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Tie Weather Fore-rut: Fair tonlfht an Tuesday ; noderata tempera ture. Tmprratur IIIhet yraierdair ..., g Lort thla morning , ,, m Realize Cash n hen fu want to reallia rath from komet hi djc you ha r to ell In a hurry, )Oti m ill ltd n qulrlter. belter or le epen tit ajr than to ua iht LUa illed page of thlt newspaper. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Unlttd Praia Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1940, No. 110. M Ml ASS rase mm fn Wo (The presidential campaign this year holds special Interest for the Pacific northwest be cause Senator Charles L. Me Nary Is the Republican nomi nee for vice-president. , For the first time, a native westerner and son of Oregon is on the ticket of a major party. Com plying with numerous requests, the Northwestern News Service, Inc., has assigned Mr. Kelly to make a survey of sentiment in the agricultural mid-weit and the public land states of the far west where Senator McNary is expected to make his strongest contribution to the Republican cause. The survey will be held in August.) Washington. D. July 29. Now the British are asking that Americans give their blood in the war with Germany give their blood literally. The Brit ish are looking to the United States for warplanes and other munitions (they now want 3000 planes a month); are asking that British children be given refuge in American homes (60,000 are ready to be sent over); and now is the call for blood to be used for transfusions for wound ed British soldiers. .Under plans now being de vised, the American Red Cross will attempt to accommodate the people of England, the blood being distributed through the British Red Cross. The program is more elab orate than merely supplying the wounded British troopers. The American Red Cross con templates establishing a nation al blood bank in the United States as one of the angles of the defense program and in course of time Oregon citizens will be invited to yield a pint or quart. Donors must be vol unteers and will have no other remuneration than the satisfac tion of knowing they are actu ally giving their blood for their natice land without going on a battlefield. "THE army surgeon-general has requested the American Red Cross to establish the blood bank and invite depositors. The blood bank is something new in modern war and quantities were shipped from the United States (Continued on Paga Four.) BOY KILLED BY BULLET INTENDED FOR TARGET Hillsboro. July 29. (JPi A bullet from a target rifle fatal ly injured John Clark, 12, son of W. W. Clark of Hillsboro yes terday. The victim and his brother emerged from a thicket at the edge of a tarket range on which W. R. Manley, Hillsboro green house keeper, was firing from a prone position. Manley told Deputy Sheriff R. H. Busch he did not see the boys. SIDE GLANCES TRILUNE REPORTERS Fred Heath closely guarding the measley eight fish he caught Sunday and pampering the knee he hurt when he fell in Big Butte creek while catching the fish. The Danish Doc LeRoy Jen sen, the Irish Betty Murphy Bourn and the Russian Olga Autonomoff peacefully enjoying their afternoon coffee together, and being glad they're in this country where they can have such pleasure. Airport visitors wondering what the new huge post are for. the pillars being massive enough to support the Medford armory with Tony Galento on top. Bill Eberhart coming back to MeHfnrH m relax after a tren- uous year with the BP in Port Und. WOULD ALSO CALL Letter to Senate Says Se curity of Nation Demands Immediate Drill for Men. Washington, July 29. P) President Roosevelt, saying he was "now convinced that the security of the nation demanded it. asked congress today to let him order the national guard and the officers reserve corps into "intensive training." "I cannot, with clear consci ence. longer postpone this vital ly essential step," the President said in a letter read to the sen ate. . "This group of men who of necessity must be among the first to fight in the nation's de fense have a right to the best preparation that time and cir cumstance permit," he added af ter noting that "we know too well the tragedy that ensues when inadequately trained men are assailed by a more skillful adversary." Period Not Set While the President did not! mention In his letter any specif ic period of active training for the guard, the draft of accom panying legislation would spec ifically limit such training to one year. . The extra-ordinary authority Which would be given the presi dent would expire June 30, 1942. under terms of the pro posed measure. Service of the guardsmen would be restricted to the western . hemisphere ex- cepting for possessions of the , United States and the Philip- j pine islands. Democratic leader Barkley of Kentucky said the bill, as sub mitted by the president, prob ably would be introduced by Chairman Sheppard (D-Tex.) of the military affairs committee. He said speedy enactment would be sought in line with the presi dent's request for immediate ac tion. . Would Train Draftees Senator Austin of Vermont. assistant Republican leader, said; it was his understanding if the i President were given the' au- ( Continued on Page Three.) HIKE SAYS DEMOS FOR HIM UNLESS TIED TO PARTY MACHINES Colorado Springs, Colo.. July 29 iU.R Wendell L. Willkie said today he saw no reason why any Democrat could not vote for him in preference to President Roosevelt, except those control led by "corrupt and nauseating machines" in metropolitan cen ters which are supported on funds "supplied by the federal government." j The Republican presidential nominee made this press confer ' ence assertion while being ques tioned about his prospects of carivinff some aniithprn ctatM He emnhasirori hn-.,w v,. his attitude on a bolt of Demo-: rormer J"0'" school prin crats to the G O P .lanrtrH lC'Pal Verl'n Spencer. 37. of plied also to northern states. 'I do not see any reason." Willkie said, "why Bny Demo crat who subscribed to the ' Dem0"atic Platform of 1932, or any Woodrow Wilson Democrat should not vote for me in prefer ence to the president, not on the basis of personalities but on what we respectively believe and advocate." Darty Platforms Distrust Tnmnoenrl visgusi i ownsena Portland, July 29. 0) Dr. Francis E. Townsend. leader of the pension movement, is "thor- oughly disgusted " with both the Democratic and Republican! platforms, his son, Robert1 Townsend. told an Interviewer, here yesterday. He averted that if the sue- cessful party In the November election doesn't "give us what - le want " the Townsenditcs t would form a third party. I ZT in ii iiT '- feJ3j Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York (right) pleaded for compulsory military training when he testified before the House military affairs committee at Washington while Norman Thomas (left), socialist leader, opposed it. They are shown at the hearing with Representa tive Andrew J. May (center), chairman of the committee. , Japs Accuse British Tokyo, July 29 W) The for-1 eign office disclosed today that arrests of Britons Saturday were j made by military police under the direction of prosecutors "as the first step" against an alleged ' "British espionage network cov ering the entire country." j Reports in Shanghai said 11 prominent British business men had Deen seized for undisclosed reasons in raids in five Japanese cities. British circles charged tney were partly the result of German pressure. The foreign office statement declared the arrests were made "in view of ever-increasing ac tivities of foreign organs of espionage in this country." (The arrests were confirmed in London, where it is expected the British news agency said, British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie was trying to ar- range for rciease of the arrested men Domei, Japanese news agency, reported one imprisoned Briton, Neville James Cox, veteran Reu ters correspondent, had jumped to his death from the second floor of the Tokyo gendarmerie headquarters while the Japanese authorities were questioning him. The foreign office issued a statement purporting to show that Cox (whose detention was separate from the 11 other ar rests reported in Shanghai) had committed suicide. He was arrested, the state ment said, on a charge of espion age and flung himself through a window despite the efforts of guards to restrain him. SLAYER-OF FIVE PLEADS GUILTY I Los Angeles, July 29 lSut,n Pcna accused of sju.viiik live Binuui associates and attempting to kill a sixth, changed his plea to guilty today when his trial was called. Evidence adduced at his pre liminary hearuig will be pre sented to the court to determine whPih.r h. rh.r -iii ha or second degree murder. I Denutv Dut. Attv. Arthur' Vcitch submitted a lengthy statement recommending "sen tences of consecutive imprison- ment on each count," instead of dcath in the taU..f i lethal m rhamhrr. BODY OF FISHERMAN pill l cn CRflM I ilfC rULLtU rKUM LAIt Klamath Falls. July 29. Pj The body of RalDh Pray was! j brought up at Howard Bay on upper Klamath Lake by a dredg- er crew this morning. The fish- Tman had been missing since Wednesday when he set out across the lake in canvu boat.) First Lady Quotes Nursery Rhyme as y Jab At Deserters V-v - New'York, July 29. (.TV Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt had :his to say today in her col umn. "My Day," about those whom she described as "new adherents" to the campaign of Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican nominee for pres ident: "When I read In the news papers every little while of this or that new adherent to Mr. Willkie's cause, recruited supposedly from the ranks of the new deal, I cannot help but smile. "I think I could have nam ed them months ago. They always have been adherents of some cause, but never of the new deal. "I feel like repeating over them all. the nursery rhyme: " Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run. The pig was eat, Tom was beat, And ran off crying down the street.' EASTERN STATES PANT AS MIDWESTERN AREA ENJOYS COOLING RAIN By the Associated Press Partial relief from the sea son's longest and deadliest heat wave came to several midwest plains states today but the east ern half of the nation continued to pant and perspire. Widespread rains cooled off Nebraska where the mercury was as high as 105 at Lincoln yesterday. Showers relieved parts of Iowa, eastern Minne sota and western Wisconsin. Cooler weather was-forecast for Michigan, the temperature hav ing dropped to 82 at Detroit. Fatalities from the heat itself and by drowning in the heat wave which has continued near- . ly two weeks in some sections with on'y brief '"P'tea soared more har 650- An Associated Press tally showed 321 heat deaths and 337 drownings. TO ID IN RENO Reno, Nev.. July 29. U.R Marriage licenses issued here; include: Jack Davis, 24, Jack ; sonville. Ore., ad Alice Coul jtime record. ter, 19, Ashland, Ore.; William' The world's fair entertained Springer, 22, and Wanda Hon- drick, 17, botn Aahland. of Spying E Eugene Parks. 24, of 9 East Jackson boulevard was reported by his attending physician today as being in a "more than fair condition," following his at tempt, according to city police, to take his own life early Sun day morning by firing a 32 ci libre revolver bullet into his chest. The doctor said that Parks, who is in Community hospital was not out of danger, but that he apparently stood a good chance to ultimately recover. The bullet entered his chest about an inch and a half and slightly below the center of his '' breast bone, pierced his left lung and lodged under his left shoul der blade. Thomas E. Goldfrap, step father of Parks, told city police that he and his wife were awak- encd about 1:15 a. m. Sunday by the sound of a shot, and that I when they got up to investigate they found Parks sitting In a ciair in me living room, wun Iha I,i,11a4 In n U . Police quoted the young man's step-father as stating that Parks had been despondent 'of late be cause he didn't have a job, and because of the loss of an eye in an automobile accident about two years ago. Goldfarp, after discovering his step-son, immediately noti fied police, who in turn called the Perl ambulance, which took the wounded man to the hospi tal. SANDS OF CONEY New York. July 29. The Joke was on the 1.400,000 who went on Coney Island to escape the city's heat. At 2:50 p. m. yesterday It was a blistering 110 on the sands. The best the weather man rould do in the city was a mere 93.4. It was the "biggest crowd Coney's ever had, any time, un der any conditions," said Capt. Abraham Brodie of the Coney Island precinct. "People had to edge sideways to find room on the sand to sit down." I The total turnout at all beaches approximated 3.200,- 000. police said. It was an all- Its smallest Sunday crowd, 78. 107. British Skies Churned By Battling Warbirds WILLING TO GIVE STRIP ONJORDER Report of Concession Fol lows Return From Con ference with Axis Leaders Bucharest. July 29. (JP) The Rumanian government's willing ness to cede quickly a narrow border strip of Transylvania to Hungary was indicated in of ficial quarters today. The government, it was said authoritatively, will propose that Hungary, which claims Transylvania as historic Magyar soil, content herself with the cities of Satu-Mare, Oradea and Arad and their environs and agree to an exchange of popu lations In other districts. This report followed a meet ing between King Carol II and hia premier and foreign minis ter. Ion Gigurtu and Miahll Manoilescu, almost as soon as they returned this morning from visiting the Rome-Berlin axis leaders in Salzburg and Rome. It was said In Informed quar ters that AdoU Hitler had told the Rumanian statesmen at Salzburg that he would arbi trate if Hungary and Bulgaria failed to reach an agreement on their territorial claims against Rumania in forthcom ing direct negotiations. Norfolk, Va July 29 JP) President Roosevelt Inspected the navy's largest east coast base and the Norfolk navy yard to day, picking up first hand infor mation on a vital portion of the nation s defense system and commending the "splendid work" he saw under way. Disembarking from his yacht. the Potomac, which had brought him from Washington, the presi dent stopped first at the navy yard, where 130,000,000 had been spent and 4.400 workers added since last September. A thousand men at the naval training station staged a formal review before Mr. Roosevelt drove slowly through the reser vation to view new building activities and scores of naval aircraft lined up wing to wing. One embarrassed gob, stand ing at salute, sneezed just as his commander-in-chief went by. Liners Bring War Refugees. Duke of Windsor's Luggage New York, July 29. OP) The Cunard-Whlte Star liner Brlt tanic arrived today with 14 pieces of luggage marked with the name of the Duke of Windsor, some of It bearing his crest as Prince of Wales. The shin, which left Llver- pool eight days ago, carried 778 passengers. 272 of them British children, all accompanied by their parents. Its capacity Is 1,500 persons. A second British ship, the Cameronia, with a reported 500 passengers, arrived right be hind the Britannic, so unexpect ed that she had to anchor in the harbor several hours while a pier was made ready for her. Waiting at the Britannic's pier was J. P. Morgan, to greet three "children of friends of mine in London" who will live for the duration of the war at the Mor gan estate. Matinicock Point, Locust Valley, N. Y. They were: Lord Primrose, 11 -year-old son of the Earl of Rosebery; George Vivian Smith. A anil HenraVa hahv lllter. one year oia. ine omiin youngsters lera the children of a Morgan baseball I National Score: R. H. E. Chicago 7 11 1 Philadelphia 3 7 1 Passeau and Todd; Pearson, Johnson, Frye and Warren. Millies. St. Louis 8 10 4 Boston 3 7 3 Bowman and Padget; Salvo, Coffman, Piechota, Tobin and Andrews, Cincinnati 3 7 0 New York - 4 14 0 Hutchings, Bcggs, Shoffner, Moore and Hcrshberger; Hub bell, Brown, Lynn and Danning. Pittsburgh t 6 10 0 Brooklyn 7 11 0 Lanning, Klinger, MacFayden, Brown and Lopez, Fernandes; C. Davis, Pressnell and Phelps. American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia .. - 0 13 0 Detroit 7 15 0 Dean, Potter. Vaughan and Hayes; Hutchinson, Benton, Smith and Tebbetts. THWEST STATES' CASH FARM INCOME UP COMPARED TO '39 Washington, July 29. (JP) Cash farm Income of the four northwestern states increased in the first five months of this year as compared to the same period of the previous year. Data Issued by the bureau of agricultural economics of the agriculture department showed that such Income from livestock and livestock products and from farm markets was larger in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah. The cash Income from live stock and livestock products was the first five months of 1939 and 1940 as: Idaho $14,. 073.000 and $15,523,000; Utah $11,283,000 and $12,276,000; Washington $22,068,000 -and $23,413,000: Oregon $18,292,000 and $20,896,000. California's income from the same sources for tne periods was listed at $82,912,000 and $86,878,000 and Montana's at $12,377,000 and $13,320,000. FALL FROM HORSE KILLS GIRL SCOUT COUNCILLOR Mulino, Ore., July 29. W) Willita Long, 19, councilor at a Girl Scout camp on the Mo- lalla river near here, was thrown from a horse and killed early today. She died of a skull fracture and back injuries IS minutes after being tossed. partner In London. Immediate destination of the Duke of Windsor's luggage mained mystery. Ship's of ficers merely disclosed that it was sent unaccompanied, in care of the line. Among the passengers were Playwright Noel Coward, on a mission for the British minis try of information, and Mme. Genevieve Taubouis, foreign editor of the French newspaper "L'Oeuvre," fugitive from nazi military authorities who asked for her arrest after the fall of France. "Liberty is dead in France today," she said. She escaped from Franca on a channel freighter. The Cameronia, which sailed from Glasgow a week ago Sat urday, carried 443 adults and 100 children. GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN Eight Bombers, Seven Escort Planes Claimed Downed By British; Many Engaged London. July 19- JP) The air ministry announced tonight that 20 enemy planes were shot down around the coast of Britain today. By ihe Associated Press. English skies throbbed with, the sound of aerial dog tights) today as the powerful German air force, repelled with losses In a sunrise raid on the south east coast, sent hundreds of planes against inland objectives. Throughout the day Britain'! airmen and anti-aircraft bat teries battled the high-flying nazi invaders. The British officially fixed the German losses in the sun rise attack at 15 eight bomb era and seven escorting fighting planes but Indicated the total might run higher. Unofficially it reached 23. Follow! Night Foray. The -German attack on thd coast topped off a series of night raids, which the British countered with attacks on German-occupied France and th Netherlands. The British said they bomb ed German oil tanks at Cher bourg, France, and also drop ped bombs on a German air base on the Dutch coast. In London, the admiralty ac knowledged the loss of the 1,200-ton destroyer Wren, 27th to be officially announced. While the battle over ths English coast raged, , the Ger man high command on the con tinent took action which some regarded as preliminary to the long-awaited final thrust at the British isles. This was a German order published by the French gov ernment at Vichy halting rail traffic between German-occupied and unoccupied France and barring the return of mil lions of French refugees to their homes In the conquered territory. Informed German sources In Berlin, however, declared that nazi authorities had opened rail way and highway traffic at four points in order to speed the return of refugees and to facilitate harvesting. It was recalled as possibly significant that an order giving the army command of all Ger man railways preceded by a day the invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxem bourg. E Seattle, July 29. 1P) Mlsa Joan Thompson, 30-year-old rodeo performer from San An gelo, Tex., insisted to police to day she won the money In a poker game, but she was being held for Alaska authorities on a charge of forging the name of Juneau's mayor. Harry L Lucas, to a $200 check. Miss Thompson was arrested as she arrived here from Jun eau aboard the Alaska clipper, and extradition proceedings must be taken up with Gov. Clarence D. Martin of Washing ton as she was charged under territorial law rather than un der federal statutes. San Francisco, July 29 OPy An "economic front" made up of the American nations and the countries of the British empire was suggested today by James A. Farrell, retired steelmaker, to match Europe'i prospective totalitarian economic bloo. NAB RODEO QUEEN 1
