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LOU EPMEU POST-DISPATCH CIRCULATION Slightly Under 250,000 Daily Slightly Over 300,000 Sunday I NAL (Closing New YorK Stock Prices us mi or The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL. 93. NO. 300.

(63rd Year.) ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1941. 32 PAGES PRICE 3 CENTS 'Riot1 Truck at Barracks KNOX DENIES NAW MOSCOW, AFL STRIKE HALTS LENINGRAD DRIVES CHECKED, REDS SAT; CLAIM 160,000 PRISONERS British Command Shifted met One of the army "riot" trucks posted at the two main entrances to Jefferson Barracks this morning to guard agafast disorders in the strike of AFL union workmen which tied up construction on the $4 00, 000 expansion program at the army post. li kl A 1 ft Wfr'tML r. IW i I hS Al I INSTRUCTION AT MEN JFFECTED Unions' Demand That Government Drop WPA Painters and Plumbers Leads to Stoppage on $4,500,000 Program.

NO PICKET ONES POSTED AT PROJECT Riot Trucks, Each With Soldiers Carrying Fixed Bayonets, at Gates Some Workers Reluctant to Walk Out. Construction work on the 000 expansion program at Jeffer-lon Barracks was at a standstill today, tied up by a strike called yesterday afternoon by the AFL. Building Trades Council In an effort to force the Government to abandon use of WPA workers as painters and plumbers. Army officers said they regarded the strike as a test, with final decision to come from Washington, where representatives of the inter national unions, the War Depart- Jbent and the WPA were said to be arranging conferences. More than 1900 of the 2100 union workers employed by six private contractors were affected, only a handful of maintenance employes remaining at work.

About 1500 union workmen employed on the three main projects, for construction of cantonments and hospital buildings, failed to report for work this morning after union leaders had held outdoor shop" meetings with stewards on the jobs yesterday afternoon. About 600 workmen employed on these jobs and projects of lesser Immediate importance, erection of guest and service buildings in the "ix construction areas on the mili-fpary reservation, reported for work, but about half were laid off by contractors who said they were forced to do this because of lack of work resulting from failure of the other men to report. Soon afterward, about 100 others walked away, either in confusion over what to do or through a desire to join their fellow workmen in the strike. 35 Pet. Completed.

Only about 35 per cent of the entire construction undertaking has been completed, it was stated at the army post. Work on the proj- BARRACKS 0 Associated Press Wlrephota. GEN. SIR ARCHIBALD WAVELL (left), British commander in the Middle East, has been ordered to exchange posts with GEN. SIR CLAUDE A CHINLECK (right), recently stationed in India.

Si rn hfcv. v. wSs-7 1 i By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer. AFL union leaders at Jefferson Barracks where they called a strike of workmes on construction projects yesterday. From left: JERRYFLYNN, president of the Building Trades Council; ARTHUR A.

HUNN, secretary of the Painters' District Council: FRED RICKLEY business agent of the Painters' Union; PATRICK CARROLL.businesa agent of Boilermakers' Union No. 27. iS CONVOYED OR BEEN IN COMBAT Nor Has It Lost Men or Equipment on Atlantic Patrol, He Says Flatly at Press Conference. 'STICKS TO GUNS' ON ACTION SPEECH Group of 40 Congressmen Vote "General Condemnation of Him for 'Clear Atlantic' Talk. WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP).

Secretary of the Navy Knox flatly stated today that no American vessels on Atlantic patrols had engaged in convoying, had become involved in combat or had suffered any loss of life in their crews or -ny loss of equipment. The question of patrol operation was raised at a press conference at which Knox also was asked about criticism in Congress of his demand in a speech Monday that the United States seize on the present moment to sweep "the German menace" from the Atlantic Repeatedly, he declined to reply to the criticisms or to say whether the speech in which he made the demand had presidential or Cabinet approval. At length, however, when asked whether it would "be fair to say you are sticking by your gjuns on the speech," Knox replied: "Yes, of course." Tries to Settle Reports. In discussing operations of the Atlantic patrol Knox stuck entirely to negative statements which he made in an. apparent effort to settle reports current at various times that American warships had been involved in action against German vessels.

He was asked In quick succession whether any American ship on the neutrality patrol had suffered loss of life or loss of equipment, whether any ship had engaged in combat and whether any had engaged in convoying. His answer to each question was an emphatic negative. About reports that there had been convoying, Knox said, "That's absolutely untrue." Opposition Group. Senator Wheeler Montana, demanded yesterday that Knox "resign or be thrown out of office" because of his speech advocating that the navy be used to "clear the Atlantic." Taking an opposite view. Senator Pepper Florida, comir.Kted that time and history would corroborate the wisdom of Knox's assertion.

A bloc of Senators and Representatives who described themselves as "non-interventionists" voted "general condemnation" cf Knox at a meeting last night, asserting he had implied that the United States could declare war without congressional approval. Senator Taft Ohio, said about 40 attended the caucus and instructed a steering committee to draft a formal resolution protesting against Knox's attitude. Walsh Assails Knox Speech. Chairman Walsh Massachusetts, of the Senate Naval Committee also assailed the Knox speech. He said the secretary had counseled "open warfare, either with or without the formalities of a declaration of war." Pepper said the Knox speech was a "case of having to tell the public an unhappy fact." Terming Hitler a "world cancer eating at the vitals of every free nation on earth," he said the "more we do now the less we will have.

to do later. We will save 20 times the effort we will have to put forth later on." HOOVER REPEATS HE WILL NEVER AGAIN ACCEPT OFFICE This Is Reply to Suggestion He Be Nominated for Presidency as WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP). Former President Herbert Hoover reasserted in a telegram made public here today a determination never again to accept public office. The telegram was given out by Raymond1 S. Richmond, associated with Hoover in European relief efforts.

Richmond had asked for Hoover's comment on a New York Daily News editorial suggestion that the former President be nominated for the presidency as a non-interventionist candidate. TREND OF TODAY'S MARKETS Stocks higher; steels lead quiet rally. Bonds mixed; Japanese issues advance sharply. Cotton higher. Wheat higher.

Corn unsettled. NAZIS: AREAS WIPED OUT, RUSSIANS ASSERT Heavy Blow" Struck Against Thrust Toward Ukraine, Moscow Declares "Fierce" Resistance Near Murmansk. NEW YORK, July 2 (AP). The British radio reported today that a Russian naval squadron has shelled and destroyed the German-occupied naval base at Constanta on the Rumanian Black sea coast. MOSCOW, July 2 (AP).

The Red Army and Air Force reported today they had wiped out German tank vanguards in the Minsk and Dvinsk areas and checked fierce drives apparently aimed at Moscow and Leningrad. Both land troops and bombing planes were credited with smashing the tank spearheads. Air attacks on tanks, trocps and supply trains, a communique said, had checked "the advance of motorized infantry" which followed tanks. Minsk is the capital of White Russia; Dvinsk is in Soviet Latvia. Farther south, a Soviet communique declared, other heavy blows were struck at strong German forces in the Luck area, gateway to the Ukraine.

Drive, on Murmansk. Far to the north, above the Arctic Circle, a numerically superior German offensive against the Sredni Peninsula, guarding the northern entrance to the ice-free port of Murmansk, was reported meeting "fierce resistance" by Soviet troops. The communique credited the Red air fleet's bombers with contributing greatly to the blocking of the Nazi thrusts by strafing advance troops and pounding the bases from which the attacks were sprung. (A Stockholm dispatch to Reu- Continued on Page 5, Column 3. TODAY'S WAR NEWS MOSCOW Russians declare German drives on Minsk and Leningrad have been checked and Nad spearhead forces of tanks wiped out; "fierce resistance" reported on Murmansk and Luck fronts.

BERLIN High command says large part of Russian, armies trapped in Bialystok area of Soviet Poland has been destroyed, with 100,000 prisoners and much military equipment taken; continued swift advance claimed on all fronts; fall of Riga announced; on Western Front sinking of seven British ships by U-boats and three others by planes Is reported. LONDON Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell transferred from Egypt to India, touching off speculation on whether shift Is due to defeat in Crete and reverses In Africa or whether British Government Is preparing for Ganges defense In event Nazis smash through Russia to India's border. A.

F. continues heavy daylight raids on German territory. TOKYO Officials make decision on Japan's course In Nazi-Soviet war but do not tell what It Is. BEIRUT, Lebanon Trench commissioner protests through United States consul against terroristic' bombing of Beirut by British. TANK VAN OARDS III MINSK DVINSK GE DESTROYING BIG SOVIET FORCE IN TRAPjNPOLAND 4725 Planes, 5774 Tanks Captured or Disabled So Far, Berlin Asserts 'Unbelievable BERLIN, July 2 (AP).

The German high command announced tonight that "unbelievable chaos has closed the Soviet army" and that a total of 160,000 Russian prisoners have been taken. A destructive battle east. of Bia-lystok in Soviet Poland, said the high command, has brought "a decision of world proportions" fol lowing the dstruction of "a large part" of huge trapped Russian armies. (Estimated in some quarters at 400,000.) In addition to losing the 160,000 prisoners, the high command said, the Russians to date have lost 4725 airplanes, 5774 tanks and 2230 guns. In the Bialystok battle alone, an earlier communique sad, 400 cap tured tanks and 300 cannon already have been counted.

The Germans indicated that still greater booty may have been taken. Battles In South Poland. One hundred tanks were destroyed near Zloczow, south of the Pinsk marshes, and another 120 "fell into our hands" in the Dubno region, south of Luck, where Russian armored forces apparently tried to slice in on German rear divisions and "were crushed," the communique said. (A great tank battle in which it was estimated as many as 4000 machines were engaged has been reported in progress for several days in this area.) German military sources said the Russians were retreating both north and south of Lwow, in the same war sector, and had fallen into a new encirclement to the east of Lwow. German forces already have begun trying to reduce them, a spokesman said.

With the fighting shifting beyond buffer Polish territory to the soil of Russia itself, however, operations were in such flux it was difficult to foretell where decisive clashes might occur, Germans said. New Trap In Latvia. In the north, military sources said other Russian forces were surrounded on the seaboard along Riga Bay, west of Riga, with no chance to escape and, with Windau in German hands, no chance either of withdrawal by sea. Besides the old Latvian capital of Riga, a city of 375,000, which previously had been reported under the Swastika after a two-day battle, the Germans said Windau in Soviet Latvia had' been occupied yesterday. The high command said the German forces crossed the Dvina River at many places from Riga Bay to Dvinsk.

Advance forces were said to have thrust on from the north bank of the river, while the Luft waffe hammered at the Russian town of Pskov and positions near Peipus Lake, between Estonia and Russia. The Germans said the Red army was falling back to this area for another stand in defense of Leningrad. The capture of Riga, Into whose southwestern suburbs German troops had fought their way as early as Sunday, was declared to have established a solid Nazi front southeast to Dvinsk. The German radio said that Red troops barricaded in houses and on rooftops in Riga forced the Nazis to drive them out in the stiffest sort of street fighting. Arctic Fighting.

Unusual interest was aroused in Berlin by the high command's report of air force activity off Fisher Peninsula, north of Murmansk, and of the bombing of the harbor of this ice-free Russian port north of the Arctic Circle. The high command said a Russian destroyer was sunk and another damaged severely It was at Murmansk In October, 1939, when the Reich and Russia were friendly, that Germany's blue- RIM REPORT JAPAN DECLARES DECISION IS KEEPS IT SECRET Grave Emergency Developing in East Asia With Nazi-Soviet War, Matsu-oka Tells Nation. TOKYO, July 2 (AP). The Government announced today it had chosen a policy for coping with the crisis arising from the Russian-German war. and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka told the nation that "a really grave state of emergency is developing before our eyes throughout the world, particularly in East Asia, with direct concern to our own country." The nature of the Government's decision, even Its general trend, remained undisclosed despite statements issued by the Cabinet and Matsuoka after a morning conference at the imperial palace In which generals and admirals of the high command met with key members of the Cabinet in the presence of Emperor Hirohito.

Domei, Japanese news agency, said that "quarters close to the indicated- the empire's course would be disclosed by action rather than words. "External Secrecy." "While maintaining secrecy externally the Government intends to pursue its policy internally to translate into action whatever decisions were taken at the imperial conference," Domei reported. Both Russia and Japan's Axis partners sought quick clarification of the Government announcement. German Ambassador Gen. Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli called on Matsuoka immediately after the statement was issued.

'They were followed- by Russian Ambassador Constantin Smetanin. The Cabinet statement said merely that "a decision was taken at an imperial conference held this morning on important national policies to meet the current international situation." Matsuoka offered this amplification: "It goes without saying that the situation arising from the German-Soviet war cannot be met with such a simple idea as to think of it merely as the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet. "We therefore intend to watch ContinueC on Page 9, Column 4. MAD Viycls for guest and service halls fSffwas begun only recently, and few 3 DEATHS THIS AREA ATTRIBUTED TO HEAT Fourteenth Successive Day of Temperature of 90 or More. a.

One death in St. Louis, one in Belleville and one in Alton yesterday were attriubted to heat. Today was the fourteenth successive day of temperatures reaching 90 degrees or more. So far this summer three deaths in St. Louis have been attributed to heat.

Temperature dropped from 90 degrees at noon today to 79 at 1 p. m. because of a thunderstorm passing somewhere to the south. A 14-mile wind also helped cool the city temporarily. By 3 p.

m. the temperature had risen only to 3 degrees. Joseph Schniedermeyer, 3465a Gravois avenue, died at City Hospital after he had been prostrated by heat in the 3000 block of Arsenal street. He was 52 years old, a sheet metal worker. In Belleville, Mrs.

Sophie Lieb-gott, owner of a confectionery, was found dead in a garden at her home, 9844 West Main street. Neighbors said he had complained of the heat. She was 72 years old, a widow. Oscar A. Perschbacher, a World War veteran employed for several years at the CCC camp in Marquette State Park, near Grafton, 111, died in St.

Joseph's Hospital at Alton last night after he had Continued on Page 2, Column 4. 7 lOvAL OF GEftWAVELL rveruses 10 uiscuss House of Commons the Transfer of Middle East Leader to India. LONDON, July 2 (AP). Gen. Sir Archibald P.

Wavell, British Middle Eastern commander-in-chief whose desert armies drove the Italians deep 'into Libya before being forced back by the Germans, was transferred today to India, exchanging posts with Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck who is almost unknown to the British public No reason was given in the announcement made at No. 10 Downing street, residence of Prime Minister Churchill, and stunned Britons interpreted the surprise military shakeup variously as evidence that: 1. Gen. Wavell had been shelved because of the German breakthrough in Libya and the loss of the Greek island of Crete, or 2.

That Gen. Wavell was being sent to prepare British Indian legions to defend that vast part of the British Empire against a possible German attack throvh Russia and Iran. Gen. Auchinleck, a tali 57-year-old- Scot, successfully directed the British attack on Narvik, Norway, organized English coastal defenses, and has had a long career in India. He was named commander-in-chief in India last January.

He has long been an advocate of the new defensive warfare involving mobility and surprise. Gen. Auchinleck has arrived in Cairo from India and is expected to take over command shortly. Evidence that British leaders consider the Middle Easter command more vital now that Germany is marching Into Russia was seen In the appointment of Capt. Oliver Lyttleton as Minister of State and member of the war cab inet to represent the Cabinet in the Middle East.

Australians Criticise WaveH. Churchill refused today to make a statement in the House of Commons that might explain the change. Denying a request for such a statement by Leslie Hore- Continued on Page 6, Column 2. try, the quartet of Grand Central Terminal Red Caps, because of their race, for the three-day national competitions opening in St. Louis "This sort of arrangement would seriously embarrass us.

Many of our members and chapters are in the South where the race question is a touchy subject." Smith quoted Cash as saying in a letter following the telegram. Moses In his letter of resignation said he was sorry that "this sour note has marred our pleasant CHURCHILL WON EXPLAIN RN OF MURDER OF EARL East African Jury Finds for English Major in Case- Up Since Mid-March. NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, July 2 (AP). Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 57-year-old World War veteran, was acquitted today of a charge of murder in connection with the death of the Earl of ErroU, hereditary high constable of Scotland Applause greeted the Verdict. The Jury deliberated three and a half hours on evidence presented to a colonial court Intermittently since mid-March.

Sir Henry thanked the jury and the Court for courtesy shown him during 'the longest trial in the history of the colony. The Earl of Erroll, a widower, was found shot through the head in an automobile parked on a moonlit road last Jan. 24 a hours after he had left a dinner party attended by Sir Henry and his bride, Diana. The pair was married ia December at Durban, South Africa, and came to this British East African outDost for their honeymoon. A police statement read to the court early in the trial quoted Sir Henry as saying his wife and the Earl were in love and planned to Continued on Page 2, Column 2.

Marines from the torpedoed ship had been landed in Iceland. (Rescue of eight marines was reported by the United States Navy. Three others whp were aboard are missing.) The American Red Cross announced today it had "definite word" that 11 Red Cross nurses missing since the torpedoing were safe on land. Previously six nurses on the same boat were reported to have reached Iceland. Belief that the others were picked up by other rescue ships has been confirmed.

Red Cross officials said, but they did not say at what port the nurses had landed. The 17 nurses were oart of a staff sent to England to operate the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital. Nineteen other American Red Cross nurses are known to have reached England safely. er workmen, mostly laborers, plumbers and truck drivers, were engaged in that work than fa the more important construction of Continued on Page 2, Column 6. IHUNDERSHOWERS.

COOLER TONIGHT, TOMORROW FAIR THE TEMPERATURES. i a. 79 9 a. m. 81 a.

m. 78 10 a. m. 85 3 a. m.

77 11 a. m. 87 4 a. m. 76 12 noon 90 5 a.

m. 75 1 p. m. 79 a. m.

75 2 p. m. SI 7 a. m. 76 3 p.

m. 83 a. m. 78 Normal maximum this date, 86; normal aummum, 69. humidity at nooon today, 69 cnL Teaterdsv'a hfcrh an I'Tfl ml Ins 'o a.

m. Weather la other cities Page SC. Official forecast or St Louis and Wclnity. Partly cloudy, with scat-eed thunder- bowers and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair, 1 1 moderate Jpe a iowest tonight Texas passed Pappy the tomo oout 86. Missouri: Part-T cloudy, ex-Pt thunder- howers in southeast nd extreme east ntral portions; "er in south and east central Portions tonight; tomorrow fair, fttn moderate temperature; cooler ntXtreme EOUth Portion.

HUnois: Fair tonight and tomor-w; cooler in south portion tonight; Friday partly cloudy and omewhat warmer. Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow), Stage of the Mississippi at St. 12.6 feet, a rise of 1.0: the pf f8011 at St. Charles, 17.6 feet, a -11 of 0.4. thr aata ineludlnR forecast supplied by U.

a. POST-CM SNATCH WCATH ERB I mum pt w. 151 Ue S. Marines Arrive in London; 17 Nurses on Torpedoed Ship Landed Al Smith Quits Barber Shop Song Society When Negroes Are Barred LONDON, July 2 (AP). Arrival of 51 United States Marines under command of Capt.

John B. Hill to take over guard duties at the United States Embassy was announced officially today. The Marines are to be quartered, outside London for a few days, it was said, and then transferred to billets near the Embassy to relieve armed London Bobbies who have' been guarding the diplomatic headquarters. The Marines arrived yesterday at a British port. Survivors of the former Dutch passenger liner Maasdam, which was torpedoed while taking Marines and American Red Cross nurses to England, are expected here soon.

The 8812-ton Maasdam had been In the British service since the fall of Holland. It was learned from a reliable United States source that some NEW YORK, July 2 (AP). Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and City Park Commissioner Robert Moses resigned today as vice presidents of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing In America, asserting the society had struck a sour note by barring Negroes from national quartet competition.

Smith said O. C. Cash of Tulsa, founder of the society, telegraphed that the board of directors had rejected New York City's en- Continued on Page Column ft..