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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
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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
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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
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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.