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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 75 il No. 134.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Aug. 25. Mr.
Roosevelt let down his national
mediation board and his labor
mentor Sidney Hillman in the
Kearny strike
trouble with a
thud that may
not have been
heard outside,
but it jarred
the whole ad
minis tration
defense labor
a1 r ti e'uP
I ? 1 The boys
Jftitanal stlU pick
i are
picking
themselves up
from the floor. A well placed
ear can hear some injured mur
muring from them about "an
executive ought to show some
confidence in his delegated sub
ordinates." An occasional whisp
ered threat of a resignation can
b detected also in the inner
air, but the matter probably
will not come to that.
To an impartial outside re
porter, it seems the White House
labor handlers merely over-corn-
mltted the president while he
was away on vacation. They
thought he would take over the
Kearny plant when they told
him to. But every point of dis
pute had been settled except
one; the union demand for a
form of closed shop called the
"maintenance of membership"
ahop. After all, the labor ad
visers were asking a lot in ex
pecting the president to take
over a plant just to make the
employer promise to maintain
the union in perpetuity.
While they were surprised at
Paul
. his first refusal, not many poll
tical advisers of the White
House were. They know the
president must Justify plant
seizures on solid, popular
grounds.
It all came about this way:
National Mediation board came
Into the Kearny strike picture
long before the strike, through
the insistence of Mr. Hillman
the White House defense labor
man, who held some conferences
with John Green, the CIO mart-
(Continued on Paga Fire)
PT. HOI
FLAME DAMAGED
Central Point. Aug. 25.
fSol.) Fire yesterday forenoon
damaged the kitchen and bed
room and destroyed most of
their contents at the residence
of Mrs. Mary S. Stansble.
The fire started from a grease
rag behind the kitchen stove,
aid firemen who held the blaze
to the two rooms.
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Santa Monica. Calif.. Aug. 25.
W) Now it's Mr. California of
19411
Harold Z I n k I n, 10-year-old
truck driver, is the Pacific coast
Adonis, chosen on the basis of
muscular symmetry and devel
opment, carriage and general
appearance.
Normal Training Hit
Salem. Aug. 25. CP) The
state superintendent of public
Instruction cannot require an ap
plicant for an elementary school
teacher certificate to be a gra
duate of the normal school in
which a teacher's training course
Is given, the attorney general
ruled today.
SICE GLAIICES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Daisy Straus deciding to have
only black coffee for breakfast
but gradually adding to her
order until she had consumed a
sizable meal.
Prank Perl nursing along his
Dew shiny car so as to avoid
scratches and fender dents,
much to the amusement of
George Qvi
ALLIES FEAR OIL
FIELD SABOTAGE
BY NAZIAGENTS
Ouster of 'Tourists' Main
Aim First Clash Report
edBrief Campaign Pre
dicted. New York. Aug. 25. JP A
BBC broadcast said today the
Iranian premier had made a
statement that "British forces
have attacked by land, sea and
air and Iranian authorities have
taken measures" to meet the
invasion.
The broadcast. In which the
Teheran radio was quoted, was
heard in New York by CBS.
Br the Associated Press
London. Aug. 25 (IP) Iran's
army of about 190,000 men was
reported authoritatively toaay
to be resisting British-Russian
invading forces, spreading the
war across that oil-rich kingdom
wedKed strategically between
the Persian gulf and the Caspian
sea.
The extent or place of the
engagements was not disclosed
here.
(The German wireless broad
cast an Ankara dispatch stating
that "clashes already have been
reported from the Caucasian
border," the point of entry for
Soviet troops.)
Veteran British desert fight
ers moved east and north from
British-dominated Iraq, and
from the Persian gulf and for
merly a frontier threat at Ba
luchistan, which lies southeast
of Iran. Some of the British
landed from ships in the Persian
gulf.
Russian Cossacks and mount
ed infantrymen made up the
Soviet Invading forces, moving
toward junctions with the Brit
ish in a synchronized Invasion
over baking plains and moun
tains.
Ouster of German agents was
the announced Russian-British
aim.
From Cairo, headquarters of
the British middle east com
mand, it was reported that In
dian mechanized forces, strongly
supported by RAF squadrons,
were In the vanguard of the
invasion.
Opposing the Invaders was an
army estimated in Cairo to con
sist of about 19 divisions of ap
proximately 10,000 men each.
Cairo sources said Iranian ar
tillery was mainly of Swedish
make and arms included both
light - and heavy machine-guns,
There are a few German tanks,
they said, and the air force con
sists of a single Tomahawk and
about a dozen Hurricanes. They
predicted a brief campaign, say
ing Iranians were poor airmen
with little knowledge of naviga
tion. Some British estimates of the
total number of German 'tour
ists and technicians" in Iran rose
as high as 8,000, although
Iranian police declare there are
only 590 German men In the
country.
Russians moved down from
the north; Britans from the west
and south.
Their prime objective was to
win a race against time and pre
vent sabotage and destruction of
vital oil pipe lines and fields by
German specialists alleged to
have infiltrated into the coun
try. - Failure of Iran to expel
these agents was given by the
British as the cause of the action.
The chief purpose of the Rus
sians in Joining in the Invasion
was to secure U S S R.'s south
ern or "side door" frontier from
the possibility of disruptive In
fluence of a German firth
column" In Iran which the Rus
sian have said wa attempting
i to engineer a coup d'etat such a
that which upset Iraq.
Anglo-Soviet occupation of
the land. It was pointed out by
observers, also would establish
a juncture of British and Soviet
forces and a line of communica
tion from the Persian gulf in the
event the German drive in the
Ukraine develops Into a threat
against Russian oil fields in the
Caucasus.
The British operations were
directed from Simla by Sir
Archibald P. Wavell, newly ap-
pointed coannndrr in ladi.
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passenger were injured, soma of them seriously. In the foreground
are receiving first aid.
TRI-STATE AREA,
KILL 1,20
Philadelphia, Aug. 25 (
A windstorm that approached
cyclonic proportions swept thru
a tri-state area today, killing at
least one person and injuring
more than a score of others, top
pling factory smokestacks, and
homes, and leaving a trial of
other property damages.
The wind hit with terrific
force at Swedesboro and Wood-
bridge, N. J., and Wilmington,
Del., about 1 p. m. (EST), Phila
delphia streets were flooded.
Eleven airplane were smash
ed at the DuPont airport in Wil
mington and airport officials
said only three appeared to be
worth repairing.
Five smokestack tumbled
down upon the Edgar F. Hurff
canning plant at Swedesboro,
injuring employes and killing
ueorge Hemple, about 35, a
milkman passing by a truck.
A synthetic rubber plant at
Woodbridge wa reported aflame
after the passage of the storm.
Trucks in that 'vicinity were
overturned. About 20 houses
were blown down.
Hospitals at Woodbury, N. J
and Perth Amboy were crowded
with the injured.
CIO. STRIKE ENDS
WHEN NAVY TAKES
OVER SHIP PLANT
By the Associated Pre
Three thousand worker, van
guard of 14,000. headed back to
work today under navy manage
ment at the plant of the Federal
Shipbuilding and Drydock Com
pany in Keamy. N. J.
CIO' industrial union of Mar
ine and Shipbuilding Workers.
who tied up half a billion dol
lar of ship construction with
their strike call August 7. voted
yesterday to end their walkout
in view of President Roosevelt's
order Saturday that the navy
take over the yards. It was ex
pected that full operations
would be underway Tuesday.
The union will negotiate with
the navy over it demand for a
maintenance-of-union contract
clause which would provide for
dismissal of worker who failed
to pay their due. Thi clause
was what caused the company to
balk at accepting a national me
diation board recommendation
for settlement of the dispute.
Multnomah Drive Open
Portland. Aug. 25. IIP) A
campaign to enlist 50.000 Mult
nomah county resident in de
fense work was started today
under the direction of Z. O.
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San Francisco, Aug. 25. (JP)
Senator Hiram Johnson, one
of America's leading isolation
ists, and Lord Alfred Duff Coop
er, former British minister of
information, traveled across the
continent on the same train
without speaking to each other
and refused to exchange greet
ings when they arrived here to
day.
When Lord Alfred and his
wife, Lady Diana, were told they
had ridden several thousand
mile only a car' length from
the veteran isolationist. Lady
Diana exclaimed, "Oh, let's
have a look at him."
"No," snapped Lord Alfred,
and abruptly walked away.
Senator Johnson was asked if
he would pose for a photograph
with the Englishman. "I will
not." he answered.
Duff Cooper will leave San
Francisco tomorrow by Pan
American clipper for Singapore
where he will become British
coordinator for the Far East.
Lord Alfred, who recently
conferred with President Roose
velt and Secretary of State Cor-
dell Hull, commented, "so far
as I can see, public opinion 1
becoming more and more favor
able in the United States toward
helping u a much a possible."
T
E
Arthur L. Sherman, member
of the three-man contract board
ef the war department, Wash
ington. D. C, is here today con
ferring at the office of the con
structing quartermaster and the
architect-engineer of the pro
posed army cantonment.
- Mr. Sherman was quoted as
saying he stopped here "Just to
take a look-in" because he was
so near to Medford, having been
at Corvalli where an army
camp is proposed also. The con
tract board negotiates construc
tion contracts.
ARMY CHIEFS TO
SEE MANEUVERS
Corvalli. Aug. 25 W) Army
appraisers are viewing lands
north of here, where the pro-
nosed army cantonment 1 ex
pected to be built
Announcement of exact boun
daries is expected soon, possibly
this week. Farm owner have
been assured the army will pay
prevailing Willamette valley
price tor tb land.
this heavy bus collided head-
Rafael. Calif. Twenty-five bus
some of the injured passengers
DEATH COMES TO
J.H.C00LEY.L0NG
A RESIDENT HERE
J. H. Cooley, prominent south
ern Oregon resident and bus!
net man for more than 30 year
died last night in Grants Pass
where he had resided for the
past five or six year. He wa
85 year old.
Mr. Cooley cam to Medford
In 1909. He engaged In a number
of business enterprises, includ
ing the lumber business and real
estate, here and in Grants Pass.
He held a number of property
interests here.
Funeral services will be held
in the Hall chapel. Grants Pass,
at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Last rites
will be conducted by Malta
Commandery, Knights Templar
of Ashland of which he was long
a member. Mr. Cooley was affili
ated also with other Masonic
bodies, including Medford Blue
lodge, A. F. and A. M., Crater
Lake chapter of Medford, Royal
Arch Masons, and Hillah Temple
Shrine, Ashland. He was a mem
ber also, of the Presbyterian
church here.
Survivor ' are a ' daughter,
Mr. Grace Collins, Medford,
and two sons, Charles R. and
Allen H. Cooley, both of Grant
Pass.
LOST MAN WORKS
WAY OUT WOODS
Herman Sommer, 44, San
Francisco, walked out on the
Dead Indian road this noon after
a searching party of foresters,
state police and sheriffs' depu
ties had been organized to hunt
for him. Rogue River national
forest headquarter reported.
On a visit at the home of his
father-in-law, J. M. Wagner of
Ashland, Sommer went out with
a party of fishermen yesterday
morning to Grizzly Creek can
yon above Plnehurst. Sommer
did not fish himself and when
other member of the party
turned to their car last evening
he wa missing. After search
of their own failed to find the
missing man, hi friend notified
state police.
' Forest headquarter said that
Sommer evidently wandered
around all night and thi morn
ing until he came out on the
road, about six mile from hi
starting point.
Coast Highway Tragedy
Marshfield, Aug. 25 (P) A
Coast highway collision killed
Mrs. W. W. Harper, 48, San
Francisco, and injured the dri
ver of second automobile, W,
H. Anderson, Portland I ester
da.
REST OPEN SEPT.8
Labor Survey Shows 221
Students In Fruit Work
Board Acts.
A a result of a labor survey
disclosing that 221 Medford
senior school student were em
ployed at the present time in
the harvesting of the valley pear
crop, the school board nas posv
poned the opening of the senior
high school one week to Mon
day, September 15, it was an
nounced today by E. H. Hedrick,
city school superintendent.
The survey, conducted by
Principal Leonard B. Mayfield,
revealed that 173 high school
students were employed in the
packing houses and 48 in the
orchards, Hedrick stated, the
total representing approximate
ly one-third the senior high
school student body.
The junior high school and
the four grade schools, however,
will open for the 1941-42 school
year on the original starting
date, Monday, September 8, the
superintendent announced.
Hedrick stated that fruit men
estimated the need for high
school student labor until Sep
tember IS at 184 in the packing
houses and 46 in the orchards,
at which time the peak of the
harvesting was expected to be
completed. For the few students
needed after September 15, Hed
rick said they would be encour
aged to complete their work and
would be given special consider
ation in making up any school
studie they might miss in re
porting late.
All teachers, including senior
high school instructors, are to
attend a teachers' meeting at the
Junior high school at 9 a. m.,
Saturday, September 8, to meet
with Mr. Hedrick. Although the
high school won t open . until
September 15, the high school
teachers will report for duty
September 8 and will work on
their year' itudy course that
week under Principal Mayfield,
Hedrick explained.
TWO LOCAL GIRLS
T
EN ROUTE SOUTH
A search was being carried
on today by city and state pol
Ice and the sheriff office for
two young girls, missing from
their homes since 10:30 Satur
day night.
The girl were Peggy Riddle,
15, daughter of Mr. Marvin O.
Riddle of 824 West Second street
and Dona Miller. 16, both of
them employees of the Dutch
Mill, formerly the Brass Rail,
on South Riverside avenue.
City police said that the girls
were seen getting into an auto
mobile with two men In front
of the Dutch Mill at 10:30 p. m.
Saturday, the car then proceed
Ing south.
Police quoted Mr. Riddle as
fearing Peggy might have been
kidnaped by her father, William
L. Hollands of Covins, cant.
who. she told police, had been
restrained from seeing his
daughter by a court order. Miss
Miller, police learned, had been
a hitch-hiker who obtained em
ployment recently at the Dutch
Mill.
The authorities were check
ln with the sheriff office In
Covins regarding the where
about of Holland, and notified
the California highway patrol to
be on the lookout for the auto
mobile.
Washington, Aug. 25 (IP)
Secretary of State HuU said to
day that only Informal talks
were in progress with Japan
concerning difference In the Pa
cific and Indicated an unwilling
ness by the United State to
compromise In any way on fun
damental principles and policies.
He said his Informal conversa
tion Saturday with the Japanese
ambassador. Admiral Nomura,
was typical of the talk being
held .
TOKYO, Aug. 25. UP)
Telichl Muto. a commentator
in the newspaper Hochl. de
clared today that United States
oil tankers must not be per
mitted to pas through the
Tsugaru and Soya straits be
cause they are within Japan
ese territory.
The straits are the passage
through the Japanese archi
pelago which encloses the Sea
of Japan, the route to Russia's
great Siberian port ol Vladivostok.
TOKYO, Aug. 25 (IP)
The National City bank ef
New York ennounced today it
would close branches at Kobe
and Yokohama at the end of
September because treating
orders had reduced business.
Since the Osaka branch was
closed some months ago, the
bank will have only one office
in the Japanese empire.
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ATTACKS OPENED
Berlin Silent On Encircling
Battles First Signs of
Winter Arrive.
Moscow. Aug. 25. (P) Gen
eral red army counterattack
with huge tanks, masse of in
fantry and swift-striking cav
alry ware reported today by the
Russians a Soviet naval force
claimed the sinking of two out
of four heavily laden German
troop and munition transport
In the Baltic sea.
The Russians said that on
Rumanian and two German di
visions were routed and that
three other Rumanian division
lost 26,000 men.
During - the -week-end Inter
mittent rain and fog set In
around low-lying Leningrad-
forerunner of the usual Sep
tember and October rain which
precede the northwest Russian
snow of November.
A Moscow communique Indi
cated that the assault on Lenin
grad from the north had been
renewed yesterday In drive
toward Kaklsalml in the north
eastern sector of the heavily
fortified Karelian Isthmus. -
Berlin, Aug. 25. (IP) Ger
man dispatches today said 123
Soviet tank were destroyed In
eight assault which the Rus
sians mad with mechanized
forces in three day of counter
attacks on the central front.
The big German war machine
wa described In official re
port aa rolling forward on all
active front, but the high com
mand ventured only a brief
general statement concerning
the fighting:
'Operation In the east are
making good progress every
where, said the communique
from Adolf Hitler's headquar
ters.
Complete official silence cov
ered the extensive battle about
the Nazi-encircled center . of
Soviet resistance at Odessa in
the south and Tallinn in the
north, where It ha been ad
mitted that death stands are
being made by regular and
civilian, and the fortified areas
of Leningrad and Kiev, where
the German forces seek to force
similar bands of steel.
Likewise, there wa a dearth
of official word concerning the
drive of the German between
Kiev and Gomel In what I
been described a another mas
sive encirclement battle to en
trap defender to the southwest
of Moscow.
BASEBALL
Amerlcaa League
(First game)
Washington S 11
St. Louis 11
Anderson, Masterson, Carraa-
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McKain and Swift.
Philadelphia at Detroit, called,
end first Inning, rain. Double
header tomorrow.
National League
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rained out. -
games
Pledges British Help If U. S,
Efforts Fail In Pacific, In
World Broadcast.
Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 26 (JPl
Prime Minister Churchill' as
sertion that Britain and the
United State were trying to ob
tain a peaceful settlement with
Japan wa described as "nothing
but a big lie" today by Nlchl
NichL on of the most influen.
tial Japanese newspaper.
Nlchl Nlchl called on Britain
to end "anti-Japanese" activities
immediately and proclaimed:
'Japan is determined to elim
inate all obstacle to her south
ward advance. Japan doe not
hesitate to meet any 0000811100.".
London. Aug. 25. UP)
Prima Minister Churchill warn
ed Japan yesterday that her cam.
paign of military expansion must
stop and pledged Great Britain
to range herself beside tha
United States should tha latter1
efforts to secure a peaceful set
tlement in the Pacific fall.
On the other side of tha
world, he called the "Atlantic:
charter" drawn by him and Pre.
lident Roosevelt a British
United State pledge to destroy
nazi tyranny.
In a broadcast to tha world)
he described hi meeting with
tha American executive as a
'marshalling of tha good force
of the world against the evil
forces" and a beacon of hop
for all the conquered nations of
Europe.
In the German attack 01
Soviet Russia, he said nazi blood
for the first time "has flowed
In a fearful flood." He prom
tied aid to Russia and praised)
her efficiency and equipment.
If Germany were to defeat
Russia and then Britain in a
policy of destroying her oppon
ents on by one,' Churchill ex.
pressed the opinion the Unite
States would be attacked next. -
I rejoice to find that Presk
dent Roosevelt saw in their trua)
light and proportion the extreme)
danger by which the American
people a well aa tha Brltisa
people are now beset," ha said. .
His reference to Japan won
moat of the comment in the) ,
British newspaper today. .
The Japanese, he said, "now
stretch a gasping hand into tha
southern seas of China. They
snatch Indo-Chlna from tha
wretched Vichy French. They
menace by their movement
Slam. They menace tha Slnga
port British link with Austra
lasla and menace the Philippine)
islands which are under the pre
tectlon of the United State.
"It is certain that thi ha got
to (top. Every effort will be
made to secure a peaceful settle
ment. The United State arej
laboring with infinite patience)
to arrive at a fair and amicable
settlement which will give)
Japan the utmost reassurance)
for her legitimate Interest. Wa
earnestly hope these negotia
tions will succeed. But this I
must say. that if these hope
should fail we shall, of course,
range ourselves unhesitatingly
at the side of the United States.
LOWER EXEMPTION
NCOMES BACKED
Washington. Aug. 25 V-e
The senate finance committee
voted today to broaden tha In
come tax base by lowering ex
emptions from $2,000 to f 1.000
tor married person and front
$800 to 9750 for single Individ
ual. Senator Clark (D-Mo), com
mittee member, told reporters
that the vote for tha lower as
emptions was "substantial."
The lower exemptions would!
bring an additional (.000,000
persons under the Income tax
structure and would add be
tween $300,000,000 and $350
000.000 to federal revenues.
Most of the Increase would coma
from person already paying in
come taxts. .