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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.
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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. -