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The Weather roncmx: Showers tonight nd Friday. Tempera! lira Hlihrtt reek-roar t Loo ret IhU morning U Thirty-fifth Year Washington, D. C, May 30. An attempt by Herbert Hojver, former president, to have the Republican national convention favor repeal of the Johnson Act in order to aid the allies was blocked by Oregon's Charlie Mc Nary in an unadvertised confer ence of leaders a few nights ago. The Johnson act prohibits any belligerent receiving credit or selling securities in this country if the belligerent has not paid: its world war debts to Uncle Sam. At the request of Hoover, John Hamilton, Republican na tional committee chairman, as sembled McNary, Republican senate leader; Austin, assistant leader; Joe Martin, Republican house leader; Vandenberg, presi dential aspirant, and the pub licity director of the national committee. California's Hiram Johnson and -Hoover are political ene mies. Johnson, with Senator Bo rah, were the outstanding isola tionists and as they believed the United States was dragged into the first world war by extending credits, Johnson conceived the idea that the United States could be saved from repeating the ex perience by prohibiting credits unless the foreign nations in debt to the United States paid up what they owe. As most of the nations aided financially by Uncle Sam have practically re pudiated these war debts, the Johnson act has been regarded as a bulwark against American involvement in another Euro pean conflict. IIR. HOOVER suggested that " the Republican party advo cate repeal of the Johnson act, which has been a sort of Repub lican policy Among arguments Hoover advanced was that "we 1 j should go to the aid" of England because it is our mother country. (Continued on P'ge en ) FIRST LADY SEES p, Olean, N. Y May 30. IP) The nation's first lady can see "no reason for hysterical ex citement" over possible "fifth column" activities In the United States. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed the view last night during a question-and-answer session, sponsored by civic In terests for an underprivileged children's fund. y Asked whether a real or imaginary menace exists from "fifth columnists" in the United States, she replied: "We have some people who have been sent here to act in certain eventualities. But I see no reason for hysterical excite ment; we are able to cope with any situation that may arise through our regular law en forcement channels, and of course under the protection of the courts to make sure no one is unjustly prosecuted." Co-Ed Archers to Puncture 'Chutes San Jose, Cal.. May 30. (Pi San Jose State college co-eds have organized an "Archashoot club" to deal with any stray parachute troops. They will use bows and ar rows. Peggy Kidd, Frances Gruns wald and Helen Settergran explained- "When they come we'll punc ture the parachutes, then watch them fall and break their Medford Full Associated Press mm km, Wholesale Destruction Centers at Dunkerque, Only Exit From Trap By lh Associated Press Bearded, powder-burned and exhausted, thousands of troops who escaped the German trap in Flanders and weathered a "hellish nightmare" of nazi aerial raids on the channel crossing reached England tonight as an estimated 440.000 to 600.000 Ger mans tried to destroy allied troops still remaining across the straits of Dover. Arriving on warships, transports and hospital ships the weary troops told a story of horror and carnage in the retreat from the bloody plains of Flanders. A tempest of bombs and aerial machine-gun fire swirled around the vessels as they crossed the channel. One hospital ship reported it was strafed while loading casualties at a French port. By th Associated Press. Adolf Hitler's dive-bombing "Stukas" sank 16 transports and three British warships and dam aged 31 other vessels in an at tack on Allied forces retreating from Flanders, the nazi high command said today. Eighty-nine Allied planes w-c reported shot down in what appeared to be the prelude to the biggest mass aerial battle of the 21Tday-old war in the west. German plane losses were set at 15 by the high command. The British air ministry said the royal air force shot down 52 enemy planes. Including 25 bombers, and damaged 17 others in encounters with "many large formations of enemy aircraft engaged In bombing operations" on the French and Belgian coasts. Only 10 British planes, the air ministry said, were missing. Claim Depots Holding, British military circles also insisted that the . B.E.F. still held its main base depots in Flanders. The German high command said the B.E.F. was in "full dissolution," forsaking enormous quantities of war material in its flight to the sea. The wholesale destruction of troop transports and protecting naval craft centered at the flame-ravaged French channel port of Dunerque now the lone sea exit left an estimated 300.000 to 500,000 French and British soldiers fleeing the Ger man trap in Flanders and at Ostend, nazi-held port in Bel gium. Berlin reported that detach ments of French soldiers caught in the German "squeeze" south of Lille had surrendered. Other French divisions and the British expeditionary force, battle-weary but putting up a stubborn rearguard fight, fey (Continued on Page Three.) Canberra, Australia, May 30. W) The government sent Brit ain an offer today to take Brit ish children into Australia "to save them from the horrors of war." Savage Chaos on Land. Sea and in Air Mark Efforts to Escape German Trap By Dewitt Mackeniie. The "end of the world" has come to the drowsy port of Dunkerque and the English channel. History of warfare never be fore has put together such picture of savage chaos on land and sea and In air as has de veloped from the Allied attempt to salvage what lives they can from the hundreds of thousands of their troops who had been traoped by the Hitlerites. For the first time we have major battle between the Ger man forces of the air and the Anglo-French ships of war as the Allies struggle to perform the all but impossible task of getting their broken troops em barked for withdrawal. It is the Initial test of strength on a lar scale between the air and sea. TkAiiundt Mult Di. i German report ciaun Ikt f)(fP? L Paris, May 30. (IP) The newspaper Paris Soir reported today the Belgian royal chil dren had arrived at Lisbon, where they are expected to re main for the rest of the war. A Lisbon dispatch said they left Cahors, France, by auto mobile last Sunday. The children. Princess Jose phine Charlotte, 12, Crown Prince Baudouin, 9, and Prince Albert, 7, had been sent to refuge In France while their father. King Leopold, remained with the Belgian army. Their mother, Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident in Switzerland in 1935. FRENCH GENERAL TAKEN BY NAZIS New York, May 30. UP) The capture of General Rene Jacques Adolphe Prioux, com manding a large part of the French forces in Flanders, was reported in a German broadcast quoting a special high command bulletin heard in New York to day by Columbia Broadcasting company. General Piroux was taken prisoner, said the broadcast. "The number of prisoners taken with him cannot- yet be esti mated." Indian Pow-Wow Tacoma, May 30. (if) Prob lems particularly affecting their race will be discussed here Sat urday as Indians from Wash ington, Oregon and Idaho gather for the 26th annual meeting of the Northwest Federation of American Indians. sinking of British warships and transports. That's not surpris ing. We know without being told that many vessels will go down In the fury of the con flict, and that a great number of airplanes will be destroyed. We know too that thousands of men must be struggling in the choppy waters of the chan nel almost within sight of their beloved cliffs of Dover. So we come to the end of the battle of Flanders a major German victory. But we haven't reached the end of the blitzkreig which the Germans say will finish the ' war. The battle of Flanders is ' Just one phase of Hitler's great gamble. So what next: French Form Lin. First we must note that the gallant stand made by the Al lied armies of the north In Flan ders has enabled the French to eonolir!ate a line right across MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940. i -in ot nsm file som am IS AT F0R1RD Til Rex Mays Second In An nual Speed Classic Rain Spoils Efforts At Records. Indianapolis, May 30. LT) Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis, won the 500-mile automobile race today to the acclaim of 142.000 spectators. It was his third tri umph. Rex Mays of Glendale, Calif., was second, 2' miles behind. The race was stopped then on account of rain. Shaw covered the distance In 4:22:31.16 to average 114.277 miles an hour. Mauri Rose, Columbus, was given .hird position; Ted Horn, Hawthorne, N. J., fourth; Joel Thome. Tucson, Ariz., fifth. Bob Swanson, Los Angeles, sixth; Frank Wearne, Pasadena, seventh; Mel Hansen, Los An geles, eighth: Frank Brisko, Chicago, ninth and Harry Mc Quinn, Indianapolis, tenth. Nineteen of the original 33 starters remained. When the red flag was hung out, stopping the race. They were given the position which they held at the time. At 77 miles all cars were sig nalled to hold their positions when the car of Paul Riganti, South American champion, hit the wall at the southeast curve and overturned. Riganti was rushed to the speedway hospital where it was reported he was badly shaken up. A moment later Tommy Hen nershitz. Redding. Penn., lost control of his car in the middle of the main stretch, in full view of thousands of grandstand oc cupants. He crashed head-on into the retaining wall but righted the car and continued on around the track. Physicians reported Henner shitz suffered a broken arm. Riganti hit the Inside wall broadside and overturned in the Infield grass. After Hennershitz' car struck the wall, he was forced out of the race at the end of 80 miles. Los Angeles. May 30. (JD By now, if they made good time, film comedian Buster Keaton and bride should be at June lake in the high Sierras country on their honeymeon. Keaton and dancer Eleanor Norris set out for the lake in his station wagon last night, after Superior Judge Edward Brand married them at the courthouse. Between the cere mony and leave-taking, Keaton treated the wedding party of eight to ice cream sodas at a drugstore. on the channel eastward along the Somme river and clear to the Maginot fortifications. This means, by the way, that the nazi forces have been halt ed in their rush a very consid erable distance short of the ter ritory which the kaiser overran in the early days of the World war. That line Is not only for the defense of Paris, but for the far more vital purpose of pre venting a disastrous break through by the Germans In their avowed effort to crush the entire French army. The line also provides the kicking off place for offensive opera tions against the Invaders. Hitler now would seem to have two lines which he ran pursue. He can attempt his project of invading England, now that he has won the battle of Flanders, or he can smash southward to Paris and knock i tha FrenU. out- ROOSEVELT HIKES WAR CHEST ANTE BWONJOLLARS Addition Decided After Talk With Army, Navy Men Total $4,300,000,000 Washington, May 30 (.-T) President Roosevelt said to day that th new defense com mission now was all set to go end that its job would b greater becaute developments in fighting In Europe in th past fortnight have necessitat ed more than doubling Amer ica's defense expenditures. Washi. -. , May 30. At The adm -jiion raised the nation's armament bill by more than $1,000,000,000 today, while President Roosevelt conferred with the new defense commis sion on mctl ds of spending swiftly a $4,300,000,000 war chest for national defense. The billion dollar addition was decided upon by Mr. Roosevelt after conferences with army and navy officers on changes in war fare disclosed by the recent fighting In Europe, Stephen Early, presidential secretary, told reporters Presi dent Roosevelt hoped to send to congress tomorrow' a message recommending additional de fense expenditures of more than $1,000,000,000. He said it would be used for such things as tanks. guns, planes, and building up reserves of material. Would Extend Training In his previous defense mes sage, last week, Mr. Roosevelt requested $1,182,000,000. The senate wrote part of this into the regular army appropriation bill, raising the total to $1,823,000,- 000, and the rest into the regu lar navy bill, raising funds for that branch of the armed forces to $1,473,000,000. Thus addition of another bil lion dollars would mean a total defense outlay this session of $4,300,000,000. The announcement preceded briefly the first meeting of the (Continued ot. Page Three.) LACK FARE HOME London, May 30. (JP) Sev eral hundred Americans - are stranded in Great Britain and Ireland without the $300 each asked for passage to the United States on the liner President Roosevelt sailing from Galway, Ireland, next week. United States lines officials said "about 300" Americans already have booked passage. Although the state depart ment forwarded "a small sum of money" to Joseph P. Ken nedy, ambassador to Condon, to assist In the removal of Amer icans, no regular fund exists for repatriation of Americans In Europe, Power Line Cut To Plane Plant Hawthorne. Cal., May 30. IIP) The main electric power j line into the Northrop aircraft I factory here was cut with a hacksaw early today, said po 1 lice, expressing the belief it possibly was sabotage. Sergt. E. J. Parker of the ' Hawthorne police said wires into the Hawthorne Water com , pany may also have been broken, making it Impossible to :dump water into storage tanks Iwhirii. h ;H am low. Fifth Column Drive. Bombay, May 30. (JP) All non-Jewish German women in Bombay were arrested today In the government's vigorous new drive against the danger of a I fifth column. RIBUNE FuU United Surrenders Army to Nazis ' t 2J This Is a recent photograph of th Belgian royal family. King Leopold and his children, left to right: Prince Albert. Si Crown Prince Baudouin. 10, and Princess Charlotte. Queen Astrid was killed in an auto accident In almost Ms entire army to dormant" in an unexpected move, Germany said it would give him refuge In a Belgian castl. MUSSOLINI'S CABINET CALLED TUESDAY FOR Rome, May 30. IP) Pre mier Mussolini has summoned his cabinet for next Tuesday to discuss "important matters." The possibility that a war de cision might be announced that day or shortly afterward, how ever, was only a matter of con jecture. The cabinet decided on the June 4 meeting when it last met, May 1, but publication to day by most newspapers of a reminder that the meeting had been arranged was considered an indication that the session would be unusually Important. United States consular offic ials received Instructions to ad vise Americans seeking to leave Italy but unable to get accom modations on the United States liner Manhattan to go to Bor deaux, France, and board the liner Washington. Meantime fascist Italy work ed feverishly preparing for the moment to which Premier Mus solini has been looking forward for nearly two decades when the nation should go to war for her "aspirations." E REVEALS 20,539 Eugene. May 30. (IP) Ore gon's third city, Eugene, has a population of 20.539, Mrs. Marie Stuart, census director, has re vealed. Although the count is prelim inary, It is not expected final checks will materially change it, she said. In 1930 the of ficial figure was 18,801. McNARY PROPOSES PARK IN CURRY COUNTY AREA Washington, May 30. (Pi Establishment of an area In Curry county, Oregon, to be known as the "Oregon Coast National Park," was proposed by Senator McNary (R.Ore.) In a measure introduced yesterday. Such a step would be conting ent upon the ceding to the gov ernment of 30.000 acres accept able to the secretary of the In terior by the state. Press 1935. King Leopold surrendered BRIDGES SAYS BOSSES PROMOTING MOVE FOR HIS SHIPMENT HOME San Francisco, May 30. IIP) Harry Bridges. California CIO director, today accused employ ers of promoting a move in con gress to deport him. He said employers, with whom he frequently has clash ed in waterfront labor disputes, wanted to get rid ot him "by any device possible. "I don't want to be deported," Bridges said in a statement. "But I would rather be deport ed than compromise even to the slightest extent the trust which union people have place In me." His statement was Issued af ter the house rules committee voted unanimously to give right-of-way on the floor to leg islation Introduced by Rep, Al len (D., La.) to deport Bridges to his native Australia. Stinging Beetle Killing Hop Vines Sllverton, Ore., May 30. VP) Evergreen district hop grow ers faced a new menace today a beetle which stings the vines to death. Fred Kaser, hop association president, said 20 percent of the vines In some cases had died from the effects of the stings. The beetles, he added, have been known for several years but did no serious damage until this season. BASEBALL American First game: R. H E. Boston 0 2 0 New York 4 9 1 Grove, Bagby and DcSautels; Ruffing and Dickey. National. Philadelphia it 2 Boston 15 2 Hlgbe and Atwood; Fette, Strincevich, Javery and Lopez, Andrews. New York 7 14 0 Brooklyn - 0 12 Hubbell and Dannlng; Ham lin, Casey and Mancuso. (1st game) Cincinnati 4 2 0 Chicago .'. 2 10 1 Derringer and Lombard!; Lee, Page, Mooty and Hartnett Searching Party rut an erarchuif put; thru th Mile, kaarment, Hon nam to th purpoee ml haling a rleaa-a mU. Artlrtea yea longrr m ban turn Wh, Sll thera thiaach In CUual -llrtf sds. No. 59. OF IS REDFORD'S PLEA Decoration Day Speaker Against Cites ' Threats American Form of Govt. Shedding of lethargy and In difference and an awakening to) threats against the American form of democratic government were urged by Dr. Walter Red- tord. nrlrlnt nf" th QnittH-r-n Oregon College of Education, in we principal aaaress at Decora tion Dav exerriM helri in oil park this forenoon. The exercises were held at the conclusion of a parade along Main street. The procession halt ed at the Bear creek bridge where a brief ceremony was held. Durine- th mnrnintf hlak clouds hovered overhead but expected showers did not mater ialize. Additional memorial ex ercises were to be held at 2:30 in the Medford I.O.O.F. ceme tery. Solemn Moment Decoration Day this year, Dr. Redford said, provided the American people with a solemn moment for meditation as "war clouds hang low across the At lantic and the Pacific mnA mm memories of 25 veara a an enm back to us. We should take this solemn hour very seriously." After tracing th nriffin mnA spread of th idea of Decoration uay, ur. Bedford asserted that for "too manv r-nnla it i ! another holiday." Th time U at hand, he said, when those seri ously concerned with tha future of the United Statu should do something to remove tha leth argy which permits the princi ples of democracy to b under mined. He warned against de struction of American institu tions from within tha country and declared that "th oni wa should be interested in pro- mining u Americanism. "Let us carrv nn tn m ., victory a victory over dictator- snip.- Dr. rledford pleaded. Mrs. Lough Preaide Mrs. Elva L. Loush at the park exercises. Herb Neil- sun reaa uen. John A. Logan's order setting aside May 30 in 1868 as Decoration Day. Lin coln's Gettysburg address was recited by Ned Lied man. Repre sentatives of veteran and other patriotic organizations placed jiumi wreains in vacant chair In memory of th domrtarf Benediction was given by tha ev. jonn w. Hoyt. Woods la Vanguard Riding at the head of th r, rade behind the senior high school band and national guards men was J. C. Woods of Central Point, a veteran of tha Civil war. lie was th only Civil war veteran in the nrorcnlnn hut another one, Frank Mendoz. was ciose oy. Mr. Mendoz resides at the Hotel Allen before whicb the procession passed. Others In the parade included Company A and headquarters ariacnmem, uregon national guard. Women's Relief Corps, --mugniers or the American Revolution, United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary. Junior high SChOOl lirll fif hnsU mnA drum corps. Gold Star Mothers, World war veteran organiza tions and auxiliaries in on group, Hogue River Valley Navy Mothers club, senior hish achanl girls fife, bugle and drum corps ana aerie and auxiliary drill teams of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Jantsen Estate 1154,101 Oregon City, May 30.- The estate of Carl C Jantzen. founder of th Jantzen knitting mills who died a year ago, was estimated in circuit court her yesterday at $154,800. Tha an nouncement was made in con nection with th payment of 2277 In state inheritance tax by tha tiirz. ii nriiiii r-iiiim
