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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941.
NO. 156.
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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."
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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.
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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
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(left), streaming
fallina. an armr cursuit shio halt
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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.
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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,
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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.