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Newspaper Page Textrun u a Weather "port rorecait: ranly cloud; today nd Monday ith ihoKfrc Mar mountain! Sunday, Little chance In temperature, Hlfhtet yesterday 73 Lowert yesterday 41 Good Morning! Ilae you ml tht want Adtf Tbla very moment would ba (ood lima to ere If tba eery thing yoa. want la advertised. Read "Too Lata to Claulfjr." There could be dividend! (or son there aa well. Tribune FORD Full Associated Pros United Preal Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, 1941. NO. 151. Nl ui Med a WW BESIS J News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 13. Coffee Is to go no higher. An invisible ceiling for it, where it now stands, was provided in a secret meeting of the coffee board here a few days back. The Colom bian delegate came into the meeting with proposition which would have hiked it another notch October 1. He Paul Mallon proposed low ering the present quota, to en able the South American pro ducers (particularly Brazil) to prab another coffeee increase atop the two they have already Imposed. This suggestion was met by Mr. Paul C. Daniels, the United States delegate, with a proposi tion which caused the Colom bian delegate to withdraw fast. Mr. Daniels said he had heard this government intended to form a coffee monopoly to do the nation's buying if any fur ther steps like that developed. Daniels knew whereof he spoke. It seems that Leon Hen derson of OPA became dis turbed about the ever increas ing price and went to Vice President Wallace, chairman of the economic warfare commit tee. Wallace worked out the mo nopoly arrangement and plans to put it into effect at the slightest sign of further funny business. e e 1"HE state department went aflutter at the news that the emperor of Japan had taken Continued on Page Eight) GIRLS TOLD HOW TO DRESS, BEHAVE Amherst, Mass., Sept. 13 (IP) To freshmen co-eds at Massa chusetts State college went the suggestion today, "wear a girdle unless you're a veritable sylph the day of the hip-swinging siren coed is gone." A booklet of advice, publish ed by Isogon, senior honor sor ority, and written by Kay Tully of Southbridge and Mary Don ahue of Newburyport, advises not only how to dress but how to act. On "dating," a major portion Vf the booklet, the advice Is to "hold onto your kisses 'til you find somebody you really want to give them to. Don't forget that boys talk about girls . . . and if you "neck" with one man, all his 'brothers' will know it soon." Other warnings Included: "Don't believe an eighth of what you hear." Portland Plans Portland, Ore., Sept. 13. JP) Portland began drawing plans today for its part in the 1943 Oregon Trail Centennial cele bration. Legume Acreage Redmond. Sept. 13. Legume seed acreage may reach 800.000 in Oregon in 1942, AAA officials said here today. Grow- ers have been asked to plant no less than 429.000 acres. BULLETIN Seattle. Sept 13. VP) The Seattle Rainier s took over un disputed possession of first place, temporarily at least, in the close Pacific Coast league race tonight by defeating the San Francisco Seals 5-2 in the first game of a double-header. Farmer Hal Turpin recorded his 18th triumph of the season in holding the Seals to seven scattered hits. First night game: R. H. E. San Francisco 2 7 1 Seattle 5 9 1 Epporly and Ogrodowski; Tur pin and Collins. Lot Angeles at Portland Coast league double-header, can celled because of wet grounds BITTER BATTLE IN BRITISH SHIPS Vivid Story Told Of Sea Clash Lasting 3 Days Berlin Claims 31 Ships, Br the Associated Prats London, Sept. 13. The ad miralty in an unusual announce ment tonight disclosed that a large British Atlantic convoy had clashed with German sub marines and four-engined bomb ers in a running battle which began in mid-ocean and contin ued for three days, the British losing eight ships and, it was indicated, scores of lives. The majority of the convoy has now arrived safely, the ad miralty said, but it told a spec tacular story of a bitter battle at sea in which the weather combined with German tor pedoes and bombs to plague the long string of merchant vessels, a story of gallant rescues un der fire of men whose lives were only to be lost a few hours later in subsequent attack. The admiralty, as usual, fail ed to specify the dates of the attacks. Briefly it was a story of three ships being sunk by submarine torpedoes, four by bombs from the air, and an eighth, dam aged under fire, going down in a gale. The details were told by the admiralty in a circular of a type used only in extraordinary circumstances. Far out in the Atlantic early one morning, it said, a subma rine struck, and two ships were sunk within a few minutes. The little 1,473-ton steamer Bran denburg left the convoy string and went to the rescue, picking up nearly all of the crew of one ship. The 990-ton naval escort sloop Deptford lowered a boat for the others, left the boat, and went submarine hunting. Later she picked up her boat, loaded with survivors. "The convoy sailed on," the admiralty said, but only to be attacked 12 hours later by six four-engined Focke-Wulf bomb ers which pressed home their attack "relentlessly" despite "a fierce fire'' from the armed mer chant ships and their escorts. Four ships went down, a fifth was damaged. Survivors were picked up, and again "the con voy sailed on." The next morning came the second submarine attack, and the gallant little Brandenburg, now carrying with the men she rescued more than double her own complement, was hit and sank immediately. Only one man was saved," the admiralty statement said. The ordeal still was not end ed. On the third day came wire less messages showing that a "raiding German warship" was in the vicinity. Luckily for the British, it never found the crip pled string of convoy survivors. The final blow was still to come. The weather whipped up now and for two days and a night a gale raged. The convoy hove to, but the storm was too much for the bomb-crippled ves sel. She began to sink. As she went down, however, the other vessels stood by and not a single life was lost. The admiralty account men tioned only two escort vessels, the Deptford and the 990-ton de stroyer Velox. Br the Associated Press Berlin, Sept. 13. Germany's claims rose today to 28 mer chantmen and three warships sunk in a convoy of 40 Britain bound ships during an attack in the north Atlantic which began before President Roosevelt an nounced hit thoot-on-sight orders to the U. S. navy and persisted thereafter. In all, the high command de clared, 164.000 tons of mer chant shipping were destroyed besides three warships of its heavy guard of corvettes and destroyers. Maw York. Sept. 13. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. U. 8. director of civilian defense, to day announced the appointment of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as aa assistant director. j .mm mmm- New War Developments O 300 I NORWAY ) t tin! AWnifS MILES FORMER BOUNDARIES h S 1 JPMfil A Kin eat - a the) el ate- (tar t'L W A o rf XT-....? W K DENMARK V - JFMm A MTV ......j --afW at V ?-w -a. "lm- X I - LONDON. A J? J BERLIN -.-,'-. ; J CSrI- VA GERMANY; J'..s- R. v. PARIS $VS JjC K'EV . fleN(0. y-nA RUMANIA -vGENOA "V WCOi7V JvJ BLACK r fARoriEfX A 15 jHcs m In German-occupied Norway (1) a state of civil siege proclaimed la Oslo was expected to be extended to other areas. British bombers ranged far to attack Genoa and Turin (2) In northern Italy. On the eastern front the Russians reported new Red armr advances In the central sector. Portland, Sept. 13. (IP) It Is President Roosevelt's intention to throw the United States into the war soon. Senator Holman told an America First Commit tee rally last night. He said he was more worried over "the growing strength of subversive, Intolerant and dis orderly forces within our own country which seem to receive support and encouragement from the executive department of our government than I am alarmed about possible inva sions of our country by foreign foes." He deplored action of the Portland board in denying use of auditoriums to Senator Bur ton K. Wheeler of Montana. CHAPLIN CALLED Washington, Sept. 13. VP) The senate subcommittee invest igating alleged dissemination of war propaganda subpoenaed Charles Chaplin, movie com edian, today for testimony Octo ber 8 on his picture, "The Great Dictator." Chairman Clark (D., Idaho) announced that the committee also had subpoenaed Anatole Litvak, director of the film, 'Confessions of a Nazi Spy," and William R. Wilkerson, edi tor and publisher of the Holly wood Reporter, trade Journal, to appear the same day. The subpoenas were Issued as a routine matter, Clark said. He explained that Wendell L. Willkie, representing the major movie producers, had agreed to produce witnesses for his group, but added that others not rep resented directly by Willkie would be subpoenaed from time to time. IL DUCE EDITOR INT Rome, Sept. 31. UP) Fascist observers indicated today that Germany and Italy would fight the United States on any sea their warships, submarines and planes could reach as a result of what the authoritative editor, Virginio Gayda, called Presi dent Roosevelt's "a facto de claration of war." The primary aim of the axis powers in the battle of the At lantic was to prevent American aid from reaching England, they said, citing a German submarine attack on a British convoy as the first answer to Roosevelt's "shoot first" order. The big question in fascist minds was where American war ships were going to shoot first. NOTED DEAD Holywood, Sept. 13 Elias Disney, 83, father of Car toon Maker Walt Disney, died today following a major opera tion. Walt Disney is vacationing In South America. Willemstad, Curacao Sent. 13 VP) The death of Jonkheer Hugo Loudon, chairman of the Royal Dutch company and the Deli Tobacco company, on Sept. B in the German-occupied Neth erlands was reported today by Aneta, Netherlands Indies news agency. UPSTATE SUPPER Salem, Ore., Sept. 13. VP) Oregon's harvest woes deepened today as continuing rainfall brought the total since Septem ber 1 to nearly two inches in some sections of the Willamette valley. Tualtin and Willamette valley prune growers said that more than half of the unpicked crop was destroyed by the rain. Esti mates were not available on the amount harvested. Tomato growers also reported rain damage, and potato, string bean and onion growers said the excessive mosture threatened blight and rot. Precipitation is 1.30 Inches above normal. THIS FINE IDEA Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 13. VP) Mayor Richard Sweeney has a formula for curbing the enthusiasm of auto drivers with song-playing horns. Said he, in a comment on complaints that the horns were becoming a nuis ance: "Put the owner of the car in a cell. Put the horn and another man in an adjoining cell. Then let the owner listen to the horn, all through the long, -long night." COPSJPHONOR Pendleton, Ore, Sept. 13 VP) Fritz Truan, slim young Salinas, Calif., performer, won the all-round cowboy champion ship at the Pendleton round-up today. Rodeo association of America champion last year, Truan gained a leg on the 15.000 Jack son trophy here by downing two steers in 32.1 seconds for top honors in the bulldogging divi sion and placing third in bronc ridinf for 160 points. "J LENINGRAD MOSCOW, J? SMOLENSK : aa 1 Tk YELNYA TO SEEK LOST PLANE Chester Hubbard, president of the Medford Flying club, yester day appealed to all hunters to keep a watch for wreckage of the small private airplane in which Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wal bert, Medford couple, disap peared late last November after leaving Medfoad municipal air port for Portland. Mr. Hubbard said the club felt certain that if the wreck age is found at all it will- be found during the hunting sea son when hunters penetrate in to all parts of the southern Oregon forest. The club has offered a reward of $250 to the person who finds any trace of the missing couple. ARMY CAMP GIVES Portland, Sept. 13. (IP) If an army cantonment is to be constructed in the Corvallis area, Willamette river pollution must be eliminated, the Oregon state sanitary authority said yes terday. The army plans to get water from the river. Sewage disposal systems will l.ave to be built In all communities upstream which now dump sewage in the river, authority members said. Other Oregon cities were urg ed to install disposal systems. Herman Kehrla, secretary of the League of Oregon Cities pro posed that sinking funds be star ted. Kehrli said communities plan ning to build or expand disposal plants include Central Point, Lebanon, Pendleton Springfield, Hillsboro and Forest Grove. OFF FOR SIBERIA Teheran, Iran, Sept. 13. VP) Eighty Nazis bound for intern ment in India and Siberia left here by train today while Brit ish and Russian diplomats lis tened in irritation to their sleg hells echoing through Teheran's palatial marble depot Seventy -two of the group went by special train to Ahwaz, en route to India, while eight were aboard one coach of a Kazvln train with Siberia as their des tination. Allied displeasure was mani fest over a series of excuses and asserted misunderstandings whereby the German legation failed twice to deliver the pris oners and finally produced only 80 of the 27 men demanded of 1L ii . s Disclaim E OF NAZIS FAILS Foe Retreats ' On Moscow Front Great Victory Won Is Word Fierce Fray Rages. By the Associated Press Moscow, Sept. 14. (Sunday) Red armies of the western front, ushering in the 13th week of the war with slashing counter-attacks, erased a new threat to Moscow by throttling a giant German offensive 220 miles southwest of the Soviet capital and hurled the nazis back 10 to 12 miles, tlie Russians reported today. These massive operations cli maxed a two-weeks battle near the important rail center of Bry ansk. Front line dispatches said the Germans still were in retreat westward before the ceaseless hammering of Red infantry, tanks and planes. Twenty six towns and villages were declar ed recaptured in bitter fighting. The Russians reported the 47th and 24th German tank corps, commanded by the Nazi panzer expert. Col. -Gen. Heinz Guderian, were routed on this front by Red forces under Gen eral Jacob Kreuzer, a hero of the Soviet union. The Soviet Information bur eau, itself silent on details of the fighting, reiterated early to day only that the fierce struggle continued without let-up along the entire western front. It credited the Red air force with its second raid upon Bu charest within a week. The lat est attack on the Rumanian cap ital was carried out Friday night and the previous one on Monday night. In the Baltic sea, speedboats of the northern Red fleet sank a large German transport and a coast guard vessel, the com munique said. The battle for Bryansk, a rail and communications center 150 miles southeast of Smolensk and about midway on the main high way between Moscow and Kiev, was estimated by the Russians to have cost the Germans near ly 10,000 officers and men, more than 260 tanks, 600 vehicles and hundreds of field guns. Germans asserted they had won air mastery over Leningrad as well as "considerable gains in territory" on central sector of the eastern front. E SHIPS FORECAST Washington, Sept 13. W The S. S. Arkansan, struck by shell or bomb fragments during an air raid on Suez, was added tonight to the growing list of American ships lost or damaged in the sea war, and at the Cap itol there were reports that the administration - might ask au thority to arm merchant ves sels. A brief report to the state department from the legation at Cairo said the 6,697-ton Arkan san, engaged in trade between United States ports and the Red sea, was hit and her plates pierced the night of Septem ber 11. The communication said noth ing of the extent of damage. or of casualties among her crew of 38 36 Americans, one British and one Dutch. BRITISH PUNGLE HALF THEY EARN London, Sept. 13. (IP) For British taxpayers this was a black week-end. The postmen brought them the first income tax bills under a new law calling for up to half of all they earned in the year ending last April 3. War Bulletins New York, Sept 13 The British radio broadcast an Ankara report tonight that an attack on axis-betieged Odessa by German-manned Italian warships is Imminent The BBC quoted advices from the Turkish capital as saying Italian warships are being sold to Bulgaria so that the latter, being a neu tral country, could take them through the Turkish-controlled Dardanelles to the Black tea and turn them over to the Nails for tha assault upon the besieged Soviet port London. Sept 1 3 iP) The RAF hammered the German occupied coaat with a series of offensive patrols erer the channel today after night at tacks in bad weather oa Frankfurt la tha Rhlneland in which Industries were at tacked. Docks at Cherbourg and St Nasalra on the French coast and a German supply ship off the Frisian islands also were hit In the night bombing raids, tha British announced. New York. Sept $VPl The first snow of the season hat fallen In tha Leningrad area, tha British radio report ed tonight "It is a warning to tha Germans that time is running short before tha dreaded win ter begins," the Brtiish an nouncer said la a broadcast heard her by CBS, F.D.R. ACCUSED OF CLARK AND FISH President Challenged To Send War Declaration To Congress Acts Flayed. Milwaukee, Sept 13 JPt Two prominent legionnaires ac cused President Roosevelt to night, on the eve of the Ameri can Legion's national conven tion here, of deliberately at tempting to force America into an undeclared war. The two. Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D.-Mo.), one of the organizers of the legion, and Rep. Hamilton Fish (R.-N. Y.), spoke at an America First Com mittee rally, at the Milwaukee auditorium. The rally had no connection with the legion con vention. A large force of Milwaukee police was on hand at tha rally to keep order but several dis turbances occurred as hecklers booed and in turn were hooted at by the crowd. Clark, in a prepared address, charged "we are now by the order of the president to have the navy engage In an unde clared war." The policy announced by the president in his last radio ad dress, Clark said, "is calculated, if pursued, to result in millions of American boys hanging their guts on wire entanglements in Europe, Asia or Africa. 'The most dangerous thing which has happened to our liber ties in tha United States in our lifetime is the unblushing de claration by tha president that without any authorization what ever by congress ... he Intends to proceed to commit acta of war," Clark declared. Fish declared that tha presi dent had not taken cither the people or congress into his con fidence by defining what he meant by "defense tones." Fsh challenged the president to send a war declaration to con gress, promising that the house would defeat such a move by "mora than a two to on ma jority." Redskins Win Los Angeles, Sept. 13. W The Washington Redskins, show ing the need of a wee bit more tuning-up for the coming Na tional league professional foot ball wan, head east tonight after setting a local agrrrgatton of pros down in handy fashion last night WILLKIE TO AID ' BACKERS F D R. FOREIGN POLICY To Make G.O.P. Stand Fofi 'Internationalism' Sen, McNary Okay But Washington, Sept. 13. (IPt. Reporting that Wendell L. Will, kle has decided to take an ac tive part in the off-year elec tions of 1942, associates of tha 1940 Republican presidential nominee aaid today he would work and speak for those CO J. candidates who have backed! President Roosevelt's foreign policy. Willkle's friends reported ha has made three political decla ions: 1. He will work within tha Republican party to make it on r ending for "internationalism" rather than "isolationism." 2. He will spend all his spar time working for the nomina tion and election of those Re publicans who have supported administration foreign policy. 3. Ha will keep silent on cam paigns where Democrats sup porting Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policies are fighting Republicans who oppose them. Willkie, it was said author!, tatively, is particularly anxious) to help in the reelection cam paigns of such men as Senator Ball (R-Minn.) and Bridges (Re N.H.;, both of whom have sup ported administration foreign policy legislation. Aa to Senator McNary (R Ore.), the aenate minority lead er and the vice-presidential, nominee last year, Willkia ha told friends that McNary ha been 60 per cent right and 40) wrong on foreign policy ques tions. He has added, however, that he Intends to support Ma Nary. Willkia was said to believe) that tha whole future of the Re publican party would depend on whether it elects "internation alists" or "isolationists" next year. He is convinced. It was said, that If the party turns to ward isolationism there will ba room for a powerful new party In the country. Associates made it clear that Willkie vigorously oppose many of the new deal domes tic policies. They said he intend to attack them while supporting the administration foreign pol icy. SENTJLPRISON Stockholm. Sept. 13. WV- Reports from Oslo tonight sail a German court-martial today sentenced two Norwegians to death and 10 others to prison sentences in efforts to stamp out opposition to the Quisling, German-supported regime. The two death sentences, un noted for acts against the re gime, were commuted to Ufa imprisonment by Nazi Gauleltea Joseph Terboven. The other sentencea given workers and trades union leaders ranged) from 10 years to life in prison. One of the men sentenced to Ufa In prison was Fredrik Ramm, a journalist who accompanied Roald Amundsen in his pola flight in the dirigible Norge, im 1926. Widespread arrests were re ported continuing. Oslo diss patches said inhabitants of tha town of Sklen were fined 80.004 crowns and prohibited front leaving their homes nights be cause of demonstrations against Quisling leaders and the Gere man forces. CIGARETTES AND CASH I TAKEN AT GOLD HILU Gold Hill. Sept 13 (Sp! The Oaks Lunch, owned and op crated by Mrs. Alpha Colvia was entered last Tuesday night and the entire stock of cigarette was taken as well as over four dollars in cash. The money box, a purse and a toy pistol, which were taken at the same Urn were found a few yards from tha store, the next day. Entrance s made by Jimmying the back door.