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The Weather ForrcftM: rrilT cloudy 1th I o e ft I thundrrttornu oiti nionntalm; wimwhit cooler tnnlfht; Thurtdar fair. Hlthtftt ylr.lay M Lonent this morntnf .. ., 7 Swear By Them Dont underMtlmata the value of Want Ads, People who dm them retularljr know their value nnil that It Jurt h thejr iwrar bjr them. What ther do for others they will do lor job. JuK try and mo. Medford RIBUNE Full Associated Prats Full United Fimi Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 191940 No. 76. IBM A IM1 fnlfo) KB MO mm LTQU (file wfc I(0 I ifi L Washington, D. C, June 19 There is confusion, jealousy and distrust already festering under the surface as the gov ernment moves to defend Amer ica against possible foemen. Disputants range from cabinet officers to members of the senate. There are proposals that congressional committees be appointed to act as a check or brake on the executive de partment. For the time being America is muddling along with too many cooks. Army and navy have had their own arrangements for procuring equipment. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau, Jr., has been delegated by the President to provide air planes, which is a strange oc cupation for the treasury, which of itself has no planes except those used in the coast guard. A few days ago a procurement officer was appointed, but what he is to procure has not been made clear. The procurement office has looked after the building of postoffices and not munitions of war. By law the assistant secretary of war (Louis Johnson) is charged with procurement of all military supplies, the manu facture of war materials in government arsenal's and he is responsible for plans for war time procurement of supplies and industrial mobilization planning. TPHE new national defense com- mission (composed of indus trialists) supposed to procure raw materials and process them Into planes, rifles, trucks, tanks, uniforms, gas-masks, etc. Now Jesse Jones, through RFC, has pushed a bill through congress which enables him to horn in and procure materials, particu larly tin, rubber and manganese. Someone will have to clarify the situation and decide how much authority the national de fense commission has and whether the several officials authorized to procure this and that will continue to do so or (Continued on Pago Six.) RUM SALE SUSPENSION Portland, June 19. (P) The state liquor control commission refused 23 beer licenses, grant ed two and ordered 10 suspen sions at a meeting here today. Suspensions included: Harold C. Haight, Bowler's Garden, Klamath Falls, 10-day suspension for accepting finan cial assistance. Charles Schuss. Schuss Vint age company, Klamath Falls, 10-day suspension for accepting financial assistance. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Maxine Guyer averring that one cannot take Red Cross swimming lessons every night and remain glamorous-looking throughout the day. Earl Herendeen exhibiting a pair of badly sunburned arms which still sizzled four days after. Mabel Sherwood exclaiming as how it was a bit cool about the ears after whacking off beautiful curls for a more prac tical and summemh hair-do. Bill Boworman clumping loudly so friends would notice his shiny new shoes, which aren't exactly dainty. Sergcant-iit-Arms Ken Den man going into action to give authority to a whim of Paul Meyers to compel a fellow club member to remove hi coat at 8 dinner metlin; !H CONTINUES AS F TERMS JFPEACE Berlin Rumors Say Armistice Price Won't Be Argued Final Assault Alternative New York, June 19. P The official Italian radio. In a broadcast picked up by NBC. said late- today that the text of the 'German damanda on France might be expected "within a few hours." By the Associated Press German armies plunged deeper into stricken France to day and the high command re ported they had seized Cher, bourg, Nancy, Luneville fort ress, T o u 1, Strasbourg and "reached" the big French manu facturing city of Lyon, on the Rhone river. Lyon is about half way be tween Paris and Marseille, the Mediterranean port. A picture of France in bond age stripped of her gold, fac tories and raw materials, with German-Italian armies camped on her soil was given in un confirmed reports of the "axis peace" terms dictated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Accept Or Reject Authorized Nazis In Berlin emphasized that the German Italian price for an armistice are not open to negotiation. They must be accepted or rejected as they stand. The official Italian news agency said Hitler demanded capitulation "pure and simple" apparently meaning uncondi tional surrender. While details remained secret, Bordeaux reported that French and German negotiators would meet at Madrid at the residence of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain. The French radio said Ger many notified France today that she would disclose her peace terms only to a special plenipo tentiary. President Albert Le brun immediately appointed an envoy to meet the axis nego tiators. Fascists Warn Fascists in Rome warned that French rejection of the Munich terms would unleash a swift "final assault" by the combined German-Italian armies now nearing a junction near the south Swiss border to crush France to the ground. Waves of German bombers meanwhile roared over England during the night, killing 12 civil ians and wounding 13, in wide spread raids apparently Hitler's brimstone curtain-raiser reply to the "battle for Britain" pro claimed yesterday by Prime Minister Churchill. I Continued on Pago Ton.) RENCH AWAIT Weary French Fall Asleep After Stumbling Across Swiss Border Le Locle, on the French Swiss Frontier, June 19. UP) Two thousand French soldiers, including a general, two col onels, four lieutenant-colonels and 35 other officers of the aviation staff for the Dijon re gion stumbled wearily across Col Des Roches ridge into neu tral Switzerland today. They surrendered to Swiss army border guards, and with out a murmur many fell ex- hausted to sleep on the grass. The steady flow of refugees continued across this part of I the Jura frontier the old and ; the young In the dispirited masses. They said many of their num ber were killed by bombing in towns of the Doubs valley. ; southeast of liesancon, France, and of how others met death when they were caught helpless ly between the German and French fighting forces. One woman brought her dead 'child across the mountains with : her. The child had been kiled I by a bomb fragment near Bar lancon. baseball I American ' Score: (10 innings) R. H. E. Philadelphia 4 10 2 Detroit 5 9 2 Potter and Hayes; Newsom and Sullivan. Score: R. H. E. New York 0 7 1 Chicago 18 0 Russo and Rosar; Lee and Tresh. Washington 18 1 Cleveland 4 9 0 Chase, Haynes, Kraskaukas and Early; Allen and Hemsley. Boston 4 12 0 St. Louis 6 11 1 Hash, Heving and Desautels, Peacock; R. Harris, Lawson and Swift. National Pittsburgh 5 9 0 Boston 19 2 Bowman and Lopez; Errick- son. Salvo and Berres, Masi. LABOR FEDERATION Klamath Falls, June 19. P) After a spirited discussion, the State Federation of Labor, in convention here today, adopted a resolution to the effect that the federation sponsor legisla tion to prohibit women working as bartenders in Oregon. Gertrude Sweet, vice-president of the Hotel and Restau rant Employes International Al liance and the Bartenders In ternational League of America, asserted that rf women are al lowed to work as bartenders a "storm of public protest" will arise and there will be agitation for a return to prohibition. Ethel Murphy, Marshfield, add ed that women should not "chisel" on bartenders. Several delegates spoke on both sides of the issue. A resolution proposing drastic changes in the unemployment compensation law was passed without debate. Nairobi, Kenya Colony. Afri ca, June 19. (P A raid on the Italian Somaliland frontier by troops of King George's African rifles, supported by the southern Rhodesian contingent and the royal air force, was reported In a military communique. Although full details were not available, the communique said, an Italian post was considerably damaged. The raid was made yesterday. London, June 19. UP) An air raid warning was sounded tonight on the south coast of Eng land. No plane was seen or heard immediately. A few rode, driving In camou flaged automobiles and trucks, all of which were thoroughly searched for arms. Some of the soldiers' uni forms were torn and bloody. Many of them had fought at Verdun. They reached Besancon Sun day, they said, expecting to form a new army, only to find the city abandoned. Ammuni tion dumps and gasoline storage tanks were burning. Roads were filled with vehicles, abandoned for lack of fuel, or burned and twisted from bombings. Yesterday they met a strong German motorized column near Portarier. The Germans fired at them only long enough to force their way through to the southwest towards the Saone valley. This morning they fought at Joux, between LeCocle and P o n t a 1 1 e r Junction where French forces on two Interna tional railway lines were hold ing out esainst periodic at tack of German Panzer unit. IJ.S. STANDS PAT ON AXIS POWERS TOLD Will Countenance No Euro pean Interference With Ownership in New World Washington, June 19. UP) The state department has in structed its representatives in Berlin and Rome to notify the German and Italian governments of United States opposition to transfer of any western hemis phere possessions from one non American power to another. Britain, France and the exiled Netherlands government, the na tions having possessions in this hemisphere, similarly were noti fied. The instructions, which went out Monday and were disclosed today, constituted a warning to all that the United States stood pat on the Monroe doctrine and thus would not countenance any European interference with own ership of lands in the new world. This government s views, as given to European capitals, were identical with those in a joint resolution pending in congress. Step Taking Hinted The resolution, now in the senate for ratification of minor house amendments declares that the United States would not recognize any transfer and would not acquiesce in any attempt to transfer any region of the west ern--hemisphere from one non- American power to another. If such an attempt to transfer should appear likely, the resolu tion says the United States would, in addition to other meas ures, immediately consult with the other American republics to determine what steps to take to safeguard their common inter ests. France's suit for peace has raised the present question of the fate of French possessions in this hemisphere French Gui ana, Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies area and fat Pierre and Miquelon off New foundland. Secretary Hull was expected to re-define American policy In an address at Harvard univer sity commencement exercises to morrow. 17 HURT AS BUS E Wlnslow, Ariz., June 19. (Pi Sixteen passengers and the driver were Injured today when an eastbound Santa Fe Trail ways bus plunged through the railing of a new bridge across the Little Colorado river, im mediately east of here, and dropped 20 feet to the dry bed of the stream. Investigators said the bus swerved to the left soon after it started across the bridge and ap parently plunged through the railing, out of control. The new road bed approaching the bridge recently had been topped with fresh oil. PLANE FALL INJURES Nampa, Idaho, June 19. UP) Ben H. Waigand, Nampa may or and Harry Clark, aviation in structor here, were in hospital today as a result of an airplane accident at 5:30 this morning as they took off for Baker, Ore. Spectators said the plane, ap parently having engine trouble at the take off, rose about 23 feet in the air and then nosed over on the runway as the en gine died. hawaiiaTsolon spots mainland's trouble Washington, June 19. (D Sarah Todd Cunningham, a visit ing senator from tranquil Ha waii, has this impression of the mainland: "Too many people In too many cars in too much of a hurry going In too many differ ent directions to nowhere for nothing." LEWIS TELLS GOP LABOR HAS LOST E IN IT Head of C. 1. 0. Appears Be fore Resolutions Commit tee As Convention Nears Philadelphia, June 19. (Pi CIO Chieftain John L. Lewis to day termed President Roose velt s proposal for compulsory national service "a fantastic sug gestion from a mind in full in tellectual retreat." . Philadelphia, June 19. Pi John L. Lewis, head of the CIO, told the Republican . resolutions committee today labor "has no cause to feel any confidence in the Republican party in recent years because the Republican party, as such, has practically abandoned labor." "I think it is obvious," he added, "that labor has aban doned the Republican party." Lewis spoke before the resolu tions committee as it met five days In advance of the Republi can national convention to re ceive recommendations from rep resentatives of various organiza tions on planks for the party's 1940 platform. AFL for Aiding Allies William Green, president of the American Federation of La bor, told the resolutions commit tee today his organization fa voreoT "every ounce of assistance and supplies" to the democracies Id Europe "short of our entry into the war." After reading a long formal statement urging a score or more of planks for the Republican platform, including preservation of existing labor standards, Green was questioned by com mittee members. Former Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey asked whether the AFL would be will ing, if necessary, to "temporarily give up some of its wage and hour advantages." "Labor," Green replied, "is prepared to make the same sacri fices as the average American citizen may be called upon to make. DUE TO NAZI MINE Auckland, N. Z., June 19. Prime Minister Peter Fraa er told parliament today that an enemy mine had sunk the Canadian-Australian liner Niag ara, which went down yesterday 20 miles off the New Zealand coast. This was the first official indication that German mines had been sown In Pacific waters. As Fraser spoke, rescue ships and planes were aiding the 146 passengers and 203 crewmen of the vessel who took to their boats following the explosion which sunk the liner. All were declared safe and proceeding here. STANFIELD DELAYED BY AUTO ACCIDENT Portland, June 19. UP) For mer U. S. senator Robert N Stanfield, delegate to the Re publican national convention delayed his departure to Phila delphia today because of an automobile accident. Delegate Phil Metschan of Portland said the Oregon group would leave for the east by train tonight. Stanfield, recovering from minor Injuries, will follow by plane. ACTOR MONTGOMERY ON CLIPPER FOR AMERICA Lisbon, June 19. UPl Rob ert Montgomery, American mo tion picture player who has been driving an ambulance in France, left today for the United j States on a Clipper plane. Suicides In Church Portland. June 19. UP) An unidentified, poorly dressed man sought the quiet of St. Michael and All Angels' church to com mit suicide today. A church worker found the body hanging 1 from a stairway bannister In the I hallway near the main rhapeL I Plain Language Platform G.O.P. Aim John D. Hamilton, national chairman (at right), asked the Republican national eon Tontlon resolutions committee for platform couched la "plain language." on thai nominee "will not regard as scrap of paper." E SOVIET FORCES ADVANCE INTO THREE BALTIC NATIONS Stockholm, June 19. (IP) ' Soviet Russian artillery, Infantry and cavalry units escorted by numerous squadrons of bombing planes and reinforced by tank! and armored car detachments were reported today to have occupied all large towns in Lith uania, Estonia and Latvia. The Red army also posted guards at railway stations and bridges while negotiations con tinued for establishment of pro Soviet governments In the three little Baltic states with whom the Soviet union is strongly "im plementing" her mutual assist ance pacts of last fall. There wsre also rumors of German troop movements in East Prussia, facing expanding Baltic footholds, but they could not be substantiated. Reliable diplomatic circles, however, say that the Germans have been transporting new forces to Norway. One interpre tation of this could be a plan of attack on the British isles. Washington, June 19. (P) Attorney General Jackson ex pressed "emphatic disapproval" today of a bill for the deporta tion of Harry Bridges, west coast C. I. O. leader. In a letter to Senator Russell (D., Ga.) Jackson said that it the bill, which. the house ap proved by an overwhelming vote, were to become law it would be "an historical depar ture from an unbroken Amer ican practice and tradition." Duff Cooper Assures Englishmen America Supports Them in War London, June 19. UP) Al fred Duff Cooper, Britain's min ister of information, assured the people of the British Empire to day that the United States was behind them In their battle against Germany. Speaking In a broadcast to the empire and the world while the announcement of Germany's terms for a French surrender was avidly awaited, he stated that "the government and the people" of the United States "are our friends", "We have it from their own president that 'they are redoub ling their efforts to provide us with all the means that we de sire for the prosecution of the war," he said. I With supplies from the Uni Tribune Machine Repaired Quickly By Air Line Aid The speed of modern trans portation was demonstrated again yesterday when a part for a printing machine was received by the Mail Tribune from San' Francisco in jig time by air express. The printing machine had broken and the vital part was ordered of the Ludlow Typograph company In San Francisco by wire at 11:10 a. m. The replacement part arrived by United Mainliner at 3:28 p. m. A mechanic was at the airport to get the part. Ho hastened back to the Mall Tribune plant, made the replacement and in .a short time the machine was again ' in operation. CAMIRER QUITS Washington, June 19. OP) Arno B. Cammerer resigned to day as director of the national park service because of ill health and Secretary Ickes an nounced the appointment of Newton B. Drury, California conservationist, as his successor. San Francisco, June 19. UP) Newton Bishop Drury, 01 new director of the national park service, has been active In establishing state parks in Cali fornia for the past 20 years. He has been secretary of the Save-the-Redwooda league for that period, and since 1929 has been investigating officer for the California park commission. Portland, June 19 UP) Wool dealers reported today a gen eral advance of Willamette val ley wool bids to. 35 cents a pound. Mohair remained at 35 cents a pound with very little unsold. ted States and South America available, he said, Britain had an "inexhaustable source'' which made it necessary only for Britain to hold off the In vader for a few months before the tide would turn In her favor "We have only to beat off the Invader, hold him at bay for a few months and our supplies will begin to Increase ai hi di minish. "We know that he has risked all In his great effort to obtain a swift victory. We know that he cannot face long war. We can face it and we shall face it If we have to with confidence He declared that the defeat of the French was not the first t'me "a great nation has been defeated and has recovered from the defeat" ALL 1! OF II. S. ' Washington, June- 1 9. UP) Approximately 100,000 radio operators were ordered today by the federal communications commission to submit proof ot their citizenship. Previous commission orders forbade amateurs to communU cate with foreign countries, sharply curtailed activltiea of mobile transmitters, and ordered) ship and other operators not to carry on unnecessary converaa tlons. Today's decree applies to all operators, both amateur and commercial. It calls on them to) file proof in the form of aifl davits, fingerprints, and photo graphs before August 13. The FCC licenses only citizen for all classes ot operators, but In. the past has relied on the ap plicant a own statement. SENATWCTS Washington, June 19. UP) The senate rejected entirely today all proposals to write into the 11,007,000,000 tax bill pro vision designed to reduce fed eral spending. After rejected 47 to 38, a suggestion that congressional committees seek to effect a $300,000,000 reduction in non defense appropriations, t h chamber turned down, 41 to 82, a proposal by Senator Tydings (D., Md.) that non-defense item be cut by a flat four per cent. ENLIST FOR DEFENSE Montevideo, June 19. UP) Uruguay' minister of national defense, General Julio Roletti, appealed today to all Uruguay ana to enlist Immediately for volunteer military training. Ha asked women to enroll tor pos sible auxiliary service. Roletti emphasized that the, appeal was not conected with any expected change in tha internal order or "aggression" from without, but only to gtva Uruguayans a chance in prepare themselves to serve their coun try if the occasion arose. WIFE THINKS HUBBY IS FIFTH COLUMNIST St. Louts, June 19. (AV Police received what they said was a new high In tip on "fifth column" activltiea. A woman telephoned to re port the suspected her husband la connected with a spy ring for foreign government.
