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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941
No. 141.
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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
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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.
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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. -
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