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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Allied Forces Drive Deep In
Battle of Syria
Sees Action.
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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
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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.