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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
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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. "
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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
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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
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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
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scriptions received during simi
lar periods to be shattered.
Mr. Latham requested that,
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Persons may subscribe by,
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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.