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Newspaper Page Textrull U S Wealb- Weather 'jT nvan Forecast: Wtj cloudy with tight fttiowera today and Mon day. Slightly cooler today. Temperature Illthrat ywtwday . , , 70 Lowest yettrrday 46 precipitation past B4 boura.0 Better Hurry Good Mornlnf Hare yoo na Ik Want Adit No. Then why not turn to I ha pata nawf Voa will (lad tntertitlni of term end remfmlwr jnn had bMtrr hurry ohm jou find what job ant othm will. Medford Tribune Full Associated Preas United Press Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1941 No. 73. i V Jvll Ml m& Mini IN mm 1 1. :1 i: IDA Kelly's Comment From Washington Northwest Power Pool OPM Aim Defense Needs Every Kilowatt Army May Drill In Central Ore. Br John W. Rally Washington, D. C, June 14. Into one vast pool, mingling pri vate with government-owned and municipally-owned power, the Office of Production Man agement would like to see all available kilowatts in Oregon and Washington. OPM is more than seriously considering this step for the Pacific northwest; will probably soon have all sta tions hooked up in the Atlantic states and, furthermore, the pri vate utilities in the east have been holding conferences en it. In the east, which has been suf fering from drouth, hydro-electric plants have had loss of pro duction and this situation is causing the private companies to lend a willing ear to the pro posed power pool. While steps are rapidly ad vancing in the east, the idea has scarcely passed the wishful thinking stage for the Pacific northwest. A few months, or weeks, however, should reveal the entire picture. IN the first place, with war and national defense demands, there is need for every kilowatt that can be generated, both by dams and by steam plants, - in the Oregon-Washington zone, Recently a survey was made to determine where generators and water wheels could be pro duced, in the hope of rushing completion of the Bonneville and the Grand Coulee dams. But OPM does not wish to wait, and the quickest action is the formation of a pool of all the power resources. Roughly, in 1942, Bonneville will be producing 512,000 kilo watts; Grand Coulee will have 324,000 kilowatts, or 836.000 kilowatts of government-owned energy. This is far short of re- (ContLnued on Paga Six) MUSSOLINI TALK Rome, June 14 (IP) Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat suoka today endorsed the speech Premier Mussolini made Tues day before the chamber of fasces and guilds in which il duce said Japan "would not remain indifferent in the face of American aggression against the axis. In a message through the Italian ambassador in Tokyo, Matsuoka stated that "I share completely il duce's viewpoint insofar as Italian-Japanese rela tions are concerned," and he then remarked that "it is su perfluous to add that the whole Japanese people, without any doubt, share my feeling. Matsuoka declared that col laboration with Germany "can not be disturbed by any country or man." Rochester, N. V., June 14 (IP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain will speak to America Monday morn ing by radio in accepting the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Ro chester. Conferring of the degree by President Alan Valentine and acceptance by the prime mini ster, son of a Rochester-born mother, will be broadcast from 7:45 to 8 a. m. fPST) through facilities of the National Broad catinc company's blue network and the British Broadcasting Co nx ration. Noel Hall, British minister to Washington, will receive the prime minister's diploma from far. Valentine before Churchill speaks from London NAVY DISCLOSES MINES PLAN FOR Answer To Nazi Threats- Robin Moor Sinking Held Flagrant Plan Protest. Washington, June 14. (IP) Arming of American merchant vessels was predicted in well informed congressional circles today after Sumner Welles, un dersecretary of state, declared the United States would main tain its insistence on freedom of the seas despite German bluster and threats. One legislator, unwilling to be quoted by name but high in administration confidence, said that in view of the circum stances of the sinking of the freighter Robin Moor "the presi dent is going to have to arm our merchant ships and tell them to protect themselves." The navy has been getting ready quietly for some months to meet the heavy demand for guns and gun-mounts which would follow immediately upon a decision to furnish merchant ships with armament. At the same time, the gravity of the current world situation was emphasized by a navy dis closure that waters off Mew York harbor are to be mined immediately. The army, which has charge of harbor defenses, described it as primarily a practice opera tion put the navy noted in formal advices to shipping that "when loaded mines are planted the area will be patrolled con stantly." The mine planting, it was said, would take place be tween June 13 and Sept. 30. Another development was the formal "freezing" of all German and Italian assets in this coun try. President Roosevelt, by executive order, also placed government controls over finan cial transactions here by all European countries, but noted that Sweden, Switzerland, Fin land, Portugal, Spain and Rus sia would be permitted to usual transactions under close scrutiny. Welles commented at a press conference on a German spokes man's assertion that every ship carrying contraband to England would be sunk. 'Throughout the history of the United States," Welles as serted, the American people have never been impressed by what they regarded as bluster and threats." Welles also repeated this country's contention that the torpedoing of the Robin Moor on May 21 by a Nazi submarine was in flagrant . violation of every law of humanity and in ternational morality as well as of German treaty obligations, The undersecretary made his observations with the reserva tion that he would not make a final statement on the sink ing of the Robin Moor until the depositions of the 11 sur vivors due here by Clipper Monday have been carefully studied. It was believed that any such step as the arming of American merchant men would be de ferred until Germany replies to a stern diplomatic protest against the sinking of the Robin Moor. This protest, it has been learned authoritatively, will be dispatched as quickly as the full facts are established. At the same time, it was predicted in informed quarters that Secre tary Hull would demand resti tution for the American lives and property loss and guaran tees by Germany of the safety in the future of American ships on the high seas. Holdredge, Neb., June 14 (JP) Raymond Peace Krebs bach, who was born on Nov. 11, 1818, the day the first world war ended, has left for induc tion into the army as volun teer. Vale, June 14. JP The U. S. postal service has taken a 'lease on a plot of ground here, enuring Vale of a modern post-office Syrian War Developments TURKEY TRIPOLI.' IEIANON alexandretta ) V awwogr '"T ( i A V DEIR- latakiaKt-1 " (S? SYRIA i BEIRUT DAMASCUS KISSOUE CZRAA? BEL at A AMMAN - - I TRANS JORDAN an HAIFA JE TEL i British and "Free French" columns war reported encountering stiff resistance in their drive toward Beirut, capital of Lebanon, and Damascus, capital of Syria. Heavy fighting was reported in the vicinity of Kistoue. 10 miles south of Damascus, while Austra lian troops were reported near the outskirts of Sldon. In the north dispatches said an allied column captured the base of Deir-es-sor and another reached Ras El Ain. Aleppo was their appar ent objective. Another force was said to be pushing into central Syria along a pipeline from Iraq to Palmyra. ul Washington, June 14 President Roosevelt will ask congress. Informed legislators said today, to write its own ver sion of legislation permitting the government to requisition pri vate property for defense pur poses. These legislators said the pre sident was expected soon to ad dress letters to the chairmen of the senate and house military affairs committees setting forth the objectives the government wished to accomplish and sug gesting that congress phrase a bill as it sees fit. A property seizure bill sub mitted to congress last week by the war department aroused a storm of controversy because of its sweeping nature. It pro posed to authorize the president to requisition "temporarily or permanently" any property, tangible or intangible, which he decided was needed for defense. The president would decide the value of the property and, if the owners thought his figure was too low, they would be paid 75 per cent of his price and could sue for any additional sum they thought was due. Some legislators charged that the powers sought were so com prehensive that the president could take over private property where its use would be only re motely connected with the de fense program. Senators Byrnes (D.-N. C.) act ing majority leader, told report ers that revisions would have to be made in the bill to define more clearly the powers to be exercised. SOLDIERS ROILED BY UNION PICKET San Jose, Calif., June 14. IIP) Private Ralph Sanchez. 24 and Ivan Liston, 21, of Moffett field, were strolling the streets on Saturday leave, with too little money in their pockets, when they caught sight of a union picket in front of a bakery. They regarded him with dis favor. A few minutes later the sol diers were In jail for disturbing the peace, while the picket. A. Brown, was rubbing his head and explaining the men had at tacked him without warning stripped his picket ribbon in signia from him and belabored him for tying up industry while we are defending our country for 21 month." VZV PALMYRA AROiTl t I SAUDI ARABIA PELICANS DEFEAI CRATERS 1 3 TO 7, ROUT 2 PITCHERS The heavy-hitting Klamath Falls Pelicans slammed out 15 hits off two Medford pitchers last night to take a 13 to 7 slugfest from the Craters in an exhibition game at the fair grounds park. The two clubs clash at 2:30 this afternoon in a regular Oregon State league contest. The Pelicans clinched the game In the first four innings by scoring 10 runs, nine of them off young Bill Smith, who started for the Craters. Jack Brown, 17-year-old Portland high school hurler, took over with one out in the third and went the re mainder of the distance. He yielded eight blows and four runs, three of them coming in the ninth inning. Clyde "CurvebaU" Carlstrom pitched the full game for the Pelicans and gave up 10 hits. The Craters tallied five runs in the sixth and one each in the second' and eighth. Spike John son, with a triple, double and single, and Manager Lou Sauer with a double and two singles paced the Crater attack. Paul Crapo, Klamath first baseman, led his team with a triple, double and two singles. Fielding feature of the game was Joe Gray's running catch of a high foul fly down the right field line, and Manager Sauer also came up with a cir cus catch in center field. Score: R. H. E. Klamath Falls 13 IS 2 Medford 7 10 4 Carlstrom and Gross, Wahner; Smith, Brown and Calvert. HIS TROUSERS LEG Portland, Ore., June 14. OP) Adolph Schrickel, 65, required hospitalization today after a squirrel ran up his leg. He was strolling through a city park when the squirrel came at him. He knocked it to the ground, but it bounded right up his leg again. Five times Schrickel beat It back, finally throwing the squirrel Into nearby bushes. Both his hands were lacer ated, one gash necessitating two stitches. Reject Ford's Son Detroit, June 14. UP) Army medical examiners today re jected Benson Ford, 21-year-old son of Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company, from military service under the selec tive service act SQUIRREL RUNS UP Y TROOPS AT 1 RESIST BRITISH Allied Forces Drive Deep In Battle of Syria Sees Action. -Cavalry With the Allied Forces In Syria, June 14. IP) The first week of the battle of Syria emled tonight with the allied forces driving ever deeper into the country and with pro-Vichy French elements resisting with strong determination in front of Beirut and Damascus. How long the resistance will continue is problematical. It shows no signs of immediate col lapse. It is valiant but per functory, with the French sol diers performing what they re gard as their duty. But they lack the fire of an army imbued with an Impassioned determina tion to win. So far the Vichy elements have attempted nothing ap proaching a counteroffcnslve. The.French officers running the show, however, have used the forces at their disposal to good effect. These number not more than 40,000 it Is estimated on this side of the line, and consist mainly of Algerians, Tunisians, Senegalese and foreign legion naires. The French air force Is small, but has been especially well handled In the estimation of Brit ish officers. Subsidiary columns have gone much farther in- flanking moves than the main column cracking at Kissoue, 10 miles south of Damascus, and control all the territory south of Damascus to the trans-Jordan frontier. In this occupation cavalry columns have played an active role. They have been generally greeted by a friendly-disposed sheiks and mayors who have made obeisance to the British. The union Jack and free French standard have been hoisted over many towns. On the walls are posted pro clamations by Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson explaining that the occupation is solely to pre vent the Germans from coming in, warning against disturbances and promising full payment for property requisitioned. The French have left many guns, trucks and much ammuni tion behind them in their with drawal. CHANGE SEEN IN E Portland. June 14. (IP) The Oregon Journal said in Its early Sunday editions appearing today that the state board of higher education will consider a change In the presidency of Oregon State college in July. The newspaper said It had learned that President Frank L. Ballard had suffered Impairment in health since becoming presi dent a year ago and his duties had been assumed by an admin istrative council. The board, the Journal said, will decide whether: 1-To replace Ballard before the start of the next scholastic year. 2 Extend his present leave on half-pay for a year and maintain the pre sent arrangement. 3-Act on Chancellor Frederick M. Hunt er's recommendation that Bal lard. If replaced, be elected to a full professorship. SAFETY CUP IN BY LADYJRIVER Ames, Iowa, June 14, (JP) Meet Mrs. Flavia Larson, you who scorn women drivers. The 34-year-old graduate psy chology student at Iowa State college entered driving con test here In connection with safety education conference. Other contestants were 25 men. including representatives of sev eral highway safety organiza tions. Mrs. Larson won first prize, a loving cub YEAR SINCE FALL Dramatic Wins Of Nazis Offset By England Holds Edge At Sea, Home By Kirks L. Simpson A year ago Tuesday France collapsed under the rending at tack of a German blitzkrieg and left Britain fighting alone against her axis foes. On that June 17, the French hero of the World war, old Marshal Petain, took control of French destiny as chief of state nd sued for peace. A week later the Franco-German armis tice was signed. In the same meeting place where the World war ended in German sur render at Compelgne. Yet it is clear now beyond challenge that the prime expec tation in the minds of Petatn and the group which created the defeatist regime of the "men of Vichy" has not been realized. France is not at peace. Eng land has endured for a full year despite the added perils arising from the utter collapse of her ally. Britain still holds every foot of the vast empire she held a year ago. She has taken an em pire from Italy In East Africa, restored Hailie Selassie to his throne In Ethiopia, beaten off German attacks on England, balked Italian and axis assaults on Egypt and begun, with Free French allies, the occupation of French-mandated Syria. Bracket all that against Eng lish reverses on the continent from Norway, Flanders and France to Greece and the score with the axis shows less one sided than stunningly swift nazl land victories on many fronts would imply. The men of Vichy miscalculated British powers of resistance a year ago as badly as they misjudged American will to aid Britain. They sur rendered too soon. There are other factors now looming also to bolster Prime Minister Churchill's recent pre diction that if Britain can hold on for another six months, until winter comes, her chances of ultimate victory will be bright indeed. Not even new menaces for her In the Mediterranean, in north Africa, In Syria with the fall of Greece and nazl cap ture of Crete change the ulti mate fact, ringingly proclaimed by President Roosevelt, that unless the axis powers can "capture" the British Isles, their final defeat is certain. That Is the dominant element of British war policy and of American ald-for-Brltain efforts and as the first fateful year of Vichy subservience to German will ends, signs are not lacking that the battle of Britain, the battle of the Atlantic upon which the fate of Britain hangs, has turned a corner In British favor. JUSTICE DOUGLAS TO VISIT Astoria, Ore., June 14. (JP) Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the U. S. supreme court will vacation again this summer in Oregon and Wash ington. In letters received by friends, Douglas said he planned to fish here In late August. For the past two years the justice has vacationed at his mother-in-law's home in La Grande, Ore., concluding the two-month visit with a tour of the northwest. Portland, June 14P Wil bur Hixon, 20, Klamath Indian, accused of the fatal shooting of Abner McNalr on the Klamath reservation March 26, was c vie ted of manslaughter by federal jury here lata yesterday. Portland, Ore., June 14. HP) Charles E. Eatchell, AFL Auto Mechanics union business sgent, notified the Truck Opera tors' league of Oregon today that 60 repairmen employed by 40 members had voted to strike Monday noon. War Bulletins I'STALIN'S BENDING New York, Sunday, June 15. VP) The British radio said today RAF raids on Ger many's important Ruhr indus trial regions ware continued last night and that the French port of Brest, which harbors the German battleships Gnel sanau and Scharnhorst. was included in the cross-channel attacks. The attack, the British radio said, presumably caused con siderable damage. Tha broad cast was heard hare by NBC. New York. June 14. (IP) A Budapest broadcast said to night that an unexplained ex plosion of "astonishing catas trophic results In damage" has occurred In Bulgaria. No further details were given in the broadcast which was heard by NBC. New York. June 14. P) Tha Germans cut telephone communications tonight be tween Berlin and Barn, main relay point in neutral Swlti erland for European news. There was no Indication whether there was any major significance . connected with tha action or whether It was another of the periodic com munications blackouts im posed by the nails since their Balkan invasion. London, Sunday, June 15. VP) One German plan was reported authoritatively today to have been shot down over Britain during the night. Raiding apparently was on slight scale and up to 8 p. m. there had been no report of any bombings. BEST FOR PLANTS Ogdensburg, N. Y., June 14. (JP) Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario declared today devel opment of the St. Lawrence seaway may prove one of the greatest factors that ever In fluenced the history of the world." Addressing a reception for cruising members of the Detroit board of commerce, Hepburn said "there are those who scoff at the Idea New York, Boston and Halifax may be shelled." "They may be right," he said. "but for my part I should feel far happier if the great part of the productive capacity of North America were cradled thousands of miles from the coast, deep within our borders and around the shores of the Great Lakes." Declaring "ships are the key stone in the contest now rag ing," and "vital to national security," the Ontario executive said United States and Canadian shipyards on the Great Lakes are "now largely idle because we cannot get ships through from Ogdensburg to the sea because of inadequate canals and channels. His talk was broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting System. 7 AXIS VESSELS London, June 14. (JP) Brit ish submarines were officially reported today to have sunk seven axis vessels and damaged three others In the Mediterran ean and fresh blows were re corded against German efforts to get nazl surface raiders loose in the Atlantic. By gunfire or torpedoes, the admiralty reported, British un derseas craft raiding axis com munication lines between the Italian Island of Lanpedusa and the Aegean sank an armed Italian trawler, four schooners, a large supply lighter and a fully-laden supply ship of about 1,000 tons. Elsewhere tha British an nounced, berths of nazi war ships at Brest again were bomb ed heavily overnight and the seventh ship from the sunken Bismarck's flotilla was de- Istroyed. ENGLISH DESTROY TO HITLER'S WILL' t High Officers Oppose Policy Soviet-Nazi Nerve War Nears Break. (By the Associated Press) London. June 14. UPi A rlf has developed In Soviet Russia with Premier Joseph Stalin de cided upon bending to the will of Adolf Hitler in the matter of unstated demands while officers of the Red army are opposed, diplomatic quarters in Finland reponea tonight. Helsinki dispatches said diolo. mats there had heard that De- iense commissar S. K. Tlmos henko was leading the internal opposition to Stalin's "policy of German appeasement." This Information was received as reports from Ankara. Turk.v said well-Informed quarters there were m agreement that import ant developments in the Sovlet- uerman nerve war are due now at any time. Diplomats In the Turkish capi tal were repeating a remark at tributed to Relchmarshal Her mann Goerlng that "Germany needs the Ukraine for a long war against the Anglo-Saxons." AH roads leading from Ru mania to her former province, Russian occupied Bessarabia, were reported closed and mined. Travelers arriving in Turkey from Bucharest, the Rumanian, capital, said Rumanian army of ficers were openly boasting thai they soon would regain posses sion of the territory former Kinff Carol surrendered after a Rus sian ultimatum last June. German divisions massed on the Russian . frontier were re ported by these travelers to bo cavalry particularly useful in the marshr terrain they would encounter on the opposite side, of the soviet frontier. Dispatches from Turkey said Turkish circles were deeply In terested In reports that most at the German troops had left Bul garia, although they did not overlook that the Germans may simply be using their troops as a trade bargaining power. Tl AS DIKE BREAKS Corcoran, Calif., June 14. (IP) A 200-foot break in tha Tulare lake levee flooded mors sections of farm land today, while farm families waded from their homes through shallow water and mud carrying on their backs what belongings they could. Observers estimate ' around 35,000 acres of cotton, grain and other land are now under water, and hundreds of farmers strained at the task of bolstering tha levees. About. 230 families have evacuated their homes. After one of the wettest Cali fornia winters in years, deep snows of the Sierra, 50 miles away, are melting too fast in summer sunshine to be cared for by normal channels, . and the outlook Is for continued run off until mid-July. LOGGERSTPOTE Olympla, Wash., June 14 (JP) Delegates to a convention of the CIO International Wood workers of America voted unan imously tonight to recommend to their locals that they return to work immediately In 83 northwest lumber mills and camps. Aberdeen, June 14. IJPy Grays Harbor loggers covered by the Clemons agreement voted today to return to work under a compromise agreement whila negotiations for a final settle ment will be started July la.