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ijr , run a wnu- Weather" Bur la-da roracut: ralr ana mud ta nliht and Wrdneadar. Temprrature Hl(hnt Tratrrday T7 Loamt this mornlnf 41 Frrclpltatlon past ti hours, .00 Ready To Buy Tlw tint to Mil Is when peopla an ready to boy. Thare to an anutual drmand lor kamre In Hit rttjr rlht now. Han 70a na lor talet Try tlndlnf bujar thronib tha Want Ada. Tribune FORD O f Full Associated Press United Pros Thirty -sixth Year 10JM Mr a" """J"- MED MEDFORD, OREGON , SPAY, JUNE 3, 1941. No 63 m$ if ai rac m srau i 1 i , THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER Copyright 1941. 07 Naw York Tribuna. Inc. Washington, June 3. There need be no mystery about Am bassador John G. Winant'f mis sion in this country. The prime motive of Ambassador Wjnant's return from London is to tell the president in person, with all the persuasive force at hit com mand, that the time U getting very short. For It is Wlnant's view that If this country delays acting much longer, the time for useful action may have passed. This may perhaps be denied, both by Winant and the White House, yet it is an incontestable fact all the same. Nor is it sur prising that Winant should hold such a view, and should have made a special trip to the United States to press it upon the president. The truth is that the same view is held by vir tually every reasonably compe tent presidential adviser here in Washington. The known facts of the war situation are quite sufficient to carry conviction, without first-hand experience in London. THE facta behind Wlnant's view, which might Just as well be called the war and navy 'department's view, are of two kinds. First there are the facts of the position of the British peo ple. For ten terrible months the British people have main tained their resistance with mag nificent courage, withstanding a grinding, cruel attrition with out a murmur or whimper. Courage flows, however, from hope ... in this case the hope that aid from America will some day permit Britain to take the offensive. The process of attri tion continues unabated. New blows have recently been show ered on the British people in the Mediterranean; and the end is not in sight. No competent observer, of ficial or unofficial, who has re- (Continued on Pace flue) Day Camp, on Bear creek, under the sponsorship of the Medford Girl Scout council, opens tomorrow for all girls in the community between the ages of seven and 10 beginning at 10 a. m. Emphasis will be placed on dramatics and cos tume days for the young camp ers. Camp committee members in clude Mrs. O. A. Eden, Mrs. Martin Sands, Mrs. Harold Reichstein, Mrs. Marjorie Pena, Mrs. Bruce Bauer, Miss Helen Bullis and Mrs. Paul Janney, registrar. 12 MONTHS IN PEN FOR DRAFT DODGING CLERIC Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, June t (PiThe Rev. James K. Al len, young Fruitland minister who yesterday was convicted tn federal court of violation of the selective service act by refusal to register, today was sentenced to 12 months in prison, the mini mum sentence possible. SICE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS George Brown anticipating with tpparent glee some of the chances he thinks the proposed army cantonment will bring. Ward MeReynolds dwelling upon the horrors of reckless driving. t.. c. Haggard relying on a pair of crutches after injuring his SrJti. LONDON SOURCES' HINT COMPETITION FOR NEWWAR SITE War Cabinet May Soon De clare Syria 'Enemy-Occu pied Territory,' Revelation Valetta, Malta, June 3 (fPl British fighter planes shot down a Carman Junkan 52 troop carrier plane into the saa off this Mediterranean Is land fortress today, an official communique said. The communique did not state ' whether the troop car rier might have been the van guard of an air-borne attack on this oft-bombed mid-sea naval base. (By the Associated Press) A broad hint that Great Brit ain may already have taken steps to beat the Germans into French-ruled Syria prospective site of the war s next great bat tlefield was dropped by Lon don sources late today. Amid a flurry of activity in the French capital, pointing to a crisis In British-French rela tions, London quarters suggested it was significant that British officialdom was silent on the situation in Syria. Ready For U. S. Meanwhile, the authoritative fascist editor, Virginia Gayda often a spokesman for Premier Mussolini, declared that Ger many and Italy were ready for action against the United States If the United States entered the war. i eyda said Germany's Reichs- ruehrer Adolf Hitler and Italy Premier Mussolini, In their latest meeting yesterday, discussed "new - plans to follow a new cycle which is opening immedi ately for the victorious axis powers," and he added: "This is a time of action." Qualified London sources pre dicted that the British war cab inet might soon declare Syria to be enemy-occupied territory. It was recalled that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recent ly disclosed that the British Middle East command had been given full authority to counter any German attempt to menace the Suez canal. Turkey on Spot Some Informants in London said the Germans might demand that Turkey permit passage of nail armies into the Middle East, under threat of blitzkrieg aerial attack and invasion if she should refuse. In Vichy, Chief of State Phi lippe Petain called an urgent cabinet meeting late this after noon, the second of the day, af ter conferring with Generalissi mo Maxime Weygand, com mander in chief of France's Afri can armies. In Paris, the populace was warned to be ready for a prac tice air-raid alert tomorrow the first since Adolf Hitler's con quering legions swept into the old trench capital. Simultaneously, the French controlled Beirut radio charged the British were ready to "reply etiectively. Authorized nazl quarters In Berlin, with apparent signific ance, said Germany would give France a "free hand" to reply any British attempts against her sovereignty. Move To Syria Planned Dispatches from Ankara Tur key, reported that a dozen freighters flying swastika flags had been assigned to transport German troops and heavy mili tary equlDment from Rumanian ports to Syria, following up the asserted landing of 500 nazl sol diers on the Syrian coast last Thursday. Ankara observers renorted see ing as many as 200 German war planes near the Syrian-Turkish frontier. Vichy reports said the French cabinet, in the first meeting called by Marshal Petain. dis cussed the mounting tension in relations between France and Britain. Oregon Portland. Ore.. June A second-place trophy in a 1940 nationwide pedestrian safety contest was awarded Oregon last night by the American Auto mobile a.uv-latinn Clnvrnnr Sprague, in accepting, said that, the state s record so far this year i I Is even better. Cite 41 Chief Justice Hughes Plans Retirement Effective July 1 Washington, June S. Charles Evans Hughes, the eleventh man in history to serve as chief justice of the United States, will relinquish his high office on July 1 and retire to private life because of "considerations of health and age." The decision of the 79-year- old jurist to retire marks the end of supreme court service that has covered 19 years first as associate and later as chief justice. It also closes a career in public life that has been un L Charles Evans Hughes usually varied and distinguished. As soon as the chief justice s Intention to retire became known, speculation here fasten ed on the question of his sue- ANGLER FINED FOR LACK OF LICENSE William A. Nirk. Medford, charged with angling with an improper license, was fined $25 and costs In justice court yes terday, upon a plea of guilty. Charley Ceafus Moohaw, of Murphy, charged with drunk- s In public place, was assessed $20 and costs, which he paid. The offense was com mitted at a carnival In Central Point. Claude L. Johnson, charged with drunken driving, was sen tenced to 30 days in jail, fined $100 and his driving and liquor licenses were revoked for one year. Upon payment of the fine, the jail sentence was suspended. A 30 days suspended sentence was accorded Edward Morton of the Dark Hollow district, on a charge of possessing no driver's license. Hs Is the father of large family. Ralph E. Evans was assessed $10 and costs for possessing no PUC weight receipt. Winter Lingers In European Russia Moscow, June 3 UP Snow fell on central European Russia today, prolonging this section's coldest spring in more than century. Snowfall was reported at Archangel and Leningrad as well as Moscow, where a tempera ture of 42.8 degrees was rec orded. This was the first June snow recalled by residents of Moscow. Radio Highlight s A sparkling show of the air will be presented tonight at 7 30 (PST) to open the United Sen-Ice Organizations campaign for funds to bolster the morale of America's defenders. Every network in the country will carry half-hour program. California Canners in Price cessor. Informed sources freely and almost unanimously pre dicted that Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, a leading ad ministration figure, would be President Roosevelt's choice to succeed Hughes in the nation's highest judicial position. By filling this vacancy and an earlier one that has existed since the retirement of Justice James C. MeReynolds last Feb. 1, Presi dent Roosevelt will have named seven of the nine members of the tribunal. Senator Byrnes (D-SC), upon whom the adminis tration relies heavily in pushing legislation through congress, is expected to be the other ap pointee. Chief Justice Hughes sent his retirement letter to the White House yesterday before mount ing the bench to preside over the court for its last session until next October 6. T IS ASKED BY KNOX Washington, June 3 (JPt Secretary Knox demanded a pro duction "miracle" of the nation's warship building industry today In order to assure the United States and Britain command of the seas. 'There can no longer be any doubt," Knox said, "that this war will be determined by two things no, one thing a success ful combination of sea and air power." Speaking to a conference of shipbuilders he told them It was up to them to see that America and Britain were equipped with the warship half of the combina tion necessary for victory. Mutt Do More Knox suggested that the pro duction "miracle" be accom plished in Increasing Immediate ly the efficiency of labor in ship building yards since virtually all are now scheduled to do all the work they are capable of under taking. There Is no criticism of what has been done to date." Knox said. "It has been well done. But it is not enough. We've got to do more. We must have something more than an honest day's work. We must have the kind of spirit and the kind of zeal that animates men when they go Into battle." To make a start toward such a high morale level, Knox pro posed mat a system of govern ment financed competitions be worked out between rhiD yards and that government bonuses be offered to "leading men" in each yard who would take on the task of stimulating competitive spirit. The conference was called especi ally lor presentation of the plan. U.S.O. FUND DRIVE Ralph Sweeney, treasurer of the Medford United Service Or ganizations for National Defense. Inc., committee, said this after noon the drive to reach its $1000 quota was "progressing very satisfactorily" and that he was "confident the quota will be reached before Thursday night." deadline for the campaign. The drive was launched this morning, with over 100 solicitors covering Medford and surrounding terri tory. Jackson county's quota is $1,500. part of $10,765,000 the U. S. O. plans to raise through out the nation to staff and oper ate clubhouses to be erected by the government In towns and cities adjacent to training camp: and naval base. BRITISH KINDLE SEIZURE MEASURE! FIRES IN BERLIN NEEDED TO ASSURE WITH NIGHT RAID DEFENSE ARTICLES Duesseldorf and Other In dustrial Centers Also Hit Germans Return Call London, June 3. (fP Large fires were started in Berlin last night by a small force of Brit ish air raiders, the air ministry declared today. Attacks also were made, a communique said, on the cities of Duesseldorf, Duisburg-Ruh- port and other targets in the industrial Ruhr, and on docks at Ostend and St. Nazaire. Four aircraft were lost In these raids, and three in day light attacks on German 'object ives yesterday, the British ackknowledged. The air ministry news service said British bombers covered the whole length of Germany's vital Kiel canal in search for enemy shipping" yesterday. One bomber was said to have dropped a half load on a 1. 200 ton ship in the canal and then dived from 1,500 feet on a 3,500 ton ship, "firing his front guns all the time," and unloaded the rest of his bombs. The British planes found ships of various tonnages up to 10,000 spaced along the canal, the news service said. After each attack the planes went back into the protection of the clouds before their crews could see the effect of their bombs. The raid on Berlin was the 46th since the war began. Naiii Return Call German nocturnal aerial activ ity over England was described officially as on a small scale, although the government acknowledged there had been a number of casualties. Bombs fell at points In north and northeast England and the midlands. British fighters shot down one German plane over the channel last night and another off the northeast coast, a communique said. British bombers during day light yesterday attacked Kiel canal shipping and land object ives in Schleswlg-Holstein. A verdict awarding John N. Conner, $200 actual damages and $400 punitive damages in his suit against J. B. Henry, was returned by a circuit court jury today. Conner, a minor, who sued through his mother as guardian ad litem, sought $400 actual and $500 puntive damages. The complaint charged that Henry shot and killed a gelding and a mare belonging to Con ner last September. The de fendant admitted shots were fired In the air to frighten the horses away from the Henry property at Lincoln, on the Greensprings road, but denied any were aimed at the animals. The plaintiff introduced wit nesses to prove they saw bul lets extracted from the animals The plaintiff was represented by Attorney W. M. McAllister and the defendant by Attorney Gus Newbury. STUMP BLAST KILLS CAMAS VALLEY MAN Roseburg. Ore., June HIP) Injuries suffered In stump blast ing work resulted in the death here last nlaht of James Nicholas Brinn, 74, Camas valley farmer A large root section torn looe by a blast set to loon a stump! was reported to have struck Brinn on the back. London, June 3. lATht government announced today the appointment of Sir Gerald Campbell, minister to Washing ton, as director-general of all Briti.-h Information services In the United States. CONNER AWARDED POINVERDICT Roosevelt Explains Aim of War Department Bills Allis-Chalmers Co. Cited Washington, June 3. (VP) President Roosevelt said today that the war department bill authorizing the government to take over private property use ful for defense was designed to assure deliveries of defense art icles. He told a press conference the bill grew out of a problem aris ing in the Allis-Chalmers strike of a few weeks ago when it was difficult to interpret the language of the provision of the selective service law of 1940 permitting the government to take over private plants which refused to fill defense orders. "Ifs" Stumbling Blocks The president said the strik ers reported they were willing to go back "if" and the com pany was willing to deliver "if". The president did not con tinue with the qualifications but Indicated the situation did not amount to a refusal under the act. Earlier Mr. Roosevelt talked over the bill with congressional leaders. It was understood that the provision permitting seizure of property "temporarily or per manently' came in for some consideration because opposition naa Deen expressed to perma nent confiscation. Robert P. Patterson, under secretary of war, said In a press conference discussion of the measure that "the president should have the authority to throw the whole Industrial power of this country into equipping the army." l he military and naval re quirements come first," Patter son added In saying why the bill had been offered. VACATIONIST DIES AT K. F. FILLING STATION Klamath Falls, Ore., June 3 Ph-W. C. Trestrall of Long Beach, Calif., collapsed as he stepped from his car at a local filling station yesterday and died a few minutes later. Trestrail, accompanied by his wife, was on a vacation trip north from Long Bench where he was in charge of teletype machines for the Associated Press and the Long Beach Press- Telegram. Tacoma, Wash., June 3 W) Logs began arriving at five Ta coma mills today as members of the Boommen and Rafters union (CIO) returned to work under an agreement signed yesterday. A strike of the 87 boommen two weeks ago resulted in clos ing of the mills and enforced idleness for 4.000 men. 1 Britain's Days in Mediterranean Numbered, Says Hitler Newspaper Berlin, June 3 , Britain's days In the Mediterranean are numbered, Adolf Hitler'a newspaper, Voelkischer Beo bachter, declared today, focusing attention sharply on the Island of Cyprus as the next likely objective of Germany's armed forces. Cyprus, the last British Island stronghold In the eastern Med iterranean, serves as an advance base for naval and air units guarding approaches to Pales tine and Suez. So long as it remains under the union jack, observers point ed out, it constitutes a poten tial threat to any axis ambi tions for domination of the Mediterranean or the Middle East These sources attached added significance to the Voelkischer Beobachter's prediction because it followed so closely on Hit ler's unheralded meeting with Premier Mussolini yesterday In the Brenner pass. Dienst Aus Deutschland, news commentary which frequently BASEBALL National R. H. . 3 5 Cincinnati New York 7 13 Derringer, L. Moore and Lom bard!; Carpenter and Hartnett. R. H. 6 St. Louis . Brooklyn , 0 8 9 M. Cooper, Nahem, Krlst and Mancuso, Padgett; Wyatt and Owen. R. H. E. Chicago 0 11 Philadelphia 7 15 0 Lee, Olsen and McCullough; Hughes and Livingston. R H E Pittsburgh 9 12 1 Boston 5 14 1 Heintzelman, Bowman and Lopez; Lamanna, Tobln, Javery, Sullivan and Berres, Mast. Amarican R. H. E. New York 3 8 1 Detroit 4 7 0 Peek and Rosar; Trout and Tebbetts. S.P. LUMBER TRUCK; DRIVER IS LUCKY Struck by the locomotive of a northbound Southern Pacific passenger train while he was driving a truck loaded with lum ber across the railroad crossing at the old gas plant three miles south of the city this morning, Tom Anderson, 47. of the Evans mill on Tiller-Trail road miracu lously escaped from the crash with injuries his attending phy sician does not expect to prove serious. "He is covered with contu sions from head to foot," the doctor stated, "but X-ray pic tures have failed to disclose any broken bones and apparently he isn't seriously hurt." Anderson is in Community hospital, Anderson, who was engaged in hauling lumber from the Evans mill to the Alley Bros, planing mill on the west side of the tracks near the old gas plant. was quoted by an investigating state policeman as explaining that he turned off the Pacific highway and stopped his truck before crossing the tracks to reach the planing mill. Because the road makes a sharp turn and the tracks are hidden by a four foot rise along the right-of-way he failed to see the approaching train, Anderson told police. The train line and pilot of the locomotive was so badly damaged that a switch-engine had to be dispatched from Med ford to tow it here. Drivers Slow On Permit Salem, June 3. OP) About 30,000 of Oregon's 150,000 auto mobile drivers have applied to the state department for 1941 43 drivers' licenses, which may be used after June 15, but must be obtained by July 1. reflect the views of tha foreign office, emphasized that the meeting took place on the day the German high command an nounced the victorious conclus ion of the battle of Crete. The greater part of the nazl aerial forces which participated in this struggle now presum ably is free for new task. Cyprus Is only $35 mile by air from Crete and therefore within easy rang of German bomber based there. It is lea than 100 mile from tha coast of Syria (where report from Turkey say nazl mechanized unit already had landed) and only 330 miles airline from Port Said, at the Mediterranean end of the Sues canal. Fixing ,U. S. GRAND JURY SEES MONOPOLIES Fruit and Vegetable Can ners, Dried Fruit Packers Among 5 Groups Accused San Francisco, June 8.- Nearly 200 organizations and person In six Industrie were accused today of fixing prices and of other monopolistic prac tices. In the greatest mass of indictments ever returned by a special federal grand jury here. Five food industry group and one so-called national de fense industry were Indicted. Those charged Included 14 in dustrial associations, 89 corpora ations and partnerships, and 91 officer and directors. Bail of the Individuals wa let at $1,000 each. Many Branch Hit In the food industry Indict menta were returned against fruit and vegetable canners. dried fruit packers, evaporated milk companies, the rice Indus try, and the sardine Industry. The defense group involved the manufacture and sale of bat tery separator, wooden parti Hons between battery cells used In automobiles, airplanes, tank and submarines. M. S. Huber man,' In charge . of anti-tru.i prosecution here, said this mon opoly was nationwide. Name of nationally known corporation dotted the line of 194 defendants. The same spe cial Jury previously accused nine other Industries of mon opollstic practice. Elaborate System Blggest group indicted today was the Canners League of Cal ifornia, Including 41 canners and 22 officer and director. They were charged with fixing price of fruits and vegetable grown and canned in California) and shipped in Interstate com merce. The canning companies named as defendant fixed the) prices of canned good by tha adoption of an elaborate method of price reporting which was designed to maintain and sta bilize market level and by eliminating competition in tha purchase of fruit and vege tables from grower and in the work of canning and processing fruit and vegetables,' 'said Tom C. Clark, special assistant to tha attorney general in charge of west coast anti-trust division of flees. The Dried Fruit association of California, 18 member pack Ing companies and 31 officers and directors, were accused of conspiracy to depress the prlca paid growers for fruit, arbitrar ily raising the price to con sumers, and monopolizing pro ceasing and distribution. The Evaporated Milk assocla tlon, 16 manufacturers, eight associations, and 20 officer and director, were accused of con spiring to fix the price of evap orated milk made and sold in Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Montana. Nevada, Ore gon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. SIM WIS MSDWAT3PJ. Funeral service for Steve) Davis, who passeft away Friday morning while working hi placer mine in the Applegata district, will be held at tha graveside in the Logtown Ceme tery Wednesday at 3 p. m. Ar rangement are In charge of tha Conger Funeral Parlors. Andrew B. Carter Called By Death Andrew B. Carter, resident of Medford for the past three years, the family home being 219 North Central, passed away Monday evening, after a pro longed Illness. A complete obit uary wilt be published later. Perl funeral home Is in charge.