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Weather- Bureau rvport Forcut fair toolfbt an ftatarda;, rUIng Irmprratur. lni perat urtj Hiht LaweftC IbU norali(.HW.4l DIAL 2141 for Southern Oregon's Laading Nawtpapar The MAIL TRIBUNE Medford TrtsunE Full Associated Pre Unit i ts Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940. WW W Mi Ul A MM j WW No. 144. t THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. end ROBERT KINTNER Released by the Iforih American Newipaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 6. Before long England's power to with stand an all-out air attack prob ably will have been put to a ..final test. Some time ago the cables began to bring word of new German air division head quarters being established on the channel and North Sea coasts, of large reinforcements In planes and pilots being brought up, and of other signs of preparation for the long heralded attack in full strength on the British isles. American observers are strongly inclined to believe the attack will begin this week. Only the future can show the outcome. It is encouraging, however, that as this is wi.tten, perhaps on the very eve of the crucial day, the wisest and best informed American experts are unexpectedly optimistic in their appraisal of England's chances. IJARDLY more than a month ago, they awaited the first big-scale engagements between the English and German air forces in a mood of almost sui cidal gloom. In Berlin, German air officials had made the claim to American attaches that it would take no more than seven to nine days to drive the royal air force to refuge In Scottish and Welsh bases, or even to destroy It virtually in toto. Examining the statistics on comparative air power, the American experts dismissed English counter-claims as new evidences of the complacency so long prevalent in London, and accepted the German pre diction almost at face value. Then, during the opening phase of the air battle over Eng land, the English counter-claims were largely substantiated by the R.A.F.'s performance. Care ful checking showed that the English air loss figures were as accurate as possible under the . circumstances. There was a surge of good cheer among the experts here, and even the most pessimistic (Continued on Ptga Ten.) L L Sumas. Wash., Sept. 6 (IP) Principal Dean Vale of Sumas school revealed today the sus pension of an 11-year-old girl member of Jehovah's witnesses because she refused, on religious grounds, to salute the flag. The girl, Merle Knight, said she was taught that "homage shall be paid only to God." Vale said the suspension was required under a recent ruling by Attorney General Smith g Troy that it is the duty of school directors to suspend or expel children who refuse to comply with flag salute orders. Washington, Sept. 6. (IP) The senate confirmed today thej " appointment of Frank C. Walker to succeed James A. Farley as postmaster general In President Pno-pvplt's cabinet. I SIDE GLANCES by TRIEUNE REPORTERS Lewis L'lrich viewing with alarm the names of fishing lures spelled without capital let ters, the fish not caring much one way or the other. Dr. Sherman Landoh Divine blaming the Democrats for the present deplorable condition of the postnffice. he being unable to find his mail box amid the debris. Merrill A. Bencka telling how he was too big for one kind of service he liked and too small for another in the World war. he having to be content with what was assigned to him. MASS ASSAULTS F OF Nazi Formations Too Heavy to Count Battles Rage in Half Dozen Areas at Once London. Sept. b.' OP) The air ministry announced tonight that in air battles over England up to 5 p. m.. 38 enemy aircraft had been destroyed. Fifteen British fighters were lost. British fighters destroyed at tacking German planes "at the rate of one every two minutes" in the Nazis' great aerial thrust at England this morning, the air ministry said. By the Associated Press London, Sept. fi German war planes too numerous to count assailed Britain today in a mightier - than - ever offensive which seemed designed to wear down the royal air force and smash its bases to clear the way for land invasion. All over the London area and southeastern England the planes of besieged and besieger tangled in a series of non-stop battles- The fourth attack of the day on London's own defenses came in early evening, causing a 36 minute alarm. Wave on wave of fighter escorted bombers swept like a tide against the London area, following up an all-night attack which lasted seven hours and 33 minutes. While the fourth London raid was under way the air ministry announced RAF attacks last night on the Fiat airplane en gine work's at Turin, Italy, on the German-held French harbors of Boulogne and Calais and on the Cap Gris Nez (France) em placements of long-range guns that had battered the English channel coast. To meet the onslaught, masses of British fighters took to the skies, setting upon at least one formation of 200 bombers and battle planes and fending off bomb attacks on airports in the London area. The air ministry said at least 34 German planes had been shot down. Nine British planes were lost but the pilots of six were reported safe. The air ministry said that "intensive" air battles resulted in turning back attacks on sev eral airdromes as the Germans attempted to smash their way up the Thames valley toward London, but that only "slight damage was done to ODe factory in the area. A row of 40 houses also was damaged in a dawn raid in Lon don. Splinters killed a woman in that attack. Later reports indicated 350 bombers and fighters had cross ed the coast to make the first of the series of attacks on London and the southeast. The London area had its third alarm of the day at 12:55 p. m., (3:55 a. m., PST) after the long est night raid of the war seven hours and 33 minutes in which strewn wreckage showed the Germans had succeeded in get ting through to drop bombs in virtually every district around the London balloon barrage. Sewers were hit, a gas main wrecked, railroad stations hit and communications temporar ily knocked out, an air raid Micl- ter containing 1.000 persons hit, a hospital demolished and houses and shops knocked to pieces. Two persons in the shel ter were injured. The all clear signal ended the third alarm sounded at 1:54 p. m.. after 59 minutes. While London was undergoing this non-stop raid, similar alarms and attacks were occurring thru out virtually the rest of Eng land. Then the raiders returned just as Londoners were going to work. I Antiaircraft Doomed ana ex plosions were heard. Curls of smoke from the ex haust of planes so high in the I sky they were invisible gave I spectators the feeling of watch i ing a ghost combat. I The morning alarm lasted an hour and 11 minutes, and then Just after noon Londoners were sent to shelters again by an I alarm that lasted 59 minutes. To Exile King Carol, II (above), was reported today aboard the Ru manian royal yacht with Magda Lupescu, bound for an undis closed destination following his abdication in favor of his 11-ytar-old son. Miahi. LEGION ASKED TO RADICAL PARTIES Seaside, Ore., Sept. 6 A legislative bill to bar from the ballot any party advocating ov erthrow of the government by force was advocated last night by Eugene E. Libby- Some states already have pass ed similar legislation, Libby. Americanism department head of the American Legion, told delegates to the annual Oregon department convention of Le gionaires. He also urged that all high schools post plaques bearing the inscription: "This Is an Amer ican high school. It is supported by taxes paid on American homes and industry. The prin ciples of democracy are taught and practiced here." The Dies committee investi gations of un-American activi ties were strongly commended by Libby. Ray Scoffern of Astoria be came grand chef de gar of the Oregon American Legion's 40 et 8 yesterday at the annual con vention. He succeeds Dr. B. F. Pound, Salem. Waldo O. Mills, Salem, was elected conducteur; Ralph An derson, Baker, commissaire in- tendant; Oscar Schultz, Pendle ton, sous de la porte; Mose Pal mateer, Salem, Howard, Prestel, Grants Pass, Shelba Jennings, Pendleton, Dillard Kreiger, Baker, chemlnots; Dr. Pound, cheminot nationale Klamath Falls post received a trophy for the best stunt; Baker post for the best drum corps. E Salem, Sept. 9. (IP) Ore gon's national guard of 8,208 officers and men will become part of the United States army at 8:00 a. m. September 18 when the guardsmen assemble at their home stations for fed eral mobilization, national guard headquarters said today. The Oregon soldiers will leave for camp about Septem ber 23 and probably will stay there at least one year. The 249th coast artillery regiment of about 700 officers and men, will train at Camp Clatsop, Ore., while the rest of the troops will go to Fort Lewis. Wash. Gov. Charles A. Sprague signed a mobilization order to day. Only about 20 officers and men will remain in the state when Oregon troops go to camp. I but these men will go into fed eral service a short time later !so they may supervise the con- ! scription of about 3.000 men under the conscription bill I which now Is befor congress. ABDICATED CAROL FLEES ON YACHT WITH INAMORATA Son Miahi Left As Front in Axis-Aligned Dictatorship Antonescu Is Dictator By Robert St. John Bucharest, Sept. 8. (IP) King Carol II, yielding to de mands of Rumania's new mili tary dictatorship and liotous clamor in the streets, abdicated today in favor of his 18-year-old son Miahi, and fled into exile aboard the royal yacht. Reported with him was red haired Magda Lupescu, his as sociate more than of a decade ago when he relinquished his right of succession to the throne for gay Paris exile . and let Prince Miahi reign1 as child monarch under a regency. Destination Unknown The destination of the royal yacht which sailed into the Black sea from Constanta was not known. The king boarded It after secret departure from Bucharest by special train. Back of him in troubled, dis membered Rumania Carol left his son as the front of an axis aligned military dictatorship which already has started a wholesale roundup of important political figures in Carols dec ade of power. Princess Helen, divorced wife of the abdicated king, arrived by airplane to be with her son, one of whose first regal acts was said to have been to send for his exiled mother. She was said to have come from Dres den, Germany, but this was not confirmed. Pension For King Government circles reported that Carol in exile would re ceive an annual "pension" equal to $60,000, adding there was long debate at the palace dur ing the night over Carol s de mand for a financial -settlement. An annual payment was de cided on, it was said, but Carol likely will be dispossessed of much of his extensive property holdings in Rumania. He was reputed to be one of the wealth iest men in Europe. Prince Miahi immediately was proclaimed king-successor to his father, but only to be a figurehead ruler under stern General Ion Antonescu, to whom Carol had first yielded his kingly powers and at whose demand he finally gave up the throne. Carol was believed by some to be en route to Egypt. Gangs of the anti-Semitic Iron Guard, which Carol had outlawed and hundreds of whose members had died before his firing squads, roamed Buch arest, beating Jewish shopkeep ers who failed to hang pictures of stalwart' young Miahi in their windows Much of the clamor for Carol's abdication and Miahi's succession had come from the Iron Guard. Police made no effort to con trol the excesses of the guard ists. Street celebrations of Miahi's rebirth to kingship of ten masked the depredations of the guardist squads. SEVENlEllTS F Enlistment of seven more youths in Medford s national guard units was announced to day. The names of five recruits had previously been announced. The new men are Dclbert E. Grout, Theodore L. Taylor and James R. Ackley, Medford. and Dennis P. Dorsey, for Company A: and Benny Longwill, Vern White, Roy Dusenbury, Med ford, for headquarters detach ment. First Lieut. James W. Grigs by. commanding headquarters detachment, received instruc tions today to reinstate Second Lieut. Charles O. Reed when mobilization becomes effective. Reed was discharged when headquarters company was changed to a detachment and th personnel was reduced. I baseball Washington, Sept. 6. (P Manager Bucky Harris of the Washington Senators was ban ished from the game with the New York Yankees today for pushing Umpire John Quinn in a fifth-inning protest that Char ley Keller, Yankee outfielder, had swung at a third strike. National (First game) R. H. E. Brooklyu 3 7 1 Philadelphia 0 10 0 Fitzsimmons and Franks; Hig be, Syl Johnson and Warren. (2nd game) R. Brooklyn 14 Philadelphia 3 Casey and Mancuso; Wilson and Atwood. H. E. 18 1 10 1 Smoll, American R. H. 4 12 St. Louis 3 j I -1 Chicago ...... 6 Auker, Hudlin and Swift; Rig ney and Tresh. Score: , New York. Washington R. . 1 - 3 H. 8 10 Ruffing and Rosar; Chase and Early. EARL FEHL LOSES ANOTHER EFFORT TO GAIN RELEASE Salem, Sept. 8. (IP) Former Jackson County Judge Earl H. Fehl lost today in another at tempt to gain his release from the state hospital, Circuit Judge Calvin L. Sweek ruling that Fehl still is insane and la un safe to be at large. In a written opinion. Judge Sweek said that Dr. C. A. Lochrner, Portland alientist who testified in Fehl's behalf, "did not appear to be an en tirely disinterested witness" be cause he was in frequent con sultation with Fehl's attorney during the hearing a few weeks ago. Judge Sweek also said that several other witnesses, who testified that Fehl was sane, are friends of Fehl and likewise were not disinterested in the case. Two Portland psychiatrists, appointed by Judge Sweek to advise him in the case, had found Fehl insane. NAZIS BEHEAD FOUR FOR TREASON, SPYING Berlin, Sept. 6. (IP) Four men whom the peoples court had convicted of high treason and espionage, were beheaded today. They were Wilhelm Bus son, 48, Josef Kaiser, SO, Ru dolf Worm, 31, Karl Zink, 30. London Slum Dwellers Refuse To Desert Bombed Dwellings By Draw Midd'eton I London, Sept. 6. (Al People of the slums walked silently past bombed houses in the stifling heat. An old man and a young wo man, eyes red from weeping, stood outside one house. "I'm not going to leave, I'm not," the old man kept saying. "I've lived here 59 years. I'm not going. They'll steal my clothes." An air raid warden said help lessly, "I took 'em to a relief center where they have beds and food. They came right back. They won't leave." Small Military Damag - The - slums, narrower noisier than New York's and east side, were the first stop of a three-hour tour of areas bombed last night, a tour that covered close to 100 miles and revealed only one bombing that had done military damage. Many others had inflicted damage, but not military. The old man's house was Jur a shell of dirty brown stone. A bomb which had landed in the backyard had blown away doors. The ceilings had fallen in. Debris a foot deep was piled on the floor. Dust covered the walls and pictures, pathetic photo graphs of weddings and christen, ings. I DRIVE OPENS FOR LOCAL Defense Committee Backs Effort to Enroll 40 Young Men Before Mobilizing First intensive enlistment campaign here in the present international emergency was begun today following the in itial meeting last night of Med ford's national defense commit- A B. I U T 1 ft ... Chamber of Commerce. ( Purpose of the campaign Is to enlist more than 40 young men in Medford'a two national guard units before September 16, or within the next 10 days. As part of the national defense system, the national guard units here will be mobilized Septem ber 18 and dispatched to camp September 23 for a year of act ive duty. Upon mobilization Company A will be increased from 86 to 114 men and head quarters detachment from 11 to 26, under the present under standing. First undertaking of Med ford'a national defense commit tee, whose appointment by the mayor was authorized by the city council, was to arrange the national guard enlistment cam paign. Steps wera taken last night to acquaint th . public thoroughly regarding service in the national guard and to en courage enlistment now as most beneficial for the recruits. The committee also made It clear that the boys at camp wilt not be forgotten by the people back home, for a motion was approved unanimously to create a fund to provide little extra conveniences for the guardsmen, not so much be cause such things are needed but more to keep th soldiers reminded that th home folks are standing behind them. The fund, it was decided, may be utilized in any way that will serve the best interests of the guardsmen and will not be lim ited to providing extra table delicacies. It was pointed -out by Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald that army food is as good as the men can get anywhere, that it is prepared by experienced cooks and that the meals are properly balanced but he added that it was a great joy to . hear it announced, for example, that ice cream would be served with (Contlmwd on Pas Sis.l Louisville. Ky., Sept. 6. (IP) M. H- Davidson, 93, quarter master-general of the Grand Army of the Republic, died to day after a heart attack. "I was in the shelter." the wo man said suddenly. "We were there for hours. When w came back we found this. Damn them what have we done?" A soldier led a wounded man down the street. The man's head was bound and one arm was In a sling. "Been hurt, he has," said the soldier. "Wants to see what they done. Wouldn't believe me when I told him they hadn't touched his house." Shelter Hit One bomb had hit the top of an underground shelter in a square. All windows in all houses in the square had been i blown out. I could sec th wo- men cleaning. An air raid warden said, "there were 1,500 people inside. Dion t touch a one. The bomb had ploughed through the earth and concrete and opened a hoi two feet square in the top of the shelter. People in the square looked dazed and tired, all except the kids who tried to shinny over the railings and see the crater. I law two houses near the square smashed to bits. "They dropped six In 150 yards," a policeman said. "They didn't kill anyone but two young fools standing on top of the shelter." ! Certif ied Pilot j22 .v Y . Mrs. Thomas A. Culbertson (aboT), is in first Medford woman io secur a privet pilot's certificate through train ing at the local airport. Sh passed her written and flight examinations yesterday. (Story on Pag 11) TO CHANGE AGE LIMIT IN DRAFT Washington, Sept. 6. (IP) The senate, completed congres sional action today on the 13, 251,486,392 defense appropria tion to aid in equipping an army Of 2,000,000 men and build two-ocean navy. It now goes to th Whit House for President Roosevelt's signature. Washington. Sept. 8 (IP) The house refused twice today to change th registration age limit of 21 to 44, inclusive, In the Burke-Wadsworth compul sory military training blU. On voice vote, Representa tive Rees (R-Kans.) lost in an effort to broaden th spread to include men from 21 to 54, in clusive, and Representative An derson (D-Mo.) was defeated, 181 to 47, in an attempt to make the brackets conform to the senate's figures of 21 to 30, inclusive. rlees argued that "men arc just as fit at 55 as they are at 45," and said that if responsibil ity of military service was to be shared equally, "you might as well include another 10,000,000 men up to 55. Action Plea Renewed President Roosevelt at his press conference today renewed his plea for speedy congressional action on conscription, the de fense tax and appropriation bills but declined comment on the house ' vote yesterday to delay actual drafting of men for a 60 day period of volunteer recruit ing. The president said he - could not comment on any of the three major bills pending except to say tempus fugit (time flies). .The excess profits tax bill now is pending before the senate finance committee. The $5,250, 000,000 emergency defense ap propriation bill awaits final sen ate action befor going to the house. FRANCE CONTINUES Vichy, France, Sept 6. (IP) A new cabinet for th Petain government was formed tonight with Pierre Laval retaining the Important post of vice-premier and General Charles Huntziger as the new minister of war. The aged Marshal Philippe Petain remains as chief of state. An important assignment was , that of General Maxim Wey- gand, former generalissimo of the French armies, to go to French Africa to assume charge of all political as well as mili tary matters. (French Equatorial Africa has broken away from trie Vichy regime,- according to General Charles de Gaulle, leader of th so-called "free" French government in London, and there have been reports of dissatisfaction in French West Africa and French Morocco). . TRIBUNE OFFERS L TO Subscription Bargain Days Start Saturday Carriers Will Take Subscriptions The Medford Mall Tribune' annual Bargain Days, during which one-year subscription are offered at savings of up to $4.50 over the regular monthly rate of 75 cents, will open Sat urday morning at 8:00 o clock and end at 7:00 p. m., Monday, September 16. During the Bar gain Days period this offic will be open from 8:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday, and from 8:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Saturdays, Gerald T. Latham, circula tion manager, said that th Bar gain Days subscription rat for on year by carrier was $6, a saving of $3 a year over th regular monthly rate of 75 cents. Th Bargain Days rata for one year by mall in Jack son, Josephine and Siskiyou counties was $4.50, a saving of $4.50 over the regular monthly rate and a saving of $1.50 over the regular $8 yearly rat by mail, Mr. Latham explained. Record Indicated Th circulation manager ex pects th 1940 Bargain Days to surpass any of th past several years In th number of new and renewal subscriptions. "Th Bargain Days advanc sal of aubscriptlon -la 131 percent greater than It was last year," Mr. Latham stated, "and I look for subscriptions during th reg ular Bargain Days period to ex ceed 1939 by a wida margin.' Mr. Latham pointed out that it wasn't necessary to com to th Mail Tribune offic to tak advantage of the Bargain Day offer. "Our carriers are author ized to accept subscriptions and a telephone call here, dial 2141, will bring a carrier to your home. Or the new or old sub scriber may mail in his sub scription and a receipt will be promptly forwarded." Subscribers to The Mail Tri bune will receive the world' finest coverage of war news through leased wire facilities. along with accurate reports of other happenings In all parts of the universe. 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