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U-tL- ru" v. . th. TTCalUClT Bumu rrport lnld. lorvrul Imlr tonight an TburxU;; normal teniprralur. Traiprnttura IllChrU lrH a Lowest this morning 49 Realize Cash Wba joa want to mllu uk from tocnelblnc oa hin to HI In harry, yon find n qulrkrr. bettcf er kM pn 4t way than to qm th CIm tfled px of tbU ncwipaper. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full UniUd Ptm Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY ?! J 10. No. 112. ji o)iLiyj mm OB . l-AT '1,?;:-1 ROBERT 8C1URR Washington, D. C, July 31. "My confidence has been Im posed on by the President and his advisers," says Rufus C. Holman, Oregon's Junior sena tor. "I voted in committee for funds for TV A to build a dam on Horton creek and a couple of stem plants, thinking I was saving the country. I was told the dam and steam plants were needed in a great emergency to aid airplane program by in creasing aluminum production. "I have investigated. It will be three If not four years be fore these facilities will be available at TVA and anything that takes three years to get started cannot be called an emergency. I discovered some thing else. That increased out put of aluminum will be used as much for pots and pans for hopsewives as for making air planes. "If an emergency exists for increased aluminum, why wait three years for steam plants and a dam In TVA when power is instantly available now at Bon neville?" AND that isn't ail of Holman' kick. He resents the state ment of "Dear Alben" Barkley at the Democratic convention that Republicans were blocking -the TVA appropriation. Sena tor Holman says he, a Republi can, cast the deciding vote in committee which gave the mea sure a favorable report, where as Senator Adams of Colorado, a Democrat, voted against. Returning from a personal inspection of TVA (everyone put out to him, for he is a member of the senate commit tee on appropriations), Holman says that Tennessee river has been exhausted of its prime power and needs steam plants to generate additional energy. A stock argument for TVA is that with hydro-electric power as a by-product rates for elec tricity in that area would be dirt cheap. Now they must supplement water power with steam plants. (Continued on Pag Biz.) 25 FIRST CITIES Washington, July 31. (Pi Census counters scrambled pop ulation standings of America's big cities today to create a "25 bigRest" list for 1940. The list generally includes the same cities as in 1930, but 13 of the 25 have different ranks than 10 years ago. Houston, Texas, and Denver. Colo., made the grade for the first time, 21st and 25th respec tively, crowding out. Jersey City, N. J., and Portland. Ore. Houston claimed the biggest Jump, from 26th to 21st. Jer sey City had the worst fall of the big cities, from 23rd to 30th. Seattle dropped from 20th to 22nd. In line with forecasts that rural territories, especially su burban areas, were gaining at the expense of big cities, eight of the first 25 showed losses Philadelohia. Cleveland, St. Louis. Boston. Pittsburgh. San Francisco. Newark and Roch ester, N. Y. SIDE GLANCES by TRttUNE REPORTERS Woody Morse being elected an Active club trustee by unanim ous acclaim in real Democratic convention style. Johnny Niedermeyer being harrassed In his country home building by such things as drought and typhoid fever. Bill Scruggs of Skinners' Gar air nainff nut ricars. all be cause the sow on his farm had $:x little pigs. STRUCK ON HEAD Leonard Hilkey Injured in Same Accident in Remote Region Near Butte Falls. Robert Schnurr, 18, was fa tally injured yesterday after noon in an unusual accident on the face of a cliff in the remote Blue Lake country about ten miles east of Butte Falls. Leonard Hilkey, 16, was in jured in the same accident. The two were in a group of seven local boys who went into the Blue Lake country Monday evening to camp. Robert and Leonard were attempting to climb a cliff In Blue canyon when the fatal accident occur red in mid-afternoon. Leonard was above Robert. Suddenly a large rock gave way under Leonard's weight. It hurtled downward and struck .Robert on the head. Tumble to Bottom Robert was knocked unconsci ous and he toppled 40 feet to the bottom of the cuff. Leon ard lost his footing when the rock gave way and . he also tumbled to the bottom of thement CBging him with refusal canyon, iwuch uicu wiuiiu few hours. in autopsy Dy me coroner s i physician probably will be made to determine the exact cause o'thr4U u i do jjqt answer cer-ital death, the coroner's office said-!lBi The coroner's office was of. the belief that the blow by the rock probably was fatal. Roy Schnurr, a brother of the victim who also was climbing the cliff, notified the other boys and one of them, Luther Jacob son of Ashland, raced to the Rogue River national forest Blue Rock lookout station 2 IV miles away and notified Look out Frank Brown. "CCC Renders Aid Brown telephoned the South Fork CCC camp and hastened himself to the accident scene to give first aid. The CCC camp was seven miles distant. John W. Bowden, company commander at Camp South Fork, Dr. David A. Forbes, camp surgeon, H. Barnhart, pro ject superintendent, two fore men and eight enrollees reached the scene at 3 p.m. Robert died before he could be moved to a hospital. The Hilkey boy was brought to the Osteopathic hospital here. His condition, the coro ners office said this afternoon, was not extremely serious. He suffered head lacerations, nu- (Conttnued on Pag Five.) AVIATION GAS SALES ARE RESTRICTED TO Washington, July 31. OI.R) President Roosevelt today em bargoed the shipment of Ameri can aviation gasoline outside the western hemisphere, effec tive tomorrow. The President's action bars sale of the fuel to Great Brit ain, Japan and other non-western hemisphere powers. It fol lowed his recent proclamation placing such gasoline, tetra- ethyl lead and scrap iron and steel under a strict export li censing control. Transshipment of the gasoline through western hemisphere buyers also is pro hibited. At the time that he issued the first order, Mr. Roosevelt said that the United States had no surpluses of aviation fuel and that a stoppage of exports might be necessary to conserve it for this nation's own de- fenses. Sources close to the Japanese embassy said that the lolcyo government undoubtedly would take a "serious view" of the new ban. Cyclist Killed Salem, July 31 (P) Frank W. Bliss. 14, died in a hospital today after his bicycle was i struck by a car driven by Lloyd iC Yates of CrawfordsvUl. Committee Favors Jailed H. S. Maee (above). 48 year old truck gardener of Artesia, a suburb of Los Angeles, is shown behind the bars after he 1111 nn a federal indict- ,0 Bn,wiT census questions. "I .nlH h rat Im orison than .uf . k Inwa.inn of mv .. M.. ... j , .UDmli to p,f,nal questions." Maee said he answered some of the census questions, but declined to stale his income, whether he rented or owned his heme or how he cooked his food. OFFERS ON BARTS ARE REPORTED BY LOCAL Feelers have been put out in the Medford district by cannery representatives, their prelimin ary offers ranging from $27.50 a ton for cannery Bartletts, the same as last year, to $30, an ad vnnrp nf $2.50 over the 1939 of(er- jt was announced today by the Bartlett pear committee 01 the Fruit Growers league. Even the better price of $30 a ton. however, is far short of the suggested price of $45 recom mended by a growers' commit tee in the northern California district. In suggesting that grow ers demand a much better price this year, the California corn- mittce emphasUed a number of favorable. trade factors for this season. In the Yakima, Wash.,-district there have been offers of $25 a ton for No. l's from cannery interests, the Medford commit tee said. This Is the same as the opening price last year. No sales have been reported in either the Medford or Yaki ma districts, the local committee emphasized. (Continued on Pace Pivt.) Klamath Falls, July 31 (P Children playing along the shore of Agency lake this morn ing found a body that may solve one of two disappearances on -the Klamath Indian reservation, Deputy Coroner Wlllard Ward 'said the bodv innMmi tn hn- been in the water three or four!1 arved tor 20 cfn, montns lnd aDDarentlv had been jcft on tne ,n0re as the water receded. Identifying features had been obliterated by the ele ments. George Collins, white, and Carmen Riddle, an Indisn, have been reported missing. Riddle, ; however, was last seen only a imonwago, FEHL'S RECOVERY BY E Former Jackson Co. Judge ,, n i. u.: Has no Delusions or Homi- cidal Tendencies, Word. Salem, July 31 VP) Wit nesses for Earl Fehl, former Jackson county judge seeking release from the state hospital on grounds he has regained his sanity, testified at his hearing today that Fehl has no delusions of being persecuted, that he has no homicidal or suicidal tenden cies, and that he has no tenden cies to assault anyone. These charges were made yes terday by state hospital physici ans in the opening session of the habeas corpus proceedings de signed to gain Fehl's release, and the witnesses who denied the charges were Mrs. Fehl, Mrs. Ariel Burton Pomeroy of Central Point (Jackson county), and Dr. C. A. Loehrnerrner, Salem psychiatrist. Fehl On Stand Fehl, committed to the hospi- in December 1937, also took the stand to testify that state hospital authorities had given him permission to leave Salem on several occasions. He said he drove his car on three trips to Grants Pass to attend to litiga tion in Medford. He stayed in Grants Pass because the terms of his parole were that he stay out of Jackson county, where he was convicted in 1933 on a bal lot theft charge. Fehl testified he admitted to hospital authorities that he did not have express permission from them to drive his car, but he testified he received a driv er's license in Pol Hand last year. The hearing, before Circuit Judge Calvin L. Sweek of Pen dleton, probably will close late today or early tomorrow. Roseburg. Ore., July 31. W) The body of a man identified by cards and letters found in his personal effects as Emil G. Han son, 69, of Albany, California, was found in his overturned car burg Ust nlgh, Ai the cards found on the body, Coro- jicr H. C. Stearns reported, was a statement from a physician re porting that the man was sub ject to fainting spells and giv ing instructions for treatment if he should be found unconsci ous. It was evident, Coroner Steami stated, that Hanson driving alone, had suffered a heart attack and that the Uncon trolled car, swerved off the road and rolled over a steep bank. Assembly Line Cooking May Be War Expedient in Britain By the Associated Press London, July 31. Govern ment leaders, considering im posing communal "assembly line" cooking upon the British population, are encouraged by a week-old experiment which has shown that by substituting one stove for 1.000 stoves a healthful three-course meal can High sources disclosed last I n'nt that government-con trolled "mass production" dining halls may be substituted for home cooking to strengthen the war effort by economizing on both food and furl. The move Is being seriously considered. The "assembly line" meals would be served to rich and i only 17 cents, the pudding cost poor alike Ins; three instead of fix cents. Draft Registry for Ages BASEBALL National (1st game) (11 Innings) St. Louis 3 8 1 Boston 17 0 Shoun and Padgett; Errickson and Berres. Second game: St. Louis R. ..17 . 8 H. E. 22 3 13 2 Susce; Boston McGee and Owen, Sullivan, Tobin, Coffman, ounivan. lODin, cot l man, fie- cnoUt WUhamf and An. drews - ' R. H. E. Pie- Chicago 3 9 2 Philadelphia 7 6 2 Mooty, Lee and Hartnett, Todd; Mulcahy and Warren. American Score: (11 innings) R. H. E. New York 6 8 2 Detroit 7 14 3 Chandler, Murphy, Gomez and Dickey; Bridges, McKain and Tebbetts. Washington, July 31. (U.R) Maj. Gen. James C. Magee, surgeon general of the army, reported today that experiments on 115.000 CCC enrollees Indi cated that a recently developed vaccine "has definite value as a preventative of pneumonia." The vaccine is not to be confused with the successful pneumonia serums which are administered after the illness has set in; vaccines are designed to prevent a person from con tracting a disease in the first place. If subsequent experiments and studies bear out the "en couraging" results of the CCC tests, this vaccine will be the first effective preventative of Dneumonia ever developed, it was pointed out. Dr. Lloyd C. Felton, now with the public health service, de veloped the vaccine while he was with Johns Hopkins uni versity. Its use was Inaugu rated on a nation-wide scale in CCC camps on Oct. I, 1937, after preliminary tests suggest ed its value. SEARCH FOR DEAD Camden. N. J., July 31. W) Gas fumes sickened fireman after fireman today as they tried to cool still-smoking ruins to search for bodies of missing dead In a fire and explosions that destroyed a million-dollar paint plant and at least 67 mid town homes. Fifteen were treated within a few hours. The fumes, rising from smouldering chemicals, drove all others from the four- block area. Firemen worked in 1 13-minute relays. This Is how the communal cooking plan has been working in the welfare Institute adjoin ing the D'Algarno estate, twhere there are 1,000 apartments hous ing 2,000 adults and 3.000 chil dren: Volunteer women caterers served 2,300 meals the first week. They were cooked on one large gas stove, and ran up a fuel bill of only $8.20. A sur plus of $16.10 was recorded. A typical 20-cent meal con sisted of soup and a piece of bread (2 cents), stewed steak carrots, potatoes, dumpling and gravy (12 cents), milk pudding (6 cents). For children the meal cost VOTED BY HOUSE; GOESJOJENATE $4,963,151,957 for Navy Expansion and Weapons For 2 Million-Man Army Washington, July 31 UP) With less than two hours' debate the house passed and sent to the I senate today a bill carrying $4,963,151,957 to start work on a 70 per cent expansion of the navy a'nd provide modern weap ons for a 2,000,000-man army. The measure, which would boost defense outlays for the ses sion to $10,040,225,543 went through voice vote and with only a scattering of members on the floor. Ren. Marcantonlo (AI-NY) cast the only dissenting vote audible in the press gallery. Restrictions napped Republicans centered much of their critcism on what they called the administration'! fail ure to remove the restrictions imposed on the defense program by social legislation such as the wage-hour law and the national labor relations act. In addition to 14,394 airplanes for both the army and navy, and "critical" equipment and re serves for an army of 2,000,000 men on combat status, the bill carried funds to start work on most of the 200 combat ships de signed to give the nation a "two ocean" navy capable of meeting "any possible combination of hostile powers." Shortly before final passage, the house adopted an amend ment by Chairman Vinson (D- Ga) of the house naval commit tee repealing a provision of a measure enacted June 28 to em power the secretary of the navy to take over and operate private industrial plants upon agree ment with the owners. Vinson declared the language of the provision was "too broad for peacetime." EVA OLSON FACES Portland, July 31. (P) Carl Donaugh, U. S. district attorney, said today he had authorized fil ing of homicide charges against Eva Olson, 30, white woman held In connection with the slaying of an 18-year-old Indian girl. , The girl, Annabel! Jackson, died Monday of a bullet wound in the head suffered two weeks earlier. Federal bureau of Investiga tion agents probably will return Mrs. Olson from Medford to Klamath Falls for hearing before bringing her here, Do naugh said. Mrs. Olson Is charged at present with assault with a dangerous weapon. Held with her are her husband, Gordon, and Reed Molina, 40. E Grants Pass, July 31 (F Private Howard E. Bull, Jr., 20, of New York, attached to the 30th U. 8. Infantry, drowned Tuesday night in Rogue river when 1200 men were camped at the city park en route from the Presidio at San Francisco to Fort Lewis, Wash. The body was lodged under water for 90 minutes. It was re covered by city firemen using their diving helmet Attempt to revive Bull with rciuscitator and adrenal continued for near ly two hours. Admits Slaying 5 1 If - Vtrlin Spencer, 37, former junior high school principal. held his head in his hands when he appeared In court In Los Angeles when his murder ease was called and pleaded guilty to shooting to death five of his colleagues in the South Pasa dena school system. ITALIAN FORCES FOR BLITZKRIEG (By Associated Press) Italy was reported today to have rushed land, sea and air forces to bases scattered along 800-miles of German-held coast to Join massed Nazi blitzkrieg veterans for the projected inva sion of England. Reports in Switzerland said Adolf Hitler agreed to Premier Mussolini's request that his Italians, seasoned in Ethiopia and Spain, be assigned a direct part in the momentarily ex pected blow. Italy's contribution was said to be a "token" one, Including German - trained parachute troops, light submarines, shipped through the Brenner pass for use in the English channel, and air squadrons. Reports from the continental storm center pictured these a last minute preparation for simultaneous attack on England and her fortress rock, Gibraltar: 1 Speeded movement of German troop west through France, masked by closing of rail communication to unoc cupied France and all outlets but one to Switzerland; 2 con centration of Spanish troop at La Llnea, back door to Gibrai tar: 3 massing of Italian war- plane at Sardinia to join tne Spanish in a possible drive to seize Gibraltar. Spanish said five more per sons were killed and 15 wound ed in bombings of the fortress rock yesterday presumably by Italians. German raid on England and Wales continued during the night but the British govern fint asserted there was "little damage" and no casualties. NYSSA SUGAR FACTORY MAY INCREASE OUTPUT . Portland. July 31 m The Nyssa plant of the Amalgamated Sugar company may increase It production this year to million 100-lb. bags, D. W. Evan, com pany official, tald today. Last year the production reached 728.000 bags. About 18,230 acre around Nyssa are In sugar beet. Pheasant Population Up Heppner, Ore., July 31 (Pi Morrow county' pheasant popu lation will be Increased at least 3000 this year, J. L. Richardson, president of the Morrow Hunt er and Angler club, said many of the birds had been received already and released along vari ous creeks. l i 1 A I 21 to 31 E POSSIBLE TOTAL TO 12JILLI0N Stimson Sees Possible In vasion Through Canada If Britain is Defeated, Washington, July 31. (U.R) The senate military affairs com mittee voted today to limit re istration for compulsory mili tary service under the Burke Wadsworth bill to men between the ages of 21 and 31. Previously the bill called to the registration of all men be tween 18 and 04, with those) from 18 to 45 to be subject to a year' compulsory military training on a selective basis.. The action came as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in strong terms urged both tha senate and house military af fairs committee to approve the conscription measure. In a personal appearance be fore the house group, he pic tured a possible invasion of tha United States through Canada tn the event of Great Britain' defeat. He said the U. S. ia "face to face with a potential enemy" and named Germany a that potential enemy. He wrote the senate commit tee that the Burke-Wadswortrt bill had the war department's! approval and that of the budget bureau. Committee members) said they considered the budget bureau's okay as Implying presi dential sanction. The senate committee' ac tion now make the bill appli cable to about 1,2.000,000 men, compared to 42,000,000 who would have been affected orig inally. The motion to limit the bill to men between 21 and 31 wa made by Sen. Josh Lee (D. Okla.) and seconded by Sen. Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.) Although limitation to the 21 to 31 age group removes ona major controversial feature of the bill, indications were that thesenate committee would bej unable- to complete Its consid eration of the measure today. 1 AM' CULTISTS DENY COURT ROOM CROWDED Lot Angeles, July 81. (IP) Thirteen of 23 indicted officer and member of the "1 Am" re ligious cult pleaded innocent in federal court today to mail fraud charge In connection with operation of the organization. The courtroom was bright with reflected lights from tha white or pastel-shaded garment) of the members, forbidden by their faith from wearing dark or red-colored clothing. So crowded were the chamber and adjoining corridor with tha believer that Grant Lewi, ona of the leaden, urged the "men tally working" member to) leave. 'You can do your mental work much better at home than In the courtroom," he told them. Portland. July 31 (IP) Mary A. Goodwill' testimony that her husband attempted to con vert her to Naziism won a divorce in circuit court today. Her 73 year old husband. James A. Goodwill, "talk Nazi Ism to everyone and doesn't let chance slip," the bride of six month told Judge Alfred P. Dobson. On on occasion, she added, she was assaulted and choked because she objected to praise heaped upon the Euro pean dictator. i
