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TRIBUNE
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tit id Prts
Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JULY 15, 1940.
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No. 98.
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, Washington, D. C July 15.
'Navy department Is expected to
announce that contracts will be
awarded for the construction of
three vefiels In the Portland
area. These are boats 175 feet
long, steel construction, and are
known as "net boats". There
will be 24 such vessels ordered
for the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. A "net boat" is one
which attends to placing steel
nets to protect harbors against
submarines. One such net is to
be near Bremerton navy yard,
on Puget Sound, and others at
San Francisco and San Diego."
Investigation was made by the
navy and this developed that a
plant in the Portland district
can handle the ship building.
The situation with respect to na
tional defense orders is this:
There are no gifts or grants, and
a concern must prove that it can
handle the order before it is con
sidered. Having demonstrated
ability, if additional capital is
required, that can be arranged.
ARMY air corps is listening to
arguments for plywood or
plastic fuselage for planes. Two
plywood experts have been sent
for from Oregon to discuss the
technical features. If the army
should be interested in wooden
planes it would mean a. new In
dustry in the northwest. How
ever, there is quiet opposition
(Continued on Page Pour.)
' Silmion Aid Named
Washington, July 15. (IP)
Appointment of Major Eugene
A. Regnier as aide-de-camp to
Secretary of War Stimson was
announced by the war depart
ment today.
SIDE GLANCES
by
THIEUNE REPORTERS
Gordon Roosevelt Green form
ing a perfect picture of the deep
south as he fried gobs of chick
en while chanting mammy songs
and wearing a bright-colored
calico apron.
Bob Crutchfield averring that
the west as compared with his
native east land is sure close to
being "God's country," what
with the perty mountains, the
beautiful orchards and the real
hospitality.
Gain Robinson teaching a'
bunch of amateurs the ropes re
garding roulette.
Anne Carley recalling good
old days when certain boisterous
kids threw cake at her child's
birthday party and the affair
concluded in a near riot.
Uncertainty Rules
OH ATDRY-Keyneter for
the Dtmorrsts' national conven
tion opening J.lr 15 ,n Chime
mill be AUbima't William B.
Bankhrsd. Hou speakrr. mho's
(onsidfrrd a fin orator,
SETS OFF FIRST
ill
Convention Opens Without
Word From Roosevelt On
3rd Term; Phones Farley
Chicago. July 15. (UP.) For
mer Secretary of War Harry H.
Woodring, who recently was
displaced in President Roose
velt's cabinet to make way for
Republican Henry L. Stimson,
today asked the Democratic
platform committee to adopt a
strict non-intervention policy in
European political and military
affairs.
By Lyl C. Wilson .--
(U.R) Staf Correspondent
Stadium. Chicago, July 15.
(U.R) The Roosevelt third term
bandwagon got off to a rolling
start today within 20 minutes
after the opening of the 1940
democratic national convention.
The president's name was
mentioned by Mayor Edward J.
Kelly, an original draft-Roosevelt
man. It touched off the first
floor demonstration of the 46
minute gathering a 30-second
round of cheers.
Some delegates crowded out
ot their seats and the New York
state banner was hoisted into
the aisle, but there was no pa
rade. Fireworks Sura Tonight
A few minutes later there
were more cheers when Sen.
Scott Lucas of Illinois men
tioned the president's name. The
first full-fledged demonstration
of the convention may come to
night when House Speaker Wil
liam B. Bankhead of Alabama
makes the keynote address of
the convention.
The first convention session
was whacked off to a brisk start
by National Chairman James A.
Farley. His gavel cracked the
table at 11:04 A.M. CST. By
! 11:50 a.m. the opening prelim
! inaries were out of the way and
' the convention quit until to
night. The convention opened with
still no public word from Mr.
Roosevelt on the third term. But
a private telephone wire was in
operation from the White House
to the convention and Farley
and Roosevelt conferred by this
means before the first session
convened.
Nothing Important
Both the White House and the
Farley versions of the conversa-
(Continued on Paga Eight.)
CANADIAN MOVIE NIGHT
WILL SWELL WAR FUND
Toronto, July 15. W) A
half million Canadians are ex
pected to go to the movie to
night to boost the Dominion's
"Buy a Stamp and Lick Hitler"
campaign. Each must buv two
25-cent war savings startio to
gain admission, but will retain
them.
INICMA-Blf Jim FirlfT.
hsnd-shaktnt potinater mith
fonntlra friends, is knoma for
his loyalty to F.D.R some secret
political ambitions, and for op
. .position to a third tcrm.
Ultimatum From
Forecast for
BASEBALL
National.
(First game): R. H. F.
Brooklyn 10 17 1
Pittsburgh . 1 10 1
Wyatt and Phelps; Eutchcr,
Lanahan, Bauers and Davis.
Philadelphia 2 5 0
Cincinnati 3 10 1
Pearson. Syl Johnson and At
wood, Millies; Walters and Lom
bard!, Hershberger.
American League
St. Louis 6 11 1
Boston 10 15 1
Auker, Cox, Lawson and
Swift, Nash, Heving and Pea
cock. Chicago .. 3 7 0
New York 2 9 3
E. Smith. Appleton and Tresh;
Breuer, Murphy and Rosar,
Dickey.
Detroit 9 10 1
Philadelphia 8 12 3
Newhouser, Trout and Teb
betts; Heusser, Besse and Hayes.
CCC ENROLLEE SHOT
ON MERRILL STREET;
ASSAILANT ESCAPES
Klamath Falls. July 15. (JP)
Lowell McFadden, 19-year-old
CCC enrollee who was shot and
wounded by an unidentified as
sailant Saturday night at Mer
rill, was given a chance to re
cover by hospital attendants here
today.
McFadden was one of five
CCC boys who were walking
along the main street of Mer
rill when a man leaped out of
a car brandishing a pistol and
threatened to "shoot the first
one that moves."
Without waiting for reply the
gunman fired into the group,
felling McFadden, then fled to
the car firing two more shots.
Both slugs went wild. The car.
driven by a second man, sped
out of sight.
Sheriff's officers said today
they had found no hint of the
motive for the shooting.
War Bulletins
La LInaa, Spain, July 15
(IP) Columns of imoka were
seen ascending from the Brit
ish battle cruiser Hood and
aircraft carrlar Ark Royal to
day as bombs from raiding
planas fall near lhair anchor
age at Gibraltar.
London, July i. (P)
China protested io Great Brit
ain today that the proposed
closing of the Burma road is
a "most unfriandly act."
as Entries
VETERAN -Are ef Seere.
lary of State Cordtll Hull he's
6S mlfhl cripple his chsnres.
The Tennessee statesman has
repntertlr exprrnrd his disia
" teres! In a political tutor.
WEST
VICE PRESIDENT
Delegates Have Open Mind;
Prefer to Avoid Entangle
ments; Adopt Resolutions
By Frank G. Gorria
Chicago. July 15. (P) The
"western bloc" at the democra
tic national convention, consis
ting of delegates from 11 west
ern states, had an open mind,
collectively speaking, on the
vice presidential question today.
Tbe delegates, holding a pre
liminary conference yesterday,
favored a "wait, watch and lis
ten" policy, sidetracking a pro
posal that all vice presidential
candidates be Invited to appear
before the group. Members said
they prelerred to avoid any en
tanglements at this stage.
Pass Resolutions
They did endorse resolutions
favoring continuation of recla
mation, the advancement of min
ing and the development of
western resources.. '
The bloc bas already ap-
proved the leadership of Presi
dent Roosevelt the past peril
ous seven years" and "feels that
America should be proud to
have him as its leader at this
time when the whole world Is
on the brink of disaster."
AT
CLAIM OF
UNBOSSED CONCLAVE
Colorado Springs, Colo., July
15. (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie,
republican presidential nominee,
grinningly predicted today that
the democratic convention in
Chicago will nominate its Can
didate for president "on the first
ballot."
! "I want to listen to the ballot
ing," Willkie said when asked
if he intended to hear the con
vention over the radio.
When asked to comment on
the speech of Sen. James F.
Byrnes, (D.-S.C), in which he
said the democratic convention
would be the first "unbessed
convention which has met on
American soil under the aus
pices of any party," Willkie
laughed and said: "Jimmy
Byrnes certainly has a sense of
humor."
Line Up
EXPERIENCE D sen. At-
tea W. Barkley of Kentorkr,
mholl probablr b permanent
rhalrman of Democratic conven
tion, gave keynol" talks la
1JJ sad lM.
Axis
England
T
OR BE DESTROYED
SAYS MOUTHPIECE
Preparations Will Be Com
plete in Few Days for
Full-Blown Assault, Word
By the Associated Press
A virtual ultimatum to Brit
ain to surrender or be destroyed
by the Rome-Berlin axis power
was forecast today by Virginio
Gayda, Italian editor, sometimes
known as Mussolini s mouth
piece. Gayda said "preparations
would be completed in a few
days presumably meaning both
the ultimatum and the strategy
for a full-blown assault on the
British islands.
The Fascist editor said if Brit
ain refused, the axis proposes
to unleash "extremely grim, vio
lent war in which inexorable de
struction, a fateful, precipitous
step toward final overthrow, will
be measured ... by days or
hours.
This apparently indicates a
huge-scale aerial bombing of
Britain preceding an attempt at
invasion.
Churchill Adamant
Gayda's assertions followed
closely on Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill's ringing declara
tion in a broadcast last night that
Britain would scorn any peace
parleys and that the empire was
girding for a long war.
Britain's plan of campaign.
Churchill disclosed, calls for a
two-year defensive war to guard
the British Isles against Nazi
conquest, and then, in 1942,
counter-offensive.
''We would rather see London
laid in ruins and ashes than en
slaved," he declared.
Nazi raiders, keeping up the
relentless schedule of bombing
attacks that have peppered the
island kingdom almost daily
since June 18, dropped high ex
plosives on a south coast English
town this morning.
"Some houses were damaged
(Continued on Paga Eight.)
Kennedy' Aids Red Cross
London, July 15. (IP) Unl
ted States Ambassador Joseph
P. Kennedy bought Queen Eliza
beth gift, a silver and gilt tea
service, for 300 pounds (about
$1,200) at a Red Cross benefit
sale today.
Portland, July 15. iV) -
Thirty-six Llbby, McNeill 4
Llbby packing plant machinists
struck here Saturday because
they said the company refuse!
them a contract.
at Post for Bourbon Nomination Race
U S T I C E-V Koosevelt da
eldr asalntt a third rsmptlcn,
and th Democrat decide to put
youth In tho saddle. Supreme
Court Juttlco William O. Dour
la mlfht p eouMered, H's lit
I V? 1 J U 11 ' 4 ' i I 1 4 , - l k! ti ll -Bl-la,i
tun
Ulij'it r
Willis jimmwmmiimmmmmtokn i "Sim I mmA nnmt
The Chicago stadium looked peaceful when' this picture was taken shortly before the Demo
cratic convention, but stormy sessions are expected when the delegates get down to nominat
ing candidates.
Equal Rights Amendment Plank
Is Opposed
Chicago, July 15. (IP) Mrs..
one of the hottest controversies before the Democratic pliit
form committee today with a rtatement against a projjoscd
constitutiona! amendment to guarantee women equal legal
rights with men.
Several women's groups have
urged the committee to adopt
a platform plank endorsing the
amendment, which would giv
women equally with men, lciwl
rights to sue, manage their
property and control their chil
dren. Othor groups just an
adamant have opposed adaption.-
-
In a statement read to tho
committee by Mrs. Nan Wood
Honeyman of Oregon, the first
lady said that approval of the
equal rights amendment 'would
be a great mhtake.'
Until women are unionized to
a far greater extent than at
present, she raid, such an
amendment would work great
hardships on thoso employed
in industry, whom she describ
ed as composing "the larpest
group of wane earning women '
Opponents of the amend
ment claim it would wipe nut
protective legislation enacted
for the benefit of women in
Industry, .
5 MEET DEATH IN
E
Marklecvllle, Cal., July 15.
(IP) Five persons were killed In
the crash of an airplane against
a rocky bluff near here. The
bodies were brought to Mark
leeville today.
Sheriff Orrin P. Brown said
the dead were Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Bruce Mills of Los An
geles, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Cummings of Los Angeles, and
C. N. Hodges of Los Angeles.
Sheriff Brown said the plane
In which the five were riding
was built for only three pas
sengers. MENTIONS D The name
of Attorney General Robert
Jackaon (above) has fltared lo
stories about Democratic noml
aallona. He's been mentioned at
p possible vie president. '
I - I , v tl
'J If
by Mrs. Roosevelt
.Franklin D. Roosovelt entered
:L
BY RIFLE SHOT DURING
CHILOQUIN RUM PftRTY
Klamath Falls, July 15. (P)
Three white persons were held
in jail at Chiloquin today In an
investigation of the shooting of
Annabel Jackson, 18-year-old In
dian girl, at what Indian Officer
John Arkell described' as a
"drinking party" at an Indian
house on the reservation.
The Jackson girl is in the hos
pital at Klamath Agency with a
bullet through her brain. Little
hope is held for her recovery.
Held In the case are Gordon
and Eva Olson, man and wife,
and Reed Edward Moline, a lum
ber worker.
Arkell said the whites took
quantity of liquor to the house
of Harry Jackson, a mile south
of Chiloquin. In the course of
the drinking bout, he said, the
girl was shot with a .22 calibre I
rifle above the left eye.
CITY OF FLINT DULL
CARGO CARRIER NOW
Portland. July 15. (U.R) The
City of Flint, now Just an ordi
nary freighter hauling routine
cargo, took on about 2,000 tons
In port here today with no hint
about her of past exciting ex
periences in Europe's war-swept
waters.
Neither the captain nor any
of the crew of the ship when she
was seized last October in the
north Atlantic by the German
pocket battleship Deutschland
are on the vessel today.
HE'LL RUN-Wheth.r
P.D.R. run or not, Ren. Burtoa
K. Wheeler (abort) of Montans
says he'll seek presidential
nomination. He's advising Demo
eral to become " part,"
4m
FEAR 50 MINERS
Johnstown, Pa., July
Five grimy, slightly-burned min
ers who were brought out of
the blast-shattered Sonman mine
ot the Koppers company lata
today said they believed about
SO men still war in the fit,
possibly entombed.
They said a Rax blast ; had
roared through slope JO, flec
tion1 of the mine, but "that the)
condition of tbose still in the
diggings was unknown. The
five were at the entrance ot
the explosion sector.
Earlier, 11 others from lop
18 had emerged from the shaft.
Edward Ben, one of those near
the explosion center said:
"I saw a loud flash and heard
a loud noise and rumbling.
Then things started to fall
around and I yelled 'explo
sions!' "
"Every place we went ft
seemed too hot," Ben continu
ed, adding:
"It was difficult to breath
and we got down on our stom
achs for a while. The air was
better down there.
"Finally we made our way to
the dip (near the entrance to
the shaft) and were rescued.
Those who emerged with Bert
were Raymond Macintosh, Id
ward Barbrowltz, Stanley Cyr
was and man named Haffard.
Fairground Eyed at '
Acceptance Place
Washington, July 15. (U.R)
Senate Republican Leader
Charles L. McNary said today
that he is considering accepting
the G. O. P. vice-presidential
nomination at the Oregon state
fair grounds, three miles from
his farm home near Salem,
Earlier McNary had indicated
that he would deliver his accept
ance speech at his filbert farm.
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