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United Pru
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1941.
NO. 203.
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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."
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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. (&)
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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.