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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUf r 27, 1941
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No. 136.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.