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m u a. wwu- Weather ?J2r nfan Foroeait: Showers tonlfht. dr1nf Tuesday wtth momUi ahowcra. Wanner Tuesday af ternoon. Tern pent ora Hlfheat Yeiterda; t Loett thU ""' M Very Few Things It la na exarreratlon ta aay tbara ara very raw thine 70a cant gat ttaronih a Mall Trt bana Want ait It eoate aa llttla ta try. Why not try ana at thrie uttla wort era ta the Beit Isanef Medford Tribune Full Associated Praaa United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941 No. 140. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Aug. 31. The Chinese got excited a few days back over something they heard in L o n d o n about the Jap anese seeking a workable un dersta n d 1 n g for peace in the far east with Messrs, Roosevelt and Churchill They let out one shriek of a j& m - . i.a "appeasement' Paul Mallon but immediate- . ly thereafter subsided. The state department here sat sternly on the lid of news about the matter to see what the Japs would offer. W Apparently Tokyo gave every evidence of being serious in these initial suggestions. Those few American statesmen who were in with Mr. Roosevelt on what was developing were very much encouraged at the start. If a far eastern peace agree ment restoring China could be established at the expense say of the French holdings there, and perhaps some other small territory, plus a guarantee of oil from the Dutch it might hit Mister Hitler mighty hard. This was what was in the wind the Japs were stirring. Details and good faith were naturally the most important parts of any bar ' gain they might make to get out of China, and officials here pro ceeded with utmost caution. (Conuuucd on Page TuaJ. VFIND CENTRAL PT. GIRL, 20, LOST ON Adalene Cassman, 20, Central Point, was found by a searching party at 10:30 last night a quart er mile above the Fish Lake road after being lost on Mount Mc Loughlin since noon. Soaked with rain, she was wet and cold but suffered no other harm, it was reported by telephone today from the Lake o' Woods ranger station of Rogue River national forest. Miss Cassman started out with a party to climb Mount Mc Loughlin yesterday morning. She left the party at noon to return but got off the trail. Others In the party were Everett and Nellie Grissom, Central Point; Kenneth Stimson, Eureka. Cal , and Eugene Holman, Grants Pass. District Ranger John Sargln aon headed the searching party nf six foresters of the Lake o' Woods district, the girl's com panions also aiding in the search. STATE FAIR OPEN, Salem. Sept 1. (IP) Ore v iron's agricultural progress went on parade today at the state fair, which opened to a Labor Day crowd of many thousands who braved threatening skies. Governor Charles A. Sprague and O. R. Hartwig. former presi dent of the state federation of labor, welcomed the visitors to the exhibition, which will close Its gates Sunday night Fair officials said they ex pected attendance records to be set But already one record has been established, the exhibits being the largest in history, forc ing officials to provide tempor ary space. Judging began this mcrning. Entertainment features In clude horse races, the night hor?e show, dances, and a revue called Funrapoppin. The gates open at 8 a. m. daily, with all arrivals before 9 a.m. getting free parking pace. Gravity alone moves oil torguati font put Uatt, EVE PRESIDENT GRIM AS U, S. PLEDGED 'TO DO FULL PART' Labor Day Address Strong est Statement yet; Warns of Sacrifice and Perils Appeasers Flayed. Hyde Park, N. Y Sept. 1. (TV President Roosevelt said today that "we shall do every thing in our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces." Mr. Roosevelt did not define "everything." And nowhara in a Labor day address to his countryman did he go so far as to say the United States once more should go to war. Yet he went farther than in any previous public pronounce ment in pledging America to "do our full part" In conquer ing "forces of Insane violence." The chief executive spoke with a grimness designed to bring home more sharply to America's millions a realization of the threats which he said had been raised against their fundamental rights by "Hitler's violent at tempt to rule the world." "Fight For Rights' He told them they must "sac rifice," but he did not say how much. At one point, however, Mr. Roosevelt asserted that Vthere has never been a mo ment In our history when Amer icans were not ready to stand up as free men and fight for their rights." . . -The president spoke by radio from the Franklin D. Roosevelt library here on a program spon sored by the Office of Produt tion Management. Other speak' era on the program were Ernest Bevin, British labor minister, in London; Sidney Hillman, as sociate director of OPM: Wil liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; and James B, Carey, secretary of the CIO. "We are engaged on grim and perilous task." Mr. Roose velt warned. "Forces of insane violence have been let loose by Hitler upon this earth. We must do our full part in conquering them. For these forces may be unleashed on this nation as we go about our business of pro tecting the proper interests of our country. No "Benedict Arnold" 'The task of defeating Hitler may be long and arduous. There are a few appeasers and Nazi sympathizers who say it cannot be done. They even ask me to negotiate with Hitler to pray for crumbs from his victorious table. 'They do. In fact, ask ma to become the modern Benedict Arnold and betray all I hold dear my devotion to our free domto our churches to our country. This course I have rejected I reject It again. "Instead, I know that I speak the conscience and determina tion of the American people when I say that we shall do everything In our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces." On a holiday given over to honoring laboring men and women, the president declared that the chief American fighters in the battles now raging are those engaged in American In dustryemployees and employ ers alike. And he urged them on to greater efforts in turning out weapons of war. Production has gained enor mously in the past year, he said, and products are moving to the battle fronts against Hitlerism in increasing volume each day. Not Yet Enough But he said that "enemies believed they could divide us and conquer us from within" know that "our American effort is not yet enough." Without getting down to the specific question of convoys or other definite new steps to guar antee deliveries of war supplies. Mr. Roosevelt added that "un less we step up the total of our production and more greatly safeguard it on its Journeys to the battlefields, these enemies will take heart In pushing their attack in old fields and new." Apparently with reference to the unexpectedly stiff Russian resistance to the might of axis arms, the president solemnly warned those who think Hitler tCi'4eja4 oa Itt IM UlnlUIKIla One Dead, One Critically Hud in Diamond Lake Crash Gift Pictured here la the formal presentation of a reconditioned bus to the Salvation Army by Crater Lake post of the Veter ans of Foreign Wars. The vehi cle, formerly used aa a school LABOR SHORTAGE IN STATE GRAVE; CLOSE WPA 30,000 Hands Needed to Save Bean, Hop and Prune Crops. Salem, Ore., Sept 1 (VP) Agricultural Oregon, caught In a critical farm labor shortage, mobilized unaccustomed city dwellers today In an attempt to save a $10,000,000 crop. Radio stations broadcast ap peals for workers to enter the hop, ' prune and string bean fields of the fertile Willamette valley. Schools delayed sched uled Tuesday openings to make children available and WPA pro jects released all workers. There was no time out for a Labor Day celebration on farms of western Oregon, the natlon'a largest hop-producing section. A bumper crop was ripe, but only one-fourth of the necessary pickers could be found. Marlon and Polk counties, heart of the region, had 5,000 pickers and needed 20,000 more. In the Grants Pass area of southern Oregon, hop farmers bid for workers, and wages rose to 2i cents for each pound picked, one cent above the offer at the season's start Prune and bean growers re ported a similar scarcity, attrib uted largely to the induction of young men In the armed forces and the migration of workers to booming Industrial center. All told, 30,000 harvest workers were needed. Governor Charles A. Sprague asked men on a five-day week to go to the farms on their days off. and urged women and chil dren to leave city homes for the harvest fields. Response was Immediate, Ted Huff, manager of the largest state employment service office in Portland, said. The commander of the Oregon American Legion promised all posts in the state would help mobilize pickers, and volunteers kept the telephone ringing at the Portland employment office, which with other key offices re mained open through the holi day. Salem. Sent. 1 TV... were 69 building permits Issued in Salem during August, with a total value of 143,893, compared witn 157 permits worth 1131, 190 in Auf Uil, m0. . '? V .rlsssaisaiaai.aaaaaaaa..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa MisefJeaaaM ill BYrr rVr, Bus Delivered bus, waa given to the Salvation Army to be used particularly In furthering its young people's work. The motor was over hauled by the man of the city fire department and new parts were obtained either by dona HOLIDAY DEATHS TOTAL 406; TOLL . By the Aeeociated Praaa - America's great labor holiday was dotted with tragedy today (Monday) as the lengthening roll of dead merrymakers was unfolded. Death, sudden and violent, was becoming more frequent in grinding clashes on highways as speeding automobiles plowed into others, whirled over, or careened through washed out bridges. A compilation at 3 a. m P.S. T., today showed that at least 287 persons had died in automo bile traffic accidents since 0 p. m., Friday, 47 others had drown ed, and 72 had died of miscella neous causes ranging from sui cides to falls. This total of 406 deaths was far in excess of the 263 reported in the similar two day period a year ago. Death came to the victims In many and varied forms. At Low ville, N. Y., nine persons climb ed into an automobile driven by Stanley Robbins and started through a heavy rain to visit friends. The rain prevented Rob bins from noticing that flood waters had washed out a bridge over a small stream. The car plunged into the void, and three children and two adults failed to emerge. In Wisconsin, Charles Weste meyer, asleep in a truck, fell out not far from Dubuque, Iowa, and was killed. California had the blackest traffic record with 29 dead in highway accidents. New York had 28, and Illinois 21. THEY'LL GET JOBS Salem, Sept. 1, VPi When Oregon'a national guardsmen and draftees begin receiving their discharges in December, they will be given Jobs, Lieut. Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state se lective service director, said to day. If a discharged soldier's form er employer refuses to give the man his Job back, selective serv ice headquarters and the state employment service will find ttim Job. It ffin rater n to Salvation Army tion or at reduced prices. The Idea of the gift waa conceived by R. E. Schula. a veteran, and adopted by the post. Shown in the photograph (left to right): R. H. Cadwallader. William J. Cooney. Ira D. Canfiald, Adju F TO OF PEACE Germans Repulse Red Of fensive South of Kiev Heavy Air Blows Traded. By the Associated Press A crescendo In the Russian German conflict, a glimmering rumor of peace for Finland, an intensification of the sea and air battle between Britain and the axis and an uneasy armistice In British-Russian invaded Iran marked today the second anni versary of the European war. The Germans acknowledged that the Russians were on the offensive along the Dnieper south of Kiev when they said that continued attempts by the Red forces to recross the river, with the support of gunboats. had been repulsed in bloody fashion. The high command said that 27 Russian monitors and gun boats had been destroyed on the Dnieper north of Kiev during the past week. Still another Red army coun ter-offensive waa said to have been checked in an undesignat ed sector and 86 of the numer ous tanks employed were said to have been destroyed. Including eight of the 62-ton variety. This counter-offensive was reported by DNB. On this day, start of the elev enth week of the Russian cam paign, the German high com mand also announced capture of 11,432 Red army prisoners, 239 cannon, 91 tanks, two armored tarlns and "a great quantity of war material" in recent battles in which the Germans wrested from Russia the Estonian capi tal. Tallinn. Rumors to the contrary, tho Finns refused to quit their fight with Russia yet. General O. K. Oesch, com manding general on the Vlipuri front, said in a victory speech at Viipurl, that by the reconquest of that Karelian city "the dic tated Moscow peace is no more" but there still remained ancient Finnish soil occupied by the Russians. The RAF and the luftwaffe exchanged heavier blows over night. The British smashed at the Ruhr and Rhlneland Indus trial centers of Essen and Co logne and the Germans blasted at Hull and riorka alnntf th i ;bu)ei blow London. In ad- tant and Mrs. Charles TC Cox. heads of the Salvation Army corps hare, Merrill A. Banaka, post commander, George T. Frev. chairman of ha tlon Army advisory board, and rouce unices Hay Bloneker, 1,500 FLEE HOIS, DAMAGE HIGH IN WISCONSIN FLOOD Hayward, Wis., Sept. 1. (JP) flood rivers which ran ram pant following heavy week-end rains stranded hundreds of holl day vacationists in northern Wis consin today and caused an In. dlan village to be evacuated, and an estimated 1,300 persons to nee their homes. Highway, utility and railroad officials agreed that damage was enormous and a newspaper man who toured the area said it could be estimated "only in millions of dollars. I wen ty -seven bridges were washed out on one stretch of rail road line alone, several dams were undermined and miles of highway wrecked. Swirling waters covered fields 10 feet deep in places, ruining farm crops, and caused great damage to homes and business places. Between 200 and 223 families evacuated the Indian village of Odanah when It was inundated by waters of the White and Bad rivers after a dam at Mellen burst. The village was empty or residents save for a few pol icemen who remained behind The evacuees fled to higher ground In the Birch region 10 miles east of their village. Some had tents while others bunked in farm homes, barns and wher ever shelter afforded. More than 100 additional fami lies were evacuated on Wiscon sin river lowlands following failure of a dam near Wausau Damage of more than $100,000 was reported to the Wausau Papermill company at Brokaw when an earthen dam washed out undermining the walls of the machine and generator rooms. Many mora families were forced to leave their homes at Chlppeaw Falls, where several blocks of Main street were un der water from the flooding Chippeaw river. The highway S3 bridge on the city's main street was closed. Stores and basements were flooded at Chlp peaw Falls and at Eau Claire, farther down river. Two main highways were closed at Eau Claire. The crest of the flood had al ready been passed at Jim Falls, Cornell and Holcomb above Chippeaw Fall. dition the RAF bombed Bou logne, on the Invasion coast of German-he!d France, and strew ed mines In German shipping lanes. War Bulletins Vichy, Unoccupied France. Sept. 1. ;P) Former Vice Pre mier Pierre Laval and his news paper editor supporter. Marcel Deat, were reported in good con dition in a Versailles hospital. Both were shot by a Da Gaul lst last week. Edinburgh. Scotland, Sept 1 (P) George Gibson, president of the Trades Union congraaa. British labor's parliament, told the delagatas todayi "The distinguished states man who calls the Germans 'Niiiiii' promised met 'George, we will beat these blighters even If we have to live on porridge.'" (Winston Churchill alone of Britain's distinguished states man deliberately m I s p r o nouncea "Nasi" in this fash ion. It generally ia pro nounced "naht-see.") Berlin. Sept 1(JP) Au thorised German source de clared today they were con fidant that Finland would not arrange a separate peace with Soviet Ruasia under any ett cu instances. Thaa sources also declared that the axis three-power pact was the basis of all negotia tions between Japan and the United States." PLANES EN ROUTE ,AT Flying Boats With 47 Men Silent on Mission Have Diplomatic Passports. Nome, Alaska, Sept. I UP) Forty - seven uncommunicative Russiana bearing dipl o m a 1 1 e passports stepped ashore In this startled sub-Arctic town last night from two hug flying boats and brought mystery with them. The Russians admitted (1) that they had left Moscow Thursday, and (2) that they were en rout for Washington, D. C, via Anch orage, Sitka and San Francisco. They left unanswered a dozen questions. They did not aay, for example, whether they had start ed their 6,000-mlI trip her on Thursday Moscow time or Nome time. If it was Moscow time, they were five days eh rout. If it was Nome time, their flying period was four days. They also left unanswered the principal question of the purpose of their trip. The Soviet embassy in Washington, D. C, was of no mor help. Th em bassy spokesman merely said he had no newa of any such flight No names were offered'by the airmen except to customs offi cials who validated the diploma tic passports which allow alien unusual privileges; and th cus toms officials did not reveal what they had learned. Th planes began refueling on th waters of Norton Sound where they landed, but were ex pected to refuel again at Anch orage or Sitka where larger gasoline stock! are available. The take-off for Anchorage was set for today. The two planes arrived with out any warning whatsoever. On circled over th town of Norn, and th other followed it to a landing on th bay. Only three Russian plane are known to have crossed Alaskan territory before yesterday. In June of 1937, three Soviet headed by Pilot Valeria Chealov streaked acrosa tb "roof-of-the-world" rout non-stop from Vancouver, Wash. A month later, three mora, headed by Pilot Mikhail Gromov. took the same rout and landed at San Jacinto, Calif. In August of th earn year, Sigmund Levaneffa- ky, Soviet air here, and five companions war lost on an at tempted Moscow-to-United States flight which ended somewhere In th Arctic ocean or th frozen wastes of far northern Alaska. Neither their plan nor their .bodies ever war found. RECENT BRIDE, IS ACCIDENVICTIM Mrs. Archie McBee, 62, Gravely Hurt Auto Plunges off Road Hits Tree Sunday. Mrs. Albert R. Barrow. IB. of 340 Edwards street a bride of Just three months, died In a local hospital at 6:23 a.m. todav of injuries she suffered In aa automobile accident a mil this side of Diamond Lake about 4 p. m. Sunday, a mishap that also) sent her mother, Mrs. Archi McBee, 62, of 206 Cottage street and her sister, Mrs. Edward Taylor, 40, of Monterey. Calif., to local hospitals with grave in. Juries. Never regaining conscious ness, Mrs. Barrow died of a frac tured skull, a fractured Jaw and internal Injuries, her attending physician stated. Mrs. McBee, taken to Com munity hospital, sustained broken right arm and possible) Internal Injuries, and was de scribed by -her doctor today as being In a serious condition. ' Mrs. Taylor, visiting her with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archi McBee, suffered free, tures of th pelvis, left arm and left leg and many sever bruise. -Her condition was said by her physician to be critical. Only minor Injuries war suf fered by Mrs. Barrow's husband. Albert R. Barrow, IB, former Medford high school football star and a student at Oregon Stat college. He was released from Community hospital fol lowing treatment for slight cuts and lacerations. Mr. Barrow and his wife, th former Ethelyn McBee, were married last Jun 1, after her graduation front Medford high school, and ah had planned to accompany him, back to school this autumn. According to- George Davis, driver for th Perl ambulance, which brought Mrs, McBee ta Community hospital, th Chev rolet sedan was being driven to ward Medford by Mrs. Barrow. Ha quoted Mrs. McBee as ex plaining that her daughter turn. ed her head to talk to th occiv pants of th back seat, her mother and her sister, and that th machln plunged off th side of th road, down a four foot bank and crashed head-on) into a tree. Mr. Barrow waa rid ing in th front seat with his wife. Th four had been enjoy ing an outing at Diamond Laka and were on their way back to Medford when the tragedy oc curred. It was not Immediately learn ed whether an Inquest would b held, as th accident happened in Douglas county. Th Perl funeral horn, fas charge of arrangements, will an nounce time of th funeral Tues day, at which tim a complat oeituary win be published. BULLETIN Defending Champion Dick Hanen, firing a terrific one- under-par medal score of 34-33 69, was 11 up on Roseburg's Alva Merritt at th end of the first IS holes of their 86-hola rhsmplonshlp finals in th Southern Oregon-Northern Call fornia amateur tournament over th soggy, rain-swept fairways of th Rogu Valley Golf club this . morning. Merritt s medal score for th morning round was 41-4061. Talk Badge Bill Salem, Sept lMIP) Gover nor Charles A. Spragu and Budget Director David Eccle said yesterday they probably would sponsor a bill at th 14 legislature to make all self -sustaining stat departments da pendent upon th legislature) for their appropriations. Salem. Sept 1. VP) Th Oregon supreme court will and it summer vacation tomorrow whu it opaaa lta tell tarn,
