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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940.
No. 107.
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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.