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Newspaper Page TextUthenCloudy Home Edition LANS COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. r""-" TWO SECTIONS 12 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5e NO. 144 g Pnekefes Wyimdled j War Industries rman Urges rof Measures I, CARL PETERSEN p Sta Correspondent) Baruch, chairman of irld 'war industries board, timed congress that un are careful" the time may hen it will be necessary oswtep the people with idy having the same food, ne clothing and the same ring his plea for drastic I to check the rising tide of n, tne i-year-ura umuo .11 il.. hnneo mips rnm- una u'e Itat the need for price con flation is "imperative" to D "acutely dangerous" situ- ,a that the United States f "a nation in arms," and i that "we must fit our defend the country on lite Instead merely of at H to put a fighting force tti and in the field." Iter Sam Eayburn, mean iid that the house will take price control bill Monday lit work on labor legisla tion long." re is no surer way of de- civilian morale than to I living too difficult," Bar rtified. "Price control nro- imust be even handed; it t advance the interests ot jroup at the expense of ch, in a recent letter to Ibert Gore, D., Tenn., spon a substitute price control (bodying Baruch's demands rer-all ceilings on rents, prices and profits, suggested diction of the "bare neces cf life be standardized dur i emergency to wipe out the lost of varied styles and de- iiiw5 ricpmcu ,L il n.i: m up ruiiuei. Premier To jo Kfi WA. Him fc Hideki Tojo said today fei KMKnu..! ill i . . CiMWDie determination of i jo preparing to re efforts to cope with the , - w wuii me Jtatement came as the diet f uve-day extraord P'on, which Japanese ob- a nao. completed the 'nun nr mi il. eventuality with the Unlt- pS if till. mlceiA TP wasnington roiatciv it.. - . kfA .1. j' LUB session km " vCiV? ana sported Ipri.Bj . Dn nat r-'j-wi as -me general was state board 'cabinet Information eminent on Shanshai mat Kun... ... . . foil r,B. i naa 0,iered tone.. . n'ranty lSna.Hantamount iy-anH , 'erla s territorial r m return for relaxation '"-ail Prnnn.:-. i Df ATr. measures, P'te a "V. lent. -r.iwv,iiine5e Ki..!irr cold rte,l..'ALLS. Nov. 21. OP) h hereT of 18 degrees K15 coming was fding at rh" "l"er oureau. 'heVlT1' 0 miles negrees. iatheiNews t cold e J or'ion. Saturday; l,.'asl Portntv K ,o shore. ' lw5T wlnl v: Partiy rSbwe?.sinE cloudi- fCrI?LtinJSat- "-iner, satur-L-'i'' Bureau' Rori! erahifA wii . do Gal British Near Tobruk; Moscow Battles Fierce Decisive Conflict Expected Soon In Libyan Desert FIVE DIE IN TRAIN TRAPPED IN TUNEL Five persons, including the engineer and two firemen of a 96-car freight train, were found suffocated after the train stalled in a 7,000-foot tunnel for 11 hours near Van Nuys, Calif, flere the locomotive is pulled into the open by a switch engine. The locomotive was burning after a fire started in oil drip pings. - Webfoots Gird For Seattle Tilt By DICK STRITE ' SEATTLE, Nov. 21 (Special) Five yean ago Irish Jimmy Fhelan carted a Pacific coast conference championship University of Wash ington football team to Pasadena for a Rose Bowl engagement with the University of Pittsburgh. To morrow afternoon before an ex pected crowd of 40,000 fans the Huskies will battle Tex Oliver's crippled University of Oregon Webfoots for the right to return to Pasadena to avenge the: 21-0 licking suffered at the hands of the pre-deflated Panthers. Right now Washington rests in second place among the Coast conference leaders,, a half game behind Oregon State and Stanford, and a victory over Oregon in this 42-year-old classic will put the, Huskies on even terms with the Beavers and the Indians. Although the Oregon are virtu ally out of the race, unless con tinued gridiron earthquakes strengthen their slim . mathema tical chance, Tex Oliver's aggre gation holds the key . to Wash ington's ambitions. The same key that fits. Oregon State's entrance into the, portals of football fame, the Beaver's first Rose Bowl jaunt. Oregon is definitely in the role . SEE WEBFOOTS STORY PAGE 3 Thailand Border Reported Violated NEW YORK, Nov 21. W The Bangkok press carried re ports today of a violation of the Thailand frontier by planes and troops from Japanese-controlled French Indo-China, the British radio said, quoting a. "message from Bangkok relaying, the re ports. . ' , "French planes were mentioned as having been seen reconnoiter ing on the . northeastern Thai border," the London broadcast went on. "Reports that the Japanese au thorities want to use airdromes in eastern Thailand as well as at Bangkok are believed in London to represent Japan's aspirations accurately, but there has been no r nw rl!t.aft Hemand on CTIUCIIVC Ul 0"J 7 I the Thai government." at lay' "8 de- fci noon. Pru.. P! v"r C0;d: stW of Pomona Meeting Saturday At Irving Saturday brings the regular Pomona grange meeting at the Irving grange hall as an all-day and evening session. The . pro gram" will be given in the after noon, a representative from the forestry department to be pres ent. Two meals are being served, at noon and in the evening, vis t Ine grangers being asked to take lello. sandwiches, nie or cake for the meals. The other menu Items will be furnished by the Irving grange. . The buying of defense savings bonds and stamps will be dis ......! ku ya rhamhra. 'head VUB.CU 1J IS.. ....... of the agriculture committee of ine Lane county aeiense nvw staff, when he appears before the "ran" Peturrtay niPht. Mr. Cnpm bers has spoken on defense sav ings before number of grange groups. Mapleton Man Gets License Plate No. 1 SALEM, Nov. 21. P Auto mobile license plate No. 1 for 1942 went in the annual state depart ment drawing today to Roy Tuch breiter, Mapleton, who drives a pickup truck. v No. 2 went to George L. Allen of Cave Junction. Lucky 'I , was won by Daniel J. Howard, Klanv ath Falls, while J. J. Hoffman of Pendleton got No. 13. The first 100 numbers were drawn today, with newsmen drawing the first 10. . Those who received other low numbers: 3 Ralph Damerow, coast guard radio station, Fort Stevens. 4 E. L. Silvers, Seneca. 5 Owen W. Matthews, 515 N. Ainsworth, Portland. ' 6 L. J. Hadley, Vale. 8 E. W. Barnes, Grand Ronde. 9 George F. and Lois Fields, 6215 N. E. 34th, Portland. 10 Mrs. Leo Wray, 1163 Olive street, Eugene. 11 Maude K. Edinger, ; The Dalles. 12 L. D. Short. Ten Mile. 14 Stanley W. Netherton, 4i31 N. Overlook Terrace, Portland. ... 15 Antoinette Whitman, Klam ath Falls. . 16 Olum Larson, Silvertoh. 17 Pearl P. Shively, 5570 S. W. Merieffee Drive, Portland. 18 P. A. Retrum, Canyon City.' 19 N. E. Haughey, 2238 N. E 13th Ave., Portland. v. 21 LaVerne Proctor, Salem. 22 Karl H, Martzloff, Medical Dental Bldg., Portland. : , : 23-Charles R. Pool, Ontario. , 24 Fred Gepner, Albany: . 25 Vera R. Ncff. 832 N. E. 23rd Ave., Portland. Soldiers Will Stay Overnight About 130. soldiers . who are to camp overnight in Eugene Friday night will be quartered'. in the 4-H clubhouse at the fairgrounds, Officers will have,' tHevScoulipuse. ; Although. rioX sp'Wial" 'Srrtelhf frient; has beep, planned' ior the visiting soldiers, Thomas " Fisher, Eugene recreational director, is making arrangements for them to attend the University of Oregon-Signal Oil basketball game. The YMCA at Twelfth and Kin caid is holding open house for them, and theaters are granting special soldier rates. ' - Since the army trucks must be serviced - during ; the overnight stop,- soldiers will have to get around town on foot. Fisher has requested that any town folks who can could ' help relieve the situation by coming out to the fairgrounds in cars ahd giving the boys a lift. . Soldiers, of the 205th coast artillery who were here re cently wrote to express deep ap preciation for the hospitable treat ment they . received in Eugene, particularly in being invited to Eugene homes.' Information on the soldiers' stay can be had by contacting Thomas Fisher, either at his home or city hall office. Fisher is also planning to ap pear Monday night at the meet ing of the women's ambulance corps to determine whether they are interested in becoming a permanent hostess group to trav elling soldiers. , . T Mercury Dives To 23.5 Mark Eugeneans shivered again Fri day morning with the thermom eters registering 23.5 degrees, the lowest mark in nearly a year. In December, 1940, the mercury hnr Jnntn f n 1 3 5 rlnffrPeS. Some relief is in sight, re- ' ports the U. S. weather Dureau, the barometer here falling and the prediction saying increasing cloudiness and possible rain for Saturday. Thursday's maximum went only to 43.8 degrees, pro viding cool weather for the Thanksgiving holiday. . The freeze was general throughout the valley and moun tain sections of the county. At McKenzie Bridge the ranger sta tion said the minimum was just a fraction above 20 degrees, Fri day morning, and said the bar ometer there was going up, indi cating a continuance of cold for thq mountain regions. 'The Duchess' Dies In Gas Chamber SAN OUENTIN, Calif., Nov. 21. (P)"The Duchess." a haggard, grim-faced woman who ruled a gang of killers and robbers, wab executed today in the state's gas chamber. She was Evlleta Juanlta Spln elli, 52, the first woman to die by the law In California. - , BULLETIN! CAIRO, Nov. 21. (U.R) Brit ish mechanized forces in a two day battle in Libya were report ed officially today to have de stroyed 120 German tanks and 33 armored cars and taken sev eral hundred prisoners. The British reported that they drove German panzer units back on Sidi Rezzegh, where fighting was in progress south of besieged Tobruk. ps ' ' . t. ;!'-'!" - ', ; - , , . !!5 CIO Charges Army Being Trained In Strike-Breaking ' DETROIT, Nov. 21. (U.B the Congress . of Industrial Organiza tions today- denounced -alleged "strike-breaking training" of fed eral troops. . Delegates attending the CIO's fourth annual convention em bodied ' the condemnation In a series of resolutions on the selec tive service act. The measure charged that the Selective Service . Administration had served as "a strike-breaking agency by cancellation of occupa tional deferments of strikers In several instances, notably the North American Aircraft strike at InElewood. Ca1." "This convention denounces such a practice." the resolution said of drills in labor-dispute tac tics, "and calls upon the president as ' commander-in-chief of the army to direct that the training of draftees and other service men for, strike-breaking be immediate ly stopped." ' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Britain's armored legions, al ready within 10 miles of long-be. sieged Tobruk after an 80-mile advance in 36 hours, today were reported seeking out the "spinal column" ot Axis strength in North Africa for a showdown battle of tanks, planes and men. Unofficial reports in Cairo said Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham's ad vance forces may already have established contact with the de fenders of Tobruk. i Relief, Expected Soon In England, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound told a British audience that "Just before I came to this meet ing I was told it was expected Tobruk would be relieved almost immediately." Meanwhile, amid reports that Germany , was drawing heavily on ranee, Foiand and otner conquer ed nations for laborers to. work in jiazl factories-vindicating a short age of German manpower auth orized Berlin quarters asserted that 10,000,000- Russians . had been killed, ' wounded or captured in the five-months-old Soviet cam paign. ' These quarters said 3,792,060 Russians had been taken prisoner. . In Berlin, a German military spokesman described the British push as "a -real power drive," while Italian front-line - corre spondents declared that the Brit ish were "surprised and discon certed by the ready and immediate reaction of our units." The RAF reported 24 Axis planes destroyed in yesterday's operations, with nine British planes missing. Military observers said Gen. Er win Rommel's German corps was the chief opposition in the strug glet on the Libyan desert sands and that the British were man euvering to engage the corps in a decisive battle. Prime Minister Winston Church ill had said yesterday that the outcome might be decided "within a few hours," but apparently the Germans were cautious about ac cepting the challenge. Nazis Withdraw A bulletin from British military headquarters , said British tanks sighted a German tank force 30 miles west of Fort Capuzzo, near the Egyptian-Libyan frontier, but that the nazl force "withdrew be fore it could be brought to battle," The communique said an un specified number of Italian tanks and 150 fascist prisoners were taken in a clash at Bir El Gobi, a desert caravan point. By contrast, Premier Mussolini's high command asserted that Ital ian and German mechanized col umns, "firmely sustained" new British attacks in the four-day-old Libyan offensive and "passed to the counterattack and repelled enemy armored formations, de stroying numerous tanks and cap turing prisoners." Attack Beaten Off On the Russo-German war front, , the Soviet radio reported that i "bloody fighting is now in pro jgress" in three sectors along Mos- cows 200-milc defense arc ana ill "WE'LL STAY OUT IF 'JOHN' TELLS US" Workers in "captive" coal mines at Crucible, Pa., laugh and joke as they ride out of the pit to stay out on strike until the closed shop mine dispute is settled. They said they would stay out as long as "John L. told them to" do so. , German Labor Chief Warns 'America May Crush Europe' 25 in Jail Eat Turkey , The 25. temporary resident of the Lane county Jail feasted on turkey Thanksgiving day and were cleaning up the leavings Friday. Jailer Ralph Mclntyre was generous to the boys and besides the turkey he gave them pumpkin pit and. other flxln'f. SEE BRITISH STORY PAGE 5 ; 894 Forest Fires Reported In 1941 SALEM, Nov.', 21 (Pi State Forester N. S. Rogers reported to day that 894 fires burned over 7,468 acres of state and private forest lands during 1941, with lightning causing 535 of them. BULLETIN SU8ANVTLLE. ClI.. Nov. il. Pl8heriff Olln 8. Johnson said today C. Alexander, 24, of Cleo Springs, Okla., hid con fessed he caused derailment of the Southern Pacific's stream line train "City of San Fran cisco" near Harney, Nev., Aug. 12, 1939, in which 24 persons were kUIed and 1M injured. BERLIN, Nov. 21. OP) Calling Americans "cultureless barbar ians" and President Roosevelt a "poor fool," Dr. Robert Ley, head of -the German labor front,, told 15,000 laborers from 14 European countries today that unless Europe "finds herself" she will be crushed by America. . Gesturing vigorously from the rostrum of Berlins gaily-decor ated Sportspalast, Ley toid the for eigners in his audience that they were the messengers of the new Europe and assured them that Moscow .war fall in one way or another." Peasant women from eastern Europe, mustached workers from the Balkans, rouged young French President Not To Act Until Lewis Replies Violence Spreads And Sympathy Strikes Begin WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (U.R) Legislation for govern ment seizure and operation of strike-bound mines and defense plants was endorsed by the army and navy today, as Presi dent Roosevelt indicated he would delay at least until to morrow further action In the captive coal mine strike. Mr. Roosevelt, declining ex tensive comment on the coal shutdown ordered by John L. Lewis and his CIO United Mine Workers union, reminded a press conference that Lewis Is meeting with the UMW nation al policy committee tomorrow .to formulate an answer to the chief executive's latest request for settlement of the dispute. girls and Norwegians in native costumes were part of the crowd that gathered under banners which proclaimed in 14 languages: "Europe will win. Ley lashed at English lords and American capitalists and twice shouted. "Capitalism has been brokenl . . . We have chased it acrpss the ocean." This drew great applause, - "Until God personally notifies us we will not believe that we are any less better than the English," Ley declared, "Challenging" America to produce a Wagner. Beethoven, Verdi or a Puccini. He said Americans should establish 4,000 years of culture before call ing Germans and Italians "barbarians." Committee Would Force U. S. Congressmen to Cast Votes LOS ANGELES. Nov. 21 OP) With the slogan "army discipline for coneress! No tricky palringsl No deserters!" southern Califor nia members of the America Firi committee demanded today that every member of congress be re quired to vote on important de fense legislation. Mrs. Lillian Pascal Day. legis lative chairman of the Lincoln Heights chapter of Los Angeles, released a resolution addessed to Sen. Matthew M. Neely and Rep. Adolph Sabath, as chairman of the rules committees of the two branches of congress. Neely now is governor ot west Virginia, and has been succeeded as head of the senate committee by Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. . The resolution stated in part: "If one of our beardless high school $21-a-month draftees goes AWOL (absent without leave) he also goes to jail. If in war he de serts, he is stood up against a wall and shot. "But our $10,000 a year repre sentatives in Washington may desert their post of duty without voting to decide the most calami tous crisis in the history of our nation, when a single vote may turn the tide to death and ruin for millions and not even be called to account. They even draw sal aries for desertion! "In the neutrality (repeal) count a scanty majority of 18 car ried us toward war. Yet 28 of the house membership . . . did not vote. . . . (The letter also said nine senators did not.) "Our unfaithful public servants should be forced under army penalties to stay on the job and vote! ..." By JAMES C. AUSTIN PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21 (U.B The spread of strikes In captive and commercial coal mines slowed down today but violence In the rich Pennsylvania . field was in creasing. Non-striking miners ambushed an estimated 150 United Mine Workers union pickets at Browns ville, and when the blasts from shotguns, rifles and revolvers ceased, 12 pickets had been wounded. At Frederlcktown, a negro miner, armed with a shot gun, fired at an automobile filled with pickets, wounding one. Today's battle in darkness at the Edenborn mine of the-H. C. Frick COal and . Coke company, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, was the second in' two . days. . It was the most serious violence reported in' the spreading . strike ' situation. One man was wounded yesterdav at Edenborn when a negro fired his revolver into the picket line. .' Carnegie-Illinois Steel corpora tion, major- operating subsidiary of U. S. Steel corporation, an nounced today that five more blast furnaces are being banked because of lack of coal, bringing to 11 the number of furnaces closed from this. week. This means a loss of 50,000 tons of pig iron production a week. Approximately 5.000 more com mercial miners joined In the walkout sympathetic to the cap tive miners strike to- obtain a union shop clause in their con tract with the steel companies operating the captive mines. It was estimated today that about 59.000 commercial miners were SEE PRESIDENT STORY PAGE 3 Mediterranean Control Termed Very Important to Allies By DEWITT MACKENZIE (Register-Guard War Analyst) Prime Minister Churchill's as sertion that the Allied offensive in Libya "will affect the whole course of the war is a rather typical British understatement, since an Allied victory would be likely to shorten the war immeasurably whereas a sweeping defeat might be absolutely catastrophic. Preservation of Britain's control of the Mediterranean theater is, next to the defense of England it self, the thing of greatest import ance to the Allied cause. , Should the British lose that vital domination, it is difficult to sec how they could hope to win the war. The greatest threat to England's control is the possession of Libya by the Axis forces. If the Axis, and particularly the nazis, can be knocked out of northern Africa al together, the threat to the Medi terranean will be reduced to a minimum, and the Allies will have taken a mighty stride toward final victory. Thus tremendous Importance at taches to this long-delayed full dress offensive across the desert, against the Axis defenses along the Italian military highway which skirts the sweeping circle of the sea between Egypt and French Tunisia. America of course has a very considerable stake in this operation, for it. has been made possible through the equipment which wc have been pouring into Africa. Any stoppage of supplies at this crucial Juncture, by the way, might spell the difference between success and defeat for. the Allies. There are numerous important objectives which are involved. These include: 1. To try to relieve the German pressure against the Russians by causing Hitler to withdraw war- planes and other equipment in or der to support the Axis In Libya. 2. To make a quick conquest of Libya so to prevent Hitler from gaining control of Frances col onics Sn adjoining North Africa a danger which seems to be in creased through the reported en forced retirement of General Wey gand as commander-in-chief of the French colonial armies. Weygand is credited with having stood be tween Hitler and these African bases which are important to the Germans both in the battle of the SEE MEDITERRANEAN STORY PAGE S Grange Advocates Vigorous Foreign Policy For U.S. WORCESTER. Mass., Nov. 21 Of) The National Grange today adopted what it called a "grass roots" foreign policy urging the administration to conduct its for eign relations so "that this nation and democracy shall continue to exist in the world." The points of that policy, as approved by delegates from 37 states attending the closing ses sion of the farm organization's annual convention, included: Take "h11 necessary means" to supply goods and munitions to nations opposing aggression. Maintain defense zones "far enough beyond the territorial lim its" of the western hemisphere to "give reasonable security against aerial and sea attack." Maintain the status quo In the Pacific because of its "necessity 8EE GRANGE STORY , J ' PAGE 3 -- Gas Company Land Sought For Highway Suit to condemn two pieces ot property owned by the Northwest Cities Gas company adjoining Eighth avenue cast and Franklin boulevard for the new highway to bo built in that section of the city was filed in circuit court by the state highway commission Friday. The two parcels of land, one containing 1345 square feet and the other 278 square feet, are lo cated near the company's gal plant at the end of Eighth avenue. The Farmers' Loan and Trust company and Lane county are also named as defendants In the suit because of a mortgage and a tax. lien t !'; I.- V (i v-