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rr A -r Weather ZJST' rport Foraout: Partly clouitr to. Bt(ht and Wednndar. Warmer Wednesday afternoon. "cmptratura Hlfhett viti.. a Lowrit (till Morning 53 freclpltation put 24 boon .11 Medford Tribune United Pre The Beat Way Why mat lima trtlng find a batter way ts leu. trada, oar. ar rant, whea roe tu nM tha Want Ada In thl new, pepert It la tha eaer way and ay Car tha BEST way. Pull Aaaoclsted Frees Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941 No. 141. in r mi an mm, II News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 2. Mr. Roosevelt exhibited some d is sat isfaction with the way defense production is going, when he shifted the directing heads of OPM around Sut there is greater dissat icfantlnn nirap -sr Jksm aeiense pro- auction insiae OPM than has yet reached Mr. Roosevelt, more than his shift will cure. A very loyal Roosevelt clan, knowing the Paul Mallon facts as well as any one. Is just simply convinced the production schedule itself does not measure Jjp to the size of the task of arm ing this army efficiently, and supplying the British. New vig- orous concepts are needed. There must be more sub-contracting, reorganization of procurement in the war department, perhaps many other changes. This is not an isolated viewpoint, but a whole broad inner conviction of a greater number of defense sub-officials. The main fault seems to be that our needs were fixed by the war department, and the war department is Interested mainly in equipping the army, not in British aid. The two goals have not been fitted to gether. A long term production schedule has been projected into the future, but on a warped basis, which is either going to leave our army or the British short of what is required at once. It would not be surprising If Mr. Roosevelt does some more readjusting of the defense lay out along these lines shortly. a a T"AKE tanks. Every time any- one says publicly anything bout the slowness with which our army and the British are retting American tanks, the war department comes up with some elegant figures. They always say umpty-umph number of tanks have been turned out and urn-pity-ump-umph will be turned out next month. But these are always light tanks. They are not the new heavy fighting models. They have long been in production. The- French campaign showed the light tanks is not an efficient fighting weapon with which to face the Nazis. The armor is too thin. The Balkan campaign ab solutely proved it. They are (Continued on Page Four) New York. Sept. 2. (Special News Service Tuning tongiht: The war 4 MBS: 4:15 MBS: 4:55 CBS; :30 NBC-Blue; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS; 7 NBC CBS; 8:3(1 MBS. CBS 6:15 Burgess Meredith and Gene Tunney In United Youth for Defense Program. NBC-Blue I China relief pro gram. MBS 5 Canadian exhibition eoncert What to expect Wednesdav: The war 4 a. m.. NBC CBS: 4 55 NBC-Blue; 5 NBC-Red CBS; 6 NBC-Blue; 7 MBS: 8 MBS; fl 43 NBC; 10 MBS: 11:55 V"BC MBS; 12:55 NBC-Blue: 2 MBS: 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS NBC-Blue. NBC-Blue 12 m. (also MBS) talk. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt. MBS 11 a. m. Your Army: 4S Latin-American music. Short waves: RNE Moscow 4 English program; GSC CSD London 5:15 Democracy Marches: OJD DZD Berlin 6:30 cabaret: TGWA Guatemala 7:15 opera Don Pasquale." SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Allison Moulton and his mount ' 1 Radio Highlights aiming to the left while the rest hour for eventual American- the Sherf's Mounted Posse I British acceptance of th Jap turned to the right in the midst lanes expansionist policy. f spectacular drills for the - . , benefit of the a-incT.iret arc. Boston. Sent 2. (AP-LSDA) 'ators at the Siskivou county! 'ir, Yreka, Cal .Jvery dow today GERMAN ADVISERS;! Axis Chiefs at Meeting. - NO DEF I UtlYIANU UtrlANUt S - I 0. S. ANDJRITAIN MM- vjL Konoye Regime On Spot, fjTi iWX Faces Violent Overthrow S 'il I Jr J-V TokyoFears Air Raids. l-AA ..' V i n m sr-sr iMiej i Shanghai, Sept. 2. Re liable foreigners, including axis nationals, arriving at Shanghai said today Japan is In a state of dangerous ferment, with extrem ists being pressed by German ad visers toward immediate aggres sive action on the Asiatic con tinent and with moderate lead ers making one last effort to avoid war in the Pacific. . The German advisers were said to be demanding continued Japanese defiance of the United States and Britain. The consensus in these stories of the behind-the-scenes struggle in Japan is that the Konoye gov ernment either must yield to the extremists, notably army ele ments, or face the possibility of violent overthrow since, it Is said, the super-nationalists will not hesitate to use force. The recent shooting of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, vice premier and minister without portfolio, was not merely an isolated indi vidual manifestation but a de liberate warning to moderates in whose ranks Hiranuma had come to be considered outstand ing, the travelers said. The informants reported that Hiranuma, while home minister in th previous Kontye cabinet, began an investigation of nazl penetration of Japanese govern ment and industry and growing nazi influence over the army. They said the naz:s were bring' ing every conceivable pressure to bear to force Japan Into war. The arrivals emphasized however, that not even the so called moderates were willing to promise a complete reversal of Japan's expansionist policies but merely hoped for a breath ing spell to delay a Pacific show down while attempting to win American recognition of those policies. The informants said a ma jority of foreigners in Japan be lieve that the United States is not willing to baigfctn with Japan's expansionist policy and hence to them war in the Pacific appears inevitable. The British-United States freezing of Japanese credits with consequent suspension of trade was said already to have crippled Japanese economy severely and business elements were pictured as unanimously hopeful of re storation of trade with the United States and Britain, lack ing which, Japan's position ap pears certain to become more desperate. The arrivals reported that Tokyo's population was in near panic over the prospect of air raids. They said the capital was virtually without shelters and that civilians would be de fenseless. (By the Associated Press) Japan was reported reliably today to be in the throes of an internal struggle between German-goaded extremists and real istic moderates over how best to achieve the unchallenged oriental dominance which Jap anese regard as their ordained world role. According to reliable for eigners, including axis nationals, arriving at Shanghai, the seeth ing situation behind Tokyo's cen sorship may develop one or more of the lollowing: 1. Japanese action In the racuic or a new move on u Asiatic comment; tne tormer , ,An army detachment "'ff ibV tJI' a eutod fr of tha Gua Netherlands East Indies and the, u ,nd ,to d 1. ".. or Vladivostok. Russia's Pacific gateway for receipt of war sup plies from the United states. 2. Overthrow of tne present Konoye government, possibly by I . ,rtlvltlef j T Reapproachment with the'n Ufj'j" ""2 United State, and Britain, de- JMfl! to ,nd k- ih. ,i, i mnA.r.t.. Cuencu would be tomorrow, a . breathing spel) pending The wool market was mostly If if .7.. I f I -' je I h d 4 n ,7 l j ,. 5 c Premier Mussolini, Marshall Gearing. Fuehrer Hitler and General William Keltel (left to right) walk along a railway platform during their conference at Goerings headquarters on the eastern front. This photo was sent by ladio from Berlin. , ,65, OF AUTO MISHAP An unidentified man between 65 and 70 years of age lies crit ically Injured In Community hospital today, the result of be ing struck by an automobile as he crossed Main street from south to north at the Fir street intersection at 7 p. m. Monday. As he was unconscious, with a fractured skull and deep laceration of the scalp, and with no identi fication cards or letters In his pockets, hospital attendants and city police were unable to learn his name, address or oc cupation. His attending physic ian said he was gravely hurt. The car, police said, was op erated by Chester Clifton Jones, 16, of 31 Myers street, a Med ford high school football player Jones' car, a 1934 Ford sedan, struck the man with its front radiator and bumper, throwing him onto the hood and against the windshield, after which he fell off onto the pavement head first. He was taken to the hos pital in the Perl ambulance. According to the driver s re port of the accident, his car was traveling west on Main street in the right hand lane at a slow rate of speed. A car in the lane next to the center stripe, Jones reported, stopped as if to make a left-hand turn onto Fir street, and as he pass ed the halted car on the right the man ran from in front of it directly into the path of his machine, Jones said in his re port. Police described the man as being between 65 and 70 years old, about six feet one inch tall. weighing 170 to 180 pounds, dark eomplexloned with blue grey eyes and brown hair, bald on top. ECUADOR CLOSES NAZI AIR BASES Guayaquil. Ecuador, Sept I " f Aerea Sedta. rub.L diary of Lufthansa, the Ger man aviation concern. Newspapers carried announce ments by Eerea Sedta that on n,! 1?'- nf ,5'" f?.r in suspension followed sun- liar action by Bolivia and Peru against German air lines. Pan- American more than a week aio announced extension of its lines 'in Ecuador- BASEBALL National Chicago, Sept. 2. (IP) Gene Thompson pitched a four-hitter today, but the Cincinnati Reds lost to the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 1, because of the five-hit pitching of Charley Root, who won the 201st game of his major league career. f , , Score: - R.'.H..I. Cincinnati , , .. 1 5 0 Chicago 3 4 0 Thompson and Lombard!; Root ana scnemng. Score: ' R. H. E. Boston 2 6 1 Brooklyn 9 12 1 Javery, Lamanna, and Berres, Montgomery; Higbe and Owen. IN F HITS FARM AREA, CREST IS PASSED Eau Claire. Wis., Sept. 2. (A) Ravaging flood waters, which left 1,500 families homeless In northwestern Wisconsin and caused two deaths and damage estimated In the millions, swept into the lowlands of the Chip pewa and Wisconsin river val leys today, Inundating rural areas after passing the crest in the more heavily populated cen ters. The crest of the Chippewa flood, caused by record rains, bore down on the village of Du rand, 16 miles from the Missis sippi river. The river was 3.3 feet above flood stage there at 8 a. m., with the crest expected late today. Parts of the village were Inundated. The Chippewa empties into the Mississippi about 80 miles below Minne apolis. Eau Clair and Chippewa Falls felt the full force of the swirling waters last night. At Eau Claire, the river was 22 feet above low water mark, the highest since 1884. Mrs. Joseph f. Fllegel and her son, Joe, visiting In Wiscon sin, ar within 100 miles of flooded areas. BANDITS POLITE TO Philadelphia. Sept 1.P Two gun men who held up a lunch room and four persons eating there wer considers t to say th least. After taking $18 from the cash register and a wallet con taining S6 from Detective Frank May, Jr.. they returned 1 to May so he could see his femin jrj companion horn. II MAY CLOSE MANY Philadelphia, Sept. 2. (P) A general stoppage of service at most of the eastern seaboard's 100,000 gasoline stations Is held out as a possibility unless the government insures the Healers a "living margin.'' This was predicted by Ben Jamin L. Jacoby, head of the Associated Gasoline Retailers of Philadelphia and vicinity, who said such a holiday would be discussed along with gasless Sundays by the eastern states conference of gasoline retailers opening here today. He said station operators were being driven to consider closing by new government regulations effective yesterday under which stations from Maine to Florida were put on a September gaso line quota 15 per cent under their July sales to counteract the oil shortage. Asserting Acting Petroleum Coordinator Ralph K. Davis who fixed the quota "doesn't know the first thing about the gaso line business," Jacoby claimed July was a poor month because of vacations and that by basing the quota on a month of low sales the actual reduction would be about 25 per cent. Price Administrator Leon Hen derson set a maximum fair price of 18V4 cents here four cents above tank wagon rates al though some charged more. Jacoby said the government must permit dealers to boost prices sufficiently to offset their losses in sales volume, other wise: "Dealers will have to be kept in business on a curtailed basis by a direct government subsidy or will find It just about as cheap to close up and lose money as to stay open and lose money under the present gov ernment setup.' TO AID DEFENSE , Washington, Sept l-0P President Roosevelt asserted to day that America would step up Its defense production by spend ing more money and turning out more products. He told a press conference that ought to be don for nation al safety. Th increase In spending he indicated, would com through overall appropriations rather than Just a lease-lend fund, but he would not say how much ad ditional spending was contem plated, explains? that he was not ready yet to send a message to eocgrea. OF FARM LADilR HERE, SURVEY REVEALS Other Parts Of State Are Not Drawing On This Area To Furnish Workers. No farm labor Is being sent out of this district to help har vest crops in areas, such as the Willamette valley, where there is a labor shortage, the state employment service office said today. A rancher had com plained to the Mail Tribune that publication of appeals by Gov, Charles A. Spragu and others for assistance in harvesting the Willamette valley crops would unjustly deprive the Rogue riv er valley of necessary help. There is no shortage of agri cultural labor here, the employ ment office said. Some of the large orchards could use more pickers to speed up the harvest but so far they are getting along well enough, the office stated. Rains the past few days have retarded orchard and packing nouse work. Laborers were taken off the Medford municipal airport and Ashland school grandstand WPA projects for farm work but all were for employment around here, th WPA office said. The number at the migrant tarm labor camp here is remain ng constant at a little more than 200, Hayes Beall, acting manager said. There has been no exodus of workers from the camp to any other section of the west, he stated. Salem, Sept. 2. Thirty thousand workers will b need' ed in th Marino and Polk county hop yard when the rains stop, the state employment service said today. Thar was some harvest work yesterday, although heavy rainfall kept it to a minimum. Many migratory farm labor ers already have been driven south by the rain, which has damaged many prune orchards. FLOCK TO FRANCE London, Sept 2. (P) The RAF launched another heavy attack on the German-held coast of northern Franc this evening after Its daytime assaults had filled the skies with planes from breakfast to tea time. Heavy explosions rumbled cross the channel and Dover strait tonight from seemingly an air attack as vigorous as it was strong numerically. Then th planes turned home ward, some skimming the waves and zooming up Just In time to clear th chalk cliffs of Eng land. In th morning and afternoon raids, th planes passed on an other coming and going with the regularity of railroads trains on busy track. The German Industrial city of Cologne bore th brunt of a sever RAF night attack. SOVIEflMEN IOVIEWPLANTS Washington. Sept i. fTI The war department announced today a Russian military mis sion en rout to this country via Alaska was a "purely tech nical mission," coming her to observe American ' aircraft at the plants at which they are made. Officials said th 47 Russian airmen who flew to Alaska in two flying boats, would visit a number of American aircraft factories but the itinerary was not disclosed. Th visitor will confine their activities to obser vation and will not ngag In training. Reno Oregon residents mar riage licensed her Included: Warren D. Mann, 28, and Capi tela M. Reeves, 2S. both Med ford; Charles Van Dyke, 47. and De Rcnfro, 4B, both Prospect. I War Bulletins Moscow, Sept. 2. (V) S. A. Losovsky, th Russian spokesman, said tonight Hit ler had appealed to Mussolini to till gaps caused by huge nasi losses en th eastern front Losovsky said th plaa was th reason for their meeting en the front last week. AT LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, Sept. 2. (IP) Six persons were hurt today in street fighting that broke out as police hurled tear bombs In to 500 pickets stationed in front of the Cannon Electrical com pany, which has national de fense contracts. Strikers said tha firm dis charged five shop stewards and refused to accept a consent elec tion to determine bargaining privileges. Police wer sent to th plant after its president, James R. Cannon, reported the first shift of workers arriving today were being intimidated and jostled as they tried to pais through, tha picket line. A strike was called by th ClO-United Electrical and Ma chin Workers of America. Rob ert J. Cannon, vice-president, said the company has an agree ment with the AFL. "Our AFL agreement la old, but still legal," he aald. The CIO has been trying for eight months to push over a forced recognition without a vote. We're not listening to them until they go to the NLRB." The plant produces cable con nections and other electrical ap pliances for airplane factories. "If this plant has to shut down, every major aircraft com pany in America will be para lyzed,' President Cannon said. Th concern employs 800 men, working in three shifts. DEFENSE BUREAU Washington, Sept. 2. (TV Well informed congressional sources disclosed today that Don ald M. Nelson, former Chicago merchandise executive, would wield the chief power In the revised defense organization es tablished last week by President Roosevelt Although Vic President Wal lace was designated as chairman of the new supply, priorities and allocation board, these sources said even Wallace conceded that Nelson was th man who would do the work. Public confirmation of this was expected later today when Wallace and Nelson, who la the new board's executive secretary, hold their first press conference as officials of the new agency. nelson, a tall, heavy-set busi nessman at 82, has been direct ing purchase for the office of production management. He was borrowed for tha multi-million dollar defense program because of hi experience as on of th world's largest merchandise buyers while serving as vice president of Sears-Roebuck and Co. HOLIDAY DEATHS IN SM SEVEN Portland. Or., bent J WPV Oregon's death toll In th long Labor day holiday reached seven yesterday. Mrs. Ethelyn Barrow, 18, Med ford. a bride of three months. died of Injuries from th Dlunee of her automobile off a highway near Diamond lake. At Chiloquin a northbound passenger train collided with an automobile killing the auto driv er, Henry Jasper Gorden, 72, rort Klamath. Coroner George Adler said Gorden apparently drove onto th crossing without sighting th train Accidents earlier In th week tad had claimed fir other 11 v. r NAZIS ON ENTIRE , EASTERNSECTOR Leningrad Battle Near Cli max, Berlin Reports Reservists Rushed Front West, '...ujj . (By th Associated Pre) With th battle of Russia pivoting again on th fat o Leningrad and with th Ger mans checked, U not actually on tha defensive on th rest ol the sprawling front, for the fifth; consecutive day the red arms' pictured the front as stabilized, Germany's deep-spearing panzer divisions finally brought to heel. The Germans themselves shifted emphasis to their air force, reporting it had spanned far beyond the Dnieper for it first attack on Crimea while also helping to forge a ring of steel around Leningrad. Berlin report conveyed tha Impression that th battl for Russia's second city, at th head of the Gulf of Finland, focus ol both German and Finnish forces, was nearing it climax. But tha German have spoken thus be for. Moscow, Sept 2. (T Red army units counter-attacking on the central sector toward 8mob ensk hav routed a German In. fantry regiment rushed to tha eastern front from Franc only 10 day ago. It wa announced! officially today. Th beaten regiment wag ot th 161st German division. th Russian daily communiqua stated In its supplementary dot tion. It aald th regiment cama to th eastern front from tha German-occupied French city of Toul, near Nancy -and do toj th Carman border. Th strengthened stand of the) red army from hard-premed Lrw Ingrad to th banks ot tha Dnieper was noted In dtspatcae. A captured lieutenant of tha 161st division, Ludvlg Robert wa quoted by th soviet Inform matlon bureau a saying trc mendou losses on th eastern front had compelled th German high command to withdraw gar rison from occupied countries . Franc. Belgium, Holland and other. Berlin. Sept 2. (If) The) most advanced German unit lit th Leningrad drive ar stand ing bafor Krasnogvardalsk, 29 miles southwest of that second city of th soviet union. In formed German quarter said toe day. Rumanian troop were de clared by DNB to b besieging tha main waterworks of Odessa, Isolated Russian city oa tha Black sea. Cutting off of th Odessa water supply, the new agency said, would seriously endange red army soldiers and civilian volunteers defending th port, already said to be suffering shortage of food. Th report of th German movement to Krasnogvardlsk- a junction for railway from Pskov, Tallinn and Leningrad followed a DNB report that German Infantry had stormed important height In th nor. thern sector ot th front ywtera day and held them against re peated heavy Russian counter attacks. IN BLITZ AREAS Portland. Sept 2. Grumbler don't exist in tha English area that hav experi enced a real blitz, grocer wrota to Tom Glrdner. Portland, in answar to a message written on an export box of Tillamook chees. "If only In th area whera th war proper hasn't intruded that you find parson walling," A. Palmer, Rlckmaniwortht Hertfordshire, wrote. Glrdner, a car loader, wrota hi nam and a request for a re ply te "any current happenings' in loading a triplet of chees last April. - A
