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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.
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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. (U.R) Local growers
report that the smallest currant
crop here in many years, cou
pled with the stoppage of nor
mal currant imports from
Greece, has resulted in higher
prices.
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