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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1941.
No. 200.
Thirty-sixth Year
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Lack of Wire
Stop R. E. A.
Insurance Firms
Like Farm Loans
- Klamath Air Base
Has Bird Snag
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Washington. D. C, Nov. 11.
Rural electrification administra
tion has been stopped dead in
its tracks in Oregon and that
office is worrying a wrinkle,
wondering which way to turn
to obtain copper wire for trans
mission lines. Of current date
there are 13 co-operatives (bor
rowers, says REA) who have
been loaned $4,674,500, not in
cluding $150,000 for house wir
ing and a smaller loan for a
generating or booster plant. The
13 projects have an estimated
3,800 miles of poles which are
intended to serve 11.000 cus
tomers and of these 3.900 cus
tomers have been connected.
There are now energized 1,449
miles of line, leaving 2,351 miles
which are mostly bare poles and
7,100 customers who have neith
er transmission line connection
nor house wiring. When the
bare poles (more than half the
REA mileage In the state) will
have lines neither REA nor any
one else in government knows
or will hazard a guess. SPAB
and OPM have withdrawn cop
per but made an exception for
"copper used as a conductor or
electricity," and Leon Hender
son gave REA a commercial rat
ing priority for copper wire, of
which only 400 tons was avail
aole in August and not a pound
since. Private utilities, with
whom REA competes for busi
ness, have the same priority
classification and have been
obtaining wire, but champions
of REA assert that this Is be
cause former utility officials
are now $l-a-year men and are
using their position to aid the
private companies.
Appliances are also hard to
ret REA says Westinghouse has
shut down its factory for mak
ing refrigerators, but a few
washing machines are available.
Electricity, explains REA, should
be a tool of the farmer before
ARCTIC SEAPORT
MAY BE ISOLATED
BY KARELIA PUSH
Reds Claim Large German
Forces Trapped Near Vol
okolamsk, Moscow Sector
Medford Couple Unhurt in Crash
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Radio Highlights
By Associated Press)
(Tune is Pacific standard)
Tonight, the war 5:15 MBS;
8:55 CBS: 6:15 MBS: 6:45 MBS;
8 CBS-MBS; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC
CBS.
Annual Red Cross Roll Call
CBS MBS-Blue 7, Vice Presi
dent Wallace and others, guest
talent.
NBC-Blue 5 Treasury Hour;
8:05 Herbert Agar on "Youth's
Stake In Fight for Freedom."
MBS 6:30 Armistice Day In
Typical American City.
Wednesday, the war 8 MBS;
9 MBS: 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS;
li MBS: 12:55 p. m., CBS MBS;
1:55 CBS MBS; 1:55 NBC-Blue;
3 MBS; 3:25 NBC-Red; 3:45 CBS
NBC-Blue.
Short waves: GSC GSD Lon
don 3 war commentary.
GARRISON STORY
An article In last Sunday's
American Weekly, in which the
name of "Snapper" Garrison,
famous Jockey In the early
1900's was mentioned frequent
ly, brought back childhood
memories to Mrs. Charles Nle
drich of 34 Willamette avenue.
Mrs. Niedrich recalled that
she and Garrison were school
friends In Elmwood, 111., and
described his quiet and unas
suming manner, his self-restraint
and his particularity as to
dress.
Garrison's habit of time after
time Jockeying his mounts from
behind to win by a nose led to
the sports phrase, "Garrison fin
ish." which is still In use today.
The Jockey's first name was
Holland. Mrs. Niedrich said, and
added that ber unci married
bis lifter.
By the Associated Press
German troops driving east of
Leningrad were reported threat
ening to cut off the Arctic as a
route of Soviet supplies from
the United States and Great
Britain today, while on the cen
tral front, official Russian dis
patches said large nazi forces
had been trapped near Volo
kolamsk, 65 miles northwest of
Moscow.
As pictured by a Berlin mili
tary spokesman, German forces
advancing in Karelia were im
perilling supply lines both from
the ice-free Arctic port of Mur
mansk and the White Sea port
of Archangel.
Steady Advance
Nazi strategists said the Ger
man armies were steadily pro
gressing toward their objectives.
Presumably, however, they
were hundreds of miles away
from Archangel itself, with a
long, hard trek over the frigid
northland still ahead before
they would be In a position to
Isolate that port.
Official Soviet advices said
German troops captured recent
ly in the 40-day-old battle be
fore Moscow showed signs of
utter exhaustion.
In a side phase of the bloody
Russo-German struggle, the
Norwegian telegraph agency re
ported from London that hun
dreds of German soldiers were
blown to pieces when nazi tor
pedo boats, hunting down a sub
marine which had sunk two
German transports off the coast
of Norway, dropped depth
charges among troops in the
water.
Few Rescued
The agency said fewer than
200 of 3,000 Germans aboard
the torpedoed liners were res
cued by a Norwegian ship which
reached the scene shortly after
the torpedo attack.
"German torpedo boats which
were convoying the transport
ships dashed full speed among
the drowning soldiers, dropping
depth charges on the attacking
submarine. . . Hundreds of Ger
man soldiers were literally
blown to pieces," the agency
said.
Meanwhile. Prime Minister
Winston Churchill shied at new
demands raised in the house of
commons for the RAF to bomb
Rome.
Do you really think it is wise
to provide a hideout for that
Rat Mussolini?" asked com.
mander Sir Archibald Southby.
But Churchill declined to go
beyond his previous statement
that the RAF would bomb Rome
"if the course of the war should
render such an action coi
ient and helpful."
Advance In Crimea
In the Crimea, a bulletin from
Adolf Hitler's field headquarters
said German and Rumanian
troops Were continuing to ad
vance against the great Black
sea naval base of Sevastopol and
the port of Kerch, gateway to
the Caucasus.
Beside the big German con.
tingent reported trapped near
Volokolamsk victims of the
same encirclement tactics ex
ploited against Red army troops
the Russians said a' major
Soviet counter-attack had been
launched In the Serpukhov sec
tor, 65 miles south of Moscow,
against German panzer units at
tempting to break the central
defense arc.
Reuters, the British news
agency, declared German forces
trving to cross the river Oka
there had been annihilated.
Violent all-night fighting was
also reported in the Tula sec
tor. 100 miles south of the U,
S. S. R. capital, with Soviet
troops holding their ground
against repeated nazi tank as
saults In the southern suburbs
of the town. .
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CHURCHILL PLEDGE
TO HELP AMERICA
Britain Dancing To Tune Of
United States Says News
paper Officials Silent.
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Pilot Edward Handle, secretary of the Crater Flying club of Medford. landed the club's Pi
per Cub plane in a stump patch near Wendling Sunday afternoon when his gasoline supply
ran low after encountering fog on his return from a trip to Portland. Randle, a technician at
KMED, and Miss Glenda Wirth. employe of Hunt's ice cream shop, who accompanied hint,
were unhurt in the forced landing. A wing, the propellor and landing gear were wrecked. Pho
to courteiy Eugene Daily Wewi). :
Defense of Freedom
American Obligation
Roosevelt Declaration
Washington. Nov. 11. (AP) President Roosevelt said in an
Armistice day address today that we have a duty to ourselves
and to those who died, to gain our freedom "to make the world
a place where freedom can live and grow into the ages."
The American people Deneve
EARLY SHOWDOWN
WITH JOHN LEWIS
liberty Is worth fighting for, he
added, "and if they are obliged
to fight they will fight eternally
to hold it."
The chief executive spoke
from the circular marble amphi
theater in Arlington national
cemetery at services conducted
by the American Legion. A lew
moments before he had stood
solemnly at attention while an
aide placed a wreath against the
tomb of the unknown soldier of
the last World War.
Significant Rite
This year's observance of
Armistice day, Mr. Roosevelt de
clared, has a particular signifi
cance because in the past we
were not always able to measure
our Indebtedness to those who
gave their lives In the first World
War.
If the armies of 1917 and 1918
had lost, not a man or woman
in America would have wonder
ed why the war was fought, the
president said.
"We would have Known wny
liberty is worth defending," he
explained, "as those alone whose
liberty is lost can know it. we
would have known why tyranny
is worth defeating as only those
whom tyrants rule can know.
Those who gave up their lives
in 1917 and 1918 literally did so
to make the world safe for de
mocracy, to make it habitable,
the president said, "for decent
and self-respecting men."
Now We Know
They died to prevent then,"
he asserted, "the very thing that
now, a quarter century later, has
happened from one end of Eu
rope to the other. Now that It
has happened we know in full
the reason why they died.
We know also what obliga
tion and duty their sacrifice im
poses upon us. They did not die
to make the world safe for de
cency and self-respect for five
years or ten or maybe twenty.
They died to make it SAFE.
"And If, by some fault of ours
who lived beyond the war. Its
safety has again been threatened
then the obligation and the duty
are ours."
As it was after the Civil War,
so it is our charge now, the
president said, drawing on the
words of Abraham Lincoln, to
see to it "that these dead shall
not have died In vain."
York's Words Cited
The chief executive recalled
that Sergeant Alvin York. Ten
nessee's renowned hero of the
World war, had said recently to
"cynica and doubters":
"The thing they forget is that
liberty and freedom and democ
racy are so very precious that
you do not fight to win them
once and stop. Liberty and free-
who fight to win them and then
keep fighting eternally to hold
them."
The people of America, their
president declared, agree with
that
The sergeant, Mr. Roosevelt
said, also stood near the tomb
of the unknown soldier recently
and remarked that there are
those who ask World War vet
erans "What did it get you?"
"Today we know the answer
all of us," Mr. Roosevelt re
marked. "All who search their
hearts in honesty and candor
know it.
"We know that these men died
to save their country from a ter
rible danger of that day. We
know, because we face that dan
ger once again on this day."
Not only do we know the ans
wer to that question, the presi
dent said, but so also do the men
of France, some of them hos
tages for the safety of their mas
ters' lives, robbed of harvest,
murdered in prisons. They are
aware, he said, what "a former
victory of freedom against tyran
ny was worth."
And the Czechs know the
answer, he said, and the Poles,
Danes, Dutch, Serbs, Belgians,
Norwegians and Greeks.
-"We know It now," he said.
Washington, Nov. 11
John L. Lewis and his CIO Unl-
L-rt Miner- workers todav laeeo
swift-approach ing showaown
on their demand for. a union
shop in the Captive coal mines.
Moving quickly yesterday af
ter the national defense media
tion board recommended by a
vote of 9 to 2 against such a
union shop, Lewis summoned
members of the UMW scale
committee to a special meeting
here Friday morning. .
That committee has the pow
er to decide whether to bow to
the board's recommendation, or
to renew last month's strike
which affected 63,000 miners in
the so-called Captive mines.
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 11
UP) While augmented guards
patrolled naval defense projects
where AFL building tradesmen
were oil strike, union officials
conferred today In an effort to
reach a settlement "satisfactory
to our people and to the navy."
Los Angeles, Nov. 11. (JP)
Another general walkout vote
will be taken tonight by ship
yards welders. Karl V. Morris,
national president of the United
Welders, Cutters & Helpers,
said 8,500 welders in the Los
Angeles-Long Beach yards and
at Seattle would be Involved in
the strike call.
CONTRACTOR FILE
TO BE AMPLIFIED
The constructing quartermas
ter's office here said today that
the construction advisory com
mittee, office of the quartermas
ter general, war department. Is
making an Individual check of
all contractors files on record
with the committee and that as
a result many firms will re
ceive a request to amplify the
record.
A press release said: This
work is not being done with
the Idea of considering firms on
any specific projects contempla
ted but is a general effort to
make the information more com-
olete and satisfactory."
Any contractors Interested in
filing their records may procure
blank forms by writing to the
advisory committee.
CALL ME CHARLIE
Camp Upton, N. Y.. Nov. 11
(IP) Officers have trouble wltn
the name of Private Gim C. Ng
a Chinese-American from New
York, so when they want him dom and democracy are prizes
they Just My "Charlie." j awarded only to those) people
BLOWOUT FATAL
Newport. Wash, Nov. 11 OP)
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Heagey,
middle-aged farm couple from
Dalkena. were fatally injured
and two others were hurt near
here last night when the auto
mobile in which they were rid
lng overturned when a tire
blew out.
Tokyo. Wednesday, Nov. 12.
(AP) The Japanese people are
burning with anger over Prime
Minister Churchill's declaration
of yesterday and "Britain Is
dancing to the tune of the United
States and digging her own
graveyard," the widely circu
lated newspaper Yomiurl de
clared today.
Commenting on Churchill's
statement that a British war dec
laration would be made "within
the hour" If Japan went to war
with the United States, Yomiurl
said the Japanese people never
theless were trusting completely
to the government's policy and
Iron will to cope with the situa
tion. Officials Silent
The Japanese are willing to
show a magnanimous spirit in co
operating with the United States
for a harmonious settlement, it
added.
Cautious silence, however, en
veloped official circles.
Authoritative c o m m entators
said that never in recent years
has Japan received such a direct
challenge as Churchill's speech,
and thus it was likely that some
hours would pass before any of
ficial reaction would be avail
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The British ambassador, Sir
Robert Leslie Cralgie, called at
the foreign office yesterday for
the purpose, diplomatic sources
said, of discussing the Churchill
statement. ,
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ARMISTICE PARADE
LONGEST IN YEARS
SEEN BY THRONG
Aerial Bombs at 11 A. M.
Signal Start Of March
Dance Tonight Is Climax.
Joseph
AT LOCAL LEGION
AMERICA SELECTS
RYDER CUP TEAM
KNACKSTEDT STORY IN
MAGAZINE DIGEST LIST
A reprint of Mrs. Ada Knack-
stedt's story, "Our Town's
Shame" appears in the Novem
ber issue of "Magazine Digest",
now on sale. The story was first
published In Coronet earlier In
the year. Mrs. Knackstedt is a
resident of Perrydale and writes
under the name of Ada Marie
Fairchlld.
Joseph K. Carson, state de
partment commander of the
American Legion, was guest of
honor and principal speaker at
the annual Armistice breakfast
of the American Legion held at
the Hotel Medford this morning.
Carson, popular ex-mayor of
Portland, arrived on the Main-
liner last night at 12 p. m. ana
w greeted at .tha airport by
Washington, Nov. lr-(JPt
A 29 per cent Increase In the na
tion's cranberry crop for 1941
over 1940 is seen In agriculture
department figures which indi
cate the anticipated crop will
reach 749,200 barrels.
Chicago. Nov. 11. (IP) The
1942-43 Ryder cup golf team,
prevented by the war from par
ticipating in its biennial match
with Great Britain, nevertheless
has been selected and stands
ready for any task the Profes
sional Golfers association may
assign to it.
The P. G. A., which Is holding
Its twenty-fifth annual conven
tion here, may send the team
into several benefit matches for
the United Service Organiza
tions and the Red Cross. There
also is the possibility of a meet
ing with a South American team
next October. So the P. G. A.
picked its aces for the squad.
Craig Wood, the national open
champion from Mamaroneck,
N. Y., was named active captain
of the team yesterday, Walter
Hagen was designated honorary
captain. The rest of the squad is:
Gene Sarazen, Brookfield Cen
tre, Conn.; Jimmy Demaret, No-
roton. Conn.; Ben Hogan, Her-1
shey, Pa.; Lloyd Mangrum, Chi
cago; Victor Ghezzl, Deal, N. J.;
Byron Nelson, Toledo, Ohio;
Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Vs.;
Horton Smith, Plnehurst, N. C,
and Harold (Jug) McSpaden,
Winchester, Mass.
THREATEN STRIKE
Portland, Nov. -41P) The
CIO International Woodworkers
of America threatened a strike
today at the Eastern Ic Western
company sawmill here. Union
officials said the company re
fused to re hire union member.
Post Command Ernest Winkle
and a group of Legionnaires.
Following the breakfast. State
Commander Carson left for
Grants Pass to speak at the an
nual Legion observance today.
In a brief talk to the local
veterans this morning Carson
stressed the Important part the
American Legion is called upon
to play In the serious situation
confronting - the United States
today.
"The many things which the
Legion has harped upon and
urged proper preparedness for
In the past 23 years are now
here," said Carson, who added
that the American Legion stands
ready and willing to do its part
now as in the days of 1917-18.
Commander Carson advised
that the dates of the annual dis
trict conference, tentatively set
for November 29, would be
changed in view of the football
classic between Oregon and
O.S.C., scheduled for that day.
He said the 1941 conference
may be held In Medford this
year.
The Armistice breakfast was
presided over by Commander
Ernest Winkle and as custom
ary, was strictly informal, being
an annual get-together of the
local Legign group. Commander
Winkle called upon Mayor H.
S. Deuel, past commander of
Medford Post No. 15, who re
sponded briefly.
Herman Puruckef, general
chairman of the Armistice day
celebration, made a report on
the elaborate program planned
for the day.
Out-of-town guests at the
breakfast were Nlel R. Allen,
nast state commander, and W
C. Allen, post commander of
Grants Pass post of the Legion.
GLUT OF LUMBER
TO CLOSE MILLS
Before one of the largest
crowds of spectators In recent
years, Medford post of the
American Legion this forenoon
staged the longest Armistice
Day parade in at least a decade.
Overcast but otherwise favor.
able weather brought a throne
of onlookers to the city and
when the three aerial bombs
signalizing the hour of the 1918
armistice exploded at 11 o'clock
the streets were lined with spec
tators. Dugout Open
The parade opened a day ol
celebration for the veterans of
the World war. After the pa
rade the Legion's famous dugout
was opened for afternoon and
evening entertainment and at
9 tonight the annual Armistice
Day ball at Oriental Garden!
will climax tha holiday'! fes
tivities. Regular and reserve officer!
of the U. S. army headed the
long column of marchers. Oth
ers In the procession included
the American Legion Kiltie
band of Ashland, a car holding
space for Medford s national
guard units now In federal ser
vice, Women's Relief Corp,
Daughters of Union Veterans ol
the Civil War, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Sons of
tha American Revolution, M. H.
S. float depicting the municipal
airport and illustrating the
army's slogan of "Keep 'em Fly
lng," U. S. defense saving!
stamp float depicting America
on guard, Medford high school
band.
Also color- guard! of World
war veteran organize lions.
American Legionnaires and aux
iliary. Navy Mothers club, 40
et 8 societe train. Gold Star
Mothers, senior high school girls
drum corps, U. S. Spanish War
Veterans and auxiliary. Boy
Scouts and Cub Scouts, Brownie
Scout troop 24 of the Jackson
school in a float. Girl Scouts.
Also Salvation Army bus. Red
Cross, Jackson County Public
Health Association float. South
ern Oregon Humane society in
tribute to the animals sacrificed .
in the World war, Elks band on
float. Elks lodge. Fraternal
Allies too Lenient in First War
Says Sgt. York on Anniversary
Evsnsvllle. Ind.. Nov. 11. Imountaln farmer, here to ob-
CV-Sergeant Alvin C. York. "' .th..J3.rd.,n1lv'rM.7
outstanding American hero of
the 1914-18 world war, looked
back over 23 years today and
told an Interviewer tha war was
lost "in the peace."
Famed for his single-handed
capture of 132 Germans, York
said that "we should have gone
right through Germany and
conquered her."
1 The 83 year-old . Tennessee
Order of Eagles and auxiliary
and their uniformed drill teams,
Redmen, Pocahontas, R. N. A.
victory float, Junior Degree of
Honor, Degree of Honor.
Also Junior high school (Iris
drum corps, Girls' Community
club, Medford Garden club. Bus
iness and Professional Women'!
club, Lincoln and Washington
school children in uniform.
Sheriff! Mounted Posse, Wo
men's Mounted Posse, Odd Fel
lows bugle and drum corps from
Crescent City, Cal., F. L. C
I. O. O. F. float and Odd Fel
lows lodge. Veterans of Foreign
Wars and their float of trench.
Disabled American Veterans,
auxiliaries of the V. F. W and
D. A. V, Townsend club mem
bers, and the children's pet and
costume division.
PUTFORfTALC
Fl
armistice that dosed the World
war, repeated "We should have
gone right through Germany
and conquered her," adding
"and this war never would have
happened."
This time, he said, "we are
going to have to take Germany
off the face of the earth and
put all the other little warring
nations under a protectorate of
the democracies."
Marshfleld. Ore.. Nov. 11.
(AP) Southwestern Oregon lum
ber mills cannot operate longer
than two months under present
government restrictions, lumber
men said yesterday.
Demand has fallen off consid
erably since Issuance of priority
orders affecting construction,
mill operators, drawing up rec
ommendations to be presented
the state economic council, said.
Defense orders still are un
filled, but other types of lumber
clog the yards, they complained.
The operators recommended that
second and third grades be used
on defense projects In addition to
first-grade lumber, used exclu
sively now,
A fractured left knee cap was)
suffered by Alma E. Richardson.
34, of 1740 North Riverside
avenue when he accidentally
stepped off a platform at tha
Medford Poultry and Egg com
pany, 334 McAndrews mad,
about 8:30 p. m. Monday.
Richardson, who stepped otC
the three-foot-high platform, was
taken to Community hospital In
the Perl ambulance.
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Fort Bliss, Tex., Nov. 11.
UP) Army officers are still
scratching their heads at the)
telegram received from this
rookie, anxious to steer clear ol
a desertion charge: "Request t
tension of mjr A.W.OX." -