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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940.
No. 99.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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.