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Newspaper Page Textruii u a wkmui- Weather jT" rorecait: Partly elona to night and Saturday. Continued cold. Temperature: Cost So Little Tribune FORD Why not torn the dlicarded article! around the homo Into Christmas money. Things joe no lonier need or DM may be Richest ;euerday of value to others. Lear it to the Kant Ait to find the LoMftt thla morning- Precipitation paK 4 hra00 bujrers, Tbey coat ao Ultlo. Full Associated Prou United Pro Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941. NO. 209. mm I? c WU mum wimm MED -.1 I News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Nov. 21. Brit ish officials here are informally (and indiscreetly) suggesting the U. S. send pi lots, ground crews and air force technic ians to the Libyan front. They even want us to take over the whole air cam- U Pa3n there. . "ta This is one iafeJP subject they Paul Mallon should not have brought up. All American officials to whom the idea has been broached ask why the British have not been fighting on that front. The whole mat ter has started a wave of sub official wisecracks for example: "The British have used up the Vast Frenchman and are waiting for the next American." Nothing more than a token of an air squadron is likely to j so to Libya and that will not I go soon. Problem of supply i around the Cape of Good Hope would make a full air expedi tionary force unfeasible. RUMORS imply we already have a military contingent In the Near East; also that our "tourists" are visiting foreign fields of possible future action. They are premature. They have grown no doubt out of the de parture of several official mill tary missions abroad. Ordinance Brigadier General Maxwell is on his war to Cairo to coordin ate plane unloadings and re pairs. Brigadier General Wheeler is at Basra, Persia, un loading point for American sup plies destined to the Russian "Caucasus. Quieter missions may have been slipped in and around Da kar, although this is ' denied. Bathurst, just south of Dakar. Continued on Page Eight) Radio Highlights The Oregon-Washington foot ball game in Seattle Saturday will be broadcast by KUIN, Grants Pass (1340 keys.), start ing at 1:43 p. m. The Oregon State-Montana game in Portland will be broadcast by KEX, Port land (1190 keys.), starting at 1:43. KM ED, Medford, will broadcast the latter portion of the Notre Dame-U. S. C. game in South Bend, Ind., starting k about 12:15, but will not air a Pacific coast contest. By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Stardard) Football for Saturday will total six games, under this sched ule: NBC-blue-east 10:15 a. m. Pennsylvania vs. Cornell; NBC red and CBS 10:45 Ohio State vs. Michigan; NBC-blue-west 11:13 Notre Dame vs. Southern California; MBS 10:45 Fordham vs. St. Mary's, to be followed at about 1:30 by Minnesota vs. Wis consin and then by U. C. L. A. vs. Santa Clara. r,tJl..DIUe :3 &anu liaus paraae in noi.ywooa. uua i Doxing, ren uverun vs. rti Hostak 30 Buffalo variety ' show, NBC-red 8 a. m. Geo. Jesse! )and Sophie Tucker in Lincoln highway; 10 a. m. round table on "U. S. and Its Aims in Peace and War." NBC-blue 9:30 Farm's Union. NAZIS SINK TANKER Berlin, Nov. 21 (AP) Two vessels, including a 4.000-ton' tanker, were sunk by German speedboats from a convoy at an undesignatd spot, a military spokesman said today, SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Gene Thorndike telling what his listeners thought were pretty tall stories about Minnesota and f'.U people. Emit Mohr doing some valiant work for Tom and Jerry. B lose m LIBYTILE British Force Enemy With drawal Climactic En gagement In Progress. Now York, Not. 21 AP) British and German tanks are fighting two miles from the garrison of Tobruk. the British radio, hoard by CBS. reported tonight. Cairo. Nov. 21 The battle of Libya is at its htight and was going "Tory well" for the British this afternoon, military sources said tonight. London, Nov. 21. (JP) Reu- iters, British news agency, said loday it was understood that British and native "patriot" forces are closing in on Gondar and that a continuous stream of refugees was leaving that last Italian stronghold in Ethiopia. I Cairo, Egypt Nov. 21. (JP) British-driven American tanks have crashed head on with strong German armored detach ments in the desert, destroyed 130 German tanks and 33 ar mored cars and forced the en emy to withdraw, a commun ique said. The communique said the bat tle, for which Churchill had asked in demanding the destruc tion of the axis forces, was "joined in earnest" yesterday afternoon. , Two Actions The baitle was composed of two actions, one near Rezegh and another between Rezegh and Omar where the British tackled a concentration of Ger man tanks which had moved south from the Bardia-Gambut area. This fight began November 19 when the Germans lost 28 tanks and the British 20. It Continued ' the next morning and, the British said, the Ger man force finally was driven off in a northeasterly direction af ter losing 34 more tanks. The communique said U. sit uation in the Bir EI Gebl area was not clear except that an Italian armored division origin ally in this area "apparently exerted no influence on the bat tie now proceeding." This was the division attacked and "se verely handled" by British forces November 18, the British added. Tobruk Contact Near Meanwhile British tank form ations were reported steadily making ground northward in a movement west of Omar. British forces may already have made contact with the long-encircled defenders of Tob ruk, it was Indicated unoffic ially. Official sources made no se cret that such contact was the aim of one of two main British columns which started to the west from the Egyptian frontier four days ago, but said they were unable to confirm that the Tobruk garrison actually had A Brlfl.h column declared officially to have start- :ed to by pass Tobruk over the hieh esrarnment to th. annth of the port. Meanwhile, an RAF com munique said "intensive opera tions were carried out in sup port of the land forces .and claimed 24 axis warplanes were shot down yesterday with loss of nine British aircraft. Raiders ranged the airways all the way across Libya, bomb- hig Bardla, Derna, Bengasi and Tripoli as well as Italian Naples, Messina and Bnndisi. Rome, Nov. 21. AP Brit Ish attacks in north and east Africa have been stopped and axis forces, rebounding to the offensive, have infix ted heavy losses in counter attacks, the Italian high command declared today. Italian and German mechan ized forces "firmly sustained new British attacks in LiLya. the communique decla.ed, then "passed to the counter attack and repelled enemy armored formations, destroying numer cus tanks and capturing pris J oners " Promoted fv. : m Ma. Gen. A. E. Nye (above) is the now vice chief of the British imperial staff. Only 45. he is one of the youngest gen erals Britain has known. Up from the ranks, he was elevated to a generalcy only year ago. This picture was cabled from London. NAZIS REPULSED BEFORE MOSCOW London, Nov,- 21. (AP) The Moscow radio said tonight that "a serious situation" had de veloped in the battle for Tula, 100 miles south of Moscow, where the Russians had reported the Germans halted for the past few days. The broadcast said that Soviet troops had tried to avoid a Ger man maneuver southwest of Tula aimed at ringing of that manufacturing city. Moscow added that the de fenders were "mobilizing all forces to smash the attempt to encircle Tula." By the Associated Press London, Nov. 21 A big new German push on the Moscow front, which the Russians de clared was launched last Tues day by strong German forces, -vas declared by the Moscow radio today to have been beaten off in bloody fighting. German losses In men and ma chines were described in the broadcast as "tremendous sacri fices." In at least one place Rus sian counter attacks were said to have dislodged the Germans from their early gains. The Moscow radio broadcast a dispatch by Tass, official Soviet news agency, saying "bloody fighting is now in progress in the central, northern and south ern ' sectors of our defenses where the enemy, having massed large numbers of tanks and mo torized infantry, launched an of fensive on the night of Novem ber 18. Store at Beatty Goes Up In Smoke Klamath Falls. Nov. 21. (JP) Jack Harrison's Sycan general store at Beatty on the Lakevlew highway 33 miles from here was destroyed by fire yesterday. 5 V M Yankees Cultureless Barbarians; Roosevelt a Poor Fool. Says Nazi Berlin, Nov. 21. W) Call ing Americans "cultureless bar barians" and President Roose velt a "poor fool," Dr. Robert Ley, head of the German labor front, told 13,000 laborers from 14 European countries today that unless Europe "finds her self" she will be crushed by America. ' . Gesturing vigorously from the rostrum of Berlin's gaily-decorated Sportspalast, Ley told the foreigners in his audience that they were the' messengers of the new Europe and assured them that "Moscow will fall in one way or another." Peasant women from eastern Europe, muftached workers from the Balkans, rouged young Quit Training Strike ROOSEVELT WAITS LEWIS' REPLY ON PEACEPR0P0SAL President To Take No Action Until Answer Received I n Alternative Action. Washington, Nov. 21. (JPy-r President Roosevelt indicated today that no federal action might be expected in the . cap tive coal mine dispute before he receives a reply tomorrow from John L. Lewis stating the position of the United Mine Workers policy committee on the chief executive's latest ap peal for a settlement. Mr. Roosevelt, had asked lor either maintenance of the status quo on the issue of a "closed shop," as he phrased it, or an agreement to arbitrate with any resulting decision being accept ed in advance. Rejection Seen While Lewis gave a clear cut indication that the appeal would be rejected by the United Mine Workers, Mr. Roosevelt said he did not think there would be any developments in the coal situation until tomorrow. Ten men, three of them say ing they were pickets, . were shot and wounded in a new clash between pickets and non striking miners i n Fayette county, Pa., center of the cap tive mine industry in that state. Three men were wounded there yesterday. Asked at his press conference whether he meant "develop ments on your initiative," Mr. Roosevelt said no, he expected to hear from Lewis and - his policy committee tomorrow and that was what he had meant. Decision Withheld "Have you decided what to do on labor legislation?" a re porter inquired. There is no news on that, the chief executive responded. The new Pennsylvania dis orders came after 50 or 73 car loads of United Mine Workers pickets had driven from nearby Washington county to the vicin ity the H. C. Frick company's Edenborn mine. Volley after volley of shots could be heard. L UNIONISTS TALK Washington, Nov. 21. (JP) Representatives of the railroads and the 19 railroad brother hoods met briefly today to dis cuss the threatened railroad strike but adjourned until fur ther notice without reporting progress. F. G. Gurley, of Chicago, chairman of the western carriers conference committee, told re porters that the group would arrange a future meeting, prob ably tomororw. Meanwhile, he said, the management and union representatives would consider what each side had said. French girls and Norwegians m native costumes were part of the crowd that gathered under banners which proclaimed in 14 languages: "Europe Will Win." Ley lashed at English lords and American capitalists and twice shouted, "Capitalism' has been broken! ... we have chased It across the ocean." This drew great applause. "Until God personally notifies us, we will not believe that we are any less better than the Ens lish," Ley declared, "challeng Ing" American to produce Wagner, Beethoven, Vert or a Puccini. He said Americans should establish 4.000 years of culture before calling Germans and Italians "barbarians.' "The Duchess" Spinelli Ruler of Murder Gang Executed in Gas Room San Quentin, Calif., Nov. 21 (AP) "The Duchess," a hag gard, grim-faced woman who ruled a gang of killers and rob bers, was executed today in the state's gas chamber. She was Evileta Juanita Spl- nelli, 32, the first woman to die by the law in California. - The woman was half carried into the death cell by two guards whom she never seemed to see. Her lips moved in prayer as she stumbled into the room. . There was an electric light Just outside the gas chamber upon which her eyes were fixed constantly, as though she never wanted that light to leave her sight. The execution was delayed as several petitions were filed in her behalf in San Francisco courts. As quickly as they were filed they were denied, but Warden Clinton Duffy delayed the death minute by minute as calls came from each successive court- The gas was turned on at about 10:14 a. m. The duchess was pronounced dead at 10:25 a. m. Constantly she had proclaimed her innocence. About 60 persons witnessed her death. The Duchess was convicted of directing the murder of Robert Sherrard, young, spineless mem ber of her gang who they feared would tell police of previous escapades. Sherrard, only 19, was drug ged with knockout drops before being thrown into the Sacra mento river in April, 1940. JAP VIOLATION OF Tl New York, Nov. 21. (AP The Bangkok press carried re ports today of a violation of the Thailand frontier by planes and troops from Japanese-controlled French Indo-China, the British radio said, quoting a message from Bangkok relaying the re ports. "French planes were mention ed as having been seen recon noiterlng on the northeastern Thai border," the London broad cast went on. "Reports that the Japanese authorities want to use air dromes in eastern Thailand as well as at Bangkok are believed in London to represent Japan's aspirations accurately, but there has been no evidence of any di rect demand on the Thai gov ernment." 3,' Spokane, Nov. 21. (Pi A 'navv gal", in Honolulu, stuck with a Thanksgiving turkey she didn't know how to fix, called her mother here on short wave radio yesterday for the proper instructions. The "gal," Miss Lesley Fra iler, clerk at Pearl Harbor, and her mother, Mrs. E. C. Frazler of Spokane valley, were the principals in the 3.000-mile con versation, aided and probably hindered too, by Brother Philip, home from college for the holl day. Papa Frazier and sundry girl friends in Hawaii, all anx ious to talk to the United States. ' ' "I'm ' sure Lesley understood how to fix the turkey." Mrs. Frazier said after the hour-long talk. "I explained it carefully. ASYLUM GUARD KILLED WITH BUTCHER KNIFE Jamestown, N. D, Nov. 21. (AP) An inmate of the state hospital for the Insane here killed a guard and seriously wounded another Inmate with a butcher knife today and fled. He was recaptured two hours later by a posse. Killed was Adolph Martel, 33. The inmate obtained the knife by breaking Into the dining room and forcing the lock on a chest. He used the guards keys to escape- Breakers, FLETCHER FISH IS SEVERELY BRUISED WHEN HIT BY Fletcher Fish, 83, of Phoenix, well known county resident, suf fered extremely painful but probably not critical injuries about 6 p. m. Thursday when he was struck by an automobile operated by Alvtn Chapman, 21, of route 1, on the Anderson creek road a quarter of a mile south of Phoenix. Mr. Fish sustained an exten sive laceration of the left thigh, a wound his attending physi cian described as "very nasty," multiple lacerations and abra sions, and a sprained right ankle and right wrist. The doctor said he was resting as well as could be expected today, and that he probably wasn't critically hurt. Chapman, in his report of the accident, said that he took his eyes from the road momentarily while driving north on the And erson creek road, and struck the victim Just as the latter started to walk across the road in front of his ranch home. Chapman, who said he didn't see Mr. Fish in time to swerve to avoid the accident, stopped immediately after his car's front fender struck the pedestrian, knocking him to the ground. Chapman helped carry the in jured man into his own home, from where a telephone call brought the Perl ambulance to the scene to remove Mr. Fish to Community hospital. GET RIGHT OF WAY Washington, Nov. 21. (APV The house rules committee voted today to give price control legis lation right-of-way to the house floor Monday and members said the decision followed the Demo cratic leader's agreement to let legislation to curb defense strikes follow. One committeeman said he ex pected "a very early announce ment" on the subject of labor legislation but declined further details. FWA HEAD N S.MED Washington, Nov. 21. (JP) Brigadier General Philip B, Fleming, now wage-hour admin istrator, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be federal works administrator. Fleming would succeed John M, Carmody, who has been nomi nated to membership on the maritime commission. Army Needs Armored Divisions Declares Congressman -Colonel With Army In the Field Nov. 21. -OP) The army needs at least 40 armored and motorized divisions "If we are going to participate In affairs overseas," a congressman-colonel serving in the Carolina maneuvers said today. Col. Charles I. Faddls, IT. S. representative from Pennsyl vania and a member of the house military affairs commit tee, made the statement in an interlew as orders went out for three such divisions to rip again into the advancing first army. "Eighteen months ago I pro posed that wa create 10 armored divisions like the first and sec ond In these maneuvers," said Col. Faddis, temporarily on th CIO Tells Red Casualties Now Ten Million Berlin Asserts Berlin, Nov. 21. (JP) Au thorized German sources said today that 10,000.000 Rus sians had been killed, wound ed or captured in the five months of war with the Sov iet union, ended today. The figure was cited in what they termed a "survey of Hitler's strategy of destruction." The Germans listed 3,792, 060 prisoners. The Germans said that IS, 877 Russian planes had been captured or destroyed, 27,432 tanks destroyed or captured and 27,129 guns seized or smashed. Also listed as de stroyed were 52 Russian war ships, with 59 damaged, and 138 merchant ships sunk and 137 damaged. AIR CORPS EYES WASHINGTON SITES SENATOR IS TOLD Washington, Nov. 21. VP) Sites at Ellensburg, Yakima, Wenntchee, Walla Walla and Pasco are among 84 being con sidered for eight to 15 new urmy air bases, aides of Senator Wallgren D Wash.) said they were Informed today by the war department. Until selections have been made, cost estimates and types of construction cannot be an nounced, the department said. San Francisco, Nov 21 (Spl.) Plans are in preparation for enlarging housing and facilities for approximately 9 3000 addi tional officers and enlisted men at Camp Haan and Camp Cal- lan, it was announced today at the office of the ninth zone con structing quartermaster here. Cost of these additions. If au thorized, are expected to amount to a total of about five million dollars. U. S ENVOY APOLOGIZES FOR . ARTICEL IN 'TIME' Santiago, Chile, Nov. 21. (IP) United States Ambassador Claude Bowers expressed the regret of his government today over an article in the Nov. 17 Latin American issue of Time Magazine referring to circum stances under which President Pedro Agulrre Cerda retired temporarily from office early this month to recover from ill health. GERMANS IN PORTUGAL RETURNING FOR DUTY Lisbon. Nov. 21 (JPyA num ber of Germans under 31 years of age some born in Portugal of Portuguese mothers left for Germany yesterday to Join the army upon orders from Berlin A. L. BARBUR DIES Portland, Nov. 21. W A. L. Barbur, 80, former Portland commissioner, died today a week after suffering a heart at tack. He was city auditor from 1907 to 1917 and commissioner of public works from 1917 to 1933. He was a native of Polk t county. i staff of Ma). Gen. Charles L. Scott commander of th first armored corps. "Now we have four, with a fifth to be formed and a sixth contemplated. We ought to have 40 mechanized or motorized di visions if we are going to partici pate In afaftrs overseas. "By June we'll be producing 1,000 tanks; more than enough to equip two divisions a month." Official reports from British sources estimate the German army has 30 panzer divisions, with a greater number of tanks In each than in the U. S. divi sions, but armored fore experts here believe the American tank designs and armor better than th best abroad 1 Roosevelt 'UNION CONVENTION CHARGES ARMY IN BREACH OF FAITH Draftees Taught How To Break Strikes Says Reso lution Directed at F.D.R, Detroit Nov. 21 (P) Phil ip Murray of Pittsburgh to day was re-elected ta Us second terra as president of the Congress of Industrial Organisations. The CIO na tional convention had greeted his nomination with an en thusiastic demonstration that lasted 34 minutes. Murray was unopposed and his elec tion was by acclamation. Detroit, Nov. 21. UPy The Congress of Industrial Organi zations, in a resolution adopted by its annual convention today, called upon President Roosevelt to direct that the training of selectees and other service men for strike-breaking be immedi ately stopped." "It has been widely reported. the resolution asserted, "that the United States army has been giving training in strikebreak ing tactics to draftees and other service men in training camps. Such training is contrary to the intent and letter of th (.elective service act and a breath' of faith with labor - This) convention whole-heartedly de nounces such a practice and calls upon the president, as commander-in-chief of trie army, to direct that it be immediately stopped." The resolution was one of a host of measures adopted in a rush to complete the rest of th convention's business In advene of its election. E T; To bring th circuit court Jury list un to 24 names, the sheriffs nd county clerk's offices to day drew the following special venire: Paul Anderson, Central Point; William J. Warner, Medford; C. H. Andrews, Medford; Allan M, B rower, Ashland, and Mar quis P, True, Ashland. They will report for duty nest Mon-lay when the $21,000 dam age suit of Waldo Green against J. N. Adams, Puyallup. Wash., will be called in circuit court. The case is based on an auto accident in the Sisklyous a year ago in whleh Green, a motor cyclist, crashed Into the rear of an auto and sustained alleged injuries. Negligence is charged against Adams, and Adam; changes Green with contributory negligence. The trial Is expected ta re quire two or three dsys. FRENCH, NAZI LEADERS PLAN CONFERENCE SOON New York, Nov. 21. VP) Reliable advice reaching th Associated Press from Europe tonight said French and German leaders possibly even Adolf Hit ler and Marshal Petaln. would meet in the near future to dis cuss relations between their countries. The Informants said they be lieved that the outcome would be some new form of collabora tion. Some persons even pre dicted Franc might make out-end-out capitulation and become a full-fledged member of the axis. MEW PLANE TENDERS Bremerton, Wash., Nov. 21 (JP) Between 300 and 400 in vited guests, including many high army officers, the officer of the British warship Warsptt and th mayors of Bremerton, Seattle and Tacoma today wit nessed the launching of th sea plan tender Casco and Mack inac. ' .The sponsors wore Mrs. William J. Giles and Mrs. Ralph Wood, wives of navy captains.