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Weather SJE" rpo" Forecast: Partly cloud jr to a lg tit and tted tiMday. Ut 1 1 change In temperature. Temperature Highest VeatewlaT LOWeit thU Morning , 44 Precipitation past 24 hours .00 Want Ad Way You simply cannot fo wrong by aalnr the Want Ad way la this newspaper. Ads proT themselves every day. What they do for others, they wltl do for yon. T'io cost la small Medford 1RIBUNE Full Associated Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 1941 No. 170. mm r j MffiP MM L Kelly's Comment From Washington Canadian Agents Cause Complaint Troutdale Eyed For Air Field Defense Rating For 125 Agencies Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Oct. 7. Complaints are coming to the national capital from parents in Washington and Oregon about the operations of the Clayton Knight commision. of Canada, actively' engaged in recruiting young Americans. The Canadian legation declares it Is not an official agency and when in quiries were made there sug gested that no publicity be given. State department passed the buck and said it was not within the province of diplo mats to inquire, suggesting pos sibly department of justice I might be interested. The entire affair appears to be conducted under misrepresentation. From what can be gathered from correspondence and tele phone inquiries, the outfit is a civilian organization with some sort of approval from the Can adian government but which dodges when the question of re sponsibility is raised. It appears that one of the principal agents hails from Spokane and has been busy enlisting farm boys, mostly, and lads In the smaller communities. He operated in the vicinity of Boise, Idaho; then in the Owyhee country in Oregon, in small towns along the Colum bia, such as The Dalles and Ar lington, then north through hamlets in Washington. The sales talk has captured a number of young Americans. The explanation is that to be come an aviator in the United States requires a two years course in college; the Canadian royal air force will take them with a high school education and at 16 years. There is a pro mise of $75 a month while training. . ONE youngster joined and turned down an insurance pol icy for $ly.0uu because, he in formed his mother, in ease of his death she would receive $75 a (Cuntlnud on P6 Four) Boulder Derails Train at Algoma Dunsmuir, Calif., Oct. 7. CAP) A big boulder, dislodged by an automobile wreck, rolled down a cliff onto the railroad tracks at Algoma, Ore., and de railed a freight train, the South I ern Pacific said today. Algoma is just north of Klam ath Falls. Radio Highlights By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific standard) Tonight, the war 5:15 MBS; 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS: 7:30 NBC Blue: 7:45 CBS; 8:30 MBS: 9 NBC CBS. Talks MBS 5 J. L. Kraft on Religion and Democracy; MBS 6:15 Rep. Hamilton Fish on "Congress Alone Can Declare War"; CBS 7:15 Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles reading message from president to world trade dinner. Wednesday, the war 8 MBS; 9 MBS: 10:45 NBC: 12:55 p. m., CBS: 1:43 CBS: 1:53 NBC-Blue; 3 MBS: 3:23 NBC-Red; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue. MBS 12 m. Herman Morri son from London to American workers. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dick Payne hanging up the family washing and classifying the various articles as carefully as would his wife.. Harold Thornilcy still smirk ing over the defeat his "alma mammy." Ohio State handed mighty U S C, Bob Archer parading around i town in the first hat his friends ever saw him wear, and a classy green one, at that. NEW NAZI THREAT IS ACKNOWLEDGED BY RED LEADERS Hitler's High Command Em phasizes Gains On South Front With Big Victory. By the Associated Press Adolf Hitler's invasion armies have launched a great new of fensive on the central (Moscow) front, aiming at a knockout be fore winter sets in, the Russians acknowledged late today, and the entire soviet nation is being mobilized to meet the assault. While the Russians picture the Nazi armies as turning in toward Moscow, away from the vast flanking attacks on Leningrad in the north and the Ukraine in the south, Hitler's high command emphasized German progress on the southern front, claiming vic tory in a big-scale battle north of the Sea of Azov. Claim Naiis Checked London military quarters, however, reported that the Ger mans in that region had been checked with severe losses and that guns of the Soviet Black sea fleet were heavily bombard ing the invaders. Front-line dispatches to Red Star, the soviet army newspaper, reported a violent battle was raging on the central (Moscow) front, with Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's troops striking fierce blows against German armored wedges driven into the Russian lines. Soviet infantry, supported by tanks and aviation, were report ed to have attacked heavy Ger man troop concentrations imme diately after a long march, de stroying 198 tanks and killing more than 1,000 nazis in three sectors. Red Star said a Soviet tank battalion nnbushed a Nazi tank column southeast of Kiev, the German-held Ukraine capital, and smashed seven tanks. Bloody Geiman losses were reported here, as well. Smash Nasi Forts On the northern front, the red army announced that Lenin grad's defense guns had smash ed 19 German earth-and-timber forts on the approaches to the old czarist capital, silenced two artillery batteries and put other Nazi siege weapons out of action. A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters indicated that the battle north of the Azov sea was part of the "gigantic new de 'elopments" which the fuehrer himself declared had begun last Wednesday. "German troops, shoulder to shoulder with troops of the al lied countries, are pursuing the defeated enemy," the Nazi com munique said. The Russians, acknowledging that the Germans had "wedged into our lines" at an unspecified sector of the western (Moscow) front, reported that Soviet tanks and bombers had destroyed 34 Nazi tanks in fierce counter blows. Advices reaching London said the Germans had suffered bloody casualties on the narrow Pere kop isthmus, in a drive south ward into the Crimea peninsula, and that a Nazi division had been halted at Genichesk, on the northwest shores of the Azov sea, under shelling by the red fleet. 'DEAD' BEAR ARISES TO CLAW HUNTSMAN Vancouver, Wash., Oct. 7. (P) Ervin Krohn of WahougaI was recovering today from a clawing by a bear he shot. Ervin and his brother, Floyd, downed the bruin and Ervin approached to examine the 'kill.' The bear came to life, sank its teeth In the hunter's hand and clawed his legs severe ly before taking to its heels and escaping. MUCH-NEEDED TANKERS MAY BE RETURNED SOON Washington, Oct. 7. P) Secretary of Interior Ickes, the petroleum coordinator, an nounced today that Britain "due to greatly diminished sinkings" In the Atlantic, "believes that it can within a short period release temporarily ln to 15 American tanker ships now hauling oil for the embattled Bntub. i Leaves Island in Sky L : vjA&VV: ' Sim k V' 1 Rescued 'Chutist Is Scared By Big Welcoming Crowd Sundance, Wyo., Oct. 7. (JP) People scare George Hopkins, but six nights alone atop a rock spire leave him without qualms. That's how the 30-year-old Texas parachutist voiced his re-1 actions after he was eased to the base of Devil's Tower after dark last night by eight vet eran alpinists. "Were you frightened up there or coming down?' 'he was asked. "Never was," he replied. "But I'd rather climb back up than face that crowd." The headlights of several hun dred cars glared at the white garbed daredevil and the weary men who saved his life, and risked their own, through 12 perilous hours of climbing and descending the 1,280-foot vol canic formation. Hopkins said that until he floated to the summit of the tower last Wednesday morning, he liked mountain climbing "as a hobby." "But not as . a vocation," he added. l The San Antonio adventurer dropped 600 feet to the little circular turret which he inhab ited with only the winds and the clouds, the rain and the snow flurries, by means of a parachute. His inspiration was a $5 bet and the desire for pub licity as a chutist. He accomplished the feat without the required permit. The rescuers were Jack Dur rance, Hanover, N. H., and Meril McLane, Rock port, Mass., both Dartmouth college skiers; Paul K. Petzoldt and Harold Rapp, Wyoming climbers; Chap pell Cranmer and Henry Coul ter. Denver; and Henry Field and Warren Gorrell, Rocky Mountain national park guides who laid out the rescue trail up the spire. Cily Budgeteers to Eye Draffs Tonight The citizens budget committee . Z , .7.m . L.r at 8:30 tonight to go over pre-1 ltminary drafts of the budget for the first half of 1942. The council will hold its reg ular semi-monthly meeting in chambers on the top floor of city black lcather lacket- Thi de" hall at 7 o'clock. The budget i Kriptlon coincided with that of session will be held Immediately ,h mn wh0 robbed the Grants after the council meeting. rasa service station about 11:45 p. m. Saturday. BUDDY MYEH THROUGH Washington, Oct. 7. P Oregon City, Oct. 7. ( Buddy Myer, 1935 American About 123 early morning corn league batting champion, was muteri escaped Injury today given an unconditional release ' when an interurban car collided by President Clark Griffith of ! with truck. The car was so the Washington Nationals today after 17 seasons ln major league baseball George Ho p k i n t. daredevil parachutist and former McMin ville. Ore., youth, was rescued by mountain climbers last night from Devil's Tower, near Sundance, Wyo.. to which he had par achuted last Wednesday. ivy AT NO. RIVERSIDE !E Believed by police to be the same bandit who held ud a service station in Grants Pass baturday night, a young, un masked gunman, stuck up Paul Turner, operator of the service station at the 99 Motel, 816 worth Riverside avenue, last night and escaped with $3!) 16 in cash and $5.95 in checks. Answering the description of the man who obtained about $12 in the armed robbery of a Standard station in the neigh boring city, the gunman entered the local filling station shortly after 9 o'clock, brandished a 32-callbre automatic pistol and demanded the money. Turner, who was Just closing the station for the night, had removed the receipts from the cash register and had the money in a bag in his pocket. The gun man took the sack, Turner re lated; then forced him at gun point to lie on the flour and ; count to "50" while the bandit I made good his escape. I Whether the lone robber had an automobile parked nearby was not known, police said After obtaining the monry and checks he ran from the station, crossed Riverside avenue and disappeared down an alley branching west from Riverside, police said they were informed by Turner. The attendant was alone in the station at the time of the holdup. Turner, who got a good look ndit. told police the m. . . ,n - r. M men was about 30 years old, stood about five feet 11 inches tall, had brown hair and wore a black hat, dark pants and a i badly damaged It could not con- tinue Its run but ni injuries I were reported THREE KILLED AS F Hundreds of Homes De stroyedMother And Infant Blown 500 Feet. Kansas City, Oct. 7. lP) A furious tornado, the second de structive storm to batter Kan sas City in six weeks, ripped through the eastern edge of the city and suburban communities in the Blue River valley last night leaving three persons dead and at least 135 injured. Fifty-five victims were hos pitalized and 80 treated and left at the scene. Hundreds of homes were de stroyed and many industrial plants alons the Blue river were damaged or destroyed. No estimates of property loss were available. Many victims were buried In the wreckage hours after the twister passed and some were near death when rescuers reached them. Blown 500 Feet Mrs. Dorothy Lucas, 23, and her 18-month-old daughter, Di ana, were crushed to death, their bodies blown 500 feet. Two hundred feet farther on was the wreckage of their home. The only intact portion was the door casing which was driven upright in the yard. Mrs. Ella Perkins, 31, was killed in the wreckage of a friend's home. Her own cottage. a few blocks away, was undam aged. There were many amazing escapes. His leg broken, T. R. King was found pinned beneath twist ed water pipes in the basement of his home hours after his house was carried away. His head was in a pool of water and he was near death from drowning, but was revived. Mrs. Maggie Sutton suffered a broken back as the twister lifted her house away. Three of her five children were blown away. Rescuers found them hours later, none injured ser iously. Willkie for G. O.P. Solons Taking Lead To Drop Neutrality New York, Oct. 7. Wendell L. Willkie wants the Republican party, through its members in congress, to take the lead In the fight for repeal of the neutrality act. The 1940 Republican presi dential candidate, introducing British Ambassador Lord Hali fax at a National Republican club dinner last night, added that It was essential to contin uation of the party as a political force that it "range itself now against the totalitarian threat '' "I recommend that the Re publican party, through its membership In congress, forth with and forthrightly, candidly and courageously, take the lead' ership In the repeal of the neu trality law," he declared. That the law should be re pealed promptly, Willkie said is "apparent to all thoughtful people. LIGHTS OF CITY Cedar Falls, Iowa. Oct. 7. ' tF) A sit-down strike of Cedar j Falls municipal workers jnlunged the city Into darkness jfor more than two hour early I today and left residential areas I without power at a late hour jthls morning. Two workers on duty locked .themselves In the plant. Mayor C. N. McHugh reported, and kept the city "blacked out" j from 1:03 a. m. until 3:43 a. m I Deputy sheriffs and cily of jflcials finally broke In and in stalled four non-union workers I who succeeded In partially re storing service. T HEARING SLATFr FOR OCTOBER Tentative Draft Shows $289,379 Needed For Half Year Levy Less. The o'ackson county budget committee today approved and signed the tentative budget for the first half of 1942, and set Thursday, October 30, at 10 a. m, as date for the public hear ing in the courthouse auditor ium. The total operative budget Is $289,379.00 for the half year period. Estimated receipts are placed at $163,636.13, which deducted from the budget oper ative total leaves $125,742.87, the amount the taxpayers will be called upon by tax levy to pay. This is 51 percent of last year's full year amount, and two percent under the tax limita tion. The county levy on thi basis of these figures is esti mated around two mills less than last year. The general county fund Is listed at $148,739.50; the gen eral county road fund at $75,- 800; market roads, $26,350, and bridges $20,730, all for the first six months of 1942. The school fund Is $50,100 for the first six months, the same as last year. $22,000 For Agaa Old age assistance included in the general county fund, is placed at $22,000. At the public hearing any taxpayer will be permitted to discuss any item of the estlmnVs Edward Carlton, chairman of the budget committee, will preside at this session. The other budget appointees, H. A. Thlcrolf, Medfo.-d, and H. G Enders, Jr., Ashland, and the county court members will also attend. The budget committee only held three sessions, and pre pared the budget with less de lay that in any session of past years. There were no contro versial Issues Involved. It Is cx pected the assessor will receive the final budget for extension on the tax rolls early ln No vember, Instead of the same time in December, as in prev ious years. Ably assisting the budget committee was Chief Account ant Wm. P. Tucker of the clerk's office, who prepared county financial data and com parative figures for use and study of the committee. STATE LIBRARIAN Salem, Ore., Oct 7. (ZD Eleanor Sharpless Stephen, chief of the branches division of the Los Angeles county pub lic library since 1939, today was named Oregon state librarian to succeed Dr. Harriet C. Long, who died several months ago. Graduate of the University of Washington in 1914, she has li brary degrees from - University of Washington and the library school of the New York public library and has taken graduate work at Riverside library school In California and Uni versity of Chicago. Yanks Pocket $5,917 Each; Defeated Dodgers $4,808 New York, Oct. 7. !) Members of the New York Yan kees are $3,917.31 richer today as the result of their world series conquest of the Brooklyn Dodgers while the losers have consolation in that they each received $4,808, the largest In dividual cut ever earned by a defeated team In the baseball classic. The victorious Yanks divided $181,170.14 Into 32V shares and gave an additional $6,000 to club attaches. The Dodgers split $120,788 10 In 26' shares and $6,000 In gratuities with only 19 players, Manager Leo Du- 1 . Cordon Named .nest Of Series Jy Sport Scribes New York, Oct. 7. (TV Joe (Flash) Gordon, the great second baseman of the New York Yankees, was chosen to lay by the baseball writers of nine New York papers as the finest player of the world series. He was presented with a $15 hat, several sizes too large, by Acting Mayor New sold Morris at a ceremony on the steps of city hall. Gordon's automobile was parked nearby and Immedi ately after the ceremony the Yankee star, his wife and 14-month-old daughter, Judy, headed for their home In Ore- FORD TO LAY OFF F Detroit, Oct. 7 (AP) George F, Addes, national defense labor co-ordinator for the United Auto mobile Workers' Union (CIO) said in a statement this after noon that plans of the Ford Mo tor company to lay off 20,000 workers had been revised and that only about 3.000 probation ary employes would be Immedi ately affected. These workers, Addes said, would be from among the pro duction men. Later, he said, 2,400 non-production men, not under the jurisdiction of the UAW-CIO also would be laid off. '.'Both the company and the union," Addes said, "agreed that the balance of the present work ing force can be used for the production quotas allowed by the office of production management through to the end of Novem ber." Addes defined probationary workers as men employed dur ing the last six months who have no seniority rights established under the UAW-CIO contract with the Ford company. Harry II. Bennett, Ford per sonnel director, who first an nounced the plan for laying off 20,000 workers commencing to day, said he had nothing to add to Addes statement. Yesterday he said that the government-ordered curtailment of passenger car output made it necessary to start lay-offs now. He said also that slowdowns and wildcat strikes had sharply increased Ford production costs. Union and company officials reported a one-hour work stop page affecting the production lines this afternoon, but pro fessed to be unable to explain the reason for it. Dozen Of Family Drown In Mexico Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 7, (AP) Twelve members of a wed ding party were believed to have drowned yesterday when a home made boat over turned in the treacherous Conchos river, re ports reaching thia border city said today. The tragedy was said to have occurred 75 mils north of Chi huahua city, capital of Chihua hua state. Dunsmuir, Calif., Oct. l.OP) Burgess Burkett, Dunsmuir brakeman for Southern Pacific, was killed today when ha fell from the cab of a northbound freight rocher, two coaches and Travel ling Secretary John McDonald receiving full shares. The five games, three of which were played In Ebbcts Field where the eeatlng capacity la only half that of the Yankee stadium, drew an attendance of 233.773 and total receipts of $1,007,762. Another $106,305.94 went to each of the clubs and the same amount to each league, $151,165.60 to the advisory coun cil while the other first division teams in each circuit split $129. 413 67. The final figures will be Increased somewhat by the receipts from radio. T Fall Term of District Body Convened By Judge Fee Naturalization Slated. Bruce H. Bauer, Medford lumber dealer, was named fore man of the grand Jury as Judge James Alger Fee convened the fall terms of U. S. district court ln the federal building this morning. Others called for grand lure duty were Herbert J. Dilling ham, Grants Pass; Van R. Gil bert, Medford; Arthur S. Klein. hammer, Jacksonville; George P. Bruchman, Grants Pass; Alexander H. Pracht, Ashland; Frank L. Earhart, Medford; Ro bert Buckles, Medford; Edward J. Feldman, Medford; John H. Emge, Grants Pass; Herb Grey, Medford; Fred H. Grant, Grants ' Pass; C. A. Hamlin, Medford: George J. Elliott, Central Point; w, m. swain, Eagle Point; Charles Boyden, Medford; Lee R. Allen, Medford; Elmer Childers, Medford; Verl G. Walker, Medford; R. H. Dopp. Central Point; Ray Coleman, Jacksonville; Harry Heryford, Butte Falls; and Charles S. But terfleld, Medford. The marshal, J. T. Summer- vllle, was Instructed by the court to look for W. D. Hol land, Grants Pass, and William D. Fenner, Wonder, who were not present when the to),' at the grand jury panel was at Arraignment Set '".' Judue Fee set 10 -a. yi morrow for the arralgnma defendants In jail here whe be arraigned on information These cases Involve charges of selling liquor to Indians. After the grand Jury was sworn in, Judge Fee called to pre-trial the civil case of Maude H. Oliver, et al, versus Elmer Spalding, et al. The case in volves an alleged timber tre pass. James L. Conlcy, Port, land, Is attorney for the plain tiff. George M. Roberts, Med ford, and O. S. Blanchard. Grants Pass, are counsel for the defendant. Called for pre-trial this after, noon were the civil cases of Olen Bell versus the California Oregon Power company, a per sonal injury case with Mr. Ro berts attorney for the plaintiff and Niel R. Allen, Grants Pass, tor the defendant; and Nellie W. Haley versus the J. C. Pen ney company, also a personal Injury case with William P. Lord, Portland, and Allison Moulton, Medford, counsel for the plaintiff and John W. Rey nolds and Arthur Vosburg, Portland, and Mr. Roberts coun sel for the defendant. Naturalization pro ceedlnga wero scheduled for early after noon. Rio De Janeiro. Oct. 7. ID A 19-year-old survivor of the Panama flag tanker I. C. White declared today that "one and perhaps two" unidentllied sub marines torpedoed and sank the American-owned ship without warning in a midnight attack 600 miles off Brazil. H. W. Ackerman, of Charles ton, S. C, said In the first inter view with any of the 17 surviv ors brought here by the rescue) ship Del Norte that the under sea boat or boats fired only on torpedo. Brazilian port authorities who boarded the Del Norn earlier s.iid they were told the ship was shelled as she sank. Ackerman said three men missing from the tanker's crevr of 87 "almost surely drowned.' TOMBOY INJURED Redmond, Ore- Oct 7. (JPh The neighborhood football team's lino failed to hold at a critical moment and opponents swarmed all over the ball car rier, Miss Joyce Van Matre, 11. She fractured bar right arm and collarbone. '
