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United Press
Thirty-sixth Year
1EDF0RD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1941.
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From Washington
ll-A- Year-Men
Due For Probing
War Order Going
To Few Concern
Small Industrie
Left To Starve
Br John W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, Nov. 18.
There is a group in the house
of representatives whose leader
Is Rep. John Coffee of Washing
ton, new dealer, that Is highly
excited over the $l-a-year men
and wants to investigate them.
Cooperating with the so-called
liberal bloc Is the People's
lobby, which so far as is ap
parent consists of one man, who
is digging up the names of the
$ lay ear men and showing
their connection with big busj
. ness.
' At the other end of the cap
ital is the Truman committee,
charged with an investigation
of national defense. The Tru
man committee also has its eye
on the $l-a-year men and some
of the WOC (without compen
aatlon) group, such as Bill Knud
sen and Sidney Hillman and in
tends prodding their activities.
BRIEFLY, some 92 big com
panies have captured about 75
percent of all the war orders,
and of the 92 there are a half
dozen of the largest concerns In
the United States. These 92 out
fits are represented in Washing
ton by key men who have been
summoned to give advice on
their particular activity: steel,
autos, ammunition, power, met
als, etc. The Sl-a-year men are
till on the payroll of their re
spective companies, some draw-
lng $30,000 a year and $1 from
the government if they remain
12 months.
Th WOC group do not re
ceive 1, but Sidney Hillman
continues drawing his high sal
ary from his clothing makers'
union, but is said now to re
ceive no compensation for being
vice president of CIO. Mr.
Knudsen is "on his own," hav
ing surrendered a salary of
some $100,000 a year when he
.Coottnued on Pe Elgbi) .
WEATHER
Northern California: Fair to
night and Wednesday; heavy
frosts in the valleys tonight
with freezing In low places;
light northerly wind off coast.
Br tha Associated Press
(Time is Pacific Standard)
- Tonight, the war 9:15, MBS;
8:55, CBS; 6:15, MBS; 7:30,
NBC-Blue; 7:45, CBS; 8, MBS;
8:30, MBS; 0, NBC, CBS.
CBS 7:30, Wendell Willkie
on "A Better Understanding for
Labor."
NBC-Blue 8:05, National
Municipal League dinner. Am
bassador Winant from Londan.
Wednesday, the war 8 MBS;
9, MBS; 10:45, NBC; 11, MBS;
12, MBS: 12.55. CBS. MBS; 1:45
CBS, MBS; 1:55, NBC-Blue; 3,
CBS, MBS; 3:25, NBC-Red; 3:45,
CBS, NBC-Blue.
Short Waves: RNE, Moscow,
8:45, News; HVJ, Vatican City,
4:30, News and comment; GSC,
kCSD, London, 8:15, In The The
'ater; DJD, DXP, Berlin, 7:30,
Comment.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
John Cupp trying to dodge
what he thought was at least a
20-pound goose he shot overhead
from a bluff, the bird finally
biffing him on the shoulder and
bowling him down 50 feet of
the slope, the thing turning out
to be only a four-pound cacklrr.
Leo Williams having a fear
fully busy time as practically
all his customers got auto anti
freeze conscious at the same
Harold "Rickey" Relchsteln
helping "wifie'" Ruth celebrate j
her birthday, j
0 Radio Highlights
CONVENTION TOLD
OF
NAT10NAT STAKE
People and Government De
termined To Have Muni
tions Without Interruption
Detroit, Nov. 18. tf") The
CIO's national convention ex
tended "all out" endorsement
of President Roosevelt's aid
to Britain policy in a resolu
tion today after four hours of
discussion.
Washington, Nov. 18. IP)
Disorders, including the shoot
ing of two men, broke out at
strike-affected captive coal
mines in West Virginia and
Pennsylvania today as President
Roosevelt was reported ready to
exert the full powers of the
government to get production
resumed. ,
Pittsburgh, Nov 18 (Of
ficial of the Carnegie-Illinois
Steel corporation announced to
day that "it probably will De
necessary to stop operations of
six blast furnaces "within the
next 48 hours because of Im
pending coal shortages.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 18. (AP)
President Roosevelt called
upon the CIO today to cooperate
In the production of arms "with
out delay and without interrup
tion." In a message to the CIO's an
nual convention, the chief execu
tive said:
"We need guns, tanks, planes
and ships and we must produce
guns, tanks, planes and ships
without delay and without inter
ruption, and the American peo
ple and their government are de
termined that we shall have
them."
Has Confidence
'1 have every confidence that
your members, recognizing the
imperative needs of the Ameri
can people in the interest of
American defense will cooperate
with all other American groups
ir. the common and the patriotic
interest. Americans will demand
such a contribution from labor
and from all other groups for
the preservation of home, fam
ily, religion and nation."
Mr. Roosevelt also called for
the reestablishment of peace in
the ranks of organized labor as
a patriotic step of great import
ance in creating national unity.
The president's message was
read to the delegates by CIO
President Philip Murray and
evoked applause. Murray prom
ised that an "appropriate reply"
would be forthcoming later.
Earlier, the delegates cheered
a call for formal endorsement of
President Roosevelt's foreign
policy, a denunciation of Charles
A. Lindbergh and a plea for ex
tension of all possible aid and
cooperation to Hitler's enemies.
PRITCHETTSABLE
TO
E
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Pritchett and their daughter,
Frances, all of whom were in
jured in an automobile accident
near klamath Falls the night
of November 8, were brought
back to Medford from the
Klamath Valley hospital Sun
day and were reported today
as making satisfactory recov
eries. Mr. Pritchett, manager of the
Western Supply company here,
suffered a broken right collar
bone, two broken ribs, broken
nose and a punctured lung. Mrs
Pritchett sustained a bad cut
on her neck and Frances suf
fered a cut on her knee. Another
daughter, Dolores, was unin
jured. Clydeside Workers
Want Higher Wages
Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 18.
UP) Thousands of Clydeside
shipbuilding workers stopped
work at 4:30 p. m. (7:30 a. m.
PST) today in a 30-minute "to
ken" strike protesting a delay
in negotiations for a $2 a week
wage Increase.
Kurusu Greeted on Capital Arrival
YJ ' V f f'y V
of L
c 11 ILSU
Joseph W. Ballantine (center),
to greet Saburo Kurusu (riant)
ences on U. 8. -Japanese relations. At left is Admiral Kichisaburo
to the U. S.
Special Japanese Envoy
Home Officials More
ASKED TO JOIN
A delegation of Del Norte
county, Cal citizens, headed by
John W. Chllds of Crescent
City, called upon the county
court yesterday afternoon, and
asked that Jackson county adopt
a resolution, "seceding" from
Oregon, and Joining with the
California border counties, and
form a new state. Coos and
Curry counties were also rep
resented. , .
County Judge J. B. (BUn)
Coleman informed the group.) "I
am not prepared at this time
to make any decision on the
matter." The delegation was to
make the same request today
to Siskiyou and Modoc counties
in California. Siskiyou county
will approve the plan In an an
nouncement planned for today,
it was asserted.
"It's purely an advertising
stunt, and such is frankly ad
mitted," Judge Coleman said
"Curry county, by its recent se
cession threat gained nation
wide publicity. The delegation
told me as a result of the pub
licity, they had received many
inquries about their mineral and
timber wealth. The coast coun
ties want some attention along
the same lines and are asking
four or five Oregon counties,
and the same number of Cali
fornia counties to Join them. I
told them this county would de
lay Joining in the stunt."
E
Washington, Nov. 18. (JP) A
White House conference called
in the hope of averting a strike
which would paralyze the na
tion's railroads, broke up today
with both rail executives and
labor representatives declaring
no conclusions were reached.
They added they would see
President Roosevelt again to
morrow.
While discussions will con
tinue, Alvaney Johnston, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers, said that
orders for a strike on Decern
ber 7 still stood. .
Gaston, Ore., Nov. 18. OP)
A falling snag killed Ernest Ros-
coe Staley, 29, logger, near here
yesterday
far-eastern expert of the U. 8. State Department, stepped forward
when the soeeialJananeia in
Washington, Nov. 18. () The Japanese ambassador talked
for two hours and 45 minutes with Secretary of State Hull
today and told reporters afterwards he waa "still hopeful" of
reaching an understanding on Japanese-American difficulties. '
The ambassador, Kichisaburo i
Nomura, voiced an optimistic
view before the conference be
gan and when he and the special
Japanese emissary, Saburo Ku
rusu, emerged from the secre
tary's office after the lengthy
conversation his first positive
statement was a repetition of
this confidence that tha pros
pects were hopeful.
Arriving at the state depart
ment at 10:30 o'clock with Ja
pan's special emissary, Saburo
Kurusu, for a conference with
Secretary Hull, Nomura asked
waiting reporters:
"Why are the newspapers
here all so gloomyT We are
very hopeful."
With a smile the ambassador
added:
"You Americans are always
in a fighting mood. Why are
you so war-minded?"
When a reporter suggested
that the newspapers in Tokyo
today did not sound exactly,
peace-minded Nomura laughed.
Tokyo, Nov. 18. () "The
Japanese army Is prepared for
any eventuality," declared Pre
mier Gen. Hidekl Tojo today.
Admiral Shigotaro Shimada,
navy , minister, likewise de
clared, 'The navy has com
pleted all preparations to meet
any change In the situation. '
These government declara
tions were made In the diet In
answer to Interpellations of Ya-.
danji Nakaji, who asked what
the army and navy thought
about floating mines In the
Japan sea.
Nachrlchten Sold
To Weekly Chain
Portland, Ore., Nov. 18. (IP)
Nachrlchten, which Berlin
claimed as a mouthpiece in
1937, ceased publication as a
Portland German-1 a n g u a g e
newspaper yesterday.
The newspaper, which the
German Auslands Institut said
was one of Its 37 foreign pub
lications, was sold to National
Weeklies of Winona, Minn.
The newspaper In a front
page announcement blamed "the
new hate campaign" for its in
ability to continue.
Canadian Wheat
Sold to Britain
London, Nov, 18. P Bri
tain has purchased 120.000.000
bushels of wheat from the Can
adian wheat board, the ministry
of food announced today.
The huge transaction, design
ed to supplement stocks deplet
ed by shipments to Russia, fol
lows another of similar size In
May which then was described
as history's lariut ainala Dur-
' chase.
arrived In Wiihlmrton In, ntn.
Nomura, Japanese ambassador
Hopeful;
Belligerent
Ringling Worker Held
As Poisoner of Herd
Of Valued Elephants
St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 18.
WV-A train crew employe of
the Ringling Brothers and Bar
r.um St Bailey circus Is under
arrest here in connection with
the poison deaths of 11 circus
elephants, valued at $129,000.
Detective Chief John C. Siers
said the man, listed as E. B.
Michael of Graettinger, Iowa,
was held on an open charge for
investigation pending arrival of
a warrant from Charlotte, N. C.
Detective Chief Frank Little-
John of Charlotte asserted there
the warrant charged Michael
with poisoning 10 elephants on
or about November 3, when the
circus played In Charlotte.
Chief Siers said O'Dell Grif
fle, 40, and Claude Bolick, 29.
both of Gastonia, N. C. Identi
fied Michael on the circus lot
here yesterday as the man they
saw giving four large capsules
to one of the elephants ' In
Charlotte while the keeper was
asleep. .
NAZI FLYING ACE
Berlin. Nov. 18. (JP Col
Gen. Ernst Udet, 49, German
flying ace of the World war and
quartermaster general of the
nazl air force In this war, was
killed In an accident yesterday
while testing "a new weapon,"
it was announced.,today.
Adolf Hitler, who had named
German pursuit squadron No. S
for him In recognition of his
achievements, ordered a state
funeral In his honor.
Udet visited the United States
in 1931 to participate in national
air races in Cleveland. While
there he met Walter B. Wana
maker, of Columbus, Ohio,
whom he had pulled out of the
wreckage of an American plane
he shot down In 1918.
MURDER TRIAL
Portland. Nov. 18. tP) The
trial of William E. Wallace, 94,
on a charge of murder growing
out of the death of Ben Flnkel,
32, on Aug. 8, opened in circuit
court ' here today. Flnkel was
shot while seated in his car on
9. W. Park Avenue, following
an argument. Wallace was ar
rested and charged with the
crime after a chase in tha busi
ness district
;T? &zis Flee in Underwear
Before
'COUNT' BANDIT
LOOTJHNIALL
Graver's Dairy Products
Manager Held Up; Forced
To Floor and Count to 50.
Medford had another armed
stickup last night Its third in
three weeks and this time the
victim was Frank R. Pasmore,
manager of Graver's Dairy Pro
ducts, 90 West Sixth street.
The bandit obtained only a
small amount of money.
Pasmore told city police that
he was working In the cream
ery and looked up to see a man
standing in the doorway point
ing a long-barrel small-bore re
volver at him. The gunman,
Pasmore explained, then order
ed him into the office and
forced him to take the money
out of the cash register and
hand it over.
Given "Count" Order
After the bandit pocketed the
cash, he forced Pasmore to lie
flat on the floor and told him
to count to "50" before gating
up. Pasmore told police he
counted to "40," then dialed
the operator who notified po
lice. The robbery occurred about
8 o'clock.
The gunman was described by
the victim as being about 39
years old, five feet nine Inches
tall, weighing 199 pounds, with
a fair complexion and a thin
drawn face, and wearing a
brown felt hat, a dark suit coat,
dark trousers and possibly cow
boy boots. Pasmore told police
the man walked like a cowboy
The holdup was the second
"Job" pulled at Grover'a In the
past two months. On September
20 burglars entered the build
ing and carried off a 900-pound
safe containing $100 in cash.
The sa'fe has never been found.
Decrlptioas Jibe
Police believe the bandit may
be the same one that held up
T. L. Goodwin, Medford man
ager of Lost River Dairy, on
October 31 and escaped with
between $75 and $100. Their
descriptions are somewhat sim
ilar. The other recent holdup
occurred October 27, the victim
being Fred Underwood, pro
prietor of the Texaco service
station at 529 East Main street.
The gunman obtained $40.51.
ENGINEER BURIED
Portland, Nov. 18 ) Fu
neral services for Joseph G. Kel
ler, 77, civil engineer who died
here Friday, were set for this
afternoon. More than 40 years
ago Kelley surveyed the channel
of the Columbia river from Its
mouth to St. Helens.
Grange Asks Immediate Ban
On Strikes Against Defense
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 18.
(Pi The National Grange today
called upon congress to take im
mediate steps "to prevent ana
prohibit all strikes which would
retard progress of defense In
dustries."
A resolution urging such ac
tion, adopted by a unanimous
vote of the 73 voting delegates
from 37 states attending the
farm organization's annual con
vention, declared strikes In de
fense industries to be "detri
mental to tha national welfare
and to be "undermining public
morale."
Copies of the resolution were
sent President Roosevelt and to
Vice Pusident Wallace and
Speaker Rayburn, presiding of
ficers of the senate and house,
respectively.
- Ralph W. Smith, of Newton,
Iowa, chairman of a convention
committee which sponsored the
resolution, declared.
"It is time for the nation to
Russians
War Bulletins I
Moscow, Wednesday. Nov.
19. (P) The Germans have
thrown six Infantry divisions
aided by a "considerable su
periority In planes and tanks."
Into an offensive on the Kerch
peninsula opposite the west
ern Caucasus, the Moscow
radio announced today.
Folkestone, England. Nov.
18. P Strong RAF forma
tions roared out high across
the English channel today to
attack targets in German-held
northern France. All morning
the sky above the strait waa
criss-crossed by vapor trails.
Rome, Nov. 18 (IP) Waves
of British plane bombed
Neples again last night, caus
ing damage which officials
said was "not serious." Twenty-eight
persons were reported
killed and 40 Injured.
T
EOR HIGHER PAY
Ashland, Nov. 18. W Gov
ernor Spragua approved teach
ers' efforts to obtain higher
salaries in a talk here today.
He told teachers from four
southern Oregon counties at
tending an Institute on the
Southern Oregon College of
Education camnua that low sal
aries lessen tha attractiveness
of the teaching profession and
result In few students attending
education colleges.
Three malor oblectlvet for
Oregon schools were listed by
him as more consolidation, long
er school terms and equalization
of taxes with increase in state
support.
The governor said Oregon was
thirty-fourth among the states
In number of school days an
nually.
flrtnti PlH Nav. 18 4JP)
Governor Charles A. Sprague
called here Monnay nigni ior
others to Join him in a united
atanri hehlnd President Roose
velt in the president's policy of
keeping defense pruaucuon roil
ing and preserving the right of
minorities to work.
He spoke on the 184th anni
versary of signing the articles of
confederation.
SPITFIRES DOWNED
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
Nov. 18. (JPh-The Paris radio
asserted that two British Spit
fire planes were shot down by
German anti-aircraft guns while
machine gunning passenger
train today.
Sydney, Australia, Nov. 18.
(JPh-John Christian Watson, 74.
first labor prime minister (1904)
of Australia, died today.
realize that every hour lost In
production of defense materials
heightens the possibility, in fact
the probability, of American
lives being lost on the battle
field.'
The Impending railroad strike.
which would seriously affect
shipment of farm products as
well as defense materials, and
tha walkout of the United Mine
Workers of America In the "cap
tive" coal mines were said by
delegates to have brought farm
ers to the conclusion that anti
strike legislation was necessary.
The Grange, through Louis J.
Taber, Its retiring master, chal
lenged labor. Industry and fi
nance to Join agriculture In a
program of unlimited produc
tion. "Agriculture urges," Taber
said, "that so long as our free
dom Is In danger, we stop the
struggle for priccj, wages and
profits, and think first of pat
riotism and the land we love.'
at Tula
HITLERITES RUN
IN BITTER COLD
Many of Invading Soldiers
Wear Women's Fur Cloth
ing, Other Makeshifts.
By the Associated Press
Official Soviet dispatches re
ported today the Germans had
been thrown back eight miles
by Red army counter-attacks at
Tula, 100 miles south of Mos
cow, and that the surprised
nazis "ran, and ran, and ran"
through the bitter cold in their
underwear in a "panic-stricken
rout."
Coincidental, authoritative.
London quarters said many Ger
man soldiers fighting on the
snow-bound Russian front were
"rigged out with women's fur
clothing and other makeshifts.'
Taken by surprise by a Soviet
artillery bombardment at dawn.
the agency said, German in
fantry housed in the outskirts
of the city threw away their
weapons as they fled "but our
cavalry caught up with the fas
cists ... running down tha
frosty streets in their under
wear ..."
Tass said German officers
fired in a vain attempt to halt
their troops.
The source aald very few Ger
mans were properly equipped
for fighting In the Russian win
ter.
Leningrad Successes
On tha Leningrad front, the
Russians claimed further suc
cesses against nazl siege armies
around the old czarist capital,
declaring Soviet troops had cap
tured positions held by the Ger
mans for two months and that
they were still advancing along
the left bank of the river "N"
presumably the Neva river.
Just outside Lenlngrsd.
Tass, tha Russian news
agency, gave a graphic descrip
tion of the nazl rout at Tula.
In the Crimea campaign.
Adolf Hitler's field headquart
ers reported that German com
bat and dive-bomber planes
dealt "devastating blows" to
fortifications and port faculties
at Sevastopol, Russia's great
Black sea naval base, while
nazl Infantrymen were reported
fighting before tha city's outer
defenses.
80 Transports Sank
Nazi front-line dispatches said
80 Russian transports had been
sunk and 89 others damaged in
aerial attacks at Sevastopol,
Kerch and other Crimea ports.
The high command yesterday
reported tha fall of Kerch,
bridgehead to tha Caucasus oil
fields.
On the Ukraine front, a bul
letin from Hitler's headquarters
said axis armies driving Into tha
Donets river industrial basin
had occupied additional terri
tory and that "the enemy was
thrown out of field positions
which some planes stubbornly
defended."
The Red army command said
Russian planes operating on the
southern front destroyed lit
nazl trucks, five armored, ve
hicles and 800 Infantrymen.
Weather and road conditions
In the south were reported im
proving. The Moscow radio said Ger
man attempts to break through
Red army defenses at tha ap
proaches to Rostov-on-Don,
which guards tha northern route
to the Caucasus, had been
driven off with heavy losses.
Salta Csxs&il Crops
Pir.ball Ussasa El
Salem, Nov. 18 VP) The Sa
lem city council, without any
discussion, voted last night to
drep the bill to legalize and
license plnball games tor amuse
ment The measure was opposed by
newspapers, churches, the W. C
T. U. and several other organ
izations.