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full U ltU' Weather -JIT" npan Sunday Want Ads Many popU bmw Um m lu tUy mornlnf t jump ta thtir Cavra and InTMttgat any pro pocitlrm admtlwd that look good to them. So do not ml karlni your Adv. In tha Ana day morning tdltlon Medford Tribune rorecaat: Fanlr eJoaer e Blfht clearing Satardar. et mach cnanta la temperature. Temperature Blfheat Yeeterday - ' Lortett thlt Mornlnf IS Precipitation part t hears M full Associated Praia United Prtu Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1941. NO. 168. HUES W mm B4H.Y Hi 1 i , t . Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day Br Gen. Hugh S. Johnson New York, Oct. 3. Here Is letter written by man of prominence in one field of American endeavor to a man of prominence In quite a dif ferent field. I may say that tt received a sympathetic not to say enthusiastic response. Note that the letter was written two days before the Nova fight: Jo Louis, heavyweight cham pion of the world. "Greenwood Lake, N. Y., Sept. 27th, 1941. "Dear Mr. Baruch: "I have been reclassified by the selective draft board, and I expect to be called into the service of my country. This my cause me to retire from the ring. ' "But before I retire, I want to put up one more- fight the best of my career to help my people. "The hardest fight I ever had was against prejudice and intol erance. My people know what I mean. They are all fighting their way up, and I want to open the door of opportunity a little wider for them. The fight I propose to make will not be staged In an arena against one particular opponent, but out in the open across the country. If I could get a 'gate' as big as I've ever seen in the Yankee Stadium and turn it over to the Department of Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America for the splendid work that de partment is doing on behalf of the Negro people and better re lations with their white neigh bors, I'd feel lika a real cham pion. "I propose to start the 'gate' with my own contribution, and I want you to subscribe for a box, a ringside seat or other reservation. This is one purse which does not have to be shared with promoters or man agers. Every cent will be used to better the condition of my people and In creating better human relations in America. "Will you cooperate by send ing your cheque or money order, in any amount, payable to Frank H. Mann, treasurer, and mail it today? If you help me win this time, I'll feel that (Continued on Pag Twelve) Radio Highlights The play-by-play broadcast of the Oregon State college-University of Washington football game in Portland Saturday after noon will be carried by Grants Pass station KUIN (1340 kilo cycles), starting at 1:45 p. m. KM ED, Medford, will broadcast the Notre Dame-Indiana game starting at noon Saturday. By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) A broadcast tonight by Presi dent Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie, opening the 1941 cam paign for the mobilization of human needs is to be via all networks at 7:30. The president speaks from the White House; Willkie from CBS New York studios. MBS network will broadcast a football game Saturday after it completes the world series description which starts at 10:13 p. m., making a total of four contests available to network listeners. They are: NBC-Blue 10:45 Michigan vs. Iowa: CBS 10:45 Fordham vs. Southern Methodist; NBC-Red 11:15 Notre Dame vs. Indiana; MBS approximately 12:45 Ne braska vs. Iowa State. Tonight, Tba War 5:15 MBS; 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS: 8 CBS; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS; 9:55 NBC CBS. Talks NBC-Red 4:45 Floyd B. Odium on "Little Business snd Defense." NBC-Blue 6:30 Charles A. Lindbergh from Ft Wayne, Ind., America First meeting; MBS 8:15 Rep. F. B. Keefe on "No Cause for War." Saturday. The War 8 CBS MBS: 12 CBS MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3.30 CBS. San rraortm Bailer Ben Pranclaro, Oct. S. sr But ter 2 tear. SSe: SI acare. Mr- BO sects, 7e, M iccca, Uie J Won't Be Able To Rise Again Fuehrer Boasts By the Associated Press. Berlin, Oct. 3 Adolf Hitler, home from the Russian front to launch Germany's ninth winter relief campaign, declared today that Russia had been so stricken she "never again will rise up" and that "a gigantic new development" has opened on the front in the last 48 hours. That - development, he said, had made it especially difficult for him to leave his field head quarters. "The decision now being fought out is for the next 100 years," he shouted. Thunderous cheers of the thousands assem bled in the sportspalast greeted this. Blames Churchill The fuehrer declared that Germany before the war had sought particularly to reach a settlement with Britain but that Prime Minister Churchill had asked for war; that Russia had failed to live up to her non aggression pact with Germany and had mobilized on the reich's borders. "By August and September of last year it became clear that I had an ener.iy at the back ready to stab at any time," Hitler said. He said that Russian Foreign Minister Molotov had come to Berlin late in 1940, seeking a commitment from Germany on Rumania and Finland. Hitler said he had "declined all Rus sian suggestions that the U.S.S. R. extend her influence west ward, including the Darda nelles." The address lasted 83 minutes. The fuehrer- asserted that everything had proceeded ac cording to plan since June 22, when the German armies struck into Russia. He said that he had painfully kept his silence for months while he knew that Russia, as he said, was preparing to attack. Reds Underestimated That, Hitler said, was part of his traditional strategy of sur prise. He added that the decision to remain silent was "the hard est decision of my life" but that hundreds of thousands of lives were at stake. "We were not mistaken about anything except that we did not know how awfully big the pre parations were against us and how closely Europe escaped Bol shevism," he said. "Something like a general awakening went through Eur ope, however. In the north, brave Finland. In the south, Rumania." Hitler enumerated the other states which had sent forma tions into the "crusade against Bolshevism." Explaining his long silence since the Russian campaign started. Hitler said that he could not have spoken until "the en emy had been hit so hard he never again will rise up." To illustrate Germany's mili tary position, he said that Rus sian prisoners now number 2,500,000. Reds Termed Beasts He called the Russian forces "not human beings, but animals and beasts." "That is what Bolshevism made of them." . He devoted much time to a tribute to German soldiers, rail way and road builders, the labor service, the Red Cross and other formations. The United States was never directly mentioned. The fuehrer said he was not speaking "to answer any states men who may have been won dering at my long silence." His last speech was before the reichstag at the Kroll opera bouse. May 4, although he is sued a long proclamation at the start of the war with Russia. In the customary review sec tion of his address, Hitler said he had not lost sight of his goal since 1933, when he came to power. "What we have accomplished is unique," be said. "We did not need this war to place our names in history; the accomp lishments of peace would have been sufficient for that. "We never aimed at war, but one thing is certain: we would jConKguH fit) tH fouu 30 MILES, CLAIM By the Associated Press Russia reported today her Red armies had smashed the Ger mans back nearly 30 miles in one direction on the Leningrad front, overrun n a z 1 siege trenches around the old czarist capital, and inflicted more than 8,700 casualties from the Gulf of Finland to the Black sea. Aside from the 30-mile set back for the Germans east of Leningrad, Soviet dispatches said Russian troops had ad vanced from one to two miles in counter-attacks at other ap proaches to the city. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said Russian forces had stormed across the river "V" on the Leningrad front af ter a 10-day battle. On the Ukraine front, 'Ger man troops, were reported by the Vichy radio to have forced a passage of the Perekop Isth mus to the Crimea peninsula, site of Russia's chief Black sea naval base at Sevastopol. NEUTRALITY ISSUE TO WAIT Bl-PARTY CONFABJAYS P. R. Washington, Oct. 3. (AP) President Roosevelt asserted again today that undoubtedly there would be some effort made to revise the neutrality act. A final decision on the. mat ter, he told his press conference, would be reached only after a bi partisan conference next Tues day with senate leaders. On the issue of arming Amerl can merchant vessels, now for bidden by the law, the president said in response to a question that he considered the statute so definite on this point that it would not be right for him to try to wiggle out from the defi nite policy of congress. Thresh Whole Issue He said, too, that he had given no thought to revising present delineations of combat zones by presidential order. T THIRD BATTLE IN Ebbets Field. Brooklyn, Oct 3 (AP The third world series game between the Yankees and Dodgers was postponed today by Commissioner Landis after a steady rain had left the field un playable. After Inspecting the sodden field twice, the commissioner called all the newspapermen to gether under the grandstand and announced: "Gentlemen, I have made my decision. The game's off." Before deciding finally, he called both the weather bureau and the airport and was told there was no chance that the sun would coma out later In the day, and that it probably would go right on raining. The weather man was none too hopeful for tomorrow's game. He predicted continued light rains tonight and tomorrow with clearing skies In tha afternoon, ' Condemned General Alois Ellas (above), the Bohemia-Moravia premier, has been condemned to death by a German court at Prague for "preparation for high trea son and abetting the enemy." DNB, German news agency, said he had made a "full confession." E OF By tha Associated Press The revolt of Europe's con quered millions erupted in new -violence today and drew iron- fisted reprisals in many coun tries. . The quiet of pre-dawn Paris was shattered by explosions wrecking six synagogues, with two persons injured. Right-wing terrorists w re blamed. . Berlin reported that the mayor of Prague, Otokar Klapka, had been condemned to death by the German people's court on charges of plotting rebellion. and the government of nazi-dom- mated Slovakia decreed the death penalty for sabotage. German firing-squads were re. ported crackling again in both Prague and Brno, in the Bo hemia-Moravia protectorate (old Czecho-Slovakia). Prague news papers said 18 were executed yes terday 15 shot, and three Jews, hanged as agents of the Ger man Gestapo pressed a sweeping investigation of rebellion In the protectorate. Thirteen editors and officers of the former Czech army, in cluding three retired generals, were among those executed, the German radio said, following the discovery of a plot for an armed uprising. London heard that eight per sons had been executed in Hoi land for aiding British fliers and reported that German au thorities there had threatened "even stricter punishment in the future." WAGE BOOST FOR The county budget for the first six months of 1942, now in course of preparation, contains a tentative 1 0 per cent increase in pay for all court house deputies, member of the budget com mittee said today. The deputies asked for a 12 to 15 per cent raise In pay. Reasons cited in the request are the cost of living. and general rise In prices. The proposed boost also includes the court house Janitors. It was explained that many of the deputies receive less pay than those engaged in similar work for the city of Medford and that It was the first increase since they were cut early in the depression. The budget committee met to day, in what was hoped would be the last session. If that is the case, the budget will be ordered published, and a date set for a public hearing, which will be late In the month orjtarly in flo-vaCBDaz, American - E Mrs. T. W. Miles Vice President Miss Hartley Retained As Secretary. By Maude Pool (Mall Tribune Special Writer) County Judge J. B. Coleman of Medford was elected presi dent of the Southern Oregon Pioneer association at their 65th annual meeting at Pioneer hall in Ashland yesterday, at which Miss Lydia McCall of Ashland, president of the association, pre sided. Mrs. T. W. Miles of Medford was named vice president, and Miss Claire Hanley of Jackson ville was reelected secretary, with Mrs. Elda Anderson of Ashland elected treasurer to succeed Mrs. Ella Garrett of Ashland, who has resigned. Gwin Butler of Ashland, 87, was the oldest of the hundred persons, all native sons and daughters of pioneers, gathered in revival of those spirited days fast receding into oblivion. Dunn Is Speaker Vlslonlnc tha first . settlers, were thejr- to return, surprisedly zipping along the modern nign ways at such speed that help would be needed to enforce the speed laws, Edwin Dunn, of Ashland, son of Senator George W. Dunn, neatly connected the present and past in his address of the day. "Our homeland Is the home land our grandparents dreamed of," declared Mr. Dunn, himself a great-grandson of Isaac iuu, a first aettler from Tennessee in 1840. "We have played a good part In carrying on," he said, and stressed the necessity of taking care of southern Ore gon resources, game, and its scenic wonderland. Further making a comparison of "then' and "now," Mr. Dunn expressed doubt that the present WPA system would work in with the Ideals of the pioneers, whose goal was to work onward and upward. "They built well, for the present and the future," ne said: After establishing homes, often without floors and win dows, the pioneers set about es tablishing churches, schools. newspapers with travelers as their only news source, flour mills, sawmills, and a railroad, this pioneer son related. Basing his talk directly on a book of stories told by his grandmother, Mrs. P a t r 1 c Dunn, of the settlement of the Ashland vicinity by that family and others, the speaker review ed the history of southern Ore gon for his listeners. Aided Railroad He told of the item In the family diary stating that 50 bushels of wheat were given to ward building the railroad, which was typical of the groc eries, cash, lumber and other items donated to the project which was 19 years in complet ing. Great agitation existed over a cut-off from Eugene through the Klamath country. Mr. Dunn said, but It was the steady work of the southern Oregonlans that brought the railroad through this section. The speaker opened his ad dress with a brief review of the founding of the Oregon country mentioning Marcus Whitman, Peter H. Burnett, Lindsay and Jessie Appi and others connected with Its settling. He named Scottsburg on the Ump qua river, now extinct, as the only trading point for southern Oregon and northern California In the late '40's. He mentioned Jacksonville's gold rush after 1652, then gave in detail a few experiences of his grandparent in coming west from Tennessee and taking up the claim, which remains the present Dunn home jGonsauaa a rage four, Owned Ship Torpedoed In South Atlantic; Rescue 18 Men SOVIET TO DROP Catholic Spokesman Urges President To Intercede For Full Religious Rights. Washington, Oct. 3. (JPl President Roosevelt disclosed today that he had instructed W. Averell Harriman, head of America a mission to Russia to take up in Moscow the question of religious freedom In Russia. The chief executive told a press conference that the ques tion also had been taken up previously with tha Russian government, leaving the impres sion that this had been done through Lawrence Stelnhardt, the United States ambassador. He said he had received no report from Harriman and could not say until he did get one whether he thought the over tures would result in some success. Washington, Oct 3. VP) President Roosevelt was urged in a high Catholic quarter today to take a direct hand in influ encing Soviet Russia to grant full religious freedom, now that he feels that an "entering wedge" for such an eventuality is "definitely on it way." -The Reverend Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., vice president of Georgetown university, said "the events of the past 24 hours con vince me that the hour has come for a definite and constructive move on the part of the presi dent of the United States." After Mr. Roosevelt, at his Tuesday press conference, had described the Russian constitu tion's religious guarantees as essentially the same as ours, Father Walsh had quickly de clared that provision of the Rus sian constitution was "nothing but a hollow shell." His later and mora hopeful comment was based upon a White House statement issued late yesterday, declaring that the president's press conference remarks had been subjected to conflicting interpretations and some misquotations. FROM HEART ILL Washington, Oct. S. (V-Re-tlred Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the supreme court was re ported seriously 111 today after a heart attack Wednesday. Justice Brandeis, now 84 years o'd, retired from active service on the court Feb. 13, 1939. He was appointed by President Wil son and served 23 years on the tribunal, retiring voluntarily un der the court pension act. Tokyo Government Resents Indies Shipments to Russia Tokyo, Oct. 8. W) The Jap anese, unsuccessful themselves In obtaining a greater share of the rich resources of Tha Neth erlands East Indies, expressed today In strong terms their resentment at the colonial gov ernment for shipping oil and rubber to Soviet Russia. Koh Ishil, cabinet information bureau spokesman, told foreign press representatives his gov ernment would regard as evi dence of an "unfriendly atti tude" large-scale exports of such i vital war materials from the Indies to Russia, inasmuch as Japanese trade with the Indies is virtually at a standstill. (Dispatches from Batavia said tha Indies began supplying Rus sia with oil, rubber and coffee several weeks ago under a pledge by Netherlands Premier War Bulletins Vichy. France, Oct. 3. (P) The Vichy government an nounced today the signing of a treaty with Rumania by which France will get Ru manian oil in payment for war materials. Folkestone, England. Oct. 8. (TV Frequent bomb explo sions from tha French coast from dusk to 9 p. m. indicated tonight that tha RAF was carrying out another heavy attack on German positions. The bombing first was heard In the direction of Calais and then shifted toward Boulogne. London. Oct .3. (P Brit ish fighter planes sank one German anti-aircraft ship and set three others and a supply ship afira in an attack on a convoy off Gravellfs today, the air ministry announced tonight. SHERIFF TO MAIL DISTRAINT PAPERS t TAX Sheriff Syd I. Brown an nounced today his office would start filing distraint warrants on all delinquent personal taxes October 13 with the county clerk. The law, passed by the last legislature, requires that five days after filing of tha dis traint warrant, execution must ba taken, and enough of the personal property sold to satisfy tha delinquent personal tax, the sheriff explained. The warrants are a Judgment against tha taxpayer and a lien against anything ha owns, and execution can ba taken any time. Tha sheriff further states the law la mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Before war runts are filed, any taxpayer can make arrangements to pay the delinquency on a monthly basis until paid. Sheriff Brown urges that those owing delinquent taxes coma In and sea him before October 13. The 1941 land tax foreclosure list has been turned over to the district attorney by the sheriff. The list contains all property upon which taxes are delinquent tor the year 1937. Publication of the list under Oregon law will start in about two weeks and any property not redeemed be fore will be charged additional costs. If tha 193T taxes are paid before published, the property will be taken off the list. Sheriff Brown said. After a decree Is taken, owners must pay all taxes due and owing before a redemp tion certificate can be Issued. Salem, Ore., Oct. 3. (AP) Mrs. Harold D. Peterson, Dallas, past president of the Oregon Federation of Women's elubs to day was appointed by Governor Charles A. Sprague, director of women a activities for the state defense council. Pleter S. Gerbrandy placing the producU of Dutch colonies "at the disposal of the Soviets.") Ishil's warning was echoed In strident tones by the Japanese press, the newspaper Kokumln accusing the Indies of "betray ing Japan" and declaring Tokyo would be compelled to adopt a new angle In its foreign policy if the Batavia government per sisted In "obstinate antl-axsi and hostile actions." The Japan Times and Adver tiser, foreign office organ, de clared in a front-page article that Informed quarters "incline to tha view Tha Netherlands East Indies are going to play a role In tha execution of the program of aid to tba Soviet war effort worked out at the tripartita conference in Mos cow." - SURVIVORS FOUND IN LIFEBOA TOFF SHORE OF BRAZIL Rescue Ship's Radio Re veals Sept. 27 Sinking No Details Reported, Rio Da Janeiro ftrt . A radiogram from th A freiehtn- Wt Mil,,. i - .uua hmmj lap ported that tha American-owned, 'n-iciaieu lanxer I. White was torpedoed 450 mjlea east of Recife, Brazil, on Sep. tember 27 and that tha West NUus had rescued 18 of tha crevr of about 41 men. Tha survivors, all picked trp from a tingle lifeboat, will ba brought to Rio Da Janeiro, tha West Nilus reported In a radio message to tha United State consul at Recife, (The Standard OH Co. of If aw Jersey, which owned the L C White through a subsidiary, tha Panama Traneneirt Mmnanv ported In New York that all tha crew were unitea Elates eiu tens). Tha West Nilus message galel simply that tha 7,032-ton tanket was torpedoed, giving no author ity or details. It was In nearly tha same area that tha American freighter. June on a voyage from New York for Capetown, South Africa. Tha I. C. White was built la 1920 at Chester, Pa., and form erlr waa of Wllmineion. Del- registry, y ONElLlOST IS L An Increase over last year of one mill In the tax levy to raise the $198,783.74 called for in tha Medford school district budget for tha fiscal year beginning July 1, 1942, and ending J una 30, 1943, was Indicated if last year's valuations remain the same. Tha last valuation, made is) the spring of 1940, amounted to $10,713,577.08, according to tha county assessor's office. Last year's levy was IT .3 mills, and for the fiscal year will ba a frae tlon over 18.5 mills In case User Is no change Li valuations. As prepared by tha budget committee for the fiscal year tha budget shows an increase over last year of $10,729, of which $8,800 is for an approximate six per cent Increase In teachers salaries, according to City School Superintendent E. H. Hedrlck. Total amount of the budget la $297,429. rOO HALTS PLAlfEV 1 New York, Oct 3 (rPV-a Heavy fog brought flying to and from La Guardla airport to a standstill today and forced Pan American Airways' Atlantla clipper to turn back to Bermuda after flying most of tha way ta New York. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Del Marshall be" I a little dismayed by tha typographical error that made his baby weigh 2Vt pounds instead of tha actual six pounds and ten ounces, aa what proud papa wouldn't E. C. "Jerry" Jeroma coming home without a deer but with m good story thinking ha waa hunting in eastern Oregon but finding he had crossed the stata Una and was stalking bucks It Nevada.
