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4 V Full U at WMtK. Weather TJ"1 Forecast: Fair tonight aud Thurftda with frott toiilfbt and 1o In morning. Temperature HlghMt YMtrrday 49 Low r it this Morning SO Precipitation past 24 hour .00 An Easy Matter Finding a wy to accomplish what you wmnt u an May mat tar If you will uh the Want Ada In Uila newspaper. Fraotl eally a-eryona reads theaa little Ada and usually they are In aearch of aomatblng. Medford Tribune Full Associated Pimi United Praea Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941. NO. 207. mi tm a VIA 1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 19. Mr. Roosevelt's labor peace promo tion outfit (the mediation board) looks like a "S dead elephant. UllUUUKU UUll- uary not Ices have not been posted. Stra n g e I y enough, the p o 1 itical doc tors around the be d s i d e, are not attrib uting her pass ing to the ar- Paul Mallon senlc spread upon the grass around there by John L. Lewis. His poisonous antagonism need not have proved fatal. Rather, it appears Mr. Roose velt and his defense labor coun sel Sidney Hillman decided the time has come for something J new and more effective. F. D. R. stepped out courageously in his tiff with Lewis by announc ing the government will never hereafter use its influence for the closed shop. In the captive coal announcement (with which Mr. Hillman had much to do) the president made clear his ad ministration would not thus play Hitler for Lewis or for any other labor leader. That was right and just, be cause the closed shop delivers the Job of the worker over to the union leader with the right to hire and fire. But it just so happens that the mediation board has at least played some thing like gauleiter for union bosses in some 20 cases. The board has recommended the closed shop in that many instances in the past, and has accepted the theory (more often diplomatically called "union maintenance") in about 20 more strike settlements. As the same closed shop theory is involved in at least 40 per cent of the labor disputes these days, the new government policy will unquestionably cause (Continued on Paga 6U) Radio Highlights By the Associated Press (Editor's note: because of Thanksgiving observance in 33 states, the Wednesday and Thursday columns are combined herewith.) Time Is Pacific Standard Only one football game is on the network schedule for Thurs day. It is that between Virginia .and North Carolina, starting on MBS at 10:45 a. m. Tonight Talks: CBS, 7:15. Herbert Hoover from Chicago on "Shall We Send Armies to Europe?": MBS. 8:15, Rep. Jer ry Voorhis on "An American Peace Offensive Law." CBS 8, Golden Jubilee Bask etball tournament. " Thursday: Thanksgiving fea tures CBS, 6:15 a. m. David Lipscomb College chapel sing ers; MBS, 7:30 a. m.. Bill of Rights Anniversary, Gov. Chas. Edison of N. J. and others; MBS, 8:15 a. -m., Maunder's Song of Thanksgiving. NBC-Blue 5:30. Variety from Quantico Marine base. ' Friday: NBc"Re-2:45, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow on "Brave Women and Fair Men". NBC kBlue 10:15. Cnildren's Thanks "giving Musical party, Leopold Stokowski conducting: 11, Ra dio Demonstration Debate on Military Training; 1, Discus sion of "English Today." MBS 7:30 a. m. (Also NBC-Blue, 7:45), Launching U. S. Battleship In diana. Mexico and U. S. to Settle Old Disputes Washington, Nov. 19. (APV Eduardo Suarez, Mexican minis ter of finance, annour ?d today the Mexican and United States governments have reached agree ments to settle the oil contro ' "r;y and to sign silver, money stabilization, and highway fi nancing agreements. Suarez disclosed these develop aments upon arriving at the treas ury this afternoon to sign the silver and money agreements. vtT)1 111 TrfM E GIVEN LEADERS OF STEEL MEN, UNION Return To Status Quo or Ar bitration of Closed Shop Issue Are Insisted Upon. Washington, Not. 19. VP) John L. Lewis personally ra jectad today President Roose velt's latest suggestions for settling the Captive coal mine strike but said the United Mine Workers could not make a formal reply before a policy committee meeting Saturday. Benjamin F. Fairless of the United States Steel corpora tion sent the White House word. Secretary Stephen Ear ly announced, that his com pany would "accept either of the two alternatives." Washington? Nov7 19. (AP) Fifty thousand United States sol diers are waiting and ready for orders if President Roosevelt de cides to use the army to take over the strike-bound captive coal mines. An adviser to the president said that number about one sol dier to each union miner in the affected pits had been decided on "as adequate to protect liver and property without creating the impression of trying to frighten the workers with a show of force." Washington, Nov. 19. W) President Roosevelt, declaring that work in Captive coal mines must recommence, called UDon steel company and union execu tives today to maintain a status quo on the issue of a "closed rhop" for the period of the na tional emergency or to submit this Issue to arbitration, agree ing to accept in advance any de cision reached. The chief executive laid his alternatives before John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; Benjamin Fair- less, president of United States Steel, Eugene Grace, president of Belhlchem Steel, and Frank Purnell, president of Youngs town Sheet and Tube; in identi cal letters. For Common Cood "For the common good, for the maintenance of defense pro duction. Mr. Roosevelt wrote, "it is imperative that one of these two alternatives be chosen and faithfully performed." The president wrote as sym pathy strikes in commercial coal mines were spreading rapidly during the day. Mr. Roosevelt asked accep tance of one or the other alter native of the steel and union representatives as "patriotic Americans." He mid that n order to open the way further for settlement cf the captive mine dispute he was dong these two things: 1 Informing all coal opera tors who have signed an agree ment with a clcscd shop provis ion and a non-strike penalty clause that they will be expect ed, in the interest of defense, to operate under those agree ments without change. 2 Asking all the operators of Captive mines to reaffirm their assurances, by notice to each cf their employ's, that they are r.ot opposed to union organiza tion or collective bargaining and do not wish to discourage or stand in the way of any employe who chooses to join the United Mine Workers. The president made his new est attempt to end strikes In the coal mines supplying fuel for vital steel production after he had declared yesterday that Lewis had submitted an invalid araument in declaring that the 'union shop provided by the Ap jpalach;nn agreement with com tnercial coal mines would be I abrogated if the union shop were I not granted in captive mines. 'The union shop issue has been ' the h-art of t!ie Captive mine controversy. Detroit. Nov. 19 The congress of industrial organiza- inn- InHnv harked the stand of its reuresentatives who resigred from the national defense medi Minn board in the current Cap- jtive cool mines dispute. OHenwald 2 . V.-L-llZ . Members of the crew of the German ship Odenwald, cap tured in the Atlantic flying the U. S. flag, attempt to flee the ship as a boarding party (foreground) from a U. S. cruiser ap proaches. As the boarding party reached the side of the ship there were two explosions and the crew said it would sink In 20 or 30 minutes. This official navy picture was made by mem ber of the boarding party. By wire and air mall to Mail Tribune) Aged WeyganiWalks Alone-;- As Vichy Rumors Fly Fast Vichy, Unoccupied France, Nov. 19 UP) General Maximo Weygand, who commanded France's last wartime army, walked along the banks of the Allier at dusk tonight, slowly and alone, after conferences with Marshal Petain which may determine France's fate and perhaps his own. Even as he walked with his hands clasped behind his back, accompanied not even by his faithful aide, Major Gasser, ru mors spread through Vichy that he would step down from his post as Petain's proconsul in Africa. ' This rumor was followed swiftly by another that, after three days of conferences with the aged marshal, Weygand al ready had resigned, but had re considered and might accept a compromise. Official circles refused either to confirm or deny reports that his authority in North Africa had been curtailed. There were Indications that an official an nouncement to clarify the situa tion might be forthcoming to morrow. U. S. Ambessador William D. Leahy also conferred urgently with Petain and remained at the embassy several hours after his usual time. It was said he was drafting a confidential report to President Roosevelt and Secre tary of State Cordell Hull on the situation. THIEF KILLS CALF IN BEALUS BARN A thief entered the barn of Vinton Beall of the Central Point district last night, killed a three-months-old calf and hauled !t away, apparently in a car. Beall discovered his loss when he went to the barn this morning -and reported .to. the fheriff's office. The sheriff also Is Investiga ting two other theft cases . re ported from the rural areas re cently. . . VISIT DEFENSE TRAIN Spokane, Nov. 19. (AP) Manufacturers of eastern- Wash ington and northern Idaho had a look today at a broad cross section of Uncle Sam's defense needs in the red, white and blue defense special train which stop ped here on its tour of the west. There is a shortage of golf balls in Germany, the depart ment of commerce says. Crew Flees No Army Expansion Implied in Request For Added Finances Washington, Nov. 19. (AP) Members of a house appropria tions sub-committee said they were assured today that Presi dent Roosevelt s request for 6 687,000,000 for the army did not imply the formation of another American expeditionary force. Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, the committee's first witness, was quoted as say ing also that no major expansion of the army was involved. He explained that the $437,820,000 sought for construction at mili tary posts was principally for the projected expansion of the army air corps from 54 to 84 groups, which will mean the addition of approximately 150,000 men. Hank Greenberg Oat Of Army Nexl Week Custer, Mich., Nov. 19 (P) Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tigers well-paid outfielder, will be discharged from the U. S. army Monday, fifth division of ficers announced today. Greenberg, who has worked himself up to the rank of ser geant since he was Inducted May 7, is eligible for release under the war department ruling pro viding for discharge of selectees 2a years old or over. SIDE GLANCES . BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bill Laird driving to Klamath Falls to get a fast train to Port land and upon his return dis covering his car keys were in the pants he had left behind In his Portland hotel. Councilman Tom Bradley fin ally coming through with a com mittee report and thus causing so much commotion that Re corder Mose Alford could not figure it all out. Trapped. Jazis Dealt Hard Blow 5 ON S. P. FREIGHT CHOKE TO DEATH IN TUNNEL FUMES 96 Car Train Stalls In Long Tunnel Near Van Nuys Long Delay In i Rescue. Van Nuys, Calif., Nov. 19. UP) Five persons, including the engineer and two firemen of a 96-car freight train, were found suffocated today in a 7,000-foot long tunnel where for 11 hours smoke and deadly fumes had barred rescuers. Two unidentified men, be lieved to have been riding the rods, were found beside the tracks after the train, the huge locomotive still ablaze, was pulled from the Hasson tunnel near Chatsworth. Smoke and deadly coal gas turned back attempted rescuers for several hours, and giant wind machines from movie studias finally were pressed into service. The train stalled, the South ern Pacific railroad announced. when a coupling broke soon af ter it had entered the tunnel. This automatically set all the air brakes. Five crew members riding in the caboose mad futile at tempt to reach the engine, where others were trapped, but were beaten back. Four were treated for partial asphyxiation. Ten carloads of cattle. Im mediately behind the engine, were believed. t have perished. The other 4L. loaded cars con. talned varied -merchandise. Listed by the Southern- Paci fic as missing were Engineer John Dunne, Fireman S. E. Snod grass and Brakeman G. E. Baker. Firemen said it was doubtful if any survived. LESSONJNTYPING San Diego, Calif., Nov. 19 UP) The condescending smile of an instructor changed to amaze ment today when Private Wil liam D. Cottrell, Camp Callan rookie, sat down to the type writer. Cottrell reported to Sgt. Ma J. Bob Hanley for a clerical test as an army clerk. Cottrell made the typewriter smoke. Cottrell in civilian life was a typewriter Instructor at the Hollywood high school. The 120 words a minute Cottrell made in the test was record for the Camp Callan schooL Camp officers reported that in addition to his proficiency In typing, Cottrell also was an ex cellent dramatic coach and had been assigned to direct one-act plays for Callan's talent shows. For six summers he coached and managed the Oregon State Shakespearian festival in Med ford, Ore., and also served as a dramatic Instructor at Holly wood high school. Private WMiamD. Cottrell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Cottrell of Phoenix. He was graduated from Phoenix high school and attended University of Oregon, Southern Oregon College of Education and the Cornish Dramatic School in Seattle. Railroads and Labor Agree to Try Again Washington, . Nov. 19 W) Representatives of the railroads and of railway labor acceded to day to a suggestion by Presi dent Roosevelt that they confer here Friday In another effort to avert a threatened strike on the rail lines. The president made that pro posal at his second conference of the day with railway executives, union officials and Interested representatives, of the govern ment 15-WTEZONESirwarBuiic ALLEY ENTRANCES City Council Acts To Give Brief Mid Block Parking Privilege On Streets. To remove all excuse for park ing in alleys, the city council last night approved a plan of the public safety committee provid ing for 15-mlnute parking of cars on certain downtown streets at the entrance to alleys. In most of the places specified In a resolution adopted by the council, parking for 15 minutes was provided for 20 feet on each side of the designated alley. Ap propriate signs are to be erected to mark the 15-mlnute parking spots. The one-hour parking limitation continues as at pre sent along the rest of the down town streets. To Prevent Blocking The space on each side of the alleys was chosen, it was ex plained by Councilman Clarence A. Meeker, chairman of the pub lic safety committee, so that the cars would not get blocked in but could move in and out quickly. In submitting the report, Mr. Meeker said that a careful study by the public safety committee had shown that most persons violating the city's traffic regula tions' by parking in alleys had only brief business to transact at banks or stores and used the al leys when they could find no other place to park. Their ex cuse has been that they did not park in the alley more than few minutes, Mr. Meeker said. With provision made for 15 mlnute parking for persons hav ing only brief business to trans act, the last excuse for parking in alleys would be eliminated, Mr. Meeker asserted. He said his committee had been Informed that most drivers abide by the rules on parking limitations and he felt certain the public would cooperate in the latest move to aid everyone. Accommodate More If the 15-mlnute rule is fol lowed faithfully, It will permit the parking of 700 more cars daily than at present, Mr. Meeker said. The committee's report indi cated that determined police ac tion will quickly "clean out" the 'habitual alley parkers after the 15-mlnute parking arrange ments have been Completed by the erection of . the necessary signs. ARMED MERCHANTMEN - READY IN TEN DAYS Washington, Nov. 19. (APV Secretary Knox said today that armed American merchantmen would be sailing the North At lantic within a week or ten days, Knox also told his press con ference that he expected that as a result of modification of the neutrality act American-owned merchant vessels which have been operating under Panaman lan registry would be restored to the United States flag prompt ly, although he declared that he did not know of any official action to that end. Japanese Should Halt Aggression If Peace Wanted, Asserts Pepper Washington, Nov. 19. W Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) said to day that Saburo Kurusu, Jap an's special envoy, should know that "if war In the Pacific Is the price of resisting the Japanese rampage then war will have to come." "If they want peace, let them stop their aggression; let them get out of China. America will not acquiesce in any so-called 'new order which is built of the bones and washed of the blood of Innocent victims.". Washington, Nov. 19 (Ph Conferences with Dutch and Cairo, Not. 19 W) The British Imperial army In Africa began a general ad vance Into Libya yesterday oa a 140-mile front and had pen etrated 50 miles Into axis-held territory, it was announced officially tonight; CHURCHES OF CITY INJOINTSERVICE THANKSGIVING DAY Union Thanksgiving services sponsored by the Medford Min isterial association will be held In the First Christian church at Ninth and Oakdale from 10:30 to 11:30 Thursday morning. All In the community are invited to attend. The following program will be presented: The president s Thanksgiving proclamation, R. W. Coleman, president of Ministerial associa tion and host pastor. Hymn: ."Faith of Our Fathers." Scripture reading: T. O. Sat- terfleld, pastor, Church of God. Prayer of Thanksgiving: Fred M.' Weatherford, pastor, First Church of the Nazarene. Offertory statement: Adj. Chas. Cox. Salvation army. . Offertory hymn by choir of First Christian church, "Ameri ca, the Beautiful." Anthem: "Rejoice and Sing," Snelllng. Thanksgiving message: Thou Crownest the Year with Good ness," Louis C. Klrby, pastor, Methodist church. Closing hymn: "America. Benediction: Leonard Weston, pastor, Full Gospel church. The offering taken at this service will go to the Jackson county Tuberculosis association. All members of the Medford Ministerial association are re quested to come to the church office not later than 10:29. -BRITAIN'S FOES London, Nov. 19, (IP) For eign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons to day that Britain already was taking "military and naval ac tion" against Finland, Rumania and Hungary, which have sent their troops to assist Germany's Invasion of Russia. His statement, in reply to question whether Britain con sidered the three as enemies be cause of their participation in the fight against Russia, was: 'Military and naval action Is, of course, taking place against these countries. JAPAN HAS QUAKE Tokyo, Nov. 19 () Three persons were killed and 30 In jured today by an earthquake In the Kyushu and Shlkoku dis tricts of southwestern Japan, Dome! reported. Football Scores Final: Johns Swarlhmore 8. Hopkins 0; Australian ministers, whose countries have a vital interest in Far Eastern developments, oc cupied the state department to day amid a lull In the Japanese American discussions. . Dr. A. Loudon, the Dutch minister, conferred with both Secretary of State Hull and Un dersecretary Welles, and was re ported to have received from Ihem Information on the char acter of the Ulks which have been held between Admiral Kl chlsaburo Nomura, the Japan ese ambassador, and Saburo Ku rusu, special Japanese envoy, with Hull ,T CLAIMED TAKEN IN ROSTOV AREA German Advance Renewed Says High Command Bombers Rake Moscow, (By the Associated Press) Russia's Ukraine armies were reported today to have inflicted a crushing defeat on German troops caught in a trap near Novocherkassk, 23 miles north east of Rostov-on-Don, while tho German high command declared that axis invasion forces had opened a new big-scale offen sive. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said the Germans lost thousands of men, 13 tanks, 273 trucks and many guns In the Novocherkassk battle. Say Nails Stopped The Nazi drive in that sector has been stopped, Tass added. A German communique pic tured the Nazi armies as lunging forward once more, executing; hew and successful" attacks. but the Russians said they had smashed attempts to pierce Soviet lines on the north anchor of the 200-mile Moscow defense) . arc as well as in the Ukraine. A Nazi military spokesman said German bombers raked both Moscow and Leningrad during the night and left spread lng fires in the red capital. .- - A bulletin from the fuehrer's) headquarters reported that 10 000 Russian prisoners had been captured and 171 tanks destroy ed during the past three days. but it gave no details of the new push. . Soviet front-line dispatches said two German Infantry regi ments, supported by tanks and armored cars, had been driven oft with bloody losses in repeat ed attempts to storm across the upper Volga river in the Kalinin sector, 95 miles north of Mos cow, and the red army command gave this general summary of the nearly five-months-old strug gle: "Our troops are beating oft the enemy attacks and destroy ing equipment and annihilating the manpower of the Germans." On the southern (Ukraine) front, the Russians said Marshal Semean Tlmoshenko's forces had recaptured a number of vil lages and advanced from four to 12 miles presumably in the) fiercely-contested battle sector around Rostov-on-Don. Soviet accounts declared that Field Marshal Ewald von Klelst's southern armies were) suffering severe casualties In attempts to make "rapid gains" in the Donets river basin. Sevastopol Bl'sted In the Crimea campaign, the German high command said Nazi bombers violently attacked Russia's great Black sea naval base at Sevastopol, blasting docks, munitions dumps and ship in the harbor, but there was still no Indication of di rect land assault against the) stronghold. The British radio said Russian troops in the Kerch sector had been "safely evacuated to the) Caucasus, along with their com plete equipment and war ma terial." Officially, Russia has not yet recognized the German claim to the capture of Kerch, but the) Moscow radio acknowledged that axis invasion forces esti mated at 90,000 troops had cracked Kerch's defenses "at a cost of colossal losses." I ' TRAIN KILLS TRUCKER r Pendleton, Ore., Nov. 19 VP) Ulrlch Kaufman, 59, wu Instantly killed here today when his pick-up truck was struck by an east bound Union Paclflsj freight train and dragged twl and a half blocks. . In order to permit Mall Tri bune employes to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday Thurs day's edition will go to press t 12 80 p. m. i
