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Weather- Butmu report UnUd. forvemst: Fair tonight Friday, vvmer Friday. Temporal or Hlf ht v""r St DIAL MEDFORD Tribune 2141 tor Southern Oregon's Leading Newtptper The MAIL TRIBUNE Full Associated Pratt Full Unll.d Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940. No. 125. nfn)fn)(r jiyjjiyjii THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KIMTNER Rtltuid by the North American Newspaper Allianco. Inc. Washington, Aug. 15. The congressional leadership expects the onslaught againct England to give them easy work In pass ing the remaining measures of the defen33 program, such as the conscription bill. It is a grim thing to say, yet It Is a fact, and the fact is not with out significance. The question naturally arises, since every informed person has been expecting the onslaught on England for many weeks, why its cominj should mike it any easier to pass defence measures prepared in anticipation of it. The answer lies, of course, in congress' peculiar rhythm of response to events abroad. A large majority of members publicly or privately approve the type of foreign policy advo cated by the President and Wen dell L. Willkie. A great many of them, however, are not quite clear In their opinions -and are afraid of the Isolationist groups in their districts. Thus, when events reacn a climax, as during the battle of France, congress is ready to act rapidly and force fully. At that time, before the French collapse chanced the feel ing overnight, infonnal tests by the leaders even indicated that sentiment was growing fast for outright repeal of the neutrality act. IN the lull between climaxes. on the other hand, kind of wishful hopefulness appears that (Continued on Psge Ten.) GEARY WILL FACE HEARINGFR!DAY Preliminary hearing of Ben Geary, Trail creek district resi dent charged in a complaint with threatening the commission of a felony, will be held in Jus tice court tomorrow afternoon Gefcry, held in the county jail in lieu of $2,500 bonds, has re tained Attorney George M. Rob erts as counsel. The complaint alleges Geary appeared at the home of Jonn Warner on Trail creek last Sun day night and threatened to shoot Warner. Geary's estranged wife is housekeeper for Warner. During the course of the argu ment, according to Deputy Sher iff Willipm Grenbcmer, the ar resting officer, Mrs. Geary took action tlitt resulted in Geary departing hurriedly In his auto. Previous to calling at the Warner home. Geary is charged by his mother-in-law, Florence Godfrey, In two complaints, with disorderly conduct, upon the lie grounds he verbally abused Mrs. Godfrevand allegedly said: Til shoot that John Warner on sight ' SIDE GLANCES by TRIEUNE REPORTERS Tommy Hawkins looking par ticularly fetching in a salmon colored striped shirt with a cow boy vest of rainbow hues. Marie Woodward thinking little Kenny Kumasawa just about the cutest baby ever. Bob Ebel writing an Inform ative letter in a Mamliner. mail ing same to a friend but forget ting to put postage thereon, said friend having to shell out six cents In postage and write to Portland to redeem said letter, said letter finallv being re- reived five dayt later. j TARGETS VAST ASSAULT Royal Air Force in Heroic Defense Tyneside Ship building Area Gets Bombs London, Aug. 15. (IP) Ger man dive bombers raided Croy don airdrome late today. Ambulances and fire fighting apparatus rushed to the scene of the bombing and an eyewitness told the Associated Press there were several casualties in the streets. By the Associated Press London, Aug. 15. A thousand Nazi warplanes perhaps even thousands loosed upon Britain today the mightiest aerial of fensive ever known, and tonight German bombs fell in south Lon don at the great Croydon air drome, (Germany reported as well that her planes had fought the British over London t Tilbury docks.) They struck In Scotland; they struck in vital munitions areas of northeast England; they smashed at the long southern coast all the way from the Thames estuary leading to Lon don to Lands End, the far west ern frontier of these Islands. Great Test at Hand It was an attack of such in credible fury as to make the ceaseless assaults of three days seem but mere preliminaries. Every indication was that the hour of the great test had come at last. The Royal Air Force, defend ing this kingdom from such a blow as never was struck before. I loosed every turreted gun in itsjMaloncy ,D..Conn., which would : fichter force and criDDlcd air-1 , , ... ... . fighter force and crippled air planes fell steadily on English soil. The air ministry declared that up to 5 p. m. 55 German planes were known to have been shot down, against an acknowledged British loss of seven. The German strategy was sim-! nle: While German f mhters took on the British Hurricane ana Spitfire patrols miles above the ground from 12.000 to 15.000 feet up the Nazi bombers snaked across the coast in close formation. Tyneside Bombed "'"J"-'" """T dented raid were everytning tnai Britain has and must have . l(J keep on fighting: Shipping, ports,! munitions and industrial plants, and. above all. airports. I Known to have been bombed was the great Tyneside indus trial and shipbuilding area on the east coast near Newcastle. Not alone the coasts were hit. but the heart of the country as well. None knew how long was the list of the civilian dead. (The Germans specifically re ported certain of their object ives. Bombed, they said, were ..r, .lie ,......,.... the great Vickers armament works at Hepburn; the!"" .: ' '" V h;. port of Newcastle; Dover: other I ports, and shipping convoys in the channel.) ne armaaa wnicn rwe,mieu One Associated Press corres- over southeastern England dur pondent on the southeast coast ! ing the day was estimated at 500 but one of the areas of heavy planes and covered a strip Bp- but one ot tne areas 01 neavy action-counted six waves of 18 - . . . , heavy German bombers in less than three minutes. No less than 500 Nazi planes appeared over the southeast coast alone. PRESIDENT TO VIEW I mil ITA O Y MAUCIIVPR ! Washington, Aug. IS iPi President Roosevelt will leave Washington tomorrow for north ern New York to observe the maneuvers of the first army under Lieutenant General Drum ' The White House announced the president would spend Sat urday inspecting the military units assembled there and prob - ablv would remain Sunday to ttterd relig.ous services in the ifield. Air Box Score Berlin, Aug. 15. IP) Thirty-six British planes had been destroyed this afternoon in today's German air forays on Britain, DNB. the official German news agency, report ed tonight. Thirty were shot down in battle and six de stroyed on the ground, while four German planes are miss ing, the agency said. London, Aug. 15. IP) A total of 91 German planes were shot down in today's as saults on Britain, the air min istry announced tonight. Nineteen British fighters were downed, but five of their pilots were safe. DRAFT BILL TIEUP WITH ROAD PLAN LATEST PROPOSAL Washington, Aug. 15. M" Senator Downey (D.-Cal.l pro posed today that the Burk Wadsworth compulsory military service bill include provision for construction of a national system of super-highways to furnish Jobs, for conscripts com pleting army training. Such an undertaking, Downey told the senate, would "elimin ate" unemploymetn and would solve one of the chief problems likely to follow conscription. Most conscripts would be taken from the ranks of the un employed, the Californian ar gued. He said they should not be turned out of training camps without jobs. Downey opened the fifth day of senate debate opthe legisla tion. To reporters he had said that he had not decided how he would vote on It finally, al though he planned to support a aeiay conscription un-.n January 1 at least. Downey's highway amend ment wculd authorize the presi dent to begin construction of suTl"hv,y w,th mon.ey fu,? IU9IICU V-' MIC iri.UU3lIUI.llUII i- nance corporation. Draftees who naa completed a year s irainn.g would be given preference in employment on the roads. Tacoma, Aug. 15. IIP) Dave Beck of Seattle, international i renresentative of the Teamsters' union, addressing a meeting of Tarnma Teamsters here last niaht announced he is sumrort. xr4i , . VI". 1M 1 L.IVl A-l. .(.o, .( " i re-election, Incoming Air Armadas Seen By Correspondents on Coast By Robert E. Bunnelle On the Southeast Coast of England. Aug. 15 Pi Ger many sent uncounted hundreds of bombing and fighting planes . Hi.in n. ".The coun tVy "ves in the heart of the country. piaim ana raveicu "! v- proximately 30 miles wide, but : i : . i nth. reports indicated that otneri waves of almost equal strength were being thrown across the coast all the way from the I Thames estuary to Land t End in the west. During a three-hour afternoon raid the Germans followed the same tactics by which some 150 heavy bombers had been maneu vered across the coast during the morning. While the German fighters engaged the British Hurricane parts and finally crashed behind j of the Allen Creek road, drown and Spitfire patrols in deadly 'a headland, leaving a tall col- ed todav in an irrigation ditch dogfights from 12,000 to lS.OOOiumn of heavy black smoke. feet up. the bombers crossed the At this moment the roar of '" ' "- - flew inland. From the balcony of my hotel I counted six waves of 18 heavy GREEK CRUISER E Submarine Stalks Ship in Port bf Tinos Peace of Balkans May Be Affected By Ben Ames U. P. Staff Correspondent Athens, Aug. 15 (U.R The Greek navy's personnel was ord ered to report to ships immedi ately tonight following the tor pedoing and sinking of the mine laying cruiser Helle, 2.115 tons, as it lay flag-decked at anchor off the port of Tinos this morn ing. Motorcycle couriers raced through Athens streets recalling navy men on leave as the gov ernment maintained silence re garding torpedoing of the ship by an unidentified submarine. Although there was no official speculation as to the Identity of the submarine, diplomats noted increasing tension between Italy and Greece and reports spread that Italy was about to make territorial demands on Greece in behalf of herself and Albania. Two Torpedoes Mist The submarine, which fired while submerged off the Agean harbor of Tinos, sent one torpedo crashing into the Helle, killing one and wounding 29, while two torpedoes missed the ship and exploded against a quay packed with pilgrims, many of them children, celebrating the festival of the Assumption, for which the destroyed ship had been decorated. The sinking of the Helle was regarded as an incident which might affect the peace of the Balkans, already at a crisis be cause of Italian charges that Greece had instigated the slay ing of an Albanian patriot. AGRICULTURE POST dent Roosevelt to order 396.000 Washington, Aug. 15. IIP) national guardsmen and organ Secretary of Agriculture Henry ized army reservists into active A. Wallace, the democratic vice-' service was passed today by the presidential nominee, handed . house. President Roosevelt his letter The vote was 342 to 33. of resignation from the cabinet today during the course of an hour luncneon conference. The secretary said the letter ,,, ih h. man miMic hv the I - r . - - . u . 1 .. t .. pi t-siu t-u i imici. German bomben In less than three minutes. This morning I saw three Ger man planes shot down. This afternoon a direct hit from an anti-aircraft gun liter ally blasted a fourth Messcr schmitt out of the sky. I had my field glasses trained on him when a shell struck the ! plane fairly amidships. The plane bounded almost 100 feet. hpnk, in ,. ,h.n nune ini0 brk Aeoiu tne sea. n column VI water least 100 yards high shot up. This was just outside my win dow, so close that machine gun bullets and spent fragments of Jagged shrapnel were embedded in the walls outside. Two of the barrage ballons I protecting the coast came down in flames. I saw a German plane throw a three-second burst of machine gun bullets into one of the bags. , The balloon fell in five flaming ; muium i.,, u nmu mi ui;io warcn ior tne musing cmm. sky. They sound like heavy Ger- tried unsuccessfully to revive man bombers on their way him while a call was sent for the i home. cit't rcsuscitator. ATTAH IF - Historic Conscription Debate Is Waged The seldom photographed United States senate Is shown In action during debate on the Burke-Wadiworth compulsory mlliiar-f training bill. When picture was mad Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont) (white arrow) had the floor at ha talked against the measure. Presiding wat Sen. Key Pittman (D-Nev) (on rostrum, extreme right) during absence from Washington of Vic Presi dent Garner. In front of Pittman are executive clerkt and on slept of rostrum are page boys. Front row, (leit to right): Benatora W. F. Austin (R-Vt.)i Frederick Hale (RMe.)j R. A. Taft (R-Ohlo)i W. H. White (R-Me.) Alexander Wiley (R-Wit.)i Majority Leader Allen W. Berkley (D-Ky.)i (next man It court reporter)! W. F. George )D-Qa.) L. J. Frasier (R-ND)t Frederick van Nuyi (D-Ind.) Second row (left to right): Morrlt Sheppard (D-Tex.)i Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont.)i B. C. Clark (D-Mo.)t P. G. Gerry (D-RI)i M. M. Neely (D-W. Va.)i Josh Lee (D-Okla.)t A. J. Ellender (D-li.)i W. J. Bulow (D SD). Third row (left to light)! Henry F. Aihurst (stand-, lng. D-Arls.); Tom Connelly (D Tex.)i Prentiss Brown (hand to head, D-Mich.)! J. H. Overton (D-La.)t (next man is Overton's clerk)) E. D. Thomas (D-Uiah). Last row (left to right)! Vic Dona hey (DOhlo)i Edward R. Burke (D-Neb.l, co-author of the bills Joseph Guffey (far right. D-Pa.) Tom Stewart (extreme right. D-Tenn). Seated along wall at rear are members of the house of representatives and clerks. House REFUSE TO LI TO U. S. Washington, Aug. 15 HP) i legislation auinorizuiK r-rvi- The bill, which would permit ! use of the reserves and guard In Ithe western hemisphere, Amerl- can possessions or Philippine i islands, now noes back to the ( ..... , n tnr innsiHprnlinn nf .... - - i house amendments. Passage came after the mem bers had defeated. 210 to 110, an i amendment by Rep. Miller (R- Conn) to limit use of the reserv ists to the continental United States and its island possessions, the Philippine islands, the Pan ama Canal .one, and Alaska. The measure would empower the president, until June 30, 1942, to call up for a one-year training period 227.000 national guardsmen, 116.000 reserve offi cers. 38.000 enlisted reserves. .3.700 retired officers and 12,000 ' retired enlisted men. Guardsmen with dependents would be permitted to resign I within 20 days after they were !rrirt in or-tiv. H,,iv r in ,, . J "Ul'h a"owanCC fo' dTL"" Hpnl, 'at mav he nrf-rih1 hv dents "as may be prescribed by the president." LITTLE BOY DROWNS Grants Pass. Aug. 15 UPt Lee Krottmger. 2. son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Krottinger 'Elmer Purvis. 11. one of five j boys asked by Mrs. Krottinger Approves Guard Call Churchill Accused of Lying During Parliamentary Squall London, Aug. 15. (U.PJ Prime Minister Winston Churchill, warning commons that the danger of invasion to Britain has not passed, today met the severest parliamentary squall of his premiership over hit anti-fifth column drive. The fight centered on Churcn-i Ill's refusal to give the house detailed information on the activities of a co-ordinating agency against fifth column activity which is headed by Lord Swinton. Before the row was over Churchill had been accused by one member of "lying and innu endo" and a laborite member had been challenged to a fight by a fellow party member. Churchill declined to answer detailed questions about the Swinton agency on grounds It would prejudice the nation's de fense. He heatedly told one critic, Austin llopkinson, independent, that he had obstructed Church ill's pre-war defense efforts. BASEBALL National League New York 1 8 3 Boston 12 18 2 Melton, Dean, Joiner and Dunning. Odea; Posedcl, Sulliv an and Berres, Masi. Philadelphia 4 Brooklyn 2 Hlgbe and Warren; Grlssom and Phelps. 9 0 5 4 Wyatt. Cincinnati 0 5 0 Chicago 15 0 Derringer and Lombard!; Pas seau and Todd. American. First game: R. H. E. Washington 0 15 0 Philadelphia 4 14 2 Hudr-on and Ferrell; Caster and Wogrer. Boston ........... 11 14 V.u. Vnrlr t , 3 Hevlng and 'Foxx; Bonham, rladley, Breuer, Murphy and Dickey. Chicago 4 10 r-l.t.l.nl 1 . Lee and Treih; Milnar, Allen and Hemsicy- WILLKIE TAKES ME FOR INDIANA HOME 10 Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 15 OP Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nomi nee, departed by chartered air plane at 1:24 p. m. (MST) today for Indiana where he will make hit acceptance address at Elm wood Saturday. Willkie arranged to address a crowd at. the Kansas City air port (about 2:35 p. m. PST) dur ing a brief stop. His chartered plane waa scheduled to arrive in Indianapollt at about fl p. m. ' (PST) tonight, and he then will I' motor to Rushville. Ind., the 1 home town of Mrs. Willkie. The acceptance address which Willkie will deliver Saturday at his own home town, probably will cover the general range of campaign Issues, as well at con scription. He gave the address a last minute going over yesterday and tent it to the printer. On the eve of his departure from his vacation hotel, Willkie renewed hit demand that the Democratic national committee return fundi paid for advertis ing in party campaign books and suggested creation of "an impar tial board", to enforce election laws. STAGES TO OPERATE , ON WILLAMETTE ROUTE Salem, Aug. 15. IIP) Pacific Greyhound stages received per I mission from Public Utilities Commissioner Ormond R. Bean today to operate over the new Willamette highway between 1 1 Goshen and Klamath Falls. The 1 ! service will reduce the distance : between Portland and Klamath 'Falla by 38 miles. J9AB In Senate FIRE IN THEATER Tl last night ravaged storage rooms and costuming departments In the civic Elizabethan theater In Ashland, destroying the majority of costumes for male playera and caused extensive smoke) damage to the remainder of the raiment. Despite the sevciet loss, production heads definitely declared this morning that "tha show will go on," and are mak ing preparations to garb player In all available makeshift at tire for tonight's show. The blaze was discovered around 12 o'clock last night by two small boyt who were pass ing through the park and saw the flare through an open win dow. They Immediately called the fire department which ex tlngulshed the blaze before it could spread to the front of tha stage. 82.000 Damage. Damage wat estimated at an proximately $2,000. The blaza started In the men's dressing; room on the west side of tha rear state. Inves'.igatort this morning declared that either at amouldeiing, forgotten cigaretta or a short In the wiring could be responsible. William David (Continued on Pace Thraa.) WINDSORS SET SAIL FOR BAHAMA HOME Hamilton, Bermuda. Aug, 15. IIP) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor sailed away from Ber muda today on the last leg of their journey to the Bahamas. The Duke arrived here week ago with his American born Duchess enroute to Nassau to take over his post as governor of the Bahamas. They crossed the Atlantic from Lisbon, Por- i tugal. aboard the U. 'Excalibur. S. liner
