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Wise To Be Fir.t Geo mornlat Jost at this wmrat why not Ukt took at Ik Want ad. Man Ubm vry pirating aurprtirs appear thmt pa? dlildrnda. It U la to b tli first to eonlact tha adtertlwr atold bslnj too law Medford IIBUNE Full Associated Press I United Prees Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1940, No. 67. rets m BAGS rr n v n li The Weather lorervt Tnir today and tomorrow; j no rhango tm tempera I ur mt j homldll). Tempers! nr U1hfOt tmAmf mm Lowmc jwtenUy 41 , p (LIE BwT Washington, D. C, June 8. There la one type of suoversive activity which has for Its pur pose involving the United States In war, and yet neither the Dies committee nor the FBI, with its new sub-section created to com bat such movements, is paying attention. Tom-tom beaters are attempting to plunge this coun try up to the neck in the world war. For months distinguished Bri tish politicos (they are called statesmen at home), authors, lec turers, social lights, etc., have been circulating in the national capital striving to convince members of congress and the American people that this Is "our war". Lord Rothermore ar rived this week. Duff Cooper was here recently; ditto the son of Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes). Lord Lothian, British ambassador, invites a selected public to visit the gardens where King George and Queen Eliza beth held a reception last year. It costs $1 to attend. Recently Lord Lothian had an even more select group at $10 a copy. Society women are preparing Bundles for Britain"; get their names and pictures in the paper. (Only time English women gave bundles to America was when they prepared them for the con federates during the civil war). Women at the cocktail hour (af ter hoisting a couple), want the men to go to war at once. At present women in Washington are more belligerent than the men. One of the gentler sex came out in the paper and calls men sissies. ALBERT Einstein, himself a refugee, writes President Roosevelt urging immediate aid to the allies. This was an nounced as an answer to a pe tition signed by 300 students to maintain peace. A retired admir al of the U. S. navy (too old to fight), advocates "going in". Henry R. Luce, editor of Time and Fortune, demands "unlim ited aid", which means going the whole hog. Walter Lipp mann, one of the pundit column ists, is pointing out "our duty" and his arguments are played up in such papers as entertain similar views, or at least they f are the personal views of the publisher. Donor of one of the best-known cups in sports Is among those lobbying congress men. IN this ration's capital anyons who crttlclsrs the" ubvralvo activi ties Is suspected of being a member of the -fifth column." After Florida's Pepper, with the lick black hair, had an hour's pri vate talk with the president, he went to tha capltol and offered a resolu tion authorizing the war snd navy departmenta to dispose of operating planes and bomber to England, and the navy to transfer the tled-up destroyers on the Pacific coast to the British, because the latter have fbst ao many of their own destroyers as to be sadly crippled. HOMER T. BON1, Washington's senior senator, wants no en tanglementa. Re has a bill I Indorsed ' by i dofen other senators!, which would take the profit out of war profits. For a year the measure haa been on Ice. other senators, who have munitions makers In their states, an bracing themselves to flht this proposition. Missouri's Bennett Clark, who had ail the war he wanted as a member of A. E. P., haa no objection to any of the war proponents fighting; tells them they can go to Canada and loin up wtth some outfit. Clark drew tr.e fire of the president in the fourteenth fireside chat by saying money for defense has been poured down a ret hole. (Continued on Page tight.) Found Guilty Albany. June 8. i.Pi Rufus A. Stults. Eugene Junk dealer focused of slaying Alex Harju. his partner in a junk deal, was convicted of manslaughter by a circuit court Jury. Uncle Sam's Profits Wallace. Idaho, June 8. 'P A widely-known silver expert estimated yester "y that the I'nited States government had made a profit of 31.725. 626,000 by bujiiig silver since 1834. WEYGANDCENTER Greatest Battle in History Waged, With Paris as Goal German Losses High In Supreme Effort. Paris. June 8 IIP) The French were falling back tonight along nearly 60 miles of the front but till fighting against the German offensive on Paris facing the strongest attack of the war and the most massive mechanized onslaught (n military history. The Germans threw 60 infan try divisions and seven armored divisions more than 1.000.000 men and 3.500 tanks into the assault south of the Somme. This mighty push reached its peak in the center of the front, where reserves were brought up in the Oise valley the route to Paris and hurled into the bat tie in the region of Roye and Noyon, in an area 48 miles north of this capital. Allies Outnumbered In this sector alone the Ger mans were estimated to have used half a million men. Start ing at dawn, after dive bombers, artillery and tanks had opened the way, the nazi infantry charged, each man holding the sholder of the man before him. The French were outnum bered in infantry. North of the capital the French withdrew for the second successive day. The general fall-back was called a "retire ment maneuver," and a military spokesman declared the main line remained unbroken. The nazis also struck a tre mendous blow on the French right (east) flank and succeeded in establishing a foothold on the south bank of the Aisne river. In that sector, the French were counter-attacking bitterly. German pressure diminished tonight on the extreme left (west) flank, where the Bresle river blocked their Infantry. A tank column of 200 to 300 which ' penetrated south to Forges-Les-I Faux was reported being pound ed to bits by French artillery and cannon-firing planes. ! Tha hattli rairpH tiith varvlnff Intensity all along the new, shortened 110-mile front from the sea to the Aisne. Machine Warfare Military authorities not given to exaggeration called the battle frankly "the greatest of all time." The number of tanks used almost doubled those em ployed in the battle of the Mouse, when the Germans broke through to the sea. On the central sector of the front running nearly 60 miles from Aumale on the Bresle to Noyon on the Oise the nazis rent wave after wave of ma chines and men smashing against the French lines. German losses were reported by the French high command to be "enormous" but still they came. The French clung to the sup port points of the Weygand line on the rolling hills and in the scattered woods of the battle field, pouring fire into the tanks with their artillery. (Continued on Page Three.) GENERALLY FAIR Northern California: Fair Sunday with local morning fogs on coast; little change in tem perature: moderate northwest wind off coast Oregon: Cloudy Sunday with light rain In northwest portion Sunday night: slightly warmer j Sunday: moderate northerly wind off coast. Outlook for far western states for week beginning June 10 to ! 15 inclusive: generally fair ! weather but local thunderstorms over mountains first half of i week: normal temperatures but above normal over northern j California first of week. Plan No "Wholesale Arrests" ' ! - ,,A .'' iV-i Inferences that the Justice department planned "a mass drive or wholesale arrests" in connection with the defense pro gram were called "wholly unwarranted" by Attorney Gener al Robert Jackson (right). Jackson and J. Edgar Hoover, direc tor of the federal bureau oi investigation, are shown above as they waited to testify before a house appropriations subcom mittee in Washington, D. C. IS E Under an order signed in probate court, Hans Stmve of Schonbocken der Lubeck, Ger many, must report in person at the county clerk's office here within three months from last May 28 to receive his half share pf the estate of his brother, Nick Struve, a resident of Jackson county. Another brother, H. W. Struve of Los Angeles, is the other heir. The estate to be di vided, according to the final accounting by the administra tor, amount to $168.68. The order states: "Due to conditions existing in Europe and In Germany, any money forwarded to Hans Struve would not be delivered unto him." The order further provides that if Hans Struve does- not make an appearance at the county clerk's office within the three months, the money shall be deposited with the state treasurer for disposition, as provided by Oregon law. It was signed by former County Judge Earl B. Day two days before he resigned. The original amount of the estate was around $1400. BY NAZI U-BOAT London, June 8. (IP) The sinking of the armed merchant cruiser Carinthia a 20, 277-ton former Cunard-White Star liner popular with Americans as a world cruise ship before the war was announced tonight by the admiralty. It was the largest merchant ship yet sunk by enemy action since the war started. More than 200 of the crew were landed at a British port by a warship tonight. Another 100 were expected on a second rescue ship. The crew said the Carinthia remained afloat for some time after being torpedoed but that two warships failed in an attempt to tow her to port. The admiralty did not say where the Carinthia, a twin screw vessel built In 1925, had been attacked. SENT TO BORDER New York. June 8. (IP) The German radio. In a broadcast in English Intercepted here by NBC, reported tonight the Span ish embassy in Paris had trans ferred its files to St. Jean De I.uz on the Spanish border be cause of "the uncertainty of the present situation.'' FIND ORD GUILTY, L Tacoma, June 8. (IP) Mo tion for a new trial will be filed Monday for John Ord, Ta coma fireman found guilty of murdering Mrs. Myra Nosier by a jury which recommended life in prison, Bertil Johnson, de fense counsel, ' announced here tonight The state ' had asked the death penalty. Ord maintained a glum sil ence after the verdict was re turned this morning. The Jury had deliberated about seven hours. Ord had claimed self defense in the shooting affray in which he killed . Hale R. Nosier and Mrs. Nosier on their wedding night and beat King Pomeroy. a member of their household, unconscious, last February 23. Mrs. Nosier had formerly lived with Ord as his wife, and Ord claimed he went to the Nosier home to congratulate them on their marriage. T Oregon City, June 6. (IP) A traffic crash on the Pacific highway two miles south of here today killed - David R. Edenholm, 19, 738 Twelfth street, Eugene, and injured six other persons. The victim was riding in an automobile with James E. Par dee, 22, of Susanville, Ca)., a student at Hastings College of Law at San Francisco. Injured occupants of the other machine were Fred W. Durbin, 22, the driver, a Cor vallis resident: Mrs. Walter E. Pierce, 65, Boise, Idaho, her daughter, Margaret, 17: Mrs. Mildred Marshall, 36, Multno mah hotel of Portland, and' Joe Schwab, 21, of Astoria. Authorities said the collision occurred as the Pardee car turned out of the lane to pass a car ahead. None of the Injured travelers was believed in critical condi tion. LIBERTY BELL TO RING ON JUNE 24 Philadelphia, June 8. IP The sound of America's Liberty Bell will echo throughout the nation June 24. Republican leaden have ar ranged for a patriotic meeting to be held on the opening day of the national convention at Independence Square. Doors of Independence Had will be opened. to allow a view of the historic bell. It will be struck and tha sound broadcast. 1 ITALY ZERO HOUR WITHIN 5-6 DAYS El Reprisals Threatened If Italian Cities Bombed by Allies Editor Explains. Rome, June 8. (.P) A point ed warning that five English cities would be bombed for every Italian city attacked by Allied bombers in the event Italy enters the war was pub lished todny by the Rome news paper II Giornale D'Halia just while foreign observers were expressing belief that Italy would enter the conflict next week. II Giornale D'ltalia's editor is Virginio Gayda, long recognized as Premier Mussolini's editorial mouthpiece. Reports have circulated here that the British ani French plan to bombard Italian centers if this nation entered tha war against them. To these reports, the authori tative newspaper said: "For every Italian city bomb ed five English cities would suffer the same treatment." Bombardment of Rome would be the signal for "similar but greater bombardment of Lon don," the newspaper added. However, Rome was consid ered here to be fairly safe from attack, with Italians pre pared to make it an open city bv remain. nm.n u:j I tniinlng America's de by removing government of-.fn. ,hM , k. ..,i,ii uces, troops and aircraft. . - Some observers heard that an Italian nttack on their first secret objective would come In the early hours next Monday but a source considered reliable Indicated it probably would be later, possibly Thursday or Fri day night. II Giornale D'ltalia sought to explain the declaration of its editor that United States entry into the war would give Eu ropean powers the right to in tervene In American affairs. The newspaper declared the article was not a "provocation or threat" toward the United States, explaining it meant to say that American intervention in Europe would "create a prec edent which would justify the turning of European powers against America either at the present or in possible future conflicts." ALLIES SPEED UP New York. June 8. IIP) Al lied war purchasers, who have heretofore concentrated mostly in aircraft and tools, now are tapping United States Industry for an assortment of other wea pons and materials. Wall street sources said today British and French agents sud denly appeared to have widen ed their range of orders and Inquiries to speed equipment plans and replace losses. Total orders placed since September are estimated at $1,300,000,000 now, and the figure is expected to grow rapidly. The new German drive, It was pointed out, threatens im portant Industrial sectors in ad dition to those already engulfed by the nazi advance in north ern France and the low coun tries. Shanghai, June 9. (Sunday) ilf) Japanese military authori ties today claimed capture of Shasi, important Yangtze river treaty port west of Hankow. Capture of Shasi was regard ed as a major gain In the drive on Ichang. another port on the Yangtze which Is the principal present objective of the cam paign in western liupeb province. DEWEY CALLS ON AMERICA DEFENSE TO F.D.R. Urged to End New Deal War Upon Business By Candidate. Winston-Salem, N. C June 8. (IPt Recalling the adage that "a house divided against itself cannot stand", Thomas E. Dew ey called on President Roosevelt tonight to put an end to the "war by the new deal against the business and productive forces of this nation" in tha face of a national emergency. The candidate for the presi dential nomination, In an ad dress prepared for delivery at a republican meeting here, de clared that "for seven years we have been divided by war at home. The policies of our pres ent administration have been conceived in terms of domestic warfare. It has been a war by the new deal against the busi ness and productive forces of this nation. "We have right", the speak er continued, "to insist that the president put an end to the war at home and dismiss from his councils those who waged that war with the wounds of division healed we can turn our attention whole-heartedly to the problem of national defense." Greensboro, N. C, June 8. (P) Saying that the task of fensea should not be "blindly' left to .our "existing . national bureaucracy," Thomas E. Dew ey, candidate for tha Republi c a n presidential nomination, urged today that "we must see to it that America doei not miss the bus." In ad address prepared for delivery at a luncheon meeting of district young Republicans, Dewey said that "all of us must be ready to accept, as citizens, some of the responsibility to see that the Job (of rearming America) is done." BULLETIN Eugene, June 8. IIP) Jimmy Kego limited the Eugene Ath letics to three hits here tonight as the Medford Craters defeated the local State league club 10-0 to remain at tha top of the league standings. Ted Kerr, with a homer and two singles, and Riney Cook, with a double and a pair of one-baggefs, paced Medford a 12 hit attack off Hughie Day. Score: Medford 10 1J 1 Eugene 0 3 1 Rego and Hawkins; Day, Hutcheson and Mattlson. Albany, Ore., June 8. IIP) Albany walloped the Jack te Jill team of Portland, 9-2, to night in a State league baseball game. Miller held the Portland era to three hits. Score: Jack & Jill 2 3 1 Albany 9 11 2 Pendergrass, Richards and W. Wittcke; Miller and Robertson. SUverton, June 8. (IP) Every SUverton player scored, two of them twice, In the eighth Inning as the Red Sox defeated Bend here tonight In a state league baseball game. Silver- ton scored 11 runs on 10 hita in the big Inning. Bend 8 9 3 SUverton 12 14 4 Farmer, Murdock, Houchens and Kramers; Schwab, Yackey Bennett, H. Hagedorn and Raid, Moe. Portland, Ore., June 8. UP) The Portland Babes hammer ed two Hills Creek pitchers for 14 hlte and a 12-4 State league baseball victory tonight. Score: R. H. E Hills Creek 4 9 9 Portland 12 14 - Kendall, Johnson and Ball; Carstens and Amacher. ' Portland, June 8, P) C. I. O pickets who patrolled at the B. F. Johnson sawmill last week were restrained by an order of Circuit Judga Alfred P. Dobson yesterday. Perfect Pal Berlin, June 8. (IP) Au thorized German sources de :lared today the German Italian policy in the Euro pean war is governed by a tingle thought "How can England and Franca be truck in the most catastro phic manner?" These sources added that Germany and Italy are work ing in close cooperation. They said neither country places its own Interest in the fore ground but "both have only ane desire, namely, to deal n effective blow at England ind France." SPEEDY AID FOR Fl Washington, June 8, Gen. John J. Pershing urged today that tha United States send to the allies "unlimited quantities" of airplanes, artil lery, small arms and ammuni tion as well as food, clothing and medical supplies! Appealing in a statement for contributions to the Red Cross, the commander of the Ameri can world war army asserted that the allies were fighting "a war for civilization" and that they were "holding our front line." ' "We have a vital concern In the outcome,'.' he said, In talking to reporters a short time previously, Pershing said he was heartily in favor of compulsory military service in this country. Ha added that If such a plan were adopted an immediate expansion of the army would be possible In case of a threatened invasion. He recalled that the training of re cruits for World war duty had required many months. Asserting In his statement that "there is no time to lose," Pershing continued: "The allies need every en couragement It is possible for ua to give. "Let ua open our hearts and give, give, give in Christian sympathy, and in response to the tremendous needs that are staring us in the face." . . . "Our people well know the dire need of the hundreds of thousands of allied refugees. In our minds' eye, we behold with infinite pity the streams of aged men and women, and the terri fied children, fleeing from their burning homes, ruthlessly ma chine-gunned from the air as they hasten along the highways seeking even temporary safety against the horror of war." Portland, June 8. (IP) Ralph P. Cowgitl became commander of the 180th Infantry of the Oregon national guard today. Ms). -Gen. George A. White, commander of the 41st national guard division, disclosed. Cowglll was promoted to col- nel from lieutenant-colonel. He takes the post vacated by the voluntary retirement of Col. Alvin C. Baker and will com mand units located in Portland, Eugene, Woodburn, Gresham, Medford. Grants Pass, Oregon City. LaFrance, Union, Baker, Pendleton, The Dalles, Forest Grove, St. Helens and Astoria. Cowgill is a former local resi dent and well known here. Dick Law Fined Aberdeen, June 8. (IP) Convicted of third degree as sault, Dick Law, Aberdeen CIO leader, was fined 350 today by Justice A. D. Gillies after trial on charges brought by Herbert Irving, an opponent of Law In the CIO-1WA local. Wheat Quota Washington, June 8 P) Ex emption faom marketing quotas went to wheat farms with an average annual production of 200 bushels under farm act measure signed by the president yesterday. ANTI-WAR PROFIT BILL ORDERED BY Next Session of Congress To Act Action Speeded On Rearmament Bill. (By Associated Press) Washington, June 8- Studies looking toward early enactment of anti-war profit legislation at the next session of congress were ordered by ths house ways and means com. mitte today in approving a Jl.006,000,000 defense tax bill. In a statement, the committee said that there should not be "an opportunity for the creation of new war millionaires or tha further substantial enrichment of already wealthy persons' be cause of the rearmament pro. gram." Accordingly, tha statement added, technical assistants to tha committee and treasury officials have been asked to have bills ready at the opening of the next session of congress wnich will .enable the government, through taxes, to capture any excesa profits, and also to provide for special amortization for na tional defense Industries. The full committee approved. , with minor changes, the bill drafted by a subcommittee which is designed to raise. , $1,006,000,000 year to pay off emergency national defense costs In five years. . The measure reduces personal income tax exemptions, imposes a 10 per cent supertax, increase u the corporate income tax ona per cent and Increases excise, and surtaxes. The only cnanges the full committee made in tha subcommittee bill dealt with excise taxes. The committee said tha excess profits tax, If the next congress desire, could be mad to apply to 1940 Income. Chairman Doughton (D., N. C.I of the committee said tha tax bill would b taken up in tne house Tuesday. While tha tax bill is aimed at raising all the money now proposed by emergency defense, with some to spare, there was talk on Capitol hill that con- irm mlaht be asked lor an additional (1,000,000,000 for tha army if tha Germans snouia breajc through to Paris beforsi adjournment of this session.. Both tha White House and the war department said, how ever, that no request for addl. tional funds was now contem plated. 5 Memellle. France. Jun 8. (;P) Four men and one woman were sentenced to aeatn ana mnA another woman were sentenced to prison today by a military court on charge of espionage. The woman, Catherin Murae tore, and one of the men, Henri Rosa, were sentenced to aeatn in absentia, having escaped ar r.rf The three who heard tha death sentence pronounced were Silvio Muratore, jean Harrison and Cesar Chabrier. JH BILL JAR, CLAIM Princeton, N. J- Juna 8. Pi Colonel Julius Ochs Adler. vice president nd general manage ef the New York Times, told Princeton university alumni to. day bill to require compul sory military training would bS) ready for congress soon. The alumni, numbering 250, who heard Adler's talk at meeting held In conjunction with the annual campus pro. gram for returning graduates, adopted a resolution approving universal military training. Adler, member of the das of 1916, said the bill was beinsj drafted "In words of o and two syllables so that every on would understand if
