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The Weather Forecast: Fair content ul Friday, riling temperature cm r rid. jr. Tern pent lira Hlheit yesterday u Unit this morning 47 Now I The Time If It Is a good Idea why post pone doing something about It? NOW Is the time to adver tise anything for whim there Is a demand, and the place Is In the Mall Tribune Classified. The cost Is small Tribune FORD Full Associated Press - Vnlied Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940. No. 83. YLEAE Ml Med KIT EL SEN. TAFT SECOND IS lit TEST Leader Far Short of 501 Necessary for Majority Required for Nomination Br W. B. Ragidale Convention Hall, Philadelphia June 27. (Wendell Willkie of New York picked up 66 votes on the second ballot today in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination for a total of 171. With 501 needed to nominate, two ballots failed to give a ma jority to any candidate. Senator Taft of Ohio showed the next greatest gain on the second ballot, going up 14 votes to 203. The gains were made chiefly at the expense of favorite teems, but Thomas E. Dewey of New York dropped 22 votes on the second call for a total of 338. After the second ballot the convention recessed at 2:45 p. m. (P.S.T.) . until 7:30 p. m when balloting will be resumed. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 27. (JP) The second bal lot results on a Republican presi dential nominee were officially announced as: Dewey, 338. Taft, 203. Willkie, 171. Vandenberg, 73. Hoover, 21. McNary, 10. Bridges, 8. Gannett, 30. Martin, 26. MacNidcr, 34. Capper, 18. James, 66. La Cuardia, 1. Convention Hall, Philadel phia, June 27. IIP) -The offic ial tabulation of votes on the first roll call in the republican national convention presidential candidates: Thomas E. Dewey, 360. Robert A. Taft, 189. Wendell L. Willkie, 105. Arthur H. Vandenberg, 76. Herbert Hoover, 17. Charles L. McNary, 13. Styles Bridges, 28. Frank Gannett, 33. Joseph W. Martin, 44. Hanford MacNider, 34. Arthur Capper, 18. Arthur H. James, 74. Harlan Bushfield, 9. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 27 (IP) Thomas E. Dewey climbed into the lead at the out set of the balloting for the Re publican presidential nomina tion today, but was far short of the 501 vote majority needed to nominate. He got 360. Behind him, in order, came Senator Taft of Ohio with 189 and Wendell Willkie of New York with 105. Herbert Hoover got 17. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan received 76, and Gov. Arthur H. James of Pennsyl vania got 74. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 27. (JP) The claims of Robert A. Taft, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey and seven others went on the testing blocks of a roll call for the presidential (Continued on Page Three.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS George Shreeve sneaking off with a pie he found In the firehall kitchen, not knowing It was his own, sent to him by his wife via Ed Canoose, George hiding the delicacy so success fully he couldn't find it again. Dick Isaacs cutting down a cherry tree with his little hat chet while wiiey and son look ed on as proudly as thouah he were G. Washington himself. Leona Conger getting more smiles out of one postal card than most persons get out of a dozen. Jean Bowen reading hair raising literature as she plied her way up and down th Fluh rer building elevator. 0 jRV fo kJ , WM w '4 Msnbii i I 1 1 i ' i , is i,- i titm i Wtrm They're a long way from home, but the delegations from Idaho. Oregon and Washington are very much in evidence at the Republican convention at Philadelphia. The delegation chairmen of the three states are shown carrying their banner as they marched around the hall. They are. left to right. Stanley Eatton, Idaho; Walter' Toose. Oregon, and Nat Brown. Washington. The California banner can ba seen in the background (right). Second Convention Ballot Convention Hall, Philadel phia, June 27. (IP) Here Is the second ballot on a Republican presidential nominee: 13 Alabama 7 Dewey, 6 Taft. 6 Arizona 6 Gannett. 12 Arkansas 3 Dewey, 1 Gan nett, 6 Taft, 2 Willkie. . 44 California 2 Bridges, 8 Dewey, 1 Gannett, 8 Hoover, 2 MacNider, 9 Taft, 5 Van denberg, 9 Willkie. 12 Colorado 1 Dewey, 2 Hoo ver. 5 Taft, 4 Willkie. 16 Connecticut 16 Willkie. 6 Delaware 2 Taft, 4 Willkie. 12 Florida 9 Dewey, 1 Taft, 1 Gannett, 1 Vandenberg. 14 Georgia 7 Dewey, 2 Gan nett, 2 Hoover, 2 Taft, 1 Vandenberg. 8 Idaho 8 Dewey. 58 Illinois 45 Dewey, 1 Gan nett, 7 Taft, 5 Willkie. 28 Indiana 7 Dewey, 6 Taft, 3 Vandenberg, 12 Willkie. 22 Iowa 22 MacNider. 18 Kansas 18 Capper. 22 Kentucky 11 Dewey, 10 Taft, 1 Vandenberg. 12 Louisiana 6 Dewey, 6 Taft. 13 Maine 3 Dewey, 1 Taft, 9 Willkie. 16 Maryland 12 Dewey, 4 Willkie. 34 Massachusetts - 3 Hoover, 21 ' Martin, 1 MacNider, 1 Taft, 8 Willkie. 38 Michigan 38 Vandenberg. 22 Minnesota 2 Dewey, 2 Mac Nider, 5 Taft, 6 Willkie, 7 Vandenberg1. 11 Mississippi 3 Dewey, 8 Taft. 30 Missouri 8 Dewey, 1 Hoo ver. 4 Taft, 4 Vandenberg, 13 Willkie. 8 Montana 8 Dewey. 14 Nebraska 5 Dewey, 2 Van denberg, 2 Willkie, 2 Tatt, 1 Gannett, 1 Martin, 1 MacNider. Race "Fixed" for Taft and Dewey Is Last Tip From Tribune's Editor Before Start of Convention Voting By R. W. Ruhl Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 27. (Spl.) It's still a hoss race which may be over before this dispatch is printed and may not end until the Fourth of July ro one can tell. And no one can tell the result of (His or any hoss race, altho there are plenty who think they ca-.t, usually a very ex pensive form of celebration. Therefore, in racing terms, and on their present racing form only, here is the latest dope on the race to come: Favorites: Taft to win. Dewey to place. Willkie to show. Best long shot: Vandenberg. Best dark horse: McNary. Scratched (badly): Gannett. This is straight from the feed box, but only those with money to lose should bet a dime. P.g.: Those who don't understand above terms, call Timber Products and ask for the boss. P.S.S.: Weather clear. If It should rain and G. O. P. plat form get all wet, Willkie, a great mudder, could win. Add field: Fish Chips and Bridges. Last minute tip from dope-needle: "The race it fixed. II will bo Tafl and Dewey." 6 Nevada 2 Taft, I Vanden berg, 3 Willkie. 8 New Hampshire 6 Bridges, 2 Hoover. 32 New Jersey 14 Dewey, 1 Taft, 17 Willkie. 6 New Mexico 2 Dewey, 1 Taft, 3 Willkie. 92 New . York 58 Dewey. 18 Gannett, 3 Hoover, 1 La Guardia, 13 Willkie, 1 Van denberg. 23 North Carolina 8 Dewey, 7 Taft, 2 Vandenberg, 6 Will kie. 8 North Dakota 2 Dewey, t Taft, 2 Vandenberg, 3 Will kie. 52 Ohio 52 Taft. 22 Oklahoma 22 Dewey. 10 Oregon 10 McNary. 72 Pennsylvania 2 Dewey, 65 James, 5 Willkie. 8 Rhode Island 1 Dewey, 3 Taft, 4 Willkie. 10 South Carolina 10 Dewey. 8 South Dakota 2 Dewey, 1 Martin, 5 MacNider. 18 Tennessee 7 Dewey. 1 James. 1 MacNider, 4 Taft, 5 Willkie. 26 Texas 26 Taft. 8 Utah 2 Dewey, 2 Taft, 1 Gannett. 3 Vandenberg. , 9 Vermont 2 Dewey, 3 Taft, 4 Willkie. 18 Virginia 1 Bridges, 5 Dew ey, 7 Taft, 5 Willkie. 16 Washington 12 Dewey, 3 Taft, 1 Vandenberg. 16 West Virginia 6 Dewey, 4 Taft, 6 Willkie. 24 Wisconsin 24 Dewey. 6 Wyoming 2 Dewey, 1 Taft, 1 Vandenberg. 2 Willkie. 3 Alaska 2 Taft, 1 Dewey. 3 District of C o 1 u m b 1 a 2 Dewey, 1 Taft. 3 Hawaii 3 Martin. 2 Philippines-1 Taft, 1 Willkie. 2 Puerto Rico 1 Dewey, 1 Taft. NOT FORMALLY LISTED , Philadelphia, June 27 HP) There la. nothing tn the rule books to prevent the Republi can national convention from passing over the 10 men placed in nomination today and pick ing a presidential nominee whose name was not formally placed before the convention. There has been considerable discussion of a drive to make former President Herbert Hoo ver the nominee, for Instance, yet Hoover was not formally offered the place. However, votes could be cast for him, or any other person, just as names may be "written in" in an ordinary election. At the convention the first person to get 501 or more votes wins, whether or not he was formally nominated. Those formally before the Re publican convention are: Thomas E. Dewey, New York. Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio. Frank Gannett. New York. Wendell Willkie, New York. Hanford MacNider, Iowa. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan. Sen. H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire. Sen. Charles L. McNary, Ore gon. Gov. Arthur H. James, Penn sylvania. Gov. Harlan J. Bushfield, South Dakota. FRANCISCO E JUMPS TO DEATH PROM BAY BRIDGE HIGH SPAN San Francisco, June 27. (IP) A man, identified by state highwa'y patrolmen from his ef fects as W. N. Burkhardt, editor of the San Francisco News, jumped to his death today from the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge. Patrolman William Hamilton said two persona saw the man leap from the high span Into San Francisco bay. An automobile registered to Burkhardt was parked on the bridge. In It, officer Hamilton said, were found Burkhard t wal let, with identifying papers, and a hat. One of the witnesses, George Sharp, of San Francisco, told. Patrolman Hamilton the man: parked the car, got out, removed his wallet from hit coat, placed j it on the car seat, put his hat in' the car, and then ran around' the car and leaped over the rail. ! The San Francisco News said i Burkhardt had been on leave of I absence for two months, and had suffered a nervous break-) town. He was still on I'. r-ve. He! had been editor of the News' sine 1923. ' Nazis Offer England Peace Terms U. S. Financial Circles Informed; Rumania Bows to Red Ultimatum TAKES $1.02 IN A burglar wearing tennis shoes last night broke into three M e d f o r d business establish ments, but his loot amounted to only $1.02 in pennies, a carton of cigarettes, a small radio and four gallons of motor oil. Burglarized, according to city police, were the Piggly Wlggly grocery market at 528 South Riverside avenue, Max Rudock's Texaco service station at 602 South Riverside avenue and Swan's Texaco service station at 1321 North Riverside avenue Entrance to the three con cerns was effected with a glass cutter and tape, police stated, and added that there was no doubt but that the same man pulled off all three "jobs." Seventy-five cents in pennies were stolen from the cash reg ister in the meat department tnd 27 cents from the till In jthe grocery department at the Piggly Wiggly store, police said, in addition to one carton of Lucky Strike cigarettes. The burglar entered the store through a south side door, after cutting the glass. Police said footprints were discovered in sawdust in the meat department and that 20 feet of -inch knot ted rope was left behind by the burglar. This rope, apparently was to have been used In case the burglar was forced to come down through tie skylight, po lice stated. At the Rudock service sta tion, which was entered through a lower window on the south side of the building, the bur glar got one two-gallon can of Texaco S.A.E. 40 Valor oil and one two-gallon can of S.A.E. 30 oil of the same brand. Keys to the gasoline pumps also were stolen, but no money was taken. Footprints of tennis shoes, the same as discovered in the groc ery market, were found out side the service station. At the North Riverside ave nue Texaco station, the burglar entered the building through a front window and by use of the glass-cutter. Leslie L. Babcock reported to police that a small Airline radio was stolen and that the cash register was taken The latter, pried open, was found this morning at Court and Manzanita street by W. R. Vance, 1135 Court street, who notified police. City police believe the bur glaries may have been the work of the same man who early this week broke Into three Grants Pass business houses. CENSUS HEAD RESIGNS DEMOCRATIC OFFICE Eugene, June 27. (IP) Mrs. Merle Stuart, Democratic state commltteewoman, elected Mon day night, announced her res ignation today. Mrs. Stuart, district census supervisor, be came the target of criticism when it was maintained she had violated the Hatch law by accepting a political office while on the federal payroll. AGED WOMAN SPENDS 36 HOURS IN WASHTUB Batavia. N. Y., June 27. (IP) Mrs. Elizabeth J. Graham. 80. who lives alone, fell Into a wathtub when she fainted Thirty-six hours later neigh bors, noticing the accumulation of two days' newspapers on her porch, rescued her. She is re covering. Chemawa (UP) Thirty white boys, the first 'ever to attend Chemawa Indian school, have completed work on the National Youth administration headquar ters building here. IN TAXESI EFFECTIVE JULY 1 Portland, June 27. (IP) Liquor, cigarette, automobile, gasoline and admission taxes are brace yourself going up July 1. Some other taxes will be in creased, too, but they affect fewer persons. Here's the dope, presented by J. W. Maloney, collector of internal revenue: Cigarette taxes will climb one-half cent a package, pay able on floor stocks held by wholesalers and retailers July 1 as well as on new supplies. However, indications are that manufacturers will Increase their sales prices,' making cig arettes 15 cents a package straight to consumers. Must Inventory Stocks. All dealers must inventory stocks on hand at the close of business June 30, notify the collector and wait for printed tax return forms. Liquor prices will go up 75 cents per proof gallon, amount ing to approximately 15 cents a pint and 25 to 30 cents a quart. Retail dealers of fermented malt liouora beer and ale must pay Jl'a barrel on floor stocks stored outside the place of business. Beer and ale tup plies on the premises at the time the Increased tax becomes effective will pay no additional tax. There Is no floor tax on wines. Gasoline taxes will ba in creased one-half cent per gal Ion. There la no tax on stocks held at the close of business June 30. The admission tax increase lowers the exemption level from 40 cent to 20 cents. In other words, admissions former ly were taxable at 41 cents or more. On July 1 they will be taxable if 21 cents or more. The tax is roughly 10 per cent of the admission price. Auio Taxes Up. The tax on trucks has been 2 per cent of the manufacturer's sale price not the retail price, It will be Increased to 2Vi per cent. On passenger cars the tax has been 3 per cent, also of the manufacturer's price. It will be 3V4 per cent. 'This means." said S. F. Lamb, chief of the miscellane ous tax division, "that an auto mobile selling here for $1000 probably pays $150 freight charges. Knock that off. De duct the dealer's profit, which probably is $150 to $250. That leaves the manufacturer'! sale price of $600 to $700. On $700, the old tax was $21. An other one-half per cent makes it $3.50 more $24.50. That's all." BY 'PROPERTY' MINE Hollywood, June 27 -(P) Jon Hall, screen actor, was re covering in a hospital today from injuries he received when he was struck by a fragment of a land mine In a film scene yesterday. Dr. S. M. Alter, hit physician, said Hall suffered shock. A piece of metal waa embedded in hit tkin. Office Need Cited Salem (U.PJ The state liquor commission it in need of in creased office and warehouse fa cilities In Portland, members of the board reported her. BASEBALL National . Chicago 4 9 0 Brooklyn 5 9 0 Lee and Todd; Carleton, Ta- mulis and Phelps, Mancuso. L E FOR ARMY, NAVY Washington, June 27. (IP) President Roosevelt put his sig nature today to a supplemental defense bill giving the war and navy departments $1,479,777,147 In cash appropriations .and au thority to make additional con tracts totalling, $289,136,761. The sum thus provided $1, 768,913,908 was about equally divided between the two de partments and was in addition to regular appropriations of $2,800,000,000 voted by congress for the army and navy in the coming fiscal year. - - The navy'i share of the sup plemental fund waa ear-marked for: Beginning of construction on 22 new warships and faster con structlon of more than 100 more; alterations to existing vessels, production of 400 new quadruple mounts and 1.1 inch anti-aircraft guns; emergency stocks of criti cal and reserve materials; hous ing and ammunition storage fa cilities, aviation and shipbuild ing facilities and recommlssion ing of laid-up status. The army is empowered to: Build thousands of new planes, purchase new equipment, con struct anti-aircraft batteries, buy land and expand seacoast de fenses. Also provided was a $32,000, 000 fund to permit the civil aero nautics authority to train an est! mated 45,000 persons in primary piloting courses and part of that number in secondary Ins true tion. WILL SEEK FUNDS FOR HIGHWAY 99 Roseburg, Ore., June 27. (IP) Howard Merrlam, Springfield, and Carl Rynearson, Eugene, president and executive secre tary of the Pacific Highway as sociation, will leave within a few days for Washington, D. C, In an effort to secure additional federal funds for reconstruction of the Pacific highway between Cottage Grove and Grants Pass, it was announced today. The trip wat authorized late Wednes day at meeting her of the directors of the highway associ ation with representatives of the county courts of Jackson, Jose phine and Douglas counties. The counties will participate with the highway association in the cost of the trip. FRUIT WAREHOUSES AT TIE! RAZED BY FIRE Yakima, Wash., June 27. (A") Fire, believed to have started tn a pile of boxes this morning at Ticton burned two ware houses. Including the horticul tural union's model plant, swept a row of cabins, and did other damage, total loss from the blaze, fanned by a high wind, Is esti mated as at least $350,000. The Tieton warehouse annually han dled hundreds of cars of spples and Its loss In the coming har vest period will seriously cripple handling tha fruit from tha Tie ton project. Approach Made Through Gen. Franco Is Word; Ber lin Says Rumors Nonsense New York, July 27.- Important business and finan cial sources, with lnr lnt-r. ests in Europe, said today they naa received information they considered authentic through neutral countriet that Germany had made "sensational" peace overtures to England. They said this Information In dicated the offer would leave England with some 95 percent or ner present empire, but would provide for International ization of Gibraltar and tha Suez canal. The information, thai sources said, waa to the effect that tha annrnarh hatt Kn made through General Franco ai Aiaaria. (In Berlin, reports of pete feelers were laushed off In In. formed German circles at "non tense." (The latest version n h laughed off rumors heard in Berlin la that a Hitler peace speech it scheduled for tomor row, the annlverarv nt that signing of the Versailles treaty. Authentic German circles said "the wnrlri ma irt il ) something big must happen.") By iha Associated Press King Carol of Rumania yielded to a stiff Russian ultimatum to night a few hours before tha expiration of the "deadline" at 10 p.m. (noon PST) at hit gov ernment signified its acceptance of the Soviet demand for huge territorial cessions. Simultaneously, Rumania's army massed in Transylvania near tha Hungarian border, of ficial sources in Bucharest dis closed apparently ready to re sist any thrust from that direc tion. Hungary hat long claimed Transylvania. ' . The king, it wat said, has de cided to give in rather than pre cipitate a war In the Balkans Europe's traditional "powder keg" but wants to negotiate ' on the Kremlin'! demands for a cession of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina and control of two ports. Russia Impatient Diplomatic quarters did not ex pect that Russia would tolerate any delay. The Red army was (Oontln ied en Pace Three.) E Portland, June 27 CTV-Chris Evangelinoa of Trinidad, Calif., wat indicted on a kidnaping charge by a federal grand jury yesterday. He is accused of taking Dolly McGlnnit, waitress, from Grants Pass to a point in California on June 15, Evangelinoa was arraigned here before U. S. Commissioner Victor A. Tengwald June 19. Ha waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to tha grand jury under $10,000 ball. Utility Revenue X3p. Portland, June 27. 17 Tha Portland Gas It Coka com pany announced today a gross revenue for May of $277,839, an advance of $8301 over May, 1939. Tha net profit lor tha month was $6764,
