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rull U.S. Waath r Burwti report Forecast rlr tonight and Saturday, little chine In trmperaturt. Temperature LoH this iwtiiny tf Thirty-fifth Year THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper AUlanca. Inc. Washington, Aug. 8. One of the really remarkable untold stories of the fall of France is that of the French gold. To tell the point before the story, the German general staff entering Paris still hoped that the gold bullion remaining in the Banque de France would be a major item of loot, vastly strengthen ing German ability to buy in the world market. They found, however, that virtually all of the gold had escaped them. Some had been hastily ship ped to London in the desperate days between the Battle of Flanders and the break-through on the Somrr.e. Some, which had been taken to Brest, had been sent on to Dakar, where it still is, out of German reach. And a huge quantity 353 tons of gold had been hurriedly taken to the United States. THIS was arranged by Am 1 bassador to France William Christian Bullitt, in the time Just before the French govern ment abandoned Paris. The gold was then at Casablanca, where It had been sent for safekeep ing. Bullitt suggested to the French officials that they might prefer to deposit the treasure in this country. They pleaded that no transportation was available. Making rapid arrangements with Washington, Bullitt had the Vincennes, two destroyers, and another American naval vessel sent to Casablanca to pick the treasure up. The Vin cennes brought over $268,000, 000 worth of it, and $85,000, 000 more came In the other ships, and thus this gold is now part of the huge pool of Euro pean assets, French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian, which the treasury has im pounded and frozen to keep them out of German hands. Be fore long, the question may soon present itself, whether to turn this loot of Europe over to a victorious Germany. TNTIl th French surrender, no J Important objection wai raised to the treasury's procedure. The rep resentatives or Norway. Denmark. Holland and Belgium all took the position that their countries vera at star with Germany, and) gladly (Continued on Page Ten.) 2ND LIEUTENANCY Camp Murray, Wash.. Aug. 9 (U.rV Six officers of the 249th coast artillery and four non commissioned officers received notices today of advancement. The list included Benjamin H. Goldy, Ashland, named sec ond lieutenant, Battery B. SIDE GLANCES br TRIEUNE REPORTERS Friends of lng he looks Al Stoehr think very handsome since he let his brownette locks grow out. Weather mMm Loc vni e nonev ininKingi ... ., . - M seriously about installing a cou-1, ,,mfn" .E'Hi'-SS' pie of unique feature services for his tenants. Mike Gibbons being one of! the few Medfordites not com - plaining about the torrid .-.thr h in tr litirnllv lan. ninff it uo in Bobs. Aileen Peterson blonde feminine color C-C directors luncheon. lending to the MED WILL BE PAVED AS WPAPROJEGT Additional 1400 Feet to Be ! Graveled- Widened Plan Early Start On Work Official approval of a $120. 000 WPA projret for improve ment of the Mcdford munici pal airport was announced by Mayor C. C. Furnas at a public luncheon-meeting of the direc tors . of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in the Hotel Medford this .afternoon. Engineers of the Oregon state WPA office in Portland are now here preparing detailed plans and specifications. The project is for the paving of the main 4.000-foot runway, graveling of an additional 1,400 feet of the 'unway, widening the runway lay 100 feet and installing the flush type of runway lights. The additional width, 50 feet on each side of the runway, will be gravelled under specifications of the proj ect. The runway now is 200 feet wide. Plan Early Start These improvements are all considered of major impor tance. City and chamber of commerce officials said that the contemplated imrovements as sure Mcdford of an airport that can be used for all present commercial and military pur poses.- The officials said preparation of the detailed plans and speci fications was being expedited In order to procure early final approval so that work might be started In tne near future. The city's application for the improvement was , approved by the war department under the national defense program which permits the WPA to finance projects for defense purposes, city officials explained. Under the defense program, it was pointed out, the WPA waives its strict requirements for a contribution of 25 per cent of the project's cost by the spon soring agency. In addition to the war department, WPA Washington, D. C, headquar ters approved the airport proj ect, officials stated. Spokesmen said the city ad ministration and the chamber of commerce were highly pleased to know that the mu nicipal airport had been desig nated as part of the national defense system. Both the city and the chamber of commerce had been working for some time to procure approval of the airport improvement project. City officials expressed their appreciation of the help of U. S. Senator Rufus Holman who they said has been active in helping the local men in presenting the proposition to the proper authorities in Washington. Ambassador Cudahy Censured For Interview on Occupation Washington, Aug. 9. OP) John Cudahy, American ambas sador to Belgium, was repri manded publicly by the state de partment today for his press in terview in London on Belgian food conditions and other aspects of the German occupation of that' countrv. tary of state, reading a formal; statement at nis press ronier- ence. said that Cudahv. bv di- section oi r-resmem nooseveu ! hd een requested to return to the United States immediately i for consultation. Cudahy the statement said. had given the interview "in vio - 1 lation of standing instructions of the department of state and cer- tain of the views expressed by FORD Full A hoc la tad Praaa A . British, It's a Laugh. It's a Joke and contribution to Britain's paper salvage campaign was the British reaction according to the censor approved caption, to Germany's leaflet raid over southern and outhweitern England the night of August 1. 'Here is how the leaflet, containing extracts of Hitler's "appeal to reason" speech to the reichsiag, struck BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 2 2 New York 2 8 0 Babich, Heusser, and Hayes; Ruffing, Sundra and Rosar, Score Boston R. 5 H. E. 11 1 Washington 6 9 2 Ostermueller, Heving, and Foxx; Leonard, Krakauskas, Bagby, Carrasquel, and Ferrell. National Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 18 0 Boston -. 0 4 3 Wyatt and Phelps; Erickson and Berrcs, Masl. Guardsmen Fight Louisiana Flood Camp Beauregard, La., Aug 9. (Pi Feeding and safeguard ing the health of an army of national guardsmen in rain swept forests became a major problem today as torrential rains continued. Flash floods. Inundating long stretches of highway, sweeping away bridges and making quag mires of dirt roads, came in the wake of downpours ranging from x to 10 inches. Rain has fallen 33 of the last 38 days. the ambassador are pot to be construed as representing the itiAine nf tints Bnvarnrnfinf views oi mis guvci ii.iii:iiv. ine inciufiu, wie buiiciiiciii continued, "illustrates once again the importance which must be attributed by American repre- in,ln.ctions to refrain sen la lives auruau kj mc utu' UuT. " .... .-. .n...' 1,1,3 "' ,c " ..."...,, P""'6 '"" 'h" th!ln this critical time from making, tho5e rnde , ,ccordance w,thi t .. ..n London. Aug. 9. lP John Cudahy, United States ambas - sador to Belgium, who has been here in conference with Ambas - 1 sador Joseph P. Kennedy, is fly : in earlv tomorrow for Lisbon to take a clipper for home, it 'was announced tonight MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940. lojfolfnUo) Italian Planes Battle Over Say Britons the milkman. OF VITAL PATENTS PERILS REARMING New York. Aug. 9. (IP) Thurman Arnold, assistant U. S. attorney general, today declared a special federal grand jury had uncovered considerable evidence tending to show that patents vital to the United Status war industries are German -controlled. Arnold made this statement in discussing the grand Jury's in vestigation of charges that pro duction is restricted and prices fixed in some of the country's war industries. Government investigators are seeking to determine whether a production "bottle neck" is threatening to retard the defense program. Arnold, who came from Wash ington to take temporary com mand of the probe being con ducted by his assistant, Samuel S. Isscks, said that eight federal grand juries now sitting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis and other key cities were prepared to investi gate any anti-trust law viola tions occurring In the food, fuel, housing, drug or other vital war industries. He said the Juries are being utilized as a "fluid system" to handle what he termed the emer gency. Arnold attributed German control of vital war industry ; norma, businc8, trends I r j i maift It is an economic 'fifth col- .nd ha ma I ii 'fifth , . and must , bo at. trjbuted , OTr,iona(fe. at'rism tin tdipc CTrtl CM rimu mu i nwt o i wi-u.s ... cirr COCA COLA PLANT SAFE No trace has been found of i the safe containing between S300 and $400 stolen from the i Coco Cols plant. Deputy Sheriff j Grenbremer reported today. He figures, if it is ever located. It 1 will be by accident, in some - 1 stream or in the tmibcr, by fisherman or huntrr. There are no clues to identity of the j thieves. M HOLWIAN REVEALSIONLY 33 PLANES INVASION THREAT i IN DRAFTDEBATE Oregon Senator Claims In- vasion of Alaska Imminent Dangering Entire Coast Washington, Aug. 9 (IP) Senator Holman (R-Ore) said during opening debate on mili tary conscription today that he had "learned from authoritative military sources of imminent peril of the invasion of Alaska from the Pacific and the endan gering of the Pacific slope." Holman interjected his state ment without amplification while Chairman Sheppard (D- Tcx) of the senate military com mute and others were discussing the Burke-Wadsworth compul sory military service bill, enact ment of which Sheppard said is "a tragic necessity" because re armament must be accomplished speedily. " ' Says Recruits Declined Taking issue, Senator Vanden berg (R-Mlch) declared he could show "innumerable recruiting stations that have declined to take recruits because their quotas have been filled." "If they haven't got more men, isn't it because they haven't set their quotas high enough?" Sheppard contended that war department experience showed that there was no possibility of obtaining the 400,000 new en rol Ices sought by the army by October through voluntary en listments. The Michigan senator replied that army officials had testified before congressional committees that complete equipment for an army of 750,000 men would not be available until 1942. He said that the possible addition of 398,000 national guardsmen and reserves to the 273,000 now in the regular army would give this country an armed force ap proaching that figure. Menace Grows "The doctrines and aggres sions of certain dictator-controlled nations become every day more menacing toward the free and Independent democratic countries," Sheppard asserted in urging adoption of the measure which would require an est! mated 12.000,000 men from 21 through 30 years of age to regis ter. 'The time element is a tragic necessity, because the voluntary system cannot accomplish the emergency work absolutely needed, he said. WINDSORS WILL VISIT UNITED STATES IS Hamilton, Bermuda, Aug. 0. ) The Duke of Windsor I said today he and his American- 1 i , .. born duchess would visit the United States "soon." "The duchess hasn't been there for eight years and I haven't been for 18 years, so It's certainly time we went," the duke said in his first Inter view since arriving yesterday en route to his post as governor of the Bahamas. "When I was last In the United States the Woolworth building was the highest in New Vork that rather dates me," th duke commented. The duchess said she was "ex cited" at being as close to home as Bermuda and P'lded "You jean is." imagine how thrilling nmiBUWE Full United Pim NO ONEAT FAULT Stimson Says Uncertainties of Tax Legislation Hold ing Up Defense Effort Washington, Aug. 9. (IP) Secretary Stimson reported to day that the army had been able to sign contracts for only 33 of 4,000 planes appropriated for during June, "chiefly" be cause of uncertainties over tax legislation. The war department chief told a congregational tax hear ing that "the fault" for such a limited number of plane con tracts was not with the army and that "so far as I am aware" there had been no undue delay in the preparation of the army's specifications and designs. Cooperation Desired The fault has not been with the defense advisory commis sion, he said, and "the represen tatives of industry have been earnest" in a desire to cooperate with defense agencies. "The fact Is," Stimson said, we have all been facing dif ficult problem with an earnest effort to cooperate. "That problem arises In a large part from the fact that the entire program of airplane construction is so large that it necessarily involves great ex pansion of existing plant facili ties and the construction of new ones to meet the requirements of our army in the present emergency." He went on to say that risks were "inherent" in any business enterprise and that industry might be expected to undertake "normal risks." Risk Too Creat "But the risk to industry of undertaking at the request of the government to expand at its own expense its plant capac ity, and then being left, upon a sudden cessation of the emer gency with these expanded fac ilities useless," Stimson contin ued, "is one that is entitled to special consideration. "Under these circumstances, the uncertainty of future taxa tion affected by this expanded construction not only fails to give the special consideration above mentioned but penalizes the situation. To Run For Senate Everett, Wash., Aug. 9. (IP) -Congressman Mon Wallgren announced today that he will run for the United States sen- on the Democratic ticket. will file for the office late this afternoon, he declared. Rum Traffic Worst Fifth Column Declares President of W. C. T. U. Chicago, Aug. 9 (IP) The liquor traffic was described to day by Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the Wom en's Christian Temperance un ion, as "a most dangerous fifth column" menacing the nation's welfare. "It Is not totalitarian foe from the outside, but one en trenched behind millions of In vested capital and behind fed eral and state laws written un der its political pressure," she said In a prepared address at the opening of the 66th annual W. C. T. U. convention. She termed saloons "breeding centers for lawlessness" and as serted they were plying youth and adults throughout the na il-tlon with the "virus of anarchy land disorder." . . - a New President Mark A. Goldy (above) Is the new president oi the Oregon Insurance ..Agents., association. elected last Tuesday ai the 12th annual convention in Portland. Mr. Goldy heads the real estate and Insurance agency bearing his name. He is vice president oi the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, former chairman of the Medford Traffic Safety Council and a past presldoni of the Medford Rotary club. EXCESS PROFITS TAX AS 5 T Washington, Aug. 9. (JP) Secretary Morgenthau on fore casting a $5,700, 000 000 federal deficit this year, urged congress today to open another source of government revenue and pro vide a "better distribution" of defense costs by enacting an ex cess profits tax. Appearing before a Joint meet ing of the house ways and means committee and the senate II nance committee, the treasury chief also proposed prompt action on pending tax legislation because he said it would facili tate execution of defense con tracts. "The national defense pro gram," Morgenthau said, "places upon us the duty of reconsider ing certain features of the tax structure now, in order to ob tain a rapid expansion of produc tion for defense and a better dis tribution of its coat to the tax payer." The excess profits tax has been estimated by experts to yield $300,000,000 to $500,000, 000 a year. Mrs. Smith expressed the opinion that wartime prohibi tion probably would be enacted If the nation went to war. "The first thing you need In war la food," she said. "And grain is used in the manufacture of drink. Then you have to pre serve the efficiency of men and a drinking man is not effici ent." Asserting that the liquor traf fic was threatening Industrial prosperity, and menacing "our very rights as free people," Mrs. Smith said statistics showed: One saloon for every 71 fam ilies in the United SUtes; two saloons for every church; five saloons for evry three public schools; three dollars spent for liquor for every two dollars ex I pended for education. i : ' ? DIAL 2141 for Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE No. 120. Desert i REPORTS DIFFER OF F Each Side Claims Victory Over Superior Force; Afri can Situation Menacing) By the Associated Press The biggest air battle ever fought in Africa a furious com bat waged by British and Italian planes high over the burning Libyan-Egyptian desert was re ported today in communlquea from Rome and Cairo. Each claimed the victory against a larger force of planes. The African combat followed closely upon yesterday's greatest air fight of the battle for Bri tain, concerning which both the British and Germans published new and differing versions to day, each side increasing the number of enemy planes claim ed destroyed. The British said they de stroyed 60 Nazi planes and dam aged many others in a swarm of 400 which attacked a food con voy off the southeastern coast. The earlier London figure waa 53 Germans shot down, 10 mora believed downed, and British) losses of 16. . Naals Up Figures The new Berlin version lipped the British losses from 84 to 49 and admitted the loss of 10 planes, while repeating that th attack cost British shipping 12 merchant ships totaling 85,000 tons and seven mora badly dam aged. In the African action the Ital -ians said 16 of their planea fought 27 British craft with a loss of 0 to the British, 3 for tha Italians. But tha British communique said the Italians outnumberd the RAF 2 to 1, in spite of which the British "pressed home their attack with such determination that 15 Italian aircraft were de stroyed." It admitted tha lost of two British planes. Meanwhile, as tha 'African situation became more menacing to the British lifeline, the Cairo police commandant cancelled all leaves of officers and men "as a precautionary measure against emergencies." Egypt Confident . The government of Egypt, de termined to keep out of the war if possible remained outwardly confident that the British could handle the situation. In the Far East the British announced they were withdraw ing 70 officers and 1,500 men from Shanghai, leaving about 10,000 British subjects and Brit ish Investments estimated to be worth $800,000,000 under the protection of British navy units. German air raiders also roar ed inland over Britain last night and today in attacks that follow ed almost without letup tha day long raids yesterday. The Germans bombed towns along the east, south and west coasts, and in the Midlands. The British government said "some" persons were killed, although casualties were said to be few. Neutral military observers In London speculated that long threatened German Invasion of Britain might be timed with Italian thrusts now under way in Africa. Approve Hop Quota Salem, Aug. 9. (IP) Hop growers approved today tha hop control board's decision fixing the salable quantity of 1940 crops In the three coast state at 4,000 bales mora than tha expected harvest, witnesses testifying at a U. S. department of agriculture hearing that tha policy would taka care of possible surplus.
