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ATT ... . run a wuu). Weather" "ur"u npon First in Line Take a peep at the Waul Ada thla morning. That la what hundred! of other people an doln. The tint In Una la a nail; tha lurk; one. m whrn )ou find "IT- better hurry. Medford Tribune rorrcut: Fair today tad Monday. W armer todaj. Temperature Hlcheat jeaterday. Lt yeaterdaj " Full Associated Praia Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1941. No. 67. HIT UM Mr United Press " '1 mum i (7(5)M J) .MM THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER Copyright 1941. by New York Tribune. Inc. Washington, June 7. An end to the Bureaucratic obstruction ism that flourishes everywhere in the government, and has at tained its most luxuriant devel opment at the State Department, is one of major advantages to be expected from a final Ameri can decision on war policy. The principal triumph of this branch of the bureaucratic art Is the State Department's suc cessful obstruction of a general order freezing all foreign funds in the L.iited States. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau Jr., made repeated appli cations to the president for per mission to issue a general freez ing order. On each occasion, the State Department closed ranks, deployed all its talents for fab ian delay, and deferred the move. And now virtually every dol lar of German, Italian and Jap anese funds has been removed from this country, and has eith er been spent on raw materials vital to the axis war effort, or is being used in economic war fare against us in South Ameri ca. When asked recently wheth er a freezing order was still be ing considered, Secretary Mor genthau ruefully replied that it was no use locking the barn door after the horse had been stolen. 'J'HIS Is only one example of Washington that most people ac-i cept it as a matter of course. An- other example is the reception of the British air ministry's re quest to be allowed to recruit radio technicians in this coun try. The matter was of vital im portance, since the British need ed trained radio men to manage the secret device by which their "Cat's eye" fighters find and destroy German bombers in the night-time air. The British sup-i ply of trained radio men was completely inadequate, and they had nowhere to turn but this country. Considering the trend of American policy, and the im portance of the case, a prompt response to the British request migm nave been anticipated The president, to whom the problem was taken, gave the (Continued on Pace Sun ROADRJND PLAN Washington, June 7. UP) The federal government should match state funds on a 75-25 basis under the strategic defense highway program, Oregon State Highway Engineer R. H. Bal dock told the house roads com mittee today. Oregon would need $30,000, 000 immediately to remove bot tlenecks in its highway system, 8100.000.000 if the system was to be completed. The amount recommended so far for stra tegic highways, he said, would only start surveys. President Roosevelt recom mended that $25,000,000 be spent on highways of strategic importance, and $100,000,000 on access roads. Chungking, China. June 7 &) Japanese planes bombed Chungking this afternoon in two waves and burned dozens of buildings in the heart of the provisional Chinese capital. The British embassy was damaged for the second time In five days. The British buildings dam aged included the offices of Am bassador Sir Archibald James Clark Kerr which were partly unroofed. The embassy was shrouded in acrid smoke from the surround ing buildings, which were de - j J-- I F.D.R. WARNS WILL TAKE OVER PLANE Back -To -Work Ultimatum Issued Communists Flayed Strike Commit tee Defiant. Inglewood, Calif., June 7 UP) Ranks of the CIO in the North American Aviation Corp. strike split wide open tonight as Richard T. Frankensteen, na tional head of the United Auto mobile Workers' aircraft divi sion, charged that the walkout was without authorization or approval. Bitterly censuring the local membership in a nation-wide broadcast, Frankensteen said: "I take this opportunity of serving notice on the commu nists that they must keep their hands off the policies and the affairs of the aircraft division of the CIO here on the west coast." His rebuff, delivered first at a conference with the local's strike committee, a few hours after President Roosevelt had ordered the plant reopened vol untarily Monday with the alter native of army action, brought the following comment from Elmer Freitag of the committee: "It is the unanimous opinion of the committee that the work ers stay out until the 75-ccnt (per hour) minimum wage and 10 cents an nour tfeneral raise are obtained. Ironically, the workers in volved did not hear his broad cast, which Went east at 6:45 p. m. (PST) but could not be arranged on a western hookup until ti.lS p. m. Mass Meeting Today The cleavage threw the strike situation into a mass meeting called for 3 p. m. tomorrow. when Frankensteen and Freitag, and supporters of each, will speak. The factory, which has a backlog of nearly $200,000,000 in military aircraft orders, em ployes 8,000 in its production division. The CIO claims 7,000 of them as members. Washington, June 7. JP) President Roosevelt issued an ultimatum today to the North American Aviation corporation strikers go back to work on Monday or the government will seize the plant and the army will operate it. Stephen T. Early, a presiden tial secretary, grimly and firmly made this announcement to newspapermen and told them that the documents necessary to this highly unusual action al ready had been drawn up. The president will sign them, he said, unless the strikers decide to resume work at a mass meet ing scheduled for tomorrow night. ine papers would, in fact. have been signed late yesterday, he disclosed further, but at the last minute it was learned the meeting had been called and the president was advised there was a real chance that the workers themselves would de cide to end the strike. White House Acts At the same time. Early re vealed that Mr. Roosevelt was taking action to end a second strike that in the San Fran cisco shipyards. A telegram was dispaicned today to Harvey m. Brown, head of the Intor. national Machinists union IAFL asaing nun to appear at the White House on Monday for a conference with the president. The shipyard machinists are on strike. Briefly, the presidential sec- I retary mentioned another strike situation in the Pacific north wests lumber industry. Mr. Roosevelt was not countenanc ing or condoning this stoppage, he said, but there was no short age oi lumDer Dec a use ttie in dustry in other areas was cap able of meeting all necessities for that product. The plain intl- rnation was that for the present, - ctlon In the lumber strike was;? "eTmbe?. not considered necessary, 1 Strike Halts Work on Military Planes ..,J,. AVIMIC iVt A strike called by the CIO United Automobile Workers union cloied the North American Aviation Corp., plant at Inglewood, Calif., and halted work on $196,000,000 in orders from the United States and British governments. In the background, beyond theie pickets patrolling a rail road siding leading to the plant, are some nearly completed bombers and trainers. E OE LABOR BOARD Seattle, June 7 OP) A tele gram from Harry Bridges, west coast longshore leader, today commended the stand of O. M. Orton, International Woodwork ers of America president, in his stormy controversy with the na tional mediation board. Orton arrived by plane last night from the nation's capitol with "no comment I haven't heard anything or read anything for 12 hours." Just after his arrival his head quarters released the text of a telegram from Bridges and Matt Meehan, longshore secretary, which stated: "You have our unqualified and wholehearted support in your stand against the union smashing proposals of the na tional defense mediation board. Congratulations on your courage and determination In the face of the extreme pressure that is be ing put upon you to sign away the fundamental rights and liv ing standards of your member ship." Orton walked out of the me diation board Wednesday and issued a statement in which he accused the board of "labor busting" tactics in connection with the board proposal to halt the strike of timber workers which has kept 12,000 to 20.000 out of work in Pacific North west mills and camps. His action drew a lengthy at tack from CIO president Philip Murray and from the office of production management's labor advisory committee. IN HOLLAND PORT London. June 7. UP) Two axis supply ships were set afire j ana proDamy destroyed in a I0?1'" British air attack to- day off the coast of Holland the air ministry reported. The ships were of about S.000 tons each, it said, and the raid was carried out without losses to the British bombers. German raiders, gliding In with motors throttled down, gave London its first taste of night bombing since May 11 Friday night while heavier for mations. supported by long range guns, attacked a big Brit ish convoy in Dover strait. British planes struck back at the German guns on the nazl- i0"'! French shore and ta servers on the south coast said fierce channeL ' NAZIS DENY THEY Claim F.D.R.'s Memos From Home And London Sources Quote Willkie. Berlin, June 7. (P) An au thorized spokesman today dis claimed German responsibility for circulation of peace stories in the United States, as charged by President Roosevelt, and laid the blame on "the other side.' "We understand." said the spokesman, "that the president believes he had German propa ganda orders directing German- friendly elements to spread stories that England is at the point of collapse and wanting peace. "As a matter of fact this story comes not from us but from English and American sources." The spokesman said that Pres ident Roosevelt's staVment was "based on falsified documents or false information. The spokesman gave numer ous quotations which he attrib uted to American and British leaders to the effect that Britain would collapse if American aid were not granted immediately. He cited President Roosevelt himself. Wendell Willkie, Maj Gen. H. H. Arnold of the U. S. army air corps who recently was in England, the late Lord Lothian, who was ambassador to Washington, and others. It is not our propaganda, he said. "It comes from the other side." As for official German propa ganda, the spokesman said "our objectives in the United States are no secret." "In fact," ha said, "we are breaking our heads to devise means of convincing the west ern hemisphere that our sole purpose is peaceful collabora tion." IN STATE PAY UP Washington, June 7. P) The farm security administra tion thinks that there is "ample evidence" that Its borrowers in Oregon "are getting back on their feet and are becoming per manently self-supporting." C. B. Baldwin, farm security administration chief, wrote Sen ator McNary (R , Ore.) that the 3131 active standard rehabilita tion borrowers in Oregon at the first of the year repaid $2,387.- 312 of loans totaling $5,232.- 726, even though much of the repaid amount was not due for four or five years. ENROLLEE KNIFED IN STREET FIGHT, ANOTHER HELD Lee Cook, 17, of Monroe, La was in Sacred Heart hospital with knife wounds and Armond Sullivan, 19, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. was in city jail on an open charge as the result of a stab bing affray at 8:00 last night on Sixth street near Front street In front of the Shell serv ice station. Police said no de finite charge had been placed against Sullivan. Both youths were coc enrollees from Camp Applegate. Police said two groups of CCC enrollees frem Applegate met and bumped accidentally Into each other at the scene of the stabbing. The groups separated and Sullivan returned and bumped into Cook, knocking mm to the ground, police quoted a witness whose name was with held. Sullivan stabbed Cook while he was on the ground police said they were informed by the witness. Sullivan threw the knife away ana anotner ttu enrollee re trieved It, police said they had been told. Cook, after losing much blood, got up, walked a short distance south on Front street and collapsed, police said. Police arrived at this point, ad ministered first aid and then sent Cook to the hospital in the Perl ambulance. He suffered cuts on the back of the neck and on the left arm and shock. The at tending physician, Dr. Lawrence W. Buonocore of the CCC sur geon's staff, i a I d recovery seemed probable. Sullivan was arrested at Main street and Riverside avenue. Camden, N. J., June 7. DP) The United States' bid for un challenged supremacy of the seas moved forward today with the launching of the 35,000-ton bat tleship South Dakota, which Secretary of the Navy Knox de clared was built for the "pre vention of war." , As the third battle wagon launched by the navy within a year slid down the ways four months ahead of schedule, Knox asserted the giant ship "will make a tremendous contribution to the safety of the country and all the people In It." Addressing the floating fort ress directly, the secretary said: "Your mission, the mission for which you were built, is not for war. but for the prevention of war, If God wills." Mrs. Harlan J. Bushfleld, wife of the governor of South Dakota, smashed a bottle of champagne on its prow. i JWL;,i REPORTS I 1 BRITAIN CERTAIN OF HOLDING SUEZ Able To Meet Axis On Equal Terms In Africa, Gain Air Control. Washington, June 7. (IP) Ambassador John G. Winant was understood today to have told Vice President Wallace and other senate leaders that the British were confident they could hold the Suez canal and prevent the Mediterranean from falling under German control. The ambassador to Great Brit ain was closeted with the vice president and senators for more than two hours yesterday. According to authoritative re ports of the meeting, the am bassador gave the following presentation of British official dom's viewpoint: The; English believe they have sufficient well-equipped forces in Africa to meet Adolf Hitler's troops on equal terms, and they do not feel that the defeats in Greece and Crete mean eventual loss of the Mediterranean, There seems to be substantial reason to believe that the royal air force has attained air superi ority over the British Isles, the English channel and the inva sion ports of occupied France a conclusion supported by a sharp decline in daylight bomb ings and relatively fewer suc cessful night raids by the Nazis in recent weeks. The trans-Atlantic shipping situation is more critical, al though it is noted that sinkings have "levelled off" somewhat and are not now at their peak. The United States Atlantic pa trol is credited by Britons with an increasing measure of effec tiveness in getting the goods to England. AT 224 URGED Washington, June 7. W) Reports that military leaders favor limiting army conscription to men from 21 through 24 years old circulated at the Cap itol today. For this reason, administra tion leaders said they favored amending the selective service law to leave President Roose velt a free hand in deciding the top age limit at which men would be inducted. Their pro posal would mean revision of a bill approved by the senate military committee which would permit the president to defer from active service only those draft registrants who had reached or passed their twenty eighth birthday. ON EGYPT FRONT London, June 7. (IP) British sources expressed belief tonight that the speed of dispatch of United States war materials to Britain's middle east armlet had become a dominant factor In the defense o' Egypt and the vital Suez canal. Italian newspapers reported that Amerlrn-made tanks were In action t it week In the vi cinity of Tjbruk, British-held Libyan port. This report could not be con firmed In London, but it was given greater credence In view of reliable advices thai W. Averell Harriman, here to ex pedite the American aid-to-Brit- aln program, would leave soon for Cairo. It wat understood Harriman would make an extended survey through the middle east, accom panied by an expert on tanks and possibly other military and naval observers. CIO la Everything Portland. June 7, P -Dismissal of Ed Heln, coordinator for the state defense training program, was demanded by Ore gon CIO Secretary Ralph W. People her Friday, War Bulletins 11 London, Sunday. June (JPi Royal air force bombers attacked the docks at Brest last night, authoritative quar ters said today, London, June 7. OP) The British Broadcasting corpora tion today quoted a dispatch from the free French news agency saying Gen. Henri Dents, high commissioner to the French mandate of Syria, has asked Vichy to sand more troops "and If necessary Ger man troops" to take the place of those "whose allegiance to Vichy is uncertain." The report added that the general already has handed anti-aircraft stations In Syria to Germans who arrived as "tourists." HIT BY BOMBS IN Historic Charter House Burned Trees Uprooted, Windows Broken In King's Palace. London, June 7. (P) The government permitted disclos ure tonight that Buckingham paiace grounds were hit by bombs again with window-shat tering force and that older por tions of the historic Charter house were burned out In recent oerman air raids. Two fire-watchers were killed when a bomb fell on the Duchy of Cornwall officet Just across the road from the palace. Bombs falling in the palace yard uprootea a tree and blast ed out the windows of the court postoffice and other rooms on the south side, all of which had ocen repaired after previous oamage. The Charterhouse great hall, considered one of the finest Elizabethan rooms In existence, was damaged badly by fire. Only smoked and cracked walls remain of the tapestry room, in which Queen Eliza beth and Jamet I had resided at visitors. The Charterhouse cloister lies in water-soaked ruin. Amid the rubble, almost undamaged, are tablets to John Wesley and Roger Williams, who were once among the stu dents of the Charterhouse school. St. Botolph's vicarage, which formed part of Catherine Parr's house next door, was demol ished. The Metropolitan tabernacle was burned. Mansion house, official home of the lord mayor, damaged twice previously, had its win dows smashed. Fire destroyed the Labor party headquarters. St. Mary's, Kennlniton. was added to a long list of London churches destroyed. SEN. MEAD TELLS MARTINIQUE PACT Washington. June 7. (JPi Senator Mead (D., N.Y.) made puDite tonight a letter from Secretary Hull reporting an "ar rangement" between the United States and Martinique which "provides certain guarantees re garding the movement of French vessels in American waters and commits tha French government to prior notification regarding any snipmenu or gold." "It also permits the establish ment of a daily patrol by vessel and by plane of the Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe," said Hull's letter, dated June 2. "and a naval observer la at present stationed at Fort de France, Martinique, to check Its observance." The arrangement was negoti ated last November at Fort de France by Rear Admiral John W. Greenslada of the United States navy and Admiral Georges Robert, French high commissioner to tha Antilles. NAZIS MASS UPON TROOPS TO LIBYA Something Stirring In Bal , kans Ominous Signs In Syria Rumania Astir, London, Sunday, June 8. UP) - A Reuters, British newa agency, dispatch from Ankara said today that German troops were moving from Bulgaria Into Moldavia, the eastern province of Rumania, and taking up posi tions along the Russian frontier. The dispatch said airmen with the British navy had discovered large troop concentrations on the island of Rhodes, largest of Italy's Dodecanese Islands east of Crete. A troop ship at Salonika, Greece, was expected to sail for Beirut, Lebanon, with nazl de tachments by Tuesday, the re port added. It said British reports In tha middle east indicated the Ger mans also were rushing rein forcements to their African corps In Libya. (By tha Associated Press) German troops were reported massing in Moldavia, eastern province of Rumania facing tha soviet Ukraine, today (Sunday) as developments in the Balkani and middle east Indicated tha slow gathering of forces for tha opening of a new phase of tha war. Other axis men and machines, It was Indicated, were continu ing a steady infiltration into Syria, the French-ruled territory which seemed fated to be tha next battle ground In the Ger man and Italian effort to push Britain out of the Mediterranean. A British news agency, Reut ers, reported from Turkey that blue-gray nazis were being moved out of their many campa in Bulgaria to positions facing the red army in Russia. Partial confirmation of some thing astir In the Balkans was reported In a Hungarian radio broadcast which said Rumania was taking extraordinary mili tary precautions, mobilizing troops, building air raid shelters and drastically curtailing ordin ary railway passenger traffic. These precautions, the radio said, were especially noticeable in Moldavia. These reports followed a Brit ish radio statement that Berlin newspaper correspondents had been Instructed to hold them selves In readiness for an im portant announcement Monday on Soviet-German relation. Authorized German source. however, characterized the re port as "nonsense," and foreign correspondents there said they had not heard of any important forthcoming announcement. Other British radio report told of flight of German and Italian airmen toward Syria, with a number of planes forced down In Turkish territory. One big German flying boat was re ported shot down near the Dar danelles by Turkish anti-aircraft batteries. HUNCHBACK HELD IN TRIPLE DEATH Spokane, June 7 (JP Detec tive Capt A. McDonnell said today Alfred Wells, gun-carry-Ing hunchback accused of a triple murder near San Bernar dino, Calif., had admitted shoot ing hi half-brother, Raymond Wells, the night of May 7. Well was arrested her last night on a charge of carrying concealed weapon and gave tha name of Alfred H. Blake, say ing h was from Trout City, Mont. "Later, he admitted hi Iden tity and confessed ha shot hi half-brother, but didn't know whether ha had killed him," said Captain McDonnell. "He disclaimed any recollection of shooting any women." San Bernardino authorltle charged Well May 13 with tha murder of Raymond Well, tha latter' wife, Jean, 20, and Rosa DesU-ee, 17, of Escondldo, Calif.
