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The Weather N Forecast rlr tonight an) ftaturtfsT, Uttl rtunf In temperature. Temperature Higher yesterday ! Lowest thlt mnftiltty A The Big Day taste? la tha big ay for rtatalflf Ada, Practically tr eryona ftpandt mora tlina read tng on hub day than any other day. fto why boC prepare jaur Ad nowt othera are doing ao. Yon'll find It pa) a. Medford Ttiibune Full Associated Press .11 United Pans Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1940. No. 78. am 6)M : at 'mE Washington, D. C, June 21. No confidence is violated by stating that top night officials In the government and mem bers of certain bureaus are In tensely worried the way tilings are going abroad and not only In the war zone of Europe, but the western hemisphere. Scarce ly one-tenth of one percent of what is going on behind closed doors among officials is leaking out to the general public. "Jit ters" best describes the mental processes under which hundreds of public servants are laboring. And these are aside from the army and navy folk. Take the financial angle, for example. The man in the street knows of troop and fleet activi ties, but not being a specialist, is giving no thought to gold, securities and credit which are involved. As each country is invaded by Hitler, steps are taken by President Roosevelt to "freeze" the credits of that coun try which has the effect of preventing Hitler from getting all the loot in sight. The United States did not act quick enough in Holland and $630,000,000 of American securities were cap tured by Hitler. Before a "freeze" could be ordered on France's credits, about two bil lion dollars in gold was- taken at Bordeaux, although some gold had been shipped out of the country. Bank of England is shipping gold in anticipation of invasion. It is going to Canada and from Canada tons of the once-precious metal finds its way into New York. Most of the gold in the world is now in the United States and if Hitler over-runs Europe he can use something other than gold for currency. These are matters which are causing sleepless nights for the I Continued on Pg Ten.( T r Washington, June 21. (JP) President Roosevelt asked con gress today to provide $22,590, 000 for the prompt training of skilled and semi-skilled workers needed in industries vital to the national defense program. The recommendation went to a senate appropriations subcom mittee at a moment when critic al legislative comment was being directed at the labor and em ploymentc hief of the national defense commission, Sidney Hill man. SENATOR GIBSON OF VERMONT SUCCUMBS Washington. June 21 Senator Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont died today at the age of 67. A lawyer, he had served in congress for 16 years. He had been ill of a heart ailment for more than a week. On June 12 he had been taken to a hospital here. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Theaterman Eino Hemmila and Shakespearean Johnny Reis acker being mistaken for each other on account of the sim ilarity of their fancy summer sandals. - Alberta Mnffatt Finlry whlp-j ping Into town after a year's j absence, she flashing her usual beautiful smile. ! Lyle Wilcox thinking the president's appointment of Stim on and Knox just plenty okeh. Ed Hoppe and wlfey Pearl not being shocked by a friend's indiscreet yelling about an in discreet matter Details Unrevealed j Awaiting Decision By Beaten Nation Comuiegne Forest, France, June 21. P) It was understood tonight that the German armistice unconditional "yes or no reply. The French negotiators were in constant telephone com munication with their government. By Louis P. Lochner Coinpiegne Forest, France, June 21. IP) Adolf Hitler reached the highest point of his meteoric career today in his toric Compicgne forest when he personally received the French envoys and handed them arm istice terms which proclaimed the defeat of France. The fuehrer chose for the meeting the railway car in which Marshal Foch handed the Germans the 1918 armistice terms. There at 3:32 p m. (4:32 a. m., PST) Hitler, flanked by his highest military chieftains and civil officials, faced the four man French delegation. Ceremony Brief The ceremony of presenting the terms lasted only 10 min utes. Colonel General Wilhelm Kei tel, chief of the German high command; read the preamble outlining in broad strokes the purposes of the peace Hitler and his axis partner. Premier Mus solini, propose to impose. These envisaged: 1. Cessation of the war In France. 2. Guarantees by France to Germany "necessary for contin uation of the war against Great Britain." 3. A new European peace to follow in which "wrong" done to Germany by "force" would be righted. The peace terms. Hitler said through Keitel, were not humil iating for France. When the preamble had been (Continued on P Three.) F. IN MURDER TRIAL Oregon City, June 21 A middle-aged farmer, accused of murder, claimed self defense and protection of his wife today for slaying a youthful hired hand. John Ddell, 45, Cherryville farmer, testified he shot 22-year- ..1 fx.,.,- llnnl.Ti An.il O mttmr learning Mrs. Odell had been criminally assaulted. The farmer, whose testimony and cross-examination consumed the morning session, related that after his wife told him of the as sault he obtained gun and or dered Dunlap from the farm. The youth advanced toward him Odell continued. The farmer, fearful of being beaten, fired twice. ParirAmerican F. D. R. Plan By Douglas B. Cornell Hyde Park, N. Y, June 21. (JP) President Roosevelt assert ed today his program for Pan American economic cooperation involved "economic defense de signed to supplement our mili tary defense program." In a statement issued at a press conference shortly after he arrived from Washington, Mr. Roosevelt asserted the con templated measures for achiev ing economic unity among the Pan-American nations were "in tended as a further safeguard for the peace of this hemis phere and as a means of pro tecting our economy and the economies of the other Ameri can republii-s from the reper cussions of the disturbed Inter national situation." He omitted any reference to Canada, although presidential aides previously had said the dominion "would not be ex cluded." The program for economic unity was approved by the president last night and ordered terms to France call for an TO FR01ECT AIRBUSES Fort Lewis, Wash., June 21. IP) The United States army dispatched the largest group of soldiers in history to Alaska to day "to provide protection for new airbases" now being estab lished in the territory. A battalion of infantry and a battery of field artillery troops left here at 8 a. m. for Seattle to board the army transport San Mihiel. A company of engineers from Fort Lawton, Seattle, will join them aboard the troopship. The San Mihiel is scheduled to sail for Anchorage, Alaska, to morrow. The territorial force com prises 570 officers and enlisted men. It will be assigned to air bases at Anchorage, Unalaska, Kodiak and Fairbanks. At its closest point, Alaska Is only 36 miles from Russian ter ritory. DUKE iWELONA SAYS FUTURE PLANS YET TO BE Barcelona, June 21 VP) The Duke of Windsor said today that his plans for the future were "unsettled" and that he and his American-born duchess, the for mer Wallis Warfield Simpson, were not "at present" consider ing a trip to the United States. :"I won't know for sure what I am going to do until I get to Madrid," the duke said through a spokesman. "We leave for there in the next day or so." The spokesman said the Rivi era was "normal"' when the for mer British monarch and his party left there to take refuge in Spain "as normal as it has been in the last fortnight," he added. Most English residents had al ready fled, he said, but many Americans were remaining. Albany, Ore., June 21.- The Mountain States Power company's board of directors, meeting here last night, de clared a regular quarterly divi dend of 62' 4 cents per share on preferred stock and 25 cents on common stock, payable July 20. Economy Unity to Aid Defense submitted to the other Ameri can nations for their approval. When 'the conference turned to the provocative topic of the appointnfent of two republicans to the cabinet, reporters re minded the chief executive that Alf M. Landon had said he as sumed the two appointees had received assurances that there would be no third term. Mr. Roosevelt was asked for comment on that. He chuckled, and asked whether Landon real ly had said that. He added he had seen all kinds of things in the newspapers this morning and if he started commenting on all of them he didn't know when he would get through. But he said he had been thinking, after he retired on a special train last night, that there was some sort of differ ence between people that there were those who think in terms of patriotic motives and those who think with partisan mo- lives, and that this is a very Qiiiicuii lime. Further than which, he added, deponent sayeth not Gen-Butler Dii Gen. Smedley D. Butler Philadelphia, Pa., June 21. (U.R) MaJ. Gen. Smedley Butler, U. S. M. C. retired, died at Nav al hospital late today. He had been seriously ill and was confined to the hospital for four weeks. FOR 110,000 DAMAGE ON ALLEGED SLANDER Suit for $10,000 damages $5,000 general and $5,000 puni tive against J. T. Davis, is sought by.D. E. Warren, In an action filed today in circuit cpurt. Warren alleges Davis made defamatory remarks about him. Both litigants are engaged in the transfer business here. ' The complaint avers that "on June 13 last, Davis in the pres ence of several citizens, includ ing Chief of Police Clatus Mc Credie, said the plaintiff was a thief . and had stolen a ' hy draulic jack from him, the said J. T. Davis, the defendant here, in, and should be put in jail." It is further charged the as serted statements were made to defame and expose the plaintiff to public contempt, and were malicious, false, de famatory, degrading, scandalous and slanderous. . Attorney Allison Moulton ap pears as counsel for Warren. SENATE APPROVES Washington, June 21.- The senate approved finally and sent to the White House today a $918,528,418 farm appropria tion bill, carrying funds for soil conservation and parity benefit payments for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Rome, June 21. (IP) The condition of Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's representa tive to the Holy See who is se riously ill in Florence, was re ported today by friends to be somewhat worse. At the Vatican it was said Pope Pius XII was grieved to hear of the American's, illness and had asked to be kept in formed of his condition. Mrs. Taylor was en route from the United States by air. DRAFT-HOOVER GROUP OPENS HEADQUARTERS Portland. June 21. OP) Clarence W. Walls of Portland announced today creation of a state-wide organization and es tablishment of headquarters here for a draft Herbert Hoover for President club. spain closeTfrontier because of refugees New York, June 21, OP) The German radio reported to night, in a broadcast picked up here by NBC, that the Spanish government had closed the fron tier at San Sebastian because of the great number of French refugees arriving there HITLERITES GRAB ADDITIONAL BOOTY Two 35,000-Ton Battleships Reported Seized in Construction-Yards at Brest By the Associated Press Berlin, June 21. Germany's military machine shoved steel spearheads deeper into France "on schedule" today as repre sentatives of Germany, Italy and France turned to the shell-torn forest of Compiegne scene of Germany's capitulation in 1918 for armistice talks. Reports of additional booty came from the Germans as they mopped up sections of the Magi not line and took new places in Normandy, Brittany and the Region between the Loire estu ary and the Rhone valley. The newspaper Der Angriff said two 35,000-ton French bat tleships, the Clemenceau and the Richelieu, were seized at Brest, where they are being built. Successes Reported The high comnwnd reportel these successes: Capture of Y00 brand new tanks at Nevoy, near Gien; the sinking by submarines of four British merchant ships, one of them a Royal Mail steamer of 11,000 tons; and the sinking by fighting and dive-bombing air units of a' 10.000-ton transport and a 4.000-ton auxiliary war ship'ln the Girone estuary.' The capture of Lyon, French city which fell to the Germans yesterday, was noted in today's communique which said fast German troops were pushing through Burgundy. - The French were reported "stoutly resisting" in the Magi not line in Lorraine and Alsace while encircled groups in the western Vosges mountains are continuing their fight against the Nazis. The Germans, reporting con tinued British air raids last night, said 16 persons were killed in British bombings of Cologne last night and Wednesday night and on Dusseldorf on Wednes day night. REFUGEE VESSEL New York, June 21. VP) Safely home after dramatic brush with a submarine, the United States liner Washington docked today with 1,786 pas sengers, most of them American citizens who fled the European war zone. Whistles and sirens of harbor craft greeted the Washington as she moved up the bay and a crowd estimated by police at be tween 1.500 and 2,000 persons, many of them waving American flags, waited on the pier. There were 700 children on board, many of them infants who slept in baskets on the cov ered decks. Longest Day And Summer Are Here But Heat Is Not Summer arrived today and brought with it the longest day of the year. The temperature, however, was considerably below that usually associated with sum mertime and much below the 1940 peak of 100 degrees registered a short time ago. The temperature earhy this afternoon stood at 78, the same as at the corresponding hour yesterday. Maximum temperature yesterday was 81. The sun rose this morning at 4:35 and will set at 7:49. The U. S. weather bureau figured that summer began at 5:37 a. m. Official forecast: Fair to night and tomorrow, little rhunee In temperature I Nomination Creates Furore FRANK KNOX Nomination of Henry L. Stimion and Colonel Frank Xaox. Republican advocates of unstinted material assistance to the allies, to be secretary of war and navy, respectively, created a furore la. political circles yesterday. Hearings Will Delay Continuing Of Stimson and Knox to Cabinet Washington, June 21. IP) The senate military com mittee today ordered hearings on President Roosevelt's nomination of Henry L. Stimson to be war secretary, and Stimson himself will be called to testify. As a momentous senate de-i bate over foreign and defense policies shaped up around the Stimson appointment and that of Col. Frank Knox to be sec retary of the navy, it appeared there would be no action on confirmation for more than a week. Chairman Sheppard (D., Tex.) said that Stimson would be called ' for testimony "in a week pr so " and it was ex pected to be at least that long until the naval committee acts on the Knox nomination. War Secretary Woodrlng, whose resignation the president accepted to make way for Stim son, was quoted by the Topeka (Kas.l Capital as having told friends In Topeka recently: There is a comparatively small clique of International financiers who want the United States to declare war and get into the European mess with everything we have, including our man power. They don t line me because I'm against stripping our own defenses for the sake of trying to stop Hitler 3,000 miles away. Eventually they will force me to resign." There long has been a rift between the retiring secretary and his assistant, Louis John son. . Johnson generally is ex pected to keep his post. The surprise nominations brought Immediate speculation that cabinet reorganization might be continued with retire ment of Miss Frances Perkins aa secretary of labor. Among those mentioned as a possib.e ' choice' In case Miss Perkins should resign soon were Dan Tobln, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York. .Seattle, June 21. (JP) Three players were tied at the end of 54 holes of play today in the 72- hole Pacific northwest open golf championship. Marvin "Bud" Ward, Spokane, national amateur champion Harry Glvan, Seattle, and Chuck Congdon, Tacoma, each finished with a total of 205. In second place was Al Zlm merman, Portland pro, who shot 69 today which with two pre vious rounds of 70 and 89 gave him a total of 208. VALLEY COUPLES GET Reno, Nev., June 21. 41P) Marriage licenses issued here to day Included Albert Trautman, 24, and Viola Penland, 21, both Central Point, Ore. License issued late yesterday Included Gerald Ray Hamilton, 24, and Helen Evelyn Combs, 1 20, both Talent, Ore. HENRY L STIMSON -POLITICAL BASIS TO AID PREPAREDNESS Chicago, June St. 0P Col onel Frank Knox, whose accept ance ot the navy secretaryship in the Roosevelt cabinet prompt ed his expulsion from the Re publican party, said today the president had asked him to man age the navy on a non-political basis "and on that basis I have accepted." - The 1938 Republican vice presidential nominee's statement follows: "National defense is not a partisan question. It should have the United support ot the people, regardless of party. Con gress in the past few week! has acted with substantial unanimity on every national defense pro posal. "We are In danger now be cause we are inadequately pre pared, the president has said I can help him. If I can help him get us ready (or any emergency I must do so. What happens to me is unimportant. FLAMES DESTROY By the Associated Press Lusty flames destroyed three lumber mills in Oregon Thurs day, causing a loss of about $49,- 500. Flames consumed tha Hills boro Lumber company last night after wind-driven sparks earlier in the day fired tha Watcrford Lumber company and three homes in Marshfleld. Destruction of lumber, ma chinery and building at Hllls boro was estimated at $7000 by fire fighters. Cause of the fire was not determined. The L. U. Whitlock shingle mill at Brightwood also was a victim. The owners said the loss totaled $2,500. Hoquiam, June 21. (IP) tniei oi ronce norman rooia said today no one had been ar rested or was held for question ing in connection with the pos sibly incendiary fire which last night completely destroyed the big Poison lumber and shingle company mill here. E. C. Kaune, mill manager, estimated the loss at $800,000. British Bombers Strike at Calais London, June 21. WV-The air ministry announced tonight that "successful attacks were made today by aircraft of the fleet arm (naval air force) on an enemy gun position near Calais." A later announcement said the Royal Air Force again attacked the Rouen airdrome early today, dropping more than 400 Incen diary bombs. ICAL Germany Scores Victory in Battle for Influence Carol to Use Nazi Pattern Bucharest, June 21. (JP) A sweeping German victory In tha battle for political influence In Rumania was scored tonight with the announcement that King Carol was forming a new totalitarian political party on the Nazi pattern. The party Is to be known as "The Party of The Nation." It will supersede the present party of national rebirth. The pro-nazl Iron Guard will play a big part in the new organization whose bases were announced aa "na tionalistic, Christian and racial." It was learned that a royal decree was drafted providing for complete reorganization of the national rebirth front to take in all opposition elements, the Iron Guard along with tha peasant party. Carol will niae the first broadcast ot his life except for his annual Holiday greeatngs tomorrow night when he is ex pected to elaborate on the changes. The German 'minister in tha past 24 hours has had several audiences at tha royal palace. German sources have been pre dicting for days the formation ' ot a completely pro-nazl govern ment. PASSES IN CANADA Ottawa, June 11 (P An un precedented government meas ure conscripting Canada's man power, economic and Industrial resources for war purposes, speeded through parliament and received royal assent today by the new governor-general, the Earl of Athlon, after he wts sworn in. Tha senate added Its approval late last night shortly after the house of commons had adopted the plan. . . The measure gives the gov ernment total powers over per sona and their property, similar to tha authority conferred on Winston Churchill's government In England. Compulsory military service will apply only within tha do minion, leaving overseas service still a voluntary matter. BASEBALL National Score: R. H. E. Pittsburgh S 11 0 Brooklyn 10 19 3 Klinger, Bauera, Lanahan, Lanning, and Lopezv Fernandes; Fltzsimmons, Kimball, TamuliJ and Phelps. Cincinnati New York Derringer and Lombardl; Gumbert and Denning. Score: Chicago Philadelphia R. H. E. 5 12 1 8 8 2 Lee, Root, French, and Todd, Collins; Brown, SI Johnson, Pearson, and Atwood. Ajaerlcaa R. H. E. . 4 10 1 .7 8 0 Boston Cleveland Wilson and Desautels; Milnar and Hemsley. Ft. H. E. Philadelphia Chiraao .. 12 It 1 1 Ross and Hayea; Knott, Apple ton and Treah, Turner. Score: New York R. 1 - 7 H. E. 17 0 12 t Detroit Ruffing, Sundra and Dickey; Gorsica, Seats, Trout, Melsoa) and Tebbetta. 1
