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" PCUND2D : 1651 Nnirnmi year Solemn Oregon, Thursday Mczniag; Jun 20, ISO' Pric 3d IIwsstaBdi 5a No. 73 i ' -" " .1 ' ' ...s i ' ; s , As Senate Excess Profit Levy Is Added; Fate in Doubt War Profit Tax Also Is Inserted bat House May not Concur- it Pay as You Go" System for War Foreseen if It Goes Through WASHINGTON, June 19.-(aV The senate passed .the defense rerenne bill tonight after adding an excess profits lery.to raise be tween $400,000,000 and $500. . 000,000 annually and inserting a drastle iwar profits tax wnicn . would proTlde additional billions In the erent of war. Approval of the two changes in the measure, which had ' called for $1,007,000,000 of ' newJtaxes took administration lieutenants by surprise. They opposed the ex cess profits tax, which would be effective at once, but many voted for the proposal to Impose heavy additional taxes lit the event of , war. --rrr: ; ; : Senator C o n n a 1 1 y (D-Tex), sponsoring the Utter amendment, estimated that it:would raise $8, 000.000,000 a' yearw fromMndiTid uals alone and possibly as much from, corporations. :J.t would be come effective automatically upon a congressional declaration . of irar.r y'r '-t- H:-I "- ' The Tote on final passage of the biH was , announced as 76 .... tO -?f-ih-j ii.&9imm00lf9$itf- The dissenting votes were cast by four republicans Austin (Vt), !urney (SD), Hale (Md), aod Taft (Ohio) and one farm-er-laborite, Lundeen (Minn). Both toBe Throwa - ' out Is Prediction: " - , - r The measure next will be sent to a conference committee of sen ators and representatives tocon , sider the tax . increases roted, by ; the . senate alone. . Democratic leaders indicated that both the ex cess profits and war profits pro posals would be thrown out in the conference. ' . They said that such legislation should be enacted only after full .(Tarn tb pare a, eoL 8). Committee on Air ; Defense Planned NAA -Vice-President Names Chad wick, Johnson and Bennett in Salem Three-man committees - in Sa lem and other Oregon titles are soon to be . asked to assist .in . or ganizing community councils I. to aid in meeting problems of aerial defense ' and v- aviation progress, according to notice received here yesterday from Harry K.t Obffey, jOregon district vice-president of the Katlon&l .Aeronautic assoeia- tiOH. ' -; 1 - Each committee will consist of the mayor, the local American Legion commander and the city superintendent of schools. In Sa lem's instance these Will i be W. W." Chadwick, A.' M,-rJohnson and Frank B. ..Bennett, respec tively, -f ;-;;;'X"".; i Go vernbr Charles A.. Sprague has already accepted ' chalrman afcip of a state council.! COftey said. Other" Salem members of the state " organization executive m committee are Lee-U. Eyerly and Rex Putnam, state superintendent of 'public Instruction.. -O. D. Adams, director of the state board for vocational education, and Jerrold Owen are also mem ; bers of the state council, i v The local councils w 1 1 1 be ; asked to assist In promoting the r NAA's immediate program, which is to organize and educate for i community aerial defense, - to press for Immediate action on pending airport developments, s to promote ground school and-flight training in as. many communities as practicable' jand ' to cooperate with the school officials In In auguration of fi courses of vocational-training for, youth In the essentials of - aircraft production. EnV ican Is Seriously "ID . ; ROME, Juno ' lS-C-Attend-acts described the condition of Myron C. Taylor, President R6o sevelt's representative to the Va tican, as serious tonight, but not alarming. v-- His illness, laid partly to over work, baa kept Taylor at bis villa ! In Florence, confined to bed most jpf the time. : ' ; TJnable to maintain personal eontact with the Vatican, he has carried on his essential . affairs there through a aecr&Ury. REPUBLICAN Scene as republican party leaders began discussion In PhlladelpbJU of planks for the party platform, to be adopted at the convention j which opens Monday. From left, Henry B. Fletcher, Chairman John D. . M. Hamilton of the national committee and All M. Indon, 193S atandard-bearer who heads av rub . committee coaslderina; n foreign affairs pUnkvIIX photo. ' - V4 - V ' Compulsory Paul 'ijtausewt Column iWerYi7isaotited that they ? vrerent cooxlng: a ay hamburger, which Is a trick theyJ do occasionally, but ve got to In spect t h e state department of agriculture's laboratory r ' 7 terday with J.- D. Patterson ' chief eheaaist acting as a guide. : f ; f "The hamburger cooking, is just, part of the.. lab oratory's: activi ties. . Whenever, the department's Rapped '!-yyw'.'.''--"T'TM-n'.w.cai"aj :i v - ' f agents figure Pata B. HauMr. Jt. somebody's hamburger Isn't all beef the boys taka a pound of lit and , broil up t! few" burgers, and otherwise give it' the works. ' ' 'i They . do , the : same -thing with milk and cream, soda' pop, weed killers and commercial feeds and other stuff - and things They get about 4100 milk samples and 18,000 commercial feed samples yearly..... , U ..v i:;- ?-: We were little awed at the battery of scientific equipment : the lab ' oses for feed '.testing. It's rigged out on a mass pro- daction basis, worked, electric ally so that one man can do the work of several chemists. MriT Patterson showed ns an electric furnace that works itself op to about 000 degrees Fahrenheit and is hardly; suitable for cake ' baking,' lady. ' : ' , -' ' - Genevieve Morgan, the agricul tural department- press agent, who! had us in , tow, then took us into Dr. Ly tie's division .where th e girls are busy rerecording cattle brands under the direction of Miss Leone Carsley, . Dr. Lytle's secre tary.'..... ., i . , . I J: ..We didnt know until then tht there are 14.000 brands registered In Oregon. They go all the way from plain bars and etrcles to fancy, pictures - of somebody's . (Turn to page 3, col. 7) j? Negotiation Is Emphasised At State Labor Convention - ;- i j . -. . . . ., 1 ' ; KLAMATH FAIAS, June 19 (Jp)Th Oregon State Federation of Labor adopted a committee re port - today .for: continuation of "across-the-ta b 1 e" ' discussions with -employers!', i t It la ; imperative that union labor and - employers Join In an effort to preserve the "desirable factors' of a system which" permits the r functioning : of a. free labor movement -and preserves free en terprise the committee report Said.-' Jv !-." ; V-f . , "If there was need for team work a Jyear ago that C need - has been multiplied many times this year, wheoJndustry is confronted with greater j&Tid graver problems than the nation has previously known." U' : - ': iThe conyention approyed con tinuation of the Joint labor rela tions committee with the state grange. ' . u """ . - i Ray W. Gill, state grange mas ter, appealed to ' the strike-bound western cooperage plant in Port land .to consider arfcltraVon of a wage issue or to suggest another1 jsl0bt 'o.ves yjt mxr: CHIEFS DRAFTING PLATFORM Youth L amOP Policy John L.- Lewis Berates Criticizes HepuhHcan ? Aid to Allies Is Generally y PHILADELPHIA, June from John L. Lewis that President Roosevelt's proposal for compnsory national service1, was a "fantastic suggestion from a mind -in fuU intellectual retreat" brought a-burst; of ap plause from the republican The .CIO leader spoke'before the policy-f orming commitr tee meeting in the increasing huo- bub of the throng already arriving for: the national convention open ing next Monday. . - v . ' Lewis, his rival,: William Green, American - Federation of Labor president; . a spokesman for. the National Association- of Manufac turers, and other speakers out lined to the committee what they beUere should be included in the republican platform."? n -A '. ; The committee, endeavoring to write a plank expressing the party's viewpoint on foreign re lations, was informed , by Green that the' ArL f ayors ''every ounce of assistance and supplies" to Eu ropean democracies "short of ottr entry Into the war! ' ? : A statement from the manufac turers association declared: ; Currently disturbed labor re- : (Turn to page 8, col. 6)1 Big Guns' Blasts Start Brush Fire 1 CAMP CLATSOP. June An - unforeseen , smoke . screen blacked out' jOregon . national guardsmen's target practice with Fort Steven's 10-inch rifles today. Blasts of flame .from' the big guns of 'Battery 'Russell star ted brush- fires, and guardsmen ' had to take-time out to battle them. The coast artillerymen ..were fir- 1 n g 6 S 0-pound projectiles at a raft oft Clatsop spit. .: . vAnti-ialrcraft .i, units ' will ' fire Fort Steven's new S-Inch; mobile batteries at a 4 0-foot target towed by an army observation plane at 20,000 "feet this week. Anti-aircraft machine gun firing will be gin next Tuesday. ; . ' g 1 plan which would prevent crop loss -for. fruit growers.'" .v I A two-week truce, between the company and workers- was de clared recently to permit the pro duction of barrels for use by the fruit indu8try.vif " ' c Americanism was the a a j o r topic of 87 resolutions introduced today.v,""" -. - v ' , Support'of the national defense and: preparedness program f-and enforcement of the Monroe ' Doc trine was" ask ed ia' one . proposal. Another opposed employment of aliens, 'on public ..Jobs.- Unions were asxed to urge alien mem-, bers to, becomi citizens. Govern ment manufacture .. of ,yr&T, sup-, plies also was recommended. Initiative efforts taTepeal the state "milk -.control aet were op posed by; the Astoria Milk Drivers and Dairy "Employes union... . Eight : resolutions, urging amendments liberllizing. the state unemployment compensation- law were, adopted." . - . , , v The v executive . board ' was in JTurn to page 3, col.' iy I' FDR; Suggestion hut Also Record; Material Favored 19. (AP) A blunt statement resolutions Child Migration Plan of England Thousands Slay Be Sent to r, Canada, pther Colonies and United Slates ! LONDON, : June .PH5reat Britain has created "Veception board" -to handle migration of British . children to overseas" ha yens, Incl tiding the United States . Announcing the organization in the J house of commons today, Clement it. 'Attlee, - lord privy seal, said 1 that remoyal f part of Brltains child population was a ."matteri of the u t m o s t 'ur gency." - -v.- - .1.;- r The, board proposes to send as many of - England's 6,000,000 school-age! youngsters as parents will ; part , with, as many as", avail able ships can carry! and -overseas reception 1 areas would -be. pre pared, to take ... :iv!::x, Sponsors say that the dominions are hoping! the. older children will find a new life from ; which- they wUl not return. They admit that. to such extent. It might be con-J sidered a step toward shifting the British empire's c e n t e r of gravity away front menaced Eng land,.. ; --B f C: '--r--;;; ; 1 1 Already Canada , 1st askinar for 10.000, Australia -for 6000, New Zealand for 2 50 0, South Africa for "sever! tbousaid. ; . -T United States 4. requests bare eome from various unnamed as sociations, j No ; estimate "of . the number' wonted - is ; available 'and details of .the. plan. So far as the United States Is concerned are incomplete! ' - . ; 1 ' Premature estimates : in the British press say 200,000, chil dren could be moved. Informed persons say t it is -not anticipated that any such, number could be transferred; oniekly, In ; view of the war's demand, on ships. , Only , ; children . under 16 . are eligible. Kj they belong to grant aided schools their, transporta tion will be , freer Otherwise par ents must bay about $60 to Can ada : or 8 90 . to Australia, Once tha - children ' are la', reception areas ? theiF parents would con tribute on the basis of. ability, to pay, or pay six" shillings- (about $1.20)' weekly "per child with no questions asked - about , ability.. 7orker .Is" Killed By Falling Druin 5 -VANCOljvEli, T'ash.r Jane 19 (jfyThe drura of a readyrinix con crete truck! fell into an excavation pit today, killing Fralr;E. Mc C6 urta ey, ' 1 7; Vancouver, employ ed la coEtructicn- of ; tli Alum inum'' CorboraAIon' "of . rAmerlca plant he3re.fj. i -i --." V " A - second worker, Roland I. Hunter," 60," Vancouver; snffered a right foot Injury, Sheriff Le Iand Morrow $aid - - ; ' Gathering i Stamp Plan Is To; Be Started Here on July 1 Headquarters to, .Be i at v 463 "1 Ferry Street j ' '..-- ' Official Says '"J ' B-. " - '"!; . Details : of Program Are Explained at-Meeting- B Of Food Dealers ' ' ; ' i -. - . -. Definite ' announcement " was made last night by Hunter Scott, local representative of the Fed eral Surplus .Commodities corpor ation and the department of ag riculture, that the' federal foodj stamp "plan for distribution of surplus ( food commodities will be introduced Into Marion' county on July 1." . i Blr-f - Bi-BB-.y y- Ecott I made the statement at a meeting; of over 400 county food dealers land, other Interested per sons in a meeting last, night at the old high' school building. . ' Headquarters' of the stamp plan organisation,- he reported, will be at 463 Ferry street, where officials of the state public - welfare com mission! win sell and give stamps to relief clients and other, eligible persons i irom ; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. dally except Saturdays, beginning July i. : . x ;.-. In accordance with the plan, he said all persons certified as elig ible to participate In the stamp plan by the public welfare com mission will be permitted to pur chase orange food-order stamps which may be exchanged at face valua tor "any food for Internal human consumption," . except, li quor, tobacco in any form, or food usually eaten on the premises of the store where purchased. The purchaser of orange stamps win then be given without charge naif as. many bine surnlua food or Mer tamp, which will be good "at plus by: the secretary of Sirricul- ture. . "l . . , - . i . Scott emphasized that all. food purchases with: stamps win thus be mads . through . existing retail food stores, and will ba at the same prices as for cash-paying customers . t - Stamp plan participants . living in the country, the speaker: said, may, obtain stamps by addressing the stamp issuing office on Ferry street by mail. Stamps will then be sent back to them, and may be used In any participating store in the home community.' ; ' : ' , In his address- Scott: paid spe cial tribute to members of t h e Marion -county - food - stamp com mlttee which bas arranged derails of stamp Issuance. ; - r Members of the committee are Lloyd FV .LeGarle, chairman: - C. M. ; Roberts, -secretary; - Ed Banke, SUvertori; E. A. Ditter. Sublimity: Fred C. f Klaus," creameries repre- J - . A -m W . ' ' i .- & eumiiTe, a. . . it.- Aariar, .meat packers' , representative; sPrad Broer, .wholesaler grocers' 2 repre sentative; Art Berry, produce rep resentative; ; J. M.' Ross, chain grocers ; and ' Rr C En 6s, Wood burn. ' " r-'i ' --v;-.-.-;' Started by OREGON-: CITY, June ISriSV A thousand acres of. timber were threatened today by six lightning fires started in - Clackamas county forests by yesterday's brief light ning storm. " - . The' largest blaxe burned In' a stand of ? merchantable t timber along thst Thayer road. Crews also battled flames In the Ilinkle tim ber near Redland, on the Mum power and Stewart properties at Carver afid on the Sabln tract at Happy. valley along the 82nd street highway. . . i ., JEd Sommerville's bouse and barn and quantity of -hay -were damaged; south of Redland by lightning - LA GRANDE, June v l9-(Jpy State forestry and CCC fire crews organized : today to fight an'' un controlled. 60 0-acrs-blaze in-timbered regions of the Grande Ronde river headwaters today. V! A sheepherder was blamed for the spreading; fire. ..i -BB" i - - - ,m mimie Second I ; CEoiceJ Ndrblad ASTORIA,- Jane lt--Walt- er i. Norilad- delegate to the ;re publican national convention; said today he .would vote for Wendel Willkle if Senator Charles Me-Nary:;,(R-Ore.) should withdraw as a presid'sntlai' candidate, - Senalo'rs" :--V4" mm en 17-14 IiEiers O : England and Germany Both Suffer Bom b iris x V i?mc5s; Damage Heavy Six Known Killed, 60 Injured as Nazis Drop High :z 11 Explosives Along British Coast; Ruhr and I , : Bhineland Attacked in Retaliation H -v.Jl ": ' v-! ;- -:" ... ' - .: . . :. ', B 1 , LONDON', Jame 20.-iP-The Royal Air force bombed mili tary objectives aad commnnicatlons in the Ruhr, Rhlneland and , "West Germany last night, the air ministry announced' today. ' ? vr. - British bombers successfully attacked G'rman aircraft on the ground at airdromes at Amiens and Rouen yesterday, and - hangars were set on fire, it added. -. -;.'v . ...' i- --(' m i ' LONDON, Jane SOPJ-The air ministry and ministry of ' homo enriry announced today that six civilians were killed and : some 60 injured in German air raids during the night. ?" "f5 At least three German aircraft were shot down. ! LONDON, June 20. (Thursday (AP) The battle of England, thus; far bein? fought in the air, raged again to day, through sleepless hours fronf midnight to dawn shat tered by the thunder of bombs and the incessant barking of anti-aircraft guns. . The nazi air raiders came alter ware, ana rasgea irom mev southeastern coast north: into Scotland; Sirens shrilled' warnings even in some sections of north western England i never before threatened from the air. , v And. again yesterday, British bombers apparently repaid their call blow for blowi with attacks on Germany.' ' j - Roaring Uttle British fighter planes, and anti-aircraft guns that banged t away ' at S dark shapes picked- lap by searchlight beams brought' down at least one of the German aircraft and sent two oth- pera aaward iav dUf isulty, barely clearing the housetops. . : Townspeople stayed In their houses or scurried to air raid shel ters. All civil defense nnits stood by their stations until dawn and a spell of quiet that Indicated the raid or : the worst of i It was over.:M' J--; . v-..;.:.. -, - Bombs exploded near a north east" coastal ' town, and anti-air- craft and fighters battled off other raiders (from Scotland to South of London. The air-raid alarm on the east coast of Scotland was lifted after half an hour. . .. . -.. ' . " Thv first alarms were sounded just before midnight, Wednesday, and a few minutes after midnight the Bremen and Hamburg radio stations went silent, probably In dicating; British airmen had been (Turn, to page 1, coL 6) .. Worker : lnjiired by Fall "P. J. Bohen, 830 North Summer street, workman employed in con struction s of the - new Murphy building! at State and Commercial streets, ; suffered f rseture ot the Skull and several .Tibs .yesterday afternoon! when .he fell from. the second floor level to' the sidewalk. , A call to assist Bohen was Tone Ot four answered by tha city first aid crew;.-: '-. B-' 4 .".." ' Mrs. .i Walter . Holland, route three, -'.was taken . to the Deacon ess hospital for examination of back r injuries, she received' at 1Q:30 a. m. when she fell down an Inside stairway at the . county courthouse. She was able to go to her home later In the day. .Other first-aid calls; : : Ed ' Kilber, : 1175 Nebraska street, ankle sprained in fall from cherry picking ladder at 5 Marion. ; - " - i - - J; J.K Sandusky, -1638 Elm, West Salem, finger eut by ax. Billing French Indb-Chiria Seizure Threats Sounded in Tokyo .TOKYO, June 20. The Tokyo press unanimously adopted a sharper ' tone today In discussing French Indo-China and the news paper . Asahl .raised, the . question of, Japanese control, of imj!ortant points" unless Indo-China's muni tions . traffic4 with: China were stopped. f - B" B. 1 ' ' ::- -' f , (A Hongkong dispatch yester day said the French Indo-China government was reported to have banned shipments on the Yunnan railway, one of the main arteries foy the supply of war materials to Generalissimo Chiang. Kai-shek.) Aeahl tail that if-the muni tions traffic were net stopped 'lt may be inevitable that certain im portant i Doints in Indo-China iO'aM placed .13 control of Japanese forces until the over throw of CMans Kai-shek. - It was reported ttat vice For eign Minister Masayukl Tan!,-. who had an Interview yesterday with French ' Ar.basr.ador . Charles" Ar seaa Henry,- had demanded strict supervision of munitions, includ ing the stationing of Jspanesa pa trols at Hanoi; ian&l ana LA&ng- san to Inspect shipments. . . .. At the came time, ponei, Ja- to B at irregular intervals, wave . LONDON, " June 20 WFVOc enpation of Lyon by German forces was announced by the French radio in a broadcast -beard here this morning'. " -- - - s Lyon, Important mannfactnr ; Ins; ; city on - the - Rhone and Baone-rlTCrs, is slightly more ' than 200 miles t southeast of , Parts md lth ame;4 dlstancft. nortn sy west oi tne meaner rsnean port of . Marseille. - - v - '3- ' " J - i-: . " . .-"'.J ; i . . NEW TORK, Jm fojp. The Itallast radio tonight re ported Premier BInssollnrs re . tarn to Rome and Fuehrer Bit . lcrs arrival back at his west ' ens 1 front headquarters from I their conference : in Munich. T report wag heard by CBS s as WW A va sa Bordeaux; June 20 (ffVCVia Radio) -An undeter mined number of persons were . killed and wounded this morn ing as low-flying German planes . bombed Bordeaux, . provisional ' capital of beleaguered France. .. -Two of the -bombs scored bits, ton: refugee shelters.' . Important buildings In the " city, which the. French govern ment has declared an open city, appears to be the main targets. . Bordeaux was bombed four . times a little after 1:30 a. m. (4:SO p. m. .PST Wednesday.) - ( Two Associated Press staff men in Bordeaux, W. J.' Hum -phreys1 of Salisbury,! JUd" and' William BfcGaffin, a ? Nebras kan, told of the raid in broad-" " casts carried by NBC) 3 ; v - . ; B .BERLIN, Jane .-(llinrs ? day)-VAdlt HiOeifa news- paper, Voelkischer J Beobachter, J commenting on British ; plans --for f- local ; defense - ; Volnnteers, i warned the English today that . Germans "nse Jbrutal hardness" : in ' dealing wi" snipers., '- - J' " - v -"V r l BELFAST, .Northern Ire Ian d,' ' June ' : 1 Troops ; armed with machine-guns were " stationed at all street corners in Belfast tonight, after two Britinh soldiers had been -disarmed and kidnaped. The, kidnapers spirited the soldiers away in an automobile, i Other troops were stopping CTurn to page 3, eoL 4 ) panese news agency, reported htat Gen.; Euniakl Eoiso, one of the army's key generals, and overseas minister, delivered "Important ad vice regarding Japan's south ward policy i in""an Interview with Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yo naL 1 ' ' : ' "- TOKYO, June 20-)-The for eign i office announced lifting, of the Tientsin; blockade effective at nooa today (7 p.m. PST Wednes day), following the signing; of an agreement with Britain -and France.-."- '7- ' v'-" - -' -r-i The Japanese' army bad "'main tained barricades around the Bri tish - and French concessions la tlS northern China city since June 4, 1S39, doping a controversy over "terrorist - acts In-Tientsin and over the question of silTer ' re serves deposited by the Chinese government la banks in the Bri tish and French concessions. Reliable sources said the block ade was not especially included In the agreement, tut was" a matter trader amy jurisdiction. iL ! - o:Jb! Troops Coming - - JL To Help Check German Drive Other . Units Arriving in England;. New Policy Is Made Apparent Soviet Forces Mass on Polish-German Line; " Trend Uncertain ' " . , : y- . LONDON; June 19P)-The British -Broadcasting corpora- ' tion said-tonight that units of the French! army .are reaching England and are? receiving -most cordisi welcome. - GENEVA, June 20w-(Thnrs-day ) -y-neport s rea(;hfjd the Swiss border early today stat- bag tliat French planes and French troops . from North Africa bad crossed the Mediter ranean under a French-British naval convoy to help check the Germaa drive in southeastern "nnce.Vn ; V BORDEATJX,l France, June-19. -OPHReports i were widely circu lated tonight -w 1 1 h o n t official . confirmation t h ajt Germany's major peace i terms are unaccept able to the French 1 and ' that President Lebrun and other lead ers ; have gone, or -may soon go, to Algiers to preserve the frame work, of t afjghting, government. .rXiebrrin, one ; reportaaid, was or would; bei accompanied to Africa by tie j presidents of. the chamber of depaties and senate, respectively Edouard Berrlot and Jules "Jeanneney. . ; - 1 The reports seemed to converge In the sense . that France may try to fight on.i . - , . Although It was stated official-, Iy that the government of Pre mier; -Old -r Marshal" Henri1 Phi lippe Petaln; Is still- waiting to hear from Its envoys about the German terms, .tonight's reports -said, the main demands had be come known 4nd were judged too harsh. .- . "i Officially It was stated merely that the French government has submitted the names of Its ne gotiators to the Germans and is awaiting an, answer. i However, tonight's reports saki that the government of i Marshal Henri Philippe Petaln had learned the gist of the main Ger man terms, and had found them too narsh. s ,) (A British radio broadcast picked up tonight by NBC said three F r e n c h; representatives, -General Huntzl&rer. Paul Ran. douin and Leen Noel, had left for an undisclosed destination.) - If France does continue the fight, it was thought likely she would eventually fall back on her. North: African - possessions -from "which her armies and thonn ' of Britain; could - squeeze Italian There has been no letun in ih . determined hazi drive, no halt la the " slow withdrawal of weary French armies. , . . . - s Latest .German pushes , aonar-, eatly . were , aimed ; at a quick cleanup - of - France's Enrliih channel coast, and the cutting - i urn 1 1 page s, coi. x j . Lato Sports PORTLAND. Jnn e' ' ls.-fsn-. Lindsay . Brown's ; ninth-inning j -double .which scored Frankie Hawkins" from second base gave Portland Its second straight win over San -Diego tonight, 3-2. The cellar place Beavers now lead 2-0 In their Pacific Coast baseball league series. - v -' The screeching . . double was complete vindication for Short- . stop Brown, '.who made three errors in the early innings. Byron S p e e e e , 38-year-cld Portland v hurler, allowed the Padres only four scattered, hits. However, the visitors . .scored twice on one hit in the eighth inning. A wild pitch was je sponsible for' one run. ; i .' San Diego - 2 4 - 0 Portland 1 9 3 Huinphtiea.and; Detore; Speece ana Kcnultz, , . SAN FRANCISCO.r June 1S. WV-NIght ' game: Hollywood e l San. Francisco ,5 6 Eithorn, Test (7) anl Darker; Stats. and BotelLo, Eprinz (7), Oaklanl 2 5 Los Acge'es 1 .3 4 0 - Mulligan.' and W. Kalmondij Berry and Hernandez. Sacramento 2 7 ' 2 Seattle-". . ; 0 ' 6 o : Kleiate. and - Grllk; r, Scriiner (8) and CampbcU. . 'Acierlcaa As-xxta', :-i Lca:;svlile 3, ?:ilwak-? -