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4iT ... . mil U 5 Mrratb- Weather Buru uuida Forecast: Partly tlond'- to night end Friday; cooler Fri day. Temperature Hlchnt .vesterdajr II Lowest IhU morning 48 New Owners Tin demand for hornet In Mad ford it growlni. Many nice, homea hava found new owners tho part few weeks, la your home for sale? It an, the way to find a buyer la through the Want Ads. Tribune Medford Full Associated Pros Unl Thirty -sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941. No. 65. M am i - - mm j 9.000 EMPLOYES JOIN IN SLOWING r i THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT K1NTNER Copyright, 1941. by New York Tribune. Inc. Washington, June 5. A quantity of nonsense is talked about Ambassador John G. Wi nant's mission in this country. It is variously asserted that he is the bearer of German peace terms, or a British request that the president take the lead in negotiating peace, or a secret, ultra-urgent plea for more act ive aid from Winston Churchill. None of these things is true. The simple truth is that Am bassador Winant left London on his own initiative, in order, to warn the president in person that to delay further was to court disaster. Winant has told the president that If this country does not soon accept full fighting part nership with Britain, the Brit ish will-to-resist will begin to weaken. It should hardly be necessary to point out why this will bring disaster to the United States. Only the British people. beleagured, outnumbered and on the defensive, now stand be tween us and a nazl-domlnated world. With us as their part ners, Winant has assured the president the British will fight on to victory. Without us, how ever, he fears they will lose hope, accept a negotiated peace, and leave us to face the conse quences of our own indecision. THIS opinion of Winant's, which is shared by all the other qualified observers who have recently returned from Britain, does not reflect in any way on Winston Churchill's personal courage and determin ation. On the contrary, Churchill is pictured as ready to fight, not only on the beaches and in the smiling English fields, but in the squares of London and the streets of Man chester. Nor does it reflect on the morale, of the British peo ple. The morale of the people will continue magnificent so long ai their leaders continue to assure them they have some chance of victory in the end. But Winston Churchill and the little men and women of Britain are not the only partici pants In the great struggle. Churchill cannot maintain the fight without a government, and the British government is made up, after all, of politic ians not very different from the politicians in other govern ments. They know the facts. They know that until the presi dent is ready to order the navy DEFENSE EFFORT Largest Number of Year Now Idle in Industries Contributing to Rearming Orange Pickers Forced to Use Boats (Continued on Page Eight) Woman Beheaded On German Block Berlin, June 5. 1P The 11th and 12th persons condemned as spies in 1941 were beheaded to day, including the second wom an, 32-year-old Stefanie Viol, convicted of carrying on espion age in 1939. Josef Boucek. 44 was the other executed today. Chrysler Increases Prices On All Lines page of work. By the Associated Press Defense officials reported the largest number of men on strike today in defense industries that had been out on any day this year as there was wide-spread speculation in Washington whether President Roosevelt might act to end such stoppages. The CIO walkout at the big North American Aviation cor poration's plant at Inglewood, Calif., enforced as the defense mediation board considered the labor dispute, pushed the num ber on strike to 52,800. There are about 9,000 employes at North American and their walk out, defense officials said, caus ed "very grave concern.' Many Days Lost The - of ficials said there had been 2,253,216 man-days of work on war department orders lost through strikes since Jan uary 1. when compilation of strike records was started. Senator Connally (D-Tex.) in troduced a bill proposing that the government take over any defense plant where production was threatened or delayed by "a strike or other labor disturb ance or other cause." He com mented that any strike against a firm with defense orders "is in effect a strike against the United States government. Representative Satterfield (D.- Va.) disclosed he had written President Roosevelt suggesting he note the simularity between j the current strike of west coast shipyard machinists and a ma chinists strike in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1918. He said Presi dent Wilson broke the 1918 strike with an order barring the participants from any other war industry employment or from draft exemptions due to their usefulness in war production. Strikes Listed Other strikes described by de fense officials as having serious adverse effects on defense pro duction were: Detroit Steel Products com pany, Detroit, manufacturing equipment for machine tool pro ducers, 750 men on strike since May 7. Marlin-Rockwell Corporation, PlainviUe, Conn., ball and rol lerbearings for plane manufac turers, 1,000 on strike since May 27. Sivyers Steel Castings- Com pany, Chicago, manufacturing tank armor, 250 on strike. The walkout at North Ameri can was the second rejection in 24 hours of proposals of the me diation board President Roosevelt said In his speech declaring an unlimit ed national emergency: a nation-wide machine for the con ciliation and mediation of indus trial disputes has been set up That machinery must be used promptly and without stop- CMm rl M , iiL-i.-.-J,. German, Rumanian Troops Mass For Attack on Russia, Is Word E -'is High water in the Puddlngstone dam reservoir, three mi'- west of Pomona, Cal submerged a 10-acre orange grove so that pickers, some In bathing trunks, gather the fruit in row boats. Heavy rains during the winter caused the Impounded water level to rise. Hull Warns France Against Collaboration With Nazis TEN BILLIONS FOR ARMY SUPPLIES IS HELD INSUFFICIENT Detroit, June 5. IIP) Chrys ler corporation today announced price Increases from Its Chrys ler, Plymouth and De Soto lines. The Plymouth increases range from $10 to $37; De Soto from $15 to $47 and Chrysler models from $15 to $53. SICE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Florence Boussum being in such a dither over her proposed trip to Hollywood and the movie studios she can scarcely keep her mind on her work. The same prospects, however, not bothering Cinema Tycoon George Hunt and his aide Jack Mat!aque, they being used to such things. Cappy Joseph Scobey putting off to the last minute the job of packing for his move to Atlanta, Ga. Stalling Charged The mediation board was charged by W. P. Goodman, head of the CIO United Automo bile Workers local at North America, with "stalling the workers." Meanwhile, congress heard new demands for presidential action to end strikes. Rep. Lambertson (R-Kas.) told the house that with the current strikes, "this nation is due to whiD itself before It starts to whip anybody else." and called on President Roosevelt to take action to stop them. He also asked the house democratic leadership to call up legislation to require a cooling-off period before defense strike could begin. Rrp. Ford (R-Calif.) said: 'This is the most logical result of the way this situation has been handled with these out laws" by "such left wingers as Madam Perkins and Hillman." He referred to Secretary of Labor Perkins and Sidney Hill man, associate director of the Washington. June 8. (IP) A $10,009,655,187 army supply bill largest single appropriation since World war days carrying funds to give the air corps a total of 40,000 planes was sent to the house by Its appropria tions committee today with a blunt notice that the huge fund was insufficient. During secret testimony on the measure, made public today, Robert P. Patterson, undersecre tary of war, solemnly told the committee while discussing the vastly expanded plane program that: "We have in the war depart ment a feeling that there will be a military need of all the planes covered by this program. The undersecretary did not amplify that statement for the record but said that it was esti mated conservatively that Ger many's current airplane produc tive capacity was 3,000 monthly and that the nazis already have embarked on a program of utiliz ing the facilities of conquered countries which would increase her plane capacity to between 4,000 and 6.000 monthly. Some of the major allotments In the bill included $2,650,000, 000 for 12.856 additional war planes, including bombers, pur suit and cargo ships: $1,208,000, 000 for pay of the 1,418,000- man army: $45,000,000 for the purchase of 3.000 barrage bal loons: $92,000,000 for sra coast defenses, and $276,000,000 for new military post construction, SEEK DRAFT LIMIT OF 21 T027 YEARS Washlneton. June 5 !Pi Brig. Gen. Lewis B. IVrshey was quoted by senators today as saying that men inducted for military training would be lim ited to those 21 to 27 years old Berlin, June 5. (IP) The Irish minister protested today to the German government against air bombardment of Dublin. The Germans announced that a thorough inquiry was under way. The latest bombing of Dub lin was last Saturday morning. An authorized German spokesman said it would be ab surd for Germans to bomb Irish territory, but conceded that a mistake was possible. Washington, June 5. UP) Secretary Hull told France to day that Franco-German collaboration was "inimical" to the right of the United States and other natioiu. In a statement, the secretary i of state declared official reports indicated that the Vichy govern ment had adopted a policy of collaboration with other powers "for the purpose of aggression and oppression." In what seemed a warning that French possessions in the western hemisphere might be taken over by the United States and other American nations, Hull said: "We are, therefore, undertak ing as speedily as possible to assemble every material fact and circumstance calculated to shed light on this alleged course of the French government." After reviewing American re lations with the Vichy govern ment since the French armis tice with Germany Hull said that the United States' policy "has been based upon assur ances by the French government that there was no intention on its part to exceed the strict limitations imposed" by the armistice terms. The secretary of state then asserted: "It would seem scarcely be lievable that the French govern ment at Vichy should adopt the nolicv of collaboration witn other powers for the purpose oi aggression and oppression ae- mite indications aopearing in our preliminary reports. "Such action would not only be yielding priceless rights and interests beyond the require ments of a harsh armistice, but it would at once place France in substantial political and mili tary subservience and would also make her, in part, the In strument of aggression against many other peoples and nations. This could only be utterly inimical to the Just rights of other countries, to say nothing of its ultimate effects on the liberties, the true interests and the welfare of the people of France." EARLIER START ' baseball E HELDJROBABLE Quartermaster's Representa tive and Architect Hunt Leave for S. F Conference American R H E Philadelphia 9 ' 3 Chicago 3 7 1 Knott and Hayes; Smith, Hal let and Tresh. R. H. E. Boston 14 18 1 Cleveland 16 2 Harris and Pytlak; Milnar, Heving, Dorsett, Jungels, and Hemsley. Munitions Plants Washington. June 5 (IP) Authoritative congressional sources said today a lortn- coming $1,000,000,000 army construction program would bo devoted almost entirely to creation of new munitions plants of various types. Legislators said Brigadier General Brehon Somervell, army construction quarter master, explained to a special house Investigating subcom mittee in closed session that the proposed building was to complete the second phase of the army's original munitions nroduction program and to orovide certain new capacity required under the lease-lend Drogram. Somervell was quoted as saying thnt small amount of cantonment expansion might be Included in the pro gram, but that no expansion of the land forces was involved. JAPAN EXPECTS E BY IS INT Vichy Hears Hitler and Stalin in Agreement On Usa of Ukraine Breadbasket Capt. Theron W. Bean, In charge of the constructing quar termaster's office in the armory, and Myron Hunt, architect for the proposed army cantonment in the Antelope-Beagle district, left by train last evening for a conference at army headquar ters in San Francisco regarding camp plans. Although neither Capt. Bean nor Mr. Hunt had anything to say regarding the precise nature of the conference, it was indi cated in informed local civilian circles that there was a possi bility that actual construction of the proposed cantonment mlghtJ be started earlier than was at "Also possible Is that this was anticipated. Mr. Hunt, how enemies," the spokesman assert ed. "The fact that German bomb fragments were found prove nothing because the British of course have come into posses sion of German bombs as booty." SHUTETEADSIN ever, said he knew notning about such a speed-up plan, though he added that the subject might come up at the San Fran cisco conference. Before he left, Capt. Bean an nounced additions to his staff. Claude M. Wade is now chief clerk, having arrived with his family earlier in the week from Annlston, Ala., where he was administrative assistant at Camp McClellan. Mr. Wade has taken if congress approved requested amendments to the selective service act The director of selective serv ice, they said, testified this was the intent of proposals to grant the president power to defer In duction of men by age groups. Chairman Reynolds (D., N. C.) of the senate military com- mittee before which General I Hershey appeared in close ses sion, said ine group probably LETON AIRPORT EXPANSION PLANNED Pendleton, June 5. OP) A city council committee to ar range purchase of about 60 acres of additional land to give Pendleton a class 4 airport, high est in CAA ratings, was named last night. The land will be used for two new runways and a con crete apron, making It possible for airplanes to land from any direction. Fort W.orth, Tex., June 8. (IP) Colonial club's par 70 was proving an extremely tough cookie for the country's best amateur and pro golfers today. With about half the field in. only Denny Shute had broken par, with a 69, and that was good enough to give him a two stroke lead. (Continued on Paie Four) DUTCH ANSWER Tokyo, June 5. (ff) British and United States aid to China Is becoming increasingly evident and Japan's foremost problem is to decide "what should be done regarding third powers with hos tile natures," the newspaper Chugla Shogyo said in an edi torial today. The paper usually speaks for big financial Interests. Batavia, Netherlands East In dies. June 5. (IP) On the eve of the Netherlands Indies' fate ful reply to Japanese demands i for ouantitles of such war es- I sentials as rubber,, oil, tin and I copra, the newspaper Javabode tonight quoted Japanese Ncgotla- tor Kenklchl Yoshizawa as declaring: "We hava reached tne eage of a precipice; now we either fall over or retain our foothold. The next 24 hours are decisive." Reliable sources Indicated that the promised Dutch reply to the long-drawn-out trade negotia tions with the Japanese would be an offer of substantially smaller amounts than the Jap anese want, and that the Jap anese would refuse. The formal Dutch reply to the Japanese trade proposals Is scheduled to be delivered to a Japanese delegation tomorrow. (Dr. E. N. Van Kleffens, Dutch foreign minister, after a confer ence with President Roosevelt in Washington yesterday said the Netherlands Indies were not pre pared to furnish the Japanese strategic material in great quantities.) Relatives Visit Harry Wilsons Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Penny of Rolla, N. D., and Capt. Paul Go heen and wife and children, Leonard and Carol, of Havre, Mont., are visiting Mrs. Penny's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wilson of 717 Oak street. The visitors will leave soon for southern California by way of the Redwoods highway. Farm Produce Prices Zoom As They Did in World War 1 Br Franklin Mullln Chicago, June 5. (At Farm commodity prices, followed I -1 1 ka frwwt mtll tn COn- Bracketed at 71 were !-" i sume, ,re spinning in an up ward aoiral that has eclipsea government "minimums" and "Darity" levels in some cases. Little, the defending title holder who went from an outgoing 33 to a 38; Dick Metz, Jug McSpa- den ana uene nunes oi j-iuia- - of delphla. former Canadian open! Resembling the pa tern of champion. Bunny Torpey of rWni Price. 'nnorw"-,'mreic Dodson, Mo., shot a 72. a-d the , J"" J""" "L betting favorite and 1939 cham .tural Hems have gained 6 to 86 pion. Byron Nelson, was even Pnt inc. Ur l-r with Sam Parks, Jr., champion i " " ,7"' , ..,.. MI I' I WlU . .v. . - in 1935, at 73. Miners Dig Toward Tombed Cohorts Kellogg, Idaho, June 8 of France, market statistics showed today. Much of the advance has oc nirred aince the first of the vear and. more specifically, j since passage of the lend-lease BCl I11U innnvi ... I forced shifts were through fallen rocks and timbers I In the famous Sunshine mine here today to reach two fellow workers caught In a rave-in last d rl v I n g efforts to accumulate foods for I hundredweight to around $9.40 parity" levels of the product of agriculture. "Parity" Is re garded as the price which gives a commodity purchasing power equivalent to that of the 1909- 14 base period. Of 17 important farm pro ducts, near "parity" or above "parity" price hava been reached by more than half. The r I a e, accelerated tn recent month of expanded domestic consumer demand and ship ment abroad, has been sharp est in the case of butter, cheese, eggs and hogs. The Chicago wholesale price of butter has risen from about 26 cents a year ago to 38 cent a pound, cheese from 14 to 19 cents, eggs from 16 to 28 cents a dozen and nogs irom S3 a Bandon, Ore., June 8 ; Dredging of the harbor entrance mould act on the requested i here will start this week to pro- burn. Idaho, and William Mir, , . . 1 . ,, - . -I ,L ' 1- 1 T J . ' 'amendment tomorrow. vide a uniform 12-foot deptb. Wardner, IdaJo the British Food prices received by farm ers and paid by consumer gen erally are the highest since night without hope they would1 1937. They are only slightly be find the two alive. I low the 1937 peak which stands The two caugnt In the erahs he highest since 1930. were William O. Edson. 33. Os- Prices or commoauie ana service usea Dy farmers iiae wit have risen. Increasing average. Two months ago the govern ment announced that to stim ulate production of hogs, dairy products and eggs it would try to maintain prices at 19 for hogs, 31 cents for butter, 22 cent for eggs and IS cents for chickens. All these price bavc been surpassed. By the Associated Press Vichy reported today thai Adolf Hitler and Russia's Pre mler Joseph Stalin had agreed to use the Soviet Ukraine a Europe' bread basket, but Ankara heard that German and Rumanian troops at least 2, 000,000 strong were massing for a June attack on Russia. Simultaneously, Great Brit ain was reliably reported on the verge of definite action in French-ruled Syria to beat the Germans into a developing new battlefront. 130 Division Ready Authoritative Turkish circle said they had been informed that Germany had 100 divisions, roughly 1,800,000 troops, mass ed on the Russo-German border In Poland, with 30 other nazl division concentrated in Ru mania. . . These sources also claimed that Rumania had mobilized 25 divisions and also recalled to the colors the classes which were demobilized six weeks ago. It was said the Joint German Rumanian attack on Russia Red armies could be expected in mid-June. Authorized quarter in Buda pest dismissed foreign reports of Rumanian mobilization aa false gossip spread by "coffee house alarmist" and asserted that the present calling-up of officers and soldiers was nor mal at this time of year for a month or two of military drill. Plan Move on Syria Dispatches from London lndi cated that Britain was prepar ing to move into French-ruled Syria. Canadian Press said the ex. pected "further development' would be "a definite action where Vichy is cooperating by allowing the nazl to establish a base." m . This pointed directly to Syria, where previous reports hava told of the infiltration of nazl troops, plane and war mater ial. An authoritative London spokesman was quoted as say ing Britain could not allow Syria to fall under nazl con trol. , Coinciding with tni miniy veiled hint that Britain has seized the initiative in the de veloping struggle in the Middle East, German warplane wera officially reported to hava blasted overnight at the main base of the British Mediterran ean fleet at Alexandria, Egypt. More than 100 person wera killed. High-explosive bomb and in cendiaries dropped on the city. second biggest in Egypt, wreck ed many buildings and inflicted numerous casualties, was an nounced. Blockade Set A a prelude to the new con flict, Britain claimed a block ade on Syria and neighboring French-mandated Lebanon, de claring them "enemy occupied territory" and potential bases for Adolf Hitler' blitt legion to trike at Palestine, Cyprus and the Sue canal. Powerful squadrons of the British fleet were reponeo massing off the Syrian coast, and all sign Indicated that the "zero hour" of a vast new strug gle was now very near. Turkey watched the crisis with mounting anxiety. Turkish, Toreign Minister Sukru Saraco glu was reported to have in formed German Ambassador Frani von Papen on Turkey's concern over the asserted de barkation of German troops in Sjrria.
