MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORP. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 30. 1941.
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Society
And Clubs
By Frank Jtnklni
TODAY'S (Ihuridt y's) dls-
patches indicate that Italian
forces have been landed on the
eastern end of Crete, thus put
ting the British-Greek defend
ers between the Jaws of a vise.
The Germans are reported to
have captured Suda Bay har
bor, giving them a landing
place for troops and heavy
equipment such as tanks.
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A REPORT from Italy asserts
, that hundreds of little
TGreek sailboats loaded with
German troops have been safe
ly escorted to Crete under the
guns of Italian warships, indi
cating (if true) that the British
fleet has been driven from
I Cretan waters.
This indication is strengthen
ed by a dispatch from Alexan
dria yesterday saying that a
part of the British fleet had ar
rived at the base there.
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DARRING a miracle (and mir-
acles have been few and far
between in this war) Crete is
lost to the British. vWhat re
mains is merely a matter of time
and detail.
OW did it happen?
It is the same old story,
beginning in Poland and run
ning through all the German
conquests since:
The Germans had ALL THE
AIRPLANES THEY NEEDED
p.and their opponents didn't.
THIS writer, having no inside
sources of information, can
only guess. But this seems a
fair guess as to what has hap
pened in Crete:
The British, lacking air
strength, undertook to defend
Crete with their Mediterranean
navy (supported, but inade
quately, by the air arm of the
fleet).
The restHt is history.
' The adequate German air
force first landed enough para
chute troops to seize a foothold.
Then it drove the scanty Brit
ish air force from the island,
meanwhile pouring in reinforce
ments steadily from the air.
After that it attacked and ap
parently mastered the defend-
lng British fleet, which was in
adequately supported in the air.
THE military lesson of Crete
(guessed at from incomplete
and heavily censored data) is
this:
Only airplanes can success
fully fight airplanes.
"THE lesson is heeded NOW!
Two days ago, President
Roosevelt allocated an addi
tional three billion dollars, most
of it to be spent for planes.
Today (Thursday) Secretary of
War Stimson discloses a plan
to train 8.000 British Tiers in
this country, beginning June 7.
If it had been heeded years
ago, when Colonel Lindbergh
warned Britain, France and U.
S. of the Immensity and com
pleteness of German prepara
tion for air war, the history
of -the world in this present era
might have been changed.
A FEW side issues at this
" point:
Germany and Italy are re
ported to have relaxed the arm
istice regulations to permit
France to build up a continen
tal air force for the "defense
of her empire."
Defense against whom?
Certainly not against the
Germans, who are permitting
her to strengthen herself. One
must conclude that she is get
ting feady for Britain and for
United States.
Club Holds
Dance Preceded
By No-Host Dinner
Members of Lively Rogue
Dancing club enjoyed a danc
ing party at the K. of P. hall
Wednesday evening. The deco
rations carried out a patriotic
tneme. Joe Marshall was chair
man of the evening, assisted by
Mrs. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. C.
R. Schmidt. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Duff and Mr. and Mrs. O. S.
Hoselton. Music was furnished
by Whipple s orchestra.
Preceding the dance a group
of the members held a no-host
dinner at Burgoyne's. Among
those attending were Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Marshall. Mr. and Mrs.
C. R. Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert C. Wright, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Duff, Mr. and Mrs. R.
M. Schino, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Zacharisen, Dr. and Mrs. George
S. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Ogle, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Muncy,
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Thurman,
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Proctor, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Holmes, Mr.
and Mrs. O. S. Hoselton and
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Latham.
Pro-America
To Hear Official
Pro-America will hold a lunch
eon meeting at the Hotel Hol
land Wednesday rather than
Monday as previously scheduled,
according to an announcement
by Pro-America officers today.
At that time Mrs. Roy T.
Bishop of Portland, state presi
dent, will be in Medford to ad
dress the entire membership.
All members are urged to be in
attendance.
Past Matrons Club
To Hold Luncheon
Past Matrons club of Reamcs
chapter. O.E.S., will hold a meet
ing Monday at 12:30 at the Ma
sonic temple. Luncheon will be
served with Mrs. Georgia Hollo
way as chairman. Officers of
Reames chapter will be special
guests.
SCHMELING NOT DEAD
IN CM INVASION
IS CLAIM OF
ed by Imperial forces and in an
attempt to escape had been shot
(In London British official
said "there appears to be no
reason why German sources
should say Schmeling is alive if
he is not.")
Berlin, May SO. (JPi Max
Schmeling's own words were
quoted in the German press to
day to relate his part in the nazi
invasion of Crete after reports
that he had been killed were of
ficially spiked.
An interview with the form
er heavyweight champion by
Siegfried Kappe, a German luft
waffe reporter, told how
Schmeling had wandered alone
half a day in the Crete wilder
ness after becoming separated
from his companions, then re
joined them and helped capture
a strategic coastal road.
The official denial of Schmel
ing's death said he was in an air
force hospital with a minor at
tack of a tropical disease.
( A New Zealand avnhulam-i-
driver, arriving at Alexandria.
Egypt, from Crete, said yester
day Schmeling had been captur-
E OF MEET
Further expansion of the Boy
Scout program among Catholic
churches nd among boys of
Catholic faith will be principal
theme of the annual meeting of
the Catholic Committee of
Scouting for the Archdiocese of
Perl and in Oregon which opens
this afternoon at Hotel Medford,
according to Kenneth Wells,
local scout executive. Sixteen
men will be in attendance from
western Oregon for the two day
business meeting.
The committee is under chair
manship of Alfred J. O'Brien of
Portland with Rev. Martin
Thielcn of Portland as scout
chaplain. Men will be in attend
ance from Portland, Canby, Sa
lem, Gervais, Eugene, Marsh
field, and Medford.
Edward L. Curtis, regional
scout executive for the north
west region, arrived yesterday
and will represent the National
Council. Bov Scouts of America.
at the sessions. Rev. Louis Bar
celo of Portland university, na
tional field scout commissioner,
will also participate.
Saturday morning there will
be a special mass for Boy
Scouts and their Inilm of
Catholic faith at Sacred Heart
parish.
Local men participating in
me conferences will h rv
Augustine Meyer. Larry Schade,
and Kenneth Wells.
we might even hive to convoy
ships." There were prolonged
booes on two occasions as he re
ferred to President Roosevelt's
fireside rhat.
rew of the Important buildings to,
Berlin ere more than 100 year old.
mu of the city's development hay.
Ing come about In the put century.
Dm Mali Tribune went ads.
DAILY BIBLE SCHOOL
Following the custom of nat
years the First Methodist church
will conduct a daily vacation
Bible school, beginning? next
Monday at 9 30 a. m. The school
will be free to all children.
Mrs. Donna Taylor will be in
charge. She has secured several
sble assistants. The usual pic
nic will be eiven for the srourj
on Saturday, June 14.
Philadelphia, May 30.-
Charles A. Lindbergh contends
it is President Roosevelt himself
who advocates world domina
tion and declares:
"If wt attempt to follow a
policy such as the president sug
gests, we will start a war be
tween the hemispheres that may
last for generations."
An estimated 1S.000 packing
the arena and overflowing into
the street for an America First
Committee rally against war
last night and thousands cheered
the flier's assertion that:
This country is not going in
to a foreign war. There is no
question of our unity it is the
will of a majority of our people.
We will stay out of war."
Lindbergh drew shouts of
"no" from the heavily policed
crowd with statements that in-j
terventionists "have told us that I
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Ogden. Utah (U.R) Fourteen
men, who helped assemble
shells for the World war and
then separated to enter private
businesses, have been reunited
by the threat of U. S. entrance
into another war.
All of the members of the
group were employed at the
great shell assembly plant in
Parlin, N. J. All were friends.
After the 1918 armistice, they
scattered to other cities and
other states.
Recently the federal govern
ment began construction of a
shell factory at Burlington, la.,
and officials began looking
around for experienced work
men to staff the plant.
From New Jersey, Philadel
phia, New York and California
the World war munitions work
ers answered the call, and were
sent to the Ogden ordnance de
pot for training in modem
techniques.
Now, the number of ex-Par-
lin employes totals 14 and
most of them had not seen each
other since their separation in
1918.
Virtually all of Eiypta 16.000.000
population Uvea by the tide of the
Nile.
Use Mall Tribune want adi.
A NOTHER sidelight:
The German ambassador
conferred for an hour this morn
ing with Jap Foreign Minister
Matsuoka in Tokyo. Immediate
ly thereafter, the BRITISH am
bassador talked with him for an
hour.
gr The seat Japan is sitting on
is getting hotter by the minute.
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Redmond, Ore., May 30. UP)
Joseph K. Carson, Jr.. ex-!
mayor of Portland, delivered '
the principal Memorial Day ad-,
dress here today. I
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