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PAGE TWO Blazing Guns FeU Miners Violence Flares as President Wails for 'Union Peace Reply (Continued from page 1) -the captivt mine operators that does not Include a .union shop clause. In his telegrams, Darts asked the eemmeri!! operators whether lo their opinion this was true, and also called upon them for pledges that they would abide by their existing contracts with the anion even though It Urns an open shop contract with the captive mine. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt awaited a formal reply" from the union to his recent peace formula a proposal that the demand for a union shop (or closed shop as he calls it) be dropped without prejudice for the duration of the national emergency or that the is sue be submitted to abitration. The unions answer is to be formulated at a meeting of its policy committee Saturday, but its nature was generally considered a foregone conclusion because Lewis himself had turned it j down. It was expected that : Saturday's meeting would merely ratify Lewis decision. WASHINGTON, Nov. H -()- benator Wagner (D-Ky) will discuss the coal mine strike in a radio address from New York Sunday night. The address, to be given over MBS at T p. m., PST. is titled, "Come Let Us Reason Together." Wagner sponsored the national labor lelations act. British Bomb Italo Bases Naples, Tripoli and Brindisi Feel Tons Of High Explosives (Continued from Page 1) red fire shot at least 1000 feet Into the air. An attack on Tripoli, started simultaneously with that on Brin disi, lasted until 6 a.m. Thursday. Naples was raided for six hours, and the fliers said they left great fires burning in the rail way' yards. An attack on Bengasi was made through an Intense barrage directed by many searchlights. Crews of Blenheim bombers which attacked shipping in the Gulf of SIrte reported flying low through heavy fire from destroyers and motorboats to drop explosives from mast height en a 5000-ton steamer and a schooner, both of which were left listing badly. In the meantime, Malta itself bad six air raid alarms in 24 hours. A communique said one axis fighter was possibly destroyed and three others damaged and that there was only one serious casualty on this island. Army Retires Oregon Unit Commander FORT LEWIS, Wash., Nov. 21 -m- Col. Ralph P. Cowgill, commander of the 188th infantry, an Oregon national "guard unit m the 41st division, will be re lieved of duty December 2, the army announced Friday, in line with a war department ruling setting an age limit of 35 for regimental cqmmanders. A Portland civil engineer, Col. Cowgill joined the 186th as a captain in 1924 and was in com mand of Company A. He was widely known in Oregon, having had charge for some years of the Medforu water system. He also constructed several fish hatcheries for the state game commission. Before he was graduated from Washington State college's engi neering school, Cowgill made a name for himself as a champion cross-country, runner and pole vaulter. f He served In France during the hat war irtth an engineers unit No successor has yet been chos en to command the 186th. Wooten Says Army Objectors in Work Camps Lose Job Guarantee ' OMisdentious objectors who serve in work camps because of aversion to any form of military service are not protected In weir uviusui employment oy the act, Lieut-CoL lamer V. Wooton, 4vw ucvwnu xriuajv The selective trsinbir and aervke act of 191, Weeton said, la specific la timiuwy its re-em-pleyment provisions to any per sea Inducted Into the land er aval forces who s&UsfacUrily completes his perled af mCltary tf Vi f- m m J . . . - - I7 Conscientious Objectors, except those who are Inducted for non combatant service in the military establishment, were . excluded . by Congrats from iha benefits of the civilian re-employment provisions W tn law r - .ih-i 'vVV' Colonel Wooton s s 1 id many registrants who are tnainiaJnla'' The Battle JWrtD P per CIO President Gets New Term Pleads Cooperation Needed by Business; Raps $1-Year Men (Continued from page 1) conduct of your great defense en terprises," and asked the chief executive and congress to "come Just a little bit closer to labor." Making a bid - for a greater voice for labor In the defense pro gram, Murray stated: "Why should the agencies of government In Washington to day be virtually Infested with wealthy men who are supposed ly receiving one dollar a year compensation? ... It b com monly known that many of these business men who are al legedly working for one dollar a year ... are in the inside of government getting fat, profit able contracts for the compa nies they are privileged to rep resent there. That is dishonest." Earlier, the convention adnnted a resolution demanding that Pre sident Koosevelt "direct that the training of selectees and other service men for strike breaking De immediately stopped." Nazi Labor Chief hits At America BERLIN, Nov. 21-tfP-Dr. Rob ert Ley, head of the German la bor front, told a mass meeting of foreign workers Friday that Eur ope must "find herself through the nazi new order to kn fmm being crushed by America. na tion of "cultureless barbarians" led by a "poor fool" of a presi dent. To 15.000 laborers from 14 Kr opean countries Ley declared that Bolshevism is already drawing ii. i .... - us lasi Dream- and asserted: "A new Europe is coming to gether which will retrain the mm mon roots of a thousand-year-old culture, you workers are messen gers of this new period. We have broken capitalism here the Jewish capitalism of the satiated, the indolent, who wanted war and against whom the nations of Europe are now taking the field in ngnung for honor, indepen dence and a just part of the goods of the world. "We have put honor above money; labor above capitalism; the right of man above 'the right of gold." Ley spoke from the rostrum of Benin gaily-decorated sportspal ast. Portland Banker Weds PORTLAND. Ore.. Now -Charles Francis Adams, 79-year- om cnairman of the directors' board of the First Nation hnir of Portland, today married Mice- Frances Stockwell of New York, a men a of the family for 60 years. selective training and service state director of selective serv- that they shcald be placed in Class ! IY-E, easeleatieas eb Jectm wb are pneaed to any aervke mnder military direction, svobably weald be available far class 1-A-O, eanscleattoas -Jeetors eppeeed to eemhataat service anly, it they were tbe eaghly Infermed eoneersing the type of service that weald be reqmbred - ef them as aa-eona batants la the sanitary estab lishment. . -" 4 - - -: He . urged all consdenrJoi kI lectors to consult with their local Doaras imu o: : registrant advisory boards to obtain this Information. Th otthe Atlantic Goes Into Full Swing Against Axis 'it .feci .' ' Final Tribute Paid Pioneer Salem Merchant at Funeral Final tributes were paid to C. P. Bishop, Salem's revered pioneer merchant who died Tuesday, at funeral services conducted at the First Presbyterian church Friday afternoon by Rev. W. Irvin Wil liams, pastor, and Bishop Bruce R. Baxter. Simple committal services were conducted at City View cemetery. The services at the church, in a setting of flowers that fill much of the pulpit area, were carried electrically to rooms ad joining for the benefit of friends who were unable to find seats in the church auditorium. More than 800 persons, including many from far parts of Oregon, were present, it was estimated. Bishop Baxter spoke of Mr. Vichy Sends Air Leader To Africa VICHY, Unoccupied France, Nov. 21-(PH3en. Jean Marie Bergeret, aviation secretary, flew Friday night to French North Af rica to inspect new defenses in that strategic area lying west of the Italian territory now being in vaded by British desert armies. His abrupt triD accurred amid signs of increasing French-Ger man couaDoration after the an nounced "retirement" of Gen. Maxime Weygand, North African military leader whose removal the United States government said was "at the express demand of Hit ler." Rear Admiral Rene Platan colonial secretary, had preceded Bergeret on a similar mission, as had Gen. Alfonse Juin, who took over Weygand's militarr im. mand after being released from a ixerman prison camp. The Duchess, Murder Queen Is Executed SAN QUENTIN, Calif.. Nov 24 -(iP)-A grim, fantastic woman who headed a holdup mob and held its purse-strings went to her death in an execution chamber today with a prayer upon her thin, pale lips. She was Evileta Juanita Snin- ellL The gang she led called her The Duchess." She was 52, and a grandmother. And she could pin a poker chip at 15 paces with a stilleto. Never before in California's.. history had the law exacted the life of a woman. The "Duch ess" died because she and her Imodiums killed one of the gang, lS-year-eld Robert Sher rard. T Sixty persons watched th. the eleven minutes It took the "Duchess" to die. Her face was haggard, her black w xii shot as two guards helped her e gas cnamberr A green smock shrouded her angular body Her black hair, streaked with gray, was cut in a .short bob. Her thin lins mattered pray, era as guards strapped her to the death chair. As though hyp notised, her eyes were fixed a electric Ucfct orer the Elks Chief to Visit - John S. McClelland, grand ex alted ruler of the Elks, is ex pected to be in Salem Saturday November 29, at a special meet ing of the Elks lodge. r - : . Get Canadian 7injrs OTTAWA,' Nov llff-Forty-two American " nflota nmint their wings in RCAF graduation exercises maay. -They included R.; D., Hobert, Woodland, . Wash. OSEGON STATESMAN. Satan. Bishop as "a friend, one of the best friends a man ever had." Recalling Mr. -Bishop's long years- membership in the Salem Rotary club, whose motto l "Service Above Self," Rev. WU- liams characterized him as a man who in winning hia wsv in th business world has not let it make him "hard and stern," but rather naa "discovered . . . that cooner at ion was a greater way than competition." The Salem Y Gleemen quar tet, consisting: of Max Alford, Ronald Craven, Richard Barton and W. E. Dahlen, sang for the service, "Lead Kindly Light," and "Beautiful Isle of Some where." Six employes of the Bishop firm served as active pallbearers Lawrence Bach, Ellis Cooley, LeRoy Gard, Frank Hammett, Harold Larson and Frank Wil. helm. Honorary pallbearers were Bert crown Barker of Portland, A. N. Bush, R. A. Booth of Eueene. Mayor W. W. Chadwick, David v. ire, sen. Douglas McKay, wmiam McGilchrist, jr., Dr. W B. Morse, Gen. Charles H. Mar. tin of Portland, Gov. Charles A. Sprague, Hon. Earl Snell, Amedee omitn ol Portland, William Wal ton and Paul B. Wallace. Train Wreck Suspect Is Questioned (Continued from Page 1) and Southern Pacific railroad de tectives and began a more de tailed questioning of Alexander. xne wrecked train was the "City of San Francisco," which was derailed on a westbound trip barney, We v., August 12, 1939. Railroad and official hoard. of inquiry held later that a de- uoeraie plot, in which a segment of rail was disconnected from tH iracx, caused the wreck. Alexander, a railroad section hand, was arrested last nioht . Doyle on charges of being drunk ana disorderly. He was being questioned in routin focM, about his previous activities when ue suaaeniy told a story of wreck ing the train, the sheriff said. Auto License Drawing Held Oregon automobile license plate No. L for the year 1942. nf Roy Tuchbreiter, Mapleton, Lane cuunty, at tne annual drawing for low numbers held in the tat motor vehicle division h. svi day. The drawine was conHuctari n der the direction of Secretary of ouie &an ssneu. License No. 13 was drawn V. J. J. Hoffman, Pendleton, while wk-ense no. is went to Charles R. PooL Ontario. Vera R. Keff a? N. E. 23rd avenue, Portland, re- vciyeu jj cease no. za. Other low numbers: George L. Allen. Caw tion, No. 2: Ralnh Damrmii Stevens radio station wn V L- Silvers, Seneca, No. 4: Owen w. Matthews, 515 Aainsworth street, Portland. No. fit T. j tt. ley, Valey, No. 6: Dnii t Howard, Klamath Falls, No. 7 E." W. Barnes. Grand RnrH. m. . George F. Fields and Loia, Port-' "mw. o. ; airs. Leo Wray, Eu gene, No. 10, Maude K. Edinger, The DaSes, No. 11: L. D. Short r un. No.. 12; Stanley W. NethertonJ ; Antomette Whit man, Klamath Falls, Not 15; Olum Moo. Silverton, No. 18; Pearl P. Shively. Portland, No. 17: P. A. Retnim ritKm. rut r . ibif es, No. . Mugney, Portland, No. La Verne Prnro e.i .J KarTH. Martzloff! CZo. K; Fred Gepner, Albany, No. 24 Vera R. Neff, Portland, No. 25. Onoon. Saturday Morning. Nanmbtt 22. 1941 17 1ST nihil i j School Clash Seen Seftled Linn Non-High Board Offers Plan on Bus And Pupils Schedule (Continued from page 1) Santiam bridge at Mehama through Linn county, to ML Pleasant, by December 1, 1941. However Stayton may, if it de sires, operate the school bus within the territory designated in paragraph 2 and that the non.hijh board recommended to the Linn county district boun dary board that such an appeal would be approved. Non-high school pupils living outside ter ritory designated may connect with the Stayton school bus either at Mehama or Mt Plea sant' The final paragraph of the board findings states that the tu ition contract be not violated in regard to cost of transportation and solicitation of pupils. Airline Day Program Set Eight Committees for City's Celebration Named at Meeting (Continued from page 1) club programs, Guy Hickok. Appointments were announced at a Marion hotel luncheon of the general committee named earlier in the week by Mayor Chadwick. Plans for the commencement of service include brief dedicatory ceremonies at the airport before noon following arrival of plane or planes from Portland bringing nited Air Lines, city of Portland and army air corps dignitaries. The noon luncheon for the visitors is to include an equal amber of residents of the Sa lem area. During the afternoon an airliner is to make five or six flights at intervals of 45 minutes Using etvie workers and newspaper writers as guests. First regularly scheduled air plane arriving during the after noon is to.be center of a dedi catory program. PossibUity that the christening of an ainlan might be included on the pro gram was expressed at FriHav. planning session. A 6 o'clock reception hour la to be followed by the 7 o'clock banquet in which the interest ed public is to participate. A series of programs before school and university student bodies and service club groups, suggested by Jim Nutter, Paci fic northwest press relations di rector for the UAL, may feature as speakers representatives of the airlines including air bos. tesses. Harvey Hancock, assistant to the president and western divi sion manager, will be present on December S, Nutter asserted. Forged Check Mkup Told (Continued from page 1) was one signed "Ella Q. 8 wen ten," fact which gave the due to actual identity of the forger. Others were signed "Eu genia Stevens' and "El G. Stevens.- The hotel registered her as "Mrs. H. J. Stevens." The California Investigator tn the case has reported that not only has. Mrs, Swenson admitted writ ing the checks hero but that .v. has declared she knew she would be arrested -If she remained here "so I beat it to Californi va rather serve' time there than in Oregon". - ; -5 In askinff dicmfnt nf tK in dictment against Mrs. Tounsr. Hit. dent said he would request that a -now order-, be placed for Mrs. Swenson at the women's prison n California, JBfth ht which rec ords are said to show she has served. -..'.. - - British Blast Axis in Libya Tobruk Fighters Aid In Encircling Troops; Victories Claimed (Continued from page 1) early Saturday that the axis commander Erwin Rommel, try ing to break out of the British encirclement to the southeast of Tobruk, had been beaten back three times and was losing 'three tanks for every British machine knocked out One informant estimated that Rommel had ljst 50 per cent of the tanks he had put into action. The apparent entrapment of large axis forces in this region also imperiled one of the strong est axis air bases in Libya, that of nearby El Adem. It was some 15 miles below To bruk near the town of Rezegh and to the east toward the Egyptian border town of Sidi Omar that the first great battles of the invasion were fought In those engagements, said the offi cial British version as it emerged Friday night, 130 German tanks were smashed. Fifty-seven Italian tanks were reported destroyed in previous battles. Forty miles south of Tobruk, another major British force was beating forward in the desert area of Bir El Gobi and there, said the British communique, an Italian armored division orig inally deployed for action was no longer able to exert Influ ence "on the battle now pro gressing." On Sir Alan's right part of his lorce was beating at the axis de fenses between Halfaya (Hell fire pass) and Sidi Omar in a hold ing action which the bulk of it had skirted the area and from the west of it was declared stead ily progressing northward toward the Mediterranean coast In an encirclement maneuver. The Italians, eivinff nn detail of consequence and apparently agaui speaxing or local actions, claimed in general terms that th axis armies were successfully vuun ter-a i lacKing. To this, the German communi que added little. On the Russian front where a new German recapitulation Put red casualties to date in killed, wounded or captured at the extraordinary of 10,009,000, fighting was bitter on the long contested sectors above and be low Moscow. The Russians admitted that about Tula, 100 miles south of the capital, a "serious situation" had arisen in a German encirclement maneuver which the-soviet forces were urgently trying to defeat Moscow reported that a great col umn of British tanks, manned by red troops, was in action some where on the front. The Germans for their part ac knowledged strong Russian coun-ter-attecks both at Tula and around Kalinin, which is 95 miles northwest of Moscow. The German eastern armies were in many Instances being provisioned by supply pUne, which were having hazardous going in the bUxxards howling over RussU. was plaJll that the certainty of a long winter's campaign was now being im planted in the minds of the Ger man people and that the confi dent slogans of a few weeks age were abandoned. Hitler, who had suffered suc cessive setbacks in the amend ment Of the US nnr,l,'. 1 . T1 WP into , , Ports and in the unfolding: Lib van parently was casting about for means of getting the French in one way or nn j his fighting. w "me OI Just one day after Vichy had put the bitterlv BntLBii.u , r,.,. . - -"--"uusn wean V ' reacnea the Asso ciated Press from v TT French and German leaders, not Petain, would meet soon for dis cussions that probably would re sult in more "collaW.v. wyil. . It was even predicted in some quarter, that France mlgnTgt all the way and become an out-and-out member of the axis. The Fresh French news service reported that a German milTtlr? economic and consular mission was expected to leave shortiTfor French North Africa. JK0 Nov. 21 -if)- Newspapers Friday renort edjtleast three vioUtionTo, indo." ..Th PPr Prajapti said an un identified foreign plane flew over the town of Aranyaprades, near the eastern border, at midnight rZSZ, ntUTwd toward cnodIa. The newspaper Supar burets reported that two French Planes circled over northeastern Jtmtier districts for 10 minuS Tuesday afternoon. Ten Annamite soldiers crossed the Mekong river Tuesday night and nlunderml t,.i ZI tT paper, said. " They also reported that the Thai CfflhutT In ... - vised Students not to go to - Ja pan for the present, due to diffi culties of food and travel in that country. j ' ' ' .' TOKYO. Kaftmr r m - rf, iit. -A Japanese government spokes man today denied that Japanese troops had entered Thailand. Hu mors of activities on the Thailand-French - Indo-China border have circulated In Tokyo for sev. eral.dayaV-;--. r.v-.:.v- - Jodtul War Summary By Th Associated Pre German forces mnder Rommel are end-eled belew Tebrmk and have been beaten back three times la efforts te break the trap, British declare; axis losses la tanks are running three to one ahead of ihe British, Cairo says; dds all axis lines are ta peril; British central column by-passed Tobruk to the south In a grand envelopment ef all axis forces eastward to the Egyptian frontier; British au thorities declare axis tank forces have reeled back In defeat from every major encounter; Berlin and Rome admit offensive is of great power; claim successful counter-attacks. Russians acknowledge "seri ous situation" about Tula, IN miles south of Moscow, where naxis are moving for encircle ment of the red forces; fighting is heavy all about Moscow and before Rostov on the Don. State Power Saving Seen Bean Reports Result Of Study; Governor Seeks Possible Plan (Continued from page 1) diitribution circuits, with ac companying transformers, Com missioner Bean's report to the governor related. It indicated cost of constructing necessary distribution lines to serve these institutions with Bonneville power brought into Salem by the Salem Electric cooperative, which has a Bonneville connection, would be high, and concluded: "The only way to avoid the substantial expenditure required to provide new circuits or new pole lines for distribution of Bonneville energy, would be to enter into some form of agree ment with Portland General Elec tric, if that is possible, to dis tribute this energy, either at an agreed-upon cost per year or at an agreed-upon cost per kilowatt hour. Perhaps Bonneville would make substantial contributions to the cons 'ruction of a distribution system for this load, which we estimate will reach 3400 kilowatts of demand by 1944." Bologna Bull Noiv Baloney After Escape TULSA. Okla, Nov. zl-tfV A Brahma bull with a seeming realisation of what the word bologna meant to him was shot to death Friday after running wild three weeks in the Sand Springs eommnnity. win U,vvbern wh Herbert WWonghby, Sapnlp, termer. aold the bull to a packinghouse barer at the Tulsa stock yards. The buyer slapped the annual n the flank, and said: Yo.lI make good bologna for the tongh boys tn our army. The bun. with a lond bellow, c oat of the pen and set et for the woods. Eladlng a searching posse, the Brahma roamed the vicinity for three weeks, terrorizing rs, stampeding livestock and startling couples parked along lovers' lanes. Ftaally, the animal was las- , y e"rous fanner. t. fe.turned to the stockyards, the bull was loaded tote a eaU U. car But Phil Hawkins, dockyards manager, couldjrt resist a parting shot -You'll be bologna this time," he said. lh "Poken when tte bull .Urted again, charg ing like an army tanr. The animal smashed the side of the Grabbing rifles, Hawkins and OrvUle Bragg set out on the ball's trail. Bragg made the km. Tacoma Pupils Facing Chilly School Rooms TACOMA. Nav i school board that children wfll be sent home If schools are unheated Monday because custodians an -Tr ! miff i nance employes have carried out uareai to sinae. "It Is expected that principals and teachers wtn be ea hand to greet pupils Monday," lisilm said fat a statement "Of eeurse. If schools . are cold at that time, pupils will need to be dfe and KtuTBed to then? TarenU should be prepared far this contingency." dispute -emitlore av m m. Increases in . pay, j which . they maintain atm hi at the 1930 level was said Friday night to U en route to union besdquarters. xma piu suggested the walk out be dels red ' at I.. . ,n January 1 so that a committee o citizens could rtvl fvw Railway Peace ParleyBogs Chiefs Fail to Agree On Settlement; FDR To Receive Report (Continued from page 1) Friday to OPM Director William Knudsen for an investigation by bm of "the action of Sidney Hillman in regards to the carry ing out of the terms of the agree ment under which we went hack to work." The telegram carried a new strike threat The Seattle welders started the two-week walkout recently that resulted In a stop-work movement by several thousand fellow workers in California and the southeast hi protest against he American Federa tion of Labor's refusal to grant welders a separate union. The welders' telegram to Knurl. sen, signed by President James O'Brien, and two executive com mitteemen, charged that Associate OPM Director Hillman "and his subordinates, by their actions con tinue to lock out thousands of welders and permit discrimina tions to continue that cause men to quit their Jobs In national de fense industries: also that thir false promises and untrue state ments are causing unrest dissjn sion and a mistrust of this gov ernment agency; that It is our patriotic duty, if these outrages continue, that we reauest our ra tional officers who are now In Washington, DC, to again call a walkout of all welders and cut ters throughout the nation." AFL union executives here, with closed shoo contra rt In major defense industries, have denied that there la any discrim ination against the weldpr. urh went on strike. Oklahoma Dam Move Flayed; US Takes Over WASHINGTON Mo,. t r In an unprecedented action, the federal government Friday took from the state of Oklahoma con trol of the 125 ooo nnn rr a river dam, "to prevent financial and management difficulties of the Grand river dam authority from Interfering with fuD use of wx yjr national defense. rrcuaeni Koosevelt directed the federal works administra tor to manage and operate the project which was financed by loans and grants through the Public works administration to the state-ferested authority. Possession was taken th rvi announced. unrW ,h i water power act of IC35. This act empowers the government when the president considers the safety of the nation demands it to take Possession of any licensed hydro electric Droiect tnr fV. or manufacturing nitrates, explo- " "juuiuoos 01 war or ror any other purpose involving the nation's safety. This was the first time the president ever had exercised the emergency authority. The action was recommended by the FWA. the war department and we ieuera power commission. la UXlahnma ni t - wo C. voia newsmen: aont like dictators any where. v !7" kBOW 1 wouldn't have believed it when I was a bey growing up and reading Amer ican history that state property eld be taken on war powers of the president without eon even passing an act declaring- war." Sprague Sees Jap Spanking As necessary PORTT.ATjt r . iiuy. ii ov-jan- ,.:7'uu o auowed to con eohdate IU territorial gains, Gov. , Spragu advised the city club here Friday. miT e?onomlc weapons prove m- andnaval nlSrl . , warranted. The M the timing of the ftary pressures must be left leaders, with due Ve to our obllgauon. elsewhert But ipan must understand there TT of reckoning.- the gorernor, unable to attendUs club gSm.rrrea? ttreat. rroJfl PacifleJ" S.?L0wr 00 governor added. Death Takes rormerPolk County Man POSTLANf(. Not. H -nl'A Portland xnmixxlon day. . 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