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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940.
No. 108.
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Washington, D. C. July 26.
Sixty million pounds of alum
inum annually will be the pro
duction of the Aluminum Com
pany of America's plant on the
Columbia river at Vancouver,
Wash. This, according to com
pany representatives, will be
when the plant's initial capacity
is doubled and contract for the
needed additional energy has
already been made. Aluminum
people do not speak of produc
tion in tons always in pounds,
and that sounds more impres
sive. It is expected that the plant j
will start production in a few
weeks-in September-and will
build up a Pernnel o, 600
workers. Eventually the enter
prise will furnish employment
for 1500, all drawn from the
Vancouver area, but with key
men furnished by the various
other plants of Alcoa. These key
men will instruct and break in
new men who will become fore
men when efficient.
.
INHERE is possibility that
the war will upset plans of
Alcoa and It is within the range
of possibility that the United
States may go to war to defend
Dutch Guiana from seizure by
Herr Hitler.. Dutch Guiana is
the principal source of supply
of. raw .material which event
ually emerges from the Van
couver plant in pig bars. This
material is bauxite, a sort of
clay.
Up river 150 miles steam
shovels are mining bauxite. The
clay Is broken into pieces as
large as a grapefruit, and dried.
Fifty steamers are shuffling
back and forth between the
mine up the river and a pro
cessing plant in a southern city.
Mostly the boats are wooaen
tubs built at Hog Island during
the first world war and make
about 10 knots an hour. This
large fleet is kept moving to
accumulate as large a stock of
the bauxite as possible for any
thing may happen.
KERE is a bauxite deposit in
Arkansas richer than that of
Dutch Guiana, but the alum-
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F
YEAR AGO TODAYi
The whims of Nature were 11-
hist rated in a comparison of to
day's temperature with that of
a year ago.
A year ago today Medford suf
fered from a dehydrating heat of
108 degrees, only two lower
than the all-time recorded maxi-
mum temperature of 110 de
grees. Today, in contrast, the
mercury was able to get up to
only 73 degrees by 2:30 with
the prospect the day's maximum
would not be much above 76.
The highest yesterday was 85.
Official forecast was for show
ers tonight and tomorrow.
SIDE GLANCES
br
TRIE UN E REPORTERS
Cappy Billy Driscoll being a
trifle too late with his request noter. will Introduce Senator
to insert two simple words in McNary at the vice presidential
the sports page story about the notification ceremony at Salem,
CCC swim school's closing exer-1 Ralph H. Cake, Oregon's Re
cises tomorrow night, the words . publican national committee
being "weather permitting." I man, said today.
I The ceremony will be held
Ruth Tye. blushing prettily ! either August 28, 29 or 30,
and admitting she was getting cKe a()ded.
practice keeping house for that i !
date In Septembc I SPANISH EDITOR SEES
E. E. (Mai McKinney bravely fJRAB FUTURE FOR U. S.
and manfully cooking his own
meals in the absence oi nis tei-
ter half, and even eating what
he prepared,
Frankie Clark, nursemaid for
the Rialto bear, agreeing that
tK. ...w i. h.rri.r in h.nHi. than
Tony Galcnto.
FINAL SECTIONS
FIX PENALTY FOR
DRAFTJDGERS
Five Years in Prison, $10,
000 Fine for Evaders
To Senate Next Week
Washington, July 26. JP)
The first peacetime conscription
bill in American history was
completed today by the senate j
military committee for consider
ation by the senate early next
week.
Chairman Sheppard (D-Tex.)
said the committee would vote
officially on the legislation Tues-
i , mnniifia onH YiroHir-tfH there
,d be no dissentirlg votes.
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committee
Poud , Ities of live
would impose penalties
years in prison and $10,000 in
fines for "draft dodgers" or those
convicted of aiding them.
Director Created
The committee also authorized
creation of the office of "director
of selective service" to handle
details of the vast proposal for
registering all men between 18
and 63 years, inclusive and train
ing part of them.
Mayor Fiorello H. Laguardia
of New York city told the house
military affairs committee mean
while, that he favored calling
high school graduates for mili
tary training before ordering
men in the 18-to-25 year old
class.
Other details of the same bill
occupied the senate military
committee.
Three amendments were
agreed on to protect the civilian
jobs of men in the ranks.
The first provides that any
employer, now subject to the
Wagner labor relations act,
would be guilty of unfair labor
practice if he wilfully refused to
reinstate a demobilized con
script. Under this section, a con
victed employer could be com
pelled to reinstate a conscript
with back pay.
Portland, July 26. UFi The
state public welfare commission
planned today to approve new
old age assistance grants begin
ning October 1.
Chairman Jack Luihn an
nounced that the counties would
complete reinvestigation of
4000 applications received since
November, 1939, would be given
aid.
The commission said cases
had been reduced from a high
of 21.000 to 19.000, largely
jtrir0ugh deaths, and that others
would be removed by reinvesti
gation.
The state's whole welfare
program, the commission said,
is operating on a revenue deficit
although it still is within ap
propriations. STASSEN TO INTRODUCE
M'NARY AT CEREMONY
Portland. July 26.' Gov.
Harold Stassen of Minnesota,
Republican convention key
. .. , , 26. TJ.P' The
rl p.hi
, . rciiiKu, iitn,,, -
nredicted today the collapse ofinonnern nitrate port, hardest
the United States i a nation
and asserted that the skyscrap-
' ers of New York "will soon b
'. covered with moss as a pathetic!
j example to centuries to come."
Ship -Plane Battle Rages Off North Irish Coast'
WaUace has Chummy Chat I
- '.) ( r
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (leil). Demo
cratic vice-presidential nominaa. had a chummy chat in Chi
cago with William Settle (right), of Pairelaum, Ind., chairman
of tha national committee for agriculture. En route from Dat
Moines to Washington. . Wallace laid agriculture wat prepared
for war and lit consequence!.
Wallace To Leave Post for
Active Political Campaigning
Washington, July 26. 0P) Secretary Wallace said today he
planned to resign or take a leave of absence without pay
from his cabinet post as soon as he begins active political
campaigning for the vice-presidency.
In a formal statement, nal-
lace said charges that the de
partment's farm program organ
ization could be used as a "sort
of political machine" in the
coming election disclosed an
"amazing ignorance" of the
manner In which the program
was carried out.
He declared that In the case
of the agricultural adjustment
administration, regulations gov
erning millions of dollars In
payment to farmers for the
1940 crop year were drafted
months ago and the extent of
the Individual farmer's partici
pation determined the size of
his check.
"Nothing that the secretary
of agriculture does now can
affect the amount of that pay
ment," Wallace added.
He said he would begin cam
paigning shortly after he Is
formally notified, in late Au
gust, of his nomination by the
Democratic convention. . .
FOR W.L WILLKIE
Colorado Springs, Colo., July
28. 'U.Ri District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
defeated by Wendell L. Willkie
for the Republican presidential
nomination, will take the stump
for Willkie when the campaign
starts.
Willkie announced today that
Dewey forces were pledged to
him "100 per cent" and that
the New York prosecutor would
speak for him during the cam
paign "in those western and
midwestern states where Dewey
is most popular and effective."
HILLSIDES TUMBLE ON
CHILEAN MINING PORT
Antofaeasta. Chile. July 26.
IPi Sandy hillsides loosened by
heavy rains came tumbling
down on settlements In Chile's
rich nitrate mining region yes
terday, causing more than a
! hundred deaths.
A aurvev hnwH T.nr.ni.
- -
j hit with most of tha casualties
in that region.
j The La Despreciada copper
mine was destroyed. Hundreds
j of persons lost their homes.
WESTERN PARKS GET
VACT10NERS BARRED
EUROPE BY
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wasningion, juiy zo. u.r;
Vacationing Americans, banned
from traveling to Europe by the
war, are flocking to western na
tional parks in record numbers,
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes said today.
Twice as many tourists visited
Mt. Rainier National Park,
Wash., this June as in June last
year. In June, 1939, 20,046 per
sons visited the park. Last month
there were 47.893. Travel to
Crater Lake Park. Ore., rose
from 28.878 In June, 1939, to
30.374 this June. Kings Canyon,
Calif., had an increase from 23,
043 to 27,164. Olympic National
Park, Wash., reported an in
crease from 4,865 to 18.157.
Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park in North Carolina
and Tennessee had the most vis
itors for the month, 128,533
against 81,342 for the same
month last year.
FOUR-CHILD FAMILY
- Cambridge, Mass., July 26.
(U.R) Prof. Carle C. Zimmer
man, Harvard sociologist, said
today that mothers must aver
age four children each if the
United States Is to remain a
first-rate power.
This would eliminate the two
child family idea of about two-
'thirds of the nations 30,000.000
Ifamlllra he tnlrl the New F.n.
land conference on tomorrow's
children.
FALSE TEETH STRANGLE
MAN IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Babhlon. N. Y July 26. UP)
Abraham Grawmow, 93, stran
gled to death today after swal
lowing his false tth In a minor
auto accident. Ha died en route
'to a hofpiUL
THIRD PARTY FOR
WILLI SUPPORT IN GAS CHAMBER
TALKEDJUOIMFOR SLAYING TWO
Republican Nominee to Make Claude E. Cline Goes to
Aggressive Campaign for
Votes in Dixie Is Word
By William B. Ardery
Colorado Springs, Colo., July
26. (IP) Word circulated
l among rvenaeil Li. wuiKies as
I jsociates today that an effort
might be made to form a new
party to support him In the
Democratic south. Willkie said
he would make "an aggressive
campaign" for southern votes.
Authoritative reports were
that Willkie managers were con
sidering the formation of a third
party which would permit Dem
ocrats to retain their party reg
istration and at the same time
vote for the Republican candi
date. "Democratic Union Party"
and "Democratic Unity Party"
were titles mentioned as pos
sibilities. To Work In South
At a press conference, Willkie
told reporters he would work
aggressively for southern votes.
He added that he had received
Wnany letters front that section
pledging support.
The Republican nominee,
pleased with his reception on
a flying speaking tour through
Wyoming and Utah, released a
new list of persons who had
messaged their support.
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge,
former under secretary of the
treasury in the new deal admin
istration, telegraphed:
"I give you my wholehearted
support in your campaign. An
end must be made of centralized
power, personal rule and uncon
trollable spending."
Willkie remarked that Presi
dent Roosevelt had commended
Coolidge and John W. Hanes,
another of his supporters, when
they left the administration.
"I am glad," he continued,
"that I am in this kind of com-
pany rather than that of the
Ha.u ,nd .. Kellv-Nashe.
DEATH OF LEAGUE
SEENBYAVENOL
Geneva, July 28. (IP) Jos
eph A. C. Avenol, Frenchman
who has been secretary-general
of the League of Nations since
July 1, 1933, announced his res
ignation today stating the "real
ities" of the present times made
his office no longer necessary.
Thus Avenol signed what may
well be the formal death sen
tence of the league as a political
body a death It has been dying
steadily since 1932, when Jap
an's armies were tent Into Man
churia. Avenol submitted his resigna
tion last night in telegram
sent to the governments of the
league member states.
FOR FARLEY JOB
Washington, July 26. (U.R
Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Mis
souri, one of President Roose
velt's close advisers, was report
ed today to have the "pole posi
tion" in the race for James A.
Farley's Job as postmaster gen
eral. Farley, whose resignation as
Democratic national committee
chairman takes effect August
17. may step out of tha presi
dent's cabinet at the end of
next week, friends said.
SUrk, a leader In the fight
to upset the Pendergatt political
i machine In Kansas City, has
I long been a close friend of Mr.
I Roosevelt
PROSPECTOR PAYS!
Death Calmly Slew Part
ners in East Oregon Mine
Salem, July 26. (IP) Lethal
fumes wavering out of a little
crock beneath a steel chair end
ed the life of Prospector Claude
E. Cline. 46. slayer of two min
ing partners, in Oregon's state
prison gas execution chamber
today.
Cline. the second man to
breathe death In the. tiny, sealed
enclosure, paid with his life for
shooting George W. Chetty, 35.
of Xenia, Ohio, and hiding the
body In a shallow pit in eastern
Oregon sagebrush near remote
Spanish gulch. He also con
fessed killing and burying Eu
gene Rosenstiel of Portland but
was tried only tor cnetty s
slaying.
Calm at Last
Cline, silent and calm, passed
Into the chamber at 8:26 a. m..
and was strapped to the chair
three minutes later. - His head
was shaved and he wore only
shorts; a mask covered his face.
Prison attendants, pulled the
cords' at 8:30. dropping tha
deadly pellets Into the bowl of
acid. The fumes struck his face
In half a minute and physicians
listening at Instruments extend
ing outside the chamber wall
said he apparently was uncon
scious at 8:3 Hi and "certainly
unconscious" a minute later.
The doors of the chamber
were opened at 8:49, and the
body was removed at 9 a. m..
when Cline was officially pro
nounced dead.
Cline went to his death with
tiny crucifix in his hand.
Pausing briefly to talk with
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Portland, Ore.. July 26. (U.
The Lamm lumber company
In Klamath county was accused
of violating the federal wages
and hours law in a suit on file
here today.
Don Weathersbee, a tractor
mechanic and greaser for the
firm, seeks $1012.93 which he al
leges Is due him for labor In ex
cess of the 42 hour work week
provided by the law. He seeks
an equal amount in liquidated
damages and $350 In attorney's
fees. The case is the first of its
kind to be filed here.
Japan Will Investigate U. S.
Curb on Export of Oil, Iron
Tokyo, July 26. IIP) The
Japanese foreign office instruct
ed its ambassador to Washing
ton today to Investigate the
United States curb on oil and
scrap iron exports after a
spokesman had described Jap
anese reaction as likely to be
"very great."
Domei, Japanese news agen
cy, said that while the presi
dential order requiring licenses
for such exports "may be aimed
at Germany and Italy," It was
evident It also was "Intended to
curb Japan,"
The embassy, besides msking
a report on the licensing order,
was expected to urge that care
ful consideration be given the
question by the United States
In ordnr to prevent a worsening
of trade relations.
Yaklchlro Suma, foreign of
fice spokesman, said "our re
action will be very great" If
the presidential order Is tanta
mount to an embargo against
Japan.
(In Washington Preildentito tha Japanese?'
baseball I
American
R. H. E.
Washington 2 8 3
Cleveland 13 20 0
Montcagudo, Kraukauskas and
Early, Evans; Feller and Hems-
ley, Pytlak.
Score: R. H. E.
Philadelphia 7 11 1
Detroit 4 8 2
Caster and Wagner; Bridges,
Trout, Smith and Tebbetta.
National
R. H. S.
Pittsburgh 13 1
Boston 0 5 3
Heintzelman and Lopez; Pose
del. Strincevich, Williams and
Bcrres, Andrews.
R H E
Chicago 14 13 2
New York 17 1
French and Todd; Melton,
Dean and Danning, Odea.
TURTLEBACK OF CAR
Los Angeles, July 28. (U.R)
Police today took graying, shaky
Ralph W. Griggs, 45, Into the
desert where they believed ha
had slain his alleged mistress
two weeks ago with a single
blow from a sharp axe. Until
last night, when he was captured
he had been driving about with
the body in tha luggage compart
ment of his automobile.
Officers said he had admitted
killing the woman because "she
was going to leave me," but re
fused to say where he had slain
her. She was identified as Laura
Long, 33, estranged wife of John
Blanford Long, nlghtwatchman
on singer Al Jolson'i estate at
Van Nuys.
Griggs, a mechanic, was still
"fuzzy," police said. He had told
them that he had "been drunk
most of tha time" since tha flay
ing. He asked Ecke Hedln, a pass
erby, to drive his automobile to
a street corner where he wanted
to meet a man who would give
him soma money, Hedin said he
noticed a suspicious odor fol
lowing the automobile, and got
out and lifted up Its turtle back
He found the partly nuda, partly
decomposed body of the woman.
ANNA WONG'S SISTER
HANGS SELF IN GARAGE
Hollywood, July 26. (U.R)
Anna May Wong, Chinese act
ress, and her grief-stricken fam
ily were unable to explain the
suicide of the film player's sis
ter, Mary Wong, 25, the body
of whom was found hanging
from a garage rafter yesterday,
The actress collapsed when
she learned of the suicide, but
after composing herself could
offer no motive. "I have no
idea," she said.
Roosevelt signed an order re
quiring licenses hereafter for
export of oil and scrap metal.
Japan being the largest foreign
buyer of tha latter. Tha order
does not shut off such pur
chases, but enables the Ameri
can government to watch them
closely and shut them off when
ever it is deemed desirable).
Informed Japanese quarters
expect Japan to attempt to In
crease purchases of oil in The
Netherlands East Indies if an
American embargo I put into
effect.
, The newspaper Hochl In an
editorial on the Havana confer
ence today predicted failure of
what It called attempts ot tha
United States to organize a
"super bloc" of American na
tions. Hochl said that if South
America were to Join tha axis.
tha position of the United
States would be difficult. Then
I tha paper asked:
"Would this not be delightful
NAZI SPEEDBOATS
3 VESSELS
OFF SOUTH COAST
Heavy Losses Sustained by
Both Sides In Raids
Italians Bomb Gibraltar
Berlin, July 26. (IP) DNB.
the German news agency, said
tonight a fourth merchant ship
of 10,000 tons had been sunk off
Britain, bringing to 34.000 tons
the total tonnage sunk or set
afire by German planes and tor
pedo boats today.
(By Associated Press)
A blazing ship-plane battla
raged oft the north coast of
Ireland today the war's first
action there and - flashes ot
gunfire between tha surface
vessels and Nazi air raider
could be seen from the shore.
In another slashing raid on
British shipping, as reported by
Hitler's high command, Nazi
i peed boats sank three mer
chantmen totalling 22.000 tone
near Brighton, English south,
coast resort. .
Tha battle la north Irish
waters apparently started when
German planes, roving far from,
their home bases, attacked
convoy. - British R. A. F. fight-..,
era raced to tha rescue.
Gibraltar Bombed
Italian bombing planes hava
renewed attacks on Britain'
great rock fortress of Gibraltar
gateway sentinel of the Medi
terranean tha Fascist high
command said today.
Meanwhile, the German-con
trolled Holland radio was quot
ed as saying a Dutch - peaca
committee has appealed to Pres
ident Roosevelt "in the nam)
of humanity" to arrange at
peace conference.
Tha war In tha west started1
briskly again today ai Nazi
raiders droned over tha British,
Isles to be met by scrappy
British R. A. F. planes.
Farmer Nabs Pilot
One German plane dumped
its bomb load over a southeast
English town when pursued by
R. A. F. fighters, while another
sky Invader was shot down and)
three of its crew were killed.
An English farmer ran out and
captured the pilot.
Another flight of Nazi bomb
ers was chased off in southeast
England.
The British air ministry
counted 28 Nazi planes bagged
in yesterday's flaming aerial
battles the biggest day haul
in the war.
Hitler's high command re
torted that 23 British planes
wera shot down while only
"nine of our planes are miss
ing. The German communique
also reported the destruction of
IS merchant ships totaling 63.
000 tons in yesterday's dive
bombing attacks.
COOL WIND FANS
By tha Associated Press
Cool winds brought lower tern
perature to most of the heat
stricken middle west today.
marking the breakup ot the sea
son's longest heat wave.
A trough of low pressure ex
tending from Utah and Arizona
to the lake region moved slowly
eastward and southward, push
Ing before it the stagnant air re
sponsible for the torrid spell.
Although high temperature
still prevailed south ot the belt
of cool air, tha weather bureau
said moderate temperature wera
In prospect for all sections of tha
nation by Sunday.
A total of 418 deaths were at
tributed directly and Indirectly
to tha protracted heat wave.
They Included 190 heat fatalitie
and 229 drownings. Illinois,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsyl
vania suffered the heaviest
losses.