collected be turned in
' r ' 1 cr four of this number have al- promptly to the US') headquarteis
ready left the campuv with the chamber of commerce.
A representntn e of hcarlquar- Mr. Hodman reported Thurd;iy
trrs of I.t. (ien. Jihn I,. DeWitt morning that a total of $fl.2ri7 2.1
if the WP'Inn aiea defence com- ha, aliedy been subscribed to the
mand, was understood to be inter- war fund. This still leaves a bal
viewing Japanese students on the ante of $4.1110 to be collected in
campus Thursday. , the next nine days.
LANE COUNTY
USO DRIVE
r $10,500
9.500
8.500
7.500
6.500
5.500
4 500
3.500
2.500
1.500
is B II - I i W' m
r.F.C. Eugene Murphy
Lt Charles Murphy
LU Allen Murphy