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TRIBUNE'
Full Associated PtMi
United Ptl
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.
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Lou Nova (uppar rj'cture) goes down for a nine-count under the murderous punching of Cham
pion Joe Louis. In the sixth round of their heavyweight title fight at the Polo Grounds in New
York. Louis won on a technical knockout in the sixth round when Referee Arthur Donovan
(lower picture) stepped between Louis (left) and the challenger one second before the round
ended. (A. P. photos by wire and mail to Mail Tribune).
(STORY ON SPORT PAGE)
Hugh Johnson
Eyes Men and
Issues of Day
By Gen. Hugh S. Johnson
Washington, Sept. 30. In all
the growing overhead control
for the purposes of speeding up
Industrial mobilization, who is
charged with making the max
imum and quickest use of trans
portation? It is impossible to
y avoid superlatives in dealing
with this subject. On the sur
face they may seem to be exag
gerations but they are not
Take the case of a ship load
ed with war supplies for Eng:
land. There are plenty of most
kinds of supplies. The trick Is
to get them overseas. If the
"turnaround" (time consumed
In loading, unloading and round
trip) of that ship is cut in half,
It is not hard to see that what
you are doing is just doubling
both the rate and the amount
of supply. No amoi t of Jump
ing up and down and yelling
about the need for increased
factory effort would be half as
effective as a successful attempt
to increase the speed of trans
portation both here and abroad.
We found that out during World
(Continued on Pa." All)
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Lew Boyd turning up with a
new excuse for not getting a
deer, he declaring he motored
all the way to Lakeview before
discovering he was toting his
shotgun instead of a rifle.
Lulu Saulsberry thinking it
nice because a friend of hers
got her ume in this depart
ment Florence Stephens declining
to tell f.bout her trip to Salem.
Vera Humphrey having three
friend.'; count the stitches in her
knotting and all three getting a
different answer.
British Battleship Struck
By Italian Aerial Torpedo
By the Associated Press
London, Sept. -,30. The British admiralty said today an
aerial torpedo-hit", on the British battleship Nelson, the loss
of a fighter plane crew and sinking of a motor vessel con
stituted the only cost of moving an important convoy
through the central Mediterranean under a week-end running
attack by Italian planes.
Thirteen of the raiders were
declared to have been de
stroyed. (Italians said yesterday that
three British cruisers and at
least three merchantmen were
sunk and that a battleship be
lieved to be the Nelson was
damaged. They acknowledged
that eight Italian planes were
missing but said six. British
planes had fallen).
A torpedo launched by one
of the fascist raiders Saturday
slightly reduced the speed of
the 16-year-old Nelson, it was
said, but there were no cas
ualties among her crew of about
1,360 men.
The Nelson Is a vessel of 33,
950 tons. She was commission
ed in 192S and normally carries
a complement of 1,361.
Chungking, Sept 30. AP)
The Japanese army landed a
small detachment of parachute
troops yesterday at Chuchow,
important rail Junction 30 miles
south of bitterly - contested
Changsha but all were either
killed or driven away, a Chi
nese military authority declared
today.
(Japanese military sources,
who claimed yesterday they had
seized Chuchow, today stated
they had withdrawn all their
forces from there, except a pro
tective patrol.)
Chinese sources, insisting they
still held Changsha despite four
days of Japanese claims It had
fallen, said the provincial capi
tal's, fate might be decided with
in the next few days.
VALLEY VIEW AREA
Fire early this morning de
stroyed a large barn and Its con
tents of 200 tons of hay and ten
large Snider Dairy & Produce
company milk cans on the Gal
latin dairy farm In the Valley
View section. The blaze was
attributed to the spontaneous
ignition of the hay.
The state forest patrol dis
patched a crew of men and a
pumper but the barn was prac
tically burned to the ground
when they arrived. The firemen
saved the other buildings, how
ever.
Last evening forest headquar
ters sent a crew and pumper out
to the vicinity of Locust avenue
In response to a call from the
city fire department, but only a
man burning rubbish was found.
The city fire department had
dispatched a chemical crew in
response to a call it had received
but the crewmen, while en route
to the scene, noted that the blaze
was outside the city limits and
so notified the state forest patrol.
AIR LINE SEEKS OFFICE
SPACE AT SALEM PORT
Salem, Sept. 30. AP) Offic
ials of United Air Lines, which
will make Salem a regular stop
In its coast service, will arrive
here tomorrow to make arrange
ments for o'fice space at the
Salem airport.
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INITIATIVE IN AIR
LEADERDECLARES ;
Shipping Losses Cut Two
Thirds in Three Months
Continent Invasion Eyed.
By the Associated Press
London, Sept. 30. Britain
has seized the initiative from
Germany in the air, has cut
shipping losses two-thirds in
three mr.nths, and has "several
times" considered Invasion of
the G jrman-dominated contin
ent, Prime Minister Churchill
told the house of commons to
day in a broad war review
which was the most optimistic
'ie yet has given.
Adolf Hitler is suffering from
a "very serious shortage" in air
power, Churchill said, but "for
the rest he still retains the in
itiative and we have not had
the force to take it from him.'"
Germany Still Strong
Churchill Md not thus rule
out the possibility of a British
invasion of the continent, how
ever, remarking that Hitler
"does not tell us his plans and
I do not see why we should
tell him ours."
(Authoritative London quar
ters, commenting on Churchill's
reference to a possible invasion
of the continent, said 26 German
divisions about 390.000 troops
still guarded the French coast
against Just such an eventuality.
(A land attack now, It was
said, would "do Russia no good
and result In another Dun
kerque.") .,
In every respect except In the
air, he said, Germany remains
so strong that Britain's own
peril of invasion is not past
and only "enormous" conver
sion of United States factories
to produce war material can
keep Russia on the firing line
Indefinitely,
"Many Important supplies
already have been dispatched"
to Russia by Britain, Churchill
disclosed, mentioning aircraft,
aluminum, copper, rubber and
oil, and remarking that "It may
be that transportation and not
the willingness or ability to give
will prove In the end the limit
ing factor."
To keep Russia In the fight,
"sacrifices of the most serious
and extreme kind will be nec
essary by the British people,"
he said.
Red Envoy Listens
Russian Ambassador Ivan M.
Maisky leaned over the diplo
matic gallery rail, intent on
every word of the prime min
ister's report and cheering
throatily at each of the fre
quent references to the Soviet
Union.
Suggesting that the war would
last at least through next year,
Churchill said:
"We are now within a meas
urable distance of an Immense
flow of American new building
which, together with our own
production, we look to carry us
through 1942 and along progres
sively to the end of the war."
However, he warned, "Hitler
has told us nothing since his
speech In February; we are In
complete ignorance of what he
is going to do.
Kill Plans Unknown
"We don't know how far he
will attempt to penetrate the
vast lands of Soviet .Russia In
the face of the valient Russian
defenses, or how long his peo
ple will endure their own tre
mendous losses, or, again,
whether he will decide to stand
on the defensive and exploit the
territory of immensive value
whlrh he has conquered.
"We do not know whether he
will turn a portion of his vast
army southward toward the
Valley of the Nile, or If he will
make his way through Spain
into northwest Africa, or
whether, using the great con
tinental railways of Europe and
the Immense chain of airfields,
he will hlft his weight and as-
JCotUouea ea Pk TaJi
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Hospitable Folk
Pester Soldiers
With Ride Offers
Windsor Locks, Conn., Sept.
30. (JP) It'i getting so a
soldier can't even get a little
exercise any more, the hospi
tality around the army air
base here is so thick.
Lieutenant George Dinwid
dle, the base chaplain, told a
church group in Hartford that
the soldiers "tell me they
even have trouble taking
walks, so many people want
to offer them rldef."
TRIED BY HESS
TO
London, Sept 30. (flV-Ru-
dolph Hess, former deputy for
Adolf Hitler, who made a sen
sational flight to England last
May, was reported tonight to
have started hunger strikes
twice in his place of detention
in anger because he was being
treated as a prisoner of war and
not as a "special envoy."
The star, London evening
newspaper, reporting that Hess
was being confined "within a
very easy distance of London,"
said he was contending that as
an "envoy" he should Be allow
ed to return to Germany at
once.
When Hess, then the No. S
nazi, fled to Scotland alone
early In May In one of the most
sensational episodes of the en
tire war he was reported widely
to have brought peace overtures
from Hitler.
The Star Implied that Hess
now was living in comfortable
quarters, saying:
Some of our very senior of
ficers who have been captured
by the enemy now occupy de
cent villas. Has Hess a villa or
something better suited to his
higher rank?"
Seven Youihs Leave
Night of October 7
On Draft Selection
Seven youths will leave here
by train at 7:50 p. m. October 7
to report the next morning at
port for induction elsewhere,
for final examination for se
lective service.
Local selective service board
No. 1 will send Robert J. Hayes,
Arnold F. Young and Ira W. Van
Brunt. Board No. 2 will send
Albert C. Gould, Alfred Crance,
Stanley Cartwright and Everett
Sizemore. Van Brunt is a trans
fer from Arkansas and Cart
wright and Sizemore are trans
fers from California.
In addition two board No. 1
selectees, no longer here, will re
port for inductin elsewhere,
Thomas C. Williamson to report
In Detroit, Mich., and Walter F.
Gerhard in Theomopolis, Wyo.,
headquarters said.
Board No. 1 had a quota of
four for this call and board No,
2 had a quota of two. Transfers
are no longer counted In the
regular quotas, it was explained.
Fight Pictures
Deemed Too Dull
New York, Sept. 30. UP)
There won t be any motion pic
tures at your neighborhood film
palace this week to settle argu
ments about the Joe Louis-Lou
Nova fight After viewing the
films today, the distributors de
cided that they made too dull
a show, except for the actual
knockout punch and a brief
flurry in the fourth round, ar.d
as a result they will not send
them out.
COL. OUIGLEY RETIRES
Fort Lewis. Sept 30. (AP)
Lieut. Col. Charles C. Qulgley,
62, adjutant general of the 9th
army corps, retired today after
43 years' service in the United
States army. He entered the
army In 1898 as a private from
Iowa. He will make hit bom In
Sa Francisco.
Bitter Hand-to-Hand Com
bat Reported By Red Star
Germans Driven Back.
Moscow, Sept. 30. (JP) The
Red army reported today recap
ture of a city on the approaches
to Leningrad and the taking of
many other communities in a
concentrated series of counter
attacks.
As the violent struggle con
tinued all along the front that
spans a continent, Red Star,
Soviet army news organ, said i
the northwestern city of B
was recaptured after 12 hours
of battle which culminated in
the bitterest sort of hand-to-hand
and house-to-house com
bat. The Germans thus were driven
back "a significant distance"
from Leningrad, where they
have made no gain in a fort
night, Red Star stated.
One German regiment was
declared annihilated in this bat
tle, with the Russians losing
less than 100 men in dead and
wounded.
Berlin, Sept 30. (IP) Hand-
to-hand bayonet fighting on the
southern Russian front was re
ported today In military dis
patches which said hundreds of
Russian dead littered the bat
tlefield.
Numerous skirmishes at close
quarters have been mentioned.
including some in the suburbs
of Leningrad, but today's ac
count was tha first time bayo
net combat has been reported
here.
DNB said that on the north
ern front German and Finnish
forces captured several towns
between Lake Ladoga and Lake
Onega and seized the last of the
Russian-defended Islands In
Lake Ladoga.
A Germany military spokes
man declared today there would
be "little news from the eastern
front for the next few days"
because of "certain reasons"
which were not disclosed.
He added that "certain Im
portance can be attached" to
statements In the German press
that the campaign on the Rus
sian front might run into win
ter months.
(The German radio broadcast
a dispatch from Helsinki that
shortage of food was causing
Increasing desertions among
Soviet defenders of the occu
pied Finnish peninsular base at
Hango).
Daddy'll Have
Beat New Excise Tax Levies
Washington, Sept. 30. ()
today on tha fur coat diamond
fume she wants, or It will cost
Today Is the last day that
furs. Jewelry and toilet prepar
ations may be purchased free of
the new 10 percent federal tax.
All the new exaise levies of the
$3,553,400,00 tax bill will go
into effect tomorrow, but these
three are the only ones that
apply directly to retail transac
tions. You don't have to pay cash
today to escape the- tax, but
you've got to take the goods
home. Uncle Sam says that un
less the purchased ltm Is de
livered before October 1 the tax
must be paid on it
This also means that people
who have bought such Items on
the "lay-away" plan better get
their purchases home by to
night or the government will
claim that tha purchases were
not completed until after Octo
ber 1 and will collect the tax.
However, anyone who still
owes payments on a watch, for
instance, but has possession of
lit before tonight can forget
about the new levy.
It won't do Daddy much good
HEMES
Doctor Removes
410 Tacks Gulped
By Carpet Layer
Weehawken, N. J., Sept. SO
(IP) A linoleum and oilcloth
worker was in fair condition
today at North Hudson hos
pital today after a 90-mtnute
operation during which 410
one-quarter Inch tacks, swal
lowed over a period of years,
were removed.
He apparently swallowed
the tacks following a practice
in his profession of tossing
a handful of tacks Into his
mouth while working. The
operation was performed last
Saturday when the tacks
were revealed by an X-ray
for another ailment
The surgeon used a small
electro-magnet and virtually
every instrument he had in
removing the tacks.
The hospital did not dis
close the name of the patient
nr surgeon.
Broad Expansion of
Social Security Is
Anti-Inflation Plan
Washington, Sept. SO. (IP)
President Roosevelt disclosed to
day that the administration was
contemplating broad expansion
of the social security program
with the two, fold objective of
deterring inflation and easing
readjustment after tha current
emergency ends.
He told a press conference that
he probably would submit to
congress soon a message on the
matter and that perhaps the
number of persons to be brought
under social security would be
doubled.
On a gjess, he said, the num
ber might be Increased from 40
to 80 million persons.
He said, too, that It might be
necessary to boost payroll taxes.
The chief executive, who had
considered the social security
problem earlier in the day with
a group of government officials,
said It was desired to make cov
erage as wide as possible and
also to give greater federal aid
to poorer states.
Cannon Planes In
Raid on France
Folkestone, England., Sept
30. tP) A flight of four-can
noned Hurricane fighter planes,
stretched out In a single line
like a football team running
forward at the kickoff, raced
across the breeze-swept English
channel toward Dieppe, France,
this afternoon, employing a no
vel formation in the day a ser
ies of low-level attacks on Ger
man positions.
to Hurry to
You can't stall the missus past
wrist watch or expensive per
you 10 percent more.
to rush down to the store to
beat the other new excises,
however, because they are to be
paid by the manufacturers.
These Include new taxes on
sporting goods, cameras, phono
graph records and a number of
other Items, as well as Increased
taxes on such things as auto
mobiles. Theoretically, the con
sumer won't have to pay the
new tax on these Items until
goods actually manufactured af
ter October 1 are sold at retail.
Actually, of course, some mer
chants may boost prices of these
items earlier.
Liquor was In special sit
uation. Although the extra $1
a gallon tax, which will bring
the total whisky tax to (4 a gal
lon, will have to be paid by
distillers, the government Is go
ing to collect a floor tax on any
old stock that any dealer has
on hand tomorrow, making the
boost In beverage prices Im
mediate. Many consumers have
stocked up heavily in anticipa
tion of the price 'rise.
FRUIT GROWERS
TOLD NEXT YEAR -.
TO BE ROSY ONE
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Most Favorable Situation Irf
Over Decade Is Seen By,
Agriculture Department
Washington, Sept 30.-
Fruit producers of tha United
States were advised by the ag
riculture department today that
they "may expect the most fav
orable demand situation fof
their output In 1942 that haa
prevailed for more than a dec
ade." In its annual forecast for all
fruits, the department said eon
sumer purchasing power will
average higher next year than
this and that the "present pros
pect la for a considerable ex
pension In exports as a result
of the lend-lease program."
Tha annual outlook Indicated
a smaller output of deciduous;
fruits, which Include peaches,
pears, grapes, cherries, plums.
prunes, apricots and commer
cial apples, and a larger crop
of citrus fruits Including grape
fruit, oranges and lemons. j
Maurice Spatz, former press-
dent of the Rogue River Valley
Traffic association, said the In
teresting thing about the agri
culture department's prediction
for 1942 was tha reference to
exports. This year, he related,
there have been no export mar
kets and if the lend-lease of
any other program can restora
some of the lost export trad
the future indeed looks hope
ful for Rogue River valley pe.ir
growers. Mr. Spatz cautioned.
howev-r, that many adverse)
factors can develop before as
other year rolls around. -
Aa to this year a pear ere'
harvest of which la Just belt)
completed, Mr. Spats said r
turns have averaged 50 pereet
better than a year ago. This, h
asserted, has been tha best yea
in a decade. ,
Thousand Houses W
Needed In Spokans
Spokane, Sept 30. ( Aa
Immediate need for 1,000 extra
dwellings in Spokane was sera
yesterday by Harold Frazier, of
the chamber of commerce coa
st ruction and industries com
mittee, to meet needs created by
construction of the air corps)
supply and repair depot west of
Spokane. ,
WINDSORS STAY HOME '
Pekisko, Alta., Sept 30 CP)
The Duke and Duchess of Wind
sor today abandoned i-lans for
a morning horseback ride and
stayed at the EP ranchhousa to
receive a visit from Mark Dixon,
Stony Indian hunter who roda
in from his camp on Peklska
creek. i
Radio Highlights
A play-by-play description of
he world's series between tha
New York Yankee and tha
Brooklyn Dodgers will ba
broadcast by Granta Pass sta
tion KU1N (1340 kilocycles).
starting at 10:30 a. m. (PST)
Wednesday.
(Time la Pacific standard.) -
Today, the war 4:45 NB
Red; 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS; 7:30
NBC-Blue; 7:45 CBS; 8 MBSj
8 30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS; M
NBC CBS.
Talks MBS 6:15 Rep. Robert
Ramspeck to Camp Fire Olrlat
NBC-Blue 6:45 Rep. F. A. Hart
ley, Jr., on "Let's Settle the Was?
Issue"; CBS 7:15 Dean Arthur
H. Compton on "Education and
the New World."
MBS 5 world aerie preview.
Wednesday, the war 6 MB
10:45 NBC; 12 55 CBS; 1:59
NBC-Blue; S MBS; 8:25 NBC
Red; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue.
CBS 1 roundtable on "Stu
dents and Defense," Mrs.
rtlt and other,