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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940.
No. 53.
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Washington, D. C, May 23.
Leaders of organized labor are
apprehensive about the national
defense program. They may
well be. Mr. Roosevelt, who has
been lenient and tolerant at
some of the things CIO and
AFL have done, will "get his
Dutch up" if labor leaders at
tempt to impede the efforts of
the country to equip itself
against a potential foeman.
The president will not permit
the wage-hour law to stand in
the way of increasing produc
tion. A strike pulled against an
Industry which is filling a gov
ernment order will be a seri
ous matter. Sabotage, which has
occurred in strikes during the
past several years, will be pun
ished; destruction of plant ma
chinery required for filling or
ders will not be regarded as a
Hallowe'en prank.
NLRB will have to walk cau
tiously and not harass employ
ers just because they regard
all payroll makers as enemies.
Allen leaders of labor will be
watched with hawk-like watch
fulness. 0
VNE of the first laws labor
championed, the Walsh-
Healey act, is headed for re
peal or suspension. Under this
act the secretary of lnbor specl-
ties hours and wages to be paid
by employers supplying articles
to the government. Oregon's Ru
fus Holman slipped an amend
ment to the act which now
comes in handy. The amend
ment provides the act shall be
repealed In the event of war
or when so declared by the
president. Naturally, the Walsh
Healey act applies to every con
cern having a contract to fill a
national defense order, from
aircraft to shoes; from canned
beef to chevrons.
Not wages, but hours will be
the base of complaints of labor
leaders. In some factories the
40-hour week will be stretched,
as the president indicated in his
personally-delivered message. A
president can perform wonders
with an executive order. It can
suspend, repeal or make laws;
has the properties of a magici
JT an'i wand.
HE
ERE Is something else labor
leaders will not like.
Skilled mechanics are scarce. In
the past 10 years there has been
so little work for them that
they kept the number of ap
prentices at a minimum;
whacked the available Jobs
among themselves, did not want
l to train beginners.
PRACTICALLY 111 of th ntlwil
defense preparation hu to do
with mschlnery of one sort or an
other. Mechanics are required for
making rlflea. revolver, air cratt. air
craft engines, tanks, anti-tank suns,
antt-alrcraft guns, machine guns,
raotorlwd equipment. It requires
ntih skill to work with precision
tools. Union or no union, thoussnds
of capable young men must be edu
cated skilled mechanics. It la being
y diacuawd In higher circles tbst per
haps the army should send enlisted
men Into the factories to be given
this skill; enlisted men ere assigned
to the spruce division In Oregon in
the first world war.
Because almost every soldier In
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SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Gordon Pascoe being all ex
cited over the arrival of a
daughter, the new baby giving
him a boy-girl combination, son
Douglas having brought him
similar thrills five years ago.
Ann Van Valzah and Carol
Tcngwald explaining the vari
ous trials and tribulations con
nected with properly barbecu
ing a huge swine.
Helen Thompson making ear
ly morning calls on friend and
exuding whiffs ot Old Spice.
RETAKE
ABBEVILLE, NEAR
L
England in Fearful Danger
Says Duff Cooper Heavy
Fighting at Boulogne
By the Associated Press
The German blitzkrieg, smash
ing at 500,000 to 1,000.000
"pocketed" allied troops in Bel
gium and northern France today
recaptured Abbeville, 12 miles
from the English channel and
Nazi authorities said it was
'quite probable" they had also
taken the vital channel port of
Boulogne.
Boulogne is just 26 miles
across the Straits of Dover from
Folkstone, England.
The Germans admitted, how
ever, that the "real battle"
against England could not begin
until the strategic allied
pocket" in Belgium and north
ern France extending from
Abbeville to Ostend had been
crushed.
Expect Hard Fight
"In view of the strong forces
encircled there, it will not be
done without heavy fiRhting,"
said DNB, the official German
news agency.
Prime.. Minister.. Winston
Churchill, in a two-minute ad
dress to the house of commons,
announced the fall of Abbeville.
"This country is in fearful
danger," declared Alfred Duff
Cooper, British minister of, in
formation. Heavy fighting is raging
around Boulogne, France, on
the channel, Churchill said.
"It is too early yet to say
what the result of this coastal
fighting may be, but it evidently
curries with it implications of a
serious character," he declared
French Reorganised
French reports yesterday said
the Germans had been "chased
out" of Abbeville, but once
again the Nazi onslaught has
broken through to the sea.
Paris, however, gave a more
hopeful picture of the conflict
I'nere it was reported that the
French armies, swiftly reorgan
zed, were fighting with new
fury to reunite their northern
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F
EXPORT COUNCIL
Portland, May 23 (U.R Rep
resentatives of fruit growers,
packers, shippers, sellers and
exports from three Pacific coast
states and British Columbia met
in Portland today and organ
ized the Pacific fruit exporters'
council, designed, they said, "to
j promote the common welfare of
the industry.
Thomas A. Duthie, president
of Duthie and Company, Port
land exporters, was named presi
dent of the council.
Duthie said one of the objects
of the council will be to charter
vessels for the transportation of
the cargoes of its members. Other
objectives include negotiation of
transportation rates and terms;
negotiation for services in load
ing and unloading fresh fruit,
and establishing joint contracts
for members.
Bucharest, May 23. 'Pi Ru
manian railroads and highways
were jammed today with nearly
300.000 reservists heading to
wards the frontiers as Rumania
put into effect the greatest mili
tary concentration in her his
tory. The general staff yesterday
had called up the reservists in
a virtual general mobilization
for "the highest state of pre
paredness" as diplomats here be-
lieved the government was ap
prehensive lest the Ruian
isrmy move into Rumania's Bes-'sarabia.
I War Bulletins
Pari. May 23. P Tha
French armies in a slashing
counter-attack tonight crack
ed the German salient which
had extended to the English
channel and reported they
had reached the suburbs of
their first objective Amiens.
London. May 23. iP) The
British announced tonight
that royal air force bombers
and fighters had blasted the
Germans' front and rear,
dropping 100 bombs on the
headquarters of a German
armored division and blowing
up a nasi ammunition train
near the Dutch-German fron
tier in Germany.
Rouen, France, May 23.
A German parachutist, carry
ing a bicycle and incendiary
equipment, was reported cap
tured tonight after he landed
in the Gourney region near
Rouen, south of the Somme.
on a mission of spreading fire
behind the allied lines. He
said he had been ordered to
mingle with Belgian refugees
and set fires wherever he
could.
London. May 23. t!P) Air
raid warnings in quick succes
sion sent residents scurrying
to cover in three east Kent
towns tonight as German fliers
feinted once more at Britain's
east coast.
London. May 23 f,TT
Lord Caldecote, dominions
secretary, tent a message to
Britain's dominions today de
claring that "the fate of west
ern civilization under God is
in the hands of the allied peo
ples" and "one airplane im
mediately is worth ten in six
months." ,
Washington. May 23. rP)'
Senator Pepper (D Fla.)
urged In the senate today that
the United States "turn the
scale of battle" in Europe in
favor of the allies by sending
goods, money and airplanes
to their aid at once."
Stockholm, May 23. (U.R)
Major General Fleischer,
commander of Norwegian
troops in northern Norway,
appealed today for more al
lied assistance to halt Ger
man forces advancing from
Mo, about 195 miles south, to
wards Narvik.
NEW RELIEF BILL
BARS REOS, NAZIS
Washington, May 23. IJP)
Without debate, the house
wrote into the 1041 relief hill
today a provision to deny WPA
empjoyment to communists or
members of "Nazi bund" organ
izations. On a voice vote, the mem
bers accepted without a dissent
an amendment by Rep. Walter
(D-Pa.) to broaden the prohibi
tion against relief employment
of aliens to include "commun
ists" and members of "any Nazi
bund organization."
TODZE IS CHAIRMAN
G. 0. P.
Portland, May 23. (tPt Ore-'
gon's newly elected delegates'
to the republican national con-1
vent ion, pledged to the presi-l
dential candidacy of Senator!
McNary, elected Walter L.
Tooze, Portland, chairman to-1
day.
Tooze was chairman of the
1936 delegation and head of the
northwest conference composed
of delegates from Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho.
SALEM'S POPULATION
HAS INCREASED 4,507
Salem. May 23. fP) Byron
G. Carney. Oregon census direc
tor, said today Salem's popula
tion totaled 30,773, a 4 507 gain
over a 10-year period. The 1930
population was 26.266.
Silver Price Up
New York, May 23. M
Handy & Harman, bullion bro
kers, today announced an in
crease of 1 s of a cent in the price
of imported bar silver to 351
cents a fine ounce.
SCOTLAND YARD IN
BRITISHFASCISTS
SVr Oswald Mosley Among
Prisoners Action Taken
Under Dictatorial Power
By the Associated Press
London, May 23. UP Brit
ain's war-time Scotland Yard
seized Sir Oswald Mosley and
other leading members of Mos
lcy's fascist "British Union" to
night in a far-reaching swoop
designed to stamp out fifth col
umn elements within the men
aced United Kingdom.
The offices of Mosley's organ
ization near the houses of par
liament were raided and the
leaders were arrested there, at
their homes, and elsewhere.
Five detectives lay In wait out
side Sir Oswald's apartment,
surrounded him when he
emered and took him to New
Scotland Yard.
M. P. Imprisoned
Earlier a conservative mem
ber of parliament. Captain
Arcnioaid H. M. Ramsay, and
a number of other persons had
been imprisoned on suspicion of
action "prejudicial to the secur
ity of the state" and parliament
had enacted a death penalty for
xreaencry.
The home office and its strik
ing arm, Scotland Yard, acted
within the scope of sweeping,
virtually dictatorial powers
granted yesterday by parliament
to Prime Minister!. Winston
Churchill.
Churchill summoned to Lon
don Viscount Craigavon, pre
mier of Ulster, leading to be
lief that northern Ireland's de
fenses against a possible in
vasion by German parachute
troops would be discussed.
139 OVER OILMAN
Official count In the Repub
lican nomination for county
commissioner, completed yes
terday, gave Arthur E. Powell.
editor-mayor of Central Point, a
139 lead over George Gilman,
Central Point district dairyman,
his nearest competitor.
The official count:
Powell 1,338
Gilman 1,199
Iverson 1,089
Kubll 1,079
Truax 596
The counting board was en
gaged today in tabulating the
write-in votes, and precinct
committeemen and committee
women votes.
ALF LANDON SEES
L
Washington, May 23 OP
Alf M. Landon said today, after
a conference with Secretary
Hull, that he personally was
willing that the United States
take part in the economic recon
struction of the post-war world
Landon, the Republican presl
dential nominee In 1936. went
to Hull for a "fill in" on foreign
affairs and received it In a fifty
minute conference. Landon said
i(te, ..ards they had discussed
not only Europe but also Latin
America and the Far East.
Landon refused to say whe
ther, after his talk with the sec
lelary of state, he supported
Hull's policies, but did remind
reporters that he had not op
posed Secretary Hull's trade
tigrecments program.
"We have a stake in Europe' .
he told them.
BRITISH MINERS STRIKE
AS WAR FLAMES NEAR
London, May 23. (Pi A
strike for higher wages by an
undisclosed number of under
ground and surface workers at
three collieriei In the Manches
ter district of Lancashire kept
4,000 miners idle) today.
SENATE APPROVES
FOR NAVY
SPEEDY VOTE
Unanimous Action Hastens
Roosevelt Defense Pro
gram; Adds 2,970 Planes
Fireside Chat
Washington, May 23 (Pi
President Roosevelt will dis
cuss defense conditions and
needs in a "fireside chat" to
be broadcast to the country
Sunday night.
In announcing Mr. Roose
velt's decision to make the
radio address at 9:30 p. m.
EST, (6:30 P.S.T.) Stephen
Early, presidential secretary
told newsmen it would be a
"straight forward and factual
report from the government
to the people."
He said it would be a "gen
?ral discussion of the defense
-itnation and defense need."
Washington, May 23 (TV
The senate approved the $1,473,
756,728 navy appropriations bill
tonay, hastening the administra
tion's extraordinary national
defense program far toward
final congressional action.
The roll call vote was unanim
ous, 78 to 0.
Approval came with a speed
like that with which the army's
share of the program was swept
through the senate yesterday.
A total of ' 2,970 airplanes,
2,300 of which would be train
ing ships to fill the needs of an
expanding training program,
would be provided under terms
of the navy bill.
Proposed aviation expendi
tures of $326,000,000 would In
clude $45,000,000 also for devel
opment of airplane shore facili
ties. The fleet would get $65,000.
000 in emergency funds for the
expedition of ship building
$35,000,000 for armor and am
munition and $6,000,000 for
modernization of the battleships
New York, Texas and Arkansas.
Ihese amounts would be in ad
dition to $259,000,000 in regular
appropriations to speed the work
on two battleships, an aircraft
carrier, two cruisers, eight de
stroyers, four submarines and
five auxiliary ships.
COOPERATION HAS
L
Boston, May 23 OJ.P.) For
mer President Herbert Hoover
fays he favors cooperation be
tween the two parties in times
of crisis. But he insists that
there never should be coali
tion government or a one-party
syrtem in the United States.
He suggested In an Interview
at Boston that President Roose
velt call in Republican leaders
of the senate and house if he
wants rb learn the sentiments of
the Republican party. If the
li.O.P. leaders agree with the
president on questions of na
tional defense, peace or war.
Hoover added, the president Is
entitled to their cooperation.
Quail Build t Nest
Next To Rip Saw
At Local Sawmill
Unimpressed by a rip saw
which yowls and vibrates all
day less than two feet away,
a valley quail has established
her nest in a pile of sawdust
in the planing mill shed at
the Medford Corporation and
is Industriously setting on
twelve eggs. The quail pays
no attention to the men
working about her all day
and flys In and out of the
nest beneath the saw frame
at will.
About three yean ago an
other quail located herself
and brood in the mill and
employees report that at the
present time there are other
nc.rts about the yard of the
corporation.
Evan as ihese workmen In one of the assembly rooms at the Lockheed aircraft plant at
Burbank. Calif, (above), rushed work on Hudson type bombers lor the British Royal Air
Force, German troops smashed closer to the English channel, placing England in immediate
peril of cross-channel attack. Meanwhile plans were being made in Washington. D. C, to step
up American plane production in accordance with President Roosevelt's defense program.
Two Students Die in Smashup
.
AUTOIST KILLED
AS
E. J. McVeigh, about 21, was
a brother of Arthur S. McVeigh,
of 526 South Ivy street, Med
ford. He was en routu home to
Klamath Falls, after visiting his
brother here yesterday. He had
previously visited here from
time to time and was well
known.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McVeigh
went to Klamath Falls upon
hearing of the accident and re
turned this afternoon.
Klamath Falls, May 23. VP)
E. J. McVeigh 22 died this
morning of injuries received
when his car crashed Into a
Greyhound bus on the Green
Springs highway west of Keno
late yesterday. He failed to re
gain consciousness after the ac
cident in which he sustained a
crushed chest and deep lacera
tions. Passengers of the bus, which
was being driven toward Ash
land by H. C. Smith, Mcflford,
received a general shakng up
and Mrs. Charles Bculow. Hood
nivar u-na trenteri fop arm anH
hip bruises. Several others!
were bruised slightly.
State police said a nearby res
ident heard what he thought was
a blowout just before the crash.
McVeigh'i car, coming down
grade, veered to the left and
smashed the fender and wheel
of the oncoming bus.
The motor was thrown com
pletely out of the car and the
steering wheel was bant
through the windshield as the
machine bounced back across
the highway.
All the passengers on the bus
were brought to Klamath Falls
for examination.
U. S. BIRTH RATE
IN SLIGHT DROP
Washington, May 23. A
slight drop In the United States
birth rate last year was noted
today by the census bureau.
Births last year totaled 2.-
262.726. This was at the rate of I
17.4 for each thousand persons,
against 17.6 in 1938 and 17.0
in 1937.
New Mexico had the highest!
1939 birth rate, preliminary fig :
urea showed, with 33.7. Other !
high states were Arizona, Mia-1
sissippl and Utah. The lowest;
rate was In New Jersey, 13.0. 1
Figurea by states on the'
birth rates for 1939 and 1938 1
showed: California, 16 8 and
16.5; Oregon, 16.3 and 15.8;
Utah, 25.1 and 25.5; Washing
ton, 16.0 and 16.1.
BASEBALL
American
R. H. E.
New York .. 2 6 1
Detroit 3 7 0
Ruffing and Dickey; Newsom
and Sullivan.
Philadelphia ... 4 16 4
Chicago 13 IS 0
Babich, Heusser and Hayes;
Lee and Trcsh,
Natlunal
Chicago at Philadelphia night
game, (others all postponed
rain, wet grounds).
LIST OF EXPENSE
Four candidates have filed
their expense accounts for the
primary election campaign, as
required under Oregon law
Most of the expense was for po
litical advertising, other items
being travelling, gasoline, and
campaign match boxes.
Ralph Sweeney, unopposed
Democratic county treasurer
candidate spent $46.50, and Geo
R. Carter, unopposed Republi
can candidate for county clerk,
expended $43.92. County Super
intendent C. R. Bowman, who
won renomination spent $36.88.
J. B. (Blin) Coleman, who won
he Republican county judge
nomination by 14 votes, expend
ed $173.55.
FAMED YUKON HOTEL
GOES UP IN HIES
Dawson City. Y. T.. May 23
(U.R) Fire has destroyed cne of
the most famous landmarks in
the Yukon territory. It is the
Yukonia hotel In Dawson City,
where the Floradora girls made
their home when they Invaded
the gold-fields In 1898. .The
hotel was burned to the ground
today in a fire which razed a
theater, restaurant .and two
smaller buildings.
The Yukonia was one of the
Yukon's most famous spots dur
ing the gold rush it the turn of
the century.
GANNETT WILL SPEAK
IN PORTLAND MONDAY
Portland, May 23 (U.R) An
eastern chain newspaper pub
lisher, Frank E. Gannett,' will
v:slt Portland Sunday apparent
ly to further his hopes for the
I; publican presidential nomina
tion. Gannett Is scheduled to speak
Monday night before a Republi
can rally. He will leave Tuesday
for Salt Lake City.
Ssn Francisco, May
tr unchanged.
-(AP) But-
PASSENGER AUTO
SIDESWIPES TRUCK
NEAR JEFFERSOM
Albany, May 23. (IP) A P.
clflc highway automobile-truck
collision killed iwo students
and Injured four others three)
miles north of Jefferson today.
The dead:
Charles Marshall, 20, Port
land, junior at Oregon Stat
college,
Kenneth Hanklns, 21, Bend,
lunlor at the University of Ore
gon, The Injured:
Donna Brown, 18, Portland,
Ore., State college sophomore.
Clark Weaver. 19, Klamath
Falls, University of Oregon.
Ted McMurren, 18. Jennings
Lodge, University of Oregon.
William Bloodworth, 19.
Portland, University of Oregon.
State Police Officer Wallace!
Hug said the passenger car car
rying the students south from
Portland attempted to pass on
truck and collided with another
on the crest of a hill. The stu
dents left Portland at 12:30 a.m.
McMurren advised the officer
he was in the back seat with
Hanklns, Weaver and Miss
Brown. Bloodworth and Mar
shall occupied the driver's com
partment. The patrolman under
stood from the students' report
that the car waa owned and
operated by Bloodworth.
Hug learned the Bloodworth
car passed a slowly moving ce
ment truck, sideswiping the
north bound truck loaded with
1500 chickens. The crash tor)
off the aide of the passenger
car and spun the chicken truck
across the highway. The poultry
was released from the crates.
I uuy u. roreman of Portland.
chicken truck driver, suffered
slight injury and shock. Of tha
students, only Bloodworth'a in
juries were reported serious.
His head was cut and his body
badly bruised. Weaver also re
ceived deep head gashes.
The university and college
group, McMurren reported, had
been in Portland visiting the
Marshall, Bloodworth and
Brown homes.
He explained that hs waa
asleep and did not havs full
details of the accident
Rebekaht Elect
Grand Officers
Corvallls, May 23. UP) The)
Rebekah assembly of the I. O.
O. F. elected Vernisha Newby.
Amity, president of the grand
lodge at the annual convention
here yesterday.
Other officers Included
Myrtle McAlpin, Eugene, vies
presient; Hallie Ingle, Corvallls,
secretary; lbs B. Knight, Can
by, treasurer; Madalens Ross
ner, Dayton, warden.