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T PAGE TEN McCliord Field Is Put in Use f Northwest i Base for Army . Bombers : " Dedicated - at Tacoma - - McCIIORD FIELD, Wash., July a-iTTo the . roar . of the Pa ! iflc northwest's new ' aerial ar- " xnada, Brig. Gen. -' B.f K. Yount today dedicated this new army ' air' base hailed as the world's r largest- with, the challenge: "We most be prepared. The army aif . . corps : will be." . : : .. - , ,Wh'ile - expressing . the -fervent hope the nation would be allowed to remain at peace, tha assistant chief of the air corps emphasised ' that the army's fighting planes would be a match for any In the - world, ..with the latest improve- p ments.'' ;: : . ' : ' :V "It has been determined thai combat .; planes , mnst bare leak : proof : tanks to,avoid going "down in flames froma single shot,", he said "All combat planes now un der . order will hare leak-proof tanks. ' ... '...'... ' VHeary Guns Used "The .30-calIbre machine guns which we had been using .-have proved Ineffective. We have pow erful .50-calibre guns to replace them. - v .-: V"" ! "You. can see' a couple of P-36 pursuit planes on' this field. The pursuit planes which are now .be ing built, some already delivered, are miles ahead of them. " . "God grant that - we won't be 4rawn into war. But nothing can be . acnievoa oy .wisnrui tnmaing, We must -be prepared.' : t General -Yonnt was the highest- ranking official 'participating In 'the' dedication, of the - 2090- acre,' J18.000.000 - air- base, 11 miles south of Tacoma, on which $7,000,000 has been spent.' . War birds from tlie new army tenter will be charged with re sponsibility for the aerial defense of Washington,, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and part of Wyoming; The flying units also will augment Alaska's new? air-force.- -" Eighteen powerful Douglas twin-motored bombers of the 17th bombardment gron p, recently transferred to the field,' led In today's aerial maneuvers.- Also participating were three recon naissance bombers of the ' newly assigned 89th reconnaissance squadron and eight observation planes of the 91st observation ifuauivu .vv-u v w-j ...... u, Fort Lewis. Army Is Looking For Good Horses LOS ANGELES, July W;p Even In these days of mechanized warfare, the US army needs horses and 00 are being sought for the ' western area,. County Farm Advisor C. V. Castle In formed county supervisors today. The government is paying from $150 to $175 a head, delivered to a shipping point. In charge of pur chases is Major F. .W. Koester, US army quartermaster corps, western remount area, San Ma teo, Calif. THE REAL FIREWORKS is I? LOQSH G1T.1 SHOGS : : . . - COST 7 "las' . I .- . " , . - ..-- i ... . - Be Sure to Come' Friday for Beit Selections!. nn c3 n "Your Florsfteim Store i . 'i ' .' ' 1 1 . : - i - . . wu-:ii ' ' - LatinTrade -Will Co to High Bids South Americans Will Bay From Nation Offering Best Deal, Claim AUSTIN, Tex., jjaly -$-(- South American trade twill' go to the nations offering the highest return whether those returns ac crue through the United . States economic cooperation plan or the German barter system, two ex perts told 'the closing session of the University of Texas' inter- arB Fnday 95 Morthwllm Shoes so en So! tcxioyl Your size your favoritt sryle morkad down for a shorff tlma only. You can tavo rt al money by buying two. pairs now. - Th w "n rvw " " ' - ' v-A Portland police motorcycle drill team, shown la some of tb feats tbati will be performed all the Kalem American Leclonl July 4 celebration at the state faireronnds this afternoon. It repertoire Includes crashing plank walls, rier and hanulng American conference today." George Wythe, department of commerce liaison officer, asserted the time had come for US "nib bling'' at the edges of Fan-American economic problems to give way to "bold and far-seeing ac tion i : . iT '- ;. Amos Taylor, chief of the fi nance division of the US bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, told of the confused European trade situation concerning South American republics and said: . , "Developments under a system of ' barter trade, compensation agreements, exchange quotas, etc.. direct special emphasis upon the nossible necessity of making choice In the future between two entirely different trading systems (nasi and American) in one of which the ordinary financial me chanism must Inevitably give way to instruments of economic pow er." Britain Refuses Japanese Demand TOKYO, July t-iffV-Britain was reported authoritatively to night to be standing firm against Japanese demands for closing of the motor road from Rangoon, British Burma, to Chungking, China -"the road to Mandalay" over which military supplies have been passing to the Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang .Kai-Shek.-' . j-jL- - Defeated France already has bowed to similar Japanese de mands relating to French Xndo Chlna. ' ..; . - i An informed source said s note refusing to close the Burma road had been' received from London by the British embassy. ' ' A Ambassador Sir Robert - Leslie Craigie was said to be asking his government for final instructions before its delivery to the Japanese government. - ; . , : ? It was believed a British re fusal would bring a newierisls In relations of the. two powers,: re cently Improved by an agreement over Tientsin. Current moves' of Japanese troops near the British colony of Hongkong have been in terpreted in s o m e quarters' as pressure to induce closing of the Burma road. -. ? ;. Laha Turner Asks Shaw for Divorce ;' LOS ANGELES. July !-)-Lena Turner, sued 'Artie Shaw for divorce today, but Hollywood still is guessing because this is the way Lana put it: - ? W ,' .ft v It it no longer possible for the plaintiff. : to continue1 as the 'wife of the defendant with out serious jeopardy to her well being." i. V?' - --! :-:'' The announced end of the U months marriage of the '19-year-old film glamour girl and the 1-year-old band leader came last Monday. Lana said :we are t H through,": but Artle'denled it un til, confronted' by s his wife .at a press agent-inspired " meeting.! he heard her. repeat her statement. - Her complaint. -did not amplify the cruelty charge. ... , mm i '. i . .i ii tmmmm-.t. I':" Trucli-Aulo Crasli lijlls Portlandef PORTLAND, Ore., July 8-iP) An automobile-truck collision kill ed Edward Besaw, 28, tonight boosting Portland's IS 40 tr&Cfic toll to ST.--!-v'. ': -.h Besaw and August H. Wagtier, 39, were thrown from the turtle back of a coupe? , -Warner fiul fered bead lacerations. !- OHEGON STATTSMAir Calsra. tax ' ,if'.f III rifling through burning-' bar- himan obetaclee. Gold Mine Owner Dies From Blaze Discoverer of! Fabulous Mine Is Auto Burned When Camp Rres FLAGSTAFF! Arix., July t.- tfWw of discovering a fabulous gold mine five years ago had lit erally turned to ashes today tor Mrs. Halite Holmes Haynes, 4S, who was burned !to death, last night In a tourist camp cottage. When she and i her husband. George Holmes' found the Silver Queen mine in the Mojave desert of California in! 19SS and shortly afterward sold it for 13,00,000, their lives were! transformed from those , of desert prospectors to dwellers lnj a Beverly Hills man sion, t. But their, happiness soon was marred, first by lawsuits filed in efforts to obtain part of the pro ceeds from; their mine and then by efforts j to kidnap their son. George, .now 9,; and hold him for St o,0 00 .ransom, j Domestic - troubles . followed. She brought suit. for divorce and then dismissed L it as the eounle sailed for Honolulu on what they declared was a second honeymoon. In 193 she filed another snit in Los Angeles and then dropped It in ravor or a Reno decree. Ten minutes after she obtained it she married Robert D." Haynes, 38, operator of an auto rental ag ency at-Glendale, Calif.- Los An geles mends said today Haynes Is believed to be living in San Diego. Mrs. Haynes1! body was found in the shower stall of her i bath room, and i F. M. Gold; asslsUnt county attorney; said after an In vestigation she idled of . burns and suffocation.",:.! . .... ... Mrs. .Haynes jbad been visiting a daughter,- Mi's. Ruby Elayton, near here, and moved to the tour ist camp, three miles east- last Sunday. J , , - F Dead iolliCTcm CHEWELAHl Wtth July S CT men were Injured fatally and a third wmi critically Jimrt to day when a freight train and the railroad motorcar" they were rid ings collided1 at Loon Uke, SS miles south of here. j - .Carle Monte,! 41, Spokane and Armando ' Greejy,., 0,. Seattle, died ln "a :ch ewe lab hos pital "from? skull, injuries.' John R. Alelle, ' Spokane j was lac -the hospital with, both 1 arms broken and his face badly ut. s The three : were members of a malntenance-of-way brew, most of whom Jumped to saf ety when the freight t r a i n 1 rounded a curve ahead of - the motorcar."" Hospital auenaants saia most of the men jumped to safety. .... Railroad S officials here and - In '.discuss . the Spokane refused - tot accident. . Tliey'li Learn He Won't Fool Much NEW TORE.: Jutr l-JIUFonr years . ago Andrew Warren shot and killed a bandit w3io attempted to rob his llq.uo storti. Tonight an armed itaan attempt ed to rob his delicatessen store and Warren shot anil killed him. Tm sorrv these ( thin r fcsn- pen. btit I iar ito ptatect dt Ufa 'and my property, barren told police.''' i He was released after brl?f questioning : I - f .... W!1 . V "a , OtegotL, Thursday Morning. July Nazis Turn Loose "Documents Again Papers Assert to ShoW Allies' Campaign , of Attrition . BERLIN. July S-gP) - Docu ments . purporting to show that the allies planned early this year to "wear . down".; Germany by "cutting off .or destroying" the reieh's ore and oil sources in foreign countries and entangling neutrals . In the war were pub lished here today. : Scandinavia,' Rumania, Tu r kar. Greee ud Yugoslavia were named as -objects of allied atten tion.' t-'- A jfg'.Y-"'-fzy"? , The official Oar ma n ; news agenay.'DNB,4 said the documents were seised by German ' troops in the conquest of . France. : --. -.- - One . of 'them, purporting , to have been signed by .Geherallssir mo Maurice Gam elln three weeks before Germany Invaded D e n mark and Norway, asserted, that "Germany must be forced to come out of Its present waiting posiH tIen"-.-r; v.-- Thi urgently advocated ac.ti vixatlon of the - war; was , to : be achieved, DNB . quoted ": Gamelin as recommending, ' by . bombing Rnssl&n oil fields and the Rus sian oil ports of Baku and Batum, by-seizing Norwegian harbors to cut the ore supply from Sweden and by. en tangling other countries In the war. i - - " ' .' ' :. . Coincident with this new. docu mentary blast; authorized German sources insisted there was' no knowledge h e r e of . a " German guarantee : to ' protect Rumania against further territorial' losses to Russia or her other neighbors. It had been suggested in r Bucha rest reports that such guarantees' were being offered" In . return for wholehearted Rumanian entrance j into' the German political and eco; I nomht anhere.' ... :" ! v - I All Harbors now SEATTLE, July S-fffr-Vlrtual military sontrol was ordered to day over shipping here under a recent presidential proclamation. applicable country-wide. Capt. w. H. Blunter, comman der of the Seattle district of the eoast guard, received notice from Washington of his designation as captain of the Port of Seattle, with authority over foreign and domestic ships in the harbor.. . The order, from the treasury department, authorized the, port captain to order search "at any time ' of any vessel, foreign or domestic, or any person or pack age thereon within the territorial waters of the .United States; to place guards upon such vessels hd to remove therefrom any or all persons not specifically au thorized: to go or to remain on board Y ..-.; - . . PHILADELPHIA, . July t-(ff)-The Port of Philadelphia went Under military control today to the accompaniment of the most stringent regulations since the World war. ' The port la vital to the Phila delphia navy yard, which in cludes a naval aircraft faetory. BALTIMORE, July S-AVShip-plng in the Baltimore harbor to day was placed under military control for the first time since the world war. Lett Solders Ask Union With Soviet - STOCKHOLM, July I (JP) Nearly io, two Lithuanian soldiers were reported tonight to have marched from' the ,. Kaunas garri son and demanded formal union of their country with Soviet Rus- rls. " - - The correspondent of the Stock holm 4 newspaper ' Tldningen re ported from. Kaunas thaU thesol diers congregated In Kaunas sports palace and cheered Rus sian military speakers. The men were said to have carried huge portraits of - Lenin and - Stalin, Premier-Foreign Commissar Vy acheslaff Molotoff and Klementl E.; Voroshiloff, chairman of a Russian committee of defense and former war commissar. ... , . Officers attempted briefly to interfere with the demonstration bat it was carried oat without un toward .Incident. ".: , . u.i ; . The soldiers demanded the re moval of reactionaries In the army and - it was ; reported , eight - high officers had been discharged. - Tha new! Lithuanian ' goyern ment like Estonia and Latvia, has begun ..... reorganizing ;.. the -.army along soviet lines, press dispatches said. - - . Putnam Discounts New Earhart Note LOS ANGELES, July -CV Discoverey on a southern Califor nia . beach of a bottle containing a note signed with the name of Amelia 'Ear hart, woman filer who disappeared In an attempted round-the-world flight three years ago, was met today with an ex pression of skepticism from her former husband, George Palmer Putnam. .- - - , . , - The note; dated June 9, 1938, said the writer .was on an Island S70 miles southeast of Hawaii. that her co-pilot was killed In the wreckage of their plane and she swam ashore " Putnam, , who had mot seen the note, but heard It read' over the telephone, said: "On the face of It, It is pretty inexplicable how it could have been sent out nearly 11 months after they . disappeared. Miss Earhart and her co-pilot. Frederick . Noon an, were ' last heard from July I, 19 ST.. FDR. Urges Unity KEW TORE, July' S-r-Pres- lient Roosevelt urged the cation today to supplement , the Declara tion of Independence with the "Declaration - of National Unity" as proposed ; by the Council Against Intolerance in America. Araiy Controlling Flames ?1 s4 Forest ittre hazards in the torthwest rescbVcrltlcai 'poln'after a rainless month ' In"mlJ?iS? timberlands at various ; points. ; This-scene show' the Wolf Creek Jiighway southwest of 1 ortlaml, ' S showing trees turned into flaming pillars. . The highway t is now closed,. , ' . ' - - . 1 ; Rumania Letsout, -Convicts to Fisht - Neeirled to Bolster ' - - . Defense lines ' BUCHAREST,- July. $-JP-Ru- mania,' almost " despairing of the help 'she had expected from Ger many,, opened her.' prison doors tonight in 'a desperate search for every available man to meet threats -from within and without her. borders. ; ; " 1 ' . It was . announced that '. prison ers whose lentences would have been finished . between now . and November 15 and those' serving sentences for not more . than six months for minor, offenses, . would be turned loose. .. On guard against violent anti Jewish demonstrations which al ready has weakened the country internally, in her hour of grave outer peril,' police w in 'armored cars followed by truckloads of gendarmes ' paraded the main boulevards of Bucharest tonight. The news from Berlin that Germany bad backed away from the idea, of giving formal assur ances of help against any fur ther attacks on .Rumanian fron tiers ' fell heavily upon 'officials who had hoped for a close tieup with the relch after renunciation of Franco-British ties. It came Just as King Carol was giving audience to three pro-German politicians who are Transyl vanlans natives - of the area which: Hungary wants to regain from Rumania.- To Carol's palace went General Ion Antonescu, former war min ister in the goga (pro-narl) cab inet; George Bratianu, a dissi dent liberal leader, and Dr.- Alex- Cash on Hand . United States Municipal arid r -' lans ana iJiscounis. Stock In Federal Reserve' Ran V . , , ; Bank Premises (including Branches). Safe Deposit Vfl"it 9 inner Heal . Customers Liability on Acceptances. Interest Earned ' ' ' " " ' ;; " ' ' '.; Other Resources , ipltal - surplus v-. ; . IJndivided Profits teserves - Reserves for . Acceptances ; Dividends Declared - ' ' Deposits! Demand and Time. Interest Collected Not Earned Other LiabiliUet - ,Bot TvhOa jw( Hoy. Kelson 4 V " V. KearyV.Cosiptoa ITvhitt Tinkicna Cr2crl Leo G. . M il) At Kcr.Kusfca .of : f" ' ' mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - ; Sweep Northwest ander ,Vaida-yoeyod,";; a t former premier who 'in 1934 , prophesied that the; nazl . iron' guard would some day -lead Rumania '.''; :' ; Thus it appeared that the king, despite Berlin's disclaimer of s jurancesiofaid. for Rumania; still was .seeking .urgently. ,to come to an agreement wlth Adolf r Hitler and likewise was discussing-with his advisers , Hungary's demands for. Transylvania; ' ; i'V'.--." : '. Juistice Dedicates Linn's GourtKouse New. .Structure Pledged to Peace; - Pioneers .. - . ' i . - , A - ..i-f ; Commended ' ALBANY, Ore., July Linn county's new. courthouse Was dedicated to peace and pres ervation of man's right' to "life, liberty and - pursuit of hapiness" by Justice Percy R. Kelly today. r The Oregon supreme' court Jus tice ' commended -. t h e pioneers "who made possible conveniences we now enjoy" and remarked that "1 cannot help - but think what ire would think If subjected to the rigors they endured tor our .sakes." . .,. .; V" :rP. -t '-. A flag presented by the Linn county 40-8 voltune was raised over the new structure after Sec retary of State Earl Snell point ed - to the flag as a ; symbol of things long since deprived from persons . living under other flags. I The dedication c e r e m o n y marked the opening of ' Albany's independence celebration, includ ing two baseball games, aquatic meet, an air circus, parade ' and the crowning of Queen ' Sally Bartcher. ; : - ! Condensed Report of ihe ot Portland, Oregon ' - ax of Jane' 29, 1940 v; ' " BESOURCES and Dae from Banks. Government Bond Other BondsL Estate. LIABILITIES 400,000.03 2,100,000.00 1,935,151.62 1,263.582.33 Interest, Taxes, etc -? 135,0 a 2,2 3 1. 2 2 - 15.472.97i.27 Public Funds Tract TmSm m : asst. vics-pmrmnrra Georce IL LlcJiea 'AST..miiAGEU RlTQlT - Q1T T7M 'CALI2L CTZLZCll Head GlUee, Portland, Oreon m cxxm sta-tcs national . . -. . pti Anturanem Uorporatioti Forests A ' US Kterf erencd Sirackl Spokesman if or Navy, Say ir Such - Needed to - Aid ' " :...' . ; Relations . . i TOKYO, : July 4-P)-A Japan ese naval spokesman asserted to day : that .United States abandon ment' ; of 'unwarrantable inter ference with ' an obstruction of' Japan's policies on the far east ern continent is among the "con crete facts and deeds" needed to relieve '."grave concern", among the Japanese people over American-Japanese relations. 'r - 1 Other f American "deeds' In which he said the Japanese would have more" confidence than "mere verbal gestures" would . Include i ' 1. Abandonment of assistance' to : the Chinese 1 government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek: : 2. Lifting of economic pressure against Japan. . . , Statements In Washington, he said, khow "it I Is not advisable tor the United States to attempt to intervene In far eastern Issues beyond legitimate bounds. ;Ho: Added, bowever, that "Ja pan likewise Is hot in a position to brovok .the United States' fleet and therefore always hat pursued S policy of non-provo-catJon.? - - 'Crackers Cause Arrest . First "flrecracker" arrests ot the year were made last night by city police, who charged Lloyd Ferguson, 197 Soma Commer cial street, and Earl Worth, 690. Union street, with shooting 'crack era' in tone one. Harold Bunyon, Princeton, -WVa, was held on charge of drunkenness. : . - J ; ; r - ; - ' '-, ' ' V ' . 3,333,328.80 8,675.266.23 ,t 8,178,140.17 . 223,CCD.OO ; i ' 5,105,463.13 ' -' 30,895.63 ' -i ' : 33)03.00 . 48,023.71 , 523,803.83 -235.23 tlCl.kOO,201.02 $ 16,793,740.65 , '216,123X0 , - 48.023.71 . ; 78,750.00 3,910.S3 5.442.32 $161,800,201.02 , i LC.C VS. Pc- n. IL Itops 71?) a ? 7f;?T eat-: cr rcr:u: w f ,
