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Weather. Pull D Wntb. DIAL 2141 for Southern Oregon'! Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE Bureau report Inside. Medford Tb.Dne Fortran: rrtly rloudr tonlsht lid rrlda;; cooler tonlr.hu lllthnt )trrlajr l.or-t hU ntornlng..AI Full Associated Press d Prm Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940. No. 143. . I. - ; I . the I' KING CAROL GIVES CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 5. Behind the deal with England to ex change over-age destroyers (or naval bases, there is a complex, but extremely significant his tory. Study of it reveals the president's foreign policy in transition from a phase of wav ering and caution to a phase of bold positiveness surpassing any in the past. . ""pHE question of releasing a number of our over-age des troyers was first raised late in April, not by the English, but by the French. The French then anticipated Italy's entry into the war, and wanted twenty-six des troyers for anti-submarine duty in the Mediterranean. The re treat from Dunkerque, which cost England many destroyers sunk and more disabled, caused the English to ask for destroyers also. Destroyers were needed to guard tha channel. The fall of France made holding the chan nel a vital problem. And in the first week of June Prime Min ister Winston Churchill ad dressed to the president the first of a series of urgent personal appeals for as many destroyers as the navy could spare. There it reason to believe that before the fall of France, when the sale to England of a number of mosquito boats was contemplated, release . of some destroyers to the allies was also on the cards. "THE mosquito boat sale fell through when the justice de partment ruled against its le gality. The justice department ruling followed a tremendous isolationist uproar in the sen ate. The president, whose calcu lations had been brusquely up set by Franco's fall, was then so undecided as to his right course that he was even attempting to avoid requests for desperately needed emergency defense ap propriations. With the mosquito boat sale forbidden, the pros pects for release of the destroy ers seemed poor indeed. They continued poor until af- ter the Chicago convention, when the president appeared, somehow, to have purged him- (Continued on Pag Eight.) DEFENSE OUTLAY Washington, Sept. 3. (IP) The house gave its approval to day to a compromise version of a bill carrying almost S5.250, 000.000 to provide equipment for an army of 2.000,000 men, start work on the "two ocean" navy and buy 14.394 airplanes for the army and navy. The measure, which must go back to the senate for approval of house changes before it Is ready for President Roosevelt's signature, would boost the ses. sion's appropriations and com mitments for defense well past the $15,000,000,000 mark. SIDE GLANCES by TRILUNE REPORTERS Ali the Pro-Americas antici pating publisher Frank Jenkins' speech here Monday. Babe Lewis being more than anxious to have Pat Patterson's moniker appear in this col . she busily thinking up his latest funny antics to publish. Kiwanian Hershel Obye 'or his ghost being author of a screamingly funny Jnke in the weekly Kiwanian bulletin. Srth Bullis showing his inter est in affairs municipal by drop ping in on a city council meet ir.g. ANTONESCU FULL Abdication Is Expected Soon Banishment of Magda Lupescu Part Agreement Br the Associated Preu Bucharest, Rumania, Sept. 5 Iron Guardists fought a pitch ed battle for nearly an hour with Rumanian soldiers within a block of the royal palace to night, spilling civilian blood in the main street of Bucharest. Hundreds of troops, using armored cars and machine-guns, fought ,solid masses of the pro fascist guardists. Br Robert St. John Bucharest, Sept. 5. (IP) Haggard from the struggle to preserve his dismembered, anarchy-riven realm. King Carol II of Rumania surrendered his vast powers of state today to a new strong man and was authorita tively reported to have consent, ed to banishment of red-haired Magda Lupescu. Government quarters ex pressed belief that Carol might abdicate soon. Madame Lupescu, his long time friend, was reported al ready aboard the royal yacht, now anchored at Istanbul. She was said to have left Bucharest four days ago. Royal Understanding - - With the coming of the dawn the 46-year-old monarch who had lived down the name "play boy prince" with a decade of strong-handed rule, reached "royal understanding" with a tough, strategy-minded general, Ion Antonescu, whose price for succor was a transfer of power. With what General Antonescu called "royal graciousness," Carol signed a public declaration which was a clear acknowledge ment that the essence of rule had changed hands and Anton escu proclaimed a nationalistic program "to heal the wounds, collect our strength and assure our future." Figurehead Now Carol found himself only the figurehead ruler of what had been left of Rumania after vast territorial concessions under pressure, to Soviet Russia and more recently to Hungary, which had the backing of the Rome Berlin axis. Where once he ruled in the manner of a medieval monarch. Carol today held merely such powers as the right to hand out medals, coin money, pardon criminals and lay cornerstones. The Carol-Antonescu bargain was reached about the time that the vanguard of 80.000 Hungar ian soldiers planted their ban ners in Transylvania, the pro vince which Rumania won in the World War settlement and about half of which Hungary regained at Vienna last week with the backing of Germany and Italy. Oregon Vets May Serve Again Governor Tells Legionnaires Seaside, Ore., Sept. 5. (IP) ' If America enters war or If do ' m e s 1 1 c emergencies develop, .Oregon's war veterans will be I enrolled in an armed force. Governor Charles A. Sprague said today in an address to the Oregon department of the American Legion. State and local police, the governor said, will be able to provide ordinary police protec tion, but he disclosed that a body of police reserves might be oreanized to augment the state police. The war veterans would be organized into an "Oregon State Guard." which would be ' exclusively under state Jurisdic tion. The guard would be used "if the emergency should de velop into actual warfare or if domestic conditions should ! grow more tense." I The governor said the people of Oregon's best contribution to national defense would be to "keep Dt work at normal activ ities, ; rn'lucina gootlj and crv iires for community life, pro- S war Bulletins DESTROYER SWAP CARDENAS MOVES t War Bulletins London. Sept. I. IIP) Ger--man air raiders attacked the London area for a third time today at 9:17 p. m. (12:17 p.m. P.S.T.). dropping bombs which lighted up tha ky and rumbled in the ears of ob- London, Sept. S. (IPi The air ministry announced to night that a total of 34 Ger man planes had been shot down todar during attacks en England. Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 5. (IP) British air forces carried out sustained raids all day yesierdar on all the principal Italian air dromes in eastern Libya, including Tobruk, El Taminl. Bomba, El Gubbi and El Gasala. the royal air force announced tonight. T ERASURE THREAT Br the Asiociated Preu British RAF bombers, chal lenging Hitler's threat to "erase English cities in retaliation for night raids on Germany, dropped high explosives on the Berlin area in a two-hour attack, damaging- a big electric works at Spandau, nine miles from the heart of the capital, and an army warehouse. One of the RAF's bombs crashed in Berlin's Tlergarten Park, killing a Nazi policeman. Another fatality resuhed when a bomb hit an apartment house. Hitler's high command report ed 18 other Germans were killed in a north German town, but the high command asserted that the British raiders' attack on Berlin itself "foundered" against anti aircraft fire. German raiders gave London a 56. minute alarm starting at 10 a. m. (4 a. m., EST) after wide spread night attacks which the British said caused little damage and failed to live up to Hitler's threat to assault the island king dom with thousandfold fury. In the Anglo-Italian conflict in the Mediterranean, Mussolini's high command reported a series of naval and air battles in which six British warships, including two cruisers, purportedly were damaged by aerial bombs and 17 RAF planes destroyed. The clashes occurred off the coast of Algeria, in the western Mediterranean, near the Dode canese islands off the coast of Turkey, in the Red Sea, and over Africa, the high command said. , Three Crash in Plane. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 3. (IP) A plane crash from 200 feet at the Mueller Harkins airport. South Tacoma, last night left Pilot Herb Hager and two pas sengers with bruises and facial lacerations. I viding the sinews of war in the way of such essentials as food I stuffs, forest products and min erals, meeting the taxes which jmust be imposed, studying our 'problem and formulating opln ! ions as to sound national poli cies." Governor Sprague said (.206 officers and men of the Ore gon national guard would go into federal service September IS, and 3,000 more men will be contributed by the state under federal selective service. The federal social security board will finance an Oregon I employment census, to be com pleted within 30 days, to deter mine the number of men avail table for work in defense indus tries. I Complimenting the legion on I its activity in looking for signs of "fifth column treachery," the I governor raid all citizens should ! "be on guard not so much against treasonable deeds as against propaganda, the pur j pone of which would be to keep us so impotent as to be easy 'victims of foreign aggression." BENEFIT TO U. S. CHURCHILL SAYS British Warned America Not in War Commons Told Heavier Fighting to Come Raid Delays Session London, Sept. 5. (IP) The house of commons, called by advance notice to hear Prime Minister Winston Churchill's second war re port, was forced to suspend its session for about 45 min utes today when a wave of German warplanes made a lightning thrust toward the capital. The city remained under the alarm for an hour and 26 minutes, the all clear coming at 4:31 p. m. (7:31 a. m. P. S. T.), but commons had re sumed its session more than half an hour before the alarm was raised. It was London's second air raid alarm of the day. By the Associated Press London, Sept. 5 Winston Churchill declared to his parlia ment today that the British- American exchange of destroy ers and defense bases will en able the United States "to take danger by the throat whilst it Is still hundreds of miles away" but he warned -the British to re member that America is not in the war. The prime minister, speaking for a time during a general Lon don air raid alarm, declared, however, that Hitler "no doubt will pay the U. S. out if he ever gets the chance." Third Reich To Phis Nevertheless, he expressed his boundless confidence that the empire of the third reich "will pass away as swiftly perhaps more swiftly than did Napo leon s army, although, of course, without any of its glitter and glory." Churchill told the house of commons that no one must read into the British-American agree ment anything more than is on its face, and he stressed that it did not affect "in the slightest degree the non-belligerency of the United States." Turning to the battle of Eng land, even while it raged above the capital itself, the prime min ister declared the Germans1 had used a greater proportion of their air strength already than the British; warned of heavier fighting to come, and predicted: Sirens Punctuate Talk 'The whole nation will stand up to it, grim and gay." While he was speaking the deep bleat of the London sirens sounded the "all clear." British crews already are tak ing over the first of the 50 over age American destroyers which are being transferred to Britain in exchange for western hemi sphere defense bases in a deal announced only Tuesday, Churchill reported. That, he said smilingly, "is a case of what one might call the long arm of coincidence." Churchill conceded that Hit ler should be able to "magnify and multiply" his air onslaught on Britain this month, but he added: "We can stand it." Then he gave the British civil ian air raid casualties for August as 1,075 dead, slightly more than that many wounded and said 800 houses were destroyed Again, he warned the people that the danger of invasion is not passed, and called for "the greatest vigilance." But he in sisted the problem of invasion, for Hitler, was vastly harder in September than in June. Navy Won't Buy Treasure Island I San Francisco, Sept. 5 (Pi The navy won't acquire Treasure Island in San Francisco bay as an air and naval base because it had expected to get it free and San Francisco wants "several million dollars" for it, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today while inspecting bay area naval facilities. TO QUELL MARCH OF MUM Mexican Highways, Airports, Trains Closely Watched by Government Forces Mexico City, Sept. 5. tip) The administration of President Cardenas took precautions to day to forestall any public dis orders as a result of the claims of General Juan Andreu Alma zan's political supporters that he was elected Cardenas' suc cessor in the July election. A statement by Angel Trech uelo, who claimed to be an ex ecutive of Almazan'sparty, that an armed attempt to seize power might shortly begin was repud iated by . the Almazan party. Emilio Madero, head of the party, said he had "never heard" of Trechuelo, and had heard no such reports. Followers Watched The government patrolled highways, watched airports and kept all trains under surveil lance to check on movements of Almazan's followers, while re sponsible sources reported troop reinforcements were being moved to northern Mexico, re garded as an Almazan strong hold. Graciano Sanchez, head of the national conference of 3.000.000 peasants,- announced 80,000 trained members were ready to take up their rifles in support of the administra tion, which backed General Manuel Avila Camacho against Almazan in the disputed and bloody July presidential elec tion. MISSING MAN'S BOM FOUND BY OFFICERS ON MATH BEACH Klamath Falls, Sept. 3. (IP) Discovery of an outboard motorboat believed to have been used by Edward "Al" Mitchell added puzzling circumstances today to the disappearance of the Klamath Falls man who failed to return from a fishing trip on Agency lake Saturday. Continuing their search for the fifth day, sheriff's officers said the boat was found yes terday two miles south of Mitchell's starting point, in the opposite direction from his course when he set out Satur day. An open tackle box. a fish ing pole and a can of gasoline were in the craft which was found beached near the high way. The fuel tank of the motor was empty. Deputy Sheriff Jack Franley said investigators could not de termine whether the craft had been run ashore or had drifted in after Its driver had in some way fallen out. FIRST OF DESTROYERS HEADING FOR CANADA Boston, Sept. 5. (IP) The first three of 50 United States destroyers swapped to Great Britain In exchange for naval and air bases were on the high seas today, apparently headed for a Canadian port, after sail ing In "Indian file" out of Bos ton harbor. Nine other of the over-age vessels were undergoing minor repairs and paint jobs at the 141-year-old Boston navy yard. Air Raid Toll . London, Sept. 3. (IP) The ministry of home security an nounced today that civilian casualties from German air raids in August totaled 1,075 dead and 1,261 seriously in jured an average daily cas ualty toll of 75 1-3. The breakdown follows: Dead 627 men, 333 wo men and 113 children. Injured 711 men, 448 wo men and 102 children. The deaths averaged about ?. 2 rlnilv Escaped Convict Killed 1,CiTY COMMITTEE p , r m, m - KM r &Jfr$W Just after this picture was taken. Frank Conley. described as the ringleader in the Arkansas prison break in which 36 convicts escaped after killing a guard, died from bullet wounds received as he attempted to "fight it out" with a posse near Columbia, La. Policeman "Cut" Rogers, kneeling, left, was credited with firing the shot which brought Conley down. ... , Bullets Shrink Still at Large in Arkansas Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 3. (IP) Bullets today cancelled two more convicts' names from the "wanted" list of Arkansas' wholesale. Labor Day prison break. State patrol headquarters here announced guards from the Cummins prison farm shot to ; death two of the fugitives in a i gunfight in rural southeastern Arkansas, and reported recap ture of another felon. Patrol Radio Operator Luke! Barber said those killed in a battle at a cabin between Win-1 Chester and Tillar were James! Scott, 21, and Raymond Harrell, 23. He said the- man recaptured was B. G. Holtzclaw, 47, a con-! victed slayer. I This left at large, only 11 of the 36 men who broke from the Cummins farm Monday after i killing a guard. Four have been : shot to death, 21 recaptured. The Columbia, La., section breathed easier after the release, I unharmed, of three high school : students kidnaped by six con- victs, all of whom now are dead ; or retaken. ' A report earlier today told of five or six convicts being sur rounded near Watson, and it was believed the two reported killed may have been part of this group. Still another was reported spotted near Natchez, Miss, AS POSTAL HEAD Washington, Sept. 3. (IP) Frank C. Walker of New York City and Scranton, Pa., 34-year-old lawyer and theater owner, was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be postmas ter general to succeed James A. Farley, resigned, ' Walker, a native of Plymouth, Pp., who got his start in adult life in Montana, is an old friend of the president's and is a for mer head of the national emer gency council, an administrative office now observed in the office of government reports. He also served as treasurer of the Democratic national commit tee in the early days of tha tirst Roosevelt term. August Weather j Drier Than Usual Portland, Sept. 5 (IP) Ore gon's August weather was hot ter, drier and brighter than nor mal, the weather bureau report led today. i r 'v-f "-el Si List of Cons Oklahoma Guard Unravel Red Tape In Training Plea Oklahoma City, Sept. 8. IP) Six Oklahoma national (uardsmen wrote President Roosevelt asking that they be cnt to Fort Sill for a year's training. The letter went to the White House, which referred it to the . war department, which referred it to the com manding general of the fourth corps area at Atlanta, who referred it to the com manding general of the eighth corps area at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., who referred it to the adjutant general's office in Oklahoma City. Meanwhile, the president has ordered the guard to Fort Sill. 0FW.C.T.U. Grants Pass, Sept. S.OP) Mrs. Viola T. Wilken, presi dent, filed for the W.C.T.U. and "most large churches of the city" today petitions with Coun ty Clerk Ben W. Countant seek ing prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors In Jose phine county. A public vote was sought on the November 3 bal lot. By noon, petitions totaling 390 names had been filed, 20 short of the total necessary. Mrs. Wilken said numerous pe titions in rural districts would be filed later In the day. Lane Co. Property Value Skyrockets Eugene. Sept. 5. (IP) T h e 1940 assessed valuation of per sonal property In Lane county has Increased more than a half million dollars during the past year. Assessor Welby Stevens said today. The current total Is 14,184.800. compared to $3,595,960 for 1939, an Increase of 1588,840. The Increase, the assessor said, is due to expansion of industry, particularly lumbering. TO AID DEFENSE MEETHONIGHT Dr. Divine, Chairman; Frank Hul Secretary; Company A Recruiting First Aim Medford's National Defense committee will hold its first meeting at 7:30 tonight at tha Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The committee was appointed this morning by Mayor C. C. Furnas under the authority of a resolution adopted by the city council Tuesday night. Dr. Sherman L. Divine, pastor of the Presbyterian church, wai named chairman and Frank Hull, secretary. Other members are Floyd Hart, Gain Robinson, Diamond Flynn, Carold J. Parker, com mander of the local Disabled American Veterans chapter, Capt. S- M. Tuttle, H. S. Deuel. Lloyd Williamson, commander of Medford post of the Ameri can Legion, Capt. H. J. Meirlng. Frank DeSouza, Howell B. Mur- uphy and Merrill A. Beneka. commander of the local Veteran of Foreign Wars chapter. Recruiting First. First task of the new commit, tee will be to organize and carry out a recruiting campaign for Company A, 186th infantry, and headquarters detachment, Med. ford's national guard units. Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald, com manding Company A, and 1st Lieut. James W. Grigsby, com mandlng headquarters detach ment, were Invited by Mayor Furnas to attend tonight's meet ing and outline the requirement of their units- In order to bring the national guard units up to authorized mobilized strength, it will b necessary to recruit mora than 40 men within tha next ten days or so. Mayor Furnas pointed out that the national guardsmen will not be subject to the pending con scription. He emphasized that If eligible young men enlist now in the national guard, they will go off to camp "with their own gang," whereas If they wait to be drafted they will be scat tered with different military units all over the country. Enlistment of two additional men was announced by Com. pany A today. The men were) Frank L. Paige of Agate and Bryce Kindred of Medford. Three youths had previously an. listed. BASEBALL American First game: R. H. C New York 2 0 Washington 17 1 BSnham and Dickey; - Leon ard and Ferrell. Score: R. H. X. 7 11 0 12 Philadelphia Boston Caster, Peckman and Hayes; Bagby, Dlckman, E. Johnson, and Foxx. R. H. K. Cleveland 3 10 2 11 10 0 Detroit .. Smith, Dobson and Hemsley; Bridges, Benton and Tebbetts. National First game: R. H. E. Boston ' 7 10 0 New York 8 13 0 Tobin, Strincevich, Sullivan, Coffman, and Masl; Carpenter, Melton, Lynn, Piechota, and ' Odea. (2nd game) R. R. E. Boston i i i, 112 New York 4 S Salvo and Berres; Schumacher and Danning. (10 innings) R. H. Z. Brooklyn . , , , ' IS 1 Philadelphia 5 12 3 Wyatt. Carleton, Casey, Ta. mulls, and Phelps; Mulcahy and Atwood. R. H. X. 1 10 0 Pittsburgh S e Cincinnati Lanning, Kllnger and Lopes; Vandermeex and Lombardi, WU-
