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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather roracaat rmlr lonliht aae Bainrday, nnwt aatu-tfav. Temperature Hl(hnt yrMrrday Urnnt lata ami -f " Sunday Want Ad Has yee heasht 41 Is tln te prepare that want A4 tor the Sunday atomlng rdltloe. Ada In kefore 1:3 r. M. Saturday will be properly claimed. Cloalng lima P.M. Saturday. FORD IBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Prau Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940. No. 48. lira Wig Med s S1SSHILS f . -ll a !i 0) mail U?atw I hKtNUH UKUtKtU - Washington, D. C, May 17. ,W Ion't be surprised if the news services carry the announce ment that Frank Knox, Chicago publisher and Republican candi date for vice president in 1936, has been offered and accepted portfolio in the cabinet by President Roosevelt as secretary of the navy. The offer has been made and Knox . is itching to accept and the only reason he has not snapped at the invita tion is the advice he is receiving from Mr. Biggies in the Repub lican party. As reported in this space at the time, Mr. Roosevelt pro posed to Colonel Knox that he join the cabinet and the tender was declined. Within the past few days Mr. Roosevelt has ex tended the invitation for the second time and the colonel came to Washington to talk it over with members of his party. President Roosevelt has in mind something like a coalition cabinet, but he calls it an "American" cabinet By this he means a cabinet not con fined to new dealers, but in cluding Republicans who share his views as Knox does in the national defense and foreign policy. If Knox again declines, Mr. Roosevelt may seek out an other prominent Republican but not Herbert Hoover. OVERTURES to ' Col. Knox are Interpreted by the lim ited few in the national capital who are aware of the Invitation that Mr. Roosevelt expects to continue in the White House for the next few years of the war abroad. Charles Edison, secretary of the navy, will resign whenever the president makes the request and thus create a vacancy for Col. Knox. But Knox has been warned (by fellow G.O.P. big shots) that President Roosevelt will run the policy of the navy, as he has during the past seven years, for Mr. Roosevelt's inter est in the navy has been his first love since he was assistant secretary under the Wilson ad ministration in the first world war. Among other arguments used on Knox to turn down the cab inet job was the assertion that If he accepts, the Republican nominating convention may as well be cancelled out, for with Mr. Roosevelt giving top-flight Republicans representation in his cabinet he would spike the guns of the opposition during the presidential campaign; his foreign policy could not be at tacked for it would be approved by the Important Republicans in his cabinet. B EING a Chicago publisher, the colonel has an Idea that (Continued on Page Ten.) Cairo. May 17 iP The gold coffin of King Tut-NnkhAmen and other treasures of the Cairo museum are being removed to a safe place as precautionary measure, it was announced to day. SIDE GLANCES 'THTSOHE REPORTERS Postoffice Bricklaying Fore man Everett Vickers still being the talk el the town for catch ing two-pound silverside on his anchor rope after fishing in lrgitimatfahlon all day with out result, friends calling him good lasso artist. Doc Walt Hoppe promising a friend a huge bouquet of roses and then not coming through with even single daisy. Bob an4 Betty Colvig moving lock, stock and barrel to the hills to take urr permanent resi dence, they being'tlfafj of civili zation. , Serge Willis Estti ailoting to Vern Canon art Important role In a mythical army eecpa being formed around cllf TO 'DIE ON SPOT' BEFOREJETREAT German Mechanized Forces Continue Rapid Advance; Situation Admitted Grave Paris. Mar 17 (U.R) Ger man mechanised columns are believed late today to be within 70 miles of Paris. They Tipped through the Maginot line defenses on a broad front, protected by a vast bombing fleet of warplanes. Huge In fantry forces are driving for ward behind She mechanised columns. Paris, May 17. P The French armies, under orders from Generalissimo Maurice Guslave Gamelin to "die on the spot rather than give fur ther ground," battled a mas sive German tank drive into northern France tonight in a clash described by the high command as "a veritable me lee." By the Associated Press The German high command announced its troops marched into Brussels, the Belgian capi tal, tonight and an unconfirmed German report said the nazi drive into France had reached a point within 76 miles of Paris. While a British military spokesman said allied troops were reported to have fallen back along the 115-mile Meuse river front from Antwerp, Bel gium, to Sedan, France, French General Maurice Gustave Game lin, the allied commander-in-chief, ordered his troops to "die on the spot" rather than give up further ground. General Gamelin's command came after the French acknowl edged the Germans had blasted out a pocket 35 to 40 miles deep, extending to within 100 miles of Paris. Extremely Grave The British public was warned that the situation in the 8-day-old war in the west is "ex tiemely grave." Earlier, the French high com mand admitted German mech anized troops had smashed for ward to a point 100 miles from Paris. Nazi sources In Berlin said the German campaign is now aimed directly at Paris. Paris itself was placed under I rigid military control. Authorized German sources reported nazi sledge-hammer blows had pierced France's; Maginot line in a manner even, German optimists believed im possible." (The Germans mean the "lit tle Maginot" line on the Franco-' Belgian frontier, rather than the great main fortress system di- ( Continued on Pag Pour.) E DEFENSE EFFORTS New York. May. 17. in former President Herbert Hoo ver today endorsed Roosevelt's defense declaring "There can be no partisanship upon the principle of national defense." "The president is right that our defense armament should be revised in the light of ex perience from this war," said; Hoover. ' Hoover, who was succeeded in the White House by Presi- dent Roosevelt, cast aside all partisan considerations a n d whole-heartedly endorsed Mr. I Roo?e ell's billion dollar de fense program. Nazis Fear Fever ) In The Netherlands ' London. May 17. The German-controlled radio rtation at Hilversum, The Netherlands. I in a broadcast heard in London l today warned of "grave danger jof typhoid fever in Holland." The broadcast said the use or ale of milk was prohibited un- less it had been boiled at lexit I three ti ties. Ralph Williams i Ralph E. Williams (above) of Oregon, veteran Republican na tional committeeman, died Thursday evening in Philadel phia following a cerebral hemor rhage. VETERAN tOP. LEADER RALPH WILLIAMS DIES OF Philadelphia. May 17 Ralph E. Williams of Portland, Ore., senior vice-chairman of the Republican national committee and head of the committee on ar rangements for the party's na tional convention here next month, died last night. The tall, spare. 70-year-old westerner was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage while in discussion with committee asso ciates at a mid-city hotel. He died in a hospital two hours later. Williams, whose continuous ! service as a Republican commit teeman since 1908 was a record unequalled by any other mem ber of either major party, came here April 15 to supervise preparations for the conclave, opening June 24. A native of Polk county, Ore gon, he came from a long line of southern Democrats, but parted from the traditional po litical affiliation in 1893 over the gold standard issue Portland, May 17 (P) Ore gon and the nation lost a "far sighted and loyal leader" with the death of Ralph E. Williams Governor Sprague commented today. A . rt ' wind a -R , H Cake Leslie M Scott. Wallace McCamant, Mil-Cor- ton R. Klepper. Henry L. Bnd phj, M'etscnan IM1TT LAUDS F. D. R. . .......I nnrrrvi UULUflUU Nr- H I lLI nULUMLUO 01 LLUII Portland. May 1 7 '.ft Pres- ! ident Roosevelt's armaments message was "a fine, statesman- Hike speech." Paul V. McNutt. candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said nere yesTeraay. i We are short on material." he told an interviewer. "We can train soldiers rapidly but it takes time to manufacture President armaments. The place of air program ' planes in modern warfare has ' be.?n shown the last few days.' BASEBALL National R. H. E. 4 7 4 Score: Chicago i New York 0 2 2 Passeau and Todd: Schumach- er, Brown and Danning. St. Louis 3 7 2 Brooklyn 4 8 0 Warneke. Russell. Sho'in and Padgett: Wyatt and Phelps. Score (11 innings': R. H. E. Cincinnati 7 12 1 Philadelphia 2 6 1 Turner. Barrett, Moore. Riddle and Hcrshberger: Beck, Brown and Atwood. American ; New York 8 Chicago 1 Breurr and Rosir; ' Dietrich and Tresh 8 0 S 1 Smith. OLD DESTROYERS MAY BE ADDED TO U. S. DEFENSE LINE F. R. Reveals Consideration of Government Financing Defense Material Plants Washington, May 17. (P) President Roosevelt disclosed today that the government was considering recommissioning all remaining World war destroy ers, 35 of them, which are not yet in service. At a press conference he said also that study was being given to the question of government financing of plants for expand ed production of defense ma terials, perhaps with the plants privately operated but government-owned. A short time before the pres ident spoke congress was asked by the war department to re move completely the existing 6,000-plane limit on the army's airforce so that the military may work swiftly toward the goal of 50,000 air fighting ma chines set up by President Roosevelt In his defense mes sage to congress yesterday. Interior Factories Talked In addition to all the other defense problems which the government is considering, Mr. Roosevelt disclosed at his press conference that attention is be ing given to the advisability or establishing in the interior of the country factories vital to defense. That applies primarily to new branches of existing plants, he said, rather than to picking up those plants now operating and moving them from the sea boards. Reporters remarked that most airplane manufacturing estab lishments now were located along the east and west coasts. The president discussed at length what he expected to do with the $100,000,000 which he asked congress to place at his disposal for defense operations and the additional $100,000,000 in contract authorizations. Things might come up during the summer when he would not want to call congress back, he explained, which could be taken care of if he, were given the funds. It was in that connection that he spoke of recommission ing the old world war destroy ers. That is under consideration now, he said, but he asked his hearers to consider what would have been the situation had the question come up later on, after congress had adjourned. Meantime the war dopart- ment asked congress today to remove the 6.000-plane top limit on the size of the air corps. In 1 line with President Roosevelt's nmm; ,r . fit nf sn nnn ; arms and navy aircraft. The recommendation was made to ,n(, houfe mimrv committe. by Brig Gen- L. b. Gasscr. deputy chief of staff of the army. London, May 17 iP Brit ish authorities today announced that children who had been re moved from London to Suffolk county, on the east coast, would be moved again Sunday to Wales, in western Britain. The order affects thousands who were taken first out of Lon uon at the start of the war to save them from ai - raids. Little Girl Asks Cops To Stop War Kansas City, May 17. iPi An t year-old girl handed L. B. , Retu. police chief, a difficult i assignment today. In a letter i to the chief she askvd: "Dear policemans: The war Is ' getting on my nerves. I would like for you to stop It " 'Slgnedt i Betty Ruth Morris, grade 3-A, Jefferson school. State Police II I ' 118 tffl IB n EMS . ivriWr-S New state police headquarters (above), located on the Pacific highway two miles north of Medford in building erected by the state highway department, were occupied Sunday. The new building replaces police quarters formerly located In the city hall. The building in the right background is the highway department maintenance structure, while the radio tower Is a part ot the short-wave system used by police, highway department and other law enforcement agencies. Standing In front of their new home, left to right, are Capt. Lee M. Bown, Lieut. B. J. Siaats. Sgt. O. A. MacKinnon. Privates H. W. Dawson. Al Stoehr. Jack Bearss. Clark Johnio- and George W. Albright. Standing by their patrol cars, left to right, are Private Phil Lowd, Corp. Lyle Harrell, Privates Frank Beers, Jay Williams and Phil Slant bury. (Photo by Shangle.) EARLY VOTE SLOW IN CITY, COUNTRY; PICKUP EXPECTED Voting was slow this morn ing in both city and country precincts, according to reports to the sheriff's office, who esti mated less than seven per cent of the vote had been cast up to noon. It was expected that the afternoon and evening would bring out more citizens. In Kenwood precinct of Med ford, with a registration of 333, only 40 votes had been cast at noon. Oakdale with 261 regis trants counted 38. In North Main precincts with 327 regis tered 72 votes had been cast at 1 o'clock. Reports from the Table Rock districts said the morning vote was light. The same condition prevailed in the Sams Valley section, and Eagle Point. They expected a large vote however between 4 o'clock and closing time. Ashland reported after a slow start, the voting picked up about 10 o'clock and was quite brisk. Portland, Ore., May 17,. JP) Oregon voters, unimpressed by perfect weather, stayed away from the state's primary elec tion polls in droves today. The light vote was attributed to dull contests, highlighted by Bonneville power and third term issues. Scarcely a community esti mated the total vote would be more than 50 percent of those registered at the most about 275,000 persons. In a few places, election officials said the turn out would drop to approximate ly 35 percent although Portland expected 65 percent to vote. Huge New Tanks Used By Germans London. May 17. 0P Huge new tanks, larger and more heavily armed than those which rolled through Poland last Sep tember, were used by the Ger mans to break through the! French extension of the Maginot' line in the Sedan area, a British military source said today.. He I estimated that the nazls used three armored divisions each; having about 400 tanks. j In advance of the land col- umn were waves of dive bomb-i ers raking everything before j them. Then came heavy tanks! and the infantry. Some para chute troops also floated to earth behind the Frencli lines. j Don't Forget to Vote Registered voters of Jack, ton county are reminded that .he polls will not close until 5 o'clock tonight there is Uill plenty of time to vote, ind it is an obligation of ood citizenship to do so. Each voter will have two jallots one for his party candidates and one for the non-partisan Judicial election and the selection of county chool superintendent. B ur to VOTT' Take Over New Home on North Highway Bombing of Civilians 'Horrible' Says American Ambulance Head Paris, May 17. (IP) Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Mor gan, said today German bombardments of civilian refugees In northern France are "utterly horrible." Miss Morgan, organizer of the Friends of France committee, was forced out of the north yes terday by German bombard ments while her unit, accompa nied by cars of the American Volunteers ambulance corps was trying to rescue civilians. She delegated Miss Ophelia Tilcy. pf Essex, Conn., to report on the work of the rescue unit since May 10. - One of the most star'.ling things that the women drivers discovered, said Miss Tiley, was a German pilot who had been shot down while wearing a Brit ish air force uniform. His back was brqjten and he was dying in a French shelter when the women arrived in a little northern French town. . "How can you justify the bombing and machine-gunning of women and children?" one of the women asked him. Miss Tiley said the pilot re plied: "This is war. Heil Hitler!" Many casualties among civil ian population were caused by bombardments of railways and stations, considered to be mili tary objectives, said Miss Tiley. Outside one town, in a court yard, she said she saw the bodies of two women "cut into pieces" by machine-gun bullets. DESPITE STRIKE The Pacific Greyhound bus drivers' strike remained quiet here today, several of the strikers with placards sitting in cars near the stage depot. The company's local manage ment said all bus schedules were being operated normally with only the customary delays oc curring here and there. San Francisco, May 17. lT) Railroad union pickets march- ed monotonously in front of Pa-j cific Greyhound terminals and, shops today, as the bus lines com pany strove to meet its regular schedules in seven states, despite, a strike of bus drivers. Union spokesmen claimed at least 450 drivers were on strike and schedules were noticeably below normal. Company officials insisted only about 175 men were striking, and asserted oper ations were "99 per cent nor mal." Roosevelt Gives Up Continental Swing Washington, May 17. '1 President Roosevelt disclosed today that problems raised by war abroad and the necessity of Increasing American de fenses had resulted in virtual cancellation of his plans for a swing around the country start ing next month. Furthermore, he told his press conference, he would not tarry out plans to visit his Hyde Park, N. Y, home this meek-end. RELIEF WOULD INJURE NEEDY ROOSEVELT BELIEVES Washington, May 17 (A1) President Roosevelt frowned on proposals for earmarking relief funds today, saying that such a practice both would lessen jobs for the needy and lead to a "pork barrel" legislative situa tion. He made the observation to reporters Just before Rep. Ditter (-RPa) disclosed during house debate on the WPA appropria tion bill that an amendment would be offered to drive all known Communists from WPA employment. Rep. Celler (D-NY) announced that he would be willing to sup port an amendment which would bar "communists, fascists, nazis or anyone owning allegl ance to any foreign prince or potentate." Every congressman, Mr. Roose velt said at his press conference, naturally would want something for his district and the associat ed general contractors, he added would try to get as much as they could for contractors. HIGH SCHOOL BOY Douglas Eden, Medford high school junior and son of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Eden of 18 Myrtle street, fell out of a sec ond story window at the high school yesterday and broke his right arm In two places be tween the wrist and elbow. The youth Is reported to have been playing with a group of friends and hanging onto the window sill when he fell the two stories down to the ground, apparently landing on his right arm. Despite the injury, he re turned to school in the after noon to continue taking final yearly examinations. Election News The public is invited to get local and state election re turns tonight in front of the Mall Tribune office on North Fir street. The returns will be given over the Mail Tribune s public address system. This extra, free public service will start at 8.30 tonight. Returns will be announced as they are re ceived from experienced Mall Tribune reporters and the As sociated Press and the United Press. An augmented staff will gather the local returns as fast as election boards can v 1 ECONOMISTS SEE GOOD TIES WITH DEFENSE EFFORT Washington, May 17. (IP) Administration economist pre dieted today that President Roosevelt's billion-dollar defense program would have a substan tial stimulating effect on AmerU can industry by mid-summer. At the same time, they prophe sied that it would make little) change in WPA rolls, because, millions of unemployed men out side relief ranks may get first call on the new private Jobs. Employment for billions of dollars of idle money lying la banks also was envisioned, aa officials indicated that treasury borrowing probably would be the principal method of financ ing the new program, even though it might involve Increas ing the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. One economist, wno la a fre quent consultant of the presi dent, said his colleagues believed that business already was re covering from the slump which set in after Christmas and were, optimistic about the year's out look, even before the new de fense expenditures were re quested. PILOT TRAINING CAMPS FOR 10,000 PROPOSED; PLAN JULY 1 OPENING Chicago, May 17. (JP) Cot Frank Knox said today he had been authorized by President Roosevelt to announce a pro ject by a group of patriotic Americans for the establish ment of camps for the "ad vanced training of pilots In military flying." The publisher of the Chicago Daily News, returning from Washington where he conferred with the president, said the plan had been approved by Mr. Roosevelt, the army chief of taff nrmv air pnrni anthnritlM and the civil aeronautics au thority. Tentative pUns, Colonel Knox said, provided for the opening ' of the campe by July 1 In the nine army corps areas with the hope of enrolling a maximum of 10,000 young men between the ages of 18 and 35. PERSHING, ROOSEVELT IN LUNCHEON CONFAB Washington, May' 17 (Pi General John J. Pershing, who commanded American armies In France In the last world war, had lunch with President Roose velt today. Washington, May 17. (-P President Roosevelt has Invited former Governor A If M. Landon of Kansas, Republican presiden tial nominee In 1938, to lunch eon at the White House next 1 Wednesday.