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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940.
Thirty-fifth Year
No. 54.
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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."
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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
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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.
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