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1 U UU- Weather ZJ" npon Forecast: Pvtly cloart to night. Clearing Saturday. Cooler. Temperature HllhMt Yrurrdajr , ? Lowett thlt Morning . 48 Precipitation past Z4 honrt .00 Sunday Want Ad Thli U the time to prepare that Want Ad lor the Sunday morn lnf edition. Do It now and be ready. Ad In before S:S0 p. m. Saturday will be properly rlatnl- Medford 1RIBUNE tied. riming time for "too late" It p. m. Saturday. Full Associated Preu United Preu Thirty-sixth Year I? AM Two Sections 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941. NO. 162 LAI V J ..FARM rahiu A nn M (nw? IRE Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day By Gen. Hugh S. Johnion V Washington, D. C, Sept. 26 The country is going to be sold gold brick thinly coated with banana oil, if congress passes a price control bill that attempts to put no kind of ceiling over ' wages and rents and restricts ceilings over farm prices to 1107 "parity." Indeed it is going to be sold gold brick if the bill doesn't put a ceiling over all prices. Wages and food are the prin cipal elements of the cost of all things. Rising prices follow ris ing costs as night follows day. It should be apparent to a high school sophomore that you can not stop price advances, especi ally in the cost of living if you do not control the rise in the elements of cost. T'HE country understands the reasons for it and demands legislative action to prevent run away prices. The opposition to stopping runaways in all prices centers on an assertion that it "is too difficult to administer." Yet the advocates of the bill want power to administer piece meal practically all prices ex cept rents, wages, - and food. They want to do that separately In each field if, and only if, they decide to do it. There will be many more cases to administer, and it will affect 130.000,000 people just as directly on the piecemeal plan as on the over-all ceiling plan, and, as to difficulty of adminis tration, the two cases simply do not compare. On the over-all method you establish one gen eral rule for all prices -the level as of a certain date every y where. Both buyers and sellers know what that was. .There can't be much dispute about facts. Then you have to deal (Continued on iage Fourteen) Roseburg, Ore., Sept. 26. (IP) Congressman James W. Mott escaped uninjured today when a naval amphibian plane in which he was flown from As toria to Roseburg by Lieuten ant Bowers, made a rough land ing on the Roseburg airport. Radio Highlights The University of Oregon Stanford university football game in Palo Alto Saturday aft ernoon will be broadcast over radio station KUIN. Grants Pass (1340 kilocycles), with the play-by-play description of the con test starting at 2:15. KMED, Medford, will broadcast the Oregon State college-University of Southern California tussle at Los Angeles, starting at 2:15. By Associated Press (Time is Pacific standard) Network introduction to the 1941 football season Saturday has been expanded so that four games will be on the air. The schedule: Ohio State vs. Missouri at Columbus NBC-Red 10:45. Michigan vs. Michigan State t Ann Arbor CBS 10:45. North Carolina vs. South Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. C MBS 11:15. Minnesota vs. Washington at Seattle NBC-Blue 1:45. Tonight, Talks NBC-Blue 6 Interstate commission on crime roundtable "Uniform Defense Acts"; NBC-Blue 7:15 Adm. Emory D. Land and others on Liberty Fleet day; NBC-Red 8:05 Paul V. Smith of San Fran cisco Chronicle on "America Must Fight"; also MBS 7:15 Rep. S. A. Day on "Congress Controls Purse Strings." Saturday: The War 8 MBS; 9:45 NBC-Red; 12 noon CBS MBS; 12:55 p. m.. MBS; 2:25 NBC-Red: 2-30 CBS SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Eugene Orr comparing his plump, perky chickies with the 4-H club birds. Alice Crow being swept oft fcer feet in a very special and unexpected way. jNtluHuMtb l n llAAJVAit-awafeiB bKJm UIMtKT P linn iimmiioTnii ir hcak nLraviioiuri is. Tragedy Revealed When Woman Goes To Ranch Police Seek Youth. Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 26. (IP) A family of three persons, a mother, her son and her neph ew, were shot to death some time yesterday on a lonely farm about three and a half miles irom Hermiston and today peace officers of the Pacific northwest were searching for an uniden tified young man, suspected of the triple shooting. Sheriff Bob Goad of Umatilla county said after preliminary investigation The dead were Mrs. Cora Tobin. about 60; her son, Ken neth Gorsuch, about 30, and her nephew, Marvin Adams, about ZS, formerly of Walla Walla. Wash. Mrs. Tobin and her son had lived on the little ranch for the last 10 or 11 years. Found By Neighbor Discovery of the triple tragedy occurred this morning when Mrs. Edna Mulkins went to the place to borrow some eggs and discovered Kenneth's body, which was some distance from the house midway between the chicken house and the pigpen. Mrs. Tobin's body was found in an outside cellar, partially covered with boxes and a blan ket. The nephew's body was in the barn, partially covered with hay. Hermiston Police Chief Hugo. Pankow said each had been shot through the back of the head. Pankow said a youth of about 20 was known to have been rooming at the farm, which is only few miles from where the army is constructing an ordnance depot. Pankow also said that Mrs. Tobin's car, a 1929 model Ford, was missing. Neighbors told Pankow they heard shooting in the vicinity yesterday but thought that mem bers of the family were hunting birds. FRENCH TRIBUNAL EXECUTES THREE Paris, Sept. 26 (IP) The first three men sentenced to death by the powerful tribunal of state were executed today on the guillotine in the courtyard o Sante ririson. Authoritative sources said the court, a French tribunal created to show the Germans the French themselves could handle the op position problem and to forestall tne spread of German reprisals, was expected to hand down a new list of condemnations soon. All three put to death today were Communists: Adolphe Gu yot. Communist leader of the Seine (Paris) department. Jac ques Woog and former Deputy Jean Cathelas. Zooming Business Receives Setback New York, Sept. 26. (IP) The upward trend of business activity was checked somewhat this week Dunn Bradstreet re ported today in the Weekly Re view. "Retail volume Increased sea sonally but warm weather and diminished forward buying on the part of consumers prevented year to year gains from equal ling those of recent months," the agency said. "Shortages of materials con tinued to occupy the Industrial spotlight, preventing further ex pansion in most lines." Budget Drafters To Meet Monday The county budget committee, with Edward Carlton as chair man, will hold its next session Monday at 10 a. m. in the court house. Commissioner A. E. Powell said this morning, add ing that it was hoped to have the budget in the finishing stages at that time. First meeting of the budget drafting body was held yester day, j Champions rs,'. :im -""'ten n t - LY- JK a. S:----. . ' ss&&$ki fe,.K?X.ft Jul. .......... ' ' Two champions of the showmanship class at the annual 4-H club livestock show which closes today at the Jackson county fairgrounds were a Shropshire lamb, raised by Twila Ferns of Fern Valley, and a Duroc-Jeriey hog, raised by Norman Smith of Willow Springs. The prise-winning hog didn't want to be photographed at first, but Norman finally induced it to poie bashfully, with eyes cast downward. The lamb also appears to be camera-shy. (Brainerd photo.) Neutrality Act Change Preferred By Lieutenants of Administration FRISCO' EMPORIUM IS PIC San Francisco, Sept. 26 (IP) The Emporium, San Fran cisco's largest department store, was picketed before dawn today by AFL retail store unions which threatened to spread their strike to 21 other major down town stores to enforce their demands for wage increases and a union shop. There was no indication from union leaders as to which stores would be picketed next, or when. Pickets first appeared in front of the Emporium at 4 a. m. The Emporium opened on time at 9:45 a. m. Around 50 customers entered to shouts of "unfair" and a few "boos" from the picket line of 100. Otherwise picket lines were orderly. Clerks were not at all of the counters on the main floor of the store. Eight unions are involved in the dispute, the-largest of which is the Retail Clerks' union. The clerks demanded the union shop and a general $4 weekly wage Increase. Negotia tions were broken off Wednes day when the unions rejected an employer offer of a basic wage increase of $2 weekly. Present wage scales range up wards from $16 a week for ap prentices and $18 for sales persons. More than 90 per cent of those involved in the dispute are affiliated wtih the clerks union. PAY RAISE DUE FOR f A CREWS Washington. Sept. 26. fAP) Howard Hunter, works projects commission, announced today he planned to raise the wages of over 1.000.000 WPA workers, to bring their earnings nearer into line with the increased cost of living. Although giving no figure on the extent of such a raise. Hunter said 10 per cent would Be "a good guess. "I think we can expect tome action within 30 days," he told a press conference. Hunter said WPA wages had been in effect for two years on the present scale, during which time, he said, industrial wages had increased 32 per cent and food prices had gone up 15 per cent. , Prwrnt WPA scales run from S31 20 to $81 90 a month In th south up to $30 minimum and a $94.90 maximum in the north. in Livestock Showmanship . ' f - i Washington, Sept. 26. (IP) Administration lieutenants In congress were reported today to have rejected a proposal for outright repeal of the neutrality act and to be ready to work in stead for legislation making vital revisions. The repeal proposal was Intro. duced yesterday by Senator Mc- Kellar (D.-Term.), a consistent administration supporter. Mc Kellar, who told the senate that .the, neutrality law established a policy which "no great nation like purs can indulge in," said to day he had acted entirely on his own responsibility. He added he did not know whether the ad ministration would approve com plete repeal of the neutrality law. One well-advised leader told reporters that McKellar's meas ure was not acceptable to the ad ministration. He said the legis lation recommended by Presi dent Roosevel'. next week prob ably would follow the lines indi cated Wednesday by Chairman Connally (D.-Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee. Connally suggested that the neutrality law be amended to permit the arming of American ships and to allow them to enter presently - forbidden belligerent ports and combat zones. The Texas senator declared that some provisions of the neu trality law such as that grant ing the government control over munitions exports should be re tained. Senator Bridges (R.-N. H.), meanwhile, told reporters that he favored either complete re peal or substantial modification of the neutrality law. "I was one of the six senators Scientists. Educators Blamed For Education Shortcomings Chicago, Sept. 26. (IP) Pre sident Robert M. Hutchlns of the University of Chicago today told 2,000 scientists, including the world's greatest, that scientists and educators were to blame for much of what he called "failure in education." In a prepared address, his first to the group assembled for the university's 50th anniversary celebration Hutchlns said educa tors believed students did not want and could not assimilate a liberal education and persisted in teaching according to 19th century customs and standards. It is a reflection on modem methods, he added, that at the time when "practical education" was at its climax thousands of young men and women were graduated and could not obtain Jobs. "It Is paradoxical.' Hutchlns continued, "that now when we need trained technicians and skilled mechanics for national defense we cannot find them though millions were, we vi.. . ,,..., ,. ..V .viW. who voted against It in 1939," he recalled- "and I still don't be lieve you can legislate peace. i.i times of crisis the nation should not be handicapped in dealing with foreign nations by laws of :': own making." Ickes Claims Survey Shows Cars Lacking For Petroleum Haul Washington, Sept. 26. 'JP) Secretary Ickes, the petroleum coordinator, said today a "fact ual inventory" had found a net surplus of only 5,192 rail tank cars available to haul petroleum to the Atlantic seaboard. This finding sharply disa greed with a contention by J. S. Pelley, president of the Asso ciation of American Railroads, that 20,000 idle tank cars were available for operation in the oil emergency. The survey Ickes quoted was made by the east coast transpor tation committee of the oil in dustry. The senate committee, which investigated the oil situation in the east reported there was no shortage, that unnecessary alarm had been created, and suggested that restrictions on gasoline sales be lifted. thought, trained for just such work in the last 10 years." He said this was because students have been roaming the fields of education like "rudder less rabbits," nipping and some times chewing a bit of knowledge but seldom digesting it and still less making use of it. Institutions of higher learn ing, he said, have substituted "practical" courses which "do not supplement but supplant, that instruction which might pre-; pare the young to rule and be ruled like free men for the good life of the whole." As an example he reported 166 colleges and universities in! the United States and Canada offered courses in radio announc ing. Hutchlns added. "We cannot blame the existing organization for our national Illiteracy" which, he said, Is illustrated by t-e fact "that 60 per cent of the high school graduates taking the simplest examinations in mathe matics, history and English for the air corps have failed." Full v inter Campaign Nazis' Plan in Russia ANTELOPE 4-H'ER Jack Steel Wins After Sev eral Years Effort Girls Winners With Guernseys. Jack Steel of Antelope, after several years of being at the foot of the 4-H class, climbed to the top with grim determination this year, and produced the grand champion grade Jersey heifer at the Jackson county 4-H livestock show at the fair grounds yesterday afternoon, the final day of stock Judging. Jack also was junior champion of his division. The show will close this afternoon with completion of the auction sale. Barbara Culbertson of Ante lope was another grand cham pion winner yesterday with a purebred Guernsey producing cow, as was Cora Bigham of Antelope with a grade Guern sey heifer. A fourth grand championship went to Twila Ferns of Fern Valley for her purebred Jersey heifer. Betty Jean Walch of Antelope exhibited the champion grade Jersey producing cow. Judging Difiicult The high grade of stock and stiff - competition brought an other tough job of judging for Charles A. Henderson, Klamath county agent, who came to the show to Judge the dairy division. All of the fine stock produced at the exhibition are the results of long months of patient effort on the part of the young owners, who themselves have attended to every detail of the raising of the animal, with a few possible exceptions of a special feeding program when Dad or Mother feed the animal while his owner is at school. Behind the scenes, giving advice and encourage ment, are the hard working lead ers and parents. Complete ratings in the dairy judging follow: Jersy, purebred senior year ling heifer Twila Ferns, first. Junior yearling heifer, Garry Christleib, Bellview, first. Jersey grade producing cow Betty Jc-an Walch, Antelope, first; Bob Walch, Antelope, sec ond; George Carr, Fern Valley, third. Jersey grade senior yearling heifer Bobby Carr, Fern Val ley, first. Jersey grade, Junior yearling heifer Jack Steel, Antelope, first; George Carr, Fern Valley, second; Bob Walch, Antelope, third; Lloyd Ferns, Antelope, fourth; Pat Von der Hellen, Antelope, fifth; Don Bohncrt, Willow Springs, sixth. Grade senior heifer calf Loree Brennesholtz, Table Rock, first. Grade Junior heifer calf Ed ward Schultz, Ashland, first; Robert Ferns, second; Evelyn Ferns, third; Wilma Russell, fourth; Billy Ferns, fifth; George Carr, sixth; Bobby Carr, seventh. Guernsey, purebred producing cow Barbara Culbertson, first: Allene Owens, second; Albert Thompson, third; Norman Smith, fourth; Cora Bigham, fifth. Senior yearling heifer Clara Mae Bigham, first; Cora Bigham, second. Junior yearling heifer Cora Bigham, first: Dale Bigham, sec ond; Albert Thompson, third. Senior heifer calf Albert Thompson, first; Allene Owens, second; Clara Mae Bigham, third; Wayne Russell, fourth. Junior heifer calf Barbara Culbertson, first: Norman Smith second; Jan Freeman, third. Guernsey, grade senior year ling heifer Cora Bigham, first. Junior yearling heifer Pat von der Ilellen, first; Ernest Smith, second; Richard Krupp, third; Cora Bigham, fourth; Beverly Krupp, fifth; Mary Ricks, sixth; Roland Smith, seventh; David Jackson, eighth. Senior heifer calf Donald Morgan, first; Leigh Ebbert, sec ond; Robert Koger, third; Albert Thompson, fourth; Clara Mae Bigham, fifth. Junior heifer calf Donald Strauss, first; Wayne Smith, sec ond; Jim Jackson, third: Delia Bigham, fourth; Pat von der Hel len, fifth: Florence Russell, sixth; Roland Smith, seventh; Robert Lewis, eighth; Barbara Culbertson, ninth. Milking short horn dual pur pose) Mary Housley, first. (More about 4-H oa Pag 7) BASEBALL I, New York, Sept. 26 (JPl Whitlow Wyatt, Kirby Higbe, Curt Davis and Freddy Fitzsim mons right-handers, every one will be the Brooklyn Dodgers starting pitchers In the world series, Manager Leo Durocher announced at a press conference today. National Cincinnati 4 6 0 Pittsburgh 3 9 1 Vandermeer and West; Brandt, Strincevich, Conger, and Cmith. American New York, Sept. 26 The New York Yankees mado two double plays to establish a new American league record of 188 for the season today as they whipped the Senators 4 to 1 in the first game of a double header behind Spud Chandler's three-hit pitching. First game: R, H. E. Washington 18 1 New York . 4 6 0 Chase and Evans; Chandler and Rosar, 2nd game: Washington R. . 0 H. S New York. 1 8 Wynn and Evans; Russo and Dickey. St. Louis, Sept. 26 (AP) The St. Louis Browns gained sixth place today, capturing the first game of a double Dill from Cleveland, 6-5, in 11 Innings. (1st game, 11 innings) R. H. E. Cleveland 5 14 1 St. Louis -6 11 2 Milnar, Krakauskas and He Ran; Auker, Caster, Kramer and Swift, Ferrell. R. H. E. Chicago 3 8 0 Detroit 4 7 1 Smith, Haynes, and Turner; Benton, Corsica and Tebbetts. No Old Age Pensions When Relatives Able To Support Applicant Portland, Sept. 26. (IP) The State Public Welfare commission reiterated today that no old age pensions would be granted to persons whose relatives could support them. Commission members said sev eral prominent persons had de manded that their aged parents be put on the rolls. Administra tion Elmer R. t-oudy replied that the least pressure was applied by really needy persons. The commission reported that the old age pension burden con tinued to rise, however, with 21, 416 cases in August compared with 18,748 a year ago. The cost increased from $400,798 a year ago to $463,510 in August and $471,521 in September. Oregon's total welfare pro gram cost in August was $691, 760, of which 67 per cent was for old age pensions, 18.8 per cent for direct relief, 12.4 per cent for aid to dependent chil dren, and 1.8 per cent for aid to the blind. AMERICAN PLANES SENT TO TURKEY London, Sept. 26. (IP) The disclosure that Britain has con signed some American - made warplanes to Turkey was Inter preted generally In London to day a indicative of British confidence that the Turks are determined " resist axis bland ishment and remain loyal to their commitments as non-belligerent allies of Britain. Authoritative sources said nothing had occurred to weaken In the slightest their "absolute" faith In Turkish friendship. A dispatch from Ankara dis closed the plane deal, telling of the arrival of four Curtlss-P40 pursuit ships, first of a consign ment of 36 released by the British middle east forces after It was learned that Germany had declined to send warplanes to Turkey under a trade agreement. linmirrniiun nun T GIVE UP BLANKETS FOR GEJIAN USE Citizens, Stores In Occupied Country Ordered Surrern der Wool Bed Clothing, By the Associated Press Adolf Hitler's invasion ormiM are preparing . for a full-scale winter campaign against Russ'a, it was Indicated In Berlin lnta today, and aimultn nMlll ell - - - u , citizens and stores in nazi-occu pica Norway were ordered to surrender their wool blanket for use by the German army. "It is generally recognized now that one cannot figure on the pressure of German troops on the Soviet armim iattin ... during the winter months." tha omciai uerman news agency said. Bitter Resistance In the field, it was apparent that the Germans were melt ing bitter Soviet resistance along the nfir 1 nni,. front from Leningrad to tha oiai-it sea. The British radio reported that 15.000 German ed on the fortified Soviet Island. oi uesci and Dagoe,. guarding; the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, had been wiped out The Islands, it was said, were proving impenetrable to all German attacks."' Berlin had previously at. nounced the capture of Oesel. Whole battalians of German shock troone hnv. h ui to piece by mine fields In a su-ong attack on the Crimea, advice reaching London sail today, and the reported to have the situation wen in nana alter stemming two nazl assaults. - German narafhi,t Mn . used in the attack likewise wera uci-iarea io nave been annlhil ated, Leningrad Pressed In the siege of Leningrad, tha Russians admitted that German siege armies were atoarfllv creasing their pressure desplta cuiossai losses, Dut declared that a series of battle had hurled the Germana harlr fmn several advanced lines. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, reported that Rus sian troops at one point on Len Ingrad's approaches had gained five miles and recaptured four villages. To the north, Adolf Hitler' high command reported that tha destruction of four Red armie trapped east of Kiev was "pro gresslnff rnlpntloutl v " Hh th number of Soviet prisoner uow standing at 492,000. S74.000 Captive Subsequently, the official German news agency, DNB, a serted that the figure had risen to 874.000 Russian rinllvu and that "annihilation of tha last remalnlnff Snvlet trmni east of Kiev i Impending." This claim fnl I nwH n of ficial Soviet denial of an earlier Berlin announcement that 380,. 000 Russian troop had been captured in the Kiev battle. Strategically important a tha site of Russia' great Black sea naval base of Sebastopol, tha Crimean neninmla wntilH 1m provide a stepping-stone for a German thrust Into tha Cau casus oil fields across the nar row mouth of the Sea of Azov. Coincident with this report ed blow to Hitler's invasion force in the far south, Berlin admitted that the Russian wera attackinsf with mmintine fun- On the north central front, ap parently In tha vicinity of V. lizh, 70 mile northwest of Smo lensk. Sin Francisco Butte San Francisco, Sept. 26 F) Butter, eggs and cheese un changed. Sacramento. Sent. 18 UP Churning cream butterfat: First cxada 4-VI; second frada 40 Yi.- 1
