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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941.
No. 65.
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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-
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German, Rumanian Troops Mass
For Attack on Russia, Is Word
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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
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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.