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... . Full 0 Waath- Weather M Buru Uuide rorecaat: partly efoa4 sad cooler tonight and Saturday. Scattered launder sreans In urroandlng mountains. Temperature Hlfheat yeiterday 100 J Lowest thli mornlnf M Want Adt Pay ant Ada are accepted all week lonf for the Saadaj mornlnf edition. Turn your Ad la anr time and It wUl bo held for the edition of jour choice. Rent Adt pay. cite them a trial. Tribune 'FORD Full Associated Preaa United Preea Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1941. No. 64. H BETA V J MED BAR Kelly's Comment From Washington Site Sought for Munitions Depot Government Bans Export of Seed Need for Wool Takes Big Jump Br John W. Kellr Washington, D. C, May 23. Higid requirements for a tem porary munitions depot may prevent such a base being locat ed on the Columbia river. War department has been scouting around the Columbia river and on Puget sound looking for exactly what s wanted and, at this time, nothing has been found that meets all of the plans and specifications. A tem porary base is where munitions frcm the big base at Hermiston can be transferred to ships, either navy craft or transports. In the first place, the army wants a site which will not endanger any lives or property. On rubber heels, a representa tive of the war department has scuttled around the Columbia river from Vancouver to As toria. He found one likely site on the lower Columbia, back In the brush, of many thousands of acres of cut-over land, but there was this handicap: To reach this site (a short railroad would have to be built from the site to the river) the munitions would be compelled to cross the Columbia river highway and the Astoria railroad. War depart ment wishes to avoid highways and railroads if it is possible. Another military officer browsed around the north end of Portland harbor looking for a suitable place but found none. There were industries present or potential near the terminals and further downstream the situation was not appealing. THOUGHT was given (and still Is) to anchoring a vessel In some deep pool somewhere between Vancouver and Astoria then bringing the munitions barge to the ship and transfer ring the explosives. Such an arrangement eliminates the pur chase of a site, railroad con struction, docks, etc. Bringing a barge of explosives down the Columbia river from Hermiston, through the locks at Bonneville dam, raised the question as to what would happen if a barge load of explosives struck against the Bonneville sealock and went bang! If munitions were hauled by train to somewhere on the lower Columbia the train would have to pass through a section of Portland, involving a risk, al though railroads are carrying (Continued on Page Twelve) by IS RtMEHY POLL Eugene, Ore., May 23. UP) University of Oregon students spent $2. 072. 200 during 1940-41. nearly $300,000 more than dur ing the previous school year, ac cording to a survey marie by an economics class under Dr. Beat rice Aitchison, instructor, it was announced here today. The figures were arrived at through a questionnaire submit ted to a representative 8 per cent of the university student body. Other results revealed by the survey: Men are SI per cent self sup porting, and women 16 per cent During the school year, stu dents earned S391.B00. and brought back last fall with them $370,000, making their total year's earnings $761,800. Male students earned $625,000. almost five times as much as the $135,000 earned by the women students. Expenditures included tuition and fees, which amounted to $294,105 for the year. Tacoma. May 23. '-r Kid naping charges were filed last night against Mrs. Muriel Bab cock of Tacoma, shortly after she ran from the courthouse with her four-year-old child, after hearing a superior judr.e award the custody of the child to a for mer husband. ACK-ACK GUNNERS!! TAKE HEAVY I0LL OF AERIALFORCES Sixteen German Junkers Transports Downed in 3 Days Heavy Fighting Br the Associated Prats British anti-aircraft gunners were reported today to have shot down at last 16 German Junkers troop transports in the first three days of the four-day-old battle of Crete, and the British further reported that al lied defenders of the island have now gained a definite edge over the nazi aerial invaders. The bigger-type German Focke-W u 1 f transports carry from 50 to 75 men each. The Junkers planes are somewhat smaller. The fiercest fighting in the conflict was said to be develop ing around the Malemi airport, 10 miles south of Canea, the Crete capital. Two Spots Claarad British headquarters said nazi air-borne detachments at Can dia, in central Crete, and at Rctimo, about half way between Candia and Canea, had been ac counted for, killed or taken prisoner, in bitter hand-to-hand fighting. Prime Minister Winston Churchill reported yesterday that the Germans had occupied Canadia, the old-time capital of Crete and largest island city. . . Military sources in Cairo, headquarters of the' British Mid dle East command, said British naval guns were shattering Ger man attempts to land troops by sea. On the Mediterranean isle itself, the British said, the Ger mans had gained only a single "decent" foothold in the Malemi sector. Elsewhere, the trend was pictured as slowly turning to Britain's advantage despite new swarms of nazi 'chutists and other aerial troops dropping from the clouds. Fleet Main Guard As long as the British fleet can ward off sea-borne land ings, it was said, there is a chance that the invasion will fail. Virginio Gayda, fascist editor, said in the Rome newspaper II Giornalo d'ltalia that the Brit ish warships engaged in the de fense of Crete included at least five big battleships, two air craft carriers and a powerful group of cruisers and destroy ers. DNB, official news agency, asserted that three more Brit ish destroyers and five speed boats were sunk and two other destroyers damaged by nazi warplanes today, and that two cruisers were left aflame by bomb hits. Despite the fact that Crete is now undefended by fighting planes, at the mercy of inces sant bombing by the luftwaffe. the BBC reported that Greece's King George II still was on the island. In a dramatic side phase of the Mediterranean struggle, the London admiralty announced that British submarines tor pedoed and sank a 9.000-ton troopship and a 7,000-ton tanker attempting to reach axis forces in Libya, North Africa. In addition, the admiralty said, an Italian destroyer was probably sunk, and a large ammunition-carrying schooner was sent to the bottom. Cairo dispatches said crowded boatloads of nazi troops trying to reach Crete had been "blast ed to bits" by British naval guns amid a developing battle between the British fleet and the German luftwaffe's Stuka dive bombers. Heavy damage was said to have been inflicted on a 30-boat axis convoy and Italian ships were seen picking up survivors. I Klamath Falls, May 23. (!P Private Robert Paugh was seri I ouly burned as the 66th artil : lery brigade broke camp here . this morning. I His condition was reported serious at a local hospital where ! it was reported he was badly I burned on hands, arms, face and back by a gasoline explosion. I Details of the accident were not i known. Suda Bay Site of British Cretan Base I''--: y y5y:-'yy; .vyr : ?-;l"ya ' -.v ' '-. : :- " - -' - - - i a I a. m,. A view of tha Suda Bar land area and anchorage on the Island of Crata. sits of a Brit ish naval base, is shown. Germans attacking Crete dropped 3,000 parachute and glider troops in tha Suda bar xsgion in single operation. Prim Minister Churchill told th house of commons in London. PROBLEMS FACED IN CANTONMENT TOLD C-C GROUP A stralght-from-the-shoulder talk regarding the projected army cantonment and the prob lems it would involve, if con structed, was given at a lunch eon of the Chamber of Com merce today at the Hotel Med ford by Myron. Hunt of Pasa dena, Calif., who is the canton ment architect in charge now en gaged in drafting the prelimi nary plans. Mr. Hunt having built several other army cantonments, as well as being a student of city plan ning in relation to them, pulled no punches in his presentation, laying special emphasis upon local needs in the direction of better highways, better housing, added educational and sanitary facilities, in case the money for the cantonment is appropriated and construction carried out, ac cording to present plans. The speaker expressed his personal view that this money would be forthcoming and actual construc tion would probably start before the summer ends. Mr. Hunt also suggested a special cantonment committee, not too large but highly compe tent, be selected with various sub-committees to take single vital problems in charge, and also a committee be named at once to visit the army canton ments already in operation, par ticularly in California, and learn first hand what the major prob lems have been, how they can best be met and solved here in southern Oregon. There was a large attendance, with representatives from Ash land. Grants Pass, Gold Hill, Central Point, Jacksonville and other county districts. Glenn Jackson, president of the Cham ber of Commerce, presided. T SETS NEW RECORD Madford's weather bureau reported th temperature as 88 at 2:30 p. m. today. Thursday's maximum temper ature of 100.5 degrees set a new mark for Medford. according to weather bureau records which go back to 1911. Highest temperatures for May previous to yesterday's new mark had been 98 in 1931 and 1929. Weather bureau officials ex plained that due to low humidity the heat was not as noticeable as other days when tempera tures failed to reach the new record. Temperature j'or May 22, 1940, was 91. Portland, May 23 'TV-The sun boiled up a broth of weather and served it sizzling hot to Oregon yesterday. At Portland the temperature climbed to 88 degrees, bettering ! the previous spring mark of 87 set May 10. Germany Drives at Crete ANKARA GREECE I TVsDAJR0ANELLES is RHODE 5r '. I ' CRETE . Mediterranean Sea TOBRUK Three thousand mora German troops war reported to have landed at night on strategic Crete (1), as th Germans contin ued thair aerial offensive. British military man said Crata mutt be held "at all costs" became its capture would give th Germans another bai to attack th British fleet at Alexan dria (2), fill in th Aegean tea gap to tha Dodecanese islands and shield tha movement of axis troops from Italy to Africa. An attempt on Cyprus (3). was foreieen. Screaming Germans Drown in Effort to Reach Crete Soil Alexandria, Egypt, May 23. UP) British naval officers re lated tonight how thousands of Germans have died, screaming for rescue, as they clung to life-belts and boards from trans ports smashed by the British fleet off Crete. Not a single nazi, they said, has reached Crete by sea. British cruisers and destroy ers were unable to pick up the survivors of their attack be cause of the threat of torpedo attacks from German "E-boats," the officers said. The captain of one British cruiser which took part in the Cretan operations said: "We sank (the German boats) with four-inch guns and pom poms (anti-a i r c r a f t pieces). Cruisers and destroyers ram med them. The sea was full of thousands of Germans clinging to the wreckage and shouting for help. 'The havoc we wrought was so great that no Germans man - aged to land in Crete that night.1 SICE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank George and Gene Mon aco wondering why it was so torrid when they arrived in Medford from a fishing trip to Diamond Lake, and finally dis covering that the heater on their car was turned on full blast. Jeunesse Butler remarking that Hitler was the reason why she was knitting for the soldiers in world war 2, something she didn't do in world war 1. Tern Cherryholmes spending her spare time by the highway watching the army lads whizz by. Ray "Flee'.font" Johnson cool ing off with a strawberry sundae. 3L 300i MIU OIL PIPELINES SYRIA CYPRUS w - TRIpO'-,n4MA:rii;- CO. A GOING BY IS LATEST T Company A, 186th Infantry, Medford National Guard, will leave Klamath Falls by train ! at 11:15 a. m. next Wednesday, May 28, after stopping there for just a few minutes en route from Camp Lewis to June war games in California, according to a letter received here today by Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald from Capt. Weldon H. McBee, Com pany A commander. Capt. McBee wrote that Com pany A, composed of about 100 Medford Guardsmen, would leave Camp Lewis by train next Tuesday, May 27, and make the trip to California in railway cars. There has been considerable confusion as to when, and by what means and route Company A would pass through southern Oregon, but Capt. McBee's letter is believed to clarify the situa tion. London, May 23. iP) Lord Austin, 75, manufacturer of the Austin automobile, died today at his home near Brosgrove. Herbert Austin went to Aus tralia to serve his rn" r.wrini; apprenticeship after bei,i? edu cated at Brampton collrye and returned to England in 1890. . S : I TURKEY 7 V- 4 1 TRANS' t JORDAN SHIPS DESERTED BY S. STRIKERS Vessels Will Be Moved to Mare Island Navy Yard for Completion, Statement San Francisco, May 23. (P) The navy stated today that if work were not resumed in strikebound shipyards here on navy cor tracts, it was possible some vessels nearly finished would be moved to Mare island navy yard for completion. The statement from the 12th naval district headquarters said the navy does not plan use of armed forces in protecting work ers coming into struck plants. And, the formal statement said, "no serious consideration has to date been given to use of navy yard machinists in struck plants. CIO and AFL machinists struck at 11 bay area shipyard and repair docks May 10. The yards hold more than $500,000,- 000 in contracts. Some AFL yard workers, other than ma chinists.' have gone back to work. Navy trucks have hauled many of them through machin ists' picket lines. (By Associated Press) Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission today advocated use of United States forces to break up a strike of union machinists which has tied up work for two weeks at San Francisco shipbuilding yards. He testified before a special senate defense investigation com mittee at Washington as the defense mediation board re newed for a second time its efforts to settle a wage dispute between southern soft coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers union. Land said "the most dire need in the world today" was ships as he explained he believed there was justification "for ev ery possible step the govern ment might take up to and including the use of United States forces be they city, state or national to take off this picket line." ON JAP SHIPPING Washington, May 23. (IP) Great Britain tightened up on Japanese shipping in the Pacific today with a warning published in Los Angeles that "all disabili ties" would be imposed on 11 large Japanese tankers and 81 smaller craft. British officials here said this represented an extension of the long-standing blacklist of Jap anese and other ships which con travened British regulations. Although such ships face pos sible seizure, it was indicated that the "disabilities" probably would involve only the denial of British port facilities and other measures hampering their operations. Nazis Shelled Zamzam While Passengers Still on Board Vichy, Unoccupied France, May 23. lP) The Nazi raider which sank the Egyptian liner Zamzam shelled her while her F'..sengers still were aboard, American survivors related to day, according to reports from Bordeaux. Vichy, Unoccupied France, May 23. (J") Two Ameriams and one Egyptian were wounded when a German raider shelled the Egyptian motorship Zamzam April 17 in the south Atlantic, it was reported tonight in ad vices from Bordeaux. They said two Americans. Ned Laughinghouse of Wilson, N. C and Frank Vicovari of New York, were wounded and are now hospitalized in France. A third casualty was an Egyptian The passengers identified thH raider as tne Tamieses and told i on at St. Jean de Luz, In Ger this story of the attack: I man-occupied France, May 20. BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. Chicago 7 11 0 Detroit 1 11 1 Lyons and Tresh, Bridget, Thomas and Tebbets. (Tie-came, called end 9th ac count of darkness). Boston 9 13 2 New York J 9 10 1 Dobson, Dickman, H. New- some, R y b a, and Peacock; Chandler, Stanceau, B r e u e r. Murphy, and Dickey. (Second game) Chicago 0 7 1 Detroit 9 14 0 Dietrich, Humphries and Tresh, Dicky; Trout and Teb betts. National R. H. E. Cincinnati . 8 10 1 Chicago 4 4 3 Vandermeer, E. Riddle and Lombardi; P a s s e a u, Olson, Erickson, and McCullough, George. LOSS OF WHEEL INVOLVES THREE AUTOS IN CRASH Edward L. Samuels of Arling Idaho, was given a $5 suspended fine in city court this morning on a charge of driving a car without an Oregon operator's permit, following an accident shortly before 9 o'clock last night involving his machine and two others. According to police, the left front axle on the Samuels car broke while he was traveling vwst on East Main street. The wheel came off, throwing the machine into the path of an eastbound auto operated by Leonard L. Atkins of the Rain bow Auto camp. Following this collision, Atkins lost control of his machine and it swerved to the north curb and struck a parked car registered to Leand Brophy of Medford. The mis hap occurred in front of 1206 East Main street. Nobody was injured in the three-car accident and damage to the cars was not serious. Samuels' fine was suspended when he explained that he was here on a short visit and planned to drive the locally-purchased car back to his home in Idaho. AXIS CLOSE! ON TOBRUK DEFENSE Berlin, May 23. W) Axis forces have tightened their ring about the British-held Libyan port of Tobruk in the past few days, informed Germans report ed today. Shock troops, assisted by artil lery, were said to have worked themselves close to British po sitions, with some of the axis forces advancing deeper into To bruk's outer fortifications. Passing through barbed wire entanglements, these troops were declared to have removed mines and opened approaches to several casemates. At about 6 a. m. on April 17 the raider bore down on the Zamzam and opened fire, hitting her eight or nine times. That was in latitude 27 degrees 41 minutes south, longitude eight degrees eight minutes west. After the shelling, all the passengers and the crew more than 300 in all were taken aboard the raider along with some of the ship's supplies. The attackers then sent the ship to the bottom with an explosive charge which they placed aboerd her. iiic next uay me zamzam ?a'!i",.er".K.n?-CIlW Were.lrn,"i ferred to the German motorship Dresden which then began dodg ing warily through the British blockade and after a long and slow voyage landed the surviv- IRIAN DENIES HITLER SEEKING FRANCE FLEET Vice Premier Also Denies Colonial Rights Sought Can Win War Alone Br th Associated Press Vichy, France. Mav 2S. . Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Dar lan told the French people to day that Adolf Hitler had not asked France for her fleet In current negotiations and de clared firmlv- "T urlll .r.i hand it over." Nor has Hitlpr ask fnf onial concessions, said the vice premier. "The chancellor did not ask me to hand over our fleet to him." Dart an acMttA4 i - broadcast. "Everyone knows ana tne English beKer than anyone that I will li-ver hnnH it over." "The chancellor did not ask me for any colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England. "Why has he acted soT Can Win Alone "Germany began the war alone and judges herself able to end it alone aealnst nr. mnf. ter what coalition. "On the result of negotiations in course." Darlan amsxi-ror! "M. rectly depends the future of r ranee. "It is necessarv for hep n choose between life and death. The marshal and government have chosen fife." He emDhasized that "In 'Tuna 1940, the victor could have re fused us an armistice, beaten us and wined Franca nff iha map of the world but he did noi ao lt." Now. Darlan said. "In V.w 1941, the victor has agreed to negotiate with the French eminent." The vice nrpmler uM h. v,.j gone to Bcrchtcsgaden to con fer with Adolf Hitler at the fuehrer's reouest. hut m France "freely chooses the road wnicn sne nas taken." 10 ADMIT GUILT, GIVEN SENTENCES TO STATE PRISON Cyrus Hunter, 19, CCC en rollee stationed at Camp Wimer, who pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon was sen tenced to serve an indeterminate term not to exceed three years in state prison by Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna today. Ralph E. Pcery, 26, who pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl, was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term not to ex ceed one year in the peni tentiary. Hunter, whose home Is In La Pine, Fla., hit John Jacobs, civ ilian of the Wimer district, with a pop bottle, causing double fracture of the skull. The at tack occurred during a moving picture show at the camp. Jac obs, whose life was despaired of at first, was reported as out of danger by the district attorney. Hunter, In a statement, was unable to give any reason fop his act, except that he had ex changed some words with Jacobs. District Attorney Neil son told the court Hunter was "inclined to be scrappy when he inought his rights were in vaded." Perry was told by the court In passing sentence, "this Is the least I can give you under the law." District Attorney Neilson read the two differing state ments made by the girl. Chief of Police McCredie also told of procuring a statement from the Hunter and Peery will be taken to the state prison Sun day. San rranrlaco Buttrf San Franclaco, May 3S ( AP-CADA) Btitwr: n arore SSc; SI erore M'is; 90 arora SSc; M ecore M jO. t
