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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.
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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,