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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941
No. 159. ,
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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