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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY ?! J 10.
No. 112.
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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
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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.
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