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Newspaper Page Text1 Weather er Bumu report Partly cloud t today and tt ntufTum; roolrr today; aftfr noon thunlrrorm In touth cra mountain. HlgheM elerdy Lowe i-irrty ,.T. U DIAL 2141 y lor Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Jniied Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1940. No. 139. IU1 15)15) aw im 1MB , i THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KIMTNER Diliiud by ib North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Aug- 30 James Aloysius Farley tomorrow (Sat urday) severs his official con nection with Franklin D. Roose velt's administration. Farley has already quit as Democratic na tional chairman. But his new re-1 lationshlp with the president is better symbolized by his resigna tion from the office in which he took such pride, ,the postmaster generalship. He continues as New York Democratic chairman, and he is supporting the presi dent for re-election. Yet every one around him knows full well that his conviction against a third term is as pronounced as ever. Few of Farley's friends ever expected him to break openly with the president. Farley often says that he loves the Democra tic party next only to his relig ion and his country. He also says, "Roosevelt made me, and I'm never forgetting that." Un questionably, however, Farley's enthusiasm for the election has decreased, although he is loyal to his party and his friend. The truth probably is that, while the president and Jim Far ley will always be on good terms, they will never recapture their old friendship. During the last two years their association was of a different type. They almost broke over the Chicago convention. Now, they are go ing separate ways, and their story is one of the most interest ing in recent political history. By now everyone knows Far-1 ley's history. How the genial Irishman of Grassy Point. N. Y., advanced himself in organization politics from town clerk to New York state boxing commissioner; from Roosevelt's personal cam paign manager to chairman of the Democratic committee and postmaster general. And how he came to Washington, suspect be cause of his political background and survived the unjust criti cism of such demagogues as Huey Long to become known as honest and capable cabinet member, willing to take practi cally any punishment in behalf of the "boss." By 1938, however, the presi dent had made new friends. Men like .Harry Hopkins and Thomas Corcoran, who spoke of "politics of principle'' and scorned old line politicians, were in the ascendancy at the White House. At the intimate gatherings with the president there was much talk of the need for 100 per cent new dealers and for a "purge of those in opposition. Farley was consulted less and less. He heard the talk, but probably first realized the true situation early that year when Corcoran visited him to Ml him that the president had decided to run (Continued on Pago Pi.e.j STATE FAIR WILL I They said the nazl air arm, after trying for three weeks to Salem. Aug. 31. -P Its j "soften" England for the final huge livestock barn nearing theDi0W wa, -preparing the final overflow point and exhibits of ; defeat." In those three weeks, farm machinery and land pro- nazis 5ajdi j 193 British planes ducts filling rapidly. Oregon's ; an(j 99 barrage balloons had state fair was about ready to-,been destroyed, not including day to throw open its gates for .today's operations, its 79th annual showing. nt commentators professed The fair will open Monday j scorn for tne "childish opti morning for a seven-day run. Imism" with which, they said. The opening day's program I tne British are declaring that will honor labor, the national eiiard and educators. Rex Put - -. . - ...nAV,n.nnn . nam. uici..u.,i, ' mortem war can be like, public instruction, will speak at; Dne ncw!tpaper, the Frank a special Labor Day program furler Zeitung. explained: "Ca Monday afternoon. 1 tastrophes often develop slow- First running of the daily 10- iy event race program on Lone I Oak track will start at 1:30 1 Portland. Aug. 31. OP) He- s p.m. Monday. There will be a horse show in the fair stadium each niRht excent Sur-Jay and also a stage show including Sunday. MASSIVE ASSAULT 1YBEJJVERP00L Censors Withhold Name of Northwest City Bom barded Berlin Boasts. Berlin. Sunday, Sept. 1. (IP) Berlin had an air raid alarm for an hour and 3 minutes this morning, begin, nlng at 12:04 a. m. (2:04 p. m. Saturday. PST). (Because of censorship this dispatch was not filed until 8:25 a. m., Berlin time, 10:25 p. m., PST, Saturday). It was the second air raid alarm in the capital within 24 hours. I By the Associated Press London, Sunday, Sept. 1. (IP) Thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped by waves of German bombers during a six-hour attack on a northwest city in England last night and early today while other nazl raiders strafed London and kept the empire capital in a state of alarm until nearly dawn. Reports from the northwest city said no military objectives were damaged by the full scale raid, but that some fatalities had resulted. Private property was hit, and one block of of fices in the center of the city was set on fire. The raiders pressed home the attack in the face of terrific anti-aircraft fire. London's morning raid appar ently was a sideshow for the nazis. They kept London on the alert for three full hours, but few planes appeared over the city to follow up the big-scale attacks hurled at the metropol itan area yesterday and last night. Censorship Strict British censorship carefully guarded identity of the city, which may have been Liver pool, England's most important northwest port and possibly the most important in the entire seagirt kingdom now that London is under such constant aerial harassment. Except for one brief burst of activity when bombs fell and the anti-aircraft barrage opened up, the raid was one of the dullest of the 27 in the London area since they began Au gust 15. But the comparative calmness of the latest attack was a far cry from the unrelenting aerial siege of yesterday and last night. Bombs blasted down on the London area at many points. Subway Halted In one of the Saturday night raids, London's elaborate sub way system was interrupted, but transport officials said it was restored early today. The British reported 63 Ger: man planes were destroyed and 22 British were missing in Sat urday's fighting. (The Germans said 124 Brit ish and 28 nazi planes were lost). By th Associated Press Berlin. Aug. 31. Germany pulled the curtains tonight on year of war and her mili tary commentators declared the heightened roar of battle over England meant the "catastro j phc" is approaching for "our last enemy." 1 ,n. worst is over. Ennland. thev l ;.;,.. i.t .h. ' . ... ports of crawfish deaths from : pollution reached Master War - tirn M. T. Hoy of the state fish commission today from the mid - i illamctte river district. Minnesota Senator, 24 Others Die Her First Year Lii l I manaf... ,- " ;,..,;, nL 111 ii imieemirf'fifti Mr. and Mrs. Jo Derer of Chicago wanted to find out just how much a baby costs, so they kept an account of every thing spent on their Infant daughter, Sharon, th first year. The coit. including th birth, was $270.17. Her wis Mrs. Derer and Sharon on her first birthday. " ' . 1 TO TAKE FARLEY'SiBEARS DOWN UPON Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 31. (IP) President Roosevelt an- nmtnrprl tnrinv that Prank f? Walker, New York lawyer and formerly treasurer of the Dem ocratic national committee, would be the new postmaster general, succeeding James A. Farley, who gave up his cabinet portfolio today. The setting for the announce ment was an annual reception for the president by members of the Roosevelt Home club an organization of his friends and neighbors, several hundred of whom assembled on the lawn of Moses Smith, a Roosevelt es tate tenant. The president praised the re tiring Farluy, adding that "Jim," with a family to sup port, "finds it necessary as some of the rest of us may have to do to go back to private life." Th announcement climaxed an event marked by extreme informality. Some of the speak ers called the president and Mrs. Roosevelt "Franklin" and "Eleanor." Governor Herbert Lehman of New York, who came to Hyde Park to discuss the St. Law rence waterway project with the president, was present. So were Crown Princess Marina or Norway, a group of local dig - nitaries and the United States military academy band. OJ Northern California: Mostly fair over the week-end with scattered thunderstorms over "hint, n.u.l.in. anrl fftff. high mountains and fogs on the coast; slightly cooler In the del ta region tonight; moderate northwest wind off the coast. Outlook for partly cloudy weather for the far west over the week-end. There will be ! scattered thunderstorms over ithe high mountains and light rains in western V.'akVin?ton. It 1 will be cooler cast of th Cas- I cade mountains. Cost $270. 1 7 I Manteo, N. C, Aug. 81. W) Shipping and port towns braced tonight for a tropic-born hurricane that apparently was bearing down on the bleak sand banks of North Carolina and the Virginia capes. The storm, the second In three weeks to threaten the somn Aiianuc seaDoara, seni barometers falling at the coast guard station at Cape Hatteras. the graveyard of the Atlantic, and angry seas rose along the Carolina banks. The weather bureau predict ed the hurricane probably would hit the coast between midnight and early Sunday morning. An advisory, which placed the storm's center some 200 miles off Hatteras, added that it showed a tendency to turn north from Its north-northwest direction giving rise to hopes the hurricane might pass out to sea. Storm warnings were ordered up from Hatteras to the Vir ginia capes. Shipping was warn ed to proceed with "extreme caution" as far north as south ern New England. The Phila delphia weather bureau said the storm was likely to veer out to sea before reaching the Philadelphia area. The Norfolk and Morchead City coast guard station' dis- 1 hed , ,ne aid of , ..,.. ,,nV., th. Sim ton Acosta, which flashed an SOS from the center of the hurricane area about 200 miles southeast of Frying Pan shoals. Labor Day Closure New York, Aug. 31. UP) All U. S. financial exchanges and commodity markets will be closed Monday, Sept. 2, Labor Day. Holiday Labor day will be observed generally as a holiday here tomorrow. Federal, state, county and city offices, banks nd most stores will be closed all day. There will be no mail delivery. The Mail Tribune will be published early in the after noon I DICTATORSHIP TO FIGHT DICTATORS War Board Report Frowned On Granting Emergency Powers to F. D. R. Rushvllle, Ind., Aug. 31. VP) Declaring that "We must not set up dictatorship to fight dictators," Wendell L. Willkie told newspaper men today a confidential report of the now disbanded war resources board had opposed granting emer gency wartime powers t exist ing executive and quasi-Judicial agencies. The Republican presidential nominee recited what he said were quotations from the re port In renewing his demand that President Roosevelt give his views on the Overton-Russell amendment to the senate conscription bill. That amendment would per mit the government to seize plants and other facilities need ed for defense If the secretaries of war and navy could not reach agreements with the own ers. Willkie read to front porch press conference a formal state ment which included the follow ing quoted, he said, from the report: j "It Is - u considered judgr ment that co-ordination offers the only effective means of con verting American industries for the purposes of war. "American business men. like all Americans, are accustomed to Democratic procedure. More effective results can be obtained through a voluntary co-operation than'through force. "We recommend that war time powers be vested in es pecially created wartime agen cies, which will automatically demobilize when the war is over. "Should wartime powers be granted to existing executive or quasi-judicial agencies of the government it will be next to impossible at the end oi me war to separate the wartime and neace-time functions ol the gov- ernment.' The report, prepared by a board headed by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., was filed with President Roosevelt last year but never made public. For the second time, Willkie advocated that the president make public the entire report. whcn ne suggested that course few days ago, Mr. Roosevelt said it was now largely a His torical document. TOLL RISES FAST By the Associated Press Accidents took at least 108 lives yesterday (Saturday) as the nation began a three-day cele bration of the Labor Day week end, traditionally the end of the summer holiday. On traffic-choked highways, 70 persons were killed. New York, with eight deaths, leading the list. Miscellaneous accidents took 13 deaths, including three at Al lantic City where two big water tanks crashed through the roof of a bath house. Coos Official Passes Marshficld, Aug. 31. IPt Coos County Commissioner Thomas H. Thompson, died In a Eugene hospital yesterday fol lowing an Illness of several weeks. Coulee Dam Progress Seattle. Aug. 31. (IP) WPA headquarters reported today that more than 60 per cent of the huge Coulee dam reservoir lake bed clearing project has been completed. More than 32. 600 of the 52,000 acres have been cleared. BATTLE IN HOUSE PLANTJEIZURES Congress Hopes to Take Recess Soon After Pas sage of Draft. Washington, Aug. St.- Members of the military com mittee said today that informal survevs showed the house would pass the Burke-Wadsworth con scription bill next ween, dui that there was considerable op position to proposals to permit the government to condemn and take over private industrial plants for defense. Some legislators went so far as to predict privately that the industry provision would De omitted from the house bill on the final vote. They said, how ever, that a modification per mitting government operation of these facilities would stand at least an even chance of be ing accepted. Coming quickly to the fore front of the capital discussion on the legislation, this issue tem porarily relegated to the back ground arguments over the fun damental provisions for regis tering men from 21 to 44, in elusive, and making them liable for a year's military training. A battle Is expected over the age provisions, however, as the senate - voted for registration only of men 21 to 30, inclusive. Confident that the conscrip tion bill would be enacted with out delay, congress leaders op timistically set their sights for a clean calendar within two or three weeks in order to be in a position to take an indefinite recess or, possibly, a sine die ad journment. Many Individual members have indicated they would like to go home soon to remain at least until after election day. The senate amendment, au thorizing the government to take over industrial facilities found necessary for defense If a satisfactory arrangement with the owner could not be reached, ran into some opposition in the house military committee. BULLETIN San Diego 8 14 1 Seattle 5- 15 0 Newsom, Humphreys and Sal keld; Gregory, Walker, Radu nlch and Campbell. Wenatchee, Aug. 31, (IP) The Salem Senators staved off a last inning threat to defeat the Wenatchee Chiefs 7 to 6 and open their Western Internation al series here tonight. National Presidential Poll Reader's Free Ballot CHECK YOUR CHOICE! CLIPl SEND IN! Mall er nrlnj In PROMPTLY to Mall Tribune Offlr. rir SI. Medford. Ma- Be Pailrd on a Poalrard. Clip Neatly, part of Nationwide Poll of Public Opinion To STRAW BALLOT EDITOR, Medford Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. M) illolt-o lor Prrkldenl la; ( ) Wil l KIP. ( ) ROOSEVELT C ) B"OWDE ) THOMAS ( ) V MIECIDEP ( ) . ( ) I rVOB a mote on amarlca'i part for a Brlllah- German peace. ( ) t OPPOSE each a mote on America's pert. ' IN ISM I ote4 ( ) Demorratlti ( ) Republican ( ) Socialist ; ( ) Commonliti ( ) Lembe t'nloa ( nmnt Vole ( My sje es. , Are Too, or nallott ta be counted mnat be delltfred to the Mall Tribune Office on of before September 1. rOopTtlfhted. 1B40. by Anociated Pla in Nothing: In a Name Peoria. 111., Aug. 31.- The enlistment situation at the local army recruiting station has assumed interna tional aspects. Among recent recruits were C, O. Canada, Samuel Germany, Daniel England and William France. Jersey City, Aug. 81. (IP) Puzzled officers and passengers of the American export liner Exochorda told tonight how British authorities at Bermuda, disregarding the captain's pro tests, removed three German subjects from the ship without explanation and seized rolls of war film from an American photographer after a. scuffle. The vessel, which arrived to day from Lisbon, with 166 pas sengers, also lost 425 pouches of mail to British censors at the Bermuda stop. Capt. Wenzell Habel said he believed the Incident was the first since the start of tha war in which passengers had been taken off a vessel flying the American flag. He said British authorities asked by name for Dr. Herbert Block, 37. Adolf Sandbaus. 41. and Hans Schiffmann, 33. The British made no com- ment,Capt. Habel said, and re fused either to entertain his protest of their action or to explain why they wanted the three passengers. He said that they questioned a fourth passenger, Sigmund Egelhardt, 59, a Jeweler and uncle of Sandhaus, but did not take him oft. Two lnlu'ed Two persons riding in pick up operated by A. C. Bell of Gold Hill were Injured when a car driven by William W. Wal ker of Hilt. Cal.. crashed Into the light truck on the Pacifio highway near the Btrdseye Creek road yesterday after noon, state police reported last night. Th accident occurrea, Dolice said, when Bell attempt cd to turn Into th sld road from the highway. Portland. Ore.. Aug. 31. (IP) The Bonneville Power admin istration began delivery of pow er today to the Aluminum Com pany of America's Vancouver, Wash., plant. Portland, Aug. 31. ) The Puget Sound Construction com pany offered a low bid of 3, 131,606 today for one of Bonne ville Dam'i largest pending projects. t Occupation., hate jou been, en relief.. Mte-ipaper Polls of America. Ine.) ne Crash AIRLINER FLYING i LOW IN RAIN MAY HAVE 'HIT RIDGE' Cause Reports Conflict Huge Ship Splintered to Earth Near Capital. Washington, Aug. 31. M" Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota and 24 others died tonight In an air crash about 40 miles from the nation's capi tal to register the heaviest death toll of American commercial aviation. Twenty-one passengers and four of the Pennsylvania air liner's crew were killed when tha plana splintered to frag ments on the ground while fly ing during a heavy rainstorm. Conflicting reports came from the scene. Some said the plane, en route from Washington to Pittsburgh, fell In an open field after flying at a low altitude during a thunderstorm that flooded that section of Virginia and made roads impassable. Others said th ship "collided with a ridge." Whatever the cause, It was the first fatal accident for com mercial airlines since March 26, 1939, near Oklahoma City, Okla, when eight were killed. It wa the first fatal accident for tha -Pennsylvania Central Air Lines In more than 13 years of oper ation. Once before a United State senator had died in an air dis aster. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed when an air transport crashed near Klrks ville. Mo., on May 6, 193S. John Rhodes, 24-year-old re porter of the Winchester, Va., Evening Star, who went to tha seen for the Associated Press, said th alfalfa field wher tha plane crashed presented an eerie scene with parts of th plane, dismembered bodies, and clothing scattered over a two acre plot. vOn report in th neighbor hood had it that a note, telling the tinder that tha plan was "going down", had been dropped by the stewardess, Margaret Carson. A partially burned pa per was picked up by Fred Gra ham of Lovettsville, Va., accord ing to Frank Caldwell, im pec- tor for the civil aeronautics board. Graham could not be lo cated immediately, but Caldwell said the paper, a sheet apparent ly torn from a memorandum pad, contained no writing when he saw it except a printed letter head of the airline. Civil aeronautics board in spectors, headed by Harllea Branch, chairman, went im mediately to the seen of tha crash to investigate. E Washington, Aug. 31. (IP). Lord Lothian, the British am bassador, said today he saw In creasing evidence that his coun try has won the "Battle of Brit ain" throngh this autumn and thus made ultimate victory in her war with Germany mar certain. Only two weeks of weather favorable for an attempted in vasion of the British isles re main, h told reporters. The war Lothian predicted, will go into the winter with Britain steadily gaining strength and striking harder blows at Germany. The ambassador said reports from his government showed that damage by th Intense Ger man air raids on Britain had not been great, and h added that defensive strength display ed by Britain in th face of bitter aerial fighting had dis couraged German hopes of surprise troop landing and a ' juick victory.