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ruu u wmu. Weather " !ru "por' Lose No Time Today ban alien marfcat. Many ilea homes hat chances banda neantlr. If jroa an la I ha market for a hama It might he wIm to loaa na ttma la I't tint tocmtfd. A Want ad win help yon. Medford roracast: Fair tonlfht aaa Tueaday; tlliblly warmer Tuta 1I. Temperature Hlihnt jntrrdar n Loweat this morning 49 Precipitation part 14 hours, .00 Full Associated Prau Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1941. No. 86. V V J O xl Prau a . i 0 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 30. The national labor relation! board, great champion of the union worker (mostly CIO, according to the AFL), the Roosevelt labor agency which crushed Henry Ford, big steel, and made em ployers throughout the nation sign on any line it dotted, is turning out to be just a fink capitalistic scab outfit, full of goons trying to get its own em ployees to sign a yellow dog contract. Don't believe me, you can get It all from a special extra edi tion of the Labor Relator, a weekly magazine representing the poor, downtrodden, under paid, ill-housed, ill-fed employees of the board. IT seems from this publication that the union of board em ployees has been dealing with the board for three long and arduous, though very secret, sessions, trying to get a contract to protect the rights of these said workers. All that this fair-minded union bargaining committee has been able to get out of the capitalistic ogre that the board has turned out to be is a proposal that the agreement be along lines which the board has never counte nanced before. The board pro poses an open shop, no check-off, and says nothing about better wages, hours or working condi tions in its contract. This is not the worst. It actually offic ially recommended that all it would do about labor's griev ances would be to "consider them." - Reserving the right to hire and fire on merit, the suggested agreement proposed by the board supervisors would merely allow labor to complain, first to assist ant chief clerks, then to clerks, and directors, and finally to the board itself, from which there would be no appeal. MATURALLY 'no fair-minded ' labor group would accept such a proposal. Labor sets forth its case against its traitorous for mer champion in its publication Labor offered a substitute pro- (Gontlnued From Page flu) ..-Klamath Falls, Ore., June 30 " (v-Nathaniel Jackson, 30 Klamath Indian, was shot and fatally wounded early this morn ing on his ranch near Sprague river. Special Indian Officer John Arkell reported. Arkell said the slain man's brother, Boyd Jackson, Jr., 22, was taken in custody but no charge had been filed pending investigation by federal officers. According to Arkell, the two Jackson boys were In the yard at Nathaniel's ranch at about 3 a. m. when the shooting occur red. Nathaniel, shot twice, died as he was being taken to Klam ath agency hospital by his fath er, Boyd Jackson, Sr., who re cently returned from his post as tribal delegate to Washington, D. C. Washington, June 30.- Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones disclosed today that the RFC has authorized a loan of $8,108 to the S. it M. Flying Service, Portland, for purchase of a training plane. SICE GLAHCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doc Russ Sherwood being ruled out of the catfish derby because he threw in a hunk of salmon for good measure. Tony Manno losing by a hair's breadth in a shortest-man con test, his 20-30 club friends be ing much disgusted with him. Jerry Jerome threatening to leave the game to its own de vices, to angry did he become at the umpiring, but staying around until a Rogue batting rally put him in good humor again. NOW HALF WAY TO RUSSI ANCA P I T A L Lwow, and Libau Also in Nazi Hands Is Claim; Red Division Circled, Is Word Berlin, June 30. (IP) Ger many claimed tonight that Nazi troops had driven almost half way along the 450-mile road to Moscow, capturing the White Russian capital of Minsk en route, and asserted that Russia's red army defense further north were crumbling so badly that a proper front no longer exists On the northern front, it was said, German columns were pounding in pursuit of the re treating Russians. Presumably this referred to operations along the Baltic, in Latvia. A German military spokesman asserted Minsk was in German hands shortly after the high com. mand reported capture of Lwow, on the lower Polish front, and Libau, Latvian port on the Bal tic sea. Near Smolanik The spokesman intimated Ger man troops were in sight of Smo lensk, ZOO miles east of Minsk, A big pocket was being formed around Russian troops in the Smolensk region, he said. (Smolensk is nearly 400 miles airline from the nearest point in the German-Russian border, established after the partition of Poland In 1939. It is about 250 miles from Dvinsk, In Lat via, which the German high command announced was cap tured Thursday. (The troops now reported within sight of Smolensk might have advanced either southeast from Dvinsk or northeast from Minsk, or both. Smolensk is east of the zone of German control established during the German Invasion of bolshevist Russia In 1918.) The high command bulletin on I the capture of the Latvian port was preceded by a report that a Soviet Russian division near the Baltic coast had been encir cled in a new German northward push in Lithuania and Latvia. Ring Drawn Tight It said the German ring around Russian armies in the central sector of the long eastern front was being drawn tighter but, save for the capture of Lwow and Libau, its report on that war theater was brief and bare of detail, saying only: "As already announced in special communique, our troops advancing in Galicia captured Lwow. In the middle battle front the ring about surrounded Soviet armies is being drawn more tightly. On the north wing we are in constant pursuit. "On the coast, Libau was taken." DNB, official German news agency, dispatches said the luft waffe had concentrated fierce air assaults in the Minsk region today and that -four Russian Dlanes were shot down and an other 73 destroyed on the ground in that section. In a large-scale air battle on the Lwow front, it said, 37 Rus sian planes were shot down and 14 more destroyed on the ground. In all, it said. 214 Russian planes have been destroyed or damaged on the ground last night and so far today on the eastern front, including 22 bombers shot down in an at tempted attack on German position. FOR TALENT P. M. Washington. June 30 (IP) The civil service commission an nounced today it would receive applications until me ciose oi business July 11 for the post mastership in Talent, Ore. Jay Terrill was recently In stalled as acting postmaster at Talent to succeed L. W. Tame who had resigned to retire to his farm. Terrill had the endorse ment of the Jackson county Democratic central committee's executive committee for the tem ASK APPLICATIONS porary appointment. U. S. Marines. German -Russo wjp GERMANY MILES f" f J AsTONIAj Jff? IUTHUA. Reports from Berlin today indicated a German drive had passed Minsk with another drive moving eastward in the Luck area. Tha Red army claimed a tank battle Friday had turned to Russian advantage. Russians claimed a firm hold on the Prut river front and reported successful air attacks on German tank columns in the general area of Minsk and in the Luck sector. Black arrows indicate reported German pushes) white arrows, Russian resist ance. Germans announced a two-day air attack on Leningrad, and Russians reported heavy raids on Rumania. War Bulletins New York, June 30 CP) A Russian communique picked up lata today from the Mos cow radio by NBC said fierce Finnish-German attacks had been repulsed on the Finnish front and that Russian troops were checking a drive of superior Carman mobile forces In the Minsk and Baranowicse sectors of the central front. Cairo, Egypt, June 30 (IP) The British middle east com mand announced today that the British have completed the encirclement of Palmyra. French stronghold In the heart of the Syrian desert. "In the Damascus and coas tal sectors." a communique said, "further advances have been made. In the central sac tor, the situation remains un changed." TO HELP DEFENSE LENINGRAD REGION Moscow, June 30. (IP) All able-bodied citizens of Leningrad and surrounding towns were conscripted tonight for work on the city s defenses. The conscription decree Is sued by the Leningrad soviet called on all men from 18 to 60 and all women from 16 to 45, ex cepting only those already doing national defense work In fac tories or elsewhere. Persons not already employed are required to work eight hours a day on defenses; others three hours after their regular work ing day Is ended. Leningrad, second city of Rus sia and a center of war indus tries, is on the gulf of Finland, close to the Finnish frontier. By the Associated Press Moscow, June 30. Now under attack in strategic sectors of the whole of a 2.000-mile front with Germany and her allies, the red army reported today a stubborn resistance to the Invaders in the I tnat of Murmansk. Dvinsk. Minsk and Luck, the repulse of two attempted shortcut drives toward Leningrad and aerial en trapment of a panzer force. The past 24 hours brought an extension of the active front tnrough , 0,,, ,tUck ,cro the extreme north of the Finnish border toward the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk and repeated assaults on Russia's Karelian Isthmus frontier with Finland, 'north of Leningrad. Front Activity LENINGRAD MOSCOW - T U.S.S.R. RUMANIA re FEHL PLANS LEGAL FIGHT Earl H. Fehl, former county Judge of Jackson county, re cently paroled from Oregon State Hospital as mentally cap able, spent Saturday in the city accompanied by his attorney Roy K. Hewitt of Salem, making ready to institute another legal proceeding here. District Attorney George W. Neilson was advised that a pro posed forcible entry suit, con cerning the Pacific Record-Her ald property on Sixth street would be filed. The hearing was deferred until July 11, when Cir cuit Judge Carl Hendricks of Grant county will be requested to hear the action. The case was set for tomorrow in justice court when under legal procedure It will be automatic ally sent to the circuit court, as it Involves title to land. A forcible entry suit must be heard within four days of the filing of the summons. Ferns attorney, owing to previous engagements was unable to appear tomorrow and agreed to appear July 11 the district attorney said. The latest threatened lltlga tlon by Fehl here concerns the Pacific Record-Herald building, now occupied by the City Clean ers, and the clearing of the title to it. Three suits have been filed on the same issue, with decisions all adverse to Fehl, the records show. The action highly involved, and Fehl, his wife. Electa A. Fehl, and mother- in-law, Corinthia E. Stailey, are parties defendant. Under tax foreclosure In 1934 the late Ted Heimroth. of Grif fin Creek, and J. B. Thomas of Ashland purchased the property for money loaned Fehl, amount ing to $5,300 and $1,400 back taxes. After legal parleying, for a couple of years, the place was rented to the present occupants. District Attorney Neilson said all but approximately $300 on the back taxes hud been paid during this perlcJ. The district attorney said he was anxious to have the suit come to trial to clear the title to the property, and end the litiga tion. Circuit Judge Carl Hen dricks of Fossil, appeared in the action when an affidavit of prejudice was filed against then Circuit Judge H. t. rsorton. rre viously. Circuit Judge Ashurst of Klamath county and Circuit Judge J. T. Brand of Coos county had heard various motions and arguments on angles of the case, which has many ramifications. Nurses 126 SPY SUSPECTS TAKEN IN CUSTODY BY HOOMS MEN 22 Natives of Germany Among Those Arrested in Nation's Biggest Roundup New York, June 30 (JP) Swiftly and secretly during the week-end the nation wound up the greatest spy suspect hunt in its history with the arrest of 26 men and three women on espion age charges. Agents of the federal bureau of investigation entered homes and taverns in four states to seize 24 suspects, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover announced yester day, while five others already were in custody on other charges. Eighteen of the group, which included 22 natives of Germany, will be arraigned today before a United States commissioner in Brooklyn on the specific charge of conspiring to engage in espionage activities In the Unit ed States. Led To "Fly Trap Hoover said the G-men shad owed the suspects for two years and finally "led them Into a fly trap. . . - Warrants Issued here charged the prisoners with transmitting information to foreign nations concerning cargoes on Britain- bound ships, new developments in United States naval, army and aircraft products especial ly the latter and transportation by courier of samples of latest armaments. The alleged spy ring used secret inks for couriers traveling across the Atlantic by clipper planes. Hoover declared a short wave radio with ocean-spanning range was found In the room of one suspect. New York, June 30. (IP) Seven of those arrested in the government's big week-end spy hunt pleaded guilty today to espionage against the United states. Innocent pleas were made by 18 others, including two technicians described as having been associated closely with the manufacture of secret army bombsights. Those pleading guilty were; Alex Wheeler-Hill, 40, Ger man-born porter and stock clerk and identified by federal agents as a brother of James Wheeler- Hill, imprisoned German-Ameri can bund official; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, 26, Austrian-born artist's model; Leo Waalen, 37, German-born painter; Hartwlg Richard Klelss, 54, German-born mechanic; and Erwin Wilhelm Siegler and Franz Stlgler, both of whom were already In cus tody on charges of violating the federal registration act. SIX NAZI PLANES London, June 30. (JP) Six German planes were destroyed In tonight's sweep over northern France where the RAF bombed a power station near Lens, it was learned authoritatively to night. BASEBALL National Philadelphia , e 10 Brooklyn . Podgajny, Herman, and War ren; Wyatt and Owen, Franks. ria Innings) New York R. . 3 H. 11 6 Boston 0 Melton and Dannlng; Salvo and Berres, Masi. American R. , 6 . 7 E. 4 Detroit Chicago 1 and Gorsica, Rowe, Benton Tebbetts; Rigney and Tresh. on Torpedoed Ship Hoover Urges Preparedness With Aid to England, China Without Sending Troops Chicago. June 30 (If) Herbert Hoover's seven point program for America proposes, among other things, a prepared nation, remaining at peace and giving every aid to Britain and China without putting American troops in a radio broadcast last nigm the former president asserted that prepared America need not fear military disaster but that the nation's only defeat would be "if we lost our own national freedoms and our po tency for good In the world." Hoover described his program as a course for "reasoning peo ple which avoids the most de structive forces and holds fast to the most constructive forces." That program, he added, was "neither defeatist, nor isolation ist nor Interventionist." First on his program was all aid to Britain and China without putting American troops in the war zone. Other proposals: Arm for defense of the west ern hemisphere without provok ing war meanwhile; Uphold congress In assuming the responsibility to determine peace and war;' Stop the notion of an ldealog- lcal war to impose the four free doms on other nations; Improve the four freedoms In America so they may inspire other peoples to adopt them; Remain strong enough to pro mote a just and permanent peace; Prepare a new concept of hu man relations that will give the world some hope of permanent peace. Collaboration between Britain and Russia will bring them mili tary values. Hoover said, "but it makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a gar gantuan jest." Reviewing Russia's "destruc tion of the independence," of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and her attack upon Finland. Hoover asserted that "Stalin has taken advantage of the very freedoms of democracy to de stroy them with the most potent fifth column in all history. He contributed to the destruction of France. He has dally implanted class hate in America and a stealthy war against our institu tions." He added that should America join the war and win, "then we have won for Stalin tha grip of communism on Russia and more opportunity for It to extend in the world. We should at least cease to tell our sons that they would he giving their lives to restore democracy and freedom to the world, Death at 80 Stills Fingers of Padewerski, New York, June 30. OP) who ruled a piano for 60 years night. Pneumonia struck down the' first president of the Polish re- public and one of the greatest musicians of all time after a two-day illness. By his, side in the Hotel Buckingham were his sister, Mme. Antonlna Wilkonska; his doctor. Dr. Asa L. Lincoln, and his aide. Sylvian Starackacz. The white-haired patriot was stricken with a cold last week and, ignoring his doctor's ord ers, made one of his many re cent public appearances to help raise funds fo;- his starving countrymen. Thiee days a'O he became gravely 111 and yesterday after noon he was placed in an oxy gen tent, only to breath his last just before midnight In keeping with an old Polish tradition requiring the heart of a great artist to be separated from the body after death, the heart of Paderewskl will be re moved here and ultimately placed somewhere In Poland other than the place of the body's entombment. Eventual disposition of the body in Poland will depend up on the Polish government now ruling in exile, friends of the in the war zones. 1 PER CENT TAX ON AUTO SALES Washington, June SO. (IP) Members said the house ways and means committee agreed tentatively today to recommend 7 per cent tax on the sale price of new automobiles, which would produce about $79,900,000 of new revenue, instead of the 13 per cent levy proposed by the treasury. Committee members said spirited fight preceded agree ment on the lower figure and that a compromise 10 per cent tax also was defeated. Chairman Doughton (D-NC), while declining to make public the committee s action at the morning session, promised a full statement later In the day end there were Indications that the group might complete action on excise taxesthe only unfin ished phase of the new $3,600,- 000,000 tax program. 10 Per Cent On Jewelry In addition to the automobile tax, some members reported the group had agreed on a 10 per cent tax on jewelry and others said they were near agreement on a number of other items. In cluding levies on passenger transportation, telephone bills, refrigerators and possibly a dozen other commodities. The group apparently still was considerably short of rais- lnB the $917,000,000 which would be required from new and higher excise taxes if the $3,800.- 000.000 goal la to b attained. The committee previously had agreed tentatively on increases in Individual Income, corpora tion, estate and gift taxes de signed to produce a total of about $2,582,000,000. Welfare Term Salem, June 30. (JP) Mrs. Thomas Honeyman of Portland was reappointed by Governor Charles A. Sprague today to a four-year term on the state pub lic welfare commission. The new term begins tomorrow, Piano Master Ignace Jan Paderewskt, 80, and a nation for one, died last great musician said, but after tha war his heart probably will be kept In the cathedral at War saw where Chopin's heart was placed. , Tentative funeral arrange ments called for services at a. m. (EST) at St. Patrick's cathedral on Thursday. v i REPORT INDICATES TWO MEN MISSING EN ROUTE BRITAIN Red Cross Says 17 Nurses Aboard Dutch Ship In Brit ish Service All Rescued Washington, June 1 30 (JP) Torpedoing of a foreign-flag steamer carrying American ma rines and Red Cross nurses to London was announced today by the navy which said eight ma rines had been rescued and, for the present, mentioned no loss of life. The navy did not name tha ship which an earlier authorita tive source said was the Dutch steamer Maarsden, In the British service. The Red Cross said It had 17 nurses aboard the Maars den and that all were reported safe, with alx nurses already landed. , The source from which first information of tha sinking was obtained had said 10 marines were aboard and that one was reported lost. If the figure 10 la correct, the navy announcement would indicate the loss of two marines. . Marines Named - The disclosure that the same) vessel carrying marines had nurses aboard was made by Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state. The eight marines named by the navy as rescued were: Major Walter J. Jordan, Vir ginia Beach, Va.; Sergeant George V. Clark, Newfield, N. J.; Sergeant August J. Eden. New Brunswick, N. J.; Chief Cook U. G. Knox, Jr, Houston, Tex.; Corporal Edward H. Mc Callister, Cleveland, Ohio; Cor poral William O. Miller, Char lotte, N. C; Sergeant John F. Skorich, Marble, Minn.: and Staff Sergeant Willis O. Smith, Orangeburg, S. C. The navy said "efforts ara now being made to confirm at the earliest practicable oppor tunity Information on the re mainder of the passengers." KEEP OU GREEN MEMBERSHIP AGENT STARTS DRIVE HERE N. E. Perry of Portland, field representative of the Keep Oregon Green association, came here today to organize a Med ford and Jackson county mem bership and to arrange talks on tha purpose of tha association before service club and other organizations. This week has been designated by Gov. Charles) A. Sprague as "Keep Oregon Green Week." Memberships ara being re ceived at the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Perry said. There are) two classes of membership, junior and senior, with a distinctive) lapel button for each. There ta a nominal membership fee Al so available for members are) plates to go over license) plates) on cars. Stickers for automo bile windows will not ba used as, Mr. Perry pointed out, they are against the law. Mr. Perry also planned visit today with Dwight Phlpps, state district fir warden. He said he would and his business her tomorrow. Mats Salut To Flag It Planned Belllngham, Wash., June SO. (JP) Belllnghara business) houses will clow for a IS min ute period Thursday, July I, at 3:30 p. m. while thousands of citizens gather In the downtown section to salut the American flag and take part in an alleg iance day program arranged by the junior chamber of commerce.
