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Kill. U fi Ifc-fttli Weather rM1Bara,pon Sunday Want Ads All thraufhoat the week Want Ida tome la tcr taa Bandar tanUa edltloii. If yoa prater the Sunday paper prepare roar A anytime earing- the week aad tara it la. Prepare aew Medford Tribune Forecast: r art It cloodT ts nlihl and Saturday. Uttla change In temperature. TemDeratnra Hlchnt eitrrUay M Lawttf thl Mornlnr, rrrclpltatlon pan - hour .00 for thla Sunday. Full Associated PrMa United Praaa Thirty-sixth Year Two Sections 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941. NO. 197. i wmm n 1 1 bi ime sum )fL News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Wasbington, Nov. 7. The pe culiar type of sea war in which this country is involved with Sjeps ,ss- the' nazis is un- satisfactory to many naval auth o r i t i e 8 whose posi tions require them to keep their mouths hut. Losses thus far sug gest the cost is to be heavy in lives and ships. Rumors Paul Mallon re being passed around that the navy has sunk ten Ger man subs without announce ment, but officials smile freely at this suggestion. They would probably be glad to announce the sinking of one, in order to popularly Justify their policy, even though they say they would not. German sub tactics show con clusively that the nazis have In formation on the routes of con voys. The incidents of the Greer, Kearny and Reuben James all occurred on night convoy duty. In each case Ger man subs knew where to lie in wait, with engines stilled, so their presence could not be de tected. They are able to fire from submerged positions as their own detecting devices pick up the sound of the pass ing convoy. Operating between Greenland and Iceland in packs, they are thus able to maintain a very serious advantage over our destroyers. When the neutrality act is re pealed and convoying to Britain is started, their opportunities will be Increased as our ships move into the German air pa trol radius of 1000 miles (good weather) from the French coast. Our plane patrol service appar ently is not effective against night submarine operations, a a a THE official fluff about Rus sia's "excellent" military po sition is thoroughly deflated in (Continued on Page Twelve) Radio Highlights The Oregon State college-U. C.L.A. football game in Corval lis Saturday will be broadcast by KMED, starting at 1:45 o'clock. The latter portion of the Notre Dame-Navy contest will be aired by the same sta tion, starting about noon. By Associated Press (Time is Pacific standard) The football schedule for Sat urday: CBS and NBC-Blue 10:45 Navy vs. Notre Dame. NBC-Red 10:45 Harva.d Vs. Army. MBS 10:45 Fordham vs. Pitts burgh, to be followed by Minne sota vs. Nebraska and after that the Pacific coast game of Stan ford vs. Southern California. Only the latter parts of the last two contests will be carried. Tonight, The War 5 MBS; 5:15 MBS; 5:55 CBS; 8:55 NBC- Blue; 7 MBS; 7:45 CBS-East; 8:30 MBS; 0 NBC CBS. Talks MBS 6:15 Discussion on "What Price Defense;" CBS 7:30 Sen. C. L. Herring on "Neutrality Repeal"; MBS 8:15 Sen. Arthur Capper. NBC-Blue 5:30 Navy-Notre Dame football rally; 7:30 heavy weights. Bob Pastor vs. Booker Beckwith. Saturday, The War 8 CBS 3:25 NBC; 3:30 CBS; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue. SIDE GLANCES BT- TRIBUNE REPORTERS Herschel Obye feigning regret that his birthday was not duly chronicled in the public prints, now that it is safely behind him. Maurice Spatz deciding to buy two pair of ice skates, one for hit feet. Mi F TO CIVE GROUND IN MOSCOW AREA London Hears Red Capital Kay Soon Reopen Com munications; Reds Adance By the Associated Press A slashing Russian counter-of fensive was reported throwing the Germans back in two sec tors northwest of Moscow late toda.y Informed quarters in London said the Russian counter-offensive was gathering momentum in the Volokolamsk sector, OS miles northwest of Moscow, and might soon completely reopen Moscow-Leningrad communica tions and relieve the siege of Leningrad. Rads Smash Hard In the other northwest sector about Kalinin, 95 miles from Moscow, swift red army mechan ized units were reported to be smashing hard at Nazi forward positions. Kalinin, the scene of bloody street fighting in recent davs. lies on the main rail line between Moscow and Leningrad. Soviet advices said the Rus sians had already recaptured a secondary rail line in the Kalinin area. Front-line dispatches said red troops, cavalry, artillery and pianes had battered the Germans into retreat, storming and cap turing position after position, and that they were; continuing the advance. Naiis Admit Resistance In the south, a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters for the first time acknowledged that the German - Rumanian drive into the Crimea peninsula was meeting stubborn resistance, with Soviet rearguards harrying the invaders in the fastnesses of the Crimean mountains. The high command made no specific claim of new advances, reporting merely that "pursuit" of red army defenders was con tinuing and that Nazi dive-bombers had smashed positions among the fortifications of Sevastopol, Russia's great Black Sea naval base. The Nazis claimed last Tues day that they were shelling Se vastopol and that German troops were preparing to launch a di rect assault on the stronghold "within a very few hours." Meanwhile dispatches from Ankara said Great Britain was steadily increasing her military strength in Iran (Persia), border ing the Russian Caucasus, with a stream of fresh troops drawn from the empire, and American made tanks and planes. British Ready It seemed a fair assumption that when and if the Germans strike into the Caucasus, either across the narrow Kerch strait from the Crimea or from Rostov- on-Don in the north, British troops will move north through Iran and the lower Caucasus to meet them. In this connection, an official transcript of Stalin's speech yes terday quoted the Soviet premier as declaring: "There can not be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the continent of Europe tions of our armies and bo to will essentially ease the post the disadvantage of the Ger mans. PORTLAND SUES EYED FOR ARMY Portland, Nov. 7 UP) Port land sites were eyed today by General Rush B. Lincoln as possible locations for project ed army air corps tactical school and replacement center. The chief of the air corps technical training command said he would also inspect sites at Salem and possibly at Eugene. He came here from Washington state where he had studied prof fered locations at Spokane, Yak ima and Walla Walla. The school and replacement center would process about 25, 000 enlisted men annually, he said. Its establishment is contin gent on authorization for an enlarger air fore Hermiston Workers Eat r I "F--l - ;-. Whan S.600 workman swarmed into Hermiston, Ore., -town of 8,00, to build a huge ordnance depot, it was any port in a storm for the wives and families. The wife of one of tha workers is shown in her Improvised kitchen. Price Control Bill Sans Farm Ceilings Seen Due for Yelo Washington, Nov. 7 . (IP) High administration officials said today President Roosevelt would veto the pending price-control bill, which critics say would per mit sharp increases in the cost of agricultural commodities, if it reached his desk in the form r.;o. imended by the house bank ing committee. At his press conference earlier in the day, the chief executive did not answer questions con cerning ceilings for farm prices but it was learned authoritative ly that the bill's restrictions against establishing ceilings for those commodities below the 1919-29 average were objection able to the president. They have been criticized by members of the committee as an "invitation to inflation" on the ground that they would permit prices for some farm products, including cotton, lamb, sugar and corn, to rise 20 per cent or more. .... Ickes Is Solid Fuels Dictator For National Defense Washington, Nov. 7 The designation of Secretary of the Interior Ickes as "solid fuels coordinator for national . de fense" was announced today by the White House. Ickes for some time has been coordinator of petroleum and now will coordinate fuel prob lems of all types during the cur rent emergency. President Roosevelt, in a let ter dated Wednesday, gave Ickes his additional Job. There was no exact definition of solid fuels, but evidently they would in clude coke, and, to a limited extent, wood, in addition .to coal. CHURCHILL SEES Newcastle, England, Nov. 7. Up) Prime Minister Churchill, on an inspection tour of the iTynesid. declared today, "we have passed through the dark est and most perilous side of this struggle and are once more masters of our own destiny. In a brief speech, Churchill said in reference to the eastern front, "the Russians are Strug, gling and battling vigorously, after results which are particu larly significant. He added that on the other side of the Atlantic ''our kith and kin are struggling to see that we get all we need, and we find ourselves In a goodly company." The British are moving and ! looking forward, "however long the road," be said. U. S. Efforts Shown by State Department Washington, Nov. 7. (AP) made public memorandums of States transmitted to' Finland prepared to talk peace terms Bioff, Browne Guilty On All Three Counts; Sentence Wednesday .New. York, Nov. 7 IP A possible maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and $30,000 fines confronts Labor Leaders George E. Browne and William Bioff. convicted of extorting $550,000 from movie executives. A federal court Jury found the pair guilty on all three counts of an indictment after deliberating only two hours yes terday. The verdict, climaxing a four- weeks trial that brought some of Hollywood's top executives to the witness stand, will. Judge John C. Knox told the Jurors,, "let a lot of fresh air into union halls throughout the . country,". Browne, president of the In ternational Alliance of Theatri cal Stage Employes (AFL), and Bioff, his personal representa tive in Hollywood, were turned over to the United States mar shal to await sentence next Wednesday. Judge Knox refused to accept ban and denied mo tions to set aside the verdict. E IS AWARDED FEES A circuit court Jury late yes terday returned a verdict in favor of Rawles Moore in his suit against Amelia Toft Yar rington for payment for legal services ' rendered. The award was for $1175. Moore sought $1250. The trial started last Monday. ' The sum of $75 had been on deposit to pay for part of the claim and this added to the Jury's award of $1175 made up the total of $1250 that Mr. Moore sued for. The Jury deliberated slightly more than 15 minutes. Henry G. Gallup, Medford, was foreman The verdict also provided that $1250 held by the sheriff under an attachment be applied towards the Judgment, subject to court order. The defense, represented by Attorney Gus Newbury, con tended the bill had been paid. The plaintiff was represented by Attorney Otto Frohnmayer. Cleburne, Tex., Nov. 7 UP) Mrs. Hannah Rosendahl, 83, mother of Capt. Charles E. Rosendahl, the navy's expert on dirigibles, died last night in Open S "MIX 1 for Finn Peace The state department today conversations in which the United Information that Soviet Russia was to end the Finnish-Russian war. One conversation, between Undersecretary of State Welles and H. J. Procope, the Finnish minister, took place, on August 18, and a talk between Secretary of State Hull and Procope on October 3. Hull said at his press confer ence today he had not yet re ceived a reply from the Finnish government concerning his dec laration to the Finns that unless they stopped their offensive against the red army they would forfeit the friendship of the United States. Release of digest of Hull's conversation with Procope re vealed that Hull had informed the Finnish government that he was glad Finland had regained its lost territories but that Hitler, "practicing loathsome barbaric methods, Is undertaking to con quer the earth," and that the United States was prepared to expand $75,000,000,000 if neces sary "to aid In resisting and sup pressing Hitler and Hitlerism." Hull added that "the one ques tion uppermost in the mind of my government with respect to Finland -is whether Finland is going to be content to regain her lost territory and stop there, or whether she will undertake to go further, if she has not already done so, so that the logical effect of her course and action would be to project her on the side of Hitler into the general war be tween Germany and Russia and the other countries involved." Stalin Gives Germany a Year To Be Overtaken by Disaster Moscow, Nov. 7. UP) Pre mier Joseph Stalin today gave Adolf Hitler "maybe a year" be fore "Hitlerite Germany must burst under the weight of her own crimes," In an address on the 24th anniversary of the bol shevik revolution. . . ' All Russia was "a single fight ing camp" with Inexhaustible supplies of manpower, Stalin said, adding that Germany, counting on the red army crack ing after the first blow, "badly miscalculated." The speech was delivered be fore a military review in Red square. Stall.! contrasted Russia today with that of the October revolu tion, when Russia had been stripped of "the Ukraine, the Caucasus, central Asia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East" and had neither allies, army nor U. S. May Recall Marines From Jap - Occupied China RAIL PAY BOOST OFFER REJECTED BY FIVEJNIONS Universal Dissatisfaction Re ported With Board's Pro posalStrike Is Urged. Chicago, Nov. 7. (Pi Four hundred general chairmen of the Big Five railway operating brotherhoods "flatly rejected today the 7Vi percent wage in crease recommended by the president's fact-finding commit tee and urged their chief execu tives to execute the strike order voted last September 5. They reported there was uni versal dissatisfaction with the board's report among the 350,, 000 members of tha union. Chief executive of the broth erhoods retired Immediately af ter receiving notice of the gen eral chairmen's action. They said they expected to have an important announcement to make shortly. There was specu lation that this would mean the setting of a date for a strike. Unofficially, labor spokesmen said that "shortly"' might' mean as later as Sunday. The announcement from the operating group followed within a few nour acceptance oi u report by the railroads. The operating unions are vie Brotherhoods of Locomotive En gineers, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and ' Railroad Trainmen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen's Union of North America. . . First General Snow Whips Over Midwest On Blustery Winds By the Associated Press The first general snowfall of the season whipped across the midwest today before blustery northwest winds. Milwaukee, Wis., reported two Inches. Grand Rapids. Mich., had six Inches. There was from one-half to four Inches in North Dakota.. Iowa's substan tial fall of yesterday was In creased but little. Nebraska had occasional light snow. It was light and scattered in South Dakota. Illin ois had light snow but In Chi cago it became heavy during the morning rush hour. Freezing temperatures were reported throughout the upper Great Lakes region, upper Mis sissippi valley, the plains states and down into Kansas and Mis souri. The lowest was 10 above zero at West Yellowstone, Mont, arms and lacked bread and he said, Russia has "no j serious shortage either in food, arms or clothing," while her "re serves of manpower are inex haustible." And she has -an army, navy, allies and "the sym pathy and support of all peoples of Europe who have fallen under the yoke of fascist tyranny." Jn the face of this, he declared, the nazis face sure disaster. "Germany is bleeding to death, her resources giving out," Stalin said. "The German Invaders are straining their last forces. There Is no doubt that Germany can not sustain such a strain for any long time. Another few months, another half-year, one year may be and Hitlerite Germany must burst under the weight of her own crimes. This was Stalin's second speech within two days In con 5 Polish Airmen Saved by Glance At Class of Suds London, Nov. 7. UP) A pint of beer drawn at Just the right moment won a coastguard inspector's thanks today for the keeper of 'The Crown" in the Norfolk sea side village of Sheringham. Landlord Charley Holsey held the foaming glass up for a critical look against the light. As he raised his eyes he saw speck on the sea. Lifeguards, called as result of his providential glance, rescued five exhaust ed Polish airmen from a life-raft. Axis Powers Fighting For Mere Existence Herr Goebbels Says - Berlin, Nov. 7. (IP) Propa ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels writes In the weekly Das Reich that the "axis powers are really fighting for bare existence, and the worries and distress which we all must bear In the war would pale In the face of the inferno which would await us if we were to lose." The article says that 'Adolf Hitler's - work "often, enough hung on a silken thread," and that "the chance which the Ger man nation possesses is Indeed its greatest, but also Its last." The article tells the German people "not to ask when victory wilt come,' but rather to see to it that it comes." Victory, Goebbels wrote, would require" a. "gigantic national ef fort", from which no one could be excepted. NANKING PUPPETS Shanghai, Nov. 7. OP) For eign reports said today that Cheng Wen-Yuan, vice minister of war In the Japanese-sponsored Nanking regime, had been ar rested by Nanking agents and Japanese police on charge of espionage In behalf of General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Several other high officials of the war ministry were arrested simultaneously, It was said, as the result of discovery of an alleged plot to supply informa tion to Chungking regarding movements of the Japanese and Wang Chlng-Wei, head of the Nanking regime. SALEM $4,000 SHORT ON COMMUNITY CHEST Salem, Nov. 7 VP) Total pledges In the Salem community chest drive total $45,950, or 14,000 short of the goal. The pledges total slightly more than the amount received last year. nection with the anniversary of the revolution. The London listening post of Tass, official Russian news agency. Issued today a "complete and authentic" transcript of the passage In yesterday s speech In which the Russian leader spoke of the need of a second front In the battle with Jermany. The original reception had been un clear and Incomplete on that part. ("There Is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe against th-j Germans con. slderably eases the position of the German army," said the com pleted version. "But there also can not be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the continent of Europe and such a front unquestionably must appear In tha near future will essentially ease tha position of our armies and be to the disad vantage of the German.") MOVE BELIEVED TO CLEAR DECKS Roosevelt Implies With drawal Not At Japan's Request Jap Ship Sunk, By the Associated Press The smouldering crisis In tha far east was sharply emphasized today as President Roosevelt an nounced that the government waa considering the withdrawal of U. S. marines from Japanese occupied Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin. Mr. Roosevelt declined to elaborate on his statement, but observers Interpreted It as a pre lude to "clearing the decks for action" In the event of hostili ties develop between the United States and Japan. Net At Jap Request Mr. Roosevelt said there had been no discussion between Washington and Tokyo at any time regarding the presence of American marines In China, thereby implying that if the marines were withdrawn, it would not be at Japan's request but entirely on United 6tteaj initiative. - - - The president's dictum, which came with littl. surprise consid ering chain of ominous devel opments In the far east recently, followed a reported new aggra vation In relation! between Japan and Russia.' Th. Berlin radio quoted ' Tokyo dispatch saying that an other Japanese steamer, th. 3,275-ton Taku Maru, had gone down in the Sea of Japan, with 22 of the 48-man crew missing. The causa was not known, but previous sinkings in those wat ers have been attributed to Rus sian mines. ' , Blama lariat Mine Meantime, known deaths la the mine-sinking of tha Japa nese steamer Kehl Maru rose to 20 and a Japanese spokesman declared "America must support Japan" in her protest to Soviet Russia, asserting that floating mines violated tha freedom of the seas. The Japanese charged that the mine which blew up th. Kehl Maru was of Soviet origin. Tokyo newspapers prominent ly displayed reports of th. United States' extension of billion-dollar lease-lend credit to Russia, declaring that It waa a further sign of unlimited back ing for tha powers fighting Ja pan's axis partners, Germany and Italy. NEUTRALITY LAW : DEBATE LIMITED Washington, No. tUPy The senate agreed today to limit debate on neutrality revision legislation to 10 minute for each senator after 5 p. m, EST and Democratic Leader Berkley announced th chamber would remain In session until It had reached a vote. Berkley propoeed the debate) limitation mid-way In tha eleven day of debate on administration legislation to permit tha arming of merchant ships and allow them to sail Into belligerent tone. ' Senator Nye (R-ND), speaking in opposition to th. bill at th. time, said ha had no objection to tha debate. Hank Greenberg Named Sergeant Fort Custer, Mich, No". 7- UP) Hank Oreenberg, former Detroit Tiger outfielder, and now a member of a macnln. gun company of th. 11th in fant, waa nromoted today to 'sergeant from corporal. , I
