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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecatt Mostly rlood; and allfhtlr cooler today, fair tomorrow. Irinperatunt Hlfkrtt yeMerdaj M Loam ?eterday 47 It I Possible Yon certainly would not miet reading till Claeeinrd Ads toll aurnln. It 1U require only frw mlnatee of your time and It te poeetble )ea mlcht find the very thing yon are looking !. Medford Full Associated Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1940. , No. 49. Ul hlMsM full M AloM mm. ZZ c Ful, rj-ited L o V t i r E ftlE i MIS Washington, D. C, May 18. There Is no blinking the fact that the people of the United States are in for a heavy tax burden under the program for national defense. Herr Hitler is doing that much In affecting American life. In addition to raising funds for defense it will probably only be a matter of time when credit will be ex tended to the allies and Amer ican citizens will again be call ed on to help finance the war in Europe. California's Hiram Johnson Is trembling witli rage and ap prehension as he watches steps being deliberately taken to re peal or amend the Johnson act, which prohibits any country re ceiving credit or selling its se curities in the United States un less they have paid their world war debts to Uncle Sam. This act Is one of the obstacles the allies wish removed. In an adroit manner the suggestion has been put out by column- ists for several weeks. These writers were doing the spade work. PRESIDENT Roosevelt has of- fered an expanded defense program and doesn't care where the money comes from to meet It. That is the job of congress. Pat Harrison, of . Mississippi, chairman of the senate com mittee on finance, say there will be no new tax bill this session. This merely means postponement. O r e g o n's Mc Nary wants the cost for the de fense program to come from the concerns which will make a profit on war materials. Predictions as to adjourn ment date have been aban doned. Present session may run into August, with recess taken during the Republican and Dem ocratic conventions. Mr. Roose velt states that when and if congress adjourns he wants Senator McNary, Republican leader In the senate; Represen tative Joe Martin, Republican (Continue? on Page Eight.) State, National Jackson rounty voted in 5J precincts as follows for Repub lican national and state offices in the primary last Friday. National Committeeman Cake, 1.633. Geary, 889. Klepper. 251. Weed, 940. National Commltleewoman Gerlinger, 1.575. Runyon, 1,728. Delegates National Nominating Convention Bronn, 623. Campbell, 1.015. Elliott, 1.338. Farrell, 1.476. Fisher, 742. Mahood, 520. McGowan, 1,008. Metschan, 2.056. Stanfield. 1.897. Tooze, 1,891. Zimmerman. 1.254. Delegates National Convention Bain, 593. Cordon, 1,379. Lamport, 1.370. Norblad 879. Beter, 1.586. Schellbcrg, 776. Swenson, 633. Prtiident United States McNary, 3.211. Electors Boehnke, 2.709. Crandall, 2.747. In t(a lis. 2.818. Johnson, 2.696. - Sawyer, 2.794. Representative in Congress Brown 369. Mott. 3.428. State Treasurer Cook. 771. Hill. 1.124. Scott. 1.665. Attorney Ceneral Van Winkle, 3.255. La Grande, Ore., May 18. fPi Gerald Pyle. 8, walked into the side of a fuel truck p here late today and suffered severe head and body injuries. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pyle, La Grand. 8 , L IL BALLOT Newbury Tops Miller by 201 County Judge, Commis sioner Contests Close. Complete unofficial returns from all 69 Jackson county precincts tabulated late Satur day revealed two contests for county offices, and second place In the circuit Judgeship race fo Jackson and Josephine counties, that will require the official count to decide. The nip and tuck races were for county commissioner on the Republican ticket, with Arthur E. Powell, mayor-editor of Cen tral Point, holding a six-point margin over George Gilman, dairy operator of the same dis trict; between Ralph Billings, of Ashland, and J. B. (Blin) Cole man of Medford, for county Judge, with Billings ahead by 87 votes, and between W. T Miller of Grants Pass, and Don R. Newbury, of Medford, for second place and run-off honors In the circuit judgeship. New bury leads in th unofficial count by 201 votes. Herbert Hanna lead the cir cuit Judge race with a total of 4,679 in the combined complete unofficial vote of the two coun ties. The vote between New bury and Miller was: Newbury, 3.463. " Miller, 3,262. Newbury's lead, 201. Newman's vote was 1,874. The count for commissioner with Powell leading by six votes is: Powell, 1,305. Gilman, 1,299. Sixty-four precincts out of 69 gives the other commissioner candidates the following: Iverson, 1,059. Kubli 1.014. Truax, 482. In the county Judge contest, the total count stood: Billings 2,734. Coleman, 2,647. Lead for Billings, 87. The unofficial count was tab ulated by the county clerk's and sheriff's office from elec tion statements and reports turned in by election officials. In their respective races, both Billings and Newbury received strong majorities in the Ash land, Bellview, Barron and southern county precincts and made a strong race in other districts. Newbury rolled up a 600 lead over Miller in the Ashland district. County Clerk George R. Car ter said last nieht the counting board, composed of Charles Gay. Mrs. Artha Beers and Mrs. harry Marks, would start the official count tomorrow morn ' itig. State Totals Robert Campbell, 33.365. Individual tabulations: Congressman. 1st District (747 of 836 precincts) Kenneth A. Brown, 9.834. James W. Mott, 57.023. Congressman, 2d District (382 of 414 precincts; Rex Ellis, 10.253. Roy W. Ritner, 9.618. Congressman. 3d District (333 of 443 precincts) Homer D. Angell, 35.946. State Treasurer (1.462 precincts of 1.693) Floyd J. Cook. 20,630. Earl Hill, ,2.867. Leslie M. Scott, 62.480. National Committeeman (1.462 of 1.693 precincts) Ralph H. Cake, 53.925. Arthur M Geary. 24.428. Milton R. Klepper, 13.951. Thurlow McNary Weed. 33.428. National Commltleewoman (1.451 of 1.693 precinctsl Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, 60.205. Florence A. Runyon, 50,996. Delegates at Large Four to be elected. (1.448 of 1.693 precincts) Fred W. Bronn. 22.936. I (Continued oo Je Keren.; ALLIES imary Winners Republican For district attorney. Georce W. Neilson. e For assessor, C. A. Myers. For coroner, Henry W. Con ger. For constable, Nick Young. For representatives, W. M. McAllister and E. T. Newbry. Non-Partiian Ticket For school superintendent. C. R. Bowman. The Close Ones Complete unofficial returns gives Ralph Billings a lead of 87 in the Republican race for county judge. Arthur E. Powell leads George Gilman by the narrow margin of six votes for com missioner. Non-Partiian In the circuit Judge race, Don Newbury has a lead of 201 votes for the runner-up position. In these three contests, it will take the official count to decide the winners. Five Killed In Imperial Valley Jolt El Centro, Calif., MBy 18. iP) At least five persons were killed, scores were injured and! widespread property damage was caused by a series of earth quakes which shook the Imper ial valley tonight. In the city of Imperial, ap- . , ! .. 4UA anlnanl.. nf th quake, four person, were killed! in the collapse of a grocery store on the principal business street, and another was killed at El Centro when a wall of the El Centro hotel at Fifth and Main streets fell across the street. The known dead in Imperial were: Juanita Blevens, 18. Mrs. Ben Mullens, Rudine Mullens, 3, her daugh ter. Mullens, 5, another daugh ter. The El Centro victim was an unidentified man. ' Walls of the Imperial city hall, which houses the fire and police departments, collapsed buot no one was injured. The walls of the old Imperial thea ter, vacant at the time, also collapsed. Many other build ings were damaged. Heavy after-shocks were con tinuing in the valley late to night. At Brawley, the shock buckled street pavements, wrecked two bridges over the New river and broke glass in downtown store building's. No one was reported Injured there. Telephone lines throughout the Imperial valley were dis rupted and police and sheriff's offices were hampered in mak ing an accurate survey of the damage. TIGER MUSICIANS Spokane, May 18. (Spl.l Mtdfnrd hlch school band"e eastern section ot me coun- Dlaced second in the second di- vision of class B bands In the music-competition festival here' today. Burton Isaac on the drums and the trumpet trio of Reginald I iter. Douglas Pickell and Ross V. ebb rated superior in the National Music contest held yes terday in Spokane, Wash., ac cording to a telegram received here by E. H. Iledrick from V'ilson Wait, director of the Mrdford high school band. The band itself. Alpha W'hil lock on the oboe and Richard Schuchard placed excellent. btanley Jones on clarinet and Hi gh Scovllle on saxophone I rated third. In signing the I telegram Mr. Wait wrote, "I am I satisfied." SEE SLACKENING IN WAR urn nnn nuninr NMINMN mU FOR PROSECUTOR; Present Deputy D. A. Leads Fliegel by 640 School Head Given 713 Margin. Deputy District Attorney George W. Neilson, in complete unofficial and partial official returns from 64 precincts out of 69 In Jackson county, has a lead of 640 votes over Joseph F. Fliegel In the Republican nomination race for district at torney. The count: Neilson 2.281 Fliegel 1.641 Neilson's lead 640 Neilson showed his greatest strength in the Ashland district precincts, while maintaining a margin in the other sections. For the county school supor Intendency on a non-partisan ticket, the unofficial count was: Bowman 3 283 Larson 2.570 Bowman's lead 713 Larson showed tretth in precincts which recently voted upon the school re-organization pian, with Bowman taking a strong lead in Ashland, Med ford and Jacksonville precincts. C. A. Myers, in the unofficial returns won the Republican nomination for assessor over Harry N. Lofland, with a ma jority of 1,304. Lofland polled 1.432 with 14 precincts to hear from. Myers polled 2.736 votes. For representatives in the lower house of the legislature, incumbents William M. McAl lister of Medford and E. T. Newbry of Talent polled the highest votes in the primary, as follows: McAllister 3.206 Newbry 3,158 Ariel Burton Pomeroy of Central Point polled 994 votes. George R. Carter, unopposed for county clerk on the Repub lican ticket, in 55 precincts re ceived 2,702 votes. Henry W. Conger won the Republican nomination for cor oner by a majority of 749 over Frank Perl. In 57 precincts Conger polled 2,531, Perl 1,882 votes. For constable for the Med ford Justice of the peace dis trict, Nick Young, Incumbent, defeated Albert Stevens by a majority of 886. Young tallied 1,916 votes; Stevens 1,030. VETOED UP-STATE! Portland, Ore., May 18. (F) Complete returns from more than half of Portland's 392 pre cincts tonight Indicated the city had rejected a proposal to form a people's utility district by a 2'4 to 1 margin. , Washington county towns and y Polled an adverse vote to PL'D there. Yamhill county voted against a fuu, mcom - plete returns were 1949 against B. Poyer of Ashland polled 523 and 1788 for. votes to 423 for Otto L. Caster Coos county voters rejected of Phoenix, former commission a district, 4991 to 2921. Wheeler er. It was the only contest for and Nehalem counties voted , .fiii.tin with the Till- mUUK I JLJ. a-tllllUIII .tUUIII also disapproved proposed l. niT. r : i Mn...4U district. Sawmill Burns. Eugene, Ore.. May 18. 'U.R county, present national com Authorities today estimated , mitteeman was trailing Flavel damage at !50.000 after a fire ! Temple, also of Multnomah had gutted the mill of the Vln- i cent Lumber company near The , Marcole late yesterday mill employed a crew of 59 men. Cause of the fire was not known. M'NARYS VOTE TOPS ROOSEVELT BY WIDE Preference Ballot Places Garner far in Rear Cake Committeeman Choice. Portland, May 18. P) Sen ator Charles L. McNary, Ore gon's "native son," appeared tonight to have attracted more ytnes an . "csiacni nooscveit m aimc primary election presi dential preference balloting. With only a few scattered precincts unreported, the vet eran senate minority leader. unopposed for the Republican nomination, polled 96.526 in 1.337 of the state's 1.693 pre cincts. Roosevelt, drawing relatively littht support at the start, piled up an impressive total over Vice-President John Nr.nce Gar ner, his Democratic opponent. In 1,400 precincts in the state's 36 counties Roosevelt received 56,254 votes to 12,300 for Garner. Mott Easy Winner However, McNary nearly re gained the position he held early in the race when he was given Sjiore than the combined Kooseveii-uarner totals. The election assured Roose velt of Oregon's 10 votes for Democratic renomination. Mc Nary's candidacy will be pressed to its ful'ost extent, according to law, by Republican dele gates. With 747 of 836 precincts reported, Congressman James W. Mott, Salem, Republican, hud a total of 57,023 against 9,834 for Kenneth A. Brown, anti-Jewish candidate, for the first congressional district nom ination. Mott's opponent in the general election will be Charles A. Robertson, West Salem, un opposed Democratic candidate A token vote of 14,102 piled up in the second district for Congressman Walter M. Pierce, La Grande, unopposed Demo crat. Rex Ellis, Pendleton Re publican, appeared assured of nomination over Roy W. Ritner, Pendleton, to match Pierce this full. Ellis polled 10.253 votes iu 382 of 414 precincts to 9,618 for Ritner. Mrs. Honey man Choice Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman, Portland, Oregon's first woman in congress, made a good start on her come-back by winning 22.678 to 13.673 over Ashby C. Dickson, Portland, for the third district Democratic nomination. One-fourth of the district's 443 precincts, all small, remained unreported. She will meet Con gressman Homer D. Angell, unopposed Portland Republican, in the general election. Ralph H. Cake, Portland, was far ahead of the field for Re publican national committeeman (Continued on Page Twelre.) POYER LEADS IN ONLYJP TILT On the face of return from t 23 of the 69 precincts In Jackson county for county commission- jer on the democratic ticket, t. a county oirice on tne aemocra- i tic ticket. in inninor nnrriocraiic coir ' ! test in this county, something of a suronse developed, when the1 same 25 precincts showed How-! ard Latourette of Multnomah' county by a vote of: Temple ' ,i; Latourette The count on the democratic ticket In the rounty was side - tracked due to lack of contests. Flames of War Return pVM Ku. . A &f $ ' assi urn - r I. . Mil Wtffr - J 'liH ' The flames of war returned io Belgium. - according to British censor-approved caption on this picture sent by cable from London and showing flames pouring from houses in Namur. Belgium. The British claimed the fires were started by incendiary bombs during a German air raid. Hanky's Daughter -in -Law Found Hanged in Bathroom Seattle, May 18. (P) Mrs. Ellen Kerr Hanley, 25, socially prominent wife of one Seattle attorney and daughter of an other, was found hanged in a bathroom at her parents' Broadmoor district home here late today. Her mother, Mrs. William Z.l Kerr, told police officers Mrs. Hanley had been In ill health and had been living apart from her husband while recuperat ing. Her husband is Edward P. Hanley, Jr., attorney, member of the exclusive Arctic club and son of a wealthy mining oper ator recently involved in sen sational court action here. Mrs. Hanlcy's body, hanging by a dressing gown cord from a ceiling ventilator, was dis covered by liremen who forced an entrance through a window when called by Mrs. Kerr. The mother said she becime alarm ed when Mrs. Hanley disap peared into the bathroom of a seldom-used suite in the home. Police Lieutenant Leo P. Hcm ler said Mrs. Hanley's wrists had been slashed with a kitchen knife, then bandaged, apparent ly when she decided to hang herself. Hemler said two notes were found, Kerr. The text, in part: "Please try to forgive me, some day. I know you can never understand what I have done to you, because I can't understand it myself." The other, Hemler said, ask ed that medical attention be summoned for Mrs. Hanley's slsWr when news of the death was given her. The sister Is Phyllis Kerr, University of Washington Instructor. Her husband, Edward, was a witness several weeks ago for his mother In a court action she brought to set aside an agreement by which E. P. Han ' , . . . . ley. Sr.. transferred I control of his extensive Washington and Alaska canning and mining in ierests to his associate, Jo E. Most. Friends of the Hanley family recalled last night that Mrs. ! y o , , ,J i h . i nuuc nivvi wiicy. fine . members of thi Hanley family , her husband is prominently known here. v ' J 1 13 -JET. In r - - awe,' I If l "L,'t :i2s-7is F. D. R. WILL ACT TO SPEED PLANES NEEDED BY ALLIES Washington, May 18. President Roosevelt was said authoritatively today to have decided to put the adminis tration's force behind efforts to speed deliveries of American- made warplanes to the hard- pressed allies. Informed airmen said means to hasten completion of more than 4,000 planes which Britain the war itarted wou,d f((ure indus'rial leaders with govern ment officials Monday. Discarding the usual restraint onree"- ."e'a", "um,"' w" '7 when new appropriations may Percent indicating fir. hawrd be spent, an appropriations sub- committee sped a $1,827,491,724 army bill toward senaie action today after Inserting a provision to make the full sum available for emergency defense purposes as soon as the measure becomes law. The measure, as approved by ti;e military subcommittee, car ried both regular army funds and emergency appropriations asked by President Roosevelt Thursday as part ot his unprece dented peacetime rearmament program. Emergency funds in cluded a lump of S132.000.000 to be spent at the president's own discretion. Means Month Earlier Ordlnarllv the funds would' not become available until the beginning of the fiscal yeai July 1 but Chairman Thomas (b- Okla.) reported that the subcom mince wiii iii me uicmiin.'i, to mane an lunos avau.o.e .., (Continued en rage glares.) j TIDE 3 INVADERS MIDWAY 3 BETWEEN CHANNEL AND CtTYOF PARIS Antwerp Engulfed and Nazis Within 60 Miles of Paris. Reynaud Sees Gravity, By the Associated Press Germany's wartlde of men and machines engulfed Antwerp and was reported by the Nazis to be within 60 miles of Paris last (Saturday) night. The British and French pro fesa.-d, however, to see some slackening of the unprecedented assault In its ninth day. The indicated German posi tion, widening and deepening simultaneously toward the west and south, puts the Invaders) roughly midway between Paris, one apparent objective, and the) channel ports. Ideal bases for direct assaults on England. Wedge Widened The French said the main fighting was in the vicinity ot Guise and Landrecles, about 90 miles from Paris. (In the World war the Ger. mans were stopped at the out skirts of Paris.) They admitted a widening ot the German-held portion of France, and Premier Paul Rey naud told the nation that the) situation was "grave". Reynaud himself took over the ministry of war and national defense, named former premier tdouard Daladier foreign min ister, and chose Marshal Henri Petain, 83-year-old World war hero, as vice premier in a gen eral cabinet revision. Munitions plants went on 24-hour work schedule. German planes bombed rail. way stations and highways la the Paris region, but were driv en away from the city itself, with one-fourth of their IS raiders reported shot down. Nasi Oil Depots Bombed The British royal air force) announced bombing of German oil supplies with heavy damage) in Bergen, Norway; Bremen and Hamburg, Germany. The angered Germans said the, British killed 29 civilians in Hamburg and 11 in Bremen in raids on non-military objectives. DNB, official German new agency, hinted that these deaths) would not go unavenged. The British reported success also in aerial bombing ot Ger man columns west of Namur, (Continued on Pace Twelre.) The temperature climbed to a top of 90 degrees yesterday to give Medford its hottest day of the year. Previous maximum was 86 degrees, recorded Friday and on May 9. Lowest yesterday was 47 de- J1" WM,her w" predicted for today- BASEBALL Silverton, Ore., May 18. (IP) Silverton defeated Medford 10 to 8 in a free hitting Stat, league baseball gam. her. to night. R. H. E. Medford 8 5 5 Silverton 10 14 3 Rego, Williams and Hawkins; JubiU, Yackey and Mo. Coast San Francisco S 4 I s is a j Hollywood -. Stutz, Guay and Botelho; Bitt- ner and Dapper. 14 0 Seattle 1 L)jkt ind rn,nd. Wtbbrtt Schrlbner, Ttt. and Campbell.