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Newspaper Page TextEugene Begister - Cupid Recognizes Manpower Shortage (ITS LEAP YEAR!) What with war conferences, party conventions and auch, 1844 la expected to be a year of dec larations and since it's Leap Year, Feb. 14th will see a lot of American cirls making some pretty firm declarations of their own! It used to be that when a girl sent a Leap Year valentine, she'd wait around for results but not any more! A 1944 valen tine bluntly announces "Listen, Man, it's Leap Year And I haven't got much time!" There are others which, if they don't mention Leap Year by name, are certainly inspired by it. One very plaintive card asks, "Hey, Valentine, watcha waitin' for a BLACKOUT?" and another one, showing a heart equipped with a thermometer near the boiling point, says "I gotta Heart that's plenty warm Tor a certain guy in uni form!" Leap Year valentines in gen eral survive from the days when Leap Year was a serious matter. Cities and towns were largely self-sustaining, and since too many unmarried people were con sidered an economic disadvantage, the Leap Year custom was en forced by public opinion. In Scot land, in the thirteenth century, a man was fined If he refused a Leap Year offer of marriage, and laws applied In certain cities of France and Italy as late as the seventeenth century. Although such drastic enforcement has long alnce disappeared, Leap Year is still regarded as the time for a lady to have her say. These days, should a bachelor be ungallant enough to turn down an offer, his customary penalty is a new silk dress if he can find the silk. Although the 1944 Leap Year valentines are guaranteed to bring chuckles, It aeema certain that they will not offer serious competition to the purely senti mental type of valentine to which the war has given more wide spread use than ever before. Some of the Leap Year variety are sentimental In their own way, as is one card on which a wistful little miss is busy tacking up a number of smBll red hearts, each saying "I Love Ya I Love Ya." To Judge by their current pop ularity, the biggest Job that val entines have been assigned to do serving as remembrances to the boys in the armed forces, and vice versa Is being carried out by all valentine varieties Leap Year included. At the beginning of 1943, tha air transport command of the U. S. army air forces operated over 90,000 miles of air routes. RENTAL BOOKS 'Enjoy today's en tertaining best sellers by famous authors. Rental by the Day OREGON BOOK EXCHANGE I Miner Bldg. What to do? II doing your laundry doesn't fit In with your busy wartime schedule, we have the solution to your problem. lust phone 82SI Save Time . . li s Economical! Page 4 til a NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY 839 High IF PETER PAIN BLASTS YOU WITH NEURALGIC AGONY... RUB IN BEN-GAY... QUICK! Ammxlngly FAST nllH nd here's whyi Sr i4Maf, fir many yrt, Km 4(MnM n m ftn-rUvinc cnt mathy! altrylet and manthaL M.rf doctor knows ihM two precious tngradtant. And , , . Bon-Oar contain up to V tlmat much of both than ftva othor widely oflerod ruMni. Actual labora tory tata prova ttiia. So mint on tha lanulna Ban Gay nait tima Patar Pti tttitmt Oat Baa tiaa tm lailaii Guard, Sunday, Feb. 13, 1844. Allies Step Up Rabaul Raids By Associated Press At least 42 Japanese planes were wiped out in devastating new aer ial sweeps against Rabaul and Kavieng, standing between Amer. lean south Pacific forces and the fortress of Truk, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today (Sun day) Thirty-two definitely were shot down and nine probably in aerial dogfights over Rabaul's Vunak. anau and Tobera airdromes, even as allied bombers from the Sol-f-ions blasted their runways and r.:n positions with 174 tons of bombs. American fighters lost only four planes as they cut in half the fleet of 60 interceptors that tried to halt them. Ten Japanese planes were wrecked on the ground as the air offensive returned to Kavieng on New Ireland. No enemy intercep tors tried to halt the attack. Many fires were started in Installations around the airfield, blasted by 167 tons of explosives. Far westward American sky dragons sank three ' Japanese freighters in the South China sea while other units of the 14th U.S. air force destroyed two trains, in cluding one loaded with troops, "hit bridges and strafed rivercraft in sweeps over China. . In southern Burma numerous casualties have been inflicted on Japanese forces persistently at tacking British positions on the Arakan front for nine days, Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten reported. The British are holding against directions and at the same time out uiic oiic.u ui.ii spcatuwu 111 the Kaladan area. Putrols scouted north Burma. Renomination Date For FDR Forecast By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U.B Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ' re nomination for a fourth term can be expected with some confidence to become an accomplished fact at about 8:30 p.m., CWT, on Friday, July 21 next. But if you want to bet and play it safe, make it not later than the same hour on the following day, Saturday, July 22. Chairman Rob ert E. Hannegan of the democrat ic national committee announced yesterday that the streamlined democratic national convention would meet on Wednesday, July 19, in Chicago. The democratic national com mittee, which chose the site at a meeting here last month and so licited Roosevelt to run again, left to Hannegan the fixing of a date. Hannegan would have liked to de lay the convention until August, but the hard facts of the soldiers' ballot compelled a July selection. The ballots cannot be distributed to the armed services until it has been established officially who the republican and democratic candidates will be. And If the democratic nomination were de layed much beyond mid-July, it probably would not be possible for the troops to vote and get the ballots back to be counted on elec tion day. It has been calculated that Bra zil, home of 42 million people, might support 900 million; while the United States, home of 130 million, might support 500. Phone 825 UlllllnlnUXI! mm isaeaeftBiBllBI JtCaIfjaBV efjtf Ban's eke Sta-Osi HU a j Cflaa UaiiM Ra In Big Building Boom-lf If the war had not interfered. Eugene now would be in the midst of a building boom which would eclipse the construction records of the middle '20's, it Is indicated In a report on the past 30 years of Eugene building, released by Twin Oaka Builders Supply company. As it was, not one house was built here during 1943 The two years which preceded Pearl Harbor showed mounting construction figures, comparable to the peaks which came within a few years of the close of world war 1. The boom years were 1923 through 1928, when construction exceeded $1,130,000 annually. The two top years were 1924 with $2, 734,705 and 1923 with $2,610,606. The year 192S heads the list for number of new residences built 485. The year 1941 is believed the highest In total number of permits issued (new buildings plus repair permits), when 1,283 were taken out, for work valued at $1,330,504. New residences numbered 222. Construction valuation in 1940 was increased sizably by building of the east wing for Sacred Heart general hospital. That year's rec ord show $1,009,322, total permits 1,233, new residences 194. Following war production board restrictions which started early in 1942, building declined rapidly. In that year, although 26 new homes were constructed, permits totalled only 838 for an estimated valua tion of $191,807. . During 1943, there were 1,033 permits filed at the city engineer's office, for work totalling $141,911. Only three a.tlvitv Th. wn. ., ,.. S activity. There was ! then, too. L. C. Scharpf of Twin Oaks comments that 1943 probably is the only year in Eugene's history that a new residence was not built. However, a number of garages to be used as temporary residences were built during the past year. Previous low In this respect was at depth of the depression in 1933 and 1934, when only six or seven new homes were built here. More Steel Seen By T. W. KIENLEN NEW YORK, Feb. 12 OI.B The possibility of greater sup plies of steel for construction of railroad cars, farm tractors and beer cans was indicated, this week, but this does not mean any letup in war production, which must meet rising demands for in vasion equipment. As a result of cutbacks in many parts of the armament pro gram and changes in specifica tions for other items, a stockpile of steel has been built up, from which reserve allocations are be ing made to farm equipment mak ers, builders of railway equip ment and producers who will turn out beer cans intended for off shore and foreign consumption. The magazine Iron Age pointed out in its weekly summary of steel industry developments that in the year starting next July 1 approximately 1,200,000 tons of carbon steel will be needed for production of farm equipment, as well as sufficient raw material for 28,000 new freight cars urgently needed by the roads. With the American industry equipped to produce a greater volume of steel than ever before In history, it was Interesting to note during the week that the west coast is expected to become one of the greatest domestic con sumers of steel after the war. Iron Age said estimates of tha possible increase in consumption in the 11 western states range from 400,000 to 1,000,000 net tons. According to that periodical, the Henry J. Kaiser interests are ac tive in surveying the possible in crease and results of such studies are said to Indicate larger poten tial post-war consumption than had been expected earlier. IIATIOX ALE DA It Ciip this rationing calendar and attach It to vour ration books, MEATS AND FATS February IS Brown stamp Y, Eiwk 3. became valid. February 88 Brown stamps V, W. and X, Book 3, expire. PROCESSED FOODS February 20 Green stamps O, H, and J, Book 4, expire. March 10 Green stamps K, L, and M. Book 4, expire, SI OAR February 1 Sugar stamp 40, Book 4, became valid for five pounds' canning sugar. March 31 Sugar stamp 30, Book 4, for five pounds, expires. SHOES Stamp 18, Book 1, and Airplane stamp 1, Book 3, each good in definitely for one pair of shoes. H F.I, OIL March 14 Period 3 coupons ex pire. Period 4 coupons, also good now, expire September 30, GASOLINE March tl No. 10 stamps In A Book expire at midnight TIRES February ti 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 8,000 miles of driving. NEW ADDRESS The local war price and ration ing board Is located at 19 Eleventh Avenue west Telephone 469T. Kuppanheimer . Clothes Tbe Man's Shop IYKOM & KNEXLAND U Bast 1Kb Little-Known Autobiography Of Lincoln Displayed Here By CHARLES POLITZ "I was born February 12, 1809 In Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia of undistinguished famiu So begins with characteristic homely simplicity th little-known autobiography of Abraham Lin. coin. The two and half page doc ument written in the .cramped, curlicued quill pen scrawl that is familiar to all Americans, Inscrib ed on stained, aging grey-white paper, is on display in the window of a downtown Eugene store. The class-encased facsimile of the original autobiography is tne property of Walter P. Fell, Eugene merchant. It was Fell's great-uncle, Jesse W. Fell, who prodded Army-Navy Tests Set. The third ' army-navy college qualifying test for the army spe cialized training program and the navy college program V-12 which will be given throughout the coun try on Wednesday, March IS, at 9 a.m., will be administered at the Crow high school, J. A. Stark weather announced today. A leaf let of general information which contains an admission-identification form may be obtained at Crow high school. This form properly filled out will admit to the test students between the ages of 17 and 21 inclusive who are high school graduates or who will be graduated by July 1, 1944. Intent to take the test should be made known immediately to Genevieve Beaman, principal at Crow hign school in order that the necessary test supplies may be ordered. The same examination will be taking the test does not obligate didates. The examination is de signed to test the aptitude and general knowledge required for the program of college training and all qualified students are urged to take the test. At the time of the test each candidate will be given a choice of service preference, but taking the test doe not obligate the candidate to enlist in the serv ice. The army specialized training program Is aimed to meet the army's needs for specialists and technicians ih certain critical fields of study. Academic work is at the college level at government ex pense. , The navy college program also enables students to continue aca demic training at government ex pense. Successful completion of the prescribed courses may, fol lowing further officer training, lead to a commission in the navy. Motorist Killed . Alfred Hoffmeister, Swisshome,. was killed early Friday night about two miles west of that place when his car suddenly left the highway, crashed into a telephone pole and overturned. Hoffmeister was caught In the open door of his car as it turned over and died instantly. O. E. Dutcher of Swisshome, who was following the Hoffmeister car, reported that just before the crash he suddenly noticed the car ahead began to weave across the high way. According to his statement Hoffmeister was not driving fast. The deceased, whose age has been reported variously as 88 or 89, was employed by the Consum ers Cooperative mill at Swisshome, where he lived. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. E. Rickman, Se attle, and one brother, R. H. Hoff meister, Portland. 'K' Rations Given As 'Overtime Pay' FARRAGUT, Ida. (U.R) The only overtime pay for a 12-hour shift of hard labor in the Gilbert and Ellice islands Is maybe some extra "K" rations, if they are available. Lt John P. Mohair, medical of ficer until recently assigned to duty with a Seabee construction battalion in the south Pacific, told here how the Seabees built a vitally-needed flying strip within 10 days after landing on an island by working a 12-hour shift while liv ing on "K" rations. He told of the apparent surprise of Jap bomber pilots who made daylight raids from a nearby isl and when American fighter planes took off to challenge them upon completion of the flying field. The Seabees then constructed a camouflaged underground operat ing room for Mohair, reinforcing lt with cocoanut logs and equipping it with emergency lighting. v NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Dr. J. C. Hicks Veterinarian t Large and Small Animal Practice On RIVER ROAD at SANTA CLARA Telephone 29F22 the reluctant Lincoln Into writing the short story of his early lire. Fell was a prominent Whig pol itician in Springfield, 1111. at the time Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas wer engaged in that fam ous series of debates. He saw Lin coln's presidential potentialities and felt that a short sketch of his life might prove valuable In the future. It was Jesse Fell and his broth er. Kersey, who took up a collec tion to send Lincoln to the con vention that nominated him for the presidency, because the raw boned man in the wrinkled black suit and black stovepipe hat did not have enough money to cover living and traveling expenses. The autobiography, one of 25 copies extant, is mounted togeth er with an engraved picture of Lincoln, excerpts from his Gettys burg and second inaugural ad dresses and an explanation ty r en of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the document. The autobiographical sketch Is Lincoln throughout, in its straight forward style, amply Interspersed with rustic humor. In describing the then not-too-extensive Indi ana Dubllc school system, he says "there were some schools so-called." Teachers who knew "readin'. writin' and clpherin' " were con sidered learned and quite accept able. "If a straggler who knew Latin happened to sojourn in our neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard." Of his own youthful, academic accomplishments he says, "Of course when I came of age I did not know much. The little ad vancement I have now picked up I have done under the pressure of necessity." . He described his defeat In the campaign for the Illinois legisla ture in 1832 as the "only time I have ever been beaten by the peo ple." The United States might never have benefitted from the services and understanding and humanity of one of history's greatest leaders and fighters for the rights of free men had it not been for the Mis souri compromise, for Lincoln re veals that "I was losing Interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri' compromise aroused me again." The final paragraph of the auto biography is a masterpiece: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable I am in height six feet, four inches, it may be said. Lean in flesh weighing on an average of one hundred and eighty pounds. Dark complexion with coarse black hair and grey eyes. No other marks. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln." The document, written in the winter of 1859, just before his elec tion to the presidency, is "notar ized" as being the president's handwriting by David Davis, Ly man Trumbull and Charles Sum-' ner. Wallace Tells Stand Lew Wallace of Portland, who recently filed as candidate for democratic national committee Irian from Oregon, declared his stand on three points,' when he came to Eugene Saturday to attend the Oregon Elks midwinter con vention. He is exalted ruler of Portland Elks. "First," said "Wallace, "I am not looking for any political appoint ment myself. "Second, I have no relatives to ask or receive appointments through me. "Third, I feel that political ap polntmenta in Oregon are not the property of their present occu pants and should be passed around among deserving democrats. I do not refer to civil service posts, but purely political appointments to the better-paid jobs." Your lam pa must be in good working order for maximum benefits from the electricity you use. Phone 234 ior re pairs 1 c ELECTRIC 1070 Willamette Fhone 234 Storm Moves East By United Press The season's worst snowstorm moved eastward today, centering over the Atlantic seaboard with five to 12 inches of snow in the northern states, while the midwest shivered in zero temperatures. At least 15 deaths were attribut ed to the storm and sub-zero tem peratures. The heavy snowfall in New York and New England slowed transportation, while the cold snap did the same thing to travel in the midwest. Official weather forecasts left little hope for warmer weather Saturday night and Sunday, but a general lessening of blizzard con ditions throughout the east was predicted for Monday. Midwest cities reported tempera tures ranging from zero to 30 be low at northern points. Nine per sons lost their lives because of the storm in the north central states earlier this week. Swirling snow that cut visibility was blamed for a railroad wreck near Ashtabula, O., where the New York Central's southwestern limited sideswiped a Pennsylvania freight train, killing an engineer. The storm, described as the worst In three years in the east, claimed at least six lives in that area. Platte Center, Neb., reported a low of 30 below zero, Omaha had 19 below, but the prospect for Sun day was for warmer weather. Kansas City, Mo. reported eight above and expected slowly rising temperatures. Iowa had below zero weather, and forecasters said it would continue tonight. a.- i - ti I Today, h't mora Important than ovtr before lo keep your car in A-l condition at all time. . . . Here are six things you should have done Immediately and regularly to make your car run better-last longer-serve for the duration. . . . Come in today, let us give your car this "Six-Star Service Special." let us help you ft) "save the wheels that serve America." let's All Back the Attack I BUY WAR BONOS Silva Chevrolet Co. 11th at Olive ' Phone Five Home Extension Units Will Meet - Five home extension units are scheduled to meet In Lane county this week, Miss Nellie Lyle, coun ty home demonstration agent, an nounces. Two will meet Wednes day, one Thursday and two Fri day. , Siltcoos unit will meet Wednes day at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Lyla Scott, where Miss Lyle and Miss Lois Lutz of the state college will give a demonstration of how to make kitchens more liv able. Walnut Acres unit will meet on that day at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Rose Dickenson. The topic will be "furniture repair" and it will be handled by Mrs, Griffith and Mrs. Harper, 1 North Fork unit will meet Thursday, beginning at 10:30 a.m., at the home of Mrs, K. H. McCor- every"'- ottaiW" - ,n ,-20,38 . 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