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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.