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run u wb' Weather ILiST" nfcn rorseast: Fair teoa- aaa slonaar. Slowly rltlnf timpm ' ton. Temperature Good Morning While jom ma? noc b la the market lor a Mnjle thlag rtfht bow. yoa will Had latorostlnf leading oa tha Want 4 pat. Why not ehork tha Adi? The Too Lata to Clauirr alio offere aiany attraction. Medford TRIBUNE Highest YwtfrtUy , si . 4 Lownt rerrda- Precipitation pait 14 boon M Full Associated Prow United Prou Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1941. No. 157. utruu Guns ii m hub Kelly's Comment From Waihlngton Nazi Activities Loom in Pacific Jap Overture to F. R. Hinter Seed Growers Assured Profit If John W. Kelly Wshington, D. C, Sept. 20 Insiders In the national capital are expecting German activities In the Pacific ocean from Aus tralia to the northwest coast of the United States since the "rattlesnake" broadcast 01 presi dent Roosevelt. Navy intelli gence has been Informed that a number of German merchant ships are in Japanese ports, where they have remained for safety since opening of hostili ties. Also comes word that these merchant vessels are slipping to sea and the explanation is that German raiders have arrived in the Pacific and with the pres ence of these raiders the intern ed vessels feel safe to make the dash. Presumably reliable sources report that German raiders have already acted against the British on Pacific islands and that raid ers with Chinese crews but offi cered by Germans are scouting for likely victims. The Chinese are of the pirate class who fre auently attack vessels off the China coast and are indifferent to the Japanese-Chlno war' on the mainland. THE raiders are expected to make an appearance on the Pa cific trade routes used by Amer l lean merchant " ships going to and from the orient, and the American ships now enroute to the northwest and other west coast port from the Red sea zone, where they carried war supplies for the British. These routes extend -from .tha Dutch East Indies to Singapore, the Philippines, on to Puget Sound, the Columbia river snd the Cali fornia porta trade routes now very important to the Metals Reserve corporation which is Importing raw materials tor de fense industries. There is no belief that the German raiders will extend their operations within 1,000 miles of the west coast nor any where that the American navy is now on patrol duty, but the danger, as seen In the capital, is in shooting at the unarmed American freighters in the trade lanes. These lanes, at present, are not well protected, the ad ministration giving principal thought to submarines in the 'Atlantic and to naval bases on (Continued on Paca Six) FARRELL ASSAILS TAX COMMISSION Gearhart 6eot 20. Members of the Oregon Associ ation of Real Estate Boards heard Robert S. Farrell Jr., as sail the state Ux commission here today as having made "fla grant abuse of administrative power." The speaker of the last legis lative session spoke of the com mission's action in withholding announcement of a change in the variable ratio system of as sessment until after the legisla ture had adjourned as "malic ious." The realtors elected Millard C. Holbrook, Portland, presi- dent to succeed James A. Rod msri. Eugene. Among those .cording to Russian reports, with elected to the board of directors planes of the Baltic fleet shoot was T. H. Weir, "Salem. ing down 16 German aircraft In addition extenstve Russian LIGHTNING PRANK guerrilla activity was reported Albany. Sept. 20 Light- in the Leningrad area, ning struck a tree on the Bridge-! way golf course here last night . tripped a general fire alarm rignal and bumed out a fuse at fire headquarters. SHIP TO BRITISH Portland. Sept. 20. ! The e Mtalian line freignter tme. recently taken over by the t. s. maritime commis.ion. win soon be operated by trie British min-i lstry of shipping; NAZIS PAY HIGH COST IN PLANES, TANKSAND IN House To House Defense Rages Berlin Admits Fierce Stand To Save Ukraine Capital. By the Associated Press Moscow, Sunday, Sept. 21. A "savage life and death strug gle" is still raging about Kiev, the Russians said today. The Germans have lost up wards of 150,000 men and are hurling a quarter of a million more of their best troops into the great battle. Russian dis- Datches declared. The Red army pledged ltseu to a last ditch resistance to make the Germans pay as dear ly as possible for this Ukrainian capital, Russia's third largest city, and for every inch they ad vance beyond. Russian advices from the Kiev front said that bitter no- auarter fighting swirled back and forth in the northern sub urbs of the city while today's early morning communique of the Soviet Information Dureau, without giving details, said fighting continued along the whole western front and was "particularly fierce at Kiev, All told, the Russians said the Germans had lost 10 divisions In this vast struggle with 15 more nazi divisions pounding In endless waves at the Red army defenders, With the struggle about Kiev apparently storming toward an imminent climax, the Russians reported victory in the far northern waters of the Barents sea the sinking of a big nazi transport by Soviet warships. Summing up the results of the air war in the three-montn- old conflict, today's commun- ioue said the Germans had lost more than 8.500 planes. The Red air force, it added, con tinues to blast the luftwaffe in the air and on airdromes behind the lines with panzer troops, infantry and artillery providing additional targets. But despite the continuing fierce tempo of the struggle from the Arctic to the Black sea. the battle of Kiev provided the outstanding action of the moment, The Russians, who acknowl edged yesterday that the Ger mans had reached the city's gates, seemed ready to carry out previously announced plans to yield Kiev only alter house-to-house defense. The statement that fighting still raged in the northern sub urb was broadcast over the Mos cow radio. (The Germans flatly ac knowledged Saturday that fierce fighting was going on in the Immediate vicinity of Kiev, re porting that the Russians trying to break out of a trap Just east of the city, had fallen back be fore heavy German fire). The ferocity of the battle was thus described in the Russian army's official organ, the news paper Red Stan "The gunners at Kiev are fighting the enemy until death The Germans shall pay dearly for the city. The Red army is sparing no efforts to Inflict the greatest possible losses upon the German hordes." Before Odessa. Important Soviet Black sea port encircled at the southern end of the front, 13 German planes were said to have been destroyed by pilots of the Soviet Black sea fleet. In the north, the Russian de fenders of Leningrad continued to hold off German forces, ac- BULLETIN NIGHT GAME Score: R. H. E. Oakland 3 11 0 c.(.rlmento 1 7 I Corbett and Conroy; Klelnke. Xurbeville and Kluttx. Hawail 13, Portland 6. Interpreting The War News By Klrke L. Simpson The colossal battle in Russia enters another week under bleak omens for the Soviets and their British allies. Undoubtedly, Hitler's hopes of smashing Rus sian resistance utterly before winter comes and then turning his full might against Britain, have touched a new high. The vast, nazi offensive has at least penetrated Kiev and is gravely threatening to overrun not only what little is left of the Ukraine but fan out around the sea of Azov toward Rus sia's vital Baku oil fields. Censorship veils details of what is happening in the Ukraine, but it appears that Kharkov, great industrial nerve center far southeast of Kiev, also may soon fall, or perhaps has already fallen. And it is but a good step for Germany's seven-league military boots from Kharkov down the Donets river to Rostov and the pipe lines that tap the Baku fields to feed the soviet war machines. Of even greater moment than the strictly military conse quences of the German victories is the effect on Russian morale generally, both army and civili an. London experts estimate that Russia has both the man power and other essential re sources still to fight on, even if driven behind the Donets-Don line in the south. They stress, however, that only by a flood of British and American arms and war machines can Red army equipment losses be made good. The British and Americans seemed yesterday to have de cided on that. W. Averell Har- rlman, head of the American delegation to . the three-power conference son Russian aid, torn reporters at London that 'hun dreds of American planes and tanks" would go to Russia and that the flow would Increase constantly. " There can be no question that the prime essential is the con tinued will of the red army ana the Russian people to fight it out with Germany to the bitter end. Without that, the battle Is already lost and Britain and her American supporter must gird themselves for a battle of redoubled fury in the Atlantic beginning this winter and cli maxing next spring and sum mer. As never before since Napole on s day, Kussia must count supremely on her winter ally now. The difference between an early and a late winter, or between a severe and a relative ly mild winter, could be the dif ference between victory and complete defeat for her. A winter as terrible as Napoleon faced still could destroy Hitler as Napoleon was destroyed. SABOTAGE GAINS IN ALL HOLLAND London. Sept. 20.- Aneta, the Dutch news agency, said today that sabotage and anti-nazi demonstrations are on the increase throughout Hol land, and that resistance has reached a point where the nazi- controlled newspaper Nleuws blad Van Het Noorden has had to appeal against the spreading of the slogan, "The more chaos the better." Among incidents mentioned by the news service were these: A 9 p. m. curfew has been imposed on the town of Hoens- broeck in reprisal for tneits from the German armed forces. Inhabitants of the town of Enschede have been fined 50, 000 guilders for sabotage. E TAX AJEAL ONE Oslo, German-occupied Nor way, Sept 20. UP) The fi nance ministry announced today a new income tax which in certain brackets takes 85 per cent of any excess of 1940 in come over that of 1039. Sacramento, Sept. 20 'JPt Butterfat first grade 43c; second grade 41a. , i 1 SEATTLE STRIKE DEFENSEjFFORT Adm. Freeman Assails Un ion 'Obstruction' Own Interests Placed First. Seattle, Sept 20. WV-Rear Admiral C. B. Freeman, com mandant of the 13th naval dis trict, strongly assailed today the dispute which has tied up the Alaska liner Baranof here as a 'petty quarrel" and "obstruction of the national defense effort." The Bamot, an Alaska steam ship line vessel, was scheduled to sail last Thursday with a cargo of freight and a heavy passenger list, bound partly for military and naval projects in the far north. Sailing was postponed when members of the Marine Fire men's union refused to ship on the vessel unless a certain cook was removed. Officials of the union have emphasized that no union dispute is Involved. Admiral Freeman, in a formal statement, hinted that such dis putes might conceivably lead to the government's taking over of shipping between Seattle and Alaska. His statement said the con troversy "Is a clear example of the obstruction of the national defense effort because of the selfish desire of certain union organizations to place their own conveniences and preju dices ahead of the , nation's security, The failure of the Baranof to sail, under the circumstances is an example of a tendency noted for some time in the northwest for union organiza tions to render lip-service to the national defense effort but to fail signally in granting any real concessions to the common good of all patriotic citizens in any matters which affect their own privilege." Company officials said there is no indication when the dis pute might be settled. LIVINGlSTSUP, WAGESKEEP PACE Washington, Sept, 20. (IP) Food prices and the cost of liv ing have reached their highest point In 10 years under the impact of the armament effort, but an accompanying rise in weekly earnings of - factory workers, government econo mists say, has more than kept pace with climbing prices. Records of the bureau of la bor statistics show that the cost of living has gone up 7Vi per cent since the start of tha war In Europe. But In the same per iod average weekly earnings In manufacturing Industries have increased 32 percent STORMS OFF E Albuquerque, N. M Sept. 20 (IP) A mountain cloudburst left Albuquerque without natural gas late today, and utilities offi cials said it would be at least two days before service could be restored. A 13-foot wall of water rsged down an arroyo from mountains In a volcanic area, he said, and ripped out the line. The break In Albuquerque came with dramatic suddenness at 4:40 p. m. First notice was a short electric power failure while generator boilers were switched from gas to oil. Many Albuquerque house wives were caught with half cooked meals. YOUTH CIVEN LIFE The Dalles, Sept 20. JP A life term in the state prison today faced Irvln Russell Jones. 19. Canby. Ore., confessed slsyer of John Ksrlen, 77, wealthy Tj-gh valley rancher. - - ALBUQUERQU London Rep ,. . ""NntV KREMENCHU? DNIE PEROTS I f' X i X-PETROVSK (I 1 O -TttT&g SE VASTOPOig? rA'tuIpSE 1 miles 1 Nsiss-c--rs a I Aa authoritative source In London said German forces apparently had cut off the entire Crimean peninsula at the south of the Russian front Map locates (1) Ukraine area la which Kiev and Odessa are still under pressurei (2) region of reported German drive east oi Dnieper river isolating Crlmaai (3) Rostov, through which the London source said, Russians might have to continue contact with Crimea. BOY, 9, SLAIN BY BY GIRL ALSO 9 San Francisco. Sept. 20. (IP) Nine-year-old David Henry An- tollni died of gunshot -wounds today .because, of a childhood yen for the "funny books'" which Barbara Ortega, 9, didn't want him to see. David and four- boy com panions of like age called on Barbara yesterday and asked permission to look at the books they knew she had. "Get out " Barbara said. "My daddy has got two guns and if you don't get out, I'll shoot." The fourth grade schoolgirl, also 9, went to a closet and returned with a double-barreled shotgun. She pointed It at David, standing nearest. There was an explosion, the force of the blast throwing the weapon from Barbara's hands David fell, and the other boys ran. After a while police ei"ta to the Ortega home. "I didn't think It was loaded," Barbara whimpered. "I Just wanted to scare him." The boy's liver, stomach and intestines were perforated in 150 places. Some time after the shooting Barbara's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Ortega, returned from their work in a cannery at Redwood City to learn of the tragedy. . VICHY EMOTIONS Vichy, Unoccupied France, Sept 20. (IP) The German exe cution of 12 French hostager in Paris today in reprisal for the killing of a single German sol dier has created a stir in Vichy. In the first comment on the executions authorized circles acknowledged tonight that they had caused "lively emotion" here in the provisional capital. It was added that French pub lic opinion was "sadly hit" by the reprisal measures, even if it could not approve of acts of vio lence against German occupying troops. The official French newa agency commented that "It must be remarked that a high number of hostages was shot in reprisal for this murder." BOOM TALK rirhiri Kr,t 1f Or- gons Willamette valley Is dee- tined to grow from 850.000 to 6,000,000 population, the Ore gon Association of Real Estate Boards was told yesterday. Portland, Ore., Sept. 20. VP) A head-on collision on the Pa cific highway nor'.h of C'ar.fcy killed Mrs. Isabel Kendall of Salem today. s Germans Have Cut Off Crimea War Bulletins Berlin, Sunday, Sept 21. (IP) B r 1 1 1 h air raiders dropped ineandlary bombs on Berlin during the night but caused only "unimportant property damage." an official announcement said today. The communique saldi "British bombing planes penetrated to Berlin where they dropped some incendiary bombs doing unimportant property damage. "German anti-aircraft ar tillery thus far reported shoot ing down two planes." London. Sept 20. (IPh Fifteen German planes were shot down la RAF sweeps ever the channel and north western France today, the British reported tonight Seven British fighters and three bombers are missing. Seattle, Sept. 20. WV-Mayor Earl Millikln made It known to day booers at next Tuesday's America First mass meeting will have the same privilege as those who may wish to cheer. He made this announcement In commenting on a letter from State Treasurer Otto Case, chair man of the committee in Wash ington, who appealed to the mayor "to take such steps as you deem proper to assure Sena tor Wheeler and all citizens who desire to attend this publie meet ing freedom from any rowdyism or any interference whatsoever." Senator Burton Wheeler, who has been speaking against the administration's foreign policy throughout the country, will be the principal speaker. Millikln said "there will be police to prevent bloodshed or disorderly conduct but if one man wants to cheer and another to boo I am not going to try to suppress either. "The same freedom of speech that permits Senator Wheeler to express his ideas here will be allowed to those who may wish to express their disapproval of his views." RAT IN TROUSERS SPEEDER'S ALIB Hsgerstown, M4., Sept. 20. (, Magistrate Harry E. Sny der credited Milton Schild- i kiecht, 25. today w'ththe most novel excuse for speeding he ever heard. In appreciation he cut the usual S3 fine to $1. Schildknecht said he unwit tingly stepped on the gas when he felt something stir In his pocket reached In and found a white rat He said he had vis ited at the home of a friend who raises whit rats. BRITISH ATTACK STETTIN, BALTIC BASE OF HITLER London, Sept. 20. VP) The RAF in one of the biggest of fensives in weeks, begun by .he light of the aurora borealis and continued throughout tiie day light hours, pounded bitterly de fended objectives from Norway to France today. There was fierce fighting over the English Channel in which the British declared they shot down 15 German planes and lost ten of their own, including sev en fighters and three bomberr The German high command, in a special announcement heard here by radio, asserted that a total of 38 British planes were shot down, all but three In air combat. The Germans said they lost only two. The RAF said it burned or crippled six ships In a German convoy in the channel. Reuters quoted DNB aa say ing British planes also attacked Berlin but the British denied any tries at the capital. Russian planes may have bombed Berlin, Tha bombing last night cf Stettin, important German Bal tic supply base for the Russian ampaign, was said by the air ministry to have been carried out by the light of the aurora borealis and to have resulted in many large fires among the dxks, warehouses and railroad yards. The raid cost the British two planes, a ministry commun ique said. CONVICT SOLVER OF MYSTERY DEAD Walla Walla, Sept. 20. (IP Mrs. Millicent Paddleford Faw- cett credited with having prompted Mrs. Mary E. Smith, convict mother of Decasto Earl Mayer, to confess their murder of James Eugene Bassett in King county in 1928, is dead. Mrs. Fawcett la 1938 was credited with getting the eonfl denes of Mrs. Smith and solving a decade-old mystery with the tatter's confession. Mayer, taken to tha King county jail shortly thereafter strangled himself to death while awaiting trial. Mrs. Smith later pleaded guilty to a first degree murder charge and was sen tenced to life imprisonment Mrs. Fawcett died Friday in prison and was buried today. HIT RUNNER SURRENDERS Seattle, Sept. 20. ilPy Glen Smith. 30. of Burbank, Calif., aircraft planner, surrendered at police headquarters today as the driver of tha California-licensed sutomoblle which disappeared early today after killing una pedestrian and Injuring two others. " ; " FOREIGN POLICY ( OFF.D.R.SEENAS ELECTJNJSSUE Sen. Taft Resents Willkle'a Stand La Follette Urgca Opposition. By William B. Aidary Washington, Sept. 20. Declaring that "it is unfortun- ate that Mr. Wendell Willkla should attempt to read out of the party those who disagree) with him on foreign policy," Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said today that he saw no reason for Re publicans to make an issue ol international policies In the off year elections of 1942. Willkie, the 1940 Republican nominee, recently let it be known that he would make a fight next year for those Repub licans who have supported Prea ident Roosevelt s foreign polio, les. He is determined, associates asserted, to make the Republic an party one of "International. Ism" rather than Isolationism . Taft who has opposed admin lstration foreign policies, told reporters that "foreign policy la not usually considered a matter of partisanship." "Congressional votes on thai question have cut across party lLies, and there is no reason for the Republican party to maka an issue of foreign policy nex year," ha added. "No Republican national eon vention can be held to maka any binding declarations regarding -olicy before next year s eleo tions. and tha -party national committee clearly has no author, lty to make such declarations. "I sea no reason why each congressman and each senator should not run on his own for eign policy reobrd. There era plenty of domestic issue ost which the Republican part stands united, and it is unfor tunate that Mr. Wendell Will- kte should attempt to read out of tha party those who disagree) with him on foreign policy." From a Wisconsin Progres sive, Senator LaFoBfctte, came statement that those opposed to American entry into war should mobilize for the political bat tles which lie Just ahead." LaFollette who had adminis tration backing in his re-elec tion campaign last year, often has criticized President Roose velt's foreign policies while sup porting his domestic programs. Willkie, LaFollette declarea. appeared ready to participate in collaboration to purge uia Democratic and Republican par ties of all those who do not agree with the administration' foreign policies. WRONG JEM GP.EEH HAIED.I3 COURT V-.MH, Ca-, Sept 20. (") Tha case of Annie Green vs. James Green droned along for 45 minutes in superior court wnila the defendant fidgeted. The oil company worker heard Annie testify her James had left her. listened to her mother and it her relatives declare alimony was indicsted. Then he took the stand In hi own defense, without attorney, and shouted: Judge, I never saw the) folks before'" Deputies had subpoenaed tha wrong James Green. WITH AXIS SEEII London, Sept 20. UP) Tha diplomatic correspondent of tha Sunday Dispatch today saia King Boris of Bulgaria has de cided to bring his country Into) the war on the aid of tha axis. British news dispatches trora Turkey said tha Bulgarian radio announced the declaration of a state of emergency in the Bs kan kJafdoaa, s .' I 4
