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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1941.
No. 86.
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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-
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..-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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.