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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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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
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Vote Slated Today
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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."
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Patient Held
In Knife Row
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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
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