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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.
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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
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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.