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18 gainfaJ 1 1 35 22 Trace TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS row OfAe. Toeaoo. Aria. TWELVE PAGES Reds Report Rout of Eight Nazi Divisions Moscow Claims Units of 115,000 Men Repulsed After b-Day Battle on Central Front; Leningrad Resistance Called Fierce By THE PRESS MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept. Norwegian Islands Of Spitzbergen Are Occupied by Allies Canadian, British and Free Norway Troops Land At Arctic Ocean Archipelago to Forestall Germans Seizure of Rich Coal Mines LONDON, Tuesday, Sept 9.

fP) Canadian, British and Norwegian troops have occupied the Norwegian archipclaga of Spitzbergen, 500 miles north of Norway in the Arctic ocean, to prevent seizure by Germans coveting its rich coal mines, the war office announced today. A troopship escorted by British warships reached the islands recently on a secret dash from Britain and took control without German opposition. The distance to and from Spitzbergen is about 2,500 miles. The announcement did not disclose when the expedition envisions xoiaiing aDout men have been routed a 26-day battle on the central front, the Red army reported SURGLNG UNREST BRINGS ARRESTS OF FRENCH JEWS Vichy Admits Seriousness Of Disorders; Strife Now Rampant 100 HELDBYNAZIS Hannover Eviction Order Hits All Residents Of Jewish Faith VICHY. Unoccupied France Sept.

8. 7P) More than 100 Jews, including Pierre Masse former minister of justice, and Theodore Valensi, a former deputy, today were reported arrested as hostages by Ger man authorities at Paris in new reprisals for growing disorders against the occupying power. Vichy no longer tried to conceal the gravity of strife in the German occupied zone or the fact that reprisals seemed only to heighten it. "We can expect to see street incidents multiply." the official news agency told the press of unoccupied France. The agency circulated an extract from the Paris "Cri Du Teuple" which likened the situation in the occupied capital to open wartare.

Charge Red Plot ichy authorities have insisted that the increasing demonstrations. shootings and sabotage were Communist plot designed to divert German military strength from the KusMan front to France. Three hostages shot at dawn Saturday in reprisal for an assault on a German sergeant were idenU fied as Communists but their names were not yet disclosed. They were among some 60 per sons imprisoned August 13 after anti-German demonstrations in the Porte St. Denis quarter of Taris.

JEWS OBJECT OP EVICTION ORDER HANNOVER. Germany. Sept 9. German authorities began herding Hannover's Jews into the mortuary hall of the Jewish ceme tery here tonight following the mayor's order evicting them from their homes on 24 hours notice. Scores of men.

women and chil dren were conducted to this fast- growing provisional abode. The eviction orders also provided for aie oi tneir property, the pro- ceeas to te turned over to them "at a given time." The orders cited, as one reason for the ousters, a book written bv "the Jew Kaufmann in New (presumably "Germany Must Per by Theodore W. Kaufman) demanding "sterilization of all Ger mans and employment of German soldiers as coolies in foreign lands Flimsy Pretext In Newark, N. Theodore Kauf man called the reference to his look "a flimsy pretext for another of the innate cruelties of the Ger man jeople." (the Germans) employed every possible German cruelty against the Jews long before my book was published." Kaufman said). The Hannover mayor's eviction ortier said: "To Jew "Eviction order: "Jew dwelling "The present war has been forced upn Germany by the Jewry of other countries.

Narrow Spare "The enemy air ffrce attacks open towns and unloads explosive and incendiary bombs InHierrim. inately on the civil population. (Hannover has been bombed ev- eral times by the RAF). The Jew Kaufmann in New York demands the sterilization of all Germans and the employment of German soldiers as roolips in foreign lands. 'In order to relieve the distressed situation caused by the war, I see myself compelled immediately to narrow down the space available to Jews in this citv.

I therefore demand that you quit your present oijiKie immediately. "You must leave your house-keys with your police precinct headquarters." NAZI GUNS ACTIVE FOLKESTONE. England. Sept. 8 (Pi German long-range runs, which have been quiet several weeks, fired a few salvo from the region of Cap Grig Nez into the Dover area tonight.

No casualties or damage were reported. xoaay. Report on the battle at mwes east 01 smoiensn ana 200 miles west of Moscow, was issued as the fight for Leningrad grew more tierce. Schooled for years to be ready to die for the revolution, the Soviet proletariat fought by the side of the Red army to beat back the iron tide rolling toward Leningrad. If they gave ground, Soviet dispatches did not mention the fact.

Raid on Bucharest The Russians, broadening their aerial offensive, reported a Red air force raid on Bucharest Sunday night and repeated assaults upon German troops in the field and their airdromes behind the lines. Remnants of the smashed German divisions on the central front, after being thrown out of Yelnya, a rail town, were reported "hastily retreating in a westerly direction." At the conclusion of the massive battle the Russians said their troops occupied the town yesterday. The routed German divisions were identified as one SS (black shirt elite guards), 17th Motorized, 10th Tank, 137th Austrian, 15th, 178th, 292nd and 268th Infantry. Stubborn Fighting Everywhere else along the front the Red armies yesterday continued their stubborn fighting, today's early morning communique' said, as usual, without giving particulars. Leningrad broadcasts breathed defiance as workers, soldiers, sailors pledged defense to the death, but admitted that the city now is in the front line of a fierce battle.

"We have erected a steel wall around the city," said one speaker, his voice tight with emotion, and he declared his confidence the Germans would be turned aside. Recall World AVar I Not for a moment in more than 20 years have Soviet leaders allowed themselves to forget the peril Leningrad was in when the German armies drove close to the huge industrial center and port in the World War. For 3-ears they devoted themselves to converting the whole Leningrad aj ea to a vast sprawling fortress, and from that fastness of bunkers, pillboxes forts, augmented by thousands of newlv built harrirarlos ti-onchoe 1 now to have the city which, tradition says, was built upon the bones of the subjects of Czar Peter. hoviet accounts of how the battle went gave little idea of the positions of the forces, but described valiant counter-attacks. One raiding cavalry unit was said to have dashed to the German rear in a sweeping forav which cost the Germans 1,200 in killed and 500 wounded.

A staff headquarters was said to have been captured and a German general killed. BIDS TO BE ASKED ON WORK AT FORT FORT HAUCHrCA. Sept. (JD The constructing quartermaster's office proceeded today with formulation of plans for barracks, mess halls and a battalion administration building to take care of the announced increase in the 23th and 30Sth Infantry regiments. Brig.

Gen. Brehan Somervell, assistant quartermaster of the army, disclosed yesterday that the regiments are to be increased to wartime strength. Each regiment is to have 3.325 enlisted men. Personnel of both regiments now totals slightly less than 5,500. A complete new cantonment also is in prospect.

General Somervell said funds are available for the project, although he declined to discuss its exact size. Sam Headman, Phoenix architect, who has been preparing plans, said, however, that ultimately facilities would be available for an additional 13.000 to 14.000 men. Bids are to be asked shortly on the barrack expansion, which will provide for the full Infantry regiments. Hudson Bomber NO. 252 BRITISHPILOTS WAGE HEAVIEST RAID ON BERLIN 'Anniversary of London's First Mass Attack Is Observed by RAF GERMANS INDIGNANT Xaii Press Shouts for Reprisals, Denounces War on Civilians By THE ASSOCIATED TRUSS TflNDCN.

Sept. 8. British Pilots, attacking in coldly furi-n-s commemoration of one of Britain's most tragic nights, at Berlin for hours last r'zht and early today in a r3id officially termed the heaviest ever delivered upon capital. It was payment, in the red, miliar com of fire bombs and ex-Ivwvfs, for the first mass attack London the night of September 19 JO, an assault of eight hours r4 IS 'minute that, bv British o'lnf, cost the Nazis planes. Twenty British bombers and one plane, of squadrons of hun-jVjs which crossed the channel i 2 night in me wime muwmigm.

Indian summer, were said to lavf gone down before German derive fire, but this was the total loss of a great offensive that struck not at but at Kiel and y'hpr separated points in the Reich irA along the occupied French coat Offensive 1 alien was bv every account a thrust i Of mighty power snarpiy musudi-In? hov Britain's aerial arm. Iitrengthened by American built planes, has grown from a year ago to take the offensive where it lonre fought desperately only to 'protect this island. Berlin itself, said the air ministry 'i a brief communique, was left with a series of tremendous "We could see the place like a -ap." said a returning flight ser vant, riecribing how the moon- threw the city Into clear f. "Soon there were many tires. ore in particular blazing large i fiercely in the heart of the city further guide to our bombers." Flames Are Thick names, bv these accounts, were wreclally thick about a main Ber- a railway station.

Orman anti-aircraft fire was hot cA unending, save when it abat-i it the approach of German night ihters. kf'A from these violent assaults the Reich's capital, the ship- irds at the Nazi naval base of id and the docks at Boulogne in ranre were especially hard hit vrr.iKht. German airdromes over area also were assaulted. All this capped a series of week- rr.l raids some of them partici-ra-1 in hv American volunteers the Eagle Squadron extending i'-nm Norwav to the Netherlands A Brittany in occupied France. So violent was the pounding of that the skv over it was all night and this morning in and about the city still visible from the Kent coast.

mx OK BERLIN AT RAIDS BERLIN. Sept. Roofs torn from residential builder and streets were littered with in an early morning raid on in which British planes explosive and incendiary with "terrible detonations," Berlin press reported tonight. 'The British said the raid was heaviest on Berlin thus far. S'r raitls.

correspondents send Germany only those details 8rt in official or authorized An official announcement said at 't 27 persons were killed. A of others were injured. Reprisal Demanded newspapers charged Britain ar acainst tine civilian pop- and called for reprisals by uiftwaffe. They went beyond "arv mere publication of the fnimand communique and SOTrt( results of the raid, with permission of au- -an tabulations from the morning through Monday during which there were pn f.er'in and west German the British Tost 19 bomb- pvct" Berlin, and five in the newspaper ac-''innfd rage 7. Colnnin 7) PMBSIGHT SECRET "CURES IX TRIAL FORK.

Sept- S. S. Harold M. Kennedy, the trial in Brooklyn fed-of 16 men charged with in a huge German spy today that particu-. this nation's treasured Xor-mbsight had been given to in id in his address to the that Hermann Lang, a de-t who was final inspector JTe "pfden company, went to that vear.

"ill prove." Kennedy de-m 0,31 while there he fur- Particulars about the bomb-Ilf1 after he returned he iLiQ feed out information wmbsight We will prove 1 VOL 100 I FARMERS ASKED TO STEP UP ALL ESSENTIAL FOOD Wickard Enunciates Feed The World Policy Via U. S. Agriculture LID IS NOT OFF Errors of World War Won't Be Repeated Secretary Says 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. ine administration asked American farmers today to step up production of most essential foods to a record high next year in order to assure adequate supplies for home consumption and for sending abroad to nations requesting aggression.

At the same time it promised to prevent any sharp slump in prices due to the expanded output. Prices, officials said, should continue near present levels. Announcing the 1942 program, Claude Wickard, secretary of agri culture, said it would assure "plenty of the commodities for which there is increased need while con tinuing to hold in check the pro duction of commodities of which we already have large reserves." In the latter category are wheat, cotton and tobacco. Expansion Urged Wickard called particularly for expanded production of hogs, eggs, milk, cheese and chickens, and announced the agriculture department would support prices for these commodities until December 31, -1942, at not les3 than 85 per cent of parity. All are selling now above the parity price that level at which the commodity has the same purchasing power it had In the 1909-14 period.

Wickard said the expanded farm program would not repeat "the mistakes of the first World War which brought a long series of difficulties for the farm people." Lid Not Off "The fact that we are asking for greatly Increased production of some commodities does not mean that the lid is off on production of all commodities," he continued, we are not going to have to plow up the hills and plains to get it. "We have adequate reserves, feed grains for increased production of livestock products and it will not be necessary to increase total crop acreage next year." Wickard said the most urgent need was for more milk, adding: "We need to consume more dairy products in this country for improved health and strength and the British will need tremendous quantities of cheese, evaporated milk, and dried skim milk." Production Goals He called for the production of 125.ooo.ooo.ooo pounds of milk in 1942, or about pounds ahove the estimated J041 produc tion. The goal for eggs was set at 4.000,000.000 dozen, an increase of about 330,000,000 dozen over this year. An increase of 7.700.000 in the number of hogs slaughtered was fixed as the pork goal for 1942 while increases also were asked in the production of beef and veal, chickens, lamb and mutton. The 1912 acreage goals for cotton and tobacco were little changed from 1941.

The wheat goal was placed at between 50 to 55 million acres, compared with an estimate of 63.503.000 this vear. IRAN PARLIAMENT TO OPEN SESSION TEHERAN. Iran. Sept. 8.

The hard-pressed Iranian government today called an extraordinary session of parliament for tomorrow to announce Anglo-Russian occupation terms, the foremost of which is understood to require expulsion of all Axis nationals from the Teheran zone. Foreign diplomatic sources said it was uncertain as to whether the government has approved the terms or is attempting further negotiation. Since actual hostilities ended nearly two weeks ago, Britain and Russia have increased their demands on every point and Iran nas agreed in principle but suggested modifications. WAVES OF PLANES FLY OVER ARIZONA By The ASSOCIATED PRESS A steady stream of armv airplanes crossed Arizona today." most of them bound for large-scale maneuvers in the east Twenty-eight planes from Bakers-field, landed at Kingman in relays, continuing their night after refueling. Twenty planes from the Rakers-field base landed at Tucson in two groups for fuel.

Later 22 planes en route from March Field. to Biges Field El Paso, Texas, passed over Tucson. ENCIRCLEMENT DOUBTED LONDON. Tuesday, Sept 9 iP) A dispatch from a special correspondent of the British news agency Reuters reported today that it is certain the Germans have not r. circled Leningrad.

The Gorman have approached fairlv close only from the southwest. Reuters c.i but not close enough for practical large scale steHisg. WELCOMES FROSH 1 I DR. ALFRED ATKINSON, president of the University of Arizona, yesterday greeted the first day's registration of freshmen, totaling 633, at a special assembly at the university. 633 FROSH ARE GREETED AT UA Atkinson Welcomes Class Of '45, Urges All To Hard Work A total of 633 freshmen were present yesterday morning at the opening assembly of freshman week at the University of Arizona.

Of the total. 319 were men and 2S4 women, a slight decrease in enrollment from last year but about the same percentage of men and women, according to C. Zaner Lesher, registrar. Last year figures were as follows: total registration (first day). 656 35.8 men and women.

Before the week is over and registration completed. Lesher expects the incoming class to reach the approximate size of last year's class. 813. Because of the number of young men who have been called into national defense industries or into the armed service of the nation, no enrollment Increase is anticipated for the entire university this year. Atkinson Speaks Dr.

Alfred Atkinson, president of the I niversity of Arizona, presided at the first half of the freshman week opening assembly held at 8 clock at the university audi torium. "It is with great pleasure that we welcome you into the com munity and opportunities of the University of Arizona." Dr. Atkin son said. "You are undergoing a different kind of educational ex perience, if you are not aware of this now, we hope that you will be able to detect the difference by at least the end of the second week of school." Warning the young students that they would have to apply them selves seriously to academic work, the president said that he hoped they would not make the mistake of letting their classroom work "pile up." Failure to do work when it is assigned is the cause of most failures, he said. Activities Praised Ho also urged the students to enter into outside activities, saying that the University of Arizona offered one of the best extra-curricular activities programs in the country.

"These activities as a substitute for the academic program are of no value." he added, "but as a supplement, they are enriching." "Tucson," he concluded, "is favorable for wholesome living and good work." Dr. introduced the following deans and staff members to the freshmen: Dean G. M. Butler, college of engineering; Dr. J.

W. Clarson. college of education: Dean E. R. Reisen.

college of liberal arts; Dean raul S. Burgess, college of agriculture: Dean A. O. Andersen, college of fine arts; Dean J. B.

McCormick. college of law; Dean T. G. Chapman, college of mines; Dean Robert Nugent, graduate college: Miss Emma K. Burgees, acting dean of women: Dean A.

H. (Continued to Page 7, toliimn 3) PUMPING UNIT IS ADDED AT BISBEE RISP.EE, Sept. ViT Installa tion of an additional well pumping unit at the Uamnbell mine will he i completed tonight according to Phelps Dodge officials and opera- tion will begin early tomorrow morning. The one neop wen unu now installed is holding the water which burst through on the 2.700 level of the Campbell mine eight days ago at a continuous level with a very small drawdown. Production at the Campbell and Junction mines of Thelps Dodge 13 normal.

Officials at the Shattuck Denn reported that there was no change at the Denn mine and that the water level was stationary. U. S. S. HOBSON IS LAUNCHED BY U.

S. CHARLESTON. S. Sept. OP) Another destroyer for Uncle Sam's ever-increasing fleet, the S5.0O0.0OO Hobson.

was launched at the Charleston Navy Yard today. Christened bv Mrs. Richmond Pearson Hobson. of New York, widow of the admiral for whom the ship is named, the destroyer slid down the ways amid cheers from the spectators and whistle blasts from craft in the Cooper river. 9.

Eight German infantry the town of Yelnya, about 40 LENINGRAD RING IS NOW SEALED NAZIS CONTEND Schluesselburg, Key to Defenses on Baltic, Reported Captured Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN, Tuesday, Sept. 9. The German-Finnish ring about Leningrad has been sealed and Russians fighting up in the far north face the imminent peril of being cut off from their main forces, Germans said today following the high command's announcement of capture of Schluesselburg, a key to the Baltic city's defenses. With the capture of the ancient fortress of Schluesselburg, the high command said that Leningrad, itself under bombardment of German artillery for four days, now is completely cut off from land connections. This, together with the interruption of rail traffic on the Leningrad-Murmansk line has severed major transportation facilities for supplies of munitions and food for the northern Soviet troops, the well-informed commentary Dienst Aus Deutschland asserted.

Neva Is Reached In taking Schluesselburg, 21 miles east of Leningrad on the Neva river and Lake Ladoga, the Germans were said to have reached the Neva "on a broad front." This would place them much closer to Leningrad on the east than Schluesselburg itself, as the river runs from Leningrad to Schluesselburg. Germans were greeted on the Neva with a "veritable hail of fire" from Russian batteries on the opposite side of the stream, war cor respondent Willi Stein reported. Stein told a radio audience his unit was in a position on the river bank for five days during which they shelled craft plying between Leningrad and Schluesselburg. Five Russian gunboats, a government steamer and a tug fell victim to Nazi batteries, he said. The correspondent related there were fires alKiard the river craft and that "screaming Russians jumped into the water." Dive Bombers Used German dispatches said hundreds of dive-bombers struck at (Continued to Page 7, Column 1) The War At A Glance By The ASSOCIATED PRESS British, Canadian and Norwegian troops take over Norwegian inlands of Spitzbergen In Arctic, seize coal mines and establish garrisons; declare Nazis offered no resistance to Allied expedition.

Russian armies of the renter report eight Nazi divisions aggregating 115,000 men are routed at conclusion of 2fi-day battle about Yelnya, 100 miles west of Moscow; Germans claim Isolation of Leningrad by capture of rail renter of Schluessrlbnrg and declare Russian water communications from Baltic to Arctic are cut in two areas. British hit Berlin In heaviest overnight air raid; considerable damage is acknowledged by Nazis; German press storms at RAF and Insists Berlin's morale is not shaken; Jews are ousted from homes in Hannover; 100 are arrested in Paris as hostages In rising campaign against the Nazis. Bests U-Boat pilot and crew. The location and time of the attack were not given, but naval authorities in London said thev doubted it was. the sub marine which attacked the United States destroyer Greer.) The four crewmen and 32-year-old Yorkshireman captain of the bomber told this story: Patroling far at sea the plane dive-bombed a submarine just as it was breaking the surface.

A gunner shouted when he saw it rise on an almost even keel, surging up through a mass of whitecaps. Machine-irun them! Let's ma chine-gun them." he called to the rest of the crew. Trapped on Peck Then the plane dived across the submarine, all guns blazing front guns, the rear turret and the belly gun. As the plane dived the submarine's conning tower hatch was arrived or how manv were left to garrison the islands, but the occupation force was said to have been large. It was commanded by a Canadian brigadier.

Some of the ships already have returned to Britain and brought back about l.OOO Norwegians- miners and their families who are to live in the United Kingdom. Many of the men are joining the Allied forces, it was stated. Tills was the second British descent on Norwegian territory since withdrawal before the Nari occupation. An expedition landed on the Lofoten islands in March and destroyed whale oil factories. There was no Interference from German bombers either on the voyage to Spitzbergen or at the archipelago itself, members of the expedition said.

Military Uorr The war office statement said: "For various it was recently decided to send a military force to the Arctic. "In the cotirse of operations, which were carried out without enemy Interference, a landing was effected in Spit7lergen by mixed Canadian, British and Norwegian forces under Canadian command. The main purpose of the landing was to prevent the enemy from utilizing for their own purposes Spit7lergen with Its rich coal mines. "Ireviously a proportion of Spitsbergen coal had loen at the disposal of the population of northern Norway. Hut It has 1 x-come known that the enemy's plan was to eize all coal available, including that from Spitzlwrgen.

which would be used mainly for war transport to the far north. This source of fuel has now been denied to the Germans. Rejoin Force "An Immediate result of the SpitzlK-rgen landing is that a considerable numlxT of Norwegian miners, with their families now have arrived in Great to play a part in the Allied war effort here. Most of them will be joining the Norwegian forces or the Norwegian merchant service." The archipelago has a total area of square miles, and is only 7.V1 miles from the North Pole. The chief Island.

West Spltzlcrgen. is a plateau with many clrep fjords. Pack ice prevents access to moit of the i-land except for a few months In the year. However, vessels tan approach the western coast during most months. The fiords are frozen from October to May.

The coal mines have leen worked by both Russian and Norwegian miners. In J'J! they bad a com bined output of 707.117 tons, but this has been considerably In creased. The island's inhabitants totaled In KrtO, of whom G34 were Norwegians. i irt The landing at SpitzTcrgcn finally took Canadian troops to Norwegian territory more than a year after It was first Intended to send them there. During the 1010 spring campaign In Norway, Canadian troops were sent to Scotland in readiness for embarkation for the north, but main British forces were withdrawn, and they were not sent.

In th battles of France and Han dera Canadians were in readiness several times at embarkation ports. Some troops of the first Canadian division actually landed in Franee Just Iifore th" capitulation, but were withdrawn almost immedi ately. The trip aern-s the channel and the landing at Spi'zttergen are the only times Canadian troops have leen sent of the United Kingdom on action. Informed source pointed out that airfields could le constructd on the islands in good weather to guard any seaborne icupplis to Russia from the United States. The islands also have a poten-ial value as a stepping-stone naval base although the ire-iorkM har bors in a long winter limit their usefulness as compared to Ireland.

The port season of Archangel, Rursia, roughly compares with that of Spitsbergen. Favorable weather lasts only from May to October. AXIS EFFORTS TO AID LIBYA HALTED ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. Sept.

(JPf Britain's Mediterranean fleet in a week of violent action Just ended has smashed repeated Axis efforts to reinforce Italian Libya, sinking or damaging mere than a score of warships and convoved vessels, according to official count. In this campaign, carried out by submarines and the torpedo bombers of the fleet air arm. the navy thus has greatly strengthened trie Kteel British line stretching from the Italian peninsula to tha North African coatt. American Freighter Sunk by Bomb From Airplane in Red Sea WASHINGTON. Sept.

RjT) The state department aid tonight it had been informed the American freighter Steel Seafarer was ftonk by an airplane bomb In the Red Sea September 7. The department. In answer to Inquiries, id the nationality of the plane was unknown. All members the crew were navrd. The Information, the department Mid, was rnt to Washington by the American minister at Cairn, Egjpt, Alexander Klrke.

Shipping records available here showed the Steel Seafarer a owned by the Isthmian Steamship Company. It wan assumed he was one of the hiring of American hip carrlng good to the British In the Middle Eait ulnre President Boose vr It declared the Red Sea to be out of the combat zone froni which American flag Tf-eU are barred. Shipment from the United States to the Middle Kat via the Red Sea have been under way a little more than four months. HOWARD IS FIRM ON RESIGNATION Civil Service Head, Back From Vacation, Will Carry on Fight "In view of what has happened. I believe it would not be in the lest interests of Tucson and civil service for me to resign." With this statement Prof.

R. M. Howard, chairman of the Tucson civil service committee dismissed the ef fort of four memler8 of the city council to obtain his resignation. In this action, tak-n last Tuesday night when the mayor and coun cil met. Councilmen S.

Nicho- a. Homer Shantz. William If. and Kred D. Iee voted to ask Howard's resignation as commis sion chairman.

Mayor Jaastad and Councilman J. O. Niemann and Halbert Miller voted against the action. Major Refuses Since that time Mayor Jaastad has revealed that frome three weeks ago he received a letter from Howard asking the mayor to accept his resignation, a request he, the mayor, refused. Since the action of the four anti-Howard councilmen last week.

Mayor Jaas tad has refused to ak for the commisison chairman resigna tion. Howard arrived in Tucson yes terday after a short vacation fpent in Ixng Reach, Calif. For the greater part of the summer he has een engaged in working tip civil service and merit systems for the Denver state civil service commission and for the Arizona state health department. He wa thus absent through the major portion of the situation which arose here this summer when the council by a slight majority adopted the state statute covering pensions for police officers, and firemen and which Howard characterized as actuarily unsound. Letter Received Upon arrival here he found let-ters from Dr.

G. V. Manning. Mate superintendent of public health. (Continued to Tage Column 3) The story of what is going on at the present moment in France is well known.

The position of Ad miral Darlan and the other advocates of Hitler's New Order In Europe is rapidly disintegrating. Only a small percentage of the ac tual trouble? confronting the Ger man armies leaks out. According to reliable information, German soldiers are being killed every dav. And drastic retaliation on the part of German and French authorities only further inflames the popula tion. A number of Frenchmen have recently managed to escape and reach the United States.

They have contacted American officials and are begging for perm iss ion to smuggle arms and ammunition out of the country for distribution among the inhabitants of France so they may fight the Germans more actively. This government Is (Continued to rage 2, Column 3) Increased Resistance to Nazi Occupation Worry to Germans Crew in Incredible Maneuver LONDON', Sept. S. The stiff-necked pilot and weary crewman of an American-built Hudson Lockheed bomber received official credit tonight for capture of a German submarine in one of the most amazing air vs. sea battles of the war, and all of them were eager to tell about it.

The pilot's neck was so stiff he couldn't turn his head. It got that way when he circled over the U-boa for 3i hours after forcing its surrender bv machine-gun fire at part of the crew trapped on deck: "I kept mv eves on it every min ute," the pilot said. "Then finally the (American-built) Catalina flying boat we wirelessed for came and I turned the watch over to them. They kept watch on the sub till the navy came." Not t.reers or (Air ministrv rules prevented By CONSTANT! XE BROWN WASHINGTON. D.

Sept. R. (Special) The state department is eagerly watching the effect of Russia's resistance on the territories occupied by the Reich. Although communication with these countries is difficult, there are vays and means of obtaining reliable reports which as a rule are not more than 10 days old. All of these reports, sent out by unbiased observers, agree that the prestige of the German armies has suffered everywhere.

The direct re sult of this is an increase In restlessness which will ultimately add to the gravity of Germany' problems. Well Known Story Not only is Western Europe, from Belgium to the Pyrenees, in an uproar, but Central, Eastern and Southern Europe are in a state of active or passive defiance. (Continued to rage column iraasmission of the names of the.