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Eugwne, Begliiter Canned Vegetables To Cost Fewer Points WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 1 nere'i no chance of processed feeds being removed from ra tioning now, but beginning Sun the principal varieties of canned vegetables can be ob tained with fewer point. "Price Administrator Chester Bowles today dismissed reports that OPA might decide the supply 61 home-canned vegetables was large enough to warrant a "point holiday" for the commercial pack. ISoy beans, mushrooms and grapefruit are given a zero point rttlng in the new table. Several' two-pound sized Jars of Jams, Jellies, preserves and fjuit spreads are given point cuts, tanging from eight on grape Jam to one on apple bate and grape jjjllies. Lower values also are assigned for a few one-pound sized Jars. ZThe vegetable point cuts, or dered because supplies are mov ing too slowly or because of im proved supply, are as follows for popular sized cans: -Tomatoes, decreased 2, new value 8 points; beets, down 2, new value 2; corn, regular pack, d$wn2 to 8; corn, vacuum packed, down 3 to 10; spinach, down 2 to 8; leafy greens, down 2 to 4. I Mixed vegetables, down 4, to 3; asparagus, down 2, to 12; all dry varieties of beans, Including pork and beans, kidney beans and lentils, down 4 to value 8; fresh shelled beans. Including black-eyed peas, down 2 to 8. Green and wax beans, assigned a zero rating in the last table, are unchanged. Among the fruits, peaches are raised 2 points to a total of 20; pears go up 4 points from 18; fruit cocktail goes to 24 points, up from 21, and applesauce gets a value of 18 points instead of 12. Plums and prunes are cut from 10 to 8 points; apricots from 24 to 20, and cranberries and sauce from 10 to 8 points. . Smash Nips (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) a shock to him because of previ ous favorable Information re reived through Swisa representa tives about conditions at the mili tary prisons at Shanghai and Hong Kong. ' Thomas, who spent several J ears as a church missionary to aoan. said there is no doubt that the Japanese army stooped to depths it never had known before. Presidential Secretary Stephen Barly said today that reports of Japanese atrocities against Amer lean prisoners of war were re leased because further relief sup plies could not be expected to reach the prisoners. -As to whether lifting of the ban OB the atrocity reports means that tt)e government Has abandoned hope for further exchange and repatriation of prisoners. Early suggested that the question was one for the state department, which has handled the problem ui rough tne Swiss government. 'Senator White (R Me.) said, "Jit's a horrible and terrible story. It will bring bitter resentment throughout the country." -Sen. Kllgore (D., W. Va.V "Such revolting practices are in line with the feudal, barbaric system the Japanese have alwsys followed. They are Just following the history of. Genghis Kahn, their patron saint of warfare and diplomacy." .Sen. Ball (R Minn.): "I find these stories sickening. They prove again that we are up against a barbaric enemy and we've got to lick him completely. ;Sen. Johnson (D, Colo.): "This ought to make us realize more than ever before that we have a tough war to fight in the Pacific." IWASHINGTON, Jan. 28. M Army-navy disclosure of mis treatment of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor at the hands of their Japanese captors was followed quickly today by all official promise to bring those responsible to account. Secretary of State Hull said this government has been gather ing all possible Information about the treatment of American prison ers In the" Pacific so that war crim inals may be punished when the war ends. Sugar Stamp Valid Sugar stamp 40 in war ration book four will become valid on February 1 for five pounds of sugar for home canning, the ra tioning board said today. The stamp will be good 13 months, through February 28, 1945. The stamp becomes good at the stated date Instead of on March 1 as originally planned In order to care of early fruit crops In the south. The national office points out that this allowance, however, will be part of the total allowance for 1944 canning season, the total of which will be announced later. Edward Button Edward Button, 84, 1364 Lincoln, died Thursday at a local hospital. He was a native of Wisconsin, born at Berlin, that state, July 8, 1859, but had lived in the vicinity of Eu gene for more than 20 years. Surviving are one son, C. P. But ton of Corning; ten grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10:30 a. m. at the Bran-stetter-Simon mortuary with In terment in the I.O.O.F. No. 1 cem etery. v STATE POST SOUGHT SALEM. Jan. 28. OP) Louis Bosenblatt, Portland republican, filed his candidacy today for state representative Irom Multnomah county. Paget - Guard, Friday, Jan, 28, 1944 Seized Patents Here The patent library made up of patents seized by the alien prop erty custodian from enemy na tionals and recently established in the Portland office of the Bonneville administration will be on display in Eugene, at the Uni versity Guild Theatre Feb. 14 and IS, Chesley Brazil, manager of the Eugene office of the Bonne ville administration, revealed Fri day. The patents will be shown in conjunction with a meeting of the Oregon state chamber of com merce secretaries and will be in charge of Roy Shawcross, who will discuss the library before . the group. These patents seized by the alien property custodian represent some of the finest research achievements of modern science. When the government completes its program of approaching enemy patents more than 80,000 vested patents will be available tor study by American Industrialists. Brazil has in his office at the present time a catalog of the vested patents which can be ex amined by interested citizens. RATION CALENDAR Clip this rationing calendar and attach it to your ration books. MEATS AND FATS January 28 Brown stamps R, S, T, U, Bopk 3, expire. PROCESSED FOODS February 20 Green stamps G, H, and J, Book 4, expire. SUGAR January 18 Sugar stamp 30, Book 4, for 5 lbs., became valid. 8HOE8 Stamp 18, Book 1, and Airplane stamp 1, Book 3, each good in definitely for one pair of shoes. FUEL OIL February 8 Period 2 coupons In fuel oil rations expire. Period 3 coupons expire March 14. GA80LINE January 22 No. 10 stamps In A book became valid. TIRES - February 29 Next tire inspec tion deadline for holders of B and C books. A-book deadline March 31. T book tire Inspection every 8 months or 5,000 miles of driving. NEW ADDRESS The local war price and ration ing board Is located at 20 Eleventh Avenue, west Telephone 4897. - Argentina to Act BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 28. (U.R) Authoritative sources indicated that Argentina's diplomatic break with the axis will be implemented today by a government decree cutting off aU communications and commercial relations between this country and Germany and Japan. A government order completing the rupture with the axis and proclaiming Argentina's full ad herence with the pan-American solidarity principles laid down at the Rio De Janeiro conference was understood to have been drafted for issuance some time this afternoon. At the same time, the authori ties were believed preparing for drastio action to stamp out all traces of nazism in the country. Reports circulated that three cabinet ministers and Mayor Gen. Basllio Pertine of Buenos Aires had resigned as a sequel to the diplomatic break, but there was no official confirmation of these rumors. The three cabinet members who are said to have quit are Home Minister Gen. Luis Cesar Per linger, Agriculture Minister Gen. Diego I. Mason and Justice Min ister Gustavo Martinez Zuvlria. Return of Private Liquor Sales Urged PORTLAND, Jan. 28 M" A movement to get before the vot ers an initiative to permit pri vate liquor sales and purchases by the drink was under way again today. Mcl p. Brown, Portland, who filed a somewhat similar bill last August, sent a petition to the secretary of state yesterday. It would limit the state liquor control commission to inspection and taxation. The measure must have 1S.052 signatures by July 8 to be in cluded on the November ballot Tax Change Approved WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. OP) Tax bill conferees agreed today to repeal the controversial ".sec ond windfall" provision of the pay-ns-you-go tax- law. The provision, declared some what cumbersome In operation, essayed to collect additional taxes from war-swollen incomes by levying on the excess over a "nor mal" year's eaminss. as measured by 1938, 1939 or. 1940 income, plus $20,000. They rewrote an amendment originally introduced by Sen. Vandenberg (R-Mich), permitting auiy-iree importation of lighter weight and smaller-size newsprint than now is allowed to enter the country free of tariff. Bowing to the houso, the sen ators agreed to remove an amend ment Inserted at the request of Sen. Walsh (D-NJ) which would have allowed taxpayers to make quarterly payments of the untor givcn portions of their 1942 in come taxes due March 15, 1944 and March 13.. 1945. The conferees approached their most controversial ground after approving rises of more than $1, 000.000,000 in excise taxes and postal rates yesterday. Motion pictures are said to be the most popular form of enter tainment In all the armed services. ANTIQUES WANTED 108 WllXAMbTTt) ST. OUR CITIZENS x IN SERVICE SOT. GLENN McKDJBEN, XL son of Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. Me Klbben of Barrisbnrg, la eerr lng with the V. S. marine corps In the South Pacific. He for merly attended the University of Oregon. SON ON LEAVE Donald McDonald, aviation ma chinist's mate 3-c, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McDonald, River Avenue. ' He has Just completed a course in aerial gunnery, at the naval air station at Jacksonville, Fla., and now will be assigned to active duty. He entered the navy a year ago this month. Following his leave, he will report at San Francisco. LARSEN IN TEXAS Pvt. George M. Larsen of Eu gene now is stationed at Camp Fannin, Tex. His wife and three children live at 1340 Garfield street, Eugene. SAGE STUDIES GUNNERY. Pvti Robert O. Sage, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Sage of Creswell, who entered the army in August, now is attending a technical training school of the army air forces at Kessler Field, Miss., where he is studying gun nery. RATE ADVANCED Ralph L. Spencer, 21, son of Mrs. Hallie Spencer, 1209 Emer ald, recently received a new rat ing of boatswain's mate, 2-c, as of January 1. He Is in oversea duty, and this is his second ad vance in five months. Alternative (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) opment of a modern irrigation and drainage system which is of tremendous importance to our agriculture. It has been and will continue to be our policy to work with the U. S. engineers to find answers which are sound and constructive for alt concerned. No actual work can be begun till the post-war period, and these preliminary surveys are being made with great care so that plans can be ready when the need comes. It Js important to keep touch with the engineers and that is our purpose." PORTLAND, Jan. 28. m Possibility that the Oakrldge site for projected Willamette valley dam may be abandoned was dis closed by army engineers late yes terday, along with details of the proposed $50,000,000 Umatilla dam. . Surveys of the site near Oak rldge have brought out several objectionable features, the en gineers said In response to ques tions at a meeting of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho fishing in terests on long-range develop ment plans for the Columbia basin. Col. Ralph A. Tudor, district engineer, said surveys are being made farther downstream and the Oakrldge site may be dropped. On fish problems in the Willam ette valley, project, Tudor said he believed they would be over come. As an example of headway toward a solution, ha cited the Detroit dam on the North Santiam which is to be 370 feet high. "I understand the Oregon state department of fisheries maintains racks in the river near the mouth of the Breitenbush river where they trap the adult salmon and propagate the eggs in a hatchery nearby. "Possibly all that will be re quired here will be rebuilding of the present hatchery and the con struction of facilities for trapping adult fish, although I understand titers is somewhat of a problem as to how the fingerlings should best be released," Tudor said. Delegates Named Delegates to the Pacific coast council of cannery and process workers union to be held in El'. gene, February 6, were elected Thursday evening by the Eugene local 23031. Those selected to rep resent the Eugene cannery workers are: Nellie Endicott, Nellie Gra ham, Clyde Benadom. Friend Houk, Alice Resell, all of Eugene, and Marvin Beck, Junction City. Alternates chosen are William Skeel, Eugene: Paul llouglan and Agnes Johnson, both of Junction City. Spanish America .first revolted not against the Spanish crown but against Napoleon, who had taken over Spain. MEDICATED POWDER 40 YEAR FAVORITE with tfcoumnd of familiaa. it raUene Itrhios irritation of minor akia raabee heat rub, tiaby'e diaper nub. VpnnU on Maiaar y. formerly Maaicao Haal Pow der. The klM ol powder nny Mr buv man flea im Costs liule. DaaMad lUu Realty Board- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) In our opinion, these restrictions are indefensible. They have noth ing to do with the winning of the war." Rodman's amendipent, which brought on the most explosive re torts, reads: "In our opinion the restrictions placed upon the use of housing units are political in na ture. They have nothing to do with the winning of the war. We believe the bureaucratic restric tions to be indefensible and we protest against them with all the power at our command. We do not want to be a party to policies which contribute to be establish ing a fascism from within. "Unless the small American community can be eternally vigi lanttn this war and in the armis tice to come, the sons of America wlU have died in vain. What avails It to disarm fascist machin ery and fascist forces on the other side of the earth, the while fascist machinery and fascist force in the background, without excuse and' without necessity, are irrevocably applied to a trusting ana loyal and cooperative homeland." . Meeting Extended With a verbal battle royal, board members stretched their regular meeting Thursday noon to a two and one-half hour session, living up to their reputation as one group which maintains a forum with every member granted the right to stand up and express his views and battle for them to the finish. Reports on the recent first-citizen banquet and other routine details of business had carried the session practically into an over time period, beyond the usual hour and fifteen minutes. Then the "bombs, came crash ing." Referring to a meeting of . real estate men on he housing issue earlier, James A. Rodman, Sr. took the floor to present a resolution as follows "Whereas, the article appearing in the Register-Guard yesterday (Wednesday) was mis leading, and whereas many have construed said article to mean that the real estate board has acqul esced with the federal housing project in Eugene, "Now, therefore, be It resolved That the Eugene Realty board re affirms Its stand as unalterably and unequivocally opposed to said housing project. Wham! One, two, and three took the floor at once and sometimes more than that. Challenges Survey , F. M. Bennett declared the ac tlon as reported in the Wednesday story revealed "one had been slipped over on the board." He went on to challenge the chamber of commerce on the survey made preliminary to the approval of the housing project, and stated there should be some investigation on whose say and how such a sur vey had been made. Frank Cashman, declaring he had gone along with the board in its views on this type of project, said he did not approve of the. resolution as it was worded. He asked that the resolution state clearly the facts and state exactly what the board wanted and meant. Matt Wilhelm stood up to say he seconded the Rodman resolu tion with all his heart and wanted to know why materials could not be released so free men could build as they wanted to. Rodman took the floor again to say the resolution certainly was clear, and declared the board should take some action at once to avoid one day's reporting saying the board has done this, the next day to say it has done something else. "Are we willy-nilly, vacil lating do-nothings?" he asked, I hope this is one community with guts enough to fight for itself and control Its own affairs." If the materials can be released for the government to build, they can be released to individuals to build, and thus do away with "the frank ensteln monster of a housing pro ject," he added. Common Sense Urged E. H. Peterson jumped into the argument to say it should be re membered there is a war on, that the materials of war have to be regulated by some one in order to carry on the war to its completion. He urged that the realtors look at the matter with common sense. Paul W. Campbell, who had worked with contractors in ob taining options on lots for .the housing units to be built, said any local firm or individual can use money to build, but the houses are to be rented to inmigrant workers or any war worker who does not have adequate housing. The need now is to aid the war effort, and war workers are not adequately housed, he said. He commented this Is only the be ginning of a program to provide adequate housing facilities. With the motion on the resolu tion still before the house, a mo tion was made to table it, but the latter motion lost William Stenwick then took the 41oor to say Campbell has had to carry the brunt of the argument in oenait or tne project and its need, and he declared the real big issue is that war workers do need homes and they should be provided with decent places in which to live. Bennett urged immediate action on the resolution. "This saying 'don't you know a war is on?' is I silly. Certainly, all know there is a war on many in this room MILLIONS HERE EXPECTED ATTACK It happens every year. There is always a time when it Menu like everybody haa a cold attack. At this Ume be rxepared and remember Peoetro. a salve with modem medication in a haie containing same kind of old fathioned mutton suet grand ma used. WorasSwayatl) Inside. Pene tro't apecially medicated vapura soothe and comfort help reduce naaal con ra tion. (2) Outside, Penetro acts like a helpful platter at Its counter-irritation warms, stimulates circulation at the spot when it n applied. 25c Double supply lac Always b aura to ormarai I'tuelro. have sons in the service. Such a phrase Is worn out," he said, stat ing some government agencies are using the war as an excuse to extend their controls. . He read from the national association in formation about a one hundred billion dollar building program the government is promoting. "What will such a program do to us in the real estate business, what will it do to those in the loan busi ness?" Peterson urged again the board should not do anything it would regret, and left the meeting. Robert W. Prescott said it was generally agreed there is need tor additional housing, and suggested the resolution be extended to make it plain that materials should be released so that Eugene can build its own homes. Rodman added another para graph to the resolution stating: "Be it further resolved that inas much as there is private money in Eugene ready to build houses that the government release vital ma terials to do said building.". Mora talk followed and a vote taken on how the matter should be handled. Finally, It was sug gested that a resolutions commit tee be named and action taken as soon as possible. It wss decided to, continue the meeting Friday noon, A. L. Reeder, Stenwick, Rodman, Prescott, and R. S. Shel ley being named the committee to draft the resolution. Return To Cell Looms SALEM, Jan. 28 OP) The at torney general's office today pre pared extradition papers to re turn Mrs. Myrtle A. Garner, 81, from Oakland, Calif., to the Ore gon penitentiary to complete her four-year term for cattle theft in Curry county. The prison was advised yes terday that Oakland officers had picked her up. She entered the prison October 28, 1939, but on June 7, 1941, Cir cuit Judge L. H. McMahan of Marion county released her on a writ of habeas corpus, holding that she was convicted improp' erly because no women were al lowed to serve on the jury. The state supreme court re versed Judgo McMahan, but Mrs, Garner could not be found. , . -. Lumber Need Stressed PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28. (U.B The nation's need for more than 34,000,000,000 board feet of lum ber during 1944 makes this prod uct the No. 1 critical war material for the year, J. Philip Boyd, dl rector of the lumber and lumber products division of the war pro' duction board, told delegates to the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation annual convention here today. "Thus the 11 western states, producing one-half of the national supply, stand face to face with a great production challenge for the invasion year, Boyd said. Rarion Shakeup Urged . PORTLAND, Jan. 28. (U.R) -The Oregon committee on live, stock marketing today recon mended that the entire national meat distribution problem be turned over to one agency with full power and responsibility. Corrlngton Gill, national direc tor of the president's committee for congested production areas, received the recommendation at a conference called today in an effort to prevent recurrence of last year s serious tieup in north west livestock and. meat distribu tion. Union Men Determined PORTLAND, Ore., - Jan. 28 OP) Eleven Portland delegates to the AFL boilermakers inter national convention entrained for Kansas City today threatening to picket the meeting if they are refused credentials. So far the 11 delegates elected by the Portland local Tuesday have not been recognized by the international and they have been refused rooms at the convention hotel. LOG BRANDS LISTED SALEM. Jan. 28. OP) Public Utilities Commissioner George E, Flagg said today that 658 log brands have been registered with him in the seven months since the log branding law became effec tive. The branding law was pass. ed after the Willamette flood of 1943 caused thousands of unbrand ed logs to be lost OPA POSITION OPEN Applications for the position of senior rent appraiser for tne OPA in Los Angeles, are being sought by the U. S. civil service commis sion. Salary is $4426 a year. There Is no written test' or maximum age limit Complete information may be obtained at the postal savings win dow at the Eugene post office. U. S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter nlanes can maneuver at 400 miles t an hour, VALENTINE CARDS Funny Fancy Frivolous From Two for a "Nickel to the Super-Dupers At a Buck apiece LIGHTNING'S mnvillsmette Phone ISH Explorer Warns Japs Haven't Been Whipped Once Japan completes the rail way North and South along the Chinese coast, it will be able to take everything it wants, in China, warned Carveth Wells, versatile explorer-writer en gineer, speaking before an ' as sembly of some 2000, soldier and civilian students, faculty and townspeople in McArthur court Thursday evening. "We have underestimated the quality of the Japanese soldier. The quality of an army is not in its equipment but is In its soldiers. Japanese soldiers are born, not made. At the age of six the soldier is given his first gun." Explaining that Japan has never lost a major battle, Wells pointed out that all we have been able to accomplish in the last two years is to keep the Japa nese on their outer rim of our strategic defense circle in the Pacific. With a grim reminder that "there will be dozens or. Tarawas," the lecturer said we haven't even reached Rabaul yet, which is 800 miles from Truk, the Pearl Harbor of Japan. In order to beat Japan, which he insisted might take a genera tion unless we can stop her ex pansion in China, we must keep the friendship of the Chinese. "The Chinese do not understand how difficult it is to keep them supplied." Wells struck a note of confidence when he said the Chinese know perfectly well they are going to win in the end. They say "Very soon, no Japs." The imperial crown of India cost about $300,000. SEE DOROTHY LAMOUR IN PARAMO U NT'S "RIDING N Here's the plot. Dot! & w lb ZL . WE i What in the world are you doing, Miss Lamour? DOROTHY LAMOUR t Looking over ways to get somewhere. WEt Just what is your destination? DOTTlEi Eenie, meenie, meinee, moe! All right, I'll take this one. Now what? WE i Just take ordinary care and use your reg ular coffee recipe. . . and M.J. B. Then, u hether you Hie it utak or strong, you'll hare full fittored coffee that's just right- to your taste. de. vregy. JPC, , , ...ni.nn ' ..... we Y-ffilffi m 1 tMr 11 M 'T.OM CAN'T Nazis Say Ships Sunk I LONDON, Jan. 28. OP) The Berlin radio asserted today that German submarines had sunk seven ships totaling 6100 tons and four destroyers in the last few days in attacks on allied convoys. , The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, asserted that a Murmansk-bound convoy of Lib erty . ships bearing planes and tanks to Russia had been "par ticularly hard hit." . There have been no recent allied reports of attacks on convoys on the Murmansk supply route and the German claims of allied losses were totally without confirmation. ACIDDENT TOLL DISCLOSED SALEM, Jam. 28 OP) There were ' 1182 accidents, .including three fatalities, reported by Ore- Onion Salt the quick, easy way to real onion flavor "Perk up" wartime dishes as simply as adding salt. Sprinkle in onion flavor from the bandy shaker Schilling I l'i too Msat on industrl.. ended yesterday!! dustrial today. T aiv Workers fatal, J Injured January Vr i wyler, Portia 15: and WiUiaVB Afhtod.lnijfr IB, Pr.LL Dentin New Local' Over itnTT: Phon 17tf I Evenings LliLi aa"c vy IUKXH 3 DOTTlIt I'm trying to find the Rendu Coffee Satisfaction. WEt With your experience, that milt J" cinch. But any out will get you umqf start right. DOTTlEi Amazine! But can I 1 dtp satisfaction like this every tin ... v--. ' . , IT' MT J" toes i oh anainij " ' ' make a bad cup of MJ-B-- in glass and guarantee it, too. i . -money back if you aren't compM)r 0S0 of