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CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and
ROBERT KINTNER
Rolouod br tha
Worth Amarlean Nowipapor
Allianca. Inc.
Washington, Aug. 17 If a
fundamental Issue and personal
ill-feeling were not Involved,
the dispute over the justice de
partment's ant 1-trust suits
against the' major oil companies
would be a most amusing story.
Surprisingly enough, the dis
pute pits the very voluble and
tough-talking assistant attorney
general Thurman Arnold against
the equally voluble and tough
talking defense commissioner
Leon Henderson, even though
each has a reputation as a trust
buster. The war changed many things
In government, including the ad
ministration's habit of a weekly
crack-down on business, and this
change produced the Arnold
Henderson feud. How the feud
developed has significance. It
resulted in a temporary dis
agreement between Arnold and
his boss. Attorney General Rob
ert H. Jackson. It brought some
ridiculous charges. And most im
portant, before the problem is
settled finally, the president will
probably have to decide a fun
damental issue of the national
defense program.
"THE story is fairly simple, and
the conflict almost Inevit
able. It dates back several
weeks when Arnold was ready
to file his suits against the oil
companies. He had spent many
months preparing his cases, and
hoped to force divestiture of
pipe line ownership from mar
keting facilities and to stop al
leged price-fixing.
Arnold made no secret of his
intentions, and practically every
one in the business knew that
the time was near when the oil
companies would be hauled into
court once more.
As Arnold was finishing up
his work, William S. Knudsen
and Edward Stettinius and the
rest of the defense commission
began to negotiate with the
same oil companies. The com
mission wanted the companies
to spend around $500,000,000 to
construct new plants to manu
facture Synthetic rubber, and to
build new pipe lines and other
facilities.
ARNOLD Intended to file the
suits on July 29, but on July
26 the matter came up at a de-
fense commission meeting. How
the defense commission came to
be consulted is a matter of dis
pute, but the official version is
that Arnold suggested it, in ac
cordance with a
agreed procedure.
previously
In any event, he and his assis
tants talked the matter over
with Blackwell Smith, a former
N.R.A. lawyer, now with thetry" and said, "there 11 be a
defense commission. Because he hot time in the old town to
is a corporation lawyer with
strong views on the justice de
partment's trust-busting pro
gram. Smith was careful not to
express an opinion to his employers.
Knudsen and Stettinius having republican national committee,
just come to government from j Martin said the In'dianan's nom
the biggest of all businesses, i jnalion had been dictated by the
wefe equally reluctant, but they
did give their view that the
prosecutions came at a bad
"psychological time." However,
they made no recommendations
at the meeting of the full com
mission. The person who spoke most
vigorously and emphatically
was Henderson, who is one of
the most active members of the
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Port'ard. Aug 17. 4 An -
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interim committee namea oy
7n.awi..i Knnniia aanll Mnatrfr
proposals for changes in
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workman's compensation act at
a public hearing here Monday.;
BULLETIN
Oakland 7 1J
Sn Dieso 6 8 2
Buxton, Mulligan and Rai
mondi; Newsome and Salkeld.
HOME IN
ACCEPTANCE TALK
BLASTSNEW DEAL
Foreign Policy of Roosevelt,
'Courts War" Vast Throng
Told Outlines Own Pro
gram. Br William B. Ardorr
Elwood, Ind., Aug. 17. 0P)
Formally accepting the Republi
can presidential nomination be
fore .a wildly cheering crowd
in a circus-day setting, Wendell
L. Willkie proposed in "dead
earnest" today that President
Roosevelt meet him in a scries
of public debates on major cam
paign issues.
A sweltering crowd, estimat
ed by Police Chief Mike Mor
rissey of Indianopolis at 130,000
and by Homer Capehart, gener
al chairman, at 250,000, packed
Callaway park once a cow
pasture in which Willkie played
as a boy for the ceremonies
and interrupted the perspiring
nominee repeatedly with shouts,
whistles and handclapping.
He criticized the administra
tion's foreign policy and assert
ed that the president "has court
ed a war for which the country
is hopelessly unprepared and
which it emphatically does not
want."
His listeners, many of whom
had slept in Callaway park ov
ernight in order to obtain choice
seats, were scattered through
clumps of trees. But the burning
Indiana sun brought perspira
tion to every brow.
Willkie made it plain he be
lieves that the United States Is
"not Isolated from those suffer
ing people of Europe."
"No man can guarantee
peace," he continued. "Peace Is
not something that a nation can
achieve by itself. It also de
pends upon what some other
country does."
"Useless Attacks"
Although saying that "the
president's attacks on foreign
powers have been useless and
dangerous," Willkie added that
"I trust I have made it plain
that in the defense of our
American liberties, I should not
hesitate to stand for war."
"But, like a great many oth
er Americans, I saw war at
; first hand in 1917. 1 know what
war can do to demoralize civil
liberties at home. And I believe
it to be the first duty of a
president to try to maintain
j peace."
Willkie came to Callaway
park after a hot trip from
Rushville, Ind., the home town
of Mrs. Willkie.
He was greeted by cheering
throngs as he drove through
I the streets of Elwood. A crowd
shouted with glee as he stood
on the steps of his old hign
school under an inscription
reading "the hope of our coun-
night."
Formally Notified
Willkie received formal noti
fication of his nomination from
Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of,
Massachusetts, chairman of the
people, not oy . cuqu u. ,"
tiCianS.
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In his debate challenge Committee of Industrial Drgani
the president, Willkie proposed j Mt,on itboT7 oppo
"that during the next two and sition ,0 conscrlption ln , brlef
a half months, the president and i)terview hefe tween
I appear together on PubIic trains
platforms in various parts of the Lew)j m route frQm SeaM,e
country, to debate the funda- L WMn,ngtoIli D. c nid ..our
mental jsues of this campaign - natlonal institutions cannot be
"These are the problems of j cctsstMy defended by an ar
our great domestic economy as , my of conicripUtn,t u not
well as of our national defense: , force we need to pToXeci our
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ations to guard against assault.
Willkie told his audience that
the president had encouraged o establish bigger armies which
European powers to hope for:.. iv. MW .
more American help than wiwh,ch would make promotions
country could give. But, the
nominee added, an honest ap
praisal of our relationship with
Great Britain would bring an
4 admission "that the loss of the
Britijh fleet would grcstlv
- . weaken our defense." and
Iwould b "a calamity for us,"
Where British.
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Shaded areas show how British fliori poundod tho Gorman
held French coast in tho Calais-LeHavre region and Carman
bombers struck back at southern and northeastern England.
ITALIANS CLAIM
THREATEN GREECE
Br the Associated Press
Rome. Aug. 17. The battle
for British Somaliland has been
won, the Italian high command
claimed tonight, as fascist
spokesmen warned pro-British
Greece that she must now recog
nize Italian demands "or suffer
the consequences."
The fighting in Somaliland a
British protectorate along the
Gulf of Aden which adjoins the
fascist east African empire was
declared substantially over. A
military communique announced
that the defenders had been en
circled, both its wings driven
in, and had abandoned to a lost
battlefield "hundreds" of Rhode
sian and native Indian dead.
Many prisoners were taken
the communique added, as well
as great stores of war materials
and food, and British warships
anchored in the port of Berbers.
Somaliland, were "badly" dam
aged, by aerial attack.
The main ground fighting,
which had raged for five days,
was at Jerato Pass, in the vicin
ity of Adadleh, some 39 miles
from Berbera, the capital and
chief port, and the high com
mand reported fascist troops
were "inflexibly" continuing
the march on that key town, to
which it was said the defenders
had retreated.
It was acknowledged that the
British had bombed the Italian
aviation camp at Bassa and it
was said, too, that they had
raided houses in Jijiga "with
out any results."
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Local CoupU to Reno
Reno, Nev., Aug. 17. in
A marriage license was isued
here today to Floyd V. Palmer.
32. and Anne Kantor, 38, both
iMedford, Ore.
Germans Struck
MENACED BY FIRE
FLEE
Portland, Aug. 17. W A
Wind-whipied brush fire swept
over ths city's west hills to
night, forcing residents of near
ly 100 homes to flee.
Two homes were reported de
stroyed by the flames which
covered a mile of almost tinder
dry brush in an hour.
Several hundred city and
county firemen, aided by vol
unteers and 60 CCC workers
from Camp Reeher, were fight
ing the blaze which was report
ed controlled earlier in the a:yy.
The Laidlaw and McDonald
roads, chief arteries of the Sky
line area, were reported blocked
by fire and smoke. Both high
ways were thronged with fleeing
refugees, their cars piled high
with personal belongings. Many
persons were leading livestock.
One fleeing resident said the
Bonny Slope schoolhouse and
store were In flames when he
passed. A cabin and stables
were reported destroyed by
their owner.
Fifteen volunteer fighters
were trapped for a time by rap
idly advancing flames.
BIG CROWD SEES
The Medford Round-up Days
held at the fairgrounds last
night drew a crowd estimated
by Vera Shangle at 2,500 that
completely filled the grand
stand, and added bleachers. The
performance will be repealed
today starting at two o'clock.
Practically every section of
southern Oregon and Jackson
county was represented ln the
downtown parade that preceed
ed the evening show. The Sher
iff's Posse of Klamath County,
a similar organization of this
county, headed by Sheriff Syd
I. Brown, and the Ashland Trail
Riders, and cowboys from the
Applegate, Chiloquin and other
sections participated. It was the
'Kiiiuin I"" ' -
l. ji..u. hiru.flxh in
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mis cut in years, mu iw-o:u
a lurie street crowd.
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courx. composea o, rr.nwj.
J, Susan Vilas, Jerry mincn, nar-
iricnarrow and Nancy Day al-
riet Sparrow and Nancy Day al-
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ceremonies.
Joe Mendes won the bulldog
gipg contest, time: 9 2-S sees.
Hugh Jones of Central Point.
was firit In calf roping. Noah
Henry won the wild cow milk
j Ing race, and George Miller the
Ibusiness mens race.
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AFTER DAY'S LULL
Mystery Lay-Off Brings Brit-;
ish Counter Attack in
France, Africa.
(By tho Associated Pross.
London, Aug. 18. (Sunday)
German warbirds, as if roused
from their roost by British at
tacks on France, bombarded
southwest England early today
and roaied over the Midlands,
following a mysterious all-day
"holiday" Saturday.
The royal air force, capitaliz
ing on this interim, visited the
German positions on the French
coast late last night and staged
a brilliant fireworks show of
their own.
Rumbling exolosions rever
berated across the channel, and
watchers cn England's bomb
pocked shore saw the sheet
lightning cf bomb bursts on the
continent, along with the Hare
of nazi "flaming onlnn" anti
aircraft projectiles and the ra
pier thrusts of searchlights.
The Germans, who had lain
off Britain from dawn, to post
dark Saturday, sent a few planes
over late lost night, and return
ed to the attack on an undis
closed scale today. .
There was no explanation
why the nazis sent over only
sc-jutlng planes during the day
ifght Saturday after six con
secutive days of heavy attack
which continued up to dawn
Saturday.
But the British navy and air
force joined In counter-blows
against their axis enemies on
both Africa and Europe.
Eleven Italian planes were
shot down Saturday, the admir
alty said, when they attempted
to combat bombardment of tne
Libyan coast by British planes
and warships.
DAY OF DAYS FOR
WIFE OF NOMINEE
Elwood, Ind., Aug. 17. (IP
Her face flushed from the heat
her white sandals dusty, but her
large blue eyes shining with
pride, Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie
put this day Saturday, August
17 down as one she will al
ways remember.
From a vantage point on the
platform she watched her hus
band be notified that he was the
republican presidential nom
inee. She rode beside him. sit
ting on the top of the back seat
of an open automobile, In a pa
rade tbrough his native town.
It was hot terribly hot.
There were crowds. They
packed the side walka of the
small city and filled the streets
so that the cars in the Willkie
parade kept in line only by
staying bumper-to-bumper. Dust
swirled like a gray mist.
"But wasn't it thrilling
amazing." Mrs. Wilkie said af
terward when she boarded the
special train to take the family
back to Rushville for a few days
visit.
DENIES HE'S 'RED'
Los Angeles, Aug. 17. (JP)
rrederie March, handsome film
- - r.r ih.m . AmmJl
' T ' -V f'j
I istic affiliation today before the
: i ,(
congressional committee Investi
gating unAmerican activities.
March snapped: "If John L.
Leach (former communist party
member who has been testifying
before the committee and a loc
al grand Jury regarding Red ac
tivities) has said I am a com
munist or have communist sym
pathies, he's an unmitigated li-
-ar
The actor, was accompanied
- by his wife, added, " I am an
j American and my sympathies
'ara wholly American."
DEFENSE PARLEY
Course of Action Discussed
at Border Meeting State-
ment Due Today.
Odgensburg. N. Y., Aug. 17.
(V-The President of the Unit
ed States and the prime minis
ter of Canada, isolpted behind
the drawn blinds of a private
railway car, talked over tonight
a specific course of Canadian
American action for defense of
the western hemisphere.
It was a conference which
President Roosevelt had admit
ted in advance might result in
stronger ties with the dominion
than ever before.
It coincided, furthermore, with
a clear-cut Indication from the
chief executive of continued
American adherence to a policy
of coming to the aid of the do
minion against any attack from
overseas.
W. L. Mackenzie King, the
prime minister, motored down
from Ottawa with Jay Plei re
port Moffatt, American minister
to Canada, and began his parley
with Mr. Roosevelt within a
stone's throw of the unforti
fied border.
They dined alone and then
the Prcsident'i train was mov
ed from Ogdensburg to the near
by, quiet village of Neuveltor.
At a press conference preced
Ing the conference with Mac
kenzie King, Mr. Roosevelt was
asked whether tho prospects of
stronger tier with Canada meant
that "we'll defend Canada." He
referred to a statement made
two years ago to the day, that
the United States would not
stand idly by if the dominion
were threatened and said his
words still were good today.
The conference tonight ' was
pitched on an informal plane.
In contrast with customary dip
lomatic protocol. But it was in
keeplnq with the fact that the
participants have been close
personal friends for years.
There was to be no additional
news on the meeting tonight,
Mr. Roosevelt let reporters
know, but he said he might
have something to say about it
tomorrow.
SURPRISE READY
By Louis P, Lochner.
With the German Army on
the French Coast, Aug. 17. if)
What I saw in three days with
German troops on this coastline
opposite England Indicates Adolf
Hitler has another surprise
ready.
On 'he surface there Is little
that meets the ey to suggest
the Imminence of an attempt to
invade Enplind.
But what I saw was more than
enough to convince me that Hit
ler, if and when der tag comes,
will one again surprise the
world.
And it Is all being done to
methodically and with such pre
cision that he can set the zero
hour as he chooses, Irrespective
of wind and weather and seanon.
UPSTATE SIZZLES
IN RECORD HEAT
Salem, Ore., Aug. 17. 0P
Sunstroke, an almost unknown
ailment In the Willamette val
ley, was suffered by Carl L
Donavan, 26. of the Salem vicin
ity today as the official tempera
ture rose to 102 degrees, highest
of the year. Donavan was
brought to a salem hospital.
Portland, Ore., ug. 17. Pi
The temperature soared to 99
degrees here today, setting
new record for the year. Pre
vious high was June 11, when
the mercury reached 97,
The official temperature here
yesterday was 99 degrees.
Britain Defiant
London, Aug. 17. (IP)
Minister of Information Al
fred Duff Cooper broadcast
a dare to Adolf Hitler tonight
to carry out his threat to
Invade Britain.
"We arc quite ready to
receive him now and we shall
really be very disappointed
if he does not turn up," Duff
Cooper declared.
SEA BLOCKADE OF
NAZIS IMPERILS
Liable to Bombing Attack
Berlin Reports, if Present
Course Followed.
(By Associated Press)
Berlin, Aug. 17 The German
government washed its hands
of responsibility tonight for the
safety of the U. S. ship Amer
ican Legion, carrying Americans
home from Petsamo. Finland.
It said the United States gov
ernment had declined to heed
a German warning to keep the
American Legion out of British
waters mined today under a
new, formally proclaimed total
blockade of the sea around
Britain.
Conceivably, under the Ger
mans' own announced terms for
the blockade, the American
Legion might be subject to
bombing attack as soon as she
appeared in British waters.
The blockade communique
said specifically that "airplanes
will attack every ship" and that
every ship which sails in this
area in the future exposes itself
to the danger of destruction."
Before the blockade was pro
claimed, however, the govern
ment had said that as an army
ship of a neutral, the American
Legion would not be molested
by Germany. ,
If the ship, with nearly 900
American refugees from Europe
aboard, pursues its outlined
course between the British is
land of Rona and Cape Wrath
it will do so at its own risk,
Germany advised the United
States orally through the U. S.
embassy here.
The American Legion sailed
from Petsamo Friday night.
The announced course of the
American Legion, U. S. army
transport on the special refugee
repatriation mission, will take it
close off the northwest coast
of Scotland.
The course from Petsamo, on
Finland's arctic shore, to Cape
Wrath Is about 1,700 miles,
more than two days' steaming
time.
This, it was pointed out,
leaves time for the United States
to re-instruct the master and
advise the various governments
of a proposed new course.
The American embassy here
declined any comment as to
what might be done.
Northern California: Fair
Sunday, with local fogs on coast
night and morning; normal tem
perature; gentle variable wind
off coast, but moderate north
west above Cape Mendocino.
Oregon: Fair Sunday, with
local fogs cn coast; warmer in
southwest and northeast portion
tonight; moderate northerly
win off coast.
Outlook for the far western
states for August 17 to 21, ln-
clusiyt.
The temperature will be near
normal over the entire district
with the trend slightly lower
than at present. The weather
will be dry generally, save for
a tendency to light shower ac
tivity affr the 18th a".u.ig the
Oregon-Washington coast end
over the mountains of western
Washington, western Oregon and
extreme northwestern Califor
nia. Considerable cloud and fog
will prevail on the Immediate
I California coast.
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TRAPPEDON PEAK
Crater Lake Scene of Heroic
Efforts Three Youths
Spend Night Near Death
In one of the most heroic res
cues ever consummated, three .
southern California youths were
saved yesterday after they had
spent the night on ledges of the
steep wall of Crater lake.
Trapped on the ledges Friday
afternoon, they had been un
able to move either up or down.
Park rangers risked their lives
in saving the youths. Park Su
perintendent E. P. Leavitt said
that it was the greatest and most
thrilling rescue he had wit
nessed in the 30 years he haa
been ln the national park ser
vice. Hundreds of park visitors
lined the rim at the top of the
lake wall and watched the dar
ing rescue throughout the day.
The three youths were Nor
man C. Goeckel and Bill Weide
man, of Los Angeles, and George
F. Gubser, of. Glendale. All were
17 years. old.
Aside from being somewhat
exhausted from hunger and their
harrowing experience, the boys
appeared to be all right last
night, Mr, Leavitt reported.
They were camping in one of
the rim campgrounds.
The three boys went to the.
top of Garfield peak Friday
afternoon. From the peak they
looked down the precipitous lake
wall and decided it would be
easy to descend over the face of
the cliff to the water's edge
thousand feet below, though
park visitors are warned not to
attempt such a venture but to
use the trail down to the lake.
Hazardous as the descent was,
the boys somehow managed to
get to the bottom safely.
When they got to the bottom,
however, they realized how haz
ardous the descent had been
and how even more dangerous
it would be to try to climb back
up. So they attempted fo reach,
the boat landing, two miles dis
tant. Despairing of reaching the
landing and in a desperate effort
to extricate themselves from
their dangerous position, the
youths started to make the climb
up over the steep and ragged
face of the mountain. Gubser
got about half way up when ha
got stuck. Goeckel and Weide
man got about a third of the way
up when they found themselves
on a ledge from which they
could move neither up nor down.
The boys began to yell for
help. At 8 p. m. Friday, their
cries were heard by guests at
the lodge. Park headquarters
were notified and the entire
park staff, under the direction
of Chief Ranger J. Carlisle
Crouch, swung Into rescue
action. The rangers and other
park employes were out all night
and all day yesterday.
During Friday night Ranger
Otto Foils got up as close as ha
could to the lower boys before
darkness made it hazardous for
him to proceed and he remained
on a ledge throughout the night
himself.
Shortly after daylight. Foil
reached Goeckel and Weidman
and, with other rangers assisting.
got them to the bottom of the
cliff and safety.
Gubser was in such a perilous
position that it seemed im pos
sible to reach him. When at-
(ConUnitKl oa ?H Two.)
Mrs. Val J. Fischer of 81
Summit street was taken to
Community hospital last night
for treatment of injuries suf
fered In an auto accident at
West Main and Summit streets,
Mrs. Fischer's car and on
operated by John Blackford of
the Jacksonville highway col
tided, city police reported.
Blackford was treated for minor
Injuries and released, the po
lice said. Circumstances of the
accident were being Investi
gated by the police. .