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Lday Edition Sunday Edition LANS COUNT HOME NEWSPAPER THREE SECTIONS 28 PAGES EUGENE. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1943 ON STREETS 5e NEWS STANDS NO. 144 MllUl UMVSa'lfU Y3 L 101 1 RE Comoanv Forms V.W . ) Enter Negotiations (r Wood Waste Plant (. iwn. made an active bid for establishment tf a f eder rrMiced wood distillation plant here with the announced Saturday of articles of incorporation by the Willam- i II lUAfsM I II VI I 1 I H L1UI1 LUlllUCUiTi Placing this city in position to negotiate for a federal V the new $25,000 corporation was organized by a forest Kmniittee of the Eugene chamber of commerce, taking Cfrom Congressman Harris juiswortn oi tne lourtn dis t who recently reported possibility ofjiood distillation G. koine set up by the federal government in the north- l Cat, secretary-manager of ..h. Valley Lumber' L .M.iiinn. Charles oneu- L of the Snellstrom Lumber Cby, ud Fred Brenne, secre- Wrce, Ugnea me arun v neratloB lor tne commine. -y, which 1 the lirst con- itn made toward the estab uat of federally financed I fa thU area for the manu m, production, sale and dls m of industrial ethyl alco ud other related products iwoodKrorces. Kh i corporation will provide pi vehicle for negotiating with federal government the WPB, the defense plant corporation wring ipproval, authorization ippropriation of a site and the (ruction of a wood-distillation I to this vicinity, the three not the articles averred. Ap nl will be sought by the cor Ion. Details of organization lament, stockholders and di bi will be announced later, (oed capitalization is $25,000. xeert la the establishment of Uod-dhtillatlon plant In the bee aret has been evinced by emus lumbermen In Lane 0 potentialities of wood Nth chemical development has fisrecent years been receiving (attention of lumbermen Mhout the country .Established iratorlei have attested the un hid horizons attainable Mh conversion of wood waste, men laboratories plastics, al U, vitamins, fertilizers, high ideney fuels are being convert- act of sawdust and bogged fuel. Law county lumbermen are KCENI COMPANY STORY PAGE 4 ' nrl fftae 1 1 iimkAr Ml VUB.I LUIIIUbl Snip to Expand pa National War Labor board weed Saturday the reconsti- of Its west coast lumber miaooo by making It a slx l W-partite agency and pro oithet the labor and Industry Men may be chosen from " within or outside the lum 'mduitry. to commission will now eon ! of two public members ap w by the naUonal board, be designated as chairman Wiatry and four alternate afy members appointed by atonil board on the recom wo of the national board's "Jy members, and two labor ' J" altenate members ap W by the War Labor board "recommendation of the WaUbor members. One of the two altenatei !M?"?mi'ndKl by the War AFL members and 'M be recommended mnibers. Jnlssion previously was rag Mency comprised of L "J "ember, serving as nd two repre for industry and 5-.-wlustry and labor SS th. ,not connec Cn v.? lumber industry. f5if . manar of the SySLUey, lumber oper fBV:5?,.m commenting VrtUW'toW commission, oj? J "Pjn.on that the rt memers will 1?rr,emrprehen'ive hrSlumbercomml- ? M all uwT"P eojusU r M Lr disputes In i.r ,n Jregon, Idho, MonUna and 2 UK A msl HUNT- la4i. . . ..' nt?"'er-GuaM V-i jT "Jean find those !-W (P0" 1 mus the -ant-.d. i.'ind It ,o- M 'MO Ulr Chamber Will Fete Visitors Here Monday Earl McNutt, Eugene chamber of commerce president, will be host at a breakfast Monday morn ing, welcoming the visiting cham ber of commerce secretaries of Oregon, who will hold an all-day meeting In the Mirror room of the Eugene hote). Discussion topics will include membership building, war con tracts, post-war planning and oth er subjects pertinent to the cham ber secretary's work. John W. Kelly, eexcutive secretary of the Oregon post-war planning com mission, will discuss the benefits the various chambers can receive from state research and will invite each secretary to present the plans of his city. Dr. Victor P. Morris and Arthur J. Farmer of the Oregon post-war planning commission also will ad dress the visiting secretaries. The Monday afternoon session will be given over to a round-table dis cussion of voluntary rent control. Pending legislation as it may affect chamber duties will be dis cussed by William E, Hammond of the U.S. chamber. Calf Slaughter Opinions Vary Statement from Portland that salughtering of calves was expect ed to become widespread In the Oregon dairy industry, because farmers were reported unable to sell them or afford to feed them, brought varied comment from lo cal dairymen. The Lane county dairymen con tacted, none of whom wanted to be quoted, agreed there was con siderable slaughtering of the young calves going on here for several reasons confused regula tion on the dairy- business; eco nomic factors, such as a lack of milk to feed the young calves with not even enough milk to fulfill hu man demands; lack of demand and price for the calves, etc. S. B. Hall, Multnomah county agent, had predicted: "There will be thousands of calves slaughter ed in Oregon if the price ceiling of dairy products is not lifted some drastic action must be tak en or the dairy industry, partic ularly in the Portland area, is faced with ruin." One Portland man with 300-cow herd, report- Tense Germans , Guard Against New Violence LONDON. Nov. 20 fUP Vichy France was reported to night in the throes of its grav est political crisis since July, 1940, with the German occu pation authorities and their collaborationist sycophants tensely on guard against a dos- sible general internal revolt sparked by Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain's rumored resignation and 11th hour con version to a democratic France. Unconfirmed reports radiating from Vichy, Berlin and Madrid claimed variously that the 87- year-old chief of state had "abdi cated," offered his resignation, was a prisoner or under house ar rest of either the nazis or Pierre LavaL or was ill of a heart ail ment, presumably the aftermath to the ban on his speech last Sat urday in which he supposedly planned to promulgate a new con stitutional act disinheriting Laval. Apparently in an effort to quell tne sensauonal rumors, radio Vichy, to which foreign, broad' casts earlier attributed -the an. nouncement of Petain's "abdica. tion," reported tonight that the chief of state received two delega tions today and that Laval had "informed him of discussions at a cabinet meeting over which Laval presided this morning." There was no inkling as to the subject of the cabinet talks, but it was the first time in five days that radio Vichy had mentioned Petain's activities. Neither Vichy nor the Paris radio has reported Petain's daily calendar since last Mc,nday, previously "must" on their broadcasts. French underground reports here and Swiss dispatches to Stockholm said the rumors of Pe tain's surprising change of heart whereby he sought to inject a semblance of democracy into the three-year-old voluntary colla boration fiction, and of his arrest, had created considerable tension throughout France. SEE CALF SLAUGHTER STORY PAGE 4 "VicforyConcert" Of Symphony Dec. 2 "Victory Concert" Is the title for the entertainment and program to be presented by the University of Oregon Symphony orchestra on Thursday, Dec. 2, for the benefit of the Lane county USO. The con- cert will be given in the campus school of music building, 8 p.m. on that date. No admission is be ing charged, but a silver offering will be taken. Several special fea tures are lined up for the pro gram. One of the main features will be the playing of Tschaikowsky's Concerto in B Flat Minor. Opus 23, by Aurora Potter Underwood, pianist, this number being re quested especially by the USO or ganizatton, and being an especially popular one now. ' The entire program features music of the countries under the allied banner In the war. Besides Tschaikowsky's number, Russia will be represented also by Glin ka's Overture, Russian and Lud milla. American music will feature an American fantasy by Victor Her bert. The English composer se lected is Vaughan Williams, his number for two string orchestras to be played. One period of the program will be a half-hour of special enter tainment provided by the soldiers of Camp Adair. .1 :". j - - - h $ $ -I . 7JL 1 L National Mine Wage Parley Believed Near WASHINGTON, Nov. . 20. (U.R) The War Labor Board removed a maojr uncertainty hampering soft coal wage negotiations tonight and perhaps opened the way for a Desperate Nazi Drives In Russia Hurled Back As Enemy Slaughtered LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 21. (AP) Red army troopi crumpled a massed German tank and infantry attack in bit- national wage conference affect- ter ,fiBhtin8 east of Zhitomir yesterday, slaughtering 1000 nazis, overran uerman aciense positions to widen tneir new- ly-won Dridgchead at (Jherkasi and gained in their drive to ward the manganese center of Nikopol, Moscow announced eariy toaay. PENCILUN PATIENT Dramatis expedition of a penclllln ship ment by plane and train from the east coast to Eurene focused at- I tentlon on the gallant fight for life being waged In local hospital uj umiuh n-jirvrtsvu, is, ui Dpringiiviu, innvn aDWC Pencillin Brings Ray of Hope as Boy Shows Gain Laddie Robertson, victim of a stranee blood disease that threatens his life, grinned faintly from his bed in a local hos- naa Deen iiown across a continent in nope of saving him. f The 13-year-old Springfield boy is snowing slight im provement under administration of the wonder drug, which was released by the government on special request of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen L. Robertson. The pencillin has been injected, slowly and continuously, into the Salt Lake Air Stops Oregon Army, 13-6 The Salt Lake City Airbase Wings, hoping to meet the March Field Flyers in a charity game In Los Angeles before the close of the season, were given a stubborn bat tle before 3500 spectatqrs at Hay ward field Saturday afternoon be fore defeating the under-manned Oregon Army Ducks, IS to 8. Coach Don Galbreath's Wings, with a harddriving fullback in Ed Dusek gaining ground at will, threatened almost eqntlnually be tween the 20-yard lines, but need ed a break for their first touch down In the third period and 63-yard gallop on punt return by Halfback Dick DeShazo in the final frame for the - two touch downs. Coach John Warren'f Army Ducks played great defensive foot ball, . stopping the entire all-ex-collegiate Rocky Mountain grid- SEE SALT LAKE AIR STORY PAGE IT Got a Radio Tube? The 384th field artillery at Camp Adair has swell radio. The boys gather around it during games and admire It, and wonder how It would sound If it just had a tube. , It lacka one tube a 50-L- GT which happens to be hard to find on the market They'd gladly buy one from anyone who has such a tube to spare, Serg eant F. W. Jones told the Register-Guard Saturday evening. Anyone with a 50-L-8 tube, please leave it at Del Rey cafe in Eugene, or send to Sgt. Jones, headquarters 364th field artil lery. Camp Adair. ing 450,000 miners The action was taken in a WLB decision defining the terms for overtime and piece work wages Under Coal Administrator Ickes' agreement with president John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work- governing operation of the mines under federal management The board modified Ickea' form ula for overtime pay of both day rate and piece work miners, trim ming about 30 cents a week from miners' earnings. Under the orig inal formula the basic, six-day wage amounted in all to $57.37. Under the WLB modification it will be S57.07. By completing action on the agreement the WLB in effect opened the way for participation by all soft coal operators in union- owner negotiations which started this week at Ickes' request. The board voted 7-5 to modify the formula, with dissenting votes cast by public member Wayne L. Morse, who had dissentea irom the board's original general ap proval of the Ickes-Lewis agree ment, and by the labor members. boy's -arm since 7 o'clock Saturday morning, one hour after the pack age was obtained from the Eugene postofflce by his uncle, W. R. Rob ertson of Eugene. Attending doctors said that re covery of the boy still is uncer tain, but that he Is "holding his own," Is conscious, and never com plains about his illness. A hitherto healthy youngster with. curly brown hair, and large for his 13 years, Laddie was strick en by the disease on August 26. Since that time, except for a few Short periods when ha showed Kite tendency toward recovery, he has been desperately ill. When doctors ventured the Idea that the new marvel of medicine, which has been used to such effec tiveness by the armed forces, pen clllln, might help the boy, the family exerted all their energies toward obtaining a supply. Per mission was granted this week by an army doctor at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore. A small quantity of pencillin was dispatched by plane from Bos ton. The package was scheduled to arrive In Portland Thursday night, and the boy's cousin, Ford Danner, obtained police escort to drive without delay from Eugene north. Postal employes were unable to locate It there, however, and the package arrived In Eugene by train early Saturday. T. I. Gledd, plywood plant em ploye of Springfield whose co workers volunteered as blodd don ors for him last week, was said to be In "better condition" Satur day night at a Eugene hospital. Transfusions on Giedd, who Is 37 and had a critically low number of white blood corpuscles to fight Infection, have been discontinued, at least for the time being, the hospital said. He received one or two transfusions daily for several days. City Manager Proposal Seen The charter committee of the city councir will recommend a manager form of government for Eugene at Monday night's coun cil sessions, it was believed here Saturday. The committee, consisting of Councilman A. C. Farrlngton, chairman; Louis Koppe, and Cal vin Crumbaker, was appointed by Mayor Elisha Large early in Aug ust and since that time has been working on a prospective new charter which may meet with ap proval of voters. The preliminary report on their conclusions will be made Monday night. Also up for discussion, accord ing to advance reports, will be Eugene's milk supply. The short age was recently alleviated by i plan accepted by the board of health, permitting factory milk to be admitted to city outlets If It Is pasteurized. Students and Religious Sect Members Clash MYRTLE POINT, Ore., Nov. 20. (U.R) Community resentment against the pacifist attitude of members of a religious sect flared into near violence here this after noon when about SO high school students and 25 of the religious group engaged in a street tight during a war bond rally near the school. Marshal Bert Pearson said no one was injured, the fight flaring up after the students chided mem bers of the religious group who attempted to sell their literature during the students' war bond and stamp sales campaign. Methodist Youth Group Meets Here Officers elected at the Metho dist student movement meeting at the First Methodist churcn in eu ene Saturday .evening were: pres ident, Leslie Brockelbank, Eu gene, University of Oregon; vice president, Stella Spears, Oregon State College; secretary, ' Mary Margaret Livesay, Willamette university, The following members at large were chosen: Gladys Beckendorf, Oregon State College; Louise Rlckabaugh, University of Oregon; and Loren Wintershied, Willam ette university. Rev. John L. Knight, ' Willamette university, was elected counselor. The retir ing president Is Paul Jaqulth, Willamette university. The campus vesper choir will sing at the communion service Sunday at 8:30. The Oregon State College stu dent movement extended an Invi tation to hold the next year's meeting in Corvallis. Approximately 70 young people from the three schools, Oregon State college at Corvallis, Will amette university at Salem, and the University of Oregon at Eu gene, met for the Methodist stu dent youth conference In Eugene this weekend. Meetings, held at the First Methodist church, opened British Gain Perils Nazi Sector in Italy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. ALGIERS, Nov. 20. OP) Break ing through German forward posi tions in the first heavy fighting on the Italian front in recent days, the British eighth army lunged forward five miles to capture Pe rano, It .was announced today. thereby threatening an Important Inland sector of the nazis' heavily fortified line behind the Sangro river. Against heavy artillery fire. wretched weather and difficult terrain, the fifth army also made some gains above Vemafro along the northern sector of Its front. The capture of the village of Perano put the trops of Gen. Ber nard L. Montgomery within less than a, mile of the only bridge crossing the Sangro river between the coastal road and point 10 miles from the Adriatic. From their new vantage points eighth army units could look across the river at a short section of an extremely Important lateral road upon which the Germans are dependent for supplying large forces entrenched In the hills over looking the Sangro. The storm of the past week has washed out hopes of an allied en try Into Rome at any time in the near .future, particularly In view of the time that has been given the Germans to deepen their de SEE METHODIST STORY v PAGE 4 Tax Plan Backed By County Group PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 20. (U.B Delegates to the Association of Oregon Counties closed their meeting here today by passing a resolution to support congressional legislation proposed by Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon which would require payment of taxes on federally-owned lands. The delegates also adopted a resolution for establishment of an Intermediate juvenile Institution for youths with unsound minds. In an address to the assembly, Tom Watson, Multnomah county assessor, declared the federal gov ernment's acquisition of tax fee property might "detax" counties to the point where they would have no means of financing their affairs. H. D. Kerkman of Hills boro, Washington county judge, was elected president War Cliest Mass Meeting Tuesday Marks Kick-off (Picture on Psge Four) Spearheading the drive for the Lane county war fund with an in creased speed toward the $113,261 goal, chest headquarters an nounced Saturday night that all workers in the Eugene unit divi sion will hold their kick-off meet ing as one mass conference Tues day at 4 p.m. at the Osburn hotel. The event will , replace the series of meetings scheduled this week tor the various committees, which have been cancelled be cause of workers' Thanksgiving holiday commitments. Campaign leaders pointed out that it is urgent that all firms em ploying five or more persona have I one or more representatives at the meeting to obtain Instruction that will permit them to conduct speedy and effective campaign In their own unit The meeting is expected to draw large groups of workers from all divisidru except the men's central and the women's residen tial committees, which will hold their own meetings. Full attend ance can Insure saving of much time and effort on the part of committeemen and other dele gated workers, headquarters said. In letters to leaders, which will be received Mooday, Ctmyaign Chairman Alton F. Baker, writes: "Please select an employe, who gets along well with his fellnw employes, to handle the solicita tion of the labor element in your plant or establishment. Also please appoint a man to work with him who will represent manage ment, and solicit the business of fice. These two will work ss a team for the conduct of the cam paign in your firm. These men are busy, but to be effective must receive Instruction." He requests employers to make sure that this pair of workers at tends the kick-off Tuesday after noon. This i the only mteUnf which employers and workers are being asked to attend. Workers are asked to begin their firm or plant campaigns on Wed nesday, to do the majority of the solicitation on Friday and Satur day,, and to complete the job by the following Tuesday, Novem ber 30. It was pointed out that, be cause the Lane war chest com- ti.ey i bines 37 separate local and na tional drives Into one streamlined campaign, workers and other con tributors can discharge numerous obligations quickly if cooperation if expressed from the start. Kick-Off Set By Democrats WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. U. The democratic national com mlttee will meet here next Jan' uary 22 to arrange the time and place for the national convention, Chairman Frank C Walker an nounced tonight Walker said the meeting will be coordinated with the democratic. sponsored Jackson day dinners and "to this extent January 22 may be taken as the opening of the 1944 campaign." Several months ago Walker pro posed that both democrat and re publicans delay the poltlcal cam paigns until late summer to avoid interference with the war effort. Republican national chairman Harrison Spangler said he was willing on condition that Presi dent Roosevelt give assurance he was not a candidate for reelection. That assurance was not forthcom ing. At the Jackson day dinners, Walker promised, there will be speeches that will give "answers to a lot of questions." 4) Bombers Follow Up Leverkusen Raid v LONDON, Nov. 20. rt Brit ish heavy bombers, striking for the third time in three nights at the sources of vast quantities of Germany's war chemicals and poi son gases, last night pounded Lev erkusen, an Industrial suburb of Cologne,, and today lighter allied planes followed up with a day light foray against other targets. Th principal goal for the RAF last night was a group of plants belonging to the great I. G. Far beninduatrie chemical trust known to produce ingredients used In the production of poison gas al though not the gaa Itself. The town's Importance as a source of explosive chemicals is rated alongside Ludwigshafen, which the RAF had blasted heavily on both the preceding nights. BRITAIN HAS RAID LONDON, Nov. 20. (Pi A small number of German planes struck at Britain tonight and few reached London In nuisance raids which caused slight damage and cost the German air force two planes. A few casualties were re ported. The nazi planes dropped high explosive bombs In one Lon don district, In two other places in the home counties and in south east EnVnrt The Russian midnight bulletin said a total of 4000 Germans were killed in fighting which saw sov iet troops beat back German counter-attacks at two other main points and gain ground in the lower Pripet river area west of Chernigov, and to the north in the Rechitsa region west of almost encircled Gomel. In the Rechitsa 'area alone 1200 Germans were , killed as the Russians went over to the attack after blasting nine consecutive nail counterattacks. Hoping to capitalize to the full est on the German capture Friday of the strategic rail and highway junction of Zhitomir, Marshal Fritz von Mannsteln launched an assault inlhe area of Korostyshev, 18 miles to the east Soviet forces, fighting near th scene of the greatest Russian set back of the 1943 campaign, met tnrust oi 8000 German infantry men and 80 tanks in one sector, the war bulletin, recorded her by the soviet monitor, said. In th drive toward Nikopol, on the south side of the Dnieper bend, a red army guard unit car ried off a night attack and threw the surprised Germans from strategic height southwest of Dnepropetrovsk which dominated th surrounding countryside. The Germans counterattacked thr times without success in an at tempt to regain their positions and lefrlOO dead on th battlefield. - . : ". Cfofhing5alvage Drive Begins Monday Th campaign to gather th discarded clothing of Eugenetnt for th war-suffering people of Europe begins Monday morning In Eugene. Eugeneans are urged to take a wardrobe survey and then discard only those article el clothlngwhlch they will not wear again. These article should than be brought to th Eugene collec tion depot located at 120 East Park street, which Is th rear en trance to th eld Safeway store, near Broadway and Oak street. The discarded clothing cam paign (and rags included) is in charge of the Lane county offic of civilian defense under super vision of J. J. Kamerman, chair man of the salvage committee. The drive is being Instigated by the textile division of the war production board and Is on nation-wide scale. Closing dat la December 4. The war has created new and more urgent demands for old clothes. The efforts of relief and charitable organizations will not be by-passed by the present driv but It is felt that a consolidated, Intensive effort on a nation-wide scale would meet In a more ef ficient manner the emergency need for discarded clothing and rags. Distribution of the collected clothing will be made by WPB and it will be allocated to th most demanding domestic and BEE SALVAGE STORY PAGE 4 ; Weaiher V. B. Weather Bureau Forecast! Oregon partly cloudy Sunday. Little change In temperature. Ex pected maximum Sunday 80 de grees. Local Statistics: Minimum tem perature Saturday morning, 7 degrees, maximum Saturday 87 degrees. Stage of Willamette riv er In Eugene Saturday evening, -1.4 feet. SltrsLAW IIDIS FWT) Snef Hlih . S-M m tow , :t . SfanSfty Huh low TatfSfty High Low WrenriSt Hlh lw Hlh !w Huh lw . :St a. IB., . a n a. m., -19:lt a. m., 4 a. m.. 'Mb. m. S:30 p. m. rasp, m. :1J p. m. 19 9. m. S:01 p. m. -10:M a. m., - 4:49 a. in., .11 :M . m.,' - aa a. m , .li lt p. m., - A n a TV, lt:SS ft, s S; p. m. S B p. n. T:Sr . aa, PI 50 BRITISH GAIN S Don't Forget Paper salvage drive by Junior chamber of commerce In Eugene Sunday at 8:30 a.m. . !,.V I- !:!' i r? : ! : 1
