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MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1941.
NO. 169.
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Hugh Johnson
Eyes Men and
Issues of Day
Washington. Oct. 4 With true
Japanese diffidence this miser
able column respectfully thinks
that the Honorable Frank Knox
ought to have his honorable
head examined. He says that
this country should join with
Great Britain for perhaps one
hundred years to dominate the
ocean to insure freedom of the
seas and that this is an ancient
American doctrine.
The ancient American doc
trine bravely insisted upon by
us, as a small neutral nation,
was that no naval power should
Interfere with our commerce on
the high seas with other neu
trals or, except in case of an
actual and effective blockade
with our commerce, not in
contraband of war, with a bel
ligerent. In case of an actual
effective blockade, we conceded,
and we made even Britain con
cede in our war between the
states that ships sunk in at
tempts to crash it created no
cause for war.
WHAT we objected to and
made our objection stick
was attempts to forbid com
merce on the seven seas by
paper declarations to prevent
our ships from carrying on their
normal commerce. In other
words, we objected to any do
minion of all the oceans such
as the Honorable Knox now
advocates for us and Great
Britain. His is a complete re
versal of our principles and our
doctrine.
If we, with Britain are now
to undertake to police the world,
Continued on Page Eight)
oATTAGKS HARASS
GERMANY'S FLANK
Bf the Associated Press
Full-powered Russian counter
attacks, for which considerable
successes were claimed, kept the
Germans occupied on both
flanks of the long eastern battle-
front yesterday (Sat.)
Berlin, Oct. 4 German scouts
reconnoitering behind the Rus
sian lines on the southern front
were quoted in German war dis
patches tonight as reporting fev-
erish efforts by the Red army to
line up the last ounce of reserve
strength in the Ukraine.
Air observers, ground patrols
and tank crewi returning from
reconnaissance ahead of the
German forces all were said to
have described the Russians as
hastily mobilizing their fullest
strength.
Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 5. OP)
A Dunkerque in the north
that saved a large Red army un
it on the shores of Lake Ladoga
and an 18-mile advance in the
south were reported today by
the Russians.
Soviet forces were declared
on the offensive from one end
of the front to the other and the
northern Red fleet was credited
In today! early morning com
munique with the sinking of
three German troop ships in the
icy waters of the Barents sea.
A swarm of Soviet naval ves
sels saved army forces which
battled their way free after 45
"days in a Finnish trap, Red
Fleet, the navy organ reported.
the"weather
Oregon Partly cloudy and
cool Sunday with local frosts
in east portion; Monday partly
cloudy and slightly warmer
with rain in west portion Mon
day night; fresh northwest wind
off coast and moderate north
west over inland waters of
Washington.
MISSOURI WINS
Columbia. Mo.. Oct. 4.-
Missouri of the Big Six confer
ence u.ed deception of the "T"
formation and the Australian
crawl to bewilder Colorado's
Buffaloes of the Big Seven and
win, 21 to 8, today on a field
of puddles.
Berlin. Oct. 4. (IP) Adolf
QHitler returned to the ea;tern
war front Immediately pfter his
speech in Berlin yesterday.
NORWEGIAN KING l
PROCLAIMS DEATH F
FOR NAZI TOOLS
Guerrilla Bands Spread
Terror Greeks Take
Hand Czechs Executed.
(By the Associated Press)
A German mechanized divi
sion of 12,000 men aided by the
German air force was reliably
reported moving toward Bel
grade in former Yugoslavia to
day (Sunday) to combat guerrilla
bands taking part in a loosely
connected but widespread under
ground revolt against the axis
rulers of the European continent
raging from Norway to Greece.
Support for conquered peo
ples fighting axis authorities by
terrorism, sabotage and guerrilla
warfare came from King Haakon
VII, king of Norway in exile in
London, who signed a decree
providing the death penalty for
crimes against the Norwegian
state.
The Norwegian monarch's act
was described as a warning to
any "tools" of the nazis who
might exert themselves to help
the German authorities that they
will face capital punishment
whenever the government which
now is in exile is in position to
enforce its decree. Hitherto life
imprisonment has been the ex
treme penalty for such crimes.
The mechanized German force
was reported on reliable author
ity in a dispatch sent through
Berlin to be moving slowly
through southern Serbia toward
Belgrade, capital of the dis
solved state, to mop up guerrilla
bands which have been operat
ing on a wide scale. The Ger
man air force already was said
to have bombed Leskovac and
Nishumka.
Rebellious Greeks added to
the trouble of the occupying
authorities. A dispatch from
Sofia, capital of the axis partner
Bulgaria, reported that bands of
Greeks who had invaded the
Bulgarian-occupied drama dis
trict of eastern Macedonia a
week ago had been annihilated.
The Greeks crossed from
Greek territory armed with
rifles and machine-guns and tried
to rouse the Greek inhabitants
of several drama localities to
join them in revolt. They were
reported wiped out after severe
skirmishes.
It was disclosed that a bomb
explosion Tuesday in the head
quarters of the Belgian rexist
(fascist) movement in Brussels
killed a secretary, Jean Oede
kerke, in the offices of rexist
militarized groups. Political
foes of the rexists were blamed.
Seven more persons were exe
cuted in Prague Saturday for
treasonable activity, it was an
nounced in Berlin.
German sources in Berlin re
ported a number of new execu
tions in the Czech protectorate.
The German military com
mander for Belgium and north
era France acted to prevent an
other form of opposition to Ger
man rule by decreeing the death
penalty for Belgians or French
men attempting to loin the
armed forces of a nation at war
with Germany, and for even in
ducing others to join.
King Haakon's decree fol
lowed bitter clashes in Norway
between Norwegians and the
German occupation forces. In
one instance disorders spread
throughout the entire town of
Steinkjer, near Trondheim, as
the aftermath of an incident in
which Norwegians walked out
on German soldiers who entered
a cafe.
Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 5.
M) The sinking of three
German transports in the Bar
ents sea was announced to
day by the SoTlet Information
bureau.
RAIL STOCKS LIVELY
New York, Oct. 4. iP) Buy
ing in rails and specialties off
set apathy In other parts of to
day's stock market and enabled
,the list to emerge from a strag
; gling week pointing slightly
thighet on average.
I War Bulletins
Rain Postpones
5.- '4 -
Dodger Manager Leo Durocher, Baseball Commissioner Lan
dis, and Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy (left to right), stood
glumly beside water-soaked tarpaulin in Ebbetts field as the
third World series game was postponed because of rain.
FOR DEFENSE TO
Washington, Oct. 4. ()
Estimating that defense spend
ing would reach a rate of $2,
000.000,000 a month In the
spring, Budget Director Harold
D. Smith predicted today that
defense expenditures out of the
treasury will total $18,000,000,
000 this fiscal year or $135 for
every person in the country.
"In the near future," he said,
"defense costs will take 18 per
cent of the national income."
This estimate was $2,500,000,
000 higher than a similar calcu
lation he made a few months
ago. He said the Increase was
due to faster defense factory
construction, higher prices on
some items, and new appropria
tions. The record-breaking figure
larger than defense costs in the
peak year of the World war
did not include about $l,000r
000,000 to be spent by the Bri
tish and $1,500,000,000 to be dis
bursed by federal lending
agencies for defense work and
materials in the same year. The
fiscal year will end June 30
1942.
Taking all budgetary Items,
Smith estimated the treasury
would spend $24,581,000,000
take in $11,998,000,000 in taxes
and other revenue, and have a
deficit of $12,583,000,000.
OF COASTAL AREA
London, Oct. 4. P British
air raids overnight against German-held
territory from Den
mark to northern France were
announced by the air ministry
today.
Besides attacks on the often
raided ports of Rotterdam, Ant
werp, Dunkerque and Brest, It
said coastal command planes
bombed German airdromes at
Aalborg, in Denmark, and RAF
fighters blasted another In
northern France with aerial
cannon and machine-gun fire.
Motor vrricle deaths in 1940
I Increased 7 per cent over 1939.
KEEP UP BOMBING
World Series
IT " iH
K) .-y'l
J
John J. McCloy, assistant sec
retary of war, arrived at Med
ford municipal airport last eve
ning for a week-end of relaxa
tion and fishing here. He came
as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Nion
Tucker, San Francisco socialites,
at their summer home, Rogue's
Roost, on the Rogue river.
Mr. McCloy, on a tour of in
spection, came unannounced In
an army transport plane from
Hamilton field, San Rafael, Cal.,
and was surprised to be con
fronted by a Mail Tribune re
porter upon his arrival. "No one
was supposed to know I was
coming up here," Mr. McCloy
said, enjoying the humor of the
situation.
Mr. McCloy stated that he
would resume his inspection
tour tomorrow, going south to
look over southern California's
airplane factories. Up here for
a break in his extensive tour, he
had no official comment to
make.
Mr. McCloy Is president of
the New York Anglers club and
he looked forward with antici
pation to his first experience
with a steelhead. He declared
he had heard a great deal about
the fishing in southern Oregon
streams and about the scorn In
which fishermen here hold the
common varieties of trout. His
one hope was, he indicated, that
he would make contact with the
highly-rated steelhead.
Pilot of the transport plane
was Capt. R. M. Stillman. His
aide was Lieut. M. M..Strick
lin. The officers registered at
the Hotel Medford.
RELIEF SESSION URGED
Boise, Idaho, Oct. 4. IIP)
Governor Clark will be petition
ed Monday to call a special leg
islative session to provide ad
ditional relief funds. Chairman
W. W. Russell of the Idaho old
age pension league said today.
BULLETIN
Coast League Playoff
(First game):
Sacramento $10 1
R..M1. . I 11 4
Schi idt, liollingsworth and'national Livestock Exposition
KJutU; Turpin and Fallon. J opened before 8,000 persons.
T
2-1 OE'R
Line Drive Injures Fat
Freddy Fitz In Seventh
Four Hits Beat Brooklyn
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Oct.
4. (J) Masterful pitching by
Marius Russo, a young south
paw with a sick stomach, and
four quick singles in the eighth
inning brought the New York
Yankees a 2 to 1 triumph over
the Brooklyn Dodgers today
and gave the Yanks a two to
advantage in the games
played.
But the memory that was
printed indelibly in the minds
of the 33,100 sweltering fans
who jammed this little park for
Brooklyn's first series show in
21 years was the gallant fight
of old Fred Fitzsimmons until
a line drive struck him on the
left leg in the seventh Inning
and knocked him out of the ball
game.
The fat, 40-year-old knuckle
ball expert who in his younger
days as a star of the New York
Giants was beaten three times
in world series contests, battled
beautifully in a scoreless hurl
ing duel that kept every fan in
suspense while it lasted and
brought them to . their feet
cheering time after time.
Then with two out in the
seventh, Russo ripped off a
vicious line drive that struck
topheavy old Fitz Inches above
the left knee and bounced high
in the air. Peewee Reese caught
the ball to end the inning, but
Fitzsimmons had to be helped
off the field and later was
taken to New York hospital for
X-rays to determine whether
the kneecap might have been
broken.
His removal let down the
dikes to the power of the Yan
kees and after Johnny Sturm
had filed out to open the eighth
against relief pitcher Hugh
Casey, Rolfe, Henrich, DiMaggio
and Keller blasted four consec
utive singles for two runs.
Larry French, Brooklyn's
only lefthander, then came in to
make Bill Dickey ground into
a double play and Johnny Allen
pitched hitlcss ball in the final
frame.
The Dodgers tried to recover
the lost ground in their half
of the eighth when Dixie Wal
ker ld off with a double in
right center. Russo put his
thumb down on the next two
batters, throwing out Mickey
Owen and striking out pinch
hitter Augie Galan, but Reese
shot a sizzling single into the
rightfield corner to score Wal
ker. Then Russo made Pete Cos
carart pop up in the Infield and
the Dodgers' chance expired.
The official box score of the
third world series game:
New York AB R H PO
Sturm, lb 4
Rolfe, 3b
Henrich, rf .
DiMaggio, cf
Keller, If
Dickey, c
Gordon, 2b .
Rizzuto, ss
Russo, p
4
...3
..4
...4
4
..3
.3
..4
Totals 33
Brooklyn
Reese, ss ..
Herman, 2b
Coscarart, 2b
Reiser, cf ...
Medwick, If
Lavagetto, 3 b
Camilll, lb
Walker, rf
Owen, c
Fitzsimmons,
Casey, p
French, p
Galan
Allen, p
Totals 30 1 4 27 8
Batted for French In 8th.
New York 000 000 020 2
Brooklyn 000 000 0101
WASHINGTON ENTRIES LEAD
Portland. Ore.. Oct. 4. A
Washington entrants dominated
the Future Farmers of America
livestock judging contest today
as the week-long Pacific Inter -
2 8 27 14
AB R H PO A
4 0 13 1
1 0 0 0 1
..2 0 0 0 3;
4 0 1 5 0 1
4 0 1 3 0!
..3 0 0 1 0
3 0 0 11 0
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P....2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
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fflr AMY PILOTS
Bail OUT SAFELY
Plane Wrecked Near Pilot
Rock Brought To Ash
land After Mishap.
Two army pilots bailed out of
a training plane when its mo
tor went bad over the rugged
Siskiyou mountains yesterday
forenoon and escaped serious in
jury as the ship crashed to earth
near Pilot Rock about 30 miles
south of Ashland.
After parachuting to earth,
the men, Lieut. Jerome A. Pes-
chka, Portland, and 2nd Lieut.
Robert D. Curtis, walked two
miles along an old deserted
road until they reached the
home of Mrs. Lucille Lindberg
who drove them to Ashland
where Dr. Charles A. Haines
treated them. Lieut. Peschka, in
parachuting, came down through
a tree and injured his back but
Lieut. Curtis escaped with only
a scratched leg. Dr. Haines
would not venture a diagnosis
of Lieut. Peschka's back injury
without an X-ray but expressed
the off-hand thought that it
might not be more serious than
a wrench. After being cared for
by Dr. Haines, the aviators reg
istered at the Hotel Lithia
Springs, Ashland, to await or
ders. X-rays of Lieut. Peschka's
back were to be made at his
base hospital.
Returning to Medford by
plane, Shelby Tuttle, Medford
pilot, learned of the incident
when he stopped in Montague,
Cal, He scouted around until he
sighted the army plane, the
wreckage scattered from top to
bottom of a jagged peak in the
Pilot Rock area.
Lieuts. Peschka and Curtis
were traveling in a Vultee basic
trainer from Mather field, near
Sacramento, Cal., en route
north. They were paired with
Lieut. H. Parker and Prvt. R.
D. Elbert who also were in a
Vultee basic trainer. Both planes
were to stop at Medford munici
pal airport. Lieut. Parker and
Prvt. Elbert arrived here on
schedule.
GUILTY SABOTAGE,
Tl
S
Portland, Ore., Oct. 4. (JP)
Sentences for 15 convicted of
ficers and men of the Italian
motorship Leme will be pro
nounced Oct. 14 by Federal
Judge James A. Fee.
Found guilty this morning of
tampering with the ship's navi
gation instruments and motive
power, they face possible maxi
mum sentences of not more than
20 years' Imprisonment, $10,000
fines or both.
Capt. Giovanni Polonio and
were found guilty also of con
Chief Officer Giovanni Poll!
spiring to violate the federal
law prohibiting tampering with
instruments of a vessel engaged
in foreign commerce.
A directed verdict acquitted
six of the original 21 defendants
yesterday.
The Leme has been repaired
and will soon be turned over
tn the maritime commission.
The ship was damaged late last
March while in Portland harbor,
because, the captain testified. It
was feared It might fall into
0 British hands.
New York,Oct. 4. (JP) My
n ! ron C. Taylor, President Roose-
0 I velt's personal emissary to the
0 ; Vatican, arrived here today by
n ' clipper and said he would
promptly report to the president
end Secretary of State lordell
I Hull Information "of utmost
value" which he obtained in
' conferences abroad with "many
I interesting people,
I
Chicago, Oct. 4.(Py After
, being upset again by another
break in soybean prices, the
'grain market steadied Itself te
1 day and regained most of the
i early losses ranging from Xrac-
lUoni to a cent a bushel.
Interpreting
The War News
By Kirke L. Simpson
(Special News Service)
Implicit In utterly conflicting
London and Rome accounts of
recent sea-air battles in the
Mediterranean is the obvious
fact that heavy British rein
forcements in men and fighting
gear are being rushed eastward
through those dangerous waters.
They be destined to Join bat
tle with their Nazi foes, fighting
beside Russian troops in defense
of the Caucasus. Certainly they
are designed to increase sub
stantially the strength of British
defense lines that now reach
2.000 miles or more, unbroken,
from India to the Egyptian-Libyan
frontier in the western desert.
Or they may be taking post
for offensive action during the
winter fighting season in the
north African dessert, providing
events on the Russian-Nazi bat
tle line warrant another British
counter stroke against axis foes
in Libya. Prime Minister Church
ill's recent intimation that his
government had weighed un
favorably counter invasion pro
posals as a means of relieving
pressure on Russia does not rule
out that possibility.
Italian press comment indi
cates serious expectation of a
new British attack in Libya.
Hitler could not spare either the
air power or the troops and
tanks from his great adventure
in Russia to prop his faltering
axis mate anew in Africa, even
if means of getting German
reinforcements to the scene
were available.
They are not. Churchill told
parliament that while British
sea losses had been cut during
the last three months to third
of what they were in the pre
ceding three months, British
destruction of axis shipping had
risen three-fold In the same
period. And It was on Italian
or Italian-used shipping in the
Mediterranean that the axis
tonnage losses fell most heavily.
Some British authorities claim
that British sea and air power
in the Mediterranean has been
taking a steady 30 per cent toll
or better of Italian craft em
ployed in attempts to reinforce
the axis army in Libya. The
fact that the British are still
using the narrow Sicilian straits
to pass important convoys east
ward clearly indicates British
naval control of the Mediter
ranean. The axis victory In
Greece and taking of Crete
has not worked out as Berlin
and Rome hoped it would,
apparently because of Hitler's
plunge Into the "crusade'
against Russia.
At any rate. It seems clear that
unless the Nazis carry the bat
tle into the Caucasus soon and
force the sending of powerful
British Imperial armies there to
aid the Russians, the British
soon will have forces available
along the India-Egypt lifeline
for offensive action.
OF PARACHUTIST
Akron, Ohio, Oct. 4. VP)
The blimp "Reliance" was ord
ered today to take off at dawn
Sunday for an attempt to res
cue parachutist George Hopkins,
marooned atop Devil's Tower
near Sundance, Wyo.
Because there are no landing
fields en route for the 123,000-
cubic foot blimp, It will be ac
companied by a 12-mnn ground
crew in a bus with a portable
mooring mast. The blimp and
bus were told to start from the
Wingfoot Lake air dock here
between S and 8 a. m. Sunday
with expectations of completing
the trip the middle of next
week.
J. A. Boettner, veteran bal
lonnlst, will be chief pilot and
will be accompanied by three
other pilots of the Got-dyear
Tire & Rubber company, which
arranged the blimp rescue party
at the request of the Omaha
World-Herald.
The balloon and bus will be
in constant contact through
short wave radio during the
long journey, pilots said, and
the blimp's speed will be lim
ited by the pace of the bus.
PLANE PRODUCTION
Washington, Oct 4. JPh-The
office of production management
announced tonight that military
j aircraft manufacturers delivered
1 1,814 plants during September.
WASHINGTON BEAT
BY STATERS 9 TO 6
IN UPSET BATTLE
Touted Huskies Show Ef
fects Gopher Game
Durdan Stars For Victors
Multnomah Stadium, Port),
land. Ore., Oct. 4. OP) Oregon
State college handed the Pacifio
coast conference In general and
the University of Washington In
particular a Jolt here today by
defeating the touted Huskies
from Seattle, 9 to 6. An 80-yard
run did the trick.
The game was played on
wet field but the sprightly at
tack of the Corvallis team seem
ed little affected.
A crowd of about 15,000 roar
ed when, after a see-saw first
quarter, Oregon State's man-of-many
talents, Don Durdan, right
half, speared through the Wash
ington line, reversed his field
and battled tacklers for a long
80 yards to a touchdown. Simas
place kicked the extra point.
Washington, defeated by Min
nesota last week in a bruising
game, plainly showed the ef
fects of the battering. The Hus
kies had considerable mid-field
power but not until in the last
quarters did they sustain ait
attack beyond the OSC 30 yard
line.
Their touchdown was the pro
duct of a drive that began when
Ernie Steele, brilliant Husky
halfback, brought an Oregon
State punt back to the OSC t9.
An end-around, with Earl
Younglove : carrying .the -Ibali..
picked up 14 yards and Steele,
Brooks and Erlckson battered
the ball up to the OSC for a
first down.
Erlckson, flashy Washington
left half, scored from the 1 foot
line on the third down but Elm
er Berg, Washington quarter
back who did great Job of
punting the wet ball, missed
what looked at the moment like
the tying point.
OSC got a couple more points
a few minutes after the last
klckoff. The Corvallis team
dro a the ball up to the Wash
ington 35 whence Durdan punt
ed to the Washington 3. Throw
ing caution overboard, Wash
ington tried pass from deep in
their own end zone, giving tha
Beavers a safety.
Washington made ten first
downs to Oregon State's six but
was outgalned from rushing 199
to 130 yards.
The game was played In bril
liant sunshine but the wet ball
discouraged passing. OSC, con
sidered an able passing team,
attempted only 0 throws and
completed three for only 13
yards. Washington tried 10, com
pleting four for 31 but suffered
three interceptions, two of
which stopped what lool-ed like
serious Husky scoring bids.
Durdan's brilliant puntinif,
particularly in the first half,
served to ke'p Washington on
the defensive. Erlckson also did
yeoman service for the Hus'.les
with his punting boot. His out-of-bounds
bulls eye on the OSC
17 at the start of the last quar
ter led to the Washington score.
Durdan also was OSC's lead
ing ground gainer with an aver
age of 10.7 yards In 10 tries.
Bob Barrett, utility Husky half
back, averaged 7.2 on five ex
cursions to lead the Washington
ground gainers.
Washington
Oregon State)
Sloan
,.LE Zclllclc
LT Bain
LG Halverson
Conley
Holmes
Harrison .C, Greenoughj
Zeger Chavci
Sterling -, RT Czech
Olson RE N. Peters)
Suslck QB O. Petert
Erlckson . , LH. Dethman
Barrett RH Durdan
Stack pool FB Shelton
Washington 0 0 0 68
Oregon State...0 7 0 2
Washington scoring: touch
down, Erickson.
Oregon State scoring Touch
down, Durdan. Try for point,
Sumas from placement. (Substi
tute for O. Peters). Safety, Ore
gon State.
Albany. Ore.. Oct. 4.-
An automobile skidded in loos
gravel and plunged into ditch
on the Pacific highway near
Halsey today, injuring five per
son bom fiedmondt, Cal.