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Associated Press Leased Wire Flood Collapses Vacant Theater (NEA TELEPHOTO) Fifteen minutes after the manager of a Burlington, theater forced an audience of 200 persons to leave the movie, the building collapsed. The structure was undermined by the 12.69 inch rain which flooded the town, causing $100,000 damage. No one was injured, but 70 famiiles were homeless when the water receded. VETO THREAT TO WHEAT PARITY President to Reject Bill If Amended to Fix Prices For Federal Buying WASHINGTON, June 3, (P) President Roosevelt, authoritative sources reported today, will veto the bill carrying funds for the 85 percent parity loan agriculture program if Congress insists on atcaching an amendment fixing minmum prices for government purchases of farm products. Mr.

Roosevelt, these sources said, was so opposed to the minimum price legislation that he would reject it regardless of. the vital importance of the measure in which happened to be incorporated. As matters now stand, they declared, the situation is this: No funds were provided in the recently enacted law making 85 percent parity loans mandatory on chis year's wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice crops. Funds would pe provided, however, by a measure now pending before the House banking committee. As it stands chis legislation would authorize an increase of $1,000,000,000 in the ending power of the commodity credit corporation so the parity loans could be financed.

(Carl B. Robbins, the corporation's president, said yesterday this amount would have to be upped at least $242,000,000 more to provide the necessary loan funds.) But congressional farm are working to tack on to this bill an amendment which would forbid use of Agriculture department funds for purchases of farm products at prices less than 85 percent parity. (Parity is the price that theoretically would give the farmer the same return on his crops, in terms of purchasing power, as he received the base years 1909-14.) Agriculture department officials said a price fixing amendment would seriously interfere with programs under which surplus products are being bought for Great Britain and for distribution among needy families in this contry. THE WEATHER OKLAHOMA Fair tonight and Wednesday, somewhat cooler cenral and east tonight, somewhat warmer west and north central Wednesday afternoon. MISSOURI Partly cloudy south, considerably cloudiness north this afternoon and extreme northeast and extreme north central, somewhat cooler west and central tonight, somewhat warmer west and extreme north Wednesday afternoon.

KANSAS Fair tonight and Wednesday, cooler central and east tonight, somewhat warmer Wednesday afternoon. June 3-7 Forecast Light to locally moderate showars beginning west Oklahoma FriHay; otherwise generally fair weather indicated; temperatures will average near normal, rising slowly Wednesday and Thursday and cooling somewhat in the showr area Friday and Saturday. Temperatures m. yesterday Bay: 4 p. m.

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m. 74 Midnight 71 2 a. m. 71. DAILY NEWS-RECORD Ottawa County 35,736 Population Record Publishing (Inc.) MIAMI, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941 Street Office and of First Publication Avenue N.

PRICE FIVE CENTS (Except Saturday) and Sunday FRANCE APPEARS ON VERGE OF WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, FORMER ALLY JACKSON SLATED TO GET HUGHES' PLACE ON COURT Chief Justice, 79, to Retire, On July 1 Owing to Ill Health and His Age WASHINGTON, June 3 (P) Charles Evans Hughes, the eleventh man in history to serve as chief justice of the United will relinquish his high office July 1 and retire to private life because of "consideration of health and age." The decision of the 79-year-old jurist to retire marks the end of supreme court service that has covered 19 years -first as associate and later as chief justice. It also closes a career in public life that has been unusually varied and distinguished. As soon as the chief justice's intention to retire became known, speculation here fastened on the question of his successor. Informed sources freely and almost unanimously predicted Robert H. Jackson, a leading ad-1 ministration figure, would be President Roosevelt's choice to succeed Hughes.

Two Vacancies Now By filling this vacancy and an earlier one that has existed since the retirement of Justice James C. McReynolds last Feb. 1, President Roosevelt will have named seven of the nine members of the tribunal. Senator Byrnes (D-S. upon whom the administration relies heavily in pushing legislation through Congress, is expected to be the other appointee.

Chief Justice Hughes sent his retirement letter to the White House yesterday before mounting (Continued On Page Two) Food From Japan Is Flowing to Germany Via Trans-Siberian TOKYO, June 3 (P) -Vital foodstuffs from Japan and Japanese-occupied China have been flowing into Germany via the TransSiberian railroad at the rate of 1,500 tons daily in recent months, reliable sources declared today. Stimulation of this traffic, designed to circumvent the British blockade of Germany, has been among the chief objectives of Dr. Helmuth Wolthat, one of Adolf Hitler's ace economic experts who has been conferring here for some time with Japanese officials, these sources said. Approximately 75,000 tons of Manchoukuo's soybean crop--which has scores of uses in wartime Germany--already have been shipped to the Reich, they asserted. Other commodities of which large shipments have been made to Germany, it was said, include oil, cotton, meat and rice.

26 'Objectors' Go To Work in Forests, And Pay for Keep GLENDORA, June 8- (P) -Twenty-six young men determined "not to give evil for evil" arose at dawn today and put their muscles to work on forestry projects. They're conscientious objecjectors- -so strongly opposed to war they're willing to pay $35 a month each and work in a camp- similar to a CCC unit rather than be conscripted into the army. They won't bear armsbut they're within hearing distance of the big guns at Camp Haan. The 26 young men and others who may join them will do "work of national importance under civilian direction" as provided in the selective service act. Fire prevention, forestry conservation and scientific studies are scheduled, under direction of the forestry service.

The American Friends (Quakers) service committee has accepted responsibility of the camp and three similar projects in other sections, Death Takes Mrs. Anna Gallemore, 73, Pioneer in Mrs. Anna Gallemore, a pioneer resident of Ottawa county and Fairland, died Monday afternoon at the Boone county hospital at Columbia, Mo. She was 73 years old. Mrs.

Gallemore, who had lived, virtually all her life at Fairland, was widely-known in the southern part of the county. Three years ago she moved to Columbia with her daughter, Miss Daphne Gallemore, An instructor at Stephens college, an institution for girls. Surviving are five other ters, Mrs. Oma Frelick of Corpus Christi, Mrs. Ola Hill of Siloam Hamilton Springs, of Mrs.

Mrs. Thelma, Muskogee, Moore of Fairland and Mrs. Wanda Jones of Carthage; two brothers, Sidney Sparlin of Seneca and Frank Sparlin of Springfield, and a sister, Mrs. Dora Olson of Louisville, Ky. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Fairland Methodist church, Dr.

C. H. Cole, pastor of the Highland Park Methodist church at Fort Worth will officiate. Burial will be in Fairland cemetery under direction of the Cooper Funeral home. ENVOY LEAVES RUSSIA MOSCOW, June Milan Gavrilovic, Yugoslav minister to Soviet Rusia, left by train today with 24 secretaries, attaches and their families for Turkey.

His ultimate destination is Jerusalem, in British-mandated Palestine. TOLL OF SHIPS IS NEAR 1917 PEAK, GERMANY CLAIM 746,000 Tons of British Vessels Destroyed in May, Berlin Declares (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Adolf Hitler's high command reported today that 746,000 tons of British merchant shipping was destroyed in May--a figure closely approaching the 852,000 tons of Allied ships sent to the bottom in Britain's most critical month of the World war. That was in April, 1917, when Kaiser Wilhelm's sinkon-sight campaign, backed by a fleet of 111 seagoing U-boats, sank 430 ships. At the height of the campaign, it was reported Britain had only six weeks of food supplies left. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 3- (P) Secretary Knox demanded a production "miracle" of the nation's warship building industry today in order to assure the United States and Britain command of the seas.

"There can no longer be any doubt," Knox said, "that this will be determined by two things -no, one thing a successful combination of sea and air power." Speaking to a conference of shipbuilders, he told them it was up to them to see that America and Britain were equipped with the warship half of the combination necessary for victory. One out of every four ships leaving United Kingdom ports never returned. Approximately 20,000 tons of sunk by German aerial yesBritish merchant were shipping, terday, informed Germans declared today, while about 20,000 tons more were damaged severely. Short of April Claim The German high command said (Continued On Page Two) BRITISH PREPARE IN CHINA TOKYO, June 3-(P)-Thirtyeight British officials from posts in the Far East have been at Hongkong since May 20 discussing "establishment of powerful air bases at Chungking, China, for joint use by British and Chinese forces if necessary," the newspaper Asahi said today in a dispatch from Shanghai. ITALIANS MOP UP IN CRETE ROME, June 3.

-(P)- Italian troops were officially declared toto be mopping up. their sections of Crete, and the high command said Axis planes raiding the British-held Libyan port of Tobruk sank a transport ship and damaged la munitions depot. Fishathon Headquarters Cheered by Game Ranger Report: 'They're Biting Again in Cowskin Area' All sportsmen who've just about thrown their arms away with baits of almost every conceivable description may find some cheer in a bit of encouraging news emanating from the Cowskin river vicinity. They're biting again, boys. At least that's the way we got it from several game rangers, who spent a few hours in the clear stream yesterday.

They didn't get anything of potential prize-winning weight, but they claimed seven nice-sized bass, from 1 pound to 1 pound, 9 ounces. The rangers- the event you want to query them more closely -are Capt. Everett Evans, D. H. McClanahan and Claude Beeson.

Neosho Is Still Up The Neosho river was still up and an anticipated rise of perhaps as much as one foot was on the way, but Miami's Fishathon officials said they believed general fishing conditions on the lake should improve anyhow. Spring river was still fishable and strings of crappie were reported taken in the Shawnee lakes sector this morning. Likewise, reports were coming in about noon that the bass were hitting more frequently at those tempting baits in the Cowskin area. Blake's Fish Still Tops Probably no one person in Oklahoma is watching the newspapers as closely as Byron Blake, that Enid rural postman who splashed out of the Shawnee lakes last Saturday with that 3-pound, 8- ounce bass. It's still the leader in the derby that gives a 1941.

automobile as its choicest award. Yet, (Continued On Page Two) R. A. F. Attacks Berlin, Spreading Fires Over City (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the war in the air, R.

A. night raiders last night spread "large fires" in an attack on Berlin, the London air ministry announced, and bombed the cities of Dues- seldorf, Duisburg Ruhrort and other targets in Germany's industrial Ruhr. It was the Forty-sixth assault on the war of the Nazi capital. Other British raiders struck at the docks of St. Nazaire, German U-boat base in France, and at Ostend, Belgium.

The Germans acknowledged that apartment buildings in Berlin were damaged by bombs and a number of civilians killed and injured. British Alert for Invasion Meanwhile, Britons mulled a statement by Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering that the conquest of Crete proved Adolf Hitler's assertion that "there are no unconquerable wondered if the next German blitz would strike in the Middle East or in an attempt to invade the British Isles. Nazi quarters in Berlin said the world would not long be kept in doubt. A bomb from one R. A.

F. plane alone started five big fires in last night's raid on Berlin and other crews told of observing "a whole circle of fires" in the German capital, the London air ministry reported. The ministry said a small number of planes attacked objectives in the center of Berlin. Other R. A.

F. units attacking Duesseldorf were hampered by a ground haze, but there were enough breaks in the weather for the crews to aim a heavy load of fire bombs and high explosives at industrial sections of the town, this account said. Parsons, Gets a Shell Loading Plant President Roosevelt has authorized construction of a shell loading plant costing $35,000,000 at sons, Kas. Between 4,000 and 6,000 persons are expected to be employed at the factory. The plant will be located on 000 acres of land southeast of the city.

Government officials are now at work appraising the land. The War department said the $35,000,000 cost estimate included purchase of land, construction of buildings, building installations, machinery and equipment. Giant aviation and large size artillery shells will be shipped to Parsons for loading with explosives. The powder also will be shipped in from ammunition factories. The plant will be erected on a site near Montana, eight miles southeast of Parsons, State Senator Lemon of Kansas said today.

The site, Lemon said is on the west side of the Neosho river and near the St. Louis San Francisco and Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroads. Lemon, here as a representative of the Kansas Industrits commission, predicted construction would begin in the near future. Floyd Moore, 45, was ADA, June day to die in the electric chair for murdering a filling station operator and a Negro porter, May 1. A district court jury, after deliberating more than seven and onehalf hours, filed into a nearly empty court room at 1:07 a.

and read its verdict. Moore was condemned for what officers said was the motiveless slaying of Alf Hardage and Alec Powell, Negro. I Moore made no response as he heard the verdict. He turned, shook hands with Jeff Laird, his court-appointed attorney. District Judge Tal Crawford will sentence Moore formally at 10 a.

m. Saturday. The state charged that Moore, apparently intoxicated, forced Hardage and Powell into an automobile at the Hardage filling station, drove them to a point outside Ada, shot them, then turned a gun on himself, inflicting a wound. Double Killer Is Sentenced to Die PARIS ALERT FOR RAIDS VICHY, Unoccupied France, June 3- -A practice air raid alert will be held in Paris tomorrow, the first since German occupation of the capital, it was announced today. NOTED PAINTER DIES REHOBOTH BEACH, June 3.4 UP) -Robert Hinckley, 88, distinguished American portrait painter, died of a stroke at his home I yesterday, WY HELPS SET STAGE FU CATTLE OF SYRIA; F.

PARIS ALERT FOR RAIDS Weygand's Conference With Petain, Preeautions in Occupied Capital, Viewed as Significant With Race for Strategic Positions on New Middle East Front Gaining Intensity. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) France appeared today on the verge of plunging into the war against her old ally, Great Britain presumably with strong German support -on a new battlefield in French-ruled Syria in the Middle East. In Vichy, Chief of State Philippe Petain called an urgent cabinet meeting late this afternoon, the second of the day, after conferring with Generalissimo Maxime Weygand, commander in chief of France's African armies. In Paris, the populace was warned to be ready for an air raid alert tomorrow--the first since Adolf Hitler's conquering legions swept into the old French capital. Simultaneously, the French-controlled Beirut radio reported- British were preparing to attack Syria and declared French forces were ready to "reply effectively." Authorized Nazi quarters in Berlin, with apparent significance, said Germany would give France a "free hand" to repel any British attempts against her sovereignty.

More Nazis to Syria Dispatches from Ankara, key, reported a dozen freighters flying swastika flags had been assigned to transport German troops and heavy military equipment from Rumanian ports to Syria, followup the asserted landing of 500 Nazi soldiers on the Syrian coast last Thursday. Ankara observers reported seeing as many as 200 German warplanes near the Syrian-Turkish frontier. British Silence Significant Eagerly awaiting some word that Britain has taken steps to beat the Germans into Syria, qualified observers tonight suggested that the current wall of official British silence was a highly-significant sign. The Middle East headquarters in Cairo announced only that there was "no change in the situation" on all fronts, and the R.A.F. omitted mention of operations in Iraq, Syria or the eastern Mediterranean.

In connection with the possibility that a British movement into Syria already had started, observers here said such a silence in the past almost invaribly meant something big was in progress. Authoritative sources had the (Continued On Page Two) BANDIT IS DELIVERED KANSAS CITY, June 3-(P) Taxicab Driver Leslie Roberts pulled up beside Patrolman Don Defoe and said: "This passenger is giving me trouble." Seeing a pistol in the man's hand, Defoe drew his own gun and ordered the man to drop his weapon. The officer picked up the gun, discovered it was a toy. The passenger signed a statement admitting he robbed Roberts of $1.95. 'GASLESS BUGGY' DANVILLE, June Unable to find the answer himself, Chief of Police George Price has asked his lieutenants to solve a department mystery.

Studying records on the performance of department cars, Chief Price discovered that--according to the records-Police Cruiser No. 4 operated throughout the month of May, traveling 900 miles, without using any gasoline. BLAST TRAPS MINERS WHITEHAVEN, Cumberland, England, June 8-4P-a number of coal miners were feared trapped tonight in remote workings far under the sea at William Pit following an explosion. Many survivors were rescued. but with serious burns.

Sunk in 1812, William Pit is the oldest undersea mine in Britain. Some of its workings are seven miles under the sea. ICKES ASKS OIL REPORT WASHINGTON, June 3 (P)- Interior Secretary Ickes, in his role as federal oil coordinator, asked representatives of the petroleum industry to report to him today on the threatened east coast oil shortage. FLASHES ROME, June 3-4P)-Germany and Italy are ready for action against the United States if that country enters the war, the authoritative Fascist editor Virginio Gayda indicated today close on the heels of the latest meeting between Premier Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Gayda often reflects II Duce's views, wrote in Il Giornale D'Italia that the Axis chieftains at their meeting yesterday "discussed new plans to follow a new cycle which is opening immediately for the victorious Axis powers." "This is a time for action," Gayda said.

"The meeting of Il Duce and the Fuehrer is itself action." Clearing in Kansas as Parsons Awaits Flood Peak IOLA, June danger in the Iola region was eased somewhat today as the swollen Neosho river fell slowly after reaching a crest of 20,45 feet at midnight, Downstream at Chanute and Parsons, however, the river was. rising an inch an hour and was beginning to spread out over the lowlands around Parsons. The river dropped to 20.32 feet at 6:15 a. m. and to 20.20 feet three hours later.

Flood stage is 18 feet. Engineers with the United States Geological survey office at Topeka said the rate of flow was five feet a second. Much of the low farm land around Iola remained under water. The river stage at Chanute, where overnight rainfall measured .43. of an inch, was feet.

It was 23 feet five inches at Erie, south of Chanute, and 19 feet above normal at Parsons. The weather bureau said no further rains were forecast for southeastern Kansas. A $10,000 emergency fund has been granted by the WPA for flood relief work in five southeastern Kansas counties Caffey, Allen, Woodson, Neosho and Labette. TOPEKA, June 3-(P)-A forecast of clearing weather was encouraging to flooded areas of southeastern Kansas today. Rains the last 24 hours were light generally in the eastern third and were believed not to have aggravated the high water situation.

North central counties received precipitation ranging up to nearly two inches in places. While the crest of the' raging Neosho moved down on Parsons and Oswego today, going several feet over its banks, other streams were reported under control, said Meteorologist S. D. Flora. The Marias Des Cygnes was falling at Ottawa and was expected to remain within its banks.

The Verdigris was at a 12-foot standstill at Coffeyville this morning. The Neosho was falling at Iola, but was within half a foot of flood stage at Parsans, which expects the crest tonight. Army Plane Kills 3 WPA Men in Auto ABILENE, June 3 -(P)- A BT-4 trainnig plane from Randolph field which overshot the mark in a large rain, killed the WPA workers yesterday afternoon when it struck their. atuomobile parked on a runway at the Abilene municipal airport. The dead, all employed on a WPA airport improvement project, were George E.

Kniffe, Charles E. Belvin and Albert G. Walker. Lieut. A.

J. Richards of Randolph field, the pilot, was slightly hurt when the plane nosed over. His passenger, Lieut. W. M.

drix, was not injured. JAPS BOMB OWN CASUALS HONGKONG, June 3. (P) More than 40 Japanese wounded wer prisoners were killed Saturday during a Japanese air raid on Tahu, northwest of Foochow, in Fukien Province, the Chinese central news agency reported today. SNOW IN EUROPE MOSCOW, June UP) Snow fell on central European -Russia today, prolonging this section's coldest spring in more than a tury, SAIGON, Indo China, June -United States oilmen in Hanoi reported today that the Japanese took 127,000 gallons of American aviation gasoline with other oil stocks when they seized American merchandise which had been en route to China at Haiphong May 25. Members of the French Indo.

China government, who called the seizure a "Japanese military 'robbery scheme," referred it to Vichy, which was reported to have protested to Tokyo. Sales Tax Payments Increase in State Total April sales tax collections (covering retail business transactions) was percent higher than April, 1940's 284.49, according to a report issued by the Oklahoma Tax commission, Every county in the state except four showed material gains in collections, indicating widespread improvement in trade conditions. Ottawa county collected 886.51 for its share of the state's sales tax total, Craig county took in $4,559.59 and Delaware brought $1,145.42 more. Individual receipts from cities show that Miami has collected 272.80 on tax tokens. Picher, the other county town listed, has received $4,892.88.

In Craig county, Vinita collected $3,814.03 and in Delaware, Jay brought $386.13. Bids Asked on Road Work in Grandomain Of $1,798,424 in road projects, for which bids were called Monday by the State Highway commission, two proposed undertakings are vital to the growth of the grandomain. Sandy Singleton, chairman of the commission, listed one of the proposed undertakings as the construction of an overpass over the Frisco railroad and Lost creek, east of Wyandotte on U. S. Highway 60.

Estimated cost was set at $142,300. Another state project would be the construction of a new Honey creek bridge, south of Grove, and the grading and drainage of miles of road leading to the span. Estimated cost of the bridge construction and road work was announced at $360,000. 3 lbs. 8 oz.

FISH ATO DATE 40 nest 3 weight BIGGEST BASS SCALES YA SHOULDA SEEN THE BIG ONE THAT GOT AWAY- Ed Zilar Is Named Peace Justice Here County commisioners announced today the appointment of Ed Zilar, 220 stret northwest, as justice of peace in Division No. 1, Miami, succeeding the late C. C. Haley. The new justice's bond will be ready for approval soon, commissioners said.

Justice Haley died about a fortnight ago. NEW IRAQ REGIME LONDON, June reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Baghdad said today that a new Iraq government has been formed with Jamal Al Midfai as premier. ITALIANS BOMB MALTA ROME, June 3-(P)-Fascist bombers attacking Halfar flying field on Malta in waves last night destroyed or damaged several British planes, Stefani, Italian official news agency, reported today. in Miami from until 2 p. m.

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Lead steady, spot, New York 5.85@90; East St. Louis 5.70 Zine steady, East St. Louis spot and forward 7.25..