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DIAL 2141 lor Southern Oregon Leading Newspaper The MAIL TRIBUNE CalUClr Bumu report til Aid. lurccakt: fart It rloud- t nljht and Turwla., little change In ttmperat ur. Trmpr rat lira Hllirt rtrrdav 91 Lott thU morning At Medford Tribune Full Associated Press United Ptese Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, IP No. 146. uu MRU n IslnlL o) m LniUiJ d v!yU THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 9. This campaign is the first great politi cal venture in which the presi dent has ever played a lone hand. No busy brain-trusters cook up his speeches, and eager ly check references to confuse the opposition. No James A. Far ley tunes the party machinery, until the entire Democratic or ganization hums with power. No secret service men cross and re cross the continent, laying out the routes of political grand pro gresses down to the last brief platform appearance at the low liest whistle stop. Instead of his usual campaign ing activities, in short, the presi dent is artfully presenting him self to the public as the busy leader of a great nation, too oc cupied with his innumerable duties even to answer his oppo nent. Of course, behind the scenes, he Is quietly directing the cam paign's course. The speaking trips of Vice Presidential Candi date Henry A. Wallace have been carefully planned with him and he has checked over all major Wallace orations. The do ings of the new Democratic na tional chairman, Ed Flynn, and of his less conspicuous but even more active co-adjutor, Ed Kelly of Chicago, are supervised from the White House. Where local situations need attention, the president attends to them, altho on nothing like the lavish scale of 1936. But the contrast between the present and the past is still sur prisingly sharp. Furthermore one aspect of the changes at the White House may prove highly significant in the future. ... CO far as can be discovered, for " example, an accepted presi dential amanuensis no longer exists. The celebrated team of Corcoran and Cohen is not on the job. Cohen is giving most of his time to his position at the interior department, with only occasional forays into other fields. Corcoran had hardly re turned from his honeymoon be- (ContUjued on Page Pour.) VICT! OF POLIO Sacramento, Sept. 9 VP) A 34-year-old Redding physician. Dr. Harold Whiteside, has suc cumbed to infantile paralysis, dread disease he had treated in a number of patients. Found unconscious by his wife In their Redding home. Dr. Whiteside was driven here in an ambulance. He died yesterday in the same Sacramento hospital in which one of his patients is re covering from the disease. COOKE AND PALFREY TO FORM LIFE PARTNERSHIP New York, Sept. 9 lP) El wood Cooke, of Portland, Ore., the nation's sixth ranking tennis star, today announced he and Sarah Palfrey, of Boston, ranked No. 3 nationally, would be mar ried early next month. They will sail afterward on a South Amer ican tour. SIDE GLANCES by TRILUNE REPORTERS Z o e Byington being big hearted and offering some of mama Zoe Hurd's possessions to a worthy cause while the lat ter is out of town. Ken Denman. Bill McAllister and George Carter being con spicuous by their presence at a huge feminine gathering. Bill Holloway bring tca'ed about his pet quail, he not ciricg at ail. DEAD AND INJURED EASE FAST IN CONTINUED RAIDS: 6C0 Killed, 2,600 Seriously Wounded in Two Nights British Bomb Nazi Areas By the Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 9. Nazi bombers returned to London late today, apparently for the third night of Adolf Hitler's grimmest bombings, but an air alarm In the British capital lasted only one hour and 15 minutes. It was believed, however, that as on previous night the first wave of attackers was a van guard merely blazing a trail for swarms to come. They already have left ap proximately 600 persons dead and 2,600 seriously wounded in two severe night-long raids. After a daylight calm of 12 hours, the sirens wailed the alarm at 5:09 p. m., (8:09 a. m., P. S. T.) The all-clear sounded at 6:24 p. m. (9:24 a. m., P. S. T.) A German plane was observed at great height and the thunder of exploding bombs was heard. Germans Sweep In Then the thunderous roar of a squadron of German bombers drummed the air as they swept in from the southwest with the sun behind them. The now-familiar sound of heavy bombs exploding was heard, along with the bursts of anti-aircraft gunners, who had been catching catnaps in prepa ration for another night of the longest air attacks ever launched against one city, sprang to their posts. During the lull which followed the "all clear," the air ministry disclosed that 13 British bomb ers were lost yesterday and last night in the Royal Air Force's own mass raids against German shipping and continental object ives, including Hamburg, North sea port, where huge fires were started. British raiders also sought to demolish Nazi barges and boats concentrated on the French coast for movement of invading troops. Besides the large number of casualties widespread and severe damage was done in last night s raids on London. Bremen, and Emden, in Ger many, and Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne, in France, were bombed by large forces, the air ministry said, and damage was done to oil tanks, ammunition stores, shipping and barge con centrations. By the Associated Press The German attack last night was the longest, fiercest, of the (Continued on Page Eight.) PARTS FOR WARPLANES: L BE By Portland. Ore., Sept. 9 IIP) Organization of a Portland firm to take airplane sub-contracts toward national defense was an nounced today by Harry K. Cof fey, insurance and aviation leader. The firm. Columbia Aircrafts Industries, will not attempt to build complete airplanes at the outset. Coffey said, but will con centrate on parts production. Portland machine shops and metal works wilf be given some of the work, backed by a plant containing specialized equip ment not otherwise available, a testing laboratory, assembling rooms and space for a corps of encineers, Coffey added There will be no public offer ; ing of stock in the 5100.000 en I terprise. Coffey declared, since I the firm already has offers of j sufficient local funds. ! SALEM MILLS TO MAKE BLANKETS FOR ARMY I Washington, Sept. 9 'Pi The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill of ! Salem. Ore , has been awarded an $89 775 cor.!-? -t for wool blankets, the war department ' announced. War Bulletins Berlin. Sept- 9. (!P) Threatening a bombardment ten timet worse than London yet has undergone, German raiders loosed another deluge of bombs on London tonight, military leaders disclosed. Thames river docks were among the targets, and one flier reported: "Tongues oi flame are reaching high into the air." London. Sept. 9. (JP) Twenty six German planes were destroyed In attacks on Britain this afternoon, the air and home securitr ministries announced tonight. London, Sept. 9. (Tt The air ministry appealed tonight for volunteers to serve as pilots, machine-gunners, and radio operators and extended the maximum age. London. Sept. 9. (T") The sinking of three Italian supply ships by two British subma rines in the Mediterranean was announced tonight by the admiralty. CONSCRIPTION ACT BELIEVED DOE FOR E Washington, Sept. 9. (IP) The senate and house will reach a speedy agreement on their conflicting versions of conscrip tion legislation, it was predict ed today, and the house pro-' vision for a" 60-day delay will probably be discarded in the process. Senator Burke CD., Neb.) was confident in saying that con gressional action on the history making peacetime selective ser vice measure would be com pleted "this week, possibly by Wednesday." Burke, co-author of the bill with Rep. Wadsworth (R., N. Y.) was joined by Chairman May (D., Ky) of the house mili tary committee in forecasting a swift settlement of senate- house differences on the legis lation. The Nebraska senator said that the senate-house confer ence would make several ad justments to reconcil the diver gent versions of the bill, ap proved in one form by the sen ate 10 days ago, and in a dif ferent form by the house on Saturday night. POLITICIANS EYE MAINE ELECT Portland. Me., Sept. 9. (IP) The volume of early balloting in Maine's general election today was heavy in many upstate places but light in Portland, the state s largest city Maine's general election. Its barometric properties more than ever in dispute, nevertheless at - tracted the attention of political observers avid for a straw in' INOVemDer S Wind. Up to the last campaign min- d eary Sunday ute Republicans hammered away Wha, thcy foupd wa, , ma at their conviction that an em- croing ,he ,trpet wniIe waIk. phatic" G O. P victory would , on8hij hand, Ho WM ,r. augur well for Wendell W illk.e s. rMted n , drunkenncM cnarge. success. I Democrats that'theVlection.Tirst ALICE MARBLE WINS in the country, had no signifi-l TITLE THIRD TIME cance outside the state's borders. u The adage, "as goes Maine, sol Sept. 9-OP) Alice goes the nation." had been ef. "be t Lo ,A"gele'- fectively disproved In 1936, they:''rd '"."T Jajd r (1938 semi-finals at Wimbledon. (Then, after a Republican vie- ,r,da; won h" ,hird ." tory here. President Roosevelt '"."' "n)n tennis champion carried every state but' Maine '"'P crushing Helen Hull and Vermont.) Jacobs former American chanv At stake were one seat in the Plon- 6 2- 9'3 1 " . " minute U. S. senate, three in the na-: mc" at Forest Hills. tional house, the governorship and a host of lesser offices. Many Students Aided Eugene. Sept. 9. f Unl- versity of Oregon students re- ceived $220,478 from various ploye for many years and fed university funds and part-time leral farm loan board member employment In the 1939-40 school year. Karl W. Onthank. dean of personnel, announced today. (Bombs Upset .fen! 1 il'p;: fLiy M j V4 S Air raid precaution workers are shown at top carrying furniture from London home damaged In air raids thn night before. Below is a scene in a London suburb air raid shelter on the morning after an all-night raid. The women and children, who scurried to safely when raid alatms warned of the ap proach of German planes, appear to be enjoying breakfast while still under ground. Upside-Downer Lands in Cooler ,,,.,- H' K Krohn nH P Sprjngcr wcre aj et for a mur. idcr mystrry a ,hcy saw two fect gtickjng high in the airi progress somewhat erratically n.. R F. Hawthnrnn honle- Alfred W. Caulhorn Portland Sept. 9 Alfred W. Cauthorn, 73, f' Ore- gon Journal advertising and circulation department em- in the Wilson administration, died today. Cauthnrn r.imcumb- ed to a stroke suffered 10 days; ago. I London Life t : ... n V Grants Pass, Sept. 9. (IP) A cat and dog blitzkrieg threat ened Mayor James A. Slover and Josephine County Judge W. A. Johnson today. Trlmly-tallored Mrs. Sydney W. Richardson of the Jackson county humane society declared from between firmly-compressed lips that if the city and county don't make provision here for stray and unwanted animals by January 1, the Jackson society will cease taking care of them at Medford. Mrs. Richardson, who raid she helped defeat an officeholder who opposed her society's aims, called it an "ultimatum." "I'll take the cati and dogs personally," she vowed, "and bring them over to Grants Pass ! and dump them in the mayor's and Judge s offices. An East Canadian Port. Sept. 9. (A9) The Union Jack re placed tha stars and stripes to. i day with a minimum of cere mony In the transfer of the first group of 50 American over-age destroyers to British command. 201 NAVY SHIPS CONTRACTED FOR Action Follows Signing of Defense Appropriation Bill Plane Orders Near Washington, Sept. 9. P) The greatest fleet of fighting vessels ever put under contract at one time, including seven mighty 45,000-ton battleships and eight aircraft carriers, was ordered today by the navy immediately after Presi dent Roosevelt signed the $5, 251.000.000 defense appropria tion bill. Contracts were let for 200 fighting ships and one repair vessel to cost a total of $3,861. 053.312. In addition to the bat tleships, costing approximately $100,000,000 each, and the plane carriers at $47,000,000 apiece, other vessels ordered and the approximate unit costs were 27 cruisers, $30,000,000; 115 destroyers, S8. 100,000; 43 submarines, $6,000,000 and the repair ship of unannounced cost. Big Battleships At the capitol Chairman Vin son (D-Ga.) oT the naval com mittee announced in the house that the seven new $1000.000. 0000 battleships would be of the 45.000-ton class. Five of that type, 10,000 tons greater than the largest capital ships of the present fleet, . already were building. . "" , The construction program is designed to give the United States a two-ocean navy of ap proximately 650 ships In 1945. 1946 or 1947, depending upon the time found necessary to complete the building. ' The army also worked swiftly on contract awards and Stephen Early, White House press secre tary, said at Hyde Park, where Mr- Roosevelt signed the ' big new defense appropriation, that war department orders totaling $524,000,000 would be complet ed in a few days. Plane Orders Signed Along with the ship contracts, the navy announced officials were signing contracts calling for the expenditure of an addi tional $31,653,500 to expand naval establishments. Officials said also negotiation of contracts for approximately 2.400 naval airplanes, to cost about $108,000,000, was In the final stages. Contracts and allocations un der the 201-ship program In clude: Twenty destroyers, Seat tle Tacoma Shipbuilding com piny, Seattle. Six Destroyers, Pugct Sound navy yard. McNARY TAKING PLANE FOR CAPITAL RETURN Salem, Sept- 9 (VP) Senator Charles L. McNary, who came home August 24 to accept the .Republican presidential nomina tion, said he would leave Port land this afternoon by plane to return direct to Washington, where he will resume his nost as I ifif m mlnnrif V l9ilr . ......... . . j . . ..... . , Jews and Baptist Advents Hit by New Rumanian Laws Br tha Associated Press Bucharest, Sept. 9 OP) New decrees aimed at Jews and a new Baptist religious group were issued by the ministry of cul ture today as Rumania's military dictator, Gen. Ion Antonescu, worked swiftly to reshape the nation on the axis pattern. All Jewish "communities," one edict decreed, must give up their synagogues, hospitals and schools unless they can establish a mem bership of 400 in cities and 200 in rural areas. Jewish leaders said this would result in the closing of many synagogues which the state was expected to take over for other purposes. A second order declared mem bers of Baptist Advent "sects" henceforth must be regarded as without religion" unless they declare themselves Catholics or members of a recognized protest- 1 ant church In Rumania. They BASEBALL American Chicago 2 11 1 Cleveland 14 0 Lee and Tresh; Eisenstat, Dob son and Hemsley. National Brooklyn .. 4 IS I New York 7 14 1 Tamulis, Head, Carlcton, and Phells; Schumacher and Ban ning. FOR DUTY WITH A The number of recruits en listed in Medford's national guard campaign rose to 17 to day as two more men signed up for Company A. 136th infantry. More than 40 must be enlisted before mobilization September 16. The latest recruits wcre Vir gil A- Walker, Klamath Falls, and Jack O. Glines, Prospect. Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald, com manding Company A. said he had been notified by headquar ters that a number of musicians could be used in the regimental band. 1st Lieut. James W. Grigsby, commanding headquarters de tachment, received notic today that his unit would not be in creased in personnel. It was un derstood at first that the detach ment would be increased from 11 to 26 men, Youths who have enrolled In the detachment will be assigned to Company A, it was explained. There will be no change In the total number of recruits aa an excess la desir able to make possible replace ments, officers stated. Medford's National Defence committee, which la conducting the enlistment campaign, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. All members were asked to be punctual. John P- Moffat, veteran of the World war, today endorsed the recruiting campaign. He said: "I am definitely In favor of national guard training. In fact, I enlisted in 1916 in the nation al guard. The training we re ceived then, and after we were mobilized with the national guard, was invaluable. "We received our training un der officers and among men with whom we were friendly. We hope war will not come, but if lt does, those boys who have had the training in the national guard, will have a decided edge. They will know what to expect. They will have benefited physic ally and .will receive training that may be of dee'ded value In civil life after their service. The fellows who know how may find many opportunities to tty for the better Jobs if war service should become necessary, Tillamook, Ore., Sept. 9 (IP) Albacore tuna, avid for any lure except live baits, reached a new high today fishermen said the crew of one boat tried pop corn on Its hooks and promptly landed several fish. were organized about a year and a half ago under United States snd British influence. Antonescu apparently was de termined to wipe out the last traces of the old Carol regime in Rumania. High sources meanwhile de clared evidence had been un covered showing the axis-dictated Vienna award of northern Transylvania to Hungary was the direct result of a letter from Carol to Adolf Hitler. "The king wrote to Hitler after the loss of Bessarabia and Bucovina asking for Nazi pro tection of Rumania's northeast frontier with Russia," these sources said. "Carol, fearful the Russians would seek to occupy the adjoin ing Moldavian section of Ru mania, also wrote that he was willing to make any territorial concessions Berlin might for." ask SCHOOLS OF CITY SHOW INCREASE ON OPENING DAY Approximately Three Per Cent More Children Start; 2 Schools Show Decline An approximate S per cent increase In first-day enrollment over last year was noted by th city school superintendent'! of fice today as Medford's six pub lie schools opened their doors to the Influx of students for tha next nine months of the three, Rs. Four of the schools showed In creases over first-day enrollment in 1939, the total for the system being 2,202 compared to 2,136 for the same period last year. Senior high enrollment Jumped from 500 in 1939 to 537, junior high school was up from 623 to 630, Roosevelt grade school showed an enrollment of 306 to 280 last year, and Washington grade school registered an in crease of from 284 to 316. Two Show Drop Only Jackson and Lincoln grade schools showed declines from the preceding year, the for mer dropping from 231 to 218 and the latter from 198 to 185. The school superintendent'a office reported that first-day en rollment figures were tentative, but perhaps more stable this year than usual because of the earlier completion of work in the fruit, which annually at tract! many Junior and senior high school students. The first permanent enrollment figures will be released at the end of the second week of school, and an increase In Junior and senior high schools is expected Last Minute Changes City School Superintendent E. H. Hedrlck announced three last minute changes in the system's teaching personnel. Miss Floy Young, high school music teach er, was granted leave of ab sence to mid-year to complete, proiessionai work at Northwest ern university. Mrs. Esther Leake, music supervisor for the) system, will handle Miss Young's classes temporarily. Miss Esther Wilcox, senior high school art tescher and art supervisor for the system, has resigned, Mr. Hedrick stated. Miss Dorothea Witt, a Univer sity of Oregon graduate and a teacher at Grants Pass last year, has been assigned as high school art teacher. Miss Lois Beth Scoffern, math ematics teacher at senior high school, has also resigned, and her place will be filled by aubr stitute. Mra. A. P. Butler, who formerly taught mathematics here. Agnes Deaver will substitute) as principal at Lincoln grade) school until the, return of Mrs. Ora Cox, who Is attending the national convention of the) Daughters of the Union Veter ans, Mr. Hedrick said. PLEAS OF GUARDSMEN FOR DISCHARGE Will GET CLOSE SCRUM Salem, Sept. 9. f Major General George A. White, com manding general of the Oregon national guard, ordered today statewide Investigation of ap plications by enlisted men for discharges. More than 100 applications for discharges arrived here to day. The men asking for them gave several reasons, such as having dependents and having to attend school. The latter reason, however, will not be valid. Each application will be In vestigated to determine It tha reasons are valid, and lo pre vent any display of favoritism In grsntlng discharges, General White said. The Oregon national guard will be mobilized at horns sta tions next Monday and will leave for camp a week later. Ksnh hM approstmatolr 1SS.440.- i 000 squat ml in of vsMr and 11410,- ooo square mute of land.