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Newspaper Page Textrun o weaut- Weather ?JT'" npon Forecast : Partly cloudy to night and ftatarday with o - ctslonal light ihowenj con tin ned cooL Htfhett yesterday1 U Lowest this morning 45 Precipitation put 14 hr., trace Read Then Act ThU U Jul a resainSar that taSa U rnilay tlnM te pre put that Hut At for the Sunday mornlnf 9(111100. Man 7 peoftla find mora time on San 4t than any other daf to ml then net. ' Medford Tribune Full Associated Pro United Pru Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941. NO. 156. 15) o) 1 BEfi 1 REV FALLS I AS Kelly's Comment Flora Washington Army Engineers . May Build Camps Portland Housing Project Delayed Cows Of Oregon Help Win War Br John W. Rally Washington, D. C, Sept. 19. Army officers are supposed to be indifferent to the activities of congress, yet now every mem ber of the construction quarter jr.aster corps and the engineer corps is watching the legislative body to observe what happens to the May bill. Passage of this measure, sponsored by Repre sentative May, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, will cause a major shake-up in the department. Passage means that if the pro posed cantonments at Corvallls and Medford are built it will be under the direction of the army engineers and not under the constructing quartermaster division. The few printed lines of the May bill are packed with dynamite and it would be dif ficult to compress more fire works In the 200 more or less words. Up to now practically all army construction work has been In charge of the quarter master; cantonments, hospitals, ammunition dumps, etc. After all the cantonments already built, (there has been much criticism) congress is requested to transfer all future building to the army engineers. Appar ently there is dissatisfaction with the work of some of the ' constructing quartermasters and In retaliation the whole building job is to be taken from the corps and handed over to the engineers, notwithstanding that many of the projects handled by the quartermaster division have been perfectly satisfactory. There have been, however, some peculiar happenings In the selec tion of contractors and things of that sort under the auspices of the quartermaster, and con siderable quiet and open grum bling has been and is being heard, such as "favoritism" and "inside pull." a OFM has given a clearance for trucks in Oregon. That state has regulations different from those in Washington or Califor nia which cause trucks in transit (Continued on ago Ten) Radio Highlights By the Associated Proas (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight, The War 4:55 CBS; 8:30 NBC-Blue; 7 CBS; 7:15 NBC-Red; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS; 8:55 NBC CBS. NBC-Blue 6:45 International highway opening banquet. CBS 8 lightweight fight, Rsy Robinson vs. Maxie Shapiro. Saturday, The War 9:45 NBC-Red; 11:55 CBS; 12 NBC Red; 1 p. m., MBS; 2:25 NBC; 2:30 CBS NBC-Blue. CBS 12:30 p. m., radio tour of London. NBC-Blue 8:30 a. m.. National Grange; 12 M. (Also MBS 1:15) Belmont Park races; MBS 2:30 army maneuvers; 2:45 Pacific southwest tennis. Camas, Wash., Sept 19. (IP) Fire last night destroyed the Olson Brothers sawmill near here at a loss, estimated by Man at'T C. J. O'-on. at ?20.noO SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Horace Bromley getting a vig orous greeting from a friend in front of the Toggery. Commissioner Art Powell holding up a public welfare meeting while he discussed weighty world affairs with Edu cator E. H. Hedrick, Atty. Frank Fan-ell and Pleece Chief Clat ous McCredie. Edna Myers getting so excited over being swarded s radio she could scarcely drive ber car home. rn n nrn inuirn . i-UUK KtU CLAIMED TRAPPED BY H.TLERFORCES New Peril For Leningrad Key Town of Poltava Also Reported Taken By Nazis. By the Associated Proas Adolf Hitler's high command reported late today that German troops have entered Kiev, the Ukraine capital and Russia's third greatest city, while other Nazi forces have trapped four Russian armies and stormed within 80 miles of Kharkov, The swastika flag is waving over the Kiev citadel, the Nazi high command said, announcing the capture less than 12 hours after the Russians officially acknowledged that German troops had reached one of Kiev's gates. Two-Month Siege The city, with a population of more than 850,000, had been under siege for two months. Grave new threats also imper iled Russia's second biggest city, Leningrad, with the Germans reporting that the guns of the mighty Kronstadt naval base, 20 miles west of Leningrad, had been silenced. In the drive toward Kharkov, Hitler's high command reported. Nazi troops captured the key rail town of Poltava, 200 miles east of Kiev and 65 miles east of the Dnieper river. Kharkov is the chief indus trial city of the Donets river basin. - Nazi dispatches Indicated that the resistance of Marshal Sem- ean Budyenny's Ukraine armies was crumbling, with German columns regaining the blitz tempo which marked their light ning smashes through Belgium, Holland and France last year. Appsal To Islam Amid the desperate plight of the Red defenders, the head of Russia's Mohammedan Adminis tration appealed to the worlds 235.000.000 Mohammedans to rise "in the name of Islam' against the "devastation of fascism." The trapped red armies, un officially estimated at 600,000 troops, were reported caught In a steel ring 125 miles east of Kiev. "Their annihilation Is now In progress." the German high command said. The German high command. releasing casualty figures on the first two months of the 90-day-old struggle, said German losses were 84,354 killed, 292,690 wounded and 18,921 missing. German air force losses for the two-month period were given as 1,542 dead, 3,980 wounded and 1,378 missing. Russian prisoners were listed st more than 1,800,000 since the beginning of the conflict, with the number of Soviet killed rated considerably higher. British estimates yesterday said the Russians had lost 3,000,000 men and the Germans 2,000,000. Heavy Blow Authoritative London quar ters, acknowledging that the loss of coal and oil fields, steel plants and other war industries in the Ukraine had dealt a sore blow to the Russians, declared nevertheless that the U S S R, could maintain a large army in the field even if the Germans overran the Donets industrial basin and took Kharkov. Alternative sources of supply, It was said, would prevent a Russian collapse. ABANDON HOPE Marshfield, Ore, Sept. 19. (JPy Representatives of unitea Airlines said this week It was not likely that new feeder sir iin Inn u nmed here, would be established to Coos bay for some time. At the end of the war they predicted substantial expansion of all sir lines. K. F. MAN, 10, DIES Klsmath Falls, Sept. ' (AP) Dr. Sam Watah, who remem bered the first white man that cams to Klamath county, died last night at the age of 106. He was a local authority on happen ings in the Indian wars in this region. Army -Navy J Careening upward " smoke bthind it and 1 tared tail just behind Nazis Execute More French In Effort By ths Associated Press Shots of a German firing squad broke the quiet of a Paris dawn once more today as two more communists were exe cuted in reprisal tor demonstrations against ths German oc cupying authorities in France. ! f : Ten men set firs to s German i army garage in Paris tonight in defiance. of strict nazi repressive measures. All escaped. Paris hss- becdrrie' In' recent months a restive symbol of the chafing of a populace under au thoritarian rule; .there the Ger mans have taken the most dras tic measures spplied In the many lands. Bombs and ' gunfire in rebel lious outbreaks' in -axis-conquered lands and the answers of fir ing squads have taken the lives of at least 115 persons, wounded 71, and resulted In sweeping ar rests of uncounted hundreds within s week. In Paris ths situation wss so grave ths Germans ordered a curfew imposed for three nights In the Seine department, whose chief city is Paris, and warned that the violators would be ar rested and held as hostages. Two days ago the German military command warned that Increasing number of hos tages would be shot in sny fu ture attacks on Germsns snd that they would be drawn from all classes. Already 15 Frenchmen have died by the firing squad In re taliation for attacks on German soldiers. Ten of them were shot this week. The first attack on a German soldier occurred several weeks ago. He was stabbed' to death In a Paris subway. Another Ger man was clubbed upon leaving a theater, and still later another was shot in the back on a Paris street. Bombings snd gunfire marked the continued resistance of Serbs in the mountain hamlets of Yugoslavia. An explosion in the Zagreb, Croatia, central telephone ex change last Sunday wounded at least 12 German soldiers, one of them a msjor, snd seven Croats TWELVE CARS OF LARK DERAILED IN SMASHUP Paso Robles, Calif., Sept. 19 (AP) Twelve cars of the South ern Pacific luxury train, the Lark, were derailed early today when a freight train crashed into the southbound sleeper but no one wss Injured seriously. The freight trsin engine also was derailed. Several passengers were treat for minor Injuries by army physicians from nesrby Camp Roberts. ECONOMY HITS ARMY Washington, Sept 19 TV In the Interest of economy the army today abandoned the hand some slate-blue uniform hereto fore worn by flying cadets and ordered it replaced with the mora servicesbls olive drab. Planes in Mid TO.BWL3..'W5,WI (left), streaming fallina. an armr cursuit shio halt v.: ST.. ua a. - ." - -I . Le j just collided with the navy dive bomber, it, and is about to start plung ing to earth (right). Lieut. John Bobroiki died in ths crash which occurrod during army maneuvers at Couthatta, La. The radio man of the navy plan parachuted to safety whilo the pilot made it safely back to base, although the craft was damaged. to Halt Outbreaks BrigM Aurora Brings Mad Mixup On Wires; Many False Reports New York, Sept. 18. (AP) By Way of denial the northeast ern, part, of . the continent was not bombarded last night. There was no rainbow at night. The Dodgers-Pirates baseball game was not shut off the air by a Dodger fan as the Pirates scored four runs. There were no kittens on the keys of teletype machines. There were no anti-aircraft maneuvers anywhere. There was, however, a display of the Aurora Borealis exceed ing sny remembered by veteran observers which, coinciding with some unexpected sun spots, gave rise to the reports herein denied. Startled New Yorkers gazed at the blazing skies and telephoned to "sk If the city were under attack. Airplane passengers said t ey saw a rainbow on a scale unbelievable. The radio went dead right on those four crucial runs. Telegraph editors fretted as the high-speed news wires de livered only 3ibberlsh for min utes st a time. The weather bureau ssid the display, ranging from red to purple to green and blue, was seen as far south as Virginia and Atlanta. Signing of Tax Bill Is Delayed Few Days For Thorough Study Hyde Park, N. Y- Sept. 19. (!p) President Roosevelt said at his press conference today that he did not know exactly when he would sign the nation's big gest tax bill, a $3,553,400,000 measure which he brought with him from Washington. The president who arrived this morning for -a short stsy at his ancestral home, said he thought 48 hours wss not too long to study the bill snd said that holding It up a dsy or so would not cost the government anything. Mr. Roosevelt began the con ference by asserting thst he hsd no news today, and for the first time In months his press confer ence failed to produce a single Important story. News men brought up a wide range of subjects, but Mr. Roose velt was not inclined to talk 'about them. -Air Crash 3 Hv" t 0 i4 TO RESUME JOBS ' By the Associated Press An sggrement returning to work on Monday 44,000 striking employes of captive coal mines, which supply the defense-Important steel industry was announc ed today at Washington by Wil liam H. Davis, chairman of the defense mediation board. The agreement resulted from conferences, started Wednesday, In which representatives of the CIO United Mine Workers, head ed by John L. Lewis, president; officials of major steel compan ies and the board participated. The strike resulted from re fusal of the companies to agree to a union demand for a union shop clause In proposed con tract. The union shop clause re quires that all persons employed by the company join the union within a specified period follow ing employment. For the second time within three months, construction virt ually was halted on the subma rine base, the naval air station and two federal housing pro jects, all at Key West, Fla., by the failure of AFL workmen to report for duty. One thousand laborers re mained away from work this morning, demanding that their wage bo increased from the present 50 cents to 62 V4 cents an hour. Six hundred carpen ters started the strike yesterday in their effort to have their cur rent $1 an hour wage boosted to $1,121. TRAINMEN DIE .F. Klsmath Falls. Ore., Sept. 19 (IP) Two trainmen were fatally scalded and a third critically burned by escaping steam when s freight train crashed Into a lone boxcar In the yards here this morning. Brakeman Paul Grubb, 25, Klamath Falls, and Engineer L E. Sanford, about 45, Portland, died several hours after the accident. The Injuries of Fire men S. Korner, Portland, were described as serious st a lrcal hospital. The three were riding In the cab of a Mallett engine pulling a freight trsin Into the yards from the north when the loco motive which hss the cab In front, crashed into the loaded steel boxcar. E NEED BARUCH TESTIFIES Congress Told Action Would Save 20 Percent Or More On All Appropriations. Washington, Sept. 19. (JP) Bernard M. Baruch, World war head of the war Industries board, told congress today legis lation which would put a ceiling over the entire price structure was the "greatest single neces sity of our present crisis" and would save "20 per cent or more of all appropriations." Testifying before the house banking committee which is considering the administration's price control bill, Baruch said that while he was strongly in favor of that measure's objec tive, he regarded it ss "piece meal." The white haired financier took sharp issue with the mem bers of the committee on several points, chiefly In that he favored a single administrator for any price control law enacted and in contending that the ceiling for farm prices should go to "the parity level and no higher.' Under the terms of the bill, no farm price could be lixed below 110 per cent of the parity price. Parity prices sre on s level designed to give farmers the same purchasing power In terms of non-farm products they had in 1909-14. Early in his remarks, Baruch ssid solemly that "with payrolls soaring and shortages develop ing, more money bidding for the goods, the danger of an Infla tionary price rise is Imminent." He added: 'If It is not taken firmly in hand in time. It may get beyond the possibility of control. Noting that the new supply priorities snd allocations board already had begun consideration of steps to take the "fat" off the economic body Baruch said "the fat can be taken off all business but the skeleton and vital or gans must remain." CAP EXPLANATION Portland, Sept 19. IP) Ad ministrator J. H. Mapes of the state milk control board said to day the effect of more elaborate milk bottle caps on the price of milk could not yet be deter mined. In cases where the csp which covers the pouring edge of the bottle Is required by municipal or regional sanitary authorities, there is no reason for the state milk board to order an Increase in the price of milk. However, where the use of the more elaborate eap la op tional and the cap Is used ss s trade stimulator, the board's policy would be toward. a one cent increase per quart In the price. Mapes said this was be cause large dairies could use such csps st a lesser per-quart cost than small dairies. Supplies. From Bombers to Beans. In Steady Flow to Great Britain A British Port, Sept 19. OP) The British ars keeping at least 2,000 ships constantly st sea snd "never less than 400 In the danger zones," a wsr transport ministry official said today as an all-American cargo was being clesred through this port The cargo Including sir plsnes, Idaho beans, California raisins snd Florids citrus fruit wss part of a steady stream of lease-lend goods coming from the United States. The British ssid the flow hsd averaged 850 000 tons weekly for the psst 10 weeks. The wsr transport ministry official reported a big speed-up in the landing of lease-lend goods through a quicker turn around of ships. I Here's a quick run through some of the goods brought over $5,000 Scattered on Railroad Track When Pouch Torn Aurors, Ind., Sept 19. (P) An accident to a mail pouch started a treasure hunt along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track. The pouch, carrying an est imated $5,000 In bills and sil ver sent by registered mail to Switzerland county banks, was thrown off at the station. It bounced back onto the track and was cut to pieces, ind the money was scattered Uong more than a mile of the right-of-way. Townspeople went out with baskets and scooped up the riches. One man got $323. But the finders feared they wouldn't get to keep the money. A postal Inspector was sent from Cincinnati to investigate. COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN DATE IS OCTOBER 14 T0 18 October 14 to 18 are the dates announced for the 1941 Medford Community Chest cam paign by C. E. Gates, campaign chairman, and George Hiles, community chest president. The campaign will be launched dur ing the period of the National Mobilization for Human Needs when community chests throughout America will be en gaging in their annual appeals for funds. According to Mr. Gates the budget committee of the local chest is to meet next Mondsy to study finsncisl reports and requests of the six local agen cies for 1942. Those comprising the committee are George Frey, William Fluhrer, M. N. Hogan, Eugene Thorndlke, and Robert Norris. A financial report submitted by Ralph Sweeney, treasurer, at the executive board meeting last Thursday revealed inter esting Information. Of special Interest to the community Is that fact that the board of di rectors hss managed the chest with a very minimum of over head cost. The total cost of ad ministering the chest work dur ing the past year has been just six-tenths of one percent of the total budget "This Is probsbly s new low smong Community Chests," said Sweeney, "snd re flects many more than the usual number of volunteer hours of work during the year." Investigate Caist Huge Boston Elaze Boston, Sept 19. (AP) State and city fire officials today searched smouldering ruins in sn effort to trace the origin of one of Boston s greatest fires in decades a warehouse inferno that caused damage estimated at $750,000. The fire sending up a column of smoke encountered by an air plane at an altitude of 10,000 feet and visible In Province- town on Cape Cod's tip, 45 miles away, took no lives so fsr ss wss known, but st least 16 persons suffered Injuries, most of them minor. In ths latest convoy reaching here: A dozen or mora attack bomb ers from Santa Monica, Calif, big sacks of beans from Hansen Idaho; tubs stamped "Wisconsin brand" cheese; piles of brown cartons labelled "seedless rsisins from Fresno, Calif.; citrus fruit from Lake Wales, Fla.; snd hams from Chicago, There was an ambulance, "gift from the people of Mil ford Conn." Also machine tools from Michigan City. Ind.; aircraft parts from New Hsven, Conn firs extinguishers from Brook lyn; dried spples from San Francisco; lard from St Louis: canned pork from Chicago; boxes nt fibre from Wilmington, Del, Insulating material from Tren ton, N. J.; tank tracks from Chicago and peanuts from Georgia, r t uAIUKUAT! OPENING FEATURE Procession Of Mounted Posse, Rodeo Queen And Riders Starts At 1 P. M A parade through the city's business section at 1 p. m. to morrow will precede the first performance at 2:30 of the sec ond snnual, two-day Medford, rodeo at the fairgrounds park. The second performance wilt take place at the same time Sunday afternoon. Participating in the parade will be the uniformed, mounted Jackson county sheriff's posse snd the women's posse, mem bers of ths Klamath Falls mounted posse, the Ashland Trallrlders, possibly the Yreks, Ual., sheriff's posse, the rodeo queen snd her escort snd many local riders. All those partici pating In the parade will be admitted to the rodeo free. Form at Fairground The parade will form at the posse stables ai the fairgrounds, move north on Riverside avenue to Main street west on Main street to Sixth street east on Sixth street to Central avenue and south on Central to the fair grounds. Ths queen will be selected be tween halves at the Medford- Weed football game tonight. with applsuse and horsemanship determining ths winner. Promising more thrills, spills) snd wild action than ever be fore, with a star-studded list of top performers second to none on the Pacific and an equally great supporting cast of wild bucking horses, Brahma bulla and roping steers, the rodeo will be held rain or shine. A total of $1,600 In purses will be at stake as the cowboys. hailing from all points in the west snd Csnsds pit their skill sgalnst the same snlmala which) havs participated in such fam ous rodeos ss those at Pendle ton, Redding, Red Bluff, Lake view and Salinas. . Prises Only Pay Max Barbour, staging thai rodeo for the Medford Athletis) association, emphasized today that none of the cowboys wsr being psld for their perform ances; that only remuneration being In the form of prizes dis tributed to winners and high placers in the various events. thus insuring red hot competW tlon. He Issued a special Invita tion to all local cowboys to com pete. Msjor events on eacn perron mance will be Brahma bull rid ing, calf roping, bucking horse riding and bulldogglng. Between these events there win be acta by SI and Fanny, world famous clowns, and their trained mule. Abner: novelty races of all de scriptions and a wild-cow milk ing contest. Barbour has provided 40 neaa of top bucking horses, 25 Brah ma bulls and 50 bead oi Mexi can steers for the rodeo. Anion the ace cowboys seeking tne cash prizes are Jerry Ambler, who won second prize at Pendle ton in the world's bronco rldin contests; Carl Dossey ol rnoo nlx. Arts, world's champion bareback rider, and Gregory Lougher of Sonoma, Cal., a high finisher in the Pendleton brone) riding events. There will b many more rodeo artists o hand for the shows. Special Act A special feature will be the appearance of Nancy Kelly, 10-year-old trick roper, and anoth er will be an act by Felix Coop er, colored bull fighter. The grand entrance, lnciuamej all performers, the local mount ed sheriff's posse, the luamatn Falls sheriff's posse, the Ash land Trallrlders and hundred of other horsemen and horse women will occur at J:15, sa thst the show can start prompt ly at 2:30. TRANSIENT KILLED Eugene, Sept 19. Ph-Aa) unidentified transient about it years of age died instantly Thursday night when he fell oft a Southern Pacific freight tralsi near Heather on the Eugene KlamaUi route.