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Pull U Wat ID- Weather u r,po" Forecast: Occasional rain to night and Thursday. Uttla change In temperatura. Temperature Highest Yesterday , Lowest this Mornlnc . 41 precipitation past 24 hoar .M Low Cost Ad Tribune Til Want Adl U this FORD nrwipaper are read, by thou sands of people tery day. It U not surprising that they produce onarfal molts. Salts running Into tnontanas of dollars hare rcsnlte rrtMm low coat ads. Full Associated Press United Pru Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1941. NO. 201. WM m B 1 Med &uMAWM)h 1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 12 Hitler's dare to the British Just to try invading the continent caused no one here to start out in a rowboat yet. Britain has ac c u mulated much war ma terial and trained a good army since 111 Dunkirk Zi y ('he sy'n i "ty little -sf aat"i.'-i about it). Her Paul Mallon prod uctlon schedules are reported to be hitting unexpect ed heights. October was admit tedly a record. Yet the British generals do not hanker to go across the chan nel without complete superior ity in the air. They raked the continent coast from Norway to Brindisl to see how many Nazi warbirds they could flush. Their unprecedented losses showed Hitler maintains a formidable air force on his western front. Consequently a certain sym pathy with British hesitancy ex ists here in solid military quar ters. Hitler himself did not dare invade England when he found the air too full of Spitfires. BUT the question is when will the Nazi-British plane bal ance get much better? When will the time ever be riper? Hitler had over 10,000 planes when the war started. From then until the Russian campaign, his losses fell short of his new nroduction in every month ex cept one, September, 1940. Anglo American production jointly may now exceed his in view of his losses in Russia, but not by a considerable margin. The Nazis are supposed also to have had something like 25,000 tanks at the start of the conflict. The British had some thing under 600, most of which were left at Dunkirk. Every time their machines have met the Nazis, they have had to (Continued on Pa-o Six) Radio Highlights By Associated Prats (Time 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, 4:45, Donald Nelson and Harriet Elliott on "War Against Waste;" NBC Blue, 6, Vice President Wallace on "Organizing for Victory;" CBS, 7:15, Eduation Week pro gram, Gov. Saltonstall and oth ers; CBS, 8, Rep. Karl E. Mundt on "Proposed American Course of Action." Thursday: the war, 8 MBS, 9 MBS, 10:45 NBC, 11 MBS, 12 MBS, 12:55 p. m., CBS. MBS; 1:45 CBS, MBS; 3 CBS, 3:15 CBS, 3:25 NBC-Red, 3:45 CBS, NBC-Blue. MBS, 12:15, Donald M. Nel son on defense production. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Little Bob Hawley's mama dog having a hard time keeping all her puppies In their wagon in the pet parade, spectators every once In a while having to restore one of the pups that had fallen overboard. Ernest Reinking dropping out ff the Legion parade to get things going at the dugout. And the Odd Fellows drum corps from Crescent City ma king a big hit in the peerade. Mary Leu Gunthcr coming up with a smile and a scratched knee after her first tumble at the Ice Arena. Carlos Morris revealing that bis ice skating ability stems from an early manhood spent almost entirely on tha tricky blade. 10 QUIT LI THIRTYPER CENT Five Brotherhoods' Decision Comes As Others Meet To Decide Demands. Washington. Nov. 12 (IPh President Roosevelt, personally intervening again in an attempt to avert a crippling strike in captive coal mines, asked three leaders of the CIO and three officials of major steel compan ies today to confer with him at the White House Friday. Invited to discuss the issue of a union shop were Philip Murray, CIO president; John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president: Thomas Kennedy, U. M.W. secretary-treasurer; Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet and Tube corporation; Benjamin F. Fairless, of the United States Steel corporation; and Eugene G. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel corporation. By tho Associated Press Chiefs of the five operating brotherhoods in the railway in dustry today ordered their 350,- 0C0 members to strike begin ning December 7 for a 30 per cent Increase in pay while de fense mediation board machin ery was stalled by failure of CIO board members to appear, adding a new complication to United States defense efforts already threatened by renewal of the captive coal mine strike. The railroad men were di rected to leave their Jobs pro gressively on December 7, 8 and 9. Small Ralsa Rejected A residential fact-f i n d I n g board has recommended I cent rise in the operating work ers' pay but the brotherhoods' heads rejected that earlier this week. The recommendation of the fact-finding board was the last step in the regular mediation machinery for preventing rail' road walkouts. The strike order for the oper ating crafts came as represen tatives of 900,000 other workers in non-operating fields met to decide what they would do about their pay demands. Unfavorable weather condi tions in San Diego threatened to curtail the return of ,164 AFL craftsmen to their Jobs on $25,000,000 in defense projects at noon today, the hour set for work resumption in an Armis tice day strike settlement. Contractors reported that an overnight rain would hamper construction work on the 10 navy and marine projects closed down by the strike. CIO Heads Resign A dramatic test of strength in the captive coal mine labor dispute today approached de cision, and the result seemed sure to have far-reaching effects on the entire defense labor sit uation. The stage was set in swift moves yesterr y. High CIO officials, one after another, resigned from the na tional defense mediation board in protest to that body's 9-to-2 recommendation against the un ion shop in the captive coal pits operated by the big steel companies. The army, in a precautionary action looking toward a possible emergency, established an intel ligence center in Pittsburgh, where the coal from captive mines fuels steel mills essential to the government's defense plans. Strike Ban Advocated In congress, some members were pressing hard for strike deterring legislation, and others were said to be reluctant to ease neutrality act restrictions unless steps were taken to avoid de fense work stoppages at home. The hitch in mcSiation pro ceedings was the first effect of the wholesale resignation of CIO members frdm the board and some members of congress predicted that would serve to intensify the concern of con gress over defense production stoppages. Another result of the resig nations was announcement by the gas, coke and chemical di- I New shipping Routes CANADA Wgtt, 6 ' Dotted lines Indlcat new ping which would be mad possible under the neutrality re vision measure passed by the senate. Solid line Indicates pros snt rout used to provide materials to British in the Near East. Shaded area indicates forbidden sons under present neutrality act. Dean Morse Says Rail Strike Call "Absolutely Unjustifiable" Action Eugene, Ore-, Nov. 12. (IP) The call tor a railway strike in Chicago is "absolutely unjustifiable," Dean Wayne L. Morse, who heads the president's emergency fact finding board, stated unofficially today. "It is my judgment that a strike of railway laDor at in is time will jeopardize the very high place which railway labor as up to now enjoyed in public esteem, the University of Ore gon law dean added. Dean Morse pointed out that adherence to Judicial processes in settling disputes is the only way in which any kind of major dispute may be settled. "On the basis of the record made by the employes at the 31 day hearing held by the presi dent's emergency board, the call for the railway strike is abso lutely unjui-tlfiable," he said. "The officials of the union and their lawyers admitted on the record of the hearing that they had had a fair and Judicial hear ing. If they go through with their threat of strike, they will sacrifice the judicial processes guaranteed to them by the rail way labor act which will be much more costly to the future l .terest of railway labor than the temporary financial benefits which they seek to gain through a strike." Pinball Proponents Withdraw Ordinance Salem, Nov. 12 (IP) The proposed city ordinance to legal ize and license pinball games for amusement only was a dead let ter today after sponsors decided to withdraw it. Alderman L. F. LeGarle, who with Mayor W. W. Chadwlck introduce.! the measure, raid they found opposition was too strong. vision of the CIO United Mine Workers, also known as U.M.W, district 50, that it had with drawn all cases Involving the union from the board's juris diction and would no longer use the board's services. President O. E. Gasaway of district 50 wrote Board Chair man William H. Davis that the union could not submit its dis putes to a mediation agency "upon which there is no ade quate representation of labor. The three district 50 cases be fore the board involved total of 3.850 workers at the Slots- Sheffield company, Birming ham, Ala., United Gypsum com pany and Solvay Process, New Orleans. U.M.W. sources also disclosed that in addition to the CIO board members, John Owens, CIO president in Ohio, had re signed from his defense job of labor relations consultant to the Office of Production Manage ment. A White House secretary, William D. Hassett, said mean while, that it was a fair assump tion that President Roosevelt was going to see that the gov ernment's position was main tained in the captive coal case. In on way or another. routes for United States ship E GIVEN PEN TERMS, F New York, Nov. 12 (JP) Federal Judge John C. Knox to day sentenced William Bioff to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine and George E. Browne to eight years and $20,000 for vio lation of the federal anti-racketeering law. .Browne, former president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, AFL and Bioff, his personal represen tative, were convicted of extort ing about $550,000 from the motion picture industry. The government charged they had used their labor leadership to extort large sums on threat of strike. They were convicted last week on an indictment of three counts, the first two of which charged violation of the federal anti-racketeering law and the third conspiracy. "These defendants," said Judge Knox today, "not only have violated the law of the United States but they have be trayed their trust . . , and disre garded the welfare of their union and brought their organi zation into disrepute before the eyes of the public. 'They have dealt a blow to labor that will leave a scar for years to come." Murder Ring Leader Dies in Escape Try New York, Nov. 12 (Py Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, once a snarling leader of Murder Inc.. Brooklyn gang accused of more than 80 murders, and lately squealer singing away the lives of his former cronies, fell to his death today In trying to escape from a sixth floor room In the Half Moon hotel in Coney Island, where he was held under police surveillance. Assistant District Attorney Edward Heffeman said Reles, 35, fell onto a concrete sun deck after leaving hi sixth floor win dow on an Improvised rope of wire and bed sheets. IDAHO KININO Boise, Idaho, Nov. 12. At Idaho' mineral output in 1939 was worth $21418,000, a cen sus bureau report disclosed yes terday. The state ranked first in silver production, first in re covery of antimony and second in lead productioav - Failure May Force Nazi Invasion Try BLACK SEA COAST Invaders Near Kerch, Gate way to Caucasus Oil Fields Reds Hold Center By the Associated Press Adolf Hitler's Crimean arm ies were reported today to have reached the Black sea coast to day just below Kerch, gateway to the Caucasus oil fields, while on the central front the Russians declared they had battled the Germans to a standstill with more than 70,000 Nazis killed and wounded in the 4l-day-old drive on Moscow. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said Russian infan try, artillery and tanks smash ing into the flank of two Ger man divisions on the outskirts of Tula, 100 miles south of Mos cow, had put the invaders to route and chased them for more than five miles. Nails Drop Arms Red Star said the Nazis aban doned arms and ammunition in their flight, leaving mors) than 600 slain, many wounded and 25 burned-out tanks. Only the arrival of reinforcements rushed up In trucks enabled the Ger mans to restore "some kind of balance," the newspaper said. On the southern (Ukraine) front, Soviet correspondents said the Donets river basin was engulfed In fire . . conflagra tions raging everywhere , . . pil lars of flames and black smoke rising high in the skies ..." On the whole, the Russians reflected growing confidence both in the Donets conflict and before Moscow. ) Soviet dispatches admitted, however, that German troops had advanced to the vicinity of Narofomlnsk, 35 miles south west of Moscow, but said the situation had been stabilized. The Germans said their advanc ed forces were within 31 miles of Moscow at one point. Finland Turns Down Warning by America To Drop Soviet War Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 13 (IP) Finland today turned down a United States warning to with draw from the war against Rus sia on pain of losing American friendship and insisted she was still fighting a defensive war against the Soviet. The decision was made public in a note issued after a lengthy session of the government. It was this country's answer to the warning disclosed November 3 In Washington by U, S. Secre tary of State Hull. VICHYlElAL KILLED IN CRASH Vichy, Unoccupied France. Nov. 12. (IP) General Charles Huntzlger, Vichy's war minister, was burned to death today when a plane in which he was return ing to Vichy from a tour of North Africa crashed in south ern France. Seven other persons lost their lives in the crash. Death of the general, who signed the 1840 armistice be tween Germany and France, was reported shortly after officials had made known their concern for him. His plana had been missing more than seven hours. legume, is a tall-growing type of wnite clover which origmatea in IU1" .o Starve Britain Out SMITH SENTENCED;! TO FIVE YEARS IN K.F.GIRUS DEATH Medford Service Station Op erator Admits Leaving In jured Maid On Highway. Klamath Falls, Nov. 12. (IP) Eugene Hugh Smith, 29, Med ford, today pleaded guilty to failure to stop at the scene of an accident and was sentenced to five years In prison by Cir cuit Judge David Vandenberg. Smith was traced to Medford by a license number after Marie Russell, 17, was found lying un conscious on the highway north of here October 25, Through his attorney. Smith told the court he had asked highway directions of the Rus sell girl and had offered to take her home as a return favor She Jumped from the car, according to Smith s statement. Denies Attack Attorney D. E. Van Vactor, speaking fo Smith to the court, stated that there is nothing in the evidence or in Smith's story to show that he was guilty of any "ungentlemanly conduct" toward Miss Russell. Van Vactor expressed the opinion the girl became frightened because Smith was driving at an exces sive speed and because he had been drinking. When the girl started to leap from' the car, according to Smith's story, he called "No' No!" and grasped her skirt, which came off in his hand as she went out of the machine. Smith, the attorney said, became panic stricken and drove on north on the highway. District Attorney L. Orth Slse more pointed out that the place where the girl was found wts far beyond her home and be yond the road which turns off the highway leading to her home. Slsemore pointed out that Smith was on the Dalles- California highway leading out of town when he stopped to talk to the girl, and that the highway is well marked with signs and a yellow line- no Reason For Leniency "Only one person knows why that girl got in the car, and why she left it as the car sped on the highway," said Slsemore. "That person Is the defendant. Circuit Judge Vandenberg, af ter listening to the district at torney and defense attorneys Van Vactor and Walter rronn mayer of Medford, declared. "There Is not a reason in the world for leniency In this case The five year sentence Is the maximum punishment for the charge. Woman Hits, Kills Husband With Car San Jose, Calif., Nov. 12 W Mrs. Henry Merz drove to Sunnyvale last night to pick up her 85-year-old husband and take him home to dinner after he finished work in a cannery. At an intersection, lights of another car blinded her and she felt her machine bump some thing. She collapsed when she saw the man crushed under the wheels of her car. It was her husband. He died in the Santa Clara hospital today. Public Wedding Will Bring Many Gifts Medford merchants committee after a meeting at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce this morning issued the follow ing announcement: "Wanted: Young couple to be married publicly Wednesday, November 28 at the merchants' Christmas opening. Many val vablft gifts will be presented to the couple. Report at the Cra- war BuiietinslHITLER NERVING Nairobi, Kenya Colony, Nov. 12. UP) The British East African command announced tonight that the British and nstlra Ethiopian forces had complotod the encirclomont of Gondar in northern Ethio pia and had captured Gianda. London, Nov- 12. A lone daylight raider dropped high explosive bombs at a point on the northeast coast of England today. Two tenement houses war wrecked and throe persons vrsre taken to a hospital with minor injuries. 4 BELIEVED DEAD Peoria, 111., Nov. 12. (IP) Four men were reported miss ing and believed dead after the plant of the Western Powder company blew up today with an explosion heard 40 miles away. No other casualties were re ported. Information from the plant. located in hilly country west of Peoria, was that every building but the administration building was destroyed in a double ex plosion. A small blast followed almost Instantly by a mammoth roar. The black powder mill was engaged in defense work and federal officials took charge. Some Peorians thought broken windows and china were signs of an earthquake. In panic they put In calls for the fire depart ment, jamming telephone lines. The plant was composed of from 10 to 15 small buildings. widely scattered and with col- lapslble walls Intended to local ize damage. Those reported missing were Arthur Kendall, Lloyd Dalton, Harold Honts and Harold Win- dish. EFFORT TO HALT E HELD FIRST NEED Washington, Nov. 12.- Representatlve Smith (D-Va.), speaking directly to administra tion leaders working to keep party lines intact for neutrality revision, declared today that he would vote against the legisla tion unless the government "puts a stop to the labor dictatorship" he said was sabotaging the de fense effort. Smith, who said he had voted for all previous defense legisla tion, declared that because of the "unruly elements in our midst," he was not prepared to support the proposed revision to permit merchant ships to travel to belligerent ports. Speaker Rayburn, however, told reporters he was confident of passage by a "substantial ma jority." Meanwhile. It became known that Republican leaders at a morning conference, came to the conclusion that "we have this administration bill licked, for Local Pair terian theater to Jack Matlack, director of the merchants Christ mas opening. This Is an oppor tunity. Must accept before 3 p.m., Friday, November 14." Thus did the committee reveal a new feature of the annual Christmas opening. Other fea tures are to be announced as plans are worked out, th com mittee stated. SELF FOR STEP, CHURCHILL SAYS Prime Minister Cites Grow ing Strength In Shipping Expanding War Hinted Supplies From U. S. London, Nov . 12, King George, opening a new session of parliament today amid subdued luster and pomp, said "the United States is furnishing my people and my allies with war supplies 3f all kinds on a scale unex ampled in history." "My peoples are deter mined to meet to the utmost sf their power the needs of the Soviet Union in its heroic conflict," said the king. Accompanied by his smil ing queen, the king appeared to deliver in person his ad dress which was the apex of ceremony. (By the Associated Proas) . London, Nov. 12 Prime min ister Churchill declared today Adolf Hitler had failed to bring Britain to her knee through a starvation blockade and thus might be forced into attempting invasion as "soon as he can screw up his courage and make arrangements to take tho plunge." The prima minister told cheering house of commons that it had been learned through Britain's No. 1 prisoner, Rudolf Hess, who flew from Germany to Scotland "that Hitler origin. ally counted mora on starvation of the British than on invasion.' Strength Growing Any such hopes, Churchill declared, crumbled through an improvement In Britain s ship. ping situation. This was high spotted by tho prima m mister's report that: 1 "In 1943 wo shall hava sufficient shipping to undertake overseas operations." 2 Almost 1,000.000 tons of axis shipping were sent to tha bottom or damaged seriously In the four months ending In Octo ber. 3 During that tamo period Britain's shipping losses drop ped almost two-thirds. Speaking with cautious confi dence, Churchill promised that better food for Britain's work ers would result from an Im provement in exports and big ger crops at homo but ho added: "Satisfactory as tha results are there must bo no relaxation of our efforts, not only because of tho ever-present menace to importation from abroad but it may yet be that as tha war de velops military operations may make more extensive demands upon our shipping." Expansion Unspecliiod He did not elaborate that theme to explain whether such military operations bo In Africa or in tha movements of troops for action on the Russian front He avoided all mention of the government's frequently criti cized aid to Russia. During the speech, which followed tha formal opening of the new session of parliament by King George, Churchill flat ly told critics ho did not intend to change his cabinet "at tha present moment" He promised, however, fullest facilities for war debate "not only this week but the whola of next week and into tho week thereafter. In one of tha speeches follow ing the king's address. Sir Percy Harris, liberal, said "tho prime minister has tho com plete confidence of tho country. His stock never was higher." Bend, Nov. 12. UP) Two swans in tha municipal Mirror Pond park have been shot by an unknown rifleman.
