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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941.
NO. 153.
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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.
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18 DIVISIONS IS
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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
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(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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.