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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather fortes!: Fair tonight nJ Tuesday, ftllghtl warmer Tuea day. Tempera! urt lll.heM yetterdav 11 Lowest this morning . 41 Find Real Snap Sate a fw mra siataa ef rmr Kara far yor bnrt Checfc IIm Mall Trlbnae For Sal Sea ice fine values la rum 1 1 or and HomeruniUlilnfa, Oftra yoa sin find rral nap, majba Jurt ahat yon wreak Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Pres Full United Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1940. No. 56. ran m SfMNtLE EMU r . Washington. D. C. May 27 So anxious was he to prevent a vote on the Logan-Walters bill, permitting court appeals from scores of federal agencies, that Democratic Leader Senator Barkley opened the gate for the 1 aFollette measure to prohibit employment of labor spies, then realized that the bill materially affects, adversely, plans for na tional, defense. When Barkley woke up it was too late to cor rect the mistake in strategy. This LaFollette measure is the result of 120 days of hear ings since August, 1936. It has cost $200,000, produced 51 vol umes and 19,000 pages of print ed testimony. Witnesses exam ined, 883. It is popularly known as the Civil Liberties committee and the bill resulting from the probe is strongly supported by CIO. Chiefly the committee ex posed the use of detectives in industrial plants: the arsenals maintained in some factories. REASON why the LaFollette meas uure came at an embarrassing time la that It prohibit an employer from Inquiring whether a worker be lone to a political party; forbids an employer to have lethal weapons on hand to defend hla property; makes unlawful hiring anyone to watch his men to learn what they are doing or e&ylng. Normayr those prohibitions mJght have been met wllh public approval, but the national defense puts anoth er face on the matter. Should the bUl become a law a worker cannot be asked If he la a communist; no weapons can be available for guard lng property; ' no one permitted to keep an eye on suspects who may plan sabotage. In brief, the bill La Follette sponsors Is right up the alley of members of the "fifth column" permits them to go Into plants as workmen and perpetrate such dam age as they can without an under cover agent being around to Interfere ei prevent the sabotage. Iff view of the Trojan Horae tactics the bill takes a new significance. There are In Oregon and Washing ton 4000 communists, according to the testimony of Earl Browder, No. One Stslln agent In the United States. In addition there are several thousand "fellow travelers". (See printed hearings of the Dies commit tee). There are, also, several organi sations In the Pacific northwest (Continued on Page Pour.) KLAMATH BOY KILLED PLAYING IN STREET Klamath Falls, May 27. Gordon Smith, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Smith, was fa tally injured Saturday night when struck by a car while playing along a city street. He died in a hospital early Sunday morning. Investigating officers said the boy apparently jumped into the street from a curb in front of a car driven by Mrs. Bessie Hartley of Merrill. To Launch Battleship Philadelphia, May 27. IIP) The 35,000-ton battleship Wash ington, first battleship addition to America's sea defenses since 1821, will be launched Satur day amid the strictest precau tions since 1917. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ernie Piluso not being par ticularly impressed with a friend's illustrated lecture on how to properly execute an early morning sprint. ed by a patriotic poppy sales-. woman where her poppy was, J replying seriously that she guessed he was working. i Maria Keler demonstrating ; her agility by climbing L'P the; pole at fire headquarters, a feat 1 no other woman in her party could do. Tommy Hawkins issuing an invitation for a dutch lunch with all the trimmings. It being ' passed up by a friend with the deepest regret. NAZI ONSLAUGHT BACKS ALLIES UP WEST OTSCHELDT Channel Mastery and Fate of 'Lost Million' Are at Stake in Terrific Conflict London, May 27. (IP) Well Informed sources in London tonight described the military situation in northern France as of increasing grav ity. By the Associated Press German and allied armies thrashed like giant pythons, each seeking a strangle-hold, in the bloody battle of Flanders to day. Mastery of the English chan nel and the fate of the so-called Most million" allied troops were at stake. Germany hurled great masses cf men and materials into a re newed onslaught in the Valen ciennes sector, forcing hard pressed French troops to with draw to new positions west of the Scheldt river. The French high command, admitting the setback, said how ever the situation was "not un favorable." Furious Attack Seeking a quick knockout, the Germans threw wave after wave of tank-led infantry into a furi ous Rttack in the Lens-Ypres sector in the north. The Nazi high command said a deep breach had been cut in the allied lines and that counter attacking French colonial troops hud been thrown back with "bloody losses" northeast of Lens. German warplants and swift striking torpedo boats quickened the tempo of the Nazi drive for control of the channel. The waterfront at Dunkerque. north of Calais, was reported in flames after German bombing attacks. Both sides appeared to be flinging all available troops, tmks, planes and guns into the great battle in flanders. Two Major Phases In one major phase of the struggle, Generalissimo Maxime Weygand's forces sought to break through the German sali ent to the channel at its 18-mile wide bottleneck in the Bapaume Peronne area. If successful, the vital line of communications feeding the German columns along the channel would be broken; the Nazi spearhead columns isolated. In the second phase, Hitler's armored troops were flailing hard to pinch off the allied salient in the north between Lille, France, and Courtrai, Belgium, at a similarly narrow bottleneck. If successful, the Germans in turn would isolate allied forces which are seeking to isolate the Nazis. Near Ypret Amid this complicated action, terrific German attacks which were described by the French as launched "without regard to (Continued on Page Eight.) IB Washington, May 27. IIP) President Roosevelt nominated Jay Pierrepone Moffat today to be minister to Canada. Moffat, a native of New Hampshire, now is chief of the state department's European division. Moffat will succeed James H R. Cromwell, who resigned af ter accepting the nomination of New Jersey democrats to run for the senate. G-Aen Prepare to Trail 5th Columns Washington. May 27 (U.R) The federal bureau of investi gation is getting ready for an intensive campaign designed to turn up fifth column elements in the nation. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the F B.I. has cancelled the an nual leaves of all G-men. Find Body of Missing Table Rock Man in Rogue war Bulletins Paris. May 27 P Pre mier Hubert Plerlot. of Bel gium, announced tonight af ter meeting with his refugee cabinet that his government has decided to continue in the war on the side of the allies. The premier said Bel gium would triumph sooner or later and remain faithful to her cause. Rome, May 27 ilP) The British embassy denied today story circulated by Ex change Telegraph. British news agency, in London that British nationals had been advised to leave Italy. , Ottawa. Onl., May 27. lPl Prime Minister MacKeniie King announced in commons tonight that Canada's military and air forces will be expand ed immediately to meet the critical situation in the Euro pean war. SATKO ARK CALLS AT NANAIMO. B. C. J Nanaimo, B. C, May 27, (CP Safely over watery and legal hurdles, the Paul Satko family was "getting along all right" today on its trip to Alaska in the 40-foot, home- mida 'Ar1r nt .Tunafiii ' The Ark put in here yestcr-J rinv. rmarlne the entire familv Paul, an unemployed Virginia welder, his wife and their seven children, six of whom were ex pressly prohibited by a Seattle court order from boarding the boat. British Columbia officials evinced no Intention of inter fering with the family's north ward progress toward a home stead and a new life on Cook inlet, Alaska. Manufacturer Die Portland, May 27. (IP) Charles L. Dunham, SO, presi dent of the Reliance manufac turing company, died yesterday. He was a noted Portland manu facturer of furnaces. F.D.R. Appeals for Unity; Pledges Military Security Washington, May 27. UP) In a solemn appeal for national unity, President Roosevelt coupled a pledge of military security last night with a warn ing against Trojan horse treach cry and the "undiluted poison" of foreign-sponsored dissension. Calling for an end to fear, Il lusion and calamity-howling, the chief executive said in his four teenth radio "fireside chat" that American defense forces would be built up ' "to whatever heights the future may re quire." Funds Not Wasted He denied charges of critics that money spent for aryiy and navy in the last few years had "gone down the rat-hole." In stead, he said: "This money has been used to make our army and navy to day the largest, tHe best equipped, and the best trained peacetime military establish ment in the history of this country." "These dividing forces are undiluted poison. They must not be allowed to spread in the new world as they nave in the old." The president said that 'the past two weeks have meant the shattering of many illusions" for persons who had "closed their eyes" to events abroad or "who would not admit the pos sibility of the approaching storm." "They have lost the illusion," he declared, "that we are re mote and Isolated and. there fore, secure against the dangers from which no other land is free." Not Weapons Alone I After declaring that nothing : In the present emergency Justi fied breakdown or cancellation ot "any of the great social REDS, BUNDSTERSi BE Senate Favors Prohibition of Alien Elements in Inter state Commerce Concerns Washington. May 27 (Pi The senate passed today leg islation which would restrict sharply the number of jobs held by communists, "Nasi bund" members of aliens in this country and would out law "oppressive labor prac tices" in interstate commerce. Washington, May 27 IIP) The house adopted a resolution today to give quick effect to President Roosevelt's transfer oi the immigration service to the justice department as a means of gaining "more effective con trol over aliens." The action came on a voice vote. If approved also by the senate, the president could make tiie transfer effective in ten days. Mr. Roosevelt proposed the cnange last Wednesday and told congress that "in view of the ency ot ne req request he nuPea aulcK amrmauv e action could be taken.' In the course of house denate, Representative Tabrr (R-NYl described Secretary Perkins as "a notorious incompetent." He gave this reason why many of us" would vote for the resolution to take the immigra tion service out of the labor de partment without delay: "The president has not the patriotism or the courage to re move the secretary of labor, a notorious incompetent and one who for the last seven years has steadily refused to enforce the immigration law and con tinuously admitted and kept here those who were not en titled to stay." gains" under the new deal, Mr. Roosevelt asserted that "to day's threat to our national se curity is not a matter of mili tary weapons' alone." "We must deal vigorously," he said, with "spies, saboteurs and traitors." The new tech nique of weakening a nation at its roots, he continued, is discord aimed at creating "con fusion of counsel, public inde cision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic." "Campaigns of group hatred or class struggle have never made such headway among us, and are not making headway now," he said, "but new forces are being unleashed, deliber ately planned propagandas to divide and weaken us in the face of danger as other nations have been weakened before." NAZIS UNEXCITED BY FIRESIDE TALK Berlin, May 27. OI Presi dent Roosevelt's fireside talk last night was regarded by au thorized German sources today as having touched on the Uni ted States' own business. Germany has never been a threat In the western hemis phere, these sources said, and if America feels she needs bet ter defenses It cannot be be cause of any German designs. They declared that Cermany respected the slogan "America for Americans", but also ex- I pected America to respect the ' slogan "Europe for the Europeans." TELEPHONE TOLLSiUNION NOT I IMF JACKSONVILLE AT HEARING Company Auditor Claims Ex change in Pioneer Town Shows Heavy Annual Loss Jacksonville. May 27. (SpU A mass of statistical evidence was presented by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company at the Jacksonville rate hearing before the Oregon public utili ties commission in the Commer cial club today. The hearing con tinued this afternoon, Jackson- ville to present its side of the; question at the completion of the company s case. Although a complete adjust ment of rates is sought by the company, the bone of contention is the proposed five cent toll charge on calls between Jackson ville and Medford and between Medford and Jacksonville, there having been no charge pre viously for this service excepting from public slot telephones. In addition to the toll charge, the company proposes to make ad justments in the Jacksonville rates involving reductions to 14 business customers, 7 residence customers and 74 farm customers and increases o-8fl residence customers, evidence presented by the company showed. Operate at Loss C. S. Mason, company auditor from Seattle, testified that on its Jacksonville exchange the com pany suffered a net operating loss of $2,848.11 in 1938 and $2,419.76 in 1939. He estimated that under the proposed new rates and with the new dial sys tem functioning, and assuming no customers would be lost, the net operating loss in 1941 would be $986. In an opening statement, Omar Spencer, company attorney from Portland, said the change in rates was sought to bring Jack sonville schedules in conformity with those of comparable Oregon cities and that the change pro posal had been deferred until the dial system was to be put Into operation. Company wit nesses made similar statements. The company witnesses included at the morning session Fred D. Scholl of Portland, general com mercial manager for Oregon, Mr. Mason and R. J. Collins of Port land, general commercial en gineer for the Oregon area. The city of Jacksonville was represented by Herbert K. Ban na and the farm users of the Jacksonville area were repre sented by Porter J. Neff. Bean Presiding Ormond R. Bean, public utili ties commissioner, presided with T. O. Russell, the commission's chief engineer, serving as exam, iner. Also present were J. T. Naylor, the commission's tele phone engineer, and Alvin W, Kurtz, commission attorney. A hearing on the same subject Is to be held at 10 a. m. tomor row in the Jackson county court house, Medford IS LOST IN STORM Seattle, May 27. fTWSand Point naval air base authorities today revealed the lost of a 10 ton, twin motored bombing plane during night maneuvers off the Washington coast last veek. Her crew of six was res cued. Lieut. (J.G.) Charles E. Brun ton, pilot, was commended by Lieut. Comdr. Harry Carlson, commanding squadron VP 43. for making a skilful forced landing at night, during heavy weather, without loss or Injury of a man. Winds of It to 25 knots pro duced heavy seas, and the U S. S. Williamson took the bomb er In tow. After battling head winds for 36 hours, the Wil- liamson was forced to cut the 1 tow line. FOR DAMAGE DONE DURING SIT-DOWN Supreme Court Sustains Contention Unions Not Subject Ordinarily to Law Washington, May 27 MP) The supreme court ruled today that a labor union was not liable under the federal anti-trust laws for damages resulting from a sit down strike. . The 8 to 3 decision was deliv ered by Justice Stone. Chief Justice Hughes wrote a dissenting opinion in which Jus- tires McReynolds and Roberta joined. Stone asserted the activities of the labor union involved In the litigation did not sufficiently interfere with interstate com merce to constitute a violation ot the Sherman Act. The far-reaching opinion sus tained the contentions of labor organizations for many years that they were not subject ordi narily to the law. Guide To Justice Dept. This decision was expected to guide the justice department in its present anti-trust campaign against labor organizations and business concerns charged with conspiracy to restrain interstate commerce. Specifically Involved was a suit by the Apex Hosiery coin ages sustained during a seven- pany of Philadelphia for dam week sit-down strike in 1937 by a local unit of the American federation of full fashioned ho siery workers. OUTLINES PLANS Rome. May 27 (U.R) A fascist newspaper in Rome features to day a full-page war map show ing how Italy will attack the allies as soon as Benito Musso lini gives the order to enter the war on the side of Germany. Simultaneously, another Ital ian newspaper declared that if Italy enters the war the decisive battle will be fought in Egypt. The fascist military expert, Antonio Trizzino, said that when II Duce gives the word, the Italian air armada will unleash its full force against the allied fleet which is based on the Egypt-Palestine-Cyprus triangle. FUNDS URGED FOR Washington, May 27. IIP) Members of Oregon's congres sional delegation, headed by Senator McNary, urged the army engineer board today to uphold a division engineer's favorable findings on a $400,000 Improvement project at Port prford. Ore. I The project would mean rapid i development of the Port Or I ford area, the board was told by McNary, Senator Holman and Representative Mott, who also supported a flood control project on the Yaqulna river in Oregon. The board previously report ed it was unconvinced of the Port Orford project's Justifica tion. OPTICAL FIRM FINED IN ANTI TRUST CASE New York, May 27 U.R) One of the largest optical firms in the world, Bausch and Lomb, and three of Its officers were to day fined a total of $40,000 on charges of violating federal anti trust and tariff laws. The violation came through a secret trade agreement with German firm to control the dis tribution of vital military and uvil equipment. I . Detained V ' Captain Frans Von Rlntelen (above), noted for German espi onage activities In the World war and in recent years a resi dent of England, waa detained in London in England's drive on fltth column activities. Von Rintelen operated in the United States during the World war. FEAR TRIO IN COUPE PLUNGED INTO RIVER AS RESULT OP CRASH OROFINO. Idaho. May 27. UP) Sheriffs" officers from three counties, assisted by Idaho traf fic patrolmen, were dragging the swift Clearwater river below here today for a light coupe in which it was believed three per sons from Clarkston, Wash., lost their lives last night. The coupe caromed off the back of another machine and hurtled into the deep, fast water. Today E. J. Bath, 37-year-old Clarkston school teacher, and Mrs. T. S. Belt, 85, and Mrs. Vera Rognstad, 45, Clarkston widows; were reported missing from their homes after having gone to the Selway national forest for a pic nic. They were to have returned last night. CE ENDS THIS WEEK No figures on Medford's pop ulation will be given out until all data obtained by enumera tors has been tabulated In the district census bureau at Eu gene, Moore Hamilton, of Med ford, assistant state supervisor. announced today, Hamilton stated, however, that "Medford has nothing to fear" from com parison ot population figures with those ot 1930. Mr. Hamilton, who arrived Sunday to supervise cleanup of the count here, said the work would be finished this week. He urged those in Medford not yet contacted by the enumera tors to leave their names at the Chamber of Commerce. BRITISH DENY PLAN TO SINK AMERICAN LINER London, May 27 U.R) A Ger man charge that the British are planning to sink the American refugee boat. President Roose velt. Is branded as a lie in authoritative London quarters today. Previously, the German! charged that the British were planning to sink the American boat and then claim that it was the work of Nazi U-boats. Gold Beach, Ore., May 27. IIP) MacLeay lodge, headquar ters for the Cocs-Curry Fire Pa trol association, burned to the ground today. The landmark, at Wcdderburn across Rogue river from Gold Beach, form erly was the home ot Roderick L. MacLeay. CENTRAL PL BOYS MAKE GRUESOME FIND INJTREAM Remains of Lewis Robert Loesch Located Near Gold Ray Dam; No Inquest The body of Lewis Robert Loesch, 67, missing from hit home at Table Rock since the evening of March 20, was dls covered in a shallow and nar row channel of Rogue river about a mile and a quarter up stream from Gold Hay dam yes terday afternoon. The discovery was made by three Central Point boys, Delbert Lee, 16; William Mills, 19, and Arthur Miller, 21. County Coroner Frank Perl, after talking with District At torney Frank J. Newman, said today that no inquest would be held. The coroner listed the death as a suicide. Due to the badly decomposed condition of the body, caused by over two months submersion in the river, an autopsy could not be held. the coroner said. Positive Identification Positive identification ot the. corpse was made by the teeth, clothing and the fact that two fingers were missing off . the right hand. Also, weight and height tallied with the informa tion authorities received when Loesch first disappeared, the coroner said. The three boys found the body while they were towing a canoe behind a rowboat in the direc tion of Gold Ray dam. The boys had lost the canoe Friday about two miles above the dam and had returned and found it Sat urday and tied it up, state police explained. Sunday, the three youths obtained rowboat, row ed to the canoe's location and started to tow it to Gold Ray dam so they could get it out of the river, police said. A mistake led the trio to dis cover Loesch's body. About a (Continued un rage Fits.) Nazi Parachutists Landed at Narvik Berlin, May 27. CUB The German high command said to day additional German alpine troops have landed by parachute to bolster the nazl garrison at the Norwegian port of Narvik. The Germans regard Narvik as extremely important because meteorologists there are furnish ing important weather data to the high command. In addition, German forces operating in the area have prevented the allies from gaining control of an im porta nt route to the northern Swedish frontier. BASEBALL National First game: R. H. Z. Cincinnati 2 6 0 Pittsburgh 14 0 L. Moore, Beggi and Lom bardl; M. Brown and Davis. Second game: Cincinnati R. K. . 7 11 . 3 E. 0 1 Pittsburgh Turner and Hershberger; Ba li en, Heintzelman and Berrea. R. H. Z. Philadelphia 0 4 1 Brooklyn 6 12 1 Smoll, Hoerst and Atwooa, Warren; Wyatt and Mancuso. " R. H. - X. New York , .. 14 1 Boston 7 13 0 Lohrman. Dean, Lynn and Dannlng, Odea; Posedel and Lopez. R. H. Z. St. Louli - 17 Chicago 7 10 0 Bowman. J. Russell, White and Padgett; Pasaeau and Todd. Asaertcan R. H. X. Washington . New York 0 4 0 B 4 Chase. Jacobs and rarreUi Chandler and Dick (jr.