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mu o a. wuf Weather JL'aT" rorct: Cloudy tonight and Tnetday with occasional rain Tuecday. tittle change In tem peratara. Temperature Hlgheet 15 Lowest this Morning.. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 15 Now that all has been said and little done about Mr. Roosevelt's new policy. It's skein at least is fully evident. Mr. Roosevelt present ed some specific evidence, laid down some iui iuau ., .. ma broad princi ples and now intends to do as he pleases. This is the same formula he has been using lately. He gave the e v I d e nee of how the Nazis had been sink ing some ships. He projected Paul Mallon the broad policy of the freedom ot the seas and of shooting to protect them. Then he did not say where he was going to limit himself. The effect Is a declaration of war against the Nazis, sea and Ir war to range all the waters of the world possibly excluding only a small indistinct area (the combat zone) In some respects. Fthls new kind of undeclared war (as he vaguely limited it). Mr. Roosevelt can perform any of the projects that have re cently been discussed. He could convoy, seize Dakar and the Azores, patrol the Red sea, even send the navy into the English channel and North sea. No one here thinks he intends to do all these things immediately. He just chose to leave himself wide open limits as usual. His game is the same as al ways, to keep Hitler guessing as to the limitations of his inten tions. If Hitler knew how far Roosevelt Intends to send ships or naval scouting planes, the German navy could be kept out of those areas. As it is wherever navy ship or plane meets a German ship or plane, there the undeclared war will be on. The only obvious important restrictions upon Mr. Roose velt's all-out purpose to shoot (Continued on Pe 6U) Radio Highlights (By Associated Press) (Time is Pacific standard) Tonight, the war 5:30 NBC Blue; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS; 7:30 MBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. Talks NBC-Blue 8:30 Radio Forum, Aubrey Williams on "Youth"; NBC-Blue 7:05 Don ald M. Nelson on Defense. Tuesday, the war (includes U. S. army maneuvers): 8 MBS: 6:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS MBS; 12:55 p. m., NBC-Blue; 2 CBS MBS; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS NBC-Blue. CBS 12:30. NBC-Blue 12:45, MBS 2:30 Additional army ma neuvers. MBS 8:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. American Legion parade. SICE GLANCES bt tribune reporters Earl Weisner showing off a tiny two months' old Pekinese puppy before its new owner, Rena Weisner had seen the "ball o' fluff." Californian Florence McGee wondering if Hubby Pierce'i vis itor's angling license allowed her to hold his fishing rod while he filled his pipe. Amel Butler wondering what made his packsack feel so heavy, he finding two bricks in It after lugging it all the way into the Blue Lake country, his compan ions. Cy and Moore Hamilton swearing they had nothing to do with it. ii Thirty-sixth Year r ie J MED J TANKS. AND BIG 4,500,000 Reds Claimed Trapped; Defense Cracks at One Point; Kiev Periled By the Associated Press German tanks, artillery and troops were reported storming Leningrad's main outer defense bulwarks today, with nazl high velocity shells smashing into a ring of six-foot concrete bunkers in a climactic assault on the old Czarist capital. The Germans, acknowledging bitter Soviet resistance, said the bunker system was equal to any thing they encountered in the blitzkrieg sweeps through France oc Belgium but declared the attack was progressing suc cessfully. They said 4,500,000 Russians were trapped in the Leningrad area. Ripe For Success Nazi military observers assert ed that the eastern front, aflame from the Karelian Isthmus to the Black Sea, was "ripening for the successes which the high ommand announced were un folding." German troops were reported by the high command to have cracked Leningrad's "defense front" at one point, while on the soui' em front, the Russians ad mitted that a nazl pincers move ment was tightening the trap around Kiev. The Germans quoted Soviet r" isoners as saying that defend ers of the old czarist capital were dynamiting huge blocks of buildings in the city to clear the line for artillery and machine gun fire in a street-by-street de fense. Simultaneously, observers at Ankara forecast a sea-borne German drive against the Rus sian Crimea, site of the big Sov iet Black sea naval base of Sebastopol. There were reports that the Germans had ordered all Rumanian and Bulgarian Black sea ports closed to com mercial shipping. The Nazi order capped repeat ed rumors that both German and Italian troops were being massed in Bulgarian ports for an attempt to land forces behind Pi ssia's Dnieper river defense line in the Ukraine. Bulgars Mobilise Dispatches from Sofia said partial mobilization of the Bul garian army had been ordered for today. While spectacular mass air battles raged over Leningrad, the British reported they were rushing RAF pilots into the 88-i'.ay-old struggle on the eastern front. London newspapers said the first British fliers to arrive in Russia, several squadrons strong, already had gone into action, presumably in defense of Leningrad. In the skies, the Russians re ported 100 planes engaged in the latest duel, with the Ger mans fleeing after losing 17 air craft. Soviet dispatches conceded the loss of several settlements I on the bank of river "T" at the approaches to Leningrad, but said Red army troops had re captured three of them. Soviet troops were reported within 12 miles of burned and wrecked Smolensk, key city on the Napoleonic road to Moscow, with Russian artillery shelling German positions around it. Other Red forces were said to b fighting near Yartzevo, 27 miles northeast of Smolensk. Finn Sees Peace Hope In Helsinki. Vaino Tanner, minister of trade and commun ications and leader of the dom inant social democratic party in Finland, declared there are "good hopes of peace in the nearest future." He stressed that Finland was an ally of Germany "only by ac cident" and that Finland would fight only as long as ber inter ti'j demanded FORD Full Associated Press mm. U. S. Lease-Lend Exports Now Total $190,447,670 F. R. Reports To Congress Washington, Sept. 15 (IP) President Roosevelt reported to congress today that actual exports of American war supplies to nations fighting the axis, under the lend-lease program, had totalled $190,447,670 up to August 31. These figures represented ex penditures for weapons and other supplies actually sent abroad. But, the president added, defense articles transferred, in cluding some still waiting to be shipped, amounted to an addi tional $55,946,701, while vari ous services, such as repairing naval vessels, added up to still another figure of $78,169,377. Total Larger Thus in services, transfers of title and actual exports, the United States has provided $324,563,748 in assistance to the foes of the axis. Furthermore, expend 1 1 u r e s for articles for services not yet finished added up to approxi mately $162,000,000, Mr. Roose velt said. Thus, the president figured in his report that "through the month of August the total dol lar value of defense articles and defense services rendered, plus expenditures for other lend lease purposes," amounted to approximately $487,000,000. "Planes, tanks, guns, and ships have begun to flow from our factories and yards," he said "and the flow will accelerate from day to day, until the stream becomes a river, and the river a torrent, engulfing this totalitarian tyranny which seeks to dominate the world." While the report his second on operations of the lend-lease program was on its way to congress, Mr. Roosevelt was con ferring with his budget director on a second lend-lease fund. The total is expected to be in the neighborhood of $6,000,000,000. The report showed that up wards of a dozen nations have been getting some measure of lease-lend assistance, but the bulk has gone to Great Britain. The list includes China, Po land, Greece, Yugoslavia, Nor way, Belgium, The Netherlands, Including the Dutch East Indies, and Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Chile and Cuba also have asked for help and are in line for requisitions. In other quarters, it was learned that aid also was being given the Free- French government through Great Britain. Declaring that aid is not an act of charity or sympathy but a means of defending America, the chief executive added: "We offer it because we know that piecemeal resistance to ag gression is doomed to failure; because the ruthless war ma chine which now bestrides the continent of Europe can be com batted only by the combined ef forts of ail free peoples and at all strategic points where the aggressor may strike. He said that America must offer "not only a shield but a sword," the tools of a final and total victory to "those peoples who are gallantly shedding their blood in the front lines of this struggle." "The people of the United States know," Mr. Roosevelt said, "that we can not live in a world dominated by HItlerism. They realize that there can be no real peace, no secure freedom until we have destroyed the evil forces which seek to work us woe.' Of the original $7.000.000,000 lend-lease appropriation, the president told congress, $6,281, 237.421 has been allocated 1 111 RO DOt V. a ku er contr'art and 1.155 has been spent. Congress lso"uuu"wo """" authorized the president to turn w" Covered. over another $1,300,000,000 in1 Coroner Conger removed the war supplies already on hand body to Medford and awaits the for purposes of the aid program and the president said $87,809. 722 of this sum has been trans ferred. The actual transfers to foreign governments were placed at $246,394,372, compared with $75,202,426 which the president reported to congress as of May 31. Therefore, transfers since his last report 90 days ago came to $171,181,949. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, AS r Los Angeles, Sept. 15. (IP) Mother Nature did nip-ups over much of south-central California Sunday, making herself felt along two of the state's major earthquake faults. The heaviest shock apparently centered somewhere in the tow ering Sierra Nevada mountains, where geologists have found deep fissures from upheavals long past. It was felt in the Bishop area, on the east side of the moun tains, and apparently with les soned force in the San Joaquin valley around Fresno, on the west side. Near Bishop, where a temblor on the Owens valley fault in 1872 killed 65 persons despite sparse settlements, boulders crashed down from the hills. J. B. Leonard of Rock Creek inn, 25 miles to the north, said rocks blocked the Bishop-Mammoth road and a cabin was shaken down at Amarogin fish ing camp. From Leevining, far ther north, came reports of huge dust clouds high in the moun tains. Vacationists in Yosemite na tional park were rocked, and food was tumbled from store shelves by one of six tremors. Police at Fresno reported a few cracked plaster ceilings but no serious damage. In Santa Barbara early in the evening, the San Andreas fault blamed for the San Francisco quake of 1906 and the Santa Barbara quake of 1926 acted up again. Two minor disturb ances were felt, apparently ad justments after a more severe tremor which put cracks in a fow buildings June 30. Resi dents timed the shocks at 5:38 and 6:49 p. m. (PST). Prospect Millman Found Asphyxiated On Bt. Falls Road Edward H. Johns, 38, Pros pect sawmill employe, lost his life by asphyxiation In his auto mobile on the Butte Falls road early Sunday morning, it was re ported today by Coroner H. W. Conger. Johns, Conger stated, had driven his car into the approach of a driveway at the farm of Harry Webber early in the morning to visit his ex-wife, who was employed there. Presum ably, the coroner said, Johns left the motor running to get the benefit of the car heater until the family arose. Arising, they found him dead in the tightly closed car, Conger reported. Sheriff Syd I. Brown and a 1 Policeman, called to the VZ" .... "... discovered the interior of the machine reeking with carbon monoxide gas, the coroner said. .dding that John, had been dead Klamath Falls to arrange fu neral services. Johns had re sided In the county for about four years. La Grande, Ore., Sept. IS 0P Sebastian S. Lee, a lumber company watchman, fell onto a conveyor felt yesterday and was crushed by a power wheel. The widow and three daughters survive. CONFEREES AGREE ISE TAX LI Senate -House Committee Approves $3,553,400,000 Bill House Action Tues. Washington, Sept. 15. (IP) A Joint ,senate-house conference committee agreed formally to day on a record-breaking $3, 553,400,000 tax bill and house members of the group arranged to report the compromise meas ure to their chamber later in the day. The bill was $30,500,000 un der the total approved by the senate but was $337,400,000 ov tr the measure originally ap proved by the house. Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.) of the house ways and means committee said the bill would be called up for house action to morrow and would be acted up on then unless a roll call was requested. If a roll call Is asked, action will be deferred until Wednesday. Senate to Follow The senate is expected to act Immediately after the house and send the history-making meas ure, designed to help offset heavy defense expenditures, to the White House. The Joint conference group decreased from 10 to 6 per cent the senate-approved tax on loc al telephone bills. The house originally had approved 5 per cent. The group also reduced from 10 to 5 per cent the levy rr electric light bulbs. The con ference committee also agreed on these provisions, some of which previously had been re ported unofficially: 1. Accepted a senate amend ment reducing from $2,000 to $1,500 the income tax exemp tion for married persons and from $800 to $750 the exemp tion for single individuals. The treasury estimated the provis ion would raise an additional $303,000,000 in revenue and would require an additional 4. 930,000 persons to file Income tax returns. 2. Accepted a senate provision Incorporating the special 10 per cent defense super-tax in the surtax structure, and thus changing surtax rates slightly. 3. Accepted a senate amend ment raising from 5 to 6 per cent the surtaxes on corpora tion Income up to $25,000 and from 6 to 7 per cent on Income over that figure. 4. Agreed to a senate amend ment eliminating a special 10 per cent levy on income of cor porations which do not earn suf ficient profit to come under the schedule of excess profits taxes. KLAMATrTcOUNTY VALUE SHOWS SLIGHT INCREASE v Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 15 IIP) Klamath county's assess ed valuation increased from $22,220,535 in 1940 to $22,648, 775 this year, despite the heav iest cut of timber in history. The valuation does not include utilities. BASEBALL National (10 Innings) ft. Louis 4 Philadelphia S 11 13 R. Harris and Ferrell; Call guiri and Mayes. American League Cleveland 2 9 0 New York 4 8 1 Smith, Gromek and Hegan; Gomez, Branch and Dickey, Ro sar. Chicago 1 S 6 14 Boston Rlgney and Tresh; Harris and Pytlak. Detroit S 11 Washington . Newhouser. Trout, Tuomas and Tebbetts; Leonard . and Evan. Tribune Press 1941. Americans Four members of the mertcan mission to Russia,, headed by Chairman W. Averell Harriman, received instructions from President Roosevelt at the White House prior to their early departure for Moscow via London. Left to right! Major General James H. Burns, executive officer of the lend-lease program! William L, Batt, director of the materials division, office ot production man. agementi Admiral William H. Standlay, retired former chief of neval operations, and Mr. Harriman. Shoot -on -Sight Extends to Iceland Secy. Knox Tells Legion Conclave Milwaukee, Sept. 15 (IP) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the American Legion in blunt language today that the U. S. navy had orders "to capture and destroy" every axis surface or submarine raider encountered "between the American continent and the waters adjacent to Ireland." American Mission in England En Route to Conference in Russia London, Sept. 15 (IP) With a wing of the RAF reported al ready in action against Germany on the eastern front, the entire U. S. mission to Moscow has ar rived In Britain for stop-over talks before continuing on to the Russian capital for consultation with the British and Russians on how to beat Adolf Hitler. The British press carried re ports that American-made planes already were in the service of the red air force. Junior members of the Amer ican mission reached London yesterday with the Russian am bassador to Washington, Con stants Oumansky, after a trans atlantic plane flight, and the American 'embassy announced today that W. Averell Harriman, head of the mission, and the remainder of the delegation had arrived "somewhere in the Unit ed kingdom." Harriman arrived in London late today. 10 Change In Southern Pacific train schedules both north and southbound for the winter sea son will become ef'ectlve Sun day, September 28, according to word received at the local of fices from J. A. Ormandy, gen eral passenger agent. Southbound Shasta will de part from Medford at 5:55 p. m. instead of 8:40 p. m. North bound Shasta will arrive at 11:23 a. m. Instead of 11:08 a. m. Northbound Rogue River, ..,mlt, IraiM 4a DAHIsnH will I depart from Medford at 7:50 p. m., instead of 8 05 p. m., and arrive Portland 7:30 a. m., short jenlng the schedule IS minutes. Southbound Rogue River will depart from Portland at 7:45 p. m.f insieaa o i.ia p. m., ana arrive here at 7:55 a. m.. Instead of 7.23 . a, a at preteab 1MMSS Leaving For Moscow Soon "Begnining tomorrow, Knox announced, "the American navy will provide protection as ade quate as we can make it for bips of every flag carrying lcnd-ald supplies" between this continent and Icelandic waters. Knox' speech comprised the first official disclosure of the navy's method in carrying out President Roosevelt's shoot-on- sight orders in his speech of Thursday night. Knox' words highlighted a discussion ot the grave problems of America's course of defense in a world afire a discussion which subdued the monkey busi ness of Legion funmakers as the first formal session ot their twenty-third national' conven tion opened. The nation's commander In chief. President Roosevelt, in a personal message to the Legion naires said the Legion coopera tion in the national defense program had been "a source of satisfaction" tg him and that he felt confident the administration ond the nation could count on a continuation thereof "in meet ing whatever lies ahead." The Legion's commander, Mllo J. Warner of Toledo, Ohio, said the president had spoken plain ly on the government policy of protection of commerce and shipping and "as united nation It Is our duty to hack up the president and congress to the utmost." The Legionnaires previously had heard Sergeant Alvin C York, of Tennessee, one of the ranking heroes of the World war and an advocate of all-out aid to Russia as a means of stopping Nazi Germany, urge that the convention play an Important part In moulding the foreign policy of the United States. SALEM SCHOOLS SHY Salem, Sept. 15. (IP) Open ing day enrollment at Salem schools today totaled 4,630, or 337 less than on the opening day year ago. School officials said the reason for the decline was that many pupils have been excused to pick hops. Rio Do Janeiro, Sept. 15. OPi The tanker Standvae Manilla, due at Santos, Brazil, Friday, radioed today "have 37 Nether lands seamen from torpedoed nip sooera. Check Results Main the Want idi work for yon. The Utile ads produce ondrrful malts and I ha coat la a mare nothing compared to other method! ot reoxMng the pa bile, Why not atart tome thlnf bow then cheek reaulta. NO. 152. 10 E FOR SUBSCRIBERS. Today Is the last dayl Promptly at 10 o'clock to night the books will be closed, the office will be locked and the) annual Mall Tribune "Bargain Days" period will come to an end. So, to southern Oregon and northern California residents de siring to take advantage of the) money-saving, one-year sub scription offer but who have not yet done so, it waa emphasized that the deadline for receiving; subscriptions from persons call ing at the office would positive ly be 10 o'clock tonight. Subscriptions sent by mall must be in envelopes postmark ed not later than September 15, Gerald T. Latham, circulation manager said. And he added, that no subscriptions would be taken by telephone; that the sub scription money must be In the office by 10 o'clock or in let ters postmarked no later than Sept. 15. The "Bargain Days" subscrip tion offer, made by the Mall Tribune for the entire benefit of leaders in this area, is $6 a' year by carrier and $4.50 a year by mail in Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou counties. These special rates represent a saving to the subscriber of $3 a year under the regular monthly car rier rate ot $9 a year, and of $1.50 a year under the regular monthly mail rate of $8 a year. Wealthy in Spain Suffer No Hunger Portland, Sept 15. 4 Much of Spain's population Is starving but not the money ed classes Carey Longmlre, former Portland and Albany newspaperman, said Satur day. "If you have money there, you can get all you want to eat," he told newsmen. Long mlre, here on vacation, is now New York Herald -Tribune war eorreT)ondent. i
