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The Weather Forecut Ckjodr ith ihotfn today and tomorrow ; Utile Chang Im tfniprrtort. Temperature Opportunities Tee houls ao mlM raaeiag the Claulfled pat this mora fng. Th-ra are an? aambee af t:rartla opportnnlttea arferee tm make Imetlme nt. Perhaps Ihc thing jam want If adver ts. Tribune FORD full United Press MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1940. No. 103. a Monro MED " -r 1 i i i i i Tull AwvoeUttd Pru Thirty-fifth Year TO W liSi PROPAGANDA AND j :Nrii BOMBS RAIN UPON fl mmm ALL OF BRITAIN h Washington. D. C, July 20 Money due taxpayers in Harney and other Oregon counties has been held up for more than a year because of the jealousy be tween the treasury department and the General Accounting Office. It is a sample of the ri valry existing among the vari ous agencies and the feud of bureaucrats. Nelson Higgs, county Judge of Harney county, wondered why his county was not receiving its percentage of the revenue of the Malheur lake bird refuge, as provided by law, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939. The sum, practically $4000, which isn't hay to taxpayers in the op en spaces, should have been paid by the biological survey, whose chief is Ira Gabrielson, former resident of Oregon. Patience ex hausted. Judge Higgs wired his congressman, and Cornelia Mar vin Pierce got on the job. IJERE is the Washington run- around. Biological survey informed Mrs. Pierce the mat ter had passed out of its hands a year ago, when the voucher was made out. Department of agriculture reported it had no information about activities of the biological survey as Presi dent Roosevelt had transferred ' that wildlife agency to depart ment of Interior. The latter de partment that the payment to Harney and other counties was something that took place be fore the biological survey came to interior. Mrs. Pierce was get ting nowhere fast. Next Mrs. Pierce phoned GAO to learn if the auditing depart ment had passed on the vouch ers. GAO had duplicate vouch ers in its files (a year old) but refused to act on any but ori ginals. The originals were lo cated in the treasury depart ment which had not sent them to the Oregon counties because they had not been cleared by GAO. Treasury department re fused to surrender the originals to GAO. This was the impasse which had held up payments. This week a lawyer of GAO decided that the auditing office could use a photostatic copy of the original vouchers. Treasury consented to permit the docu ments to be photographed with in the treasury building. GAO sent two trustworthy men to the treasury and made the pho tostats, with accompanying af fidavits of how, why and where. Under guard, the photostats were taken to the queer brick Duuaing wnicn nouses me uen- rri rtccounung vjmce til was where President Cleveland held his Inaugural ball). Now Mrs. Pierce learns that GAO must treat the entire affair as new business. This is the sort of failure to cooperate that is known as red tape. Probably, but for the per sistence of Cornelia Marvin Tierce, those vouchers would re main in pigeonholes for years to come. . (Continued on Pag Sis.) San Quentln. Calif., July 20 Wi Embittered over refusal of a former cellmate to repay a "U"l,t'ZZI'Tenth." he said in a broadcast !.uV'i..TL ?L!0b'ZZU members of the Second divl- , ' r-.-j.l Mtxe Carden tonight stabbed . . . . . .v . ISlHnOuTnn ?wlt,! prisoner, Lee Watts. San Quentin officials said Carden. 30-year-old convicted burglar sent up from San Joa - ouin last February 2. waylaid' Watts as he was coming from mess hall on the way back to the cell blocks. Watts was stabbed with I kitchen knife, sharpened into a deadly prison "shiy," one! thrust penetrating his abdomen and the other enterina his chest. I Prison doctors did not expect him to recover Refusal Means Destruction Berlin Threatens; England Girds for Land Offensive. Br the Associated Press Berlin, July 20. (JP) Ger many unleashed a thunder of words today in an attempt to sway the English people, over the head of Winston Churchill, and get them to end the war. The alternative, Nazi Ger many says, is destruction. Radio transmitters dinned Adolf Hitler's "last appeal to reason" into English ears until, as authorized sources put it. every Englishman knows exact ly what is in store for mm un less he gets rid of "the pluto cratic ruling clique" which wants to keep on fighting. Repeatedly the English were told that Hitler has no desire to harm either England or her empire. It was suggested that only by getting out from under Churchill's control can England escape the German onslaught, There was, moreover, not the slightest hint either in Hitler's speech or in the words of radio or press that Germany is slow ing up one iota in her prepar ation for this attack. It is as sumed that the whole military and naval machine is ready to go at any time at the Fuehrer's word. "No Direct Proposal No further direct proposal to England may be expected from Hitler, the authoritative Dienst Aus Deutschland said. "The initiative must now come from England," said this commentary. "Hitler has not yet set a time limit for the answer NassaUi Bahamas, July 20. from England but from that ! ,Tvconfused by the re of fact it cannot be concluded that Windsor., gtatuS- further corn England is able to claim an un-, pllcated by nis appointment as I limited period to answer theiBanaman governori tni, remtej peace offer.' The British press view that Hitler's reichstag speech of yes terday as '"not worth answering" was repected In Berlin as not the true voice of the British j people. "This is merely the vo ce of j MIC fJiULUWUlll lb TTfft)! stated here. "What strikes us is the haste wun wnicn mese in-i solent commentaries are Is- sued so auickly as to give the Impression they were written in advance." Old War Lords Out By the Associated Press ,ru;.. ' l "": '': London, July 21. (Sunday) bombers carried their almost ,..,..,,, ...oi.. ,;.,. ri.:"1 "l "" (Continued on Paga Two.) SERVICE FAV0RED;r, New York, July 20. JTi General James G. Harbord. for mer chief of staff of the Amer ican armies in France and com mander of the Second division of the A. E. F., tonight recom- ' mended selective service as the ' "fair American way to raise an army. The bravest and best of American manhood have always been the ones to respond to a call for volunteers, with casual ties thus certain to fall from the very flower of national iSion who were celebrating their . . , . I twentv-xeennd annual reunion I" St. Louis. The volunte,f ,em he I , 1 ... '.... . ' : V0""1 "uard ln of In democracy there is the ; universal obhgationto serve. j Plays Safe I Astoria. July 20. 'P) Sher - in paui Kearney asked Oregon and Washington peace officers to go tuna fishing with him to- day. First, however, he stopped t the market and ourrhaaed , enough fish for tonight s ban- Jquet. Willkie Receives Gold Nugget As Gift fir j nIlLii!aj n. ,,r, Inn.i fcf f- mmmmmmmmmmmJa When Wendell L. Wlllkl was welcomed to a play festival at Central, Colo., he was initiated Into the art of panning gold. He is shown (right), about to receive a gold nugget from Gordon Waller while Thomas A. Weaver, a prospector, and his burro keep watchful eye on the proceedings. Colorado Springs, Colo., July I 20. P) Wendell L. Willkie re- ceived a comprehensive outline . , , , of a new farm program today from George N. Peek, former agricultural adjustment admin- istrator, but the nominee made it plain that Peek's was only colony is pondering pretty prob lems of etiquette. Believing it will be several weeks before the duke assumes his new duties, officials and sociamiM are using the time for dcving into the intricacies of proper .aiutations and re. ceptioir. ' Should the abdicated king be j a ..your Royal High - -,.. m-.m- ntiti him .'.,; Cr ,hould he be addr5(,d as "Your Excellency?" (That's the usual form to a governor). ! Should the American-born duchess be addressed as "Your Royal Highness?" (Now there's deh? P'' ".'. land). Or should It be merely "Your grace." There nothing trivial aooui the matter to the quiet Baha- mans, who treat with due dig- nity their obligations as British HOT SPELL SEEN Northern California: Fair Sun- 'day, but becoming unsettled ex- : treme north portion; normal temperature: gentle to moaeraie temperature: gentle to moderate ; northwest wind off coast, except i mostly west and southwest' . above Cape Mendocino. Oregon: unsettled unaay,i showers northwest portion; cooler in interior. Weekly outlook far western state, for July 22 to 27: Gener-; d'out N, Mebe,iuI p.ced;wlll open here August 5 at the I Unds three ounce, of n.r ally fair with temperature. E .g ,tUck wh . four-run ! warehouse of the Pacific Wool I , . 'board a Japanese f re lht nearly normal beginning ofjhomer , tn, fiftn. Dfclt Whit-; Grower, association. U"t ."."ed a wmlr hut ru ns and becoming - . t-. . cnj er nere ana arrorcu week. but rising and becoming ! generally anove normal Interior districts midd e of week: con- ' s derat e cloud or fog in coastal ; fectlonl r, , , Bailor Vancouver. B. C. July 20.- 1 j 'CP1 Friends here of Rev. John ! Antle. 74-year-old skipper of the 48-foot yawl Reverie en route , to Vancouver from England. expressed anxiety today, as the vessel was still unreported 81 davs after 1' '.-!" A",i-.ilr. Mexico, bound for San Pedro, ICal) one of many suggestions he w"ld consider in drafting the 'arm section of his acceptance speech, Prlor . the iuncheon con- ference, the Republican presl- dential nominee expressed grati- fication that Irvin Cobb, Charles Farwell of New Orleans and Reason Enough Chicago, July 20. JP) Mrs. Lillian Van Krum Colen, 23, a song writer, was grant ed a divorce after testifying that her husband took ex ception to a song she had written and deserted her. The song: "That Gray Haired Daddy of Mine." DEFENSE PARLEY Havana. July 20. iP The United States delegation became the center of intense activity tni.,v,t in informal rnnvna. tions aimed at formulating pro- posals on hemisphere defense and economy at the second meeting of American foreign ministers opening here tomor row. The arrival of Secretary of State Hull, with his staff of diplomatic, trade, monetary, and agricultural advisers, opened preliminary consultations in which officials of the other American republics sought first t0 hear details of the United j states proposals, j Ab5Cnt from these preliminary talks was the Argentine dele gation, from which is expected to emanate the chief obstacles to Hull's hoped-for unanimity ! among the 21 republics on meas ures to safeguard the security ! and economy of the new world. BULLETIN -. Jniv 20. P) The; ! Athletics took slim lcad in tne state eague here to- , h, b ,corjn a 7 to 9 victory sjverton. The Af gcored tbe winning i in th. iahth when Johnny jnn icored from third on an , wt , four.bagger for SU. wllh onl aboard. - R. H. E. Silverton . 5 9 2 Eugene - 7 9 2 Wilson" and ' Moe; Wiltshire and Libby. Coast. Sacramento, July 20. 'P) Night game: R. H. E. Portland . 9 S 0 cm.ntn s 1 nrn r.ilin and Annnn - ln - Riel. GabUr, Mungtr .nd Ogro - IdowikL other Democrats had said they would support him. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing since the Democratic convention because of the im portant Democrats over the country saying they will come out for me," Willkia told his press conference. . LIGHTNING FIRES N MONTANA, 161 Missoula, Mont., July 20. OP) Lightning bolts flashed into forests of western Montana to night, setting 161 fires. The electrical storm, like one which a week ago started hun dreds of fires, brought no rain. Regional forest service head quarters dispatched fire fighters to the new outbreaks. Fifty blazes were reported on the Bitter Root forest. 51 on the LOLO and 60 on the Kaniksu. At Butte, the second time lightning struck a livestock pass on a highway and killed Law rence Hain, 38, highway depart ment flagman. Friday night, less than 24 hours before Hain was killed, lightning set the pass on fire. EPIDElC FEARED IN BOSTON AREA1? Hull, Mass.. July 20. (Ft Discovery of ten cases of para typhoid among greater Boston residents who arrived from Eu rope aboard the S. S. Wash ington, July 13, brought a warn ing tonight to boards of health in all communities In which the liner's 1 6u9 passengers re side. At his summer home hero, Dr. Paul J. Jakmauh, Massa chusetts public health commis sioner, said the ten Boston cases were "not rerious" and that i th altmnt aA t man AlafM: ered ,n ms tQ prevent ap Vt ' , first Vool Bids Portland. July 20. m The Pacific coast's first competitive b ddlns wool auct ons on the 1 Australian-New Zealand plan Swimmer Perishes Seattle, July 20 P Gilbert "ven Cady, Jr., about 23, was killed today by a small motor- boat which ran over him while he was twimmlng In Lake I Washington. I Tillamook Cats Rata j Tillamook, July 20. 'Pi I Tillamook area farmer, rejoiced 1 In .22 of an inch of rain that 1 fell in an hour early today, ' Part iirei needed moisture badlv 1 after one of the driest summer. lnJ4 years. HAIL HITS PEARS 1 FOWLER REPORTS Storm Follows Narrow Path Talent to Central PL Ten Fires Started. Hail Inflicted considerable commercial d a m a g to the Rogue river valley pear crop Friday afternoon, Robert G. Fowler, county agent, reported yesterday. Many orchards were hit and some suffered damago of 10 to 15 per cent of the crop, Mr. Fowler stated. Additional1 dam age may show up later as hail marks become visible, he added. Mr. Fowler said he had re ceived unverified reports hat some young chickens were kill ed by the hail. The hail storm followed a narrow path like a Kansas tor nado and many orchards were entirely untouched. The hail storm moved from Talent In a semi-circle northwestward and then veered northeastward to Central Point, Mr. Fowler said. It was the most extensive damage done by hail to pears In several years. The Bartletts will be ready to pick in another fortnight. It was said that probably the Cornice pears, with their more tender skins, suf fered the most. Damage In Wagner cruek or chards near Ashland was esti mated at 1000 boxes. Lightning which accompanied the rain and hailstorm started ten forest fires In thb area, seven in the Applegate and two in the Union Creek districts of Rogue River national forest and one near the Rogue river on state protected land above Rogue Elk hotel. A forest pa trol guard quickly extinguished the fire on the state-protected land. The seven Applegate dis trict fires were reported con trolled last night while no re port had been received from crews sent to the two Union Creek district fires, each con fined to a large snag. The rain kept the fires from flaring up. The lightning set two fires on the Siskiyou national forest and left parts of three counties without power for 80 minutes, the Associated Press reported from Grant Pass. The light ning was also blamed for the fall of 28 acres of hops to the ground at Grants Pass, though growers sai'l damago would be small if th hop wires were lifted immediately, the Asso ciated Press said. Power failed for all of Jose phine county and for parts nf Jackson and Douglas counties. ccordlng to the Associated Press report from Grants Pass. Official forecast was for cloudy weather with showers today and tomorrow, local thun der storms over the Cascades, little change In temperature. The temperature yesterday did not get above 71 degrees. Precipitation for the storm to 8:30 p. m. yesterday was .14 of an inch, the weather bu - reau said. It was the first measurable precipitation since June 29. ICS HAUL San' Francisco, July 20. U. S. customs agents seized 17 Japanese, while the state nar cotics chief hinted the case would have international rami fications and Involve contra band worth more than $1,000, 000 when It was "cleaned up." Paul E. Maeden, chief of the California narcotics enforcement division, said the narcotic aeis- ! ure today (cocaine) was the larg- ! est "in a long, long time," and I that the lot taken would be valued "wholesale" at $81,000, and Drobablv would bring well . above uo,uuu w iliegit streei Isales. rnniR un wrnnri rrai w vtoiunrj AMEC . i War Bulletins London. July 20 (Ft London Sketch, in its "Inside Information" column, said to day that one of the things Adolf Hitler failed to men tion in his speech was a "fan tastic plan to 'offer' Canada to the United Staias which Ribbentrop (German foreign minister) conceived and is having circulated tentatively in Washington." The paper added that by his plan, which it said had been communicated to leading propagandists in the United Stalei. "Hitler will give a solemn pledge not to inter fere in the United ' States, alter ha has 'finished' with Britain. As proof of his sin cerity, ha would agree to the incorporation o I Canada." $29,000 SHORTAGE FAKE DEATH NOTE LEADS TO ARREST Portland 'Hobby Center Of ficial Admits Hoax On Puget Sound Ferry. Seattle, July 20. P Ed ward Zehrung, 38, secretary treasurer of the Portland Postal Employes Credit union, was held here for Portland police tonight after admitting faking a suicide on a Puget Sound ferry. Portland officers said em bezzlement charges, involving perhaps $29,000 of tha credit union's funds, had been filed against him. Zehrung was arrested when he appeared at police head quarters here In an attempt to recover his automobile. The machine had been impounded at 9:50 a. m. when the driver abandoned It on the ferry Chip pewa while the boat was en route from Bremerton to Seat tle. A note, announcing the writer's Intention of committing suicide and signed "Edgar," waa found in the front seat of the machine. Checking with Portland po lice, Seattle officers discovered that an arrest order against Zehrung had been Issued last night. Chief of Detectives Ernest Yoris said Zehrung declared he had boarded the ferry this morning with the Intention of committing suicide but had lost his nerve. The chief said he asked Zeh rung, "What did you do with the $29,000?" "I have $912 in my suitcase," Yoris quoted tha man as reply ing, "I Invested the rest In my Hobby Center building in Port- land. (The hobby center, named the "Can't Take It With You" house is Zchrung's pride. In it, postal employes and others have man ufactured model trains, gather- old odd collections and follow ed various hobbies). A $28,000 shortage was dis covered last week in funds of i1"" credit union, which has 885 j members, zehrung disappeared from Portland last night; and this morning, officers of the union discovered an additional $1,000 missing from the cash box. Zehrung, one of the found ers of the organization, was bonded for $13,000. IE OF FILMS, A FATHER Hollywood, July 20.- Film actor Don Ameche, who recently completed a picture I called "Four Sons," acquired his fourh son today. He made it clear that ha The boy was born to Mrs. would not "fly under fal-e col Ameche on the first annlver- ors" In order to win a post- ary of the birth of their third son, Thomas. The other children are Donald, 0Vi, and Ronald, 4 ',4. The Ameche family now ranks with that of Blng Crosby I (four sons) and Eddie Cantor me aaugmersi .... iargen in me mm coion,. OVERTHIRD TERM, LEAVESJAPITAO Wallace's Retention Cabinet Post to be G.O.P. Issue Political Curb in Force, Washington, July 20.- Vice President Garner, to of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt, packed away soma office belongings today, ax pressed his private views to a few secretarial cronies and, friends said, made ready to quit the capital. - His friends said that Games' planned to go to his Uvalde, Tex., home to vote, ln tha pri mary elections on July 27, ana might stay there, leaving con gress, the administration and the democratic party to their own devices. , Because of his third terra views, his associates said, tha 71 -year-old Texan felt ha could not participate in tha campaign for President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace, nominated to succeed Garner as vice presl dent. Garner declined to say wheth er he had sent any congratula. tory message to the president or Wallace, but friends said they understood ha had not. The third term Issue had m prominent part elsewhere ln the) day's political developments. . . . Former Democratic Senator James A. Reed of Missouri of fered to Join with Senator Burke (D-Neb.) in organizing Democrats opposed to a third term. The Harrlsburg, Pa., Patriot, newspaper published by Vanca A. McCormick, former Demo critic national chairman, an nounced its support of tha Re publican presidential nominee, Wendell L. Willkie. Rep. Ditter (R-Pa.) said la a statement that "hundreds of volunteer workers In Pennsyl vania and Mew Jersey, including: "many patriotic Democrats" had Joined "in revolt against tha overt threat of dictatorship as now presented in tha violent overthrow of the third term tra dition by the new deal conven tion at Chicago." Wallace announced at Dea Moines, Iowa, that he did not plan to resign his post as Secre tary of Agriculture, saying that "I believe Herbert Hoover re mained in the cabinet (as secre tary of commerce) when he was campaigning for the presi dency." Republicans, ; contend ing that the agriculture depart ment could exert vast political power, indicated they would make a campaign issue of Wal lace's failure to resign. Some new rules for cam paigning in this and subsequent federal elections became effec tive when President Roosevelt signed the Hatch bill. The meas- (CoaUnu-4 oa Pse Three.) n FEARS JOB LOSS Eugene, July 20. Dean Wayne L. Morse of the Univer sity of Oregon law school to night expressed fesr being a Republican might be an ob stacle to him becoming mem ber of tha U. S. maritime com mission. "I understand that if one of the obstacles to my appoint ment," he said in answer to an interviewer's question. "B a- cause It is an Important posi tion. Democratic leaders natur ally want to see a Democrat ! appointed." ,tion to be vacated August 1 i by Edward Moran Jr., Rock- j land. Me. Dean Morse also declared, re gardless of whether or not ha wins the new position, "Eugene will always be my residence. I n.. have no Intention OX leavinfj
