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Mil U at Kaalh. Weather "IT" ,port You Will Agree It yea km himc ;m wia te rosea Ike groatm iub eC pooplo la the ealekott pe tit Unto, in the Want ads tm Uus amnpapar. The cwt to 7 mil ntNitt wltk re- Salts.-yoa WlU (fTM. Medfoed Tribune Forecast: fart 17 elsaSy to Bight an Thanas with tot tm mornlnf. Slifluly aoollr te als be Tmitnlnt Hl(hnt Yestwday Lowest tbls Manilai - It fuU Associated Pita United Prcn Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941 No. 195. (M1MS 1 News Behind The News By Paul Malloq Washington, Nov. 8. The ris ing waves of war in the Atlantic and Pacific are causing certain wmn army leaders t0 grumble ' wf seriously against the possibility that Mr. Roctsevelt may lead them Into another Dunkerque. The truth is only two of our five arm Paul Mallon ored divisions have as much as 80 percent of the equipment they need to fight. .The other three have around 40 per cent, less than half of what they must have. They are nowhere near being ready for action. This situation, of course, is entangled in some very delicate personal and official relations between the commander and chief and his generals. No doubt both will officially deny its existence. Yet there is sound ground for suspecting the army has already attempted to wangle a larger share of the tanks and planes being produced now for the allied cause. Possi bly they succeeded in acquiring a few more thanks, but not enough to fill the deficiency. MO QUESTION of army loyal- ' ty to the chiefs is involved. Personalities and politics are no where in evidence in this issue. It is Just a grave question of policy the problem of fixing a reasonable limit on our aid to Russia and Britain so we may ac quire an efficient fighting force ourselves as quickly as possi ble. What complicated It lately was the return of the Harriman mis sion from Moscow with Red de mands for more tanks and planes. The mission has in spired an official expectation that Moscow will not fall this winter, and that the Reds will keep strong armies in the field indefinitely If we give them the (Continued on P- Six) Radio Highlights Washington, Nov. 3. (JP) The White House today labeled as important the speech Presi dent Roosevelt is to deliver at noon P.S.T. tomorrow to the in ternational labor office dele gates. The speech will be about 20 minutes long and will be broadcast over all the major radio chains- (This is Pacific Standard) Tonight, the war 5 MBS; 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS; 7:30 NBC-blue; 7:45 CBS; 8 NBC-red; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS; 9:55 NBC CBS. Talks NBC-red 4:30 Sen. J. H. Ball on "Repeal of Neutrality Act;" NBC-blue 8 America First, Philadelphia. John Cudahy; CBS 7:15 Rep. Emanuel Celler on "Powers of the President;" CHS 8 Sen. Taft, "Shall We Convoy to England?" MBS 8:15 Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, "War or Peace for America?" Thursday NBC-red, 8:30, Speaking of Liberty, Pearl Buck. CBS, 1:45 two-way broadcast, London to Baltimore, Aviation Workers. MBS, 9:45 . m. Nath an Straus on "Public Housing Crows Up;" 12:13 Camp Grant in Review. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Oscar Gross presenting a can of Dutch cleanser to Dorothy Morrison after hearing what an abundance of perfumed soaps, bath salts and bubble baths she had received for her birthday. The senior Larry Schade re ceiving no end of congratula tions on his comic skating at the Ice Arena, he modestly insisting, however, it was his son the Junior Larry who made the news for his skating dexterity Bill Reed being in the prover bial doghouse, a puppy h gave Ken Murray killing several dona of the Murray cMrit ns 7? iff NAZIS N SIGHT OF E Navy Minister Claims 'More Than One Sunk' Planes Aid In Defense Attacks. Toronto, Nov. 5 (JPt Navy Minster Angus MacDonald said today that Nazi submarines are operating "off the coast of New foundland within sight of the shore." The navy minister's statement was made when reporters asked him to give further details of his report to the house of com mons last night that Canadian ships have sunk more than one German U-Boat. "You can say there are sub marines right off the shore of Newfoundland that they are actually within sight of the shore," he said. "Naturally we are attacking them wherever we can find them. So are the patrol planes of the air force coastal com mand. We usually find them by sound and attack by depth charge. They (the planes) sight them and attack by bomb. But we are working very closely to gether." Rear Admiral Percy Nelles, naval chief of staff, was present and gave his approval of the statement. The Germans certainly know where they are," he said. U. S. CANADALINK E Washington, Nov. 3. (JP) The White House announced to day that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada had created a 12-member Joint defense pro duction committee to coordinate the capacities of the two coun tries for production of defense materials. Milo Perkins, executive direc tor of the economic defense board, of the United States, was named chairman of the Ameri can group. The resolution of the Joint economic committee establish ing Joint defense production group, said that the president and Prime Minister King agreed at Hyde Park on April 20 last that as general principle in mobilizing the resources of this continent each country should provide the other with defense articles which it is best able to produce, and that production programs should be speeded up and coordinated to this end. Y IMENIBODIES Georgetown, Calif., Nov. 3 (AP) The army has recovered the crushed bodies of three of its airmen killed in the air corps' series of disasters over California last weekend. Searchers in the Sierra Neva das, 40 miles east of George town, yesterday found the body of Lieut M. H. Walker, 24, of Hattiesburg, Miss., pilot of a four-motored bomber that was split apart in a storm Sunday. Lieutenant Walker's body was In the crushed cockpit Eight others in the bomber parachuted to safety. I Almost two hundred miles I away, near the southern itp of , San Francisco bay, searchers in Niles Canyon discovered the wreckage of a training plane which Lieutenant Robert Agnew 23, of Donalds, S. C. and Pri vate Dan Fisk of Willits, Calif., were flying when they disap peared last Sunday. Their bodies were In the ship. CRESCENT CITY CORPS COMING FOR PARADE Col. W. H. Paine, chairman of the American Legion post's Armistice day parade commit tee, received word today that the newly organized I.O.O.F drum and bugle corps of Cres cent City would be among the out-of-town groups In Tuesday's march here. - Nazis Drive P MILES 1QO The German high command said that tha Natl drive into the Crimea through Perekop Isthmus had driven the Russian army, forcing it to attampt flight through Sevastopol, Kerch. Earlier, Germans claimed capture of Simferopol and were headed for Bakhchisarai, 20 miles north of Sevastopol. Strategy was assayed as an attempt to cut off Sevastopol and to push up through the Kerch isthmus with a double-pronged drive on Rostov and on the Black sea port of Novorssisk. E RAIL EMPLOYES Chicago, Nov. 3. (JP) Spokesmen for the nation's rail roads reported late today that they were disappointed by the reports of President Roosevelt's fact-finding board recommend ing pay increases for 1,150,000 rail workers and vacations with pay for some of them. Washington, Nov. 5. VP) A presidential emergency board recommended today temporary wage Increases for the nation's l 150.000 railroad workers, in cluding a 7V4 per cent raise for the 350,000 in the five operating brotherhoods, and 9-cents-an-hour, or 13tt. per cent average increase, for the 800,000 non operating employes in the 14 other brotherhoods. The board also recommended a week's vacation with pay, ef fective January 1, next, for the year 1942 and each year there after to employes of the non operating brotherhoods. Railway Express agency em ployes also were recommended for a wage increase of 7Va cents per hour. All inn increases recom mended were proposed as "tem porary additions to wages, ef fective as of September 1, 1941, and to terminate automatically on December 31, 1942, unless the parties extend the arrange ment by agreement." Managements and brother hoods have 30 days to act on recommendations of the board. E OF FREAK MISHAP San Francisco, Nov. 8 VP) Seventeen persons were hurt In a freak traffic accident on the San Francisco-Oakland bridge today involving three buses and a truck. Bus passengers reported a Greyhound bus was apparently stalled on the lower three-lane ramp of the bridge In a thick fog during the early morning rush hour when another Grey hound rammed into the rear of it. A Key system commuter bus ht the rear of the second grey hound and a truck rammed into the key bus. The series of rear-end collisions left no one seriously injured, highway patrol reported. All were comng towards San Fran cisco. Traffic on the lower deck of the seven mile bridge was Jam med for more than an hour. According to statistics com piled by the Conference Board covering about two million wage earners, the present wave of wage Increases is the fourth since 1933. Into Crimea Two-Pronged Special Japanese Envoy Coming 1 In Effort to Reach U. S. Accord Tokyo, Nov. 3. (JP) The Japanese government an nounced today that it was send ing Saburo Kurusu, former am bassador to Germany, to Wash ington by trans-Pacific clipper In an effort to reach an accord with the United States 'Mn view of the very serious situation pre vailing." Arrangements for Kurusu's trans-Paclfio flight were, made in radiophone talks last night between United States Ambas sador Joseph C. Grew and Sec retary Hull, resulting in a two day delay of a clipper's de parture from Hongkong to en able Kurusu to catch it, a gov ernment spokesman said. The special envoy already is 'FRISCO VETOES L San Francisco, Nov. 3 (AP) A public power distribution proposal advocated by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes has been turned down by San Fran cisco voter. A $66,300,000 revenue bond issue to enable the city to buy a privately-owned system was rejected at yesterday's munici pal election, 113,070 to 66,089. The United States supreme court has said that the Raker act, which authorized construc tion of the Hetch Hetchy pro ject to supply San Francisco with ater, contains a clause which forbids the city from sell ing electric energy from the project to a private corporation. Proponents of the measure widely displayed a statement by President Roosevelt that he con sidered amendment of the Raker Act by congress "improbable." The bond issue would have enabled San Francisco to buy the city power distribution sys tem from the Pacific Gas & Electric company. CITY'S MERCHANTS MEET THURSDAY A meeting of all Interested merchants will be held at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to plan for the annual Christmas opening. Ray Baker, chairman jf the committee In charge of prepar ing for the formal opening, urg ed all business men to attend so that a representative attend ance might be attained and plans started immediately for the annual event The Bata shoe factory at Zlin, in Moravia, Is making only wooden shoes as a result of the leather shortage; this plant once turned out an estimated 170,000 pairs of shoes dally. ROSTOV en route, having left Tokyo by plane yesterday. The government spokesman said Kurusu's mission was to facilitate a United States-Japanese understanding , through the talks which have been in progress in Washington since last August. Kurusu is famous as the dip lomat who signed for Japan the three-power axis alliance at Berlin Sept. 27, 1940, when he wa ambassa.tor to Germany. (However, Kurusu is not numbered among the most ar dent proponents of the axis pact. He has served long In English speaking and French-speaking countries, having been ambassa dor to Belgium before going to Berlin. He married an Ameri can woman). Springfield Rejects Public Power Again Springfield, Ore., Nov. 3 OP) For the fifth time in the city's history, Springfield municipal power advocates were defeated in an election here Tuesday. At the same time, confidence was expressed In three councllmen. R. E. Morris, Edward G. Privat a"nd George Kendall, when the recall move against them was turned down. Charter amendments passed by the people included provid ing for improved sewerage dis posal facilities. Tillamook, Nov. 5. (IP) The Tillamook County Jersey Cattle club this week went on record as opposing a senate bill to sub stitute oleomargarine for butter in navy diet regulations. ' Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Thursday but morning valley fog; mild temperature; gentle northrly wind off coast. Planes Leave Medford on Two army pilots. Lt R. E. Speckman and Lt T. L. Trent, were killed wheat their P-49 pat suit planes, on e flight from Mediord, Ore., to Fresno. Calif., ereshed Into a hillside near taa Antelme. Calif. Smouldering wreckage of one plan in Joregreuadi flare la upper background Is the burning wreckage at the elhet ship. f 3rman Advance Splits Crimean Defense Force IN HOT EXCHANGE OVER NEUTRALITY Senior Senator Challenges Statement 80 Percent In California For Revision. Washington, Nov. 5. (JP) Senator Downey (D., Cal.) told the senate today he had been Very much surprised" to learn that 75 to 80 percent of the people in California . favored neutrality act revision, and his Republican colleague. Senator Hiram Johnson, immediately disputed him. "Take it from me. Johnson shouted in debate. "I am in touch with the state of Call fornia." I Johnson argued that to revise the act to permit the arming of ships and their travel to bel ligerent ports would surely mean war. He added: "Take your people Into war if you want to, but remember when the casualty lists come rolling In . . . California, no less than any other state, was against war." . Talked To Cltlsena Downey, who previously had Deen associated with the sen ate's so-called "non-intervention" bloc, told his colleagues that he had talked with a rep resentative cross section of Cal ifornia citizens in arriving at his percentages. The Downey-J o h n s o n ex change came shortly after sen ate leaders reported that Presi dent Roosevelt voiced the .view at a White House conference that congress should enact pend ing legislation without tacking on amendments designed to cur tail defense strikes. The Capitol Hill leaders said they had assured the chief ex ecutive that the senate would act tomorrow or Friday on the legislation, which would elimin ate the present neutrality law provisions preventing American merchant ships from carrying arms and entering belligerent ports or combat zones. 196 OREGON DRAFTEES SLATED FOR NEXT CALL Salem, Nov. 3. (JP) Oregon will provide 196 draftees for the army in the call for December 1 to 3, state selective service head quarters said today. Quotas for Washington and California are 341 and 2.652, respectively. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Nov. S. (JP) Carried into court on a rot. Arthur Grantham, 76-year old former mayor of Coeur d'Alene, pleaded lnnvent today in district court to a charge of embezzling 115,711 of the city's funds. War Bulletins Berlin. Nov. 5 P) DNB today listed 112 British des troyers as sunk to date by Germany. (The British have acknow ledged the loss of 57.) The news agency's compil ation said the German navy had sunk 63 and the air force 47. Vichy, Unoccupied France. Nov. 5. (P) The discovery and capture of an unstated Dumber of Free French para chutists in western unoccu pied France and the capture of a grounded British plane loaded with De Gaullist prop aganda in the same vicinity were disclosed today. (The dispatch gave no In dication as to when the para chutists were rounded up.) London. Nov. A pilot from the American Eagle squadron of the RAF was credited with blowing up an ammunition dump and shooting up a convoy of Ger man army trucks on the Etaples-Boulogno road la quick sortie ever northern France today. The air minis try said he was Pilot Officer J. J. Crowley of Oakland. Calif. UTILE FLOW; New York, Nov. 8. m Fiorello H. LaGuardla, whose ability to drive himself like human dynamo has made him one of President Roosevelt's ace defense men, has been chosen to run the nation's largest city for four more years the first nam ever to hold the Job three times In a row. The sharp-ton gued little man In the black sombrero, probably the nation's leading exponent of the theory that municipal gov ernment Is a science, outdis tanced by a margin of 133,841 votes the opposition of Brook lyn District Attorney William F. O'Dwyer, candidate of the city's once potent Democratic organi zations, in yesterdays' mayor alty election. The convict vote of more than 2,000,000 New Yorkers was La Guardla, 1,186,394; O'Dwyer, 1,052,553, and George W, Hartmann, socialist candi date, 21,402. With tha four-square support of the Republican, American labor. Fusion and United City parties. La Guardla administer ed his third sound licking to Tammany hall and allied polit ical organizations. Fatal Hop E PUTS INVADERS ON BLACK jEA SHORE Berlin Claims Russians Bee Ing Pursued To Heights South of Sevastopol. (By the Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's invasion armies) were reported to have stormed across the rugged Yalta moun tains and reached the Black sea today, thus apparently splitting; Russia's Crimean defense forces Into three parts after a 100-mil advance in eight days. The Berlin radio compared tha red armies' retreat with the Brit. ish-French withdrawal from tha bloody fields of Flanders to Dun kerque last year, declaring that roads were littered with smashed trucks and artillery while snow drifted over corpse heaped as ino rosasiae aitcnes. Russians Pursued German troop were picture. as pursuing the Russians toward the Balaclava heights, south of Sevastopol, where tha Light Brigade made its storied charge "into the valley of Death" In tha Crimean war of 1853-53. I A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters said nazi troops had planted their swastika battle nag on tha peninsula' south toast between Sevastopol anj Kerch. German dispatches yesterday said that Kerch, at the eastern) Up of the Crimea, had bean tsu la ted by axis forces . which knifed across the neck of tha pear-shaped peninsula and cap hired the coastal town of Feo dosiya. Serious Blow Tha reported crossing of tha Yaila mountain appeared at a serious blow to the red armies' defense strategy. Soviet report to London had said previously that Russian commander mad no attempt to stem the German sweep across the central Crimea after the break through tha Psre kop Isthmus, gateway to tha Black sea republic. Instead, these report (aid, tha Russian merely executed rear guard actions while moving thai main forces to strong position along the Yalla rang to coves' Sevastopol and Kerch. With the Crimean struggle evt dently near ing its final stages, the Russian found mora cheer ful new on the central front be for Moscow, where Gen, Greg ory K. Khukov's red armies were reported to have recap tured tha city of Kalinin, 99 mile north weet of the U. S. S. R capital. Soviet front-line dispatches also declared that a German col umn which advanced five mile In the Moihalk sector. 87 miles west of Moscow, had been) thrown back after a four-hour battle of mechanized units. Held at Tula The Russians said Field Mar thai General Fedor von Bock's central tront armies had failed to make appreciable progr at Tula. 100 miles south of Moscow, where the Germans were last re ported to have battled their war., Into the city's outskirts. Soviet warplanes supporting) the red offensive at Kalinin, tha scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the campaign, weia credited officially with destroy ing eight German Infantry com panics (about 2.000 men) ava more than 1,800 trucks On the Leningrad tront. Hit ler's high command said heavy German fire had smashed an other Russisn sttempt to cross the Neva river s few miles south of the old ezarlst capital. "Half of the loo bests usea were sunk and the rest com- , pelted to turn back." tha Ger man communique said. Marin Cera Day Salem. Not. 8 (AP Oover nor Charles A. Spragua today designated November 10 as Ms rine Corp day, when the corps will celebrate its lseta Dirtaoay.
