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110,300 TONS OF
Coal Miners Go Back to Work in Pits
"Penny Serenade" Here Sunday
IAIR FLEET BOOST
bill now pending before a house
committee.
Interested legislators said
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plane deliveries would be in full
swing 18 months after construc
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MEDFOTJT) MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORTV. OREGON. FRTDAY. MAY 1941.
Berlin Acknowledges Ace
U-Boat Skipper Given Up
for Lost With His Craft
Berlin, May 23. UP) Ger
man submarines have sent 110,
300 tons of British shipping to
the bottom of the Atlantic in re
cent operations, the nazl high
command asserted today, but it
acknowledged that Germany's
ace U-boat commander, Guen
ther Prien has been given up for
lost with his ship.
i Nine of the British ships sunk
were picked out of one convoy
bound for England, the war bul
letin said, and accounted for 70,
900 tons.
Among them, It listed three
tankers of 8.000, 10,000 and 13.
000 tons and a "heavily laden
munitions steamer of 7,000
tons."
1 Another 18,000 tons of merch
ant shipping was said to have
been sunk by submarines in
lone attacks and, in waters west
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ended a four week's layoff during negotiations
of Africa, submarines sank 21,
400 tons, the communique said.
The losses inflicted off the
African coast were said by other
sources also to have been sunk
out of a convoy. These also cred
ited air attack with sinking a
9,000-ton merchant vessel.
RETAIL BUYING
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New York, May 23. UP)
Retail buying continued at a
brisk pace this week, with sales
averaging 12 to 16 percent
above last year for the country
as a whole. Dun & Bradstreet
reported today.
"National cotton week open
ed with energetic retail promo
tions, which contributed heav
ily to total store turnover," the
credit agency said.
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Damascus, Syria, May 23.
UP) A French commander and
200 volunteer soldiers have de
serted to the British in Pales
tine and Trans-Jordan after a
fight with frontier guards in
which a few were killed and
wounded on both sides, it was
announced officially tonight.
The commander was Colonel
Collet.
Authorities denied, 'however,
that and De Gaullist (Free
French) troops had entered Syr
ia or that regular French troops
in Syria under General Henri
Dentz were retiring. Such re
ports had been broadcast by the
De Gaulists from Equatorial
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Leave for Exam
Private John Stephenson. 21,
a marine recruit for eight days,
packed his duffle bag at San
Diego, Cel., to leave on a fur
lough to take his final exam
inations at Culver Stockton col
lege. Canton, Mo., after the col
lege dean asked he be given
special leave to try to qualify
for his degree.
BRIDGES FAILS TO
San Francisco, May 23. P)
A futile plea was made today
for subpoenas to force Secretary
of Labor Perkins and Major
Lemuel Schofield, chief of the
department of Immigration and
naturalization, to appear as de
fense witnesses at the deporta
tion hearing of Harry Bridges.
Mrs. Carol King, a defense at
torney, told Examiner Charles
B. Sears that she wanted to bring
out from these witnesses that
the CIO longshore leader was
being singled out for persecu
tion. Examiner Sears said he had no
authority to subpoena the three
officials or to subpoena docu
ments the government holds In
the case, which Mrs. King also
asked.
Trains Collide.
Bend. Ore., May 23. (API A lo
comotive was derailed, aevsral logs
were shattered and a portion of track
torn up here yesterday when a Great
Northern gravel train struck the rear
of a logging; train near here. Crews
of both trains escaped injury.
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Adapted from the McCall's
magazine story. "Penny Sere
nade." coming to the Craterian
theatre Sunday for three days,
has Cary Grant and Irene Dunne
reunited in another gay, ro
mantic drama of the same na
ture that has made their pre
vious appearances together so
popular with showgoers of the
nation.
DUTCH EAST INDIES
UNDAUNTED BY JAP
Batavia, Netherlands East In
dies, May 23. JP) A newly
launched Japanese press cam
paign bristling with threats and
pointed warnings will not force
The Netherlands East Indies
from their firm stand in com
mercial negotiations with Ja
pan, informed quarters asserted
today.
Furthermore, these inform
ants said that a Japanese com
mercial program as outlined by
the Tokyo press with reference
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largely unacceptable here.
The four-month-old commer
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with the exchange of final mem
oranda earlier this month. The
main stumbling block has been
the disinclination of the N.E.I,
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The launching of the violent
press campaign, one Informed
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ginning of preparations to pre
pare the Japanese public for a
breakdown In the negotiations.
Bend, Ore.. Mj 33. (AP) The
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tims In several years yesterday with
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youngster waa swept away from the
shore by an undercurrent.
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Washington, May 23. (.IP)
The war department will soon
ask confess, informed quarters
said today, for a $2,300,000,000
appropriation for a new "secur
ity fleet' of 13.000 bombing and
fighting planes part of which
will be ready for action in about
18 months.
As outlined by defense offic
ials, the 13,000-plane program
would be superimposed on the
present 21.000 army goal, as
well as other undisclosed addi
tions already proposed in the
regular military appropriations
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