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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941.
NO. 162
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.-
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