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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1941)
PATtE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941 U-BOATVICTIMS RAF Recruit Tells Of Sinking Of Ship Saw Fellow Fliers Perish In Waters. tha iurvlvori. Thirty-seven of the thipi' crew and passengers were lost. E London, Sept 10. (JP) The vessel on which four American recruits for the RAF were kill ed recently was trailed for more than a day by the attacking sub marine, one of the seven sur vivors disclosed here tonight The survivor, Jim Jordan, of Pasadena, Cal., also disclosed for the first time the names of the four who lost their lives. They were: Harry Hay, Talahassee, Fla., William Bishop, Cleveland, O., Frank Kruszynskl, who address was unknown to Jordan, and a youth whose last name was Cox. from New York City. "The last two didn't train with me," Jordan said, "but I got to know them on the boat." Wants Revenge Jordan, who like the other fliers, was trained In Canada for RAF duty, donned his uniform today and begged for a plane to bomb the submarine that took the life of his four com panions. "Boy," he said, sticking out Ms jaw, "I saw those fellows die. I want to do something about them." The survivors reached a Brit ish port Friday, and their names were made public the following day, but few details of the tor pedoing became known to the public until Jordan told his story tonight. Here It is: "We realized v one morning that we were being trailed by a submarine. That didn't worry us much, but later in the day our engine broke down. We worked on It, all 11 American boys, for 18 hours. Speed Reduced "The broken engine reduced our speed from 18 knots to seven. That's a hell of a feel ing when you know submarine is after you. Anyhow, we chug ged along zigzagging and twist ing for another day. 'The next day there was a fog and the first thing we knew out of this fog came a plane. It machine-gunned us, turned a cannon on us and dropped a bomb or two. The bombs didn't hit us but the machine-gun and cannon surely knocked us about "Along about dusk subs closed in on us. We could even see their periscopes. They woul.l come up, then duck down and then come up again. "I saw one very close. I ran and got the captain, and just then there was an awful bang and a mess of black smoke and spray. We were hit all right, and began listing to port. "We were so badly hit that we couldn't stop our engine. She just kept going 'round and 'round. The machine guns and cannon had banged up both our lifeboats so we began throwing off rafts. "I threw one off and then slid down the side of the ship after It. I got caught in a flock of ropes and swung out from the side of the boat. Then I swung back and bounced off the boat. I reckon that saved my life. Chased By Ship "The others did the same thing. The listing boat began chasing us. I saw the ship's propeller cut into a bunch of them and about 20 fellows in cluding seamen got chopped up." "All this time the ship's whistle was screaming. I never knew there could be such a horrible noise in my life. And I never knew that men's screams could be heard above the whistle's screams, but they were. Later, I'm afraid, their screaming stopped." Jordan said he and ten others clung to two rafts for 1U hours. The submarine approach ed them once, he said. "The sub gunner turned his gun on us," Jordan said, "I thought It was all up. Then the commander waved him aside, lie later gave us some meat. A Polish warship picked up Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Al Selgrlst of Santa Mon ica, Cal., who were killed in an automobile accident near Lodi, Cal., last Sunday night while they were en route home after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Rolfe of 1208 East Main street, will be held Friday aft ernoon at the Smith undertak ing parlors in Spokane, Wash., their former home. Mrs. Seigrist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe, and well known here, died Sunday night Her husband, an architect engineer at the North American Aviation company at Santa Monica, suc cumbed to injuries suffered in the wreck Monday night. The Seigrists' infant son sustained only minor injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe and their son Vern, Jr., who left here for Lodi early Monday morning, will return to Medford today. spend the night here and con tine on to Spokane Thursday for the funeral services, ac cording to a telegram received from Mr. Rolfe. Sound motion pictures of the U. S. navy will be shown by Hal s camera shop at 8 tonight in the recreation tent at the farm security administration mi grant agricultural labor camp here. At 8 p. m. tomorrow an am atuer show will be staged in the recreation tent. First, sec ond, third and fourth prizes, do nated by Anderson's Thrift Market and the Piggly Wiggly store, will be awarded. Samuel Reed, camp caretaker, will be master of ceremonies. Second issue of the camp's weekly newspaper, the Peris cope, was being run off the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce mimeograph machine today for distribution this evening. VETCH GROWERS ASKED 10 IE! All farmers Interested In growing vetch and Austrian winter pears are asked to at tend a meeting at the court house auditorium, Friday, Sep tember 12 at 1:30 p. m. According to County Agent R. G. Fowler, the government is very much interested In ex tending the acreage of vetch in Oregon, the seed to be sown and purchased on contract to the government. Attractive prices are being offered for def inite varieties of vetch and as the price is guaranteed many Jarkson county farmers should avail themselves of this oppor tunity. The time is short for contracting and all interested should attend the meeting, Mr. Fowler said. The vetch pr. duced will be used in the south eastern states. AT ROTARY MEET An enlightening discussion of Oregon's timber resources was presented at the Tuesday lun cheon meeting of Medford Rot ary club by George Peavey, former president of Oregon State college. Dean Peavey is con sidered an authority on forestry. Opening his address at the Hotel Medford, Peavey reminded the Rotarlans of the dissipation of this nation's great timber re sources in past generations, when mighty forests were ex ploited and misused. A more farsighted policy of conservation was urged. Oregon has approximately 29 million acres of forest lands, 24 million of which are of com mercial value, the speaker pointed out. Of this, 10 million are in state and national forests, 10 million In private ownership, 1,200.000 acres In Indian reser vations and approximately two million in revested O. end C. lands. The Importance of timber to the prosperity of the state is ob vious. Dean Peavey said. Forty five thousand Oregonians re ceive their livelihood through lumbering with payrolls of $60, 000.000 annually or 60 per c.-nt of the industrial payroll of the entire state. The value of lum ber products reaches the size able total of $180,000,000 annu ally. A program for the future handling of Oregon's timber re sources was given by the speaker. This program calls for sweeping educational efforts to acquaint citizens with the im portance of Oregon's forests, classification of lands, rigid con servation through sustained yield selective cutting and revision of lews as relating to timber lands. Peavey also recommended a far reaching recreational program for Oregon forests and forest fire laws "with teeth." John Day introduced the rpeaker and Leonard Mayfield, vice president of the club, was chairman for the meeting. TRAFFIC SAFETY PROBLEMS AIRED IE (Continued Prom Pa One) V"-: -V Good Living! Iiiiwii lacftiM Cn SMt tattst tsw 0'Mt ft Sum (Mas 'otwmii m tmt 34m twits (it Osseins Weather Northern California: Tartly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with showers in extreme north portion and on the north coast; cool over Interior Thursday; gentle variable wind off coast. speak in kindly and fasherly fashion to youths they observed driving recklessly or thought lessly. Iverson Unanswered George Iverson posed this ques tion: In the many serious and fa tal accidents around Jackson county of recent years wherein it was obvious someone was to blame, why have all investiga tions absolved everyone? The question was unanswered. L. C. Latham said the recent police spurt in arresting drivers for various minor violations was having a beneficial effect. Stanley H. Church, represent ing the safety division of the secretary of state's office, dwel led upon new ways and means of teasing or cajoling drivers into safety consciousness, such as placing "Safety Sally" signs at schools and lining industrial plants up in a sort of game to see which ran establish the best record while the workers are off the job. Mr. Church left a detailed report of Medford's 1940 traffic record with the v.. ' Todays A' i THE(MG(MTRML leads to OLD HERMITAGE ifyoiire looking for as Jine a Acntucl'ij bourbon whbkeyas money will buy A four-year-old trhhkrj fanxouB finre 1870 FiJ MM I II w mm 17 us y ,1 MM DhDl.TL B J In M o i?r council for analysis and long term planning. Pass Fourth Street As has been tha case since its inception, tha council again by passed the problem along Fourth ous for accidents. Several, how ever, discussed the question, some believing stop-signs or at least "slow" signs should be erected at Fourth street inter sections, It being pointed cut that Fourth street is a through thoroughfare that relieves con gested Main and Sixth streets of much traffic. Police Chief Cla tous McCredie asserted that if any signs were put up at all they would have to be erected all along Fourth street and not at only a few corners. He com mented that accidents do not occur at corners where vision is obscured but at corners where there are no visual obstructions. Mr. Church said he was glad to see such a good turnout, there being about 20 present, and Seth Bullis, council chairman, expressed the same thought E Tokyo Government's Decision May Mean Revolution, or War Br DeWltt MacKensle (Associated Press Analyst) On the basis of somewhat auspicious signs one Is not too optimistic in believing that a real effort has been made dur ing the past few days in the direction of an accord between the United States and Japan over the grave differences which have arisen as the result of Tokyo's expansionist policy. would be folly, however. Bill Llngaas, general chair man of the local Elks picnic com mittee, announced today the pic nic will be held as scheduled tomorrow night at the Elks pic nic grounds as the weather man has stated that although there may be a shower or two, the in dications are for a clear eve ning. Large tents have been set up In case it is showe.ing and the dinner will be served promptly at 7 o'clock. Births RAY To Mr. and Mrs. Clifford, 203 North Grape street, Sep tember 10, a girl, 7V'j lbs., at Community hospital. It not to recognire that war is skulking outside the doors of the Japanese council chambers where midnight oil has been burning. The Tokyo government is In a tight and precarious position. The majority of the people of the island empire are against war with America, but at the same time they appear to be un willing to stand for abandon ment of the policy of a new order for Asia. Should the government give up this cardinal program, which already has cost so many lives in battle and has brought the country to grave economic straits, there certainly would be a mighty outcry from the pub lic. Indeed, some ooservers be lieve that it might precipitate a revolt. The strong probabilities are that Premier Prince Konoye and his cabinet have been trying to figure out some sort of com promise between the extreme of war on the one hand and the desertion by the cherished new order on the other. It is a difficult and momentous prob lem, and there can be small doubt that war and peace have been balanced uncertainly on a razor edge before the harassed ministers of state. One vital problem which must have been under consid eration i s whether Nippon should cut loose from the axis. Such a switch, while startling, has plenty of precedent to en courage it, and they do tell us that only fools and dead men never ehajige their minds. The Japanese backed a doubt ful horse when they subscribed to the axis back in November of last year, but it certainly looked a good deal more like a winner then than It does now. PORTLAND . SEATTLE. ..2hr SACRAMENTO lhr. SAN FRANCISCO 2 hrs. Go rmmutti service, ,d return the same day. Avoid two nigh" awT Jrom home. 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