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The MAIL TRIBUNE
Full Associated Press
Full United Pr.u
Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1940.
No. 118.
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THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and
ROBERT KINTNER
Released by the
North American Ntwipiptr
Alliance. Inc.
; Washington. Aug. 7. Even
. with the strongest backing and
wisest management In the
world, there are certain prob
lems which the defense commis
sion cannot solve at once. It is
stupid to blame William S.
Knudsen, ' Edward R. Stettinius
and their colleagues for failing
to achieve the impossible. But
it is even more stupid to as
sume, decause the defense pro
gram is going forward as rapid
ly as circumstances permit, that
this gives real assurance of se
curity in a horribly insecure
world.
The aircraft orders are a
striking case in point. If Eng
land goes under, the English
navy will no longer hold the
Atlantic. The American navy is
inadequate for service in Dotn
oceans, and a two-ocean navy
will take years to build. Thus
the air arm has an immensely
important assignment in the
hemisphere defense plans now
being perfected at the war and
navy departments.
...
TO CARRY out its assignment,
the air arm will require
bases in strategic hemisphere
areas, which are matters for ne
gotiaion with other nations in
the hemisphere. And it will re
quire more planes and men,
which must be obtained under
the defense program.
Because such huge appropria
tions have been requested, it is
generally supposed that the
planes and men willbe ready
when the time comes. Actually
however, this may well not be
so. The navy has already been
given $206,000,000 in appropria
tions and authorization for plane
construction. The army has been
voted $448,000,000.
In the deficiency bill pending
before the senate, the navy has
an additional $500,000,000 while
the army has $1,500,000,000.
The total Is $2,654,000,000, but
the total is meaningless so long
as the money is not being spent.
As yet army and navy plane
contracts signed and under con
struction amount to only about
$150,000,000. And all officials
(Continued on Page 81s-)
MINER AND BURKE
NAMED IN KANSAS
Kansas City, Kans., Aug. 7.
U.PJ Gov. Payne H. Ratner.
Republican, and William H.
Burke, Democrat, will lead their
respective tickets in the fall
race for governor of Kansas,
primary returns showed today.
Each won nomination by a
wide margin in a primary that
capped quiet campaign. The
primary, in which the Repub
licans cast a much heavier vote,
showed their had the backing of
their party followings.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIEUNE REPORTERS
A look of amazement coming
over Irish Coleman's face when
Everett Carkin sank a 35-foot
putt for a birdie to put his
twosome one up on Coleman's.
Jim Murray lamenting the
loss of his prune tree which,
loaded with fruit, suddenly gave
up the struggle, collapsed and
fell Into Jim's lap as he sat
upon his lawn.
Jack Creaaer getting a bit
confused with so" many club
meetings, he putting in time
with the combined Active-20-30
outfit and thinking he was with
the Lions with whom he had
an appointment.
Cy Perry booming into the
old home town with gusto and
inquiring about old pal.
TANKS, ARTILLERY
PRINCIPAL HEMS
IN NEGOTIATIONS
Hundreds of Millions of Dol
lars to Be Spent in Addi
tion to Previous Orders
Washington. Aug. 7. Pt
The British government stprted
negotiations today for "hun
dreds of millions of dollars" of
tanks, artillery, and other- war
supplies in addition to all pre
vious allied orders.
Arthur B. Purvis, chief Brit
ish purchasing agent, who pre
sented the program to Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau, told re
porters that his government was
now seeking the purchase of
many types of supplies not pre
viously purchased in this country-
He emphasized tank and
field artillery.
New Weapons Wanted.
The British previously bought
some old artillery that the Unit
ed States army had left over
from the World war, but the
new program is for ntw weap
ons. He declined to estimnte to
what figure the new program
might expand total British pur
chases in this country, but pre
vious purchases, mostly air
planes, amounted to well over
$1,000,000,000.
London, Aug. 7. UP) A gov
ernment spokesman told Britain
today that to win the war she
must now "embark on a much
more extensive program which
must be related to the Ameri
can national defense prepara
tions." Arthur Greenwood, laborite
minister without portfolio,
speaking in the house of com
mons on Britain's wartime eco
nomic problems, said:
"The need to supplement our
own production by drawing up
on the vast and invulnerable
capacity of North America has
immensely increased since the
fall of France."
"While but a few months ago
we were placing orders with
American industry to supple
ment the deficiencies in com
bined allied production." Green
wood declared, "we now need
to embark on a much more ex
tensive program which must be
related to the American doiense
preparations."
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MISSOURI BALLOT
St. Louis, Aug. 7. fP) Sen
ator Harry S. Truman, who had
been termed "the Pendergast
senator" by his two opponents
in Missouri's primary campaign,
rode a swelling tide of city
votes into the lead today in his
bid for Democratic renomina
tion. The senator, elected in 1934
with the support of Tom Pen
dergast, the now fallen Kansas
City political "boss," ran be
hind Gov. Lloyd C. Stark in
the rural precincts, but shot
ahead on an outpouring of
votes from Kansas City and
St. Louis.
Maurice M. Milligan, former
U. S. district attorney at Kansas
City and prosecutor of Pender
gast on income tax evasion
charges, tagged behind, third in
the spirited contest.
AUTOIST KILLED
Klamath Falls, Aug. 1.iJP
Roy W. Fleming. 30, was killed
I outright in an automobile acci
dent on the Lakeview highway
five miles east of here last
night.
I Minor Injuries were suffered
by four Indian passengers in
Fleming s overturned car. Wit
nesses said Fleming was forced
to cut in sharply to avoid an
oncoming truck after he had
passed another automobile on
I curve.
Republican Candidate Speaks to Iowans I
Republican Presidential . Candidate Wendell L. Willkie is shown as he spoke briefly to
a cheering crowd of Iowans that gathered at the Des Moines capitol grounds to greet him
after he had spent several hours in conference with farm and state leaders from the mid
west. Willkie declared Germany had "crushed France like an egg shell" because the French
"adopted the candy stick system of government."
FEHL TAKEN TO CITY
FOR EXAMINATION BY
TWO PSYCHIATRISTS
Salem, Aug. 7. (JFi Former
Jackson County Judge Earl H.
Fehl, seeking his release from
the Oregon state hospital
through habeas corpus proceed
ings, was taken to Portland to
day to be examined by the two
psychiatrists appointed last week
by Circuit Judge Calvin L.
Sweek of Pendleton.
Dr. J. C. Evans, state hosnital
superintendent, said the exam
ination wouid be held this after
noon and probably would take
three or four hours. All state
hospital records of the case were
turned over to the psychiatrists.
Dr. James Hudclson and Dr.
Wendell H. Hutchins, both of
Portland.
Judge Sweek appointed the
psychiatrists to assist him in de
termining whether Fehl. com
mitted to the hospital in De
cember, 1937, now is sane.
THREE BOYS HELD
City police were conferring
with the district attorney today
on what charges to file against
three Medford youths, one of
whom allegedly cAnfessed to
the theft of gasoline from a
parked automobile.
Arrested by police early this
morning were Charles R. Lind,
20, and Samuel E. Grubbs, 17,
and Glenn W. Grubbs, 18,
brothers.
Following a "tip" by Mrs.
Lester Stinson of 617 Park
jatreet that a "suspicious car
I was In the neighborhood,"
! police picked up the youths in
a machine in the 600 block on
King street. In the car was a
I siphon hose and a can, and the
hose was wet, police said.
E
TO ID IN RENO
Reno. Nev., Aug. 7. 'Pi
Marries licenses issued here in-
Tohn D. Edwards. 26. Ashland.
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3i' hoih Miforrt Ore.
None of the parties mentioned
are li-ted in available Medford
directories
Hurricane Roars Through
Texas Oil Refining Areas
Port Arthur, Texas, Aug. 7. (U.R) The full fury of a S0-mlle-an-hour
tropical hurricane struck the thickly-populated south
eastern corner of Texas today.
BY
WILL BE STUDIED BY
STATE DEPARTMENT
Washington, Aug. 7. UP)
The state department asked Am
bassador Kennedy in London to
day for a complete text of the
interview given there yesterday
by John P. Cudahy, ambassador
to Belgium, which was sharply
criticized in the British press.
Sumner Welles, acting secre
tary of state, said Cudahy's in
terview, in which he described
the food situation in Belgium as
approaching a famine condition.
was granted without prior con
sultation with or authority from
the state department.
While showing his convern
over the interview, Welles de
clined to comment further until
he had seen what he described
as an accurate text from Ambas
sador Kennedy.
GOLDY WILL HEAD
Portland, Aug. 7. UP) The
Oregon Insurance Agents' asso
ciation entered a new year to
day with Mark A. Goldy, Med
ford, as president.
Other officers elected at the
close of the 12th annual con
vention yesterday included
George W. Haerle, Portland, re
tiring president, national coun
cillor; Harry Hollister. Port
land, chairman of the executive
committee: Paul O. Landry,
Klamath Falls, executive com
mitee; Howard BaHcntyne, ex
ecutive committee.
Seth B. Thompson, Oregon In
surance commissioner, reviewed
measures adopted at the recent
national Insurance commission
ers' convention.
I Mr. Goldy heads the real es
tate and insurance naency that
. i l. : it., i-
pres.dent of the Jackson County
oflheZ? cTuh
former chairman of the Med-
I ford Safety Traffic Council.
Columbus "discovered Amer -
- ica ' by discovering one of thci
Bahama liland
The oil refining centers of
Port Arthur and Beaumont were
hit by the high winds.
Roaring through this city of
60,000, the wind maintained an
average velocity of nearly 80
miles an hour and a few unof
ficial spurts of 90 miles were
recorded.
The hurricane brought a bar
ometer reading of 28.87, lowest
ever reported here.
Two persons were killed In
Louisiana before the storm
struck here. The smashing
winds were working north
northwestward at the rate of 10
miles an hour.
Communications were dis
rupted.
Factory whistles shrilled
warnings in the Orange area for
lowland residents to evacuate
uu field workers, given am
ple warning of the approaching
storm, deserted Spindlctop oil
field near Beaumont.
Ine peacn settlements near
Port Arthur had been cleared
early in the day.
Washington, Aug. 7. (U.RV
The house military affairs com
mittee voted today to reopen
hearings on the conscription
bill and Invited testimony from
former Secretary of War Harry
Woodring, General John J.
Pershing and others.
The agreement was reached
at what members described as
a "harmonious" session com- Berlin, Aug. 7. UP) A Eu
pared with the heated meeting i ropean continent wtthous Jews
yesterday at which "fifth col-1 who would be banished to
umn" charged were levelled , some remote corner of the globe
against opponents of the draft
measure.
Medford is getting cooler by
degrees. At 2:30 p. m. the mer-
, cury registered 98 degrees, one
i.,,w th. rnmnr.hl rpirlini!
I yesterday. ., ..
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Yesterdays maximum of 98,
I two Jnder the previous
Hav'a hlsh Thr tpmnrrature so
far this year has not gone higher
than 100. Forecast: Fair, no
change in temperature.
!L DUCE BELIEVED
STAKING ALL UPON
NEAR EAST DRIVE
Troops Gathered On Libyan
Egyptian Border; Planes
trafo Haifa Patpctine
Mraie nana, raitoiine
By the Associated Press
Italy gave every indication to
day that Premier Benito Musso
lini was ready at last to risk the
battle which may make or break
his African empire.
Reported troop concentrations
on the Libyan-Egyptian border
close to the eastern Mediterran
ean shore, jabbing blows at Ken
ya and British Somaliland, and
air raids on Haifa, Palestine, and
other British positions In the
near east strengthened the be
lief that the "hour of destiny,"
of which Mussolini spoke two
months ago upon the declaration
of war, was at hand.
Blitskrieg Feint
The opinion was noted in some
quarters that the threat of a Nazi
blitzkrieg against England was
perhaps nothing more than a di
version in the strategy to con
quer the African continent seize
the Mediterranean and the Suez
canal and thus break the British
empire's life-line to the far east.
The raid on Haifa, important
oil center, was the third since
the war began. Gasoline tanks
and port facilities were reported
by the Italian high command to
have been badly damaged.
. There were other raids in East
Africa on the- air and naval
bases of Aden and Berbera, and
land advances into British So
maliland.
Possession of Suez would be
the realization of one of Musso
lini's dreams, but official circles
at Cairo appeared confident the
British could hold it with their
veteran desert troops, even in
the face of numerically superior
forces of Italians reported ready
to advance across Egypt.
British Outnumbered
Britain's forces facing the 250,-
000-strong Libyan army are out
numbered but their control of
water supplies and their experi
ence are considered compensat
ing factors.
Only a few German bombers
were reported over the British
isles during the night. Two dis
tricts in Scotland, the Bristol
channel area, were bombed, but
the British government said
"damage was negligible and
there were no casualties." Leaf
lets containing Hitlers peace
or destruction" ultimatum also
were dropped in the Bristol
channel area.
British wondered about the
lull, speculated that Adolf Hit
ler's blitz-machine is not yet
geared up, but said the blow
must come soon if it is to come
at all this year.
Comforts of Home
New York Aug. 8. (U.R) A
newspaper from Dover, England,
which has been bombed heavily,
arrived in New York today. It
contained this rooming house ad:
"Nice rooms with every conven
ience, facing the enemy."
Europe Without Jews Will Be
Requirements in Nazi Peace
will be one of the prerequisites
for a "German peace," Das
Schwarze Korps organ of Adolf
Hitler's SS elite guard, said to
day. The paper warned that Jews
everywhere in Europe would be
driven from their "hide-outs,"
despite the present observance
of "camouflaged restraint.
Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium and both occupied and
unoccupied France were nations
singled out for mention.
jews in mese countries, saia
JP-Per. v. rc.,
--ivl. office, and ed,
wnai rooms ......
in all neutral Europe, the paper
, tated. , .
The article Implied that antl
Semitic measures in various Eu
I BASEBALL
American
First game: R. H. E.
New York 7 11 3
Boston 10 18 1
Breuer, Hadley, Sundra, Don
ald and Rosar; Bagby, Johnson,
Wilson and Foxx.
National
First game:
St. Louis
R.
. 0
H. E.
18 3
9 3
Shoun
Pittsburgh 10
Warneke, Hutchinson
nd Padctt: Brown. Klinger,
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Score (10 innings) R. H. E.
Chicago 8 11 1
Cincinnati 3 11 0
Lee, Raffensberger, Passeau,
and Todd: Derringer and Lom
bard!, Baker.
HIS
SEVERELY BURNED IN
GRANTS PASS MISHAP
Grants Pass, Aug. 7. UP)
Herbert Nckenson, California
Oregon Power company lineman,
was severely burned Tuesday
afternoon when he fell In contact
with a line charged with 11.000
volts of electricity at the Park
street substation near here. Nek-
enson, unmarried, is a member
of a construction crew with
headquarters at Medford work
ing on the substation changes
necessary to energize a new
$150,000 line from Medford to
Grants Pass.
W. J, Moyer, local manager,
said Nekenson was working on
a pole, with another employe on
the ground watching his moves
as a safety measure. A hook in
Nekenson's climbing gear sud
denly broke out of the pole and
swung him around Into the
charged wires. A switch auto
matically cut off the electricity
as it (urged through his body to
a ground rod. He fell to a light
standard which held him sus
pended by his safety belt.
Nekenson's address was listed
at the Copco office at 148 South
Holly street.
OF PERSONAL ASSETS
Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug.
7. (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie
proposed today an amendment
to the Hatch "clean politics" act
to compel the President of the
United States, members of the
cabinet and officials of Import
ant regulatory commissions to
file schedule ef their personal
assets both on entering and
leaving office.
The Republican presidential
nominee also said that any mem
ber of the President's family
should be "prohibited by law"
from receiving any compensa
tion for business transacted with
the government as a represen
tative of a private concern.
ropean states are too weak to
suit the Germans.
"The European Jewish ques
tion Is not to be solved through
homeopathic remedies and not
by administrative and humane
directions," it said.
"Germany will solve her own
Jew question herself. As soon
as the last Jew is driven out of
Germany, the rest of Europe,
i which is awaiting a German
peace, may know this peace must
be one without Jews.
The paper, in scornful lan-
guage charged that the Jews,
j together with Britons, tried to
I "convert all Europe into a cha-
one. Diooa soanea oauieueia.
it v mi lieu mat fcma iuua y
the bill
"Germany's and Italy' vic
tory," It said, "will secure space
far away from European labor
and culture where the scum of
umn1-' ' ,u
- l of Its own toil or die death II
- earned."
BURGLARS DEPART
SAFE F
COLA PLANT
Between $300 and S4C0 Be
lieved in Strong Box Use
Truck to Make Get-Away
Between $300 and $400, most
of it in cash, was obtained last,
night by burglars who broke
Into the Coca Cola Bottling com
pany plant, 601 North Grape
street, and hauled away an of
fice safe weighing several hun
dred pounds.
Oliver A. Gustafson, manager.
said that he was making an
audit of the books today to de
termine the actual amount of
money missing. He explained
that $42 worth of checks were
In the safe, .and that the rest
was in currency and silver. He
estimated the total amount to
be approximately $350, adding.
however, that It might run
higher or lower.
Truck Believed Used
Entrance to the plant, accord
ing to state and city police, was
effected by jimmying a rear
windew. The safe, 36 inches
high and 24 inches long and
wide, was then rolled to the
loading platform door, which
had been opened from the in
side, and placed In an automo
bile or truck, police said.
The heavy safe was "Just
about all two men could han
dle," police stated. They ex
plained that tire tracks on the
ground outside the folding pla
form door was proof that the
safe had been taken away in an
automobile.
Nothing Else Taken.
Nothing else In the plant was
disturbed, although there waa
a new portable radio In the of
fice and various other article
on the desk, Mr. Gustafson said.
Police found in the office the
safe's combination knob, which
had apparently been knocked
off by the burglars before they
hauled the big Iron box away.
The burglary waa discovered
about 7 a. m. today by Homer
Hlght, plant manager, when he
opened the establishment forth
day's business. He immediately
notified police, who launched
search for the safe in the sur
rounding hills and roads.
T
IN STAIRWAY FALL
Damages of $23,000, for as
serted Injuries, are sought In
suit brought by Harry Lowis
against Niedermeyer, Inc., Callie
Palm and Mary Wolfe, owner
and lessor of the building at
West Main and Grape streets,
the upper story being used as
the Lake Hotel. The action waa
filed yesterday.
Lowis alleges that on March
9, 1939, he fell down the stain
leading to the second floor,
"with great force and violence,"
and broke his right hip. Incapaci
tating him for several months.
The complaint asserts the
stairway was dimly lighted, and
that there were no bannisters,
preventing him from breaking
the fall when he stumbled.
Attorney Allison Moulton ap
pears as representing Lowis.
FIRSTlRTLETTS
GO T0CANNER1ES
First shipments of Rogue
River valley Bartletts consigned
to Willamette valley, Portland
and California canneries were
scheduled today, with one car
leaving for the north last night.
Buyers are In the field, seek
ing 1,000 tons. No price change
have been reported.
A reliable source said the
prices offered were $30 per ton
for 2H size and larger, with
deal for 2H Inches and larger.
at $33 per ton, out of the pack-
l, " .wSL MJM
i inches and larger at $32.30,
lout of th packing house) bin.