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Weather- Bureau report Inside. rorrrut: Partly cloudy tonight DIAL 2141 for Southern Oregon' Leading Newipaper The MAIL TRIBUNE Medford TP-IBUNE ana lueMayj little rhn,e In temperature. Hlflint Teaterdar . Loweit thl morning Full AuocUltd Preat itod Prate Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940. No. 140. THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Ralaattd by the North Amariean Newtpaptr Allianca. Inc. Washington, Sept. 2. The war and navy departments have been much criticized for their failure to put on paper real plans for total defense. But un less all signs fail, there is one field in which they are pre pared, and that is the conscrip tion of men. The Joke is that the army and navy selective service division has been a step child, left almost completely alone until a short time ago when German victories created sentiment for a peace-time draft. According to competent mil itary experts, within six weeks after congress votes the money, the tremendous Job of registra tion 'and selection will be com pleted, and the first of the draftees can be enrolled. In other words, the elaborate draft machinery will be then ready to produce the men, if the camps, supplies, and training officers are available. Only one miscal culation has been made. Natuc ally enough the v.r department never envisioned a peace-time draft. A change must be made in its regulations and forms, the deletion of the words, "our country is at war." Although the war department hesitates to discuss its effic iency, for conscription is not yet a law, it is generally known that each state has a well-developed plan, centering on local boards and heading up to the governor and adjutant general. In fact, the army is urging cau tion on state officials, who are advertising their local boards have already been selected. The final powers of appointment, under the proposed law, will rest with the president, on rec ommendation of the state offi cers, so that nothing can be done officially until the bill be comes law. THE war and navy depart- ments have at their disposal a wealth of experience from the last war. They also have gen eral mobilization programs, of which the draft is a part, and these programs have been reg- Continued on Page Two.) LOCAL TITLE DUEL Marshfield's 19-year-old Dick Hanen held a 2-up lead over De fending Champion Eddie Sim mons of Medford at noon today after the first 18 holes of their 36 hole championship match in the annual Southern Oregon Northern California golf tourna ment at the Rogue Valley club. Hanen, never behind, birdied the 15th and 16th holes to obtain his leadership, after the match was squared on the 14th. Hanen was four up early in the strug gle, but Simmons fought back tn dead'ork the match. Hanens medal score for the first 18 holes was 71, one over par. Ted Dcnson of Corvallis won the third flight championship by scoring a 2 and 1 victory over Ford Bray of San Francisco. Hanen and Simmons were to start their second 18 holes at 1:30 this afternoon. (Mora golf on Sports page) SECOND PISTOL RECORD FOR TREASURY AIDES Detroit. Sept. 2 P) A sec ond world s record in two days of competition at the L. A. Young gun club was broken yesterday by a pistol team of the United State treasury de partment. The treasury agents scored 1.403 points in the five-man team event with .43-ealiber pis tols, beating the mark of 1.380 they set lat year. BABY SON ARRIVES FOR ILL-FATED COPILOT Beaver. Pa. Sept. 2 i.Pi Just 36 hours after her hus band died in trie crah of an air transport in Virginia. Mrs. Louise Moore, 25, gave birth today to a sou. Her husband. J. Paul Moore. 30. wa co pilot nf the Pepnyl vania Central A'riiner that fell Saturday, killing 23 person. CALLED TO DUTY; IT SEPT. 16 Year's Training Decreed by President Men of 27 States Affected by Call Washington, Sept. 2. P) National guard mobilization was under way today, with the first contingent of 60,000 citizen soldiers ordered by President Roosevelt to report to the colors September 16 for a year's active duty with the regular army. The presidential order, issued yesterday, meant the first peace time tour of service for the guard in the nation's behalf since the days of 1916 when guard units were used along the Mexican border while Gen eral John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition of regulars across the Rio Grande in search of Pancho Villa. 60.000 Ordered Out The 60,000 men ordered out represent more than one-fourth of the total guard strength which the war department ulti mately plans to have mobilized. The guard's present strength is given as 242,000, but resigna tions, discharges and the elim ination of the physically unfit are expected to reduce the num ber to 220,000, or less. Units in 27 states were af fected by Mr, Roosevelt's order. They include four full divisions the 44th, 30th, 45th and 41st 18 coast artillery regiments, and four observation squadrons, the tank companies of the four divisions were excepted. Army officers said they would be told to report later. Oregon Included The unite contain men from California, New York, New Jer sey, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Okla homa, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Oregon. Montana. Wyoming. New Hampshire, Delaware, Il linois, Missouri, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine, Rhode Is land, Connecticut, Virginia and Arkansas. Under the law authorizing yesterday's mobilization order, guardsmen below the rank of captairt who have dependents to support will be given 20 days to resign. Those under 18 will be discharged. Employers are directed to reinstate guardsmen applying for former Jobs within 40 days after completing their year's service. Exceptions would be made where reinstatement would be "impossible or un reasonable." The 20-day period for resig nations will begin with the first date of active service Septem ber 16. It will be 10 days after that date before the complete units report to training camps, according to Major General John F. Williams, chief of the national guard bureau. Campaign for the voluntary enlistment of young men in Medford's two 41st division na tional guard units will be in tensified this week, Capt. Carl Y. T e n g w a 1 d, commanding Company A. announced today. Upon mobilization, Company A' streneth is to be increased ,from 86 to 129 men and head quarters detachment's from 11 .to 26. t is tne nope oi trie commanding officers to enroll the additional men immediately so that they will have a little preparation before the guards men go to camp for a year' active duty. Those enrolling now will be on the inactive list but will be transferred to the active list upon mobilization, the officers explained. National guardsmen, it was Dointed out. will not be subject to conscription under jthe bill now pending Dei ore congress. NEW ENGLAND SPARED i ATLANTIC HURRICANE Boston. Sept. 2. (F) Coast guard headquarters here an 1 nounred late today "all danger I is pased" for New England from the hurricane that lashed mny Atlantic seaboard point In the past few days, out warnea that shipping in the Bay of Fundy might expect danger during the night. The blow, carrying added ter ror because of the disastrous hurricane and tidal wave of 1938 in which more than 600 lost their lives, veered seaward this .-orning. ff'.er apparently head in toward southern New England. Crash Reduces Airliner to p- i .1 - V .V CHURCH OF GOD COLLEGE TO MOVE TO PORTLAND Spokane. Sept. 2. lP) Rev. H. A. Schlatter said today the Church of God's Pacific Bible college, established here three years ago to train missionaries, would move to Portland and open there Sept. 23. Rev. Slatter, one of the school's founders, explained the 1 move was decided upon to take a Sumas printer, as she wasj injurea were tawira oiene advantage of "larger facilities! crossing a street. She died yes-, man, Sprague River, broken available in Portland." terdav afternoon. I legs and cut on head; L. J. G.O.P. Chairman Wonders Who Pays Roosevelt Journey Cost Washington, Sept. 2 UP) Joseph W. Martin, Jr., chairman of the Republican national com mittee, proposed today that the senate commtitee on campaign expenditures investigate wheth er the cost of President Roose velt's "political sally into the Tennessee valley" was being paid "out of public money." Asserting in a prepared state- ment that Mr. Roosevelt "at long last has abandoned his pretense of aloof statesmanship, and has decided that it has become ne cessary for him openly to par ticipate" in the presidential campaign; Martin said that the "political nature" of Mr. Roose velt utterance today raised the question of "who is paying for this political excursion." Mr. Roosevelt dedicated Chick- arnatiga dam in the TV A system today with a speech at Chatta - nooga, Tenn, Fore of Saturdays' crash near Lovetisville. Va., which killed 25. including San- Ernest Lundeen. of Minnesota, It shown In iha picture above of the wreckage of tha tail anembly and rear part of iha fuselage of iha Pennsylvania Central airliner, Capt. Lowell Scroggina (below) was pilot and Margaret Carson (be low) of Pittsburgh was hottest. EX-OREGON SENATOR, OF Washington, Sept. 2. (IP) Jonathan Bourne, Jr., 83, United States senator from Oregon from 1907 to 1913. died early today in his apartment. Death was attributed to com plications arising after he had broken hip In falling in his residence six weeks ago. Mrs. Bourne was with him when he died. She is the-only Immediate survivor. Bourne was author of the par cel post law. Prior to entering the senate, he was a member of the Republican national commit tee from 1888 to 1892. Born In New Bedford, Mass, on February 23, 1855, Bourne was the ton of the owner of a large fleet of whaling ships. He entered Harvard, but left col lege to go to sea. Shipwrecked off Formosa, he was picked up and taken in 1878 to Portland, Ore., where he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and engaged in mining, farming and various commercial enterprises. Hershey, Pa., Sept. 2. (IP) Byron Nelson and Sammy Snead were locked In a spec tacular duel In the final match of the P.G.A. championship to day, with Nelson clinging to a one-up advantage through the 27th hole. A gallery of about 1500 followed the hot match in the sunshine. Mother of Seven Killed Sumas, Wash., Sept. 2. (IP) Mrs. Camilla Susan Nims. 48. mother of seven children, was fatnllv InlnreH here Saturday nlcht when struck bv an auto- mobile driven by Frank E. Moen, Martin aid the campaign ex penditure committee, headed by Senator Gillette (D-Ia) "also should investigate to see what other expenses incidental to Mr. Roosevelt's campaign for re election are paid out of govern ment fund supplied by the tax payers." "Still another question," he went on. "is that of the radio time used by Mr- Roosevelt to- day. If that time were given to him free as I understand it was then the Republican national committee demands that equal radio facilities be mad avail able to Wendell Willkie without cost. There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Roosevelt used the radio facilities provided for him to make a political speech. The law forbids discrimination by radio networks and ttations be-1 1 tween candidate lor tha tame 'office.' Wreckage AIRLINER CRASH DUE FOR PROBE BY C. A. A.; E Leesburg, Va., Sept. 2. (P The crash of a Pennsylvania Central airliner in a field near Lovettsville, carrying 25 pers ons to instant death, brought plans today for a public hearing by the civil aeronautics board and a possible senate probe. Literally cut ' In two by the terrific Impact, the mangled .bodies of the 21 passengers and four crew members were scat tered over a 25-acre area when the giant liner rocketed to the foot of the Blue Ridge moun tains during a cloudburst Sat urday afternoon. Relatives and friends of the victims, aided by FBI finger print experts, completed Iden tification of the torn bodies here Sunday in a cemetery chapel converted into temporary morgue. Among the victims was Sena tor Ernest Lundeen (FL-Minn.) Col- Donald Connolly. CAA administrator, agreed with oth er officials who inspected the wreckage of the deluxe $129, 000 Douglas airliner that there was "othing definite" on which to fix the cause of the disaster worst In the history of the nation's commercial aviation. ON NEW CUT-OFF Eugene, Sept. 2. lP) Nine persons were in a Eugene hos pital today with serious injur ies after a terrific head-on auto mobile crash on a straight sec- tion h new Willamette high way southeast of here. Attcnd- ing physician believed all i would recover. inresner, sprague uiver, Doay and head lacerations; J. F. Young, Sprague River, broken leg and lacerations; Louise Dav idson, Corvallis, probably frac tured ankle: Mrs. Laura Mon cur, Corvallis, broken arm, fractured ribs and face cuts; Keith Moncur, Corvallis, broken arm; Mrs. J. W. Wearous, Eu gene, face lacerations and bruised chest; Colmar Lombard, Portland, fractured hip, and Dortha Barrett, Cottage Grove, broken leg and brain concus sion. Main Break Floods Seattle District Seattle. Sept. J -iff) Thous ands of gallons of water flooded half a dozen Denny regrade dis trict thoroughfares for more than two hours early today when a water main broke In Bell street near Sixth avenue. The water emerged a 10-foot geyser and lifted a 20-foot-square section of paving three feet in the air. Nearly half a block of pav- Ing was dislodged to a lesser ' extent- AID I' "tFENSE KTndES LABOR Leaders Pledge Loyal Ef fortsMajor Unions Op pose Conscription Bill By the Atsociattd Pratt It was labor's day today, and it was labor's vital role In the task of national defense that gave the day its keynote. The holiday message President Roosevelt issued to the nation's workers appealed for the co operation of all to strengthen and defend the American way of life. Labor leaders, great and small, pledged the loyal efforts of their unions in furthering tne pre paredness program, and ex pressed readiness to shoulder whatever responsibilities might come. Oppot Contcription These expressions, however, were frequently coupled with attacks on the pending conscrip tion legislation opposed both by the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of lr dustrial Organization. Wendell L. Willkie. Republi can presidential nominee, added another note to the day' state ments, charging that there was a "present trend toward placing labor unions under government control." President Roosevelt In his message told workers that they would lose nothing by helping to build a sound national defense. "In its accomplishment," he said, "wage earners, well aware of the great economic and so cial gains they have made in the last seven years, may be assured that their contribution will not be at the cost of lowered labor standards or impaired social ad' vances." William Green, AFL presl dent, in his annual Labor Day address at Denver, said the fed eration, realizing that "at a time like this industrial conflict would be stupid and dangerous was ready to do its full part. JUSTICE DOUGLAS IN ROLE OF GODFATHER Portland, Ore., Sept. 2 P) Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the U. S. supreme court became a godfather here yesterday. The vacationing jurist stood for the christening of the Infant son of Dr. and Mrs. William M. Wilson of Portland at Trinity Episcopal church. Dr. Wilson, a classmate of Justice Douglas, at Whitman col lege, named the son for the Jurist. HOLE IN POCKET BLAMED FOR FOREST HOLOCAUST Bend, Sept. 2 (IP) Sam Form wait, a sheepherdcr accused of responsibility for a Deschutes national forest fire told Justice of the Peace George Marvin a knife which cut a hole in his pocket probably was to blame. Kormwalt said matches slip ped through the hole and prob ably were stepped on by deer or sheep, igniting them. 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I40. by Aaaociatad Ambulance Driver Loses Weight In Nazi Prison Camp Vichy, France, Sept. t. i(D Louis Wehrla of Fort Wayne, Ind., former Ameri can volunteer ambulance driver who said he lost 66 pounds during his three month confinement in a Ger man prison camp, arrived here today with another cap tured volunteer, Murray Shipley of Cincinnati. The two were captured af ter German parachute troops dropped around them in northern France In mid-day. They were held at Hoyer swerda, near Dresden, and were released August 23. "The food wasn't so good, but there were no complaint about our treatment," Wehrle niri. 346 MEET DEATH, J By iha Associated Press Violent death over the nation rose to 346 today in two days of the extended Labor Day week end. Automobile accidents as usual contributed the greatest number of fatalities to tha toll 221, but this was 70 less than the normal traffic death expectancy as fig ured on the basis of past experi ence by the national safety coun cil. Death from other causes numbered 123 including the 25 killed in the crash of a passenger airliner Saturday. 291 Expected The safety council ha esti mated 291 normally could be ex pected to die on the highways on weekend days which fall in the early part of September. , For Pittafield, Mass., holder of a national traffic safety ' record for cities under 30,000 popula tion, the death of a man struck by an auto ended a string of 242 days without a traffic fatality. Torrential rains Sunday, re sulting in flood waters, brought death to four persons in New Jersey and one in Delaware. The death toll by states (fig ures represent auto death un less otherwise indicated) California 18, other 10; Idaho 2, other six; Oregon 1, other 2; Washington, 1; other 3. Heavy Damage in New Jersey Flood Camden, N. J., Sept. 2 (IP) A death toll of at least four per sons and property damage mounting Into million were left today in the wake of torrential rain that pread flood water over much of five-county area of southwestern New Jersey, A the water fell back into their usual courses and trains and busses returned to virtually normal schedules this morning, a property losa of approximately $4,000,000 was indicated by sur- vey. Artist, Author Diet Seattle, Sept. 2. P) Walter S. Phillips (El Comancho), 73, artist and author of numerous book and article on Indian lore and wildlife, died yesterday in a hospital here. Tha funeral was held last night. hat you tn. n ralltft- Navapaprr Polls of Amarlea. toe.) INTENSIFY BLOWS AT AXISJEiES Big Bertha Bases In France Strafed Nazi Raids On England Are Broken Up By the Associated Pros British RAF bombers pounded both Axis foes with renewed in tensity today, bombing German long range gun bases from Cap Griz Nez to Boulogne in Nazi occupied France, touching off 47-minute air raid alarm in Ber lin and once more attacking northern Italy's Industrial re gion. Along with these far-reaching forays, the RAF' home defense fighters broke up a wave of SO urrman aayugni raiaers inrust ing at the London area at breakfast-time. Nai Raider Scattered Later, about 240 Nazi planes thundered across the southeast coast In four waves, but again the RAF swept up to scatter the raiders in fierce counter-attacks. In southeast Europe, riotous anti-German and anti-Italian demonstrations throughout Ru mania exploded a serious new crisis arising from the axis- forced slicing of northern Trans ylvania from Rumania to meet Hungarian demands. Semi-official German source in Bucharest asserted that Nazi troops would march into Ru mania and occupy the entire kingdom if the nation-wide agita tion was not checked imme diately. In the battle against Britain, Nazi warplanes droned across the channel in waves directed at the London area, but the British claimed an increasingly air-tight defense. Invader Shot Down The British capital underwent 46-minute alarm as anti-air craft gun along the Thame es tuary threw up a blazing curtain to enmesh the raiders, and RAF pursuit plane attacked the Nazi formations In dogfights 20.000 feet above the Thames. Six, pos sibly seven, German bombers were reported (hot down, one in flames. .Briton took heart, too, from a message by Prime Minister Winston Churchill declaring that command of the air is being gradually and painfully ... wrested from tha Nazi crimi nals." Berlin reported that German Luftwaffe fliers were roaring across the channel in large num bers this morning, heavily bomb ing southeast England appar ently in the "hell' corridor" re gion from Dover to London. Nazis asserted that the British lost at least 62 planes yesterday, with only nine German planes missing. The British listed, 23 Germans ahot down with 13 RAF planes lost. Italy Raided Italy, which Just a year ago proclaimed her neutrality, saw RAF raiders attack the provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont, but Mussolini's high command re ported no casualties and little damage. . , London dispatches said the 10-weeks-old struggle for air su premacy between Germany and Britain appeared to be nearing a final, decisive phase with Hitler planning an immediate at tempt at invasion If the RAF can be knocked out. HARVESTER CO-OP IS FORMED AT BEAGLE Four Jackson county farmers have organized the Logan Com bine Harvester Service near Bea gle, under sponsorship ot the community and cooperative ser vices section, farm security ad ministration, according to Rob ert W. Schmidt, county FSA, su pervisor. Facilities of combine har vester will be made available for use on member farms and a limited number of other farm ers in the community may be enabled to participate. C. J. Logan is manager and members Include Guy W. Bishop. C. L. Hockersmith and Harry Reed. BASEBALL American First game: R. H. t. i Philadelphia 3 5 1 New York 6 7 1 Vaughan, B e e k m a and I Hayes, Rusio and Retar.
