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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.
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paraae in noi.ywooa. uua
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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.