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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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