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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1943
ON STREETS So NEWS STANDS So
NO. 82
gineers Set
'ood Damage
po,ooo
valley's 1842
J S d damage esti-
M't revealed
S- . .i wmort on the
Sphere since 1927
'i inures on damage to the
f. I fST changed when com
?'","'. the house-to-
3T farm-to-farm survey
...Jorurnv Is COm-
u k now -
j ihe engineers sam.
Serf report ".lso re
ftat the Cottage Grove and
Hidge d JJXed 11,0,1
fl during the flood.
?tdceL Hm held
r:e cona6e
,t Cottage ur -------
. than it wouiu
hmi" the report states.
". f llu fart
kever, Decau . "I,
flK Coast torn ui.
irely small
k. Ham ta consid-
have lowered the flood
-, it Eugene only about six
report pointed out that "al
ii the effect of the Fern
dam is not considered ab
.i. utisfactonr by engineers
L to lack of a sufficient "get-
' channel), we iaci ituu
ii. rt.m made it possible to
fcict the time of opening the
I j( hours in aavance so
the residents of the Long Tom
Lj sufficient time to remove
bitocfc, and u necessary, in
Uold goods and themselves
higher ground."
kejMads
n meineers pointed out that
fcwas no need for rescue work
b Fern Ridge area. They sam
Eney had already been started
feptove the Long Tom cnannei,
military necessity naa neia n
Imorovemcnts of the channel
tlinned. however, and will be
beneed as soon as possible af-
nter goes down.
hi engineers' report, giving
bttkeround of the flood, re-
Htd that It came on the heels
k November in which Oregon
till was the greatest In 67
in. As t result by DecemDer
ka wen overburdened, soil
uturated, and additional run'
mild not be handled. The
in flood early In December
k in indication of the bad sit-
m Brlnt More Rain
pm t series of storms moved
lour western Oregon late In
pber, bringing heavy rainfall
melting much of the deep
F In the mountains, the al
to bank-full streams could not
with the accumulation and
ris throughout the valley.
What, Where, How and Why
Of Food Registration Given
WHAT: Registration for war ration Book 2, necessary to buy
canned goods starting March 1.
WHEN: Feb. 22-27. Monday through Friday, S to 9 pjn.; Satur- 1
day only, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. I
, H9"i Take with you (1) war ration Book 1 the sugar stamp
leaflet of each person tor whom you are registering (2) a "con
sumer declaration" printed last Thursday In this paper, filled out
and showing names and ration registration number (to be found
in Book 1) of each person, and also amount of rationed food on
hand on Feb. 21, 1943. Only one declaration is necessary for each
family or living organization, who will be represented at the site
by one member of the group. -
Note on your declaration, or on a slip of paper that you can take to
the schoolhouse, the following: (a) Pounds of coffee owned on
Nov. 28, 1942, minus one pound for each person included in this
declaration whose age as stated on Book 1 is 14 years or older; (b)
Number of persons in this declaration whose age as stated on Book 1
is 14 years or older; (c) Number of cans, bottles, and jars (8-ounce
size or larger) of commercially packed fruits, vegetables, juices and
soups, chill sauce, and catsup owned on Feb. 21, 1943, minus five
for each person included in declaration; (d) Number of persons in
this declaration. .
Do Not Include: Canned olives, canned meat and fish, pickles,
relish, jellies, jams, preserves, spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, or home
canned foods. . ' , i . ,
WHERE: The school nearest your home. The complete list of
sites follows:
Roosevelt and Wilson junior high schools, and Frances Willard,
oil in lTiiiTAnA Willalr.nvl. Confn Pi.... f.i.... 1 . t...
McKenzie high school, Vida; Wostfir; Oakrldge high school; Blachly
high school; Deadwood school; Lyons school, Walton; Glenwood
school; Stella Magladry, Lorane highway; River Road; Pleasant Hill;
Crow; Elmira; Thurston school; Mohawk; Lowell; Creswell; Junction
City; Springfield high; Leaburg.
In the Florence district, schools include those of Florence, Maple
ton, Herman, and Siuslaw. In the Cottage Grove district: Latham.
London, Lorane high school, Culp Creek, and- Cottage Grove union.
Dried Beans,
Peas Are Added
To Ration List
Thermometer 'Soars'
Up to 61.5 Degrees
There were strange .."goings
on" in Eugene the past week
the sun actually beamed forth
several times, and on one day,
Wednesday, the mercury "soar
ed" to 61.5 degrees! It was the
warmest day since in late No
vember. By the way home gar
deners scurried about with those
preliminary tasks preceding the
real garden season following
the first few hours ' of sun
shine, one might believe spring
is practically here.
A glance over the week's tem
peratures, however, shows it
still can be a bit cool. Follow
ing are maximums and mini
mums up to and including Fri
day: Monday, 51.9 and 29.4 de
grees; Tuesday, 48.9 and 32.1
degrees; Wednesday, 61.5 and
32.8 degrees; Thursday; 59.1 and
42.1- degrees;. Friday,...564.and,
30.9 degrees .
Elementary School
Teachers Meet Here
it ENGINEERS STORY .
PAGE 2
I Smashes New
m Lottery Ring
FAShTNGTON. Feb. 20 II.B
fr J. Edgar Hoover of th
P Bureau of Investigation
Way special FBI agents had
PM $2,000,000 Intferv rln
P4a arrest 0 12 men In slmul-
fll raids in five New Eng.
Njll the ring operated a
tfjoffs, he said, were deter
i by daily U. S. treasury bal-
r- miousnea m the newspa-
Nil ranged from nominal
L; p"aI priw ' io,ooo,
,', T"ets sold for 25, 50.
H' Creamerv
c"ng Wednesday . '
.T next WArlnacrlo PaVi
a.m. Mnn U.ll i J
f -.wcg llttil. IS U1C
meeting tor the Eugene
creamery. At this time
laT0 wiU elect two di"
Ma' opci"atin8 rePrt
: of the group.
,,Teutsch, assisUnt dl
i "-operative exten-
r t th. t orwn, man
LJV IntersUte Associated
LT"'' and O. o vi.t.t...
Rf"" agent, alsowili
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Kfei.. me'ing. G. A
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Signal
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- ue su-dest sUiui.
Classes on Point
Food Ration Planned
Explanation of the point ration
Ins! system, for grocers and con
sumers, will be given In rationing
"classes" to-be sponsored free of
charge this week In Eugene by the
Eugene vocational school, .
The announcement from Dr. J.
F. Cramer, city schools superin
tendent, and Mrs. Mary Miles,
community service member of the
war price and ration board, told
of these meetings:
For grocers: Monday and Tues
day nights at 8 at Wilson junldr
high school. To get complete In
formation for their use grocers
must attend both nights-.
For west side women consum
ers; Wednesday night at 8 at Wil
son, For east side women consum
ers: Thursday night at 8 at Roose
velt junior high. .
Classes will be directed by Mrs.
Catherine Lamb, EVS coordinator
of distributive education, assisted
by J. Ed Turnbull, district OPA
head, .and Hairy Hearne, board
executive secretary, Sound films
will be shown.
- More than SO elementary school
principals from eight western
uregon counties attended a re
gional conference at the Frances
Willard school in Eugene Satur
day. At the business session Har
old Sprague, principal of the ele
mentary training school at Inde
pendence, was elected president
and Gary Worth, principal of the
River Road grade school near Eu
gene, vice-president.
Ray Hunsaker, principal of the
Harding school at Marshtield, was
chairman and Laurence C. Mof
fitt. Lane county school .superin
tendent, and Winfield Atkinson,
principal of the Frances Willard
school, had charge of local ar
rangements, assisted by Florence
Beardsley of the-state-department
of education. . . . .
The conference theme was "The
Role of Visual and Auditory Age.
in the Elementary School." Amos
DeBernardis, supervisor of visual
education in the Portland schools,
was the principal speaker on the
subject.
At noon luncheon at the Del
Rey cafe Rex Putnam, superin
tendent of the state department of
education, was one of the speak
ers and another was Mrs. Martha
E. Mulkey, Coos county superin
tendent, who spoke on the testing
program being planned by the
state department and the county
school superintendents. A third
speaker was Mrs. Frances Wright
Jonasson, director of the federal
division of services to children of
working mothers, speaking on the
program of taking care of children
while their mothers are employed.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. Wi
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
tonight directed the rationing of
dry edible beans, dried peas, len
tils and dehydrated and dried
soups along with the . processed
and canned vegetables and fruits
to be rationed beginning March 1. .
These foods were added to the
ration list, Wickard said, because
of "extremely heavy demands by
the American armed forces and
the Russian army."
Stocks Frozen
Pending start of rationing, retail
stocks of these commodities were
frozen tonight They will not be
available to consumers next week.
Wickard, the food administrator,
said supplies of beans, peas, len
tils and dried soups had dwindled
considerably In recent weeks be
cause of short supplies of meats
and other high protein foods. Con
sumers turned. to these vegetables
as meat substitutes.
These commodities will be ra
tioned under the new point-system
ration books to be distributed
next week. The point values will
be determined by the office of
price administration.
The office of price adminis
tration said that housewives
would not be required to declaTe
the amount of dried vegetables
they have on hand at the time
they make their declarations on
the rationed canned goods.
While not forecasting quantities
which might be available under
rationing, the secretary said per
capita civilian supplies of these
foods for the marketing year end
ed next September 1, as com
pared with supplies in the previ
ous marketing year, were about as
follows:
Dried beans, 7. and 8.8 pounds;
dried peas and lentils, 0.9 and 1.2
pounds; dehydrated, soups 0.3 and
0.3 pounds. '
Under Wickard's directive to the
OPA, dried edible beans and peas
of all classes and varieties will be
rationed. The dehydrated and
J dried soups include all .types such.
as vegetame, tomato, corn, fcotajb,
onion, cabbage, borsht, dry cheese,
Few Offices to
Close Monday
Eugene will observe "business
as usual" Monday, Washington's
birthday, with the city council and
school board both scheduling
meetings.
Closed, however, will be the
postofftce, offices In the court
house except the state police, the
city recorder's and engineer's of
fice. .
. : .
Condition of
Gandhi 'Grave'
Yanks 'Dig In'
On New Central
Tunisia Line
Soviets Only 39
Miles from Dnieper
River; Gains Made
Prisoners in North
Africa to Be Freed
$2,240 in Federal Funds
Allored to Nursery Here
Ad allotment of $2,240 In feder
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 20 U.
Gen. Jean Marie Bergeret, depu
ty French civil and military com
mander In chief, announced, to
night that 5,000 political prisoners
still interned In North Africa
would be released or repatriated
within two months.
"No De Gaullists are now held
in the camps," he said, ''all have
been given their liberty. There
were about 20 of them."
al funds for the war nursery of I Bergeret, wearing me oiue
the Eugene city school district was j three-star uniform of an aviation
approved Saturday in a presiden
tial order.
The Eugene nursery received the
funds with the understanding that
it would care for 40 children reg
ularly between -Feb. 15 and June
30, and that $2,052 In fees and lo
cal contributions were also avail
able. The' funds were alloted
htrough the federal works admin
istration. A total of 88 nurseries
received federal aid.
SEE DRIED BEANS STORY
PAGE I ..
FDR Calls Senate";
Proposal 'Meddling'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 UP)
President Roosevelt told congress
in strong language today that the
proposal to require senate confir
mation of all federal employes
paid $4,500 or more a year
amounts to meddling in matters
reserved to the executive branch
of the government -
Furthermore, he said it Would
hinder the war effort and he
thought In that event "the Ameri
can people will not fail to real
ize that it Is" the legislative
branch" doing so.
But Senator McKellar (D.
Tenn.), sponsor, of the proposal,
was not Impressed, nor was Chair
man Van Nuys (D.-Ind.) of the
senate judiciary committee before
which the measure Is pending.
McKellar issued a statement re
plying to the president's argu
ments and Van Nuys labelled as
"bosh" one of them that, too
much of the senate's time would
be consumed with confirmations.
Van Nuys told reporters he was
"100 per cent for the bill" and
hoped It could be reported to the
senate next Thursday.
POONA, Feb. 20 (U.R) Mohan
das K. Gandhi's condition has
taken a turn for the worse at the
halfway mark of his 21 day fast
In protest against his Interment,
and now Is grave, an official bul
letin said tonight
The 73 year old spiritual leader
of millions of Indian nationalists
was reported to be falling rapid
ly, accentuating fear that he could
not survive the self-imposed or
deal. At the same time concern
mounted over the possible reper
cussions if he should die. His own
privy council warned that in such
an event the task of reconcilia
tion between Britain and India
would be "extremely difficult"
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru sounded
the warning at a New Delhi con
ference which adopted a' resolu
tion calling for the release of
Gandhi "In the Interests of the
future of India and international
good will."
The government stood fast,
however, implicitly rejecting the
new demand in a reply by the
secretary of the viceroy, the mar
quess of Linlithgow, who said:
"The viceroy has considered the
resolution. The attitude of the
government of India In the matter
of Gandhi's fast was set out clear
ly and detalledly in a communi
que on Feb. 10. No new . factor
has emerged since that date. Re
sponsibility in connection with
the last rests solely with Gandhi,
with whom but not with the
government the decision to bring
ittoVan-end must rest" ' ,
Friends' of Gandhi said his con
dition had , become "alarming,"
and only faith could pull him
through the crisis.
"I find him hardly able to talk,"
Devdas Gandhi, his youngest son,
said. "I was hoping that the cit
rus juice which he permitted him
self to take with water would
pull him through, but he only
takes about two ounces of lemon
juice In 24 hours, that being hard
ly sufficient even to flavor his
water."
I .r,.-9l h.M nrm rnnfsrtnra
t " 't " -
for American and British corres-
Capt. Holstrom Gets
Another Air Medal
pondents to -rerXrt on measures
undertaken by General Henri Gi
raud's regime with the interallied
commission for polictial prisoners.
Of the 7,000 persons interned
when the allies landed in North
Africa last November, 200 French
nationals and about 1,100 foreign
ers have been freed, he said.
At present there are 3,000 Span
ish republican refugees in the
camps.
12-YEAR-OLD MOTHER
MURPHY, N. C, Feb. 20 (U.B
Attendants at Petrie hospital here
reported today that 12-year-old
Mrs. R. G.' Foster had given birth
to a seven pound, - four ounce
baby girl. , .
Body of Noti Logger
Found in Fume-Filled
Auto Saturday Evening
. The body of George M. Har
rington, about 35, Noti logger, was
found In his automobile atop
Badger mountain between Noti
and Walton Saturday evening.
' A hose, connected with the ex
haust, had filled the car with
fumes. The, coroner took charge
of the body. '
Harrington was survived by a
wife and two small children. Mrs.
Harrington, a resident of Sacra
mento, Calif., was reported coming
to Eugene.
LONDON, Feb. SO (U.B Amer
ican forces dug firmly into a new
line In central Tunisia tonight
despite two stiff German thrusts
to drive them out, while the Brit
ish Eighth army, squeezing the
enemy from the south, swung Into
position to flank the formidable
Mareth line at either end.
. Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex
ander, who planned the Eighth
army's brilliant campaign In which
the Afrika Korps was chased
across Africa, arrived In Tunisia
to assume his new duties as Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's deputy In
charge of Jand operations of allied
forces.
Allied headquarters announced
that the Americans had abandoned
their positions in the Ousseltia
valley in a line-straightening op
eration and had taken a new posi
tion commanding that central
Tunisian area.
Line 'Softened'
While the Americans took up
their new positions, 200 miles to
the southeast the British were
softening up the outer defenses
of the Mareth line with their big
guns and consolidated positions at
both ends of the French-built for
tifications. , -
They were reported to have cap
tured Djerka island, on the line's
northern flank and only five
minutes' flying time from the
Axis-held port of Gabes. On the
southern flank, they were In firm
possession of Foum Tatahouine,
captured two days ago.
The middle eastern command
said Eighth army forces were "In
contact" with the Axis around
Medinine, "Verdun of the Mar
eth line" guarding Its outer de
fenses midway along the fortifi
cations. A communique said
British artillery was duelling with
the Germans in that area. North
of Foum Tatahouine, British pat
rols also had contacted the Afrika
Korps, It announced.
Two German attacks, evidently
designed to test the strength of
the Americans after their retreat
of last week, were repelled with
the aid of strong British forces.
African dispatches said the
Americans had completely res
tored their position northwest of
Kasserine, less than 20 miles from
the Algerian border, Thursday
night after the Germans, with
tanks and artillery, had achieved
some infiltrations.
Allied headquarters reports said
the American abandonment of the
Ousseltia valley was inevitable
after the loss of the semi-desert
plain to the south earlied this
week. The Americans now com
mand the valley while the Brit
ish hold the gap south of It
The guardsmen Intercepted a
strong German patrol, equipped
with motorized Infantry and tanks
and .knocked out six tanks and
six self-propelled guns.
By SIDNEY 3. WILLIAMS
' LONDON, Sunday, Feb, 21 (U.IO The Red army, sweeping west
ward through the Ukraine on a 150-mile front drove within 39 miles)
of the Dnieper river yesterday, capturing the key railway towns of
Krasnograd, Pavlograd, Pereschepino and Gotnya.
Thus in a single triumphant day the fast moving Soviet forces
toppled lour vital anchor post!
of the crumbled German defenses
a broad arc surainn out be
yond Kharkov, and apparently
broke the last chance the retreat
ing Nazis had of maintaining a
foothold east of the Dnieper.
two soviet communiques
broadcast from Moscow announced
the landslide successes on the
frozen plains of the Ukraine and
posed new threats to a new series
of German bases far to the north
west, west and southwest of
Kharkov. ., 4
More French
Ships May Join
LONDON, Feb. 20U.R Offi
cial London quarters maintained
strict silence tonight concerning
reports from authoritative French
sources In New York that the fate
of the French naval squadron of
nine warships and other smaller
craft neutralized at Alexandria,
may be decided over the weekend.
The New York sources have pre
dicted that the French squadron
at Alexandria will come over to
the allies, joining the sizeable fleet
of fighting ships already flying
the French banner of Gen. Henri
Giraud. Some reports have hint
ed that the ships at Alexandria,
commanded by Admiral ' Rene
Coderoy, already may have left
port enroute to allied naval cases
for repair and refitting.
Newspaper correspondents at
Alexandria have been permitted
by the censorship to advise their
home offices that theytiave not
been permitted to transmit dis
patches concerning the French
ships there for many days.
The transfer of Godroy's squad
ron, Including the 22,189-ton bat
tleship Lorraine, three heavy and
one light cruiser, two destroyers,
two submarines and auxiliary
craft, to the allies was first Inti
mated In New York by Vice Ad
miral Raymond Fenard, heading
Giraud's naval mission to the
United States.
At a press conference at which
he announced the arrival, of the
35,000-ton battleship. Richelieu,
one cruiser and two destroyers In
U. S. Atlantic ports from Dakar,
Fenard included Godfroy's squad
ron in his summry of at least 48
ships soon to be fighting with the
allies or awaiting berths in allied
ports for repairs. .
Fenard did not say when the
ships at Alexandria would leave
that port, but he left no doubt
that Godfrey would transfer his
fleet , . ,
Cooking Fat Collection
Falls Below Quota
SALEM, Feb. 20 Wl Oregon
housewives must redouble their
efforts to attain the goal of 2,
840,000 pounds of cooking fats to
be collected this year, the state
salvage committee said today.
The 1943 quota is 195,000
pounds per month, while Novem
ber and December collections to
talled only 83,000 pounds each.
Many Dog Owners Fail
To Obtain Licenses .
Hundreds of dog owners In Lane
county have not yet applied for
their 1943 licenses, A. J. Flint,
county . doff control officer, said
Saturday. Flint has a desk in the
lobby at the courthouse for, the
collection of licenses and many
were issued Saturday, but the
number Is far less than usual at
this time of year.
Flint said that he will be at the
courthouse every day this week
(except Monday which is a holi
day) until 5 P.m. On and after
March 1 the license fee will be $2
Instead of $1.
Saturday noon will be the dead
line for city dog licenses at the re-
corder's office, city hall. The fee
is $1.50 for females, $1 for males
or spayed females. Those who do
not meet the deadline will pay $1
penalty. The recorder's office will
not be open Monday, Washington's
birthday.
Appearance of Army Heads at Truck Hearing
Ires State Legislators; Measure May Be Beaten
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following
"eyewitness account" of the Bat
tle of Salem is from The Regis-
iter-GiifirH's SDecial rorresnondenL
"The commission has decided to I Mr. MrGurk who was "on the
allow all those approved by the! scene" and "had a fine view of
allied military securities service th nrelimlnnrv nkirmishes at the
Capt Everett W. Holstrom, son;,, accent work in army labor Marion hotel and later view the
of Mrs. J. L. Whitsell of Jefferson units under the same conditons main encounter from a foxhole
street, Eugene, command pilot of a, French citizens," he said. "They :near . the water cooler , In the
a bomber squadron In China, nas will be free also lo accept work I House." i
been awarded another air medal m private economic pursuits."
.for meritorious service while par
ticipating in aerial jllghts, the war
department announced recently.
Previously, Capt. Holstrom had
been awarded the - Distinguished
Flying Cross and the Silver Star.
He was a member of the squadron
which raided Tokyo with Gen.
James Doolittle.
BALLOT FOR SOLDIERS
SALEM, Feb. 20. (fP) The
senate passed and sent to the gov
ernor yesterday a bill to set up
machinery for members or the
armed forces to vote by absentee
ballot.
Officer Candidate
Draft Quotas Are Filled
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 OJJO
No more application! for induc
tion as volunteer officer candi
dates will be accepted from men
deferred for dependency, the war
department announced today. . .
The department said that more
tnan 15,000 volunteers are now
awaiting induction, and that un
der present quotas that waiting
lut is sufficient for 10 months
supply.
house chamber were closed and
guarded as sll members' of senate
and house were assembled and the
press admitted only under pledge
not to print any "military sec
rets" which might be revealed.
As the smekc of battle (or may
be It was truck exhausts), lifted,
Speaker of the House William Mc
Allister seemed to be In a very
tough spot. For what McAllist
and his friends claims was a wor
thy and patriotic effort to bring
sense into the ancient feud over
the sire of trucks has been inter
preted by many legislators as an
By AJAX McGURK
Behind closed and guarded doors
at Salem Friday night was staged
one of the most melodramatic in
cidents In Oregon legislative his
torythe Battle of the Big Truck speaker.
Bill, HB 220, which would legal- The foes of Big Trucks point to
lze trucks trains 80 feet long and McAllister as the "somebody" who
carrying up to .71,000 pounds produced the military pageant in
weight permanently. . the legislature, and some soions
The army, the navy, the air resent It bitterly as "a use of fed
corps and the interstate commerce ' eral pressure to promote private
commission were brought to Salem I interests and force us to consent
in force "by somebody" to Impress permsnently to Big Trucks
Issue, with railroads, railroad
unions, many farmers and high
way "conservers" on one side, and
panles, and their allies on the oth-
the big truck companies, oil com
er.
Present law puts the limits at
50 feet, 54,000 pounds, but since
early In the war Oregon's state
highway commission has been Is
suing special permits for war ship
ments in trucks 'of any size which
our pavements and bridges can
carry. '
But this permit system, the
truckers say, does not help fleets
Transport Plane, 20
Persons Found Safe
WASHINGTON. Fe. 20 VP)
An army transport plane with 20
persons aboard, missing since Feb,
4, has. been located in "a Canadian
wilderness area with all passen
gers and crew members alive and
well, the war department reported
today. 1
The department said the pilot
made a successful forced landing
due to bad weather. The only
damage was to one of the plane i
wing-tips.
Since location of the missing
ship from the air, food and equip
ment Including ski landing gear
have been dropped to the crew
which plans to drag a runway and
ny the ship out under Its own
power. -
The names of the 15 passengers
and five civilian crew members
were not disclosed.
United States Has
'Turned Corner of War'
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20. UP)
President Roosevelt in a letter
published tonight by the Post-
Dispatch, said "we have now turn
ed the corner In the - war" and
"there Is an important job of edu
calon to b done so that the tragedy
or war will not come again.
The letter commended the news
paper on the occasion of its start
ing a series of articles on "Wh
are we fighting for." The arti
cles are designed to encourage and
clarify public thinking about the
post-war world.
"There cannot be too much dls
cussion of this kind, and there
could not be a better' time for It,"
Mr. Roosevelt wrote.
"This Is particularly true be
cause, after the long months of
preparation, of 'holding on,' we
have now turned the corner In the
war."
Railway Junction Taken ' 1
The capture of Pavlograd. 100
miles south-southwest of Kharkov
and 30 miles west of Lozovaya,
wiped out German resistance at a
major railway junction and men
aced Sinelnikovo, the fall of which
would cut one of the two remain
ing outlets for the Nazis In the
Donets basin. ' ,
Krasnograd, another junction 51
miles southwest of Kharkov, rep
resented a Soviet conquest which
menaced Poltava, 80 miles south
west of the Ukrainian Industrial
capital. '
By seizing Pereschepino. 25
miles souht of Krasnograd on the -railway
to Dniepropetrovsk, the
Russians won a springboard for a
40-mile shoot down the line to the
big bend of the Dnieper and its
rich industrial region.
New Line Threatened ; -
At the north end of the 1sn.mll
front, the midnight communloua
following a special bulletin reveal.
ed, the Russians seized Gotnya,
railway junction 37 miles north.
west of Belgorod, putting them.
weu on the way to breaking the
next major German defense line
at vorozhba, 90 miles southwest of
Kursk and 120 miles northwut of -Kharkov.
The Russian line from Parasrhe.
plno to Parlograd forms an. jSrc, ' "
one end of which Is onl no mil..
from the Dnieper, and the other
only 40 miles away. Now they can
strike at the river from either di
rection or both simultaneously. '
In the drive westward from thai
Lozovaya-Kharkov railway ..the
Russians also captured Kerichav.
ka, 41 miles northwest of Lozova
ya on the railroad to Krasnograd;
and Sakllno'vchlna, midway of the
58-mlle stretch between Lozovaya.
and Krasnograd, ,
The capture of the towns nf
Tomarovka, Borlsovka, Ivnya and
Krasnaya Yanrga in the area of
Gotnya showed the Russians were
advancing on a broad front toward
6umy and Vorozhba. the lalNr
only 39 miles east of the big Kon
otop base,
Defense Workers -Distribute
Material ' -
On Point Registration y
The "block leader" committee of
the Lane county defense is at pres- .
ent conducting its first large-scale
project with distribution to house,
wives of instructional material on
point rationing. i
Miss R. Louise Fitch, chairman;
announces that Mrs. J, B. Bell is
in charge of the work in Eugene,
assisted ,by four sector leaders:
Mrs. Howard R. Taylor, northeast
sector; Mrs. W. S. Love, northwest;
Mrs. S. A. Morgan, southeast;
Mrs. Donald R. Husband, south
west, all of whom are In charge of
Individual block leaders.
The Zonta club, and Mrs. Mary
Miles, community service member
of the rationing board, are cooper
ating In distribution. The women
workers will meet for Instructions
Sunday night at the board office.
DEATH AND OPA
, MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 20
(U.R) . A death certificate re
ceived today by the Alabama .
health department listed the causa
of death as "worry over the new
deal and the OPA regulations and
price ceilings."
Oregon's "soions" with the impo
tance of Big Trucks.
That why the doom of the big
'impropriety" on the part of the - "domiciled" In Oregon because
tney can t auord to rebuild and en
large their vehicles unless they
get permanent permission. Re
cent events:
Former Governor Os West
suddenly sppears as generalis
simo of the truck lobby (after
many years In the railroad
camp).
To understand this "crisis" it Is
necessary to understand that for
yuri Big Truck hava been an
Much business of "putting on
8EE BIG TRUCK STORY .
FAGB I
Additional Newsprint
Cut Delayed by WPB
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (AT
The second cut In newsprint al
lotments to newspapers, scheduled
to take effect April L was deferred
temporarily today by the WPB on
the basis of new Information on
Canadian pulp supplies.
A 10 per cent newsprint cut al
ready is In effect and the second
cut was scheduled to have been
noj more than 10 per cent additional.
GLOOMY SUNDAY?
No place to go Joe's In
Africa br the Solomons
all the radio says is war
war war.
Give yourself a little
shove toward the post
office room 10 to be
exact talk over th
WAAC with Aux,
Betty Herring. She'll
be happy to help you.
Leave those dishes In
the sink and phone -4831
right now .
Uncle Sam, needs
150.000 WAAO
up to 44 years of ace.
P.S. Remember to get th
most for your non-essential
Phone 1200 use th
want-ad.
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