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Jniied Press
Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1940.
No. 139.
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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. " '
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.