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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
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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
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to make their way to Swizer
land or ports in the unoccupied
zone of France.
Comparatively few of these
men have been entering Switz
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any French soldiers fleeing
from nazi prison camps. Anxi
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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.
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WHEAT HELD UP
IN STORAGE TO
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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.
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Portland, Ore.. July 24. (JP)
A shift in administration of
the Oregon State college coop
erative extension service ap
proved by the state board of
higher education today made
William L. Teutsch assistant di
rector - and Charles W. Smith
county agent leader.
Both positions had been held
by Frank L. Ballard, elevated
to the presidency July 1.
Teutsch and Smith have been
assistant county agent leaders.
Personnel changes and new
appointments included the fol
lowing: Southern Oregon College of
Education: Sabbatical leave for
Miss Ollie Depew, assistant pro
fessor of English: sabbatical
lastra for TJ W McNeal. SSjiSt-
ant professor of geography.
Philip Brooks Dies
Portland, July 24. IP) Philip
Ranney Brooks. 64, well-known
northwest lumberman and own
er of the Pilot Butte inn at
Bend, Ore., died at his home
here today.
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