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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1941)
ran u a Wwu- Weather " !r"u Forecast: Fair tonlfht and Saturday; Uttle ehanja in tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday M Lowest thU morning M Thirty-sixth Year . Submarine Attack on r ' ' - "". " ' 111 " I..H..II i.. i in ,ii i. im. i..m iil.i. ii.i.. .i. h.iii ,i. 'II. m;iii" . ' 4 -; - i . ; ',.... , An unsuccessful attempt mall. Tha nary dapartmant News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Sept. 8.- This government seema to be cring ing in the face of a crisis. Mr. k .)'" wawygM Kooseven ana yk Mr. Henderson told us a dan gerous Infla tion was at hand, and they aid nothing to make us think it could be avoided. They have recommend e d I o m strong Paul Mallon leg 1 s 1 a t i o n which will enable them to take hold of the price situation they foresee, but the legislation is tied up In congressional com mittees where cotton senators do not like It. Their attitude 4s that the cotton farmer has suffered for many long years, and now is his time to get his Just dues. They don't think a little Inflation would hurt the country. But every reasoning man knows that every time you lift the price of cotton you cut a wage. We are In a condition where lot of people who have only made $20 a week in all their long lives, are now making $90 and $100 a week. Naturally they want to spend it. If they spend it, as they must, they create a demand for goods of which there is already a shortage due to our defense needs and the demand for British sustenance. So where are we? We are Just in the middle of a stream in which the farm bloc .. , . ... K ana ine laoor dioc aeein w pushing us into what they think is the best economy for the country, and It is certainly best for them. High farm prices and high la bor wages sound like something we ought to have. There would (Continued on P&tj TwtlT) rosseIcEeared in tax dispute Seattle. Sept. 8 (JP) Gov ernment attorneys today with drew their request that Albert Rosser, former Oregon labor deader, appear here Monday to PPear before the L'nited States board of tax appeals and Fed eral Judge Lloyd D. Black sign- 3 the motion to quash beas corpus writ. i Med by a lubmarina to torpedo tha TJ.S.S. destroyer Greer (above) whlla aad tha warship eountar-attackad with dapth bombs. BARGAIN DAYS OF 10 START TOMORROW Featuring a saving of $3 a year where carrier service Is maintained, and $150 a year on mail delivery in Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou coun ties, the Mail Tribune's annual "Bargain Days" subscription of fer will go into effect at 8 a. m. Saturday and close at 8 p. m. September 13. The "Bargain Days" subscrip tion price for a year by carrier to your doorstep is $6, compared to the regular price of $9. The "Bargain Days" subscription price for a year by mail to residents of Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou counties is $4.50, compared to the regular price of $6. Subscriptions may be made by calling in person at the of fice, mailing in your subscrip tions or by telephoning the office, 2141, and leaving your name and address. A carrier will then call on you and take your subscription. ON U-BOAT BRIEF Berlin, Sept. 8 (JP) Author ized German sources asserted to night that the Greer episode was being played up by American interventionists. Dlenst Aus Deutschland, news commentary with close foreign I office connections, commented that some interventionists were Inflating the story to make it "the long-yearned-for Incident in the Atlantic." Asked whether the relch had any information on a submarine launching a torpedo at the Unitr ed States destroyer, a, spokes man replied: "There are a num ber of reports abroad but none have been made to us." Antelope Grass Fira stt fnra-tt oatrot headquar ters sent a four-man crew this', noon to a gras and bru.h fire' th Antplnrw school. Size I of the fire could not be ascer tained immediately. Portland School Figures Portland, Sept 8 J?t En rolment in Portland public schools reacnea jmji 5i;i- day compared wi'h an opening-1 dar 31 122. Siprmte n a e n I . Ba'ph E. Duglale said. I FORD full Associated Press U. S. Destroyer baseball - National (First game) ." , Cincinnati 10 - Pittsburgh ,. - 4 11 IS Derringer, Turner, Beggs and Lombardi, West, Butcher, Killin ger and Davis, Baker. SENATE APPROVES BIGGEST TAX ACT; HOUSE VOTE NEXT Washington. Sept. 8. (IP) The record-breaking $3,583,900,- 000 revenue bill to help pay the tremendous cost of national de fense was passed by the senate today and returned to the house for consideration of amend ments. Biggest In history, the meas ure carried $367,300,000 more than similar legislation officially approved by the house the bulk of the Increase came from a senate amendment lowering ex isting income exemption from $2,000 to $1,800 for. married persons and from $800 to $750 for single Individuals. That proposal was estimated by the treasury to yield more than $303,000,000 annually. The senate tax bill would increase present rates on both individual and corporations all along the line. It would more than triple present Individual income taxes in some brackets, would Increase many excise taxes and would impose some new "nuisance" levies. RAIL STRIKE PUT UP TO ROOSEVELT By tha Associated Preta A railroad strike threat, af fecting 1.230.000 men who keep most of the nation's trains run ning, was carried along to Pres ident Roosevelt today in the col lapse of mediation efforts and union rejection of arbitration. Labor troubles already have caused a serious stoppage at the Crucible Steel company's Har rison, N. J- plant, making $10. 000,000 worth of ammunition for the army and navy. The company closed down the works, making 1.000 em ployes idle, as the result of a strike of 800 CIO maintenance men. A company spokesman aid the maintenance men, mem bers of the Steel Workers Or ganizing Committee, were vital to operation. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941 Failure It was anrouta to Iceland with LONE NAZI PLANE 2 London, Sept 8. (fPh-German planes raided Scotland and Scottish coastal waters today, the government announced, causing some damage - and a small number of casualties. The damage and casualties were inflicted this morring at a place In northeast ScoUand by bombs dropped from a single raider, the air ministry and min istry of home security stated tonight Some German planes dropped bombs at a few points near the British coast during the night causing no serious casualties and little damage, the air and home security ministries report ed today. . . In the only British offensive action reported, the air ministry also said a coastal command bomber attacked a tanker off the coast of Brittany last night and another bombed a factory at La Palllce, France. A dive-bombing RAF plane during the night hit another German tanker heavily laden, which was lying outside the French harbor of Granville, on the Norman coast the air min istry reported. The plane dropped medium and heavy bombs, and the gun ner saw large white clouds of smoke arise from the 300-foot long tanker, the ministry said. SOVIET MISSION Seattle. Sept 8. T Leav ing their big flying boats in which they have flown 8.000 miles from Moscow, behind them, a Russian military mis sion of 47 men will rest here over the week-end and fly to Spokane on Monday in two chartered commercial planes. Their departure had first ibeen planned today, a United Air Lines spokesman disclosed. I Later It was postponed until I tomorrow and then to Monday. The party of young, sturdily built cropped haired Russians, .led by Brig. Gen. Mikahll Gro mov, famed transpolar flier, re mained at their hotel for some time after a lata breakfast but later left It in small groups to i look about town. General Gr !mov and Captain Anthony Fed otov, of the Russian embassy at Washingtcn, who Joined the ; expedition at home, also left ithe hotel. m at nm DAYLIGHT SHOTS AT U.S. DESTROYER En Route To Iceland With Mail President In Press Conference Gives Details Of Incident. Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept I Of") Officers and crew oi the U. S. daitroyar Greer said tonight that they may have sunk the submarine which at tacked their vessel, and tha Incident was described bera as a German attack. Reykjavik, Sept 8. (JP) Officers and crew members of tha U. S. destroyer Greer, which was attacked by a sub marine near hare, said today they believed that they at least damaqad tha attacking craft They based this belief ea the fact that their instruments indicated that their vessel was ever tha submarine when they dropped their dapth charges. The Greer, attacked while en route here with mail, arrived in Iceland this morning. The Greer'a instruments, of ficers said, Indicated that tha destroyer was over the subma rine when their depth charges were dropped. The destroyer- was in very deep water at the time of the attack, the officers said, and consequently, they, added, the submarine might well have been sunk without a trace. The officers disclosed that British aircraft aalrf h Greer In repelling the attacker. uruisn aircraft In the vicinity cooperated in reconnaissance. The Greer dropped many depth charges in the attempt to get the attacker. Washington. Sept 8. (JP) President Roosevelt said today that the United Slates destroyer Greer had been attacked more than once, that steps were being taken to track down the maraud ing submarine, and the vessel would be eliminated if found. On American Side Mr. Roosevelt, speaking to a press conference, did not say ex actly how many attacks had been made on the vessel, which was carrying mall to Iceland. But, he said, they occurred In day light and definitely on the American side of the ocean. Identity Marked He said that while the Greer was alone at the time torpedoes were launched at her with other American ahips nearby, she was clearly marked, and carried an identification number, plus an American flag. Asked what would be done if the attacking vessel were found, Mr. Roosevelt said he supposed American forces would "ellm- (Cootlauad on Page Three) FEDERAL TAX $5 FOR USING AUTO Washington, Sept 8. 'JTV The senate killed today an amendment to the record-break I ing tax bill which would have prevented husbands and wives in community property states from splitting income in order to reduce taxes. After rejecting the commu nity income proposal, the sen ate approved, J5 to 11, a levy of $3 a year on the use of automobiles. The levy, previously adopted by the house and estimated to raise $16000,000, waa vigor ously opposed by Senator La Follettc (Prog, Wis.) La Fol lette contended It "ia the most unjust item in the entire bill." 'Try and explain this away when you gt home." La Fol lette said. This puts the same tax on an old Ja'ony worth $1$ and a long-nosed specially built automobile." . T RIBUNE United Pru ARCHITECTS PUSH HERE Await Go Signal Ask For Bids Soon Upstate Pro jectAngles Of Fire' Figured. (Special To Mall Tribune) Washington, Sept. 8; Archi tects are pushing plans for the Medford proposed cantonment and are ready to go when the green light is given. Plans for both Medford . and Corvallis have largely dealt with solving the angles of fire, and the sites for locating guns have required detailed surveying. No guns will be fired across a highway or railroad, and for this reason the Southern Pacific railroad in the Corvallis area will have to be shifted for some four miles and the west side Pacific high way relocated. Because of demands lor power for industries in the northwest the proposal to cook with elec tricity ia being reconsidered and gas pipelines will probably be extended to the Corvallis cantonment, leaving greater amottnt of kilowatts available for national defense Industries. Architects who have been designing the proposed canton ment for the Corvallis-Albany area have rushed specifications to Washington, D. C, for the war department It is under stood that bids will be asked for. around September 10. Ap proximate cost of the canton ment will be $17,000,000, based on the department's theory that it costs $300 per man to build and there are- to be 33,000 troops. Word comes that with tha cantonment virtually an nounced, there is a shortage of houses in the vicinity, that rents have advanced and private cap ital hesitates to provide dwell ings, not knowing how long the cantonment will be maintained. Salem, Sept. 3 UP) The ReV. P. W. Eriksen, Salem pastor and state prison chaplain, was ap pointed by the Marion county circuit court yesterday as guar dian of the estate of Llewellyn A. Banks, former Medford pub lisher and orchardlst who Is serving life sentence for mur der. The appointment was request ed by the prisoner's wife, who said that Banks owns Suncrest Orchards, Inc, and has a claim against tha United States gov ernment Her petition said con gress has authorized Banks to bring suit against the govern ment 4-H CLUB AWARD Salem. Sept 8 JP) 4-H club awards at the state fair include: . Poultry first places Bob Bar bee, Medford; Bert Denham, Eugene. Swine first places Bob Den ham, Eugene. Clothing champions Laura Jean Hampton, Pendleton. Bob Barbee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Barbee, residents of the Osk Grove district of Route 1. mall Hop Leu Portland, Sept 8. (JP) Trad ing in the Oregon hop market for the week ending 8ept 4 was confined to small lots of 1041 regular seeded hope contracted at $1 cnta per poi"4 to grow ers, the agriculture department disclosed today. -- - War Bulletins Helsinki. Sept 8 OP) A Finnish communique said to night that big lires. which could be seen from the Fin nish border, were raging in Leningrad. . Berlin. Sept bf!P) Con fiscation of tha property of nine Berlin Christian Science churches was announced in the official Gaiette today. Christian Science has been banned in Germany. New York. Sept 8 UP) The German controlled Neth erlands radio reported today that 17 persons were killed and 93 wounded by tha American-made fortress plane with' which the RAF bombed Rot terdam yesterday. "Others may be buried under the ruins," said the broadcast The attack was carried out from the "stratosphere level." the announced said, according to NBC. addlngt "It was a mere chance that hits ware scored at all." PROPERTY TAXES Ten-Year Delinquent List Almost Finished Lien Made Mandatory By Law Compilation ot delinquent per sonal property taxes of the past ten years la n earing completion and as soon as the list has been finished distraint warrants will be issued against each delin quent taxpayer. Sheriff Syd I. Brown stated today. Sheriff Brown estimated that tha delinquent personal prop erty taxes for tha past decade would run to an approximate total of $200,000. Four girls have been working for several months on compilation of the de linquent taxes, he said. A new law, effective last June 14, makes mandatory the issu ance of warrants for tha collec tion of delinquent personal pro perty taxes. Sheriff Brown point ed out in emphasizing he had no choice in the matter. The amount of such warrant will become a lien upon tha real and personal property owned by the delinquent taxpayer, he said in urging all delinquents to come to his office before the compila tion la completed and warrants are issued and arrange for liqui dation of the overdue taxes. ine personal property on which taxes are levied includes such things as farm machinery and other equipment, farm stock and storie inventories. Not in cluded are household goods and automobiles. After the ten-year delinquent personal property taxes are cleaned up, the same procedure of collecting overdue taxes will be followed each year, Sheriff Brown stated. ROILED SPEEDER OUTSPEEDS UW Albany. Spt 8. (JP) Glenn R. Nichols. Salem, released on $10 bail after being charged with speeding, emerged angrily from the local police station yes terday and drove away swiftly. So swiftly, Irr fact that offi cers Harry Sharp and Wayne Huffman, took after him to re arrest him on the same charge. They returned to the station a few minutes later to report with chagrin that Nicholas had beaten them to tha city limits and waa out sf their jurisdiction. Tis Friday Again whkh imui It U lime to prepare Chat Want At lor Ihi Sunday morning edition. Many ay people depend the Sunday Ada. Thry have lima to chatk ap am the oilers I bat look ant. No. 144. xUU L NAZIS BIG GUNS T Pravda Reports Mile Gain Warsaw-Like Destruction Threatened If Resistance Moscow, Sept. SVP Red army units counter-attacking amid artillery fira on tha ap proaches to Leningrad were re ported today to have advanced almost a mile at one point in tha battle for Russia's second larseat city, taking four villages. ine defenses of Leningrad were said to have been bolstered by the arrival of troops from Tallinn, evacuated successfully before the Germane took tha Estonian capital. These forcee were reported already back in battle against the Nazis. ' Pravda. the Communlit nart organ, reported these develop menu. Other dlanatchea aald tvtth sides were bringing up their big guns tor ine oatue oi Leningrad and the Russian communique announced night-long fiahtirn on the whole front By tha Associated Press Berlin, Sept 8 (JP) Heavy German artillery if shelling Leningrad, the German h'gtv command announced today. Informed sources said long, range guns were firing on bridges and rail facilities in and between Leningrad and Schluee selburg, 20 miles to the east of the city on Lake Ladoga. "It is mistake to assume that Leningrad is being shot up India, crlmtnately," they said. "Only military facilities are involved." Germans have said, however, that the city will face Warsaw like destruction if it resists. Without disclosing the where abouts oi the big guns, one in formant said, "you can take a map and Just about figure out where they would be." Finnish troops, it was said are approaching Kuokkala, IS miles northwest of Leningrad, and its occupation "will give the Finns the possibility of bringing long range guns into play against thai Kronstadt naval base." The fuehrer's command war bulletin, Indicating that the ring of steel which German and Fin nish troopa are tightening around Leningrad's approaches has been almost closed, describ ed the situation in these four terse sentences: "Successful operations an tha east front "The encirclement of Lenin grad ia progressing. The city itself is already under fire of heavy German) artillery. "Estonia has been freed of tha enemy." Radio Highlights ; (Time is Pacific standard.) New York, Sept. S. (Special News Service) Listening to night: The war 4:33 CBS; 8:15 MBS; 8:30 NBC-Blue; a MBS; 6:43 CBS; 7:18 NBC-Red; NBC, CBS; 8:30 MBS. What to expect Saturday. The war 4 a. m., NBC CBS; 4 33 NBC-Blue; 8 NBC-Red CBS: T CBS MBS; MBS; 11:53 CBS; 12 p. m , NBC; 2:25 NBC; 2:30 CBS NBC-Blue; 3:45 CBS CBS 10 a. ra. King Peter 21st birthday, also Wendell Willkle; 10:30, 12 national sin gles tennis. NBC-Blue 12:45 p. m, (aeo MBS) Aqueduct rice. MBS 8:30 a. m. Adm. H. R, Stark at opening Philadelphia shipyards: 11:10 p. m. national rifle matches: 1 Fair Hill, Md, race; 1 Washington Psrk race. Short waver For Saturday DJD DZD Berlin I musical vsrlety; HAT4 Budapest 4 ! folk songs; GSC CSO London American Eagla club. For Sun dayGSC GSD London 2 news analysis; RNE Moscow 8:30 Eng lish period: TGWA Guatemala I Exquisite hour. -
