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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1941.
NO. 166.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...
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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-