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Medford Armistice Day Program Starts With 11 a. m. Parade Full D B. Vttlh. Work Fa.t He matter what you bat Mil. trad, rent r uy, jen mmy depend upon the Vul Adi to render valuable awiM ence. They work In many place and work tart. Try them for taturaetorr ranlta. Weather -tr0" Medford Tribune OR romtut:Cloadr tonlctit an TamU; wltn Hint inwm. Llttl rhange In temperature. Temperature Hlrheit YMterasy . Lonest this Morning. Full Associated Press Unit " - Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1941. NO. 199. UL ABLY m SMS i i i 4 I News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 10 Stalin talked as If he knew something about the mysterious descent of Herr Hess into ijkijim. ujMiii.w ,mm England. Nb doubt he does. That mystery has been clear ed in every chancellery in the world. The story is that Hitler turned his back and let Hess go to London with a Paul Mallon world anti communist proposal. The idea was Hess's own, but he was fur ' nished with a double-tanked air plane, complete charts showing the way to England, and a full set of navigation instruments (not plentiful in Nazidom). Hess thought he could contact anti-communist peers and high ranking Britishers to force a peace upon the British govern ment. The plan he submitted would leave the British empire untouched. Churchill buried the scheme with the approval of Mr. Roosevelt. They recognized the project for what it was a com promise with Hitlerism. The Duke of Hamilton, upon whose estate Hess landed, has suffered from the incident more than Hitler's right-hand man. The duke was busy fighting in the RAF at the time, and since, has taken a severe ragging from I British officials. Hess was removed some months ago from a London hos pital to a comfortable place in tha British countryside. STALIN'S speech was designed to incite the British and Americans to open another front in Europe. But the suggestion has fallen on flat ears here. The British claim they have insuffi cient equipment although their secret production figures indi cate they have made sensational progress in that respect since Dunkirk. In any event, wa cer- ( Continued on Pg Four) Radio Highlights , By Associated Press) ' (Time is Pacific standard.) A message from President Roosevelt will be carried on all networks Armistice day from Arlington cemetery at the an nual ceremonies of the Amer ican Legion before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It will follow the traditional one min ute of silence at 8 a. m. The president is expected to speak 30 minutes or more. MBS Is to start the broadcast at 7:5S a. m., while NBC and CBS are scheduled for 7:59 a. m. Also on Armistice day, three networks. CBS, MBS and NBC Blue, are to combine for an hour at 7 p. m. on behalf of the American Red Cross. Other Armistice day- features Include: NBC-Blue 1 p. m. Veterans . of Foreign Wars, Commander ) Max Singer on "Keeping Faith." MBS 6:30 p. m. Armistice Day In a Typical American City, the program to come from the newly completed Quanset naval air station in Rhode Island. Tonight, the war 5:55 CBS: 7 i'lBS; 7:30 NBC-Blue; 7:45 CBSEast: 9 NBC CBS; 9:55 NBC CBS. NBC-Blue 8 Radio Forum, Rep. Albert Gore on "Price Control." Tuesday, the war 10:45 NBC; 11 MBP- 122 MBS; 12:55 CBS MBS; 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:55 NBC Blue; 3 CBS MBS: 3 25 NBC Red; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue. EARLY PAPER TUESDAY In order to permit employes to participate in the day's activities. The Mail Tribune will go to press at 12:30 p. m. Tu1iv. Armi1ire Dv J LiiMtliiif iiiij T nniri in TO U.S. IMMEDIATELY IF JAPSSTRIKE Last Quarter of Earth Fac ing Engulfment In Con flict Says Prime Minister. Br the Associated Press With Russia battling for life against new German threats. Britain in a great aerial offen sive to relieve pressure on her ally, and the whole orient sha dowed by threats of wider war, Prime Minister Churchill warn ed today that the struggle soon may engulf "the remaining fourth of the globe. This note he struck on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of Arm istice in a war that was to have ended wars. This came in an address at the annual ceremony which marks the induction of a new lord mayor for the city of London. "If the United States should become involved in war with Japan," Churchill said, "the British declaration would fol low within the hour." Italian Navy Broken The prime minister asserted that Britain had "broken the morale of the Italian navy" and "we now feel ourselves strong enough to provide powerful naval forces of heavy ships with the necessary auxiliary vessels for service if need be in the Indian and'Pacific oceans' ." This hint of a growing initia tive by Britain came amid the strained Japanese-United States relations which a special Japa nese envoy flying to Washing ton, seeks to ease. Churchill explained that he was making his statement of British intentions in the far east because "we do not know whether the efforts of the Unit ed States to preserve peace in the Pacific will be successful." Peace Offensive Seen As for the European war, Churchill said it was already indicated that Germany soon wbuld start a peace offensive and he pledged: "Whether we are supported or are alone, however long and hard the toil may be, the British nation and his majesty s govern ment at the head of the nation and in intimate concert with the governments of the great domin ions will never enter into any negotiations with Hitler or any party in Germany which repre sents the Nazi regime." Casting light on the vast Brit ish aerial offensive against axis positions in Europe, Churchill declared that the RAF now "is at least equal in size and num ber, not to speak of quality, to German air power." Leningrad, which Adolf Hit ler boasted he could storm and capture whenever he wished to, was being enfolded today by two wide-swinging encirclement offensives of the Germans a bit of grand strategy dictated apparently by the chance that Finland might step out oi me war before Hitler is ready. The Hitler command announc ed capture of the important traffic Junction of Tikhvin, about 100 miles southeast of Leningrad, by a force moving across the Leningrad-Moscow communications zone. The other arm of the offen sive, from the northeast over Karelian approaches won by the Finns, was disclosed in advices reaching London. RAF Hits Again The RAF struck at Germany and German - occupied zones overnight, chiefly at Hamburg, for the third night in a row. A London authority said more than 100 planes took part and two were lost. It was part of a week-end aerial offensive aimed at German positions from occu pied Norway to the Mediterra nean. London authorities said the British navy had wiped out two axis Mediterranean convoys of 10 supply ships and at least one destroyer without suffering a 1 1 cratch. AFL Strike on Navy Projects Termed 'Open War's Scars pjw-y IJ German columns pass a scorched and blackened skyscraper which houses the Soviet Electric company, in Kharkov, according to German sources. Picture radioed irom Berlin to New York. - - ... w.-. .... , . . . 12 DEAD. 50 HURT WHEN FAST TRAIN PILES UP IN OHIO Kenton, Ohio, Nov. 10. (tPh A passenger train, thundering through the night at between 60 and 70 miles an hour, was derailed by a cylinder head blown off a freight train and piled up into a mass of twisted steel near Dunkirk, last night. Twelve were listed today as dead. About 90 were injured. Engineer R. S. Schulcr of Fort Wayne, one of 48 persons to survive the wreck of the Pennsylvania railroad's "Penn sylvania," said "something went wrong" Just after he passed the freight train on his Chicago New York run. He recalled faintly seeing a man with a flashlight. In Chicago, H. E. Newcomet, vice president of the railroad, said the cylinder from the freight train blew out and onto the adjoining track "and before there was time to flag It, the Pennsylvanian, moving at high sp,eed on the eastbound track, struck the damaged cylinder head, derailing and turning over." Passengers were tossed helter skelter out of seats and berths and into near-freezing tempera tures. Wreckage was strewn along the railroad In the little community 10 miles north of here. Kenton. O., Nov. 10. MP) A list of the 12 dead In the wreck of a Pennsylvania train at Dun kirk last night follows: An unidentified woman. Les Avington, 37, Akron, O., and his wife, Mary Agnes Av ington, 28. Henry Heiles, New York. C. G. Blade. 30. naval ensign of Rock Island. 111. J, L. Gephart, Fort Wayne, Ind , fireman on the train. Ernest Houseknecht, Free port. 111. Martin E. Kay, 43. Milwaukee. Mrs. Marjana Rill, 54. San Jose. Calif. Mrs. Irene Ray, 35, Sliver Springs, Md. Irwin Bauer, 67, Laurelton, N. Y. An unidentified woman. The navy has helped perfect the new science of "photogram metry," I.e.. aerial photography for surveys and maps. on Kharkov Skyscraper Neutrality Revision Due for Final House Action Thursday Washington, Nov. 10 (AP) The house rules committee cleared the way today for final ing revision of the neutrality act to permit the government to arm American merchant ships and send them into combat zones and belligerent ports with one Democratic committeeman declaring that the national was "being led to the slaughterhouse." PRITGHETT FAMILY .F. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prltchett and their two daughters, Frances and Dolores, were confined In Klamath Valley hospital In Klamath Falls today with in juries suffered In a head-on auto mobile accident a mile this side of Klamath Falls about 8 o'clock Saturday night, Mr. Pritchett, manager of the Western Auto Supply company here, sustained a broken right collarbone, two broken ribs, a broken nose and a punctured lung. He spent a comfortable night and was not believed to be seriously Injured. Mrs. Pritchett suffered a bad cut on her neck. Frances sustain ed a cut knee cap and Dolores, asleep in the car at the time of the crash, was only bruised. They were en route to Klam ath Falls to visit friends for the week-end. KURUSU DELAYED AT MIDWAY ISLE San Francisco, Nov. 10. (Pi Saburo Kurusu, flying to the United States on urgent busl- ness for Japan, was delayed at (AP) Ens. Willard Henry Luo Midway island by engine trou- ma, Eveleth, Minn., died today ble today and Pan American j in the crash of his dauntless dive Airways said he probably would bomber Into the ocean near the arrive at this port Friday. The China Clipper originally was scheduled to land here Wednesday. Washington, Nov. 10. UP) President Roosevelt, noting that today was the 166th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps, extended "my warm con gratulations on its glorious rec ord In the defense of our coun try during the full course of the nation' history." fate house action Thursday on sweep The committee agreed unanl mously, members said, to limit debate to eight hours. Rep. Cox (D-Ga.) of the com mittee asserted that while he be lieved the United States was al ready in the war, "the country is in no mental attitude to go to war and we are being led to the slaughter-house." He demanded that the administration act to prevent defense strikes and said "congress should put Its foot down" on measures like the neu trality amendments "until the president does something about labor." "We have an opportunity to test out the administration as to whether it is ever going to do anything about the gangsters who are sabotaging defense, Cox continued. He added that the people were not being "told the truth" about this country's position toward the war and that he had "had the feeling all the while that we are in the war." Speaker Ray burn said admin istration forces believed they had the strength to force house ac ceptance of senate amendments to the original house ship arming bill which broadened the legisla tion to permit vessels to enter combat zones and belligerent ports. NAVY FLIER DIES E, San Diego, Calif., Nov. 10.- Mexican border. The navy reported Luoma, an officer In the navy reserve, was engaged in routine dive bombing practice at border field. The body was recovered, and navy crews were engaged in salvaging the plane. The navy bureau of supplies and accounts owns no roll top desks, because they are consid ered foes of the "do it now" impulse. OF 1917 STRESS DEFENSE Legion Dugout To Open In Dreamland After Parade Dance To Climax Day. The twenty-third anniversary of the armistice that ended the first World war will serve to morrow as a dual-purpose holi day: to pay respect to the mem ory of the American service men who did not come back or have since died and to center attention on the gigantic effort the nation is now undertaking to make its defense impregnable In the face of another and even more devastating conflict The Armistice Day events here will be sponsored as cus tomary by Medford post of the American Legion. All members of the post and visiting Legion naires were asked by Ernest W. Winkle, post commander, to make a special effort this year to march in the parade "as a mark of respect to our departed comrades." Legionnaires will as semble for the parade at city park at 10:45 a. m. The Legion naires will meet first at a get- together breakfast in the Hotel Medford at 8 a. m. The day's celebration will be signalized by the bursting of aerial bombs at 11 a. m. The parade will follow immediately, All patriotic, religious, civic, fraternal, grange, school - and similar organizations are invited to take part in the procession. As the parade this year will be strictly patriotic in character, there will be no commercial entries. Tbe parade will be formed between city park and the coun ty courthouse on West Main street. Line of march: Along Main street to Riverside avenue, north on Riverside to Sixth street, south on Bartlett street to Main street and then back along Main to the starting point. (Continued on Fa Bight) ARMISTICE DAY TO BE HOLIDAY Armistice Day tomorrow will be observed here generally as a holiday. All lorleral, state, coun ty and city offices will be closed and there will be no mail deliv ery. Banks and stores In general also will close. Corvallis Cantonmenl Water Supply Sought Salem, Nov. 10. (IP) The constructing quartermaster's of fice at Albany applied to the state engineer Saturday for per mission to take 4.688 gallons of water a minute from the Wil lamette river for use at the proposed Corvallis Monmouth army cantonment. Armistice Day Observance Urged In Proclamation by Mayor Deuel The following proclamation was made yesterday by Mayor H. S. Deuel: "Whereas our country faces grave emergencies both within and without In which every citizen should recognize his re sponsibility; and "Whereas It is Imperative that we all become fully con scious of our national defense needs and problems; and "Whereas our president has asked the nation to pause and think of national defense during the period beginning Armistice Day and continuing through November 16i Aged Scotswoman Tells What to Do During Air Raids Hoschton, Ga., Nov. 10. (IP) An aged Scotswoman writing her thanks for Bun dles for Britain, says Mrs. J. P. Mahaffey, gave this recipe for taking a bombing: "When the air-raid warn ing sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drab o' whisky to steady my nerves. Then I get In bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to Hell." MEDFORD FLIERS WRECK PLANE IN FORCED LANDING Miss Glenda Wlrth and Ed ward Randle were back at their employment here today after weathering without Injury a forced landing of their Crater Flying club Piper Cub plane on a mountainside near Wendling 20 miles northeast of Eugene yesterday afternoon.' The plane was wrecked, . -. Randle, a private pilot and secretary of the Crater Flying club that operates out of Med ford municipal airport, and Miss Wirth picked up a trail after their forced landing and had to hike 8 miles to a ranger station. A telephone call brought friends from Eugene. The Medford cou ple took a bus at Eugene and arrived here at 5:15 this morn ing. Miss Wirth is employed at Hunt's Ice cream shop, 301 East Main street, and Randle Is a radio technician employed by KMED. The couple left here for Port land Saturday morning. When they left Portland to return to Medford about 2:30 p. m. yester day the weather was clear and so a flight plan was not filed with the.CAA. the couple in tending, however, to file such a plan out of Eugene where they had planned to make an Inter mediate stop, Miss Wirth ex plained. Fog was encountered north of Eugene and darkness began de scending when a comparatively flat though rough surface on the side of a mountain was sighted. Believing that it was better to risk putting the plane down here rather than run the hazard of being completely shut off from land by the overcast, Ran dle ordered Miss Wlrth to fasten her safety belt and prepare for a forced landing, she related. The landing was made about 4:30 and the hike out of the mountains took about 4'i hours, Miss Wlrth said. HOW TO FIGHT Plymouth, Eng., Nov. 10. (AP U. S. Ambassador John O. Wlnant declared in an address here today that the first premise in fighting "an enemy who Is ruthlessly determined on world conquest" I to "fight him on ground you choose, rather than on ground he chooses." Therefore, as mayor of the City of Medford, I call upon all citizens of this city to dwell upon their national defense re sponsibilities during this period and, as a means of centering attention upon national defense and thus demonstrating our unity, I call upon all citizens of the City of Medford to display the American flag at home and at places of business for the period beginning Armistice Day, November 11, through Novem ber 18, 194I." H. S. DEUEL, Mayor of Medford, Nov. 10, 1041. Revolt L DESPITEWALKOUT San Diego Strike In Defi ance of Agreement and 0PM, Says Washington By the Associated Press AFL building tradesmen struck $35,000,000 of naval works in the San Diego, Calif, area today and soon thereafter Rear Admiral Charles A. Blake- ly declared that the walkout was an "open revolt against the Uni ted States government. In Washington the navy told the admiral to "take necessary steps to carry work forward" and said the strike was In de fience of AFL no-strike agree, ments and of the OPM. The ad miral was authorized to take title to all materials at point of origin under all contracts and to vehicles belonging to the con tractors on the various navy pro jects. Blakely, commandant of the tlth naval district, declared in a statement, that "the navy will take full constituted authority to suppress the revolt." 3,800 Involved The dispute involve 3,800 building worker and 11 con struction projects. "The constitution of tha Uni ted States," said Blakely, "grants to it citizens the right to free assemblage but that sac red document doe not permit Individuals to bludgeon the Uni ted States government. And I fully Intend to see that certain San Diego labor leaders do not bludgeon the United States navy!" Before the strike started, the admiral declared that the navy would import labor, if neces sary, to take the place of strik ing workers. Up to the executive board of the AFL teamsters union was a reiterated request by President Roosevelt that striking workers of the Railway Express Agency In Detroit go back to work while a mediation board considered their grievances. The strike wa called October 4 to support a demand for union recognition. With only six days remaining of a truce granted by the Uni ted Mine Workers, the defense mediation board was expected to decide within a day or two whether to recommend that the UMW be given a union shop in the coat mines of seven steel companies. The ivied confine of Yale University provided an unusual background for a strike called by a CIO organization of Jani tors, maids and other mainten ance worker seeking a union shop. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS The whole Frank Perl fami ly getting on Ice skates for tha first time and making surpriv ingly good progress. Willis Wood turning out to be one of the most graceful skaters at the new ice arena while Bet ty O'Brien Murphy Bourn whizzed around with grim de termination to learn all tha In tricacies the first time out Helen Cilham and Gerry Ed wards Joining the ranks of ama teur Ice skaters and anticipating their first tumble. Betty Reames, horn from U. of O., trying out the Ice arena and liking it. London, Nov, 10. (AP) A German bomber (cored hit on a passenger train near a northeast coast town today, but no passen ger were Injured and the train wa abl to proceed after about a two-hour delay.
