Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 29, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textma u ft t Weather" awport Ue Want Ad. Ot-a ttia Want Ads an oppor tunity t ba of aer-tr to yon. They ara hard worker and thty ar not tipenslva. Ort tha habit of nlng them and uto Mm. Thero Is no better tlmo than now to start. Medford Tribune Forecai; Pair tonlffht u4 Tuesday. Llttla ehanga t tam petmtur. TraipenUnr Hlihest Ve-rtertay 78 Lo tat this Morning 43 Precipitation part t hour .60 full Associated Press United Pru Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941. NO. 161. 1WMT vi ivi r i r UU UL3U Jl LnL- am mm o)lnilJlliJlg) lYl r n I UJ gfiff. w m m a o 1 1 Guernsey so ft1 Th cIbh ef purtbrtd Qurnir producing eowi and thlr 4-H ownin ir shown aboT at tha 4 H Uvaatock ahow which ondad Friday at tha fairground. Laf t to rightt Barbara Culbartion. Antalopa. champion winnar of tha clan, and grand champion winnar of tha purebrad Guarniay divisions Allan Owans, Antalopa. Albart Thompion. Cantral Pointi Norman Smith. Willow Springs) Cora Blgham, Antalopa. (Photo by Brainard). 1 Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day Br Can. Hugh S. Johnson Washington D. C. Sept. 29 Human labor la not n commod ity of commerce. Therefore we ought to put a ceiling over all prices but not wages. Something like that Is tha soeasning of Mr. Henry Morgenthau. With one other exception th 6 percent limitation on profit nonsense hi testimony was excellent, but that one was pur politics and buncombe. It Is exactly like say ing: A straight line is the short est distance between two points and therefore the moon is made of green cheese." Nobody denies that labor is not a commodity. Except the worker himself, no man owns It, no man can buy and sell it or send it to work where it does not want to go. But price infla tion is the worst danger to labor itself. It can't be stopped with out direct controls. A PRINCIPAL element in price Inflation Is labor prices. You can't control price inflation without controlling those prices also, and to say that you can't control the latter because labor is not a commodity doesn't make sense. Commodity or no commodity, its prices affect the whole commodity price struc ture. In the control effort, they can no more be ignored than you can Ignore the law of gravity in lumping out of a balloon. They are the principal pull that leads (Continued on Pat Four) WEATHER Northern California Fair to night and Tuesday, but morning coastal clouds: cooler Tuesday: moderate northwest wind off shore. Radio Highlights The Lou Nova-Joe Louis fight for the heavyweight champion ship will be broadcast starting at 7 o'clock tonight by Station KUIN, Grants Pass, 1340 kilo cycles. By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight, the War 3:3S CBS; 7:30 NBC-Blue: 7:45 CBS-East; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS. Talks NBC-Blue radio for um, new time. Sen. Tom Con nelly on "Repeal the Neutrality Act '; CBS 8 13 Ma). Gen. J. F. O Ryan on post-war conditions. Tuesday, "th War MBS; 10 45 NBC; 11 MBS; 12:33 p. m.. CBS MBS; 1:53 NBC-Blue: 3 CBS: 3:23 NBC-Red; 3:43 CbS . jiBC-Bjua, . ' J Class at 4-H Stock Show V r I:: , V- 1 t. . X. .-.r s- I 'LhT jV .4 p7 NK'' .; ' : -X .1 -V ;(. 4 ti 2 i .. .; I t Tommy Carlton, of Upper Rogu River, ahown with "Mickey", his 1,000-pound Hereford, grand champion of th baef division at th 4-H livestock show which ended Friday at th fairground. (Brainard Photo). Survivors of Pink Star Tell Of Second Officer's Heroism By Draw MlddUton Reyjavlk, Iceland. Sept. 24. (Delayed) (JP) Th wooden legged master of th torpedoed freighter Pink Star told today a story of self-effacing heroism by the Canadian second officer, J. L. (Jim) Cassldy, who gave up his life so as not to over crowd a lifeboat. "Cassidy swam up to our only lifeboat. He saw that it was full, waved goodbye and swam away. We never saw him again," said Captain J. C. MacKenzie. He looked around at th grim fires of some of his 23 fellow survivors' of th crew of 36. No one said a word. You could hear the wind beating against the side of the Icelandic hut where this tense interview was (rant ed. Cassidy, the hero of the Pink Star, came from New Bruns wick. The master himself, the 53-year-old MacKenzie, was in FAIL TO AGREE Eugene, Ore, Sept. 29. (AP) Th weekend's negotiations be tween members of the AFL lum- i her and sawmill workers' union in the Willamette valley district council and a few of the em ployers in the area failed to pr : duce an agreement. Tha strike deadline, however, was set for Wednesday instead of Tuesday, so that a federal conciliator would hav tim to anler th piciur. , ( 11 Ma-' I v I; the water for five hours. But his tribute was for Cassidy. "It was the finest thing I ever saw," he said. Of himself, MacKenzie said "with two life belts to keep me up and a bit of wood from a lard box to paddle with," he had managed to keep moving for three hours. Two hours before he was picked up, however, he had lost the use of his good leg and the stump of the other from the numbing cold of the water. He chuckled when he said that the chill had no effect on his artificial leg. "I wasn't feeling a thing in it." MacKenzie said. Of the tense moments before the Pink Star went down, Mac Kenzie said: "I could see th torpedoes coming for just minutes. I shov ed the ship haid a port and then they hit. Glory be. It was like the Judgment of God. She seem ed to be tearing to pieces . . ." Oregon License 'White On Blue Salem, Sept. 29 (J) Ore gon's 1942 automobile license plates will have white numer al on blue background, th stafe department said today. There will bi about 430,000 of the new plates. This year's r1te are white on rn. LONGSHORE CHIEF HELD AFFILIATED Judge Sears Lists Three Major Items In Decision On Long-Drawn Hearing. San Francisco, Sept. 29. (IP) Deportation of Harry Bridges to Australia was recommended today by Charles B. Sears, spe cial inspector for the depart ment of justice who presided at the longshore leader's 11 weeks hearing In San Francisco this spring. In his findings announced by the immigration departmtnt here today, Judge Sears held that Bridges was a member of and affiliated with the Com munist party and was also affil iated with the Marine Workers Industrial union. Sears denied Bridges petition to reopen the hearing on the grounds that the department of justice had tapped telephone wires to obtain information to present against him. Albert Del Guercio, supervis or of the immigration depart ment's special inspection divi sion, said Bridges would be given 30 days in which to file an exception. It was Del Guer cio who directed prosecution in Bridges second hearing. Communism Defined Sears found that the Commu nist party of the United States "believes In, advises, advocates and teaches the overthrow by force and violence In this gov ernment. In regard to charges that Bridges was formerly a mem ber of the Industrial Workers of the World Sears held that there was no evidence that the I. W. W. was of the type of organization that was alleged in the complaint. Sears listed these as the three major items in his decision on Bridges connection with the Communist party and th M. W. I. U. - 1. Harry Lundeberg, head of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, who at the trial testified he was urged to join the Communist party while in a Bridges home; 2. James O'Neil, former pub licity man in Bridges office, who on the stand repudiated the statement in which the FBI quoted him as saying he saw Bridges pasting dues stamps in a Communist party book, and 3. The Inconsistence of Bridges himself in detailing his connec tion with the publication, "Wa terfront Worker." No Tapping Evidence The denial of the motion to reopen the case was based on Sears' decision that there was no evidence of wire-tapping In regard to the deportation hear ing Itself. He said there might have been subsequent wire tap ping. Richard Gladstein, Bridges' attorney, Issued this statement in New York: "We are deeply shocked at the decision which will be re ceived by thousands of union men and women with resent ment and indignation. Natural ly we shall exhaust every legal channel of appeal to remedy the grav wrong that has been done." More About Bridge an Pag 8 RIPSOUT FENCE Thlrty-flv of picket fence enclosing the yard of George Barker, 209 Tripp street, were torn down late Sunday after noon by an automobile that drove away without stopping, Barker reported to city police. Th automobile. Barker told police, was traveling south of Tripp street at a high rat of speed, turned into Ninth street and swerved to the left and over th curb, striking and tearing down th fence. Afterward, Barker reported, th machine continued along Nin h street and turned south ont Cottage street. . Llcent number of th car obtained by Barker and givan to Milk -Vice Advance Rescinded by Board BRITAIN AND ITALY AT SEA AND IN AIR RAF Bombers Raid Nine Cit ies; Fascists Stage Nine Hour Smash At Convoy. Moscow, Sept. 29. (AP) Flurries of light snow 111 in Moscow today. By the Associated Press Great Britain and Italy re ported a violent exchange of blows in air and sea fighting to day with RAF bombers raiding nine fascist cities overnight in the heaviest assaults of the war there, while Premier Mussolini's high command announced a smashing nine-hour attack on a British convoy in the Mediterra nean. Informed quarters In London hinted that the RAF'i all-out of fensive, striking with the heav iest possible bomb loads, might be the start of a "bomb Italy out of the war" campaign. Three British cruisers and at least three merchants ships were sunk by Italian torpedo planes, the fascist high command said. Nine other craft were report ed damaged by bomb-hits, in cluding a British battleship which the Rome, radio identified as the 33,930-ton Nelson, one of Britains newest and biggest capital ships. Claim Discounted In London, the British admi ralty heavily discounted the iiauan claim, admitting one merchant ship sunk and a war ship damaged. The Italian high command acknowledged a toll of 11 per sons killed and 53 wounded as RAF bombers pounded four Italian mainland cities, four In Sicily and the island city of Rhodes. In addition, two persons were killed in blackout. London dispatches said the RAF left great fires raging in Genoa and at other points in northern Italy. Rom Spared Th RAF avoided Rome despite earlier expectations that the fascist capital might be bombed in reprisal for an axis attack on Cairo, Holy city of th Moslem world but show ered hlgh-explosiv bombs and incendiaries on Genoa, Spezzia, Turin and Savona Marina on the Italian mainland. Some of the casualties were at a fifth main land city, Milan, but th Injuries and fatalities were from anti aircraft shells and traffic acci dents. Also attacked were th Sicil ian towns of Palermo, Trapani, Marsala and Castel Vetrano, and th Italian island of Rhodes In the eastern Medterranean. On RAF plane was reported shot down by anti-aircraft fire at Turin, with the crew of five killed. Reports from Bern said large numbers of planes passed over Switzerland during th night, indicating that th raiders flew over th Alps from Britain on a 1,200-mile round trip Journey. Rumanians Routed In the Russian campaign, now In Its 15th week, Soviet dis patches reported th rout of two German-allied Rumanian infantry brigades In bitter flglit lng on th southern (Ukraine) front, with mora than 2,500 Ru manians killed, and declared that Marshal Semeon Tlmoshen ko's red armies on the central front had recaptured 10 more villages in a drive from Yelnya to Smolensk. Soviet troops wer reported to hav hurled th Germans from three lines of trenches and crossed th Desna river, advanc ing on a six-mil front. Around slege-glrt . r,,-g.'l. I In th north, Soviet front-line ! reports said the city's defenders SIX CZECHS SHOT IN NAZIS' EFFORT TO German Premier of Protec torate Under Arrest On Charges of High Treason. London, Sept. 29. (iP) Six persons were shot yesterday in execution of the first death sentences ordered by Relnhard Heydrick, new reich's protector for Bohemia-Moravia, the Ger man radio said today Jn a broad cast heard by Reuters. Berlin, Sept. 29. (P) Gen eral Alois Elias, premier af the German protectorate of Bohemia- Moravia, was held today on charges of premediating high treason as nazi authorities took steps to curb certain elements along the Czech population which they said had committed acts hostile to the relch. Moving with characteristic speed, Relnhard Heydrlch, ace trouble-shooter of the German secret police, clamped a state of civil emergency on six districts of Bohemia-Moravia within 24 hours after relieving 68-year-old Baron Konstantlti Volt Neurath as reich's protector. Von Neurath was said to have asked a tem porary leave because of ill health. No details were released on measures to be taken under the state of emergency, but It gener ally Includes a curfew, closing of theaters and other public gath ering places, summary execu tions, exceptionally-heavy prison terms and confiscation of prop erty for acts regarded as of fenses against the order and se curity of the state. Berlin, Sept. 29. W) Two men were put to death in Paris Saturday for possessing forbid den weapons, it was disclosed today in a published notice signed by General Otto von Stuelpnagel, military command for occupied France. The men, Eugen Devlgne and Mohamed Moall, wer sen tenced the day before. ITALYlSlDS CLOTHING SALES Rome, Sept. 29 (P) The government today ordered sus pension of all trade In textiles and clothing and it was under stood this was a preliminary to rationing of these good-i. Despite recent distribution of identification cards for purchases of these goods, the communique said, the Italian public had been buying mora of them than was normal and necessary. It said, "in order to avoid so cially offensive, anti-economic hoarding, th guilds ministry has decided to block all sales of textiles, clothes and underwear so as later to order their ration ing." then driving forward without respite." A Russian correspondent tele graphed frqm behind th siege lines that "w hav already cracked, th enemy's advance." Adv'ces reaching London said that German warplanet were violently blasting railroads and highways on th Crimea penin sula, key to control of Black sea waters, but that Nazi troops w(;r making little if any pro gress in attempts to cross the four-mil wide Perekop Isthmus. Behind this gateway to the Crimea, th Russians wer de clared to be holding stoutly, wiping out German parachute troop and shelling th Germans to a standstill behind vast death-trap of minefields at the fcllAfftlaT bottlsgaKaV Homebound? i . i iJiY'r"?'- I i Deportation of Harry Bridges (above) on th ground that he was a mimbtt of th communist party and also affiliated with th Marin Workers Industrial Union, was recommended today by Charles B. Sear who presid ed at th longshor leader's hearing In Saa Francisco this spring. CLINE FILES SUIT E Stephen J. Cilne, through his attorney, has filed suit against th Pacif lo Greyhound - Lines, and Roy E. Harding, stage driv er, for $31,930 general and spec ial damages for Injuries, assert edly sustained last July 14, In a crash on the Pacific Highway, near the Beall Lane intersection, between the stag and an auto driven by Cline. Clin seeks $30,000 general damages, $1,500 special dam ages for losses of wages, hospi tal and medical services, and $430 for repair of hi auto. Cline alleges In the complaint the stage was operated in "a careless, reckless and negligent manner, and further charges at th time of the collision the stage was over th center Una of the highway. ' The plaintiff declares he sus tained injuries to head and back, of a permanent nature. As a result of tha crash, nine passengers on th stag were hospitalized. A justice court Jury of six men last Tuesday heard testi mony on the charge Cline failed to give right of way. The Jury was unable to agree, and was discharged, Cline, chief timekeeper for the WPA, for Jackson and Jose phine counties, is represented by Attorney Don R. Newbury. Peklsko. Alt., Sept. 29 (JP) Th Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived at th duke's 3,000 acre ranch deep In Alber ta's foothills about 1 p. m. to day. Driving up to th larg ranch house in rear perfect weather on of tha first remarks mad by th duke was that It was like "home and th duchess ex claimed: "My, It s lovely." Montreal, Sept. 29 AP) Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, 83, Cana dian f inancier one reputed to be th wealthiest man in th do minion, died yesterday. Sir Her bert and his associate at various time were said to hav con trolled 230 companies with total assets of mora than $2,000,064, fcVMt K- Letter To Dealers and Pra ducers Reveal Change Further Hearing Offered Rescinding a "proposed" ol dcr that would have raised tlia price of milk ono cent a quart in the Jackson county , market, ing area on October 1, the Ore gon Milk Control Board, in a letter to licensed milk dealer and producers in this area, an nounces its determination not to promulgate th "proposed" order, thus causing all present price to remain as they ar. The letter said: "Upon review and consideration of th crlti cisms and suggestions relative to th proposed order number 181, submitted to all licensed dealers and producers on Sep tember 13, 1941, th board ha determined not to promulgate th proposed order, and order number 156 will b effective in th Jackson county marketing! area until further notice." Hearing Proffered 7 Order number 158, it was explained by John Snyder, vie, president of Snlder's Dairy an4 Produce company, was promul gated October 31, 1940, and established th. present retail price of 11 cents a quart for milk and 58 cents a pound but terfat paid producers by distrib utor. Under the rescinded pro posed order, th retail price of milk would have jumped to It - cents a quart, and the price of butterfat per pound to 87 cents, -fh letter also stated that "tha board will give considera tion to any petition from pro ducers, distributor or other for a hearing to be held in Medford. At this tim we ara not in a position to set any definite hearing data dua to numerous hearings also sched uled." The proposed order number 181, Increasing th milk and butterfat prices, was drawn by th milk control board follow Ing a request filed with tha board by the Medford Milk Producer-Distributor essocia 1 1 o n, and after a recent hearing in th county courthouse. When the order was mailed to dealer and producers criticisms and suggestions wer invited. Plans Cracks Up in Takssff From RoaJ Klamath Falls, Sept. 29. (AP) Attempting to take off from a highway after an emergency: landing in a farm field near Merrill, an airplane cracked Into telephone pole yesterday. The pilot Sidney Means, Ingla wood, Calif., was hospitaliztd here. Extent of his Injuries was not learned at once. . Tule Lake Autoist M Killed in Accident Klamath Falls, Sept 29. (JPt Harry C. Baker. 43, was killed and KoUrte Gudmund was ser iously Injured In an automoblia accident 14 miles south of Tula Lake, Calif., Saturday night. Both wer from Tule Lake. SIDE GUUICES BT TRIBUHE REPORTER Johnny Holmer, herding soma of the younger generation to tha model airpton meet so that ha could hav an excuse to enjoy th antic of th buzzing midgets. Friends wondering whether Vera Plymala knows they know she has a birthday corning up tomorrow. Friends of Paul Hanlln wond ering th tarn thing about hinsj M at Wajnaad, tya aWta-di.