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THE EMPORIA GAZETTE VOLUME LO EIGHT PAGES EMPORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1941 NUMBER May Take i Marines Out Of China Surrounded by Japs, Small Forces Are in i Dangerous Position Washington, Nov. 7 President Roosevelt declared today that the government was considering the withdrawal of American marines from Peiping, Tientsin and Shanghai, China. hai, China. The Navy said' there are approximately 970 officers and I men on duty there. NO DECISION Mr.

Roosevelt told a press conference he did not khow when a decision would be reached. He declined to elaborate in any way on his statement. Thc President read to reporters from a memorandum a paragraph announcement which said: The President said today that the government of the United States is giving consideration to the question of withdrawal of the American marine detachments now maintained ashore in China at Peiping, Tient- sin and Shanghai. The Chief Executive did say In reply to a question that there had been no discussion between the United States and Japan at any time on the presence American marines In China. REFUSES INTERPRETATION.

He brushed aside questions whether withdrawal would create a new status, for American citizens In China. "What interpretation would you put on your announcement?" a i porter inquired. Mr. Roosevelt said he would not try to Interpret because there was a grave question whether interpretation was news. When he used to edit a paper, the Chief Executive declared, it was considered the duty of the editorial desk to make -any Interpretations, although times have changed.

ONLt 1,500 MEN. While the President no interpretation of the proposed withdrawal of marines, there bar been an opinion In war and for some time that the Amerlcsn military, forces in either be considerably increased withdrawn entirely. Peiping (Peking) and Tientsin are both now occupied by Japanese military forces and the International settlement at Shanghai, where marines are based. Is now entirely by Japanese-occupied surrounded territory. The marines at Peiping form legation guard and the marines at Tientsin and Shanghai have been considerably reduced in numbers Eince the Sino-Japanese war surged around that great Far Eastern port COULDN'T RESIST LONG.

Some American military authorities have taken the position that the presence of marines In China was a weakness rather than a strength, since their small number could not be expected to make effective resistance against any sizeable military forces, which would include possible action by the Japanese army. The United States navy also has several small gunboats operating on the Yangtze river and in other Chinese waters, also for the protection of American citizens and interests, but the President made no mention of these. Since the beginning of the war in China, and particularly since the increase in tension between the United States and Japan in the Far East, a large number of Americans have followed the United States government's advice and left danger yxjncs In China. At the last census of Americans still in China, it was estimated that fewer than 5,000 still remained there. Kansas Teachers Meet in 6 Towns Topeka, Nov.

7 school teachers, who have the largest organization in the state, met in six cities today to discuss the latest wrinkles in education and to hear about national defense and the new teacher retirement plan. Conventions were at Topeka, Wichita, Plttsburg, Hays, Salin and Dodge City and were expecte to draw a total of 20,000 pedagogs Sessions opened at most of th cities Thursday and will continu through Saturday. The conventions meant a 2-day holiday for all schoo children. General sessions were planned io this morning and tonight at eact city with departmental, seminar and round table groups occupying the rest of today and Saturday. Principal speakers at general ses sions Included: Hays and Dodg City, Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman St.

Louis, and Judge Camille Kel ley, Memphis; Salina and Wichita Ruth Bryan Owen, former minister tb Denmark, and Cornelius Vander bilt, journalist; Topeka and Pittsburg, Dr. Homer Price Rainey Texas university president, anc Stanley High, writer and radio commentator. Included on the programs were explanations of the new school em- ployes' pension law enacted las winter. Will Close on Armistice Day Business Men in Special Meeting Change Plans Emporia stores will close Armistice day as a result of a decision made at a mass meeting of business men in the Broadview hotel grill room this morning. The ac- ton was taken at a meeting called to reconsider the decision to remain open, which was reached Wednesday by the retail trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce.

While sentiment was not unanimous for closing, it was apparent merchants who desired to remain open will abide by the majority decision and the only businesses which will be open Sunday will be ihose which usually are open on Sundays and holidays. Difference of opinion developed at the meeting, but no argument resulted and the meeting ended with good feeling. The meeting was at- ended by 40 or more persons. To. get the discussion under way -K.

1 Calhoun moved that the 'decision be based on the ac- of the larger cities surrounding Emporia, which he said were remaining open. He argued that the decision should be made on what was best for Emporia. SPEAKS FOR WAR DEAD. John Ryan, county treasurer, and World war veteran, was first to He said he represented no Asks CAA Funds Washington. Nov.

7 President Roosevelt asked congress today for $58,160,725, mostly for the development, of airport facilities by the Civil aeronautics administration. "The expansion of the air forces of the army and navy creates a need for additional ports for tactical units, strategic purposes and training with ground troops," the request to Speaker Rayburn said. The projects to bs developed, the president's memor- andum added, already have been authorized. organization; but was speaking for he war dead, who could not be here to present their case. Mr.

Ryan pointed out that Armis- ice day was a national legal holi- lay proclaimed by the president of he United States and legalized by Kansas statutes as well. "Why then do you pick on Armis- ice day as a holiday which should not be observed?" Mr. Ryan asked, lyan argued that non-observance is breaking faith with the boys who died in the war and to emphasize lis stand, he quoted a few lines rom the poem "Flanders Fields." MOTION FOR CLOSING. After a full discussion of the situation, which showed plainly that majority favored closing, Mr. Calhoun's motion came to a vote ind was turned down overwhelm- ngly.

Edmun Dumm then moved hat the stores close on every Arm- stice day as long as the present national emergency lasts. He ex- jlalned that common sense should the scope of his motion, m- Icatlng that It probably was neces- ary that businesses which usually re open Sunday also be open on -rmlstlce day. Joe Kowalski said lat he was certain that the drug tores would remain open. Mr. Dumm's motion provoked -onsiderable more discussion, but carried so overwhelmingly that the chairman called for no "nay" vote.

I The Gazette will go to press at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning. New Ford Strike Detroit, Nov. 7 A strike by -J small group of welders who demanded wage adjustments closed the pressed steel division and final assembly line of the Ford Motor company's Rouge plant today, making 20,000 workers Idle, Rlch- ard T. Leonard, director of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) Ford department, said operations could have been resumed in five minutes except, for what he called the "hasty action" of Burnett, pressed steel superintendent, workers home. William division in sending other Wichita vs.

Emporia Hornets. Tickets at BUI Soden's and Sports Shop, $1 plus tax. "The loss was covered by Fred J. Scott Agency. Strive to Save Circus Elephants Are Sick Atlanta, Nov.

7 desperately ill circus elephants stood forlornly today in a straw-littered great sides heaving for the carcasses of seven dead companions were hauled away to a tallow works. The sick elephants were left behind as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus pulled stakes and moved on. Elephant men tried to keep the huje on their feet, saying if they laid down, "they 1 Just give up." When the show pulled out for today's engagement in Anniston. one of the four, Liz, was so ill that no hope was held for her and she died within a few hours. State Chemist Reynolds Clark examined the viscera of Puqua, tiny African pigmy elephant, and attributed the deaths seven pachyderrns to arsenic po'sonlng.

How they got the poison, or where, puzzled circus officials. General Show Manager George Smith said an analysis was planned of weeds and grass near the railroad siding where the elephant herd unloaded. F. D. R.

Against Lifting Lid qn Farm Prices Reported Ready To Veto Price Control Bill In Present Form Washington, Nov. 7 administration officials Mid todaj President Roosevelt would have the pending price-control bill, which critics say would permit Increases in the cost of agricultural commodities, if it reached desk in the form recommended by the house banking committee. At his press conference earlier In the day, the Chief Executive did not answer questions concerning ceilings for farm prices but It was learned authoritatively that the bill's restrictions against establishing ceilings for those commodities below the 1919-29 average were objectionable to the President. CALLED INFLATIONARY. They have been criticized by members of the committee as an "invitation to- Inflation" on the ground that they would permit prices for farm products, cotton, lamb, sugar and corn, to rise 20 per cent or more.

Despite the President's reported opposition, there was no immediate indication that the committee would attempt to revise the bill before it reaches the house floor. It has not yet been formally reported to the house, although the banking committee approved it last Saturday, but Chairman Steagall (D-Ala) said late last night he hoped to present it today and to call it up for house debate next Wednesday or Thursday. A Finnish Hint War With Reds May End Soon Frontier Security Only War Aim, Helsinki Radio Broadcast Reveals Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 7 W) The official Finnish radio has circulated abroad an important statement of alms which says that Pinland's war with Russia will be ended "as soon as the threat of renewed attack has been removed and her frontiers made secure." A broadcast implied that Finland would quit fighting once that aim was achieved, leaving to a peace conference of the dominant powers sometime in the Indefinite future Jic final determination of her new boundaries. DENIES NEGOTIATIONS.

Interpreting a reference to the jeace conference, authoritative 'innish sources said this in no way mplied negotiations with Soviet Russia. An English language broadcast on the Helsinki radio Thursday included extracts from a pamphlet published by the central union of Finnish labor organizations which ncluded the following, to quote in 'ull the most significant passage: DEFENSIVE ACTION. "Finland's war Is purely defensive and It will come to an end as soon as th threat of renewed attack has leen removed and her frontier has Jeen made secure." Another extract broadcast: "Our frontier cannot be finally determined until the coming peace conference." This. It was explained later, re- 'erred to a conference in the indef- nlte future and In no way implied negotiations with thc Russians. Finnish army correspondents reported further military successes today in East Karelia, where they said Continued on Page Two) Skygazer's Diary il o'clock today Minimum last night Maximum Thursday Minimum year ago 4 Maximum year aro TODAY'S FORECAST.

wtst; partly east tonight; Saturday fair and warmer; Sunday, fair with slowly' rising temperature. cloudiness; southeast; llgnt snow, flurries ex- trema tonight; Saturday, mostly, fair and slightly warmer; Sunday, Hit with rlslnff temperatures. cloudy; colder east tonight; Saturday mostly fair with Slowly rising 1 temperatures; Sunday, fair and warmer. Extended weather forecast for aECnsas, Missouri and Oklahoma from 8:30 November 7 to 3:30 p. November.

52, inclusive: Mostly fair weal tier but Borne cloudiness with light showers or snow flurries latter half of period. Temperature averaging 1 near or slightly below normal and precipitation generally slight. Railroads Agree To Wage Boost Carriers Accept Recommendation of Roosevelt Board Chicago, Nov. 7 Pour hundred general chairmen ol railway "flatly operating rejected" the five big brotherhoods today the per cent wage increase recommended by the President's fact-finding committee and urged their chief to execute the strike order voted last September 5. They reported there was universal dissatisfaction with the board's report among the 350,000 members of the union.

Chiel executives of the brotherhoods retired Immediately after receiving notice of the general chairmen's action. They said they expected to have an important announcement to make shcrtly. There was speculation that this would mean the setting of a date for a strike. A Fair, Cool Week-end Forecast Topeka, Nov. 7 conditions will make another attempt to dominate Kansas weather over the week-end, the forecast promis ed Sunshine appeared In the west today and would break through over most of the east part of the state Saturday, asserted Federal Meteorologist S.

D. Flora. Sunday wlH be fair with slowly rising temperatures. Chilly northwest winds held temperatures down generally today. Topeka had a low 30 degrees last night and the mercury hovered in the 30's most of this morning.

Missouri received snow but Kansas reported only light precipitation, mostly traces, the past 34 hours. FLOODS ENDED. Flora said Kansas' 1941 fall floods appeared to be history today. The Neosho and Marais Des Cygnes rivers in the southeast were back within their banks for the first time in weeks. Both flooded several times in the spring, summer and fall.

Introduction of cold weather is expected to hold down excessive precipitation and prevent further floods this season, although the ground is thoroughly moisture soaked, the weatherman explained. Freezing temperatures will blanket the state between 25 and 30 degrees generally. Top readings Saturday are expected to be near 45 to 50 in the east, portion and 50 to 55 in the west. The Fried Chicken Is Economical! Try it this week-end, fine fuli flavored, tender fries from our own fj. S.

Transmits Offer to Finns Washington, Nov. 7 WP) State department today made pubic memorandums of conversations which the United States transmitted to Finland information that Soviet Russia was prepared to talk ieace terms to end the Finnish- Russian war. One conversation, between Undersecretary of State Welles and Procope, the Finnish minister, ook place on August 18, and a talk etween 'Secretary of State Hull and 3 rocope on October 3. REPLY YET. Hull said at his press conference today he had not yet received a reply from the Finnish government concerning his declaration to the Finns that unless they stopped their offensive- against the Red army they would forfeit the friendship of the United States.

Release of a digest of Hull's conversation with Procope revealed that Hull had Informed the Finnish government that he was glad Finland had regained Its lost territories but that Hitler, "practicing loathsome barbaric methods, Is undertaking to conquer the earth" and that the United States was prepared to expend $75.000,000,000 if necessary "to aid in resisting and suppressing Hitler and HItlerism." Hull added that "the one question uppermost in the mind of my government with respect to Finland is whether Finland is going to be content to regain her -st territory and stop there, or whether she will undertake to go further, if she has not already done so. so that the effect of her course and action would be to project her on the side of Hitler into the general war between Germanv and Russia flocks. Brooks, Phor.e 36 or 111. and the other countries involved." Chicago, Nov. 7 (iPi Carriers' conference committees representing all Class 1 railroads in the United States announced today they had Jecided to accept the recommendations of President Roosevelt's fact 'Inding board for temporary wage ncreases for 1,250,000 railroad workers.

The committees issued the following statement: "The carriers' conference conunit- ees representing eastern, western ind southeastern railroads announced today that while they are disappointed in the recommenda- ions of the Tresldent's emergency board in their working rules, and vacation disputes, and despica he very heavy burden It imposes upon the railroads of the country, hey have concluded to accept the board's recommendations with re- pect to these Issues. HAD FAIR HEARING. "A full and fair hearing was held lefore the President's emergency loard as provided by law, and the ommittees feel that in this time national emergency, In the in- erest of national defense and in with the President's ad- Tess to delegates to the intcrna- lonal labor office, the board's ecommendatlons should be ac- epted." The board recommended wage of per cent for the 50,000 operating employes who had emanded boosts of 30 per cent The lowest paid of these now earns $5.06 a day. For the 900,000 non-operating workers, the board proposed nn av- on Pane 8m Ickes Is Named Coal Coordinator Washington, Nov. 1 designation of Secretary of the Interior Ickes as "solid fuels coordinator for national defense" was announced today by the White House Ickes for some time has been coordinator of petroleum and now will coordinate fuel problems of all types during the current emergency.

President Roosevelt, in a letter dated Wednesday, gave Ickes his additional Job. There was no exact definition of solid fuels, but evidently they would include coke, and, to a limited extent, wood, in addition to coal. Mr. Roosevelt wrote Ickes that: "As the defense effort progresses It becomes increasingly urgent io assure that the supply of solid fuels will be adequate and that they will be readily available at consuming piints when required for military, Industrial and civilian purposes. "Difficult problems are already arising with respect to their supply and availability for such uses.

"These problems require the efficient arid carefully coordinated development, production, distribution, utilization, transportation and handling of solid fuels." Ex-premier Held Vichy, Unoccupied France, Nov7 Largo Caballero, former premier of republican Spain, was arrested today along with a woman member of his cabinet at the request of Generalissimo Franco's government, which is seeking to have them returned for trial in connection with the Civil war. Caballero and the woman, Federica Montseny. were arrested at Crau and taken to Limoges for a preliminary extradition hearing. We all make mistakes sometimes but you'll never make one when you use Classified Ads. A Football Thriller.

Wichita U. vs. Emporia State, Saturday, 2 p. $1 plus tax. Bandit Gets $50 In Holdup Here Carries Sawed-off Shotgun to Rob A Drink Stand A bandit armed with a sawed-off shot gun held up Mrs.

L. R. Waller's cold drink staad at 409 South Commercial at 10:50 o'clock Thursday night and escaped after taking $50 from the cash drawer and from Mr. Waller's pocket. Four cars banned by city police and county officers failed to find a trace of the man.

The robbery was outside of the city limits. Mr. Waller said that he and Mrs. Waller were about to close for the night when a young man came in. He drank two bottles of beer and visited with them.

"The man was about through with his second bottle anu had como up to the stove remarking that the heat felt good," Mr. Waller said. "Suddenly I heard Mrs. Waller exclaim and I'looked up to see the man backing my 1 wife toward the cash drawer. He told me not to move and he soon had all the money in the cash' drawer.

He then came up to me and took my billfold I had 10 bills in my pocket and he got $40 out of the cash drawer." EVADES OFFICERS. Mr. Waller said the man left the store and started running across the street to the northeast toward Norton street. Mrs. Waller ran out of the building and stopped a car coming from the north.

Almost immediately, a police car, coming from the south and driven by Night Chief Clarence Jenkins, drove up stopped to investigate the trouble, according to Mr. Waller. Both cars were said to have started the search for the bandit. A call for more help brought another police car. She-riff Dan Rowlands and Deputy Sheriff Calvin Newcomer, each in a car, Joined the search.

Sheriff Dan Rowlands found a youth on foot. 1'4 miles east of Emporia on and he was brought in onty to be released when he was proved not to be the bandit. BANDIT WELL DRESSED. Mr. Waller said the bandit was well dressed in medium dark clothes.

He wore an overcoat and a hat. According to Deputy Sheriff Newcomer, the officers heard reports that the man, after running cast to Mechanic street, had escaped in a tan-colored car. Three Sentenced St. Louis, Nov. 7 Federal Judge George H.

Moore today sentenced three Kansas men on charges of attempting to transport liquor into Kansas, a dry state, Vlrl M. Keith, 37. Wichita, and Everett V. Hayes, 28, Valley Center, were sentenced to seven months. Ray Broom, 56, Kansas City, received a 9-month sentence and a fine of $1,000.

All pleaded guilty. Maximum sentence under the charge was a year In Jail and a fine of $1,000. Hayes and Keith were arrested February 12 in St. Charles county, with 50 cases of liquor In a car owned by Hayes. Broom was-arrested June 6 in St.

Louis. Green Is Invited Kansas City, Nov. 7 Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illinois has been invited to deliver the principal address at the Republican Kansas day dinner, traditional party rally.

January 29 at Topeka. Dale A. Fisher, president of the Kansas Day club, said Green was chosen because of his outstanding record in the Republican party. Fisher and other club officials met today to map the program for the big Republican meeting. Programs, Menus, We design dance programs, party menus, specialty printing of all kinds.

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Brooks. Phone 36 or able." Stalin Sees Nazi Collapse Within Year Prediction Comes As Nazis Admit They Are Halted In the Crimea (By the Associated Press) A slashing Russian counter offensive was reported throwing the Germans back In two sectors northwest of Moscow late today, while other good news for the anti-Axis cause was reflected in Premier Joseph Stalin's declaration that "Germany is bleeding to death facing disaster." Confidently, Stalin predicted that within a few months, perhaps year, the Reich would collapse "under the weight of her own crimes." Simultaneously, in England, Prime Minister Churchill told Britons "we have passed through the darkest and most perilous period of this struggle and are once more masters of our own destiny." MAY RELIEVE LENINGRAD. Informed quarters in London the Russian counter offensive was gathering momentum in the Volokolamsk sector, 65 miles northwest of Moscow, and might soon completely reopen Moscow-Lenin- 5rad communications and relieve the siege of Leningrad. In the other northwest sector, about Kalinin, 95 miles from Moscow, swift Red army mechanized units were reported to be smashing hard at Nazi forward positions. Kalinin, the scene of bloody street fighting in recent days, lies on the main rail line between Moscow and Leningrad.

Soviet advices said the Russians had already recaptured a secondary rail line in the Kalinin area. OPPOSITION IS STERN. Front line dispatches said Red troops, cavalry. artillery an planes had battered the Germans Into retreat, storming and capturing position after position, and that they were continuing the advance. In the south, a bulletin from Hitler's field heudquiirters for the first time acknowledged that the German-Rumanian drive into the Crimea peninsula wag meeting stubborn resistance, with Soviet Soviet rearguards harrying hc invaders In the fastnesses of the Crimean mountain.

1 The German high command made no specific claim of new advances, reporting merely that "pursuit'' of Red army defenders was continuing and that Nazi dive-bombers had smashed positions among the fortifications In Sevastopol, Russia's great Black Sea naval base. In his speech marking the 24lh anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution his second in two told the Soviet people: NAZIS WEAKENING. "Hunger and impoverishment are now reigning In Germany her resources are giving out. The spirit of revolt Is gaining possession not only of the nations of Europe who fell under the yoke of the German Invaders, but of the German people themselves, who see no end of the war. "The German Invaders are straining their last forces German military commentators acknowledged that the German offensive against Moscow had been stopped by weather conditions which prevented any large-scale a direct assault on the U.

S. S. R. capital. Earlier claims that Nazi troops had driven within artillery range of Sevastopol were repeated.

Soviet dispatches from the nor- therl front said the Germans hud attempted in vuln to regain the initiative before Leningrad, with hea- vy losses on both sides. Actual cap- ture of the city, under siege for' many weeks, was declared out of the question without strong reinforcements. NAZIS BOGGED DOWN. More and more. It appeared that the Germans were in for a bleak winter In the trenches both around Leningrad and Moscow.

In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war strategists were reported to be studying the possibility of opening a new British fighting front, as urged Thursday by Premier Stalin. Reliable sources in London said plans already had been formulated for a second front, "to be put into effect when the time is considered opportune," and the highly-placed British Press association added the' time "might be near." Stalin acknowledged that Russia had mat reverses but he declared the Nazis had miscalculated badly and that the Red army and navy now are "heroically beating off enemy attacks along the whole front." REDS STRONGER NOW. He recalled 1918 when ''three- quarters of our country was in the hands of foreign Interventionists," including the Ukraine, the Caucasus. Central Asia and the Urals. Then, he said, "we had no allies, no Red army but we were not! despondent" and "now we have allies now we have a splendid ar- my and a splendid navy we ex- perienced no shortage either in i food, arms or clothing our re- serves of manpower are inrxhaust- 1 we can.and must win victory over tho German invaders?" On the western front.

British bombers were said to have attacked Wllhelmshavcn, Hamburg and other places In northwest Germany during the night as well as the German-held port- of Le Havre. Reuters, British agency quoted the Oslo radio as stating British planes also raided that Ger man-occupied Norwegian capita early today. Worst Is Over, Churchill Says Newcastle, England, Nov. 7 Prime Minister Churchill, on an inspection tour of the Typnslde, declared today, "we have passec -hrough the darkest and most perilous side of this struggle and are once more masters of our own destiny." In a brief speech. said In reference to the eastern front 'the Russians are struggling and battling vigorously, with results which arc particularly He added that on the other side of the Atlantic "our kith and kin are struggling to see that we get all we need, and we find ourselves In a goodly company." The British are moving and looking forward, "however long the road," he said.

THE WAR TODAY. Stalin Expects Second Front But British Show No Signs Of Haste (Tills dally feature, conducted by DeWitt MacKenzie, is written today by Fred Vanderschmldt.) Fatalistically, Joseph Stalin today gives Nazi Germany "one year, maybe" before it explodes. He for his prediction a sort of black Friday for Germany, a day on which the Nazi armies before Woscow have suffered unexpected reverses and a day on which a llon dollars have been entered the credit of Soviet on Washington's lease-lend book. However. If one carefully considers Stalin's first speech, the one le made Thursday, It looks as If ils "one year, maybe" forecast IB based on the expectation that a second fighting front will be set up in western Europe within that time.

UP TO BRITAIN. "What Is the of temporary Jack of success of the Red Stalin asked. In Thursday's broadcast speech. of the causes Is definitely-the Jack a second front In Europe against he German Fascists. The mattei that at the present time on the European continent there are no armies of Great Britain and the United States conducting war against the Fascists." Coming from Stalin, this jound to have the most profound effect In England on public opinion, already querulous about he extent of aid which going to Russia.

It will hasten, although lot. nccesKarlly change, the plan ol he Imperial general staff- for the ipening of a second front. JRIVE IN LIBYA. The British do not conceal the 'act that such a plan exists and hey nay it will be put into effect when "the time opportune." Well-grounded Informants here and Washington believe that the Irst phase of this plan Is a large- offensive to stamp out the Germans in Libya, and that the econcl front on the continent will )e opened up from African bases, possibly in Italy. The main flow of American- made mechanized equipment Is be- ng directed into Africa: In Egypt he British, with the aid of American military experts have set up a service of supply of tremendous potentiality.

Only from the air Is he British Mediterranean fleet challenged, and Britain's own Middle Eastern air force dally gathers strength. Senate to Stay In Session Until Neutrality Vote Washington. Nov. 7 senate agreed today to limit debate on neutrality legislation to 10 minutes for each after 5 p. eastern standard time, and Democratic Leader Barkley announced the chamber would remain In session until it had reached a vote.

Burkley proposed the debate limitation mid-way in the eleventh day of debate on administration legislation to permit the arming of merchant ships and allow them to sail into belligerent zones. Senator Nye (R-ND). speaking In opposition to the bill at the time, said he had no to the arrangement. After the debate limitation was agreed upon, Barkley announced simply that the "senate will sit until we obtain a vote." To Rebuild Engines Parsons, Nov. 7 A program to rebuild 85 locomotives is under way at the Mksourl-Kansas-Texas railroad shops here where 325 men now are employed.

H. M. Warden, chief mechanical officer, said 12 large type engines were to go through the shops at once for complete overhauls costing from to $18.000. He said this would put the locomotives in almost good condition as new engines costing around $120,000, A Billion in to i Soviet Russia The Credit, for Arms, to Be Advanced Without Interest Washington, Nov. 7 (f) United States backed the hard- pressed armies of Russia with ft billion dollar lease-lend credit today.

President Roosevelt directed deliveries "to commence immediately and to be fulfilled in the largest possible amounts" until the huge stores of munitions represented by the fredit are in Soviet Tills new assistance program posed for the nation as a stupendous task both in production and transportation if the supplies are to reach the Russian fronts in effective time, but Mr. Roosevelt Indicated definite confidence that the job could be done. WELL-TLMED. The unheralded decision to extend lease-lend aid to Russia was announced late Thursday by the State department. Whether by accident or design, the announcement was psychologically well- timed.

It came on the eve of the Soviets' great national 24th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. And It followed by a few hours the radio address of Premier Joseph Stalin, in which the Russian leader spoke of the "great importance" of the aid already being received from Britain and the United States. The announcement was in the form of an exchange of correspondence between Mr. Roosevelt and Stalin. In a letter dated October 30, Mr.

Roosevelt wrote that the $1.000,000,000 credit was being made available without interest, and that Soviet repayment would not commence until live years after the war's end. Replying on November. 4, Stalin agreed to the credit terms and voiced the "sincere gratitude" of Russia for this "unusually substantial aid In Its difficult and struggle against our common enemy, bloodthirsty HItlerism." Taken somewhat unaware IJT the credit disclosure, Capitol Hill reacted along expected lines. The staunch supporters of administration foreign policy saw hi the decision a'. wise move to bolster Russian stand against Hitler and thus contribute to hla eventual ISOLATIONISTS HORRIFIED.

A chorus of condemnation the opposite camp. Mr. Hoosevelt was charged with giving away the huge sum without the consent of the American taxpayers who foot the bill. Senator (R-ND) commented acidly: "When we passed the Icaac-lend law. It was to aid democracies.

Now it to give Brother Jar, one billion with no its, no anda, no buts." The credit will come from (5.985,000,000 second lease-lend ap- )ropriation which congress recently enacted. When the measure was Contlnurd nn "laim a Capture Vichy, Unoccupied France, Nov. 7 arrest of an alleged group of terrorist said to have ieen responsible for the n-ssasslna- lon of Lt. Col. Paul Frledrlch Hotz, German commander at Nantes, was announced today by police.

They declared, too, that they were elope in the trail of another group which jlanncd thc assassination of Dr. Sans Gottfried Relmers, Gernuiit military lawyer, at Bordeaux Octo- 21. One hundred French hostages, half at Nantes and half nt Bordeaux, were executed by German firing squads last month In reprisal for the killings, and 100 more were held. Soldier Wounded Little Rock. Ark, Nov.

7 soldier identified by Camp Robinson authorities as Pvt. Lawrence E. Pugh, 25, GreensburE. stood in a downtown shooting gallery this afternoon and fired a -22 pistol Into a target six straight times, then fired two more shots. One went wild.

The last entered his left breast. Just missing his heart. He was removed to civilian hospital in a serious condition. Camp records showed was a member of Company 137th infantry. Hike Figures on Russian Losses Berlin, Nov.

7 military spokesmen declared today their tabulations showed Russian, losses amounted to 7.000.000 to 8,000,000 men killed, captured or otherwise put out of action. These figures were disclosed In reply to Premier Stalin's speech Thursday placing Russian losses at 350.000 killed. 373.000 missing and 1,020,000 wounded. said German losses four monihs of the war with Russia totaled 4,500.000 men.i The spokesmen fald Soviet last month alone amounwd 1.200.000 and added that Russian units" Moscow di- 1 nlhilated." anee, 601 Commercial. Phone 306.

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