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AOK PIT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1940. MEDFORDj&fcT&IBL'NX Dllf Kirvp. (MtBtttay. MSIWHIi PKINTINO Ott a-27-i3 North nr St. PbOM 3141 itohKfti W RliHU Kiriot MNUT H OIUftTKAP. Usnflr. fowd. Orca. ndr 4 el f fc rok t Kit llHriCHlKI IUN R1TU r Hall l A1anet Daiif and tfunrta raar.,.,.fM Dally aad iti1 ). mostba. . . M Daim aa lunula r-ttra moulh I Dally t4 m1r awa moatb... ? By (Urria la A 4 Mewl I'm t land. Cantral Point. Jaeaaoavllia. O.l HHL ftua ftlvar. Pboanli. TalaaL a4 aa rnoto roulMt Dally anrt Hurnlia a yaar. . Dally aoi unrtir ant nv.nih.,, .11 All tarma aaah aHvsaea. Offtt-laU Pbimt at tb (lly f Mralfavrf UrrWMal Papat al Jarkso lualy MKNHKH ttr INK 4IMM IAIKII PHfeJaV Me.. frail UuH Hlra artra. Tna AM-iaal Kraaa ta icluaiaty aa tit lad ia iha aaa foi puaiiaaciow af all awa a'lapaiahaa arattal ia it ar athar viaa aravluart ta thia pa par. ana ai aa ta Ua laaai a we pubi harala. All Mime for puahcatlaa) af alapataaaa aaraia ara aiaa raaarvad. UIHHIH UP UNITED PHKM Advartlaiug Rapi aaaatailvaa WIIT'HUI MUAV CJMHANf. I NO. Offieee la Naw Tor a, 'htca. Da trait, toa Pranalaca. Lot Angalaa. Seattle. Part land. St. Daoia, AUania. Vpaaaaar B O- runs tim Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur retry. Youthi, liable to a year of probable military training, are editorially reported as regarding "a twelvemonth as a lifetime." It will seem all of that to some, unless they change their ways.i The first time an unhampered youth starts talking to a hard boiled sergeant as he does his Paw, the bottom drops out of his pool hall world. Mama can't help him a bit. Junior mustn't tell the Captain where to head-in, like he does the old folks. Meet Fletch Fish Th Phoenix Punnltt, Who Hold, forth Today. Many local Republicans have shaken the moths and barn swal lows out of their best suits pre paring to attend the McNary ser vices at Salem. For the past eight years they have had few auspicious occasions to wear them, those that had them. Survivors of the summer vaca tion will soon be back behind their desks passing notes across the aisle or throwing spit-wads at the kid three seats ahead as per custom. With watermelons In season, green apples plentiful and corn silk just prime to roll it's surprising so many kids get back to the halls of learning. Pictures In a local camera shop of the Mcdford Rodeo with riders cascading off bucking horses and bulls are interpreted as signs of an early fall. When bull throws the man it should be news. The other way round it's politics. Speaking of Rodeos, Imagine a successful queen contest with the contestants fully clothed and nary a bathing suit. Phooey, who wants to vote for a horsel Visiting dance bands continue to keep the local corn crop agi tated and grandma's rhumba tlsm Isn't any better either. When you hear the raucous toot of an auto horn it's a 10 to 1 bet that it's either: 1 A woman double parked summoning the grocer with a 1 lb. sack of salt, 2 A wife announcing to her husband and everyone within five blocks that she has come to take him home from the office or the club (this is conveyed by three long hoots and a short one). 3 A grimacing adolescent hurtling along at 35 ml. per hr., saluting the sophomore queen on the sidewalk and exhibiting to her that PA has let him have the car all by himself, or 4 The lady driver who finds it easier to press the horn but- ton than the brake pedal and i devil take the hindmost. ... Watching Juvenile bicycle riders gyrating down the main stem during the traffic rush we think we've discovered where sky writers get their early train ing. "Jesse Jones Offered Cabinet Post" according to headlines. Shouldn't it be Jesse James? And shouldn't the slogan be changed to "Billions for defense but not one cent of income?" Education Spurts Eugene, Aug. 27. (J) Total enrollment of the units of the state system of higher education is on the way to its sixth con secutive increase, according to estin.Htes based on early applica tions for admission compiled here today. Duks of Bedford Dies London. Aug. 27 (i The Duke of Bedford. 80, died today at Woburn Abbey Senator McNary s Speech WITH the exception of the reciprocal trade treaty principle the Mail Tribune heartily agrees with everything Senator McNary said in his acceptance speech at Salem today. In fact it was an EXCELLENT speech. From the standpoint of A. S. Hill's rhetorical ukase regarding "unity, mass and coherence," a far better effort than that of his associate on the Republican ticket, Wendell Willkie. There was an easier and more harmonious flow of words, with less vehemence and vigor perhaps, but far more style and grace. In fact, after reading the manuscript we found ourselves wondering why the Republican minority leader has delivered so few speeches in the Upper House when he has such an evident flair for the apt phrase and the telling figure of speech. It must be because there are in that body so many more impqrtant things to do than make speeches, and so many members can do nothing else. THE Mail Tribune particularly enjoyed what our senior Senator had to say about the accomplish ments of the New Deal in the direction of social and economic reforms. Needless to say this has always been the view of this paper, and is also in entire ac cord with the carefully outlined and liberal policy of the Senator's team-mate. No doubt considerable pressure was brought to bear upon Senator McNary to hand out a little con solation to the Old Guard reactionaries, which Mr. Willkie refused to do. The Oregon Senator also re fused. This is all to his credit, and leaves the Union League "die-hards" where they deserve to be, as far as the party of Lincoln and T. R. is concerned, far up on the arid banks of Salt Creek ! We predicted with Willkie and McNary leading the Republican party the G. 0. P. would have a new lease on life. This acceptance address by the senior senator of Oregon, taken with Mr. Willkie's, proves it. TX7E feel sure that an overwhelming majority of the American people, regardless of party, will agree with Senator McNary that the one outstanding need in this country today is a revival of the tough ag gressiveness, courage and self-reliance of our pioneer forefathers who asked help from no one but God Almighty and carved for themselves security, hap piness and contentment out of the often unfriendly wilderness. The wilderness has gone, but the need of those ragged American virtues certainly hasn't; and we can think of nothing that would do more to recall, sus tain and STIMULATE them than the success this Novembor of this Willkie-McNary ticket. MOT that those in need, should not be helped. They ' must be. But the doctrine that the government of this country is a Santa Claus not only on December 25th, but every day of the year; not only in time of crisis, but at all times, that ten to fifteen millions must be kept on relief, regardless of how far this country may sink into debt, because our business structure can't be strengthened sufficiently to give them employment, that doctrine, As Senator McNary well says, is the doctrine of futility, defeatism and hopelessness, a doctrine that must be discarded if this country and the American way of life are to endure, as the sturdy men and women who made the country envisioned and cre ated it. AS to the reciprocal trade treaty principle, the writer has talked with Senator McNary concern ing this issue, and knows he is very earnest and sin cere in his opposition to it. Thousands of good citi zens agree with him. We CAN'T. And at last report, at least, Wendell Willkie doesn't. In our judgment the reciprocal trade treaty ele ment must be retained after the present war is over, for without reciprocity there can be no revival of world trade, and without such a revival there can be nothing approaching permanent world peace. "yilE matter is too complicated to go into, in any de- tail at this time and, as far as that goes, we doubt very much if it ever becomes a party issue, for the simple fact that with America's change from a debit to a credit nation, irresistible forces promise to com pel this country to accept reciprocity in world trade whether it is in accord with the Republican tradition or ISN'T. In short, just as the World War No. 2 has prac tically rendered the reciprocal trade treaties inoper ative for the time being, the coming of world peace will render them IMPERATIVE if stabilized Amer ican prosperity is to be realized. And somehow we can never see the Republican party, or any great national party, opposing any consummation of that sort ! COMMITTEE OKAYS; TAX ON PROFITS WashinKton, Aug. 27. i.-n ! The house ways and means com- j mittee approved today leKtslRtiont levy Inn a 20 to 50 prr cent tax on! "excess profits" of corporations and granting tax concessions for contrartom who expand their facilities for defense purposes. The tax would be effective on all of thii year profits. I BONNEVILLE DAN1 SAFETY ASSURED Portland. Aiiff. 27. (VP) Joseph Martin. Hepublican na-1 tional chairman, visited Bonne-1 ville dam yesterday and declared' "nothing is going to happen" to; the great power project if the Republicans take over after the j November election. "Too much money has been invcMrd." he said. "It wouldn't he i,ood business to lose the bene fits." I Personal Health Service By William f lined Utters pertaining ta personal health ana hygiene, not to tiaras aiagnoale or treatment, will he answered he lr. Brady If a stamped sell addressed envelops to enclosed. Letters should be brief and written la Ink. Owing to tht large numbers or letters received only a few ran he answered. N'o reply ran be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Briar, tss ei Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. DO HAVE SOME ANTI Mrs. J. K. writes: "I am 64 years old. and my hair turned gray when I was quite young. For the past 1 2 years I have taken your iodin ra tion several months each year, and no tlced no change in my hair, altho the iodin ration surely does keep one from going stale and feeling prematurely old. Two years ago I began eating plain wheat and whole wheat breads and cereals with cracked or whole wheat in them. In nine months my hair show ed a marked change in color, not really restoration of the col or it had In youth, but certainly a real return of the lost color, and much of the new hair has come in dark. So I say if one wants to keep hair from turning gray one should not only take a regular Iodin ration, as you often ad vise, but one should also eat plain wheat, whole wheat cereal preparations and wheat germ too. This is my experience." Now then, if your hair is be ginning to turn gray or if you feel a bit gray, weary and mel ancholy, I am happy to send on request, if you inclose stamped envelope bearing your address, "Instructions for Taking an Io din Ration." Along with it, if you mention it. I'll inclose a monograph "Wheat to Eat" which tells you how to use plain wheat In your everyday dietary, and why. All I know about preventing hair from becoming premature ly gray or possibly restoring some of the lost color in some instances, is what I read in the medical literature and in the lattcrs people write me about their experience with the iodin ration and vitamin B complex. It is the vitamin B complex in wheat that does the trick if any thing does. In the vitamin B complex there is an entity or factor known to scientific work ers as the 8nti-gray hair factor because It seems essential to prevent hair of animals on ex perimental diets from turning gray prematurely. Plain wheat is the best natur al food source of vitamin B complex. Wheat germ is the richest food source of it. Wheat bran contained considerable of it. Dried pasteurized non-fer THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER tConttoucd from Pag On ) th pftMtne of control of th At lantic out of friendly hands loomwt aa a poMibUlty. Since the invasion of Holland, the heads of the defense ten-ires have been hammering on the president to seek such bases without delay. The transfer of over-age destroyers became an acute problem at about the same time. England nd France wanted dentroyera early In the spring. Then In the retreat from Dunkerque a considerable portion or England's destroyer fleet wa either sxink or put out of commission, prime Min ister Winston Churcht'l addressed a semes of pleading personal appeals to the president. After some dUy the president aaw siftna that transfer of the cW trovers might be supported by an impressive body of opinion tn this country. And neotlatlona for the needed air and naral baara and discussions of the destroyer trsnsfer m-ere simultaneously initiated. As for the Canadian American Joint defence board, tte history iroee back to the summer of 1938, when the president made a surprise pledge to protect the Independence; of Can ada Mlnt aiffreasion In a speech at Kingston, Cmt. The president's Kingriton speech wit warmly answer ed, a few dya later, by Prime Min uter MacKentue King. Thus, when tiie war began, there was a prepared baMs for cooperation. During the fall or winter, etaff talka were quietly started bf tween th CsnaIin snd United fate armlea. Eahllhment of the Joint board merely forms'.ired the 1t nation created br ihe staff talk. The president himself proposed the Joint board plan directly to Prim Minuter Kliv The two men are old friend, and worked out the detaia t yet tier. But although the histories of the three events are independent, they are linked together by a striking time factor. It a unquestionsniT be cauw the destroyer problem was io in the atr that the question of the nas) ant air bases could be sue vtv'. '.'v It err fremrlT hk'l-. . il-.e e tene cf a rro oaa) to usnstrr the deatroyera so Brady. M. O. - CRAY HAIR FACTOR menting yeast of certain special strains contains a good deal of it not live fermenting yeast used in baking. Fresh vegetables such as peas and beans, carrots, cabbage, beet greens, lettuce, supply a fair amount. Pork chops are an excellent source. Then, in order to Insure an opti mal Intake (more than merely enough to prevent manifesta tions of nutritional deficiency) there are concentrates of vita min B complex available in tab let or capsule form. Ql'MTIONg AND ANSWERS. Asthma and Sinus Trouble. Rsts had miraculous results from taking soluble potassium chloride tablets dlsolved In water as directed In your pamphlet "Relief for Allergy" May I Continue taking fire or ten grslns dally without sny harm to my system. If It keeps me comfortable? L. E. 8. Answer Tea. The pamphlet "Re lief for Allergy" l available on re quest. If you Inclose stamped envel ope bearing your address. Ask for on on "Asthma" If you want It. Who Supposes? Nicotine add Is supposed to pre vent graying of hair. How much should be taken dally for this pur pose? Margaret F. Answer Please do not hold me responsible tor the Idea. Some phy atctan I quoted recently had noticed apparent restoration of lost color to gray hair In some patients who were taking nicotine acid. One entity of the vitamin B complex (unidentified) la designated "anti-gray hair factor" because of Its effect In experimental work, preventing or retarding prema ture graying of the hair. So my sug gestion Is not nicotine add alone, but an optimal dally ration of the natur al vitamin B complex, which Includes nicotine add and the other factors. Two of three capsules dally would give 10 or 15 mg. of nicotine add. 800 to 1300 units of B. .thiamin), 800 to 1200 units of B. (O. riboflavin) etc. Teeth and Bones Are Alive. From your artlclea I gather that there Is some difference of opinion between dentlsta and physlclane In regard to the possibility of change In the teeth from absorption of or new deposlta of calcium after the teeth have reached complete develop ment. E. P.. O. D. 8. Answer The difference of opinion la rather between old tlmera and dentlsta or physicians with greater knowledge of physiology and path ology. If you win provide a stamped envelope bearing your address, Doc tor. I'll be happy to send you No. 1 Utile Lesson In the Wsya of Health "SAVE YOUR TEETH," which glvea the consensus of modem opinion, I believe. Laymen who want the book let ahould Inclose twenty-five cents. (Protected by John F. Wile, co.) Ed. Note. Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Hrady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. o.. 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills calif. Canada rather than to England waa the impulse that caused the presi dent to act when he did In the matter of the joint board, if the transfer la made. It now seems more likely that the destroyers will go direct to England. Yet this doea not diminish the three events' funda mental relationship, or the Import ance of this relationship as a sign of the trend of foreign policy. Nor la thta the only significance of the timing of the three events. Action along these lines has been tn the air for some time. Every week passing without action la seven precious days wastd. It la difficult, therefore, to avoid the suspicion that the president delayed action to see how the air assault on England would turn out. If the predictions of some of the American experts had been aubstantlated, England would have crumbled under the first on slaught. Now that there are more grounds for hope, however, the reason for delaying action no longer exist. TAL1AN EDITOR Rome, Aug. 27 (Jl Virginio Gayda. often Italy's editorial mouthpiece, today warned Egyp tians against letting their coun try be used as a springboard for British attacks on Italian terri tory. The fascist editor of II Cior nale D Italia, charging the Brit ish with attacking Libya from Egypt, declared "it is necessary to fix positions and responsibil ities quite clearly." The British have been speak ing of threatened Italian attacks against Egypt. Gayda said, in an attempt to drag that country into war. Instead, he contended, "one must speak of threatened at tacks by anglicised Egypt against Italy, which has the right and duty to take all defen sive measures which the rules of war may impose." Gayda asserted the British were exceeding the military limitations of their alliance with Eg'pt by "invading and domi nating territorial waters, ports, soil, cities and camps of Egypt to make thet.i a s'v.sle, formid able instrument of war against Italy." Sat--kmz in Salem, Ore., Aug. 27. Five miles from the spot where he was born Charles L. McNary (Charley Mac to his fellow Ore gonians) was officially notified today that he has been nomina ted by the Republican party as its candidate for vice-president of the United States. No such honor has ever before come to a native son of the far west. From every section of the state he loves so well and which he has represented so ably in the United States senate came friends and well-wishers to do him honor. Most appropriately the cere monies were held in the state fair grounds, for Senator Mc Nary is a practical, dirt farmer and a state fair is the rallying point of farmers rather than city folk. It was also fitting as a background because of Sena tor McNary's identification with agricultural legislation through out his career in the senate, and his selection by the Republican party was intended as an as surance to the farmers of the country that they would have a champion in the administration. From the Blue mountains of eastern Oregon; from the farms and towns of the Cascade re gion; from the Coast range and distant Siskiyou: bronzed cat tlemen from the high plateau of central Oregon; timbermen from the forests and fishermen from the Columbia from practically every community of the great state friends of Charley Mac converged within the grounds of the state fair. They came by automobile over every highway; they came in special trains which were parked within the grounds on sidings where prize cattle exhibits will be unloaded within a few days, and they came by bus, a caravan of these latter rolling along the River road to Fir Cone, the McNary farm, and then on to Salem. Democrats Josteled with Re publicans as they milled around the entrances to the fair grounds. Families struggled to keep together. There were bas kets with lunch and pape r bags with food, for hundreds arrived early and settled themselves for a long wait. Aside from a sec tion set aside for precinct com mittee and the delegates and their alternates who attended the Republican national conven tion, it was "first come, first served." BUSINESS housrs of Salem closed during th ceremonies and every one went to the fair grounds, as they do on Salem day at the fair. Time stood atlll tor the clerks In the state offices. No local reception committee wel comed the dlfftlmniL&hed native son. the home town boy who haa been named for the second h!hest post In the government. All details were In the hands of the Republican na tional committee, a procedure differ ing from the notification program for Wendell Willkie, where the towns people took matters Into their own control. But the Salemltes who ordi narily would have worn the welcome badgea or had seats on the platform were content to scramble for a place on the bleachers and malt after the ceremonlea for an opportunity to shake the hand of Charley, their neighbor and life-long friend. The national committee, through Ralph Cake, new national committee man for Oregon, put the kibosh on "distinguished guests" on the plat form. Some leading Republicans thought it would be good politics, for Instance, to have former Gov ernor Charlee H. Martin seated with the elect, for the doughty retired major general who broke with Mr. Roosevelt, has a personal following estimated at 35.000 Democrata who will come In handy In carrying the state for the Republican ticket. That suggestion ass vetoed. Likewise re jected was the suggestion that Mayor Joseph K. Carson Jr. of Portland ra Democrat) be Invited to the plat form. Only state officials Included on the platform was Oovernor Charles A. Sprague, who will have the pleas ure of appointing someone to fill the vacancy If Senator McNary Is elected vice-president. POSSIBILITY ot McNary succeeding John Nance Garner and Identity I of the peraon Oovernor Sprague may appoint aa McNary'a successor In the senate occupied much of the con versation among the polltlcal-mlnded Republicans In the throng before snd after the speech of the senator. After all. In the mirtu of a national campaign state polities cannot be overlooked, for politics, like charity. ( begins at home. j No ghot wroe the acceptance i speech. Fverr line was hammered out bv Senator McNarv and it waa j prepared without the advice or sug gestion of anyone. It was Oised ; noon his voting record and his post I tton on the varioua suhlects deal? with, subjects which the senator believes are of major Importance In this campaign. Of tie four ar.dl datea Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Winkle. Mr. Wallace and Senator M.-Nary the senator Is the only one who has been under the gun. who has hsd to record his convictions on nstlonal matters by Tottng: it ts a printed j record, not promises. The subjects I touched on in the a.V'-ptan-e win , be discussed In detatl In Cher spee.-ne SVust. r M- Nary aill deiner dur.n the csmpa.gn. Bjf Frank Jenkins (SUNDAY'S death toll on Cali fornia highway was 18. In Idaho, four persona were killed on the highway! on Sunday which in proportion to popula tion was a heavier toll than California's. 'THESE figures for two states are culled at random from Monday's news. If we could have the accur ate totals for all the states' of the union, we might find that the number of people killed on American highways on Sunday equaled the number of English men killed in Sunday's exten sive German air raids on Brit ain. THIS is the point: There is little enough that Britain can do about German air raids except to fight them off to the best of her ability. There ia plenty we can do about American highway deaths. If we would all be just half as careful as we ought to be, our staggering highway death toll could be reduced almost to the vanishing point. SPEAKING of week-end air fiohtinff n little almnle mathematics applied to British and German claims of losses suffered and Inflicted proves in teresting. The British assert that on Sat urday and Sunday they destroy. ed 4.5 German planes for each British plane lost. The Germans (slightly more conservative, be lieve it or not) claim to have destroyed 4.1 British planes for each German plane lost. Both, of course, can t be right. There's a screw, loose some where. SENATOR Byrd of Virginia nninta nut that in the. Iflfl days since the president said we need 50,000 planes only 343 planes have been ordered for the army, navy and marine corps and none of the 343 will be delivered in 1940. These figures. Senator Byrd says, come directly from the secretaries of the war and navy departments. TO those of us out In the sticks, who have been taught that the way to get a thing done is to do it, it looks as if our government would be wiser if it talked less and built more planes. REPRESENTATIVE Segar, of New Jersey, dies today of a heart attack, being the 27th member of the present congress to die in office. This statement, on its face, makes It appear that the strain of membership in congress is terrible, but if we took the total membership of congress and applied the normal death rate for men of that age it wouldn't sound so bad. GIF RACKETEER Portland. Aug. 27. (Pi A "racket" which police here ad mitted was new to them, landed Fred Moore, 29, of Kansas City, Mo., in Jail for six months to day. He also was fined $500. Detective R. J. Todd said Moore masqueraded as the friend of mid-western surviving rela tives of deceased Portlandcrs and borrowed money from mem bers of bereaved families. The detective said Moore admitted obtaining $53 from 27 house holds. He was convicted on a charge of vagrancy. SENT TO LONDON Bern. Switzerland, Aug. 27. iP The Swiss government to day asked Great Britain to "im mediately and scrupulously" en force orders given to the Royal Air Force to cease alleged con tinued violations of Swiss terri tory in flights to Italy. The request was made in a note handed to the British for eign minister. The Swiss government met early today to discuss the "re prated violations" of Swiss ter ritory after a night of flights across Switzerland, presumably by British planes, in which a number of persons were injured by dropping fragments of anti aircraft shells fired at the high flying craft. These violations were "inten tional." the Swiss high command charged. Cse Mail Tr.bucs waot aoa. Flight (T Time Mcdford and Jackson Coonty History from the files of lbs Mall Tribune 10 and to jesra ace. TEW YEARS AGO TODAY August 27. 1930 Ot was Thursday) Lumbermen of Pacific coast see brighter days ahead. Two Eugene policemen slain by a moonshiner. Harold Bromley, who plan. nri Pacific ocean flight, forced down by heavy load of gaso line. Diamond lake lodge to keep open until October 1. New storm looms over Med- ford dance matron law. Pnstnonement of opening of city schools on account of fruit V harvest opposed. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 27. 1920 (It was Friday) All doubt of assassination of former ezar of Russia and hit family removed by she discov ery of new facts. Central Point schools to open Monday, September 13. Charles Ray in "Homer Comes Home" at the Rialtot "Social Climbers" at the Lib erty. Union labor endorses James M. Cox for president. Dozens of local people spent past week on Applegate picking wild blackberries. Chamber of Commerce forum to discuss removal of courthouse from Jacksonville. V. DISAGREE ABOUT Washington. Aug. 27. UP) Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) and Sir George Paish, British econo mist, disagreed today as to just what Sir George said about hii connection with the entry of the United States into the World war. Wheeler's account, which brought demands in the senate yesterday for Sir George's ex- 1 pulsion from the country, waa to this effect: Sir George visited him at hi office a few days ago. During the conversation, the economist asserted: "I am responsible for getting this country into the last war and I intend to get it into this one." Sir George, on the other hand, said this was what happened: He called on Senator Wheel er. In the course of their talk he mentioned that, as a British financial advisor during the World war. he had "placed in formation at the disposal of my government." This information was subsequently turned over to the United States by the Bri tish government and its char acter was such. Sir George as serted, that it influenced the decision of the United States to enter the conflict. F Senator Wheeler, presenting his version of the incident to the Senate, said he had told Sir George that his "I am respons ible" assertion was a "broad statement." The economist, he said, thereupon "qualified it to the extent of saying, 'well, ev erything short of war'." Senator Glass (D-Va.) said that "if any Englishman were to come to my office with any such proposal I would drive him out, and I think any sena tor of self-respect should have driven him out." London, Aug. 27 '.41 A for eign office spokesman described Sir George Paish today as "an elderly gentleman with a dis tinguished past" who is in tha United Slates on private busi ness and has no authority to speak for his majesty's govern ment. -4 NAZISlADTlST OF VESSELS LOST London. Atiff 97 j tt,i..- teen British, allied and neutral merchant shir totaling 52.899 tons were sunk by the enemy during the week ending August 18. the admiralty announced to day. The admiralty said "the enemv claims to have sunk 151.711 tons, or nearly three times the actual reported losses" for the period. The total tonnage lost was slightly above the weeklv ave rage for the previous 49 weeks since the beginning of the war, the admiralty said. Axis losses to August 28 to talled approximately 1.187.00Q-el tons, the admiralty reported. German lcse were 923 000 tons and Italian 24,0OO. s
