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Weather! Use th Want Ad. iuma rapert Inside Tribune tk Waa A hmul: Clear tonight ui Tneada. Little dung la ttn peratnre. Temperature Hlthrlt v T "4 Lowrst this Morning 91 Precipitation past t4 honra .00 FORD aalasane of this Bmaapar. Thar at roart to em any tlma roa with at vary small rose Hnaareds of peopla appreciate this arrrtee. They eepene' mpoa Want Ads for results. Full Associated Prau United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941. NO. 158. Meb jr "giiii emir mi gMie i ' t ' i saaia I Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day (Editor's not: Hugh John ten, notad commentator on man and Issue of th day. will occupy thia tpaca for th Urn being duo to th illneaa e! Paul Mallon, whoa column uiually appaan here.) Washington, Sept. 22 As this column has recently conjectured the probability of very bad news out of Russia is increasing. Both "before snow flies" and after ward. When I say conjectured, In military issues of these col umns, I mean "Guess." The fact ual Information Is still so scanty and the conflicting lies from the warring capitals so big that about all an honest commenta tor can do Is to keep sticking pins in the map, getting all the Information possible on weath er, geography and production in Ahe various theatres of war, and drawing conclusions from what ever accumulated knowledge he may have about the history and strategy of previous wars and, In the revolutionary changes of modern mechanized war, even the latter is dangerous. It is impossible to believe that . th losses of both men and ma terial on both sides have not been staggering and that as yet th Nazis have not been fatally hurt. On the other hand, it is difficult to put much reliance on local Russian successes on the central front in checking the drive on Moscow. It cannot have much effect In stopping the ter rific German assault on both flanks at the south through the Ukraine and by-passing Odessa, cutting off Crimea and. i at the north around Leningrad, e F old times successful pressure against an attack at any par ticular point in the center, or on either flank could delay or even shatter the offense. But In this case the length of the battle front Is magnificent in distance. From the Leningrad front to Smolensk is upward of 400 miles and from there to the southern flank about 600 miles. (Continued on Page Pour) Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Stars of sport and entertain ment worlds will help out on the NBC-Blue program from S to 8 o'clock tonight in a "salute of the champions" to the men of the army and navy. Participants will include Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, Pat O'Brien, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Leo Durocher, Joe Di Maggio, "Bo" McMillln, Alice Marble and others. The War, 4:55 CBS; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS-East; 7:30 MBS; 8 NBC CBS. Tuesday, the war 8 MBS; 0:43 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:53 CBS MBS; 12:55 p. m., NBC-Blue; 2 CBS MBS; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS NBC-Blue. Army Maneuvers CBS 12:30, NBC-Blue 12:45, X BS 2:30. MBS 8:15 a. m. Sec. Knox at launching of battleship Massa chusetts; 12:15 Watertown, N. Y Arsenal anniversay, under See. of War Patterson. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Gordon Green and Al Littreli settling down to some really competitive golfing with a cost ly prize in the balance. Don Bagley saying the saw he was carrying in the back of his car was to slit a few throats, his passengers showing an eager ness to add to his list of victims. Johnnie Wesson, Jr., carrying on an animated conversation with Lu Cella (Pat) O'Brien, whom he had never tret, think ing she was twin-sister Arvella Carbiener, whom hr. had. Friends wondering If Charley Clay the First would pass out double-deck ice cream sundaes tr. celebrating th arrival of his rt JTafldioa. I . . a ' s I E TO SINK3 SHIPS Fourth Craft Badly Damaged No Word of Attacking Crews Revealed by Rome. Rome, Sept. 22 WV-Tiny, secret "assault craft" of the Italian navy, slipping under the muzzles of Gibraltar's great guns Saturday night, sank three supply ships and damaged a fourth so badly it probably was last, the Italian high command reported today. Authoritative sources indicat ed that these small craft, each virtually nothing but a human projectile were manned by men who knew there would be little chance of returning. Crews Unreported The special communique gave no word of the fate of the at tacking crews. It said the vessels sunk were a 8,000-ton merchant ship load ed with war materials and two tankers, one of 10,000 and the other of 600 tons. A fourth vessel, a 12,000-ton merchantman loaded with war supplies, it added, "was carried against the rocks where it was stranded and therefore may be considered lost." The tiny assault boats, each with a torpedo In its nose, are manned by only one or two men who know that death is the likely price they must pay to eet close enough to their targets to fir with telling aim. About the best they dare hope for is to be captured. According to authoritative sources, MAS-boats, the smallest classification in the Italian navy carry the tiny projectile-like craft to within a few miles of their tareets. then set them loose to strike. They are believed to have such quiet propulsion they can sliD deeD Into harbors before be ing detected and such shallow draft they can cross over sub merged barriers. London, Sept. 22 (IP) Brit ish submarines, attacking a Mediterranean convoy carrying Axis reinforcements to Libya, were reported by the admiralty today to have sunk two Italian liners and damaged a third possibly all of the 24,469-ton Vulcania class. The attack was said to have been made in mid-Mediterranean last Thursday as the subma rines smashed at the convoy. The communique gave no estimate of the number of lives lost. Axis Ships Attacked British bombers of the middle east command also were credit ed with successful attacks on axis shipping in the sea the Italians call their own. Or. schooner was said to have blown up from a direct bomb hit with such a terrific ex plosion that the attacking plane was destroyed. A second schooner was bomb ed, set afire and left sinking and an Axis destroyer was attacked successfully off Tripoli, the Brit ish middle east headquarters de clared. ROLFE PROMOTED y. E. Rolfe, assistant manager of the Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland fnr th nat fmir v.in has been I nromoted to manager of the branch at The Dalles, and will leave here next Friday or Sat urday to assume his new posi tion next Monday, it was an nounced today. Mr. Rolfe will be succeeded here by Charles Newlln. assist ant manager of th Grants Pass branch, who has been employed there for the past 13 years Mr Newlln. accord .ng to Eugene Thorrdike. manager of the Med tord branch, will be here Mon- )d to mum tut new tfuUe. Stambaugh Heads Legion o oWo IT" lJpfl..... & Smiles radiated th happiness of Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh (left), 51. of Fargo. N. D.. and Milo J. Warner (right), of Toledo. Ohio Incoming and outgoing American Legion national com manders respectively, following the former's unanimous elec tion by the Legion at Milwaukee, Wis. E NEAR T Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Homer, 816 Taylor street, were Injured in an automobile accident yes terday when they were caught in the violent storm east of Albuquerque, N M. They were hospitalized in Tucumcari. N. M. Driving in the storm that brought cloudbursts to the Al buquerque region, Mrs. Horner lost control of the car, Mr. Horner telephoned Earl P. Shir ley, chief testboardman of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company here, of which Mr. Horner is senior testboardman. The car turned over. Mrs. Hor ner suffered back and internal injuries and Mr. Horner suffered a broken rib. a badly lacerated right hand and bruises, Mr. Horner said when he telephoned from the hospital in Tucumcari. Mr. and Mrs. Horner left here 10 days ago on a vacation trip which was to include visits with relatives and friends in Kansas. Missouri and New Mexico. They had planned to return to Med ford a week from tomorrow. Albuquerque. N. M., Sept. 22 OP) Torrential rains raging over entire eastern New Mexico left at least IS persons missing today, threatened the city ol Roswell with a major flood, shattered gas lines to Albuquer que and sent walls of water roaring into Carlsbad. A dozen persons were still .l.issing in Carlsbad after a 22 foot wall of water came down canyons on the outskirts of the city Saturday night. Authorities expressed fear the fate of some might never be known. At the northern end of the state, a father and his two chil- dren were missing when caught by a four-foot wall of water racing down he Vermejo river at Stag canyon above Dawson, on the Colorado line. Two Fires Damage Portland Property Portland. Sept. 22. IIP) Two fires caused damages totaling $33,000 here yesterday, Fire In vestigator Norman R. Howard reported today. One blaze, starting In the hop per of a grinder at the Sunset Feed Mills, caused 113.000 dam age there and S2000 damage to the adjoining Mercer Steel com pany, Howard said. The second fire, started from an oil burner, caused $20,000 damage to a business and apart - ment block at Southeast 26th ivsnui and Clinton Street. E F A safe weighing 500 pounds and containing $100 in cash was hauled out of the office at Grov- er's Dairy Products company sometime after 11 p.m. Satur day by burglars who used a stol en car to make their getaway with the two and a half by two- foot strongbox. The automobile a 1936 Ford V-8 sedan, was discovered aban doned this morning in an irriga tion ditch near the home of the Rev. I,. F. Belknap, at the end of the first lane south of the Jackson county fairgrounds. The car was undamaged, police said, and apparently had run into the ditch when it failed to negotiate a slight curve in the road. The safe was not found in the vicinity, and police were of the opinion that it had been trans ported to another location, brok en open and that the burglars had driven down Belknap lane on their return to Medford. Entrance to the dairy was ef fected by removing a screen and window in the boiler room at the rear of the building, police reported. The safe was taken out a small front door, which was unlocked from the Inside, on a rubber-tired hand truck. It was trucked onto the side walk on Sixth street and thence around to the alley at the west side of the building, and loaded Into the car. The automobile Is owned by Charles E. Ford of 11? North Oakdale avenue, who told po lice the car, parked in back of his residence, was stolen some time after 8:13 p. m. Saturday. Police said tire marks indicated the burglars had pushed the car south from its parking place down the alley to a position near the dairy, and that other marks in the alley showed here the safe had been lifted Into the car. Frank R. Pasmore, manager of the dairy, said that nothing else In the establishment was disturbed. Young Wife Killed In Klamath Smashnp Klamath Falls. Sept. 22 IIP) Mrs. Beten Ellen Beman, 20 San Francisco, was fatally In jured early Sunday morning when the car she was driving rolled off The Dalles-California highway 67 miles north of here. Mrs. Beman died late yester day In a Klamath Falls hospital. 1 Her husband, Harold Beman, 23 Bethlehem shipyard employe, 1 was sleep In the back seat at the time of the crash, and was uninjured. - NAZIS MAY OCCUPY ALL OF FRANCE IF E Some In Vichy Fear Grave New Difficulties With Con querors Petain Appeals. Bern, Switzerland, Sept. 22 (JP) Authorltativ sources de clared here today that some ele ments In Vichy fear that all France may be occupied If shootings and sabotage attribut ed to communist elements per sist In the German-occupied zone. Marshal Petain's appeal yes terday against saboteurs in the occupied area, these sources said, was important primarily as an appeal for French unity against the danger of grave new diffi culties with the German army. Petain, it was believed, hoped to put himself forward as a symbol of unity In order to keep France in her present status until the war is decided. Vichy, Unoccupied France Sept 22 (P) A vow in the name of the German army deliv ered at the bier of a captain killed by terrorists In Paris to "employ every means that these attacks, which cause Indignation in all honorable men, shall not go unpunished," was disclosed today in the Paris press. The press accounts of the funeral, disclosing that th can-.1 tain was shot last Tuesday, was th first disclosure that a com missioned officer had been killed in disorders about that time. It had been known that a non commissioned officer was fatally shot Monday night and it was previously presumed that it was for the death of the non-commissioned man that the Ger mans shot 12 hostages at Paris last Saturday. City police today were search ing for the driver of an automo bile that early Sunday morning crashed head-on into a machine operated by Walter J. Berk- heimer in front of the Utopia Auto court on South Riverside avenue, careened across the highway and landed against a group of mall boxes in front of the auto court. Following the accident, police said, the driver Jumped out of the car, dashed around the auto camp and disappeared. The automobile was owned by Don ald Gail Swain of Strathmore, Cal., police said, and added that they would contact Swain to day In an effort to learn the identity of the driver. Swain was not driving the machine when the accident occurred police stated. Both machines were damaged considerably, but nobody was injured. Peace in Six Months or Long Pends on Washington, Sept ii-(JPt Two senators in close touch with th International situation said today that the outcome of the present all-out drive for de cision in Russia would decide whether th Nazis would hav to sue for peace within six month or whether they would be in a position to wage a long war. Both legislators ar high rank ing members of the foreign rela tions committee, but neither one would authorize th publication of his nam in connection with th forecast. One said he had been advised that state, department authori ties teller tb prnt German CAPTURE OF KIEv E F British Commentators Say No Help Too Great For Russians Tanks Needed. Moscow, Sept. 22. UP) The British and United States dele gations to the Moscow confer ence on aid to Russia against Germany have arrived by air 'In territory of the U. S. S. R.," an official announcement said tonight. London, Sept. 22. (Pi The German victory at Kiev was seen In British circles today as strongly underlining need for swift British and United States action to rush the greatest help to Soviet Russia in the shortest time. Newspaper commentators de clared that no help was too great for the Russians, and Bri tish tank-makers lent emphasis to that feeling by starting full force on a week during which the entire British tank output will go to Russia. Tanks Main Need A plea for "tanks and more tanks and yet more tanks" was sounded last night by Ivan Mais ky, soviet ambassador to Brit ain. The Germans, having taken Kiev, probably are aiming their next major thrust at Rostov, at the mouth of the River Don, au thoritative sources said. Rostov, on the sea of Azov, Is Important to Russia not only as a port for water-borne reinforce ment of Crimea but also as a gateway to the Caucasus and Its oil fields. In the 93-day-old Russian cam paign, the Germans reported to day that about 30 Soviet divis ions perhaps 450,000 troops had been "annihilated" so far in a trap east of Kiev. Four Red armies encirciea there were reported struggling to blast their way out of the Nazi ring. While the Germans asserteo the beleaguered armies were tlshtlv sealed. Moscow dis patches said they were seeking to fall back to Kharkov. In the heart of the Donets river indus trial basin. The Russians said defenders of Leningrad and Odessa, siege girt Black sea port, were Inflict ing enormous casualties on the Germans as the struggle enterea Its fourth month. Leningrad Blasted Leningrad's position apparent ly was growing more critical by the hour. Soviet dispatches ad mitted that Nazi dive-bombers were smashing at the old Czar lst capital and its 3,200,000 pop ulace with "such ferocity It seems the earth Itself will split." Moreover the Germans report ed that Nazi shore batteries had frustrated- an attempt by Rus sian warships to flee th si lenced Kronatadt Island naval base, 20 miles east of Leningrad. Men In the army use an aver age of a pint of fresh milk a day, or a total of about 700,000 quarts. Outcome of Struggle in Russia thrusts would mark th turning point of th war, Th other said his Information was that the Germans were striving to cut the red army to pieces before winter sets In. If they failed, he added, they probably would hav to aban don th Russian campaign and attempt to arrange a peace with the Soviet and Great Britain. Thl senator declared that Germany was staking every thing on her current drlv and "is throwing away men like peper dolls" in order to achieve her objectives along th 1,800 mile fighting front From Senator Pepper (D-Fla.). another member of the foreign relations committee, cam a statement that tbt) outccgM U BASEBALL National Philadelphia, Sept. 22 UP) The battling Brooklyn Dodgers moved a game and a half in front of St. Louis in the tough National league pennant race today by blanking the Phillies 5 to 0 behind the airtight hurl ing of Curt Davis. Brooklyn 8 8 0 Philadelphia 0 6 0 Davis and Owen; Melton, Hoerst and Warren. (1st game) Boston 8 New York B 9 Salvo and Berres; Hubbell and Odea. (2nd game). Boston H. 6 10 New York 1 Errickson, Javery and Masi; Koslo and Danning. American Score: Detroit R. 11 H. 18 6 Chicago 0 Benton, Thomas and Tebbetts; Dietrich, Humphries, Appleton and Turner. Score: St. Louis. R. . 5 . 0 H. 8 7 Cleveland Niggeling and Ferrell; Feller. Krakauskas and Desautels, He gan. T Major If. W. Lisle of Ashland, a retired army officer, returned to his home Sunday morning none the worse for having spent Saturday night in the Bow Gap Trail camp section on the Ash land loop road. He was reported lost late Saturday, and was the object of a search by th sher iff's office, state police, a gov ernment hunter and others. Major Lisle was taken to Bow Gap Saturday by his wife for a deer hunt, with the understand ing she would pick him up In the evening. In trying to reach Trail camp he took the wrong trail. Darkness overtook him and he then put up for th night, rather than travel in the dark. Portland, Ore., Sept 22. UP) Deer hunter's bullets killed Clarence E. Talbot, Shevlln, Ore., yesterday. Talbot, slain In central Ore gon by a stray bullet, was the state's second fatality In the hunting season that opened Sat urday, First t fatality was that of Harry Lawrence, 21, Cove, Or., in th Wallowa foothills Satur day. T. B. Oosnell, 60, Ashland, Ore., died in th southern part of the state a few moments after shooting a deer. A heart attack was blamed. ' Ex-Mayer Sentenced Seattle, Sept. 22 UP) Ernest Parker Wilson, BO, former may or of Ren ton. Wash., was sen tenced today to serve 10 years after pleading guilty in federal district court to embezzling $23,616 from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, of which ha was president Drawn War Russia's battle against Germany probably would determine whe ther this country would become an all-out participant in the war. "Russia s fight now Is our fight," Pepper said in an inter view. "For every stand she makes, tor every tank she blasts. for every plana she shoots down, we should be grateful. And w should render ber all possible assistance. Administration opponents. however, evidenced some con cern about the question of Rus sian aid particularly if th aid was to be financed by any of th funds provided for in the pending $3,883,000,000 lease- lend appropriation which Presi dent Roosevelt requested from coogrea last vtak. BLUEPRINTS, DATA READYTOMORROW Staff at Armory Reduced As Task of Army Camp. Planning Near Windup, Members of the architect-engineer staff today were assembling the plans and specifications of the proposed Beagle-Antelope army cantonment so that they will be In form tomorrow for final review by higher army authorities, Capt Theron W. Bean, constructing quartermas ter, said today. The plans and specifications will also be In form tomorrow so that bids could be let for prompt construction if authority and funds to establish th camp her should b provided, Capt. Bean said. Ha emphasized, how ever, that th status of th projected cantonment Is still th same as It has been from th start, namely, on an "if, as and! when" basis. Army official have asserted from th begin ning that erection of th camp her depended upon th grant ing of authority and th appro priation of funds. Meantime th architect -engi neering office has a little work left to do In making final re ports on Investigations and sur veys, Capt. Bean said. The staff is being cut down as phases of the work ar completed, about 40 having been paid off yester day, leaving about 110 on the) staff today. CAR STOLEN HERE A 1037 Packard sedan, stolen from the used car lot of Skin ner's garage at 7:23 a m. today, was recovered by state police about two hours later on the Pa cific highway near Azalea be tween Wolf Creek and Canyon vlll and two mal occupants of th machine were taken into custody and were being return ed to Medford for questioning. One of th men, believed to hav been the driver of th car. Jumped out when It was stopped by a state patrolman and ran In to the brush alongside the road. He was captured about two hours later, although no details of th chas were learned Im mediately by local state police headquarter. The other man, police said, re mained in th ear and claimed he was a hitchhllfer who was picked up by th driver. Neith er man's names were known here this afternoon. Mr. Archie McBee, 62, of 206 Cottage street died at Com munity hospital shortly after noon today from injuries re calved In an auto accident Au gust 31, on th Diamond Lak highway which also claimed th life of her daughter, Mrs. Albert R. Barrow. Mrs. McBee has been In Com munity hospital .sino th acci dent Surviving ar her husband, a son, Capt Weldon H. McBee. Fort Lewis and a sister, Mrs. Edward Taylor of Monterey, Cat A complete obituary will b published tomorrow, SPANISH ENVOY CALLED HOME FROM HAVANA Havana, Cuba, Sept 12 . Cl Th Spanish charge d'affair here, Miguel Speliua, left by plan for Miami this morning, an route to Spain, without mak ing public th reason for hi de parture. Diplomatic circle said that he bad been urgently re called by hi government but th legation )rf treuid f6
