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Sinking of Mightiest Warship Avenged
Lilfy-lfi'laii Sin iit r V ii
Britain aTangad tha sinking of har mightlait wanhlp. tha 42.100-ton battlacruhar Hood
(shown abort) by sinking Garmany's 35.000-ton battlashlp Bi-marck this morning. Tha Bis
marck had sant tha Hood to tha bottom with most of har 1.341 officars and man thra
days ago in naval battla batwaan Icaland and Graanland.
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
Copyright. 1941. by
Now York Tribuna. Inc.
Washington, May 27. Every
where in the government in
congress, the cabinet, the White
House circle and among rank
and file officials, there is only
one topic that absorbs a men
tion. It is the president's address
to the nation to be broadcast
Tuesday night.
Everyone has his guess on Its
contents, but the guesses range
10 widely that they are worth
little and are generally con
fusing. For example, one cabinet of
ficer will bet the president is
not yet ready to advocate a
more decisive national policy.
In direct contrast, several per
sons, usually well Informed,
will stake their reputations
on a completely different fore
cast. Their theory rests on re
ports from abroad, so discour
aging as to make impossible any
line except one toward prompt
and active intervention in the
war by this country.
rHE reason for this diver-
gence of opinion lies partly
In the fact that only a very
few people ere In a position
to predict either the tone or the
details of the president's ad
dress. The president is extremely
isolated within the White
House. Because of his tremend
ous burdens, he has deliberately
decreased the number of his
visitors. He now sees very few
people. Only the top policy
makers on foreign policy and
defense and his personal friends
have an easy access to the White
House. Mort members of his
cabinet spend comparatively lit
tle time with him. It is, there-
fore, difficult for anyone except
this very small group working
directly with him to judge his
reactions.
(Cootmutd m p Etbt)
Picfc Milwaukee for
Presbyterian Meet
St. Louis. May 27. (P) The
general assembly of the Pres
byterian church in the United
States of Amrrica today choe
Milwaukee. Wis., for its 1942
meeting. No dates were set but
It always is held late in May.
At Gibraltar
Algeciras. Spain. May 27. &
The new British battleship tobasco sauce which, unbe
Prince of Wales called at Gib lwnownst to him. was placed
raltar tonight for the first time
The British have acknowledged
the ship received slight damage
in the Atlantic battle with the
German battleship Bismr.rck
which was sunk this morniuj.
mmemm, r--y w i tus w VL'fl--
F. D. R. Asks Vast Addition
To Warplane
Washington, May 27. W) In the midst of preparing a
momentous pronouncement on governmental policy. President
Roosevelt asked congress today for $3,319,000,000 in appropri
ations for more airplanes. . .. .
Stephen' Early, presidential
secretary, told reporters that
the chief executive would ex
tend his fireside chat, starting
at 6:30 tonight, an. extra .15
minutes and asserted:
"I think you can say that by
Wednesday morning there can
no longer be any doub,t as to
what the national policy of this
government Is. Think 1 11 just
stand on that."
Early announced that the re
quest for huge new funds for
planes was being sent to Cap
itol Hill In a letter to Speaker
Rayburn.
Of the total, $2,790,000,01)0
would be for the army and
$529,000,000 for the navy.
Early declined to estimate
the number of planes to be
ordered nor would he go Into
any detail on the possible con
tents of the presidential ad
dress tonight.
One of the reasons the presi
dent had spent so much time
on preparation of the address
he has devoted more atten
tion to it than any Early could
remember was said to be that
he was endeavoring to read
much of the tremendous volume
of mail and telegrams that is
deluging the White House.
Early said that 12.000 to 14,
000 letters and telegrams were
arriving each day but that it
was impossible to tabulate them
so as to get an accurate break
down of public opinion.
The mail and messages range
from one extreme to the other.
Roosevelt Critic
To Army Training
Washington, May 27. (&)
Representative Fish (R-N.Y.),
frequent critic of administration
policies, was ordered today to
active duty by the army as a
colonel In the specialist reserve
for four weeks of training.
He was ordered to report at
Fort Bragg. N. C, July 1 to
serve until July 28.
SICE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Velda Appleton giving the
neighbors an unexpected smudg
ing by leaving something on
the kitchen stove too long.
Raymond Fish's suspicions
lKir lllltfl Wh,n fh UfMld
bite of oi. ta5ted OK ,ftw,
on. M-med flavored with
there by the Holland Hotel girls.
Maj. Walt Abbey pumping
hands of old friends while en
joying a leave from Uncle
Sam's LghUof forces.
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Appropriation
II
San Francisco, May 27. (IP)
Taking the witness stand In
his own defense at his deporta
tion hearing, Harry Bridges to
day told of belonging to the
Industrial Workers of the World
for a few months in 1931.
Membership in the I.W.W. is
one of the reasons named in the
government's complaint for the
CIO longshore president's de
portation to Australia.
"I was a member for a few
months, but I didn't like some
of the policies and tactics,"
Bridges said, "and I didn't think
they would bring about the
things I had in mind at that
time so I dropped out."
PART OF ZAWIZAWI
Berlin, May 27 VP) Women
and children among the passen
gers of the sunken Egyptian
steamer ZamZam whose "iden
tity has been established beyond
question, have been freed and
allowed to proceed," the author
itative news service Dientst aus
Deutschland asserted today.
A number of women and
children were among the 140
Americans aboard the ZamZam.
They have been at St Jean de
Lur, on the French-Spanish bor
der, apparently waiting for
transportation to a port In neu
tral Spain or Portugal to catch
a boat home. The survivors
were carried to France aboard
the German vessel Dresden af
ter nazi warship sank the
ZamZam in the south Atlantic.
VALLEY STUDENTS
Eugene. May 27. ipy Among
29 University of Oregon under
graduates and 64 entering stu
dents awarded $66 state scholar
ships for next year are:
Undergraduates Leigh ton
Piatt, Medford.
High school students Gayle
H. Nichols and Nell Carpenter.
Grants Pass; Barton Clemmcni
Uedlord,
Planes and Ships
Combine to Take
Revenge for Hood
By the Associated Prats
London, May 27. Germany's proud new battleship Bis
marck, crippled and staggering
of aerial torpedoes, was sunk
of the British navy and its air
tion of the battle cruiser Hood.
At 11 o'clock this morning.
three days after the Hood had
been blown to bits by a hit in
the magazine from one of the
Bismarck's 15-inch shells, the
35,000-ton Bismarck herself set
tled under the surface of the
Atlantic.
1.300 Man Lost
Down with her went some
1,300 men, a great German ad
miral, Guenther Luetjens, and
about one-fourth of Germany's
known capital ship strength.
Participating in the kill were
torpedo planes of the fleet air
arm, based on the aircraft car
rier Ark Royal, and the new
35,000-ton battleship Prince of
Wales.
But it was an American-made
Catalina that hunted down the
quarry Monday and led the
killers to her, so torpedo after
torpedo might be shot into her
vitals from the air.
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and First Lord of the
Admiralty A. V. Alexander
gave the nation the story of the
Bismarck's destruction, but they
disclosed, too, the loss of two
cruisers, the Gloucester and
Fill; the sinking of four destroy
ers and the damaging oi two
battleships and several other
cruisers of the Mediterranean
fleet in the raging battle for
Crete.
For the nation the sinking of
the Bismarck was the real news.
Churchill's statement that the
Bismarck was beyond the range
of German convoy bombers,
based on French airdromes,
was taken to indicate that the
nazi battleship was at least
1,500 miles out or approximate
ly half way to the United
States when it was sunk.
Escort Sought Now
She had been deserted by the
escorting cruiser Prince Eugen.
one of Germany's three cruisers
of the 10,000-ton Hipper class,
the British asserted.
"Measures are being' taken
with respect" to the Eugen, one
of Germany's most powerful
cruisers, an official statement
said.
One aerial torpedo hit the
Bismarck astern, crippling her
steering gear, the official ac
count related, and after that
she was observed operating at
very reduced speed and making
"uncontrollable circles."
Then the Prince of Wales,
sister ship of the King George
V, and the other pursuing ships
closed in for the kill. High of
ficials said it appeared the final
blow was delivered by gunfire
and not by the torpedo carriers.
Discovered at Bargan
The Bismarck and the Eu
gen first were discovered by
British scouting planes last
Wednesday at Bergen, Norway,
and the next day they were
found to have left.
The royal navy sent power
ful units to intercept them, as
the official account put it, be
cause it appeared probable they
were bent on "breaking out into
the Atlantic ocean with the
view to striking at our convoys
from the United States.1
That night the royal fleet got
a glimpse of the Oerman men
o'-war as they were passing
through the Strait of Denmark,
250 mile stretch of water be
tween Greenland and Iceland.
With Saturday's dawn the
Hood and Prince of Wales in
tercepted the Bismarck and Eu
gen, and the Hood was struck
at about 23.000 yards by a shell
which penetrated her magazine
and blew her to pieces.
The British were said to have
kept In touch with the Germans
throughout Saturday and laid
Dlans to bring them to battle
at dawn yesterday, but these
plans were interrupted by bad
weather.
The Bismarck was 79214 feet
long, had a beam of 118 feet,
a draught of 26 feet and car
ried eight 13-inch guns, twelve
5 9-incii guns and sixteen 4.1
inch guns. She also carried four
aircraft and was equipped with
two catapults.
in wild circles under the blows
today by the combined might
force in full revenge for destruc
,
TO
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Berlin, May 27 W) A
British troop transport of
about 12,000 tons was hit six
times by air bombs In an at
tack south of Crate. DNB. of
ficial German news agency,
announced tonight.
By tha Associated Press
Cairo, Egypt, May 27. Brit
ain's Mediterranean fleet has
lost two cruisers and four de
stroyers in the raging week-old
battle of Crete but has balked
German efforts to land sea
borne troops, and the epic strug
gle on land now "hangs in the
balance," the British announced
today.
(In London the admiralty an
nounced that It had accounted
for 60 officers and 956 men
from the ships lost. It said there
was 'good reason to believe that
others will be reported later).
The allied garrison on Crete
was said to be receiving rein
forcements while It was admit
ted that the Germans still were
parachuting down troops in
swarms.
With these reinforcements.
the Middle East command said
the Germans had been able to
broaden their major foothold at
Maleml airport, west of Canea,
the Crete capital. The imperial
forces were forced back to new
positions.
The British asserted heavy
losses still were being Inflicted
on the Germans in fierce hand
-to-hand fighting and Greek
sources placed the number of
nazi dead at 18.000. Of these,
it was said 5,000 were drowned
in attempts to land by sea.
39
OF
Washington, May 27. W)
The coast guard and navy re
ported today that 39 survivors
of the British steamer Marconi
had been rescued by the coast
guard cutter General Greene,
about 270 miles southeast of
Greenland.
The navy reported that about
40 more crew members the
coast guard said 60 of the Mar
coni were believed drifting In
two lifeboats in heavy fog in
the same vicinity. The coast
guard cutter was searching for
them.
The navy's Information did
not state the manner of the
Marconi's sinking, but the coast
guard radio report declared she
was torpedoed yesterday.
E
Cslro, Egypt, May 27
A number of small axis columns
have crossed the Egyptian fron
.tier In the region of Salum and
advanced several miles to the
cast, compelling British forces
! to give ground, the Middle East
command announced today
British advance units are
"successfully harassing and
slowing down the advance of
these columns," the communi
que said.
In the lakes are of Ethiopia
British forces are engaged "in
clearing the battlefield and
rounding up scattered remnants
of Italian furces," it added.
baseball
National
R.
.
. 0
H.
8
7
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Casey and Phelps; Podgajny,
Grissom and Warren, Livingston.
American
(1st game) R. H. E.
Philadelphia 2 7 1
Boston .. 5 7 0
Hadley and Hayes; Wagner
and Pytlak.
(2nd game) R. H. E.
Philadelphia 11 12 1
Boston 13 1
Marchildon and Hayes; New-
some, Judd and Peacock.
R. H. E.
Detroit 9 12
Cleveland 6 10
0 ,
0
Rowe, Corsica and Tebbetts; I
Milnar, Brown, Eisenstat
and
Hemsley.
St. Louis 5 11 0
Chicago 2 6 3
Muncrlef and Fcrrell; Rigney,
Hallet, Humphries and Tresh.
FLEET
WON'T BE GIVEN UP
FRANCE ASSURES U. S.
Washington, May 27. IP)
The French government gave re
newed assurances in writing to
day to the United States that the
French fleet and colonies would
not be surrendered to Germany
or any other power.
A note containing specific
guarantees was delivered by the
French ambassador, Gaston
Henry-Haye, to Sumner Welles,
undersecretary of itt.
The note, the ambassador told
reporters, was drafted by him
on instructions from the Vichy
government. It was intended to
remove misgivings here on the
scope of French-German collab
oration. The French acted apparently
in conformity with a request last
week by Secretary of State
Hull that the Vichy government
should define its position clear
ly in writing if it wished to
convince the world that pro-
Hitler elements were not in su
preme control at Vichy.
Tornado Carries
Bull Across Road
South Bountiful, Utah, May
27 (IP) Uprooting utility poles
and trees, smashing windows and
wrecking at least one building,
a small tornado twisted through
South Bountiful shortly before
noon today, causing unestlmated
damage.
The tornado lifted a bull from
a pasture and carried it across
a highway.
Salem, May 27. (P Among
senior scholars at Willamette
university chosen on a basis of
scholastic ability named today
were: Helen Chirgwln, Medford.
French; Jesse Gilmore, Grants
Pass, history.
4 Hurt in Six-Car
On South Pacific
Four persons. Including a
four-months-old child were in
jured, none of them seriously,
in an accident at the Intersec
tion of Bear Creek Orchards
road with the south Pacific
highway late Monday afternoon
involving five automobiles and
a truck, state police said today.
Taken to Community hospital
immediately after the wholesale
car-crackup, but released after
receiving, treatment for minor
hurts, wire Judith Karen Mc
Clure, four-months-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Mc
Clure of Jacksonville; Virginia
McClure, 4, another daughter,
land John D. Lubbers, ti, of
route 4. The fourth Injured per
son. James S. Spier, 40, of Jen
nings Lodge, Ore., was to be
released from the hospital this
afternoon. Tha two children
suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Lubbers sustained a head in
jury, and Spier suffered cut
hand and abrasions of the face.
The accident occurred, state
police said, when Farmers
H1LLMAN ACCUSED1PARADEAT9:30
OF 'STIMULATING'
VULTEE WALKOUT
Interference With Union At
tempt to Iron Out Diffi
culties Told by AFL Man
By tha Associated Prass.
An American Federation of
Labor official charged before a
senate defense investigating coni-
mittee today that Sidney Hill-
man, associate director of the
Office of Production Manage
ment, had a part in ''stimulat
ing" a strike in the Vultee Air
craft Manufacturing plant in
California,
Harvey Brown, president of
the International Machinists Un
ion, testifying in Washington on
the San Francisco shipyards
strike, commented that a gov
ernment representative, who he
said was sent by Hillman, had
interfered with the unions at
tempt to Iron out difficulties at
the Vultee plant.
Graen Sidesteps.
Hillman is a former national
vice-president of the CIO but
has been in the office of produc
tion management since it was es
tablished.
Earlier, Senator Truman (D,
Mo.), chairman of the committee,
had proposed to William Green
president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, that the fed
eratlon expel the International
Machinists' association from its
ranks for approving the machin
ists' strike which tied up $500,-
000,000 worth of shipbuilding in
the San Francisco area.
Green said expulsion would
be "extreme steps" and express
ed the opinion persuasion might
accomplish more. Truman re
torted "we've been persuading
with them for two weeks.
The C.I.O.'s United Auto
Workers Union served notice at
Detroit it would seek a wage
raise of 10 cents an hour at
Chrysler and other Detroit auto
mobile plants, such as was won
from General Moters recently. -
Meanwhile, labor difficulties
persisted at the Packard Motor
Car company at Detroit, and at
the North American Aviation,
Inc., plant at Inglewood, Cal.,
accompanied in each casa by
threats to strike.
CIO United Automobile Work
ers at the North American Avi
ation plant were reported ready
to strike at 3 a. m. tomorrow to
enforce their demand for a blan
ket 10-cent hourly raise for all
the concern's 11,000 employes,
together with a boost in the
minimum rate from 50 to 75
cents an hour.
The company has $109,000,000
In national defense orders.
Washington, May 27. (IP)
Secretary Hull, commenting on
the sinking of the German bat
tleship Bismarck said today he
supposed the law of retribution
arose to some extent at least.
Supply company truck of Med
fora, ctmrated by Lubbers, ram
med into the rear end of a
string of five machines, all
headed north on the Pacific
highway, which had stopped at
the Intersection of tha Bear
Creek Orchards road.
In the line were machines op
erated by Ray J. Phillip of
route 1, Tony P. Franco of Ash
land, Robert G. Parker of
Vreka, Cel., Paul H. Beare of
Ashland and Melvin L. McClure
of Jacksonville. According to
state police, the Phillip ma
chine, first in line, had stop
ped to await the passing of
southbound car driven by James
S. Spier, ao that It could make
a left hand turn Into the Bear
Creek orchards rd. The cars
following Phillip, driven by
Franco, Parker, Bear and Mc
Clure, In order, also had stop
ped, police said, when the truck
struck the rear end of the Mc
Clure car. last in line.
Following the crash the Me
Clur car struck the machin in
LEADS PROGRAM
DECORATION DAY
Ceremony at Bridge and in
City Park Organizations
Invited to Enter March
A patriotic street parade win
be formed Decoration Day at
the city park and will mova at
9:30 a. m. on Main street to
Bear creek bridge where there,
will be invocation by the Rev.
R. W. Coleman. Strewing flowers
on the water in memory of those
who gave their lives in the coun
try s service on oceans, lakes
and rivers, will be followed by
Taps."
The parade will then return
on Main street to the city park
for the following program:
1. Music.
2. Reading orders, Including
General Logan's first Mem
orial Day General Order, by
Miss Ora Cox.
3. L 1 n e o 1 n's Gettysburg Ad
dress, to be delivered by Neil
Coleman, a member of tha
debating team of Medford
Senior high school.
4. Decoration of vacant chair
by representatives of veteran
and patriotic organizations,
in honor of the memory of
departed comrades.
5. Principal address, by Ira D.
Canfleld of Medford, depart
ment of Oregon commander.
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
6. Singing "America," by th
audience.
T. Benediction by the Rev. Hi
W. Coleman pf Medford.
8. Taps. '
In case of bad weather thli
program wilt be held in the)
Presbyterian church.
All social, fraternal and civic
betterment organizations of this
and neighboring communities
are Invited to take part in the
parade. They and the general
public are also Invited to attend
the program in the city park.
The Women's Relief Corps and
the Daughters of Union Veterans
of the Civil War will conduct
memorial ceremonies in Medford
I.O.O.F. cemetery at 2:30 p. m.
All members of other veteran
and patriotic societies and tha
public are Invited to witness tha
ceremonies.
Industrial Output
In Greatest Jump
Washington, May 27 UP)
Industrial production during the)
first year of tha defense pro
gram has made one of the great
est increases on record, Leon
Henderson, price administrator,
said today, but the cost of liv
ing has gone up only about S
per cent.
Mar than 1 500 mile of brawB
paper. 18 Inchas wlda. ware used aa
protective wrapping for pi pa uaed In
construction of the Iraq-PsJaatlae
oil Una.
Smashup
Highway
front of it and each of the ear
in turn rsmmed Into the vehicle
in front of it. The Phillip car,
however, was not hit, as it
completed Its turn into the side)
road after the Spier machine)
had passed.
In the meantime the truce.
after striking the McClure car,
went out of control, police said,
swerved into tha southbound
traffic lane and collided with
the oncoming Spier machine.
Tha truck and the Spier car,
police said, were almost com
pletely demolished by their co4
lision. Tha McClure car was
badly damaged and the other
suffered lesser damages to their
front and rear ends. The high
way was partly blocked by th
wreckage for some Urn after
the accident, which occurred y
5:30.
Due lo coniiiIf statement
of the drivers involved, polk)
said. It was Impossible to placo
Ui blame for th crtdent. Po
lice said that no camplatnta had
been filed up to this eitarnoog