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Newspaper Page Textrun u a WMtb- Weather " !ru r,pon Growing Demand Now Is Mm tinu to rent that houM or apartment. There U (rowing demand for places In wblch to Hire. If you nan pro perty to rent try the Wjnt Ad way quick and Inexpensive. Medford Tribune roracMt: Fair tonight and Thursday. Not muck change In- temperature. Tempera tar Illthest yesterday 93 lwet thlt morning. Precipitation paat 14 hours... Full Associate Preae United Pros Thirty -sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941. No. 94. mm Air m "ataa-' awea mi saaaBBasssaaaavsaasaaaa aa a 9 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 9. The farm bloc has disrupted all the new deal office cooling systems with the hu midity they have turned on against price controls. N o less an admin istration p e r- 4 J" I sonage than kNJvJ Jim Byrnes, iri 11 the new Jus- II ' 1 tice James a?aHrfaJ Byrnei has Paul Mallon. tried to pcr. s u a d e Mr. Roosevelt's price manipulator, Leon Henderson, to let it all go until fall. Mr. Henderson de clined. The largest root of political trouble which is arising over prices is in the loyal southern branch of the farm bloc. The southern statesmen remember the prices for cotton in the last world war. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith has been recalling it reached 48 cents a pound and that a minimum price of 42 cents was then fixed. It is under 15 cents now. Their doubts are being strengthened by in-pourings of advice from constituents. Sen ate agriculture committee has received 1000 telegrams of pro test. Senator Bankhead ot Ala bama alone has received a like amount. A SIMILAR opposition is sl multaeously arising around General Marshall's request for authority to send draftees abroad and extend their term of ser vice. Letters from families of the bovs now serving are beginning to "come in to congressmen lay ing a basis for strong resistance on these points also. These developments are push ing Mr. Roosevelt right up to the decisive crossroads. His price adviser flatly says prices 1 k. mtninnl unless he CHIUlUb " - . has power immediately, and the . j i :,i I. ...Mtnii. politicos tear h wm ""--lar. His chief of staff says the country, to have an adequately trained army, must extend the (Continued on Pass Slxl Portland, July 9. (fPh-Law- rence a. wmran, . for the federal grand Jury today . - ..lAl.iinff the on a cnarge m selective service act. Radio Highlights By Aisociatad Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS: 5:15 MBS; 5:30 NBC-Blue; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS; 8 NBC, CBS; 8:30 MBS. NBC-Blue 10:05 PGA golf. Thursday, the war 4 a.m., NBC, CBS; 4:55. NBC-Blue: 5, NBC-CBS; 8 NBC-Blue, MBS; 7 MBS; 8 MBS; 9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS: 12:45 p.m.. CBS; 12:55 NBC-Blue; 2:25 NBC-Red: 2:45 CBS. NBC-Blue. NBC-Red 2:30 Louis Fischer on "Democracy and Crisis in Russia." Some short waves: bsC, GSD, London 3, questions of the hour: HAT4 Budapest, 4:30, concert and news; GSC, GSD, London 8. democracy marches; DJD, DZD, DXP, Berlin, 7:30 news. SICE GLANCES Bf TRIBUNE REPORTERS George Carter missing his old pal Col. Ralph Cowgill all along the line and having to dash to Grants Pass to welcome him back to Medford. Cappy Weldon McBee look ing in the brown of condition, the California sun giving him the color of a Foreign Legion naire. And Cappy Theron Bean laughing over the typographic al error that made him an "in structing ' quartermaster instead of a constructing quartermaster. Lydia May Youngs wanting to see "The Prisoner of Zenda" because that cinema was among the first of her legitimate stage appearances- I -1 Sl m m TIMBER PRODUCTS iiiii i rvnrniMriiT WITH LOCAL WOOD Carload of Machinery En Route for Small Plant to Determine Possibilities Establishment of a small, ex- j perimental plywood factory by the Timber Products company was announced today after the Mail Tribune had learned that a carload of veneer manufacturing machinery was en route from an eastern point to the Medford concern. When questioned by the Mail Tribune, Timber Products com pany executives said that they had conducted a thorough, two year survey of the possibilities of local timber being utilized in the manufacture ot veneer and plywood. Timbsr Studied "Careful study of standing timber in all adjacent southern Oregon districts has been made, local woods have been sent away for laboratory inspection and detailed records have been kept of many millions of board feet of woods-run logs as they have been delivered to the mill", a company official said. "The results of this study have not been particularly encouraging as they have indicated a materi ally different type of timber from that now being used in other districts for veneer and plywood manufacture. While better in many respects for the manufacture ot common type structural lumber, local timber does not contain the percentage of 'clears' found in other dis tricts which is a feature quite important in the manufacture of plywood and veneer. "While we are far from con vinced that a plant of this type can be supported by local tim ber, we reached the point in our investigation where it seemed the only way to ascertain the real facts was to purchase suffi cient veneer machinery and find out by actual practice Just what could be realized from local logs by rotary cutting." Sit Purchased The Hanson-Reames tract of more than 200 acres directly west of the Timber Products company plant site was recently purchased and will allow ample room for expansion if prelimin ary experience proves that ex pansion is justified, a company executive stated. If expansion is deemed expe dient, a thoroughly modern plant of sufficient size to utilize all available peeler-type logs will be constructed without de lay, it was indicated. The experi mental factory, it was said, would be small. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce initiated a study of plywood-manufacture possi bilities a couple of years ago and since then there has been con siderable talk from time to time about the erection of a factory. The general feeling has indicat ed that erection of such a plant would be received with great satisfaction. This is the first authentic news, however, on the establishment of a plywood or veneer factory in this area. FIFTY IRE LEAVE FOR WAKE ISLAND Grants Pass, July 9. (Spl.V Headed for Wake island, 50 men left here Monday by bus for San Francisco where they will take a boat for naval air base construction work in the mid Pacific. About half the men were from Grants Pass, and others included: Francis C. Campbell. Rogue River; T. W. Sanford, Williams; B. C. Kennedy, Rogue River; Melvin Davidson, Murphy; Earl E. Tucker. Gold Hill; Edward White, Idleyld park; Marvin Carl, Provolt and Clayton Maa catle, Idleyld park. San miKlaro, July . (Af-CSOA) Butter: n score SSe: 1 arare; Xc: ( 0 scors Hit: M soon Me. Red Ambattadora Ahead To Return Istanbul, Turkey, July 9. (P) Sources usually well-informed said today that V. G. Dekanozov, soviet ambassa dor to Berlin, has refused to continue homeward after reaching Bulgaria because he is afraid of being punished for having failed to tip Mos cow that German invasion of Russia was imminent. Similar fears were reported shared by others among sev eral hundred diplomats, con suls and other Russians in Bulgaria waiting an exchange for German diplomats coming from Moscow. 3 ARMY BOMBERS FUEL EXHAUSTED Madera, Calif., July 9. (A) Three army bombers, out of gasoline and apparently fly ing in the wrong direction, crashed near here last night two of them reportedly in flames but only one airman was injured. Sergeant C. C. Herron of Sa vannah, Ga.,, first man to bail out of the planes 60 miles from where they came to earth was taken to a Visalia hospital for treatment of a slight shoulder injury. The two-motored bombers were out ot Savannah en route to March Field, Calif. They took on gasoline at Phoenix, Arlx., for the last leg of the flight and apparently all went well until they entered the San Joaquin valley. Sergeant Herron said Lieu. tenant A. M. Rulison of Long Beach, Calif., flight commander and pilot of Herron's plane, dis covered he had only a few min utes of .gasoline left. He told the sergeant to jump. Apparent ly the planes had headed the wrong way after crossing the sierra The crackup was 60 miles north of where Herron leaped the opposite direction from March field. Herron landed eight miles north of Visalia. The planes all crashed within a short distance of Madera. Lieutenant J. R. Cables, 24, Concordia, Kas., pilot, and Sergeant G. M. Thomas, Knoxville, Tenn., para chuted five miles southeast of here. Lieutenant H. E. Adams and Corporal S. L. Norwood (ad dresses and ages unavailable) bailed out four miles south of Madera. Lieutenant Rulison and his plane came to earth nearby. The Fresno army air base be gan an investigation. 10-DAYFl FOR MENJF 41ST Salem, July 9. - W) The promised ten-day furlough! for their work in the California war games will be given the 18,000 men in the 41st division this month, Major-Gen. George A White said yesterday. The general said rumors that his division would be sent out of the northwest had no foundation. WiUkie Would Give Britain More Than Just Lip Service Washington, July 9. P Declaring that "there is no use in just giving lip service to Bri tain," Wendell L. WUlkie said after a White House conference today that he favored the estab lishment of American military bases in northern Ireland and Scotland. Emphasizing that he was ex pressing his own views rather than those of President Roose velt the 1940 republican presi dential nominee told an informal press conference that American occupation of Iceland "is, in my judgment, but the first of simi lar steps that should be taken " In response to questions. Will kle declared that it was vital "to keep the sea lanes open." He added that British shipping losses were running far ahead of new construction. "Wc can do ana of two Nazis Claim Deep FOR DRAFT MEN HIT BY RAYBURN Speaker of House Favors Permission for Volunteer ing 2nd Year's Service Washington, July 9. (P) Speaker Rayburn said today he opposed suggestions that drafted men be kept in service longer than one year but favored an amendment to the selective ser vice law to permit them to vol unteer for a second year. At the same time, Rayburn expressed the opinion that na tional guardsmen and reserve officers "might be willing to stay in service another year." For Promotion Chance He said he would "like to see" officer training schools estab lished In the army. "If we give those boys a hope that they would rise up in the army a good many of them would take another year," Ray burn said. President Roosevelt and Rep. Wadsworth (R-N.V.), author of the selective service act, sided with the army general staff to day on the need for extending the military service of selectees and national guardsmen beyond the present statutory one-year limit. . Wadsworth also endorsed the army recommendation that con gress rescind the legal prohibi tion against the use of selectees or guardsmen outside of the western Hemisphere, except in United States' territories and possessions. Work was reported In prog ress today on erection of the camp about 500 officers and men of the air corps are to occupy for two weeks at the Elks picnic grounds. Under command of Capt. Mar vin Sledge an advance unit of about 75 men arrived late yes terday and established a supply base at the Prescott CCC camp, now unoccupied, and the men went to the Elks picnic grounds this morning to set up the camp, Rest of the men will arrive Friday. All are from the 20tn pursuit group, Hamilton field. San Rafael. Cal. In the advance group there were two ordnance officers and a ' medical officer. Capt C. P. Lesslg flew up from Hamilton field today and was to spend some time at the camp site before returning. It is understood that only half a dozen pursuit planes will be brought to the Medford munici pal airport during the camp period. At first it had been planned to bring 20. things," he continued. "We eith er can give Great Britain effec tive aid or we can render her only lip service. "It would be better not to try to give any aid at all than to follow the latter course." The 1940 republican presiden tial nominee said the president, who Invited him to lunch, had described to him the internation al situation in all its aspects. In reply to questions, Stephen Early, presidential secretary, told reporters he did not think that there was "any job in the picture" for WiUkie, and that he did not believe WUlkie desired one. WUlkie said he would make two speeches in California on na tional unity late this month, one at Los Angeles July 23 and the other at San Francisco on the 23th. REQUESTS ON SY1 FRONT Action Taken to Halt Further Bloodshed in Unequal Combat, Civilian Suffering Vichy, France, July 9. (P) The Vichy government announc ed tonight that it had asked Bri tain for an immediate armistice in the month-old war in Syria. A communique said that Gen eral Henri Dentz, French high commissioner for Syria and Leb anon, had been authorized to "ask an immediate silencing of arms" and that this was done yesterday "at Beirut through the intermediary of the United States consul general." The communique said Vichy had taken this step in order not to prolong "a particularly griev ous bloodshed in a combat daily more unequal" and to cut short "the sufferings which the war Inflicts on the peoples of Syria and Lebanon." The British and Free French forces marched into Syria on June 8, simultaneously with is suance of a British foreign of fice statement declaring that Britain could not tolerate Ger man infiltration into Syria which, it was charged, already had begun and which would "bring Syria and Lebanon un der full German control" if it were not halted. BE HARD IS OFFICIAL BOAST Moscow, July 9. Of") Ger many has failed in an effort to crush soviet defenses, even though she sent 10,000 tanks against the Russian lines in an ultra-secret opening attack, vice commissar for foreign affairs N. A. Losovski declared tonight. Losovskl acknowledged that the German attack had caught the Russians unawares, and that the nazis had succeeded in quick ly wrecking several hunderd planes. Analyzing the military situa tion to date, this soviet official declared that the German light ning attack was carried out so secretly that the German troops themselves were told where they were going only one hour before the assault. "The German soldier clashed for the first time with a soldier who was trying to counteract with methods similar to those of the Germans," the vice-commissar said. Drawing a comparison be tween France and Russia, Losov skl said that France was not beaten, but rather was betrayed by its government and high com mand. "We." he said, "have no rup ture between the government and command and the army and people." FIRST IMAMS Boston, July 9. W) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's swift application of the brakes of her automobile in which the presi dent's mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, was a passenger, averted a collision today with another car at an east Boston intersection. Members of the party, travel ing In two automobiles to the family summer home at Campo bello island. New Brunswick, said that Mrs. Roosevelt halted her car just in time to avoid colliding with a machine that passed through the intersection against red light Advances in Three Sectors Defense Volunteer Registry Polls Open 2 p.m. Tomorrow Machinery for the voluntary registration of all Jackson coun ty residents 18 years or over is ready to be set into motion at 2 p.m. tomorrow for the nation's first peace-time mobilization of civilians willing to assist in de fense emergencies. There will be separate though similar registration forms for men and women. In addition there will be a form on recre ation for both men and women. The recreation sub-committee of the defense council is in charge of the recreational phase of de fense work and Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter, sub-committee chair man, said many volunteer work ers would be needed to help pro vide wholesome recreation for boys in military service. To help answer questions, the sub-committee will have a wo man at each polling place. The aim is to register all persons who can give some of their time to recreational work. A wide variety of activities was listed as apropos, such as home hospi tality, music, dramatics, card tournaments, dances, water sports, hunting and fishing, ath Sample Enrollment Blank For Defense Volunteers Following Is'a sample of the form to be filled out by men In the voluntary d.f.nse r.glstratioa throughout the county tomorrow. Th.re Is a separate, but som.what simUar form for women and an additional form on recreation for both men and woman. APPLICATION FOR Name last first Street Address . Race U.S. Citizen initial Age Married military experience tresem Military or Naval Status , Health and Physical Condition Vision. Hearing , . Civilian Experience: PoIlce Fire Dept .Intelligence Service First Aid Telephone Teletype Radio Draftsman Clerical Stenographer Typist Other Employment Have you a car available for use? Make Age Type d , ., , . CP trk.) Relatives in foreign countrles....No.....Relatlonship....Country. Do you speak any foreign language? What? How Well? Do you possess firearms? Rifle ( ) Shotgun ) Pistol ( ) Revolver ( ) Present Occupation No. of years in same Firm name or Employer Address If registered for Selective Service, what is your Tlasslfica tion? In event of emergency, will you be able to answer call Im mediately for county service or service restricted to your home community on a part-time or full-time volunteer basis? Are you willing to be finger-prlnted"ln the event you are as signed to service? Where would you prefer to serve: Police Reserve ( ) Fire Dept. Reserve ( ) First Aid ( ) Aircraft Observer ( ) Air Raid Warden ( ) Other Service Character references: (for ability and loyalty) Name Address Name Address Name Address LEAVES KLAMATH Klamath Falls, July 9. W) An army column 80 miles long, largest ever to travel Pacific coast highways, rolled out of here this morning bound for Eugene. Made up of 475 vehicles car rying 2,550 men of the 162d infantry the column traveled in eight sections of approximately 50 vehicles each and required three hours to pass a single point on the highway. Jacksonville. Fla., July 9 OP) Leland Jamleson, 37, eastern air lines pilot and magazine writer, died today In a hospital here after a long Illness. He was widely known for his aviation adventure stories in magazines. He also was the author of two novels, "Attack," and "High Frontier." letics, recreation leadership, motoring, sightseeing and cleric al work. Registration will be done at all of the county's regular pre cinct election polling places, a list ot which is published on page 2 in the Mail Tribune to day. The polls will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. All election boards have volunteered 100 per cent to serve the Jackson County Council of Defense In the regis tration without compensation. The council announced today that citizens may register at whatever polling place is most convenient as it is not necessary, as in an election, to go to the polling place of one a precinct. Purpose of the registration is to provide a supply of special ized workers willing to serve in case of emergency. Each regis trant will specify the kind of work he is best qualified to do in emergencies. There is no com pulsion about registering and those who do register do not bind themselves to do anything that they would not want to do voluntarily if an emergency should arise, the councu em phasized. ENROLLMENT (MALE) Telephone Residence Business City.. Naturalized. Native Born. MlimhaP n riAiunilMS. Rank Attained. (Signature of Applicant) London, July 9. (JP) The house of commons joyously heard Prime Minister Churchill suggest today that United States and British warships may profit ably assist each other in guard ing the "very dangerous waters" off Iceland. Churchill made this statement in a speech welcoming Amer ican occupation of Iceland and his report roused parliament to its loudest cheers since the day he dramatically announced the sinking of the German batUe- shlp Bismarck. KLAMATH MERCURY 92, IS HIGHEST OF YEAR Klamath Falls. July l,-(V Klamath Falls had Its hottest day of the year yesterday when the temperature reached 92 degrees REMAINJTALLED Sharp Contrast Seen in Claims Battling Nations; Reds Say Constanta Hit Moscow, Thursday. July 10. . OP) The R.d army early to day reported fierce fighting against large German tank and mechanised units trying to br.sk through the Russian lines toward Leningrad and announced new Russian counter-attacks against nasi force ' driving in the direction of . Moscow. By the Associated Prats Adolf Hitler', lnva.1 pictured by the Russians as stalled alonsr a l.OOO.mll. hnnt were reported by the Germans lonay 10 nave siasned into the U.S.S.R. in three new sectors and driven almost 250 miles into Russian territory at undisclosed points. These claims were In sharp contrast to the Moscow version of the struggle, which declared mat soviet red armies won a smasmng victory over the Ger mans in northern white Russia, wiped out two nazl motorized regiments, and put the invader to flight Say Nails Retreat "The Mm loft hnnilMrfd killed on the field and retreated to the west," a soviet commu nique said. The Russians alan rennrtct that red warplanes "completely destroyed" oil centers In Ru mania, which feed Hitler's war maenme, especially at noesti. Russian hnmha it was uM had battered the Rumanian Black sea port of Constanta un til 11 - nks ceased to exist. The Germans said new in- vaslnn arwarhnH haH tiMtn driven into sovietized Estonia, Into Russia proper at Ostrov, and into U.S.SJl. territory won from Finland. Beside the capture of Ostrov. the nazis claimed their troops had occupied the fortified Finnish-Russian border town of Sails, near the vital Murmansk Leningrad railway; broken through a fortified Russian height and captured an import ant road to Murmansk, ice-free soviet Arctic port; and seized two towns in southern Estonia. Flare Resistance A Moscow war bulletin said Fierce Russian resistance was stalling German drives along a 1,000-mile front from the Baltic to the Black sea. Far from exe cuting a blitzkrieg, the bulletin said, the nazis were trying to entrench in northern white Rus sia, on the upper Dvlna river. Authoritative quarters in London said the nazi eastward push into the U.S.S.R. "appears halted" and that "unless mere is a big break through in the next few days, a great pause la likely." Huge masses of German troop were reported marching to the front and nazi quarters in Ber lin hinted broadly that a decisive phase of the 18-day-old struggle) was at hand. 1,476 AIRPLANES IN JUNE OUTPUT Waahlnatnn. Jul B (JPl The office of production management announced today that military aircraft manufacturers aeuver ed 1,478 airplanes during June. rnmnarahla final flCureS fOP May showed 1.334 deliveries, of ficials said, although wnen iney were announced last month they were given as 1,339. Thm OPM did not disclose th types of planes nor the number going to Great Britain or to met United . States army or navy. Baa nam late Batter SacraaMBto. July t. Chora tag raam buttsrfat: PIM grass) 41 HI ascend grade ssfto.