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tuli 0 b Matin- Weather nvon Foraofttt: Batn tonight. Show tra Thundaj. Continued cool. Temperature Highest Yesterday St Lowest this Mnrntny 55 free IplUt Ion pat 14 ho an .M Worth A Trial It U certainly worth trial to qm tha want Ada no mat ft what your want may ha, Thooaanda of names ara reach 4 dally by this nawipaper and II corti as llltla for your mra aai to them. Medford Tribune full Associated Press United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1941 No. 142. I fo)AfnW li UUM WW M MB h, l 1 ' av m. m m News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 3 Regard less of what Mr. Roosevelt may have told Mr. Churchill about the state of American opinion ,wws- and vice versa, all the U. S. $1 ficials coming 3 haflr frnm T in. don are saying privately w e wil" have to get In this war in he final ac tion (invasion of the contin ent if Britain is to win. Their Paul Mallon story is, Britain will have enough to stalemate the clash, with what she gets from us un der lease-lend, etc., but that she will need our navy and perhaps d?rmjr to clean the nazis out in the final phase. This Is not entirely a new no tion, but it is being newly em phasized in the discussions of the officials who have been to London. a IEEP your eye on the Social Security Administrator Paul McNutt in the political picture. Tt will not be difficult. Mr. Mc Nutt has taken steps to save you from strain. Some weeks back he moved his own publicity man, Jesse Irwin, in over vari ous other unit publicity men in his administration social security board, public health, office of education, etc. The shift has lately been supplemented by orders that all publicity clear through Mr, Irwin. Thus when the social security board an nounces something, cou are aDt to read, not that Board Chair man Altmeyer announces it, but that Mr. McNutt does. The new arrangement will piovide con tinuous announcements for Mc Nutt right on up to the 1944 democratic convention If we all live that long. Only agency in tl-.e McNutt Jurisdiction to escape this com pression of all personalities into his, is the civilian conservation corps. Its leaders have equal (Conttnuad on Page Pour) Radio Highlights New York, Sept. 3. (The Special News Service) On the air tonight: The war 4 MBS; 4:55 CBS: 5:30 NBC-Blue; 6:45 CBS: 8 NBC- CBS. CBS 5 Treasury hour, Al fred Lunt and others; 8:15 A. W. Hawkes and Ma. B. H. Namn on "Business Unity for Defense." MBS 5:15 football. Eastern All-Stars vs. N. Y. Giants. What to expect Thursday: The war 4 a.m., NBC, CBS; 4:55 NBC-Blue;. 5 NBC-Red, CBS; 6 NBC-Blue; 7 MBS; 8 MBS; 9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS; 12:55 p.m., NBC-Blue; 2 CBS; 2:45 CBS. NBC-Blue. CBS 12 m. National singles tennis. MBS 10:45 a.m., blood doners program; short waves: DJD.DZD Berlin 2 concert; RNE Moscow, 4, English broadcast; GSC, GSD. London, 6, Starlight; 2RO, Rome, 7, News. Tillamook, Sept. J. (TV George Edward Leach, 75, long time Tillamook county resident and former county game war den, died yesterday. Two broth en survive. Reedsport. Sept. 3. (IP) VII M ay Close to 200 obtained permits to hunt elk In this section of southwest Oregon, the state commission offices here said today. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS A friend averring that instead of passing out cigars Ralph Stephenson was distributing two by fours in celebrating his grandpahood. Deputy Sherf Bill Grenbemer beefing because Allison Moul tun was the only one of the Sherf's Mounted Posse to get ft any mention in the public prints. Frank Van Dyke breaking promises to telephone a friend as fast as he makes 'em, the friend rapidly becoming discouraged. REDS' OFFENSIVE LENINGRAD FRONT Hold Firm Before Odessa Russian Resistance Stif fens As Nazi Power Weakens. Moscow, Sept. S. (IP) The Germans have been hurled back with heavy losses by Russian counter offensives on the fronts before Moscow and Leningrad and stopped at the gates of Odessa, Russian war dispatches reported today. The nazis' war-long losses were put at close to 3,000,000 men. This was the situation pic tured in the Russian press along with indications that nazt of fensive power Is wearing down and Russian resistance growing stronger: Before Moscow G e r m a n forces driven back at one point as far as 30 miles, and one Elite SS infantry division destroyed by a 10-day Russian counter offensive. Before Leningrad The Ger man siege ring pushed back three miles, with heavy losses, under a counter-assault directed personally by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov. Before Odessa The Germans stubbornly resisted by the Red army in attempts to break Into the Black sea port with sailors from the Russian Black . sea fleet bolstering the army by carrying out raids behind the nazl lines. ' Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of the central party and a leading communist publicist, declared in Pravda, that the Germans had lost 2,930,000 men dead, wounded and pris oners since the war began. In cluding more than 2,000,000 on the eastern front alone, where the action is in its 11th week. Yaroslavsky compared this estimate with German losses of 2,590,000 on the eastern front in the last war, emphasizing that Russia's male population is more than double Germany'.!. He said three five-year plans had created new bases "un reachable for the enemy" and "millions are working to throw these forceful reserves Into the battle." (By Associated Press) Reflecting perhaps new dif ficulties encountered by the Germans on the big eastern front, the Hitler communique today was barren of detail on operations, saying merely that successful fighting actions are in progress" along its whole length. In Berlin, authorized sources acknowledged that the Russians were putting up a fierce fight in the middle sector, although the Germans said they had smashed 178 Soviet tanks since Saturday. LA FOLLETTE RAPS E TAX BILL Washington, Sept. 3. (IP) Starting work on the record S3 679.800,000 revenue bill, the senate accepted today a finance committee proposal to raise an additional $120,500,000 through increased corporation surtaxes. LaFollette criticized the bill In a minority finance committee report coincident with Issuance of a majority report which esti- mated that the bill would yield $3 679,800,000 annually, 1463,- 000.000 more than similar legis lation approved by the house The senate arranged to start de bate on the bill today. Senator Clark. (DMo), a member of the finance group, and other members also express ed disfavor, Clark calling the measure "a hodge-podge hit-or-mlss piece of legislation." State Police Arrests Salem, Sept 3. JP) State police reported today that they arrested 2.874 persons and warned 8.332 others during July for violating traffic laws, fines and sentences for these offenses totaling $13,126 and 2,804 days. 2s Company 4,000 Whew! Kansas City, Sept. 3. VP) Sponsors of a negro labor picnic arranged for 10 taxi cabs to transport the guests from the end of the street car line to the shores of Wildwood lake. Police and 20 mora cabs rushed to the scene after re ports of wild disorder poured into headquarters. One cab was mashed, they said, when "several," of the 4,000 transporters tried to enter at the same time. SOLDIERS ASKED TO USE FURLOUGH T( Salem, Sept. 3 (IP) Eight thousand Oregon soldiers of the 41st division, who will come home on furlough in the next few days, were asked by Gover nor Charles A. Sprague and Major General George A. White, division commander, yesterday to help harvest the bean, hop and prune crops. Asserting that 30,000 pickers are needed, William H. Baillle. manager of the Salem office of the State Employment service, said that millions of dollars would be lost unless the crops are harvested in the next few weeks. T42 BUDGET BODY With- the advice and consent of the-city council. Mayor H. S. Deuel last night appointed the following citizens budget com mittee .to compile next years budget: George W. Porter and C. C. Furnas, both mayors in recent years, H. B. Murphy, W. H. Fluhrer, W. E. Thomas, Harvey J. Field, C. S. Adair and D. L. Flynn. Mayor Deuel said that in view of the "unknown quantities fac ing us," an effort had been made to procure for the budget com mittee as representative a group of business men and citizens as possible. The "unknown quan tities" were taken to refer to the army cantonment proposed for establishment here. After the meeting the mayor added that In choosing the citi zen budget committee, he had also considered men of imagina tion because "imagination will have to be used In fixing next year's budget" also because of the difficulty of planning fiscal matters definitely when It was not known whether or not the proposed cantonment would be authorized. E PORT COSTA FIRE Port Costa, Cal., Sept, 3. VP) Federal agents proceeded methodically today with Invest igation of the 81,500,000 fire on the waterfront yesterday, In which one man was severely burned as he Jumped from a burning barge. Otto Gross, 55, a cook on the barge, still was missing today, but two others at first unre ported, later were found. The fire was believed to have been started accidentally by an itinerant using as shelter a wheat warehouse, where gov ernment owned wheat worth about $850,000 was stored. How ever, the rapidity vith which It spread gave rise to the usual rumors sabotage might have been involved. There was no of ficial confirmation. Besides the warehouse, two fish reduction plants, an old whaling ship, seven freight cars of wheat, two tank cars of fish oil. a barge and a tugboat were destroyed by the blaze. Salem, Sept. I . (JP) U. S. Senator Rufus C Holms n ad vised today that he would have two appointments next year to the United SUtes navy academy. REGISTER DATES FOR NEW JUNIOR HI, GRADE PUPILS Thursday And Friday, 9 To I 3 The Time Supt. Hed ' rick Issues Instructions. E. H. Hedrlck, superintendent of city schools today Issued the following instructions to junior high school and elementary school students, that opens next Monday, September 8: Junior High School Pupils from rural school dis trict within the county must secure from the county school superintendent's office in the court house the tuition informa tion blank to present for either junior or senior high school reg istration. All new 7th, 8th and 9th grade pupils who have never been registered in the Medford Junior high school are to report to the Junior high school office Thursday and Friday, Septem ber 4th and 5th, between 9:00 a. m. and 3:00 p. m. Students who attended Med ford Junior high school last year and who have already registered for this year, and all students who finished the sixth grade in the Medford city schools last year are not to report to school before 8:30 a. m. Monday, Sep tember 8th. All pupils registered from out side of Medford schools should bring with them their report cards,- -or. transfer' slips, also final writing . jcrtificrtes , that have been earned.' Ninth grade pupils, entering from outlying districts, are to bring their tui tion cards with them when they come to register. These tuition cards are to be . obtained from the county school superinten dents office in the court house. - Students who missed the final examinations last spring and those who are otherwise incom plete in the work for last year are to report to the Junior high school office Thursday and Fri day. According to law, books are furnished free to 7th and 8th grade students. The 9th grade students are loaned part of their books, but must furnish their own Latin and Algebra texts, and their workbook for General Business Training. Ninth grade students, who wish, may buy used Latin and Algebra texts, and their Busi ness Training workbooks Thurs day and Friday in room 18, so long as the supply lasts. Elementary Schools Elementary pupils for grades (CoQtlDuad on Paga Bight) AUTOISTS FINED Roy Edgar Lewis, 62, of Med ford, was fined $23 in city po lice court Tuesday on a charge of reckless driving as six other local violators of the traffic laws appeared before Judge William Allen and were assess ed fines. Lewis, police said, passed a car on the wrong side on North Riverside avenue last night Un able to pay the fine, Lewis was committed to the city jail. Thomas W. McFadden was fined $3 for parking his car in an alley and Don H. HIgen- botham was assessed $5 on a charge of driving a car with out an operator's license. Charged with violation of the basic traffic rule, William Kaiser and Robert J. Robinson were each fined $10. Frank L. Barber was fined $2.30 for double parking with no driver, Larry D. Bradley, charged with failure to give right-of-way, was fined $10. Anti-Strike Petition Salem, Sept $. 6P An In itiative petition to curb second ary boycotts in labor disputes was filed in the state depart ment yesterday by Dan Hay, Salem, executive manager of Associated Employers of Ore gon, Inc. War Bulletins BRITISH REPORT Simla. Sept. 3. (P The axis is showing by lies that it is weaker and more anx ious. Gen. 81r Archibald P. Wavell, British commander-in-chief in India, declared in a broadcast today on the sec ond anniversary of the out break of war with Germany. "There are many signs that the enemy is growing weaker." said Gen. Wavell. "and that from arrogant con fidence he has passed into a restless anxiety which will turn to despair as be sees his ruin approach. "There is a sign by which you may judge an enemy's growing fear the growing recklessness of his lias." Gen. Wavell asserted that "well over 100.000" Indian troops are serving overseas and that India's fighting forces ara approaching one million. Berlin, Sept. 3. P) Fin land's Field Marshal Baron Mannarhaim sent a telegram of thanks today to Adolf Hit ler for the knight's cross of the iron cross which Germany conferred as an honor to the entire Finnish army. London. Sept. 3. An other inconvenience of war cropped up today when a to bacco manufacturer an nounced he would sell cig arets loose because of a card board shortage. VIEWED SUSPECT 'Oregon Man' Identifies Ukiah Patient As Recip ient Of Jacket Gift. San Francisco, Sect. 3. (JPi Deputy Sheriff Al Meeker of Shasta county came here to con fer with Chief Special Agent Dan O Connell of the Southern Pa cific company over the newest suspect In the 1930 wreck of the streamliner "City of San Fran cisco,' in which 24 were killed and 108 injured. Meeker said an inmate at the asylum In Ukiah had been posi tively identified by an Oregon man as the Itinerant to whom he gave the leather jacket found in the river bed near the wreck scene. The Jacket was discovered by federal agent from the Hum bolt river near Harney. Nev., to which footprints led from the scene of the derailed train. It was wrapped around some tools. Investigators have been follow ing its trail ever since. Southern Pacific agents here said the Jacket was traced to the Oregon man last January. He said he had given It to an itiner ant and produced convincing evidence he was at wcrk in Ore gon the day of the wreck. Meeker said the asylum Inmate. reported "nuts" on the subject of the wreck, was arrested re cently when he brandished a gun in the woods and assertedly threatened those be encountered. The Oregon man was taken to see him yesterday. LOCAL YOUTH AT FT. Astoria. Ore.. Sept. i-JIP) Private Erwtn W. Hilkey, 20, of Medford, died today at the Fort Stevens hospital from what army headquarters here an nounced was a self-inflicted rifle wound In the forehead. He was found near the Fort Canby rifle range yesterday and taken to the hospital. Fort Stev ens headquarters announced dis covery of an incoherent note ad dressed to a friend Indicating worry over a girl friend. Hilkey was a member of Bat tery B. 249th coast' artillery. His mother, Mrs. Ethel Hilkey, is the only known survivor. Marshfield, Sept, 3. UP) Hunters had checked in 43 elk here today, three days after the Coo county season opened. ATLANTIC BATTLE IT GOING BADLY' Nazi Battleship Hit By Tor pedo Plane, No Details July Sinkings Low. London, Sept. 3. (IP) A British torpedo plane hit the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Luetzow a few weeks ago, Sir Archibald Sinclair, the air min ister, told a national defense luncheon meeting today. He announced no details of the engagement. King George VI, responding to an expression of loyalty from the national defense committee, sent a message that "the two hard years that lie behind us have left us all unshaken in our determination to see Justice and freedom reestablished through out the world." Sinclair told the gathering that the battle of the Atlantic is not going too badly for us, but warned that it would prob ably require for some time "an immense concentration of atten tion and effort." 'Sinkings of British ships In the month of July," he said. were the lowest for any month for more than a year. . . Dur ing the past 10 weeks the aver age weekly rate of merchandise arriving from overseas exceed ed 850,000 tons." He declared the "spell of Ger man invincibility which par alyzed half the world a year ago ' has now been finally broken." Ha predicted a grow' ing "and more fruitful" cooper ation between the royal air force and the army. He reported coastal command planes had attacked 136 U-boats in the past year and "shot down more than 30 German aircraft" In protecting convoys. 'The coastal command, he said, "is transforming the bat tle of the Atlantic from a Ger man attack on British shipping Into a British attack on Ger man shipping and victory in this battle will be the turning point tcward victory in the war." FOR NO LICENSE The penalty In Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman's court for driving a motor ve hicle without an operator's li cense was up to $2 today, this being the opening September levy. Judge Coleman hinted, however, that the fine may be increased again before the month is over. It was raised last month from $1 to $1.50. In ad dition court costs of $4.50 are always assessed, making the to ts' cost of driving without an operator's license now $6.50. A license costs 11.60. First to draw the $2 fine was Mrs. Donna E. Turtle, 414 South Riverside avenue, who pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to operating a car without an op erator s license. Paul R. Dixon, 29, Riverside apartments, was fined $1 and costs for operating a truck with out a muffler. James C. Sanders, 24, Eagle Point, was fined $2.30 and costs for operating an over loaded truck. George Scouten, 50, Trail, was fined $1.50 and costs for operating a truck with out a atop-light. All pleaded guilty. BASEBALL American League Boston, Sept. 3. (VThe New York Yankees clinched at least a tie for the American League pennant today by wring ing out a 2 to 1 victory in 11 innings from the second place Boston Red Sox. New York 1 7 1 Boston 1 10 1 Bonham. Murphy, and Rosar, Dickey; Wagner and Pytlak. national League Brooklyn , 4 7 2 Philadelphia 14 1 Wyatt and Owen; Grtssom, Podgajny and Warren, Livingston, Good Samaritan, Mad Columbus. O., Sept. 3 (IP) William Sedoruk's reward for pushing a stalled automo bile was a brain concussion, cuts and bruises. He related: "I came upon a man whose car wouldn't run. He asked me to, push him. In doing so, the bumper guards of our cars locked. An argu ment followed during which he hit me on the nose." Hospital attendants report ed Sedoruk's condition "fair." OF MAI Los Angeles, Sept. 3. UP) Mrs. Marie M. Tucker, , 39 booked on a charge of suspicion of murder, today told authori ties she is Innocent of the fatal stabbing of her husband. Major George A Tucker of Fort Mc- Arthur. - The army officer died in a San Francisco hospital July 12, 11 days after he was injured In his suburban San Pedro home. Military officials announced he had stabbed himself while mak ing a sandwich. 'I married George the day he graduated from Weit Point 19 years ago, Mrs. Tucker said. I loved him then fervently and I loved that way until he died. "Yes, even more so. I loved him enough to give him three fine sons. He was to proud of them. They were, very proud of their father.'1 Mrs. Tucker's errert was fol lowed by some seven hours ques tioning by police and district at torney's officers. Also ques tioned was the oldest son of the group, William, 13. Details of the conference were not dis closed. Capt. Vernon Rasmussen of the police homicide squad said Mrs. Tucker would be held pend ing presentation of the case to the county grand jury tomorrow or Friday. Also set for tomorrow was a hearing on a petition by her at torney, Frank w. Doherty, for a writ of habeas corpus. He contended that the California statutes define no sucn charge as murder. Superior Judge Benjamin J. Schelnman refused the petition and fixed the hearing date, but set no ball. Permits valued at $80,304 were issued to Medford builders last month, and City Inspector Frank Rogers said it was the largest August since the pres ent records were inaugurated In 1927. The figure, however, was lower than the $90,330 of July, but was a tremendous increase over the $26,280 for August of last year. Of the 33 permits Issued, nine were for the construction of new residences totaling $19,850, three were for the repairing of business buildings at a cost of $52,000, two were for the con struction of new businesses at cost of $4,576, 17 were for the repairing of residences at a cost of $3,860 and three were for the erection of private garages at a cost of $318. SALEM CLOSES UP TO ATTEND FAIR Salem, Sept. $ VP) Salem closed up shop today for Salem and Governor's day at the State Fair, but rain continued to give fair officials the Jitters. Attendance yesterday totaled 10,113, or 1.841 more than on the second day of last year's show. Governor Charles A. Sprague attended the fair today, sitting In the governor's box at the races to present the wreath to the winner of the governor a day , handicap. 1 - JAPAN FACES HER Total Mobilization Urged Russian Fight Alarms Rep. Maas Gives Views Tokyo, Sept. 3. (IP) Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye told government and war Industries representatives today that Japan was faring the gravest crisis in her history, Dome! said, and that total mobilization was necea sary to overcome the emergency. it was Konoye s first publis statement since July 30 and came as the proposed movement of United SUtes war supplies' to soviet Russia through waters adjacent to Japan was a subject of discussion In Tokyo, Washing ton and Moscow, The premier spoke before at round table conference of gov ernment executives and leaders of Japanese business concerns. Flight of two soviet planes across the Bering sea to Alaska (bearing 47 Russian airmen on what was described in Washing ton as a "purely technical mis. sion) was cited by the Japan Times and Advertiser as indi eating a possibility of future) dangers In the north. "Any effort to establish a sys tem of warplane service between the American and Asiatic eon tlnents." it said, "will be viewed by authorities charged with the) defense of Japan as question, of state and international im portance." , i Declaring that encirclement had been demonstrated in ih south and west (the directions of China and Pacific Interests of Britain, The Netherlands and the) United States), the newspaper? said Japan "cannot stand idly by while a scheme for northern encirclement is in the making." Meanwhile, the newspape Yomluri carried a front-page in terview in which U. S Rear Ad. mlral Richmond K. Turner was quoted as saying Japan should make an expression of good will If aha expected the United States to do likewise. Washington, Sept t4JP) K Minnesota congressman. Just raw turned from tlx weeks of sea) duty as a marine corps reserve) air officer, declared today that Japan was "deathly afraid" of the United States fleet when is was In the Pacific The legislator colonel. Rep, Maas (R.-Mlnn ), remarked In an Interview that some of the fleet had been withdrawn to the At Untie, but he expressed ths opinion nevertheless that United States forces in the Pacific re main strong enough to fend off any attack against this nation, and at the same time keep open supply routes for vital ship ments of rubber and tin. Further, he said he believed that the western hemisphere "ig in no danger from Japanese as gression." "The Hawaiian island are) more powerful than Gibraltar ever was because their defenses are geared to modern warfare," he said. "No navy could get to Panama without passing Hawaii and no navy could get past Hawaii. "Japan la deathly afraid ot the American flett when it is Intact It is significant that they did not move into Indo-Chlna until the fleet in the Pacific had been split and part of It had beat transferred to the Atlantic. "In spite of all the secrecy ot the navy, the first Information that the American public had that the fleet had been split was newt broadcast from Tokyt) giving the dates the ships went through the canal, and theif names." , Nutrition Cesaasltteo Dm 1 Salem, Sept 3. W A polntment of a statewide nutrW Uoa committee for defense, which will encourage food habits to Improve diets at all income levels, was announced today by the state defense) council. Crawford Kerned stalem. Kami I PV WlllUns H. Crawford. Portland mechani cal engineer, will serve ss run time director of tr Oregotl economic council. K. B. ltae Naughton, Portland, eons si I chairman, said lastetday. . i
