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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941
No. 69.
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Br JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
Copyright. 1941. br
Now York Tribune. Inc.
Washington, June 10 The
climate of the president's mind
Is all-important in these times.
The decisive hour of the war Is
approaching with relentless
speed. The country must act
boldy and promptly to meet the
Nazi menace. Only the presi
dent can give the lead. If he
waits too long the end will be
disaster. Thus even the most
trivial indication of the presi
dent's intellectual weather is of
absorbing interest.
An indication by no means
trivial is a report of the presi
dent's customary answer to the
advisers now urging him to act
at once. The report comes from
two independent and highly au
thoritative sources. As it is thus
cross-checked, it may be de
pended upon far more than most
reports of this sort.
The report is that when urged
to act, the president always re
curs to the case of his former
chief, Woodrow Wilson. Presi
dent Wilson, he points out, was
far better placed when he led
the nation into the first world
war. A succession of incidents,
in which American lives were
taken and American property
was lost, had inflamed public
opinion over many months. The
debate on the armed merchant
men bill had revealed an almost
united congress. There were
only twelve in the little band
of willful men whose senate fili
buster forced Wilson to arm the
merchantment on his own au
thority. In the end, when Wil
son went to congress and re
quested a declaration of war, he
could be certain that every dis
sident voice would be drowned
out by the roar of enthusiasm
from a truly United States.
Against the case of Wilson,
the president then lays his own.
While admitting he can count
on majority support, and by
crystallizing public feeling may
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Salt Lake City, June 10 (IP)
All occupants of the twin
motored army bomber which
crashed near Lyman, Wyo., are
dead, searchers who reached the
wreckage late this afternoon
said.
Salt Lake City, June 10. IP,
The hulk of a missing army
bomber lies badly broken on a
knoll in western Wyoming with
"no visible sign of personnel,"
army officers learned today
after two-day search.
A private plane flying low
over the area between Evanston
and Lyman, Wyo., discerned that
the ship had broken up. "It was
badly broken," said Bill Shipler,
Salt Lake photographer.
'The ship appeared to have
broken in two. The wings were
Intact but the aileron was miss
ing and some other signs of
breakup were visible.
"We couldn't see any sign of
life and there was an object that
from about 15 feet overhead
appeared to be a man's head
peering from the pilot's side of
the cabin.
"It lies about four miles from
a road.
Capt. D. J. Motherwell left
the Salt Lake airport at 135
p. m. (MST) Sunday for a non
stop flight to Chicago.
With him in the ship were
Lieutenants L. K. Harvey, Lake
wood. Ohio: T. F. Holstein, Bur
lington. Iowa; and J. V. Gal
lagher. Bayonne. N. J., and Staff
Sergeants T. J. McGurgan. Keno
sha, Wis., and D. E. Hawley.
Yakima, Wash.
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an hour was reported in 1934
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BY INTERVENTION
Actual Declaration Would
Not Modify Situation
Too Late, Says Dictator.
By the Associated Press
Sulla, to whom Premier
Mussolini compared "Delano
Roosevelt" in today's speech
in Rome, bore the title of
"Dictator" of Rome after he
ended a civil war in 82 B. C.
His enemies called him
"half-lion, half-fox" and the
exponent of the policy of
"blood and iron."
General and politician, he
was the first Roman to lead
an army successfully against
the city of Rome.
Rome, June 10. (IP) Premier
Mussolini declared today that
the United States was at war
"de facto" in fact and virtu
ally defied her to declare war
against the axis.
United States intervention in
the war would result in a totali
tarian dictatorship in the United
States, the premier declared at
a solemn, full dress session of
the Chamber of Fasces and
Guilds on the first anniversary
of Italy's declaration of war.
He referred to possible United
States intervention in these
words:
"If Spain and Turkey remain
out of the war, there is one
trans-Oceanic state which pro
mises to enter it."
U. S. Envoy Absent
Envoys from countries in the
German-Japanese-Italian tri-par-tite
pact heard Mussolini's
speech, but conspicuously absent
from the diplomatic gallery was
United States Ambassador Wil
liam Phillips.
As il duce spoke, his words
were carried from loud speakers
to crowds under a hot sun in
public squares and by radio to
the whole nation. Stores were
closed for the occasion.
"It should be known that
American intervention does not
bother us excessively," Musso
lini declared in his 50-mlnute
speech.
"An explicit declaration of
war would not modify the actual
situation, which is one of de
facto war if not de jure (form
ally.) "American intervention, even
completely employed, would be
too late, and if not late would
not change the terms of the prob
lem. "American intervention will
not give Britain victory but will
prolong the war. It will not
limit the space of the war but
will extend It beyond the oceans.
It will transform the United
States regime into an authori-
( Continued on Page Ten)
Churchill Defends Crete Tactics;
Says Battle Well Worth Fighting
London, June 10 (IP) Prime
Minister Churchill, facing a
house of commons belligerent
over the loss of Crete, declared
today that this "somber and
ferocious battle" was "well
worth fighting" and that it
would play an "extremely im
portant part" in the defense of
the Nile valley.
Churchill asked what there
was in "this principle of giving
up without a fight any place
you cannot be sure of holding."
"Suppose we had never gone
to Crete?" he asked in charac
teristic language. "And suppose
we had never defended Crete?
Where wuuld the Germans be
now?"
Lessons Valuable
"Suppose." he continued,
"that we had simply resigned
territory and sti.tcgic points to
them without a fight, might
they not at this early stage in
the'eampaign of 1841 already be
masters of Syria and Iraq and
preparing themselves for an ad
vance into Persia?"
"The question," said Church
i ill, "was whether we should try
baseball
National
R H X
Pittsburgh 3 6 2
Brooklyn 4 10 0
Heintzelman, Klinger, Dietz,
Lanning and Lopez; Fitzsimmons
and Owen.
St. Louis S 8 0
Philadelphia 0 10
Warneke and Mancuso; John
son, Crouch and Warren.
Chicago 11 10 3
New York 0 7 3
Olsen and McCullough; Mc
Gee, Wittig and Danning.
Cincinnati
Boston
Vandermeer and Lombard!;
Salvo, Lamanna and Berres,
Masi.
AFTER FLOOD HITS
Albany, Tex., June 10. (IP)
The bodies of 12 persons
drowned in flash flood which
swept In darkness through this
town early today were recovered
by rescue workers, who said
they had no way of accounting
at this time for other possible
victims.
Albany, Tex., June 10. IP)
A 20-foot wall of water from
broken city water supply dam
swept away more than a score
of houses early today, and heavy
loss of life was feared.
The flash flood roared down
Little Hubbard creek in the
southeastern part of this west
Texas town of 3,000.
Six members of the Paul Alex
ander family were missing and
rescue workers held little hope
for them. Officials at the city
hall said they were afraid a
great many others were
drowned.
"We spent the hours until day
light picking people out of trees
in the lowlands," one worker
reported.
The flood struck without
warning following overnight
rains on the Nail and Cook
ranches northwest of Albany.
Some who fled reported their
first knowledge -of danger came
when they heard a sullen roar.
Before they could leave their
homes, water was waist deep.
In half an hour, it was 20
feet deep.
At daylight. It was receded
again within the banks of the
creek.
The bodies of Mrs. Addle Rat
llff, 60, and her mother, Mrs.
Alice Monk, 80, were taken
from a storm cellar.
Neighbors said they had fled
from their house when they
heard the roar, mistaking It for
an approaching tornado.
The body of 10-months-old
Mack Strong was found in a
field near the home of his par
ents, who were rescued.
to defend Crete or yield it with
tat a fight."
In a voice throbbing with
passion, Churchill accepted "full
responsibility" for the Cretan
campaign and he said that the
lessons of Crete would be ap
plied to the defense of Britain
against air-borne and sea-borne
attack.
Churchill declined to make a
detailed statement on the war
in the eastern Mediterranean
und he asserted that prolonged
criticism of his government was
"calculated to challenge the
security of the administration."
Air Weakness Blamed
The prime minister attributed
Britain's defeat in Crete to her
weakness in the air.
He said that Britain lost 15.
000 in killed, wounded, missing
and men taken prisoners, ex
clusive of Greeks and Cretans,
in the Crete campaign, as
against 5.000 Germans drowned
and 12.000 killed or wounded.
The Germans also lost 180
fighter planes and bombers and
150 t r o o p-earTying aircraft,
Churchill said.
Churchill said that there was
STRIKERS AGREE
IF
No Discrimination, No For
feiture of Union Cards
Negotiation Guaranteed
Los Angeles, June 10. UP)
The five-day strike at the North
American airplane factory ap
peared ended today when U. A.
W. strikers agreed to march to
the factory in a body to ask to
have their Jobs back.
At an open air mass meeting.
the strikers agreed with their
leaders to return to work pro
vided there would be no dis
crimination, that their union
cards would not. be forfeited,
that they would be allowed to
negotiate immediately on their
original demands.
By the Associated Press
The army-corn mandeered
North American Aviation plant
at Inglewood, Cal., operated at
almost 75 percent of capacity
today, the commanding officer
said, but two CIO strikes in
aluminum plants threatened the
nation's production of bomber
engines.
President Roosevelt s u m
moned Secretary of War Stim
son. Attorney General Jackson
and Sidney Hillman, associate
director of the Office of Pro
duction Management, into con
ference in Washington and there
was immediate speculation
whether he was considering gov
ernment action in the strike
against the Aluminum Company
of America at Cleveland.
4,875 At Work
Lieut. Col. Charles E. Bran
shaw said 4,875 employes out
of a normal day force of 7,000
were at work at Inglewood and
"I can say, confidently, that
Uorth American will be pro
ducing at capacity in a short
time." He added that the work
ers "are glad to be back."
A walkout by CIO members
this morning tied up six plants
of the Bohn Aluminum and
Brass corporation at Detroit and
five Cleveland plants of the
Aluminum Company of America
were closed due to the strike
yesterday by the CIO Die Cast
ers there.
Defense officials said the
Bohn company makes all bear
ings now being made in the
United States for bombers, and
that the Curtiss Aircraft com
pany had notified the OPM a
continuation of the aluminun
company strike would mean it
would be out of wheels for pur
suit planes by the end of the
week.
In the meantime there was
another strike threat In the avi
ation Industry as AFL union
machinists cast ballots on a
strike call against the huge
Consolidated Aircraft corpora
tion plant at San Diego, Cal.
no lata news from Syria. Brit
ain, he .-id, has "no territorial
designs In Syria or anywhere
else.
As for the war on other
fronts, Churchill said that the
monthly average production of
guns and heavy tanks was 50
percent greater In the first
quarter, of 1941 than In the last
quarter oi iu.
May, he continued, was Brit
ain's best month In the battle
of the Atlantic, and ha said that
production in Britain had not
been disorganized by air raids
but on the contrary was "in
creasing." In the British war on Ger
man shipping, Churchill said
that Britain in May "sank, cap
tured or saw scuttled 257,000
tons of German shipping.
' The prime minister's chief
critic was Leslie Hore-Belisha,
former war minister, and to
him Churchill made sharp reply.
Hore-Belisha, dismissed in Jan
uary, 1940, left "production and
supply" in a "lamentable" state
after two years and seven
mor.'.hs in office, the prim min
ister said.
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Slowly advancing army regulars with fixed bayonets gradually cleared the field (top
picture) across from the North American Aviation plant of striking CIO workers and
pickets as the federal troops took over th plant yetterdar. The flag at the left was seised
from a striker by th soldiers, but an army officer quickly stepped In and returned It. In
lower picture th picket lines were broken temporarily by tear gas bombs hurled by pollc
from a wing of th plant before th soldiers arrived. Below Is Lieut. Col. Charles E. Bran
shaw In charge of th troops. (A. P. Photos).
BERSERK MAN LEAPS
INTO RATTLERS PIT.
SUCCUMBS TO BITES
Colfax, Cal., June 10. (IP)
John L. Ottman, 47, Placer
county restaurant owner, was
found dead In his restaurant to
day, apparently after having
been bitten by venomous snakes
confined In a pit at the nearby
Evans rattlesnake farm.
Deputy Sheriff John Shannon
of Auburn found Ottman's body,
already swelling from the ef
fects of the snake venom, lying
behind the counter in his res
taurant.
The discovery was made after
Shannon had been summoned
to the place by Mrs. S. E. Evans,
who, with her husband, con
ducts the snake farm. She com
plained that early this morning
she was awakened by noise In
the adjacent restaurant where
it was evident. Shannon said.
Ottman was running berserk
smashing dishes and furniture
Shannon said his Investiga
tion Indicated Ottman apparent
ly broke into the snake farm
and after removing his clothing.
Jumped Into the pit containing
85 rattlesnakes. The officers be
lieve Ottman walked and crawl
ed about in the pen as the
snakes struck him In almost
every part of his body.
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American Vessel Torpedoed
Declares Brazilian Skipper
By WALDEMAR LUCIO PE REIRA.
Copyright, 1941, by The Associated Press.
Captain th BraiUian Steamer Osorio.
Aboard the S. S. Osorio, June
10. OP) On June 8 , at 9
o'clock In the evening In lati
tude P.46 north and longitude
37.37 west I rescued 11 survivors
in one lifeboat of the North
American ship Robin Moor,
which was torpedoed May 21 at
the position latitude 8.15 north
longitude 25.30 west.
Their names are John J. Bnnl
gan, Karl Nllson, Virgil Sander
lin, William S. Cary, Peter Buss.
Donald Schableise, H. O. Rice,
R. Carlisle, Antonio Santos,
Hugh Murphy and P. C. Eccles.
The saved members of the
crew declared there were three
more lifeboats with 28 members
of the crew and seven passeng
ers, Including three women and
one child.
The commander of the Bra
zilian ship Tamandare, which I
also requested to Investigate,
said that about 1 p. m. yesterday
he found pieces of baggage con
sisting of one suitcase and chil
dren's toys.
Unfortunately nothing more
has been found up to now. (This
radiogram was sent at midnight,
EST.)
Among the 11 rescued are
three officers.
We are continuing to Recife
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expect to arrive tomorrow night.
Washington, June 10. (IP)
The White House asked today
that Judgment be suspended on
the sinking of the U. S. steamer
Robin Moor until it is establish
ed how she was lost.
One Intercepted radio mes
sage given the navy blamed a
German submarine and this
aroused grave concern in the
capital. However, Stephen
Early, White House secretary,
said there was no official In
formation. He added:
"The president would apprec
iate it if there was a suspension
of Judgment on the sinking,
pending a determination of the
facts.
Early said It seemed to be
fairly well determined that the
position of the sinking was "in
American waters on this side
of the Atlantic."
Hog Prices High
Moscow, Idaho. June 10 (IP)
Hogs on the hoof hit the high
est price In this area since 1938
when Armour At Company paid
$95.0 a hundred for 194 animals
in the Moscow Community pool
yesterday. The pric was an
increase of 50 cents over the
previous week's pool pric.
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Chuck Rlsse raising enough
different things at his servic
station to have a complete veg
etable dinner.
Fletch Fish homing In on a
sidewalk conference, some of
the conferees being glad of th
chance he afforded them to slip
away.
Phil Gilstrap returning to th
old home town for a short vaca
tion and looking Ilk th Salem
weather agrees with him.