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... . Fuji u tt wuib- Weather " aurtiu nport liuia ForceMt: Fair tonight tntl Thursday. Temperature slight ly above normal. Highest tr.1ay ?ft Lowest this morning 46 Precipitation past 24 hours 0 Every Day Shop Ui want ads erery day. Too many food opportunlilea ere oTcrlooked by reading these Ada Just occasionally. There la no special day for the best bar falna onleaa It la amy day. Tribune FORD O r Full Associated Press United Pri Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEI v AY. JUNE 4, 1941. No. 64. 15 MM TB11T FEAB9 HEN j MED THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER Copyright. 1941. br Now York Tribune. Inc. Washington, June 4. All the president's recent utterances and actions have been made mys terious by a basic contradiction He says that he means to act, yet he does not act, and in the next breath even seems to fore close important avenues of ac tion. The contradiction is easy to explain, however, once it is understood that the immediate future depends on the answer to a simple question. Will the president continue determined to force the Germans to fire the first shot? This determination of the pre sident's is apparently the most important of the psychological obstacles he must surmount be fore he can commit the United States to full fighting partner ship with Britain. Of course, there are other obstacles. There is his desire not to move until the country is fully united be hind him, from which his wish to force the Germans to give him a pretext for action no doubt arises. There are the various commitments and semi-commit ments he has made in the last year, against convoying, against taking the country into war, and so forth, Strangely enough, considering earlier trends of constitutional interpretation at the White House there is even said to be some fear in his mind that if he orders action without requesting prior declaration of war from. congress, he will be transgress ing his constitutional preroga tives as commander-in-chief. DXTT according to men quall fied to speak with authority, these other obstacles are now entirely secondary. Events have made them so. As Ambassador John G. Winant has reported to the president, and as all his ablest advisers here have been telling him for weeks, he has the choice between acting now, or waiting until it may be too late. If he delays too long, neither public opinion, nor his own rec ord, nor his constitutional prero gatives will matter a particle. The policy which he has been vigorously prosecuting for the (Continued on Page 61x) ME TIES UP Portland, Ore., June 4. (TV Striking AFL warehousemen and employers met today in an attempt to settle a wage-hour dispute which tied up four pro duce houses yesterday. Two hundred warehousemen walked out of Pacific Fruit & Produce, United, Safeway and Hudson-Duncan plants in de mand for wage increases from $30 to $35 and hour reduction from 43 1-3 to 40 weekly. AFL office employes and drivers ob served the picket line. Meantime an 11-day-old bak ery strike which cut into Port land's bread supply continued unchanged. SICE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Eleven - Year Old Margaret Drysdale learning to be as good a baseball fan as her daddy, she keeping a complete and correct score card at all the Craters' games. Clarence Pankey's Informal birthday party developing into a mock court trial with well- wisher Ward Spati the bewild ercd defendant. Councilman Tom Bradley and Frank Runtz tu.ving a difficult time keeping up with doings at the head of the long council table, they being at the extreme end and glad a new statu, K ar - ranfexaeol is to be effected soon.l El T Britain Taking Necessary Precautions in Regard to Syria Is London Report By the Associated Press Egypt's cabinet resigned late today, amid fears of axis invas ion, and British warplanes bombed and machine-gunned the oil depot at nearby Beirut, Lebanon, in what may have been the opening blow in the next major campaign of the war. Authoritative quarters in Cairo said the Egyptian cabinet shakeup was prompted by the "present grave circumstances Involving the belief that a Ger man thrust into the rich valley of the Nile may be Imminent. Serious Threat It was said the present threat was considered far more serious than that of last autumn, when Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's Ital ian legions knifed some 80 miles into Egypt from Libya. A terse announcement by Bri tish Middle East headquarters told of the RAF's attack on Bel rut. "A petrol dump at Beirut In Syria was bombed and machine gunned by our aircraft," it said. The British public had been clamoring for action. Simultaneously, authoritative quarters in London said Britain had now taken "necessary pre cautions in regard to Syria" neighboring French colony in h Mldd' EatTB.nd ImJf headquarters at Cairo announc ed that British troops had oc- cuDied Mosul, the center of Iraq's rich oil fields. Levant Army Ready As the war momentarily threatened to boil over into this new theater in the eastern Med iterranean, the Syrian high com mand declared that the army of the Levant was ready to defend its territory against any attacks. In Berlin, a nazi spokesman said France had taken "certain protective measures" along the borders of some of her colonial possessions an evident refer ence to Syria and Lebanon. Recapitulating the 12-day bat tle of Crete, the Germans as serted that 12,000 more British and Greek troops had been cap tured on the blitz-ravaged Medi terranean island, making a to tal of 25,000. The latest group of captives it was said, included 8,000 Bri tish and 4,000 Greeks. Previous British reports said 1S.000 troops had been safely withdrawn from Crete, out of an original contingent of some 30,000. Amid official silence, Britons waited for word that the war may already have flamed into action In France's Middle East colonies of Syria and Lebanon, Cabinet Minister Lord Beav erbrook's newspaper, the Lon don Evening Standard, declared British troops should occupy Syria at once if necessary for the defense of Palestine and Cy prus and demanded: Better to Face Issue "Are we afraid of war with France? It would be better if we saw the issue as clearly as Admiral Darlan (French vice premier)." The newspaper asserted that Darlan, bitter foe of England had offered Syria to Germany as payment In his "betrayal on the installment plan The British press and public alike demanded that Britain "act boldly and stop placating Vichy. In the still raging "battle of the lakes" in Ethiopia, the British announced the capture of 17.000 more prisoners, includ ing 9.872 Italians, along with 14 tanks, 700 cars and 83 guns, Tractor Runs Over Head of Operator Moro, Ore., June 4. (IP Cecil North, 22, of Kent was killed late yesterday when a tractor he was attempting to hook to a plow backed over his head. He had gone to the field to help a younger Doy connect, to sail to England. Others tried the machinery. He was the son Ion similar charges drew Ion? of J, . North, Kent merchant, pr jtm term Death Comes to Exile EX-KAISER Call Camp Liggett Officers For Critique ' Camp Hunter Liggett, Calif.. yon A. Joyce called subordinate officers of his ninth army corps command today to a critique on the first phase of Camp Hunter Liggett s summer war maneuvers, and all evidence pointed to praise for the corps' streamlined third division. DELAYS MEETING E Chicago, Fourteen ' June 4. 'IP) non-operating" rail road labor organisations, rep resenting more than 800,000 workers, decided today to seek wage increases of 30 to 34 cents an hour. By the Associated Press The defense mediation board today postponed until tomorrow morning a meeting of represen tatives of soft coal miners and operators to hear board recom mendations for settling their wage contract controversy. The recommendations, which are being prepared for the northern and southern operators and the CIO's United Mine Workers, are still Incomplete, a board official said. Hinging upon acceptance or refusal of the terms was a threatened new strike of 400, 000 coal miners in the seven state ' Appalachian bituminous industry. Two Other Cases Two other major cases en gaged board members. A panel considered the threat ened strike of United Auto Workers (CIO) at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation corporation, while an other group continued its effort to induce 12,000 CIO lumber workers In 52 Puget sound log ging camps and mills to return to work pending settlement of of the dispute. Day-long discussion yesterday with leaders of the International Woodworkers of America failed to produce a report of progress in the Pacific northwest lumber tie-up. The IWA demands a 7'i cent hourly wage Increase to 75 cents an hour, vacations with pay, and union hiring hall. NORWEGIAN TO DIE FOR ATTEMPT TO DEPART Oslo. German-occupied Nor- I way. June 4. ir) A German i military court at Bergen has sen itenced Erling Narthinson, a Nor- wegian. to death for attempting , (Jty " & WILHELM on Maneuvers June 4. (IP) Mai.-Gen. Ken- The third, in this Initial test of the army's newly devised tri angular organization for divi sions, sent its 13,500 men against the 22,000 of the old-style 41st square division, and success fully defended hill top positions from the larger attacking force The defense, beginning at dawn yesterday after night-long preparations, was conducted without aviation support and In the face of withering fire by machine gun, rifle and field ar tillery units. Yet in more than seven hours of incessant fighting, the 41st registered only a single break through, and it a brief and costly one. Other attack troops succeeded in crossing the San Antonio river but were beaten back in their attempts to force a way through the fields and Into the hills where the streamlined Third had established its positions. Hot weather it reached 100 degrees at the peak of the fight ing yesterday broke temporar ily last night. A brief shower settled dust throughout the area. War Bulletins London. June 4. W Brit ish fighters shot down two German Meiierschmltt 109 planes into the channel to night, authoritative sources said. One British fighter was missing. Berlin, June 4. (IP) Ger man fighter pilots on a flight over southeastern England this afternoon shot down two Brit ish fighters, both of which fell Into the sea in flames, the of ficial German news agency, DNB, reported. Oslo, German-Occupied Nor way. June A IIP) The police department today canceled all permits to travel in the "west ern border area," which In cludes the outer part of Oslo fjord and all the western and southern coasts as far north as Bergen. London, June 4. (IP Fighting broke out between Greek and German soldiers rt Levadia. about (0 miles north west of Athens, when inhabi tants seised a supply train, the British news agency Reu ters tonight reported frm Cairo. Germen police fired on the Greeks who were unload ing the train despite threats and many persons were killed and wounded, Reuters said It had been reliably Informed. Sacramento. June 4 A', Butt-r tnt Pin mrAm ait meer,A 'l'.t of Doom TO BE (By Associated Press) Berlin, June 4 Former Kaiser Wilhelm II of imperial Germany died today at his exile estate of Doom in the quiet backwash of a new German conquest almost 23 years after he fled from the crumbling failure of his own European war plan. DNB, German official news agency, reported from Amster dam that the 82-year-old, white bearded former emperor died at 11:30 a. m. (4:30 a. m., EST) in a sudden relapse of an illness which brought members of his family to his bedside last week. An intestinal disorder, com plicated at the last by a lung emboly, caused his death. Even In death, the old man of Doom" is not to return to the land he once ruled. Burial At Doom He is to be buried at Doom next Monday but, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, a military fu neral with full honors is to be accorded imperial Germany's last emperor. The German high command has taken full charge of the military phase of the funeral, a token, perhaps, that reconcili ation between the fuehrer and the former emperor had been complete. .--- - At his bedside when he died were only a few close members of his family his second wife. Princess Hermine: his daughter, the Duchess of Brunswick; and his grandsons, Louis Ferdinand Karl, and Franz Joseph, and the latter s wife, Princess Henrietta. The first kaiserin died April 11. 1921, and was burled at Pottsdam. The former emperor'a eldest living son and successor as head of the Hohenzollern family, Crown Prince Friedrich Wil helm, had been at his father's side earlier, but left late last week when the former kaiser seemed to rally. Second in the family line, Prince Louis Ferdinand, also was away from Doom. Backod Hitler The "old man of Doom," who in his time commanded the worlds mightiest military ma chine, regarded the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler to the leadership of the reich in 1933 as "a step in the right direction When Hitler picked up the saber dropped In 1918 by the kaiser and turned it into terrify ing blitzkrieg In 1939, 13 of Wilhelm's family were in Nazi uniform. One son, Prince Oscar of Prussia, 11 grandsons and one grandnephew of the kaiser marched with the gray-green legions. Two of the grandsons since have fallen in battle Another grandson was interned by the British Rumor on rumor had cropped up since 1933 that the Kaiser was actively "behind-the-scenes of rejuvenated Germany and that he would one day triumph antly return to Berlin to claim his "devine right as emperor, All such reports were quickly spiked, Old trees can not be trans planted, the kaiser often re marked, seemingly content in his orderly life at the Doom estate. In the past decade his routine of breakfast at 8:43 a. m., mom. ing wood-chopping, tea, corre spondence period, lunch, nap, tea again, a walk, dinner and lights out at 10 p. m. had been disturbed by attacks of rheuma - tism or colds. He followed the present war painstakingly as though he had a commanding position at the Nazi general headquarters. He marked the progress of the Nazi war machine by affixing tiny flags on detailed maps of Euro pean countries. Portland, Ore., June 4. Charged with possession of a mould for making 50-cent coins, Wendell J. Troxall, arrested in Eugene, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the federal grand Jury on $2500 bond by U. S. Commissioner Kenneth Frazer yesterday. 51 LOTS BOUGHT IN CENTRAL POINT IN RECENT WEEKS essasiiaBeeeeeessi 1 Additional Properties Re deemed and Some Private Sales Noted in Boom The city of Central Point has sold 34 city-owned lots in the past month and Jackson county has sold 17 county-owned lots in Central Point, the Mail Trib une learned from official records today. In addition several prop erties allowed to go for taxes have been redeemed from the county by the previous owners. Stimulated principally by the proposed erection of an army cantonment in the Antelope- Beagle district, the increased activity in real estate was con tinuing today. Three other sales by the city of Central Point have been arranged tentatively, but have not yet come before the council for final approval and negotiations for other lot pur chases were started today, Guy Tex, city recorder, said. Many Lots Lett Records yesterday showed that the county still owned 95 lots in Central Point, as well a five-acre and one-acre tract. Recent purchasers of county- owned lots in Central Point were listed as: E. B. Serruys and A. C. Leighton, four lots; Joe Roberts, one; Edward E. Brown and Luzella Damon, owners of the Central Point cafe, one; Phil lip and Othellia Strahan, now of 1260 Sunset avenue, house and four lots for their home; Guy Tex, one; Anna F. Blssell, 1 lot for the erection of a real dence; Justin B. Smith, Med- ford, four lots facing the Pacific highway; J. E. Rexroad, house and lot. Buyers Listed Purchasers of property owned by the City of Central Point were listed as follows: Central Point Grange, two lots for an addition to its hall; A. J. Mil ton, two lots for a home; John Jones, two; E. L. McNeil, Ash land builder, five; A. H. Webster two lots for a residence; Moore- Taber Lumber company, four lots for extension of Its mill A. C. Leighton, one; H. F. Borah, one lot for a home; A. A. Thomp son, one lot for enlargement of his home. Also Mrs. Jessie Mclntlre, Montana resident, three lots for erection of a residence; H. W Copinger, one lot for an addl tion to his residence; Hi Hogan four lots next to the property of his father-in-law; and Boyd A, Lawton, six lots on one of which stood an old house he Is re modeling. Purchase of two of the four county-owned lota by Serruys and Leighton was contingent upon Central Point relinquish ing its redemption rights In them and it was understood the city would do so. With the one city lot purchased by Leighton Serruys and Leighton together have five contiguous lots on which, it was reported In Central Point, they plan to build an apartment house. Leighton, who resides in Central Point, has been In business In Medford for years and Is now Identified with a company taking over Brown's cafe. Serruys comes from Klam ath Falls where ha has two brothers in the cafe business. In addition to this turnover there have been several private real estate transactions in Cen tral Point. Grand Ronde, Ore, June 4. (IP) A fire which started the planer shed destroyed the Weaver sawmill here yesterday at a loss estimated by Manager - Harvey Cross at $23,000, Pitcher Socked Where It Hurtt' By Catcher Pig Miami. Fla., June 4. IIP) Pitcher Ray Fancell of the Miami Wahoos relaxed . to watch a pretty play the al most certain put-out of a run ner from first to second. Then, whaml Catcher Bob McCorkle's low, hard peg was a little too low it caught Pitcher Fancell square In the eat rtf the rnt BASEBALL National League St. Louis 2 0 3 Boston 4 11 1 Gumbert and Mancuso; John son and Masl. M TO STUDY ARMY CAMPSJN CALIF. iconomic, Social, Political Problems Found in Can tonment Areas to Be Eyed Mayor H. S. Deuel, County Judge J. B. Coleman, E. H. Hed- righ, city school superintendent, and Glenn L. Jackson, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, were to leave by train late this afternoon to make study of economic, social and political problems created in nearby communities by estab lishment of Fort Ord and Camp Roberts In California. They in tended to devote several days to the study In accordance with plans announced a short time ago. Fort Ord and Camp Roberts are more comparable to the pro posed Medford cantonment than any other camps on the west coast and so they were selected for the study, Mayor Deuel said. Fort Ord has had the greatest economic and social effect on Salinas and Camp Roberts on San Luis Obispo, he related. The situation In those two cities was much the same as that to be created here, he said. For Advance Planning The investigators will make a study of such things as utili ties and sanitation facilities, merchandising, housing, school ing and religious needs and soc ial problems created In, nearby communities by the camps so that plans may be set up here In advance, Mayor Deuel explain ed. Some preliminary planning along this line has already been done, he added. "We hope to eliminate as far as possible the headaches that have harassed other communi ties because, of a lack of plan ning and control, the mayor stated. "We have been encour aged to do this by the army and we feel that we can eliminate practically all undesirable ele ments by advance planning." U.S.O. SO FAR IN E Up to 2 p.m. today, a total of $328.83 had been raised by re porting solicitors of the Medford committee of the United Service Organizations for National De fense, Inc., which Is in the midst of a campaign to raise $1,000 be fore Thursday night as Med ford's quota of the $1,500 Jack son county goal, Ralph Sweeney, treasurer of the local committee, said that the sum represented the efforts of only about dozen of the ap proximate 100 workers who are canvassing the city and sur rounding territory, they being the only ones reporting In thus far. Much solicitation Is yet to be done, Mr. Sweeney said, and added that many of the workers were finding it rather difficult to leave their own Jobs for any length of time to make extend ed canvasses. He said, however, that workers reported they were receiving excellent support from the public. In Ashland, about one-half the city's quota of $300 had been raised this afternoon. The drive ends tomorrow nitwit, and the local and Ashland committees expressed their complete confi dence that the county quota would be reached. San Sranrle Butter San Francisco. June 4. W) u- I ler: S4 score Ssc: 91 store Mfcic; I so score Sec; as score IS), a. Y POST DATA Architect Hunt and Wife Ad dress Meeting at Grants Pass; Land Being Bought Grants Pass, June 4 (Spl.V In early November 7,000 to 8, 000 workers with their families) will be attracted to Medford and, vicinity by erection of the pro posed army cantonment in tha Antelope-Beagle district, Myron Hunt, cantonment architect, told a large audience In the Red woods hotel Monday night. Tha dinner-meeting was sponsored by the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce. Persons were pre sent from as far as Roseburg. The influx of camp workers will swamp every available resi dence and fishing cabin, Mr. Hunt said. Some will live as far away from their work as Grants Pass, not because they will want to but because they will have to, he added. Can't Avoid Influx The Influx of camp followers cannot be avoided and the Rogua River valley might as well faca the fact now, Mr, Hunt coun seled. A summary of other salient points of his talk follows: The federal government will build Its own sewage disposal plant for the cantonment because) even the government "doesn't dare put anything in the water which would harm on of your fish." Medford Is as small city as the army dared put canton ment near. The problems of water supply, schools, housing, etc., coming with a cantonment are "the same as those after m bad earthquake." Grants Pass Is "far enough away to escape responsibilities and still realize some of the as sets." Zoning Advised Medford was advised to apply zoning quickly and to send lead ers to present camp sites to in terview people who "wish they had never seen a cantonment." Medford has "go-getters." The) men who got the camp may get from congress special funds for new roads. The cantonment will block all roads In the vicinity be sj "plug" in the end of the valley except for the Pacific highway. Bybee bridge road and Crater lake highway. The Gold Hill Crater lake cut-oft will remain open. A highway may be built from the camp south to the Pa cific highway to bypass Medford. Camp traffic will cross Crate f lake and Bybee bridge route by overhead crossings. 170.000 Acres Wanted The camp site has swelled to 170.000 acres; It started at only 84,000. The government is buy ing the land. The camp appears to be as "permanent" as war. Work on the camp should start In September, be done In four months. Soldiers usually begin arriving shortly after construc tion starts. Mrs. Hunt advised develop ment of Travelers' Aid societies, and similar organizations to meet newcomers "who have no Idea what it Is like or where they ara going when they come here." She said "camp followers, both men and women, prey on the boys because they are so utterly lonesome. It's up to you to see they make friends with the right people, not the wrong people." E San Francisco, June 4. (P) The defense rested its case today in the Harry Bridges deportation hearing, after 27 witnesses had given testimony before Judga Charles B. Sears of Buffalo, N. Y., trial examiner. The Australian born labor leader was released from tha stand at cloaa of tha session yesterday, after protracted cross examination by government at torneys seeking to show ha had an active affiliation with tha Communist part.
