What if the Trainmen's Strike, Scheduled for December 5, Does Paralyze All Train Service in the Country. Roseburg will Never Notice the Difference;
THE WEATHER "n
By U. S. Weather Bureau 1
Roseburg, Oregon
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun-
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By FRANK JENKINS
'TODAY (Thursday) is Russia's
day in the news.
Stalin makes a speech on the
24th anniversary of the Bolshe
vik revolution -a rather remark
able speech as judged by the re
ports of it received here, giving
a more confidence-inspiring pic
ture of him than has yet been
presented.
Moscow reports tell of Rus
sian reserves breaking through
the siege lines before the city and
driving the Germans back with
ftravy losses. The Moscow re
Tjorts speak of nazi troops "re
treating from the corpse-littered
battle zone of the Donets river
basin."
ONDON "informed quarters"
say Hitler has now abandon
ed hope of capturing either Mos
cow or Leningrad this winter and
claim the German air force is
withdrawing most of its planes
from Moscow, Leningrad and the
far north fronts, leaving land
forces to cany on a DEFENSIVE
winter campaign.
CTALIN'S speech is clearly the
highlight of the day's news.
He says Russia has no aggres
sive, aims, that , she is fighting
6IRST in defense of her own
mes and after that for the
liberation of the Hitler-conquered
peoples of Europe.
"The soviet rear," he says, "was
never so strong as at this mo
ment. The red army's morale is
infinitely higher than that of the
German army. The German army
is forced to construct new bases
on unfriendly territory while our
army is fighting on its OWN
TERRITORY with our people ex
erting every effort to keep it sup
plied." UE adds significantly:
"Our country is carrying on
a war of liberation ALONE
against the Germans, the Italians
Oul the Hungarians.
"One of the chief factors fac
ing the red army at the moment
is LACK OF A SECOND FRONT
in Europe. Feeling assured they
will not be attacked on the west
ern front, the Germans are throw
ing the bulk of their forces in
the East."
That is a crack at Britain. He
adds, however, that the help Rus
sia Is receiving from the "allies"
brightens the picture.
, NOTHER reason for Russia's
temporary setback, he says.
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Officers Elected
By Rod-Gun Club
Bruce Yeagcr, who has been
Aery active during the past year
as secretary of the Roseburg Rod
and Gun club, last night was
elected to the office of president,
succeeding Charles A. Patchett,
as the club was reorganized to
provide a board of ten directors,
halt of whom will hold office for
two years.
Lee Miller was chosen vice
president; Roy Hebard, secretary,
and Ivan Pickens, treasurer.
Directors elected for two years
were Dick Baker. James Bartley,
Paul Caskey, V. V. Harpham and
Dr. C. B. Wade. Directprs chos
en for the one-year term were
C. W. Parker. Maurice Hall
mark, Charles V. Stanton, Earl
S. Powell and Vernon M. Orr.
Last night's meeting of the
club was held at the Knights of
Pythias hall, and the election
was followed by a talk by Ben
Qtus of the travel and Informa
tion bureau of the state highway
department, who presented reels
of motion pictures dealing with
Oregon scenic and wildlife resources.
NEUTRALITY REPEAL FIGHT
Senate Votes
50-37 To Arm
Trade Ships
Travel in Combat Zones
Also Approved: Debate in
House Begins Wednesday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (AP)
The congressional leadership
sought today to clinch the sen
ate's approval of neutrality re
vision by winning prompt house
passage of the legislation to arm
American merchant ships and al
low them to sail to any port in
the world.
Administration lieutenants pre
dicted the house would follow the
senate's approving action of last
night and would send the history
making measure to President
Roosevelt before the end of next
week.
After 11 days of strenuous de
bate, a tense and serious senate
balloted 50 to 37 to lift the pres
ent neutrality act prohibitions
against ship arming and the
movement of American vessels
into the ports of fighting coun
tries or designated combat zones
on the oceans.
The arguments grew acrimo
nious during yesterday's 10 hours
of debate, hut there were ex
changes of compliments between
opposition leaders at the end.
The ballot on passage was com
pleted at 9:22 p m- afteD the ad
ministration forces had demon
strated their superior strength
on several previous tests.
The vote on passage found 43
democrats, six republicans and
one independent aligned for the
legislation and IS democrats, 21
republicans and one progressive
against.
Opponents Lose All Moves
Supporters of the president's
foreign policy bowled over, one
after another, opposition attempts
to limit the measure to ship arm
ing; to arm ships and permit
them to enter any belligerent
ports not surrounded by combat
zones; to repeal the law complete
ly. The house originally passed
legislation limited to lifting the
neutrality act prohibition against
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Jews, Norwegians Added
To Nazi Execution Toll
BERLIN, Nov. 8 (AP) DNB
reported today from Bucharest the
execution of six persons charged
with possessing explosives and
preparing to commit acts of sabo
tage "on soviet orders."
An official announcement quot
ed by the German news agency
said that the six five of whom
were described as Jews had ar
rived In Rumania November 2 as
"enemy agents."
LONDON, Nov. 8 (AP) Six
Norwegians who mutinied while
aboard a German ship after being
taken from their native Spitsber
gen Islands last summer, were
executed by German authorities
at Tromsoe, Norway last Monday,
the Norwegian telegraph agency
stated today.
The agency, an organ of the
Norwegian exile government,' re
ported that the Norwegians had
seized control of the ship in their
mutiny but were picked up by a
German patrol boat while at
tempting to reach Iceland.
Portland C. of C. Head
Dated for Talk Here
Arthur Farmer, head of the
Portland rhambpr of commerce.
I will be the speaker at the week
jly forum luncheon meeting of
the Roseburg chamber of com
Imerce at the Umpqua hotel dur
jing the noon hour Monday. The
j meeting is open to the general
public and all persons Interested
!in chamber of commerce activi
ties are invited to be present, Har
ry Pinniger. secretary, states. The
Kiwanis club will hold its week
;ly meeting in connection with the
forum luncheon as the regular
Tuesday meeting date of the club
IXulls on Armistice day next week.
Trainmen to Strike Dec. Sth
Wage Boost Recommended by Federal
Board Turned Down; Navy Threatens to
Seize Struck Plants in San Diego Area
By the Associated Press
Threat of a nation-wide stoppage of freight and passenger
train movements in the pre-Christmas season prevailed today as
the leader of the big Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said 350,
000 men would desert the rolling stock of the vital transporta
tion system Dec. 5.
While A. F. Whitney, trainmen's president, forecast a walk
out of all the operating union members on that date, the heads of
the other four unions agreed that a strike was inevitable but
would not immediately set a date.
the live unions nave demand
ed a 30 per cent increase in wag
es for trainmen, engineers,
switchmen, firemen and engine-
men. The lowest paid get $5.06
daily, and President Roosevelt's
fact finding board in the carrier-
employee dispute has recommend
ed a temporary increase of 71 per
cent, with a reconsideration of
wage needs at the end of next
year.
A table in the fact-finding
board's report to the president
showed an average salary-wage
of employes of class 1 railroads
In 1940 to be $1,913.
Now Up To President
As all of the operating groups
flatly rejected the board's recom
mendations, the railroads them
selves, expressing disappoint
ment, nevertheless have said they
would accept them.
The fact-finding board's chair
man, Wayne Lyman Morse, saio
"the railway case now rests en
tirely in the hands of the presi
dent." Whitney said the strike would
be called at 1:45 p. m., Dec. 5, "ex
actly 30 days to the minute from
the time the board handed its re
port to the president."
While the railway strike threat
loomed large, other labor disputes
attracted wide attention.
Navy Threatens Seizure
From the west coast came word
that unless striking AFL building
trades workers go back to their
jobs Monday on $10,500,000 in de
fense projects at three military
establishments in the San Diego
area, the navy would take over.
Work stopped Monday on a de
stroyer base graving dock. The
navy said it was brought about
by a jurisdictional dispute. Work
ers later lett their jobs at me
naval training station, and also
at Camp Elliott, where marines
are stationed, asking 121 per cent
Increase over a rate of 75 cents
an hour for laborers and $1.37S
for electricians. There were 1,500
men idle.
Secretary of the Navy Knox
has appealed for quick work re
sumption, but K. G. Bitter, secre
tary of the San Diego building
trades council contends the navy
is trying to deny labor collective
bargaining rights.
At Los Angeles, the United Air
craft Welders charged that Sid
ney Hillrnan, OPM associate di
rector, had voided the Wagner
labor act in a statement branding
its strike in three California air
plane plants "an outlaw, wildcat
proposition."
Motor Workers Idle
No progress was reported by
a company spokesman in the ef
fort to reopen the Linden, N. J.
assembly plant of the General
Privation Takes Heavy
Toll of French Children
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Nov. 8 ( AP) The city health
service reported today that 52 per
cent of Vichy's kindergarten
children are ill from privation
and that Infant mortality tripled
during the first half of 1941.
This made the plight of the
rest of France appear all the
more grave because Vichy usual
ly Is one of the healthiest com
munities. Infant mortality here normally
has been only 1.8G per thousand
compared to the average of 5.0
for the rest of the country.
The report also showed a de
crease of 40 per cent in the birth
rate during the past year.
Motors corporation. A strike
there affecting 4,000 was ordered
Wednesday by the CIO United
Automobile Workers in protest
igainst dismissals, and a picket
line kept office workers and sup
ervisors from going to work.
Harry Bennett, Ford Motor
company personnel director,
charged last night that officials
of the CIO United Automobile
Workers failed to discipline union
members who, he said, caused Il
legal work stoppages. He also
said 15 machines were sabotaged
during a shutdown, caused by
wage disputes, in two plants at
River Rouge, near Detroit. The
disputes threw 25,000 workers in
to Idleness.
... ..
Weed Lumber Strike May
Spread Into Oregon Area
WEED, Calif., Nov. 8 ( AP)
Efforts to settle the 19-day-old
strike of 1,200 AFL workers at
the Long-Bell Lumber company's
Weed plant took on new import
ance today with a threat by the
AFL to call out 10,000 men in
other mills all over northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon un-
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Two Oregon Officials
Meet Tragic Deaths
LA GRANDE, Nov. 8 (AP)
David Proctor, a Union county of
ficial for more than 34 years,
died Thursday night of Injuries
from an automobile accident two
weeks ago.
He was county recorder until
the office was abolished in 1917,
then was elected county assessor
in 1920, holding the job until his
death.
PORTLAND, Nov. 8 (AP)
An automobile killed Mrs. Flora
Thayer, 80, deputy Multnomah
County Clerk, as she stepped off
a passenger bus just east of here
last night.
Patriotic Program Beckons Douglas
Folk to Roseburg on Armistice Day;
Entertainment Lists Football Tilt
Umpqua post of the American
Legion Is extending an Invitation
to all residents of Douglas coun
ty to join In the Armistice day
program at Hunt's Indian thea
ter at 10:45 a. m. Tuesday,
James Young, general chairman
of the Armistice day committee,
said today. The annual patriotic
program will feature an address
bv Circuit Judge Dal M. King of
Myrtle Point, an outstanding
speaker and a World war vet
eran. Judge King, a lawyer in Coos
county for a number of years, re
cently was appointed to the of
fice of circuit judge, following
the elevation of Judge James T.
Brand to the state supreme
court.
Program Outlined
The program at the theater
will include organ selections by
Mrs. Homer Grow who will play
the processional, "Taps." a spe
cial selection and the recessional.
The Invocation and benediction
will be pronounced bv the Rev.
Levi White, department chaplain
of the Disabled American Vet
erans. Group singing will be led
by Cecil Black. The speaker will
SHIFTED TO HOUSE
I'DollarYear"
Men Facing
Congress Quiz
Connection Suspected
Between Such Employes,
Award of Defense Work
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8-(AP)
The dozens of "dollnr-a-year-men"
on defense assignments
here faced investigation today
from both" the senate and house
sides of the capltol.
Chairman Truman (D.-Mo.)
announced that the special sen
ate defense Investigating commit
tee was checking carefully on all
the business executives and other
experts who have flocked to
Washington to accept places in
the! mushrooming defense set-up.
"Nobody can live here on a
dollar a year," Truman said. "We
have asked for all information
on corporation connections, oth
er salaries, and defense contract
awards to former or present em
ployers." . .,
On the house side, Rep. Coffee
(D.-Wash.), a leader of the so
called liberal bloc, said that
group expected to "expose the
connection of dollar-a-year-men
in defense agencies with big cor
porations" with an aim of oust
ing these officials.
The outspoken representative
said that 100 members of the lib
oral bloc hoped to show a con
nection between award of huge
defense contracts to largo cor
porations and activities of "dollar-a-year-men"
with other offi
cials hero.
Dollar-a-year-men first came
Inlo national prominence during
the Word war, when business
men vounteercd to serve their
country without salary. Under an
1870 net, however, they had to
receive some compensation, to
prevent the possibility of subse
quent claims for salary.
Members of congress and re
liable government agencies said
that nobody knew exactly how
many such executives now are at
work here. But Rep. Coffee quot
ed the Peoples Lobby, Inc., an In
dependent investigating agency
hero, as listing 250 "dollar-a-year-men"
serving various agencies
during June, with 18G of these In
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be introduced bv Irving Rlegel,
commander of Umpqua post. A
moment of silence will be ob
served promptly at 11 a. m. In
tribute to the World war dead.
The public program will he
one of the principal features of
the celebration, which has been
considerably curtailed from pre
vious years.
Preceding the gathering at the
theater, there will be a concert
by the Roseburg Municipal band
In front of the Elks hall.
The afternoon will be given
over to the annual football game
between Roseburg and Grants
Pass high school teams at Finlny
field. The game will be preceded
bv the dedication of an athletic
field flagpole, which Is being
erected by Legionnaires today,
and will be donated to the school
with anproprlate exercises start
ing at 2 p. m.
Special entertainment for all
ex-service men will be provided
at a dugout at Carl's Tavern
throughout the entire day.
The parade, free feed for vet
erans and dance, formerly parts
of the Armistice day celebration,
are not being sponsored by the
Legion post this year.
"Eagle" Falls in
Hands of Nazis
Morris W. Fessler, above,
Los Altos, Calif., was reported
dead when his American Eagle
squadron crashed .in France.
8ince then, Germany has re-'
ported him alive in a German
prison camp. He's been flying
from England for a year.
War Bulletins
BERLIN, Nov. 8. (AP) DNB
said today ) German chasers
fought an aet'al battle with Brit
ish bombers and fighters at noon
over Calais, France, and shot
down 14 British planes without
loss to themselves.
BERLIN, Nov. 8. (AP) Ger
mans reported today the capture
of the commander of the 20th so
viet army, General Jersohakovj
his chief of staff, Colonel Nary
nln, and the chief of the divis
ion's technical staff, General SI
vajov, an authority on railroad
matters.
The captures came after an en
gagement on the middle front
before Moscow, it was said.
LONDON, Nov. 8. (AP) A
spokesman for the Yugoslav gov
ernment In exile said today that
Insurgent Serb fighting forces
now hold all of northwestern
Serbia In addition to certain
other areas.
These Insurgents In former
Yugoslavia are engaging In daily
battles with German occupying
forces, the spokesman asserted,
and the German air force Is
bombing villages In the "insur
gent zone."
Lili Damita Asks Divorce
From Actor Errol Flynn
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 ( AP)
In six years of marriage, act
ress Lili Damita and her swash
buckling actor-husband Errol
Flynn separated many times. Now
she has filed suit for divorce,
A statement accompanying the
complaints said a property settle
ment had been reached out of
court.
Miss Damita charged cruelly
and asked custody of their 5
months old son, Sean.
Nazis Arrest Priest
Who Prays for Jews
BERLIN. Nov. 8 (API Re
liable quarters said today that the
Rev. Bernhaid Llcthenberg, pro
vost (deun) of Berlin's Roman
Catholic cathedral, St. Hedwlg's,
had been arrested by nazi authori
ties, accused, among other charg
es, of offering prayers for Jews.
Intensive nazi measures against
Jews have been renewed recent
ly and tens of thousands are be
ing transported east.
Berlin, Cologne, Mannheim i
Bombed; South Italy City of
Brindisi Also Heavily Hit ;
Raid That Answers Stalin's Demand for Further Aid 1
To Russia Costs British 37 Planes; Winter Stalls
Moscow Area War, but Naxis Continue Crimea Dr!v
By the Associated Press
Giant four-motored RAF bombers smashed at Germany Tit
the biggest attack of the war last night, pounding Berlin, Cologne?
and Mannheim, while other British squadrons raided southern
Italy and Sicily. The Germans listed seven killed and 32 Injured
in the assault on Berlin.
Bomb-loaded Spitfires and Hurricanes in swift daylight fol
Iowud raids flashed back across the Dover strait in qreat num
bers for more than two hours today.
The British officially acknowledged an unprecedented loss
of 37 bombers in the night assault on Germany alone the high
est either side has announced in night bombing but more than
half was attributed to heavy thunderstorms and severe icing con
ditions over the reich.
The Germans said their fighters and anti-aircraft shot down
27 raiding planes.
Impeachment of
Retired Federal
Judge Requested
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (AP)
Attorney General Blddle asked
congress today to Impeach federal
Judge J. Warren Davis, retired,
of the third circuit court of ap
peals, who the justice department
decided not to try for a third
time, after juries twice failed to
agree in trials on charges of ob
structing justice."
A federal grand jury at Phila
delphia indicted Judge Davis and
William. Fox, onetime motion
picture magnate,- and Morgan S
Kaufman, Fox's attorney.
Fox pleaded guilty, was sent
enced to n year In prison and
fined $3,000. He appealed the
sentence and federal Judge Guy
J. Bard held Oct. 31 that, pending
disposition of the Fox appeal, the
attorney general's order to dis
miss charges against Davis and
Kaufman should be held In abey
ance. Biddle made public n letter to
chairman Sumners (D-Texas) of
the house judiciary committee In
which he outlined the case briefly
and said that "You are aware, of
course, that Judge Davis Is regu
larly drawing his salary of $12,
000 a year."
Judge Davis retired from nctive
duty on April 15, 1939. He is 75.
Fox appealed his sentence ana
was released under $15,000 ball
pending disposition of his plea.
Seven Convicted After
Attack on Beautician
SALINAS, Calif., Nov. 8 (AP)
Seven men on trial for three
weeks after an assault on Mrs.
Harriet M. Haughtallng, 37, Oak
land beauty shop operator, were
convicted on various charges by
a superior court jury last night
The defendants and the charges
on which they were convicted:
Eddie Rodriguez, 17, assault,
conspiracy, rape, petty theft; F.
Clsneros, 19, and Joe Moran, 19,
both guilty of assault, conspiracy,
rane: Joe Jaime, 29, conspiracy;
Felipe Vera, 2(i, assault and con
spiracy; Manual Martinez, M, ana
Paul Guerrero, ., roiT urn soi
dler formerly of San Francisco,
both consul racy.
Tile woman was attacked here
last August 16.
Superior Judge II. G. Jorgensen
set Monday for passing sentence.
Petty Thefts Cleared by
Arrest of Local Boys
Clearing of a series of local pet
ty burglaries and recovery of a
considerable quantity of stolen
property were announced today
by Chief of Police William Moar,
who reported that three boys
ranging from 11 to 13 years of
age, had been taken into custody
It is expected, Moar said, that oth
er arrests will follow as tne oi-
fleers work to break up a gang
of boys who have broken into
several warehouses and business
houses. The three youths, now in
custody of the juvenile court, have
confessed taking part in the burg
laries, the police officer said. In
keeping with the policy of the
luvenlle court in connection with
first offenders, the boys now in
custody, were not identified,
RAF Lashes
The raids, after weeks of public;
clamor for Increased aid to Rus
sia, came on the heels of premier
Stalin's implied demand for the
opening of a second land front to
ease German pressure on the Red
army. ,
A London air ministry com
munique said that despite wretch
ed weather conditions, RAF pilots
reached the Berlin area In largo
numbers." The attack on the
nazi capital, the 53rd since tha
beginning o the war, lasted sev
eral hours.
Over Cologne and the Ruhr, tha
British said, "several big, beau
tiful bombs" were dropped with
"definitely good" results.
Italian Ports Blasted
Premier Mussolini's high com
mand said RAF bombers carried
out a "prolonged raid" on Brindi
si, Adriatic port on the heel of
Italy s boot, inflicting serious
damage, with 40 killed and about
80 Injured.
Crotone, nt the mouth of the
gulf of Taranto, also was raided,
the, high command asserted, but
the only other casualties or dam
age caused by the RAF raids on
southern Italy and Sicily were.
three civilians killed and two
wounded In the Sicilian port o
Gela.
Two British planes were shot
down, It said, one by anti-aircraft
guns at Crotone and the other by
batteries at Catania, Sicily.
The communique said Italian
planes made new raids on alp
and naval bases on the British
Island base of Malta.
At the same time, the Germans
strongly Intensified their aerial
assault on the British isles, show
ering bombs from the English
coast to Scotland. The British
said at least six towns were at
tacked; the Germans claimed des
truction In the dock areas of
Sunderland and Blyth.
The dally war bulletin also re
ported that a German bomber
sank a British destroyer yester
day off the east coast of Scot
land and nazi submarines sank
four mcrchantshlps totaling 28,?
000 tons In the Atlnntlc. The date
of the latter sinkings was not
specified.
DNB said that a number oC
British bombers also had flown
over Oslo In occupied Norway,
and reported that three of them
were shot down. Four British
airmen who survived the crashes,
were taken prisoner, the news
agency said. j .
Nazis Gain In Crimea j
On the Russo-German war
front, a bulletin from Adolph Hit
ler's field headquarters asserted
that German armies In the Cri
mea had crashed through a six-mile-deep
Russia defense zone
guarding the narrow Kerch pen
insula and were continuing to ad
vance on the port of Kerch itself,
vital bridgehead to the Caucasus.
As pictured by the high com
mand, the Germans were strik
ing with peak fury at the Cri
mea's last-ditch defenses, attack
ing soviet forces in the Yalla
mountains, hammering the outer
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No Strike Here
The gopher sinks his shaft
with care
A chamber here, an adit there.
Amazing how these projects
grow,
Sans benefit of C. I. O.
M. H. P.