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The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington. Aue. 28 Ardent
telephoning by Mssrs. Hillman,
Davis and Knox crowded Mr.
Roosevelt into changing his
mind 24 hours
after he had
announced
ag a i n s t gov
ernment seiz
u r e of the
Kearny s h i p
building plant
for the pres
ent. They Jan
gled all lines
to Hyde Park,
urging the
drastic action
Paul Mallon
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again, after negotiations again
broke down.
Two of the pressuring trio
(Labor Coordinator Sidney Hill
Wian and Labor Mediation Chair
man Davis) had put both them
selves and the president out on
limb from which they could
not otherwise escape. Mr. Hill
man favored and a three man
panel of the labor board ap
proved (but not unanimously as
usual) the modified closed shop,
which the union wanted and the
company refused to allow. This
was the only point at issue. All
12 other points had been agreed
upon.
A resignation from the labor
mediation board might have de
veloped if the president persist
ed in his logical expectation
that the point be settled by
negotiation. This would have
opened wide to public gaze the
difference of opinion Inside the
board panel.
Seizure of the plant may have
s provided temporary escape
for the difficulty into which the
mediation board and Mr. Hill
man had plunged themselves by
having put the government (dl
videdly) behind the closed shop
Issue, but a lot of aching official
heads have been left here.
Whether they will continue to
apply this new modified closed
hop policy in other cases is
doubtful. Apparently all in
volved are going to try aspirin
on themselves the next few days
and let both themselves and the
matter settle.
MR. HULL and the Japanese
ambassador have said they
hoped their conflicting policies
could be settled but did not
know how. That is a diplomatic
Continued on Paga Eight)
FOR WOMAN LOST
An organized search was be
ing made this afternoon for
Mrs. Jane Knott, 55, Klamath
Falls, missing since 5 p. m.
yesterday from her camp at
Huckleberry mountain. Rogue
River national forest headquar
ters reported.
Mrs. Knott, camping on the
mountain since Tuesday, was
picking huckleberries. She was
last seen by other berry pickers
about 5 p. m. yesterday.
The searching party this after
noon comprised 27 CCC en
rollees, three foremen, two for
r est fire guards and five berry
pickers. Mrs. Knott's husband,
reached by the forest service
through the Klamath Falls
Chamber of Commerce, left his
work for tha mountain this
afternoon.
Mrs. Knott was camping with
the children of a neighbor.
Alaine Cooper, 13, and her
brother LeRoy Cooper, 14. The
children reported to the fire
guard when Mrs. Knott did not
return to camp last night. The
guard searched until 10:30 and
then asked the Union Creek
ranger station for help and
another guard Joined him in the
search until 1:30 a. m. They
resumed the hunt at daybreak.
Murder Sentence Friday
Condon, Ore.. Aug. 28. 0p
James Harvey Thomas. 19-year-old
railor. was convicted last
night by a circuit court jurv of
the slaying of Douglas F. Smith,
Aberdeen, near Arlington, Ore ,
June 11. Sentence will be pass
ed Friday
I
EVACUATION OF
Germans Within 32 Miles
Of Leningrad People's
Army Defends Old Capital
Moscow, Aug. 28. (JP) The
Russians said tonight that two
successive German defense lines
had been broken in a counter
attack on the central front
which has continued for six
days.
Moscow, Aug. 28. (IP) The
evacuation of the industrial citv
of Dnieperopetrovsk in the Uk
raine was acknowledged tonight
in the Soviet communique.
Moscow, Aug. 28. (IP) Rus
sian forces have blown up the
great Dnieper river dam, indus
trial pride of the Soviet Union,
it was announced officially to
night.
'We blew up the dam, said
official spokesman S. A. Lozov
sky, "so as not to allow this
first child of the Soviet five
year plan fall into the hands
of the Hitler bandits."
The Dnieper dam, located
Just south of Dnieperopetrovsk
oh the lower part of the river
where German forces now are
entrenched, was the first great
construction project of the Sov
iet Union.
The dam supplied hydroelec
tric power for a large sector
of the industrial Ukraine.
"All measures have been
taken not to permit the Ger
mans to make. use of the dam
and its machinery,"" TaTd Xoz-
ovsky.
By the Associated Press '
German troops storming to
ward Leningrad were . reported
within 32 miles of the old czar
ist capital late today.
Already proclaimed "In ter
rible danger," Leningrad was
being defended by hastily-mobilized
volunteers in a people's
army fighting alongside the reg
ular Red army troops, and in
side the great Industrial city a
third line of defenders manned
street barricades.
On the southern front, the
Germans said masses of Russian
infantry attempted to cross
back to the west bank of the
Dnieper river and had been
chopped down by German ar
tillery. Only on the central front,
guarding Moscow, did the Rus
sians present an optimistic pic
ture. Soviet dispatches said
counter-attacking Red army
troops had smashed two succes
sive German defense lines in
the Gomel area about midway
between Smolensk and Kiev.
Simultaneously, Soviet Mar
shal Semeon Budyenny issued a
dramatic appeal to besieged
Russian forces at Odessa to de
fend that Black sea port "to
the last drop of blood."
By tha Associated Press
Berlin, Aug. 28. Russian in
fantry attempted to cross back
to the west bank of the lower
Dnieper today, but was re
pulsed by German artillery fire
which wrecked pontoons and
punctured rubber boats, DNB
reported. .
'There were extremely
bloody losses among Infantry
companies drawn up in prep
artion for the crossing," the
news agency said.
DNB also said Russians on
the lower Dneiper tried to shell
German positions on the west
bank from river boats but that
artillery fire drove them off and
set one of their tugboats and
a monitor on fire.
Wilhelmstrasse sources said
German troops had taken most
of northern Estonia and "a de
cision is near" on the Gulf of
i Finland. The naval base of
jPaldiski (Baltic port) will fall
In a short time, it is assumed,
leaving only the islands of Oesel
and Dagoe and the port of
Hango in Russian possession,"
they said.
Seattle, Aug. 28. P) Tuna
prices reached the highest ever
here today with a catch of
1.300 pounds by the schooner
Faith 2nd, selling on the Seat
tle fish exchange at the rate
of 5322.50 a ton. A buyer bid
lit 18 cent pound.
Father Joins 7 Navy Sons I FIRST
I 1 LAUNCHES
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Mil
Floyd Patton, S3, (right) ef
sens serving with tha United
in the service. Hare ha gats a physical okay from Lieut.
Roger Holcomb. Tha age limitation was waived.
E PERK1
ON AFL-CIO SPLIT
New York, Aug. 28. (IP)
Looking back over eight years
as secretary of labor, Frances
Perkins blames the split between
the American Federation of Lab
or and the Congress of Indus
trial Organization for the failure
of collective bargaining to settle
more disputes without strikes.
Writing in the September is
sue of Fortune magazine, the
nation's first woman cabinet of
ficer describes the AFL-CIO
schism as "largely an internal
fight for control," and declares
that "a reunion could be made
tomorrow without ugly scars of
hatred and rancor between the
wage earners in each group.
"I have been called incom
petent (and worse) because I
have not prevented strikes," Miss
Perkins writes, "and I am aware
that there is a theory that if I
were a two-fisted male I should
be able to stop strikes.
"The accusation that I am a
woman is incontrovertible. As
for being two-fisted, I'm sure
that it Is unrealistic and lacking
in human knowledge to believe
that getting tough or cracking
down on working people would
make things better. There nave
been two-fisted males in this
office and strikes were never
prevented, because no secretary
of labor has ever had the au
thority or the power directly to
stop strikes, and it is doubtful
if any clear thinking citizen
would be willing to give to any
agency of government the ab
solute right and power to inter
fere with other citizens." . .
"The only power I have," she
declares, "is to act as labor's
spokesman in the government"
"The AFL-CIO split was large
ly an internal fight for control,
in which the Idea of vertical
unions was only a minor Issue.
At all times I have tried to bring
the two factions together, al
ways appointing representatives
of both groups to committees
and advisory boards.
"I have urged John Lewis
(former head of the CIO) over
and over again to make peace
with the AFL and he said over
and over again that he expected
to make peace 'when tha right
time comes.'
'The president wrote Mr.
Lewis a letter asking him to
make peace. That irked Mr.
Lewis. It was after that that
he called me "woozy' In the
head.' I received letters and
telegrams from labor organiza
tions (both AFL and CIO( asking
me to keep trying to make
peace.
Portland, Ore., father of seven
States navy, has Joined them
GOLD HILL PAIR
HURT WHEN CARS
A head-on automobile crash
on the Pacific .highway a mile
north of Gold Hill at 12:10 p. m.
today sent the- drivers of the
colliding cars, James Martin, 18,
and Benjamin' William Perkins,
about 35, both of Gold Hill, to
Community hospital here with
painful but apparently not seri
ous injuries.
Their attending physician said
that Martin suffered lacerations
of the head and left arm and a
fractured left arm, and that
Perkins sustained lacerations
of the head and arms, a broken
left elbow and a dislocated left
shoulder.
The car driven by the Martin
youth, according to word from
Gold Hill, was traveling south,
while that operated by Perkins
was moving in the opposite di
rection. The head-on- collision
occurred on a short straight
away between a double curve,
and the force of the Impact
swung both machines around
so that they faced in the oppo
site direction from which they
were originally traveling. The
body of the Perkins machine
was ripped almost completely
off the chassis, and the car
driven by Martin also was badly
damaged.
Both drivers were alone In
their cars. Martin, a Gold Hill
high school student, is t3 son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Martin.
NEW EXCISE TAXES
SCHEDULE LOOMS
Washington, Aug. 28 CP) A
senate finance ' subcommittee
agreed today to a new schedule
of excise taxes which members
said would add approximately
$400,000,000 to the $3,903,900,
000 tax bill. .
The subcommittee, composed
of Senators Brown (D-Mich) and
Dana her (R-Conn) reported its
finding to the full committee
after a four-hour, session devot
ed to developing new sources of
revenue.
Both Brown and Danaher de
clined to reveal details of the
new schedule. Brown said, how
ever, that "we Increased some
existing taxes and provided for
a few more."
The excise taxes are those Im
posed generally upon manufac
tured articlaa
NATIONAL
$40,000
IMPROVEMENT JOB
Addition On Rear, Vault
Change, All Season Con
ditioning Completed By
December 1.
Plans were completed and
work started this week on a
$40,000 program to Increase the
space and completely renovate
the building of the Medford
branch of the First National
Bank of Portland, announced
Eugene R. Thorndike, manager
of the local branch, today. "In
creased business in the Medford
area has made necessary these
changes to facilitate our serv
ices to the many customers of
this bank," Thorndike stated.
Major change will be the ad
dition of a new structure to the
rear of and adjoining the pres
ent bank building to bring the
building to the full width of the
front half of the present struc
ture. The present vault on the
main floor will be moved into
the new part of the building at
ine rear, thereby releasing sDace
for seven new teller windows
and additional lobby space for
tha convenience of the public,
A complete air-conditioning
system for summer and winter
conditioning of the air has been
designed to add to the comfort
and convenience of both the
customers and staff of the bank.
A new vault will also be in
stalled In the basement of the
structure.
Other modern " Innovations
will be an entirely new ceiling
in the banking quarters - with
accoustical treatment n d a
complete new lighting sstem.
Interior and exterior of the
building will be completely re
painted and decorated.
Mr. Thorndike announced
that the work should be com
pleted about December 1,'and
said that during the period of
construction the bank would do
everything possible to eliminate
inconvenience to the customers.
IN NEED PICKERS,
BOOST PAY, BONUS
Grants Pass, Aug. 28 (JP)
Shortage of pickers for the
Rogue River valley hop harvest,
now three weeks old and em
ploying 2,300 persons and three
machines, was reflected Thurs
day by an Increase in wages.
Some yards announced that
they would pay two cents a
pound with half-cent bonus for
those remaining the entire sea
son. This is equivalent to ap
proximately 10 cents.
Previous picking price an
nounced by all growers was 1V4
cents per pound with half-cent
bonus.
Worried growers escaped dis
aster by only a few miles Wed
nesday night when sudden
thunder shower peppered Grants
Pass with half an inch of rain In
half an hour. The yards, all but
one concentrated a short dis
tance west of the city, escaped
the downpour which would
probably have sent many over
weighted hops and vine crash
ing to the ground.
Robert Helms reported he had
35 acres of tomatoes to be pick
ed and could find no pickers.
. LEAR TELLS
TROOPS: BE FIT
Hope, Ark., Aug. 28
Lieut -General Ben Lear told his
second army today that no
trainees should feel the current
military program was without
purpose and set forth a specific
objective:
"An army fit to fight, an army
fit to meet veterans in the field
and take the field away from
them, and suffer tha least
BULLET CLOSE TO
HEART OF LAVAL,
General Condition 'Satis
factory' Trial Today
For Attacker Round-Up
Reds.
Versailles, Occupied France
Aug. 28. (IP) One of the bul
lets which struck Pierre Laval
lodged only one-tenth of an inch
below his heart, it was disclosed
tonight. A physician's bulletin
said:
"M. Laval stood the operation
well. His condition is generally
satisfactory. Temperature 37.3
(99.0. Fahrenheit), pulse 100
Visits absolutely forbidden."
It was disclosed that Laval
never lost consciousness.
Marcel Deat underwent an In
testinal operation and also was
declared to have "stood the
operation well." Visitors also
were forbidden to see him.
Versailles, German - Occupied
France, Aug. 28. (JP) Authori
ties of German-occupied France
made a sweeping round-up of
enemies to the regime today in
the wake of the Laval-Deat as
sassination attempt and by mid-
afternoon had placed more than
300 persons in ."protective cus
tody. " some of them from tne
very ranks of the newly mobil
ized antl-bolshevist legion.
In Paris, the first three so-
called communists to be con
victed by special courts were
executed. They were condemned
to death yesterday for alleged
misdeeds not connected with the
Laval shooting.
Authorities apparently feared
that the anti-bolshevlst legion,
formed to fight Russia alongside
Germany, contains many more
members who, like Pierre
Laval's youthful assassin, Paul
Collette, had Joined purposely
to be able to get at the French
leaders favoring strong colla
boration with Germany.
Today's arrests were made In
Paris and Versailles while both
Laval and Marcel Deat lay seri
ously ill in hospitals with grave
bullet wounds in their bodies.
Colette, a ship stoker and
acknowledged De Gaulist, was
rushed toward trial before one
of the special anti-communist
courts Just set up by the French.
Informed circles said the open
ing of the trial was "a matter of
hours."
These said also that It was
evident that Colette had been
pushed into the attack "by com-munist-De
Gaulist (free French)
elements."
MILK RISE VITAL
Portland, Aug. 28 W) The
state milk control board, open
ing its third hearing on Portland
area prices, heard reiterated tes
timony today that an increase
was needed becaute of labor ana
feed costs.
G. F. Wardln, dairy operator,
said 4 per cent milk prices
should be Increased from 12 to
14 cents per quart and from 13
to 18 cents on 5 per cent milk.
Eugene Wetzler, feed merch
ant, testified that feed prices
had increased from $5 to $6 per
ton since January. Byron De
Young, Gresham producer-distributor,
said his labor costs
were, up $175 monthly, grain
$66 monthly and cow replace
ment $50 monthly.
At Eugene yesterday the board
heard testimony that Eugene
faced a milk shortage unless
prices were Increased one cent
per quart to 12 cents for a per
cent and 13 cents for A per cent.
Portland Flyer Hurt
Eugene, Aug. 28. P Percy
Freeman, Jr., Portland, suffered
a broken Jaw, multiple lacera
tions of the face and head and
possibly a fractured hip when
his small Culve Cadet mono
plane crashed on a take-off from
a field west of tha Dick Reed
farm on the Coburg road today.
Swnn'nto, Aug. 3S , Buttar
fat rvat grade, 41e; eecond grade.
War Bulletins liPRIME MINISTER
Helsinki. Finland. Aug. 28.
(If) Tha strategic Salmaa
canal which approaches almost
to tha outskirts of Vipurl.
most Important city obtained
by Russia in tha 1939-40 win
ter war, has bean reatored to
Finnish hands, a Finnish army
correspondent reported to
night. London, Aug. 28 (IPh-Tha
British government tonight
took over full control of Brit
ish railways.
Direction of Britain's four
main line railways and Lon
don's vast transportation sys
tem of subways, buaes and
trolley cars are placed under
tha management of tha Lon
don transport board.
The four big railways are
the Great Western, London
Midland and Scottish, London
and Northeastern, and South-
E
Resistance Ends After
Three Days Peaceful
Anglo-Russ Occupation
Follows.
Teheran, Iran, Aug. 28 (IP)
The reorganized Iran govern
ment today ordered the army to
cease all resistance to British
and Russian armies.
By tha Associated Press)
. London. Aug. 28 A reorgan
ized Iran government headed by
Premier All Furanghl announc
ed to parliament today, the Te
heran radio said, that orders had
been Issued to Iran troops to
cease resistance to British and
Russian forces which are rapidly
advancing toward vital centers
of the country.
News of the quick abandon
ment of armed opposition, on
the third day of the British
Russian intervention in the mid
dle east kingdom, was contained
also in dispatches of DNB, offi
cial Germany news agency,
heard on the radio.
(A British broadcast, heard by
NBC, said "all fighting in Iran
has ceased"; that the British-
Russian Invasion had turned
into a peaceful occupation.)
"We shall do our utmost to
maintain good relations with tha
foreign powers, and especially
our neighbors, and to continue
improvements which are the
aims of his majesty and the
whole nation," Reuters quoted
the premier as saying.
"In order that these intentions
should be made clear to the
world at large, at this moment
when tha governments of Soviet
Russia and Great Britain have
ordered certain actions be taken
that the government of Iran, in
pursuance of the peace-loving
policy of his majesty. Is issuing
orders to all armed forces of the
country to refrain from any re
sistance so that the causes for
bloodshed and disturbance of
security shall be removed and
public peace and security as
sured." Washington, Aug. 28. (IP)
The Geological Survey reported
favorably today on the opalite
quicksilver district. In Malheur
county. Ore., and Humboldt
county, Nev., and held out hope
that new ore bodies would be
discovered.
"Further exploration might
reveal even greater quantities
of potential ore; the property can
almost certainly produce at
least 1,000 flasks of quicksilver,
and at present prices it might
produce several times that
much," said R. O. Yates, geo
logist, in a report released to
day.
From 1927, when production
In the district began, until the
end of 1940. the district pro
duced 22,174 76 pound flasks of
quicksilver, ha said.
QUICKSILVER IN
MALHEUR OKAYED
IDENT NOTE
Amb. Nomura Delivers To
White House Details
Not Revealed.
Washington, Aug. 28 (IP) A
personal message from the Japa
nese prime minister to President
Roosevelt was delivered to the
chief executive today by Admi
ral Kichlsaburo Nomura, that
Japanese ambassador.
Nomura came to tha Whlt4
House after days of rapidly de
veloping tension growing out of
the conflict of Japanese and
American policies in the Pacific.
He conferred at the Whit
House with tha president and
Secretary of State Hull.
Nomura refused to elaborate
in reply to a barrage of ques
tions from reporters as to what
the message from Prime Minis
ter Konoye contained.
Secretary Hull said at hit
press conference that there)
might be. another or several
more meetings between the)
president and the ambassador in
an effort to reach a peaceful
solution of questions between
the two nations In what he de
scribed as a mora intimate and
personal manner.
In reply to questions. Hull
said the state department would
not disclose the text ef tha prim
minister message, and ha dea
cllned any comment on any ape
clfie points in it .
Tokyo, Aug. 28 (IP) Tha
possibility that Japan will stake)
her whole far eastern prestige)
on tha Issue of United State
tankers carrying gasoline and oil
to Russia's Vladivostok was re
flected today in tha Important
newspaper Nichl NichL
"It Is not mere problem of
oil ships it la a tremendous)
problem which means tha suc
cess or failure of our Interna,
tional diplomacy," tha paper as
serted. . (
Japan ha mad represent,
tlons to both tha United States)
and Russia against these ship,
ments, contending their passage
close to Japanese territory it
causing disquiet and anxiety la
Japan.
(Both countries have turned
do tha protests, Russia warn
ing Japan that any Interference)
will be construed as an unfriend?
ly act.)
E
INTERNED SHIPS
i
Washington, Aug. SBdP)-
Tha 21 American republic
agreed today to place In opera
tion all foreign vessels driven
into western hemisphere porta
by the European war.
The action was announced by
the inter-American financial and
economic advisory committee
which has been working on tha
problem for tha past seven
months In an effort to alleviate,
a shipping shortage resulting la
American waters because of di
version of vessels to take sup
plies to Britain and tha Neat
East
BASEBALL
American
R.
. 0
H. E.
4
10
Washington
Chicago
4
Sundra, Zuber (6), Mastersos)
(8) and Evans; Lea and Tresh,
National
Score:
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Boston
3
4
1
Eaves, Raffensberger and Mc
Cullough; Earlcy and Berres.
St Louis
11
N.w Vorlr
S
Pollet and W. Cooper; Melton.
Carpenter (7), Adams (9) and
HartnetL
R. H.
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Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
a i
Dies. Kllnger (9) and Lopes,
Davis (9); Pearson, Hughe (9),
Hoent (9) and Livingston.
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