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Dast aa To Lata. Tribune MEDFORD United Press rnU Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 194) MB KM HID BUGB 1 4 1 1 Huii Escorted to Hearing Defenders Forced Back ImITOouAIIUK iniiiTn ninnnr War Bulletins CONTROL IS AIM 1 ri tr I J- -aaav 1TL' A ar irf-l i iAiR i Ji "'T Moscow ARMY PLANES TO STAGE MOCK RAID Defense Council Executive Committee Asks All To Comply For County Test. Executive committee of the Jackson County Council of Defense was busy today making detailed plans for the blackout of Jackson county as part of an air defense test in western Oregon the night of October 31. Frank Hull, county coordinator, said that the public would be informed later of the approximate time of the blackout. A signal system is being set up to give the warning for the exact time of the blackout, he added.

To make the test a success, complete cooperation of the public is required and details of the plans to be carried out will be explained soon, he said. A number of bombers and pur suit planes taking part in the general aerial maneuver In western Oregon will be based at Medford municipal airport, Mr. Hull related, saying the planes would take oft at a pre-arranged signal. Official word on the blackout was received by Mr. Hull last night over the defense council's secret radio system from Jer- rold Owen, Salem, state coord inator.

Gov- Charles A. Sprague, state director of civilian defense. Is sued a formal statement asking the cooperation of every citizen in carrying out the blackout and urging all to observe th rules strictly. The exercls Involving the testing of observation posts of the aircraft warning service In Oregon west of the Cascades will be held October 28 to November 1, with night flights scheduled October 31 In whicn bombers and pursulters will take place. War conditions will be simulated to check the effirency of the observation posts, manned by hundreds of volunteers from the Oregon civil reserves trained under the second Interceptor command of the army air corps.

WRECK AT DELTA TIES UP TRAINS Redding. Oct. 23 VP) Six cars of a southbound Southern Pacific freight train were derailed a mil south of Delta at 4:15 a. m. today.

No on was injured. Tha vnvk tied th Shasta line for about seven hours. It was cleared at 11:20 and traffic was resumed. rvui wwu- Weather "aT" Vmeaat: rlr rrlday. Llttl chanf la tam-pctmtura.

tin pent or Highest Yeatarday Lowest tnle Morning Kelly's Comment From Washington Argentina Pact Irk Northwest A.E.F. Hinted If Russia Defeated Shipyard Deal Pendt Backing Br Joha W. gaily Washington, D. Oct. 23.

When Norman Armour, American ambassador, scrawled his signature in Buenos Aires last week to a reciprocal trade treaty with Argentina, Secretary of State Cordell Hull considered it a major accomplishment in the "good neighbor" policy. But regardless of how I Secretary Hull feels the producers of the Pacific northwest do not like it; they feel that the secretary has been doing a little "selling down the river," as he did with the lumber Industry in the Ottawa treaty. Cattlemen, orchardlsts and farmers read the newspapers, and no sooner had they discovered the trade treaty with Argentina than they went to the telegraph offices (they did not wait for the slow-going mail) and telegraphed practically every senator and representative of Washington and Oregon. Burden of these wires Is a vigorous protest against the agreement and a request that "something be done about It." Objections are registered by the producers of winter pears from Yakima to Hood River and Med-ford; from the stockmen individually and through the west- I cm association of cattlemen, who see an invasion of the domestic market; from the turkey raisers, who have much at stake. Senatorial and house reaction to the agreement was prompt and critical, for there is not a single congressional district in either state that does not have some commodity affected by the Argentina compact.

EACH time Secretary Hull's bright young men arrange a trad agreement something is sacrificed in the Pacific northwest, whether it is shingles, di- (Continued on Pa-a Eight) Mapleton, Oct. 23. (IP) rrancis Bernhardt of Eugene drowned last night after an automobile skidded into the Siuslaw river on a curve. The driver, William M. West, Eugene, broke a window and escaped.

By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific standard.) Tonight, the war 5:45 MBS; 5:85 CBS; 8 NBC-Blue; 7 MBS: 7:45 CBS; 8 NBC-Red; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS. Talks NBC-Blue 8:15 Amer ica's Town Meeting, "Will Land, Air or Sea Power Win This War?" Fletcher Pratt, MaJ. Alexander De Seversky and Rear Adm. H.

E. Yarnell retired: MBS 8:15 Rep. Clare Hoffman on "Retarding the Defense Pro gram. Friday, the war 8 MBS; 9 MBS; 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS: 12:55 p. CBS; 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:55 NBC-Blue; 3 MBS; 3:25 NBC-Red; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue.

SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Little Barbara Green telling friends she was "an American" when asked what her politics were. Vera Drager and Bill Allen expounding lengthily on an off-the-record subject. John Day coming In from the sticks with some interesting information. Kenneth Anthony not having much luck with Frank DeSou-za's nickel but doing quit well with on of bis own. Thirty-Bixth Year HIM ,7 Radio Highlights No.

184. WITHIN 38 MILES OF REDJAPITAL Advance Grows Increasingly Difficult Says British ReportNazis Using Air. By Associated Pre Russian troops defending Mos cow were reported being steadily pressed back upon th soviet capital today. Adolf Hitler's high command. In a special communique, asserted that nasi columns had smashed through Moscow's outer defenses on a broad front from tha southwest and west, reaching several points only 38 miles of the beleaguered capital.

Whtl th Germans pictured their troops as driving almost to Moscow suburbs, British infor mants said that th Russian were turning th soviet capital Into another Verdun and that the nazls were finding th going increasingly difficult "It 20 to on they'll neve take Moscow this winter." th soiirc declared. South Hit Hard Strong German force war reported striking hard on th southern (Ukraine) front. Jabbing for a soft spot through which to drive into th rich Cats. casisn oil fields. Soviet dispatches said that bit ter fighting was raging in th barricaded streets of Kalinin, 93 miles northwest of Moscow, and that large forces of fresh Italian, Hungarian and Rumanian troops had been thrown into the southern front battle for th vital Donets river Industrial basin.

Russian correspondents said Red troops had fought off th Germans for eight days at Kalinin, with th Nazis hurling masses of men and tanks into th assault 'Now fighting is going on in th city streets," reported Tass. th official soviet news agency. Anti-tank obstacles and bar ricades are being erected in th streets. Squares are furrowed by trenches. Th struggl goes on for every Inch of soviet land for every street every hous.

Som city blocks hav changed hands several times." Nails Us Air Reports reaching London said th Germans, handicapped by winter's first snows blanketing th Moscow front were taking to th air with parachute troop in great numbers. Th nnzi claim of doubl break-through cam as th Russians disclosed ahakcup in th supreme soviet command on th central front with Gen. Gregory K. Zhukov, chief of staff, replacing th veteran Marshal Semeon Tlmoshenko. Under th new setup.

Gen. Zhukov takes command of th entire western ton. Cited as a "fighting, experienced leader" and a soldier of "Immense th new Red commander was credited by th Russians with having already tightened Moscow's defenses. Tlmoshenko was rportt transferred to another post, Ttlttt Hsr.sscr:!:2 Sltfii Talent Oct 23. (SpU Homecoming for Talent alumni will held Friday.

All Talent alumni are cordially invited. Events scheduled are football game, 2:30 pjn. Gold Hill vs. Talent; homecoming banquet pm. In school cafeteria; danc, 9 p.m.

in the gym. GRADER U1PEMDEO Salem, Oct 13 (IP) Th state department of agriculture announced today It has suspended th cream grading license of C. R. WiblUhauser of th Ideal Dairy Co, Portland, for SO days, on a charge of giving dairy products a higher grad than thlr quality Justified. Accompanied by Senator Alben W.

Berkley (left) and Senator Tom Connally (right) Secretary of Stat Cordell Hull arrived at the senate foreign relations committee bearing at Washington, D. to testify in private on revision of th neutrality cat. The trio went directly to the hearing from AIR CORPS PLANS S1S0NREVEALS 400,000 Flying Cadets And Enlisted Men June Goal Triple Present Roll. Washington, Oct 23. (IP) Secretary Stimson announced war department preparations today to expand the army air forces to 400,000 flying cadets and enlisted men by next June 30, nearly tripling their present strength.

"Subsequent expansion, possibly to the 800,000 level, is possible beyond that date," Stimson said. The present organization of the air forces is based on 84 combat groups, whereas the enlarged program calls for 84 such groups, each composed of several squadrons. The secretary said th 54-group undertaking was "well on its way," bat not yet completed. Congress was told the original program provided for a force of 25,000 planes, but Stimson declined to state how many of these were in service or how many were contemplated under the enlarged program. "This new plan means have reached the point where our air forces are expanding very rapidly," he told press conference.

San Francisco, Oct 23. (IP) Their strength reduced by the theoretical loss of a submarine, three heavy cruisers and 600 parachute troopers, "enemy" forces clustered off the Golden today for a fresh attempt to storm San Francisco's harbor defenses. When the new blow would com only the attacking high command could say, but the army, navy and coast guard units standing watch over the harbor's military emplacements were prepared for the onslaught wherever it might be directed. They stood th initial test in th six-day war maneuver yes terday. The ring of forts surrounding the entrance to the bay still remained virtually intact, theoretically.

DON FERGUSON SWORN AS GOLD HILL MAYOR Gold Hill. Oct. 23. (Spl.V-Don Ferguson, formerly president of the council, was recently sworn in as mayor after th resignation of Louis Lingren. who resigned because of ill health.

realize what opportunities this German attack (on Russia) offers us," but added that to tell what plan of action will be taken "would be playing into th hands of th enemy." "I can only glv this house on pledge," he said, "and it is a pledge I assure them that the government is determined to honor. are going to glv Russia very help In our power by very means." He told commons that even at th expense of the British army, equipment was being speeded to Russia. Lord Beaverbrook said th United States and British missions to Moscow had promised Joseph Stalin to make up Russia's losses in tanks and planet London. Oct. 23.

JP) Th Moscow radio declared tonight that th Germans war making "a graat aflort" to advance In th Novgorod sector. 100 miles south of Leningrad, but that all th Nasi assaults had ba beaten back. Chester Mack Booth, 27-year- old pondman, lost his life by drowning in the Medford Cor poration'! mill pond shortly after 6 p. m. Wednesday despite efforts of his fellow workers and two city firemen to resusci tate him by means of artificial respiration.

Booth, according to state po lice and the coroners office, apparently slipped off soma logs ha was rounding up in the pond and fell Into the water. Severe bruises on his forehead and above his right eye Indicated that his head struck a log as he slipped, and It was th belief that he was knocked uncon scious and was drowned before he regained consciousness. Immediately after Booth was taken from the water Delbert Boyd, mill employ and Henry Doney, another pondsman, started artificial respiration and continued until George Shreeve and Hiram Martin, city firemen, arrived with an lnhalator. Arti ficial' respiration was rendered for about 45 minutes before Booth was pronounced dead by two physicians who had been called to th seen. The exact time Booth slipped from the logs was not determined, as none of th other workers saw him fall into the water.

Th first they knew of his disappearance was when they noticed his plk pole laying across some logs. Doney, who was feeding the slip that transfers the logs from the pond to th log chain, located Booth with his own pole, and jumping In th five-feet of water he brought th victim to the surface. Also at th seen was Doug Smith, a sawyer, and he and Boyd aided Doney In taking Booth to shore. Booth, who had been working for Medford Corporation since September 1 and who resided on th Old Stag road, is survived by his wife, Phylis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

D. Booth of Central Point a broth er, Henry and sister, Anna, both at home, and another sister, Mrs. Fanny Lacey, also of Cen tral Point. Th body la at Conger's. Tim of funeral service will an nounced later.

with shipment from their own production lines. He declared blunUy that th situation in Russia was grave despite th development of many moveable Industries. Ha said Stalin described them as "leap frog industries which could be moved backwards or forwards as th enemy advanced or 'They hav steel plants and heavy engineering works 900 mile or mor from th Carman line of advance," Lord Beaver brook said thes are capable of Immense production." Speakers at th sams time were telling th bous of commons that th people of Britain were "ready to fac grav risks for Russia" that many felt not enough was being don. Committeeman Declares Former Envoy Thinks Nazi Plans No Move on U. S.

Washington. Oct. 23. (IP) Members of the senate foreign relations committee reported today that John Cudahy, former ambassador to Belgium, had suggested that the United States join with Great Britain and France in working out a peace agreement with Germany. Cudahy himself, after testify ing at a closed committee meeting in opposition to the administration legislation authorizing the arming of American mer chant ships, told reporters he believed Germany would want some "central control in Eu rope" under any peace arrange ment and added his belief that Hitler "has no ambitions to the west." Thinks Hitler Fin Senator Murray Mont.) foreign relations committeeman, told reports that "the general line of his (Cudahy's) testimony was that he thought Hitler was a nice fellow who has no motives against us.

He thinks; it is silly to believe that Hitler would ever attempt to Invade us. Cudahy told reporters that this version of his testimony was Tinfair. Capitol Hill and White House developments indicated that administration forces would take the lead In urging the senate to expand the measure so as to permit American ships to travel anywhere in the world. Under the neutrality act, merchant vessels now cannot enter bel ligerent ports or designated combat areas. Cudahy, who served in Bel- glum at the time of the German invasion and also has been ambassador to Poland and min ister to Ireland, told reporters prior to his committee appear ance that the house-approved armed ship proposal "is another step edging us into war by subterfuge.

DE GAULLE URGES FRENCH TO WAIT BETTERJOMENT London, Oct. 23. (IP) General Charles De Gaulle, the Free French leader, in a broadcast tonight asked the men of oc cupied France "in the present circumstances not to kill the Germans." "This for the single but very good reason," he explained. "that for the time being it is only too easy for the enemy to retaliate as soon as it Is possible to attack from the outside and from the Inside you will receive the appropriate instructions." Vichy, Unoccupied France, I uc'. ao icni.li pnr I pie must turn over to German authorities the two slayers of Lieut.

Col. Paul Friedrich Hotz, chief of the German field gendarmerie in Nantes, by midnight (2 p. m. PST) today, or 50 more Frenchmen must pay with their lives for Hotz's death. i Those are the terms of the German ultimatum upon the French as the assassination of ja second German officer within 48 hours, a juridical counselor at Bordeaux, caused the arrest of another 100 and raised the grim prospect of still further executions.

Washington, Oct. 23- (IP) Approval of a $282,800 contract with Ross B. Hammond company, Portland, for construction of a 100-dwelling slum clearance housing project at Milwaukee, was announced today by the United Slates hous-inf authority. rresiaent nooteveit. Prosper With and Big Crops Omaha and other meat centers until prices rose.

Barricades were thrown across country highways and loaded trucks heading to market were forced to return their cargos to farms. Now hog producers are aiming at a 15-year record production and the government expects farmers' cash Income from hogs to be the highest since Such contrasts are noticeable throughout almost the entire agricultural picture. As a result, farm income next year, both from marketings and government payments, may approach $13,000,000,000, according to a department of agriculture estimate. This would be higher than in any of the so-called "prosperity" years of the late 1920s, and the most farmers have received in 23 years. Farm income this year Is expected to be about while last year It was slightly more than and in 1932 it was less than $5,000,000,000.

This 1942 income will be almost three times as much as In 1932. man: A. E. Engbretson and Glen B. Marsh.

The hearing Is expected to deal mainly with the price of milk to be charged consumers, and with the price distributors are to pay producers for but-terfat. Tacoma Welders Join In Seattle Walkout Tacoma, Oct. 23. (IP) About 500 welders employed at the Seattle-Tscoma shipbuilding plant, which has $125,000, 000 In ship orders, walked out today In cooperation with Seat tle welders who currently are engaged In a dispute with th AFL, Several yards In Seattle were tied up yesterday by the inter- union controversy. a wmt House comerence witn Farmers Will High Prices Chicago, Oct.

23. (IP) Farming in 1942 will be a prosperous profession, a sharp contrast with the desperate days of one decade earlier, department of agriculture estimates showed today. For every $1 the American farmer earned in 1932, the department predicted, he will receive about $2.60 next year. In 1932, huge surpluses presented the greatest agricultural problem and much subsequent legislation was designed to reduce this over-supply. Today the government is calling upon farmers for record shattering output of many products.

Only a decade ago belligerent farmers. In an effort to raise prices by curtailing supply, hauled milk off city bound trucks and spilt it into roadside ditches. In contrast, next year farmers, domestic consumers and foreign beneficiaries of lend-lease operations all will be urging the American cow to do her record best for democracy. In 1932 mid-western farmers orgnaized to prevent shipment of livestock to Des Moines, The Oregon Milk Control Board will hold a public hearing in the Medford armory at 9 a. m.

next Tuesday, Oct. 28, to receive evidence and testimony pertaining to unfair trade practices, wholesale and retail prices to distributors and consumers, prices to producers and any other matter relative to the fluid milk industry in Jackson county marking area number 2, according to notices received by local distributors and producers. The Milk Control Board itself will conduct the hearing, members being Grelle, chair Continent Raids, Attacks on Italy Are Advocated in Commons Debate By th Associated Press London, Oct 23 (IP) Attacks designed to knock Italy out of th war, night land raids of German-held coasts of th continent and fighting British stand alongside th red army In the Ukraine were advocated today in a full dress war debet in th house of commons. Simultaneously Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, back from Moscow, told the hous of lords that Russia's great losses of war supply manufacturing facilities left th U.S.S.R. in a position akin to that of Britain after Dunkerqu.

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, replying for th government In commons, declared.