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rvui o wmui Weather Tribune United Preu CITY, EDITION -: ralr tonight u( atora-yi coaler Saturday. Trmpcrmtore Hlflmt jeal-jr M Lowe thll morning 87 rraclplUtloa past M hours, .00 FORD Full Associated Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941. No. 132. Med R7 BI STAID News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 22. Mr. Churchill, with the aid and knowledge of Mr. Roosevelt, is opening up a new line ol sup- tJ"i plies into Rus sia from the head of the Persian gulf. The rail line north to the CasDian sea is , J1 111 I thin and wob- I Vk ,H goods will have to be re loaded on ships Panl Mallon. for transporta lion across that sea. But H will be a fairly safe line into Russia, relatively free from both the Nazis and Japs, and it can be exploited during the winter, y Mr. Roosevelt, at the instance of Mr. Churchill, is already opening a new bomber-ferry route directly to the near east, through Africa, out of reach of the Nazis. This also can feed bombers into Russia through the winter, although that angle has not been stressed here. With Vladivostok, only mildly menaced so far by the Japs, as an all-winter port directly across the Pacific, Mssrs. Roosevelt and Churchill stand in a fair way to implement forcefully their joint promise of aid to the reds. How it will work .out all depends upon the success of negotiations at the Moscow con ference of British and U. S. representatives with Stalin. ' If the red dictator wants help, and offers reasonable terms, he can get it (not much perhaps, from the British who have little to ipare, but from us). a FHE vague yarns being told about Mr. Roosevelt now expecting the reds not only to last through the winter but two more years, developed immedi ately upon his return from the Churchill conference. The White House apparently did not like the way such a flat prediction looked in print and shushed such "overly optimistic" Inter pretations with a denial. No one will assume to relate - what Churchill told Roosevelt Continued on Psge Twelre) LACK OF PUC PERMIT COSTS TRUCKER $10 Earl M. Manley charged with operating a truck without a PUC permit, was assessed $10 and costs in Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman's court yes terday. Ernest V. Webb paid $1 and yosts for no stop light on his vehicle. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS; . 8:30 NBC-Blue; 8 MBS; 8 NBC - CBS; 8:30 MBS. Talks NBC-Blue and MBS 8:30. Sen. Alben W. Barkley on "America in the World Today" at Young Democrats convention; MBS 3:15, Sen. Joseph F. Guffey on "Freedom of the Seas"; CBS 8:30 Dr. J. C. L. Bates on "Japan's Dilemma." Saturday, the war 7 CBS MBS; 8 MBS; 9:4S NBC-Red: 11:53 CBS; 12 (noon) NBC; 1 MBS; 2:25 NBC; 2:30 CBS NBC Blue. Young Democrats Convention MBS 8:15 a. m. Adolph Berle; CBS; 9:30 a. m. Edward J. Flynn. SICE GLANCES 8f TRIBUHE REPORTERS Juanita Guile explaining how Hubby Duke spells his last name, she saying it was the same as the common word which be is not full of any. Bob Mercer recalling the time coral snake was found on the Pacific highway here, no one 'knowing where the tropical rep tile had come from. Georgie Green failing In his best effort to exact some worth less but Interesting In forma ten from friend. ULK FORM r PEOPLE'S ARMY 10 MEET NAZIS German Columns Attack From Three Directions Odessa Ring Tightened By the Associated Press Thousands of men rushed from Leningrad today to stem the advance of German siege columns while other tens of thousands toiled to erect street fortifications for a death-stand defense of the old czarist cap ital, defying nazi threats to lay the city in ruins. Great numbers of Leningrad civilians were reported volun teering for service in an "opol chenie" or people's army. "The struggle on the ap proaches to the city Is unceas ing," reported the Russian army newspaper. Red Star. Dispatches from Moscow said that the big industrial center, Russia's second largest city, was now a "formidable military camp" and that after four days of bitter fighting on the outer perimeter of Leningrad s de fenses, the Germans appeared to have scored no significant new gains. Ksklsalml Taken German-allied Finnish troops reported today they had cap tured the Russian stronghold of Kakisalmi, 75 miles north of Leningrad, and destroyed the main body of the Soviet 168th division below Sortavala. The Finnish high command said Red army troops bad been encircled at two points north west of Lake Ladoga and that the 142nd, 108th, 285th and 115th divisions had been thrown back with heavy losses. This would represent about 73,- 000 men for the five divisions. While the Finns drove down toward Leningrad on the north, nazi forces were attacking from two directions In the south, in the Kingisepp sector, 73 miles southwest of Leningrad, and In the Novgorod sector, 100 miles south. Isles of Opposion In Berlin, authorized quarters said the Russians were hurling fresh reserves Into the battle along the whole front and acknowledged that the Red army, was maintaining "islands of opposition" both in the Dnie per bend of the Ukraine and behind German advanced lines on the central front. Simultaneously, the Germans admitted a new call had been made for nazi reserves men 17 to 45 to serve in Hitler's elite SS corps, which has been In the thick of the fighting since the Russian campaign began. Soviet eommunicjues have frequently reported the annihilation of SS units. Russian military dispatches, picturing the whole battleline aflame, declared that Red army troops were pressing a fierce counter-offensive on the central front, with Soviet cavalry de tachments thrusting deep be hind the German lines. 400 Die In Sabre Chug Red horsemen were credited with slaughtering more than 400 German infantrymen In sabre charge somewhere along a main highway. Russian monitors and cutters were reported to have smashed repeated . German attempts to cross the river "N" presumab ly the Dnieper In the lower Ukraine in actions which cost the invaders nine tanks, 40 mo torcycles and 800 men. The Soviet radio said Russian bombers had wrecked a fleet of German troop transports car rying reinforcements to the Uk raine front,' with two transports sunk, one set afire, others hit In the assault against Lenin grad, nazi dive-bombers were reported blasting at airdromes on the city's outskirts. SIX POUND DAUGHTER FOR VERONICA LAKE Hollywood. Aug. 22. JP) A six-pound daughter was born to Veronica lake, screen actress, last night. She is the wife of John Detlie, studio art director. Brazil is the only country in Latin America to produce raw silk ei commercial importance. On Russo-German Front --wy v.-m -v M , rriNovGOROO k GOMEL KIEV $. Ki1 KOLAEV rV nwirpror-imriuo AO ANKARA BATUMO W&vjv TURKEY SYRIA kaq Arrows Indicate main sectors an the eastern front and the possibility, envisioned in Berlin. ef a German thrust at Batum. Soviet ell port on the Black Sea. Russians, reporting a firm stand east of Kinglaepp, acknowledged a German drive to the Novgorod region (1) and an advance in the Gomel sector (2). Odessa (3) was reported under heavy pressure, and Germans reported attacks en Dnieper river bridgehead defense forces. In Berlin, where the quick fall of Odessa was predicated, possibility of a sea-born thrust at Batum (4) was seen. DANE EXPECTS U. S. WILL KEEP PLEDGE REGARDING ICELAND Copenhagen, German-occupied Denmark, Aug. 22. (JP) Prime Minister Thovald' Staunlng said in a declaration to the lower house of parliament today that Iceland had no choice in the matter of occupation by U. S. troops. But, Staunlng asserted, he had faith in the American promise to leave the strategic northern island after the war. Meanwhile,' he said, there is a possibility that Iceland may be come directly . Involved in the conflict. (Iceland and German-occupied Denmark are technically sister kingdoms under the tame crown.) - The Americadi occupation, Staunlng added, was "regret table from the Danish and European viewpoint." "Iceland," he said, "belongs to the northern states and through them to Europe. . . . But In this place I . want to express my conviction that his toric developments will confirm the solemn promises of the American government.'' LABOR CAMP FOR Vichy, Unoccupied" ' France. Aug. 22. UP) More than 6,000 Jews arrested In. Paris In the. last two days were sent to labor camps today as communist activity spread through the Gen man-occupied zone. The latest communist troubles were reported at Nancy, where ten communists were arrested for openly putting up posters. They were taken immediately to prison at Toul, which is only 13 miles from Nancy. There was no further news from the occupied tone today regarding the progress of the Paris roundup, which bad been expected to coatiaua, i MURMANSK-- LENINGRAD " (.GORKI 'KAZAN U. S..S.CR. 4- As .ft! Z 4 f i -r o- i IRAN TARIFF ON CRAB MEAT HIKED TO GIVE JAPAN NEW ECONOMIC BLOW Hyde Park, N. Y Aug. 20. (JP) President Roosevelt order ed, today a SO per cent Increase In the tariff on imported crab meat, of which Japan is the chief source of supply. This action was taken in a proclamation declaring that the duties on imported crab meat shall be raised from 15 to 22V. per cent ad valorem. The proclamation said the In crease was necessary to equal ize a difference In costs of production- between Japan and the United States which was deter mined by an investigation by the tariff commission. The Increase applies to crab meat, prepared or preserved In any manner. Including crab pasta and crab sauce, packed in airtight containers. While the proclamation was an innocent-looking document on its surface, it constituted a link in a chain of economic meas ures taken by the United States government after Japan moved into air and naval bases on southern French Indo-China. Hyde Park. N. Y., Aug. 22 (A Implementing the selective service extension act. President Roosevelt directed In an execu tive order today that the term of service be extended IS months for selectees, reservists, national guardsmen and enlisted person nel in the army. The order was more or less a formality required under the extension act. It provided that despite the extension, persons who have served for 12 months may be re leased as the Interests of nation al defense permit. Ex-Congressman Dies Pasadena, Calif- Aug. 11. 'JP) Mark R. Bacon, 89, retired In dustrialist and former congress man from Michigan, died last, Bight. F. R. WOULD ID TAKING Old OF Conferences With Strikers, Managers Fail to Give Hope of Settlement Basis (By Associated Press) President Roosevelt said to day the government did not want to take over Federal Ship building and Dry Dock com pany's strike-bound Kearny. N. J., if it could be avoided. The chief executive made this comment at his press conference ai nyae ram, w. y on the tie-up of the huge shipyard, which has $403,000,000 of de fense contracts, while Detroit city officials continued efforts to settle the Municipal Transit strike there. Mr. Roosevelt said he did not know and could not guess whether the government could avoid moving into the Kearny plant where the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuild ing Workers Is on strike. Night conferences In both the Kearny and Detroit cases ended without the slightest indication of agreement between strikers and management. The Detroit transit strike. caused by a Jurisdictional dis pute between rival AFL and CIO unions, went into its third day, and Detroiters again were forced to take pot luck in getting to and from their Jobs. Though all the municipal buses and street cars were withdrawn from service, the city's streets were Clogged by slow-moving rivers of private cars.' INJURED IN FALL Mrs. Minnie White of 223 Willamette avenue was confined in Sacred Heart hospital today with what her physician describ ed as "a serious head injury," suffered when she slipped and fell and struck her head against the stove in the home of friends she was visiting last night at Tiller. She was unconscious. - Mrs. White was brought to Medford in the Perl ambulance about 11:30 a. m. today. The accident happened earlier in the morning. Bolt Kill Cow, Milker Injured Redmond, Ore., Aug. 22. UP) Erwin Taylor, 17, was injured last night as a bolt of lightning killed a cow beside one be was milking. The cow being milked was knocked down, falling on Tay lor's leg. A second bolt which struck on the Taylor ranch, two miles north of here, set a tree afire. American Forces Find Iceland Drab; Girls Like to Dance but Stay Aloof (Note: Tom Horgan, Associat ed Press staff writer, has been on a voyage with vessels of the United States neutrality patrol and has visited the new defense bases in Iceland. Here is a story of what he found there, certain details being omitted at the re quest of the U. S. navy). By Tom Horgan Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 12 UP (Delayed) American forces assigned to this amazing land of ice and fire may purchase for $2.S0 a paper-covered, illustrat ed guide book which contains no truer or more significant advice than the following: 1 must be stated that those who seek life of boisterous gaiety and attach Importance to bodily comforts, have at present little reason to come to Iceland." Of boisterous gaiety, there is none. The capital s leading host lery. Hotel Borg, holds the only liquor license, and spirits are sold only to patrons who pur chase a full meal, and then In Uictljr limited quantities be WITHHOLDING TAX OF TEN PER CENT E Time Ripe for Bold Depar ture in Levies for Defense, Senate Committee Told Washington, Aug. 22. (IP) Declaring the time is ripe "to make a bold departure In taxa tion for defense," Professor Har ley L. Lutz of Princeton univer sity urged the senate finance committee today to approve a 10 per cent withholding tax on in dividual income. He said such a levy, with no deductions or exemptions, would produce $7,000,000,000 annually compared with the $3,236,700, 000 estimated for the house-ap-proved revenue measure. Lutz, a professor of public fi nance, suggested that the with holding tax apply "on all income payments to individuals, wages and salaries, interest and divi dends, net rents and royalties and enterpreneurial withdraw als." Applied at Source A withholding tax would ap ply to income at its source, sal ary checks, for example. It has been discussed previously by fi nance committee members and Chairman George (D-Ga.) has expressed approval. He has said, however, that it would be dif ficult to incorporate the pro oosal In the sending bill. Luts said the time was ripe for -adoption -of a withholding tax and gave these reasons: "Fiscally, because of the urgent need of revenue; "Politically, because It pro vides universal support for the defense program; "Economically, because the dread spectre of inflation haunts us, and It can be exorcised mosi effectively by drastic taxation now." 1T010YEARSF0R Redwood City, Cat., Aug. 22. (IP) John M. Holmes, 36. socialite and former army avia tor, was sentenced to one to 10 years imprisonment today for killing Wilson Davis McNary, Jr., young Oregon business man. S. E. Hoffman, defense attor ney, was cut short in a plea for probation by Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt, who said, "You know perfectly well the penal code absolutely prohibits probation when a gun is used." Holmes, who blinded himself with a bullet wound after shootirig McNary, showed no emotion when . sentence was passed. tween the hours of noon and 2:30 p. m.,-and in the evening be tween 7 and 11 o'clock. Domestically . brewed . beer . Is sold freely, but it has much the same flavor, aroma and potency as the Icelandic fogs which roll in from the sea. The elosest approach to merri ment may be found at the Borg in the evening, when three piece orchestra furnishes dance music, thus disclosing a distinct ive Icelandic custom. Groups of unescorted young women arrive shortly after the dinner Hour. Some have hair the color of new manila cordage;- few are as raven-haired and gray-blue eyed as any Irish colleen, a reminder that more than 20 per cent of Icelandic blood can be traced to the Emerald Isle. . Tbe girls come to the hotel frankly eager to dance with the American and British officers, but they firmly decline to sit at the same table with their danc ing partners or to accept refresh ments. Conversation whila dancing baseballJSEN. BYRD WRONG National R. H. E. .571 Pittsburgh New York , 3 7 1 Lanning and Davis; Bowman and Dannlng. R. H. E. Cincinnati 17 2 12 0 Boston Thompson, Moore and Lom bard, J. Riddle; Tobln and Ber res. Score; R. H. E. 5 9 0 Chicago Brooklyn . 8 12 3 Erickson, Eaves, Root and McCullough, George; Kimball, Pressnell, Casey and Franks. (10 innings) R. H. E. St. Louis 4 9 0 Philadelphia 2 7 2 Warneke and Mancuso, W. Cooper; Blanton and Warren. American Score: R. H. E. New York 4 8 1 Cleveland 5 11 2 Bruer, Branch and Dickey, Sllvestri; Bagby and Desautels. Washington 4 8 0 Detroit 5 10 2 Carrasquel and Early; Trout, Rowe and Sullivan. PLANS REVEALED Longvlew, Wash., Aug. 22 (IP) Plans to Increase the 4th army to 260,000 troops, from the present approximate BO.uuo, were announced by Lieut. Gen, John L. DeWitt, 4th army com mander, here today. The in crease will begin about the first of next month. Gen. DeWitt told a press con ference five new cantonments, to house 30,000 men each, were now being built or planned along the Pacific coast. An armored division, of 10, 000 troops, will be stationed at Santa Maria, Calif. The general also said five new "streamlined" divisions, of 15,. 000 men each, were to be formed. They will be stationed at Medford, Ore., West Yellow stone, Mont., Corvallls, Ore., Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and Marya vllle, Calif. The above dispatch, received Just before press time, appar ently gives the latest plans for the 4th army, according to Capt. Theron W. Bean, constructing quartermaster in charge here. Capt. Bean, when shown the dispatch, explained that in ad dition to the 13,000 "stream lined" division, to be stationed In the cantonment here, there will be 13,000 additional troops. Capt. Bean declined to theor ize as to what might be expected in the way of building schedule. Expenditures on new Indus trial plants will reach 1.5 billion dollars this year. usually la confined, In excellent English, to, 'I am very sorry, but I do not understand Eng lish." In more than a week, this correspondent did not see sin gle man, American or British, with a girl companion. Common gossip has It that as punishment for associating with British sol diers, the flaxen tresses of sev eral Icelandic maidens were shorn close by Indignant coun trymen. However that may be, Iceland women are far more Indepen dent than their aex in most coun tries. Divorces ar not only eas ily obtained but common, and they and illigitlmacy are not frowned upon with great sever ity.. Residents of rural sections. according to Americana who have been stationed her tome time, are much mora cordial than city dwellers and soon there should bo a new version of the marine and the farmer's daughter Hinkey, Dinkey, par ley voo. ON DEFENSE DATA SAYS ROOSEVELT President Assails Figures Cited by Virginian In Criticism of Production) Hvde Park. N. V An, M (PiSharply assailing figure cited bv Senator Rvrri ffVV-V President Roosevelt asserted to day that while American de fense production never had been completely satisfactory, on the ' average it was up to estimates. ine cniet executive told Dress conference, and ha unlnn. tee red the information, that he had heard and read a statement by Byrd earlier in the week in Washinston which said rlafna production was lagging serious ly. The president said ha had asked the war department for a cnecK and that it had showed Byrd was wronc in all nlnmi. ies but planes. Somebody. Mr. Rooaavalt M sold the senator down the river on the figures. Says Byrd Misled The war denartmant thai president said, told him it waa most unfortunate that the sena tor's data were an Inimmt- mr,A that somebody had misled Byrd. Then Mr. Roosevelt became spo cuic. - Bvrd declared, ha M shaft not a single tank had gone to tngiana, actually, he asserted, w have turned over hundreds 0( tanks to the British, tanks of modern design produced in the last year. Some of these as is known, he said, have gone to Egypt and the papers have car ried stories on the excellence of tneir performance. On anti-aircraft aim- Hf Roosevelt went on, the senator said the program provides for average monthlv delivaria. only four 90-millimeter guns during the balance of this calen dar year. The program actually calls, he said, for monthly deliv eries of 61 for the four remaii lng months of 1941 and the was1 department believes that pro gram will be met. Gun Output Grows At for 37-millimeter anti-tank guns. Mr. Roosevelt nlrf thai senator had declared the produo- uon wouia DO la a month. whereas the actual output waa 72 in Julv and wnuM h- inn August, 260 in September and 320 in October. Thr Mma 4a t- ' discrepancy between the figures is mua ine war department fig ures and then would be, tha president remarked, hm it m zero were added to the IS. furthermore, he oontinoedL ' Byrd said only fifteen 81 millf meter mortars would be pro duced per month In tha months immediately ahead. In July, ha said, production was actually 221. In August tha outmit will be 340, he said, and in Septem ber and October it will be even larger. Byrd 's figures on planes were substantially correct, Mr. Roose velt said, adding in response to a question that the senator had usea uiose of the office of pro duction management. Tha nresidant uM Kt -. one should ask William S. Knud- sen, ufM director, about tha matter, but that it was his recol lection tha July plana produc tion was 1,463 compared with an earlier estimate of lJloo for Uim month. Tha president took exception) to what he said was Byrd a con tention that production of mili tary planes had declined pro gressively in May, June and July. Tha number of training Planes Increaaed. Mr. ftnn-ait said, and the production of milk lary aircran remained steady be cause of changes in design and tha testing of new designs to meet lessons learned last spring. But tha fact remains, be said, that tha senators' statement aa a whole. In every single ttena except planes, was as full of dia crepanciea as those ha had men tioned. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Saturday, but morn ing overcast coast area; normal temperature; moderate north watt wind oft the coast
