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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1941.
NO. 201.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.