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run U WaU- Weather TJZ roreca-t: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday with llttla chang in temporal ur. Temperatnr RtrhMt 7t A MUuk Medford Maa- imli hate Ins lipces stoa that Waat Ida an RIBUNE SAua-a. Ihla Is a niataka. aik the paopla whs bis thank Tnry will ttU jsa tha Waat Ada maka mon.y for thm. Thay will do tha amma tor 70a. Lowest this Morning M Precipitation part 14 hour JO full Associated Press United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1941. NO. 166. rxnn7 fi 0 l UXJUU V t" ID 17 I S U LrauuL u u u Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day f. Muah S. Johnson Washington, D. C, Oct. 1 f,Mr. Donald Nelson, the priorities pooh-bah says h is too imc put a ceiling over all prices to stop Inflation and so we must attack only a few not Including wages. Mr. Floyd Odium, who Is charged with getting the little , fellow a break in farming out de fense contracts, says that started six months too late. After Jimmying around for two years with inadequate .tax bills, Mr. Morgenthau in an off-hand moment suddenly proposes a six per cent profits limitation tax on industry which would ruin most of small employers not al ready ruined by the unplanned and headlong priorities excess. The supposed gasoline short age was sprung on us out of a clear sky and rather absurd and apparently futile restrictions ap plied without warning. A. ... IT all these moves were so late what explains the delay? The Increasing difficulty of the situa tion has been apparent for over a year. The means to attack it had been suggested over and over again by veterans of our first World war effort. That precedent stood on the record so plainly that it had been adopted by every other country In the war. Including Germany. n.. rn. unmt rpasnn our gov ernment would have none of it. Various reasons were advanced. One was that this was a 1941 war and didn't need any 1918 advice. Another and this has (Continued on Pwe BUI STAFF Major part of its works com pleted, the architect-engineering staff preparing the plans and specifications of the proposed army cantonment here was down to a skeleton force today. The skeleton force is working en last minute changes am', tie ing together loose ends, it was explained. The staff has had of fices in the armory. Radio Highlights A mlBv.hv.nlav descriDtion of the world's series between the Yankees and Dodgers will he broadcast by Grants Pass sta- tion KUIN (1340 kilocycles) starting at 10:1S a. m. (PST) Thursday. Br Associated Pratt (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: The war 9 MBS, 6:55 CBS, 6:15 MBS, 7 MBS. 7:30 NBC-Blue, 7:45 CBS, 8:30 MBS. NBC-Red, 8, Sen. H. H. Schwartz on "Administration- Toreign Policy." I CBS, 7:15, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold on "Anti-Trust and Defense." Thursday, the war 8 MBS, 9 MBS, 10:45 NBC, 12:55 p. m. CBS, 1:55 NBC-Blue, 2:55 MBS. 3 CBS, 3:25 NBC-Red, 3:45 CBS. NBC-Blue. World series, NBC-Red 3:45 summary; CBS, 12:15 Red Cross nurse program. Short waves: RNE Moscow S:45 News; HVJ, Vatican City, ' 4:30, News and Comment; GSC. GSD, London, 5:15, Democracy Marches; 2RO, Rome, 7, news. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ken Murray picking out lucky baseball figures for someone else but Brother Jim coming through to win for the Murray clan anyway. Bud Cheney working on his car the lat thing at night and the first thing in the morning. Carl Burk and the neighbor .kids filling a vacant lot with Vateral passe, place kick, tack " ls. "7." formv.iin and signals in a "touch" football game, i GORDON S HOMER I and single give bombers; edge Oregon Boy Puts New York Ahead With Homer In 2nd Ruffing Is Tight. Yankee Stadium, New York, Oct. 1. (VP) Red Rufflng's bril liant six-hit pitching and Joe Gordon's slugging enabled the lankees to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgeis, 3 to 2, in the opening World Series battle today before a record throng of 68,540 spec tators. Ruffing became the fourth pitcher in history to win six World Series ames as he held the Dodgers batting order help less all the way and struck out their principal slugger, Dolf Camilli, three times. Lefty Go- ire7, also of the Yankees, is the other hurler to have won six. Gordon Homes Gordon put the Yankees ahead In the second frame with a towering homerun into the deep left field stands with none on, and provided the winning score in the sixth when he lined a clean single to left field to d-ive Curt Davis from the hill and score Charley Keller, who had walked. Brooklyn, held hitless for the first four frames, counted its first run off Ruffing in the fifth on Pee Wee Reese's single and Mickey Owen's long triple to let centerfield. Pinch-hitter Lew Riggs drove in the second Flat bush tally with a single in the seventh. Outside of those two lapses, Ruffing treated the great cowd to one of his greatest per formances. Madwick Stars Joe Medwick. Dodger left fielder, provided the game's greatest thrill with a truly spec tacular catch off Joe DiMaggio in the fourth Inning. With start er Curt Davis showing signs of wobbling, DiMaggio caught hold of one that went a country mile. It looked like a sure homerun for Giuseppe, but . Medwick backed against the wall, leaped about three feet up and speared the ball with his glove. He fell to the turf and rolled over as the crowd gave him a thunder ous hand. Curt Davis, the veteran side armer who opened for the Na tional league champs, am very well except for an occasional "-irk-" nltrh. Hl first One was to Gordon in the second frame, and his second was to catcher Bill Dickey in the fourth. Bill bounced his off the right-centerfield wall to score Keller and put the Yanks ahead 2 to 0. Gordon's single in the sixth scoring Charlie Keller with the Yank third run finished him and brought in - Hugh Casey from the bull pen. Pee wee Reese, consider ea one of the Dodgers' weaker sis ters at bat, collected exactly half his team's six hits off Ruf fing and contributed a fielding Jna DiMasffio's hard smash to short in the sixth. Somebody was robbing DiMag gio all afternoon, and he went hitless. Official boxscore of first WnrlH Sria same: Brooklyn AB R H PO A Walker, rf 8 0 Herman. 2b S 0 Reiser, cf . 3 Camilli, lb 4 Medwick, If 4 Lavagetto, 3b 4 Reese, ss Owen, c -x Riggs Franks, e Davis, p Casey, p xx Wasdell Allen, p Totals 32 2 6 24 11 v RnttH for Owen in 7th. xx Batted for Casey in 7th Yankees Sturm, lb .. Rolfe. 3b .. Hrnrich. rf DiMaggio. cf Keller, If Dickey, c Gordon, 2b Rizzuto, ss Ruffing, p Total 29 37 I( AB R H TO A a n 1 7 0 a a t J 2 4 0 0 0 0! 4 0 0 8 0 9 9 0 4 0 a n s 0 2 12 0 2 . u u i s 9. A A A A Loses First Series Game Curt Davis, 35-vear-old rljhtha -dar who formerly pitched in Jackson county, was the losing flinger as the Yankees defeated the Biooklyn Dodgers, 3 to 2. in the opening game oi the world's series in Yankee stadium today- Davis, who started the game, was taken out In the sixth inn nj after he walked Keller and gave up singles to Dicker and Joe Gordon, the latter blow scoring Keller for the Yankees' Hf r a 1 Leading the Yankee attack In the first World's Series game was Joe Gordon, star second baseman and former University of Oregon player, who drove in two of the winner's three runs with a homer and a single. Gor don also participated in the ninth-inning double play which killed Brooklyn's last-minute rally. Brooklyn 000 010 1002 New York 010 101 OOx 3 Error Rizzuto. Runs batted in Gordon 2, Dickey, Owen, Riggs. Two base hit Dickey. Three base hit Owen. Home run Gordon. Double plays Rolfe and Rizzuto, Gordon, Riz zuto and Sturm. Earned runs New York 3, Brooklyn 1. Left on base Brooklyn 6, New York 8. Base on balls off Ruffing 3 (Walker, Herman, Reiser; Davis 3 (Keller 2, Gordon); Allen 2 Gtolfe, Gordon). Struck out by Ruffing S (Camilli 3, Medwick, Reiser); Davis 1 (Rolfe). Pitch ing summary off Davla 6 hits and 3 runs in 5 13 Innings; off Casey no hits and no runs in 2- 3 inning; off Allen no hits and no runs In 2 Innings. Hit by pitcher Allen (Sturm). Losing pitch er Davis. Umpires McGowan (AL) plate; Pinelll (NL) lb; Grieve (AL) 2b; Goeti (NL) 3b. Time 2:08. Attendance 68,540. Play by Play First Inning Dodgers Walker looked at three low balls and then drew a pass. With the hit and run on, Herman bounced to Rolfe and was thrown out as Walker I reached second. On the first ipitrh Reiser sent a long fly to DiMaggio who held Walker on second with a quick throw. 'Camilli worked the count to two and two and then struck (Ooawuwa est rce Taa. , 7 U i -J f V t . a jVt -c" ft . 1 third run. LAND IN ICELAND Reykjavik, Sept. 17. (De layed) VP) Soldiers of the United States army, commanded by MaJ. Gen. Charles H. Bone steel, have landed here to bolster the increasingly formidable gar rison of this Gibraltar of the north. It was a workmanlike opera tion carried out with precision. Working parties wrestled all day with the grim material of mod ern war, taking them from the holds of giant transports which dwarfed the wharves. Gen. Bonesteel was met ashore by MaJ. Gen. H. O. Curtis, commander-in-chief of the British forces and general officer com manding all the soldiers on the island. Gen. Bonesteel said In an in terview aboard the transport w.m.n orouKui mm nre " we via ucic iui m iiaiu aiiu serious business." Just what the business was he did not say, but he made it clear that there is to be "no folderoi." Gen. Bonesteel, who will com mand the newly-organized "Ice land base force," said that the vast amount of supplies landed Included "some interesting equip ment, skies, snowshoes and Gar and rifles, which I think are very good." 19-YEAR OLD BOYS Moscow, Oct. 1. CP) The Russian 1922 military class 19-year-old youths was called up today for its regular period of military service. This is the annual date for the summons to military classes and the call was issued by posters signed by district military com manders. The universal compulsory military training program by which soviet Russia has an nounced that she plans to raise the largest people's army in his tory from her Immense reservoir of manpower also began operat ing today. All men from 16 to SO years old will undergo 100 hours of military training within the next five mcr.ths under the plan de- I creed by Premier Stalin. ... f , ; J; y ..J .isajL. n .i-nm.rt.n., ii DECLARED LOST IN LE1GRADJIEGE Russians Say Rumanian Losses in Odessa Attack Now Estimated 160,000. London, Oct. 14IP) The Moscow radio tonight report, ed the first snowfall of the season on the southwestern front, where the most import ant recent German gains have been made. By the Associated Press German siege armies attack ing Leningrad have lost 100,000 men on the south and southwest approaches of the old czarist capital, while Rumanian losses in the siege of Odessa, BiacK sea nort. have reached a total of 160.000 troops, the Russians re ported today. Red Star, Soviet army news paper, saia enormous uorau losses in Estonia and in the di rection of Novgorod" were not included in the Leningrad esti mate. Nails Near Kharkov On the southern front, Ger man military dispatches report ed that Nazi troops were ap- Di-oaching the big industrial city of Kharkov, in the heart of the nonets river basin, which lies almost at the eastern border of the Ukraine republic DNB. official German news agency, said Nazi fliers "taking part in ground fighting'' around Kharkov blasted a railway net work nd demolished 33 'rains filled with Soviet army supplies Kharkov. city of 654,000 DODulation. is a center of smelt ing, metallurgical ana omer in dustries. The Russians, admitting the fall of historic Poltava, 80 miles southwest of Kharkov, where Peter the Great routed the Swedish invaders of Charles XII In 1709, declared that Soviet troops were forming along the east bank of the Vorskla river to block tha Nazi onslaught toward Kharkov. Poltava Lost Capture of Poltava, city of 130,000 on the west bank of the Vorskla river, was acknowledg ed in the Red army's morning bulletin. The Germans said it fell along with Kiev, the Ukraine capital, on Sept. 18. Soviet officials reported that large-scale fighting raged with unabating fury at the gateway to the Crimea peninsula. Ad vices reaching London said Ger man assault troops had reached a point about seven miles south of Perekop, a city at the top of the Crimean isthmus, where the EuMian. have taken a stand be Wnd extensive minefields. IN JUSTICE COURT September was tha busiest month in the history of the Jus tice court for the Medford dis trict, with 116 misdemeanor cases, and three felony cases coming before Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman. The misdemeanor cases were all for traffic rule violations, with the state police making frequent check-ups and issuing citations to autolsts. Two cases were heard yester day. Randall M. Glfford, Med ford and John E. Smith, Route 2, charged with having no stop light, were both fined $1 and costs. ROSEBURG POLICE CHIEF APPOINTED BY COUNCIL Roseburg. Ore., Oct. 1. JP Appointment of William Moar as chief of police of Roseburg, succeeding John S. Duer, re signed, was announced here to day by W. F. Harris, chairman of the police committee of the city council. The appointment is subject to approval of the coun cil, meeting next Monday night Moar has been engaged in bus! nets in Roseburg for many 'rear. Po? 4 a of World After War Y. . Be Anglo-American Duty Asserts Navy Secretary Knox Indianapolis, Oct. 1 () Sec-etary of Navy Knox declared today that once the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis has been defeated the United States and Great Britain must pool their forces "to stop new aggression ... at its beginnings" In the post-war world. The United States, said Knox,"must provide both the major power and the dominant leader-ship" for the task. The navy chief outlined his views on the nation's future international role in a speech prepared for the 64th annual convention of the American Bar association. Eaa Freedom Paramount Repeatedly he emphasized American insistence on freedom of the seas "It is for this we have fought two wars and now. for a third time, have declared we shall Insist upon at whatever cost come what may." Should war come, he said, far better a distant war, than one at home. If we must fight, and mark this well, there will not be for many years to come a time when we may not have to fight, then with modern weapons what they are, let us determine that we will fight elsewhere than on our own soil." He dwelt on the advantages now accruing to the United States and Britain because of the combined control of the seas by their two fleets and predict ed: Eventually we shall lock Nazi Germany up In an iron ring, and within that ring of sea power she shall perish. Appropos of the American navy's operations, ha reported: "We are already sweeping the German pirates from the north Atlantic, and bringing to Eng land the products of the arsenal we have set up here." That statement aroused con jecture whether the secretary had positive evidence that the navy's new shoot-on-sight policy was clearing raiders out of the Atlantic, No announcement on the sub ject has been made since the Atlantic fleet's orders became effective Sept. 16, although Knox promised then that "we'll tell the world If any encoun ters occurred. There was food for specula tion, too, In the mention Knox made of Japan when he talked of ultimate Axis defeat. In re cent months President Roosevelt and any other key administra tion officials have omitted refer ences to Tokyo in denouncing the Axis, and not long ago a series of conversations began be tween the two countries on out standing differences. But the secretary had this to say: That Naziism will be defeat ed, I have no doubt. 'That we shall proceed from one measure to another measure until we have taken adequate steps to bring defeat to the le gions of Hitler and his satellites in Italy and Japan, again I have no doubt. Discussing the Anglo-Ameri can policing of tha world he foresaw for the future, Knox de clared: "You may say: What business Is it of ours to police the seven seas? Why ahould we provide both the leadership and the ma jor force to insure against an other world war? "My answer is history-made. Twice we have learned from bit ter experience that no matter how great our reluctance to par ticipate, the world has now I grown so small, so interrelated. so interpedendent, that, try we will, we cannot escape. 'This does not mean we must fight every time there is a dis turbance in the world, but it does mean that the great law- abiding, peace-loving nations must take the power Into their hands and keep it there for a long time to come to prevent the Inauguration of another world war . . . "We will not indulge in any idle dreams of a millenium. We are not going to stop all wars, But I am convinced we, for our own safety and protection, and for the maintenance of our way of life, shall have to provide an interregnum In which we shall not only devote ourselves to the pursuit of peaceful aims, but provide the essential might to enforce such a peece on those who are not willing voluntarily to pursue such course.' UP 151 PERCENT T9 The volume of building activ ity in Medford for the first nine months of this year showed an Increase of 151.5 percent over the same period in 1940, and already has exceeded the entire 1940 total by 82.6 percent, it was revealed in figures released by the city inspector's office today. Thus far this year, permits valued at $388,904 have been issued, compared to $154,588 for the three-quarters period in 1940 and $212,955 for the 12 months last year. The construction of 68 new residences costing $199,318 rep resents the greatest single build ing Item for the first nine months of 1941. Twenty-one permits were Issued for the re modeling of business buildings. total cost being $118,175; there were 81 permits Issued for the remodeling of residences and the building of private garages at a total cost of $25,985, and there were 12 permits Issued for the construction of new businesses costing $45,426. Nineteen permits totalling $36,885 were Issued last month. six of them being for the con struction of new residences cost ing $20,750, two of them being for the construction of new businesses costing $13,250, eight of them being for the remodel ing of residences costing $2,460 and three of them being for the building ot private garages cost ing $425. Last month's figure repre sents an increase over Septem ber of 1940, whose permits were valued at $22,545, but a decline under the August 1941 figure of $80,303. First permit application of October was made by Mrs. H. H. Landers of 1414 West Tenth street, for making an addition to a residence at a stated cost of $30. Order Execution of Bohemian Premier Berlin, OcT7 fs-JFh DNB re ported from Prague tonight that a people's court had sentenced the living room. Both girls ao General Alois Elias, premier of jmltted infatuation for boys who the Bohemia-Moravia protector- did not share tha feeling, ate. to death. Warren said tha glrli had General Ellas' arrest, on;betn dead about five hours be charges of premeditation of trea- otner occupants of tha son, was announced by the Ger- apartment house noticed fumes mans on Saturday. ,d summoned police. Resuscl. The court, meeting today atiUtlon eflorU Prague, found Ellas guilty of chargea of "preparation for high I Saa rranelste Batter treason and abetting the enemy. His property was ordered con- fiscated. F. R. May Ask Piecemeal Revision Of Neutrality to Washington, Oct. 1. W) Indications Increased today that President Roosevelt may seek to minimize threatened congress ional controversy over his tor elgn policy program by request ing only piece-meal revision of the neutrality act at this time. Reliable sources said the pres ident probably would ask only authority to arm American mer chant ships and to send them to Canadian ports from which the law now bans them. Several congressional leaders have advocated outright repeal of the act or as suggested by Chairman Connelly (D-Tex.) of the senate foreign relations com mittee modifications which would permit not only tha arm ing o' the ships but their entry Into jropean belligerent porta to deliver war supplies. The latter proposal might be expected ta provoke lenjthy, L CARRIES BOOST IN TEACHER PAY Annual Expense List Shows $10,729 Increase Ovep Year Hearing Oct. 23. The annual Medford school budget, which was prepared last evening, shows an Increase of $10,729 over last year, state ment today from the city school superintendent's office showed. Of the increase $8,600 is for teachers' salaries, and $1,371 is) for bonds and interest All other items, the statement said, ara much the same as last year. The salary increase will approx imate six percent for teachers, the superintendent's office said. Total amount of the budget planned for the fiscal year be ginning July 1, 1942, and end ing June 30, 1943 Is $297,420. Total receipts which Include si,iv3.z cash on hand am $98,693.26 leaving $198,985.29 to be raised by special tax. Debt Reduced The present bonded debt of the school district is $203,000. It was brought out at the bud get meeting that the $188,000 bond Issue voted in 1923 for the building now used as tha junior high school would be en tirely paid off in 1944, necessi tating one more levy. The an nual payments on this issue has) been about $14,000 for princi pal, plus interest. The budget committee is com posed of John Mann, chairman, Charles Clay, George Frey, Setlt Bullls, Herb Grey and tha school board consisting of Mara B. Jarmin, Dr. R. E. Green, N. H. Franklin, John Moffat and Eugene Thorndike. The public hearing of tha budget was set for 8 p. m. Octo ber 23 in the school office at tha city hall. Two Lovesick Girls Commit Snicids' in Friend's Aptrtmssl Portland, Oct. 1 (yp Twa girls in their teens, infatuated with boys who Ignored them.' committed suicide in the apart ment of a friend last night, De tective Myron Warren said. Tha bodies of Betty Waldron, 18, and La Vonna Wood, v 17, were found on a small cot in the kitchen ot the apartment of Eddie Lentz, 19, who told War ren he gave them permission ta use tha apartment. All sis lets of a gas range were on . Detective Warren said several suicide notes were discovered la I an mnciaco, Oct. HJH-ih" ur ea soora see; si aoora , ase; ea I aoora, 7o; ss score, S4o. Prevent Wrangle bitter debate and one adminis tration senator, who asked that he not be quoted by name, said ha had advised against it Ha felt, ha said, that a rising tide of support for the steps the pres ident had taken thus far to aid nations fighting Hitler might ba retarded by a full dress contro versy In congress. There were indications that senate opposition to tha arming o f American merchantmen would ba much less formidable, so long as that proposal was not linl-ed with a plan to send tha ships Into embattled European ports. In tha house Democratic lead ers were reported convinced that there would ba an over whelming majority for arming merchant ships, and further that complete repeal of tha neutral ity act could ba obtained, u as- I tired-
