PAGE TWO White Funeral Set Wednesday Full Military Honors Slated for General Of 41st Division (Continued from Page 1) Artillery, cavalry, Infantry and the adjutant general' department all four of these branches of the service are written into the military record of : Maj. Gen. George A. White. General White's military career started August 1, 1885, when he enlisted as a private in the Utah inltantry. Since that time he had risen from the ranks to the posi tion of commander of the 41st (Sunset) division, composed basic ally of national guard units from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon tana and Wyoming. Service with the artillery came In the Spanish-American war when Gen. White volun teered for duty with the Utah artillery. Following the war he served as private, sergeant and first sergeant, consecutively, In the Utah Infantry from July 15, 1899, to May 3. 1903. His association with the Oregon national guard he had been ad Jutant general of Oregon since 1915 started August 4, 1907, when he enlisted in the old 3d Oregon Infantry and,, at the same time, was commissioned a first lieuten ant of infantry. Promotion to cap tain came March 21, 1911 On February 1, 1915, he was named adjutant general of Ore gon, but took leave of absence from this position for duty on the Mexican border from July 27 1916, to February 22, 1917, as a captain in command of Troop A, Oregon Cavalry. Returning from the border, he resumed his posi tion as adjutant general with federal status of major of the ad jutant general's department, the rank he held at the beginning of World war 1. Under Gen. White's supervi sion, the 3d Oregon (now the 162nd Infantry) was mobilized over nifht and was the first 'national guard regiment In the nation to be ready for service when the call to arms was sounded. He entered federal service with rank of major as assistant adjutant of the 41st division, and' served overseas from Jannary 19, 1919, to Jane 18, 1919, la this capacity and also In the adjutant general's de partment on the staff of Gen. Pershing. While overseas he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. For exceptional serv ice to the allies, the French decorated him with the Cross of the Black Star and the. Cross of the Legion of Honor. He was mustered out of service in July, 1919, and resumed du ties as adjutant general of Ore gon in April, 1920. His commis sion as a colonel in the adjustant general's department came in June, 1920. In 1923 he was ap pointed a brigadier general of the line and assigned to command the 82d brigade of the 41st division, and January 3, 1930, was ap pointed a major general of the line and assigned to command the di vision which was called into fed eral service September 16, 1940 Th OREGON STATESMAN. Satan, Oregon, Tuesday Morning. Norombw 23. 1941 Its Winter Time and Snow Time in, the Rockies is. V v--s. !7 Ml f . ' Vi-i " S3- i." Snow, and plenty of it, blankets many sections of tho Rockies, giving camera enthusiasts beautiful subjects to work on. This picture was taken in Ogden, Utah. Snow came earlier than usual to this section this year. Troops Sent To Guiana Protection of Bauxite Mines Announced; Free French to Get US Aid the provisions of the Franco-German armistice, and added: "As a result of these reports American policy towards France is being reviewed and all plans for economic assistance to French North Africa are suspended." (Continued from page 1) ent danger to the mines is re moved and at the latest upon the conclusion of hostilities," the White House said. The danger was not specified. but authoritative sources said it was from sabotage rather than invasion. Only relatively weak colonial forces have been i available to assure a protection of the mines since the nazl in vasion of The Netherlands. About the size of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the colony has a total population of 175,-000. The White House noted that in normal circumstances The Neth erlands gov e r n m e n t-in-exile would draw on its forces in the distant East Indies to strengthen the defenses of Surinam but add ed that in view of the present situation in the southwestern Pa cific it was deemed advisable to use United States troops. In London, The Netherlands government hinted the United States might take over other possessions in the western hemi sphere the Curacao islands off the north coast of Venezuela. . Both the White House and war department were silent on the home size and other details of the army J Reetz contingent sent to Surinam, but it was understood the troops were detached from the garrison at Trinidad, in the Caribbean, one of the eight bases acquired" last year from Great Britain. NEW YORK, Nov. 24(tf)-The German radio said Monday night the dispatch of United States troops to Dutch Guiana was a manifestation of "Roosevelt's im perialism." "He openly admitted that it , Is aluminum he Is Interested In fra Guiana, not to mention the fact that he now has yet an other base in South America," said the broadcast, heard hero by CBS. "Never yet has Roosevelt'g im perialism shown its face so un masked as in this case. Further more, Dutch Guiana borders on French Guiana, the occupation of - which numerous USA imperial ists and propagandists have de manded for quite some time." Strike Iaws Get Approval Capital Officials Set For Legislation After Price Control Debate Swegle Couple In New Home SWEGLE Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pullman have moved from their home on Montana lane to the Earl Woods home on East Center street. Last week Mrs. Mary Swingle accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Reed and son Jimmy on a trip to Spokane for a visit at the of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred (Olive Swingle). Axis Battles Desert Drive British Encircling Move Meets With Much Resistance (Continued from page 1) halfway across the Libyan hump to the Gulf of Sine, and in tne had smashed a fascist garrison. Aside from this concession Italian reports of, the Libyan fighting were few. One claimed that more than 600 British tanks and armored cars had been put out of action. Another told of the destruction of a British tank brigade. Still an other asserted that the British garrison of formerly besieged Tobruk had run Into "sturdy" axis opposition in trying to break through the axis lines. The British declared Tobruk's men had in fact beaten forward to a point within four miles of their comrades advancing from south and east. The Germans for their part In sisted that axis troops had wrest ed the initiative from the British, but said that the action was shift ing so rapidly that there was no use reporting the names of places taken and retaken. State Draft Boards Lauded for Getting Ex-Service. Men Jobs Efficiency of Oregon selective service boards In finding Jobs, through their reemployment committeemen, for the state'f re turning soldiers, was praised in a letter received irom we na tional selective service headquarters Monday. Harvi Wmpr V. Woo ton. state selective service ai- Mi,UI W4i . - v - r - . rector, said hundreas oi rexunun Axis to Sign More Nations Seven Governments to Join Six-Power Pact In Meeting Today (Continued from page D the entire world." Asked whether any nation had declined an invitation to be pres ent, an authorized source said: "German diplomacy Is such that It never received a refusal." Russia's darkest hoar in the five months of the German Inva sion struck Monday night. HELSINKI, Nov. 2l-(fP)-The Finnish government announced Monday night that in accordance with the country's "anti-bolshe-vist attitude" it Is joining the German-sponsored an ti -Comintern pact Foreign Minister Rolf Johan Witting "is in Berlin to sign for Finland at Tuesday's ceremony. The ladies of the Garden Road Neighborhood club met Friday with Mrs. Ralph Werner in East Englewood. The members voted to purchase a Red Cross membership. WARHTNr.TOM N n v 9AYflA Publication of a letter from Presi- MehaHlcl Plipils dent Roosevelt SDecificallv auth- orizing lease-lend aid to Free VrlVe rrOgraDl French forces, a few hrairs after O French forces, a few hours after a wniie House announcement mpttama TVir,vrn;,nn Gen. White was a graduate of that American troops were being days began Wednesday for the holi- the command and general staff school. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; . of the army war college, Wash ington, DC, and of the general officers' special course at Fort Benning in 1940. One of the organizers of the American. Legion, Gen. White along with Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt called the Paris cau cus of the legion and served as its first vice-commander and adjut ant. Gen. White was born July 18, 1880. on a farm la Mason coun ty, 111., near the town of Long Branch. At the age of six he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he attended grade and high school and All Hallows college. Later he attended the Art Students' league, New York - City. In civilian life he did pen and Ink drawings for a Salt Lake City paper, and in 1903 he started as . a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. In his 11 years 'with that paper ho served as re porter, assistant city editor, Sun day editor and associate editor. . ! Gen. White was aa aathor of note, writing, uder the pea name of Ared White. Be wrote fiction, both novels and short taagaalnes. A many his works aro "Attack oa America," Th Spy Net," and "Seven Tickets to Singapore.1 He was the fonder of tho American Le ' (tea Monthly. i The . Oregon state legislature twice cited Gen. White for con- ' spicuous servico to the state. , The accomplishment of which , uen. wnue, accoroing to ms as- vwfalaa , Vaf . wwaift tanV 1 ras th development of Camp Clatsop Into what' Is. credited as - ' on of tho finest strictly national , guard training camps In th na- tion.: ..-'ivfl.--,V;V- ' nlhtf rrtrr far ftrr r rarda : men to train la their aoaat state ' Lewis, Gem. White tried omt en- eaxcpmenl sites Bear KeSfard la and 15, then ta UZ1 notHlxed his saea oa a leas3 . : U arranged far y the Astoria ' etasiber af eonunercev wnica v. : wtt 1$ teeoae Camp Clatsop, . " t.TJi a. small 'tat .appropria tion and '.extensive- use of WPA . ment service, he bunt the canp s sent to Dutch Guiana, aroused speculation here regarding a pos sible new move involving this rooms, pupils of Mehama school. Parents to hear the program given by both country's relations with Vichy France. Only four days ago, the state department announced the United States was reviewing Its entire relationship with France because of the removal of Gen eral Maxlme Weygand as Vi chy's pro-consul In French North Africa. The announcement asserted Mrs. Cora Clark's pupils gave a program culminating a project on the study of books in observ ance of National Book week. On exhibit was a collection of symbols, clay and wax tablets made by the boys, scrolls and drawings of picture writing and other forms of writing of the days of long ago. express demand of Hitter," thus fJMlCie OllOWlIlff Dermittinff German control mm-1 French authority entirely outside 18 DlVCrSlOll facilities to their present com- BRUSH CREEK Lillie Madsen plete status in the last decade. was a luncheon guest of Alice He was a member of the Mill- Jensen Friday, following a cus tary Order of the World War, the tom of some years standing. The American Legion, the Shrine, the afternoon was spent in viewing Masons, and the Veterans of For- I colored slides taken by Reuben (Continued from Page 1) abandoned hope of reaching an agreement on the wage dispute with major railroads, and a strike of AFL freight handlers sharply restricted trucking operations in Chicago. "We are about ready to go to the president and suggest that the government take over con trol and operation of the rail roads for the duration of the emergency rather than submit the public to the inconvenience of a national walkout," A. F. Whitney, president of the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen, told reporters in Washington. Whitney's union is the largest of the five operating brotherhoods those which actually operate trains which have called a strike for December 7. Union and management repre sentatives have been conferring in Washington for days on the railroad workers' demands for wage increases of 30 per cent The brotherhoods rejected a presi dential emergenefn'fcoard's pro posal for 1xk per cem increase for operating employes and 13 per cent for non-operating employes. About 2,500 AFL frjJrht handlers were mvofved-In Mfe Chicago strike which cat Jthe flow of truck-hauling freight In, and out of the city to about one-fourth normal. The strikers demanded an Increase from 55 to 75 cents an hour. The St. Louis machinists' dis pute had this background: A month ago the machinists and hoisting engineers quarreled over which should have jurisdiction over 24 garage workers at the $35,000,000 Weldon Springs, Mo., TNT plant. Some 110 AFL machinists struck at the TNT plant and at the $100,000,000 St. Louis small arms ammunition plant. Their work was taken over by mill wrights affiliated with the AFL carpenters' union. Protesting because the 110 ma chinists had not been reinstated and also demanding jurisdiction over the garage workers, the ma chinists Sunday called a general walkout in the St Louis area. About 400 industrial plants were affected to more or less de gree. One was the Lambert-St Louis field plant of Curtiss- Wright corporation which report ed its production of airplanes was "seriously curtailed." Bush-Sulzer Brothers, working on SITQOO.OOO of orders for navy engines and anti-aircraft ordnance, said its operations virtually were stopped, While Berlin was claiming that German tank and artillery forces had captured the town of Solnetschnogorskl, only 31 miles above Moscow, In an extension of the nasi salient about Ka linin, soviet Informants them selves acknowledged that the capital's second line of defense was under assault and that the invaders were within 50 miles of the city. Officials Named For Red Cross Solicitation selectees, national guardsmen and other Oregon ex-service men have been restored to their former civil ian Jobs or provided with new em ployment Ttgvres released by Woeten showed that approximately ML 500 of the 200,000 members of the nation's armed forces re turning to civil life during the last Quarter of 1M1 were re leased between September 1 and October 15. Vlrtnally aU of these men already have been placed In jobs. Woo ton said. Woo ton pointed out that the se lective service system has the task of obtaining civilian employment for all men released by the army, navy and marine corps, including enlisted men and selectees. Men released from military service were instructed to get in touch with the reemployment commit teeman of their local boards as soon as they reach their homes. If the ex-service man has no Job awaiting him. the reemploy ment committeeman of his local board takes up his ease with his former employer to have hint reinstated in compliance with tho selective service act of 1040, Wooton declared. Strikes Halt Defense Work Sl Louis Factories Hit; Rail Union to Ask US to Take Roads (Continued from page 1) WASHINGTON, Nor. 24-WV Repv Coffee (D-Wash) said Moo day night the social security board had told the house members from his state Monday it would reject the old age pension plan proposed by Gov. Arthur B. Lang lie. At the same time, Coffee said, the board reached an understand ing with house members on a basis for a plan which it might accept. The most advanced German push in the Russian version also was put at above Moscow about the town of Klin, mid-way to Kalinin itself. West south and southwest of the capital the soviet armies like wise were being pushed slowly back under the shock of an at tacking force estimated by the Russians to aggregate 40 German divisions of some 600,000 men. Only on the southern and northern flanks did the red ar mies claim victories or conse quence Monday. Soviet accounts asserted that northwest of Rostov on the river Don, the Caucasus gate way which the Germans had claimed last Saturday, 7000 German dead gave evidence of eign Wars. He married Henrietta Diana Fletcher In 1905. Mrs. White, a daughter, Mrs. George E. Emigh, Jensen, Astoria. Covers were placed for Miss I Madsen, Mrs. Anna K. Jensen, I Theta Jensen, Alfred Jensen, Reu- jrn and a granddaughter, Diane ben Jensen, Andrew Meidell and Emigh, all of Portland, survive Alice Jensen. HAZEL GREEN Mrs. Ralph Gilbert is in charge of the Red Cross roll call for this district Mrs. Gilbert will solicit Labish Gardens; Mrs. Herman Wacken the southeast road; Mrs. Julius Slattum, east of Pudding River, Mrs. Alvin Van Cleave, the Van Cleave road; Mrs. G. G. Looney, the Hazel Grecn-Labish Center road north from the Japanese community church. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Dunigan and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ma- guren were weekend guests of Chapman s sister, Mrs. Edward Savage, Pasco, Wash. The Sav ages recently celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. George Kolb and daughter, Lenabelle, were guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Zielinski. If the man was unemployed when he entered military service, or desires a new Job, the cemmit teeman refers his case to the state employment office. UORGANTOWN, W Va, Nov. 2-'-Approximately 100 weld ers employed by a sub-contractor at the $49,000,000 Morgutown O dnance Works failed to report tor work today in protest against what was termed discrimination the Steamfitters local No. 449 (AFL) of Pittsburgh. A spokesman said the welders, along with approximately 128,- 000 others in the nation, recently formed an independent union and sought a charter from the Amer ican Federation of Labor. Silverton Hills uennaD ucau gave eviuence uc o t-i r-i the faSure of a German push dee gnarly ODOW which had In fact been turned J back Into a retreat as deep as 37 miles. Southeast of Leningrad, the SILVERTON HILLS Snow fell in the Silverton Hills during the weekend and over Thankseivina ouuuieasi oi Lienuiifraa. me t,, . ..... . , n ' . nonaays Dut laded almost as ranid HorlarpH thaf thp?r r o ,, n t r - 17 M feU" This Is the earliest attacks had recaptured the rail road city of Malaya Vishera and had regained several communi ties west of line. Berlin's reports were to the ef fect that Solnetschnogorskl the snow has been reported here for several years. Harold Mires and his mother the Volkhov river Mr? JSle Mlres were Tks- gwing guests oi her brother, Lou Bauer, JsUverton. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Tschantz town just 31 miles above Moscow entertained at dinner Thanksgiv ML Angel Man Taken by Death MT. ANGEL John F. Erwert, 53, died at his home here Sun day. He was born in Austria, September 9, 1888, and came to the United States when he was eight years old. The family set tled in North Dakota, coming to Mt Angel in 1904. In 1914 he married Anna Schmidt at St. Mary's church, Mt Angel. Survivors include his widow, 11 children, Mrs. Marie Sacchl and Robert Erwert of Martinez, Calif.; James Erwert, Mt Angel; Mrs. Lucille Stirver, Gladstone, Ore.; Dorothy, Warren, Clarence, Charles, Alexander, Arlene and Harold, at home; three grandchil dren; stepmother, Mrs. Eva Er wert, Mt Angel; two brothers, Joseph and Frank of Mt Angel; and three sisters, Mrs. Tmma Aicher, Woodburn, Mrs. Barbara Raab, Portland, and Miss Anna Erwert, Mt. Angel. Funeral services will be held from St Mary's church Wednes day morning at 8:15. Recitation of the rosary at the Unger funeral parlors Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Sub Is Sunk By Canadian s (Continued from Page 1) On Nov. 5 Mac Donald said German snbmarlnes wero oper ating off the coast of New foundland, within sight of the shore. At that time he said two U boats . had been attacked one by a corvette and the other by a plane In October oft tho nor thern tip ef Newfoundland and that one possibly was tank, Mac Donald said these subma rines were discovered at the point where Belle Isle strait, the northern month of the St Lawrence river, empties Into the Atlantic This Is about 400 miles from the site of the United States navy base on the south coast of Newfoundland. had fallen after the destruction of 14 three-story-deep under ground Russian casemates, and by claiming tne town claimed a German advance of about 64 miles from Kalinin. As to the Germans' latest dip lomatic to-do a conference set for today at which the nazis had implied that great things would be accomplished in Hitler's "new order" it turned out during the ing aay lor Mr. and Mrs. John Tschantz and Lucile. Silvertnn Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Tschantz and Gene Tschantz, Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wallace'. Birthday Party Given Boy SILVERTON Ronnie Pitne-r day that it was apparently to be of ,and Mrs. S. A. Pitney mainly a mere obedient gathering ,served hif fourtn birthday an- Ofiicers Named By Hotel Group ROSEBURG, Nov. 24-(P-The southern Oregon Hotelmen's as sociation elected B. M. Wood, corvanis, president at the annual meeting here. Maclin Robinson, Grants Pass, was named vice-Dreidnt nri Mrs. Bert Westbrook, Albany, secretary. Actor Leads RAF Unit OTTAWA, Nov. 24-(ff)-Lieut Robert Montgomery, movie actor who has been stationed at the American embassy in London as a naval attache, has arrived here with a contingent of several hun dred royal air force men who are to establish a complete training school somewhere in Canada. to denounce communism and "all destructive powers which direct ly or indirectly support bol-1 shevism." Six nations, It was disclosed, will renew their signatures to the anti-eommintern pact Ger many, Japan, Italy, Spam, Hun gary and Manchukuo. The new declarers are Croatia, Rumania and Slovakia, all three of them out-and-out axis satel lites, ana Jtuuana, tne latter as a military associate of the nazis in the Russian campaign. niversary at the Methodist Sun day school annex. Fellow members of the kinder garten class under the direction of Mrs. Irene Morley Franke were bidden with Mrs. Pitney furnish ing tne entertainment Guests included Marabeth Van. Cleave, Larry Davis, Ronnie Pit ney, Beverly Brady, Sharon Bra ay, snaron Jenkins. Sandra tar. son, Billie McClure. Dourl r beer, Keith Cooley and Marion viwexoe. Park Cinderella and Her Sailor Taking Vows Josephine! Paltiipsv'fhe penniless, homeless girl whose' bench la"New York's Central Mrk' turned into a.' marriage coach when she met Sailor THH Langford, is pictured at Garfield, JIJ, as she was married to the zz-year-oid sauor oy stayer Jena Gaoneu uiMrnonepnoto. Soviet Ski Troopers Hit Snowed-in Nazis Father of Statesman Reporter Succumbs Andrew Hans Hansen, father of Keith Hansen, Statesman news sxan member and Willamette uni versity senior, died in Portland aunoay night, young Hansen in MOSCOW, Tuesday, Nov. 25- gVSW-shod guerrilla, have been form JZ' thrown Into action aranst Ger- w- v.j . . ionaay. . , . ; r. . i "u ui ior some time. mnni stuck in thn mnuri hhtn1 I . uuw. ITT; "IT r-.:7 " I unerai services will be held uic uuus a Biuuai Jviet an- at 1 nm Wt..- s a m m i w vi tmm w si anvrw w na iiouncemem said today. Holman & Son ch.T xtZZZLZZ In Oi firm I , , . . .utumwuf - HWUIKU I UOUIiVIRI at Kmith MAI. sortie bv these nnantnm Mt """cw ,u r - - .1 ruiuano. clad guerrillas, tne Russians said a unit operating in tne voloklamsk TnaL T m ortnr as mi, nnrtWM I VPU arucit Itams 1 ram cow, pounced on a stalled am- elf3 ANGELES, Nov. I4.-(-munition train, killed 42 German Pfsengr was killed and v. ii i eint other persons wero mta 7 Monday when a hure ran. " ut wim tank-trailer attached. m. . I MAuiMcicir UirTMiSfrl SB Liner lrips Cancelled treetcar. igniting the nearly d. wui riunu uuu. Nov. 2&-1 ""u"00 tram. VPj-NoUc was given here Mon day mat all passenger accommo dations on the liners "President Gameici and .. President Taylor nave been cancelled, with mdica tion that they would be used by the " government - to '. transport troops. - - . V; WANTED , Wabrot meats and F Ilbcrt meats. Aba m shelL Cash delivery. Highest price. , -MORRI3 KLORFEIN Packhur Ce- ' 460 N. Front TeL 7 CIS DAIICE TOrHGIIT to the tune of the "OREGONIANS x , ' . EXTBA -M hr. BaUroeaa A Tap Dancing by -, "tgi A Studios - Ilccra Hall . . nth A Leslie t:l5 -Adm, m TneL, Nov. t5 Funeral Set for Mt. Angel Woman MT. ANGEL Funeral servicei for Mrs. Martin Kaiser, 78, whs died at the home of her daughtef in Milwaukee last Saturday, will be held from St Mary's church Tuesday morning. The requiem high mass will begin at 8:15. She was born in Germany August 12, 1863 and came to Cali fornia at the age of ten. She was married to Martin Kaiser at San Jose, Calif., in 1887. A year later the family came to make their home in Mt Angel. Survivors include, the widower, and seven children, Mrs. Mary I Dollansky, MOwaukie; Mrs. Gene i vieve Wenger, Dallas; Mrs. Bar bara Schaecher, Mt Angel; Sister M. Martina and Sister M. Dolores of the Benedictine convent here; Joseph Kaiser, Mt Angel; Miss Josephine Kaiser, Port Angeles, Wash"., and ten grandchildren. 80 Injured in Wreck CORINTH, Miss.. Nov. 24-UPV- Eight cars of an Illinois Central fast Florida to Chicago passenger nam lay in a marshy lowland near here Monday, a twisted mass of wreckage after plunging down a 30-foot embankment, carrying two persons to death and iniurin more than 80 others. Tugboat Sinks in Gale SEATTLE, Nov. 24-(yP-A wind storm, which at times reached gala proportion, sank a tugboat in Puget Sound Monday with thi loss of one life and tore a floating seaplane hangar from its moor ings in Lake Union, causing dam age to seven planes. O Gasco Briquets O Burner Oils Call 4966 - Shryder Truck & Transfer Co. O rami . Tie Sua Flane! Attract! v tag. styl v " an,l whkh fnstJona as heat ttec. Lowors f nel amsattoa and In- air ctremla- dram heaUng- malt as adaptablo to poor draft aa4 Solar ia In. iMtaUa ksmldifler that ream fer tay Approved " ay Under, wrtterr LaliataeU. rais.;npnaTfiffir'co- 255 N.' Commercial Salem. Ore.