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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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