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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940.
No. 57.
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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.