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At a Joint session of the exec
utive committee and convention
delegates of Medford Post No.
IS The American Legion last
night, definite plans were pre
pared to assist the state and
civic authorities in combatting
any and all subversive elements
in our midst. Plans were also
formulated so that the Legion
disaster relief committee can
function in a minute's notice.
Further details will be an
nounced over the rodio.
The next regular post meet
ing will be held on Wednesday
at 8:00 o'clock at the Armory.
This is the last meeting prior
to the state convention at Sea
side September 4. 5, 6, 7. All
Legionnaires are urged to at
tend this important meeting.
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AT 4-SQUARE CH.
On Wednesday evening, Aug.
rath, at 7 45. at the Foursquare
Church, Central and Jarkson,
Rev. T. R. Jackman, well known
world traveler and lecturer,
will show "The Promised Land''
In sound, natural color motion
pictures. This is the most com
plete picture on the Bible Lands
today, right up to date and tak
en by Rev. Jackman during his
recent travels through Egypt,
Palestine, Italy and other coun
tries. While going around taking
these pictures Rev. Jackman
was arrested as a war spy. and
thrown In Jail several times. He
has some very interesting facts
to relate of conditions around
the .Mediterranean Sea and Eu-
rope as a whole. Rev. Jackman :
is an outstanding authority on
modern Palestine, having spent j
several years in study and trav-
el in the Bible lands, covering
its archaeology, geography hi
tory and its present social and ,
political complexities. These pic
tures and lectures will not only
bo Inspiring but also very in
formative and entertaining. Ad-1
mission is free.
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Warner's Backyard Gladiolus
Hobby Now World Business
A hobby that grew into a
Urge business whose products
are sold In all parts of the world.
That Is what developed when
W. J. Warner planted a few
gladiolus bulbs in his back yard
20 years ago. Mr. Warner nursed
those bulbs along like any ama
teur gardener who is interested
in getting the best out of his
plants.
Mr. Warner became fascina
ted by his gladioli and began
giving them more and more at
tention. The result? Today Mr.
Warner Is a large-scale commer
cial grower of gladiolus bulbs
which are sold all over the
world. Bight now, In various
tracts, he has 16 acres in full
bloom in all the variegated col
ors for which gladioli are
famed.
In a few weeks this year's
crop of bulbs will be harvested
and employment will thus be
provided for a large number of
workers, for this business is not
so simple as it appears on the
surface. The bulbs must not only
be harvested: they must be
treated scientifically In a num
ber of ways and these processes
are Intricate and Involved. One
may start planting gladioli in
his back yard as an amateur
gardener but he must acquire a
scientific knowledge of the busi
ness before attempting to oper
ate on a commercial scale if he
is to be successful, it was point
ed out by those familiar with
the Industry.
An indication of the magni
tude of this local business may
be gleaned from the fact that
last year Mr. Warner sold 650,
000 bulbs to one west coast re-
PURSE SNATGHERi
A UKULELE
This time the young would-
be purse snatchcr was bashed
over the head with a ukulele.
And as on two previous occas
ions he was driven away empty
handed by feminine wrath.
Twice before, in the past 10
days, a young boy about 14
years old accosted women on
dark streets and attempted to
grab their purses, but both
times the expected victim haul
ed off and swatted the culprit
across the head with the purse,
itself.
Latest episode In the purse-
snatching flareup occurred last
night about 9:45. A girl, who
desires to remain anonymous,
told city police she was walking
on South Ivy street when the
young hoodlum approached her
and made a grab for her purse.
She related she cracked him ov
er the head with a ukulele she
was carrying, and that he turned
and whizzed away without the
purse.
The boy was described as be
ing blond and wearing blue
trousers and a light sweater.
This tallies with descriptions of
the boy Involved in the other
two situations.
Another woman, who also
prefers that her name not be
used, told police she was grab
bed by a young boy last night
while walking on Cottage
street.
"I haven't a purse," she was
quoted as telling the youth.
Whereupon, she told police,
the boy said he didn't want a
purse and clamped onto her
wrists. She wrenched loose and
the young assailant Jumped on
a bicycle and disappeared in the
darkness.
He was described as being
arjom 14 years old.
City police said today that
things would go "very hard"
with the boy or boys, when thev
are caught in the toils of the
law.
SEEKS RECRUITS
Company A, 186th Infantry of
the Oregon national guard, is
now receiving applications for
enrollment for a year's active
duty. Capt. Carl Y. Trngwald.
commanding, announced today.
Applicants accepted now will
be placed on the national guard
inactive list and will be called
for service when the company
is mobilized for active duty, the
captain said. Applicants are to
register with Sgt. Frank Lind
ley at the Medford armory.
It Is anticipated that company
A will be called to actie dutv
about September 15 and wiil
leave for encampment at Fort
Lewis about September 25.
When the mobilization order Is
Irsued, the strength of Company
A Is to be increased liom 88
men to 129.
MEDFORD MA Hi
tall distributor and It Is likely
that the order will be repeated
this season.
The Warner bulbs also go to
Florida and New York. In New
York state. Incidentally, bulb
growers are able to profit also
by sale of the blooms but here
the sale of the flowers is prac
tically nil.
Two years ago an Importer
of Holland who had bought
Warner bulbs came all the way
to Medford to confer with Mr.
Warner and arrange for the fur
ther purchase of the local pro
duct. Local soli and weather con
ditions are said to be favorable
for the growing of gladiolus
bulbs. The plant requires a loose
soil and the same ground may
not be used successfully two
years in succession. This rota
tion. It was explained. Is re
quired not because gladioli de
plete the soil but because it is
impossible to get all the bulbs
out of the ground and therefore
the grower, if he used the same
land in successive years, would
have no control over varieties
as volunteers would crop up all
over the area.
And commercial growers are
continually seeking new varie
ties, something a little different
in order to satisfy the demand
for something new.
Mr. Warner also grows rare
varieties on order. Last year an
easterner had one 75 foot row
of his special variety raised by
Mr. Warner. When the time
came to harvest the bulbs, the
easterner flew all the way out
here to dig the bulbs himself
and hasten back with them by
plane to his home.
GILLETTE GIVEN
30-DAY TERM AS
Dave Gillette. 67, Phoenix,
was today serving a 30-dav Jail
sentence for operating a car
while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor. He was also
fined $100 and his operator's li
cense was taken up by Judge
William R. Coleman in Justice
of the peace court. The license
is to be cancelled for a year.
E. Floetkc, 43. Phoenix, who
was riding with Gillette, was
fined $10 and $4 50 costs on a
charge of being drunk on a
public highway. The arrests
were made and the complaints
filed by Cy Combest, marshal of
Phoenix. The men were arrested
by Marshal Combest Sunday
when Gillette assertedly drove
his car around Phoenix in a
drunken manner.
Both men pleaded guilty.
Floetke was committed to Jail
for five doys to serve out the
fine.
Claude E. Briscoe, 22. Phoe
nix, pleaded guilty to a state
police charge of passing another
vehicle when he did not have
sufficient clearance. He was
fined $2.50 and costs.
Roiene L. Pitts, 19, Route 2
was fined $5 and costs for vio
lating the basic traffic rule.
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CLOSES TONIGHT
Tonight's performance at 8:00
o'clock will bring to a close
the two-show stand at the fair
grounds ball park of the Ed
wards Brothers' combined cir
cus, thrill show and wild west
rodeo, rated the largest and
best of its kind in the I'nlted
States. An enthusiastic audience
was on hand this afternoon to
witness the first performance.
The traveling circus features
the aerial Erirksons, direct from
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Six Southern Oregon Cities
Plan Protective Move
From Solicitors.
A committee of secretaries of
the chamber of commerce of six
southern Oregon cities is now at
work on a uniform standard
governing the solicitation of
funds or contributions of any
sort.
The chambers of commerce
engaged in this effort to control
solicitation are those of Eugene,
Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Ash
land and Grants Pass while In
Medford the cooperating agency
Is the Merchants association.
Earl Reynolds, secretary of the
Klamath Falls Chamber of
Commerce, is temporary chair
man of the committee.
The committee will meet to
draw up the final standard pro
cedure during the annual con
vention of the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce Secre
taries association at Oregon
Caves September 21 and 22. it
was announced by Frank Hull,
secretary of the Merchant as
sociation's committee which
passes on solicitation applica
tions. The groups of the six cities
are also to exchange informa
tion on solicitors and their solic
itations. Mr. Hull said, so that
each will have advance infor
motion on the merits or lack of
merits of all solicitation
schemes.
It has been found necessary
to create a protective plan on
solicitation because of the great
Increase in soliciting by outside
interests who take money out of
the city without rendering any
commensurate service, Mr. Hull
explained.
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Local Kiwanians and their
guests were entertained yester
day at their noon luncheon
meeting by Dr. C. W. Lemeiy
who showed his moving pictures
of his recent trip by air to Ha
vana where he attended the con
vention of Rotary International.
Dr. Lemcry supplemented the
picture account of his trip with
a running description of events
of the trip, and of the various
cities visited en route.
Ralph Sweeney received the
regular attendance prize but
Bob Frame was the recipient of
the special attendance prize pro
vided by Bill Barker and Wait
Young. It is reported that the
prize will be on permanent dis
play in the Frame lily pond.
It was announced that the
next regular meeting would be
held on Wednesday, September
4. rather on Monday of that
week.
Visits Gov. Sprague
Salem. Auir. 27 tli K
Governor Frank F Merrintn nr
California, here to attend the
notification ceremonies for Sen
ator MrNary, visited Governor
Charles A. Sprague today on his
first trip to Salem in 12 years.
the San Francisco fair, in death
defying acrobatics 125 feet
above the ground without safe
ty nets; the Five Flying La
Forms, who work blindfolded
on flying trapezes and do triple
somersaults as they did with
Rlngllng Brothers circus for
five years; trained animals,
clowns, and the climax of the
show: the head-on collision of
two cars traveling 60 miles an
hour.
Four automobiles will be de
molished In tonight's head-on
crash in front of the grand
stand and the drivers will re
main in their seats until after
crackup.
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OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1940.
MACKENZIE SAYS
WITH AIR THREAT
Nazis Have Superiority, But
Not Supremacy, As Berlin
Raids Show.
(By DeWUt MacKensU)
That was rather a surprising
tsL ment by the semi-official
Dienst aus Deutschland of Ber
lin which characterized all that
has happened thus far in. the
battle of Britain as "prelimi
naries." The preliminaries at last are
finished, says Dienst, Nazidom
has achieved air supremacy over
England, and "now begins the
planned destruction of industrial
plants essential to war."
Nobody but' the sponsors of
this statement know whether it
is a "business double" or Just
another piece of propaganda, in
the war of nerves. Certainly it
finds support in the heavy nazi
raids over the industrial area of
the English midlands the past
two nights. However, I take the
liberty of believing that Dienst
could have given us a much
more illuminating view of the
position had it been permitted
to do so. ,
Not for one moment do I
doubt that the Nazi airdromes
are capable of unleashing many
times the hell which already has
been rained on the Britons in
the "preliminaries" since the di
rect attack started on June 18,
more than two months ago.
There is no doubt, cither, that
Herr Hitler intends to employ
this vast aerial power and if it
proves feasible to accompany
it by invasion.
Still, in my view the warfare
which has been going on has
been more than spade work. The
fuehrer set out for a quick kill
and more than two months is
a long time for a man In a hurry.
In short, it strikes me that cir
cumstances over which Hitler
has had no control have ham
pered his blitzkrieg plans and
nullified some of his operations.
Among these circumstances
we certainly may list the
strength shown by the British
not only in defense but in of
fense, and the threat of trouble
in the Balkans at Germany's
back door. We ore entitled also
to ask for more support of the
contention that the Nazis have
achieved supremacy over the
English in the air.
That Germany has superiority
upside
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tion, but "supremacy" is another
thing, for it denotes control of
the air. The German superiority
hasn't prevented persistent Brit
ish raids over German territory
in recent weeks also, only yes
terday London listed 1.101 Ger
man raiders brought down since
June 18, and more than 800 since
August 8, which was the first
day of the Nazi mass attacks.
That doesn't sound like German
"control."
There Is another aspect of the
beginning of this new phase of
warfare which is highly import
ant. That is bound up in the
proverb that time and tide wait
for no man, not even a con
queror like Herr Hitler. He is
getting perilously close to the
bad weather season which will
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render military operations most
difficult if not impossible.
Anything can happen in the
way of weather after the begin
ning of September, although the
first half of the month generally
is good. Sometimes the whole
month is all right, but October
means the start of bad days.
Rain, fog and winds seriously
hamper flying, and the always
tricky English channel kicks up
far more trouble than any in
vading force would want to deal
with.
Highway Crash Fatal
Pendleton, Ore., Aug. 27. OP)
Mrs. Leah Cole of Ukiah was
killed and her husband, E. N.
Cole, seriously injured when
their car and a Harris Pine Mills
logging truck driven by Dale
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Williams collided late yesterday V.
near Battle Mountain state park,
on the Three Flags highway.
American On Trial
London, Aug. 27. P Tyler
Kent, former clerk at the United
States embassy here, and Anna
Wolkoff, daughter of a former
Russian admiral, were com
mitted for trial at Old Bailey
today at the conclusion of a
hearing on charges of violating
the official secrets act.
England Buys Seed
Portland, Aug. 27. 7P J. C.
Bodger, California seed com
pany owner, told an Interviewer
yesterday his company had ex
ported 500,000 pounds of vege
table seed to England since tha
war's start.
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