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The Weather rortrut Fair todar an 4 lonwmw: rifting trmperatitrv tomorrow. Traiperatura Hlcheftt ytaarl.v 1 Lowe ttrrday -M Time to Check Up Good Mornlnf , ariy yo r not going to mlu r4tnf lh ClaMifteo Ada. Thar la vara a wlda tarlrtjr mi artltfttfl dpnled and man llmaa aoma esrpHonalljr ftna bar (alna. A food time to chcrk up. Medford TRBUNE Full Associated Press ' i United Preu Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1940 No. 61. I HA o)iyjuviJl&nmi J SSL 1 WsM KB Washington, D. C, June 1. Paying for national defense will cause John Citizen to yell, but It will be for his own good. Uncle Sam will permit John to keep his shirt, however. Things are happening so quickly In the national capital that a prediction today is dis credited tomorrow. It was the general opinion of congress that no tax bill should be offered at this session, because it is election year and ever mindful " of constituents, congress does not like to rub constituents the wrong way when a campaign is on. It was the considered decision that the treasury could provide funds for the defense program until January, at which time a revenue bill could be prepared. Somehow," In a matter of six hours sentiment changed. Rep resentatives and senators sound ed off that now is the time to find revenue: that people today should be paying for the de fense and not saddle the debt onto future generations. Smart politicians conceived that the psychology is just right to pass a tax bill as the American peo ple are panicky, hysterical and otherwise fussed up at the mo ment. Six months from now (or less) enacting a revenue measure may be a tough Job. "Get while the getting is good," , Is the motto. ' . CINANCE program at this writing (it may be discarded tomorrow), is to extend the debt limit another three billion dol lars and then amortize this ad ditional debt at the rate of S800.000.000 a year wiping it out In five years. This, how ever, barely takes care of the defense appropriations now be ing made and equally large approriations will be made next year. How to raise $600,000,000 a year above current revenue is the problem. It is suggested that there is easy money In creasing the tax on a package of cigarets. Present tax is 6 cents on a package, and a pro posal is to make the tax 10 cents, A smoker will, prob ably, not buy less but he will smoke the fag to the bitter end More taxes on' jewelry and cos metics. These are considered as luxuries. Suggestions for lipping the gasoline tax are dis couraged for gas is now a neces sity for the poor man's jalopy. T get an Idea of this tax proposi tion, remember that total federal collection! In Oregon from March 1 1533. to January 1. 1940 (period of the new deal), amounted to 870.SSO.- 857 an average of 810.000.000 a year. According to the law of areraees. Oregon'a share of 8600,000.000 for five yean to amortise the three billion dollars would run about 81,000.000 annually. e OTHER plana to raise defense revenue: Broaden the base of the Individual Income tax by low ering exemptions: a aalcs tax: a tax to take the profits out of profiteer ing with government orders; a hort- rontal Increase on all income taxea to be regarded aa a special defense contribution: tax on tax exempt obligations or municipalities. And so forth. Of course, taking up a revenue measure- mea'ha that congress cannot (Continued on Pag Slt.i Portland Gains Portland. Ore.. Jnue 1. The census showed Port. land has a population of 307, ST2, a 5757 gain over 1830. the Portland Oregonian said today. Miss Ruth Haefner. Port land census superv isor, would not confirm the figure, but said the count was completed and the remit sent to Wash rgton. D. C. Police, firemen, chamber jf commerce and other civic organizations Joined in a Irive to enumerate all per tons when early unofficial re ports indicated the total would be under the 1930 mark DEATH RAINS ON MARSEILLE, AND INDUSTRIAL AREA 56 German Planes Downed In Aerial Foray In Rhone Valley 46 Killed. Marseille, France, June 1. MP) The fury of Germany's air might fell heavily on southern France today in one of the biggest aerial forays of the war. leaving a path of death and destruction in a half dozen towns and cities down through the rich Industrial Rhone val ley. At least 48 persons were killed, 30 of them here and In the harbor of this second largest city in France. The wounded numbered around 100. Latest Paris reports said 36 German planes were destroyed or damaged by the French air force during the day with 16 French craft missing. French authorities said oniy that a "certain number" of the nazi raiders were brought down in the Rhone valley. Cotton Ship Sunk The attackers, in their first raid on the south of France, dropped two heavy bombs In this Mediterranean port. A cotton-laden English ship In the harbor was sunk. The heaviest attack was cen tered In the Lyon Industrial region, 180 miles north of here. where 16 persons were killed and between 80 and 90 wound ed in attacks on five towns. Reports reaching Berne, Switzerland, said the air ar mada flew in squadrons of 21 to 36 planes. Impress Due Foreign observers in Switzer land speculated at once on whether the raids might have been a Hitler gesture to assure Italy, on the verge of taking sides with Germany, that nazi air power was great enough to give aid to the Italians despite German preoccupation with the military campaign in northern France. Lyon Itself was not attacked but at an industrial town IS miles southwest 15 persons were reported killed, 60 wounded. High explosive bombs leveled several factories, schools and a dozen homes. Health Retort Hit The famous peacetime health resort of Aix-Les-Bains near the Swiss frontier was showered with 11 bombs that destroyed a hotel, killed one person and wounded about 30. In the Lyon area one of two French planes which went up to fight the attackers was shot down. Throughout the afternoon raid warning sirens shrieked several times in the Rhone re gion as well as in places oppo site Geneva on the French side of the Swiss frontier. Open Somme Drive Paris, June 1. (IP) A full German force backed by heavy artillery and dive bombers smashed against the last of the allies barricaded in the wreck age of Dunkerque tonight as other nazi armies to the south strengthened their drive along the Somme. Clearing skies put the Ger man dive bombers back into the assault at the allied escape port on the English channel and waves of them blasted at French and British defense positions. Allied fighter planes swarm ed upon them to prevent dis ruption of the continuing with drawal of troops. Even so, bombs thundered onto the port and splashed about the little boats loaded with exhausted soldiers. On the Somme river front the brunt of German attack was shifted from the Abbcville Amiens sector to points along the upper Somma east of Amiens. "Sustained" action generally along the front was reported by the French high command. A communique said "two strong German surprise at l tacks were repulsed." Gun Downed ' This picture, cabled from London to New York,' thews British soldiers at they returntd frem the disastrous battle of Flanders with a machine gun which the British ' said brought down four German planet. The men are shown in railway car window. AMERICA FLOATS NEW BATTLESHIP Philadelphia. June 1. (IP) With all the grace of its pretty 15-year-old sponsor, the 23.000 ton battleship Washington slid down the ways of the Philadel phia navy yard today to make its maiden "curtsy" to the Dela ware river as the first naval link in America's accelerated rearmament program. While 30.000 cheering spec tators looked on. Miss Virginia Marshall of Spokane, Wash., shattered a bottle of champagne on the bow with one decisive blow and the gaily-decorated "battle wagon" eased swiftly into the water. Miss Marshall is a lineal descendant of John Marshall, chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 183S. Washington, June 1. UP) President Roosevelt embarked on me yacru roiomac at tne iivj j.iu wib lur an overnight cruise and rest from the extra labors occasioned by the war In Europe. Unusual precautions were taken to guard him on the snort route from the White House to the navy reservation in the southeastern section of the city. Departing from custom, motor cycle police not only rode ahead, but on both sides of his car, which was closed despite the bright summer day. Two secret cars were immediately behind. Favor Third Term Tacoma, June 1. & Pierce I county Democrats at their con- vention today went on record - as favoring the election of Presi dent Roosevrlt for a third term a'ter giving unequivocal In- - dorsement to his administration. Study Meet Plans Astoria. Ore., June 1.- The executive board of the Maritime Federation of the Pa rific will meet tomorrow to complete plans for the fed era lion a annual convention open 1 ing here Monday. 4 Nazi Planes I MITT HAS EYE Washington, June 1 Paul V. McNutt's demand that President Roosevelt serve a third term high-lighted a week of political activity which found the national defense pro gram claiming first considera tion in the capital despite the approach of the conventions. McNutt's statement urging renomination of the president attracted unusual attention be cause the federal security ad ministrator is a candidate him self if Mr. Roosevelt should not run. McNutt said his statement did not mean that he was with drawing his conditional candi dacy, but some senators inter preted it as a bid for the vice presidential nomination on a third term ticket. AS Cor vail Is. June 1. (IP) j Charles Parker of Portland was eiecica praeni .oasy . t vii'Kun vuiivjt association Others elected were George F. (Ted) Chambers, Salem, vice president; John C. GallaRher, Corvallis, treasurer, and War ren Reid, Corvallis, manager. The constitution was changed to add two directors for a total of 13. Directors named today included J. Donald Meyers, La Grande; Chet Hubbard, Med ford: Ralph Reynold!, Portland,' and Emil Seibert and John Gal - lagher, Corvallis. " " opt pf" Paris. June l. n me mm- tary court of appeals rejected loaay tne appeal 01 jmn usswn Amourclle, a former senate stenographer, from a death sentence for espionage. Release Dutch Prisoners. Berlin. June I. V) (Via Radio) Adolf Hitler has order - ed the German commander in the Netherlands to release! Dublin, June 1W Andrew Dutch war prisoners because j Nicholas Bonaparte-Wyse, 70. they fought at "honest to! noted Irish educator, and a diert," It was officially an-J great-grandncphew of Ntpo nounccd tonight J Icon L, died today. LISTENERS URGED 10 BOYCOTT 'RED' BROADCAST TODAYiWAR BLUFF SEEN Many Stations Cancel Brow der's Speech And Com munist Party Meet. New York, June 1. UP) A nntion-wide "listeners' boycott" against three major network broadcasts tomorrow of the Communist party's national con vention proceedings was urged today as more than a score of Individual radio stations de clined to carry the broadcasts. Thomas Walsh, national com mander of the Catholic War Veterans, Inc., called for the "listeners' boycott" in a state ment declaring the appeal was a part of the veterans' Amer icanism program. His appeal was directed princi- I pally against scheduled speeches of Earl Browder, general secre tary of the Communist party. Radio stations at Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nash ville, Atlanta, Syracuse, Ro chester, Lincoln, Neb., Milwau kee, Indianapolis and Wichita, has., were among those an nouncing they would not carry the Communist broadcasts. Some stations explained they had previous commitments, others said they had cancelled i the broadcasts. The National Broadcasting company and the Mutual Broad casting system have scheduled broadcasts (9:30 a. m. PSJ to' morrow' of convention proceed ings during which Browder will be nominated Communist can didate for president and James W. Ford, Negro, for vice-president. Browder, who is on bail fol lowing his conviction for pass port fraud, is scheduled to de liver his acceptance speech to morrow night over the Colum bia Broadcasting system net work (4 p. m. PST). After protests against the broadcasts developed yesterday, the major radio chains an nounced that the federal com munications law compelled them to "treat all candidates for pub lic office alike. In Washington, the federal communications commission said in answer to protests that It had no authority to order the broadcasts cancelled. DEFENSIVE PACT WITH U. S. URGED New York, June 1. (IP Camiliien Houde, mayor of Montreal, asserted tonight that a defensive alliance between Canada and the .United State was necessary. "Our only salvation lie in a treaty based on economic and defensive lines," Houde said at a convention dinner of the In ternational Ladies' Garment j Workers' Union. H(, .j Canada by !perldn8 . Q send troops and material abroad, was left defenseless and wjiuld gain "a sense of secur ity" in an alliance with this country. Canada is ready to fight "for the Monroe Doctrine applied along practical lines," he de clared. Urge Revitton Kalpm. Jtinei 1 . IVPl Snff. fftlnn that the administrative psn the iUte bo,,,! 0I medl - cal examiners be revised was I tent to Dr. Irvin R. Fox, Eu- I gene, president of the board. hv D,vid rrclM. iUt. budiet : directoT j.y, Cong. Pierce Named Portland, June 1. (IP) Clar ence Hyde, Eugene, has ap pointed Congressman Walter M. Pierce his alternate delegate-at-large to the Democratic national ' rnv.ntin MUSSOLINI SENDS t .S. Delay ,ln Entering War Causes Suspicion Decis ion By June 10. Rome, June 1. (VP) A new exchange of messages between President Roosevelt and Pre mier Mussolini was reported tonight while Italy's warlike motions multiplied, especially near the French border. The messages, reported by a source usually competent, were described as "courteous" al though their exact nature was not divulged. The impression prevailed in diplomatic circles, however, that the reported exchange had not retarded Italian war measures. The Fascist party's national council tonight adopted a reso lution asking Mussolini to break 'the foreign strangle! .old" on Italy's commerce and give her "freedom of the seas." Some diplomats, surprised at the delay in action if Italy really means to go to war, wondered whether the intensified prepara tions were bluff to keep 1,300, 000 French and British troops immobilized on Mediterranean fronts. Italian papers are frankly emphasizing how much this helps Germany's attacks in the north. A number of Indications, how ever, pointed to some decision within the next week or 10 days. For one thing, the last of a series of army rallies is sched uled for June 10. Washington, June 1. MP) The White House threw no light tonight upon the reported new exchange of messages be tween President Roosevelt and Premier Mussolini. E AT WITHDRAWAL London, June 1. (JP) Brit ain's veterans of the north the men who helped hold the fields of Flanders until the last and then withdrew in the most spectacular retreat of modern history still were coming home tonight to an exultant welcome from a rarely emotional peo ple. The success of the with drawalone made across the English channel in a gale of fire from every weapon at the nazis' command w a s illus trated by estimates from var ious sources that of the original British expeditionary force of 175,000 men, from 100.000 to 140.000 had been brought safe ly back. FOR COMING WEEK Northern California: Sunday fair. Oregon: Partly cloudy Sun day, with local showers over mountains; gentle variable wind off coast becoming moderate northwest. ' Outlook in far western states for period June 3 to June 8, Inclusive: Generally fair 1 weather, but showers over mountains middle of week; tern- peratures near n iqrmal. Wool Price Irregular Boston, June 1. (AP-PSDA) Business was slow in the Boston wool market during the past week, and prices of domestic wools were irregular. Liner Back Home. New York, June l.i MP) The American freighter Clurles R. McCormlck. which was caught In the German invasion of Norway, wirelessed her home office today that -she was leav ing Bergen Immediately for the Unitedi States. War Bulletins I New York, June 8 (Sunday) IrPl The British royal air force last night raided the German occupied harbors of Wallemburg and Maasluit and the island of Tartchelllng. all in The Nether lands, according to a British Broadcasting corporation broad cast picked up here today by NBC. The broadcast said "many direct hits" were registered. Targets around Nleuport and Otlend, Belgian seaports, were reported bombed during the night and tires started. Gaso line and oil tioret in Rotterdam have been bombed repeatedly. with direct hits scored and huge tires started, according to tha broadcatt. London, June 2 (Sunday) MP) Anti-aircraft guns tired at a German warplane off the touiheatt coatt of Eng land early today and search lights swept the skies. British fighters went up to Intercept the raider but no air raid alarm was sounded. London, June 1, (P) Fifth eolmnittt in France are arm ed with machine-guns and are mora numerous than general ly realised, an Exchange Tele graph (British) news agency correspondent with the French armies reported to night. In Belgium and along the French frontier many soldiers were shot In the back by "civilians." he asserted. New York. June 1 (IP) Sir Launeelol Ollphant, vet eran British diplomat who was ambassador to Belgium, is misting, .the British radio reported in a broadcatt pick ed up tonight by CBS. The announcement tald Sir Launcelot and a British mili tary attache left Brugge for Dunkerque by automobile a few days before King Leo pold's surrender, and have not been heard from. Berlin, June l. (JP) K German military commenta tor asserted tonight it was highly probable that num erous French soldiers escaped from Lilla in northern Franca by discarding their uniforms and mingling in civilian clothes with refugees and de mobilised Belgian soldiers. He denied that any French units escaped intact io Eng land. E IN PLANE CRASH Los Angeles. June I. MP) A nine-ton transport plane of new high-winged design, sched uled for delivery to the U. S navy, crashed and exploded in a flower bed today, killing four employee of the Douglas Air craft company. Inquiries started quickly from i n r e e directions the navy, civil aeronautics authority and Douglas. Wreckage of the great DOS was still flaming when police threw a guard about it pending a probe into possible sa Dotage. Name Dr. Sherwood Osteopath Trustee Salem, Ore., June 1. (P Dr. L. H. Hines, Hillsboro, was elected president of the Oregon Osteopathic association as it closed its two-day convention here today. The 1941 conven tion will be In Portland. Dr. John L. Lynch, Salem; Dr. Katherine Beaumont, Port land and. Dr. Russell R. Sher wood, retiring president, were elected trustees. Safer In Battle London, June 1. W Sapper A. Rutherford was one of the British soldiers who got safely out of Flan ders through the rain of bombs and machine-gun bul lets. But . last night he was struck by an automobile while crossing blacked-out jtretHeerModa SEEK CURB UPON F. R. PLAN TO CALL! Army Chief Backs Move Senator Wheeler Scores Effort To Stampede Into War. Washington, June 1. (JP)- Amid mounting opposition in congress to President Roose velt's request for authority to call the national guard to ac tive duty, the army high com mand contended today that tha possibility of "dangerous devel opments" In this hemisphere made it essential that the re quest be granted. General George C. Marshall, the army chief of staff, issued a formal statement supporting the president's proposal after opposition among senators had reached formidable proportions. The chief of staff did not say what the possible "dangerous developments in this hemi sphere might be. But Senator Minton of Indiana, tha Demo cratic whip, had expressed be lief to newsmen previously that the president might have in mind the possibility of having to occupy British, French and Dutch possessions In the new world if the Allies were de feated. If need for such action arose, Minton said, regular troops would have to be used and the national guard called out to man defenses in the continental United States. Many Protests. General Marshall's statement failed to quiet criticism of the presidential request among aen- ate members. On hearing of it. Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.) de clared: 'It isn't any wonder that I am getting many telegrams ask ing if it is the intention of the president and congress to get us into war when statements are Issued indicating it may be necessary between now and the time congress returns that the national guard be called to ac tive duty "This propaganda to stam pede the people of this country Into a war hysteria ought to be stopped, and tha people who are opposed to war ought to let their congressmen and the ad ministration know about it." No New Power. Senators George (D.-Ga.) and Austin (R.-Vt.), both supporter! of the president's foreign policy. Joined senators forecasting that congress might remain in ses sion continuously as a result' of the request for authority to summon tha guard to active duty. Calling the request "appar ently unwarranted," George told reporters: "If the president seriously in sists on this request. I think congress will say: -Mr. Presi dent, if there is an emergency of this nature in the offing, of which the country knows noth ing, we will tUy her to meet it.' " Senator Austin, the assistant Republican leader, declared: "I think wa will be here all summer before we grant that power. There will have to be some Jutsificution that doesn't appear now before congress will be willing to do it, in my Judg ment." Another senator suggested privately that the president might be seeking greater con trol over the citizen soldiers In an effort to stamp out al leged "fifth column" activities within the guard. This senator said he had heard reports that communist and fcljt activities were wtde spresd wlihln the ranks of the guard in on state, which be did not name. Robbed And Beatea McMlnnvllle, June 1. T ; Walter H. Hahn, 40. Portland, was found badly beaten and stripped of his clothe near Wil lamina today. Sergeant Ralph Grenfell of the state police said Hahn was robbed of 140 by two men who assaulted him, (Cutting his mouth and chin. 1
