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Eugene Hugh Smith (above), 29-year-old Medford service
station operator, was sentenced to serve five years in prison
In circuit court in Klamath Falls yesterday on his plea of
guilty to a charge of failure to stop at the scene of an acci
dent. Smith, shown as he left the Klamath county jail for
his preliminary hearing in connection with the death of Marie
Russell. 17. Klamath Falls high school girl, admitted through
his attorney that he had picked Miss Russell up in his car
October 25, the day she was found fatally Injured alongside
The Da'.les-California highway. (Photo courtesy Klamath Herald)
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Nov. 13 Kurusu
is not carrying a peace plan in
his portfolio, or in his hat.
The proper authorities have
been (ore-
iurw warned priv
ately from To
kio not to cre
dit popular re
ports. The
leading career
man of the
J a p a ncse di
plomacy was
sent here, they
say, to become
a second am-
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bassador to
Admiral Nom
lndefinite period.
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SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ed Pease and cohorts putting
on a three-act side show in the
basement of the Pease cabin at
Prospect.
Cappy Theron Bean keeping
his office hot enough to incu
bate chickens.
Jacob Gorby proudly show
ing the script type with which
his sew typewriter is equipped.
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Chungking, Nov. 13. (IP) A
Chinese army spokesman said
today Intelligence service re
ports told of large-scale Japanese
troop movements at sea and
indicated that great numbers of
warships and troops transports
were being massed off the coast
of northern Indo-China.
The spokesman predicted that
the next few weeks would dts-
Lciose whre Japan would strike
next.
He said the Chinese army had
received word that 130 to MO
Japanese warships were massed
at Heihow, Hainan island, across
the Gulf of Tonkin from Indo-
China.
COMMUNITY CHEST
All those having Community
Chest cash or pledges to report
were asked today by C. E.
Gates, director, to turn them in
by Saturday.
Head office of the Community
Chest is at the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce and the
returns may be made to Mr.
Gates there.
Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 13.
(?" Aluminum Company of
America officials announced
here today that bids for grading
and foundation work on Alcoa
plants at Troutdale, Ore., and
Spokane were being considered
at Pittsburgh.
T
DRAMATIC APPEAL
IN ELEVENTH HOUR
Rayburn Reads Letter From
Roosevelt Saying Failure
Would Weaken Defense.
Washington, Nov. 13. (JP)
After eleventh hour interven
tion by President Koosevelt the
house dramatically gave con
gressional approval today by a
vote of 212 to 194 to legislation
scrapping the neutrality act
bans against arming American
merchant ships and sending
them into combat zones.
The momentous vote came af
ter Speaker Rayburn, in a su
preme effort to avert a major
defeat for the administration's
foreign policy, descended to the
well of the house and read a
letter from the chief executive
stating that failure of the
house to approve the neutrality
act changes would "bolster ag
gressive steps and Intentions in
Germany" and weaken the po
sitions of Britain, Russia and
China.
Tension At Clot
Tension prevailed in the clos
ing hours of the day'a debate
as influential Republicans Join
ed with the Democratic leader
ship in appeals for passage of
the legislation.
In one of the appeals to
which the house and crowded
galleries listened most intently.
Rep. Wadsworth (R., N. Y.) said
he felt a "profound conviction
that what's left on the statute
books of the neutrality act is
injurious to the . safety . of this
nation."
Immediately after the voting.
Rayburn signed the bill, clear
ing the way for its dispatch to
the White House for President
Roosevelt's signature.
FINLAND BELIEVES
DOOR NOT CLOSED
Helsinki. Finland. Nov. 13.
t&) Finland does not consider
the door closed to further nego
tiations with the United States,
a foreign office spokesman said
tonight.
He said Finland's note of yes
terday, in effect rejecting an
American warning against con
tinuing her fight against Rus
sia, was meant to be only a cor
dial exposition of her reasons
for warring on the Soviet Union.
Finland, he declared. In no
wise wanted to set obstacles to
possible future diplomatic over
tures from Washington.
Washington, Nov. 13fP)
The Finnish minister called at
the state department today,
while word spread in diplomatic
circles that the United States
and Great Britain might renew
their efforts to end Finnish-Russian
hostilities.
The visit of the minister,
Hjalmar J. Procope, to Under
Secretary of State Welles fol
lowed closely on the delivery of
the Finnish government's note
rejecting a Soviet offer to ne
gotiate peace with Finland,
which was transmitted to the
Finns by the United States.
Salem Alternative
For Planes in Fog
Salem, Nov. 13 JP United
Air Lines, which will start serv
ice to Salem December 3, will
use the Salem airport also as an
alternate to the Columbia air
port in Portland, J. Raymond
Dyer, Chicago, attorney for the
company, said here last night.
Dyer said passengers would
be landed here when weather
conditions forbid use of the
Portland airport. Such passen
gers now are taken to Seattle.
FOURTH SHIP READY
Portland, Ore, Nov. 13. (IP)
The fourth liberty fleet cargo
ship to be launched by the Ore
gon Shipbuilding corporation
the Robert Gray wUl go down
the ways Sunday.
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THEIRWAR ROLE
Farmers Must Run Risk Of
Overproduction Is Word
Secretary of Agriculture.
Worcester. Mass., Nov. 13 (JP)
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard declared today that the
"adequate defense of America
means nothing less than the
defeat of Hitler."
Therefore, he told the nation's
farmers, they must run the risks
of overproduction in the inter
ests of national defense.
The cabinet member also
served notice that the United
States was ready to show its
"force" in both oceans, if nec
essary, should the country's in
terests be menaced.
Material Main Worry
In an address prepared for
the 75th anniversary meeting
of the National Grange, Wickard
said that Hitler "can be de
feated only by a superior force
of materials and men. The men
art there today, in Russia, In
China, in England. Our greatest
need is to get materials to these
men and get them there fast
enough. If our production
is too little and too late' it may
be too late for us to hope for
freedom in our generation."
The United States, he went
on, desires peace "but not at
the price of slavery."
Grange leaders, asserting that
Improved prices had not solved
the farm problem, called for
legislation which would offer
farmers "something better and
more respectable than govern
ment gratuities and subsidies."
Taber Warns
Louis J. Taber, master, told
the convention that when the
war er.ds "agriculture will face
greater losses than those follow
ing the last war unless in the
meantime we take steps to cor
rest some of the basic causes
affecting agricultural income."
Today, prices of most farm
commodities are approaching
parity, but this is due to war
conditions. This increase In farm
prices must not give us a false
sense of security." he said.
Taber suggested a "two-price"
system under which farmers
would be free to produce abun
dantly and sell to the domestic
market at "parity protected"
prices and abroad at competitive
world prices.
Frnit and Produce
Plants Picketed to
Aid Yakima Strike
Portland! Ore., Nov. 13 (Pi
Portland's food troubles spread
to fruits and vegetables as well
as meat today with the picketing
of the Pacific Fruit Produce
Company.
Thirteen meat markets have
been closed for nearly two
weeks and 18 other large meat
markets posted notices that they
would close Friday night.
Seattle, Nov. 13. (IPh-The
Pacific Fruit and Produce com
pany plant was closed here to
day after pickets appeared be-
fore the plant and approximate- side walls but with fire walls at
ly 150 employes refused to go intervals to comply with good
through the picket line. A com- Insurance practice, Capt Bean
pany official said . he under- explained. The change, he- ad
stood the pickets were from ded, accomplishes better con
Yakima, representing an AFL-1 solidation of loading and con
Teamsters union affiliate on i structlon economy. The archi-
strike there against Yakima ap
ple growers and packers.
Silverton, Ore., Nov. 13. (IP)
The Silverton board of edu
cation notified teachers of the
system pay Increases were Im
possible now because of "ex
cessive warrants and loans" out
standing. Teachers, in request-
ing raises, said this was one of
the few districts in the state
where teacher salaries remain-
ed unchanged
COMINGSATURDAY MOSCOW SECTOR 7 ;:' .M
, 'Mi
Any Further Preparation For
Local Cantonment To Be
Done By Quartermaster.
The firm of Myron Hunt and
H. C. Chambers-Blackie and
Wood today was in receipt of of
ficial army orders to complete
its architect-engineering work
on the proposed . Medford can
tonment Saturday. Additional
time was provided for the final
accounting work, this task being
expected to take a couple of
weeks.
It is expected that after Satur
day any further engineering
work necessitated by changes in
plans at Washington, D. C, will
be done by the constructing
quartermaster's office which is
in charge of Capt.-Theron W.
Bean.
The constructing quartermas
ters office now comprises 10
army officers and civilians and
the staff will be augmented to
30 to 40, the size of the staff de
pending partly rr what other
changes in plans are received
from Washington, Capt. Bean
said.
55 On Staff
The architect-engineering staff
now comprises 55 persons. Mr.
Hunt, head of the Los Angeles
architectural firm of Myron
Hunt and H. C. Chambers, and
Harold I. Wood of the San Fran
cisco engineer firm of Blackie
and Wood, arrived here last
May 13 and received official no
tice on May 21 to proceed with
the advance planning of the 35,-000-troop
cantonment proposed
for the Beagle-Antelope area.
Mr- Wood expects to remain
here until the final accounting
work is completed, the construc
ting quartermaster's office said.
The contract contains a clause
by which the government may
exercise an option to use the
services of the architect-engineering
firm during construction
after the planning work has
been finally accepted. There has
been no official indication, how
ever, when if ever construction
will be authorized.
The plans of the proposed can.
tonment will be kept at all
times in readiness for bidding so
that a call for bids can be is
sued on short notice, Capt. Bean
emphasized.
Rail Plan Changed .
As an example of the changes
In plans ordered at Washington,
capt. Bean cited the rauroaa to
the proposed camp, instead ot
rehabilitating the Medford Cor-
poratlon railroad as originally
contemplated, Washington head -
qusrters ordered construction of
a government-owned access rail
road from the Southern Pacific
tracks to the cantonment. This
change Is part of the work that
now will be taken over by the
constructing quartermaster.
Another major change Involv
ed the warehouses at the pro
posed camp. In the original
plans there were two rows of
separate warehouse buildings
along the railroad. Under re
vised plans the buildings will
be grouped In units under a
i common roof and with common
tect-engineer staff has made a
sketch of the recommended
warehouse) layout and this will
be developed by the construct
ing quartermaster's office-
TURKEY PRICES
- San Francisco, Nov. 13. (IP)
Net prices paid producers for
live poultry delivered San Fran-
Cisco: turkeys, young toms, un-
Ider 18 lbs., 244-t3c; 18 20 lbs.,
24V4c; over 20 lbs., 24Vic;
I young hens, 28-29C
Movement of Reserves Por
tends Climactic Battle
Germans Storm Kerch.
(By Associated Press)
Masses of German and Rus
sian reserves were reported
moving up to the central front
today for a possible climactic
battle for Moscow, while in the
south, Adolf Hitler's Crimean
armies were declared to be
storming the fortifications of
Kerch at the gateway to the
Caucasus oil fields.
A Nazi spokesman said the
German air force was already
roaring over the narrow Kerch
strait to carry the war into the
great fields which produce much
of Russia's oil.
Take Key Forts
German military dispatches
said Nazi assault troops had
captured several of Kerch's key
fortifications and that the port
was open to direct attack from
the west and south.
On the Moscow front, Soviet
reports said the Germans were
Intensifying their scouting oper
ations, testing red army lines
along the entire 200-mile de
fense arc, apparently as the
prelude to a new grand offen
sive. Fresh Soviet troops were
streaming up to the front to
meet the expected assault.
-On the north flank, in the
Kalinin sector the Russians said
they had driven the German
invaders back toward the Volga
river despite a hurricane of Nazi
mortar, machine-gun and rifle
fire.
Southwest of Kalinin, a red
army group was said to have
crossed the Volga in a success
ful raid on the German rear.
The gravest threat on the
long battlefront centered at
Kerch, with the Germans ap
parently making final prepare
tions to cross, the Kerch strait
and drive into the Caucasus.
GENERAL WHITE
SERIOUSLY ILL
Portland, Ore., Nov. 13. (IP)
Maj.-Gcn. George A. White, com
mander of the 41st division. wasi3 D
in .prion, condition from an
I intestinal ailment at his home
near Clackamas, Ore., today, his
i physicians Indicated,
pr, William S. Knox and
Homer P. Rush said the general
, hi been denied visitors. Be-
fore returning to his home, he
spent a week In a Portland
hospital.
His Illness dates from maneu
vers at Camp Hunter Liggett,
Calif., last summer. The general
at present Is on an extended
leave of absence.
Week's Ration for Englishman
Only One Meal for an American
Washington, Nov. 13. (IP)
Some 230,000 tons of American
food are reaching England each
month now, but even so Sec
retary of Agriculture Wickard
said today an average Ameri
can could consume an English
man's weekly ration of fresh
meat, bacon, ham, eggs and
cheese at one meal "without
feeling he's overeaten."
Agriculture department offic
ials said that English house
wives can buy all the flour
they need and that England was
producing all the potatoes and
most of the vegetables required,
but they added it was this coun
try's Job to produce the meat,
eggs, and dairy products re -
Maxim Lltrlnov (above), for
mer Russian foreign minister
who sought an understanding
with the allies before Russia
signed an accord with Germany.
was teported In Washington
diplomatic circles to have been
selocted to succeed Constantino
Ownaniky as Soviet ambassador
to the United States.
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Three couples already have
volunteered to be married pub
licly as a feature of the mer
chants' Christmas opening No
vember 26, Jack Matlack, direc
tor of the opening celebration,
stated today. A few- other
couples have notified him that
they are considering the matter,
he said.
With a number of couples
ready -to have a public wedding,
a selection of one couple will
have to be made and the method
of choice will be announced
later, Mr. Matlack said.
All who are willing to be
married at the celebration must
report to Mr Matlack at the
Craterlan theater not later than
tomorrow,
To the counle chosen will go
an extensive array of gifts, in-
eluding house furnishings and
accessories, groceries, a month's
rent, and a complete wedding
wardrobe for both bride and
groom, Mr. Matlack stated.
Salem, Nov. 13 OP) The
state supreme court today
sustained the validity of taxes
levied by Clatsop county against
the Gearhart Park company,
the decision upholding Circuit
Judge R. Frank Peters.
quired for shipment abroad un
der a 81,000,000,000 fund ear
marked for food under the sec
ond lease-lend fund.
While officials here discussed
what they said were "mistaken"
ideas In this country concerning
British food supplies, Wickard
told a national Grange session
at Worcester, Mass., that In spite
of American shipments the
"British still are on very strict
rations of most vital foods.
Department officials who have
been in England In recent
months listed these diet limits
for an individual: cheese, three
ounces a week; meat, seven
ounces a week: bacon and ham,
four ounces a week; eggs, two
1 a month when available.
10 MIKES
Railroads, Telephones, Coal
Mines, Plane Making
Endangered By Turmoil.
New York, Nov. 13 (IP)
John J. Moran, president of
the Federation of Long Line
Telephone Workers, announc
ed tonight a strike of 15.000
workers, called for midnight
Friday, had been postponed
until Nov. 21.
Chicago, Nov. 13 HP) Four
teen unions of non-operating
employes, representing 800,000
workers in the railroad industry.
issued a joint statement today
rejecting the recommendations
of the president's emergency
board for settlement of their
wage dispute.
The statement did not contain
a direct threat of a strike, al
though non-operating employes
authorized their leaders last
September 3 to call one, and the
five big operating brotherhoods
have ordered a walkout to begin.
Dec. 7. . ' "
By the Associated Press
With railroad transportation,
long distance telephone commu
nications, steel companies' soft
coal mines and a large war air
craft company threatened with
possible strike stoppages, high
administration officials were re
ported today to be considering
legislation requiring a "cooling
off" period before workers
could walk out of defense Indus
tries. Tha proposition under study
was said also to Include bonuses
to employees based on cost of
living.
Administration Sparred
The labor situation also was
pointed up by the declaration of
some house members that they
would not vote to send Ameri
can ships into war zones unless
the administration took firm
steps to prevent work stoppages
on detente projects. Speaker
Rayburn predicted, however,
that despite this threat the ship
legislation would win - house
sanction.
Renewed was the strike at
Bell Aircraft's two large war
plane plants where Leo Lamotte,
assistant aviation director of the
ClO-United Automobile Work
ers, said a walkout would be
called unless the company "bo
gins to bargain."
The UAW, claiming 90 per
cent of the workers, seeks
20-cent hourly blanket wage
boost, a minimum of 78 cents
hourly Instead of 80, a union
shop and dues checkoff. A strike
was voted Oct. 19 but was de
layed pending mediation before
the defense mediation board.
(Continued on rase Beeaa)
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press)
Tonight, The War 8:45 MBS;
5:55 CBS; NBC-Blue; 7 MBS;
7:45 CBS; 8:30 MBS; NBC
CES.
Talks NBC-Blue 6:18 Town
Meeting, "What Kind of Peace?"
Dorothy Thompson, Norman
Thomas, John A. Zellers; MBS
9:13 Psul V. McNutt on Wel
fare Day; NBC-Red 8:18 Rep. H.
C. Dworshak on "Have We For
gotten?" Friday, The War MBS;
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