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Weather: ruii u Waaui- Bureau ctpon Inaida. rorscast: Partly cloud? to slfht ut Catardari eoatlaac4 cooL Tsmperatui Hlth.it reat-rday 8 Lowest this nornlng (1 Thirty-sixth Year Unsmiling ur i . dd i i ing Axis powers they antarad Roosevelt, who was wearing Roosevelt Gives Navy 'Shoot to Sink' Order Against Axis News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 12. Wen dell Willkie. laughing around with congressional friends out side the film inquiry, made the most sig' nificant state ment of the fray: "Well. I'm fixed until 1944." Mr. Willkie may have been referring to his fee for repre s e n t i n a the Panl Mallon movie Industry or his law busi ness in general, but the fact that he put a 1944 limit on it is what spurred the private comment of the politicos. It so happens mere win te another oppor- tunltv for Mr. Willkie tn trv k for the presidency that ominous , a i . ,,,. and apparently Mr. ii ppremjy mr, will' kie intends to be a candidate. AS for the war propaganda " film inquiry, it was strictly publicity affair with Mr. Will kie, demonstrating what he learned about that subject in the last campaign. Denied the privi lege of examining witnesses, Mr. Willkie stepped deftly around the committee to get his views ; known. He slipped to the press i a statement contradicting Sena-1 tor Nye before Nye had been going 15 minutes in the wit- nra nir. I nils Mr wmi ' sent his cross-examination ev erywhere except into the com- mlttee record. You may be sure no leglsla-! Hon restricting the film produc-1 - ers as to propaganda will come out of the hearing. The isola tionist senators In charge indi cated clearly they had none in mind. Apparently they . Just wanted the country to know the thought many leading war films were furnishing propaganda for war. a a rVHILE all was pleasant on the " surface of British-American- (CooUnuttl on rig Tvalra) SICE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doc Charlie Davis financing a , long distance telephone call to emphasize the importance of to night's meeting of the Medford Athletic association director. Atltt-.il Medford President Addresses Nation L mourning over th death of hli .), u ra n rv nite nous oval room, warn vital Amarican watara at thair own peril. Behind President a seersucker auit. wai a sign. "Keep 'Em Flying." (AP Talaphoto Washington, Sept. 12. (JP) In blunt, uncompromising lan I guage President Roosevelt barred vast reaches of the sea today I to 'rattlesnake" raiders wearing the flag of the Rome-Berlin I axis, and backed up the no trespass order with the guns of the ; United States navy. Foes of the administration's policies immediately chorused , that this constituted "an unau j thorized declaration of war," "an i engraved invitation to trouble.'1 But there was no disagree ment as to what the president meant. His instructions to the fleet, effective at once, were specific strike first without waiting whenever axis raiders are encountered hereafter in the uci.usive waters ox xne unit ed States. He said ships of any nag would be protected from raiders in those seas. Reply To Incidents That, in brief, was the burden of the address which the chief executive delivered by radio last night to the nation, to the axis powers and to the other countries of the world. It represented the president's considered reply to the recent series of sea Incidents a pre viously undisclosed attempt to torpedo an American battleship, the clash between the U. S. S. i Greer and a U-boat in the ! north Atlantic, and the sinking ' thre American-owned mer- rKflntm.n chantmen 'The sole responsibility rests on Germany," said Mr. Roose velt of the future. "There will be no shooting unless Germany continues to seek It. "But let this warning be clear. rrom now on. If German or Italian vessels of war enter the waters, the protection of which is necessary for American de- fente, rvril they do so at their own Bipartisan Approval While critics were aroused by the pronouncements Senator , Van Nuys (D., Ind.) called them alarming . . . terrorizing" the address drew a round of bi partisan approval, highlighted tv tn endorsement of Wendell w iIlkie nd the statement of Senator Thomas CD., Utah)! that "driving pirates off or out of the seas is not war." To Britain the president's i words were welcome and the 1 London press hailed them in 1 headlines which clarioned: "U. S. To Guard Our Ships," "F D. R. Orders 'Sink Nazis In U. S. Seas'." The British radio an- nounced "Hitler's expulsion from ! the Atlantic is starting immedi ately." The official response, however, was left for "per son of equal standing" pre sumably Prime Minister Win jston Churchill. Roma inH FUrlln Hinlp nc hurry to comment, but actu- i line ,or te'PhTe calls for car ally German commentator, had Tlen w" lven a P- m. Mon- anticipated the speech by sev eral hours, denouncing Mr. hooseveit roundlv aa a "war. monger" who intended his ad- (Continued on Pra Flra) (See pan S for Roundinm af t Editorial Comment). Full Associated Praae mother. serious-faced Presl- Raiders BARGAIN DAY RATE FOR MAIL TRIBUNE y Residents of southern Oregon and northern California were re-' minded today that the annual Mail Tribune "Bargain Days' period would positively end at 10 p. m. Monday, leaving only two days Saturday and Mon day for those wishing to take advantage of the money-saving offer to subscribe to the paper for one year. At the end of the first five days of the "Bargain Days" period, 31 per cent more new carrier subscriptions had been received from families than in the corresponding period of last year's "Bargain Days," is was announced by Gerald T. Laths m. circulation manager. He added that new mail subscriptions were about the same as last year, and that the increase over last year of both new carrier and mail subscriptions was 29 per cent. The circulation manager said that the many "big" local news stories of late, and the earlier delivery of the paper by carrier, apparently was largely respons ible for the sharp increase In new carrier subscriptions, It was pointed out that sub scribers taking advantage of the "Bargain Days rates not only saved actual cash under the regular monthly rates, but were relieved of the trouble of both ering with monthly collections. The "Bargain Day" subscription rate by carrier for a year is $6 00, a saving of $3.00 or 33 1-3 per cent under the regular monthly rat of 79 cents a month. The yearly rate by mail In Jackson, Josephine and Sis kiyou counties is $4.30, a saving of $1.90 or 29 per cent under tne regular man rate of f q.oo a year. I Subscribers were again re quested to not wait until the final day to telephone the office for a carrier to call and pick up ineir subscription. It was ex plained that subscriptions re ceived before the final da could be handled more efficient'y than at the last minute. The dead- day. The office will remain open until 9 p. m. Saturday for those wishing to subscribe in person. ! Tort. Sapt. Jl (AF-CDA1 rara: t out arrtTd. California. I Waihlngton ur.loadMl. 10 cara on track; aa Ortifaa quouuose. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, ATTAOB 22 BOATS DOWNED IN HEAVY CONVOY IS BERUNJOAST Victims Believed Carrying Supplies to Britain Italy Announces New Raids. Washington, Sept. 12. (JPl The state department announced today that the American owned steamship Montana, flying the Panamanian flag, had been tor pedoed and sunk while en route from the United States to Ice land. All 28 members of the crew are believed to have been saved. None were Americans. The state department said that according to information re ceived from the navy depart ment the Montana, which was named the Paula before it was requisitioned from the Danish owners by the maritime com mission, sailed on August 19 from Wilmington, N. C, for Ice land with a cargo of 1,500,000 feet of lumber for the Iceland government. It was later established that the sinking was at 8:49 a. m. (By the Associated Press) Germany announced today. hard on the heels of President Roosevelt's order for a shoot-on-. sight defense by American war ships at the approach of "rattle snake axis raiders, that Ger man U-boat torpedoes are even now slashing through the waters of the North Atlantic In one of the greatest convoy attacks of the war. So far: 22 ships have been sunk out of more than 40 ves sels in a heavily-guarded con voy,- Adolf Hitler's high com mand said In a special bulletin and the assault is proceeding. -Tesumaciy .the convoy was bearing American war supplies to Britain. Although Germany's formal stand on Mr. Roosevelt's broad cast was shrouded In official silence, the significantly timed announcement of the convoy at tack made it appear to Berlin correspondents that the retch was trying to answer the presi dent's warning with action in stead of words. Hardly had foreign corres pondents in Berlin reached their ouices, empty-handed after a noon press conference, than the Berlin radio with a fanfare of trumpets informed the world of the convoy sinkings. In Rome, the authoritative fascist editor Virginlo Gayda, often Premier Mussolini's spokesman, declared that Italian and German warships, exposed now to "deliberate aggressive ac tion of American warships," must attack in self-defense if they cannot escape. German commentators Inti mated broadly that Mr. Roose velt's shooting order would not swerve Germany from her avowed campaign to destroy any snips Dearing aid to Great Brit ain, recalling Hitler's own dic tum mat wnatever ships came before German U-boat torpedo iudcs would De sunk. At the same time Italy also announced new submarine raids in the Atlantic. Premier Mus solini's high command credited a fascist underseas craft with sinking a large oil tanker and probably destroying a S, 450-ton freighter. MIRY TO STAY Washington. Sept. 12 iP Senator McNary, minority lead er, announced today he had abandoned plans to resume his vacation in Oregon. He was called back to Washington be cause of the revenue bill and had hoped to return to his home state later. Intensification of the foreign situation caused him to decide to remain her. r mm n if. b. '- : . BASEBALL National (1st game) Boston S 0 6 11 2 La manna, Posedel, Pittsburgh Johnson, Hutchings, Errickson, and Ber res; Montgomery, Diets, and Smith. Score: Philadelphia Chicago ... X. . S . S H. E. 10 0 9 1 Hughes and Warren: Mooty, Lanfranconi, V. Olsen and Schef- i:ing. R. H. E. New York 4 9 0 Cincinnati 8 13 1 McGee, Lohrman, Koslo, R. Fisher, and Danning; E. Riddle and Lombard I, West. Amarican R. H. 8 St. Louis , 0 8 Boston 8 Nlggeling and Ferrell: it. Dob- son and Pytlak. Detroit New York . 12 13 Newhouser, Gorslca. Cook and Tebbetta; Bonham and Rosar, Dickey. Chicago 2 8 1 Philadelphia 0 4 1 Humphries and Turner: Mar- chlldon and Hayes. TOLO WOMAN DIES Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Hamor, 70, of Tolo, died in a local hospital this afternoon, of shock and sever Injuries she suffered when the car she was driving struck the railing of the Jackson creek bridge on the Pacific highway about mile north of Central Point at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. The aged woman, who was returning to her home after shopping in Central Point when the accident occurred, sustain ed two badly fractured legs just above the knee and a deep gash on her chin. She was conscious when taken to the hospital in the Perl ambulance, but lapsed into unconsciousness this morn ing and failed to rally. She died at 12:13. - Riding alone, Mrs. Hamor drove too far to the side of the road and struck the bridge rail ing head-on, state police said. The car remained upright but she was thrown violently against the dashboard to sustain the Injuries which proved fat . Mrs. Janie Marsden of Gold Hill, a passing motorist, was first at the seen of the accident. She notified state police and the Perl ambulance, and held a tourniquet on Mrs. Hamor's right knee, the most badly brok en, until help arrived. The vic tim showed amazing courage In the face of her Injuries, during the time she was waiting for the ambulance to arrive, and en rout to the hospital. Another passing motorist who arrived at the seen shortly after it happened was Louis Foster of Portland. A complete obituary and an nouncement of the date of fu neral service will b printed Sunday. SLATED SATURDAY New York, Sept 12. WP John Hawk, national secretary of the Seafarers International union of North America (AFL), announced today the union, which' claim membership of 20.000, would call ship strike Tot later than tomorrow morn ing." He said locals In Atlantic and Gulf port had approved the walkout designed to fore ship owners to increase bonu.es paid for fonf into belligerent water. Tribune United Pirn 1941 ftk S) Ji.fr i LENINGRAD BATTLE'! BELIEVED TOO HOT TO Red Spokesman Says Ger man Losses In Titanic struggle Greatest Ever Moscow, Sept. 12. VP) The bttle for Leningrad "has as sumed such a character and such dimensions that the Ger mans cannot conduct it long," S. A. Lozovsky, vie foreign commissar, said tonight. 'The Germans want a quick decision but cannot obtain it," h aaid. The fierc unprecedented strug gle going on on the approaches to Leningrad has resulted in German losses greater than ever before," this Soviet press spokes man declared. Berlin, Sept. 12 P The Ger man high command admitted today that rain and mud were making the Nazi invasion of Russia difficult but Insisted op erations were nevertheless "pro gressing well." ' "Stronger" Russian troop con centrations in the central sector yesterday were taken under ."effective fire" by German ar tillery. DNB said, resulting in in dispersing of Soviet units. Bitter fights were reported in tne nortnern area, where Ber lin informants said the German forces advanced despite "stub born resistance and widespread min fields." On army corps reported cleaning up 8.700 mines in two days while taking Soviet field positions and one town. military sources said. Soviet losses in this area were estimated her at 1,200 prison ers, 12 tanks and 00 artillery pieces. Moscow, 'Sept. 12 (P) Coun- er - attacking Russians croaied the lower Dnieper at four points today and claimed capture of an Island and two villages from the Germans even as new reverses for the wehrmacht in the bloody Smolensk central sector dashed all Adolf Hitler's hopes of equal ing napoleon's 83-day march to Moscow. Russia's Baltic fleet operating In stormy seas Joined the red army in the defense of Lenin grad, shelling German troop concentrations, and tank col umns, intercepting German sea transports and covering a army retreat in that sector. red PLANNED AT PORT Ready today for consideration at Washington headquarters was an estimate embodying an addi tional WPA allotment of $67,773 for supplemental work at Med ford municipal airport The estimate was received from state WPA headquarters yesterday for signature of the sponsoring agency, the city of wieaioro. The city, it was ex plained at the WPA offlc here, would not have to put up any sponsor's contribution as the newly-requested fund Is to sup plement a project already being carried out. The additional money would b used for excavation and grad ing to increase the width of th runways from 300 to 800 feet to meet civil aeronautics adminis tration standards and to provide a seal-coat for the taxi strips and loading aprons to protect them against rain. The addition al width would be In gravel, though the proposed fund Is for only excavation and grading. Fred Scheffel, city euperinten dent said. aeramanto. Sept. 1JA. But arfat: rinrt grade, 41 ascend r-a. CONTINUE LONG Chairman i;t:.v....-?L- C. E. "Pop" Gates, forma. mayor and for many years prom inent in Madford civic and busi ness affairs, has eonaantxi act as chairman In tha forth. coming annual campaign for the meaiorg Area Community Chest GATES WILL HEAD CHEST C. E. Gates, well known MM ford business man, has agreed to act as campaign chairman ior the coming annual campaign of the Medford Area Commu nity cnest, according to George nun, cnest president "Mr, uates has been activelv Inter ested in community work fnr rtany years, and wa on the chest board feel most confident of success again this year under tne campaign leadership of Mr. nates, said miee today. mr. uates acceptance was revealed at a recent special meeting of th chest board. nans tor the 1941 campaign ar now getting under way so that everything can b in readi ness when definite dates are set Mr. Hilcs called snecial atten tion to the fact that the National Mobilization of Human Needs will take place all over Amer ica in the period of October 8 to 23. President Roosevelt will launch the period and commu nity chests all over th land will go forward with their cam paigns. The local Medford Area Chest Includes the Salvation .rmy, tha Jackson County Pub lic Health association, the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts of Amer ica, the American Red Cross, and the Girls Community club. Budget requests from the member agencies will be sub mitted to the board at their regular meeting next week. DRAIT QUOTA SIX FOR JAM CO. Salem, Sept 12. (IP) Trans portation schedule for th 888 Oregon men who will be drafted into th army from October 7 to 17 were sent by state selec tive service headquarters today to the 87 local draft boards, each of which will be called upon to contribute from two to 49 men. Th call, th 19th, la th! second largest sine th selec tive service act was passed year ago. Th transportation schedules. with the number requested from each board, include: To report at th Induction station in tha Portland armory on October Douglas 8 men, Jackson No. I 4, Jackson No. 2 2. October 9 Josephine I, Klam ath No. 1 29. October 17 Klamath No. S 43. aa rraaclar Bnttar San FTanclaeo, Sap. 11. (API Butter: SJ aeor. SSc; SI acora. 7)j v acora, a 1 i Sunday Want Ads I as Sunday it require almoal (nil pa of ipso to carry the Claaamt and Too Lata ta C-uslry ada. Ufa nuke it toll pat next Bandar. Why aot wrtl four ad aow and ka teaer. TRAFFICSAFETY1 Warning Signs On Fourtl Street Intersections, CurB On Speeding Among Items Th Medford Traffic Safety Council today submitted to tha mayor and city council a num. ber of recommendations that developed from the safety coun cil's meeting Tuesday night Th) recommendations included: 1 Erection of "warning sign at Fourth street inter sections, particularly from Oak. dale avenue to Riverside avenue. "It was felt that by this mean the installation of "stops" sign might be avoided." tha letter of tranmission to th mayor and city council said. (2) Continued efforts to curb speeding on main thoroughfares. farenta of children who hava to cross East Main street to gat to school were apprehensive ot accidents unless police kept continuous watch on motorists, the letter said. "It is hoped that in making up th budget foe next year, the committee will include ample provision for tia employment of traffic offing with th knowledge thVJL. benefits, even th revenue b provided from such officers. mora man onset any cost in. volved," said th letter, signed by Seth M. Bull is, council chair, man. i 3 Painting ci a center Una In th "S" curv at th uppee end of East Main street to pre vent crossing over th center line "as several near accident hav been reported." Asserting that traffic Increases accentuate th problems on Main street and around the postoffic. th safety council offered threa suggestions: abolition of left turns at signal-controlled Inter, sections: double parkins in tha business district by commercial vehicles be further limited and prohibited entirely at establish menta having alley entrances- painting of pedestrian lanes. bearing In mind th outcome of th Investigation of th recant pedestrian fatality at Main and Fir streets." This comment wa not elaborated upon. me letter concluded: Tha council appreciates that traffia enforcement I sometimes pro. ductive of hard feelings and It is willing at all times to lend its support to th city'i pro gram. I TAX EQUALIZATION WORKCOMPLETED Th Jackson County Board ot Equalization has completed lte labors for th year and filed it findings with th county cleric on petition for reduction of tax assessment Out of 23 ptl tions filed, 12 were granted, la varying amounts and 11 left a is. Th board Is composed of th county Judge, coupty clerk and assessor. Radio Highlights I By th Aaaocteted Praa (Tim is Pacific standard) Tonight. Th War 4:99 CB9f I NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. Talks NBC-Blue 8:30 Paul V. McNutt from Rochester, W. Y, on "Why W Arm." MBS 8 middleweight fight. George Abram vs. Tony Zal. Saturday, Th War MBS; 9:49 NBC-Red, 11:89 CBS; 13 NBC MBS; 1 p. m, MBS; 2:23 NBC; 3:30 CBS NBC-Blue. NBC-Red 1:30 rac, Marra farraatt special; CBS 12:3 Amarican Legion pr-convn tlon program; 1 Calling Paaw Arotrioa. - - - Nn 1f.fi. i
