Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 12, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textn "f : ilf .1 PMH 0 811 DIAL 2141 lor Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE Medford Tribune Foracait: Fair tonight and Tuesday, little chanst In tern- perm tur. Tempera, or HIchMt TtMdiy - 101 Lowest itils morning ., AS Fall Aoci!d Press Full United Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1940. No. 122. IAL SM U lLm AE mm ?r THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Washington. Aug. 12. The presidential campaign begins in earnest next Saturday, when Wendell L. Willkie makes his ac ccptance speech at Elwood, Ind Until the contending champions ' have really come to grips, it is foolish to try to forecast the out come of the contest. Yet there is considerable conditional wis dom in the remark of one of the I shrewdest politicians in the sen ate, that "if Willkie holds his Philadelphia form, and Roose velt doesn't improve on his show ing at Chicago, they d better dust off the White House for a new tenant." Judgment on Willkie must be temporarily suspended, although his friends have grounds for en couragement in such minor signs as his rejection of the Sly Henry P. Fletcher's scheme to circum vent the Hatch act, and his handsome repression of the boos at Henry Wallace. Until he has shown how he can meet the test of a national campaign, Willkie must remain an unknown quan tity. The president, on the other hand, is not an unknown quan tity at all. When he is perform ing at his best, he is the most effective campaigner the coun try has known since the first RooKCvelt and one of the most powerful political' leaders in re cent history. The trouble is that during the last months, he has not been performing at his best. An important element in his own administration is seriously concerned, feeling that be has "lost his stride." rr,HIS "loss of stride" showed itself in the spring. Its first disclosure was in the famous "on hand and on order" fireside chat, when the president missed a magnificent opportunity to rally all groups behind him in a great national effort, because he wish ed to tell the people, who knew everything was all wrong, that everything was really all right The chat distressed his closest friends, quite as much as it de lighted his bitterest foes. It was the first sign that instead of (Continued on Pag Pour.) COOLING BREEZES TO VALLEY Northerly and northwesterly breezes today cooled and re freshed a wilting Medford after a Sunday that saw the tem perature shoot up to 101 de grees to set a new high record for 1940. At 2:30 this afternoon : the temperature was 89 degrees, 15 degrees lower than it was. at the same time yesterday. Offic ial U. S. weather-bureau fore cast was for fair 'wsatf. V ' night and tomorrowt."not much change from today" "Hattpera ture. - SIDE GLOES TRILUNE REPORTERS John Snider asking a friend to verify the rumor about town that the Young "Republicans wr intt nt ni a movement to appeal the 14th amendment, the friend gasping until realizing that it was all Just in a spirit of fun. John Moffat welcoming new neighbors in a complimentary fashion by telling them they sounded like woodpeckers. "Roscy itwciiiMuiu -v cused by friends of consuming an entire cake and a "large-size fish, he denying the allegation. Republican friends of his rwnnomtir parents bribine lit - tie Alex Hamilton to shout be fore company: "We want Will kie." Alex later asking play toatea; "What WOlkic?" 1 NAZIS SEND OVER ni nun nr ni mro ur rum IDE Balloon Barriers, Harbors, Channel Shipping, Ports mouth Naval Base Strafed Br lha Associated Press Nazi warplanes by the hun dreds including a 200-plane ar- mada in a single thrust lashed with blitzkrieg fury against Eng land today, attacking British bal loon barriers, harbors, channel shipping and the great naval base at Portsmouth. An unofficial German tally listed 164 British planes de stroyed in the two-day assault including 71 today which open ed Sunday with an Intensity hint ing that the long-awaited "zero hour" may now be at hand.. Only 17 Nazi planes were re norted missing. Fires Started Berlin dispatches said record- sized fires were started at Ports mouth, the base of the British home fleet, and that the Manston airport in Dorsetshire was left in ruins by a concentrated bomb ing attack. The official German news agency, DNB, asserted that Hit- ler's air force had already begun! to seize air superiority the first step preluding actual land in vasion in other Nazi conquests and that British RAF planes were no longer attacking Ger man raiders. The British reported that RAF fighters broke up a mass flight of 200 Nazi planes and drove all but 55 back across the channel. London dispatches said that by early afternoon at least 14, possibly 16, German planes were shot down. The Berlin radio counter-claimed that 23 RAF planes were destroyed in the opening phase of the day's bat tles. Still Coming German planes were reported still pouring across the channel in apparently growing numbers. The raiders sniped at barrier balloons, struck in protective networks like mines floating in the air, along the south English coast. Four of the "sky traps" were reported shot down over Dover, "Large scale enemy activity is taking place over a wide area in the channel and Thames estu ary," the British air ministry re ported, DNB, the official German news agency, said that the raids inflicted "new severe blows" and that the battle was still under way. The Nazi high command as serted 90 British planes were de stroyed in yesterday's spectacu lar air fights, with three others shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Twenty-one German planes were reported missing. The official British score was 60 German planes shot down; and 26 Brit ish craft. More than 100 planes clashed in this morning's first sky battle, staged over the English channel and the hills of the southeast eemst. I -Flaming Torch i- Droning through the sunrise haze at an altitude of 20.000 feet, the Nazi bombers and Messer- sebmitt fighters were intercepted ' by British planes. RAF Spitfires knifed down to break up the Messerschmilts, which attempted to keep "flying circle'' forma- tions to protect each other. An eye-witness said one Nazi plane "made a flarmng torch' as it plunged into the sea. ine uermans saia mey prac - j tically smashed the Portland case yesieraay, san nearly an I the ships in Portland harbor, and sank three and damaged lour ships in a convoy. Despite the stern Nazi assaults, a German wireless announcer cautioned they were "not to be interpreted as the start of a Ger man attack on Great Britain." He said they were Just "prepara- , tion. i ,p. Rritfiin ennminrpd a troop transport, the Mohamed All El-Kebir, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic with 120 lives lost, ! Details were withheld and it could not be ascertained if the arrival of a small Canadian de - tachment in England had any connection with the transport. Spray Tolerance Relaxed on " J Bomb Targets in Britain k SCOTLAND J 1 k J 4 4mkP& PiMtofftsi :!i!ife?-::jir -n LONDON -PP r9 SO "FitlT "Toff Shaded circles on this map showing districts in which major British industries are located, are the areas reported most frequently bombed by nasi fliers. English sources admit damage and casualties have been inflicted in north west England (1), the Midlands (2), Bristol channel (3) and the Strait of Dover (4). In the wholesale aerial assault on British shores and shipping the British air mlnlitry claimed the Germans lost many more planes than the defenders. Ballon Barrage Seen Foil For Stuka Bombing Attacks Br Robert E. Bunnelle On England's Southeast Coast, Aug. 12 W) The men who man the ships which guard and feed Britain believe the British have found or are finding an answer to the dive-bomber. These men see the British re ply to the German Stukas as two-fold: The barrage balloons being tried out by the shipping con voys to keep the bombers high enough to prevent accurate aim; A new, multi-barrelled anti aircraft gun which nails the bombers if they come in low. This new gun is a pom-pom which fires shells an inch or more in caliber, constructed so delicately they explode at the slightest contact. British who have seen the guns in action praise them highly. The barrage balloons, among the targets of yesterday's heavy Nazi aerial attacks, are said to be a big help in warding off the bombers but do have their draw backs. They are vulnerable to the cannon-fire of the German Mes serschmiddts, are a drag on the ships which tow them and thus slow down the convoys, require a certain amount of "babying" and expert handling, and are hard to maneuver in the stiff I winds which frequently whip over the English channel and the North sea. The height at which they are flown depends on the wind cur rents. The balloonists fly them where they ride most easily and then, when the need arises, let tnem up to the most effective height. Yesterday's attacks began as a surprise assault on the bal loons. But soon it developed Into wave after wave of bomb ers and fighters aiming at the town where I was, until the sky wai thick with planes darting in and out of puffs of anti-aircraft shells in bitter dog-fights that ranged all up and down the coast. Oldest Astorlan Dies Aitona. Or.. Am 12 iX- Funeral services were held here! today for Miss Sophia Boclling, 91, Astoria's oldest native born citizen, who died Saturday. Miss j Boelllng was born here in 1848 ; when Astoria was a village of 1 only six familie -n LONDON A iVIN I I m CMfnatxmih ARGUED IN COURT Trial on the merits of the in junction sought by the state I fish and game commission against the Beaver-Portland Ce ment company, is underway to day before Circuit Judge H. D. Norton and is expected to last a couple of days. The commission contends the diversion dam of the cement company, interferes with migra tory fish, and seeks to have the defendant company enjoined from operating same. The dam was completed two weeks ago, and water turned into the canal ten days ago. A number of wit nesses will be called and draw ings introduced. The court and counsel for both sides, will visit the dam. This is in accordance with the desire of the court to view the scene' when Rogue river is at its lowest stage, as now. The fish commission is repre sented by Rex Kimmel, assis tant attnrnv.irnral snrt thp cement company by Dey, Han- sen and Nelson of Portland, who are represented by Attorneys Dozendorf and McColloch. Klamath To Study Airline Necetaitv Klamath Falls. Aug. 12 W The Klamath county chamber of commerce will immediately un dertake a survey to provide in formation backing the United Atrunes application xor leeaer airline service to ruamam rails, r'n t0 Secretary Earl Reynolds. Reynolds received word that the Klamath application will probably be consolidated with 1 requests for similar service to 1 Eugene, Salem, and Bcllingham. U-Vt . E7S IN b I NQRR1S AND BURKE HURRICANE CAUSES CLASH IN DEBATE Two Nebraskans Vary in In terpretation Burke-Wads-worth Compulsion Bill Washington, Aug. 12. (P Nebraska's two senators Nor ris, independent, and Burke. Democrat, clashed in senate de bate today over whether enact ment of the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military service bill would mean the creation of a large standing army. Norris, who previously had expressed the view that con scription would lead to dictator ship, contended that enactment of the compulsory service bill would mean the establishment of an army "so large that it will stagger the imagination of all of us." Serious Misconception Burke replied warmly this was "one of the most serious misconceptions" of opponents of the bill. He added that present plans were to call only 400,000 lor training mis xaii ana like number next spring, out of the 12,000,000 men from 21 through 30 who would be required to register. After a year's service, these men would be liable to only 30 days renewal training each year, he said. Those men would not be made professional soldiers by the fact that they were taken for a year's training," Burke asserted. If that doesn't mean a large standing army, I don't know what you would call it, Norris retorted. "It means that you are going to train all of the able- bodied men in the United States and you'll be doing It 50 years from now. That's what Germany did and you see the result of it now. Vandenberg Unwilling Senator Vandenberg (K., Mich.) said he was unwilling to vote to "tear up the 150-year tradition" of voluntary recruit ing unless it was demonstrated that "a reasonably established, positive national emergency can be served and saved in no other way." At the other end of the cap itol the house delayed action on the senate bill authorizing the president to call into active service the national guard and army reserves in order to study debt-moratorium provisions sub mitted by the war department. Accused by A. F. L. Baker, Ore., Aug. 12 UP) Charges have been placed against the Stoddard Lumber company of Baker with the na tional Labor Relations board by the American Federation of Labor on the grounds that the company officials have failed to bargain In good faith with the union relative to the settlement of a strike called last week. Willkie for Prosecution on Democratic Colorado Springs. Aug. 12 (Wendell L. Willkie says one of his first acts, if he is elected president, will be to prosecute all persons who bought or sold advertising in the Democratic national committee's 1940 campaign book. The Republican nominee told a press conference late yester day that such advertising mi chases were not only In vlola- law but also overstepped the corrupt practices act. In New- York, Oliver A. Quayle, Jr., treasurer of the Democratic national committee, said he was "not at all per turbed" over Willkie's warning, and added, "hit observations are covered by the premise: "If I am elected. I will do so and so.' I think- k. .A. . " Willkie s warning came short ly before a joint press confer ence with former President Her HEAVY DAMAGE IN CHARLESTON AREA i 75-Mile Wind Drives Tide Into Low-Lying Sections; No Loss of Life Reported Charleston, S. C, Aug. 12 (V-This history-steeped city counted considerable property damage but no reported loss of life from a tropical hurricane that struck this section yester day with a wind velocity as high as 75 miles an hour. It was the worst storm in the coastal city since 1911. Property damage was wide spread as the wind reached its highest intensity about 2:30 a. m., driving a t.'de that reached a near-record h'gh of 12.7 feet into low-lying lections of the city. Damage Widespread Damage, limited almost en- t i .-.it .r In iiMrnnfinif nf hnniM nH dcstruction of thousands of trees was reported in all sections of the city and the outlying areas. Early today a group of ama teur, radio operators, who had given bits of information out of stricken Charleston during the night, said that water waist-deep In a power house had forced them to abandon their station. A number of persona in Charleston, they said, were hurt by flying debris when the storm reached a maximum Velocity of 76 miles an hour, and that about one-third of the city of 75,000 population was under four to six feet of water. "It looked like the whole ocean rose up and came into town," one of them said. Savannah Buffeted A 68-mile wind, the worst to strike in more than 50 years, buffeted Savannah, Ga., to the south, bringing death to at least two persons and causing wide spread damage. After rocketing the 200-mile stretch of coast, the storm appar ently veered inland. Most of the residents at vaca tion resorts along the Carolina coast fled after being warned of the hurricane's approach. Santa Ynez Range Swept By Flames Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. 12 UP) The worst forest fire in a decade in this area roared down the seaward slope of the Santa Ynez range toward Santa Bar bara today after wiping out 34 summer cabins and engulfing 2,000 acres in flames. The sun over Santa Barbara was blotted out by the smoke, and ashes fell thickly upon streets here. In sweeping over San Marcos Pass, site of an ex clusive summer colony, the flames inflicted damage expect- led to exceed $120,000. Campaign Book bert Hoover and a wish of "good luck" from Elliott Roosevelt, the president's son. During the conference Willkie was advised that Mr. Roosevelt's son was in his hotel, and he picked up a telephone. The nominee promptly re ceived an acceptance to his invi tation that the president's son - 1 come up for a non political visit and the two men ana tneir wives chatted for half an hour, As the younger Roosevelt left. Willkie expressed the hope that he would have a pleasant vaca tion on his projected trout-fish ing jaunt to Wyoming. 'Thanks, I wish you good luck." Elliott responded, Elliott Roosevelt, who came by automobile to Willkie's re sort hotel here Just three min utes ahead of Hoover, said it was "pure coincidence" that he and Hoover had adjoining suites In the hotel. Pears, Apples f ... Mr Mr Aerial Box Score By the Associated Press Here is a box score of two days of aerial fighting be tween Germany and Great Britain, the reports by the two belligerents showing the disparity between claimed mccesses and admitted losses. Sunday Reported by Britain: 60 German planes shot down, 26 British lost. Reported by Germany 93 British planes shot down, 27 German missing. Monday Reported by Britain 39 German planes shot down, nine British lost. Reported by Germany 71 British planes shot down, 19 Cterman losses. ITALIAN PAPERS REVILE GREECE FOR BRITISH AID Rome, Aug. 12. (") Italy turned her propaganrta guns ominously on Greece today, charging the Greeks with sup plying oil to British warships and planet and conniving with the British In "plots" along the border of Italian-conquered Al bania, - The reported beheading of an obscure Albanian minority leader by Greek border raiders touched off a violent press cam paign reminiscent of those by Germany against Czecho-Slo-vakia and Poland. Britain was brought into the picture by the newspaper II Popolo dl Roma, which is close to the government, with a charge that British warships and warplanes operating In the Mediterranean against Italy were fueling at Greek bases. Greece, neutral friend of Britain, received a pre-war British guarantee of her terri tory. The Italian charges against Greece are the first to disturb relations between the two coun tries since the outbreak of the European war when both, de claring good will toward each other, withdrew their troops from the Albanian frontier. 3 BILLION PAID OUT Washington. Aug. 12. P) The government's social security nrogram. five years olfl mis week, has distributed $31000, 000,000 to the nation's aged and unemDloved workers, and to widows, orphans and the blind. In advance of Its anniversary Wednesday, the social security board drew up a statistical pic ture of its vast operations to show that some 50.000,000 work ers had been enrolled In the program since President Roose velt signed the act in 1935. At the too of the program is the old age and survivors insur ance system which pays out monthly benefits to workers who retire at 85, and to their wives, widows and orphans. Up to June 30, this system had paid S38.000.000 to 102.941 persons. Unemployment compensation which gives insured workers I moderate weekly sum during a limited number of weeks of Job lessness, is reported to have dis tributed more than (l.oou.ouu, 000 In out-of-work benefits. BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. Detroit 8 7 0 Cleveland Newhouter. C. 12 2 Smith, Seats, Hutchinson and Sullivan; Feller, and Hcmtlcy. E AFTER PROBE BY HEALTHJERVICE .05 Grains Lead and .025 Grains Arsenic Now Per mitted; Aids Some Plants Washington. Aug. 12. U.R) Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt today announc ed a relaxation of the tolerances for lead and arsenic sprays used on pears and apples shipped un der provisions of the pure food and drug act. The new tolerances were fix ed at .05 grains of lead a pound, and .025 grairs of arsenic. No change was made for fluorine. The arsenic and lead changes were made as the result of in vestigations by the United States public health service. The service reported it could not say that "tolerances higher than these might not endanger the health of the consumer." The lead and arsenate sprays are widely used in fruit grow ing sections. The new tolerances will be applicable to practically all of this year's pear and apple crops here as few pears and no apples from this district . ha va been shipped, fruit men said. The present tolerances art .025 for lead and .01 for arsenic, so that the lead tolerance has been doubled and the arsenic tolerance more than doubled. The tolerance relaxation will eliminate the necessity of using heat to remove the chemicals from the fruit and to this ex tent will reduce expense in plants where heat has been re quired in. the past, it was ex plained. A wash in cold hydro chloric acid will be sufficient to remove the chemicals under the new tolerance, it was stated. The county agent's office is issuing a statement advising ap plication of the sixth and year's last cover spray in orchards where worms are a problem. Ordinarily in a season there are one calyx spray and five cover sprays, a sixth cover spray be ing advised if worms are bad. It was explained. The final spray should be applied before August 20, the county agent's office said. NEW STALL TRIED ' IN BRIDGES CASE . Washington, Aug. lt.4P) A senate immigration subcommit tee recommended today the at torney general be directed to in vestigate the case of Harry Bridges, west coast maritime labor leader, to determine whether he should be deported as an undesirable alien. Overriding Chairman Kin (D-Utah), Senators Austin R Vt.) and Schwellenbach (D Wash.) voted to substitute this proposal for a bill approved by the house several weeks ago which would direct deportation of Bridget. King said he would seek re versal of this vote by the full committee. ROOSEVELT EYES Newport. R. I., Aug.' 11 W President Roosevelt Inspected a vital defense area today and paused in the shadow of the frigate Constellation to say the Newport training station once more would become one of he navy's main training centers and that work at the torpedo plant was well up to schedule. He said hit visit carried htm back to 1917 when he was assistant secretary of the navy and the training tUtlon was turned into one of navy's biggest.