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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-
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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.
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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
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Cincinnati
New York
7 13
Derringer, L. Moore and Lom
bard!; Carpenter and Hartnett.
R.
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St. Louis .
Brooklyn ,
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M. Cooper, Nahem, Krlst and
Mancuso, Padgett; Wyatt and
Owen.
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Chicago 0 11
Philadelphia 7 15 0
Lee, Olsen and McCullough;
Hughes and Livingston.
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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.