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PAGE TWO Soviet Tells Of Attacks Nazis Claim Crimea Spearhead Drives to Strait of Kerch Continued from page 1) the fourth day of an unsuccess ful attempt to break that flank. Southwest of the capital It ap peared that an earlier advance had carried the Germans to within 30 to 35 miles of the city, the nazis putting their forward. positions at only 31 miles short of It and the Russians themselves acknowledg ing that the thrust had carried to the vicinity of Narofomlnsk, 35 miles away. Progress for the Crimean offen sive was announced by the Ger man high command. The south ern Crimean coast was reached, it stated, at a point Just south of the city of Kerch itself, which is sepa rated at one point by only two miles of water from the western Caucasus. The day's most Important de velopment of the war In the long view was a prediction by Win ston Churchill that by 1943 "the freedom-democracies" would be able to produce enough ships to support an overseas Invasion which was "utterly beyond British resources at the present time.'! This, he made clear, was based upon great American help In ships, for he remarked that the United States now was building merchant vessels on a scale many times greater than was possible in Brit aln. It depended, too, be said, on whether "the war against U-boats continues to prosper as it has done," and he illustrated the of fectiveness of this struggle by say ing that in the four months end lng in October Britain had lost less than 750,000 tons of ships, an average of about 180,000 tons a month, against a total of more than 1,000,000, or a monthly average of 500,000 tons, in the four-months period previous to July. As to the axis, the prime min uter said that nearly 1.MQ.000 tons of Its "shipping had been sunk or badly damaged In the July-October period. The Japanese dilemma to drawback or plunge In was re flected during the day by a meet ing of Japan's privy council to dis cuss the powerful united front raised by Britain anS the United States in the Pacific At hand were two solemn dec larations: Winston Churchill's warning that if Japan got in volved in war with the United States she would instantly have to fight Britain as well, and the warning of Frank Knox, the US secretary of navy, that "the hour of decision" had arrived. Gov. Sprague Observes 54th Birthday Working Gov. Charles A. Sprague's 54th birthday anniversary Wednesday found his office calendar crowded with official .appointments. The governor arrived at his of fice at 8:30 a.m., and spent most of the forenoon presiding at' meetings of the state board of control and state land board. He attended a meeting of the Ore gon economic council in the af ternoon. f There also were a number of callers at the executive depart ment during the day. paao5 A."3 CAC3 -' 029.25 time, try tjri fife ' See C A. Larson. Ticket Agent Fhene 448S ..r-'"' or, write . . ' . -- t, 1. L CSilANinr. GJ, 22 Paclfk Bldg Portland, Ore, Reds Report Counter-Attacks I torn b:Z.:M: 11 rfSTARITSA toiJSV JWGORSK " & iwisbpsk EST 0OVKV,: feHr In the battle of Moscow, the Russians asserted they had encircled large German forces at Volokolamsk, northwest of Moscow, and that they were eounter-attaeklng south of Moscow In the Serpukhov, Aleksln and Tola zones. Northwest of Moscow there has been continuing warfare in the Kalinin sector. Germans said their air force bombed Moscow Salem Grange to Elect Officers, Sponsor Taxation Forum and Hear National Meet Reports Election of officers and consideration of other important matters on Friday night and sponsorship of a forum on taxation Saturday night will make .the coming weekend a busy one for US Queries On Overseas (Continued from page 1) overseas duty, in the Philippines, for instance, has been on a volun tary basis for both officers and men, war department officials said, Presumably, these officials said, the purpose of asking a question in recruiting bulletins as to service overseas now la to keep the matter on a more or less voluntary basis and at the same time provide against con tingencies that might arise. Reports irom the maneuver area in North Carolina said that members of the armed force were being asked by the War debar ment whether they would be will ing to serve overseas. Several hundred enlisted men and officers there said this question was put to them: "Would you be willing to serve overseas with an armored division?" Army press relations officers, after a day-long check, said the only such questioning they could find under war department pro cedure was the questioning In the recruiting circulars and those do not reach officers. Teachers Get Raise STAYTON, Nov. 12.-(P)-A $5 monthly wage increase to teachers has been granted by the Stay ton school board to meet rising costs of living. When you go to California this winter, relax in a coxy, .steam-heated train while the engineer does die driv ing. Remember that steel rails are the safest highway in the world safe even when wet. - -r' '- -i ' The Friendly: ' Southern Pacific ii r the Salem grange. On Friday J. F. Svinth, head of the agricultural department of the Salem high school and advisor of the local chapter of Future Farm ers, will report on the national FFA convention recently held in Kansas City, at which the Salem chapter won fourth place with its livestock judging team. Saturday's forum will be held in the Swegle school on Garden road. The resolution to be voted on was originally proposed by the Goshen grange in Lane county and has already been approved by east sent to take over the pits In event Lane county Pomona grange. Itl0' new strike was not stated in reads Resolved that our state legis lature should enact, In its 194S session, a law directing all as sessors to include. In the tax roll for their respective counties, all real property within the slate (churches, hospitals, lodge halls, privately owned and operated schools, etc.), except the state capltol, the courthouse In the re spective counties, the city hall in cities having such structures and all other state, county and city-owned bandings used ex clusively for administrative pur poses or for the care of crim inals and unfortunates, except ing also all federally owned real property (forests, postof fices, monuments, etc) Information in regard to. university-owned property will be presented by Allen P. Wheeler, one of the members of the Lane county board of county commis sioners, ne is expectea to put a new light on the question of tax- ing churches, hospitals, schools and similar organizations. Dr. S. B. Laughlin, Willamette uuivuaii,, nu aigic against using real property of any kind a, a tax base for raising revenue for pub- lic purposes. It Is expected that advocates of the Idea of tax exemption for churches, schools and lodge hallo, will discourage the pro posal to make any changes in the present law in this respect A special invitation has been extended to . the members of the state tax commission, the Marion county court and managers of Sa lem General hospital, the Deacon ess hospital, Sacred Heart acad emy and other institutions to take part in the discussion. A general Wnvltation is extended to the pub- x. w paruwiiaws in uie lorum. Salem Police Recover Auto Car thefts totaled two in Mar ion countv and eiehi over th tat. Wednesday, state and city police reported with the accompanying announcement that one of . the Marion county losses had been re covered 12 hours after it was re ported. Still miming at midnight was a coupe belonging to Miss Eva Peal, Route 2, Dallas, schoolteacher who reported that her car had been taken from its parking place in Falls City sometime between 7 and tp.ro. Wednesday night An automobile reported miss ing Wednesday morning by Inez Bailey Waugh, Route 2, Salem. was recovered early . Wednesday night by city police at a used car lot, where it had evidently . been parked for abandonment by its borrower,! they said. Redecorated Usual Wave fLtt "V" 11 Perm Ou f,c f Push Wave Complete Ml.f J Open Thurs. Eve. -, by Appointment Phono XSS3 - SIS First National Cank riix. CASTLE FE2&L WATESS Tb OSEGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. rfoYornber 13. 1941 FDR Acts to Halt Strikes Parley Called in Coal Row; Solons Foresee Defeat of Arms Bill (Continued from page 1) effort to obtain a 30 per cent wage increase. A presidential board had recommended a 7 per cent Increase for the men, the lowest-paid of whom now re ceives $5.06 a day. During the day, Rep. Smith (D-Va), long a supporter of ad ministration foreign policy, arose In the house to announce that on- less action were taken to curb the "unruly elements In our midst. he would vote against the bill to permit armed merchantmen to sail Into combat zones. The gov ernment, he said, must put a stop to "the labor dictatorship" which he charged, was sabotaging the de fense program. A strike of 15,000 workers who handle long distance tele phone wires in 42 states, effec tive at midnight Friday, was forecast by John J. Moran, president of the Independent Federation of Long Lines Tele phone Workers. Moran said in New York the decision to walk out, approved last week, was made" after a meet ing with federal conciliators and A.T. and T. representatives. A 4 per cent pay Increase Is demand ed. At the White House a presiden tial secretary, William D. Hassett, told reporters that they could fairly assume Mr. Roosevelt would see that the government's position In the captive coal mine case was maintained, in one way or another. Hassett pictured the situation as a direct clash between the United States government and the United Mine Workers, of which John L. Lewis is head. "I do think, he said, "and that Is my personal opinion, that there has been a lot of imma ture Judgment expressed in the papers about this being a quar rel between the president and John L. Lewis. "If there is any quarrel, It's between the United Mine Workers and the United States government. Whether the army would be any official quarter. Hassett re marked that the whole thins? comes to an issue on Saturday." xnai aay marks the end of a truce Lewis granted two weeks ago. The failure of the mediation board to recommend a closed, shop synem ior captive mines led Tues day to the resignation from the board of Philip Murray, CIO pres ident; Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the UMW and several other CIO men. Because CIO members did not appear to sit on board nanela. hearings on threatened strikes at International Harvester company lactones ana the Bell Aircraft plant at Buffalo, NY, were not held today. in Canton, O., a strike by 25 AFL machine erectors at the naval ordnance plant stopped operations and forced into Idle ness 465 production workers and 500 to 600 construction men. Wednesday night, however, the plant manager announced the waIkout had been ended and that hJf expected workmen to return to their P088 tomorrow morning. He Ulll I II II III KP I HCa TIA wfuk. m 1iJ a. J ; .a m 01 " In NV Rnmnti4b XT T of "cwowwi utZSS Workers said a strike had closed the plant of the Mack Manufac- hiring corporation, holding up work of 2,000 men on $10,000,000 in army tank transmission con tracts. The CIO seeks a 15 -cent hourly pay rise over the current undisclosed scale. Frank Brown, Chlcaro offi cial of the AFL teamsters union, said local onions representing more than 250,000 truck drivers tn 11 midwest states had auth orised a strike possibly to begin Sunday unless there is an agree ment with 800 truck operators. In Buffalo NV TTucrh m, CIO regional direct savS lers at the Bell Aircraft nlan. i Buffalo and Niagara Falls, at work on $150,000,000 In orders, Were left with no other resort "but their economic weapon of the strike. The CIO-UAW members seek a 20-cent hourly wage increase, a minimum Of 75 cents hourlv In- - I5, t umon "P and the I uues cnecKon. a walkout was V2SL Z ddayed Penc,in arbitration. Thompson now says! UNtFOUt SMttfcly r fyeaui ao taerma ta rami interest tato. A Pr4attal M-Ym Mertsafe-la the safe way to fiaaaee iotttMsrHA , -TTg trrhraaL HAWKINS ItOBZXTS. INC. Authorised Mortgage Loan Sottettar nr iu nwmuu insurance Co. n , America. Guardian BuUdinf Ealem, Oregon P mi tili,( the mediation board "failed to set tle" the dispute. SAN DIEGO, CaliL, Nov. 12-Cff) -More than 2000 AFL craftsmen returned to their Jobs on military defense - projects Wednesday to end a strike the navy had labeled an open revolt against the US government Muddy conditions curtailed ope rations to some extent, but bar rim' more rain which might again delay work on paving and grading, full crews were expected Thursday on the $25,000,000 in marine, navy and defense hous ing projects. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11-JP)-A strike of United Aircraft welders called a week ago in the Lockheed and Vega Air craft plants in Burbank to back demands for a bargaining elec tion was abandoned by the in dependent union Wednesday. SAN DIEGO, Calif, Nov. 12-JP) -Welders who walked out Nov. at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp- in an effort to force recog nltion of the United Aircraft Welders of America as their bar gaining agent, went back Wed nesday but most found that they had no Jobs' to return to. CANTON, O., Nov. -()-Termination of a one-day AFL machinists' strike at the $20,000, 000 Canton naval ordnance plant was announced Wednesday night by Roy W. Gavert, plant manager. EUGENE, Ore, Nov. 12-JPi Characterizing the call for a rail way strike, Issued in Chicago, as "absolutely unjustifiable," Dean Wayne L. Morse said Wednesday it would be more costly to labor than any gains would warrant The chairman of the presi dent's fact-finding board in the dispute, said in an interview, "the officials of the union and their lawyers admitted on the record of the hearing that they had had a fair and Judicial hear ing. If they go through with their threat to strike, they .will sacrifice the Judicial processes guaranteed to them by the rail way labor act which will be much more costly to the future interests of railway labor than the temporary financial benefits which they seek to gain through a strike. Morse recommended that the strike threat be withdrawn and that a conference with the presl dents, the carriers and the fact finding board be asked by the workers, to negotiate the differ ences. He said major labor disputes could be settled only by adherence to judicial processes. Union Heads Sentenced NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-)-A federal judge denounced labor leaders George E. Browne and William Bioff Wednesday, de clared they must pay "the price of their sins and forthwith sen ten ced them to prison terms of eight and ten years respectively and fined them $20,000 each, They were convicted a week ago of extorting $550,000 from four motion picture companies as the price of peace in the film industry, I"No telling how long I may drive my next car so J -ygy J'' 'J II I CDrraAi. Mnmaa imrmmt I "r "-'ll THimsuiwrrarMUnrrracs XHi eacae foe aa Ihidi it mi : ATAILABLST AS A SIX 235 S. Commercial St. State Lumber Survey Asked Industry Seeks Aid As. Business Hurt by Priorities Ruling (Continued from page 1) encouraged to seU lumber not used by the government. Sales of Willamette valley lum ber were reported 35 per cent be low production last week. Oper ators said much of the Wfllam ette valley product is shipped to Los Angeles and other southern cities where the markets are glutted because of short pur chases. Edmond Hayes, Portland, de clared that much of the blame for the overproduction could be at tributed to government agencies which urged a speeding up of the lumber industry due to the de fense program. The government uses only first-grade lumber, Hayes said. "and under present conditions we are enable to dispose of our second, and third grade mate, rial." Hayes said many people now receiving large salaries desired to build homes but were frightened by the priorities regulations. Eastern Oregon lumbermen said the problems of the pine Indus try were not as serious as those of the fir industry because of a diversified market R. K. Baldock, state highway engineer, discussed the substi tution of lumber for essential metals in non-defense construc tion. He said the highway com mission already was consider ing installation of wooden cul verts. Another speaker was Morris Jones of the Jones Lumber com pany. Portland. He said 10 Port land mills already have curtailed lumber operations or will reduce their production within another month. Finns Evade Issue, Hull WASHINGTON, Nov. 12-(JP)- Finland and the United States were farther apart than ever Wednesday night after the little country had rejected an American demand for cessation of Finnish hostilities against Russia. Secretary of State Hull implied that Finland had evaded the real issue in a note handed to the American minister in Helsinki. This note asserted that Finland was fighting a defensive war, not an offensive one; that her alliance with Germany did not threaten her independence, and that her fight did not endanger United States security. Oregon Counties Meet Opens at Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 12-(iP)-Ap-proximately 65 delegates were registered Wednesday as the 36th annual convention of the Assoda- OK Alt EtCHT IN ANY MQDSL m0j MERKAILIL'i tion of Oregon countle. opened here. .. , . . Matters to be ccciderea mu. ed publH lanarhlgh. ways, taxation, ana weii reuei. . Gov. Charles A. sprague wu w the principal speaker at the Thurs day morning session, In the after noon, J. Fred Berbesch, manager of the OPM"s field pnonue. di vision, will speak. UAL Attorney Visits Field (Continued from page 1) semient schedules, or scheduled M.fU BtftM. reeardless of whether or not weather conditions permit landing here. In addition united is so pay JL25 a square foot for space oc cupied ta the temporary admin istration building now being set p at the airport and the same rate when the permanent "true tore Is ready for occupancy next summer. Plans being prepared by Lrle P. Bartholomew. Salem architect, are expected to be ready within three or four days. Dyer reiterated earlier reports that his company fully antici pates, "barring unforeseen obsta cles, to start service here on v cember 3. Revision of the master plans for the airport's Improvement, involv ing construction of two additional runways, .was completed Wednes day by WPA engineers in Salem. Printed Wednesday night, the plans were to be forwarded to Washington, DC, Immediately, of ficials of the works program in dicated. Bomber Bums After Crash; Pilot Dies MOHAWK, Ariz., Nov. 11-V A Douglas DB7 bombing plane, being ferried from California to England, crashed and burned near this little southwestern Arizona desert community Wednesday night, killing the pilot; and a companion ship was Tiing The plane which crashed was one of four that left Long Beach, Calif., enroute to an ov ernight stop at Tucson, Arix, two of the ships landed at the Phoenix sky harbor municipal airport because of bad weather and Impaired radio communica tion. The pilot killed in the crash was Ivan J. May, about 14, 1516 Western Ave., Topeka, Kas., the Arizona highway patrol reported. FameVj Pitcher Dies ' ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12 -UP.- Ernie Koob, who pitched the St Louis Browns to a no-hit no-run win over the Chicago White Sox in l17, died Wednesday. He 48 years old. was Navy Flier Killed NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 12 -ypy-Ensign John H. Langdon, USNR, of Seattle, Wash, crashed to his death in a navy plane Wednes day off Cape Henry. Many or thx psofu now driving aw Poociacs are former owaers of both higher and lower-priced cars who have changed to Pontiac la a saaas pro porodaess move.' Unable to foresee bow long they may drive their mew cars, these saotociscs are turning to Poodac for the proved long life and operating tcoooeay which have made Pontiac owners so omwheladagiy ' - Proud To Be Doing Onr Part Peadac it delae Its srt foe " lima A JaUr tarWul ' (CBDiWfowNr. J Two rnaihn efceakOTe HU me rtwiiw o . ----- . . rrvv . ' CO. UmlCp ftnWlft ixuuuv irt.v . c . UlCCll Ull JLfULX Leaders' "Worried Over Loss of .Supporters; Vote Slated Today (Continued from Page 1) Shall American ships bo i for their protection against sub marines and aircraft, and shall they bo permitted to carry ear goes through eombat sones di rectly to fngisnd and other bel ligerent nations. Both courses are forbidden by the neutrality law. The house had already approved the armed ship proposal, and it was not directly involved in to day's discussion. The clause free ing American shipping of the present restrictions upon Its movements was added In the sen ate at the urging of the admin istration. It came back to the house today upon a motion to concur in the senate amendment The revolt of the southern dem ocrats became apparent with two surprising house speeches, made by men who hitherto have sup ported administration foreign pol icy. The leadership could only guess at its extent First of alt Ep. Smith (D Ta) announced his opposiUoa to the senate amendments, assert ing be would not vote to send American ships Into eombat sones until the gevernmeat "puts a stop to the labor dicta torship' which he said was sab otaging national defense. Later, to the great surprise, and more than a little to the dismay of the leadership. Rep. South, from Speaker Rayburn's Texas delega tion, announced his opposition. "We are most smrely drifting 'step by step toward active par ticipation in this world conflict" ho said. "This b another step leading nearer to war which means the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of American Uvea.'' He was unwilling, ho added, "to throw the little boy who .calls me daddy Into the path of Hitler's war machine. England, he sug gested, "ought to move in less reserve to save herself." with Patient Held In Knife Row (Continued from pago 1) fered with his radio reception. Words followed and SIngson went out into the hall. Angel and other men who witnessed the fracas said. Grabbing the paring knife, the Filipino allegedly plunged at An gel, who knocked him down. Af ter the dispute had taken the two men the length of the hall and back, with Singson allegedly striving to reach his opponent's abdomen with the knife, Lyman Johnson and Clare Coates, fellow patients, disarmed the Filipino. Dr. G. A. Williamson of the hospital staff dressed Angel's face and called the sheriff i of fice. Singson declared Angel struck first maintained that his only ac tion was in self-defense- enrhesissde. They qvkfcly learned that the new Pootiacs hare the state iaapoctaot operating features as past accessfal Poodacsw They learned, too, that Poariac prices remain ooiy siihdy higher than the lowest only a few dollars more per month on available terms. Hence their far sighted stketioo of Poodac a choice which you yoerself will make yoe discover bow little It i M Silesia Orcgoa
