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Weather: Rain Home Edition LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 3. VOL. 96 EUGENE, OREGON.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940. President Sees Wayne Morse Nay Help Settle Port Issue San Francisco Docks Active Once More After Long Strike mmm sxs Congress Hears Roosevelt Ask For flew Arms 'We Must Take Care Roosevelt Broadcasts From Ccpitcl Chamber WASHINGTON, 3 (AP) President Roosevelt, addressing entifirews at the outset, of a new session, declared today lhe United States ultimately can become a leader for world peace but that "we must likewise be prepared to take eare of ourselves if the world cannot attain peace." Accordingly, he said he was nskinft this year in the light "PLEASURE ISLAND" float was awarded one of the Minneapolis Apartment Fire FafalTo20 Morning Flames Take Heavy Toll; Forty Are Injured MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 3 (UP) Twentv persons perished today when trapped in the Marlborough apartment hotel by flames that survivors said seemed to shoot right out of the walls. The fire apparently was started in the basement at 6 a. m.

Even before an alarm could be turned in it had licked upward through the halls and stairways, trapping scores of residents in their apartments and in the hallways. Many of them still were in their beds. Five hours after the fire was discovered 17 bodies were lined up in the Hennepin county morgue. Three more were being removed from the still burning building. Several of the bodies were burned beyond recognition.

Relatives and friends swarmed through the morgue. Identified were the bodies of Mrs. Jay Franke, 52, her son, Otto, 25; and her daughter, Renee, 16. A woman who jumped head first from a third story window was identified tentatively as Florence Hessing, 30. Others identified were Mabel Brown, 34, and the infant son of Charles Coovect 40 Hurt Forty persons were injured, and 23 of them were taken to hospitals.

Two firemen and two policemen were among the injured. Survivors said that when they were warned nearly every avenue of escape was blocked. Most were saved by jumping windows in the upper floors of the three story building. Some managed to crawl to fire escapes. Charles Norton, 61, said he was awakened by an explosion.

He ran into the hallway but found it a mass of flames. "The fire seemed to shoot right out of the walls," he said. "I opened a closet door to get my clothes, but the closet walls were ablaze. The flames were licking out of the walls in our room when my wife and I jumped from the window to the ground a few feet below." After an investigation Fire Chief William Traeger said he was certain that the fire started in a rubbish heap in the basement. Discovery of the burned rub-tjisn pile led investigators to abandon earlier theories that a boiler explosion or escaping gas might have been the source.

ne believed all the Sr remved from the oftlr I aJ'h0ush was Pssible might have been the htuhen lhe sond floor of building collapsed. it SNOVV WOULDN'T BE SO BAD if everybody could tiikc it like Elizabeth Barclay, University of Kansas coed. This direct hit indicates somebody else was having sonic fun too. Dies Exonerates 1 judges and the roses were both Nofi Nan Hiir Train Crcsl Halsey Is Scene Of Crossing Mishap HALSEY, Jan. 3.

(Special) Peter Schmitz, of Noti, was injured painfully when the automobile in which he was riding collided with a northbound Southern Pacific train shortly after 10 a. m. Wednesday on the Browns ville road crossing. Mr. Schmilz was laken the Sacred Heart general hospital in Eugene.

He is suflciing from rib and back injuries. With Mr. Schmilz were his two sons, Peter Schmitz, and Theodore, both' of Noti, and a daughter, Mrs. Marie of Eugene. The other three occupants were not hurt seriously.

The car was badly wrecked. Thc party was enroute to Sweet Home. Two cars wpre appi caching the crossing, the Srhmitz car being the second. The first one went over the crossing before the train arrived, and it is believed the Schmitz party was watching the first car and did not sit the train approach. Peter Schmilz, was driving.

Skipwcrih Osnqnet Thursday Evening Judge G. F. Skipwnith of the circuit court, will bp honored by bench and bar at a banquet to he held at thc Osburn hotel evening, January -1, I ho occasion being the end of his continuous year as judge of tins district. Justices of the state supreme court, circuit judges and members of the bar, as well as friends of the jurist outside of tiie pi ofes-sion, will attend the banquet. Among those from other points in the state to be brie are Chief Justice John L.

Rand of the state supreme court. Associate Justices Harry H. Belt and Hall S. I.usk, Circuit Judges Carl E. Wimberly of Roseburg and James T.

Brand of Coos county, Chief Justice Rand. Judge L. T. Harris, formerly justice nf the supreme court, and A'tnniey S. Calkins will be II, The banquet is brine spmr nretl by thc Lanc County liar as ocia-tion.

37 Eugeneans Km it' University Honor Roil Honor roll students for fall term at the University of Oregon numbered 119, according to C. L. Constance, assistant registrar. Of this number 27 were from Portland and 37 from Eugene. The business administration school led all others with 24 students on the honor list; journalism and Kngli'h tied with 11 each, and social science had 10.

Students whose grade points reached 3.5 or above were on the roll. Averages are computed on the number of term hours. 4 brim; equal to "A'' grade, .1 to a 2 to and 1 to Those making straight grades or a G. P. A.

of 4 00 are Charles F. Delzell, Wilbur Jack Grant, and Benson Males, all of Portland; Lois Onthank, Eugene: Betty L. Brown, Hubbard; Robert B. Chilcote, Klamath Falls; Perry SEE EUGEXEANS STORY FACE 10 Wiiyne Morse, arriving in Kir-rnr from Chicago Wednesday Mtrmoon, said that he would accept tlio poM nf arbitrator in the San Francisco rjerks' union dispute, nrovidrd ihat his superiors at the University of Oregon gave their consent. Ruth the unions and the employers have requested that Dean Morse head the three-man arbi tration board.

Wednesday afternoon, howevor, he had not yet received an official request to take the post although it was believed that officials in San Francisco had been trying to get in touch with him. If accepts the position, he indicated that arbitration hearings would have to ho held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to enable him to return to Kugono for classes in thc latter part, of the week. To See Krb The law school dean will confer with President Donald M. Krb Wednesday afternoon. An official announcement on' thc question is expected before Wednesday evening.

Dean Morse said that he would not consider naming an arbitrator to settle the dispute as was sug- gested by Harry Bridges, presi-i dent of the international long- I shoremen's union. He pointed out that there were existing agencies for tii appointment of arbitrators and added that he did not wish 1ft take the responsibility of ap pointing a man. COMftSHRQE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. (U.R) Waterfront employers and CIO ship clerks today signed an agree-j mcnt providing for immediate re- SFE SAN FRANCISCO STORY PAGE 10 Annual Y.

M. C. A. Ssssicn January 17 The annual meeting of the Eugene Y. M.

C. A. is scheduled for Wednesday evening, Jan. 17, according to H. W.

Kimbcrling, president of the organization. The meeting is to be held at the Methodist church, where a dinner attended by -both men and women, will precede the business session. Results of lhe annual election of new members to thc YMCA board of directors will be reported at this meeting, Mr. Kimbcrling said. Board incumbents, whose terms this month, are G.

G. Bushman, R. P. Dixon, Arthur llendershott, J. W.

McArthur and Ralph Newman. A special committee, headed by Donald Husband, will submit proposals for a revision of the association's constitution and by-laws. The members are also (o consider guiding policies with reference to the construction of a new YMCA building on the society's Willamette street site. Dr. J.

l. Branton, head of thc department of religion at the University of Oregon, will address the session, his subject being "The Y. M. O. A.

in Youth's Changing World." In charge of arrangements for this event is the YMCA program planning committee, headed by R. V. Dixon. Other members of thc committee are: Williston Wirt. K.

W. Onthank, B. Earle Parker, J. K. Cramer.

V. Johnson, Lester Beck and Harry Holt. First Tax Turnover Of New Year Made The first fax turnover of the new year was made by the sheriff's office at the county treasurer's office Wednesday. Collections for the several past years are reported as follows: For S32.428.64 and $024.78 interest; for 10.18. S3227.rj() and $101.71 interest; for 1937.

$1239.49 i and interest; for 1. 30 and S244.09 interest; for and $514.33 inter-i est; for 1934, $1443.76 and $43.52 interest; for 1932, $2106.88 and I S8J.99 interest; for 1931, S5236.22 and $187 interest; for 1927-30, $731.36 and $88.43 interest. JAPAN' HAS CRASH I TOKYO, Jan. 3. (U.R) Eleven persons were killed and 72 injured, 12 seriously, when electric trains collided in thc suburbs to-I day.

of eonlininnrj world uncertainty, for "army and navy increases which arc based not on panic but on common sense." And the president proposed sufficient additional (axes be levied to meet the cost of emergency spending for defense. He did not specify specific amounts or methods of taxation. More than halt the message, delivered by Mr. Roosevelt in person to senators and representatives assembled in joint session in the house chamber, was devoted to international affairs and problems. Into it, too.

the president injected a strong appeal for national unity. National unity, lie asserted, "is, in a very real and deep sense, the fundamental safeguard of all democracy." The stress placed on problems created by a world at war, the piesident said, docs not mean thc government is abandoning or overlooking the great significance of Jome'itie policies. 'But for rltu most part, he touched but briefly on those policies, to examine in a coldly analytical manner the ways in which conflicts across thc seas have left an imprint on America and her citizens. liefnre a Flae Standing on thc house rostrum before a battery of microphones and with a great American flag draped from the paneled wall behind him, Mr. Roosevelt declared as ho had in previous addresses that he hoped the United States would not become involved in those wars.

Yet, he asserted, "there is a vast difference between keepin out of war and pretending that tins war is none of our business." The senators, representatives, cabinet members and invited guests who packed thc chamber and its galleries listened intently as he spoke. A step or so above and behind him on (he 'rostrum sat vice-president Garner and Speaker Bankhead. also paying close hoed to every word of the message which they and the senate and house majority leaders went over in the rough with the chief executive yesterday. "Storm" Discussed With his discussion of international problems, the president linked a ricfcive of the reciprocal trade treaty program a program which has given every indication of becoming one of the storm centers of thc session. The trade agreements act, he said, "should be extended as an indispensable part of the founda- SICE CONC1KHSS STOUY PACK 10 Weather News Slightly cooler temperatures and a wind from the east indicated to Kugeneans, Wednesday, that the long delayed cold weather might be approaching.

The forecast follows: OREGON': Unsettled tonight and Thursday, intermittent light rain or snow east portion and rains west portion; snows in high mountains; little change in temperature; increasing southeast wind off coast. AIRPORT nUKF.AU RECORD: Minimum temperature, Wednesday, 37.3 degrees; maximum temperature. Tuesday, 54.7 degrees; precipitation to 4:30 a. m. Wednesday, .29 nf an inch; wind, at noon, Wednesday, east.

RIVER BllUEAl! RECORD: Stage of Willamette river in Eugene at 7 a. m. Wednesday, .5 of a foot. Sluslaw Tides SAN FRANCISCO'S "firsts" in Pasadena's annual dampened by the rain. County School Population Up Increase Of 628 Noted In Moffitt's Report The school population of Lane county in the fall of 1939 was 628 greater than at the same period in 1938, census figures released at the office of L.

C. Moffitt, county superintendent, Wednesday reveal. The total number of persons between the ages of 4 and 20 years in the county when the recent census was taken is 17,697 as compared with 17,067 in 1938. On the number of such persons in the county each year is based the amount of funds allotted to the schools. The Eugene district had a gain of 188 during the term and other nearby districts show an increase in population.

Cottage Grove is the only one of the larger districts of the county to show a decrease. There were nine less in the 1939 census than in 1938. Census figures for the larger districts of the county for 1939 compared with those of 1938 are as follows: 1938 1939 Dunn 171 182 Bethel 166 190 Stella Magladry 215 190 Glenwood 233 260 River Road 316 367 Santa Clara 270 288 Creswell 283 294 Florence 172 186 Coburg 226 241 Blachly 212 225 Mapleton 228 244 Lorane 136 153 Oakridge 302 335 Westfir 230 237 Junction City 426 463 Cottage Grove 906 897 Springfield ..1039 1160 Eugene 5034 5222 HiffePVBritish Lady Friend Home FOLKESTONE, England, Jan. 3 (U.R) The Hon. Unity Freeman-Mitford, British noblewoman and friend of Adolf Hitler, came home from Germany today on a channel steamer over which three British, fighting airplanes circled.

The channel steamer to which the blonde British girl was carried on a stretcher at Calais put into Folkestone amid reports that Miss Freeman-Mitford was suffering from mysterious gunshot wounds. Officials took extraordinary precautions to prevent crowds from approaching the landing stage. An escort of soldiers in battle dress and with steel helmets and bayonets were on duty at the dock. Bonneville Power Sent Over First Private Lines Taken By PUD PORTLAND, 3 (U.B Public utility district No. 1 of Skamania county, today became the first northwest PUD to acquire the facilities of a private company for distribution of Bonneville energy.

Directly on the heels of the announcement that the Skamania district officials had purchased the. holdings of the West Coast Power company, Bonneville Paul J. Raver revealed that a contract had been consummated between the PUD and the power project for the purchase of Bonneville electric power. January 1 floral parade. The California Waits 'Attack' TACOMA, Jan.

3. In a peacetime maneuver reminiscent of World war days, marching men streamed steadily aboard the army transport Republic here today and made ready to embark this afternoon for the largest peacetime army-navy games in the nation history. Boarding the Republic, veteran World war troop ship, were 1,800 men, the advance detachment of 7,500 third division troops that will attack thc coast of California in a gigantic mid-January man euver involving more than 10,000 soldiers, part of the Pacific coast fleet and army and navy war- planes. Eugene Will Toast Number One Citizen The Eugene Realty board's an nual "first citizen" banquet will be an event of Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock in the Osburn hotel. F.

M. Wilkins, Eugene pioneer is being honored on this occasion as the 1939 first citizen. David Simpson, Portland, president of the Oregon association oi real estate boards; Dr. Warren D. Smith, University of Oregon faculty; and Robert A.

Booth, Eugene, will be speakers. Claude Murphy, state real estate commissioner, will be here from Salem to attend and will assist with installation for new officers for the local board. Citizenship is the theme for the evening's program. Concluding the program the board will present a plaque to Mr. Wilkins, who is to give a response.

With the "first citizen" at the banquet will be three of his daughters, Mrs. Herbert T. Condon of Seattle, Mrs. Condon C. McCornack of San Francisco, and Mrs.

Lynn S. Mc-Cready, Eugene. Many leaders from Lane county are expected to attend the event, invitation being extended to representative groups throughout the county to attend and honor citizenship at this time. Sheriff Clears Out Jungles Near City The hobo "jungles" at thc end of First avenue west in the north western part of the city were cleared of their inhabitants by Sheriff Swarts and his deputies Wednesday and the half a dozen shacks recently built there will be razed, the sheriff said. Sheriff Swarts and his deputies found six or seven men on the lot and all were ordered to abandon the shacks and depart.

Complaint had been received that there had been petty thievery in that vicinity lately. The shrcriff also found one shack under the overhead crossing at the intersection of the Pacific highway north and the Coos Bay line of the S. P. The lone inhabitant was ordered to leave. Morse Remains Quiet On Midwestern Bid Wayne L.

Morse, dean of the University of Oregon law school, said Wednesday he had no comment to make regarding a recent rumor that he conferred with officials of a midwestern school while in Chicago over the holidays. He returned from the trip Wednesday. Stage Star Motoring Here Oregon rains mean nothing to Eva Le Gallicnne, noted actress appearing in Eugene, Wednesday evening in "Hedda Gnbler." Most of thc company arrived in the city on the noon train, but Miss Le Gnllienne chose tri make the trip through the valley by automobile and was due to arrive here around 4 p.m. When others of the play company arrived at thc Eugene hotel there was flutter among some of those waiting for Miss Lc Gnllienne. Flowers were presented one of the women of the company and messages extended to her, but she laughingly informed the group she was not the star.

"Hedda Gabler" will be presented at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday at the McDonald theater, and tickets may be obtained at the box office. Lane Fair Funds Ordered Consolidated The two funds in thc 1940 Lane county budget for thc county fail-wore ordered consolidated by the county court Wednesday. This order followed an opinion from District Attorney L.

L. Ray to the effect that the county trpasurer should have but one fair fund, that the office should have control of the funds and should disperse money from it only on warrants drawn on the fund by the county fair board for individual items. In the 1940 budget is an item of $73:0 under the head or "county fair" and another of $1625 for the county fair board. The order of thc court states Ihat. the statute provides for a "fair fund" and that both of these items should be carried under this head hereafter.

Irish Army Blast Funds Said Originating In United States DUBLIN, Jan. 3 (U.R) Minister of Justice Gerald Boland charged in the Dail today that thc Irish republican army has received from the United States most of the funds used for the purchase of arms and explosives. Heavily armed soldiers and police were on guard as the Dail met to hear Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's appeal for emergency powers to combat thc I. R. which fias been reported planning an uprising for next Easter.

Comptroller Calls For Bank Conditions WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U.R) The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of December 30, 1939. Some Unions 'Tinged' With Reds, Is View WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (U.Ri The Dies committee, in a unanimous report to congress today, exonerated John L.

Lewis and thc majority of members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations of charges that they are communists or communist sympathizers, but charged that the leadership of 11 of the 48 CIO unions "Is more than tinged with communism." Thc 15,000 word report, thc last official act of the committee unless the house extends its life, made no legislative recommendations. It merely cited the committee's accomplishments and gave four reasons why its members believe thc investigation of un-American activities should be continued. Its major appeal was to government agencies for an active campaign of prosecution to "repel insidious forms of attack by foreign powers through organizations whose obvious objectives can be no other than to destroy the American form of government." Thc committee foresaw a time soon when "subversive" organizations would "cease to be seriously regarded by anyone in the United Stales" because of their loss of membership and prestige. It noted that those organizations "have fallen upon the darkest days they have seen yet," and that despite thc efforts of "Nazis, communists, fascists, self-styled saviours of America and all the rest, not over 1,000,000 people in the United States can be said to be seriously affected by these essentially foreign or un-American activities. School Adequacy Survey Under Way A school housing adequacy survey, a WPA project, is under way in Oregon under the direction of L.

K. Marschat, stale supervisor of the work, who was formerly city superintendent of the schools at Springfield. Mr. Marschat was in Eugene Wednesday, looking after lhe beginning nf the work in Lanc county. Fifty or more persons will be engaged in making the survey in different parts of the state, the director said.

The workers will make a survey of every school building in thc state, measuring the physical plant and site of each, taking into consideration the enrollment, thus getting a line on the adequacy of each. Reviews of 1939, Previews of 1940 Coming Sunday over 1939 and 'mo thc Ncw Year is tW in Ifc, i "'end to Eure Lanc to do Pictures the buiiS! hL "'culture and 5 and thp Pa be "viewed for the future Jjwnted by experts in their "viewed i' Cabridge As- Wilh "he a'ng "Pinion, Cambridge experts' bow7 Year me iiu uon. Huge bur-r, 7 CTy By in if sellinS' trading, p7 bo'-ing through the Sltff-nr- -ia want Ads. cost. Phone 1200 for an ad-taker.

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