The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 1

V- DAILY 115 BHINELANDER, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1941 8 PAGES TODAY Germans Claim Gain in Ukraine Russians Report German Drives Are Being Halted MOSCOW, July 26 Russian communique declared today the German drives still were being staved off in the central and southern sectors, with the Nazi forces suffering heavy losses. Nazis Claim Gain. BERLIN, 26 (ff) Soviet rearguard resistance in the Ukraine has been broken and Axis troops are continuing to pursue the retreating Russians, Adolf Hitler's headquarters said today. In a Carpatho-Ukraine district south and southwest of Korosmezo an attack by strong Soviet units freshly thrown into battle was halted by Germans with heavy losses to the Russians, a communique said. On the central front, Nazi planes were credited with carrying out a daylight raid against Moscow and scoring direct hits on railway facili- H' ties.

Residents of this German capital, keyed for reports of favorable developments on the eastern front, experienced their first air-rai'd alarm in two months during the night', but authorized sources said today no bombs fell within the city limits. The bloody struggle with Soviet Russia has reached a stage where decisions of the greatest importance are to be expected, Dienst aus Deutschla'nd, commentary close -to the German foreign office, hinted in reviewing the eastern military situation. Dienst left no doubt; though, that Russian-German ilities'would continue'for an indefinite time. A gigantic battle with the Russians will reach a decisive 'position after current operations along the Stalin line are completed, the mentary said. Right now a pitched battle is ing on inside the Stalin line, the commentary stated, but it' will be some.days yet before complete results of the struggle can be ported.

5 JDjcjj'Us. so. much, confusion among retreating Soviet' especially" along the southern sector of the front, that Russian commanders ap- parently have lost control''of their forces, official hews agency, said. Prisoners taken by the Germans have stated that Soviet political commissars ordered retreating masses in the southern sector to halt and blew up the only bridge in the region, the agency declared. Soviet artillery on the far bank of i the river spanned by the bridge put down a barrage intended for the Germans, but the shells fell into Russian ranks, killing hundreds of soldiers, it reported.

Physicians' Wallets Are Robbed of $250 TWO RIVERS, July 26 (ff)--' Police sought a man of professional bearing today for questioning in connection with the disappearance of nearly $250 from the wallets of two doctors in the surgeon's dress- 4 i-ng room of the municipal hospital yesterday. Dr. J. W. Steckbauer, of Manitowoc, reported to police nearly $200 was missing from his wallet and Dr.

R. E. Martin, of Two Rivers, said he lost $50 while they were performing an operation. Police said the stranger operated i in the same manner as an unidentified man who took $80 from the surgeons' room of a Green Bay hospital Thursday. Japanese Marine Is Wounded by Gunman SHANGHAI, July 26 gun- 'inan, believed to be Chinese, shot and wounded a Japanese marine today in the portion of the international settlement occupied by the Japanese military, The shooting was in the area north of jSoochow creek and again caused the Japanese to close the bridges over the stream.

The incident heightened tension arising in the settlement as a result of British and American freezing of Japanese credits, and Japanese retaliation on American credits. PfttCE FIVE CfiNfS Boy, 9, Is Killed When Hit by Auto OSttKOSH, July 26 (ffH-Duane Weidemann, 9, of Milwaukee, was killed near here late yesterday when he was struck; by an automobile as he crossed a county trunk road, to mail a letter. Sheriff J. G. Holtz, of Winnebago county, said that the driver of the car was Gloria Gilbert, 17, of Neenah, daughter of A.

C. Gilbert, paper manufacturer. Holtz said Miss Gilbert told him that she swerved to avoid striking Weidemann, hit a tree and bounced off, the rear end of the car hitting the boy. An inquest was called for today by Coroner G. A.

Steele. Young Weidemann had been visiting at the home of Flynn Resignation Cause Kept Secret MILWAUKEE, July 26 reason or reasons for the resignation of Dr. Robert E. Flynn, of La Crosse, as secretary of the Wisconsin board of medical examiners remained a secret today because of a promise other board members made to Governor Heil that they "would not talk to the newspapers." Flynn announced yesterday that he had sent his resignation to the governor July years before his term would have expired. A Heil appointee, Flynn stated that nothing irregular was found in an investigation of the board by August Frey, state research director, which preceded his resignation.

Heil confirmed the fact that Flynn's resignation had been accepted, commenting only: "I try to smile even when an appointee stabs me in the back." Dr. Harold W. Shutter, of suburban Wauwatosa, who succeeded Flynn as secretary, said that he and other board members had promised Heil they would not talk for publication about the change. of the members of the present board were appointed or Heil. werfo made last month.

explained yesterday that -he iiearedr, it. would be "unpleasant" to serve on the board as presently constituted. Postage on 28-Cent GiftComes to $15 KANSAS CITY, July 26 (ff) Sjoblom bought a pound of coffee as a birthday present for his father, then' had to call on brothers Einer and Otto to chip in. Father Sjoblom, who'll be 80 Aug. 1 12, lives in Sweden.

Postage on the 28-cent gift, which must go to Lisbon via clipper, came to $15. Transocean News Service Is Fined WASHINGTON, July 28 Transocean News service, convicted in federal district court of failure to register under the foreign agents act, todny faced payment of a $1,000 fine and court costs mated at $15,000 or more. The service, testimony showed, collected $3,045.46 in the 25 months it operated, received $164,652 from Berlin, and spent all the money. A jury of 10 men arid two women deliberated 33 minutes before reporting that Transocean was guilty of failing to register as a foreign propaganda agency. Ex-Union Treasurer Sentenced for Theft MILWAUKEE, July.

26 ward J. Fehl, 59, of Wauwatosa, former union official who was charged with embezzling union funds, was sentenced to cme year in the Milwaukee house of correction yesterday. Judge Herman J. Severson, of lola, sitting in municipal court, found Fehl guilty on five counts. Fehl had been charged with embezzling $4,236 from local 11 of the AFL International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and helpers, of which he was treasurer for two years.

Heat Brings Death To 6 in Wisconsin By the Associated Press Six persons died yesterday from causes induced by the heat as Wisconsin suffered under 90-degree temperatures aggravated by high humidity. Frank H. Coleman, government meteorologist at Milwaukee, foresaw no relief over the week-end. The heat victims: James L. McCormack, 58, of Milwaukee.

Mrs. Pearl Zeneicki, 49, of Milwaukee. John Szepi 36, of Milwaukee. Frank Votava, 37, of Wisconsin Rapids. Frank Dixon, 67, of Fond du Lac county.

Jacob W. Petry, 53, Minneapolis. McCormack, former clerk of circuit court and alderman in Milwaukee, collapsed and-died at his home. Mrs. Zeneicki also died at her hom6.

Szep collapsed in his barber shop. Votava drowned seeking relief from the heat while swimming in Nepco lake, south of Wisconsin Rapids. Dixon collapsed while working on his farm and Petry suffered a fatal heart attack, induced by the heat, at Galesville, while en route home from Blair, Wis. August NYA Quota Increased by 600 MILWAUKEE, July 1 26 Wisconsin NYA's August quota for training youths for in national defense, industries been in- of $3,000. John Faville, state NYA administrator, said that with a regular activities quota of 2,925 for August, as compared with ,2,200 last month, the state's total would be 6,525.

The August quotas by areas: No. 1 (a consolidation of Nos. 1, 7 and 8, with headquarters to be established at Eau Claire) 560; No. 2, with headquarters at Green Bay, 930; No. 2, with Kenosha as headquarters, 550; No.

4, Milwaukee county, 930; No. 5, with Stevens Point as headquarters, 285; No. 6, with Madison as headquarters, 375. Next Week's Weather By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL Noted Meteorologist Weather Wisconsin Forecast: Generally fair tonight; Simday partly cloudy, scattered afternoon showers north portion; continued warm.

Nation's Temperatures: Highest and lowest temperatures reported at official weather stations during the past 24 hours: Fargo, N. and Huron, S. 104; Seattle, 51. Khiiielander Weather: Yetserday the temperature range was from a low of 72 to a high of 87 degrees; during the night the lowest reading was 69 degrees; this morning it was 81 at 8 o'clock, 87 at 10 o'clock 89 at noon. For the last 24 hours the prevailing direction of the wind was southwest, and at noon the direction was unchanged and the velocity was three miles per hour.

The relative humidity at noon was 58 per cent. Weather One Vear Ago: Temperature range, from a low of to a high of 80 degrees; precipitation, Earth's Tides Cracked the Moon. The spots on the moon, which we see in fancy as the eyes, the nose and the mouth of the "Man in the Moon" are hardened sheets of lava on the moon's surface. The important thing about the "Man in the Moon," from the viewpoint of science, is that we can always see him. No doubt you have already noticed that however you may view the moon, these 'dark markings keep the same alignment toward the earth.

Maybe you have' never paid much attention to the "Man in the Moon," but astronomers, who are accustomed to seeing other worlds spinning round and round like tops as they fly through space, view his steadiness and the lack of spin of the moon as a subject of much interest. There are strong bonds of gravity between the earth and the moon. The next time you are on the seashore, watch the ti'des surge in, and then ebb back. The whole bulk of the ocean swells and ebbs twice each day under the gravity pull of the moon. The moon pulls upon the air of the 1 earth too, in somewhat the same fashion that it pulls upon the waters of the seas.

We call these air tides of the earth "winds," "air masses," or "weather." There is no weather on the moon to correspond with weather on the earth, because the moon has no air out of which to make weather. But if there were air on the moon there would be weather a-plenty there, because the -earth tides upon the moon are intense. In fact, the earth tides of the moon are so very intense that they have pulled the See "Weather," Page 2. JULY 1941 AUG. 28 29 30 31 1 234- MOLINE, OFAIR WWIND HUMID Temperature and Rainfall.

Wisconsin July 28 to Aug. 3. The extreme northwest portion will be moderately cool. The east portion will be moderately warm. The remaining portion will be normal.

The southeast portion will be moderately w'et. The remaining portions of the state will be normal. ttC TON MAKES AIR TIPK OMEfiTUBQ UPON Republicans Assail Spending Policies WASHINGTON, July 26 (ff) Sharp Republican criticism of the administration's non-defense spending policies today signalled the probable tenor of the opposition when the $3,529,200,000 tax bill reaches the house floor early next week. Republican members of the house ways and means committee expressed their criticism in a minority report on the measure, distributed by the Republican national committee, but acknowledged they had "no alternative but to support the general objective of the bill." Asserting it was obvious that a substantial increase in the tax burden was imperative to finance the defense program and protect the credit of the nation, the committee said the taxpayers must be "painfully aware" that the ability of the government to finance the defense program had been "greatly impaired by the prodigality of the New Deal spenders." "These wastrels have engaged in the greatest peace-time orgy of extravagance in all history," the report said, adding that in eight years the administration had spent as much as it took to run the government during the first 131 years of the country's history. Making public their views in advance of the majority's report, scheduled for today, the Republicans contended that the administration had spent $67,518,000,000 since it came in to power and that only $5,000,000,000 of the represented extraordinary outlays for defense since the emergency program was instituted last year.

"In other words, the defense program dT3 not precipitate the present crisis in government financing, but merely made it more acute," the Republicans. j.Vny Cali'ihg on 'President Roofevelt''! take the leaa 1 in effecting economies, the group asserted there was room for considerable saving in the defense program itself, adding that extravagance in cantonment construction had been "so rampant as to constitute a national scandal." 10,000 Aid Drive For Aluminum in Milwaukee County By the Associated Press An army of men and boys collected scrap aluminum from every corner of Milwaukee county today in the chief district aluminum drive in Wisconsin. Milwaukee concentrated its collection campaign in a four-hour afternoon period after a squad of 8,000 volunteer women workers had paved the way with a house to house educational campaign during the week. A piece of discarded aluminum was good for admission of women, and children below 12, to the Milwaukee Brewer ball park today. Aluminum collected throughout the state during the last week will be moved to seven centers in tin- state, R.

S. Kingsley, of Kenosha, chairman of the Wisconsin council of defense, announced. These centers are Milwaukee, Wausau, Green Bay, Madison, La Crosse, Superior and Eau Claire. Aluminum collected in Kenosha and Racine counties will be moved directly to the smelters in the Chicago area. The metal gathered at the seven concentration centers will be disposed of directly to smelters througn the state procurement office of the United State treasury department, according to Kingsley.

Phil Lashes Ickes For 'Name-Calling' NEW YORK, July 26 Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin asserted last night that Secretary of the Interior Ickes in recent denunciations of critics of President Roosevelt's foreign policy "sounds more like a Hitler than an American cabinet member." He told a Richmond hill rally of the America First committee in a prepared address that President Roosevelt should find something "useful and constructive for Secretary of the Interior Ickes to do before he and others like him shatter all hopes for national unity." "Mr. Ickes has been racing arotr.id the country behaving like a cranky and cantankerous shrew, forever scolding and smearing," La Folletk' said. "The taxpayers of the United States never intended to pay a cabinet officer $15,000 a year for the sole purpose of insulting their intelligence with an almost daily exhibition of name-calling. "Of course, it's quite likely that there is nothing for Mr, Ickes to do in the department of the interior because almost nobody in Washington is paying much attention to the interior of America right now." Interventionists for whom La Follette said Ickes spoke were making a tragic mistake in turning away from domestic prbolems, La Follette si lid.

Philippine Military Forces Are Galled into U. S. Army Tokyo Promptly Freezes Assets Of U. S. in Japan TOKYO, July 26 today froze the funds of the United Slates, acting in swift retaliation for a concert of action in which the United States took similar action against Japanese assets and Great Britain declared her intention of abrogating her commercial treaties with Japan.

At the same time the government announced that a British freezing order would. result in similar action by Tokyo. These were the rapid developments growing out pf completion of an agreement, officially announced, for the "joint defense" of Indo- China by Japan and France. The Japanese freezing order, effective Monday, applies to all financial transactions of United States and applies to the Philip- 'pines and United States territorial possessions. i British notice of abrogation of her commercial treaties applies to India and Burma, as well as the United Kingdom.

The Japanese foreign office said the United Kingdom's treaty, under its terms, would be effective for a year after notice of abrogation, and the Burma and Indian treaties for six more months, Despite the quickness with which 'the Japanese acted in retaliation, financial circles in Japan evidently were taken somewhat by sur- jprise by the extent of i Stales and British moves growing oul of Indo-China 'developments. A selling wave swept the Tokyo stock exchange and raw silk markets. Shares of Tokyo Stock Exchange, lately a bell wether of Japanese shares, slumped to a low when it dropped to 94 30 sen, off seven yen, 60 sen. The freezing order said United iStates nationals receiving more $han 500 yen a month (about $115) Smust receive permission of the Also the' disposition of personal, real and. other properties, including securities, and lending and.

borrowing of funds and properties, was placed under control. In Identical Positions. The' order placed the Uni.ted States and Japan in identical positions with reference to control of the foreign assets. The governments may now control these funds within their reach at will, but the extent to which the authority will be exercised remains to be seen. There was no indication in Tokyo of the extent of the application of President Roosevelt's order, and some trade circles in Tokyo seemed to think a limited sort of trade would be possible.

The newspaper Chugai said, however, that "the scope of the freezing of assets by the United States may be tremendous, since it affects Japanese trade in the United States, Central and South America, Britain and their spheres of influence. Japan must prepare to meet the United States move by establishing self-sufficiency in East Asia." "Under instructions from his home government in letters written under July 26 date, Craigic notified Japan of Britain's intention to abrogate the commerce and navigation treaty concluded April 1934, the treaty concluded between Japan and India July, 1934, regarding their trade relations, and the treaty of June, 19337, regarding trade relations between Japan and Burma," said the announcement. In an oral statement to the press, Finance Minister Masatune Ogura said Japanese assets frozen in the United States were not large. Effect to Be Slight. "Moreover, trade between the United States has diminished steadily in recent months due to intensification of American restrictive measures.

Therefore, the effect of the American action will be comparatively slight." (Domei said Japanese retaliatory selling wave swept over Japanese stock and raw silk markets. Tokyo stock exchange, the barometer of the market, dropped seven yen, 60 sen, to 94 yen, 30 sen, the lowest in 10 years. (Domei said Japanese retailiatory freezing action involved nationals of the States, United States territories and the Philippines commonwealth. The finance minister's permission will be needed henceforth for transactions involving the acquirement or disposal of movable or immovable properties or securities of such nationals.) Observers naturally expected i that business of United States firms I such as Otis Elevator, General I Electric, National City bank, Na' tional Cash Register, British-American Tobacco company, and film companies would be among the hardest hit by Japanese counter measures. American oil companies also seemingly were blocked from further business with Japan.

A foreign office announcement that had undertaken with France the joint defense of Indo- China declared the colony's territorial integrity would be respected and asserted the move was necessary to protect both Japanese and interest. Shipbuilding Bids Called Excessive WASHINGTON, July 26 maritime commission has rejected as "excessive and unreasonable" all bids received July 15 for construction of nine small cargo vessels known as "coasters," and for two types of harbor tugs. The commission intends to turn the "coasters" and tugs over to the British under the lease-lend act. Bidders on the "coasters'" included the Lake Superior Shipbuilding company, Superior, Wis. Jap War Officers Arrive at Saigon SAIGON, French Indo-China, July 26 chief of the Japanese mission in French Indo- China, Major-General Raishir.o Sumita, arrived by plane today with three military and naval officers, the first step in execution of the new agreement with Vichy on military and naval concessions for Japan in the strategic southern part of the colony.

Three Japanese bombers swooped down on Saigon's modern air field, coinciding with arrival of several Japanese army trucks from Hanoi, in the north where Japan has had concessions for months. They were but the vanguard of naval and military forces. Naval and transport ships arc expected to arrive at Saigon Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. French authorities declared they were completing evacuation of Saigon airport by Monday. Saigon warehouses for half a mile around the bend of the Saigon river were being cleared for the Japanese.

Captain in Court for Obstructing Officer In Gambling Inquiry MILWAUKEE, July 26 Milwaukee police were seeking Norbert Opitz, cruise director of the MilwayfceejpCli pper; new luxury streamliner, to 'serve him with a gambling warrant, A. K. Hoxie, ship captain, was arraigned in Muskegon, before a justice of the peace last night. Hoxie pleaded innocent to a charge of obstructing an officer in the performance of his duty. Miles T.

McKee, 30, and Ralph McCrea were arraigned at Muskegon on the same charge, which grew out of an unsuccessful attempt of Muskegon authorities to remove slot machines from the-vessel. Milwaukee police later confiscated the gambling equipment when docked here at the end of her cross- lake run. Hoxie furnished $5,000 bond, McKee, $2,000. McCrea was released on his own recognizance. Hearings for the three were set for Aug.

5. William C. Brown, 23, of Center Mpreches, N. was to be arraigned here today on charges of being custodian of the machines. Police Search for Missing Student MILWAUKEE, July 26 were searching today for Lawrence K.

Albert, 19, of Edson, Alberta, Canada, an engineering student at Marquette university who left his rooming house here June 27 and has not been seen since. Albert's father, Mark asked for the search when he came to visit his son after letters had gone unanswered. Hague Turns Over Party Leadership JERSEY. CITY, N. July 26 (ff) Frank Hague has handed the leadership of the Democratic party in New Jersey to' Gov.

Charles Edison so that "the people may be able to judge imparjtial- ly" their feud over a railroad tax settlement. "There must be no question of Edison versus Hague," he said in a statement announcing his bold action last night. Edison promptly rejected the idea because, he said, "the mayor is presuming to give me something which is not within his power to give. That leadership is only within the gift of the Democratic voters and worker? of the state." The Hague-Edison controversy started when Edison signed into law four bills passed this week by the Republican dominated legislature. The bills provide for payment by the railroads of OOQ in delinquent taxes and waiving by the state of $18,000,000 in interest and penalties.

Road Is Authorized To Spend $1,032,000 CHICAGO, July 26 Judge William H. Holly authorized trustees of the Milwaukee Road yesterday to spend an additional $1,032,000 fpr rails and improvements in 1941, making' the year's budget $8,388,290. The trustees petitioned for the right to spend $882,000 for 13,415 gross tons oi new rail and, $150.000 lor other roadbed improvements. Japanese Assets Are Frozen, Control of Exports Is Tightened In Reply to Indo-China Aggression WASHINGTON, July 26 (ffH-The United States assumed the of sive in economic war against the Axis in the Pacific today by "freezing" all Japanese assets and providing machinery for tightening down drastically on exports which would be vitally needed by Japan for any aggressive move on Singapore or the Dutch East Indies. President Roosevelt's executive order immobilizing more than $131,000,000 in Japanase funds and property, including that of some of an estimated 70,000 Japanese residents in American territory, was issued in full knowledge that Japan might take immediate retaliatory action.

Only a few hours after Mr. Roosevelt issued his order, Great Britain swung into a parallel course, freezing Japanese assets in the far-flung British empire. The president's action was a quick counterstroke to Japan's move to assume military control in French Indo-China. Acting Secretary of State Welles had denounced Tokyo's step as a menace to peace in the Pacific and declared it endangered American territory (the Philippines) and adjacent areas on which the United States depends for many raw materials vital for national defense. A retaliatory freezing order by Japan would immobilize an estimated $217,000,000 in American assets in the Japanese empire, and amount which would be materially increased if the Japanese-dominated governments of Manchukuo and Japanese- occupied China took similar action.

An estimated 4,400 Americans, mostly Japanese born in the United States (including Hawaii), live in the Japanese empire, and a large number of the estimated 6,000 Americans still in China are in preas occupied by Japanese forces or under jurisdiction of the "puppet" government set up by the Japanese The president's also included all Chinese assets in American territory but a White house statement explained such action had been taken at the request of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, to keep Japan from benefiting from any Chinese-owned assets under American jurisdiction. The treasury immediately issued a general license releasing assets under control of the Chinese government at Chungking (recognized by the United States) or the Bank of China, thereby making the order effective onjy against Japanese controlled areas. The went into effect at the opening of business up Japanese assets in the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines and other-American territory. Treasury officials said that while Japanese ships in American ports or waters would be at least temporarily immobilized, a final decision wouM be made in the immediate future as to twhether the vessels were "assets" under the order. 40 Ships Off Coast.

Maritime officials said four Japanese vessels were now in American waters and about 40 others flying the Rising Sun flag were hovering off the Pacific coast, hesitant to enter American ports until the question had been decided. There was no immediate information available as to whether there were any American might be seized in Japanese ports or waters. Under the order, it was explained, an American exporter must secure a treasury license before HYDE PARK, N. July 26 President Roosevelt called into the armed services of the United States today all of the "organized military forces" of the Philippine government. There was no immediate official explanation of this step, but it was generally regarded as another indication of United States displeasure at Japan's southward moves in the Pacific.

It followed the freezing of Japanese credits in this country in reply to Japan's occupation of southern Indo-China. The Philippine military forces are to be placed under an American army officer with the rank of general, who will designate the times when the individual units and personnel shall be taken into the American armed services. All naval components are to be under the commandant of the 16th United States naval district. As commander-in-chief of the army and navy, Mr. Roosevelt issued a military order to accomplish the mustering of the insular forces into those of the United States.

The order said he acted under authority granted by the United States constitution, the Philippine independence act and an ordinance to the Philipping constitution. White house officials said Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, probably would explain the calling out of the Philippine forces at a press conference in Washington. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, said in Washington Thursday that the Japanese occupation of naval and air bases in Indo-China had led the United States government to conclude that "the action oi Japan is undertaken because of the estimated value to Japan of bases in that region primarily for the purposes of further and more obvious movements of conquest in adjacent areas." While the developments in the Pacific "bear directly -upon the vital problem of our national -security," WeTles said, "the steps which the Japanesegovernment has taken also endanger the safety of other areas of the Pacific including the Philippine islands." 150,000 Troops Affected.

WASHINGTON, July 26 President Roosevelt's order putting forces of the Philippine commonwealth under American command was authorized by terms of the Tydings-McDuffie independence act under which the islands are scheduled to receive their political freedom in 1946. The order made upwards of 150,000 trained and partially trained Filipinos immediately subject to orders of Maj. Gen. George Grunert, the Philippine department commander, for defense of the Far Eastern Archipelago. Included were some 140,000 partially trained reserves of the new Philippine army, of whom several thousand already are in uniform undergoing training, and also 7,000 or more members of the Philippine constabulary.

A force of 10,000 or more Philippine scouts already was an integral part of, the United States army, but restricted by law to service in the islands. Informed officials reported the order had been ready for weeks. An agreement to put it into effect when deemed needed was worked out by High Commissioner 'Francis B. S.ayre, Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, and other officials. Aside from the commonwealth forces and the Philippine scouts, there are several thousand white secure a license before he can import raw silk or any other product from Japan.

The question of whether oil vitally. needed by Japan's army, navy and continue to be shipped to Japan was not specifically mentioned in the White house order or any of the supplementary treasury orders. The White house statement did, however, emphasize that a major objective of the order was to prevent any trade between the United States and Japan "harmful to national defense and American interest." legion Membership At Record High Level MILWAUKEE, July 26 Stordock, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin total membership in the Wisconsin department had risen to 36,260, surpassing all previous membership records. The increase came as part of a drive in preparation for the Legion's national convention here Sept. 14-18.

George Howitt, executive vice- president of the convention corporation, said that the Legion, when it conies to Milwaukee, will have the second largest membership in 22 There are 1,059,505 paid up enrollments in 11,787 posts in the country, he said. Food to Be Plentiful At Democrats 1 Picnic OCONOMOWOC. July 26 Democratic Chairman I Thomas King reassured Wisconsin party members today that there would be plenty of food at the state-wide picnic tomorrow at Muskego beach in coun- ty. King has ordered 16,000 rolls, 32,000 weiners, of sauerkraut, 15,000 ears of corn and 40 barrels of beer for the 10,000 ex- I pet-ted to attend. I Speakers will be Senator Ernest i McFarland (D-Ariz.) and Mrs.

Em- ma Guffcy Miller, national mitteewoman from Pennsylvania. i i French Socialist Leader Is Slain VJCHY, Unoccupied France, July 26 iff; Marx Dormoy, Socialist leader jn the French republic, was assassinated last night at the Hotel Holms de 1' Enipertur at Monteli- mar. where hje had been detained. I He "'as killed by explosion at a bomb placed iu his hotel room. i The lormer in- I tenor jn Leoa Blum's popular trout government had taken 1 purl in dissolution of tba I "action" organization, the dc Feu, aud other I f.anizaUojis..