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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MED FORD OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 12, 1940. PAGE THREE DEFENSE TOILERS TO RECEIVE WAGE ON PRESENT BASE Roosevelt Against Raising Ceiling for Hours Above Which Overtime Pay Due Washington, July 12.- President Roosevelt asserted at a press conference today that the administration would go ahead with its present policy of maintaining standards under the wage-hour act for work on the defense program. The chief executive sooke at a press conference shortly nfter the navy department uwarded contracts totaling $136,743,900 as a part of the vast program to build up the nation's Pacific and Atlantic defenses. Mr. Roosevelt read to report ers a letter which he said Colo nel Phillip B. Fleming, wage hour administrator had written him which covered the question of the necessity of raising the ceiling for hours, above which time and a half must be paid Few Complaints Fleming informed tha presi dent that any complaints from key defense industries that pay ment of time and a half fot overtime was making their operation difficult would be brought promptly to Mr. Roose velt's attention. The adminis trator added tha'. only three such complaints, all from small Aristocrat Whiskies, "ti-U fpintP k m.-ic ! Jjgy, A S Quarts ' Glrnmor DlttlltrrlM Company, Incorporated. LoalTllle Owensboro, Kentnrk?. establishments, had been re-1 ceived. To help bolster western de fenses, contracts totaling 530, 870.000 were let for aviatior facilities in the Pacific includ ing Pearl Harbor and the na tion's other island possessions. In the east one contract alone provided $24 204.000 for avia tion share facilities at naval Quonset Point air station in Rhode Island. A formidable army striking force of some 6,000 tank: ev eral hundred of them huge land battleships was disclosed today as one major objective in Presi dent Roosevelt's new $t,U4R, 171,957 preparedness program Persons familiar with the plans behind the dollar marks said that the intention was to double the total of 3.100 tanks which now are either in service, on order, or covered by appropriation. FIRST TABULATION ral residence, it was anticipated that a substantial Increase would be shown 'n suburban populations. Washington, July 12. (JP The defense commission an nounced today that directors of the Packard Motor company had approved a "general arrange ment for production of 9,000 Rolls Royce airplane motors for the United States and Great Britain. William S. Knudsen, commis sioner in charge of coordinating defense production, said con tracts were being prepared cov ering this arrangement. The announcement came after more than three weeks of ne gotiations on a contract which Henry Ford previously had de clined to undertake on the ground that he would make mu nitions only for the United States. KING ENDANGERED n-3tlnud ivm Pg Oos) FACE PROSECUTION Washington, July 12. P The treasury threatened prose cution today of dealers alleged ly misrepresenting price in creases as due to new defense taxes. A department statement re minded dealers that they were subject to fines up to $1,000 or imprisonment up to one year. or both, if convicted of misrep resenting the portion of prices caused by federal taxes. Officials pointed out that the recent tax increases amounted to one-half cent on a package of cigarettes, $1 on a barrel of beer, 75 cents a gallon on whis key, one-half percent on refriger ators, radios, automobiles, and automobile parts one-halt cent per gallon on gasoline, and one fourth cent per pound on tires. INCREASE OF 2925 (Continued from race On.) over fields which farmers were failing to make yield the last possible ounce of foodstuffs. Fascists Claim Successes The Italian high command re ported fascist air successes in a new attack on the British Medi terranean fleet. Italian planes again located and bombed the British naval squadron which engaged in the Ionian sea battle earlier this week, the high command said, setting an aircraft carrier aflame and seriously damaging two de stroyers. The Italian communique, in jecting a dash of drama into the usually prosaic official accounts, said that the battle raged for several hours, near Malta, and that "our squadrons descended through mist and violent anti aircraft fire" to within a few hundred yards of the British sur face ships. "The aircraft carrier, struck by a heavy-calibre bomb, stop ped suddenly with flames on board visible from above. Sev eral ships speeded to its aid." British and Italian flying col umns" of mechanized troops raided each other's outposts in the heat-baked desert regions of Italian Libya, Egypg and British owned Kenya colony. . Selassie Recognised The african rooftop kingdom of Emperor Haile Selassie, the fugitive "Lion of Judah" who lost his throne to Italian con quest in 1935-36, also appeared likely to play a forthcoming ma jor role in the struggle. The British government offic ially recognized Selassie's gov ernment as "the lawful govern ment of Ethiopia," and admitted it "to the full status of ally in the present war, with the as surances that Ethiopia's inde pendence will be assured when the war is won." The emperor's army, unoffic ially reported to number 200,000 native fighters, will be coordi nated with British forces to as sail Italy's armies in north and east Africa and in Ethiopia, it was announced in the house of commons. There was no letup, even over night, in the bitter battle for I mastery of the air over England, or along the narrow straits ol Dover across which German in vasion might be sprung. The toll of lives was high but undisclosed. Twilight bombings concentrated on southern Eng land alone killed 14 and in jured 47. That was after a day of ceaseless, wave after wave as sault from coast to coast. Homes were splintered and streets splat tered with machine-gun bullets. preliminary figures. The final tabulations will be announced from Washigton, D. C. and prob ably will not be issued for sev eral months, he said. Other preliminary figures re leased by Mrs. Stuart showed 2,651 farms for Jackson county on April 1 as compared with 2, 189 on April 1. 1930. This rep resented an increase of 462 farms or 21 per cent. The pre liminary report, however, show ed a decrease in the number of farms between January 1, 1935. when there were 2.901. the decrease in the five years being shown as 250 farms or 8.6 per cent. The preliminary count for Medford, announced June 7, gave the city a population of 11, 548 as compared with 11,007 in 1930, an increase of 541 or 4.91 per cent. With the trend of the past couple of years from city to ru- 42-TON CLIPPER HOPS ON INAUGURAL FLIGHT TO FAR NEW ZEALAND San Francisco, July 12. W) Carrying 27 persons and a cargo ot airmail, the 42-ton American Clipper skimmed aloft from the seaplane base here to day on a flight of 8.000 miles to New Zealand, inaugurating air service to the Antipodes. The huge Boeing plane, com manded by Captain J. H. Tilton. chief pilot of the Pacific divls ion of Pan American Airways carried no paid passengers Those aboard for the first flight were company employes and representatives of the federal civil aeronautics authority. Wiih Captain Tilton was a regular crew of 10. Others on the flight included Harold Gat ty, who with the late Wiley Post, made history in 1931 on a round-the-world flight. Gatty. accompanied by his wife, now is PAA representative in New Zealand. TEA ini Schilling Tea brings unifying warm, wcaihcr refreshment. Hot or iced, it's full-flavored and mbcr-clear. For finer, richer flavor, demand Schilling Tea. At? - iliiii Schilling Tea Ashland, Ore., July 12 &) Ashland's automobile "blitz krieg" is continuing, police re ported today. Twice In the same day auto mobiles got out of control and attacked two buildings, the first a garage, then a private resi dence. Last night Ray Rapp, Talent, and Russell E. Seaman, Medford. parked their car. It rolled two hundred feet and knocked a house off its foundations. The automobile owners said they would pay all damages. BAXTER MADE BISHOP FOR PORTLAND ZONE OF T Frosted Devilsfood Cake Everyone likes D.Tllafood Cake with lea Craam. specially as hot weather detserl, therefore, you can't possibly go wrong by purchasing en of our Special Cakes this week-end. We are offering a rich, dark, three-layer Devilsfood Cake lopped with the ever popular seven-minute boiled frosting, for the special price of 49c Qimhmrs San Francisco, July 1?. (Al Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of Willamette university at Salem, Ore., today was elected bishop of Portland area by the western jurisdictional conference of the Method'st church. Dr. Baxter was elected on the thirteenth ballot. The new bishop became pres ident of Willamette university in 1934. He went to Salem from Los Angeles, where he was dean of the school of reli gion at UniveriitV of Southern California. He was assistant to the president of U. S. C. from 1930 to 1934. Salem. July 12. (VP) The Willamette university board of trustees probably will meet soon to select a succestcr to Dr. Bruce Richard Baxter, the university's DODiilar 47-vear-old nrir4nt flrwarnnp CViarlmm A ' Sprague, board member, said today. Paul B. Wallace, president of 'he board, was out of town for the week-end. Red Cross Meet Members Acre reminded today of the an iual meeting of Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross July 18 at the Hotel Medford at noon. After lunch eon, election of officers and other business will be conduct ed. AH members arc asked to attend. MOTORISTS ATTENTION If your motor beats or radiator leaka. are or call HOOPER'S tuition stmict HI a Bartlrtt Fhnn 4 CLASSES Or. R. M. Hood. Optometrist a porta Bias. Main end ltltrrla. 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