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run u wm- Weather rMf,aT,u"port Forerut: Scattered ehowers today and Munda. Little chant In temperature. Temperature Hlfhert Verterday 17 Loweit Vwterday. 41 mrlpltatlon past 24 boara .00 Tribune FORD Full Associated Press United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1911 No. 139. Mlm Mo) Eay To Find Good morning Now (or a look at th Want Ada. After check ing (ha regular claustfte4 paga. then tarn to the "Too Lata to Claulfy. No matter what yoa want It hoaltt be caej to flnfl thea harry. Med News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Japanese Troops Enter Saigon AT Washington, Aug. 28 I know more now about the real root causes of sloppy army morale than when I wrote recently a column suggesting how the homefolks could help improve it. About 500 letters have since reached my desk, more than I ever received concerning any other column in ten years. They were largely from draftees or fathers and mothers. Only a few were) anonymous and could be cast aside as mischievous fakes. The rest were honest, genuine presentations of injustices (not merely gripes and grouches), and some of them were unan swerably true. In an effort to clear the atmosphere (it must be cleared if this country is going to have the American kind of an aarmy it wants) I am herewith submitting an accounting of the grievances and the facts I have been able to gather from them. In observance of the trust which the writers showed in me, I have burned all signed letters. Griev ances are listed below according to the number of times they were mentioned, the first being mentioned most and so on. leTHZ government is not play- ing fair with the soldier. It allows unions to strike and deny equipment. It permits the lowest type of labor to receive lavish wartime wages, 20 and 30 times as much as the soldier." It was surprising to find this the chief cause of complaint when I expected it to be exten sion of the draft time limit. The . grievance has truth in it, but less than in all other wars. Shipyard workers in the last world war were making as high as $35 a day, while the AEF man got $30 a month. There is no evidence the government wants unions to strike, but Washington leader ship has lust been unable to keen down the giddy and arbi trary demands of some not all of the politically powerful labor groups. The responsibility is probably half governments, half labor's. They vill have to correct it, if they want a satis- field army. e e WITHE pay of $21 a month is a measley pittance to a man who left a good job back home.' Listen soldiers, you are in the Soviet Denies Fall of Tallinn German Strength Ebbs Berlin Reports Wins. (Continued on Pa? Sis) Radio Highlights Tim is Pacific Standard New York, Aug. 30. (The Special News Service) Presi dent Roosevelt will deliver an all-network message Monday as part of the Labor Day observ ance. There also will be a salute to labor, a broadcast from Lon don by exiled leaders of occu pied European countries on the second anniversary of the invas ion of Poland, a Labor Day pag eant and a variety of speakers. The schedule in more detail: The president NBC, CBS, MBS, 9:45 ajn. from Hyde Park, also on short wave. Features NBC chains 9 a. m. 45 minute salute to labor, ar ranged by office of emergency management, also to be relayed to England; CBS 12 noon, exiled leaders to include King Haakon ' of Norway, King Petar of Yugo slavia, Gen. De Gaulle of Free Franch, Humbert Pierlot of Bel gium, Peter Gerbrandy of The Netherlands, Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, C. H. Simo poulos of Greece and J. Been of Luxembourg; NBC-Red. 5:30 D. m from Weirton, W. Va., pageant 'These Our Freedoms." Talks CBS 4:30 George M ca ny, secretary-treasurer A. F. of L. from Uniondale, Long Island; NBC-Blue 11 Wm. Green, Pres. A. F. of L. from Grand Rapids, Mich.; NBC-Blue 1:30 Allan S. Haywood, director of CIO; MBS 5:30 Sen. Burton K. Wheeler from St- Charles, 111.; MBS 7 p m. Orbhurn of A. F. of L. on "America and Union Label"; CBS 7:13 Secretary Frances 1 Terkins from Boston. Sunday brings: The war Morning: 4 NBC, CBS; 5, NBC, CBS; 0:30 MBS: 7 NBC, CBS; 10 NBC-Red; 10:15 NBC Blue; 10:30 CBS; 11:15 NBC Red. Br the Associated Press Moscow. Sunday, Aug. 31. (IP) Red army forces, declared officially to be battling with gathering strength against Ger man armies "weakening notice- ablv" and heading for "their end much sooner than expect ed," were reported throwing the Nazis back on the center bulge toward Moscow today and stand ing off unending assaults upon Leningrad and Odessa. After 10 weeks of fighting the German drive on the soviet caDital was reported at a stand still with counter-attacking Red army troops on the offensive across a battlefield littered with dead. With accounts of this action coming from the frontline, the soviet information bureau clung to its silence on details, saying merely that the Red army was putting up fierce resistance up and down the 1,800-mile front. On the north, Leningrad re mained In imminent peril but the Red army, backed by a peo ples' army, held firmly the ap proaches to that second city of the soviet union. In this area Red army forces behind the German lines ap peared, too, to be holding two huge pockets along the coast of the Gulf of Finland, where Tal linn, capital of sovletized Es tonia, was declared still In sov iet hands despite German claims of its capture. On the central front the Red army struck back savagely in counter-attacks across mud- churned battlefields in the di rection of Smolensk and Gomel, reportedly taking a toll of 10,- 000 German dead and wounded and many prisoners. Russia's Black sea fleet was declared keeping communica tions open from Odessa, which is under continual German shel ling and aerial bombardment, S. A. Lozovsky, assistant com missar of foreign affairs and government spokesman, told a press conference today: "In 10 weeks of war Germany and her allies have paid a heavy I price for certain territorial ' gains. The strength of the Ger man army and the armies of her vassals is weakening noticeably while the Red army is continu ing to gather strength and to grow incessantly. Having lost some territory the soviet union has gained time, shattered the legend of the blitzkrieg and the invincibility of the German army. Lozovsky declared further that Germany had been forced to withdraw a considerable part of her forces from occupied countries "thereby creating con ditions for development of in tensification of the struggle in all occupied countries." r Hi H ! ' ' ' " 111 ' ''' a-- -T ST no ,,i i me j 7 -L3 v if. 4cl Mif "-v x n Japanese cycle troops roll over a bridge in Saigon, French Indo-Chlna after the Vichy French government agreed to occupation of Indo-China by the Japanese. UPSETS MARK Hanen, Defending Champ. Leads Way With 2 Wins Local Players Remain Interpreting The War News By Edward E. Bona? PRESIDENT CALLS FOR STEADY FLOW Quarter-Finals Today (Championship Flight) 9 a. m. Dick Hanen, Marsh field vs. Cy Donaldson, San Francisco. 9:05 a. m. Forest Watson, Seattle vs. Eddie Simmons. Medford. 9:10 a. m. Jack Creager, Medford vs. Alva Merritt, Rose burg. 9:15 a.m. Leland Clark, Medford vs. Ike Staples, Med ford. Semi-Finats Today (Championship Flight) 1:30 o. m. Winners of first two morning matches. 1:35 p. m. Winners of last two morning matches. NEW TAX BILL IS ONLY START; NEXT YEAR'S 'SUFFER' Night Games Sacramento 3 8 1 San Diego 4 112 Schmidt. CaDlineer. Turbe- ville and Marshall: Rich. Dil- beck and Ballinger, Detore. Washington, Aug. 30. (IP) While finance committee mem bers predicted their record $3,- 672,400,000 tax measure would have clear sailing in the senate next week. Senator Capper (R. Kan.) said today that "this bill is just a starter, and next year's will be even suffer. Capper, member of the fi nance group, told reporters that the unorecedented revenue leg islation "is a good bill" and added: "I would have liked to see more of a pay-as-you-go program, but this was the best we could do. l believe we are in for steadily increasing taxes from now on. The new measure, carrying $456,000,000 more than similar legislation approved by the house, will be taken up in the senate next Wednesday. Demo cratic Leader Barkley of Ken tucky said he hoped for senate approval by the week-end, but conceded that two finance com mittee amendments might cause controversy. One of these, designed to raise more than $300,000,000 of new revenue, would lower exist ing income exemptions from $2,000 to $1,500 for married persons and from 800 to $750 for single individuals. The broader tax base would bring 6,000,000 more persons into the income tax system. The second amendment, which encountered vigorous opposition within the committee, would forbid husbands and wives from dividing income when making tax returns. Berlin, Aug. 30. (TV-Devas tating attacks on Russian trans portation lines before Leningrad and upon the lines behind the Russian armies on the Ukraine and Moscow fronts were report ed by the German air force to night in the wake of similar smashing attacks on Russian forces attempting to flee by land and sea from the Estonian capi tal oi iallinn, Railway lines and roads lead- ing into Leningrad were "made unusable" by heavy luftwaffe attacks, D.NB stated in a dis patch from the northern front Russian barracks, field positions ana marching columns on the highways were subjected to steady bombardment, the agency sixty Russian ships definite ly were destroyed, and the toll may reach past 100. the German high command reported in sup plying some details of capture of the former Estonian capital ana ine nearby naval base Paldiski. The combination land, sea and air struggle was one of the most spectacular and bitterly-fought BULLETIN Portland Seattle 2 6 8 IS Liska and Schultz; Barrett and Fallon. CITY FOLKS HELP BAY CITY HOTELS BESET BY STRIKE San Francisco, Aug. 30. (IP) Four hotels were picketed late today by AFL Culinary, Bar and Service union workers to start a strike against zo nostemes, including several known the world over. Pickets appeared before the deadline at the Empire and three relatively obscure hotels, the Edison, Federal and Key stone. At the stroke of four, cooks, bartenders, and other affected unionists dropped their work and filed out. Union lead ers did not explain why these particular hotels were picked. Twenty-four other hotels against which the strike has been called operated normally. Spokesmen for the unions indi cated they would be picketed later, but did not say when. Among the hotels against which the strike has been called but which are not yet affected are the widely-known St. Fran cis, Palace, Mark Hopkins, Fair mont, and Sir Francis Drake. STILL FAR SHORT London, Aug. 30. (For eign Secretary Anthony Eden said today at a speech at Coven try that the output of war ma terial by Britain, her allies and the United States "still falls far short of our needs." These needs will grow "as the tide of war sweeps wider until it engulfs the world," the for eign secretary warned. OF ILL Salem, Ore., Aug. 30. UP) Governor Charles A. Sprague of Oregon pleaded .today for city dwellers to enter the har vest fields to save $10,000,006 worth of fast-ripening crops. Labor is so scarce that farm ers have but 10,000 of the 40, 000 workers needed to pick string beans, hops and prunes. Earl R. Lovall, manager of the Oregon Employment Service, in formed the governor. "Response so far to the plea of the growers for help has been slim. The growers must have pickers and they must nave them now, if the crops are to be saved," he said. Sprague asked schools, most of them scheduled to reopen next week, to delay resumption of classes or to excuse students who would help with tne nar- VMt. h wiuested men on a live- Hov week to out in their days off bv working in the fields. nnH called for women ana cnu- dren to go to the farms for the next three weeks. w nroed all civic clubs, ana organizations and commercial and laboring bodies v moDuiie labor. The employment omce an nounced it would remain open ihrmiirh Sunday and Labor day in order to get workers to me flolrta as fast as they volun- tMrp(i. The labor scarcity centers in the Willamette valley or wesv em Oreeon. Most stores in Sa lem closed last Monday, releas ing employes for the bean har vest. Many state house employes also entered the fields. Three startling upsets fea tured first and second round 18-hole matches in the 13th annual Southern Oregon-Northern California amateur tourna ment at the Rogue Valley Golf club Saturday as Defending Chamoion Dick Hanen of Marsh field, the young University oi Oregon ace, led seven other swingers into the quarter-fina's after a day that saw the original championship flight field of 32 reduced to eight, including four home town boys and one each from San Francisco, Seattle and Roseburg. . In the upper half of the title flight this morning, Hanen will face Cy Donaldson of San Fran cisco and Forest Watson of Se attle will tee off against Eddie Simmons of Medford, and in the lower half Medford's Jack Creager will face Alva Merritt of Roseburg, and Leland Clark and Ike Staples, both of Med ford will battle it out for semi final berths in afternoon rounds. Tie For Medal Tumbling out of the cham pionship running in direct con tradiction to all expectations were two of the three players who tied for medalist honors in Friday's qualifying round Medford's Robert R. (Bob) Ham mond and James Johnson, a At the close of the war's sec ond year, a flashback to what was news on the first anniver sary may sharpen the focus on the current march of events. The contrast with last August 31 may serve too as an antidote for pessimism, but whether it supports the view that the tide has turned more than tempor arily is debatable. Just 12 months ago British fliers managed the first air as sault in history on Berlin, in retaliation for the hall of bombs which was reducing vast areas of England's cities to rubble. Britain, bloody, ill-preparea but u- bowed, ' faced Europe s conquerer virtually alone, sep arated from the fate oi trance by the width of the English channel. With the British isles under siege by air and sub marine, the empire appeared to be crumbling For three weeks London, Birmingham, Portsmouth and other cities had been targets daily for masses of German planes. Britain s ground forces, their best weapons left at Dun kirk, were ill-prepared to grap ple with the world's mlghiest army, if battered naval and air defenses should fall to bait any Invasion attempt. Mussolini was at the heighth of his triumph. His troops had nushed over the Egyptian bor der toward the Suez canal, and had won all British Somaliland. Fascist bombers observed the Labor Day Message Stresses Unity Need Ominous Note In Hyde Park Talk, LAVAL'S ATTACKER STIRS SYMPATHY Durham,England, Aug. 30. UP A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, stressed in creased anti-aircraft gunpower aboard merchant ships in Bri tain's service and undefined "other means of dealing with air attacks" at sea in expressing a rising confidence here today in the outcome of the battle of the of ; Atlantic. Almost all allied merchant ships, he said in a speech, have had anti-aircraft equipment Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 30. (P) Crown Princess Juliana of Holland was under a physician's care here tonight, but her pri vate secretary said she was tired and merely "resting a few days. Accompanied by the secre tary, W. Van Tets, and his wife, the princess arrived here by automobile last night. She is staying at the Montpelier Tavern. Van Tets said they were on the way to her refuge home at Plctou Lodge. Nova Scotia, by easy stages after an unofficial visit to the United States. The princess' children preceded her to Canada by train. HftfttilMt nf trMl mil ernl victories yet claimed in the 10-1 number also carry military gun ee-oia war against Russia, J crews. SAFE, SANE START FOR LABOR DAY Bend Backs Bridge Bend, Ore., Aug. 30. (TV- The Bend chamber of commerce today urged construction of a bridge across the Columbia riv er near The Dalles, Ore. Portland Milk Up Portland, Aug. 30. i") The state milk control board boosted Portland area milk, cream and butterfat prices today, effective Sept. 1, giving consumers "the whole Jolt'' at once. (By Associated Press) The nation-wide celebration of the extended Labor day wen -end was off to a compara tively safe and sane start last nierit (Saturday). In contrast with the nation i average 190 traffic accident deaths for a summer Friday niiht and Saturday, only 97 such fatalities were reported the one-third way mark in the three-day holiday. Eight drown ings were reported and 1 deaths were attributed to stab bing, shooting, electric shock and other causes. The National Safety council has estimated that 600 persons would be killed in motor ve hicle accidents between 6 o'clock Friday night and midnight Mon day but has added: "We hope that everyone will drive and walk so carefully our prediction will look silly." Washington, Aug. 30. JP) President Roosevelt, In a Labor day statement, asserted tonight that management and labor 'realize now and I am sure will continue to realize that thera must be full and uninterrupted production" of defease mater ials. The production of such pons and materials, he said. was needed "for our protection and needed also by the nations engaged in opposing those who would do away with the liberty and happiness of free peoples) all over the world." The statement was viewed a a forerunner to a presumably more detailed discussion of In ternational and domestic affairs in an address scheduled for de livery by the president from his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., on Monday. That address will b broadcast over all radio net works at 9:45 a. m. (PST). Mr. Roosevelt said that "wi) are called upon to observe labor day of 1941 in a more thought ful and serious spirit than in l - K.. nla An Pnrt 5 .J t.i...Y.,. nil U the fifty-four year history city of Haifa. The United (Continued on Pag Two) Vichy, Unoccupied France, Aug. 30. (JP) Sympathy for Paul Collette, youthful DeGaul list who attempted to assassinate Pierre Laval this week, became evident today even as the wounded politician lay fighting for his life. In response to sentiment in favor of Colette, the anti-soviet lesion, which Laval was spon soring when he was shot, decid ed to back Laval s gesture in asking that Colette be treated with clemency. At the same time letters and teleerams of condolences for Laval continued to pour into the Versailles hospital where he re mained in grave condition. After a slight rally last night during which his temperature dropped dropped and plans for an opera tion were held in abeyance, nis condition was aggravated this morning. Examination of Colette by a magistrate was delayed. States, anxious for the future, was sympa thetic, but all but helpltss to aid Britain for the time being. Congress was just winding up the long debate over the draft. Billions had been voted but arms were mostly In tha blue print stage. The war was three days in the second year before Presi dent Roosevelt revealed the ex change of 50 destroyers for a string of Atlantic base sites. The lend-lease and arsenal of democracy ideas had not been broached. Janan. sensing an early and complete axis world triumph, was on the verge oi joining me dictator's partnership. Russia kept on the sidelines with Sta lin committed to benevolent friendship with Hitler. Almost every Item of the in ventory suggests its own sharp contrast with the present without, however, affording any substantial basis for confidence that the trend of tha past year will continue. The answer to the question of whether the tide has turned must be deferred at least until another anniversary. of the holiday established lit recognition of tha nation's wage) earners." Than, at another point, he asserted: This Labor day of 194t should serve to make crystal clear to all Americans and te all tha world the blessings of a democracy and to emphasize) its freedoms. Only in a demooe racy could thera be such a day set aside to do honor to mil lions of workers free men and free women In a free country.' FIRST SNOW FOR BABES DESERTED IN COAST CABIN NewDort. Ore.. Aug. SO. (IP) State police today found three Infants deserted in a coastal cab in 40 miles south of here. Police received a letter that directed them to the locked building. It read In parti are unable to care for these three children or take them with us," and requested police to send the children to uieir grandmother In Caatla Rock, Wash. Sergeant W. J. Mulkey said they apparently had been food- less in the cabin for two aays. The children, a three-year-old girl, a two-year-old girl and a boy approximately nine months Edmonton, Alta., Aug. 30. (An Snow which last night and early today blanketed almost every point In northern Alberta and the Peace River district. reached a depth of four inches at one town. It brought Edmon ton Its coolest weather of the season. 38 degrees. At Fairvlew four inches of snow fell, and many other towns reported snow up to two inches in depth. old were taken troopers' homes. to on of the Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 90. (VP) An informal, homespun gathering of old friends ana neighbors heard President Roosevelt emphasize today that peace for Americans "isn't all in bur keeping" and that dangers which hava convulse the world may be even mora) serious now than when the sec ond world wsr began. The president quoted charge that domination of tha world, including tha Americas, was the definite planned pur pose of the dictators and in dorsed a thought that only through tha defeat of Hitlerlsra can peoples everywhere attain peace and live In peace. The chief executive spoxe ax temporaneously to members of tha Roosevelt Home club, hold ing its twelfth annual meeting on the lawn of Moses Smith, tenant farmer on tha Roosevelt estate. "I am awfully (lad to sea you all again," the president said, "and it occurs to me that this Is not the twelfth anniversary of the club, so much as It Is tha third meeting of ours since this world has been convulsed with all kinds of dangers, and they are not over yet and It is very possible that they may be even more serious at this moment than they were at the end tt August and the beginning of September, 1939." He spoke of tha progress msde in the community and In America over tha past half can tury. "So we hava a great deal v be thankful for," he declared. Including the fact that this IS still a peaceful gathering th third time In succession. I think all of us pray that next year . . . wa will still D able to say that. Yet, as yotf know. It isn't all In our keeping. It Isn't all our decision." Portland, Aug. 30. (IP) The Labor Day week-end will open with showers, the weather bur eau forecast today. Clouds were expected to be general over the whole state all day Sunday with rain in the western part. Little change in temperature was lure-cast. Liquor Store Hears Salem, Aug. 30. (JP) All Oregon liquor stores will oper ata dally from 10 a. m. to It p. m. after September 1. the) state liquor control commis sion said today. At tha present hours of closure vary In differ ent localities. LABOR DAY EDtTIOM Due to Monday being La bor day, the Mall-Tribune will be Issued early.
