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Weather Pull. 0.0. Waath r Buratu rtport DIAL 2141 TRIBUNE FORD rlr today and tomorrow: rtditf temperature. Temperaiura NIhrC mAmf for Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE Full Associated Press United Prm Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1940 No. 121. Med THE CAPITAL PARADE Mr JOSEPH ALSOP. and , ROBERT KINTNER . lUlaated by in rib American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Washington, Aug. 10-r-ColoneI William J. Donovan, who was sent to England to survey the war situation for the secretary of the navy Frank Knox, has returned to the United States with a glowing report on Eng land's chances. From the presi dent down, no member of the administration has heard such cheerful news since Count Rene de Chambrun arrived, fresh from Dunkerque, with the same sort of data and opinions. Col, Donovan, who saw pretty nearly everyone worth seeing in England, may be regarded as the transmitter of the officially op timistic English view. He is un derstood to lay heavy emphasis on three main points. (1) While admitting an im mense German superiority in numbers of aircraft, Col. Dono van accepts the English thesis that their airforce is so much better than the German, plane for plane, and man for man, as to counter-balance the Germans' numerical advantage. Captain Kelsey, the American air attache who also returned recently from London, makes the same point after seeing both air forces in action. (2) Col. Donovan lays great emphasis on seasonal conditions. The moon and the tide, he ar gues, will be right for an inva sion of England only for a few days more. If the Germans miss this chance, in his opinion, they may have to postpone their grand assault until the spring. (3) Col. Donovan also talks much of the magnificent English morale. Taking all the factors together, he contends that the Germans probably cannot estab lish a bridgehead on English oil, and that if they succeed in landing troops, they will eventu ally be repulsed. 'THE only trouble with the 1 optimistic forecasts of men like Col. Donovan and Count de Chambrun, and even with such Isolated expert opinions as Cap tain Keysey's, is that they sim ply do not coincide with the judgments of the American war and navy department experts who have all the facts at their command. These men, and the state de partment officials for whom the course of the war is of the ut most importance, are decidedly gloomy without exception. Only the most cheerful put the Eng lish chances at even so long as additional destroyers are not (Continued on Pigt Six.) BASEBALL FARCE The alleged baseball game between the Mcdford Craters and the Big Lakes Lumber com pany team from Klamath Falls was called off with one man out in the seventh inning last night and the Craters ahead. 16 to 2. The Klamath team took pity on a handful of fans and gave up the ghost, conceding the contest to the locals. The end came after the Crat ers scored five runs in the sev enth on one hit, five walks and two errors. When Peccia and McLean, on third and second bases, respectively, stole back to second and first in playful fashion, the Big Lakes players threw up their hands and called It a night. Big Bill Lanning was In rare form for the Craters, whiffing 13 in the abbreviated clash and allowing five hits. John Mc Donald worked the first six frames for the visitors and gave up nine hits and II runs. Les lie, a wild lefthander, pitched that part of the seventh inning Which was played. The Craters scored twice In the first, three times in the third and six times in the fourth, prior to their five in the sev enth. McLean and Lanning got two hits apiece for the locals, and Calvert swatted a double. The clubs are slated to col lide again today at 2:00 o'clock. Score: R. H. E. Big Lakes .. 2 5 7 Medford 18 10 2 J. McDonald. Leslie and S'trrbirk. Barich, Law; Lan cuug and Calvert STALEMATE NEAR IN EUROPE'S WAR, BLITZKRIEG EBBS Interest Shifts To Africa Nazis Place Famine Blame On British Blockade London, Aug. 11 (Sunday) (IP) Nazi warplanes struck at Britain again last night, bomb ing the Bristol channel area and causing some casualties, but a communique described the raids as less severe than usual and confined "almost entirely" to the southwest coast. The ministries of air and home security, in a terse an nouncement, said that a number of houses in a Bristol channel town and a near-by railway embankment were damaged by bombs. "A number of casualties were caused, some of which were fatal," the communique said. Although the German air raiders stabbed at England with extreme vigor yesterday, British military men expressed belief the threat of a blitzkrieg inva sion is dwindling day by day toward a vanishing point near the end of September. Br the Associated Press, Signs that both Britain and Germany expect the war to drag jn stalemate through an other winter shifted attention last (Saturday) night to the strug gle in Africa and even there waiting tactics were indicated. Although nazi warplanes struck heavily in widespread raids on Britain Saturday, Brit ons were optimistic that the time had passed for a nazi blitz krieg attempt perhaps for ever. This week would have been the most favorable for sea-borne Invasion because high tides would have swept nazi barges farthest up British beaches. By the end of September, Britons say, enshrouding fogs and dwin dling hours of sun will have thrown a protective mantle over the island kingdom and by spring when good weather re turns, they add, Britain will be ready, to take the offensive her self. A hint that this optimism may be unwarranted came from Vi enna, however, where Adolf Hitler's deputy for nazi party affairs. Rudolf Hess, declared that "the moment is now at hand to break England's power even to the ruination of the en tire empire." Assailing Britain for spurning Hitler's "last chance" peace of fer. Hess said the axis partners' might was so overpowering that there could not be "the slightest doubt" about the outcome of their attack. At the same time, the British admiralty disclosed that the 1.-47S-ton ocean-going submarine Odin, with a normal comple ment of SO men, "is consider ably overdue and must be pre sumed lost." Britain now has admitted losing 12 submarines. The British, reporting only damage "to houses" and unstated civilian deaths and injuries in renewed heavy German aerial assaults in w h I c h. whistling bombs and machine-gun fire rained on scattered areas, called the forays mere "terror" raids aimed at British morale. The German high command, however, reported hits on such vital cogs in the British mili tary machine as munitions and aircraft works, an airport and important docks. Striking at potential spring boards close to home, the Brit ish air minlstray said. Roval air force bombers carried out day ana nignt raids on nazi-held channel island airdrome on Guernsey and also inflicted "heavy damage" on German mu nitions factories, started fire, nn oil tanks in Holland and attack I ed nazi communications. I Looking also toward the win- r. German propagandists have opened a campaign to lay blame ! for any famine on Britain's con I tinental blockade. Germans, thev say. are assur- ed of full cupboards, but the rest of conquered Europe, es pecially Holland, Belgium and France, are being pinched. Despite the German optim ism over the reich's own sup ! ply and nazi contentions that I relaxation of the British block i ade to help stave off starvation elsewhere would be no aid to I Germany, independent reports on one Important German food source, the Balkans' grainfields, I do not bear out the nazi optun 1 ism. His Honor Gets Invitation Mayor Charles C. Furnas is shown receiving an Invitation from Chairman Otto Kuehle to at tend last Friday night's buckaroo chuck wagon steak dinner at the fairgrounds field, which he accepted along with some 85 other persons. The dinner was designed lo whip up Interest In the Medford Round-up Days rodeo to be staged August 17 and 18 at the fairgrounds park. The .mayor, in commenting on the work being done by the Medford Athletic association, co sponsor of the rodeo, stated: "The Medford Athletic association is to be highly complimented on the work they have done and are still doing. The events staged at the fairgrounds park are a credit to our city and we are witnessing a rovival of the spirit that made Medford a city to be remembered. I am heartily in accord with Medford Round-tip Days. It it a fine thing to have this rodeo." PROFITEERING BY IN ALASKA CITED Rent, Food And Clothing Prices Boosted At Anchor age Gong. Snyder Says. Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 10. IIP) Anchorage business men were criticized today by Rep. J. Bucll Snyder (D., Pa.) for what he charged was "profiteering" at the expense of army personnel by skyrocketing the price of rent, food and clothing. Snyder, chairman of the house sub-committee on army national defense appropriations, is in Alaska with other committee men looking over air bases. His party expects to fly to Seattle tomorrow morning on the Alas ka Clipper. "The business men of Anchor age, as I see it, are making a big mistake," Snyder said on his arrival here. "As soon as they learned that $12,000,000 was to be spent they shot up rents anywhere from 50 to 200 per cent and Increased the price of foodstuffs and clothing ac cordingly, "Consequently army officers are getting together in a group to build their own homes in stead of paying enormous rents. You can't blame them. If An chorage people were wise they should visualize that the army base is going to be there a long time. They should cooperate with the army so the payroll will be spent there. "In Fairbanks (where another base is under way) a different attitude was shown. I found merchants and business men did not raise their' prices there." Snyder said that for the "next two, three or four years" the army will "spend from $12,000, 000 to $15,000,000 annually in Alaska establishing air fields, bases and post," w , 111 IT ' War Bulletins London, Sunday, Aug. 11. (JP) Exchange Telegraph, British news agency, reported early today a serious clash between Italian troops and Albanians near the Yugoslav border, in which the Italians suffered 100 casualties. The dispatch, dated from Belgrade. Yugoslavia, said the Italians, who were attempting to mobilise certain classes of Albanians, burned the vil lages of Mamsat. Skorma and Orrof. It said the revolt was spreading to the Maki dis trict. Osaka, Japan, Sunday, Aug. 11. if'l D o m e 1. Japanese news agency, reported today that 50 members of the Japan Young Men's parly marched to the British consulate in a downtown building and de manded that the premises be surrendered to them and that Japanese translators in the consular employ resign. (Official sources in Tokyo had no report on the Incident, outcome of which was not disclosed in the dispatch). WILLI TO GIVE Tillamook, Aug. 10. IJP) Plans for the seventh annual Oregon Republican club conven tion were held up today for definite word of Wendell Will kie's Oregon visit, Tillamook Chairman Oscar Effcnbcrger said. The Republican presidential nominee plans a major cam paign address at Portland late in September or early in Octo ber. Effenbergcr said it was virtually assured he would ap pear at the party's convention here. Berlin, Aug. 10. iP) Ru dolf Hess, Adolf Hitler s deputy for nazi party affairs, declared tonight that the German nation was convinced that "the mo ment now is at hand to break England's power, even to the lumatioa vl the exLre empire." to Eat Steaks ON DESERT HIKE Egypt To Join Britain If In vasion Comes Towns, Harbors Bombed. Cairo. Egypt, Aug. 10. (IP) Strong Italian armored columns, harassed almost continuously from the air, advanced through hot wastelands today on the main British positions in Brit ish Somaliland and stepped up the tempo of the desert war by fiercely bombing the protector ate of Aden. The British still apparently depending upon the impersonal malignancy of the desert to cut down many of the invaders as always it has done were ac tive mainly with their aviation. One successful British ground action a counter attack which pushed the Italians out of Kor- indil, on the border of Kenya colony and Ethiopia was re ported however. British head quarters at Nairobi, Kenya Col ony, announced they had taken over th cvillage on the shadowy frontier after "liht opposition" and without suffering casualties. Military circles said the ac tion, a typical minor border epi sode, should not be interpreted as foreshadowing a British in vasion of Ethiopia. British military headquarters told of heavily bombing the marching Italians as they wound through Karrin pass Just east of the Italian-occupied town of Hargeisa: of raids on the har bor at Tobruk, Libya, in which one Italian vessel was set ffire and others damaged; of success- ; ful attacks on gun emplacements and buildings in the Red sea port of Massaua, Italian Eritrea. Far to the northwest, Egypt j the land of the Suez canal I and apparently the grand aim I of Premier Mussolini's strategy took every necessary step to range her fighting men with Britain's when the expected 'Julian uivasiuu cumei there. PRF M SAYS DELttfSE SPEEDED F-D.R. Pleases By Inspection Tour Crowds Slim But Noisy In Boston. Boston, Aug. 10. (JPt Pres ident Roosevelt asserted today that "We are really getting into our stride" on the $10,000,000 000 defense program. He told reporters that fact was demonstrated on nis inspec tion during the day of the Portsmouth and Boston navy yards and the army arsenal at Watertown, Mass. At an Informal conference outside the administration building at Watertown, the chief executive was asked whether he was satisfied with what he had seen on the tour of vital New England defense projects. "Very, much, very much," he replied. "Things are going along awfully well. I'm very well pleased with all I saw today, and it shows we are really get ting into our stride, "I hope by late fall all the navy yards and army arsenals will be at full production. The cheapest way to produce war materials it to run at full pro duction." Starting out early this morn ing for a personal look at de tenu installations. Mr. Roose velt had seen work under way on submarines at Portsmouth destroyer and airplane tender ranstriirtinn at Boston, and the processing of steel into big guns at Watertown. Before driving back from Wstortnwn to the Boston navy yard to board his yacht Poto mac and spend Sunday at sea, the president said he was glad in Vnnw the arsenal was oper ating at about 75 percent of capacity and that the navy yards "also are working pretty near to capacity." Noisy but relatively skimpy crowds turned out as the pres ident drove about the Boston area. But his route irom me navy yard to the arsenal lay along the scenic Charles river and touched a mere corner of Boston proper. At Portsmouth, people by the thousands had jammed every street. It was in New England that the biggest crowds of the 1936 campaign showed up. Mr. Roosevelt's tone was somewhat resentful when some nnnnnl m miestlon pertain ing to the New Hampshire gub ernatorial race. Mw iirH he retorted, "why can't you cut out polltlca and talk something eiseT RELATlSlOSS San Ttnmnrdino. Cal.. Aug. 10. A. D. Hanna, bailiff In superior court, and Mrs. Hanna decided to pay a surprise visit to their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Allen of Port. land. Ore. Mr. and Mrs. Allen had the um Idea at the same time. Neighbors at both ends of their 1.100-mile journey ap prised them of the situation. Next time, the Hannas and Aliens have decided, they will eliminate the surprise element. BULLETIN Albany, Ore., Aug. 10. (IP) Alhanv caotured the northwest semi-pro baseball championship tonicht by handing the Gibson Cleaners of Seattle their second straight defeat. 9-7. The win qualified Albany for the national semi-pro tourna ment at Wichita, Kan. Seattle, Aug. 10. (JP) South paw Aldon Wllkie, the rookie pitcher who was looking for a meal ticket when Seattle picked him up, continued his spectacu lar Pacific Coast league pace tonight in hurling the league leaders to a 3 to 1 victory over Hollywood. It was Wllkle's twelfth vic tory against one loss. He held the Stars to six hits. An infield error yielded the only run after Bob Kahle's triple in the first. Score: R. H. E. Hollywood 1 6 0 Seattle 3 9 1 Gay and Dapper; Wilkie and Keane. Watch Start Tonight Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 10. IJP) Adherents to the old New England tradition that you can claim a kiss from the girl friend for every shooting star you see should do all right tomorrow night. Astronomers at Harvard observatory, who said August brings a bumper crop of meteors, or "shooting stars," laid tomorrow night would 3e the best night of the year to see them weather permit ting. If the lady Is coy, a night (pent under the stars can be turned by amateurs to the interests of science, because Harvard's Dr. Frederic L. Whipple invitefNbservers to tend "star counts" to the ob-lervatorv. ir riMinr nnurn ir rAuiirit uiito NAZIS TO BLAME BRITAIN FOR IT Lifting Of Blockade Hinted To Relieve Europe's Hun- ger Germany Has Plenty ' (By Associated Press) Berlin, Aug. 10. Nazis are pressing a propaganda campaign designed to place upon the Brit ish blockade responsibility for any famine which winter howls down upon this war-ravaged continent. ' 'Who In England has the right to speak of the necessity on the part of Hitler to supply relief to the peoples of the countries he has occupied? asked prop aganda broadcaster who uses the air name Okay. "There is no necessity. There li no obligation neither legal nor moral." The broadcast today was ad dressed especially to the United States. The broadcaster suggested that Great Britain could avert "a serious food shortage" without aiding Germany by loosening the European blockade. Meanwhile the German press, discussing harvest prospects, said Germany herself was assured an adequate winter food supply and that German, surveys of Balkan crops indicate that, "while they are not record breakers," they will be more than sufficient to .feed the southeast. Okay, the air propagandist referring to a British statement that sending food to conquered France would relieve Hitler of the necessity of supplying like relief to the peoples of occupied countries, commented: "Now, who in the world ever expected a victor to provide his enemies or former enemies with food?" The German press said that Germany's first obligation is toward Germans and, while she would be actuated to some de gree by humanitarian motives, she could not be expected to be too greatly concerned over the populations which fought Germany and now face need because they ruined or neglect ed their farms. CALL FOR HELP IN LOUISIANA-FLOOD Crowley, La Aug. 10.- Southwest Louisiana cities, in some Instances completely flood ed by nearly 20 inches of con tinuous rain in the past 48 hours, called today for outside aid. The business section of Crow ley, a city of 10,000 in the heart of the Louisiana rice belt. was under 15 to 24 Inches of water. The rain continued this morning. W. J. Cleveland, chairman of the emergency relief organiza tion estimated that at least 3,000 persons were In need of food and clothing. "There are no lights nor wa ter for household purposes," Cleveland said. Aid for Widows. Port Angeles, Wash.. Aug. 10. (P The will of G. M. Laurid sen, retired Port Angeles mer chant and realtor who died here Wednesday, was admitted to probate this morning and dis closed that Lauridstn placed the residue of his estate in a trust for the relief of "needy and deserving widows'" of Clallam county. VOTE OF PEOPLE Popular Sentiment Against Draft Law Claimed And Test Challenge Hurled. Washington, Aug. 10. IIP) A challenge to supporters of the Burke Wadsworth compulsory military training bill to submit the question of conscription to a referendum vote of the peo ple was voiced today by Sen ator Wheeler .(D., Mont.), a leader of senate forces opposing the measure. Contending that popular sent iment definitely was against drafting young men Into the army. Wheeler said that those who believed in the compulsory method ought to be willing to test the popularity of their views In the November general election. If the proponents of con scription feel that it Is neces sary to have the draft to save democracy, as they repeatedly have said, they ought to be willing to submit the question to the people . because that would be the democratic way to ascertain the public viewpoint," Wheeler told reporters. The practical difficulties of obtaining such a vote might be large but should not be insur mountable, he contended. Wheeler's challenge came as proponents and opponents of the Burke-Wadsworth measure pre pared for resumption In the sen ate Monday of debate which began yesterday with a routine explanation of the bill by Sen ator Sheppard (D., Tex.) and flared almost immediately Into a heated controversy as to ! whether the United States was likely to be attacked in the near; future. The Montana senator's confi dent statement that public sent iment was opposed to conscrip tion was quickly disputed by Senator Barkley of Kentucky. the Democratic leader, who said he thought the weight of opin ion in favor of drafting men would begin to be felt heavily as debate progressed. ' On the other hand, Senator Nye R N.D.), an opponent of conscription, said ha thought that the senate debate would build up so much popular op position to the draft that even if he and others of like views were unsuccessful in defeating the measure in the senate, it would almost certainly be com promised In the house. Barkley said he was opposed to proposed compromises such as that outlined in a substitute bill by Senator Maloney (D Conn.). MATHBLAZES Klamath Falls, Aug. 10. (IP) The 2000-acre Bryant moun tain forest fire was tentatively checked in a seven-mile front today as 100 fresh fire fighters were sent to aid 323 men on the lines. Communications were tight ened by nine portable radios sent from Salem as foresters prepared for a stiff fight to keep the blaze under control. Fighters kept a 2000-acre fire on the Klamath Indian reser vation under control today de spite a brisk wind. A grass fire diverted some fighters from the Bryant moun tain blaze yesterday as it swept around a dozen houses at the mouth of Shady Pine canyon and into cutover timber. RAILROAD CHIEF TO LAST REWARD Chicago, Aug. 10. (IP) Law rence A. Downs, 68, who rose from the humble Job of a $80 a-month rodman to the import ant post of chairman of the board of the Illinois Central railroad system, died today. He had been in poor health for two years. Downs became chairman of the I. C. board In December, ;B38. after he had served 13 years as president of the road's itxtcaiivt rail network. -
