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I : at Athe I GENERAL OPINION
Washington, D. C, July 13.
The David and Jonathan friend
ship which has existed between
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
James Aloysius Farley is sched
uled to terminate next week in
Chicago. Genial Jim does not
believe in violating the third
term tradition; does not approve
of Mr. Roosevelt preventing
other Democrats from building
up for the nomination, and Jim
will not manage the third term
campaign, but will retire from
the national committee (and pos
sibly his place in the cabinet),
and engage in private business
possibly manager of the New
York Yankees.
Such is the story told by poli
ticos who are close to Farley
and are presumed to know what
is in his mind. Should the state
ment be confirmed by events
there would be little surprise in
Washington where the rather
scurvy treatment Farley has re
ceived from the administration
during the past three years is
common knowledge. Farley was
edged out of his close relation
ship with Mr. Roosevelt by the
"needling" supplied by the lit
tle group of insiders who had
constant access to the president's
ear and who believe they know
more about the science of prac
tical politics than that old mas
ter, Big Jim.
Mr. Farley will not bolt, willocrats determined, to "draft
not support Willkie. He will i Roosevelt ." some hannv nnrt
Just gracefully make his exit,
watching the campaign from the
sidelines.
WHEN (and if) Farley steps out
of the Roosevelt camp the
last of the small group of men
who promoted, organized and
accomplished the nomination of
Mr. Roosevelt at Chicago eight
years ago, will have left "The
Boss." as Jim always calls the
president. With the exception
of Louis McHenry Howe, who
died in the White House, the
others broke with Mr. Roosevelt
one after another, but Faithful
Farley remained, despite his
treatment by New Dealers of
recent vintage the Hopkins,
Corcorans, Cohens and Ickes.
An inveterate "jiner," Farley
made a trip to the Elks lodge, at
Portland, Ore., as an excuse for
sounding out and building up
sentiment for Mr. Roosevelt,
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Albuquerque, N. M., July 13.
IP) James H. R. Cromwell
booked plane passage tonight
for Chicago for a hurried visit
with Democratic leaders before
taking a clipper plane Tuesday
to Honolulu and the bedside of
hls tobacco heiress wife, Doris
Duke.
Mrs. Cromwell Thursday gave
birth to a child three months
prematurely, the infant dying
yesterday about 23 hours after
birth.
Fishing In the Jemez moun
tains northwest of Albuquerque,
Cromwell was unaware of the
tragedy following Mrs. Crom
well until advised through the
Associated Press and residents
of the little mountain commun
ity of Jemez, who located him
25 miles away in a canyon.
Cromwell said that the trag
edy would affect his campaign
for senator of New Jersey, for
which he is the Democratic can
didate. "Of course. I don't know yet
to what extent," he explained.
CHURCHILL TALK
DUE NOON TODAY
London. July 13. Wi Prime
Minister Winston Churchill will
broadcast nn address tomorrow ,
night at 9 o'clock (noon P.S.T. I
His speech will be broadcast I
overseas. It will last about 14 j
minutes I
F.R. WILL ACCEPT;
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Carnival Spirit Prevails
Pressure Applied to Far
leyNo War Plank Prom
ises Fight.
Willkie For Unity
Chicago, July 13. (IP)
Headquarters were opened
in u loop hotel, today for
an organization dedicated to
nominating Wendell L. Will
kie for president at the Dem
ocratic national convention
next week.
Explaining the purpose of
those who would have the
Republican standard bearer
lead the Democratic party as
well, Guy Warren of Corpus
Christi, Texas, chairman of
the organization, said:
'The Nominate Willkie
Democrats organization was
formed to provide a medium
tor the people to express
their desire for national unity
and it is our profound belief
that the delegates from all
states will heed the wishes
of the vast majority of the
people of the party and obey
their mandate for a unified
lation."
Chicago, July 13. (IP) Dem-
some unhappy about it, but
nearly everyone convinced he
will accept the nomination,
poured Into this convention city
today to join in a carnival pre
lude to next week's national
convention.
Bushels of red and white and
blue buttons bearing the motto
"Just Roosevelt," and the sil
houette of a rooster rampant
adorned hundreds of lapels,
proclaiming in advance the key
note of the big party gather
ing. Whether the president would
accept the nomination, two men
knew, and they, secreted in the
fastnesses of the huge Stevens
hotel, the convention headquar
ters, were in busy conference
with their aides and casual call
ers. The two. Chairman James
A. Farley of the Democratic na
tional committee, who had been
adverse to a third term for the
president, and Secretary of
Commerce Harry L. Hopkins.
i the presidents confidant ana
personal convention representa
tive, In fact went Into confer
ence with each other during the
day. Hopkins called on Farley.
Farley is a candidate, and one
whose name is to go before
the convention whether the
president's is presented or not.
j He has been planning to re-1
linquish his post as national
chairman. However, much
sure was being exerted upon
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Havana, July 13. Cuba
will chose a president Sunday
in an election that may affect
the hemisphere defense plans of
the United States.
Chief candidates are Col. Ful
gencio Batista, the Wand's
"strong man" and Dr. Ramon
Grau San Martin, the man Ba
tista once pushed in and out of
the presidency.
Laredo Bra. a Batistaman, is
president now. He cannot suc
ceed himself.
Grau's policy has been "Cuba
for the Cubans." Batista, an in-
' I ternationalist. has pledged co
oocration with t'nele Sam.
Two million Cubans are qua!
i ified to vote in the election.
which will fill almost every pol
itical office on the island. There
is a third candidate for the pres
idency Reinaldo Marques Ca
macho but he appears to "-ac
httl chanct
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Hop that Ireland .1) Eire and Ulster would unite to pro
vide defense against a German Invasion appeared to be dissi
pated by the attitude of Irish leaders, and on commentator said
that England could only hop that it would b abl to meet the
"first SOS thai comas from Dublin." Black arrow (2) shows path
Nasis might take in attempt to tela Ireland to complete an arc
now formed across in channel
Meantime,. German planes continued 20 bomb southeastern
England (3).
Dublin, July 13. IP) A n i
amicable settlement between
Britain and Ireland under which !
British troops will cross Eire's
frontiers only after a raid by
a hostile power, was reported
today in quarters close to the
FOR FIRST TIME
IN FOREST FIRES
Rogue River national forest'
headquarters were instructed
late last night to have 11 ex
perienced fire-fighting execu
tives assembled here at 7:00 this
morning for dispatch to the
Montana fires if necessary,
Missoula, Mont., July 13. (IP)
Hundreds of fires started by a
rainless lightning storm blazed
tonight in the tinder-like forests
of three northwestern states de
spite efforts of thousands of
hastily mobilized firefighters-
some of whom landed by para-
chute,
At least 700 fires some of
j them already covering more
pres-'than S00 acres each were re-
ported over a 200-mile front
from eastern Washington across
northern Idaho and into western
Montana.
Forest service officials gave
up trying to count the blazes
because new ones popped up
rapidly over territory from
north of Spokane, Wash., to
Glacier National park in Mon
tana near the Canadian border.
Newly-trained forest service
parachutists were used for the
first time when the fires ap
peared. But the fire-fighters
dropped from planes were too
few to cope with far-flung out
breaks. Thousands of civilian conser
vation corps enroilees and vol
unteers from cities and towns
were summoned. Like the fires
they fought, there were so many
that it was impossible to esti
mate their numbers immedi
ately. Spokane dispatched a special
tra'in of 300 fire-fighters to the
Kootenai national forest east of
Libby, in northwestern Mon-
i tana.
North Bend. Ore., July 13.
V The steamer Lawrence
Phillips of San Francisco, a lum
ber carrier, grounded on a Coos
B 11 i. . - r-
I ndj muuuiiia near biuuuc,
i Ore , today
from England (whit arrows).
premier's off ice.
In this event, and only then
Eire will align herself with
Britain without the formality of
a declaration of war on the
original invader, these sources
reported.
TO PAVE WAY FOR
7-2
Eugene, Ore, July 13
Medford belted out 12 hits for
a 7-2 victory over Hills Creek
in an Oregon State league game
tonight.
The Hillbillies worked up a
2-1 lead in the second inning
but in the third Medford pitcher
Bill Lanning tripled with two
aboard to put a four-run rally
under way.
Tom Hawkins, Crater man
ager, got thre hits in five
times up.
Score: R. H. E.
Medford 7 12 1
Hills Creek 2 8 3
Lanning and Hawkins; B.
Kelsey and G. Kelsay.
Portland, Ore., July 13. IP)
Wiltshire pitched Eugen to a
8-0 victory over the Portland
Babes in an Oregon State league
gam tonight, yielding only four
hits.
Score: R. H. E.
Eugene 6 7 1
Portland 0 4 2
Wiltshire and Mattison; My,
rak. Birch and Amacher.
BULLETIN
Coast Lagu
Hollywood, July 13. (IP) portion Sunday.
Pitcher Bill Fleming held Port- Outlook for far western
land to two hits tonight as Holly-1 states from July IS to 20 in
wood scored a S to 0 coast league j elusive: Generally fair but con
victory. , -.-siderable thunderstorm activity
Fleming also got a hit whicrrn forepart of week in plateau
was converted into a run when i regions and high mountains of
Babe Herman blasted out a California; temperature above
homer In the fifth inning, scor-j normal in Interior districts fore
ing two men ahead of him.
Night game: R. H. t.
Portland 0 2 1
Hollywood 5 10 0
Hilcher, Gonzales and An
nunzio; Fleming and Monzo.
(11 innings): R. H. E.
Oakland I 8 1
Sacramento 4 10 0
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Con
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OREGON DELEGATE!
WANTS WAR UPON
POWER INTERESTS
Commonwealther Expounds
At Chicago Democrats
Getting Jittery.
Chicago, July 13. (JD Amid
several demands for a "keep
America out of war" pledge.
Democratic platform drafters
also heard a warning today that
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
presidential nominee, was trying
to "bulldoze them into adopt
ing a "soft" plank on foreign
policy.
The warning came from Mayor
Maury Maverick of San An
tonio, who declared the Amer
ican people are "crying out for
an aggressive spirit" in national
defense.
Calling Willkie "a flash in
the pan," Maverick said he. wail
'catering to the 'hate-Roosevelts,'
the German-American Bundists,
Fascists and pacifists."
The Texan, doing a complete
about-face on his former con
gressional stand, recommended
universal military service, mili
tarization of the civilian con
servation corps, mobilization of
the national guard "ta its en
tirety" and a rssfs officers'
training corps for vary college.
The resolution ,ommiUee
heard other . wtf-J j oppose
sending.. th,.nai 4.airad
forces outside th astern hemi
sphere and dec!., compulsory
military training would "curse"
tne united state, . .
An appeal for unified,
nation-wide attack by the Dem
ocratic party against private
power interests was voiced by
Monroe N. Sweetland, secretary
of the Oregon Commonwealth
federation, who declared that
the Republican party's nomina
tion of Senator McNary R., Ore.)
as Wlllkie's running mate wai
'an attempt to take the curse
off Willkie's public utility rec
ord." REV: POET NAMED
TO LOCAL PULPIT
Portland, Ore., July 13. (IP)
J. R. Stewart was appointed
elder for the Portland, Salem
and Rogue River districts of
the Free Methodist church in
Oregon at the closing business
session today.
Among ministerial appoint
ments were: Salem, D. L. Fen
wick; Woodburn, R. H. Shoup;
Springfield-Glenwood, Leon Bel
lis; Cottage Grove, H. P. Hoff
man; Medford, R. H. Poet; Ash
land. John Poet; Grants Pass,
L. C. Gould; Klamath Falls,
Clayton Green; Roseburg, L. A,
Skuzie.
GENERALLY FAIR.
WARMER, OUTLOOK
... , .istruck out eight Merchants. Dl
Northern California: Fair'sordl hit two singles In addl
Sunday; fogs on coast; rising jtion to his homer. Paul Hof
temperature In Interior; moder- fard led the Rogue attack with
ate to fresh northwest wind , triple, double and single,
off coast. Score: R. H. E.
Oregon: Fair Sunday, coastal I Grants Pass 8 13 4
fogs: warmer In interior of west j Medford 5 7 6
part of week, becoming lower
toward close of week.
Franc Inquire
Vichy, France. July 13. OP)
Foreign ministry source said
tonight the Trench government
had asked Washington for in
formation on the United States'
position concerning French pos-
- 1 session! in th Western Hemut-
I pher
THERE IS NO JOY
TODAY IN FRANCE
ON BASTILE DAY
Nazi Heel Bears Heavily on
Once Gay Nation Many
Political Arrests.
By the Associated Press
One hundred fifty-one years
ago today (Sunday) French rev
olutionary mobs in Paris
stormed the Bastille fortress
symbol of monarchlal tyranny
and struck off the chains of
feudalism.
Traditionally, the day has
been a festive one down through
the years, with dancing, drink
ing throngs in the streets and
military parades on Paris' bou
levards. Today, however, France lies
helpless in defeat at the hands
of Germany. Thousands of her
soldiers are in unmarked graves,
her once powerful navy is im-
mobilized, millions are Jobless
and a new authoritarian regime
under chief of state Henri Phil
lip Petain is taking over her
destiny.
It means curtailment of a
flood of reforms following the
French revolution, based upon
tfye symbolic words, "Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity."
Petain was for many months
in Spain where he studied the
post-war reconstruction meas
ures of his former pupil. Gen.
Francisco Franco.
- One of his key advisers and
ministers, Gen. Maxlme Wey
gand, supposedly has monarch
ial leanings, and Pierre Laval,
his 57 year old vice premier.
long has been a friend of Pre
mier Mussolini of Italy,
One year ago today Great
Britain sent picked troops to
march in her ally's independence
day parade.
Eleven months later Nazi
troops, unimpeded, marched
down that same boulevard to the
Place de la Concorde where
French revolutionists beheaded
Louis XVI and his queen, Marie
Antoinette.
London, July 13. (IP) The
Exchange Telegraph (British
news agency) reported today
that 17,000 political arrests had
been made in German-occupied
France, and added:
"It now seems quite possible
that moving of the Petain
(French) government to Paris
will be followed by Germans
occupying the rest of Franc to
restore order by methods ot the I
machine gun."
TO PASS, 8 TO 5
Nig DiSordl, Grant Pass!
pitcher, won his own game here
last night when he blasted a
350-foot homer over the left
field fence with the bases empty
and the score tied at S ail in
the ninth inning, and the Mer
chants went on to get two more
runs and beat the Medford
Rogues in a Southern Oregon
league game, 8 to 5. 1
DiSordl fanned a dozen
Rogues, while Tommy Kevan
DiSordl and
and G. Gitzen.
Woods; Kevan
Machinlsts Strike
Portland, Ore., July 13. (IP)
Thirty-six machinists struck
at the Libby, McNeill te Lihhy
packing plant her today, union
officials said, after the firm re
fused a union contract for the
group.
Wire T Chicago
Chicago, July 13. (IP) Sena
tor Clark (D-Idaho) urged citi
zens tonight to telegraph their
delegates at the democratic con
ventlon to "put a peace plank In
the platform" and to "nominate
a non-Interventionist for presi
dent."
I War Bulletins
By the Associated Press
London, July 14. (Sunday)
Early this morning German
bombing planes flew over
northeast England for the
third successive night, but
they dropped no bombs and
ware driven oft by British
lighter planes which yester
day had accounted for total
of 12 Nasi planes.
STARVATION HELD
HOPE OF HITLER
FOR EARLY PEACE
Europe Headed for Famine;
Nazi Air Raids Cut Gas
Supply Chaos Looms.
By DaWlti MacKaml
Some speculation has arisen
among observers as to whether
Herr Hitler might decide to
abandon the idea of an invasion
of the British isles and concen
trate on his starvation-blockade.
The Germans claim to be sink
ing vast numbers of merchant
ships, and there certainly is evi
dence that they are meeting
with a measure of success in
the anxiety exhibited in British
official quarters over future
food supplies.
Nobody knows what Hitler
will do excepting Hitler. He
might decide, that his blockade
would be more effective and
less risky. Still, It strikes me
that he will undertake the in
vasion if it seems at all feasible.
The nazl leader wants to
shorten the war up as much as
possible. His constant raiding is
burning up gasoline at a rate
which must far exceed the re
placement, whereas Britain can
get oil and gas, and other sup
plies, so long as she maintains
control of the sea.
Also, Europe is headed fast
for dire hunger, which likely
will begin to be felt severely by
fall. That will hit Germany
along with the rest, and wide
spread famine conditions would
create a situation which even
a victorious Germany wouldn't
want to face. A quick end to the
conflict Is what Hitler needs.
The way the war is going on
now, with each side trying to
strangle the other by blockade,
it has ceased to be a conflict
between fighting men and has
resolved Itself into a test of
how much torture the civilian
populations can endure. How
much hunger and privation they
can stand. How much of the
nerve shattering bombing they
can take. How long they can
bear the terrorizing and slaugh
ter of their children.
If the war should be protract-
ed until It finally Is determined
by the starvation of one side,
many of the civilians who have
survived would better nave aiea
from bombs. Victor and van
oulshed may find themselves in
the same boat, because Europe
is inviting not only hunger but
terrible economic chaos.
It will be strange if the win
ter .doesn't produce grave civil
ian disorders in many countries,
unless the war finds an ending
very soon.
LABOR SUPPORTS
DEI
'
Washington. July 13. (T)
Belief that the needs of na-
tional defense might bring n
end to organized labor's five-year-old
civil war was expressed
at the White House today after
18 officials ot th CIO. th Al L
and railway labor unions hadjj ,bl. to prevent th Ger
pledged cooperation In the d- mn (rom conducting th trd
fense program. war n Atlantic and other wat-
The promise of cooperation n lh ia
was given in rrcimnii nw
velt in a letter signed by the
labor officials who make up the
labor policy advisory committee
of the national defense commis
sion. Thl committee was cre
ated recently for the announced
purpose ot preventing stoppages
of work in vital defense indus-
- ltrles snd preserving labor Stan
I dards
WAR JUST BEGUN,
BRITAIN CLAIMS
BOTH FOESSUFFER
America, In Broadcast, Told
To Cheer Up Rome and
Berlin Reports Contradict.
London, July 13.-P) Para
phrasing John Paul Jones' "I
have only begun to fight," Brit
ain's first lord of the admiralty,
A. V. Alexander, told Ameri
cans in a broadcast tonight that
the British hope to fight out
th war and "destroy" Ger
many from their besieged bland
homeland.
In the last eight days, h
said, the British may have shot
down as many as 130 invading
German planes (the official fig
ures exceed 90 for certain).
Alexander said about 20 Ital- -
lan planes had been destroyed
in the Mediterranean through
the "gallant skill" ot air corps
based at Malta and that "no
less than 14" Italian submar
ines had been destroyed or cap
tured in one month nf warfare.
In addition, ha said, Italy
had lost three destroyers and
sustained "heavy damage" to a
battleship and a cruiser.
The British cabinet member
called upon "those in the great
United States of America whose
sympathy and understanding
and practical help have been
welcome to us in our testing
-time" to b of "good cheer to
our common ideals."
Alexander especially praised
th British dominions for ex
tending "significant" aid to th
mother country in th form ot
military and naval war efforts.
Raider RpUd
Meanwhile B r i t a 1 n's air
fighters sent six German raid
ers spinning to destruction into
the straits of Dover in an aft
ernoon air battle.
The BrltiJh straits triumph.
reported in an air ministry com
munique,, raised the day' total
ot felled nazi planes to 12, six
fighters and six bombers.
In all, official statistics show
ed the nazis have lost 91 planet
from July 4 to tonight.
Despite adverse weather, it
said, "damage was caused and
many fires were started" by
British bombers raiding nazl
naval bases at Emden and Kiel
last (Friday) night
Malta ""Rubbed Out"
Rome, July 13. P Ital un
claimed tonight thtr war
planes rubbed out Malta as an
offensive threat to Italy after
blanting with bombs a British
Mediterranean b a 1 1 1 fleet
which split Into thre part
under punishment from th air.
Fascists said, also, that con
stant Italian war bombardment
over far-flung fronts in the Med
iterranean and Africa was pre
venting some 1.300 British
planes from ever being used in
the defense of th British isle
against a German onslaught.
Berlin, July 13. VP) Ger
many claimed today to hava
successfully challenged Britain'
greatest historic weapon, th
navy, in "successful operation
overseas Dy tne nazi iieei.
Th high command formally
asserted that these operations
presumably directed from Nor
, . , i i . i i
, wegian waiere nu rouiwu
'the capture of valuable prlz
ships, and military commenta
tors declared this proved th
I British blockade to have become
"Ineffectual In a high degree."
I But while that blockade is)
i being torn apart, they added.
tne oerman counter-blocked i
becoming "mor perceptible day
bv day.'
"Unit of th German navy
now can operate on th high
seas without th English fleet
t Saa Franciscans OI
Ontario, Ore., July 11. A
Fred J. Bodinson and E. T. Kel
ley, of San Francisco, president
and vice-president of th Bodin
son Manufacturing company,
were Instantly killed In an auto
mobile accident yesterday on th
tdaho-Oregon-Nevada highway
24 miles couth of Jordaa valley.
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