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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forvcaftt: Mir and tonirwhat warmer toda ; partly cloudy and coow lumorro. Trm pvralura lltchet jrtCrrday M Lovet pterday ,,, 46 Waiting For You Now lor a f urapM at th, CUm. I fie paf. Imiu that moat vrnthlng U (diMtlwd. If ) fall tm (In what on ara look ins fur tura to the Too tat to claMlfjr. It ma; ba waiting for 70a. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full UnltaV Thirty-fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 23. 1940. No. 79. i n "x r j ui 0) V-M P U l n 1 11 U InMlVIIM UUU UU mars -A C Mm r n I iiiif u uuiru v AT 'ftTHE Washington, D. C, June 22. Cogent reasons why the Pa- ctflo Northwest should partici pate : in material for national defaoaV-ara contained in a vol uminous and comprehensive survey which has been submit ted to four officials; E. R. Stet tinius, Jr., of the national de fense commission; Robert H. Hinckley, of Civil Aeronautics Authority; Harold L. Ickes, sec retary of the interior, and the war department. It is shown in the report that airplanes of every type, air plane engines, .ordnance, muni tions and ship-building and re pair can be furnished in Ore gon and Washington, if the gov ernment is interested. Most of the items involved are present in the raw state or semi-processed. In addition to existing air craft factories on the Pacific coast, making expansions of their plants, suggestion is made that they establish branches, manned by their own technical experts, in the vicinity of Spo kane. A bad feature of aircraft and other essential industries is that they are grouped near the coast in California and on the At lantic; war college favors scat tering such industries and plac ing many of them inland, in the mid-west, or at least not within 200 miles of the coast or the boundaries of Canada and Mex ico. . Factories for airplane engines can be located almost anywhere in Oregon or Washington, but Puget Sound and the lower Columbia area are considered not as safe as Spokane for plane manufacture. For manufacture of munitions the report says plants would be better located near Grand Cou lee. FOR engine manufacture alum inum is obtainable at Van couver, Wash., but there is need for rolling mills and extrusion plants. Magnesium can be ob tained from the sea water of Tillamook and Coos bay, Gray's Harbor, Willapa harbor, or near Chewelah, Stevens county, Wn. Western plants could meet part of the requirements for engine accessories. Plastics needed for planes can (Continued on Paga 611.) Tillamook, June 22. IIP) A party of about 12 men and wo men was forced to leave the city here today for the second time within a week. The group, members of a re ligious sect (Jehovah's Wit nesses), were accused of selling a publication containing com munistic and un-American prop aganda under religious guise. Approximately 200 residents staged a demonstration against the group's presence in the city. Similar action was taken lat Saturday, with the visitors be ing escorted out of the city. One member of the party said "Jehovah told us to return." T Clearwater. Fla.. June 22. (.-? The giant snow cruiser, in which Admiral Richard E. Byrd. hoped to roll across the Ant arctic, proved "not so hot" on frigid terrain, its 35-year-old en gineer disclosed today. Charles Meyer, home -to visit his wife and parents after re turn to the United States aboard the expedition ship Bear, said the 75.000-pound monster dis appointed the explorers with its performance. Principal trouble, he said, u insufi icient power. BRITISH PREMIER TO KEEP UP FRAYI Churchill Makes Fiery Ap- peal to" Join Britain Terms 'Hard But Honor- able' Battle Continues History Repeats. (By Associated Press British Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill made a flaming appeal today (Sunday) to French men everywhere to fight on at Britain's side against Germany, despite French capitulation last night to a German armistice which he said no free and in dependent French government could have accepted. Frankly going over the heads of the Bordeaux government, Churchill said that the German terms, if accepted by all French men, would force the French to work against their allies, would use the soil of France as a means of attacking Britain, and would turn the French navy and empire over to Germany. Despite all this, he declared, Britain will "cherish the cause of the French people," and a British victory is France's only hope for restoration and free dom. Envoys Weep Actually, the terms of the grim document which wet-eyed French plenipotentiaries signed last night in the gloomy depths of Compiegne forest were not disclosed. The French government de scribed them as "hard but hon orable," that if they had not been honorable France would have rejected them. Actual fighting in once-lovely cities and countryside of France continued on its weary course, and will not cease until six hours after the French have concluded an armistice with Italy, Germany's so newly-belligerent ally. The French dele gates flew to Italy to hasten this consummation. The French government de clared that the fighting was not in vain, as it had enabled France to hold out for a "soldier's peace" with Germany. Patain Uphald Marshal Henry Philippe Pe tain, the premier who requested that peace, got a vote of confi dence from the French senate. France's ally. Great Britain, gave proof of her determination to fight on alone and uncon quered by announcing heavy aerial attacks on Germany's great -Krupp armament works at Essen, and on airplane fac tories and storage plants at Bremen, Kasscl, Rothenburg and Gottingen. The French humiliation be fore the power of Adolf Hitler was sealed in the same old Compiegne woods where Ger many the loser then yielded to France's Marshal Foch on Nov. II, 1918. The historic moment of this (ConUnued Paga Sawn.) GENERALLY FAIR Northern California: Fair! Sunday but fog on coast night and morning: moderate to fresh northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Sunday fair, warmer in interior; moderate northerly wind off coast. The outlook in the far western states for the period June 24-29 inclusive: Generally fair but local thunderstorms over moun tains early in week. Tempera tures somewhat above normal in interior, but cooler by middle of week. Shingle Duty Okayed. Washington. June 22. tJPi The senate passed and sent to the White House today a meas ure permitting the President to place a duty of 25 cents a square on red cedar shingle when Importations from Canada exceed A) per cent of the do mestic consumption. 4 BILLION VOIED TO GIVE AMERICA VAST SEA POWER Strong Opposition to Knox As Naval Chief in Senate To Give Views. Washington, June 22. IP) A $4,000,000,000 warship con struction program to make the American navy the greatest as semblage of sea power the world has ever known was voted by the house today after scarcely two hours debate. The swift action, together with final congressional ap proval of a $1,000,000,000 tax defense bill and a $1,768,913. 908 emergency appropriations for army and - navy, shared at tention at the capitol with re ports of strong opposition with in the senate naval committee to confirmation of Col. Frank Knox's nomination to be sec retary of the navy. The naval committee voted at a closed session to ask Knox to appear before it for ques tioning on his views toward United States policy and the war. One member, who said he favored approval of the nomination, told reporters that an informal poll indicated that if a vote were taken today the nomination would be rejected, 11 to 3. Whether or not the commit tee approved the nomination, this -member said, may depend on Knox's statement of his at titude toward possible United States intervention in the Eu ropean war. The navy expansion bill swept through the house with a chorus of "ayes" on a voice vote. The exact number of new ships proposed in it is a mili tary secret, the measure cloak ing this by providing only for (385,000 tons of battleships, 1200,000 tons of aircraft carriers, 420.000 tons of cruisers, 250, 000 tons of destroyers and 70,- 00 tons of submarines. FDR AID POLICY Portland, June 22. IP Ore gon Methodists were urged to day to declare themselves die metrically opposed" to Presl dent Roosevelt's policy of aid to the allies. The world peace committee of the Methodist conference stated in its annual report that "we look with disfavor upon the present attempt to cause the United States to supply war materials to belligerent pow ers." The report added "we can not become the arsenal for one side without becoming the tar get for the other side." In addition, the committee protested a movement to "con script the citizens of the United States" because "this is the way toward totalitarianism and war." The conference recessed Its business session without acting upon the report. The convention will close to morrow with announcement of ministerial appointments. Bombay, June 22. IIP) Mo handas K. Gandhi, writing in his weekly newspaper Harijan today, advocated non-violence as the only way to meet Hitler- ism." which he called "naked, ruthless force reduced to an ex act science and worked out with scientific precision." The aged nationalist leader said that Adolf Hitler was giv ing the Germans "not the pleas ure of owning an empire but the burden of sustaining its crush ing weight." "Hitlerism will never be de feated by counter-HiUerism," Gandhi wrote. Frfd, N.g.tUl.r h The Berlin radio has reported that one of the French delegates for armistice negotiations was Leon Noel (above). IGN LI DEFY NAZI HORDE Les Verrieres, on the French- Swiss Frontier, June 22. UP) A thousand desert-toughened fighting men of the French for eign legion, with their backs to the Swiss frontier, held . two mountain forts today r theJ fifth day against heavy Ger man assault They are cut off from other French troops. Completely sur rounded, they fought on as a "Beau Geste" a n d because fighting is the tradition of the legion. The forts where they have repulsed attack after attack are Le Joux and L'Ecluse, across the frontier from this usually sleepy Swiss town. The peasant folk call the legionnaires les Joyeux the joyful ones and keep as far from the forts as possible. Nazi swastikas have flown for five days over the nearby forts of Pontarlier and Le Lar- mont mountain several miles to the north which fell to the Ger mans without a struggle after Premier Petain of France an nounced he was asking the Germans for terms of peace. The German commander at Pontarlier received a telephone call from the legionnaires at Le Joux and L'Ecluse inviting him to "Come and get us. The Germans are still try ing. But their commander is not answering any more tele phone calls from the defenders. AWARDTFOR 1941 AUTO TAGS Salem, June 21. IIP) Irwin Hodson company of Portland submitted low bid of $45,716.98 for furnishing 399,61 sets of 1941 automobile license plates to the state board of control today. The license plates will be green and white. A bid of .0597 cents each for 28,500 chauffeur's badges was also submitted by the Port land firm. Clipper Completes Trip Seattle, June 22. HP) The Alaskan clipper. Pan-American Airways flying boat, completed its first round-trip airmail flight to Juneau today, arriving here at 7:13 p. m. Aid To Refuoaes New York. June 22. UP) Two thousand persons through- out the United States have in dicated willingness to snelter refugee children from Europe In their own homes, a newly formed committee announced today. Ouskes Registered Pasadena, Calif., June 22. (,.pVThe California Institute of Technology seismograph record- ed two major earthquakes to - day. They occurred at 3:51.25 a.m., PST, at distance of 7,800, miles. fft BEAT OFF Egypt Near War Declara tionNazi Cities Bombed And Battleship Bombed. Alexandria, Egypt, June 22. 1P Four Italian air raids on this Allied naval base were beaten off today by the anti aircraft guns of the British and French fleets. Four of the attacking bomb ers were shot down. The attack led to predictions that Egypt might quickly de clare war on Italy. Only last night, French of ficial sources predicted that France's big Mediterranean fleet and middle-east armies in Syria would fignt on beside the Brit ish, regardless of the home gov ernment's decision as to armis tice. Today'i action bore this out. The British air arm likewise has been striking offensively. After a dawn bombardment at Tobruk, Italian Libya, heavy smoke poured from a large war ship In the harbor, the Britsh reported. London, June 22. (A Brit ish naval and air units, seeking to avenge the sinking of the 22,500-ton aircraft carrier. Glo rious, waylaid the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Trondheiin Fjord and. badly damaged her, the admiralty said today. London, June 22. IP) The royal air force slanted countless bombs down on the great Ger man Krupp armaments works at Essen and the big Folke-Wulf aircraft plant at Bremen during last night's far-ranging aerial raids, the air ministry announc ed tonight. SECRET PACT TO AID ALLIES, PLAN Portland, June 22. IIP) Amert Levitt, former Judge of the Virgin Islands federal dis trict court, asked President Roosevelt today to publish secret executive agreement" to extend military aid to Great Britain and France and "force' congress to declare war on Ger many. Levitt resigned as a special assistant to former Attorney General Cummings in 1937. "Your nomination of Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox means to me that you have de cided to carry out your promises to England and France to lead the United States into war with Germany," the telegram to the White House said. The one-time candidate for governor In Connecticut assert ed the people had a right to decide the war issue for them selves. Judge Levitt has been In Portland several weeks on law business. E Philadelphia, June 22. IIP) Samuel F. Pryor, chairman of the arrangements committee said today "we're literally swamped with applications for more than 1,000,000 tickets" to the republican national conven tion which opens Monday. Dis tribution began yesterday. Convention Hall, scene of the party gathering, seats a maxi mum of 13,000. Bordeaux, France, June 22 Pl Dr. James V. Sparks, former commander of the Paris post of the American Legion. said on arrival here today that i the American volunteer ambu j lance squad was compelled to abandon 39 ambulances during ! the retreat from the Loire river, due to lack of gasoline. Eleven members of the corps, which he headed ,ara missing. BLITZ PEACE NEAR YITH BRITAIN OUT SEEN FOR EUROPE Axis Partners Map Plans to Remake Old World, Then Crush England. By Louis P. Lochnar Berlin, June 22. VP) Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg may be fol lowed by a coincidental Euro pean blitz peace. This predominant Impression I received in the forest of Com piegne, France. Britain will have no hand In this peace. On the contrary, once this peace is established, Germany and Italy can pursue the war with England more remorseless ly than ever. Naturally I am not at liberty to reveal the names of the men with whom I talked during the historic hours at Compiegne. They are men in the know, however. They ajl agree in be lieving that some southern Ger man city has been chosen for remaking the European conti nent. These men point out that the German thesis consistently even before the outbreak of the war was that England has no busi ness mixing in continental af fairs. They say that with France's defeat the last great prop for Britain influence on the con tinent has been knocked down. The way is now open, they say, for the axis partners In co operation with all continental powers to rear this war-weary continent on a new foundation, CCC DRILLS FOR TANK DUTY PLAN Washington, June 22. UP) James J. McEntee, CCC direc tor, added today a course in army tank "maintenance and repair" to the Civilian Conserva tion corps' national defense pro gram for non-combatant train ing. He asked the war department to lend the corps as many tanks as it could spare from the ac tive military service along with whatever wornout equipment it had in the repair shops. The purpose, he said, is to familiarize CCC enrollees with the mechanic of tank construc tion. The corps will not, he em phasized, use the tanks for com batant training. The CCC program also pro vides for turning out 20,000 to 40,000 "maintenance automo tive mechanics annually, Mc Entee said. ENVY FOR HITLER London, June 22. UP) The Moscow coi respondent of Reu ters, British new agency, Tass, in a Moscow broadcast described as "devoid of foundation" for eign reports to the effect that Russia is dissatisfied with Ger man military successes in the west and that German-Soviet relations are deteriorating. The broadcast also denied that the Soviet union is "bring ing pressure to bear on Ger many" through its augmented occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tas explained the 18 to 20 Russian divisions concentrated there "are not con centrated on the Lithuanian German frontier but are dis tributed among the three Baltic republic." Seaside, Or., June 22. (IPy Frank M. Pliter. Portland rest dent since 1907 and former mayor of Condon, Ore., died to day of heart attack here. Okanogan, Wash., June 22. IIP) A letter received here from Rep. Charles H. Leavy (D. Wash.) quoted Secretary Harold L. Ickes as declaring the Cas- cade park idea was "fantastic. Embarrassment Seattle, June 22. (IP) A check for $1,110,005 showed up In the morning mail and left the King county clerk's staff all a-flutter. It had a different effect on bank officials who blush ingly told Clerk Carroll Car ter an employe had intended ed to make out a $5 check on a protective machine, but accidentally hit some ex tra keys. IT JACK-JILLS, 2 TO 0 E Hurling sweet seven-hit ball and fanning 11, Southpaw Jim my Rego notched his fourth vic tory of the season and his sec ond shutout with a 3 to 0 blank ing of a vastly-improved Jack and Jill Tavern club before over 1,000 fans at the fair grounds park last night The contest, played in one hour and 41 minutes, was the fastest of the season. The Craters and the Portland team will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the second game of their two-tilt State league series. Officials of the Medford Athletic association announced that number of $10 revenue bonds would be retired during the game. Medford, playing Its first game under new manager Tom my Hawkins, tallied in the sec-1 1 I !-..! M ,1 tured on McLean' single to right and Rinejr Cook' triple to right-center. In the sixth, with two away, Peterson drew a base on balls and scored when McLean dou bled to the right-center boards on a perfect hit and run play. In only those two innings were the Craters able to do anything with Kenny Clow, Jack and Jill's right-handed knuckle-bailer. Clow, going the route for the Tavernmen, al lowed only six blow and fan ned four. It wa on of the prettiest pitcher' battle yet seen here. Jack and Jill's best scoring opportunity came In the fifth, when they collected three hit. Schroer singled but Clow hit into a double play. After Ogden and Granato singled, Rego whiffed Wlttcke to retire the side. Both team played errorless ball and several spectacular fielding play were made. Mc Lean got a double and iiingle for the Crater and Peterson hit a triple, while Granato smacked two single for the Tavernmen. Bill Lanning, big righthander, will Ditch for the Crater thl afternoon. Don Pendergrass, lefthander, will work for Jack and Jill. Score: R. H. E. .Wit and Jill - , ,,. 0 7 0 Medford 2 6 0 Clow and Mlze; Rego and Hawkins. Eugene, June 22. rt" The Eugene Athletic, behind the tight pitching of Bob Wiltshire, defeated the Albany Oaks, 5 to 3 in a State league game here tonight. Wiltshire, after giving uo four hiU and three run in the first frame, blanked the Oaks,, hurling no-hit ball the last ix frame. Nig Mebesius, first baseman, led Eugene' 10 hit attack off Lefty Red Miller with three for three. Score: R. H. E Albany S 0 2 Eugene S 10 1 Miller and Robertson; Wilt shire and Mattison. BULLETIN Seattle. June 22.-AIP With their 1939 pennant fluttering over the clubhouse, the Seattle Rainlers banged out 10-lnn-ing, 3 to 2 victory over Sacra mento tonight to continue their drive toward a 1940 flag in the Pacific coast baseball league. Score: R, H. E. Sacramento 2 7 0 Seattle 3 12 0 Freitas and Ogrodowskl; Web ber and Heart. uiiu in aiAui iivno, nmra notel spobiea, bars and res Crater' first run wa manuf ac-, taurant. talkina exeitedl- nl NEITHER WILLKIE NOR DEWEY WANTS VICE PRESIDENCY GOP Candidates Arrive at Philadelphia, All Deny Rumors of Deals. Philadelphia, June 22. yp)- Leading contenders for the Re. publican presidential nomina. tion arrived in this carnival bent convention city today denying fast-flying rumors ot impending "deals," and looking" forward to the party's first wide pen contest for the nom ination since 1920. Wendell WUlkie, the New York utilities man risen from dark horse ranks; Thomas E. Dewey, the young New York; district attorney, who swept the) preference primaries, and Sen. ator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, fresh from the firing line In Washington, reached town to Join Senator Style Bridges, Frank Gannett and Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsyl. vania, contender who had pre, viously taken up their quarter here. One of the prominent con. tenders. Senator Arthur Van. denberg of Michigan, was not due in town until tomorrow. With the arriving candidate came a rush of delegates and party cimn follower! who i.m. ........ " this rumor or that, and arguing endlessly about platform plank) and candidates. Dewey, holding pre con. ference, (aid flatly that there) wa no truth in report that hi force were teaming up with: those ot Senator Taft in an ef fort to "top Willkle." Asked whether he would accept a vlcej presidential nomina tion, hej said: "I trust the question 1 aca demic." At the came time, platform) subcommittees were at worle behind closed doors. Including the group at work on the for. eign affair plank. All thej group had been advised to have their plank ready tor presentation to the drafting committee by early evening. Alt M. Landon, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, as serted however, that that was Impossible In his case. Landon's view, repeatedly ex. pressed, has been that the plank should not be written hurriedly, because of the un certain statu of event abroad. The plank is expected to em. phaslze peace and preparedness, urge some degree of assistance to the allies, and stress the Re publican party as the "peace ' party. Seated In a Pullman chair between North Philadelphia and Thirtieth street stations, Willkle pooh-poohed all talk of a "stop Willkle movement with an as sertion that other candidates did not control their delegate to such an extent, and flatly as serted he would not accept the vice presidential nomination. "All the candidates are men of fine character," he said, "and I doubt that they are entering into any deals or combination or that it would do them any good." At a press conference, Taft said ha was contemplating "no combinations ot any kind," saw no reason to expect a deadlock, or a long-drawn-out convention and predicted hi own nomina tion "on the last ballot." "We're running our own cam paign," he said, "and It show every sign of being successful.' ; Klickitat Strike End I Goldendale, Wash., June 22. IP) An agreement ending five-day strike was signed to day by representative of em. ployer and 131 worker In thej Klickitat Pine Boa company. Work will be resumed Monday. Death Affirmed Olympia, June 22. UP) The state supreme court today af firm ed the lower court death, sentence of Jack Marable, 40, convicted of kidnaping and criminally assaulting Mrs. Emil Rolofi of Olympia.