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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, 1941.
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News Behind
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.