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(ftp-) fitting f erato HUNTERS! WEATHER High 82. Low 41 , PRECIPITATION 24 hour to I a. m ... .00 Season to data -...1.J1 Normal precipitation ... 1.73 Last year to date . ....... .....2.14 SUNRISE TABLE i Friday, Novtmbtr 14 Sunrlie 6i4l Duok hunting to 4 p. m. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS RAIN PRICE FIVE CKM" KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941 Number 9434 itl'Jt rmr uL 3 o)W it In The Day's News By fRANK JENKIFS "THE Russians and tha Gorman ara flahtlntf desperately to day (Thursday). The Gormana claim to bo making progrcs In tha Crimea. The- Ruiulani claim to ba holding. Thcro aro report that tho natla aro mussing forces (or a new and harder drivo on Moscow. Nothing conclusive li apparent In the newt. In the Orient, the storm warn ings are still flying. VURUSU, Japan' special last- x minute trouble shooter, has got as far as Honolulu- on his flight to Washington. Talking to the reporters, he says: "It is the common rcpon slblllty of the United States and Japan to keep peace In the Pa cific." Ha describes his task as "very Important and very diffi cult." He Is making a stopover In Honolulu. Note that although ho is traveling by Clipper ho Isn't making a rush trip of It, TN Washington, Senator Murray nt Montana, a mmhr nf tha senate foreign relations commit tee, declaros today there is a "definite possibility" the United States may go to war with Japan ' and says Kurusu's mission op- -pear "pretty futile." - He tolls the reporters that "Japan must get out .of China if there is to ba any agreement." JETTING out of China would u be a confession of complete defeat and failure. War may mean the end of Japan. But confessing defeat and failure would be pretty cer tain to mean the END OF THE WAR PART now running Japan. Confronted by such a choice, there Is no telling what tho Jap anese war clique will do. CHINESE Intelligence report quoted today in Chungking tell of large-scale Japanese troop movements at sea and indicate that great numbers of warships and troop transports aro being massed off the coast of northern Indo-Chlna. It Is through Indo-Chlna, to ward the Malay Peninsula and the southern end of the Burma road, that Japan is expected to strike in tha south if she docs strike. 'TWERE is also the threat that x Japan will strike the Russians in the rear in Siberia whilo they are fighting Hitlor In the west. Hitler, you see, is trying to use Japan to bluff us out of com' plate help to tha British in the Atlantic by the threat of a two- ocean war. We're probably (only tnose on the lnsido know) un dertaking to bluff Japan out of tackling the Russians in tho rear. It's hard to say where, thia game of bluff will lead. QN the home front, today's dis patches carry this paragraph: "Labor disputes today cast dark shadows over the immed iate future of railroad transpor tation, long distance telephone communication and the mining of soft coal to fuel the nation's steel mills." This situation Is worrying the British. Austin Hopkinson, an independent member, opening debate in parliament on the British war policy, says tho U. S. labor situation "may be leading up to a general strike due simply to Inexperience of trade union leaders," and adds that in splto of tho contribution of tho United States Britain's enemy (Hitler) "now has a greater production capacity and uses that capacity very much bettor than we do." HEAD COLD WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (fl3) President Roosevelt's head cold was ' roported Improved today but he was having some diffi culty with one frontal sinus. Not taking any chances, ho remained in his study, instead of going to the executive office, to receive a few caller. Fl SEEKS TO KEEP CAPTIVE MINES WORKING Coal Must Be Mined For Defense Work, Says President By The Associated Prtss President Roosevelt suid today ha hoped his conference tomor row with CIO leaders and steel officials would keep the Captive coal mines In continuous opera' tion, but added that if it failed it Is obvious that this coal must be mined in order to keep the essential steel mills at work. The president's statemmt was made in a letter to Speaker Roy burn and House Democratic Lcador McCormack on the sub ject of neutrality revision, legis lation. ,.!" . Last Chance Failure to pass the legislation, the chief executive wrote, would weaken efforts to speed up do- fense production and would make strikes and production delays appear less serious to the coun try. The president said his confer ence tomorrow regarded, as s last-chance effort to settlo amic ably 'differences between John L. Lewi and the stool operators over the union shop question "may prove successful. ' Then he added that it it did not,! the mine must be kept operating. Mr. Roosevelt letter was re leased as the Captive coal mines, railroad transportation, long dis tance telephone communications, steel production and a largo war aircraft company were threaten ed with possibly strike ' stop pages. High administration lead' ers were reported considering legislation requiring a "cooling off" period before workers could walk out of defense Industries. The proposition under study was said also to include bonuses to employers based on cost of living. Rejected Fourteen unions of non-operating employes, representing 900, 000 workers in the railroad in dustry, formally rejected recom mendation of President Roose velt' fact finding board for set tlement of their wago dispute. Their statement did not con tain a direct threat of a strike although non-operating employes authorized their leaders . last Sept. S to call ona, and the five big operating brotherhoods have ordered a walkout to begin Dec. 7. Renewed was the strike threat at Bell Aircraft's two large war plane plants where Leo Lamotte, assistant aviation director of tha ClO-Unltcd Automobile Work ers, said a walkout would be called unless the company "be gins to bargain." Sprague Asks Ban On Non-Defense Building Eased SALEM, Nov. 13 (fl3) Lessen ing of priority restrictions on materials used in non-defense building will be sought to avert major closures in Oregon's mill and logging operations, Gov. Charles A. Sprague said here yesterday. L. C. Stoll, state employment service director, said 11,000 Oregon sawmill and logging workers would be thrown out of work by February If the present trend continued. Ho told lumber operators and the Ore gon Economic council that 5000 Portland construction and 8000 In heavy industries workers would be jobless, Stoll said certain priorities had drastically ' curtailed , non defense building with the result that many mills already had made sharp reduction In their operations. Governor Spraguo said he had asked Governor Arthur B. Langllo of Washington to join In a protest to tho OPM. . j ' James Bryant, San Francisco, regional social security board director and lobor supply board chairman, said he would, ask the OPM to send two men to Ore gon to study the situation. Tanks Hide in t X A bomb left behind by Italian in Tobruk 1 exploded by an Australian tank. The craters formed by the exploded bomb fur nish ideal pits for hiding tank In the desert the British source said. Linemen Agree Vital Wires to Remain In Service NEW YORK. Nov. 13 W) John J. Moran, president of the Federation of Long Lines Tele phono Workers, announced to night a strike of 15,000 workers. called for midnight Friday, had been postponed until Novem ber 21. NEW YORK, Nov. 13 P The government appealed today to the independent federation of long distance telcphono workers to postpone for one week a strike set for Saturday and to resume negotiations for settlement of Its wago dispute with tho American Telephone and Telegraph com pany. The appeal, telegraphed to John J. Moran, president of the union, was mado by Dr. John Stcelman, director of tho U. S. conciliation service, shortly after tho union announced that trans mission of news and newsphotos by wire would not ba affected by tho threatened walkout. Tho union s position in regard to transmission of news and wired pictures was set forth in this announcement by Mayer: The union decided to main tain a sufficient force to keep open all news channels because of Its appreciation of tho vital public necessity therefor, particu larly during the national emer gency." Probation Report Asked on Sevits After Guilty Plea SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 13 (fl5) Tho case of Clifford W. Sevits, former cashier-secretary of the Butto Valley State bank at Dorrls, was referred to the U. S. probation officer for re port today after ho pleaded guilty to a charge of violation of tho federal reserve bank act by making a false entry, Federal Judge Martin Welsh ordered Sevits Into tho custody of the United States marshal pending a hearing on tho proba tion report November 22. Sevits was charged with tak ing , $2500 In bank funds through making false entries. Emmet . J. Scawcll, , assistant United States attorney, said on investigation of books at the bank disclosed a total of $19, 030 in bank funds was taken over a period ofi,17 years. Bomb Craters 1; Japan Plans For Crisis in Pacific Area . By The Associated Pratt , In the far east crisis, the Jap anese government was reported preparing today tor '"a hostile situation" in the event that nego tiations with the United States collapse an eventuality freely predicted by some quarter in Washington. Senator Murray (D-Mont.), a member of the foreign relations committee, declared 'There is a definite possibility" that the United States may go to war with Japan and said the mission of Japan s special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, : appeared "pretty fu tile." , Kurusu, making a stopover in Honolulu on his flight to Wash ington, said it was the common responsibility of the United States and Japan to keep peace in the Pacific and he described his task as "very important and very difficult." Unofficially, Kurusu is said to bear a "last chance" offer to the United States to avoid an explosion in the Orient by rec ognizing Japan s co-prosperity sphere" in East Asia and halting aid to China. Commenting on Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill's state ment that Great Britain would fight alongside the United States in a war with Japan, Kurusu declared: . . , "He might as well have said he would ' have breakfast in the morning." ' . , Senator Murray told reporters that "Japan must get out of China if there is to be any agreement. . In Tokyo, new emergency leg- lslatlon was made ready for the special session of the Japanese diet beginning . Saturday, and Japan's Premier. Hideki Tojo, Foreign Minister Shigenorl Togo and Finance Minister Oklnobu Kaya submitted to Emperor Hir ohlto. both the program, and speeches they will make to the diet. ...... Arrnistice Day Accident Victim . Dies Thursday Clarence L. Smith, 20, Mor rill, seriously Injured when he was thrown 90 feet from an overturned car two miles south of the Oregon-California line Armistice day after noon, died at Klamath Valley hospital at 2:30 p. m, Thurs day. . -. The youth, native of Pikes ville, Tenn,, had been picking potatoes in this area. He suf fered fractures of both ankles, a fractured jaw, and Internal . : hurts. , New M mm DiiiiMn i TO CAUCASUS vB Reserves Moving for Central Battle as ' Kerch Attacked ' By To Associated Prats '. Masses of German and Russian reserves were reported moving up to the central front today for a possible climatic battle for Moscow, while in . the south, Adolf Hitler's Crimean armies were declared to be storming the fortifications of Kerch at the gateway . to the . Caucasus oil fields. A' nazi spokesman said the German air force was already roaring over the narrow Kerch strait to carry the war into the great fields which produce much of Russia's oil. . , Fort Taken German ' military dispatches said nazi assault troops had cap tured several of Kerch key fortificatfons and that the port s open-to direct .attack from the -west and south, i - x v v -. un ine jnoscow xroni. soviet report said the -Germans were intensifying their scouting oper ations, testing red. army "lines along the entire 200-mlle defense arc, apparently as the prelude to new grand offensive. - Fresh soviet troops were streaming up to the front to meet the expected assault. - - -' ..-' . v. Driven Back ." .V, On ' the north flank, in the Kalinin sector, the Russians said they had driven the German in vaders back toward the Volga river despite a hurricane of nazi mortar, machine-gun ' and rifle fire. - Southwest of Kalinin, la red army group was said to have crossed the Volga in a success ful raid on the German rear. ' . The gravest threat on the long battlefront centered at Kerch, with the Germans apparently making final preparations to cross the Kerch strait and drive into the Caucasus. iteuters, the British news agency, quoted the Rome radio as announcing that German and Rumanian forces had occupied, the port, which lies on a narrow strait separating, the Crimea from the Caucasus mainland. . Dispatches to the soviet news- continued on Page Two) Zuckerman Accused , Of Deadly Assault ' In Stockton Case STOCKTON, Calif., Nov. 13 (iP) Maurice Zuckerman, 60, wealthy Los Angeles and Stock ton commission merchant, was accused today of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. The charge was an aftermath of the Armistice day shooting of a Stockton Amer ican Legion: leader in a cocktail bar. - . I Justice of the Peace George F. Buck set ball at $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond, and selected November 24 for a preliminary hearing. Victim in the shooting was Otto Dander, 40, past command er of the Stockton Legion post, and leader of the Armistice day parade. Surgeons gave him an even chance to recover from a pistol; bullet wound in the abdo men.-, v.-. , . -, The shooting occurred In a bar where Dander had gone with his wife, brother and sister-in- law to celebrate. Dander's wife signed . the t, complaint against Zuckerman.,' I- . Maurice Zuckerman is a part ner in the Weyi-Zuckerman com pany, which has extensive Inter ests in the Klamath potato in dustry, ' and i well known in this district. He is in charge of the Los Angeles office for Weyl- Zuckerman. oscow Push Seen Finland to Continue Fight SgygST ' iffNOVGOROO- JM"3 f' KALININ Jjf : ; YOLOKOLAMSKMoj)6ow L , . 1!ala r ; nuts l gw ' Finland 'rejected i ff. BV warning to eeasa fighting Russia and Insisted she still was waging a defensive war. Map shows Finnish urmonai losses (apnea areas;, la the 1839-40 wax with Russia. Finns said they had regained most of the territory except two niai areas, me t isner ana Hangs peninsulas (circled), which still re in Russian hands. Black, arrows Indicate directions si drive on Leningrad and Moscow. . . . - Demand Renewed For Britain io Open New Front LONDON, Nov. 13 OP) A renewed demand that Britain form a second fighting front to aid Russia, with emphasis on the' possibilities of Libya, was sounded - in parliamentary ' de bate today by Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, who has been among the critics mentioned as a pos sible recruit for the British cab inet. - . . ; ' ,"Why has the offensive in Libya been delayed?" Shinwell demanded. It has been expect ed many months. ' "It would in effect have cre ated a second front. It would certainly have distracted the nazis and created . difficulties for them. Let the' government answer that question. "Next week or next month an offensive in Libya may not be as effective. , If the failure to move again into Libya was due to a lack of equipment, Shinwell added, then obviously it is idle to speak of' invasion elsewhere. He ' asserted that if Britain actually had what seemed to be air superiority over Germany, then the RAF's ,'failure" . to take the Initiative was "inex cusable." - A prediction that the United (Continued on Page Two) Anxiety Felt for American Envoy -Missing on Flight LONDON. Nov. 13 (P) In creasing anxiety was expressed in London tonight over the safety of a plane carrying Laurence A. Stelnhardt, U. S. ambassador to Moscow, and Maxim Lltvlnoff, new soviet ambassador to Wash ington, which was understood to have left Kuibyshev, U.S.S.R., two day's ago for Teheran, Iran. Usually informed persons said they had no word as to whether search had been instituted along the route, adding that the only definite news that the plane was overdue came in press dis patches from Teheran. Officials said, however, there was a good chance that the plane had been forced down by weather at some point out of communication with Teheran or Kuibyshev. - The direct air line from Kuiby shev to Teheran is about 1300 miles, part of it over the Cas pian sea. , . u S., Britain Study Renewed Efforts ; To Make Pegce . HELSINKI, Finland, Nov. 13 (fl3) Finland does not consider the door closed to further nego tiations with the United States, a foreign office spokesman said to night He said Finland's note of yes terday; in effect rejecting an American warning against con tinuing her fight against Russia was meant to be only a cordial exposition of her reasons for warring on the soviet union. Finland, he declared, in no wise wanted to set obstacles to possible future diplomatic over tures from- Washington. - WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (fl3) The Finnish minister called at the state department today. while word spread in diplomatic circles that the United States " (Continued on Page Two) 15 Killed, 100 Injured by Quake In East Turkey ' ISTANBUL, Nov. 13 (fl) Fifteen persons were- killed, nearly 100 injured and heavy property damage done by an earthquake which shook the Erzjngan district in eastern Tur key yesterday, belated dispatches reported today The main shock came at 12:16 p. m. (2:18 a. m., PST) and lasted 20 seconds. - Erzingan was the center of an earthquake which killed hun dreds at Christmas time two years ago. Looking Backward By The Associated Press One year ago British report three of Italy's six capital ships put out of action by bombing raid on Taranto naval base. Two years ago Finnish dele gation prepares to leave Moscow as long negotiations over Russian demands end in deadlock. 25 years ago British advance on five-mile front in battle- of Ancre. Russians report German retreat in Dobrudja continuing, j Tl By PRESIDENT AIDSPASSAGE 212-194 Vote Scraps 'I Neutrality Bans. On War Pons WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (P) After eleventh hour intervention by President Roosevelt the house dramatically gave con' gressional approval today by a vote of 212 to 194 to legislation scrapping the neutrality act ban against arming American mer. chant ships and sending then) into combat zones. , Letter Read ' The momentous vote came af ter Speaker Rayburn, in a su preme effort to avert a major de feat for the administration's for eign policy,, descended to tha well of the house and read a let ter from the chief executive stat ing that failure of the house to approve the neutrality, act changes would "bister - aggre live steps and intentions in Ger many" and weaken the position of Britain, Russia and China... : Tension prevailed in the. clos ing hours of the day's .debate a influential republicans) . joined with the democratic leadership in appeals lor passage of the leg islation. .;- . ; ..: . . - .i ; In one of the appeals to which the hpuse and crowded galleries listened - most intently, . Rep. Wadsworth (R-N. Y.) said he felt a . profound conviction that what's lefLon the statute books of the neutrality act is injurious to the safety, of this nation." Immediately, after the votinff. Rayburn signed the bill, clearing the way for its dispatch to the White House, for President Roosevelt's signatures -'. la a letter to Speaker , Ray burn and Democratic Leader Mc- - before the house . prepared to vote on amendments - which would permit merchant ships to enter combat zones and belliger ent ports, the president said: ' Failure to repeal these sec tions would, of course, cause re joicing in the axis nations. Fail ure would bolster aggressive steps and intentions in Germany, luonunuea on rage Two) - March Field Flier Killed in Crash . At Palm Springs PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 13 (fl3) An army lieutenant from nearby March field, identified from a card in his billfold as Ellery Gross, was killed today in the crash of his P-38 interceptor plane. ' Police Officer. J. R. Maynard, who witnessed the accident, said it appeared that the pilot went into a roaring power dive and was unable to come out of it. - March field authorities sent a detail of investigators to . the scene, about two miles east of here. Cards in the pilot's billfold did not list his home town or relatives. ' - Officer Orest Johnson of Palm Springs police said wreckage was scattered over a wide area near the Southern Pacific ratlroad tracks. Johnson said he was watching the plane and saw a puff of smoke a it hit about four miles away. . . He said a restaurant owner near Garnet, a community on the railroad, reported the crash was hard enough to rattle window. News Index Agriculture Page a City Briefs Page 8 Comics and Story .......Page 12 Courthouse Records ...Page 4 Editorials Page 4 High School New ......Page 14 Information .Page 5 Market, Financial Page B I Midland Empire New Page 7 Pattern ... .. Pag 8 Sport Jake 10, It
