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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Samrdat. Utile fhinre la tem perature. Temperature Hlrheet eetereaj i Umeec tills oiornlDt- Friday Again Th- biff day for ClaMlftod A It euntUy. Why not writ jam 44 bow htl you ara thinking ftbut Iff MoM peopla r4 mtv ii Sunday mn4 then Is ft fun day ahead tor action. I mall cost. Medford IIBUNE full Aisociated Pre FuU United Pru MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940. Thirty-fifth Year No. 54. Wm im ini w - i ma 111 o) ml ni. .i i AT ALLIES HURLING I war Bulletins REDDY DAUGHTER BATTLES ILLNESS IN CHROME RACE Bsrlin. Mar 24. P) An official announcamant tonight - ad 2.000 alliad planaa had bean destroyed tine May 10. (A British announcamant today said tha allias had da slroyad 1,500 Carman planaa In tha sama pariod). F OF PUERTO Major Hot Spots in France, Belgium ENGLAND Washington, D. C. May 24. Almost over night the national capital has had its confidence in the allies shaken. Doubt is expressed on every hand that the British and French will win the war. Military officers, who know most about such things, are predicting that England will be drenched with bombs from Nazi planes that this in inevi table and unescapable: it may take place before these lines are In type. With a realization that the allies may take a drubbing and Hitler come out as Mr. Big. members of congress recognize that they have some vital work ahead; decisions to be made which will affect the history of the United States for a gen eration at least. There is more than a national defense pro gram. The theory on which the Uni ted States has proceeded in the past may have to be tossed out the window. This theory: The British navy policed the Atlantic, enabling the American fleet to be kept in the Pacific. British and French own islands which, if taken over by Ger many, would provide air bases from which North, Central and South America can be attacked in a few hours. i UNLESS tha- allies can hold out, there is little the Unl ted States can do to help "short of war". It is not a question of credits or loans now, it is too late to provide munitions, if England is on its knees by July, as Hitler has boasted. The com mission the allies dispatched to the United States to purchase supplies has delayed and hag gled for months. This is one reason the allies have not re ceived a greater number of combat planes and bombers. Now, In alarm, the commis sion would like to purchase the planes now in use by the army 2600 "first line" aircraft by the first of June. This would Mastery of Channel Ports at Stake; Germans at Calais, 22 Miles From Dover Cairo, Egypt, May 24 iP) I P inchiti in Mosques throughout Egypt today told Moslems to ba prepared for a "jihad." or holy war, to help the allied causa. Egypt has a military alliance with Britain. By the Associated Press The French announced to night they still held the English channel port of Boulogne against armored columns of attacking Germans. Allied artillery, too, raked the enemy salient across northern France with a cross-fire in an effort to stem the flow of Ger man motorized forces which have reached the gates of Calais, on the channel 20 miles above Boulogne. The French announcement followed a British statement earlier in the day that Boulogne fell to the Germans during the night. The German high com mand had not claimed the cap ture of Boulogne, but said its troops surged on nortward, ap parently brushing past the city to reach Calais only 22 miles from Dover, England. Channel Is Stake With the mastery of the Eng lish channel at stake, the allies hurled masses of infantry against the German salient at its . bottle-neck, between Cam brai and the river Somme. It was the first time in the 13- day-old campaign that the two branches of the service in which the allies claim superiority fantry and artillery, were thrown into full play. Away to the south, in France, the Germans hailed bombs on the Paris-Rouen railway in an attempt to cut off the French cnpital from the important har boi of Le Havre. The trend of battle in the critical struggle for mastery of the English channel veered rap idly north, with the Germans striking hard for the shortest direct jumping-off base for Eng land at Calais. Trap Tightened In so doing. Hitler's armored legions simultaneously tight ened the steel trap on between 500,000 and 1.000,000 allied troops "pocketed" in northern France and Belgium. With the success of the Ger man drive to the channel, the .nazis Jubilantly declared the encirclement of the allies was nearing air-tight completion, and said that a great "destruc tive battle may occur earlier than was expected." lt 1 uermans aiso rcporiea President Roo'sevelt stamped asihe. faI1 f ,ast -allied-held rook-evert tnriav anv irtea of toris in Maubeuge, France, Just Berlin. May 24. Bomb hits on an alliad cruiser and a transport vassal off German-held and allies-besieged Narvik, Norway's far northern ore port, ware re ported today by the German high command. ALLIED CONCESSIONS IEEN UNAVAILING APPEASING IL OUCE Mrs. Moroney and Brother, : Island Held Vital Point in Michael Reddy, Fly to Ju- Protection of U. S. and neau to Beat Deadline! Central Or North America Juneau. Alaska, May 24. (d'l Mrs. William Moroney and party, bound for Fairbanks to start fulfillment of a 23.000-ton chromium ore contract for the government, arrived here today from Ketchikan and went to a hotel to await takeoff time for the Fairbanks plane. Fighting illness, further de lays and the deadline on fulfill ment of the $846,000 contract. Mrs. Moroney arrived at Ketchi kan last night aboard plane from Vancouver, B. C. She was ac companied by Ralph Mason, min ing engineer, who intends to build a laboratory at Fairbanks for testing the ore, Francis Lass, son of the owner of the chrom ium mine near Port Chatman. Rome, . May 24. WP1 Futile q rniles from Seldovia. and her allied offers of concessions to, brother. Michael Reddy, who Premier Mussolini in the hopejwjn gtart production with a of keeping Italy non-belligerent small crew. (Continued on Page Ten.) COALITION IDEA RAPPED BY FIR. . ... l in-l-n. In Italian quarters. With Italy observing the an niversary of her entrance into the World war 25 years ago to day, unofficial observers said the French secretly offered her special rights in Tunisia, credit facilities through the Suez canal and a free port at Jibuti. French Somaliland. Jibuti is the only rail outlct,to Italy's Ethiopian empire, Britain has been negotiating for an arrangement to lift the allied blockade in the Mediter ranean for Italy. Mussolini, however, was quoted as saying the concessions are too little and too late, Washington, May 24 (Pi Legislation to permit un limited expansion of the army air corpa under President Roosevelt's $1,182,000,000 de fense program was passed by the house today and sent to the senate. Left Hospital Wednesday Mrs. Moroney left a San Fran cisco hospital Wednesday night, flew to Seattle and took a Van couver plane in an effort to reach a hospital here last night for treatment. Customs delays at Vancouver and Alert Bay,1 where the plane refueled, made it impossible. After the plane Washington. May 24. 0T"l Admiral William D. Leahy said after a defense conference with President Roosevelt today that completion of army and navy air bases In Puerto Rico would make it extremely hazardous for any foreign power to at tempt to invade the United States, , Central America or northern South America. The retired former chief of naval operations who is now governor of Puerto Rico said that at the present rate the bases will be finished in two years. But they could be speeded up, he added, so that they could be of definite service within two or three months. Navy Air Force Tops ' While the White House con centrated upon pressing the de fense program into the atage of Location of maior hot spots In France and Bel alum are shown on mas above. 1 Northers German army expeeta heaviest fighting at Ypres. 2 Triangle where allied pressure la retarding invaders In Abbeville area. Trench claim Arras recaptured (darn arrows inaicate antes aiiecxs). 3 Germana claim advance toward Solsions on Paris front. Cambrat (circle) continues to be scene of heavy fighting. Swastikas locate channel ports bombed by Neils. Open arrows Indicate probable German advance beyond admitted Unas. ir,ri.H at Kotnhikan arm went operations, the senate naval .nrfor o ,-,,' rp. - . - commlMee, considering legists- A larger crew will come north I Hon for expansion of tne naval . ,. . , . ., .1. -. . 4Um " June 10 to work at tin mine. coalition cabinet. He told his press conference that all speculation about Re publicans going into his cabinet for the purpose of having a non-partisan defense administra tion was a case of barking up the wrong tree. Such conjecture among poli ticians had been indulged in ever since Col. Frank Knox, Re publican vice presidential nom- south of the Belgian border. Tournal was declared captured. Reports reaching German dip lomatic sources in Bern, Switz- HONOLULU, May 24. W) Through the territory of Hawaii the only light visible from the air was the glow of molten lava in Mauna Loa, volcano on Ha waii island. All lights were out the length of the archipelago; there was not an automobile lamp lit; even the lighthouses were dark. For 10 minutes last night, beginning at 8:45 o'clock it was blackout time in Hawaii. For 10 minutes the territory tasted the tang of warfare; com plete as it was possible to be in the make-believe version. Mrs. Moroney, a native of Medford, is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Reddy and the late Dr. J. F. Reddy. Mrs. Reddy re sided here until a couple of years ago when she moved to San Francisco. The family retains an interest in mining proper ties in southern Oregon and northern California. Mrs. Maroney's contract with the government was consumated last winter and friends here had been awaiting news of the start of development work at the mines. Until today, nothing fur ther was heard of the project and Medford friends of the fam ily had wondered what had hap pened to delay operations. IPIDIRTEADY F0RG.0.P.FAV0R one resident out of four is white the army gave assurance it had nrnviriprt ncainst fifth column eriand, also listed tne capture i activities. u aid not elaborate. 01 fllonireuil ana L-a touqueii Seattle, May 24. IJP) Han ford MacN'ider of Mason City. In this territory where onlyfi0wa, former American Legion national commander, told inter viewers here today he believed a Republican president In 1941 air corps, was told that we have far and away the best naval air force in the world. This testimony was given by Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of naval aeronautics, whose earlier disclosures about the number of modern fighting planes the navy has on hand had precipitated a dispute among committeemen as to whether such facts should be made public. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference that he under stood the 48 state governors meeting in Duluth, Minn., about June 2, would express support for the pledge cooperation with the defense program, Mr. Roosevelt discussed the meeting yesterday with Gover nor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri. The Duluth meeting will be the regular annual conference of the governors. Business Would Aid Meantime American business leaders, mobilizing their vast resources on the Industrial front, pledged the national de fense program unreserved co operation for a task in which (Continued on Page Eleven.) Retail Sales Gain Portland, May 24 (Port land area retail sales showed Inee in 1938, visited the White 'healthy gains in most lines this House several weeks bbo to be week. Dun's business review followed there Wednesday by i said today. For the year, depart Alf M. Landon, who headed the j ment store business is up 6 to 7 Republican ticket four years per cent over the same 1939 ago. period. on the channel, and said the SWEDEN ASKS MORE TO FINANCE DEFENSE Stockholm, May 24. P) The Swedish government today asked parliament for a special appropriation of $31,000,000 to augment defense preparations. A military spokesman estimat ed Sweden's defense measures now are costing the government about $30,000,000 monthly.. would be more likely to keep the United States out of war than would a Democrat He asserted he was not in Washington state as a presi dential candidate. But, just in case the matter came up, he had a suitcase full of pamphlets en titled "MacN'ider for President,' "What About the American Farmer?" by MacNider, "Iowa's Answer on MacNider" and "Mac Nider More Than a Provincial Candidate." SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS George VI Says Issue Life or Death TEEBRUGGLai Vv -T cS DUNKIRK V-ApUVAlNe a -T'ST-V .if-ne kjaaaaaaaaaaBaaaasssaasaa MILES TROTSKY INJURED DURING ATTACK BY STALINIST GROUP Underground City Provided For Berliners' Protection Mexico City, May 24. ) Leon Trotsky was attacked to day by a group of 30 or 40 men who fired into the famous Rus sian exile's bedroom. He was slightly injured by flying glass. Trotsky came to Mexico In 1937 after the wandering exile that followed his falling-out with the powers of the Soviet Russia he helped to build as one of the leaders of the October, 1817, revolution. Lately he has lived in a walled-in house In the village of Coyoacan, Mexico City suburb. One of Trotsky's secretary- guards, Sheldon Harte, was miss ing after the attack, during which assailants gained entry to the grounds, took two motor cars, and broke down several doors. A fellow guard said Harte was "kidnaped." A secretary who said he spoke with Trotsky's authority de clared the "attack was person ally directed by Joseph Stalin." The former Soviet War lord has they said "our very lives and been a critic" and enemy of imenies may De involved. Asked about Attorney Gen eral Jackson's statement that the chief executive had known for sometime of "fifth column" activities In this country, Mr. Roosevelt said one of the sources of Information, some of which he said was good and some not so good, was the record of the Dies committee on un-American activities. As for the suggestion by Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, that Re publicans would offer full co operation with the administra tion if the president would eliminate himself as a third term candidate, Mr. Roosevelt said he believed he had no comment. Berlin, May 14. U.B It has been revealed that a great under ground city, large enough to shelter 2,300,000 people has been built secretly under the German capital of Berlin. The underground network of rooms has hospitals, police sta tions, food warehouses, and as tounding provisions to ensure, insofar as possible, normal life under prolonged air raids. Some of the passages lead out to the weeded suburbs where the people would be compara tively safe from air bombing. The underground city hat ita own power plant, and a pump for the utilization of artesian wells In case the main water pipes are cut. FOR BERRY CROP ALIENS IS CHARGE Classmate Slayer Given Life in Pen London, May 24. &) On a'struction of our world as we I said he had asked that next black EmDire day with Eng-inave known it and the descent i Sunday be set aside In England The petite June isealon loox- . thre,tencd by tne first in-' . , .'" - I " I Norristown, Pa., May 24. (P) ing smart ano chic In a new. i - i i ne King io.q nis ouu.uuu.uou , in wnicn rne nopea mar y . sixteen-year-old Robert Heine- pert bell-boy jacKct. . -- -" - - ,uuj.M ui.i imy ! a umuciu -""'u ; man. described by Montgomery vi loaay accusea nazi Germany . or aeam struggle. , join. countv District Attorney Fred- II. Barnhart bringing Roguciof . ..lon, DUtnned schene tol "Let no one think that myl Observing that Britain's en-::t,, cm; '.1,71 niver nauuimi avvuh.. novel desk gadgets made by CCC boys. Stalin. RED CROSS ASKS Portland, May 24. OP) A half-million dollar strawberry crop, ripening rapidly In warm, dry weather, faced serious dam age today for lack of pickers. State employment director L. C. Stoll, who carried the berry industry a appeal to Multnomah and Washington county workers, reported 30 pickers showed up at Cornelius yesterday but S000 were needed. Ten thousand pickers are necessary to cover the huge producing area. Fred Stevens losing no time in getting his .fire wagon headed hack to headquarters, he being subjugate by torce tne nations confidence Is dimmed when I emies reier to ner --imperial-1 iquent." was sentenced to life of the woria. ten you now perilous is tne ism ana noia n synonymous imprisonment today for the slay- The king, in a personal broad ordeal which we are facing." with "the spirit of domination1 .., .. .i.um.i. i- 1 cast, calico upun nia (w-i'pirp iu ne raid, even as ireFn nail awe- ana wie iu.m vi iwmursi, 1 ! Abington, Pa., high school, i'kerp your resolve unshaken." ' cesses were reported from the king said "We free peoples of, j))e boy pleaded gu being turned out by the Lady Lions. Solicitation was tightened up In Medford today as the Red Cross campaign committee worked to place Jackson county among the first in the state to raise their quotas of funds for the aid of suffering people in the European war zones. Medford solicitors, working under the five members of the executive committee, are asking that each person contacted give a reasonable turn In proportion to his means. More rural districts were be ing organized to help In the drive, first Red Cross campaign here since 1923. County Commissioner Ralph Billings, defeated In the Repub lican primary tor the county Judge nomination by Assessor J. B. (Blin) Coleman, by a margin of 14 votes, in the official count, announced today: "I am not sponsoring any re count, and hope there won't be any." Washington, May 24. W) Senator Bridges (R N. H.) pro posed today that, congress for bid aliens to carry, own, buy or sell any Implement of war, and Senator Reynolds (D.. N. C.) asked for a $30,000 senate in vestigation of "fifth column" threats to the national defense. Their proposals, together with an attack by Representative Thomas (R., N. Y.) on Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, fol lowed a Junction of foreaa between congress and govern ment agencies to uncover and destroy subversive activities. Bridges' bill would provide deportation and a fine of up to $10,000 for violation!. Reyn olds offered a resolution to set up a three-man inquiry. Representative Thomaa assert ed in a statement that Jackson had been a "chief coddler" of foreign agents. ROCKEFELLERS GIVE RED CROSS $100,000 Washington, May 24. T A $100,000 contribution from rulttv Speaking gravely. King nearby roast of France. !the empire cast that word back 1 ,hooiin Edith Snvder also l , I it,, f -, r fl i , 1 -nn I V, - , it .Vtln. Mm tk.i, tooth" I.. , , . , . in . h.irrv tn resume consumD . i " . ." "i"' "'"" '.. "" io. as sne stuoiea in me living iinnnf the crivD solden waffles Pir thl decisive struggle Is.ir my heart as rrighty as it I 'It is they, ne said wno room f h nome on Apri, 83, linn OI me crisp. luiurn wni.ua I .,,. n,.l nnlUnM lhu oxil ininllnl Iiir "TV, m i.cit 1 nnw nlatn- It im nnt anntiffh " I one ohlert has alwava been Willamette Contract lis an issue of life or death fori Warning" his listeners that peace: peace Jn which our In- Portland, May 24. (41 The: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rocke- Eino Hemmila being kidded us all." he declared. 'Germany sought "no mere ter- stitutlons may be developed,, Willamette University trustees, feller, jr., and their five sons about his eoticational movie I "Defeat will not mean some ritorial conquest." but the the conditions of our peoples awarded the general contract forj brought to $2,128,176 today the 'Know Your Money." his the- j brief eclipse from which we "overthrow, complete and final. 1 improved, and the prob'ems of the construction of a new science amount contributed toward the tiers being gvped the same week shall emerge with strength re- of this empire and of even-thing government solved in the spirit - building at Salem to Wegman '$10 000.000 Red Cross war ra the film played Inewed it will mean the de-for which it stands," the king (of good will." I and sons, Portland, today. I lief drive begun May 10. Germans Abandon Flame Throwers Paris, May 24. P The German columns which are crunching to the English chan nel through a 30-mlle corridor have discarded the flame throwing tanks which they used to cut through the fortifications of the Reuse river in northern France last week, military re ports said today. Instead, they are using tanks equipped with machineuns. The flame-throwers had only a 70-yard range. ' E. Clemens Horst San Francisco, May 24 P) t. Clemens Horst. 73. head of extensive hop and fruit growing interests, died in a San Francis co hospital today. He wai presi dent of the E. Clemens Horst company which operated hop and fruit ranches, canned and rucked fruit and exported bar l jr. FRENCH BLOW UP LOCKS ON RHINE-RHONE CANAL Basel, Switzerland, May 24. W French army engineers blew up scores of locks on the Rhine-Rhone canal today, flood ing hundreds of square mtlef of territory on the French aid of the Rhine. The canal run from Stras bourg to Basel, and the lock formed a vital part of the Mag inot line defenses. - - New York, May 24. aV-The Young Republican club of New York, which last March endorsed Thomaa E, Dewey for tha presi dential nomination and later re affirmed the endorsement, will meet tonight to consider a pro posal to switch Its allegiance to) Wendell L. Wlllkle. BASEBALL v American Detroit Chicago R. 1 2 H. S 4 Bridges. Corsica and Tebbetta; Rigney and Trean.