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Turn to Want Ada rooplo do mot Jom fUnoa at tho Claaftirird. Th March fur hat I hey want. Try It thU Mornln. Quit often Import ant offerings are made you would not Ilk to mlta It pay to read the adra. Medford RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full Unltod Piott Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1940. No. 91. FlmlPMrrulin EM I i The Weather forecaat lair tods? and tomorrow; irmrr today. Tmiptratnro. Highest y-JrilMjr Lowest jetdny , SSPi mm Washington, D. C. July 6. Returning from several days in Oregon, Senator Rufus C. Hoi man reports that officials are asking what they can do to aid national defense and that com plaint is made because congress Is so slow. "I thought we were pretty speedy in congress," says Hol man, "we voted in excess of five billion dollars for defense alone in a matter of a few weeks. We have rushed to en actment all legislation requested for defense. I don't know what more we can do in the way of speed." "Anyone suggesting that we go to war?" inquired Senator McNary. "Well, the older ones are for it but the younger ones are not", replied Holman. People interested in the na tional guard are inquiring why the delay in ordering the citi zen soldiers mobilized. The peo ple of Oregon, observed Holman, are restless, they want action, armories or something. 1LWANY months 'will pass be " fore material results of the defense program are visible. Voting the money is only the initial step. Since July 1 the war and navy departments have con tracted for millions of dollars worth of equipment and from 18 months to three years will be required to fill these orders. Time is required for plant ex pansion, for new plants to be constructed, for the manufacture of machinery tools. There is much preliminary ground work to be laid before actual produc tion starts. Army officers are working on a plan for improving airport fa cilities but they do not contem plate developing every landing field in the country. The Pacific Northwest is not overlooked in the army program and an air depot is highly probable for some location in the Inland Em pire. Cog by cog a gigantic govern ment defensive war machine is being assembled. Bui everything takes time. riFTY miles an hour in an au- tomobile on a paved highway is making speed, but SO miles an hour in a torpedo boat is just about the record. James W. Mott, representative of the first congressional district, Oregon, as a member of the naval af fairs committee has been aboard the first of the mosquito craft of the navy in its experimental runs. The motor boat is twice as fast as any other naval vessel; Mott expects them to up the speed to 60 miles, perhaps. The sample Jim Mott rode (Continued on Pag. sis.) SEEN THIS WEEK Northern California: Fair Sunday; fog on the coast; cooler west central portion; moderate northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Generally fair Sun day, but cloudy or foggy on coast: warmer east portion to night; gentle variable wind off coast. Outlook for far western states for July 8 to 13 inclusive: Fair weather, but with fogs along coast and considerable thunder storm activity fore part of week in high mountains of California 'gained Its principal objectives of and over plateau: temperatures j continental domination and iso generally above normal interior lation of Britain from European of California and Nevada, but affairs and has some fences to cooler Pacific northwest fore- build in the south and southeast part of week. j before hazarding men, machines n i uuBTii AmMcrajra, July 0. t The German military comman der in Holland, Air Corps Gen eral Friedrich Christiansen, is- sued a sharp communique today accusing the Dutch army and board of aeronautics today by and Virginia adjacent to the approved a federal marketing make only a 10 per cent crop population of an unloyal atti- .Gov. Charles A. Sprague. His ; District of Columbia, rofe 43 2 ' agreement program for hops j but winter wheat would make tude toward the Ccrman occu-new term will expire June 17, per cent from 672.198 in 1930 1 produced In Oregon, California an almost-normal yield, run pation. 11945. Ito 962,742 in 1940. 'and Washington. Inlng 20 to 23 bushels per acre. BRITAIN REPELS NAZI AIR RAIDS; ITALYJASES HIT Naval Planes Mop-up On Enemy Ships Huge Army Awaits Invasion. Cairo, Egypt, July 6. VP) The French fleet in Alexandria was stated tonight to have been demobilized without difficulty. Col. Salisbury Jones, until lately chief British liaison offi cer in Syria, said in a broad cast at Cairo that thanks to the bonds of friendship formed be tween the British and French crews the demobilization of the French fleet in Alexandria has been carried out without difficulty in a spirit of com plete understanding. f London, Sunday, July 7. (P) --German planes flew in relays over a northeastern area of England early today after an undetermined number of civil ians had been killed in two German air raids late yester day. Driven To S Several of the latest waves of raiders were spotted by search lights, and anti-aircrnft fire drove them back seaward. Meanwhile, British warplanes hammered a double blow at Italian and French seapower In far-ranging attacks. At home, she enrolled an other 300,000 men in her con stantly expanding armed man power, poised now for invasion. "Successful action" by naval and royal air force planes against Italian warships in Tob ruk .Libya, was announced by the admiralty. It said other units of the fleet air arm also had raided an airdrome at Catania, Sicily, leaving hangars and workshops in flaming ruins. Naval mop-up planes made sure that the damaged French battleship Dunkerque was out of the war for good. Shell Grounded Warship They revisited Oran, Algiers, where the British attack on the French fleet Wednesday crip pled the Dunkerque and forced her aground, and scored six bomb hits on the 26,500-ton dreadnaught. "It was considered essential," the admiralty explained, "that the ship should be in no con dition to take part in the war in case she should fall under enemy control The planes attacked without warning because the French commander had declared his ships hors de combat and said they were to be abandoned, a communique disclosed. But its report that two British craft , vances. Only the wind prevent failed to return indicated that!ed it from reaching rich Hood some resistance may have been encountered. Call Up Reserves Dipping into her reservoir of men in their 30's. Britain call- ed her 1909 class 30-year-1 olds and before the end of the month three more groups will have registered, the 1908 class next Saturday, the 1907 class I a week later and the 1906 class two weeks later. Potentially, this is an army of 4,000,000 men which Britain expects will be stronger than the Maginot line which failed France. Hitler May Wait Some Britons say Hitler Is bound to strike quickly prob ably In a week or two. They reason that at the rate Britain is fortifying he must know his chance for success dwindles with each passing day. But some others hold that Germany may wait. They con tend that nazidom already has ari munitions on a new expe- idition. Gilstrap Reappointed Salem, July 6. UP) Dr. Clarence Gilstrap. of La Grande. j was reappointed to the state British Aboard French Battleship This picture, sent by cab! caption. British sailors aboard still flying. FIRES FLARE IN E Portland, Ore., July 6. (IP) Two new forest fires in Ore gon roared out of control into valuable green timber tonight while Washington's fire fighters checked all but one of their tim ber conflagrations. Oregon's Dee and Blowout creek fires rode stiff winds over fire lines, sending fire-fighters reeling back. The Dee fire, in Mount Hood national forest, covered more than 2,000 acres and was in green timber. Seven hundred and SO men fought it, calling for help as they fell back be- i iure me names uiish-uiik u- j River valley orchards, I A 500.acre blaze In ,ne Biow. lt CTeek gectlon of the wiI. ,., (ii rrf hmH , , jne o( the M11I " and reached green timber, Two fires in Oregon's Wolf Creek country, one of which ! ?.es,r0'.d ?e lo8in town ' west limDer inursuay, wuc controlled. Washington, July 6. W"l The population of the nation's capital Increased from 488,869 to 663. 153 In the last decade, preliminary figures of the new census disclosed tonight. The gain of 36.8 pT cent was the largest of any major city so far reported and moved Washington up from 14h place among the nation's cities to 11th or 12th. depending upon the San Francisco count. The population of the entire naKhmgton area, including su burban counties of Maryland from London to New York, shows, according io the English a French battleship in a southern port. Not in French tricolor I War Bulletins Shanghai, July 7. (Sunday) (P) United States marines, pa trolling their Shanghai defense sector, arrested IS plainclothes Japanese gendarmes today. All were armed and were scattered along streets of the American sector in violation of an agreement not to enter that area. They were locked in the ma rine brig, and marine author ities indicated they would be held until Japanese authorities tendered apo'osics. London, July 7. (Sunday) Reuters (British news agency) said today in a dispatch from Vichy that the French naval ministry had acknowledged that French planes had participated in raids on the British base at Gibraltar yesterday. The news agency said the following communique had been issued by the naval min istry: 'Two naval air squadrons which were being demobilized were rearmed and attacked at their moorings at Gibraltar British vessels which took part in the cowardly attack at Mers El-Kebir. At least one British vessel was hit." JAPANESE POLICY London, July 6. OP) New British gestures of friendship toward Japan were predicted by a neutral source today In line with a "one-war-at-a-time" policy designed to strengthen Britain's hand in Europe. Concessions which Britain Is prepared to make, this source said, would be limited only by a desire to avoid alienating opinion In the United States. Britain Is well awnre, he said, that the United States would regard "diplomatic ca pitulation" to Japan in the Far East with a cold eye because of American Interests there." Hop Pact Okayed Washington. July 6. IP) The agriculture department an - nounced today that growers had BERLIN WILD AS HITLER RETURNS AS A CONQUEROR Berlin, July 6. (P) Adolf Hitler came back from his con quests today to ride across a vast carpet of flowers and hear the tumult of a welcome such as Berlin had never seen be fore. The proportions of this home coming were Napoleonic the press, in fact, in an article writ ten by Hitler's own press chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich, compared the fuehrer to both Napoleon and Caesar. While bands blared and church bells pealed. Hitler, standing in his car, smiled and saluted. Flowers of every kind and color carpeted his path. Thousands had brought flow ers, despite the order that they must not throw them in the fuehrer's car. The police had them piled in the streets and, a few minutes before Hitler's train pulled into the station, uniformed Hitler boys and Hit ler girls scattered them eagerly from curb to curb. The predominant note of the triumphant ride was militry. Hitler did not speak, either at the station or at tne chan cellery. He made two silent. smiling appearances on the chancellery balcony, and the police had to clear the Wil helmplatz later. BIG BEND WHEAT HARVEST STARTS Wenatchee, Wash., July 5. (IP) Combines began chattering today in the Bib Bend country, slicing the heads from a wheat crop estimated by farmers and county agents at 20 per cent below the 1939 yield. Unconfirmed reports from 1 farms east of Moses Coulee In I dkatcd the spring wheat would 'EMPTY' SHOTGUN CAUSES TRAGEDY IN JOE CAVE HOI Glen Cave, 5, Accidentally Shot Uncle, 11, Saturday Lad Seriously Hurt. An "empty" gun caused a near-fatal accident Saturday morning, sending little Glen Cave, five-and-a-half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Witlard Cave of 1117 West 11th street, to Community hospital with his left eye destroyed, the tips of the fingers of his left hand shot off and a charge of shot in his chest. Glen was accidentally shot by his uncle, 11-year-old Jimmy Cave, son of City Policeman and Mrs. Joseph O. Cave of 106 Elm street, while the two boys were romping and playinx about the J. O. Cave residence at 11 a. m. Jimmy, broken hearted and gripf-stricken after the accident, sobbed out the story that he thought the gun, a single-barrel 410-cadiber shot gun, was not loaded. Joe Cave, Glen's grandfather, said that physicians attending the Injured lad planned to take x-ray pictures of his chest to day, and that they believed Glen would recover unless com plications developed from the charge of shot lodged in his left chest Mr. Cave, who was at home when the 'accident happened, explained that Jimmy had taKeii the gun down to show to Ches ter W. Cave of Artisan, N. M. who with his wife had just arrived to spend the day with the J. O. Caves. Chester W. Cave is Joe- Cave's nephew, the New Mexico visitors being on a vacation trip. The bovs had been playing around the house, Mr. Cove said, and ran Inta the bedroom where the gun was standing. Jimmy seized tho weapon and playfully pointed It at Glen and just beforo it went off Glen apparently threw his left hand up before his face, Mr. Cave related. The first other members of the household knew of the accident was when Iney heard the report of the shot. AT FAIR IS A HOAX New York, July 6. P) Crowds at New York's world's fair got their second bomb scare in a week today. nut tnis time. Instead of a deadly explosive similar to the one which took two lives Thursday and injured seven, lt proved to be only a package containing women's silk stock ings and a handkerchief. The package was discovered in the British pavilion the same structure in which the death-dealing bomb was found two days ago. It was rushed from the pa vilion into the little-used area where the earlier explosion oc curred. Members of the police bomb squad hastened the package into a lavatory and there examined It with a portable X-ray ma chine, which disclosed no bomb like structure. Baton Rouge, La., July 6. OP) Extraordinary emergency regulations so rigid that com pany employes said "Franklin D. Roosevelt himself won't be able to get in here now without special pass were put into effect today at the $20,000,000 D u P o n t Ethyl manufacturing plant following a dynamite scare. FBI agents and state and county police joined in the hunt for three men who reportedly fled upon dlicovery Friday night, leaving four sticks of dy namite inside the plant fence under which they had bur rowed. Belfast, July 6. (IP) A for tune in franca in a Belfast bank was seized by the Ulster gov ernment today. He Disbands a Vict-Admlril Rene Emila God troy (abova) commander of French naval units bottled up at Alexandria. Egypt, by iha British navy, who decided Sat urday io demobilise. BY RED SOX, 9-5 The Sllverton Red Sox moved into a tie with Medford for the Oregon State league leadership last night at the fairgrounds park by defeating the Craters, S to 5, with a four-run rally In the eighth Inning that cracked a B-all deadlock. The clubs play the second game of their series this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Red Sox tallied their eighth-frame runs with the aid of only two basehits, an infield single by Orren and Manning's two-run blow to right. Bill Lanning lost control In this inning, walking two men, and cut loose with a wild pitch that allowed a runner to score. Stew Fredericks, young right hander, went the .route for the Red Sox and was highly effec tive after the first Inning, when the Craters pounded four runs over the plate on a walk. Cook's triple, Wray's single, Peterson's triple and McLean's single. Lanning, who was far from his usual form, possibly because of his injured finger, gava up two tallies in the second on singles by Whitman, Moe and Kirsch and an infield out. The Sox tied the score at 4-all in the fourth on McDonald's error, a sacrifice by Wattier, Kirsch's single and Cody's triple to the scoreboard. Silverton went Into a 5 to 4 lead in the fifth on Manning's walk, a passed ball and Hal Moe's single to left, 'but the Craters tied it at 9 to 5 In their half when McDonald walked and scored on Rocky Peterson's second triple of the game, a line drive to right. Lanning allowed 11 hits, while Fredericks gave up nine, four of them In the first inning. Big Bill whiffed six but walked four, all of them on close calls that many fan thought were strikes. Score: R. H. E. Silverton 9 11 Medford 8 9 3 Fredericks and Moe; Lanning and Hawkins. Portland, July 6. OP) Port land's two State league baseball teams halved a double-header tonight, the Portland Babes tak ing the opener, 4-2, Jack & Jill Tavernmen prevailing in the second encounter, 12-7. Karterman held the Tavern team to four hits in the opener. First game: R. H. E. Portland Babes.- 4 6 3 Jack it Jill 2 4 0 Karterman and Amacher; Lei- theiser and Mize. Second game: R. H. E. Jack It Jill 12 13 2 Portland Babes 7 9 0 Clow and Warren; Carstens, Carloscio, Birch, Warner, Mc Millan and Amacher. Tallest Man 111. Manistee, Mich., July 6. UP) Robert Wadlow, 22, of Alton. 111., noted as one of the world's tallest men, here as guest at a forest festival, Is confined to a local hotel with loot in feet ion. f r j AS KEY TO PEACE President Suggests Nations Decide Territory Problems In Own Spheres Backs Secretary Hull. Hyde Park, N. Y, July 8- (JP) President Roosevelt sug gested today that Europe and Asia apply the principles of the Monroe doctrine as a means of reaching agreement on the dis position of possessions of con quered nations. He took the position Euro pean, Asiatic and American nations should get together In their respective spheres and settle problems involving ter ritorial possessions among them selves, instead of allowing a conquering power to make the decisions. The president relayed hit views to reporters through his secretary. Stephen Early, fol lowing a 30-minute talk with Secretary Hull last night on the Implications of the exchange of notes, involving the interpre tation of the Monroe doctrine. between Germany and the Unit ed States. Backing up Hull's pronounce ment that the United States would continue to enforce the doctrine, Mr. Roosevelt let It be . known - through Early -that should Germany lay claim to any French, British, or Dutch possessions in this hemisphere, the United States would make no effort to take them over. Rather, all the American na tions would be asked to decide whether they should be placed under a mandate ' or held in trust in some manner until they could be returned to their pres ent owners, . The president thought Euro pean and Asiatic nations should make similar Joint arrange ments. A reporter told Early that. in a note delivered to the state department yesterday, Germany apparently had taken a parallel suna Dy stating that the Monroe doctrine's principle of non-inter- terence could be legauy valid only if Americans did not inter fere in Europe. Early replied that he waa speaking of physical tranafcra of ownership of territories, and that as he understood it. the German note dealt with political Interference. "In other words," he said. "the Washington and Berlin gov ernments do not seem to be in agreement on the interpretation of the Monroe doctrine." FIND LOST GIRL 'NEATH HER BED Santa Fe, N, M., July 6 (IP) Police were called to searcn for 10-year-old Ellen No- Ian when her father reported she had "disappeared." Officers scoured the area around the Nolan residence) throughout the night. Dawn was breaking when someone thought to look under Ellen's bed. There she was, sleeping peacefully. BLAST HURLS MAN, BABY NOT INJURED Portland, Ore., July 9.4Ph A gas explosion wrecked two rooms of an apartment house here today and blew a repair man through a window apd against a fence IS feet away. The man, Syd Carrick, es caped with head lacerations, and a baby asleep in a crib in an adjoining room was un hurt. Investigators b 1 a m d the) blast on a gas leak.
