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m connection with
program will be
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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
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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