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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1911
No. 139.
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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."
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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
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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.