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;unday Edition ,,!BTime:llP.M. J&p'-i Sunday Edition Press Timst 11 P.M. FOUR SECTIONS 24 PAGES LANE COUNTire HOME NEWSPAPER. IF! EUGENE, OREGOJ. SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1942 OS STKEKTS Sc; WSWS STANDS Se KO. 173 Mock Air Raid Scheduled Monday in Eugene District city-wide test ol the abtlmes of air raid wardens, auxiliary ponce ana oiner organizations connected with the citizens- v ou , F inonQay oetween the hours of 6 and 8 p m L Saturday3 0rPS commandcr for the district, announced There may be some surprises' for the various units ol the corps thii time. Commander Shumate hinted, and unless the volunteers are on their toes, they may find tneir prooiems too difficult to ifingfon adsGOP; lies, Demos L Meetings Lne; Resoiunons Adopted ,nlV LOWRY Lsi proverbial calm before handle r. lint county s lo ecu- M Shumst ..n,. .. aol committees met f at- ,he pubUc i$ no 0 p3rUcipate fa Selected oncers and organ-, ,he MemberJ of ,h(, Cltons, ; j, the fa "mp! , Defense corps who are on dutv at , uraiony a"" . tne specified hours, !iWst to what is i ex- tgke he saj(j B Oregon s com" The pub): and members of id,f!erents1tua,1onU.an C(Jrps are on du .ivo years ago for the com fcetween a Bnd 8 p m have facen t- . ,i .... -urged to stay clear of all maneu- ffrkTchairman toil themselves election ' " unty actual air raid-thus should stay in their own homes. This second test will be con cerned with the problems of gas attacks as well as ordinary demo lition and incendiary bombs, it was indicated. In a statement to the various di visions of the corps, Mr. Shu- C. Lane GOP Votes Against CPA pentral committee. i -Sit- Huntington, Eugene, tltc'ted by the republicans -a central committee chief a np term. -t wilh unanimous ballots tftxniii in such monotonous i':ce tnat to aucuume l-js made the quips: Cer- ,iere is no rationing on uic and "They have about x of unanimous ballots." Mure Lirht ully was not so mucn a mat- , I -railroading" as a lack of at- I art that put the business 4h m such a hurry, ine rats nad me ease on auenu . about 125 crowding the Os- Sosel enlle room for their Opposing consideration "of all only, are to bills pending in the congress" for creation of Columbia Power auth ority until after the close of the war," the Lane county republican central committee passed a reso lution to that effect in unanimous action, Saturday. Copies of the resolution immediately were sent to Oregon's senators, Charles L. McXary and Rufus Holman. Because so much interest was aroused in the meeting on the topic following talks by James A. Rodman, Earl Hill, and others, A. Huntington, committee Enemy Mines Planted Off East Coast Two Sinkings Laid !To Submarine-Sown High Explosives WASHINGTON. June 20. JJBj Enemy submarines have town! some mines off the Atlantic coast j and at least one large American) merchant ship has been sunk andj another damaged as a result, the navy disclosed tonight, j "Careful investigation of the! circumstances surrounding the : daylight "attack" on two ships off; Virginia Beach June 15, wit nessed by thousands of spectators' jammed on the shore, showed that I mines and not torpedoes caused the explosions, the navy said. One of the ships went down in plain sight of those on shore but TMlMi, AIM tlGAZAlA1 Mediterranean Sea 17 KNIGHTS8RIDGE TEl. ADEM "?555:!5v SIR - HACHE1M llllll tt SOLUM LIBYA BARDf$lGutf i f Solum STATUTE M11S.S AXIS COLl'MNS. lead by wily Gen, Erwin Rommel hrU Tobruk under sirge again, by driving a spearhead from Bir El Gobi (1), past Sidi Rescgh to the eoasl line, l-ate reports from the British admitted that Bardia on the Gulf of Solum had also nrobaMv ialien, al- rescue vessels managed to tow though the Imperials still held Solum itself on the Libyan-Egypt border. One man .. mm British Admit maker pointed out that each di- chairman, named D. T. Bavlv. vision chief will be held respons- Ed. G. Boehnke, and Herbert W. ible by the central office for the Lombard as a soecial committee aetails of mobilization of his own to withdraw and write up a rcso- group. and for all equipment for lution. The committee's report emergency duty. was supported unanimously, its The air raid warning system will resolution following: be put into service for the inci- "WHEREAS the people of the dents, but the official air-raid Tacific Northwest are exerting warning signal short blasts at evrv effort to win the war, five-second intervals-will not be "AND WHEREAS, a number used. Because the incidents are of hnv. inir,, i fc-.-i. while tne repuoucans i i.smhuiin,ivuSi!ib! the Congress fnr the purpose of 4r drew 50 for tneir com- inacnoui ot nomes, creatine a vast Columbia River meeting in the courthouse Traffic will proceed unimpeded authority in said area. ? court room. uuuugnuui me city, excepi m r.jhting the republican :n the immediate areas of the in- 'as passage of a resolu- ciacnts, wnicn will oe carried out gooctng consideration of any in four separate sections. power bills until after i Practice and training for the nr. (tee resolution in lull is various prooiems involved m the ii sisewhere). (test incidents which simulate Kiring the democrats' busi- actual enemy attacks have been lesion was the resolution intensified since the incidents t the group's full support to pfred F;sk named state demo- : chairman. (This resolution a printed elsewhere in the r today.). Dtmocrats pe full list of democratic coun- h D W. Crites. chairman; Mrs. i Mapf In Ra HPfft I Srango, Coburg, vice-chair- . n i nnmiv fc: Ean L. Newman, Eugene, pry-treasurer; Paul N. Plank, I SALEM, June 20. W) Exec- : p ?:r.e precinct; state commit- f utive committee members desig- the other one into port. was killed. He was Rubin Hedwine oi Philadelphia, second assistant engineer aboard one of the ships. Navy Convinced The navy said It was "definitely convinced" that the damage was done by mines and added: "Undoubtedly, these mines were laid by an enemy submarine un der the cover of darkness, when detection is extremely difficult, It was the first destruction defi nitely attributed to enemy mines i'ff the American coast since Dec U.S. Sales Tax Plan Killed SEE MOCK RAID STORV PAGE S 1942 Oregon GOP -AND WHEREAS, the passage of such bill or bHk wiH tend to create endless political controver sy, disturb its economy, and remit in confusion of said war effort, "NOW THEREFORE, be it re solved that the Lane County Re publican Central committee now place itself on record as opposed to the consideration of ail bills pending in the Congress of the United States which have for their purpose the creation of a Columbia river authority until after the vloe of the war, and that copies of this resolution be released to the press and sent to the Oregon congressional delegation," WASHINGTON, June 20. WW The house ways and means com mittee, shaping the new war rev enue program into near-fina! form, consented today to s pay i you 7 Last April 27 the U. S. rfestrover eat n income eouecuon pn Sturtcvant sank off Florida after ;?7d !?y the fasury' ?d an underwater explposion which killed V the present proposals for . was believed then to have been Rral feda! ! tax" caused by an American mine that The cornrml ee decision on the had broken loose from its moor- les tax meant that for . while at jcbsi tne average rtnit u u not have to reckon with the fed eral tax collector every time that he pays his grocery bill or buys a new pair of shoes. The sale tax was rejected by vote of 13 to 8, with two proxiea recorded. : Chairman Robert L. Doughton'a announcement that the sales tax had been killed nevertheless left the way open for future considera tion of thii tax if the revenue i needed. The pay-s-you-earn tax collec Hon plan or withholding tax, which would go into effect next January 1 if the proposal is finally adopted Secret of Heavy The Explained The June 15 explosions occurred 30 minutes apart in the late aft ernoon. Bomber planes, a navy blimp and half a dozen surface ves sels searched the area and dropped dozens depth bombs on the theory that an enemy submarme hsd loosed torpedoes at the shps.! Three Jsp Supply Ships Sunk By Subs Theres s profit In rubber or maybe there could be. One young boy who brought his eontnb.ition to a local serv tre statin in the current rub ber drive, had an ingenwus device. The beads of a tire he contributed were clamped to gether. The service station op erator a (freeing to pay cent a pound thought the scales seemed to rejister a pretty heavy weight. The Itre beads were apart Inside the iire were many pounds of rocks. Signs Of Second Iron! In Europe j Are Multiplying Likely Jamplng-off ; Spot Token Over by j British Army By SOLAS NORG AA8D j LONDON, June 20. W) Sir I Stafford Cripps, prilfeistiy deputy for Prime Minister Church ill, promised Britain tnday flat thia country and the United SJt ; will "taunrh great and succes ful attack upon Jlitier in the west" : but gave no bint as to when or j where. He aM Nari measures to meet It might influence its timing, SimuWa?ieously, the nation t4 reived what appeared to be evi drr.ee that Britain is making steady preparalioiu to east the Szlt'ui die. The army announced it wt taking o. er as a teaming arec X 3S square-mite tone in East Ar.e'::, an obvious possible i'jmpinj off place for ft drive across the chin neL , Specultttan Blf J Ordinarily these devflar.rr.er.U British radio said tonight, on the: M have produced a wild ftwttj basia ot advices from the north ; xperttion in B.itain, foraint African front, that axis troops fhey did Just when ChurtMU to i "probably have entered" Bardia, : enntemnjj with ITesirtent ansae- flritish stronghold only seven and Vmted States, when ! a half miles from the Kgyptian i there have been recent arrivals et border and northern anchor rf,sironj United States srtr.y sr.d j the new British defense line. i nvi forres, and when the sr to j The British broadcast said that : Russia is nearsng its first annl ' if the German armored forces of : versarf. Col. Gen. Erwin Rnmmel are) Specalatios would bees actually In Bardia "they probably : heightened by these other develop. are iinniox tiiim i.-rre hibi is oi :merttst EGYPT IS iLoss Of Bardia LONDON. June 20 ! The pried ;l Chinese launch J Attack Near Cantp pa: Mrs, Gertrude Dale, Eu pt iu:e committeewoman; Cal ?7or, Judkins precinct, cori' SEE POLITICS STORS" PAGE 2 I Backed Fi wcrais' Chairman or "l Fisk, ex-collector of rnc. P t the DOrt of Portland ktie county iudee. nH f In his party politics. i i oiiinmus support irom f -aae county democratic cen p Komittee in meeting Satur- '-'ire tut uie next 'teocrauc chairman. . .. . said he was Siting 2-tter serious mntM.rsiim, 'm made a decision to be nated Eugene as the site for the 1942 convention of the Oregon Republican club at an all-day session here today. The con vention will be held early in the fall. Plans to hold the meeting at Bend, previously voted by the committee, were changed be cause of transportation uncer tainties. President R. M. Fischer of Eugene explained. Fischer announced that conven tion planners hoped to have one of four nationally prominent re publicans attend Wendell L. Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, U. Sen. Arthur H. Vandcnberg Justice Douglas Tells Press Of Duties LONDON, June 20. tU Brit ish submarines, striking at Japan's supply route from the China sea Gj iq to 9. to the Buy of iiengaJ, have simK t h ree large su pp 1 y sh i ps in the Malacca straits between Malaya and Sumatra, the admiralty an nounced today. On submarine torpedoed the largest vessel in a convoy of three . j supply snips, xne aarmraaiy com-j d zccr CHUNGKING, Sunday, June SJ, (UJ Chine.e forces supported by by congress in its present form, f upennr artillery, have launched was adopted by the narrow margin a strong counter-offensive in KwangSung province, and are use to them1 because of the effec tive work of British demolition : squads. The new axis thrust tipon Bar dia and its "pmbsblp" fall fol-1 lowed the throwing hark of two sxii mobile columns which yes-: terday advanced to within about 25 miles of the town sf the west ern shore of the GuU of Solum. "There hat been rta direct t- 1, The disclosure that Just be fore Cripps spoke, ChurthiU m cartmlUt:ou by traiissttaat telephone with at least one cf 1 aides. Major Clement S Attlee dommfons secretary 2, An announcement by the Ger man radio, which just gsir4 notice todsy, that Cermas f uth&r lues, apparently in a dtieritjve tack upon the Rrtttsh line along mood, had widened to the est an 4 -Petroleum Industry Helps Rubber Drive f storming the strategic city of Van- I' tan m the Canton-Hankow rail road 31 miles north of Canton, the official Central News said to day. Countering the loaa of air base n Chekiang province lo the north-! Lane chairman for least from which Tokyo and other! if f... GEARHART. Ore., June 20. munique said, and another subse- ,i,m i-jrt-. ,mit. ! Jamnm nim iid b bnmHeri UR It is the mission of the press qucntiy sank two more big cargo rMmg ls lhe present's : the Chinese were said to have cut i wirmaiU i,.c,,mt1-.,M-.M,P,. i drive for the collection of rubber, the railway between Yuntan and ism ana Sim me puuuc iur 111c struggle ahead which may be long, the United Mates supreme court jus- may niP- ! drive for the collection of rubber, j the railway between Yuntan and . WAS! The communique did not give announced Saturday that although , Canton, enabling them to resist nrj. he the dates of the action, which the ftack ot rubber were Japanese counter-attacks with re- riet f lay have been one of the f irst , p,,, in ln , very satisfactory ! mforcenwnts. j , west th already axtenatvc mine fields In the Skagerrak, between Norway and Denmark. . But British reaction was eocdi tioned: by growing uneasiness ever the German altars: tut Kusiii'f Sevastopoi and deteriors'ion of the British position in Korth Af Hca, eoapled with indicationi that Hitler may be preparing ts etM the Initiative In an even mere d ced manner in the Med;ter ranf sn, The cause for disquiet over th latter situation was found in A Heaters news agency dispsteA from the French frontier" report- WASHINGTOM, June 20 J ; tog that Hitler has demanded that Gen, Harold L. George, i Pierre Mai, Vichy chief ol gov the army air forces ferry- : ernnwnt, cede l.wOO.BBO tons si ng eommand, predicted tonight f rencn snipping a nemana mrnti the Egyptian frontier thus far, the broadcast said, "hut British troops are ready and are strongly entrenched at Snium and Ha! faya." West and south of encircled To bruk. it was said, the skis infan try ia digging in while, to 1he east, the enemy ia consolidating its hold on the roast road. Great Expansion Of tice i William O. Douglas dKM , .T'lr i After capturing ,h, ZtTSSZ l7?trZ tonight Justice Douglas, addressing a : convention session of the Oregon S. i Newspaper Publishers association. asserted that optimism displayed blows since Japan overran Ma-: sm3Rnt I above Yuntan, the Central News ultimately will enpand into a giant ; planning vast movement of men ys. win Singapore navai ,i- .,, 1. . , .i.. r.t j : . : i j ,,,ii -. .k. ttit. base, and the Dutch island ol au- .h UD ,, . (n . , ,.,r h 1 . ,1, , .i. .. , ' rnnn anrf oerhans the Black tn rr.atra. Gov. Harold E. Stasscn of Min- m the press could laoel the pres- f:fw c:. (l, ne50ta jent preliminary struggle to stem JUnCTiOn tITy ririil UTS Frank Loncrgan, Portland, de- the tide of invasion as the final goflfieville ConfTOCt livered the only address at a phase, thus encouraging prcma- luncheon given at noon by the ture hopes. I PORTLAND. June 20. tm Marion County Republican club "The American people are not Award of a $5,571 contract for .b3ni.r in honor of ihe visitors, like the befuddled subjects of Hit- survey stakes to the Junction City Jate. although the support ' of candidates and of local party !cr. who must be told anew each Woodworking company. Junction -is home county was an lm- i officials. Joseph B. Fciton, chap- January that their opponents will City, was announced today by the "1 factor. H. ,. I sirfmt oresided. 1 collapse this year," the jurist said. . Bonneville Power administration. r imauent k u ,1 j h, ,. rui iiaim rratic eartv in nn resAlutinn pss!;cd Saturday "rrras a number of sugges- ir.IV. Wn n,- 1 t ,. . " "'""r. iinii vitri- Ine nex' tse r"n 1emocra,i- Pirty Jreas it is th wnse o thIj 'if" FrH Fi5tt i ceed J WWicd to take such -.. wrf"rm the duties .'am efficiently and effec W .1. ' H,"cratic partv, re?ore. it is hereby re- ir.a. th s meetintf no nrt . " ,"ting Mr. order to carry out their part of j the drive in addiiton to their reg- ular duties, are receiving no profit : from the sale of the donated rub- j ber. In the cases of donation, any profit will go to the four relief 1 agencies, USO, Army relief. Navy j relief and Red Cross, j In telling of the volume of rub ber already turned in, Mr. Zen arr lery barrage which reduced Japa-1 world. nese emplacements, and drove j Addressing a convention Fisk to e to be used as uch position and n our suDDOrt as t,"!5 the Tr s!ate democratic ir.:s m Portland ln 'Council Slates '"dy Meeting Tcal 1,Jsi"r had been -s .V"" fnr the regular ..'" Eugene citT council "' t r'"" iht at the r-Z J F.eMs, My record fc -r.rei. ?,s"'r which have been . r Z "rp time, however, cv,'': rS of grass on park- 1 -owned lots, and 1 r. lKe exneote of '-e cj the s-e;.on "-ei.. -ran expenses new airport. '-on was compli- v . ' rcncies. it would r the rompane to r " r mail and pass ' at the local a-rport. r- Si... . "a oiner minor - -e aja E-h.,i.j ' af r -ISO-. mentioned that at Creswell had already 7,000 pounds of rsjhber. j He aafd the present week-end had been officially designated 3 1 DUtil k t ti "Rubber Treasure Hunt week- LflCy KoDoUJ AQQEtl ena Dy ine varinus units m ine petroleum industry in order to spur continuance of the rubber drive. "There are sti.1 countless pieces of rubber srrap in storage- spares, garages and trah heap, whtrh the government badly needs," Mr. Xenger said. If 11 the stores of scrap rubber are not turned in, gas rationing regyiahons of a dras tic nature and even seizure of automobile tires may become nec essary he said. into the outskirts of the rrty : aviation writers here, George also The Chinese were cnunter-m-? said that the United States is not tacking Irt one of the most strategic I tr behind Germany in technical ereas South China. Since early development of giiders. He fore in the war the Japanese hava been mw tremendous pfsssibtiities in attempting to open the Casstnfi-, their ue as tranvporta hut em ftankow railroad for all of its 5 phastred that the yse of gliders miles ko they coutd relieve ne- for long-dsstmsre mwsfai hauU i Cripss spoke at a mas meeting in Km press haiJ, which was parked a serice station '. mands on shtfrntng tn the Oima : already turned in sea. Bombed By Allies A L L 1 E T TtF.AnQtMftrEPS, Australia, Sunday, June 21, ( Aiiied fenbing piane have is hardly feasjhi? si this time. The ferrying rnmrnsnd, whlrh was organi7.ed a rear ago to help fly Amertcan-made bombers from factories to the British isies, has espsnded rapiriiy into a world hy almost t,00 persnRa gathered a observe the anniversary June 22, of the German attack ett Kas sa. Jsclyded in the audsenre were Sov,f Ambassador Ivaa Maisky, Hear AsimrsJ Aian G. Krk, ehwt of stajf of United States naval fore es in Earopean waters who rerre tented Ambatsadtr John C. Wm ; snt, sfrf representatives I all oth r aii governmerjls. i mm the help of the Mted States and its i;du5tr)a imrtts ', adrfe to tmr own and the Smraet wide sFTviret ymg rmnhat plsnes, : Vnvm emduclive resrce w supplies, personnel and mail to ho?iM he uhle t launch a grat American troop tabons abroad n4 Teifi attack upon Hf and to our aNie. j m Wffsi h aid- Cenrge tJd the avistinn writ era that the command's foreign rwites alone measure between mr tniighf their way through Japa-1 Rn tlA ljm( e dsytance around Canned Goods Price Ceiling Said Too Low WASHINGTON, June 20 of i The agncuitur department ad- I vised Price Administrator Leon ffenderson today thai prire ceil ings on many canned fruits and berries were W low in permit ! eanners to pay growers prices to i which they are entitled under the price control law. i The ceihngs were set at the highest prices csnners, dutnbu ! tors and retajien charged in f fareh. ; Sn a letter to Hmderium, the agriculture department expiamed that the March prices reftected cntts of prducmg the 1941 park of fruit and berries, adding that prod ut ion coM have g?ie up cm siderghiy smce then. nese fighter defcnes and boohed the enemv-held air base at Rs hauH and Lse, General MacAr U ur'i beartquarlcr announced to day. At Rahaul. New flritaln. the a1 X ed bombers h(t wharf Installa tions in what w termed a sue restful flight attarit. At f ie, an important ha in K'pw Guinea, the raider directed these hr on the airdrome, de stroying two enemy bombers on the grjjimd. The Janaree defence, in which eri fighter planes tofk ti the air, was described in the daily head quarters communique as ineffec-tne the erth. The rissmeMic sertre of the ferrying command, he add ed, is larger now an piio?s, planes and stations than was the entire army air corps fftur years ago. . t. t TQ H...n h....U u ... tv:.;H( lent! u kR IhhScU." "a, faken 7nL: H-re Bcnnv 11.11. .hirl Pc. rfr. atch Thoma, Snore, u W cuna fill out an apnt ration frm. Three other recruits. Jr ,a1epey f J3tnerCLar; M&TwiL CHy and William C. PeterMm cf Kugrne. .re dtrrprehmin examin.t.on. The examiner, .re S. C Ocorge and U. L. A- denwa. (Baker photo, Wiltshire engraving). lfRTiJiXth June 2ft'-Pf A tumble dmn a 3ft-fod embank ment brought nothmg more than hk miuries t 13-year-oM 1-a Rue FaSkner, Jfjrliand, a berry p ker, yesterday. The rrmhsp oc curred along the Sandy river northeast el Gretham- Fioyd Manvilie Elected To State Elks Office ; BKNO. June 20 The a1e ftlfea awusatj'fn ctoed its annaf crH', cn't'm here today hy elerlmg ' Harvey I,. Armen of Pnrt prent I dnt nd awarding jta 1S43 eon- ventjfi tn Bker, i Other officers elected were Harry l Nrho!on. Astfa4 fsrt : vice-president; Floyd N ManvHIe, flugs'me, secnd vice-president, l.tt Hroift, fSaVer, thifd Vice--ide?4t; if. U Tonsv, MrShnn , V4ile. treasurer; G.irge Andern. i Ijt Crande. J'e Fhegel, MJrd, and E. Z. lees. :: Tornado P!s Two In Indiana Town KOKOMO. If5ds June JO Two persons are dead. miss ing, and at leat 20 known injured in a tornado which strurk the ; svsith half of Kk?m? late t'day. ; More than 2t0 hnrr.r were un- roifcd by the -tnrm whirh struck Kokomo Her sweeping acrms the northern part of d loaning Chnhin rmnty. U cut a swath two cjty i hltrks Wide nd t rrssie Jong 't through the south part of the niy, rJire fhef imtn Jackon , called fur him Aiwiwan I-cgson members to ai-t m patrtttinf the stricken area. A detarhmerit rf saijors from Peru nai ar be . was aio rrpjrted on the way. 1 . NtMf R VWE-rRBlOIAT H tKTLAND, June 20 Burt K Hasikina. Kimlh Fails, was elertPiJ president of the n ii(ni bjc4io ti p1maters fregfn hapter at She cie of a three - cav crnventos today. Wheeler, Astoria, try- j Geo? ee MrCulough. Reedtport, , was Diraea vtce-presiaenw NOTICE TO J.?PLCYER3 Here are 3 sugestis m handltng persmrtei J ImmedUtely aWer Jpsmsr-g that yoM need heiis teirhMie a Hejp d tn THIS REGISTER Glf Aftf any tsme be tween 4 a.m. and S p. m, 2 Give as many farts atttt the pruttXirm to b fslled as you possuhW can in frder to ehmmste tm juaifsed applicants. 1 siJv the hours 4Wm& which sppifcant will be inier'ie rd. 3 Be sure t Inter view sufficient $yll eanta to find just the right pern. PLAY SAFE 1art vur Help d n-n THK HEGI5TER rARDs Jw -day rate NOTE: P. M. Morsa jwt thss ad in f CrfJm Cvcherg. Wam. re tn 24 hours they had 1 an swer. From the ad e eured sn excellent ck rhaiw i:m COfK Wanted on rsnrfc nesr Waco fft sum mer. Good pay. If in terested, call 27W-J, Eugene or W Mil-ysrtt
