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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940.
No. 147.
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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.