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t ruu u a wu. Weather " npon No Better Time Then may be sa linn to your wants and deilm on th Want Ad pate. Juit a ftw nlnntn of jonr time may M profitably sprat In checking these Ada. No better time than the preaent. Medford Tribune Forecast! Fair tonight and Friday. Llttl chang la tem perature. Temper tor Highest Lowest this morning A1 Precipitation past t4 hoars. Full Associated Pros United Preu Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941. NO. 161 KUffWfi3 MAM an am MfPI A In mm cmv vjv "m i J vLi Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day Br Gen. Hugh S. Johnsoa Washington, Sept 25. There Is a cloud on the horizon 'of some under-current discussion In Washington, as yet perhaps "no bigger than a man's hand." But it broke in the public prints recently in one of the philosoph ical discussions of Mr. Walter . Lippmann to some such effect as this: i "Isn't it time to reconsider whether we need a 'mass' army and didn't we make a mistake In the panic following the French collapse in assuming that we need to equip and train a large land force?" The general argument, as I understand it (not Mr. Lipp man's aione) was that when we decided to rearm there was danger of the British navy be ing wiped out and of Japan ser iously threatening us in the Pa cif ic. Therefore . we plunged to conscription and the creation of a modern army of 1,500,000 men to defend our shores and against any attack on this hem isphere. Now that these dangers have passed, isn't it time to whittle down our army plans? e e AS far as this column is con " cerned, it never did believe in any danger of the elimina tion of the British fleet nor any Japanese naval combination threatening our shores in the Pacific. Above all, it has con stantly argued that the threat of any great modern overseas land expeditionary force to the shores of the Americas was ridiculously absurd with one qualification, that we promptly train a reasonable modern army sufficiently equipped to prevent a sudden incursion with such superior armored and armed equipment and training as to make mere numbers of bow-and-arrow troops of no avail. The great rich and powerful empires of Mexico and Peru were taken by Cortez and Piz- (Contlnueo. on Page Eight) STATE PROPERTY Salem, Sept. 25 (JP) Prop erty owned by the state of Ore gon is valued at $38,868,000, an increase of $2,000,000 on the past year, the board of control said today. The Increase is due largely to the state highway commission's reappraisal of its properties. Radio Highlights Joseph W. Martin, Jr., nation al Republican chairman, will speak at the State Republican clubs convention at Roseburg from 8 to 8:30 p. m. Saturday. The speech will be broadcast by the Mutual Don Lee chain. By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific standard.) Tonight, the war 5:00 NBC Blue, 5:15 MBS, 6:00 MBS, 6:30 NBC-Blue, 6:45 CBS, 8:00 NBC CBS. NBC-Red 7:15 Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Wash ington. NBC-Blue 5:30 light weight fight, Ray Robinson vs. Marty Servo. Friday, the war 7 MBS, 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 3:30, NBC-Blue 10:30 a. m., Chicago Science museum drama "Old Rocking Chair"; 12 m. Associate Justice Douglas on 'Citizen ship." Short waves: DJD DZD Ber lln 4:15 Spanish music; GSC GSD London 5:15 Democracy Marches: TGWA Guatemala 7 Radio Theater; GSC GSD Lon don 8:30 news and views. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Many of the boys believing more fully In relief for China a'ter getting a glimpse of smart looking Erma Gordon, its apostle for Oregon. Karl Janouch closing himself off to the world to catch up on correspondence that accumulat ed while he was traipsing uousd tba toratU.' SEE-SAW BATTLE PROVINGJCOSTLY German Casualties Enor mous Reds Claim Nazis Say Defense Is Hopeless. Berlin, Sept. 25 P) The Russians are throwing great masses of men against Germ an positions on the Dvina riv er more than 200 miles west of Moscow, DNB said tonight. By the Associated Press German military dispatches reported violent hand-to-hand fighting raging in the streets of Leningrad's suburbs today, while the Russians declared that cavalry charges and thrusts by cannon-blazing Soviet tanks had hurled the Nazis back six miles and recaptured two villages on the city's outskirts. German losses were described by the Russians as enormous in the bloody see-saw battle for the old czarist capital. On the central front, a Soviet bulletin reported that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's red arm ies were pushing a counter offensive in the Gomel sector, midway between Smolensk and Kiev, in a drive to lift the pres sure on Russian troops in the Ukraine. Nazi military quarters, dodg ing any prediction as to when Leningrad would fall, declared nevertheless that the position of red army defenders was becom ing "more and more hopeless." The Russians, however, coun tered with the assertion that the fierce battle was beginning to turn in favor of Marshal Kle menti Voroshilov's defense forces. Soviet counter-attacks in greater number and strength were reported to be stemming the Nazi onslaught, despite the arrival of a steady stream of German reinforcements. "Red army fighters and arm ed Leningradites are dealing blows in various directions," said the Soviet army newspaper, Red Star. The Moscow radio, as heard in London, admitted that a few German tanks had succeeded in knifing through the Soviet first line of defense at Leningrad yesterday, but asserted they were thrown back with heavy losses. With Soviet war supplies hard hit by destruction and cap ture In the 96-day-old conflict, reliable London quarters dis closed that British tanks may soon go into action on the vast front. British-manned RAF planes are already fighting alongside the Russians. LOCAL MEN PASS Salem, Sept. 25. (JP) State Real Estate Commissioner Claude H. Murphy announced today that 84 per cent of the salesmen and 90 per cent of the brokers who took the recent real estate exam inations made passing grades. Oregon is one of eight states tequiring written examinations. Brokers J. J. Osenbrugge and Ernest J. Smith, both of Medford. Salesmen Thomas J. Hight, Medford; Zelma M. Parker, Gold Hill. Dance Hall Patron Fined for Disorder Charged with disorderly eon duct and using profane language at a public dance hall, Wray Lucky Shimfessel. 18, of Med ford was fined $50 in the city court this morning by City Judge William A. Allen. Unable to pay the fine, Shimfessel start ed serving 25 days in Jail. Shimfessel, according to city police, struck Rudy Singler at the dance in Town send hall last night Police said Singler ex plained that he had given Shim fessel his money back and told him to leave, and that Shimfes sel waited downstairs and struck him in the eye when Singler left UwUIi. . Nazis Claim 50 Red Divisions Lost g-4 .-San!iTROVS I r' J A J?sv T MM .yTROSTOV 2. ( jlESSfe' jHErf ARMAVIR MILES Germans claimed destruction of 50 Russian divisions east of Kiev and a continuing advance toward Kharkov (1). and reported an advance to the Sea of Asov had put the Don river and the city of Rostov (2), under German air force control. To the west Odessa was still holding out under siege. BURGLAR STABS YOUNG CAPTOR; MAKES ESCAPE In a courageous battle last night about 8:30 with a burglar caught red-handed after he had rifled the office of the Medford Auto Wrecking company, 1618 North Riverside avenue, Clem ent Haas, 17, of 606 West 11th street suffered severe but not ;rious knife slashes on his left arm and right hand, and was to be discharged from Sacred Heart hospital today after re ceiving medical attention. The burglar, after being cap tured inside the building by Paas and his companion, John Bobbett, 17, son of C. P. Bob bett proprietor of the auto wrecking company, escaped af ter stabbing young Haas three times in the arm and inflicting a painful cut on the third finger of his right hand. The arm cuts were deep and each about one inch long, hospital attendants stated. The burglar made good his escape, police said, as he was being taken by the two youths to the Bobbett residence situ ated across Bear Creek in the rear of the auto wrecking com pany. As the trio were crossing a small bridge spanning an ir rigation ditch, the burglar jerk ed loose and jumped into the ditch. Without a moment's hesita tion, the Haas boy leaped after him while young Bobbett held the beam of a flashlight on the pair. After a short struggle the burglar whipped out a knife and wielded it on Haas' arm and snd, then ran north along the wett side of the ditch. Aroused by the boys' cries, residents of the vicinity soon joined in the search, but the burglar had disappeared. The two youths then went to the Berrydale store and telephoned police, who also had no success ir recapturing the burglar. The burglar was discovered when the boys went into the building to sleep, they having made plans to guard the concern following several minor burg laries there the past few months. They had cons' -ucted a unique burglar alarm system connect ing with an automobile horn, and as they entered the building they accidentally tripped over a wire and set off the alarm. The burglar, frightened by the alarm, ran pell-mell out of the office with a small radio in his arms, and dashed squarely into the two youths. They quickly overpowered him and were tak ing him to the Bobbett home to notify police when he leaped in to the Irrigation ditch and es caped. Police said the burglar had piled on the floor of the of fice several articles which he sp,.Jently planned to steal, but had grabbed only the radio in his haste to get out of the build ing wien the alarm sounded. The burglar was described by young Bobbett to police as be ing about 40 years old, six feet tall and wearing a gray suit, a dark bat and (mail mustache. 6 Per Cent Profit Limit Sought for Corporations Washington, Sept. 25. (JP) Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced today that treasury experts had begun drafting a proposed bill to limit corporation profits to 6 percent. f ollowing up his recommen-' cation for such a limit before a congressional committee, the ;retary told a press confer ence that he set his aides to work this morning putting the Idea into legal language for presentation to congress. "We have started drafting this proposal and will be ready whenever congress wants to get to work on it," he said. Morgenthau indicated, how ever, that he preferred to pre sent the idea as a tax bill be fore the house ways and means committee rather than as a rid er to the price control legisla tion being considered by the house banking committee. He e-pressed the idea for the ilrst time in testifying on the price bill. The drafting task of his ex perts, Morgenthau explained, is to surround the idea of a 6 per cent limit on corporation prof its with other provisions to make the proposed law as fair as possible to different kinds of business firms. HEAR ARMY CALL BY UCTOF JUNE New York, Sept. ' 23 (JP) Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service direc tor, said in an interview today that tentative war department plans call for the Induction of 600,000 more men into the army by next June 30. In Washington, army officials said that no marked Increase in the strength of the land forces was contemplated. The 600,000 mentioned by Hershey, ' army officials said, would approxi mately take care of several new triangular and armored divis ions now planned. However, the bulk would be merely re placements for men to be dis charged under the recently as rapidlVas their training can Washington, Sept. "j--T A Senator Tobey (R-N.H.) laid be- Authoritative sources havel,?r ""V6 committee today . to b zVh e. t"W5 r.iA7n I.. The strength of the land forces today was put at 1,599, 500. Budget Committee In First Meeting The Jackson county budget committee held its first session this morning and named Ed ward Carlton chairman and Henry O. Enders, Jr., Ashland, secretary. The board also In cludes H. A. Thierolf, Medford. and members of the county court. It was the earliest meet ing of the county budget com mitte in several years, T WAITS 'GO-AHEAD' With all advance planning completed, the civilian canton ment coordinating board decid ed at a luncheon-meeting in the Hotel Medford this noon to close its office for the time being and let -Frank J. Van Dyke, execu tive secretary, carry on any necessary correspondence from his own law office In Ashland. The office here has been in the AAA bureau at North Riverside avenue and Fifth street. The board explained that ev erything has been planned to carry out necessary measures should establishment of the pro posed army camp here be au thorized. Arrangements have been made with governmental agencies for help in enlarging civic facilities and controlling the problems created by a large influx of workers and soldiers and nothing more can be done until actual construction of the camp is authorized or this sec tion declared officially a defense area, the board said. "We're Just taking a holiday, ready to pick up work again should the green light be flashed,' the board statement said. "We've done all we can up to this point, we have all our advance plans perfected and we are just closing shop until such time as we can move for ward again." Six Army Planes Wrecked In Filming Picture, Claim cnarges inai motion picture com- h-d use of army personnel, bombers and equipment and in one In stance had "deliberately wreck ed six or more government planes for picture purposes." These charges were contained, Tobey told a senate Interstate commerce subcommittee, In In formation furnished to him by e.ubrey Blair, whom he identi fied as a former secretary of the Screen Actors Guild. Blair complained, Tobey said, "a in the making of a picture entitled "Captured," in 1938, army personnel at March field had been dressed In German ar my uniforms tr taV cart in the film. Bla.r .ro clrg:d, the commute beard, that army Netrality Repeal Effort Expected to Heat Senate Y HEREFORD STEER IS Upper Rogue River Boy, Aged 11, Wins Coveted Honor at 4-H Stock Show By Maude Pool Mall Tribune Special Writer. Tommy Carlton, 11, came down from Upper Rogue River as a lone exhibitor and with 'Mickey," his thousand-pound Hereford steer, walked away with the grand championship of the beef show at the fourth annual 4-H livestock show open ing its second day at the fair grounds this forenoon. Tommy, sen of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carlton, and a second year club member, was noticeably reserved about the whole thing even though he upset the Lake Creek-Antelope apple cart, these winners In two previous years coming In today for some stiff competition. Tommy's calf Is 15 months old, and won by a close margin over "Nigger," 820-pound re serve champion Angus owned by Bill Ousterhout, of Little Butte. Bill is taking In Freshman week At Oregon State college, and his steer was exhibited by his brother, Lawrence. Competition was keen in the beef classes this morning. Harry Llndgren of Oregon State college acted as Judge. Other Winners Other top winners this morn' Ing were Harold Welch, Ante lope, and Kithryn Walch, Lake Creek, in baby beef divisions with steers 10 to 15 months old. Cora Bigham placed first In the 900-pound class. Judging of mar ket pens was being completed at noon, with judging of dairy stock scheduled this afternoon Tomorrow marks the final day of the show and will feature demonstration contests in the morning, and the auction sale beginning at 1:30 p. m. which will climax the three-day event. (More about 4-H Show on Pages 2 and 12.) 31 . In a four-hour traffic check Wednesday on the Crater Lake and Jacksonville highways, state police made 31 arrests for various violations of the traffic laws. A total of 370 vehicles of all descriptions were stopped. . Victims of the citations are scheduled to appear in Medford and Jacksonville justice of the peace courts within the next few days. planes were repainted, army gasoline used and film company employes fed at the field's com missary. Harry M. Warner,-president of Warner Brothers, who was on the stand at a time In the com mittee's inquiry into alleged war propaganda In the movies, said he knew nothing about the pro duction of the picture. Reciting further charges by Blair, Tobey said it was alleged that In the production of "West Point of The Air" by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, the company had "deliberately wrecked" six o? more government planes in order to make the picture more effective. At this point, Robert Rubin, general counsel for M.G.M., broke in to say: "We produced the picture but wa dids t wrack an plane." Dodgers Clinch National Flag With 6 toO Win Boston, . Sept. 25 (JP) The Brooklyn Dodgers today won the National league pennant, de feating the Braves 6 to 0 behind Whitlow Wyatt's five-hit pitch ing as the Pirates defeated the Cardinals. This gave Brooklyn S9 victor ies against 53 defeats with two games left to play while St. Louis has won 96 and lost 55, trailing by 2Va games with two games to go. Thus ended one of the most furious pennant fights in the history of the National league, which seldom in the last 20 years has had first place decided until the final week of the sea- n. From the second week of the campaign the Dodgers and Car dinals seesawed in and out of the lead with neither of them ever worse than second, Scores: Brooklyn 6 9 0 Boston . 0 5 4 Wyatt and Owen; Earley, Johnson and Berres, Masi. New York Philadelphia Carpenter and gajny, Johnson and Warren. St. Louis 15 0 Pittsburgh 8 6 1 White, Warneke and Mancuso, W. Cooper; Butcher and Lopez. FOR U. S. COURT E The names of 35 grand Jurors and 40 trial jurors chosen for the fall term of U. S. district court opening here Tuesday, October 7, were listed in a Port land newspaper today. The grand jurors, ordered to report in federal court here at 10 a. m. October 7, were given as follows: Lee R. Alien, clerk; B. H. Bauer, lumber merchant; Ernest Biden, shoemaker; Charles Boy den, surveyor; Robert Buckles, gas fitter; Charles S. Butter- field, real estate man; Elmer Childers, contractor; Kenneth Childreth, bank clerk; Grover C. Corum, salesman; Fred A. Dlnsmore. farmer; Frank L. Earhart, farmer; Edward J. Feldman, merchant; Van R. Gil bert, meat cutter; Herbert G. Grey, advertising manager; Wil liam B. Hamilton, Jr., account ant; C. A. Hamlin, hide buyer; Oliver L. Overmyer, lumber man; Frank E. Redden, col lector, and Verl G. Walker, all of Medford. George B. Bruchman, farmer; W, C. Carnahan, service station operator; John H. Emge, far mer; Fred H. Grant, farmer; W. M. Hayes, farmer, W. D. Hol land, farmer, and Herbert J. Dillingham, service station op erator, all of Grants Pass; C. W, Campbell, miner, O'Brien; Ray Coleman, merchant, Jack sonville; R. H. Dopp, carpenter. Central Point; George J. Elliott, laborer. Central Point; William D. Former, service station oper ator. Wonder; Harry Heryford, Butte Falls; Arthur S. Klein hammer, merchant, Jackson ville; Alexander H. Pracht, re tired, Ashland, and W. H. Swain, farmer, Eagle Point. The trial jurors, ordered to report at 10 a. m. October 9, were listed as follows: , Cleo Brenner, real estate man; Homer J. Brlngle, real es itate man; Harold Bunce, line man; E. W. Corley, photog rapher; Lionel J. Cox, lumber clerk; John L. Detwller, carpen ter; Harry J. Field, merchant; Thomas K. Flynn, electrician; A. J. Hanby, retired teacher; Floyd H. Hart, lumberman; Jack M. Hartley, clerk; Weldon Hart lay, farmer; George W. Howard, ACT IN CONFLICT Taft Says Repeal Equivalent To War Declaration Sharp Senate Battle Seel Washington, Sept. 25. (JP)- Senator McKellar (D., Tenn.) ln troduced in the senate today a resolution to repeal the neutral ity act which bars the arming of American merchant ships and prevents them from entering combat zones. Declaring that the act waa "In direct conflict with our free, dom of the seas policy," Mo Kellar told his colleagues that the, law ought to be repealed outright. The Tennessee senator has been a consistent supporter of the administration's foreign policy, but there was no imme diate indication as to whether he introduced the repealer wlta the knowledge of senate leaders. President Roosevelt said Tue. day that revision or repeal of the act was being studied, ind eating that action might b forU coming next week. Taft Fears War McKellar said he thought that while the law was on tha statute books, the government was "paying virtually no attcrv tion to it" and for that reasca it ought to be repealed. Senator Taft (R Ohio) e pressed belief that repeal of th act would be "equivalent to 4 declaration of war." "At the very least," ha said to reporters, "it would grant the administration authority to car, ry on an undeclared war." Taft foresaw a knock-dowrv and-drag-out battle in the senat) against any repeal attempt aj forecast which few legislator disputed and promised that ha and other opponents of tha administration's foreign polity would fight vigorously. House Ready However, Rep. Wadsworth CR N. Y.) believed that the hou. was ready to repeal or modify the law, and he voiced the hop that it would be "wiped off tlia statute books." "In all our history," ha told newsmen, "wa fought for tha right to sail the seven seas at will. In tha neutrality act wa surrendered that right That always seemed to me morally wrong." Both administration and oppo sltion polls have Indicated tht President Roosevelt could obtain the senate's consent to modifies tion of the act on this and other points. House leaders also fore cast approval there. retired; W. L. ..Miller, contrac tor; Ira C. Moss, merchant; H. F. Piatt, merchant; Ray J. Sch macher, merchant; W. B. Thomas, Investments, and E. O, Trowbridge, lumberman, all of Medford. E. R. Camp, laborer; E. K. Harbeck, butcher; John B. Hap. ris; John Hummel, tailor; W, M. Richardson, lineman, and Albert H. Schmidt, farmer, all of Grants Pass. Samuel J. Bailey, railroad employe, Asqp land; Victor Bursell, farmer. Central Point; William H. Cain, Gold Hill; Edward Dailey, far mer, Kerby; U. Grant Davis, lumberman, Ashland; Cyrus O. Duncan, Central Point; Augeist Erickson, farmer, and William H. Ferguson, laborer. Gold Hillj Harry E. Harding, painter. Trail; H. M. Hayden, servic station operator, Kerby; Frank Henspeter, rancher, Jackson ville; Mark Krysto, miner, Ca lice; M. C. Llninger, merchant, Ashland; Fred Luy, farmer. Eagle Point, and L. A. Vestal, farmer, Eagla Point Tha panels from which tha drawings were mad appear X be somewhat out of date, (of at least a few of tha Jurors lisV ed no longer resid her. For example, Capt Overmyer waa recalled to active army duty months ago and took op rs 'dene la Philadelphia, Pa,
