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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.
NO. 161
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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
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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,