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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT WEDFORD MATT; TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY. JULY 15. 1940. Medford Pastor Recalls Visit To Oregon Caves 20 Years Ago Oregon Cve, Ose., July 13. (Spl The Reverend Joseph Knott, for eight years pastor of the First Methodist church In Medford, visited the Oregon Caves national monument July 11. twenty years after his first call. Bill Green and Donald De- Witt, also of Medford, accom panied him but they traveled In quite a different fashion from the way Rev. KnotU and two high school boys did 20 years ago. "We started on a Monday morning," said the minister. "Since there was no road, we hiked 10 miles over the moun tain on the Williams creek trail." Reverend KnotU continued that It was the hottest day of the year, in July or August. The boys were nearly doubled over with packs and hiked slow ly, but they arrived at camp at 6:00 o clock In the evening after a nine-hour trip. - "The only dwelling on the present site of the beautiful, rustic chateau was a tent oc cupied by Dick Rowley, the guide," he said. Two boys from Portland had arrived just ahead of the group and all of the boys wanted to go into the caves at once. But the veteran guide made a dicker with them. , He said if they would each carry two pealed poles Into the caves to make ladders, he would take them in at 8:00 o'clock that evening. Making camp- In the place which Is now used for parking grounds, the hungry group made their beds and got their supper over a campfire. Later in the evening they took their poles and two can dles apiece, and entered the cav erns. "The well lighted, graveled, and chiseled caves of today are far different from the caves In those days," the pastor said. "We had to crawl through 'wiggle holes' not more than two feet high, where Jagged formations hung down from the ceiling and rose from the floor, and In getting through we had to drag our poles and carry our candle In front of us, taking care not to blow them out." The trip through the marble caverns lasted three and a half hours at that time. Reverend Knotts laughed as he told how they used to step into water holes up to their shoe tops. "Each time I return to the Oregon Caves I am amazed at the changes and Improvements, to my mind always comes the picture of that wild, seldom visited place where we camped in the open country and cooked over a campfire." JURY DRAWN IN SUIT FOR CRASH DAMAGES A circuit court jury was drawn today to hear the damage suit of Everett Gillespie against William Oatman and Archie Laing. The action grew out of an auto accident. An award is sought for damages to the Gil lcspie car, amounting to approxi mately $325. BATISTA ELECTED Five Killed in Scattered Vio lence As 'Strong Man' Wins by Wide Margin Find Hit-Run Victim The Dalles, July 15. (IP) The body of a man of about 65, apparently the victim of a hit-r u n automobile, awaited positive identification In a local mortuary today. Papers In the clothing bore the name of .Horace Stricklin and the hat carried an Oregon City store's trademark. ADEIENNE'S STORE-WIDE JULY clerrahc OF Dresses-Coats-Suits One Group of Dresses c Marilyns, Mize Laces, I CP)i And Nelly Dons SJ Group of Better Dresses . $10.98 Values to $22.50 Another Groun Better Dresses . Values to $29.98 1 2 Off Special Rack Of SUMMER FROCKS S2.79 and $3.79 RACK or Kickernick Gowns Printad SUk Values to S2.SS. 01.69 group or BATHING SUITS AT REDUCTION BACK TO SCHOOL SUITS Dressmaker Type, Values to $19.98. Special S7.98 - S9.98 FORMALS I OFF WHITE HATS $11.98 Straws and Felts, Values to $5.98 Havana. July IS. (IP) Ful genclo Batista, who once gained a narrow fame as the best stenographer in the Cuban army, appeareq today to have won election as president of his country. In voting yesterday, marked by scattered violence in which five persons were killed, Ba tista was credited unofficially with gaining three to two, or better, margin of victory over former President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin. In 1,574 precincts out of the island's 3,590, Batista had 239, 263 votes to 140,460 for the former president. Manocal Mayor. In the race for mayor of Havana, second most important elective office In Cuba, Raul Menocal, a Batista man, had 64.304 votes to 59.022 votes for Miguel Mariano Gomez, adher ent of the Grau group, in 531 of the city's 844 precincts. The president-elect is sched uled to take office next October 1 for a four-year term. He cannot succeed hlmelf. ' Cubans acknowledged that ac tually the 3U-ycar-old peasant born Batista could have taken over the presidency at any time since he led Cuba's classic "re volt of the six sergeants," Sej tcmbcr 4, 1933. the Jail sentence upon payment of the fine. The offense oc curred on the Pacific high y. Theron J. Applebaker, charg ed with being intoxicated on a public highway, was fined 110 and costs. IN BLOODY BALLOT MUSI SURRENDER OR BE DESTROYED SAYS MOUTHPIECE (Continued from Its On.) JUSTICE TO HEAR A justice court hearing will be held Tuesday in the ca&e of j Aldon G. Krr, charged in a complaint siiined by S. W Rich ardson, with abandonment of an animal. Kerr entered n pica of not guilty. The complain charges Kerr left a female dog on Court street, without nour ishment or enre. Robert M. Rounds of Myrtle Creek waived preliminary hear ing Saturday to a charge of ob taining money under false pre tenses, and was ordered held to await grind Jury action. Hounds allegedly passed a check for $13.26 at the Riverside Mnr ket, drawn on the Bank of Myrtle Creek, when he had no funds therein. Robert L. Snider was assessed $1 and costs for failure to cwiw to a stop at the intersection of the old raoific highway with the new one near Central Point. H. Davidson, charged with driving an auto while intoxi cated, was sentenced to 30 days in the county Jail and fined $100 and costs. Justice of the reace W. R. Coleman suspended and a small number of casual ties were caused, of which some were fatal," the ministry of home security reported. Britain is ready, Churchill said, if Germany tries an actual invasion. Holy Land Bombed Bombs fell in the Holy Land in its first raid of the war to day when "enemy" planes pre sumably Italian dropped explo sives at Haifa, a seaport of British-mandated Palestine. Several casualties resulted. In the sharpening conflict in Africa, the British garrison at Moyale, Kenya colony, besieged by Italian troops since last Wed nesday, was reported still hold ing out despite heavy bombard ment day and night. The Italian high command, co incidcntly, asserted two British submarines and a destroyer were sunk in week-end naval opera tions in the Mediterranean, and also claimed 10 British planes were shot down and that Italian planes machine-gunned British troops near Buna, East Africa. The German high command reported bombing attacks on British port facilities, airports and armament Industries. i ires and explosions were ob served, the communique said, particularly at Faversham. which served as a secret base for British "Q-boats anti-submarine craft, often disguised as fishing boats in the world war. Nazi planes slashed at British convoys in the English channel, the high command reported, and sank three merchantmen total ling 17,000 tons. A British de stroyer, an auxiliary cruiser and four other merchant ships were also reported damaged by bombs. 2.500.000 Men Ready Commenting on the prospect of a Nazi invasion, Prime Minis ter Churchill said the island fort ress now has 2.500,000 men on the alert to repel any attack 1,500,000 regulars and 1,000,000 home guardsmen. Such an attempt may come at any moment, he asserted, but he suggested Hitler's plans may well have been upset by the progress which Britain has made in the past four weeks In arming lor acicnse. The German radio responded almost immediately to Churchill, declaring that while the attack upon x.ngiana mignt not come "this week nor next" it could be regarded as an ultimate cer tainty. Although bombs were dropped at several points in England again last night, British said dumage was slight. In the battle over the Straits of Dover the British reported their fighters shot down seven German planes and drove the re mainder of a large nazi forma tion out to sea with the bombs still In their racks. TURKEY STORAGE HEAVY IN SPITE OF Holdings On July 1 More Than Double Volume in 1939 and 5-Year Average San Francisco, July IS. (IP) Although consumption of tur keys was unusually heavy, cold storage holdings in the nation on July 1 were much greater than in recent years, the depart ment of agriculture reported to day. Storage holdings totaled 36, 739.000 pounds, more than double the volume in 1939 and the July 1 average of the past five years. Consumption in June reduced stocks 3.468,000 pounds, com pared with only 41,000 pounds in June, 1939, and an average June reduction of .870,000 pounds. The total dressed poultry holdings in the country amount ed to 82,389,000 pounds, 22 per cent more than a year ago, and 43 per cent more than the July 1 average. The aggregate dressed poul try holdings in the Pacific sec tion was 9,404,000 pounds, of which 4,524,000 pounds were held in California. Holdings were reduced 720,000 pounds in June, against an average June reduction of 175,000 pounds. SETS OFF FIRST (Continued from Ptj Cms.) tion indicated that momentous matters were not discussed. The White House said Mr. Roosevelt wished Farley a successful con vention without saying for whom. Farley said it was Just a "rou tine" conversation. Farley's hat still is In the ring, regardless of the fact that the Roosevelt third termers have full steam up. He said today that he was "playing my side of the street" and it was plain enough that Farley's street had no third term signs on the guideposts. The demonstration was touched off by Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago a front runner In the Roosevelt third term drive. Welcoming delegates to Chi' cago wmcn ne described as a "city of liberals" he ended his address with a brief eulogy of me president. Hits at Willkle "Each presidential candidate has the stamina and vision to carry the democratic party to victory. We are praying and hoping that a man who can keep the White House as the light house of humanity will accept the crushing burden for the next four years. "We are praying for a man who has given his life and blood, who may be crucified but never corrupted. "Destiny rests in one man be cause of his experience. "That is why I am praying that this convention will stand with all the courage of our hearts and confirm again that God-sent guardian of our liber ties, the kind of man our coun try needs, our beloved Presi dent, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Kelly also aimed a few shafts in the general direction of the republican opposition and the republican nominee, Wendell L. Willkie. "We can smell organized pro paganda," he said. "We can spot the false prophets of democracy no matter what mask they wear." Cheers interrupted him. In Chicago, he told the dele gates, "you will not find any Morgan shadows at your heels. Chicago is not concerned with the Wall Street propaganda which would poison the blood stream of our youth. "Chicago wants no revolution to the right or to the left." MARTIN PERRY, 72, VALLEY PIONEER, TAKEN BY DEATH Martin Perry, 72, pioneer resident of Sams Valley. wher he was born May ?6, 1868. and where he spt-nt his entire life time, passed away at his nome at 8 p. m. Saturday. His parents, the late Mr.' and Mrs. Reuben Perry, came to , Sams Valley from Iowa and homesteaded in 1861 and It; was on this place where Martin Perry was born. I He followed farming and I stock raising unfit failing in health a few years ago. He is survived bv one daugh ter, Mrs. M. E. Randaies of Ashland; also two brothers tnd two sisters, T. J. Perrr and Arminda Webber ct Sams Val ley; Benjamin Perry, Dunimuir, Cal., and Ida Scott, Roseburg. 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