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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1940.
No. 122.
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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?"
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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
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Bomb Targets in Britain
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.