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Newspaper Page TextAj?RIBUNE DIAL 2141 (or Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE TTCalUCrr Bureau report inside. Fair Sunday and Monday, sot much change la temper atur. Temperature Hlfhnt ) Mlcrdat 7 Leant )esterda;53 FORD Full Associated Pratt Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1940. No. 133. jlllo)ffflM MED " ,1 Full United Press u-iyjii THE CAPITAL PARADE m it m n ft I I I . . I IAS!) AIIAbKu UN I World's Fastest Military Plane Unveiled PORTSlUTHNAVYll "HIM BASE AND DOVER! , ij JtQM London Ablaze After Raids; Vw r i Attack in Waves British I tTy- ,M , Retaliate; Loss Held Small I - c yW-i ylJr Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by lha North Amarlcan Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Aug. 23. The value to be given recent encour aging testimony as to England's chances depends, in large meas ure, on the testimony s Dae- Br tha Atsoclatad Prats London, -Aug. 25 (Sunday) r.frman air warriors, in their ground. It is remarkably impres-l f.st direct assault against the tive. for example, that after months of unalloyed defeatism. Ambassador to England Joseph P. Kennedy has now been con vinced the English air defense is adequate to prevent the "pul verization" of England which he has always feared. It Is also impressive that in telligent neutral observers are arriving in this country, with the spectacle of the great Ger man air attacks fresh in their minds, but in a far more cheer ful mood than prevails in Wash ington. Two men of this type have lately passed through the city both of them highly placed officials, both entirely competent to judge the realities of Eng land's situation. Just before leaving London one of these men had a series ef conversations with Winston Churchill and other English war leaders. While admitting there were terrible times ahead, Chur chill actually told him he would "welcome" a German attempt at Invasion. I He predicted that Invasion would prove a blunder eostly to Germany In men. material and morale. And he grlmlT, but determinedly discussed RIs plsns tor a long war. In which England would only begin to take tha offensive In tha winter of 1942. In reporting thla conversation, the neutral observer remarked that Churchill showed tha sort of confi dence that begeta confidence In oth ers. Aa for the other of these two men. ha la unquestionably better equipped than any other foreigner to Judge England's material powera of resist anoe. He fully confirmed tha current good newa about English airplane output, giving tha June production aa 1.341 planss. and pointing out It must have improved considerably In tha Interval. He quoted equally heartening figures on other typea of munitions production. And In gen eral, although he did not wholly re ject the possibility of early German victory, ha refused to accept the dark forecasts of many American experts. heavily-protected city of Lon- don last night and early today, dropped great clusters of incen- diary bombs which lit up this heart nf the British empire with the orange glow of flame. The furious and prolonged bombing scattered fires that en veloped whole buildings within a few minutes. Even after the raiders had gone and most of the fires had been subdued, a dense pall of smoke hung in the morning sky. No Serious Damage There was no estimate of cas ualties or damage, but first re ports said nothing of serious da mage to military objectives. The intense attack upon Lon don followed mass assaults against the Portsmouth naval I base and southeast England in! which the air ministry news service estimated the Germans used 800 bombers and fighter I planes. One screaming attacx py a dive bomber who dropped big incendiary bomb in the face of the full power of the city's de fenses touched off the biggest blaze of the night marked by several fires throughout the city. Sky Aglow As the din of battle sounded overhead, the fire blazed fierce ly. The flames got such a hold that within a half-hour they il luminated the sky over a large part of the London area. The blaze finally was controlled. After the all clear signal was given sometime after midnight, what was believed to be enemy planes were heard over London Later searchlights resumed Tha Lockhead P 38, a twin anginad inlerceplor pursuit plana, said by an army authority to ba tha fastest military craft in tha world, it shown at Lot Angelas at it was unveiled for William S. Knudien, chairman oi tha National Defense Advisory commission, and Major General H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps. It hat an estimated speed of over 500 milat an hour. Shown banealh tha plane, left to right, Knudten, Arnold and Robert E. Gross, Lockheed president. Even tha American expert have aomewhat recovered from their ear lier despair, aa waa lately stated In this column. They have recovered because, after a period of extreme suspicion, they are now Inclined to NAZI RAIDS HOPE ASK IESSE JONES JOIN CABINET By William H. McCaifla Lond.on. Aug. 2S. (Sunday) OF) "I hope to hell Berlin is blazing now," cried a spectator early today as firemen battled a great blaze started by a Ger man incendiary bomb. "That's right, they better get something for this. watcher replied. "Yep, this war't getting seri ous," agreed a third. "It looks like indiscriminate bombing to me," said another. I was coming out of a west end restaurant when a German bomb whistled down and ex ploded. Fire flared up not far WILLKIE AND FDR CLASH OVER NEW DEAL LABOR AID PIONEER VIRTUES N SALEM SPEECH Senator Hopes For Short Rest Predicts Congress To Quit October 10. Jutt Befuddled Green Bay, Wit., Aug. 24. (Pi "Someone stole mv pants with $8 in a pocket from my car," a man report ed to police by telephone. Detectives who Investi gated were met by a very red faced individual. Ift all right," ha said. "I just remembered I had my punts on under my overalls." SENATE NEAR TO DRAFT BILL VOTE; BYRD HITS DELAY Decision In Abeyance -" FDR's Aide at Chicago Meet in III Health. from me almost immediately. their swing across the skies in This midnight bombing, from a moonlit sky, was the first di search of enemy planes, and dis tant explosions were heard. Four bombs were dropped in another section, shattering win dows, hurling down walls and flinging bomb splinters through rect attack on London since the war began, but was the third on Greater London in less than a day. Washington, Aug. 24. (IP) another . President Roosevelt asked Jesse H. Jones, 86-year-old Texan and federal loan administrator, to day to take over the post of sec retary of commerce, succeeding Harry L. Hopkins in the cab inet. Announcement of the offer was made by the White House in making public a letter of resignation from Hopkins who said that because of his health he felt he should not continue in office. Associates of Jones presumed he would accept, but there was no direct word from him. He the streets. The only serious 'd and to London proper wcre (Continued on Page 61a.) RUSH FOR ALTAR S New York, Aug. 24. fP Extra police were called in to keep order today as more than 1,500 altar-bound young couples stormed the five marriage li cense bureaus of New York City. The current rush to marry has kept pace with congressional action on the selective service bill, but prospective bride grooms questioned today denied they were hurrying into wed lock to escape the draft. Biggest rush was at the Brooklyn bureau where approxi mately 1.200 couples tried to get licenses, tome showing up at 8:20 a. m. A sergeant and two patrolmen were on duty, but by 9 o'clock the situation was out of hand, and the ser geant called for help. Another sergeant and 13 pa trolmen arrived. After a half hour struggle with the crowd they turned 300 couples away, telling them to come back an other day. casualty there was an air raid warden struck by splinters. Three Raids The third air raid alarm was sounded at 11:35 p.m. (2:35 p.m. PST) last night. The battle of the skies continued on past mid night before the all clear signal was given. It followed closely on mass attacks on the great naval base Portsmouth and the bombard ment of Dover by long range guns The Germans spread out as far as Wales in the night raid ing. Bombs were dropped near a village but anti-aircraft fire drove off the enemy and there were no casualties. Nazi dive bombers were par ticipating in the London attack, dropping scream bombs as the battle wore on. the only inklings of the raid's location which escaped the Bri tish censor's ban.) Crowds seeped in from the dark, narrow streets about this area, which had been nearly de serted, as usual, on the British weekend. They talked among themselves, quietly but bitterly. The presence of helmeted sol diers, carrying gasmasks, gave wartime trimmings to this fire which already had all the emo tion of a spectacular American fire (Continued .1 t'ajie Seven.) PEAR DIVERSION BRIDGES STAY IN (These references to the west was out of the city and was said to have the offer under advisement. Hopkins was understood to have no plans for the immed iate future except to rest. There were reports, however, that he might take the position of li brarian at the Hyde Park, N. Y., library built to house the president's official papers and expected to be opened next summer. The 50-year-old former relief administrator who stepped into the cabinet shoes of Daniel C. Roper in January, 1939, has suffered from a stomach ail ment for two years. Hopkins is the fifth to leave the cabinet since shortly before the July Democratic national convention Washington. Aug. 24. (P) President Roosevelt and Wen dell L. Willkle took sharp issue in print today over the new deal's labor policies. The Democratic and Republi can presidential candidates sta ted their views in the current issue of The American Feder- ationist, official monthly maga zine of the American Federation of labor. President Roosevelt declared. his administration was "willing to be judged as to future pol icy by past performance". 'The achievements of the ad ministration since 1933," he said, "shall be witness to its good faith in the future." wuiKie asserted that new deal labor policies, if continued. would result in the American labor movement's being "com pletely dominated bjr govern ment" with the "old, discredited company union" being replaced by "government unions at in Nazi Germany." "I pledge myself," the Repub lican nominee said, "to help the principle of free unions." In his statement, the presi dent declared examination of the labor record of the past seven years "will reveal that this administration has been un remitting in its effort! to foster, promote and develop the inter ests of labor, to improve work ing conditions and to advance opportunities for profitable em ployment. Salem, Ore., Aug. 24. (IP) Senator Charles McNary, home to accept the Republican vice presidential nomination and to rest, left the major tasks of the campaign today to hit running mate, Wendell L. Wlllkie. Motoring through Salem to his farm home. Fircone, the sen ate minority leader paused long enough to say that he Intended to let "Willkie carry tha ball and set the pace. McNary will maka only four or five speeches. My acceptance theme on Tuesday will bo pioneer his tory, pioneer tradition and pio neer virtues. Out of that I will obtain the idea that pioneer virtues are better than looking to the government for a Job," he said. MeNary hopes to remain at his home until after Labor day. "It has been a year lest two weeks since I've been home, and I'm the only senator who hasn't missed a day's work in i that time. I think I'm entitled to a rest." At Portland, the end of cross country air journey, Mc Nary predicted to interviewers that the conscription bill wrtuld past in some form or other with a fair vote." 'There is an amendment by Senator Maloney which will cause much debate," he added. "It would postpone the effective date of the selective service bill until January 1. ... Its purpose is to give the army an oppor tunity to make ej. drive for vol untary enlistment and tee what happent before the telective service becomes effective. Congress, McNary predicted, will not adjourn before October 10 and "maybe not then." Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusets, new Republican national chairman, will arrive, Sunday night for the notifica tion ceremonies which will take place at the state fairgrounds. Governor Harold E. Stasscn of Minnesota, who will notify Sen ator McNary of his nomination will reach Portland Monday night. The committee In charge of the ceremonies predicted an at tendance of 40,000. FIRE LAYS WASTE TO CALIFORNIA EDIFICE AT FANE Virginian Asks Explanation Why Orders Lag Of ficial Figures Are Cited, Interior Is Destroyed, But Much Saved Fire Alarms Are Sounded. KILLED IN CRASH BULLETIN "Crooner" No Radical Grangeville, Idaho, Aug. 24 (,-P Glenn Taylor. Pocatello subject to deportation under re cently enacted legislation. A majority of the senate Im- Washineton. Aug. 24. IIP .migration committee recom- The export diversion program ' mended the Inquiry as a aub- for designated varieties of fall.stttute tor a nouse-approea om and winter pears produced in which would require expulsion Oregon, Washington and Cali-iof the labor leader, fornia. will be continued for the Attorney General Jackson, in 1940-41 season, the agriculture 'announcing the new inquiry, department said today. I said that J. Edgar Hoover, dl- It will provide subsidies of I rector of the federal bureau of about 40 cents a box for a max- investigation, wat on the west Washington, Aug. 24. (IP) The Justice department, acting on a senate committee recom mendation, began today an in vestigation to determine whether Harry Bridges, west coast CIO maritime leader, is estate operator, Jones entered Democratic convention in Chi cago and had been credited with being leader in the 1938 administration effort to defeat Democratic critict of the new deal. A Houston builder, financier, newspaper publisher ana real u I.!-. M, r,..,...l.'. . vr-l ..'7.1 i. lne Corvallis Laundrymen won personal representative at the, the 0rcgon ,ute chgm pionship tonight, defeating Square Deal of Salem 6 to 1 behind the two-hit pitching of Elwin Shaw. Both hits were made by George Scales who scored Salem's only run by making the first one a home run In the first Inning. Corvallis tewed the game up with a four run rally In the fourth inning on three hits and all four of Salem't errors. It wat the first time in the state tournament's seven-year history that a team outside of Salem or Portland won the title. Score: R. H. E. Corvalhs 6 8 1 Salem 1 2 4 the federal service in the Hoo ver administration 8 OR 9 CAUSES FOR OF Denver, Aug. 24. IIP) An Imum quantity of 800.000 boxes Icoast prepared to ttart work onjarmy board of inquiry Investi of pears diverted from regular tthe case. I gating the crash of an army crooner who won the Demo-! channels of trade and told in Jackson's announcement came bomber that carried nine men cratic senate nomination, tonight designated domestic or foreign ' shortly after Chairman King to flaming death near Denver. Klamath Fallt, Aug. 24. P) Archie Pool, 24, died today in a hospital where a few hours earlier hit wife had borne a ton. En route from the hospital to his Job on Sprague river, he was fatally Injured in a collision of two automobiles. The crash also tent Don Hunsaker, Martin Millard and Ernest Moline, all ofe Klamath Fallt, to the hospital. San Francitco, Aug. 24. IIP) Fire laid waste to one of Treas ure Island's most beautiful build ings today, but several hundred firemen and more than 50 pieces of equipment kept the blaze from spreading over the rest of the Golden Gate International exposition. Only the flame-shot walls of the California building remained after the teething furnace had consumed everything in the interior. The huge hall cost $350,000 to build, and housed valuable art, much of which wat saved. One fireman, Joseph Flood, waa critically injured in fall from a 40-foot ladder.. Seven teen other fire-fighters were treated for minor injuries. Thousands of persons had grandstand teatt for the fire, crowding into the big bleachert nearwy, from which outdoor spectacles are witnessed. One favorite of exposition visitors, the large-scale diorama of Portola't discovery of San Francitco bay, wat consumed by Itie flames. Modeled by Joe Mora of Carmel, famout sculp tor, it wat insured for $25,000 but exposition officios valued it at $50,000. Wie fir was believed to have started in electrical wiring on' the ttage of the build lng't big auditorium. Five alarmt were turned in, and most pf the fire-fighting equipment from downtown San Francisco raced over the Bay bridge to the man-made 400-acre Island upon which the exposi tion it held. There wat little wind, and few embert were thrown at the one-story frame and plaster building wat destroyed. Most of the records of the Cal ifornia commission were saved, at waa the art exhibit of Cali fornia paintera, intured for $31, 000. An exhibit of fine printing, intured for $10,000, wat rescued. The California building housed administrative offices, a great ballroom, and number of exhibit roomi. Wag Law Compliance Washington, Aug. 24.. A nation-wide drive for com pliance with the wage and hour law in five manufacturing in dustriesfurniture, 1 a t h a r goods and luggage, boott and hoet, hosiery and woolen goods wat ordered today by Col. Philip B. Fleming, wage-hour administrator. Washington, Aug. 24. (flV Protesting that delay In defense) preparations was menacing na tional security. Senator Byrd Va.) demanded tonight that senate "stay in session day and night until a vote Is ob tained" on the Burke-Wads worth compulsory military training bill. In a statement, the Virginian also called on defense chieftains for an explanation of why "the placing of orders for deliver of mechanized military equip- ment it lagging." If red tape it to blame." he laid, "the country thould know It. If the blame it due) to inefficient bureaucratic ad ministration, it thould be known. If it it due to the re fusal of business enterprises to accept contracts from tha gov ernment, we should know it." Prospects for a final vote) next week on the Burke-Wads-worth bill brightened when tha senate agreed to restrict debate) on pending amendment. Threatens Proba "I have no desire to criticize.' he added, "but I feel I would be derelict in my duty it I did) not ask for an explanation from - those In authority of thlt ap parent delay in ordering mech anized military equipment. IC such Information It not prompt ly forthcoming and satisfactory, I will Introduce the necessary legislation providing for a cone gressional investigation." Senator Gibson, making hi first formal speech tine ha wat appointed to fill the va cancy created by the death of hit father, told hit colleagues that the time had come to legis late for lmmeliate conscription. The senate, ha raid, already had taken at long to debate tha ...... U --n..lT.4 4n9 TTU... conquer France. Official Figures Byrd laid ha- hit statement that only 343 combo planes- S for the army and 244 for the navy had been ordered In. the last 100 days, and that nona would be delivered In thlt cal endar year. 'These figures art official and come directly from the tec retary of the navy and tecretary of war,", he said. He went on to say that an In vestigation "convlncei me tha the alarming delay in placing contracts for combat airplanes) existi in obtaining other mili tary equipment of a vital na ture." "No wonder." he said, "that Hitler hat the utmott contempt for dem o c r a 1 1 e Institution which are Incapable of prompt and wise action In time of emer- Escapes From Devil's Island Picked Up in Florida Bay told Idaho's Young Democrats : markets before specified dates. ' (D., Utah) of the senate Immi- that he will "play ball" with Final dates for diversion are I (ration committee, declared the state Democratic organiza- November 1. 1940, for Beurre ! Bridget should be deported to tlon and that he has been mit-1 Hardy pears: Jan. 1, 1941. for Australia, hit native land. Im- auoted in stories holding him up Beurre Bosc: April 15. 1941. mediately beraue his preence eliminated as a radical or a "sharethe- for Beurre D'Anjou. May 1J. in the L'luled States was "hurt- tentatively wraith" proponent. 141, for all other varieties. fuL" Shaw and Daily; McGee and L. Singer. Night game: Lot Angelet . 0 8 1 Sacramento - 2 4 1 Miami, Fla., Aug. 24. P Eight men who said they left Devil's island French prison colony off the South American coast when guards relaxed their vigilance because food sup plies did not arrive were pick ed up by tha coast guard in Biscayne bay today. Lieut. H. P. Maley, coast guar'i officer and federal port captsin, turned the men and their 28-foot sloop In which is studymg "eight or nine" pos- Thom ,nd H0i'm: Judd and!"11 '""n Trlnidd. over tible causes for the disaster. Lightning and a bomb ex I Crilk. plosion, however, virtually were i San Francisco 'de-it to a Uo immigration authorities, j Through Interpreters, the 1 imen told a story of leaving 2 Devil's island in two canoes . 4 Civil authorities' Stn Diego 2 12 attribtued the acci- Epperly and Botclho; Hebert'Mav 5. terrific down draft" and Salkeld. I They made their way to Trln Idad In 12 dayt. Residents of Trindid outfitted them with the sloop and supplies and they set tall for Puerto Rico. They ob tained a map at Puerto Rico and said they planned to go to Canada. There wat no food aboard the boat and the men said they had not eaten for two days. They had ample water. They said conditions at Devil's Island, offshore from French Guiana, became critical when supply thlpt failed to ar rive, and guardt, no longer paid, mad no effort to prevent es capes. Immigration agents started an Investigation to determine what will be dona. gency. To the argument mat scription was undemocratic, ha had this to say: 'When I was a boy In school we uaed to have fire drills. Let's abolish thlt un-American and undemocratic institution. Did anyone ask me if I wanted to) go to a fire drill7 no. t wat sent down the ttalrs with tha othfcf children, not being fully aware) of my constitutional rights." DUE! Outlook for tha far western ttatet for the week of August 24 to 28: Generally rainless ex cept for scattered thunderstorm over high mountain ranges aa beginning of period; consider able cloud and fog on the Im mediate coast, and toward end of period light to moderate rain is likely on the Immediate Oregon-Washington coast; temper atures will average near normal over all far western states, al though at beginning of period readings will be somewhat above normal in Idaho.