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run w 0 Weather ' !ru """" Sunday Want Ads Mow It tha Mm la prepare that Want A for U Sanity lomlnf edition. Theaaandl of eesr eree ara m thla pat eter Sunday moraine. Then too, Ihm'i a full daj ahead fat action. Medford Tribune Forecast! Parti rinulf ta. Blfhl anS Saturday. Cooler toolrht. Temperatiira Htlhrit jeterdaT.S7 Lowest (hll mwnlnf SI Precipitation pat 24 houre Full Associated Prau United Prees Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1941 15) io)(o) No. 72. or n i mi i n M i , , n , , M Hl mm w me i the INA7I RATTI FQHIP CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNEH Copyright. 1941. by Naw York Tribuna. Inc. (Editor'! not: Aidant advo eatas of praparadnasa and in tervention. Joseph Aliop and Robert Kintnor. wboa "Capital P a r a d a" column hai long baan a dally faatura In th Mail Tribune, today writ their last column, at leait for torn time. They will add their bit to tha mounting strength of Unci Sam' arm ad fore. Jo entering actire service In the nary and Bob Joining the army). . . Washington, June 13. Next to the widespread ignorance of the true meaning of German victory, the most disturbing phenomenon in the United States today is the strange fail ure of the national self-confidence. In the years when their country was young and weak and poor, Americans were as brash as Paul Bunyan himself. But now, when their country is the richest and the most pow erful in the world, they are fearful of every risk, and ready to credit every interested state ment of their own impotence. They do themselves and their country a monstrous injustice. Those who say, "The war is lost already, and we cannot change the outcome," are talking non sense. Only the future can show with certainty what the out come of the war will be, but it is certain now that the men who know the full facts are convinced an American decision to act will make victory very probable. The president's ' mili tary and naval advisers, the government experts on world economics and politics, and the high officials whose grave re sponsibility it is to assess the problem confronting us, are all but unanimous on the matter. They say, first, that Ameri can action will stabilize the strategic situation, preventing further degeneration, and giv ing time for complete prepared ness. And second they say that when all is prepared, the United States and Britain, fight- (ConUmiod on Page Ten) 5 SCHOOL SITES Washington, June 13 JP) Locations of five new air corps schools were announced today by the war department as part of the undertaking to step up training of pilots from 12,000 to 30,000 annually. The schools will be located at Midland, Tex.; Victorvllle, Cal.; Sebring, Fla.; Lubbock, Tex., and Higley, Ariz. Albany. Ore.. June 13. Linn county berry growers esti mated today that they would need 1.000 pickers to harvest the raspberry, loganberry and black cap raspberry crops. Work is expected to start next week. SICE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Velma Gilstrap celebrating her birthday today on Friday the 13th Just 13 years after her 13th birthday on Friday the 13th. Boots, cowboy hats, spurs and clop-clop of horses adding to the atmosphere on the Sheriff's Posse-Sheriffs Ladies Mounted Troop trek to Roxy Ann. Bill Grenbemer presiding at the griddle frying steaks to per fection. "Cap" Shelby Tuttle showing surprise and pleasure with a new belt and holster, gift from the hard-riding horseback enthu siasts. Lolita Murray informing friends she was having a bounc ing food time." nru.i uni illvjiiii BADLY DAMAGED IS Dense Clouds of Smoke Fol low Explosion Raider Limps Toward Skaggerak London, June 13 UPt The air ministry announced tonight that a German pocket battleship had been hit by a torpedo fired by a British plane off the Nor wegian coast early today. The communique said that "dense clouds of smoke rose from the ,vessel" and that later the battleship, which the admi ralty did not identify, was seen to be stationary off the southern point of Norway. Still later the battleship and escorting destroyers were "ob served to be retiring toward the Skaggerak at a greatly reduced speed," the communique said. One Left Germany has only two pocket battleships strong, ' swift ships of 10,000 tons carrying 11-inch guns since the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee off Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 17, 1939. The remaining two are the Admiral Scheer and the Luet zow, formerly the Deutschland. The battleship when first sighted was heading north and informed quarters said "it is in conceivable that she was going anywhere except on a raiding expedition." One air-launched torpedo scored a "direct hit amidships," and another ws launched into the smoke which quickly envel oped the warship, the air minis try news service said. This meant that more than one plane attacked. The battleship was accompan ied by five destroyers, the ser vice added, but not a single shot was fired at the attacking planes. FATHER IS KILLED L Klamath Falls, June 13 UP) A 13-year-old girl who was spanked for quarreling wuh her 11-year-old brother was blamed by a coroner's Jury here today for the fatal shooting of her father at Canby, Calif., Tuesday night. The father, Ray Harpham, 36. Southern Pacific railroad tele grapher, was shot through the neck with a .43 calibre pistol. He was taken first to AHuras, Calif., and then brought here where he -died yesterday. The children's stepmother, Mrs. Edna Harpham, testified at the inquest that her husband had severely spanked his daugh ter, Ramona. for quarreling in the night with her brother, Ray, and was returning to the chil dren's room to quiet further dis turbance when he was met at the door by a blast from the pistol. The girl is in custody at Alturas. HITLER'S PAPER By the Associated Press Berlin. June 13. (P Part of an edition of Adolf Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkischer Beo bachter, containing an article by Propaganda Minister Paul Jos eph Goebbels, which said the British would fall into error if they thought water was an in surmountable obstacle, was or dered confiscated today. Goebbels said the British have a traditional attitude to ward military matters and are ; slow to adjust themselves to technical developments. The German army, on the otier hand, takes nothing for grant ed, experiments constantly, works out old problems in the liffht nf tvhniral iHvinpM K wrote. Six Fliers Died in This Bomber Crash Six army fliers wr killed when this two-motored army bomber erashed on a brush covered southwest Wyoming hillside. The plane was on a routine flight from Salt Lake to Chicago. The mishap occurred when a summer snowstorm caught up with the plane near Lyman. Wyoming. Germans Silenced Robin Moor Radio Before Torpedo Sent U. S. Ship Down TREATY VIOLATION SEEN BY, WELLES Germans Defiant Berlin, June 13 VP An authorized German source said today "we won't be buf faloed by American and Eng lish discussions' concerning the Robin Moor." "Whenever any ship with contraband sails ior England we'll shoot at it, whether it is the Robin Moor, the Exmoor r anything else." The German ' public still was unaware that the Robin Moor has been sunk by a sub marine. Newspapers have not printed a word about the inci dent and authorities said they ire as yet without proof that I German submarine was in volved. Washington, June 13 VP) Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, asserted today that the facts in the sinking of the Robin Moor were beyond dispute and Indirectly accused Germany of violating an international treaty on submarine warfare as It af fects provision for the safety of passengers and crews. The evidence of 21 survivors of the sunken American merch ant vessel was very clear and there could be no dispute as to the facts, he told bis press con ference. As to what action the United States will take. Welles said he would withhold a considered statement until tha full deposi tions of the 11 survivors were received from American offi cials in Brazil and were Investi gated here. Welles was asked for com ment on the statement of Ger man spokesman in Berlin that "we won't be buffaloed by American and English discus sions concerning the Robin Moor" and that "whenever any ship with contraband sails for England we'll shoot at it" Welles replied that the ques tion of what constitutes contra band is one of the most contro versial in all the world and that the American government had never acquiesced in contraband definitions of either (id in the present war. Recife, Brazil, June 13. (P) A s urvlvor of the sunken United States freighter Robin Moor declared today that armed German seamen occupied the 4,999-ton ship and seized her radio to prevent her from flashing' an' SOS before a torpedo from a German submarine sent her to the bottom. The Robin Moor-dipped under the waves of the South Atlantic 23 minutes after the captain- had ordered passengers and crew to the lifeboat In the early morn ing of May 21, the survivor re lated. He said there was no trace of panic as the ship's company, men, women and one child, took to the lifeboats. (One- lifeboat, containing 11 men, was picked up by the Bra zilian rescue ship Ozorio. There has been no word of three others, with 35 other persons.) "The first seven days we kept in sight of the other boats," the survivor said. "We rowed ! and rowed. Heavy rains and the broiling sun punished us fiercely. The morning of the eighth day we could no longer see the others. "I think the lifeboat the cap tain was in headed toward Africa." The narrator, who remained anonymous, was one of the sea men who had spent 18 days in an open boat under the tropical sun before being rescued. "We- had to ration our food closely," he said. ' "Sometimes we all despaired of ever reaching safety. "It was worst at night. We rowed IB days. I'll never forget those awful days and nights." "We almost went crazy with Joy when we saw the Ozorio and began to live again for we all had been partically con vinced we were dead men. "Aboard the Ozorio they treated us very kindly and there was food in abundance. ."Now we are happy again." ROOSEVELT SUFFERS IT: Washington, June 13. VP) Suffering from what was de scribed as a slight sore throat. President Roosevelt cancelled ail . his engagements today. In cluding the regular Friday cab inet meeting and press confer ence.. BASEBALL Cooperstown, N. Y, une 13. The Cleveland Indians whip ped the world champion Cin cinnati Reds 2 to 1 today in a rain-drenched slx-lnnlng exhibi tion game at Doubleday field, birthplace of baseball. No major league games were scheduled today. ci (J RETAIL BUYING -PACE LAST YEAR'S FIGURE New York, June 13. (P) Buying in retail stores contin ued apace this week, and sales averaged IS to 18 percent above last year for the country as a whole. Dun & Bradstreet report ed today. "Retail selling was strong over a broad range of merchan dise," the credit agency said. "Especially noted by retailers were tendencies to purchase In the high-price brackets and to buy more in clothing lines," the agency added. Outstanding "volume sellers" In many stores were graduation and bridal Wear, sportswear, dresses, pastel topcoats, luggage. silverware and other and graduation gifts, steel chairs, shower wedding tubular curtains and ruffled curtains. There was no let-up in inter est in automobiles and electri cal appliances, but, it was point ed out, sales in some centers were running slower because of declining supplies. Pacific coast retail sales top ped a year ago by 14 to 17 per cent. KLAMATH MISHAP Klamath Falls, June 13. W) The death toll of a headon crash at Barclay Springs yes terday had Jumped to three this morning with deaths of John Barlow, 08, and Forrest Kegley, S3, during the night Barlow, switchman for the Union Pacific at Portland, was the father of Lee Barlow, and they, along with Robert Domb roff of Seahurst, Wash., and Marie MrFarland of Portland, were passengers In the car In which Maurice "Blackie" Can nalonga, the driver, was instant ly killed. The conditions of Lee Barlow and Dombroff, both seriously injured, were un changed this morning, while Mrs. McFarland was reported definitely improved. SURVEYORS' WORM War Bulletins DAMASCUS RINGED FOR CANTONMENT OVER HALF DONE Capt. Bean Gives Progress Report On Proposed Army Camp; Lines Undecided Topographical survey of the proposed army cantonment site in the Antelope-Beagle district is 80 percent complete, Capt. Theron W. Bean, head of the constructing quartermaster's of fice here, said today in giving a summary of the work accomp lished to date. The topographical surveys In clude studies of areas for the installation of water and sewer lines and a sewage disposal plant as well as the mapping of the ground Itself, Capt Bean related. There are now seven complete survey parties In the field at all times, he said, add ing that one party was making an investigation of soils for building foundations. This in vestigation was nearly finished as was a study of water supply and of a site for a reservoir, he added. The reservoir, he said, probably will be built In the northeast corner of th building center close to the Medford wa ter supply line. Plan ror 80.000 "We're still figuring on the basis of a proposed camp for 30,000 men," Capt Bean said. "The number of men has not been changed although the com' position of the troops them' selves has been changed slightly from what - was at first pro posed." Capt Bean disclosed that the site for the proposed camp has been definitely determined but its final boundaries had not yet been decided upon. The boun daries can be made somewhat elastic, he Indicated, as was the case when a cemetery north of Table Rock was found to lie within the general campsite. In this case the boundary was re adjusted to leave the cemetery outside the camp area. Building Site Set The area for the camp build ings, generally referred to as the "building center," has been determined and the buildings are now being put down on paper, the captain stated. The exact location of each building, however, is subject to the final approval of the commanding general of the troop to us the proposed camp, he explained. A great deal of work has been done on railroad facilities, plans being discussed in con Junction with the Southern Pa cific company and tha Medford Corporation, which owns a line that runs to the proposed camp, Capt. Bean said. If possible, the Medford Corporation's railroad will be used by the camp, he stated, adding, however, that this would mean an increase in transfer facilities. No Land Bought No land for the proposed can tonment has been acquired yet "We obtain options as we go along and the boundaries of the site are subject to change as we go along too, factor entering into the picture being the value of the land in relation to the camp' needs," Capt Bean said. He added that so far the atti tude of land owner toward th project has been cordial and co operative. Some of the land will be leased, some of it bought he related. An Investigation 1 being made of all fuel that might be used at the camp, Capt Bean emphasized. Sawdust I In cluded in the study, he revealed. rectors to be considered, he pointed out are heet value, de livered cost availability and supply. There must be suf ficient supply of th fuel avail able at all times to meet the needs of th military establish ment, he stressed. 128 On Staff New . There are now 128 employes on the constructing quartermas ter and architects' staff at the army and in the field. This does not include the state highway department's survey crew work ing on highway aspect of the proposed camp. Final authorization for actual construction of the cantonment 1 yet to come from Washington, Cairo. Eorst. June IS (IPt Australian aircraft attacked a formation of Junkers war planes bearing Italian insignia during an attempt to bomb British warships off Salda. Lebanon, this afternoon, the British middle east command announced tonight The communique said three Junker were shot down, others were damaged and the remainder dispersed with no losses to th Australians. New YorkTTuiie" 13 UP1 The British radio quoted the Swedish newspaper Social Demokrtten today In report ing that the German army had cancelled all leaves and that men born In 1923 who have not yet done mllttsry service had been called up. BBC added that the Swed ish correspondent presumab ly in Berlin, had reported that "the explanation given in military quarters Is that the measures have been taken in order to end the war at the earliest possible moment" PERIL FROM NAZI TROOP MOVEMENT Moscow, June 13 HP) Soviet Russia said tonight that German troop, freed from operation In tha Balkans, are moving to east ern and northeastern Germany (where they face Russia) but added that "it must be assumed" that the movements have no bearing on Russian-German rela tions. Tass, official news agency, is sued the statement which was broadcast to the world by radio. The Russian statement said that Germany, "according to in formation at the disposal of the U. 8. s. R., is adhering to the German-Russian non aggression "as unswervingly as the Soviet Union." By Drew Middleton London, June 1 3 (Pi Brit ish dreams of a Soviet Russian German disagreement bordering on active warfare were nourish ed today by repeated but un- confirmable reports that Berlin demands on Russia were of such magnitude that acceptance would loosen Moscow military hold on the Balkan and Black seas. Informed quarters said dis cussions between Sir Stafford CriDD. British ambassador to Moscow, and government lead er here were "primarily con cerned with Russian-German re lations." D. C, Capt Bean pointed out. Capt Bean said he was glad the coordinating committee had appointed a coordinator to car ry out the actual work of plans In solving civic problems created by the camp, "not be cause we haven't had perfect cooperation but because the county, city and chamber of commerce officials have been giving so much of their own time to the task. "We've been receiving splen did cooperation from all sides." Capt Bean continued. "I said that a few days after my arrival her and I can repeat it now with equal sincerity." Jews in Unoccupied France Must Also Suffer Penalties Vichy, Unoccupied Franca, June 13 UP) The French gov ernment clamped down today on Jews In the unoccupied as well as the German-occupied area, virtually barring them from all professions and businesses In special law which provided heavy penalties for Jewish vio lators. The new law, which exempts certain categories of war veter ans and their relative as well as long-established Jewish fam ilies in France, provides penal ties of S years Imprisonment and a fin of 20,000 francs (about $480), or both, for violation. Xavler Vallat th Vichy gov ernment's commissi oner for Jews, announced today that the general lines of anU-Jwuh pol BY FREE FRENCH; T Peaceful Occupation of City Hoped British Continue Progress Toward Beirut Cairo. Effvnt Jim 131 IS Fre French force hav com pleted the encirclement of Da mascus. Svrla's ancient eanltaV and apparently are awaiting the outcome oi negotiations tor peaceful occupation of the city, authoritative sources reported. lomgni. These ennrr-ee eati in m solution was much preferred by ine uritisn-r ree French alllea and declared thri had h at least one instance already lit me iive-aay campaign where French-held defense post had surrendered after i1lMilnna under a white flag. The Britiih rnnrtK fnr. slight progress along the coastal road toward Beirut. Vichy, Unoccupied France, June 13. IP) Allied forces in a tank-led drive of several kilo meters have reached the out skirts of Sidon, on the Lebanese) coast 23 miles couth of Beirut and are now battlln French defenders in the environs of Damascus, the French high com mand acknowledged tonight London. June 13. iJPt Mine an Industrial building was blown into ine sxy ana numerous fires were started last night In Ger many's great manufacturing r. gion, the Ruhr valley, by targe force or British bombers In th heaviest raid of the war on that region, it was claimed officially todaj The blasting, fiery success cost the RAF six plane . acknowk edged missing from the bombef command. At home th RAF fighter command was reported to hav turned back a formation ot Mesaerachmitta. retaliation. Kan. In a five-minute battle 20,009 feet above the southeast Eng lish coast this afternoon. TRAVEL BY ALIENS Helsinki, June 1J (JP Th Finnish government tonight an nounced restrictions on travel by foreigner in northern and border districts similar to regu lations in force during the Finnish-Russian war and prior to) tha beginning ot German troop transits throush northern Tin- land last fall. Under th restrictions, police) nermita mrm rawinlrM fa nH ers to travel along th coast of me uuu of Bothnia, in torn districts in northern and central Finland, tha area facing Hango, the southwestern fortress which Russia gained the right to occu py in the Russian-Finnish war of 1939-40, and districts along th Russian frontier. aenunento, June U-OrV-Churn-Inc cream butterfat: rust grade 0Vt: seoond trad Su,o. icy will foUow that already im posed by the Germans in the occupied tones of France, In cluding the placarding of Jewish owned shops and, possibly, the) appointment of non-Jewish man agers. Vallat said th measure were temporary and were taken "to safeguard our national economy and French interests." He added that permanent solution which must be "international or, at least European" will have to await peace. He said that th suret nation al already had taken police mea sure against "a Jewish band which drained the country's re sources" and that th most dan gerous members had been in terned In supervised camp.
