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MAXIM LITVINOV
CAIRO, Egypt, Friday, Not.
Hrffy-Tht plane carrying JJS
Ambassador to Moscow La ur
ease A. Steinhardt, Maxim Lit
faioT, new soviet ambassador
to Washington, Sir Walter
Moncktoa, British information
service head, Qnentin Reynolds,
Colliers special writer and oth
er!, feared lost for the past two
days on a trip from the Russian
temporary capital to Cairo, ar
rived safely in Iran today. The
Officials reported being forced
-down at Pahlevl, a Caspian sea
port about 175 miles northwest
For : sty? if
I We e k S e t
In Strike
.
Chief of Signal
Corps Asks Halt
In Wire Walkout
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-(ff)-A
strike called for midnight Fri
day which would affect the Am
erican telephone and telegraph
communication system in 42
states and the nation's capital
was postponed Thursday night
for at least a week.
John J. Moran, president of
the Federation of Long Lines
Telephone Workers, an independ
ent union, said that the walkout
had been held up and that fed
eration's council called into ses
sion here Nov. 21 at therequest
of Dr. John R. Steelman,i director
of the US conciliation service.
Moran said the council, the fe
deration's 21-member executive
body, would decide "on "further
action to be taken." He sent the
following telegram to.Steelman:
"Pursuant to your wired re
quest, the Federation of Long
Lines Telephone Workers has
postponed the strike called for
November 14 and has convened
the national council to meet in
New York City on Friday; No
vember 21."
The strike was called in. a wage
dispute with the AT&T, ."
Moran declared "one of the im
pelling reasons Jot acceding to
Steelman's request is thetunnoU
and confusion with respect to the
present situation in the national
defense mediation board resulting
from the resignation of its CIO
representatives."
"In addition," he said in a
statement, "the union has been
asked by Maj.-Gen. Dawson
Olmstead, chief US amy signal
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 7)
M. B. Williams (above) has been
named safety director for the
State Industrial Accident com
mission, according to announce
ment Thursday. Employed by
the commission as " inspector
since October,, 1939, Williams is
to have headquarters in Port
land for the present. At Uni
versity of California he major
ed In law, later studying medi
cine at University of San Fran
cisco. His experience as safety
inspector and engineer Includes
work in the California oD
fields, for Pacific Indemnity
company In Portland, and later
at Boulder dam. The commis
sion also named Charles Mc
Bee, formerly. Its logging In
spector In Lane county, as chief
logging Inspector to have head
quarters in Salem.
Gen. White Is
SerionslyDl
Fipt For
Crimea Is
In Doubt
Control Climax
Rages at Kerch;
Russ Push on
. By The Associated Press
The showdown. for, effective
control of the Russian Crimea
and the bridgeheads to "Cau
casia appeared to be fast ap
proacmng inursaay nignt in
savage battles before Sevasto
pol and Kerch and there were
signs, too, that Hitler was pre
paring his stalemated armies of
the center for one more, grand
offensive on Moscow,
In the south the great issue was
yet in doubt; the great struggle
was yet inconclusive.
The Germans claimed to be
storming the outer fortifications
of Kerch,' which lies across
narrow strait from the western
extremity of the Caucasus" and its
vital oil reservoirs, and by their
own accounts had the city's de
fensive belt under assault from
both west and south.
They reported that - Anapa,
on the Black sea' coast of the
Caucasus about 50 miles south
east of Kerch, was under vio
lent bombing attack along with
Kerch Itself and with Novore
sis-k, a possible but much less
effective alternate for Sevast
pol as a base for Russian Black
sea power.
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The Leslie Junior high school twirling corps, in new white satin uniforms pose. In a V formation, with
which they will greet members of the school's student body this afternoon.-They will appear at the
football game tonight between Leslie and Farrlsh schools. Left to rights the member are: Doris
Hale, Donna Holman, Germalne Eyerly, Barbara Jones, Beatrice Otjen and Patricia Bale. (8ee story
on Page 8) Kennell -Ellis photo. '.i.
Marion County Women
Set Defense Parley
All Woman Groups to Cooperate With
Plan to Inventory Availability in
Industry; Precedent Is Set Here
-Setting a precedent not only in the state but in the nation as
-The latest . wajlabto information I wellMaxionJiQyr? women will gather at the Salem chamber x
irom uie uissians, nowever, pic-1 commerce auanorium mesaay ai .p.m. waiscuss pians zor we
tured the Kerch defenses as un- forthcoming inventory of women available in defense industry.
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w........... -- i tfcuig uwicu uxi uy jumi xaau, parley nave uten sent uui 10 rep- i - -
Clackamas Home On ae nd naval action. " resentatives of feminine organiz- MamUtritlOll
scxuie ovasiuyoi, was piam I auons in uie county dj aors. oai'
of Teheran, Iran. Fears have I t t a t f
keen expressed for the past 48 UAL UlllCiaiS
V. n .14 1.1. -I- nlnl.tn
that the plane crashed or that Coilf Wltll
It had been forced down where
there were no communication
faculties available.
Due Today
Salem Mayor
"Groraid service" of United Air
Lines was represented in Salem
Thursday by H. F. Barnes, San
Francisco, manager of passenger
service for the western division;
E. J. Williston, Portland, district
superintendent for the Portland
i district in the same branch of the
company, and W. A. Smith, also
of Portland, manager cf the
limousine service.
Conferring with Mayor W. W.
Chadwick and other city officials
here, they were taken to the air
port and later discussed arrange
ments with Salem business ; firms
for transportation of passengers
from the port into the city.
Leave of Absence
PORTLAND, Nov. .-flV
MaJ.-Gen. George A. White,
commander of the 41st division.
was in serious condition at his
home near Clackamas, Ore,
Thursday night from an Intes
tinal ailment, his- physicians Indicated.
' The general has been denied
visitors, his physicians, Drs.
William S. Knox and Homer P.
Rush said. Before returning to
his home he spent a week in a
Portland hospital.
General White's Illness dated
froJn maneuvers at Camp Hun
ter Liggett, Calif., last summer.
He is on an extended leave of
absence from the army.
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 1)
Salem Cadet
Unit Sponsors
To Organize
Fight Planned
Civil Defense Group
Meets With Federal
And State Leaders
organization ox a sponsoring
group for a Salem squadron of the
army an- crops is scheduled for
Monday noon at Schneider's cof
fee shop as outerowth of a rre
liminary meeting held Thursday f the clubs by Mrs. Anna Mor
night at the Salem chamber of P"1. county secretary lor uie cam-
die Orr Dunbar, Portland, direct
or of the survey and past president
of the General Federation of
Women's clubs.
Polk county women who will
take an active part In the or
ganisation of their group have
also been asked to attend. The
session will be typical of meet
ings held throughout the state
preparatory to the actual Inven
tory to be undertaken, probably
in February.
Promises of cooperation have trition for defense" committee met
already been received from most Thursdar nifiht at the Salem
Elaxmen Seek
McNaryiAid
Funds for'lrbcessing
Plants in Willamette
Valley Are Sought
WASHINGTON, Nov.
Tb.Ortarvri Farmers tmlon has
sough tht;aid of Senator McNary
(ROre). to find ways of -financing
three or four more flax fiber pro
cessing plants to take car of the
1941 crop in the Willamette val
ley. Barley Lfbby, president of the
organisation, wrote the senator
that the present plants have
enough fiber en hand to keep
them busy throughout the 1942
season and said plans for new
plants should be made before
long so the farmers may know
how much crop s h o 1 d be
planted.
Libby suggested that new plants
might be constructed at Dayton,
Ships Bill
Gets Okeh
Of House
US Air and Sea
Bases in Albion
Expected Soon
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13
(AP) A general and
rapid expansion of Amer
ican naval and military ac
tivity along the sea and air
routes to Britain is expect
ed' in authoritative quar
ters to follow Thursday
revision of the neutrality
act.
With the navy all set to
start placing guns and gun
crews on merchant ships as
soon ias President Roose
velt gives the signal, and
with the maritime commis
sion ready to extend its
ronles of commercial op
erations for the first time
since the war began, Secre
tary Knox strongly indi
cated Thursday night th
SABURU KURUSU
HONOLULU. Nov. IS -fy- 8a
; bur Kurusu, Japanese special
bvot firms: to Waahlngton In
; aa effort to adjust Japanese
Amertcan relations, left Hono
, lulu Thursday afternoon on the
California clipper for San Fran-
else and Is due to arrive Frl
'. day morning. Kurusu left Hong
kong, Nov.! 1 after flying there
. from Japan. He arrived here on
the China! clipper Wednesday
fTm Midway island.
Salem Marine
Unit Formed
Salem detachment of the Ma
rine Corps league became com-
pletely organized Thursday night
with the adoption of constitution
and by-laws and the presentation
of a gavel from the Portland de
tachment to L. L. Pittenger-, com
mandant.
Entry of Harry Mitchell, fed
eral employe, brought the. mem
bership to 27. All men who have
served or are' in the marines, or
army or navy men who have serv
ed with the marines, were in
vited to join. Next session is to
be December 11.
Dues were established by the
detachment, which discussed and
approved the proposed state or
ganization. Assistance is to be
given the Eugene group in organ
izing. . - . , -
Salem Officer
Will Search
For Fliers
Earl Adams, constable of the
Salem justice of the peace dist
rict, believes he knows where two
Eugene airmen missing since Oc
tober 25 may have landed and
plans to make a search for them
today, he reported Thursday af
ternoon . -
The fliers, Fred MeKenna,
businessman-owner of the plane,
and Elmer 'Jeffries, his pilot,
took off from Eugene t fat a
Stlnson-1 craft the morning of
October 25 en route to Portland
and disappeared. Hunters In the
Coast range west of Grand
Rondo and Forest Grove later
reported having heard a plane
(Turn to page 15, CoL 7)
commerce.
Details of the corps estab
lishment of 20 men, ages 20-26,
to be drawn from the Salem
area and to remain together af
ter training for service as a
squadron from this district,
were explained by MaJ. E. W.
Kelly, Portland, adjutant of the
Oregon recruiting district. Col
ored, sound pictures of the air
eerps were shown.
Service club representatives de
cided at the session to plan and
perfect further organization Mon
day noon.
Men Interested in joining the
corps or learning more about it
should get in touch with the army
recruiting .office, room 211, Salem
postoffice building or with Sgt
Jack Taylor or J. Ray Rhoten,
army officers at the meeting said,
paign. Not only women's auxiliar
ies and organizations but parent-
teacher associations, garden clubs, '
church groups and similar units
are expected to send representa
tives, Mrs. Morgan said.
While plans for the inventory
have not been completed, it Is
expected that Information to be
secured will be modeled some
what after the defense mobilisa
tion survey of men conducted a
year ago In cooperation with the
state employment service. .
(Turn to Page 2, Col. 1)
BULLETIN
Organizing with the first sched
uled activity a plan to cooperate
in wiping malnutrition from the
u"'u' 1Z r 7 VC Jefferson, Silverton and perhaps
ration, the Marion county "nu- LebS? He said it would cost
150,000 far construction and $35,
000 to operate them. The farm
official suggested the government
finance the plants through use of
defense funds, putting up half of
the cost, adding the fanners could
handle the remainder.
The senator said he had tried
without success to Impress the
war department that the pro-
Turn to Page 2, Col. 8)
chamber of commerce.
Chairman of the committee,
a sub-organization of the Mar
lon County Civilian Defense
council, is Mrs. H. E. Mitchell,
who had called her committee
to hear M. Louis Belangie, rep
resentative of the state commit
tee who is also Oregon supervis
or for the Surplus Commodities
administration, and Lincoln. P.
Bloomfteld of the SCA.
First feature of the plan to
fight malnutrition is an organized
drive for community school lunch
programs in line with a national
campaign, Belangie told the group,
which in turn discussed plans for
presenting to various districts the
assistance that is available - for
such a project
Parent-Teacher associations
may be asked to secure room
and equipment;' parents- and
(Turn to page 15, CoL 7)
lions.
In other qnartr, prob
able steps in the expansion
of operations were said to
include t
1 Extension of naval and
air patrols and convey escorts
the rest of the way across th
Atlantic to the British t&jes.
These American protective
measures now operate only to
th waters adjacent to Iceland.
. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5)
Lafayette Man
Killed hj Car
LAFAYETTE, Ore., Nov. 13.-iflP)
-Lessell C. FrelL 48, Lafayette
business man and World war vet
eran, was killed by a car as he
walked across highway f 3-W la
Lafayette Thursday afternoon.
State Officer W. A. Zosel said
that the vision of the driver, Ar
thur Kenney, Dayton, Ore., was
obscured by a heavy downpour.
Why Finns Will Fight On
BARENTS SEAliiliii M
Fire Destroys
Tucson Area
TUCSON. Ariz., Nov. 13 -ifir
Eight hours time and all of the
city's available apparatus were
required Thursday to bring un-1
der control a $200,000 fire m
the heart of the business district
Damage was limited principally
Ex-Vet Chief Dies
ANNAPOLIS, Met, Nov. 13-(ff)
-Edward E. Soafford. 63. Brew
ster, NY, former national com-1 to the building which housed the
mander of the American LegiotulF W. Woolwortt 'miahy store
died Thursday night at the Naval I and a number of professional f-
Academy hospital here, ' an at-1 fices. The nearby federal- bufld-
tache reported. ling was 'threatened.
LOS ANGELES, Friday, Nov.
14 Two ' violent earth
quakes, only seconds apart
rocked the Los Angeles area at
12:37 a. nC today. The tremblor
was in an east-to-west rocking
'rt'iLrA Answers Sent
UHfUU aw. uv Haw
astrous 1933 quake In which ap
proximately 100 persons were
killed.
Electric power was shut off
fat some county areas and Haw
thorne was without lights for
five minutes. Culver City and
Whittler ; were other . towns
which felt the shocks.
Th second shock followed
the first wtthta only about five
There were n
ports of damage.
National Gold Awards Presented At
- Outstanding national awards
won by Oregon Future Farmers
s of America tor 1940.41 were pre
sented Thursday night at a Gold
' Emblem banquet at Salem high
':- school Gov; Charles A. Sprague
declared the agricultural educa
tion of true value, productive
and. efficient and the awards
lorecasts of success. ;,
Everett Struckmeler. of Clo-
verdale, chosen Star Fanner of
the .Pacific region, was given a -
gold key by O. L Paulson, state
director of : vocational educa
tion, and cited for bis achieve
ment of managing a farm for
five years, attending J school
most of the time. -
- Gold emblem plaques were pre
sented the state associatiop, one
of five best in the nation, and
.the Salem high 'school chapter,
one of four best in the nation.
They, were represented by Law
rence Johnson and Don Rowland,
past and incumbent ; state presi
dents, and Yerncst Johnson and
John Jerman, past and present
chapter heads. . -
Earl , R. Cooley and Jens " T,
Svinth, state and Salem advisers
of the clubs, received gold keys.
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On Airport
Answers to questions concern-
ling Salem and the city airport
asked recently by an inspection
group of army officers interested
in possible establishment of a
technical training school here
were all answered- fat material
forwarded to Ma. Gen. Rush B.
Lincoln.. Thursday night Alder
man Tom Armstrong said.
The .answers secured . through
assistance of a number of Salem I
men and women were mailed to I
TTti - J men ana women were mauea 10
'T IMJsm -Wm iiriri "l A'fr Lcoln's headquarters fat Tulsa,
li Peril 111 jL(tL Okla, according to Armstrong,
' In. his talk, Gw eprague re-1
minded that only a few; years
ago agricultural classes .were :
put In Salem school enrrieulnsa "
over much opposition. Since ;
the abolition , .of. child labor, ,
"many youths have net known
work; It has. been replaced by ;
ircreaUon." But ho stated the
FFA work "fear take th place :
of child exptelUttonS':''
Frank B. Bennett, Salem School
chairman of the city council's
airport committee..
superintendent -was - toastmaster.
tendent of public instruction, in-1 AXIS iiODlDS i Obrn& .
troduced ' the. speaker. - James j ROME, Nov.43-C-Axis bomb-Thompson,-193J-40
Salem presi-lers in a continuous 48-hour
dent assisted ' fax the - program, I pounding of Britishrheld Tobruk, I
which was opened Cwith a dcm- Libya, : pave "scored-hits on bar.
onstration. of chapter procedure. I racks, '"fuel " . depots, " munition
Entertainment was furnished by dumps, : motor vehicles, bunkers
the- Salem high; school" double and gun " emplacements," the effl-
quaxtet. trombone quartet .and dal agency Stefan! rcportedj
MacDowell club sextet j , y . 1 Thursday night .
rTtKHVIN J
When Finland rejected a tTntted SUtes warning to eeaae' flrMIar
ah tnskted that she siCl was waxtnx a def eadv war. This
shows Finnish territorial losses (dotted areas) ta th lS3-$
war with Xamia. Finns say they have regained most of &c terrU
lory except two vital areas, the FkLer and IXaaxe pesinralas cLr
ded), which are stSl ta Eusxiaa hands. Black arrows mark iircc
tleset axis drives ea Leningrad and llaseew. - .. .