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EUGENE. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1943
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Comoanv Forms
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) 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-
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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,
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Don't Forget
Paper salvage drive by
Junior chamber of commerce
In Eugene Sunday at
8:30 a.m. .
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