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EDITION
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United Press
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941.
No. 60.
MED
4
WW. .
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
Copyright. 1941. by
New York Tribune, Inc.
Washington, May 30. In his
historic message to the nation,
the president left some things
unsaid. He did not tell the peo
ple. "I am ready to order the
Atlantic fleet into action to clear
the sea lanes to Britain." He
did not tell the people, "I am
ready, if necessary, to order
preventive occupation of the
Atlantic Islands and Dakar."
And he did not tell the people,
"By every practical test, we are
now at war.
Yet although he did not say
these things in so many words,
v there is no room for doubt that
he meant them. Events with
their remorseless logic have
long called on him to take the
great decision. His speech was
the-solemn utterance of a man
who had accepted the logic of
events and faced the conse
quences. And the men close to
him, who have seen him groping
towards his choice, are unani
mous in believing that the great
decision has been taken, once
and for all, for better or for
worse.
"PHI! great decision was not
- taken easily or ngmiy. u
could not be. Even the Roose
velt of eight years ago who so
gaily rode the tempest In the
spring of 1933, would hardly
have reached such a decision
without much pain and heart-
searching. The Roosevelt of to
day is a much mellower, wiser
and more cautious man, worn
by a gruelling term of office,
and taught by harsh experience
to consider risks the Roosevelt of
1933 would scarcely have imag
ined. Before he could settle his
own and his country's fate, the
president naturally passed
through period of agonizing
uncertainty.
The whole story will not be
told for many years, but even
now some details are known
that give an inkling of the at
mosphere of the White House
in this last month. It is known,
for example, that a fortnight
ago, when the speech was first
scheduled, he had not made up
(Continued on Pace fllz)
E
. SLIGHTLY BETTER
Berlin, May 30 (Pi Slight
Improvement in the condition of
former Kaiser Wilhelm II was
reported today as members of
the family hastened to the bed
side of 'be 82-year-old World
war em' or who is In exile at
Doom, Holland.
A telephone call from Doom
to the Hohenzollern estate here
said Wilhelm appeared slightly
stronger but that his condition
was still serious.
He was stricken several weeks
ago with an obscure Intestinal
disorder, and artificial feeding
has been resorted to while phy
sicians sought to diagnose the
exact nature of the complaint.
Veteran Motor man
Hangs up Gloves
Portland, May 30 IIP) John
J. Tichenor, who drove a horse
car in Salem when Herbert
Hoover was in charge of the Ore
gon Land company's livestock,
retired today after SI years on
streetcars.
He maneuvered a horse trol
ley in Salem from 1899 until
the turn of the century when
he came to Portland. . For 41
years he has clicked the throttle
and applied the air to a succes
sion of models, ending his ca
reer as a Montavilla route mo-torman-conductor.
OLD MASK ORDINANCE
IS FINALLY REPEALED
Fortland. May 30 ip You
won't break the law any more
if you appear on Portland streets
without a mask.
Th almost forgotten ordinance,
a relic of the 1919 flu epidemic,
was repealed yesterday by the
city council, along with several
other obsolete measures.
M
FIRST FUGUES"
ARRIVE IN EGYPT
IS BERLIN CLAIM
; Remaining Forces Wander
I ing, Demoralized by Arti
f icial Fog Spread by Nazis
By the Associated Press
British and Greek troops were
reported fleeing the Mediter
ranean isle of Crete today, at
tempting to reach Egypt aboard
small fishing boats in another
Dunkerque.
Axis dispatches pictured al
lied forces still remaining on the
island as wandering, lost and
demoralized, in an artificial fog
spread by the Germans.
'The first group of fugitive
soldiers has already arrived in
Egypt," the Berlin radio as
serted.
In Full Flight
Hitler's high command de
clared the British were "in full
flight" in the 11-day-old strug
gle, with nazi aerial troops al
ready having captured the three
principal Crete cities of Candia,
Retimo and Canea, the Crete
capital.
Groups of British soldiers
were reported tumbling along
the rocky southern shores of the
Island, hoping that ships might
come to evacuate them. Fishing
boats had taken off a few, it was
reported.
The German radio said a
Cairo broadcast announced that
General B. C. Freyberg, com
mander of British Imperial
forces in Crete, had been killed
when his plane crashed en route
to Egypt.
Transport Sunk
At sea, Premier Mussolini's
high command acknowledged
that the 17,879-ton Italian liner
Conte Rosso, loaded with troops,
had been torpedoed and sunk
to the south of Syracuse, Sicily.
Most of the troops were saved,
it was announced.
The fascist high command al
so reported that the 1,340-ton
British destroyer Hereward had
been blown up by Italian aerial
bomb hits and that so far' 229
members of the crew had been
rescued, Including 26 seriously
wounded.
. With the conflict fast shaping
toward another axis victory, the
British stepped up their drive
to prevent the rich Middle East
oil kingdom of Iraq from falling
into Hitler's grasp.
' British' Imperial troops ad
vanced within five miles of
Baghdad, the 4,000-year-old cap
ital of Iraq, after a. 15-mile
march in the past 24 hours.
Emir Abdul Hah, deposed re
gent of Iraq, was said to be fol
lowing the British columns,
ready to establish a new govern
ment. IN MEMORIAL PARADE!
Portland, May 80 (Pi Port
land's Memorial Day plans to
day included a parade of vet
erans' organizations, cemetery
rites and a program at the civic
auditorium.
Theodore A. Penland. depart
ment commander of the G.A.R.,
will be grand marshal of the
parade.
IRAQ PREMIER FLEES
TO NEIGHBORING IRAN
London. May 30. UP) The
anti-British premier of Iraq.!
Rashid All Al Gailani, has fled 1
into neighboring Iran, it was
authoritatively announced here
tonight
Rashid All, In power through
a coup d'etat, had been leading
Iraq forces against the British
since they first opened fire on
Britain's Treaty airdrome at
Habbaniyah, Iraq, on May 4.
BURDIC KEEPS SEAT
ON ASHLAND BOARD
Ashland. May 30 UPh-Dr. R.
L. Burdic won another year on
the district 9 school board this
week by drawing lots with
Chairman Hal McNair for the
position. - - .
HEX
Western Hemisphere Dangers Cited
President Roosevelt warned the war "is approaching the brink of the western hemisphere
itself" in his speech proclaiming a state of unlimited emergency and declaring the control or
occupation by Nasi forces of any of the islands of the Atlantic would jeopardise the ultimate
safety of the United States. Arrows Indicate islands referred to by the president and approxi
mate distances from the U. S. to to these islands, athwart main seas communication routes.
Nazi Victory
Of Queries
By Dewitt Mackensle
(Associated Press Analyst) v ,
The battle of Crete, in whiA the Anglo-Greek allies are
making what looks like their
death from the skies, fairly
that are being thrown in the
handfuls.
What ts th fundamental
ron nf the nllleri fafliir in
hold the Germans off from this
Island, which was defended by
perhaps 30,000 troops and war
ships?
Answer: Lack of air-oower in
the eastern Mediterranean. The
nazi warplanes swarmed the sky
like locusts, and there is no
effective defense against such
an attack except bombing and
fighting planes.
What about the story that the
British have a large store of
new warnlanes in reserve in
England? Any truth in that?
Answer: My information is
that the British do have a re
,orv. Hnwever. we have no
knowledge of the type of planes,
or whether it would be feasible
to use them for long-distance
work. It's a safe bet Britain
would use any planes available.
What's the answer then win
th. n.m.ni he able to con
tinue their victories in the Near
East because of this air super
iority?
Answer: Nazi air superiority
will continue to tell heavily
onlnrt the allies in the eastern
Mediterranean until the British
nrnvirimi with many more
warplanes. especially the long
distance type. They are depend
ing largely on United states
nrnrfnrtion to meet this crisis.
However, the British presum-
bly will be able to provme
u h--r air defense in
fighting in Egypt close to their
air-bases.
Is there any relation between'
the battle of Crete and the fact
that the nazls have done little
bombing of England for nine
teen days?
Answer Definitely. Bad fly
ing weather has accounted for
part of the respite, but the oil
experts tell us Hitler is so short
of gasoline that he must con
serve his supplies for such a ma
jor operation as the attack on
Crete. He hasn't enough gas to
keen two big shows running at
the same time for any great per
iod. The outcome oi me war
may hinge on this fact.
If that is so. and if the allies
will gain strength as American
production gets under lull
steam. Isn't 1 1 m working
against Hitler and for Britain?
Answer: Yes, that's the ker
nel of the nut. We may easily
know the outcome of the war
hr fall If th alllM pan kxn
afloat that long, their stock will
be on tne up-grade. Their prob
lem ii to keep afloat now.
Sacramento, May 20..
Churning cream butterfat, first
grade 4Hic; second grade 3iV4c.
UUu
in Crete Brings Flood
to Analyst MacKenzie
last desperate stand against
bristles with question marks
direction of this column in
SHIP LOSS DATA
Washington, May 30. (P)
Apparently authentic reports
reached congress today, that
only 28 ships loaded with war
supplies in United States ports
have been sunk en route to
Britain since the European con
flict began in September, 1939.
While no tabulation was
available on the total number
of such vessels to clear U. S.
ports. Interested legislators said
it was safe to assume that the
loss ratio of American goods
thus far had been relatively
small.
Sinkings listed were said to
have involved some food pro
ducts from South America
which were transshlped at porta
here. It was pointed out, how
ever, that the sinkings do not
include sea losses of equipment
produced In the United States
and sent to Canada for ship
ment from dominion porta.
AIR COWSlLAlB
Salt Lake City. May 30. UP)
Apparently as a part of the
precautionary movement In
which many military units en
gaged today, planes of the 20th
bombardment wing, stationed at
Fort Douglas, visited several
points in the northwest today.
Col. Lowell H. Smith, wing
commander, said units of his
organization today visited Sac
ramento and Hamilton field tn
California, Portland, Ore., Se
attle and Spokane, and other
cities within the past 24 hours,
as part of a technical maneuver
to simulate war conditions.
Apostoli to Give
Sailors Lessons
San Francisco, May 30. (JPi
Fred Apostoli, former world's
middleweight boxing champion,
will henceforth do his fighting
for the United States navy.
Apostoli, a San Francisclan,
left for New York last night to
enlist In the navy as boxing
and athletic instructor.
8. F. Butter
San Francisco, May 30. (IP)
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changed, - '
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sees THREAT
TO SA OUTPOSTS
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RACE IS DELAYED
WHILE FIRE RAGES
Speedway, Indianapolis, May
30 OP) After a quick pit stop
for fuel and tires, Wilbur Shaw,
dapper little Indianapolis driver,
roared back into the lead at 200
miles of the annual 500-miie
automobile race today. His av
erage speed for the 200 miles
was 112.925 miles an hour.
Harry McQuInn, also of In
dianapolis, was in second posi
tion and Cliff Bergere, Holly
wood stunt driver, third. Twenty-four
of the original 30 start
ers remained in the grind.
Mauri Rose, Indianapolis, who
finished third in the 1940 race
and who led at the 100 miles
today, was forced out at 152
miles -with carburetor trouble,
but he went back in as relief
driver for Floyd Davis of Spring
field, 111.
Speedway, Indianapolis, May
30 (IP) Mauri Rose, mustached
little Indianapolis driver, led
his home town rival, Wilbur
Shaw, by a fraction of a second
at the end of 100 miles of the
900-mile Memorial Day automo
bile race, the start of which was
delayed an hour by a fire in the
garage section.
Rex Mays, G 1 e n d a 1 e, Cel..
comet, paced the pack for 87
miles, but Rose and Shaw pass
ed him going into the 100-mile
lap.
Twenty-eight of the original
field of 31 starters remained in
the running.
Rose's speed for the first cen
tury averaged 108.434 miles an
hour, much lower than the aver
age for that distance in recent
years. A collision, which elim
inated Joel Thome of Burbank.
Cel., and Emil Andres of Chi
cago, slowed the race, the yel
low flag of caution being hung
out for more than 70 miles. This
meant that drivers had to hold
their positions until given the
green flag again.
The fire, which broke out
about 7 a. m., damaged 30 ga
raet. destroyed three race cars,
injured seven men and caused
doubt for a time to as whether
the race would be run.
Destruction of fuel and other
supplies and damage to power
lines, knocking out the electric
clocking device, threatened to
halt the race, but workmen la
bored frantically to repair the
damage, and fresh supplies were
obtained.
Population Itrnaltr la the 0!U of
the Kile nm i luo ptraoui to la
square mile. " -
DEFENSE PLANTS
COAST TO COAST
Sudden Precautionary Activ
ity Realistic Anti-Aircraft
Guns On Roofs
By the Associated Press
Military and civil guards
stood watch today at defense
plants from coast to coast, sum
moned overnight by civilian au
thorities who spoke of sabotage
and military officers who talked
only of tactical maneuvers.
Highlighting the sudden activ
ity from New England to Cali
fornia was cancellation of leaves
of 14,000 Fort Dix. N. J., sold
iers and "practice alert" at
Fort Custer, Mich., was so real
istic that officers confessed "it
even fooled us."
The war department said at
Washington it had issued no In
structions of any kind to lead
to precautions such as were re
ported. It said it knew nothing
of activities at Fort Dix and
Fort Custer but pointed out that
post or corps commanders may
order "alerts" or "maneuvers"
at any time.
Airplane factories and estab
lishments engaged In defense
production, it was explained,
are under the protection of the
FBI and of individual protec
tion forces at most plants.
Anti-aircraft guns were plant
ed atop California plane fac
tories, Los Angeles harbor ships
were floodlighted, police guards
were augmented in several cities
and west coast "patriotic bod
ies" were asked to stand by. '
Most spectacular of the mili
tary measures was the clamp
ing on Fort Custer, Mich., of a
"practice alert" which was so
much like the real thing that
Battle Creek police took to the
streets to warn civilians against
armed sentries.
ORDERS PILE UP FOR
WEST'S PINE LUMBER
Portland, Ore., May 30. lP)
The western pine order file
fattened during the week end
ing May 24, 93 mills reported
to the Western Pine association
today.
On order was 81,526,000
board feet, compared with 79,
974,000 for the previous week
and 73,200,000 for the same
week last year. In the same
order, shipment figures were:
77,178,000 feet, 76,357,000 and
71,497,000; production, 86,333,
000 feet, 81,434,000 and 78,006,
000. Berlin, May 30. (JP) Ger
man outpost boats in the English
channel reported a bitter fight
with British speed boats last
night and claimed to have sunk
at least one.
Sgt. York Raps Isolationists
In Arlington Cemetery Talk
Washington, May 30 (JP)
Before the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, Sergeant Alvin C. York
called today for Immediate alt
out aid to England, and added
"If that means that we have to
use convoys, then we should
use them."
The tall Tennessee mountain
eer who became one of the out
standing heroes of the World
war A. E. F. was Invited as prin
cipal speaker at Memorial Day
ceremonies in Arlington national
ceremtery.
In his prepared address, York
struck out at advocates of "iso
lationism." He declared that
Senator Wheeler iD.-Mont.)
"ought to know by now that you
can't protect yourself against
bullets with an umbrella." To
" a United States senator whose
favorite bird must be the os
trich" York coupled a reference
to "a famous transatlantic avi
ator." Both, he said, "feel dif
ferently than the veterans do
about this country's most press
ing problems." For the veterans,
he said, "liberty Is something
they fought to keep."
The ceremonies on the green
Virginia hillside overlooking the
Potomac were preceded by pa
HIE GBEIE
War Bulletins
London. May 30 Au
thoritatlve sources reported
today that British forces had
driven to a point within five
miles of the Iraq capital of
Baghdad.
At the same time another
British column moving up
the Euphrates river was re
ported to have reached Lu
qualt. about 2S0 miles south
of Baghdad and SO miles
northwest of Basra.
New York, May 30 F)
Withdrawal of British women
and children from Crete was
disclosed by a British broad
cast today which said they
have arrived at a Mediterran
ean port "with the first batch
of wounded to come from the
bland."
DEFENSE CHIEFS
GIVEN HOPE FOR
STRIKE DECLINE
By the Associated Press
Although most factories were
closed for the Memorial Day
holiday, defense production
chiefs received cheering news
from several quarters today of
steps to end industrial strife.
A strike threat was lifted
from the Packard Motor car
plant at Detroit, walkouts were
ended at an Illinois chemical
works and a Pennsylvania shell
factory, and the Nashville, Tenn.
AFL building trades unions
named coordinator to prevent
work stoppages on defense pro
jects. The Packard management of
fered, and the CIO United Auto
mobile Workers accepted, new
contract providing 8-cent hourly
increases for some 11,000 pro
duction employes. Packard has
$62,000,000 in armament orders.
Wage Increases ended a six
weeks strike by 900 AFL em
ployes of the Monsanto Chemic
al company at East St. Louis,
111. Workers will get an immed
iate increase of 5 cents an hour,
and 2Vi cents additional next
October.
The strike of 2,000 AFL and
CIO machinists at 11 San Fran
cisco bay shipyards continued
to hold up work on $300,000,000
worth of ships.
The national defense media
tion board yesterday requested
10,000 striking CIO Pacific coast
lumber workers to go back to
work, calling attention to Pres
ident Roosevelt's declaration
Tuesday night for an end to
strike stoppages In defense in
dustries. Pendleton, Ore., May 30 UP)
Dandelle Neilsen, about 23,
Colvllle, Wash., laborer at the
Umatilla Ordnance depot, was
killed last night when a car
crashed against a concrete
bridge east of Hermlston.
rade of military units, veterans
and patriotic organizations in
the capital. Small American
flags fluttered beside each of the
uniform stone grave markers
which extend In military pre
cision over many acres of the
national cemetery.
York said he and other vet
erans of the World war frequent
ly were asked what they had
gained by fighting "to make the
world safe for democracy."
"Let me answer that now," he
said. "It got me 23 years of
living in a country where the
Godess of Liberty is stamped on
men's hearts, as well as on the
coins in their pockets. . . .
"By our victory In the last
war, we won a lease on liberty,
not deed to It. Now, after
23 years, Adolf Hitler tells us
that lease is expiring, and after
the manner of all leases, we have
the privilege of renewing It, or
letting It go by default I have
no doubt that the American peo
ple choose to renew It, Senator
Wheeler to the contrary not
withstanding." Calling for no compromise
with Hitler, he declared that if
England should fall, America
would be the next on the Nails'
list v
WAR THREAT ADDS
SIGNIFICANCE TO
L RITES
i
Commander Canfleld of V
F. W. Says Efforts Will Ba
Wasted If Vigil Relaxed
Emphasizing the "stark realiz
atlon that we in America are)
again on the brink of another
war," Ira D. Canfleld, depart,
ment of Oregon commander of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
of the United States, told
Memorial Day gathering at city
park this morning that "should!
we grow careless in our vigil
ance over the security of our?
America, then those men who
died at Bunker Hill, at Appom.
attox, at San Juan, at Chateau
Thierry or on the high seas,
gave their lives without purpose
and their loyalty In vain."
Prior to the park services a
long patriotic street parade)
moved from city park to the)
Bear Creek bridge and back to
the park, as hundreds of persona
lined Main street to watch the)
procession.
Pledged to Ideals 1
"We have promised our sold
ier dead that we will never be
false to their memory," Mr. Can
field said from the flower and
flag-bedecked park platform.
'Time and again we have pledg
ed ourselves to the task of pre
serving those ideals tor which
they gave their lives. Thisj
means we have promised mil-
tant resistance against any force)
that seeks to destroy our cher
ished institutions of democracy.'
Mr. Canfleld cited the sinking
I of the British battle-cruiser
Hood by a German warship in
North American waters as proof
that the conflict in Europe)
"draws ever closer to our
shores," and he said that "we
have seen the democratic coun
tries of the old world go down
one by one under the heel of the)
oppressor until, in Europe, Eng
land alone stands as the bul
wark of democracy."
Also on the city park pro
gram were the reading of Gen
eral John A. Logan's first Mem
orial Day general order, by Miss)
Ore Cox; delivery of Lincoln's
Gettysburg address, by Nell
Coleman of Medford senior high
school; decoration of vacant
chairs by representatives of vet
erans' and patriotic organiza
tions in honor of the memory
of departed comrades, three)
numbers by Mrs. Eva Prentice's
accordion band; aingtng of
America by the large audience)
and the benediction by the Rev.
R. W. Coleman.
The parade, starting at 9:39
included the Medford senior
high school band and the girls
drum corps, the Junior blgn)
school girls' drum corps, the)
sheriffs mounted posse. Boy
Scouts, American Legion and
auxiliary, the F. O. E. drill team,
the Chester A. Arthur chapter
of the Women's Relief Corps,
Daughters of the American Rev
olution, Daughters of the Union)
Veterans of the Civil War, Uni
ted Spanish War Veterans, Gold
Star Mothers and other veteran,
fraternal and civic organiza
tions. Flowers ea Water
At the Bear Creek bridge,
flowers were strewn on the wa
ter in memory of Americans)
who gave their lives In the)
country's service on oceans,
lakes and rivers. The Rev. R.
W. Coleman gave the Invoca
tion. The Women's Relief Corps
and the Daughters of the Union
Veterans of the Civil War wets)
to conduct memorial services in)
Medford L O. O. F. cemetery at
2:30.
BEND CLAIMS PORTLAND
SNATCHING HER COACHES
Bend, May 30 OP) Bend
football fans advocated some)
sort of an "Atherton" code to
day to prevent Portland higil
schools from "proselyting Becd
high coaches."
Coach Joe Huston was signed
by Portland's Roosevelt high
this week. His three successors,
at Bend, Jerry Lillie, John Lon
dahl and Miller Nicholson, alt
war taken by Portland schools
e