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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941
No. 146. '
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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
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