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The Weather torrtmat: Partly cloud? to ntlht and Hrdnnday. arattrr Hi afternoon thundmtormi In mountain; normal tempera ture. Hlfhert yesterday l Loorat lhl momlnr, 61 Hours Trying Tou can contact people by Ul photi and tfToC how U "tr?lni" iih.l a Mall Trlbana ClattlflM beglnt morfc la thoa undi of home shortly tftrr Iho big, fast prrw starta. Small cost, prompt reiutti. Medford O'JBUNE Full Associated Press nlud Prni Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940. No. 99. mum parley mmm b Washington. D. C, July 16 By vote of Senator Holman a senate subcommittee has ap proved an appropriation of $25, 000,000 for TVA, and as half of this sum is to be used to construct steam plants to gen erate power Oregon's senior senator. Is busying himself to throw a monkey wrench in the machinery. Senator McNary is asking the question: "Why build steam plants in TVA when Bonneville, also a government power development, has energy running to waste?" This TVA measure was "sold" I to E. R. Stettinius, Jr., in charge of raw materials for the Na tional Defense Advisory com mission. It was explained to him that there will be a short age of aluminum unless TVA can provide more power for the Aluminum Company of Amer ica. It was not explained to Stettinius that the Aluminum company also has a branch at Vancouver, Wash., where Bon neville is furnishing power cheaper than that sold to the company by TVA, nor was he informed that Bonneville can be used and save the govern ment 12 million dollars. The bill was popped into the hopper, immediately referred to committee and acted on by the committee all in the space of a few hours. No one, apparent ly, studied the measure until the senate committee's favorable re port, then the steamplant joker was discovered and McNary be gan asking his question. The bill will not come up for pas sage until congress resumes work following the, Democratic convention. A CCORDING to two or three Republicans who played important parts In the Philadel phia convention, Herbert Hoo ver was so upset following his long speech that his intimates insisted on giving him medical attention. The address, which was expected to electrify the convention and result in a stam pede for Hoover (buttons were (Continued on Page Six.) TO IOWA'S GOV. WILSON Colorado Springs, Colo.. July 16. ;P( Wendell L. Willkie said today he probably would discuss this week the farm sec tion of his forthcoming cam paign program with Governor George Wilson of Iowa. The republican nominee, chat ting with reporters in his resort hotel apartment, said that he hoped to stop at Des Moines. Iowa, on his way back east for his formal address at Elwood. Ind., accepting the party nom ination. Willkie said that besides Wil son he probably would talk at Dcs Moines with others "inter ested In the farm problem." HOEHNE ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA Los Angeles, July 16. OJ.PJ Dr. Herbert Hoehne. 29-year- old German, today pleaded not guilty in federal court to an in dictment charging him with fail ure to register as an agent for foreign government. SIDE GLANCES by TRIEUNE REPORTERS Mike Melchior and Howard Brice both finding Medford's delightful climate just a trifle warm after coming here from chill communities. Gordon Claycombe giving an Impressive sales talk, he having turned from music to publicity. Doc Oscar Halboth whipping the light fantastic in bedroom slippers on account of falling Into creek on a picnic and touting Jua uoea. i 1 . t Smiling Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, shown in his headquarters in Chicago, said he still was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and would remain on unless President Roosevelt announces his candidacy. Wheeler asserted he would support the party's nominee, thus indicating he would participate in no third party setup. , i- fa rmim .. laia l i mmm .at i ...!.tJUI Three members of the resolutions committee which began the task of drafting a Democratic platform in Chicago are shown before getting to work in the committee room. Left to rlghti Senator Robert A. Wagner of New York, chairman; Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. Strong Anti-War Plank Coming Wheeler Assures Isolationists Chicago. July 16. OI.R) Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Mont., leader of isolationist senators, said today that he believed the democratic platform committee will write a strong anti-war plank satisfactory to him. W heeler s statement came ai-i ter indications that new deal-l ers may be willing to forego any declaration of endorsement of President Roosevelt's policy of supplying full material aid short of war to Great Britain. The new dealers want to pla cate the isolationists to avert a threatened floor flight which might cause disharmony in the Roosevelt third term campaign. But the isolationists, some of whom also are anti-third term- ers, were talking about another iioor ngni over an anii-mira term plank which may be em barrassing to Roosevelt support ers, since it would come Just 24 ; hours before the convention be gins nomination speeches. Wheeler said he would sup- -.m, . ri.ni, i it presented, A pro-new deal subcommittee began putting the platform In through the day.' Luncheon was served the committee members in their hotel conference room and they hoped to complete their work morning. early tomorrow WOULD GIVE U.S. ISLAND China's Capital Again TO SATISFY WAR DEBT Chungking, July 16. fy London, July 16.- Os- 4 Japane irTn un"si wald Lewis, conservative mem. "T 300 ,nd 400 bomb thl ber of parliament, suggested to-1 a',ernoon ,ln tne 2,rt raid on day that a British island in or',n" caP,tal of ,he antral Chl near the West Indies be sold to i nc overnment. Most of the the Cnited States for an air and bomb ,nick re" already naval base "in full satisfaction . bomb-rared. of the balance of our debt out-; A survey showed less than standing to the United States 200 buildings damaged and few jia resyect of the last war." 1 wneeu TV V, EARLY MORNING FIRE LEVELS GRANDSTAND OF Ashland, Ore., July 16. (U.R) The Ashland high school grand stand was dc.troyed by fire early this morning with an esti mated loss of 1.00. The blare was believed to have been caused from a cigar ette smoldering in papers. The .Z ',3 f. ',. r i La, ...i, grandstand was filled four hours earlier by a crowd attending a ioftbal; game. Theo. J. Norby, superintend- ,resumption f. "fjb"" gamM tomorrow night and that a spe cial board meeting will be held to plan reconstruction of the ; P"dstand 'Jap Fliers Bomb icaiualtics. 1FPEASEMENT OF f tmd; Prospects Increase for Hot Convention Fight Over Running Mate for F.D.R. 3rd Term Statement Washington, July 16. (U.PJ President Roosevelt an nounced today that Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley will make a state ment in his behalf on the third term issue to the demo cratic national convention to night. Without revealing the ex ict scope of the pronounce ment, Mr. Roosevelt said that 3arkley's statement should inswer pertinent questions as lo whether or not he will ieek re-election. He refused to say whether tie will have a personal rtatement to supplement that of the Kentucky senator. It was Mr. Roosevelt's first modification of the silence which he has maintained on the possibility' that he will oreak precedent and cam paign for another term as president. By Lyle C. Wilson '. (UP. Staff Correspondent) Stadium, Chicago, July 16. (U.R) Chairman James A. Far ley of the Democratic national committee was reliably report ed today' to have taken com mand of a movement to nomin ate Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones for vice president as running mate for President Roosevelt. As the convention held an other mid-day session for a round of oratory and routine business, one report was that Farley himself might take the floor late in the week to put Jones' name in nomination.' This might bring on a show down floor fight between Far ley, the strict party man, and Roosevelt third-term leaders here. Convinced F. H. In Farley was understood to be convinced that there is no way to prevent the convention from voting overwhelmingly for Mr. (Continued on Pae Two.) ELKS LODGE ELECTS TRENTON N. J. MAN AS NATIONAL RULER Houston, Texas, July 16. VP) Joseph G. Buch of Trenton, N. J., today was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Buch succeeds Henry C. War ner of Dixon, 111. The meeting, in national con vention here, is expected to consider proposed resolutions favoring compulsory military conscription and the deportation of Fascists, Nazis and Commu nists. Leaders predicted the grand lodge would adopt resolutions In line with suggestions made in an address by Henry C. War ner of Dixon, 111., grand exalted ruler. "I wish It were In the power of the Elks to deport to foreign shores every Fascist, Nazi and Communist, as well as all aliens who have been In this country five years and have not yet applied for American citizen ship," Warner said. Urge Cocktail Bars Spokane, July 16. JPh-The directors and legislative com mittee of the Washington Res taurant Owners ' association meeting here jointly yesterday adopted a resolution urging the state to permit cocktail bars and the sale of liquor by the drink in hotel dining rooms. jifjEs fm toe I baseball American Score: R. H. E. Detroit 16 2 Philadelphia 3 6 2 Hutchinson and Tebbetts; Cas ter and Wagner. Score: R. H. E. Chicago ... S 12 1 New York 16 0 Rigney and Tresh; Russo and Dickey. Cleveland 8 12 2 Washington 11 12 4 Eisenstat, Dobson, Allen, Hum phries, Zuber, and Hemsley; Krakauskas. Carrasquel, Monte agudo and Ferrell, National Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 3 8 0 Pittsburgh 5 8 2 Carleton, Pressnell and Phelps; Lanning and Lopez. Score: R. H. E. New York 0 6 1 Chicago 2 4 2 Gumbert and Dannlng; Olien and Hartnett. PAIR HELD HERE HAVE TOOLS FOR Following their arrest by city police in a local hotel early last night, William Lawler, 43, and Amos Emery Jones, alias Fred Myer, 46, were being held in city jail today for the sheriff's office at Astoria on suspicion of house burglary and safe punch ing, and for questioning concern ing a burglary in a local house. Police said that an Illinois pocket watch, which Lawler sold Saturday to a Medford man. had been identified as part of the loot from a burglary and safe-punching Job at Astoria on June 14. In Jones' hotel room at the time of his arrest, police said, were a 21-Jewel yellow gold watch, an Iver Johnson revolver and part of a box of shells, all stolen from the Clinton Spencer residence, Route 1, box 497. sometime Monday. Jones told police he knew nothing about the articles and couldn't under stand how they got in his room. Police said they found safe punching equipment in Jones' room. Although neither man would admit involvement in the As toria job or the local burglary, police stated that Jones told them he was a three-time loser, having served terms in. the Ore gon state penitentiary for lar ceny of livestock, assault with a dangerous weapon and for gery. Jones, police said, told them he was released from the prison last May after serving time on the forgery conviction. Jones told police he and Law Ier had been In Medford for about a week, and that they had been traveling together for a month or so. T James A. Mero of S22 Haven street, employe of a local lum ber concern, was confined in Sacred Heart hospital today with a critical skull fracture; the result of a fist fight with a CCC enrollee in Jacksonville Saturday night. According to a report made to city police here by the in jured man's physician, Mero was knocked down, and In falling lie struck his head on the pave ment. The doctor stated that Mero was conscious and resting fairly well, although his skull was very badly fractured. The physician said his condition was "critical," although he showed slight Improvement over yester day. Authorities her and in Jack sonville have learned no details of the fight. No complaint has been filed, nor in arrest made, It wai reported. BY NIPPON SEEN ASCMTPT&lFjj Resignation of Premier Yo nai Due to. Pressure of Army Circles is Belief. By the Associated Press. Tokyo. July 16. (JP) Pre mier Admiral Mitsumnsa Yonai handed his whole cabinet's res ignation to Emperor Hirohito tonight, apparently under army pressure for stronger enforce ment of Japan's "new order in east Asia" policy. Most Japcnese newspapers expected that former Premier Prince Fumlmaro Konoye would be asked to form a new cabi net. Either he or War Minister General Shunroku Hata, whose resignation hastened the end of the six months-old Yonai cabinet, presumably would point a new government to ward consolidation of Japan's gains In the Orient and take a stron hand against western powers, including the United States, in the East. "Army circles." commented Dome!, Japanese news agency, 'have come to the conclusion that It Is tho urgent task of Japan to establish the so-called new national political structure which forms the only ay for Japan, in view of thetrejsi of the home and foreign sITO? ation, to carry out rearmament effectively, tighten state con trol of economy and renovate foreign policy with construc tion of a new order In East Asia as the ultimate object." (The "new national political structure" referred to by Do me! Is the plin for a one-party government favored by Prince Konoye, supposedly- with palace approval. (The one-party form would bring Japan into greater totali tarian similarity to Germany and Italy. Konoye, however, has not elaborated his plan completely and may not be ready to launch It.) SET BART PRICES The Fruitgrowers League this afternoon received the follow ing telegram from the Yakima Valley Bartlctt Pear Growers Union: "At a growers' meeting held last night (Monday) the Bart lctt price was established at $40 for number l's, 2Vi and larger, J23 for number 2 pears." Bankhead Pleads for Unity In Convention Keynote Talk By W. B. Raosdal. Chicago. July 16. HP) Democratic convention delegates grew restive from lack fit word from President Roosevelt to day after SjHaker William Bankhead had bidden them to go Into the 1940 campaign on the record of the New Deal admin istration, using "truth, tolerance and reason." The keynote speech of Bank' head and a "farewell" address by National Chairman James A. Farley highlighted the first major convention session last night at the big, flag-draped Chicago stadium. In his keynote address. Speaker Bankhead said the ma jor objectives "of both parties must be unity and solidarity of purpose In preserving in violate the structure of our gov ernment and the perpetual free dom of its people." "We recognize that ours Is a government by political parties and that as Instrumentalities of government they are entitled to the largest measure of free dom in carrying legitimately disputed Issues to the people," he said. "We do not rropose," he add ed, "to appease those aggres rors whose doctrines wage war upon every principle of liberty PISES War Bulletins Madrid. July II. lP Spain announced saverlng of diplomaiie relations with Chile tonight. FROM COAL MINE Portage, Pa., July 16. U.B The death toll In the explosion at the Sonman coal mine rose to 63 today. Gas-masked workers removed the bodies from the mine and the dead were taken to a tem porary morgue at this little town's municipal building. As rescue crews broke Into heading No. 16, the death toll rose sharply this morning. In the 16th entry, the bodies of Section Foreman James Mon- teeth and scyeral members of his crew were found behind a barricade they had thrown up in a desperate attempt to save themselves from the deadly gas, As the blast tore through the north dip section of the 50-year-old mine at 11:15 a. m. yester day, a tongue of flame burned the bodies of some of the miners. Wives, children and relatives of the entombed miners, stand ing at the shaft entrances and soaked to the skin by a heavy rain, silently watched the bodies being removed. Thrkr were no permitted to view I the dead early today. Twenty-one men escaped a few minutes cfter the explosion believed caused by gas or rock dust had rumbled through the north dip, trapping the men working almost 8.000 feet from the headings of entries 16, 17 and 18. BURGUNDER BALKS E Florence. Ariz., July 16. UP) Robert Burgunder, condemn ed killer of two Phoenix auto mobile salesmen, told the state board of pardons and paroles today he did not desire a clem ency hearing. He is under sen tence to die August 9. The board, in a unprecedent ed procedure, visited Burgun der, 23-year-old former student at the Arizona State Teachers college at Tempe, in the death house of the state prison. There the youth, who .told his attorney, C. T. McKinney, last Saturday that he did not want to seek clemency, reiter ated his stand. for a free people that our dec laration of independence and our federal constitution pre served. On this point, Farley said In Ms address that the administra tion "has given Its solemn pledge that no American boy will be sent to die on the bat tlefields of Europe and this compact will be kept." There may be difference of opinion among Democrats on other Issues, but on this deter mination thete Is absolute un ity," he added. Farley's two daughters, Betty and Ann, attired In simple frocks but each with an orchid at her shoulder, sat on the front row of the platform to watch their dad. A little far (her back mi Mrs. Farley telllnj friends she was happy because the occasion marked her husband's farewell to poll' tic. 1 1 EOT MAY COME FRIDAY IS SWISHEFiT Hundreds of Ships As sembled for Onslaught but High Command Disagrees By the Associated Prats Grenoble, France, July 16. Le Petit Dauphlnois said today that foreign diplomatic quarters in Switzerland had heard that a projected attack on England by 600,000 Germans had been delayed because of difference in the high, command, but that tne attack may be launched Friday night The Germans have assembled hundreds of ships for the at tack, the newspaper said In a dispatch from Bern, According to Le Petit Dauph lnois, the commander-in-chief of the German army and other generals opposed the plan of attack first set for July 9-10 because they thought It too dangerous to the attackers In its original form. Many Type Ship The ahips, according to the newspaper, range from German and captured French, Belgian and Dutch freighters and pas senger ships to fishing smacks and . barges to be towed by tugs. 1. They are lying along : tb coast from Brest, France, to Bergen, Norway, . the paper added. The fleet's escort of light gunboats, submarines and fighting planes, to be preceded by mine sweepers and waves of bombers were ready when one group of generals headed by General W a 1 1 h r von Brauchltsch, command r-ln- chief of the German army, pro tested that it was too danger' ous, the paper said. London, July 16. (JP Three enemy bombers were shot down by British fighters during raid on the coast this afternoon, tho air ministry announced tonight. A communique said the royal air force made raids yesterday in Normandy, Holland, north- (Oootlnuad oo fag Two.) COL FLETCHER OF CCC IS ORDERED T ji Washington, July 16. ff Army orders today Included: Colonel Harvey H. Fletcher, Inf., Medford, Or., to Newark, N. J. Colonel Fletcher, commander of the Medford CCC district, haa been her sine September 18, 1938. He has resided with Mrs. Fletcher at 1222 West Main street The colonel said he had not received orders yet and did not know precisely what hi duties) in Newark would be as there are many military activities la that large eastern city. Ho stated he did not beltev an extension of his tour of duty here would be feasible because) of the general chaos In world affairs. 'FRISCO CENSUS Hi San Francisco, July 16. W Preliminary census figure to leased here today showed a drop in population for San Francisco of 4,841 to 629.533. The de cline was .007 per cent from the 1930 figure of 634494. As a result of the decline Su Francisco went down to 12th place In the rank of the nation' largest cities, having been passed by Washington, D. C, which climbed 176,284 to 193.
