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ruu u wau- J Weather n Fmcut: Cloudy tonight and I Friday with fog In morning . Temperature Wgheat yesterday ,. 3lAut thla moraine 24 precipitation put 34 hour 0 Two Big Day The two blf days for Want Ada are rtlday and Sunday ta tha Mall Tribune. If 70a hits somethlnf to a II, wish ta trade, have a honse for rent, or wUh to bay a farm or homo . . AdTertlaa, Tribune United Preas Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941. NO. 214. IrJla , ' - Full Associated Press " icgfin ro)fo) i - i y o i i w uj Kelly's Comment From Washington Northwest Solons Baited by F.D.R. Oregon Projects Depend On Vote i Cheaper Power c c r 'I jeen rw bast l Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Nov. 27. President Delano Roosevelt has conceived a neat device to place congressional delegations of the Pacific northwest on the gpot. In the omnibus rivers and harbors bill has been included every project on every stream and harbor of Oregon and Washington. Nothing has been overlooked; everything is au thorized in the bill, but no ap propriations. On the surface, every member will be delighted to vote for the bill. jtJ The catch in the omnibus ineasure, however, is that it also contains the St. Lawrence wa terway and the Florida ship canal, two projects President Roosevelt wants and upon which he has already expended large sums without the sanction of congress, the money coming from his "blank check.". Every thing centers on these two pro jects. Each is highly contro versial. With the omnibus bill every congressman must accept these projects or vote against the bill and thereby vote against local projects for his district or state. The president is not in terested la a navigation and power dam at Umatilla, devel opment of Gray's Harbor, im proving the Columbia at Ken newick. Wash., another project at Yaqulna bay, or removing (nags from Walla Walla river, what he wants Is the St. Law Jence waterway, and particular ly the power project. Reps. James W. Mott, Walter M. Pierce and Homer Angel 1 must make a choice. They muf-t vote for the bill and swallow the St. Lawrence bait if they want Oregon projects (no as surance when these will ever be started) or, if they resent the forcing of St. Lawrence upon them, they must vote (Continued on Paga 6tt) Radio Highlights By Associated Press. fTime is Pacific standard.) Tonight, the war 5:55 CBS; NBC-Blue; 7 MBS: 7:45 CBS; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS. NBC-Blue; 5:30 Variety from Ft. Meade; 7:15 new series, Met ropolitan Opera Guild. Friday, the war 9 MBS; 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS: 12:55 p. m CBS; 1:45 CBS, MBS; 3 CBS, MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS, NBC Blue. Short waves: DJD Berlin 3:30 p. m. fairy tales; GSC London 5:30 p. m. Wickam Steed in "Britain Speaks"; 2R04 Rome 7:30 p. m. news in English. San Diego, Calif., Nov. 27. OP) Rear Admiral Paul Dun gan, U. S. N. retired, died at the Naval hospital yesterday after an extended illness. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob McCarty, aged 8, so excit ed by the coming of Santa Claus he failed to keep track of Papa and Mama in last night's crush, they getting lost City Councilman Clarence Meeker being in the thick of the Christmas opening celebration and apparently having as happy a time as any youngster when Santa Claus arrived. Pauline Tygart bringing her family all the way in from Sar dine creek to see the Yule cele bration. Laura Dean modestly declin ing to speak over the Craterien's microphone upon being present ed with a set of silver. Bill Warner whistling because It's cold and he's hopeful all the bugs that bite his gladioli will b frozen. RELIEF COLUMN L JOINS SOLDIERS F FROM GARRISON r New Zealanders Smash Northward To Meet De fendersBattle Swirls On Cairo, Nov. 27. (JP) The seven-months siege of Tobruk, one of history's most dramatic, appeared ended today as the British c ommand announced that a relief column which had recaptured the bloody battle ground of Rezegh en route had joined hands this morning witn the Tobruk garrison. New Zealand forces support ed by tanks smashed northward to meet a column from the con glomerate Tobruk defenders this morning, a communique said. The great tank and infantry battle swirled through its tenth day with both sides throwing in new reserves. The main bat tle still apparently was about Rezegh, 10 miles south of Tob- rup, but was spreading far to the east into Egypt, where the British fought to wipe out an axis column which drove across the frontier yesterday. British officers said the junc tion with the Tobruk force meant the British eighth army had won the first round but they predicted heavy fighting still to come. They admitted that although British advance elements had joined hands there remained pockets of axis resistance , oa tween the main British forces The main British objective. it was stated, remained the de struction of the axis armored forces and this was being achieved steadily. Therefore the recapture of Rezegh was mini mized. Here Is the official British account of the relief of Tobruk: "During the night of Novem ber 23-26 New Zealand forces supported by British tank for mations recaptured Rezegh and occupied Eir Bir El Hamed in the face of heavy opposition. "Stiff fighting continued In that area throughout yesterdav and it was not until early this morning that elements of the relieving forces were able to Join hands at Ed Duda with tne British force from Tobruk which yesterday captured that important locality." (Available maps do not show Ed Duda but evidently it lies between Rezegh and Tobruk) British airmen ranged far to the west, raining tons of bombs on axis forces moving toward the front While big bomber planes' smashed at the harbor of Bengasi other planes loosea their loads on transport columns along the coastal road. Some of these were skirting the Gulf of Sirte, 300 miles west of the Egyptian frontier, indi eating that the axis was at tempting desperately to move supplies and men from Tripo litania, western Libya, into the Girenaica battle area in the east. (In London an authoritative source asserted that the Junc tion of the Tobruk garrison with the empire forces would mean a substantial reinforce ment of the British troops In the main battle zone by tanks known to have been in Tobruk). Danes Demonstrate To Protest Signing Anti-Comintern Pact Stockholm, Sweden. Nov. 27. (IP Riots In Copenhagen in protest against Denmark'a ad herence to the anti-comintern pact, with police firing on dem onstrators on one occasion and arresting some 40 persons on another, were reported today by Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm newspaper. Demonstrating Danes de nounced Foreign Minister Eric Scavenius, shouting: "Down with Scavenius; down with the trai tor." the newspaper said. The initial demonstration, Da gens Nyheter said, occurred at 2 p. m. Tuesday, the day the .rtij-nm!ntem rjact was extend- jed for another five years and i broadened to include 13 lgri I tories in Berlin ceremonies. German Infantrymen March in Snow A column of German Infantrymen, says Berlin sources, moves through a snow-covered field on the eastern front Picture radioed from Berlin to Nsw York. w Ti 1 vi at mT m Hitler Planning New Peace Try Is Belief p READY. FOR BIDS IF Albany, Nov. 27. (JP) Cap tain T. E. Dittebrandt, construc tion quartermaster in charge of the Albany-Corvallis canton ment headquarters here, said last night that plans for the 40,000-acre project are practi cally completed, appraisals made und the way prepared for letting ! of contracts. Accordingly, Captain Ditte brandt said, the contractor architect offices will be closed December 3, though a small staff will be retained to make any necessary alterations. John W. Cunningham, contractor-engineer, and Abbott Lawrence and F. S. Allyn, archi tects, Portland, and their asso ciates will .eave. Captain Dittebrandt revealed that the cantonment plans pro vide for a power supply line from the Bonneville substation at Albany. He has recommend ed complete electrical equip ment for this camp, he added, and if these recommendations tre accepted the Albany can tonment will be probably the first in which electricity is used for cooking, baking and water heating as well as lighting. Alternate plans provide fa cllities for either one or two army divisions. Roosevelt Refuses Accept Resignation Of Murray, Kennedy Washington, Nov. 27. IIP) President Roosevelt has declined to accept the resignations from the national defense mediation board of Philip Murray, presi dent of the CIO and Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers, (CIO). Murray and Kennedy and their alternates left the board about two weeks ago In protest against Its nine to two decision against granting the union shop demand of the L'MW for the captive coal mines. By the Associated Praia The special arbitration board named by President Roosevelt to settle the union shop Issue In captive coal mines of the na tion's major steel companies to day asked the companies wheth er they would accept the board's findings as final after reports were publU ed that two steel finns had not agreed to accept them. Published reports said Repub lic Steel corporation and the National Steel corporation had not agreed to abide by the ar ti tration board's future (toiling. Churchill Government By the Associated Press. London, Nov. 27 (if) The Churchill government, bolstered today by a new vote of conf iden ce, voiced belief that Germany,, seeking respite from the war in Russia, was shaping a peace of fensive through the expanded But in the same breath, the government, speaking- 'through Foreign Secretary - Anthony Eden, served new 'fjotioe that the German move would not affect by "one Jot" the determination of Britain and her allies to carry the war to a victorious conclu sion. The house of commons- over whelmingly squelched a move by the four-man Independent labor party to unseat the Churchill government and, - in debate, covered virtually every phase of government operations, including conduct of the war. The independent laborites moved to amend the house's tra ditional reply to the- message from King George VI which opened the present session of parliament on Nov. 12. They proposed to insert a note of re gret that the king's speech con tained no definite proposal for changing the economic system. While the motion was fore doomed to failure, the debate afforded John McGovtern, one of the independent laborites, an opportunity to charge,, among other things, that the United States was "prepared to use British bodies to blast her way into the markets of the conti nent." The amendment was defeated 326 to 2. (Apparently two of the independent laborites had been called on to act as tellers as in the past.) The house then unanimously adopted the commons' reply to the king's speech, ' embracing formal approval of government policies as outlined by the king as well as an expression of con fidence in Prime Minister Churchill and his cabinet heads of the armed services. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden urged rejection of the in dependent laborites' amendment asserting "there is a job of work to be done and I hope the bouse I wm encourage uie iuiinii... . , ih. ih hv rpiort. ing the amendment." Eden denied in passing an as sertion yesterday by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that Britain had been assured in 1940 that Rus sia would Join the war oo Bri tain's side. HOW TO SAVE Portland. Nov. 27. 0P Bon- nevilla Administrator Paul J. IRaer told State Public Utill- ! . a . : -v I n uea Lammui oner ui miuiiu i. Ban todav that use of Bonne ville power In state Institutions might save the state 3J,000 a year. BRITAIN'S LOSS TOLD London. Nov. 27. JPf Brit ain's merchant marine and list ing fleets have lost 8.454 offi cers and men In action since the war begen, a compilation of official casualty lists showed to- day. anti - comintern pact E ATTACK ENDANGERS OUTER E Moscow, Nov. 27. IP) Mas sive German attacks near Volo kolamsk, 65 miles northwest of Moscow, endangered outer Rus sian defenses to the capital to day. The newspaper Izvestia admit ted the situation of Soviet troops in this sector was "aggravated". Resistance to the expanding German drive was continuing however, Izvestia said. In the last 10 days the Germans have failed to turn the flanks protec ting Moscow although they have driven closer, Pravda, the Com munist party organ, added. Izvestia described the German offensive near Volokolamsk, one of the many spearheads aimed at Moscow, as "enormous". In one action, the Germans threw six tanks and five Infan try divisions into the drive against the Soviet lines, Izvestia reported. The Germans sought to encircle the Russians and push them back Into a lake, the newspaper added, "but Soviet resistance thwarted this plan." In a review of the Russian counterattack which Soviet of ficials reported had pushed the Germans back 70 miles In the Rostov area, Pravda said over 10,000 Germans were killed and wounded. More than B0 tanks, 400 trucks, 130 guns and 88 machine guns were eaptured and SO planes brought down, Pravda's correspondent continued- In ad dition, he said. 83 machine-guns 10 mine thrower batteries, 70 guns, 1,380 trucks and 119 tanks deatroved I were oesu-oyea. EL Washington, Nov, 27. Alfred McVay, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Walla Walla. Wash- and Frank Mitchell of the Walla Walla Bui l.t In a,,MAa4jt tr th. m. Am mm uKa" - partment today that It Include that cKy in Its list of additional j air bases expected to be stab- lished. Yakima- and Ellensburg are also seeking bases. "We were told that a decis ion probably would not be reached until all field reports are In and were glveu assur- jance that every consideration would be given to the Walla Walia tite." McVay said. Jecond Victim Is Claimed by Slippery Siskiyous Pavement SANTA GREETED E Progress Blocked By Packed Street High School Band Also Bucks Human Wall. Santa Claus was last night given the biggest and warmest welcome ever accorded him at a . celebration opening the Christmas shopping season here. For a moment it looked is though Santa was going to meet his doom. He rode down Main street from Oakdale avenue In his candy-laden truck and was to have turned north into Cen tral avenue to take up his candy-distributing post In a fenced square. But when the truck slowed down to make the turn, the crowd surged forward and in a trice Santa was com pletely surrounded by the most concentrated throng ever seen in Medford. Police had long since lost any control over the crowd and dear old Saint Nick looked for a moment as though he. might be in for a bad time of It as he was completely hem med in and could not move In any direction. A raid on his candy boxes seemed imminent Candy Given Away But the jolly old fellow from the North Pole was equal to the, occasion. He smiled a beam ing, cheery smile,, outstretched his arms for order, said some thing calming that could be beard only by those nearest him and presto! the surging ceased. Then with Jack Matlack, cele bration program director,. lead ing the way. the truck bearing Santa Claus gradually made its way. to the spot marked off for the welcome 'guest In the bril liant red suit and long white beard. There Santa gave away exactly 1,400 separate bags of candy and he could have used a few hundred more without being extravagant, so large was the crowd. But everyone had a good time and all were satis fied. The Medford senior high school band also had a time trying to march through the crowd. All went well enough until the band, marching east on Main street to Riverside found a solid wall of humanity facing it on Main street Just east of the Central avenue In tersection. Desperately the drum major waved his baton and shouted for clearance and the crowd separated just In time to let the musicians through. Band Bucks Crowd The gap was ' soon closed, however, and 'returning from Riverside avenue . the . band, which ordinarily marches the full width of the street, had to proceed In a column of twos, and It was a tight squeeze at that. Police had not kept the band's place on South Central avenue clear and the musicians had to continue westward on Main street and wait until (Continued on Pace Baren) Japs and Roosevelt Silent On Results of Conference Washington. Nor. 27. VP Ja panes envoys 'reported after a White House conference today that they had had a "very friendly" conversation with President Roosevelt They were silent however, as to whether negotiations looking to solution of Japanese-American problems would be resumed. The White House meeting fol lowed the action of Secretary of State Hull last night In putting the question of peace or war In the Pacific squarely up to the Japanese government Saburo Kumsu, special envoy, told reporters however, that he had no orders to return to Japan. Ha added be would not Coincidence Rules Arrival Here of Hodges' Daughter Here Is another coincidence to chalk up for the long legged Stork. Baby Hodges, born this morning at 2:30 o'clock at Sacred Heart hos pital decided there wasn't enough celebration In the Hodges household on Novem ber 27. So she was born on tier mother's birthday and her parents' third wedding anniversary. Yet unnamed, the new ar rival weighed eight pounds nd six ounces and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hodges. 826 West Tenth street Her father is circula tion manager for the Oregon lournal In this city. TWO FAST TRAINS JUMP RAILS ON TO By the Associated Presa Two fast Atlantic coast Una passenger trains, southbound from New York to Florida, de railed within the same - hour early today near Hortense, Ga., and Dover, Fla., killing on per son and Injuring 20. ' A middle-aged man tentative ly Identified as John Carroll, address undetermined, was crushed - to death when the stream-lined Champion left the track south of Hortense, spilling seven cars into marshy land near the Satllla river. Doctors from Waycrosi and Jesup, Ga., waded knee-deep In roadbed ditches to reach 12 In jured passengers In the Cham pion for emergency treatment, then rushed them to a hospital. Shortly before 6 a. m.. Cham pion wreck, the Havana Special was derailed just after leaving Dover, near Tampa, Fla., injur ing eight persons, only two of whom required hospitalization. The locomotive and all seven cars left the rails but only three cars overturned. . Scenes of the two wrecks are approximately 300 mile apart There was no evidence of sabo tage in either wreck, E. B. Rush, superintendent of transportation in the railroad's southern divi sion offices, said In Jacksonville, Fla. ' TANKS PAINTED WHITE AS SNOW CAMOUFLAGE New York, Nov. 27 iPh-The British radio said today that British tanks, now in action in the Moscow abttle, are painted white as camouflage against the snow.. Th report, heard by CBS, said pictures of the tanks are appearing in Soviet newspaperi. Football Scores At College Station, Tex, Texas 23, Texas A. and M. 0. say now whether he would see Hull in the next few days. Hull participated In th White House conference, as did Admir al Klchisaburo Nomura, th Jap anese ambassador. Th confer ence lasted 49 minutes. Replying to a barrage of ques tions, Kurusu said, "we bad a very friendly conversation." He added that he and th ambassa dor had been Invited to th Whit House. Asked whether th United States proposals banded to him last eight provided a basis for negotiations. Ambassador Nomu ra said he had not heard from Tokyo and therefor could not aoiwar that SKIDS TO DEATH ON RETURN TRIP Mrs. Etta Florence Burns, 41, Nurse At Shasta Dam Mangled Under Upset Car; Wet, slippery pavement on the Pacific highway over the Siskiyou mountains claimed its second fatal accident victim in 10 days yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Etta Florence Bums, 41-year-old, nurse at the Shasta Dam hospital near Redding Cal.. was crushed under her car after It skidded into a bank and over turned in a ditch 7 miles south of Ashland. Mrs. Burns, driver of th 1941 Chevrolet coupe, suffered crushed skull, two broken arm and numerous bruises and abra sions. She was-killed instantly. Her companion in the auto mobile, Chester F. Royse, 31, reclamation bureau employ at Redding, escaped with only minor scratches and bruise. ( Upset In Ditch Deputy Coroner C. M. Lit wilier of Ashland, who removed th body to Ashland, said that th car, traveling southbound, apparently skidded on a wet spot In th road, veered to th right and up on a bank, than overturned and landed In shallow ditch alongside th highway. Mrs. Burns, he said, evidently was thrown out th driver's window. She was man- Xled under th car as It cam' to rest In the ditch. Th acci. dent happened about 4:30 p. m. Mrs.' Burns and Mr. Roys had been visiting sine Tuesday night with Mrs Bums' brother In-law, James B. Faublon, em ployed her at present on th proposed army cantonment staff. They ware en rout to their homes In Redding when the) accident occurred. Mrs. Burns' sister, Mrs. J. B. Faublon of Portland, Is in Ash land arranging for funeral serv Ices. Other survivors are at sister, Mrs. Margaret MacMUIan of Vancouver, B. C, and two brothers, William J. Brown of Chemlnus, B. C, and Clyd Brown of Vancouver, B. C. Her husband. Matt died In Los Angeles in October 1940. Th victim was a graduate of Lady onith general hospital in Lady smith, B. C. Th accident happened about a mil this side of th spot where Otto J. Boss, Los Angelea diamond appraiser and broker, lost his life November 17 when he was crushed against th rear bumper of his own car by a skidding automobile operated by Mrs. Evangeline Parker Jonnson of Claremont, Calif. There hav been numerous other accident In th vicinity thus far thl winter, although none of them has been fatal. Deputy Coroner Lltwlller said there would not be an Inquest, Norse UcGalliard Is First lo Eiy Satis la Jacksoi Go. Drive Mist Elizabeth McGalllard. Jackson county public health nurse, was th first purchaser of Christmas Seals in th 1941 campaign in Jackson county. Miss Helen Bullls, county seal chairman, announced today. Miss McGalllard purchased her seals one week In advance of th official opening of th cam paign In order to use them on packages, going to England for Christmas. To fill Mis McGalllard'! order Miss Bullls opened th boxes In advance, so th mes senger of good health accom panies each package Miss Mo Galliard It sending abroad. Th mail sale of Christmas Seals opens in thl county to morrow. Th letter go into th mall tonight for delivery Friday.
