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Juna IS (IP) The By tha Associated Press i r1 rrp" - " W NEW WAR Kelly's Comment From Washington Industry Centers Take Population Machine Shops Wait Contracts Shipyards Gain Many Workers Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, June 19. Up-state cities in Oregon are los ing people to the industrial centers, a situation which will increase the relief problem in metropolitan areas after the em ergency. The situation in Ore son is similar to most of the other states and several govern ment agencies are speculating on what can be done to prevent families being stranded in the big cities or loft high and dry in ehost towns when the last war order has been filled. Office of Production Manage ment reiterates its suggestion: farm out subcontracts, do piece work. Although OPM has ham (Continued on Pae Ten) SICE GLANCES Bf TRIBUNE REPORTERS Attorney Victor Tengwald visiting the cavalry contingent at the fair grounds at an early hour and much surprised to find no horses. Harold Wall doing a tactful Job in letting Activians know they would have to pay their own way after inviting them to S 20-30 club dinner. MEDFORDe&sTRIBUNE I ALARMS IN EUROPE F E THRUSTS HALTED Vichy, Unoccupied France. June 19. (IP) The French con ceded tonight that their counter attacks on the Syrian front have been stalled since yesterday and that the British have driven to within six miles of Damascus. The British fleet was said to have reappeared off the Leban ese coast between Sidon and Beirut and to have pounded French positions. Cairo. Egypt, June 19. !ffV The British command announced today that "important positions have been captured Just south of Damascus" in the British-Free French siege of the Syrian capi tal. The middle east command's daily war bulletin also an nounced that allied troops in southern Syria had recaptured Kuneitra while "strong Vichy forces in Merdjayoun have now been surrounded." These two towns, southwest of Oamascus near the Palestine border, had been seized by a French counter drive whictt held up the allied advance. Salem, June 19. JP Con tract for constructing a 400-foot overcrossing near Stanfield on the Boardman Stanfield high way In Umatilla county was awarded by the state highway commission today to C. J. Mon tag and Sons, Portland, on a low bid of $61 827 30. Pendleton, June 19. (IP) Umatilla county citizens will reg ister for civilian defense work June 27-28. the county council decided today. Mayor C. L. Lieuallen will act ai coordica-tor. FRANTIC EFFORTS TO MOBILIZE IN FINLAND, RUSSIA By the Associated Press Europe rang with new war alarms today. Little Finland, defeated by Russia's red armies a year ago, suddenly called up reserves at midnight and sped other mili tary preparations, and simul taneously travelers reported that Russia was carrying out "frantic mobilization" across the border from Finland. The Finnish government, plac ing the nation on a virtual war footing, sharply curtailed civil ian train traffic to facilitate military transport. Finnish army and navy cadets are to be graduated Immediately, it was announced, to become lieutenants in the nation's fight- ing forces. The situation In Finland still required clarification, and there was no immediate Indication of any ultimatum having been served between Finland and Russia. By presidential decree, all Finnish reserve officers were made regular army officers. Dispatches from Helsinki, the Finnish capital, said the popu lace calmly and quietly was obeying measures to safeguard' their Independence, as they did in 1939 when the war with RusKia broke out. Meanwhile, in lack of the slightest confirmation, attention dwindled on wildcat reports from Turkey that Adolf Hitler's war machine had started an in vasion of Russia, attacking the Soviet border at IS points, after a German diplomatic stroke had neutralized Turkey and vir tually isolated tha U53JI. Billr Conn (top) makes futilo effort to get up as Referee Eddie Josephs is about to count "ten." a few seconds before the end of the 13th round of the title bout at the Polo Crounds In Mew York last night. Cham' pion Jo Louis stands In a neu- tral corner. Conn is shown (left) orimacina in an earlr round after absorbing a left to the Jaw, (A. P. Photos br Wire and Air Mall to Mail Tribune). STORY ON SPORT PAGE DRAFT BOARDS PUN FOR NEW REGISTRY, SCHEDULED JULY; 1 Jackson county local boards No. 1 and 2 were today engaged in setting up the machinery for the second registration under the 1940 selective training and serv ice act. The registration will be held throughout the country on July 1. Those who must register are all male persons whose 21st birth anniversary comes on or before July 1, 1941, and subse quent to October 16, 1940. The registration is to be super vised by local boards, headquart ers here said. Under the au thority of the director of selec tive service, the local boards are empowered to establish places of registration wherever they are needed for the convenience of the registrants, it was explained. Hours of registration will be from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. Places of registration for Jackson coun ty have not yet been determined. SAYS U. S. CERTAIN TO FIGHT BESIDE BRITISH Tokyo, June 19. (TP) Ko Ishii, spokesman of the Japanese government, addressing the cen tral cooperative council tonight, declared "it Is almost certain that the United States will enter the European war on the British side." He asserted that Japan's pri mary goal is "construction of a new order In East Asia." He mentioned no other aim. Ishii said that "though rumors are rife about Japanese foreign policy . . . Japan has not budged from her established road since conclusion of the three-power i (axis) pact." He said that Emperor Hirohito j had issued his rescript approving ! the treaty and that Japan must go ahead with national policy as Indicated. LINDERGH IN L A. FOR FRIDAY TALK Los Angeles, Jun 19. (IP) Charles A. Lindbergh arrived to day for an address in Hollywood bowl tomorrow night under the auspices of the America first committee. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lindbergh. Also addressing the meeting will be Senator D. Worjh Clark of Idaho- Rome. June IS (IP) The Italian government tonight asked the United States to close its consular offices In Italy and to recall consular functionaries and clerks br July IS. The request extends to the Kingdom of Italy and to terri tories under Italian sover eigntr and to those occupied br Italian troops. At the same time the Italian government reserved the right to close the American Express In Italy. Berlin, June 19 (IP) Ger many tonight asked the United States to remove all consular and American Express company employes from Germany, Nor way, Holland. Belgium, Luxem bourg, occupied France, Serbia and occupied Greece not later than July 13. This was don In a not hand ed by the German foreign min istry to the United States charge d'affaires. This was retaliation In kind for a similar action against Ger many ordered only last Monday by President Roosevelt. The president ordered closing of all German consulates in the United States and removal of all consular personnel before July 10. (The American order also re quired the closing of the Ger man Library of Information and the Railway Tourist Bureau and the German Transocean News Agency. (German consular officials, said Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, were accused of engaging in activities harmful to the United States.) July IS Deadline All American consulates in the places listed in the note must be closed by July 19, the note said. "The conduct of consular and travel agency employes for long has been highly objectionable," was the explanation of DNB, the official German news agency. The American representative, DNB said, had been furnished with a list of activities by Unit ed States officials declared to be 'injurious to the state" and 'outside the legitimate informa tion service of the American consulates.' The charge d'affaires, who re ceived the German communica tion, is Leland Moris. The allegations of activities injurious to the state," which DNB said came from a respon sible source. Included charges that: 1. The consul at Frankfurt- Main, Sidney Redecker, In the fall of 1939, "delivered ad dresses In support of propagan da unfriendly to Germany" and "passed on information concern ing militarily secretive war and economy problems. rfh.tPOr and Consul Roy Bower In Mun ich "during the course of the year 1940 were active in hostil ity toward Germany in that they in the presence of German per sonalities made disapproving observations about Germany and the German government." 3. The consul general in Co logne, Alfred W. Klieforth, "in the autumn of 1939 and In the spring of 1940 carried on espion age against Germany by using key wcrds under arrangement with the Belgian consul general In Cologne for reports intended to concern themselves with Ger mans marching into Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg." By the Associated Press Employers representatives of lumber mills and logging camps In Washington rejected today a proposal of the national defense mediation board that they re sume direct negotiations with CIO union members pending a study of the entire situation by a special commission. The mediation board Immedi ately telegraphed both sides that if an agreement could not be reached It would have to ap point a commission to make a report on which to base Its final recommendations. The International Woodwork ers' union went on strike against the lumber mills and logging camps in early May demanding a closed shop, union hiring halls and guarantees against piece work but voted Saturday night to end the strike pending the federal study. Mechanics Firm AIT, machinists on strike at 11 San Francisco bay shipyards failed to yield today to a sug gestion from the president of their International union that they return to work and medi ate their differences with the management. Harvey W. Brown, the Mach inists' president, addressed sev eral hundred strikers during a tour-hour closed meeting which ended after midnight. The 11 shipyards hold $300,- 000,000 worth of defense con tracts. Both AFL and CIO machinists walked out six weeks ago, demanding $1.15 an hour and double pay for overtime. FOR CIRCUIT COURT A special venir was drawn yesterday to fill the circuit court Jury list, as follows: Dora S. Jones, H. M. Dorland, Fannie E. Lawrence, A. W. Ayers and Tarcy E. Tracy, all of Central Point, and James F. King and William G. Sanders, both of Ashland. FIGHT INTEREST. HOLDS THROUGH HEART ATTACK Buffalo, N. Y., Jun 19 W) Revived from a heart attack by fire department squad which worked two hours and exhausted four tanks of oxygen, Mrs. Delia M. Griffin, 88. asked: "Who won the fight Louis or Conn?" Better Die on Live on Knees-Roosevelt Cambridge, Mass., Jun 19. (p) Responding by proxy to a precedent-shattering award of University In Harvard Univers ity's ancient yard. President Roosevelt asserted today that we . . . would rather me on our feet than live on our knees." "fe, too, born to freedom and believing In freedom, are will ing to fight to maintain free dom," the chief executive said in a message of response to a citation read by Lord Halifax, the British ambassador and chancellor of Oxford. The honorary doctorate of civil laws was awarded to Mr. Roosevelt at a dramatic cere mony held only a few minutes after Harvard, the United States' oldest university, had awarded an honorary doctorate R. H. E. Cleveland 12 19 2 Philadelphia 16 1 Bagby and Hemsley; Beck man, Hadley, Harris and Hayes, Wagner. New York Pittsburgh Schumacher, and Danning; Lannlng, Heintzel man, Kllnger and Lopez. F FROM GUN BLAST Garland A. Boomer, ST, a miner of tha Sterling district, was found dead In his small cab In lata yesterday afternoon, and state police and the coroner's office said ha had apparently taken his own life by firing a blast from a 16-gauge, double- barrelled shotgun into the left side of his neck. The body was badly decomposed and it was estimated by the coroner that Boomer had been dead since about June 2. Boomer was discovered by Hardin Turnbull, a neighbor, who told state police he went to Boomer's cabin, located in Hugo Gulch about a mil and a half west of Sterling, shortly after 9 o'clock to listen to the radio broadcast of the Louis-Conn prizefight When nobody an swered his knock at the door, Turnbull related to police, he looked In a window and saw Boomer lying on the floor with the shotgun beside him. The nolle investigation in dicated that Boomer, In a chair, placed the butt of the shotgun on the floor beside the chair. and pulled the trigger of one barrel. Boomer, the coroner's office said, had been doing a little mining at the old Sterling mine since arriving there from Klam ath Falls about three months ago. It was believed he original ly came from Escanaba, Mlcn as a picture of a girl about eight years old, with Carroll Boomer, Escanaba, Mich., written across the back, was found In his pos session. The coroner's office buried Boomer this morning in the Odd Fellows cemetery. . end attempts are being made to lo cate any possible survivors. Feet Than of laws to Lord Halifax as a representative of a "stalwart nation unyielding before the blows of tyranny." Eleven other honorary degrees also were handed down by Harvard, Then, the tall ambassador, supported by nine officers and delegates of Oxford, England oldest university, conducted special correlation of Oxford. It represented a history trans fer of academic functions. Held In the national capital, the pres ident was represented by Major General Edwiit M. Watson, his military ide and secretary. The president's diploma. In toned by Lord Halifax, set forth that Oxford's tribute was given "in lively recollection of his stand for liberty and of his steadfast championship of hu manity and law." National R. H. I. 9 12 1 6 11 S , Bowman. Brown If It Is e food Ids why port. poM solng something about Itf KSrw la tha tlma to adrar tlaa anything for which there Is a demand, and tha place la In tha Mall Trlbnne Want Ads. Tha cost Is small. Merle Kleven, Medford Auto Mechanic, Dies When Car Leaves Road, Hits Pole Jackson county's traffic-accident death toll for 1941 rose to ten early last night when Merle Edwin Kleven, 22, of 440 South Riverside avenue, local me chanic, was instantly killed as hia high-powered Chrysler Air flow left the Pacific highway a mil south of Phoenix and smashed Into a telephone pole on the east side of the road. A passenger in the machine, Bernard Ronald Nattheisen, 19. of 540 South Fir street, also a mechalc, miraculously escaped with only bruises and minor scratches. Head Strikes Pavement ' Both youths were hurled clear of the car after it rammed into the phone pole. Kleven's head struck the pavement, fracturing his skull and causing instant death, the coroner's office re ported, while state police quoted Nattheisen as recalling that he was knocked out for a few sec onds and regained consciousness almost under th front bumper of th completely demolished four-door sedan. State police, after questioning Nattheisen and the drivers of two other cars, blamed th tragic accident on excessive speed. Nattheisen was quoted as saying that the car was travel ing about 70 miles an hour when the mishap occurred, and that Kleven was a "fast driver." Two other motorists, who were pass ed by Kleven shortly before tha crackup, told police that th Chrysler overtook and passed them like they were "standing: still." Going For Bride Th youths were southward bound to Ashland to pick up Mrs. Kleven, a bride of only eight days, who was attending a meeting of the Royal Neigh bors in that city, police said they learned. Kleven arrived in Med ford about six weeks ago from Watertown, S. D., with hi bride-to-be following him three weeks later. They were married in Grants Pass Jun 11. Nattheisen told nolle that Kleven attempted to past an other southbound car just as It started to make a left-hand turn Into a side road, and that th Chrysler was forced to take to th shoulder of the road to avoid striking the other machine. Fol lowing th terrific Impact with the telephone pole, the Kleven car shot skyward, described twtt complete revolutions in the air. and clattered back to the high way. The fore of tha Impact sheared off the entire back end and part of tha left side of th Chrysler, with th front end continuing bnck across th road, police aaid. The accident hap pened about 7:49 p. m. State nolle said they could find no trace of th car Natthei sen said they passed Just before th accident, and stated that marks on th road shoulder showed that th Chrysler didn't leave th highway until 82 feet past th Intersection of th sid road. Ho Inquest Klevea worked two days week at th Greyhound bus ter minal here, and part Urn at Lewis Super Service station. Nattheisen. who also is from South Dakota and has been her only a short time, is employed part time at Lewis Super Ser vice. Kleven's body was brought to Conger's here by the Litwuler ambulance from Ashland, and will be shipped to South Dakota for Interment- He is survived by his wife. Joyce; and hia mother, Mrs. Anna Oppen of Troy. S. D. iOooaauad ea rasa TwalTa)
