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MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORP. OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY SO, 1940.
dent Roosevelt into conference
with his new national defense
commission and denied congress
)t. iitil finltrtay.
The president, who custom
arily places a wreath on the
tomb of the unknown soldier,
designated his military aide.
Ms). Horace B. Smith, to lead
the nation's observance in Ar
lington national cemetery, Wash
ington, D. C. Major Smith
fmicsht In Frunr. In h Wnrtri
war.
Congress pored over several
bills to strengthen the national
defenses.
After Major Smith's visit to
the tomb, veterans' organiza
tions were to place wreaths
there every two minutes for
time. Boy Scouts decorated the
graves in Arlington and Paul
V. McNutt, past national com
mander of the American Legion,
delivered the principal address
there.
In Detroit, Herbert Busse,
German submarine commander
In the war and commander of
the German veterans' post, said
his group had withdrawn from
the parade "to avoid any em
barrassment to other foreign
groups. All but two of the
post's 86 members are American
citizens and the other two have
their first papers toward natur
alization.
Only American flags were
.tarried In the Detroit parade.
Philadelphia police were as
signed to guard services at Fort
Hill near Fort Washington. Pa.,
after American Legion officials
reported they heard the German-American
bund planned to
hold a "special meeting" simul
taneously. New York City parades at
tracted an estimated 79,000
marchers. Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt spoke on "peace and the
significant challenge of Memo
rial Day this year," at services
In Ferncliffe cemetery, Ardsley,
N. Y.
Guns Roar Again in Flanders
As America Honors War Dead
By Associated Press.
Shells burst anew over veterans' cemeteries In Flanders field
today as Americans once again paid Memorial Day tribute to
the unknown soldier and his thousands of fellows who died
just 22 years ago in the war to end all wars.
Much of the nation paused -
to observe the holiday and place
wreaths on graves of the dead
of all wars buried at home. But
war and fears of war sent Presl-
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time is Pacific standard)
Col. Frank Knox, who was to
speak on CBS tonight on pre
paredness, has postponed his
broadcast until ii date to be
selected.
Schedules call for two broad
casts by Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt
from the world's fair on Satur
day, WJZ-NBC at 9 a. m. and
MBS at 10:30 a. m.
Tonight: Europe, CBS 4:55,
6:30; MBS 5:15; WJZ-NBC 6;
NBC-Chains 8.
WEAF-NBC 7:13 Rep. H. D.
Angell on "Congress Should Not
Adjourn."
WABC-CBS 8:19 Rep. Oscar
Youndahl on "America's Defenses."
Dm Mmll Tribune want ads.
Friday: Europe NBC 4 a. m.;
CBS 4 a. m., 2:30 p. m.; WEAF
NBC 9.30 p. m.
TRAFFIC DEATH RATE
IN OREGON DECLINES
Salem (U.PJ The traffic
death rate for the first four
months of this year in Oregon
was a fraction under the rate
for the same period last year.
Earl Snell, secretary of state, re
ported.
The death rate for this per
iod was 12 persons killed per
100,000,000 miles of travel com
pared to a rate of 12.10 for the
corresponding period a year ago.
GASOLInTsALES RISE
FOR MONTH IN OREGON
Salem (U.PJ Gasoline con
sumption in Oregon during
April amounted to 20,724.961
gallons, an increase of 755.884
gallons over that of April, 1939,
the state department said.
Total tax paid on the gaso
line during the month amount
ed to $1,036,248, an Increase of
$37,794 over the 1939 tax Income.
IS FOUND TO
'BEAT THE DUTCH'
ARMY IN AGREE
5th Columns Did the Work
for Hitler, U. S. Military
Experts Write in Book
The platypus has a duck-like bill
four webbed feet, a fur coat. It lays
ess, but suckles Its young.
By JcV Stinnett
Washington Over in .the
block-long munitions building,
whose architecture is early 20th
century whitewashed barracks,
the army boys have torn from
their books that venerable say
ing, "You can't beat the Dutch."
On the nice clean page they
have inserted, there Is a "Warn
ing to Future Generals: The
way those fifth columns work
beats the Dutch."
Sifting down the reports of
the Nazi's five-day blitzkrieg of
Holland, the army experts have
concluded that the fifth column
again proved itself the most val
uable weapon developed in
modern warfare.
The secret magic with which
the Nazi hordes over-ran Hol
land, although the Dutch had
been preparing for such an
emergency for years, can, say
the army men, be summed up in
two words Internal combustion.
For example, from the very
outset of the German invasion,
snipers took a toll of Dutch sol
diers from the roofs and win
dows of buildings even in the
well-policed cities of The Hague.
Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Two Cops on Duty
When the sixth column, or
parachute troops, arrived at one
of the main airports near Rot
terdam, only two civil police
men were on duty the only
logical conclusion being that
someo.ie In thp army had or
dered Mil troops away from the
airport at the zero hour.
In several of the principal cit
ies, the air raid alarm system
went completely haywire. Sir
ens screamed day and mglil,
throwing the cities into utter
confusion.
In Amsterdam, the water sup
ply system that vital artery
which is the first objective of
saboteurs washed out completely.
In The Hague, the heart of I
the Dutch government, there
was an uprising which took on
the aspects of an organized rev
olution. Hour after hour, parachute
troops were reported landing in
localities where, strangely,
Dutch troops weren't
And most significant of all.
the Nazi invasion of Holland
wasn't even off the griddle be
fore England started nation
wide clean-up of aliens.
There's one thing more,
though this occurred In Bel
glum. Army officers who fought
in World War I looked over the
collapse of Namur, and the ap
parently ineffective resistance
of the outer forts of Liege and
ran back through th page of
memory.
Kaiser's Trojan Horse
There, they found the stories
of the fall of these two great
fortresses in 1914, and reports
current then that a "fifth col
umn" had been working for
months with the German high
command to bring about their
capitulation. A former intelli
gence officer recalls that Germ
an imperialists, months before
August, 1914, bought large es
tates near these fortresses, and
showed a great predilection for
building cement tennis courts.
It wasn't discovered until Bel
gium was a shambles that the
"tennis courts" were cement
slabs 30 feet deep, and really
hidden emplacements for big
guns that battered the forts in
to heaps of crushed rock.
The conclusion here is that
that "secret weapon" of Hitler's
is no more than this same fifth
column. The report that the men
in fortress Eben Emael sudden
ly discovered their machine
guns and small cannon would
not work was the clue. Some
where among those 1,000 men
who threw up their hands in
surrender must have been doz
ens or even scores who walked
the Nazi glory road Instead of
the trail to prison camps.
Evans Honored
Salem (U.R) Dr. Hon C. Ev
ans, superintendent of the Ore
gon state hospital for the insane,
has been elected a member of
the American Psychiatric assoc
iation. The association has head
quarters in New York and the
election followed a comprehen
sive examination in the field of
mental problems.
Beer
Fairfield, Cal. (U.R) When
quick-thinking H. L. Karnes,
beer-truck driver, came upon a
despairing automobile owner
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who had exhausted without ef
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partment arrived, there was no
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bottles told the story of the
near-tragedy.
Art Finds Refuge
Salt Lake City, Utah (U.R) A
century-old art of producing pic
tures on copper plates took ref
uge in Salt Lake City from the
European war with the arrival
of Eduard Feh from Zurich,
Switzerland. Feh is the last of
three generations of workers In
this art and owned the only
shop of its kind in Switzerland
and one of the few in the world.
Th. Pun Security administration
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