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Weather ""- ForcraMt Shower tonight nd ft turd Uttl change lo temperature. Temperature Htfliest Yetterday 67 Lowest thlt Moral nr 50 Precipitation past t4 hoars .43 Sunday Want Adi Tribune FORD Full Associated Press prepare that Bant Ad for the Sunday morning edition. Thousands of eye are on the Want Ad page every Sunday morning. The reader hat a foil day abead for action tUrt something. United Pru Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1941. NO. 203. M J lU MED Tl t Sino)nno)o)(5 i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 14. Thunder-bolt conjurer John L. Lewis threw a few underhand blasts around inside the government after his new personal decla ration of war. They were in the form of in direct threats d e s i g ned to frighten offi cialdom, and frankly, they set a few knees to knocking. Biggest threat Paul Mallon was that the Detroit C. I. O. convention Mon day would be turned into a bedlam of new deal opposition which might culminate in a general strike. Easier to believe, however, was the one that the captive miners would walk out on schedule Saturday and tie up steel production; or that the 400,000 United Mine Workers would join them and tie up all defense. Thus, there was no doubt early in the game, Lewis was trying to edge Mr. Roose velt into negotiating a captive mine agreement before the Sat urday deadline and the Monday convention. White House was well ad vised, however, that both con gress and the country were fully behind Mr. Roosevelt. Con gressional leaders gave per sonal assurance congress would pass any preventative legislation Mr. Roosevelt wanted, nothing without his leadership. THE Labor Mediation' board which voted against Lewis it a closed-shop board. Its mem bership favors 7 to 4 the closed shop principle In general. Real unexplained reason why it voted against Lewis is that (Continued on Pag Senn) Radio Highlights KMED will broadcast the Texas-Texas Christian football game Saturday afternoon start ing at noon, but will not air a Pacific Coast conference con test. By Associated Prats (Time is Pacific Standard) Another hour broadcast via all networks is being set up for Sunday morning at 10:30 a. m., for the benefit of the annual Red Cross roll call. The program will consist of the dramatized Tone poem, 'Narrative in Red and White," I with Paul Muni as narrator. Actors are to include Lionel Barrymore, Raymond Massey, Ray Collins and Judith Ander son. Saturday's football schedule: NBC-Red and CBS 11:15. Notre Dame vs. Northwestern; NBC Blue 12:15, Texas vs. Texas Christian; MBS 11:15, Minne sota vs. Iowa, followed by Neb raska vs. Pittsburgh and then by Stanford vs. Washington State. Tonight: NBC-Blue, 5:30, civ ilian defense, "Eyes for Amer ica;" 7:45 talk, Melvyn Doug las, auspices Fight For Freedom committee. MBS, 7, boxing, Gus Lesne vich vs. Taml Mauriello. Saturday: NBC-Blue, 8:30 a. m.. Our Barn; 9:30 a. m.. Na tional Grange Diamond Jubilee. "London Calling Oregon,' Bundles for Britain Thank You program. Friday 8:25 p. m. PST short wave from BBC. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Billy Bauman arranging to borrow a pup, the owners be ing curious about his undis closed purpose. Editor Ned Liebman proudly passing out this week's issue of Medford Hi-Times. Olive Starcher offering sug gestions as to dispotal of a broken MT chair, she refusing to take it horn a an antique piece. T IN EIGHT YEARS Midnight Visitation Strong est in Torrance, Gardena And Long Beach Sections Los Angeles, Nov. 14. (P) A violent earthquake, the most severe in eight years, toppled bricks and cornices from build ings in suburban Los Angeles, sent guests fleeing from one damaged hotel, split a 55,000 gallon oil tank and damaged gas and power lines today. Guests fled the 30-room Ho tel Torrance in suburban Tor rance as the temblor showered bricks from the two-story struc ture into the street. Fire in spectors condemned the build ing and ordered the guests (their number was not available) to find lodgings elsewhere. They said a few other buildings would be condemned today and ordered torn down. No Deaths Amazed police said that de spite uncounted thousands of dollars damage, not a single death or injury was reported, Torrance city officials, sur veying hastily after dawn, set a preliminary figure of $1,000, 000 loss. Among the most ser iously damage structures was the fire departments' building Schools were closed pending a detailed inspection. The quake occurred at 12:42 a. m. (3:42 a. m. EST) and lasted from a few seconds to 18 or 20 in Torrance, Gardena and Long Beach, the hardest hit areas. . .One wall of the Torrance the ater collapsed, but patrons and employes had been gone some time. Bricks and plate glass from half a dozen damaged buildings littered the streets. American Legion members were called out to prevent the curious from venturing too close to damaged buildings. Heavy fog badly hampered Investigators and slowed traffic to a few miles an hour. The quake knocked out telephone lines and delayed news of the extent of damage in Torrance. Men, women and children who rushed outdoors huddled in automobiles for warmth as they hesitated to return to their homes until they felt it would be safe. Another slight shock was felt in Torrance at 1:35 a. m. but apparently did not extend to nearby towns. In Gardena, Katsumi Tamura and his brother, Yukio Tatsuma, narrowly escaped as their small store collapsed while they slept inside. The tower of the Justice court building was knocked off and thrown through the roof of a nearby store building. The Bank of America branch and half a dozen stores in Gardena were damaged and stocks of goods was strewn on floors. An eight-inch natural gas pipeline burst in Wilmington, but the flow was shut off quick ly and the fire threat averted. The temblor was the third in Los Angeles county in five months and the worst since a 1933 temblor killed 130 persons. TROUTlLEPLANT TRACT IS LET Pittsburgh, Nov. 14.- Officials of the Aluminum Com pany of America announced to day that a contract for the con struction of a 90.000.000 pound annual capacity aluminum plant at Troutdale, Ore., had been awarded to the Ross B. Ham mond company of Portland, Ore. The new plant, nine miles ea.t of Portland on the Colum bia river, will include a carbon plant to supply carbon for the electrolytic reduction of alum inum. Cost ot the site and con struction work will total about $12,000,000, officials said. Three units, each with an an nual capacity of 30.000.000 pounds, will make up the plant The first unit is expected to be completed in May. the second 'in June and the third by the If nit of August. Finland to Continue Fight lJiii T .KALININ VOLCMLAMSK MQcow O 200l !!ili!JfykA Finland rejected a U. S. warning to coat fighting Russia and Insisted the still was waging a defensive war. Map shows Finnish territorial losses (dotted araat), in the 1939-40 war with Russia. Finns said they had ragainad most of tha territory, except two vital araat,' the Fithar and Hango panintulat (circled), which ttlll aro in Ruttian hands. Black arrows Indicate directions of Axis drivei on Leningrad and Motcow. Kurusu Reaches San Francisco; Holds Hope San Francisco, Nov. 14. CP) Saburu Kurusu, one of Jap an's top diplomats, said today if he didn't hold a hope for peace in the Pacific "why do you think I came such long way?" He was hurrying to Washington for conferences with President Roosevelt. . "I came to offer my all-out! assistance to my colleague Am bassador Nomura in Washing ton," he said. "I fully realize the difficulty of my "task. "But I hope to break through the line and make a touch down." "A diplomat with an Import ant mission, I am not In posi tion to say much," he comment ed as he left a clipper plane after a flight from Tokyo. Some believe that upon his conversations with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull will depend the fut ure of the Pacific peace or war. "All talking must be done In Washington," he smiled. And pressed further for comment: All ambassadors have some in structions." Kurusu will leave by United Air Lines at 2 p. m. (PST) to day for Los Angeles. He will take the 8 p. m. TWA plane cast. He will arrive in Wash ington at 10:04 a. m. tomorrow. FACE OP Tokyo, Nov. 14. (AP) Japan strengthened her war machine today on the eve of a special session of parliament opening to morrow in one of the gravest crises of her modern history. The cabinet approved for sub mission to the diet an extraordi nary war fund of 3.800,000.000 yen (nominally $844,000,000) and the war office announced a dras tic revision of conscription regu lations, making scores of thou sands ot men hitherto exempted liable to early summons for mili tary service. These steps were taken as Dome! quoted well-informed Jap anese circles as saying that re vision of the U. S. neutrality law tonTynthtlant , . in the Pacific." NAILS NEEDED Chicago. Nov. 14. & Con cerned about restrictions on building materials, directors of the National Lumber Manufac - turers association asked the gov- emment today to make enough nails available for "ordinary i construction requirementa." i for Rapprochement MIRY DELAYS FINAL ACTION ON NEUTRALITY ACT Washington, Nov. 14. W American merchantmen regained complete freedom of the seas today by act of congress, and with it the right to mount guns and shoot if attacked. The house finished the legis lative Job yesterday by scrap ping the neutrality act amend ments which since 1939 have prohibited American shipping from entering the combat zones or belligerent harbors. The vote, 212 to 194, climaxed the hardest battle yet waged to uphold President Roosevelt's hand In a matter affecting for eign policy. Just as soon as the legislation was approved. Speaker Rayburn quickly affixed his signature. There remained the formality of adding the signature of Vice President Wallace before the measure could go to the White House for the final name: Franklin D. Roosevelt. How ever, an objection by Senator McNary (R Ore ), the minority loader, made it necessary ior Wallace to wait until the sen ate reconvenes Monday before signing. The record showed 189 Demo crats. 22 Republicans and one American-Labor party member voting for the resolution; 53 Democrats, 137 Republicans, one Farm-La borite and three Pro gressives voted against it. Mott, Angell Oppose Repealing Neutrality Washington. Nov. 14. (&) Tl.- W..kl..( miA n...iul k tin 1 1 1 1 1 K LOI 1 " STL to repeal the restrictive clauses of the neutrality bill. They voted: For repeal: Washington Jackson, Leavy and Magnuson; 1 Smith was paired for repeal. Oregon Pierce. Against: Washington Coffee I and Hiil: Oregon. Angell and Mott, Ark Royal HAPPY MUZHIKS ON ALURONTS Crimea Only Critical Situa tionNazis Admit Reds Attacking In Force. By tha Attoclatad Press Russia'i Red armies claimed the most extensive series of victories in the war with Ger many today, covering every ma jor theater from Rostov-on-Don in the far south to the frozen Arctic regions of Murmansk. Only In the Crimea, by Sov iet accounts, was the situation still critical. Before Moscow, the Red arm ies pressing a furious counter- offensive, were reported to have stormed and recaptured 20 villages in the past 24 hours in the Kalinin sector, and Ger man military dispatches admit ted that the Russians were at tacking "in considerable force" with tanksand infantry. Leningrad Lin Broken In the battle of Leningrad, the Soviet radio said Russian troops had broken clear through Nazi siege lines around the old czarist capital, which the Ger mans had aald mi virtually sealed off from tha rest of the U.S.S.B. At Rostov, guarding' the northern approach to the Cau casus, the Russians aald they had routed a motorized division of Hitler's Elite guards. Tha en tire nazi drive in that key sec tor was reported all but stalled. Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported also that tank-led Ger man shock troops ' had been thrown back from the outskirts of Tula, 100 miles south of Mos cow, after a bloody two-weeks battle. "The Germans were here yes terday. Today only their corpses are here," Tasa said. . The news agency said the Ger mans hurled 15 consecutive tank attacks at the little village of Rodezhesny, on the southern outskirts or Tula, and gained a temporary footholde(ore being smashed back with heavy cas ualties. Poverty - Ridden Japs Allowed Few Matches; Wear Fibre Clothing Portland, Nov. 14. (P) Ja pan has become a nation of pov erty, where citizens are limit ed to five matches a day and clothing is made of wood fibre. Robert McClelland told an In terviewer today. McClelland, a resident of Ja pan for 10 years and steamship company representative there until credits were frozen, pre dicted, however, that there would be no revolution In Ja pan because of fanatical loyalty to the emperor and government "If It were this country, there would have been a revolution long ago," because conditions are so bad, McClelland added, Neutrality Reaction (By Associated Press) Bitter reaction exploded In the capitals of the axis alliance today over revision of the Unit ed States neutrality act, with the Germans declaring bluntly IIJ American congress had taken, In Rome, Fascist quarters voiced a similar thema, assert ing that congress' action In per mitting U. S. ships to enter the blockade zones soon would re sult in attacks on those vessels. In Tokyo, Japan's attitude was . expressed by the news agency IDomel, which quoted wtll-ln- Sunk---(This Time CIO GETS REBUFF !l ON CLOSED SHOP President Says Government Will Never Compel Minor ity Workers Join Union. Washington. Nov. 14. (AP) President Roosevelt, asking the CIO United Mine Workers and steel company heads to continue negotiations to avert a strike in the captive coal mines, told them today that "the government will never compel" the minority non-union miners affected by the dispute to Join the union. 'I tell you frankly," he said, "that the government of the United States will not order, nor will congress pass legislation or dering, a so-called closed shop." The union la asking a union shop in the mines, which supply coal to steel mills busy on de fense orders. Such an arrange ment would require that all em ployes become members of the union after a probationary pe riod. . Report Asked The closed shop, in labor par lance, provides that the employer may not hire any man who is not a union member. The president asked the mine union leaders and the steel repre sentatives to give him a report on an agreement to continue pro duction by Monday, or at least a progress report. A spokesman for- tha mine workers announced soon after ward that they would accede to the request for three days of di rect negotiation on the dispute. Mr. Roosevelt told the confer ence that it was the "indisput able obligation" of the president to see that "necessary coal pro duction be continued and not stopped." And, he remarked, II legisla tion became necessary, congress would be asked for It without question. I am telling you this," the president declared, "with abso lutely no element of threat To this conference I am stating a simple fact I hope, therefore, that you will work out some method for the continued produc tion of coal." The UMW spokesman said afterward that "all we have ever wanted la a chance to negotiate directly with the steel people on this question" of the union shop. The direct negotiations be tween steel executives and the UMW chiefs are to be carried on continuously this afternoon, Sat urday, Sunday and probably Monday until the time arrives for a report to the chief execu tive, it was said at the UMW headquarters. BOYFOUND SHOT Eugene, Ore., Nov. 14. P) Leslie Cameron, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cameron, of Upper Camas Swale district west of Creswell, was found dead In the woods near his home Thursday, with a dis charged .22 rifle by his side and a bullet wound in his fore head. He had gone hunting alone the previous af ternoon, and his body was located after an all night search. Revision Brings Bitter in Axis Nation Capitals formed circles as declaring that tha revision "aggravates the sit uation not only In the Atlantic but In the Pacific" and that the stage is set for commence ment of a shooting war." Authorized Berlin quarters charged President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull with duping congress by a false representation of facts, and said that in any case Germany would shoot at American ships carry ing munitions.' British public and press ac claimed tha action aa a step toward fuller American collabo ration in the war. Authoritative quarters said that it would War Bulletins Calcutta. India. Nov. 14. (D Tha Bengal government dlicloted today it was study ing tha problem of evacuating part of tha population of Cal cutta, India's biggait city. In tha event of air attack. Tha city la within range of Japanese bombing planes based on French Indo-Chlna. Rome, Nov. 14 OP) Fierce fighting In several sectors of tha Gondar front, where tha Italians are making a last stand In Ethiopia, was offic ially reported today. Tha high command reported Italian outposts In north Africa were active and that five British planes were lost in air ac tions. There will ba no public wed ding ceremony to highlight the Chrlstmaa opening of Medford stores. This new feature of the an nual Christmas opening celebra tion was definitely shelved at a special meeting of the Medford Merchants association this morn ing because ot numerous pro- testa received from various organizations and Individual "Wo will have a better fea ture to announce in a day or so," -said Ray Baker, chairman of tha merchants' group, after this morning's meeting. Tha Christmas opening Is scheduled for November 28. Plana thus far point to on of the most colorful celebrations lit many yean. U.S. TO WITHDRAW Washington, Nov. 14. (AP) President Roosevelt announced today the United States govern ment had decided to withdraw American marines from Shang hai, Tientsin and Peiping, China. That will take all the Ameri can marines out of China, the chief executive told a press con ference. Nine hundred seventy of them have been stationed In the three cities. The president would not discuss capital specu lation about the withdrawal of these troops being linked with efforts to obtain a better under standing between this country and Japan, He aald ha had no definite plana yet to see Japan's special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, who la flying to the United States to dis cuss the far eastern situation. Asked whether he thought war could be avoided In the Pacific, Mr. Roosevelt aald he certainly hoped so. Portland, Ore., Nov. 4. (AP) The condition of Mai. -Gen George A. White, commander of the 41st division, remained crltl- cal today, physicians at his home at Camp Clackamas reported. He I Is ill with an Intestinal ailment 'refresh and relnvlgorate the will of the British people to fight the war to victory" and that it had removed an obstacle which -Impeded fulfillment of America's determination to play a leading role In the overthrow of HitlerUm." The London Evening News, In typical comment, said It was "one of the great decisions oi the war, a decision whose con sequences tower Into the fu ture. In Ottawa, Canada's Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King hailed It as "tha handwriting on the wall spelling tha doom ot tha axis powers." It's True) OF Ship Limping To Gibraltar When Claimed By Waves Number Lost Unknown La Llnea, Spain. Not. 14. (P) Thirty-two men ara known to hare bean killed and mora than 60 Injured In the lota of the British aircraft ttrrlar Ark Royal, aald re ports reaching this border town Just opposite Gibraltar tonight These reports, from Gibral tar, said tha big warship went down about 4$ miles east of Gibraltar. By the Associated Prats London, Nov 14. Tha three-year-old, $18,000,000 aircraft carrier Ark Royal was tor pedoed late yesterday east of Gibraltar, probably by an Ital ian submarine, and sank early today despite a desperate effort to bring tha listing giant safely to port She carried down with her an undisclosed number of her crew of about 1,800 men who remained aboard in the struggle to . save the ship. . . "A very large number of tha ship's company wai taken off," the admiralty said, and Indica tions were that personnel losses ware "fortunately not heavy." En Rout To Port -The story of tha sinking. pieced together from the ad miralty's brief announcement and word in authoritative quar tera was that tha Ark Royal waa not in action when aha was torpedoed and that she waa en route to Gibraltar. Tha ' strong suggestion waa that an Italian submarine waa the victor, although there waa no positive Identification. Many of the company remain ed aboard after the hit or hit , and helped to keep the Ark Royal afloat. In tow, during tha hours ot darkness as she listed further and further. Many worked to tha very end. She, finally rolled under tha tea short of Gibraltar and safety. Tha loss waa belated fulfill ment of many a German claim, sine tha beginning ot the war. that tha carrier had been sunk. Tha vessel waa under tha command of Capt L. E. H. Maund, but whether the com mander waa among the casual ties was not made public. Third To Be Sunk She waa the third aircraft carrier lost by Britain in tha war and the newest of them alt The other carriers sunk were the 22,800-ton Courageous which waa torpedoed by a U-boat Sep tember 17, 1939, Just two weeks after the outbreak of the war, and her siatershlp, the Glorious, which went down June 8, 1940, off northern Norway in a sea battle with the German battle shlpa Scharnhorst and Gneise nau. They were built in 1918. E Teheran, Iran, Nov. 14 (S p. m.) (AP) The soviet embas sy said this evening that it atill had no news of the plane in which U. S. Ambassador Lau rence A. Stelnhardt, Russian Ambassador Maxim Lltvinoff and about a dozen others are re ported missing en route here from Kuibyshev, Russia. The British legation here re ported that an American woman Journalist Alice Moats, and an American magazine writer, Quentln Reynolds, were among the passengers. London, Nov. 14. (AP The Earl ot Kenmare, 80, fifth holder of the title and owner of estates estimated at 140,000 acrea, died today.
