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In conclusion, the report points
out: 'The nieces of the Fern
Ridge end Cottage Grove dams in
alleviating the flood damage in the
areas controlled by them gives
added proof that the series of
. seven dams planned to complete
the project will successfully pro
tect the Eugene area against fur
ther damage from 'floods of the
1S43 Intensity;
"The flood frequency rate of
the spectacular floods, such as that
of 1861 (which would cause $11,
000,000 damage at its peak of 23
feet) is only about once in one
hundred years. The greater fre
quency rate of the smaller floods,
which can be handled with ease
by the completed Willamette val
ley project, clearly proves--the
value of the dams to the state.
Until the war emergency Is over,
construction of these dams has
been put aside, but their construc
tion after the war will aid tre
mendously in making the Willam
ette valley one of the greatest food
and lumber producing areas in
the world."
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Congress Working on
Draft Regulations
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 U.
Congressional determination to
keep the armed forces from de
pleting Industrial and farm labor
resources gained momentum to
night as the house prepared to act
soon possibly next week on a
bill to establish deferment priori
ties for men with dependents,
Meanwhile, there were Indica
tions that the administration, op
posed to legislative limitations on
1043 selective service quotas,
might be seriously considering a
proposal to ameliorate farm labor
shortages by transferring thou
sands of subsistence farmers to
more productive areas.
The proposal was presented to
senate appropriations subcommit
tee by CoL Lewis Saunders of the
selective service bureau after
Brig. Gen. Frank McSherry, for
mer deputy chief of the war man
power commission, had discussed
It earlier before the senate mili
tary affairs committee. The imme
diate senatorial reaction was dis
tinctly unfavorable.
House Democratic Leader John
W. McCormack of Massachusetts
said the deferment priorities bill,
introduced by Rep, Paul Kllday,
D Tex., would be placed before
the house late 'next week or early
the following week. The bill would
defer Induction of fathers until
militarily available single men,
single men with dependents, and
childless married men with col.
lateral dependents had been draft
ed In that order.
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Amps and Andy Out
Of Job, Temporarily
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 80
For the first time in 16 years of
broadcasting the blackface comedy
that made them famous, Amos and
'Andy were out of a Job and off
the air today but only until they
complete negotiations for a new
sponsor later in the year.
Their contract with Campbell
Soup company, for which they
have continued their flve-nlghts-a-week
air appearance since it be
came radio's first great national
program, expired with their broad
cast last night
Announcement regarding the
date they expect to return to the
air, still as the comedy team of
Amos and Andy, but representing
another, as yet unidentified spon
sor, will be made later.
It was back in 1928 that Free
man F. Gosden, 43, and Charles J.
Correll, 52, broadcast their first
program as Sam and Henry from
Chicago. Since then, they have ap
peared in approximately 4,000.
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csn direct warm air upon the
windshield by placing an old glove
or similar object between the
rear of the hood and its base.
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heat" from both sides, sweaty
hearings, frayed tempers.
A 5 to 4 "do not pass" report
out of committee, strenuous ef
forts to round up votes for mi
nority report.
Speaker BIU McAllister des
cends from rostrum, announces
he has had urgent long distance
call from high government rep
resentatives, suggests that issue
be re-referred till army and
navy officers can be flown to
Salem to present their story.
You get the build-up? Or do
you? All the lobbyists excluded,
left waiting anxiously in their
dens In the Salem hotels; even
clerks and minor legislative at
tendants excluded.
But the opponent of "big
trucks" were not content to sit and
bite their nails. Early Friday, they
were circulating a "Who's Who"
of the "high government officials"
pointing out pre-war connections
with, truck business. There was
much complaint that Speaker Mc
Allister had overstepped speaker
ship proprieties and that he had
more than an objective interest in
staging the big show.
When the assembly gathered
Friday night under the great paint
ing of historic Champoeg, there
was rebellion in the sir.-
A short stocky, slightly gray-
haired man, Frank Landsburg, of
the motor vehicle division of the
Interstate commerce commission,
made a brisk and pointed presen
tation of the issue:
No Big Truck Law in Oregon,
no big trucks under Oregon reg
istry to haul war goods now or
civilian good after the war.
Desperate shortage of tankers;
might be necessary for military
during coming months to com-'
mandeer so much equipment as
to greatly curtail civilian sup
plies. -
Truck owner absolutely un
willing to bear heavy expense of
enlarging equipment without
guarantee of permanent Oregon
law; time for Oregon to get
sense and get rid of "trade bar
rier." The army and navy men eon-
firmed the great need of more
transport of all kinds, rsll and
highway, but most of them sought
to avoid entanglement in political
controversy, "appearing under or
der."
Then came the "question per
iod" and the wrought up legisla
tor went "out for bear." It was
Senator Lamport of Salem who
brought out of Landsburg (after
much grilling on his part in truck
Dusmess) the admission the legis
lators were waiting to hear:
"By what authority do you
government representatives ap
pear here?"
"By order from Washing
ton. (Mr. Landsburg read his
own order."
"That Isn't what I want to
know. At whose request were
these orders issued?"
"We were invited by the
peaker." .
What will happen to the Big
Truck Bill is difficult to predict,
but its chances do not seem good
now. What will happen to Speak
er McAllister will depend on how
skillful he and his friends are at
explaining their part, if any, in
staging the big show which many
legislators see as "an attempt to
intimidate u by federal pressure."
What will happen to the officers
drawn into this ' political storm
might also be interesting because
nign commands nave a great dis
taste for. Involvement in such
ruckuses.
It you go to Salem the next few
days you will find two burning
issues;
1. Who "don It"
2. What to do?
For freight, both military and
civilian must move.
Opponents of HB 220 sav "It's
already moving now," under the
special permit system, and the
haulers who want super-trucks can
well afford to spend their own ;
money to make trucks as big as the j
government wants, without any!
promises as to what Oregon road :
policy will be after the war. I
But the truckers say Oreson
civilians may suffer much want of
many necessary things which ship :
Dy irucK, it the legislature re-i
mains stubborn, for Oregon's re-i
tusal to comply may compel the'
military to take over what they i
mint. I
Middle- of- the- roadfr think 1
maybe ICC should regulate the in
tcrstata trucks and let the states
alone on intrastate vehicles.
But Salem's chief Interest Is the
"Who done it?" question. Here's
a bit of drama In the drab of rou
tine lawmaking, aid that "meet
ing of minds" which is the demo
cratic process for which we fight.
Jap Bases Hard Hit
By U.S. Bombers
MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR
TERS, Australia, Feb. 21 (Sun-
nay wiju American Flying
Fortress and rtl!n mmi
bomber pounded the Buln-Faisi
area oi me northwestern Solomon
islands for the second successive
day. rainine (Ana nf hnmhi a-, .v..
big Japanese seaplane base at
a communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs headquar
ters reported today. ,
The plane attacked before
dawn Saturday, concentrating on
the KahlU and Ballale airdromes
at Falsi. The heaviest damage
was inflicted at Ballale, which is
on a small Island north of Short
land island.
Many Japanese plane were de
stroyed on the ground and fuel
and ammunition tumn ur
I in flames, the communique said.
New Eugene Library
Cards Bear Signs
Of Paper Shortage
The paper shortage seems to
be hitting libraries as well as
the newspapers. It happened
like this:
' Some months ego, when Elma
L. Hendricks, Eugene public li
brary, ordered new cards for
books loaned, she decided she
would like a sample of the one
ordered, to show to her staff
and to the board. She cut off a
small comer of the thin blue
card, i
In her letter, returning the
card to the manufacturer, she
wrote: "Please send 6,000 of
type enclosed."
The past week, the cards ar
rived, and the order was com
plete literally. From the cor
ner of each card had been cut a
neat one-inch triangle, the exact
size of the one Miss Hendricks
had "sampled."
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Choral Union to Give
4th Concert March 1
The fourth annual appearance
of the University of Oregon choral
union as the next feature attrac
tion on the university's greater
artist concert series promises to
be the best yet. It will be held
Monday, March 1, at McArthur
court, starting at 8:19 p.m. .
The program of the choral union,
directed by Theodore Kratt, dean
of the school of music, will be di
vided into three parts. - The first
part will be selections from "King
Arthur," an opera by Henry Pur
cell. The second selection will be
"Choral Fantasia" from "Tann
hauser," . an opera by Richard
Wagner. The third selection will
be "America," an anthem from the
symphony "America." It was
written by Ernest Bloch, who now
resides in Oregon at Agate beach.
The choral union will be assist
ed by the university symphony or
chestra, also under the direction of
Dean Kratt, and will include 500
performers in all.
Soloists with the choral union
will be Margaret .Zimmerman,
soprano; Marie Rodndahl, soprano:
Barbara Bentley, Alto; Lee Ghorm-
ley, tenor and Ray Leonard, bari
tone. Accompanist Is Leone La
Duke.
Phi Beta, University music hon
orary, will again have a booth in
Miller's department store for the
convenience of patrons who wish
to buy tickets downtown. It will
be open every afternoon between
1 and 5 starting Monday. Tickets
may also be purchased or reserved
by phone at the ASUO ticket of
fice in. McArthur court.
Agent Sets Record
C. Von Hickman, district agent
for Northwestern Mutual Life in
surance, formerly of Milwaukie,
Wis., has opened an office in the
Miner building. He placed sixth
In the U. S. for company agents In
1842, and is in second place so far
this year. He comes to Eugene
from Albany.
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It Is wlsa todcry to buy only what you
need but to choose the best you can
efford,
A planned wardrobe pays dividends
the whole year through, -whether you
choose to match your suit and topcoat
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THS REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE. OREGON.
Red Cross to Give
Paper lapel Tags
Thia year, for the first time, in
order to avoid tapping vital de
fense material, contributors to the
Red Cross war fund campaign
throughout the nation will re
ceive a paper lapel tag bearing
the Red Cross insigne, It was re
vealed Saturday by Stanley R.
Stevenson, local drive chairman.
The national campaign will be
gin on March 1 with a house-to-house
canvass of cities, hamlets,
and rural communities in behalf
of the $125,000,000 funds for 1943.
The Lane county drive will open
with a kick-pff luncheon that day
at the Osbum hotel, and solicita
tions will begin the following day,
Tuesday, March 2.
"It is the aim of the Red Cross
to give each and every American
an opportunity to contribute to
the cause of mercy and humanity
needed by the world as never be
fore," declared Mr. . Stevenson,
quoting from the statement of
Norman' H. Davis, national chair
man. Volunteers, who will give their
time to the exacting task of "door
bell punching" will identify them
selves with Red Cross volunteer
workers credentials during the
campaign. They are being organ
ized into efficient squads by local
chairmen.
Each contributor to the cam
paign will also receive the cus
tomary Red Cross service flag for
display in the windows of their
homes and business establish
ments, but the metal lapel but
ton "has gone into oblivion for
the duration," Mr. Stevenson
points out
Those who wisn to contnDuw
time to the work may obtain de
tails at the Lane chapter office,
33 Eighth avenue west.
Portland Seeks Labor
In Non-War Industries
PORTLAND. Feb. 20. 04) The
federal employment service said
today the Portland area needs
50,000 more war workers at once.
But. warned Manager Gerald C.
Knapp, workers from other cities
need not apply. There are no
houses for them, he said.
Knapp said his- office filled a
record 6000 jobs In the last two
weeks and that he expected to fill
most of the 50,000 jobs with work
ers switching over from non
essential employment.
As housing becomes avallaBle,
skilled workers may be brought in
by the employment service from
other points, Knapp added.
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Speedy Navy Fighters
In Air Over Solomons
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 20 (U.R)
The navy's new Vought Corsair
fightersT reputed to have a speed
of at least 400 miles per hour, are
now in action in the Solomons
area, Pacific fleet headquarters
said today.
This is the first report that the
Corsairs, powered by a single
2,000-horsepower engine, have
been in action on any of the
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Adair Needs
Machine Tools
Machine tools and pieces of ma
chine shop equipment, many of
which are believed lying idle in
private homes and buildings, are
seriously needed by the army
which is conducting a drive to
"mobilize machines," according to
a call from Camp Adair.
Particularly wanted are motor
driven milling machines, lathes,
shapers, planers, jewelers, lathes
and tools, telescope gauges, dial
j indicators, small screw plates,
imotor . tune-up -(A-V-R) sets.
vacuum gauges, hydraulic wneei
straightening presses, welding seta,
and compressors.
Anyone having such articles is
asked to contact Major J. W. Fra
ser, camp ordnance officer, Camp
Adair, Oregon ,and to state the
size and condition of machines
and where they are located.
Federal Workers May
Be Released for Draft
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2000
A special presidential committee
reported today that thousands of
able-bodied men at government
desks can be released to the
armed forces if deferments are
strictly limited to holders of es
sential jobs and needless and
overlapping functions and posi
tions eliminated.
The committee, composed of
Paul Bellamy, editor of the Cleve
lad Plain Dealer, chairman; Eric
Johnston, president of the chamber-
of commerce of the United
States, and Ordway'Tead, member
of the New York city board of
higher education, was appointed
Dec. 15 to formulate a general
policy to govern draft deferment
of federal employes.
' The committee concluded that
work clearly essential to the war
effort . or -necessary to maintaining
the indispensable civilian govern
ment services should be the test
for deferment,
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Ambulance Corps Now
Attached to Guard
Company E of the Oregon Wom
en's Ambulance corps the past
week became officially attached
to the Oregon state guard, it is
announced by Major . Harry Pow
ell of the guard.
He said, that in case of a war
emergency the corps will act upon
orders from the guard and will
have a definite job. ' A complete
mobilization chart of both units is
being prepared. .
Plans for a program of military
drill, are being prepared under the
direction of Major Lucille Dyott
of the - ambulance corps, Major
Powell, and Lt. Henry Meyers of
the guard. .'The training program
will vary so that the members
"will be able to handle anything
from driving a 5-ton truck to set
ting up a field canteen if the oc
casion arise," Major Powell says.
Physical fitness will be stressed.
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noodles and meat or - chicken
combinations, bean, pea, soy bean,
meat or poultry, bouillon cubes,
or any dry or dehydrated soup
made of a combination of any of
these product or, other ingredi
ents. Low Point Values
Wickard recommended that the
OPA, in determining point values
for the new item to be rationed,
give consideration to establishing
point values for the dried soups at
relatively low levels. No steps
should be taken, he said, which
would discourage the maximum
practical expansion in the produc
tion of this type of food, and es
pecially those with a soy bean base.
Wickard said the production of
dried beans and pea in 1942 ex
ceeded all previous records. How
ever, nearly half the supply of
dried beans available for consump
tion during the current year and
almost two-third of the supply
of dried peas will be needed, he
said, by U. S. military force and
allied nations. Russia alone,, he
said, needs 500,000,000 pound 'or
about one-fifth of the total supply
of beans.
Anticipating even greater mili
tary and civilian demtnds during
the next marketing year, Wickard
recently Increased 1943 farm pro
duction goals of beans from 2,800,
000 to 3,300,000 acres, and dried
peas from 865,000 to 725,000 acres.
Last year 2,376,000 acres were
planted to beans and 530,000 to
peas.
Future of Eugene '
To Be Discussed
Potentialities for Eugene after
the war will be the general topic
of a public program to be held
t naay evening at 8 In Chapman
hall on the campus under soon-
sorship of the Central Labor
uouncil.
Speakers, will be C. E. Lam-
son, personnel director, Bonne
ville power administration; Ches.
ley Brazen, manager of the south
western district, BPA; and J; W.
McArthur, superintendent Eu.
gene water board. "Winning Your
Wings" and "Hydro," sound film
will be shown. Public discussion
will conclude the gathering.
Accident Decrease
Reduces Insurance Cost
The "drastic reduction in Amer.
lean traffic frequency" has de
creased auto accidents so rapidly
that the Farmers Automobile In
ter-Insurance Exchange Is now re
turning a surplus accumulation of
$800,000 to Its policyholders, an
nounces A. D. Campbell, local dis
trict manager, i .
The surplus was accrued in 19421
The distribution, has already begun
and win amount to approximate'
ly 20 per cent of the current term
premium, Mr. Campbell says.
Walter "Duster" Malls, credited
with pitching the Cleveland In
dians to the American league pen
nant in 1820, is now a marine,
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Red Cross Solicitors
To Meet Thursday
At Lane Courthouse
Meeings for women solicitors
and other women who would like
to help in Lane county's 1943 war
fund campaign, will . be held
Thursday at 7:30 p. m. and Fri
day at 10 a. m. in the Lane county
courtroom in the courthouse.
Mr. A. R. Fredrickson; chair
man of residential solicitation,
will give instruction and super
vise organization.
Council of Church
Women. o. Meet Here
Oregon State council of church
women, part of a national organi
zation representing ten million
Protestant church women, will
open their annual conference
Thursday afternoon with registra.
tion in the First Methodist church.
Representatives of Oregon's 30,000
Protestat women will gather from
all over the state to review the ac
complishments so far in the year
Beginning septemDer, 1942, and to
plan the remainder of the year.'
activities.
The executive board, Mrs. A. F.
Holmer presiding,, will meet at!
four-thirty o'clock in the Metho-l
dlst church parlor with all coun?
cil and denominational presidents
and appointed' delegates, in at
tendance.
Reservations to the Friday lun
cheon should be phoned to Mrs.
Henry Burch, 968, before Wednes
day. ;
The five-thirty dinner Thurs
day night at the Methodist church
Is open to the public. Registration
may be made through Mrs. F. H.
Martin, 1711-J. Mrs. J. R. Mc-
Cormick, president of the Oregon
synodical society, will present the
purpose of the conference in a
worship and prayer service.
' Mrs. George Bendshadler of
Portland, vice-president of the
state council, will preside at the
Friday morning business meeting.
A quiet hour, under the direction
oof Mrs. Ansel Hyland, vice-president
of the Eugene council, will
follow the business session.
The program for the year will
be outlined by Mrs. Paul B. Means,
Miss Lucy Norton and Mrs. Ella
Day.'all of Eugene; Mrs. I. George
Nace, Portland; Miss Ruth Haeff
ner, Portland;. Mrs. William Coats,
Tillamook; Mrs. Glenn Sanders,
Medford; Mrs. Robert Arneson,
Oswego,
Mrs. George P. Winchell will be
toastmistress of the Friday noon
luncheon, at which the main
speaker will be Miss Buena Maris,
dean of women at Oregon State
college. Her subject will be, "The
Christian Family."
Following the luncheon, the con
vention will be climaxed by the
mass meeting at the First Chris
tian church, at which Mrs. Victor
P. Morris will preside and at which
Dr. E. Stanley Jones will speak
f on "Christ Is the Answer."
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