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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturdajr lib Uttlo chango la temptracar. temperature Hlghnt Yesterday M iMwm this Mornlnf M Thirty-fifth Year IB) Washington, D. C, June 14. Despite demands that congress remain in session until the reg ular session starts next Jan uary, the legislative body will adjourn sine die this month on June 22, if the democratic leaders have their way. Repub licans, to a man, have agreed to vote to remain but unless they are reinforced by a score of democrats they cannot continue the session. Patriotism and pol itics are mingled in this posi tion of the republicans also in the position, of the democratic leaders, who are following the suggestion of the president. A great emergency may arise in the next few months and re publicans (also many democrats) think congress should be in ses sion, ready to push through any legislation the president may deem necessary. Aside from the strictly administration demo crats in congress, members do not want to leave the president alone running the ship of state; they think many minds are bet ter than one and they arc op posed to the president exercis ing too much power. On his side, the president feels he is thor oughly competent to meet any emergency and wants the con gressmen to go home. THERE is a proposal to clothe the president with blanket Dowers and make the presence of con er ess unnecessary be tween adjournment and next January. As drafted, the legis- lation permits the president to do anything, with two excep tions; he cannot mobilize the armed forces and he cannot is sue a declaration of war. These two saving clauses were writ ten to allay the fears of those citizens who imagine that, given the opportunity, the president would not stop at "steps short of war". Administration spokesmen say keeping congress in session will only provoke speeches which will keep the public stirred up in a constant state of alarm. And there is something in that con- (Continued on Pago Ten.) Ag Board to Meat Salem, June 14. (IP) The state board of agriculture will meet here tomorrow to elect a chairman to succeed Mac Hoke of Pendleton. Armand Perkins of Haines succeeded Hoke on the board, but he does not auto matically become chairman. Goldcndale, Wash., June 14. (.T Simple graveside rites were held Wednesday for Ed Snipes. 84, last of a family of Oregon trail cattle kings. Snipes died at his home near Glenwood Tues day. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS John and Robert Driskell proving that Gloria Jean of the current Crate flicker has noth ing on them, they tumbling into town to see a film show with pet Derby squirrels tucked away in various pockets. Joe Eller finding it "too dark to move" upon Flat creek, he deciding to start his fihing trips early in the morning here after so he won't have to sit up by a campfire all night. v ,-., iri .ff.ri. fM agonies from a swollen and cut lip, averring that he didn't re ceive the injury in a car wreck or from tumping into a door In the dark. Friends being unable to ob- tain the given moniker of Cy Fitzeersld who seems too petite PA ad ffTi"in to ba called Cy.lXiiht for coruptataUoa. Sue1 Med On Le Havre, Vital Port Also in Nazi Hands Says High Command By tha Associated Praaa Hitler's armies swept on past fallen Paris late today, striking 30 miles south of the Marne to Romilly, on the far upper (eastern) Seine, and stormed France's great Maginot line itself in a bold frontal assault. . While Nazi troops marched through the streets of Paris and Frenchmen wept at the conquest of their beloved capital the German high command announced also the capture of Le Havre, vital French trans-Atlantic port on the English channel. It was apparent tonight that the vast and supposedly 'impreg nable" Maginot fortifications were fast being flanked. Its northern bastion. Montmedy," has already fallen. Dead-tired French poilus, many of them without relief since the battle of France started June S, beat a retreat from Paris under the onslaught of the German avalanche and awaited word as to wnere, now ana even wiwmw If the fight goes on, saia a heavily-censored dispatch from the Associated Press correspon dent in Tours, indicating that France, wounded to the quick, may capitulate. There was no confirmation, i however, of this. Britain Opens Chast The Nazis' tempestuous 9-day conquest of the French capital spurred Great Britain late today to unleash all the vast wealth of her war chest for the pur chase of American supplies. Britain will now go "all out , it was said, shifting her strategy frcm a long war based on hopes of ultimate victory thru ihe financial exhaustion of the enemy to meet the fury of the German blitzkrieg. Rapidly swarming German mechanized columns poured be hind the, main Maginot fortifica tions between Paris and Mont medy to imperil from the rear the 1,000,000 French poilus manning the steel-and-concrete line. In case of an assault from be hind, it was not believed that the French could turn their Maginot guns around. Final Pursuit Begun . "Pursuit of the enemy until final destruction has now be gun", the Nazi high command declared exultantly. The French government was ronnrted fleeing from Tours, presumably to take refuge in Bordeaux, on ranee s south- west coast. Xlie frontal attack on the Maginot line centered in the Saar region. Destruction of eight allied transports off Le Havre and damage to 8 others were report ed by the Nazi high command, indicating heavy losses to Brit ( Continued on Pago PiTt.) Former Medford Girl Now Chrome Queen of America Seattle, June 14. (IP) Only i won a $3,200 claim In congress a few years away from a $135- last year, she said. a-month government secretary's desk, 28-year-old Mrs. William Moroney of San Francisco could lay claim today to the' title of "Chrome Queen of America", The attractive young business woman, Just returned from Alaska, reported she had the decks virtually cleared for de livery of 25.000 tons of the gleaming metal to the govern ment under an S843.800 con tract. The "decks". In this case, still must be swept clean of a score or more feet of Alaskan snow. She said production at her big Kenai Peninsula mine should start within six weeks with a crew of 80 men. Deliv ery must be completed in six months. Mrj. Moroney's entry Into the chrome business, rare in the United States and unique for a I woman, was a matter of tol- lowing in parental footsteps. Her father, the late Dr. John F. Reddy of Medford. Ore., sup plied the government with chrome during the world war. He never succeeded in collec- ting, the daughter explained. and her fir ft chrome-plated step was in waging a one-woman FORD Full Associated Press SET-UP OF DRAFT MACHINERY WANTED BY SOME Washington, June 14. (IP) A oroDosal that congress set up machinery immediately for drafting manpower in nation al emergency, but that It retain the right to say when this ma chinery should be placed In op eration. Is being advanced in various military, and congres sional circles. Advocates said that the plan would cut a -month from the time required to mobilize large numbers of men In any situa tion which congress deemed to warrant such action. If a - selective service law were enacted now, the propon ents contended, approximately 6,500 local boards necessary to help administer it could be ap pointed at once. Regulations and registration forms could be printed and issued to them. The system then would be ready to swing into action at any time, on orders from Capi tol Hill, and experts believe It would have the first men reach ing army camps within 30 days thereafter. There has been no indication in any quarters that the army wants to institute selective serv ice in the near future. G. P. Couple to Wad Reno, Nev., June 14. (IP) Marriage licenses Issued here to day included: Morris Fox, Zl and Grace, Grantham, 20, both Grants Pass, Ore. Then a keen business sense or feminine intuition led her to assume the prospect of war might again rejuvenate the chrome business, necessary for stainless steel and many mili tary alloys. "All the chrome had been coming from Russia, New Cale donia and Turkey," she ex plained. Mrs. Moroney said she recent ly sold one chrome mine in California for $73,000 and has others in northern California They were among her father's holdings, but she "plunged" on her own to start buying the Alaska mine which produced during the World war. Mrs. Maroney is a native of Medford and is remembered by many here. Her mother con tinued to reside here until few years ago when she moved to San Francisco. Her brother. Michael, who is assirtlng her in the Alaskan enterprise, visited here a few months ago. He maintains contact with friends here, as does Mrs. Maroney. Reddy avenue, near the head of which the original family residence stands, was named for Dr. Reddy. QUICK MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940. i , . i 1 BASEBALL National St. Louis 8 9 1 Philadelphia 2 10 1 Bowman and Padgett; Mul cahy, Smoll and Warren. Pittsburgh 8 8 1 New York 8 13 1 Klingcr, Heintselman, Joiner, and Davis, Berres; Melton, Lohr man, W, Brown, and Panning. Chicago ,. 2 4 2 Boston 4 - 10 2 Olsen, Root and Collins Er rickson and Masi. Cincinnati 0 2 1 Brooklyn 2 9 0 Thompson and Lombardi; Hamlin and Phelps. American Philadelphia 0 2 0 Cleveland 8 15 0 Dean, Besse, Heusser, and Hayes; Allen and Pytlak. Washington 1 S 4 Detroit 10 13 0 Masterson, Krakauskas, and Ferrell; Newhouser and Teb- betts. ANTI-ITALIAN DRIVE SEEN IN AMERICA BY Washington, June 14. (P) Ascanio . Colonna, the Italian ambassador, protested to Secre tary Hull today against what one of his aides described as a campaign to arouse anti-Italian feeling in the United States. Secretary Hull made no im mediate comment on the pro test. New York, June 14.- Intensified police vigilance has been ordered here following a warning by an undisclosed fed eral agency that Italian consuls general in the United States had been instructed to further the cause of fascism in this country. All city police commanders were assembled in a secret con ference yesterday at which time they were given a 25-page re port summarizing results of an investigation by the federal agency. There are more than 1,000. 000 persons of Italian descent in New York City. The memorandum handed ranking police officers and in spectors of the criminal alien, sabotage and bomb squads con tained instructions to make ar rests whenever and wherever necessary. Seattle. June 14. OP) The 32-passengcr flying boat "Alaska Clipper" with 28 persons aboard, left Matthews beach on Lake Washington at 9:38 a. m. on its shakedown flight to Juneau. On June 20 the four-engined Sikorsky is scheduled to make the first U. S. airmail flight to Alaska followed four days later by the first passenger flight on the new link. Pan-Am-Tican Airways, oper ator of the Seattle-Juneau ser vice, said the trip is expected to take seven hours, contrasting with the usual four-day steamer voyage. It is 850 miles by air to Juneau. Portland. June 14. 'jTV-The United States National Bank of Portland prepared plans today for early enlargement of its Ladd & Bush branch at Salem. Presi dent Paul S. Dick said the ex terior would not be changed, but more area would be added to the interior. Portland, Ore., June 14. P) The T. E. Connolly Construc tion company of San Francisco submitted a low bid of $769,830 to the United States army en gineers today for the construc tion, of tha Cottage Grove dam. MEDFORD TRUCKER GERMAN OFFICIALS I DENY WM. BULLITT TAKEN jNCUSTODY U. S. Embassy in Berlin Un informed On Report to Washington Envoy Held Berlin, June 14. (JP) Ger man authorities tonight denied a report, received from a source which is usually trustworthy, that U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt had been placed in protective custody by German military authorities In Paris. The United States embassy here said it had no information on the subject. WishlniUu. June 14. UP Informed today of Berlin re ports that Ambassador William C. Bullitt was in "protective custody" in Paris, where earlier he had sent the word that Ger man troops were "Inside the gates", President Roosevelt posed this question:" " ' Could the ambassador be pro tected against what and whom? The exchange was at the president's press conference, some 10 hours after the state department received Bullitt's la conic message which, while say ing "the city was quiet," left the fate of France's capital un certain. Massage Delayed The message took almost 11 hours in transit from France. Bullitt had cabled that he and members of his staff were remaining in Paris "as the rep resentative of the diplomatic corps" in the hope of rendering "any assistance possible in see ing to It that the transfer of the government of the city takes place without loss of human life." The phrasing was interpreted in some quarters here to mean that all other diplomats had quit the French capital as the smashing nazi advance surged closer to the outskirts of the city. y OF NUDE FOUND IN SHAFT OF E Spokane. June 14. IIP) The unclad body of a young woman who had been fearfully beaten was discovered today in the ele vator shaft of a Spokane hotel. Coroner I. S. Collins said the young woman, apparently around 20 years old and pos sibly a mulatto, had been dead about a week. He said the hea i was so bat tered and covered with blood the features were almost In di.itingulshible. Only a few shreds of what had been a polka-dot dress and the cuffs at the wrists remained on the body. An immediate autopsy was ordered. County Prosecuting Attorney Carl Quackenbush said prelim inary efforts indicated the wo man had been beaten to death in the basement of the hotel and then shoved down the shaft, the bottom of which was six feet below tha floor and closed off by doors. Trestle Fir Quenched Portland, June 14. ;P Ser vice continued without Interrup tion today over the fire-damaged Oregon Electric Railway trestle near Tualatin. The Tualatin fire department pumped water from Fanno creek to quell a blaze of undetermined origin early yesterday Tribune lit TJnllad Press Death for Fifth Columnist i . u c iidJ L .,; The' French censor-approved caption says this picture shows a Belgian girl convicted oi treason, with her executioners before he was shot, Standing beside hat Is a squad of French marinas, with helmeled corporal in cantar identified as tha head of tha firing squad. Tha scene is in front ol Dunkarque for. while the French still controlled. , Fl HURRIED TO AID OF FALTERING FRANCE London, June 14 (JP) A new British expeditionary force new In men and material is in France. ' Some days ago, three trains loaded with fresh troops arrived at a southern port within an hour. Many more came by truck. bus and car and as fast as they came they boarded great gray transports which moved slowly toward France. In rushing to France "thou sands" of soldiers who had been counted upon to protect the British isles from threatened Nazi invasion, the British gov ernment told French Premier Reynaud that "we cannot meas ure the various forms of tribula tion which will fall upon our peoples In the near future." MRS. HOLLOWAY NAMED EASTERN STAR MARTHA Portland, June 14. (IP) Mrs, Hallle Huntington of Eugene, new grand worthy matron of the Oregon Eastern Star, ap pointed Mrs. Elizabeth Bryson Eucene. chaplain and Mrs. Geor gia Holloway, Medford, Martha. Start And Stripe Cain Interest As War Sears World Philadelphia. June 14. (IP) Increased sales of Ameri can flags during the past month were announced by manufacturers today as the nation observed the 163rd an niversary of the making here of the first "stars and stripes." There is a "renewed patri otic spirit" said one manu facturer. "People are becoming more flag conscious," commented another. "Our sales to Indi viduals have increased consid erably since President Roose velt's national defense speech. "Many of our sales are to newly naturalized citizens and persons of German descent who want to show their natrlntWm." CEMETERY AFTER ILL HEALTH Roseburg, Ore., June 14. (IP) With both wrists and neck slashed by a razor blade, the body of Frank Osgood Young, 40, Sutherlln postmaster, was discovered early this morning in his car in the Valley View cemetery two miles east of Sutherlin, Sheriff Percy Webb reported today. Circumstances surrounding his death indicated suicide and no inquest will be necessary. Coroner H. C. Stearns announced. Young, who has been In 111 health for many months, de spondent, and threatening to take his life on several occasc ions, according to Information obtained by Sheriff Webb, left home, ostensibly for the post office, early Wednesday but fail ed to arrive. A searching party, headed by Deputy Sheriff Cliff Thornton, discovered the body at 4:30 a. m. today. Young was born at Dallas, Ore., and had lived in Suther lin for seven years, serving as postmaster during the last four. He was a World war veteran and a member of the American Legion. TINY SLEEP WALKER FALLS TWO STORIES Portland, June 14. (IP) Lit tle Nadeen Pulancho, 8, came up with a smile after the first bounce. She stepped out of a second story bedroom window while wslking in her sleep, crashed onto a shed roof and rolled to the cement walk. Emergency hospital attend ants found only a bump on her head and a slight cut on her tongue. Salem, June 14. (IP) Hop growers will have until June 20 to mail their ballots on the pro posed hop marketing agreement, the hop control board announced today. Tha deadline had been set for yesterday, but it was ex tended because there was a delay i in tending ballot to growers. Sunday Want Ads Jo l rcmlne you to prepare your copy tor tho saadajr morning odltlaa. Moat eaeple read ataee an Seaeav than any atlMT day. Then, too, thrro la a foil ear ahead for action. Try advertising. No. 72. KILLED LEAPS IN FRONT OF LOGCARRIER Effort to Leave Own Truck: As Crash Looms Costs Life Near Hornbrook, Cal. August Dorsey, 43, of Med ford, driver for the Medford Crescent City Truck Lines, was fatally injured yesterday after noon when he leaped from his semi-trailer truck directly Into the path of an oncoming log ging truck, about five miles north of Hornbrook, Cal., on the Pacific highway. Dorsey was rushed to Sis kiyou county hospital at Yreka. cal., where ha died of Internal Injuries at 4:50 p. m., two hours after the accident. An Inquest was to be held In Yreka this afternoon. The body. now in Yreka, will be shipped to Dayton, Ore., tonight for bur ial In the family plot,, Saw Crash Coming " According to Siskiyou county authorities, Dorsey was driving; south on the highway with a truck load of CCC supplies for distribution to various camps In northern California. As he rounded curve he was confronted by stalled truck driven by William Black, 49, of Yreka. At the same time another logging truck, operated by A. W. Hazelrlgg, 28, of Yreka, pulled past the parked vehicle, blocking the road. Apparently believing a head on crash was unavoidable. Dor sey set the emergency brake and leaped from the cab of his truck. He landed in front of the truck driven by Hazelrlgg and was crushed under tha wheels. Companion Unhurt Ironically, Dorsey's compan ion in tha truck, Russell Phil Hps, 22, of Eugene, remained in the cab and was uninjured as tha truck rolled safely to a stop. Mr. Dorsey, with his wife and five children, had resided In tha Berrydale district here for tha past four years, having prev iously lived in Klamath Falls. He was employed by tha Med-ford-Crescent City Truck Lines to haul CCC supplies from headquarters here to tha var ious camps In tha district. Mr. Dorsey was born in Day ton, Ore., on July 15, 1897. Ha Is survived by his wile ana me five children, Maxine, 18; Bev erly, 12; Donald, 10; Dean, S and Barbara, 8. Mrs. Dorsey and the children wera In Jackson ville today with her parents. SALEM IS CITEDJ LIBEL Sitverton, June 14. UP) Justice of tha Peace Alf O. Nel son today held A. M. Church, publisher of the Capital Press, weekly newspaper at Salem, to grand Jury on a charge of crim inal libel. , Tha complaint was filed by Robin D. Day, Salem attorney. It is based on matter published by crAirch during tha primary election campaign. Homemade Ark in Northern Haven Prince Rupert, B. C, June 14. (CP Captain franklin Ste wart of tha flshpacker Rap 1 arrived here today to tall how ha convoyed tha Alaska-bound Ark of Juneau across tha storm tossed waters of Chatham sound to tha shelter -vf a fishing camp on Dundee Island about 3$ miles north oi here. AUGUST DORSEY
