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DIAL 2141 Jot Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE II ZalUCT r Butmu rtport Forcat: Fair tonight and TufmUv. little chant m tem perature. Trmprratur I! i tint jrturday , ,. M Lowest thit morning . M Medford Tribune Full Associated Pra Aill Unll.d Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1940. No. 128. iru J omUU M.) I ... ... .11 - ' - ' ' THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by tha North Amarican Newspaper Allianca. Inc. Washington, Aug. 19. Now that Ambassador to France Wil liam C. Bullitt has returned lrom his rest In the north, it is possible to tell a coherent story of his role during the days of the fall of France. It is a story which does Bullitt considerable credit, and explains several mys terious points about his behavi or. Yet for all its odd detail and matter-of-factness of incident, it is also a sad and terrible tale for our times, enacted against the background of one of the great source-cities of our culture. WHY did Bullitt stay in Paris, when the French govern ment, to which he was accredit ed, had departed for Bordeaux? This is the question which most puzzles the professional diplo mats in Washington. The answer is fairly simple. He was asked to do so, in order to serve as un official governor of the French capital until the German occupa tion took place. Bullitt's decision to remain in the capital was made a week before Paris fell, when the thought that Paris might have to be abandoned first became a certainty in the minds of his friends, the French leaders. Naturally he had : already dis cussed the possibility of the fall of Paris with the president and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. DEING a fairly romantic fel- low, he personally wished to follow the example of American Minister Gouverneur Morris, who was the only diplomat to remain in Paris during the ter ror; of old Minister Washburn, the only diplomat to hang on thru the German siege in 1870 and the ensuing time of the com' mune; and of Ambassador My' ron C. Herrick, who stayed be hind when the government fled in 1914. The point was not definitely acttled, however, until Bullitt discussed the problem with French Premier Paul Reynaud (Continued From Pas Four.) BASEBALL National R. H. E. Boston 3 9 0 Pittsburgh 0 8 1 Errickson and Berres; Bow man and Femandes. Score: R. H. E. New York 9 14 0 Cincinnati 2 8 1 Hubbell and Danning; Der ringer, Riddle, Shoffner, Hutch in gs, and Lombard!, Wilson. American R. H. E. Cleveland 7 12 2 Boston 18 14 1 Dobson, Humphries, Dorsett, and Hemsley, Pytlak; Heving and Foxx. Detroit at New York post poned; rain. SIDE GLANCES TRIEUNE REPORTERS Socks Biddle and Elizabeth Brown presenting an unusual problem to a grocer when they desired to purchase only half a loaf of bread. John Mofrat spending the first day of his vacation cutting the lawn and doing other out-of-door chores. Mrs. Nion Tucker and chil dren Nan and Nion Jr., beini the best looking and only fam ily trio competing in rodeo af fairs. Mayno Coleman getting a lit tle gallant aid from Gene Ham ilton when her horse became frisky at sight of Rosey Rosen baum's railroad tracks. DIRECT INVASION BY NAZI TROOPS 1 I Britain Girds for Life-Death . Battle New Defense Order Fierce Counter Air Attacks. Berlin, Aug. 19. 0JP.V Ger man sources tonight blamed "bad weather" for the off-again on-again character of the air attack on Britain but contended that the delay to German plans was not serious. London, Aug. 19. (P) The war office announced tonigni the British had withdrawn from Somaliland. , " The announcement' said the withdrawal was decided upon as an alternative to reinforcing the British garrison there, with reserves who would be of greater use in places more important to tha prosecution of the war.- "All guns except two lost in the early stages of the action have been embarked," the an nouncement said. "A great part of the material stores has also been evacuated and the remainder destroyed. Our wounded have been safely brought away." The Italian communique today declared the British were with drawing to their ships at Ber bers, capital and chief port of Britain's Somaliland protecto rate. Italian "spokesmen said a i "little Dunkerque was being staged there like the British re treat from Flanders under a storm of German air attacks. (Rome sources said the British force in Somaliland was about 7.000, mostly Rhodesians and Indian troops.) (Br the Associated Press) London, Aug. 19. All of Britain was made a defense area today as the nation, already fighting in history's greatest air battle, got set for a life-or-death struggle to defend its soil. Zero Hour Near With the Germans apparently nearing the zero hour for their attempt to smash Britain into submission by direct invasion, the British launched a thunder ing attack against the Nazi-held French coast and claimed their air fighters were parrying Nazi air blows with an increasingly favorable advantage. The British, warned that the week to come may decide the balance of air power, manned their anti-aircraft defenses con stantly. The order to make the isles a defense area subject at a mo ment's notice to drastic edicts by closely cooperating civil and military authorities was issued as a "precautionary measure" by the ministry of home security. . Regional commissioners for England, Wales and Scotland will have authority, it said, "sub ject to control and direction of the ministry of home security, to issue directions or orders re quired for the purposes of de fense within their respective areas." Until now, only a 20-mile strip of the eastern and southern coasts from the Scottish border to Portland had been a defense area. Two-Way Bombing Again today bomber traffic over the English channel was two-way after a Sunday ex change of raids in which both sides pounded at sources of I enemy strength. Apparently attempting to de stroy or immobilize Britain s air force, waves of Nazi planes struck at strategically-placed air dromes, twice causing Sunday air raid alarms in London. But, the British declared, the Nazi achieved little success at great cost, losing planes at a rate of more than nine to one of Britain's. One German bomber was said to have been shot down this morning in the southwest. But up to late afternoon there had been only sporadic raids. 'German rrports said Nazi fliers were engaged primarily In wide spread scouting of southern England. They declared two. possibly three. British planes had been shot down in "(mall'' air fightsj Perspiring Willkie Accepts Beads of perspiration covered the forehead of Wendell L. Willkie as ha made his speech accepting the nomination for presi dent In Elwaod, Ind. A crowd eatimated between 150,000 and 250.000 persons heard him. - - . - LAUDED BY COURT, BUT PLEAJENIED Seattle, Aug. 19 (IP) San J Quentin penitentiary's public speaking course came in for high praise today in federal court when a "graduate," Frede rick M. Robbins, 32-year-old Canadian, pleaded guilty for entering the United States illeg ally. Despite Robbins' half-hour oration on why he should be given a suspended sentence, Judge Lloyd L. Black said he could not suspend sentence be cause of Robbins' prior record. Robbins was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. Robbins recited that he had just completed a four-year sen tence in San Quentin for writing a worthless $24 check and while there took a public speaking course. Judge Black described the prisoner's address as one of the most persuasive appeals ever made in his court. Robbins said he believed the sentence sufficient punishment for both writing the check and the illegal entry charge. He said he had been further "punished" by the death of his father while Robbins was in prison. "But," he said, "it was not the greatest punishment I received That came when my father died last January. I know he died only because I was in prison. His death was a great blow to me as he also had been a mother to me since my mother died when was young " Chungking, Aug. 19. IIP) , Japanese bombers attacked the Chinese capital this afternoon i the fifth time In three days with a destructive intensity unparal- leled since early June. successive waves oi planes neara iaie in juiy out circuit unloaded high explosive and in-1 Judge Calvin L. Sweek of Pen cendiary bombs at intervals of dleton. who was appointed to a few minutes for two hours hear the cae. continued tin on about a third of the hitherto 'hearing so the court would pro- untouched western residential district. Buildings were destroyed or damaged and fires began burn ing in the densely Dobulaled I downtown area. CENSORS' HOLD UP OF AIR PRAY FROM AMERICA ANGERS London, Aug. 19 (IP) The censorship's nine-hour hold up of descriptions of Friday's air battles In the London area from the transmission to the United States and Canada drew editor ial protests today from the Times and the Daily Telegraph. The papers asserted that what they called "lying" German ac counts should not be allowed to gain the main attention in the press across the Atlantic for lack of news from Britain. The Daily Telegraph said The Associated Press - filed its first dispatch on Friday at 12:23 p. m. Six others on at tempted raids, all giving the facts and showing how German raiders were driven back, were filed later. "None of these was released until 9:22 p. m., nine minutes after the official account was issued to the press some time after the last editions of American evening newspapers had gone to press. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard said that Associated Press dispatches on the Friday raid "are a fair account of events, containing no informa tion who were to blame. The trouble lay in the absurd system of coordinations between the ministry, the service depart ments, and the ministry of home security. Administrative anar chy!" ON FEHL, AUG. 27 Salem, Ore., Aug. 19. UP) The final hearing in the haheous corpus case of Earl H. Fchl, former Jackson county judge seeking release from tha state hospital, will be held here Au- gust 27. I The first part of the case was vide an examination of Fehl by Portland alienists of his own The report of the alienists i will be given at the August 27 'bearing RE! PLEDGES TO STEM THREATS OF WAR Home Folks Told Ready to Make Personal Sacrifice Ickes Talks Tonight. Rushvllle, Ind., Aug. 19. (IP) Wendell L. Willkie told a "welcome home" gathering today that while bombs are raining on England "I will do anything to preserve at all hazards the kind of life we have here in Rush county." Speaking at the Informal pro gram arranged for himself and his wife, whose home town this is, the Republican presidential nominee added: "People who live and think as we do are being destroyed in their habit and their way of life. "When one in mV Situation! realizes tnat he is being called upon to play a part in keeping that holocaust from coming to this country, you must realize how deeply I feel. "I am ready to make what ever personal sacrifices may be required of me, or whatever long days and sleepless nights." Washington, Aug. 19. (IP) Secretary Ickes will open the democratic fire on Wendell Winkle's acceptance speech to night, and capital politicians ex pected him to answer the pro posal of the republican presi dential nominee for a series of joint debates with President Roosevelt on campaign issues. Ickes will broadcast an ad dress, arranged for by the dem ocratic national committee (at 8:30 to 9 p.m. EST over NBC). The republicans, meanwhile, selected Senator Bridges (R- N.H.) "to polish off Ickes" later this week. ON AERIAL LOSS (Br tha Associated Press) The box score of conflicting claim, of P'nJ"tro,y.ed '"lh!! eight days of heavy air fighting over Britain: German Claims Brltuh Oannan LoattS Lom- - 4B 10 as at as 34 1J3 38 - 38 13 -143 33 - 93 31 147 86 T73 194 CUIms Oarman Brlttth Loatee Loaaee - 80 18 63 38 63 11 71 11 11 T ISO 14 Tl 13 144 33 .. 699 153 Aug. I Aug. It . At. 13 . Aug. IS . Aug. 14 . Aug. IB . Auf. I . Aug-. 18 . Total Aug. Aug. II . Aug. 12 . Auf. 11 Aug. 14 . Aug. 15 . Aug. IS . At. 18 . Totals On the omitted dates Aug. 9, 19 and 17 there were no heavy raids. NATION'S LARGEST Ogdensburg, N. Y-, Aug. 19 (IP) The largest peacetime "war" In the nation's history opened In Tiorthern New York today with defending American "Blue" and foreign "Black" In vadcrs fighting with flreless arms, blastless bombs, pseudo tanks and blank ammunition for the gateway to vital indus trial centers. By S . m., zero hour for the mock "M day," many of the 90.000 troops through stealthy night maneuvers were arrayed along a 33-mile front stretching southward from the St. Law- rnce and sparring lor an open Mng blow AMERICAN VESSEL Radio Tells of Action Off Acapulco Early Today No Official Report. San Francisco, Aug. 19 (Pi MacKay Radio company an nounced today message had been received from the Amer ican freighter Herman Frasch stating it had been stopped and boarded bv officers of a Mexi can gunboat, off Acapulco, Mex ico. The radio message was ad dressed to all stations and all naval stations, MacKay re ported. It said "stopped and boarded 1520 GMT (720 a. m. Pacific Standard Time) by Mexican gunboat G22, 70 miles west northwest Acapulco. Not al lowed proceed. Now being hnarrimt hv irmnl fnrrra MacKay said the message was received direct by the freighter Panaman, which routed It to the SS Socasta, from whence it was broadcast to all stations. The Herman Frasch was en route from Pacific coast ports to the east coast via the Panama Canal. Acapulco Is on the Pacific side of the lower coast of Mexi co. The ship is owned by the Union Sulphur company of San Francisco, and has been en gaged in freight trade between east and gulf ports and tha west coast for more than ten years. Customarily, she picks up sul phur at gulf ports for the west coast, and carries lumber and general cargo east. The Herman Frasch left San Pedro Aug. 13 for New York. She carries a crew of 35, is 356 feet long, of 2.641 net tons. The vessel was built in 1920. TO Washington, Aug. 19 (IP) Strengthening of the Hatch poli tics law at points recently in volved in controversy between Democratic and Republican party leaders was proposed to day by Senator Hatch (D-NM), who also asked that primary elections be covered by the act. One of his amendments. Hatch said, would "make it clear that the aggregate of political contri butions which may be made by any person, directly or indirect ly, on a sing' calendar year may not exceed $5,000." RUMANIA REJECTS Turnu-Severln, Rumania, Aug. 19. (P) The Hungarian-Ru manian dispute over Transvyl vania appeared near a deadlock tonight. Rumanian negotiators, reject ing Hungary's demands for near, ly two-thirds of the agricultur ally rich province, offered coun ter proposals which the Hun- garlans apoarently regarded as far from satisfactory. Klamath Falls Noise Parade Puts End to Socialist Talk Klamath Falls. Aug. 19. (IP) John W. Aiken, socialist la bor party candidate for presi dent of the United States, com plained today about a "noise parade" he said virtually broke up a meeting he held on the courthouse steps here last night. He said the meeting was dis rupted by about 20 persons who drove their cars around and around the courthouse blowing their auto horns and creating other noise. Aiken said the horn blowers msy have thought they were "real American'' but in Oregon Gains 133,931 Washington, Aug. 19. (IP) A 14 per cent population Increase was reported today in Oregon by the census bu reau bringing the total of 1, 087.717. The state's 133,931 gain in the last decade was spread over nearly all its counties. However, the changes ranged from a decrease of 21.8 per cent in Sherman county to an Increase of 73.8 per cent in Malheur county. Changes in Oregon's cities of 10.000 or more population varied from a decrease of 2.4 per cent in Astoria to an in crease of 17.2 per cent in Salem. Portland, largest city in the state, with count of 307,572, was 1.9 per cent larger than In 1930. NOMINATED FOR WALLACES BERTH Vice-Presidential Nominee to Start Campaigning Sep tember 5. Washington, Aug. 19. (IP) Claude R. Wickard, Indiana far mer, was nominated by Presi dent Roosevelt today to succeed Henry A. Wallace, the democra tic vice-presidential nominee, as secretary of agriculture. Since last winter, Wickard has been undersecretary of ag riculture. Mr. Roosevelt also sent to the senate the nomination of Paul H. Appleby of Maryland, to suc ceed Wickard as undersecretary. Appleby has served as an assis tant to Wallace since he entered the cabinet In 1933. Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 19. (IP) President Roosevelt today accepted the resignation of Hen ry A. Wallace as secretary of agrlcultu'-, freeing his vice presidential running mate to be gin active campaigning for the new deal on Sept. 8. The secretary had Informed his chief in a letter of resigna tion that he believed thorough ly In Mr. Roosevelt's "unique capacities to lead the American people in these troublous times when experience and wisdom are so essential. "..Therefore, he id, he approached the work of the campaign with eagerness. In response, tht president as serted: k "You and I are content to leave determination of the la sues In the campaign this year to the calm judgment of the vo ters. Under our form of govern ment there Is no higher arbitra ment than the bar of public opinion." CANADIAN OPEN Toronto, Aug. 19. IP Sam Snead, long-driving Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., professional, today won the Canadian open golf championship, defeating de fending champion Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Winchester, Mass., by one stroke in the 18-hole playoff. Snead scored a 71, Mc- Spaden 72, fact they were attacking tha In stitution of free speech and thus making themselves members of the "real fifth column". Persons at the meeting, at tended by about 100, said there were frequent shouts at the speaker from the audience ad vising him to "go back to Rus sia" and calling him a "Hitler lover". It was after 10 p.m. that the horn blowing parade formed. In his talk. Aiken attacked the Dies committee on un-Amer- Ican activities. SENATOR ASSAILS BULLITT'S SPEECH AS 'NEARTREASON' Envoy to France's Prediction of Hitler Invasion Stirs- Called 'War Monger-ina' Washington, Aug. 19. (IP Senator Clark (D-Idaho) told thj i senate today the address of Am Ibassador William C. Bullitt, I predicting a German attack on I the United States If Great BrW tain is defeated, was "very, very little short of treason." Bullitt's speech, Clark added, amounted to "an appeal to tha American people to go into an unprovoked foreign war now for which he says they are not prepared." This he asserted, "c5mea mighty, mighty close to being false to the republic which put him where he is." Bullitt, ambassador to France, made the address yesterday in Philadelphia. He urged adop tion of conscription and sun ported aid for the British fleet. Clark said Bullitt had sua gested "dictatorship" as at means for furthering American defense. "Any man who purports to put up a dictatorship , ha com tinued, "comes mighty close ta being false to his country." The Idaho senator added Bui lltt's speech was "not only an. proved but Inspired by the state) department." Senator Clark (D-Mo.) asked Ashurst whether ha had given) any thought to the possibility that "the reason Mr. Bullitt i roaming around the country now asklnj for recognition foe the fascist controlled French government of Marshal Petain Is that he is anxious to keep tha commitments he has made) from coming out in tha French) war guilt trial." Ashurst did not reply to this) question, but remarked "how difficult It is for an American ambassador to keep quiet when he should keep quiet." Under tha circumstances, he) said, "to Imagine Bullitt keep ing quiet would be to imagine) an iron balloon." Clark of Missouri observed "if Ambassador Bullitt did suc ceed in getting up a war, he) would find a safe placa to hid during its progress." "That's what he did in the) last war", he added. "He found a safe coffee-cooling job down in the state department. That'a why he looks with a good deal more equanimity on going to war than those who actually took part in the last war." Clark of Idaho broke In at another point to remark that Bullitt "obviously didn't write" his speech "and obviously couldn't write H, because it was) a masterpiece.' War Bulletins Athens, Greece. Aug. 19 Turkey was reported In in. formed quarters io have pro mised Greece today to coma la her aid In tha event this country la threatened by Italy. A Southeast Coast Tewa of England, Aug. 194P) The Royal Air Force appeared to be battering the German-held French channel port of Bou logne ionlght for tha fourth time within 41 hours. New York, Aug. l.VP) British broadcast, heard hero to. day by NB's short wave service, said German Industrial produo tion in the Ruhr and Rhine dia tricta had dropped more than 30 per cent as a result of British air raids. London. Aug. 19. (IP) Tha: air ministry announced tonight that British planes last night bombed Italian aircraft factories at Milan and Turin, aluminum and chemical works in Germany, Boulogne harbor and airdromes at Frieberg and Hamshelm, Germany.
