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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1940. FRENCH LACK OF AIRPLANES, TANKS War Correspondent Who Saw Quick Defeat Says Loss Estimated 1,500,000 By Taylor Henry. (Taylor Henry, 30-year-old native of Mineola, Tex., gradu ate of West Point, was accred ited Associated Press corre spondent witrf the French army during recent historic weeks. He survived German bombing raids, flew over the Gorman lines with a French bombing squadron, saw the retreat of the French forces, and has arrived at the Spanish border.) San Sebastian, Spain, July 2 (IP) French casualties in the disastrous final month of the war with Germany were esti mated unofficially today at 1,500,000 men, most of them listed as dead or missing. It took Adolf Hitler's mech anized army approximately one month to destroy what 60 days ago was described as the most efficient military machine in the world the French army and to overrun and occupy in its blitzkrieg more than half of France. . When France decided on June 12 to plead for an armis tice, the situation was so des perate, it is reliably reported, that General Weygand told the historic midnight meeting of the French cabinet in a Cha teau near Tours, that the French army had only cartridges enough to last three more days. Slaughter Described. French ministers who had watched the army melt away along the Somme and Alsne rivers wept as the generalissimo described how the Germans ad vanced, "slaughtering men who no longer have the means to defend themselves." The full collapse of France s a military power is Just be ginning to be realized in France itself. The destruction of the army left the nation stunned. French leaders, including aged Marshal Henri Petaln, whose tragic task it was to sue for peace, now admit that the col lapse of the army was due to three causes: 1. Lack Of equipment. 3. Lack of manpower. 3. Lack of determination. The lack of equipment, which fs emphasized as the outstand ing reason for France's defeat, centered in aviation and tanks, Germany'! main weapons. IS THANKFUL FOR HELP FROM HEALTH UNITS Voicing the Salvation Army's appreciation of the layettes, pro vided by the Jackson County Public Health association for mothers cared for by the Sal vation Army, a letter was re ceived yesterday by Mrs. J. C. S. Weills, association president. It was written by Capt. and Mrs. R. H. Vincent, who left Medford Friday to accept a post in Portland. The layettes, made by Phoe nix. Central Point, Gold Hill and Talent groups of the asm elation, were purchased with Sparrow Memorial funds, one of the special funds of which Mrs. Lewis Ulrica Is chairman. The letter to Mrs. Weills roads in part: "We want you to know how very much we appreciated the work done by the different units for which you were solely responsible. Our appreciation of your help was deepened by the fact that these expectant moth ers were cared for in such a fine manner through your ef forts. Please express our appre ciation to the women of the different groups." portLanltexport businessshr1nks Portland, July J. (T An other blitzkrelg victim 30 per cent of the Port of Portland's' export business. The Merchants Exchange said today foreign exports dropped from $13,488,880 for the first half of 1939 to S9.S41.206 for the first half of 1940. Only a tenth of the 11.000. 000 bushels of wheat dispatched in the first half of the 1939 was exported so far this year, the report showed. Customs re ceipts for the 1939-40 fiscal year were estimated at $1,182, 418 compared with 1, 610,524 last year. NEW TMlCUSE FOR HIKING PROFITS Portland, July 2. UP) Busi ness men who use the ne fed eral tax as a means of hoisting profits had best be careful. S. F. Mann, chief of the miscel laneous receipts division of the customs collector's office, said today. Anyone who untruthfully blames the tax for price in creases Is subject to $1000 fine and a year in jail, Mann warned. PANGBORN WOULD AID EMBATTLED CANADA Ottawa, July 2. (IP) Clyde Pangborn, United Stales avi ator who flew around the world In 1931. has offered his rervices to the Canadian government. "If there is any possible way In which the knowledge I have can be used to advantage, I will be more than glad," he said on his arrival here yes terday. REGULAR MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT Tho city council will hold itj regular semi-monthly meeting city hall at 7:30 tonight. Only routine business is on the for mal calendar scheduled it come before the council. Would Up C.M.T.C. Quota. Portland, July 2. .VP) The Multnomah county citizens mili tary training corps committee moved today to have the 893 quota for the encampment at Vancouver Barracks increased. Quincy Scott, head of the com mittee, said 8a0 valid applica tions had been filed. Find Dud in Salem. Salem, July 2. tP) A 75- mllllmetcr shell reached Salem in manner unknown yesterday, but it proved to be a dud. Deputy Sheriff L. L. Pittlnger found the projectile on a down town street. It contained a timer and firing pin but no explosive. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Wednesday; high tem perature in Interior; overcast and cool near coast; light to moderate northwest wind off coast. Conscience Monty Anderson, S. C. (IP) An An derson man received $2 from a man in Charlotte, N. C, as part payment on $-45 stolen two years ago. There was no signature. FASTER TIME TC DENVER KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS Lv. Portland 9:35 P. M. Daily on lh famous ' PORTLAND ROSI Sjvi 1 lour 40 minutes to Denver, irriving 8.50 . m. Do,) .Sm otw 10 hours lo In ai C1I5, arriving. 9.00 p.m. (SKond Do,) .Savi 5 3 4 hoari to St. Louis, arriving 7:30 a. m. Ui Itllt ipttdtd i.,Tlc to your Urn.. Alr-condi. tiond equipment loi all rUim ot trv1. Sot Mawtlttt wltk tfc. Fortl.B Rm laqali. aotiHMN Metric Mitr nr write I. e ( I MM, VI. (,rn ri tt. 1111. lllixk. rurlland. GAIL PAGE SPURNS FOR GOODHEALTH Lane Girls' "Movie" Sister Quitting Screen Life for Radio and Plenty of Food. By Hubbard Kaavy. Hollywood, July 2. IIP) It was either glamour or health. And so Call Page says to heck with glamour. Ml take calories and steaks and whipped cream. Gail, who has been the Lane girls' sister In those movies about tour girls falling in love and getting married and having babies, said today that she Is quitting the scre-m to devote all of her time to radio. It's all because, although she didn't say so in as many words, you can be a radio rtar and eat what you like, but you can't be a movie star and live com fortably. Now Weighs 122. She now weighs around 122 pounds. Except for one more film, "Four Wives," Cail is through with Hollywood. Next Wed nesday she'll start a new NBC scries with Jim Ameche, and she says she'll celebrate the occasion with a whopping big hunk of Kansas steer. "I found recently that I had reached a cross-roads in my motion picture work," says Gail, "and that I had to choose between health .and so-called glamour. I decided I would rather ba healthy than 'glam orous.' " During her three years In the Warner compound she has been in about 20 films and she ha Just finished what may be her best role in 'The Life of Knute Rockne." She plays Mrs. Rockne. Gail came here three years ago from Chicago, where she was a radio singer. She was Sally Rutter when she lived In Spokane. Miss Southern Pac. Marries In Reno Reno, Nev., July 2. (U.R) Sara Godfrey of Eugene, Ore., who Sunday was picked "Miss Soothern Pacific" at Southern Pacific day at the Golden Gate International Exposition, was married Monday to Bruno Rath, Eugene businessman. Mrs. Rath and her husband came here immediately after she was selected from a field of 10 candidates representing divisions of the railroad com pany. The couple will live in Bend, Ore. Pioneer Passes Portland, July 2. (IP) Mrs. Ida Hunsaker, 71, whose first glimpse of Oregon was from a doomed ship on Peacock spit died yesterday. She accompan ied her parents to Oregon aboard the Queen of the Pacific which grounded on the spit in 1883. All passengers were saved. Seaplanes Safe Inland Portland, July 2. (IP) If a seaplane pilot- has enough alti tude he need not worry about flying over Interior Oregon. Leo G. Devaney, state aeronau tics director, said a survey of central and southern Oregon showed plenty of water suitable for landings. CAPITOL OF STATE IS STILL WITHOUT POLES FOR FLAGS Salem. (U.R) Oregon resi dents are beginning to wonder how much longer their capital is going to be without an Ameri can fla. The question of Installing the flag poles has come up tim: and time again since the build ing was completed two years ago. Appropriations for flagpoles from the emergency fund have been proposed but nothing has been done, on the ground that a real emergency might arise in the future and there would be insufficient money left in the found. Lately it developed that there is an unexpended balance of nearly $6,000 in the state li brary building fund, money which was not appropriated but donated by the federal govern ment. At a recent meeting of the board of control Dan Fry. secre tary, suggested that the money might be used for the long needed flagpoles, but the board failed to take any immediate action and postponed it until some future date. The original plans of the cap itol called for two bronze fla; standards, but there was not enough money for their pur chase. Temporary wood flag pole suggestions have also been turned down and Gov. Charles A. Sprague's suggestion that the money be raised by tho school children of the state has brought no response. Florence Rice In Quest Of Divorce Hollywood. Ju!y 2. (U.R; Florence Rice, ncreen actress and daughter of Grantland Rice, sports writer, filed suit for di vorce late Monday from Robert Wilcox, film actor, to whom she has been married a year and three months. She said she separated from Wilcox last May 20. They mar ried March 31, 1939, in Hawaii. Sprague To Baker Salem, July Z.ifr) Gov. Charles A. Sprague will spend Independence Day in Baker, where he will speak at the min ing jubilee at 1:30 p.m.. and in Vale, where he will speak later in the afternoon. Richardson Trial Set Salem, July 2. IIP) Trial of W. Y. Richardson, former depu ty county treasurer who is charged with larceny of $23,580 in public funds, will open Mon day. Former County Treasurer D. G. Dragcr was convicted last February on a similar charge. D09 Gives Alarm Elkton, Ore.. July 2. IP) In vestigating the cause for her dogs violent barking. Mrs. Ed Jones discovered that a grass fire had racfed into the yard of her residence near Elkton and was threatening to destroy the home. Prompt action resulted in saving the buildings from dam age. Height of Ease Ironton, O. OP) An unidenti fied man snored peacefully for more than twelve hours a few inches from the edge of a two foot-wide bridge beam over the middle of the Ohio river. With utmost delicacy two painters awakened him. SULI Salem. (U.R) The tulphur fumes from the local paper mill are only about half as strong as the way Alderman George Belt feels pbout them. Belt, head of a committee to investigate what can be don b about eliminating the nuisance, r said: "If the residents have to put up with a Mt. Vesuvius, then let's change the name of our city from Salem to Pompeii." Currant Price Up. Salem. 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