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run u it to- Weather -T npan A Mere Trifle la Jnit faw mlantet Tom Tribune Format: Partly doo4y to night and Wednaadar. Uttla changa In temperature. Temperature Wcheit Yraterday ' Loweat thla Morning.. 45 Precipitation past t4 hour M FORD eaa write a Want Ad that will ! Into tha home, eC thoas aada of people tcadera of thla ncwipaprr. Tha coat U a mar triria when yoa consider tha plandld mulls. Full Associated PrM United Praaa Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941. NO. 153. wmm UMM Med VAST IF EfIS News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept IS. You can bet your last income tax re ceipt that President Roosevelt is going to have to settle the present un- p 1 e a santness between Cabl n e t Members M o r g e nthau and Wickard about infla tion. In fact, the matter al ready has been discussed at a cabinet meet 1 n g. Morgen- Paul Mallon thau, who for years has argued unsuccessfully for economy, is now arguing against inflation, which President Roosevelt him self has said is at the door. Mr. Morgenthau's latest campaign Jhas been against rapidly increas ing farm prices. His position is that there is a two years' supply of wheat in this country and a one year's supply of cotton, but that prices are still going up. The price of bread recently went up one cent. Much of the surpluses are held by the agricultural depart ment, which shows no sign of letting loose. In addition, we have rigid restrictions on the Im portation of Canadian wheat which the president could relax. Mr. Morgenthau claims that to allow more Canadian wheat to come into the country would not hurt American farmers, because there is a 42 cents per bushel tariff and the Minneapolis price is only 40 cents above the Cana dian price. . ' "THE secretary of the treasury is not trying to hurt the farm er, but he sincerely feels that increases in food and clothing prices necessarily are followed by demands of labor for in creased wages, which in turn cause higher prices of manufac tured goods, etc., and bring in flation. Naturally, Secretary of Agri culture Wickard, whose primary , (Continued on page Pour) ANTELOPE TAGS Portland, Sept. 16. (JP) The state game commission said to day that the supply of antelope hunting tags would be exhaust ed by the end of the week. The antelope season opens in Mal heur county south of the Bums Ontario highway on Oct. 22 and in parts of Lake and Harney counties on Sept. 28. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight, the war: 815 MBS; B:30 NBC-Blue; 8 MBS; 6:45 CBS; 8 NBC, CBS. Talks: MBS S American Le gion convention, Mayor F. H. LaGuardia; Fordham University Centenary dinner, NBC-Blue 8. Vice President Wallace, and MBS 6:30, Gov. H. H. Lehman and others; CBS 6:15, Herbert Hoover from Chicago on sub ject of "national importance." NBC-Blue 8:30, Sen. Wheeler from Billings, Mont, Wednesdav, the wan 9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS; 12:53 p. m., NBC-Blue; 2 MBS; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS, NBC-Blue. American Legion convention, k MBS 6:30 a. m., national cham Apton band. 7:30 William Green address, 10:45 a. m., commit tee reports; NBC-Blue 10 a. m., MBS, Bertita Harding on "Good Neighbor Policy." SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Banning telling friends he had histructed a nice fat buck to stay "right there" until deer season opened and he came back with his trusty rifle. Charles Taylor's goats coming down from the hills to take a , rander at the patrons of the House of Mystery. Doc Charles Kunz wishing he could run this department for, couf 1 ol aj a. i mi i an . .nip OF 18 DIVISIONS IS I Loss Of 270,000 Men On Leningrad Front Seen In Past Few Weeks Fighting By the Associated Press Adolf Hitler's high command reported today the annihilation of nine Soviet divisions and the crushing of nine other di visions "with the bloodiest losses" a grand total of about 270,000 men in fighting south of Lake Ilmen on the Lenin grad front. In a special bulletin, the fuehrer's field headquarters de clared that strong forces of the 11th, 27th and 34th Russian armies had been "decisively de feated," with the capture of 53.- 000 Red army prisoners, 320 tanks and 625 pieces of artil lery. Own Losses Veiled German losses, as usual, were not disclosed. The nazi bulletin said the vast slaughter occurred "during the past weeks" and indicated a smashing blow to Leningrad's defense army of 1,000,000 men. Simultaneously, the Soviet army newspaper Red Star re ported that a gigantic night bat tle of heavy tanks for "an im portant point on the approaches to Leningrad" ended in a com plete rout of the Germans, who left hundreds dead on the field. Nazi military dispatches, pic turing Leningrad as doomed. said the great network of steel and concrete fortifications ring ing the old czarlst capital was crumbling under blows of the most destructive weapons in the German arsenal. More than 200 Soviet bunk ers and pillboxes in the Lenin grad defense zone were report ed smashed or captured, and German troops at some points were reported only 15 miles from the heart of the city. Bridgeheads Taken On the southern front, the nazi high command asserted that German troops after sev eral days' fighting had captured a series of "highly important bridgeheads ' across the lower Dnieper river in the Ukraine. clearing the way for a drive into the rich industrial valley of the Don. At sea, the Russians reoort- ed the sinking of 10 nazi ships seven troop transports and three escorting warships in northern waters off Norway and Finland, and declared that the Germans had been smashed in an attempt to land troops on the fortified Island base of Oesel, off Estonia. An inkling that Germany now was hurling all available man power Into the bloody 87-day-old struggle, possibly to replace staggering losses, was seen in a British report that Hitler had been compelled to withdawn "nearly 500,000 seasoned troops" from nazi-conquered Belgium, Holland and France to meet the demands of the Rus sian campaign. Young recruits and soldiers over 35 years old were said to have replaced the half million sent to the front, and the Brit ish said there was reason to believe western Europe still was garrisoned by 800,000 German troops. Presumably, this force would be sufficient to make the Brit ish hesitate before risking an attempt to Invade the contin ent Germans Confiscalt Wilhelmina's Palace The Hague. Sept 18. JP German authorities today order Mi mnfilMtinn T1 I wi.hi ,h. . . !; '5 Netherlands belonging to living memberi of House of Orange and Nassau, headed hv Queen Wilhelmina, now In exile in Britain. Explaining the action, Arthur Seysz-Inquart the German com missioner, said the queen "clings obstinately to the bol- shevirt-capitalist front She thereby excludes herself from community of new Europe," j Safety Crusade il l I Jackson Cable, 14, of Kansas City, his left leg in heavy cast, a poster hanging from his neck, carries on a neighborhood safety campaign on crutches. Not fancy but fact gave him the idea. He suffered a fractured skull and leg in an automobile accident August 7. STEEL MAGNATES WILL BE QUIZZED L (By Associated Press) John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (CIO), rejected in Washington today a request of the defense mediation tx.ard that captive soft coal mines be reopened immediately By the Associated Press Heads of some of America's largest steel companies have been summoned to appear be fore the national defense med iation board at Washington to morrow in connection with a labor dispute which has closed more than 30 "captive" coal mines whose product is essen tial to the nation's armament drive. The "captive" mines produce coal used exclusively by the steel companies which own the mines. Some of the mills have only three to six week reserve stock of coal. 40,000 Out Upwards of 40,000 United Mine Workers (CIO) have struck for a union shop. The mediation board stepped in quickly to take jurisdiction in the dispute, and asked that the strikers return to work. The affected mines are in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and are owned by the U. S. Steel. Bethlehem, Republic, Welrton, Wheeling, Crucible and Youngs town Sheet and Steel com panies. . An unrelated dispute among anthracite miners stirred east ern Pennsylvania. About 16,000 hard coal miners, members of the CIO-UMW, spread a work stoppage movement in protest to an Increase in union dues and assessments. Dues have been upped from tl to $1.50 a month, assessments from S2 to 56 a year. In Chicago, fact-finding board named by President Roosevelt investigated the strike threat of 1.250,000 railroad workers, members of 19 broth er hoods, ho seek wage in creases which the carriers esti mate would add (900,000,000 a year to their operating ex penses. STATE TO MAKE BIG . REDUCTION IN DEBT Salem, Sept. 19. (JP) State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott an nounced today that on Octo ber 1 he would pay off $2,473, 849 on the state's bonded in debtedness, reducing the debt to 531.474 935, compared with the 566,062,810 debt of 13 years ago. Medford NAZIS EXECUTE 10 T German Non-Commissioned Officer Shot At Soon After Firing Squad Ends Work. Paris, Occupied France, Sept. 16. (JP) A German non-commissioned officer was shot at here today after a German firing squad had executed 10 hostages for attacks on other German soldiers. At the same time it was learn ed that another German non commissioned officer was ser iously wounded Monday night before execution of the hostages. The German shot at today was not hit. The assault today occurred In a subway station. Several shots were fired. Identity of the Ger man was not disclosed. The man wounded was said to be in "very serious condi tion". He was attacked on the boulevard Strasbourg, in the he-rt of the city's commercial district and near the East sta tion where another German ser geant was wounded Sept. 3. Two bullets lodged in the Ger man's back. Execution of the ten hostages was announced by Gen. Stuelp nagel, commander ot the Ger ms "-occupying forces in France. They were .described as- "all communists, including six for eigners." Axis Bombs Cairo in Defiance off Threat Of Reprisal On Rome Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 16. (IP) Carlo suffered its first air raid of the war today, when axis planes bombed the city heavily, killing 39 civilians and wounding 93. . This apparently opened the way for British bombing of Rome, for the British last spring warned that bombing of either Cario or Athens would bring re prisals against Rome. Cairo is a holy city to the Moslem world, much as Rome is to Catholics. The British government warn ing to the axis came on April 18, and stated that once the bombing of Rome started "it will continue as convenient to the end of the war." German officials the next day angrily rejected the British warning with the declaration that they did not Intend to bomb either Athens or Cairo. Grant Pais, Sept. 16 The hop harvest employing about 2,300 pickers was virtual ly at an end in the Rogue River valley today. Record Breaking Budget May List $32,000,000,000 Outlay Washington, Sept. 16. (JP) Harold D. Smith, budget direc tor, today began the preparation of a record-breaking budget for the next fiscal year and it may cost the treasury $32,000,000, 000. The exact figure, however, will not be known until Presi dent Roosevelt sends It to con gress next January. A $32,000,000,000 budget would mean $10,000,000,000 more than is slated to be spent this fiscal year. Smith's task, however. Is something more than arriving -t a huge total, fw financial experts hold that expenditures on such an astro nomical scale will be possible only if defense production reaches tremendous volume. They explained that, in tha last analysis, the size of the new budget will depend, not on ad ministratiota wishes, but on the estimated amount of munitions the nation's factories can turn out The cost ot Uki produclioo Milk Distributors E TAX LEGISLATION Prompt Action In Lower Branch Clears Way For Senate Action Tomorrow. Washington, Sept. 16. The house gave prompt approval today to the 53,533.400,000 com promise version of the new de f jns tax bill, clearing the way for final action tomorrow by the senate. Without a roll-call vote the house adopted recommendations of a Joint senate-house confer ence committee which worked out the compromise on changes made in the record-breaking measure by the senate. Flurries of criticism devel oped against some of those changes, particularly the reduc tion of the Individual exemp tions from $2,000 to 51,500 for married persons and from $800 t- $750 for single persons and the elimination of the require ment that all married persons file joint Income tax returns. More Help Needed Rep. Crowther (R-N.Y.) pro tested that certain provisions of the bill, such as those lower ing the exemptions and Impos ing a $5 annual use on passenger automobiles, would make the measure -"an employment agen cy." He said that lowering of the exemptions last year had forced the internal revenue bureau to hire 3900 additional clerks to handle the increased number of returns and added that the bur eau had reported the proposed automobile tax would necessi tate 3800 more employes to ad minister. In response to questions. Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.) of the house ways and means com mittee, said it would cost the treasury 50 cents to handle each non-taxable Income tax return filed and $1.50 for each taxable return. The treasury estimated that the lowered exemptions would cause filing of 4,930,000 additional returns but that only about 2.275,000 of them would be taxable. Hude Back in Jail When Pond Removed Jack F. Hude, 31, Mc Andrews road, was committed to the county jail In lieu of $1500 ball oy U. S. Commissioner Victor A. Tengwald this afternoon after the Rev. M. Sparks had asked to be released as bondsman Hude is being held for the fed eral grand jury on a charge of larceny of personal property from the home ot a ranger In Crater Lake national park. Bail, originally $150, was Increased this afternoon. plus certain routine government expenses will write the total. Defense is scheduled for about a $25,000,000,000 share of next year'a budget, compared with about $15,000,000,000 this year. This fiscal year will end and the new one begin the night of Tune 30, 1942. Smith, himself, declined to es timate the size of the next bud get saying that he has only be gun hearings on departmental requests. The first hearing, held yesterday, was for the interstate commerce commission. In the coming weeks each of the scores of government agencies will present and try to Justify their requests, with the big army, navy and lend-lease hearings waiting for December. Late In December, the budget officials and President Roose velt will revise the department al requests, but all the details will be secret until the president sends his report to congress ear ly lo January, E OF 89 AT HIGH SCHOOL ON OPENING DAY 628 Pupils Enrolled As Insti tution Starts Week Later Than Usual For Harvest. First-day enrollment at Med ford senior high school, which opened Monday for the 1941-42 school year, was 628, represent ing an increase of 89 students or 16.3 per cent over the 539 pu pils registering on the first day last fall, according to figures re leased today. Although a number of trans fers from out-of-state and other cunty high schools were en rolled yesterday, a school of ficial stated that the sharp in case was undoubtedly due to the fact that the opening was delpyed one week this year to allow students employed in the fruit harvest to complete their - irk before returning to school. Last year and in years pre vious, it was explained, the school opening was not post poned, with the result that many students continued their fruit harvest work at least a week after classes resumed and there fore were not present when first-day enrollment was record- e '. This year. It was pointed out, the majority of student fruit workers had completed their labors and were on hand for the opening. Iran Dilly-Dallying In Expelling Nazis Brings Allied March Londan, Sept. 16. (JP) Brit ish and Russian troops tonight were reported marching on the Iranian capital of Teheran as the nation's ruler, Reza Shah Pahlavl, abdicated under the threat of such action. The British and Russians ac cused the Shah and his govern ment of dilatory tactics In carry ing out an agreement to expel or deliver to the allies all German, Hungarian, Italian and Rumanian nationals. This afternoon, it was learned authoritatively, British and Rus sian troops were marching on Teheran with plans for imme diate occupation of the city. The Shah's abdication was an nounced before an extraordinary session of the Iranian parlia ment, the Teheran radio stated the official reason being 111 health. E PLIES TRADE HERE A leather purse containing $11 in cash, her drivers' license and a silver wedding ring was snatched from the grasp of Mrs. "harles Todd ot Route 1, at 11th and South Ivy streets about 10 p.m. Monday, she reported to city police. Mrs. Todd told police the man, who grabbed her purse and ran down the street, was between 20 and 28 years old, had light hair combed straight back and wore a tan shirt and tan trousers. NAZI FlTtTcOLUMNISTS PROBLEM IN ARGENTINA Buenos Aires, Sept. 16 IJP) A congressional demand for expulsion of ringleaders of Nazi undercover groups, category in which an investigating com mittee named German Ambas sador Edmund von Thermann presented problem today for Acting President Ramon Cas tillo. Castillo has sought "neutrality toward all." Foreign Minister Ruiz Gulnazu declined to say what action the republic's foreign office would take. Ask 1 Cent Boost I War Bulletins Folkestone. Eng.. Sept. 16. (A1) Flying thousands of feet up and barely visible be tween patches of clouds, aa RAF armada passed over the Dover strait just before sun set today and headed to at tack the coast of German-ee-cupled France. Berlin. Sept 16. (JP) T,300 ton British tanker was destroyed In a daylight air attack west of the Hebrides, the German high command announced today, while a transport under convoy and another large merchant ship In British waters were set afire by bombs during the night Legionnaires Stage 12-Hour Parade Al Milwaukee Meel Milwaukee, Sept. 16. (JP) The American soldiers who shouldered rifles in France in 1918 substituted canes today as they swung jauntily down Mil waukee streets in the American ' eglon's brilliant convention parade. Milwaukee got up early, hur ried through breakfast and, hours before the start, massed 10 deep along the entire-three- mile parade route. The march started promptly at 9 a.m., to continue without Interruption for at least 12 hours. The first section passed the reviewing stand shortly be fore 10 o'clock. Convention of ficials, said .about 60,000 would participate. - Assessable valuation of tax able property in Jackson county for 1941 has been fixed at $26,244,280 by the county as sessor's office This is $280,100 less than in 1940 when it was $26,524,380. The decrease was explained as due to the county taking over considerable property, and logged off land being removed from the tax rolls. Total value of land In the county Is fixed at $22,654,470. and includes improvements. The tillable acreage is 105.042 acres with a taxable valuation of $5,654,330. Untlllable land is rated at 634,042 acres. The personal property valua tion roll Is placed at $3,589,810. FRENCH RISK LIVES TO HAMPER GERMANS Salem. Sept. 16 W The peo ple of German-occupied France are risking their lives to hamper the Nazi program, Lloyd Corn wall, member of a pioneer Ore gon family who until recently vas commander of the Legion post In Paris, told Salem mem bers of the American Legion last night He said fuel and food would be extremely scarce In Paris this winter. The Dalles, Ore., Sept 16. OP Sheriff E. J. Kelsay of Wheeler county said here that mule deer in central Oregon are more numerous than for many years. BASEBALL Rational League Boston IS 4 Chicago . S 12 1 Javery and Masl; Passeau, Gornickl, Qulnn, Raffensberger and Scheffllng. Americas (12 Innings): R. H. I. St. Louis , IS S Philadelphia (19 1 Niggeling. Kramer, McKaln, Trotter, and Ferrell; Besse, Had ley, C. Harris. Shirley, Fowler, and Wagner. Detroit 4 S 2 8 Washington Rowe and Tebbetts; Chase, Caxrajquel and Zvaoa, . -- COUNTY VALUATION REDUCEDS280,1 00 E T CITEDASREASON May Hike Price October X Whether Board Give Approval or Not, Is Word The Medford Milk Producer Distributors association voted at a meeting In the Jackson county courthouse auditorium last night to ask the state milk control board to authorize a minimum price scale one cent a quart higher than at present, Charles Campbell, president, said today. The effective date would be October 1, Mr. Campbell stated. If the new minimum seal la authorized by the board, 4 pet1 cent milk will cost the consumer 12 cents Instead of 11 as now and 5 per cent milk will cost 13 cents Instead of 12. It wae indicated that the producer-dls tributora might increase tha price a cent a quart October t whether or not the board haa authorized the new minim una scale. It was pointed out that the board establishes only mini mum prices and anything abovsj the minimum may be charged, it being against the law only ta sell below the minimum. A hearing was held by tha board some time ago and at that time evidence was presented ts show that production costs had risen 25 per cent in the past year whereas the increase ia price sought of cent a quart is only about 10 per cent, Mr. Campbell said. . TO DRAFT BUDGET Henry Xndera, of Ashland. H. A. (Bert) Thlerolf, ot Med ford, and Edward Carlton, of Table Rock, have been named by members of the county court as members ot the Jackson coun ty Budget committee. Endert) and Thierolf have served oai previous budget boards. First meeting of the new budget com mlttee haa been tentatively sat for Thursday. September 25. Thla la an earlier date thaa usual. The committee will draft a) budget for the six months period from January 1 to July 1, for the first half ot 1942, and, also for the full year from July 1, 1942 to 1943. This is la corn pliance with a law passed by the last session of the legis lature. The appointed members act with the county court in prepa ration ot the budget HERMWTEARS Hermlston, Ore.. Sept 16. (JP) This farm region, over crowded by thousands of army munition depot workers, ia rip for an epidemic. Dr. F. B. Belt, city health officer, warned yes terday. There are no sanitary facili ties for hundreds of families, who, finding no houses avail able, are living in trailers, shack and tents, he said. He is attempting to persuade the families to have vaccina tions, especially against measles and influenza. Dr. Belt pointed out however, that compulsion could not be used. Disease danger will be) In creased if Hermlston has a cold winter, Mayor F. C. McKenzle added. He cited that the region had experienced three compara tively mild winters in row, end that colder weather probv rtlr M ta atora.
