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it All Home Edition nuts. ha iha official rttf WM. ft uiu Bitel LNE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER AV-S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942. ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS Be NO. 123 I.

Afl Strong English Bulletin $2,000 Defense Fund Included In City Budget Hayes Reports Federal Equipment Will Not Be Available Here Laval Will Not Break With U. S. Despite 'Inadmissable' Note on Madagascar Defense VICHY, France, May 5 (AP) Chief of Government Laval declared tonight he had received a note from President Roosevelt demanding that France not defend Madagascar against British attack, and that the Vichy government regarded this note as inadmissable. Nevertheless, I'rance under no circumstances will make the first move toward a rupture with the United States, Laval said. BMfl MVBaBBBMamOTHBBBVMI IV A .1 ArC RALPH VICTOR L.

JEANS pglU B. Local Men Navy Casualties its first official, high school. He went to gradel tlialtV llSt 01 le w.d er.Unrtl in Snrinfffield. department has rord Glendale R. Young 01 this area ana iw Glendale Rex Young, seaman, Japs Invade South China tlmvtrsiiy 01 first class, was a son of Mr.

and t.i.utiAe nf war tuse wai p1 Mrs. E. V. Young, lizv Jf-asi. street, Springfield.

The youth was aboard the Arizona when it was sunk at Pearl Harbor. At the time of his enlistment the family lived just west of Coburg, the youth's address on the navy roll being from that community, but the fam- ilv has since moved to Springfield, i He leaves his father and mother in Asiatic waters. Young Almasie at home as well as a brother, Vin- was 18 years of age and was a son cent, and a sister, Eleanor, also Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W.

Al-at home. Another brother, Frank- masie. formerly of Swisshome lin, lives at Yankton, South Dakota, a sister, Mrs. Bud Hanson at Vermillion, South Dakota, and another sister, Mrs. Wes Heavir-land, also lives at Yankton.

Ralph L. Wallace Ralph Leroy Wallace, Monroe, listed in the official report of the navy dead, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Kester Wallace, who live 12 miles west of Monroe. He was in his early twenties, and was a fireman, first class.

He was on the Arizona when it was sunk at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7. He had been in u. a championship basketball team On whirh Viie hrn1hr Unr-ri- son, was an all-state guard. Ralph Wallace graduated from Monroe high school later.

Besides his oar- ems, ne is survived by one sister I and three brothers. He was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ingram of Eugene, Mr. Ingram being a brother of the youth's mother.

John Homer Almasle John Homer Almasie, seaman, second class, was killed Feb. 4 while aboard the flaeshio Houston and now residing in Vaughn. John enlisted Feb. 7, 1941, lacking but three days of serving a full year in the navy. A brother lives at Vaughn.

Eldon P. Wyman Ensign Eldon Paul Wyman, ex '41 at the University of Oregon, is listed on the navy's casualty roll from the Pearl Harbor attack. The son of Paul H. Wyman of Portland, he enlisted in the U. S.

naval reserve training school at Chicago in June, 1941, and was sent to duty on the U. S. S. Oklahoma. On the campus he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Verdi Sederstrom Ensign Verdi Sederstrom, graduate of the University of Oregon in 1940, enlisted in the naval reserves in April, 1941, and was sent to training school at Philadelphia. He was on duty on the U. S. S. Arizona.

He was active in student affairs, being first vice-president of the student body In 1940. He was the son of Mrs. Alice Sederstrom of Salem, and his sister, Eleanor Sederstrom, is a senior at the University this year. On the campus, Sederstrom was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. School Districts Receive Tax Money School districts of Lane county are this week receiving $125,997.96 ir.

the semi-annual allotment of tax funds. The county school tax fund amounted to $65,898 and the elementary school fund, $60,099.76. The county school fund is fig ured on a basis of $3.50 per census pupil and the elementary school fund on a basis of $140.42 per elementary unit. The money is being deposited in the banks for each district and the clerk or the directors of the district obtain it there. biwng tin vr ire IVrfMr.md Mrs.

Beman of Mrs. Alma S. 'm imt, Glendale iin, tornrcny ntnr of Springfield. Ralph v.iiM. son of Mr.

and Enter Wallace who live Monroe. Jonn Homer I Mm lit, son or liaise of swissnome, Eldon Paul Wyman, of on of Paul H. Wyman Firllana, and Ensijn Verdi Imtrom, U. of 0., '40, son of jilt! Sederstrom of saiem. ran department's casualty number one, announced Tues- showed that a total of five ers aid 47 enlisted men from In were killed in the Dec.

7- ti li period, according to unu-fes dispatches. luLlarrj" Jeans it Lawrence Jeans, 23, was as Clara nigh scnooi in is 38, sold have been in the navy tars in April. He was a kinder, second class seaman, I U. S. S.

Arizona. Notifi- of his death reached his shortly alter Pearl Harbor, ita son ol Mrs. Lee, a P. T. boat at Balboa, f.

Zone, and is a machinist's i ant class. He has been in urj live years. iBtma." Cowden was the son "is. Alma S. Jepson of 574 ana avenue east, Eugene.

Jepson was notified of her on Dec. 15 in a navy runt telegram. He was a second class, quartermas- wnan, on the U. which went down at Pearl 9lwlen had been in the 15 months at that time. graduate of Med ford in Bombers i lap Airport -bombers drove TJ.

"mderstorm and attacked a major 2JE. a.s? )ust of my aircrafe multi -motored crafts i Sfd nn8rUnd fire to 'ID-pound homt air- 'ars and aiPrraf SrtSt 'i8ht Planes th f. D'astea nn.l.j of Mn. Edith Viola Jeans A graduate Units Attack Diego Sua. ez Action Taken To Forestall Possible Japanese Occupation LONDON, May 5.

(U.BThB British occupation of Madagascar is "proceeding" with, only light casualties, the admiralty and war office announced tonight. "Operations are proceeding and our casualties thus far have been light," a Joint communique said. 'It is understood that the governor general of Madagascar declared his intention to resist." VICHY, May 5. WV-British forces which landed on the French island of Madagascar were reported tonight to have driven to And- rakaka, less than four miles from the great naval base of Diego Suares and six miles from their landing place on Courrler Bay. LONDON, May 5.

OP) British Commandos, marines and infantry landed on the northern tip of Madagascar today, and a Vichy nerrs agency broadcast that they were attacking the strong French naval base of Diego Suarez from the rear while warships and squadrons of airplanes assaulted the harbor frontally. British parachute troops also were used in the attack, the- Vichy broadcast said. To Forestall Japs The troops landed at Courier bay and started pushing ten miles across the northern isthmus against the base, in an attempt to forestall its seizure by the Japanese. Th Vichy broadcast said the British naval forces consisted of two cruisers, four destroyers, two troop transports and probably air aircraft carrier. Two British planes were reported shot down.

As the occupation force moved in on the Vichy French colony, informed London sources declared there was "a possibility the Japanese may take the boldest course and strike directly at Madagascar." Jap Squadron Near In view of the swift British action, however, they thought the Japanese, who are believed to have a powerful battle squadron on the move somewhere in the Indian ocean, would seek first to obtain bases on the British islands of Ceylon or Mauritius. The Allied naval position in those waters remained obscure. Informed quarters agreed that the United Nations had "won the first trick" in the Indian ocean by the British landing on Madagas car at dawn, but there was wide speculation on the possibility of Axis attack. French forces were said to be commanded by a General Guille-met, a former artillery officer, and the impression in London was that their resistance would be brief. A military commentator, who said the landing occurred about 3 a.

British double summer time (6 p. m. Monday, Pacific War time) said the special service troops mentioned in a joint admiralty-war office communique were Commandos specially trained for landing operations. Their comsiander, General R. G.

Sturges, of the Royal marines, is experienced in operations of this type. He fought with a naval division at Gallipoli in World War 1. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS MADAGASCAR British com mando and naval forces fight way ashore to occupy Madagascar and "forestall a Japanese Washington warns Vichy against any "warlike showdown with Pierre Laval's regime anticipated; axis radio says fighting followed British ultimatum. CHUNGKING Japanese forces driving up Burma cross frontier and enter southern China near Wanting, 300 miles south of Kunming; Japanese drive on west within 150 miles of India; American planes bomb Jap airdrome near Rangoon. LONDON RAF offensive ham-meis Skoda arms works in Czechoslovakia and Germany's Stuttgart war center.

AUSTRALIA Flying fortresses and Catalinas leave blazing wreckage In attacks on Rabaul and Lae; 30 enemy planes destroyed or damaged in latest air activity off northern Australia. RUSSIA Red army reports new "offensive operations," hinting at offensive; claims successes Ion Kalinin and Leningrad WASHINGTON, May 5. VP) The war department announced late today that the Japanese have assaulted Corregidor fortress in Manila Bay and that a landing attack was in progress there at midnight Tuesday, Manila time. The Imminence of the collapse of this center of heroic American-Philippine resistance to the Jap. anese invasion was disclosed in a brief report from Lieutenant General Jonathan Walnwtight that the landing attack had been started across the narrow stretch of water separating the fortified island from Bataan peninsula.

There was no estimate of the number of troops who have been holding out against almost continuous artillery bombardment since fighting ceased on Bataan a month ago, but the force on Cor. iegidor and the three other island forts at the entrance of Manila Bay may have totaled 7,000 or more. The communique announcing the landing attack also contained the text of a message sent to Wain-wright earlier today by President Roosevelt expressing the chief executive's "growing admiration" of the "heroic stand against the intensity of bombardment by enemy planes and heavy siege guns." Workmen Make Complaints Against Unions Complaints that men seeking work on the Corvallis cantonment or transfers from the Medford cantdhment to the'-consrruction nearer home are "whlpsawed" to pay the entrance fees of the various local unions were aired Tuesday by Eugene workmen, denied by business agents of the Eugene and Corvallis locals. One Eugene man who paid $10 down for initiation into the carpenters' union at Medford and later $7 down at Corvallis claims he could not get work unless certified through the U. S.

Employment office in Eugene which in turn required that he show a card in the Eugene local but the Eugene local demanded $50 "on the line," and refused credits for previous payments at Medford and Corvallis. Another Eugene man who paid $15 down on a $25 membership in the Construction Laborers' union at Medford said he was told by the Eugene local of the laborers' union that he could not get SEE LABOR STORY PAGE 2 V. RELATIONS WASHINGTON, May 5. P) The United States is following a day-to-day policy with regard to French possessions, Secretary of Stat Hull said today, telling questioners that one guess was as gooi as another as to whether American forces would be needed to back up the British landing on Madagascar. MANY PERSONS who took procedure which opened Mon schools.

At the left is Walter handed over to the grocer at the time of the sale. Those out of sugar can obtain it Thursday If Ready for the annual taxpayers' hearing, set for June 8, the Eugene city budget was approved by the budget committee Monday night, and it contains provision for a $2,000 civilian defense equip- "lem and supplies fund, with a remaining $6,000 emergency fund on which to draw if the situation should suddenly become acute. Provision for the defense money was made after Jack Hays, state fire inspector from Salem, told the committee that under present plans, one of the federal government's $20,000 worth of fire fighting equipment and supplies allocated to Eugene would be available. Portland will be the only city in Oregon to be granted these fire supplies, he said. He urged local government units to take care of their own defense needs in so far as possible.

Requests Pared By trimming here and paring there, the budget makers reduced the budget $4400 under amounts requested by heads of the various city departments who draw on the general fund. At the first budget meeting, two weeks previously, $1304.25 was eliminated, making total reductions of $5744.25 in the general fund. The trimming left the general fund total of $119,997.58. Other special funds, which were unchanged from original amounts set by charter amendments, total $159,401.53. These are: Debt retirement, street lights and electrical energy, municipal playgrounds (less $1000 from school district), $3900; municipal airport, municipal swimming pool, $6,598.35.

The general fund of $119,997.58 plus the special funds of gives a grand total of $279,399.11 to be raised by taxation. Extra Help Cut There was a discussion of a proposal to combine the positions of building and electrical inspectors in the city engineer's office, but City Engineer W. C. Clubb was called in to explain the needs. When he explained it was impossible to make this change, the items were left unchanged.

However, an item of $1400 for extra help in the engineers' office was eliminated. In the fire department the new equipment" sinking fund of $2500 was cut to $1500 and an item of $1500 for new hose was eliminated. The band fund of $500, eliminated at the first budget meeting two weeks ago, was not restored, in spite of an ardent plea by SEE BUDGET STORY PAGE 5 HERE ARE TWO OF THE part in the sugar registration day afternoon at the local grade Leaves "Responsibilities" Addressing a press conference, Laval declared in a husky voice; "The French government leaves to President Roosevelt his part of the responsibility of the eventual consequences of this aggression." Laval said he had given this word to the U. S. charge d'affaires, S.

Pinckney Tuck, in a 15-minute conference this morning at which Roosevelt's note was delivered. He said: 'In response to the American iote, the French government raises the most energetic protest against this aggression and takes notice that Madagascar will be returned to France and rejects as inadmissible the pretense to forbid the French government to defend its territory." Laval spoke to the correspondents just after Paul Marion, secretary of state for information, announced that British parachutists, followed by light armored forces, landed on Madagascar this morning. Notes Exchanged Laval said Tuck gave him a note from President Roosevelt and received Vichy's reply. He said, "in answer to the American note I recalled to him the conditions of essential relations be tween the two countries, and on the other hand my conversation with Ambassador Leahy, in which I said no final gesture between the two countries will come from France." YASIU ENTERS PLEA PORTLAND, May 5. U.B Minori Yasiu, young Hood River, Japanese attorney, who made a test case of the alien and Japanese-American curfew regulations, today had withdrawn his demurrer to the federal court indictment and entered a plea of not guilty.

Soviets Report Offensive Actions MOSCOW, May 5. Red army troops were officially declared today to have "waged offensive battles on several sectors of the front and improved their positions" yesterday and the implication was that the Russians had seized the initiative to break the relative stalemate of a muddy spring. The Soviet information bureau announced the widespread action against the Germans after a month in which its communiques were prefaced by such reports as "There were no substantial changes." The mid-day communique reverted to this phraseology to describe the overnight situation on the long front. they have their ration books. The usual number of ladies shovred up who would not tell their age to anyone, not even the courts.

One applicant wondered if a book could be obtained, in anticipation, for a baby soon to be born. Even with the matter-of-fact attitude most persons assumed toward the rationing there were many surprises to some applicants. Many did not realize that a book is issued for each member of the family group. Some didn't understand that registrars did all the writing in the ration application, that it took five or six minutes to get the card filled out completely, that it was not just going up and "getting a card." The teachers, responding will ingly to the volunteer work, ap- prcciate those patient applicants urnri E9frifipn lriua nf lima nivi who sacrifice loss of time from business to stand in line to wait! for their turn uncomplainingly, as most did. The principals of rushed schools, Lincoln and Drincioallv.

promised that the registration staff would be in creased to make waiting time shorter. Students and other residents who are over 18 must get their ration books here now. Their parents cannot register for them. This was a special warning issued esp vially to University of Oregon students. Any person over 18 musl et his own book.

I I i 1 Wallace attended Bellfountain high school, being on the squad of the Vocational School Needs Volunteer Cars Volunteers with automobiles will be needed Wednesday for three hours at the Eugene vocational school, Mrs. Lillian Van Loan, director of the school, announced Tuesday. The cars will be needed to help transport the new aviation mechanics trainees, many of whom will come here from other states and will thus not be acquainted with the city, Mrs. Van Loan said. A large portion of the 260 new students will be out-of-state students, Mrs.

Van Loan said. There is only one day in which to register the students, assign them their quarters, provide uniforms and make other arrangements for the class work, and the cars will assist in speeding up these activities, Mrs. Van Loan said. Persons having1 vehicles and the time to drive them for three hours during the day should get in touch with Mrs. Catherine Lamb, chairman of housing arrangements, at telephone number 4086.

The cars will be needed from 11 to 12 a. m. and from 2 to 5 p. Mrs. Van Loan said.

"We want to help these students get a good start. The cars will help us considerably." Candidates' Forum To Be Wednesday All voters Interested are invited to attend the free public forum Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Woodrow Wilson junior high school building with the seven candidates for the new fourth congressional district as speakers. Each candidate is to be given eight minutes. Following the talks questions will be received from the floor. CHUNGKING, May 5 Japanese troops invaded China's Yunnan province today after driving up the Burma road and crossing the shallow Wanting river, 670 miles from this capital, a military spokesman said.

Bitter fighting is in progress in the area around the border town of Wanting, still in Chinese hands, the spokesman reported. He declared that destruction of the Chinese section of the Burma road, which winds through sheer mountains and gaping gorges, had not yet been necessary but that the Chinese would carry out their scorched earth policy if neces sary. (The Japanese claimed their air force already had carried the war far into Yunnan province heavy raid on Yungchang, about 100 miles inside the province where the Burma road crosses the upper reaches of the great Mekong river. A dispatch to the Tokyo newspaper Asahi, indicating that an air base had been established there, said the raiders destroyed nine planes, seven of which were grounded. The dispatch added that the town had been left in flames).

German Army Chiefs Threaten Hitler LONDON, May 5 A group of Adolf Hitler's generals headed by Field Marshal Walther Von Brauschitsch was reported today to have told the fuehrer bluntly that if his 1942 campaign in Russia fails, they will try to institute for Germany an alternate plan of their own calling for "abolition of the nazi system." A responsible soure with unusually reliable information about conditions inside Germany said Hitler had accepted this challenge calmly and appointed Von Brauchitsch a member of the supreme command. Hitler relieved von Brauchitsch as commander in chief last Dec. 21 and announced that he himself, relying on his "intuition," had assumed direct command of his armies. Von Brauchitsch was one of the strongest opponents of Hitler's plan for holding the forward positions In Russia through the winter and counselled a fall back from Moscow long before Hitler agreed. Youthful Route Pullets Lay Eggs Albert Lake, Noti (Route F), ays he "has according to Billy Maddaugh of Veneta.

Lake says his New Hampshire pullets, four months and one week old, have started laying. One of them has laid two eggs imsucces-sion with three yolks. "Well, she gets 'things done' apologies to Earl Snell," was Billy's comment. Ed note: Whatcha mean, Mad- aaugn, inai r.ari lays an egg: NEW ASSAULTS WASHINGTON, May 5. (U.R) Resumption of heavy assaults on Manila bay forts and new landings in Mindanao were believed today to be indications that the Japanese were beginning a campaign to wipe out the remaining lne TWO SHIPS TORPEDOED WASHINGTON, May 5.

(P) A medium sized United Nations merchant vessel and a British mer chantman have been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast, the navv an. nounced today, and survivors have been landed at an east coast port, SUB SAID SUNK BERLIN (from German broad easts), May 5. () DNB said today that a French submarine and tender rnd been sunk at Madagascar resisting the British landing. 4,646 Register For Sugar Rationing Monday m. Ja, north of 1 ne League, of women Voters tii.

a eommuni- 'ne American Association of Pi M. a 'font an-1 un'versity Women are co-sponsors By DON BUTZIN "Now that we have rationing stamps do we have to pay for the sugar?" asked one of the many inquisitive applicants for war ration books at the opening day registration in Eugene's six grade schools Monday. Among those showing the "positive, wholesome attitude" toward the sign-up, so described by First-day registration totals Indicate much more business to come. With only four days for the registration, May 4, 5, 6, and 7, less than one-fifth of the expef.ed applicants from Eugene appeared at the schools Monday. Of the 4646 who applied, 2962 got ration books.

The others had more than their allotment of six pounds per person and will get books at an uv'ecified time later. Stamps were removed from ration books for the amounts declared. The average removal per bonk was less than one-half stamp. The expected applications for the city are 25,500. according to J.

F. Cramer, superintendent of schools. the school principals in charge of the registration, were a man who declared his supply of sugar on hand by bringing it to the registrar in a bottle, and a lady who brought her "store" with her in a diminutive calling card envelope. Soma of those who came be- 5i miles were All Grove Has ofe May fan rove still rt'7in depart- i council rtieet- Uk that eve" given Mem Th. K' Fr.n.'" Mon.

itaii. ed ressier 7' au to the the meetinff. Mrs John r. Mr Closkey, one of the chairmen for the event, reports that the police department will have a patrol car on duty around the building to see that no harm is done to any parked automobiles. Hambro Will Speak Here Sunday Evening C.

J. Hambro, world renowned Politician, former president of the League of Nations assembly, and head of the Norwegian parliament Just before it fell into Nazi hands. Will be in Eugene Sunday evening, May 10, to speak on "A Practical eace." His appearance is scheduled for McArthur court at 8 p. m. appearance was originally announced for Friday evening, but conflict with university Junior Week-end events made thi change to Sunday necessary.

W. Brydgcs, who, though he was one of the registration officials himself, had to sign up like any one else. "Signing him up" is Miss Dorotha Moore, teacher at University high school, (Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire Engraving). moaned the fact that they had no soon as ration book stamps are sugar at all on hand. They were advised bv the ration board today that the sale of sugar will start as.