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Newspaper Page Textrun u wmu- Weather ZJT" "port Forecast: Cloudy with show ers tonljht. clear Wednesday. Little chance In temperature. Temperature Hliheat yesterday 67 Lowest thla mornlne , -M rreelpttatlon past 14 houra .11 Hougecleaning Then heuaacleaalnf time rolls around, chancea are there will b several thlncs In roar home that are just "In the way"... why not advertise them In the Tribune Want AH and have tome extra spending moneyt Medford Tribune Full Associated Prett nlted Praia MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1941. Thirty-sixth Year No. 75. nnniviio), riyjlAi In IN a o) m t m Kelly's Comment From Washington - Oil From Copra Getting Scarce Rubber Shortage Due to Shipping CorvallU After Army Cantonment : Br John W. Kelly : Washington, D. C, June 17. Oil from copra (dried meat of the cocoanut) will shortly be so scarce that housewives will have to look for something else for whipping up salad dressing, which should give a boost to the olive oil of California. The rea son why this copra oil will be scarce Is that the shortage of ships, predicted in this column, makes finding bottoms difficult. The administration is so raiding the American flag fleet of freighters and passenger liners, taking them for auxiliaries for the navy and transports for the army and for use of the British, that this policy is Injuring the American defense program seri ously. In Chill are thousands of tons of copper ore waiting for Ameri can freighters to bring It to smelters in the United States. The ore is piling up monthly. Boliva has contracted to sell tons of tin ore to the Metals Reserve corporation, a subsidi ary of Reconstruction Finance corporation, and while a smelter for the tin is being built at Texas City. Tex., with RFC money, the ore is not being delivered. With some of the best chromlte in the world in the mountains af south western Oregon and Alaka, Metals Reserve corporation has nooopH inn 000 tons from the Philippines, with the under standing that It be delivered at the rate of 8.000 tons a month & lmnc t nnnfl has heen delivered at Tacoma yet. MRC arranged for 100.000 tons of chrornite from South Africa, of which 13, 000 tons have arrived when there should be 40,000 tons. Almost a year ago MRC con tracted for 50,000 tons of tung sten from the Philippines, with scarcelv 25.000 tons delivered. Last November there was an other contract for 100.000 tons. ,i(Vi ahnnt 25 rwr cent landed on rlnrks. The cocoflnut shells which are made into char coal, powdered and used in gas masks is trickling in from the Philippines when It should be arriving by the ton. Jesse H. Jones, through MRC, contracted . for the output of tungsten from Bolivia for the next three years, out-bidding the Japanese for this material, but no ships are avail able. The government was to receive quantities of tungsten from China in return for the millions of dollars given that country, but very little has been obtained. Recently government scientists reported a large de posit of good tungsten in Val ley county, Idaho, but MRC is not looking for domestic ores. (Continued on Page Pour) Schonchin Freed In Gun Assault Portland. June 17. D Guy Schonchin. Modoc Indian, was found innocent on a charge of assault with a dangerous weap on in federal court yesterday. Schonchin denied firing a shot which injured Melvin Barkley on the Klamath Reserv ation April 7. SICE GLANCES bt tribune reporters Eddie Nave staying home to nurse a bump on his cranium which he struck on the bottom of a pool in a fancy high dive, and getting out of bed seconds before the entire ceiling plaster crashed to the floor, - Janet Ross haunting the stage depot since Saturday wait ing for two friends who finally informed her they were coming this afternoon. Gertrude Haskins Risse pass ing out pith helmets to custo mers on account of there being a bird loose in the store, the creature refusing to leave after flying ui from the outside. EFFORT TO INVADE SCOTLAND IS SEEN IN BIG MOVEMENT Steady Stream of Troop Trains and Transports to Coastal Bases Is Report By tho Astoclatad Prass Adolf Hitler was reported massing "large numbers" of German troops today on the west coast of Norway possible springboard for Invasion of Scotland and advices reaching London said a steady stream of troop trains and sea-going transports was moving toward coastal bases. Only a few days ago, soviet Russia announced officially that German soldiers were moving back into northern and north eastern Germany from the Bal kans. The soviet announcement said "it must be assumed" that the nazi troop movements were not directed against Russia, and the British declared talk of friction between Germany and Russia might be a feint to mask prepar ations for Hitler s long-awanea attempt to Invade the British Isles. Ripa For Surprise Coincidentally, the Finnish newspaper Sanomat in Helsin ki declared that the military sit uation in the Baltic was ripe for surprises likely to affect Finland. ' - "We have no right to shut' our eyes to what is happening around us," the newspaper said, and Helsinki was alive with ru mors of troop movements on both sides of the Russian fron tier with Finland. War tremors stirred again In the Balkans, too, as all Ru mania was ordered blacked out, beginning tonight, for the first time since a general blackout was lifted a month ago. French Resistance Grows In the middle east, Britain faced a rising tide of French re sistance. French military dispatches said French troops had counter attacked and driven the British out of the strategic town of Merdjayoun, only six miles from the Palestine frontier. British columns storming to ward Damascus, the ancient capital of Syria, claimed a 4 mile advance, but it was ac knowledged that the fighting was becoming heavier on all fronts in the 10-day-old allied invasion. British headquarters in Cairo said strong allied reinforce ments had been sent to the south Syrian front, where Vichy French troops were lashing out in fierce counter-attacks. The British communique said allied forces were making "steady progress" on the Medi terranean coastal sector in a drive toward Beirut, capital of Lebanon, but admitted that the 'French were putting up a bitter fight at Merdjayoun and Kunei tra. 40 miles southwest of Da mascus. Advance in Libya In North Africa, the British reported that Imperial troops penetrated across the Egyptian frontier into Libya as far as Fort Capuzzo and then "beat back determined axis counter attacks despite axis reinforce ments rushed to the scene from the Tobruk area, 80 miles in side Libya. The British war bulletin said severe losses were inflicted on German and Italian troops in what appeared to be the open ing or a major battle. Oil Export Ban Is Aim on East Coast Washington, June 17 A complete ban on exports of oil from the east coast of the United States, without prior government approval of indi vidual shipment, was proposed to the petroleum industry today by Secretary Ickes, defense petroleum coordinator. The action followed close on the heels of the stoppage yester day of a 240.000 gallon ship ment of oil from Philadelphia to Japan, because of the threat ened oil famine en the eastern seaboard ZamZam r American survivors of the Egyptian liner Zamiam, aunk In tho south Atlantic by a Ger man raider, reach the railway station at San Sebastian. Spain, from St. Jean de Lua in occu pied Franco where they were landed. They're on their way homo by way of Lisbon. Portugal. SEEK ROPE CLUE IN RAPE, MURDER OF PRETTY CLERK Washington June 17. GTV Washington police searched for a piece of hemp rope today in the hope it might be a vital -clue in the strangulation-rape death of comely 23-year-old Jessie E. Strleff, war department work er, whose nude body was found in a garage yesterday. Homicide Chief George Dar- nall said an eight-inch mark on Miss Strieff's right hip indicat ed she had been bound with a rope about three-eighths of an inch in diameter. As police pressed their search also for the missing clothes Miss Strieff wore when she left her apartment Sunday, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed concern to her press conference over the safety of young women who take defense jobs. Mrs. Roosevelt suggested that no young Washington women should return to their homes in the late evening without an es cort. Miss Strieff disappeared in mid-afternoon, however. Police said discovery of the missing clothes and rope might give them valuable leads in the mystery. The girl's body was found sprawling in the garage of a retired professor, who was vacationing in St. Mary's, Md. All evidence indicated that the crime had been committed elsewhere and that the girl's body was thrust into the garage for temporary concealment. Abrasions on her back and legs led authorities to believe that she had been dragged some dis tance. EMPLOYERS WILL Oregon state unemployment compensation commission will hold a public meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow In the Jackson county courthouse auditorium for Jack son and Josephine county em- ployers Interested in hearing re- company, where they will be sumei and explanations of the!tored. Berries wanted, he said, changes in the law adopted by I were boysenberries. youngber the 1941 legislature. Employers ! ries. loganberries and a few rasp- unable to attend were urged by the commission to send repre sentatives. Silas Galser. commission ad ministrator, will address the meeting. i i.t.t;... -v - ;..! representatives will explain the new procedure of employer co operation in reporting on partial earnings of regular emoloyes. Other phases of administration also will be discussed. Brownsville, Ore., June 17. P The Linn county pioneer association will hold its 54th annual reunion on the banks of the Calapooia river here June 19-21. Governor Spragua will speak Friday. Survivors Reach Spain -ru" NJ&u '4 Japan Gives Up Trade Pact With Netherlands By Ralman Morin Batavla, Netherlands East Indies, June 17. WV- Japan abruptly broke off economic negotiations with the Netherlands East Indies today, but both governments announced Jointly that their failure to agree on a trade pact would lead to "no change in normal relations" between them. A Joint communique stated that the long conferences at which Japan had been seeking hrs)er -shipments of oil, rubber and tin "unfortunately have come to no satisfactory result." Observers Interpreted the Japanese action as indicating that Japan for the present was abandoning economic penetra tion of the Indies, rich in raw materials vital for war. German efforts to obtain these commodi ties through Japan were con sidered likewise blocked. At the eleventh hour Ken kichi Yoshizawa, head of the Japanese delegation, asked the N.E.I, delegation to reconsider its reply of June 6 to previous Japanese proposals. Japan had termed this reply "unsatisfactory." It rejected a Japanese request for bigger amounts of the strategic raw materials than previously had been purchased and refused to accord Japan special privileges for economic development of the N.E.I. Yoshizawa plans to leave for Japan June 27. 50 IONS OF BERRIES SOUGHT BY FLUHRER FOR BAKERY SUPPLY A minimum price of 614 cents a pound will be paid by Fluhr er's bakeries for 50 tons of Jack son county berries, some 35 tons more than the amount purchased by the bakeries last year, it was announced today by Otto A. Wicklein, maintainance man for Fhihrer's. Wicklein, who made the an nouncement at the Medford Ice and Storage company to a group of berry growers and representa tive city officials, said that the berries would start being re ceived Wednesday morning at the Medford Ice and Storage berries. A special porch Is being con structed at the storage company to handle the berries, said Wick lein, who told the growers that clean and firm berries were de sired. All growers in the county were Invited by Wicklein to bring their berries to the stor age company for purchase. Shanghai Gunman r.M f JVIff .lap UttlCtal Shanghai. June 17. (Py Chfkayuki Akagl. J a pa n e t e1 special deputy commissioner of the Shanghai municipal council. was asassinated by a gunman today. Japanese officials immed iately blamed terrorists of the Chinese Chungking government. Effort for LUFTWAFFE AND R. A. F. EXCHANG E HEAVY ATTACKS London, June 17. (P) The Royal Air Force in attacks last night on western Germany de livered Its principal blows on the Cologne and Duesseldorf districts, where "many fires were left burning," the air min istry announced today. Dui.sburg also was reported bombed in this sweep over Ger many's Industrial Ruhr and Rhineland districts, while other planes attacked the docks at Boulogne and machines of the fleet air arm cooperated with bombers of the RAF's coastal command In an assault on the docks and harbor at Dunkerque, on the French coast. The air ministry admitted the loss of seven planes in these at tacks. Berlin, June 17. F "Indi vidual industrial plants and rail facilities" were hit In British bomber raids on several places in western Germany last night, the high command announced today, but added that 26 British planes had been downed in day and night operations. The I.uftwalfe bombed sever al points on the English south west and southeast coasts and the east coast of Scotland and a number of British airports, the war bulletin said. Off Plymouth a 3,000-ton merchantman was declared des troyed and another badly dam aged off the Scottish coast. TO SCHOOL BOARD Marc B. J.rmin was reelected a director of the Medford dis- a five-year term, receiving all I the 32 votes cast at the senior high school. He was the lone candidate on the ballot. Under the new state law, school board directors serve for five years instead of three. Next term expiring on the Medford .board is that of Dr. R. E. Green. in 1942. The term of N. H. Franklin, chairman of the board, expires in 1B3; Eugene Thorndike't in 1944 and John P. Moffat's in 1943. Election Judge wat Mrs. Kate Young. Clerks were Mrs. Nora KirkpaUick and H. f. Plait E FOR AUTO COURTS Those Planning to Help House Cantonment Work ers Advised Submit Plans Plans to construct auto courts and trailer parks must be sub mitted to the Oregon State Board of Health, 816 Oregon Building, Portland, George Heryf ord, county sanitarian, stated today after receiving reports that a number of individual persons planned such construction to help provide housing for men who will work on the proposed army cantonment. Pointing out that a license is required to operate auto courts and trailer camps. Mr. Heryford said that time and expense could be saved by submitting plans in advance to the board of health. Law Copies Offered Working in cooperation with Mr. Heryford, Frank J. van Dyke, cantonment coordinator, said his office in the Medford armory was prepared to discuss such questions with any one in terested. He counselled every one planning to enter such fields of business to go through tne regular channels prescribed by law, rather than take the r'sic of losing the investment later through condemnation. tilt oi- flee has for distribution copies of the laws pertaining to auto courts and trailer camps, he said The army, he emphasized, insists that all state laws and local ordinances be complied with strictly. Following up the coordinating board's plea yesterday for data on available lodging (or canton ment workers, Mr. Van Dyke todav asked that as far as prac ticable families with rentable rooms provide the information by writing rather than pnoning. The information should be given to the chambers of commerce in Medford and Ashland and the community officials listed yes terday. No Rata Seal. Tat Mr. Van Dyke said the In formation should include: House number and street or road identification so that the place can be found by a stranger; whether there is an Inside or outside entrance; whether the bathroom Is attached to the room or separated from it; whether there is garage space; and the number of persons that can be accommodated. Inmiirles have been received regarding rates but no rate scale has yet been set up, Mr. Van Dvke stated. He empnasizea inai the coordinating board doei not intend to set ud a rigid rate scale but Is desirous only of cor relating rates to as to attain a fair and more or less uniform scale. D. D. Tllton, ilte planner under the tone construction quartermaster, San Francisco, continued today a conference he began yesterday with Capt. Theron W. Bean, in charge of the constructing quartermaster's office here, and heads of the architectural and engineering staffs. Mr. Tilton is concerned with the general site set-up, in cluding landscaping. Capt. C. D. Barker, zone labor relations officer from th. San Francisco office, conferred yes terday with Capt. Bean and a number of fruit men, industrial ize and other emoloyeri regard ing existlne- labor rates. It is Cant. Barker's task to invest! gate local labor rates and re port thereon directly to the quar termaster general ai Yiaanma ton. D. C. The aim, it was ex- i : 1 I- haOn aa4 tin th 1 1 " . " " J.r. V h. em- ly , whlch work u, to be A.E.F. CHIEF SUCCUMBS San Antonio, Tex., Jun. 17. (4) MaJ. Gen. Ernest Hinds, 70 U. S. A., retired. Gen. John 1 Pershing's chief of artillery I" the A. E. r.. died today at the Station hospital. Fort Sam Hous ton. baseball i National R. H. E. New York 6 9 2 Pittsburgh 3 10 2 Hubbell and Danning; Sewcll, J. Bowman and Lopez. Boston 3 10 0 Cincinnati 8 7 0 Johnson, Hutchings and Ber res, Masi; Derringer and Lom bardi. (10) innings R. H. E. Brooklyn 7 11 0 Chicago 6 12 1 Wvatt. Casev and Owen. Franks; Lee, Page and McCul- lough. American First game. R. H. E. Detroit 6 11 5 Boston 14 15 0 Glebell, Thomas, Newhouser and Sullivan; Dobson, Wilson and Peacock. Chicago 8 11 New York 7 9 Rigney, Hallett, E. Smith and Tresh; Peek, Stanceau, Murphy and Dickey. PORTLAND VISIT Charles Leroy (Jimmy) Val- entlne, 46, long-time Medford , cafe owner who Just recently purchased the Spouting Horn hotel at Depot Bay on the Ore gon coast, died suddenly in Portland at 10:30 a.m. today, it was revealed in a telegram re ceived hore from hit wife, Er- ma, who was with him in Port land. Mr. Valentine, because of his health, sold Valentine's cafe here about tlx months ago to H. E. Bush and retired to his beautiful home on Rogue River. However not long ago, feeling much better after his extended rest, he purchased the hotel at Depot Bay and apparently was much improved in health. His death comet at a shock to his hundreds of friends throughout southern Oregon. Mr. Valentine wat born In Gladstone, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1895, and came to Oregon with his parents when a young boy. He lived in Medford for about 15 years, during which he suc cessfully engaged in the cafe and restaurant business. He wat a member of the Med ford Elkt lodge and of the Mas onic lodge, being a member of all bodies of the later lodge the York Rite, Scottish Rite and Hillah temple. He was highly esteemed in the community and hit civic mlndedness won for him many true friends. He Is survived by hit wife, Erma; a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Don Brown of Medford; hit parents of Cottage Grove, a brother, Edward of De pot Bay, and other brothers and sisters. A complete list of sur vivors will be published later. Masonic services and Inter ment will be in Medford, the date to be announced tomorrow. Armed with a "John Doe' warrant charging larceny by bailee, state police were search ing today for a 1939 Lincoln Zephyr owned by the Crater Lake Motors of Medfo.-d, and an unidentified man who took th. car at 3 p. m. yesterday for the purported purpose of try ing it out with a view to pur chase. The man, state police said they were told, promised to return the car by 7:30 last night. When he hadn t returned this morning, a warrant was obtained and po lice were notified. The man wat described to police at being about 33 yean old, five feet 10 inches tall. weight about 170 pounds, and wearing a green truck driver'! uniform. Washington, June 17. (-TV-Senator Harrison (D-Mlas) un derwent an operation today for removal of an intestinal obstruc tion and hospital attaches said afterwards that his corxtition was "satisfactory." BERLIN PLANNING COUNTER ACTION Blocking Accounts Expected to Result Italy Bans Payments to Americans Berlin. June 17. (JP Th. German government hat "pro test ad most sharply" against th United Stataa or der closing German consul ates, it was officially an nounced tonight. Germany rejects charge, that the consulates and other German organisations engag ed in "Inadmissible activities' as "unfounded and despotic", th. statement said. Th. U. S. action was term ed "contrary to agreement." Thar, was no hint oi pos sible German reprisal meas ures. Berlin, June 17. ) Ger many announced officially to day that she -will take "the nec essary measures" effective im mediately to counter United States action in freezing Ger man funds in America. (The German radio said that there was no information im- mediately .Just what the Ger man measure would b. but that obviously they too will con sist of blocking accounts.") Rome, June 17. CP) Thej Italian government, freezing American credits in Italy, today blocked all payments from Italy on private debts to Americana under a decree published in the official gazette in reprisal for the freezing of Italian credits In the United States. The decree ordered Italian in dividuals and firms to report alt American credits against them within 20 days. Washington, June 17. JV- John W. Pehle, the treasury de partment's controller for for eign funds, estimated today that some $2,500,000,000 In cash and other assets were affected by President Roosevelt's order "freezing" the holdings of Ger many, Italy and other continen tal European nations in the Uni ted States. . . Previous freezing orders had put $4,500,000,000 of foreign as sets under hit control, making the total of restricted foreign funds here approximately $7, 000,000,000. An inventory it be ing taken to determine the ex act amount. To ferret 'out reportedly largf sums hidden under "dummy names by the axis, Pehle re vealed that Erwin May, former treasury attache in Berlin, hat) been appointed to head a special investigating staff. War Bulletins New York. Jun. 17. UP) Th. Berlin radio. In a broad cast reported by NBC, said today clashes between Bagh dad civilians and newly-ar-rlvad Australian troop, re sulted In 12 Arabs killed and 30 Injured and 10 Australian casualties. ' Berlin. Jun. 17. (JPj Twenty British plane at tempting to fly Into Oermaa occupied territory along th. English channel war. shot down. th. German high com mand announced tonight. On ly en. German plan, was re ported lost. DEFENIMDS Jackson county civilian de fense committee will hold Its) organization meeting at th. Jack ton county Chamber of Com merce at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow. County Judge J. B. Coleman, chairman ex officio, will pre side. He asked that all mem bers make a special effort to b present The committee, part of a state set-up to take charge of civilian defense planning, wat appointed last week by Gov. 1 Charles A. Spragu.