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Newspaper Page Textruji u a wnib- Weather JST npon )maH: Fair tonight and Friday with lomi rloadtneia. Not much change la tempera tare. Temperature Note the Result The toothera Oregon trad area eaa b quickly and soe eemifnllj rearlwd the Want Ad way. If yoa have something to aril, or trade ate the Want Ada and uote hew reealta come joor way. Tribune FORD Blzbeet ynterday , , lei Lowest this morntnc , . ... -i United Pre Full Associated Prow MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941 Thirty-Bixth Year Med V ' Hill 1 II n d I I " No. 71. aaaaaIB-.JjaS--;j n a fiW(ow llfll Wlllll, 1 1 1 I 1 THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER Copyright. 1941. by New York Tribune. Inc. Washington, June 12 In these days, when most people are fearful of one thing or an other, the most terrifying single phenomenon is the general ig norance of the second world war's meaning to the United States. Even among those who would have their country be most bold there are few who foresee the real consequences of Herman victory, as these con- Muencei are foreseen by the riinlomats. the military and nav al strategists, the economists and the other men here in Washing ton who know the pertinent facts. If these men are right, the consequences of German victory most important to Americana will be the destruction of the United States. The end may not come by invasion. Internal chaos will be enough. The nation may survive the chaos as a political entity. But however it happens, tha freedoms and decencies the founders fought for, which the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln preserved, and which have es caped many dangers to this day, will be swept into the discard on the high tide of Nazi con quest. YOU may ask why the best In formed men in America Join, all but unanimously, in so ter rible a prediction. The answer ia aimDle. The prediction is squarely based on the facts of cast exDerience. and the . facts of the present situation. At this moment, Adolf Hitler is the master of Europe from the Polish marshes to the Eng lish channel, and from the North Cape to the heel of Italy. Only five European nations, Sweden, Finland, Portugal and Spain, and Switzerland, have not made formal submission to him, and , unless this country soon accepts ' full fighting partnership with i Britain, the fate of Rumania or the fate of France awaits them "all. In this vast territory, pop ulated by courageous and freedom-loving peoples who have HARLAN F. STONE TO TAKE HUGHES' PLACE AS CHIEF Has Been Strong Supporter of New Deal Was Ap pointed by Coolidge, 1925 Continued on Page Eight) BY Prospect and vicinity was vis ited last night by the heaviest thunderstorm in many years, during which rain poured in torrents for more than an hour in some areas, flooding Crater Lake highway in front of Grieve s store, and the Red Blan ket road near the junction. Frank Salter, here today, said 23 inches of water accumulated in the Red Blanket road in front of his house. A pond along the same road was flooded. Salter said there was more water than during a winter thaw. The storm was accompanied by lightning and high wind. Sal ter said it seemed to sweep in from ML Pitt. Mrs. Mary Grieve, resort pro prietress, said it was the most severe storm in her 33 years residence at Prospect SICE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Washinston. June 12 The senate confirmed today the nomination of Senator James Franri Bvrnes (D-SC) to be a Justice of the supreme court 11 minutes after his appointment had been sent to the chamber by President Roosevelt. The nominations of Stone and Jnrkunn were referred to the ludiciarv committee for consid eration in the usual course ot procedure. Althoueh no Immediate an nouncement was made as to who would succeed Jaccson as attor ney general, there have been re norts that Francis Biddle, so licitor Eeneral since January 1940. nrobably would be moved up to the highest Justice depart ment post. Washington, June 12 UP) President Roosevelt today nom- inated Harlan F. Stone of New York to succeed Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice of the United States. The place vacated by the ele vation of Stone will be filled by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. And, to fill the va cancy created by the retirement of James Clark McReynolds list February 1, the chief executive nominated Senator James Fran-1 els Byrnes, of South Carolina. Retiring April 1 Chief Justice Hughes submit ted' to the president ten days ago a request that he be per mitted to retire as of next July 1 and Mr. Roosevelt accepted it with regret. While there had been reports that Jackson might become chief justice, the president chose in stead to elevate Associate Justice Stone, a republican, to the high est Judicial post in the nation. Stone will be 69 next October. Jackson is 49 and Byrnes 62. With confirmation of the nom inations by the senate, Mr. Roosevelt will have named sev en of the nine members of the supreme court which he once wanted to increase in size to in ject new blood. Both Jackson and Byrnes are known as strong administration supporters. Jackson moved up to be at torney general after the presi- dent had named his predecessor, Frank Murphy, to the suprcvie court. Byrnes May Delay Byrnes has been a presiden tial confidante and leader of ad ministration forces in the sen ate. It was considered likely that he might not go over to the court until its fall term, in order that he might continue to serve in the senate. Although a republican, Justice Stone was one of the leading supporters on the tribunal of Roosevelt administration legis lation. He was appointed to the court by President Coolidge In 1925 after serving nine months as at torney general. He and Mr. Coolidge had been classmates at Amherst college. Ex-Columbia Dean Before entering the cabinet, the Justice had practiced law at New York and had been dean of the Columbia university law school. On the court he was outspok en In his support of social legis lation. He once described law as "a human institution for hu man needs." He regarded it as anything but static. , i ii ii i i I " "2 I to., i I LiKrtiiJ it "v . i r i -i-u British Advance Halted, Vichy Claims FRENCH DEFENSE LINES BOMBARDED BY. NAVAL FORCES 4-LANE HIGHWAY TO CANTONMENT IS EARLY PLAN Would Connect With Pacific Highway Near Medco Mill Track Intersection Blackie Cannalonga Of Bridges Hearing Killed in K. F. Crash Klamath Falls, Ore., June 12. (P) Maurice (Blackie) Can- nalonia. 31. Important witness in the Harry Bridges deportation hearing at San Francisco, was killed In an automobile accident near here today. Six other persons were hurt, President Roosevelt today nominated Justice Harlan F. Stone (top) to succeed Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice of the United States. At the same time Attorney General Robert H. Jackson (below), was nominated with Senator Jamaa Francis Byrnes of South Carolina, to be supreme court justices. For several years. Stone was Hanger Lee Port giving a zoo-notn a dissenter, frequently logical lecture for a group ot jojning tne celebrated Justices forest students on the life and Holmes. Brandeis and Cardozo habits of rattlesnakes, he using ajMgreeing Wjtj, majority a live specimen, securely noosed, opinioni tn his demonstration. LtUrr. however, when so- Bill Snvder staying out so long "liberals" dominated the to find a mvthical fire as to miss , tribunal he wrote many of the supper and launch a searching famous majority decisions. He party at the Carberry fire guard i was considered the court s tax trainine camp, dui oeina igunu-, trudging campward Just at dark. Maurice Tedrow's dog Blackie Appeal for Pickers Salem. June 12. OP) Gov- being rewarded with a big steak i emor Charles A. Sprague sp for acting like a gentleman and pealed yesterday for cherry pick not begging during supper at the jers In the Salem, McMinnvUle training camp land The Pallet area. 5 TO BE DISBANDED IN MEDFORD AREA Official word has been re ceived that five CCC companies In the Medford district will be disbanded on or before June 30. The following .companies are affected by the order: Co. 3S67, Camp Alkali lake. Lakeview; Co. 640S and Co. 6406. Camps Baird No. 1 and No. 2, Redding. Cal.; Co. 6413, Camp Whitmore, Whitmore. Cal., and Co. 6452, CamD Prescott. Medford. Com- panv 3S67 will disband June 21. Co. 6405. Co. 6406 and Co. 6452 June 30 and Co. 6413 on June 28. Administrative personnel, In cluding camp surgeons and edu cational advisers, will be tem porarily reassigned to other com panies in this district. In some cases, however. It Is possible that some personnel will become "surplus," headquarters said. Enrollees from Co. 3567. a fifth corps area company, will be re- j assigned to other fifth corps area companies In tne Vancouver Dar racks district Vancouver. Wash. All other enrolled from the dis banding companies are from the fourth corps area and will be reassigned to other fourth corps area companies in this district. The reduction will leave the Medford district with 26 active companies. War Bulletins London, June 12 (P) The port of Assab In Italian Eri trea, Italy's first foothold In Africa which was expanded Into an empire, has fallen to the British in a joint air, naval and army operation launched from Aden. It was announced today. Capture of the port completed British occupation of the Eritrean coast and left French Somaliland with British-occupied territory on three sides and blockaded from the Valetta. Malta, June 12 IIP) Ten axis planes were shot down today tn violent air fighting around this British Island base. It was officially announced tonight. Main feature of tentative plana of a road system for the pro- nosed army cantonment in the AntelODe-Beagle district is paved four-lane highway that will run from the camp to tne Pacific highway Just this side of the Medford Corporation rail road tracks near the north city limit, it was related today by J. A. Phelps, a state hignway de partment location engineer wno is in charge of a survey crew that has established an office at state nolice headquarters here, The oronosea nignway wouia have two-lane strips witn a part ing strip between, Mr. Phelps said. It would meet the pacuic hiehway at grade close to the point where Court street meew the Pacific highway, under pres ent planning which, he empha sized, is entirely tentative, Parallel Tracks Tha proposed four-lane high way would run parallel to tha Medford Corporation raurooa tracks to tha Intersection of Crater Lake highway. At that point it would be merged with Crater Lake highway which, un der present plans, would be changed to the same standard aa the proposed four-lane highway to the camp. At the other side of the camp. Crater Lake high way would remain as it is now, Mr. Phelps said. The new lour- lane highway would, all told, be seven miles long. A road system for the camp itself is also being planned as curt of the general architect olannlng and it Is understood that at present plans call for the main camo road to pass over Crater Lake highway. E. D. Lytle of Roseburg, state district hiahway engineer, conferred here yesterday regarding the highway and road plans. Surveyors Busy Surveying crews working the cantonment area, have run lines across the Col. F. L. Tou velle holdings on Rogue river to a point about 100 yards above the Junction of Butte creek witn Rogue river. The surveyors are operating on both tides of the stream. County Engineer Paul Rvnnlnc said It was hit under standing a heavy duty steel and concrete bridge across the two streams was under considera tion as a route to the Beagle dis trict which it also in the pro- nosed triangle division camp, Rynnlng stated that the present Bybee bridge across Rogue river was too light to hold the heavy weight of army equipment A gravel island, separating the two streams, will probably be used at a state highway tup ply point The county engineer said the highway commission was taking all available gravel beds In the area for use on can tonment and connecting roads. Five surveying crews are now engaged In the area taking ele vations for drainage and general contour and plotting the ground. in B. DISPLAY OF FLAGS REQUESTED BY C-C The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce today urged all business places and homes to display the Stars and Striprt for the remainder of Flag week. Particularly on Saturday. Flag day, the flag should be displayed at stores and homes, the cham ber of commerce advised. three seriously, when the car in which Cannalonga was a pas senger and another collided head-on on The Dalles-California highway, 10 miles north of here. At least one of Cannalonga s companions, Lee Barlow, 30, Portland seaman, also was a Bridges witness. Most seriously hurt were J. Barlow, Union Pacific switch man, Portland; Dorrest Kegley, Olympla, Wash, and Lee Barlow. Also hurt were Mrs. i. A. Longaker, Olympla, Wash., driver of the other automobile; Robert Dombroff, Seahurst, Wash., and Marie Ross, Port land. Mrs. Longaker, 63. only vic tim permitted to talk, said she was driving soutn irom tseno. Ore., when the other car swung around a curve and the two machinei crashed head-on. Her right leg was fractured. The injured were brought to hospital here, and Cannalon- ga's body was taken to an under taking establishment. He ap parently was killed outright. Barlow, who test l tied Tn tne Bridget hearing on June 10, wat a patrolman for the Bailor s union at Portland. Dombroff also was a teaman. Kegley was riding with Mrs. Longaker. He is her brother. Mist Ross, J. Barlow, Lee Bar low and Dombroff were in the other car. Police had not deter mined who was driving this ma chine. HARRY BRIDGES LAST WITNESS IN Churchill Tells Allies Hitler Stain Will Be Purged From Surface of Earth San Francisco, June 12. (P Maurice (Blackie) Cannalonga, tea-going Seattle ex-communist was on the witness stand at Harry Bridges deportation hear ing longer than anyone else. and outside of Bridges, was the most talked of man at the hearing. He first testified April 17 that he assumed and had been told that Bridges was a communist. Early in May the defense an nounced it had obtained a re canting statement from Canna longa, in which he said he was "all hopped up when he talked to the FBI last fall. The de fense tried to subpoena him but subpoena servers hunted in vain until the defense rested Its case. Last week he appeared again, as a government rebuttal wit ness, said he was Intoxicated when the defense talked to him recalled little abour the meet ing, insisted the FBI had not In timidated him and what ha had told them was true. He explained hit absence by saying he had fled from his ship to the Olympic peninsula, north of Grays Harbor, Wash., to es cape communists he believed were watching him and trying to intimidate him. His final appearance at a wit ness was yesterday. San Francisco, June 12. (IP) Harry Bridges' lengthy second deportation hearing ended today after the CIO longshore leader was again questioned about his position in two strikes against national defense industries. It wat the longest deportation hearing ever held. The hearing, in which the gov ernment seeks to deport Bridget to Australia on charges of hav ing been affiliated with the com munist party, lasted ten weeks and tour dayt during which the government called 33 witnesses and the defense 30V The bearing opened March 51. It exceeded by a week and three dayt hit first hearing. The trial ended abruptly after the taking of testimony. Argu ments will be submitted by briefs to Trial Examiner Charles B. Sean. The CIO longshore president said his name was signed by Matt Meehan, longshore secre tary, to a telegram urging lum ber workers in the Pacific north west to defy the defense media tion board. But in response to a govern ment question, Bridges said: Well, If It hat become illegal to oppose a national defense me diation board, I've never heard It was not until the discovery of North America that the world fur trade (ot Into Its stride. SEXTON MOUNTAIN LOW BID $315,577 Portland, June 12 (IP) Frank Penepacker of Portland submitted the low bid of $313.- 377 to grade 4 7 miles of the rugged Sexton mountain section of the Pacific highway in Jose phine county, the highway com mission reported today. L. H. Hoffman, Portland, was the lone bidder, at $87,361. to remodel Portland's Morrison street bridge at a part of the Front avenue widening project Hoffman Informed the commis sion shortage of steel may delay the work Vichy, Unoccupied France, June 12 (JP) British and da Gaullist troops have been stopped along the whole front of their drive toward Beirut and Damascus, the French high com mand for Lebanon and Syria as serted in a communique tonight Forces which had crossed tha Lltanl river have been stopped before our centers of resistance) south of Sldon," the communi que said. "The British had re ported Sldon reached. It is about 20 miles south of Beirut.) Farther east, in the sector where Damascus it threatened, attacks south and southeast of Klstoue failed to crack the de fenses, the French said. Klssouei it about 10 miles from Damascus. In the Sldon sector the French said their defense lines were tlx miles south - of the city. . There the lines were exposed to a bom bardment from the tea, a bom bardment described at "violent and constant." it.' He reiterated that ha had urged ttrlkert at the North American Aviation company plant at Inglewood, Calif., to go back to work in view of circum stances. He said he had tele grams from Philip Connelly, state CIO president, denying re ports that Connelly had told a mass meeting of strikers Bridget was supporting continuation of the walk-out AFTER HOT DAY Temperature registered only 84 degrees today at 2 p. m. com pared to 98 at the tame time yes terday. Br Associated Press Prime Minister Winston Churchill told a conclave of Britain's allies in London today that every stain of Adolf Hit ler's "infected and corroding fingers will be purged and If need be blasted from the surface) of the earth." Representative! of IS allied governments or governmentt In exile, in the first formal meet ing since Hitler's legions swept clear across Europe, solemnly pledged themselves to fight "un til victory it won." King George VI visited with the government leaden in St Jame't palace. They represented Great Britain, northern Ireland. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Belgium. Czecho slovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, The Netherlands. Norway, Po land, Yugoslavia and Gen. Charles De Gaalle't free Frenchmen. No Rett For Hitler "Hitler will find no peace, na rest, no halting place, no par ley." Churchill declared. "It Is here on this island for treat that he will have to reckon in the end. We shall strive to resist by land and tea. We shall be on hit track wherever ha goes." As Churchill spoke, RAF day light raiders were slashing vio lently at nazl "invasion ports" across the channel. The German press, meanwhile. Indicated that Britain's island fortress of Malta In the central Mediterranean would probably be the next target of Hitler's aerial invaders. Portland. June 12 (IP) A thunder storm brought relief from the heat here last night after the mercury had reached American railroads moved la scorching 98 degrees in late more than 233,000 troops dur-1 afternoon. It was tha hottest lng the month of April. June 11 on record. U. S. Ship Deliberately Sunk By German Sub. Says Consul Washington, Jun 12 UP) The state departmen announced today that a prellml -ry report from the American consul In Pernambuco, Brazil, stated that the United States ship Robin Moor was undoubtedly a ink a German suDmarine. y The report added that fie commander of the tubmavne wat fully aware that the Robin Moor wat an American vessel. Sumner Welles, acting secre tary of state, made the an nouncement at hit prest confer ence. The report of the consul, Wal ter J. Linthlcum, was based on Interviews with the 11 survivors of tha thtp which wat tunk on May 21 In the South Atlantic. Thirty-five persons are mining. Welles wat grave faced as he appeared before reporters and read the brief statement He added that the Robin Moor's cargo contained no im plements ot war or other mili tary materials Inconsistent with the neutrality act Tha general cargo, Welles said, consulted ot many types of goods from tteel rails to wom en'! hosiery and Including auto mobile!, automobile parts, radio parts and numerous other items. Welles said the cargo was eon- signed to Lorenco Marques, Port Elizabeth BASEBALL Hatlenal Chicago R. 0 3 E. s 3 New York Lee and McCullough; HubbeU and Danning. Cincinnati , Boston R. . 1 . 0 H. 8 4 T. I 0 Derringer and West; Johnson and Berret, Marl. Americas (1st game.) R R. X. 4 11 1 5 t 1 Boston . St. Louis Dobson, Fleming and Pytlak; R. Harris, Mungrief and Swift R H. Philadelphia" S 31 1 Detroit t I Beckman and Hayes; Corsica and Sullivan. and East London. Mo Uniforms Salem, June 12. HP) Vohrn leen in the Oregon civil reserve) won't wear uniforme or carry firearms, but they may wear Capetown, Port Natal arm bands, state defense co-ordi- Inator Jerrold Owen said today.