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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MAY 28. 1941.
PATSW VINE
Roosevelt Proclaims
Unlimited Emergency
In Momentous Speech
(Continued Prom Page One)
put defense first mean that time
for debate was over, Early re
plied by declaring that certainly
free speech would continue.
Free Speech Continues
He said that while the speech
last night represented "80 per
cent of the Job," the president
had about a 20 per cent "clean
up to do."
Mr. Roosevelt, proclaiming a
state of unlimited emergency
promised the nation last night
a dynamic defense against at
tack, or threat of attack.
He told the world, in the face
of Berlin warnings, of the ad
ministration's determination to
deliver the goods to Britain,
utilizing the present patrols
which "are helping now" and
"all additional measures . . .
(which) are being devised by our
military and naval technicians."
He gave advance notice that
occuoatlon of Dakar, the Azores
or the Cape Verde Islands by
axis forces would constitute a
.direct danger to the safety and
freedom of the hemisphere.
To Decide Own Security
"We in the Americas," he de
clared, "will decide for ourselves
whether and when, and where,
our American interests are at
tacked or our security threat
ened.
"We are placing our armed
forces In strategic military position.
"We will not hesitate to use
our armed forces to repel attack."
To underscore the acute grav
ity of the world situation as he
saw it, President Roosevelt Is
sued his formal declaration "that
an unlimited national emergency
exists and requires the strength
ening of our defense to the ex
treme limit of our national
. power and authority.'
"Your government," he told
the people of the United States,
"has the right to expect of all
citizens that they take part
in the common work of our com
mon defense take loyal part
from this moment forward
All will have opportunities, all
will have responsibilities to ful
fill."
Production Must Rule
Addressing himself particu
larly to capital and labor, he
asserted that no disputes of any
sort must interfere with arms
production. The government
henceforth would exert all its
powers to end production stop
pages. "Articles of defense must
have the undisputed right of way
in every industrial plant in the
country
This was the fireside chat for
which the nation and most of
the world had awaited eagerly
for days. The radio carried it
to the four corners of the globe
and by relays in the languages
of many peoples Spanish, Por
tuguese, French, Itnlinn, Ger
man, Arabic, Dutch, Czech, Slo
vak, Greek, Serb-Croat, Norwe
gian, Rumanian and Bulgarian.
Even before the president
faced the cluster of microphones
in the east room at the White
House, the complete text of his
address was already being sent
to Berlin and to Tokyo by axis
powers newsmen.
British Heartened
Foreign reaction was slow,
particularly from official quar
ters. Sleepless British people
followed the broadcast with close
attention, however, and the typi
cal man-in-the-street comment
was: "He's with us all the way.
... It means we're going to
lick Hitler even sooner than we
expected." The British radio in
terpreted the proclamation of
unlimited emergency as "proof
that the president is very much
alive to the present military
position."
Prime Minister W. L. Macken
zie King of Canada saw "a clear
declaration by the president that
the United States has not only
decided to reassert but is deter
mined to maintain the freedom
of the seas. . . . Germany will
have to draw her own conclu
sions as to what may be involved
by any attempt by force to frus
trate delivery from America of
munitions and food to Britain.
In Washington congressional
opinion divided into two main
schools. Supporters of the aa
ministration's foreign policy ap
plauded the speech as "superb
. . . excellent . . . courageous
... a ringing call."
"TYoieal" Say Critics
ODDOsition legislators called
it a "speech to promote war hys-
a whole will follow it and con
gress will follow the lead of
the people. He accordingly sug
gested immediate repeal of the
neutrality act to "maintain
American rights on the seas."
The president's proclamation
of an unlimited emergency, it
was generally conceded, clothed
him with extraordinary powers
that may be exercised as events
warrant. By issuing additional
proclamations, it was pointed
out, he can close or commandeer
radio stations, take over power
houses needed for munitions
production, demand preference
for troops and war materials on
all transportation systems, or
suspend trading on securities ex
changes to name only a few
possible uses of power.
No New Authority
Legal circles, however, be
lieved that the president already
had authority to do these things
under the previous "limited"
emergency. They were inclined
to regard the "unlimited emer
gency" proclamation primarily
as an instrument to hammer
home the full gravity of the
country's present position.
President Roosevelt deliver
ed his address before a distin
guished gathering of the diplo
matic reDresentatives of all the
American nations. Their chairs
were arranged in a fan-like semi
circle before the desk at which
Mr. Roosevelt sat. Behind him
were the massed flags of the 21
American republics.
Throughout the address, Mr.
Roosevelt reiterated his convic
tion that hemisphere security
was in Jeopardy because of the
nazi plans for world domina
tion. "Adolf Hitler," he said at
the very outset, "never consider
ed the domination of Europe as
an end in itself. European con
quest was but a step toward
nWimota unali In fall th other
continents. It is unmistakably I
apparent to all of us that, un
less the advance of Hitlerism is
forcibly checked now, the west
ern hemisphere will be within j
range of the nazl weapons of de-
struction."
He offered his audience a blue-:
print of what he looked for
should Germany triumph abroad. I
Familiar Pattern Cited
First would come the familiar '
assurances from Hitler. There ;
was a sardonic tone in Mr.
Roosevelt's voice as he recited ,
them: "I am now completely 1
satisfied. This Is the last terri
torial readjustment I will seek. ,
All we want is peace, friendship,
and profitable trade with you
in the New World. i
Should those assurances be
accepted, he continued, the "dic
tatorships would be forcing the
enslaved peoples of their Old
World conquests ... to build a
naval and air force intended to 1
gain and hold and be master of
the Atlantic and Pacific as
well."
Next: "They would fasten an
economic stranglehold upon our
several nations. Quislings would
be found to subvert the govern
ments of our republics: and the
nazis would back their fifth col
umns with invasion, if neces
sary. "I am not speculating about
all this," the president asserted.
"I merely repeat what is already
in the nazi book of world con
quest. They plan to treat the
Latin American nations as they
are now treating the Balkans.
They plan to strangle the United
States of America and the do
minion of Canada."
War Nearlng
Mr. Roosevelt noted that the
Germans were in a position now
to occupy Spain, Portugal, Da
kar, "and the island outposts of
the New World the Azores and
Cape Verde islands."
"The war is approaching the
brink of the Western Hemis
phere itself. It is coming very
close to home."
Mr. Roosevelt gave quiet em
phasis to his next sentence:
"Control or occupation by
nazi forces of any of the islands
of the Atlantic would rejepor
dize the immediate safety of
portions of North and South
America, and of the island pos
sessions of the United States,
and therefore of the ultimate
safety of the continental United
States Itself."
It was not until the end of
his speech that the president
with measured gravity an
nounced: "We reassert the ar-
teria ... a typical Rooseveltian cent American doctrine of
speech that took 45 minutes to I freedom of the seas."
say nothing that we already aia Before he came to the perora
not Know . . . aisxuroing . . .
an executive declaration of
war policy."
Senator Nye (R-NDt. for ex
ample, remarked: "The Roose
velt war progresses. What does
an unlimited emergency mean!
Although he says the only thing
we need to fear is fear itself, he
proceeds to put fear In the
American breast in abundance."
On the other hand. Senator
Green (D-RI) of the foreign re
lations committee said "I think
the president was called on to
assert leadership and he has as
serted It. I think the country as
place them, and more than !
twice the combined output of
British and American shipyards
"today".
"We can answer this peril,"
he said, "by two simultaneous
measures: first, by speeding up
and Increasing our great ship
building program: and second,
by helping to cut down the
losses on the high seas."
"If the axis powers fall to
gain control of the seas, they
are certainly defeated. Their
dreams of world domination
will then go by the board; and
the criminal leaders who started
this war will suffer inevitable
disaster."
Policy Limned ,
The president formulated the
national policy of the United
States today in these words:
"First, we . shall actively re
sist wherever necessary and
with all our resources, every at
tempt by Hitler to extend his
nazi domination to the Western
Hemisphere, or to threaten it.
"We shall actively resist his
every attempt to gain control
of the seas. We insist upon the
vital Importance of keeping Hit
lerism away from any point In
the world which could be used
and would be used as a base of
attack against the Americas.
."Second, from the point of
view of strict naval and military
necessity, we shall give every
possible assistance to Britain
and all who, with Britain, are
resisting Hitlerism or Its equi
valent with force of arm.
"Our patrols are helping now
to insure delivery of the needed
supplies to Britain. All addition
al measures necessary to deliver
the goods will be taken. Any
and all further methods or com
bination of methods, which can
be or should be utilized, are be
ing devised by our military and
naval technicians, who, with me,
will work out and put into ef
fect such new and additional
safeguards as may be needed.
"I say, the delivery of needed
supplies to Britain is impera
tive. I say this can be done: it
must be done; it will be done."
This was looked on as Mr.
Roosevelt's reply to Germany's
Grand Admiral Raeder who
few days ago called American
patrols "aggressive" and said
nazi sea captains would be Justi
fied In using force to curb their
"hostile action." Raeder also
warned against convoys as an
"open war act" to which Ger
man ships would reply, if necessary.
Plans for the lecture here of
the Norwegian refugee, Bryn-
jolf Bjorset, the evening of June
4, were made at a meeting of
board members of the Jackson
County League of Women Voters
Monday. Mr. Bjorset, whose
topic Is to be "Europe Under
Nazi Rule And After," will
speak In tha high school audi
torium. Mrs. Dolph Phlpps will be
chairman in charge of ticket
sales and will b assisted by
Miss Marjoria Kelly, Mrs. Emil
Berg. Mrs. Angus Bowmer, Mrs.
Justin Smith. Stephen Nye. Jr.,
and Mrs. L. G. Lyman. Tickets
may be secured from any league A serious fire was averted at
member or at Pruitt's Music -the Kay-Marshall, Inc. Printing
store. company at 11:30 this morning
The Norwegian's lectures are by employes who used up three
being very favorably received in I extinguishers to put out a blaze
western cities, and h tells a in a varnish ana alcohol vat
THREATENING FIRE IN
KAY MARSHALL PLANT
WITH FIRE ROLES
dramatic story of the German
invasion of Norway which he
went through as reserve officer
of the Norwegian army. Fol
lowing the departure of the king
of Norway, Mr. Bjorset led a
party of British officers through
five Nazi lines into Sweden. He
was subsequently captured by
the Gestapo in the Arctic, escap
ed with the aid of German offi
cers and made his way to this
country. He knows Quisling
personally.
During the meeting Monday,
presided over by Mrs. Leonard
Carpenter, Mrs. Emil Berg was
introduced as the new head of
the department of government
.and its operation.
Power Source
Pendleton, Ore., May 28. IP)
Uncle Sam would face a criti
cal power shortage were It not
for Grand Coulee and Bonne
ville dams, Ivan Bloch, Bonne
ville marketing chief, told a Pen
dleton business group last night.
located on the second floor of
the building at 34 South Fir st
The fire department laid a
hose into the building but the
blaze was quenched before it
was necessary to turn on the
water, Chief Roy Elliott stated.
The fire started when an em
ploye of the company struck a
match to light a cigarette, burn
ed his finger and flipped tha
still flaming match Into the varnish-alcohol
mixture, the fire
chief said he was told. The em
ploye was working on a var
nishing label roller, which was
slightly damaged by the flames.
Fumes from the fire were so
bad, the chief said, that em
ployes of the company had to
quit work for a short time until
the building was aired out
Two Jackson county logging
operators resumed work this
morning after having been
closed yesterday because of their
lack of fire tools, it was an
nounced by the state forest
patrol office.
The operators were Harold
Davidson of Prospect and Swan
son and Shanks of Rogue River,
the patrol office said. Tha oper
ators obtained the necessary
tools late yesterday afternoon
and were given the green light
to resume operations this morn
ing.
to Talent from South Dakota In
1834.
Sht is survived by her hus
band, Benjamin B. Clark, and
the following children: Mrs.
Grace Long of White Owl, S. D.,
I Mrs. Hazel Brown of Tionesta,
Calif., Mrs. Phoebe McDowell of
Medford, Allien Clark of Med
ford, Raymond Clark of Ash
lanl, Delbert and George Clark,
both of Talent, and three sisters,
two brothers and 22 grandchildren.
Aztec Rtitne National Monument In
weetern New Mexico embraces a great
E-eheped atructure built by etone
aae architects and maeona more than
600 years ago.
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Talent, May 28. (SpU Fun
eral services for Mrs. Cynthia
Oliva Clark, 62. who died at
her residence here last Sunday
after an illness of only two days,
will be held at the C. M. Litwil
ler chapel in Ashland at 10 a. m.
Thursday. Interment will be in
Stearns cemetery in Talent
Mrs. Clark was bom In Mad
ison county, Iowa, March 4,
1879, and with her family came
Allocation Approved
Washington, May 28. P)
Senator McNary (R-Ore.) said
he was advised that President
Roosevelt had approved alloca
tion of $14,809 for completion
of school buildings at Brookings,
Ore.
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tion, however, he dwelt on the
history of that doctrine In pre
serving hemisphere security and
asserted that the "supreme pur
pose" of the axis today was to
obtain control of the seas, thus
winning "the power to dictate
to the" Americas.
Sinking Serious
The president said that with
"full knowledge of the British
government" he would reveal
that the present rate of nazi
sinkings of merchant ships was
more than three times the capa
city of British shipyards to re-
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