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Thirty-sixth Year
J News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Nov. 22. Blood
tuickening rumors have come
In upon these Kurusu-Roose-
pffaw velt negotia
tions suggest
ing the Japs
are now ready
to move in on
Thailand at
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it .WU of the Japan
ese peace
emissary (who
bore no peace
Paul Mallon
plan). Such an invasion would
bring the British Malay troops
Into conflict with the Japs, no
doubt, and eventually Involve
the U. S. Asiastic fleet.
Our officials suspected the
rumors were part of the clumsy
Jap diplomatic pressure game,
and declined to be disturbed.
But they immediately began
preparations to send certain
very valuable war material to
Thailand just in case it should
be called for. Lend-lease aid
will be granted in event of in
vasion. This is only one of the of
ficial rumors that have disturb
ed the fragile Japanese-American
negotiations. Such stuff
seems to have become an ex
pected phase of high-pressure
diplomacy. Yet both the rumors
and the negotiations have been
tempered by the solid Inner
affonviction here that there will
b no war and no peace.
o o o
WAR Just does not make sense
from either the Japanese
or American standpoint. Our
main commitment is in the At
lantic, against Hitler. We need
our fleet for that. While we
talk roundly of our far east
ern Interests, there are only two
things we are trying to do
there now:
(1) Keep Vladivostok open
for aid to Stalin (the Persian
railroad will haul little for an
other year yet and the Archangel-Moscow
railroad may be
severed in a few weeks, leav
ing Vladivostok as the only
port of entry for American
goods), and (2) keep the Burma
road open for aid to China.
(Continued on Pago Eight)
Nairobi. Kenya Colony,
Nov. 22. (API Surrender of
two Italian garritons at Cul
quabort and Forroaber in
Ethiopia east of Lake Tana
yesterday was announced to
day in a Joint British army and
airforce communiquo.
Cairo, Egypt. Nov. 22
(AP) Naw Zealand troops
haro recaptured Fort Capuno
on th Egyptian-Libyan front
ier, it was learned her tonight.
Berlin, Nov. 22. (AP) Th
Carman air fore today bomb
ad th Murmansk railway and
harbor facilities at Murmansk,
DNB now asgoncy said.
1 London. Not. 22 (AP)
Th RAF in an offensir
swoop of northern Franc this
afternoon destroyed six Gor
man fighting pianos to a loss
of on of its own, an authorita
tive statement said tonight.
Nw York, Nov. 22 (AP)
Th Rom radio said tonight
that Premier Mussolini would
participate In a conference
with Adolf Hitler and Marsh
al Potain to b hold "some
where In Franc."
NBC hoard th broadcast.
(Authoritative French
sources disclosed today that
Potain would leare Vichy
shortly for occupied Franc
for talks with high Nasi,
possibly Hitler himself.)
Madras, N o v. 22. !P)h
Jefferson county committee un
ser the state defense nutrition
committee will b formed here
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1IT0BRUK GARRISON C
ENDS LONG SEIGE,
BUSTSJZI REAR
Mechanized Force Half De
stroyed In Pincer Move
ment German Assault
Fails. '
(By th Associated Press)
British capture of Fort Capuz
zo on the Egyptian-Libyan bord
er was announced in Cairo last
(Saturday) night as Britain's
mechanized African army con
tinued its destruction of axis
motorized defenses.
Nazi armored divisions ap
peared caught between two Jaws
oi a monstrous pincers move
ment when the Tobruk garrison
to the west burst through seven-months-old
axis siege lines to
catch them in the rear.
Besides the American-built
tanks in the ground spearheads,
swarms of Yankee fighter planes
were participating in an accom
panying air offensive which
RAF officers said had given the
British mastery of the skies in
two days of fighting.
Cairo military dispatches said
more than half the tanks of Ger
man fjpn. Frwin RnmmAl'a
North African corps had already j
been knocked out of action, with
the British employing the same
tactics of encirclement and an
nihilation used by the Germans
themselves in conquering most
of Europe.
'The aim of the British com
mand is to destroy the German
tank force in Libya, and that is
what we are doing at the mo
ment," a high British officer de
clared. Sun-bronzed Australians and
British Tommies who stormed
into Tokruk last January 22 to
the lusty chorus of "Somewhere
Over the Rainbow" were re
ported slashing with enthusiasm
into the rear of German and
Italian troops who, in turn, had
beleagured them for so long.
Latest advices said the Tob
ruk forces had cut their way
through three miles of axis posi
tions, driving to Join units of
the main imperial armies at
Rezegh, 10 miles south of Tob
ruk's outer defense perimeter.
British Middle East head
quarters said repeated German
attempts to break through the
British encirclement were de
feated in a big battle and that
the area of entrapment, origin
ally more than 60 miles deep,
had been compressed into a four
mile square zone.
General Sir Alan Cunning
ham's five-day-old counter-offensive
in North Africa thus pre
sented Adolf Hitler with the pos
sibility of his first defeat in two
years of war.
Rome, Sunday, Nov. 23. (IP)
Violent new British attacks In
the Tobruk sector of the Libyan
battlefront were reported early
today by the official Stefani
agency.
The British were said to have
struck out with armored forces
after intense artillery prepara
tion in attacks which lasted
throughout Saturday. The
agency said Italian troops met
British tank charges with hand
grenades and declared the Brit
ish had failed to gain "positive
results."
PRISON TERMS METED
Coeur d'Alene, Ida., Nov. 22.
(jp Marion M. Montague of
Lewiston and Oscar Johnson of
Spokane, both 23 and former In
mates of their respective state
reform schools, pleaded guilty to
charges of first degree burglary
today and were sentenced to
serve IS years at hard labor In
the state penitentiary.
COLD WAVE
Denver, N o v. 22. (JV-A
cold wave that pushed the mer
cury well below zero In Mon-
: tana
moved southward across
1 Wyoming today.
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Oregonian Defends Lewis
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ST 4HS m . W M S ,v. t m
William Dalrympl (left), Oregon CIO regional director speaks
from th CIO convention floor at Detroit, and was applauded when
he said "there isn't a gratr American today than" John L. Lewis,
president of th CIO United Mine Workers.
MINERS AGREE TO
TO IRK
Washington, Nov. 22. ()
The captive coal mine strike
was ended today in an agree
ment that its issue be submitted
to arbitration with both sides
bound in advance to accept the
results.
At the continued entreaty of
President Roosevelt, the policy
committee of the United Mine
Workers of America voted to
send its men back into the pits
on these terms at once. John
L. Lewis, the union's president,
said the decision was made "in
the public interest."
It.came, however, as a sharp
surpiye to those who have kept-
in close toucn wun me mine
controversy, because Lewis per
sonally rejected the plan earlier
in the week. Mr. Roosevelt's
statements on the dispute had
so prejudiced the public mind,
Lewis said then, that it would
be' extremely difficult to find
an impartial arbiter.
L JAN!
STRIKEJVERTED
Tacoma, Nov. 22 (JP A
threatened strike Monday by
maintenance men and custodians
employed In Tacoma schools
was averted today through the
mediation etforts of Mayor
Harry P. Cain, who announced
trustees and union members had
agreed to a conference.
The employes, whose contem
plated walkout was backed by
the AFL-Engineers' union, had
set Monday as the deadline for
a walkout called in an effort
to secure wage increases of 20
rier cent.
Mayor Cain said an earlier
plan whereby a group of citizens
would review the dispute and
make recommendations by Jan-
uary 1, probably would be
idopted.
SOLDIER A SUICIDE
Fort Lewis. Nov. 22. VP)
The army announced that Pvt.
Frank N. Countryman, 30, of
the 163rd Infantry regiment,
41st division, committed suicide
early today by slashing his
throat with a straight razor.
HEADS MINING BODY
Spokane, Wash , Nov. 22. VP)
James L. Leonard of Spokane
was elected, president of the
Northwest Mining association at
a meeting of th board of di-
' rectors today.
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JAPAN PROPOSALS
REMAIN MYSTERY;
CLOSELY STUDIED
Washington, Nov. 22. (AP)
Japanese proposals for settle
ment of Pacific problems were
studied for nearly three- hours
today by Secretary of State Hull
and British, Chinese, Dutch and
Australian representatives, but
no hint was given as to their re
action.
Likewise, none of the parti
clpants in the meeting the first
general gathering of represent
atives of the ABCD powers
whose policies, clashing with
Japanese policies have brought
a threat of war to the Far East
would give any clue as to the
nature of the Japanese proposals.
State department officials said
j only that the session had covered
, an pnases oi me international
situation in wnicn tney were
interested) and that there had
been "no occasion to reach con
elusions at this time."
Lord Halifax, the British am
bassador, told newspapermen
when the long conference broke
up that complete harmony exist
ed in the positions of the United
States, Great Britain. China,
Australia and The Netherlands.
LOVE CAN'T WAIT,
FLIES TO
Oklahoma City, Nov. 22. (Pi
Their wedding Just couldn't
wait until next month, they
decided, so Miss Thelma Burger
is en route by plane to Moffett
field. Calif., where tonight she
will be married to Lieut. Doane
Tolleson.
Tolleson, who lived here be-
tore neing cauea to amy wun
1 the army air corps phoned his
- fiancee Thursday and 24 hours
j lter the pretty blonde employ
of Braniff Airways was on the
way west
Her friends saw her off,
adorning her with cardboard
signs stating "this shipment Is
C. O. D." and "rush fragile."
' JUDGE RESIGNS
Washington, Nov. 22
J. Warren Davis, retired Judge
of the 3rd circuit court of ap
peals at Philadelphia, has sub
mitted his resignation to Presl
dent Roosevelt, Whita House
sources said today.
In one small mntirban yard
a scientist found 1,402 varieties
3 If
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ROOSEVELT RULE;
Moser Named Secretary At
State G.O.P. Meet
Ingalls Motion Withdrawn
Portland, Nov. 22. IP) De
bate over changes in the neu
trality act enlivened an Oregon
Republican executive committee
meeting here today.
Claude Ingalls, Corvallls, pro
posed that the committee com'
mend votes of Oregon s four
Republican congressmen against
neutrality act revision.
U. S. Senator Rufus Holman
told the group, "I know that
the future will Justify my votes
to date. . . .' Not a single gov
ernmental department believes
that our country is prepared to
engage in war I think that the
president is so ambitious about
his place in history that he Is
like the merchant who sets fire
to his business to get the insur
ance. This is by far the most
incompetent and the most self
ish administration this country
has ever had.
State Chairman Nlel R. Allen
said he favored the changes,
and. believed, that th committee
should not oppose legislation
that has become law. Ingalls
withdrew his motion.
The committee approved ap
pointment of Carl R. Moser as
executive secretary of the state
organization at a salary of $330
a month. Moser has been Ore
gon department adjutant of the
American Legion since 1924.
Joseph K. Carson Jr., state
Legion commander, appointed
June W. Valiant of Portland to
succeed Moser.
ANTI-STRIKE ACT
READY NEXT WEEK
Washlngton, Nov. 22. (AP)
Despite settlement of the coal
strike pending arbitration, Chair
man Norton (D-N.J.) of the house
labor committee said after
White House conference today
that President Roosevelt ap
proved of her committee report
ing some bill to curb defense
strikes.
Mrs. Norton told reporters
that the president "thinks it
quite Important that we should
decide on some bill.
She added she told the presi
dent the committee hoped to
heve a bill ready next week.
"We want to prepare a bill,'
she said, "that will not harm the
existing labor laws and at the
same time try to cover the pres
ent situation.
Representative Norton said
that labor had "forced" on con
gress the necessity to act because
"after all the country takes prec
edence over labor or anyone
else."
FATAL TO AD
Seattle, Nov. 22. (IP) After
suffering a stroke while watch
ing the Oregon-Washington foot
ball game today, Lloyd Spencer,
veteran Seattle advertising man,
died in a hospital tonight.
His widow, Stella, survives.
Spencer had been president of
the Association of Advertising
clubs on th Pacific coast and
was widely known In his profes
sion. He also had held several
offices In the Seattl chamber
of commerce during the 2S years
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ALL-OUT ASSAULT
E
Nazis' Mighty Force Nearest
Yet To Capital Rostov
Falls, Berlin Claims.
By th Associated Press
Kuibyshev Russia, Nov. 22.
The Germans have renewed their
offensive against Moscow in the
central Mozhaisk sector, thereby
making their current all-out as
sault on the Soviet capital a gen
eral maneuver of unprecedented
proportions, Russian dispatches
reported today as the German
Russian war began its sixth
month.
This also brought the current
powerful onslaught the nearest
to Moscow since it started early
in the week on the capital's de
fense flanks at Kalinin S3 miles
to the northwest, and at Tula,
100 miles below the capital. Moz
haisk is 57 miles west of Mos
cow. The Moscow newspaper Prav-
df said the Germans were at
tacking the Moscow defense
with "probably the largest con
centration of forces ever seen In
modern warfare." The German
army was said to have been or
dered to drive to the capital at
all Costs.
Berlin Nov. 22. AP Th
capture of the Caucasus gateway
city of Rostov was announced in
a surprise special bulletin by
the German reich high command
today, and tonight German mili
tary spokesmen hinted that their
advance forces already were
smashing eastward beyond the
strategic Don river port In the
direction of Astrakhan.
German commentators, sug
gesting the Nazis bad cut off
highly Important oil supplies
from the Russians, said that in
capturing Rostov they had won
"the spigot of the Russian oil
barrel."
RAIL HEADS AND
Tl
Washington, Nov. 22
Representatives of railroad man
agements and employ brother
hoods agreed today to meet again
Monday in an effort to reach an
agreement on wag Increase de
mands and avert a nation-wide
rail strike.
This agreement followed an
other conference with President
Roosevelt, who has taken an ac
tive part for a week in moves
to bring th two sides together,
Solicitor General Charles
Fahy, who attended the White
House meeting along with other
government observers, announc
ed th Monday conference.
He told reporters that no for
mula for a settlement had been
mentioned at the Whit House
meeting, but that this had been
left to "direct negotiations."
A. F. Whitney, president of th
Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, told newspapermen a meet
ing last night broke uj after th
"refusal on th part of the car
rlers to In any way go beyond"
a presidential board's recommen
dation for settlement of th wage
dispute.
11 TRAFFIC VICTIMS
Portland, Nov. 22 John
R. Hale, 19, was killed In an
automobile-trolley car collision
today. Hale, a passenger in th
automobile, was the Slst person
to die In Portland traffic acci
dents this year.
Cold At La Grand
La Grande, Nov. 22.-
Th temperature dropped tr 18
degrees In this section of east
ern Oregon Friday night .
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Interpreting
The War News
By Kirk L. Simpson
On of the most impressive
phases of the British Libyan of
fensive is, the fact that it was
launched while a crisis was
brewing in Russian defense of
the Caucasus front against a
triple-pronged German attack.
If any one thing Is certain
about the war at this stage. It
is that German seizure of Rus
sian oil fields in the Caucasus
would be a crushing blow for
the British. A flow of more
than 200,000,000 barrels a year
is credited to those wells. Half
of that as war spoils would en
able Hitler to fight on for years.
Without it his capacity for all
out warfare Is definitely limited
by fast dwindling ott reserves.
Yet British armies in the east,
estimated at 730,000 men, all
that could be used effectively
on the 140-mile Libyan-Egyptian
front, have been hurled into a
major assault to smash German
Italian armies in north Africa.
The obvious explanation, aside
from the diversion effect to help
Russia, (which is still uncer
tain) is that the British hope
and expect to clean up in Libya,
perhaps force Italy out of the
war, before the Germans can
reach the oil fields in the Cau
casus.
It Is not clear her Just what
information the British may
have as to Russian ability to
hold the Caucasus front on the
Don-Rostov-Kerch strait against
the lunging nazi attack. How
ever, there is official word from
London that the drlv In Libya
has been In preparation for five
months.
Berlin claimed yesterday the
capture of Rostov-on-the-Don,
"spigot to Russia's oil barrel. '
The main Russian oil source,
the Baku field In the trans-
Caucasus, however. Is still 700
to 800 miles from the nearest
nazi threat. It is bulwarked also
by the most rugged mountain
chain In that part of the world,
the Greater Caucasus moun
tains. To reach the source of
more than three-fourths of all
the oil of the region German
forces must scale those moun
tains. There are oil fields In the
rolling steppe country north of
the mountains and only 200 to
300 miles now from closest Ger
man lines. The Maikop and
Grozny fields yield relatively
small output annually, how
ever, not sufficient for German
needs. That their flow would
be greatly reduced or retarded
by Russian efforts to destroy
those wells if forced to give
ground Is certain. Hitler can
gain little Immediately or In the
long run so far as Russian oil
is concerned unless he drives
clear to the Baku field.
In all probability it Is upon
that mountain barrier even
more than upon Red armies that
British leadership counted in
deciding to resist th Libyan
offensive now. Against any Rus
sian resistance it seems impos
sible that nazi forces could act
ually threaten th Baku oil de
posits for months.
PAPAL PLANS TO
Vatican City, Nov. 22. (JPh-
Pop Pius XII said today that
th Catholic church had no de
sir to mix into a controversy
over different political regimes
but Intended to serve as a "guide
of consciences."
The pope's statement was
mad at an audience with Am
bassador Llobet, new envoy to
the Vatican from Argentina, who
presented his credentials In the
throne room after a 13-minute
private conference with th pon
tiff.
CANNER CHAMP LEAVES
Portland. Nov. 22. (
Louis Williams, 10, Portland,
will leav for th National 4-H
Club Congress at Chicago next
week as Oregon's champion
club canner.
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NO. 210.
PEACE OFFENSIVE
BY HITLER SOON,
German Losses Make Early
Conference Vital To
Soothe Europe Nazi
Trick Hinted.
Washington, Nov. 22. (AP)
Cautioning the world's democ
racies to be on guard, the Whita
House said today that Germany
was preparing a winter peace of
fensive embracing proposals os
tensibly restoring economic and
political lndependance to conti
nental Europe, but actually leav
ing Hitler master of a string of
puppet states.
Stephen T. Early, a presiden
tial secretary, disclosed at a press
conference that this government
had reports of such a plan. A re
porter had asked whether an "ec
onomic peace" was about to ba
proposed by the Nazis.
Early said both President
Roosevelt and the steia depart
ment had received information .
from certain European source
that a conference was to be
called either In December or
January "on some occasion con
sidered propitious by Germany.',
He added that invitations al
ready were loinst forth front
Germany to "some belligerents,
th axis powers, and some neu
tral European nations."
"So far as our Information
goes," he said, "the conference
would be restricted to a meet
ing of European powers. That
excludes, of course, this hemi
sphere and, I understand also,
that England will not be in
vited." Early said th report! reach
ing the United States govern
ment gav the reason for th
conference as th prospect that
'Germany Is going to be forced
by losses and depletion of re
serves to summon such a con
ference." Th Idea," he continued, "la
to dress up some high-sounding
formula of economic rehabilita
tion and restoration of Inde
pendence for all European na
tions, carefully providing for
leaving the door open for Ger
man violations later on and for
German control of all these
governments In practice; that Is,
what would be essentially a
series of puppet states through
out Europe with Germany al
ways holding th strings."
The secretary went on to say
that "th fact that Germany 1
studying such a conference Is
a matter of some Interest and
should be discounted well ahead
of time by people who really
believ In democracy and oppose)
military domination not only
of Europ but of the entir
world."
Responding to further cm
tioning, Early said he did not
believe th proposal had gon
far enough for reaction to b
received from nations which ar
supposed to participate In th
continental meeting.
His statement that soma bel
ligerents would be Invited was
Interpreted as meaning Russia
as well as Italy, and possibly
Finland, Rumania and Bulgaria
who ar helping th Nazis In
their attack on th Soviets.
Hungary also would come under
the category of axis powers.
The "some neutrals" men
tioned could b drawn from
only fiv nations still In a non
belligerent status on the con
tinent Sweden, Spain. Portu
gal, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Vichy Franc also might bo
included.
Early said th sources of this
government's information could
not be revealed for "obvious
reasons," but he did say th
reports were from "within Eu
rope." PROWLERS GET 1138
Redmond, Not. 22. -UP
Thieves who broke a rear win
dow escaped with (180 In cash
from th Gifford Motor com
pany office, Redmond police re-
nArtl TrMov.
Wednesday.