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miA 6741 EVENING RECORD Stoneboro Citizen THE RECORD-ARGUS NINETY-THIRD 271 NEWS OP TMS WORLD ruLt, MARKET REPORTS GREENVILLE, TUESDAY, NOV. 18. 1941 COMPLM ASSOCIATEO pfticsa LJUASBO WtRlB REPORTS Egl FARMERS HEAR Officials Outline TNT Plant Work Speakers Tell Mass Meeting at Geneva Not to Sacrifice Equipment, Or Plan to Move Until Government Acts; FSA Offers Financial Help to Those Needing Advise Farmers to Look Over Wider Area for New Homes. The little community of Geneva became the mecca of landowners and interested spectators from miles around, last evejimg, as government officials preparing for the Keystone Ordnance Works clarified action that the government will £fe t0 acc uire for the erection of the $10,000,000 plant in that vicinity. Interest was at a high pitch, as evidenced by the early crowd gathering at the Second Advent Christian Church long fc? meeting time scheduled at 8 p.

m. Speakers from the Meadville office were obliged to elbow their way through 1m In Inn the crowded aisles to the platform, Where tho overflow lined the edges oC the Windows were raised in order that thoso on the outside, unable to got in, might hear the words that meant for some, an eager new and for others, a tearing away i of the old. Rosa Clark, a resident of Greenwood Township for the past GO years, acting as chairman of the meeting, reminded the landowners of the assessed value of Greenwood Township property, set at and remaining the samo for tho past ten or twelve years. C. O.

Schofield, project manager, was the chief speaker for the government group. He stated the gov- e'rnrrfent's urgent need for the TNT plant and compared the evaluation of tho landowners in the 25-square mile area to that of the boys in the on to do their bit for defense. Pie confirmed tho area outlined in recently published maps as being project area proper. but did not definitely delineate final boundaries. This information re- F.D.R.

ASKS CIO TO COOPERATE Message to Detroit Convention Applauded by Delegates. Detroit, Nov. 18 President Roosevelt called upon the CIO today to cooperate in the production of arms "without delay and without interruption." In a message to the ClO's annual convention, the Chief Executive said: "We need guns, tanks, planes and ships and wo must produce guns, tanks, planes and ships without delay and without interruption, and ths American people and their government are determined that we shall have them. "I have every confidence that your mains in the hands of the archi- members, recognizing the imperative needs of the American people in the interest of American defense will cooperate with all other American groups in the common and the patriotic interest. Americans will demand such a contribution from labor and from all other groups for tho preservation of home, family, religion and nation." Mr.

Roosevelt also called for the rcestablishment of peace in the ranks of organized labor as a patriotic step of great importance in creating national unity. Tho President's message was read to the delegates by CIO President Philip Murray and evoked applause. Murray promised that an "appropriate reply" would be forthcoming later. Earlier, tho delegates cheered a call for formal endorsement of President Roosevelt's foreign policy, a denunciation of Charles A. Lindbergh and a plea for extension of all possible aid and coopei-ation to Hitler's enemies.

HULL HOLDS CONFERENCE DETAILS MINERS CHEER VOTE TO SUPPORT LEWIS tect's engineer at Washington and boundaries may be changed somewhat, he said. "I have no information that I am holding back as to the location of the plant," Mr. Schofield continued. "That, for some time will remain a military secret." MONEY TO BE PAID QUICKLY In regards to the length of time given owners to move their goods, the project manager stated that option gives the United States immediate possession as soon as it is accepted in Washington. Provided there aro 110 clauses in the option, tho average number of days runs from 60 to 00 before money is received for property.

Tho government will need tho land in a 'hurry and in accordance, the moaey will bo given in a hurry. Appraisement of the property seemed to bo the chief concern of the people involved. Mr. Jacobs, of Washington, chief of appraisers, stated that appraising was a tor of opinion rather than a science, and that it was not their Intention to buy land cheaply but at a fair price. If the appraiser and landowner cannot see eye to eye on tho appraisement value the owner is under no compulsion to accept it, but has opportunity to produce evidence to show higher value to tho court of last resort.

Any opinion is not final until tak- (Continued on page li) Talks Further With "Still Hopeful" Japanese Ambassador Nomura. AMERICANS SEEN IN FIGHTING MOOD Tokyo Reveals That Special Envoy Brought Nothing New. Washington, Nov. 1 8 (AP) The Japanese ambassador talked for two hours and 45 minutes with Secretary of State Hull today and told reporters afterwards he was "still hopeful" of reaching an understanding oh Japanese- American difficulties. The ambassador, Kichisa- buro Nomura, voiced an optimistic view before the conference began and when he and the special Japanese emissary, Saburo Kurusu, emerged from the secretary's office after the lengthy conversation his first positive statement was a repetition of this confidence that the prospects were hopeful.

Arriving at the Sta-te Department with Japan's special emissary, Saburo Kurusu, for a conference with Secretary Hull, Nomura asked waiting reporters. "Why are the newspapers here all so gloomy? We are very hopeful." With a smiie the ambassador added: "You Americans are always in a fighting mood. Why are you so war minded?" When a reporter suggested that the newspapers in Tokyo today did not sound exactly peace-minded, Nomura laughed. Tokyo, Nov. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo told parliament today that Saburo Kurusu, Japan's special envoy to "carried no new instructions" but intimated that the outcome of his mission would determine Japan's interpretation of her obligations under her Axis alliance.

Premier General Hldeki To jo and Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada declared to the same session that Japan's army and navy were fully ready for any eventuality, but these statements replied to questions concerning relations with Russia rather than the United States. Congress Begins! toMakeDemandi For Crackdown White House Conference Considers Both Coal and Railroad Situation; First Disorder at West Virginia Mine Where Two Men Are Wounded in Shooting; Commercial Mines May Stage Sympathy Walkout to Aid Steel Co. Miners. Miners employed in the "captive" mine of the National Mining la Brldgevllle. cheer after taking a vote to support John Lewis In the coal dispute.

Negotiations for a settlement of the captive mine dispute were terminated in Washington the same day without agreement THANKSGIVING FOOD TO BE HIGHER Chicago, Nov. traditional Thanksgiving feast, of deepest significance this year, will cost Americans more than at any festivity in the past decade, food price statistics indicated today. Measured in the cost of the various food items, market experts estimated probably 16 per cent more cash must be laid on the counter to get the same basketful which, a year ago, came at a bargain. BRITISH HALT The foreign minister, replying to a questioner, said the outcome of th talks which Kurusu began in Washington yesterday with President (Continued on page 5) Shipbuilders in Scotland Stop Work for More Pay. Glasgow, Scotland, Nov.

Thousands of Clydeside shipbuilding workers stopped work 'at 4 30 p. m. (10:30 EST.) today in a 30- mlnute "token" strike protesting a delay in negotiations for a a week wage increase. Planners of the strike estimated 100,000 workers would participate. The walk-out took place in the face of a last-minute appeal issued by A.

V. Alexander, first lord of the Admiralty, who. declared the work stoppage would be a poor return for all that the Russian allies were suffering and sacrificing in their fight GERMANS FORCED BACK, REDS STATE Official Dispatch Reports NO OUTCOME IN 8-Mile Nazi Setback at Tula. DECLARE GERMANS RUN IN STREETS CLOVER FARM CELEBRATES 10 YEARS STORE COOPERATION DORMITORY JOB STARTED AGAIN Owners of Clover Farm stores and their wives numbering nearly 140, last night attended a dinner in the Kinsman Colonial tearoom, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of tho Clover Farm division in Greenville and Butler regions. Following the dinner, an entertaining and informative program took place, with Howard Haas, of Fredonia, presiding as toastmaster.

Among the speakers were Max Sauer, Leesburg, editor and author of the book "The Editor' George Worrall, head of the district. On Dec. 5th the same year, the program was launched, with 84 members, which has since grown to almost 150. He said the progress shown during the decade proved not only "the value of quality and service, but the value of advertising, as well. He said that without Clover Farm, many merchants might have found it difficult during the past ten years.

against the Germans. After the stoppage a number of workers' meetings passed resolutions calling for a decision by the national arbitration tribunal within a mouth. FIREMEN WIN FUND DISPUTE $584.19 Deduction Is Made Good By Auditor General. By The Associated Official Soviet dispatches reported today the Germans had been thrown back eight miles by Red army Counterattacks at Tula, 100 miles south of Moscow, and that the surprised Nazis "ran, and ran, and ran" through the bitter! cold in their underwear in a "panic-stricken rout." Authoritative London quarters said very few Germans were properly equipped fighting in the Russian winter. On the Leningrad front, the Russians claimed further against Nazi siege armies around the old Czarlst capital, declaring Soviet troops had captured posl- RAIL CONFERENCE Washington, Nov.

House conference called in tho hope of averting a strike which would paralyze the nation's railroads, broke up today with both rail executives and labor representatives declaring no reachfed. added they would see President Roosevelt again tbmprrpw; While discussions will continue, Alvaney Johnston, president of, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said that orders for a strike on Dec. 7 still stood. Washington, Nov. including the shooting of two men, broke out at strike-affected captive coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania today as President Roosevelt was reported ready to exert the full powers of the government to get production resumed.

The United Mine Workers called out its membership, terday in the captive mines, owned by steel companies which" use the coal. About 53,000 miners in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and Illinois captive mines, and the UMW claims 95 per cent are President Roosevelt has said the coal must be' mfiriSffI keep the vital steel mills in operation on armaments. have been insistent demands on Capitol Hill for legislation and persons closely in touch with the President daicT today he was convinced now was the time to act to stop interference with defense production. Labor legislation was discussed at the President's weekly meeting with congressional leaders today, but there was no indication when there might be action or what type of Hatlon might be viewed by the House Majority Leader McCor- mack said that the subject come up in a general way and Senator Connally (D-Tex) added that, there was some discussion Bessemer Hearing in Butler Dec. 2 tions held by the Germans for two months and that they were still advancing along the left bank of the river the Neva River, just outside Leningrad.

Military spokesmen In Berlin asserted that bombardments by German siege guns, which have been pounding Leningrad for weeks, had forced the Russians to evacuate the southern part of the metropolis. The spokesmen made no claim, Early Roll Call Reports Please The annual Red Cross membership drive In Greenville is off to a good start, according to Miss Marion Groh, who is chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club group in charge of the solicitation. She described early reports as "gratifying" Pittsburgh, Nov. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad has asked the Public Utility Commission for permission to abandon dally passenger service between North Bessemer and Erie. A hearing oh the proposal will be held in Butler Dec.

2. The railroad said in its petition that not enough passengers use the service to make it profitable, and coal-labor situation. Neither Connally would not say whether the President had 1 an opinion on his labor bul, oa hearings are to begin before a ate uii ate judiciary subcommittee day. The bill -would permit the ment to take over any jj plant or mine. Once the government acted, any open or closed shop If that the passenger trains delay ef- tus would be frozen.

today. At the same time. Miss Groh said that Miss Altha Keck and Mrs. Gladys Freeburg had been added 1o the list of solicitors. The Red Cross roll call opened last Thursday and continues through Nov.

30. Couuty Firemen Meet Tonight Mercer County Firemen's Association will hold its monthly meeting however." that Nazi troops" had "left I at Moose Home tonight. Sharon their trenches to occupy any of tho city. the Russian news agency, graphic description of the ficlent and swift transportation of freight which has increased considerably because of national defense production. Railroad counsel said bus companies and other railroads have passenger service similar to the Bessemer and Lake Erie, which calls one round trip dally between North Bessemer and Greenville and a round trip between Greenville and Erie.

The President moved.in', andtherf field to avert a railroad employes by.I of both Tass, gave a Nazi rout at Tula. Taken by surprise by a Soviet artillery bombardment at dawn, the agency said, German infantry housed in the outskirts of the city threw away their weapons as they fled "but our cavalry caught up with the down the frosty streets in their underwear flromen win program. be In charge of the German General of Aviation Killed Berlin, Nov. Lieut. Gen.

Ernst TJdet, German flying ace of the World War and quartermaster general of the Nazi air force in this war, was killed in an accident yesterday while testing "a new weapon," it was announced today. The official announcement said Udet was hurt so gravely that he' died before he reached a hospital. THE WAR TODAY By DEWITT MACKENZIE Tass said German officers fired in vain attempt to halt their troops. Contractor Sends Mater- the Leedom worraii wholesale ial Today for Shop Office on Site. After a lapse of several weeks, work was resumed toda'y on Livingston Memorial Hall, new dormitory for women on the Thiel College campus.

Hon. Frank L. Fay, chairman of the college board of trustees, last week announced that a contract for the erection of the walls and construction of the roof had been awarded' to the Cook-Anderson Company Beaver, Pa. The contract price was $64,860.0.0. Lumber for a shop office arrived at the site this morning and work got under way immediately.

Soldier Killed by Car Baltimore, Nov. 1 Private Edward W. 23, of Clymer, Pa, ftationed at Camp' Holabird, died Sunday night of injuries 'received Friday when struck by a street car. grocery firm, of Butler, and Grant Mason, representing the Clover Farm headquarters at Cleveland. Sauer proved to be an entertaining humorist, who kept his audience in gales of laughter from beginning to end.

Anecdote anecdote was presented in a rapid-fire delivery, with many local allusions to places and personalities. He announced his subject as "Bunker Hill," dividing it into letter by letter which caused no surprise covered only the first "Bunk." Mr. Worrall, in discussing the ten year history of Clover Farm activity in this district, said that "more than ten years ago we decided it was necessary to make some change in business if we wanted to do business at all." Ho said that investigation showed that the Clover Farm system answered the and that some time after July 10, 1931, meetings held in Butler and Greenville to explain the workings of the Clover Farm plan 'to merchants in Greenville firemen apparently have won their fight to regain deducted by the State Auditor Gen- Grant Mason, of the Clover Farm I ral BI office from tho of that German combat re insurance tax upon business headquarters, presented ten-year certificates to a large number of the I wrltten ln this municipality, it was analysis, when he syllable. eligible merchants who were seated at a center table. The list included C.

C. McCullough, of Fair-view who was described as "the oldest Clover Farmer in the nation," and Alex Henry, of Stoneboro, as "the second oldest Clover Farmer." Others to receive the certificates included: J. A. Enterline, C. C.

Hildebrand, C. V. Homer, Howard L. McMillen, W. C.

Paden, and J. N. Rickert, of Greenville; R. C. Henderson, of Hendersonv'ille; H.

M. Little, Kennard; Leo J. Freund, Meadville; B. E. Barker, Sandy Lake; W.

F. Martin. Sheakleyville; A. B. Campbell.

Espyville; and Howard Haas, of Fredonia. who was described by the speaker as "the most popular board chairman" in the system. Three whose connection with Clover Farm extended beyond ten years were E. J. Fillingham, Rome, H.

H. Boies, Ashtabula, and H. 'A. Swanson, Richmond Center. S.

B. Loveless, of Greenville, local manager of tho Leedom Worrall was also presented with a certificate for ten years of association with Clover Farm. announced at the department's November meeting la.st night. Alleged surpluses of $422.00 and $161.69 for 1934 and 1932, respectively, had been deducted from the $1,371.20 alloted'to Greenville on the 1938 payment, which normally was due last year but was not paid until this fail In the Crimea campaign. AdoiC Hitler's field headquarters reported and dive- bombers planes dealt "devastating blows" to fortifications and port! facilities at Sevastopol.

Russia's i Black Sea naval base, while Nazi infantrymen were reported fighting before the city's outer defenses. The high command yesterday reported the fall of Kerch, bridgehead to tho Caucasus oil fields. On the Ukraine front, a bulletin from Hitler's headquarters said Axis fcV4 A 10 Charles E. Clarke of Wayne, armies driving into the Donets Riv- secretary of the Firemen's Association of the State of Pennsylvania, notified local department officials that the auditor general's office had agreed to return the amount of the deductions this month. Local firemen also were jjiven to understand by Mr.

Clarke that 'here will be no more deductions in the future. Orangeviile Street Property Sold Sale of the Florence Schneider and John A. MacKay property at Orangeville Street to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis was announced today.

According to the Stanley A. Gillespie agency, which bandied the transaction, Mr. and Mrs. Davis bought the property as an investment. er industrial basin had occupied additional territory and that "the enemy was thrown out of field positions which some planes stubbornly defended." Weather and road conditions in tho south wore reported improving.

The Moscow radio said 'German attempts to break through Red i army defenses at the approaches to I Rostov-on-Don, which guards the I northern route to the Caucasus, had been driven off with heavy tosses. In the Far East crisis, Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo declared today that "the Japanese army is prepared for any eventuality" amid sharply strained relations with both the United States and Russia. (Continued on 6) The liberalization of the Neutrality Act puts teeth in the most colossal job of war underwriting the world has ever dreamed of before this era of figures that have gone mad. The United States now not only is Hie arsenal of democracy but is in position to deliver its own goods, protected by naval convoy, in the ports of all countries resisting the Axis powers. That is, Uncle Sam is in position to try to deliver over the violent protests of Herr Hitler.

At this writing we would seem to be purveyors of shot, shell and encouragement to something more than half the population of the globe. Tills doesn't include th Latin American countries, which can subscribe any time they want to. One still hears speculation as to whether this brings us nearer to participation in the war. Well, of course th sending of ships into belligerent waters will increase our hazards of getting shot up, and con- sequntly may hasten the day when we shall go all-out in a shooting conflict. However, so far as this column can se we have in the war for a long time, certainly since last March 11 when the Lehd-Lease bill signed.

To say that we aren't in is just splitting hairs. The only tion which now that is a big how extensive our participation is going to be. The chiej value of tho Neutrality Act revision wouia seem to lie in the lilting the ban on sending ships into belligerent waters. Much time can be saved if deliveries of supplies can be made direct to ports in the British and perhaps even in the Mediterranean. Since wo presumably shall convoy our merchantmen, many British warships which have been used in this work will be re'cus'-il for other efforts.

One important angle of the. new situation is that the United States is now in position to ignore Japanese protests against rmpa into Vladivostok with supplies tc.r the Russians. Naturally that won't make so much difference if the ent peace conference in Washington fails and Japan and the (Tinted States go to war. So long as the two countries don't gunning for each other, however, great- i er freedom for merchantmen may be very useful in aulin? the haul- pressed Bolshevists. It wilU be interesting to see how i much value there is in armiug mer- chant ships, This was done during the World War and proved to be rather a mixed blessing in many cases, according to my observation, and I did a good deal of traveling on armed ships in those days.

For one thing, the firing of a gun from the deck of a cargo vessel or passenger ship, which hadn't been constructed to stand such a strain, frequently did aw much damage as an enemy torpedo would. Then, too, there weren't enough first-class gunners to go round and white 09. page White House conference Railroad workers, 30 per cent pay jected a proposal that most get a TWi per cent raise and hayi set a strike for Dec. 7. In Alabama, Gov.

frank ordered Home Guard units mobilized, because of the situation created by the strike of 8,000 miners and threatened strike in the Fairfield plant of the Tennessee Coal, and Railroad Company, men were moved into the Birmingham area, center of that rtafe'i steel industry. The first serious coal strike dlsi order was a fight at the No." 10 Mine of the U. S. Coal and Coka, Company at Gary, W. in a Negro stableman, William Hairston, and a Negro motorman, Lawson, were shot and ed.

An official of an independent' union opposing the United Mine Workers walkout said UMW fired 15 or 20 shots. foreman said 163 men out of a normal force of 220 went to work in the mine. Pickets closed No. 6 Mine Gary, largest of six which operated yesterday despite the strike call, Three hundred miners at a Haute, mine which coal for a public service company of Indiana Power plant also wero in sympathy with the captive era. John L.

Lewis, president of i ITMW, and his policy committee i again- today here to consider situation as tha CIO in nual convention in Petroit ered an all-out endorsement Qt President Roosevelt's foreign The CIO voted yesterday to approve the strike in captive minee. (Continued on page 6) tha Wea Western Pair with somewhat higher ture tonight; Wednesday Jn creasing cloudiness wajrraer followed by showers at nlgfat; moderate southerly night, fresh southwest Wednesday. Extended forecast for tfcft from p. m. Tuesday JSjor, Jfc.t p.

m. (EST), 33, lower Great will average seasonably warm Friday. followed and.