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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.
NO. 158.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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