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The Weather Forecast Fair tunlclit, fcaturdav and Sunday: lltll chance la tem perature. Temperature Uifhfrf jrtterda; 91 Lurt thlf Diornlnr 53 Tribune Closing Time for FORD Sl'SDAY CLASSIFIED ADVi. Is P. M. B tTl RDAT rieaaa remember Full Associated Prats Full United Press Thirty-fifth Year JIEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940. No. 90. 15 5) AT Mil r. a. i i II mi i jirira Med OF Uffll ; AT ATHE Washington, D. C, July 8. Senator Charles L. McNary has declined to have his notification ceremonies as Republican nom inee for vice president become an auxiliary of the "whiskerino" centennial celebration which Salem is planning for next month. Suggestion that the pol itical event (first of its kind ever held in Oregon), be staged simultaneously with the Salem show was made by Gov. Charles A. Sprague in a telephone call to the senator. Declination was made by McNary, who does not know yet when a committee from the Republican national convention will call on him. The date will be set by the senator. The senator, most loyal of Salemites (his farm. Fircone, is five miles from town on the River road watch for the RFD mailbox), could see no connec tion between a strictly local celebration and a notification of a nominee by a major pol itical party; each has its own importance and neither requires the other to draw a crowd. SENATOR McNary would like the notification to take place on his farm, part of his grand father's donation land claim, and where he was born. How . ever, he realizes there will be a throng and parking space is limited. Champoeg park would be suitable, but it has a one-way road and this would mean a traffic jam. The state fair grounds, with its grandstand, speakers' platform and acres of parking area appears the most logical as thousands of motor ists could be accommodated. POLITICOS in Oregon are wondering whether McNary will resign before November. He will not. Should the Repub lican ticket be succesful he might not resign until January 20. If he resigned before No vember, the governor could ap point a successor only until the (Continued on Ptge Eight.) L G Washington, July 5. (!P The police guard, about the United Slates capitol was in creHsed today and every sight seer or other visitor to the great, gray building was required to state his business there. Tourists still were being ad mitted freely, authorities said, but except when they traveled In offically recognized parties each had to be identified or identify himself. The indentific ations were taken by blue-coated officers stationed at the en trances. Runaway Fatal Colfax, Wash., July 5. P) Clarence Smiley, 38, of Esta cada. Ore., died at the hospital here last night from a broken neck suffered Wednesday when he was thrown from a hay wagon as his team ran away. He was working on a farm near La crosse. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Liujaii iiiiunan bearing up re markably well at a ferocious rasslin battle royal. Doc Thomas Emmcns and wifey, Leah, driving clear cross country to enjoy the quietude of this pleasant valley for a time. Donald McDonald and Jack Coons whipping up a Fourth of July spirit at a nite spot. Brothers-in-Law Chet Hub bard, Jack Walker and Ed Schack forming a handsome trio that would do credit to any movie production company. DRASTIC PROTESTnElSniGERIVIANYTOLDU.SJl ATTACKJN FLEET British Ready lo Repeat On- slaught Should French Ships Attempt to Escape London, July 5. P) Th Madrid radio announced to night It had betn "estab lished" that planes which bombed Gibraltar today war French. Berlin, July 5 (,P The high command is ready temporarily to defer disarmament of the remaining units of the French fleet under the armistice treaty provisions as a result of the British action apainst French vessels In til- Mediterranean, the German armistice commis sion advised the French dele gation tonight. By the Associated Press A stern French protest against Britain's attack on the French fleet in the Mediterranean was delivered in London today ap parently a sign that the es tranged allies were about to break off relations. Reports In Berlin said France already had severed diplomatic relations as Britain kept power ful units of the French fleet bottled up in Alexandria har bor, ready to attack at the firs! gesture of defiance. The French embassy called the protest "as drastic and as stern ... as it Is possible to make.".. Britain Firm "We do not know what will happen or when the French will make a decision," British cir cles at Alexandria said. "We only know that no French ship shall ever leave Alexandria to surrender to the enemy." It was clearly Indicated that any French attempt to slip out of the harbor would result in a repetition of yesterday's Anglo French naval action in the west ern Mediterranean the greatest sea battle of the war. While the British acted de cisively to prevent the French fleet from aiding Hitler's pro jected Invasion of the British Isles, German and Italian war planes yesterday sniped at two British naval bases. Italian planes twice showered bombs on Alexandria. England's great base in the Mediterranean, attacking both French and Brit ish warships at anchor In the harbor. The toll: IS killed 7 wounded. A German raid on England's home naval base at Portland, (Contln ied on Page Three.) ge Tjiree. F. D. Tusts Five Objectives Before World Peace Assured By Douglas B. Cornell Hyde Park, N. Y., July 5. P Five objectives which must be realized before permanent world peace would be assured were listed by President Roosevelt today, and first among them he put freedom from fear, and that, he said, means disarmament The discussion, during a press conference, came at a time when Europe is fighting a bloody war and the United States is embarking on a vast defense program under the president's personal direction, This was how he listed the objectives- I 1. Freedom from fear, so that people will not be afraid 0f I being bombed from the air or attacked by another nation. That, he said, means removal of the weapons which cause fear, or disarmament. 2. Freedom of information. That is important, Mr. Roose- velt asserted, because i the whole news of what is going on in every part of the country and in every part of the world, with lout censorship. He said that it I meant not freedom of the press alone but freedom of every I means of distributing informa Ition and that without it there could not be a stable world. 3. Freedom of religion. Un der democracies, the president said, this freedom has been, maintained fairly well but not, London. July S (JPl A reliable, although unofficial, estimate placed th number of German planes shot down over and around the British Isles sine the start of the war at 107 with a "large num ber" badly damaged. London, July i.tfP) To night's air ministry com munique said th British warplanes yesterday bombed Hamm and Emmerich In the Ruhr and also scored hits on hangars at the Amsterdam and Brussels airports. The German naval bases at Kiel. Wilhelmshaven and Emden also were attacked last night, th communique said. London. July 5. IIP) An announcement by DNB. Gar man official news agency, from Clermont-Ferrand, seat of th French government, says that General Charles de Gaulle, head of th French national committee in Lon don, has been informed that he will be court martialled, th British news agency Ex change Telegraph reported to day. REFUSES 10 SEA! Lake Geneva, Wis., July 5. yp) The American Youth con gress regarded as a closed inci dent its refusal to seat an "anti red" group of 40 would-be dele gates claiming Gene Tunney's, support,, and went ahead today with a program that Included two plenary sessions on peace and foreign policy questions. The disbarred faction, how I ever, while abandoning attempts to obtain a voting voice in the conference, met at nearby Wil liams Bay to ponder possible for mation of a rival organization to be drawn from membership of the Junior Association of Com merce and the Young Democrat and Young Republican clubs. The Tunney bloc, which had announced an intention of "rid ding the congress of commun ists," was refused voting power or a voice in conference deliber ations yesterday because its members had not made "any ap plication as delegates or presen tation of credentials," an A.Y.C. spokesman declared. SWEDEN GIVES NAZIS WAR SUPPLY PERMIT Stockholm, July 9. (tP) Sweden today granted Germany the right to move supplies, including war materials, over Swedish railways to Norway. in countries ljving under other systems or government. 4. Freedom of expression. A person should be free to voice his opinions, the president said, so long as he does not advocate overthrow of his government, Freedom from want. That mu!t A ccomplished. Mr Ryelt declared, by removal of cultural and commercial bar riers between nations. The outlining of these objec tives, the chief executive said, raises) the question of whether we are going to seek the five "freedoms" or give them up. or encourage, by lack of oppo- ,sition iho nationJ wnicn h.VP them In order to achieve a somewhat more ef ficient government. He admitted frankly that what he termed the corporate state or government, as main tained in Italy, Germany and Russia, was more efficient than a democracy. Delays are Inherent In the American system, he said, be cause of Its system of checks and balances In the legislative. executive and Judicial branches. Hull Says Doctrine Solely Matter of eu rw-.. ocii-ucicuac, Not Like European Copy Washington, July 5. GP The United States replied today to a German challenge of the Monroe doctrine by stating that It was "a basic policy of the government to prevent aggres sion" in the western hemisphere. For more than 100 years the doctrine has stood as a barrier to European penetrating of this hemisphere, in its refusal to per mit transfer of territories in the new world from one non-American power to another. But, Secretary Hull told his press conference today, the Ger man foreign minister had been quoted in a reply to a recent American note on the Monroe doctrine as saying that interpre tation of the doctrine to forbid such transfers would be "unten able." He then went on to declare that the Monroe doctrine was solely a policy of self-defense and contained "not the slightest vestige of any implication, much less assumption of hegemony on the part of the United States." His statement declared the Monroe doctrine "never has re sembled and It . does not today resemble policies which appear to be arising in other geographi cal areas of the World, which are alleged to be similar to the Monroe doctrine, but which in stead of resting upon the sole policies of self-defense and of respect for existing soverelgntys, as does the Monroe doctrine, would in reality seem to be only , , .. oT conquest by the" "sora. o mllitarv ooruntlnn .nH t m. plcte economic and political domination by certain powers of other free and independent peo ples." SENATE RECESSES T ,.. , 77 . "I"".' ''r'- 1119 peimie rrccsseu lor mei week-end after an eight-minute session today and made ready for a floor fight Monday over President Roosevelts nomina tions of Henry L, Stimson to be secretary of war and Frank Knox to be secretary of the navy. Democratic Leader Barkley told reporters he thought that the two Republicans would be confirmed by a substantial ma jority, but "we will have to listen to some speeches first." Another matter for the senate next week will be action on the $4,000,000,000 naval expansion bill. Flames Destroy Carlton Sawmill Carlton, July 9. Pi A fire swept out of the boiler room yesterday and destroyed the L. H. L. Lumber company in ahniit thrr mlniit E. J. Linke and Guy Haynes, I operators, said they carried no insurance to cover a $40,000 loss. The mill had daily ca pacity, of 100.000 board feet of lumber and employed B0 men. FIRECRACKERS BLAMED IN HUMBOLDT BLAZE Rohnervllle. Cal., July 9. OP) Exploding firecrackers, thrown between wooden build ings by a July 4th celebrant, were belie-ed today to have caused a fire which razed four buildings and for a time men aced the entire town of Rohner vllle, one of Humboldt county's oldest settlements. Loss was estimated at $6,500. Baltimore, July 9. OPt I Laden with a strangely marked ; cargo and headed for an undis i closed destination, the trouble dogged steamer Panamanian moved toward the open sea to day after squelching a fire In her hold which flared four hours j from port the latest link In 'long chain of ill luck baseball American Score: R. H. E. St. Louis 8 7 1 Chicago 10 13 0 Auker, Lawson, Bildilli, and Grace; Rigney, Appleton and Tresh. R. Boston 9 H. E. 14 1 12 3 Master- 1 Washington 4 Bagby and Desautels; ,0n, Hudlin and Early. National Score: R. H. E. Pittsburgh 4 8 2 Cincinnati 5 14 2 MacFayden, Brown, and Lo- pez: Turner, Beggs, and Lom- bardi. Score: Philadelphia . New York Mulcahy, L. R. H. E. 2 7 1 15 17 1 Brown and Mil lies, Warren; Melton and Dan- ning, O'Dea. TO HUGE THRONG FOR CELEBRATION ASHLAND, July 9. (Spl.V A crowd estimated at more than 20,000 jammed every corner of space here yesterday to witness this little city's big Fourth of July celebration. The celebra tion will continue through to day and tomorrow. A new record for attendance was established yesterday. After the fireworks display last night, it took two hours to clear Lithla park of automobiles. The park like other parts of the city, was packed all day. The rodeo was attended by 4,000, the Cavalcade ol ne isiyous oy wrestling card by more than l'00', J!' W'" be repeated tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 at the high school field. The Medford Business and Professional Women's club won first prize in the organization division of the parade, recelv ing a blue ribbon and $20 in cash for its float. Medford Eagles drill teams won seventh place honors. Participating also in the parade for Medford were the Dis- abled American Veterans and auxiliary and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, . ,; j u Medford irrigation district. The Lions' club of Ashland won the sweepstakes prize with its "Spirit of Liberty" float. A dazzling entry In the parade was Ashland s newest organize tion, the Trail Blazers, compris ing 36 mounted, gayly uniformed men and women. In the rodeo Ed Kubll and son, Norman of the Applegate cap tured a list of prizes totalling $80. highest for any pair. Weather conditions were ideal and from a business standpoint it was the most successful Fourth of July celebration on record, those in charge said. . At 0 tonight the Queen's ball is to be held at the Chateau. Tomorrow's program includes a soap box derby at 0 a. m., chll dren's games and races In Lithia park at 10:30 a. m., and various other events throughout the day and evening. Tent-House Blaze Causes 3 Deaths North Bend, Ore., July 5 lri Three members of a Gardi ner family burned in a tent house fire early yesterday died here last night. The dead are Mrs. Albert Johns and her two sons, Bobby, 1, and Jimmy, 2. Johns, badly burned about the hands, arms and face, is not in critical con dition. AMERICANSTWARM TO BOARD LAST STEAMER Galway, Ireland, July 9. (IP) Americans who swarmed Into this Irish port for "positively the last boat" to th United States until the war ends began boarding the U. S. liner Wash ington today. The Washington, which reach ed Galway harbor last night, will embark 1,800 Americans who came here., from Britain and the war torn European continent. 3 BUND LI GIVEN BAIL AFTER T Officers Invade Nazi Rally in New Jersey Inciting Racial Hatred Charged Newton, N. J., July 9, (P) Three German American bund leaders were released today in $1,000 ball each on charges of inciting racial and religious hatred. Bail was furnished by Gustav Elmer, national bund treasurer. G. Wilhelm Kunze, acting na tional leader of the bund; Au gust Klapprott, camp manager and president of the New Jer sey bund, and Mathias Kohler, a bund officer and trustee, had been arrested yesterday at an Independence day rally at the bund's Camp Nordland, in And over township. Qulssed on Bomb They were held overnight at the Sussex county jail and be fore being released this morn ing were questioned by Detec tives William Kunz and Joseph Bonanno of the New York City police department alien squad In connection with the bombing at the world's fair yesterday. The detectives said it was Just a rou tine check. The warrants for their arrest, based on a 1S3S New Jersey statute, charged they "permitted an unlawful assemblage of three or mors persons and did'lpet mit utterance of speeches, sale of literature, display of em blems and of uniforms which counselled, promoted or advo cated hatred, violence or hos tility against any group or groups of persons residing in the state, because of race, relig ion or creed." The law carries maximum penalties of three y e a r a in prison or $5,000 fine or both. The arrest warrants were sworn out by Township Committeemen Charles Barbay, Raymond Cur rent and William Morrow and charged violations "on and prior to June 16." Tl MERCY OF WINDS Forest Grove, Ore., July 9. (jP) The safety of two nortn westcrn Oregon communities. Timber mid Glenwoed, depend cd today on the vagaries of wind and fire. Detachments from tho 1,200 fire-fighters in the Cclumbia, Tillamook und Washington coun ties high hazard section con trolled the 400-acre brush fire threatening Glen wood. The fire spread from West Timber, the Wolf Creek highway settle ment burned Wednesday. Third Term Acceptance Seen As Demos Speed Preparation By D. Harold Oliver Washington, July 8. (IP) With the presidential election exactly four months off. Dem ocratic leaders were hustling preparations today for their party's July 15 convention amid increasing Indications that Pres ident Roosevelt would break tradition and accept a third term "draft." Republicans, too, were think ing of casting an old custom aside? as their 1940 standard bearer, Wendell L. Willkie, con sidered plans in New York for a three-man strategy board In lieu of a single campaign direc tor. Wlllki will com her Mon day to discuss campaign plana with his running mate. Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon. Talk of a Democratic ticket headed by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull continued to overshadow speculation by a few party mem bers that the chief executive night turn down the nomina tion at th last minute. EADERSI T Check Export! I g''u: rr : Lieut. CoL Russell L. Max well (above), of th army gen eral staff, has been appointed administrator of export control by President Roosevelt in a move to establish strict control over th export of numerous vital war materials. AGAINST FOOLING WITH THIRD PARTY EFFORTS St. Louis, July 9 (Pi Town send national convention dele gates went home today carrying last minute advice not "to wor ry or fool with" the third party movement which their leaders suggested earlier in the session. Rep. Joe Hendricks (D-Fla.), sponsor of the Townsend bill in the house, said in the closing meeting yesterday a third party could have only a "negative re sult" on their plan. "I don't think," Hendricks as serted, "the dynamic John L. Lewis or the conservative Sena tor Burton K. Wheeler could lead any third party to victory. . . . let us go to districts where the Townsend organization has the balance of power. Let us elect representatives who will support this plan." Daladier on Board Overdue Steamer London. July 8. (IP) The German-controlled Brussels ra dio in a broadcast heard here reported today that the 15,363 ton French liner Massllia, which left Bordeaux June 16 with for mer French Premier Edouard Daladier aboard, was overdue and missing. The broadcast said that for mer French minister of educa tion Delbos and former minister of the interior Mandel also were aboard the ship. High officials based their pre diction of a Roosevelt accept ance partly on the assumption that an eleventh-hour declina tion might turn the convention into confusion from which it might be difficult to recover In the ensuing campaign. Others mentioned besides Hull as a Roosevelt running mate Include Senator Byrne of South Carolina, Supreme Court Justice Douglas of Connecticut and Washington state. Vice President Garner, Senator Lu cas of Illinois. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, federal security ad ministrator; Speaker Bankhead of Alabama, and House Leader Ray burn of Texas. Should the president decldo not to seek a third term, lead ers are fairly well agreed he will endorse Hull. Tills logically would turn the vice presidential nomination toward far west ern man to offset the selection by the Republicans of Senator McNary, or to an easterner to balance Wlllkie'i New York residence. - FOUR LIVES LOST IN JULY 4 CRASHES Aged Woman Killed, Six Hurt in Crash On Redwood Highway South of G. Pass By tht Associated Press Five persons lost their lives and many others were injured In Oregon Independence day tragedies. A collision on the Redwood highway south of Grants Pass cost the life of Elvira McCalvey, 75, Grants Pass, and injured six others. The injured were Mrs. Vera Olson, daughter of the victim, . broken ribs and shock; her son, ' Jack, 5, skull fracture; Albert McCalvey, 70, broken rib, and Raymond, Francis and Wilma Hatch. An automobile left Th Dalles-California highway nln miles south of Maupin, killing Mrs. M. W. Hinkle, about 36. Izee, Ore. Her husband and 11-year-old son were gravely In jured. A fourth passenger suf fered only minor injuries. Jim Kennedy, about 63, of Deer Island, died in a head-on automobile crash on the lower Columbia River highway. Dep uty Sheriff Leo Mollenhour re ported. Four persons were slightly Injured. - Gerald L. Lunde, 29, of Min neapolis was killed and his com panion, Donald Fulk, 22, of Albany, critically injured last night. Their automobile crashed into a ditch near Brownsville on the Hasley-Sweethom high way. Llllie Ma Jones, IS. of South Deer creek In Douglas county. drowned in South Umpqua river last night. Th girl stepped Into a hola while wading and was carried away by th current. A small brother and lister wit nessed th tragedy. Seattle. July 5. P Eight persons drowned and three died in automobile accidents as thou sands of Washlngtoniana took advantage of warm, tunny weather yesterday and ita Fourth of July holiday to visit beaches, lakes and resorts. One of the day'a greatest tragedies occurred at Mission Beach, north of Everet, when Fred Shaw, Maltby resident, saved an unidentified girl from drowning but saw his two sorts and a daughter die in Puget Sound. Marlon Shaw, 19, became caught in the channel while swimming. Bernice Shaw, 14, and Wallace Shaw, 17, lost their lives going to his aid. Bodies of all three were recov ered In eight feet of water. Carole Landis of Filmdom Elopes Hollywood, July 9. UP) Carole Landis, blond and 21, one of the movie's newest start, eloped by airplane to Las Vegas last night, was married and hur ried back to begin a new pic ture today. Said the bridegroom, Willie Hunt Jr. 28, yacht broken "It was all to sudden, we had no time to make honeymoon plant. Anyway, that will have to wait until Miss Landis completes the picture." Golden Gate Fair Attendance Mark Broken on Fourth San r'ranclsco, July 9 UP) A 1940 attendance record was set by the Golden Gate exposition yesterday when 131,069 cash customer were welcomed. This total exceeded that of July 4, 1939, when the at tendance wat 122.879, and topped that of this season's best previous date, th open ing day. when attendance was 123.038. A full program which in cluded many patriotic events, plus sunny, warm weather drew the July 4 crowds.
