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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1941.
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By JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
Copyright. 1941. by
New York Tribuna, Inc.
Washington, May 31. The
key to the immediate future is
to be found in one brief para
graph of the president's historic
message to the nation. "If the
axis powers fail to gain control
of the seas," he said, "they are
certainly defeated. Their dreams
of world domination will then
go by the board and the crim
inal leaders that started this
war will suffer Inevitable dis
aster."
This paragraph Is the key to
the future because it reveals
two very important facts. First,
y. tha president has no doubts
that Germany can be beaten if
this country bears its part in
tha war. And second, the pres
ident believes that. Cermanv
will eventually be defeated be-j
cause she cannot gain command
of the seas. The president de
veloped both points a little later
in the speech, arguing that once
they are limited to a land war,
the Germans' military machine
will begin to weaken and that
"the wider the nazi land effort,
tha greater the danger" to
them.
Neither of these convictions
of the president's are shared by
such strategists as Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh and Sen
ator Burton K. Wheeler. But
the president has what Colonel
LinaDergn ana senator wneei
er do not have information on
r which to form a sound judg
ment. His two convictions are
the result of mature and very
cautious consideration of the
strategic picture. They are
agreed to by the ablest strateg
ists of the army and navy with
whom, in the past weeks, he has
spent much time re-assessing all
the available data. The fact that
the president is positive on both
these points should therefore
carry ten times the weight of
all the defeatist talk of all the
Isolationists put together.
a a a
iib impuc&uon ox uie ptcai-
dent's two convictions is
pretty obvious. If Germany can
not win without the command
of the seas, and if American aid
to Britain will prevent Germany
from obtaining command of the
aeas, then active American aid
is likely to be offered very
shortly. Equally obviously, the
aid will take the form of sup
plementing Britain's strength
with American air and naval
power. In order to sweep from
the seas and the air above the
(Continued, on Paga BaTan)
T
Farmers of Jackson county
favored the government's wheat
quota plan by an overwhelming
vote of 51 for and 3 against
In balloting Saturday, County
Agent Robert Fowler said. Out
of 80 eligible voters in the
county, 65 cast ballots at Med
ford, Ashland, Eagle Point,
Sams Valley, Applegate and
Rogue River. Eleven ballots
will be opened Monday morn
ing, having been cast by those
not In the program, and will
be counted separately.
Corvallls, Ore, May 31. (JP)
Oregon fanners favored the fed
eral government's wheat quota
plan In early returns tabulated
here tonight.
Six counties out of 36 gave
88 votes for and 29 against.
First county to report was
Multnomah where Peter Streiff
Jr. was the only man qualified
to vote under the 15 acre rule
governing the referendum. I
...
Portland. May 31. OPt A
r.akery workers' strike entered
its seventh day with settlement
not in sight today, but the AFL
grocery clerks, representing
1000 workers, signed a contract
which calls for higher pay and
shorter hours.
BACK QUOTA PLAN
BRITISH MUM ON
CRETE SITUATION; ET
IRAQ WAR MEND f-
Pro-Nazi Premier, Hitler's
Airmen Flee Germans
Lose Aerial Battle.
By tha Associated Press
Cairo, Egypt, May 31. With
Crete all but lost to Britain, the
war rocketed toward a new
phase today in a running battle
between strong RAF forces and
a cloud of German warplanes
high above the sapphire waters
of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Cretan situation was best
shown in the fact that the Brit
ish Middle East command did
not even issue a communique
up to a late hour today.
The RAF mentioned that it
had bombed the airdrome and
beach of Malemi, Crete, Thurs
day night, but that was all.
The RAF devoted most of its
communique to a restrained an
nouncement that a large force
of British fighter planes on pa
trol made "contact" with a big
formation of Germans, sending
two Heinkels plunging into the
sea and damaging "many
others so badly they probably
did not get back to their bases.
Enamy Retires
"The enemy Immediately took
evasive action and retired with
all possible speed," the com
munique stated.
Indications were that the
scene was between Crete and
Egypt, or between Crete and
the British island of Cyprus to
the east.
A possible clue was contained
in the RAF announcement that
heavy British bombers had
raided the Italian islands of
Scarpanto and Rhodes, east of
Crete.
(Another clue was In the Ger
man high command announce
ment that the luftwaffe was at
tacking some of the British
Cretan forces which had fled
to the islet of Gavdos, 25 miles
south of Crete).
Can. Freyberg Alive
Although the British prepared
themselves for bad news from
Crete's land forces, an indica
tion that the fight continued
was seen in a war office an
nouncement from London that
the imperial commander In
Crete, Major General B. C.
Freyberg, "is alive and with his
troops."
This was in denial of German
broadcasts yesterday that he
had been killed while flying
from Crete to Egypt an accu
sation that he had deserted his
hard-pressed men.
In preparation for the expect
ed expansion of the over-water
air war once Crete is lost, the
RAF already has been using
Hurricane fighters with extra
gasoline tanks and medium
bombers specially fitted out as
fighters.
Campaign Collapsee
Londcn, May 31. German
airmen who went belatedly to
Iraq to bolster the axis-inspired
war against Britain were report
ed fleeing the country tonight
as Iraqi resistance collapsed.
British Imperial advance
forces entered the disorderly
capital.
Negotiations of armistice
terms for the whole country Is
under way with the Iraqi com
mander. General Mourad Mah
moud. and the mayor of Bagh
dad, Arshal El Umarl, British
authorities said.
"As between ourselves and
the rebels, the whole thing is
over," they added.
The mayor with a committee
of four sought to restore ordjr
in Baghdad and put down the
wandering bands of looters,
announced that the people de
sired Regent Emil Abdul Hah
to return and restore a con
stitutional government for the
peace and independence of
Iraq. The emir was last report-
I 4 I l. -1 1 t
the British march on Baghdad.
lnd may already have returned
.to the capital.
The pro-German Premier
Rashid All Al Gailani, who
seized power from the emir
April 4 and started fighting the
British on May 2. had made
I good his flight to Iran (Persia).
Brothers Hold Own Draft Drawing
f.1rfvjq ft :
The three Jonas boys, sons
to the army In tha selective service, but their dra ft board ruled
ineir lamuy. inay couiant aeciae
chairman. ttalph B. Elm Ud from right), thay bald thair own lottery! left to righti John. Jr.. Fred
erick, who drew the "stay" slip, and James.
BRITISH POLICY;
UPHOLDS HITLER
By the Associated Press.
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
May 31 Vice-Premier Jean Dar-
lan denounced Britain today.
evidently with the approval of
Chief of State Marshal Petain
for what he called piratical at
tacks on French shipping.
Coincident with Darlan's state
ment, made before French edi
tors in Nazi-occupied Paris, it
was reported reliably that the
French north African port of
Sfax had been attacked by Brit
ish planes for a third time and
the 3,313-ton Italian freighter
Florida II set afire.
"I remain decided, more than
ever," Darlan said, "to force
respect for France's right to
free use of her ports and her
routes of communication.
Ranging himself squarely on
the German side in his expose
of French-British relations, the
No. 2 man In the Vichy regime
asserted that "even In the Im
probable case of British victory,"
or In "a triumphant Anglo-Saxon
world, France would be only a
dominion of second order.
But, he declared, "It means
little if England treats us as a
continental Ireland or even as a
colony, because I intend to act
in such a way that France re
takes her place as a power in
Europe and the world. That
means she must participate in
construction of the new order.
"That means also she will act
to hasten the hour of peace be
cause if British imperialism
needs the war to destroy Europe.
r ranee needs peace to exist and
grow as one of the essential parts
of this turope.
OSC ALUMNI HEAD
Corvallls, May 31. VP) The
Oregon State College Alumni
association elected George F.
Chambers, Salem, president to
day. Ralph Reynolds, Portland,
became vice-president; John Gal
lagher, Corvallis, treasurer, and
Warren Reid, Corvallis, secre
tary manager.
The meeting, held In connec
tion with annual commence
ment exercises, also saw the
board of directors increased to
16 to permit representation from
California and Washington.
BULLETIN
Coast
Night game:
Hollywood
R. H. E.
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Seattle
Da wo, Tost and Dapper; Cole
and Campbell.
of Mr. and Mrs. John Jonas of San
wno mould stay and who go.
London, Sunday. June 1
Three Nasi warplanes ware
shot down over Britain last
night during raids' on Liver
pool's Msrsaysido. South
Wales and England, tha Brit
ish assarted today.
Soma damage was dona
.long tha Merseyside and
"there ware a number of cas
ualties, including soma people
killed" in that area, a com
munique said. - Tha damage
at ether points was said to
have bean light and tha num
ber of casualties "vary email."
London, Sunday, June 1.
(tPj A Rautars, British newt
survey, dispatch from Vichy
said reports from Algeciras,
Spain told of heavy gunfire
from the direction of the Med
iterranean early this morning.
Algeciras Is Just across the
bay from Gibraltar.
FOR WASHINGTON
Seattle, May 31. UP) West
ern Washington's lumber work
ers strike situation fast ap
proached a climax this week
end. At Tacoma, the AFL box fac
tory workers accepted leaders'
pleas in behalf of national de
fense and voted to return to
work Monday with a 5-cent
hourly wage increase and vaca
tion pay, leaving the issues
(which tied up three plants em
ploying 70S persons) to a fed
eral commission. The wage
boost will establish basic wages
of 57',-i cents for women and
62 V4 cents for men. The union
had asked 65 cents an hour.
The Tacoma b o o m m e n's
strike, affecting 4.000 men the
past fortnight, and the vastly
larger three-week-old strike of
12,000 ClO-af filiated Interna
tional Woodworkers of America
in western Washington still
were deadlocked. B o o m m e n
will meet tomorrow to discuss
the matter of returning to work
pending arbitration, already re
jected by their leaders.
Answering a summons to
meet with the national defense
mediation board in Washington
again Tuesday, O. M. Orton,
IWA president, today Informed
the board the strike would end
only If the IWA's original de
mands were met.
Washington, May 31. (TV
Building permits in the Port
land, Ore., metropolitan district
placed that city 13th In the
United States for the first four
months of 1041, the U. S. de
partment of labor reported to
day.
New York, May 31 UP)
Portugal, the German radio re
ported today in a broadcast
heard by CBS, has sent fur
ther reinforce menta to the
Azores "this lime air units to
bolster the islands' defenses."
War Bulletins
F1
Diego, faced simultaneous call
one should be deferred to halo
so at tha suggestion of thair board
2 MILLION LOSS
IN JERSEY CITY
RAIL YARD FIRE
Jersey City, N. J., May 31
UP) A spectacular fire that
darkened the sky . with smoke
for miles around raged through
the Erie railroad yards tonight,
destroyed two grain elevators.
railroad equipment and mer
chandise, causing damage unof
ficially estimated in excess of
$2,500,000.
U. S. coast guard headquar
ters at New York said that the
blaze was brought under control
at 6:20 p. m. (PST), more than
four hours after it broke out.
A high official of the Erie
who declined to be quoted by
name said that a $2,000,000 esti
mate of damage to the elevators
and grain would be "conserva
tive" and indicated the total loss
would exceed $2,500,000. At
least two men were injured.
The blaze, the second within
a week in Jersey City railroad
yards and the municipality's
biggest fire since 1917, came
amid nation-wide precautionary
measures to safeguard vital de
fense plants and terminals after
reports were received of threat
ened sabotage during the long
Memorial day weekend.
The fire destroyed the eight
story filled grain elevators,
about 20 freight cars, many
filled with general merchandise,
at least four barges and 400
head of cattle in the Jersey City
stockyards south of the rail
terminal.
The coast guard said the fire
was brought under control when
it was confined to a section
of the seven-story Mid-Hudson
warehouse. Police and railroad
officials said the warehouse was
filled with $23,000,000 worth of
bone, creosote, alcohol, crude
rubber and pulpwood.
GERMANS HALTED
T
Washington, May 31-W
The French embassy said to
night that "all foreign passen
gers" aboard the French ship
Winnipeg, which was intercept
ed by a British cruiser, were
emigrants to South American
countries in transit through
Martinique.
Referring to reports that 210
Germans were among the pas
sengers, the embassy statement
protested "false interpretations
implying that these Germans
had been authorized to settle
down" In Martinique.
"This Insinuating presentation
of the facts," the statement said,
"can only serve to Increase the
difficulties that the French gov
ernment has to solve in order
to facilitate the departure from
France of political refugees."
STARTS TUESDAY
John Moffat Named Head
Of Committee To Select
Fund For U.S.0.
Support Urged
Calling for whole-hearted
public support in the drive
of the Medford committee of
the United Service Organiz
ations for National Defense,
Inc., to raise its quota in the
nation-wide campaign for
funds. Mayor H. S. Deuel
Saturday issued the follow
ing proclamation:
"Whereas, for the sake of
national defense thousands ot
our American young men are
being called for training in
all branches of the military
service, and
"Whereas, these potential
defenders of our liberty and
democracy must be provided
with facilities for clean and
wholesome recreation, relig
ious worship and counsel and
guidance during their leisure
hours while off duty; and,
"Whereas, this community
has always rallied splendidly
to any cause of such patriotic
nature,
"Now, therefore. I, H. S.
Deuel, mayor of the city of
Medford, do hereby urge that
all citizens give their full
support to the campaign of
the Medford Committee of the
United Service Organizations
for National Defense, Inc., to
raise its quota between June
3 and 5, inclusive.
"H. S. DEUEL."
Jackson county's drive to
raise its quota of $1,500 as part
of the nation-wide campaign of
the United Service Organizations
for National Defense, Inc., which
plans to raise $10,765,000 be
tween June 3 and 5, Inclusive, to
staff and operate 339 clubhouses
the government will build adja
cent to army training camps,
will be launched simultaneously
In Medford and Ashland Tues
day morning.
With the naming of a perma
nent Medford U. S. O. solicita
tion committee headed by John
P. Moffat, machinery was set
In motion that will send over
100 local workers of the com
munity chest Into action to reach
Medford's $1,000 quota In the
three-day drive. The Medford
committee met in the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
Saturday morning to complete
final plans for the local cam
paign. Ashland's quota Is $500 and
the committee there has request
ed that donations be left at
either the First National Bank
of Portland, Ashland branch, or
the Daily Tidings. J. E. Thorn
ton la chairman of the Ashland
committee.
(ConUnuad on Pafe Nina)
FRIEND OF HESS
TAKES 01 LIFE
London, May 31. (P) Nor
wegian sources In London said
tonight a 'German Admiral
Bohn, described as nazi naval
commander-in-chief In Norway
and a friend of Rudolph Hess,
recently committed suicide In
Oslo after a visit from Gestapo
Chief Henrich Himmler.
These circles said reliable In
formation from Norway was to
the effect that Bohn's friend
ship with Adolf Hitler's deputy
fuehrer, who flew to Scotland
May 10, figured In the admir
al's talks with Himmler.
The suicide was said to have
occurred In the Grand hotel In
Oslo, capital of German-occu
pied Norway.
Ex-Kalser Better.
Berlin, May 31 UP) Former
Kaiser Wilhelm II has rallied
so well against an obscure in
testinal disorder, administrators
of the Hohenzollern estate here
said today, that momentarily
there is no fear of his life, lie
U 82.
Seeks Unity
yssa.Jftajsiawajam. .'iu.ii.,. nwa
John W. Davis speaks via ra
dio from Albay, N. Y Joining
two other former Democratic
presidential candidates In ap
peals to tha nation for unity
during a national emergency.
Alfred E. Smith spoke from New
York -and James M. Cox from
Dayton.
Hyde Park, N. Y May 31.
UP) Ambassador John G. Wi
nant gave a tentative telephone
report from New York to Presi
dent Roosevelt today on what
he had learned. In three months,
of a Britain at war.
The fact that Wlnant flew
back to America so soon after
going to London produced an
Impression at the temporary
White House that he had to dis
cuss personally with the presi
dent matters of great moment.
From the temporary White
House came an announcement
also that the president had
named Secretary Ickes "petro
leum coordinator for national
defense" and ordered him to
chart a course of "action which
is necessary or desirable" to in
sure a ready and adequate sup
ply of oil and oil products for
both civilian and defense needs.
Washington, May 31. UP)
Informed Washington opinion is
that Ambassador John G. Wi
nant'a hurried visit to this coun
try la not so much for the pur
pose of bringing information to
President Roosevelt, as of carry
ing highly important and secret
information back to London.
The timing of his visit would
suggest that such was the case.
It followed Immediately upon
Mr. Roosevelt's Tuesday night
speech, an address which stated
American policy toward Eng
land and tha war in positive
terms and spoke vigorously but
mysteriously of new measures
to be attempted upon tha At
lantic. HAUL AWAY
Chanute, Kas., May 31. UP)
There's a vacant spot on Cha
nute's main street today some
body hauled away the jail.
Tha "jail" was a wired en
closure used to Incarcerate
clean-shaven men who disre
garded rules requiring facial
foliage for a current frontier
celebration.
Carl Hughes, theater employe,
told police he saw tha Jail west
bound on p flatbed truck with
seven or eight men.
Novelist Better.
London, May 31 JP) Hugh
Wnlpole, English novelist, was
reported "slightly improved" to
day after suffering a severe
heart attack at hit home.
ROOSEVELT EDGES '
JOHNSON CLAIMS
i,
California Senator Flout.
Trend And Tuesday'a
Speech In Broadcast.
Washington. May 31 UP)
Declaring "dictatorship and
war" had been the trend of the)
Roosevelt administration, Sena,
tor Johnson (R.-Cal.) asserted to
night that "dismayed, betrayed,
we reel and stagger, as we rea
lize that the subtle plan is about
to flower."
Johnson challenged those who)
favor intervention in Europe to
present a resolution declaring
war. In a prepared radio speech!
(NBC), he said that President
Roosevelt "speaks with the con
fidence ot a Hitler or a Mussoa
lini." And, he added, the PresU
dent's statement would put "ta
blush even these two braggarts."
"Does he feel so confident of
the congress that he can utterly
disregard It?" the senator asked.
Challenge Issued.
"How better and braver It will
be for those who are demanding
war to present their resolution,"
he said, "and let It be tested
Instead of waiting In tha dark
and sulking In the hope that
some Incident will arise .
We'll meet aa best we can such
a resolution and pray God he'll
keep war from this country."
Tha 74-year-old Johnson, one)
of the senate group which block
ed America's entry Into tha
League of Nations after tha last
World war, said this country's
entry into the war now "could ba
nothing more than disastrous.'
Referring to M Roosevelfg
address on Tuesday night, John
son asserted:
"It is pretty to hear the head
of the government boast about
what we have done in terms wa
do not understand and about
our readiness to repel attack
from any quarter.
"It makes us all proud to hear?
him tell about our two-ocean
navy now, and It would, aa wa
all know, give good account
of Itself In case of war; but It
is terrible to realize that tha
fact that we have not aa yet a
two-ocean navy, and that it
could not do what Is claimed tot?
It."
"Preachea Fear."
Saying that Mr. Roosevelt
had talked of possible German
bombing of middle western
cities, Johnson contended that
the chief executive has "artls
tlcally preached fear, while de.
crying it. "He has said then la
nothing to fear but fear, and
then. In bold lines, he has drawn
the picture of fear so that ou
people will feel it."
Norman Thomas. Socialist
party leader. In an address pre
pared for tha "Keep America
Out of War Congress," contend
ed that:
"We have permitted one man,
our President, tinder tha lend,
las is law snd innumerabla
emergency acta whose limits na
man fully understands, to have
almost as absolute power over
the issue of war as tha Ger
mans have given Hitler him
self."
"But we can still speak out,
as tha Germans cannot," Thom
as said, demanding that "tha
President remember his prom
Ises and keep us out of war
and that congress "recover Its
power over peace and war."
OIL POST STUNS
Tulsa, Okla., May SI.
News of tha appointment of
Secretary Ickes aa petroleum
coordinator for national defensa
waa received with expression
of disappointment today In tha
"oil capitol of tha world."
Leaders expressed belief that
the appointment means tha es
tablishment of a virtual federal
dictatorship over tha $10.000..
000,000 United States oil Indus
try.
"Ickes now Is captain of our
souls and master of our des
tiny," said one oil man. "My dar
Is ruined absolutely. I ana
speechless."
jiii NAMING ICKES TO