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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."
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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
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The Berlin radio has reported
that one of the French delegates
for armistice negotiations was
Leon Noel (above).
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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.
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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.
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JACK-JILLS, 2 TO 0
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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.