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Mail Tribune ' Bargain Days Bring Weather! fun 0 ath- Buxmu report Parti? cloud? tonight an Ttumday. aiodrrate tm p ra ta rv. Tmprratur HlbeU yftwday ... ,.,,85 Low this momlnj Thirty-fifth Year far? I MAN! THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and ROBERT KINTNER Raleased by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Sept. 11. New York City's mayor, F- H. La Cuardia, will soon announce his preference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell L. Will kie. Unless his closest friends in the administration are mis informed, LaGuardia will sup port the president. It is a trib ute to the mayor's political in fluence, however, to know that both the Republicans and Demo crats conceived the same idea for insuring his active aid to their respective candidates. If the national election is as close as the polls indicate. New York may well be pivotal. La Guardia has made an excellent record as mayor and is one of the best vote-getters in the state. He is not of either the Repub lican or Democratic organization in New York. In fact he has a well-deserved reputation of be ing unorthodox in politics; after a career as a Republican, a fu sionist, a member of the Amer ican Labor party, to say noth ing of his sympathies toward the New Deal Democrats-1 Party la bels mean nothing to him.':-. THEREFORE, It was not un- usual that both parties should hope for. his backing, although the Republicans were engaged in a great deal of wishful think ing in view of his close associa tion with the administration since 1937. The term of James M. Mead, New York's junior Democratic senator, expires this year. And Mead's seat was the bait pro posed by both parties to lure LaGuardia into an active posi tion in the campaign. The Re publicans have abandoned the idea. The Democrats are hope ful that they can have their cake and eat it too. CHORTLY after the Republi cans nominated Willkie at Philadelphia, Bruce Barton, an able and enterprising congress man from New York, thought up the idea as a sure way of making New York safely Re- (Contlnued oo Pig. Biz.) FULL PEACE STRENGTH Salem, Sept. 11. OP) The 249th coast artillery, command ed by Colonel Clifton M. Irwin. will go into federal service next Monday at full peace time strength nf 874 enlisted men after a short recruiting drive enrolled enough men to boost j the regiment from its existing j strength of 599. Major General ! George A. White announced to-j day. I SIDE GLANCES by TRIEUNE REPORTERS Carl Einkopf getting a re markable action photo of Eddie Simmons' stymied golf ball in flight, the tense look of the gallery in the background illus trating the dramatics of the situation. B. C. Mac Mackrnna looking for advice on how to catch a mole. Mountain Climber Arnel But ler describing the terrific strug gle he had in landing a crab with a 21-inch clawspread. Enid Funk tipping off Helen , Southwick on the presence of a newspaper reporter so that the visitor wouldnt' say any thing that might be used against her. Medford ; for! SEEN BYENGLAND Swarms of Dive Bombers Strike Port; Long Range Guns Join in Shelling London, Sept. 1 1 P The admiralty announced tonight that "strong and repeated offen sive actions are being taken by our light naval forces" against German sea preparations for an invasion of England. Dover, England, Sept. 11 (P) German dive bombers in great swarms struck at the Dover area late today and shells fell from long-range Nazi guns across the channel on the French coast, in Dover's heaviest bombardment of the war. The German guns shelled this area at intervals for several hours. Screen For Convoy The Nazi guns appeared to be in action as a screen for a con voy of German ships moving down the French coast toward Boulogne. British land guns opened up on them, but the re sults were hidden behind a Ger man smoke screen. British planes, of the RAF and of the navy, roared across the channel a little later and the big German guns fell - silent' as plumes of black smoke rose from the sea between Calais and Dunkerque. Over the southeast coast, a squadron of yellow-nosed Ger man fighters fought a sharp bat tle with British planes. As the invaders dived down 'mm aloft, machine-gun and cannon fire could be heard. New York, Sept. 1 1 (P) A German language British broad casting company report picked up by CBS today said 73 Ger man planes were destroyed in the battle of Britain today and that 17 British planes were lost. Berlin, Sept. 11 (AP via radiQ) The official German wireless in a broadcast today said that 54 British planes were shot down in fighting over Bri tain this afternoon. Eighteen German planes are missing, the radio said. By the Associated Press London, Sept. 11. German warplanes charged repeatedly at London's defenses and fought desperate battles with Britain's airmen today as the greatest air war in history was disclosed to have destroyed a part of Brit ain's Buckingham palace and damaged Germany's reichstag building and Brandenburg gate, historic structures of the two capitals. The air ministry said British dive bombers also repeatedly nil with "great precision the fam ous Potsdam railway station in Berlin. (l'his was denied by the Berlin radio.) Today, four more air raid alarms were sounded in London A formation of probably 12a German planes encountered sav age resistance from British l;gnt ers and the heaviest anti-aircraft fire yet heard in London in one daylight thrust at this capital. The bomb which destroyed part of a wing of the royal rest, dence was dropped Sunday night and exploded Tuesday, while King George, Queen Eliza beth and their two daughters. Princess Elizabeth and Princes Margaret Rose were absent. A palace spokesman said there were no casualties as all the household was in air raid shel ters at the time. Ruins in Tel Aviv Searched for Dead j Tel Aviv. Palestine, Sept. 11 1 '") Rescue workers searched through the ruins of numerous homes today for additional .bodies of victims of yesterday's j bombing by Italian planes in which the list of known dead has reached 1 1 2 persons and ithe wounded 151. The first official check showed there were 55 children among ithe dead. Full Auociaitd PrM MB Churchill Expects Germans To Attempt Invasion Soon; Barges Will London, Sept. 11. (AP-via radio) Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill said today Germany is preparing for the invasion of England by moving hundreds of self-propelled barges down from northern ports to the French coast opposite Britain's shores. These craft and troop con voys, the prime minister said, are moving into position under the protection of the big Ger man guns set up on the French coast. "No one should blind himself to the fact that this German invasion is being planned with all the German craft and meth od characteristic of them," he declared. Next Week Important The next week, he said, "must be regarded as a very important one for us in our history." He compared it with the at tempt of the Spanish armada to invade the British isles and the latter attempt of Napoleon. Every man and woman must prepare to do his duty, what ever it may be, with special pride and care," he said. "Our fleet is very powerful, our shores are well for tified and well manned, and behind these lines we have a better equipped and far strong er army than we have ever had before. Adolf Hitler, Churchill said, "has ignited a fire which will burn with a steady flame until the. last vestiges of Nazi tyranny and brutality have been wiped out and the old and new worlds join their great forces to build that which has been destroyed." World Marvels Turning to the effects of the air raids on London, the prime minister said, "all the world" marvels at the courage, the fortitude of the people who are withstanding these attacks. "Our forces at sea know they have a people behind them who will never flinch, will never fail them, but will draw from the sufferings a victory won. not only for our side, but for the better days that are to come." Churchill. In opening his speech, said the air attacks so far had "failed conspicuously." The royal air force, he said. was stronger than at the start while the Nazi force was being worn down by Hitler's attempts. To attempt to invade this country without gaining mas tery of the air, he said, would be "a very hazardous under taking." He added, however, that jr many was preparing for suc.i an invasion, declaring that barges and vessels were moving toward the English channel under the protection of Nazi batteries on the French shore. There were some preparations being made to carry an invad !ini farm from Knrwesian har bors, he said. Nasis Wait Order German forces were awaiting orders to set out. He said Britain could not be sure when such an order would be given but "it may be launched at any time now on England, Scotland, Ireland or on all three." If it Is to be tried at all, he continued, the invasion must, it seems, come soon because of the weather. And because, too, of the constant bombardment of the German vessels. BY Grants Pass. Sept. 11. 1P A burning car sounded its own cry for help at 5:50 a. m. today. I awakening the F. C. Goetz fam-j ily and saving itself from com-' jplete destruction as well as' j possibly saving the ,'amily. 1 I Flames melted car wiring and j 'sounded the car's horn. The I i motor was found undamaged by 1 I firemen although heat was sol I intense It melted door handles and started the garage ceiling smoldering. The garage is at itarhed to the Goctx residence.' jjj MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, 5 TEMBER Carry Soldiers GILHQUSEN TO FERRY Al Gilhousen, owner of a sum mer resort near Trail, and for mer veteran United Airline pilot, well-known here, will soon be flying planes across the North Atlantic for the British, accord ing to a letter received by his wife yesterday. The letter saidj Gilhousen, who has been recent ly employed as an instructor by the Canadian Airways, was en! route to Montreal for final in structions, and then would pro ceed to Newfoundland. He ex pected to ferry his first plane across in a week or ten days. The letter said the flight to England required eight to ten hours, and the return trip by boat, five or six days. A recent Associated Press dis patch said $500 per trip is of fered experienced pilots for de livery of planes. When the present European war broke out a year ago, Gil housen was piloting a plane on a world flight, which was discon tinued when Franc was reached. TO REGISTER MEN 21-30 AS SEPARATE GROUP Washington, Sept. 11. tJP) Although congressional agree ment was still In abeyance on conscription age limits, the war department has made plans, it was disclosed today, to register men from 21 through 30 years old as a separate group in event the broader 21-through-44 age bracket eventually receives ap proval. The war department's decision was said to be in the interest of minimizing delay on the actual start of the compulsory military service program once the Burke Wadsworth legislation becomes law. The age question continued the major problem today, as the joint senate-house conference committee renewed its efforts to compose the differences occur ring in the varying drafts of the Burke-Wadsworth bill voted by the two chambers. The commit tee reached agreement on some minor points yesterday in a six hour session lasting until after the dinner hour. BANKED RESTS AFTER COLLAPSE Baltimore. Sept. 1 1 P) Speaker William B. Bankhead. weakened by constant strain of congressional duties in the midst of national emergency, remain ed under close medical observa tion at his hotel today after col lapsing half an hour before a scheduled nation-wide radio ad dress. The 6earld Alabaman, who took over in 1936 a job which had claimed the lives of two men in four years, fainted in his room last night from what Dr. George W. Calver, capital physician, said was an "excruci atingly painful" attack of sciat ica. Baseball, Japan's national game, was first played there in 1873. Substantial Savings for Subscribers T1 5 mm MARTIN DEFEATED BY EX-SEN. DILL IN WASHINGTON RACE Governor's 3rd Term Hopes Dashed in Primary Re publicans Increase Ratio Seattle, Sept. 11. iA') Gov ernor Clarence D. Martin today saw his hopes for a third term apparently dashed and conceded his own defeat as successive re capitulations on yesterday's blan ket primary gave ex-Senator Clarence C. Dill, Spokane, a re lentlessly increasing lead for the Democratic nomination. Tabulations on about half the state's 3,020 precincts, represent ing all the 39 counties, also in dicated the overwhelming Re publican gubernatorial nomina tion of Seattle's mayor, Arthur B- Langlie. Latest available tabulations in the Democratic gubernatorial nomination race show, 1463 pre cincts out of 3020 in state: Martin 52,696; Dill 76.966. Unofficial recapitulations .also indicated an easy victory for Rep. Monrad C. Wallgren for the Democratic nomination to suc ceed Lewis B. Schwellenbach, appointed a federal district judge and sweeping Republican nomi nation victory for Stephen F. Chadwick, past national com mander of the American Legion and lifetime Democrat who re cently bolted to the GOP as a third term protest. Congressmen Martin Smith, Knute Hill, Charles H. Leavy and John M- Coffee apparently were assured renomination over Democratic opponents, in incom plete returns. Congressman War ren Magnuson, Seattle, was un opposed. An outstanding development of yesterday's blanket primary (in which voters could ballot for candidates in both parties) was the upsurge in the Republican vote-volume ratio to Democratic totals. On the basis of the U. S. sena torial vote in 1,634 of the state's 3,020 precincts, the Republican vote was 114,210 to the Demo crats' 126,968. Two years ago the Democratic senatorial vote ratio was 2 ',4 to every Republi can primary vote. By the Associated Press. Mounting returns from Tues day's primary elections found Senator Ashurst (D.-Ariz.), long a colorful capital figure, defeat ed today In his sixth bid for renomination. Ashurst. whose opposition to the conscription bill was urged against him in the Arizona cam paign, trailed his opponent, Ern est W. McFarland, by a vote of almost two-to-one. Ashurst has been senator from Arizona since the state's admission to the union in 1912. Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) was assured of renomin ation by an overwhelming lead. Senator Shipstcad, farmer labor ite who joined Republican ranks this summer, enjoyed a wide lead In Minnesota over a field of eight, and In Vermont Senator Austin received renomination unopposed. Louisiana returns Indicated four members of the house of representatives defeated, with three others facing the uncer tainty of run-off primaries. Gov. Sam Jones, elected last winter by the anti-Long forces, had urged defeat of all eight incumb ents as supporters of the Long organization. One did not seek renomination. Besides renominating Senator Austin, Vermont Republicans picked Gov, George D. Aiken, frequent New Deal critic, for the senate vacancy resulting from death of Senator Gibson (R). Gov. Harold Stassen had a huge lead in Minnesota for re nomination over two critics of his administration. Stassen's ac tivity in behalf of the Republi can presidential nominee, Wen dell L. Willkie, was strewed in his campaign. Tribune United PreH 11, 1940. I Battered Fighter Returns The British caption on this Associated Press picture says It shows what happened to tha tail of a British Hurricane fighter In a dog-fight with Nasi planes over the English channel. Despite the riddled control surfaces, the plane made a safe landing. BASEBALL National First game: Cincinnati 8 10 0 Boston 0 4 1 Walters and Lombard!; Salvo, Piechota and Berres, Broskl. . Second game: . , .. Cincinnati r- ..... 3 8 0 Boston .. 16 4 Derringer and Wilson; Strin cevich and Berres. .. First game: Chicago 8 14 Brooklyn 8 8 2 Passcau and Collins; Wyatt, Tamulis, Head, Carlcton, and Phelps. Second game: R. H. E. Chicago 3 6 1 Brooklyn 2 8 1 J. Dean and Todd; Grissom, Carleton and Franks. First game: St. Louis 7 17 2 New York 4 7 1 Shoun and Owen; Melton, Dea, Joiner, and Danning. Second game: St. Louis 3 10 0 New York 2 9 0 McGce, Lanier and Padgett, Owen; Gumbert and O'Dea. R. H. E Pittsburgh 9 12 1 Philadelphia - 3 13 3 Brown Sc Lopez; Pearson, Beck and Atwood. American First game: New York 3 8 0 Cleveland 15 2 Bonham and Dickey; Feller, Dobson and Hcmsley, Washington 4 11 0 Chicago 7 16 2 Leonard and Ferrell; Rigney and Tresh. Philadelphia 0 5 2 St. Louis 3 8 0 Caster and Wagner; Auker and Swift. L OF Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 11 (JPi The proposed territorial control of liquor stores was apparently meeting defeat today as returns from Alaska's general election yesterday trickled In. Seventeen of 57 First Divi sion precincts gave: 1,343 for, 1,853 against. The same precincts gave In cumbent delegate to congress Anthony Dimond, Democrat, 2.013 votes to 773 for Cash Cole, Republican. Chlloquin J. P. Named Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 11 tA') -Governor Sprague has appointed J. Blaine Stinson to succeed Earl L. Bradfield as Jus tice of the peace for Wood river district at Chlloquin. Bradfield I was called to active duty Mon- Jday as a captain In the army. (cm iyju I '- '4 1 2,500 Nazi Planes to Carry Daily Destruction to London By Louis P. Lochner 1 Berlin, Sept. 11 IIP) Ten thousand plane-loads of German bombs are to be sent daily to the London area In smashing attacks , in the next few days, exceptionally well-informed German sources saia loaay. These Sources said there would be 2,500 planes making four daily trips between French supply bases and the British cap ital. They were to start either late today or tomorrow, a spokesman said. The bombers are based in Germany, the source said, but will fly to the French coast for the attack, and there take off for London. "I wouldn't give one farthing for the houses of parliament," said this informant, a man whose connections with Rciche marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering are especially close. "Now that our reichstag build ing has been bombed there is no reason why we shouldn't bomb the British parliament out of ex istence. If they try to hit the chancellery, Buckingham or Windsor castle will go as surely as you live." This informant asserted the "British are already licked and don't know it." Asked whether the air force alone would prove sufficient to effect Britain's capitaulation, thereby eliminating the neces sity of attempting troop landings the Informant said "when last I talked with the reichs-marshal. he left this question open. it all depends," he continued, on how well the British fight back. It is conceivable that Eng land will collapse under the weight of our air force attacks, in which case invasion will be unnecessary. But we are pre pared either way. 56 CARS PEARS E Washington. Sept. 11. IIP) The surplus marketing adminis tration notified Senator McNary (D-Ore) today It had agreed to take 56 cars of pears from Med ford, Ore., and pe.mit the grow ers to substitute a variety In which there was a surplus for varieties contracted for earlier. The administration previously had taken 70 cars of pears from the Medford district. The administration planned to take 74 cars of pears from the Hood River, Ore., district, 40 cars from the Wenatchee, Wash., district and 30 cars from the Yakima, Wash., district. Destroyer at Astoria. Astoria, Ore., Sept. 11. ijp) A destroyer, believed to be at tached to the air arm of the U S. fleet, arrived today and an chored at the navy's air station at Tongue Point. Navy officials at Tongue Point would not dis close the ship's mission. FSC QUOTA HER DIAL 2141 for Southern Oregon' Loading ' Newspeper The MAIL TRIBUNE No. 148. Home Safe Yrr f J. Ti Washington, Sept. It.- A basis for type-standardization and mass production of Ameri can military aircraft wa laid today with the placing of ten tative orders for 14,394 army planes In one huge lot. All the planes were expected to be virtual duplicates of mod els already being manufactured for the army. One official said a majority of them would be procured simply by exercising the options In some existing contracts. Other contracts will provide for the rest. Representing an eventual ex penditure of $1,251,000,000, the tentative orders placed late yes terday cover all of the army planes contemplated In the 83. 251,000.000 defense act, which was signed Monday. The war department did not disclose delivery dates for the planes, contract amounts for in dividual manufacturers or how many of the ships were combat types. F. R. TALK T Washington. Sept. 11 P) Keen political interest centered today on President Roosevelt's address to the International Teamsters convention an ad dress announced by his presa secretary as "In all probability . . . the labor speech of the cam paign." Mr. Roosevelt will make the address In Constitution hall to night (from 6:30 to 7 p. ra., PST). but he said to reporters yester day that no one would be able to tell whether It was political even after it had been delivered. In New York, however. Demo cratic National Chairman Flynn said it would be a "political speech," and the Democratic na tional committee arranged to pay for the radio time on two national chains. Another development on the campaign front was the an nouncement that Mayor F. H, LaGuardia would discuss "My Choice for President" Thursday night in a nationwide broadcast under auspices of the Democra tic national committee. DMEB
