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ark At Ciniy GsOpens ference in eneToday tnWRY I"" (.rnte Tnr..nn. Wash. 1 SSb. opn tnree- mm from all Ldtbe northwest F"T.rki the second KKiwanis dubhn' Jl.trict )...., .aization (old. "Art, In the city) P' the district gathering m connection with program will be and Osburn K Quarters for the L Bfnstration begins at r (CinrlavV jfvouonai ci ..v - ---.Li. ,mine in the t irst P.r.krrh. this being the a, ; , ,, ,u EW. .Howard, Walla will rreside at the Eta icssions as the district frf the program will be th. nreanization's par Ltjon in U" S"" lu re mi its pan in me f"" diustment. as well as its Jo to community service, L wlnre, rao oiner aci vm La. The program has been Li Hiiisiderably from that trail ytars because of the juKiwanians planning w arm to business" at this V More than 300 visiting M ud onlookers are ex- I. (Scotty).Shiart is general Wn from the Eugene club km arranging for the con- fee. Roj A. Elliott is presi- tf thi host club. KiSjhting the Monday morn- bbi will be the oinciai lr- and message of the district nor, u well as the welcomes nttino from other service cations and officials here. Ueiini is the complete pro- k for the first two days of emotion. II . m. to 10 p. m., RitoD of delegates at Eugene I pm-District board meet iimboo room of Eugene I pa., past governors' ban lugene hotel mirror room, 8. Hitchcock, immediate feraor, presiding. p evening devotional ser- hs o'clock, at First Meth- PRINCIPALS In the three-day Rlwants district convention open' tag in Eugene today are these twi men: Charles W. Howard (top), Walla Walla, Wash., district gov ernor; Roy A. Elliott, below, pres ident of the Eugene club, host group. SUNDAY EDITION UWANIS OPENS STORY FAGE 9 P9AL fWlST PACTFIC, Sunday, ii.-iA new air raid on FPWn and a strong aer- umst jialmahera is Wich41 parked Japanese "W destroyed or damaged 2J was heavily hit, were hndquarters today. Hitaahera attack and along Voirelkop penin- t- new Guinea, four Z r!?Mr were sunk, a IWgMeMransport des- --v u"iiiHt!ra ana were sunk or dam- bombed the Pj Wtrols L . " vao on Min 1" !" the Phi.J K , were not an- ines Second Rai Nr",.".'!' Previously, Oregon Flying Hellcats Back From Jap War PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (U.W Ten Oregon men, members of the famous Air Group 10, which was responsible for the largest one-day bag of enemy planes dur ing a single battle. In the history of aviation, have returned to the United States after serving six months aboard a carrier in the central Pacific, the navy an nounced today. The battle occurred off the east ern Philippines on June 18 and 19, during, which fighting squad ron 10, flying task force hellcats, shot down 10 of the 369 Japanese planes. From January to July, the group participated in nearly every major fleet air attack in the Pacific. During this period, they con. ducted 2,800 combat sorties, shot down 98 enemy planes, probably destroyed 10 others and damaged 23 in aerial combat. They des troyed 193 enemy planes on- the ground; sank 16 ships including two destroyers; damaged 62 ships. including two " destroyers and cruiser. More than 900 tons of bombs were dropped. Their losses were 12 pilots and seven air crewmen downed in ac tion. The three officers, six combat air crewmen, and one member of the ground personnel returned to Oregon are: Alfred Taddeo, Lt. (jg), Port land; John Robert Shinneman, Lt UK)., Milton: Eugene Erling Ja cobsen, Lt. (jg), Portland; Thomas Truman Watts, aviation radioman, first class, JSNR, Oregon City; Owen. Frederick Tabrum, aviation machinist's mate, second class USNR, Portland; George Edward Hamilton, aviation machinist's mate, second class, USNR, Port land; John Henry Fields, Yeoman, second class, USN. Grants Pass: Darrell Kirkland Coffey, aviation chief radioman, USN, Portland R. K. Bolton, aviation chief radio man, Portland, and Nick Baum- gartner Jr., aviation radioman. first class, Brooking, Ore. Elates Blazing Tower Crashes As Crowd Escapes NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UP) While thousands of pleasure seekers moved quiet ly to saiety today, Coney is land's famed Luna park was destroyed by a mass of flames that shot 400 feet in the air and, fanned by an ocean breeze, threatened the entire area. - . , t Thrill seekers on the sky rides were brought to a sud den stop and conducted from the park as the flames sprout ed. Shortly after they left, the 125 foot tower in the cen ter of the park toppled and fell, its foundations a mass of cinders. . Children' and adults, sideshow operators, and even the monkeys, ponies ana aogs in the circus walked briskly from the amuse ment center as the flames spread from flooring in the dragon's gorge, a scenic ride, to the mile sky chaser and the shoot the chutes, one of the landmarks of the park. Two employees of the park were unaccounted for at S p.m. an hour after the five alarm blaze was first reported, but they were believed to be safe. Whipped by the offshore breeze, the blaze swept through the sun baked, wooden structures to des troy the boomerang the dodgem scooter ride, the circus and the aqua gal, Damage was' estimated at up wards of $250,000 in the Lund park area equal to about five city blocks. Tens of thousands of bathers and pleasure seekers crowded the area. Ambulances were rushed to the scene to treat victims of smoke poisoning. The only injured reported were volunteer firefighter with a bruised finger and a fireman with badly stubbed toe. lANlCWNTYS HOME NEWSPAPER. VOL. 103 TWO SECTIONS 20 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1944 NEWS STANDS So NO. 44 All Lane Cities Have Higher Tax Levies This Fiscal Year ' By HORACE BURNETT Property owners in all cities of Lane county will have higher taxes to pay in the current fiscal year than in the past year, figures on levies in the different municipal ities, released Saturday by Coun ty Assessor Welby Stovens, reveal. To begin, the county levy is two mills higher than last year, due to the special levy of that amount, voted at the primary election in May, for the construction of roads and bridges. In Coburg the total levy will be nearly 30 mills high er, on account of a high special school district levy for the con struction of an addition to the school building. In Oakridge there is a higher levy f6r schools, making an increase of more than 16 mills for all purposes in that city. In Eugene the total levy is i 3.9 mills higher than that of last year. The assessor was unable to com- ' pute the total levy in mills in the city of Cottage Grove for the rea- I son that the property valuation of the Douglas county portion of Cot tage Grove union high school dis trict has not yet been reported. The county, school district and city levies and the total for each city in the county, except Cottage Grove, are as follows: City levtea Coburg County, 14.1 mills; school district No. 43. 49.2 mill! city of Coburg, T.T mills; total, 71 mills. Total levy last year, 41- mills. Cottage Grove County, mills: school district No. 45, mills; union high school district No. 14, ( ); city of .. Cottage Grove, 19.2 mills. Creswell County,- 14;1 mills; school district No. 40, 4.4 mills; union high school district No. 12, 11.7 mills; city of Creswell, 8.7 mills; total 38.9 mills. Total levy last year, 36.9 mills. ' ' Eugene County, 14.1 mills; school district No. 4, 19.6 mills; 8EE ALL LANE STORY PAGE S .. .. - M An Ms m Lane Wife Seeking News Of Husband With Tweed on Guam COTTAGE GROVE Two Cot tage Grove women especially in, tercsted in hearing from George Ray Tweed, the Portland radio man who dodged the Japs on Guam island for two years be fore escaping, are Mrs. Irene M. Young and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Joe E. Young, because their husband and son, Joseph Robert Young, was one of the American radio men captured by the Japs on Guam. Contact is being made with Tweed over the week-end and the younger Mrs. Young hopes to have some word about her husband next week. Both Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rob- Volume of Beans' J For Cannery Higher trreen Deans, rolling in at the rate of about 160 tons a day the past week, are expected to in crease decidedly in volume at the Eugene Fruit Growers associa tion cannery this week. This is to be "the big week" in the handling 'of the beans, be cause there will be some overlap ping in the early and late plant ings arriving. There is still a need for adults who can give full time work at the cannery through the peak period, especially for men to do some of the heavier work. ! "man Urn... .... . Jr? clouiy Sunday h iT JCa,t"ed bun- Cc e mountains K morning. s2 hr.ftT "nwrature. tfnl i 8'aR f '-to ."l.ne at 7 ."ji-iZT" Sunda itm' Z?"1 15 a.m. ft. 'aim. jij,. Annexation Committee To Set Boundaries The committee for proposed an nexation of the Chambers-West Moreland area will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. with city officials to set west-side boundaries, accord ing to Jess Hayden. chairman of the committee. The committee has been meet ing with property owners affected by the possible annexation during the past week and reports splendid cooperation, Hayden states. . Ellsworth to Reach Capital on Tuesday ROSEBURG. Aug. 12 Rep. Harris Ellsworth announced today that he had been recalled to Washington and would leave by plane in time to reach the capital Aug. 15. Ellsworth, who returned here last night after participation in tree farm dedication at Sweet Home, was scheduled to reach Fortland tonight ert Young are well acquainted with Tweed. Young was a chief radio man on the island when the Japs came. The Youngs went to the island in 1939 and Mrs. Young left there for a trip to the states just before the war - broke out. She arrived in this country in June of 1941. The only word the Cottage Grove relatives have had recently on Young was out of one of the short-wave broadcasts from Tokyo last June. Mrs. Young is living here with her son and daughter and is work ing here. Young and Tweed were In the radio station together at Guam. 'Ghost' Army Closing Trap On Foe In France ALLIED SUPREME HEAD QUARTERS, LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 13 (U.R) An American "ghost" army and Anglo-Canadian columns today were reported within 15 miles of a junction near Argentan that would snap shut a trap around possibly 100,000 Ger mans reeling back in retreat un der a bewildering succession allied blows. More than 200 American Ma rauder and Havoc bombers, an swering a direct call for aid from the converging ground forces, drenched the Inst few miles of the escape gap with high explosives and fragmentation bombs late Sat urday,' concentrating on the area Just west of Argentan. Doughboys cashing in on the nazi withdrawal swept back into the embattled Mortain and Sour deval, anchors of the German salient below Vire. To the east,. British Und Canadian columns joined forces 10 miles below Caen and wiped out another salient In the forest of Cinglais dubbed the forest of the dead for its heaps of German corpses. Late dispatches said that the Yanks in their advance rescued War-Journey Quarantining Of Japan Urged Following War BREMERTON, Wash.. Aug. 12 (UP) President Roose velt, returning to home waters after a lengthy cruise to Pa cific 'war bases, today propos ed a virtual post-war quaran tine of Japan until "years fcf proof" have shown that the Japanese will cooperate in maintaining permanent peace. Speaking from the deck of a destroyer in the Puget sound navy yard shortly after arriv ing from Alaskan waters, the chief executive told a nation wide radio audience that "the word and honor of Janan can- of Kelso. Wash., who has been no be trusted." thus creatlntf led in action ' . . . . 01 .v7 LMJ FIRST LIEUTENANT HOW ARD J. HOLM, son of Nets Holm of Eugene and Mrs. Lynn B. Holt Thistle Challenge Hurled at Route F by Girl Scouts Eugene Night-Blooming Cereus Acts Up Sometimes the challenges to Route F are as odd as the produce.- Dolores Kelly, a Girl Scout at Dorena,1 east of Cottag" Grove, takes the prize this week for an unusual challenge. ' "Every one has been reading of the giant flowers, vegetables, ruits, and numerous other things people have been writing about. There is only one thing they have missed thistles!" says Delores. She continues: "I wonder if 'Route F' can raise thistles? If they can't, let the Dorena Girl Scouts show they have one 11 feet tall. This thistle is an ordinary thistle which they found on a camping trip. On the same spot where iU was found were many others, all so tall they had fallen over. The stalk was 6 inches around. Maybe our flowers are not so high, but can Route F beat our thistles?" Then, there's the case of the Cereus. ... , : Says Mrsi. Claude A. Bozorth, 2B5 Sunnyside drive, Eugene: "I noted an Item ja? th Ideals where Reid's creamery -has .a night ' blooming Cereus., plant which was going to bloom. "I have one also, One' I start ed from a small slip in 1937. In 1942 it had one .beautiful bloom and did not bloom in 1943, but two months ago had two blooms, each one measuring about IS inches across. Now, the plant has 10 good, big, .healthy buds and a. few smaller ones.-1 was amazed that it budded again so soon, as I had the impression that it only bloomed once each year. The open flowers are ex quisite things." ' announced as killed In action March 18 over Germany, months after he was reported missing. He was a native of Eugene, a gradu ate of the Junction City high school, and entered service In Sep tember, 1942. i SEE GHOST ARMY STORY PAGE S Ma j. George Falkner Wins Flying Cross Major George E. Falkner of Eu gene has been awarded the dis tinguished flying cross, for the part he played in the invasion of France on D-day, when he piloted a troop carrier which was one of the "first to drop paratroopers in 'the Cherbourg -area. The award was made at a ninth air force troop carrier command base in the European theater of opera tions. Major Falkner, who is just 24, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Falkner of route 5, Eugene. He went overseas in May, 1943, and participated in the campaigns of north Africa, Sicily and Italy, be fore the invasion of the contin ent. He also has the air medal with two clusters, for the other invasions. Reds Driving To Split Two Nazi Forces J, ii i LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 13 (U.B Two mighty soviet armies yes-: terday began hammtring a great wedge between East Prussia and embattled Warsaw while other Russian troops smashed deeper i into Estonia and Latvia in a-drrVe i to chop up Germany's trapped I Baltic armies.,. .'.- -i Hurling the Germans back f'om powerfully-fortified defense lines, the 1st and 2nd White Russian armies commanded by Marshal Konstantln K. Rokossovsky and Gen. Mntvei Zakharov linked forc es astride the vital Blalystok-War-saw railroad and smashed for ward in an attempt to outflank Warsaw to the north and East Prussia to the south. At the same time, soviet armies in Latvia and Estonia extended their breakthrough southwest of Lake Pskov, drove the grimly- fighting nazls back against the Dvlna river southeast of Riga and struck out toward the Baltic port of Lelpaja (Llbau). Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko's Znd Baltic army smashed to within 52 miles southeast of Riga by the capture of Daudzeve. Thrusting west toward the Bal tic city from Jelgava In an effort to cut off German divisions In the Courland peninsula of Latvia, Gen. Ivan C. Bagramlai.'a 1st Baltic army captured Auce, 72 miles east of the big port of Lel paja (Llbau), among ISO other towns. In the strongly-held red army bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula river, red army troops flung back repeated German counter-attacks as the desperate I nazis nuried everytning at their command into a battle to halt a loviet advance to Krakow, the key b German Silesia. Coincident with what the Ger man high command called "inces sant soviet attacks" In. Latvia, Moscow dispatches said that the Russians were preparing a mighty onslaught to bring about the final destruction of nazi Gen. George Llndemann's battered 20 'to 30 divisions. n nmv nmnSG. MOTHER'S GONE HARVESTING The fact that they have young children is no otnUcle to prevent ' Eugene mothers from enlisting In the battle to aave Lane county crops hl aommer. They are limply turning the youngMen over to care of the nuniery anne at Engene vocational wheol, 751 Fourth Avenue west where special arrangemenU have been made to keep them during the day. at nta per day, nnder rareful and efficient anpervtalon of staff directed by Miss Bernire E. Stormea. Arrangements for enrollment are made through Min Slorme. phone 7M. In this nursery anne. the chil dren are not required to hart immBnliing vaccinations, as la th regular Eugene nursery school. Ate t to are received. An ample number and variety of play apparatus la available to keep the young gnesta entertained, and there to plenty of good, whole tome food, to satisfy the cravings or the Inner tot. Conditions are similar to the regular Eotene school nursery, vlewa of which are shown above, depleting bill of nartery activities. Let It be noted that despite the rather elaborate playground equipment at hand, tome of the ynnnrttert preferred the nld-faahloned sport of sliding down the cellar door. Surely there matt he a rain barrel and apple tree somewhere about (Register-Guard photo, WllUhir nttravlaf)' the need for an elaborate network of forward bases nearer to Japan in the years to come. ' Fresh from a first hand view ot powerful bases at Pearl Harbor and Adak and Kodiak in the Aleutians, the president charted the need for "undisputed control" by this country of the great circle course for sea and air navigation from Puget sound to Siberia and northern China. Confidence Increased Roosevelt came home after an absence from Washington since, July 13 more confident than ever of victory, but he declined to fore cast or even hint at when an end to the war either In Europe or the ! Pacific would come. Roosevelt spoke over four majni ; radio networks and to several ' thousand workers at the Puget sound navy yard where his des troyer docked after a voyage from ! Alaska waters. He followed his reference to hit inability to predict an end to the war by appealing for continued, full-strength public support of the war effort, saying the conflict would end . sooner if the people maintained a continued production of "necessary supplies and ships ond planes." Roosevelt's address was largely devoted to a survey of the high points of his trip which took him to Pearl Harbor and the Aleutians, referring particularly to his con ferences with "my old friend,' Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur." He said that his Pearl Harbot talks With MacArthur and Adm, Chester W. Nimltz and other key Pacific commanders, "developed complete accord" "both In the un derstanding of the problems "con fronting the allies in the Pacific," 300 More Pickers Needed for Beans As the peak of the bean harvest will have been reached by Mon day the people of Lane county are being urged by the farm la bor office more strongly than ever to turn out In large num bers to assist the growers in sav ing their crop. Harry Bower, Lane county farm labor assistant, called atten tion Saturday to the fact that several yards will begin picking Monday and some of them have as yet received no promise of pickers, while others that have been In operation during the past week are still short of help. At least 300 additional bickers are needed for Monday, Rower stated. The boyt and girls are turning nut well and are making good wages, but the adults have not at yet responded to the call in sufficient numbers to make up the full crews desired In most of the yards. , Will Plrk Sunday Several yards will pick Sunday, It wat announced, and they will furniih transportation the tame at on any other day. Truckt will be at the Irish and Swartz park- SEE 1M MORE STORV PAGE I BEE QUARANTINING STORY PAGE 1 Allies Occupy All of Florence ROME, Aug. 12. U.B Allied forces have occupied all of Flor ence, center of Italian rennalssanca art, and AMG officials already are taking over, lt wat announced to day, but the allies have been forced from the village of San Colombano, five miles to the west, by massed German fire from the Gothic line. The Germans, who for weeks took advantage of allied hesitancy to shell Florence's art and archi tectural treasures, withdrew at S a.m. yesterday, and within an hour allied military government person nel had crossed the Amo and en tered the heart of the city. Greeted enthusiastically by Italians, the AMG men found that the Germans had blown up the rnllway station and buildings along the water front and the an cient Via Porta Santa Maria which Intersect the river at the historic Vecchlo bridge. Germtn snipers still remained in the city. Italians told AMG officers that Italian women and children were shot by snipers as they went through tne streets, seeking food and water. The nazit, alnce the allied entry Into southern Florence, had Im- ' posed a 24-hour curfew on all males, front reports said, and in recent dayt had entered and searched private homes, confiscat ing watches, cameras and any other valuables attracting them. Meanwhile, sharp fighting broke out west of Florence at the Ger mant battled furiously to hold the three shallow pocket south ot the Arno in that lector. River Road Waste Paper Pickup Sunday 9 A. M.1
