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DIAL 2141 tor Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE nCalOClr Bureau report utdt. rorcrot: Fair tonliht ana1 Turftdav, ronttnurd lun and drj. Temperature llllhnt yrrtrrday M LowrH thla mornlnf AS Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press - .11 Unltwf Prau Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1940. No. 116. HAFT HI APR. 1M Willi U U EE THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Wins Divorce FOR EARLY ACTION ON SENATE FLOOR Committee Votes, 12 to 3, for Registration of Men Between 21 and 30 Years Washington, Aug. 5. Al though interested parties have sedulously tried to confuse the issue, the facts of the English de stroyer problem are fairly sim ple. If England is not to be de feated, the English channel must be held. To hold the channel destroyers are vitally necessary, both because larger craft cannot maneuver in such narrow Washington. Aug. 5 P) The military committee voted, 12 to 3, today to send to the senate floor the Burke-Wadsworth com pulsory military training bill re quiring the registration of ap proximately 12.000.000 men from the ages of 21 to 30, inclu sive. waters and because the strongest the wfly or consideration this week of the measure, which navy in the world is tactically impotent without an attendant destroyer flotilla. And German air and submarine attacks have been picking off England's de stroyers at an alarming rate. Both American and English naval authorities agree that the time may come very soSn-wheh England will have to obtain ad ditional destroyers, or face the possible loss of the channel. Thus the time is already at hand when the central issue of American national policy must be squarely met by the national leaders. The American navy has over 300 de stroyers, or more than all the other navies in the world put together. American and English naval authorities also agree that fifty destroyers will meet Eng- lands need. The question is whether to make the destroyers available, or to risk a total Ger man victory. Only a third of the destroyers England has lost are actually sunk. The other two-thirds are in harbor for repairs. Before long large numbers of new Eng lish destroyers will be sliding down the ways, under the build ing program started at the be ginning of the war. The fifty de stroyers, for which trained crews are available in England, will keep the English going until the rate of destroyer construction and repair catches up with the rate at which destroyers are being damaged or sunk. THOSE who are trying to con fuse the destroyer issue have concentrated, of course, on dis seminating the 'idea that Eng- land is beaten already, and that aiding England now is throwing good money after bad. Recently, bore the personal endorsement of Secretary of War Stimson and was recorded by the budget bu reau as being in accordance with President Roosevelt's program. Considerable opposition to the bill was foreshadowed In the senate, although only three votes were recorded against it in com mittee. Downey Didn't Vote Senator Downey (D-Calif.), who was present at today's com mittee meeting, did not vote. Senators Johnson (D-Colo.), (Continued on Pag Pour.) CCC DISPATCHED TO PALMER CREEK FIRE Twenty CCC men were dis patched this afternoon to a brush fire at the mouth of Palmer creek near the Main Applegate road in the Applegate district of the Rogue River national foiest. Twenty other enrollees were standing by awaiting orders to the fire. A state forest patrol crew put out a brush and grass fire near the Griffin creek school this afternoon, after It over three acres. No property was endangered, headquarters said. BRING $35 TON LARGE DEAL Florence Rice, blond screen actress and daughter of sports writer Grantland Rice, is shown as she appeared In court in Los Angeles to win a divorce from Robert Wilcox, also of the films, who did not contest the action. The couple married In Hawaii on March 31. 1939. and OeitHlUrS UUIII19VI1 iuwiu.f, . , , . 1 Thomas (R-Idaho) and Lundeenl May 20 announced trial (FL-Minn.) voted "No." Lundeen ! p"- voting by proxy. Machinery for registrations could be set in motion if and when the bill becomes law, but President Roosevelt could not order any draftees into service before - congress appropriated money for their training. Army officials have said they hoped to call 400,000 men for service by October, if the bill is enacted. The bill contained a provision permitting men from 18 to 34, inclusive, to enlist voluntarily in the army for one-year training as an alternative to conscription. Guard Call Eyed The committee acted shortly before the senate began work on a related issue presidential authority to call the National Guard into active training. Senators recorded in favor of the registration bill were Shep- pard (D-Tex), Reynolds (D-NC), Thomas (D-Utah), Minton, (D Ind.), Lee (D-Okla.), Hill (D-Ala.) Chandler (D-KyJ Smathers (D- N. J.). Schwartz, (D-Wyo.), Gur ney, (R-S. D.), and Holman,,(R Ore.) Later, committee attaches an- nounced that Senator Bridges (R- N. H.) who was absent, asked to be recorded in favor of voting for the bill. Senator Slattery (D-Ill.). who was absent, was not recorded as voting. TWO ARRESTED IN 22 Months Probe Revealed by Los Angeles D. A. Says Murders Plotted WREAK HAVOC IN COASTAUTTACK Offensive to Keep Germany From Blitzkrieg Is Seen in Spectacular Onslaught Dr. Cook of Dispute Fame Dies From Apoplexy Stroke Sale of a substantial tonnage of Bartlett pears to cannery in terests at a price based on s for 2H sizes was reported here authentically today. Some other cannery activity was reported in the Bartlett deal which opened the buying bere last week. That was at $30 a ton for 2Ss, Including 7.4 per cent of 2 Vis and not to exceed five per cent culls. The opening quo tation was $2.50 higher than for the same deal at the opening a year ago. There was said to be general grower satisfaction over the im provement of the market as compared with what it was a year ago. Orchard tonnage is up to early estimates, quality of the pears is good and sizes are large, one authority said. Los Angeles, Aug. 5 fl A 22 months' Investigation of al-l leged Communistic activities In southern California has resulted In the arrest of two men and, says the Los Angeles district attorney, the accumulation of a "startling amount of evidence" pointing toward a plot to assas sinate prominent Americans and violently overthrow the govern ment. One man is in jail in connec tion with the five-year-old slay ing of an "anti-red" member of the maritime union. District At torney Buron Fitts disclosed. He is Britain Webster, 27, longshoreman. Clyde Champion, San Joaquin valley cannery workers' leader, was secretly arrested in Bakers field Sunday, but officials re fused to tell on what charges he is being held. To Grand Jury Tuesday Fitts said that the mass of evidence would be presented to the county grand Jury tomor row. Testimony, said Fitts, will describe the influencing of prominent Hollywood film per sonages to Communist ends and a program to "capture" and ulti mately destroy labor unions. Sought for questioning, Fitts said, are a score of Communists and Communist sympathizers in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The complaint against Web ster accused him of killing John RUey at San Pedro in 1939. Riley was beaten and kicked to death in a free-for-all fight, said Fitts, between five union men and 30 Communists who were attempting to gain control of the maritime union. Munitions Train Blast Kills 15 Grenoble, France. Aug. 9. U.R Fifteen to 20 casualties were reported after the explos ion of a trainload of munitions in the Miramas freight yards had burned seilu reportcd. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS BIG DEFENSE OUTLAYS MAY PUSH TOTAL OVER By the Associated Press Spectacular aerial offensives possibly the preliminaries of important new phases of the European war were reported today by Britain and Italy. Charging in within range of German anti-aircraft batteries on the continental coast of the English channel, the British air ministry said, a squadron of nine Spitfires caught a patrol of German Messerschmitts on their home grounds and shot down two. A third was reported down ed on the English side of the channel. Britain On Alert With Britain on- the alert against the threat of a Nazi blitz krieg because of opportune tides and weather, this challenge may mean that the British are trying to nip German plans in the bud or are taking the offensive to prevent Germany from organiz ing one. Italian reports of having blast ed Important new British air bases in East Africa, Intimated a highly organized. Intensive cam paign to wrest, at least, air con trol over the dark continent from the British. Highest tide! of the month began today and will continue through Friday, accompanied by forecasts of a calm sea and fogs on the English channel all fa vorable factors for a would-be invader. German Defense Weaker The British air ministry re ported German defenses against planes were weaker and less ac curate, so that the RAF pene trated deep into the industrial heart of Germany as well as bombing naval structures at Kiel and synthetic oil plants elsewhere. With the hours of darkness lengthening as the summer wears on, British sources said harder and harder aerial offen sives would be aimed at Germany. New Rochelle, N. Y., Aug. 9 (U.Rt Dr. Frederick A. Cook, explorer who claimed to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, died in New Roche He hospital today. Cook, who was 79, had suf fered a stroke of apoplexy last May 3. He was brought to the hospital July 24 from the home of his friend and colleague. Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt of Larchmont. Before the stroke. Dr. Cook, a physician as well as an explor er, had gone from the home of his sister, Mrs. Ada Murphy of Toms River, N. J., to care for Von Ahlefeldt's wife, who was ill. Dr. Cook maintained a night and day vigil at Mrs. Von Ahle feldt's bedside and was near the point of exhaustion when she died. The stroke followed a few days later. Failures Admitted During his long career as ex plorer, Dr. Cook admitted many failures and claimed only two major successes, both of which his colleagues either refused to accept or accepted only with re luctance. In 1901 Cook attempted to scale Mount McKinley in Alas ka. The attempt failed, but a few years later he tried again, this time claiming success. Other explorers refused to be lieve him at the time but, ac cording to Von Ahlefeldt. the claim subsequently was substan tiated. , Disputed By Perry Cook's claim that he reached the North Pole In 1908, however was contested by Robt. E. Perry and an investigating committee found that Peary was the true discoverer. Several years affo. howiwr Cook started libel suits touting $125,000, against publications which had ridiculed his claims, and some of the suits were pend"- ng wnen ne was stricken with an apoplectic stroke on May 3. Cook was born June 10, 1865, at uamcoon, N. Y, the son of a country doctor. He went to Brooklyn, N. Y., in his 'teens and worked as a milkman to finance his schooling. Dr. KILLED IN CRASH NEARJONCALLA Brother and Mother Victims of Accident On Way Homei, After Visit In Phoenix Frederick BOY ON BICYCLE BADLY HURT IN MIX WITH AUTO Roseburg, Ore.. Aug. 9. (JPf Robert R. Silliman, 57, and his mother, Mrs. Flora M. SHU man, 77. both of Seattle, were killed Sunday evening when an automobile driven by Raymond C. Gowler, 28, was wrecked on the Pacific highway about one. half mile south of Yoncalla. Gowler and his wife, Ada, 24, both of Harper, Wash., are In the local hospital, the former suffering from a badly crushed jawbone. Mrs. Gowler suffered head and face cuts but was not critically hurt. Gowler la a son-in-law of Mr. Silliman. State Police Sergeant Paul Morgan reported that the wreck occurred when Gowler attempt ed to pass a large freight truck traveling in the same direction. The car skidded on the shoulder on the left side of the highway and rolled end for end after striking the abutment of a con crete culvert. Explosions Heard London, Aug. 9 (U.R) Heavy explosions were heard inland tonight after German planes crossed the southeast coast at two points. German planes were argued a case, at the time he be re ported over the northeast I came ill Wednesday. He entered coast tonight. the hospital here Thursday. FROM HEART ATTACK Bend, Aug. 5 (Pi W. Lair Thompson, 60, Portland attor ney and former president of the state senate, died here at mid night of a heart attack suffered at Burns. He was returning with R. S. Hamilton, Bend attorney, from Boise, Idaho, where he had Washington, Aug. 5. (P) The budget bureau, adding up pyramiding defense outlays, found today that pending ap propriations and contract au thorizations may push this con gress' spending total above $20, 000.000,000. This figure would not only be the largest in peacetime his tory, but would be more than double the amount actually spent in the last fiscal year. Statisticians found that con gress already has appropriated WILLKIE ARGUES FOR DECENTRALIZATION OF TO QUIT PREMIER IF HUNGARY GIVEN LAND Des Moines, la.. Aug. 8. P Wendell L. Wlllkie told a cheering crowd at the state cap ital grounds here today that the projected defense program should Involve a major decen tralization of Industry. Speaking briefly after attend- $13,824,052,124 and has author-! In ,arm conference in the of. Bob Dietrich enjoying a visit back in the old home town which he thinks is a bit warm ish compared to his cool south ern California beach home. Emil Mohr embarrassing a friend by carrying on a minute Inspection, trying to prove whether the friend's sun tan was from old sol himself or cosmetics. Lindy Leading Fifth Column Says Sen. Pepper in Debate The arch Republican Frank VanDyke changing his clothes before leaving Ashland to ad dress a Pro-America meeting here, he forgetting to change his Wilikie button and coming without same, being much em-1 decide between the chief of the barrassed thereby until he '. nation's fifth columnists the Washington, Aug. 9 0J.R) Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., today attacked Col. Charles A. Lind bergh as "chief of the nation's fifth columnists." Replying to Lindbergh's antl conscrlption address in Chicago last night. Pepper told the senate: "In a few months, hours, or days, the people will have to thought of a clever story thereon. Maury Spatz sitting quietly at home and comfortably fol lowing the destiny of Brother ward at the Demo state chair man election in Portland. nation's ancient hero. Col. Charles H. Lindbergh or Gen eral John J. Pershing for coun sel." Pepper spoke during debate on the national guard mobilize tion bill. ized contracts for an additional $1,060,487,009. These funds cover all regular governmental costs, as well as special defense items. The revenue ledger of the government also is showing gains, although a huge deficit is taken for granted. Taxes already enacted, including the new defense levies, are expect ed to bring in this fiscal year (ending June 30, 1941) about $6,367,600,000. Pepper said Lindbergh appar ently considered the European war simply a "land squabble be tween nations." He said that "poor old Cham berlain" former British Prem ier Neville Chamberlain be lieved everything that Hitler said prior to England's entrance into the war and that Lindbergh might become just another "dis illusioned Chamberlain." 'The colonel has been a friend of Germany a long time," he said. "He might not be terribly frightened if Germans were re ported in the United States be- I not come to any harm at the I hands of Hitler." Minesweeper Sunk London, Aug. 5. VP The admiralty announced tonight that the mlnesweeping trawler Marsona had been sunk by mine. BASEBALL American (First game) R. H. t. Detroit 1 1 St. Louis 2 9 1 Rowe and Sullivan; Niggeling. Lawson, Mills, and Susce, Swift. Cleveland Chicago .. Harder Gmith. 1 Tresh and Appeton, H. E. 12 1 9 1 Hemsley: E.' Turner and R. ..10 .. 1 fice of Governor George A. Wil son, Wlllkie said that munitions and arms factories "should be located in many, many towns like those that are scattered over Iowa." Wilikie added that one major element of defense was indus trial processes. He remarked that industry had tended to concentrate In large cities dur ing recent years but now It should be "brought back to the medium-sized town, so that there can be industry nd pros perity all over our country At a press conference after i his talk with 70-odd mid western farm leaders. Wilikie said he had remarked to the gro'ip that he wanted their viewpoint "as the candidate for president and the next president." He said his conferees told him that one of the chief cri ticisms of the administration's farm policy was that local au thorities were supervised and controlled from Washington. Bucharest, Aug. 5. (U.R) Leaders of the fascist-like Iron Guard organization said today that they would withdraw sup port from the cabinet of Premier Ion Gigurtu if any Transylvania territory is ceded to Hungary. (There have been reports that. under German pressure, the Ru manian government had agreed in principle to cession -ot some territory to Hungary.) uovernment circles admitted that there was danger of an Im mediate cabinet crisis as a result Emll Melsenhoelder, 21, of 341 West Second street was seri ously injured about 10:43 p. m. Sunday when the bicycle ne was riding crashed Into the left rear tender of a Dodge coupe driven by James W. Stewart, 21, of 80 Modoc avenue, at the inter section of West Sixth street and Oakdale avenue. The injured youth was rushed to Community hospital In the Perl ambulance, where It was learned he suffered a fractured lower right leg, a cerebral con cussion and a possible skull frac ture. His attending physician said today that X-ray pictures would be taken to learn if the skull is fractured. The doctor stated that Meisenhoelder was semi-conscious and in a "serious" condition. According to city police, who Investigated the accident, the bicycle was traveling north on Oakdale avenue, and the car was moving west on Sixth street. Meisenhoelder, police said, apparently rode into Sixth street without stopping at the stop sign. The bicycle rammed into the front part of the auto mobile's left rear fender, throw ing Meisenhoelder to the pave ment where his head struck. Occupants of the Stewart'car were Vearle Edwards of 307 Chestnut street and Irene Turrie of 320 West Clark street. The four persons In the fatal car accident had been visitor for three days at the horn of Mrs. Flora Silliman's son Ernest C. Silliman, of Phoenix. They all made a trip Saturday to Crater Lake national park. Tha Silliman family is well known , in Medford and vicinity. . Ernest Silliman was notified of the tragedy last night by a long distance telephone call from his sister, Mrs. Cecil Clark of Seattle. A second telephone call said that Mr. and Mrs. Gowler were to be taken horn from the hospital by train. Mrs. Gowler is a daughter of Robert Silliman, one of the victims In the double tragedy. Ernest Silliman left for Seat. tie where he planned to remain a week or ten days. Robert Silliman was In charge of drafting and computing work on the Bonneville dam project. Of late he had been employed in the Portland office, -having worked during tha past year at Astoria and Walla Walla, Wn. Mrs. Silliman is survived by two sons, Ernest C. Silliman, Phoenix, and C. P. Silliman, Oakland, Cat., and a daughter, Mrs. Cecil Clark, Seattle. MERCURY NEARS At 2:30 this afternoon the tem perature reached 98 degrees and of rising opposition to proposed appeared to be crowding the 100 territorial concessions. Official sources previously had indicated that Rumania might cede some of South Dobrudja to Bulgaria, but was determined to keep Transylvania. ED mark, highest for this year to date. Forecast was for continued fair, warm and dry weather. At 2:30 yesterday the tem perature stood at 92 degrees, six under today's comparable read ing. Maximum yesterday was 93. Firing Boat Arrives New York, Aug. 8. iP) The camouflaged British flying boat Clare has resumed trans-Atlantic service, suspended since last October. It arrived yesterday after an uneventful flight from England carrying official passen gers and maiL Glacier Ranger Station, Wash. Aug. 5 lP) Two thinly clad women who were marooned high on Mt. Shuksan yesterday were rescued by mountaineers today and the party of rescuers was expected back at this sta tion by evening. A mountaineer who was climbing tha mountain yester day out Who tired today, re turned with the news. He said one of the women, Anne Cedar quist, about 22 years old, of Shelton, Wash., had a broken arm and possibly some broken ribs. The other woman, Miss Faye Plank, 39-year-old Bremerton, Wash., high school librarian, was unhurt. Portland, Aug. 5. (Tem peratures soared Into the 90 s at Portland and Salem today, while Grants Pass gained no respite from a high ot 94 de grees yesterday. Today It was 100. Salem had 95 degrees at 1:33 p.m., only two degrees less than the 97-degree high for tha year on June 27. Portland sweltered urder a 92-degree reading at 12:49 p.m., and the weather bureau pre dicted It would reach 98 de grees later in the afternoon. Hop Hearings Set San Francisco, Aug. 9. JFi A series ot hearings on Pacific coast hop growing quotas for the 1940-41 marketing year were an nounced here today by the sur plus marketing administration. Meetings will be held In Yakima, Wash., Wednesday; Salem, ure., Friday. BRITISH EXPLANATION IN JAPANESE ARRESTS ED UNSATISFACTORY London. Aug. 9 (U.R) One of two prominent Japanese busi nessmen arrested In the Inter eits ot national security was re leased tonight from Brixton prison. The Japanese, 1C Maklhara, was released because "evidence) was not deemed sufficient to warrant further detention," ot. ficlals said. A second Japanese, Shunsuk Tana be, was still in custody. A spokesman at tha Japanese) embassy said that, pending or ders from Tokyo, the embassy considered the British explana tion of the arrests as in the Inter ests of national security to b unsatisfactory. Previously, it had been dis closed that two Japanese were ordered deported on grounds ot pro-fascist activities. The deportation order was is sued against Takayukl Eguchl and Mrs. Milley Yoshll. both of whom were arrested three weeks a bo prior to arrest of Britons charged with espionage In Japan and the seizure By uruisn of ficials of Japanese businessmen in London and other parts of tha empire under tha war time alien regulations. Jap Release Ship Shanghai. Aug. 8. (JPh-Tha small American coastal ship Ec telle was released today by Jap anese authorities who had held her for five days after she took refuge from a typhoon in a tone) forbidden to shipping.
