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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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