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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
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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.
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10
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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.
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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. -