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The Weather Forecast: rmlr tonight uf Friday, warmer Friday. Trmperat ura HIchMt yrttndmf M Lowest this morn lay , , M FrFrlpltatloc To 8 p. m. Tterday lft To t a. m. today Swear By Them Dant ajidaraaUmaU tho alna mt Want Ada. Fvopla wh m them regularly know their Talua and that la Jurt why they swear by then. What they do for others they will do for yom. Jurt try and aeo. Medford Tribune Full AmocUI Praaa Full Unltad Pr Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940. No. 77. MM R l r ""J - j J DAT i ;.athe FRENCH RETURNING NWMIL TO BORDEAUX WITH, :;:(l13ll MPTATdDQ' TCPMQ! -...FilW1STi Washington, D. C, June 20. Never before has a Republi can convention received such a bad break. It cannot com pete with the daily sensa tional developments in Europe. It is like a boy with a tin whistle trying to divert attention from a brass band. Compared with the war, the convention leaves the public cold and indifferent. Managers of the convention realize that at any moment while the deliberations of the convention are being broadcast there may be a news flash from London that will cause the lis tening millions to forget the convention. Confronted by such a situa tlon, delegates are converging on Philadelphia, with many pausing for a few hours stop over in the national capital en route and seeking information as to the strength of the various aspirants. Here, under the dome of the capitol building, is the way the race for the nomina tion looks as of today: llIOST remarkable develop- " ment is the meteoric boom for Wendell L. Willkie, a for mer Democrat. In the past two weeks Willkie talk overshadows that for any other contender. His candidacy is going up like a skyrocket to the amazement of the professional politics. At the moment Willkie is a double threat to Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Taft. When Willkle's name was first suggested as material for the nomination it received slight encouragement. Outside of the pages of the Wall Street Journal Willkle's name was un known to the reading public except for a hazy recollection of his controversy with TVA. A utility executive, Willkie was not supposed to have a China man's chance; the Idea of offer ing the head of a private power company as a candidate was ab surd. But somehow Willkie caught the popular fancy and is growing day by day. About the time Dewey visited (Continued on Peg Eignt.) Panama, June 20. (JPt A census of women and children who might be sent from the Panama canal zone in case of attack was ordered ' today to be started Immediately. This was the first confirma tion of the report circulated for several weeks that the govern ment might remove the civilian population if danger threatened the western hemisphere. The registration will be han dled partly by the Red Cross, partly by government agencies and headquarters of the army and navy. It was said that one purpose would be to register women who have training that would fit them for emergency service in a first aid motor corps or similar wartime women's organizations SIDE GLANCES tT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Raymond fish being very ob noxious to other customers lunching In a restaurant when he fairly pulled a counter up by the roots. Edith Stevens being amazed upon waking up In the morn ing and finding her face all swollen up with never a sign of pain. Pals of Dtan (Shakespeare) Pleper missing his cheery pres - ence about an office for a day. Little Nancy Anna Doerr's small playmates anticipating her, releae twin the hospital in abort order. Hitler's High Command An nounces Capture of Over 200,000 French Prisoners Bordeaux, France, June 20. aP) In formed observers say the word from Adolf Hit ler which will govern France's action toward er against an armistice and peace Is expected some time during the night. Bordeaux, France. 7:25 p. m. (1:25 p. m. ESTMP1 The French government still is in Bordeax tonight. By the Associated Press Hostilities between France and the axis armies are expect ed to cease Friday or Saturday at the latest the official Ital ian news agency reported today, asserting that French plenipo tentiaries have started back to Bordeaux with the terms dic tated by Hitler and Mussolini. The place of meeting between the French envoys, who arrived In a snow-white plane "some where" In German-occupied northern France, was not given. Berlin, blaming "the difficul ties of news" transmission via Spain, said a French govern ment communication naming France's four peace plenipoten tiaries did not reach the Ger man government until 1 a. m. today (3 p. m., PST, Wednes day). "It could be transmitted to the fuehrer only at 4 a. m,,' the broadcast said. "The high command thereupon gave the necessary Instructions immediately and made prepara tions for receiving the French armistice delegation." 200,000 Captured Hitler's high command mean while announced the fall of Lyon, France's third largest city, 200 miles north of Mar-4at seille, and the capture of more than 200,000 prisoners, includ ing General Altmeyer, com mander of the loth French army. Fifty thousand French poilus from the eastern Maginot line surrendered their arms this morning to Swiss soldiers and poured across the Swiss fron tier. The German radio, in a cryp tic report, declared that "mem bers of the French government are not at all agreed on the question of laying down arms" (ConUnued on Pag Seven.) Cyclist Injured. Roseburg, Ore., June 20. VP) Richard Junsen, 19, of Tacoma, is in the hospital here today suffering from a broken pelvis resulting from a motorcycle ac cident near Wilbur. Jensen was injured when he was reported to have 'swerved his motorcycle into loose gravel to avoid col lision with a truck. Petain, Premier of Defeat, Tells Why France Lost War By the Associated Press Bordeaux, France, June 20 Old Marshal Henri Philippe Pe tain, France's premier of defeat, sadly told his people today they had lost the fight to Germany because they had "fewer friends than In 1914-18 "fewer young men, less arms, too few allies. But he promised, in radio broadcast: "We will learn our lesson from the lost battle." He blamed defeat on the lush years since the World War victory when "our sense of enjoyment j preaominawu .rr ur .v,. Minnie. Petain disclosed that at the be ginning of the "Battle of France" the nation had but 2,780,000 troops, or 500.000 less than after ' three years of bloody fighting in ithe World war. In contrast with 85 British divisions in May of 1918. he added, there mere but ten in; Mv of 1940. Then he compared the 58 I Italian World war division on REPUBLICANS NAMED . : , BASEBALL I American. First game: R. H. E. Boston 15 0 St. Louis 2 8 0 Galehouse and Peacock; Nig geling and Susce. Washington 14 4 Cleveland 12 10 1 Masterson, Monteagudo and Early; Feller and Hemsley. (11 innings) R. H. E. New York 0 5 2 Chicago 1 11 0 Pearson and Dickey; Rigney and Tresh. National. (12 Innings) R. H. E. Cincinnati 3 8 1 Philadelphia 4 11 0 Thompson, Beggs and Lom bards Hershberger; Higbe and Atwood, Warren. Chicago 3 9 0 New York 8 9 0 French, Root, Olsen and Todd; Schumacher, Melton and Danning. Pittsburgh 8 12 1 1 Boston 7 15 Butcher, Brown and Lopez: Fette, Coffman, Errickson and Berres, Masi. INJURE NINE IN GERMAN OFFICES New York, June 20. (JP) Two explosions, both apparent ly caused by bombs, occurred within an hour today the first in the offices of a German bank ing firm and the second in the building housing the principal offices of the communist party. Nine persons were injured in the first blast on the lath floor 17 Battery place, which houses the German consulate and other foreign agencies and shipping concerns. Witnesses said bomb se creted in a package wrapped in brown paper exploded in the 4-room suite of a German for eign exchange firm. Persons in the East 12th street building housing the of fices of the communist news paper, the Dally worker; ban Browder, general secretary or the community party, and the national and New York state headquarters of the party, ex pressed a belief a bomb explod ed there in a ground-floor or basement store. First reports said no one was injured in this blast, but that the sound was heard through out the building. Another explosion was re ported at 344 East 12th street, the office of the deputy super intendent of plant operations and maintenance of the city board of education. the side of France and the 42 from the United States with the present: Italy an enemy, Amer ica a neutral. French planes in the battle of France were outnumbered by the enemy one to six, he de clared. The hero of Verdun concluded: "I was with you In your days of glory and I am and will remain with you in your days of sad ness." He explained why he had asked for peace. "I took this derision," the old marshal of the World war de clared in a radio broadcast to the nation, "because the military situation failed (to Justify) our hopes based on the line of the Somme and the Aline. "General (Maxime) Weygand regrouped our armies. His name alone was a presage of victory, However, the line gave way and enemy pressure forced our troops to retreat i "On June 11 I asked for an j armistice LARGER AIR FORCE Rear Admiral Towers Says Former 10,000 Maximum Inadequate for New Plan Washington, June 20, After hearing testimony that 10,000 planes would not be ade quate for a proposed two-ocean fleet, the house naval commit tee recommended today a navy air force of 15,000 planes. The testimony was given by Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the naval air corps, who recalled that a lately enacted law put a 10,000-plane ceiling on the navy. But that, he re minded the committee, was be fore a new $4,000,000,000 ex pansion of the fleet, designed to give it the size of a two- ocean navy, was projected. The committee agreed to have Representative Maas (R., Minn.), who first advocated the 13,000 plane figure, offer the necessary legislation as an amendment when the bill providing for the new fleet expansion comes up in the house. " The navy now.jr has about 1,800 airplanes, Towers told the committee. There- are 1,600 others on order, he added, and bids were opened yesterday for an additional 1,000. He said it was proposed to buy approxi mately 3,100 with funds which will be available for the year starting July 1. CRATER RIM ROAD OPEN TO TRAFFIC The highway around the rim of Crater lake was to be opened to traffic today, according to a notice received by mail from Crater Lake national park head quarters today. j It is the earliest date in the park's history for the opening of the rim drive. Warm sun shine and fast work by snow removal crews combined to en able the park administration to open the roafl ten days earlier than had been anticipated. All public campgrounds in the park are now available for use, though there is still only lim ited space at the rim camp ground, the notice said. Progress was reported toward the open ing of the crater wall trail. Because of road construction, the south entrance road be tween the south boundary of the park and Annie Spring will be closed to traffic in tne nrsi ween of July. The east entrance road will be used during the closure. London, June 20. IV A Nazi air fleet authoritatively put at considerably more than 100 planes, dumped hundreds of bombs on England, Scotland and Wales lart night and early today in the most extensive air raid of the war on this island kingdom. At least eight civilians were killed and "some sixty" Injur,!. the government announced. It was the second raid in as many days on Britain and. consider Ing the number of bombs drop ped, the r ported damage was light. British airmen exacted their toll of the raiders downing three bombers while other air craft were .the government re ported, wrecking hangars and destroying aircraft on the ground at German-occupied air ports In France. T Munich Greets Chieftains of Axis iKNOXANDST Meetina in Munich to confer foreground) and Benito Mussolini after II Duce's arrival. This picture was radioed to new York WINDSORS ESCAPE TO NEUTRAL SPAIN, IS MADRID REPORT London, June 20. (IP) The ministry of Information an nounced tonight: "It is a ridiculous suggestion that an order has been made or contemplated for the arrest of the Duke of Windsor." Madrid, June 20. Pl Un confirmed advices from San Se bastian, Spain, said tonight It was reported there that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor either have entered Spain or are expected shortly. The reports said also that former Premier Picrlot of Bel gium and former Foreign Min ister Bonnet of France also were among fugitives to Spain. Cannes. France, June ' 19., tP)-(5:30 p. m. 11:50 a. m E ST. delayed) The Duke of Windsor left his Riviera resi dence by automobile today headed for Spain. The Ameri can-born duchess already "had departed. The duke had been In the south of France since late May after leaving his post as liaison officer between the French and British armies. With the duchess, he was staying at their villa at Cap d'Antibes, near Cannes. Officials In London denied, however, that he had left the army and, on June 8, said he was visiting French troops on the nearby Italian border and would return shortly to "the headquarters of his mission." This "mission" was not ex plained. Shortly before the duke do parted today, he was reported to have told the British consul at Cannes he did not plan to return to England, but probably would go to Spain. There are several hundred Americans on the Riviera and they have been besieging the consul at Nice for a means to get out of France. The consul has asked a United States war ship to take the Americans away. Many have been waiting months for Spanish or Portu guese visas. Pickets Give BalL McMlnnvllle, June 20. (JPh- Six pickets arrested on charges of unlawful picketing at the Engl At Worth sawmill here, were free under $100 bail each today to await grand Jury action. TO NAVY, WAR ( on the French peac bid', Adolf (left, beside him) tide through Isolation Hope Dangerous Folly Declarer Hull Cambridge. Mass., June 20. Hull, lashing out at what he called "the massed forces of lust for tyrannical power," asserted today there could be "no more dangerous folly" than to think that America's achieve ments could be preserved by isolation. Without naming any country. or individual by name, Hull declared in an address which concluded Harvard university's 304th year, that already "na tion after nation haa been crushed Into surrender, over run and enslaved by the exer cise of brute force combined with fraud and guile." "And," he continued, "as the dismal darkness descends upon more and more of the earth's surface, as its menacing shadow falls, blacker and blacker athwart our continent, the very Instinct of self-preservation bids us beware." ,The secretary of state said fhls' country had "the power to meet that menace successful ly if we, at this time, face the task which Is before us in the same spirit In which former generations of Americans met the crises that confronted them In their times Hull declared his belief that Isolation from the rest of the world would be "folly." "Our -American history has not been achieved in isolation from the rest of mankind," he asserted. TO Tokyo, June 20. (JPh-France had acceded entirely to Japan's demands for the halting of transportation of war supplies through French Indo-Chlna and has agreed to permit Japanese Inspectors to enter Indo-Chlna to make sure that the traffic ends, the foreign off lea an nounced today. French Ambassador Charles Arsene-Henry told Vice-Foreign Minister Masayukl Tank that for many months nothing but trucks of petroleum had been passing into China by way of Indo-Chlna and since June 17 these also had been banned. Drop Resort Plan. Baker. Ore., Juno 20. (JPh Plans for construction of lodge and recreational center at Anthony lakes by the WPA have been dropped, Blaine Hal lock, president of the Anthony Lakes Playground association announced today. Hitler (right, in automobile la crowded streets of Munich shortly from Berlin. in Harvard Speech (JPh-Secretary of State Cordell G.O.P. NONPLUSSED T Philadelphia. June 20. (JPh John D. M. Hamilton, Repub lican national chairman, declar ed in a formal statement to day that Henry L. Stimson and Colonel Frank Knox, named to President Roosevelt's cabinet, now "owe their allegiance to the President and hereafter will speak and act in that capacity." By W. B. Ragsdale. Philadelphia, June 20. (JPh Word that President .Roosevelt had named Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox as secretaries of war and navy, breaking 'un expectedly today upon dele gates meeting for the Repub lican national convention, left them breathless and uncertain. Alf M. Landon of Kansas paid a tribute to Stimson and to Knox, the latter his run ning mate in 1938, and said they had followed . their own "consciences" but that he hoped they had not been misled by any assurances given them about a third term. : Herbert K. Hyde of Okla homa, chairman of the resolu tions committee, said appoint ment of the two Indicated Mr, Roosevelt was leading the coun try Into war. He added that no coalition government could be considered under a two party system unless that were true. Meanwhile, opposition was re ported developing In the reso lutions committee to any plank advocating United States assist ance to the European democ racies now at war. TAYLOR SERIOUSLY ILL BECAUSE OF OVERWORK Rome, June 20. (V-The condition of Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's represen tative to the Vatican, was de scribed last night by attendants as serious, but not alarming, His Illness, ascribed partly to overwork, has kept him in bed at bis villa in Florence, POSTS COALITIONjFFORT Roosevelt Announces Wood ring's Resignation As War Department Secretary New York, June 20. (JPh Henry L. Stimson declined any comment today on hla nomina tion as secretary of war. Reached by telephone at his Long Island home, he said ha did not know the nomination had gone to the senate and added: "I would rather not make any comment at this time and I certainly shall have nona until I hava been to Washing ton. He said he had no Immedi ate plans to go to the capital and would wait until the sen ate acted on the nomination. Washington, June JO. (JPh President Roosevelt took steps to form coalition cabinet to day by submitting to the senate the nominations of Colonel Frank Knox to be secretary of the navy, and Henry L. Stimson to be secretary of war. "Knox, publisher of the Chi-, cago Dally News, was republi can vie presidential candidate in 1936. Stimson was secretary of stato In the Hoover adminis tration and secretary of war un der President Taft. The submission of the nom inations was accompanied by White House announcement without amplification that Sec retary Woodring had resigned his cabinet portfolio, effective on senate confirmation of the nomination of his successor. Letter Too Personal White House officials did say that Woodring 's letter of resig nation was "so personal" that the usual custom would not bo followed and it would not be made oublic. Knox . will succeed cnarios (OonUpuea on Pe s9fM.) DENTISTS DEBATE ADVERTISING LAV Portland, Juno JO. (JP) Tho long-debated controversy over dentistry advertisements envel oped the opening session of the Oregon Dental association'! 47th annual convention today. Dr. Leo M. Bolre of Port land .association president, con demned "evasion" of the 1933 state amendment and asserted "dentists are ttlll allowed to advertise in the most blatant manner the fact that they give credit, and also to emphasize the desirability of dentures." "The dental board has ex hausted all possibilities of regu lation under tho present law," he said In his annual report. "Further improvement will re quire more legislation." ILltUOOQ Washington. Juno 20.- The war department disclosed today that plana wero being made to order approximately 9,000 reserve officers to acttvo duty, and indicated that addi tional thousands would bo re quired ai the regular army la further expanded. Most of tho reservists art ex pected to bo youthful first and second lieutenants, particularly recent graduates of tho reserve officers training corps. They will servo Initial terms of alx montha or on year. Most of them are expected to bo ordered to duty July I. .
