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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington. Nov. 8. Mr.
Roosevelt was just not throwing
out an off-hand suggestion .when
h e mentioned
longer work
ing hours. His
defense force
has been work
ing on that
idea quietly
for some sev
eral weeks
and for a def
inite plan. His
remarks were
the beginning
Paul Malloa
for revision of defense con
tracts and an extended working
week.
The average work week do
mestically runs 40 to 44 hours,
but in Britain the average is
70 hours (10 hours, seven days
a week), and in Germany 60
hours.
To throw more force Into the
defense program this way, the
government will either have to
re-write all its defense contracts
to pay for the additional over
time, or have the wages and
hours act changed to do away
with the 40-hour week. Mr.
Roosevelt and his defense of
ficials are willing to go to that
length in their campaign to
double proditction.
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THE phase of war upon which
this government is starting
will call for men as well as
ships. Army preparations are
bent towards a spring campaign
wherever the commander-in-
chief designates. The betting
within the army indicates It
will be Dakar or Spain. And
that supposition is prevalent in
the senate.
ooo
THE general staff here still
clings to the expectation that
Hitler will find himself vastly
over-committed in Russia dur
ing the winter. You may read
of towns conquered but the Im
portant part of der fuehrer's
warfare is supplying material
and replacements to the ad
vance guard. The deeper in
conquest, the greater the prob
lem of supply.
There are many In this gov
ernment who believe this prob-
(Continued on Pago E!;bt)
THIS GENT PUTS
HIS FOOT IN IT
Peru, Ind., Nov. 8. (P Peru
police used the Cinderella slip
per trick in some ' Sherlock
Holmes detective work.
A man in a stolen car had
abandoned it and fled into a
field, but lost a shoe.
They found the salesman who
had sold the shoe, and the re
pairman who had fixed it, and
got the name of A suspect.
They tried the shoe on him, It
fit and they arrested Claude W.
Byrd on an automobile theft
charge.
HUNT ENDED FOR
Baker, Ore.. Nov. 8. (TV
Oregon s'-ate police arrested two
escaped Idaho convicts on a
freight train at Huntington,
Ore., tonight, Lieut. Paul Parson
said.
The men. who at first gave
the mmes of Kelly and Clark
later said they were Robert
Eugene Nash and Tom Simms.
each of whom wore articles of
prion clothing. Parson added
He said they admitted they
saped from prison Thursday
a; id lay in water two days to
1 elude bloodhounds. They board-
aid the freight train in Idaho this
ttorning, Parson said.
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FIRE ONLY AFTER
German Arms Able To
Defend All Europe Despite
American Aid, Nazi Meet
Told.
(By the Associated Proas)
Berlin, Nov. 8. (IP) Adolf
Hitler declared tonight in reply
to President Roosevelt's Navy
day challenge that he had ord
ered the German navy to fire on
American ships only after being
attacked, but that any officer
who then failed to fire would be
court-martialed.
In apparent answer to Presi
dent Roosevelt's assertion that
"all that will matter is who fired
the last shot," Hitler said that
no matter how long the war
lasts "the last battalion on the
field will be German."
The first direct reply to the
American president from the
fuehrer was made in a Munich
beer hall anniversary speech.
He declared that Germany
would choke off Russia and de
fied Britain to attempt an in
vasion of the west. His armies,
he said, could defend Germany
and All of Europe despite Amen
can "threats and plans for gigan
tic armament.
He referred to "constantly re
newed threats from America"
and repeated a warning made a
year ago that any enemy ships
carrying war material would be
torpedoed.
Hitler said that "blitzkrieg'
was a silly word, so he never
had used it; but if such a word
could be applied it should be
the description of the Russian
campaign.
Claims Victory
"Never was a great empire
smashed and destroyed in short
er time than was Soviet Russia
this time," he said.
Of the battle of the Atlantic,
Hitler said:
"I have already declared over
a year ago that whatever ship
carries war materials, that is.
material to kill soldiers, will be
torpedoed.
It now the Amoricaa Pre
sident Roosevelt, who already
is responsible for Poland's
entry into the conflict and
who, as we can prove to him
precisely today, decided that
France enter this war, believes
he can perhaps make us soft
by an order to shoot, then I
can give this gentleman only
one answer:
"Mr. Presiodnt Roosevelt
has commanded his ships to
shoot as soon as they see Gor
man ships., And I have com
manded German ships, when
ever they see American, not
to shoot thereupon but to de
fend themselves as soon as
they are attacked.
"Tho German officer who
does not defend himsslf I will
place before couri martial.
"If therefore an American
ship on the bails of the com
mand of its president shoots,
then It will do so at Its own
danger. The German ship
will defend itself and our tor
pedoes will strike."
Ridicules Map
In connection with the map
which President Roosevelt said
showed German designs on
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Pendleton, Nov. 8. (AP
The (80.000 alienation of affec
tion case brought by Alfred Cav
it.ess of Baker against John
Stringer of McCall. Idaho, near
ed the Jury in U. S. district
court here today, and it was pos
sible it might t to the Jury be
fore nightfall.
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Soviet dispatches claimed the new Gorman offonsive against
Moscow (1) had boon stopped cold, but indicated the battle of the
Tula stilled raged. A British broadcast said the Gorman advance
was being hold up short of Voorshilovgrad (2) as Russian dispatches
reoortod a Gorman rotreat'from the Donets River basin. Germans
claimed their forces had pushed
tween Yalta and Feodliiya (a). ,
THURSDAY SET AS
NEUTRALITY VOTE
Washington, Nov. 8,
Administration leaden decided
today to press for a direct final
house vote on the senate's
rmendmenti to the neutrality
bill not later than next Thurs
day. Speaker Rayburn said after a
conference with majority leader
McCormack of Massachusetts
that this procedure would get
the legislation to President
Roosevelt "much quicker" than
would turning the house and
senate bills over to joint com
mittee for compromise.
When senate and house pass
related but differing legislation,
there are two methods for ad
Justing the differences:
1. One chamber must accept
the other's version, or
2. A committee of senators
and house members works out
a compromise which must be
submitted to both chambers for
final approval.
In the present case, the house
rolled up a 258 to 138 vote on
October IT for repeal or tne
neutrality a c t's prohibition
against arming of merchant
ships. This measure then went
to the senate which last night
passed by a vote of 50 to 37
an amended bill which also
would permit United States
merchant ships to enter combat
zones and belligerent ports.
Announcing the decision to
ask the house to accept the sen
ate bill Instead of seeking to
compromise, Rayburn said:
"We think we have the votes
to pass it"
But many Republicans said
the vote might be extremely
close.
FIRST BTEELHEAD
Tillamook, Nov. 8. UP) The
first steelhead of the season was
caught on the Wilson river to
day by Roy Hayes. Tillamook.
Numerous limit catches of chum
salmon were taken from the
Miami river.
Boise, Nov. 8. UP) Idaho
births may reach an all-time
high of 12.000 this year, and
deaths may be the fewest since
1834.
Alabama
Tulane
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1941.
Nazis Halted
to the Crimean coastal region be
THREATEN STRIKE
.5
(By the Associated Press)
Threat of a nation-wide stop
page of freight and passenger
train movements in the pre
Christmas season prevailed to
day as the leader of the big
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men said 330.000 men would
desert the rolling stock of the
vital transportation system De
cember 5.
While A. F. Whitney, train
men's president, forecast a walk
out of all the operating union
members on that date, the heads
of the other four unions agreed
that a strike was inevitable but
would not immediately set a
date.
The five unions have demand
ed a 30 percent Increase in
wages for the trainmen, engin
eers, switchmen, firemen and
englnemen. The lowest paid get
$3.08 daily, and President
Roosevelt's fact-finding board
in the carrier-employe dispute
has recommended temporary
Increase of 7V4 percent, with
reconsideration of wage needs
at the end of next year.
A table in the fact-finding
board s report to the president
showed an average salary-wage
i'f employes of class 1 railroads
in 1940 to be 81,813.
As all of the operating groups
flatly rejected the board's rec
ommendations, the railroads
themselves, expressing disap
pointment, nevertheless have
said they would accept them.
The fact-finding board s chair
man, Wayne Lyman Morse, said
"the railway case now rests en
tirely in the hands of the presi
dent." GRAIN ELEVATOR TOPPLES
Heppner, Nov. 8. 4V-The
Morrow County Grain Growers'
warehouse at Lexington, over
loaded with wheat, collapsed
Thursday night. Manager D. S.
Glasgow said yesterday.
UNION PIONEER PASSES
La Grande, Nov. 8. (,P
David Proctor, Union county
official for more than 14 years,
died Thursday night of injuries
from an automobile accident
two weeks ago.
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R.A.F. RAINS BOMBS
UPON BERLIN IN
GIANT
Raids Extend From Oslo To
Italy Admit 52 Planes,
214 Airmen Lost.
London, Sunday, Nov. 9. (IP)
RAF planes roared over the
Strait of Dover in a steady
stream as soon as the moon
rose last night, continuing with
out a let-up the giant new of
fensive which sent 600 to 800
planes against Berlin and the
continent Friday night and Sat
urday. The British declared it was
the greatest offensive of the
war, with 300 planes in the air
over France at one time Satur
day in addition to the several
hundred planes used Friday
night.
The bombardments attained
full scope last night when hun
dreds of bombers thundered
against the continent, from Oslo,
Norway, to Brindisi, Italy, and
for hours held Berlin under a
tempest of fire and explosions.
The cost, the British acknowl
edged officially, was 13 fighter
planes and 14 pilots today and
37 bombers and 200 airmen lost
lRst jiight in t. shtll-fiUed skies
and' ice-forming fogs over Ger
many. (The German radio claimed
00 British planes shot down in
24 hours.)
Hurricane fighter-b o m b e r s
made a "very successful day
light attack on a factory at
St. Pol, northern France, and
Blenheim bombers scored hits
on another factory near Lens,
the air ministry said, reporting
that "large force" of German
fighter planes was encountered
over Lens.
The Nazis hit back at England
early today when a single dive-
bomber attacked a southeast
coast town, causing minor dam
age and a few casualties, and
four or five planes dropped
bombs near a Thames estuary
town which reported no damage.
JAPANESE ENVOY
SEES SLIM HOPE
Manila, Nov. 8. AP So-
buro Kurusu, special Japanese
envoy flying to the United States
in an attempt to bring about a
settlement with Washington, was
reliably reported today to have
told friends here that he did not
have "much hope" for success.
Kurusu, who stopped here ov
ernight, was reported to have
said yesterday that he felt he
was unable to offer the United
States sufficient concessions to
break the stalemate in rap
prochement negotiations.
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Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov. 7.
(Delayed) (AP) The Icelandic
government headed by Prime
Minister Herman Jonasson fell
for a second time In 16 days this
afternoon when the coalition it
represents was split by Jonas-
son s progressive party.
The progressives introduced a
bill to limit living costs and
thereby broke a political truce.
The bill was defeated and Jon
asson resigned.
The regent accepted the resig
nation but as on Oct. 22, when
the government resigned over a
similar bill, he asked the-cabinet
to remain in office until a new
government is formed.
Silverton, Nov. BiP) Fall
plantings of vetch, crimson
clover and wheat have been
'damaged to an unprecedented
I extent by field slugs.
Minnesota' ra.m. .mn 9
Nebraska
Northwest. ,. 20
Indiana ... 14
T?JBUWE
Snited Prou
NAZI HORDES ON
DEFENSIVE; DRIVE
Soviet Reports Fighting On
All Fronts London Sees
New Assault.
London, Nov. 8. VP) Mos
cow's defenders announced tri
umphantly over their radio to
day that they had halted the
German attack on Moscow, and
that the Germans had been
forced on the defensive by red
army counterattacks "on many
sectors of the front."
This announcement was made
by General Rokossovsky, one of
the commanders of the force de
fending the soviet capital, which
has been the goal of a concen
trated German attack for more
than five weeks.
The general's statement coin
cided with other reports telling
of Russian counterattacks on
some sectors with strong tank
forces which the Germans were
attempting to check with flame
throwers.
On other sectors of the front
before the capital the Germans
were reported on the offensive,
and the Berlin radio stated that
considerabla ground had been
won by the invaders near Mos
cow yesterday.
The Germans, however, ack
nowledge bitter soviet resist
ance. On the Russian side, the
official noon communique issued
in Moscow simply told of fight
ing "on all fronts" during the
night.
It appeared that the lines be
fore Moscow were fluid, sway
ing almost from hour to hour as
the two powerful armies applied
and relaxed pressure.
The British radio broadcast
prediction that the German high
command "will undertake in the
near future a new assault on
Moscow in a new sector," with
out saying where it was likely
to be.
The announcer did say, how
ever, that it was reported that
German troops were being trans
ported southward from Kalinin,
93 miles northwest of Moscow,
where heavy fighting has been
under way for weeks.
F
PENN JUDGE, AIM
Washington, Nov. 8. (JP) At
torney General Blddle asked
congress today to Impeach Fed
eral Judge J. Warren Davis, re
tired, of the third circuit court
of appeals, against whom charges
of obstructing Justice recently
were dismissed because Juries
twice failed to agree.
A federal grand Jury at Phila
delphia indicted Judge Davis and
William Fox, one-time motion
picture magnate, and Morgan S.
Kaufman, Fox attorney.
Fox pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to one year In prison
and fined $3,000. The case
against Kaufman was nolle
prossed along with that against
Davis.
BABE ADOPTED BY
MELLOfNEPHEW
Pittsburgh, Nov. 8. UP) Mr.
and Mrs. Richard King Mellon
have adopted a third child, a
three-month;.. Id girl, giving her
the name Constance Barber Mel
lon. Their first two children are
Richard Prosser Mellon, now
2i, and Cassandra King Mel
lon, tVi. Mellon is president of
the Mellon National bank and a
r.ephew of the late Andrew W.
Mellon, secretary of the treasury.
Ohio Stale ...'46
Wisconsin ,..,. .30
Montana 13
N. Dokata ......, 6
War Bulletins 1
London, Nov. 8 (IP)
"Armed Unltod States ships
may be here soon," the aft
ernoon newspaper The Star
said today in comment on the
senate's vote to amend the
neutrality act.
The Evening Standard, one
oi Lord Boavorbrook'a news
papers, said "Roosevelt has
his greatest victory."
Rome. Nov. 8. -(IP) Ser
ious damage to Brindisi. Ad
riatic port on the heel of
Italy's boot, from prolonged
British air raid tn which
hundreds of explosive and
Incendiary bombs were drop
ped, was acknowledged today
by the Italian high command.
Berlin. Nov. i The
German high command an
nounced today that the nasi
armies In the Crimea bad
smashed through a Russian
defensive zone 10 miles deep
on the narrow peninsula lead
ing to Kerch and were con
tinuing to advance toward
that port.
NINTH ELEPHANT
OF CIRCUS DIES
Atlanta, Nov. 8. (IP) An
other Rlngllng brothers and Bar-
num and Bailey circus elephant,
making nine in all, died today
of arsenic poisoning.
Seven of the big beasts died
during a two-day stand of the
show Wednesday and Thursday.
Four others, seriously ill, were
left behind when the show
moved on. One of them, Liz,
died within a few hours and
Clara, one of the largest in the
herd, died late today.
Dr. Standish Piper, local vet
erinary, said Peggy is complete
ly out of danger but added that
Palms, the fourth animal, is still
"very sick, showing symptoms
of pneumonia."
Circus officials have been un
able to discover how poison got
into the diet of the elephants.
each of which is valued at from
$10,000 to $19,000. Hides of
the elephants will be converted
into leather.
REVOLT SEETHES
Vichy, Unoccupied Franca,
Nov. 8. -(AP) Revolt plans of
serious proportions were said by
police today to have been un
covered at Nice yesterday in the
arrest of 30 persons charged
with membership in a De Gaul'
list rallwaymen's organization.
The organization, known both
as "Free France" and "Friends
of De Gaulle" was said to have
branches throughout unoccupied
France, particularly at Marseille,
Besides the 80 arrested yester
day, five had been arrested pre
viously at Nice.
At the home of one leader In
Nice, Arthur Francois, police
said they seized list of persons
to be arrested at " 'H' hour" by
followers of Gen. Charles De
Gaulle.
LIFE TERM GIVEN
UPSTATE SLAYER
Dallas, Ore., Nov. 8. UP) A
circuit court Jury, after deliber
atina elsht hours, found Dewey
George Jackson, 43, Grand
Ronde, guilty of second degree
murder tonight.
Judge Arlle G. Walker sen
tenced Jackson at once to life
Imprisonment In the state pen
itentiary.
Jackson was Indicted on
charge of shooting Indian Joe
McCoy at Grand Ronde Septem
ber 3 In an argument involving
Mrs. Jckon.
Cougars 26
Idaho lAjM.Mjo i we 0
Duke 56
Davidson 0
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PRAY FOR PEACE
PRESIDENT ASKS
Thursday, November 20 Set
For Annual Event Text
Of Proclamation.
Washington, Nov. 8. (AP
President Roosevelt today pro
claimed Thursday, November 20,
as Thanksgiving Day and asked
the American people to observe
It with prayers for "a speedy
end to strife and the establish
ment on earth of freedom, broth
erhood and Justice for enduring
time."
It was his third and final set
ting of Thanksgiving a week
earlier than customary.- Next
year the holiday will revert to
Its normal last Thursday in the
month for the whole nation.
The president Instituted the
early observance In 1930 at the
request of retail merchants who
thought their Christmas business
might pick up if there were a
longer interval between Thanks
giving and December 25.
Several months ago the chief
executive said that the merch
ants had discovered the change
made no difference and that af
ter 1941 the country could aty
range its calendar and sports
events for the single "last Thurs
day",
As In the last two yean, not
all states will observe tho
Roosevelt Thanksgiving". ' Six
teen will cling to the traditional
turkey day.
rm , . . . .
a iie prtTBioeni expeciea to
observe Nov. 20 at Warm
Springs, Ga., with the patients at
the Infantile paralysis founda
tion. It has been his custom to
go there for Thanksgiving whoa
his duties permit.
The text of tho preeidenrg
proclamation:
'X Franklin D. Roosevelt.
president of tho United State
of America, do hereby designate
and set aslda Thursday, tho
twentieth day of November,
1941, as a day to bo observed
in giving thanks to tho heavenly
source of our earthly blessings.
"Our beloved country It free
and strong, our moral and phys
ical defense against tho force
of threatened aggression are
mounting dally in magnftado
and effectiveness.
"In th Infjtriiei tS wmO ' e. :
future, we arc aendUft a. J
at Increasing pace to the (ato
pies abroad who are bravery
defending their homes and their
precious liberties against anni
hilation. "We have not lost our faith
In tho spiritual dignity of man.
our proud belief In the right of
all people to live out their live
in freedom and with equal
treatment The love of democ
racy still burns brightly In our
hearts.
"We are grateful to the Father
of us all for the Innumerable
daily manifestations of His
beneficent mercy in affair
both public and private, for tho
bounties of the harvest, for
opportunities to labor and to
errve, and for the continuance
of those homely Joys and satis
faction which enrich our lives.
its aik the divine blesa
Infv vur decision and deter
mlnaT to protect our way of
life tMvt tho forces of evil
and sk t f which seek In these
days U 4 eompais us.
"On 0 day appointed for
this put. .e , let us reflect at
our honH'S r places of worship
on tho gov. see of God and, In
giving tht A let us pray for
a speedy t' to strife and tho
establlshme. j HI earth of free
dom, brothorhood, and Justico
for enduring ttmo."
EDUCATE AT REST
Pullman, Vk, Nov. 8. AP)
Dr. Enocrk A. -Bryan, beloved
prsldent eentrtttik of Washington
State colks-cs a buried today
In tho Pullrtm cemetery, clow
to tho schor ( had served as
leader, cou; - and teacher
for 40 yean, Bryan, 16, died
Thursday. ', . -- -,-