Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 24, 1940, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940. PRISONER CALM AS DATE-HEARS FORJECUTION Reporter Finds Slayer of Wheeler Co. Miner Ready to Die in Gas Chamber By Richard Appleaate U.P. Staff Correspondent Salem, July 24. U.R) Today f talked to a man who Is about to die. On Friday, barring a possible but improbable appeal, Claude E. Cllne, 46-year-old father of two children, will be executed In the state'! gas chamber for the murder of his mining part ner, George Chetty, 33, In Wheeler county. When I walked up to him in his cell In death row, Cllne was writing to his 19-year-old daughter In Nebraska. A neat pile of correspondence was on his narrow prison cot. He was making his last preparations. Family In Mid-Watt. . He has already written to his 17-year-old son. His wife, from whom he is divorced, his father and mother and two brothers and two sisters also live in the middle west. He has had one letter from them. He did' not want to pose for picture and he did not want the names of his family pub lished. "I would like to spare Ihem that." he said. He does not believe any of them will be here to talk to him before he dies. Cline is ready to die. He does not want to die, but he has made his peace with God. "I feel much better than the last time you talked to me," he told me. "Last Sunday I made my confession and took the last supper, after Rev. Erik sen (Rev. P. W. Erlksen of the American Lutheran church and one of the prison chaplains) had baptized me. Feels "Wonderful." "I feel wonderful now. I am ready to take what's com ing to me. I have made up my mind and I feel much bet ter. "I wish you would say for me that I hold no grudge gainst any man. God bless them all. I particularly want to thank the penitentiary of ficials. They have been very kind. ' "I sit here and think about death. I suppose everybody has thought about how he would act If he were ever to be exe cuted. I had thought about it from time to time when I was younger, idly. I didn't think It would ever happen to me, and now here I am. I had raver been In trouble before In my life, before this happened. "I don't mind dying. I don't think most people do. The hor rible thing about it is to sit here in this cell (the cell Is a tiny one) and know that I am going to die at a certain time. But I've talked to God and I'm ready to go if I have to." Stork Brings Five Babiea In Year For Dad on WPA Kanusas City, July 24. JP) Five children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. James Perry in less than a year. Twins arrived at the Gen eral hospital today. Triplets Joyce, Janet and Janice were born last August 17. At home also are Barbara Lea Perry, 4, and James Per ry, Jr., 3 years old. Another set of twins was born to the couple two years ago, but lived only a few days. The new boys and their 26-year-old mother are "doing w e 1 1," hospital attendants said. Perry Is a WPA worker. F T OVER LINE Underground Railway En ables Flight Through German-Held Areas at Night New York, July 24. VP) Tobacco Road, the play that left the critics cold and then pro ceeded to shatter every length-of-run record In Broadway annals, is closing next month. When they ring down the cur tain at the Forrest theater Aug. 17, Jack Kirkland's dramatiza tion of Erskine Caldwell's novel about po' white trash will have completed 2,847 Broadway per formances in six years and nine months. I The only other comparable record was that set by Abie's Irish Rose which had 530 fewer showings. The Broadway run has grossed about $2,500,000; the road com panies $3,000,000. By Charles S. Folts. Jr. Bern, Switzerland, July 24. (P) Making use of an "under ground railway," said to be spreading slowly through France in all directions, 13 French sol diers reached the Swiss fron tier before dawn today, still bearing arms after a month's flight through German-occupied regions. The soldiers, led by a captain and a lieutenant, said they were part of a company which split into small groups and started for Switzerland when hemmed in by the Germans near Metz June 10 a few days before the armistice. Like other isolated groups of French, Polish and English sol diers who have drifted across the border in recent weeks, the fugitives said they traveled mostly at night on their 120 mile Journey. They surrender ed their arms to a Swiss patrol after crossing the frontier near Porrentruy. Thousands Go South. The story of their flight co incided with reports of other travelers that thus far the Ger mans have been unable to pre vent night movements of thous ands of French soldiers seeking f,:t p$UefV m CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 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Comparatively few of these men have been entering Switz erland, but tens of thousands were said to have traveled southward through what the French newspaper Le Temps calls "the Chinese wall" sepa rating the occupied and un occupied French regions. The Petaln government was said to have ordered its guards to assist the Germans in keep ing out of the unoccupied zone any French soldiers fleeing from nazi prison camps. Anxi ety over food supplies and agi tators was believed to have dictated the Vichy government's order. The Germans were said to be concentrating their efforts on keeping escaped war prisoners out of the channel ports where nazis are reported preparing to attack England. Crawford Films Barred. Melbourne, Australia, July 24. (IP) The commonwealth film censor today banned two Holly wood movies. They are "Susan and God," starring Joan Craw ford and Frederic March, and "Strange Cargo," in which Miss Crawford appears opposite Clark Gable. No reason was given. IMMnAt OS OINMU MOTOII VA1UI Oat Mall Tnbuna want ad. WHEAT HELD UP IN STORAGE TO MJUKl Millions of Bushels Unsold Grain Pile Up in Elevators As Result of Federal Acts By Franklin Mullln. Chicago, July 24. Mil lions of bushels of unsold new wheat are piling up in the na tion's elevators and warehouses the result of government measures designed to prevent a severe price decline during the harvest period. Trade experts estimated to day that the hoard already may exceed 300,000.000 bushels. In addition, the experts said, there remained in storage almost 300.000,000 bushels of old wheat, sufficient for domestic requirements for five months. Price Low Now. The wheat price at present is several cents lower than the price the government will pay in the form of a loan, but is about 13 cents higher than year ago. How much wheat eventually will be put up as collateral for government loans will depend on the course of prices. Re establishment of more normal international trade, now throt tled by war, would have an Important bearing on the price trend. The storage program is an important phase of the govern ment's ever-normal granary sys tem. Thousands of farmers re call their profitable experience of last season when they bor rowed government funds on more than 160,000,000 bushels at an average of 70 cents a bushel, and sold at prices rang ing in some cases to more than 20 cents above loan rates, due to the war and crop scare boom. Trade estimates of the amount of wheat placed in storage since harvest began ranged up to 90 per cent in some local ities. With harvest uncomplet ed, the problem of storage space looms ever larger, particularly in localities where the glut is large. Closing time lor Too Late to Clas sify Ads U - 80 p m. Dm Mill Tribune want ads. 10 AT IE GET SABBATICAL LEAVE Portland, Ore.. July 24. 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