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Full Associated Press
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 1941
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. '