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Mail Tribune Annual Bargain Day Subscriptions Show Heavy Increase A IT Mill li A. ILMIh, Weather tLTaT" reracastt Shewars tenlsht Bd Thnraday. Uttle chant ta Tmipcratiire HlfhHt v "t IS Umi thu Moralni 4 In Short Order IT the Want Ad War fixes ana ba wnilowa there Is aa kattar wT ta any. kii, trade, rent or get anything yea waat a ihart erdar. Toa win Sa snrpmtd how InezptaalTS thna ads ara tea. Tribune FORD Full Associated Prats .ted Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 19U No. 148. i Med Kelly's Comment From Washington Ickes Address Gets Reaction Sweetland Due For Hatch Eye Lawmakers Use Congress Record Br Jeha W. Kally (Note: During tha absence of Mr. Kelly on vacation bis dally column will be written by Mr Paul Dunham, member of our Washington, D. C staff). Br Paul Dunham Washington, D. C, Sept 10. Repercussions from Secretary Ickes' address In Tacoma last Friday on the power question are beginning to reach Wash ington, D. C and the reaction is far from being good. Mr. Ickes' talk will go far toward widening the breach between him and Senator Bone on the question of what authority tjnould be created for Bonne ille and Grand Coulee. Senator Bone's bill, which would create a three-man board for these two projects, was lambasted all over the arena by Secretary Ickes, who turned thumbs down in toto on the Bone bill and insisted on a one man control. Senator Bone, still ' hospital ised from a recent minor oper ation, could not be reached for for his opinion on Mr. Ickes' proposal, but it is understood he is far from being pleased and will have his say on the subject when he is able to be up and around again. To add fuel to the flames In this hot controversy, the Colum bia Power Trades council head ed by D, E. Nickerson, secre tary of the Oregon State Feder ation of Labor, and James A." Taylor, president of the Wash ington State Federation of La bor, came out with a statement endorsing the Bone bill and wired President Roosevelt of their stand. (Continued on Paga Four) Radio Highlights By the Anoclstad Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Reaction to President Roose velt's Thursday night broad cast is planned for airing in a special program being arranged to follow his address by a cou ple of hours. It is listed for NBC Blue at 8:05 to come from Lon don, Buenos Aires, New York and Washington. Because of the president's talk, the broadcast by MBS of Charles A. Lindbergh's speech under auspices of the America gfirst committee at Des Moines, originally scheduled for 6, has been changed to 7:30. Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS; 8:15 MBS; 5:30 NBC-Blue; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS: 8 NBC, CBS; 8:30 MBS; 8:55 NBC, CS. Thursday, the war 8 MBS: 8:45 NBC: 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS, MBS; 12:55 p. m.. NBC-Blue: 2 CBS; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS, NBC-Blue. Cantanarian Diss Portland, Sept. 10 UP) Mrs. Julia Frances Miller, who ob served her 100th birthday an niversary Aug. 10, died last night at the home of a daughter here. She was a native of Arkan sas and crossed the plains in 1847 with her parents, Beuford and Elizabeth Smith. SIDE GLANCES By . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Marie Chesney presenting a bouquet of flowers to one of her neighbors, and purty ones too. Sue Moshberger and Betty Tllaine Parrijh looking over their gym setups in preparation for their physical ed classes at senior high. Jean Schuler making next to lait minute pre pa rations for ber first year at U. of Oregon. Mamma-Olive S tardier driv ing daughter, Robine. to school in the morning and negotiating corners in her red truck with the utmost caution. Mary Chrirtenn rete'virg a ery acceptable birthday gift. K3I n km LONG SIEGE MAY I SUPPLANT PLANS TO STORM CITY Germans Concede Defend ers Making Bitter Stand Circle Not Complete. Moscow, Sept. 10. (P) A preliminary soviet estimate to night fixed Carman losses in the battle of Yalnya at 75.000 to 80,000 dead or wounded. The battle, which lasted for 26 days, was fought along a 38-mile front. Yelnya dis patches said. The Russians caught many Germans in a trap, cutting up eight German divisions. Wat correspondents re ported tonight the Germans still were in flight abandon ing arms and munitions as thay fled toward Smolensk. By the Associated Press High German quarters, revert ing earlier assertions that Lenin grad and its 1,000,000 red army defenders were doomed to quick surrender, indicated today that Adolf Hitler's invasion forces now might decide to shell or starve the old czarist capital into submission. Conceding that the Russians were making a bitter stand, with the bloody struggle in creasing in violence hour by hour, Nazi quarters hinted that the German siege armies may not even attempt to storm the city. Ring Incomplete With Nazi troops reported within 15 miles of Leningrad at the nearest point, authorized German spokesmen acknow ledged, too, that the city still had an outlet through the German-Finnish siege ring across Lake Ladoga to the east. Previously, Adolf Hitler's high command had asserted that Leningrad was completely cut off from the rest of Russia. A Berlin spokesman made the amendment today, however, that the high command referred only to the severing of land com munications. Nasi Less Heavy "Almost 4,000 German sol diers and officers found their graves in the waters of the river," the Russians said, while elsewhere on the vast battle front the Germans were said to have left "thousands of corpses" on the field. While the Russians still hold eastern and northern coastal territory on Lake Ladoga, the Germans said, they have no ade quate harbors there from which to supply Leningrad. Moreover, the lake begins to freeze in Oc tober. On the central front, the Ber lin radio broadcast a report from "competent quarters" that German troops had captured the key town of Vyazma, only 130 miles west of Moscow. Lying 90 miles east of Smo lensk, on the Napoleonic high way to Moscow, Vyazma is 80 miles northeast of the Yelnya sector where red army troops were reported pressing a power ful counter-offensive toward Smolensk. Firing AU Barrels German front-line dispatches, admitting that Leningrad's de fenders were putting up a terri fic battle, said the Russians were "firing from all barrels." A Nazi reporter who flew over the lines described the area as an inferno of rifle, machine-gun and artillery fire. Both Moscow and Berlin re ported heavy rainstorms drench ing the northern front, but said ! the 81 -day-old conflict had not kyet bogged down into the phase 1 of trench warfare. A IWoo)A La.t rates Held I Y. " r . Funwal services were held yesterday for Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 86-year-old mother of President Roosevelt. She passed away Sunday at her Hyde Park N. Y. home. MENTAL PATIENT F E San Francisco, Sept. 10 (JPi Southern Pacific agents said today they still were checking on a mental patient at the Ukiah state hospital to try to learn if he was involved in any way, or had any information about the 1939 wreck of a streamline train in Nevada, in which 24 persons died. The man apparently has established an alibi that he was working, under another name, in a New York lumber camp at the time of the wreck. That statement was borne out by a report from the operator of a sawmill at Wolf Pond, near Lucerne, N. Y, who said the man worked for him from Feb ruary through September in 1939. The train was wrecked in August. The transient laborer entered the investigation first when a leather jacket found near the wreck was traced to him. Deputy Sheriff Al Meeker of Shasta county, from where the man was committed to the asy lum, said a 20-inch railroad track wrench, property of the Southern Pacific, was found In the man's cabin near Redding. The suspect said he found the tool beside a track. IN BRIEF MEETING Vatican City, Sept. 10. fJP Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal emissary to the Vatican, conferred today for half an hour with Pope Pius XII within 24 hours after ending an air journey from the United Slates especially for the meeting. Its hrevrty led some observers to believe the audience served mainly for President Roose velt's envoy to reestablish con tact with the Pope and perhaps deliver a letter from the presi dent. Holmao To Stay Month Portland, Sept 10 UPt V. S. Senator Rufus Holman said to day that business would keep him on the west coast for an- I other month. Holman flew from Washington. D. C, Sunday. 11' . I 1 VALLEY MILKEN Meeting At Courthouse Will Eye Problems In Store If Cantonment Ordered. A meeting of retail milk dis tributors of Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass will be held In the Jackson county courthouse auditorium at 7:30 tonight to consider the outlook should con struction of the proposed army cantonment here be authorized. There are said to be only a half dozen or so retail milk distribu tors in the county. The meeting will consider the need for increased facilities should the proposed camp be established, including bottling and distributing. ' Frank J. Van Dyke, executive secretary of the civilian can tonment coordinating board, re turned by train this morning from Salem where he conferred yesterday with Gov. Charles A. Sprague, William II. Crawford, director of the Oregon econom ics council, and highway depart ment officials regarding civic problems pertaining to establish ment of the proposed camp. Mr. Van Dyke said he had been In vited to appear before the eco nomics council and this he will do Friday in Portland. He de clined to go into details regard ing his conferences in Salem. HALTED BECAUSE OF BAD WEATHER Tacoma, Sept. 10. UP) All aerial and land parties were re called today because of bad weather from the search for the missing twin-motored army bomber and its crew of six. The aerial search was stopped at noon and seven bombers and training planes returned to Mc Chord field air base Just in time to miss a terrific thunderstorm. Rain swept over the mountains and the ceiling was nearly zero. Visibility was being cut down hourly. McChord officers said the search would not be taken up again until a brrak came in the weather. Land parties also re turned this morning from the Cascade mountain area east of Seattle. Nothing was sighted and no reports found of the bomber which vanished yesterday morn ing while on a routine training flight. 688 DRAFTEES IN OCTOBER CALLS Salem, Sept 11 1Pi State selective service headquarters received a call today to provide 888 draftees between October 7 and 17, with each of the state's 57 local boards to contribute. There will be 88 men induct ed daily at the Portland induc tion station on October 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, IS, 16. 17. No call had been received as yet by local boards 1 and 2 here. Portland. Sept. 10. OV-Falls killed two Portland workmen yesterday Painter H. J. Catlow plunged 30 feet from a ladder, and Wendell Hoffert fell 20 feet from a roof ha was tarring. MM Mffjlyf? () I'l EARLY FAIL baseball American R. H. E. Detroit 2 8 0 Boston 11 12 1 Newsom, Harris, Manders and Sullivan, Tebbetts; Wagner, Trout and Pytlak. R. H. E. Cleveland 4 8 0 Philadelphia 8 11 1 Embree. Gromek, Andrews and Megan; Caliquiri and Hayes. National First game. R. H. E. Brooklyn 4 13 0 Chicago 5 14 1 Higbe, Wyatt, French and Owen; Passeau, Lee, Schmitz and McCullough. First game. Philadelphia . St. Louis R. H. E. .2 7 1 .361 Pearson, Blanton and Warren; Warneke, Crouch and W. Cooper. R. H. E. . 7 11 1 .10 12 0 New York Pittsburgh Feldman, Adams, Melton, Lohrman, Hubbell, and Dan ning; Butcher, Klinger, Lan ning, Wilkie, and Smith, Lopez. BY NAZI EFFORTS TO ALIENATE U. S. London, Sept. 10. UP) Brit ain, gravely concerned over charges that materials obtained from the United States under the lease-lend act were being used in direct competition with American industry in export markets, promised today to pre vent such misuse and to restrict British exports. The British government was concerned, among other things, over what its leaders called the ::propaganda value to Germany" of these charges that American industry, after sacrificing to send raw materials to Britain under the lease-lend act, was being hit in foreign markets by competi tion with goods made from these materials. The agreement with the United States was announced in a white paper and was said by a reliable source to be one of a series of steps planned "to pre vent Germany from using lease lend grumbling as the thin edge of a wedge to pry Britain and the United States apart and hamper the allied war effort." Film Barons Would Incite War Clamor Sen. Clark Tells Propaganda Probers Washington, Sept 10.. Senator Clark (D.-Mo.) charged before a senate investigating committee today that a half dozen men who he said con trolled the motion picture indus try were bent on inflaming the American people to "clamor for war." Clark took the stand as an Interstate Commerce subcom mittee began its second dsy of inquiry into the alleged dissem ination of war propaganda. He testified after Wendell L. Will kie, representing motion picture producers, had demanded in a letter to Chairman Clark (D. Idaho) that the committee view alleged propaganda pictures. Asserting that persons opposed to the administration's foreign policy had not been able to "get a foot of film or a syllable of sound anywhere, any day in any way of the 17,000 theaters of this country," Clark declared that the motion picture Indus try was turning out "dozens of TRAFFIC SAFETY LI E Citizens Present Views At Meeting Accident Re port Given By Official For two and a half hours last night the problem of reducing traffic accidents was discussed at a meeting of the Medford Traffic Safety Council but at the end the problem seemed no nearer solution than at the be ginning. There was some general refer ence to law enforcement as an effective means of curtailing accidents and a slap was taken by Ernest Barnes at easy-going judges who thwart the work of police when they do get around to making an arrest by impos ing a jail sentence and a fine only to suspend the jail sentence and then permit the defendant to liquidate the fine on the easy payment installment plan. Safety Lanes Advocated For the most part, however, the discussion centered around additional means of bringing to the attention of drivers their responsibility to avert the kill ing and maiming of other mo torists, pedestrians, cyclists and themselves. E. C. Tarns, who served on a coroner's Jury in a recent pedestrian fatality, said he was impressed with the need of pedestrian safety lanes at which motorists would have to stop whenever anyone was in the crosswalk. He indicated his opinion that the recent pedes trian victim, William A. Max well, would still be living if there' had been a pedestrian lane at the corner where he tried to cross the street. The safety council's engineering committee thought removable pedestal signs ordering cars to stop for pedestrians ''would be of value, particularly if a con siderable number of citations were made for failure to give the pedestrian the right of way." Gordon H. Pascoe inquired into the effectiveness of adopt ing some kind of system where by safe drivers were commend ed on their license slips and those having accidents were given demerits. Walter L. Smith, who trains CCC truck drivers, thought much could be accomplished If adults would (Continued on Pica Bent) pictures ... to Infect the minds of their audiences with hatred, to Inflame them, to arouse their emotions and to make them clamor for war." "That Is because the motion picture Industry is a monopoly controlled by a half dozen men and because most of these men are themselves dominated by these hatreds and are deter mined, In order to wreak ven geance on Adolf Hitler, a feroci ous beast, to plunge this nation Into war In behalf of another ferocious beast," he asserted. Clark obviously referred to Joseph Stalin of Russia, whom he called "Bloody Joe" Stalin at another point in his testimony. Clark said that the Metro Goldwyn Mayer company, which he said controlled Loew's Inc., and was headed by Nicholas Schenck in New York, had "made one propaganda film af ter another to rouse the hatred of the people of America." "Next to them." he said, "1 will put the Warner Brothers, Accused St) Leon Henderson, price admin istrator, (above) has been ac cused by Representative Martin Dial, chairman of the house un- American activities committee, of communistic affiliations. Dies asked for Henderson's immedi ate dismissal. Handerson heated ly denied he has ever been a mambsr of t "any communist dominated or controlled organi sation". Four other men con nected with OPM were also ac cused by Dies MARSHALL HELD IN WIFE'S DEATH Milton-Freewater, Ore., Sept. 10. OP) An Inquest into the death of Mrs. Lucile Carson will be conducted at Pendleton this morning following the finding of her body burled in the dirt lloor of a garage behind the Freewater city Jail. Meanwhile, Freewater Mar shal James Carson Is held in the Umatilla county jail on open charges at the order of Sheriff R. E. Goad. Sheriff Goad said Carson admitted burying Mrs. Carson, who has been missing since July 18, after she met her death accidentally. Carson had not reported the death because It "would have ruined his family," Gotd said the marshal told him. who probably have made more of these hate-producing films than any other company in America. Next to them I will put 20th Century-Fox of which Mr. Joseph M. Schenck was sent to the penitentiary and of which Mr. Darryl Zsnuck is now head. (Later, at the request of Will kle. Chairman Clark remarked that Schenck had been convicted of income tax evasion but had appealed and was not in the penitentiary.) "I shou'.d say, next to them, though some might dispute their claim to this distinction, is the United Artists, which Mr. Alex ander Korda now heads a Hun garian who is a British subject and which company is domin ated by two British subjects Mr. Alexander Korda and Mr. Charlie Chaplin, who has lived in this country for 30 years and made a great fortune here, and never thought well enough of tha tTnltari KfatM in harama a citizen." - i OVER LAST YEAR IN FIRST3 DAYS Thrifty Grasp Opportunity To Save Monday At 10 P.M. Close Bargain Days, As the annual Mail Tribune "Bargain Days" period entered Its fourth day today, new and renewal subscriptions had flow. ed into the office at a clip 11 per cent in excess of those rec orded at the close of the third day last year, it was disclosed by Gerald T. Latham, circula tion manager. "This is proof," Mr. Latham said, "that more persons than ever before are aware of tha great saving they may effect by purchasing one year subscrip tions during the 'Bargain Day period, and are taking advan tage of our offer to deliver the paper by carrier for 86 a year, representing a saving to then of 25 cents a month under the regular monthly rate, and of our offer to deliver by mall in Jack son, Josephine and Siskiyou counties for 84.50 a year, a sav ing of S7V4 cents a month un der the regular monthly rate." Ends Menday The "Bargain Days" period will end at 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. IS, and the circulation manager expects all previous records for the number of sub scriptions received during simi lar periods to be shattered. Mr. Latham requested that, persons desiring to take advan tage of the "Bargain Days" of fer by paying their carrier, do so before the final day, if poe, sible, to prevent the many new carriers now being employed from becoming overwhelmed with work in a last-minute rush. Persons may subscribe by, paying their carrier or telephone ing the office, Z141, for a carrier? to call, mailing the subscrip tion to the circulation depart ment, or by calling at tha of fice in person. F. R. LI Aboard Roosevelt Train En route to Washington, Sept 10. lP) President Roosevelt com pleted today a radio address on foreign affairs, to be made front the White House tomorrow night, and underscored the vital Importance he has attached to it by nearly doubling Its length. Timed for 8 p.m. PST, it will run about 23 minutes instead ot the quarter hour originally planned. White House officials still were not divulging the specific phases of the interna tlonal situation with which the chief executive would deal. WHEELER DENIED USE ; PORTLAND AUDITORIUM Portland, Sept 10. JP Use of the public auditorium by Senator Burton K. Wheeler ot Montana for an America First committee speech was denied by the city council last night. The speech had been planned for an undisclosed date. Fins Bell High Astoria, Sept. 10. Of) A packing company paid Captain Gus Henderson 8879 a ton for 2,500 pounds of round soupfln from sharks yesterday, highest price ever commanded here. Starving Children Found by Police in Tenement Room New York, Sept 19 OP Answering an anonymous telephone call, police went to a Lower East Side tenement late last night. There they found four ema ciated children, clad in rags and sobbing from hunger. On the floor of the tene ment were 20 empty liquor bottles and an empty potato sack. The youngest child, aged 1, sat on a bare, dirty mattress. The eldest aged 10, greet ed police with, "fee we're glad to see you." Police still are searching fnr the parent.
