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Church News
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temperature, Thursday.' it,
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Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning; Norombor 21. 1941
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Break To
French
Halts African -.
Colonies Aid;
Hull Sees Japs
. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20
( AP) The' United States?
Thursday suspended econom
ic assistance to France's north
African colonies, and broadly
hinted that diplomatic rela
tions with the Vichy govern
ment might be severed be
cause of increasing nazi dom
Ination of French affairs.
In announcing that "Amer
ican policy towards France is
being reviewed," Secretary of
State Hull made it clear that the
attitude of the United States
would be determined by France's
future action toward Hitler's
schemes "to take over by force
or threat of force the sovereign
ty and control of the French em
pire." His statement stemmed from the
Vichy government's action in re-
Captive Mine Pickets Shout at Workmen
TOKYO, Friday, Nov. 21-(B)
-The Japanese diet formally
closed today the five-day spe
cial session which heard Pre
mier Illdeki Tojo demand an
end to the British-American
blockade as the price of peace
In the Pacific. Immediately af
terward Emperor Hirohito re
ceived Tojo in audience for a
report on the general state of
off airs and to answer Inquiries
from the throne.
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U Troops
Ready In
Row
Coal
German Crete Flees Odemvald
Pickets at Red Lyon Captive mine, Union town, Pa., shouted at workmen entering the mine. Strikes by
CIO unionists in the Captive coal mines spread to the commercial fields, with 13 Pennsylvania pits
shut down by sympathy walkouts.
moving General Maxime Wey
cand as France's pro-consul in
north Africa.
After devoting the morning
to the European situation Sec
retary Hull, disregarding the
Thanksgiving holiday, met with
Admiral Klchisaburo Nomura,
the Japanese ambassador, and
Saburo Kurusu, special envoy,
In another talk designed to find
a peaceful solution of Japanese
American tension in the Pacific.
The Japanese had receiyed new
instructions from their foreign of
lice during the night These or
ders were based on developments
in the several talks they have al
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State WPA Director
Lauds Salem Art Fair
Val Gear Says Portland Fair No Finer
Than Exhibits Here; Ceramics Prove
Popular; Saturday Is Closing Day
Quality, effective, arrangement and variety both of items
offered and of price range in the Salem Art fair were praised
by Val Clear state WPA-rt psojocta-director, when he visited
the fair at the Salem Art center this week.
Portland's fair, while larger in some divisions, cannot boast
finer quality of craft merchandise
Hubbard Men
Crash Train
Two Hospitalized in
Wallace Road Wreck;
Locomotive Stalled
Oldster Joins
Young GOPs
Honorary Member, 96,
Staunch Republican,
To Address Group '
Corvallis Buys
Airfield Land
CORVALLIS, Nov. 20-
chase of 499 acres three and one-
hnlf miles south of here for a
municipal airport, has been au
thorized by the city council.
The land will cost S75 an acre,
Special dispensation to count
the honorary membership in the
Youne ReDublicans' club of Mar
ion county which was this week K'1
tendered William
930 Garnet as equal to three or
dinary memberships will be sought
by his team in the contest which
closes today, Herman Lanke de
clared Thursday.
and strictly cultural art than Sa
lem's, he told staff members at
the center.
The fair, which continues the
remainder of this week in the
art center at the eld high school
building, opens at 10 o'clock
each morning, continues
through the late afternoon and
is reopened from 7:30 to 9:30
pjn.
An. especially large collection
of work by blind students has
been on display and on sale this
according to Mrs. W. E.
R. Simpson of .
Mr. Simpson, who will be 96
years old in February Is more
than three times the age of the
average member of the club (or
ordinarlly limited to persons
whose ages range from 16 to 35),
according to Lanke, "but in ev
ery respect he is a 'young' party
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U-Boat Chief Spots Convoy
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in cotton, linen-cotton-and wool
combinations represent the work
of educationally blind and totally
blind boys and girls as do a set
of gay-colored woven table mats,
bracelets, bright beads and similar
products.
Indian baskets of willow
withes, spruce root and squaw
grass, woven by women from
Grand Ronde and Silets, some
of them at the art center, have
attracted numerous admirers
and purchasers.
Possibility that an additional
collection of ceramics might be
available for sale today was ex
pressed at the center by members
of the staff, who pointed out that
the collection of small potteries
had moved rapidly.
A number of the articles which
have been sold have been left in
the display by their purchasers
so that the fair may still be con
sidered largely complete so far
ss "looters only" are 5 concerned.
Two Hubbard men who report
edly drove head-on into the side
of an almost halted railroad loco
motive at the Wallace jroad cross
ing at 9:50 Thursday night are ia
the Deaconess hospital today,
where one of them; is considered
possibly seriously injured.
Only highway mishap report
ed in the Salem area in spite
of what state police termed
"brisk holiday traffic," the mis.
hap left Robert Ptckrell, 21,
Hubbard highway ixoo employe,
suffering from bruises and pos
sible internal injuries, hospital
attendants said. Extent of in
juries sustained could not be
determined immediately, the
physician in charge said.
Albert Tichenor 28, also an
employe at the zoo service sta
tion, driver of the light pickup
truck which crashed into the en
gine of the freight! on the Salem
Dallas SP line, wad apparently not
seriously injured, it was declared.
Trainmen, unable to move the
locomotive from the crossing
north of the Polki-Marion bridge
following the accident because
they said the drivel had been dam
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Shootings Told
As Mine Strike
Spreads in East
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20
(AP) Reports of new shoot
ings in the captive mine dis
pute and the spread of sym
palny walkouts in commer
cial pits came Thursday night
along with word that troops
at Camp Forrest, Tenn., were
standing by for possible strike
duty.
Officers of the 58th signal bat
talion, discounting reports that
part of their outfit already was
on the way to Pennsylvania coal
fields, said, however, that the
unit, along with others at the big
camp, expected momentarily to be
called to duty.
Earlier, a defense spokesman
had said that "The government
will not give in, but it doesn't
want to use troops."
This was followed by hints from
other defense officials that legis
lation would be offered shortly
for government seizure of the
closed workings.
William H. Davis, chairman
of the disrupted national de
fense mediation board, was
mentioned as having a hand in
drafting of the projected legis
lation. It was the board's 9 to
Z adverse recommendation on
the "union shop" demand of the
United Mine Workers that pre
cipltated fho' sew strike of SV
009 'miner in captive pits and
nearly twice as many more in
supporting walkouts in com
mercial mines.
An office of production manage
ment source said OPMs labor di
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Axis Units
Fall Back
In Libya
English Troops
Plan to Bring
Decisive Fight
By The Associated Prr-w
The center of the imperial
British offensive into Libya
has beaten forward 80 miles
within axis territory to with
in ten miles of the outer de
fenses of the long beseiged
British garrison of Tobruk,
the middle-eastern command
announced Thursday night,
and it thus appeared that
large bodies of German and
Italian troops were in immi
nent peril of encirclement.
This advance of the central
forces, said the communique ox
the British command, had over
run and captured the town of
Rezegh on the plateau just to the
southeast of Tobruk itself. Quick
relief for that city was in sight
But, more important, the Brit
ish apparently were about to drive
a line from Sidi Omar, one of the
jumping-off points for their of
fensive, clear to the Mediterranean
Tobruk being on its shores
and thus split the rear and for
ward axis armies.
Moreover, the British declared
that their armored forces us
ing America equipment bad
smashed an Italian tank de
tachment on this Into and
the ' right flank had advanced
snore than SO nattcs West mt CI
paxso, putting to flight a num
ber of German units which re
fused battle.
All this strongly supported ear-
Aboard the flagship of the Mediterranean fleet off Libya, . t. t Rritith -XDedi.
Members of the crew of the German ship Odenwald, captured in the
Atlantic flying the United States flag, attempted to nee the ship
as a boarding party (foreground) from a US cruiser approached.
As the boarding party reached the side of the ship there were two
explosions and the crew said it would sink in 20 or 30 minutes.
However, the ship was brought safely into port. This official navy
picture was made by a member of the boarding party.
British Naval Action
Told By Eye Witness
Shelling of Axis Bases on Libyan
Shore in Aiding Land Campaign
Revealed by AP-Correspondent
By LARR Y ALLEN
(Associated Press Writer)
vision was aware of the legisla- Nov 20-5-The flash of big British naval guns mingled with tion, which was charged with tho
ney Hillman, has given no indica- lbs of lighting during a violent thunderstorm early Tuesday
tion of reversing his hitherto firm morning as hundreds of high explosives were pumped into Cjer-
stand against any form of strike- I
repressive law.
Some administration leaders
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US Weather
Hot, Chilly
By The Associated Press
A hodgepodge of weather condi
tions over the United States pre
vailed Thanksgiving day.
A mass of cold air overspread
the northern part of the nation
I from California to the Appala
chians, and thence as far south as I
central Mississippi, southwestern
Louisiana, and northwestern Ala-
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To the north and east of the
Appalachians summer-like tem
peratures were reported during
the day. New York City, had a
72, Boston 70, and Washing-
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Thanksgiving
Welcomes Two
New Citizens
i
Two new male Salem resi
dents had their first Thanksgiv
ing and probably their last
Thanksgiving birthday Thurs
day. J
Unless a calendar reform or
a change of heart overtakes
congress, November 20 can nev
er fall on the final Thursday in
the month, which national law
makers have indicated they will
declare the official Thanksgiv
ing holiday. -
The two are
China Charges
Use of Germs
By Japanese
CHUNGKING, Nov. 20-P)-The
authorized spokesman of the Chi
nese army in a conference with
foreign correspondents Thursday
accused the Japanese of starting
germ warfare.
He said that on November 4
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stuffs and clothing at Changteh, by fte British streaked
northern Hunan province, and t f the Libyan coast and
that many persons who ate the I drove them off.
food or used the clothes developed The British ships jockeyed into
symptoms of Bubonic plague and position Just after midnight Rain
died. fell in torrents. At times lightning
The Chinese government, the lit up the area in blinding flashes,
spokesman said, is sending in- but most of the time it was the
vestieators to make a full inquiry flames belching from British guns
into the affair. He called it the which illuminated the sea and the
first use of bacteria as a weapon dark Libyan coast.
in the Japanese-Chinese war.
Mercury and
i River Fall
Heavy exlposions rumbled from
ashore after the crackling blast
of landing shells. British officers
said these indicated hits on axis
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man and Italian bases on the Libyan shore to aid a huge British
land drive westward across the desert.
i There was little answering fire from the shore, and no
British warships were hit in this
bombardment, officially described
as successful.
From the top deck aft of this
flagship which stood farther out
to sea to screen the attacking
cruisers, destroyers and other
light units, from any Italian
warships, I watched the attack
concentrated mainly on Salum,
nearby "Hellfire Pass" and Bar
dia, all east of Tobruk, where a
British garrison has held out
since April.
Later at twilight of that same
day I saw axis torpedo-carrying
planes approach this ship and the
Vichy Retires
Gen. Weygand
US Blames Hitler for
African Leader Shift;
Darlan Takes Over
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Nov. 20-0P-Gcn. Maxime Wey
gand, regarded as lukewarm to
collaboration with Germany, was
retired" Thursday night as dele
gate-general and military com
mander of French North Africa,
and that strategic area was placed
under the direct control of the
pro-German Vice - Premier Jean
Darlan.
The 74-year-old Weygand, who
commanded the final unsuccess
ful allied stand against Germany
in France, sent this farewell mes
sage to his African army and
colonial heads:
"Remain faithful to your
magnificent traditions and to
Marshal Petain."
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supreme task of destroying tho
axis armies of northern Africa,
had put the Germans and Italians
in danger of envelopment.
The British, it was clear, had
loosed their supreme effort since
the fall of France and with by
far the greatest striking force yet
assembled by them in any theatre
were beating forward on land, sea
and in the air with the grand ob
jective of forcing the German-
axis Commander Erwin Rommel
to a showdown in the border areas
just beyond the Egyptian fron
tiers. While the British field com.
der. General Sir Alan Cua-
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Burns May Get
Moscow Post
WASHINGTON, Nov.
Maj.-Gen. James H. Burns, lend-
lease executive, was reported in
diplomatic circles Thursday to be.
a likely choice by President Roo
sevelt for the post of ambassador
to Russia.
Ambassador Laurence A. Stein
hardt, the present envoy who is
en route home by plane, is under
stood to have asked to be relieved
after more than two years in
Moscow.
Temperature and the Willam
ette river both soared down, down,
Thursday night, and although the
.official weather forecast predicts
slowly moderating temperatures
for today and Saturday, attend-
ants at-the Salem weather station
declared that Thursday morning's
frigid minimum of 26 degrees
might be approached again this!
morning.
The chilly mercury rose to 48
degrees .Thursday afternoon, but
began its descent about 4 o'clock,
fell steadily, and at 11 pan. read
31 and was still dropping.
Receding rapidly, the Willam-
w . TT J 0T . I ette river stood at 6.7 feet abov
MT - AVi iiariCe I normaL.a. check on the weather 1
uuinu giiuge nuuwca iam xours-i
Tank Battle on Southern Russia Front
boys, born in
city hospitals Thursday to Sa
lem parents. At 12:28 am a son
was born to Mr, and Mrs. Leo
Patzer, 130 Lansing avenue, at
the Deaconess hospital, and at
8:57 am Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Courtney became the parents of
a boy, bora at the Salem Gen
eral hospital.
Strike
News
Blast Injures Alan ,
An anti-freeze solution explod
ed in "his face. Wednesday night
as he poured .the liquid into the
radiator of his car, A. B. Meyer,
route 6, Salem, said at the Dea
coness hospital Thursday - night
after members of his family had
persuaded him the burns he had
By The Associated Press
: WashtaaWLegtsiatkra Jor
seizure of captive coal mines
reported in preparation. (
Pittsburgh Three men;
wounded by gunfire in e a 1
strike clashes; sympathy walk
outs s pread. - '
! day night This mark records an
approximate drop of 7.5 feet in the
last 24 hours. ' ... .- '-"..
Detroit CIO
votes to fight
A Carman submarine commander (top) peers through the koP 1 sustained should receive more
of his craft at a British convoy, wwrdlng to Germa aources. At 4
bottom Is the convoy nnu an atrpuuiv I -v( . w ,
cross-hairs of the periscope. .1 , 1 i given.
measures, restricting strikes.
Washington Union leaders to
confer with President Roosevelt i
Friday, on threatened railroad;
War Prisoners Shifted i
KINGSTON, Ont, ,Nov. VHPh
With their guards doubly alert
because two bold young nazi flight
lieutenants tried to f escape Wed
nesday by concealing themselves
in pianos, 500 German war pris
oners were paraded . through
Kingston streets Thursday eh
I route to a new place of interment
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Serman troopers (left) carry of f a-wounded eomrado who had been shot by a K nstian soldier, In.lho
..' smoking soviet tank (center), according- to German sourees which said the Incident occurred sear
the Sea of Asov. The red tank, Berlin said, had attempted to break up a German advance unit 'and
was put out of action by German anti-tank fire. When a German soldier approached the tank ho 'was
-'"fired oa by an-occupant of tho tank. .1 .v.::: l , .j .;; , :.: :-v -r. .