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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.