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full u W-aU- Weather ?Jzr npc" Forecast: rulr tonight and In rreavtnf clou dt net Wednetdaj. Mild temperature. Temperature Highest Yesterday S3 Lowest this Moraine O Premutation past 14 boon .00 Not Expensive To small Bant Ads are do ills' wondfri thew 6a;. Han? people arprnt upon them to buy, ftrll. trade, find, rent, etc and are. dellfhted Kith retulta. Medford Tribune They ara not expensive and they do produce splendid re- ulta. Full AaaocUtod Praea U-lt.d Prew Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941 No. 159. , AVBD 0 " . . 7 a i Kelly's Comment From Washington New Age Limit OusU Officer Trade Rumored For Waterway Farm Inflation Meeting Called Br John W. Kelly. Washington, D. C, Sept. 23. War department is swinging the x on officers at Camp Murray and Fort Lewis, where the Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana national guard and regular units are located. The new age limit for ranks 1 ex pected to strike within few weeks. This is part of the ad ministration's program to place younger men in command, to boost to Important positions the middle-aged before they become atrophied. To determine who will be re tired, regardless of their effic iency, all that is necessary is to know the rank and age of the officer. The rank Is known to anyone curious; the age is what can be regarded as a "military secret," known In the files at the war department. Major generals will be re tired from active duty at the age of 62 (two years under the former limit). Brigadier gen erals are ousted at 60. A full colonel is to be retired at 53 and a lieutenant colonel at 52, while a major passes out at 47. Captains who hold that grade at 42 return to civil life; first lieutenants at 35, and second lieutenants at 30. AFTER the first world war there was a "hump" In the army. Thousands of officers re mained in the service and, as advancement was slow, it was a struggle for officers in the lower branches to win promos tion, so they remained stagnant, accumulated years and not much experience qualifying (Continued on Pago Four) MORE ENTER U. OF O. Eugene, Sept. 23. (JP) Pre registration figures at the Uni versity of Oregon disclose that 1524 students intend to enter school this fall, an Increase of 47 over figures of the same date last year. Portland, Sept. 23. (IP) Herbert Green, an employe of the Portland automobile testing station, was arrested yesterday for failing to have his car tested. Radio Highlights By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific standard.) Tonight, the war 5:30 NBC Blue; 6 MBS: 6:45 CBS; 7 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS; 8 55 NBC CBS. MBS 4 Pennant Contenders; 5 Sen. Gerald P. Nye on "Asking For Trouble." Wednesday, the war 7 MBS; 8 MBS: 9 45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS MBS; 12:55 p. m., NBC-Blue; 2 MBS: 2:25 NBC Red; 2:45 CBS NBC-Blue. Army maneuvers CBS 12:30, NBC-Blue 12:45, MBS 2:30. CBS 2:30 talk, Sen. H. H. Burton. Short waves: RNE Moscow 8:45 news; HAT4 Budapest 4:30 news and concert; DJD DZD Berlin 6:45 cabaret; GSC GSD London 7:15 Britain Speaks. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Chief Roy Elliott keeping his promise to come back from east ern Oregon with at least a three point buck, much to the con sternation of certain friends who were rash enough to wager he wouldn't William Strahan sadly telling about the fellow who beat him to It and bagged the fine buck he had been keeping an eye on for two months. Ed Thomas looking forward to seeing his first Rose Bowl football game, he having order ed his tickets lat May, though having heard nothing from bis order yet INVADERS COUNTER 1 Queen Nina Tuttle and Princesses WITH CLAIMS OF I 1 GENERAL SUCCESS (A) fl Soviet Newspaper Says Up Wtf ( h f I To 50,000 German Cas- Vry I V 1 I '7, 1 vKfJ ) ualtiesUen Battle. "J j London, Sept. 23. (JP) Cer tain London quarters speculated tonight on the possibility that a British land expedition might fight alongside the Russians to defend the oil riches of the Caucasus. Officials were silent. By the Associated Press Red army troops battling to save Leningrad were reported today to have stemmed the German onslaught in bitter fighting around Lake Ilmen, south of the old Czarist capital, and hurled the nazi invaders back seven miles in fierce bayo net charges elsewhere on the Leningrad front. Red Star, Soviet army news paper, said that the Germans lost up to 50,000 killed, wound ed and captured In the Lake Ilmen fighting, and that the Russians had launched success ful counter-attacks. Nazis Disputa By contrast, nazi front-line dispatches indicated that the Red armies were in desperate straits along the entire front from Leningrad to the Black sea, and the German high com mand reported the destruction of SO Soviet divisions about 750,000 troops including 380 000 prisoners captured in the bloody trap 125 miles east of Kiev. Even the Russian counter-offensive on the central front was declared to have been halted. "Many Soviet units lost two- thirds or more of their strength in attempts to dash against the German lines," nazi dispatches said of fighting on the central front. "The Bolsheviks literally stormed over the corpses of the slain into German fire. They were thrown back everywhere." Retreat Claimed Italian reports pictured the Russians in chaotic retreat in the Ukraine, abandoning their heavy guns as they fled. In London, Russian Ambassa dor Ivan M." Maisky declared that in three months of war Germany has lost 3,000,000 men in killed, wounded or missing one-third of the entire nazi army. Maisky described the German high command's report last week on German losses as ut terly ridiculous." The high com mand, on September 19, placed nazi losses in the first two months of the war at only 85,- 890 dead, 296,670 wounded and 20,299 missing. STAFF TO SHRINK Further reductions will be made in the coming week In the architect-engineer staff working on the proposed Medford army cantonment until only a skele ton force remains, Capt. Theron W. Bean, constructing quarter master, said today. A skeleton staff may be kept here for some time working on minor and last-minute changes made by the wat department and affecting the drawings for the proposed cantonment here Capt. Bean related. It was indi cated changes in camp set-ups are being made as military cir cumstances change. FOUR ASSESSED FINES FOR AUTO INFRACTIONS Otis M. Garrett. Talent, was fined $2 SO and costs for passing another auto with insufficient clearance. In Justice court yes terday. Other fines were Im posed as follows: Jesse P. Todd, Route 2, $2 50 jance lights; Woodrow L. Reich, j Route 2, $1 and costs for having no muffler! Robert H. Corlles. Route 2. SI and cents for failure to (top at (top ngn. Lli U til-- 1 " ; Ruling over the second annual Medford rodeo last week-end was Queen Nina Tuttle, beautiful, dark-haired daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby G. Tuttle of the Table Rock Orchard!. Queen Nina (center) who Is an excellent horseman. Is flanked by her princesses, Susan Vilas (left) and Dorothy Hayes (right). The queen was chosen by popular applause and riding ability at the football game here last Friday night. (Brainerd photo.) Capital Wonders if Latest Sinking Is Open Challenge to United States Washington, Sept. 23. (IP) The sea warv added another American owned merchantman to its toll today, and the capital wondered whether this latest sinking was meant to be an open challenge to President Roosevelt's shoot-on-sight order which barred the "defensive waters" of the United States to all axis raiders. Smoke Bombs Guide Forest Rangers to Bomber Wreckage Tacoma, Wash., Sept 22. (Pi Guided by smoke bombs dropped by bombardment plane crews, five forest rangers toiled today through the rugged wil derness toward the top of 7,700 foot Mt. Constance, on the Olym pic peninsula, blazing a trail to where the wreckage of a twin motored army bomber was sight ed yesterday. The rangers were choosing a trail that would permit a rescue party of soldiers to start tomor' row morning on an all-day climb to recover the bodies of the crew. The trip will 'necessitate a 12-mile hike with pack mules ON THEFT CHARGE Gordon Lee McArthur, 16, of North Bend was returned to the county jail from Grants Pass last night and will be arraigned In justice of the peace court to morrow on a charge of auto theft Involving the alleged theft of a 1937 Packard sedan from Skinner's used car lot early Monday morning. McArthur was arrested by state police cn the Pacific high way near Azalea about noon yes terday, after he had jumped out of the car when it was stopped by the state patrolmen. A hitchhiker riding In the car with McArthur was released. Restaurant Builder Has Labor Trouble The Medford Building Trades WOUncu lias CSMiUlisiicu a lmiuci line at the drive-in restaurant being constructed by Henry Byers on North Riverside ave nue Just north of the Coffee Pot becsuse, according to Charles W. Towers, secretary, union labor was not being em ployed and the union wage scale was not being paid car penters and laborers. One picket was In front of the building during working 'hours. May Arm Ships Washington, Sept. 23. (IP) President Roosevelt said to day that the administration was studying the question of arming American merchant ships. He told his press confer ence he thought we were heading toward that step and that everything would be done to protect American ves sels. The statement came In a discussion of the sinking Fri day, off Iceland, of the government-owned freighter Pink Star, which was flying the Panamanian flag. The newest victim was the freighter Pink Star, owned by the U. S. maritime commission but operating under Panamanian registry. The sinking took on great potential significance, for it was the first such incident re ported since Mr. Roosevelt pro claimed the "defensive waters" policy September 11. (In Berlin, authorized German sources said that while no Ger man craft had reported sinking the Pink Star it was their opin ion that whatever happened to the vessel was "In accordance with the laws of war." ('The vessel was Panamanian, not United States," one German authority said, "and we have not heard yet that Panama Is part of the United States. The vessel was sunk In waters clear ly defined as a German opera tions area.") The Pink Star went down last Friday, the state department dis closed last night, and she met her end southwest of Iceland in the same waters that witnessed the loss of two other American owned vessels and the unsuc cessful submarine attack on the U. S. destroyer Greer. The announcement of the Pink Star's sinking was silent on several details a fact which caused some speculation. Noth ing was said about the fate of the 34 men In her crew, and there was no hint as to how she met her end by a mine, topedo, an aerial bomb or the guns of a surface raider. No amount of In quiry could elicit official Infor mation on these points. The location of the ship's sink ing, however, was definitely placed some 25S miles south of Iceland on the corridor of sea communications which Mr. Rorseve't specifically has order ' tu the navy to keep clear. STOCK ARRIVING FOR 4-H DISPLAY AT The old county fairgrounds I south of town took on the activity of the well-known bee hive in a busy season this aft- ernoon as livestock arrived and i were scrubbed and polished for jthe opening feature of the fourth annual 4-H Livestock j Show tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Hours are 9 to 5 daily. Feature of the opening day, and one which has much spec tator interest, is the livestock showmanship contests. In these contests the 4-H club members themselves are judged on their personal appearance and their ability to fit and judge the animals. All morning will be devoted to these contests, with hogs, sheep and dairy and beef cattle entered. Clifford Jenkins Klamath county 4-H club agent, will be judge. Tomorrow afternoon will be devoted to the Judging of sheep and hogs, H. A. Lindgren, Ore gon State college, to be the judge. Beef cattle will be judged Thursday morning and dairy cattle in the afternoon. The show will be climaxed Friday by the usual auction sale. The show Is sponsored by the Rotary club. $10 REWARD FOR CREAMERY SAFE While state and city pollr continued to search for the 500 pound safe stolen from Grover's Dairy Products company some time after 11 p. m. Saturday nglht, Howard G. Grover, owner of the dairy, today announced a 110 reward for its discovery. Police said they believed the safe would be found somewhere south of Medford. probably In the rural district, as the stolen car In which it was transported from the dairy was found aban doned in Belknap lane south of the fairgrounds. The safe, besides containing about 1100 in carh, held books at d papers valuable only to the dairy. Anybody finding the safe If rsked to contact itate or city I police, or the. dairy. NEUTRALITY ACT L URGED BY SECY. KNOX Launching of New Battleship Occasion For Plea U. S. Efforts Crippled, Claim. Qulncy, Mass., Sept. 23. (IP) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox today watched the huge 35,000-ton battleship Massachu setts slide down the ways of the Fore river shipyards and then declared to a crowd of thousands attending the launching that th I neutrality act was "crippling the efforts of this country and should be immediately repealed. 'There should be no handicap on those who are trying to keep war away from these shores, the navy secretary said. Must Hurry "We must waste no time In repealing the neutrality act." The mighty Massachusetts was launched without a slip-up. The keel of a new cruiser, the U. S. S. Flint, was laid on the spot just vacated by the Massa chusetts before the bow of the battleship had entered the water. Knox asserted that recent events on the Russian front had made "the prospect of victory dim." He did not elaborate on this, except to say that the casualties in Russia were greater than in any other conflict In history, and that the fighting in Russia had a direct bearing on tour own aitnottnn He said It was possible that the battleship Just launched might have to "participate In another fight for human lib erty." The Massachusetts and other battleships recently launched or building would carry the heav iest guns afloat, he said, and would participate In the job handed to the navy of "seeing mat the sea lanes between this country and Great Britain are kept free." SALE OF BOOTLEG E R. 8. Farra. charserl with sale of intoxicating liquor, was given a susrended lentenrw nf six months and fined $100 and costs by Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman yesterday. The defendant was arrested nn th same charge about a month man In passing sentence, the court reprimanded him lenffthllir. Farra was arrested at his home Sunday, after an axaertr.il sale to a taxlcab driver. The arrest was made by state dry law agents. O. S. C. REGISTRY DIPS Corvallls. Ore.. Serit. 23. ilPi Opening day registration at Ore gon Stat coUeae was 1.328. compared with 1,356 on the same day last vear. Deanite predictions of sharp drop In the number of freshmen, 1,218 signed up, only nine less than in 1940. Mae West Calm, Court Hears San Bernardino, Calif., Sept. 23 (,T Mae West made one of her rare court appearances today. Wearing a black picture hat with veil, dark suit, white ratln blouse and white coat. Mae remained calm and unruf fled at attorneys fnr Frank Wal lace questioned her In his suit for 11,000 month separate maintenance. Once, however, when she was being quizzed about how much she paid for certain stocks and bonds, she snapped: Look, I haven't got a book keeper's mind. I can't remem ber whrt I paid for those things five and six years ago." I Mae told the court she never i had employed detectives to I shadow Wallace. She denied she 'had evar dona anything to cause I baseball MILLION NEEDED National Pittsburgh, Sept. 23 (IP) The St. Louis Cardinals swept to a 8 to 0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second game of their double-header to day after dropping 4 to 0 decision In the opener, and wound up still a game and a half behind the Idle Brooklyn Dodgers. First game: R. H. E. St. Louis 0 6 5 Pittsburgh .. 4 8 0 M. Cooper, Shoun, Hitchinson and Mancuso, W. Cooper; Helnt- relman and Lopez. Second game: R. H. E. St. Louis 9 8 0 Pittsburgh 0 8 4 Lanier and Mancuso; Sewell, Sullivan and Smith. Score: R. II. E. Chicago 5 9 0 Cincinnati 1 8 4 Lee and Scheff'ing; Vander Meer, Turner, Beggs, and Lorn burdl. First game: R. H. E. New York 2 7 1 Philadelphia 8 13 1 Melton, Bowman, Wittig and Hartnett, Blaemlre; Masterson and Livingston. American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 9 11 2 New York 8 13 4 Vaughan, Besse and Wagner; Ruffing, Branch and Dickey, Rosar. Second game: R. H. E. New York 8 11 1 Philadelphia 6 11 8 East, Adams and Odea; Jones, Harman and Livingston. BOO AT MENTION OF LINDY'S NAME Portland, Ore., Sept. 23. (IP) Burton K. Wheeler of Mon tana, leader among senate Isola tionists, last night told 4300 Portlanders that he he'd, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Churchill in equal distrust. He advised Americans to ask themselves when they pay their taxes next March whether "you want to give away money to China, Russia, England and South America. Although the crowd booed the names of Charles A. Lindbergh and Wendell Wlllkie the meet ing was orderly. The Montanan predicted that participation In the current war would hoist America's national debt to '200 or 300 billion." He scoffed at invasion talk, assert ing there weren't enough ships In the world to carry an ade quate army to American shores, Seattle, Sept. 23. W) Giv ing up his announced Intention of se.klng court aid, Otto A Case, America first committee state chairman, announced to day that Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler would speak at the Metropolitan theater to night, after the Eagles lodge had cancelled permission to use Its aerie auditorium here. The lodge hall seats 3,500; the theater about 1,700. Unruffled While "Alimony" Seeker him to lose Jobs, as he charged yesterday. Miss West was asked If she had told newspapermen: Frank Wallace la crazy If he says I am married to him. She ad mitted making the statement but calmed she had been shown a photograph of Wallace and Iden tified it as another man named Wallace with whom she had appeared In a movie. "I denied I was married to Walalce." Mae said, "but I never denied that I had been married I though Frank Wallace had married -igaln, so I figured I wasn't married to him." Wallace testified he remarried because he thought Mist West had remarried. His second wife was Rae Blakesly, whom bt married In February, laii. . TO FEED BRITISH England Now On Shoi Rations Secretary Re veals In Lend-Lease Talk, Washington, Sept. 23. (IPt-m Testifying that England now was on short rations, Secretary Agriculture Wickard said to. day a minimum of $1,000,000,. 000 was needed to supply Eng. iana wun iooa during the next five months. Wickard was one nf th. dni witnesses befoie the house ap. propriaiions committee as it started hearings on President nooseveit s request for an adds tional 3, 985,000,000 for lend lease aid. j Depends On Us "Great Britain la dpnenrimi UDon North Amprlrn fnr hn, quantities of food stuffs," Wiclo. ard testified. 'The deficit has te, be made up from this country ana i;anaaa unless the British are to lose to Nazi Germany." Another witness, Lend-Lease) Administrator E. R. Stettinius, was said by committeemen to have urged them to reject an prohibitions which would hue aid to Russia. At the same time, however. members said Stettinius explain ed that it was not the policy of the government now to aid Rut sia through the lend-lease proa gram but emphasized that la view ot the uncertainty of tho future, anv restrictive nrov.a. Ions would be especially unde sirable, i SHORES OF TEXAS Houston, Texas, Sept. 23 (1 The tropical hurricane that hag kept a fearful Texas gulf coast on edge for 1.. o or three days was believed nearing the short In the vicinity of Free port ana Matagorda at noon today. Coastguard headquarters at Galveston reported winds of 79 to 75 miles an hour at Freeport and 65 to 70 at Matagorda. C. P. Kendall, Sr., editor of the Freeport Fact, said "tha wind la howling through tho town, but there has been very little damage to far. "A number of small fishing and pleasure boats In tha char nel and along tha river have been sunk." Fugitive Matricide la Quick Ssrrcsfsr Goldendale, Sept. 23. (IP) After a day and night of wan dering over the countryside, Eric Miller, 22-year-old convict ed slayer of his mother who es caped from the county Jail Sun day night, gave himself up at farmer's home 15 miles front here early today. The youth surrendered at tha home of Joe Yeackel, a Center ville farmer, about 6 a. m. Yeackel'i wife wat alone. Her husband wat digging a grave In a cemetery two miles away, and Miller accompanied Mrs.1 Yeackel to her husband. Ho brought Miller hero to the sher iff's office. KSadfordites Craxe To Watch Skywriter Many southern Oregcn rest dents stretched their necks sky ward this morning to see what antics a gyrating pilot wat up to. The pilot, Elwood Keml, was skywriter, and ha waa leaving a calling card five miles long tnd half a mile high. He wroto the name "Pepsi-Cola." Kelm, In hit Pepsi-Cola plane, a Laird biplane, wat en rout to Florida tor a vacation after a full season of skywriting. Ho figured he hat written "Pepsi Cola" In tha sky 1400 time. Skywriting, ho related. It doM t a level ot 10,060 feet
