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The Weather ForeraM: Fair tonight and Tnc4av; rising temperature. Trmperatar HlfhMt ?tt?rtUy - 83 Lowest tola morning T ft Medford Happens Often "ft wmJkrd right ant wt tha Want Ada tha very thin I ranted.." This happen often and to many people. It ta for thle reaaon ao many aat tha Want Ad. Page regularly. TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Pre.t Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1940. No. 104. MM A Washington, D. C, July 22. A second aluminum plant may be established in the Columbia area, but in the vicinity of Port land, rather than at Vancouver, Wash., where the Aluminum Company of America Is now con structing it's west coast plant. Provided the people interested are satisfied with conditions, they will erect a $5,000,000 plant and will require 30,000 kilo watts. So quietly has the investiga tion been conducted that Paul J. Raver, administrator of Bon neville project, is as yet unaware of the prospective customer. For the time being the identity of the individuals concerned cannot be revealed, but it can be stated that they are experienced in this field and are substantially financed. They say that after they establish themselves in-the Portland area, if they are satis fied with the prospects they will double their plant and apply for twice as much electric power. WITH an objective of 50,000 plane production a year for the national defense program existing capacity of the alumi num industry is inadequate. This is why the plant at Vancouver, Wash., will be enlarged and ad ditional power contracted for. It is also the reason that E. R. Stet- tinius, Jr.," Is lecturing congress for not appropriating $25,000,000 for a dam and steam plants In TVA in order that more power will be available to manufacture aluminum. But in the past few days the National Defense Ad visory commission has discovered Bonneville and its immediately available power. The new dam and steam plants for TVA would not be ready for two years. The "X" company (for want of better identification), has just been in consultation with the de fense commission and offered to erect a plant in the TVA area. The consultants of Stettinius ex plained there is no room for an other aluminum concern in TVA; not enough power for the exist ing plant to expand. The con sultants suggested looking to the (Continued on P&g Pour.t ILL BE SAFE Salem. July 22. (.V) Ore gon's 4.600 national luardsmen who will be mobilized scon are assured of their regular jobs when they nre demobilized, na tional guard headquarters said today. Major -General George A. White, commanding officer, said all employers of guardsmen as sured him in writing that they would hold the jobs open until the guardsmen return from camp. TOURIST SNAPS NECK GAZING AT WATERFALL Yosemite. Calif.. July 22. OP) Leo Holland of Keokuk, Iowa, dislocated his neck today while gazing at lofty Yosemite Falls. The water, in two falls, drops from a height of 1.300 feet. SIDE GLANCES br TRIEUHE REPORTERS Verne Canon still buttonhol ing anyone or everyone to hash over the recent Democratic con vention and get in a good word for the ticket. Mack Lillard displaying no end of confidence that his battle royal rasslin brawl tonight will be better than any alley fight seen heretofore. Fred Strang getting a lot of laughs out of the funny film at the Crate. Reserve Lootenant Bill Bow erman looking quite militaristic after three week with the regulars. Won't Stop Fighting Until Freedom Sure Asserts Lord Halifax London, July 22. f.V) Lord Halifax, British foreign sec retary, answered Adolf Hitler's peace offer today with a dec laration that Great Britain will "not stop fighting until free dom for ourselves and others is "We realize the struggle may cost us everything," the foreign secretary said in a world broad cast, "but just because the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice, it is a noble privilege to be the defender of things so precious." Hitler made plain in his July 19 speech to the reichstag, Hali fax declared, that "his picture of Europe is one of Germany lording it over these peoples whom he has one by one de prived of their freedom." Unmoved by Threats. Britain's picture of Europe, Halifax said, is one of "a free association of independent states and, because of that contrast, we remain unmoved jy threats unaccompanied by any appeal to our sense of right or iustice. ' In every part of Britain, he declared, there is "a spirit of indomitable resolution." 'The peoples of the British common wealth, alon? with those who love truth and freedom and justice will never accept this new world of Hitler's," Lord Halifax said. He asserted that "across the wide i Atlantic there are mightv nations which view his works with growing detestation. "The people of the United States did not build their new home in order to surrender it to this fanatic We take heart from the certain knowl edge that that great people prays for our victory " GARNER RAPS F.D.R. ON FAILURE 10 GIVE THIRD TERM INTENT Washington, July 22. IIP) Vice-Presid?nt Garner said to day he would go to Texas to vote in the primary election there Saturday and refused to discuss whether h would re turn to Washington afterwards. "I'm going home to vote, as I have done for 50 years," the 71-year-old vice-president told reporters. He was asked if he would come, back here later. "I'll reserve my decision on that," Garner said shortly. "I have a leader who wa-ts until the last moment to make up his mind." This was taken as a refer ence to President Roosevelt's delay in announcing whether he would accept a third term nom ination, which Garner openly opposed by his own unsuccess ful candidacy for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. Shortly afterward, Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the recon struction finarce corporation conferred at length with the vice-president. LOVE RACE LOSER E Philadelphia. July 22. 0J.P For months. . Joseph Bio, 22. and Jack Cook, 23, the best of friends, went with the same girl. The girl, Agnes Palesch, 19-year-old waitress, seemed to like them both. Bio and Cook. I living in' the same rooming I house, decided to end the sus pense and arranged a show down conference with Miss Palesch at a tavern Saturday night. They told her she must choose one of them. I She chose Cook. I Several hours later Cook re turned home and heard moans coming from Bio's room one floor above him. He found Bio unconscious, and near him a glass partly filled with cyanide and soda water and note. The note said: j "1 fell in love with the wrong 'girl and lost." secure. T E OF By ih Associated Prats London, July 22. Bomb-and- run German raiders kept up har assment of the British isles to day. The Germans directed their at tacks today at the midlands, in dustrial heart of Britain, north east and southeast Scotland. One Dornier 17 was shot down in flames, bringing to 30 the bag of raiding craft believed downed since Saturday. The ministry of home security laid some casualties were inflict ed during incendiary bomb at tacks on three towns in Scotland, but that property damage was slight. The admiralty announced the loss of the 1,360-ton destroyer Brazen, sunk while being towed to port after being damaged in an air attack. - Even as she lay foundering, 1 the Brazen got In some blows of her "own. The admiralty an nounced her blazing pom-poms blasted three of her attackers from the skies. In another engagement H.M.S. Beagle (Lieut. Commander R. M. Wright, RN) destroyed a Jun kers 87 by pom-pom fire. The Beagle is sister ship of the Brazen. BALTIC PARLIAMENTS SOVIET GOVERNMENT Riga, Latvia, July 22. (P) Communist parliaments of Es tonia. Latvia and Lithuania speeded plans today for state control of property, industry and banks after voting to petition Moscow for membership in the Soviet union. Approval of the petitions was tegarded as a foregone conclu sion. Delegates were scheduled to leave tomorrow for Moscow to complete the formalities. Festive crowds danced and pa raded in the streets of Riga and dispatches from the Estonian and Lithuanian capitals of Tal linn and Kaunas told of similar celebrations there. Incorporation of the three lit tle Baltic states into the Soviet union was foreshadowed last week-end at parliamentary elec tions in which communist candi dates were unopposed. Actually the three sister re publics have been under Mos cow's thumb since last fall when Russia demanded and obtained military bases and other conces sions from them prior to the be ginning of the Russian-Finnish war Nov. 30. Lunch on Clipper Brings Ptomaine Ketchikan, Alaska. July 22. 'Pi The return flight to Seattle of the Pacific Alaska Airways "Alaska Clipper." already de layed late yesterday when all of the 18 passengers and six crew members became ill on the hop from Juneau to Ketchikan. Physicians said they were suf- fering from ptomaine poisoning. apparently from something they had for lunch on the plane. Leaves Large Eslat New York. July 22 JP Alfred W. Erlckson, of the Mc Cann Erlckson advertising agency, left a net estate of $5, 005.131, a tax appraisal today disclosed. The widow, Mrs. Anna E. Erickson. was principal beneficiary of the estate, which included paintings appraised at $S7.2:S. . SECY. KNOX URGES QUICK APPROVAL OF NAVAL FUNDS Another Billion to Make Two Ocean Navy Possible Is Advocated at Hearing Washington, July 22. VP) The senate voted today, in the absence of legislation labeled im portant and ready for action, to recess until Thursday. Further. Senator McNary of Oregon, the Republican leader. said another recess would be agreed to Thursday with regu lar legislative sessions to start next week. Later, the house agreed also to recess, at the close of today's business, until Thursday. Secretary of the Navy Knox urged, before a house appropria tions subcommittee, quick ap proval of legislation which would give his department an other billion dollars to make pos sible a "two-ocean navy. The bill he supported was based on President Roosevelt's July 10 request for $4,848,000,000 new defense funds. President Roosevelt sent con gress a special message asking that the capital of the export-import bank be increased from $200,000,000 to $700,000,000, to help "our neighbors south of the Rio Grande." The bank's pur pose is to help finance foreign purchases of United States sur pluses. " - Bridges Ousting Urged -In the senate, Senator Ash urst (D-Arlz.) asked speedy passage of the house-approved bill to deport Harry Bridges, Australian born CIO leader on the west coast. Within a few days, the treas ury department will present to congressional committees its tentative plan for an excess profits tax which the president recommended to help pay the huge bill for the nation's arma ment. The best guess was that action on this new program also would require many weeks. Already in the legislative mill were the Burke-Wadsworth com pulsory military training bill and a proposal to permit the president to mobilize the na tional guard in continental emer gencies. Senate and house mill- tary committees arranged to re- automobile for Lewisberg, "a., sume hearings on the training where Annenberg will be con measure this week. fined in the U. S. penitentiary. "Movie Actor" Gives Joy With He claimed his nam was Richard Bennett and that he was the movie-actor brother of Joan and Constance Bennett of film land. He told people he had just completed work on a picture, "Wings Over France," and that he was in Medford for a few days' rest from persons bother ing him for his autograph. He spent money like water, renting a taxicab Saturday night for $25 and making arrange ments to use it for the next four days at $25 a day. Grandly, he spread Joy ana goodwill among almost everyone he met by writing them checks I for $100. He had practically the whole town aflutter. To a waitress at a local restau- rant he presented a $100 check. asked her to marry him and then signed a statement promia- ing to pay her 2S0 a month for the rest of her life If he changed; his mind. ! He tripped the light fantastic j at a south Medford hot spot, be- came acquainted with two new- I lyweds and made their hearts happy with $100 check. A waitress at the resort was thrilled by his generosity, in the form of a $25 check. His exploits were finally end ed at 4:20 a. m. today when city this mess." police quoted him as police picked him up for drunk-' saying. He also wanted to wire enness. after he told an officer I Eureka for $200, police said, he liked him sr.d wanted to give None of the checks he so gen ii im his automobile for a present.' erously passed out were cashed. In city court this morning, he police stated, so about the only was sentenced to 30 days In iail i damage done was the disappoint- on a charge of being drunk in public place, and polk plan to AMERICAS GIVEN U.S. IN SPEECH BY Advocates Joint Trusteeship for European Colonies Threatened In New World Havana. July 22. (IP) The United States advocated to the 20 other American republics to day a joint trusteeship for any European colonies in the new world threatened with transfer to any other European powers and called for cooperation in a sweeping program to bolster and safeguard the economy of this hemisphere. Secretary of State Cordell Hull defined the position of the United States on pressing prob lems of the American republics in an address at the second meet ing of American foreign minis ters and prepared to submit res olutions embodying specific pro posals for dealing with them. Concrete Action Aim His 4,200-word address point ed the way for consultations aimed at concrete action by all of the Americas to safeguard the western hemisphere against mil itary or economic threats from abroad or foreign-directed sub versive activities. In sharp condemnation of the "forces of ruthless con quest" which he said "shrink from no means of attaining their ends," Hull declared it would be "suicidal not to recognize In time and not to prepare to meet fully and decisively" the dan gers to the American nations. He said "decisive remedial ac tion" was necessary to combat subversive activities which he (ConUnuwi on Pig Bight.) ANNENBERG SURRENDERS TO START PRISON TERM Chicago, July 22. (U.PJ M. L. Annenberg, wealthy Phila delphia publisher, surrendered to federal authorities today to begin serving. three-year pris on sentence for income tax evas ion. U. S. Marshal William H. Mc Donnell took custody of Annen berg at an undiscloed, but pre arranged meeting place In Chi cago. They left immediately by Here for Rest Bogus Checks mak a thorough investigation of him His name, police stated, is Gene Dofue. He is 38 years old and resides in Eureka, Cal., po lice said they learned, and added that papers found in .his room at a local hotel, where he regis tered Saturday under the name of Frank Murphy, indicated he was formerly employed by the San Francisco Sea Products company of San Francisco. Police learned that he rented Bill Lamb's checkered cab Sat urday night, paying $25 cash for Its use, and that he gave Lamb $100 check in advance for the taxi's rental for the next four days. The check, police said, was a First National bank of Portland, Medford branch. blank, which had been changed I to the Hollywood Guarantee and National Trust. It was signed Richard Bennett, Police said h took his automo- bile, a 1936 Hudson, to Toad's garage for repairs Saturday, and that $10 was owed for the work done Police said that when he was arrested he had $16.83 in cash In his possession, and the officers estimated he spent between $30 and I'O in rash during his two day escapade. When arrested he I wanted to "buy my way out of ment suffered by those who were given th check. As Hitler Warned England This picture, sent by radio from Berlin to New York, shows Adolf Hitler (center) as h addressed the Reichstag and the world, warning Great Britain to withdraw from the conflict or ih the destruction of her world empire and terror for mil lions. Hitler said this was England's last chance. Herman Wil helm Goering, who was promoted from Field Marshal to Mar shal! of ih Reich, is standing above and behind Hitler. SLATED FOR AUG. 17 . AT NATIVE VILLAGE Colorado Springs, Colo., July 22.0J.R) Wendell L. Willkie announced today he would for mally accspt the Republican presidential nomination In a speech on August 17 at his na tive Elwood, Ind. Willkie said present plans were to hold a brief ceremony on the steps of the Elwood high school from which he was twice expelled as a youth and tb hold a second ceremony few minutes later at nearby Callaway park, site of what Willkie called "my ole swim ming hole." The G.O.P. candidate an nounced the date of his ac ceptance late today after con ference with Rep. Charles Hal leck of Indiana, who is in charge of arrangement. Willkie announced earlier to day that Lewis Douglas, for mer director of the budget un der President Roosevelt, and John W. Hanes, former under secretary of the treasurj, were organizing an independent Dem ocratic movement in support of his campaign. JAP TAR ADMITS E San Francisco. July 22. lPi A Japanese seaman' pleaded guilty to a smuggling charge here today as narcotics department j agents sought further into the operations of an extensive smug gling ring they said was exposed by an American woman. Yoshitomo Waila, 42, pleaded guiltv before U. S. Commissioner E. E." Williams. His bail was set at $23,000. Al Zirpoli, assistant U. S. attorney, said the evidrnce would be presented to the fed eral grand Jury next week for Indictment, a step necessary de spite the gu'lty plea. Wada was arrested here Satur day aboard the Japanese freight er Nanman Maru. Federal and state agents said a large amount I vessel. J NO RELIEF IN SIGHT 21 DEATHS REPORTED Chicago, July 22. (P) No immediate relief was in pros pect today from the midsum mer heat wave which has en gulfed most of the nation for the past three days. Only two sections of the coun try, northern New England and scattered points in the upper Great Lakes, escaped the op pressive heat which caused death to scores of persons by prostrations and drownings. Reports ' from 27 sun-baked states showed that 21 persons had died from the effects of the heat wave, while at least 84 others drowned at ocean or lake resorts or In the country's rivers. Abnormally high tempera tures prevailed yesterday in most of the middle west and portion of the middle Atlantic states, while th weather bur eau said readings were about normal throughout the southern states and the Ohio valley. The top marks of the day, 111, were recorded in Needles, Cal., and Yuma, Ariz., while three other Arizona cities. Phoenix, King man and Tucson, had readings of 110, 108 and 105 respectively. TO BABY DERBY I New York. July 22. OJ.B ', Forty young married couples, ("graduates" of Clifford M. Washburn's Honeymoon Isle off ithe coast of Florida were In vited to participate In a "baby 'derby" today. 1 Washburn said he would give to the parents of the first 20 , babies to be born among them, i permanent deeds to the cabins on the Island they had occupied during their honeymoon. Washburn, owner of Hog Island, last March Invited new lyweds to spend their honey moons there free of charge. He was unable to sell it as a pri vate estate or to develop It Immediately. MING DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH ON J'VILLE ROAD George Edward Colbeth Fails to Make Turn Mile East of Former County Seat George Edward Colbeth, 34, of Jacksonville Star route, bo 19-A, was killed about 2:43 Sunday morning when th car he was driving plunged off th Medford-Jacksonville highway about a mile east of the latter town, turned over threa times, leaped 15 feet In the air and crashed down upon a fenc about 30 feet from th road. Rushed to a local hospital by three youths who witnessed tha tragedy, Colbeth died as he was being taken Into tha building. An autopsy was to be held thi afternoon. The coroner's offic said that crushing injuries ol the chest and abdomen un. doubtedly were the fatal hurts. He died without ever regaining consciousness. 8pd Indicated. Th threa boys who saw tha accident were Cloid Jones, EU man Babcock and Ray Forbes, all of Jacksonville, according to investigating .state police of fleers. Th youths told police that they were parked in their ca alongside th road, working on the - automobile radio, when noticed the approaching head lights of the Colbeth machine) as it sped toward Medford. Tha boys , told police tha sound o th motor Indicated that CoU beth was traveling at hlgti rate of speed. The car, according to tha three boys, failed to negotiate a slight curve In the road and headed over the shoulder and into a dry creek bed about 11 feet below the road. Aftef turning over and bouncing sky ward, the machine straddled a fence. Th curve 1 th first one west of Bybe corner, and la not sharp, police raid. Taken to Hospital. The boys rushed to the scens and found Colbeth lying in a ditch about 20 feet from tha car. He was still alive, al though unconscious, and they carried him to their own ma chine and drove to the hospital. Colbeth was driving 1028 La Salle pickup owned by Bert Beckelhymer, operator of a set vice station on the Jacksonville highway about a half mil from Medford, and Colbeth'i em ployer. Mr. Beckelhymer, po lice said, had loaned the car to) Colbeth to drive to Jackson, ville. The machine eras de molished. George Edward Colbeth w& born July 2, 1906, at New Bed ford, Mass., and had resided In southern Oregon for th past eight years. He was formerly employed by the forest service as a truck driver. He is survived by his wife. Betty Jung Colbeth. whom ha married at Decatur, 111., on November 15, 1933, and by a five-year-old daughter, Shirley June. Also his fat net. J. S, Colbeth of Providence, R. I., and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Almy of Providence. Funeral services, in charge ot Perl's, will bfl held from tha graveside at Siskiyou Memorial park. Tuesday at 10:30 a. m. Father Francis W. Black will officiate. $ IN LOS A. Los Angeles, July 22. (Ufc Accepting the principle of "de fense first profits afterwards," the aircraft industry today waa increasing the swarm of planea pouring from factories In re sponse to government order. Production rates are a mili tary secret, but an estimated 1,000 new planes are using Los Angeles municipal airport daily for flight tests, and good teat pilot are at a premium.
