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151 o)(ffiMo) Ml jiPlr IN i i LITTLE SEAPLANE News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Nazis Claim Capture of Main Rail Station in Stalingrad Battle AIR AND CAVALRY REINFORCEMENTS Mail Tribune Bargain Days Fine Success The Mail Tribune closed Its "Bargain Days" books at 10 o'clock last night and Gerald T. Latham, circulation manager, said today that the number of new and renewal yearly subscriptions received during the period would equal that of any previous year. "Bargain Days was a complete success," he stated, "and In behalf of the paper I want to sincerely thank the thousands of persons who took advantage of the money-saving rates offered and subscribed by the year, and to express our apprecatlon to the subscribers for their fine spirit of cooperation during the period." WILLKIE IN CAIRO Wearing sun helmet, Wendell Willkie, special representative of President Roosevelt to Moscow and Middle East, steps off plane at sun-baked Cairo airport, after completing first 1 1,000 miles of air voyage. Ha expects a long war. Radio from Cairo.

Farmers Necessary Frozen, Says Wickard Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard today urged stabilization of farm prices and Income 'at levels averaging parity," but would require some form of government subsidy for farmers. TO FIRE FOREST Raid on Nearby Coast Revealed by Command After Nearly Week's Time. Brookings, Sept. 15 U.R) Residents ol this seaside town learned with surprise that Japan's first aerial blow at the continental United States apparently was a feeble effort to start a forest fire on nearby Mt.

Emily. Many heard the small unidentified seaplane, believed to have dropped a bomb on the mountain last Wednesday, but only a few saw it. The western defense command at San Francisco an nounced last night that a for ester who had spotted and extinguished a small fire had found what appeared to be fragments of an incendiary bomb. The army suggested the plane may have come from a submarine. Jap Marks on Bomb The fragments were marked with Japanese ideographs, which the army said may have been 'part of a code indicating the arsenal where the bomb was manufactured." Howard Gardner, U.

S. Forest service observer, sighted the fire at 12:20 p. m. last Wednesday. He said he extinguished the small blaze and notified D.

Dewart, Curry county air raid official, when lie discovered the bomb fragments. They inspected them in a crater, three feet in diameter and a foot in Jepth. Dewart said the bomb had struck a tree and set fire to a stump. Gardner had seen the sea' plane circling over the forest at 6:24 a. m.

but said he did see the bomb drop. He dis covered the fire six hours later. Few Saa Plane Hollis Clarno, Brookings for said he had heard the plane but had not seen it. He said only a few persons saw the ship and they reported it was a small seaplane that they had failed to recognize. "It sounded mighty peculiar like an old model-T Ford engine that was sputtering' and miss ing," Clarno said.

"I remember thinking it sounded like it was running out of gas. The bomb was dropped far enough away so we couldn hear it. Gardner, the lookout on Mt. Emily, saw the fire and had it under control before any other raneers could get there." Gardner told the army that the plane was a small, single- engine biplane with a single float and small floats on the wingtips. It was traveling slow- ly.

The army announced that the unidentified craft with no distinguishing marks was sighted over the coast at 6 a. m. and an unidentified plane was heard flying out to sea half an hour later but was not seen because of poor visibility. Submarine Bombed At about 11 a. the army said, a U.

S. army patrol plane bombed a submarine with un determined results 30 miles off the coast "in the same general vicinity." If the bomb was dropped by a Japanese plane, it was the first to fall on the continental United States. Japanese submarines, however, have shelled the coast line twice. One lobbed 15 shells Into an oil field near Goleta during President Roosevelt's fireside chat last Feb. 23 and another fired nine shots near an army reservation at Sea side.

June 21. It seemed apparent that the bomb drooped last week was aimed at the timber since it fell so far Inland. Mt. Emily Is nine miles northeast -of Brookings, which is at the mouth of Chetco river and about 25 miles north of the California-Oregon state lme. Japa Know Area Land in this area is covered with heavy timber, although most of the territory near Brookings has been "logged off." It is covered with brush, stumps.

old cutting and fallen trees, A serious fir might spread in- Washington, Sept. 15 This scrap between congress and Mr. Roosevelt over the extent of powers to be granted him to stop farm prices, is popularly called a fight, but comes more accurately under the head of Jockeying. Where Mr. R.

stood in his message everyone knows. He wanted Dower Paul Mallon to halt agricultural prices Just about where they are, a little ahead for some, but he did not say anything about wages, except that he would stop those in his owp way better than he has so far, no doubt. Then his congressional manipulator, Speaker Sam Rayburn, with one foot on the White House steps, that what the president expected to get was "a broad, general resolution" letting him do about anything he wanted to do. Rayburn might have hoped to get such a resolution through the house, but not through the iron dukes of the farm bloc in the senate. I EADERS need not pay much attention to detailed objec tions in the house, when their main purpose cannot be success fully challenged.

They Just adopt a rule barring any correc tive amendments to their proposition, forcing everyone to vote either "yes" or "no." But they cannot stop either amendments or discussion in the senate, as Rayburn well knew. The proposal he offered was ourely dictatorial in nature another blank grant of authority to the executive. But as both he and the president knew at the time they could not (CunUnuad on Paga eil VALUE OF GRANT The condemnation case of the S. versus Walter A. Grant, former owner of 160 acres in the Camp White area, was settled in U.

S. district court yesterday afternoon by a compromise between the government and the defendant, represented by At torney's Charles W. Reames and Edward C. Kelly. By mutual agreement between the government and the defendant, the trial Jury heard testimony of only one witness, W.

L. Seward, government land appraiser, who testified the land was worth $9,500 and this year's crop $1,169.17, making a total of $10,669.17. The government had offered $9,500 for the land and had made no deposit for the crop. The defendant had originally asked $15,000 for the land and the crop. The Jury returned a verdict in the amount stated by the government witness.

Another trial Jury was this afternoon hearing closing arguments of counsel in the case of the government versus Esther and B. J. Palmer, and Ben uaw- son, who are asking $12,805.60 for two tracts of land In the Camp White area, totaling acres, against the govern ment offer of $6,020. The case was expected to be In the hands of the jury late this afternoon. WORLD SERIES OPENER SET FOR SEPTEMBER 30 Chicago.

Sept. 15 AI.R) Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis announced today that the first game of the world series will be played September 30 in the park of the National league winner. Vacationers returning from! Canada must have photographic films censored. I I He testified before the senate banking committee in support the administration-backed bill to give President Roosevelt hew power to regulate Wages, farm prices and other cost-of-living factors.

Price administrator Leon Hen derson, who preceded Wickard on the witness stand, warned the committee that the inflation threat is so serious as to Jeopar dize the entire war program. He asked that the farm price pro visions be made even more strict than the pending senate bill provides. Wickard did not go Into par ticulars about his subsidy ideas, but said simply that It would be necessary for the agriculture department or some other government agency to absorb some losses "in order to preserve ceilings and prevent further increases In the costs of living" and at the same time maintain high production levels. JOYCE TO INSPECT Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, commander of the Ninth Service Command, will Inspect units of the 91st Infantry divi sion at Camp White Wednesday morning at the invitation of Major General Charles H.

Ger hardt, commander of the 91st. The Inspection will be cul mlnated with a barbecue picnic at the 91st division memorial picnic grounds on the banks of Rogue river, in honor of the visiting1 general. Attending the picnic will be members of the general and special staff, with their families. EXPECTED READY Delay Caused by Change of Plan From New Building to Remodeling of Old. Renovation of the Ford build-Ing on North Riverside avenue for a large USO center may be expected soon, according to an announcement yesterday by Harry H.

Stoops, regional repre sentative for the division of recreation for the federal government. "It is Stoops stated, "that Medford might be assisting the USO In the entertainment of service men in the new quarters during the Christmas holidays." This news was released yesterday afternoon at a meeting of representative groups Interested in furthering community recrea tion for military men stationed In southern Oregon. Mayor S. Deuel presided at the round-table discussion held at the Outpost on Sixth street. Stoops explained that $93,000 had been allocated for construction and equipment of a building In the community to be run by USO after the building was completed.

However, priorities, shortage of labor and materials had forced changing tha plans from a new building to renovation of a building already con structed. This change, he said, had caused a delay in getting underway here. He stated that in discussion with William Laing, local architect, it was learned that final plans and specifications for remodeling the Ford building probably would be finished by Saturday and sent to Seattle for final checking. Following their return 15 copies of the plans and specifications will be made up and advertised for bids, followed by awarding of contracts and renovation started. Meeds Discussed At the meeting yesterday Col onel Fenton Jacobs, chief of staff of the 91st division, Camp White, discussed the need of recreation from the standpoint of the 91st division, the type of recreation best liked by the sol diers.and willingness of the camp to cooperate with the community.

He urged provision of a curfew for young people and said that such should be handled by the community. The colonel also suggested a coordinator for the problem of handling the recreation problem In the county. Some Independent Discussing soldiers In relation to recreation the speaker stated that many soldiers seek their own entertainment, making their own friends and with the soldiers who remain at camp take a great load off the recreation centers. Many soldiers seek a "change of atmosphere and seek recreation miles from the campsite. He stated that leaves of soldiers probably would be staggered, thus doing away with a heavy load on recreation cen ters over week-ends.

Coopers tion of churches in the program. flexibility of program for the southern Oregon, complete co operation of all agencies par ticipating In the program, was suggested. Shasta Jail Inmate Hangs Self in Cell Yreka, Sept 15. (U.R) Charles C. Campton, 28, hanged himself In his cell the Mt.

Shasta city Jail, apparently a suicide, the coroner's office reported today. ARRIVEFOR REDS Moscow Dispatches Reveal Volga Stronghold Under Fiercest Pressure of War. By Harrison Salisbury (United Press Correspondent) The battle of Stalingrad raged toward a decision today. A nazl report claimed that German forces had driven into the city and captured the main railroad station In some of the war's fiercest fighting. Russian dispatchea reriorted that soviet air and cavalry reinforcements have arrived on tha scene at a moment when a gen-' erai soviet withdrawal under continued air and land pressure seemed imminent.

Infantry Aided Russian planes, Moscow re-' ported, were unable to challenge the nazl air superiority but afforded sufficient cover to enable the red army troops to hold their lines except at one point on tha southwestern approaches to tha city. Available maps did not indi cate which railroad station waa referred to in the nazl claim. Stalingrad has at least three railroad stations, one of them in the western suburbs about seven miles from the Volga. While the tone of Moscow die patches was slightly more encouraging than for several days, they left no doubt that the Russians were under the most critical pressure to hold off a full-scale nazl attack now being directed on a semi-circle from tha northwest to tha southwest of the city. The German advance to tha Volga or close enough to tha river to bring transport under artillery fire and nazi control of the north-south railroad, Moscow indicated, is hampering efforts to bring fresh troops and supplies up to the front.

Hitler Twisted However, London again reported a growing belief In allied quarters that the unprecedented soviet resistance at Stalingrad had twisted Adolf Hitler's time table. They suggested that tha Russians may have delayed the-Germans long enough to make possible a damaging allied attack somewhere along tha peri phery of nazi power. The Egyptian front dormant for a week since Marshal Erwin Rommel's futile attempt to pierce British defenses showed signs of awakening. Allied planes ranged over tha desert smashing at Rommel's transport, communications and supplies in what waa described as an effort to Impede nazl ef forts to reorganize and replace the losses of the futile Alamein attack. American medium and heavy bombers participated generally in the action which Included a foray against Tobruk by light naval and land forces.

SIDE GLAKCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Soldiers Roy and Ray Huson, twin sons of Mrs. Ina Huson, observing their birthdays a day apart because they are stationed on opposite sides of tha International dateline. Ed Kirtley exchanging greetings In the city school aupe'a office and looking fit as a fiddle and ready tor school. Major Tengwald hearing so many rumors he's now unwilling to frilleve anything. Subsidy for if Prices FOR 5 P.M.

RITES AT CAMP WHITE Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, Ft. Douglas, Utah, commanding general of the 9th service command, was to arrive here about 3 p. m. today from Klamath Falls to participate in the dedication ceremony of Camp George A.

White. The ceremony will take place from 5 to 6 p. m. Colonel Owen R. Meredith, commanding officer, service command unit 1913, Camp White, was driven to Klamath Falls this morning to meet Gen eral Kenyon, who was due to arrive there by train at 1 p.

m. They were to return to Camp White immediately. Camp headquarters announced that the Rev. George H. Swift, rector of Saint Paul's Episcopal church, Salem, would give the invocation at the ceremony The Rev.

Swift, a close friend of the late Major General George A. White, will substitute for Bishop Benjamin D. Dag well bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon, who is 111 with pneu monia In a Portland hospital. Mrs. George A.

White, wife of the late General White after whom the camp was named, will unveil a memorial plaque to her husband's memory. It is be lieved she will be the first woman ever to dedicate a mili tary installation in the United States. Also participating In the ceremony will be Governor Charles A. Sprague and Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Morning Ore- gonian, Portland. STRIKE AVOIDED IN ALUMINUN WAGE ROW Washington, Sept.

15. U.R The Aluminum company of America and the Aluminum Workers (CIO) reached agree ment today on a basis for ne gotiating a wage dispute tha has threatened a strike In seven plants of the company. The agreement to reopen direct negotiations between the company and the union, under the supervision of a mediator, was reached at a conference called by the War Labdr board. land to more valuable forests. The terrain around Brookings is similar to that near Bandon, a town which was destroyed by a forest fire several years ago.

Japanese bought logs in the Chetco river country before the outbreak of war. tending rafts of timber down the river them selves. They had ample opportunity to map the area. The army announcement said that a search of the area had "failed to reveal the presence of any othr Indications of bombs having been dropped." of I I FATHER OF FIVE BLEEDS TO DEATH George' Otto. Summer, 40, Route 1, Medford, married and the father of five children, died yesterday afternoon, on Meyers Lane, near the Bear Creek Orchard, by bleeding to death, Deputy Sheriff William Gren- bemer reported today.

Summer was found bleeding by David Holmes, who applied a tourniquet, and called an ambulance. vWhen the ambul ance arrived Summer a breathing his last. How long he had lain in the lane was not de termined. The deputy sheriff said Sum mer had been walking down the road carrying a Jug of wine. He tripped and fell, the Jug striking rock and breaking.

His wrist struck on a Jagged edge, sever ing the main artery, resulting In a heavy loss ol biooa. ueiore the accident, it was determined the unfortunate man had rested for a short time in the shade of an orchard tree. District Attorney George W. Neilson said today there would be no inquest, as an investiga tion showed death was due to an accident. Funeral arrangements, ac cording to Deputy Coroner Car los Morris, are pending word from Summer's mcther, Mrs.

Sarah Ferber of Stockton, Cal. WOULD RULE ALL Bridgeport, Sept. 15. (U.R) Former Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph C. Grew told the nation last night that Japan aims at world domination by conquest and that Its "dearest wish" along this road is the conquest of "occidental peoples, especially those of America." Calling on Americans to awake to the fact that we are fighting to "preserve our existence as free and sovereign people," Grew said: "The ruthless will which Is driving the Japanese nation to wards conquest knows neither gentleness nor mercy.

It Is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel, and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. Air Corps Candidates Rob ert E. Lee and Reese Nell, both of 603 South Riverside ave nue, left Monday for Portland to take examinations for entrance In the army air corps. They are graduates of Medford high school. warned that this limitation FOR JAP AIRMEN An Advanced Allied Base, Australia, Sept.

15. (U.R) The terrors of the New Guinea skies are the death-dealing attack planes named after the Characters in the L'il Abner comic strip. Zooming out every day to meet the Japanese are L'il Abner, Mammy Yokum, Pappy Yokum and Pig Salome. They come from an airfield called the Dogpatch. At one time there was a Daisy Mae, but It cracked up.

Now there's a Daisy Mae II. Robert Strickland, Clio, heads the "L'il Abner boys." "You'd think It was Sadie Hawkins day the way those dogpatchers chased the Japs Saturday," he said. "The regular pilots are having so much fun they won't let Capt. Don Young of Chicago or myself go on raids. They re paying much as five pounds here In order to participate In raids." Gat 13 Planes The raid Strickland spoke of was led by Capt.

Don Hall of Corpus Chrlstl, Tex. His boys destroyed 13 planes and left four others burning. Wing Leader Capt. Christian Petri of Cleveland said: "We went In from five to 50 feet, making seven passes at the Japs. However, the Japs were inconsiderate because they care fully concealed their planes.

and naval striking power In the Western Pacific?" "Yes, we have for the time being. Most certainly. I'm not bold enough to do any forecasting but for the present the an swer Is yes. Blandy said he agreed with undersecretary of the navy James V. Forrestal that "we have a very real second front" established In the Southwest Pacific.

The Japanese, he said. Is a ''fanatic, determined enemy who ought no quarter and gave no quarter." He found that In spite of the tremendously difficult supply problem, the ordnance was reaching American ships and planes In the Southwest Pacafic and was performing well, with a few minor ipTChlOYS 1 IF POISON U. S. Holds Balance of Power in Western Pacific Blandy Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) Rear Admiral W.

H. P. Blandy, chief of the navy's bureau of ordinance, declared today that U. S. forces now hold the bal- since of striking power In the Western Pacific.

Blandys observation was based on a Just-completed tour of U. S. positions In the Pacific. "Do you think we are In a position to hold the Japanese against anything they might throw In?" he was asked at a press conference. "Yes.

I think wa are." he replied. "But don't think we can do It by merely holding. We've got to keep pushing. The best defense is a strong offense. Wa can't remain static.

"Does that mean that we have turned the balance of military.