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Tribune
Full Aiiocialtd Press
Full United Press
Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1'
No. 105.
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Washington. D. C, July 23.
President Roosevelt played a
kesn joke on his chief hatchet
man and the rest of the palace
guard when he directed that
Henry A. Wallace, the boomerang-throwing
secretary of agri
culture, be nominated as his
running mate. Until the presi
dent gave Wallace the finger
this cabinet officer was in the
doghouse; was scorned and ig
nored. But Mr. Roosevelt had
to have someone on the ticket
who could offset the standing
of Oregon's Charley McNary
and Wallace best fit the pic
ture. Without consulting the
inner circle, and regardless of
their personal feelings, he tele
phoned to Chicago what he
wanted.
It is comedy or tragedy, de
pending on the point of view.
To Harold Ickes, secretary of
the interior, it is wormwood
and gall. Ickes, chief hatchet
man for the new dealers, was
so boiling mad he was tempted
to walk out of the convention
as he did back in 1912 when
he bolted the Republican con
vention in Chicago with Teddy
Roosevelt. Of all the members
of the cabinet, Ickes has least
use for Wallace, and there had
been a sneaking hope entertain
ed by Ickes that a -miracle might
occur and he, himself, become
the nominee for vice president.
COR years Ickes has attempted
to wrest one activity after
another away from the secre
tary of agriculture. He has
been moderately successful,
too, and is still covetous of the
forest service and control of the
national forests Mount Hood
area and Timberline included.
Secretary Wallace was luke
warm when the insiders talked
Mr. Roosevelt into attempting
to destroy politically everyone
who opposed his court bill. Last
October he was administered a
public rebuke by the White
House when, in a California
speech, he suggested that Kir.
Roosevelt have a third term
because of European complica
tions. Mr. Wallace said nothing
that Ickes and other new deal
ers had not declared many
times before, but Wallace was
singled out to have his ears
knocked down. He was accused
of "poor timing" saying some
thing at the wrong time, a
cardinal sin in the eyes of Mr.
Roosevelt.
MR. Wallace can thank Sen
ator McNary for the honor
(Continued on Pg Pour.)
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EXPECTED FRIDAY
Amos Emory Jones, 48, who
entered a plea of guilty to burg
lary in a dwelling will be sen
tenced when Circuit Judge H. D. Chevenne, Wyo., July 23. OP)
Norton returns, probably Friday,! Wendell L. WiUkie, on a two
from Grants Pass where he isjdgy swing through northern
holding court this week. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah,
Jones has been sentenced to contended today that the United
prison six times, and is liable to!state, would be "going down the
prosecution under the Oregon 1 same road as the totalitarian
habitual criminal act. District ..... if the neonle follow "the
Attorney Newman said this was,
not iiKeiy in tnis county, out -remnants of the Pendergast ma
that Jones and his partner, Wil-cnine and the Guffeys."
liam Lawlor were wanted ini There are few places in the
Clatsop county world," the Republican presi
SIDE GLANCES
br
TRIEUNE REPORTERS
John Frees amending a sign
he erected In his garage so as
m lu encourage u ,u. ,a ulan, saia toaay tnai in , Rnkin. who left at noon to
to lay hands upon him. , this country here is no suchlBurll of Fortune JIgilne . .
to find a good groom to handle . n,:u. i ti
the donkey he think, he's going , "d ' "?
to ride in the comic Softball I jm ?tai
,.kl of a train bearing him to Chey-
game tomorrow night. fnM Xo Wen(J the rrontler
Skippy Doris Brice being
being
thrilled to death by her first. The Republican presidential former press representative for , at the Roseburg Lumber corn
view of the rasslers in action nominee asserted that "I know Thomas E. Dewey, wruld serve pa ny mill. The fire is believed
tspecaUy tbt battla royaler. I it u texiei ol circunutaace " j as hit press rcr.resentativ. 'to have started ln a fuel pile.
REFUGEE RELIEF
DRIVE WERE
BY WHISPERERS
President Reveals Nation
wide Campaign to Hinder
Efforts to Aid War Victims
Hyde Park, N. Y.. July 23.
(U.R) President Roosevelt
charged today that a "fifth col
umn" is conducting a nation
wide campaign to sabotage the
American" Red Cross campaign
to raise $20,000,000 for relief
of European war refugees.
The sabotage effort, he as-
serted. Is based on a whispering
campaign alleging that Red
Cross war relief supplies are
falling into the hands of Ger
man and Italian military units.
Choosing his words carefully.
Mr. Roosevelt denounced such
reports as utterly untrue They
are completely unfounded and
all supplies that have gone
overseas actually have been dis
tributed to people in physical
need, he said.
The president said that
Chairman Norman Davis of the
Red Cross had informed him
that the false reports were be
ing circulated in many parts of
the country, apparently by a
kind of fifth column attempting
to sabotage the Red Cross drive.
uiscussmg tne pugm oi ciwi-,
ian populations in war-ravaged
Europe, Mr. Roosevelt said he
h..d heard reports that the con
tinent may be facing the worst
famine in world history.
He said about two weeks ago
the government received unof
ficial reports that a large por
tion of Denmark's cattle, poul
try and pigs cither had been
ordered slaughtered or actually
had been butchered to permit
shipment of the food to Ger
many. Mr. Roosevelt said the
reports indicated, without con
firmation, that perhaps as high
as SO percent of cattle, pigs and
poultry had been slaughtered
in Denmark.
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Portland, Ore., July 23. (U.R)
The state board of higher edu
cation today named Miss Jacque
line Brier as home demonstra
tion agent in -Jackson county.
effective August 1. Miss Brier
will succeed Mrs. Mabel Mack
who was recently transferred to
Instruction duties with headquar
ters in Corvallis.
No Man Indispensable Says
Candidate Wendell WiUkie
Kelly-Nash machine and the
dential nominee told a Greeley
Colo., audience during a train
stop nroute to Cheyenne's
r runner nuucu, n itt c t i.u
gather as we do here today
uncontrolled by anybody."
Cheyenne. Wyo- July 23.
OP. Wendell L. WiUkie. start-
ing a two-da swing through
northern
prn Colorado. Wyoming
;tah, said todav that "in
iui.. .. "
.mi . ns i in. ,,9 iicvwik ,.
Days rodeo.
Days rodeo.
; baseball I CHANGE TO ALLOWiCONSCRIPTION HIT Dope Seized on JatTshiTI GERMAN ACTIVITY
BASEBALL
Brooklyn, July 23. (flV
Pete Coscarart, Brooklyn sec
ond baseman, and Linus Frey,
Cincinnati second sacker, were
banished from the game and
Gene Thompson, Cincinnati
hurler, was forced out with in
juries in a fight during the
eighth inning of the first game
between the Dodgers and Reds
at Ebbets field today.
National
1st game, 11 innings: R. H. E.
Cincinnati 4 8 0
Brooklyn 3 10 4
Thompson, Beggs and Lom
bardi, Hershberger; Wyatt and
Phelps.
Chicago
Boston
6
1
11
8
2 '.
Raffensberger and Todd; Sul
livan, Javery and Masi.
St. Louis 7 14 2
Philadelphia 3 9 2
M c G e e, Hutchinson and
j0w,en: Blanton Beck. Johnson
and Atwood, Warren.
COMMISSION FOR
TRUSTEESHIP IS
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Havana, July 23. (U.R) A
commission form of govern
ment, - on which at least three
American nations would be rep
resented, nas been proposed to
gesslons ln thii hemisphere, if
the Pan-American countries un
dertake a "trusteeship" of such
colonies, it was understood to
day. The trusteeship was proposed
yesterday in the Pan-American
conference keynote speech of
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull as one means of keeping
the Americas isolated from the
European war and totalitarian
influence.
Circles working on the prob
lem of preservation of peace in
the western hemisphere said the
commission form of government
would maintain, as far as pos
sible, the regular administrative
officers, customs and the like,
which are a part of all govern
ments. The fact that all 21 American
republics, in agreeing to send
representatives to the Havana
meeting, expressed themselves
as concerned over the war's ef
fect on western hemisphere pos
sessions of Holland, Great Bri
tain, Denmark and France, in
dicates, according to these cir
cles, that there is considerable
sentiment for some provision of
collective action such as Hull
has proposed.
Pan Franctiro Butter
San Pttnclsco. July 23 (AP-U 8.
OA.) Butter. S3 kom aS'Jc; t.
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that caused him to be nom
inated for president.
"I know that there are thous
ands of men qualified for any
position, public or priate," he
continued. 'There are many,
many men who are qualified.
In this country here is no such
thing as the Indispensable man.
The very essence of democ -
racy Is that It develops the in-1 New Hampshire and Connectl
itiative and the energies of j cut.
Willkle, remarking thatlTeX Rankin Lucky
Brighton Is ln Colorado s sugar i Wvomtntr Crash
, beft country reCalled that he
had worked a a suanr chemist
in Puerto Rica 27 years ago.
Thirty years ago, he said, he,
... .mnlovpd nn a ur beet
farm near Fort Collins. Colo,
At an ImrromDtti nrts, con-
ference in his private car. Will-
kie announced that Raymond I.
; (in d wcrk with Russcl Dav-
WOUIQ WWR Willi nuistii ism
. ...
enport. a former Fortune eai-
, n . . .it r ... . .
... 1 kl. k-kolf n..,rt
was one of the first to work
for Willkie't nomination.
WiUkie announced also that
Lem Jones of Davenport, la.,
HAS OPPOSITION
Sol Bloom Against Amend
ing Neutrality Law to Al
low Use of U. S. Ships
Washington. July ?3. (U.P.)
Chairman Sol B'.oom of the
house foreign affairs committee
todty opposed any move to
amend the neutrality law for
removing British children from
the war zone on American
ships, but favored special con
gressional authorization of such
action if Germany and Italy
guarantee safe passage for the
ships.
Bloom voiced his opinion
after Rep. Thomas C. Hcnnings,
Jr. (D.-Mo.) introduced a bill to
amend the neutrality law to
allow American ships to go to
the war zone.
'If the British parliament
seems rather doubtful about
taking chances on bringing the
children over at this time In
their ships, I don't know
whether it is advisable for us
to take a chance." Bloom said.
"However, if we could have
assurances from Germany and
Italy that they would guaran
tee safe passage of these ships
carrying only refugee children,
their guardians and mothers,
this country might be willing
to take a chance.", .
Bloom said he personally did
not believe it advisable to dis,
turb the neutrality pet, "be
cause as it stands today, it has
kept this country out of war."
But he pledged to do every
thing in his power to assist in
removal of the children on a
sound and solid basis."
IT RELIEF
IN SWELTERING AREA
By the Associated Press.
Scat tered thunder-showers,
giving only temporary and
slight relief from the heat wave
was the best the weatherman
could offer the sweltering na
tion today.
The U. S. weather bureau at
Chicago reported that the pro
tracted hot spell, now a week
old for some wilted regions,
probably would continue for at
least three days more.
Virtually all the nation east
of the Rockies suffered from
the sizzling heat. Tempera
tures of 100 or higher were
reported yesterday from such
scattered points as Montana,
Minnesota and Arizona.
At least 180 deaths were at
tributed, directly or Indirectly,
to the torrid weather. Thirty
one persons in 12 states were
listed as heat victims. In 31
states there were 149 drown
ing victims among the millions
who sought relief at the
beaches.
. A. E. Anderson, state federal
I agricultural statistician at Oma-
I ha, Neb., said the heat wave
was creating a serious crop
, situation in that region.
High winds and h?.il damaged
j crops and caused other property
1 losses in Massachusetts, Maine,
springs, wyo.. July xj.
i 'f T Rankin. Los Angeles.
,ner- escapea injury last
nl"t when engine trouble and
j t,ron down current caused his
Plane lo c"n ? nd h"
m''" ea"
'r"r,n
miles east of the Rock Springs
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- board a plane for Los Angeles,
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Boilsr Room Burns
Roseburg, Ore., July it. UP)
An early morning fire here to-
oay acstroyea tne Doner room
BY VANDENBERG;
QUESTIONS NEED
Michigan Senator Also Not
in Favor Calling Out Na
tional Guard for Training
Washington, July 23. (Pi
Proposals for compulsory mili
tary training were criticized to
day by Senator Vandenberg
(R.-Mich. who said he ques
tioned the necessity of peace
time conscription to fill the
expanding ranks of the nation's
armed forces.
President Rooseve't and the
army high command have en
dorsed selective service as an
essential element in the de
fense drive, but Vandenberg
told reporters he was not con
vinced that "our ordinary reli
ance on volunteers" would fail
to supply the necessary man
power. As the senate military com
mittee was called into closed
session on the Burke -Wads-worth
compulsory service bill,
Vandenberg also indicated he
did not see eye to eye with
war department proposals for
mobilizing the national guard's
235 000 men if conscription is
voted.
Dislocation En.
Mobilizing the militia for a
year's training, said Vanden
berg, might cause a very cruel
dislocation!-' . In- the homes of
many guardsmen whd did not
expect "whole time service"
with the regular land forces
during peacetime.
However, two members of
the military committee, Gurney
(R.-S.D.) and Minton (D.-Ind.)
announced that thi-y would vote
to recommend enactment of
compulsory service. Minton,
Democratic whip, announced:
' I'm for it if the war de
partment says it's necessary."
PSEUDO MOVE ACTOR
WHO GAVE CHECKS IS!
Gene Dofue. 38. of Eureka.
Cal., who over the week-end
went on a bogus check-writing
spree while claiming he was
Richard Bennett, movie actor
here for rest and brother of
Joan and Constance Bennett, Is
on parole from San Quentin
penitentiary, according to infor
mation received by citypolice
irom j. K. MCKenzle, police
chief at Eureka.
The following telegram was
received by police this morning.
Check charge against Gene Do
fue dismissed here July 18.
Dofue, under name of Gene
Treaeleven, on parole from San
Quentin.
Dofue. arrested by city police
early Monday morning after
signing the name of Richard
Bennett to $323 worth of checks,
none of which were cashed by
persons who received them as
presents from Dofue, was sen
tenced to 30 days in city Jail
on a charge of being drunk ln
a public place.
Police said today they didn't
know on what charge Dofue was
sent to San Quentin, and stated
that apparently he wouldn't be
returned as a parole violator In
view" of the fact that he wasn't
following the check charge in
Eureka. He will serve his 30
days here, police said.
NEAR AMERICAN SOIL
Seattle. July 23. ' Re
ports that a Russian air base is
being developed on Soviet
owned Big Diomede island In
the Bering sea, only a mile from
the American Little Diomede
island wera confirmed by the
U. S. coast guard cutter Perseus
on a visit to the far north.
This was learned late yester
day when the cutter arrived here
en routa to 1U base at San Diego.
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Paul E. Madden, chief of in California narcotics enforce
ment division, is shown above with the rubberised silk bags con
taining 17 pounds, 3 ounces of narcotics seised aboard a Japan
ese freighter in San Francisco. Madden placed wholesale value
of the dope at $81,000. He hinted the ease would have lnterna
iional ramifications and Involved contraband worth more than
$1,000,000 when it was "cleaned up."
E. R. Says Democratic Party
Has Bolted From Sen. Burke
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 23. (IP) President Roosevelt as
serted today he understood the Democratic party recently had
bolted from Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska and that
the administration thought the minds of Lewis W, Douglas
and John W. Hanes ran more to dollars than to humanity.
Questions at the president's!
first press conference since his
acceptance of a third term nom
ination produced those remarks
against three . anti-third term
Democrats who have pledged
their support to Wendell L.
WiUkie, the Republican . presi
dential nominee, James A. Reed,
former Democratic senator from
Missouri, also was assailed by
the president.
Mr. Roosevelt's criticism of
Burke was prompted by an in
quiry whether he thought the
word "bolt accurately de
scribed the senator's action In
urging maintenance of the two
term tradition and throwing his
support to Willkle.
Burke was defeated for re
nomination In a primary by
Gov. R. L. Cochran of Neb
raska. Const derable Improvement
was noted todny ln the condi
tion of Al Gilhousn. Jr., of
Rogue River lodge, whote chest
and right shoulder were pierced
by a pitchfork late last Friday
aitc-rnoon. The ten-year old boy
Is a patient In Community hos
pital. Al was helping a neighbor
ing rancher on Trail treek get
his hay In when the accident
occurred. The boy Jumped from
the top of a hay wagon and
landed on the pitchfork.
Tme boy'i fathr-r, the well-
known former pilot of United
An Lines, who was in Sjn Fran
cisco on business at the time,
hastened home on receiving
news of the accident. He and
Mrs. Gilhousen have been with
the youngster almost constantly.
Iienmtito, Juir SI (API
Churning crwm butttrLt: first crwls
0, second grade Ue.
COLBETH'S LIVER
George Edward Colbeth, 34-
year-old service station employe
who was fatally Injured ln an
automobile accident on the
Medford-Jacksonville highway
early Sunday morning, died of
a badly ruptured liver, it was
determined by an autopsy per
formed yesterday afternoon.
The car Colbeth was driving
alone left the highway on a
slight curve about a mile this
side of Jacksonville and turned
over three times before landing
atop a fence along a dry crack
bed 30 feet from the highway.
He died as he was being taken
into a local hospital by three
boys who saw the accident
Funeral services were held
this morning.
CANFIELD URGES
CALLTOCOLORS
Newport, Or., July 23. (U.R)
The 32nd annual encampment
of the United Spanish War Vet
erans of Oregon drafted strong
resolutions today favoring na
tional preparedness to meet
"any emergency."
The resolutions followtd tha
keynote expressed late yester
day by Jack Witherspoon of
Seattle, past national command
er, who advocated Immediate
regular service for the national
guard and compulsory military
training.
State Commander Iia D. Can
field of the Veterans of Tor
eltfn Wars, of Medford, urged
mobilization of eviry person
in the country between the
airs of 14 and An. to "make
I America safa for Americans."
POINTS TO EARLY
BLOWATJRITAIN
Reports From Belgium and
Holland Tell of Hurried
Massing of Army Supplies
Br the Associated Press
Reports of "Greatly Increased
activity" in dockyards and rail
ways ln German-occupied Bel
gium and Holland heightened in
dications late today that the zero
hour may be near fdr Hitler's
long-threatened attempt to storm
the British Isles.
Neutral sources in London said
the Germans were massing mili
tary supplies in the western low
lands, across the channel from
England, with Intensified speed
during the past seven days.
In London, Britain hurled new
millions of dollars Into the war
with the axis powers by hiking
the Income tax.
Prime Minister Winston Chur
chill tacitly affirmed Britain's
"final answer" to Adolf Hitler
today a fight to the finish
against Nazi conquest.
Last Word Spoken
By avoiding comment, during
the question period in the house
of commons, Churchill Indicated
the empire's last word in reply
to Hitler a appeal for Nazi-dictated
peace had been spoken
yesterday by Foreign Secretary
Lord Halifax.
' Even as Churchill thus .ended
all talk of peace, German plane
showered fire-bombs on British
cities in widespread attacks and
Nazis in Berlin declared "the
dice are cast", for a blitzkrieg
against Britain. ,
The staggering cost of tha war
to Britain was high-lighted when
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
Kingsley Wood announced
one-shilling increase in the Brit
ish Income tax to eight shillings
six pence per pound a basic tax
of 42 Vi per cent.
Sir Kingsley presented an
emergency war budget to meet
expenditure of about $35,900,
000 a day.
HALL AT EAGLE POINT
DESTROYED BY BLAZE
EARLY IS MORNING
Eagle Point, July 2?. Spt.)
Daley hall, a spacious one-story
frame structure, was burned to
th ground at 2 o'clock this
morning.
Volunteer firefighters saved
the church just east of tha hall.
The state forest patrol at Med
ford sent two crews and two
pumpers, but the hall was
doomed by tha time they arriv
ed at 2:20 a. m.
Cause of the fire was not de
termined. The building, for
merly used by the Eagle Point
Grange and once utilized as a
store, has been empty of late.
The place was owned by Mrs.
Alice Daley. It was under
stood that no insurance was car
ried. The building was 13 or
20 years old.
Ben Klngery. who resides
across the street from tha hall,
was th first to discover tha
fire. He was awakened by th
flames and the crackling of tha
burning timbers.
DELAY LOOMS IN
FEHL'S HEARING
Salem, July 23. 'J.S Diffi
culty in securing a Judge to
hear th habeas corpus request
of former Jackson County Judge
Earl H. Fehl, now In th state
hospital, may delay th hearing
scheduled for July 30, Arthur
Benson, clerk of th supreme
court, said today.
Chief Justice John L. Rand
Is now on a combination busi
ness and pleasure trip In easV
vrn Oregon and Benron has so
far been unable to get in touch
with him.