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Newspaper Page TextDIAL 2141 lor Southern Oregon's Leading Newspaper CalOClr Bumu report tnslda. iarmM: hrtlT rlaud.T to nltht and HidnnUt, link elimnse b trmptratur. Tctlipcral ur HtghFM Trtrdar 19 Lowest thlt morning 49 Tptbune FORD The MAIL TRIBUNE Full Associated Prose Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940. No. 147. 1 (n)W (fm LiyjNiiyjux MMMi Med Ml HEBS II W . i i THE CAPITAL PARADE Bf JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North Amtticin Ntwspiptr Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 10. The president's enemies regard his parade of lack of interest in the campaign as annoyingly smart politics. A good many of his friends, however, are driven al most to distraction by it. New Dealish administration chieftains are frenzied by his refusal to re organize the Democratic national committee, which is running along at half speed, still clut tered with the leftovers of the Farley regime. A number of the more rigid minded party leaders would like to see him make more speeches. And the day hardly passes without the arrival of a delegation of local politicoes to plead with him to help them in their bailiwick. AMONG these people harrying the president to do this or that about the campaign, an as tonishing number have received a stock answer. He tells them, quite simply, that the country ought to know everything know able by now about his policies, abilities, personality and char acter. He asserts that nothing he can say will change the opin. ions of effective numbers of voters. And he brushes off his would-be advisers with a cheer ful refusal to worry about the outcome of the election. In short, the president's changed system of handling his campaign implies not only a changed system of managing the government; it also implies a changed presidential mood. Fa talism, which plays quite as large a part as self-confidence in the president's approach to cam paign problems, is as novel a phenomenon at the White House as the absence of aides and ama nuenses of the brain-trust type. "PHIS self-confident fatalism is In remarkable contrast to the timidity and uncertainty afflict ing the president in the months before the Chicago convention. Then he was willing to compro. mlse with the isolationists, al lowed the senate to bully him (Continued on Pag en) LIGHTNING CRIPPLES MID-COLUMBIA POWER The Dalles, Sept. 10. (IP) Lightning crippled power facil ities in this mid-Columbia river area last night, damaged farm property, killed two horses own ed by J. R. Ryan, and slightly injured Ryan and John Osloske, farmers. A bolt struck the conduit plant at White Salmon. Wash., leaving parts of The Dalles in darkness for a short time. The telephone line to Condon was out briefly. JEWISH REFUGEES IN FRANCE FACE TROUBLE Vichy. France, Sept. 10. W The council of ministers, meeting under Marshal Petain. decided today to take steps "of national security" against Jew ish and other emigres who have taken refuge in France and are considered dangerous to the country. SIDE GLANCES br TRIEUNE REPORTERS Ira and Dave Luman suffer ing from stings when they routed out a bee nest which turned out to be a yellowjacket brood instead. Pastor Herald Gardner Tat tering a friend by drawing a similarity between the friend and a "Peculiar Treasure". The Catherine Street Players sadly laying aside the pomp and ceremony of princesses and fair ies to become Just plain school kids. Young Bob McCarty eager to Bt home from school to see the 11 Lb iiltU, tgra kut ugliU CITY GETS RESPITE AFTER THREE DAYS: Raiders Fly Over Without Dropping Bombs British Carry Havoc to Enemy- By the Associated Prats High-flying German raiders buzzed out of sight above Lon don today, springing a series of four daylight alarms after their third straight dusk-to-dawn as sault had set great fires in the vicinity of historic St. Paul's cathedral and In "the city" the capital's Wall street. RAF pursuit planes fought off one nazi reconnaissance squad ron in a swift, fire-spitting clash high above Buckingham palace at lunch time, but the Germans came back again and again. No bombs fell in the London area, and apparently the nazi airmen overe merely checking up on the devastating effects of their nine-hour and two-minute attack during the night. British Bomb Reich RAF bombers carried wide spread havoc back into Hitler's reich, the London air ministry reported, bombing Berlin, the Bremen and Hamburg ship yards, and war factories at Essen and Barnstrof. Other RAF squadrons lashed at shipping and barge concen trations in the German-occupied channel ports of Ostend, Calls and Boulogne, where the nazi fuehrer has been reported gath ering craft and troops for a cross-channel land invasion, London still smouldered from the German night-hawk raiders' terrific assault. Roaring salvos of bombs, weighing from 800 to 1,000 pounds each, crashed near the Bank of England, the Guildhall (city hall) of London's lord mayor, the general postoffice. London bridge. Fleet street, and the great Inns of Court where English barristers for centuries have lived "in cham bers." Cathedral Spared The 250-year-old St. Paul's cathedral, with its great dome red-lit from the glare of flames in nearby warehouses, was saved by the wind blowing in the opposite direction. Hundreds of firemen fought the warehouse blazes with thv aid of water towers for eight hours without a break. RAF officers estimated about 150 German bombers, shuttling in night-long relays across the channel, took part in the bom bardment. "The enemy now has thrown off all pretense of confining himself to military targets," an official British communique de clared. Berlin retorted that the full blast aerial siege of Britain has "Just begun" and said "ever more planes for London" was the order issued to the nazi luft waffe. German daylight raider re turned to the attack at noon, interrupting the lunch hour of London's weary millions with a 25-minute alarm from 12:54 p. m. 6:54 a. m., EST) to 1:19 p. m. In the night attack, 120 per sons were reported buried in the wreckage of 20 houses in a sinele district. By dawn res- Icue crews digging Into the rub ' ble had found only 20 alive. British RAF bombers made a 43-minute raid on Berlin before dawn, but the German asserted that only scattered apartment houses were damaged In the nazi capital's northern out skirts. The Wesermuende indus trial area in northern uermany was also bombed. French Coast Strafed Hitler s high command ac knowledged a British naval at tack on the Gci man-held French coast, in which. It said, "some .light enemy vessels aimlessly fired severs! salvos wnicn nil the hinterland without dam 's'''" i "The enemy was driven away by the fire of our naval artil- ; lery." the high command said. ! Nazi pilots returning from the Slight raids said direct bomb 1 hits were scored on London's great Fait Indian and Royal Victoria docks along the I Charting a Campaign Tour On a nice hard floor In his hem in RuihrllU. Ind.. with large teal map of the United States in freni of him, Wen dell Willkie outlines hit forthcoming speaking trip to Harold J. Gallagher. Gallagher will have Willkie Hopes Will Be Dropped From Bill Rushvllle, Ind.. Sept. 10. (Pt- W c n d e 1 1 L. WUlkle ex pressed hop today that senate-house conferee would eliminate from the selective'1 military service bill the Fish amendment postponing conscription for 60 day. The amendment, approved by. c the house but not by the senate, would defer operation of the draft while voluntary enlist ments were being given a 60 day trial. Then the government could pick men to bring the total of new recruit to 400,000. Willkie, up early, Issued a formal one-sentence statement at breakfast time urging that the selective sen-ice program go into effect immediately. He first voiced his approval of military conscription in hi acceptance address last month. The Republican presidential nominee in another statement said he was "enormously grati fied" by the Maine election re sults. "Apparently Governor (Sic) Sewall almost doubled the ma jority of the Republican gover nor in 1936," he said, "and Sen ator (Sic) Brewster' defeat of former Governor Brann by a very large mujority is equally impressive. I have wired both Governor Sewall and Senator Brewster my heartiest congrat ulations." The nominee expects to see Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, the vice presidential candidate, before hi special train leave for Chicago Thurs day night. WAITRESS GIVEN $46 TIP BY FORD Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept. 10. (Pretty Ethel Gaff, 19. wait res in a downtown hotel dining room, wondered today whether Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer, meant to give her a $48 tip or Just forgot his change. Ford and hi party seven stopped there to eat yesterday on their way back to Detroit from Rushville, Ind., where he talked with Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nomi nee. The check was $4. They handed the waitress $50 and left. Earlier. Ford pinned a Will kie button on a reporter' coat and said: "Wear It and I'll wear another Just like it " The hotel management said Ford would be asked by letter ! whether he Intended for the waitress to keep the change. Seattle. Sept. 10. (Pi Award of a $137,500,000 contract for construction of 20 destroyer for the navy to the Seattle-Ta-coma Shipbuilding corporation , will mean 7.500 Seattle men will 1 said they practiced political ae ! be working for a weekly payroll j tlvlty contrary to the good of I of about S300.000, company of- the state and used "flattery to iiciai aid today. fain high ollic." the job of routing the trip. Draft Delay CONFEREES SEEK "Washington, Sept- 10. (IP) The senate-house conference committee revising conscription legislation today sought army and navy view on controverted provisions Including that to per mit a 60-day test of voluntary enlistments before men could be drafted. It was freely predicted In con gressional quarters as the com mittee met In its first session, that the delay provision written in by the house would be elim inated, while a house section for registration and drafting of men 21 to 44. inclusive, would prevail over the senate's 21-30 age range. Senator Sheppard (D.-Tex.). conference chairman, while making no comment on the trend of committee work, announced that member of the Joint army and navy selective service com mittee had been called in for a discussion of all questions in volved in reconciling senate and house versions of the Burke Wadsworth bill. Most of these questions grew out of the 60-day delay proposal, adopted by the house on motion of Rep. Fish (R.N.Y.), and the age limits. Sheppard, reporting "satisfactory progress," predict ed a compromise bill would be ready for final action by both branches late this week. ELEVEN GENERALS Bucharest. Sept. 10. (iP) Dis missal of 11 Rumanian generals, held partly responsible for Ru mania recent los of territory, was announced today at Gen Ion Antonescu. military dicta tor, continued his investigation of former King Carol's regime. The decree dismissing the men, who Included George Ar geseanu, a former premier, and Ion Ilcusu, former war minister, HAILED AS OMEN BY G.O.P. CHIEFS Down East Republicans Elect U.S. Senator and Three Members of House- Br the Associated Press Maine Republicans won an unbroken series of victories yes terday in all the major contests of the first state-wide election of the presidential year, and party leaders promptly hailed the performance as an omen for national success in November. Bv rjluralitiea y(-riintf In most cases those registered In 1936 and 1938, the "down east" Republicans elected a United States senator and three mem bers of the house of represents lives. Brewster Far Ahead On the basis of all but mm. Diet returns. Ren. Ralnh n. Brewster had a lead of approxi mately 3,ooo vote over former Democratic uovernor Louis J. Brann in the senate rare Sum. ner Sewall, successful guberna torial candidate, was ahead by more than 70.000 vote. Rep. Joe Martin. Reoublican national chairman, said the Maine returns meant "without any doubt the election of Wen dell Willkie, Senator McNary and a Reoublican maloritv In the house of representatives In November. . . . "The Main election definite ly neraio the end of the Roose velt administration "with all Its inefficiency, bungling, extrava gance and radicalism." Dimet Deny Sign The nutrnma nf th unlln. AlA not cause Democratic leaders to alter their pre-election insistence jtnat we election had no sig nificance beyond tha a'ate'a hnr. der. They said then that 1936 . had effectively disoroved the i saying: "As Maine foes, so goes the nation." While the Maine figure were being studied by rival party leader. Alaska wa votini to day In a "farthest north" gen eral election, and eight states were holding primaries which will designate candidate fnr a total of five seats in the senate and 47 In the house of repre sentatives. Gubernatorial nom inations also were on the tickets in all except Louisiana. The states holding primaries today wera Arl7smo CnXnmAn Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota. New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington. Georgia will have a primary tomorrow and New Mexico on Saturday, MILK LATlEFTTS CITED BY BOARD IN REPORT TO SPRAGUE Salem, Sept. 10. (IP) The Oregon milk control law, passed seven years ago, ha given the state better milk and ha not increased prices, the state milk control board reported today to Governor Charle A. Sprague. The board denied charges that milk production and distri bution is becoming a monopoly, asserting, however, that fewer distributors and producers would be more desirable so that "operating unit may be put on an efficient bail and thus make it possible to reduce price to tha consumer." An Initiative measure seeking to repeal the law will be on , the November ballot. It is spon sored by State Senator Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland democrat, who failed in the last legislature in an attempt to write the law off the statute book. The board is attempting, the report said, to give the public a safe supply of milk at low price, and at the same time give producer and distributors fair profit. Uklah, Cel., Sept. 10. (JPi Mike Hurley, 60-year-old Oak land lection foreman, wa found today on Sanhedrin mountain where he had been lost since I . T L . J - , , I 1 -. I . I iai inuriaay. tie uvea on per- rle and edible shrubs for five days. F.S.C. TO ENLARGE ; BUYING OF PEARS Administration Agrees to Extend Purchases to Var ieties Previously Rejected Washington, Sept. 10 (IP) The federal surplus marketing administration announced today It would buy surplus pears in the Medford, Ore., district. Medford growers had com plained agents of the adminis tration were purchasing only certain varieties. The adminis tration said today it would ex tend its purchases to varieties previously rejected, and that purchases also would be made in California and Washington. S. M. Tuttle, representing the Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., laid the problem 'of the grow ers before the administration. The only variety the admin istration has not been buying was Bosc, a spokesman for ship pers here said. Under the new arrangements, Bosc, D'AnJou and Cornice pear will be pur chased In this district, he added. Mr. Tuttle, the spokesman re lated, represented the Rogue River Valley Traffic association and the Fruitgrowers League at the Washington conference, Mr. Tuttle having left for the capi tal by plane Sunday. U. S. Sen. Charles L. McNary's office has been assisting the Medford dis trict growers in the matter, the spokesman added. The whole broad subject of surplus pear purchases has been worked out by a committee of Pacific north west growers and shippers, he stated. CAROL CONSIDERING PORTUGAL, AWICi AFTER RtVIERA BAN Lugano, Switzerland, Sept. 10. (.V) Definitely refused permission to settle In France. ex-King Carol of Rumania is trying to decide between Portu gal and America as his place of exile, a member of hi suite said today. The refusal of the Vichy gov ernment to allow him to live on the French Riviera was be lieved here to have been In fluenced by German hostility against the former monarch. Curious guests at the hotel where the party is staying had their first fleeting glimpse of Mme. Lupescu, Carol's friend, when he appeared briefly on the balcony of her apartment today. She withdrew when she became aware she wa being watched. 11,000 War Planes for U.S. Within 19 Months -Knudsen By Devon Francis (Associated Press Aviation Editor) Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 10. In 19 months, the army and navy will have approximately 11,000 combat airplanes, fighter and bombers, William S. Knudsen. chairman of the national de fense commission, said today. Almost through with a nation-wide tour of aircraft plants ' in the company of General H. m. Arnoia. cnicr or tne army lair corps. Knudsen said "We know the United State 1 mak ing the best airplanes," he added. "I believe that presently we can say we are making the most airplanes." The figure of 11.000 was based on a total production by April 1, 1942. of 33.000 plane. 14,000 destined for Great Brit ain and 19.000 for the armed services of the United State. General Arnold said that of those to be delivered to the baseball National. First game: R. H. E. Pittsburgh 11 13 0 Philadelphia 3 11 4 Bowman and Lopez; Mulcahy, Smoll and Atwood. IN ILL HEALTH, TAKES OWN LIFE Wallace Galbreath, 71, a resi dent of southern Oregon for the past 29 years took his own life about 4:35 p.m. Monday, County Coroner Frank Perl reported, in the living room of his residence on the Pacific highway four miles north of Gold Hill. Ill health was listed as the reason for the suicide, the coro ner laid. Mr. Galbreath had been confined to his home for several months with heart trou ble, and although he left no message to his family it was their opinion that continued suffering led to the act. He had been under t'.:i "are of a Grants Pass physician for some time. The aged man died from a gunshot wound in the head in flicted by an automatic pistol, the coroner stated. An investi gation was made by the sheriff's office, the state police and the coroners office. District Attor ney Frank J. Newman, when advised of the circumstances. said there would be no Inquest, a it was clear the fatal wound was self-inflicted. The body was discovered by Galbreath' wife, Mary, and hi on and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mr. Clyde R. Galbreath, who were outside the house In the yard when the shot was fired. On entering they found Galbreath lying on the bed. Death was instantaneous, the coroner said. Wallace Galbreath wa a na tive son of Oregon, born in Yamhill county. April 24, 1869. For the past 15 years he had lived with hi family on their little farm opposite the Alaska auto camp north of Gold Hill, He spent his early life in Klamath county, where he fol lowed the stock raising business. He was united in marriage to Mary L. Johnson at Ashland in 1B94. They resided In Yreka Cal until 1911, when they moved to Jackson county where they lived continuously since, He Is survived by hi wife, Mr. Mary L. Galbreath; one daughter, Mr. Bcrnice Neeley of Ashland; one son, Clyde R. Galbreath of Gold HIU; two brothers, Frank and Harvey Galbreath of Klamath Falls three sisters, Mrs. Blrdy Dixon of Klamath Falls, Mrs. Jennie Brady and Mr. Mary Striplin both of Stockton, Cal., also three grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Perl chapel at z p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Sherman L. Divine of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Interment will take place in Siskiyou Memorial park. army and navy, approximately 60 percent, or (lightly more than 11,000, would be so-called combat types. Knudsen said the current American airplane production, including both military and large commercial type of 900 a month, would be doubled in the next 12 month. The defense commission chairman, seated in the office of Burdette S. Wright, president of the Curtiss aeroplane divis ion of the Curtiss-Wright cor poration, fixed at three day the delivery of new Curtiss P-40 fighter planes to the air corps. General Arnold said 524 P 40 s, one of the newest types of American fighters, were on order for the air corps, and that 140 had been delivered. Knudsen estimated the total United States engine production at from 2,200 to 2.400 month, of all horsepowers, and said that by July, 1941, production would be up to 3,500 to 3,600 engine month. , FULL ROSTER OF Committee Satisfied With Progress to Date Fund Now $346.50, is Word. Five More Join Five more recruit were enlisted this morning, bring ing the total at noon to 22. The new guardsmen were Ralph C. Carmichael, Jack sonville, and Thomas P. Dav. idson. Fred A. Childers, Al bert L. Perlmutter and Ted W. Fletcher, Medford. Only 18 vacancies remain. Medford' National Defense committee at it second meeting last night reviewed the results of it work since it organiza tion last Thursday, expressed complete satisfaction and pre dicted that the first phase of its task the enlistment of 40 na tional guard recruit would probably be completed this week. Committee report showed that up to the close of business yesterday 17 recruits had been enlisted and that $346.50 had been subscribed to the fund which will be used to provide little extra comfort and conven ience for the boy of Medford national guard units. Company A and headquarters detachment, 186th infantry, while they are at camp. The guardsmen are to be mobilized September 10 and dispatched to camp September 23 for a year of active duty on a regular army basis, $500 Maximum The committee had set the minimum for the company fund at $250. Since the minimum was exceeded, the committee voted to cease solicitation but to keep the fund open for voluntary contributions. The maximum was set at $500. Dr. Sherman L. Divine, eon, mittee chairman, said that many persons probably would like to make voluntary contribution to the fund and explained that uch contributions may be left at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, recruiting head quarters, up to September 23. the day the boys are scheduled to leave for Fort Lewis, Wash. Frank DeSouza, a member of the solicitation committee, sta ted that he had never before found the public so genuinely glad to contribute to a fund. Such a cordial spirit prevailed that soliciting for the company fund was really a pleasant task, he said. One store, he added, contributed a proportionate cash (Continued on Paaa Ttn ) British Dropping "igniting Leave" It German Claim Berlin, Sept. 1. W In formed German source de clared today that British fli ers for considerable time had been dropping thousand of "self-igniting leaves" which, by their very nature, "could only set fire to sheds, houses, forests, but not cause damage to munitions plants and other military objects." Also the German sources aid, these "leave" cause poisoning and burn among the civilian population. They said the so-called self-Igniting leaves, or sheet, sre about a foot square and consult of a thin layer of cellulose compounds behind which is specially prepared phosphorus on thin card board. The sheets are carried by pilots in water containers to that they are wet when :hrown from the plane, these tource said. When dried and warmed oy the sun to about SO de trees fahrenheit, they sudden ly burst into flame, they ad. led, the leaves spurting Flames up to seven or eight Inrhea.