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ruii a a. wau- Weather ZJT Forecast: Occasional rain to night and Tuesday with tog la morn Inf. Little coanga la tem perature. Tempera! ura Hijhert Vetlerday , 57 Lowest this Moraine Medford Tribune; No Regular Hours TIM Want Ada era auy uttls workera. Th.jr har bo refmUr hours. They work when and liem they ft en audience. Thf y an read from early mnrn Ins until tola at Blfat. They DO gel rauita. Full Associated Preas United Pre ' Thirty-sixth Year JAR !!!!LAR SbVCfMKRJ 1 - i : 1 ' ' - i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Dee. 1. E a r 1 V fall of Moscow was anticipates by Von Ribbentrop'i homey littla party for his straw-statesmen from conquered satellite nations. The Nazi foreign min- l.fpr railed his l-'f"J f straw bosses "3 in to prepare the way for a new Nazi peace program when the red capital falls. At the front. Hitler is wasting men in a final des perate drive to conquer the Paul Mallon Stalin strong holdand he Is likely to get it This, at any rate, is the official understanding here of recent European events, but no one is especially cxuncu. Kovrral imminent blank spots In German shrewdness have long been evident and Von Rib bentrop'i party is one of them. By fooling himself into the be lief that a new European order could be started with straw men from non-existent nation, he thought he could fool the rest of the world into the same stupidity. No one here bothered to answer him. ; Neither are apprehensions high about the consequence ! loss of the former Soviet capital. The reds have been moving their manufacturing plants cut Miconw nnrl their other WCS em industrial areas for aeveral months. Like the Chinese, out am - (innIer aralA. Stalin has shifted a nation back to tem porary safety. Small machinery was taken up ana iniea on trucks. Both machines and worbm were transplanted, far . i . . - !. h - hind the Urals., Heavier ma chines were placed oh flat freight cars and shipped back. Blast furnaces and such facili ties too large to move were blown ud. Consequently, Hitler Is not likely to find mucn in Moscow or In Leningrad except empty (Continued on r" 61x) 'Chute Saves Pilot As Warplssi Falls In Hi!Isi:ro Area Hillsboro, Ore., Dec. 1. (IP) A single-seater P-43 Republic pursuit plane crashed three miles southeast jot here this morning but tno pilot, Lieut. Arvld E. Malmstrom, parachut ed to safety. I Major Milton W. Klngcald of the Portland air base said Malm strom, whose home is at Divi dend. Utah, bailed out after the plane went into aw spin while engaged in routine formation maneuvers. The cause of the spin was not Immediately deternv lned. r The crash waa the first accl- dent involving a . Portland air base plane, Kingcald said. Malm strom was assigned here from Stockton Field, Calif.. Sept. 30. Radio Highlights By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific standard) Tnnfcrht 4h m mB- 8 NBC-Red. Tuesday, the war 7 MBS: 10:45 NBC: 12:58 CBS, MBS: 1:55 NBC-Blue; S CBS, MBS; 3:25 NBC-Red. SIDE GLANCES BY i, TRIBUNE REPORTERS Stan Sherwood being torn be tween conflicting emotions at Saturday's big football game, he wanting to see Oregon win but yet hoping that Oregon State's chance for Rose Howl play would not be lost. , Engineer Henry Cault want ing everyone to knot that the holes being dug around the fed eral building arc not to bury dead letters but tat shrubs to decorate tho ground, id NAZIS SUFFERING T British Put Down Threat to Rezegh Germans Ad mit Rostov Counter Drive. By the Associated Press Germany's enemies held the initiative on two of the world's battlefronts today. Russian reports spoke of the greatest German reversals since Adolf Hitler put "blitzkrieg" in to the world s vocabulary and the Nazi themselves conceded that a gTowing Red army blocks that gateway to the Caucasus through Rostov. Although Rostov admittedly has been given up, however, the Germans disputed Russian as sertions that they had been pushed all the way back to Tag anrog, 40 miles west on the Sea of Azov coast. On the Moscow front, German dispatches said the invaders' vanguards had come within spy glass view of the Red capital. How far this was, precisely, the reports did not tell but the fur therest wedge toward Moscow previously claimed by the Ger mans was at Solnetschnogorsk, about 31 miles to the northwest. Threat Put Down In Libya, the British said a threat to their position In the main fighting area of the desert struggle had been put down when German forces were driv en from footholds they had gain ed In Imperial defenses of Re- zegh. The Moscow radio,- quoting Pravda, reported that a second counter-drive by southern Red forces threatened to cut off the Germans west of Rostov with a prospective thrust to the Sea of Azov at their rear. As if to escape the new threat. the Russian reports indicated the Germans were abandoning Tag anrog, 40 miles west of Rostov, in favor of Mariupol, another 60 miles to the west. The Germans themselves. In experienced in explaining a re treat, acknowledged flatly the superior strength of the Red army's Rostov counter-drive and also blamed Rostov civilians for "unnecessary losses" In the in vasion ranks. The high command said that he Russian army was continu ing the counter-thrust, "reckless ly using men and material," but a spokesman emphatically de nied that the Germans had fal len all the way back to Tagan rog, 40 miles west of Rostov. Otherwise, the Hitler com mand was reduced to claiming that it still maintained the siege of Leningrad, warding off counter-thrusts by "stronger forces", and that infantry and armored units "continue to advance" on Moscow. Little was said about the Ger man situation in Libya, but on the home front the Berlin com munique admitted casualties from overnight RAF raids on Hamburg and Emden. Fifteen of the British bombers were shot down, the high command said. The British acknowledged loss of 20 bombers but said that 150 tons of bombs were dropped on Hamburg's docks and shipyards, and that besides the RAF blast ed at Bremerhaven, Wilhelm rhaven, Kiel and Lubeck. All are centers of maritime indus try and naval power In north western Germany. In addition, there were low ?evel attacks on shipping off the Dutch coast, the British said, with one supply ship left sink ing and several others hit, and British planes sowed mines in German shipping lanes. Four Lives Snuffed When Stills Explode Al Petrol Refinery Okmulgee, Okla., Dec. 1. (IP) Four lost their lives and 17 others were injured, three crit ically, today as an explosion set ablaze the gasoline department of the Phillips Petroleum co. re finery. The threat of explosion In a huge accumulator tank was re lieved as workers succeeded in reducing the pressure In the chsmber from 600 to 75 pounds. Hundreds of residents in the area had been warned to leave their homes. FarEast Trouble zone C.HII N Aypnty w JJ aT 2XL TVNNAM 1 N . O vovinci p V CO yOASHIO I V""-1-- J TMANDALAV!) S" AhailandVo BANGKOK lli biNH t Va noiNH t Gulf Of (J I Siam j OTA China 3nbmaru Sea V BRITISH Xv "Amaiaya VSrvN I P 2QO This area of the Far East, centering around Thailand and the Chinese province of Yunnan, commanded the news spotlight as Japan's next move was awaited in Many Strike Curb Bills ; Placed Before Congress Washington, Dee. 1. M5) three different house bills and two other measures proposed by senators as members tackled the legislative job of preventing work stoppages in industries vital to defense. Administration leaders in tho house hoped to win agreement j On some bill by Wednesday. The tentative first claim on the house's attention was held by the bill ot Rep. Smith (D, va.) which would outlaw Jur isdictional strikes, ban mass picketing, freeze the open or closed shop status and require a majority vote by secret ballot before strikes could be called. If this were beaten or side tracked, next on the agenda was the labor committee's bill which would force a 60-day "cooling off" period in defense labor disputes, during which the na tional defense mediation board would seek settlement by con ciliation, mediation or voluntary arbitration. As a last resort it would authorize the government to seize and operate the plant. This measure was reported at tracting considerable bipartisan support as a middle-of-the-road solution of the problem. Next In line was a bill by Rep. Vinson (D., Va.) which would call for compulsory arbi tration. Meanwhile Senators Connolly CD., Tex.) and Ball (R., Minn.) advanced bills of their own and one administration senator said these might be combined. 2,04 FARMERS TO AID DEFENSE The farm defense program survey Is completed and shows 2,474 farmers out of a possible 2,700 signed up to increase pro duction the coming year, County Agent Robert G. Fowler report ed today. Those places not sign ed were small tracts. It waa ex plained by the county agent. Main items on the program, sponsored by the department of agriculture under the slogan ' Food Will Win the War", for this county, are as follows: Cows milked in 1941, 8,074; planned for 1942, 10,012. Hogs slaughtered and market ed In 1941, 14,136; planned for 1942, 20.270. Egg production, 761,211 dozen In 1941; planned for 1942, 1.472.111 dozen. Beef cattle marketed In 1941, 10.617; planned for 1942, 12.444. Farm gardens 477.3 acres In 1941; acreage for 1942 planned, 584.4 acres. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1941. the far east crisis. Congress had its choice today of FROM OWN RIFLE KILLS TALENT BOY The body of Harvey Henry Zemke, 18, of Talent, who acci dentally shot himself with a .22 calibre Savage Snorter rifle while looking for a pitch tree Saturday morning, was discov ered by his brother, Leslie, about a mile from their home Sunday morning. No inquest will be held, it was announced, following an in vestigation by Deputy Coroner C. M. Litwiller of Ashland indi cating the tragic mishap was purely accidental. Funeral ar rangements were being made to day. Friday night young Zemke told members of his family that he planned to arise early Satur day morning and look for a pitch tree for kindling wood. He did, taking his gun and dog, a mon grel pup. When he didn't return Saturday his family believed he had gone to a friend's home, but when he was still missing Sun day his brother, Leslie, went In search of him. Leslie picked up his brother's trail, then lost it, and was about to return home when the bark ing of Harvey's dog attracted him to the spot where the body lay. The dog had stayed with the body of its master all Satur day night. Lltwiller's Investigation show ed that young Zemke had been walking through a heavy under growth of Manzanita, and had apparently been forced to stoop over after placing the gun In front of him, butt first. In crawl ing over the gun it became dis charged in some manner, the bul let entering his left chest and ranging upward. The accident happened about 9 a. m. Saturday, i was believed by Litwiller, who with neighbors, carried the body out of the woods. Harvey, unmarried, lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus tavo H. Zemke, on Anderson creek two miles from Talent. An obituary will be published later. ALABAMA ACCEPTS Dallas, Dec. 1 VP) Alabama today accepted an invitation to play the Texas Aggies la the Cotton Bowl her Jan. 1. Hitlerites Suffer Setbacks On Two Main Battlefronts IT PLEADS GUILTY, E Man Accused of Four Local Stickups Admits Grover Dairy Crime Safe Found Thomas Milton Smith, 22, of Dallas, Tex., arrested by city and state police and the sheriff's of fice in a local rooming houje last Wednesday morning, plead ed guilty In circuit court this morning to a charge of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon in connec tion with the stickup of Grover's Dairy Products company the night of November 17. Passing of sentence was continued by Judge Herbert K. Hanna while authorities further Investigate Smith's record. While the Grover stickup was the specific crime charged against Smith, police said his ar rest cleared up three other armed robberies here; namely, the Lost River Dairy, the Texaco Service Station and the Ninety- Nine Motel. The Motel on North .Riverside avenue was robtted the night or October e of 43.ii, Fred Underwood a Texaco sta tion on East Main street was robbed of 146.51 the night of October 28 and Lost River Dairy was robbed the night of October 31 of between $75 and $100. In the Grover "Job," November 17, the bandit obtained only a small amount of money. Forced to Count In each of the four stickups the victim was forced to lie on the floor and count to "150" be fore getting up and turning In the alarm. Frank R. Pasmore manager of Grover's, Identified Smith as the bandit, police said. as did two of his other local vic tims. Smith, police stated, came to Medford last September and worked for a time at a local packing house. His arrest fol lowed receipt of a "tip" from Red Oak, Iowa, where Smith vis ited for a short while after the first stickup, and before he re turned to Medford, it was ex plained by police. Coincidentally with Smith's arraignment in circuit court this morning on the Grover stickup charge, the 500-pound safe stolen from the same concern the night of September 20 was discovered alongside the Griffin creek road seven miles from Medford, police announced. Covered by Leaves The safe was found by John D Yates and Kenneth Klassen, both of Route 1, when their car be came stuck in tho mud this morning. While they were at tempting to extricate It they no ticed tho safe, partly covered by leaves. The big Iron box, police said, had been hammered open and about 8100 In cash removed. However, papers and documents were intact, and although some of them were wet. and dirty It was believed by Pasmore they could be restored to good condi tion. The safe was brought back to Medford In truck sent by the dairy. The safe waa stolen from the dairy office by burglars who en tered the building through a win dow in the boiler room, and re moved the strongbox through a small front door. It was taken away from tho dairy In a car stolen from Charles E. Ford, 117 North Oakdale avenue. The car was found abandoned the next morning on Belknap lana Just south of the county fairgrounds. ELKS CONVTNTION SET FOR JULY 12, PORTLAND Salem, Dec. 1 (A) The na tional Elks convention will open In Portland next July 12, John S. McClelland, Atlanta, Ga., grand exalted ruler of the lodge, said during a visit hero Satur day night. WRITER WAR ZONE Erskine Caldwell Says Rus sia Will Win War in End Moscow Not Vital. Spokane, Wash., Dee. 1. (IP) "Hitler can't win," Erskine Caldwell, author and foreign correspondent, asserted today. And, he added, "Russia, not England nor the United States, but Russia will win the war in the end." Who will win after tho war In the establishment of the peace will "depend on how smart the diplomats are," he said, adding: If they (the allied countries) try to cheat Russia, they're go ing to regret it. You know, Eng land is not completely reliable." Bombed in Moscow Caldwell and his wife, Mar garet Bourke-White, famous photographer, spent from May 1 to October I this year In Rus sia and were bombed 26 nights in a row before they left Mos cow. Of the Russian people, he said, "there la no negative feeling. Tho people accept the fact there can be no defeat. They are bet ter off than they were before they changed their government. Communism la working for them." Despite lost of 3,000,000 men, Russia has 10,000,000 mora In the field and 10,000,000 others in reserve, he aald. "Even If Germany takes Mos cow, it won t mean anything." ho added. "And, its doubtful that Germany can take Moscow unless the Russian command de cides to give it up. "Russia may win sooner with the help of tho English and the United States, but she'll win. It doesn't particularly matter how much land Is lost; Russia has plenty of land and Is strong enough to stand up Indefinitely." Caldwell came to Spokane to address the Spokane junior chamber of commerce. FIRST LADY ADVISES ON CHRISTMAS GIFTS Washington, Dec. 1 (JP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ex pressed the opinion today that Christmas presents this year should Include those tradition ally dispensed by Santa Claus as well as practical things, de spite the national emergency. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt told a questioner that gifts shouldn't be confined to Just practical things. France's African Colonies Hinted Goering-Petain Topic Vlchy, Unoccupied France, Dec. 1 (IP) Marshal Petaln and Reichsmarshal Goering met today at St. Florentine in tho de partment of Yonne, 80 miles sou theast of Paris, and had a "long conversation on questions Interesting to Germany and France," the Vichy government announced tonight. Madrid, Dec. I UP) Span ish diplomatic circles reported tonight that Adolf Hitler and Marshal Petaln met this morn ing at Orleans, In occupied France. (There was no Immediate con firmation of this from Vichy or Berlin. Orleans had been men tioned In earlier dispatches as a likely site of Petaln's projected meeting with a "high German personage.") The reports added that Otto Abetz and Fernand De Brinon, the German and French am bassadors to Paris; Joachim von Ribbentrop and Admiral Jean Darlan, the German and French foreign ministers, also attended. Neither tho length of tho meeting nor the subjects dis cussed were mentioned In these reports. Berlin, Deo. 1 A Ranch Gets Proposals A few hours after word got around that Louisa Thomas, 20, (above) had appeared at the Saa Antonio, Tex., Daily Evening News office desiring to advertise for a husband, she had received 22 telephone calls, two special delivery letters and four per sonal callers. Twice divorced from the same man and the mother of a 2Vi year old daugh ter, the young woman said aha was looking for a young hus band. Interested In all sports. who Is willing and able to sup port ner ana ner aaugnter. SOAR TO $451,255 SO FAR THIS YEAR Medford's building permit business, already far exceeding the 1940 total of $212,955, soar ed to $451,255 for the first 11 months of this year with the $23,265 recorded for November, It was revealed In figures re leased today by the city - In spector's office. ' Last month's figure represent ed a slight Increase ever the $22, 225 of the same period last year, but was a decline under the October 1941 total of $43,495. Twenty-four permits were is sued last month, five of them being for tho construction of new residences at a total cost of $1,415; three being for the re modeling and repairing of resi dences at a total cost of $1,415; three being for tho ro- modelinf of buslneee ' at a tout cost of $1.1 1 1 being for tho con- new boj t editor's suggestion of military action to recapture France's African colonies held by Gen. Charles De Gaulle's forces re ceived sympathetic attention In Berlin today as Marshal Petaln of France came over Into German-occupied territory, report edly to meet a high German personality. Berlin spokesmen would not discuss the French chief of stale's mission, however, nor give the slightest hint of the identity of tho high German personality mentioned in tho Vichy announcement. Discussion of action to regain Do Gaullist-held colonies was brought Into the open by Marcel Deat In his Paris L'Oeuvro. Some observers expressed the belief that his call for action possibly foreshadowed action by Frsnca'i colonial army. jrraw NO. 217. Tl WITH SEC. HULL' Japanese Bring No Reply to Document Delineating United States Position. ; Washington, Dec. 1, (JP Negotiations on the delicate far eastern situation were resumed today by Secretary of State Hull and the Japanese ambassador, after which the secretary hur ried across the street to the White House to report to Presi dent Roosevelt, who had cut short a southern holiday. The president and Hull eon. ferred by themselves In Mr. Roosevelt's oval study Immedi ately after the secretary con cluded hjs talk with the Japa nese, which concerned only sub ordinate" phases of tho Pacific situation. The envoys brought no reply to the document in which tho United States last week delineated its position. Mr. Roosevelt called Harry L. Hopkins, lend lease supervisor who haa been Inactive because) of illness, tor luncheon but mad no other engagements for thai day. ITomura Grave Ambassador Klchisaburo No mura looked grave when ho and the special envoy, Saburo K li ra su, emerged from Hull'a office. When a reporter asked him whether there still was a wlda gap between tho American, and Japanese positions, ho re plied: "I believe there must be wis statesmanship to sava tho situa tion." Kurusu, when asked whether he and Nomura planned to sea Hull again, said: "Yes, wo are Instructed to that effect by our government.' When asked about Premier Tojo's reported statement that East Asia must bo "purged" of British and American exploita tion, Kurusu said ho thought Tojo had been "badly misquot ed" in news dispatches. Asks For Text "Wo are asking Tokyo for a full text of the speech," ha added. Kurusu did not detail tho particulars In which ha thought Tojo had been misquoted. . To questions bearing on re ported Japanese preparations to invade Thailand, Kurusu replied MW-commltUUy that ho knew thing about that. Aaasclsted Proas I k - t ia tho Pacific ten sion fo'' ft --mMMvlouasbw. of eolU4l , J "TCI a umiea sub a r Ing on Pruu Uiiiattev C chill s recent declaration. tU.' Britain would join tho United States "within the hour" In event of a fight with Japan. Despite Japan's expressed dis position to keep on talking. Gen eral preparedness continued throughout tho Orient (CenUouad ea Page BlfbM stampsIsat; new high record A new high record for stamp sales was registered at Medford postofflco last month. Postmas ter Frank DeSouza announced today. Last month's sales totaled 816,695.56 as compared with $13,018.83 In November last year, an increase of $3,676.73 or 28 per cent Usually tho greatest stamp sales are made in December and last year tho total for December was $13,649.11. this being $1,046.47 less than last month's total, Mr. DeSouza tald.
