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run g wmui- Weather 2J-" "pon Forecssti nir tooiy and Monday. little ehanio la temperature. Teraperatar Htf hMt YeM day It Lowest Yeeterday M Do You Know? If 70a anew thtra was Want A this morning offering an opportunity to make torn money yoo would road tbo Ada Immediately. Well, how do Medford TRIBUNE NOW there la notf way check "em? Full Associated Preea United Prees Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 194 $ No. 145. V J S--------5 s - asMBSK-snes--- -; as , . . -nr-. -. -- --v.; 1 1 i-w-eai AfBAH MMS CEBIRAL I ; News Behind The News ByPaulMallon Washington, Sept. 6 It is rather widely known here that the British intend to go in through Iran to establish a com mon lighting line with the reds in front of the Caucasus moun tain oil fields (famed Baku), in the expectation that the Nazi iitlitary machine may yet burn ' jut Its bearings for want of oil. The Nazis have reached no oil yet in the Ukraine, will not come to the rich sources of sup ply until they have passed the Caucasus. If the British couple this strategy with increased bomb ing of synthetic oil plants in Germany, they can do more to help Russia and themselves than in any other way now open. It is too much to say the Nazi gtmachine is cracking for want of fuel. But telltale evidence is be ginning to come through in the official dispatches that the pro longation of the planned 6 or li weeks campaign has placed a grave military strain upon the supply and transportation of this essential food without which blitzes cannot blitz. KEY secret to the whole Nazi slowdown seems to be gaso line. The blitx rolled westward without pause, through Belgium and France, mainly because the Germans were able to seize big filling stations and wholesale storage tanks, before these could be destroyed. The high com mand has since claimed it seized more gas than it umkI iu the conquest of the west. Not so in Russia. There are no gas stations, retail or whole sale, because there were no automobiles. Every gallon must be hauled from synthetic plants in Germany, all the way across Poland to the front. No new oil sources have yet been taken by the Germans in their Russian conquest, except a few minor wells in Russian Po land. Earlier they took oil in Rumania but the problem of transportation from there to the central and northern fronts is extremely difficult. The private official advices here suggest this situation has been desperate for the Nazis at Continued on Page Eight) War Bulletins London. Sept. 8. IIP) The British submarine P3J was given up for lost tonight by the admiralty. The vessel is "overdue and must be considered lost," aa announcement said. Berlin, Sept. 7 (Sunday) -WP Ten British planes were shot down last night during the course of RAF raids on western Germany, authorised sonrcea said today. By the Associated Press London. Sept. .F Bri tain announced today for the second day In succession a successful attack on a large Italian liner in the Mediter sanaan believed to have been transporting troops to rein force axis armies in north Africa. An admiralty communique stated that the 11.398-ton lin er Esperia was torpedoed by a British submarine and sunk ft Tripoli, attacked while in "aa exceptionally strongly es corted convoy of destroyers, torpedo-boats, motor torpedo boats and flying boats. "Liners of this type are used by the enemy as troop ships," observed the admiral ty la a comment similar to that nsed yesterday ia an nouncing the torpedoing and "almost certain" sinking of a liner which the admiralty thought was the 2 1-6 3 S-ton Duilio. No Overtime Charge Decatur, Ga., Sept. 6. UPt The mailman exacted no extra postage from C. R. Broyles when he received an out-of-town letter bearing a two-cent stamp. -Maybe. Broyles figured, 'twas be cause the letter was mailed In 1931 when two cents would carry a letter anywhere in the U. S. FIRSTJTU-BOAT Blunt Denial By Navy F.D.R. And American Policy Denounced By Germany Conflicting Claims. Washington, Sept 6. UP) The navy department bluntly disputed tonight a claim from Berlin that the destroyer Greer had been the aggressor in an engagement with a German sub marine off Iceland and reiter ated that "the initial attack was made by the submarine on the Greer." The navy issued the following statement: "Notwithstanding German con tentions appearing in today's press that the Greer was the aggressor in its action with the submarine, the facts are the same as originally stated by the navy department namely, that the initial attack In this engage ment was made by the subma rine on the Greer. It was then, and not until then, that the Greer counter-attacked." The navy's original announce ment Thursday night said that the Greer, "en route to Iceland with mail, reported this morn ing that a submarine attacked her by firing torpedoes which missed their mark. The Greer immediately counter- attacked with depth charges.' Washington, Sept. 6. OP) German-American relations en tered into a new and uglier phase today with the publica- tion of diametrically conflicting claims as to the circumstances under which the U. S. S. Greer and a German submarine en gaged in a torpedo and depth bomb skirmish on Thursday. Self-Defense? Berlin today claimed that the Greer, a destroyer, attacked first, and that the U-boat used i its torpedo tubes in self-defense. An exactly similar claim was made for the Greer yesterday by President Roosevelt. The submarine fired first, he said, and the Greer dropped depth bombs in self-defense. To its published claim, Ger many added a strong denun ciation of President Roosevelt and American policy, which occasioned little surprise here, and for the time being, at least, elicited no official com ment. Berlin charged: That the assertion that the Greer was acting In self-defense "can only be to give at least the appearance of Justi fication to an attack by an American destroyer on a Ger man U-boat." That it proved President Roosevelt had, contrary to his published statements, issued "general orders to American destroyers not only to report positions of German ships and U-boats but, beyond that, to attack them." And that "Mr. Roosevelt In this way also is trying with all means at his disposal to pro voke incidents in order to incite the American people into war against Germany." Nazis Admit Guilt Although slate department and navy officials were silent on the German communique. Chairman Connelly (D., Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee said "the Nazis might as well learn now that we are going to defend our ships and our citizens. 'The fact that the Nazis ad mit a German submarine was Involved." he added, "amounts to an admission that it was acting under orders of the Nazi government in firing on our destroyer. "This spirit of assassination, disregard for the rights of other nations and arrogant contempt . . .v , araggea us Into the last war. "We do not want to become involved in the present war, but If our ships or citizens are at tacked we are going to defend them." (Continued on Pai ) Portland, Ore., Sept. 9.IP Thrown from his automobile by a collision with a pole, Theodore R. Bryant. Portland, was fatally .injured. His was Portland's 31st I traffic death of the year. Russians Miss America 1941 Rosemary La Plancha Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6. UP) The crown of Miss America of 1941 was placed tonight on the pretty blonde locks of Miss California, Rosemary La Planche, 19, hazel-eyed Los An geles resident and a runner-up in last year's Atlantic City beau ty pageant. She broke Into tears as the award, goal of attractive girls from coast to coast for many months, was made in Conven tion hall as the climax of a week:long test of 42 beauties for talent, personality and appear ance. - TEAR GAS ROUTS SOLDIER RUMPUS Petersburg, Va., Sept. 8. P) Petersburg police used tear gas tonight to disperse a crowd of soldiers who milled around and in police headquarters pro testing the arrest of a Camp Lee soldier. Police Chief Charles Ryburn said ''between ISO and 200" men crowded around headquarters in a disturbance following the arrest of a soldier on a charge of being drunk and resisting ar rest. "The soldiers were going to take him away from us," - Ry burn said, adding that he asked them several times to "go along about their business." "They insisted on coming on and cursed us. We used two gre nades of tear gas." Military police arrived after a hurried call to Camp Lee and kept the men on the move away from the police station. . FAIR DEAL ASKED Hyde Park. . Y., Sept. 6. UP) PraiHorit Riwwlt hot tk-H ! the heads of all government de partments and agencies to take "immediate steps" to put into ef fect a policy of non-discrimination in federal employment be cause of race, creed or national origin. His action was an outgrowth of protests that negroes were being discriminated against in the defense program, it was in line with recommendations of a i committee on fair employment I practice, which he created last June 25 el i ,' .'-v-s r-- y - . Rout Foe, Free Vital Railway to Leningrad PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS NATION AT6PI1NDAY Subject Matter Not Dis closed But Probably Ice land Incident H o o v e r Talks Tuesday. Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. . (IP) President Roosevelt ig nored for tonight a nazi declar ation that he had given the navy shooting orders and want ed to incite the American peo ple to war. but he will broad cast an address of "major 1m porance" Monday night to the American people and to the world. He will speak at 6 p. m. Pacific time. The subject matter was not disclosed when the temporary White House announced ar rangements for the speech But there was no reason to doubt that it would deal with the explosive International sit uation, if not in some of its more troublesome aspects, at least In a general way. That could be ascertained from the advance announce ment that the president's words would be of major significance and would be heard not only by the American people but also by the entire world in rebroad casts In 14 languages. A matter of immediate spec ulation was the possibility that Mr. Roosevelt would discuss the full implications of a naval ac tion in the north Atlantic Thursday between a German submarine and the United States destroyer Greer. While neither vessel was hit, appar ently, the incident brought strong repercussions both in Germany and the United States. New York, Sept. 6.- Former President Herbert Hoo ver will discuss the interna tional suituatlon Tuesday, Sep tember 18, in a CBS broadcast from Chit-ago from 6:19 to 6:43 p. m. (PST). AIR STRENGTH OF LAND INCREASES San Francisco, Sept. .6 IIP) A congressional leader declared today that the United States has developed aircraft production and outlying air bases until It is well able to care for itself In time of war. Rcd. Dow W. Harter (D.-Ohio) said in an Interview he had come to this conclusion after he and the aviation subcommittee, of which he is chairman, had visit ed armv air bases. "We have a very potent air force right now; we outstrip every other nation in the world In heavy bomber equipment," Rep. Harter asserted. He said construction was pro ceeding rapidly on island bases in the Caribbean and virtually all of these already can handle all types of army aircraft BULLETIN Portland, Ore., Sept. 6. OP) The San Francisco Seals won their first game of the Coast league series here tonight with Tom Seats setting the Portland Beavers down In a four-hit per formance, 4 to 2. San Francisco 4 8 0 Portland . . 2 4 1 Seats and Ogrodowskl; Speeca, Callahan and Hawk ins. San Diego . S .6 11 14 Hollywood Hebert, Dilbeck and Salkeld; Da iso, Osborne and Dapper. First night game: Los Angeles ... . ., I II 2 Seattle 0 2 4 Prim and Campbell; Cole, Brown and F alios WILLKIE FAVORS USE OF FORCE TO KEEP JEAS FREE Policy Challenged Again He Declares, And Hopes America Stands Firm. New York, Sept. 6. P1 Wendell L. Willkie today called on the United States to use "de termination and force" to meet Germany's challenge to its pol icy of freedom of the seas. Speaking on a CBS radio pro gram celebrating the 18th birth day of the exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia, the 1940 republican presidential nominee declared "once again, savage and bestial might has challenged the right of America to freedom of the seas." "I know I speak the over whelming sentiment of my fel low Americans in urging the president to meet the challenge with determination and force," Willkie said. "I hope, and I know you hope, that the presi dent of the United States serves notice on nazi Germany that the United States expects its ships to go unmolested in their pass age across the North Atlantic, and those interfering with them will receive the result they are entitled to. , TTiere are certain things a nation cannot yield without los ing stre'gth, and certain things a people cannot yield without losing soul. I hope America will lose neither her strength nor her soul." Addressing himself to the ex iled king and the people of Yugoslavia as "a nation that did not lose its soul," Willkie paid tribute to their moral courage in meeting the nazi challenge. Speaking from London, King Peter said: "At this moment all our efforts must be directed to one aim; to deliver our country as soon as possible, with the assistance of our mighty allies and the Great American demo cracy." GO ONJAf AGE Topeka, Kas., Sept. 6. (JP) Fed by heavy late summer rains Kansas streams were on another rampage today, flooding farm fields and cities and causing high property damage. The Smoky Hill and Solomon Rivers, which have been out of their banks all week because of torrential Labor day rains, sent their crests downstream from Salina and Beloit, the Smoky after breaking through hastily erected dikes to Inundate part of the Salina residential area. Heavy Friday night and Sat urday rains sent central Kansas creeks roaring out of their Banks and threatened serious floods along the Cottonwood Neosho and Verdigris rivers. Between five and six Inches of rain fell in the Iola vicinity. putting Rock, Elm and Deer creeks out of their banks. Water from rampaging Elm and Rock creek flooded the eastern part of town, forcing evacuation of at least 75 families. LEW WALLACE IN Portland, Sept. .6 0P Lew Wallace, state senator from Multnomah county, announced today that he would seek the democratic nomination for gov ernor in the 1942 primary elec tion. Wallace was a member of the State Game commission from 1834 to 1838 and was elected state representative in 1034. His position in the legislature was vacated In 1039 because he also held an appointive office. He was appointed to the state senate in 1838 to fill a vacancy and was elected In 1040. On the Eastern Front 4laNDVB feel COUNTERATTACKS muM& MAKING HEADWAY RUMANIA ySjjS Shading Indicates mala aones of action oa the liussa-Cer-maa front. Principal sectors were the Leningrad area (1). the central front (2), and the Kiev area 3), where terrific fighting was reported to have started en the approaches to the city. Further south, Odessa 4) was still under siege, and Germans re ported repulsing a Russian attempt to cross the lower Dnieper river (5). SLIM CHANCE FOR CONQUERED LANDS IF HITLER WINS By Louis P. Lochner Berlin, Sept. 6. (IP) Dr. Hans Keller, president of the Academy for the Rights of Peo ples, In an article distributed by the German high command, to day blasted away any hopes that "Germany after defeating her opponents" will "resurrect all those states which the storm of war has swept away." The new order In Eurooe can only be a German orr.er, he said. Dr. Keller said Germany does not deny In principle the right of a people to its own state. but he argued: "The essence of a state Is might Either one has might, or one hasn't In the latter case It la small consolation to have a well-founded right to might" "A whole series of powers has proven too weak to oppose British imperialism on the one hand, or Soviet Imperialism on the other," he continues. "They fell to Germany. It is solely up to the fuehrer to determine what measure of power he will give back to the peoples with in the German relch. "He alone is responsible for this decision before his con science as a German and there- by as a European. Whether his gift to these peoples will be a 'state' or perhaps an 'order is secondary In Importance once there is clarity concerning the nature of state and Its rela tionship to the peoples." Tokyo Says Tokyo, Sept. 8 (IP) The newspaper Hochl dismissed the Greer Incident today aa "noth ing but that a belligerent de stroyer was attacked by a sub marine in belligerent waters." Nasi Meanness Berlin, Sept. 6. IIP) German police today ordered that all Jews over 18 years of age must wear yellow, six-pointed star of David on the left side of the coat whenever appearing in public 4 YANKEE AIRMEN , 11 SAVED, WHEN SHIP SUNK Glasgow, Sept 6. (IP) Tout American airmen en route to England for service with the RAF perished in the torpedoing of their ship by a submarine whose commander, one Irish survivor said, came' to the sur face and shame-facedly asked "what caused the explosion." Seven others among the 11 American flying recruits aboard were landed at a British port yesterday. Two of them were injured. The names of the dead were not available immediately. William Beattie, Belfast sea man aboard the torpedoed ship, said that after the attack the submarine came to the surface amidst the survivor-laden life boats and rafts. In a conversation with the U-boat commander, described by Beattie as a German in his early twenties, the Irish sea man related the latter disclaim ed that his craft had fired torpedo. "He seemed ashamed of what he had done and asked us what caused the explosion," Beattie related. Beattie said he asked the tub marine commander for water and that he replied he had none to spare but did hand over four tins of meat and two bottles of rum. Upon moving off Beattie said t h submarine accidentally struck a lifeboat and caused the wobbly craft to dip, bring ing an apology from th sub- mersible's commander. Eugene Pioneer Passe Eugene. Sept. 8 (IP) Francis Marion Wllkins, S3, Eugene pio neer and leading citizen, died at his home late Friday after noon following a short Illness Federal Manna Portland, Sept 8. (JP) Th farm security administration an nounced $1,050,000 worth of aid for new settlers In th Black Canyon Idaho and Vale-Owyhee, Oregon, project. i'RFn ARMY HI AIMS i Gains Also At Kiev And Odessa Soviet Air Forcai In 'Mass Blows.' By the Associated Press Moscow, Sunday, Sept 7. The Red army claimed today to have driven the Germans out of vital approaches to Lenin grad with fierce counter-attack while the Red air force gave, full backing with "massed blows" upon Invading Panzer troops, infantry and artillery. The Soviet midnight commun lque again declared the battla raged on all fronts yesterday. But the fight in the Leningrad sector was the greatest and tha most vital of tha Russian-German war which entered Its 12th week today. Tha slant rival armies fought In the northwest over battle fields darkened by rain and fog. Dispatches to the army news paper Red Star declared tha troops of Marshal Klementt Voroshilov, defending Russia's second city, mopped up one oc cupied zone south of Leningrad, pinched off another German armored wedge, penetrated tha German lines at several point and crushed one major nazi at base in never-ceasing counter thrusts. Tha Russians also- were em ploying the counter-attacks at Kiev and Odessa, the other great cities to which the Ger mans have approached closely. They were said to be repulsing or holding tha besiegers. The communique did not elaborate on the deeda of tha air force yesterday but the ter rific role the Red artillery is) playing was seen in the official report that "thousands of Ger man soldiers, hundreds of tanks. armored cars and lorries, score of artillery mine throwers and machine gun batteries have) been annihilated by tha accur ate fir of our guns." The communique said that on, on single day, last Thursday, tn soviet artillery killed at least 13,000 German officer and men and destroyed over 100 guns of various caliber, and much other material. A German war correspondent reported that German units had nenetrated "a soft spot" in tha Leningrad defenses, but did not specify its location. - He cited many obstacles created by th Russians, highways pitted with. traps and mine fields and fort- German dispatch, however. said a long-rang bombardment of Leningrad continued, with) electric power plant ' and a munitions factory effectively hit Strong luftwaff units also were declared to have scattered! strong troop concentration 1st th area. SEATTLE CLOSES IT AREA Seattle, Sept 6. UP) Th lights of Seattle's "red light dux trict" have been blacked out Police Chief Herbert Kimsep said patrolmen were assigned to keep every known brothel clos ed to comply with an army and navy request in their fight against venereal disease. Aa in vestigation late Friday night showed that th lights had beest flicked out Asked if th shutdown would be followed by similar actio! against gambling establish ments, th new chief said: "W must accomplish on) thing at a tun. Our first pro gram was to revitalize th traf fic detail. Now w are closing th houses of prostitution." From outward indication, however, torn of th larger gambling house also closed their doors, at least temporarily.
