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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1941)
m WEATHER High 40i Lew 21 PRECIPITATION HUNTERS! SUNRISE TABLE Sunday. Novtmber 13 24 hours to 6 m. .. Season to data ....... Normal precipitation Last year to data .... IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS KOST i .... AIM CLAM ATI! FALIS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1941 Number 9441 mm i Bunrlit 7iOO ! j Duok hunting to 4 p. m. - - I ruAAAriAnnrinAn-n.annannfinriryrv,-,-i-i-i-rrrr n ;io ti In The ; Day -'News ' - f . In i X Br FRANK JENKINS THERE ro three intcrcatlnK today: 1. The British are terlously threatening to tmush the Gcr 1 mani In Africa. (It li obvloua that the Itollnni thoro are a neg llglblo quantity.) 2. Petaln li going to Pnrli to meet a high German person ago" presumably Hitler. 3. Hitler la driving HARDER THAN EVER at Moscow. TO these we can add a fourth straw, which makes Its ap pearance for the first time today: The Whlto House announces Germany It planning n European conference of soma sort to be held In December or January "on ' same occasion considered pro pitious by Germany" and prom ising some "high-sounding for mula of economic rehabilitation and restoration of Independence for all EUROPEAN nations." T ET'S do some guessing here: , Hltle." CANT SPARE enough lot his own troops to stop tho British In Africa as he did a year ago. rrhat would be IMPORTANT, Jf true, for It would bo the first time he hat lacked the resources to strike any place and any time it teemed necessary.) . -- So he't cooking up deal with the beaten French to do hit fight ing In Africa whllo he throws everything he hat Into an at tempt to smash Russia NOW, 'THIS conclusion It more or lest Inevitable: . Hitler hasn't got the world by the tall, at he 'hat hud to for since the war began. - "TODAY'S reports of the pro posed European conference are extremely hazy, but one it inclined to guess that If such a conference la being plannod it Is a sign of fear on Hitler's part rather than a tlgn of confidence I In hit own strength. Europe's conquered nations haven't been submissively lick ing hit conqueror's hand and crlnglngly offorlng their help in the furtherance of hit tchemes. There have been widespread re ports of sabotage, assassination and guerilla warfare So for Hitler hat tried repres sion with tho stern hand shoot ings against walls, wholesale massacres by troops, etc. Now (If these "conference reports ere to bo believed) ho't talking of "economic rehabilitation" and "restoration of Independence" for all European nations. QNE it reminded Inevitably of v the old Jingle to tho goncral effect that the devil when well is anything but a saint but when SICK a "saint would be." . -. MflELIABLE quarters" in Eu rope tell tho Associated Press today that Germany It pre pared to transform tho armistice . with France into a permanent ' peace settlement In return for aweeplng concessions in northern Africa. Presumably these sweeping concessions would include Medi terranean bases, a route across France and through Spain into Africa, use of tho French fleet 1 against the British and possibly j (Continued on Pago Two) Looking Backward By The Associated Press ' Ono year ego Greeks capture Corlzza (Korltza), key Italian boso In southern Albania. Turks, pressed by axis to Join "tho now order," declare mnrtlal Inw in virtually all sections of European Turkey,: ( : Two years ago Hungary's suggestion that Rumania settle differences over .Transylvania is 0 received coldly in Bucharest. Twenty-five years ago Ar - tlllery batteries duel in the Sommo region. AuBtrlnns and Germans continue pressure in the' Wallachlan region of Ru t mania, Nazis Union Agrees To Coal Mediation! Asks Strike End Board Accepts F.R.'s Proposal for Mine Peace Parleys WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (VP) Tho United Mine Workers policy committee accepted President Roosevelt's proposal to refer the captive mine controversy to a board of arbitration and recom mended an immediate return to work of all strikers in both the captive and commercial mines. The board was immediately named by the president to con' slst of John R. Stcclman, head of the labor department's con dilation service, as the public representative, Benjamin Fair lest, president of U. S. Steel, representing the steel Industry, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, repre senting labor. To Accept Decision Later the mine union chief tain . told press conference emphatically the policy commit tee wouia anmo oy wnatever decision -.the. arbUratorl 'might reach.'.' Already the executive of the tteel companies which own the captive mines had agreed to arbitration. Some 84,000 captive coal miners have been on strike since Saturday midnight and , steel production already had begun to decline. Also sympathizing miners In commercial shafts had left their Jobs by tho thousands These too were called back by today t policy committee action The three arbitrators were dl reeled to set to work at once and keep at work until the or bitratlon It completed. Lewis took occasion at his press conference to denounce William H. Davit, chairman of the detente mediation board, which rejected - tho union shop demand, 9 to 2. Ho accused D a v 1 a of "sinister Intrigue' which the labor leader said was responsible for "misleading the country and confusing public thought. 'The UMW and Its member (Continued on Pago Two) CIO Asks Union Shop, Assails NLRB, FBI DETROIT, Nov. 22 (P) Tho congress of Industrial Organi zations concluded its fourth an nual national convention today with a demand that all employ ers accept the principle of the union shop, criticism of the na tional labor relations board and an attack on the federal bureau of investigation. Resolutions on those subjects were approved by the delegates during the closing session in the wake of the re-election of Presi dent Philip Murray and other officers of the organization, As one of their last acts, the delegates registered a "protest against the use of tho FBI to oppress and harass any labor organization in tho pursuit of their legitimate activities" and reaffirmed their support of the union shop the big Issuo in the captive coal mine strike of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers union. The convention censured tho national labor relations board, charging that it showed bias against the CIO and refused to set aside "collusive contracts with anti-labor employers," Tho union shop resolution stated: "In view of tho nation's need for Industrial, harmony, wo call on all employers to accept tho principle of the union shop us a practical means of contributing to harmonious relationships be tween employers and cm ployeet,", . j Take Rostov F. R. Approves Bill to Curtail Strikes, Report WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP) Despite settlement of tho cool strike pending arbitration, Chairman Norton (D-N.J.) of the house labor committee said after a White House conferenco today that President Roosevelt approv ed of lier committee reporting some bill to curb defense strikes. Mrs. Norton told reporters that the president "thinks it Is quite Important that we should decide on some bill." She added she told the presi dent the committee hoped to have a bill ready next week. "We want to prepare a bill," she said, "that will not harm tho existing labor laws and at tho tame time try to cover the present situation." MILK PRICE JUMP SET DECEMBER 1 Second Boost in Six Months Caused by Defense Needs Milk prices will jump to 13 cents a quart in Klamath Falls on December 1. It will be the second increase in six months, the present price of 12 tents having been established on June 1. Producers and distributors of market milk products met at the Federal building Saturday and decided on the December 1 boost, on the basis of increased production costs and a growing demand for dairy products for overseas shipment under the lease-lend act. Competition Keen At the Saturday meeting, pro ducers and distributors asserted that an increase, in returns to dairymen will bo necessary if the present supply of milk and other products for Klamath Falls and Klamath county points is to be maintained. Through the government pur chase program, commodities (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Protests Italian Arrest of American Rector WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (ff) Tho United States has lodged a strong protest wllh tho Italian government against tho . arrest and continued detention of tho Reverend Hiram Gruber Woolf of Elmlra, N. Y., rector of St, Paul's Protestant Episcopal church in Rome. Secretary Hull instructed George Wadsworth, American charge d'affaires in Rome, to de liver tho formal written protest, It was learned today, as soon as tho embassy had made a full re port of all known circumstances surrounding Mr.' Woolf's arrest. Jap Newspaper Sees Kurusu Failure TOKYO, Nov. 22 (P) Failure of the mission of Saburo Kurusu, special Japanese envoy to the United Stales, was foreseen by the Tokyo newspaper Nlchi Nichi today In a front-page interview telephoned by its Washington correspondent. It reported that United States officials saw no room for further negotiations If Japan's policy con tinued to be based upon the throe points made by Premier General Hidekl Tojo in his recent speech before the diet, and drew the con duslpft of a stalcpiate from this. - OIL OUTLET FALLS AFTER L0NG8IEGE Moscow Defenders in Trouble as New Push Heavy LONDON, Nov. 22 (AP) Rus sian troops fighting against two terrific axis onslaughts were re ported forced back at Rostov by overwhelming odds whilo at the approaches to Moscow they still withstood one of tho biggest bat tics of the five-monuu-old war. (A Moscow broadcast which said the red army at Rostov was "fighting courageously but fore ed to retreat" did not make cleat whether they still held any park. of the town which the German high command declared had been captured.) . Hard Pressed Defenders on the Moscow front admittedly were hard pressed by tho new nazl onset which beat in waves against every road to the capital. ' Military oj .vi a declurecf that the Germans - had Jiurled into tho fclg'push ""proBably the largest concentration of forces ever seen in modern warfare." An authority in London said the Ge. . n army apparently had been ordered to drive to Moscow at all costs. ' By ALVIN J. STFINKOPF BERLIN, Nov. 22 (AP) The capture of Rostov-on-Don, whicn a German military spokesman called "the spigot to the Russian oil barrel," was announced by the high command today. A special communique said that German forces, helped by powerful air blows, stormed into the northern gateway to the Cau cams, in a final, violent assault Capture of the port, industrial center and communications hub where the Don river flows into the Sea of Azov, stops tho direct flow of Caucasian oil into cen tral Russia, the military com mentator asserted. Baku and other Caspian Sea (Continued on Page Two) Confession Of Train Suspect Under Scrutiny SUSANVILLE, Calif., Nov. 22 (P) Questioning the "confes sion" of a young railroad work er that he wrecked the $2,000, 000 streamliner City of San Francisco, Sheriff Olin S. John son arranged to take tho man today to the scene of the wreck which killed 24 persons and in jured 108. Thirteen of the crack South ern Pacific passenger train's 17 cars left the tracks near Harney, Nev., on Aug! 12, 1939. An of ficial report of the Interstate Commerce commission blamed a deliberate plot in which a set tion of rail was removed. Johnson identified the section hand as Clarence J. Alexander, 24, Clco Springs, Okla. "Ho says he wrecked the train, and sticks to it even after hours of questioning, and being told tho penalty," Johnson said. "Mnybe he did, and maybe he didn't. I have my doubts about (Continued on Page Two) Railroad Labor Parley Continues , WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (If) Representatives of railroad man agements and employe brother hoods agreed today to meet again, probably lato today, in an effort to reach an agreement on wage increase demands and avert a nation-wide rail strike. This agreement followed an other conference with President Roosevelt, who has talcen an active part for a week in moves to bring the two tides together. British in BIR EL MV jS ..." LIBYA- fcF f; . . EG T P Tea &nauu arrow indicate main iJritun drive in tne offensive in Libya, reported to have smashed dote to Tobruk, where a besieged British garrison was reported attacking southward in an apparent effort to dote a ring around axis uniti to the east. The RAF said German tanks and trucks were moving west from Salum (broken arrow). Smaller arrows and wedges indicate British mom in addition to the main push. . . .. - PETIIYTM African Grant Seen .Price of French ; Peace Treaty NEW YORK, Nov; 22 (AP) Germany is prepared to trans form her armistice with France into a formal peace settlement in return- for ' sweeping conces sions in North Africa, reliable quarters in Europe informed the Associated Press today. These quarters said Germany's desire for air bases and routes for transport of men and sup plies to help withstand the Brit ish offensive in Africa lay be hind the vigorously pursued ne gotiations of the past 10 days. Although no word from Berlin was forthcoming on any aspect of the Vichy situation, one Euro pean political observer said he believed it was apparent the nazis attached more importance to winning France to their new order than to having Italy in tho fold. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Nov. 22 (If) The announce ment that Marshal petaln is going to the German-occupied zone of France to meet a "high German personage", was author ized today. . ' . An authorized source would go no further, however, than to ac knowledge that there is a paral lel between this Journey and the trip the chief of state made in October, 1940, to meet Adolf Hitler. This source said It was "rumored" that Petain's report ed trip was arranged by Fernand do Brinon, Vichy's representa tive in Paris, when he came here on the day that General Wey gand retired as pro-consul of French North . African posses sions. Officially, however, the gov ernment still denied that Petain (Continued on Page Two) Sevits Judgment Delayed for Week SACRAMENTO, Nov. 22 (AP) Judgment in the case of Clifford W. Sevits, former cashier-secretary of the Butte Valley State bank at Dorris who pleaded guilty to a charge of violating the federal reserve bank act by making false entries, was post poned today until next Friday Federal Judge Martin W Welsh referred the case last week to the probation officer on Sevits' plea for probation, and the officer today asked addition al time to complete his report. COLD WAVE ' DENVER, Nov. 22 (Jf) A cold wave that pushed the mercury well below zero in Montana moved southward across Wyom ing today, Butte, Mont., had a minimum of 21 degrees below zero last night. Havre reported eight below, Helena and Billings lour below. Encirclement Drive in Irish Defeat USC. 20-18; Fordham Wins SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 22 (AP) Notre Dame ended its 1941 football season today unde feated but once tied, after beat ing back a stubborn Southern California eleven, 20-18, before a .capacity crowd .of 56.000. The Irish led 13 to 12 at the half. then added a touchdown and a point in the third period, only to see the Trojans ram over a third touchdown late .in the final quarter.. POLO GROUNDS; New .York, Nov. 22 (AP) Fordham'a foot ballers spotted St. .Mary 't a first period - touchdown today . and then came back -to score four times through the air and once on the, ground to trample the Californians 35 to 7 before a crowd of 40,000 in the Polo grounds. Fint Santa Clara 6, UCLA 0 Half Washington 7, Oregon 0 First WSC 14, Gonxaga 0 : Half OSC 13. Montana 0 Temple 31, Holy Cross 13 ' West Virginia 6, Army 7 -Penn State 31, Pitt 7 Ohio 20, Michigan 20 (tie) Purdue 0, Indiana 7 " Wisconsin 6, Minnesota 41 ' Navy 21, Princeton 0 St. Mary's 7, Fordham 35' ' Georgia Tech 7, Florida 14 , Clemson 34,-Furman 6 '' Tennessee 20, Kentucky 7 Southern California 18, Notre Dame 20 ' : Iowa 13, Nebraska 14 Second Montana State 0, Idaho 26 ' . ; Tennessee 20, Kentucky 7 i Duke 65, N C State 6 ' Colgate 30, Columbia 21 ' , Rice 0, Texas Christian 0 (tie) , Yale 0, Harvard 14 -Penn 18, Cornell 0 - Boston University 7, Boston Col lege 19 Leading German Flier Killed BERLIN, Nov. 22 (if) Lieut- Col. Werner Boelders, regarded by Germans as their greatest pursuit airman, was injured fa tally today in a crash on his way to the Russian front, Dienst Aus Deutschland announced. Moelders, credited with 103 air victories, was returning to the eastern front with other offi cers in a transport plane. They had attended the funeral of Col. Gen. Ernst Udet, who had super vised the development of. Ger many's fighting planes. Twin Destroyers ; Slide Down Ways KEARNY, N. J., Nov. 22 (If) The navy launched the 1,630-ton twin destroyers, Aaron Ward and Buchanan, today at the navy-op erated Federal Shipbuilding and Dry t)ock company yards. . Rear Admiral Harold G. Bow- en, naval officer in charge of the yards, termed the launchlngs a "reply to the torpedoing of the Kearny." The vessels are sister ships of the Ksarby, , . Libya FIVE POWERS EYE JAP PAGiFIG PUSH Hull Reports Trends . 1 of Conferences ''. ' . With' Kurusu . WASHINGTON. Nov. 22 (AP) Secretary . Hull is expected to confer again tonight . on Far Eastern problems with Ambassa dor -Nomura and Saburo . Ku rusu, Japan's special envoy, state .department officials said today.". :.-'. -; v Lord!. Halifax', the British am bassador.: reported after a long conference off diplomats at the state department that complete harmony existed in tin positions taken, on Pacific problems by America, Britain, Australia, China and the Netherlands.. The ambassador made it clear to newspapermen that Secretary ! of State Hull was keeping these interested governments com- pletely informed of all develop ments in .his handling of the sit uation.. T Dr. Hu Shih, tthe Chinese ambassador, got up from a sick bed and Joined tthe gathering two hours after Hull began con ferring with Lord Halifax, the British ambassador; Richard G. Casey, the Australian minister and Dr. A. L. Loudon, the Dutch minister. . While there was no official announcement concerning the purpose of the conference it was considered significant that Hull would confer with representa tives of these powers after the comprehensive exchange of views on Far Eastern problems he h,as held with Japanese en voys during tthe past week. Italians Surrender Near Gondar '' NAIROBI,' Kenya Colony, Nov 22 (UP) Surrender of two Italian garrisons at Culquabert and Ferroaber in Ethiooia east of Lake Tana yesterday was an nounced today in a Joint British army and airforce communique The capture of the "strong position" of Culquabert, it said, opened the way for a final at tack on the main Gondar de fenses 10 miles south of that city. France Replies to American Protest VICHY, Unoccupied France, Nov. 22 (If) A semi-official re ply tonight to the U. S. note blaming pressure by Adolf Hitler for the removal of Gen. Maxine Weygand as pro-consul in north Africa said that Weygand's re tirement was merely a "change of personnel. U. S. Secretary of State Hull had 'charged the Vichy govern ment with yielding to German pressure in letting Weygand go. The reply said the French did not . understand why Weygand's retirement should alter French- American relations. ' AXIS TANKS PUSH TO ESCfpP British . F o r g e . Steel Triangle Around Axis Forces . V CAIRO, Egypt, Nov.. 22 WV The long-besieged British garri son at Tobruk has broken out of the axis semi-circle around the port and German and Italian armored forces split and partly cut off in eastern Libya are be ing ground between British tank columns, the eighth army head quarters declared today. ' '' , The Tobruk garrison, est off by land since April 11, was said to be making steady progress in the face of heavy opposition to a drive started yesterday to Join British spearheads holding Re zegh, on the inland plateau 10 miles outside the perimeter of Tobruk defenses. ' : By nightfall of the first, day. the British said, the Tobruk foro es had seized positions thre miles southeast of their old de fense line. .... "". .- War on Tanks :,-., .' One high army officer assert ed that "the aim of the British command is to destroy the Ger man tank force in Libya," and, added "that is what we are do-. . ing weaW!'??'"''1'' 3: i'The whole campaign, British spokesmen emphasized, hinged on the war of tanks. - - ; The British reported that by last night they " had destroyed half of the axis tank strength in Libya. This has been estimated as at least two German tank di visions and one Italian tank dl- -vision, exclusive of other mech anized Units. . : British tank losses were not disclosed but it was said they were definitely smaller than those of the Germans and. Ital ians. . ' ' : '" Thus, confidently, British sour ces summed up the first four days of their lightning offensive into Libya which, from Tuesday . dawn until last night, had stab bed 80 miles into axis territory and, the British say, scored a de cisive victory in the first collision of massed tank armies. . In Triangle The Libyan battlefield was de scribed as a vast triangle enclos ing more than 2,000 square miles, (Continued on Page Two). , Berlin Calls Conference On European Plan ' Washington, Nov. 22 UP) Th White House announced today It had heard Germany was plan ning a - conference promising some "high-sounding formula of economic rehabilitation and res toration of Independence for all European nations." . ; ' ' England, the White House said, was excluded from the list of na tions invited to the reported con ference. Stephen Early, White Houm press secretary, made the an nouncement and commented that the conference "should be ' dis counted well ahead of time by. people who really believe in de mocracy and oppose military domination not only of Europe" but of the entire world." He made the informal state ment upon being questioned by reporters whether Hitler waa promising some form of "eco nomic peace. . .' Reading from penciled notes, the secretary said President Roosevelt and the state depart (Continued on Page Two) ; , ; Newt Index ." ', ; City Briefs Page S Comics and Story ... Page 13 Courthouse Records Page 2 Editorials Page 4 Information .;...........Page ,8 Market, Financial .-. Page 9 Pattern Page .9 Society ...........Paget S, 6, 7, , 0 Sports :...'..Y Pag It Weekend, PictHret .ag? t VI
