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The Weather Fwrcast: Partly cloud?' to night anil UrdneMlajr, ftllghtly narmer tonight. Trmperatur H1hMt elrdaT fT Lowrct thU morning 43 Then Remember Whae yom taanghta ran te SELLING, than nmrmbfr the aalrkeat and moat latUnutory to aril la through I ha runalflrd Adt la this newa peper. Tha roat mil ha tnr prltlngly low eoaildcrliif re turn. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940. No. 57. C1 ffi o ? nn n r-i huh yUuyuiiiNiiyjsijtiS) I Washington, D. C, May 28. President Roosevelt put over fast one on Senator Rufus Hoi man, Oregon's junior senator. For a year Holman has been trying to obtain action on his bills to curb immigration and keep out bad actors and oust undesirable aliens from the United States, but no soap. Then, when Rufus was sailing around In a military transport plane down In Louisiana, Mr. Roosevelt issued reorganization order No. 5 and a message which aims at the very pur poses Holman has been advo cating. Because of agitation over the "fifth column," those who bore from within, the enemy within the gates, Mr. Roosevelt de cided the immigration problem was no task for a soft-hearted woman. Issued the order trans ferring this bureau from Madam Perkins, secretary of labor, to the more hard-boiled department of Justice, which has the G-men available for in vestigations. The transfer was forecast in this space many months ago. N Holman's office there is a fat, bulging file containing data on the immigration prob lem. Some of the material was received In strict confidence from government officials who are aware of what has been go ing on, but who would lose their jobs if they spoke out In meeting. Contents of the Holman file tell how aliens are being boot legged into the United States from Cuba "through Florida: how others are being smuggled across the Canadian border; how still others seep Into this country from Mexico. There is a memo which shows hundreds of aliens who cannot be de ported because thetr own coun try refuses to take them back. Several hundred of these are Russians but other European nations are represented. In war times these would be placed in concentration camps, but now they present a problem. (Continued on Paga Nina.) BASEBALL American League Washington 4 12 1 New York 12 14 1 Haynes, Hudson and Ferrell; Russo, Murphy and Dickey. Chicago 9 18 2 St. Louis 10 12 1 Higney. Weiland, Grove and Tresh, Turner; Kennedy, Coff man and Swift. National League Cincinnati 2 5 2 Pittsburgh 5 8 1 Thompson, Hutchings and Lombardi; Butcher and Davis. St. Louis 5 8 1 Chicago - 0 4 1 Lanier and Owen Olsen, Page and Todd. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS fVlia Ritrffman btisilv an. (aged in being a pal to a friend while being a pal to another friend. Ed Hcrriott arriving at the depot breathless after a cross country car ride to catch a train on time. Maxine Guyer's brief tcwrlet anklets matching her lipstick, nail polish and hair ribbon. Kiwanian Dame Thelma Nos ier looking as animated as Betty Boop as she whipped about making plans for several big Dames' social affairs. Ur.e Osle yelling for help when the got practically a whale on her line while fishing in the Arpltiale- 300,000 Drop Arms In Surprise Decree By King Leopold III Berlin, May 28. (IP) German radio accounts of the cap itulation of King Leopold of the Belgians said today he made his decision after stormy meetings with allied generalissimo Maxime Weygand and his own generals, and after the French had pleaded with him to postpone surrender for at least a week. The king, according to one account credited to the Stefanl (Italian) news agency, declared that the Belgian army already had suffered greater casualties than in the world war and that, in view of its "hopeless position," further shedding of blood was useless. By lha Aisociattd Prats I With the surrender of the Belgian army under a surprise ojder by King Leopold HI whose own government quickly "disowned" him as ruler of Bel gium a huge allied force esti mated at over 450,000 men was reported massing tonight on the Aisne river for a "now ori never" offensive. The desperation-Inspired al lied counter-attack, it was re ported, will be launched in the vicinity of Rethel, 95 miles north of Paris, in an attempt to rescue the British and French troops trapped in the Germans' squeeze pocket in Flanders. Blow To Allies King Leopold's command to his troops to lay down their arms after an 18-day defense came as a crushing blow to the allies In the north, depriving them of approximately 300,000 Belgian soldiers protecting their left flank. , Prime Minister Churchill told the house, of commons, how ever, that despite this setback the allies would continue the fight with "full vigor." The action of the refugee Belgian government, now In Paris, means in effect, that the Belgian king has been declared deposed. Speculation over King Leo pold's reasons for his sudden decision to surrender commun icated to the Germans without even notifying his French and British allies included these factors: Terrific 24-hour pressure on the Belgian sector of the line, with defeat or annihilation seemingly inevitable. The fact that millions of ref ugees, mostly women and chil dren, were in danger of death by bomb or shell just as were the soldiers, inextricably tied up with military movement. The probability that the 38-year-old sovereign, his own life saddened by personal tragedy (Continued on Page Tan.) Boulogne Evacuation Proved Heroism of Royal Navy Men London. May 28. (IP) An epic st6ry of the removal of British troops from Boulogne by the royal navy, with Ger man bombs and guns causing sever casualties, was disclosed today in a report by a naval eyewitness. He said the forces were with drawn from the seaport by Brit ish destroyers under a constant hail of bombs and fire from field guns, machine-guns and pompoms (multi barrel a n 1 1 aircraft guns). Boulogne fell to the Germans Sunday. The eyewitness said the Ger mans In "greatly superior" numbers attacked with aircraft, tanks and field guns and the destroyers removed the soldiers "in circumstances of great dif ficulty and peril." The Germans were holding the high ground .commanding the town, massing more guns and troops, he went on. and the British "sustained casual ties .- Small naval parties set ex plosives under bridges giving access to the inner harbor. The bridges were already under machinegun fire at a few hun dred yards range, the officer said, but the British could not destroy them until the last troops had been withdrawn. The naval officer and a small party of men under sniping fire at 50 yards range destroyed a crane and flocxlcd the dock power station and pumping station. War Bulletins Paris. May 28 (U.P.I Mili tary sources said today tha French still hold the channel port of Dunkirk. London. May 28. (U.R) The air ministry said tonight that British planes had raid ed orer six big German in dustrial cities In bombard ments of military objectives. London, May 28. (IP) The air ministry announced today 20 German aircraft had bean destroyed or N damaged by royal air force fighters over norihaastarn France In a bat tle to relieve the pressure on the allied troops. FROM PRESENT UNES London, May 28. (P) With drawal of the British expedi tionary forces from positions now occupied will be necessary because of the "great peril" in which the armies stand, the British minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper declared tonight. He added that it would not be a "defeated army however, In a broadcast to an anxious British nation. He declared the danger of the British army tonight was "very great." "Final victory," he added. "car. still be ours. We have not lost the war tonight and assuredly we shall not lose it." Palestine's Dead sea Is 1,290 feet below sea level. When the "complete demoli tion" order came, the floating dock was sunk, machinery in the power stations blown up and "everything that might be of use to the enemy was hur riedly sabotaged under continu ous field gun and machinegun fire and while 15 German planes made dive-bombing and machinegun attacks. "The Germans were very close and coming nearer all the time." he naval officer said Five destroyers came along side and began evacuation of the troops under "furious" fire from enemy guns concealed in a wooded hill and from pom poms and machlneguni firing from the windows of a hotel. 'Then several enemy tanks came down the hill onto the foreshore," he report stated. The troops on the jetty were embarking "under a tornado of fire with casualties occurring every second," and destroyers were "plastering the hillsides and the German field guns at pointblank range and blasting the hotel until the pompoms and machineguns were silenc ed." 'They stood there like rocks without giving a damn for any thing." a naval officer said of the soldiers. The destroyers, crammed with soldiers, all listing and one slightly on fire." left stern first throuzh the narrow channel. The tide was falling and there jwai "very little water under I tha bottoms." $3,000,000,000 TAX AGREED ON TO FINANCE NATION'S DEFENSE FREE PHONEXALLSiSIX ARM IN MEDFORD AREA AT Business Men Witnesses Before PUC Head Pro posed Change August 1. The Oregon public utilities commission, with Commissioner Ormond R. Bean himself in at tendance, early this afternoon concluded two days of public hearings in this area on pro posed telephone rate changes and the charging of a 5 cent toll on calls between Medford and Jacksonville. First hearing was held In Jacksonville yesterday and the concluding one in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. The proposed changes would go into effect about August 1 when the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company will change over to the dial system in the Med ford area. Gaddls Wltneisj At today's hearing Earl C. Gaddis, former Medford mayor, questioned by Herbert K. Han- na, attorney for Jacksonville, said that since Medford is the business and industrial center of the Rogue river valley, there should be as much free tele phone service to neighboring communities as possible, assert ing that places as distant as Eagle Point and Gold Hill should be Included in this free area. He said it would be better for Medford business concerns to absorb toll charges in higher telephone station rates than to have the tolls fall upon small communities like Jacksonville. He added than when he was a member of the city council. years ago, one of the considera tions in granting a telephone franchise was that there would be free service to Jacksonville. Seen at Suburb Charles E. Clay, manager of the Snider Dairy & Produce company, stated that business with Jacksonville had been built up on the free telephone service, W. R. Godlove, manager of the (Continued on Page Ten.) ITALY AND SOVIET Budapest, Hungary, May 28. (U.PJ The Hungarian govern ment is rapidly calling up army reservists and the Balkan states are looking apprehensively at Italy and Soviet Russia. Balkan diplomatic quarters report that Russia is forming a chain of buffer states in the Balkans, said to include Ru mania, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. Russia is rumored to be de termined to march Into south eastern Europe if Italy enters the war by moving on the Bal kans. It is even reported that the Balkans might have agreed In principle to permit Russian troops to cross their frontiers on the way to the Adriatic. I Jugoslavian sources in BuHa l pest say It is nearly certain that Russia and Jugoslavia will re sume formal diplomatic rela tions soon. Talk In the capitali of south eastern Europe indicates that there is a belief the Allies have approved Russia's plans for In tervention In the Balkans in the event of Italian action. Buffalo, N. Y., May 28. 'UR A 40-year-old laborer Is held by Buffalo police as a confessed attacker of Frank T. Cooper, C b 1 c f o railroad executive Y PLIERS DIE IN CRASH OP Night Practice Over Dry Lake Brings Disaster One Survivor is Injured. March Field. Calif.. May 28. (A') Two officers and a crew of four in a Douglas bomber were killed last night, army of ficials announced today, when their plane crashed near Mo- Jave, Calif. One man. Sergeant John B. Stewart of Midway, Ola., sur vived the crash but he was ser iously injured. He was flown to the General Hospital in San Francisco early today. Those killed were: Second Lieut. Jess A. Smith, 30, Riverside, Calif., whose mother, Mrs, Mary Smith, lives at Woodrow, Colo. Second Lieut. Charles A. Nls- belt, 25, Riverside, whose par ents are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard N. Nisbett, 'Alton, 111; - Sergeant Thurman T. Owens, Riverside, whose mother is Mrs. Rosa Noland, Ardmore, Okie Private Wayne G. Kaufman, whose mother is Mrs. Rita L. Kaufman, Burlington, Iowa. Private Doyle H. Bean, Kirby ville, Texas. Private Eugene A. Schulz, whose father is Henry G. Schulz, Twin Falls, Ida. The plane, a B-18 Douglas bomber of the 30th bombard ment group, was on a night bombing mission and took off from the field at 7 o'clock. The crash occurred at 10 p.m., of ficials said, at Murdoc Dry lake which Is the army's bombing range in the Mojave desert. GASOLINE PRICES SHAVED BY MOST San Francisco, May 28. (IP) Gasoline price cutting became general in the Pacific slope states today. A half dozen companies had followed the cuts started by Standard Oil company of Cali fornia by noon. Prices went down 2i cents on first grade, lVa on second and 2 on third. San Francisco prices were 19, 17 and 15 cents respectively on the three grades. Standards brief and unex pected announcement of the cuts merely stated it acted to meet competition. All Medford's major oil com panies, with the exception of Shell and Tide-Water Associ ated, announced early this aft ernoon their gasoline prices in this district had been decreased In line with price-cutting In other coast cities. Shell and Associated reported they had received no notifica tion from their head offices to slice the price but said they expected to receive such word before the day was done. Richfield. Standard, Union, General, Gilmore and Texaco announced the price reductions as 2'4 cents on ethyl, 1V4 cents on regular and 2 cents on third structure fuel. Following the reductions, gasoline prices here, except for Shell and Associated, were 23 cents for ethyl, 21 cents for regular and 19 cants for third grade. According to the companies here, the reduction In gasoline prices had no effect on the price of fuel oil or other petrol eum products. Exposition Seal "Broken" VMle opening day spectators watched, tha teal of the 1940 Golden Gate International Expoiillon was "broken" en Treature Island to permit tha throng io enter tha exhibit araa. Th.'t wat the tcane as the teal parted. Mors than 40, 000 pertont were on tha Island before noon of tha opening day. Escadrille Drops Lindbergh For Speech Opposing Help Paris, May 28. (IP) Honor ary membership In the Lafay ette Escadrille conferred on Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh after his 1927 Atlantic crossing was withdrawn today by order of the Trench and Air associa tion of American volunteer com batans In the French army in 1914-18, representing former pilots of the Escadrille. The association announced Its action was the result of Lind bergh's speech of May 19, which it classified as "definitely op posed to the spirit of the Amer ican volunteers of the Lafayette Escadrille and Foreign Legion who rushed to the defense of France in 1914." The association's announce ment tald the title of honorary member was conferred on Col. Lindbergh "In a moment of en ACTOR CONNOLLY OF Hollywood. May 28. (UP.) One of Hollywood's best known character actors, Walter Con nolly, died suddenly today at his home in the film capital. He was 52 years old. Connolly suffered a stroke and was found dead in a door way leading from his bedroom to a bathroom. The actor, a star both on the stage and in motion pictures, was the husband of Nedda Har rigan, also a famous stage per former. Connolly is survived by his widow and a 15-year-old daughter, Anne. Conolly's last starring vehicle was the role of the great com poser, Victor Herbert. Con nolly was about to start a pic ture for Producer Hal Roach. The actor recently was re ported 111, but his condition wai not regarded as serious. French occupation of Tunisia dates from a military expedition of 1881 thusiasm mistaken but under standable." The former pilots of the La fayette Escadrille's announce ment concluded: "We believe that his words are an Insult to the memory of the comrades who fell on the field of honor and who rest in the crypt of the Lafayette Escadrille monument at Gar ches." The speech of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh which roused veter ans of the Lafayette Escadrille In Paris was broadcast over the United States from Washington, May 19. The filer warned the United States to stay out of Europe's troubles, and said "we need not fear a foreign Invasion unless American peoples bring It on through their own quarreling and meddling with affairs abroad." RED CROSS GIVING BY FIRST FAMILY After appeals by President and Mrs. Roosevelt and others Sunday, a more noticeable readiness to respond to Red Cross appeals for war relief fundi was experienced In Jackson county's csmpalgn, It was disclosed to day by Red Cross headquarters heie. The Increase In contribu tions followed a lag just before the week-end. Red Cross workers here ex pect the fresh Impetus to carry the campaign along to Its con clusion. The county quota is (2400 toward the national fund of $10,000,000. Meantime J. W. McCoy has been appointed head of the drive in Ashland and has established headquarters In the Llthla hotel. Groups have also planned a number of teas as a means of helping to attain the county goal 1 LIFTING OP LIMIT ON NATIONAL DEBT ALSO TOBE ASKED Administration and Congress Leaders Agree on Pro gram Rearming Finance Washington. Mar (At A 10 percent booal In all Income taxes and Increased excite taxes was reported to- . day to comprise an adminis trations defense-tax bill de signed la provide an over all revenue el 18(3.000.000 annually. Washtnston. Mar 28 (JPV-a The administration and mm gresslonal leaders agreed today to raise 13,000,000.000 of new taxes In the next five years to pay the costs of national des fense. The plan, ratified by Presb dent Roosevelt, was drafted la a three-hour conference by See rctary of the Treasury Morgan thau, Chairman Doughton (D. N.C.) of the house ways and means committee and Chairman Harrison (D.-Miss.) of the senate; finance committee. Defense Bonds Planned. . It calls for Immediate finane ing of defense costs by the sal of $3,000,000,000 of special "na tlonal defense obligations.' It also calls for the lewlne n additional taxes, amounting to between $800,000,000 and $700.. 000,000 annually for the next five years, the oroceeds to hm used to '.retire the "national de fense obligations" and pay in terest on them. The conferees agreed to ask congress to increase the treas ury i $45,000,000,000 debt limit to $48,000,000,000 to make pos sible the borrowina of the hm defense funds. The administration's budget, prepared before the defense) program was laid down, already had provided expenditures) which required borrowing up to the present debt limit by about June 30, 1941. President Approves. A joint statement Issued b the conferees said "tha secre tary of the treasury communis cated to the president the con clusions reached by the con. ferees and the president ex pressed his approval of the pro gram." Tax discussions were bracket ed with an official announce ment that served to dramatize the proportions of the rearma ment job ahead. Secretary Morgenthau indicated yesterday that defense needs might make It necessary for the auto in dustry to abandon its policy of introducing the usual crop of new models next year. Word that the auto Industry fourth largest In the country might be affected by prepar edness demands was an out growth of his conference with manufacturers of machine tool the men who supply the vital precision equipment for armsj production. A new policy may have to be adopted next year, he cau tioned, if it is found necessary to keep the machine tool pro ducers working exclusively on equipment for munitions manu facture. In that event, he said, there would be no 1942 models. The statement today alto ex plained that Chairmen Dough ton and Harrison would call their committees together Im mediately to work out the de tails of the tax program. In the meantime, none would give any Indication of what kinds of taxes might be im poied. The statement also did not malra It eleap whathar enari. j ment of the new taxes would be sought at tha present session of congress.
