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rim u wmu- Weather npon rorMwtt Pirttf cloudy to Bt(ht ud Tnc-4. Wwncr tonight. TenpenUnr Rl(ht Ye-ierdoy SO Lowest this Morning 44 You, The Owner M 7 toe ksapeek r uy artlela of talae, as th Want A4 at em for quick neovorr. Medford 1RIBUNE N honest person wants your IHupailf an mil watrh th -Lost" 10 t locata jam, th Full Associated Pre .td PlMi Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 No. 146. ' o)M A M o)Afo)fo)l IE i - i i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 8. A Ger man retreat to an established line for the winter hat been xpected by the top military authorltle here. Ai they hear it, this wouia not necessarily mean the col lapse of Hit ler or Nazlism, but merely a strategic with drawal to a safer military line. Confir mation of such hopes natural ly must await proof In ac news has found Paul Malloa Hon. but the many ready believers among the officials of the government who vat least hope it will come to pass. It would solve many Wash ington problems. nrHERE will be no one-man leadership of the defense setup and no further reorgani sation for a while. Mr. Roose velt U satisfied with the situa tion as it is. Be made that quite clear In his encounter with his old friend Bernard Baruch. . Mr. Baruch apparently thought one-man leadership would fur nish the Impetus that has been lacking in the defense setup. He was quite strong about it. He laid his views before the president forecfully, perhaps too forcefully. Mr. Roosevelt, as I hear and see it. does not want a central lied authority. He knows the faults of the existing regime, v but he does not care to supplant them with what he foresees as a possible octopus. He desires to retain controls In his own hands. And that la the way.it is going to be. IARUCH isn't only mad be cause the president didnt adopt hif plan for a single (ConUniMd en Fas Four) NAZI SUBMARINE London, Sept. 0 VP) A Ger man submarine has been cap tured in the Atlantic damaged by aerial attack which forced It to the surface, the admiralty and air ministry announced to Niay. The U-boat lay in a gale tossed sea while the British kept guard In the sky overhead until British warships could reach the scene and take over and bring the prize successfully into har bor." (The circumstances were such - as might attend entrapment of the German submarine which clashed with the U. S. destroyer Greer, but the Joint London communiques failed to note any connection, giving neither the precise location of the air at tack, nor the date.) (Time Is Pacifie standard) Tonight, the war 3:30 NBC blue; 6 MBS; 6 45 CBS-east: 7:30 MBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. Tuesday, the war 4 a. m., NBC CBS; 4:5J NBC-blue; 5 NBC-red CBS; 6 NBC-blue; 7 MBS; 9 45 NBC: 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS MBS: 12 55 p. m , NBC blue; 3 MBS CBS; 2:25 NBC red; 2:43 CBS NBC-blue. SICE GLANCES By TRiBUKE REPORTERS Primary school kidlets begin ning classes today and wishing a they were senior high school stu dents with an extra week's va cation. William (Harold) Richstein taking motion pictures of im portant arrivals at the airport. Radio Highlights E HITLERITES CLAIM Capture of Schluesselburg Reported Fall of Old Czarist Capital Seen Near (By the Asoclated Press) Adolf Hitler's high command reported late today that German troops had cut off Leningrad prom all land connections and captures tne railroad cemer oi Schluesselburg, only 21 miles east of the old czarist capital. Schluesselburg lies across the Neva river from Leningrad. The Russians admitted that fierce battle was raging outside Leningrad, with the Germans smashing in major offensives at the west and south approaches of the city. Under Shell Fire Leningrad Itself has been un der German shell fire since last Friday, the nazis said. German motorized divisions, supported by warplanes, reached the Neva river on a broaa front" east of Russia's second greatest city, the nazi high com mand armounced, cutting oft all communication except by sea. Simultaneously, the Finnish radio asserted that "the fall of Leningrad is a question of a few days." Soviet military dispatches said the nazl invaders so far had failed to score a serious break through, and a Leningrad broad cast, pledging defense of the cradle of the blessed (bolshevik) revolution" to the death, voiced optimism that the city would hold out. We have erected a steel wall around Leningrad," the radio said. German front-line dispatches conceded that the Russian troops were making a bitter village-to-vlllage stand. Reds Take Toll Elsewhere on the muddy, rain- soaked front, Moscow reported that the red armies were press ing the Initiative on a broad sec tor around Gomel, taking a bloody toll of German casualties, while soviet guerrillas roved far behind the lines stabbing at nazl columns. The German news agency said Russia's air force, battered by hundreds of Stuka dive-bombers blasting at Leningrad's defenses, lost 71 planes yesterday. A soviet communique at noon reported that hard-riding Cos sacks seized a staff headquarters far behind the German lines and listed a nazi general as killed. The communique also declared that a sharp counter-attack routed an entire German batta lion which left 1,200 men on the battlefield. The soviet bulletin said that despite bad weather conditions. the entire front from the Baltic to the Black Sea was active. IN THEFT OF CAR Russell Perisho. 20, held in the county Jail on a charge of larceny of an automobile fol lowing his arrest by city police Saturday night. Is scheduled to appear in Justice of the peace court Tuesday. Perisho, police said, admitted stealing a 1940 Plymouth coach owned by John McCabe of 1405 West Main street, from its park ing place at Fourth and Fir streets Friday night The ma chine was abandoned on the Pacifie highway near Rogue River. Perisho, picked up for investigation, readily admitted the theft, city police stated. On Augurt 27 Perisho was given a 30-day Jail sentence on a state police charge of carrying a concealed weapon, and last Friday afternoon he walked out of the courthouse after going to the roof to hang up some blankets. Jailer Harry Ingling stated. Perisho, from Illinois, is at sertedly A. W. O. L. from Fort Lewis, Wash. When arrested by state police Augurt 28 he was carrying a .32 calibre revolver, tint an armv weanon. i 6 Hospitalized by Heads Bight Mikhail Gromor, Soviet air ace (above) is in command of two Russian flying boats which landed at Nome, Alaska, enroute to Washington. D. C, carrying 47 Russians, mostly veteran pilots, mechanics and radio op erators. Gromov in 1937 flew Soviet plana from Moscow to southern California over the top of the world, non-stop. la 1934 he flew the huge Russian plane. Maxim Gorki, at that time claimed to be the world's larg est. KILLED IN CRASH EN ROUTE HOME Mrs. AI Seigrlst of Santa Mon lea, Cal., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Rolfe of 1206 East Main street, was killed in an au tomobile accident near Lodi Calif., last night, her husband was seriously injured and their eight-months-old son suffered minor injuries, according to word received here. No details of the accident were learned. The Seigrists had left here about 3 p. m, Sunday to return to their home in Santa Monica, where Mr. Seigrlst is employed as an architect engineer by the North American Aviation com pany, after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe. They had spent two days here a week ago, had trav- eled on to Spokane to visit other relatives and had returned to Medford Saturday night. Mr. Rolfe, assistant manager of the Medford branch of the First National bank of Portland, Mrs. Rolfe and their son, Vern, Jr., left here this morning tor Lodi. AUTO ASSOCIATION ASKS LIFTING OF GAS CURFEW Waahlnfton. Sept. S-(AP Th American Automobile association day urged that mt eastern aaboarai 1 a. m. (aaouna -curlew" oa uiiea, on the around! that It was an un neeraaarr inconTenlenoa" which had had Uttl or no aMect la eonatrrUit the earta supply of motor ruaL "Profile" Reient Help in Pose For "Morning Alter" Hollywood. Sept. 8 P) John Barrymore, looking de cidedly morning-afterish, sat on a movie set holding an ice bag to his head. Director Dave Butler, seek ing a certain camera angle, said: "Hold the Icebag with your left hand, John." Barrymore stiffened. 'David," he pronounced, "you telling ME how to hold an icebag is like the batboy telling Bob Feller how to throw a curve." y-t- e . aaay" a 1 'U. S. NOT AT WAR' S ONLY DEFENSE N SPYJEARING Counsel For Alleged Plotters Contends There's No Law Against Aiding Germany. New York, Sept. t.OPi Germany has had the secret of the Norden bomb aiming device since 1938, according to United States Attorney Harold M. Ken nedy who opened prosecution of 18 alleged spies in federal court today before Judge Mor timer W. Byers and a Jury. Hermann Lang, one of the defendants, who was final in spector of the closely guarded bombsight, took the details to Germany in 1938, Kennedy de clared as he unfolded ramifica tions of the alleged spy ring which he said covered the entire western hemisphere. Seventeen other defendants have pleaded guilty and await entencing at the conclusion of this trial which is expected to last three weeks. Not Registered Raymond D. Mutr, of the state department, the first wit ness, testified that none of the defendants had registered as agents of a foreign power. Frank J. Walsh, counsel for six ot the accused, said he would admit "that - Information was transmitted to Germany but would contend there was no law aeainst transmission of intelli gence to countries with which the United States is not at war. In order for Germany to receive the legitimate informa tion it was entitled to It was necessary to avoid the British blockade," he said. "There was no other way to transmit this information than in the way it was done. There is no law that says you may not aid Germany Just as there is no law which says you may aid Great Britain The information transmitted was not United States defense secret "The United States is not belligerent power. You have right to consider whether we are being bound by the admin istration's policy or by laws; whether the conspiracy if such it isoriginated in Germany or in the office of the federal bu reau of investigation. Jeweler Protett Tax Upon Stock Portland. Sept 8. (A) A tax on Jewelry stocks contained in the senate version of tne pending federal tax . bill, was opposed today by Oregon and Washington Jewelers attending the annual Oregon State Jewel ers' convention. A. W. Molin, president said a 10 per cent manufacturers' tax was not opposed but that the levy on stocks was. Death of President's Mother Delays Important Radio Talk Hyde Park, N. Y, Sept 8 UP) The president's mother is dead; and a nation Joined its chief executive in mourning to day. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. wrti thrira aaw her only son ! inaugurated as president of the I United States, died yesterday at : the rambling old house which has been the Roosevelt family I home for three quarters of a i century She would have been 87 ' years old on Sept 21. ! Her death, attributed largely I to her advanced years, resulted ' in the postponement from to night until Thursday night (at I 6 p. m. PST) of a presidential radio address which the Whit : House said would be ot "major importance." i The speech, it is expected, 1 will embrace a discussion of the : entire international situation and, in particular, the naval action last Thursday between an i American destroyer and a Ger- man submarine off Iceland. Head-On ENROLLMENT UP 2.4 PER CENT IN ,060 Grade Students List ed, 567 At Junior High- Senior High Delayed. School bells tolled away the three-months summer vacation for 1,627 elementary and Junior high school students this morn ing as five of the city a public institutions of learning opened their doors for the 1941-42 school year. The senior high school opening has been delayed until next Monday, September 15, because of the large number of students working on the fruit harvest. The first-day enrollment fig ure for elementary pupils repre sented a 2.4 per cent Increase over the number of grade school students starting or returning to their three R's at the same time last year. This morning, 1,060 elementary students and 667 Junior high school pupils report ed to their classrooms, com pared with 1,033 elementary and 630 Junior high students last autumn. Juniors Wait Harvest Washington grade school, with an enrollment ot 358 this morn ing, showed 13 per cent in crease over the 316 enrolled the first day in 1940, the city school superintendent's office report ed. The 10 per cent decrease In Junior high school enrollment was attributed to the fruit son, a number of students work ing in packing bouses and orch ards. Following is a table showing enrollment at the five schools today as compared to the first day last year: 1941 1940 Washington 358 416 Roosevelt 297 306 Jackson 226 218 Lincoln 179 195 Total elementary 1,060 Junior high 567 1,033 630 Total ..1,627 1,665 ON TAX PROTESTS Final meeting of the board of equalization will be held tomor row to render findings in protests that have been tiled by persons and firms, on asi ments. Assessor C. A. Myers re ported today. Hearings have been held for the past month. The board is composed of the county Judge, the county clerk. and the assessor. From lite Saturday night on President Roosevelt and the first lady had kept a sorrowful watch by the bedside of bis mother. They were with her when the end came shortly after noon yesterday. So was the family physician, Dr. Scott L. Smith, who said the mother of the chief executive had had "an acuta circulatory collapse, due principally to her advanced age. She had been In a coma for twelve hours. The funeral, limited to rela tives and to old neighbor and friends, will be held at the fam ily residence tomorrow. Mrs. Roosevelt will be buried ia the family plot in the church yard ot picturesque 8t James Episcopal church. The chief executive was only 18 when hi father, James Roosevelt died In 1900. and he and his mother have been ex- centionallv close. Her home has been his bom all hi life, Crash Near Rogue River Migration to Siberia Decreed For 390,000 of German Blood Now Living Along Volga River Moscow, Sept. 8. (A) The soviet government, declaring the lower Volga had become a eurs, directed today that some traction be uprooted from their homes in that area and reset tled in various parts of Siberia. . Those affected by the mass migration order descendants ot German families whom Cather ine the Great Invited to settle along the Volga in 1762 as a barrier to Tartar invasion will be given land and state aid to start life anew, the government id. The migration was decreed, it was explained, as the result ot an investigation by military au thorities which disclosed "tens of thousands of diversionists and spies among the German popula tion of the Volga." The government .accused the population of "covering up ene mies of the soviet people by falling to disclose the presence ot these saboteurs who, it de clared, were "prepared to cause explosions in these regions at signal from Germany. To avert possible disorders and bloodshed which might force the government "to adopt meas- res ot reprisal against the en tire German population," it was decided to remove all persons of German descent from the re gion, the official announcement id. The German Volga territory is an autonomous republic ot the soviet union, situated about 300 miles north of the Caspian sea and about BOO miles east of the Dnieper river front where the red army Is engaged in a death struggle with the nazi invaders. J SEIZED IN EFFORT Tl Vichy, Unoccupied France, Sept. 8 (P) More than 100 Jews and two prominent French lawyers, one of them a minister of Justice in the old republic, were reported today to have been seized as hostages by Ger man occupation authorities In Paris because of attacks on members of the German army. It was in these new mass ar rests that the German took the two once-prominent lawyers. former Justice Minister Pierre Masse, who is a Jew, and Theo dore Valensi, former deputy, who is a native of Corsica. Valensi also was described Jewish. Others Held The anti-Semitic Paris newt- paper "Au Pllory" said three other prominent Jews had been arrested in a round-up within the past few weeks, but the re ports could not be confirmed In either official or unofficial sources. The other were report ed to include a rich banker and art collector, a business man and horse racing expert and a lawyer who once had close con nections with Georges Mandel, a minister in several republican cabinets. Vichy no longer tried to hide the gravity of the strife in the occupied ion or the fact that reprisals are only making things worse. 'We can expect to see street incident multiply," the official government news agency told it paper. Authorized Vichy sources charged that the outbreaks, par ticularly shootings in Paris, were part ot a communist plot aimed at forcing Germany to withdraw troop from the east ern front HERMISTON SCHOOLS CROWDED IN OPENING Hermiston, Ore, Sept 8 UP) Troubled school officials, who handled 487 student last year, began classroom work today with 1101 students. Influx ot worker to the Umatilla ord 1 nance depot caused the loci ease. haven for nazl spies and sabo- 390,000 persons of German ex HANNOVER JEWS TO OUIT Berlin, Sept. 8, (JP) Hun dreds ot Jews in Hannover re ceived notices today to evacuate their homes within 24 hours. They were permitted to take only "the most necessary objects and furniture" and advised that the remainder ot their property would be sold, the proceeds to be turned over to them "at a given time." One reason cited for the ac tion was said to have been a book written by "the Jew Ksuf mann in New York." The book, it was alleged, demands sterili zation of all German and em ployment ot German soldiers as coolies In foreign lands. (This reference apparently Is to a book entitled "Germany Must Perish!" by Theodore N. Kaufman, published by the Ar gyle Press of Newark, N. J.) Eviction orders Issued by the mayor of Hannover said: To Jew i va "Eviction order "Jew dwelling 1 "The present war ha been forced upon Germany by the Jewry ot other countries. The enemy air force attacxs open towns and unloads explo sive and Incendiary bombs in discriminately on the civil pop ulation. .(The RAF has attacked Hannover number ot times). "The Jew Kaufmann In New York demands the sterilization of all Germans and the employ ment ot German soldiers ai cooolies In foreign lands. In order to relieve the dis tressed situation caused by the war, I see myself compelled to immediately narrow down the space available to Jew in this city. I therefore demand that you quit your present aooae Immediately. "You must leave your house keys with your police precinct headquarters. One of the first place signed to the evicted Jew was the mortuary hall of the Jewish cemetery. About 100 Jews of all ages and both sexes were crowded together there. SEVERE BOMBING London, Sept 8. IIP) One year from the night ot the luft- waffe's first mats attack London, hundreds of planes of the American-strengthened RAF rode in moonlight over Europe and bombed Berlin from mid night to almost dawn today. It was the heaviest raid ever made on the capital ot the retch, the British air ministry said. The British lost 20 bombers out of what was described as "very powerful" raiding force. Four German night fighter were said to have been shot down. On British fighter was missing from attacks on Ger man-held continental airdromes. Berlin, Sept. 8 OP) An early morning British air raid In which at least 27 Inhabitants of Berlin were killed was played up under two-column headline today and one newspaper, tne Nachtausgabe, bitterly assailed the attack as "especially low- down and contemptible." Orssjoa City, Ore. Sept. S. () The Mount Hood act aluk ot Orafoa Ctty has purchased the eld Oraeoa Trail TsTtrn. tlve a-.titt shore Rhodo dendron for use as a elub beadjuar- lrs iw wiaiee, TWO MEDFORDITES TWO FROM C. P. Ill Accident Attributed to At tempt to Retrieve Lighted Cigarette From Car Seat, Six persons, two of them from Medford and two from Central Point were confined In local hoe. pltals today with broken bonea and other painful injuries foV. lowing a two-car, head-on col. llslon about 7:25 p. m. Sunday on the Pacific highway three) mile north of Rogue River. None of them was critically la lured. The victim were: Mr. Alice Coppln, f0, 344 South Central avenue, broken right arm, broken left leg, cut on the face and bruise, confined In Sacred Heart hostal; Miss Kathryn FicV, 33, same address, injured Jaw and chest, confined in Sacred Heart hospW Harry H. Chapman, 81, Horn brook, Cal., broken right knea cap and cuts on the chin, eon fined in Sacred Heart hospital; Marjorle Louise Pierce, 18, Central Point, multiple contua slons and abrasions, laceration ot tne right eyebrow, minor frao tur of the left wrtstbone. eon nnea in Community hospital; Rex JoseDn Cov. 19. Cmtnt Point fractured xlght hand and lacerations of the forehead, con fined in Community hospital; -Alleen Berry, 18, Grant Pa, fractured right foot and lacera tion ot the right knee, confined in Community hospital. i Cigarette Blamed I State police said the accident. which occurred 300 feet north of the Miller creek bridge on gradual curve, was caused by a lighted cigarette which fell onto the seat of the 1934 Ford coupe) operated by Miss Berry, who) was accompanied by Miss Pierce) and Coy. Police quoted Miss Berry ana Coy a explaining that Coy, rid lng in the middle between tha two girls, lighted a cigarette and handed It to the driver. Mis Berry. In the transfer ot the elg arette It was dropped onto tha seat cushion, and in the scram ble for It Mis Berry took he eye off the road and the ma chine, traveling north, swerved to the left of the highway dl rectly Into the path of the south bound 1940 Chrysler sedan oper. a ted by Chapman, who was ao eompanled by Mr. Coppln and Miss rick, an employ of tha Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company her. Crash Squarely The two machine, police (aid. crashed together headlight to headlight far over In the south bound traffic lane. Police aald mark on the pavement Indlea ted the Chapman ear skidded tot 51 feet before the collision. Both) ear were almost completely de molished, with their motor) hammered Into the front seat However, police aald neither car apparently was traveling at high rate of speed. Following the accident an am bulance from Grant Pas took! Chapman. Mr. Coppln nd MlsJ Flck to Sacred Heart hospital, and a passing motorist transport, ed the occupant of the other ear to Community hospital. Chapman and Mr. Coppln wera In the front seat ox tneir car, with Mia Flck In back. State police aald that MM Berry who wa being returned to her home In Grant Pas after visiting with Mia Pierce, wag driving the car without an oper ator's license, and that action would probably be taken upon her dismissal from the hospital. It wa th second bad head-on automobile crash Coy ha been In during th past six month. He wa seriously Injured In tha wreck on th Sam Valley road tha night of April S that too th Uvea ot five person and sent six ether to th hospital. rortlaa, av- - aa MmoMl esuutoa fatally tajmva Joha C. nnr. . swtiaae, unlay aistit. HI was Fortlaad-s ttad raffle fataUtt ! a
