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.The Weather roreratt: liicn.nff cloa4 Imm lonljht and Friday i cooler Friday. TtMuperatur Hljhert yesterday . IT Loet thli morning ., , M Try Advertising To mar etelj tptn upoa the CUwIlltd aotumna at this nwptl to take car af yaor want promptly and at a "ar mall coat. Thoaaand of eyas ara oa (hit paa dally. Try advert Ulnf. Medford Tftbune Full Associated Press Pull f Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940. No. 107. i mi usv mm ran Jl Washington, D. C, July 25. There is a possibility that Ore gon will be the outstanding na tional park state, with more na tional parks than others, making Oregon a Mecca for tourists. In addition to Crater Lake na tional park, a bill has been draft ed by the national park service and sent to Senator Charles L. McNary to create a park area on the rugged, picturesque coast of Curry county. The third pros pective park is Hell's Canyon, where Snake river winds along Wallowa county, the gash being deeper than that of famed Grand Canyon of the Colorado. This would make three parks; no other state has more than two. Although there is conisderable opposition against the Hell's Canyon ' proposal, in Curry county, everyone is boosting for the seashore national park. It required several years for Sam Boardman, superintendent of state parks for Oregon, to sell the idea to national park offic ials, but once the suggestion was laid on the desk of Mr. Roose velt he favored it immediately. Secretary Ickes, overlord of the park system, is keen for it, for aside from a few acres on the coast of Maine, no national park on a seashore has been created. When the government acquires the acreage it will proceed to develop it with accommodations for visitors, such as a lodge. a CTOCKMEN In Wallowa county "resent the idea of a park in the Hell's Canyon region as it would interfere with grazing Senator McNary, h o w a v e r. thinks the grazing question can ba adjusted and provided for in such legislation as is presented to authorize creation of a na tional park. Scenically and his torically the Wallowa county "rates." If the present session trickles along until January, the Curry county bill may be presented this year, otherwise next year In the new congress. WHAT kind of a political cam- " paign Is In the offing can bej (Continued on Page Eight.) LI THIRD TERM FOES Portland, July 25. (Ft Op position - against President Roosevelt's candidacy for a third term simmered among some Oregon Democrats today, and publicly reached the "boil ing point" among a few. Dellmore Lessard, Portland attorney, led the dissenters by resigning as the Willamette Democratic society's program chairman and calling a meet ing of Democrats to organize support for the Republican ticket of Wendell Willkle and Senator, McNary. Lessard said six leading Dem ocrats alreadv have authorized listing as Willkie-McNary sup porters. SIDE GLANCES TRIEUNE REPORTERS Colonel Harvey Fletcher pay ing a surprise visit to the CCC swimming school and finding the boys doing right well. The Junior Walt Kresse doing a remarkably satisfactory job of substituting at a women's du- nitrate hririffe uuion. the ladies being very gentlemanly toward him. Bruce McKay staying close to home on his natal day, thus avoiding any traditional, boyish observance of his birthday by his fellow MT carriers. Frank Farrell and Fred Schef fel playing hide-andeek with a street Improvement petition form. SAFETY Vessel With 1,300 Aboard DAiin1 UnmA Cpaiti Pnfl . UUUIIU IIUIIIC I I VIII wijj i land Sunk Near Coast Br the Associated Press. London, July 25. (IP) Ger man air raiders swarmed In on British shipping and inland ob jectives today while the ad miralty announced that a fast nazi torpedo boat last night had torpedoed and sunk the French ship Meknes near Eng land's Portland naval base. The Meknes was carrying 1,300 French officers and men home to France for repatria tion, the admiralty said, and it is feared 300 of them were lost. Passengers and crew were given five minutes to take to the lifeboats. Guaraniaa Violated. The British Press association said it understood the Meknes had been guaranteed safe pas sage by the Germans. One group of 950 survivors. 15 of them seriously injured were landed at a south port this afternoon. Early today about 80 planes swooped down upon one merchant convoy off the south east coast, inviting a battle which a British witness said made the air "alive -with air craft." Broken up and chased back across the channel, the Ger mans resumed the attack later and were reported over an other area- on the southeast coast. An eyewitness said the noise resembled "continuous rumbl ing thunder." One German bomber crashed late today in a field near a southwest village after a fight with a British plane. The Ger man crewmen escaped by para chute and were captured. It was the sixth raider brought down today. London, July 25. (IP) The British air force, in repeated attacks against Germany and German-occupied countries, has made it "extremely difficult" for the reich to organize mass attacks on Britain from exist ing airdromes and bases she "hoped to establish" just across the English channel and the North sea, an informed British source said today. More than 1.000 British at tacks in the last three months have "to a great extent suc ceeded in breaking down the "H!T?.German; h0??. wou,?;her son today on $10,000 bail culminate in devastating at tacks on these islands follow- ing her sweeping victories" on me continent, it was stated. i Mar Explain Delay. The British report, taken at face value, might at least par tially explain the mystery of Hitler's delay in launching his long-threatened blitzkrieg on Britain. Another possible reason was advanced by the London Daily Telegraph. Quoting "the most reliable neutral sources." the newspaper said a serious dif ference of opinion among Hit ler's advisers was holding up the projected Invasion. Hitler Aide Denounces U. S. For Discriminatory Tactics Berlin, July 23. UPt Adolf i nomic plan now under discussion cial trains and automobiles roll Hitler's minister of economics j in Havana, and, in effect, warned ' ed Into Eugene today carrying Walther Funk, today attacked ' South America it would be boy Moose lodge delegates to open the United States for what he jotted if it entered any such Ing sessions of the state and termed Its discriminatory tactics1. United American front arrange-1 twenty-fifth anniversary confer- against Germany, disparaged ef - forts to evolve a Pan-American plan of economy and ridiculed the United States' vast stores of ' gold as useless. Sneaking to the foreign press, Funk said: If all the gold now accumu- lated in the United States were Uken on some island and that island disappeared, world econ - omv would not suffer." Funk raid he had a low cpin I ion of the Pan-American ceo- "Keep Your Qiin Up Mama" -wa--aMr...: .--a-.-. lXi, It took a Utile vie presidential chucking Is keep an almost tearful Mrs. Garner's chin up at union station In J . Waihington. D. C, as the Garners lafi for their Uvalde. Tax., jhome. Asked whether ha would return io the capital, the .jvic president replied: "I'll reserve my decision en that. I nazi l i i i ... ... i . . . i ii a a a laaaas wno waul unit his mind." Divine Messengers of'U Am" Cited in Mail Fraud Conspiracy By Arthur Whltnef United Press Staff Correspondent Los Angeles, July 25. (UP) The "divine messengers" of the cult, "I am," today found themselves in extensive, earthly trouble with the United States government for the alleged per petration of a $3,000,000 mail fraud. A federal grana jury iaie yes terday indicated 24 leaders of "I Am" in a bill listing 23 counts of mail fraud conspiracy. The government charped that the cult represented itself as a charity organization, but, In fact, ooerated to defraud those who contributed to it by means of large salaries, bonuses and un usually high living expenses. Mrs. Edna W. Ballard, repre sented variously as "Joan of Arc," "Jesus" and "St. Ger main," and her son, Donald, known to the congregation as "Lafayette," had operated the organization since the death in 1939 of its founder, Guy W. Ballard, the indictment said. "I accept the challenge of the United States government to show the divine truth of the mighty 'I Am' presence," Mrs. Ballard declared as her attorney prepared to surrender her and 'We ask the public to withhold judgment until it has heard the trutn of thi, ,aw A ,, rhrg that members were recruited through "hynotic control." "Many were caused to reach such a high state of emotion alism that they were willing to travel far distances at great ex pense under the hope and ex pectation they would view physi cal appearances of the alleged masters of the divine entities," the indictment said. Among other means of raising revenue, it was charged, the cult sold a book teaching the attain ment of "self-immortality." l ment. He also warned the United ! States to abandon its idea of j "forcing economic conditions on Germany. "We don't need North Ameri- can mediation." he said. r unx assertea it was up to me ; United States itself to decide whether, and to what extent, lt 1 will trade with Europe after the i war. but it must abandon the. 'ldri it can force its economic terms upon Germany or Europe. in aai 11 11 iiuia iv . nui up TO FACE TRIAL BEFORE SPECIAL ARMY COURT Vichy France, July 25. UP) A special tribunal will be set up to try former Premier Ed ouard Daladier and other for mer government leaders, for responsibility for France's en try into war and for her de feat, it was indicated today. Establishment of the tribunal can be expected shortly, it was indicated, and some journal ists may be tried along with the government leaders. A military court will look into the cases of men who were in the armed forces at the time of incurring alleged responsi bilities for the war. They will be investigated for responsi bility tor the unsuccessful mili tary leadership. The press began a special build-up for the trial today just two days after arrival of Daladier,. several of his for mer aides and members of parliament at Marseille from French Morocco, whither they sailed just before signing of the French-German armistice, These men are now confined to Marseille under orders of Mar shal Philippe Petain's govern ment. MOOSE DELEGATIONS ARRIVING IN EUGENE Eugene. July 25. IIP) Spe- 'ence of the Northwest Moose es- social ion. IX-ipgatrs from British Col. 1 umbia, Nevada, Montana. Ida- no, Washington and Oregon rrg istrred for preliminary meet , ingj. Trail Olrl to Wed. Reno, Nev July 25. UPt Marriage licenses Isstied at Reno: Robert R. Coble. 22. i Klamath Falls. Ore., and Bcttie I L. Ash, SO, Trail, Ore. E SOLIDARITY HAS ARGENTINE FAVOR Doubtful Nation of Pan American Conference Would Keep Status Quo Br J. C. Stark Havana. July 25. (IP) Ar-1 gentina. the big question mark of the Pan-American conference on hemisphere defense, indl cated today a desire to retain the spirit of inter-American solidarity. Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, said his country was ready to present four projects on the following subjects: 1. Foreign possessions. 2. Inter-American neutrality and security zone. 3. Protection of children. . . 4. Coordination of defense measures. The proposals, he said, are couched in language showing Argentine wishes to maintain the present status of a unified hemisphere. A new United States proposal dealing with the meance of "fifth column" activities in the Americas was also disclosed as the conference awaited the text of the Argentine project This proposal, a companion to an earlier proposal aimed at diplomatic and consular - offic ials, was described - as more sweeping In character and de signed to form a solid Ameri can front against foreign at tempts to subvert domestic ac tivities, foment disorder or set up a non-American system of government in any . American area. Under the proposed resolu tion, the Americas would make suppression of such activities a common concern, warn eacn other of any foreign threat and consult fully on all measures. 1,000 BRITISH YOUNG COMING TO AMERICA New York, July 25. UP) A thousand British children from poor and well-to-do homes alike are destined to leave within the next few weeks in uncon voyed ships for the safety of the United States. The United States commit tee for the care of European children said a blanket author ization for the transfer had been Issued by the state de partment upon assurance .the children would not become pub lic charges. Those selected are to be taken in the order they are found on a list of some 200.000 registered for mass evacuation. Committee Chairman Marshall Field said British authorities were instructed to make cer tain that those selected repre sent a cross-section of English families. BY ITALIAN PLANES Alexandria, Egypt, July 25 'Pt Italian planes, using incen diary bombs for the first time, raided this British naval base for an hour today. One person was killed and seven injured. The bombs, missing military objectives, fell In native resi dential districts. Numerous homes were set afire. The British struck back with "hloh v ..r,,l" a r ra -- on 50 grounded Italian planes at D"na, Eastern Libya. Berlin, July 25. (AP by ra dio) The executive committee of the Breton National council has decided that Brittany shall break away from France and be come a national state, the Ger man radio announced tonight. The broadcast was bssed on a dispatch from Paris which seid that the council had decided on the break "at (iven time." OIL, SCRAP METAL AS DEFENSE AID President Signs Order Ex tending Export License Halt Oil Cargoes for Spain Washington, July 25.- President Roosevelt today added petroleum and petroleum pro ducts, scrap iron and other scrap metal to the list of com modities aubiect to nnajcihl am- bargo. He signed an order subject ing these to a system of export licensing, should it be deemed necessary, soon after Secretary Morgenthau confirmed stoppage of two shipments of oil to Spain. The other amended procla mation and regulations Issued last July 2 designed to keep in this country materials essen tial to the national defense. The law these regulations Im plemented provided legal au thority for the control of ex ports of munitions, materials, and machinery needed for de fense. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, said the order did not mean an embargo was being placed on these products but that the authority merely was being provided to control ship ments to other countries. While Morgenthau would sup ply no reasons for the oil ship ment stoppages, it was learned elsewhere that a virtual embar go already had been established to prevent the oil from reach ing Germany and Italy through Spain. Approximately 200,000 bar rels of oil were aboard two tankers whose sailing from a Texas port was halted a few days ago by maritime commis sion. London, July 25. UP) Great Britain has taken steps to halt oil shipments to Germany through fascist Spain, thereby plugging a troublesome new gap in her blockade of the reich, It . was reported today. Britain s blockade sprung new leaks with the fall of France and one of the most im portant threats to Britain was the flow of oil, llfeblood of mod ern mechanized war, through General Franco's nationalist Spain. There now are direct land routes from Germany across France to Spain, giving Ger many indirect use of innumer able Spanish ports which be fore the fall of France were use less to her. GASOLINE CONSUMPTION SETS RECORD IN OREGON Salem, July 25. UP) Gaso line consumption In Oregon during June set an all-time monthly record of 28,145.739 gallons, a 24 per cent increase over that of June, 1939, Secre tary of State Earl Snell said today. Food Supply Dwindling Fast In French Unoccupied Zone 'By Charles S. Foils, Jr. Basel, Switzerland, July 25. (IP) Rapid dwindling of food supplies in that part of France not under Nazi occupation has led even the censored press there to report "the fate of France for months to come is in the hands of the German armis tice commission at Wiesbaden, not the government at Vichy." But those same newspapers hnld out hnoe the Germana anon wll, food mppUel to r. . . .. rr move ireeiv from me occunleo to the refugee-swollen unoccu pied zone. Other sources, however, as sert the tragedy of this hope Is that the German-held areas ap parently ar very little better off, and soon may be in worse condition, than the southern zone. Farmers and Inhabitants of rural villages have been the first to feel the pinch, rather than residents of big cities and towns. BASEBALL American R. H. E. Boston 4 8 0 Chicago 6 11 1 Bagby, Mustalkls and Glenn; Knott, Brown and Treah. R. H. E. Washington 2 9 3 Detroit 5 8 1 Leonard, Carrasquel and Fer rell; Newhouser, McKain and TebbetU. R. 7 8 H. 11 10 Philadelphia Cleveland .. Ross and Hayes; Harder, Al len and Pytlak, Hemsley. National H. 8 0 Pittsburgh . New York , Sewell and Davis, Lopez, Fer nando; Schumacher and Dan ning. R. H. E. Chicago 8 13 2 Boston 4 9 3 Lee, Root and Hartnett; Salvo, Javery and Berres. L AIR WAVE CARRIES RELIEF TO TORRID AREA Br the Associated Press The prolonged heat wave showed signs of cracking today as a mass of cool air advanced from the northwesW' Cooler air began " moving eastward last night, bringing re lief to Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, and parti of Minne sota. Forecasters said the air mass would overspread the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region by tomorrow night and should be felt all the way to the Atlantic seaboard by Sat urday. Thunder showers promised temporary relief today for. most of the mlddlewest and much of the east. Temperatures, how ever, remained abnormally high from the Rockies to the Atlan tic. At least 338 deaths were at tributed directly or Indirectly to the torrid spell, more than a week old in some sections. There were 131 heat fatalities and 207 drownings. In addition more than a half dozen persons were killed by lightning. Most of the heat deaths were recorded In the middle west. Illinois had 24, Minnesota and Pennsylvania 18 each, Michigan 15, Ohio and Wisconsin 12 each. $1,000 FLIVVER PLANE AUTO MAGNATE'S PLAN Detroit, July 23. 4U.PJ Prep arations for production of a new all-metal "fllwer plane" designed eventually to sell for $1,000, are being made here with backing by Fred J. Fisher, eldest of the family of Fisher brothers and a founder of Fish er corporation, it was disclosed today. In Alsace, hand-picked groups of farmers, taken back to their homes by the Germans, still ar being fed and supplied by the German army of occupation. In the great central northeastern section, overrun by refugees and demobilized troops, food already is at a premium. Farmers sent back to work their land were reported In some cases to have returned to the cities within a few days. "We cannot plow on empty stomachs," said one who came to the Swiss frontier seeking food. Independent economic experts In Switzerland say Germany soon may be forced to draw on her own food stocks to feed the French. If England still is block ading the continent by winter these sources report, all of France's millions may be de pendent on axis aid and relief from such outside agencies as the American Red Cross. REFUSED PAROLE BY STATE BOARD Action Taken After Routine Appearance of Pair of Jackson County Slayers Salem, Ore., -July 25. (U.B a Lewellyn A. Banks, former Med ford newspaper publisher con victed of killing a constable dura ing Medford's "good govern ment" trouble, has been refused parole by the state parol board. Fred Flnsley, director of pa. role and probation, said Bank had appeared before the board and his case was continued for at least a year. The continuance) was "purely routine," Finsley id. He said that a new psya chiatric report will be made in Banks' case before he appears again. This also will be routine) procedure, Flnsley pointed out. Try Again la Tear Albert W. Reed, who also was convicted of killing a southern Oregon policeman Victor Knott of Ashland was also refused a parole. He, like Banks, will make another routine appeara ance before the board next year. Appearances before the parol board are routine under the gova ernor s review policy lnaugua rated by the last legislature. Every prisoner Is given a review In rotation, according to th length of his Incarceration. AS ASSISTANT TO Washington, July 23. W) Louis Johnson has resigned aa assistant secretary of war, the) Whit House announced today. President Roosevelt immedi ately nominated Robert Porte Patterson of New York to suca ceed him. Patterson has been a judge of the aecond circuit court of ana peals In New York since March) 21, 1939. Mr. Roosevelt expects shortly to offer Johnson a post as ad mlnlatrative assistant to the) president, designating him as hi) progress reporter on the ana tire national defense program. White House Secretary St phen T. Early disclosed that Johnson submitted his reslgnaa tlon yesterday. His withdrawal was in conformance with the tra dition that a cabinet member may choose his own assistant secretaries. Johnson was a hold over from the cabinet service of former Secretary of War Harry Woodring. The new secretary of war, Henry L. Stlmson, exercised hi right to select his own first as slstant, and Johnson's resign, tlon followed. , K. F. MAN MISSING ON UPPER LAKE Klamath Falls. July 25. Sheriffs officers today set out on the western shore of upper Klamath Lake to look for Ralph M. Pray, local Insurance man, missing in that area. R. F. McLaren, his fishing partner, told authorities Pray had left him at Howard Bay yea terday and set out In canvas boat with an outboard motor to go to Rocky Point a few mile north to get more hooks. Mo La re n waited until sundown be fore hiking out to catch a rid to town and notify officers. No report had been mad by Sheriff Lloyd Low and his of ficers by mid afternoon. Salem. Ore., July 23. (UJ0 a The unemployment com pens tion commission today informed Oregon labor leaden none of Hs representatives- ar authorized to discuss changes in the unem ployment compensation law.
