Thursday, November 21, 1940
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Three
Germans List
Ship Sinkings
By Speed Boats
Berlin, Nov. 21 MP) German
speedboats have sunk British war
vessels, Including six destroyers and
two submarines, with a total ton
nage of 11,300 since the beginning
of the war,
In addition, a communique said,
the speedboats have destroyed 212,
000 tons of merchant shipping.
"Now for the first time," the
high command said, "one German
speedboat was lost In a fight with
several English destroyers during
an operation against the English
east coast."
(The British reported that such
Vft torpedo craft was sunk Tuesday
, night by light naval forces In the
North sea.)
Attributing the loss of "a great
number on enemy warships" to the
German speedboats, the com
munlque reported that the boats
had had "numerous fights with
superior British forces."
Informed sources added, mean
while, that German fliers had drop.
ped more than 100,000 kilograms
(221,000 pounds) of bombs on Birm
ingham and 30,000 kilograms (66,300
, pounds) In raids last night, and also
attacked Bristol, Liverpool, South
ampton and southeastern coastal
harbors.
Italian air activity was said to
have been confined to raids on Ips
wich and Harwich.
"Several hundred" bombers were
reported to have taken part In the
night's raiding.
The nightly air assault on Britain
was "a large scale attack on the
broadest front" against British cities
and harbors, Informed sources said
f Vulfee Plant
Still Tied up
Downey. Calif.. Nov. 21 (AV-Gov
ernment negotiators, striving to iron
out a labor dispute which has tied
up the big Vultee Aircraft plantr
and $84,000,000 In military contracts
for nearly a week, still were un
successful today.
One of the government represen
tatives, N. Arnold Tollee, left for
Washington but without any an-
nouncement regarding progress of
the discussions. L. W. Mlchener,
west coast head of the striking
union, the CIO National Automobile
Workers, headed for Atlantic City
and the CIO's national convention.
Major Sidney Simpson, repre
senting the war department, last
night adjourned until today a la
bor-management parley which has
been under way since Monday noon
with only occasional respites. "No
comment" was the major's only
i statement as he emerged from the
a meeting room.
The union wants an increase from
50 cents to 75 cents an hour in the
minimum base pay. The company
has offered a boost to 65 cents for
workers after three months' ser-
. vice and 60 cents after six months.
Old Age Has Passed
Says Ernest Bevin
(This dally feature, conducted by DeWHt MaeKentle, U belnf written by Fred
Vandtrschmltt while. MacKenzls it taking a brief vacation.)
It is not coincidence that Ernest Bevin, the man to whom
workaday England looks with trust and hope, chose to outline
the British government's war aim of social security on the
very day that Coventry buried Its
bomb dead In a long and ugly gash
In the earth and when Uie other
cities of the midlands searched for
new dead in the bomb-made rubble.
"Things can never be as they
were ... the old age has passed,"
said the minister of labor, bluntly.
This man of toil was talking to
Granville Hurd
Dies at Age of 82
Granville P. Hurd, 82, retired in
surance man, died at his home, 1315
Marion street, Wednesday afternoon,
November 20, just a month after the
death of his wife.
Memorial services will be held at
1:30 o'clock Saturday, November 23,
at the Walker and Howell chapel,
followed by interment at Beicrest
Memorial park. Dr. J. C. Harrison of
the First Methodist church, of which
Mr. Hurd was a member, will offi
ciate. Granville Fayette Hurd was born
in St. Croix county, Wisconsin, Jan
uary 31, 1858 After his graduation
from Rival Falls normal he taught
school in the same county with Caro
line L. Constance of Waupaca, Wise,
whom he married on Thanksgiving
day, November 30, 1882. They resid
ed In Eau Claire, Wise., until 1905
when they brought their family to
Eugene. Since 1918 they had lived in
Salem.
Mr. Hurd is survived by three sons,
Lieut. Col. Leland C. Hurd in the
army air corps at Honolulu, Wayne
Hurd of Eugene, Paul Hurd of San
Francisco; two daughters, Conifred
Hurd of Seattle and Mrs. E. D. Knh
ler (Virginia) of Portland, and one
brother, Clinton G. Hurd, judge of
Lane county, Eugene.
Milk Bottle Sale
Aids Silverton PTA
Sllverton Reports Wednesday of
the funds realized by the milk bot
tle tag sale over the week-end su
pervised by the Parent-Teachers'
association, showed around $45
cleared for the milk fund that sup
plies free milk for under-privileged
children. Pred Sears and Miss B.
Jeffries directed the junior high
group of girls that sold the tiny
bottles.
Those selling tags were Betty Lou
Spencer, Betty Lee Robbins, Delores
Her, Elain Hamre, Jean Larson,
Betty Vorseth, Jean Richards, Don
na Clair Aim, Zehpne Glvens, Jo
sephine Willimont, Ruth Melbye,
Yvonne Haugen, Louise Leonard,
Joan Libby, Haroldlne Leach, Donna
Alrick, June Rossett, Ruth David,
Pauline Neal, Pat McEwen, Ruth
Zahler and Dorothy Jordan.
the midlands, sending to countless
bleak little workers' villas a mes
sage of hope in a black hour for
faith and morale. Not after the
war, but now, he said, the nation's
whole economic life must be devoted
to the goal of security for "the
community as a whole."
The midlands Is the fortress of
England, not merely the fortress
of her Industry, but the staunch
heart of the nation's spirit.
Here Is the Merrie England of
old; all the way from Banbury
Cross to Nottingham, this land of
the Domesday Book, of civil war,
of weavers and dyers, of "Coventry
blue," of piping hot buns and cool
brown ale and the stories of Mother
Goose, .
Here, also, Is grim and grinding
poverty and vast Industrial wealth,
the dole and the lord lieutenant.
It Is amazing that the Germans
have not descended with all their
force on these towns before, but In
stead have beat with their air
borne rage at London. There are
more vital military objectives to the
square foot In Birmingham or even
Coventry than there are to the
square mile In London. There Is a
vastly more vulnerable morale for
the breaking. This Is not a country
of shopkeepers, this midlands. It
Is a country of workers and their
small and dingy homes.
These towns do not have the de
fenses of London. Here there are
no deep shelters . . . the govern
ment said they would cost too much
and take too much time to build.
There are, indeed, no deep sub
ways such as hide London's millions
of poor from the fury of the Luft
waffe by night.
The midlands cities are crowded,
compact; London sprawls through
park and parish. The midlands
worker lives close to his lathe. There
are 12,503 acres In the city of Cov
entry, and some 200,000 people live
there, or did live there. There are
51,147 acres for the million souls
of Birmingham to share amongst
them. Greater London has 443,455
acres and millions have left its pre
cincts for the duration of the ar.
The airplane factories, the motor
plants, the metal foundries, the arms
works, rub shoulders In the mid
land cities; London was stripped
of most of Its forges of war long
ago.
There are two explanations for
the belated German attack on the
midlands and the vicious siege of
London: one, that Britain made its
greatest city a successful lure; sec.
ond, that Hitler wanted to save
England's industries, the nation's
greatest prize, for himself, so long
as his chances of Invasion seemed
successful. The second carries the
most logic.
Japan's
drive.
women have- a thrift
War on Reds
And Other Isms
Waged in CIO
Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 21 (FV
A declaration against the philosophy
of communism, nazlsm and fascism
was reported drafted and ready for
a vote in the CIO convention today.
For a week there haa been open
agitation for CIO action on such a
policy and for a showdown between
so-called left and right wing groups
Proposals calling for the adoption
of this policy have been under con
sideration in the resolutions com
mittee since CIO members gathered
here in their third convention to de
termine policies they would follow
after John L. Lewis retires from
CIO's presidency.
Since Lewis and a group of labor
leaders established CIO here five
years ago to engage In a militant
campaign to unionize big Industry
there have been charges that adher
ents of communism had obtained a
foothold In the new movement and
were active in organizing work.
During the past week the drive
to bring about a showdown on CIO's
attitude toward the thorny Issue be
came one of the convention's major
activities.
The amalgamated clothing work
ers' union headed by Sidney Hill-
man, labor member of the national
defense commission, played a leading
part in the drive, supporting a reso
lution to condemn communism, fas
cism and nazism, and also a proposal
to put Into CIO's constitution an
amendment which would make
members of any of the three isms
Ineligible to hold paid Jobs in CIO
offices.
The communist issue has been de
scribed by well-informed labor men
as one of the problems Involved In
the consideration of Philip Murray
as Lewis successor in the CIO presi
dency. Crime Career of
Pair Cut Short
Payette, Ida., Nov. 21 OJ.R) Seventeen-year-old
Bob Roach of Seattle,
Wash., and his 15-year-old girl com
panion were held in the Payette
county Jail today after their four
day crime spree was checked by a
policeman's gunfire.
Shaken by his arrest, young Roach
told officers how he persuaded Tesh
Gune Dadian, Seattle high school
girl, to run away with him. He ad
mitted robbing a jewelry store with
a pistol taken from the girl's home
and then set out in a stolen car for
a trip through Washington, Oregon
and Into Idaho.
They abandoned the car near
Redmond, Ore., when it ran out of
gas, and hitch-hiked to Ontario,
Ore. There they picked up another
car from a used car lot on the pre
tense of buying it, Roach related.
Yesterday they stopped at a ser
vice station In the desert near here
and allegedly slugged the attendant
after getting a tankful of gasoline.
The crime trail ended outside of
Bole where police awaited their ar
rival. Roach refused to halt when
police signalled, but a round of bul
lets into the tires stopped the car.
They will be held here to answer
charges of slugging the service sta
tion operator, Louis Guldott!
Drive Launched
In AFL Against
Racketeers
New Orleans, Nov. 21 (ff) Suc
cess in some form lor a mfcatfure
that would drive racketeers out of
its labor unions was forecast today
by a key man in the American Fed
eration of Labor.
But while the rest of the AFT.
convention delegates observed
Thanksgiving day, representatives
of the International Ladies' Gar
ment workers, which has 100,000
members in the New York area, met
to consider demands, for a wage
hike and the possibility of a strike.
David Dubinsky, one of the au
thors of the an ti -racketeering mea
sure and president of the garment
workers, said:
"Our ILGW general executive
board, which meets every three
months, was called Into session to
day to work out a contract for the
one expiring February 1. .
"We'll want to preserve our pres
ent 35-hour week and may ask foi
higher wages. Because of these
and other demands we will also
consider the possibility of a strike."
"I don't see how the convention
can fail to act favorably on the
anti-racketeering resolution," said
an official who Is a member of the
AFL executive council and the reso
lutions committee.
The executive council In its an
nual report condemned gangsterism
within unions but acknowledged that
the general body of the AFL lacked
constitutional authority to deal with
the problem as It arose in indivi
dual unions.
The resolution, introduced by Du
binsky and other members of his
ILGW, called upon the convention
to vote the AFL constitutional au
thority to smash racketeering with
in a union.
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