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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1940.
No. 52.
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Washington, D. C. May 22.
Two special Investigators turned
up "dirt" in the WPA opera
tions in Washington state and
gave the ways and means com
mittee ammunition to oppose a
large sum (or relief. Nothing
off-color was found in Oregon.
Waste, politics and something
like graft appears in the report
of the investigators. Material of
WPA was taken and hauled in
WPA trucks and used on pri
vate property (the same practice
that prevailed in Louisiana be
fore the federal government
moved in); thousands of tolls
for WPA workers were bought
beyond the requirements, such
at 6S88 long-handle shovels.
800 rakes to rake leaves, 1771
railroad picks, 342 square-point
shovels, 2020 mattocks, 110 sew
ing machines, etc. To get rid of
wheelbarrows a n acetylene
torch was used to cut a sec
tion out of each wheel and
split the frame.
At Vancouver unauthorized
work was performed at direc
tion of city superintendent on
private property; at Tacoma,
.OJympia, Seattle, Montesano,
Yfkima, Everett, Bellingham,
Mount . Vernon. Spokane and
other places WPA was a "good
thing" which furnished any
thing from free labor and ma
terials to gasoline. '
One of the Seattle projects
was a household demonstration
in a fine residence where WPA
officials and their wives gave
teas. Among guests were Mrs.
Roosevelt and her daughter
Mrs. Boettiger. There were
Christmas parties and Thanks
giving parties and a good time
was had by all. The food bill
was 53859, paid by WPA.
'TWERE was a land survey pro
1 Ject in Seattle, where the
assessed value of all land was
made. Among the foremen were
a former mine mucker, a form
er pantryman on a ship, a cod
fish fisherman, a laborer and an
organizer for CIO and AFL.
These men instructed workers
on making appraisals of real
property. Workers on this pro
ject also had to campaign for
(Continued on Prge Eight.)
Dewey lo Dominate
Tacoma, May 22 lip) The
vanguard of more than 1.000
delegates to the Washington Re
publican convention here Satur
day and Sunday began arriving
today. Republican leaders pre
dicted the convention will be
dominated by delegates favor
able to the candidacy of Thomas
E. Dewey.
Oldest Building Burnt
Newberg, Ore., May 22. IIP)
Yamhill county's olde.t build
ing, the FrtOerick C. Herring
farm house, is a heap of ashes
today. The structure, built more
than 100 years ago, burned late
Monday.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Friends of Joe Early averring
he is a natural stooge for this
col. as he has lived here for
some time and never once has
his moniker appeared herein.
Alberta McVeigh looking gor
geous, gay and glamorous in
new sun tan cosmetics with all
the trimmings.
Little Michael Hogan calling
for Uncle Larry Schade when
Papa Mel could make no pro
gress in getting a car wheel
off to fix a flat. Uncle Larry
finally arriving and Justifying
Michael's confidence by remov
ing the wheel with a few dex
terous wrist twists. Papa Mel
having been trying to turn the
nuts the wrong way.
Una B. Inch, Pleasant A.
Dooms and others paying a visit
to the city council In the inter
est of certain petitions for improvements
Nazi Field Commander Ad
mits Temporary Halt to
Hard Fighting May Come
Br the Associated Press
A wave of optimism swept
over France today the 13th
day of the war In the west as
French shock troops reportedly
recaptured shell-torn Arras and
routed Nazi advance guards
from Abbeville, 12 miles from
the English channel.
In the first official German
hint that the blitzkrieg might
be slowing down, Gen. Walther
Von Reichenau, German field
commander, admitted today:
"It may be that our present
movements will come to a tem
porary halt. Weygand has or
dered every man to stand his
ground. Tbtt may mean hard
fights ahead."
Brace for Attack
The main German army in
northern France braced itself
for a hard counter-attack by the
allies under the new generalis
simo, Maxime Weygand.
Aiding the allied cause, heavy
rains bogged the fields of north
ern France breaking the per
fect weather favoring Hitler's
mechanized blitzkrieg tactics.
As the Germans drove their
double-pronged campaign west-
ward toward the vital channel !
ports and south to a reported
area beyond Soissons, some 56
miles from Paris, the French I
rallied on a new 200-mile front !
along the Somme and Aisne
rivers.
"I am full of confidence if
each man does his duty with a
fierce energy," said Weygand,
leaving for the front.
Allied counterattacks appar
ently were relieving some of
the pressure on British troops,
fighting with their backs to the
sea in a "pocket" In Belgium.
Nails Claim Gains
The German high command,
however, claimed - lightning
paced Nazi thrusts daring mo
torcycle raids, apparently, un
supported by infantry had wi
dened the corridor reaching al
most to the channel.
In the German drive on Paris,
according to an unconfirmed re
port by "informed circles" in
Berlin, the Nazis have passed
Soissons, famed World war bat
tlegroundonly 56 miles north
east of the French capital.
In the west front. In Flan
ders. Col. Gen. Walther
Von
Reichenau wailed for a tele
phone call from Adolf Hitler to
signal the release of what was
described as "the most power
ful right wing army ever to
flank an enemy."
Von Reirhensu's troops were
poised to attack half a million
allied soldiers in the "fields
where poppies grow."
Today's heaviest fighting cen-
tered in a fire-scarred triangle
north of the Somme river, rag
ing from Amiens to Arras to
Abbeville and eastward to the
Cabrai sector.
German parachutists with
blazing torches yesterday fired
many towns and villages in the
hotly-contested sector.
Raynaud Confidant
Premier Reynaud of France
expressed his confidence in ultl
jmate victory, immediately after
! conferring with Gen. Maxime
Weygand, the new commander
' in chief of the allies.
I "I repeat to you. If we hold
jfor one month and we will
I nold for whatever time is neces
sary we will have travelled
tnree-fourtha of the road to vic
tory," he said.
Reynaud cautioned against
demoralization arising from the
; swift-striking but generally un
' supported sorties of Nazi motor
Ucd units.
'Their audacity," he said.
can cost them dear."
The French destroyed all
bridges across the Somme river
in a move to block the German
march to the sea, and a Pans
military spokesman said the
I Nazis would have to bring up
r.iiich heavier forces to attempt
a crossing.
i Many Flee Paris
' Many civilians art moving out
BASEBALL
National
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh 16 1
Brooklyn 3 8 0
Klinger. Lanahan and Berres,
Schultz; Fitzsimmons and Franks
R H E
Cincinnati 4 7 1
Maui Vnrlr ft 10 Cl
Dcrringerand'Lombardi; Hub-j
pea ana uanning.
American
Boston . .. 6 16 1
Cleveland 9 15 2
Ostermuller, Bagby, Hash and
Peacock; Harder, Eisenstat, Dob
son and Hemsley.
Philadelphia 1
Chicago ...10
Caster and Brucker;
and Tresh.
7 2
18 1
Smith
Score:
New York
Detroit ..
Breuer and
houser, Benton,
and Tebbetts.
R.
8
2
H. E.
16 2
6 0
New-
Dickey;
McKain, Rowe
17
EOF
Vancouver, B. C, May 22.
(CP) Seventeen union locals
were expelled last night from'tion of a $i. 823.252,724 army
the Vancouver, New Westmins-j
ter and District Trades and La
bor council because they had
refused to withdraw delegates
believed by the labor governing
body to be communists.
The action was taken In corn-
puanee -with instructions from
lne American ieaeration or La-
bor and followed the recent ex-!
Pulslon ot three delegates and
sfver' other union locals for
the same reason.
of the south and west gates of
the French capital.
While Britain threw all her
power Into defense measures
and took satisfaction that 2.000,
000 men in training at home
could be thrown at a coastal in
vasion, Nazi air feints at Eng
land became bolder.
Amid a clatter of anti-aircraft
and fighter plane fire German
planes dropped bombs in two
districts of southeast England
some of which fell on land and
others in the sea. The ministry
said there were no casualties
and no damage.
There were gunfire, a sharp
explosion and a sudden glare in
the Thames estuary,
Britain Retaliates
The British air force coun
tered with an air raid early to
day on the German town of
Aachen (Aix La Chapellel, near
me junction ot tlie Belgian.
umcn ana German borders, In
which three planes participated.
Louis P. Lochner, Associated
Press correspondent with the
German armies, said the planes
dived again and again to drop
their loads of bombs, but failed
to hit any military objectives
I he explosions dug great holes
In the streets, but there were no
immediate reports of civilian
I casualtiei,
In far-away Canberra, Aust
ralia, Premier R. G. Menziea
announced his government
would recruit a third army divi
sion for overseas service. About
30.000 Australians and New
7ealanders already are in the
Near East.
The United states maintain! 350
refugee for all forma of wild Ufe. I Interior Secretary Ickes today.
Citizens Club Formed Here
To Wake Patriotic Interest
Unit No. 1 of the 130.000,000
Citizens c'.ub was organized
here Tuesday, with Gilbert
Stuart as secretary, and other
officers to be named at a future
meeting. Stuart is a world war
veteran, and local contractor.
Purpose of the organization
is to awaken patriotic Interest
in national defense, a strong
American foreign policy, and
speedy expression to congress of
j the sentiment of the American
people on the European war
! situation.
At the first meeting, a reso
lution was adopted urging con
gress to take appropriate and
NAVAL EXPANSION
10,000 Plane Force and
Naval Air Base Program
Put in Senate's Hopper
Waihington. Mar 22. IP)
A $1,823,000,000 army ap
propriation measure, carrying
most of the money aikad by
President Roosevelt for emer
gency detente measures, was
passed by the senate today
and tent back to the house
for action on amendmenti.
Washington, May 22. (IP) A
$1,458,000,000 navy appropria
tion bill, including both regu
lar and emergency naval funds,
was approved and sent to the
senate today by its appropria
tions committee.
The house naval committee, by
a unanimous vote, sent to the
floor a bill authorizing the navy
to set up its air force to 10,000
planes and 18.000 pilots and to
spend $144,132,000 for naval air
bases.
The senate was expected to
take up the new measure as
nsn a Br It iiAmnliiial onnEirlara.
supply bill, passage of which
was expected today.
The full appropriations com
mittee, in a 15-minute session.
approved the action of its sub
committee In adding $472,000
000 in direct appropriations and
contract authority to the reuular
supply, bill which already had
passed both houses and was with-
drawn from a senate-house con
ference committee,
ALL TO COLORS
Bucharest. May 22. (IP)
Rumania ordered a virtual gen
eral mobilization today in a
move which diplomats believed
was linked with Bucharest's
fears that Soviet Russia's big
army may soon march into Bes
sarabia. Reports to military headquar
ters here said that Soviet troop
concentrations on Rumania's
frontier had been heavily rein
forced within the last few days.
Rich in oil badly needed for
modern mechanized warfare
King Carol's little Balkan king-
dom long has worried over a
possible German invasion if thej creating an Involved, complex
war should spread to southeast- machine for national defense or
ern Europe. I ,or any emergency reason."
AH leaves also were cancelled Persons brought Into the gov
immediately, with officers and ernment would cooperate with,
men ordered to report back to not supersede, government of
their units before noon tomor
row.
Japs Bomb Chungking
Chungking, May 22 (IP)
Fifty-four Japanese bombers in
two waves bombed points west
of Chungking today and gave
the Chinese provisional capital
its seventh air raid alarm since
Saturday.
Raver See lekea
Washinaton. Mav 22 (IP)
Administrator Paul J. Raver of
Bonneville dam discussed the
unsuccessful Oregon people's
utility district elections with
Immediate action authorizing
the president to advise the al
lies the entire material re
sources of the United States are
at their command, to crush
Nazism and its armed forces.
It Is further desired that all
Americans communicate to their
congressmen and senators their
sentiments.
There are no dues, and the i
memDersnip rous are open w
one and all, Irrespective of age
The movement is planned to be
nation-wide in scope, and it is
hoped Jackson county citizens
will Join 100 per cent at once.
Headquarters will be opened
later, it was announced.
F. B. R. AND LANDON
GIVEN DISCUSS NATION'S
OKEHDEFENSE QUESTION
Neither Democrats Or Re
publicans Anxious for
Coalition Govt., Is Word
Washington, May 22. AP
Alt M. Landon, said today that
Republicans would be willing to
participate in a coalition cabinet
If President Roosevelt elimi
nated himself as a possible third
term candidate.
Talking to reporters after
lunching with Mr. Roosevelt.
Landon said In reply to ques
tions, however, that the presi
dent had not asked him to serve
in a coalition cabinet nor to
take any position in a defense
administration.
Washington, May 22. (IP)
In an atmosphere of harmony
over national efforts President
Roosevelt and Alf M. Landon
discussed across a luncheon
table today the grave prob
lems raised for the United
States by the European war.
Landon's visit to the White
House raised much talk of the
possibility of a coalition gov
ernment, but neither In demo
cratic nor republican circles had
it found any strong support
when . Landon, the republican
nominee for president In 1936,
walked into the chief execu
tive's office.
Early Eyas Possibilities '.
Stephen Early, presidential
secretary, discussing possibilities
for an expanded government to
meet the defense emergency
said it would most likely take
a simplified form of the 1917-18
type of government with "dol-lar-a-year"
men assisting and
advising the regular govern
ment officials.
Early Indicated appointment
of various such aides, and se
lection of more presidential as
sistants, was imminent.
Landon himself declined to
discuss coalition questions when
reporters met him upon his ar
rival in the capital this morn
ing. However, Senator Capper
(R-Kas.) breakfasted with him
and later said that " I don't
know of any republican for"
coalition.
At the same time he said re
publicans would give President
Roosevelt's defense program
full support.
No Complex Machine
Early said that Mr. Roosevelt
has "no intention whatever of
ficials, he said.
In addition to these persons
Early indicated, Mr. Roosevelt
may appoint three more admin
istrative assistants to help him
in Ihe tremendous task of lead
ing the nation's re-armament
program.
Leopold in France
I M ? f nrtrf in Tettn
I J
' "erun, may z. on The
! Berlin radio today broadcast a
Zyo di!Ptch reporting the
I Be'g,fn. mbssador to Japan
""w iiiiuiiiicu rurciBU minister
Hachiro Arita that King Leo
pold had taken refuge In Le
Havre, France. The seat of the
Belgian government had been
established there, it was re
ported. Swimmer Drowns
Marshfield, May 22. (IP)
Coos county recorded Its third
drowning this month yesterday.
Patricia Lasater, 13, Eastside,
lost her life while swimming
in a lumber mill reservoir.
Weather
Northern California: Fair to-
nloht anri ThnruHav hut inn.
j lid(fb. coudness on coast;
little change In temperature:
moderate northwest wind off
Sea Settles Dispute
Portland, May 22. (IP) A
dispute over ownership of a
j small Oceanvlew school lot was
settled by Neptune yesterday.
j The surf undermined a cliff and
jtht lot slid Into the sea.
Milk Wagon-Chicago
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With the bulk of Chicago's milk supply eat off by a strike
of milk drivers. Mrs. Louise Pedersoa found a way to get milk.
She went io a distribution station, made her baby son move
over, and hauled home two gallons in his perambulator.
Radio Highlights
- By Associated Press '
: (Time Is Pacific "Standard) i
New York, May 22. lP)
Reply to the Sunday night radio
address by Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh on national air defense
will be made tonight on W ABC
CBS by Senator James F.
Byrnes, South Carolina demo
crat, who is in chargo of the
senate appropriations committee
unit on naval expenditures.
The time 6:30, Is the same at
which Lindbergh talked.
Tonight: Europe (subect to
addition) CBS 4:55; MBS 5:15,
6, 6:15. WJZ-NBC 8; NBC
Chains 8.
WABC-CBS 6:25 Sen. Styles
Bridges on "Political Outlook".
MBS 6:30 Gov. A. B. James
on "Roosevelt or Peace"; 7:15
Rep. W. W. Barber on "De
fense". Thursday: WEAF-NBC 8:15
Mrs. Roosevelt Talk; 0:30 H. V.
Kaltenborn before N. V. Adver
tising club on "We Look at the
War".
ROOSEVELT ACTS
TO CURB SPYING
Washington, May 22. (IP)
President Roosevelt asked con
gress today to approve transfer
of the Immigration and natural
ization service from the labor
to the justice department, there
by to enable the government to
"deal quickly" with aliens
whose conduct "conflicts with
the public Interest."
Another turn of events In
volving aliens was an appeal
by Rep. Allen (D., La.) for Im
mediate house consideration of
a bill to send Harry R. Bridges,
C. I. O. leader on the west
coast, back to his native Aus
tralia as an "undesirable."
Allen said the nation was
"fed up on this fifth column
business."
U. S. BUILT PLANES
FLYING ATLANTIC
Waihington, May 22. (IP) j
The allies disclosed today that
they are flying some of their!
American-built bombing planes
across the Atlantic. j
Arthur B. Purvis, British head
of the alleld purchasing mission,
made the revelation to reporters
after a conference with Jreasury
Secretary Morgenthau on allied
i requests for assurances of prior
delivery after this country s own
plane purchasing program gets
under way.
Style
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London, May 22. (IP) Brit
ain's parliament tonight invested
the government with dictatorial
powers to conscript labor and
wealth to strengthen the nation's
shield against German invasion.
Within three hours the house
of commons and the house of
lords passed and King George
approved a bill giving Winston
Churchill's government unprece
dented, sweeping war emergency
powers demanded "in view of
the grave peril in which the na
tion stands today.
It armed the cabinet with ad
ministrative weapons similar in
efficiency and scope' to those of
Britain's authoritarian enemy.
The new measure carries for
ward a swift transition from
democracy to semi-dictatorship
which began before Britain went
to war.
Under the new bill, all labor
and property would be at the
government's disposal.
There would be a 100 per cent
excess profits tax.
IS
.... Corvallis, May 22.-4PV-The
Oregon I.O.O.F. elevated
E. M. Bowman, Hillsboro, to
grand patriarch at the 85th an
nual grand encampment yester
day. Bowman, grand high priest,
succeeded W. V. Merchant of
Culver. The delegates elected
Oswald Olson, Eugene, grand
junior warden, John Starr, Eu
gene, grand trarshal, and
George Chrlsterson, Silverton,
grand Inner sentinel.
The grand lodge and Rebeliah
sessions will continue through
Thursday.
EUGENE'S POPULATION
PROBABLY OVER 21,000
Eugene, May 22 -(T)-Eugcne's
population probably will top
21,000, Census Supervisor Mrs.
Merle Stuart said yesterday,
The Lane county total will
exceed 65.000.
Mrs. Rotser Gets Divorce
Oregon City, May 22.
Circuit Judge Earl C. Latour
ette granted Mrs. Paulyn Ros
ier, a divorce from Albert E.
Rosser, former AFL teamster
official, yesterday. Rosser Is
serving 12 years In the state
penitentiary for arson.
14-VOTE LEAD IN
OFPICIALjOUNT
Race for County Judge Nom
ination Among Closest in
Jackson County's History
J. B. (Blin) Coleman defeated
Ralph Billings of Ashland, by a
margin of 14 votes, for the Re
publican nomination for county
judge of Jackson county, accord
ing to the official count comnleU
ed shortly before noon today.
tne figures:
Coleman . .2,763
Billings 2,749
Coleman's lead 14.
It was one of the closest coun
ty office races on record here.
Coleman Is present county asses
sor, and Billings a county com
missioner.
Billings, who was In attend
ance at the regular session ot
the county court today, upon
receipt of the news visited Cole
man's office and extended his
congratulations.
Owing to the closeness of the
vote, friends of Billings ex
pressed the view a recount
would be sought. Commissioner
Billings had no comment to
make on the subject. Under Ore
ton law, a contestant has 30
days in which to file for a re
count.
The official count was IS less
than the unofficial check, which
gave Coleman a 27 vote lead.
Other Totals Listed
- The final- count was also com
pleted today on two other coun
ty offices, as follows:
For county assessor:
Myers .,37
Lofland 1,815
Myers' majority 1,537.
For coroner:
- Conger .3,198
Perl i 2,343
Conger's lead 854.
The counting board expected
to finish checking Republican
ballots, and start in on Demo
cratic ballots late today.
The county judge winner will
be opposed in the November
election by Ira Schuler ot this
city, unopposed for the Demo
cratic nomination. Myers will be
opposed by Ray Schumacher,
also unopposed on the Democra
tic ticket.
GERMANY PLACES
LOSSES AT 11
By the Associated Press
Germany has lost about
11,000 men in the blitzkrieg on '
the Belgian and French fronts,
a high German commander has
indicated.
No figures were given for the
campaign In the Netherlands.
In the first authoritative state
ment of losses since the western
Invasion began May 10, CoL
Gen, Walhtervon Reichenau to
day told Louis P. Lochner, Asso
ciated Press correspondent with
the German armies, that the
Germans had lost only one-tenth
of the number of allied troop
taken prisoner.
Official German sources stat
ed that, exclusive of those) la
Holland, 110,000 prisoners had
been taken by Adolf Hitler's
legions In the west.
ROME, PARIS TELEPHONE
SERVICE INTERRUPTED
Rome, May 22. JP) Tele
phone communications between
Rome and Paris were Interrupt
ed this afternoon. Previously
those between Rome and Lon
don had been broken. There
was no immediate explanation.
Warship Runs Wild
Valparaiso; Chile. May 22.
JP) South America's largest
wareraft, the 28,000-ton Chilean
battleship Almirante Latorre,
broke from her moorings today
and collided with the 2,640-ton
Chilean passenger ship Palena.
setting her adrift.
Theater rail ratal
Portland, May 22. (JPh-WIU
liam Wicks, 16. of Portland,
hurt In a fall over a chair at
a theater May 17, died of, his
Injuries yesterday.