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puii o a wuth- Weather TJT"1 npan Forccut: Fair tonight and Friday; warmer Friday. Temperature Highest yesterday 15 Lowest this morning - , 4ft Precipitation past 24 hours, ,00 Why Not Now No matter who uti Jt, its truel Yon do get results from Want Ada In tho Mall Ttfbona. Thrae sdt cost to mtla they ara certainly a worthwhile In vestment. Tha proof la In tha trying. Why not nowf TRIBUNE FORD Full Anociated Piw United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, No. 137. a- HUM HUB Med gse JWftR gasisaiatjj' Bsaa f 15) nl Emm DAK u u vy uu uu j vy News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Aue. 28 Ardent telephoning by Mssrs. Hillman, Davis and Knox crowded Mr. Roosevelt into changing his mind 24 hours after he had announced ag a i n s t gov ernment seiz u r e of the Kearny s h i p building plant for the pres ent. They Jan gled all lines to Hyde Park, urging the drastic action Paul Mallon (IMPi . i ami ... ...nil I again, after negotiations again broke down. Two of the pressuring trio (Labor Coordinator Sidney Hill Wian and Labor Mediation Chair man Davis) had put both them selves and the president out on limb from which they could not otherwise escape. Mr. Hill man favored and a three man panel of the labor board ap proved (but not unanimously as usual) the modified closed shop, which the union wanted and the company refused to allow. This was the only point at issue. All 12 other points had been agreed upon. A resignation from the labor mediation board might have de veloped if the president persist ed in his logical expectation that the point be settled by negotiation. This would have opened wide to public gaze the difference of opinion Inside the board panel. Seizure of the plant may have s provided temporary escape for the difficulty into which the mediation board and Mr. Hill man had plunged themselves by having put the government (dl videdly) behind the closed shop Issue, but a lot of aching official heads have been left here. Whether they will continue to apply this new modified closed hop policy in other cases is doubtful. Apparently all in volved are going to try aspirin on themselves the next few days and let both themselves and the matter settle. MR. HULL and the Japanese ambassador have said they hoped their conflicting policies could be settled but did not know how. That is a diplomatic Continued on Paga Eight) FOR WOMAN LOST An organized search was be ing made this afternoon for Mrs. Jane Knott, 55, Klamath Falls, missing since 5 p. m. yesterday from her camp at Huckleberry mountain. Rogue River national forest headquar ters reported. Mrs. Knott, camping on the mountain since Tuesday, was picking huckleberries. She was last seen by other berry pickers about 5 p. m. yesterday. The searching party this after noon comprised 27 CCC en rollees, three foremen, two for r est fire guards and five berry pickers. Mrs. Knott's husband, reached by the forest service through the Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce, left his work for tha mountain this afternoon. Mrs. Knott was camping with the children of a neighbor. Alaine Cooper, 13, and her brother LeRoy Cooper, 14. The children reported to the fire guard when Mrs. Knott did not return to camp last night. The guard searched until 10:30 and then asked the Union Creek ranger station for help and another guard Joined him in the search until 1:30 a. m. They resumed the hunt at daybreak. Murder Sentence Friday Condon, Ore.. Aug. 28. 0p James Harvey Thomas. 19-year-old railor. was convicted last night by a circuit court jurv of the slaying of Douglas F. Smith, Aberdeen, near Arlington, Ore , June 11. Sentence will be pass ed Friday I EVACUATION OF Germans Within 32 Miles Of Leningrad People's Army Defends Old Capital Moscow, Aug. 28. (JP) The Russians said tonight that two successive German defense lines had been broken in a counter attack on the central front which has continued for six days. Moscow, Aug. 28. (IP) The evacuation of the industrial citv of Dnieperopetrovsk in the Uk raine was acknowledged tonight in the Soviet communique. Moscow, Aug. 28. (IP) Rus sian forces have blown up the great Dnieper river dam, indus trial pride of the Soviet Union, it was announced officially to night. 'We blew up the dam, said official spokesman S. A. Lozov sky, "so as not to allow this first child of the Soviet five year plan fall into the hands of the Hitler bandits." The Dnieper dam, located Just south of Dnieperopetrovsk oh the lower part of the river where German forces now are entrenched, was the first great construction project of the Sov iet Union. The dam supplied hydroelec tric power for a large sector of the industrial Ukraine. "All measures have been taken not to permit the Ger mans to make. use of the dam and its machinery,"" TaTd Xoz- ovsky. By the Associated Press ' German troops storming to ward Leningrad were . reported within 32 miles of the old czar ist capital late today. Already proclaimed "In ter rible danger," Leningrad was being defended by hastily-mobilized volunteers in a people's army fighting alongside the reg ular Red army troops, and in side the great Industrial city a third line of defenders manned street barricades. On the southern front, the Germans said masses of Russian infantry attempted to cross back to the west bank of the Dnieper river and had been chopped down by German ar tillery. Only on the central front, guarding Moscow, did the Rus sians present an optimistic pic ture. Soviet dispatches said counter-attacking Red army troops had smashed two succes sive German defense lines in the Gomel area about midway between Smolensk and Kiev. Simultaneously, Soviet Mar shal Semeon Budyenny issued a dramatic appeal to besieged Russian forces at Odessa to de fend that Black sea port "to the last drop of blood." By tha Associated Press Berlin, Aug. 28. Russian in fantry attempted to cross back to the west bank of the lower Dnieper today, but was re pulsed by German artillery fire which wrecked pontoons and punctured rubber boats, DNB reported. . 'There were extremely bloody losses among Infantry companies drawn up in prep artion for the crossing," the news agency said. DNB also said Russians on the lower Dneiper tried to shell German positions on the west bank from river boats but that artillery fire drove them off and set one of their tugboats and a monitor on fire. Wilhelmstrasse sources said German troops had taken most of northern Estonia and "a de cision is near" on the Gulf of i Finland. The naval base of jPaldiski (Baltic port) will fall In a short time, it is assumed, leaving only the islands of Oesel and Dagoe and the port of Hango in Russian possession," they said. Seattle, Aug. 28. P) Tuna prices reached the highest ever here today with a catch of 1.300 pounds by the schooner Faith 2nd, selling on the Seat tle fish exchange at the rate of 5322.50 a ton. A buyer bid lit 18 cent pound. Father Joins 7 Navy Sons I FIRST I 1 LAUNCHES -. . . .-- -4 ' vL. Mil Floyd Patton, S3, (right) ef sens serving with tha United in the service. Hare ha gats a physical okay from Lieut. Roger Holcomb. Tha age limitation was waived. E PERK1 ON AFL-CIO SPLIT New York, Aug. 28. (IP) Looking back over eight years as secretary of labor, Frances Perkins blames the split between the American Federation of Lab or and the Congress of Indus trial Organization for the failure of collective bargaining to settle more disputes without strikes. Writing in the September is sue of Fortune magazine, the nation's first woman cabinet of ficer describes the AFL-CIO schism as "largely an internal fight for control," and declares that "a reunion could be made tomorrow without ugly scars of hatred and rancor between the wage earners in each group. "I have been called incom petent (and worse) because I have not prevented strikes," Miss Perkins writes, "and I am aware that there is a theory that if I were a two-fisted male I should be able to stop strikes. "The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible. As for being two-fisted, I'm sure that it Is unrealistic and lacking in human knowledge to believe that getting tough or cracking down on working people would make things better. There nave been two-fisted males in this office and strikes were never prevented, because no secretary of labor has ever had the au thority or the power directly to stop strikes, and it is doubtful if any clear thinking citizen would be willing to give to any agency of government the ab solute right and power to inter fere with other citizens." . . "The only power I have," she declares, "is to act as labor's spokesman in the government" "The AFL-CIO split was large ly an internal fight for control, in which the Idea of vertical unions was only a minor Issue. At all times I have tried to bring the two factions together, al ways appointing representatives of both groups to committees and advisory boards. "I have urged John Lewis (former head of the CIO) over and over again to make peace with the AFL and he said over and over again that he expected to make peace 'when tha right time comes.' 'The president wrote Mr. Lewis a letter asking him to make peace. That irked Mr. Lewis. It was after that that he called me "woozy' In the head.' I received letters and telegrams from labor organiza tions (both AFL and CIO( asking me to keep trying to make peace. Portland, Ore., father of seven States navy, has Joined them GOLD HILL PAIR HURT WHEN CARS A head-on automobile crash on the Pacific .highway a mile north of Gold Hill at 12:10 p. m. today sent the- drivers of the colliding cars, James Martin, 18, and Benjamin' William Perkins, about 35, both of Gold Hill, to Community hospital here with painful but apparently not seri ous injuries. Their attending physician said that Martin suffered lacerations of the head and left arm and a fractured left arm, and that Perkins sustained lacerations of the head and arms, a broken left elbow and a dislocated left shoulder. The car driven by the Martin youth, according to word from Gold Hill, was traveling south, while that operated by Perkins was moving in the opposite di rection. The head-on- collision occurred on a short straight away between a double curve, and the force of the Impact swung both machines around so that they faced in the oppo site direction from which they were originally traveling. The body of the Perkins machine was ripped almost completely off the chassis, and the car driven by Martin also was badly damaged. Both drivers were alone In their cars. Martin, a Gold Hill high school student, is t3 son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Martin. NEW EXCISE TAXES SCHEDULE LOOMS Washington, Aug. 28 CP) A senate finance ' subcommittee agreed today to a new schedule of excise taxes which members said would add approximately $400,000,000 to the $3,903,900, 000 tax bill. . The subcommittee, composed of Senators Brown (D-Mich) and Dana her (R-Conn) reported its finding to the full committee after a four-hour, session devot ed to developing new sources of revenue. Both Brown and Danaher de clined to reveal details of the new schedule. Brown said, how ever, that "we Increased some existing taxes and provided for a few more." The excise taxes are those Im posed generally upon manufac tured articlaa NATIONAL $40,000 IMPROVEMENT JOB Addition On Rear, Vault Change, All Season Con ditioning Completed By December 1. Plans were completed and work started this week on a $40,000 program to Increase the space and completely renovate the building of the Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland, announced Eugene R. Thorndike, manager of the local branch, today. "In creased business in the Medford area has made necessary these changes to facilitate our serv ices to the many customers of this bank," Thorndike stated. Major change will be the ad dition of a new structure to the rear of and adjoining the pres ent bank building to bring the building to the full width of the front half of the present struc ture. The present vault on the main floor will be moved into the new part of the building at ine rear, thereby releasing sDace for seven new teller windows and additional lobby space for tha convenience of the public, A complete air-conditioning system for summer and winter conditioning of the air has been designed to add to the comfort and convenience of both the customers and staff of the bank. A new vault will also be in stalled In the basement of the structure. Other modern " Innovations will be an entirely new ceiling in the banking quarters - with accoustical treatment n d a complete new lighting sstem. Interior and exterior of the building will be completely re painted and decorated. Mr. Thorndike announced that the work should be com pleted about December 1,'and said that during the period of construction the bank would do everything possible to eliminate inconvenience to the customers. IN NEED PICKERS, BOOST PAY, BONUS Grants Pass, Aug. 28 (JP) Shortage of pickers for the Rogue River valley hop harvest, now three weeks old and em ploying 2,300 persons and three machines, was reflected Thurs day by an Increase in wages. Some yards announced that they would pay two cents a pound with half-cent bonus for those remaining the entire sea son. This is equivalent to ap proximately 10 cents. Previous picking price an nounced by all growers was 1V4 cents per pound with half-cent bonus. Worried growers escaped dis aster by only a few miles Wed nesday night when sudden thunder shower peppered Grants Pass with half an inch of rain In half an hour. The yards, all but one concentrated a short dis tance west of the city, escaped the downpour which would probably have sent many over weighted hops and vine crash ing to the ground. Robert Helms reported he had 35 acres of tomatoes to be pick ed and could find no pickers. . LEAR TELLS TROOPS: BE FIT Hope, Ark., Aug. 28 Lieut -General Ben Lear told his second army today that no trainees should feel the current military program was without purpose and set forth a specific objective: "An army fit to fight, an army fit to meet veterans in the field and take the field away from them, and suffer tha least BULLET CLOSE TO HEART OF LAVAL, General Condition 'Satis factory' Trial Today For Attacker Round-Up Reds. Versailles, Occupied France Aug. 28. (IP) One of the bul lets which struck Pierre Laval lodged only one-tenth of an inch below his heart, it was disclosed tonight. A physician's bulletin said: "M. Laval stood the operation well. His condition is generally satisfactory. Temperature 37.3 (99.0. Fahrenheit), pulse 100 Visits absolutely forbidden." It was disclosed that Laval never lost consciousness. Marcel Deat underwent an In testinal operation and also was declared to have "stood the operation well." Visitors also were forbidden to see him. Versailles, German - Occupied France, Aug. 28. (JP) Authori ties of German-occupied France made a sweeping round-up of enemies to the regime today in the wake of the Laval-Deat as sassination attempt and by mid- afternoon had placed more than 300 persons in ."protective cus tody. " some of them from tne very ranks of the newly mobil ized antl-bolshevist legion. In Paris, the first three so- called communists to be con victed by special courts were executed. They were condemned to death yesterday for alleged misdeeds not connected with the Laval shooting. Authorities apparently feared that the anti-bolshevlst legion, formed to fight Russia alongside Germany, contains many more members who, like Pierre Laval's youthful assassin, Paul Collette, had Joined purposely to be able to get at the French leaders favoring strong colla boration with Germany. Today's arrests were made In Paris and Versailles while both Laval and Marcel Deat lay seri ously ill in hospitals with grave bullet wounds in their bodies. Colette, a ship stoker and acknowledged De Gaulist, was rushed toward trial before one of the special anti-communist courts Just set up by the French. Informed circles said the open ing of the trial was "a matter of hours." These said also that It was evident that Colette had been pushed into the attack "by com-munist-De Gaulist (free French) elements." MILK RISE VITAL Portland, Aug. 28 W) The state milk control board, open ing its third hearing on Portland area prices, heard reiterated tes timony today that an increase was needed becaute of labor ana feed costs. G. F. Wardln, dairy operator, said 4 per cent milk prices should be Increased from 12 to 14 cents per quart and from 13 to 18 cents on 5 per cent milk. Eugene Wetzler, feed merch ant, testified that feed prices had increased from $5 to $6 per ton since January. Byron De Young, Gresham producer-distributor, said his labor costs were, up $175 monthly, grain $66 monthly and cow replace ment $50 monthly. At Eugene yesterday the board heard testimony that Eugene faced a milk shortage unless prices were Increased one cent per quart to 12 cents for a per cent and 13 cents for A per cent. Portland Flyer Hurt Eugene, Aug. 28. P Percy Freeman, Jr., Portland, suffered a broken Jaw, multiple lacera tions of the face and head and possibly a fractured hip when his small Culve Cadet mono plane crashed on a take-off from a field west of tha Dick Reed farm on the Coburg road today. Swnn'nto, Aug. 3S , Buttar fat rvat grade, 41e; eecond grade. War Bulletins liPRIME MINISTER Helsinki. Finland. Aug. 28. (If) Tha strategic Salmaa canal which approaches almost to tha outskirts of Vipurl. most Important city obtained by Russia in tha 1939-40 win ter war, has bean reatored to Finnish hands, a Finnish army correspondent reported to night. London, Aug. 28 (IPh-Tha British government tonight took over full control of Brit ish railways. Direction of Britain's four main line railways and Lon don's vast transportation sys tem of subways, buaes and trolley cars are placed under tha management of tha Lon don transport board. The four big railways are the Great Western, London Midland and Scottish, London and Northeastern, and South- E Resistance Ends After Three Days Peaceful Anglo-Russ Occupation Follows. Teheran, Iran, Aug. 28 (IP) The reorganized Iran govern ment today ordered the army to cease all resistance to British and Russian armies. By tha Associated Press) . London. Aug. 28 A reorgan ized Iran government headed by Premier All Furanghl announc ed to parliament today, the Te heran radio said, that orders had been Issued to Iran troops to cease resistance to British and Russian forces which are rapidly advancing toward vital centers of the country. News of the quick abandon ment of armed opposition, on the third day of the British Russian intervention in the mid dle east kingdom, was contained also in dispatches of DNB, offi cial Germany news agency, heard on the radio. (A British broadcast, heard by NBC, said "all fighting in Iran has ceased"; that the British- Russian Invasion had turned into a peaceful occupation.) "We shall do our utmost to maintain good relations with tha foreign powers, and especially our neighbors, and to continue improvements which are the aims of his majesty and the whole nation," Reuters quoted the premier as saying. "In order that these intentions should be made clear to the world at large, at this moment when tha governments of Soviet Russia and Great Britain have ordered certain actions be taken that the government of Iran, in pursuance of the peace-loving policy of his majesty. Is issuing orders to all armed forces of the country to refrain from any re sistance so that the causes for bloodshed and disturbance of security shall be removed and public peace and security as sured." Washington, Aug. 28. (IP) The Geological Survey reported favorably today on the opalite quicksilver district. In Malheur county. Ore., and Humboldt county, Nev., and held out hope that new ore bodies would be discovered. "Further exploration might reveal even greater quantities of potential ore; the property can almost certainly produce at least 1,000 flasks of quicksilver, and at present prices it might produce several times that much," said R. O. Yates, geo logist, in a report released to day. From 1927, when production In the district began, until the end of 1940. the district pro duced 22,174 76 pound flasks of quicksilver, ha said. QUICKSILVER IN MALHEUR OKAYED IDENT NOTE Amb. Nomura Delivers To White House Details Not Revealed. Washington, Aug. 28 (IP) A personal message from the Japa nese prime minister to President Roosevelt was delivered to the chief executive today by Admi ral Kichlsaburo Nomura, that Japanese ambassador. Nomura came to tha Whlt4 House after days of rapidly de veloping tension growing out of the conflict of Japanese and American policies in the Pacific. He conferred at the Whit House with tha president and Secretary of State Hull. Nomura refused to elaborate in reply to a barrage of ques tions from reporters as to what the message from Prime Minis ter Konoye contained. Secretary Hull said at hit press conference that there) might be. another or several more meetings between the) president and the ambassador in an effort to reach a peaceful solution of questions between the two nations In what he de scribed as a mora intimate and personal manner. In reply to questions. Hull said the state department would not disclose the text ef tha prim minister message, and ha dea cllned any comment on any ape clfie points in it . Tokyo, Aug. 28 (IP) Tha possibility that Japan will stake) her whole far eastern prestige) on tha Issue of United State tankers carrying gasoline and oil to Russia's Vladivostok was re flected today in tha Important newspaper Nichl NichL "It Is not mere problem of oil ships it la a tremendous) problem which means tha suc cess or failure of our Interna, tional diplomacy," tha paper as serted. . ( Japan ha mad represent, tlons to both tha United States) and Russia against these ship, ments, contending their passage close to Japanese territory it causing disquiet and anxiety la Japan. (Both countries have turned do tha protests, Russia warn ing Japan that any Interference) will be construed as an unfriend? ly act.) E INTERNED SHIPS i Washington, Aug. SBdP)- Tha 21 American republic agreed today to place In opera tion all foreign vessels driven into western hemisphere porta by the European war. The action was announced by the inter-American financial and economic advisory committee which has been working on tha problem for tha past seven months In an effort to alleviate, a shipping shortage resulting la American waters because of di version of vessels to take sup plies to Britain and tha Neat East BASEBALL American R. . 0 H. E. 4 10 Washington Chicago 4 Sundra, Zuber (6), Mastersos) (8) and Evans; Lea and Tresh, National Score: Chicago . R. . 1 H. t E. t Boston 3 4 1 Eaves, Raffensberger and Mc Cullough; Earlcy and Berres. St Louis 11 N.w Vorlr S Pollet and W. Cooper; Melton. Carpenter (7), Adams (9) and HartnetL R. H. . S 10 Pittsburgh Philadelphia a i Dies. Kllnger (9) and Lopes, Davis (9); Pearson, Hughe (9), Hoent (9) and Livingston. a
