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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD . OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. 1940. Willi 10 NIB yesterday $18,499,000 for con struction of net tenders. Congress has appropriated $20,000,000 for the nets inter twined cables hung on floats and reaching to the ocean floor. Unpreparedness Of America In World At War Shown By Analysis Bl H E BLITZKRIEG TIMETABLE Sept. 1 Germany invide Po land. Sept. 3 Britain and Franca da clut war. Sept. 10 Canada enters war. Sept. 27 Devaitated Warsaw falls, andinf Polish cam paip. April 9 Denmark occupiad; Norway invaded by Car. mans. May 2 British admit dtfeat in southern and central Nor way. May ttt Invasion of Low Countries begins. May 14 Netherlands capitu lates. May 14 Cermaai break through at Sedan. May 28 telgiaa Army tar renders. May 29 Dunktrque evacua tion starts. v une 3-254 killed in air raid on Paris. Juno 10 Italy enter war. une 14 Paris falls. (una 17 Petain admits defeat of Franco. June 22 Franco signs armis tice. Juno 24 Fighting c o a 1 1 s in France with Germans in complete control Next Assault by sea, land and air on British lilts, NOW The United States can not afford to gamble on what might happen to Brit ish seapower. WE MUST PREPARE FOR DEFENSE NOWI fWb' A & united mT't tX?Wfs Js. VsoliTU I BASE FOR INVASION I si ' Hr j22A f)tiom, ctaminont r m B " protectant now I - v HIWZIAIANO t mir or nctntly da- 9 5 .. Mw, I 0GO miUm h., IM Sraiil ft Hut p.m, H I..lb.lk, few ,..9 ,,, io ernom or smi v eoMmmiet TIGHTNING war In the Low Countries and France has brought home to Americana a consciousness of the Inadequate defenae establishment of the United Stataa. While SO.000,000 men are under arms In Europe, Africa and Asia, there are has than 750,000 regular troops In the twtnty-ona republics of the entire Westam Hemisphere. Counting re serves and U.S. National Guard, these nations could put Into the Held approximately 1.500,000 trained men leas than the number recently called to the colors In Rumania alone. DEC A USE of this weakness, the Western Hemi sphere, with its vast natural resources and raw materials, now is as great a lure for conquest as ever existed. With our Navy in the Pacific, the British Fleet ta our flrst line of defense in the Atlantic. Our second is our regular army of 264,000 men and a National Guard of 242,300, Ill-equipped for mechanical warfare. How long can we continue to depend on the supremacy of the British Navy in the Atlantic f PROVISIONS for the speedy expansion of our armed forces on a scale great enough to insure the continued safety of the nation art included in the selective compulsory training and semes bill introduced in the Senate, by Senator Edward R. Burke. Democrat, nf Nebraska, and in the House by Representative James W Wadsworth, Republican, of New York Tnder this mea5urt, sponsored by the National Emergency Committee of the Military Training Camps Association, a gigantic reservoir of manpower would be trained and be on call for service in emergencies, in numbers determined by the President and the Secretaries of War and Navy. MILITARY AND NAVAL FACTS lilted lutes Amy Regulars 264.000 National Cuard 242.300 Reserve Officers 109,000 Total 615,300 Meckaslzed Baits Scout cars 462 Combat cars ....... 146 Tanks ( light 1 297 Tanks (medium) ... 18 Tanks (heavy) NONE I jr Obsolete tasks sod tkue ta order hi included. A tingle Cermn fsnzer division kit creater striking force then the entire Mduniied corps at the U.S.) AlotTSft U.S. Army.. , 2,422 N. C. and Reserves ... 372 U. S. Navy 1.765 Germany and Italy 30.000 to 40.000 (About 1.600 U. 1 Arm, aircraft art combat planet.) I. t. Amy Aitl-Alrtrift Cass 3-ineh 4J 90 mm. .! NONE 37 mm 15 .50 caliber machine guns 1.044 (XT Only funs actually ia service counred If ALL of these guns were sued about a city the wte of St Louis, they would net bt adt ouara to dtftnd it against a snass air raid.) Rivltt U. S. (tons) 1.257.360 Britain 1.461.294 lapan 968.296 France a 544,468 Italy 515,900 Germany..: 281.074 Germany and Italy have etert than 10.000.000 fully-trained and equipped soldiers. Counting tt. serves, turns has front 10,000.000 to 12.000.000 troops. The combined regular armies of the 20 Latin American republics h) an pronmatery 400.000. with partially equipped reserves tetsling 1,750,- 000. FRANCE WORKING HARD TO RESTART IDLE INDUSTRIES Government Says Resump- tlon Activity Imperltive Need; Loan Plan Drawn. By Ralph Helnsen (U.P. Staff Correspondent.) Vlehy, France, July Sl.fU.P) Franco Is mnkenaj strenuous ef fort! to restart production In thousands of Idle factories which escaped destruction In the war. Reports from Paris today said Finance Minister Yves Bouthll ller had drawn up a plan where by French Industrial groups would refinance reconstruction of devastated Industrial areas by raising loans with govern ment guaranties. - Government circles consider resumption of Industrial activ ity an imperative necessity and measure! have been taken to achieve that goal as stocks of consumer goods approach a point nf exhaustion. French men who still have liquid funds have been buying up commod ities of all descriptions, but wholesalers and retailers find It almost Impossible to replen ish supplies. Communication Bad. Cable and telegraphic com munications are still in a bad atat. The land wires are load ed with official traffic and most private telegrams excepting very urgent onei are sent through the mails. A telegram tent to a destination 100 miles away la often delayed five days. Crops have ripened unattended In the fields. Sugar beets, wheat, oats, hops and grapei are In excellent condition but in many places are still waiting for the harvest hands. The majority of farmers who were mobilized in the armies have not yet re turned to their homes. Those who were demobilized are fill ing the highways, trying to reach their arms afoot before tne crops are ruined. Most crops in the north were ruined in the fighting or were harvested by the Germans them selves. Wheat 50 Par Cant Short. Unofficial estlmatea state this summer's wheat harvest may provide only 50 per cent of France's requirements as a re sult of the labor shortage. A 50 per cent deficit In sugar beet production also is feared. Pros pects point to a hard winter with continued food rationing. The conditions of civilian life are reflected In the "agony" columns which now appear In the press. Families advertise for lost members, fathers for sons, and wives for husbands. Families also advertise for their soldier sons who went off to war and have not been heard from since. Each family enter tains some hope) because they feel their sons mav be among the 1,000,000 prisoners taken by the Germans. A virtual moratorium on pri vate debt continues, due to scarc ity of money. Creditors have suspended collections. Property damafte resulting from war is estimated un officially at 100.000,00,000 francs which the ooople will have to pay through heavy tax ation for years to come. SPIRIT 'SHO SUA' FREQUENT TOPIC IN WIFE'S DIARY Eye Specialist's Mate Reads Excerpts In Hotly Con tested Suit for Divorce. Los Angeles, July SI. U.R) Excerpts from her diary in which the spirit "Sho Sha" was frequently mentioned, were read In court today by Mrs. Lillian Boyce In her contested divorce suit against Dr. William A. Bojce, wealthy Hollywood eye specialist who seeks his free dom because of his wife's affec tion for a ghost. Mrs. Boyce read from the diary while under cross-exam ination by her husband's coun sel. The diary covered her ac tivities tor one month beginning March 6, 1938, and mentioned 'Sho Sha" and numerous other spirits several times. Became Soul Mala. She followed her husband to the stand after he had testl fled having attended seances with her. Dr. Boyce claims his wife communicated with "She land Shalmond" "Sho Sha" for short at the srances and that "Sho Sha" had become her soul mate. "Sho Sha" was first mention ed In the dairy cn March 17 when Mrs. Boyce told of visit ing a medium for a seance. "Bill (Dr. Boyce) and I went Btoa? Look for this banner for the new "Flying A gasoline that is a scientific blend of 7 dif ferent gasolines for smoothness at every speed. Contains polymerized, alkylated, re-formed, solvent-refined, cracked, natural and straight run gasolines. Proved in a car like yours. Offered at the regular gaso line price. rnr -FINtK FLYINO A OAtOLINt TODAYt r Mill i '1 jxrl to Mrs. Julian's for concentra tion," she read, "Sho Sha laid hands on my head in such a comforting way thank you, my dear. The Zeorah (a spirit said to have been a brother of Dr. Boyce In a for mer Incarnation) said we must push the gale of this house." Down to Earth. Again on April 7, Mrs. Boyce wrote of another seance with Mrs. Julian in which "Zeorah told me much about my health and what to do." "How much would I give to live this afternoon over and over," the dairy continued, "and all I have to do it with Is a very poor memory." Mrs. Boyce got down to more earthly matters during the lat ter part of her testimony, and presented an itemized list of traits in Dr. Boyce which she finds objectionable and which she believes give her grounds for divorce. Mrs. Boyce listed 23 objec tionable characteristics, among which were: "eating roup nois ily, spitting tobacco in the car, taking out his false teeth in front of others and showing In terest In nudists." Mrs. Boyce went Into detail 1 to explain her husband's inter-1 est in nudists. I "Dr Boyce was introduced to some nudists in the desert." she ! testified. "He bccime quite in terested and wanted me to try I it I wouldn't. He tried it and ' lost his trousers. He had quite a few difficulties finding and getting them back." EX-BOY SCOUT HIKES m MIES IN VI ATTEMPTS TO ENLIST Seattle, July 31. (PI If walk ing were the "sole" qualifica tion, Glenn Whitish, 18-year-old former Boy Scout from Eagle Creek, Ore., would have been In the army a long time ago. But the army and the navy and the marines, too want height, and Glenn Is only five feet, two and a half Inches tall, so all he has to show for his military ambitions are a counle of sore feet. "I tried to enlist !n the U. S. army several weeks ago In Portland," he said at the police station last night, "but they told me I was too short. Then I tried the navy, but they de manded a high school educa tion, which I haven't. And I was too short for the marines." So this week he tried the Canadian army as a last re sort. He hitch-hiked toward Canada, hiking more than he hitched, but was turned back at the border at Blaine with the information the Canadian army wasn't enlisting Ameri can citizens. He hiked back to Seattle and wandered into police headquar ters last night where he soaked his feet in the emergency hospital. Murderer Burled. Salem, July 30. VP) Grave side services were held here to day for Claude E. Cline, 46, Fossil prospector who died Fri day at the state prison's lethal f?as chamber for the murder of George W. Chetty, 35, a mining partner. APPLEGATE PHONE HEARING SLATED i The public utilities eommis- i slon today ordered a hearing on the application of the Ap plegate Valley Telephone com pany to discontinue its service The hearing was set for 11 a. m., August 20, in the com pany's office at Provolt. In its application the company said it was unable to continue ser vice because of excessive oper ating costs and the depleted condition of its finances. The company provides tele phone service in the vicinty of Provolt, Applecate. Murphy, Vt illiams and Uliams Creek. 1101 WAtll AUOCIATIO Oil COMPANY .i.nflUH"- TRADE NOW FOR DESOTO! - First Take a Ride Then Get the Good News on Trade-In Allowance! YOUCAMTCOWRONGl Go see your DeSoto dealer today learn what he's offering. You'll get a swell deal on the one 1940 car with all 39 vi tal features not found in your '36, '37, or '38 car! Drive a DeSoto! You'll find seats up to 8' wider than yourcar's a Handy Shift off the floor a won derful new Floating Ride! And DeSoto, engineer ed by Chrysler Corpora tion, is very easy to own! Its prices are lower than last year and you get top allowance on your pres ent car a real honey of a deal. See your DeSoto dealer! IE lilt SEUH Tl.l 1901 Price Include irandird r ?ctx lie, d I transportation c hvrie?fanj trfu. Opuoaail tjqatpuiejQi antra. ' 4 DE SOTO rr"3 Humphrey motors 3J SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 434 SEE YOUR DESOTO DEALER TODAY1 Colorado Springs, Colo., July 31. ,P Wendell I. Willkie'a acceptance address probably will include an interpretation of the Republican platform and an attack on what he terms "cor rupt and nauseating political machines." The Republican nominee sought today to complete a rough draft of the address to be given August 17 at Elwood, Ind. Willkie told his press confer ence yesterday that he expected to assume "the privilege" of in terpreting the Republican plat form. A reporter had remarked that Alf M. Landon had given his own interpretation of the platform in 1936. Willkie said that he would do his own in terpreting but that he did not know whether such procedure had any historic precedent. Anti-Sub Nets Will Protect Main Ports Washington, July 20. (Pi The defense commission has disclosed plans of the navy to station vessels in major Amer ican harbors to lay submarine nets in emergencies. The commission listed In a report of army and navy orders X0$ iastct mote tie HI setufce Portland 1 hr. is mln. Seattle) 2 hrs- H min Now 4 flights daily. Leave 12:02 p.m., 3:43 p.m., 9:13 p.m., 4:37 a.m. San Francisco 2 hrs. Los Angeles 4V. hrs. 3 flights daily. Leave 11:25 am, 6:15 cm, 12 midnight. Low fares. For Reservations: call travel agents, hotels, or UNITED AIR LINES LOOK MOW FAT DADDY'S GOT ON HIS HOLIDAY! YES-HE'S ALL PUFFED UP OVER WHAT HE SAVED AT Tl ANNUAL AfflSUMMR n AiE W GOODYEAR ,VftU TIRES ! f Asreatcynvalu. iSjWjT Lag 1 goes on sale again at Mmjflf3tM Q GOODYEAR'S NEW "fflLrwj-i f 1 AU-7.TaN liWSfei M NOW ONLY ""ljg i in i iii till mm ii. ""-M-. J EA5Y-PAY TERMS $g85 $615 6.0O-1S 5.25-17 or SIZE J.50-17SIZE CasA prices with your oU tin isc rotft CRCDIT COODY EAR'S FAMOUS I MARATHON TIRE Built to outperform Uru eoid by chain stores, and ether tires, in its price clasa. BUY SETS OF 4.. AT THESE 1940 "LAST-CHANCE" PRICES NOW ONLY s 4.73-19 or 5.00-19 SIZE Site 6.00-1 S J g gj 825-17 or 5.50-17 iS0 6.25-16 or 8.50-ie UJfJ .2S-18orS.Sr-lg 8.15 CoiA prices you, ,w OTHER SIZES PRICED IN PROPORTION Wnile tidewollt eflghrly higher .OW C0JT . .."S-;.HICH Every Coodyoar Tlra carries a written a srervnoan n r l a ir,it GUARANTEE They ma he good or UUE SIS " Medford Service Station "YOUR TIRE SHOP" C. C. FUHNA3. Proo MAIN and PACIFIC HIGHWAY. Telephone 1'