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Weatherr-uV, j -tiff A T T f DIAL 2141 tor Southern Orogon's Loading newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE III.Ik kMMl.v . II sM.sMsWMVM HBBK H aTsWaVOJl -" M U 11' . T-'l J-' Ibl f. ' AJ - . 1a ft M K M WW H J Full Associated Press United Prots J Thirty-fifth Year MEDFOKirOREGCW 1940 x0 145 PASS CONSGHFINN: WS M IMS i ,i i i i THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by tho North American Nowipapor Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 7. T h e most Interesting political puzzle of the moment is whether the current ilump In the stock of Wendell L. Willkie is merely seasonal, or Indicates a basic unsoundness in the Willkie can didacy. That a slump has taken place, none but the blindest Willkie enthusiasts deny. Most reasonably realistic Republican leaders frankly admit it, but assert it will only make Will kie's task easier when he begins campaigning in earnest. WITH the New York betting " odds now standing at nine to five, however, the president and his political henchmen are convinced their fight is won. They compare the rise of Will kie strength to the post-nomination sentiment for Alf M. Lan don, and contend that Willkie's present decline merely parallels the decline of Landon in 1936. To substantiate this contention, they offer considerable evi dence. For example, the Chicago boss, Ed Kelly, has recently completed a number of private polls of his own city and state, as well of such neighboring key states as Ohio. He reported to the president a few days ago that his section of the country was safely in the Rqosevelt col umn. Similar reports have been received from other areas. Con sequently, such politicians as Kelly and the Democratic na tional chairman, Ed Flynn of the Bronx, are urging the pres ident to follow his present strat egy, of making a great show of stocking to his executive knitting, taking short trips to inspect key defense establish ments, and occasionally deliver ing ostentatiously non-political speeches. They want him to maintain the pretense of non participation in the campaign until the last weeks of October, when they think he ought to explain his defense program in (Continued on Paga till. I 4 ON TEXAS RANCH . El Dorado. Tex.. Sept. 7.-! Four persons were found slain on the Calcote ranch, 10 miles north of here on the San Angelo highway, late today. They were tentatively identi fied as Mrs. Calcote, about 70; her son, Henry, about 35; Mrs. Frank Calcote, about 20, and the couple's baby daughter. Mrs. Calcote and her son were found shot to death at the ranch home. The bodies of the younger woman and her baby were found about three miles from the ranch by a searching party. Officers are seeking for ques- tioning a Mexican about 30 years of age who was emploed on a neighbor's ranch. SERIOUSLY- ILL Helsinki. Finland. Sept. 7. f.V P. via radio The Scandi navian radio tonight broadcast report that President Kyosti Kallio, of Finland, was consid- - Vl .. 1 Imi it M afrr -.,i.i in r .veral dav, ' Vi.' j:- :j ... niih. i lie rauiu miiu itjwi" Kw lished abroad that the president was dead were "at lea -ft pre mature." It added that recent High temperatures had disappeared and that his heart was func tioning satisfactorily again. Kallio suffered a heart attack on August 29. FOR DRAFT DELAY; GOES JTOSENATEi Approval By Upper House I Unlikely Registration All Men 21-44 Ordered. Washington. Sept. 7. (T) The house passed the Burke Wadswcrth peacetime conscrip tion bill tonight, but with the provision that the actual draft be deferred for 80 days to per mit further trial of the volun tary enlistment system- The vote on final passage was 263 to 149. A vote of 207 to 208 reaffirm ed the earlier, tentative decision to defer the actual drafting of men. This provision is not con tained in the senate bill and it. with other changes, raised the possibility of time-consuming delay in getting the two houses to agree on the final form of the measure. Age Limits Differ. The house measure would re quire all men between 21 and 44 inclusive to register and make them liable to the draft, while the senate bill fixed the age limits at 21 to 30 inclusive. The bill will now go back to the senate with the request that the house amendments be ap proved. The senate will decline to do so, and each chamber wiil appoint representatives for the task of bringing the two bills Into conformity. Since the 60-day postpone ment provision wax defeated in the senate by only two votes, any effort by the conferees to drop it the war department is opposed to the provision would encounter intense opposition. Some were already suggesting a compromise formula which would involve retaining the house's 60-day postponement and the senate's age limit fig ures. Up to the last, the postpone ment amendment, whose author was Rep. Fish (R.-N.Y ).' was a subject of dceo controversy. Its supporters contended that since the war department actually planned to induct no conscripts into the army before the sec ond week of November, the na tional defense program would in no way be delayed. The opponents of the Fish amendment on the other hand. sternly charged th.it some were j backing it in an effort to "scut tle" the bill and others for the purpose of postponing the actual 1 Araft unti! fiftci ihnv hnvi tnoH for re-election in November. In any event, the amendment i permits iiic w n i ucpai niicui ahead with ,he re?lnration .. . h.ki , 1 of those who are liable for ser vice. In the meanwhile, it di rects that the President issue an immediate call for volunteers. and if the total of such, enlist-J ments in 60 days is less than 400.000, permits the conscription of enough men to bring tne to tal of recruits to that figure. Thus, if the provision is re tained finally and the bill is passed, all men within the age limits which are finally agreed upon will be required to reg ister at a time and place to be designated. They will be classi- .d'eonU ,,,,,, the like, and later the eligible will be chosen by lot, for 12 months' training or service any where within the western hemi sphere, or in the Philippine isl ands. Unitl the Fish amendment bobbed up to complicate the program, the war department had planned to draft about 400. 000 before January 1. and an other increment of the same size on April 1. Its program provides that thereafter there are to be hj!f- yearly calls of the same size until uoon the expiration of the act in 1945, the nation will have I a trained army of 4.000.000 men. ! the number which Gen. George , , C- Marsnail, ine uiiuy vim-, v. staff, not long azo said was needed for the defense of the western hemisphere. After a year's training, the conscripts are to be allocated to reserve compo -cv.t. liable to a call to duty tor ten years thereafter. Nazis Hurl 8 Hour Aerial A Hack Upon OR HALF T W1LLKJEASSURES Answers Wallace Speech Urges Defeat Of Senator Minton In Indiana. Rushville, Ind., Sept. 7. OP) Wendell L. Willkie, Republican nominee for president, declared in a speech at an open air meet ing here tonight that "I shall never lead this country Into any European war, and when I say that I mean it." Willkie spoke to an audience gathered for showing of motion pictures made by the Repub lican national committee. He said: "Henry Wallace, the Demo cratic vice-presidential nominee, said recently that the Repub lican party was the party of appeasement- Thai can mean two things. "If he meant working out compromises with the dictators, then he was 100 per cent wrong. "But if Mr. Wallace meant to say the Republican party Is the party of peace, he spoke the truth, because I shall never lead this country into any Eu ropean war. And when I say that, I mean It."- Telling his listeners that If he were president "you will never hear of great events after they have happened," the nomi nee added that he did not "in tend to speak in half truths or by indirection" during the cam paign. Willkie urged the audience to vote for Raymond E. Willis. Republican, for the Indiana sen ate seat of Senator Sherman Minton, Democrat. ' "If the voters would elect him and send a Republican con gress to Washington," Willkie added, "we will rehabilitate our economic life, build an adequate defense and become so strong that no dictator will seek to strike." The presidential nominee as serted that if Willis wero elect ed, Indiana would be represent ed In the senate "by who'.esome- ness instead of nasty language." "I hope you will vote for Re publican senators and members of congress who will tupport the president in eliminating from the statute books some of the pernicious legislation that has been enacted in the last few years," Willkie continued. RECORD VOTE IN Seattle, Sept. 7. IIP) A mul tiplicity of issues, particularly Governor Martin's and President Roosevelt's quests for a third term and the public power fight, may bring out a record-breaking vote in Washington state's pri mary election Tuesday- The race for several posts was complicated by a large number of candidates: 21 persons were running for lieutenant governor; 13 were listed as candidates for commissioner of public lands; 12 for secretary of state and 11 were running for the Republican and Democratic nominations for United States senator. An incomplete total of 869.803 persons have registered to vote, topping the previous primary high of 844.738 in 1938, and I second only to the all-time itite : record of 698.159 registered for j the November finals four years ago. Rockefeller Boy Weds Bedford, N. Y.. Sept. 7. (IP) Margaret McGrath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Sims McGrath, of Mt. Kisco, N. Y.. and David Rockefeller, young est son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., were mar ried today at St, Matthews' church. N WAR ELLIOTT CLAIMS r RUTHS NAZIS FINANCING (r i inmiw in r ry inn AKIYIT 111 IVlLAlUlli Lawton, Okla., Sept. 7. IIP) Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, tonight charged that the German government had financed "an organization known as the Red Militia" in Mexico consisting of 200,000 men. "I say to you that any dan ger that confronts this country doesn t lie all the way across the ocean," he told the sixth district convention of the Ok lahoma League of Young Dem ocrats. The German government has 'financed for many years the communist party in Mexico," Roosevelt said. "And while Mexico tells us that they have an army of only 100-and-some-odd thousand men I can tell you, and I know it for a fact, that there is an army that was officered and trained by former revolution aries from Spain and there are 7,000 of them in Mexico today. "They have today an organ ization known as the Red Mil itia which consists of 200,000 men in addition to the regular Mexican army and that has been entirely financed and put to gether by the German govern ment." PARAGUAY CHIEF AND WIFE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Asuncion, Paraguay, Sept. 7. IIP) General Jose Felix Est! garribia, president of Paraguay for little more than a year, and his wife were killed today in an airplane crash. Up to a late hour tonight no details on how the accident oc curred were available. The 32-year-old president and his wife left Asuncion at noon to spend the week-end at the presidential country residence near San Bernardino, on Lake Ppagaray, 180 miles east of here, where Estigarribia fre quently spent holidays. Commander of Paraguayan armies in the Chaco war and the nation's hero in that cot flict with Bolivia, Estigarribia was elected president April 30. 1939, and took his oath of of fice amid great public rejoicing the following August 13. Previously he had served a short term as Paraguayan min ister to Washington. Estigarribia, who once was exiled from his country, abol ished the representative regime last February 18, assumed dic tatorial powers and drafted a new constitution for the avow ed purpose of "protecting and purifying democracy In Para guay. MAINE ELECTION Portland, Me., Sept. 7. IIP) Republican campaigners dinned into Maine ears tonight claims that a G.O.P. victory tn Mon day's state election, the coun try's first, would mean triumph for Wendell Willkie in Novem ber. Democrats, insistent that ' as Maine goes, so goes the nation." was a "proven myth " were quick to extol their third term seeking president in the wind up of a campaign, somewhat desultory until a few days ago. National issues, on which can didates for the U. S senate, gov emorship and three national house teats followed strict party lines, have had equal campaign attention with the prime state issue the hubbub resulting from allegH peculation of long-trusted state official. lf. BIC JOB-What a task lies ahead of Earl G. Harrison. II. S. director of alien registration. Between mid Auru.it and late December J.500.000 aliens In V. 8. are to be listed. TO SEIZE CAROL'S LADY L0VE FAILS Bullets Rain On Train Canada Hinted As Refuge For Exiles. By the Associated Preis. Bucharest, Rumania. Sept. 7. (IP) Fifty Iron Guardists, arm ed with revolvers and dynamite, were reported authoritatively tonight to have attacked former King Carol's special train as it crossed the border into Yugo slavia. Amid a rain of bullets they shouted that they wanted to re move Magda Lupescu, Carol s woman friend. The train sped on without stopping. Meanwhile, some diplomatic circles here said that Carol and Mme. Lupescu were planning to take up their exile in Can ada, where she has large prop erty holdings, after spending some time in Switzerland. Rumania's new dictator. Gen eral Ion Antonescu, moved to consolidate his power by taking over four cabinet posts and is suing sweeping decrees provid ing investigations of persons who became wealthy under Carol's ten years of power- Antonescu took the ministries of war, armaments, navy and interior. The guardists bent on remov ing Mme. Lupescu. tried to stop the train at the town ol Tlmi soara. It was said. When they asked the station master if it would halt, he an swered "yes," but at the same time wired a nearby station to signal to the train to speed right through. It passed on through while the band of 50 fired pistols and threw stones. The fireman on the locomotive was reported seri ously wounded. E Boston, Sept. 8. Sunday P) Fire broke out early today on the over-age destroyer Mac kenzie apparently one of those being rushed Into shape for shipment to Great Britain but naval officers said It was ex tinguished with only "slight damage. The officer said that the ship could be repaired and "put to sea on short notice." The blaze started below deck, apparently in the point shop. An officer of the yard said the fire was believed to have been caused by "welding on the outside of the ship" which, he said. "Ignited a few rags In the forward hold." Firemen were forced to use gas masks In fighting the blaze. The "all out" signal war given one hour and 10 minutes after the flames first were discovered. i 4 fl KELLEY SELECTED AS LEGION CHIEF, Seaside, Sept. 7. IIP) Alfred P. Kelley, Oswego attorney, was elected Oregon department com mander of the American Legion today, succeeding Niel R. Allen of Grants Pass. Eugene was selected as the 1941 convention site. Frank Miller of Forest Grove was named vice commander over Dr. Fred Licuallen of Bend. The convention re-elected Frank Stoughton of Portland finance officer. Rev. Joe Dixon of Hood River was selected as chaplain. The convention adopted a resolution urging that newspap ers which are "known publica tions of Communist or German- American Bund parties" be banned from the mails. It charged such newspapers were conducting a smear campaign against law enforcement agen cies. The Dies committee investi gating un-American activities, the federal bureau of Investi gation and the move to deport Harry Bridges, alien west coast C. I. O. longshoremen's leader were endorsed. Commanders elected for the seven Oregon districts included H. J. Melring of Medford. Northern California: Fair south and cloudy north portion Sunday; occasional rain north coast and over mountains; mod erate temperature; moderate southerly wind off coast. Outlook for far western st for period September 7 to 11 inclusive: Scattered thunder storms over mountains of plat eau region, and occasional fog on coast, otherwise mostly fair weather; temperatures about normal on coast; slightly above normal elsewhere, except in land over northern California and somewhat lower Inland over western parts of Oregon and Washington about Mon day. WILLKIE TO TALK 3 Portland. Sept. 7. (IP) Wen dell Willkie, Republican presi dential nominee, will arrive here the night of Sunday, Septem ber 22, from San Francisco, Ralph H. Cake, national commit teeman for Oregon, announced said Willkie would speak from the train's rear platform at Klamath Falls, Eugene and Salem. He plana to leave San Francisco at 10:30 p. m., and make the stops en route to Port land. He will address Portland rally Monday morning In the Civic auditorium or the Park block, Cake said. LANDOFFENSIVE NEXT jEAR, PLAN London, Sep. 7. (IPS Brit ain, in the thick of a back-to-the-wall fight against German air siege, has not forgotten that a victorious war means an of fensive war Officers say the British army looks forward to "surely 750,000, perhaps a million," fully-equipped soldiers, supported by a powerful air force, for a 1941 campaign "somewhere in Eu rope." Troops will be the spearhead of the offensive which the army, from recruits to red-tabbed staff officers, firmly believe will "win the war." 19 KILLED IN CRASH High Speed Blamed For Saturday Morning Trag edyCompanion Escapes Nineteen-year-old Edward Lit tle Young, son of Mrs. Donald Young of 1550 Olive street. Eugene, met Instant death about fl a. m. Saturday when the car he was driving went out of control Just this side of the crest of Blackwcll hill on the Pacific highway north of Central Point and turned over five times side ways. His companion, Russell Forty, 19, also of Eugene, was not seriously injured. He suffered a small cut on the leg and two sprained ankles, and after visit ing a local hospital was released. Terrific speed apparently was the cause of the fatal accident, according to state police and the coroner's office- Young's companion was quoted as saying that he cautioned the driver to slowdown several times. Reconstructing the accident, police said the car, Ford V-8 sedan, traveling south, left the highway just over the rise of Biackwell hill and as it struck a alight right curve In the road. The machine swerved to the left shoulder, then straightened out and roared to the right side of the highway. It zig-zagged back and forth across the road several times, then made five complete revolutions sideways, state po lice said signs indicated. The car finally came to a rest right side up facing east across the highway, 913 feet from the point it first left the pavement. Both youths were thrown clear of the crazily bounding machine. Young was lying about 100 feet above the car on the highway. Forty told police he was thrown onto the right bank as the car made its second revolution. He was knocked unconscious, but regained his senses and stopped C. C. Carpenter of Rogue River, a passing motorist, after drag ging Young out of the middle of the highway and onto the shoulder of the road, he told police. Forty then hailed ride to Medford and telephoned Young's mother in Eugene. The Perl ambulance was summoned to the scene and removed the body to Medford. Young sustained a badly fractured skull, and it was the opinion of the coroner's office that death was instantaneous- The remains were to be shipped to Eugene this morning. State police quoted Forty as explaining that the pair left Eugene at 11 p. m. Friday and that he, Forty, drove as far as Grants Pass. At Grants Pass Young took the wheel of hli mother's car. The two youths were on their way to Medford to pick up Virginia Shelby and Barbara Anderson, two Eugene girls who had been visiting here, and return them to Eugene, state police said Forty explained. Young was a graduate of Uni versity high school In Eugene last year, while Forty is a senior at Eugene high school. The car, totally demolished, was hauled to Medford by a r i- o c.iH 4in itwia ouy onini ..iwn PORTLAND HIT BY Portland. Sept. 7. (IP) A. lightning storm struck here to day, disabling radio station KGW's transmitter for nearly a half hour and leaving a south east section of the city without power for two hours. The weather bureau said .14 of an Inch of rain accompanied the lightning. London DAMAGE 'SEVERE LIFE LOSS Great City Roars With Fires Berlin Claims Million Pounds Bombs Dropped i By the Associated Proa Germany struck at Great Britain's heart last night and early today (Sunday) with the) mightiest and longest aerial at tack of the war upon London which resulted in admittedly "severe" damage and mounting lists of dead and injured. The air raid alarm in the) world's largest city screamed at warning at 8:32 p. m. Satur. day (11:32 a. m. PST) and thsj 'all clear" was not given until eight hours and 18 minute later, shortly before dawn to day. The previous record rail was seven hours and 40 min utes on the night of Septem ber 8-6. As for the Germans, Berlin had respite. No alarm was sounded, and German sources) said British raiders had been beaten) back from the city. - - Biases Abate Fires caused by . nazi bombs) which shook London had abated somewhat as . the raid , ended. but fire engines and ambulance still clanged about the streets The city roared with fires) last night and early today In the nazi air force's effort Us make good on Adolf Hitler's) threat to "erase" the cities o( Britain. The alarm which sounded at 8:32 p. m. Saturday (11:32 a. m. PST) finally ended at 4:30) a. m. today (7:30 p. m. Satur day, PST). At dawn drew on, the great fires set by nazi incendiary bombs seemed to be abating somewhat, but the heavens stilt glowed red, and a pall of white) smoke drifted overhead, while) fire engines and ambulances) i still clanged about . Uttered) streets. As Expected Authoritative sources do scribed the damage as "severe," but urged observers to consider? it in relation to the general war picture and to preparations) for just such an attack "and! worse," which had been ex pected since the war began. The full ferocity of the at ftack, following an hour and 42-mlnute raid Saturday after noon, came in the pre-midnight hours. Afterward, an occasional plane roared over to drop bombs, and searchlights still groped through the morninsj Even after the "all clear," re port still drifted in steadily of additional dead and Injured, of demolished homes and dam aged air raid shelters. Traffio) was re-routed In number of localities. A Terror Raid" The authoritative British) press association declared as) the attack ended this morning that it had "all the appearance of a calculated terror-raid.'' Although the nazls seemed to concentrate most of their ef forts on London, the industrial midlands had a "nuisance raid' alarm lasting until early today. At least five high explosive) bombs were reported dropped at one point Ttorlin. Sundav. Sent. 8. (JPl An unending German often Iva hv all tvies of planes hurl ed "several million pounds". of bombs on London yesterday ana last night In an onslaught so cisantie that the nazls said It ' put everything previous "lit the shade. German sources emphasised th tanaritv of the British de fenses, but said the British were) unab!e to stem the continuous) waves of attacking planes. Ijtr the German wireless broadcast that 87 British plane had been snot down in in region of London," against th loss of 28 by the naii. 1 vltJ
