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Church News ' Cbnrchf oers, . many .of them, depend on the Satur day Statesman for news of the Sunday services they with to attend meeting times, subjects and, special events ' ' ' f Wcaihcf t Generally fair today and Sunday. MitIibbtm Vesper atare Friday, It, Mlo. IS. Kaln Jl inches, Uver 4U feet. Southeast wind. Fart ly cloudy. POUNDS B 16EI NTNTTY-riEST YEAB Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning. Norember 22. 1941 Price Set Newsstand 8e No. 208 Axis Reels In Attacks By British Imperial Troops StrikeTelling Blows in Desert ." By The Associated Press The invading British with their new American -made weapons appeared late Friday night to have won the initial stages of that great Libyan battle which Winston Chur chill had .ordered to rid North Africa of the axis armies. The British middle eastern command said that the quick decisive engagement predict ed by the prime minister had been "joined in earnest" aince Thursday; declared that all main axis lines were now directly threatened and that the German and Italian tank columns had been sent reeling back to defeat in ev ery major action where they had offered battle. The loss of at least 187 axis tanks in this developing all-out struggle was reported by British authorities. British military informants in Cairo summed up with the dec laration that the showdown was at hand and that matters were going "very well" for British arms. The strongest of all British pushes and they were spread oat upon a front of 140 miles wide was by General Sir Alan Cunninrham's center, the main force of which was reported to be beating on beyond Tobruk over the high plateau barely south of the town while sub sidiary British forces turned off the main line of that ad vance and struck to the north to meet the long-besieged defend ers of the Tobruk garrison It self. The main drive, reaching up nearly to the Mediterranean short, apparently had cut the main axis armored forces in two. Tobruk's men apparently were breaking out to the south, thus forming a trap for the German and Italian forces in that area. The siege, it seemed clear, was not only being lifted but was about to be converted into an axis disaster. More important, however, was the progress of the main British column which, by-passing Tobruk in Sl total advance that was ap proaching 90 miles, appeared to be drawing a wide arc to envelop all the axis forces between that area and the Egyptian frontier to the east Authoritative sources declared (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) b: UAL Agent $ I . ":-maK'-i . I . I I 'I ' fc K v I U V A To F Pi "IE1 1 H .mm. 02 Coal Strike OLIVER JUDD Flight Times Air Schedule First official announcement of the United Air Lines' flight schedule serving Salem was made Friday by Oliver Judd, UAL agent. Planes southbound from Se attle are due to arrive In Sa lem at 1:05 p. m., continuing on to San Francisco, where they are due at 5:19 p. m. Northbound planes leave San Francisco at 1:30 p. m., Oak land 14 minutes later, arriving at Salem at 5:15 and continu ing on to Portland and Seattle Airline Day Program Set Eight Committees for City's Celebration Named at fleeting Naming 11 men to head eight committees for the day, Irl S. McSherry, general chairman, Friday outlined plans for the city's celebration of the coming of regular air mail and transporta tion service. The committee on distin guished guests and the noon luncheon, to be given in their honor December 5 is to be headed by Mayor Chad wick; transportation, by W. L. Phil lips; police and traffic by As sistant Police Chief E. C. Charlton; dedicatory program at the airport, Tom Armstrong; reception hour at 6 p. m., Frank Doerfler; banquet at 7 p. m Jerrold Owen; decorations, Harry Brown, Oliver Judd and Don Black; school and service (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) hief 6 Shackles' 5" v Murray Accepts New Term, Asks For Cooperation DETROIT, Nov. 21 (AP) Phillip Murray accepted a second term as president of he CIO Friday with a plea to government, and business to cooperate with labor in good aith and a declaration that he would fight against any at tempt to place legislative "shackles' on union organiza tions. Murray, 55 years old and a vet eran of the labor movement, was re-elected by acclamation at the CIO's annual convention. A 34- minute demonstration by the dele gates when his name was placed in nomination indicated he had become the No. 1 man in the CIO in fact as well as title since he took over the top office when John L, Lewis relinquished it last year. ' Addressing his remarks to Pres ident Roosevelt and business men, he asserted: "Accept us In good faith, sit around the industry council ta ble with us, perfect your pro grams of expansion with us, give us an administrative part In the development of these great projects." Murray charged in his accept ance speech that industrialists and opportunists were "taking advan tage of the present grave national emergency,? by making efforts to prevent labor from using its "ecO' nomic weapons ' and that some congressmen were seeking to place the "shackles" of law on la bor. He promised to fight such moves. He called upon President Roo sevelt to give labor "a better chance to join with you in the Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Searched for Weapons as Shooting Starts i X" -V- West Virginia state troopers stopped vehicles entering Gary, W. Va-, looking for pickets who might be carrying weapons. Ten men were arrested. Here two are being searched. President Roosevelt proposed that discussion of one issue In the captive coal mine strikes that of the closed shop be postponed until after the national emergency. John L. Lewis flatly rejected the proposal. Ten men have been reported wounded at various mines. Violence Flares While FR Wait Union's Reply Mediation Board Chief Wires Commercial Miners for 'Aid In Settlement of Strike 1 School Clash Seen Settled Linn Non-High Board Offers Plan on Bus And Pupils Schedule Railway Strike Peace Parley Breaks Down IJnion and Management Chiefs Fail On Agreement; Will See FDR Today; Seattle Welders Seek OPM Probe Reds Claim Gains at Moscow -TT7 NINGRAD SOVIET RUSSIA MILES J YAROSlAVlA f plSS. KALININ f j J jyvySy "VoV w m t ApBfcjrw I 1 VV "sTn VVVVVVVA JWffct IL-bk .r 1 J -V--VWI JB Ktmmwm .V. . J l ,tv., " C f XvVXx-V.V.V.V.VA.V.W.V.W.J- I ;V.V.vvX"AV.V.V.V.v I :::::::X;:::::::::o Price Control Measure Gets Right-of-Way WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 !-()- Long-awaited price control legis lation was given right-of-way to i the house floor Friday after members of the rules committee said they had obtained assurances from the democratic leadership that measures to curb strikes in defense industries would be next in line. The rules committee voted for procedure under which the "se lective" price control bill recom mended by the house banking committee will open to all ger mane amendments. Rep. Cox (D-Ga) explained that this would permit all provisions of the over' all price control measure spon sored by Rep. Gore (D-Tenn) except one dealing witn recap ture of excess defense profits, to be offered as a substitute. Thus, the house will have a chance to vote on whether to regulate wages as well as prices. ALBANY, Nov. 21 The drawn out dispute regarding the attend ance of non-high pupils from Linn county in .the Stay ton high school has apparently reached what is believed to be an agree able settlement between the two non-high boards. According to the plan as worked out by the Linn eonir ty non-high boundary board, the school bus from Stayton may continue to pick up pupils from the Queener, Kingston and Mt. Pleasant districts and also the Cole district except the southern part adjacent to the Sclo territory. These pupils include those ap proved for attendance at the Stayton school but includes a provision that should any pupil have a good and sufficient rea son he may attend elsewhere when approved by the non-high school board. The agreement further cites the fact that pupils from Linn county non-high districts not designated in the former para graph and now attending the Stayton schools may do so when so approved by the board. Those attending at present have already beerl approved, for continuing in that school if they so desire. The boundary board further . asks the discontinuance of the Stayton school bus from the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) - WASHINGTON, Nov. 21-JP)-A series of conferences be tween railroad union and management representatives on the threatened nation-wide railroad strike ended abruptly Friday night after a five-minute session, with a hint that the latest peace effort had bogged down. A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men", told-reporters the meeting ended after the "refusal on the part of the carriers to in any way go beyond" the recommendations for settlement of the wage dispute made by an emergency board ap pointed by President Roosevelt. F. G. Gurley, chairman of the western carriers conference committee, said in a statement that the conferees had decided to report to the president and that until such report was made "the agreement was that no public statement could be made by either party." It was understood a committee of three, appointed Friday night, would seek a meeting with Mr, Roosevelt Saturday to make an oral report The committee will be accompanied by R. v. Fletcher, vice-president and general coun sel of the Association of American Railroads. Labor Unrest At A Glance By The Associated Prew WASHINGTON President wllbnolas action pending un ion's reply today to newest proposals for ending Captive mine strike; mediation board makes new move for peace; war and navy departments en dorse legislation for govern ment seizure of strike-bound plants. PITTSBURGH Ten pick ets shot in coal strike disorder; steel production of 20 per cent CAMP FORREST, Tenn. Thirty thousand troops ready for possible move into coal fields. Snsslaa armies reported they were pressing the German back around Volokolamsk and Moxhalsk, northwest and west of the capital, but j 0 Major General Georre a. r acknowledged a withdrawal la the Crtmeaaa maataals. dro. to; Z.Jil Train Wreck Suspect Is Questioned SUSANVILLEV Calif, Nov. 21- (P)-Sheriff Olin S. Johnson con tinued -.Friday night to question C. Alexander, 24, Cleo Springs, Okla., but said he was beginning to doubt the man derailed a $2. 000,000 streamlined train in Ne vada during 1939,. in which 24 persons died and 108 were in jured.- -, "He still sticks to his t story after 18 hours of questioning, but Fm beginning to have my doubts," the sheriff said. , "There la the possibility hell tarn out to be more Ar less of a crackpot! ' : '. . The sheriff called in FBI agents (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - ' s- 1111 ' ' 1 'if -. Gen. White StiU HI PORTLAND, Not, 21 h(P)- rnysicians . said the . condition Defense Road Bill Signed By President WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -&- a aeiense nighway bill, author izing appropriations of $220,000, 000, received President " Roose velt's reluctant approval Friday. The president signed the meas ure, he said, because it author ized $150,000,000 for access roads to military and naval reservations and defense industry sites- and $10,000,000 for airplane landing strips. He objected to inclusion ' of $50,000,000 in authorizations for "so-called strategic network of highways and bridges" and $10,- 000,000 for "surveys and plans" on grounds they were not essen tial to defense. That was a spot at which mil lions could have, been saved, he told a press conference, but it wasn't done. He indicated, how ever, that he might do some thing about it himself. State Power -Saving Seen Bean Reports Result Of Study; Governor Seeks Possible Plan Ignoring distribution costs, the the state could save aprpoximate- Ljy $15,000 a year by buying its electric power for the capitol and institutions in Salem and vicin ity from the Bonneville admins tration at B6nneville's wholesale rates, according to a report made to Gov. Charles A. Sprague by Ormond R. Bean, public utilities commissiqner, and released Fri day. Gov. Sprague indicated he was asking )he utilities com missioner to pursue the investi gation further to ascertain if means of distribution might be devised that could bring a con siderable part of this saving to the state. "The board of control has no funds for capital outlay to con struct a new (power) line, and preliminary figures of investment ana operating cost ao not indicate m m -1 that that would be feasible," the JWO lflOntllS governor saia. "We will now ascertain whether Bonneville would make direct dis ' ' nM.t... .m4 MMM M tiiihmj tii but I . WTistoa wno has been serious- rkv situation serious at Tula (white arrows)-. British sources said ' Cernuna were, exerting tremendaua pressure i reach the Caucasus , through EostoT and Kerch (1). .. , - ..-,-' t. - .m. ..v-.t,.i:,. Jr- . ly ill at his ; Camp Clackamas, nome - near, here, .was vnchang ed Friday. SEATTLE, Nov. 21 --Seattle welders' leaders wired a request (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Matson Line Cancels Runs LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2l-JPf- The Matson Navigation company tribution, tr whether the Portland Friday notified prospective pas. General Electric company, which now serve Salem and vicinity, will permit the use of its facilities for the distribution of the load to the capitol buildings and state insti tutions." The governor asked the utili ties, department to study the ; Bonneville power proposition on October 1 at the time a pro posed five-year contract for renewal of service from the Portland General Electric was under consideration by the" board of Control. The state's 21 institutions are now served through 25 miles of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) sengers that its liners Matsonia and Monterey will be taken from their Hawaiian and Australian runs during December and Janu ary and turned over to the gov ernment for national defense purposes. Sailings of the Matsonia for Dec. 19, Jan. 2 and Jan. 15 to Honolulu were, cancelled, as was that of the Monterey for Dec. 10 for Australia. The announcement said the vessels would return to normal service Jan. 31 DETROIT CIO, by resolu tion, demands training of army for strike-breaking" be stop ped: re-elects Philip Murray president. WASHINGTON TrahjnM brotherhood bead says rail roads refuse to go beyond emergency board's recommen dation for averting nationwide railroad strike December 7; conferences adjourned and re port to be made to President Roosevelt. NEW YORK Federal con ciliators seek compromise to end threat of strike by long lines telephone workers. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21 (AP) Blazing- guns felled 10 pickets Friday in a battle between non-strikers and pic kets in the Fayatte coal fields, turbulent center of the five-day-old United Mine Workers strike against the steel com pany-owned captive mines. The men, all identified as strike pickets by t h e CIO United Mine Workers, were wounded in a fresh outburst of shooting at the Edenborn mine of the H. C. Frick company, 18 miles north of Uniontown. where three were wounded Thursday. The Frick company is a subsid iary of the U. S. Steel corpora-, tion. Kenneth Speer, a reporter for the Pittsburgh Sun -Telegraph and one of "10 newspapermen caught in the cross-fire between the two sides, said that while he was looking on from an automo bile on the highway, he saw shots fired from a hill where the non strikers were gathered and from the highway behind him where the pickets were massed, about 200 to 250 strong. ., : ...-- An eleventh picket was slightly wounded by gunfire aa be drove past the Republic cor poration's Clyde mine near Fredericktown, Washing ten county, across the Monongahela river from the Edenborn mine. British Bomb Italo Bases Naples, Tripoli and Brindisi Feel Tons Of High Explosives VALLETTA, Malta, Nov. 2-JP) -British planes in the central Mediterranean are supporting the African offensive with tons of bombs dumped on targets in all directions from this island fortress. Filers reported the attack on Brindisi Wednesday night pro duced particularly spectacular results, with fires so great that the red glow in the sky on the "heel" of the Italian boot could be seen from the "toe," more than 100 miles away. The first wave of planes comb ed the Brindisi railway and fort and pilots said they also saw a large factory go up in flames. A second wave, flying over the shorter southerly arm of the har bor, dropped heavy bombs on oil tanks which burst into flames and belched forth new explosions. One rear runner said be counted 24 explosions as his plane circled the target before heading home. Another said the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) WASHINGTON, .Nov. Zl-iXT The government undertook a new effort to settle the captive coal mine strike Friday night after a day which saw ten pickets wound ed by gunfire and the production of steel curtailed for lack of fueL William H. Davis, chairman of the defense mediation board, addressed telegrams to com mercial mine operators associa tions designed to show that the United Mine Workers union will lose no rights in the com mercial mines U It postpones Ita demand for a "union shop" in the captive mines. (The captive mines are owned by and produce coal for the steel companies. The commercial mines sell their coal on the open mar Vet The union shop is a system i nder which all employes are re quired to become members of the union.) John L. Lewis, president of the UMW, has taken the position that by the terms of the union's con tracts calling for a union shop, with commercial producers the contracts would be invalidated if it would sign an agreement with (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Angell Charges Cemetery Bill WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 21- MrV Rep. Angell (R-Ore) urged the house. Friday to , pass . without amendments , a t senaterapproved bill (S-793) to authorize the 'war department to purchase, construct and maintain a national ceme- terv near 'Portland. :-:,;" "Lk' ' The house amendments would require Oregon; to provide the site for the burying grounds of Idaho, . Montana, v. Oregon and Washington, veterans, Angell said. Sparks Keeps Loop Post PORTLAND, Ore, Nor. 21-(j"P- Coaches and managers of the Northwest conference re elected R. V. "Nig" Borleske, veteran Whitman college coach, aa president Friday night. Leslie J. Sparks, Willamette tanlversity, . .was renamed ; sec retary. iv. .-.v:V .- - Faculty - representatives:' re elected - Paul Murphy, College of Idaho, president mad Harry Dillon, Ltnfield, secretary, . : . The group drew p , sched ules for the coming year,, bat decided tor call 'another meet- tng . to consider cancelling . of the schedules in ease ti US war entry.- - . j - - n . ; Mistaken Identity Told In Forged Checks Case Alleged confession of illegal check-writing activities during state fair week in Salem from a woman in a California prison brought discovery of one of the most unusual cases of mistaken identity on record here, District Attorney " Miller B. Hayden declared Friday, ' Because Ellen - G. Swenson, serving a term in Tehachapl women's-' prison - in - California, has been identified , as .the wom an who passed the checks pre viously attributed to M a r I e Young, Vancouver,' Waslw Hay-' den said ; he . weald file - motion for dismissal of charges which were to have brought Mrs, Young to trial here Monday in circuit court. : MrYchg;-iwi- with her hus band lives on. a farm near Van couver, has steadfastly denied her milL declaring she was in .Salem 'on -September 7 but not on ep- Meat Markets Reopen Today PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 21 -UP) -Portland AIL meatcutters and their employers announced Fri day night that 67 major meat mar kets in the city would re-open Saturday. A joint statement said an agree ment had been reached in a wage dispute. Details were not dis dosed. The union struck at the Port land Provision company three weeks ago, and other members of the Oregon Meat council shut down the next day in what union officials termed a 'lockout atfect- ing 500 workers. I l ne ; union naa asked a wage boost from $40 to $47.50 for a 48-hour week.. - tember 8, date some of the checks were cashed at the Marion "oteL Five' persons including a ' hand writing expert -were called as witnesses" to identify ker.' One of these had identified both Mrs,' Young and Llrs. Swenson as the woman who declared she was in Salem, to purchase, cattle for her ranch while she was handing out worthless checks, Hayden said, so great is their physical', similar ity;-::-.":.- 7. ..J-. . . ' ..-w" . ..Among Htm checks passed here Maiden Flichr Of JIars Set - i; BALTIMORE, Kwl 2l-ipThe Glenn L. Martin company - an nounced Friday ( that - the .Mara, we navy's. huge new firing boaV would make )ts maiden- flight in a few days. ; ; r:... . The. Mars . U described .'as' the, world's " largest . flying; oat. Tht' plane 1 was; launched " yd'A; fcj .; (Turn, to Page 3; CoL, 8) " naval ceremonies Kev'l.. - ' -. i ' -J'- . . - - ft t V . . . - . . . 1-1, -f -i 4 . . .", J . ). . I- - . . 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