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MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1940.
No. 116.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.