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run o iwt- Weather ZJ npan Ftracast: lrtl cloudy to It tit. Thursday fair and slightly warmer. Tern perat ur Highest Yesterday 71 Lowest this Morning 4 Preelpltatton past t4 hoora J4 They Do Produce There U ne bitter stent for yon If yon hare eoeneihlnff te trade, borrow, rent, or MU tbu the went Ade In thle news peper. They coat only a. few eente and they do produce re ulte. Try them out. Medford Tribune Full Associated Frees United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUf r 27, 1941 ii it v'Ary w fc r No. 136. laval, wa ' 1, News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 27. An underground black market has developed In scarce defense ma terials. Boot- I ' 1 11 i ""J leggers are K.jr . a. I making some- e ? 4M t"In8 !! a 11 tintinnnl hlisi- .A e9 ness out of i if il surreptitiously V I I selling metais lV -T U Prtlcularlj lJYj aluminum. t I Ti MM email manu Lfi ff -- turers oi selling Ilicioia, cularly o manu- on going out of business for want of raw ma terials. Fancy prices, usually double the fixed limit, are be ing extracted. The business has already developed the. dark in centive scheming aspects of prohibition law violations blind offices in large city build ings, actual melting down of aluminum in small stills known as alley pots, and home smelt ing. Many Instances have come up for investigation to the com pliance section at defense head quarters here in the priorities division of OPM. An official ex posure to try to break it up is in the making. e e MOST of the reported cases center around the metals manufacturing areas, particular ly Cleveland, Toledo, New York. One small central states man ufacturer received a letter ad' vising that he could obtain aluminum for his business by e going to a business address in New York City. There he was told he could not be helped but might try a nearby address. Pro ceeding to the designated place, he found an unlisted office in a large building. Inside, behind desk, was a man who did not identify himself. The man 'either had. or pretended to have, copies of letters in which the manufacturer had sought to get aluminum allowances from a government department. The manufacturer backed out, re ported to his counsel, decided not to bite. Another complaint suggests an aluminum bootlegger had soma access to the files of a large aluminum manufacturer. (Continued on Pane Six) 'BADS' AND CARY Mexico City, Aug. 27 (IP) Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton, who arrived here separately a few days ago, said today they were "vacationing in Mexico with friends," and emphasized that they had no marriage plans. 'Rumors that we will marry are untrue," said Miss Hutton Woolworth heiress whose di vorce from Count Cort Haug witz-Reventlow of Penmark be came final last March 1. "I plan to be here about three weeks, but no longer as I am already anxious to return to New York to see my baby." Interviewed independ e n 1 1 y the motion picture actor said the only reason he was in Mexico T" was for a vacation and added: "Honestly, on the square, there Is nothing to reports that Miss Hutton and I may marry." ARMY ABSENTEE Assertedly A. W. O. L. from Tort Lewis. Wash., Russell W. Perisho, 20. was sentenced by Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman this morning to 30 days in Jail on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Meantime army officials at Fort Lewis were notified. The youth came originally from Illinois. Perisho was arrested by state policeVyesterday. He was carry ing a -32 calibre revolver, not an army weapon, police said. Perisho pleaded guilty to the WOUNDS SERIOUS: I aw.w, BRITTANY YOUTH HELD FORATTACK Attack At Versailles While Enlisting German Volun teers Climax To French Disorders Aide Also Hit. Vichy, Unoccupied France, Thursday, Aug. 28 (IP) Pierre Laval and his collaborationist henchman. Marcel Deat, were reported today in grave condi tion from gunshot wounds Vlchy, Unoccupied France, Aug. 27 . OP) Pierre Laval, former vice premier under Mar shal Petain and the leading proponent of strong collabora tion with Germany, was shot this morning as he attended an anti-communist demonstration at German-occupied Versailles and was reported tonight to have been seriously wounded. Laval was shot in the chest. Doctors said tonight they be lieved he would live. Shot at the same time al though less seriously hurt was Marcel Deat, former air minister and rightist Journalist and like Laval a leading collaborationist. Laval, swarthy white-tied poli tician who brought Petain and Hitler together after the armis tice, was shot both in the arm and body, while Deat received only a wound in the arm. The two were sitting beside eath other receiving registra tions of anti-communists to fight in a volunteer force alongside Germany In the war against Rus sia when the shooting occurred. The legionnaires were taking oaths of allegiance, In the midst of the ceremony a young man arose and started firing, wounding both men be fore he could be overpowered He wa arrested immediately. Prisoner Identified The prisoner was identified as a 21-year-old communist, one Paul Collette. Collette, the young assassin told authorities he had joined the Legion of Anti-Communist Volunteers simply to have an opportunity to shoot the colla borationist leaders. He said he was born in Brit- anny province at Calvados, Aug ust 12. 1920. and that ne ar rived at Versailles this morning as a volunteer for the sole pur- Dose of "shooting down Laval. Reports tonicnt saia mat doctors had extracted the bullet from the 58-year-old Laval's chest, and that he asked im mediately afterward to talK to his wife by telephone. Staying at the Laval estate near Vichy Mrs. Laval left immediately to be at her husband's bedside. The shooting occurred on the very day that newly-established anti-communist courts began functioning to handle the cases of many hundreds arrested in both occupied and unoccupied France in growing manifestation of opposition to collaboration with the Germans. A number of persons described as Jews and communists were arrested today in the fourth ward of German-occupied Paris in a continuation of roundups which have netted about 10,000 prisoners in the past 10 days. For weeks Laval has said that "the war will be finished this year with a German victory. Moreover, his friends in Paris have considered seriously the possibility of his return to power in the Vichy government as me only way France could negotiate a positive arrangement wun Germany for collaboration. Actually without official status since his oueter as vice premier. December 13, Laval has con tinued political contacts with many rightists who visited his dingy office on the fourth floor of a Champs Elyiees building in Paris. Laval hat been In French poli tics since 1914, when he became socialist deputy. In parlia ment he specialized In foreign affairs. He was foreign minister in several Briand cabinets, and was prime minister In 1931-32 and again in 1835-38. He was the most outspoken member of the faction attempt ing to appease Germany and Italy before the war. And it was he who arranged the post armistice meeting between Hit ler and Petain at which colla boration between S--.nM mnA Oermao was decided upoa. Assassin's Target y Pierre Laval, ex-premier of France, and aide of Hitler, ser iously wounded by young com munist today. FREEDOM OF SEAS POLICY IN FORCE, TOKYO INFORMED I. 'S,' Answers Japan, Pro test On War Supplies To Russia Moscow Firm. Washington, Aug. 27. (P) Secretary of State Hull made plain today that the United States stood on a freedom-of-the- seas policy in connection with shipments of war supplies to Russia through the Pacific. He was asked at his press conference whether the United States would insist on freedom of the seas in carrying out the shipments despite Japanese ob jections. His reply was that until this policy was revoked, it could be assumed that It was in effect. As to whether Japan had made formal representatives to the United States concerning shipments to Vladivostok, Hull said he would leave any state ment on this at the moment to the foreign office In Tokyo. The Japanese news agency, Dome), had reported from Tokyo earlier, however, that the Japanese government had made representations to the United States and Russia against shipment of American aviation gasoline to the Russian port of Vladivostok. The Soviet government also had let It be known that it had Informed Japan that It would regard as "an unfriendly act" any attempt by Japan to Inter fere with "normal trade rela tions between the Soviet Union and the United States via far eastern Soviet ports." Nomura's appointment was made while Hull was confer ring with the Soviet ambassa dor. Constantine Oumansky. Oumansky refused to Indicate in any way the subject of his conference with Hull. Admiral KIchisaburo Nomura, the Japanese ambassador, ap peared at the state department for a conference he had re quested with Hull and told newspapermen ha was not bringing formal representations. Nomura did say that ship ments to Vladivostok constituted one of the problems for which he still hoped there would be an amicable settlement. He requested the meeting to day, Nomura said, to discuss a number of questions but he would not say whether the Rus sian shipments were Involved. Rainy Spell Over Portland, Aug. 27 P Ore gon's rainy weather of the last two days nee red an end today, the federal weather bureau an nounced,' Partly cloudy conditions will . -4nMiKt with Thorula. lUU aod slightly untt inland. SHAH MAKES PLEA I THAT WAR CEASE; TABRIZ CAPTURED Invaders Advance Swiftly Armistice Predicted Soon With Nazis Ousted. Teheran, Iran, Aug. 28 (Tues day) (Delayed) (P) The Bri tish and Soviet ministers, after an audience with the Shah, have transmitted to their govern ments an Iranian plea that the war cease and a guarantee that virtually all Germans would be expelled from the country with in a week, it was reported re liably today. A few Germans In "Indispens able technical posts" would be kept for a while until substi tutes could be trained to take their places, under the reported offer. London, Aug. 27 IIP) Col lapse of Iranian resistance with in the next three days was pre dicted by informal neutral dip lomatic sources today as Russian forces smashing southward into Iran were reported to have cap tured the country's second city, Tabriz, and British armies strik ing northward advanced 40 miles. Shah Reza Khan Pahlavl, these sources believed, realizes that Iran's position is hopeless, and British and Soviet represen tatives In his capital of Teheran have convinced him he ought to come to terms. A British dispatch from Simla India, headquarters tor the E. J tish command, reported that Iran's small navy had been vir tually wiped out by British ves sels, with Iranian Admiral Bay Endor killed. Occupy Oil Area The British were declared to be in complete occupation now of the Bandar Shahpur and Koh- rramshahr area In southwestern Iran. At Shahpur, the head of an oil pipeline 100 miles north of Bandar the British landed troops by air to protect em ployes of the British oil com pany operating there. So far there has been no in dication diplomatic sources said, that the Iranian defense has been anything more than of "to ken" variety. An armistice to be followed by a convention was predicted, with the agreement possibly al lowing the Shah to retain power and definitely permitting Bri tish and Russian forces to police Iran for the duration of the war. German technicians wouM be replaced with British or Rus sians, and the Allies would have a right of way from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian sea and the Russian Caucasus for shipment of British and American war supplies for the Soviet army. No License Required Salem, Aug. . 27 (IP) Em ployes of persons engaged in manufacture of bedding or reno vation of upholstered furniture do not have to obtain licenses, the attorney general ruled yes terday for the state board of health. War Bulletins Blackpool, England. Aug. 27 OP An air collision of two planes over Blackpool to day resulted In the death of six persons, including the crews of both planes, the hos pitalisation of 18 and minor injuries for scores of others. (Presumably both the craft were British. Ramming of op posing planes, however, has come to be an accepted prac tice in aerial combat and It might be that one was a raid ing craft.) Tokyo, Aug. 27. (.TV The Tokyo stock market dropped draetlcally today because of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Japan has been getting ell from Iran. Chungking. China. Aug. 27. ? The Chinese Central Newf reported today that buildings of an American mis sion possibly the Methodist missionary society had been destroyed by Japanese planes la a raid Sunday on Cbang sha. capital ei Hunaa pro-TiBCee Iran Invaded by British and Russians . u.s.s.r.1 U.S. S. R. S hsir 7. Bfg (Turkmen S.S.R.) ) foHrry--- TURKEY VNkJ"" an 1 tG r C I k0S3L - ABBAS jJeggrS5ig SAUDI ARABIA TlTiBfitflll r eWJ? OMAN JPIIlPIPgB The British and Russians moved Into Iran, Russians from the north and British from the west and south. British were reported to have landed troops at Bandar Shapur and there was a possibility they would land forces at Buihlre and Bandar Abbas an the Persian Gulf. A thrust from Baluchistan, on the east, also was a possibility. E EYEDBYSPRAGUE Salem, Aug. 27 CSV-Condi-tlons at the state penitentiary, from which 10 convicts have escaped since last spring, were discussed today at a conference between Governor Charles A. Sprague and - Deputy Prison Warden E. C. Halley. The governor said after the conference that his action was not a formal inquiry, and that It is not to be construed as a criti cism of the prison administra tion, headed by Warden George Alexander, who now is vacation ing In the south. "All I am trying to do is get at the real cause of the escapes and asr'at the warden and his deputy In remedying them," said the governor. I realize that they have been operating under extreme difficulties this sum mer, with an unusually large crop to handle in the flax plant at the same time harvesting operations were being carried on at the prison farms. "All of this has required the use of an abnormally large num ber of inmates outside the walls. many of whom would not ordi narily be so employed. There also has been a shortage of guards experienced In handling these crews." The governor said he was con sidering a plan, used by the late Warden James Lewis, to dismiss any guard who has a prisoner escape. But the governor said the defect in the plan is the scarcity of guards. E London, Aug. 27. UP) Turk ish leaders, with a German army encamped along the Thracian frontier, were report ed tonight to be concerned over rumors that Berlin would ask them to eject all Russian and British engineers and technic ians as a counter-move to the British-Russian Invasion of Iran. Turks here were reported to fear that if Turkey should fail to reply to the demand, the Germans might seize the oppor tunity to march Into their coun try from Thrace and take over control of the Dardanelles strait, entrance to the Black sea, and also Turkey's long Black sea coast Neutral diplomats reflected this view, although they expect Germany to await success or failure of the German cam paign in Russia's Ukraine. London, Aug. 27 (IP) Pilot Officer William Robert Dunn of the American Eagle squadron former airline flier from Hous ton, Tex., shot down two Ger- man fighters today and Is suffer ing from a bullet wound in his lloot, Utf hit BU&iatrr reported. E HELDAJISGRACE' Army Ordnance Group De plores Lack Of 1-Man Head For Armaments. Washington, Aug. 2T.AIPy The Army Ordnance association, a semi-official body, today con demned strikes for a "disgrace ful blot" on the record of de fense progress and listed as a companion debit the lack of a single administrative head for armaments production. On the subject of defense strikes, the association asserted flatly: "They should be outlawed once and for all in order that the vast majority of willing hands may do their share In de fense production." The ordnance organization al so found reason to deplore the delay in fixing "a ceiling on all prices a delay which It said "has added millions to the cost of national defense and points the way to monetary inflation which may defeat the very pur pose of the defense effort." The opinions of the associa tion were set forth in an edi torial analysis of the accom plishments and defects of the de fense effort which appears in the current issuo of the or ganization's journal, Army Ord nance. If the association found much to criticize in the defense effort, it also found much to praise, as serting that the "end of M-year (mobilization year) discloses military armament production gaining momentum. "Soon they will be in high gear." the editorial reported "After that, God help the trans gressor of the American wayl' BASEBALL National (First game): R. H. T. Chicago 0 B 2 Boston a ia u Passeau and McCullough; Sal vo and Berres. Second game: R. H. E. 2 1 and Chicago 0 8 Boston Raf f ensberger. Root, George; Javery, Johnson, and Montgomery, Berres. Pittsburgh 13 21 2 Philadelphia 2 10 2 Lanning and Lopez, Baker; Blantnn, Johnson, Grlssom and Warren. American Philadelphia 4 Cleveland 11 11 18 Ferrick and Hayes; Gromek and Desautels. Washington 11 18 7 Chicago 3 Chase and Early; Rlgney, Hal- lett, and Tresh, Turner. Boston - S t 3 Detroit 8 8 1 Grove. Wilon and Peacock; Ncwhouser. Gorsica and Teb- bett" HELD TOO HEAVY SAYS DRAFT AIDE Philadelphia, Aug. 27. (flV- The national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was told today by Brigadier General Frank T. Hlnes, veterans' administrator,-that strikes on de fense projects are "the result of bad advice. . . The veterans, after hearing the Hlnes address, adopted a resolution urging that jurisdic tional strikes be considered un American and outlawed. In another address, Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, de puty director of selective serv ice, said that "something has to be done" about the high per centage of men rejected by the army for physical defects, "Either they will have to be Inducted into the army regard less of physical condition and rehabilitated there, or the states will have to make some arrange ment for doing It, he declared. In one board. Hershey said. 90 per cent were rejected be cause of physical impairment. E Washington, Aug. V1i(JP) Senator Maloney (D., Conn.) proposed today that all unused railroad tank cars be set to roll ing in an effort to relieve shortages of gasoline, fuel oil and other products. "I have a feeling that we may press the now unused tank cars, and other tank can not badly needed otherwise. Into immeaiaie service, niaioney said. To offset added cost, the sen ator suggested that railroads might "move whole trains of tank cars at one time," and thus reduce costs substantially. Maloney la chairman of a special committee appointed yesterday to begin a senate In vestigation of the shortages to morrow. Meanwhile, a plan of action against gasoline profit eering was drafted in govern ment quarters. Dahlias Grow Tall Redmond, Aug. 27. (4 Louis Foster, south Redmond reported today that dahlias eight feet, four Inches tall were growing in his yard. Ne Harvest Closure Portland, Aug. 27. (JPh- Portland schools will open Sep tember 2, as scheduled, but stu dents may answer Governor Sprague's plea to help In har vesting the bean, hop and prune crops. Redmond. Aug. 27 (IP) Red mond schools will open Sept. 2 but high school will be suspend ed for two weeks In October to allow students to work in cea - trml Oregon's potato harvest OF GERMANS AT TP Heavy Battles Continue At Odessa And Leningrad, As Defenses Stiffen. , Moscow, Aug. 27. (IP) Gere many lost 80,000 killed and wounded soldiers before the nazts occupied the city of Gomel on the central front, the army newspaper Red Satr said today In the first detailed story of that battle. Moscow. Aug. 27. VP) Red army counter-attacks have hurl, ed the Germans back from the approaches to an undisclosed city, Izvestla, the government newspaper, reported tonight at heavy battles continued in front of Odessa and Leningrad. The city was identified only as "K" and the dispatch to Izvestla said heavily superior numbers of Germans had been, thrown Into defeat, losing thou sands of men, after being held up there for more than a month. A tremendous aerial battle for mastery of the skies devei oped over Leningrad as the bit city'i army and militia defense stiffened for a last-ditch fight. but Izvestla reported. Industry going at full blast both thera and in Odessa. An early-morning communU qua said 101 of the 158 Ger- man planes listed as destroyed during Sunday and Monday were shot down in fierce dog fighta along the approaches to the old capital of the czars, or smashed In raids on nearby air. dromes from which the nazi ate tacks were sprung. Defenders of the city de clared that despite repeated German raids, not a bomb had fallen within the city limits. A mid-day war bulletin mad no mention of specific fighting sectors but declared: During the night of August 28-27 our troops continued to fight the enemy on the entire) front." A Soviet submarine com manded by Captain Lieutenant Stekhanovlch was officially credited with sinking a 2,000- ton axis transport at the en trance to the Gulf of "S" and making a "successful attack" by torpedo on' another transport in an axis port, identified only as) one of the most important en emy harbors. The Russians reported wither lng machine-gun fire from cam ouflaged defense works manned by the Red and people's armlee holding the attacking waves in check while Leningrad's civil Ian reinforcements drilled un der arms In sandbagged, barri caded streets. There was no confirmation in Moscow of German claims last night of the capture of Luga, B0 miles south of Leningrad, on the rail line to Pskov, and of the great hydro-electric power center of Dnlcperopetrovsk, on the west bank of the Dnieper. NOTED OREGONIAII TO LAST REWARD i Portland, Ore., Aug. 27. WJ -Judge Charles Henry Carey. 84, Oregon historian and a dose) friend of the late President WIN Ham Howard Taft, died last night. Chairman of the Oregon war Industries board in 1918 and former state corporation com missloner, he was born in Cin cinnati, Ohio, the ton of Samuel Doak Carey, noted slave abol- IMUUISI. He wrote the authoritative) "History of Oregon" In 1923 and a "History of the Oregon Constitution" in 1928. The one-time municipal Judge) of Portland organized numerous banks, was an officer of several Oregon Industrial firms and was active In state politics. Redmond, Aug. 27 Po lice searched today for a burglar who took 8148 from the till ol 1 the Farmer's Hardware store faera Monday night.
