'! PAGS TWO
British See "Collaboration" of
French With Nazis as Move to
Give Military Aid to Enemy
y "
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Special to The Statesman
A virtual British ultimatum to the Vichy government over
Franco-German "collaboration" has brought the former allies to
the verge of open warfare. ...
Behind the" London warning to Vichy must lie a British con-
viction that "collaboration'
wUl
mean French military aid to Ger
many of a scale that may gravely
increase the British war peril in
the Mediterranean, the middle
east and the Atlantic. ij A
A far more serious possibU-i
ity than German use of French
air bases In Syria to reach the
British-Ira war front b en
visaged by the British action.
London promptly implemented
Its warning with action in the At
lantic. A huge French oil tanker,
previously granted passage
through the British blockade to
Casablanca with a cargo of Amer
ican oil has been "intercepted."
London apparently believes that
the French colonial port in Moroc
co affording a "window'.' on the
south Atlantic is being used by the
nazis as a sea raider base Vichy
has denied that, just as its spokes
men have denied that French as
sistance given German planes
crossing Syria to Iraq was in vio
lation of the terms of the French
surrender or an act of aggression
against Britain.
Whatever the Information on
which London acted. It has
. warned Vichy that all French
collaboration -which takes the
form of. military assistance to
. Germany will bring British re
' taIiation.No distinction will be.
.' made by the British between
- German -occupied French terri
tory, such as the "invasion
coast" of France, and unoccn
v pled areas.
In thus referring to unoccupied
areas, the British presumably re
fer primarily to such portions of
colonial France as French-mandated
Syria or French bases in Af
rica which German forces might
use., 1 '
. The warning can hardly' mean
British bombardment . of unoccu
pied regions of continental France.
The British purpose as stated by
Foreign -Minister Eden to parlia
ment would be to strike at German
and Italian forces wherever lo
cated. '. Unless the undisclosed terms of
Franco-German collaboration pro
vide for axis Use of routes and
ports in unoccupied France to at
tack Gibraltar, ferry additional
troops to Africa 6r the like, the
-British threat would not apply. -
V ancouver, BC
Has Blackout
VANCOUVER, BC, May 22.-(CP)-Screaming
sirens plunged
Britishss Columbia's lower main
land and lower Vancouver island
into 15 minutes of darkness
Thursday night im$he west coast's
first major blackout under mili
tary orders. - ,r
' Five hundred square miles of
area with a population of ap
proximately 400,000 was affected
by the order that gave air raid
precaution squads their first tests
under wartime conditions and in
dicated what the public might ex
pect in an air raid. .
Train Climbs
Back Safely
COLUMBUS, Ga, May z2
(TV-Amaied railroad men told
Thursday how pari or a fast
passenger train J sniped the
track near here, ran a half mile
partially derailed and then
cUmbed safely back on the rails.
The "City of Miami." Illinois
.Central streamliner, stopped
after the freak mishap early to
day and a passerby. W. IL Cor
bett of Columbus, averted an
other possible accident when he
flagged to a stop a Fort Ben
ning troop train Just before it
. rolled Into the damaged track.
Sweqlo News
. swegle Mrs. Ella Brown is
leaving this week for a trip with
her brother to the middlewest and
southern states. They expect to go
as lar east as Iowa. They are
the third family from this district
to leave for a trip to Iowa in the
last three weeks.
Friday afternoon Mrs. A. E.
Wood was hostess to the ladies of
the Garden 'Road Neighborhood
club at her home on Sunnyview
avenue. Nine members and one
guest, Mrs. Crawford, mother of
Mrs. Wood, were present .
Notices for the June 18. school
election were posted Tuesday.
Menno Dalke Is the director whose
term expires this year.
- Mr. and Mrs. C L. Storey spent
last weekend at their farm home
near Monroe.
CIMIil
it to S3 yews old. women who aio
crres,rrcLi, KZ2V0U3 who suf
far t:i Cashes, dizziness caused
ty this period In a woman's life to
fc-ia Ly&a &, Fl&xhaml Vegetable
C;rotra4. nr. & ham's Is famous for
n'lertcg distressing symptoms duo
to this function! disturbance.
rtrcr.Tir TaTEfOi . ,
Fifth Group
Here Tonight
30th Infantry Camps
With Fourth Unit of
Fort Lewis Troops "
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ranging from 2M ton trucks to
the quarter-ton "jeeps." T
Leaving Fort Lewis at 5 a. m.
Thursday the 20-mile column was
inside the fairgrounds gates at
2:30 p. m.
A band concert by "the best
band In the army," -according to
officers of the 30th, was a feature
Thursday night Thirty instru
ments comprise the organization,
which plays practically every
night the group Is on trek; it was
said. '
Mishaps were declared few and
inconsequential. Mending fences
may not be a regular army pur
suit but men in uniform were de
tailed to repair damage dona to
a snort stretcn oz lence noi xar
from the fairgrounds when a ve
hicle plowed Into it
Radios along the lino nf
march, scheduled to go through
Salem be sinning at I o'clock
this morning, keep officers at
the eolamn in touch with wno
another and with their airplane
"contact" overhead.
Whether Salem will see a ma
jority of the rail troops or the
heaviest of Fort Lewis's equip
ment, Including tanks, slated to
go south on a 73-car freight
train, local officials of the South
ern Pacific declared themselves
not free to state Thursday night
TACOMA, May 22-(fl')-Depart-
ure of 978 officers and 220 ve
hicles from Fort Lewis at day
break Friday will mark comple
tion of the motorized mass evacua
tion of men and material and find
all of the motorized equipment
and artillery troops of the DC
corps spread out over a 1000-mile
front" on the Pacific coast
The final ' contingent to leave
for the war games on the Hunter
Liggett reservation, officially
designated as serial 5 and made up
of attached troops' of the IX
corps, will bivuoae In Salem, Ore.
Friday night
A steady stream of troops has
left the fort with ctoekltke pre
cision since early Monday morn
ing en route to the Pacific
coast's largest peace time man
euver. Meanwhile, all infantry
troops, amonntlnr to ' half the
corps, are preparing to depart
by train with the first four
tralnloads leaving Friday night
Twenty-three more tralnloads
will leave at intervals until
Tuesday. ;
Those leaving Friday morning
are members of the 3rd medical
battalion; 3rd tquartermaster bat
talion; H. Q. battery of the 205th
coast artillery H. Q. troops of the
115th calvary and a detachment
from the 60th signal battalion. The
205th Is comprised mainly of Seat
tie and southwest Washington men
while the 115th calvary is from
Wyoming.
A maintenance detachment of
8000 men will remain at the fort
during the maneuvers.
Price of Gas
Upped AgMn
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22-ff)-
The Standard . Oil company an
nounced Thursday night the price
of its gasoline will go up half
cent a gallon Friday in the Pacific
coast states, Alaska and Hawaii,
All grades are included.
- Also anounced was a general
Increase In prices the company
will offer for crude pil at the
well. Officials said increases
would run up to as high as 12 cents
per barrel, at both northern and
southern California fields, effec
tive at 7 a. m. Friday.
Box Scores
SALEM
() 1 VANCOUVER ()
B H O A BHOA
Llghtnrjr S 11 O.WarfJjn 4
S
Bates.1 3
McGinjc S
1 Linffuax S
OUolleyj 3
3 Brennr J 4
5;JeweUJ S
IjWrlghU S
0 Cmilt xJ 4
1 MerrtU.p S
0 Goldm.p 1
Petrn.m 4
BergstmJ 4
LaniferJ 3
ShinnJ 4
Cirlf Uujl 4
Adams,c S
Fallin.p 2
Srope.p S
Warren 1
Totals 5S t 24 U Totals 34 11 27 13
Batted for Swope in ninth.
Score br Inn Inn:
Salem 201 000 003-4
Vancouver .... ,, ; 001 610 00 8
Errors. Bates, Petersen. Adams. Tal
- . -
lin. WarfieM. Goldman. Win run pitch
er. Merrill; fcwtna pitcher, Fallin. Off
Fall In in 3i Innings, four hits, six runs.
Struck out one, basesXon balls, four.
Off Merrtlr in 7i innings, S hits 3 runs;
truck out one; bases on balls, four.
Swope in 4i innings, seven hits, three
runs: bases a balls, three. Goldman,
in m Innings, two hits, three hits;
struck out four, bases on balls two.
Off Osborne. 'in inning, no hits or
runs. Hit by pitcher. Adams by Mer
rill. Wild pitches. Merrill. FalUn. Lert
on bases. Salem 12, Vancouver eight.
Three-base bits. JfoUey; two-base bits,
Petersen. Lingua 2, Adams, Brenner,
Runs batted in, Petersen. Jolly 2, Berg -
strom, Brenner 2. McGinn is 2. War
field 2. lingua. Sacrifice. Merrill. Stol
en bases. Bates z. warneia. jjoudic
pUvs, Shinn. Janifero. Bates. Time
20. Umpires, Wetsgerber and Kallio.-
Ia,
Fear US Raid
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French Order Defense
of Caribbean Island;
Hull Blasts Reports
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
May 22 - (Jt) - French forces on
Martinique have been ordered to
prepare to defend that Caribbean
island against an attack by the
United States, reports from Cer-man-occupied
Paris said Thurs
day ! "
Looming large In any defense
of the island are the cruiser Emile
Bertin and the aircraft carrier
Beam, which have been stationed
at Martinique's capital and chief
porti Fort de France, since the
German defeat of France last
June.
Word was said to have
reached Paris from Fort de
France that the French naval
command in the Caribbean had
ordered these ships to remain in
the Antilles on "practice ma
neuvers.'' Both warships recently have
engaged In maneuvers for the
announced purpose ef main
taining crew morale.
The Paris newsnaner Le Matin
said j Martinique's fortress will be
blown to pieces if necessary to
prevent it falling into foreign
hands, the paper said. ,
Paris papers also asserted that
British warships were continuing
a patrol off Martinique.
(Reports from Puerto Rico last
November said that US warships
had .taken up the patrol around
Martinique, relieving the British
West. Indies squadron.
WASHINGTON, May 22-UPV-
The United States struck - back
Thursday at .what officials con
sidered nazi efforts to disturb
American relations with Mar
tinique, and Indicated, that
France's new world possessions
still jsvere considered harmless.
.secretary or state Hull said
there had been no recent devel
opments that changed the general
situation in these western hemi
sphere colonies.
His statement was interpret
ed as meaning that the Ameri
can government had no inten
tion of oceuylng Martinique and
ether French territories unless
It was established that France
would allow Germany to use
them for a foothold In this
hemisphere.
In a sharp rejoinder. Hull de
clared these reports were exclu
sively of German or pro-German
origin. Inspired propaganda of
this I kind, he went on. probably
would continue in an effort to
create an entirely false imnre.
sion of the facts, i
and Jail
Sentence Told
SILVERTON Jess Willhite w
handed a $100 fine, and costs and
a six months jail sentence by
Judge Alf O. Nelson in justice
court Tuesday on a drunken driv
ing charge.
Judge Nelson suspended five
months and tn Hair of tV m.
tence ion condition that he pay fine
and costs, serve ten days of the
sentence and leave liquor alone
and obey all laws for one year.
Attend Convention
. i
SILVERTON Mrs.' E. S. Porter
and Mr. and Mrs. Clay Porter are
attending an Odd Fellow lodge
convention at Baker this week.
Mrs, A. C. Barber, who has been
ill for) a number of weeks, is now
able to sit up part of each day.
Guests at Mehama .
MEHAMA Mrs. Amelia Finlav
and son, Arthur Finlay, Seattle,
and Mrs. Fred Knight Silverton.
spent 1 the weekend visiting Mrs.
Edith PhilippL (
Travel the route of the early
explorers on this 1000-mile
cruise to Prince Rupert and
return.
5Vtsy Cruise through sheltered
waters, deep silent coves, passing
towering snow-capped mountains,
aboard the Princta Adelaide. Deck
sports, musk, dancing, eotaUe
service and cuisine.
See relics of the aborigines at
Alert Bsv. Dicruresana Industrial
oarpost Ocean Falls, and other
mg porta
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OUTGOII STATESIIAIf, Salem.
In War News What Fate or Her?
r
! RUDOLF HESS !
What fate Is in store for ra Use
n: i man wbe made a sensational plane night te Britain ana new
b being held at Glasgow, Scotland? Fran Hess was left behind hi
Germany. 8he la the mother of
Hess in 1927. - f
41st Causes
-1
Traffic Jam
Joining 3rd
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tnte the Redding fairgreind, al
though the column only moved
from Klamath Falls Thursday.
Friday will be Its shortest trip,
UKarysvOIe. i
When the 41st hit Weedfat 11:30
a. m. Thursday, it fell hi behind
the 3rd and IX units corps which
also left Fort Lewis Monday. Two
lead columns, after splitting at
Vancouver Monday afternoon.
fused again at Weed. A military
column stretching 74 miles, the
3rd and IX corps Thursday night
reached Woodland. Friday the
41st will move down the east route
of highway 99.
Motorized columns stretched
Thursday night from Woodland to
Fort Lewis, where last truck con
voys of the 41st pulled out Thurs
day morning. Final motorized
units of the 3rd division, PC corps
will clear the fort Friday, The first
27 troop trains also pull out Friday.
The troops, dressed la regula
tion khaki, suffered as the mer
cury rose ever 100 degree. The
heat also caused several vehicles
te break down. They were re
paired by maintenance troops
trailing each eolamn.
Northern California will get Its
first look at big field guns Friday
Cprri(bt tfO, Xaccen S Msaw T.
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" US-?" - ' ''; i..iLf
M : ill Ah
Oregon. Friday Morning,: May
i
uaw
FRAUILSE HESS
Hess, wife of Kadolf Hess, the nasi
a three-year-old son and married
- .
as the 41its field artillery, towing
73 and 155 guns, moves from
Klamath Falls. t
Despite the heavy : traffic and
twisting roads, none of the lead
troops had a major accident Thurs
day.
World War
, .
News Today
By the Associated Press
British enter virtual unde
clared war against Vichy,
France; warn they will attack
nazis or French soil occupied
or unoccupied unless Petain
government stops giving aid to
Germans; attack on Crete seen
as a diversion for possible as
sault on Gibraltar.
Germans take two areas in
Crete; British disclosed all their
fighter planes have been with
drawn; royal navy is in heavy
action against sea-borne Ger
man troops and declares not a
convoy has' reached the coast;
Germans report sinking of four
British cruisers and. several de
stroyers. . ..
German- controlled "Paris
spread reports that French
forces in Martinique are ordered
to prepare for "an attack" by
the United States.
IN THB
23. 1311
British Lose
Sky, Control
; ? Violent Navy Action
Rages ; French Given
Warning on Nazis r
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lng ; half-way along the northern
coast- 1 : -
Berlin still showed a discreet
silence about the outcome of the
fighting, jeslde from the reported
heavy blow at Britain's navy. . ,
The British for their part re
ported that in a day of violent
naval-air: action the fleet had
smashed every German effort to
land men by sea, breaking up
every convoy that sought. to run
In under cover of German war
planes. Many .German - vessels
and 30 of them were said to have
been thrust into the battle zone
at one time were destroyed, and
others dispersed, British middle
eastern headquarters at Cairo as
serted.:, v
The Crete areas acknowl
edged by the British to be in;
German hands were the town
of Candia and the Maleml air
drome southwest ef Cane a.
Seme time after their occupa
tion had been conceded London
disclosed for the first tune that
all; British fighter craft had
been withdrawn from the Island
since the first day of the battle
because they had ne suitable
bases. . .;' ': ; :;-,7."-.'-'
. London officially was cautious
ly optimistic, but the London pub
lic showed signs of grave concern.
The fighting reached a new
peak of fury: The Germans, aside
front! their attempts to bring in
thousands, by sea, were landing
men: steadily, by. parachute and
air transport
.. The nazi successes ashore were
significant, because Maleml air
drome is one of two in all Crete.
The Other, at Candia, was still in
British hands, London announced.
. Every report ef the great en
gagement indicated that much
and perhaps everything de
pended on the ability ef the
British navy to, keep German
aea-herne troops and supplies
away from Crete; that it was
going to be a great test of sea
versus air power. -
Of perhaps even greater ulti
mate; importance than the ap
proaching decision in the battle
of Crete a "desperate, grim bat
tle," as Winston Churchill called
it where there could be for either
aide no retreat was the British
government's action in entering
whit many thought was t state
of undeclared war against the old
French ally. r
, Standing gravely in the house
cf commons, Anthony Eden, the
British foreign secretary, warned
Vichy ! that unless it stopped sid
ing' with ' the Germans British
forces would bomb the Germans
wherever they were found on
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French territory occupied or un
occupied.
: Giving point to this declaration
it was announced that , the Brit
ish navy had seized the 11,487-ton
French oil tanker Sheherazade en
route with oil from Houston, Tex,
to Casablanca In . French north
Africa despite -the fact that the
vessel . had a ; navicert British
permission to navigate when she
departed the United States.'
The seizure was accomplished
with the full consent of the
-United States government. It
was said In London because
the "actions of the last day er
so by the Vichy government
particularly la Syria, had a
keen sharpening .effect not only
, in London but in Washington."
The British made no secret ol
their fear that a German attempt
to! send troops through 'unoccu
pied France and into Spain for
an assault upon the key fortress
of Gibraltar might be in the mak
ing. Some Britons declared that
70,000 Germans already were in
Spain and that German "tourists"
were slipping Into Morocco across
the Gibraltar strait ' -;
The attack on Crete and cur
rent German support - of , Iraq
against .the British were' termed
by ' some ' British informanta as
possibly mere diversions how
ever violent In themselves for a
greater threat to come,
i The British aeensed the Vichy
i government not only of a "sin-
Ister" purpose in allowing Syr-
Ian airdromes to be msed by the
nasis te help Iraq but ef these
! other v acts: allewlng German
torpedo boats to go down the
1 lower Rhone . river Into the
Mediterranean; working French
I Industry for Germany at a
I higher rate than before) the
French - German armistice; al
lowing French military, equip
I ment te be sent from' Syria to
J. .v..
': In Africa; these were the day's
principal developments: , '
I Unconfirmed ' reports spread
that the "free French" forces of
General Chares de Gaulle Brit
ish allies were moving Into Syria
from Palestine, and Egypt called
home all her citizens living In
Syria and Lebanon.
! The fighting In Iraq continued
confined principally to aerial ac
tion. . ' ;
In Ethiopia the British . an
nounced the capture of 9000 more
Italian troops; Rome said nothing
specifically on that point but
claimed that the Italians had
thrown back new British attacks
In southwestern Ethiopia.
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Meehan, Seattle, coast secretary of
the longshoremen, had asked that
two men be denied working priv
ileges because they criticized him
here last Friday. The amended
constitution now restricts mem
bers' right to criticize international
officers.
SEATTLE, May 22-6P)-Although
the company president said he
doubted there would be any work
stoppage,, the Motor Coach Driv
ers', union Thursday set 11:59 pa.
Saturday as a strike deadline in
negotiations with the Washington
Motor Coach company.
A strike would Involve approx
imately 150 drivers on numerous
cross-state routes, extending as
far as western Montana.
TACOMA. May 22-(VWith an
additional 800 door factory work
ers on a sympathy strike, the, Ta-
coma labor, situation clouded
somewhat Thursday but a note of
optimism was sounded by Federal
Labor tonciliator .Adolph Hoch,
who. is conferring with ODerators
and officials of the, Boommen and
Rafters union (CIO) t.
Hoch announced he felt ODtimis-
tic about the outcome of present
conferences but said it will be sev
eral days before any definite re
sults can be expected. Operators
and union men are meeting in sep
arate groups drawing up propo
sals to be submitted at a joint con
ference later In an attempt to ar
bitrate differences.
Pastor Sent
... .......
Invitation
GERVAIS A call to the pastor
ate) of the local Presbyterian
church has been extended to Rev.
Cheek, Raymond, Wash, who
spoke here May 4 and again May
18. j
tie has other churches in view
and has! not yet notified the board
of his acceptance. However, the
trustees are getting estimates on
some repairs on the manse and
will have a pastor soon. Rev. Hood
left Gervais In October to accept a
call to Waldport
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