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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT; TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 11. 1940. t f h II 3 n r II n ii b v w o o n k II n kl b 0 a e e ARGUMENT SET ON PACKING PLANTS' WORK INSURANCE Demurrer Due for Airing Be fore Judge Norton May 19 Briefs Next Step Argument on the demurrer In the mlt of the Pinnacle Pack Inn company and ten other Rogue River valley and Hood illver district packing plant! against the Oregon State Unem ployment Compensation Com mission have been let for Wed nesday, May 19. The packing plants seek ex emption from payment of "con tributions" to the Jobless fund, on the grounds they are engaged in agricultural pursuits. They further hold they are exempt under the federal law and there fore should . be under Oregon state law. The state, through the attorney-general, the past ten days, has filed motions to strike cer torn portions of the packing house complaints on the ground of Insufficiency of facta to con stitute basis for suit. The arguments, before Circuit Judge H. D. Norton are expected to take most of the day. There will be witnesses and no jury, Just arguments on the legal phases. Following the argu ments. It is expected the court will ask both sides to file briefs, before rendering a decision. The packers are represented by Attorneys George M. Rob erts and William M. McAllister, of this city, and the state com' mission by Assistant Attorney' General Harry D. Campbell. SENATE APPROVES TRADI TO HELP ALLIES (Continued from Pas On.) tional $1,706,053,908 outlay for national defense today to pre pare this country for what the army chief of staff called "all manner of possibilities in the western hemisphere." The huge Increase, submitted one day after Italy's entrance Into the war, would boost de fense appropriations for this ses sion to $3,021,019,622, would add 93,000 enlisted men to the regular army, provide 3,000 new warplanes for the air corps and permit the navy to start work on 68 additional warships. The measure also carried S3, 358,800 to give the federal bur eau of Investigation 5000 addi tional agents to deal with es pionage, sabotage and other na tional defense activities. Among other Items In the bill were $1,000,000 for the na tional defense council and Its recently appointed advisory commission, $47,300,000 for the acquisition of strategic minerals and materials, and $32,000,000 additional for the civic aeronau tics authority to give primary, secondary and refresher" train ing to a total of 87,000 civilian airplane pilots. IS CLAIM OF NAZIS (Continued trom Ps OnO trenched on France's southern front along the low-lying marl time Alps awaiting Italy's ex pected onslaught Into the French Riviera. Paris Smoked by Bembinf At dawn, the beleaguered French capital presented a weird, Dantesqua appearance as ocrid smoke from fires set by German Incendiary bombs dark ened the city like a pall. Much of the population of 3, 000,000 including all but a shell of the government, had fled. Civilians moved southward In streams. The capital's broad boulevards were almost de serted. German tanks in bold. Iso lated raids were reported to have sliced through the French lines to the environs of Paris. The Nal high command re ported tha,; strong bodies of al lied troops have been cut off and surrounded at several point and are facing destruction. "Because of severe, bloody losses, the great number of pris oners and the capture of all kinds of material, the enemy's rawer of resistance is visibly waning," the official Nazi com munique said. PORTLAND ITAUANS DISCLAIM FASCISM Portland, June 11. UP) Ital Inn. condemned Mussolini s en trsnxa in the European war to day and denied tne existence oi an Italian fascist movement nere i riilik it Immensely, com m.ntnH Charles Dlllio. Dast Com mander of Rome post, American Lea on. "Regardless oi wnai MiKtntinl'a nuarrel was. he shouldn't have gone to war there is no support from local Italians." Ernest M. Jachetta, president of the Multnomah - Republican club, said "the war Is frownea upon by local Italians. Italy was getting along all right. Some day the three dictators will be in fight and then she will lose all FEATURE OF ELKS FLAG DAY RITUAL Nlel R. Allen, member of the Grants Pass lodge and state commander of the American Le gion, delivered the patriotic ad dress as Elks from Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass gath ered in the Ashland Elks tem ple last night for Joint flag day exercises. "Our observance of the flag tonight is not a gesture, it is not a hollow tribute to this flag," Mr. Allen. said. "It is the deepjst honor that can be paid any symbol because It is the symbol of America, herself In an hour of deadly Impli cations whirh may Imperil our national life . , . we the peo ple of the United States, must contemplate in solemn thought and with a prayer for guidance the course upon which we will set our flag. Security la Unity "Where this flag may take us. under those stars of divine guidance, this great order will follow as one man exemplify ing historically that national unity which gives national se curity." Included on the program was "History of the Flag," by C. E. Gates of Medford, past exalted ruler of the local lodge; altar service by Esquire William B. Allen and Ashland lodge offi cers, prayer by Chaplain C. J. Baughman of the Ashland lodge. Introductory exercises by Exalted Ruler Will M. Dodge and officers of the host lodge, and several music selections. K. C. LEADER'S WIDOW DIES OF CRASH HURTS Albany, June 11. UP) Mrs. J. F. Doolcy of Albany, Injured May 27 in an automobile col lision that killed her husband outright, died early today. , The Doolcy car crashed Into the rear of a lumber truck. Mrs. Doolcy suffered a skull fracture. The couple was en route home from a Knights of Columbus convention at Bend. tired. In addition. It was pro posed that Standard surrender $2,375,000 worth of its 5i per cent gold debentures. California Oregon power's capital would be reduced in an amount equal to the outstand ing shares after the reclassifi cation of the common stock and the retirement of the preferred. Thailand was officially adopt ed as the name of Siam in 1939. San Francisco. June 11. UP Two utility companies, one operating in Oregon, asked the California railroad commission yesterday for permission to re classify their stocks to divest themselves of holding company control. They are the San Diego Con solidated Gas & Electric and the California Oregon Power com pany, the latter with headquar ters at Medford. The Standard Gas & Electric Company of New York now con tiols both. California Oregon power asked permission to substitute 620.610 $10 shares for 82,061 shares of $100 par value com mon stock now held by the New York firm. Standard would sur render its 78,000 shares of pre ferred stock which would be re- berman, died in a hospital last night as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile acci dent Friday night. His car weiit over an embankment on the Klamath Falls highway when he swerved to miss a truck, state police said. this week include tha following: Regular weekly Townsend dance, Wednesday night. Thursday evening is the meet ing of Club No. 3 who promise a good program. Club No. 1 meets Friday eve ning and have a full program by Alexander's Hawaiian string orchestra. For the afternoon of Satur J T a . I fit.! No. 1 are planning a silver tea II rVlClliirQSOD tn k hmlA nn tha mprzanina floor of the hall. All Townsendites and the public are cordially invited to all these activities. (Contributed) Lumberman Dies. Townsend activities for the Lakeview, Ore., June 11. IIP) Dreamland Townsend hall for Henry C. 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Called to order at the armory at 8 a.m.' today, the delegates began the Introduction of reso lutions, which promptly were referred to respective commit tees. Reports of officers and committee chairmen were heard and routine business of the de partment conducted. LOCAL COUPLES TO WED IN RENO Reno, Nev., June It. (IP) Marriage licenses Issued here today Included: Lloyd If. John son, 22, and Margaret Glines. 21. both Medford. Ore.; B. F. Applegate, 28, Ashland, Ore., and Ruby Grace Black. 25, Berkeley, Cal; John T. Withers, 29, Horse Creek, Cal., and Alir Miltkowskl, 24, Medford, Ore. Mr. Johnson's address ac cording to the city directory is 224 West Clark street. Miss Minkowski's home Is listed at 109 South Orange street In the directory. Band's French armies had stemmed a tempestuous Nail "scythe" attack aimed at sell lng the French capital from the tear, while Italy still masked her plan of attack as a full mili tary partner of Germany. 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